iraq and afghanistan. their improvement in their defense spending. and their grave concerns about what president trump might give away to putin in helsinki a week from today. i do think there are things we can do. senator corker and senator flake were on the decision. senator flake was leading it. senator corker has made a strong stand for to us pull back some of the power that the senate should have to review any attempt by the president to impose tariffs, especially on close security allies. i'll remind you last monetary quebec at the g7, president trump picked a whole lot of fights particularly with canada and for us to be facing a trade war with china and at the same time have president trump be picking fights with our key allies in europe and north america, strikes me as just nonsensical and many republican senators feel the same. >> senator, you just said that you don't think that the senate should even be considering a