position and her responsibilities. he s calling it a public relations event. i suspect the troops in afghanistan and the military families who have their troops in that war zone feel very differently about that. such a strong, such a strong point. and i m just wondering as you and i are talking, do you think the folks in the pentagon are do they get a heads up that of all of this? do we know? or are they learning as we re talking? reporter: let me be very candid with, everyone. i mean this quite seriously. we re talking 20,000 people. so somebody knows. somebody knows. reporter: i mean that seriously. the military aircraft that carry congressional members around the world, most of the time are based out of joint base andrews here just in the suburbs of washington where we see air force one often take off and land. so the air force which runs that