on ristina, our guest "newsmakers." let me start with the discussion that you had with the congressman about his relationship or his intended relationship with the house leadership. sparnse's problems often -- speaker boehner's were often in his own conference. i'm wondering what you think about what you heard from him and his approach to be behind closed doors in his negotiations with leadership. what does that mean for mr. boehner and the new entire leadership team? >> it's certainly good news for speaker boehner. i think that leadership whether or not they were actually pushing for votes they do have a stake in the election and the rsc really is a voice pushing the republican conference more to the right. that -- the new incoming chairman says i want to have these fights behind closed doors and not in the public. that's significant. whether or not that will actually drive the conversation more to the right that remains to be seen but it's certainly a major point that he made. so yeah. >> the speaker might be breathin