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Affairs correspondent. What more can you tell us about him, his role, and what inspired his resignation . Well, fred mcguirk is a decades long career diplomat. He has been working in iraq. Working on issues related to the region for decades, and in 2013, he had been appointed deputy envoy to the Isis Coalition and then took over when general john allen left, and really has been overseeing a 60plus Member Coalition of states working not only on the ground but in the on the internet, countering messages to counter isis, and by large measure that job has been successful, but just a week ago you h...

Affairs correspondent. what more can you tell us about him, his role, and what inspired his resignation? >> well, fred mcguirk is a decades long career diplomat. he has been working in iraq. working on issues related to the region for decades, and in 2013, he had been appointed deputy envoy to the isis coalition and then took over when general john allen left, and really has been overseeing a 60-plus member coalition of states working not only on the ground but in the -- on the internet, countering messages to counter isis, and by large measure that job has been successful, but just a week ago...

Fred, very clearly that takes the onus off the republicans in taking credit for this government shutdown, and now putting it on the democrats and the president. the president wants this battle. he is itching -- he is fighting for this battle with the democrats, and now that is exactly what he has by working it in this way. >> all right, suzanne malvo on the hill. thank you so much. we'll check back with you. let's talk further about this, joining me democratic strategist and political commentator maria cardona and republican strategist and cnn political commentator alex stewart. good to see bo...

Plan, vote on it, goes on to the house ask then to the president's signature. of course it's not that simple because they've got to come up with a plan that is one that will appease the president, and he wants $5 billion for border security. let's check in with our suzanne malvo who is there on capitol hill. so he's really oversimplifying it because there was some bipartisan support, but then it was the president who rejected that plan, and now it's back to the drawing board. >> reporter: right, and fred, really the political calculus has dramatically changed here, and the whole argument is be...

Versus the congress here shutting down the government. now what you find is that the republicans have pulled out of the process here. it is dramatically reframed as a battle, a battle which the president would welcome, him against just the democrats here because what they were able to do in changing and putting for this new legislation tearing up what they had agreed to on wednesday and flipping the script to thursday is now the republicans are on board with legislation to provide that $5 billion for the border wall on the house as well as the senate side, and it is now up to the democrats to ...