they can do with the border patrol agents do with time. they have to know spanish, they happen with the law. national guardsmen and airmen could be trained over time to do that. leland: you bring up a good point which is firearms. there s a lot of concern with you have a situation when someone s trying to be a soldier gets into a situation with a loaded firearm and is threatened in one way or another and deals with the threat as a soldier and not as a law enforcement officer. that s a real threat. soldiers are trained to take out targets. border patrol is a different thing. secretary matus told us recently the national guard that are there are not engage in actual law enforcement duties. that s not a common problem right now. it s a potential one. leland: this now brings up the larger political question.
of intelligence operations around the world. they cost money. those obviously would stop. i would just tell you training for almost higherour entire res force would stop. arthel: that was secretary matus explained what would stop when the shutdown happened. back to you congressman, if you could spell out how not having a long-term budget locked in affects the troops and how they are able to do their job. there s no question let me preface by saying this short-term funding is not ideal. i came to congress to get us back to regular order. they have passed all 12 appropriations bills. these cr s, short-term things are devastating to our military. but shutting the government down is worse. like secretary said, it impacts
even when nothing else is. keep her receipts tidy, brand vo: snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,340 in tax savings. quickbooks. backing you. the u.s. military staying on duty and not letting down its guard during the government shutdown. secretary matus assuring the nation that the armed forces will continue to carry out operations across the globe. even hours our brave men and women in uniform face the possibility of not getting paid. caroline shively is following this part of the story from washington. reporter: to be questions about the military and they shut down. will it still function to
state rex tillerson or the doing good cop, bad cop routine? well, i think they re doing a good cop, bad cop routine. look, the president and secretary matus, secretary tillerson are all aware of the ground reality in south korea. we have 33000 troops there on alert. we have 230,000 civilians and i was there a couple of months ago we were actually practicing the extrication, evacuation of american civilians there. no one wants shooting more in the peninsula. china does not want it. russia does not want to. the united states does not want it but here is where i think the opening and the potential for progress lies, and that is with china. even though we have now sanctioned north korea until it is hard to imagine how we can do more than cut off 90% of their energy which is what these
act of war. those sanctions in response to the road hundred robe regime missile test late last month. the secondary medicine taking north korea s threat seriously warning our trips they must be at the top of their game and ready to go. joining us now judith muller, a pulitzer prize winning author and journalist and fox news trader. nice to see you. nice to see you, mike. mike: what you make of him making saying to me to be at the top of their game encases military conflict? i think this is a precaution that any secretary of defense would give to troops is traveling overseas and i thank you have seen an example of secretary matus upping the rhetoric while president trump actually lowers the tone of his tweet. if you noticed after the north korean said that the un sanctions were an act of war donald trump treated that the united states that the world wanted peace and not war and