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Its the answer to the wrong question. >> it seems the bloomberg campaign should more correctly vet their vendors. >> thats the interesting pushoff. the first part says prison workers are being used by a subcontractor to make telephone calls on by campaign. thats a little of a diversion from the whole thing. the more important issue here, were these prisoners getting paid pages to make phone calls for mike bloombergs campaign? >> they very likely were getting paid wages. i dont know exactly how m...

Klobuchar of minnesota put it together. this is a historic day, senator, and i dont know, they both seem bad for trump. whats in it for the country what happened today. >> whats in it for the country is that finally these workers are going to be able to go back to work. i was listening to the rightful praise of the work that speaker pelosi and senator schumer and the rest of us did in standing our ground and not giving into the president because every time he gut punches you, but the real credit...

To melania at -- not even that but hes like an escort >> thats an interesting word to use for roger stone actually he pushed the manhattan madam to run for office in new york and was the backer of her campaign >> is that how he got the stuff on eliot spitzer >> thats right. that was all part of it. he loves this stuff. he loves to be right at the heart of the most controversial thing that could happen. >> he was the political guru for trump. trump was a business guy but he talked about running f...

Im joined by u.s. senator of minnesota. put it together this is a historic day, senator and i dont know how -- they both seem bad for trump. whats in it for the country what happened today? >> whats in it for the country is finally these workers are going to be able to go back to work and i was listening to the praise of the work that speaker pelosi and senator schumer and the rest of us did in standing our ground and not giving in to the president because every time he gut punches you. 800,000 ...

>> one trump official who has sort of flown under the radar is ben carson, secretary at hud. i was meeting with a democratic aide on the hill who told me they plan on having ben carson testify at least once every couple months, if not more, in front of the oversight committee to look into the questionable things hes done. not just the $30,000 desks, but the 1,000 plus affordable housing contracts they let expire before the shutdown, and trying to figure out what hes been doing or not doing as se...

Manipulate us. we try to focus more on doing our job. we signed up for this, we still come to work, we just want to get paid. >> how concerned are you or perhaps other prison workers since you are the president of the federal prison union? are you hearing from them about their concerns if i dont go to work, if i dont show up the work even though the expectation is i go to work without pay, if i dont go to work and try to find other jobs, other means temporarily that i worry i wont be able to get...

Welcome back. it is day 30 of the partial u.s. government shutdown and it has real impact for thousands and thousands of people. pilots are warning of security risks. tsa workers, who keep our airports safe, are calling out sick. attorneys are warning of slowing crime investigations. federal workers say they are entering survival mode. and prison workers say this is a recipe for disaster. joining me right now is kelvin williams who has worked over two decades with the atlanta federal prison, and...

Country opposes the wall and roughly 60% opposes the shutdown, how quickly a president can drift -- >> and more than half blaming president for the shutdown. >> yeah, yeah. if you dont even have the goal of maintaining majority support, you can get pretty far off track pretty fast, and i think this shutdown has showed us that. >> all right. well leave it there for now. thanks so much to both of you. appreciate it. so this shutdown has real impacts for thousands of people. pilots warning of secur...

Problems because of it. in california, there are well over 30,000 federal workers affected. there, cnn is reporting that excessive absentees by tsa officers currently working without pay have impacted security operations at palm springs international airport. the tsa employees who are not getting paid are being told they may be disciplined for missed shifts. in alabama, where there are significantly fewer federal workers, there are still significant affects. in the town of aliceville, there is a...

Ar argued against that. they said that the tax refunds could not go out, and so now we are seeing that policy are reversed. it is really directed from the president to try to mitigate those effects of the shutdown as much as possible. now, because of this ruling, milli millions of americans will soon begin filing their tax returns, and that will be able to get the tax refunds, but it also means that irss employees who have been sent home, 90% of that workforce has been furloughed, and they will ...