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Wisdom, you know, you would have told your kids, i would tell my kids, if you wait until midnight to start your paper, it's probably not going to be a very good paper and that's what we're watching right now, a lot of term papers being written very, very fast. >> joining us tonight from america. give everybody my best, john. we're stuck watching capitol hill but i appreciate your contributions. what passes for breaking news as john was talking, chuck schumer has stood up, jonathan, and he's walked over to his republican counterpart. lindsey graham was just seen mouthing what's going on. so i...

And i think that's one of the reasons you're going to see public confidence numbers, if possible, going down in terms of their faith in the ins lugtitut of government. >> well, john, you also live in america and out in america, isn't this what people hate about washington? >> bingo. that's exactly right. and it doesn't matter who has 51 and who has 49 seats. that's exactly right. the other irony here is this is the reason an unconventional candidate like donald trump became president. it was the sense that washington couldn't get its act together. there was one shutdown under president obama. ...

Moseying. i think that's officially a mosey, over to the republican side of the senate. garrett, thank you. this moment cries out for a learned smart man, and luckily we have one standing by to talk to us. pulitzer prize winner at that and author and presidential historian john macemployejohn, anything after the forward if you were writing a book tonight? >> well, you know, kennedy used to say there is a reason it was one volume in terms of the prevalence of courage. i was just watching this with you, and it occurred to me this is what government would look like without a president. this is wh...