republican from a safe district in texas, come out and do an op-ed, he s a former cia agent, saying trump is being manipulated by vladimir putin. what should we do? this is a stalwart republican coming out and saying this. to rick s point, you see a difference between the way the senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee are handling this, now knowledge everyone should share that russia s interfered. but do you see, just in your reporting, any desire on the part of senate republicans to act proactively to defend the next election against russian intrusion? we haven t seen efforts to protect robert mueller. we certainly don t see them wanting to do that. but are they still looking at this through the political lens of protect donald trump more than protect the election? yeah, the short answer to that is no. there has been really no appetite on the part of republicans in either chamber of congress, frankly, to put more efforts into protecting the election systems,