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ROBINSON: "Yeah, it’s amazing. There’s this fight going on, and as you and Jim VandeHei pointed out, both Republicans and Democrats for their own good reasons are more dug in than ever apparently. Yet there’s a shutdown going on. There’s real impact on real people. Some of them are my neighbors here in the Washington area, but not just in Washington but in places look Alaska where there’s a large percentage of federal workers and Montana and places like that. Across the country this is having an impact. It’s not just federal workers, it's contractors as well, people who work on contracts or work for firms who work on contracts with the federal government who are having the economic impact. I don’t see how this gets resolved until the broader public feels more of a direct impact. And that can happen, for example, in air travel. There are a lot of TSA agents who are simply not going to be able to continue to work without pay for that much longer. They’re just not going to be able to. They don’t make that much money. They have to put food on the table. And in an economy that is basically at full employment, they’re going to have to go out and look for other jobs. The air traffic controllers, they make more money, but they direct the pilots in the sky. There can be lots of disruption in something like air travel that could concentrate the minds of our elected representatives and maybe get this thing ended."