even beyond mr. mueller, you just can't go out and attack our basic institutions like the fbi or the justice department. or you end up with circumstances like we saw a couple of weeks back, where that slightly unusual character was saying that he would not go in and even respond to the mueller subpoena. when we get to the point where people start saying they're going to pick and choose which laws they want to follow, our country's in a dangerous spot and in many ways, that kind of attitude is reinforced, frankly, by tweets by the president and by some of the president's allies who have even been more outrageous in their broad-based attacks against the fbi and department of justice. >> the senate intelligence committee is having an open hearing on wednesday, a very important hearing on wednesday, on threats to the election infrastructure here in the united states. what are the steps you want to see taken before the midterm elections in november?