DNI Haines and Rubio are claiming the laboratories in Ukraine are for 'bio-defense'. They are attempting to clean up the mess Nuland created.
Warner: This [reports of biolabs] may be another area where Russia is trying to offer a false flag signaling.
Wyden: Will you commit to requiring CIA analysts to write down requests for conducting searches on Americans, so those searches can be reviewed?
CIA Director Burns: The short answer is 'yes'.
Senator Collins: A report from the Department of Defense IG found that Afghan evacuees have not been screened appropriately, and as a result, at lest fifty individuals with security concerns are in the United States, and most of those can not be located right now.
CIA Director Burns: President Putin has worked methodically over the last two decades to turn Russian society into a kind of propaganda bubble.
Senator Cornyn: The Energy Information Administration predicts that by 2050, the world will still continue to need fossil fuels, and it's role in providing energy to the world will be four times what renewable can provide.
Senator Sasse: You can't say there are any silver-linings to the evil of what Putin is doing; targeting women and children, civilians. There is no moral limit to what the guy will do.
Rubio: A bioresearch facility is a totally different thing than a bioweapon facility. You could have samples of a serious pathogen…it doesn't mean you are weaponizing it.
DIA Director Berrier: A no-fly zone is a combat operation that requires manned and unmanned aircraft…it is escalatory.
Senator Collins: There is speculation that the [Biden] administration may go so far as to rescind the Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of Iran's primary arm to foment terror in the region, the IRGC.
Senator Cornyn: What do we think Putin would do if the United States or the Poles provide these MiGs to the Ukranians?
DIA Director Berrier: We have run through a number of scenarios as the escalation ladder continues to unfold. I'd like to answer that question in closed session.
>General was asked if a no fly zone would stop artillery or missiles
Senator King asked that question. He does not appear to want the conflict to escalate, as opposed to Cotton and Sasse, who both seemed to be acting confused as to why the use of U.S. aircraft would be escalatory.