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If you hear anything. here we are first full day, business day that is of this shutdown. a lot of the focus has been on politics. we should not forget the thousands of people facing serious financial anxiety over this border wall stalemate. who are the victims of this political football? roughly 420,000 people considered essential employees are working without pay. some have already worked through the holidays including air traffic controllers, tsa agents, border patrol agents, customs and border protection agents and food inspectors. 380,000 people are on unpaid leave. there is no guarantee t...

Many are than 800,000 workers will feel the impact of this shut down. 420,000 are considered to be essential employees and will remain on the job. that include tsa agents, fbi agents, custom and border patrol agents. they will be paid once the government reopens. they cannot even check their work e-mail. no guarantee they will be paid when the government reopened. in the past congress approved legislation to give them back pay. government contractors are among the hardest hit. they are security guards, custodial workers and there is there guarantee the companies that employee them will pay the...

Look at the numbers. talking 420,000 federal employees would work without pay, very difficult in this holiday season. 380,000 put on leave without pay. essential services would, however, continue. you're looking at u.s. customs, border patrol, tsa agents, those that have to be at work, considered a critical job. also, those jobs and departments impacted at justice, homeland security, state and hud. i talked to steny hoyer this morning who said he is hopeful that there will be a deal perhaps sooner as opposed to later, but he's also quite worried because if they don't have something by today, g...

Needs to be connected to that system. so in spite of gross underinvestment, amtrak has continued to serve the nation. keep in mind that there is no transportation system in the world that pays for itself out of its fare box. no rail system no highway system does nor does our airway system. think of all the investment in air traffic controllers, airports runways, tsa agents. we don't think about that as an investment in air, yet it is. and we invest precious little in passage rail. and we definitely need that passage rail connection to connect our economies, large cities small cities internatio...

Anderson think or carly simon? i don't know why we are uh pensioning to any of it. >> is it 1974? >> mcgiver was on through the 90s, so look at your facts. >> fair enough. >> holy cow. let a move on. two tsa agents at the denver airport have been fired arranging for one of them to grope attractive male passengers. that happened to me a couple times but i don't speak about it. they had a male screener who would alert a female uh come pli when he saw a guy he thought was hot. when the guy was getting scanned the woman would change the machine setting to female so that it would show an anomaly in...