afghanistan on a military plane because of the shutdown. he sent the letter roughly an hour before pelosi and several other lawmakers were scheduled to leave on what s called a codel, a congressional delegation. with us for more on all of this, sabrina sadiki, political reporter for the guardian and tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. just another story that is particularly confusing sabrina, response is here. the president seemed to think nancy pelosi had one up on him by kind of disinviting him to deliver the state of the union address, so this is his response? it absolutely is, and i think the escalating feud between the president and house speaker nancy pelosi just reinforces that there s no end in sight when it comes to the shutdown. it s telling after speaker pelosi suggested the president
or have lung, breathing, or liver problems. (katy vo) where i am now compared to a year ago, it s a story worth sharing. (avo) living longer is possible. it s tru. keytruda, from merck. with more fda-approved uses for advanced lung cancer than any other immunotherapy. it s petty, it s small, it s unbecoming of president of the united states. it is an unfortunately daily occurrence. this is the president essentially being a man baby all over again. trump s move to cancel pelosi s trip just minutes before she and others were set to leave to visit troops in a war zone signals a new level of weaponizing politics. of course, this is all happening as nearly 800,000 federal employees and other contractors are without paychecks and forced
actively encouraging it to happen. we have a response from lanny davis, michael cohen s legal and communications adviser about this buzzfeed story. he says out of respect for mr. mueller and mr. cohen declined to anthony, thank you for your reporting. anthony cormie frrks buzzfeed news. i want to bring in our leadoff panel. philip rucker for the washington post. barbara mcquade. and emily jane fox, senior reporter for vanity fair who also is the author of born trump: inside america s first family. we have exactly the right people to talk about this. first, i want to start you,
the last thing before we go tonight. the people affected by the infuriating dysfunction from d.c. government employees, everyday americans going without pay because of the shutdown. the shutdown by that by his own words makes the president proud. if we don t get what we want one way or the other, whether it s through you, through military, through anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. okay. fair enough. absolutely. we disagree. i am proud. i tell you what, i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck.
in writing. it was only when woodrow wilson then, they all started just delivering it in writing but then woodrow wilson wanted to exert the power of the presidency against congress so he said, i m going in person and teddy roosevelt thought, why didn t i think about that beforehand? it gives the president power when they re in person. it is a struggle between the two of them right now and it started with the midterms. there had been a time when the president for the first two years had the president and the congress and lots of influence in the supreme court, and now you re seeing that balance shifting i think with the struggle between the two of them. you said something really interesting about woodrow wilson wanting to assert the authority of the presidency by delivering this speech at congress. that is a fight writ large that is going on today. it s been going on for a few presidencies. but right now, we have a president who is basking in an expansion of executive authority and w