opposition is highly political and about the atmosphere in these closing days of congress where patience is running out and tempers are flaring, several republicans are openly angry at democrats for using these last days before the democrats lose the house and lose seats in the senate to cram a lot of what's left on their agenda. republicans are angry that democrats passed the don't-ask, don't-tell repeal. it's pretty clear that's coloring their view of this unrelated s.t.a.r.t. treaty. >> to get the votes they need, two-thirds of the senate one strategy the office have a closed session where they could talk about the treaty. john kerry said he thought it was helpful in building support. >> it was helpful. i think it was instructive to everybody and hopefully provided some facts and some insights that people needed that may be able to help them on the treaty. >> after that session his new