senator dan coats on line three senator thanks for calling in this morning you're more than welcome nice to be on the show with you thank you so much senator let's get straight to it right over the weekend i was looking at your article in the indy star and it's appropriately entitled why hoosier should care about ukraine tell us why that is well for several reasons historically we've learned of the last  century three major wars which and mounted up to staggering amount of deaths and u s involvement in every one of them has swept through europe and it all started with just a small thing and it turned into something really really we finally had to intervene and this is a small thing in more a lot of people's eyes where crimea where we don't even know where it is why should we care about this but given the statements and given the said days of glory with the soviet union controlled all these other countries and so our friends up in the baltics and our friends that have been now our allies that have bordered russia and become their own sovereign states very very  nervous very very concerned about the next that's one thing the second is that the stability of europe is important to the world economy to our economy we've already seen some really shaky results from just other threats that are happening over there and it's important that thirdly the united states reversed it's a perception that's taking place around the world that we are weak we have a president who is not engaged does not want to lead our european partners say you know we need to be together and lead on this because this affects us combat a cli but yet we have a president  just before the elections you know i can be much more flexible after i get reelected what kind of signal does that send in terms of the resolve and strength of the united states together with europe in trying to address this so those are three major reasons why i passing in the senate a resolution that lists fifteen ways in which we can isolate russia and punish them for what they've done i think this needs to be a bipartisan effort we need to speak with one voice take this above politics so that we stand together as americans here not just republicans were says democrats in addressing the issues that affect our whole country part of that has some pretty tough measures in there relative to russia's place in the world this should be if we community isolated them i think the most important thing we need to do and that's what the president's trying to decide today has been over the weekend is what kind of economic sanctions were imposed hitting russia in the pocketbook is the only way to  this right now military action really isn't feasible in this particular case but there's a lot we can do to punish them economically and they have a fragile economy very dependent on their export this like general fear especially those folks that are a little bit older and remember just a little bit of like world war two and so forth and there also seems to be just kind of a quiet hope behind what the happenings going forward what would you like to see happen in the next month or six months regarding the ukraine what i'd like to see happen is that the impact of the world community in terms of condemning russia for what  autonomy and some independence but what's the what's a country gets away from the land of an area violates another country's sovereignty that's just the beginning and we just cannot allow that to happen senator what about  affordable health care act i know that you've talked about this in the past tell the region where you stand on that rather i go in the end i think that's the number one issue people bring up in the semester for him to sign up and as well as you can't just step back and say we're against everything without proposing what are you for to deal with some of the issues in health but what has happened here under this one size fits all don't worry where do we go from here so i would like to see the opportunity to just hold put everything on hold propose alternatives and let the people go to the polls to decide in two thousand and fourteen do they want this one size fits committee it's a lot of responsibility there here in the region just like everywhere else we're worried about terrorism and terrorist acts but we're also worried about our own privacy and basically the governor government looking in to our our own data on our own communications what can you tell the region about how you're standing on balancing those two things terrorism versus privacy for the key word the balance and  through looking at many many ways to do that as we speak to date there haven't been those abuses the potential list is there we want to ensure that that's never done we also though need to make sure that we have that requires rigorous oversight over the programs and we have to double down them just to make sure that doesn't happen indiana u s senator dan coats from the great state of indiana senator one last question region up here is looking at two possible huge transportation projects both of them bring in a large amount of federal dollars that would be the iliana expressway and then also a possible extension of the south shore in your mind alternatives the ones that you this mention so i'm solidly behind both of those moving forward because i think that puts the region in a much better position to continue to draw new businesses and continue to handle all the  all the trucks all the traffic that rolls through there not have just funneled down into you know a very narrow entrance into the other chicago metropolitan area senator anything else you want to tell the region well no i