said heessman shift has has some same concerns. adam smith of the house armed services committee said he has the same concerns. they are concerns with this idea of do we have a civil you or military controlled military? no one is saying anything against general mattis at this point. he has some colorful language and some controversial positions they got him forced out of the obama administration. he was openly fighting with them about their stance with iran. at least on the hill right now it is a theoretical discussion about military-civilian control and not so much a discussion about general mattis' credentials. >> d.c. smooth sailing as far as confirmation is concerned? -- do you see smooth sailing? >> questionable are possibly controversial nominations, this is not seem to be one of them. a lot of folks will say a lot of the right things and maybe we will see some nice scholarly conversations about what it means to have a civilian controlled military on the hill instead of attacks on general mattis' past. >> we will keep followi