I believe that the united states of america is the country of democracy where human rights are upheld. >> congressman, should the u.s. entertain his asylum plea or one from any russian soldiers who defect from the military? >> yeah, erin, i don't know a lot of details about the particular case, but i will point out that this is a really difficult and challenging area. you can't have a situation where war criminals and an awful lot of mid level and senior officers in the russian military are war criminals, where they decide that their get out of jail free card is to defect and come to the unite...