hours, meaning there will be 70 votes at least on the senate floor for that democrat bill reopening and funding the government. those 70 votes are still there if donald trump tries this again. and lawrence, this is why i disagree with jonathan. i think republicans have had their hands on that stove for 35 days. they ve got third-degree burns, and i do not think they re going back there. i think what president trump is trying to do and mick mulvaney, and others speaking on his behalf, trying to act tough, we didn t back down. we might do it again. i think they re preparing to take some sort of executive action in the absence of money for this wall whether it s with dod funds or in some other mechanism to re-purpose existing funds, i do in the think there s going to be any stomach in the republican party to do it again. jonathan, the presidential campaign is underway. it s only days old and we are seeing dynamics that you wouldn t expect to develop for many many months, first of all,
with the fact that what is it, the congressional budget office said $11 billion was lost to the economy as a result of the shut down, but president doesn t care about that. at all. and captain sullenberger is going to be on later in the show talking about not only what the shut down already did and the air traffic system is going to struggle to recover from what already happened but another one is something that is beyond comprehension, and here s the big reason why it might never happen. this is axios reporting over the weekend saying that the mood at the senate republican lunch on thursday, day before the shut down ends resembled the mood that must have been on the union lines at 4:00 p.m. at the first bull run, and the message coming out of that lunch to the president was it s over, there will be 70 votes within 48 hours, meaning there will be 70 votes at least on the senate floor for that democrat bill reopening and funding the government. those 70 votes are still there if donald