nominees. we have tal kopan joining us from washington. this is interesting from the confirmation hearings and hear how the nominees don't agree with him on the issues he campaigned on. >> absolutely. a lot of parsing you have to do this week as you listen to the nominees. russia is an obvious example where you heard nominees time and time again say they do not view russia as a friend to the u.s. yesterday, i was watching the confirmation hearing of general mattis up for defense secretary. looks very much like he isconfi. he was asked by john mccain, a russia hawk, i have seen three presidents try to reestablish relationships with vladimir putin. all had failures. mattis looked to history and saying how low his expectations are. that is not what we heard from donald trump. at the same time, on a lot of other issues where perhaps the political cover is not as clear as how much senators are really