But I think what you'll see is among that roughly dozen Democrats who are having conversations right now, you'll see seven, eight, nine of them say, okay, let's open the government. And that's how this ends. Final question on this. The president today at the White House did talk about, hey, you better get ready come Thursday, Friday, you guys don't get back on board of opening the government up, I'm going to start cutting Democratic programs because we think there's a lot of waste there, not Republican programs. Is that the type of leverage that we need right now? Absolutely. So, so I was at the White House on Tuesday. I talked with, with many cabinet members. (10:56–11:11)
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