if a good working order could be established. >> why doesn't he buck the president then and just do it? >> because the president can veto -- >> but leave the responsibility on the president's doorstep instead of continuing to keep the government partially shutdown and forcing people without paychecks? >> we'll see what happens in the next couple of days. you do have the odd situation. phillipe is right. donald trump is a person with no fixed ideology. that means if you're mitch mcconnell you have no idea what the hell he's going to do to you at any given moment. they had a deal on the government shutdown. >> they did. >> that he exploded. the same way he exploded the deal on daca, the deal with paul ryan on obamacare. at the very beginning of the administration. he is the -- >> donald trump is the problem? >> yes, and that has not -- divided government has always been one part of the party or the other in the congress that