circumstances beyond our control took over. >> hold on one second. i want to stop you there. you did come exceedingly close. you say circumstances beyond your control. was it eric cantor's loss? was it political fright that took over? >> as you know, in essence we had the votes and then mr. kantor lost the primary and just weeks after that, we had the crisis on the southern border with the 60,000 unaccompanied minors. it muddied the waters and created additional difficults in an area that's already very difficult. do i think there's a way to get it done? i think there's added pressure dealing with the dreamers. i think we have an opportunity and a challenge. we have to get it done. i think, look, that's congress's role to do the difficult things. the easy thing is to avoid this issue, the politically easy thing. i've never avoided it. i think we have to get it done and i think there's a way