Hi, I'm Mary Lynn and I'm Katie and we're at Disney World about to run our first marathon

This podcast was recorded at 2.22 p.m. On

The 27th day of the partial government shutdown also known as January 17th things might have changed by the time you hear it

Like hopefully we're no longer running but the government is okay. Here's the show

Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast with the partial government shutdown dragging on the president is losing ground with key groups in his base

Plus more candidates have put their names in the ring for 2020. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Ayusha Roscoe

I also cover the White House. I'm Scott Horsley. I also cover the White House and I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress

All right, let's start with the government shutdown which has officially earned the title of the longest shutdown in modern history

We could be having this conversation a week ago or two weeks ago or three weeks ago

Based on the way President Trump is talking and the way Speaker Pelosi are talking

I think we've said this before we can say it again

There doesn't seem to be much progress in the talk to actually end the shutdown

What there has been progress in is sort of escalating the tension between the Speaker and the President

Earlier this week the Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially delayed the State of the Union in a letter to the President saying that

She didn't think it was appropriate for him to offer a prime time address when the government is shut down and that the State of the Union needs to be staffed by

So many secret service agents not getting paid the ultimate burns

She suggested he could just offer it in writing instead of getting the TV time and then today the President responded in kind

Announcing that it would not be appropriate for her to use

Military aircraft to take an overseas trip to visit Afghanistan Brussels in Egypt and he adds

Obviously if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial that would certainly be your prerogative

Also, maybe the ultimate burn back. So I don't think that this is really um

A policy argument that they're having this is clearly a very personal argument and you take away my my big TV stage

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