to safeguard american democracy against the assaults we are continuing to see against it? >> well, thank you very much for having me. i don't think anybody in the country is doing enough right now. i think that there -- this kind of situation, is something the country has never been faced with. and nobody expected to ever be faced with anything like this. i applaud president biden for doing the things that are necessary to try and reach out across the aisle. but seems as if the other side has decided that they are not going to reciprocate. i applaud nancy pelosi for doing tremendous work when she put together this piece of legislation. and mr. katko, in a bipartisan