single point for new hires to go through it closes. and closing something like that is like stopping a freight train at 80 miles per hour and then starting it up again. we re still feeling the implications of closing it in 2013. 5.5 years later? 5.5 years later. when you miss a hiring goal, it filters down over and over and over. you can t just hire someone to be an air traffic controller and turn them loose in a week and say go do it. it takes years of very skilled training to get them ready to go. and this is something that we won t feel today. we ll fee the paychecks today we ll feel the paychecks today. we won t feel the staffing implications for years. it will go on for years. it could go on for years. in atlanta, hartsfield jackson national airport, the busiest airport in the world. the super bowl in a little more than a month, less than a month actually. and you say that that s going to be a major problem if this this continues huge problem.
at 80 miles per hour and then starting it up again. we re still feeling the implications of closing it in 2013. five and a half years later. five and a half years later. when you miss a hiring goal, it filters down over and over and over. i want to bring in cnn national security analyst samantha vinograd. she also served on president obama s national security council. you hear that from dan mccabe there, sam. help us understand how vulnerable the system is in a situation like this. christi, my first reaction is that this government shutdown which the president says is in the name of security is making us more insecure. the tsa is part of what we call a group of accepted government employees, which means despite the shutdown they re expected to go to work because their functions impact human security and protection of key property. the longer the shutdown goes on,