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From now, it is a whole new ball game. jim and poppy, the courts are warning that funding could run out. they say the trials will still be going but they have already had to cut back on payments to jurors. that could impact the grand jurors seated for the robert mueller probe. a lot affected at the courts. really friday is a big day where even more funding could run out. >> i hadnt thought about that. this is uncharted territory. >> courts with ongoing investigations against folks who have broke...

I went through a few airports this week, and i spoke to some of those tsa agents. they really are hurting. what theyd tell me is, please, talk to your old friends. see if they can reach an agreement. wed all like to see this pass. so, yes, the president should have noted that there are people that are really struggling. >> and people going to work every day. >> and hopefully, his intention is to end it. >> people are going to work every day that are not getting a paycheck. >> have a good night. ...

Before we went through a pay period, the thought was all you have to do is see people standing in line trying to get food for their families or talking about how they cant pay for their medicine. well, that has already happened. theres talk about whether or not it would take the super bowl being postponed, whether there would have to be a walkout by tsa agents. where is this going? has this changed anything right now? >> well, chris, what i will say is the house republicans did hold a conference...

Sides to put politics aside and come together and end the shut down. we dont hear from him very often when it comes to anything in politics. >> he is making the point that look, there are so many of the 800,000 federal employees, so many of them are working right now with no paychecks coming. tsa agents, coast guard personnel, there are efforts to at least try to pay those employees that have been considered essential and are working right now. i think at the end of the day what people want to d...

Represents the -- one of our most important airports, the atlanta airport obviously, major hub, major factor in all of the economy of georgia. he wants to see -- hes advocating a strike by tsa agents, including at his airport, so that that will force the president. now, lets consider what this is. hes advocating an illegal strike -- >> yeah. >> -- by federal workers because he is afraid, he is afraid of himself doing his own job that hes paid to do and cast a vote in the united states senate. >>...

States. he doesnt want them to have to take this vote because he knows theyre going to have a tough road to run in terms of winning in 2020. if we dont put more pressure on him, and i applaud what the congresswoman did today, we all need to be putting pressure because this -- if mitch mcconnell wanted to get this done, he could get it done tomorrow. >> yeah, and ron klain, some of these individual senators are going to come under increasingly enormous pressure. johnny isakson, republican from ge...

Passed them. and i would say this. if theyre put on the presidents desk, i think the president would sign them. i think hes sick of the shutdown, too, and i think it would give them a way out. on the odd chance that he were to veto them, bring it back and do what the legislative branch does and vote to override that veto, and i think there are votes to do that. look, all im asking is that the senate act like the greatest deliberative body in the world and take up the issue thats most important t...

Element two, similar. i think everybody agrees. and when yyou put them together frankly, the democrats agree that you need border security. our wonderful producers put them they agree that you need a back to back. there are the states that are barrier. i put out a quote this morning impacted. there are the states where of barack obama. i put out a quote this morning senators will start getting phone calls. fox news has to keep this off of hillary clinton in 2015. donald trump because it is that ...

Increasingly disaster shutdown that donald trump triggered over his metimetity -- border wall. they are trying to pass it off as the democrats fault while also contradicting the narrative about who is responsible by urging trump to keep the shutdown going. >> the shutdown as much as it inconvenienced some people that work for the government and i hope they get their back pay, it needs to continue straight through the state of the union and maybe beyond. >> lost in the spin were the hundreds of t...

Senate majority leader mitch mcconnell spotted moments ago arriving at the white house. the question is will this move the conversation forward? will it spark a deal to end the government shutdown? the president and top democrats so far are digging in their heels over the border wall. but there are some signs that some republicans are growing weary of the shutdown standoff as the nearly 800,000 government workers impacted by the shutdown continue to suffer. heres cnns suzanne malveaux. >> good m...