become the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. jake? >> thank you. i happen to agree with senator john kennedy, republican of louisiana. he says he's pretty sure president trump is going to invoke the national emergencies act. i think that's probably true. he has said everything other than i'm doing it right this minute. do you think he gets any pushback from republicans in congress? >> some but not enough. i think it will be facile. i agree with senator kennedy, that he's going to move in that direction. there's been such a lack of clarity in whatever strategy coming out of the white house on this is so short sighted. but that lack of clarity almost guarantees we won't have a negotiated solution on this. if i were to guess how this plays out, the president will declare a national emergency. he will start shifting funds and then he will declare victory, of course, and then he will allow the government to reopen and we'll move on to a legal fight. and for the next three months we'll be right back here again, fighting about this all over again. there doesn't seem to be any