guest: brad ashford and gwen graham perfectly represent the values and priorities of their districts. they are doing everything right. they are able to go home and people say you are doing what i voted for you to do. their politics are exactly aligned to their districts. secondly, when you look at democratic districts that may be tough to defend, there are far more republican districts going through this cycle that are much harder to defend. that is the inverse of 2014 where we had many more tough to , defend seats than republicans. that has flipped. republicans will have to defend dozens of competitive seats in the presidential. we will have some tough seats. we will see what happens with florida. brad's seat will be tough. there will be others. on balance, i believe the map favors democrats in 2016 particularly in a presidential cycle. host: lauren, you had questions on iran. guest: the iran negotiations are still ongoing. secretary kerry said the deadline would not be met. that pushes it to a 60-day approval for congress after the august recess. what do you predict will happen with

lindsey graham. gwen: while established senators governors and repeat candidates search for a way to break through. >> we are going to take the lessons of the heartland and straighten out washington, d.c. and fix our country. >> i keep going back to iowa and keep hustling and campaigning. >> if we embrace this language of divisiveness and ugliness, we'll never win. we'll never win. gwen: and democrats look on in glee. >> yes. donald trump. finally a candidate whose hair gets more attention than mine. gwen: we examine why it was never this way with these two guys. covering the week, dan balz, chief correspondent for "the washington post." michael duffy, executive editor of "time" magazine. and jonathan martin, national political correspondent for "the new york times." >> award-winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we ask people to tell us something that

lindsey graham. gwen: while established senators governors and