country, they believe they have a job to do. as far as responding. they don't know what he will respond to. welcome to prime time. repeating lies is a very effective way to sell them. he doesn't get checked every time he says something that's untrue. right now especially, he must. the only thing worse than this president's inaction is his active deception about the reality and this statement from the president of the united states is a lie. >> a pandemic which is disappearing, he's going to disappear. recent cases are up because we're doing -- one of the reasons, we're doing a lot of testing.

>> the only thing that has disappeared is his correct on this issue. please know that this is the truth. if you don't socially distance. if you don't wear a mask when you can't socially distance, if you don't practice good hygiene in and outside your house this virus will not slow down, let alone go away. believe me. i learned this the hard way, i do not want you to go through what i and my family went through. take no comfort in his words. we have cases because we are mismanaging the situation. the proof? look at hospitalizations. why are they going up in so many places if it's just about testing? this is not about counting, it's about contagion. it is what it is, mr. president. a pandemic and it will keep

beating us until we get rapid testing everywhere we need it. don't waste our time on these lies. tell us you get this. tell us that you will get rapid testing like they did in the u.k., better than that. make that your message. not this misinformation. your inaction on a testing plan is killing us. the cdc predicts almost 1,000 of us will die a day on average within the next three weeks. it doesn't have to be like this. instead of dealing with the situation for what it is, he's trying to distract you with fake news. not on our watch. this ugly deception that he wants you to think he's about to do a big move to help you is going to do a big move. he says he's pursuing an

executive order, okay? this was the news today. trump says he's pursuing executive order to require all health insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and says, this has never been done before. listen, i'm not making it up. >> we will be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all of its customers. this has never been done before. >> have you no shame? now, he happens to be right, we can find no record of a president ever doing this before, lying to this degree to you, about your existing legal rights. pre-existing condition protections currently exist in obamacare. the law of the land for now. why do i say that? to make this worse, not only is he lying to you about giving you

something you already have, he's actively trying to take it away. he's suing right now to try to overturn the aca, obamacare. that would get rid of the pre-existing condition that he wants to take away. it's not just him, he was reading those words. whoever you are, how could you even write that, you know it's a lie. . he needs to take that b.s. to thailand, go bury it in yosemite park. he can't speak the truth, he can't say words the right way, let alone tell you what they mean. and he lies about what matters most. this isn't i'm the best president this is the best tax package ever, that's politics. this is a breach of sacred trust to protect people.

trying to sell you on a false reality so you send your kids to schools that can't count cases. deceiving you, wanting you to believe that kids are almost immune. every statistic shows kids are built to handle this. it's a lie. and it's a dangerous lie. who lies about kids? the country tragically just lost a beautiful 7-year-old boy in georgia, with no underlying health conditions. we have more about that in a moment. but of course you have a right to be scared as parents. my wife and i are worried. these hybrid plans seem like the worst of both worlds. of course the data shows it hits adults harder than kids.

it doesn't mean they're immune. parents morning their own child? and they're not the first. people have lost kids to covid. kids have gotten very sick, kidses are making other people very sick. see this picture? this is out of georgia also. their governor bent over backwards to have president trump say, they're good, they're reopening early. i don't blame the kids. what do you think they're going to do? if you tell them things are normal they'll act as if things are normal. they're not wearing masks. don't blame them, blame us. that's why so many of us are unsure about whether they want to send their kids back to school for inperson learning. i want to, but i'm not exposing my kids to that. >> what about the teachers, the staff, the family at home of those kids. the kid who took this picture

got suspended for it. not supposed to use your phone. oh, really? and what about the reality they captured. on prime time you get rewarded for exposing the truth. it was good trouble this person got in. and you will hear her story. why? i don't want any of our kids to have to be put in a position like this. we have a president who is encouraging it with lies and inaction. this would be okay if we could test those kids every damn day and get the results fast. he can make that happen and he isn't. at the opposite end of accountability and responsibility, you have my brother in new york. he has made a lot of difficult choices. he hasn't been perfect, nobody is. he was able to say today that all school districts are cleared to reopen. but not to throw water on my

brother's own parade. he didn't open the schools. this is going to be very case by case. i don't know if i have comfort having my kid go back to school. he said, they are all eligible to be open. there's no blanket restriction. it's going to be community by community. there are requirements they will have to meet. districts are going to have to submit their plans. masks are going to be warn at all times if you can't socially distance. remember, new york got its ass kicked by covid. we were where you didn't want to be. and now, even though it had everything going against it, travel hub, tons of density, more people in need than it had requirements to meet them. didn't have a lot of money in the budget for this. now every region is well below its infection limit. and if infection rates spike, before scheduled reopenings the governor says he's going to have

to revisit things. he better, right? the whole point is for us to be healthy. i think his decision today comes with risks. no question about it. let's talk about the realities here, okay? i believe with staying with sources that i know i can trust so that what they tell you is worth acting on and that's why i have infectious disease specialist with vanderbilt university on the show as often as i do. i know his credentials, i tracked him over time on this. nobody knows everything. he asks the right questions and he's worried about the right things. thank you for being a gift to the audience and to me when i was sick during this time. >> good to be with you, chris, here's a reality, it may be three hours early, but congratulations on entering the second half century of your life's adventure. happy birthday, pal.

>> there will have to be better scientists than you to keep me alive for another 50 years, but thank you very much. this is an easy fact check. pre-existing condition protection exists now in the law. he's fighting it in courts. he's not giving us anything with an executive order the way he says he is. is that the truth? >> it's the truth. i'm kind of baffled. maybe existing conditions need the protection of an executive order against members of his own party who want to repeal it. when i was an intern, i thought by now we would have universal health care for everyone. i have gray hair, we're not there yet. we certainly don't want to move backwards. >> in terms of opening schools. you see that picture down there in georgia. i don't blame the kids. if you tell them to go back, they're going to do what they normally do.

what is the obvious set of factors that pops out to you in this scenario in this type of proximity and population? >> well, we're all concerned, right? some places can be more confident than others. including your own state of new york, because you people have started as a hotspot and turned it into a cold spot. and the countries that have opened schools successfully, have been those where they have controlled the community spread. so then they can open the schools and even they have done it carefully. but across the country we have varying conditions in the communities for the most part, this virus is out of control. so i understand the anxiety of the parents. and we grandparents have a high schooler going back, someone going to college. we're worried about all that. >> one more question. is it true that the deciding factor in terms of what we can

control when it comes to school has to be rapid testing? the only way to control a population like that is to have very short interval turnaround on what's going on with that big of a population. you can't wait 7, 8 days. if you don't have rapid testing, you can't do it. >> that would be beautiful. they're doing that for the nfl, why can't we do it for the national scholastic league. that's what we would like to do. >> thank you very much. i'm telling you. i'm going to ask you about schools a lot going-forward. i see it as a metaphor for everything. our kids matter the most. you can't go to work if your kids going to be home. god forbid kids start getting sick? we haven't seen anything yet if it starts affecting our kids. >> thank you, chris. >> we all have a role in in this, and i am not going to let

the president say things that are dangerous and untrue, especially about our kids. because we cannot have the level of confidence he wants us to have. i want it, by the way, we all want it, i want to believe that my mario who had it already with the antibodies, he's going to be good. my two girls they haven't had it, i don't know what's going to happen to them. what if they catch a bad case? it happens. covid just claimed its youngest victim in georgia. we have the mayor of atlanta. she had covid, her family had covid, she's fighting the fight politically about it. what does she envision for schools moving forward there. is safety the top priority? what does that look like? and how is she doing by the way?

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anything bad to happen anywhere in this country or you shouldn't. but when you reopen without being smart, without putting safety first, you will have problems, it is an immutible truth in a pandemic. if you put people together in ways you can't count and you can't keep them safe, they're going to be sick opinion breaking news from georgia. another problem in another school district. this time it's cherokee county, just north of atlanta. it has only been a week. one week, 260 kids, 8 teachers have been told to quarantine because kids tested positive and the return on the test, there was a lag, and this is what happens. covid positivity rates are going up in major cities all across this country. you may be saying didn't i hear

this about georgia? you did, but it was a different county, it was gwinnett county. that was 200 something teachers and staff. this is a different group of 200 in a different county. and it's students. this is what you risk. the white house task force coordinator warned in a private call with state and local officials this week, that nine cities in particular are on their radar. you can see that includes atlanta, where the mayor is in a legal face-off with the governor over mask mandates. can you believe that anyone in charge still has a problem with telling people to wear masks if they can't socially distance? governor kemp is against them. even when it comes to schools. that is a smart idea to one person, trump. he says it should be up to local

officials. why give them the choice on something like this? it can only help. this is what we all saw. this is what happens, when you leave it to them. you leave it to people, there's risk, and here's the reality. kids cramming a hallway, i don't see any masks in the picture. and remember, i know the president told you it's going to disappear. he's lying, i know he told you kids are basically immune, he's lying. kids get sick, just not as much as we do. but over the age of 10, they can be as contagious as we can. why did a 7-year-old boy have to die in georgia just this week? no underlying conditions? atlanta mayor keshia lance bottoms joins me right now. it's good to see you, but i'm very sad about these circumstances, mayor. that picture of that high school is scary. i don't know what the numbers are in that county, i don't know

why they felt this level of confidence, but i wouldn't put my kid in there, would you? >> chris, kids are kids. >> i don't blame the kids. go ahead, mayor. >> well, no, what i was going to say is, i was out with two of my kids yesterday, and i watched them fidget and take their mask on and off. there's only so much we can expect from kids. that's why as adults, we have to make sound decisions. and it's no surprise that we are where we are in this state. but when you look at those kids in the hallways and you look at the kids not wearing masks at school, think of every bus driver and custodian and cafeteria worker and teacher in that school who's also been exposed and it's frightening and terrifies me of where we will be two weeks from now. >> and they go home. they go home, who's at home. is mom diabetic, is grandma

there. is there an auntie around. do they have a kid brother or sister that has a vulnerability. when you said this to the governor, what was his state of rationale. it was gwinnett, now it's cherokee. what do you think is going to happen to. >> when we were back in the spring and decisions needed to be made as to whether or not school systems would close down. he deferred to local control. he's continuing to do that as to whether or not it relates to whether schools are opening. atlanta schools have decided to go the first nine weeks virtual only. which is the right decision. as it relates to masks, the governor wants to control who can and can't mandate masks in our city. we are in mediation with the governor right now, i'm encouraged by that mediation. he acknowledges that wearing

masks saves lives. but we now have to just iron out whether or not local jurisdictions will have the ability to mandate them. >> the local jurisdictions should be the ones suing. not the president on their behalf. forget about the law, this is practicality. you heard about this little boy in georgia, of course he's the exception, not the rule. the idea that kids are immune just isn't true. i know how worried you were about your own kids, i know how worried i was about mine. just because a doctor says they'll probably be better off. that's not very heartening especially when you hear about something like this. >> that was heart breaking. my twins are nine, and i shared before all of my kids have asthma. this child didn't have any underlying health conditions. it's frightening and frustrating that we are still here. our kids were -- left school in

march, mid school year, they left in march. we had the spring, we had the summer. and we're still in this same spot, but on many days we're even worse, our icu's are at capacity, we weren't at capac y capacity -- quite at capacity back in the spring, because we had shut things down, and people weren't out in traffic and having car accidents and many other issues that send them to the er. now we have businesses open as usual. we have schools open, on top of a pandemic. >> georgia's positivity rate exceeds 10%, therefore remains in the red zone. a federal designation for states with more than 100,000 residents. that's supposed to be a signal that you're slowing down, not celebrating. it is not easy to say you have to have kids at home for school. it screws up everything in the

household as you know. but that is leadership, because if they get sick, they'll never forget who put their kids in harm's way. i wish the best to your family and your husband. >> happy birthday to you. >> thank you very much. >> i don't look a day over 57. take care, mayor. thank you very much. that picture that we showed you, from the high school. we wouldn't have it if one of the students didn't feel she needed to show you this. and they wanted to suspend her. god bless congressman john lewis, he talked about good trouble. may not have been the thing that was by the letter of the law, it was the right thing to make this just. she's going to join us to talk about her school and her experience next.

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look, we all know schools are in a tough position. every parent wants their kid back in them. ideally. right? but all of us are checked by the same instinct. i have to keep my kids safe. they can't count the tests, they come back, it takes so long. that's why this photo is going viral. it captures our fear. as far as the eye can see, kids are all over each other and not a mask in sight. the picture was posted online by a concerned student after it exploded on social media, the school suspended her. they should be suspending themselves for allowing this. since then, the school backed off. that doesn't take the onus off of what they're allowing. this photo is the fear.

let's talk to the student who took the picture. hannah waters a sophomore at north paulding high school outside atlanta. good for you, young truth warrior. i know this came with some drama that you were worried about, but tell us when you saw the scene in your high school. tell us what you thought to do about it and why? >> i was very concerned for everyone in our building and everyone in our county. this is obviously nowhere near safe. and especially because there's been multiple people getting tested or multiple people getting tested inside the county from august 3rd when we opened back up. >> you took the picture, put it on social media. what was the response. >> i did not expect it to blow up so fast. i posted it after school hours. it was probably around 15

minutes after dismissal at the most. i want to say 10, 20 minutes after i posted it, i had multiple reporters asking the rights to the photo and the story behind it. >> make 'em pay. no, so what happened with the school, when they decided to come and take action, what was that like? how did that affect you and your parents? >> it was wednesday afternoon about noon, they pulled me out of class, and i knew what it was about. we talked about it, i wrote a statement, and they informed me that i broke three policies in the code of conduct and they gave me five days of out of school suspension. >> what did your parents say in. >> we fought it. my mom got the call when i was sitting in the principal's office, she -- the assistant principal referred her back to

the principal so she could talk to him about it? >> why did they relent? >> they referred her to the principal and he never called her, she called him twice, and never got a response and it wasn't until the next day where he said he would get back to her today. and earlier this morning at around 9:30 he called her and told them that he was sorry, he apologized and he deleted the suspension completely. >> so good for you. you called it good trouble in honor of john lewis, where sometimes you have to bend some of what they're telling you is right to show what's ultimately really right. good for you in having the bravery to do that. how do you feel about going back to school, if it's still that way? >> especially after that kid just died, the 7-year-old, it's

very upsetting that it's going to take people dying to get people's attention. because people shouldn't have to die for people to be worried about it. people shouldn't have to be risking their lives to go to work or school. even just to stay home, if your kid goes to school and comes home, you're going to catch it. you shouldn't have to risk your life going to and from work, the grocery store, and i just am very hopeful we can take more precautions going to work and school and everything of the sorts. >> how old are you? 15, 16? >> i'm 15. >> boy oh, boy to have a 15-year-old make sense in the way your own governor isn't is something. as a kid your age. how do you make sense of the adults around you not doing what seems like such common sense to you. like not making you wear a mask?

not changing how it is at school during class change periods like that, to suit an obvious need. how do you process that as a kid your age? >> i mostly know that even though these things aren't enforced, i know that what i'm doing is right, and i'm not only helping myself and the people at home, but i'm helping everyone around me and that motivates me to do it, because i have immunocompromised people at home, and i myself have had asthma since i was a kid. it helps motivate me to help my family and everyone around me. >> hannah, you are a brilliant demonstration of something they will never teach you at school. you have character and you took a risk, and you saw it through because you knew you were doing the right thing. you've given a window into the reality there that may change the reality. maybe not for the kids there,

you have stubborn people at the local level. maybe it will make others make different decisions for their kids in their schools. thank you, be healthy, god bless you and your family, say hello to them for us. and thank you for doing the interview. >> thank you for your time. >> all right, truth warrior, take care. great, 15, knows what's right in a way her own governor doesn't. that's an american right there. another huge concern, russia is doing what it does. you want to talk about it is what it is? they're coming at us just like all the intel people that trump put in power tell you. we know they're going to do it. how do we know? his intel people tell us. they briefed lawmakers. there is an effort afoot to derail biden's bid on behalf of trump. now, he says nobody's been tougher. show it. prove it.

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california's economic challenges are deepening. frontline workers stretched too thin. our nurses and medical professionals in a battle to save lives. our schools, in a struggle to safely reopen, needing money for masks and ppe, and to ensure social distancing. and the costs to our economy, to our state budget? mounting every day.

we need to provide revenues now, to solve the problems we know are coming. of course russia is trying to hurt america again by interfering in our election. we knew this is what they were going to do. congress was charged with finding ways to make it stop. frankly it faded a little too quickly. once it became not about trump and whether he would stay or go, really, the security of the process has not been an equal concern. yet here we are, months from an election. and according to our top election security official, russia is at it and surprised.

they're trying to denigrate joe biden's white house bid. the president of the united states responded this way moments ago. >> i think that the last person russia wants to see in office is donald trump, because nobody's been tougher on russia than i have, ever. >> that's not what -- >> well, i don't care what anybody says. >> that's the problem. you don't care what anybody says. because you're only focusing on what you think looks good for you. if they wanted you to be president. why would they go after your opponent. and who cares if they want you to be president, your job is to stop their efforts. let's get some perspective from the author of the best selling book, thank you for being late. tom friedman. good to see you, young man. >> good to be with you. >> so what is the obvious move

right now? >> well, you know, chris, i've been waiting for this move for a long time. if i were advising the president, the administration, i would simply tell him to call up putin and tell him the following. if we catch russia in anyway, in any place interfering in our election, between now and election day, we will throw out your ambassador, close your consulate and break off relations. if you attack our elections, you are attacking the most valuable thing we have. and frankly, we're happy to cut relations with you. all you make is vodka, carvier and nesting dollars. you are nothing but a third world country with nuclear weapons. we will never let you interfere in our elections ever again. which part of this sentence don't you understand. >> can we do that? can we stop them from interfering? and two, do they care about

those strong words. >> yeah, i think they would care if we closed their embassy, closed off economic contacts. what do we need skpek r economic contact contacts any more? we don't need to be buying his exports at all. they need us so much more than we need them. i don't know why we keep rolling over for this. i don't know why we don't pick up the new york times tomorrow and see all of vladimir putin's billions of dollars of hidden wealth displayed on the front pages of the new york times with every bank account. two can play at this game. why we sit back month after month year after year saying, why is russia doing this, they must be laughing at us. it's time to play hardball with them. >> what's the answer to your own question? why do you think trump, who always seems to be spoiling for a fight, just not with this guy.

i stand by the statement that helsinki was my most embarrassment moment as an american he believed putin about interference on the world stage. what do you come up with about why trump plays it this way? >> i don't know if putin has something financial on him or not. trump admires dictators. he admires powerful men. he knows to the extent putin is going to interphone, he wants trump re-elected because he sees him as a patsy. that's clear. we should understand what i believe russia will try to do in this election. not only whatever they can do to get trump re-elected. they will try to delegitimize the results. what russia would love to see is a chaotic american election, that delegitimizes democracy in the biggest and most important democracy in the world. that's what serves putin's

interest most. >> why do you think he sleeps on testing instead of embracing massive testing and pulling out progress right before the election? >> it's really inexplicable to me, chris, for a simple reason. it's the virus stupid. what i mean by that is, if the virus goes down, the economy comes back. if the virus goes down, kids go back to school. if the virus goes down, more restaurants get opened more places. it's always been about the virus. and why he doesn't make that the centerpiece of his policy. why he wouldn't make mask wearing a national law, because it would only serve the interests of our economy, our country and for him his chances of re-election is simply inexplicable to me. >> if i were to say right now, and i never would. unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions, the latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly

different attitudes about different things. if i were to say that, i would be apologizing for the next three days and that would be at home let alone on television. joe biden says something like that, how could people have confidence that his head is screwed on tighter than trump's? >> i really don't know, chris. i don't know where that comment came from. >> it came from his mouth. i'm asking why. >> which part of his brain. >> yeah, i really don't know, i couldn't answer. you know, the truth is, chris, that both biden and trump have a certain kind of teflon, each guy's teflon is different. trump's teflon is mud. the whole notion of a stain on donald trump is like an oxymoron. biden's teflon up until now, people think he's a decent person. when he says some kind of crazy stuff sometimes or stuff that

doesn't seem to add up, people give him the benefit of the doubt, because they think at heart he's a good and decent man. i don't think he should test that teflon much further, let's put it that way. >> i think the test for him is especially as a contrast to trump, if you don't believe this, tell me that. tell me -- here's what i was trying to say. and maybe i have this wrong, but my feeling is that -- whatever. the black community is -- tends to be more of a monolith politically and latino -- that's what it is. he has to do better than trump in these situations. can't double down on it, can't run away from it. he's got to explain to the people, because that's what we're craving. someone who's straight with us. tom friedman, you always are, you're part of my birthday gift as far as i'm concerned every time you come on. >> thank you very much. >> be well. russia is messing with our

election, and i don't know what we're doing about it. because instead of seeing some big effort mounted we seem to have our own president messing with us as well. messing with us on the pandemic. and messing with the u.s. postal service. it does seem like he's messing with them for his own benefit in the election. democrats are voicing concerns about certain changes at the usps. what are they and why? we have the ranking member of the senate committee which overseas the postal service. what is he upset about? what is his proof and what is the fix, next? hot! hot! no no no no no, there's no space there! maybe over here? oven mitts! oven mitts! everything's stuck in the drawers! i'm sorry! oh, jeez. hi. kelly clarkson. try wayfair! oh, ok.

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we live with at&t and we are well past the honeocupado tom. at&t, what's this i hear about you advertising a 100% fiber network? only like a fraction of my customers can get that.

that's it?!? you have such a glass half-empty attitude. the glass is more than half-empty! you need to relax tom. oh! tom, you need a little tom time. a little tt. stop living with at&t. xfinity delivers gig speeds to more homes than anyone. the biggest risk that we have is mail in ballot. with the universal mail in ballot it is a much easier thing for a foreign power whether it's russia, china, iran, north korea, it's much easier to forge ballots and send nthem in. easier to cheat. >> their efforts have been largely cyber. the one thing that makes it easier for foreign actors to mess with us is when the

president invites it. there's no evidence of any of what he just suggested happening. there's plenty of evidence of the messing with us online. and planting messages and memes. comp matt. all that crap we had to learn about. and he's saying the same stuff. i don't know why, i don't know why. they're afraid of me. say it to them. tell me what you'll do if they keep doing it. if you catch them. instead, he's doing the same thing to the postal service. he's trying to under mine your confidence in the ability for the postal service to process ballots. you ever get a bill late from the postal service? they handle lots of stuff. all the time. they can handle this. the question becomes, whether what some see as new delays at the u.s. ps are a attributed to

trump and the postmaster general he appointed. in other words is trump creating a risk he's making sure comes true? as a result, top democrats are calling for an investigation into postmaster general lewis dejoy. for making sweeping policy changes there. in a letter the inspector general they say it's led to slower and less reliable mail. quote, these changes threaten the well being of millions of americans that rely on the service for delivery of service security checks and prescriptions and threaten mail in ballots in the 2020 general election. senator the ranking member of the homeland security committee that's looking into this. welcome to "prime time." >> great to be with you. >> what is the strength of your case at this point? >> right now, it's an investigation. we want to look into what we're hearing from constituents across

the state of michigan that are saying over the last few weeks in particular they have seen the mail delivery delayed. waiter longer for important mail. we have senior citizens who need drugs that are delivered by mail and are concerned they are not getting them on time. social security checks. we have folks who get bills that need to be paid and if they're not there are penalties for doing that. we're hearing from the veterans administration some of their drugs are not getting to the veterans. it's unacceptable what we're seeing. and it's correlated to some policy changes brought about by the new postmaster general appointed by trump. his main qualification for the job he is a large political donor for president trump. now in charge of the postal service and put in policy that

folks in the post office the letter carriers and workers are saying they haven't seen the mail pile up like is happening now. it's because of changes like reducing over time. when there's a surge of mail they don't have the manpower to get it out. and some of the transportation trucks that move mail will send an extra truck. the postal service is about get the mail out. move it. as quickly as possible. and you're seeing slow downs including not using processing machines as aggressive and hand sorting mail. it will start slowing down. this is critical for every day business. and it's unacceptable. get to the bottom of what exactly is happening. >> postmaster general said this today. >> i certainly have a good relationship with the president of the united states, the notion that i would ever make decisions concerning the postal service at the direction of the president or anyone else in the

administration is off base. >> do you believe that? is there a better explanation than the one you are offering. he asked for money and didn't give it to them. this is just about making cuts in tough times. >> it certainly the postal service has a real strain. as all businesses do right now with coronavirus. in the cares act we appropriated a $10 billion line of credit to help the postal service. unfortunately the treasury department delayed the ability for them to get the money. and to have him say he had no part of this we have had conflicts statements. initially he responded to a letter that said this is a local decision and not policy of the postal service and a letter friday they said this sa policy that we have put forward. the questions that weren't answered and we asked were did you actually study whether or not these changes would have any impact on the reliability of

mail delivery or slow down the process? what oversight do you have if this isn't working and you can immediately change to the type of standards we saw previously. and they're assignmesilent. you mention vote by mail, when you get a surge of ballots like in michigan with record number of absentee cast during the primary, it will get bigger in the general election. we have to make sure we get it right. the postal service has the capability of doing this. the men and women are amagz and work hard and committed people. if management decisions are made to slow down the mail, impacting every day citizens and business, as well as slowing down the voting process that is simply unacceptable. we have to make sure we call it out. >> i know you are asking the inspector general to review the couples holdings. the dejoy couple.

they have between 30 and $75 million in assets in u.s. ps competitors or contractors. concern? >> it is a concern. the one reason why we're concerned is if you look at the statements that president trump has made and the kinds of actions, we understand he wants to privatize the postal service. he doesn't want it to operate as doing right now. that raises another long list of questions that we need to ask. >> senator peters, we'll stay on this. you are welcome here to use the platform to argue the case. all right tonight we have a special second hour of "prime time." happy to do it. because there's a lot of news. yes, don lemon is off. thank you for spending friday night with me. friday night brings no