>> house speaker pelosi appeared at that briefing earlier. she's headed here to the white house for another p conference with the president on the government shutdown. this would be the second time this week that she and other congressional leaders have met with the president to bring an end to the 14 day government closure. some 800,000 people are affected by the shutdown. this is a live picture outside the white house where, if members of the delegation have remarks for the media, we will bring them to you here on c-span. in the meantime, several house republican leaders held a conference with reporters on

the republican agenda earlier today. here's a portion of that briefing. mr. mccarthy: i'm very concerned also from the standpoint, speaker pelosi, steny hoyer going to say anything about their freshmen, especially congresswoman talib, on her comments yesterday inside her move on meeting? i know she wanted to double down about this, but is this the behavior we'll find with this new majority party here in congress? are they going to govern the way they said they wanted to govern? they are going directly after the president. they have already put impeachment proceedings in. we want to solve our problem about the shutdown. we want to have border security. we're going to go down to the white house again today, hopefully the leadership on the democratic side won't interrupt the secretary from homeland who wants to give us the facts about the crisis happening at the border today. what's very concerning can, if this is how they are starting out, i understood why we had to wait to have the meeting today looking at the vote count for

speaker pelosi that they had to have a certain number of staying so she could win this election. a number of people who promised their voters they would not vote for nancy pelosi, they have broken their promise to their constituents. i wonder what other things they'll break their promise to as well. we have got our work to do. we should be staying here. finishing the job. opening government back up and making sure we have border ecurity. mr. scalise: the first day in office does set the tone for what kind of administration you are going to have. and when nancy pelosi and her team basically said that they want to leave instead of stay in town for the weekend and work with this president, who, by the way, stayed over the entire christmas break waiting for an offer, not one of which came to solve this problem, in terms of both not only opening the government but securing the border . when we go down to the white house today, i hope they'll actually listen to secretary of

homeland security neilsen and the things that are really going on at the border that are very alarming. when you look at the numbers, over 3,700 known or suspected terrorists that were stopped from entering the united states in 2017. the thousands of criminals who have come over across our border to commit very serious crimes. over 900 kids who were saved from human trafficking by our i.c.e. agents that nancy pelosi and a lot of her team and majority want to abolish. that's what's at stake in this fight over government funding. then you look what bill they passed out of the house yesterday. they passed a bill to basically allow taxpayer money to go to foreign government entities to provide abortions, but nancy pelosi wouldn't allow taxpayer money to go to the department of homeland security to keep this country safe. i think that shows a clear difference in priorities and approaches to what president trump wants to do to keep the

country safe. first what nancy pelosi wants to do to ignore this problem and refuse to negotiate. ms. cheney: i think that you also have seen yesterday and over the course of the last 24 hours in particular a real ramp up in rhetoric and name-calling and the kind of politicization and partisanship the american people are sick and tired of. you had speaker pelosi say she thinks the president doesn't know how to deal with strong women. let me just say that in my experience strong women want national security. strong women want to know that we're going to protect the border of this nation. this isn't about strong women. it's not about name-calling. you had references to hitler. foul language used. the necessaryity to impeach. we're in a situation where the democrats are clearly bringing into this office as they take charge a level of rhetoric, a level of attack, a level of vitriol not good for the country and ignores the very

real national security challenge we face. i hope that they will today determine that they have got to stop playing these games, stoming stop passing legislation that will not have any effect, we know it won't get taken up in the senate, and help us secure this border so that we can get on with the work of the people here in the people's house. reporter: there's been a ramp up in the rhetoric and vitriol. two years of president using foul language and vitriol and oftentimes criticized for not calling him out. isn't this just another play from that party? ms. cheney: if you look at what e have seen i don't want preeth the allegation, you have seen over the past 24 hours very fowl language, any comparisons to hitler, nawsyism are outrageous. suggesting we're doing anything here except trying to secure our borders, trying to do our work, keep people safe. peaker pelosi gave a speech as she took over yesterday making

clear that she wants to herald in a new era in washington. we'd like to hope that that new era includes getting substantive work done for the american people. in particular securing the border making sure we're protecting the security of the nation. reporter: when you guys were in the majority a short time ago, you passed a bill here in the house, sent down the house markers, sent it to the senate on the onus on the senate to ep up the government. why is the situation different mr. mccarthy: because the bill that the new majority took up, they already knew in the meeting where you had the leader in the senate said he would not take it up because it would not become law. even schumer has said last week, if you look at the quote, they should not take anything up that the president is not going to sign. nancy pelosi knew this bill would go nowhere. we knew from in that meeting we could not come to any conclusion our get a compromise based upon that she had to have a speaker vote. now we have waited, the

government has had to be shut down for this. i hope they'll be serious in this meeting, much different than the last meeting. i wish we could have stayed here this weekend and solved it. maybe if you didn't want to keep everybody here, but we could have stayed here and solved this problem. it would not take a long time weefment know where the differences lie. we know how to find compromise. we have done it many times before. that's why the president's aving another meeting. inaudible] mr. mccarthy: did she support the language? that was the wrong language? did she talk to her new member about it? she is the speaker of the house. she is also the head of the democratic party. she has a new freshman incoming individual that use that is type of language that has a determination of what she's going to do with no facts or basis. i think this is a role as a

leader and speaktory have a conversation with this member on whether she approves of this r not. [inaudible] mr. mccarthy: i think these comments as the house majority going to be serious about anything? i sat up on the dais provided the gavel to the new speaker, talked about ways we could work together, laid out firm principles that we would not compromise on, and we see this language going forward? how do you work with anybody if this is what they really have planned? that they go down into a place they have a move on to think others aren't watching, using foul language, they introduce they want to impeach the president. over what basis? we have government shutdown right now. where are their priorities? we gave them an opportunity to show their priorities. they are committed to the american people, they put the people before politics and we'll open government back up, make sure we're able to secure our borders? no. they voted no.

every single new freshman democrat that came in just decided to put politics over the country. that was wrong. then we watched a new freshman stand up use this language, get cheered by their base, and we watched a brand new speaker say nothing to her. that is not the body of what we serve in. that action should not stand. somebody should stand up to it. she's the speaker. that individual serves at her -- i would hope if she wouldn't, others in her caucus would. you know what happened in the last congress when republicans were in the majority? you know what our freshmen class did? they put a resolution together to actually work with one another. to not use foul language. and they got almost every single freshman to sign on to it. this is the difference with this new congress and it's wrong. reporter: the president referred to -- who in your caucus called out the president? mr. mccarthy: a lot did in that process. you watched the action that we took in our house, it's our

responsibility. when we were in the majority, we laid out a resolution, we took it beyond the freshmen that all of us sign it, we could act in a basis of respect for one another and not use that. this is the first time of where they are going through they have an opportunity, let's see what action this new speaker will take and see what action when these freshmen go awafmente the first vote they just made was to leave and leave government shutdown instead of stay and do your job. that's important. thank you you very much. -- thank you very much. fun -- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> that meeting from earlier today. the house democrat leaders are at the white house now with the president. talking about a way to end the government shutdown. the big hurdle remainsing to be the wall. speaker -- remaining to be the wall. speaker pelosi said the democrats will not build a wall. we're waiting for comments from members of that dell case when this meeting at the white house comes to a close. and we'll bring it to you live here on c-span.