00:00To the American people who are watching, the reason your government is shut down at this very minute is because, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans and even a few moderate Democrats supported opening the government, the Chuck Schumer AOC wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us, we will open the government, but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal aliens. That's a ridiculous proposition.
00:25You guys say illegal immigrants are getting taxpayer funded health care. Democrats say you're lying. That makes it feel like it could be a really long shutdown. Is this going to be a long shutdown?
00:37I don't know. I can't predict what congressional Democrats are going to do, Peter, but I actually don't think it's going to be that long of a shutdown. This is a pure guess from the vice president of the United States because I think you already saw some evidence that moderate Democrats are cracking a little bit. They understand the fundamental illogic of this.
00:53Yesterday, President Trump said, as a result of the shutdown, we'll be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected and the Democrats, they are going to be Democrats.
01:03Has the administration asked agencies to target federal workers who they believe to be Democrats in these reductions of forces?
01:11We're not targeting federal agencies based on politics. We're targeting the people's government so that as much as possible of the essential services can continue to function.
01:21That is the question the president has asked the entire government is fundamentally, OK, we're in a shutdown. That causes some problems. The troops aren't getting paid.
01:29There's nothing that we can do about that while the government is shut down. But there are essential services that we want to make sure as much as possible, they still continue to function.
01:38That is the principle that's driving us forward during the shutdown. It's going to be continue to be the principle that drives us forward.
01:44But let's be honest, if this thing drags on for another few days or, God forbid, another few weeks, we are going to have to lay people off.
01:50We're going to have to save money in some places so the essential services don't get turned off in other places.
01:56That is the reality of the government shutdown that Chuck Schumer and Democrats have foisted upon the administration.
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