patience for president trump if you didn't share the same party label? >> well, if we didn't share the same party label, we wouldn't have accomplished so many -- we couldn't have done reform. we wouldn't have rolled back regulations, we wouldn't have the record low unemployment rate that we have, upward pressures of wages. we have a good story in part because this president was willing to work with this congress and accomplish these things. so, you know, there's -- there are things i disagree with the president on but i'm going to work with him where i can also. >> the question, is you still have -- you haven't run out of patience yet. is that a fairway of putting it? >> i'm still in the mode of working with the president where i can. and trying to persuade and move in a different direction where we have to. with respect to foreign policy in general in syria in particular, we really have to step up. >> if the president nominates somebody for secretary of defense that shares his world view, that's very different from secretary mattis, could you