Jon Tester: “I can accept that if I know what the short-term versus the long-term impacts are.”

Not at all. Uh-uh. No. I mean, the case was laid out and I was part of the jury and make the call.

I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.

There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.

I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.