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Could stand and attempt to tell us why he wouldn't do infrastructure. and, of course, then he went to the rose garden with prepared signs that had been printed up long before our meeting. we want the president to do infrastructure. we want our congress to perform its constitutional responsibilities and create jobs, create income, crow aeate wealth for the average american. we can do both. it's clear the president doesn't want to do any of that. >> i just would add this one thing, that we had a very distinguished delegation to the congress, very powerful house and senate. as you can see, distin...

There are regulatory and executive alcohols the administration is taking. you can debate whether you like those or not. but we are going to revisit health care. no. they were going to revisit infrastructure. forget about it. there was some talk that would they ever get anything done on immigration? the president's acting department of homeland security chief is up there today, talking about wall funding and the like. forget about it. i don't see anything getting done. >> now this trade deal also. >> trade deal, right. >> that needs to get done. >> he needs nancy pelosi's help. she is. she's a ...

Chairm chairmen, leadership of the house and senate on the democratic side waiting for the president. chuck schumer says the president came in, didn't shake anybody's hands. made clear. here is how the president described it. >> i walked into the room and i 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. >> again, whatever you think of the investigations, whether you agree wit...

There was any hope, any possible hope of a bipartisan deal on infrastructure spending. instead, walking out of an oval office meeting and into the rose garden, accusing the democrats of trying to continue investigations, says he doesn't do cover-ups, saying that he would not work with them until they drop their investigation. the president going on then to say several things that were just not true about the mueller report. let's get the democratic response. here is the speaker and senate democratic leader with some of their deputies. >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning, everyone. we we...

Not time to do that but she also said this. >> would you believe it's important for the -- to follow the facts. 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 is engaged in a cover-up. in a cover-up. and that was the nature of the meeting. >> manu, the president says that's what set him off. the democratic perspective we just heard from the speaker and senate leader, chuck schumer, is that he was looking for a fight and that might have just given him the ammunition, but he wanted this. >> reporter: t...