But the fact is, we moved forward
and almost unanimously voted in favor of these Cabinet members for the
simple reason that the American people had spoken, and we had a new
President of a different party, and we ought to give that President the
team that he needed in order to get his job done. Now, the one difference between what I have seen here in 2017, since
2009, is that the world is on fire. Look at the world today, and look
at a map of it in 2009. There weren't 6 million refugees out of Syria. There weren't 400,000 people murdered by Bashar al-Assad with the
assistance of Vladimir Putin and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. We
didn't have Russians using precision-guided weapons, striking hospitals
in Aleppo, slaughtering innocent men, women, and children.
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