beyond his base. i'm sorry? >> mark, let me this caveat before you respond to the question. if president trump uses funding for his proposed border wall as a bargaining chip in budget talks, and then it doesn't go through, what stops him from blaming it on democrats for obstruction and saying democrats are weak on immigration? >> well, i think he'll try, but if there's an underlying government shutdown with that, i mean, he's shown, as david just suggested, an unwillingness to negotiate and deal. and as we know before neating yesterday, he tweeted out and attacked schumer and pelosi before the meeting they were going to negotiate, and said there was no reason to have the meeting. i would like to throw a question to david, if i could, on top of the president and the end of the year. if we stipulate the president gets some credit for the economy at some point,wear a year now