about, punishing russia for its meddling during the 2016 election. >> that bind here, kelsey, that tolu is talking about, they are not absent -- they are not -- of course, they understand this is exactly where they are putting the president, again representing the same party. why do they make a move on this going against potentially what the white house wants? >> well, i think the important context here is congress has for a long time had very skeptical feelings about russia in general and at times has been outright aggressive towards putin. this is not a partisan issue in congress. skepticism of russia has run deep for many of these people, and i think we sometimes forget that in the context of the fact that russia has come up so much in this election. we haven't seen very many of the leaders, if any, say they have questions about russian meddling in this election and they want to stand firm on those beliefs and it may put them at a cross roads with the president, but would be difficult for many people to walk away from these beliefs. >> and part of this, if he does veto it here, molly