blake burman at the white house with more. hey, blake. reporter: hi, there, neil, and president trump is set to be

blake burman and gerri willis to start us off. blake, you get to go fifth from the north lawn of the white house. >> reporter: and we have a little bit of news as it 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

we begin with blake burman. hi, there, blake. reporter: cheryl, democrats, republicans phase four deal, 2 1/2 trillion dollars give or take apart. president trump says the biggest hangup is a fraction of that. 2 1/2 billion dollars for mail-in voting and $25 billion for the post office which is what the president wants. here is the president speaking to maria bartiromo earlier this morning. president trump: if we don't make the deal, that means they don't get the money. they just can't have mail in universal vogt. they can't have it. sort of a crazy thing. reporter: democrats say right there, acknowledging not going forth with those funds would restrict access to some in upcoming presidential election. joe biden reacting to the quote. pure trump he doesn't want an election. back over here at the white house they saying that they still want to strike a deal. here is my exchange with press secretary kayleigh mcenany early this afternoon. there isn't a deal that is viable, is the white house of the position 3 trillion has been spent

blake burman at the north lawn, busy north lawn. battleground georgia coverage will continue throughout the hour. we spoke to voters here in savannah about the state of play in georgia. we connected with a local business owner who was on the show in april talking about her reexperience opening a salon in the height of covid-19. >> i'm happy that we are able to reopen to make sure that we are in more of a controlled environment. as of right now i actually have clients who are looking to book appointments. right now the clients very excited. melissa: plus, warnings of an unsurvivable storm surge. that is what they're saying. hurricane laura taking aim at texas and louisiana. we're on the ground in texas with more on that. stick around ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! let me grab a pen and some paper. know what? i'm gonna switch now. just need my desk... my chair... and my phone. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. libert

blake burman. blake, senate minority leader chuck schumer just hinted there might be progress. he is speaking live at this hour. what can you tell us from the white house? reporter: he has been talking about progress but you also have to wonder if there is option c which is nothing at this point, because you have to really and seriously question what the way is going forward here among democrats and republicans in the next step relief measure. here's why. earlier today, the top two white house negotiators, steve mnuchin, mark meadows, chief of staff, met with senate republicans during their lunch. they are set to meet next with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi later this hour. after that lunch, just to give you one example, john cornyn, top republican, was asked about what comes next, what plan comes next, and cornyn said there is no specific plan because democrats aren't serious. that is their take. however, mitch mcconnell, you see on your screen there, also openly acknowledged after that lunch tha

jackie: blake burman, thank you so much for that. here now talking more about what is going on in washington and the markets, liz peek, foxnews.com columnist, jonathan hoenig, capitalist pig hedge fund founding member. great to see you both, both fox news contributors. jonathan, let's go ahead to start with you. we're trying to work things out in washington. the market is hoping there will be some sort of deal. nothing is nailed down just yet. a lot of american citizens riding out the pandemic are hanging in the balance here. what is the tipping point? how long does washington have to get its act together, basically? >> well, jackie, we're literally in uncharted territory here. both on enormity of the shutdown, slow down, recession and size of some of these dollar figures talked about. i'm old enough to remember when obama's 800 billion-dollar stimulus program was considered big. whether democrats or republicans they were talking about trillions, multitrillions of dollars of stimulus, certainly having impact in the market. a lot of m

connell: blake burman on the north lawn. melissa. melissa: for more on the president's speech here is bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal." he is also a fox news contributor. so what do you think of this strategy? there is a place, old forge pizza, pick up a few slices up for me. what do you think about the president making a speech. he says joe biden was not really from scranton. he was only here for a small period of time. he left and been in washington robbing you blind ever since. i'm paraphrasing but -- >> i think it is good idea to go to scranton, it's a swing state. joe biden likes to associate himself with scranton, hard-working middle class, working class americans. i think a lot of those are swing voters. also on the economy, it is interesting, that in one of the very few areas where donald trump is leading joe biden, it is on credibility on the economy. so i think it is good to go there but i would like it to be not just attacking joe biden, fair game, for all his spending and kind of crazy economic platform with all

blake burman at the white house. melissa: here is steve moore, freedom works economist, there is so much bs in the usps story, i don't even know where to start but i'm going to start with this one, they had a hearing today where they wanted to drill down on the fact and reveal to the american public that snail mail is in fact slow that was one big piece which i found shocking the other thing i didn't hearsay is the fact that the post office if they are still hurting for money, they awarded a 10 billion line of credit for the treasury of july 29, no one is talking about that. much like the statesman's apologies, they do not want to borrow money, they want a gift with no strings attached, where my going wrong. >> i agree with everything you just said, maybe we have the fedex to the mailing voting rather than postal service. it's a missed manage government agency. when i came to washington 36 - 37 years ago i was riding why we needed to prioritize the postal service, we should've done it long ago. the real issue that ca

since having for the 1st 6 months of his life were stable and then i lost my job which intel lost my burman. but for you know for after that 6 months we did pretty well you know we stayed with friends here and there we stayed with family but it sank i kind of started to feel like i was a burden these people you know because then they have to deal with my kid having his little fits in this that. you know i got another job and i was paying for hotel rooms you know 2 weeks out of each page i could i just got really expensive really pricey so you get it you're just like all right well i'm going to keep doing it i'm going to do and i got to get up i got to work. anyway having a kid a child with special abilities you kind of. you don't really get much down time expression when you're a single parent you don't at all you're constantly on the go on doing this doing that picking up this picking up that it's. so you resort to of course a drug that makes you say weak there is a word that surprisingly i got off it by was oh i didn't go to rehab or anything i just kind of kicked it. i've been clean for

blake burman at the white house. lauren simonetti watching those markets and hillary vaughn is is in washington but we begin with blake. reporter: ashley, republican convention next three nights as they see it, continue to draw the distinction between president trump's vision of the future and joe biden's vision of the future. tonight will have a bit of a family feel to it as well, as two of the president's children will speak later this evening, tiffany trump, and eric trump and the keynote address will be given by the first lady from the newly-decorated rose garden. melania trump's chief of staff says the first lady will talk about her role as a mother and a look ahead to the potential second term. >> her speech tonight will be very positive and uplifting which is her signature. she wants to look forward. she wants to talk about what she as first lady plans to do when the president wins another four years. she also wants to lay out for the american people while, why it is so important that the president become reel

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blake burman is live at the white house with details on this one. blake. reporter: hi, there, melissa. there is no perhaps bigger issue here in washington, d.c., then the fate and finances of the u.s. postal service. to that end house speaker nancy pelosi is going to be bringing back the house this weekend, this upcoming weekend, in between the two political conventions to vote on legislation potentially to shore up the post office's finances. ahead of that she wrote to the democratic colleagues to start off the week, lead into it, at a time of the pandemic the postal service is election central. americans should not have to choose between their health and their vote. then from one week from today the democratic controlled house oversight committee will hold a hearing involved the newly installed postmaster general lewis dejoy. they believe the president is trying to sabotage as nancy pelosi put it before the election will likely feature a surge of mail-in voting during the covid-19 pandemic. but the post office has been financially underwater by the billi

jackie: blake burman thank you so much. connell? connell: jackie, let's talk to steve moore about all of this, freedom works economist. i believe he has the ear with the president on some of these issues. let me start with one near and dear to you, the payroll tax suspension as blake described it. the end-run around congress, with executive action, something you suggested. critics of the move said it would be an end are up around the constitution which gives the congress the power of the purse. so can this happen, rather than will it happen? what do you say? >> there is no question it can happen. in fact the media has been all over this the last week trying to find some constitutional scholar who will say it is not constitutional but it is. statutes are very clear about this, connell, basically says in the case of an economic emergency everyone agrees we're in an economic emergency right now the president has the authority under the irs code to postpone the payment of taxes. remember, connell, president trump did this at the beginni

our own blake burman is live at the white house with the details. blake. reporter: melissa calling for a company headquartered in the swing state of ohio. this is the tweet from the president. writing, don't buy goodyear tires. they announced a ban on maga hats. get better tires for far less. this comes after a goodyear employee posted a work meeting slide which said items supporting the president and police were not allowed, while supporting black lives matter and lgbt causes were allowed. the company said the slide did not come from corporate. they asked employees at work to refrain expressing support for any candidate or any party, that the company undoubtedly supports law enforcement. press secretary kayleigh mcenany earlier this afternoon suggested that the presidential call for a boy cott is not actual government policy. >> the president was talking on to his supporters when he tweeted that in particular. look, this president will never apologize for standing with law enforcement. he won't. he thinks it is unacceptable. if you can wear black lives ma

of being for the 1st 6 months of his life were stable and then i lost my job which intel lost my burman. but for you know for after that 6 months we did pretty well you know we stayed with friends here and there we stayed with family but it sank i kind of started to feel like i was a burden these people you know because then they have to deal with my kid having his little fits in this that. you know i got another job and i was paying for hotel rooms you know 2 weeks out of each paycheck and i just got really expensive in the prices are you getting you're just like all right well i'm going to keep doing it i'm going to do it i got to get up i got to work. only with having a kid a child with special abilities you kind of you don't really get much scouting time expression when you're single parent you don't at all you're constantly on the go on doing this doing that picking up this picking up that. so you resort to of course a drug that makes you stay awake. there isn't that surprisingly i got off it by myself i didn't go to rehab or anything i just kind of kicked it. i've been clean for 3

blake burman at the white house. edward lawrence in washington. we start with blake, with the latest from the president. reporter: the white house is acknowledging that it might take some time to get federal unemployment benefits out the door going forward. the executive order from the president $300 from the federal post, the states matching $100 if they are able to. some state governors mentioned they can't. in any event the white house is working on this issue. in the interim, they are hoping that democrats return to the negotiating table. >> i can't pinpoint a timeline other than we're working around the clock. we urge democrats on the hill to come back. secretary mnuchin is willing to review any proposal because the american people deserve better than the games and partisanship they have seen from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and their democrat colleagues. reporter: now the president also took action suspending some collection of payroll taxes and deferring some payments of student loans. when it comes to those payroll taxes chuck schumer i

jackie: we'll be waiting for that, blake burman. thank you. let's go ahead head over to hillary vaughn. she is in wilmington, delaware where joe biden and kamala harris, the vice the vice-presidential pick they're about to hold the first event together. hillary? reporter: jackie, what is happening behind me over my shoulder, supporters are lined up. they came here to greet the motorcade carrying presumptive democratic nominee joe biden but also his pick for vice president, kamala harris, who is showing up here for the first time. next to him today at this event. what is interesting about this, harries has been an outspoken critic on the debate stage of biden's plans and policies but today, xi is going to be adopting his agenda, by accepting his request that he be his running mate. harris clashed with him on things like "medicare for all," green newell deal and raising taxes. >> when i was attorney general of california i took on the big oil companies and sued them. people say how are you going to pay for it? that's really simple. on day one we

blake burman has the latest.>> reporter: i know, liz, or so is probably a good way to put it because seemingly e these talks have been happening every day for the last handful at least. steve my knew country, mark meadows from the white house, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi for democrats, and just like they have every day this week afterwards, it seems that not much was accomplished behind closed doors in that meeting. so much so that after today's meeting mnuchin and meadows came out to the cameras to talk to reporters and say at this point they are recommending that president trump take action via executive order. watch. >> again, we agree with the speaker this is not the first choice, but people have run out of the enhanced unemployment, so that ising something we will recommend an executive order on. and as it relates to rental foreclosures, we will recommend an executive order on that and also student loans. >> reporter: the meeting came after we learned that 1.6 million jobs were restored in july, dropping the

blake burman here with the bee days. blake i have been talking about the financials of the post office for a decade. no one ever cared. all of sudden this is a big deal. take it away. reporter: there is threats of cuts to services to the post office in the middle of a presidential election which is why many people here in washington saying now is the absolute wrong team to go about doing that. today we heard from the postmaster general louis dejoy will postpone the cuts until after the presidential election. here is what he said in part with a statement this afternoon. to avoid appearance of any impact on election mail i'm suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded. i want to assure all americans of the following, retail hours at post offices will not change. mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes will remain where they are. no mail processing facilities will be closed. we reassert over time, has continue to be approved as needed. democrats say senate republicans and president trump s

jackie: blake burman is in d.c. with more. blake?porter: the postmaster general, louis dejoy, assuring a senate chief e in a virtual hearing this morning that the post office will have enough capacity to handle mail-in voting for the upcoming election. dejoy backed the concept of mail-in voting, suggested people vote early and said e the postal service will be reaching out to the electorate in the coming weeks. >> i think in september we're going to send a letter to every american with what our process is going out to every american citizen. so i think we, i feel good, very, very proud of what we're doing, and we're going to deliver for the american people. >> reporter: however, this afternoon president trump continued to warn that mail-in voting will lead e to a delay in knowing the election results. he feels many states cannot handle the matter and today each linked it to the possibility of a president pelosi. >> you're not going to know what happened. i don't think you'll know two weeks later, four weeks later. and i don't know wh

blake burman, thank you so much. david. david: president trump slamming speaker of the house nancy pelosi and senator chuck schumer on wanting to bail out cities beforehand link the covid-19 stimulus relief. take a listen. president trump: look what chuck schumer wants more than anybody, i would say nancy pelosi would be second, they want to bail out cities and states that have done a bad job over a long period of time. nothing to do with coronavirus or china virus or whatever you want to call it. they want to bail out cities, they want bail out money. they want a trillion dollars in bail out money. david: here now is charlie hurt. he is "the washington times" opinion editor and a fox news contributor. charlie, before we talk about the states bailout or pelosi's desire for one, don't we still have over a trillion dollars from previous coronavirus bills that have yet to be spent? >> yes, indeed we do and of course i think president trump understands better than anybody in washington that in the long run the most popular, the

jackie: blake burman, thank you as always. connell? connell: let's talk to vince coglianese about all of this from "the daily caller." a lot of blake's report properly focused on what president trump can do on his own, he was focused on himself over the weekend rather than congress might come up with on stimulus. mitch mcconnell confirmed that on fox news last hour. doesn't look like they're getting together anytime soon. what do you make of all this? >> no. they're not going anywhere. the story of this past weekend with the president coming out with four executive orders all designed to help people economically who are struggling because of lockdowns nationwide, that out maneuvered democrats. the president truly out maneuvered democrats in a negotiation where democrats were not relenting, not giving an inch. you had republicans make offer after offer after offer to extend unemployment benefits to the american public and democrats refused over and over and over. that left the president with no choice. he did what he could as president

blake burman at white house, susan li in the newsroom and edward lawrence in washington. we start with blake and the latest from the president still speaking in ohio, a swing state he won in 2016. blake? reporter: he is still speaking in ohio. back here in washington, lauren we continue to keep our eyes up on capitol hill with the negotiations between democrats and republicans for a possible next step relief measure. as one white house officials says nothing is happening. both sides are dug in right now, before the president left for ohio he sent out this warning to democrats. the president tweeting the following, quote, upon departing oval office for ohio i noticed my staff to continue working on executives orders with request payroll tax cut, eviction protection, unemployment extension and student loan repayment options. watch. president trump: probably tomorrow afternoon they're being drawn now we'll see what happens. it is possible we'll make a deal but it is possible we won't. i would say probably tomorrow afternoon or maybe the following morning. reporter: democrats

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blake burman, thank you very much. blake burman at the white house. again as we indicated this is day two of the democratic convention. it is surreal. you're expecting to hear applause or the pageantry, the pomp, all of that we associate with this of course this is a big night for speakers. i don't know whether they will be pretaped. we know bill clinton will be addressing the delegates or i should just say the nation virtually or otherwise tonight. we'll also hear from dr. jill biden, the former vice president's wife and alexandria ocasio-cortez who i'm told was given one minute to make her remarks. no more, no less. jackie deangelis with what is at stake and who is at stake. hey, jackie. reporter: good afternoon, neil, even though it was virtual governor cuomo was highly anticipated because so many people were comparing this to 1984 when his father gave the keynote speech. we knew he would focus on the coronavirus pandemic being a central figure especially new york city was at the epicenter of the virus. i remember him. you remember him giving those

blake burman on that. blake? no one has been more optimistic of the possibility of having a vaccine by year's end than president trump and we will get, according to the white house, the president will get, according to the white house, an update today on that very process. we potentially should get a readout from the president afterwards as he will be holding a coronavirus briefing in the 5:00 hour. here was kellyanne conway from earlier. >> the president is getting a vaccine update here at the white house today. i'm sure he will announce that in an open press event and also probably in his press briefing later on today, and what he will be talking about are the six candidates including operation warp speed, which has just been an incredible success to date. reporter: at last night's briefing, the treasury secretary steve mnuchin said it could take, on to a different topic, a week or two for states to be able to execute on the president's executive order regarding unemployment benefits. as you know, the federal g

all right, blake burman, thank you very very much. incredible. these are adults, right?t. you have heard about, you know, indoor dining that isn't allowed so they moved outdoors, where lot of places, it is allowed. why can't you do the same with learning? it's in-person learning, how about moving it outdoors? kristina partsinevelos following just that in new york. hey, kristina. reporter: hey, neil. yes, exactly that. back-to-school mode is in full swing. many schools are uncertain about the protocols needed to get students back on campus, which is why the latest trend right now is outdoor learning. that means tents set up and classrooms like at this school, riverdale country school here in the bronx. what happens is students come to the property, they get their temperature taken, they have to keep masks on, there's no hugging your friends, no pats on the back, and they have tents set up all outside of the school on private property. you can see this on your screen right now. each tent has electricity as well as wifi. other new york city schools that want to implement ou

blake burman, thank you very very much.re counting on this, there are 24 million americans who reportedly are in arrears or will not be able to make the august payments, it gets kind of in the weeds here but ashley webster has been following it because this occurs at the same time a lot of those folks are now seeing that those jobless benefits might be going away or at least very cut down. what's the latest? ashley: yeah. poof, going away. in fact, you mentioned that 24 million number. some analysts say 40 million americans could be facing eviction notices within the next several months. statewide moratoriums on evictions have been lifted in more than 30 states now. and that means protection for the renters in the cares act has gone. so basically, you have renters unable to pay their rent and landlords following are unable to pay their mortgages and it's not just on the residential side. we should point that out. the picture just as severe on the commercial side. the question is what can be done. well, there are calls for d

we have blake burman at the white house. reporter: hi, there, neil. remember back on august 17th, 2016 nearly four years ago to the date, down the homestretch of that presidential campaign it was then president trump who handed the keys over his campaign to steve bannon, nearly four years ago. you know what happened after that. president trump ended up winning. steve bannon ended upcoming over here to the white house as the president's chief strategist, several months, roughly a year or so until he eventually moved on out of the white house. now fast forward four years, august 20th, 2020. we get news today from the u.s. southern district of new york and arrest and future appearance in court of steve bannon. according to the indictment, it says the following as it relates to the we build the wall campaign. $25 million that was raised. bannon's involvement, the contention along with three others in that project, quote, as alleged, not only did they lie to donors, they schemed to hide their misappropriation of funds by creating sham invoices and accounts

neil: thank you my friend, very much, blake burman at the white house.all of this occurs as the democrats are kicking off at their convention virtually as will be republicans next week the president trying to counter them by going into the belly of the beast. in fact the exact same state democrats will be at least virtually gathering, but he's also visiting minnesota. these are two key battleground states. now, normally the opposition party sort of stands down when one party is having its big event. not this president, not this time, you could expect democrats to return the in your face, you know, demeanor when they're doing this , and republicans are gathering. connell mcshane, the "after the bell" host in racine, wisconsin now on the president's plan. connell? connell: that's exactly, neil what stood out to us in this first stop of what'll be a two-week tour of some of the key swing states is the different approaches of the campaigns all virtual on the dnc side instead of being in-person in milwaukee but anything but virtual for president trump. in per

thank you very much, blake burman on all of that. i want to go to connell mcshane right now. this is not really moved the markets one way or the other. obviously positive development for humankind, put it mildly here. the catalyst for the buying was certainly there this morning when we got news that jobless claims for the first time in 20 weeks below one million. it is what you get used to. we were getting used to it being over a million. the fact of the matter there are other worries sort of weighing on the market. connell here to balance all that out. connell, how are we looking now? reporter: jobless claims number is reminder of the progress we're making but how hard we were hit by the pandemic. 963,000 people filing claims last week, the first time in 21 weeks that number fell below a million. yeah, we're getting better, but boy have we been hit hard, 21 weeks above one million for perspective. prepandemic high as jobless claims, 6.6 million. the prepandemic high was 696,000. the debate is on for some time, capitol hill, the white house, what do we do about all of this, h

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blake burman, thank you very much. just curious about that, because it seems to be getting a new wave of currency here. we'll follow it very closely. also following white house view whether it will or will not support microsoft's planned interest in tiktok, the big chinese social media concern. if it were up to peter navarro, his answer would be a big fat no. >> microsoft, yahoo!, cisco, other american companies in the techland helped china build its great firewall which is used basically in the limit to imprison chinese citizens. so i guess the question is, given china's what they call civil military infusion which requires any foreign company operating on china soil to give them their data can we trust any company that operates in china? neil: all right. i want to go to the guy who broke this story, started this international back and forth on this, our own charlie gasparino. now i know that the ceo of microsoft talked last night, i believe it was last night with president trump about this and the signals seemed to b

blake burman, thank you very very much.t the read right now on this back-and-forth, too, on the president's moves to bypass congress on the stimulus measure, signing four executive actions, orders, whatever you want to call it. among them, immediate cut in the payroll tax for those earning less than $104,000 a year, keeping the unemployment benefits going albeit at a lower rate of $400 versus $600 a week, and having governors and states kick in the $100 of that or about a quarter of that. sean davis joins us, the federalist cofounder. sean, i do notice treasury secretary mnuchin today didn't waste any opportunity to say you know, you democrats can go ahead and come up with a plan on your own and if you don't like this one, you explain to the american people trying to stop it. where is this going? >> well, i think it's interesting how this has developed and i think if there's any one person who is responsible for it, it's actually john roberts and his recent ruling on daca and immigration issue that obama implemented by exec

neil: blake burman, thank you very, very much. this ticket will unite, that is the biden-harris ticket will unite in delaware, little less than two hours from now a lot of scrutiny whether these two are on the same page on a lot of issues. keep in mind they did have their little acrimonious exchanges. that is not unprecedented. we've often seen that. everyone remember george bush, sr. referring to ronald reagan's tax cuts at the time as voodoo economics. he still got on the ticket and espoused them though he reversed them later on when he was president. there is a precedent two candidates being at odds, being united on the ticket. where does this go now? donna brazile, former dnc chairman and fox news contributor. donna, how much do you think the past bickering during debates will come back? i could play the famous but one exchange about the busing issue, because it has been played 11,000 times i opted not to but i want to get your take on that whether it comes back to haunt the ticket? >> no. let me just say this. as you mentione

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we began with fox business team coverage, blake burman and edward work lawrence in washington and weill start with blake, what is the latest on the stimulus. >> i guess there was a movement the democrats say they are willing to lower their number down a trillion dollars, however, no movement at all because it doesn't seem as if either side as if closer to a deal, we had another meeting on capitol hill, the top ford negotiators steven mnuchin and meadows, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer for democrats. democrats say they're willing to drop the number from three and half trillion dollars to another relief package and down a trillion dollars, so long as republicans move up there $1 trillion, another trillion. >> for the sake of america, meet us in the middle, don't say my way or no way, that's what they're saying, they want to come off the number. >> walking into that meeting this afternoon, many to and meadows suggested 1 trillion-dollar raise up to 2 trillion was a nonstarter and after the meeting and did not seemed like that change one bit. >> three trig and other washington, d.c. magi

right now, the doj is telling blake burman they have no comment on the lawsuit but here's part two of the palace intrigue. the "wall street journal" reveals that facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, who arguably would be threatened by tiktok's competition, spent october in washington, d.c. meeting with the president and members of congress, dropping hints that tiktok was dangerous. microsoft as we have reported here on "countdown" still the company that will most likely buy tiktok's u.s. assets to save it from the ban. i just spoke to wedbush analyst dan ives who tells me quote, it would make sense that oracle, which has also been mentioned, the stock is up 1% right now, would try to put its hat in the ring but microsoft, according to dan ives, has all the dynamics to be the only true bidder. that actually squares with what our sources have been telling us. >>> to the covid catalyst. u.s. approval for emergency use of blood plasma from patients who have recovered from covid, that's boosting shares of biotech and biopharma firms involved in covid-19 convalescent plasma despite some doubts abo

blake burman live in washington with more. blake?eporter: trying to, charles, is certainly one way to put it. the meeting has been going on for an hour, top negotiators for the white house, treasury secretary steve mnuchin and mark meadows meetings on capitol hill, top two democrats, nancy pelosi, house speaker, senate minority leader chuck schumer. i was told over weekend there was a little positive movement if you want to put it that way but still pretty big gaps. schumer acknowledge as he walked by reporters, that the talks had been better than previously. speaking about the meetings over the weekend. still major differences remain for example. president trump seemed to draw a pretty hard-line against money for states, suggesting that even could take unilateral actions should legislation not be within reach. listen here. >> they want bailout money. they're not interested in the people. they're not interested in unemployment. they're not interested in evictions which is a big deal, the evictions. they want to evict, a lot of people

our own blake burman is live at the white house monitoring what to expect from the first night of the republican national convention. blake. reporter: melissa, president trump will speak here at the white house thursday evening but republicans clearly coming into focus as the republican national convention is underway. among the keynote speakers later this evening the president's son, donald trump, jr. the former u.n. ambassador nikki haley. senator from south carolina tim scott. in charlotte this afternoon, republicans as you heard from connell officially nominated the president to the top of their ticket and the president contended that the election will be fraudulent due to mail-in voting. watch. president trump: this is the greatest scam in the history of politics i think and i'm talking about beyond our nation but what it means is they're trying to steal the election from the republicans. that is what it means in a very, very nice way, i will tell you they are trying to steal the election. reporter: back here in the washington, the head of the postal service louis dejoy testified

to blake burman, who is live right outside. blake, let's start with the question, do we know who might be present here? reporter: -- the white house not saying but the president is expected to be meeting with these medical experts during this hour, i am told they are medical professionals who have been helping advise the coronavirus task force over the last many weeks, many months over here at the white house and today, they are going to get some face time with president trump. now, as this meeting takes place, it also comes as the cdc has lowered the bar, you could say, for its guidelines as to who should potentially get tested. because this is what the standard had been. quote, testing is recommended for all close contacts with persons with infection. because of the potential for asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission, it is important that contacts of individuals with the infection be quickly identified and tested. so that is what once was. now, this is what the cdc is recommending. quote, if you have been in close cont

charles: i'm going to go to blake burman, he has breaking news as demo eulas talks. >> i spoke with thehouse chief of staff mark meadows on the north lawn a little while ago he told me the new white house position that has been communicated during discussion with nancy pelosi is $1.3 trillion, why is that significant, the white house has been talking about a trillion dollar package, the heels act the senate republicans passed was 1.1 trillion and now the white house is moving the marker up a couple of hundred billion dollars to 1.3 trillion. meadows says, when he spoke to pelosi, nancy pelosi, chief negotiator for the democrats that pelosi was talking about a 2.2 trillion dollar package and meadows says one of the issues he takes of that is that pelosi would not necessarily reveal all the details in it, step back for second, let's look at the skill of all of this. there are some republicans who feel as if there needs to be no more spending, $3 trillion, no more. as we've been reporting for a couple of days it has been talked about the republican circle, a possible 500 billion-dollar pac