there to be slaughtered. now there s some negotiation about protecting the kurdish soldiers? reporter: that s right. this is what the national security advisor saying. the united states will safeguard those who fought alongside u.s. troops to help fight isis and fight other terrorist organizations. that s essentially the kurds there. the u.s. considers them an ally. the turkish government said those kurdish force are the terrorist organization, the national security advisor will be meet with the turkish president in week. a spokesperson for the president, to argue that a terrorist organization represents kurds is above all disrespectful to our kurdish brothers. there s no doubt that a terror group cannot be a ally of the u.s. atop of these discussions the wall street journal reporting that the turkish government is requesting substantial aid from the united states. they want help from the u.s. to
problem. shepard: the other possibility these people are talking about, national security types, the russians see all these passports and travel and he s on train he has all these people online. then there be a tit for tat trade. that s fortunate for paul. as odd i know it looks to anybody who doesn t have as many passports or even more than one. it means now that not only when the american embassy met with him last wednesday, which was just relief to know that he was alive, going forward, americans will be coordinating with the british embassy with the canadians and soon with the irish and really providing leadership to make sure that
friends were russian. shepard: reading about it from reports from our government and otherwise, he had social network with all kinds of russian involvement since for the last decade. he s been traveling to russia repeatedly and doing so by train while working off the passports of four different countries. , ireland, united states, canada and the united kingdom. i m not sure he traveled on all of those passports to russia. i know he s been to russia many times. shepard: for what? our family is immigrated multiple times. my father immigrated to new england and my parents immigrated from england to canada. we started out with two passports. when he moved to america and became an american to become a marine, that was number three.
national emergency. just read the papers. we have a crises at the border of drugs, human beings being traffic all over the world. they don t like concrete, we ll give them steel. steel is fine. steel is actually more expensive than concrete. it will look beautiful and it s strong. reporter: the democrats pushing back against the president s idea declaring national emergency. congressman castro and jared nadler holding a press conference. we would certainly oppose any attempt by the president to make himself a king and a tyrant by saying they can appropriate money without congress. that is perhaps, the most dangerous thing he is talking about since he became president. reporter: lot of moving pieces. only thing that s clear is both sides got their heels firmly dug in. shepard: there s a travel more on the travel plan to the southern border. lot of his supporters have been
shepard: phil keating live, thanks. as partial government shutdown drags on, thousands of transportation security administration employees continue work without getting any pay at our nation s airport. trase gallagher reporting. reporter: nationwidnationwide are about 52,000 airport employees. t.s.a. workers make about $40,000 a year. many are paycheck to paycheck employees and no end to the partial shutdown. lot of them are scrambling to pay the bills. there s a lot of anxiety out there amongst the workforce. really we aren t sure what will happen. reporter: as a result, lot of t.s.a. workers have admitted looking for outside work and calling out sick. it s being dubbed the blue flu.