the president has an enormous amount of power over the republican party. he has a lot of support among republicans. they follow him where he leads them. when he says we need a border wall, republicans, the polling shows that republicans move in his direction, but at the same time he has never really been willing to buck that, you know, 25%, 30% of the party perhaps represented by the talk radio hosts and others in order to push the republican party in a direction that will allow him to govern. it's just not clear to me that he's there yet. i think he has come out of the shutdown really irritated by the coverage of what happened there, not willing to acknowledge defeat even though he did sort of do that on friday in his speech in the rose garden. he spent the weekend trying to say that he didn't give in when he, in fact, did. so i think at the end of the day the president, it could be kind of like a boomerang. he could come right back to where he was at the beginning of the shutdown and say wall or no