turn of the merry go round than the last time we did the story is a lot of the visit ral between republicans and democrats in the senate seems to be gone. a few weeks ago there's goading for senate democrats to go through a partisan budget process. now this time we know that schumer and mcconnell met before everyone went home for recess and there are conversations ongoing. though the details are fuzzy and have not been hashed out publicly, but clearly movement happening, but definitely waiting until the last minute here. the last time we spoke to the chair of the appropriations committee in the house, she said there had been a lack of overchurns from republicans about what they wanted and didn't want when it came to funding the government. both of the crises looming. >> crises always looming a couple weeks before christmas. you can't do washington without that. let's talk about the third item on the list. on the to do list, build back