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Infrastructure. their proof, they say, is that he walked in, walked out and had the preprinted signs already ready in the rose garden. what does the white house say? >> reporter: yeah. were told by sources that the white house started planning for this to happen this morning after nancy pelosi walked out of that meeting with her caucus and said she believed the president was engaged in a cover-up. thats when they printed out that sign you saw on the white house podium, investigation by the numbe...

Of america. im pleased to yield now to the distinguished democratic leader of the senate, mr. schumer. >> well, thank you, speaker pelosi. and to watch what happened in the white house would make your jaw drop. we democrats believe in america, we believe that we need infrastructure. we believe to bring clean new energy around the country we need a power grid modernized and updated. we believe in modernizing our transportation fleet with electric cars. we believe in all these things. and so despi...

Saying i pray for the president, not only questioning his judgment or strategy but questioning him if you will. senate democratic leader said we were ready. the president wouldnt let us. >> to watch what happened in the white house would make your jaw drop. we democrats believe in infrastructure. despite signals in the previous few weeks that he might not be serious, we went forward. we came here very seriously. the president asked in his letter last night, where would democrats spend the money ...

Hik hike. >> at some point its going to leak what happened in that meeting. you saw pelosi and schumer telegraphing that something really awful happened and when you hear it, it will make your jaw drop. theyre trying to make him seem like hes unreasonable. theyre the serious ones. they have this 35-page plan but he doesnt want to play ball and get anything done for the country. is this just a bluff? hes somebody who does change tactics and doesnt necessarily stick to his same stance over time, b...

About. we saw him come out to the rose garden seething, was angry, lashing out about these democratic investigations, the special counsels investigation as well, saying he could not work with democrats while theyre investigating him, but were told it was singularly that comment from nancy pelosi that set the president off and derailed todays infrastructure meeting. had that comment not been made by the speaker today, the meeting likely would be going on still in the white house. the president wa...

We believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the united states. and we believe that the president of the united states has engaged in a cover-up. in a cover-up. and that was the nature of the meeting. >> joining our conversation of "the washington post," they werent together to begin with. now theyre out here. if you believe what was said today, dont expect anything to get done because democrats arent going to back off their investigations. the president doesnt -- he didnt...

Want to get nerdy about the infrastructure debate. three weeks ago they emerged from the oval office, agreed on $3 trillion. the democrats said with a republican senate theres no way we can get $2 trillion unless you, mr. president, take the lead on how well pay for it. he said he would do that. mick mulv a. ney revolted. mitch mcconnell revolted. conservative groups revolted and got the president to back off. in this letter he says why dont you come to me with how you would pay for it? this let...

All the areas i mentioned and more, that have the broad support of senate and house democrats. we were interested. we are interested in doing infrastructure. its clear the president isnt. he is looking for every excuse. whether it was lets do trade first or whether it was hes not going to pay for any funding or whether today that there are investigations going on. hello. there were investigations going on three weeks ago when we met. and he still met with us. but now that he was forced to actual...

A big white house confrontation and then dueling press conferences. the president kicking the senate and house leaders out of the white house. and said youll get nothing from me until the investigations stop. >> i walked into the room and told senator schumer, speaker pelosi, i want to do infrastructure. i want to do it more than you want to do it. i would be really good at that. thats what i do. but, you know what? you cant do it under these circumstances. so, get these phony investigations ove...

Agreement, $2.80% federal and 20% local and in any even, today was the day he was supposed to tell us how -- what he would be willing to support and pay for for all of that. instead, in an orchestrated, almost to a poor baby point of view, he came into the room and said that i said that he was engaged in a cover-up and he couldnt possibly engage in a conversation on infrastructure as long as -- as long as we are investigating him. now weve been investigating him since we took -- or the majority,...