elana shor and meredith shiner, talking politics and the highway bill he is working on. are you as optimistic that the bill will be signed by the president and will include the pipeline? what are the challenges? >> i am deeply cynical by nature. i think there will be some kind of highway and infrastructure bill, but the dynamics we kind -- we tried to address is very interesting. on the senate committee passed the transportation bill, a two- year extension. the house could not even get a bill to the floor and yet they are still coming to the table pushing for things, pushing for the pipelines. there will be a choice whether or not you want the infrastructure projects to fall through pushing for a pipeline that, one, could get authorized anyway, and then they continue to use it as an issue against the president than democrats. it has been a good political tool for them. they have policy reasons for wanting it, but if it does not end up in that bill, they will debate it the next one. >> i could not agree more with her assessment, frankly. senator and off -- imhoff, sang a