president. >> jay, it seems like victory is this constantly moving target on this issue. so, james laporta, we know the conservatives have urged them not to back down. per politico democrats are asking them to take a harder line. per what jane just say, what is the democratic leadership facing right now for pressure? >> the pressure that they're facing is they have to -- the problem with the government shutdown is it sews uncertainty within families who are government workers. as a military reporter i've been looking at what this is doing to the coast guard. at the beginning of the week families didn't know if they were going to get paid. on friday they did do a temporary fix to that, but that's only going to take them to january 15th. so, you know, any time there's a government shutdown, whether it's this time or going back to when it happened in 2013, it sews distrust. for the democrats the pressure is to end it, you know?