she was taking with her, it was democrats. i have never heard of a trip like that before. i was on speaker ryan's first trip to the middle east. it was a bipartisan delegation. she loaded this up with a partisan group and -- >> you think that's why the president decided to tell the u.s. military no u.s. military aircraft? >> i think certainly that should be looked at. my understanding -- most members understand that if the speaker is pulling out a plane and going to afghanistan, it should be bipartisan. she should be working to reopen the government and end this bypass. >> was it a blunder on the part of the president which was made public a half hour before the delegation was supposed to head over to capitol hill for the flight to brussels and then continuing on to afghanistan, was it a mistake for the president to tell the world that these -- the leaders -- the democratic leaders of the house of representatives, including