♪ ♪ ♪ howie: this is media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. i want to take a moment to recognize ruth bader ginsburg whether you agreed with her politically or not was a trailblazer and inspiring figure to generations of women. the news turn today vacancy and president trump says he will move without delay the republicans are to fill campaign in final weeks. >> we said for any reason if we have a vacancy of the united states supreme court we will

fill the vacancy. by the way, we have plenty of time. >> let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider. >> the question of whether or not the republican leader of the senate mitch mcconnell will act hypocritically here. the issue of senator mcconnell hypocrisy's is settled. >> donald trump at the end of first term in office could have put 3 justices on the court. >> if the republicans jam through a second nominee in a second seat that many democrats believe have been stolen, the democrats if they control the

presidency, the house and the senate can increase the number of justices. >> the fear for everyone is that the kind of mob violence we've been living through for the past 3 months will accelerate. howie: joining us ben domenech, susan ferrechio and ray suárez. ben, it's been nice to see many on the right praising ginsburg career and took about 10 seconds for journalists to accuse mitch mcconnell of hypocrisy for saying she will push through a trump nominee after declineing obama's nominee a hearing merrick garland. ben: this is a situation that whoever is the president's nominee will face a media storm

that was indicated by the quotes that was just given there. i think you're feeling a level of desperation there. just this morning george george stephanopoulos and the media frame for the story is going to be that republicans even though they are the same party in charge of the senate and in charge of the white house that they are engaging in hypocrisy here and pushing someone through who doesn't have the actual backing constitutionally but i think that's going to be a difficult argument to make at the same time that so many on the left have been saying that the court needs to be expanded, need to be packed because they view the seats as jeffrey said stolen from them and rightfully theirs. howie: some democrats are suggesting that. susan, mitch mcconnell has never made any pretense on the fact that he would never push through supreme court even if the

opportunity rose, here he is with bret baier back in february. >> if you're asking me a hypothetical about whether this republican senate would confirm a member of the supreme court to a vacancy that created this year -- >> before november. >> yeah, we would fill it. howie: does senator mcconnell care that a bunch of journalists are calling him hypocrite? >> the larger question is how should the media care. the courts are biggest part of mitch mcconnell's legacy. he's not going pass this up. but we in the media should also be reporting accurately that there's nothing irregular, unconstitutional or unprecedented about what mitch mcconnell is doing. the reporting i see is not just taking sides but missing the historical context here which is that it's the same party president as the senate and in those instances they do move

nominees through even right before an election. so it's nothing unusual about that, but the way the reporting is unfolding makes it looks like something it's highly irregular and prompting a lot of outrage and it's incumbent upon the media right now to add context, accuracy and historical background to all of this and i think that would probably cool things off at least a little bit. howie: right, the president by the way saying last night he plans to pick a female justice or nominee i should say. look, 16 different ways you can argue this. the core to have media argument is that in 2016 when garland was anonymous -- nominated with 9 months to go he couldn't get a hearing and now mcconnell with 6 weeks ago happy to forge ahead. that's the media argument. >> why not? it creates the fire storm and we are a lot closer to election

day. heck, we are only a little week away from presidential debate. the garland story didn't happen 20 years ago or 30 years ago. it happened within the service of most sitting member it was senate, they are on the record about the propriety of feeling a seat during election year. of course, reporters are going to hold up the the senators, the quotes that they made to justify stopping merrick garland from proceeding in 2016. that happens so close to election, of course, it's going to set up a fire storm. howie: ben, with media focusing on defectors, lisa murkowski or collins, they don't want to vote. do you see media campaign of possibly wavering senators?

>> it's going to be a frenzy. it's an absolute frenzy, howie. i think it's unavoidable. you will see a massive crush of people. you see the threats on social media and the like of riots and things along those lines. i think it creates real difficulty when it comes to narrative moving forward. the biden campaign has based much of their spin about this election on the idea of a return to normalcy and yet when you see this kind of push for, you know, aggressive behavior, riots in the street and the like, that doesn't seem like normalcy to people and neither getting rid -- packing the court and getting rid of electoral college or filibuster or anything like that and i think that's going to create a real problem in terms of the narratives that are taking place within this campaign. howie: right, susan senate judiciary chairman lindsay graham will preside over hearings, back in 2018 talking

to editor about the atlantic of what he would do if there's an election year nomination to the supreme court. >> i really don't care if an opening comes in the last year of president trump's term and the primary process has started, we will wait till the next election. howie: lindsay graham says, you have it on tape, use my words against me. well, the media are and they are saying he's not standing on principle. susan: that's because saying that a year ago is much different than saying it right now when, in fact, he will have to act, he will have to vote and chair the committee, this is an extremely important vote for all republicans in the senate. there's probably no more of an important vote than supreme court nominee. each senator will have to decide for their own legacy, for their own political future, do they want to be the ones to block

another republican choice to get onto the supreme court and don't forget, lindsay graham is also running for reelection in a republican-lean district but polls show race a tossup. it's critical for lawmakers on how they decide on this. i think that's going to be the overall, overarching theme when we figure out if mitch mcconnell has the 51 votes. it's based on the senator and not based on what they said on the past. everybody does that, republicans an democrats. it's going to be about the vim senator and their own political fortunes and that's going to help decide whether or not this passes. howie: but when you do it on video tape and say use my words against you, of course, that may happen. reporters told him and called her an amazing woman. would the media be so hyperfocus on the scotus battle that the

covid pandemic which has claimed almost 200,000 lives become secondary? >> ray: no, the west is on fire. most 200,000 people died of coronavirus infection and there's a campaign on and some really -- this is going to be a big washington story, the drama of the supreme court and will interrupt some of the campaigns in some of these very tight states with key senators who are going to be called on the carpet about their vote and about their future. so the story only gets more intense, more interesting, but i don't think it'll crowd out the other things. they are real and really happening and they will impinge like the western fires on election day. howie: yeah, good point. ben, the emerging media debate is whether or not this helps the trump campaign, the president got very little press attention

when he released a list a couple of weeks ago of possible supreme court nominees because obviously strict shift the high court to the right and would it help biden campaign because liberal voters are upset? ben: two reasons it helps donald trump's campaign. it's a choice of ideology as opposed review, choices he made in march or april regarding the coronavirus. i think that's important and helps the president. i also think to a certain degree as you look at this, it's very difficult for the media to manage these multiple narratives at all once and whenever we've seen court fights like this play out in the past, in the recent past, they've tend today help the republican candidates in part because cultural war issues animate a lot of folks who are on the right especially issues of abortion, gun rights and the like to a very intense degree.

howie: right. notorious big was part of washington establishment. well, she married me and my husband alan greenspan. she wrote -- ginsburg wrote a note. my fervent wish not replaced until new president is installed. nice touching note for the press but obviously it hasn't had any impact. susan: no, it's not up to the media to play pr for -- for the late justice. it's -- it's up to us to report accurately what the next steps are. i don't -- it is troubling that, you know, some of the main media people seem to really be siding with the democrats on this. that's not our role. our role is to look at it very objectively and fairly and when you don't do that, i think you contribute to some of the things we are seeing now. it's really kind of scary, people are talking about burning

down congress if they don't get their way on this. howie: okay. i'm fervently oppose today that. quick final thought, ray, the media are openly siding with the democrats on the battle. >> ray: what is media in 2020 -- there are reporters with conventional job on trying to tell the audience what happened and what's happening and then there's a vast ocean of people giving their opinions and urging one outcome or another. we talk easily and fluidly as if they're one thing and they are not and we should keep in mind. howie: it's a big ocean, indeed, mike huckabee joins the program. when we come back the media eruption over president trump clashing with the cdc over a covid vaccine. ♪ ♪ ♪

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howie: journalists have been hammering president trump with questions of the coronavirus especially since the head of the cdc testified on the hill about a possibly vaccine and the president told reporters that robert redfield was wrong. >> if you're asking me when is it going to be generally available to the american public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccines to give back to our regular life, i think we are probably looking at third, late second quarter, third quarter 2021. >> i know -- i think he made a mistake when he said that. that's just incorrect information, and i called him and he didn't tell me that and i think he got the message maybe confused, maybe it was stated incorrectly. >> what we just saw and heard from the president of the united states was propaganda. he wants things to be a certain way for his own political agenda

and he is saying science be damn. >> make no mistake the vaccine is not a political ploy by the trump campaign. there's no ulterior motive here. that's operation warp speed put in by donald trump. howie: media indictment and president anxious to announce vaccine that he's con other contradicting government scientists, is the coverage unfair? ben: i think it's somewhat unfair and the idea what the president has engaged here is propaganda that antiscience is unfair. i do think scaling up a vaccine of this type to the levels where it would be widely available to americans, to the level that i think people would like to see is going to take more time than what the president is acknowledging here, at the same time i don't think it's propaganda in any way to say, look, we are doing this faster than we've ever done anything

like this before. scaling it up is enormous achievement and we have a lot of different companies and government entities that have worked very hard to make sure that this can be achieved. that's not something that's an election ploy, that's something that we should feel good about and praised by people, you know, of all sides politically in order to have that kind of level of achievement. howie: susan ferrechio, dr. redfield did not back off, the president criticizeing fauci or hydroxychloroquine, having indoor rallies or many people don't wear masks -- >> susan: it's unfortunate. i think the media can do a much better job when controversies come up. i got the sense really he was talking about how quickly the vaccine could be available to everybody and it's different of when it comes available and

available to most vulnerable populations. we've already heard dr. fauci, we've heard the vaccine developers talk about a much earlier release date for the vaccine, certainly not third quarter 2021. so that's not, you know, i think the media could be more careful about talking about what president trump meant, what dr. redfield meant instead of always jumping to the conclusion that the president is a cynical uncaring politically motivating head of state that does not care about the american people. that's the whole narrative of the coronavirus. that he's just done a terrible job because he doesn't care. that's -- that just doesn't seem accurate to me and i think it's unfortunate that the press has just followed that narrative without doing a more careful job of trying to break down what the nuances of what each person was trying to say in this instance. howie: ray suárez, redfield wasn't going out on a limb here. the president says, look, i'm the one who got elected, i'm in charge, scientists are sometimes wrong.

is the press giving fairway to his side of the argument? >> ray: his side of the argument gets broadcast and quoted in print. what his side of the argument is hard to say. simply saying his own expert is wrong. it's not the first time the president has been messaging very differently of his own experts over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. he's been at odds with anthony fauci over timing to have vaccine and the wide availability of a vaccine earlier in this whole experience. this is not a new story. there have been many times when the president messaging has been different of that of government scientists and experts in the field. dr. redfield knows more about this than the president. the president -- i wish we had asked him another question, why he knows dr. redfield was wrong, maybe he was asked that, i wasn't there.

howie: ben, the president has drawn a lot of media flak for saying this about the u.s. death rate from covid-19, take a quick look. >> if you take the blue states out, we are at a level that i don't think anybody in the world would be at. we are at a very low level. howie: the president is entitled to criticize state with democratic governors but the media interpretation is he doesn't seem to care as much of people who die in blue states? ben: i think it's fair critique to said that phrase shows some callusness. the graph frankly resembles the kind of thing we were worried about in the country. the level to which particularly cnn has engaged in the behavior as it relates to governor cuomo in new york is just absurd, at the same time that they are saying things like the

president's speech outside accepting the republican nomination was going to be a super-spreader event and covering the accords saying it was a super-spreader event. they pretend that these results are not snag we can question. howie: florida and texas among the highest death rates, your reaction to the controversy over the president's remarks of blue states? >> ray: well, it's an odd thing to break down the country that way and you can look and find president drawing political differences in states where the suffering was greater and lesser. it happens to be a chronology thing. a lot of blue states got this first and had to manage it first and if you get it today, if you catch it today you have a better chance of living than if you did

in march. simple as that. howie: i have a hard break. the maneuver of supreme court vacancy all under way after justice ruth bader ginsburg's passing. we will get a capitol hill perspective in just a it's about getting more than health insurance and a partner who listens and acts. moment. - when i noticed my sister moving differently,

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majority to get supreme court justices confirmed to the high court. this is a huge legacy item for president trump potentially, for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and even for the judiciary chairman lindsey graham, republican of south carolina. it's interesting to note that all 3 of those men are also on the ballot themselves, so will voters get energized by it or perhaps will they think that they have overreached, that's something that we will be watching in the coming weeks. howie: the man is that as you know the democrats would need 4 republican defectors to block a vote on trump's pick which will probably come this week. based on your long experience on the hill, does mitch mcconnell care that there's a bunch of columns and commentators and reporters accusing him of hypocrisy? when i've talked to him he seems pretty immune to elite media opinion. mike: i think, howie, he doesn't care about the press coverage. he's looking at his role in history, legacy going well beyond years in state senate. he's here to basically carry out

a conservative agenda. he has a president from the same party who is going to nominate a woman justice to replace ruth bader ginsburg and he sees it as his role to do what the senate does, advice and consent and get the process rolling. it's not entirely clear when there would be a new vote on the new nominee. that's all to be worked out in coming days. we should get a better sense on tuesday when all of the republicans have lunch together and have a chance to speak together and even if some are not totally comfortable with getting the ball started now, whether they still support the person if they are highly qualified nominee. howie: yeah, or it could be push intoed a lame-duck session which would be interesting depending on whether the president wins or loses. the journalists are always saying, senator, so and so, you said that and now you're doing that. i get the impression when exercising raw power in capitol hill, most lawmakers don't care that much about consistency, they deal with the politics of the moment.

mike: you can see them basically pulling up each other's statements from 4 years ago, you know, chuck schumer 4 years ago said it's critical to have 9 on the bench during the critical arguments that are going on, and so 4 years later republicans say well, you have to have 9 on the bench. and so, yeah, it basically goes based on where you are in terms of whether your party is in power or not and it's obviously very frustrating on capitol hill to be the minority party. it's terrible, in fact, and so you have limited opportunities to stop something from happening. so bottom line they are making their arguments and make the case to the voters and the american people and we will see if this person gets across the finish line before or after election day. howie: yeah. politicians are known for their flexibility. mike emanuel, great to see you this sunday. next on media buzz mike huckabee weighs on ruth bader ginsburg's passing and other controversies. joe biden does cnn town hall and mostly gets softballs.

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howie: well, the passing of ruth bader ginsburg causing a media explosion over sudden supreme court vacancy, joining us mike huckabee, former presidential candidate and fox news contributor and governor, president trump and mitch mcconnell made it clear they will move quickly on supreme court vacancy, much to have press is saying this is play tent hypocrisy on mcconnell's part after refusing to giving hearing vote on obama's pick merrick garland. >> if anybody is in the middle of this is harry reid and the republicans warned him, if you blow up filibuster, it'll come back to haunt you. and the republicans tried to tell the democrats that and now the filibuster is blown up thanks to the democrats of harry reid.

when the republicans have an opportunity to put a supreme court justice on, they're going to do it because they have the senate and they have the white house. i think there's plenty of sort of double talking to around. let me give you a good example, 4 years ago the democrats said we must go ahead and do. now they are saying we can't do this. okay, so people are saying the republicans said that they shouldn't do it and today they are going to do it. both parties have taken the position that they're going to do what they can do if they've in power. guess what, howie, that's politics, it's how it works. and that's what we are going to see take place right before our very eyes. howie: i think it's fair to point out that joe biden in 2016 said we should have a vote on obama's nominee. i think both parties have exhibited a lot of flexibility shall we say depending on the change in circumstances and who is in power. you have some liberal pubbed its saying if trump gets another liberal justice, we should add justices. chuck schumer says nothing is

off the table. do you think these are serious threats and why isn't that part of the equation given more media coverage, governor? governor: democrats will do anything to try to grab power. that's what the impeachment was all about and that's why they walked away on everything that the president has layed on the table, whether it was daca, infrastructure, tax reform, dealing with covid, it doesn't matter, the president puts something on the table, even if he puts more on the table than they ever say they wanted, they still get up and walk away because that's not what they're wanting. they don't want solutions, they want control and i hope people understand that's really the battle of dc. it's one of the reasons they hate donald trump. he didn't come to play their game. and to be honest, look, republicans have been just as guilty of playing this insider game as the democrats have. the president came and he didn't owe them anything and not obligated to the donor class and not obligated to the lobbyists

and only obligated to the american people and really the people who felt disenfranchised. howie: let's turn to the pandemic. the media has been hammering president trump for contradicting cdc robert redfield over timing of vaccine and how quickly it becomes available and given the past with fauci, what do you think that the president is down playing science for political benefit? governor: it's got to be the dumbest thing they try to say about this president. this is a president that shut down his own red hot economy in order to appease the scientists and to do what they were recommending. he shut it down for several months. do you think that was something he wanted to do? of course, it wasn't. he took an economy on fire and got the fire extinguisher. he listened to fauci, he

listened to debra birx. the same tine cysts came out early and said do not wear a mask. if you're going to wear a mask it's dangers, you're not a professional, you don't know how to wear a mask, so don't wear one. a few months later, if you don't wear a mask, you're going to die. people are not stupid, they see through this stuff. that's why i think the media needs to start acting like responsible journalists and not like cheerleaders for the biden campaign. howie: i would just note that the governors played a role in the lockdowns as well. a few more questions that i want to get to, mike. olivia troy, former mike pence aid in coronavirus task force and comes out against the president's handling to have pandemic. she spoke to washington post and made an ad which we will play for republican voters against trump. >> the president didn't want to hear that because his biggest concern is that we were in election year. the truth is he doesn't actually

care about anyone else but himself. howie: vice president pence says she's exemployee and why shouldn't we take her seriously? governor: i think because she's a disgruntled person and honestly wasn't in the room for most intense discussions. most of the people -- not all the meetings and she certainly wasn't in the meetings with the president. she was with the task force. so firsthand inside information in the oval office, very doubtful. but, look, she's entitled to her opinion. she can say the president is doing this strictly for his own personal political advantage, but one thing i don't think the president gets credit for, he didn't try to make all of the decisions. he let governors of states decide how they were going to handle the pandemic in their own states. he did something that's pretty remarkable for the federal government. he applied the tenth amendment,

some of us would be celebrating that and happy that he didn't try to say from up on high, we make one-size-fits-all-type policy. howie: let me ask one question. okay. at a rally the other night president trump talked about msnbc anchor alli, the president said, he got hit in the knee with teargas and went down, it was the most beautiful thing. let me show our viewers what happened. >> all right, guys, i got hit. hold on. howie: just briefly the campaign disputes that, that it was a beautiful thing applied. why criticize or make fun of reporter doing his job who got injured on the job? governor: yeah, i'm not sure that that's how it went down. i'm not sure that the president was making fun of him specifically, but if he was he shouldn't have.

let's be honest. that's not something that he should do. he should he take on the press generally because of the way they treat him which is absolutely embarrassing and disgraceful for the press, yes, he should because somebody has to take him on and he shouldn't call individual reporters and never act like it's a good thing when one of them gets hurt. that agree with. howie: mike huckabee, thank you very much. the cnn town hall go easy on joe biden? stay with us (announcer) now more than ever, it's important to lose weight,

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howie: anderson cooper moderated cnn town hall with joe biden and let's just say he didn't exactly grill the former vice president. >> how are you preparing for debate? i'm wondering what you expect the days and weeks after the election to -- to look like. there are a lot of people who worry about a breakdown of law and order in this country, are you one of them? do you think it's still possible to reach across the aisle? >> a group of republicans said they are prepared to work with joe biden if he's elected. howie: joining us now jane harman president of the wilson center and former democratic congresswoman. doesn't this reinforce the

impression that the media kind of go easy on joe biden? jane: well, what i thought was interesting about the town hall which i watched was the interaction between biden and the audience sitting in front of their cars in a sort of outdoor format where it was social distanced and complying with health guidance which i think is a good thing. i thought cooper was -- was not really -- it was interesting that they were quite friendly even though those who voted for trump in 2016. in contrast to a town hall that trump did a couple of nights earlier where he got hostile questions and i thought biden was treated fairly and best performance that i've seen and he was passionate and connected with the audience and on issues like scranton versus wall street he was just superb.

howie: 3 were republicans and 13 were democrats. i wonder if softer interviews really help biden prepare for tough fall debates beginning with chris wallace? jane: i'm likely to be in cleveland. the food rater is fox's own chris wallace and i think that would be a very interesting faceoff and i don't know how it's going to go. their styles couldn't be more different. trump is all swagger and biden is all compassion character and substance. it's very different and we will see what voters want. it's pretty clear to me that we need someone focused on issues for our future because it's a very tough world and we need someone with a good idea about how to deal with the pandemic and biden's ad on that i think is absolutely excellent. howie: all right, new york times had a story that joe biden needs to ramp up campaign and he needs to travel more and the campaign needs to have a higher profile,

i was really struck by this because you don't have many critical ads, do you neglect the ads were on target? jane: i think both candidates should get praise and criticism where it's earned. the media has been more partisan in past years and it's a fair hit on both sides. it's very hard to find anybody who is reporting free from spin, don't we miss walter and that's, by the way the wilson center is so important because we are nonpartisan in the center reflecting both points of view. i think biden is traveling more. i don't know how well that's being covered but health guidance, with masks, social distance and it's a very different appearance from the trump rallies which are possibly spreaders especially the ones inside where most of the people are packed and don't wear masks. i don't think that's, at least

to me, somebody with grandkids or going to school, that's not exactly what i want to be seeing on my television set. howie: let's go back to the death of ruth bader ginsburg, mitch mcconnell and the president moving full steam ahead to fill the seat. you know how the hill works. there's so many accusations of hypocrisy against leader mcconnell. do you think the media criticism, the media pressure will affect what the senators do at all? jane: no, i think that -- i disagree with most of what mike huckabee in the segment but i agree with him that harry reid made a big mistake to get rid of the filibuster. the good news for the trump side is that this changes the subject from the pandemic. everyone is now covering this. the bad news for the trump side is that as i recall in 1992 when i first ran for congress and the

image was anita hill, clarence thomas and the choice issue, this could mobilize a lot of suburban women to vote for biden. so i doubt there's going to be a vote before the election. i'm sure, at least i enthusiastically agree with saddam -- susan collins and lisa murkowski. i think if trump loses they'll be a lot of pressure not to have a vote. he wins, i don't know how it comes out and maybe a new senator that could change it, but we will see. it's sadly confirmations have become circuses. got it. howie: jane harman, good to see you this sunday, thank you very much for joining us. jane: you too, howie. howie: cnbc kramer apologizes

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howie: cnbc kramer stepped in when called speaker of the house trumpian name by interviewing nancy pelosi. crazy nancy, i'm sorry, that was the president, i have such reference for the office i would never use that term -- >> but you just did. >> you know what i mean. howie: kramer later apologized for what he called stupid comment but president trump said that was pandering because kramer didn't make a mistake about pelosi. the washington post failed for hoax, raid by conservative jacob

wall and associates, the post admitted in an editor's note that it ran the story after fail to go obtain appropriate confirmation, that is after the fbi declined to confirm the supposed raid. very embarrassing. there's just no question that president trump's handling to have coronavirus needs serious journalistic scrutiny but look at some of the language being used on cnn. here is cnn carl who regularly denounces the trump administration as worst than watergate. >> we are witnessing a -- instead of protecting the health and welfare of the people in the united states. howie: a homicidal president. okay. >> holding an indoor rally in

june is criminal endangerment, what is it now? >> homicide. what else could you call an act that because of its negligence results in the deaths of others? howie: there's the word again, homicide. people do make their own decisions whether to attend rallies and here is cnn veteran medical correspondent elizabeth cohen after the president made joking reference after joe biden wearing a mask. >> when we hear our president make fun of someone for wearing a mask, our president has blood on his hands. wearing masks saves lives. howie: blood on his hands, wow, look, i think president trump should be more forcefully be urging use of mask but using that kind of language against the president would be unacceptable on cable news shows. let's talk on twitter. i hope you also listen today my

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eric: well, we should know this week. countdown is on. president trump saying he will announce the name of his proposed supreme court justice to replace ruth bader ginsburg in the coming days. the anticipation and the guessing game over who he will put up comes as americans continue to gather at the white marbled court an capitol hill to honor justice ginsburg. she died friday and was 87 year's old but with the election just 44 day asway the battle to fill her seat on the high court is taking shape. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters on this sunday, i'm eric sean. hi, arthel. arthel: hi,