if there was a government shutdown, brooke, hard to spend the weekend at mar-a-lago. >> you are so right. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. welcome to friday in washington with this curveball and now signing. a great panel with me. what we just saw, i jotted it down, what the president said when he was looking at this stack of papers, which you have said over and over, who really read it? this is a ridiculous situation that took place over the last week. does he have a point, to either of you? >> yes. this was a bill unveiled thursday night. product of negotiations by hill leaders, handful of them and also white house officials who work for the president of the united states and who presumably would be briefing the president of the united states about what was happening over weeks and weeks of negotiations. it was unveiled thursday night. the vote happened in the afternoon on friday, passed the senate friday night. the president had -- he said he was forced to sign this. if he had concerns about what was happening here, he could