option that is the president could take. there was a meeting on friday with top staff and he didn t settle on any of the options though he did appear unlikely to accept a short serm pu-term pun. they want to not be here during christmas and they want to set it off until january where nancy pelosi will be the speaker and that may be ahead of a more interesting dynamic in terms of fighting out the $5 billion for the wall. the behind the scenes is to be blunt. they want it to end and lawmakers are waiting for the white house to tell them how. you kind of hit on this. congress can be a very, very slow institution unless they want to move fast. whenever the president decides the pathway he wants to go. they can move quickly and can t move on anything until they know what he wants. republicans don t want to undercut the president.