fashion to counteract him giving in on those issues but listen to rand paul on state of the union about the investigation and whether he thinks it's a witch-hunt. take a listen. >> do you think president trump shoulds a ask for the extradition when they meet tomorrow. >> i think it would be a moot point. i don't think russia is sending anyone back over here for trial the same way we wouldn't send anybody over there for trial. he's not going to admit he did it and we can't take on face value anything they tell us. we have to assume -- and if we have proof that they did it which it sounds like they did, we should spend our time protecting ourselves instead of having there witch-hunt on the preside president. >> can you understand why americans have a lack of confidence in your counterparts in the republican party that they would join democrats in trying to counteract the president taking the putin line on things like nato, crimea and