still with us, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. mike barnable, white house reporter for the associated prepre press, jonathan lemire, political contributor, rick tyler. white house correspondent for pbs news hour, yamiche alcindor, and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. politics editor for the daily beast, sam stein, and coauthor for the play book jay sherman. welcome all, good to see you this morning. >> how are the cards doing this morning? >> we had a brutal road trip. we're now on a four-day streak and our pitching looks better. flaherty looked good last night. we have the same number of losses as the cubs. it's going to come down to the cubs cardinals, which is fun for cardinals and cubs fans. cardinals will prevail. >> what i like about claire is