obviously appropriate for right now. so lawmakers feel a little bit guilty i m going to put my salary to something or not take my pay. do you think we have this shut down which is totally avoidable because you agree on the budget this is an issue brought in from the outside of the budget process. do you think we would have a lockout if lawmakers weren t getting paid. i don t. obviously folks here independently wealthy. many are not. yeah, they feel pain as well. as we talked about, those families not just military but people nonessential, people in defense contracting and stuff like that, federal workers. they will pay pain very quickly starting today. i think if lawmakers wrcket getting paid they would feel the same pain and you wouldn t have this unnecessary shutdown. brian: we have thousands of civilian employees with the pentagon and elsewhere furloughed. we have the cans sell legs or delay of training for reserve units. and mattis says the mission is going to continue. you are j
account. you re outraged about this as well. brian: angel says my husband and son are government workers. we have bills to pay and even mortgage companies won t wait until the government quits playing games. i talked to someone over the weekend who is a professor at kings point merchant marine academy. shut down. furloughed, no paycheck. certain academies can, certain academies can t. elisabeth: we have an e-mail from charles. government officials have no common sense whatsoever. it doesn t take a rocket scientist to see that. steve: we told you a while ago that one of the things you would think would be essential would be the amber alerts. the department of justice decided they re going to make those people nonessential. so if somebody goes missing and an amber alert should be issued, it won t be because the department of justice has chosen to shut down that website. brian: either this is a government shutdown or it s not. 18% of the country is shut