and make sme choose. in the wake of the oval office photoon that jeff was talking about i spoke with staff literally cringing thinking that the president undercut any negotiating position they had. one of them told me that the president doesn't really have a negotiating position at all because of course nancy pelosi will need the house democrats into the minuterity in exactly two weeks on january 3rd. there is all the leverage. democrats are seen as having all the leverage here. what we have seen over the course of the last 48 hours -- after the president -- let's be frank -- he reversed field whether or not he told the leaders republican leaders that he would sign on to what had passed the senate, again unanimously, by voice vote, with that $1.6 billion on border security as opposed to the slat wall that the president is now talking about that he would sign on to that. of course he was excoriated by pundits on the right and