Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

All right, so we are in the Sprint to the Holidays, which in Washington means there's a

ton of deadlines, most of which will get missed, but one of which I think will be the focal point over the next 10 days, and that is this

deal in the US Senate in order to get something on the border that will bring enough Republicans on board to do funding for Ukraine.

That's sort of the big Washington story for the next two weeks is this sprint can there be a compromise is there

it's one of those frustrating moments in Washington because there's a if you care about this funding for Ukraine because there is a huge bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate to fund Ukraine.

The problem is it's bipartisan and unfortunately the more bipartisan something is

But if it doesn't have strong support in one of the two parties, it's almost harder to get said legislation

across the finish line these days.

And Ukraine is one of those things that literally splits the Republican Party right down the middle.

And so it's then when you throw in the fact that that the president is also wanting aid to Israel in this. You throw that in there and that actually

can cost you some Democrats, at least on the progressive end of the spectrum, a bit on that front.

But we are in one of those moments where you're gonna,

it's gonna be a lot of, the talks are dead,

Ukraine's gonna have no funding, oh, the talks are alive, this or that. If history is any

guide here, they'll get their deal. This will happen. But I do want to make one point here on the

border aspect of all of this because obviously right now what's front and center of

concern for a lot of folks is what's happening in Israel and what's front and center of concern for a lot of folks is what's happening in Israel

and what's happening in Europe. And to a lesser extent what could end up happening in Taiwan. We have

Taiwanese elections in January and if a more pro-independence president is elected and right now

the more pro-independence candidate is the favorite as the opposition is pretty divided in Taiwan.

Then we could have a third front here, if you will, a third potential hot front,

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