divided country. you have half the country saying with this indictment finally half the country saying this is justified. another half of the country believing this ispolitically motivated . this story is playing out one way. >> where leaving this coverage of the arraignment courtesy of florida's 24th to bring you live coverage of the u.s. senate. continue watching on c-span3 and also online at c-span.org and also on our at c-span now . senators are considering judicial nominations. more are considered this afternoon. more live on the floor with the senate here on c-span2.

test. >> will hear from the miami mayor about preparations they are making and hear from you shortly via phone, social media and more . miami herald front page says

this. we've had some sensational cases, trump'scase will be historic even by a miami standards . of the preparations miami is going through in a moment but first to the 37 accounts facing the former president, the charges he will hear the miami courtroom . there are seven areas of charges but first 31 accounts you with willful retention of defense information. this applies to the former president only and it is allegedly for storing 31 documents at mar-a-lago and it obstructing justice applies to the president and his aide walt nauta and corruptly concealing a document or record, this pertains to trump and walt nauta's alleged attempts to hide boxes of classified documents from attorneys. concealing a document in a federal investigation.

there accused of the investigation of the documents at mar-a-lago and charging the former president created a scheme to hide the continued possession of those materials from the fbi and from the grand jury and of the 37 counts last one deals with false statements and misrepresentation. he is expected in miami this afternoon shortly after 3 pm eastern. this is from politico, trump has to miami or his arraignment and what kind of circus will follow. trump and his aides eager to show support and force for his first court appearance in miami on tuesday on charges related to the retention of classified documents justice but there stressing you don't want it to get out of hand. before departing the president spent monday at his clubhouse in new jersey where he spoke with aids and met with congressional allies. trump and his advisers plan

to spend monday night preparing for his court appearance and trying to bolster his legal team. they were aware of pro trump rallies and amplified call for supporters to quote, protests peacefully. the mayor of miami francis suarez told a news conference about preparations that the city is making for the arraignment today. >> we want to assure the public we've already begun reparations for the event tomorrow. we're joined by the chief of police chief moore alice who has, and we will talk about what our plans for security is for tomorrow to make sure everyone has the right easily express themselves and exercise their constitutional rights and obviously do it in a peaceful manner. in our city today we believe in the constitution and believe people should have the right to express themselves but also believe

in law and order and we hope tomorrow will be peaceful. we encourage people to be peaceful and demonstrate how they feel. and we're going to have the forces necessary to ensure that. there may be depending on the crowd size some road closures so people within the downtown area should expect additional traffic and should prepare for that.

t clear. before his nomination hearing, and i chair the committee through which he came, before that hearing, seven cea chairs, the only one thap didn't is long, long retired. i don't know if he was asked, but seven former cea chairs who served in republican

administrations wrote to the committee in support of his nomination. seven republican former cea's, still republicans, most of them, much more conservative than jared bernstein, they wrote a letter together initiated by one of the trump nominees, kevin hassett. he told the niems "new york times," jared and disagree, but he tries to figures things out with an open mind. that's all you want from a cea chair. again, president trump's chief economist said that jared bernstein has an open mind who can change his mind, the openness to ideas from anyone of any party or point of view that we should want in an economic advisor. despite jared bernstein's years of experience and despite his

impeccable -- seven former cea chairs mrks my republican colleagues on the banking, housing and urban affairs committee voted no. the decision is for the sake of partisan. i'll give an example. this tells the story. the banking housing committee has a tradition of voting for the president's pick. there are major disagreements. this isn't the head of the epa. this is essentially the president's personal economic advisor. regardless of ideology, we support that because, as i did with -- and i'll get to that in a second, with the trump nominees, we support who the president speaks somebody, we support in this body. it's one of the good traditions of the senate. not all traditions are good, but that is one of the good traditions.

inn't 2017, i voted -- in 2022, i voted for president trump's nomination. i wasn't wild about his ideology. he believed you cut taxes on rich people, give corporations all these tax breaks, it will tricking p down and -- trickle down and grow the economy. we saw the huge tax cut, it made rich people richer, it never trickles down to help middle-class workers. we know that. but nonetheless because the president of the united states picked him as chair of the council of economic advisors and kevin hassett was honest, he was just wrong on issues, but that should not stop us from supporting that position. 2021, pat toomey, ranking member of the committee, voted for president biden's cea nomination. the way i voted for a more

conservative economist, senator toomey voted for a more liberal economist than he wanted, because she was qualified and an honest person. the next step, the senate confirmed both of them. dr. hassett's nomination, 81-16. i led my side of the aisle, and only 16 voted against him. i stood on the committee and said we owe this to the white house. the tradition is such in the senate, you support the chair of the economic advisors. dr. rouse's nomination passed, senator toomey did the same. we all used to agree in this body until somebody made it much more partisan, never before has there been this kind of partisanship, we agree the president is entitled to have his choice of cea chair. dr. bernstein's peers,

republican and democratic peers, all came together to support him. there's no reason the senate shouldn't in that same bipartisan fashion vote to confirm his nominations. there are no good reasons at all to do that. i urge my colleagues to support dr. jared bernstein's nomination to be chair of the council of economic advisors. thank you, mr. president.

the presiding officer: is there objection? no objection. the clerk will call the roll. the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote:

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the presiding officer: the yeas are 50, the nays are 49, and the nomination is confirmed. country the previous order, the -- the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. mr. durbin: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business, with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions -- 248, 249, and 250. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the resolutions en bloc. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the resolutions be agreed to, preambles be agreed to, motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the banking, housing, urban affairs committee be

discharged from and the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 305. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 305, a bill to require the secretary of the treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the united states marine corps, and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee will be discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. durbin: further ask the blumenthal substitute amendment be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or don't. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the committee on homeland security and government affairs be dischacialgdz from further consideration of s. 376, the senate proceed to immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 376, a bill to designate the area between the intersections of 16th street northwest and fuller street northwest and 16th street

northwest and euclid street northwest in washington, district of columbia, as os wawstled pa -- oswald paya way. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the bill be considered read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it stand adjourned until 10:00 a.m. wednesday, june 14, that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. pone pope and proceed to executive session and notwithstanding rule 22 resume consideration of the pitts nomination until 11:30 a.m. then the senate vote on motion to invoke cloture on the pitts nomination, followed by immediate cloture vote on the ho nomination. if cloture is invoked on either

nomination, all postcloture time be considered expired at 2:30 p.m. and the senate vote on confirmation of the nominations in the order in which cloture was was invoked. further, the senate vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the choudhury nomination at 5:15 p.m. and if any nominations are confirmed wednesday, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the -- laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. the presiding officer: if there's -- mr. durbin: if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until senate stands adjourned until

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