democratic votes for, including the u.s. s/mexico/canada trade deal and also some important and nongauchable budget decisions, wolf. >> keep the government operationing. all right, abby. let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. so do democrats believe they were set up? >> reporter: no question about it, wolf. they believe that the white house, the president used this comment the speaker made as an excuse to scuttle this meeting because the two sides were still at odds on doing anything on infrastructure. the white house did not have a detailed plan in place, the white house were at odds on how to pay for an infrastructure project. and the democrats believe this this was all an effort to undercut that, what would ultimately be a futile bipartisan effort. now, at the same time, nancy pelosi had been behind the scenes, making those comments about a potential cover-up for days. she made the comment on friday