iowa republican senator joni ernst is giving life to the conspiracy theory, too. the senator says, these health care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if tove id is tied to it. so what do you think they're doing? i'll tell you what they're doing -- caring for infected patients. they're getting a lot of americans to the other side of this disease alive. and watching a lot of americans die alone from covid without family members by their side in their final moments. and those health care providers are risking their health, their lives, as they do this heroes' work. those health care providers didn't sign up to be deploys to a war zone, as senator ernst and an iraq war veteran did. these doctors and nurses, these patient transporters, hospital janitors, administrative workers, they answer the call anyway. senator ernst is disrespecting their service, accusing them of secretly fudging numbers to make hospitals more money. even as hospitals are losing $50 billion a month treating covid patients according to an industry group that represents them putt

thanks to colleagues like senator ernst, daines, gardner and sullivan we'll be voting on new support for small businesses like farms and fisheries. thanks to senator cornyn, we'll be voting on commonsense legal protections at universities and nonprofits have been asking for. who are the democrats excited to vote against? the farmers or the university presidents? thanks to chairman alexander and senator blunt we're going to vote on an incredibly robust package for education and health care to get kids back to school safely and then defeat this virus through science. we'll be voting on $105 billion for education, more than house democrats put in their bill. billions for testing and tracing. and even more support for vaccines. and thanks to a number of our colleagues, including senator ernst and loeffler, there's new support for child care, plus other arrangements like homeschooling, thanks to senator cruz. are democrats really going to refuse to fund k-12 schools and child care in a pandemic because they're afraid republicans might get some credit? really? they're going to vote against

joni ernst virtually tied with her radical dem opponent in iowa in 2014 currents won by more than eight points. that appears to be gone. her zone is martha mcsally down six points in her race against former astronaut mark kelly estate president trump one by or points in 2016. david perdue the senator from georgia has only a slim lead in his race within the margin of their in recent polls. perdue won by nearly eight points in his last election. colorado's cory gardner currently losing in his race against colorado governor john hickenlooper by nearly double the margin of president trump lost the state by in 2016. it looks in every instance those candidates, those gop candidates are not running with and in support of president trump and they are making a tremendous

and that's not even a knock on mitch mcconnell and joni ernst. it's just the fact that we live in a representative democracy, and that means your representation in congress are your two senators, your one representative. so it is really important to use your power, your constituent power, to focus on your own representatives. if you're looking for what to do, if you're focusing on this and you're worried for the future of our republic, i am too. there is actually power you have in this moment. specifically indivisible groups are doing two things in the next week. one, this friday we know that ruth bader ginsburg is lying in state at the u.s. capitol. we're not advising people make the trip out to the u.s. capitol to go to that event. we are asking folks and indivisible groups are being flowers or mementos to their senate offices in their own states and saying, hey, this is what ruth bader ginsburg means to me. i would like you to represent me. fight in the senate for me, not mitch mcconnell or donald trump. and, second, after you do that on frida

senator ernst, what prompted you towrite this book at this time ? >> guest: thank you peter so much. this has been ajourney of love for me . i grew up in southwest iowa, a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, dedication, hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime. opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting, certainly people will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we all should understand those challenges don't necessarily have to define us and just bless the women of the great united states of america and the opportunities it given to me and that'swhat i hope to share in this story with other people . >>. >> host: the book is relatively revealing and will go through some of those things but was it tough to expose yourself like that >> guest: it was very hard . i've been through a number of significant challenges in my lifetime . i was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend and really suffered from that bu

that re-election effort, this time, in the senate and involving joni ernst.president, the iowa republican is saying that she was so skeptical of the number of deaths caused by the virus after a man attending a campaign rally claimed the fatality count is exaggerated and when later asked to clarify her comments she said this. >> i have heard it from health care providers that they do get reimbursed higher amounts if it is a covid-related illness or death. so because of the additional expense for ppe and the treatment that might be necessary for covid. >> do you think that numbers are being inflated because of this? >> that, i'm not sure. >> that was on monday. today in a statement to the des point register she said quote over 180,000 americans have died because of kroed. what matters is that we're getting the resources to iowa to fight this virus and that is what i'm focused on. now all of that is happening as her state is reporting the nation's highest rate of new cases. prompting the white house coronavirus task force to call for a mask mandate and bar closu

. >> iowa senator joni ernst suggesting doctors might be inflating the coronavirus death toll. she spoke with the waterloo cedar falls courier. >> i can't actually look at that information, but i have heard it from health care providers, that they do get reimbursed higher amounts if it's a covid-related illness or death. >> i find it to be incredibly offensive. it's an offensive attack on some of the best iowans out there on the front lines. >> reporter: at least 260 cases confirmed stemming from that masks optional rally in sturgis, south dakota. >> they're ready to ride. everybody is cooped up. >> they rode free. many now sick and today one biker confirmed dead. dr. deborah birx who is on the white house coronavirus task force has been touring the country and she just said, if you need evidence that masks and distancing work, look at the southern states of the u.s. they implemented masks and distancing. people are still going to stores, going on vacation, eating out but they're wearing masks and the numbers have fallen. she said that this is no longer theoretical, this is a f

senator ernst and senator lauper had legislation on that and we had it in our original bill we got twice as much money for child care assistance as the democrats had in the heroes act but also back to better health. the shark tank idea and i talked to doctor collins at nih earlier today, 16 different tests now have gotten through the shark tank and advancing to more production. they believe out of the shark tank there will be capacity for 60 million tests a month by october. abbott labs announced independently that they will be producing 40 million tests a month by october and so 100 million tests a month gets us to the test that millions of people can take, dozens of times, whether at work or at school or on a campus. all of that is likely possible in a more quicker rate than it would have been but we still need the money we are appropriating in this bill for more vaccine development, more manufacturing and more distribution. to have a vaccine and not be able to get it out there would be a huge mistake and a july 2 hearing i chaired i challenged cdc and others to have a plan by october

so i am grateful to senator ernst and everyone who fought hard to fix the democrats bill. republicans kept the speaker of the house from adding insult to injury on such a challenging year for rural america. so all members will carefully review the resolution sent over by the house, i am optimistic that with bipartisan cooperation we will be able to make law well before the funding deadline at the end of this month. thank you madam president. first on a thank my colleagues were here until late last night and made such persuasive arguments as to why the new supreme court justice matters so much to the

we have great members on our side, tom tillis and joni ernst. i have dared to support trump. i have become for some reason, their number one target. my open and raise more money in august than any candidate running for senate. when you are spending $5 million a week on tv ads, everybody in south carolina will see his ads at least 130 times in one week. so if you have five dollars or $10, send it. graham.com. i want to make the court fight the center of my election. i doubt if he does. but i need the resources to make it the center of my election. is, this is what i came up to her do, why i ran for office, why you knock on doors , thisu make phone calls is the time for us. this is our time, and we will challenge. >> senator lindsey graham, you are doing a fantastic job as chairman of the senate judiciary committee. grateful that you have joined us here at the values voter summit and we will be praying for you. we will be praying that your sense of humor holds up. most people don't realize, you got a great sense of humor, and i think that helps you a lot in these difficult time

ernst: mr. president, i have eight requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the minority and majority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. ms. ernst: mr. president mpt. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. ms. ernst: thank you, mr. president. i grew up on a family farm with modest means. as a young girl, i saw washington, d.c. as a place for men and big fancy suits and big fancy houses. and while a lot has changed since that time, for one, there are a lot more women like myself serving in the senate, so much here is still the same. you see, too many folks in washington get their paycheck from american taxpayers, but don't honor the folks that pay their salary. instead of holding bad actors accountable, whether it's reckless spending or raunchy behavior on taxpayers' dime, it gets swept under the rug. let me give you an example. i have a bill right now, it's called the billion-dollar boondoggle act. it passed committee unanimo

the fact we're talking about whether joni ernst can win or lose.int out, the trump campaign can't bank on iowa. if they can't bank on iowa, their problem across the midwest is way worse than any of us ever thought it was likely to be at this stage. and that's in large part because iowa has the proportion of the population that are made up of what we call in polling parlance noncollege white voters. those who have been the ones that have tended to stick with donald trump the most. that number is higher in iowa and these numbers reflect that those people are not necessarily sticking with him. if this is the situation in iowa, what does that mean about what's going on in pennsylvania, in potentially ohio, in wisconsin, which we thought was going to be the center of the universe, could still be, but seems to be breaking for joe biden at this stage in the game. and i do think there are very real questions. jim vandehei touched on this. we know this could be an incredibly close election and we could be fighting this out for weeks. there are also some sig

so i am grateful to senator ernst and everyone who fought hard to fix the democrats bill. republicans kept the speaker of the house from adding insult to injury on such a challenging year for rural america. so all members will carefully review the resolution sent over by the house, i am optimistic that with bipartisan cooperation we will be able to make law well before the funding deadline at the end of this month. thank you madam president. first on a thank my colleagues were here until late last night and made such persuasive arguments as to why the new supreme court justice matters so much to the american people, to their healthcare, to working people's rights, to women's rights, preserving the right to choose, to making sure we have a good clean planets, the lb gtq for the dead and eloquent job or help america was listening because this nomination matters. it matters to the average daily lives of average americans. and last night, by holding the floor until late hours the democrats made really strong arguments. i thank my colleagues for doing that. now for the third da

amna: i have to ask you briefly, republican senator joni ernst has cast doubt on the death toll , sayingt is likely overstated, even though expertsh saopposite. is that doubt reflective of people's concerns on the ground in iowa? kay: i was hearing from conservative republicans in the state legislature as early as april that they were casting doubts about the number of covid debts being reported way back then. as you mentioned, 1100 deaths in iowa have been attributed to covid. senator ernst mentioned she has heard from people in the health care industry that hospitals are misdiagnosing people as having covid in order to get higher payments for the care of those patients. i have reachsp out to the al association here and to thstate medicaid program. neither of them have responded to that accusation. amna: we should point out that exrts seem to agree the death unt is actually undercounted nationwide in this pandec. thank you so much,. k kay: thank you. ♪ judy: the generallection season is officially in full swing and both presidential apcampaigns areng their path november. but shifting de

we have great members on our side, tom tillis and joni ernst. i am in a tough fight. my opponent raised $100 million. i dared to support kavanaugh and dared to support trump. reason,ecome, for some their number one target. my opponent raised more money in august than any candidate running for senate. when you are spending $5 million a week on tv ads, everybody in south carolina will see his ads at least 130 times in one week. i'm sure it will be the same for tom tillis. if you have $5 or $10, send it. lindseygraham.com. help us financially so we can push back. i want to make the court fight the center of my election. i doubt if he does, but i need the resources to make it the center of my election. you can pray to give grace. is whatom line is, this i came appear to do. this is why i ran for office. this is why you knock on doors and make phone calls. this is the time for us will start this is our time, and we will meet the challenge. >> senator lindsey graham, you are doing a fantastic job as chairman of the senate judiciary committee. grateful that you have joined u

joni ernst virtually tied in ah. in 2014 ernst won by more than 8 points.hat awe appearses to be gone. arizona's martha mcsally down 6 points in her race against former astronaut mark kelly, a state president trump won by 4 points in 2016. david perdue, the senator from georgia, has only a slim lead in his race. he's within the margin of error in recent polls. he won by nearly 8 points in his last election. colorado's cory gardner currently losing in his race against former colorado governor john hickenlooper by nearly double the margin that president trump lost the state by in 2016. it looks ugly, and in every instance those candidates, those gop candidates are not running with and in support of president trump, and there are making a tremendous mistake, and they're doing so at the, at the beckon of mitch mcconnell. it's a tragic mistake for the republican party but still early enough to correct. >>> president trump this hour will be heading to the battleground state of michigan for what is scheduled to be another high energy, electrifying trump rally. sup

ernst was so skeptical of the numbers. health care providers and other reimbursed at a higher rate if covid is overrated. what happens, people isn't responsible, people in the community look to for leadership say things like that? >> john, to be very clear, these numbers are underestimates. we are undercounting the number of coronavirus cases out there. essentially what's happened, let's say you have a patient who comes in, has a heart attack and dies. that patient also had high blood pressure, diabetes and smoked two pack as day 40 years. did they die from their heart attack? from smoking? from all of the above. so when you have a patient who dies from pneumonia also had underlying conditions in addition to covid, some of these politicians are basically saying, oh, well, they didn't really die from just covid. that's a completely inappropriate way to make the count. what we know is that there have been an excess of deaths related to coronavirus and it is due to coronavirus infection and the damage caused to people by the

joni ernst was forced to backtrack. she said she was skeptical of the official coronavirus death toll and suggested medical professionals had been fraudulently inflating numbers to make more money. >> i can't actually look at that information, but i have heard it from health care providers that they do get reimbursed higher amounts if it's a covid-related illness or death. >> again, there's no evidence for that claim and health care providers were outraged calling that an attack against the live saving work they're doing. meanwhile, across the u.s. schools are still facing clusters. more than 1,000 students were diagnosed at the university of south carolina. dr. anthony fauci saying they need to stay at school and absolutely not go back home. >> it's the worst thing you can do. keep them at the university in a place that's see questered enough from the other students but don't have them go home because they could be spreading it in their home state. >> fauci also pleading with americans to continue mitigation efforts ah

you heard a lot from joni ernst tonight about being a farmer, fighting for farmers, clearly trying to establish some sort of independence from the president, but it's going to be very difficult at this late stage in the political cycle because so many voters so clearly associate these republican senators with the president because for 3 1/2 years they've been standing by this president. they've been supporting him. they, of course, voted to acquit him in the impeachment trial earlier this year. and so there are now political consequences they're having to grapple with as they struggle for re-election. >> indeed let's not forget we just showed live pictures of capitol hill, where the flags remain at half-staff until ruth bader ginsburg is laid to rest. michael schmidt, andrea bernstein, philip rucker, can't thank you enough for starting us off. greatly appreciate it. >>> coming up for us, more on the push to quickly confirm the president's nominee to the supreme court. our next guest has argued dozens of cases before that very bench. he warns that millions of americans have a lot at st

what's your answer to senator ernst and others who have questioned data like we have on the screen heredc and johns hopkins. >> i find it as being away from what reality really is. you want to see it, come talk to some of my friends. some of the relatives and people i know this this local community that have lost their lives or dealing with long-term health issues. but that is the challenge we're having. even talking about direct funding to local cities, we haven't seen that yet. we were a city over 500,000 people, maybe there would be some direct funding, but in her very own state, we are needing help. cities need help. and people need real officials that know what's really happening on the ground here. >> well, mayor quinton hart, we wish you the best of luck. we know you have a lot on your plate going forward and the people who live in your town as well. >> all right, thank you. >>> well, former vice president joe biden is heading today to kenosha, wisconsin. he's going to meet with the family of jacob blake. what can we expect from the trip? >>> and we're moments away from the openi

democratic candidate theresa greenfield up three in iowa over joni ernst. and the democrat up by a point in georgia. then it gets more remarkable from there. these are recent polls. democrat jaime harrison, who will be joining us, down to just one to lindsey graham in south carolina.o mike espy down by one in mississippi. south carolina, mississippi, and texas, all with competitive senate races. winnable races for democrats. right? republican incumbents are favored in all those places, of course they are favored. but they're sweating. and many democrats clearly view a battle over health care in the midst of a pandemic the president has bungled, leading to the unnecessary death of tens of thousands of our fellow americans. they view that fight as being in their favor. raphael warnok is a pastor, democratic candidate running for senate in georgia. there's two senate elections in georgia. this one is a special election. he's not gotten a ton of attention because it's a weird special election. a whole bunch of candidates can be in runoff if no one gets 50%, it

in iowa -- joni ernst in iowa, the question starts to become this: what looks good enough, right?is wrong in politics in an election year, it's what looks good enough, what looks appropriate enough, and corey gardener probably doesn't want to be anywhere near anything that looks kinky for the long term. leland: the new i'll tell you what drops tuesday or wednesday, you keep changing it up. >> yes. we changed it one time. it's tuesday. leland: all right. alicia and i will be downloading it. thanks for joining us on a sunday. we appreciate it. >> thanks, guys. leland: good to see you. alicia: wildfires and a major tropical storm threaten millions of americans out west. wildfires spreading towards the different communities leading to more mass evacuations while tropical storm beta brews in the gulf coast. adam klotz is tracking it. adam? >> reporter: yeah, for the second time ever we are into the greek alphabet for our trap call storms -- tropical storms, moving towards the texas coast. when will it arrive? i'll have that after the break. ♪ i want to make it absolutely clear. rioting

briefly before w you go,y the republican senator joanie ernst has rt cently casdoubt on not-- likelyrstated eveny though experts say the opposite. is that doubt, is that reflective of people's concerns on the grond in iowa? i was hearing from conservative republicans in the state legislature as early as april that they wereasting doubts about the number of covid deaths that were being reported in the statey back then. and as you mentioned a few moments ago, 1100 deaths in iow have been attributed to covid. and senator ernst mentioned she haheard from people in the health-care industry, that o hospitals are misdiagnosing pele as having covid in order to get higher payment for the care of those patients.ha reached out to the hospital association here and to the state medicaid program, neither of them have responded to that accusation. >> nawaz: we should point out the death count is actually pandemic.ted nationwide in this that is kay henderson of radio thank you so much.ector there, >> thank you. >> woodruff: the general election season is officially in full swing, and both presidenti

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me, i thinke asking joni ernst is in deep trouble. i am not sure the farmers. to me it is independent. i refer to the holsters. we saw -- pollsters. we saw an enormous erosion among independents has the coronavirus started rising. town, rural folks like that, this is about identity. this is about he speaks for me. that, iut having said think they will have a horrible night in the senate. i think it will be more independents that are breaking overwhelmingly against not just the president but against republicans down ballot. his base will never leave him. small town rural whites are definitely, and white farmers, definitely are in that base. >> the other thing important here is fierce. when you -- fears. with the groups he has done well with in 2016, the numbers have fallen off since the start of covid are senior citizens. i have studied millennial politics for a decade now. i have been preaching to republicans for a decade they have to give the program or lose young voters. now those millennials are almost 40 years old and they still break for democrats by huge

. >> -- she would want to wait but are we going to find enough people who are going to wait ernst was talking about how she didn't see voting for a justice even if donald trump lost the presidency there was an interview in the last two months in which joni ernst said that. i don't see a scenario where sort of reason and protocol and norms suddenly take hold and we wait to see who the next president is and what the will of the american people is. i don't feel a lot of optimism on that front. i hope i'm wrong to not feel optimism >> i want to put a -- read a statement that chuck schumer just tweeted out in which he, i think, just tweeted the words of i think that's exactly what mitch mcconnell said in 2016 after scalia's death the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice. therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a next president that is word for word mitch mcconnell's statement about scalia's passing in 2016 i want to follow up on the politics of the senate, but also just -- i mean, look, ruth bader ginsburg was a feminis

i see senator ernst other there who will be following me and i want to thank senator ernst for reserving this time as other members of the agricultural committee come to speak an issue about something that we shouldn't be having an issue. i rise to engage in a colloquy on the importance of providing certainty and predictability. to our nation's farmers, ranchers, and growers, by replenishing the commodity credit corporation. this should not be an issue. first i would like to thank senator hoeven, whos have just arrived on the -- who has just arrived on the floor for his leadership in speaking to this issue, other senators, for their commitment to agriculture and their -- in their respective states and across the country. no matter what they grow or where they live, farmers, ranchers, growers have done their part to ensure the food and fiber food supply continues without disruption during these unprecedented times. i think everybody is familiar with the situation. every five years congress passes legislation that sets the national agriculture nutrition conservation and forestry policy com

please, senator ernst. >> thank you, thank you, mr. chy much. thanks to our panelists for joining us to webex today as well. and during my time innocent i have made have made it a priority to find ways to save taxpayer dollars and make the federal government work more efficiently. and i am glad were taking this opportunity to examine the topic here today. i have long been a proponent of moving more federal jobs outside of washington, d.c. in the past two congresses i've introduced the strategic withdrawal of agencies for meaningful basement act, the swamp act, and currently we see that the headquarters of nearly all of our executive branch agencies are clustered in and around washington, d.c., and that concentrates hundreds of thousands of jobs in the region. the swamp act creates a competitive bidding process that allows states, cities and towns across the country to compete to be a federal agencies new home. during the covid-19 pandemic many of our federal workers have successfully done their jobs outside of d.c., showing us that they don't ne

obviously, joni ernst. we have pickup opportunities in alabama. john james is a breakout candidate in michigan, doing incredibly well. we are not just trying to hold our seats. we are looking to pick up seats as well. host: what worries you the most. -- most? guest: i can't say that. i don't want to make our candidates think i'm worried about their race. i feel good about the ground game, certainly some of these are going to be gained. the: we've been looking at numbers coming from the president's reelection campaign. do you have financially what the party needs for advertising and the final push? guest: we absolutely have the resources we need to get through this campaign. the difference is we have raised record money and more than the dnc since the beginning of 2019. we have been investing in a ground game. that is why you are seeing stories like, republicans are out-registering democrats in north carolina, because having that ground game and understanding can't pop up a ground game a week for an election, having people the able to knock and be

susan collins, those are three that everybody acknowledges, thom tillis, obviously, joni ernst. and this then we've got pickup opportunities in alabama with tuberville, john james is a breakout candidate in michigan, doing incredibly well against gary peters. so, we're not just trying to hold our seats, we're actually looking to pick up seats as well. >> but what worries you the most of those races. what are you most concerned of. >> i can't say that, i don't want to make our candidates think i'm worried about their race. i feel good about what we're doing in all of these states. i feel good about the ground game. but certainly, some of these are going to be neck and neck until election day. >> and we have been looking at numbers coming from the president's reelection campaign. do you have financially what the party needs? does the president have what he needs in terms of advertising and the final push? >> we absolutely have the resources we need to get through this campaign. the difference with the rnc, we've raised record money and more than the dnc since the beginning of 2019

last day, several of those endangered republicans have said they're signed on with mcconnell-- joni ernst in iowa, tillis in north carolina, mcsally in arizona-- and so, what we don't know is, are there four republicans in the senate, apart from susan collins, who said she would prefer to wait, lisa murkowski, who said she doesn't think there should be a vote 'til the new president is chosenchuck grassley, former chairman of the judiciary committee, has also said that-- but that leaves only three if they all do that. many, many other republicans have done a complete 180 around their position back in 2016 when they said no vote in a presidential year. and so, it's going to be up to mcconnell in the next day or two to decide, does he want to try a vote now, or does he want to wait 'til after the election and do it in a lame duck session? >> sreenivasan: and things could get contentious. i mean, democrats wouldn't like this idea. >> if trump wins in november, this issue essentially goes away. because even if the democrats were to wind up taking the senate, the lame duck republicans in novemb

their races leaning toward the democrats and could be a toss-up for david perdue of georgia, joanie ernst ofey, susan collins of maine and tom till of nyse b north carolina and eve lindsey graham and kelly loeffler. those lean republicans. th democrats are going to be health care, health care, health care, how does this affect the senate map? carl: i think we're trying to game that out and so are the people who run these campaigns. there's two schools of thought here. but that it's probably not a great situation for cory gardner in colorado who's in big trouble in a state that doesn't like trump. arizona may already be lost. susan collins of course was at the center of the kavanaugh fight. some people think, well, maybe this can help susan collins who is opposed to moving forward schmo -- separate herself from trumprom trump. but we'll have to see about that. people think it could help symptom lagging republicans, thom tillis in noth carolina, and i've heard republican strategists say to me, it's basically going to be a tillis-barrett ticket down there. and in other states. so right now,

that same trend also seen in iowa, where senator joni ernst this week repeated a widely- debunked claimt the number of covid deaths is greatly inflated. today, in a statement to cbs news, the senator, who is in a tough re-election fight, walked back those comments, saying over 180,000 americans have died because of covid-19. even states where numbers are declining are seeing a disturbing trend. today, the university of georgia announcing 821 students and staff tested positive just in the last week. that's nearly a 350% increase over the week before. the university president now pleading with students to keep their distance. in florida, a photo of an overcrowded hallway at this high school in velucia county has gone viral. it's a different problem further south in miami-dade, where some students and teachers couldn't get online after cyber attacks disrupted the district's remote learning for a third straight day. >> yesterday's attacks, we know, some of them came from outside of the country. >> reporter: next week, schools start in much of the northeast, just after labor day, where healt

thom tillis from north carolina, joanie ernst. judge jeanine: didn't the dems shoot themselves in the foot in 201 3 with the filibuster. >> paybacks are hell. it's true on the schoolyard playground and on capitol hill. harry reid was upset some republicans were blocking the lower-tier nominees. so he lowered the filibuster from 60 to 51. but they left out the supreme court. mitchell mcconnell saw the writing on the wall. they are never going to filibuster against a supreme court nominee, so he lowered the threshold for supreme court nominees. abe fortis, his nomination to become chief justice of the united states was filibustered. but he did not become chief justice. harry reid opened pandora's box. let's talk more about ruth bader ginsburg's life and legacy as well as some of the women president trump was thinking of relacing her with. i'm joined by shannon bream. thanks for joining us tonight. it appears there are two women who might be the favorites. they call her acb. amy comey barrett. as well as the woman from florida. barba

thom tillis from north carolina, joanie ernst. judge jeanine: didn't the dems shoot themselves in the foot in 201 3 with the filibuster. >> paybacks are hell. it's true on the schoolyard playground and on capitol hill. harry reid was upset some republicans were blocking the lower-tier nominees. so he lowered the filibuster from 60 to 51. but they left out the supreme court. mitchell mcconnell saw the writing on the wall. they are never going to filibuster against a supreme court nominee, so he lowered the threshold for supreme court nominees. abe fortis, his nomination to become chief justice of the united states was filibustered. but he did not become chief justice. harry reid opened pandora's box. let's talk more about ruth bader ginsburg's life and legacy as well as some of the women president trump was thinking of relacing her with. i'm joined by shannon bream. thanks for joining us tonight. it appears there are two women who might be the favorites. they call her acb. amy comey barrett. as well as the woman from florida. barba

. >> joining us now on book tv is senator joni ernst, a republican from iowa . she's written a new memoir calleddaughter of the heartland . senator ernst, what prompted you towrite this book at this time ? >> guest: thank you peter so

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how does he think this will help cory gardner and jodi ernst?>> i think one of the low points for this process was that cavanaugh hearings and what presidents did there, making baseless allegations against justice kavanaugh, someone respected prior to president trump appointing him by everyone and democrats his name through the month. the president wants to see a fair confirmation process and he wants to see one that does not look like what happened to kavanaugh, that was a low point for democrats. >> were there stumbles inthe kavanaugh confirmation process will help republicans ? >> democrats really showed themselves at the lowest point in that confirmation process. the american people saw democrats for the partisan games they play an american people are looking out and saying nancy pelosi and chuck schumer talking about impeachment or executing our power in article 2 section 2, it's inane and outlandish the things they're suggesting and they seem to be doubling down on their kavanaugh approach. it will work out well this time in an election ye

it will be joni ernst and the senator from arizona, who is probably going to get beaten anyway. it will be susan collins. if senator graham gets beaten, you are looking at a landslide election throughout the country. we may know that early, we may not. host: let's get back to your phone calls. jay, from indiana. caller: thank you so much for che -- for taking my call. and for c-span. ab mr. tyler can straighten me out on the robert work -- bork point. my recollection of the robert bork appointment and rejection was not so much that he was an originalist, wasn't he the firingwho supported archibald coxe during the watergate hearings? that is my recollection. i'm wondering if it was a question of ideology or other it was that which drove his rejection. my second question is, i am wondering who mr. tyler is going to vote for. thank you so much. think you are right on the archibald coxe. i would have to refresh my history on that, because i think he -- host: he was the solicitor general and then line after the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned. guest: my recollec

jonie ernst said, i haven't read it, i haven't seen it. john cornyn saying he's done as good a job as you can under the circumstances. there are other questions the president raised. >> i have built a nuclear -- i have built a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before. we have stuff that you haven't even seen or heard about. we have stuff that putin and xi have never heard about before. there's nobody. what we have is incredible. >> reporter: during this rally in michigan the president and his campaign team were violating his observe administration's coronavirus guidelines as they packed in thousands of supporters that weren't practicing social distancing and many weren't wearing masks. >>> john bolton has been critical of president trump's leadership after he was ousted as national security advisor one year ago. bolton spoke earlier with our chris cuomo and said mr. trump only views the pandemic as it might impact his chances for re-election. >> look, this is a very serious political problem for the president. that's wh