white house. house speaker nancy pelosi had a few things to say. fill us in. bring us up to speed. of course, one of the times where we ve seen a confrontation between the president and the speaker of the house beyond the shutdown has been over the fate of the state of the union. and nancy pelosi, who controls access to speak on the house floor has played hard ball here and has told the president that while there is a shutdown, she would not go through the steps that would allow him to be here to speak on the 29th of january. as she had previously extended an invitation. there was back and forth. letter gate between the two of them. the president is the one who folded saying he would honor her request. that it s her prerogative and she d save his state of the union for when the government reopens. here s how speaker pelosi reacted to that when in terms of the power battle just a short time ago. i m glad we have that off the table because it was about the