I'm Isaac Dover. Welcome to Off Message. Today's guests, the co-chairs of the House's

Problem Solvers Caucus. Tom Reed, a Republican from New York, and Josh Gottheimer, a freshman

Democrat from New Jersey. The biggest tax reform package in history will pass with bipartisan

support in conjunction with the largest infrastructure package in history. Sounds crazy to a lot of people, but they predict it'll all

be done by early 2018. The caucus is a reincarnation of an old no-labels idea, but now it's been

given new structure and substance and 36 members equally divided between Republicans and Democrats

who pledged to follow set bylaws and actually work towards solutions.

The swirl around Russia has slowed everything down, but they have met with both House Speaker and Paul Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi this week, and that's giving them a lot of hope.

I talked to them in Reed's office in the Rayburn building on the Hill one evening earlier this week.

And they were sitting side by side, joking around with each other, having a good time.

They are clearly, truly friends at this point.

The question is whether they can get anything done.

Reed said, and we should note, Reed was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president and is pretty close to him.

He said the president has learned from the Obamacare repeal fight, and he predicts a more inclusive approach from a

president he calls cerebral, which is not a word you often hear people describe Donald Trump

with. He said the more people that can see that side of the president, I think they'd be

more comfortable with him. But then I asked Gottheimer if that portrait made any sense to him, and he said he didn't even know

the president. He'd never been in a room with him other than one conversation at the state of the

union. So it's a lot of cheery bipartisan talk. The question is, can it get to anything?

Reed's response when I asked him if Paul Ryan had the sway to get anything done or shift Trump, he said he didn't know. His response when I asked him if John Bainer would be more

effective if he were still Speaker? He talked about how Bainer had a lot of relationships that

Ryan just doesn't have, but he said he's developing them. When I asked Gautheimer if Democrats

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