gates throwing their support behind tillerson but i think when the two guys met, when tillerson and trump met, you saw two businessmen who have been successful in their fields coming together and they saw a similar pragmatism in one another and that helped donald trump feel comfortable in a way he didn t necessarily feel with mitt romney. so they re saying this could be a difficult nomination confirmation fight. do you think the trump team knows that? do you think they re naive? do you think they don t care? trump knows that and by picking rex tillerson he s setting up a proxy battle within the republican party. you have on one side the names you just mentioned, senator graham, senator john mccain, senator rubio, then you have trump and his allies like senator jeff session. so it s a referendum on russia