negotiations to avert this. s so i will say i have seen in the past that congress will pass a one-day c.r. or a two-day c.r., that kind of thing. so that's still possible. but at the moment there does not seem to be any kind of here's our plan that we go to when all else fails. >> in the old days and you remember this, david, ronald reagan and tip o'neal would get together and fight and fight but then they'd make a deal. do you see the president and the speaker right now doing anything along those lines? >> not quite yet, wolf, but i think they will before it's over. for starters, wolf, isn't it interesting an illustration of how upside down the world has become that a president at the podium today was speaking so warmly of our enemies like iran and past days about russia and speaking so harshly about people across the aisle? in his own country? that's really where our politics has come to. it's very, very unfortunate. i think what candy is saying,