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Agree with you. many of them are calling and breaking. the republicans are rock solid. weve got to take care of our border. >> those are remarks the president made before heading to louisiana, and theres air force one still on the tarmac even 20 minutes or so after the president boarded. thats unusual. were not sure why. all of this happening on day 24 of this government shutdown. the longest in u.s. history. ga garrett haake is on capitol hill. mar mariana, i want to start with you. there are c...

12 page complaint, were expecting him to make his first appearance here at 4:30 eastern time. i just interviewed the public defenders assigned tof h him. they have their work cut out for them if this confession is legally obtained. the longest shut down in government history is now in the 24th day and there is apparently no end in sight. people struggling to make ends meet as a payday passes with no paycheck and well bring you another story later in the hour, but the shut down could leave thou...

Shermichael singleton, former deputy ch deputy chief of staff at hud and worked with newt gingrich, mitt romney and ben carson. coming up, navigating the government shutdown. what its like to work paycheck to paycheck. first, an update from this woman i spoke to on friday. she was furloughed from her job in anchorage, alaska. she and her family have been forced to sell her personal belongings on craigslist to make ends meet. our team caught one her yesterday. >> its been just overwhelming al...

The elderly under a program called section 202, those contracts expired or are about to expire. the landlord for this building told me when she came back from the holiday she didnt see the funds in her account. now shes been trying to call hud. because 95% of hud workers are furloughed, theres very few people giving them answers. for thousand theyve been told to tap into the very little emergency funds that they have to manage the everyday of these facilities. and i sat down with one of these se...

Negotiation table. it should never happen, but the workers that i talked to, they told stories about the impact on their own, hud workers talking about the people they serve. the elderly, children, veterans. if theyre not in the office to process tasks, it is happening to those individuals. i talked to prison personnel at the federal bureau of prisons that are getting taunted within the prisons by prisoners who know theyre not getting paid and yet they go into work every day, perform their dutie...

Hud provides housing subsidies for low-income families, people are disabilities, the elderly. because of the government shutdown, over 1,000 of these federal contracts between hud and the landlords who manage properties like san jose apartments here behind me, those contracts expired or are about to expire. and what hud is telling these landlords is they have to tap into their emergency funding. money put aside for a plumbing problem, to fix the roof, for elevator maintenance, to be able to oper...

The blame game. and it is not just federal workers who are being impacted. its hitting close to home. quite literally for those in assisted living, assisted living, were talking about senior citizens, those funded by the u.s. department of housing, the shutdown has frozen huds funds for low-income seniors. hud spokesperson tells nbc news, quote, hud is actively resolving issues with these pending contracts with owners and identifying available resources for payment. joining me now from jacksonvi...

>> hannah slept over wednesday evening? >> that makes him, in police jargon, the last known person to have seen her alive. >> absolutely. yes. >> her and i were having a conversation, and then, you know, one thing led to another. >> did you have sex with hannah? >> no, i did not. >> denny offered up a tip for the cops. take a look at hannahs boyfriend, brad oborn. >> maybe he heard she was seeing somebody else and there were many occasions that he would basically have hannah under his control. s...

S.n.a.p.p. benefits. theyre in jeopardy and encouraging veterans to get involved in farming. the farm bill is not longer being enacted during the shutdown and those programs established in that farm bill are no longer available. theres a lot of implications, not just directly, also incorrectly. >> and my producer had to bring this up. rooting for the eagles. >> i am. >> question, by how many points are the eagles going to take it today? >> im going with by 3. >> by 3. okay, im excited to go see ...

They are on the wallisch issue. theyre trying to focus on that because they feel thats their strongest argument. theyre saying lets go back to normal and then we can negotiate. they are making a case against the presidents argument about the crisis at the border, but first and foremost, theyre saying, lets get the government back on track, get back to regular order. >> thats a key point because the democrats have passed three of the four bills they say would reopen most of the government. it wou...