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Manipulate us. we try to focus more on doing our job. we signed up for this, we still come to work, we just want to get paid. >> how concerned are you or perhaps other prison workers since you are the president of the federal prison union? are you hearing from them about their concerns if i don't go to work, if i don't show up the work even though the expectation is i go to work without pay, if i don't go to work and try to find other jobs, other means temporarily that i worry i won't be able to get that job back or that i ultimately will lose that job once the government is up and running aga...

Welcome back. it is day 30 of the partial u.s. government shutdown and it has real impact for thousands and thousands of people. pilots are warning of security risks. tsa workers, who keep our airports safe, are calling out sick. attorneys are warning of slowing crime investigations. federal workers say they are entering survival mode. and prison workers say this is a recipe for disaster. joining me right now is kelvin williams who has worked over two decades with the atlanta federal prison, and he is also a local union president representing hundreds of federal employees. you were working wit...

Country opposes the wall and roughly 60% opposes the shutdown, how quickly a president can drift -- >> and more than half blaming president for the shutdown. >> yeah, yeah. if you don't even have the goal of maintaining majority support, you can get pretty far off track pretty fast, and i think this shutdown has showed us that. >> all right. we'll leave it there for now. thanks so much to both of you. appreciate it. so this shutdown has real impacts for thousands of people. pilots warning of security risks. tsa workers who keep our airports safe are calling out sick. attorneys are warning of s...

Problems because of it. in california, there are well over 30,000 federal workers affected. there, cnn is reporting that excessive absentees by tsa officers currently working without pay have impacted security operations at palm springs international airport. the tsa employees who are not getting paid are being told they may be disciplined for missed shifts. in alabama, where there are significantly fewer federal workers, there are still significant affects. in the town of aliceville, there is a medium security women's prison with nearly 300,000 prison workers. many of those workers drive in f...

Ar argued against that. they said that the tax refunds could not go out, and so now we are seeing that policy are reversed. it is really directed from the president to try to mitigate those effects of the shutdown as much as possible. now, because of this ruling, milli millions of americans will soon begin filing their tax returns, and that will be able to get the tax refunds, but it also means that irss employees who have been sent home, 90% of that workforce has been furloughed, and they will have tole come back into the work, and many of them, a significant portion of them according to the ...