what he always promised to do when he was on the campaign trail. he's just making good on that promise. >> all right, jessica dean at the white house, thank you. democrats are pursuing a strategy to reopen the government while denying the president what he wants. let's bring in cnn congressional correspondent, phil mattingly. is this going to work? >> if your baseline is reopening the government, the short answer is probably not. right now it's been made very clear, democrats, once they take power in the house on thursday, speaker-to-be nancy pelosi always made clear, she was going to pass something right off the bat that would reopen the government. what democrats have decided to do is basically six of the unfunded agencies at this moment would be passed in a bipartisan way. the seventh, the department of homeland security, obviously the most contentious, because that's where the wall would go. that would be passed at the continuing resolution level. so current fund-raising up until february 8. here's the catch. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has made clear he's not going to put anything on the floor the president doesn't support. what do these bills not have?