january 29th, at that time there was no thought that the government would still be shutdown. shh reached out again after the shutdown would still be ongoing. they wanted to find that date after the shutdown is resolved. she makes very clear in this letter that there will be no state of the union on tuesday in the house chamber. so now the president is going to have to make a decision where to deliver this speech. will he do it somewhere else? even if he wanted to deliver it in the republican-controlled senate, that's most likely not going to happen either because they have to pass a similar resolution to do that there. they will need democratic support to do it. they will have to find a spot off capitol hill to deliver this annual address. but a remarkable episode that really demonstrates where we are on the longest government shutdown in history in which the two sides, pelosi and shoochume