alcindor, white house coronado for t correspondent for the pbs news hour. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. in a week when much of washington talked about a shutdown which came at midnight on friday, the word many mentioned around this city was actually meltdown. there were a lot of other words and phrases that emerged as the week ended among questions if the trump presidency has so lost its footing it may not recover. mr. trump likes to project an image of independence and strength. the president's growing dependency on the base for political survival was exposed when he appeared ready to give up funding for the border wall temporarily in order to keep the government running. mr. trump's base revolted with right wing provocateur ann coulter writing gutless president in a wall-less country. on the basis of his self-interest alone he must know if he doesn't build the wall he has zero chance of being re-elected and a 100% chance o