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Hearings on russia. we've gone about a year without a hearing. so i appreciate your leadership in this regard. now it seems to have taken a three-ring circus of a debacle of a meeting with president putin, a walk back of whether the president trusts his own intelligence officials, suggesting that it might be okay for a u.s. diplomat to be interrogated by russian intelligence and a reality tv summit that was a little more than photo op with a brutal dictator. having said that, welcome and thank you for your service to our country. the members of this committee are strongly supportive of strateg...

This diplomatic effort needs and exercise the oversight responsibility congress owns to the american people. goals that you previously laid out before this committee are incorporated. finally, let me raise one more deeply alarming issue that broke this week. i understand despite its ability to stop this ridiculous notion, the state department is about to be allow internet posting of do it yourself 3-d firearm blueprints. why on earth would the trump administration make it easier for terrorists an gunman to introduce un detedetectable pla guns? we need comprehensive strategies across the world ...

I would add that president trump is well aware of the challenges that russia poses to the united states and our allies. he's taken a staggering number of actions. 213 sanctions on russian individuals. 60 russian spies expelled from the united states of america and the closure of russia's consulate in seattle in response to their chemical weapons use in the u.k. the closure of the consulate in san francisco. cutting u.s. diplomatic staffing of russia by almost 70%. 150 military exercises have been led or participated in europe this year alone. more than 11 billion has been put forward for the e...

Advantage of this opportunity as they release their own read outs of the conversation and broadcast news of various agreements that they say were reached in that meeting. that's why i'm concerned and why i want to know exactly what was agreed to in that meeting. on syria, president trump said at his joint news conference the two leaders discussed syria at length. the russian ministry of defense has indicated that the two leader as greed to military cooperation in syria. did they do that? >> with respect to deconfliction with russia, i can tell you the policies that was in place with respect to...

Except the argument that went on about funding. i know that the president believes and i know you believe and i believe and most everyone believes that nato is the most successful military alliance in the whole world. as you pointed out, it's a pillar of our national security and one that we need to support and one that we need to work well. there's very few down sides of nato, but there's one blemish. the president has underscored that publicly and well. his predecessor attempted to do it. all of us that meet with the europeans underscore it. that is the funding or lack thereof that the europ...