priorities are and what the timeline is. the reason i'm being so vague is not because i don't know the answer, but no one knows the answer. a lot of folks are sitting down only now thinking about the timeline that they want to start taking these things on. frankly, when you have a good president and members of the democratic party as well talking about putting up with other priorities altogether whether it is on something like infrastructure or in the democratic party tried to figure out a fix for....it simply complicates the overall spending question. >> gave, unfortunate time we have to leave it there but it's unlikely congress is going to be having many challenges. we'll have you back then to get your take. thank you so much! >> thank you. >> coming up, defense secretary james mattis sang the us military needs to be on high alert. the storm clouds are gathering. what he told our troops that they need to be ready to go.