about the same, the parties begin to split in 2016. the same year that russia hacked the u.s. election which vladimir putin had us believed it was done by ukraine. joining me now is jack kingston. it is great to see you congressman. >> i am glad to be with you, joy. >> can you explain to me. one of the things i have found the weirdest watching the republican party over my lifetime is the shift from the reag reagan republican party to this party that seemed to admire russia and see russia as not a threat even though russia attacked our election which our former republican fbi director robert mueller delivered a report saying they did it. what is this weird affinity? >> i think we should be working with russia where we can. we do have american company like