start working on 12 different appropriation bills to fund the government through 2020. right there the two parties are at loggerheads. you want to just kick the can down to christmas or do you want to try to do it the way we used to do it. brian: the usmca is also up. it's up to nancy pelosi now to take it up. she is alienating a lot of people in the midwest which her party plans on winning over if she says this deal is going to be too good for the president. and also there is a sense out there that the president and nancy pelosi agree on one thing, reducing the cost of drugs. and to take on big pharma and to reduce the cost of drugs, the government could negotiate like all of us do on our cars and houses to get the drug prices down. big pharma doesn't want it to happen. the president does. and nancy pelosi does. the question is can they put politics aside and risk giving both democrats and republican as win? i think we could win once in a while as the american people. we all want reduced cost of drugs and take on big pharma because big pharma is one