nothing else other than that safety in the same with food inspections fred and that also goes for u.s.d.a. which of course is shut down i don't know if it's the packers and stockyards but how about inspections at u.s.d.a. for a. these guys once again are not being paid and we are not talking about high paid employees and somebody at the u.s.d.a. is typically making about thirty one thousand maybe the high and is fifty thousand as a meat or poultry or a lamb inspector i mean this is a storied agency in our country bart been around for more than one hundred years and now as we're moving forward with no end in sight perhaps the motto should be let's make america sick again let's make america polluted again because we are no longer being screened for the pathogens and the people who are supposed to be doing this aren't being paid and it's what we're playing with disaster i mean we're talking about a very large numbers of people being affected by pathogens and contamination and possible feces and all sorts of really on the savory stuff we don't want to think about and. you know let's make dinn

at u.s.d.a. and at home land that they split and i'm familiar with these things travelers may notice what we call the beagle brigade those cute little dogs at the border sniffing your packages when you're coming coming in but they're more than just cute they're really important what about a spread. well these are the guys at customs if you're going in or out of the country of course you have to declare your plants you have to declare your animals and again these guys are not being paid they're by they're there they're now just by their own good well so for instance what we're seeing is in our new global economy and everything plants and animals moving around the world with great alacrity and with all sorts of pathogens we see an outbreak of let's say swine flu this happens quite often it happens in poland right now where twenty thousand pigs must be killed so this is a once again we are playing with fire. people like scott gottlieb who's the head of the f.d.a. now need to really be called out we

york times and the washington post you know they really are national newspapers now but you know u.s.d.a. today is a national newspaper how many subscriptions are people going to buy is there room in the sandbox for usa today digital along with everybody else i won't go back what maybe ten years every newspaper was watching the new york times model will give you x. number of stories for free before we need y. dollars for you to get more and they've been tweaking that i love the wall street journal model as a subscriber but the newspapers are going through what broadcasters are going through where we are following the consumer to the digital platform and we're swapping analog dollars for digital dimes when it comes to advertising it's a panch and we're pretty much into the death spiral i guess but how great to have you guys to talk with us marco so let's go to holland thank you margot thank you thank you holland. a few days ago we told you about how china had landed on the far side of the moon but there's a heck of a. a lot more going on including china looking to launch their own version

the u.s.d.a.s it will decide later whether to extend the deadline the partial shutdown is also temporarily stopping private companies from moving forward with an initial public offing, or ipo, this month. that's where a privately held company starts selling stock toe other ors. but companies must get guidance and advice from the securities and exchange commission before going public. with the s.e.c. at minimal staff, those deals will have to wait, and companies may miss filing deaines. and that brings us to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks.to helloth of you. so topic a, david, is what we were just talking about, the showdown, the government remainm governmentains closed, the democrats and the white house don't seem to agree. i mean, here we are. what are we, now two weeks into this. what are we learninout our leaders? >> well, i've talked myself int deranged by minimal optimism. (laughter) i think there's a --

the u.s.d.a.'smm ity offices are closed and for home buyers in that programu their ion is in limbo. we've also been listening to the voices of federal workers who aren't getting paid. tonight, let's meet sara, who asked us not to use her full name because of potential orpercussions. she's a contractr for a federal agency and paid by the hour. she's not working during the shutdown, and after theve ment reopens, she may not receive back pay. her husband a furloughed federal employee at the same agency. >> so since my husband and i are both federal employees and nno working righwe've put off dental work, we've put off car repairs for this month because we want to make sure what money we have stretches when there are frightening headlines like that it could go on for months or years. that's scary stuff, but honestly, the way i think that it really affects you the most it gets in your head that your job isn't important and you're non essential that you only matter as a political pawn and doesn't feel v

which accredits zoos, but they are licensed with the u.s.d.a. under the animal welfare act.nifer ireland of the north carolina zoo in asheboro says protocols are in place there to ensure security. >> when we work with dangerous animals, such as lions, we always have two people makingree locked, that all the proper doors are closed, and that all the people are accounted for before we move animals into spaces or before we enter any space that an animal was just in. >> reporter: the center houses 80 animals, including 14 other african lions. tonight it is closed indefinitely pending that internal investigation. its workers shattered by grief. vlad. >> duthiers: all right, janet, thank you very much. the state department today said it expects russia to provide access to an american citizen arrested in moscow. he is charged with espionage. here is barry petersen. >> reporter: under the splendor of the kremlin, russian president vladimir putin tonight wished for a happy new area, but maybe not so happy for u.s. y arreed an american in moscow." acclaimed he was "on a spy mission,"

comes to specifically to the big agricultural commodities like corn soybeans and wheat there is no u.s.d.a. was the reports that's the world agricultural supply and demand estimates report which is really the gold standard for the fundamentals of those market and andy are the real quick to interrupt me those reports are reports that are really particularly important at this time of year when farmers producers are getting ready to make some planting decisions where do they invest do they buy corn to they buy soybeans and what are they put in the ground and they can't make those decisions because of the partial government shutdown we're out of time now in the i'm so sorry but i hope you'll come back soon because we've got lots more to get to that's andy act thank you so much great to see oh sorry we're short on time andy. thanks bart pre-shared it. there is earnings and more news from some major companies out until we take a closer look and we help get the help of adam mesh of adam mesh trading adam with so great to have you first of all let's take a look at comcast they beat expectations by

a lot of things -- who knew -- including, food stamps, subsidized school lunches the e.p.a., the u.s.d.a., and the smithsonian and national zoo. and you can tell they're upset about it if you look at the national zoo's panda cam. ( laughter )es he some sympathy for the plight of unpaid federal workers. >> i can relate, and i'm sure the people on the receiving end will make adjustment. they always do. they will make adjustment. >> stephen: yes, i agree. adjustments must be made. starting in november of 2020. ( cheering ) and trump argued that federal workers want him to deny them paychecks. >> i really believe that these people-- many of the people that we're talking about, many of the people you're discussing-- i really believe that they agree lookedt those people, i thinthep going." >> stephen: (as trump) "they'd also say: 'mr president, you are so big and handsome. your father loved you. have a third slice of cake." "i really believe that." ( laughter ) ( applause ) but they're not leaving federal workers high and dry. the office of personnel management suggests the cash-strapped worke

additional, with so many u.s.d.a.ces closed around the country, farmers cannot get the loans they may need to pay bills or mortgages, or the money season ahead.plant crops for the and they aren't getting the critical data they useo plan ahead. joe schroeder is an advocate for farmers in need. he works for farm aid, the group foundd by willie nelson that supports family farmers and may be best known foputting on benefit concerts. joe schroeder, thanks so much for joining us. we touched on some of the ways in the introduction but help us understand the many ways that farmers are affected by this government shut down. >> yes. so us is essentially the government entity that's set up to deal with all of the issues the farmers have that the private sectors doesn't manage well. loans for farmers and diary farmers in particular. edose folks are going to be significantly impas well as a host of other farmers accessing other usda programs like insurance and other things like that. >> can you share with us some of the stories yo

reporter: while he was speaking, the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer tweeted this he said, u.s.d.ay out aid in the trump shutdown. farmers can't get loans. mr. president, if you want to help, reopen the government. meanwhile, the economic toll is rising s&p puts it at 1.2 billion off gdp each week and may not account that in the 2013 shutdown the u.s. didn't provide export certification for beer, wine and spirits i call that an unhappy hour. back over to you >> always good on the word play. thank you very much. >>> now, nearly one third of the u.s. national parks have been closed due to the shutdown this causing colombia sportswear to take out a first-ever political ad which ran friday saying make america's parks open again and saying walls shouldn't block access to parks and federal workers shouldn't be left out in the cold work together to open our parks. >> ceo tim boyle joining us now. welcome, tim nice to see you. >> thank you great to be with you thank you very much. >> why did you decide to do this >> well, these parks -- listen we are not running for office in any way here