if this bill gets done, dusty johnson will have played a significant role in making it happen. is one of that very handful in the house, the republicans, that have actually said that the election transitions should start happening. by the way, most of them are on the problem solvers question caucus. there are some. most of them on the problem solvers caucus. we are here for the reason to help people. >> i have no problem with it. >> you could have asked 100 other members of congress to come on tonight to throw stones at one another. i would argue today, tonight, tomorrow, until we get this done, we got to focus on one thing, and it is the good in people and finding some darn way for rank and file members that have a lot of darn power in their hands that are willing to exercise and stick together at some political cost, this is the time. that's why we're here. it is time to get it done. >> i'm with you 100%. you are welcome here. i've had reed on. i've had others on. the invitation is there. but when you bail because you don't even want to address something that may offend trump

especially when people like congressman dusty johnson -- i am not trying to beat down dusty johnson,kay? i've had him on the show. i know what he does. he has respect for doing the job. but why would you back out tonight just because i said we have to talk about the fact that your party, only a couple dozen of you have said that biden won? that's enough to have you abandon a discussion about relief? let's deal with what can be done in this environment. congressman dean phillips, democrat from minnesota, part of a group pushing a bipartisan relief bill, respected. congressman, thank you for coming on "prime time." >> good to be with you, chris. >> again, i know you talked to dusty. the offer stands, okay? but you can't ignore what you guys are up against in the democratic party and what frankly a lot of still republicans are up against. if they will leave rather than have to discuss the fact that biden won the election, how do you expect to get a deal? >> chris, that's why -- actually, that's why dusty and i are both here, and i've listened to you tonight, and i want to start by letti

i would like to thank the cochair of the caucus, tom reed and our covid team leaders, dusty johnson, dean phillips, abigail spanberger, they are all here. i'm grateful to them. the problem solvers caucus proudly voted to endorse this package, meaning it has the support of 50 members of congress, 25 democrats and 25 republicans, who represent millions of families and businesses who need action. they want to get help and they are sick and tired of waiting for covid relief. with cases spiking, winter around the corner and small businesses closing every day, far too many families hurting right now, we cannot leave town and leave anyone in the cold without getting something done immediately. we cannot allow some to prioritize politics ahead of the pandemic. this package will help get us through the hardest months of winter and into a new administration. it is an essential down payment and what are communities need. this package is consistent with the values of the problem solvers caucus and what we have been fighting for since the summer. it will help families across the country with unem

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i wanted to specifically recognize abigail spam berger, dean phillips, dusty johnson, josh got jeimer, anthony gonzalez and fred upton. we worked tirelessly with our senate partners to bring together, i think, a common sense proposal, based on the principles of the problem solvers caucus. we are proud republicans, we are proud democrats, we are proud house of representatives members and proud senators. but at the end of the day we are fundamentally first and foremost proud americans and our job here in this great capital, and in the dome is to listen to the american people. and the american people are suffering. it is time, as my colleagues have said, to deliver these results for them. it is time for this package of $908 billion of emergency relief that just got delivered from the printer, on cue. >> should have had you speak earli earlier. >> to be delivered to the american people. i can't think of a better time than the christmas holiday to honor the call of the american people, listen to that voice and just ask those in these chambers and the 50 members of the problem solvers caucu

i mean if democrats like dean phillips and republicans like dusty johnson who are rank-and-file members can come to agreement on this , why in the world can our leadership not do it? i mean, i just feel like they let politics get in the way. let's get this thing done and 908 is the right number. it's higher than i want but it's the one that can get done. neil: all right, we'll watch very closely, gentlemen i want to thank you both, hope springs eternal for bipartisan support, it is possible, so we'll see what happens in the weeks to come. while addressing something going on across the ocean in paris there have been a number of violent demonstrations that have gotten increasingly more so, they're protesting right now police violence and a measure to crackdown on that from president macron and his security plan to go back at protesters who freely show police officers pictures and the like, they say that's an invasion and insights more violence, and protesters are saying no, what you're aspousing is going to create more violence and they're not at all happy with that and this has escalated

when out of 249 men and women you got about two dozen who will say biden won the election and dusty johnson pulls out of an appearance on my show among friends by the way. i welcome him here. but he'd rather bail on talking about relief of starving people than say anything that might get trump mad. >> that's what we're living in. i'm trying to make the point. i'm trying to make the point that this is not reality. that people are being played. i keep saying it. i know everyone says you can't -- all 71 million people who voted for trump, suckers and whatever. okay, then, a lot of those 71 million people need to stand up and say something. need to do something. need to call their lawmakers. because they are really the bosses. they need to do something and tell the rest of the folks who are not living in reality that they're not living in reality. come on over to the side of realness. of facts. everyone keeps saying, let this process play out. right, on the folks who are on the president's side. chris, how many lawsuits need to be thrown out? the process has played out over and over and over an

i swallowed last year finally works its way down my throat." [ laughter ] next up, congressman dusty johnsonike, "don't bother me, i'm busy losing a a chess match to that girl from 'queen's gambit.'" [ laughter ] up next, congressman fred upton said, "i trust the results, but not the congressmen who told me everyone was doing this pose." [ laughter ] then, senator mike braun was like, "this election was rigged or i wasn't once an extra in a a 'sopranos' restaurant scene. [ laughter ] and finally, senator john boozman said, "if you have proof the election was rigged, i'm all ears." [ laughter ] [ applause ] very interesting stuff here's a big tech story. today, apple unveiled a pair of noise-canceling headphones called the airpods max and get this, they cost $549 check them out yep. noise-canceling headphones for $549 when they heard, people quarantining with kids were like, "i'll give you $800. [ laughter ] here are the headphones in their case yeah, great. it looks like a storm trooper's purse. [ light laughter ] hey, listen to this, i saw that pizza hut is now selling a new something for t

we can speak now to congressman dusty johnson of south dakota, who helped frame the original coronavirusouth dakota if you could agree some kind of relief package now? clearly, a package is needed and we are going to get it done in the next few days and there are higher unemployment numbers in south dakota's in good shape from an unemployment perspective but america could be in better shape. this package would also make an investment in vaccine deployment, critically important as you deployment, critically important as you were deployment, critically important as you were just talking about, as well as increasing the number of tests, making sure he can keep her kids in school safe and making sure small businesses have the ability to pay their employees. of the president trump lost the election, republicans made against on the ballot, do you think the american people are sending you a message that is compromise and get things done after all this division? well, i don't know if that's what the american people intended, the message, but thatis people intended, the message, but that is the m

i would like to now recognize my colleague, fellow ag committee member from south dakota, dusty johnson, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, chairman conway. sir, you have been a champion. thank you, chairman peterson, sir, you have been a champion. but we're here on the floor this afternoon debating the united states grain standards re-authorization act and of course i rise in support of that act. agriculture is a business where almost nothing is certain. from poor weather to trade disruptions, to transport delays. these all create an incredible environment of unpredictability and in that environment of unpredictability, producers should not have to face unpredictability in agricultural policy. and that means that when congress can come together in a bipartisan way, and offer a bit of certainty, we absolutely should do so. so that brings us, of course, to the grain standards re-authorization act, and i'm glad that we're passing a five-year re-authorization so usgsa will r-funded allow

repairing to meet on thursday christmas eve to start the ratification process showed it was dusty has more. boris johnson and his european counterparts have been working tirelessly and they say they're closer than ever before to getting a trade deal of course they would be closer than ever to getting a trade deal considering the amount of time left the deadline is obviously the 31st of december but today is widely seen as a deadline day the final day for any provisional agreement as both sides are quite keen to get a deal in place by christmas all that said fisheries is still one of the main stumbling blocks still one of the key obstacles that has been throughout all of the talks throughout the year and it is still today in fact the loss what we heard from banja the chief negotiator just last night he said that the u.k.'s latest offer is absolutely unacceptable for the european union so it is quite hard to see that we're really getting to a breakthrough moment but it seems as though it hasn't it's all to do with how killing now the amount of percentages in the waters at the e.u. and the u.k. are now nego

percent more transmissible than earlier variants are too shabby edwards dusty reports now from london. well 2 days after boris johnson the prime minister announced his latest set of restrictions it's almost as though the united kingdom is plummeting into chaos countries that neighbor united kingdom have not quite gone to the extent of shutting the borders down entirely they're doing all they can very extreme measures to try and contain this new strand of covert 900 in the united kingdom and not to bring it to their shores now france's freezed transport links with the united kingdom for at least a 48 hours germany is not quite following suit but all travel is being banned and suspended until december 31st that's followed by many countries both within europe and outside europe including the netherlands belgium and italy and further afield canada colombia and rabiah with that list of countries growing by the minute for thousands of people both sides of the english channel are struggling to get back home in time for christmas i live in paris and i go with. my family to france to see my family couldn't see for more than 4