government shutdown approving a government spending bill that defunds obama care. this is a nonstarter with the senate and white house. so can anyone fix this mess? our mr. fix it is our daily physical chris cillizza, co-host of in play. chris, it's such an exercise in futili futility, such a waste of time given the obvious outcome in the senate, yet there they go again. >> look, andrea, at some point we could one week literally from today we're having a conversation that is the conversation we spent all this week on, what will the house do, if anything, to avoid a shutdown. can it get past by the senate and signed by the president. what we know is what you pointed out. senate made it clear, the senate is not going to approve a bill to keep the government running that defunds obama care. they are going to strip that out