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If you hear anything. here we are first full day, business day that is of this shutdown. a lot of the focus has been on politics. we should not forget the thousands of people facing serious financial anxiety over this border wall stalemate. who are the victims of this political football? roughly 420,000 people considered essential employees are working without pay. some have already worked through the holidays including air traffic controllers, tsa agents, border patrol agents, customs and borde...

Many are than 800,000 workers will feel the impact of this shut down. 420,000 are considered to be essential employees and will remain on the job. that include tsa agents, fbi agents, custom and border patrol agents. they will be paid once the government reopens. they cannot even check their work e-mail. no guarantee they will be paid when the government reopened. in the past congress approved legislation to give them back pay. government contractors are among the hardest hit. they are security ...

Look at the numbers. talking 420,000 federal employees would work without pay, very difficult in this holiday season. 380,000 put on leave without pay. essential services would, however, continue. youre looking at u.s. customs, border patrol, tsa agents, those that have to be at work, considered a critical job. also, those jobs and departments impacted at justice, homeland security, state and hud. i talked to steny hoyer this morning who said he is hopeful that there will be a deal perhaps soone...

Needs to be connected to that system. so in spite of gross underinvestment, amtrak has continued to serve the nation. keep in mind that there is no transportation system in the world that pays for itself out of its fare box. no rail system no highway system does nor does our airway system. think of all the investment in air traffic controllers, airports runways, tsa agents. we dont think about that as an investment in air, yet it is. and we invest precious little in passage rail. and we definite...

Anderson think or carly simon? i dont know why we are uh pensioning to any of it. >> is it 1974? >> mcgiver was on through the 90s, so look at your facts. >> fair enough. >> holy cow. let a move on. two tsa agents at the denver airport have been fired arranging for one of them to grope attractive male passengers. that happened to me a couple times but i dont speak about it. they had a male screener who would alert a female uh come pli when he saw a guy he thought was hot. when the guy was gettin...

And a tsa agent called it egregious and intolerable. jedi -- >> how sad is your life if you have to do this? if you have to work the system to cop a feel? >> him in the red hat! him in the red hat! >> with that being said i get groped all time on the tsa line. it never fails. >> i am not against that. >> no matter what. i always think there is trickery and now i have the proof, i guarantee it. >> there is not even a humble brag. that is just a brag. >> i do, i get groped all the time. what is up...

Jehovah witness and refused any kind of treatment so they are not surprised and i think why they are cooperative with that. as far as how it was handled at the airport, you know, tsa has determined for their tens of thousands of magnetometers in the airport not feasible for them to train and arm all of them with firearms. so, therefore, they rely on the local police department, in this case, the deputy sheriff that was on duty nearby, and she, of course, does save the day and is able to stop him...

Say is thank god she was there. like i said she is my hero. and i want to say -- i also want to thank my tsa family my screening manager was up there immediately, and when i went to the hospital he made sure that somebody came there. one of my dear friends was there with me to get me home. another friend who was in arkansas got a call from somebody here and she sent her husband there to the hospital to make sure i was okay. weve got a very tight-knit group and a great group. a lot of support. >>...

Hear them say we have 54,000 employees at l.a.x. we cant because of the sheer volume screen them all. i stand in line at the airport. i watch people go through, walk ahead of the tsa line, show their badge and walk right through. >> its a mistake. and, you know, there was the famous lockerbie bombing in 1988 which is a dispute until this day whether the bomb was put on in malta or in london by a baggage handler. you get arguments on both sides. the fbi will deny it. people in scotland the police...

Agents be armed? >> well at the very least they should be. you have to look at airports as a soft target for al qaeda or the islamic state. and if they ever decide to bring operations to this country, airports would be right at the top of the list. and they are vulnerable. most airports, as you know, are protected by one deputy sheriff or one armed man, which is not enough. not only should they be armed or have more arms there, there should be some sort of barriers to protect airports. >> say, o...