This is a script for a Nov. 9 segment of the show “Velshi.” You can watch the aired segment here.

Good morning to you. It is Sunday, November the 9th.

Right now in the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, senators are awaiting a new version of Republicans’ temporary stopgap funding bill that would run for slightly longer than the one that they voted down 14 times already.

And given that the new bill has no provisions to protect Affordable Care Act subsidies, as Democrats have demanded, it's as unlikely to pass as the rest.

Now, no votes are scheduled for today, but the Senate will be in session around 1:30 ET should the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, decide to call for a vote.

When asked about his level of optimism on finding a solution, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas said, “None. None at all. I mean, I'm almost speechless. What's not been said?”

That's a rhetorical question that the President would like to answer. Trump has pushed harder and harder for Republicans to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate, and with it, the 60 vote threshold for a funding bill in order to force the reopening of the government with a simple majority of senators, which Republicans have.

After suggesting it at a breakfast alongside GOP senators on Wednesday, Trump has posted on Truth Social about “nuking” or “blowing up” the filibuster 13 separate times, including last night, when he wrote in part, “The Republicans must blow up the filibuster and approve hundreds of long sought but never gotten policy win, wins like as just a small example, voter ID identification, only a loser would not agree to doing this.”

Now, the filibuster is a tool to block legislation. It allows a single senator to hold up debate until 60 senators vote to override them. Both parties have members who would do away with the filibuster to make it easier to pass substantial legislation, but both parties also have members who fear the consequences of not having that filibuster when they're not in the majority.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Wednesday, “It's just not happening.”

So the government remains shut down, in part.

While whole agencies halt their crucial work, and Americans feel the consequences in their homes, in airports and in food banks. The Trump administration is using the shutdown to bifurcate the government into two groups, the haves and the have-nots.

Let's start with the have-nots. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, at least 670,000 federal employees have been furloughed, meaning they're not working. Roughly 730,000 continue to work without pay. They are expected to receive back pay, but the administration has been non committal on whether the furloughed employees would also receive back pay.

The Bipartisan Policy Center goes on in their analysis. “If the shutdown continues through December 1, roughly 4.5 million paychecks will be withheld from federal civilian employees, representing approximately $21 billion in missing wages on Friday.”

FAA mandated reductions in flights took place at 40 US airports. The latest tallies from FlightAware indicate that more than 5000 flights have been delayed, 1100 flights canceled, amounting to about 4% reduction in flights. That number is expected to go up day by day.

Yesterday, Nashville International Airport grounded all planes for four hours due to staffing shortages.

Newark and Atlanta both saw five hour delays.

More shut down have nots are the 42 million Americans who receive funding to buy food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP. On Thursday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund snap immediately.

By Friday, the administration appealed directly to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request for a stay, so SNAP is not fully funded for now. Some states have disbursed SNAP payments. But millions of Americans who receive food assistance have not received their monthly benefits, which are about $6.17 per person per day, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

So the hungry wait in limbo, but there are agents of the state operating undisturbed by the shutdown.

The President announced that the Pentagon intends to use a $130 million private donation to pay troops. Initially an anonymous donation, later reported to be from the billionaire heir to the Mellon Foundation, Timothy Mellon.

The administration has said immigration enforcement will remain unchanged, and they've largely meant it. ICE continues to arrest migrants, and the government is still issuing contracts to detention facilities.

But as the Washington Post reported, one casualty of the shutdown within ICE is an oversight board tasked with inspecting detention centers to make sure they meet safety and health standards.

We did a series on this show when Donald Trump was running for president last year called “Believe Him the First Time” to make the point that he is someone who tells you what his intentions are all the time. And right at the outside of the shut shut down, President Trump said this in the Oval Office:

TRUMP: We have the people that we want paid, paid. Okay? And we want the FBI paid. We want the military paid. We got the people that we want paid.

Believe him.