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Employees in your collateral damage. tell me what it means to their lives, a little or a lot. >> i think i represent the largest number of federal employees in the country, degrees, and weve been through the game before and it has a devastating effect on peoples lives. the stress, the uncertainty, will i get paid, when will i return to work, you know, will i ever return to work, because it is not just federal employees it is also federal contractors, many of whom do not get reimbursed after the ...

>> they are people going off on furlough and probably wont be paid for not working, so everybody loses. they wont be helping people with taxes, finally they get paid, lose, lose? >> thats right. i think sometimes my colleagues from other parts of the country federal workers exist in every congressional district serving our constituents, providing critical services whether it be the irs employee who helps you with your taxes or refund or a park ranger or somebody who helps you with veterans care....

That meeting and it continues to be a cloud over the shutdown. chuck schumer was in a room. he said he put a number on the table for the border wall, a thing the democrats dont want. he turns around and reneges on that. the idea that democrats and republicans dont trust each other. how can you have a deal if you dont believe whats in the room? >> its been one year since the presidents inauguration. heres what he tweeted about that in relation to this shutdown. this is the one year anniversary of...

They were treated poorly and in fact, they have really improved their health insurance for example, in recent years. jonas, final word? >> i think the mistake here is again again a legitimate issue of workers being dead end and income equality and yet the illusion is that somehow the amazon workers on thanksgiving are at the spa and no one is working there. those jobs are also pretty hard and dont pay that much and dont always have upside, and just focusing on the visible worker and simply oh, t...

Where there arent any because they want to feel significant. thats what it comes down to. >> at one point in the college career the dining hall stopped serving a kind of chicken finger that i really like. >> are you okay? >> no, im not. my friends and i got together and we got the chicken fingers back. >> very inspiring story. >> go millenials. >> joanne raises an interesting p oi nt. if you go back to the 60s they say what did you do this college? we shutdown the school for a month. we got them...

Limits of free speech are so far out from where we are. >> stuart: i am proud to live in a society where we defend free speech to the espn degree. i do not wish -- to the i do not like to live in a -- >> we are a free and democratic society it is in our national bloodstream. we have very little chance of going over the edge where we shutdown nice an -- theres the fault premises on which this mad empty defense of the first amendment stands. >> stuart: that was the last word and a good one. >> all...

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Government or anybody else. the fact is, they are saying they have the ability to pay and they will pay. so it bothers me to talk about causing an escrow to be made which will -- which makes it less likely they will make the income they need to pay us. >> greta: governor how are the conversations you had with the president? what did you walk away from those conversations thinking? >> president and i disagree on this escrow fund. weve strongly disagree on the moratorium. 30% of american oil is pr...

Government or anybody else. the fact is, they are saying they have the ability to pay and they will pay. so it bothers me to talk about causing an escrow to be made which will -- which makes it less likely they will make the income they need to pay us. >> greta: governor how are the conversations you had with the president? what did you walk away from those conversations thinking? >> president and i disagree on this escrow fund. weve strongly disagree on the moratorium. 30% of american oil is pr...