thank you very much congressman, dan kildee. our panel, angela is a principal at impact strategies, and mark murray is our nbc senior political editor. let's talk about this new congress. of course, i'm tempted to go right here to hogan but i'm going to resist that temptation. new year, new me. i'm going to start with mark murray. speaker boehner, people who know him, he's wanted to be speaker of the house probably his whole adult life but nobody would say his experience as speaker was pleasant so far, has been pleasant so far. he's had to deal with a caucus that's been very difficult to wrangle. now that he has 264 members and he could theet reticily get to 218 with only republicans, does john boehner's life get easier from here? >> i think it's marginally easier, but even today recognizing losing 25 votes, that's double from what happened in the beginning of the 113th congress. . -t shows you he has 25 maybe 30 house republicans who are always going to be against him. when you try to cobble that coalition of 218 votes and tryi