critical time. 36 hours to avert the government shutdown. now seems like they re going to pass the resolution to get us to december 22. the leaders need to hash out a longer term funding agreement and they re very far apart despite the president saying they re a unified group. on the substance, they re a long ways to go for the two parties. shepard: so our viewers are clear, they re going to have a short term gap stop fix so the government keeps running three days before christmas. yeah. shepard: what is thinking about that in a world where transparency is the goal? it s a reflection of the of course that they don t have an agreement to get done before funding runs out tomorrow night at midnight. by setting it up for december 22 before christmas makes it sort of a must-pass bill before the holidays. nobody wants the government to