chairman and ceo john mack is joining me right now, senior adviser to morgan as well as senior adviser to bdtd, john, it is good to see you. >> pleasure to be here. maria: thank you so much for joining us. you just heard president trump. congress used to go out and have lunch together, have coffee together. it just seems there's so much disagreement and hatred, they can't get anything done, john. >> well, it's hard to get things done, and this is not a shot at cable news, but there's so much news that i think you're always looking for what is the story. everyone wants to say something different, and i think that puts a lot of pressure on the politicses to respond. politicians to respond. so we want the news x we love cable news, but in my view, there's so much directed at or attacking different congressmen whether it's the democrats or republicans, it makes no difference. maria: okay, so tax reform and infrastructure. there's a thinking now that maybe these two policies can go side by side, maybe that's the way donald trump can get the democrats involved and under the tent, do an infrastructu