Oh, look, we're live. I missed the jump. Hi, everybody. I'm Andrew Eger with the bulwark. This is Bill Crystal. Also with the bulwark, we write the Morning Shots newsletter. And as we have begun to do, we're coming to you live on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. for Morning Chaser to talk about some of the stuff we wrote about in our newsletter today, some of the other stuff that's going on in the world. Today,

it's most of the same stuff because I don't know how you feel about it, Bill. It kind of seems to me

like we are looking around. There's so much going on in the world. There's the conflict in Iran.

There's the ongoing negotiations over funding the Department of Homeland Security. And in theory,

Donald Trump is sort of the prime mover

of basically everything that's happening. And yet, when you actually sit down and listen to him

talk and sort of follow along with the way that he is participating in all of these things,

there's a strange disconnect a lot of the time. I mean, it seems like the way that he speaks,

the way that he sort of like issues commands

out into the air that then aren't really followed up by anybody, including him. It's kind of new.

It seems unlike the way that he has done things in the past. We're going to talk about a lot of

that stuff today. But let's just start with the latest kind of breaking news about the DHS funding fight,

about the government shutdown.

You wrote about this in morning shots today, Bill, and we've even got some new details from Politico

about what the shape of the possible agreement that seems to be taking shape might end up looking like.

So let's throw a couple of these pieces of reporting from Politico up on the screen for you guys now.

Basically what we're looking at here is Donald Trump seems to be getting out of the way of a possible deal

that would let government funding go through for everything in homeland security except for ICE,

which means, you know, most obviously that TSA agents who are not being paid right now,

it's leading to a lot of chaos at airports, they would start getting paychecks again.

That problem would be solved.

And that then Republicans would turn around as this, as this is Politico's reporting here indicates, and they would then

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