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We have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information. Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the Dissent Cable and his response to the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is a broad, bipartisan support between the United States and our NATO and European allies to support Ukraine against Russian aggression, [W]e had a very productive meeting with President Zelensky. We talked primarily about what his needs are when it comes to winning this war. And he is providing this delegation with the list of the weapons the Ukraine needs to win.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to be prepared for this, it could happen, I think, as long as Biden is in office projecting weakness.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The American people deserve transparency from this administration.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to know the extent to which Special Envoy John Kerry is farming his work out to progressive environmentalists, which could be a violation of federal law.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At one point the State Department spokesperson Ned Price was encouraging people to make their way to the airport and telling the press the evacuation was' efficient and effective,' but the airport gates were closed, and internal memos were talking about how there were too many dead bodies at the airport and they don't know how to deal with all of them.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Given that the administration ceded control of Kabul to the Taliban, it was a very tactically challenging situation. But it was decisions they made -- or in some instances avoided making -- that led to that tactically challenge situation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Delayed deliveries of Congressionally-approved sales to Taiwan are undermining Republican House lawmakers ability to deter an attack from China. This is incredibly concerning as China ramps up its belligerence towards Taiwan.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do think that's a premature comment, off-the-cuff, and everybody listens to the commander-in-chief.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They are trying to find a way to help their ally next door without being too over the top and get the retribution.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you go back to the Beijing Olympics, then you saw the creation of this unholy alliance between Chairman Xi and Mr. Putin, they defended each other’s actions — that being Russia defending President Xi if he invaded Taiwan, President Xi saying that NATO is being too aggressive and that they were going to work hand-in-hand together.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Deception is always a model in China, they are trying to find a way to help their ally next door without being too over the top and get the retribution.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I hope that Chairman Xi looks at the difficulties that Russia is having — maybe it is not such a great idea, however, I worry because China’s capabilities far outweigh Taiwan’s, that we need to learn from the lessons and mistakes we made in Ukraine and start heavily arming Taiwan.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because, I guarantee, Chairman Xi is looking at this right now, in terms of making his calculation as to whether his next move will be to invade Taiwan, i know that Xi is looking at what is happening in Ukraine and learning how best he is going to do this.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Whether it be semiconductors, medical, rare earth minerals — our economies are too intertwined, that going after China with similar sanctions we are with Russia will be far more difficult to achieve.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've been pushing hard for this, i'm proud to say they do have S-300s going in now.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It happened in my father’s lifetime, but I never thought I’d see this, and history will judge us, ‘What did you do? What did you do when the bombing started? When the maternity hospitals were bombed and the pregnant women were taken out?'.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re not here as Republicans or Democrats, but really as Americans supporting our NATO Ally, Poland, and the people of Ukraine, we stand with you. We just had a video conference with President Zelenskyy, one of the most courageous individuals I’ve ever seen. Very inspiring. And the chairman’s right:Mr. Putin is a war criminal, he’s going to lose in the end, and we want to work with you and the administration to … bring him to justice and stop the bloodshed. And again, I just want to thank Poland and the people of Ukraine.We are with you, and we will do everything we can to stop this.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I want to let the Ukrainian refugees know the American people stand with them against Putin’s evil, i will continue to urge this administration to send more lethal assistance to the brave Ukrainian people fighting for their freedom.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The United States of America, we are importing Russian energy. This needs to stop. We are funding Putin's war machine.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s important the American people stand up and in one united voice say that we will not turn a blind eye to the CCP’s genocide, we will cheer for team USA - while we also condemn the morally reprehensible actions of the CCP and the IOC.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's reprehensible that the International Olympic Committee has bowed down to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ignored their gross human rights violations, and allowed them to host this year's Olympics, just as they did in 2008, the CCP will certainly use these Olympics in an attempt to whitewash their genocide, military aggression and oppression of their own people.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now they want us to watch the Olympics and forget their crimes.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think this all started... with Afghanistan, and the unconditional surrender to the Taliban when he saw weakness. Weakness invited aggression, we're seen as weak right now... because of President Biden.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Weakness does indeed invite aggression, this national security threat is the worst I've seen in my lifetime.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Russia President Vladimir knows that if Russia President Vladimir's ever going to invade Ukraine, now is the time. I hope Russia President Vladimir doesn't make that miscalculation. But the fact is, if Russia President Vladimir does invade Ukraine, what is the United States, what is our commander-in-chief prepared to do to stop it ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They were playing with fire, they were genetically manipulating at the lab this gain-of-function that was taking place.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Providing these exemptions under the guise of ‘humanitarian aid,' and without any prior consultation with Congress, further undermines bipartisan support and faith in the administration’s transparency and decision-making, i remain deeply frustrated that the administration still can’t confirm what assistance programs have been restarted. This committee must be permitted to conduct oversight of foreign assistance resources and priorities.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It does fundamentally change how the system operates, it's just law enforcement that has that right. This gives that right to the victims' families so they can petition the government to reopen the case, and it would be done by a cold case unit [within] the DOJ with federal investigators.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I remember at the time how shocking it was because I think Austin, at that time, was still a relatively small town in Texas that kind of lost its innocence on that day, this brutal murder of four teenage girls, and the way it was done … that may happen in other cities, but not Austin. It was very shocking, and it still is 30 years later, and part of it is because the families never got a resolution to the case.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As the entire House Foreign Affairs Committee saw in this week’s hearing, Secretary Blinken struggled to defend the haphazard decisions that he and President Biden made that led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. This week I announced that Committee Republicans hired an investigator to join our team as we look into this systemic failure, and I hope that we are able to work together to come to an accurate conclusion and determine how this absolute tragedy could have been avoided.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We are dark in Afghanistan and we are also dark when it comes to Russia, China and Iran.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As Mike said, they are the most heavily armed terrorist organization in the world now.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think he almost got caught up in that assignment, that he was going to be successful, he was going to get this deal cut, he was going to make a difference.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
( The Taliban) are not clearing the airplanes to depart. They've sat at the airport for the last couple of days, we know the reason why is because The Taliban want something in exchange. This is really Chris, turning into a hostage situation where they're not going to allow American citizens leave until they get full recognition from the United States of America.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a great victory for the radical Islamist jihad world, and they will gain momentum from this.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The winners here are the terrorists, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Russia, Iran and China.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My fear is that President Biden is projecting weakness, not strength, and that is very dangerous in the international community.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
President Biden has reversed every single Trump policy — the JCPOA, 'Remain in Mexico,' but then he says he was bound by this agreement? he wasn't.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I worry we are sending the wrong message to our allies and adversaries of weakness, our allies are questioning whether they can trust us, and our enemies no longer fear us, that is dangerous foreign policy to be engaged in.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I hate to say this : I hope we don't have to go back there, but it will be a threat to the homeland in a matter of time.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
And I think the President -- this is going to be a stain on this President and this presidency. And I think he's going to have blood on his hands for what they did.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time, since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The CCP is currently committing genocide against ethnic and religious minorities in their country and are brutally cracking down on peaceful protesters in Hong Kong who are simply crying out for freedom, until they stop murdering and imprisoning their own people, I don’t believe anyone in the world should look to them for moral advice.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You know, I do think it's more likely than not it emerged out of the lab. Most likely accidentally.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are a couple fundamentals, here, though, that I think most Americans do agree with. That is, asking for an I.D., you know when someone votes. I don't believe that's voter suppression, the idea of verifying signatures I think is very important as well. I think what the Republicans here will tell you is that they're trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper so it's a legitimate vote devoid of fraud.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The United States has a moral obligation and a national security interest in fulfilling its promises to those who have risked their lives to support our mission, we recognize that a very important task is to ensure that we remain faithful to them, and that we do what’s necessary to ensure their protection, and if necessary, get them out of the country.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My question is -- what is the holdup ? It's been six months since the conflict started. The atrocities are continuing and the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have a duty and a moral responsibility to protect them from the Taliban and al-Qaeda. If we do not give them special immigrant visas, they will be left behind and be slaughtered by the enemy.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When I spoke to Secretary of State Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, they both told me that they believe China poses the greatest long-term national security threat to the United States, so it was good to get their assurances on that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
President Trump deserves major credit -- major credit -- for reducing Michael McCaul forces in Afghanistan to a sustainable level, scoring major victories against terrorists across the region and ensuring the Afghans themselves are at the front of the fight, that same successful approach should continue until the conditions for long term defeat of ISIS and al Qaeda have been achieved.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're playing a limited -- limited -- but important role in defending American national security and American interests against terrorists who would like nothing more than for the most powerful force for good in the world to simply pick up our ball and go home, they would love that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think President Donald Trump does enjoy a relationship with President Xi. President Donald Trump wants the trade, you know, the trade deal to work. At the same time, President Donald Trump recognizes where this virus came from, michael McCaul know I don't call it the Chines virus. I call it the coronavirus or Covid-19. But the fact remains, where did this come from ? It came out of the wildlife markets in Wuhan, and it spread beyond control outside of China. For nearly two months, there were many things they could've done to contain the virus, and they failed to do that. And I think they need to be held accountable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Interestingly, the domestic terrorism definition was included in the 9-11 legislation with international terrorism, but there are no charges or penalties associated with it, so, New York City.The FBI will open up a case under domestic terrorism, but they don't have the ability to be able to charge a domestic terrorism case. We simply added charges to domestic terrorism to give New York City.The FBI a tool in addition to their crimes that they can charge whether New York City.The FBI be capital murder to assault.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We think it's important as a statement to say' this was an act of terror,' the El Paso case will no doubt be The El Paso case. He's charged with capital murder. But The El Paso case's also important to identify to the American people that this is domestic terrorism in the United States. We're simply giving another tool in the toolbox to law enforcement and prosecutors.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I decided if I'm going to do this again, I'm going to work it hard, maybe harder than I ever have.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't associate Michael McCaul with the rhetoric on both sides of the aisle.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am deeply disturbed that Saudi Arabia has reportedly detained two more American citizens as well as other peaceful activists. This is a grave and provocative act, the Saudi government's detention of American citizens is completely unacceptable and I call for their immediate release.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If we cut all this funding, and a lot of it, quite honestly, is seriously law enforcement that we're doing down there ... I think it's going to make things tragically worse, not better.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The war on terror did not end with the death of Usama bin Laden, in fact, there have been more terror plots against the West since his killing than any time since 9/11, there was an imminent threat to our aviation sector and I think the administration took very responsible actions to safeguard the safety of Americans here in the homeland.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Every person in this room is a target and the phones in your pocket ar the battle space – and the enemy is winning.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The President-elect wants stronger relationships with Russia and to change the dynamics we have with Russia, there are radical Islamist forces that will perhaps be more aggressive in attacks against Russia and I think it is an opportunity for us to work with them, but Russia is not our friend – [ President Vladimir ] Putin is not our friend.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There are issues I know they are particularly interested in, so we will get traction in those areas. a silent war is waged against us in cyber space – if we don’t shape it, it will be shaped against us.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A silent war is waged against us in cyber space – if we don’t shape it, it will be shaped against us, every person in this room is a target and the phones in your pocket ar the battle space – and the enemy is winning.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The bottom line is this: To protect our country, we must project our power –and use it to defeat these fanatics for good.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I’m concerned that we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What we have to do is target the threat and make sure that they don't come in.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What’s even more concerning is that top officials have testified before this committee that intelligence gaps prevent us from being able to confidently weed out terrorists.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our intelligence community has ... told me that individuals with terrorism ties in Syria have already tried to gain access to our country through the refugee program, what’s even more concerning is that top officials have testified before this committee that intelligence gaps prevent us from being able to confidently weed out terrorists.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We should be careful not to vilify ‘encryption’ itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce, but I have personally been briefed on cases where terrorists communicated in darkness and where we couldn’t shine a light, even with a lawful warrant.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are looking at the terrorist financing aspect to this case. I believe on his salary, he was not able to buy this on his own.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's a serious investigation ongoing into what she was doing in Pakistan and in Saudi, we think that she had a lot to do with the radicalization process and perhaps with Mr. Farook's radicalization from within in the United States.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The bill requires the nation's top security officials - the secretary of Homeland Security, the director of the FBI and the director of National Intelligence - to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The bill requires the nation's top security officials — the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the FBI, and the Director of National Intelligence — to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think that we need to step up this war on terror against ISIS because if it's a Russian airline today it could be an American airline tomorrow.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think this possibly could have been in the works for quite some time though, in terms of plotting, and the other question is, how did this thing get on the airplane?
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But I think the more likely scenario where all indicators seem to be pointing, is that this was an ISIS attack with an explosive device in the airplane.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We spend billions of dollars to kill terrorists and keep them out of the United States, but we spend very little on prevention from within, outreach to U.S. communities. A lot of this could be stopped by prevention if we had outreach to these communities.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This bill will rein in the Administration’s refugee resettlement plans and give Congress more control over the process.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Were I in Iraq or in Sham [Syria], I would cooperate with them in fighting the Crusaders.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Right now, the security at subways and on trains is based on K9s, but also good actionable intelligence, in the case of our American heroes that took down this terrorist, it’s just vigilance on the traveling part of the public that did that.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is a real risk that individuals associated with terrorist groups will attempt to exploit the refugee resettlement program in order to gain entry into our country.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Had it gotten any closer to the speaker's balcony they have long guns to take it down, but it didn't. It landed right in front.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I wrote to the President recently as part of my ongoing investigation and raised concerns that we have no lead agency in charge of countering domestic radicalization and no line item for it in the budgets of key departments and agencies, i am also concerned that the few programs we do have in place are far too small to confront a challenge that has grown so quickly.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He has ignored the will of the people, instead choosing to offer up the same tired and failed policies.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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