These CAATSA sanctions will not be lifted until they have disposed of the current system they have.

We will work with them where we can, challenge them where we must.

I will. As I mentioned in the statement, they need to know that any purchase of additional Russian weapons will result in additional CAATSA sanctions.

The Republican Party may believe or elected officials may believe that this will give them some short term benefit.

Yes, that subset of a subset of Republican voters that vote in every primary, they're clearly with the former President and that is reflected in the polling.

It has, and that's the tragic legacy of the Trump years, the normalization of -- I mean, accepting of falsehoods, trafficking in conspiracy theories.

I think it's certainly detrimental to the country, and I think ultimately detrimental to Republicans.

That`s what this bipartisan proposal is all about.

It really is driving normal, regular, rational people from the Republican Party and we can't afford to lose many more.

We can't vote for Trump because four more years of him, we won't have a Republican Party that's op-ed. It's four years too late. The Republican Party has to pay for this along with Trump.

the alarm among Republicans in the Senate privately is palpable. They feel the President may be able to navigate issues like the peaceful transfer of power, Proud Boys, white supremacy, and somehow through relentlessness and shamelessness…

And as Mitt Romney said, I think we've fallen short in that regard.