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The president has called her bluff, because she didnt do that with that second letter. >> she did not. >> harris: she left the door open on that pretty has walk through it now with another idea. ive got a number of the white house commit. john roberts, you set me up perfectly. but i know every now and then your phone blows up, so if something breaks we will come back to you. thank you. >> you bet. >> harris: lets bring in the counselor to the president, kellyanne conway. thank you for joining me...

The speakers letter after the president said he was going forward, the extension on january 3rd, a mutually agreed-upon date. at that time there was no thought that the government would still be shut down, my further correspondence said we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when the government has reopened. i am writing to inform you that the house of representatives will not consider a resolution authorizing the presidents state of the union address in the house chamber unti...

She cant handle the truth for doesnt want to hear the truth. the she is the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. john roberts is in the yard. this was unexpected but not surprising. >> say it quite the way tom cruise said to it jack nicholson. she doesnt want to hear the truth. its a shame the state of the union was cancelled. the president went on to say, shes cancelled it. its a great blotch on the incredible country we have, a very negative part of history. ill let the president say what he sa...

Saying youre disinvited. i cant remember that ever happening where a speaker of the house told the president you cant come up here and give the state of the union address. so now the president has to decide, we dont open the government and she cant get a concurrent resolution before the house, but the house and the senate have to pass concurrent resolutions to authorize a joint session of congress in the house of representatives. so thats what shes blocking as opposed to saying youre not welcome...

Pelosi to trump. and this is kristen welker rejoins us from the who us. countri white house. kristen, they had fallback positions but now theyre really calling nancy pelosis bluff, now she would have to affirmatively say dont come. and she controls the floor, she controls the venue, thats under her purview. >> thats absolutely right. the president is essentially saying, look, you invited me to speak and we are going to honor that initial invitation that you sent out. not altogether a surprise, a...

The house of representatives. it would be so very sad for our country if the state of the union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location, exclamation point. phil, it does seem as though he wrote this himself. from the punctuation, if nothing else. >> yes, its a bold move by president trump. hes effectively calling pelosis bluff and saying, look, i am able to give this speech, there are no security concerns according to the people that provide security to me at m...

Nancy pelosi bluff and try to move forward with plans to deliver his own state of the union whether in the senate where he could get an invite or somewhere elsewhere it has more of a campaign style rally flavor to it? >> i spoke to a senior administration official who is privy to the internal conversations about this last night. its very unlikely hell go to the senate. that idea doesnt appear to be appealing to people internally. they are basically saying -- forcing nancy pelosi to formally resc...

Paychecks, you take away his national stage. that what hes done here and had a visceral reaction to this more than the 800,000 workers out of their paychecks. he will give a speech that night. >> i have an idea. i used to dabble in politics. why doesnt nancy pelosi say you can come. im going to be at the food bank that the fbi has set up because youre not paying them, so they cant feed their families. and heres what were going to do with all of our seats, as democrats, were giving all of our sea...

Where we are with this negotiabling with daca. >> i think it breaking up a big immigration battle. immigration has been one of the m most vexing policy debates in the last decade. the president knows that he has to have senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in his corner. theyre changing their strategy a little here. the senate majority leader when the shut down started said he would not put anything on the senate floor that did not have the support of the president, speaker pelosi, and chuck s...

Her. >> martha: thank you very much. here now is mark ts and, and amy kramer, and richard goodstein, democratic strategist and former advisor. great to have all of you with us. we just heard from sean spicer, so lets go through to richard goodstein with your reaction here about whats going on. >> he referenced the constitution several times and up to your credit you pointed out that this does not have to be delivered in person, in the house. i also say he referenced this 2013 bill that every sin...