existential threat the russia investigation poses to this presidency, this government shutdown has become the most intractable political crisis for this white house, which has pitted them of course against the formidable new house speaker nancy pelosi. this morning the president reupped his usual strategy of calling out the democrats. "it is becoming more and more obvious that the stand by for capital letter radical democrats are a party of open borders and crime. they want nothing to do with the major humanitarian crisis on our southern border." house speaker nancy pelosi then made a power play taking aim at something very valuable to the president and that is a public platform. pelosi sent a letter over to the white house asking trump to delay his state of the union address, citing concerns about security during this ongoing shutdown. and we quote. "unless government reopens this week, i suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has reopened for this address or for you to consider delivering your state of the union address in writing to the congress on january 29th."