a bad back and sore knees. >> the swing votes on this nomination in all likelihood are republican senators that are intimately familiar with those sanction bills and really passionate about them as a first principle of american policy versus russia. we heard it over and over and over yesterday. there's a number of senators not on the foreign relations committee or others that deal with national security where this is the alpha and omega of their priority set right now. john mccain, lindsey graham and obviously marco rubio, they're not going to take that kind of answer as the final word. >> go ahead david. >> there's a bigger issue here. the hawks in the republican party who want to crack down on russia don't like how trump has positioned himself visa vi russia and they don't like what they know about rex tillerson here. he's not chummy with putin in the sense that he's going to give him a pass by any means but both tillerson and trump are