officials in their respected fields under oath. it becomes really difficult for republicans to even try to defend the president on the substance. what you've seen a lot, particularly from senate republicans who have been a little bit more reserve ed than their house counterparts is they that they're deferring commenting saying i'm going to be a juror, i don't want to talk about this too much. >> we'll come a little bit later to the president. he keeps insisting in recent days they should focus on the substanc substance. the president won the election. he has every right to conduct his own foreign policy. when his state department is not looped in, when his national security advisor is objecting all the time, i don't think that's how they teach it at wharton, how to run a successful organization. christopher anderson working with the special envoy volker, it says on june 13th i