we do know that a very well known military charity, the fisher house foundation, very quickly as they did in 2013 shutdown stepped in and said they would volunteer to cover the payments to help the families out. a short time ago, the fisher house told me they haven t even heard from the pentagon yet, though they have made this offer. so whether or not the shutdown is lifted and certainly everyone hopes it is, there has been serious impact on the u.s. military. some of the and it has been working its way through the system. we know, for example, base by base, they re looking at commissaries, looking at child care benefits. they re looking at training, at reserve units, sticking with their duty schedule. maintenance, depot maintenance, intelligence analysts, all of this they are looking at since the shutdown went into effect at midnight on friday.
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
soldiers. initially the arms network was going to shut down as well as other portions of the government and department of defense, however the pentagon issuing a statement today saying they re using previous resources from last year and using some military personnel that are not being furloughed. they re able to keep some channels of the armed forces network open, including the channel that plays sporting events. so u.s. troops abroad will be able to watch the nfl football playoff games. again, this is just one impact of several that the shutdown is causing to the department of defense and to the military. while all u.s. troops will continue to be deployed, continue to operate around the world, a lot of civilian personnel, some 50 to 70%, have been furloughed. there is also issues with contracting the reserve units, so the government working to
and i don t know if you heard the homeowners struggling to go in and recover the memories. faith, friends and families helping out and front and center has been the military through rescues and now through the relief effort and recovery. that s to be expected. we learned a lot of lessons from hurricane katrina. in an earlier segment you had the commanding general of the texas national guard and immediately secretary mattis and secretary richards realized what is going on. he has dual status. his unit and all units that are coming in to texas. that is crucial to sort out everyone coming in and one voice and works with fema and other parts to do that. you wanted the reserve units coming in with helicopters to pick family units up and getting
going to work? and does this latest intrusion of hamas bring the country together. yes, the country is very much united. the country is strong, thousands of civilians have been recruited to serve in our reserve units. i myself in previous conflicts did just that. and we re firm, we re strong. you know, governor, we ve been here for 3,800 years, well over 2,000 years before islam came to the world. so we re here to stay. if anyone wants to mess with us, that s okay, but we re here to stay and we ll fight them. i think many in israel now have awakened. many are more realistic. we re in a tough region, in a very tough region where you have syria killing 150,000 of its civilians, when iraq we have i.s.i.s., radical islamic terrorist group taking over iraq. egypt had a revolution and