mccain and i in one armed services committee after another at hearings with our cyber experts saying to them, under the obama administration as well as this administration, why has there been no definition of an act of war in cyber, because we have been attacked. it is an act of war. and i think the answer is that republicans, most especially on the house side, the surrogates and cronies who defend donald trump see an attack on him. they see the investigation as moving towards criminal culpability for members of the trump campaign, and with good reason, because clearly, as you can see from the indictment, the russian hacking operation and intelligence mechanism reached out to trump operatives.