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Room, they are at 52% of their staffing of fully certified controllers of that 52% 40 are eligible to retire. if they it retire because they are sick of coming to work and not getting a paycheck and want to grow drive uber or to wait tables to put food on the table, we wont be able to run the volume of traffic we do in new york, which will be cascading delays throughout the entire system. this is a deep concern. the government needs open now. the votes tomorrow are very important. give us the fe...

And of course you could go and there have been weird moments like in 1975 actually went in and said the "state of the union" of is not good. thats what were dealing with right now, not a good situation. >> david this afternoon you tweeted after two years of bullying@real donald trump has found himself nose to nose with an opponent willing and able to push back. to what end does the government remain shutdown? >> heres where the democrats have a bit of a high ground because theyve offered to reop...

Immediate to be looking to see what the administration does on those oil imports. now, its going to hurt us, too, in our refineries here and the russians and chinese are going to continue to buy venezuelan oil. but were the maim juror exporter of -- venezuelan exports their majority of crude oil to us so we have some leverage there economically. i would look to the administration to see how they can play that out. >> why not bring the u.s. diplomats home right now? >> because if youre going to, ...

To use the platform of the "state of the union" to spend an hour repeating the same argument hes made at other national addresses now trying to make the case for why he has shut the government down and why he is fighting for the wall. so as doug mentioned, you can come back when this is over. and shes using this as a bit of leverage to try and force the presidents hand. >> doug, the president calling pelosis decision on the "state of the union" a, quote, great block on the incredible country tha...

Hes phasing it out. but i still want my wall. now he has leverage. democrats are furious about the daca program. heres a counter offer again. revive daca. well give you more border security money. and still you cant spend it on the wall. it looks for a while like hell take this deal. he kind of gets what he wants there. then he gets push back from his base. they say youre betraying what you said you were going to do for us sp he says nope thats dead. i wont do that either. >> wow. already the pa...

Get these people back to work. get them paid. >> what do you say to the o politicians who say we cant. well never get the wall if we lose the leverage. >> listen, our national air space system is an economic engine for this country. $1.5 trillion in gross domestic product yearly. 11 million well-paying jobs. it moves packages and people from all over the world. we cannot allow this to be reduced to 50%. its going to affect everybody from wall street to main treatmestreet. were starting to see it...

His party held both chambers. there was a threatened shutdown and he says heres what i want. you nied to give me $1.4 billion to start this wall. democrats and some republicans werent too keen on the wall so they said heres a counteroffer. well give you that much for border security for cameras and motion detectors and patrols out there. trump doesnt really like it much, but he takes the deal and in doing so kills his first attempt to get the wall funded. so we jump forward. we move toward the f...

>> so, charlie, four former homeland security secretaries sent the president and congress -- five, i should say, sent a letter urging them to fund the dhs. one of those secretaries is john kelly. when he was the chief of staff, the president threatened to shut down the government over the wall, and now that he is out of the white house, we got a shutdown. >> well, look, i worked with all those homeland security secretaries. i was on the homeland security committee for six years. it is outrageous...

Wall. and the president wants the leverage of a closed government to get his proposal around the wall. but, you know, i think one i think genuine and legitimate criticism is i dont think that the speaker would suggest that he not come because she was worried about security. i think she suggested he not come because she didnt want him to use the platform of the state of the union to spend an hour repeating the same argument hes made in other national addresses now, trying to make the case for why...

People for one minute to be worried about anything other than protecting the life of our president and the other protect tees they are sworn to protect. theres very good reasons to put this off. once again, nancy pelosi has shown she knows what the heck shes doing. the frustrating thing here is that just a few weeks ago, donald trump agreed to a bill that the senate passed every single republican voted for it that it funds the government and then we can go debate a wall or a barrier or fence in ...