fighting climate change. with me now, jake sherman, founder of bunch bowl news and an msnbc political contributor. jake, great seeing you. what's going on with the defense policy bill and efforts to keep the government open past friday. >> so let's take this issue by issue for a second. number one is defense policy. as you mentioned, republicans blocked efforts to overcome the filibuster last night to clear a procedural hurdle over concerns about amendments. we anticipate based on our reporting that those differences will be bridged. there'll be some sort of agreement to deal with amendments at some point. we also anticipate that government funding, although it's coming down to the wire once again, i feel like we talk about this every few months, it's coming down to the wire, but we anticipate some sort of agreement in the next couple of days. we don't anticipate a government shutdown, the house will take up a short-term government funding deal first that goes until the end of january. senate will take it up, crisis averted, most likely. then we get into the difficult issues. there's the debt ceiling for which we have no true, firm idea