the house freedom caucus close to examining all the cross currents. congressman, on this jerusalem thing, do you see this as a distraction to what you want to do to get a tax cut down? that it s important and yes, that this could get the eye off the tax cut ball, the budget ball? what do you think? no, i think we re all good. we had a little complication because at the ends of the year, we load up the christmas tree with spending. so this year you have that issue, plus the tax bill coming up. that s the number 1 priority. we have to deliver on that one. so we in conference, we got together with leadership. they have given us assurances. the goal is to play team ball, which means we republican the republican play buck. we re going to plus up defense, not necessarily plus up everything but going to take care of the hurricane relief victims, all of that neil: wait a minute. so you re open to increasing defense spending, not so defense