Pelosi: Mr. President — Mr. President, please don’t characterize the strength that I bring to this meeting as the leader of the House Democrats, who just won a big victory. She was steely calm, while Trump and Schumer traded barbs back and forth and grew agitated. Pelosi and Schumer got him to say that if the government shuts down, it’s Trump’s own fault. And, boy did Pelosi do that, said Deborah Kolb, the author of Negotiating at Work: Turn Small Wins Into Big Gains. Bluffs but then capitulates.”Later, to her colleagues, Pelosi reportedly revealed a bit of her strategy.

Source: Huffington Post December 12, 2018 22:18 UTC