i have the support of senators mike ansi and mike barrasso. in about 27 other members of the united states senate. when elected to the u.s. senate, i get to take my house seniority of eight years with me to the u.s. senate. so if i went on november 3 i will be the most senior freshman in the u.s. senate. that would give me opportunities on committees that might not be available to people who are more junior. i can tell you i have been on the phone with mitch mcconnell. and i have told him i am going to work him overwrought behind on expanding. when i go to the floor it's going to be a team effort or die do work with both parties. >> thank you very much, that was engaging. i appreciate both of you conducting yourself civilly. were going to continue. this question is for you from me. and a letter grade terms, the american society of civil engineers in 2017 gave america infrastructure a d+ describing investment is woefully inadequate. it took a total price tag on an overhaul at $2 trillion. is that a top priority of yours? and how would be paid f

i have the support of john barrasso, and about 25 other u.s.ators, as well as leaders all over wyoming in all 23 counties. but the most important endorsement will come from you. if you vote for cynthia lummis on november 3, i can tell you the leadership skills i developed in the house will be deployed to your benefit in the u.s. senate. thank you so much for the opportunity to be with you this evening, and thank you again, wyoming public television and wyoming public radio, for providing this forum for discussion. >> candidates, thank you very much for attending tonight's debate. i think the discussion was thoughtful and good for wyoming voters. thanks also for our debate timekeeper, and my thanks to bob for serving with me on the panel. absentee voting is underway in wyoming and if you are not voting via absentee ballot, we encourage you to vote in the general election on november 3. thank you for watching and listening and we want to thank you, our simulcasting partners, c-span and wyoming public media. >> thanks to eastern wyoming college. i

lummis: well, i am very supportive of john barrasso's infrastructure bill.ur highways, our ports and other infrastructure does need attention, including the infrastructure in some of our national parks. so i am supportive of infrastructure legislation. we paid for it by reducing duplication within the federal government and honestly, if you look at environmental programs for an example, there is a tremendous number of environmental programs across all agencies. it is a tangled web, and if we would consolidate even the environmental programs and find out where the duplication is, that in itself will help a lot. we can also reduce spending, even by using across-the-board cuts. that is something governor gordon has had to use, something marsha blackburn, u.s. senator from tennessee, has always done. i have supported her efforts to do that. that is where we find the money. >> dr. ben-david. dr. ben-david: we cannot cut our way out of this situation we find ourselves in. we need to provide american families with enough resources so that they can weather this pand

i think it's incredibly unfortunate as senator barrasso said, the money in our package for the complete incredible effort we are making on vaccines, the incredible effort on testing to make sure both vaccines and tests have the money necessary to get distributed and widely used and that shouldn't wait until the middle of december. that needs to happen right now but it's not the way to legislate. nobody knows that better than the speaker. it's not the way to reach a conclusion. it's the best way you can assure you are not going to reach a conclusion which is to say give me everything i want, or i don't want anything. >> the paycheck protection program was one of the most popular bipartisan supported programs in our package, the relief package. i'm excited we will have the opportunity to vote on the paycheck protection program once again and allow a second path for the small businesses that have been hit the hardest. in iowa, over 61,000 small businesses benefited from the paycheck protection program. so, i'm very hopeful we can come together on the floor of the senate and that democrats

barrasso: could i respond?he presiding officer: the senator from wyoming actually -- the senator from georgia has the floor. if you -- mrs. loeffler: i yield the floor to my colleague. mr. barrasso: thank you. i want to associate myself with every remark by the senator from georgia. she sasse shown a strong voice and leadership. she knows that 29 times, as she was trying to explain before being interrupted, that there have been vacancies in an election year of the supreme court. it happens. what we know historically, we talk about historical precedence, is if the president as asked by the constitution and told by the constitution to nominate, and if the senate is the same party of the president, generally that person gets confirmed. but on the other hand if the president who nominates is of a different party than the senate, which is what happened in 2016 when merrick garland after the republicans had won the senate, that nominee historically is not confirmed. that's the history going through the united states

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senator john barrasso of wyoming is a member of the senate leadership team. to see you. i'm grateful for your time. how do you handle this? you're not on the ballot this year but you have a number of fellow republicans and dynamic in the house as well, vulnerable democrats, why can't we get in line for relief? the president pulled the plug yesterday and financial markets got rattled and the president trying to backtrack a little bit, retweeting himself a little bit. saying, if i'm sent a stand-alone bill for stimulus checks this will he go out for relief immediately, and retweeted it fast, putting the pressure on nancy pelosi. it's a mess right now. what can be done? >> there are still people, john, that need help. the president is right to want to do it in a rg tatttargeted w. he tweeted a number of things including paycheck protection to keep people on the payroll. remember a couple weeks ago republicans took that bill to the floor of the senate. 52 republicans voted for it and the entire democratic senate team voted against it. they all filibustered it. i

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this afternoon, they are still talking stimulus, on that note here is republican senator john barrassoreluctance to vote for a much bigger package, we hear he will lean on you if they've got a much bigger package that might go to the senate, are you to be leaned on, could you vote for a bigger package if it included a bailout for democrat states like new york and new jersey in california. >> the president is right people need help all across this country and he's also right, nancy pelosi keeps moving the goalpost. >> so many things unrelated, it's the cost as well as the content as a senator representing the people of wyoming who know we need relief for people to get back to work, for kids to get back to school and put the disease behind us, they no way of having their senator vote for the bailout that nancy pelosi wants for new york, illinois, california, the people of wyoming are not for illegal immigrants, we need to do with the senate is going to put forward today, a second round of paycheck protection to help our small businesses, to key people on the payroll, those are the things

senator barrasso of wyoming, we'll see you. melissa. thanks >>> coming up, dr.ments the president is receiving right now. futures right now are point to go a higher open dow looking to open solidly higher, by 278 points, nasdaq up t the open stay tuned, you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc >>> early on in the course of this disease, the virus can get ahead of the immune system, and we think giving that anti body makes a lot of sense because it's just doing what the immune system is supposed to do but hasn't quite done yet, and that's what we hope happened with the president you're asking me did we help him, i'd like to think so. >> that was regeneron ceo talking to us last hour. joining us right now is dr. scott gottlieb, a former fda commissioner, and cnbc contributor, serves on the boards of ilumina and pfizer. i'm curious about your reaction, and specifically your reaction to the use of this as early as it is being used on the president, and whether you think it can and will be used that way more broadly in the future >> well, if the drug is safe and effectiv

and this from senator john barrasso saying, joe biden just admitted that he would end the oil industry which would kill good jobs and the u.s. energy independence and hike your utility bills. our families will not forget, calling it a big mistake, and then scott wong of the washington post pointing out that vulnerable democrats are already breaking from biden on his oil industry comments, pointing to this one in particular from kendra horn, a democrat from oklahoma, who says this is one of the places that biden and i disagree, we must stand up for our oil and gas industry, we need in all of the above energy approach which is consumer friendly, and protects oklahoma jobs. i will keep fighting for that in congress. that is what the democrat from oklahoma in that tossup race in her health district in oklahoma said on twitter last night. host: and in oklahoma, brad, a supporter of joe biden. hello. caller: good morning. you are doing a wonderful job. my favorite moment of the debate was when vice president biden said, show us your taxes or quit talking about corruption. it's beyond me how

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barrasso: thank you, madam president. first, i would like to commend my colleague, the senator from maine, for her absolute unquestioned leadership in this issue of paycheck protection. she knows in maine as i do in wyoming the importance of small businesses to our communities, to our main streets, to the vitality of our economies, and she has led the fight from the beginning of coronavirus to make sure our businesses would remain viable, that they would have opportunities to keep people on the payroll, that they could continue to contribute to their communities. she was the one that brought up this idea at the first place, shepherded it all the way through the congress as part of the cares act, and continues in that leadership role today, madam president. so i come here today on the floor to first commend my colleague from maine and also to talk about the ongoing fight against coronavirus, and the plan forward guided by data and doctors to put the disease behind us and let all of these small businesses that the senator f

. >> senator john barrasso is not alone among republicans urging the president. that is very significant because, remember, republicans usually stay silent or shrug off the president's comments. they fear it will hurt republicans beneath the president on the ballot and every day trump refuses to do so, democrats take a shot. >> speaking of violence, the proud boys, the president's friends, the proud boys celebrating the green light he gave them in the debate? >> this is the pandemic election and the coronavirus is making a late campaign statement of its own. september was another lost month. zero progress in lowering the base loon of new infections. cdc predicts as many as 132,000 americans will be -- 232,000 americans will be dead by the election. more than half states report more new infections now come parred to last week. wisconsin is a campaign battleground and the white house coronavirus task force warning the state of an intense viral surge recommending people practice social distancing to the quote maximum degree possible. we know that big trump rallies f

. >> as senator barrasso just did explicitly with jim in no uncertain terms. gentlemen, thank you. nice to have you. john, thanks for the great reporting. >> thanks. >>> a federal judge in montana dismissed the trump campaign's efforts to prevent that state from issuing mail-in ballots for the 2020 election. the judge calling the complaints over mail-in fraud, quote, a fiction. this as president trump continues though to ramp up his attacks on the integrity of the election, something my next guest says could have a major impact not just on the vote itself but on the republican party. ben ginsburg is a top republican election lawyer who has represented four republican candidates. mr. ginsburg, thanks for taking the time this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> big picture. i want to go big here first because there are a lot of folks watching who may have voted already or will be voting soon. can our elections system withstand the sitting president's ongoing assault on its integrity saying that it will be a fraud lent election, attacking ballots and mail-in ballots in particular wit

last hour republican senator john barrasso telling me why he thinks this debate, yes, is different. >> i think people watching both of these candidates will be watching to say who is ready to be commander in chief, because what we know right now is that joe biden is turning 78 next year. we know the president has coronavirus. >> president trump will be watching from coronavirus isolation, confined to the white house now as he's treated for the virus he told us would disappear six months ago. the president's doctor has not answered questions since back on monday. so we are in the dark, really, about his condition and his course of treatment. he is tweeting. yesterday pulling the plug on stimulus talks rattled financial markets. the president has since backtracked some saying he does hope to cut smaller stimulus deals, smaller economic aid deals. we're told he's itching to leave the residence and return to the oval office. the white house is short staffed because of coronavirus outbreak but aides are preparing isolation, gowns, gloves, masks, those called in to help the president if he

barrasso: thank you, mr. president. reserve the right to object, i'm here today to object to this unanimous consent on behalf of the junior senator from texas, senator cruz. as the senator from massachusetts knows, senator cruz is also deeply interested in this issue. both senators have complementary pieces of language. they have had the language in their legislation agreed to unanimously by both the majority and the minority of the commerce committee. so i'd ask the senator from massachusetts to reach out to the senator from texas. and i understand he's fully willing to work with the senator from massachusetts on amending the house bill to ensure that it passes the senate with a cruz amendment that would not be objectionable to supporters of this bill. as a result, mr. president, i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. markey: mr. president, i just think that we're missing an enormous opportunity here. it's a shame the senate is not acting with the urgency which it needs in order to help our brave men

the number three republican john barrasso emailed me the following: i serve with her, i like her personally, but i will tell you her voting record is the most liberal member of the u.s. senate even more liberal than bernie sanders. no mention there of the president using the term monster, using the term communist about a fellow senator. we continue to welcome any specific responses to the president's personal attack. >>> louisiana is still reeling from hurricane laura and now it is bracing for hurricane delta to hit today. we will talk to the state's lieutenant governor ahead. >>> plus fbi agents have broken up a domestic terrorism plot to kidnap and try michigan's governor. we are finding out more about the group behind the plot. the details are stunning. knowing who we are is hard. it's hard. eliminate who you are not first, and you're going to find yourself where you need to be. ♪ the race is never over. the journey has no port. the adventure never ends, because we are always on the way. ♪ ♪ but a resilient business you cacan be ready for it.re. a digital foundation from vmware helps you

wyoming senator john barrasso joins me now, senator, good to see you today. >> great to be with you.nks, harris. >> harris: you have a lot of experience winning. i would imagine to get there, you haven't won everything. so some of the strategy for winning comes from learning when you didn't. so what would be some advice that you would give some of those senator candidates that are facing head winds like martha mcsally in arizona? >> i'd talk about the contrast than the contest. they're all close races. this is hand-to-hand combat. there's so much at stake. so much at stake here. the republicans are fighting to grow the economy. democrats are fighting to grow the government. that's the different. we have enthusiasm on our side. the senate is the fire wall. the democrats want the white house, the senate and the house. we know what will happen if that occurs. taxes will go up on just about every american. our candidates need to talk about that. fossil fuels and affordable energy will go away under the green new deal that the democrats are pushing for. the institutions of the united stat

now with senator barrasso. listen for a minute. >> all the senators had their questions, you were magnificent and do a great job on the court and looking forward to voting to support you next week. >> thank you, senator. [inaudible question] >> i am delighted with her nomination. the people in wyoming are delighted because she ksh -- it is really about the constitution and delighted you've been nom nailted by president trump. thanks. >> sandra: she will go on to meet with senator portman from ohio in a few moments before a lunch break and four more senators this afternoon ahead of her supreme court confirmation vote. she is on capitol hill. we'll continue to watch the meetings as they happen throughout the hour. meantime it is the bottom of the hour now. time for your top stories. u.s. coronavirus cases surging to their highest level since august. the country is seeing nearly 60,000 new infections per day. more than a dozen states have reported record highs in hospitalizations. >> trace: kentucky judge ruled th

had gone to the munich security conference together, and word came -- in fact, i believe senator barrasso was there as well, who is now presiding. word came that justice scalia had died on a hunting vacation, and that there was a vacancy, and it became quickly evident that merrick garland, the chief judge of the d.c. circuit court of appeals, a very widely respected judge, someone about whom republican members of the senate judiciary committee had said very good things in the past, presumably a consensus nominee, was likely to be the nominee of president obama. a man who very often tried for consensus and very often was spurned. in this case, it did not take long for someone to decide that that was not going to happen, and indeed that no obama nominee was going to be brought forward. it happened quickly, but not so quickly that a few members of the senate said that they would of course meet with the nominee. that would be standard practice. of course they would. but in the event, my recollection is that no one did, no republican senator did. and that was a very sudden pivot by an entire b

and this from senator john barrasso saying joe biden just admitted that he would end the oil industryhich would kill good jobs and the u.s. energy independence and hike your utility bills. our families will not forget, and scott wong of the washington post pointing out that vulnerable democrats are already breaking from biden on his oil industry comments, pointing to this one in particular from kendra horn, a democrat from oklahoma who says this is one of the places that biden and i disagree, we must stand up for our oil and gas industry we need in all of the above energy approach which is consumer friendly, and protects oklahoma jobs. i will fight for that in congress. that's not tossup race in her house district in oklahoma on twitter last night. and in oklahoma, brad, a supporter of joe biden. moment of favorite the debate was when vice president biden said show us your taxes or quit talking about corruption. it's beyond me how anybody who listens to donald trump telling us he's going to release his taxes and keep a straight face. he said he would release them if he ran for preside

senator john barrasso, republican from wyoming, joins us now. >> thank you, institute.'s hard to get a word in there, but look, it didn't sound to me like we're really going to get a big stimulus package before the election. how did it sound to you? >> i agree, stuart. the president is right, people need help. he's also right, nancy pelosi continues to move the goalpost. is she wants all sorts of things in this including bailouts to states that have been poorly run for decades, new york, california, illinois, and she wants direct paychecks to illegal immigrants. the senate is going to put a bill on the floor of the senate, the republicans will, or next week that is targeted, focused, common sense to get people back to work, to get kids back in school and to put the disease behind us. and is we're going to see if any democrats will sport that or -- support that or if nancy pelosi will keep her hand on the kill switch so nothing will get done. stuart: so you're putting the speaker to the test, actually. >> well, i think anybody that saw her with wolf blitzer saw that she

greatly appreciative of representative mike thompson for his leadership in the house and for senators barrasso and carper this package through the senate. i'd also like to commend the members of artisan congress for their critical ontributions to this legislation. the ace act could not come at a as we're rous time dealing with the climate crisis. cientists around the world are sounding the alarm that we are on the cusp an extinction crisis impacts. human the ace act protects and habitat wildlife and throughout the country and reduces conflicts between human, and livestock.-- services, 3/4 e of the environment and 2/3 of marine environment have been significant significantly altered by human actions. habitat is one of the most important things we can do climate versity and resiliency, and this bill ccomplishes that in several ways. it conserves wetlands by the -- izing re-authorizing the popular north american wetlands conservation act. protects the largest estuary n the country, the chesapeake bay, by creating and re-authorization several programs that restore the bay its resilience to climate