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Into your cell. >> and only two days since the incident in the rec yard. >> rerack. give him another one. >> today he's acting out yet again. leaving prison staff no choice but to keep him in a 72-hour medical observation cell. >> we have to take him out of his cell. strip him down. go ahead strip down. this morning when we approached his cell, we were going to take inmate kevin blanco to the shower, about 10:00. we opened the food port. he stuck his arm outside the food port and held it hostage until he said, ortiz go get your goon squad, i'm not coming out until you get your goon squad. he's...

>> and only two days since the incident in the rec yard. >> give him another one. >> today he's acting out yet again. leaving prison staff no choice but to keep him in a 72-hour medical observation cell. >> we had to take him out of his cell. took him down. go ahead strip down. this morning when we approached his cell, we were going to take inmate kevin blanco to the shower, about 10:00. we opened the food port. he stuck his arm out of the food port and held it hostage until he said, ortiz go get your squad i'm not coming out until you get your goon squad. he's trying to reverse the roles and ...

>> no, i'm not coming out. y'all want a reason to [ bleep ]. >> branch on the 19 yard. 1510, blanco's refusing to come out. gave him his first directive. time now is 4:50. >> blanco is taking -- basically he's taking his rec pen hostage and he's refusing to come out. you know, this happens. they'll take things hostage. they'll take their food for houston. they'll take a shower hostage. if it will get the attention they want they will take it hostage. we should be finished getting the rest of the inmates out of the yard. >> that's it. that's it. >> once we got them out of yard we're going to co...

Economy on hostage because you don't like a particular policy. that's the argument here. >> well, so just to respond to that he's got two separate arguments. one, it hadn't had global economic impacts. >> we're talking about the debt ceiling. >> it's not about the shutdown. i agree with you about the debt ceiling. you don't hold it hostage. going over the -- >> wait, you agree with jason? >> it's important for people to separate these two issues. it's important not to conflate them and rush to the conclusion you want to lead to, which is republicans are so silly. it's actually important to und...

Demands including keystone, medical device tax, all of these things, how is this not about politics? >> well, it's about the economy and jobs and about are we going to do something to secure a better future or our children and grandchildren? the president is asking for a trial dollar increase in the debt limit so we can incur obligations and liabilities in the future. the bills are going to get paid and the debt holders are going to get paid. but when you do a debt limit increase you look at what is causing the debt and we have an opportunity here to put in place spending reforms to grow the e...