Well, I'm headed over the White House as soon as I finish this interview, and we'll be talking with the team. The president, as you know, has bent over backwards through this entire ordeal. In the longest shutdown in US History, he worked around the clock every day to mitigate the pain, to reduce the pain as much as possible for the people. (02:16–02:21)
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Asserts that the president made significant efforts to mitigate the shutdown's impact.
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