government reopens, because there are going to be resource drains well into the future. when we look at the range of activities that aren t being performed right now, the hundreds of thousands of jobs that aren t being performed because of the shutdown, we know that key national security functions are going unaddressed. you look at the fbi, where investigations aren t proceeding at pace because agents have to cut costs. the state department, where diplomats are cancelling meetings and not engaging with counterparts, which is their job, by the way, because of less resources. once a government reopens, there is going to have to be a very honest damage assessment of everything that we miss doing during the shutdown. and that is going to represent yet another resource drain, even when the government reopens, just so that we can play catchup. and that s the backdrop as we head into now a second summit with kim jong-un, the president and his team announcing it s going to happen next month.
and what was shocking to me was the parking lot was empty. nobody was almost nobody was home at the headquarters of homeland security, which includes our nation s cyber security. so we have to put these people back to work. i fear our guard is being let down right now, as long as our leaders fail to compromise to put people back to work, to protect us. that brings us to your weekend presidential brief, a segment we bring you every sunday night, highlighting some of the most pressing national security information the president will need when he wakes up tomorrow. joining us now, national security council adviser and cnn national security analyst, sam bennagrad. so much is at stake. what should the president be thinking about right now? the president should do something that is anathema to him, and that is thinking about the long-term impact of this shutdown. the truth is, the threats associated with the shutdown aren t going to go away once the
up, what his posture is going to be on this. quite frankly, the white house advisers aren t sure what he s going to do. is he going to go after the white house and blame them, or will there be a conciliatory tone? i certainly don t expect that, but again, the politics of a shutdown aren t necessarily good for anyone. so the white house hopes that the hill can work this out amongst themselves. i still think a short-term solution here, to give people time to work on a long-term one is the solution here. but with the president s unpredictability, there is no guess what he ll do here. fareed zakaria, host of fareed zakaria gps joins me now. why is everything so dramatic