let's check in with our suzanne malvo who is there on capitol hill. so he's really oversimplifying it because there was some bipartisan support, but then it was the president who rejected that plan, and now it's back to the drawing board. >> reporter: right, and fred, really the political calculus has dramatically changed here, and the whole argument is being framed very differently because as you mentioned before, it really was a fight. it had been set up earlier just as early as wednesday that there was legislation backed by the house, by the senate, republicans and democrats who said, yes, there was a budget deal that the president said he would go ahead and sign, that he would agree to. and so it would have been the president vetoing that legislation, the president versus the congress here shutting down the government. now what you find is that the republicans have pulled out of the process here. it is dramatically reframed as a battle, a battle which the president would welcome, him against just the democrats here because what they were able to d