no, we can't. but that should not stop us from trying and from offering ideas. >> all right. is there something you can do, work with this president, the opposite party, in the next year because is he going to be there another year and two months, that's the first thing. second thing, have you spoken to him since you have& become speaker. >> i have spoken to him since i have become speaker. i do there are things we can find common ground on without compromising our prince. principle. i have shown i have the ability to do that that's why my colleagues asked me to be speaker. >> we have to fund the government. spending issues have to be dealt with we want to rebuild the military. we finally got a two year budget for the military very important for our military planners. and so we want to get past this presidency with the kind of military problems we have had. but we want to do some things to shore up the military and we want to work with the president on that. there are a lot of other issues that will arise that hopefully we can find some common ground on. but is he a less progressive and are we conservative cans? yeah. there is a big difference there is a big gap there the common ground isn't as broad