cruz. i would like to continue talking about the russians but in the context of the long-term objectives that putin has to undermine american institutions and the public trust. obviously the 2016 election matters a lot and there are multiple ongoing investigations about that. i'm trying to talk about something different. the longer term goal they have because anybody who reads intelligence, this isn't through the prism of how voted for in the 2016 election or what you think happened in the 2016 election as important as all of that is, anybody who reads intelligence knows that we face a sophisticated long-term effort by a foreign add ser sear to undermine our foreign policy and our ability to lead in the world by trying to undermine confidence in american institutions. there's nobody who's reading intelligence right now that doesn't know that vladimir putin has that objective. so this shouldn't be a, this part shouldn't be a republican versus democratic issue. putin is attunist.