midterms. republicans only picked up two or three seats in the senate. it didn't actually hurt them all that much. if you look back in terms of what happened in other things like that, voters like to see the fight. voters like to see what their politicians doing, what they said they would do and that's what trump did in the oval office meeting and that's what he's doing now. >> of the partial shutdown continues until june continues until generator nancy pelosi is likely to become the next speaker, does that energize democrats commanded 2020 as they stood their ground? >> yeah, i mean, i think the bigger question here that democrats are going to be energized over is the investigations that democrats are going to watch when they take office. republicans in the house in the house mark when building at the border while funding they want and democrats know that. they can claim a win here on january aired if nothing is done and the senate is going home. it doesn't look at this point like trumps going to get his border while funding this go