No other nation can do that the way we can, and it’s going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.
ADAM SCHIFFWe still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].
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And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they’re coming to visit or stay with.
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A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas.
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Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.
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I’m just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we’re likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that’s the concern I have over pace.
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We are trying to do as much of this as we can in the public eye transparently.
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The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That’s good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.
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That says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.
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In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.
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Obviously, some of it will have to be done in closed session.
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If they exist, Congress needs to get them. If they’re not provided willingly, Congress should subpoena them.
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We are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King’s dream.
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The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they’re the best intelligence gatherers in the world.
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The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.
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Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.
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Someone who is a retired judge or an acting judge willing to step down from their judgeship, someone ideally who has prosecutorial experience, but someone who could come in and give credibility to the Russia investigation that is severely in jeopardy.
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Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.
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The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
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And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.
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We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy.
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We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
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When the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
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The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.
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When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn’t seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.
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The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
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They’re essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor.
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