government which the president once said he would be proud to own. the stalemate has prolonged the shutdown into an eighth day. the president says democrats have not been willing to deal on the border wall and is pointing the fingers specifically at house minority leader nancy pelosi. he and other administration officials claim that pelosi is unwilling to accept any kind of compromise with this administration before her speakership election on january 3rd because that could put her gavel at risk. despite that, democratic leaders haven't been invited to the white house to present any offer, according to mick mulvaney. he says the white house is waiting to hear what the democrats' next move will be. mulvaney suggested president trump might be willing to come down off that $5 billion demand he originally had for wall money but he didn't specify by how much, although that's in line with cnn's reporting that last weekend vice president mike pence went to the hill with the