the president to do something. the shutdown has gone on for so long, they see the political damage, and they are also concerned that president trump might be tempted to compromise with democrats. granting, for example, what they called amnesty for dreamers. so a lot of people frustrated on both sides, but the president still not willing it seems to take that additional step to either declare a national emergency or use some ort of other executive action for now, anderson? >> abbey philip, a lot to cover. next i want to go to the capitol, cnn's manu raju. >> reporter: democrats were in no mood to have the president come here to the house chamber and lecture them about the government shutdown especially since they believe this is all the president's fault. the president said himself that he would own this. and pelosi in fact said to her caucus today in a closed door meeting, i'm told, there's no point of you even bringing your family here to washington next week. people took that as a sign that the "state of the union" was never going to happen even