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Affect that getting done or what's getting done on the hill there. how does it impact other parts of the way our government is functioning right now? >> both house and senate being out couldn't have come at a better time since this wave seems to be picking up steam. a lot of these congressional delegation trips overseas like speaker pelosi was supposed to go to japan and taiwan. that will have to be rescheduled. there were our trips planned to ukraine to the war zone region that we're having to watch to see if that is still very fresh in my mind, as i'm sure it is in yours. the senate, in a 50...

House leadership we canceled all of our congressional delegation trips. i helped to plan an asia trip that was off and i couldn't go to a tony bennett concert on a more personal level. i can't imagine what pelosi and the depends were thinking and our trip would have been a bipartisan one as opposed to what the democrats were planning. i can't imagine why they thought they would be able to take this trip. it's important trip that they wanted to go on but during a shutdown, you don't do that things. >> except that melania ended up taking the exact same plane to mar-a-lago. it looks incredibly pe...

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 ho...

The president cancelled pelosi's visit to afghanistan to visit troops citing the shutdown as a reason when the president himself travelled to iraq use ag government plane during the shutdown to visit troops. a lot of contradictions coming from the white house on this today. >> a number of contradictions. ph phil, i'm sure we would like to say that it is mind boggling the back and forth we are seeing. we know it is not. walk us through what we are hearing. what speaker pelosi's office is putting out is a fascinating tick tock that we dibt have a day ago. >> the government shutdown continues to ...

To make for afghanistan. kelly o'donell is at the white house. i do want to g-- kelly, any ide is coming? >> reporter: i was speaking with white house officials who say this should be interpreted as a look at the calendar. the next time federal employees would miss their paychecks is tuesday at midnight. congressional delegation trip out of the country for a period of days, it would cover that time frame. from the white house's point of view, the speaker of the house is out of that country, there is no chance of getting a resolution to the shutdown and no chance that legislation could be passe...