joining me now are congressman jim mcdermott, a democrat of washington, and jonathan capeheart. thank you both for being here. >> thanks. good to see should be. congress mast, mitch mcconnell sets it's he's doing that by dealing with the chinese and the iranians around the nuclear deal, and doing it a lot of places where he's taking on the load that the congress refuses to be involved in. all they do is snipe. they're sniping partly from the region that they come from, but they -- they spend six year trying to destroy him, and they're continuing -- they're going to do it right on until 2016. i will be very surprised if they allow anything. they'll always find an excuse why the president did the wrong thing. >> you know, jonathan, as mitch mcconnell, he wants a positive tone. that just means the president should agree with him? >> yes, from his perspective. the one thing you have to understand is that senator mcconnell and speaker boehner for that matter, have to deal with a caucus, especially senator mcconnell, dealing with a caucus that wants to take the fight to the president,