appropriate? >> well, the president and the secretary of state and the retired lieutenant general who's a foreign policy advisor all feel like that call was within the bounds -- >> what do you think? what does roy blunt think? >> i've never been happy with any of the ukraine decisions since the russians invaded crimea. we told president obama in december of 2015 to provide lethal aid, which he never did. you know, i've never been happy with the way any of this has been handled regarding ukraine and we're trying to do what we can now to be helpful. >> so your colleagues, ben sass, called it very troubling, the call, to help dig up dirt on joe biden. lamar alexander said it was totally inappropriate. >> any other president would have said, i'll have the attorney general call you about some things we're looking into. this one didn't. >> did he make a mistake?