afghanistan on a military plane because of the shutdown. he sent the letter roughly an hour before pelosi and several other lawmakers were scheduled to leave on what's called a codel, a congressional delegation. with us for more on all of this, sabrina sadiki, political reporter for "the guardian" and tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. just another story that is particularly confusing sabrina, response is here. the president seemed to think nancy pelosi had one up on him by kind of disinviting him to deliver the state of the union address, so this is his response? >> it absolutely is, and i think the escalating feud between the president and house speaker nancy pelosi just reinforces that there's no end in sight when it comes to the shutdown. it's telling after speaker pelosi suggested the president