a republican political strategist in new york lincoln mitchell a political analyst and then mount dora florida by skype david ward a retired border patrol agent welcome to will let's start with joe than the scenes have been harrowing haven't they do you think they'll prompt congress into action and find a solution well clearly this is a midterm election year in the united states and so every seat in the congress that is the u.s. house of representatives is up for reelection and many u.s. senate seats referee election as well so congress may feel some pressure to do something because some of the seats may be affected by how they stand on this issue although i'm doubtful that anybody would lose their seat over this issue although it's right now dominating the news lindsey graham only reason have to lose this seat have. you explain that to us joe there's often a lot of skepticism and pessimism about whether a congressman wants to quote unquote take a risk to try and fix this why well because members of congress want to keep their seats and so often times they want to test how their constituents f