move forward with our troop funding bill that keeps government open for another week and cut $12 billion in spending. i think this is the responsible thing to do for the united states congress and i would hope that the senate could pass it and the president would sign it into law. >> not surprising, dana bash right on with her reporting before the leaders walked out and said it was going to be about the troop funding bill. dana, that is what it was about. walk us through what happened. >> that's right. the bottom line is this. as you heard from the speaker, perhaps after when he began the q and a portion, he got very emphatic saying the government -- we don't want the government to shut down. it will not shut down. that's matches what we're told privately to his republicans, that he had a front row seat back in 1995 and 1996 and as a member of the republican