immediately undo these sanctions. in fact, michael flynn, in his very brief tenure as national security adviser, was pushing to lift sanctions against russia unilaterally. >> let's talk about a little bit more about this, jeffrey. because after the vote this afternoon, this is what you said on twitter. you said "it looks like legislative is again having to take on russia policy." trump says that he has been tougher than anyone against russia. what is the reality here? >> that's simply not true. what you've seen is the vacuum he's left in his personal role as the head of foreign policy has had to have been taken up by congress. it's congress that passed the countering america's adversaries sanctions act. that's a tough russia act, but that's not something he wanted to do. he didn't want to kick out all of the diplomats after the skripal poisoning. all of the actions he referred to are things he didn't want to do that had to be pushed by