focus on holding their majority. if you blow up the spending plan and you put the government in a shutdown mode, who are you hurting? are you hurting the democrats? are the democrats going to ka p -- c api tulate and say, never mind, here's a billion dollars for your wall. the president is seeing what he can come back with, but if he's wrong, if chuck and nancy this time don't blink, where does it leave his party? >> it's a great question. we're going to sneak in a quick break. 12 minutes from now the president is supposed to tell us what he's going to do about the spending bill. will he sign it? or will he veto it, angry because he's not getting his top priorities. see the white house briefing there, reporters are getting ready as well. we'll be back in just a minute.