what you want. john: you talked to the president a lot in december heading into the christmas holiday just before the shutdown. what were you telling him then? >> well, basically, i didn't think this would ever happen. i said, for the first time, mr. president, you've got six bills ready to go that we all voted on. the breakdown came, basically, the request for the fiscal year 2019 budget for the homeland security was 1.6 billion. that was appropriated. then it went to the house, and the house bumped it up to 5. then it become in contention. so they were going to put that one on a 30-day or let's say to february the 8th or put that at 1.3 continuing resolution and fight that one out. i thought that's exactly where the president would go. he got pushed from the base, jumped up and says, no, we're not going to -- never before have i ever seen when we all agreed unanimously on six bills that would have kept 96% of the