so he was not willing to accept that deal. and democrats have an upper hand here because they have voted to reopen the government. republicans and democrats notice senate have voted to reopen the government and leave the issue of homeland security and the border wall for further negotiation and the president has refused. so when he sends letters to pelosi saying you shouldn't leave while we have 800,000 people out of work, he has the ability to put them back to work, the congress has agreed to put them back to work at various times here and he won't do it. but i do think the other point, don, look she played hard brawl. she doesn't want to give him the platform of the "state of the union" to litigate this issue. he then responded and kind of threw a spitball back. the thing i thought that was astonishing about it, though, was referring to a trip to afghanistan to visit the troops --