heard rand paul talking about how he felt that was an effective message for them, you know saying we want to talk they keep saying they won t negotiate. when you have stories of the families of dead service members wondering how they re going to bury their loved ones and provide funeral for loved ones and won t be tibl show up to receive remains and you get the president standing tlup saying i m not going negotiate, now i understand why he s saying that. the principle upon which he s standing. the question what affect that has on the american people. he said he was standing today in his press conference is that he did not want to gift republicans political advantage in this. he wasn t talking specifically about this but republican efforts to reopen parts of the government that are entirely not controversial. about things like cancer research things everybody would like to have reopened like providing aid to families of people killed in the line of duty. so. come on. so the president