keep the government shutdown, and the solution will have to be political. somebody is going to have to start feeling the pain and i don't see that in the short term. >> in terms of that pressure, there's no incentive, really, as you point out on either side. what is happening at the white house this morning? the president is very busy and active on twitter over the weekend, as we are learning and reporting, too, relying on his gut, as he has in the past, and he clearly has no plans to change his mind. >> no, the president was supposed to be in mar-a-lago in florida, but he is alone in washington and the rest of the town cleared out. you have the house speaker and senate mostly out of town and the president on his own tweeting up a storm in the residence of the white house, and he is really sort of being his own chief strategist, and his own chief of staff in deciding to take this fight all the way into 2019 when democrats are going to take over the house