want a shutdown even for a wall if they support a wall. but as berman just laid out, his approval number just doesn t move. i mean it just doesn t seem to impact him, like teflon. yeah. and part of this, i think, poppy, is the president is a good showman. he understands what makes good tv. he doesn t want to show all of his cards before the state of the union address. he wants to keep the drama and the tension sort of high. but i was in the cabinet room on friday when he ended up doing one of these supposed to be a quick pool spread and ends up being a half an hour news conference. it was interesting to listen to him test different messages on whether there s going to be a shutdown, whether he s going to do the emergency, whether it s going to be neither. he seemed to be, you know, hipting wi hinting with receipt aric that was ready to pull the trigger on the national emergency but wouldn t let himself be pinned down. we saw an interview that was conducted the same day even though it