and monday, chief meadows and i expect to meet with them again . it is a priority for the president to deal with the issue that unemployment has run out and rental eviction. we understand that the speaker and senator schumer want to have an overall deal, so we will be back here working full-time until we can accomplish something for the benefit of the american people. mr. meadows: in my conversations with the president last night and this morning, he stressed that addressing the enhanced unemployment and eviction protection still needs to be the very top priority. secretary mnuchin and i have committed our full schedules to making sure we can come to some kind of resolution not just on those items but, as the secretary was talking about, on a host of other areas, whether it is childcare, schools, jobs, and making sure that those that are suffering the most, that those immediate needs are addressed. i can say this, that the amount of time we are willing to invest, both personally and with our staff, needs to be a 24 hour, seven day a week kind of co

meadows: i don't know that i took it out of context. i was reframing it for you. >> i want to be clear that what we were trying to say is, we spent a lot of our careers working and uncovering malfeasance and members of congress and others that have broken the law. you think that breaking the law is not a big deal. mr. meadows: here's what i'm saying, you can't break the law, you shouldn't do it. y'all have done a lot of investigative reporting. i appreciate you clarifying that. but here's what i'm saying. the law the way it was originally intended never thought we would be on zoom talking to people live, that somehow we were going to be able to have this conversation from the executive building next to the white house, where we were talking about a political thing. it was really designed to stop the cronyism that either democrats or republicans tried to do on a regular basis, forcing federal employees to become their campaign team, and it is a little clear in the how, less so when it comes to the executive branch. want to switch gears a

representative meadows: i think the secretary mentioned it was a productive day. i think both senator schumer and speaker pelosi would agree with that. we are still a long ways apart and i don't want to suggest that a deal is imminent, because it is not. but like with any deal, as you make progress, i think it is important to recognize you are making progress and not set an unrealistic expectation that we are just a few items away. there are substantial differences. but we did make good progress. reporter: you talk about a process for a deadline. [inaudible] >> let me clarify. i never said the process works well when there is a deadline. i said people tend to be focused when there is a deadline. we are here and we want to get a deal because, specifically, the two components that have expired, that is our priority. there are many priorities therein. rep. meadows: i spoke to a young lady yesterday who had the enhanced unemployment and my commitment to her as well as my commitment to all of the americans out there who are hurting right now is that we are going to sta

is mark meadows the road block? >> reporter: well, mark meadows is the factor that is different from previous negotiations and let's look at mark meadows in his previous life. he was a member of congress and a tea party platform. he was usually the person who was in the room to block any sort of negotiations, any sort of big government spending so that the fact that he is in the room trying to negotiate a one, two, $3 trillion piece of legislation is mind boggling within itself. he is always the one who has been the most pessimistic throughout this entire process and i have to say that i was under counting the amount of influence he has in this process throughout thinking that mnuchin had always been more positive they would get a deal, so is schumer and pa lol seelopelosi. meadows was always saying it's a waste of time and not going to happen but he's extremely close to the president and he seems to have the president's ear on this. now, as far as asked about the state and local funding and the president tweeted ab

the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, accusing democrats rf playing politics. house speaker nancy pelosi doing very much the same in the other direction. but today the treasury secretary and mark meadows met with house speaker nancy pelosi and the senator minority leader chuck schumer.

meadows: oh no, my speaking days are over. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. meadows: actually the speaker was in a meeting with i think some of her leadership staff, is what i understand. so i left a message for her. she will probably call me instead of coming around to meet up you'd if she -- to meet. if she wants to meet, i will be glad to meet with the speaker. if she wants to strike a deal with the president of the united states on behalf of the american people, the president is willing to do that, and yet at the same time, that deal needs to be based on real numbers and real issues that are urgent in terms addressedeed to be and not a partisan wish list of want to's and hope to have haves.-- hope to thanks, guys. >> the postmaster general and the chair of the board of governors testify before togress today about changes postal service operation and the impact on the upcoming election. monday, live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two. watch live coverage. , oremand at c-span.org listen live wherever you are with the free radio app. in 1952, the korean war

i want to play something from mark meadows yesterday. some are saying the white house is ready to work with congress on the postal service. let me play it for the audience, then i want to know what reporting you've got behind the scenes. take a listen. >> i'm all about piecemeal, if we can agree on postal, ledezt'o it, stimulus checks, let's do it. i have been advocating for that. speaker pelosi says she won't do anything unless it is a big deal. we offered $10 billion for the postal service. >> shannon, people probably heard the words piecemeal in there, and overall usually the more conservative lawmakers of which mark meadows once was were in favor of piecemeal legislation, don't like the big packages, that's where fat gets snuck in. how should we interpret what mark meadows said, shannon, that generally i'm in favor of piecemeal or in favor of doing something specifically about the post office as a stand-alone bill? >> reporter: well, the white house is trying to criticize pelosi for now wanting to do something on the post office as o

we'll get the president's perspective from his chief-of-staff, mark meadows. also, house democratic whip james clyburn weighs in. we'll ask neil cashkari, can the economy recover while the pandemic rages. and we'll get the latest on the virus from former f.d.a. commissioner scott gottlieb. plus, as the country says good-bye to john lewis, a renewed call to protect the right to vote. and our latest battleground tracker from two states that president trump won in 2016, where the covid crisis is impacting his election. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> john: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." margaret is off this week. six months into the pandemic, the coronavirus is only getting worse. in july alone, nearly two million cases were reported in the u.s., which is over a million more than the previous record set during the month of april. and as we head into august, deaths are increasing in 16 states. complicating the response is a tropical storm that is off the coast of florida this morning. our coverage begins with cbs news national correspon

mark meadows, you got a lot going on right now. i really hope you and the republicans in the house and the senate, democrats can work on a deal in the next few days. hopefully by friday. because, as you know, there are 20, 25 million americans who are desperately in need of this kind of assistance. i don't want to see a lot of people begging for food. i don't want to see a lot of people homeless. it's too important right now. >> here's what i will say is if congress and the folks behind me, if they don't act, the president will act. >> we'll watch it together with you. mark, thanks so much for joining us. you and i go way back. we have a good relationship. i hope you come back and visit us here in "the situation room," my situation room. [ laughter ] very frequently. >> all right. very good. thanks, wolf. >> thanks so much for your time. all right. let's discuss what we just heard our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is with us. our cnn political -- our chief political correspondent dana bash is with us. what stood out

we have made several proposals as mark meadows just said. how many proposals have the democrats made? zero. if you want to know where the democrats true intentions lie look no further than the mcsally ill that would have extended the $600 unemployment bill, that was rejected by chuck schumer. reporter: what do you say to those who will lose $600 a week none employment payments that need that money and also why didn't you start negotiating earlier and why only the offer f an ex-tense of one week? ms. mcenany: what i would say to them is that this is unacceptable. the democrats have been fundamentally unserious you just heard the chief of staff say a great example of that is they had a massive $3 trillion bill that calls for $100 billion in school funding. we then gave $105 billion which the was deemed insufficient. so if democrats were interested in extending unemployment insurance and helping the american people, they would have endorsed the martha mcsally bill and extended this by a week to give us time as we try to extend this in perpetuit

meadows. this is in donald trump's america. how much responsibility should voters be giving the president for his inability to keep the streets safe? >> well, i mean, you can try to reframe that, chuck, but that's just not accurate. i can tell you that when we look at kenosha and the phone calls that were made to the governor of wisconsin, we offered help, help was denied. obviously there was multiple gun shots. and people lost their life. we made a repeated call the next day. sent in national guard, fbi agents, u.s. marshals to restore peace in kenosha, wisconsin. and that's what needs to happen in portland. you know, it's interesting to see you frame portland that way after 94 days. perhaps now we're going to act because someone was shot last night. but to suggest that somehow it's been peaceful in portland, chuck, is not looking at the facts. we've had over 200 anarchists, and they're not peaceful protesters. these are people that every single night conduct violent acts. and it is in democrat cities. you want to talk about d

but thekwlowls chief of statue mark meadows is holding too an president trump said he will take executive measurings inted. the president spoke with axios's jonathan swan and the ierview revealed his mind selt. >> i think it's under control. >> how thousands of meverages are dying every day. >> that's true. it's under control as much as you can control it. ring announcer: and here's their exchange on theth deaate. pr ident trump: well, right here, the united states is lowest in numerous categories we're lower tha the world. lower -- lower than europe. >> in what? president trump: take a ok. right here's. -- here. cases of death. >> i'm talking about deaths as a proportion of the poplati, that'swhere the u.s. is really bad. >> you dant --.an't do th wroism joining us is jonathan swan, national pmpitical te for axios. abby phillip, political correspondent for cnn. lesion lease from the pbs newshour and drape drame, ow -- author for the new yorktimes and "to start a war," jonathan, what did you learn from the interview about w the psident is handing the virus? jonathan: the president, much b

chris: meanwhile, mark meadows -- >> i could add a quick data point to that.2016, 1 million people, roughly a million democrats and a million republicans in florida voted by mail. this year, 3.4 million people have requested an absentee ballot. nearly 2 million democrats and about a million, foreigns. what was in -- four republicans. what was a advantage for republicans four years ago is now a 600,000 application advantage for the democrats, this is having an evidence ebbing. democrats are energized, getting ballots in. republicans not so much, voting by mail. chris: let me switch to another superintendent. mark meadows, the chief of staff, was on capitol hill this week and yesterday trying to meet -- failing to meet with speaker pelosi to talk about the issue of a skinny covid relief bill. here is mark meadows. >> why is she here on a saturday talking about a slimmed down version for the postal service. is she saying that the postal service is more important than unemployed americans? chris: they didn't meet. the fact is that there has been no compromise, no

his daughter, meadow, killed in the parkland shooting. this video is about the mccloskey case. >> mark mccloskey says he and his family have been threatened with violence. >> a first warrant has been executed at the home of mark and patricia mccloskey. >> the husband and wife charged with turning guns at protesters. >> good evening, america. we're mark and patty mccloskey. we're speaking with you tonight from st. louis, missouri where weeks ago you may have seen us defending our home as a mob of protesters descended on our neighborhood. >> america is such a great country but not only do you have the right to own a gun and use it to defend yourself, but thousands of americans will offer you free advice on how to use it. at least that's what we experienced. what you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country. that is what we want to speak to you about tonight. >> that's exactly right. whether it's the defunding of plus, ending cash bails so criminals can be release

as all of you have already written, the pattern is they meet and then mnuchin and meadows come by my office and they talk about what transpired. i think they have said there's not a lot of movement yet. but a feeling that seems to have been expressed that we would like to get an outcome. i certainly hope we can. the coronavirus is certainly not over. it is still an enormous problem still affecting communities all across the country. and i think the american people would like to see us working together and getting an outcome, like we did in march and april. thanks, leader. we all know that back in -- i don't know exactly what month it was, but several weeks ago the house democrats passed their $3.5 trillion heroes act, which at the time it was suggested not just by us but by lots of other folks that it was not a serious effort. the new york times, the democrat times said this is not a viable piece of legislation. ever since that time, we have been looking at what we have done already, making an assessment about what is working and what is not working and getting feedback about that. c

meadows, thanks so much for joining us today.ost importantly, please pass along to president trump and the first lady our deepest condolences for the loss of his brother robert yesterday. very sad news. >> i will do that. i spoke to him this morning and i'll be glad to pass that along, jake. thanks so much. >> it has been two months since president trump installed a loyal supporter as postmaster general. this is somebody who's been pushing various measures that have caused serious mail delays in parts of the country. now the postal service is warning vote by mail delays. why is president trump trying to prevent americans from exercising their right to vote if they choose to vote this way, especially during a pandemic? >> well, the president doesn't have a problem with anybody voting by mail. if you would look at it in terms of maybe a no excuse absentee ballot, what he opposes is universal mail-in ballots where you send millions of ballots out to registered voters across the country even those that don't request it. i've worked a

mark meadows was not in the first four deals that we put together. mnuchin, the speaker, schumer and others participated. and we got a deal on four bills to confront the crisis, to confront the economic downturn and to help families. we did that in a bipartisan way with overwhelming votes from republicans and democrats. the only thing that's new is mark meadows who helped shut down the government, who opposed his own republican speakers often and who simply does not want to get to yes. he's got some very strong feelings about state and local governments. we think that is absolutely essential. if you let the states go down and local governments go down, the economy is going to further tank. the health care fight will be weakened. so that i think, frankly, if it were secretary mnuchin and speaker pelosi, we'd have a deal. but i think the fact that we're not getting together, not getting -- moving forward, i think is largely the responsibility of one man, and that's mark meadows. it's a shame because i think secretary mnuchin and speaker pelosi would, i

have a look. >> you met last night with mark meadows, the chief of staff.ou certainly know him previously in his capacity as a member of congress. do you trust him? >> in these negotiations. >> what i trust is our meeting the needs of the american people. >> do you trust him as a negotiator, speaker? >> it's not an appropriate question. aspirate i will say -- how is it not appropriate if you are negotiating hi with him, you must be able to trust him. >> i when i have to trust him? he's a representative president trump. that's th who the president sen. >> jason: i thought it was a good question and she can't answer it. joining us with reaction is former obama advisor austan goolsbee and fox news contributor charlie hurt. austin, i want to start with you because i thought it was a fair question my think it shows in part speaker pelosi's approach to this. i don't understand why democrats instantaneously want to take a continuing resolution off the table, one that may be just days in length in order to score some political points to try to create this narrative

meadows: it is interesting to hear the comments from senator schumer and speaker pelosi, saying they want ideal, whenbehind -- a deal, behind closed doors, their actions do not indicate the same thing. as we look at this particular issue, the secretary is right. billion for105 children to attend school. the democrats said that is not enough. 915 billion for state and local, that is where they were two weeks ago. 5 billion. are at $91 if you were talking about compromise, even with their $1 trillion washington, d.c. magical way of saying they will come down $1 trillion, they cannot come up with any significant cut in their bill. $2.5they want is a trillion blank check. the president has encouraged us not only to negotiate, come back and negotiating good faith, but at this point i am extremely disappointed that we came up here today just to hear the same thing repeated over and over again, which is the same thing we have heard repeated for the past two weeks. the chief and i will recommend to the president, based on our activity today -- lack of activity today, for executive orders. th

on the way in meadows and mnuchin stopped to talk to reporters and meadows in particular focused on thel to cost and republicans made an offer of 1 trillion in total aid. democrats are north of 3 trillion with the heroes act and meadows claimed that that kept going north saying that republicans had moved up from 1 trillion but said that there was little incentive to negotiate if they couldn't figure out that top line number but i think what mitch mcconnell said and the fact he went out on tv saying what he said signals that there's pressure to actually crack a deal even if it spends more money than some of these republicans are now saying is too much. meadows, of course, you will remember was the tea party congressman who was a thorn in john boehner's side on spending issues and seems to be complicating the talks a little bit and can't lose sight of the reality here which is all of these americans who are waiting to find out what is going to happen to them, struggling to make rent, put food on the table and relying on that money from the federal government and nancy pelosi framed it tod

just last week in a press conference he mentioned meadows name.on his shoulders' getting attacked day in and day out, and he mentions my daughter's name out of the blue at a press conference. you means well, he puts the country first. he did everything he could to make our children safe and that federal school commission. i respect him, and i would do anything for him to get reelected. you know what else democrats the problem with democrats is, they are even looking to remove school resource officers, they don't look to back the police, they're looking to defend them in these times, we need to help the police officers, they need our support. >> that's a good point and i had not focused on that. the school safety officers. >> can you imagine? >> it was bad enough at parkland, we don't want to get into that, but the idea of not having anyone there. and then defunding. >> laura, we did so much research, then governor scott did what he always did, he did the right thing. he opened a commission and he put a commission in place in the state of florida t

mark meadow as dressed this today and hinted at the president's sentiments about staff and their own timeline inside an agency like the fda. >> what the president was specifically addressing is something that i've been involved with over the last three or four weeks, is a real frustration with the bureaucrats think they could do this. we're facing unprecedented times. the president is right to call it out and the announcement coming today should have been made several weeks ago. having been personally involved with it, sometimes you have to make them feel the heat if they don't see the light. i applaud the president for putting out the tweet. >> reporter: so, one of the questions will be, and as we we have a chance to question the president later today, once we know the specifics, one of the things that he's talking about recently is convalescent plasma to aid people suffering and people who have recovered and donating plasma and being used as a therapeutic, that is one of the things that the president talked about. could it be related to that. we inquired to the white house and they

what else did we hear from mark meadows on this issue of mail-in voting? >> reporter: three main takea y takeaways that you want to go over. first being the reporting from friday that sorting machines were being taken out of mail facilities across the country ahead of the election, something postal workers were concerned about. meadows saying that that was no longer going to happen before the election. we did reach out to the postal service and confirmed that. so no more of the sorting machines being taken out of facilitie facilities. that won't be touched before the election. so that is one thing. and the other thing was that he said that the white house was in support of a standalone bill to support the united states postal service. he said that the house should come back from their recess and do something on the postal service and that they would be part of this piecemeal deal. nancy pelosi wants one big overarching bill that supports everything from small businesses to local governments to, of course, the postal service. but this is a different path no

mark meadows chief of staff at the white house. thank you very much, sir. good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, martha. >> martha: let's bring in democrat senator chris coons, also an advocate for joe biden. senator, always good to have you with us. good to have you here tonight. >> thanks, martha. great to be with you this evening. >> martha: i hope you heard the introduction. a woman called in from c-span a democratic voter from minneapolis. she said she was very upset. she almost sounded like she had tears in her voice when she spoke that the democrats at the convention did not talk about what's happening in her city. and we have seen a pretty major pivot over the past 24 hours to joe biden starting to brings it up and others starting to bring it up as well. what's going on here? >> well, martha, here's what i heard in the last few minutes in mark meadow's interview and earlier today from joe biden. the chief of staff to president trump just said something that is flat out demonstrably untrue and joe biden spoke to it earlier today. former vice

we take each issue and we explain to secretary mnuchin enter chief of staff meadows why this is the amount we need. and we are -- we have moved closer together on five or six issues. there are many more to go. we are not even in agreement on these five or six but with their understanding the needs here. the bottom line is very simple. we need real help. for people losing their jobs, for small businesses going out of business, for renters being kicked out of their houses. for treatment were covid is still raging. we need real help in so many different areas. and we cannot turn our backs on this as republicans are doing because they're in an ideological straitjacket. i am hopeful, why you say? because in the last three negotiations, republicans first said no were doing the minimum we said no we have to do more and they came in our direction. i'm very hopeful that will happen again. that is not yet 100 vote for what he's going to pass rates are reminded the republican leader and the negotiators at this bill is passed with all democrats in the house and the majority of democrats in the senate

meadows. have you spoken to the president about those tapes? what is his response? >> obviously, he's been public with his response. just another day and another attack that we continue to see, george, i can tell you that i have never met the judge, i was at the funeral the other day, i was hoping to meet her there, she didn't show up for her brother's funeral, and the president that i have the privilege of serving is not the one that's being described on a 15-hour, i guess is what i'm reading secret tape, i mean, what family member tapes another family member for 15 hours secretly? i can tell you this, the president is committed to this country, loves this country, in terms of the one principle that he not only morning he talks to me about, what can we do to serve the american people better? he's been very consistent about that. >> the president's sister also claims that the president paid someone to take his entrance exams. let's listen. >> he went to fordham for one year and then he got into the university of pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams --

is >> as all of you somewhere written, the pattern is that mnuchin and then they and meadows and talk about what transpired. i think they have said there is not a whole lot of movement yet but a feeg that seems to be expressed that we would like to get an out come. the coronavirus is certainly not over. it is an enormous problem and affecting communities across the country and the american would like to see us get an out come like we did in march and april. senator thune: came up with a targeted physicianically approach to deal with the crisis we are now in and time to start negotiating the next phase of the relief bill. they responded. mnuchin and meadows are sitting down and come up with a reason willable commonsense solution to move us forward in dealing with this crisis. and so, last week, ron johnson came up with an idea to extend the unemployment been fit and make sure those who are unemployed to receive a benefit and the democrat response was pass the heroes' act and martha came up with the unemployment bone just and i think it's pretty clear should be clear we are not going to

. >> chris: we will ask mark meadows about the g.o.p.onvention, house democrats action on the post office, and if there's any break in the stalemate on coronavirus relief. then. >> i accept your nomination for vice president of the united states of america. >> chris: a historic convention is democrats make their case for joe biden. >> we need a president who brings people of all faith together to tackle our challenges, rebuild our country and restore our humanity. >> chris: we will talk with member -- and senator chris coons. and we will ask our sunday panel after the democrats big show what republicans need to do this week. plus, our power players of the week. >> read my lips. >> god bless america. >> chris: a look back from big moments from g.o.p. conventions past. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ and hello again from fox news in washington. congressional democrats have spent the days since their convention passing a bill to provide billions more for the postal service before a flood of mail-in balloting ahead of the november elec

it reads from the nra president carolyn meadows.as a baseless premeditated attack on our organization and the second amendment freedoms it fights to defend. you could have set your watch by it. the investigation was going to reach its crescendo as we move into the 2020 election cycle. it is a transparent attempt to score political points and attack the leading voice and opposition to the leftist agenda. this has been a power grab by a political opportunist, a desperate move that is part of a ranked political vendetta. our members will be intimidated or bullied in their defense of political and constitutional freedom." she also added this. "as evidenced by the lawsuit filed by the nra today against the new york attorney general, we not only will not shrink from this fight, we will confront it and prevail." just moments ago i was telling you about the nra lawsuit filed by attorney general a letitia james. in new york, you see wayne lapierre there named in this. of course, he was the longtime leader of the nra. in recent years, they ar

>> well, what we've seen repeatedly is mark meadows, the chief of staff. some of the other political officials clashing with the doctors, they have found particularly dr. fauci to be too draconian on some of his prescriptions. they don't like how dr. birx has said some things publicly on television. they resisted saying the doctors were wrong at first. they say remember doctors early on said that masks were not necessary. so what we've seen repeatedly is dr. birx and dr. fauci taking a more con servety line calling for more measures to try to contain the spread of the virus. and some of the president's leading political officials not agreeing with those measures and thinking they're being too obstructionist reopening the schools and other things. >> josh, jonathan. thank you very much. >>> just ahead, there's more breaking news, dr. anthony fauci's late reaction about how the virus is spreading among children. we have a report on a weekend of protests and violence in chicago and other cities. dozens of arrests. what happened and why? hey allergy muddlers..

mark meadows, he was on cnnerrer today on "state of the union" saying they're open to that.w? >> well, i heard mark say that this morning. if he's open to that and i spoke to mark before. he's been open to speak to things. bottom line do them, then. if you're not going to close anything i can tell you what happened in west virginia. what happened in west virginia, 21 post offices were notified. now, might have been a mistake, but three post offices had put up signs they were closing. the other ones had notifications to cut back hours. whoever made the mistake, there was an intent from somewhere to throttle back the postal service. now, i accept that as a mistake, but that was one heck of a mistake. tell you one thing, that got me fired up more than anything i've ever been fired up before. to see how anything could put themselves ahead of the vital necessities people have. this a lifeline to west virginias. they have nothing else except basically get medicine that way, get checks that way, communicate that way, and especially if you're in rural america, anywhere in rural amer

you heard mark meadows answering my questions. did he say anything to you that reassures you that the election will be free and fair in the way you want it to be conducted? >> before we get to the post office, i'm glad that he thinks that kamala harris is eligible to run for president. he dismissed it. sure, she is. why is the president of the united states engaging in a racist, xenophobic attack against her but suggesting she is not eligible. this is what this campaign is about. what we are fighting for her is not just the post office and i want to talk about, it's not just whether or not trump will succeed in throwing 32 millions off the health care they have. it's not just whether workers will continue to get the $600 supplementary checks they desperately need when their unemployment. it's not just climate change. it's whether we're going to have a pathological liar staying in the white house who lies every single day. i think there's been documented, some 20,000 lies told that i've been documented already. when she says she's

host: that was from mark meadows. joining us on the phone is brett samuels who covers the white house for "the hill." anything, in terms of relief will pass? guest: good morning. thank you for having me on. it is hard to see where talks go from here. we have had this going on for weeks on end with few glimmers of hope there will be a breakthrough. with the republican convention happening this week it is unlikely we see any meaningful progress. government funding is coming up in september. it seems like that might force the issue, but it is hard to see in the immediate future the two sides agreeing on anything ful.ing

. >> reporter: meadows and terhune worry crowded hallways will spread the virus. >> i feel like it's inevitable that it's going to happen to our school. >> reporter: it did in cherokee county. through the first two weeks of school more than 1,700 students and staff were quarantined. at least 120 people tested positive. mark strassmann, cbs news, jackson county, georgia. >> o'donnell: in california tonight an outbreak of wildfires is threatening thousands of homes, and state power officials say more than three million homes could face rolling blackouts amid a smothering heatwave made worse by freak thunderstorms. here's cbs' jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: extreme weather is bringing fire and even ice to the west. arizona pummeled by hail. in northern california, a weekend lightning storm ignited

jeffries: mark meadows is a former colleague of mine but he never made an agreement that he likes. he has spent his time blowing up agreements. mnuchin on secretary behalf of the administration has been the primary negotiator on behalf of the trump administration in the four previous agreements that we reached. this was a significant intervention in march. i have a reasonable degree of confidence that he is the appropriate person on behalf of the administration to be at the negotiating table. to the second part of your question, i think mitch mcconnell needs to get off the sidelines and commit to doing something. the problem is for the last couple of months he has been throwing hand grenades from the floor of the united states senate, saying things like states adjust to declare bankruptcy. that is a morally bankrupt idea that would send the economy into a death spiral. it is ridiculous and it was rejected out of hand. he has been talking about giving corporations multibillion dollar companies blanket liability protection while the american people are dying. that makes no sense. we

meadows. is the president tilting to mark meadows, or secretary mnuchin?evin: it is a good question. i think both of them have the ofsident's ear, but in terms understanding the capitol hill dynamics, mark does is obviously -- mark meadows is obviously a former congressman, one of the founders of the freedom caucus. but in terms of those republicans have an opportunity to really negotiate with speaker pelosi, they are the minority party, so they are not really voice is rather, their just not able to be as loud in those negotiations. however, he does bring with him expensive legislative experience. as for secretary mnuchin, he's always been seen much more as a middleman when it comes to dealing with the democrats. he is someone, based upon my who has a working relationship with speaker pelosi. jonathan: have used -- if you speak to anyone from the wall street crew, they will tell you the same thing. $1.5 trillion deal gets done a digitally -- gets done eventually. is anyone talking about the prospect of no deal? kevin: no. inside the beltway, it has been ho

both mnuchin and meadows said both of those, yes. they're prepared to go for the executive action if the proposal doesn't work but the gap seems to be very wide now between republicans and democrats. listen. >> there are real dramatic needs. we're not going to do 1/5 of the needs or the a quarter of needs or a third of the needs. we're negotiating in good faith. we're coming closer together. we're doing a lot more negotiating democrats in the senate than republicans in the senate. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi said even if they have agreement today on a bill, not likely it would come up to the house for a vote for the president to sign this week. they have a long way to go to bridge this divide. thank you. jackie: edward lawrence, thank you for that. let's get to our own blake burman live at the white house with the latest reaction there. blake. reporter: edward seemed to sum it up pretty good with what is going on capitol hill with the relief measures. we did hear from the white house chief of staff mark meadows he spoke to r

league baseball and major league soccer whilst organisers of the us open warm up event at flushing meadowsennis on thursday to take what they call a collective stance against racial inequality and social injustice. that came after two time grand slam champion naomi osaka said she was going to protest by not playing her semifinal in new york. but she's now thanked the organisers for their support in postponing all matches until friday and says she will take her place in the last four against belgium's elise mertens. they're playing that western and southern 0pen tournament in preparation for the us open which starts on monday. earlier the draw was made for the opening round. novak djokovic will face bosnia's damir dzumhur, whilst the women's top seed — karolina pliskova — plays anhelina kalinina from ukraine. but adding their names to the list of players who are not going to be there are the bryan brothers. the most successful men's doubles team of all time have announced their retirement with immediate effect. they were going to bow out after the tournament — but say they're doing it now b

meadows did, slammed the table and walk out.he table on our children and their schools. we need substantial help for our schools. --rything tells us authorities on the subject tell us that to have actual school, virtual school, or hybrid school costs approximately the same. yet the president is insisting the money will go to the schools that are only open actually. what does it say to children with disabilities where we need them to be getting as much care as possible, if there is a situation where they can be taken care of? don't you want to take care of private schools? yes, we want to take care of children in private schools, but they don't have to take care of all the children with special needs or are disabled or are specially at risk and the rest. this whole thing about the schools -- as a mom, as a grandma who has children, public, private, catholic school, teachers are in the same vein. this is central to the life of america, that our children are learning, the parents are earning. this virus has prevented that from happ

relates to no deal at all whatsoever for a phase four relief package because the chief of staff, mark meadows, and the house speaker, nancy pelosi, spoke this afternoon, and pelosi has just put out a statement saying, essentially, that the talks once again went nowhere. this was the comment from the house speaker a little while ago. quote: the conversation made clear that the white house continues to disregard the needs of the american people as the coronavirus crisis delaware states lives and lyely hoods. -- livelihoods. there wasn't much hope really going into this conversation as pelosi described the white house chief of staff this way before