i want to bring in senator bob casey of pennsylvania. he's a native of scranton.g the first to endorse joe biden's presidential campaign. senator, thank you for being here. i want to talk to you about this state of pennsylvania. so close in the last election. i'm hearing one of three counties that donald trump flipped. the margin here was 44,000 votes out of more than 5 million votes. give me a sense of pennsylvania as you see it in the 2020 election. >> ali, first of all, other than the virus and covid-19, the number one issue in this campaign for the presidential election, and i think in congressional elections, will be the economy and jobs. just like we're seeing no leadership by the president, frankly or his party in the senate, on responding to the virus, having an action plan with regard to testing and ppe, we're seeing no leadership in creating jobs and turning the economy around. those two failures, the failures on both the virus and jobs are going to be significant in a state like ours in this race. >> senator, i'm hear in bethlehem. it's a place where 40

>> yeah, i do, bob. casey and i like to say that he was a student of crime and he considered his time he served alcatraz is kind of like his harvard. we considered himself to have a phd in crime, but i think it also considered himself to the phd in being a fugitive. he had planned for that moment that phone call from john conley for many years, and he stashed money around the world and round the united states. he had cash. he had access to cash to get access to countless weapons, and he also had many different aliases and ways to make fake ids. he also had a lot of books on how to be a fugitive. .. he said i've got connections within the massachusetts state police which he did have and he knew that or at least he believed that he would be tipped off as well as where whitey was but that wasn't the case and what he had been planning for years for this particular moment in time, they were living day-to-day and that wouldn't have got them, but would have kept bulger on the road for two decades >> one thing more, s

pennsylvania, senator bob casey we have an obligation. >>yeah, a legislative vehicle that's responsive to the economic thing and the jobs crisis and new york congressman brian higgins, it's a major blow. >>but we don't want to be a knockout punch. i think that is a place that we should look at and make sure that we keep that culture alive house minority leader kevin mccarthy says congress must find ways to sustain the industry while the nation awaits a vaccine. reporting in washington, i'm morgan wright. >>we're already seeing increased sunshine as of this point compared to where we were yesterday you can actually see the golden gate bridge from citrus our something that the cloud cover blocked out for your monday >>9.28 right now and we're checking out the weather has the day shaping up so far looking really good so far lots of sunshine over berkeley, brighter skies than we had at the same point yesterday and temperatures on the cool side which is always nice open up those windows let the cool air in at the coast. you do have fog that wi

pennsylvania, senator bob casey we have an obligation. >>yeah, a legislative vehicle that's responsive to the economic thing and the jobs crisis and new york congressman brian higgins, it's a major blow. >>but we don't want to be a knockout punch. i think that is a place that we should look at and make sure that we keep that culture alive house minority leader kevin mccarthy says congress must find ways to sustain the industry while the nation awaits a vaccine. reporting in washington, i'm morgan wright. >>us airlines are out with some dire warnings about their business and california is gaining jobs faster than many other states. jane king is live in new york with those stories. hi jane. the jury of good morning. yes, unemployment is recovering in california. the u.s. economy added a record shattering number of jobs in june a bit of resurgence of the coronavirus could be leading to an uneven recovery in the labor market have says california actions in the top 10 states in the nation in terms of job recovery but that could change after th

we can't make masks and masks and gloves and gowns pennsylvania senator bob casey says america needs to get to work to protect and improve the nation's medical supply chain the same country that put a man on the moon more than 50 years ago, i'll be able to prison to produce and gowns and masks and other protective equipment. he blamed the failure to supply enough ppe to american frontline workers. >>on the president in his administration if your commander in chief and you've got work in some parts you have to act like an everyday. >>well casey and other democrats criticized the administration republicans like iowa, senator chuck grassley say china is to blame we can all our supply chain. >>to be so heavily reliant upon other countries. >>montana senator steve daines says expanding production in the u.s. will also help ease american unemployment in our reliance upon china for drug. >>medical manufacturing and bring those jobs back to us while the department of homeland security says it is prioritizing the purchase of domestic supplies. >>republicans and democrats seen increasing us pr

we can't make masks and masks and gloves and gowns pennsylvania senator bob casey says america needs work to protect and improve the nation's medical supply chain the same country that put a man on more than 50 years ago on the other crews and producers of gowns and masks and other protective equipment. casey blamed the failure to supply enough ppe to american frontline workers on the president and his administration if you're commander-in-chief and you've got words or you have to act like an everyday. well casey and other democrats criticized the administration republicans like iowa, senator chuck grassley. >>say china is to blame we can all our supply chain. >>to be so heavily reliant upon other countries. >>montana senator steve daines says expanding production in the u.s. will also help ease american unemployment in our reliance upon china for drug. >>medical manufacturing and bring those jobs back to us while the department of homeland security says it is prioritizing the purchase of domestic supplies. >>republicans and democrats seen increasing us production will make america s

i'll also speak to senator bob casey.his is a special edition of velshi from bethlehem, pennsylvania. hem, pennsylvania >> tech: at safelite, we're committed to taking care of you and your car. >> tech: we'll fix it right with no-contact service you can trust. >> tech: so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >>> good morning. it is sunday, july 26th. i'm ali velshi at the site of the old bethlehem steel plant. it its heyday it employed more than 3,500 people. nine years ago it was re-opened at the steel stacks. it's an arts and entertainment district. it holds festivals. it holds hundreds of free concerts every year. today we're marking another milestone. 100 days until the election in november. pennsylvania luka sabbis a batte

bob casey of pennsylvania joins us right now. senator, very good to have you. how important do you think this unemployment benefit issue is going to be? are you in the camp with democrats of get the $600 weekly checks coming right through the end of the year? >> yes. i think the house made the right determination on that. i know there has been a narrative. that somehow there is a disincentive here. a respected think tank studied this and found no evidence. i have in my hand here, washington senator for equitable growth says lack of opportunities to work is not a disincentive to work. it is not keeping unemployment levels high. the main problem we got here, is we've got the worst public health crisis in a hundred years and the worst economy in about 75 years. i live in a state in the great recession even the bad recession of the early '80s. unemployment even at 11%. we have been at 13% two months in a row. unemployment is still a huge problem. there are lots of ways to continue to jump-start the economy. wiping out these unemployment benefits is not the way to d

guest: i do, bob. casey and i like to say that he was a student of crime and he considered his time in alcatraz as like his harvard, so he considered himself to have a phd in crime, but i think he also considered himself to have a phd as being a fugitive that he-- that phone call from john connolly for many many years and he stashed money around the world and around the us. he had cash, access to cash, access to countless weapons and he also had many different aliases and ways to make fake ids and he also had a lot of books on how to be a fugitive. he read up on prison escapes and picked up tips from all these things that served him well during this flight from justice over 16 years. host: it's interesting he has his partner stephen fleming and he does not do that. guest: even frank salami with some of the outside of the gang looking in, they all thought that they had the system rigged. fleming for example, said i've got connections within the massachusetts state police, which he did have. he believed that h

pennsylvania's bob casey with the tweet, "today's decision is a gross misinterpretation of the affordableare act and will disproportionately impact low-wage workers, people of color and lgbtq people who are already facing barriers. no private employer has the right to deny access to health care, that includes birth control. anne-marie in hazleton township. on the i am commenting oppose line because i had ovarian cancer. my daughter has to be on some sort of birth control pill so she doesn't get it. to say to somebody you can't have that and it is a health condition -- i mean that should have been brought into the fact. whoel -- for these people think every birth control pill is used to stop birth. it is not. there are health reasons that some women need to take this. they are not cheap. it is not fair to everybody. host: to cleveland. this is william. caller: good morning. support of what has happened with the supreme court. i would like to explain why. -- as far as abortions go, i personally don't believe in them. through the course of a marriage, my spouse asked me to pick her up birth