Host tom cole here with us this friday morning, which also happens to be your birthday. Guest thank you very much. Yeah, i feel great. What a wonderful day to have a birthday. Beautiful day in washington, d. C. Its friday. Host you told me you share your birthday with some other people. Guest on the good side, this was James Monroes birthday but it was also saddam husseins birthday. So this is good. [laughter] host well there is some things happening here on your birthday in washington and some things need to be resolved. What is happening . Guest well actually finally in my view, were putting first things first. This should have been resolved back in zphoff december. It could have been. We were pretty close to an agreement at that point. Host on . Guest a funding bill. We could have done the whole fiscal bill then. Decision was made, instead to do a continuing resolutions through this point, april 28 with the idea to give the new president the opportunity to put his stamp on things. T