start the look ahead towards 2020, there are plenty of senate republicans up in difficult places who have to start looking like they can be serious adults and who can legislate separate from their president if they want to keep their jobs past the next election. >> eli, has donald trump been talking to anybody on the democratic side? has the deal maker been trying to make a deal? >> the indications i've gotten from the white house is mike pence has had more conversation with senator schumer than the president himself. the president has been tweeting. he has not really been out there beating the drum and putting the pressure on democrats publicly to come back to the table. he's been throwing whatever he can get to stick at the wall saying his advisers have told me while pelosi doesn't want a deal because she doesn't have the votes secured to be speaker yet. pelosis add vi advisers and sta are moving into the speaker's