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

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.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

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

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

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