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In his confirmation hearings for attorney general will make a commitment that hell protect the independence of the mueller investigation and would refuse to fire him or would resign if ordered to fire him without good cause. >> if he doesnt make that kind of commitment under oath in the hearing, would that change your vote? >> it would be very difficult to support an attorney general who wouldnt make a strong and clear commitment to the independence of the mueller investigation. >> and briefly, ...

Movements in the coverage. first the manufactured outrage about what is a partial and obviously temporary government shutdown. >> yosemite, the nations third busiest national park, they are also having huge problems with garbage and toilets filled to capacity. >> park visitors in some places are taking care of business, shall we say, along pathways are in the woods. >> its ironic that the people making the decisions are still getting paid but we have to not get paid and still do our job. >> its ...

Taxpayers, the treasures are normally pristine national parks. in the past they were closed during extended shutdowns but not this time. visitors are still allowed on park lands even though 16,000 of the 19,000 park employees are no longer on their jobs along with all the others they have been deemed non-essential. that means roads are left unplowed, garbages left uncollected, bathrooms not maintained and trash is piling up and health hazards and park visitors in some places are taking care of b...

Not have initially understood the scope or stakes of a shutdown but they are very real. for 800,000 federal workers and their customers, that would be us, the taxpayers, beginning with our national treasures are normally pristine national parks. in the past they were closed during extended shutdowns but not this time. visitors are still allowed on park lands but 16,000 of the 19,000 park employees are no longer on their jobs along with all the others they have been deemed non-essential. that mea...

Say along pathways and at least three people died inside our parks since the shutdown began. then there are the farmers already under duress from the presidents trade war with china. the shutdown means they arent getting the stim payments and 9 the work force. the snap program not funded beyond january. there is only money to cover payments until mid february and federal funding for health care and law enforcement with most of the irs closed, the shutdown may, may mean a delay in tax refunds. th...

Treasures, our normally pristine national parks. in the past parks were closed to visitors during extended shutdowns but not this time. visitors are still allowed on park lands even though 16,000 of our 19,000 park employees are no longer on their jobs. along with all the others theyve been deemed non-essential. that means roads are left unplowed, garbage left uncollected, bathrooms no longer work or are being maintained. trash is piling up. there are health hazards and park visitors in some pla...

With the homeland security funding. the expectation is thats not going to be taken up by the senate. why do this? >> our package is two components and sending back what they approved. bipart an republicans and democrats approved funding. >> for a number of agencies. >> exactly. what we are tugging is we have a controversial issue around the border wall which we reject. lets isolate that issue and move it to february 8th and give us breathing room to open up the rest of government. that seems rea...

Issues of comprehensive immigration reform. isnt it biting off more than you can chew? >> it makes it more difficult if you get it done by january 3rd. >> you think you can get it done by february? >> thats a tough one as well. the last time that congress underwent immigration reform was 22 years ago. >> thats my point. it has been decades and you think it will be major movement in the course of a month? >> we are not going to move on border wall unless its part of immigration reform. alternativ...

Taxes from the federal taxable. was never addressed and infrastructure bill and bills to fund the border wall and provide pathways to citizenship for some daca recipients, the president had this message for those republicans during a press conference. >> that will be a great election point for us. i told them do what you want and ultimately we will come to something and perhaps after the election or before but as of this moment democrats are not going to vote for anything because they are resist...

Billion for the border wall the president wants. but if that number comes down, if it does come down to $2 billion, is that worth keeping the government shutdown in your mind? >> well, in my mind frankly we shouldnt be debating border security in the context of continuing resolution. were holding federal government workers hostage, federal contractors hostage and the services that americans expect from their federal government. the default setting should always be that government, the federal go...