had horrible records on human rights, on killing reporters, all these sorts of things that putin's accused of. and the idea was, we make common cause with these dictators because they have a common enemy with us. and in the case of the cold war, it was soviet communism. and what trump is trying to do is revive that idea in the age of isis. and you hear him making that argument. he's saying, look, we may not like everything that putin is doing in russia, but putin has a strong military and he's willing to use that military to bomb isis. and so, we should be welcoming that. we should be welcoming that support. i'm curious to see how that debate, how that argument plays out in the republican party. before isis, i don't think any republican really could have gotten away with saying nice things about vladimir putin. in the age of isis, we'll see if trump wican make that work. >> and jeremy, your article had an interesting story about rubio, saying supporters are worrying about the early state strategy. what can you tell us about that? >> well, having written that article, i can tell you that there is some nervousness in the