better understand each case, we have a companion guide written by veteran supreme court journalist tony marlow. the book, go to www.c-span.org /landmarkcases. >>

better understand each case, we have a companion guide written by veteran supreme court journalist tony marlow. the book, go to www.c-span.org /landmarkcases. president joe biden coming up. he will be talking about u.s.-russia relations scheduled for 12:30 eastern. until then, part of the day's washington journal. our politics editor talking about the shutdown and the end of it for it hello. >> how is it going? >> who lost in this process? for chucka shutdown schumer. there has never been one of these still made has ended well for the republicans. this one was a little bit different. there was no clear end game for the democrats and what they were actually going to accomplish or extract from president trump. the hope was that there are the and overwhelming backlash -- it would reinforce the idea that trump's washington is chaotic. democratic base thought of it as an uprising of source against a racist "resident after the "s-hole countries comment. the problem that the democrats had was that they had a number of senators that are up for reelection this year in states that president trump one. -