control of the house and the continuing mueller investigation, was there anyplace that was fertile even before the stalemate on the wall? >> no. i mean, infrastructure is always the illusive dream where there is going to be some kind of bipartisan compromise in a new era of president trump but i don't think any room for common ground. i think the democrats are not willing to concede to many of the the president's demands but the president doesn't want to compromise. he has shown he runs a partisan strategy, he plays to a partisan base, and there is not many issues where that partisan base agrees with what the rest of the country wants. so maybe a small infrastructure plan can pop up between now and 2020, but given the atmosphere you're talking about, i don't think we should hope for much legislation. >> the government shutdown is day 16 and tying for the third longest will soon head toward