Senator Thom Tillis

I'm not really known for that.

But if I need to make it very clear, this is about an end.

or a resolution.

I'll give the prosecutor the benefit of the doubt.

Provide me with evidence beyond the two minutes of testimony and the committing that seven Republican members said it was not criminal, it was not misleading, and that there was no criminal intent.

It's like an indictment looking for a crime.

And to me, it's at the edge of absurdity that I can't accept.

The only thing I know that I can do is exercise my right as an individual senator to hold up future nominations until this investigation is done.

But to the assistant U.S.

attorney, bring me evidence beyond the two minutes that's been rejected out of hand by the majority of Republican members on the committee, or prove to me that there's been an instance where a referral...

What's really odd about this, and I spoke about this on the Senate floor yesterday, this is the first time that I can find where a prosecutor moves forward with an investigation without a referral from the chair or a member of the committee.

Maybe somebody can prove me wrong.

But if that prosecutor has compelling information, either the way they read that two minutes or something else that no one's aware of, let me see it.

Well, you know, we're going to have, I think we're going to have a lively discussion here.

I had someone ask me about J.D.

Vance's, Vice President Vance's speech last year.

I said that I wouldn't have given that speech, but I would not have missed the opportunity to let my family of nations and NATO know that one of the reasons we're here is because of the $2 trillion deficit over 20 years.

Jonathan, can you imagine how much more ready we could be if all the demand signals that would have come from $2 trillion in weapons and our mutual defense had actually been purchased by the countries of NATO who have failed to even meet their minimum requirement?

So I think there's frustration there that we need to get past.

But I am speaking, I believe, for the majority of Congress who knows that the NATO alliance is the most profound and impactful alliance in the history of mankind.