As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.