ha occurred since the mid 1970s, folks have been paid back pay. with my own staff, the part that i did have control over, to say look, the handwriting is on the wall. 407-0 vote in the house. the president said he is willing to sign that bill. folks will get back paid. if you are going to get back pay, should you work for your pay. i ll let others apply it to their respective agencies or the cabinet. to me it makes a lot of sense. aid tsa worker come to me back home and say i don t think this is fair. i m here as an essential employee. others are basically getting a vacation while i m here working the tsa lane in security. i think wherever possible, yeah. folks who are going to be paid ought to be working today. let us know what you think. if people are furloughed, should they be back at work even though
but is congress an essential employee at this point? do they deserve their money? they should be if you re going to deem these places should be shut down, you should be shut down as well. who needs the government to be running at some point? i m betty nguyen. this is first look. stay tuned because way too early starts right now. as president and as your commander in chief, i ve worked to make sure you have the strategy, the resources and the support you need to complete the missions our nation asks of you. and every time you ve met your responsibilities and performed with extraordinary professionalism, skill and coura courage. unfortunately congress hasn t fulfilled its responsibility that s president obama speaking to members of the armed forces, not lawmakers as the federal government began to shut down shortly after midnight. one thing not shutting down
i need to know what my environment is before i spend money, i m going to be building something and hiring somebody. that was tempered. christine, if i m a business person listening to all of this going on in washington, i m angry. i m reasoniangry and i m jus regular american and journalist and i think a lot of people are angry and carol if you re a federal worker you re waiting to hear from your supervisor whether you re coming to work on tuesday, whether you re one of the people who is an essential employee or not. if there is a shutdown the banks will stay open, you re going to have government essential government functions like border security and all that will still happen but if you start talking about what happens if we don t extend the debt ceiling, that s when it gets super ugly. no social security checks potentially, people who are investors aren t going to get interest on the bonds the money they lent us. could you have military pay that could be stopped so it is shutdow
they need to develop a strategy. they don t currently have any strategy that i can tell as an outsider. this is my last question for you, did you know that you and i crossed paths in 1995? it was the first day of the first government shutdown, november 19, 1995 was my first day as press secretary to the late congressman dan sheafer. i did not realize that. that s wild. you were right in the middle of it, then. you know how much more complicated it was than the later memories. also, i didn t know if i was an essential employee or not. i hope you were. i would have vouched for you. we are so glad we in you tonight. thank you so. thank you. tough question on the benghazi terror attack. did the department s failure to lead to the murder of four americans?
they need to develop a strategy. they don t currently have any strategy that i can tell as an outsider. this is my last question for you, did you know that you and i crossed paths in 1995? it was the first day of the first government shutdown, november 19, 1995 was my first day as press secretary to the late congressman dan sheafer. i did not realize that. that s wild. you were right in the middle of it, then. you know how much more complicated it was than the later memories. also, i didn t know if i was an essential employee or not. i hope you were. i would have vouched for you. we are so glad we in you tonight. thank you so. thank you. tough question on the benghazi terror attack. did the department s failure to lead to the murder of four americans?