he mentioned drugs six times. crime or criminal five times. he said the word gang three times. he only said shutdown once. he said federal worker nos ti e times. didn t mention them at all. what was your reaction to the speech? he also didn t say the words i and so many people in america hoped he would say that he s going to immediately open up the government. believe it or not, a couple of nights ago i joined volunteers in downtown washington, d.c. outside where many federal agencies are and served dinners to federal workers. it was hard to watch fbi uniformed police officers standing in line to get dinner because they are work so hard, so bravely and not getting paid. one person leaned in to me as i was serving a chicken sandwich and soup and asked if i could give her two more for her kids at home. this is the united states of
members of the coast guard may think twice about reenlisting creating a retention and a recruitment dilemma for us. speaking of problems we can t just unwind when the shutdown ends, cyber security. dhs is responsible for the cyber security. there is a cyber security center in washington. many people are furloughed. i drove past dhs headquarters in washington, nebraska avenue. you have thousands of people dedicated to supporting the senior leadership of homeland security including the secretary, deputy secretary. when i drove past wednesday at health care, the parking lot was empty. if i had an empty parking lot to support me when i had to do my job, my job would be compromised. we are now into the second month of this. just in closing, what do you make of the fact that donald trump didn t mention this yesterday when he gave his
and allowing me to say a few words here. we were there at the end of our march. there was a group of fellows there that were having their moment on what i call a soapbox moment in d.c. they were out there saying words. this young group of students, we were listening to what they were saying. neither of these groups were part of our organization, our group. they were just there were just more things happening in d.c. two different groups were confronting each other. the students and another group? yeah. i hear the other group is the black israelites or something. mm-hmm. during our rally they set up at the edge of our permitted space and started just, you know, saying things,
speech? well, i heard a mix of messages in the speech. on the one hand i believe there is a failure to recognize among the leadership in washington the damage we are doing to the security now. on the other hand, in the speech, the vocabulary, he refers to it as a barricade, not a wall. signalling perhaps a willingness to compromise or to move in a certain direction. i believe you could pull out the politics and emotion of this. two lawyers who know how to wordsmith things could resolve this in 45 minutes. can you call it a wall, fence, add in other surveillance? you could resolve this without a lot of difficulty if we could have the leaders sit down, take out the emotion, the politics and resolve it for the good of our security. you and mitch mcconnell perhaps. place a call to him and let us
see our leaders in washington reach some type of agreement and compromise. i do think the president gets cut today from moving in that direction after weeks from both sides just ignoring each other and a lot of bickering and pettiness. it is not credible. did you know the president says i am shutting down the government, i own the shutdown, i am proud to carry the mantle and he shuts the government down. that s that. it takes two to tangle. there is no tangle here. welcome back to am joy. we are default in our politics and political coverage that does seem to seek an explanation for all things of two sides to every argument to achieve balance. it is not just the president and his party are keeping the government closed and harming millions of people in the