Article snippet: MORE’s report. Trump abruptly cut short a meeting with congressional leaders who were at the White House to discuss infrastructure, then walked out to the Rose Garden to air his grievances with them to reporters and television cameras. He vehemently rejected Speaker MORE’s (D-Calif.) claim that he is “engaged in a cover-up” and demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with” because he said they cannot make laws and investigate him at the same time. “Let them play their games,” Trump said. “We're going to go down one track at a time.” Trump’s stance might not just hurt infrastructure talks, which had already hit snags, but could also affect ongoing spending and debt limit negotiations and a revived push for Congress to approve his revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It dims any prospect of Trump adding a major legislative accomplishment to his record ahead of the 2020 elections. Trump’s trip to the Rose Garden appeared planned, and Democrats argued they were bystanders to a staged temper tantrum, a charge White House officials denied. But the president’s anger at Pelosi appeared real after she all but accused him of committing a crime while speaking to reporters on-camera minutes before heading to the White House. “I don’t do cover-ups,” Trump shot back during his remarks. When Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader MORE (D-N.Y.) showed up at the White House, Trump by some accounts was already in a fit of pique. Schumer said... Link to the full article to read more