Thread by @JenniferJJacobs

White House suddenly calls press for an unscheduled event. Throng of reporters gathered.

Presidential podium in Rose Garden set up for Trump remarks.

Trump refutes Pelosi’s “coverup” remark. “I don’t do coverups.”

Mnuchin and Ivanka Trump are here watching from colonnade.

No infrastructure deal, Trump says.

“I walked into the room and I told Sen. Schumer, Speaker Pelosi: I want to do infrastructure, I want to do it more than you want to do it... But you know what, you can't do it under these circumstances.”

Trump says right before this infrastructure meeting with Pelosi and Schumer he heard the “I” word.

Impeachment.

The meeting didn’t last long.

Nor did this press conference.

White House aide hands out “fact sheet” on Mueller probe.

“I pray for the president,” Pelosi says.

What happened in the White House would make your “jaw drop,” Schumer says.

In case you're just getting caught up on whirlwind morning:

Trump assailed Pelosi and Schumer for pursuing investigations of him/admin and said he won't talk infrastructure if probes continue.

Dems said he pre-planned this. "The curtains were closed."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“We are interested in doing infrastructure. The president isn’t,” Schumer said, holding up a 35-page plan he wanted to give Trump. “He is looking for any excuse."

Durbin: “There was high drama” in Oval. Trump walked in and announced he was not going to go forward with the mtg.