founder and partner of kraft digital and alexis gill johnson and director of american values instituted. thanks for joining us. sequestration is here. so what now? a big deadline three weeks away, either from the government or risk shutting it down. my question is, has anything happened over the past month that should give any average american any reason to think that things won't get worse before they get better, and any reason to believe that congress can agree on a funding measure by march 27th? >> i don't know if anything has happened in the last month. that is big question there. i do think we have a little bit of history and conversation around government shut downs to suggest that the white house and congress would be afraid of shutting down the government. that is really where the rubber meets the road in people's daily lives.