skeptical. what i m most bothered by where is all this rhetoric and vehement response when we had men and women there years at a time. people only get heated when they are reminded we are at war and we are pulling people home and policy people don t truly understand. we don t say what the mission is. pete: some of it feels disingenuous. your take? i think we can all agree we are all conflicted here. to the president s point, one iwhen is enough? when do we bring our troops home? for example, atlanta lost the super bowl by having a 25-point lead. the defense in the second half wasn t in the fight there. so, if we take the defense out of this fight, where does that leave us? i think everyone is more concerned. what is the plan with the withdrawal here. we need to make sure that we don t get back to where we were, i think that s what everyone is focused on.
should be attached to but, yet, we don t hold them accountable so congress people and others fund it because they say oh this is an identity movement. they ignore it s a separatist anti-american movement, and we don t have a strategy. where is our muslim reform movement that has imams that we work with. we have been calling for people to pay teadges to what we are saying to say you know what? why don t we vet vet these folks so we can have a strategy. jedediah: thank you, doctor. the bureau of prisons has declined to comment. pete: chuck olsen has led a lot of christian groups in prison. the reason there is a difference you are not seeing christian groups going out and trying to cause terrorism. okay. let us know what you think friends@foxnews.com. coming up, the government won t spend 5 billion to build a wall, but they had no problem spending 65 million to save sammon. yes we are talking about fish. washington wasting your taxpayers while refusing to protect the border.
[laughter] more useful things to do with your money would be to go outside and feed it to a bird. you do have to admire the sacrifice they are making. a lot of these people are dipping into their meth money for this. pete: actually, i watched this clip on the way. in i dipped into my meth money and i don t nateed $200 to the go fund me page. griff: really? pete: people are done. washington can t get it done. watch this go fund me page has 5 or 6 million bucks right now. if washington won t get it done american citizens want to get it done. jedediah: sad that american citizens feel the need to step in and do the job that the american government should be doing. pete: shocking. jedediah: also horrifically insensitive that he would make fun of people who want border security and national security. griff: are you happy shut down going on. jedediah: and what about kimmel. pete: does jimmy kimmel have a wall around his house. i want to know.
you guys are just making this stuff up. it s not journalism, griff. i m sorry. it s just not. pete: dan bongino, i m going to give you promotion. not captain chaos. you are major chaos. listen, i love that thanks, guys. pete: merry christmas. merry christmas. griff: lebron james taking shot at nfl owners and their slave mentality. pete: listening to all this shut down talk, who doesn t need a drink? i don t need a shutdown to get a drink. here is another excuse. one bar in our nation s capital putting out crazy cocktails. full look at hilarious menu coming up next. jedediah: we have ice drink on fox square this morning. that s coming up. good. and not so good.
keep the government open, including a proposal offered by leader mcconnell that passed the senate unanimously only a few days ago. we are willing to continue discussions on those proposals. here s the shut down by the nuns. numbers. 800,000 federal employees are affected. 420,000 forced to work without pay. and another 380,000 temporarily furloughed. the majority of these employees are working outside of d.c. on the upside, 75% of the government is already funded through 2019, including the departments of defense, labor, education, health and human services. and the congress. but, major agencies like the justice department, homeland security, and the state department are not. and they are going to be hit hard, guys, by this shut down. pete: gillian, thank you very much. i would say happy shut down saturday. how are you feeling? are you waking um this morning? government shut down? your lights are still on,