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Be patiented on military bases during the shutdown. the government has contracts with nonactive beauty priests there and hundreds of them are now unable to hold services for the 275,000 catholic members of the military during the shutdown. some have offered to conduct those services for free, but they've been turned away. >> political than anything else, as you can tell. if someone is offering to come for free and you're saying you can't pay them, then what's the issue? >> the house and the senate are finalizing legislation that would instruct the pentagon to allow military chaplains to perfor...

>> the good news, if there is a silver lining, is the fact that because there is no inflation everything else doesn't cost more so everything is static. but the bad news is if you are a retiree and you're living off of social security and you may have money in bond, you're not making any money on bonds for about four or five years? >> zero. if you've got money in a bank c.d. or bond, your actual rate of return is 1%, 2%. that's it at best. >> should people fear if the shutdown happens that they're not going to get social security checks? >> no, i don't believe so. i think they will get their c...

Us. >> what we saw yesterday was pretty awesome to see veterans storming the memorials, hit rale -- memorials and literally removing the barricade. what you're doing is incredible. it seems as though the military intentional or not is a target of the shutdown. what is your take? >> it seems like veterans are a pawn in a chess game. it is quite a shame to see what's going on in washington, d.c. it is great to see veterans marching, standing for a cause. that is what i'm trying to do is promote and raise awareness for our country's veterans. >> you were telling us about a friend of yours who was...

Service. as the veterans approached the barricades -- and they had barricades around this open-air memorial to keep people out. the barricade were hooked with little plastic ties and somebody there had some tin snips, snapped them and started carrying off the barricade. >> fantastic that that actually happened. 3.8 million veterans apparently stand to lose their disability benefits. they're having them put on delay if indeed we're in a shutdown. everyone was fired up. certainly ted cruz and sarah palin, who were at the memorials yesterday -- you guys saw them. >> it is indefensible that the ob...

Liberty and national parks. of course states have to pay for them. >> states have to pay for the statue of liberty for six days. they saw the barricade and they were attached and they used the tin snips. initially they piled them up but eventually somebody got the idea, hey, let's take them over to the white house. we've got anñi image off of twitter of -- you can see right here -- a veteran, paraplegic on a segue helping carry a barricade, as you can see right there, toward the white house where they stacked them up. that was on twitter yesterday. it was retweeted over a thousand times. >> w...