that would punish russia and of course it would limit the president from lifting sanctions on his own unilaterally. >> we will see if he will be willing to sign that. you mentioned trump russia and trump russia, the russia story is probably the single-most aggravating factor in president trump's rather rocky relationship with the news media rekaent cently with the briefings -- recently with the briefings being diminished in frequency and now going to audio only. some news organizations including fox news have retained the services of sketch artists to see what's happening in the briefings. do we see this relationship ever getting better? >> i think it is about trump trying to resume control over the message. at this point, i think from their perspective, these daily briefings have not reflected well on the trump administration. they've served to showcase certain reporters and they've basically, you know, honed in on these back and forths that are