the sergeant of arms asking for a walk-through to occur some time this week. a week after pelosi called on the president to delay the address until the government reopens. a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist at real clear politics and nbc contributor, sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. the shutdown and the obvious fact that nancy pelosi is not going to have him come while the shutdown continues. >> right. >> they may have an outside rally or some other venue? >> some west wing-type moment where he walks up to the hill. i always suspected that donald trump would do something. he's not one to sort of relinquish the stage. the question is where will he do it? will he get an invitation from the senate? another oval office address? will he go to the house, bang on the doors? he'll make a speech. he made one speech before and it didn't move the needle. i'm not sure if another big ticket speech will do anything different. >> a.b. what we're hearing from