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Come up with this idea and why. >> i started this january of 2017. basically what i do is take the uniform shirts of fallen police officers and make them into teddy bears like this one to give them to the family of the fallen. abby: why? >> a way to pay respect to the fallen. my dad is a police officer. obviously i have a lot of respect for the police force. and so it's just kind of a way to respect those who have fallen. abby: pretty amazing. you have a letter. you brought the letter here, patrick. you can hold it up. so you received this earlier this week. megan, let me read part of this let...

Shutdown. on the house floor just last hour, basically everything was frozen. democrats withholding their votes. republicans, most of whom voted staring up at the vote wall seeing where everybody stood. nobody knowing what was going to happen next. democrats started signaling no. and then the yes votes. enough to push them over the edge. i have seen a lot of house votes. i watched many from the gallery. i have never seen anything that dramatic with something with such big stakes. if you look at the budget deal and why this got across the finish line, look at it. $165 billion in defense spendin...