appreciate the breaking news. to that point, this is not going to re-open the government at least in the short term. i suspect the speaker's gut response, you are more than welcome, but this is a power play by the president. nancy pelosi said first. this is my house and you're not coming if the government is shut down. the president saying i'm coming. where do we go? >> in some ways this is the pitiest part of the whole debate and in some ways the least important because it does not look like she'll be able to use the state of the union to re-open the government. the state of the union is a big, political spectacle, it doesn't do anything, and it doesn't change minds and it doesn't have the pool of policy or anything like that. i imagine if you were nancy pelosi, she said he can give it in the oval office and she might still be there. in the intervening petty play the president canceled her trip, right? she was supposed to go abroad with a group of democrats to