where they take the military equivalent of the gulf stream jet. on this, he is going to asia on the gulf stream. which is, i guess the way he's used to traveling as a former chief executive of an oil company, but there never has been a trip of this nature. no secretary has ever take an long trip without generally 13 to 15 reporters. still photographers, the basic press pool has always traveled with the sec tars of state going back to henry and before that. >> and every news organization we should also point out pays quite a bit of money for those seats. so it's not as if we're just getting a free ride when we get on those planes. >> we help pay the cost of the plane actually by the extra costs that they put on us. willingly, it's part of a free press. there is something more than just a trip involved here. the state department is the beacon of press freedom around the world. the message now to china in particular when he gets to beijing is the press freedom