the shutdown any worse, well, think again. last night we pointed out in my off the record commentary that the world war ii memorial is closed but the gym in the house of representatives is open. president obama has the authority to open the monument and speaker boehner has the authority to close the gym. whether either does exercise his authority to do the right thing now speaks very loudly, doesn t it? well, if you think that s bad, listen to this. they must not have been down to the gym lately there are hardly there is hardly anybody working down there. there is no towel service. no towels? no. so we are doing our own laundry down there. and we pay a fee to belong to the house gym. greta: anyone in washington using any common sense? former new hampshire governor john sununu thanks for expwroing joining us. good evening, governor, how are you? how are you, greta? greta: i m doing well. that is brice bailey a democrat from iowa. they do pay some fee to the gym, members
too. he said on the weekend trip to the capitol and now, between this and the fact there s no towel service in the congressional gyms, i ask you, will this madness ever stopped? i don t think that will get much simply from folks. the fact is we looked lick to let them pick apples. not going in the right direction. no towel service. we ll be right back with more. customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online but they didn t fit. customer s not happy, i m not happy. sales go down, i m not happy. merch comes back, i m not happy. use ups. they make returns easy. unhappy customer becomes happy customer. then, repeat customer. easy returns, i m happy. repeat customers, i m happy. sales go up, i m happy. i ordered another pair. i m happy. (both) i m happy. i m happy. happy. happy. happy. happy. happy happy. i love logistics.
where it s one of the rare places where people come together and talk about how to build relationships. there s no towel service. meanwhile, federal workers are getting whiplash from who is in and who is out on the essentials list. tens of thousands have applied for temporary unemployment insurance. the intelligence community, which furloughed 70% of its staff last week, decided some cia staff are necessary after all. thanks for your service. other at the nuclear regulatory commission, the money ran dry. today think furloughed thousands, with congress yet to guarantee thesis by paid for the missed work. take care. like the chron gressional ., some the utah national guard parent placed an order for $47,000 mechanical bull, which they say was for recruiting purposes. they have since told us they delayed that order. the state department, the day of the shutdown, apparently awarded
the gym, the congressional gym on both the house side and the senate side. they are open. however, the gym for members of congress s staff, they are closed. the bad thing is at the gyms that feature saw in a, steam, flat-screen televisions, there is no towel service and there is no cleaning things up. brian: you re allowed to work out. here s what congressman waxman said. people shouldn t worry if the wellness center is open. they should worry if the government is closed but it s all part of the semantics and optics. let s talk about what happened yesterday in the afternoon. i did not hear all of this because i was listening on the fox news radio app and i went into the subway and it cut out for all of it. i did not hear when the president walked out to give his hour-long-plus press conference about the shutdown, the debt limit we re about to hit and the
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