as you can imagine, it did not take very long for democrats to reject that offer. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, my understanding the way this went is it was chuck schumer who picked up the phone to call mitch mcconnell and say this wouldn't fly. i've been talking to senators in both parties over the last 30 minutes or so. democrats in particular said this was never going to get off the ground. to put it simply, that's not how this works. the president doesn't just get a billion dollars to spend on whatever he wants. that's why we have a committee process. that's why we have the congress here controlling the power of the purse to spend money as congress sees fit, not just the way the president sees fit. but the bottom line here, talking to especially republicans, there's just no energy for this fight. there is nobody up here who seems particularly excited about the prospect of blowing through their christmas break, of shutting the government down to fight for the president's wall. there's just no energy for it. and i think the signs -- if we want to look for green shoots,