contenders who have embraced the former president's false assertions about the 2020 election. donald trump is looking for collaborators. he wants collaborators for his next run at american representative government to destroy it, and he is getting them in droves. senator sheldon whitehouse, a democrat from rhode island who serves in the senate judiciary committee, he just wrote this opinion piece in "the boston globe" about the upcoming ever summit for democracy and fight against corruption and authoritarianism. senator, you are obviously a colleague of david perdue before he lost that election in a free and fair election in which the people chose to kick him out of his office. it just strikes me as like craven and shabby and odious to sign up for a primary challenge under these conditions, but i wonder what you think as someone who knows the man. >> i'm a little surprised myself. i did not see him as somebody who was going to be this allied