room even with democrats who obviously have some leverage here. >> yeah. and i think even for democrats they realize that shutting the government down, especially when you are trying to make the case against republicans that they are looking out only for the special interest, looking out for wealthy and corporate interest, not the regular personal, to shut the government down right before christmas, and essentially stop government benefits and the proceeds from the government going to folks right at the end of the year, i just think it's a terrible political argument. i don't think any side win when you say shut the government down. however, going into next year, this is going to be something of a fight, although here is a place that the president is really looking as he said he is in the next year to start reaching out and bringing democrats in after going really on a republican-only strategy. this would be the place to do it. when you look at the polling, you see that a majority of americans believe that these americans -- or these people who are here are basically