the socialism. i don't enough republicans are standing behind him in congress or the senate. host: armand out of georgia this morningg. chuck schumer speaking yesterday to reporters about some of the main themes in the 2020 election, tying the president to house and senate republicans and their responses on capitol hill. [video] >> what the president is doing about climate and fires in the west is reminiscent of what he did on covid. ignore it. downplay it. deny it. make it worse. mr. president, for four years you have done nothing on climate. part that are in things are getting worse and worse and worse. pandemics don't magically disappear. climate change does not magically disappear. when is he going to get that into his head? >> we'll be leaving this program at this point as the u.s. house is about to gavel in. n the agenda today, a measure on education discrimination lawsuits. and now live to the floor of the u.s. house here on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible

the senate. our system and constitution requires two parties to defend the institutions of the congress, and that includes a coequal branch of government and the congress and the courts. if the senate is going to violate its old rules. if senator mcconnell will violate the rules that bear his own name and stack the court in the last few weeks before the election, that would be something that the senate will have to remedy and is beyond the package. any other questions? >> did you have any time to look at the report that came out on biden and senator johnson? rep. schiff: i had a chance to read the press reporting of a question -- press reporting of it. i'm sure the kremlin is pleased. narrative the hazards origins in the kremlin and has been propagated by kremlin .gents in ukraine more than that, as senator johnson has repeatedly admitted, the port -- the point of the report is a political one to have an impact on the election. and the idea that taxpayer resources are used for political purpose is something that we address and our hatch act provisions in this bill. but of course, if you have grow

what we might call the corporatists who need a number of promises but as soon as they get into congress the senate or the presidency they essentially just align with the same people who were there who made laws that are largely been some in social change rather than literal so i agree with the sentiment that burning the system might be 11 way forward in actually remedying the process and you know america will no longer just be the history wasteland in which people for sleep things under the rug which rather than actually deal with them in the classroom well being a train has part of his story when i hear things like you know we will burn the system it's revolutionary rhetoric and i'll tell you in the modern period at least revolutions usually go well they never work out they end up eating their own all right but how does that mean i feel like i understand what you're saying but i think that many people saw the civil rights movement as a wakes burma system going to know what as it was going to burn jim crow. overseas road it was going to ravage today and so i think there is a certain social context

people, they were about the same way that i am thinking right now, if you leave it up to the congress, the senate, the supreme court and everything, they vote everything to their advantage, just like term limits. they will never vote for term limits because they never want to step down. did like strom thurmond, he not retire until he is 99. you can't tell me -- i mean, he died in his position. you can't tell me at 99 he is thinking like a 50 or 60 or 70-year-old man is thinking. you cannot leave it up to them. the american people have devote this. it has to be put up into the hands of ordinary citizens, because when they are sick at work they are told they have sickleave, they can't work when they are extremely ill. tot: carol, would you agree an age limit for voting in the united states? caller: no, i do not. except if someone is deemed incompetent or shows signs of dementia. then that is up to the family to decide about all of the decisions they make, not just voting. host: let's go to paul who was calling from fort lauderdale, florida. good morning. caller: good morning. i suppose justice gins

make a deal and i'm told the reason they can't get anything done in the republican congress is 20 members of the united states senate saying under no circumstances will they raise the deficit at all. that's wonderful. and we are in a position right now. look at other countries, doing one hell of a lot better and up to 186,000 people dead, 6 million, 300,000 that have contracted the disease. no end in sight. it's just irresponsible. talk about a no-nothing congress on the republican side. no-nothing president. i don't get it. i don't get it. it's going to change come january, god willing. reporter: what do you say to the teachers that are afraid to return to the classroom even if the protocols you propose are in place? mr. biden: i say that i understand their concern because so many of the teachers have pre-existing conditions that lend itself to the fact that if they were to contract covid-19 that they would be susceptible to be in real trouble. it is understanding why they are doing it. but the first thing to do is to make sure that all the protective capacity that we have available to us is made available and then

still do not have work as a result of the pandemic and that it is terribly important that in congress the senateoes what the house does and pass legislation, which provides that $600 a week in supplementary unemployment that previously existed that we make sure that people are not evicted from their homes and that in fact we do not allow people in this country to go hungry. so a lot of work that congress has got to do. i hope the senate follows what the house did. >> well, on this labor day, these workers are courageous, the front line workers especially and so many of them unfortunately have gotten very ill and have died from the coronavirus. why not accept a compromise, senator, with the republicans in the senate with the president, and not necessarily go for the whole package that the democrats wa want, get $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion. and some of the other things, the wish list that you want, do you try to fight for that in a month or two? >> i think that schumer and pelosi have both not only indicated their willingness to compromise. they have already made major compromises. we have a repu

caller: i wanted to say that we need to have term limits on all the positions such as the congress and senatorsno one should be able to serve over 12 years in congress or the senate. and also, speaking of presidents, we need somebody with integrity. out of the heart, the mouth speaks. we have a president that has spoke so much negative, he has helped divide this country. so in his heart he doesn't have love or justice for all. it is only for a few people, and he thinks -- he has all must put himself in, i have done this, i have done that. it's not about i, it should be we the people. i think we need someone who will bring us back closer together, and biden will bring us back closer together as a people that love one another and compassion and empathy towards one another. with the supreme court, i believe that the supreme court should be a representation of all people, not just caucasian people but all people. all people, asians. we are a melting pot of a country, and we need weresenting that we need -- need it to represent all people. we need to sit together and talk and reason together and com

so he has a tremendously strong relationship, i would say, with the congress and the senate given his service. i had the occasion to hear him speak on zoom to some of my constituents last night and he was very strong on all of these reform principles. he didn't specifically mention this bill, but the soul of our democracy and returning us to respect in the world and respect for our institutions. so i think -- we haven't spoken to him, knowing his record, i think he's be a strong supporter of this package. >> thank you, everyone. >>> house republican leadership also held a briefing. they talked about efforts to pass coronavirus relief legislation, but they need 20 democrats to force a vote on the republican plan. >> hi, everybody. thank you for joining us today. appreciate it. we want to talk about several issues. first of all, supreme court nomination, we are obviously very focused and unified behind the president nominating. we're going to be following what's happening in the senate closely. we think that the american people have spoken in terms of this election cycle. the president

the senate, not the house. just holds less water. the notion that when congressave the senate limited authority to sue and gave the house no authority to sue, that means the house has more authority and turns the statute on its head. is, in thison of it court, in 1981, the permanent is for seminar briefs. -- 1978that prior to 19 congress had only two means to enforce subpoenas. content accept criminal or its own civil content. that's exactly what the senate report says. we look at page 16 of that senate report when it talks about the need for the statute. it said the exact same thing. somehow working in the background unbeknownst to everyone was the rank of jurisdiction and call to action under 1331. at a minimum it's unclear. are we looking at legislative history. a new day has arrived. scarf off the suits and their suggestion that there was another mythical purpose. but at a minimum there is ambiguity here. there is a serious constitutional question about what this court should do as a matter of constitutional avoidance and restraint and they don't have authori

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and so i -- i've gotten advice from city members of the congress and the senate as well to go. and that i should go. i'm not going to do anything other than meet with, and meetings with community leaders, as well as business people, and other folks in law enforcement and to see, start to talk about what has to be done. not, i'm not going to tell kenosha what they have to do. what we have to do together. the idea that we are saying, you know, the president's current people, retreat their corners and keep this, this moving is just a mistake. i spent my whole life including in this city you're in right now bringing people together. bringing the community and police officers together. bringing business leaders and civic leaders together. that's my purpose in going. >> and on the fact you're traveling to wisconsin at all, i believe this is only the third time in the last few months since the onset of the pandemic you'll be on the plane. you've talked about how you want to make sure you follow all the advice of your doctors in terms of campaigning safely, but the question we keep hea

. >> as of today, there are 43 days until november 3rd and 104 days until the end of this congress. the senatethan sufficient time to process a nomination. history and precedent make that perfectly clear. >> there was clear precedent behind the predictable outcome that came out of 2016. and there's even more overwhelming precedent behind the fact that the senate will vote on this nomination this year. we're going to keep our word once again. we're going to vote on this nomination on this floor. >> we've got the votes to confirm justice ginsburg's replacement before the election. we're going to move forward in the committee. we're going to report it to the united states senate so we can vote before the election. that's the constitutional process. after kavanaugh everything changed with me. they're not going to intimidate me, mitch mcconnell, or anybody else. >> they faced hard pushback from democrats after notoriously opposing voting on former president obama's supreme court justice pick back in 2016, only to seemingly flip flop now. senate minority leader chuck schumer, meanwhile, paid tribute

the senate is broken. i believe the american people are right. the 113ths congress, congress, the united states has wasted an unprecedented amount of time a procedural and partisan obstruction. as a result, the work of this country goes undone. should be passing legislation that strengthens our economy, protects american families, instead we are bringing wasted hours and wasted days between filibusters. we are burning wasted days and wasted weeks between filibusters. even one of the senate's most basic duties, confirmation of presidential nominees, has become completely unworkable. president, there has been unbelievable, unprecedented obstruction for the first time in the history of our republic. republicans have routinely use the filibuster to prevent president obama from appointing a prospective candidate or confirming judges. what first of all, tell us that nuclear option was that harry reid was talking about and removal hasits change the senate and this confirmation process. guest: i was on the floor when the majority leader harry reid gave that speech. i rememb

the most meaningful movement forward? obviously there are more fiscally conservative members of congress in the senate on the republican sidehat might not be prepared to agree so easily. thesection season where seats are up for reelection, they will be campaigning as fiscal conservatives, and it is difficult to go back to their electorate and give that message in front of this election if they agreed for more fiscal stimulus. i think the politics is the ,ssue so close to an election with fiscal conservatives those credentials. maybe something can be done. 2.4 trillion sounds too big. $1 trillion would be big in front of the election. i think that would still be good for markets. francine: what about some support measures we heard from the chancellor in the u.k. yesterday? are they enough to keep the economy on a stable footing? difficult, they are considerably smaller than what was in place previously. the cost of what the government expects to pay is very much smaller than what had been the case previously. what we have seen broadly speaking with some fiscal directly to main street, to the average person, some of it is bei

caller: i wanted to say that we need to have term limits on all the positions such as the congress and senators. no one should be able to serve over 12 years in congress or the senate. and also, speaking of presidents, we need somebody with integrity. out of the heart, the mouth speaks. we have a president that has spoke so much negative, he has helped divide this country. so in his heart he doesn't have love or justice for all. it is only for a few people, and he thinks -- he has all must put himself in, i have done this, i have done that. it's not about i, it should be we the people. i think we need someone who will bring us back closer together, and biden will bring us back closer together as a people that love one another and compassion and empathy towards one another. with the supreme court, i believe that the supreme court should be a representation of all people, not just caucasian people but all people. all people, asians. we are a melting pot of a country, and we need weresenting that we need -- need it to represent all people. we need to sit together and talk and reason together and c

everybody in the united states to challenge their members of congress, to challenge their humanity everybody pick up a phone today, send an email, and tell your member of congress and the senate to support senator gillibrand's that will help these families and individuals who are suffering. we need the media more than ever, now, to be our sword and to help us fight this and to get legislation passed we can't wait ten, 15, 20 years like we did with 9/11. we have to get this done now and i gave this woman my promise, i will die and i will give my one kidney, i will give my one kidney to ensure that we get legislation passed and when this is all said and done, jon stewart is going to owe me dinner. >> so not true so not true. >> there was a moment there, the three of you were having your news conference, the republicans were having theirs on the steps not far away, and they were walking past, and i wanted to play something that happened that really was notable to our producers, to haley talbot up there with all of you. susan zaire was trying to get the attention of the republican members of congress, and she had lost her son-in-law, i believe let's play what she had to say >> lo

president trump wants to put forward a name now, the senate should not act until after the american people select their next president. their next congress. their next senate. the senate should move on donald trump's election and weigh the nominee he chooses fairly. if i win this election, president trump's nominee should be withdrawn. as a new president, i should be the one who nominates justice ginsburg's successor. the nomination should get a fair hearing in the senate before a confirmation vote, after a confirmation hearing. we are in the middle of a pandemic. we are probably passing 200,000 deaths to this virus. lost tens of millions of americans are unemployed. health care in the country hangs in the balance before the court. and now they have decided to jam a lifetime appointment to the supreme court to the united states senate. that is the last thing that we need, at this moment. voters have already begun casting their votes. in the millions. in just a few weeks, we will know who the voters of the nation have chosen as the next president. the united states constitution was designed to give voters one chance to have their voice he

the senate in 1868 -- 1858. road to the presidency. there are no guarantees. i've been in the congress for 14 years. have voted in the last eight years and the vice president was presiding over the senate and meeting his other responsibilities. i have met decisions over a hundred times on a matter -- on matters which affect not only the domestic security of the united states, but as a member of the senate foreign relations committee. mr. smith: the next question to senator kennedy from mr. novins. mr. novins: senator kennedy, in connection with these problems of the future that you speak of, and the program that you enunciated earlier in your direct talk, you call for expanding some of the welfare programs for schools, for for ee welfare programs of schools and teachers asylums and medical care but you also call for reducing the federal debt. i am wondering how you if you are president in january would go about paying the bills. >> i did not advocate for reducing the federal debt because i don't think you will be able to reduce the federal or 1963.961, 1962 therefore i have never suggested we should

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the next congress. their next senate. then the senate should move on his selection and way the nominee he chooses fairly. -- if i when the selection tion,f i win this elec president trump's nominee should be with john. i should be the one to nominate the successor. to get a fair hearing in the senate for a confirmation hearing -- before a confirmation vote i should say after the confirmation hearing. we are in the middle of a pandemic. as i speak, we are possibly passing 200,000 deaths. tens of millions of americans unemployed. health care in this country hangs in the balance before the court. and now, and a raw political move, this president and the republican leader have decided to jam a lifetime appointment to the supreme court to the united states senate. this is the last thing we need at this moment. voters have already begun casting their votes. in the millions. just a few weeks, we are going to know who the voters of this nation have chosen as the next president. the united states constitution was designed to give v

about making sure that we move forward, and so i've gotten advice from sitting members of the congress and the senatell to go and that i should go. i'm not going to do anything other than meet with -- meetings with community leaders as well as business people and other folks in law enforcement and to see -- start to talk about what has to be done. i'm not going to tell kenosha what they have to do, but what we have to do together. the idea that we are saying -- the president's current people to retreat to their corners and keep this moving is just a mistake. i spent my whole life including in this city you're in right now bringing people together, bringing the community and police officers together, bringing business leaders and civic leaders together. so that's my purpose in going. >> the fact that you're traveling to wisconsin at all, i believe this is only the third time in the last few months since the onset of the pandemic that you'll be on a plane. you talked about how you want to make sure you follow all the advice of your doctors in terms of campaigning safely. but the question we keep hearin

and the republicans running the congress, running the senate, were very unhappy with his nominees inbasically prohibited him from giving additional court nominations by changing the number, or limiting the number. below the nine that we have now. i believe it was seven at that time. by the way, six times, the number of seats on the court has been changed. last time was 1869. but there are loads of precedence for it. so that's why i think that's stage two, if in fact, republicans jam this nominee on to the supreme court. >> in other words, are you saying that should the republicans be successful in getting a nominee approved, and perhaps then jobe biden is elected president, you thinked there would be a serious effort to expand the court, so as to offset that which just took place? >> yeah, as long as the democrats also control the senate and house. it's just an act of congress. so, yes, that will happen. and democrats are already saying they want an extra one for what was done to merrick garland. and they want one now for what's being done to the ginsburg seat. and they want one for

come back from for a generation. >> liz, what's your sense of what you remember of what congress, particularly the senate and what congress needs to do in this moment? a comment that somebody made earlier before the show started is that supreme court justices have played a more important role for republicans in politics than they traditionally have for democrats. but that may have to change. >> well, i think if we just take ruth bader ginsburg as an example, she broke new ground. she thought outside the box. she developed new strategies. she broke barriers when nobody else had done that. well f we're going to have a court that stands for justice, that stands for women's rights, and racial equality and human rights, and economic rights, not for corporations but for people, we have to take her leadership as an example. democrats and americans who want to preserve the values of our country are going to have to figure out how to stop donald trump from destroying our constitution's values and its direction. that's going to require a lot of very clever and thoughtful strategizing so that this juggernaut can be

congress. the house returns tuesday for legislative business. they consider a senate passed resolution on the orderly and peaceful transfer of power after the presidential election. later this week, the houses expect it to vote on another covid relief package totaling more than $2 trillion. the soo senate returns tuesday. they will vote on whether to pass a house bill to fund the government. current funding expires wednesday at midnight. watch the senate live on c-span 2, and the house live on c-span. biden says it is unfair that president trump is moving forward with judge barrett's nomination at a time when early voting is underway in many states here are his brief remarks. mr. biden: good afternoon. i friday, my wife, jill, and had the honor of paying respects to justice ginsburg and her family. of first woman in history our nation to lie in state at the u.s. capitol. it should not have taken nearly this long to bestow that honor on a woman, it nevertheless speaks to the unique and powerful impact justice ginsburg has made on our society and her enduring legacy of

the question. what is unfortunate is congress and the senate needs to reauthorize fisa. him not being truthful where mistakes were made, congress won't be able to reauthorize the act like they should. >> harris: about the claims regarding hillary clinton, what do you think is significant to note? >> well, i think one interesting thing is how james comey dismissed john ratcliffe's letter as unimportant. also he had to admit and was forced to admit he interfered in the election when he reopened the investigation in october of 2016 into hillary clinton and weiner's laptop. we will get to the bottom through senator graham's investigation and the senate judiciary committee. we have a clear picture of what happened and the limitations of jim comey when he led the fbi to his willful blindness or his intentional malfeas an. >> harris: president trump is counting on the u.s. supreme court to examine the results of the presidential election going after mail-in ballots again. >> this is going to be a fraud like you have never seen. the other thing, it's nice on november 3rd, you ar

the bank of germany. congress names a very powerful senator, nelson aldrich, probably the most powerful republican senator -- i can't think of anyone today of that stature and power -- and a special committee of congress to draft legislation to provide the equivalent of the bank of england or the bank of germany. he assembles every expert he can think of in the united states, bankers, businessmen, professors, students of finance generally. they go overseas. they meet with people in london, paris, berlin, and they develop a model for a very powerful u.s. central bank, modeled largely on the bank of germany. one main office, probably in new york city. not government controlled, controlled by private bankers. a very powerful private banking organization modeled on the german central bank. had aldrich and his colleagues introduced that plan in 1908, 1909, 1910, it probably would've been enacted. we had come out of a panic and aldrich had the business community behind him, but republicans did not act. they had the feeling they would be in power forever. they had largely run the government since the civil war,

then went to the senate and it was watered down in a couple of notable ways in what was called the fire act. even the more limited version that did not apply to lawmakers reporting to congress. that version did not pass. the senate was able to get it through committee but they tried a and couldn'tnda do it. we have all of these solutions that we developed. that being one of them. it is a good proposal. we don't have the political build to understand this is a national security threat on a bipartisan basis. that is the biggest challenge to the immediate. it becomes politicized. any of these particular policies, we need our leaders to stand together and say this is not about any one candidate, party, or election. it is a matter of national security. have to come before all personal or partisan loyalties. host: your report came out about the same time as the senate intelligence committee released their bipartisan report on russian interference in the 2016 election. do you find any similarities in their reports? was an important report. first and foremost because it was bipartisan. that was an important step. compacts --t 140 contact between the trump campaign and the russia si

october 1 up to 40% of americans may have cast their votes, until voters determine the next president, congress and senaterrent senate should not push through this president's nominee, biden said if president trump wins reelection the senate should move forward, but if biden wins try nominee should be withdrawn and take no action until the election is decided. >> i'm not speaking, president trump will do whatever he wants, i'm not speaking to mitch mcconnell to do what he wants and he does. i am speaking to those republicans out there, senate republicans who know deep down what is right for the country inconsistent with the constitution as a stand here in the constitution center. >> republicans have been quick to point out the circumstances are different now last night the gop majority block the nomination of an outgoing democratic president and this nominee would be from the leader of the same party, biden having established the 2016 standards, republican should not abandon them when it conflicts with your party interest, biden linked the vacancy citing concern the president trump's picked could rollback

barack obama had a death of a supreme courtjustice just before the election in 2016, this was in february 2016, that congress and the senateh for his nominee for that seat. mitch mcconnell, the leader of the senate made it clear it was too close to the election, the election had to go through. you have those same republicans now saying there should be a hearing in order to fill that seat. so it is going to be titanic. absolutely, it is going to be fascinating, i do not know if you will out to cover the vote but i know we'll all be desperate to keep an eye on it. that's it for dateline london for this week. we're back next week at the same time. thanks so much to my guests, eunice goes, polly toynbee and clive myrie. shaun is here next week. bye for now, thanks for being with us. hello. the first half of the weekend was dry, sunny and warm for many of us, and sunday promises more of the same. more dry weather, more warm sunshine, but there will be some exceptions. down towards the south, still the potential for 1—2 showers. you can see on our earlier satellite image, this swirl of cloud, low pressure across western europe t

barack obama had a death of a supreme courtjustice just before the election in 2016, this was in february 2016, that congress and the senatenominee for that seat. mitch mcconnell, the leader of the senate made it clear it was too close to the election, the election had to go through. you have those same republicans now saying there should be a hearing in order to fill that seat. so it is going to be titanic. absolutely, it is going to be fascinating, i do not know if you will out to cover the vote but i know we'll all be desperate to keep an eye on it. that's it for dateline london for this week. we're back next week at the same time. thanks so much to my guests, eunice goes, polly toynbee and clive myrie. shaun is here next week. bye for now, thanks for being with us. the new week is getting off to a largely dry and relatively warm start. big changes ahead. in the shorter term, monday morning will bring fog across parts of england and wales. sunshine and brightest guys than on sunday. temperatures in aberdeen around 19 degrees. more cloud in scotland and northern ireland and a strengthening breeze. cloud thickening. our —

barack obama had a death from a supreme court justice just before the election in 2016, this was in fabry 2016, that congress and the senate the leader of the senate medically it was too close to the election, the action had to go through. you have those same republicans are now saying there should be a hearing in order to fill that seat. so it is going to be titanic. absolute, it is going to be titanic. absolute, it is going to be fascinating, i do not know if you will out to cover the fa ct know if you will out to cover the fact that i know we‘ll all be desperate to keep an eye on it. that‘s it for dateline london for this week. we‘re back next week at the same time. thanks so much to my guests, eunice goes, polly toynbee and clive myrie. shaun is here next week. bye for now, thanks for being with us. hello, there. there will continue to be a lot of dry and sunny weather throughout the rest of the weekend. yes, it is still quite breezy in southern areas, gusts of winds at 30, 35 miles per hour so that is tempering the field. actually, at the moment we also have more cloud being pulled into sunny areas around this area of

president trump wants to put forward a name now, the senate should not act until after the american people select their next president. their next congresstheir next senate. if trump wins the election, he should weigh the nominee he chooses fairly. if i win this election, president trump's nominee should be withdrawn. as a new president, i should be the one who nominates the justice ginsburg successor. a nominee who can get a fair hearing in the senate before a confirmation hearing, vote i should say, after confirmation hearing. yesterday onen, the vacancy at the supreme court. how does this pick impact your vote? that's our conversation with all of you this morning. politico is reporting that mitch mcconnell, republican of kentucky, has the votes for the supreme court fight. this is after yesterday, lisa murkowski, republican of a -- alaska, became the second republican to say she would oppose moving forward with a supreme court nominee. for weeks, she said in her statement, she said she would not support taking one up this close to the election and what was now a hypothetical is now a reality, but her position hasn't changed host: eyes

i am told the reason they cannot get anything done in the republican congress is 20 members of the senate say under no circumstances will they raise the deficit. that is wonderful. we are in the position we're in now. look at other countries. they are doing a hell of a lot better and we still have 186,000 people dead. 6 million, whatever the number is, that have contracted the disease? no end in sight? it is just irresponsible. talk about a know nothing congress on the republican side. a know nothing president. i don't get it. i really don't get it. it will change come january, god willing. >> what do you say to teachers who are afraid to return to classrooms even if the protocols you propose are in place? >> i understand the concern. so many teachers also have other pre-existing conditions that lend itself to the fact that if they were to contract covid-19, they would be very susceptible to be in real trouble. it is understandable why they're doing it. the first thing to do is make sure all the protective capacity we have available to us is made available and then make choices about whet

senator will be one of the few that will flip the senate. host: thank you for the call from kansas. to keep track of members of congressho are not up for reelection, a good place to go is the u.s. house of representatives press gallery, the casualty list. the keep a track of all democrats and republicans who are retiring or seeking other office. there are 12 democrats who are retiring and seeking other office, a lot more retirements on the republican side. you can see the list includes 33 others retiring, seeking office, or members who lost in their primary. primariesys -- the are over and delaware's was the last. so congress turning its full attention to the general election, which is why we are asking our viewers this morning, will you reelect your member of congress. about five or six minutes left. we will get to as many of your calls as you can. this is cheryl out of virginia. plans to reelect your member. caller: yes. he is alwaysand very responsive. i wantbelieve he is on to say with the concerns about the military. military, is retired but i do have a question for you. i do not have the pleasure of listening to

found particularly striking the constitution refers to the advice and the consent of the senate on treaty but congresss in on the consent part not the advice part. in 1948 the marshall plan was just getting going but was clear we would need a security arrangement to complement it, both to deal with the soviets but also reassure the french and other europeans as germany the new west germany was brought in. vandenburg puts together on his own insights six paragraphs of what would be a potential resolution to guide the executive branch on negotiations. he holds a couple days of closed sessions with the senate foreign relations committee going through these paragraphs and in the process outlined the approach to change america's historical reluctance to join allies. he's being quite careful, he's trying to learn the lessons of woodrow wilson's failure about the constitutional authority and congressional authority and also the role of the un and regional agreements because he had been a key in bringing the un into form. he was a good vote counter and for executive branch partner and my staff somebody who kn

and so i've gotten advice from sitting members of the congress and the senate as well to go and that i should go, and i'm not going to do anything other than meet with -- in meetings with community leaders as well as business people and other folks in law enforcement and to see -- start to talk about what has to be done. i'm not going to tell kenosha what they have to do, what we have to do together. the idea that we are saying, you know, the president's current people will retreat to their corners and keep this moving is just a mistake. i spent my whole life bringing the people together, bringing the community and police officers together, bringing business leaders and civic leaders together. so that's my purpose in going. >> joe biden is not just campaigning against donald trump. he is campaigning against vladimir putin who, according to the director of national counterintelligence is, quote, using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former vice president biden. that same report by the director of national counterintelligence described china as simply preferring joe biden to

debate takes place also in the supreme court and the supreme court is there to control the senate and the congress and because of this political appointee set up if the discussion continues that this is why the supreme court is so important also the decisions the supreme court makes a far reaching and far more groundbreaking and they determine the society. past the united states would be going to. and this is very different from what when you look at different of it that democracies we always see republican presidents will appoint conservative justices democratic presidents will appoint liberal justices what impact could barrett's confirmation have on this court well 1st of all the court decision the decision and now it's very interesting because it comes at a time when this society but also the political washington is extremely polarized so 1st of all we might see a shift to the right in that this decision making process off the court but at the same time also that a push to the basis that you know the republicans are looking out. very interested in the supreme court decisions i'm talking to them

the senate very long. dennis chavez is the first hispanic american to serve in bothhe is known best for his log senate career. he's one of the highest-ranking hispanic americans in congress in the 20th century because he chairs three congressional committees. one in the house, he goes to the senate and chairs the public works committee which is a major part of his career. but his career which rages that new deal and into world war ii makes him a transitional figure in the story. the first hispanic american member of congress we can point to and can say here somebody acting as a surrogate representative. he's advocating for people far beyond the boundaries of his district or his state and speaking for hispanic americans nationally. work onthis with his the employment practices commission and advocating for greater puerto rican autonomy in the 1940's and into the 1950's. this storyline follows after world war ii. the storyline we are familiar with with women and toican-americans is tied in the larger push for civil rights in the post-world war ii era. there are two principal strands post-1945. the first involves a mexican americans drive toward rights on the mainland u.s.

i want to thank all of the members of congress for being here. senatorsmen, congresswomen, we appreciate it so much. everybody wanted to be here. it's an important day for the world. it's a very important day for peace. before the parties sign the accords, i would like to ask prime minister netanyahu to say a few words followed by the foreign minister of the united arab emirates, and the foreign minister of bahrain. thank you very much. it's a great honor. thank you. >> our dear friend, president trump, first lady melania trump, thank you for hosting me, my wife sarah, and our entire delegation on this historic day. i want to recognize vice president pence, secretary pompeo, national security adviser o'brien, and other cabinet members, jared kushner, a, vi ambassador freedman and other members of the president's peace team, senators, members of congress, as well as all the dignitaries gathered here on this sunny day. i want to also express my gratitude for all israelis who worked for years, sometimes in less sunny climates to bring this date and i thank e

but it does polarize the american electorate and it polarizes congress in the senate. >> what is the whole process, the rush to confirm a new justice, say about the centrality of the courts to the republican cause. i heard one republican commentator explain it this way, the republicans seem to have given up legislating and are outsourcing their business to the courts. what -- is that what is at stake here? >> i think that, you know, the courts have been the locus of battle for any number of decisions over the last several years. the democrats have very effectively pushed back, not only through street protests, public protests, but litigated the american civil liberties union. if you go back to the very beginning, they pushed to stop the president trump's ban on muslim majority countries and individuals entering the country, they litigated that through the courts. i think there is a sense that if you can really shift the courts and stack them with conservative judges, that you can -- that you can really hold the line. on any number of conservative positions. and it is also because, of

to gavel and part of our long-time commitment to bring you live gavel to gavel coverage of congress. the senate will work on judicial nominations today with the procedural vote scheduled for 5:30 p.m. eastern time. live senate coverage here on c-span2. ck will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god who has given us the gift of life, consecrate with your presence the way our lawmakers work today. since they don't know what a day will bring, help them to strive to serve you in faithfulness each moment. in all things draw their minds to the goal of seeking to please you. as they draw near to you, illuminate their paths with your wisdom and grace. show them how to unselfishly serve your great purposes for humanity, proving themselves worthy of your manifold blessings. and, lord, as millions mourn supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg's death, send the solace of your comfort. we pray in your unifying name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republi