duties to protect us and a president who says i don't see what the problem is because of his mobster mentality and courts who are abdicating themselves to the president, everyone is working for donald trump. this is beyond crisis mode and we're seeing a fundamental breakdown of norms of american democracy and we're realizing just how tenuous our american democratic system is. >> let me ask you, patrice, what christina just said. should mitch mcconnell and the senate and the congress pass a law that you are required, if an adversarial or a foreign government, period, tries to give you information you should immediately report it? should that be a law? >> i think it would be an interesting tool. certainly to insure that, that campaigns don't receive nebulous information. there's a reason why i think republicans chose not to pass that legislation that was introduced. and so it would be interesting to know why. >> that's good, now try to