and then over the next 30 days or so, they could negotiate the dhr dhs funding then. that's an idea he pressed the president on several times, three times, in fact, according to what an aide in the room or an aide familiar with the meeting told us latter on. and the president eventually responded, quote, i would look foolish if i did that. now, i talked to a white house official who was in that meeting, as well, and talked about what was going on, and they essentially said that when chuck schumer proposed that, they said, well, okay. if we do agree to that, the president does sign this bill and we move forward over the next 30 days to negotiate what we're going to do to keep dhs funded for the long haul, will you come up off your hard line of only funding $1.3 billion for border security? now, the democrats did not signal that they would, so the white house essentially said, what would be the point in us agreeing for the president to sign these six bipartisan senate bills if you're not going to come out any higher on that funding? so essentially, what we're left at is