so he's been enxwajed in this process. his team has been engaged in this process. ultimately, our position has been consistent and clear, and therefore, not that the complicated to communicate either to you or the public or to congress. we have simply urged all sides to, you know, put down sort of or put aside, you know, the efforts to achieve partisan advantage and leverage and instead, to move forward with an agreement that opens the government and raises the debt ceiling so that the threat of default putt does not hang over us at the time, you know, at this time. >> reporter: the president said yesterday, basically, once this whole mess was resolved, he said once that's dop, you know, the day after i'm going to be pushing to say call a vote on immigration reform. does he really think that a recipe for success on immigration reform is to deal with it right after another divisive issue? >> the president believes that one of the consequences of these manufactured crises is that time is taken away from the pursuit of other goals that we have as a nation. and that wi