Mike McCaul: “Sanctions on Nord Stream 2 are the first, best, and most immediate way to show the Kremlin that we mean business.”

We’ve never seen anything like this in recent times. And so, what I’m concerned about is that the escalation here and the temperature rising, we got to be very careful not to be on the precipice of a World War III.

I think it was very much an act of belligerence on their part. And perhaps they don't care what -- what the American people think about that.

This was a masterful military operation, the likes of which I haven't seen since my father's war, World War II.

I never had any good faith anticipation of these negotiations. Putin is a KGB once and always.