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Lawmakers still raising concerns about the former exxon ceo's ties to russia. let's bring in john bolton, senior fellow at the american institute. there will be a lot to tillerson should he be confirmed. he will face a lot of questions regarding russia, where we move forward in that relationship. there is talk from the white house about possibly rolling back sanctions. on capitol hill they aren't only talking about blocking that but talking about adding new sanctions. here is a little bit of what senators from both sides of the aisle are saying about that. >> i think they will vote additional ...

Democrats said but republicans stiffer sanctions when the president is talking about rolling back sanctions, so there's contradiction coming from within donald trump's on party. >> maybe you're right, maybe this is a marker for negotiations. we will see, thank you so much from moscow. president-elect trump promises health insurance for everybody and some republicans say they're in the dark around have no idea what he's talking about. >> and adding thousands of jobs the u.s., great news, does trump deserve credit for it? and what the fbi just told about the wife of the killer and th her arres...

Premature of the intelligence community on it and it means that republicans and democrats on capitol hill will have something they can point to and say this is the high confidence of the cia and the high confidence of the fbi. and actively worked to meddle in american elections and that's going to make any kind of hearing for particularly rex tillerson, the people who will be charged with resetting trump's relations with russia, that will make it more difficult and more difficult for trump to try to draw back sanctions. >> what do you make of this idea that president putin personally authorize...

Go forward. gregg: the politics are unusual. laura: usually politicians are hard on russia but this is a little different. what is your take on that? >> there are two sides to the party, more than two. part of the response, paul ryan, john mccain and others has been to agree this was necessary. action had to be taken. donald trump has been hesitant, i will hear the facts, he has not taken a strong stand on retaliation. a bit of a challenge going forward, the policy position he wants to take whether he wants to walk back sanctions, a little opposition in his own party saying we did need to take...

>> do we really want to help out a government that wants us dead? >> you spelled it out right there? for the iranians to complain about this is stallin' trying to sue starbucks because the coffee is too hot. let's get the reperspective here. all kinds of terrorism throughout the middle east. the progressives have such great faith in the u.n. the iranians are constantly flouting the u.n. liberals don't seem to be upset about. this i just don't understand. >> bill, should we help them out the way we've been doing? >> gosh, let's see. they already got the missiles. they're almost done making a bo...