EXCERPT:
BARNICLE: "You know, Joe, the interesting aspect of this story and the way it's playing out, and just from the reporters you just listened to from Keir Simmons and others, is this is an infection implanted into the American political system. If you talk to people, ordinary people, they will bemoan the fact that our state of politics today is just so polarized that both parties hate one another, that no one -- no one is cooperating with one another. There's no across-the-aisle cooperation the way there used to be 20, 30 years ago. All of that is true, but the point is that it's done and it's a deadly sequence committed by Russia.”