they are essential to this process. leader mccome can t duck out of it. he knows that. of course leader mcconnell can t duck out of it. he knows that. of course nancy pelosi and i must agree. and most importantly, the president must publicly say he will support and sign such an agreement before it goes to a vote in any imcha. we don t want to go through what we went through a couple of days ago. leader mcconnell and i agreed to that qualification for a specific reason. repeatedly, the president has agreed to a private deal only to reverse himself when criticized by the far right. we can t have another situation when the president signaled support at first but then reverses himself, which is precisely what caused this shutdown in the first place. if leader mcconnell, speaker ryan, leader pelosi and i agree on a solution and the president says he will sign it, we can end