decided he wanted to do that anyway to smack her back about the state of the union or something. and because he wanted to make as big a deal as possible about him cancelling that military transportation, the president also today publicly disclosed for the if ifirst time that tha trip was supposed to happen, which means even if nancy pelosi and other members of congress did find alternative means of transportation to go take that congressional delegation to go visit troops in afghanistan, they now, of course, cannot. for security reasons. because the president blew that up. there s a reason when high-ranking american officials are flying into an active war zone we don t find out about it until they re already there. it s for their own safety. the president blew that up today and told nancy pelosi she should fly commercial anyway. and whether or not you care where the president or whether any other political leaders are personally spending their days while the shutdown persists, it