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As the longest government shutdown enter its 26th day it is causing more damage to the economy than previously estimated. jessica dean spoke with government workers getting hit hardest. what did you learn? >> reporter: good morning, alis alisyn. the workers say its the uncertainty that they face as they continue to go without a paycheck. they just dont know when this is going to end. thats whats been so very difficult and horrible about all of this for them. in the meantime they are going whatev...

You have to take whats available. >> reporter: furloughed from her job as an analyst for the irs and not knowing when the shutdown will end walker spends time looking for jobs at walmart, target, local grocery stores. >> just to know that my family relies on me or depends on me and if something is not paid or cut off, food is not put on the table its like, well, mom, what are we going to do? >> reporter: if looking for a job seemed unlikely for walker a month ago, so was this. shes now selling s...

Shutdown visible across the united states. at the miami airport, free food for tsa workers. >> these people are here every day. not like they dont want to work. they want to work. but they are not getting paid. >> reporter: renowned chef jose andres will serve food daily to federal workers and their families. >> no person should have to go through the pain of not knowing how to feed their children. >> reporter: amy walker said shes staying as positive as she can. with a husband on disability, he...

Compromise and its going to get blown up and the amount of things congress has on its plate that needs done by the end of this year is beyond the capacity of even a functional congress and lord knows we dont have that. >> a friend of the show, amy walker, tweeted a quote from a republican strategist who says, "just get health care off the plate." do whatever it takes to punt. every time you bring it back into the debate it makes the republican party look incompetent. george? >> yes, well, they d...

Say yes. >> as amy walker said sunday, joe biden has to be willing to go after her and her past and so far, his friends say hes unwilling to do it because they have a long history and a long friendship, because barack obama and hillary clinton did not have that long history and long friendship. it was easier for him to do that. its going to be harder for joe biden. >> or the joe biden surrogates. i would look for them to go after her. be be -- otherwise, hes not going to get the traction. and he...

dont like the guy." who is the guy? well tell you. you think youre an overprotective father? check out what this dad did to his daughters homecoming date. a reminder of what you do to my daughter i will do to you. his very embarrassed daughter both here live. >> dad power. >> mornings are better with friends. ♪ >> you know what, i never take mondays off. but i took off yesterday because over the weekend it was my pirt day and lookie there. i went to a great restaurant in jupiter, f...

First-class entertainer. i often say the better way to think about trump is not as a businessman running for office but hes almost like an actor. almost like arnold schwarzenegger when he ran here in california or jesse ventura when he was an entertainer of sorts as a wrestler in minnesota. a lot of bad news for governor jeb bush who i think when you hear trump keep saying hes a low-energy guy, its like when they went after governor bushs dad a couple of years ago and called him a wimp. i think ...

>> joining me, political analyst jon ralston, amy walker, susan page of "usa today" and former adviser to george w. bush, alfonso aguilar. welcome to sunday. its "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning and what a week in politics. this is the week republicans are accepting the reality donald trump isnt going anywhere. its also the week democrats start contemplating the possibility that hillary clinton...

There is a warren wing and the discontent among the liberal, and if there it is, it is not seen in the polling, and hillary clinton is as well established as any democratic candidate or any republican that is not a incumbent, and so this is a reckoning, and big divisions there which is fine, but they have to see which candidate they want, and rand paul in on the other side, and marco rubio on one side and not only on this issue, but a whole slew of others. >> and i have to stop it there and i wa...

America because were going to be a more united team moving forward. >> win for america. anyway, joining me now, perry bacon is live at the faith and freedom coalition conference. here with me on set, manu raju and amy walker. i want to get first to scott walker. amy, lets take everything at face value that, no, he didnt commit any crime. theres a carelessness aspect to this. the same thing with christie. if youre a donor on wall street and youre thinking to yourself, really? youre your own polit...