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Have passed laws stripping pensions from convicted cops, in more than 30 states, police officers would keep their pensions even if found guilty of murder or rape while on the job. they believe the threat of losing a pension can be a powerful deterrent. >> pensions are something that are really important to people and so we need to make sure they have skin in the game and when officers do the wrong thing in certain circumstances, they absolutely should be taken away. police advocates say that can be unfair to the police officers and their families. >> why build on a tragedy when the officer's...

Of days about what happens to soldiers. and how we take away all their pay and some are saying, no, no, soldiers get paid, there is no requirement for the defense department to pay soldiers during a government shutdown. there is usually a bill that provides for that, and they will eventually receive the pay, but there are some cases where we have soldiers in harm's way, just doing their daily job at ft. dix, new jersey, where they may not get paid unless the government acts. the key piece is, i'm sorry for going on a rant on this, the key piece of this is it is the congress' j-o-b to do this. ...

To continue to pay soldiers. that's great. but all the so-called nonessential personnel and what i mean by that are maybe civilian nurses at the medical clinic, or the child care providers or the teachers at the schools or people that run the commissaries of the pxs, none of them will be paid because they are considered quote unquote, i hate this term, nonessential to security. but they affect the community and it is critically important. what you then have is an uprising of military families when you have a dual military family or when you have dual couples who one of them works and they can'...

His base has not recognized it yet. >> reporter: you think virgil has been conned, jerry has bee bamboozled. >> they're so engrained with the -- >> trump wasn't my first choice. however he's doing a hell of a good job. he's playing three level chess versus everybody else playing checkers. >> the ones that support him are either greedy or bigots or just don't see it yet. if the vote were taken today, i think it would be different. >> you think so? >> wouldn't be for the electoral college, he wouldn't have won. >> can you sing too. >> we run 800 acres of corn and beans and then we do bail some h...

4-h animals, do the chores for them. >> that will teach you, right? >> that teaches you, yeah. >> reporter: at the adams farm -- did you vote for president trump? >> yes. >> reporter: -- the family republican shows very little voters remorse. >> i think he's doing a decent job. i think we need to give him a chance. >> he went to the american farm bureau federation meeting, you know. i haven't seen that from other presidents. >> throughout our history, farmers have always, always, always led the way. >> reporter: those words played really well around here. but his actions could end up hurting t...