you have a giant disconnect between the national interest and local interest of the small but very vocal, and at the moment, very important group of house republicans. >> i wonder how many people are government workers that aren't getting a paycheck today. that will be interesting to understand. anything in the numbers, anything in your perspective to give some sense of how, what seems like political pandering is playing? it's great they're paying the military families. we have to respect them and their families. it seems like pandering. people who are victims of building 197 where the navy shooting was, we want to protect them as victims, is this playings apandering or congress doing the right thing? >> you can call it either way. much of this, how you view this depends on your political perspective. democrats did not want to take that stake. the most important person in this debate right now, chris, as we talked this morning is the house speaker john boehner.