said, you stipulated that now, what can you do as a co-equal branch of government to fix this, to make sure that trump doesn't do what you're saying he shouldn't do? and his answer was plainly we could put more sanctions on russia. >> jake, speaker ryan and leader mcconnell just restated the truth, the fact that the intelligence community has assessed what it assessed about russian interference, didn't step out and forcefully criticize the president. >> they did not. >> they did the easy thing. >> they did not, no. practically nobody of serious note -- and i actually don't want to say that, not many people have gone out and criticized the president by name on this. and we could read the tea leaves and think of a lot of different reasons why that happened. tom cotton didn't. lindsey graham did. it depends on who you are and what your political interests are and what your political calculus is why they didn't. there's a big fight -- just one more thing. there's a big fight on the