gesture from capitol hill and senior msnbc political contributor matt dowd as well. julia, if you will, start us off. take us through it. what do we know? >> yasmin, this is the first step in avoiding a government shutdown. it comes 12 days away from that january 19th deadline which had been looming. what this top line number means is that democratic senate leader chuck schumer and house speaker johnson have both agreed on a top line spending number which means that now that they have the steak and get into the nitty-gritty of how all of that money is appropriated. once we hear this number and learn of this later this afternoon, we should be hearing from the appropriators more on how the breakdown is. there's a lot to keep an eye on as we look at what is into this spending deal a number, specifically one of the issues is a 69 billion dollars in non military domestic funding which