discussion we have about the supreme court. republicans will evaluate, give a thorough, fair vetting to whatever nominee that they send up here. it will be respectful unlike the democrats when kavanaugh was being processed by the senate. we're going to look at the temperament, the judicial qualifications and frankly judicial philosophy. i think those are the issues that will determine the outcome where republicans are with respect to the potential nominee. >> charles: so the senate working on a bipartisan russia sanctions bill. we're told a lot of this would happen after an invasion. not before. do you agree with this? >> anything you want to do, you want to do preemptively. the whole objective of these things is to deter bad behavior. we had an opportunity. we had a vote a few weeks acc to sanction the putin pipeline. the administration lobbied ferociously to keep democrats in line. they defeated it. we could have done something meaningful on energy, which is something that of course is very