mr. cavuto. the president wants to stick to the $5 billion figure and democrats not entertaining above 1.3 to 1.6 and there's a middle ground being mentioned. is that a fair assessment? >> it seems that parties are still trying to negotiate, but i don't hear about a lot of movement and i can only say to you that it can end on january the 3rd at about noon when the new congress is sworn in, but i can't tell you that it will end before then. my hope is that it will end today. we don't want government workers, persons who have salaries will be delivered to them timely, we don't want them to have a lot of timely. >> when you say january 3rd, with democrats included. taking control of the house, that that should stop it, it wouldn't automatically, right? and you still need to get approval in the house and senate and dicey and the president signing off-- >> you would, but the legislation in this congress expires on that date and that would then cause us to have to take additional action. of course, we'