this week. kelly, forgive the lehman's question. if both competing bills in the senate are expected to fail, what is the point? >> well, if politics were political science, consider this some of the experimental face. taking these votes is a way to test the political waters, to see what can and cannot pass. and by doing that, you get lawmaker who are able to narrow the scope of it. so while it seems futile and frustrating and on the surface is, it does have a point of wanting to test where oare members sitting right now. can they support what the president offered? if not, it means they have to come up with something else on the gop side. on the democratic side, it is a different argument. they're trying to push the white house to reopen the government first. to give you a sense of that, here are majority leader mitch mcconnell explaining what he thinks is happening and minority