Mark Warner

I think we've got an incredible panel of experts, and you're here because of that expertise.

I strongly believe cyber may be the new frontier of war.

We must get to the bottom of this. We must be thorough. We must proceed with urgency. And we must be transparent.

We know, as has already been determined by the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA, a foreign country, Russia, attacked the heart of our democracy, an American election for the President of the United States.

What that means is that Russia's corruption problem may also be our corruption problem.

The committee needs to follow the money wherever it leads, because if money-laundering, corruption of any kind, or fishy real estate deals point to the Russian oligarchs and criminal elements, then the Russian government may only be a step…

This review ought to include the Trump Organization and its partnerships.

I wrote a letter to the Chairman and the Vice Chair urging the committee to look into any and all financial relationships between Russia and Donald Trump and his associates.

One thing--and I'm going to spend a lot of time on this this afternoon--there have been reports that their ability to target this information, some reports at least, saying that in the last week of the campaign in certain precincts in…

The President's recent conduct, with his wild and uncorroborated accusations about wiretapping and his inappropriate and unjustified attacks on America's hardworking intelligence professionals does give me grave concern.

And trust me, it will happen again if we don't take action.

It is about clearly understanding and responding to this very real threat.

I want to make clear, at least for me, this investigation is not about whether you have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name.

We simply must and we will get this right.

Russia sought to hijack our democratic process, and that most important part of our democratic process, our presidential elections.

Remember to not lose sight about what this investigation is about. An outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack our most critical Democratic process, the election of a president.

We, together with the members of our committee are going to get to the bottom of this.

And let me assure you, I've also got his cell phone, which hears from me more than he likes.

I have been a vocal proponent of market structure reforms that will improve the resiliency and efficiency of markets.

America has the deepest, most liquid markets in the world.

I would just hope, though, that... we have got some bipartisan legislation that would at least require someone on the board to have some level of cyber experience.

I have been very interested in the emerging challenges around cybersecurity.

This investigation is the most important thing that I've ever taken on in my public career. We know already that the Russians massively tried to intervene in our election.

I absolutely do. I mean, it is -- I think this president needs to understand that words or tweets for that matter. They matter when you're President of the United States. You can't go about and make reckless claims that perhaps you could…

This is not the way you operate. I mean, I heard some of the comments today, in effect dismissing the role that Paul Manafort played in the campaign.