Damian Paletta

We're not really in a world of diplomacy right now.

We're in a world of military action on all sides.

And so there's a chance, too, if gas prices start coming down and the stock market goes back up, President Trump might think we inflicted a lot of damage on them.

You know, we kind of made our point.

Their nuclear ambitions are set back.

We can move on.

But if he feels like, you know, Iran's shooting rockets and drones and straight-arm moves and they didn't learn their lesson in his viewpoint, then it's possible that they might have to go back in with the military.

So...

We'll know more soon, but I imagine there's going to be lots of twists and turns here.

Well, there's no plan yet, but I mean, we're heading into peak spring break season with a lot of travelers and people are going to be missing flights.

There's a lot of unpaid TSA employees who are quitting.

And it just seems like a matter of time before

Democrats and Republicans realize this is unsustainable.

So I expect either party or both parties to look for some sort of excuse to cut a deal, whether it's a short term deal or a permanent deal, because this is going to become a catastrophe soon when people keep missing their flights and they're going to get really furious at Washington for their inaction.

Right.

So the origins of the shutdown go back to Minneapolis and the two protesters who were killed.

And that's when Democrats felt like they had a lot of leverage over the White House.

Now we have Mark Wayne Mullen, the new DHS nominee, Kristi Noem is out.

And so Democrats, I think, feel like they're making some progress there in terms of getting the White House to change their approach to immigration.

So the question is, do Democrats need to keep pressuring the White House here, or do they feel like they've already made enough strides to pass this spending bill because the White House is clearly not going to use the same approach to deportations that they were using a few months ago?