behest. it's important for us to look backward and make sure history is properly recorded. but i'm a lawmaker. our job to the make sure this doesn't happen again. congressman schiff has an act which would put into law a number of different policies that would prevent foreign interference. i have legislation that would put in place a duty to report, that if you receive help from a -- or you're solicited by a foreign actor you'd have to report it or it would be a crime. that's, of course, something donald trump, jr. did not do after the meeting at trump tower. so we have to learn from this. and just because prior congress did not have an imagination to put in place laws that would protect us against what donald trump exploited doesn't mean we shouldn't do that going forward. and to just talk about one other finer point david referenced trying to score political points. look what donald trump has been able to do. by trying to eare race what happened with russia in 2016 you now have senators like tom cotton trying to delay and marco