debilitating for him. so i think he will win this one. and it may turn out to be even if the shutdown still continues? even if i mean, it could be a fight that nancy pelosi shouldn t have picked, because she was winning. and this muddies the waters a bit, if you ask me. and that letter was spell-checked with all those exclamation points because he s dead serious. and probably there aren t and she gave a reason which a lawyer would never do, of security concerns, which can be batted away by showing that there are none. so i think this is another standoff that we re in the middle of. and this is kind of a pettier one than the actual shutdown. and in fact, kasie hunt, when we were just talking to congressman panetta, he and other democrats are now saying to their leaders, you know, enough already, my constituents want this government reopened,
they have their version, as you said. our version prevents any funding for any sort of withdrawal from nato. they have their version that says it has to be two-thirds vote from the senate. it will be combined and hopefully they vote on it, hopefully they do the right thing and pass it and it s going to be put in front of the president and hopefully the president, as he said the other day that we re 100% with nato, if so, sign my bill. now, you ve got obviously a famous name, obviously, for our viewers, you are the son of leon and sylvia panetta. you can recognize me by the nose. former cia director, former white house chief of staff, and other issues. but you re here on your own. correct. you ve got this bill passed, congratulations. thank you very much. great to see you. good to see you, thank you. kasie hunt on the hill, what about the reaction from pelosi and speaker pelosi and the leadership to this letter from the president? andrea, we re still waiting on a f
spoke with, and how she feels after having worked so hard, to have her college student having to take a semester off. that s heartbreaking in a profound way. kristen welker and kasie hunt, you re at the fulcrum of this on your two beats. how does that impress the people at the heart of this stand justify? kristen, the president wants to give his state of the union, they say he will, he ll give a speech, if it has to be in the east room. nancy pelosi has not said you cannot come, she has just said it would not be appropriate if the shutdown continues. is there going to be a big speech, if this shutdown is still in play? andrea, it seems like it s full steam ahead to have a state of the union address next tuesday. the question is will it in fact take place at the capitol. the white house signaling at this point in time they have no reason to think it won t. at the same time we know there are contingency plans, that
officials here, for example, are preparing different passages in case president trump has to deliver that speech outside of washington, d.c. and andrea, to that first important point that you make, how are those real life stories impacting the president, how are they impacting the white house? i have put that question to the president himself, to officials here. and the response is that they go back to what they describe as the pain that is caused by a lack of border security. they go back to angel parents who have lost loved ones, to those who they say have come here and are undocumented. so that is their response to all of these stories that we are seeing unfold, frankly all across the country, people really struggling to make ends meet, really suffering amidst this government shutdown. again, they continue to go back to that key campaign promise by the president that border security essentially trumps all, andrea. and of course, kasie hunt,
correspondent kristen welker, nbc capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt, nbc political analyst peter baker, and nbc s ali vitali, after speaking with struggling federal contractors. kristen walker, the president is proceeding as though he has a firm coalition in the senate, so far he has. but there s a lot of talk around the edges that after these test votes tomorrow there might be talk of a real compromise. well, that s right. i ve been talking to white house officials throughout the morning basically asking them what is going to happen if these two test votes do in fact fail, which is what is expected. one top official tells me, look, ask nancy pelosi. they re really putting the onus, at least at this point, on democrats to come to the table with a potential compromise, which i know kasie will delve more deeply into. the white house says we re very