Ryan Knudson

Coming up on the show, how deportation officers ended up staffing America's airports.

The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, was founded after 9-11 to centralize airport security under one agency, instead of leaving it up to the airlines or private contractors.

It was meant to make airports safer, but the change also made airport security more vulnerable to political infighting.

Now, every time there's a government shutdown, the TSA is affected.

The last shutdown lasted 43 days and ended in November.

Then, in January, after ICE officers killed two American citizens in Minneapolis, Democrats used a different budget deadline to pick another fight over government funding, this time specifically related to the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS oversees ICE.

And so what is it specifically that Democrats are demanding?

— After the policy became public, a DHS spokeswoman said that people targeted under this policy, quote, have had full due process and a final order of removal from an immigration judge.

Without funding for DHS, TSA agents stopped receiving paychecks in late February.

And earlier this month, many of them stopped showing up for work.

That's how you end up with all those videos of airport lines stretching all the way out to the parking lot and people having to wait up to eight hours to make it to their gates.

So can you tell me the story of how this idea to send in ICE came about?

It started last Friday when a woman named Linda from Arizona called into a talk show hosted by a radio host named Clay Travis.

Linda had an idea.

We need to bring in ICE agents and fill in... Clay Travis thought it was a great idea, and he started sharing it more widely.

In a scrum with reporters, Trump said sending in ICE was his idea.

Mine.

The idea was so simple, he said, that it reminded him of the story of the paperclip.

But hold on a second, though.