erika werner has surely chosen the night shift tonight for "the washington post." she's just off the floor. erika, what have you seen that kind of fills in the picture of what we've been covering on the floor tonight? >> well, as you heard senators schumer and mcconnell speak there just after the vote, this is be, and so how long it ends up lasting and maybe it will be just a couple of days and maybe it will be longer, but it will depend largely on who is winning that public relations battle. >> and in that public relations battle, look at imagery. as i keep saying, the proposed imagery of the night was the president and this is the reality, this is the stone cold, late at night, grinding to a halt rgs of had. >> yeah, it's pretty amazing. and speaking of imagery, something that the administration is trying to folks on is to kind of play down images of the shutdown that they think that the obama administration exacerbated during the 2013 shutdown to make it kind of seem worse than it actually was, having very visible barriers outside of washington parks, that sort o