behalf. he has taken 800,000 federal employees and thousands and thousands of contractors hostage. and we don t negotiate with immoral hostage takers. we don t negotiate with hostage takers, why? because if you do the next time they will do it again. todd: there you heard it democrats in washington likening the partial government shut down to a hostage situation. joining us now with reaction someone who has actually been in a real hostage situation negotiation team in fact, dr. james mitchell, author of enhanced interrogation. he helped develop the cia s enhanced interrogation program and personally i intier gaite.you say the true he takers in this situation are the democrats. why? i think they are the true hostage takers because they are using the federal employees as human shields in order to keep the