not because we are selfish, not because we re stubborn, but we know it is the wrong thing to do. we know it will hurt the economy and we know it will destroy jobs. so the most bipartisanship we are seeing in the early hours of congress being back is about the fact both parties agree that something must be done, that they must work together and that s what voters were saying with their ballots last week. the hard part is how you get there. as you know, hill leaders will be at the white house on friday. conversations have been going on behind the scenes. sort of on an ongoing basis. the real work will become hammered out in december to decide it will be a short-term kind of solution or whether something longer, more enduring can be forged. lots of questions. a spirit of working together, but they are far apart in their basic outline of how they should
if there was a government shutdown, brooke, hard to spend the weekend at mar-a-lago. you are so right. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. welcome to friday in washington with this curveball and now signing. a great panel with me. what we just saw, i jotted it down, what the president said when he was looking at this stack of papers, which you have said over and over, who really read it? this is a ridiculous situation that took place over the last week. does he have a point, to either of you? yes. this was a bill unveiled thursday night. product of negotiations by hill leaders, handful of them and also white house officials who work for the president of the united states and who presumably would be briefing the president of the united states about what was happening over weeks and weeks of negotiations. it was unveiled thursday night. the vote happened in the afternoon on friday, passed the senate friday night. the president had he said he was forced to sign this. if he had concerns