elected to spend his time with reporters and celebrities. this is a president who campaigned on speaking directly to americans and that is exactly what he will spend his time doing. i think it is kind of naive of us to think we can all walk into a room for a couple of hours & some of the tension is not there. one of the things we say in the south -- in a girl scout eggs your house, would you buy cookies are more? there is no reason for him to pretend like it will be just another saturday night. i think he is focused on protecting our borders, national security, growing our economy. is that is spending the night doing that he will spend the night focused on what he can do to help better america. >> pretty straight answer. we will have to leave it there today. >> this tuesday, the president has a capitol hill to address congress. house minority leader nancy pelosi was asked about that also on abc's this week. >> said democrats are thinking

of bringing guests who have been impacted by the president's policies. that would be a normal thing to do. i am bringing a guest to was a dreamer. a guest who lost her son to gun violence. i will bring a guest who is a symbol of the freedom of the press, which the president in his authoritarian manner is attacking. theink that is really biggest guardian of our democracy, the first amendment. >>'s or any occasion that you feel you can work with the president? infrastructure, the $1 trillion infrastructure plan. is that something democrats can get behind? >> i call him the deflector in chief. he has no job skills. i talk about president obama. in the first four weeks, 4 million jobs. he has to talk about the press. he has no jobs bill.

yes it talk about. transgender kids in schools he has no jobs bill so we have to talk about immigrants and have a ban on muslims coming into the country. all of this is deflecting from the fact he has done nothing. we have not seen a jobs bill. if he -- as i said to him and publicly, if he has an infrastructure bill that really helps to address the deficit we have and our infrastructure in our country, let's talk about it. but if it is yet again another tax break for his rich friends disguised as an infrastructure bill, we are not going. >> we are live at the national governors association eating and washing. this is the winter meeting. they are on a break. transportation secretary elaine chao will join the governor's next in a discussion on infrastructure. this is live coverage of c-span.

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>> we are waiting for the national governors association winter meeting here in washington to get underway. this next meeting will be with the secretary elaine chao as she discusses infrastructure and solutions for the problems the

states are experiencing around the country. while we wait several of president trump's cabinet nominee faced a vote in the week ahead as congress returns monday from his presidents' day break. i capitol hill reporter looked at that and other issues ahead for the house and tenant. -- senate. >> senior staff writer with cq roll call. the senate voting on four nominees next week. beginning monday with wilbur ross, commerce secretary. tell us about the status of each of these four nominees and how each will fare in the confirmation votes. nomineesks like the that are up before the senate facingek are going to be smoother sailing than some of the previous nominees featured the around-the-clock sessions and the real protests from democrats.

wilbur ross, while there has been some concerns about some of his business dealings, is expected to easily be confirmed monday evening. after that they will invoke cloture and a limited debate on the choice of ryan sankey, the congressman from montana to be the secretary of the interior. and then later in the week we should see them get to both ben carson, the former presidential candidate and medical doctor from johns hopkins, and rick perry, former texas governor for energy. carson for hud, perry for energy. these are all seemingly less controversial nominees than the likes of rex tillerson, at the state department betsy devos in education, some of the people previously confirmed.

also coming up in the next week, president trump will make his first address to a joint session of congress on tuesday night. what do you inspect the hear from president trump and what are you hearing about possible democratic boycotts of his tuesday night speech? >> we have heard so far from the white house they are anticipating perhaps more of an upbeat message from president trump. some optimism and taking that sort of approach. i think the question about protests that some of this may lie in who was chosen by democrats to be guests at the event, which is an address to a joint session. it is not technically a state of the union address although it will look a lot like one. lawmakersf democratic

who are inviting people who were victims of anti-muslim violence peoplent times, or of who stand to lose their health insurance if the 2010 health care overhaul that a lot of people know is obamacare is repealed. i don't know how much of a literally not showing up we will see yet, although there will be some of that. one of the questions that will be interesting is whether some of the democrats in the house who are known for always wanting the aisle seat so they can be in the camera shot with the president of the united states walking down the aisle, whether or not those people will actually want to be there this year. >> back to the senate side, another member -- former member of congress, dan coats of indiana is up for a position

with the trump administration, director of national intelligence. his hearing is next week before the senate intelligence committee. what is he expected to be asked about? confirmationcoats seemed like it would be one of the easy ones. at the end of the day is confirmation will probably be a fairly easy one. but given some of the news that is cannot recently and the reporting about russian interactions with people in the trump administration or the trunk transition campaign -- trump transition campaign, he is sure to be asked about that. susan collins of maine on the intelligence committee signaled in an interview with public that she wasaine probably going to be asking something about the inclusion of steve bannon, a conservative

senior white house adviser on the national security council meetings. there are those questions. willther thing coats probably have to address is what is likely the administration views as the role of the office of the director of national intelligence, and whether or not they expect the power center will be with the dni, or it might shift back towards the cia which is now being run by former congressman mike pompeo. >> a look at a headline we're seeing at rollcall.com. house tries to force ho vote on conflicts. judiciary committee will be up to is basically attempting to kill off an effort by congressman nadler of new york to force a house floor vote on something known as a resolution of inquiry about president trump's potential ties

to russian interests or those of his administration. probably going to happen on tuesday is there will be a difficult vote for some republicans on the judiciary committee, but one they will have to take in order to basically fork nadler's resolution from becoming available for a vote on the house floor. the has been referred to judiciary committee and the committee needs to act in order to prevent what is effectively a discharge and the resolution being brought up on the floor, a really difficult vote for vulnerable house republicans. atyou can read his reporting rollcall.com, follow him on twitter. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. are expecting the national

governors association winter meeting in washington to get underway. next up, transportation secretary elaine chao joins the governors in a discussion on infrastructure. you are watching live coverage on c-span. [crowd noise] >> the winter meeting will be shown again tonight on c-span. the earlier discussion on civic engagement and other topics will be seen at 9:45 p.m. eastern this panel discussion upcoming the transportation secretary elaine chao and the discussion earlier on combating childhood hunger can be seen beginning at 12:45 a.m. eastern here on c-span. also on the governors' agenda today, the governors ball at the white house.

that will be this evening hosted by the president and first lady. you see virginia governor terry mcauliffe. that's because they had not picked it up yet. if you guys can find your seats, we will get started. [crowd noise]