infrastructure. >> so the idea that it never gets done is peculiar. >> it's unfortunate that it's become this punch line because it's hugely important. it is going to become increasingly more important as the u.s. infrastructure becomes older, becomes more decrepit and becomes unattended to. it's so fascinating to me to your point, chuck schumer when the president was first elected during the transition when steve bannon was talking about working on a trillion dollar infrastructure deal, chuck schumer was worried that they were going to come out of the gate wanting to do an infrastructure bill, he thought it was going to put the democrats in a no win situation, they would have to go along with it and the president was going to have this huge sort of popular working class accomplishment and instead he went for a tax bill at first. and that has -- actually he went for healthcare first, then he went for a tax bill. that has basically told the story of the president's legislative successes or failures. here we are, yet another infrastructure week was become a joke. >> it's interesting to me in