The shutdown meeting when he walked out. Exactly, thats according to two democratic sources with knowledge of that meeting. Well hear from Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi any moment now. But thats it for me. Andrea mitchell picking things up right now. Ill see you tomorrow morning. What a day. Craig melvin, thank you. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We are awaiting comments at any moment from House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Moments after President Trump suddenly appeared in The Rose Garden to lash out at them, pouncing on Comments Pelosi had made this morning, that the president had engaged in a coverup, comments she made in part to slow her own caucus march to impeachment. The president walking out of that prearranged meeting over infrastructure and trade with pelosi and schumer, and leading democrats on capitol hill. Heres part of it. Instead of walking in happily into a meefg, i walk into look at people that had just said
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on to it. the treasury secretary, bob ruben, got it through. you know, they still made some things happen. welfare reform, things that were unpopular with the progressive left of the democratic party, but everybody came to the middle and they got things done. yeah, andrea, what s striking is i had a conversation before what happened in the rose garden with a senior white house official who said, there really is this sense that they might be able to get one big thing done before the 2020 campaign season. that was the usmca. the sense was that they would like other things to happen, but that was not going to happen. it s clear that that may also be in jeopardy today given the divisions we just wnd aitnessed the president s line in the sand as evidenced businey his commen the rose garden. to pull back the curtain on what we just witnessed, one of the things that struck me is while the president spoke there outside the oval office, just to the side, we could see a ton of his aides.