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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 weren't together to begin with. now they're out here. if you believe what was said today, don't expect anything to get done because democrats aren't going to back off their investigations. the president doesn't -- he didn't want to come to the table on infrastructure anyway. >> he's not calling them chuck and nancy ...

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 there's no way we can get $2 trillion unless you, mr. president, take the lead on how we'll 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 don't you come to me with how you would pay for it? this letter essentially said infrastructure is dead. the meeting wasn't going to take place anyway. then ...

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. it's clear the president isn't. he is looking for every excuse. whether it was let's do trade first or whether it was he's 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 actually say how he would pay for it, he had to run away. and he came up with this preplanned excuse. ...

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 you'll 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. that's what i do. but, you know what? you can't do it under these circumstances. so, get these phony investigations over with. >> the dust-up at the white house coming hours after speaker nancy pelosi emerged frommy ...

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 couldn't possibly engage in a conversation on infrastructure as long as -- as long as we are investigating him. now we've been investigating him since we took -- or the majority, so this is nothing new in that. and then he had a press conference in the rose garden with all of...