whole world. according to the "washington post" president trump has a gentlemen's agreement to chuck schumer to take the debt ceiling vote out of the hands of congress. you used to be, as we talk about often, a tea party fiscal conservative congress. do you support that taking that out of the reins of congress? >> i was in the meeting with senator schumer. he'll be back again tonight at dinner and i'll participate in that as well. what the president told me after the meeting, pulled me aside, said how do we depoliticize this, stop letting this get in the way of proper management. this is a businessman leading the government right now and he can't understand why these leverage points come up purely in his mind for political reasons. he's asking me to figure out a way to dial down the temperature, depoliticize the debt ceiling, find a way to deal with it in a business like fashion and not allow it to be this leverage point that one party or the other can sort of bring things to a precipice in the markets and so forth. we'll continue to look at that. looks now like we'll have at