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Mitch McCann: US Correspondent on the Government shutting down · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Rick mccanzo, US correspondent. Let's rock into the show. Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, How are you very well? Thank you. How's
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  Speaker 1: that shutdown going?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve hours into the shutdown here in the United
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  Speaker 2: States and no sign of Democrats and Republicans coming together. Essentially,
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  Speaker 2: the shutdown is when the government has to pass a
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  Speaker 2: spending bill in terms of decigning what they're going to
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  Speaker 2: spend their money on for the next four to twelve months,
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  Speaker 2: and they haven't been able to come to agreement. That's
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  Speaker 2: because they need sixty They need sixty votes in the
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  Speaker 2: Senate for this to happen, but it hasn't been agreed upon.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that they can't agree to something here
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  Speaker 2: is because Democrats are arguing before they sign on to
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  Speaker 2: a spending bill, they need guarantees around tax credits so
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  Speaker 2: more Americans can afford healthcare, but Republicans saying that's something
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  Speaker 2: that needs to be debated later in the year, and
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  Speaker 2: they're really going on the attack blaming the Democrats for this.
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  Speaker 2: But at this stage, the prediction markets, Ryan expect this
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  Speaker 2: to go on for about eleven to twelve days. So
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime, park rangers aren't being paid TSA airports
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  Speaker 2: aren't being paid, but they are expected to turn up
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  Speaker 2: to work for free.
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  Speaker 1: And there are, as you say, some who have to
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  Speaker 1: work who are essential and don't get paid. Others don't
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  Speaker 1: get paid but don't have to go to work. The
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  Speaker 1: last one I think under Trump was thirty four days long,
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  Speaker 1: so this looks like it'd be a bit shorter, which
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  Speaker 1: is a good thing. Hey, what's going on with this
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  Speaker 1: New York high rise collapse? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: This is bizarre. This is a twenty story public housing
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  Speaker 2: building that's in the Bronx here in New York, and
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  Speaker 2: it partially collapsed this morning as if half the building
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  Speaker 2: has fallen off. It turned out it was related to
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  Speaker 2: a chimney explosion. Inside this building, three four hundred people live,
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  Speaker 2: so you can imagine how big it is. And according
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  Speaker 2: to reports, not one person has been injured in this
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  Speaker 2: building partially collapsing. Miraculous, but you can bet there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a long into investigation into what exactly happened here.
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  Speaker 1: Mtch appreciate your time. Mitch McCann, our US correspondent.
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