not enough people to care for the sick, no ventilators, no ppe for our nurses and doctors in most of the hospitals. we had 6000 hospitals in the end, probably only four to 500 hospitals had to actually confront this high covid load, and that's what america did. america stop the spread of that first wave from how much damage it could do, but we probably were not clear enough to the american people how their proactive behaviors changed that course in that first wave. certainly a lot of european countries did worse in that first way than we did, by a bit, and i'm talking small percentages, nothing -- >> we will take a break your from our booktv program to take you live now to capitol hill for what we believe will be a brief session of the u.s.

senate. senate lawmakers are on recess for the remainder of this month. no votes are expected until they come back onin september 6. and now liveea to the floor of e u.s. senate here on c-span2. washington, d.c., august 12, 2022, to the senate, under the provisions of rule one, paragraph three of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable benjamin l. cardin, a senator from the state of maryland, to perform the duties of the chair. signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until eight:00 stands adjourned until eight:00

on c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of the house, january 6 committee hearing investigating the attack on the capital. go to c-span.org/january 6. our web resource page to watch the latest videos of the hearings, briefings and all of our coverage on the attack and subsequent investigation sensed january 6, 2021. we will have reaction by members of congress and the white house as well as journalists and

authors talking about the investigation. go to c-span.org/january 6 for a fast and easy way to watch when you can't see it life. house speaker nancy pelosi holter weekly news conference the same day the houseboats on the democratic proposal on climate change, energy, healthcare and taxes. watch this morning at 1045 eastern on c-span2, you can watch on the free mobile video app c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> there are a lot of places to get political information but only at c-span you get it straight from the source. no matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues. c-span is america's network unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. if that happens here or here or here or anywhere that