pelosi accusing the white house without proof of leaking lawmakers plans to travel to afghanistan on a commercial flight after trump yanked authorization on the government plane. we weren t going to go because we had reports from afghanistan that the president had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous. it s a signal to the bad actors that were coming. reporter: a white house aide firing back calling the claims of a leak a flat-out lie. trump, whose sources say the president is frustrated calling pelosi s trip to a war zone, tweeting, why would nancy pelosi leave the country when 800,000 great people are not getting paid? one white house official called the move to cancel her trip retaliation against the speaker s decision to postpone
changing it from what was approved out of committee. schiff says the majority made material changes which committee members were never appraised of, never had the opportunity to review and never approved. nunes firing back, hallie, the minority is now complaining about minor edits, as bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo. then a democratic aide firing back at that, saying changes not cosmetic and almost all of them are unrelated to concerns about sensitive information. if you put all of this together, hallie, bottom line, it s not clear when this memo is coming out as they work through all of this confusion. what we also know is that publicly the president and his chief of staff have been pretty clear that the president s mind is made up, that he wants to release it, as he was leaving the state of the union. of course, we all remember him saying on tuesday, 100% he s going to release it, when asked by a lawmaker there. pretty clear the president s intentions, at l
in the end, fred, the house combined these things together so that is a change of plan, but one house republican aide firing back at the speaker there saying that harry reid doesn t, the speaker doesn t ask harry reid s permission about what house republicans will do. we had a plan, it changed, and senator reid can deal with it but the bottom line is there are divisions among house republicans, democrats, and certainly the white house are very happy to exploit those, fred. all right, it just gets messier and messier, doesn t it, brianna. thank you so much. appreciate that, from the white house. so for one lawmaker, anger over the shutdown is moving from capitol hill now to the world war ii memorial which has been closed since the standoff began. here s what happened when congressman randy naugebauer faced off with one of the park rangers. how do you look at them and deny them access. it s difficult. it should be difficult.