WEBVTT - Schumer Shutdown-The Chaos the Dems have Unleashed, and Why 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome. It is Verdical Center, Ted Cruz, it is nice 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.680 to have you with us. It is official. Twelve oh 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:11.600 one am. The United States government is shut down. The 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.920 Democrats they did it on purpose. Apparently it was their plan. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.640 And the question is for how long have they been 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.119 planning on doing this. This is going to be a 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.520 very interesting show. This all revolves around the Senate. That 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.560 is something that maybe some people don't realize. Everything's come 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.560 out of the House. We're now to the Senate side 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.400 of things, and I want you to explain what it 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.720 was like in the hours leading up to this shutdown. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.240 Was there ever a chance in hell that the government 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.200 wasn't going to shut down? 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.559 No, there was never a chance. It is just after midnight, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.479 so the government is shut down just for a few minutes. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.520 But I think the government shutdown is going to last 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.080 at the minimum of days, it may be weeks, and 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.959 it may even be longer. Really, yes, this could extend 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:06.080 for a significant period of time. And understand this is 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:11.679 the Democrats roar that they hate Donald Trump. So I 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.399 got to say we had the vote tonight. There was 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.440 no surprise. Everyone knew the outcome out of one hundred 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.640 senators all of us knew the outcome. The vote was 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:25.800 fifty five to forty five. So three Democrat senators voted 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:26.920 to keep the government open. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.360 You have a pretty big deal, right, I mean, did 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:32.920 you think those three were going to go? 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:33.119 Where? 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.920 Did you think it was going to be a unanimous vote? 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.280 I mean Fetterman and two others like that's that is significant? 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.640 Yeah, Look Fetterman, I was not surprised. So Fetterman voted 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.800 to keep the government open, Cortes Master voter to keep 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.400 the government open, and Angus King voted to keep the 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.160 government open. That's not shocking to me. It's fifty five 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.640 to forty five. Now why did the government shut down? Look, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:59.360 the basic operation of government is the federal government cannot 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.880 continue to operate unless Congress appropriates funds. Under the Constitution, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.600 Congress has the power of the purse, so Congress appropriates 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:14.680 the spending of money. A typical fiscal year is October 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.160 first to September thirtieth. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:16.640 YEP. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.040 This particular funding ended at midnight on September thirtieth. You 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.480 and I are recording this just after minutes after midnight 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:32.040 on September thirtieth. The appropriation, the authorization for Congress to 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:36.120 spend money expired minutes ago. Now, there are a couple 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.800 of ways you can extend the government funding. One is 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.600 an appropriation and so they're typically in a good year. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.720 They are thirteen appropriation bills that fund each different kind 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.560 of major segment of government. For a number of years, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.400 the appropriation bills have not passed. The other major way 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:58.280 that government authorization occurs is through what are called crs. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.720 CR is short for continue resolution. A continue resolution is 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.919 essentially Congress saying what we are spending now, we can 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:11.919 continue continue the status quo identically for x period of time. Now, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.840 the House of Representatives pasted a CR, a clean CR, 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.960 to fund the federal government through the middle of November. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:20.880 So if the Senate had passed it. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.360 Oh right. Let's be clear. When you say a clean CR, 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.000 that means no political shananigans in it. It's literally saying, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.920 we're taking the twenty five budget year and we're going 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.080 to say the exact same amount we spent in August, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.840 we're going to spend September, October, November until we get 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.960 the new budget. There is no port barrel extras, there's 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.520 no political sheanigan against from either side. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:48.040 Yes, yes, yes, Okay, a clean CR says what we 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.480 spent yesterday is what we'll spend tomorrow, that everything just 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:57.200 continues the same, and that's what the House has passed. Now. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.280 The challenge is for anything to pass the Senate that 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.600 is in the nature of an appropriations or a CR, 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.280 it takes sixty votes because under the filibuster rule, you've 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.440 got to have sixty votes to move forward on legislation. So, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.279 as I mentioned, we got fifty five. We got three Democrats, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.600 but we need sixty, which means we need at least 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.640 seven Democrats. And actually here we need eight Democrats because 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.800 Ran Paul voted no. So we had fifty two Republicans 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.720 vote yes, and we needed eight Democrats to vote yes 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.240 to fund the government. Well, we only got three, and. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.120 That was on purpose. And I want to pause just 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.080 for a second to go back to CR historically. Let's 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.760 just go back to Biden's time in office, when you 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.360 guys were in the minority. If I'm not mistaken, you 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.560 guys did this more than a dozen times, where you 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.799 can't and say, hey, thirteen times, all right, So thirteen 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.240 different times y'all came together and said we're gonna spend 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.560 exactly what we spent yesterday to keep the government open, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.080 so we avoid a government shut down. And you put 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.880 the American people ahead of politics. And that is a 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.800 bipartisan moment, right, They had to have some of your votes. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.640 So look, every time we came to the end of 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.720 government funding, you would have enough Republicans joined with Democrats 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.200 to keep the government funded. Now what has changed, Well, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.440 several months ago we had another expiration of government funding. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.360 And what happened is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats decided, Okay, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.880 let's keep the government going, a very reasonable and very 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.400 common sense, a very normal decision. The Democratic left wing 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:43.359 base lost their mind and Chuck Schumer nearly lost his 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.279 job because Schumer allowed the government to be funded several 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.120 months ago, the left wing rose up against him. And 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.520 you want to understand why we have a shutdown. It's 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.040 one thing. Schumer is looking over his left shoulder and 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:02.120 he sees aoc running up behind him, and he is 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.760 terrified he's gonna lose his job. So listen, Schumer knows 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.440 this is not gonna work. He knows this is failures. 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.640 Just pure cover your als politics one oh one by Schumer. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.520 So the radical left wing, they hate Trump, and they 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.599 want today to be a giant f you to Trump. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.280 They want it to be we hate President Trump, and 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.000 we hate President Trump so much we're gonna shut the 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:35.599 entire government down because rar that's what we're watching now. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.320 By the way, So then hold on, when did this 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.479 become the plan? Was this weeks ago? Months ago? Was 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.560 this when they had the last years? I got the 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.240 next time it comes up, I have no choice. I 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.760 got to shut down the government to flex my muscles. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.120 And also there is a real concern by him that 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.320 AOC is going to run against him, primary him in 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.719 the Senate. By the way, that is after the next 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.120 president's election cycle? Was that and that isn't he up 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:00.760 two years after? Are not mistaken? 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:01.480 So be. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:03.120 So. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.320 And to be clear, I predicted on this podcast the 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.880 inaugural member the chairman of the AOC for President campaign 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.520 is Chuck Schumer. Because he is desperate for AOC not 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:19.120 to primary him. He's gonna say, Alexandra, you are such 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.320 a big deal, you were so important. Really, the Senate's 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.559 too small for you. Why do you want to bother 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.520 being in the Senate. You should be in the White House. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.800 Schumer is going to be all in on that, but 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:36.240 he is living with absolute PTSD. He is traumatized. He 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:42.720 sees left wing antifa crazies coming around on every side, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.640 and so from his end, this shutdown is necessary politically. Now, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.720 what did the Democrats demand? They demanded a lot of things. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.200 You know what the number one demand was, what's that? 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.720 Free healthcare for illegals all over the country. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.240 By the way, I mean when you think about at 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.240 and the polling data and what it says, I don't 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.680 understand why that would make your number one thing. Because 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.480 it's clear that the people are behind President Trump. Securing 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.440 our borders, stopping government waste for aunt of abuse dogs 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.720 was a big part of it. And also making sure 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.920 that we're not giving out benefits to illegal immigrants. Like no, no, no, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.040 we want to spend one point five trillion if you 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.320 want our votes, and it has to be for health 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.760 care for illegal immigrants and food stamps for people that 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.360 are able bodied, for example, that refuse to work. That's 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.600 another thing, And they're like, no, no, no, we buy gal. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.000 You better get minded people that are just straight up lazy, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.719 that aren't that that have the ability to work, but 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.480 you got to pay them to stay home. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.720 Yeah, a huge pump chunk of this is getting rid 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.640 of the work requirement for government benefits. Democrats don't want 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.400 anyone to have to work. They wanted them to be 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.800 able to sit at home and get government checks. But 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.560 did you see the AI video of the White House 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:52.040 put out? 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.079 Which one they put out a couple different things. Which 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:55.959 one are you talking about? 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.400 I want you, I want I want to play this 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:04.000 for everyone. Okay, this is fake So all the nattering nabobs, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.640 this is fake news. But it is absolutely hysterical that 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.400 the White House put out. This is Chuck Schumer and 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.319 a King Jeffreys explaining what this shutdown is all about. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.000 Now, before we get to that, I want to talk 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.319 to you about my friends over at Berna. If you've 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.280 ever listened to the show before, you know I'm a 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.600 big advocate for the Second Amendment and I've shared on 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.080 numerous occasions how carrying a firearm literally saved my life 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.839 from a gang related attack. 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So we need 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.400 new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.160 free healthcare here, we might be able to get them 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.040 on our side so they can vote for us. They 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.000 can't even speak English, so they won't realize we're just 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.080 a bunch of woke pieces of ship, you know, at 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.640 least for a while until they learn English and they 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:14.800 realize they hate us too. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.120 See, this is when I love AI. This is when 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.760 I absolutely love the spoof from the President. And if 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.400 you can't see this, you need to go look at 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.520 it we put up on social media, the videos and 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.719 Importphreeze has got a really nice Hannibar mustache and a 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:29.520 sombrero on. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:35.280 So look, pause for a second and realize that was 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.160 released by the White House. That was released by the 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.559 President of the United States. I feel a little guilty 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.559 because we've got some cursewords in there. We try to 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.280 avoid cursewords on this podcast. But what do you do 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.320 when the president has put that out? 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:52.800 You put it? 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.200 And I gotta say, the video sits today at lunch. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.960 So every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, all the publican senators 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.240 have lunch together. Today at lunch, John Thune met with 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.040 the President, met with Schumer, met with the King Jeffries 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.040 at the White House. And so Thune was giving us 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:15.120 a download on that. And you know, Thune was talking about, Okay, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.920 the Democrats, they don't want to cut a deal. They're 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.200 not willing to give it on anything. And I will confess. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.400 I raised my hand. I question. I said, John was 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.200 a King Jeffries wearing the sombrero. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:29.840 And what did he say? 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.120 He just laughed. But look and everyone cracked up. But 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.559 that image. Listen, the Democrats have literally shut down the 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.560 federal government because they want free health care for every 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.840 illegal alien in America. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.520 Yeah, you want to. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.679 Talk about, like on every issue that's eighty twenty or 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.280 even ninety ten, they're on the twenty or the ten side. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.640 The American people do not support. If you want to 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.200 have a referendum in this country, should we give illegals 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.840 free health care? Wow, that will be overwhelming. But here's 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.800 the secret. This shutdown is not actually about free health 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.040 care for illegals. That's what the Democrats have hung their 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.520 hat on because they got to say they want. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.360 So they gotta say something, right, This is. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:21.720 All about just we hate Donald Trump and it is 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.720 Chuck Schumer job preservation. And that also means the end 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.240 of this. Okay, there's no universe in which Chuck Schumer 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.520 will get President Trump to agree to let's give free 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:36.520 health care to illegals. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.080 Yeah, not gonna happen. They know that. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.600 Yeah, they're entering. There's no universe in which Republicans in 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.760 Congress are going to say, hey, that's a great idea, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.120 let's give free health care to every illegal. Like that's 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.320 you might as well ask for Area fifty one, like 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.800 to release the Martians and let them take over the country. Yeah, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.400 that is as likely to happen as free health care 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.880 for illegals from Republicans. The Democrats know that this is 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.640 not about getting what they're demanding. This is about how 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.640 long do they want to demonstrate Orange Man bad? 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.560 Yeah and so and the radical base is what has 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.760 put them in this scenario. Right, I guess do you 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:20.160 actually believe. And let's go back to the history of 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.600 the Senate here. I don't believe that Chuck Schumer actually 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.280 wanted to shut down the government. No, No, I think 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:27.840 he was forced to do it. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.840 Yeah, he would lose his job. He would lose his 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.760 job if the government was it. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:34.600 Was self preservation. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:35.200 Yes. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.360 In other words, this is weird. Chuck Schumer is being 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.440 held hostage by the Marxist communists and socialists in his party, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.040 which they did not police and they allowed to take 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.320 over their party. Then he's now holding the American people 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.640 hostage with a government shut down, which brings me the 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.160 big question. Even when we've had shutdowns in the past, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.640 there has been some agreement center like, hey, certain people 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.720 should deserve to get paid, those that are in the military, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.920 those badges, like the list is not that long, but 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.440 the essential important people that deserve to get a paycheck. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.080 We don't screw with them when they're protecting to fing 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.920 this country, can you guys, at least was there an 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:18.280 agreement to pay them? Really? Okay, so walk us through that, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.000 because I'm assuming that came up at lunch. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.000 So one of the things I did today is I 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.960 sent a letter because under the Constitution, Members of Congress, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.120 our pay cannot be stopped. It's actually unconstitutional to reduce 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.920 the compensation for members of Congress during the term we're 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.920 elected to. So I sent a letter and I've done 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.960 this during every shutdown, saying while the government is shut down, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.600 don't pay me. It's not fair. It's not right for 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.000 an elected member of Congress to receive a paycheck when 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.200 federal workers are not. Now, to be clear, I don't 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.800 lose my pay when the shutdown is over. I'll get 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:58.200 but it's deferred. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.800 But a lot of I don't understand that the long 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.600 which if I think just asinine, and I have family 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.520 members work in the federal government, and they're like, the 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.320 dumb part about this that I think a lot of 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.920 Americans don't understand, yep, is that you don't miss a 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.720 paycheck in your calendar year. You just miss a month 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.680 and then you get it back data, you get it 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.879 back the next time whenever the government does open back up. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.440 And so I know people that are in the FA 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.320 for example, and they're like, dude, we just plan our 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.600 vacations like great trips around shutdowns because we know we're 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.680 still getting paid. We save not everybody can do that. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.600 But like they've almost pre planned for this bonus vacation 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.160 and they're gonna get paid back. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.840 Yeah, but let me make several points of clarification. Sure 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.399 number one, government shutdown as a misnomer. More than eighty 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.280 percent of the government will continue to operate. So the 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:56.320 basic principle is everything that is essential keeps going. So 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:01.320 the military, our activity and military defending the nation against 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.520 bad guys, that keeps going. The FBI catching criminals, that 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.280 keeps going. The border patrol and ice that keeps going. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.480 The FAA air traffic controllers. Tomorrow, if you get on 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.720 an airplane, the air traffic controllers all go to work. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.800 By the way, the air traffic controllers are not getting 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.880 a paycheck, so they're going to work. But every two 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:30.320 weeks federal government employees get paid. Air traffic controllers, coast guardsmen, military, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:35.040 the federal government. Nobody gets a paycheck. And so what 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:40.760 shuts down. Every cabinet secretary was assigned designate among your 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.440 employees who is essential and who is not essential. I 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.760 remember when Bill Clinton was president, we had to shut down. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:46.959 Then. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.399 Remember Knute Gingrich and the Republican Congress were fighting with 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.120 Bill Clinton. We had to shut down for a number 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.440 of weeks, and I remember there was a headline that 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.120 said the Department of Commerce designated thirty percent of their 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.199 employees is a essentral and seventy percent is non essential. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.359 I remember thinking, that's great, we just set a new 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.280 benchline all those non essential that's seventy percent they ought 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.680 to be done. But what that means, so what will 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:19.159 be shut down? Starting October one? National parks will be 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.639 shut down. So I gotta say, if you were planning 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.120 to take your family to Yosemite this weekend, yeah, I'm 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.280 I'm sorry to say you're out of luck. Yosemite will 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.720 be closed. If you were coming to d C to 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.480 tour our nation's capitally, you wanted to go to the Smithsonian, 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.760 go to the Air and Space Museum, it's the Smithsonian 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.000 will be shut down. If you look at things like 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.280 the National Institute of Health, like research on cancer, much 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:45.680 of that will be shut down. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.240 All across that non essential. When people are going to 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.320 say that seems insane, Why wouldn't we fix that to 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.840 make sure when we have these shenanigans happen that that's 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:55.480 not affected. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.920 And I think this shutdown will extend I think it'll 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.920 be weeks. I think it will be Schumer is trying 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.639 to protect his own rear end and everything else is 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.520 secondary to protecting his own political life. So I think 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.359 we will see an extended shutdown. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.080 So is this polling the I mean, how do you 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.280 decide when you won or you lost if you're Schumer, 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.720 Because this is not about the country hating Schumer. This 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.399 is only about New York. I'm protecting a seat from AOC. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.760 So in essence, you don't care how many people hate 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.000 you in the country. It's only a New York thing, 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.000 is that. I mean, well, they do polling. I mean 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:34.720 this is weird. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.040 Yeah. Look, so this is being called the Schumer shutdown. Yeah, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.520 and I got to say, the Democrats are losing the 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.520 messaging battle. It is clear this is a Democrat shutdown. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.800 There was actually exchange right before we had the vote 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.359 on the CR to keep the government open, and this 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.879 is a clean CR. No rioters, no nothing, this is 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:56.720 just keep the lights. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:57.800 On status quo. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.800 Schumer stood up and was speaking, and all the Senators 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:03.680 or most of us, were standing on the Senate floor, 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:08.520 and Schumer said, look, there's been reference to polling, but 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.920 the polling has been biased. It's been right wing polling, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.680 for example, the New York Times. And I got to 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.439 tell you, I and every other Republican we just started 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.840 cracking up, laughing, and you could see Schumer he actually 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.320 turned red, he looked sheepish because he just said on 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.000 the Senate floor that the New York Times was a 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.000 biased right wing poll. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.520 Yeah, seriously. 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.520