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Shutdown hits day 19 in U.S · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: This morning, growing anxiety across America as the government shut
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  Speaker 1: down stretches into its fourth week, officials warning forty two
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  Speaker 1: million Americans could lose their food stamp benefits in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: With SNAP on track to run out of funding, food
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  Speaker 1: banks across the country preparing for a surge and demand.
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  Speaker 1: The President ramping up pressure on Democrats, already freezing billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars in infrastructure projects in blue states and threatening
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  Speaker 1: to slash programs.
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  Speaker 2: We're cutting Democrat programs that we didn't want, you know, giveaways,
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  Speaker 2: welfare programs, et cetera, and we're doing that, and we're
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  Speaker 2: cutting them permanently.
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  Speaker 1: More than seven hundred and fifty thousand federal workers for load,
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  Speaker 1: more than four thousand fired. But the White House says
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  Speaker 1: some including military troops, FBI agents, and DHS officers, will
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  Speaker 1: get paid.
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  Speaker 3: We are the people that we want paid paid, okay,
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  Speaker 3: and we want the FBI paid.
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  Speaker 2: We want the military paid.
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  Speaker 1: But thousands of other federal workers, like air traffic controller
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  Speaker 1: Mike Christine, who's also a union representative, are going without pay.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about it while you're at work with your
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  Speaker 4: coworkers and just figuring out, you know, where can I
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  Speaker 4: find a zero interest loan or am I going to
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  Speaker 4: have to get a side gig?
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  Speaker 1: At what point does this actually impact safety in disguis.
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  Speaker 4: Every day it goes on, You know, a distraction turns
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  Speaker 4: into a hazard. You throw the headset on. You're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to forget everything that happened at home, but when you're
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  Speaker 4: starting to think about I can't even pay the mortgage, like,
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  Speaker 4: what are we going to tell it's it's it's very,
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  Speaker 4: very frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: But on Capitol Hill a stalemate, Democrats holding firm on
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  Speaker 1: their demand two extend expiring Obama care subsidies. Part of
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  Speaker 1: the problem is that House Republicans on nowhere to be found,
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  Speaker 1: literally have been on vacation for three consecutive weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: you heard what the House minority leaders said there, and
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  Speaker 1: the House is again out all next week as talks
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate are at a standstill. So Republicans are
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  Speaker 1: saying they will not negotiate on healthcare when the government
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  Speaker 1: is shut down. But what that means is that thousands
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  Speaker 1: of federal workers are wondering when they'll get their next paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: Yet members of Congress, guys are still getting paid.
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  Speaker 2: Jay they certainly are still getting paid, Selenoying, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much. Now let's bring in Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Carl,
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  Speaker 2: who will be hosting This Week later this morning, to
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  Speaker 2: talk about all of this. John, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to us about this government shutdown. Is there any
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  Speaker 2: ending in sight as we are leading up to day twenty?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, Jennay, no, I don't see any sign
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  Speaker 3: of even serious negotiations going underway. The Republicans seem to
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  Speaker 3: have calculated that the Democrats are feeling the pain from
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  Speaker 3: this and that they'll pay the political price because they
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  Speaker 3: voted against the temporary funding bill. The Democrats are getting
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  Speaker 3: a lot of positive reinforcement from rank and file Democrats
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  Speaker 3: across the country who are looking for the party leaders
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  Speaker 3: to show a fight against Donald Trump. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: see any real signs of this. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll be talking to, of course, the Speaker of
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  Speaker 3: the House exclusively this morning, and also Hakim Jeffrey is
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic leader. The House is not in session, the
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  Speaker 3: House is closed for business, there are no hearings, there
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  Speaker 3: are no votes, that nothing is happening in the House.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll talk to both of them about that there's
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  Speaker 3: not even you know, talk about no movement at all.
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  Speaker 3: They're literally not in session.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's so striking because they are still getting paid,
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  Speaker 2: as other federal workers have to go to work and
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  Speaker 2: are not getting paid. John, Let's also turn to the
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  Speaker 2: war in Ukraine. President Zelenski he walked away from his
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  Speaker 2: meeting with President Trump empty handed, Trump calling for both
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  Speaker 2: sides to lay down arms immediately talk to us about
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  Speaker 2: the fallout.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we saw part of this on you know,
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  Speaker 3: play out in front of the television cameras as they
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  Speaker 3: sat down to for launch. Zelensky, Trump and their various teams.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was a pretty well meeting affair compared
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  Speaker 3: to what happened in February when you had that blow
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  Speaker 3: up in the Oval Office. But I'm told that the
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  Speaker 3: second meeting, which was without television cameras that took place
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  Speaker 3: in the Oval Office, really was was quite tense. Not
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  Speaker 3: quite what we saw in February. But Zelensky came here
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  Speaker 3: with one major goal, and that is to get more
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  Speaker 3: advanced weapons from the United States, including those Tomahawk missiles,
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  Speaker 3: so we could bring the fight to the Russians on
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  Speaker 3: Russian territory to try to, you know, to try to
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  Speaker 3: have some more progress against the Russians, and he came
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  Speaker 3: away with absolutely nothing. Of course, President Trump says he's
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  Speaker 3: going to meet with Vladimir Putin and Hungary. He said,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps sometime in two weeks. We'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, Zelensky is not going to be at that meeting.
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  Speaker 3: So once again Zelensky, he seems to be facing this
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  Speaker 3: without significant American support and not getting the support that
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  Speaker 3: he really said he needed and thought he had a
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  Speaker 3: good chance of getting in this meeting with Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as the fighting continues. Jean Carl, we appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: being with us and make sure to tune into this
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  Speaker 2: week later. John as he mentioned, has exclusive interviews with
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  Speaker 2: House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries.