confrontational approach. fred, some of this was kind of in train, obviously, before these two ministers met. you had this issue of the russians kicking out u.s. diplomats, about 755 u.s. employees, not able to work at the embassy in russia. that was, you know, a recrimination for steps that the obama administration took. congress had these entrained. now the question is, will the two countries be able to put this aside and work together on some of those national security issues? foreign minister lavrov said, look, you need to stop this kind of we can work together. remains to be seen if congress and the american people will be able to do that. so elise, tillerson had some advantage, right? because he had prior relations with russia and certain counterparts, but is he in a position to kind of start all over? reporter: well, i think him