white house blew up that deal because they insisted, as you know, jim, on adding the lastest cuts to legal immigration since the 1920s as a gesture towards the most, i think, nativist elements of the republican base. i mean that is the backdrop here. the reality is that the president is using a tactic that is historically very unpopular, schulting down t shutting down the government, if advance of a cause, building the wall, that has never attracted majority support as far as i know in any poll that has been taken in the trump presidency. in fact, in the last cnn poll only 38% of the country said they support building the wall. only 33% said they supported building it if mexico was not going to pay for it. particularly noteworthy of the president's comments, at least 60% to 65% to 70% all of the groups, young people, african-americans, college-educated whites, opposed the wall. the thought that the first act