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And he was signaling that there needs to be some compromise here. >> i think that that is something that is starting to percolate among democrats but also among republicans. i think the pressure is starting to build. and we have gone through this story day after day after day kind of wondering when this point was finally going to hit, because those political incentives, they simply weren't lined up. nobody had an incentive to give or to find a way out of this. i think that quite frankly, the pain of it, both direct and personal with individuals who are struggling to, you know, feed their famil...

Employees would at least get their back pay. so the only reason not to support this short reprieve is if you want to continue to punish federal employees and others out there and hold them hostage in this situation. >> if you get all 13 -- if you get all of the democrats you have 47 democrats to vote in favor. you need 13 republicans. can you get 13 republicans to support this? >> i would think on this narrow proposal you would. it doesn't do what i think we need to do which is fund the government departments at the levels that we agreed to on a bipartisan basis already. it opens the governmen...

He doesn't seem to get is on friday, 800,000 people across america, federal employees are not going to get a check. that means no groceries. they're not going to be able to make their rent payments, car payments. what's going on? he just doesn't know what it's like to walk in the shoes of every day folks like the family i was raised in. he just doesn't get it. >> the president and his allies have been insisting all along -- well, insisting now that there's a crisis on our southern border. your district isn't directly on the border but you visited it recently. is that what you saw? >> i actuall...

He doesn't seem to get is on friday, 800,000 people across america, federal employees are not going to get a check. that means no groceries. they're not going to be able to make their rent payments, car payments. what's going on? he just doesn't know what it's like to walk in the shoes of every day folks like the family i was raised in. he just doesn't get it. >> the president and his allies have been insisting all along -- well, insisting now that there's a crisis on our southern border. your district isn't directly on the border but you visited it recently. is that what you saw? >> i actuall...

Of little help if you have been evicted. i've been doing some reporting. i report on the housing industry. a report came out from zillow, the real estate company that around $400 million in rent payments and mortgage payments will be owed this month by the 800,000 furloughed and unpaid workers. and that's a massive amount. it's about, you know, 149 -- $189 million in rent payments. >> by the way, maybe banks can do something about mortgage payments but it does hurt people's credit ratings. for a lot landlords, they're also not in a position to just tell people you don't have to pay your rent. ...