that is a live shot of the senate floor at this hour. at 1:36 or so a.m. they are now voting on final passage of that budget bill. rand paul has given up on his stunts on the senate floor that have been delaying this. back with us, adam, david jolly and jose barro. adam, you used to work for the majority leader of the senate. you've seen these things before. rand paul had a couple of more hopeless procedural moves he could have played out but after his 90 minutes anyway of creating a 90-minute government shutdown so far, he decided to fold his tent and let the rote go forward. he just lost the previous procedural vote, 73-26. so it would have been nothing but childish to continue. >> that's right. but i think the fact that he didn't go through with all of