she says the lights won. you have people that are being evicted. you have people that are going without insulin and going without the care they need, and as a person with a disability, the threat to me is, i get put in an institution, because i can t take care of myself. reporter: some children who get school lunches subsidized by the government are having to cut back, too. in vance county, north carolina, they re rationing fresh produce as long as the government is closed. the sooner they can do something about it, the better it will be for us low income families. reporter: government contract workers, who aren t on the government payroll, have it worse. when we go back, we don t get the back pay. reporter: she, too, the joining workers from the epa, the coast guard and other agencies lining up for donated food. we re learning that fbi agents tonight and secret service agents are now having to pay their own travel expenses. and david, these are people who are working witho
laura: first fall, i love the overhead shot. that s like a balcony shot. the shadow graphic on that. that s it, that looked kind of fun. i thought they were against the big money in politics and they always trashed republicans for hanging out with lobbyist and was not just yesterday? obviously with the shutdown, we keep hearing the people are not getting paychecks. long lines for tsa. we need to be focused on all that and instead use the other stuff going on. laura: i think amazon could probably cover the government payroll without even feeling it. they were one of the companies involved in this party. laura: they could cover it for a while so they could at least give us alone. ed, fantastical part. thanks so much for joining me right now house minority leader steve scalise and congressman scalise, i know you want to comment on the aoc lurch to the left of the democrat party but schumer and pelosi love to say trump throws temper tantrums so they say he is petulance. he walk
this i would have gotten fired. i mean this stinks on so many levels. you have somebody who s staying on government payroll without working, which is offensive even if we weren t in the middle of a government shutdown. you have somebody who abuses their authority to try to get a legislative fix to help only themselves. you have a 36, 37-year-old who wants to claim early retirement after 15 years. this is the definition of a swamp. and in a normal white house you d have a chief of staff and president who would set high standards to ensure this kind of misconduct doesn t happen. is there an oversight mechanism within the way white houses are structured that should address problems like this? i know there s a lot of things you can t do with a white house that you could do with a government agency. but is there some sort of mechanism in place that s supposed to handle this? here s the thing, when you
and two, doesn t somebody investigate? how would this sort of thing work in a normal white house? joining us now is chris lu who was white house cabinet secretary in the obama administration. thank you for your time. thank you. if the deputy white house chief of staff faced credible allegations of corruption and self-dealing, who is supposed to look into that in a normal white house? well, in a normal white house that person would have been out on the street so quickly. literally every single day of this white house i thought to myself if i did something like this i would have gotten fired. i mean this stinks on so many levels. you have somebody who s staying on government payroll without working, which is offensive even if we weren t in the middle of a government shutdown. you have somebody who abuses their authority to try to get a legislative fix to help only themselves. you have a 36, 37-year-old who wants to claim early retirement after 15 years. this is the definition of a
literally every single day of this white house i thought to myself if i did something like this i would have gotten fired. i mean this stinks on so many levels. you have somebody who s staying on government payroll without working, which is offensive even if we weren t in the middle of a government shutdown. you have somebody who abuses their authority to try to get a legislative fix to help only themselves. you have a 36, 37-year-old who wants to claim early retirement after 15 years. this is the definition of a swamp. and in a normal white house you d have a chief of staff and president who would set high standards to ensure this kind of misconduct doesn t happen. is there an oversight mechanism within the way white houses are structured that should address problems like this? i know there s a lot of things you can t do with a white house that you could do with a government agency. but is there some sort of mechanism in place that s supposed to handle this? here s the thing, when