>> what is your legacy of the next president is donald trump who has encouraged a rush to invade our nato allies if they do not contribute enough? >> we can speculate on what might happen but i will consistently avoid discussing the presidential election. i have one job as i give up my leader position and that is to create a republican majority in the senate and i will cosign my political observation to stay in the senate. >> you have been one of the most ardent backers of ukraine in the senate here, what took so long to get some of these other republicans persuaded here? the nature of the bill and what was in the time period for ukraine? >> you already know the answer, i think that demonization of ukraine began by tucker carlson. who in my opinion ended up where he should have been all along, interviewing vladimir putin. he had an enormous audience which convinced a lot of rank-and-file republicans that maybe this was a mistake. i think the former president has mixed views on it. we all felt that the border was a complete disaster, myself included. chad, you remember covering the fa