is honestly what they put in a letter. offer yourself up to do some painting, some carpentry work for your landlords. i mean these are professionals with college degrees in many cases, who have a specific skill set that they are basically using for the american people. what does this say about the optics of this shutdown for the trump administration? >> it's terrible. because it was a nice day in washington today, i spent part of my day going to some of the art museums on the national mall because those are going to be closed later this week. that's obviously not the most serious thing in the world, but it is serious when you're having to face financial decisions based on mortgages and other things like that, and the government is basically telling you to take odd jobs and become a handyman because the government can't function. that's ultimately the problem is we want a functioning government. i as a republican, as a conservative, want it smaller and more effective than big and bloated, but i want a working government. we don't have that right now. this is the third one we've had since trump has taken over. so it's become almost a default position, that if we can't get