heard as vociferous a response from the congressional republicans, but now we are. part of it is on principle and the idea that many republicans, like democrats, don't think it's right if there was a major intervention into our campaign and want to know not only that, but were there any connections with the trump campaign, and part of it is politics. there are many republicans who are unhappy with the relationship and attitude toward russia generally and they fear that if this unfolds, it could be very costly to the gop in a way senator paul is not anticipating. >> alice, do you see this backfiring, particularly donald trump's war with the media? >> enclosuclearly donald trump frustration with so much attention being put on the russian hacking in the election. in his view there can be a case made for it undermining his victory. while i think he would have won regardless of russian hacking, i think they ran a strong campaign at the end, they campaigned in