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Morning Run with Amy and T.J.

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Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to Morning Run.

It is Thursday, November 13th.

I'm Amy Robach.

And I'm T.J. Holmes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Not to our members of Congress, but to the 730,000 folks out there, robes who have been working for the past, 43 days, unpaid, missing paychecks, and they kept the country going.

Yes. Thank God for them. We need them. We count on them. We rely on them.

And they've been treated terribly over the past month and a few days. Yes. 730,000 federal

workers considered essential have been continuing to come to work. And Rose, they are the heroes

in this. There's nobody in Washington who should take credit. We did the right thing Rose, they are the heroes in this. There's nobody in Washington

who should take credit. We did the right thing. These folks are the heroes who, whether it's TSA,

VA, Medicare, all those folks had to keep going. Those things have to keep running. Air traffic

controllers kept us in the air. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Yeah, almost six weeks, six weeks without pay. That is something

that most people cannot afford, and yet they had to figure out how to do it. You know what?

You're not getting paid doing some of the most important work in the federal government in air traffic

controller. You don't want, I would have donated. This is one thing you want to donate.

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