and center in that krconversati as well. can the u.s. walk and chew gum at the same time? we've got a lot of big domestic fish at home to fry but there's a lot on the front burner foreign policywise. can we do it all? >> absolutely. you have to do it all. number one the world is much smaller so you can't ignore the world. that's why i'm encouraged more people are talking and you have more countries engaged. that's the way that you resolve some of our international issues. domestically, we had a big setback, i think, in the house this weekend when the republicans withdrew their continues resolution which says there's some hard times in the future in regards to whether or not they're going to shut down the government or not. and so we will be focusing on that. but we have to do both because they're both very important to us. >> let's talk specifically, though, about where we're going domestically because september 30th, october 1st, that date coming down the line with what we are doing in this country with our federal budget. it's like deja vu all over again for people on capitol hill as we