there and heard their stories of what russia had done to them. i don't think you mess around when it comes to this. that was the point. i respect mr. yang very much and actually think some of his points on automation, things we should talk about, were interesting during the debate but not on this. we have to stand as a team together and say, we are standing up against this invasion of our democracy. we've got to get backup paper ballots in every state whand we need to hold russia accountable for what they did and not act like donald trump. >> i want to get your reaction to something the president said today where he sees syria as nothing but a lot of sand. >> the kurds have been fighting for hundreds of years. that whole mess, it's been going along were a long time. syria may have some help with russia. and that's fine. it's a lot of sand. they got a lot of sand over there. so there's a lot of sand that they can play with. >> your reaction to that, senator. >> i just find this just against