time to go inside that building, just outside of the building at white house where press secretary sarah sanders is it will get warm in a little bit. it's a bit challenging to be out there. thanks for joining us, sarah. a lot of people are nervous about a government shut down in two days. talk about fisa when the senate comes back to work. is there any thought or plan to reconfigure and reconvene the bipartisan meeting last thursday that went so wrong? >> first of all good morning. it is very cold. hopefully we stay short today. but, look, we're still optimistic in terms of the budget deal. i think one thing needs to be clear. we have to keep these go items separate, the budget needs to be a separate item. we want a clean budget bill. we're hopeful that could happen. we're hopeful the democrats will not hold mile-per-hour military hostage. will not hold the funding of our government hostage over a political battle that we should have, but we shouldn't have it connected to the...