get food and supplies for their families. on the other hand congress is doing nothing. the president is doing nothing. if the president is going to move this forward in some way, legally perhaps, challengeable, doing something to bring this to a close. perhaps that s your thing. this constant endless staredown, is doing nobody any favors. many major committees in the house. yesterday i was walking past the capitol, and you see this bus pull up right in front. you know something is going down, you don t know what. i think it would have been a little more consistent of the president had he also grounded melania from going to their family resort. on a military plane. the one thing he has no problem with putting his wife on a government plane, but to go to mar-a-lago. but he has a problem putting nancy pelosi on a plane to go visit the troops. one of the overhaarching thes
totally appropriate. it was just three weeks ago the president of the united states went to a war zone, iraq, during a shutdown to visit troops. the goal to obtain intelligence from the front lines. did the president consider that to be a public relations event? i don t think so. and then this line. obviously if you d like to make your journey by flying commercial that would certainly be your prerogative. t it is absurd to say the speaker should travel that way, but if this president believes pelosi should travel commercial to afghanistan, then why is his wife flying on a government plane tonight to mar-a-lago? i m not making this up. melania trump just flew on the plane you see there to palm beach. you see the tail. it s not commercial. we re in the middle of a shutdown. she s not going to a war zone. she s going to mar-a-lago. and this entire later is also a breach of national security.
president outing our trip had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous because it s just a signal to the bad actors that we re coming. so the white house has denied this, and a short time later the acting director of the office in budget limited all offices from using military aircraft. we should add the first lady took a government plane to mar-a-lago last night. at the same time many people said she is not involved with negotiations about the shutdown. that is an important distinction. we have chief of staff to nancy pelosi with us. thanks for being here, dean. thanks for having me. you take her at her word when she says they were going to go commercially, which you can do. you can fly commercially into kabul. much more dangerous. very dangerous, especially if you re someone of prominence like nancy pelosi. the white house is saying, wait, wait, that s not true, that
she s alleging. reporter: brooke, this is a serious accusation from speaker pelosi. she accused the trump administration of leaking details about alternative travel arrangements she and other lawmakers made after president trump denied her use of government aircraft to travel on that planned congressional delegation to afghanistan. the white house is denying that any one there leaked details of the commercial travel arrangements. they were claiming they wouldn t do anything to endanger lawmakers which was a somewhat misleading statements given that this congressional delegation trips are hot spot they re secret for a reason and president trump exposed the existence of this trip to afghanistan when he made public the letter he sent to pelosi informing her that she could no longer use a government plane. the white house is sending mixed messages about what exactly prompted this letter. one senior white house official said that it was not a response to pelosi s suggestion a day
endangered the democratic lawmakers that were planning to travel commercial to afghanistan by leaking details of the trip. a white house official saying when the speaker of the house and about 20 others from capitol hill decide to book their own commercial flights to afghanistan, the world is going to find out. the idea we would leak anything that would put the safety and security of any american at risk is a flat out lie. that statement is misleading because the president publicized the details of a congressional delegation trip to a war zone that was being kept secret because the publication of the trip could have posed a security risk to the participants. the acting budget director is announcing that no congressional delegations of any kind can take place during the shutdown. they can t use government planes if planning to take a trip, that is if lawmakers are planning to. that announcement comes after the first lady used a government plane to travel.