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Would have to cross for you to consider impeachment? >> i think obviously there are different red lines, but for instance firing robert mueller i almost certainly would demand an inquiro impeachment in the house. i am hopeful that my senate colleagues including republicans and house republicans hart to look closely at the conduct of the government that the president engaged in. they come to their senses. we cannot allow anyone to be immune to the law. not even the president of the united states....

Talking about securing the border, the department of agriculture, the department of justice, the only reason these entities are partially shut down and non-essential workers who are at home and not getting paid and contract workers wont get paid regardless when the government opens back up because donald trump threw a temper tantrum over his border wall. im not interested in -- >> let me explain it to you. >> this is not both sides. >> simone -- im going to quote erin from earlier. were talking ...

We are keeping an eye on the rose garden and awaiting the presidents remarks after his meeting with democrats and top republicans as well. keep in mind its day 14 of the shut down. this is 14 days too long for hundreds of thousands of americans who are going without paychecks. hundreds of thousands more contract workers in addition the government employees and no light at the end of the tunnel. some federal workers and contract workers feel like they are being used as pawns. lyla johnson is a ja...

And i suspect they will be making it known for them. he said on camera he wanted to shut down. s he is enjoying the shut down and thinks its great. he wants only to shore up his base. i think after you get to the next pay period, january 11th and contract workers are not furloughed employees wont be repaid, ever. we will hear tough stories and this will be much more difficult for i think members that congressman and i were talking about. some in states hillary clinton won. cory gardner was runni...

On -- shes winning this right now. >> but in a few days theres going to be a lot of pressure because even at this point you have -- you have hundreds of thousands of americans, those are federal workers, not to include the people who are contract workers, who if they dont get paid, they are never going to get paid. >> i have some sitting at home doing arts and crafts this afternoon. >> they might need that calming nature. >> yes. >> they worried about real things. weve seen reporting. >> paying ...

Walls immoral, well then, you got to do something about the vatican, because the vatican has the biggest wall of them all. the wall is immoral. look at all of the countries that have walls and they work 100%. >> reporter: the effects of this shutdown now literally piling up. mountains of trash spotted on the national mall. 800,000 government workers furloughed or working without pay. even harder hit, at least 2,000 contract workers like janitors who may never get any of their back pay. still, to...

Budgeting that often gets lost. howie: you are saying this is something the president promised to do. therefore, you are saying -- >> for him to own it is a good thing because this is what he promised. howie: i think there will be a growing public backlash. i think the countrys reaction has been muted because most of people are on vacation. but now i think well see more stories about the 800,000 federal workers being denied paychecks and they are worried about paying the mortgage. >> contract wo...

Its about detail issues and budgeting that often gets lost. howie: you are saying this is something the president promised to do. therefore, you are saying -- >> for him to own it is a good thing because this is what he promised. howie: i think there will be a growing public backlash. i think the countrys reaction has been muted because most of people are on vacation. but now i think well see more stories about the 800,000 federal workers being denied paychecks and they are worried about paying ...

Simple as that. wont be able to put food on the table for my two great grands. >> with us now, what stories are you hearing. we need to reiterate, it isnt just numbers, were throwing out 350,000 people. 14,000 at the epa overnight. these are people with lives. help us understand what theyre going through. >> lyla is one of so many thousands of stories of contract workers. in this area, they represent around 2,000 federal contract workers. some work at the smithsonian, some at the interior, depar...

Feel the pressure, because the president did say that he was wearing the mantle for this shutdown. despite all the tweets where hes now trying to transfer the blame to the democrats, i think the polls show clearly that people dominantly blame the republicans. and there is real hardship. now, the federal employees will get their back pay, and if this goes into, say, the second week in january, theyre going to be okay as long as it doesnt go further than that. but contract workers who tend not to ...