tears at my heart. but do i want to be blamed for a shutdown president? answer is no. so david koch has the ate tear in his eye for families without child care, specific families without child care. mark meadows, the congressman who demanded the shutdown from john boehner said the is pact breaks his hard. breaks his hard. but he does not want to be blamed. you go ahead and ask santa for that and see what you get under the tree. i am not so sure that works everywhere in the country. make it works for us at home. joining us the washington bureau chief for the huffington post. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> let me put the same question to you. is the strategy not mark meadows strategy, the strategy more broadly to try to escape blame for the shutdown, while continuing to, to ensure that it keeps going on? >> well, i think you have to be careful using the word "strategy" in relation to what republicans are doing right here.