relief agency you mention the great smoky mountains i want to get on to the hurricane relief or to recall of course still suffering apparently your telephone may have raised about nine million dollars for for the twenty sixteen great smoky mountains wildfire yes it did actually that number is world wide is up to like twelve million now and then all the money that we raised for that has gone to the bar victims and i we are back in business now we did not burn down our beautiful gatlinburg really done some damage there mainly out in people's homes and in rural areas but it was a horrible horrible thing and i had so many country artists or many artists from all over the world in different genres of music performing or making donations or both and a lot of people have been pull that together so it was my duty to do that because i am from the smokey mountains it just so happened that everything kind of failed or it could be done in the right and the timing was really well done well for that i mean i was lucky and fortunate we just got off tour when that happened that we were on our last days s

tourist season, so all the little businesses who make their living off tourists coming to the great smoky mountains to see the colors, they lost a lot of their livelihood. military people weren't paid. the taxpayers lost hundreds of millions of dollars because we republicans shut the government down in 2013. president obama said i won't negotiate with anybody over any issue when they use as a bargaining chip shutting the government down. he stuck to his guns and we capitulated in two weeks, and we got the blame for it, and we deserved it. we deserved it. we were not sent here to shut the government down. we were sent here to make the government work for taxpayers. now who's shutting the government down? it's obvious who's shutting the government down. the republican house passed a continuing resolution to keep the government open. more than 50 senators last night, including almost all republicans and 5 democrats, voted to keep the government open. the president has said he would sign the continuing resolution to keep the government open. the democrats are closing down the government because they wa