Benny Johnson

We're going to go that we got a lot of things we're going to juggle.

But we do have a cold open, a lot to go through in news today.

I'm going to separate out and bifurcate the Bolton situation because so special.

But let's go ahead.

I'm a play a cold open.

If the president starts in the oval, we're going to jump right to that.

But let's go ahead and try to start the show.

It's been long hours.

You know, I don't think so, Katie.

And the reason I say that and, you know, let me acknowledge right up front that this shutdown is causing an awful lot of people an awful lot of pain.

The day it began, I went up to the airport at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, to see off 500 Connecticut National Guardsmen who were deploying to the Middle East.

These are not wealthy people.

Right.

And they are not going to get paid on October 15th.

So this is.

This is causing a huge amount of pain.

But in terms of whether it causes us to buckle, wait till the pain of not addressing the expiring Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act subsidies come out.

This is going to double and triple people's premiums.

And most importantly, again, in a democracy, what people think matters, the reality is, and I hate to talk about this in political terms because we're talking about a lot of real pain here, the reality is that all of the polling indicates that the American people understand in vast majorities that when the Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House, that this is not the Democrats' fault.

So, yes, this is going to create a lot of pain when federal workers get fired, but I can tell you who it's going to come back around to, and that's Russ Vogt and his boss, and that is going to