he s a world-class player. and to me a great advantage is he knows many of the players, and he knows them well. he does massive deals in russia. he does massive deals for the company. reporter: but tillerson could face headwinds in his confirmation. even some republicans concerned about tillerson s close business ties to russian president vladimir putin. allegations from the cia that russian hackers were trying to help trump win the election drew fire from the president-elect today, trump tweeting, quote, can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we tried to play the russia/cia card? it would be called conspiracy theory. on fx news sunday, trump said the whole thing is, quote, ridiculous. hacking is very interesting. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the hack, you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it s russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. reporter: trump s proclamation puts him at odds withment e
he s a world-class player. and to me a great advantage is he knows many of the players, and he knows them well. he does massive deals in russia. he does massive deals for the company. reporter: but tillerson could face headwinds in his confirmation. even some republicans concerned about tillerson s close business ties to russian president vladimir putin. allegations from the cia that russian hackers were trying to help trump win the election drew fire from the president-elect today, trump tweeting, quote, can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we tried to play the russia/cia card? it would be called conspiracy theory. on fx news sunday, trump said the whole thing is, quote, ridiculous. hacking is very interesting. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the hack, you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it s russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. reporter: trump s proclamation puts him at odds withment e