and we believe it will help create problems here in america. david, gloria, all of a sudden the president shows up in the briefing room and makes that powerful statement sort of like i m the adult here and you guys better get your act together. you think so? yeah. it s clear. i ve talked to a couple senior white house executives and that s exactly what they wanted to project. as one said to me, we re getting down to the wire and we know the american public doesn t want to shut down. if it doesn t hurt for the president of the united states to say we don t have a lot of things in our lives but there is a big budget debate coming up, which i mighted a a add is becat they are forcing it but a small percentage of last year s budget don t shut down the government. they feel that they are on pretty safe political ground. who has the upper hand in this eyeball to eyeball