did lead a bipartisan delegation to ukraine. i met with senior defense officials, ukrainian defense officials. the swag is very dire. i don't think we can under state that. we are on the brink of an eastern european war here and nascent democracy, a democracy that's been building, growing, been moving to the west and wants to continue democratizing is really at risk here. why this is important number one a threat to democracy anywhere is to democracy everywhere. no doubt about that. this is not an isolated case. russia is probing, testing the u.s. and nato alliance, testing democracy. our aulto caratic lead -- autocratic leaders are looking and watching and if we don't handle this right we could see a snowball effect around the world.