WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. John Cornyn issued the following news release:

Today during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Open Hearing on Worldwide Threats, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel the national security threats posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions and Democrats' ongoing obstruction in refusing to fund and reopen the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Excerpts are below, and video can be found here (https://youtu.be/-l09B8rNaAE).

On the Threat Posed by Iran:

CORNYN: "Director Ratcliffe, yesterday, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center resigned, saying that Iran did not r...