Gerry Connolly

For two years, more than half of President Trump's term, the White House had no National Drug Control Strategy.

There is both a leadership vacuum and competence vacuum at the head of ONDCP.

Congress must ensure that the Trump administration extricates itself from this war.

The United States must definitively and completely end its support for the coalition.

Congress should provide more rigorous oversight.

I think the science is quite clear.

I absolutely salute GAO for doing that.

I think this is one of the most important hearings our committee has every year.

I think the President's statement today really undercut the entire Republican strategy yesterday, which was to try to discredit this witness.

It's not surprising that Cohen didn't really know much about Russia and collusion, because Trump style like a criminal enterprise is to compartmentalize.

I absolutely believe that.

The President gets to set whatever line he wants, we don't have to respect it.

I think it could backfire.

I hope we will tread carefully about hearing or compelling testimony from members of the family. I think the optics of that are very dangerous.

We look forward to working on a bipartisan basis to try to fix this.

I would hope that out of this hearing, and maybe there will be subsequent hearings, we will produce some legislation--it's got to be bipartisan--to reauthorize the Board, but also to fix the immediate problem.

I think it was Sam Rayburn who once said, looking at politics, he said the Republicans are the opposition, but the U.S. Senate is the enemy.

This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is a good government issue.

I welcome your input, if not your support, on trying to get that bill to the floor.

I am appalled, frankly. And I describe myself as a grateful American.

I do think it is very important for there to be some comprehensive immigration legislation.

What is wrong with limiting the number of refugees? And what are the consequences of doing that, from your point of view having served, of course, as Secretary of State?

This time, led by the Chancellor of Germany herself, Angela Merkel, I saw a sort of anger and defiance and resistance.

I was really struck by sort of the evolution in reactions among our allies in Europe to the evolution of diplomatic and foreign policy here in the United States.

So you had a conversation with the President of the United States about your impending testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.