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President's january 29th state of the union address before congress, it has to be postponed because of the shutdown. >> our colleague dana bash did a series of bad ass women of washington. nancy pelosi was one of them she profiled. she proved it today. she surprised everybody and said, because of the national -- because this is a national special security event, you need a lot of protection and a lot of these people are on furlough. we can't guarantee that. the president can write his address or he can do it from the oval office. we're not going to be able do it at this particular time unless ...

Trying to shake free the current impasse and shut down negotiations and i think this is it. nancy pelosi writing the letter saying the two key agencies charged with security for the state of the union, which is a major security event that requires all government resources are the department of homeland security and the secret service. those agents are not being funded, they're either furloughed or people aren't being paid to come to work. because of that pelosi writes given the security concerns unless government reopen this is week i suggest we work together to determine another suitable date...

Negotiating table. >> democrats have to be willing to do something. so far they've been willing to do nothing but obstruct and that's not going to fix the problem. it's not going to open the government. they claim to care about federal workers but they've been so busy hanging out on the beaches of puerto rico at heading broadway shows. the president asked nancy pelosi directly, sheik keeps claiming you have to open the government before we can negotiate. he asked her point blank, if i open the government, will you work with me and give me border security funding, including the wall. she said n...

Chamber, actually, this room, hr 5. you look back at the history of it rather than my giving it to you was turned into sort of a safe haven while they bring us down here if something happened in the chamber. this is a very big deal. it is a special security event. >> reporter: would you host him? >> that would be a security. either the secretary was exaggerating the importance of the preparation required or not. and that's a security decision which is completely out of my hands. >> reporter: do you hope he sees this as a consequence of the government shutdown? >> no. i just -- this is a housek...

>> this is -- requires hundreds of people working on the logistics and the security of it. most of those people are either furloughed or victims of the shutdown, the president's shutdown. >> nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake joins us life. garrett, this has been one confusing story all morning. on one hand nancy pelosi citing security concerns. we have been hearing stuff that is other than that. tell us what the story is here. >> reporter: sure, i'll give you the facts and then the messaging and we'll see where they conflict. what we know is speaker pelosi sent a letter to the ...