the number one thing president obama wanted, the first six months was to trade promotion authority. they got it, paul ryan did big op-eds on it. they worked with him consistently the one thing obama wanted was the administration funded through the next year republicans gave him a $1.1 trillion spending bill that most of these people did not read. the republicans have been terrible at checking the president s unbridled authority. laura, you would have isis fighting in the middle east, yet this congress has not even acted to give authority to this president to go after isis. let s talk about the failure of congress? congress should vote on oh, thank you. all i m saying is we can talk about the constitutional separation of powers, checks and balances, but it s up to the opposition party to act like it is a check on the president. and we re going to leave it there. thank you, panel. see you next sunday. up next we go on the trail as campaign attack ads fill the air waves in i