and the republican party's approval ratings plummet. and less than one in four americans supported donald trump shutting down the government for his wall. this is a political loser and yet it's all he wants to talk about. >> joe, we're talking about the judgment of one man versus in the past the paradigm has always been the party working together in coordination with the white house to come up with a deal that by the time it's sent up there, it's pretty much all but blessed and the president will sign it. in this case literally if you talk to top leadership aides in the senate, they don't know what the president's going to do, even though technically they're working with them to try and come up with this deal. they can get a deal. they're almost there. if you talk to the negotiators, you see the democrats giving some on fencing, you see the republicans coming down off of that hard 5.7 billion number, whatever it is. they can get to a deal. the question is at the 11th hour, what is the decision this