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Employees in your collateral damage. tell me what it means to their lives, a little or a lot. >> i think i represent the largest number of federal employees in the country, degrees, and we've been through the game before and it has a devastating effect on people's lives. the stress, the uncertainty, will i get paid, when will i return to work, you know, will i ever return to work, because it is not just federal employees it is also federal contractors, many of whom do not get reimbursed after the shutdown is over. so it creates enormous uncertainty and anxiety for families, working families tr...

>> they are people going off on furlough and probably won't be paid for not working, so everybody loses. they won't be helping people with taxes, finally they get paid, lose, lose? >> that's right. i think sometimes my colleagues from other parts of the country federal workers exist in every congressional district serving our constituents, providing critical services whether it be the irs employee who helps you with your taxes or refund or a park ranger or somebody who helps you with veteran's care. these are public servants serving the american people, and it is the american people who lose. ...

That meeting and it continues to be a cloud over the shutdown. chuck schumer was in a room. he said he put a number on the table for the border wall, a thing the democrats don't want. he turns around and reneges on that. the idea that democrats and republicans don't trust each other. how can you have a deal if you don't believe what's in the room? >> it's been one year since the president's inauguration. here's what he tweeted about that in relation to this shutdown. this is the one year anniversary of my presidency. and the democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #democratshutdown. >> tha...

They were treated poorly and in fact, they have really improved their health insurance for example, in recent years. jonas, final word? >> i think the mistake here is again again a legitimate issue of workers being dead end and income equality and yet the illusion is that somehow the amazon workers on thanksgiving are at the spa and no one is working there. those jobs are also pretty hard and don't pay that much and don't always have upside, and just focusing on the visible worker and simply oh, the problem is solved we shutdown wal-mart it's like when we moved kid labor to abroad, the problem...

Where there aren't any because they want to feel significant. that's what it comes down to. >> at one point in the college career the dining hall stopped serving a kind of chicken finger that i really like. >> are you okay? >> no, i'm not. my friends and i got together and we got the chicken fingers back. >> very inspiring story. >> go millenials. >> joanne raises an interesting p oi nt. if you go back to the 60s they say what did you do this college? we shutdown the school for a month. we got them to stop providing war material and stuff like that. these days it is what did you do in college?...