The comments came in a sit-down last week with the editorial board of The State Journal-Register, according to the Illinois paper's political writer. "We can't have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief," Kirk said. "Giving clean packs of money to a ... state sponsor of terror. .... We're going to see problems in multiple (countries) because of that money given to them." Kirk was responding to reports that the administration paid $400 million in cash to Iran in January as Iran released Americans that had been held as prisoners.

Source: CNN August 21, 2016 17:15 UTC