let s bring in my political panel. analyst april ryan. commentator and ray bower and maria cardona and cnn military and analyst john kirby. good to see all of you at the table. thank you so much. to april, you first. the white house said the dems, schumer in particular, are to blame. but during the shutdown in 2013 it was the president or it was it was the president hopeful donald trump who said it squarely comes to the president s doorstep as to whether a shun happens or not. so what is different here. those words are haunting him this morning on a critical day, the anniversary. 12:01, january 20th, 2017, he was named president of the united states. so t so the own us is on him. schumer and the president met yesterday and had lunch and then it took john kelly, general john kelly to say it is too liberal. so why not come back and say
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democrats. democrats in the senate with a few exceptions on either side chose to put politics ahead of our national defense, politics ahead of meeting the obligations of our national government and that is just unacceptable. cnn white house correspondent abby philip is live at the white house. so abby, any indication that the president plans on getting involved in negotiations at this point? reporter: well good morning. i m going to echo manu raju who just said it is unclear and that is exactly what a white house official told me just this morning. that it is just not clear what is going to happen today. if they are going to be meetings, it is possible, however, at the same time it seems there is a lot of pessimism coming from this building about the prospects that this could be resolved today. the president has been tweeting as you mentioned this morning, going and blaming democrats as he has been for several days and saying the solution to this problem is actually more
president prutrump, if you a listening, it is almost as if you want a shutdown. they are feeling proud of themselves. their very own government shutdown. and the president blaming democrats, tweeting this. this is the one year anniversary of my presidency and the democrats wanted to give me a nice present. hashtag democrat shutdown. all of this as activists across the nation are participating in the women s march. marking the anniversary of that historic turnout one year ago. let s begin our special live coverage with these crucial meetings on capitol hill. cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju is live. so are you hearing anything about what these house lawmakers are discussing right now. they are just getting into the closed door meeting in the house conference and this house
tell us about that. reporter: well cnn reported that even though the president is making a public show of blaming democrats for the shutdown on social media and elsewhere, he is telling aides privately that even though they are responsible, he does believe that he will be the one blamed for it ultimately. now this actually jives with some of the president s own comments from in the past and in previous years, he had said that the president the party the president whose party is in control would be blamed for it. and he said that about president obama and clearly saying that about his own administration today. we also know from some sources this morning that the white house does believe that when the house votes the senate votes on a bill to keep the government funded for three weeks that democrats will not support it and they think this shutdown could go on for longer than today. a senior official telling me this morning that battle lines appear to be very much entrenched throu