for more, let me bring in congressman john larson. why did boehner do this no strings attached?hink? >> first of all, ed as you said at the outset of the program, this is good news for america. while we're not going to nominate the speaker for profiles in courage yet, it does portray that the speaker recognizes he has to govern. when you're in the situation where you have a body of people, probably about 40 or 50, who are hell bent on obstructing the nation at every turn, that dog don't hunt anymore. boehner and their leadership recognized that. i think they feel they can put this behind them. it also sends a message about the deep fissures within the republican party. >> they want to throw him out. they want him out. is that going to happen? >> i don't think so because nobody else wants that job. who wants to have a job where you have no followers? he put not one, not two, not three, but several different proposals in front of them. it wouldn't be if this was for the first time. john boehner is an institutionalist. you have this element and especially amplified in the senate. w

newshour" special correspondent john larson traveled to alaska recently and reports. >> reporter: you're aboard a motorized canoe traveling the headwaters of the amazon in peru. now you travel the giraffe river, a tributary of the white nile, in south sudan. and now you're navigating the steward river in canada, a tributary of the longest free-flowing river on earth, the yukon of north america. all of these are among the most remote rivers in the world. and the indigenous people who live along them are being connected, at least in part, by one man. >> had a couple of canoes, we were going to go down the river and talk to people in every village along the way. >> reporter: back in 2007, john waterhouse, a tribal leader and environmentalist who has spent the last 20 years in alaska, was asked to write a report about the yukon river. the plan was to take a canoe trip and interview villagers who depend on the river for their survival. >> three weeks before we left i sat down with everybody and i said, this isn't going to work. they said what do you mean? and i said, nobody on the whole plane

john. >> appreciate brett larson, you're a great addition to the family here at this hour.now @thishour on twitter. the inclement weather all the way up and down in the coast. the folks in the west, meanwhile, still dealing with that darn drought. john, we've got some things to talk to you about. do you want to explain to people? >> what's going on? i was listening. i thought you were going to talk to me about some stuff there. no, you were talking about the fact -- >> yeah, the thing i was going to ask you. >> go ahead, go for it. >> how is it that i'm out here and you're inside? >> yeah. well, ask brett larson because there's apparently an app for that. you can ask wikihow and tweet that. put it out there say why is it makaila is outside. we're going to put the canadian outside there. so far it's gone very well. >> and i'm a californian. >> a year ago i was in 80-degree weather in california, just reminding you of that. >> you make a lovely couple. all right, guys, brett, macayla, great to see you out there. warm up. thank you everyone for joining us at this hour. ashleig