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tonight Nancy Pelosi making it plain
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with a big power play and telling Trump
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this is my house the new Speaker
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basically put Donald Trump on notice he
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will have to she says reschedule the
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entire televised State of the Union in
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the house because of this shutdown this
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is she says because of security but
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everyone gets the larger message we've
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never really had a State of the Union
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when government has been shut down since
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the budget act in the 70s this isn't
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requires hundreds of people working on
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the logistics and the security of it
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most of those people are either
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furloughed or victims of the shutdown
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the president the shutdown could make it
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from the oval office of him Nancy Pelosi
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mixing basically concern for workers
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which many people say is legitimate her
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career reflects it with yes a little bit
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of shade he can make it from the oval
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office meanwhile the Post reporting
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Trump has flashes of quote frustration
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over this his inability to get Democrats
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to buckle has caught up with him and now
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his own economists doubling projections
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of how much damage the Trump shut down
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he promised to take ownership for it
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would cause the economy warning we might
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be headed towards a quote contraction
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day 26 of this shutdown this pain though
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is very real beyond the political
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gamesmanship and the back-and-forth
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think about how federal workers and
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their families are feeling across the
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country we need to pay our bills now so
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we need to get back to work and start
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getting paid again I feel a pressure
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I've never felt before in my life I will
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be able to weather the storm but I know
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a lot of people that won't be able to
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weather the storm if people could just
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take the five minutes to reach out and
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call their congressmen call their
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senator today I was only able to get two
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paychecks before this happened
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we got mortgages we have red tape and we
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got children to feed
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so please mr. president open up the
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government this is real another
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furloughed worker telling MSNBC's Katy
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tur about the effect on her children
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both boys are on the spectrum and my
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little guy has multiple disabilities
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we're not having any expensive therapies
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for the moment because we simply can't
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afford them and keep food on the table
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my youngest son has more seizures with
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more stress and he's starting to show
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signs of more stress we can only shelter
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them so much when we're struggling day
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to day to figure out how to cover the
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next upcoming bill one story among many
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let's bring back Michael Steele we're
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joined by Daniella Gibbs ledger from the
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Center for American Progress and a
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former Obama administration official
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good to see you both let me start like
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this Danielle
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Speaker Pelosi is taking a serious
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problem which has been discussed in many
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ways over these weeks and turning it
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into a very clear message to the
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president you don't get your televised
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address if you don't do your homework
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exactly you know the guy he has one job
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and that is to run this country I know
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he doesn't like he doesn't like being
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president he likes the trappings but
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clearly he doesn't like doing the
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day-to-day work all he has to do is open
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the government and they can have a
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conversation about his wall they can
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have a conversation about a whole myriad
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of things but he has to do his job
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people are hurting and Nancy Pelosi like
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she is compassionate as he said her
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career shows that she cares about people
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but she is very smart politically and
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she knows that the onus is on him to
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rectify the situation there was a bill
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that was passed unanimously
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bipartisanship in the Senate so he just
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has to say okay I will sign this it's up
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to him when he wants to happen here and
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it seems like unlike say what we were
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just discussing on a very different
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topic in the top of the show here the
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facts are mattering because the public
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is far more against Trump on this than
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on other trumpian issues and some of
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what they've said I mean Kevin
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acet may have one of the the worst
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statements defending the shut down we've
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heard and that's saying something out of
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this crew but take a listen to Kevin
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Hassett defending it for truck so then
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they have the vacation but they don't
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have to use their vacation days and then
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they come back and then they get their
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back pay then they're in some sense
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they're better off in some sense they're
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better off so let's be clear Kevin when
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people go on vacation they usually don't
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file for unemployment and that's what's
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happening you have a significant number
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of Americans more and more filing for
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unemployment because they need something
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to come into their household and the
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typical unemployment check right is is a
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percentage of your normal check for the
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month so they'll take a percentage of
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like out of the two pay periods you'll
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get one pay period and percentage of
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that that's it for the month so it's not
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like you're getting teawrex you're a
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Republican do you think it's working the
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way Pelosi is flexing in terms of the
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pressure that is putting in terms of
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today making it about you don't get
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you're saying yeah no sheep absolutely I
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mean he's met his match I mean he
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doesn't know what to do with this no
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idea what to do with Nancy Pelosi that's
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why he's sitting in there in the White
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House frustrated now as she's not biting
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on the kernels of crazy he's putting out
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there now I'm being told for my control
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room sometimes we have a lot of breaking
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news right now we actually have a
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breaking guest who we didn't know we're
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gonna get it outside so both of you hang
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with me but I'm told the congressman
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Hakeem Jeffries has walked out of a late
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scheduled meeting with Speaker Pelosi he
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of course is part of leadership in the
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House Democratic caucus
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I didn't know if we were gonna get you
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depending on your schedule tonight thank
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you for joining I understand you just
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came out of the the meeting with the
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speaker so what is the latest well the
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latest is our perspective remains clear
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we need to reopen the government and
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thereafter we can have a mature
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conversation about border security a
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mature conversation about our broken
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immigration system a mature conversation
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about comprehensive immigration reform
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and
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in a bipartisan way but we're not gonna
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allow the American people and 800,000
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public employees to be held hostage by
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Donald Trump because he's decided to
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throw a presidential temper tantrum and
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try to extract 5 plus billion dollars
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for his medieval border war and
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congressman we just heard on our show
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from some people who think Pelosi's got
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the right attitude here going hard
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against the president using the state of
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the union as a new pressure point
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tonight as you know there are some
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Democrats in your caucus who said that
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it would appear to be somewhat a breach
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of protocol is the way some put it to
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quote-unquote disinvite him did that
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come up in the meeting you were just at
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do you think she's got the right call
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there I think she has the full support
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of the caucus i presided over the
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meeting this morning when she made the
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announcement that she was going to take
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this step and re as you understand based
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on any legitimate reading of the letter
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she expressed concern for the security
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of everyone the Secret Service right now
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is not being paid perhaps the largest
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potentially significant event it's
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Secret Service resides over is the State
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of the Union where you have 435 members
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of Congress 100 senators ambassadors
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cabinet secretaries and of course the
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President of the United States of
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America and the vice president it makes
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no sense in the midst of a government
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shutdown to proceed a congressman
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we've heard from the administration
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trying to say that this isn't quote
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unquote that bad that some workers may
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be better off of course the impacts far
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wider than workers I want to read to you
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from reporting today on thousands of
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lower-income Americans who do get these
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federal assistance program payments and
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noting that they've done has changed
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it's only the shutdown that's changed a
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property manager telling tenants quote
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until the government opens again you're
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responsible for all of your rental
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amount meaning that some are effectively
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facing pressure or potential eviction do
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you view that as the fault of just
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Donald Trump or of Donald Trump and
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Mitch McConnell if the Senate won't even
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vote on the things that that your house
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is now passing well Donald Trump
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certainly shoulders a lot of the blame
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but Mitch McConnell
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has been missing in action he's in the
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witness protection program and we need
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to figure out when he will emerge so we
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can actually proceed not as a wholly
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owned subsidiary of the Trump
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administration which is how he's been
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conducting himself but as a separate and
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co-equal branch of government we've been
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sending him
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appropriation bill after appropriation
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bill that the Senate themselves in a
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bipartisan way led by Republicans have
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passed over the last several months we
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could understand in your analogy then is
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he he's a subsidiary corporation or he's
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a witness in protection or which is he
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there's a lot of things that are going
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on over in the Senate none of which have
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been good for the American people
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final question sir will Donald Trump in
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the end in your view give a State of the
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Union from the floor of the house well
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let's hope that over the next few days
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we can reopen the government and in that
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context we look forward to hearing what
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he has to say to the American people on
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the floor of the House of
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Representatives but if he continues down
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this reckless path he will not be giving
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a State of the Union on January 29th
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from the floor of the House of
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Representatives congressman Hakeem
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Jeffries coming out of busy meetings
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working late while I know some aren't
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working so I want to thank you as well
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as my guest Michael Steele and Daniella
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Gibbs Leger thanks to each of you hey
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