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The missouri Governor Greitens refused to concede anything about any of the charges against him from the very beginning. He has refused calls for his resignation from the leaders of the house and the senate in his state, both of whom are republican leaders. He has been on the edge of the abyss for quite some time now. These new felony charges tonight represent one more hard shove toward him becoming airborne. Lots of eyes on the governor of missouri in the wake of these new charges. Internationally, the news of the night involves north korea. They have announced they will be freeze their nucle...

He's going to need permission from democrats to do in the rotunda, permission from democrats to do in the senate as well. he does have floor privileges to walk onto the senate floor. but to actually deliver a speech, you would need some support within the senate because that institution operates on a concept called unanimous concept meaning everyone needs to agree. and in this environment it's hard to see that happening. so the president's going to have to find another venue off capitol hill. >> manu raju, thank you very much. perspective now from david brinkly. >> decorum was beginning to ero...

And of course you could go and there have been weird moments like in 1975 actually went in and said the "state of the union" of is not good. that's what we're dealing with right now, not a good situation. >> david this afternoon you tweeted after two years of bullying@real donald trump has found himself nose to nose with an opponent willing and able to push back. to what end does the government remain shutdown? >> here's where the democrats have a bit of a high ground because they've offered to reopen the government and in continue to negotiate on the wall and the president wants the leverage ...

This is the great trump shutdown. his poll numbers are starting to go in the backwards direction. by all indications he's being blamed for this, and i think the president needs to now respond by doing a written "state of the union." if he wants to go give a campaign-like rally, he can do it. fox news will cover it. i doubt the big networks or even cnn will probably cover something like that. and as was mentioned, he already had a kind of "state of the union" a couple weeks ago about the wall, and network television carried it. so trump should give him the written version and then pelosi should...

Story, and i would like to ask you which parts of this i screwed up. did get it wrong? >> you got it absolutely right. everything old is new once again. when david brinkley dismissed that in that broadcast, he was sitting about 100 feet from where i am in the nbc bureau in washington. >> when we think about lawsuits in politics, sometimes they are scurrilous. sometimes they are just used as political weapons. substantively some of the things that we won eder about is whether the lawsuits can be used to provide new factual evidence and can you get can deposition, and get discovery and turn up t...