WEBVTT - TSA PreCheck Suspended; The Airport is About to be Hell 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.840 Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, February twenty second, and 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:15.840 I sure as hell hope you are not heading to 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.200 the airport today. You are going to be waking up 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:24.400 to some really disturbing news. The Trump administration, blaming the shutdown, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.160 has now made a move that could potentially cause chaos 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.800 at airports. And with that, welcome to this episode of 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.960 Amy and TJ Robes. I hated to even give you 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.199 this news when you woke up this morning, but overnight 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:41.040 we did get work. TSA pre check is being suspended 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.000 as of this morning. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.320 You said it was going to be potentially disruptive. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:47.720 I'm going to take that a. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.839 Step further and say it's almost assuredly going to be 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.960 chaos at the airports, because yes, they have shut down 0:00:55.000 --> 0:01:00.160 temporarily TSA pre check, but also global entry. So if 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.440 you're coming into the United States, say you went off 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.800 on a European vacation this week, it's winter break for 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.720 a lot of students, you're coming back in. You think 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.480 you're gonna just breeze through global entry. Nope, you're gonna 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.399 be stuck in line for an hour or so. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.959 With the rest of US, and most Americans, though listening roades. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.880 Global entry is fine, but you got twenty million plus Americans. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.679 This program is for folks who fly regularly, and you 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:29.319 want to zip through that frickin' line. Well, all you 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.759 twenty plus million who are part of TSA PreCheck are 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.800 about to get dumped into the same line as everybody else. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.840 And oh yeah, all of you non frequent travelers who 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.319 are in the regular line, you're about to get twenty 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.959 million people in the line. That's for you. Okay, Robes, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:47.160 how's this gonna go? 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.840 Everyone's going to be upset. And you make a really 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.560 good point. It's not just people who are used to 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.160 getting TSA PreCheck and used to going through quickly. They 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.800 don't have to take their shoes off, they don't have 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.880 to take their laptops out, and you just know you 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.480 plan your time when you head to the airport based 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:05.200 on the fact that. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.720 You know you have TSA PreCheck. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.240 You know you can erase at least thirty minutes off 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.760 of your prep time, give or take. But now all 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.960 you folks who know you're going to be waiting in 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.200 that line, consider that line doubled at this point at least, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.680 So now everybody is going to have to expect really 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.480 long lines to get through security. I'm just saying, and 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.560 that is a nightmare for everybody. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.720 But the other nightmare part of the robes, we didn't 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.000 get a heads up. It's Sunday. Everybody's waking up the 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.560 first time they find out about this is some folks 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.560 are going to be the sound of our voices. This 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.600 was put out late yesterday. It's thrown everybody off and 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.400 just boom today. We would change our travel robes and 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.880 might even cancel some unnecessary travel if we had known 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.600 about TSA pre check being it's just gonna be chaos. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.800 Oh my goodness. You know what airport I'm thinking of? Atlanta? 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:01.880 You know, christ. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.799 Crazy Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport is. And I am 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.919 always amazed even with TSA pre check, And now we've 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.720 got this face, like this touchless id thing that you 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:13.800 can even get into a. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.360 Super sonic speed of a line. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:22.079 Those lines that Atlanta Hartsfield are still horrifically long. I 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.079 was just thinking that that airport in particular jumped into 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:26.440 my head. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.120 Okay, so they make the announcement yesterday. This is a 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.560 now official, the Homeland Security Department suspending the TSA PreCheck program, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.280 making the announcement late yesterday, giving us all very little 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.040 time to make any type of travel adjustments. Yes, Global 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.240 Entry suspend it as well as a part of this. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.640 Now they say, Ropes, they're having to do this because 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.440 of the shutdown. Now, we were told, or under the 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.040 impression most of us, that this would be not as impactful, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.600 if you will, of a shutdown on the rest of 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.200 the wider population, because this was targeted and specific had 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.880 to do with DHS funding. Specifically DHS funding that Democrats 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.000 were opposing because DHS has ICE under it. We've seen 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.760 what's been happening in Minneapolis. So Democrats like, hell no, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.040 there needs to be ICE reforms in order for us 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.240 to approve this funding moving forward. Didn't get it done. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.040 They said they got the rest of the budget done. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.279 But here we are, we're still fighting over DHS and 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.520 now there is a partial shutdown started on February fourteenth. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.159 Now robes the reason we thought this was going to 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.800 be limited, just because it wasn't supposed to impact necessarily Americans. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.400 It was supposed to impact, unfortunately, some of these workers 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.640 who are going without pay, but operations were supposed to continue. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.200 This Now Robes is being viewed as everyone as a tactic, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.800 and we are now being punished because we starting today 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.520 are going to get pissed about what's happening in DC 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.320 and are we gonna blame Democrats or Republicans? That is Look, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.920 I'm not being cynical. I think this is fair Robes. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.640 If you're looking at this to go, why the hell 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.040 are they doing this to us right now? 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.440 One hundred percent the American people, We, the American people, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.960 the American travelers are political pawns in this game of 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.200 chicken and who is to blame? And yes, it is deliberate. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.679 They are forcing almost our. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:22.600 Emotions into the narrative to try and convince lawmakers to cave. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.080 That is absolutely what's happening. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.840 Because if you get enough pissed off constituents writing your 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.880 office saying make the deal, figure it out, this is 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.800 bs you are affecting my business, my ability. So many people, yes, 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.920 travel for fun and pleasure, and that's annoying enough, but 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.240 when you're a business traveler, as you and I were 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.239 for many many years. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:39.880 I was in an. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.640 Airport and so were you, I believe probably twice a week, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.839 it is so impactful. If you now add hours and 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.320 hours to the planning and prep of all of that 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:50.880 just to conduct business, just to. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:51.440 Do your job. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.000 Not to mention the PORTSA workers who are working without 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.039 a paycheck right now. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.520 Everybody's pissed, so so Robes, that was one of my 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.600 first You and I traveled quite a bit during the shutdown, 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.440 the last one forty three days, right the records shutdown. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.599 It was tended TSA. It was they went a month 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.120 and a half almost without paychecks. They got the payback later, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.640 but Robes, they were calling out sick, and a lot 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.240 of folks were not because I'm making a stand. They 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.560 were trying to make money somewhere else, right, they were 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.800 trying to do These folks were on edge. So what 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.520 do you have now? A TSA worker not getting paid, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.960 who's going up against a traveler this morning who didn't 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.280 get word that TSA PreCheck is shut down everybody at 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.440 the airport. Robes, you're now creating a more explosive situation 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.240 than an airport that quite frankly, most of them aren't 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.599 pleasant happy utopias anyway. Now you're throwing this into it. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.800 I actually cannot even imagine the scenes at airports this 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.760 morning and the days that are going to follow, and 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.320 I think especially this morning, because people have been taken 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.160 by surprise. This is is, it's something that we even 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.200 thought was a possibility. It's never been even floated out there. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.520 I don't ask you that I never heard. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.360 I was going to ask you if I missed the 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:16.280 why because more TSA workers are calling out sick because 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.080 they want to concentrate everybody in just a fewer more 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.000 painful lines instead of spreading everybody out and getting people 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.600 through quicker. I don't understand the explanation behind why they 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.280 needed to stop the program. I can understand maybe they 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:35.640 don't have the people to to to actually process applications. Okay, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.880 I can maybe get my head around that. But at 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.680 the actual airport, for people who have already been vetted, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.320 who have already gone through the process, who already have 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.360 that TSA pre check check mark. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.120 Why then could you why would you need to not 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.240 have those lines. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:55.200 Operating because quote, we are prioritizing the general traveling population. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.960 That is the word from Christinome saying they need to 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.520 make this move because they're prioritize their folks. Now, of 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.040 course last shutdown, they didn't decide to do this, but 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.480 they're doing this. Now we're a week, right, We're a 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.560 week into this shutdown, this partial shutdown. This is the 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:15.160 statement from Homeland Security. Quote. Shutdowns have serious real world consequences, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.400 not just for the men and women of DHS and 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.320 their families who go without a paycheck, but it endangers 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.720 our national security. The American people depend on this department 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.240 every day, and we are making tough but necessary workforce 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.600 and resource decisions to mitigate the damage inflicted by these 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:37.120 politicians probes. When you get past the initial shock of 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.600 it and the frustration of it, it goes to anger. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.640 This is this is robes, this is base, this is 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.240 one oh. One of the job of Congress is to 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.679 pass budgets and to keep the government running. There are 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.120 very few things that the government does that we can 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.680 see and are impacted in a practical way every day. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.480 One of those ways is what happens to us at 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:06.120 the airport. And you're telling me this thing, this thing 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.120 you're taking away. You are intentionally making our lives harder 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.960 because you won't do your job one and then after 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.199 you don't do it, you implement these tactics to make 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.160 it harder on us. So you can get what you 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.239 want in DC, Roges, this is anger now. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.199 Harder on us, so you can get what you want 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:25.600 in DC. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.680 And yet the first line is we're prioritizing the general 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.560 traveling population that's gaslighting one on one. They're not prioritizing 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.280 the American traveling population. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.280 You know, me, Robes, I'm trying to leave some room 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.160 and not knowing what's in their hearts and their heads. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.719 And they have information that we don't have that suggests 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.920 to them that this is a necessary step. That's just 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.280 a tall order for us to believe, given all that's 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.840 taken place, and it's not just us, it's airlines. You 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.880 could expect Democrats to say certain things, but some of 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.440 it makes sense. There are some pretty heavy start statements 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.800 that are floating around out there, in particular from one 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.839 Congressman who has now called the Republicans nim Witz. In 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.920 all this, Nitwitz, I should say, nit Wits, I want 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.760 to get that right. We'll tell you who said that 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.599 and what he's talking about. Will tell you. The Homeland 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.719 Security Department to bar mahome Land Security, the Democrats, or 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.079 at least the committee that oversees Homeland Security, they put 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.360 out a statement, but the big one you do not 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.280 want to miss is the one that was put out 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:43.280 by the airlines themselves. Stay here, all right, we continue 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.439 here on Amy and teacher, what exactly is a nitwit? 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.199 So we should bring that back. It seems almost kid 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.400 like it's an insult, but it doesn't seem so hard. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.120 It seems it seems like an insult from nineteen twenty eight. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.800 It's like something that people would say in the Gilded Age. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.080 Oh no, it doesn't seem like a common modern way 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.280 to throw an insult at someone. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.920 Rose. Of course, the way we've been insulting, I say we, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.800 but politicians even have been insulting each other lately. Nitwit 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.760 seemed like a relief to have that one. But nitwit 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.880 is the word being used to talk about some of 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.800 the decisions being made by the Trump administration now suspending 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.360 the TSA pre check program robes. I believe most people 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.520 are familiar with this. But yes, you sign up for it. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:31.920 We haven't done it in a long time. I can't remember 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.040 how long it takes, but it's not that long. They 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.440 do a background check on your or whatever. You get 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.120 this TSA pre check number, And now when you go 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.320 to the airport there's a separate line. You don't have 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.040 to take off your shoes, and it's just a faster process. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:46.839 Yeah, the big dealers. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.280 You get fingerprinted, so you go through a series of 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.520 steps that most people you would never have to go 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:53.920 through at the airport, but you do it ahead of 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.200 time and it actually doesn't take that long. You do 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.120 have to go into a staples or do some sort 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.480 of an interview. They have places set up up throughout 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.760 the country. And yes, it's about fingerprinting. It's about just 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.560 having someone see you physically check your documents. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.480 Your passport, your real ID and all of that. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.480 And then yes, you now have an expedited process for 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.800 the airport, which is significantly helpful if you are a 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.440 frequent traveler like we are, and so many people are, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.760 again not just for pleasure, but for work. This is 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.560 a part of going to the office in a sense 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.280 for a lot of folks is traveling. And so yes, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.920 when you can take those extra steps and know, man, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.679 I know the worst case scenario. I got a fifteen 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.840 minute line versus an hour and a half line, which 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.640 can happen. So it just completely upends the entire process 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.880 when you realize you aren't going to have access to that. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.800 But I also just want to go back to that 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:49.480 Christine un statement about prioritizing the general traveling population. By 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.280 throwing all the TSA pre check folks into the general 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.000 traveling population, you are not prioritizing anyone. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:56.520 That's why. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.160 That's when politicians make statements that you know are are 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.440 in the absolute opposite spirit of what the actuality is. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.520 That is why people can't stand politicians, because you know, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.120 I know when I'm being told something that is true, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.920 and then you sit there and you say it with 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.040 a smile on your face and I'm supposed to trust you. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.000 That's really, really, really hard. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.000 I just feel like trust was never great between politicians 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.600 and their constituents, but it's. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.719 At an all time high in terms of distrust at 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:24.160 this point. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.440 I didn't like that part of her statement, and again 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.840 you brought I don't think I was going to bring 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.240 it up, but since you went back to it, I'll 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.520 say it. It felt like you're once again pitting Americans 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.440 against each other. There were some language they use. It 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.679 almost sound like TSA pre check. These are some elites, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.280 these are some special people. We're taking care of you, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.440 the little people. We're prioritizing the general population. That was 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.040 something that seemed divisive even Yeah that I read, and 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.080 I wasn't going to say that you seem to catch 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.240 the same thing. I kind of called it. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.120 I didn't like, no more special treatment for those pre 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.000 check people in that other line that you always can't 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.559 stand when you look over and see them moving so quickly, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.199 you know them, Yeah, they're now stuck in the line too. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.320 It came across that wait to me. And again, I'm 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.360 not who knows what's in somebody's heart, right, robes, I 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.600 always got to leave room for that. But my god, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:18.560 we've seen this story before, it seems. But Representative Benny 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.760 Thompson were talking about Democrat out of Mississippi. He was 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.480 the one that used the line, and think he made 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.040 it to CBS. He said, these nit wits are at 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.320 it again, punishing the American people and using them as 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.760 political pawns for their sadistic political games. Sadistic that's the 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.360 hell of a word. Robes. But it just feels like that. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.880 And this is all a matter of what robes. They 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.440 didn't do the most basic of their jobs, which is 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.160 too fun to the government. This is your job to 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.760 do it. On time, so we all don't shut the 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.320 fuck down again. And here is partial everybody. We weren't 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.920 worried about this one. This will be limited and they'll 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.440 figure something out. They gave themselves a little time, even 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.240 if it's been a week now and they've dropped the 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.000 hammer on the American public. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.720 By Oh, it's unbelievable when you put it that way. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.320 This is them failing to do their jobs once again, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:08.600 and once again. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.200 Who pays for it? Everybody but them. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.840 Benny Thompson, we talked about there is on the committee. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.720 They did put out a statement on Twitter. I mean, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.600 there's gonna be more of this. I bet a lot 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.680 of members of Congress went to bed last night not knowing, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:24.840 Oh this was happening. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.640 Yeah, like us right, So yes, the Democrats on the 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.360 Homeland Security Committee said Trump's DHS is punishing travelers. TSA 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.320 pre check and global entry reduced lines and ease the 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.280 burden on DHS staff. But Christy Nome and her confident 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:45.040 Corey Lewandowski are knee capping or is that confidant, Corey 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.560 Lewandowski are knee capping the programs that make travels smoother 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.120 and secure. They are ruining your travel on purpose? 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.560 On purpose? Who's gonna get blamed for that? Travelers are not. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.040 If you're pissed today, are you really gonna be in 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.360 line going wow? I can't believe those Democrats did this. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.760 You're gonna say wow. Christy Nolan put out a statement 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:06.640 that shut this down? 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:07.880 Why exactly? 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.440 And I do think when you start to do I 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.000 don't know how many people do enough of a dive, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.880 but to recognize, if you look at the polling, most 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.640 Americans were against the ice tactics used in Minneapolis that 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.640 led to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex pretty 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.280 Given those numbers, now apply it to this current. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.720 Situation, that is a big, big, big bet. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.200 If the Republicans, if Christy Nome, if the administration did 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:39.200 do this to apply more pressure on Democrats, that that 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.800 was a risky move in terms of where the American 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.600 anger is going to be directed towards. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.320 This will get a deal done? How long you give it? 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.320 Oh yeah, throw into the Travel was already about to 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.360 be a mess. We got a goddamn northeaster coming here 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.480 to New York. Travel is going to be crazy in 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.080 the Northeast anyway next two days. Now you want to 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.000 throw this in there. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.080 Who I hadn't thought about that, babe, Oh my goodness. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.800 And people are coming back from their February break today 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.600 Christ the winter break, just winter break. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:09.680 At least in the Northeast. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.439 I don't know if that's for most of the country, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.560 but in the Northeast, our kids get a winter break. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.760 Everyone comes back today on Sunday, and we've got a 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.880 nor'easter coming and now. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.800 No DSA pre check, no global injury. Oh my goodness. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.919 So they might think this is a brilliant move to 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.080 hit Americans now and we'll get a deal done. Hit 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.280 them where it really is going to hurt them. Do 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.520 Is this not crazy? Folks are going to go through 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.880 hell at airports today because of what happened in Minneapolis. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.600 This is where we are. That's the reason they are 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.640 fighting DHS funding is because Nope, all that we saw 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.520 in Minneapolis, we are not going to let that happen. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.480 Ice has to be reformed. All the what we watched 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.000 was has an impact now on every has an impact 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.879 on the country. But I'm saying a real thing that's crazy. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.400 When you think about it like that, it really simplifies things. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.680 So you can hear all the rhetoric you want from politicians, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.080 but it comes down. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.200 To that, and the airlines have released to stagement. Oh shit, yeah, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.280 all right, this is actually an amazing station. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.560 Yes, this is great, and these are this is their 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.760 trade organization, the Airlines for America. Yees, so even though 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.399 you probably haven't heard of it, they are the trade 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.560 group and every major airline is a part of this group. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.800 Yes, here's their statement. Airlines for America, this is great. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.600 Is deeply concerned that TSA pre check and Global Entry 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.000 programs are being suspended and that the traveling public will 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.560 be once again used as a political football amid another 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.439 government shutdown. The announcement was issued with extremely short notice 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.720 to travelers, giving them little time to plan accordingly, which 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.159 is especially troubling at this time of record air travel. 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.080 During last fall's forty three days shut down, the longest 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.240 in US history, more than nine thousand flights were delayed 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.919 or canceled, significantly impacting six million travelers and countless deliveries 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.560 in some That shutdown costs six point one billion dollars 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.120 of loss across the travel industry and related sectors. It's 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.359 pastime for Congress to get to the table and get 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.600 a deal done that insureans TSA can fully operate and 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.720 their frontline employees can be paid for the important work 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.240 they do to keep our skies secure. You know, they 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.480 make such a good point. Think about all the industries 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.440 that are impacted when travel is impacted. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:19.879 This. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.960 Yes, this is inconvenient and frustrating for a lot of travelers, 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.240 but this is financially devastating for so many people in 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:26.920 that industry. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.920 And the most this is the most effed up part. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.760 This is the most effed up part. We'll wrap on this, folks. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:40.000 All this, we're doing, all this, they're fighting over right. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:44.000 They want to make sure that ICE is reformed. This 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.040 is what Democrats want to do. Ice has to be reformed, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:54.400 and we are so willing, so willing to make sure 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.600 it happens that we will shut down the government over this. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.120 And people are losing paycheck and all this impact. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.840 You know who's still getting the check, Every single congressman 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.840 and woman who is not going to the table to 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:08.360 make a deal. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:13.640 That is true, every Ice agent, ladies and gentlemen. This 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:20.280 fight to take funding from ICE is pointless. Because of 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:26.320 Trump's big beautiful bill. They slid in funding for dhs 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.400 that goes through like twenty twenty seven. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:29.280 You've got to be kidding me. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.440 Rose, no Ice agent, no ICE operation is being impacted 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:38.600 a single bit because of this. They got funding, They 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.960 have money sitting there that continues to fund them. So 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:48.000 this fight is over, potentially defunding ICE a year from now. 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:49.680 I did not know that. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.840 Yes, and a lot of people probably don't. ICE is 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.520 being fully funded through all of this, and they will 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.560 continue to do so. I actually think it's through twenty 0:20:58.600 --> 0:20:59.119