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The briefing that's about to begin, sara sanders will introduce the defense secretary, general james mattis. he'll hoopen the briefing. i'm sure he'll be asked about what the president wants, a military parade maybe as early an veterans day. john kirby, you're our military analyst, a former spokesman for the pentagon, former spokesman at the state department. you pointed out it was sort of unusual -- well, let's go to sara sanders. >> congress has been able to meet our defense spending requirement and come together on a two-year spending deal. this deal achieves our top priority, a much-needed...

And the wall. joining me now to disentangle this, including whatever confusion i may have just created, nbc's garrett haig on capitol hill. let's separate the long-term deal from the short-term fix. >> sure. >> the containing resolution that was approved by the house last night is also in the senate. this is a bigger deal, something we haven't seen in awhile. >> yeah, that's right, andrea. potentially we could be looking at the long-term deal and we could start there, would last for the next two years. what this does is lifts budget caps on discretionary spending and defense spending. there's ...

President in the middle of all of this talking about how he would welcome a shutdown. everyone i guess loves parades and shutdowns. >> the most interesting thing that garrett said was the phrase that the president's comments were, i think he said, totally irrelevant. i want you to think about that. to the extent that we are actually moving toward a deal, the president of the united states, the great dealmaker, is completely irrelevant to this process. k3e79 for possibly throwing in some stink bombs there walking about a shutdown. we're obviously not going to have a shutdown. it's also interest...

We need to get full funding this year while we reach for a budget agreement. >> phil mattingly tracking this on capitol hill. phil, there is a house vote this morning. will it pass? >> it will. the house had the votes to move that forward. i think it's worth noting that bill is dead on arrival in the senate. what really matters, and this is according to people involved in the negotiations i've been talking to in the last hour, is the senate is on the brink of a major agreement. now, they've been close on this before. right now i'm told they are almost there. what would that entail? it would be...

They have to be careful not to turn into the sort of dumbed down version of peter marie c. you don't want to be out there gauging the markets, you aren't running -- stick to your netting, talk to your policy, talk about things that you are doing, talk about what the president was doing today. talk about these are real people really benefit from our policies. >> shannon: how much does the seed this function, uncertainty about all of these funding clips and how things are going to be resolved, budget caps, how much does that factor into how the market gets a little bit jittery? >> when bill clin...