congress when he signed an extension back in july. we can t keep on funding transportation, you know, by the seat of our pants. we can t have bridges collapsing and potholes not being filled because congress can t come up with an request plan to fund our infrastructure budget for more than three or five or six months at a time. nbc s luke russert joins me now from capitol hill. so, luke, how big a priority is this for the new speaker to get something more than another patchwork deal done on transportation funding and what are his odds are success at getting something substantive here? it s a big deal for paul ryan. what s underreported here, what he was chairman of the house ways and means committee, he did a lot of work on the transportation bill. he thought it could be part of some long-term income tax revision and code revision, tax reform if you will. but in this case, particularly, he s going to have a really