let's go to our political panel and commentators. jeffrey lord is with us. also a correspondent for the "new yorker." the early reaction to tillerson as a possible secretary of state pick has not been the most supportive. you've seen it. not just from democrats. it is from republicans, too. this morning, you had senator marco rubio of florida tweeting this. being a friend of vladimir putin is not an attribute i'm hoping for from a secretary of state. if tillerson is the pick, walk us through what you think this confirmation process is going to look like because you've already got two of 52 republican senators saying, not so sure. >> actually, poppy, there were a book and a movie about this in the late '50s and early '60s, "advise and consent." it is about the nomination of somebody for secretary of state by presumably a liberal president who nominated a stevenson type in the day to be secretary of state and there was controversy over it. these things happen. as somebody who worked in