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A senior adviser to president obama. david, i wonder, could you imagine any kind of scenario under which john boehner would have blocked president obama from giving his state of the union address? >> no. i mean, you know, decorum was beginning to erode. it wasnt the state of the union, but the president made a health care speech, youll remember, and members stood up and shouted at him. but, no, i could not conceive of that, but i also could not have conceived of a 34-day or 33-day shutdown. and ...

Shutdown. and it comes at a time when pelosi is the new sheriff in town. shes asserting, you know, her primacy and the institutions primacy and so its kind of a caustic mix. >> doug, how unprecedented is this? is there anything in american history to compare it to? >> well, look, the original "state of the union" used to always be a hand written message all the way up to woodrow wilson in 1913. wilson started a tradition of it. its really fdr who called it the "state of the union," and it goes f...