boris sanchez joins us from the white house right now. the president has been tweeting an awful lot today, a little about the democrats, a little bit about the snow, a little bit about syria. does the president have cabin fever on this wintry day there in washington? >> reporter: he certainly is taking to twitter, claiming that democrats are having fun while he is back here in washington, waiting for them to discuss a potential reopening of the federal government. president trump did not specifically address any of the details contained in those two reports, both in "the new york times" and the washington post. he did say in "the new york times" report that that was an insulting report. we should point out press secretary sanders put out two statements about both of these articles. she used very similar wording to describe them, in both cases dismissing them but then calling into question president obama's toughness saying president trump had been tougher on russia than obama.