and he has become under the putin year, in the course of this, the most fierce advocate of a russia that will stand up to the united states at every turn. it is important that they saw eventually in candidate trump, somebody with whom they thought they could change the nature of this relationship. i'm not sure he was the instrument for that. he may have been just scoping mr. trump and his team out for people back in moscow. >> thank you to the panel, david, heidi, michael. thank you all, for joining us tonight. coming up why andre mitchel is having a difficult time getting a straight answer at the state department or any answer at all when the 11th hour continues.