>> so charlie, you know, i spoke with a contract worker who has not been working for the past month like a lot of contractors and federal workers and without a paycheck. earlier, she said, she's going to be watching this scheduled announcement from the president but all she wants to hear is when is government going to be open. and based on what we're hearing so far in terms of the sign posting of, you know, his demands on border wall funding, do you have any confidence that the president is going to be able to say yb my major announcement is government is going to be up and running again? >> well, here's really the issue, i think the best path forward is simply to pass those six appropriation bills now and then do a short-term extension. and then negotiate -- >> does he seem amenable to that? >> that's what i want to hear from the president today. i hope he agrees to reopening the government now so they can have this negotiation without this enormous pressure placed on