congress not doing much. today on the medicare dock fix, there are green shoots if you will, in terms of functionality. i also wonder, to your point, about this being the nomination of the country's first african-american female attorney general, in a moment where it feels like we're talking about race every week for whatever reason, videos controversies, the like is this republican sort of coming to reality and saying, this is not a good move for us as ari said not good to hold this confirmation indefinitely? >> i think they're coming up with that conclusion overall. the problem is and when reid wants to bring them into executive session, there's a thing called unanimous consent and that means any one of these guys, any ted cruz or rand paul or anyone who wants to show boat