president won't go to mar-a-lago which is the original plans for the holiday if in fact there is a government shutdown that he would be here trying to reopen the government, but it is hard to see how that would happen over the holidays, and so the president increasingly backed into the corner over all of this, and as questions mount over whether or not there is an actual plan to rele solve this and we continue to track the readouts as we get the readouts from the pool reporters in the room with the president. >> thank you, kristen welker. >> and in a single sense of independence, and the first trump cabinet officer to praise jim mattis at the wrath of the president. former ambassador jim coates saying that the experience that jim mattis has brought to the decision-makings is invaluable.