why is this a global competition to you, if every day americans are still losing their lives and we're seeing more cases every day? >> they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. and maybe that's a question you should ask china. don't ask me, ask china that question. when you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer. >> sir, why are you saying that to me specifically? >> i'm telling you, i'm not saying it specifically to anybody that would ask a nasty question to you. >> uncomfortable moment in the rose garden. jon, in addition to being asked if american workers should have the same access to tests as the white house, the president was also asked if as a precautionary measure, if he would separate himself from vice president mike pence. >> reporter: he said he has not been with pence since the positive test came in on friday. i'm told the vice president plans to spend another day or two away from the president. assuming he continues to get negative tests, he will be back with the president by t middl j. >>> and tonight, as america slowly tries to reopen, the ne

in the eyes of almost every american, if this could be a far left partisan wish list. and iand if it's a preordained d last night senatere republicans are latching onto provisions that account for .003% to the total bill. talk about grasping at straws. it is so predictable the republican leader would oppose the bill before you. and now that it's so necessary for so many americans it is predictable that republicans are just saying no. the republican leader also called blue aspirational. the republican leadership knows it isn't aspirational when a family cannot feed their children. it's not aspirational when americans for the first time are worried about losing their homes were being evicted from their i apartments. it isn't aspirational when americans are facing a health crisis in which every one of us is afraid we might come down with a dangerous illness or spread it to a loved one. it isn't aspirational. we are talking about urgent and necessary relief. but of collective knee-jerk partisanship, the republican leadership in the senate basically declared that the dead o

it is not true that every american who wants a test can get a test. 80,000ondly, more than americans have died. moms and dads and brothers and sisters and grandpas and grandmas, and many of those deaths could have been prevented of the white house had taken this pandemic seriously and acted quickly in january to do comprehensive testing that was needed. and that testing is still needed today. sen. schumer: thank you, deb. two points i didn't make. the inaction in the senate. if you didn't know, if you came from a different planet and looked at the senate this week, you wouldn't even know there's a crisis in america. that is how lame the republican response in the senate is. nothing going on on the floor on covid and not close to the number of hearings we need. second, as you know, in our law, the president is required to give a detailed plan on testing on may 24. admiral -- i have to say his name right -- admiral dear needed one we million tests on the fall. give us a detailed plan on may 24 on how we will get there because donald trump said two months ago we had all the testing we n

the president said every american who needs one will get one. but he was pressed, and jonathan karl asking, should americans have the same access to tests as workers in the white house? >> reporter: today in the rose garden, a sign of the new white house reality. almost everyone wearing masks. >> just about everyone i've seen today has worn a mask. yeah. >> are you the one who required it? >> i did. i did. i required it. >> reporter: at least two people close to the president have tested positive. one of his military valets and the vice president's press secretary, katie miller. senior staff are now getting tested every day. a luxury that is not available to most people in the country. even as the president urges states to reopen. when will it be available to americans across the country? >> very soon. really, very soon. >> reporter: should people be told to get back to work until they have that assurance? that they and their coworkers are able to get tests, which are still not there? >> we're leaving it up to the governors. if we see something w

it did not matter what was in the bill, in his eyes, not in the eyes of almost every american, who is going to be a far left partisan wish list. and to fit the preordained narrative, they were latchingis onto provisions that account for .0003 percent to the total t bi. about grasping at straws. it is so predictable that the republican leader would oppose the bill before he saw what was in it. and now that it is so necessary, for so manyns americans, predictable that republicans are just saying no. the republican leader also called the bill operational pretty republican leader should know, it is not aspirational when a family, cannot feed their children. it is not aspirational, and americans for the first time, are about or are worried about losing their homes. and being evicted from their apartments. it is not aspirational what americans are facing a health crisis in which every one of us is afraid that we might have done with a dangerous illness or spread it to a loved one. it is not aspirational. we're talking about urgent, and if necessary relief. but out of needs of partisan ship,

now, i'm not saying every american should be tested every morning, of course not. but every health official i've talked to, including you, says there needs to be more aggressive surveillance testing. when are we going to get up to the level where people could have some peace of mind, i know i can go back to work because we tested everybody before we went back to work and we isolated people and we do this every month now or something like that? when will we be able to do widespread broad based testing and contact tracing for every american? >> we have had 10 million tests done. public health experts say as a gauge of whether you have adequate testing for surveillance purposes you want to be seeing a positivity rate of 10% or below. nationwide we're at 9%. 38 of our states are at that 10% or below goal. the others are progressing towards that. we'll have 12.9 million tests administered as the projection just in the coming weeks, doing 300,000 tests a day. and we're going to be bringing online something, jake, that i think is quite exciting, which is going to be these

we grieve for every american life that has been lost, but we want the american people to be confident in the response of this administration. that is what he was referring to. in the average year, the health care industry uses 25 million n95 masks, and we the liver in this short time 75 million, more than three times what the health care sector uses in a year. it is extraordinary that some in the mediated -- some in the media were saying we needed ventilators -- not a single american has died or lack of a ventilator and the fact that this president can look the american people in the eye and say i'm producing 100,000 ventilators this year alongside the private sector, three times what we produce in the average year, i consider that a great success on behalf of the american people. >> it more about the toned and the policy itself? ms. mcenany: we want to give the american people confidence that they have a federal government doing everything in our power to provide the necessary equipment to combat this invisible enemy. we grieve for the american lives i will echo that today. i pray re

. >> i stand before you as a friend and ally, to every american seeking justice and peace. and i stand before you in firm opposition to anyone exploiting this strategy to loot, rob, attack and menace. the memory of george floyd is dishonored. pete: that was president trump in a speech yesterday, condemning the violent riots that have broken out since the death of george floyd. but how will this message be received? griff: here to react is fox nation host and fox news contributor, lawrence jones. good morning, lawrence. what did you make of the president's words there in florida? >> good morning to everyone and to the audience as well. look, i think it was one of his best speeches. the president came straight out and said that he was an ally of all those seeking freedom and justice. he talked about standing with the peaceful protesters. but he also on the flip side talked about the professional paid anarchists, he labeled them who they were and it showed that the president was aware that there are two groups that are out there. there are the people that are organized from a

he hasn't been convicted and justice is not going to be served until the sentence matches what every american who has looked at the video with their own two eyes sees which is the murder of an american on an american street in broad daylight on m memorial day. that's how you start healing these wounds when people across the united states see that the criminal justice system will work in the way it's supposed to, that it's intended to work. quick note on the riots, every time we talk about lawlessness of the rioters, the folks who are protesting haven't been peaceful -- we have to mention -- okay. howie: so i want to turn now to something that cnn's don lemon said about the president's

we are going to do what many of the european countries are doing and that is guaranteeing every american worker continues to ,eceive his or her paycheck they have to make sure we get money into the pockets of the american people at this time when so many people are hurting. that is number one. number two, i would hope that we use this moment to take a hard look at how we got to where we are today. how does that happen? the wealthiest country in the history of the world. we have a health care system in which your health care is tied to your employment. 30 million people lose their jobs. any millions of those people are also losing -- many millions of those people are also losing their health care. does that make sense to anybody? whether you are working, whether you are young, rich or poor, health care is a human right. not an employee benefit. when we talk about how we got to where we are and the desperation that so many people are seeing in this country, we have to ask ourselves, what kind of an economy do we have when even in good times of a couple months ago, unemployment, three or 4%

why is this a global competition if every day americans are losing their lives and we are seeing moreases every day? pres. trump: they are losing their lives everywhere in the world. maybe that is a question you should ask china. don't ask me. ask china that question, ok? when you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer. behind you, please. reporter: sir, why are you saying that to me specifically about china? pres. trump: i am saying it if anyone asked a nasty question like that. reporter: it is not a nasty question. why does it matter? pres. trump: please. please. ok. reporter: i have some questions, mr. president. you called on me. pres. trump: i did and you did not respond. now i am calling on the young lady in the back. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you very much. the first of two supreme court case on president trump's finances. the eutsche bank regarding president's financial records. presidential immunity and subpoenas for the president's tax returns. at noon eastern, the panel reviews the day's oral arguments and the judicia

the president's comments hurts every american. i don't care your politics president who ignores p the trut truth, said whatever pops into his head and then on his very way to speak the next and truth the president's comments show a stunning disregard for the truth it may havek been on the battleship but to say we have prevailed is a key to declaring mission accomplished before the battle is over and the wars are one. now theecha president we have prevailed on testing but that is false you can stop the outbreak it when we do so we do so safely. and here is what is so ironic about the president hiding his head in the sand he is desperate that we get back to work is when we have enough test. but to anyone who wants anybody in the white house is tested why is that not good enoughta everybody? even though states that have or topened up georgia the stores are still empty. because people are worried, justifiably. the way to remove that worry is to make sure everyone can be tested the first tell quarantined i called the mayor and said wha

to allow every american to go to work who has been hurt, hold them accountable and have them free chinesessets. we are going to keep speaking the truth, and we are going to hold china accountable, and this is the time. we have got to change our relationship with china. is now or never. >> tucker: not just a question of trade, it's what kind of world our grandchildren going to live in. so i fervently hope this could be a bipartisan effort. have you had any luck getting democrats in the senate on your side to push back against chinese dominance? >> so far, they will talk about china and say that's a problem but when it comes time to actually rubber to road, are we going to let americans go to court to have their day, are we going to change our trade agreements, are we going to reform the w.h.o. or just get out of it or are we going to reform the world trade organization where we are getting robbed blind by china. are you going to do something about that? these are the arguments i'm making and it's time right now for elected officials to stand up and do something about it. >> tucker: it shou

that was put up for a referendum and passed overwhelmingly so for the past 30 some years every alaskan 700,000 americans, has benefited from the permanent fund dividend check about 51 - - $1500 every year coming in october. with a family of four that is a check of $6000 every fall which is a meaningful amount of money. not so much people can put their feet and hang out and play video games or drop out of the workforce but it is enough to help people make ends meet a little bit easier. some of my colleagues were talking to people what they do with the dividend empirical research backs of the stories that they use it to cover a month or two of rent they are behind, some use it to prepare for the winter to buy heating fuel, others save for college education than upper middle class and wealthy would use it to find vacations in january or february when alaskans want to go where it's warm where it's bleak and cold but the biggest thing to take away from that fund is not only do people love it because it provides a little bit of breathing room, but also one of the most powerful factors to be back against the p

american private sector succeeded. this administration mobilized that testing. every state is better off than south korea at this moment and that is a very good thing and something to be celebrated because it's american innovation at its best with 92 emergency use authorizations. this administration under president trump working. >> does the president agree with dr. fauci that we do not have total control over this outbreak? >> the president believes in the phased guidelines to reopening which dr. fauci signed off on along with dr. birx and we encourage every state and governor to follow. >> thank you, kayleigh, the president said on friday that testers are literally sitting around waiting for people and there is a great overcapacity yet the reality in the state is there are still wide spret criticism and reports of not enough testing and the kaiser family foundation ranks florida 24th in the country per capita when it comes to testing. is the president being overly optimistic about the situation in florida? >> not in the slightest. i was actually in the oval office w

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every day. when will it be that americans across the country will be able to get tested every day as they go back to work? pres. trump: very soon. it is an interesting question because normally you would have said that you are not tested and you would have been knocking us for not getting tested. if we get tested, it is a problem. if we don't get tested, it is a problem. but i like the way your question was phrased this way because it is a positive. we are tested and we have great capability. you look at all these machines -- incredible machines, the best anywhere in the world. no place in the world has this kind of equipment. sophisticated countries are calling -- lots of countries. we are trying to make as much as we can available to them because there is nothing like what we have been able to do literally in a couple of months -- what they have been able to do, the private sector, how they got it done. this is a five to 15 minute tests, the abbott laboratories test. these tests are highly sophisticated, very quick, very good. these are things that did not even exist a short while ago. we have

why is this a global competition if every day americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day. >> they're losing their lives everywhere in world. maybe that's a question you should ask china. don't ask me. ask china that question. when you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer. yes, behind you, please. >> sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically? >> i'm not saying it specifically to anybody. i'm saying it to anybody that would ask a nasty question. >> that's not a nasty question. why does it matter? >> anybody else. >> i have two questions. >> it's okay. you pointed to me. i have two questions. >> next, please. you called on me. i did and you didn't respond now i'm calling on the young lady in the back. i wanted to let me colleague finish. >> thank you very much. preer appreciate it. >> you called on me. >> that was interesting at the brian williams to recap. rather than allowing caitlin collins of cnn to ask her questions, the president called an end to the news conference after a dust up and answer with an asian reporter

single week, tens of thousands of americans are dying. every aspect of american society has been changed by this crisis except perhaps the republican senate. here it is business as usual. leader mcallister three weeks of the senate's time largely on nominations only one of whom is directly related to covid-19. not one bill on the floor of the senate having to do with covid-19 in the entire month of may, the leader has put none on the floor. democrats had to relentlessly pressure colleagues to hold even the most routine and needed oversight hearings on the coronavirus. coronavirus is raging, people are upset how the administration is implementing it. we don't have hearings until we push push push for them. it would be one thing of the republican majority were doing this other business while negotiating democrats on the next phase of emergency relief. republicans are not negotiating about the next phase of emergency relief. many of my colleagues on the other side, said more relief is not necessary. the republican leader rejected legislation from

of course, we grieve for every american life that has been lost. but we want the american people to be confident in the response of this administration and that's what he was referring to. the fact that in the average year, the health care industry uses 25 million n-95 masks and we have delivered in this short time, 75 million n-95 masks, more than three times than what's used in a year. some in the media saying we needed a million ventilators and this president has, we needed far short of that, not a single american has died for lack of a ventilator and the fact this president can look the american people in the eye and say, i am producing 100,000 ventilators this year, alongside the private sector, 100,000 ventilators, that's three times what we produce in the average year, i consider that a great success on behalf of the american people. >> the policy itself? >> we want to give the american people confidence. they have a federal government that is doing everything in our power to provide the necessary equipment to combat this invisible enemy. we

needhe and we are going to do wt many of the european countries are doing and that is guaranteeing every americanker continues to receive his or her paycheck and we will make sure we get many into the pockets of the american people at this time when people are hurting but that's number one. then i would hope we would use this moment to take a hard look at how we got to where we are today. how did this happen? in the wealthiest country in the history of the world are we having a healthcare system in which your healthcare is tied to your employment and when 30 million people lose their jobs manye millions of those people are also losing [inaudible] and does that make sense to anybody? whether you are working or not working or young or old, rich or poor, healthcare is a human right, not an employee benefit and when we talk about how we got to where we are and the desperation that so many evil are seen in this country then we have to ask ourselves what kind of economy do we have when even in good times, a couple of months ago, an appointment at three, 4% half the people lived paycheck to paycheck and

by the covid ryndemic that beijing unleashed on the world, to allow every american to go to court andold them accountable and freeze chinese assets. i guess that makes me a target. i don't care. we are going to keep speaking the truth and hold china accountable. and this is the time. we have to change our relationship with china. it is now or never. >> tucker: it is not just a question of trade, it's what kind of world our grandchildren will live in. it's not a mistake to say that the future of the world hangs in the balance right now. so i fervently hope that this is going to be a pipe artisan at. have you had any luck getting democrats in the senate on your side to push back against chinese dominance? >> i'm afraid that so far, the democrat friends, they will talk and game about china, that is a problem, but when it comes time to rubber to road, what are we going to do about it? are we going to let americans go to court to have their day? are we going to change or trade agreements with china? are we going to reform the w.h.o. or just get out of it? or reform the world trade organiza

is that every american can getmu tested a as once or twice a week? >> yeah, that's what i --ta see, the imp thing that everyone needs to know about the pcr is they're diagstic tests, meaning we're not talking about the serology antibody tests. we're not in the serology test business at this stage. all weo is the diagnostic tests that says, yes, you're the test result isliableive. as the isolation that you give yourself between testing and result. anyby can pick it up in between. so i do think that if peoplee ligent, if they get tested twice a week and it's absolutelyos not onlyble, we as a country could easily test twice a week. it's a snap.oesn't take long. >> what about people who are nervous about getting tested? there are people who are reluctant still. what do you say to them?in >> athey've got to loo hard at the people they love and make that decision d get past that fear. >> i'd like to show you something president trump said about testinjust recently. let me show you what he said and get your reaction on the bk end. >> what we've done on test

to deliver services and how we are spending money as well and then live within our means like every american family and as we have demonstrated to implement all sorts of things the private sector does to do a better job and we can do that with the services and measure these and we have done that has how we came into the pandemic in the first place. >> specifically what is on your radar? >> one of the things that people think about real budget control comes from overall lowering expenses to figure out how to improve the system and your headcount so for example we as a state earlier this year had the lowest employment level people employed by my agencies since 1994 looking at process improvement and better technology and process that's you control expenses is not like the programs but finding ways to manage or cost to do a better job to provide services while you control cost and this is what the private sector does every day. >> in an open negotiation with the state legislature. [laughter] >> it is a negotiation with regard to how this works with the budget. they control the purse strings we

ever in fact these are americans that are there that we can figure a path for we want to get every american back if the matured regime decides to hold them will use every tool that we have available trying to get them back it's our responsibility to do so up to france or i suppose monitoring developments from point to cyprus. continue to accuse not only president donald trump but also president iran to get from colombia and also opposition leader who while you go he said that the united state has some subcontracted a security company in order to carry out and try to oust him he also said that there was going to be an investigation ongoing in order to find out what actually happened that every day comes new information and that operations continue our own going in venezuela today and that today 4 other people involved in this attack were part of a where detained in the past is not the 1st time that we've seen crossed accusations between the united states and venezuela but this is the 1st time that 2 former u.s. soldiers are detained in venezuela in an operation so this certainly raises a lot

president trump said a month ago, every american who wants a test can get a test. well, obviously, that is not even close to true. and you know, rachel, the longer they don't admit the truth, they don't, and the longer they don't admit to, listen to the scientists, the longer this crisis is going to last. and even worse, it's more likely to come back a second and third time. so frankly, this president, who only looks out for himself, is even hurting himself, by shying away, by putting his head in the sand, by not admitting the truth. we democrats, you're right, we came back today, so mitch mcconnell could confirm a right-wing, very divisive judge, a judge who even said that the chief justice was wrong when he didn't get rid of the aca, even at a time when people are desperate for health care, and that's why we're coming back. it's unbelievable. there is nothing on the floor this week about covid. we asked mcconnell, at least to have hearings, and bring up, so they could get real questions, not, you know, when a reporter asks them a question, or ask the president or

deprivining george floyd, one o the things that every american should be able to do, breathe. the same thing happens with briana taylor and george floyd. we spoke their names and with suffering hearts of the endless list. it is a list that dates back for 400 years, black men, black women and black children. it still stains our nation today. sometimes we manage to overlook it. we just push forward with a thousand other tasks of our daily lives and it is always there. we see it plainly and we are a country of an open wound. none of this can be turned away. none of this can we hear the words "i can't breathe" and do nothing. we can't fail victims like what martin luther king called the si apali appalling silence of good people. we wonder who would be next? imagine every time your husband or son or wife our daughter left the house, you fear for their safety from bad actors and bad police. imagine if you had to have that talk with your child about not asserting your rights, taking the abuse handed out to them. so, just so they can make it home. imagine having police called on you j

american private sector succeeded. this administration mobilized testing. every state is better off than south korea at this moment, and good thing and something to be celebrated because it's american innovation with 92 emergency use authorizations. this administration under working.t trump >> does the president agree with dr. fauci that we do not have total control over this outbreak? >> the president believes in the phased guidelines to reopening on h dr. fauci signed off along with dr. birx and we encourage every state and governor to follow. you, president said on monday that florida has so much esting the testers are literally sitting around waiting for people and there is a "great overcapacity," yet the reality in the state is there is reports d criticism of desantis who testing in thegov- is doing a phenomenal job talked about how there was over testing ability at the sites. there were extra tests, there was not enough demand, there were not people showing up to use it. he says that has a route -- that has happened around some sites in the state. we are ab

is that every american can get sted as much as once or twice a week? >> yeah, that's what i -- see,he important thing that everyone needs to know about the pcr is they're diagnostic tests, meaning we're not talking about the serology antibody tests. we're not in the serology test business this stage. all we do is the diagnostic positive or you're negative. the test result is as reliable as the isolation y th give yourself between testing and result. anybody can pick iup in between. are diligent, if t if people get tested twice a week and it's absoluty not only possible, we as a country could and a test doesn't take long. it's a snap. >> what about people who aret nervous abtting tested? there are people who are reluctant still. what do you say to them? >> again, they've got k hard at the people they love and make that decisiont and get past tar. >> i'd like to show you something president trump said about testing just recently. let me show you what he said and get your reaction on the back end. >> what we've done on testing -- we've now tested more th

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why is this a global competition to you if every day americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day? >> well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. and maybe that's a question you should ask china. don't ask me. ask china that question, okay? when you ask them that question you may get a very unusual answer. yes, behind you, please. >> reporter: sir, why are you saying that to me specifically? >> i'm telling you. i'm not saying it specifically to anybody. i'm saying it to anybody that asks a nasty question. >> reporter: that's not a nasty question. why does it matter? >> okay. anybody else? please, go ahead in the back. no, it's okay. >> reporter: you pointed to me. i have two questions. >> next. >> reporter: you called on me. >> i did, and you didn't respond, and now i'm calling on the young lady in the back. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, appreciate it. thank you very much. >> very, very ugly ending to that one hour appearance by the president in the rose garden, refusing to answer our own white house correspondent kaitla

is that the number one problem on every american's mind into the number one problem when people losing their jobs and small business is going bankrupt and people who can't see their kid, protecting corporations from liability? this party is so out of touch with america, so offkilter, to the hard right if they cannot even focus on a crisis when it is right before their eyes. we are confronted with a period of prolonged economic misery from millions of workers and families. t americans who for the first time are waiting in line for food banks. americans who for the first time don't know if they will be able to keep a roof over their head, put food on the table or pay their rent. just how long will it take, how long. how much economic hardship, how much before republicans feel the urgency to act? on another matter, last friday night in the dark of night, president trump fired at the inspector general of the state department. according to reports, he had been investigating the misuse of public resources by secretary pompeo and the administration saleif the administrationfails . he is now t

something to be ashamed of calling it a badge of honor is not just wrong but sick and it insult to every american family that loses a loved one to this evil disease i yield the floor and of the absence of a quorum. >> internet has been a part of our daily lives for quite a while. netflix, twitter, amazon, it has taken on new importance during the coronavirus pandemic to become a main source of connection with friends and family. many people work from home to help prevent the spread of theso virus the main reason schools and colleges can continue teaching students and those services like telehealth allowsna doctors and other professionals to provide patient care but with all the new traffic is a much greater load on networks and that not all have held up to the strain inng europe and those to diminish the quality of videos networks have faced very few problems and there is a reason for that united states has very different regulatory regimes and those designed for telephone monopolies as a result of the heavy-handed regulation that discourages for investing in infrastructure and broadband expansio

of course we grieve for every american life that has been lost, but we want the american people to beonfident in the responsiveness of this administration. that's what he was referring to. the fact that in the average year the health care industry gave 25 million n95 masks, and we have delivered in the short time 75 million n95 masks, that is extraordinary. it is extraordinary that some in the media were saying that we needed a million ventilators. this president, not a single american has died from lack of a ventilator. and this president can say, i am producing 100,000 ventilators this year alongside the predecessor, that is three times what we have produced in the average year, i consider that a great success on behalf of the american people. >> it's more about the tone of the policy stuff. >> we want to give the american people confidence that they have a federal government who is doing everything in their power to provide the necessary equipment to combat the invisibe enemy. we grieve for the american lives. i've said that repeatedly and i will echo that today, my heart breaks, i

so for the past 30 plus years, every alaskan, 700,000 americans had benefited from a permanent fund about $1,500 every year and if you are a family of four, you are getting a check for $6,000 every fall, which is a meaningful amount of money. it's not so much money people can hang out and put their feet up and play video games or drop out of the workforce, but it is enough money to help people make ends meet a little more easily. some of my colleagues were al asked last fall talking to people about what they do with dividends and the empirical research about what people do with it backs up many of the stories that we heard. it was people who were using it to cover a month or two of rent that they were behind on. some folks were using it to prepare for the winter by buying heating fuel. others were for their college education. upper middle-class an middle cly people were using it to fund vacations in january to february when it's warm and pretty bleak and cold up there. the biggest learning i think we can take away from the permanent fund and how it is used is not only do people love it be

>> 420 millions. >> could you describe the situation if every american do not have access to a vaccine due to a supply shortage? >> catastrophic. decisions have not been made yet and who to vaccinate first and how to identify those individuals and how to stretch those limits of supplies appropriately. it is not just to the yiunited states. when i said it will take two or two and a half years, that's not limited to those supplies. >> does it make us vulnerable to future spikes to covid-19? >> absolutely. >> do we have supply to distribute vaccine for flew u a well as covid-19? >> it is going to be a challenge. >> we have hanot seen that yet. >> it was whining down when covid-19 was emerging. >> without adequate supply to vaccinate all americans of covid-19, does this slow down the goal of fully reopening our economy and getting back to the normal that every american wants? >> it certainly brings to caution and significant consideration that must be taken into consideration before reopening. we need to make sure that not only guidelines are reopening are clear to each individual and each

a few years ago the government decided it could use section 215 to justify the collection of every americans' phone records. the government secretly decided that the phone records of millions of innocent law-abiding americans were again somehow connected, somehow relevant to something the government wanted and wanted to get it without a warrant. it was only when this abuse was publicly revealed that congress stepped in and began reining in the government's phone record collection. now the supreme court did determine recently that physical tracking of americans as they move around requires a he -- requires a warrant. in this bill congress is getting around to stopping the government from using section 215 to collect, to conduct warrantless collection of certain location data. but the irony is -- and i say this to my colleagues because of this unique time. the irony is now that americans have been asked to stay home and not move around so as to help our country fight this unprecedented contagion, they are more vulnerable to abusive surveillance than ever before. i think that's wrong. people to

we ought to making plans and every american voter can vote by mail in the november election, given the likelihood this lethal virus will still be threatening us. if the senate is going to gather as a body in this pandemic, against medical advice of sound judgment of others, let's make sure our work is essential. we're still waiting for a report from the republican majority leader about the agenda and brings us here this week, ready to work, ready to address the covid-19 crisis that faces our economy. mr. president i yield the floor. >> will call the roll. >> the senate wasda gaveled out about six weeks ago now. we passed the two-point to trillion dollar care's act on march the 25th. and here it is may the fourth. since that time the global battle to defeat the coronavirus is only intensified. there've been some have s questionedof the wisdom of the senate coming back to washington and convening. but i think we need to be here. we need to do our jobs. we know how to do this safely, we know how to social distance, we h know how to wash our hands, not touch her face, those of the responsi

to have it be where every day americans can participate and help these heros.ant to do that. and continue to do that. as long as i'm able. >> let's do this. i put up the go fund me page. the cause is obvious to everybody. your commitment is rare. and i understand that it comes from your heart and place of loss. and you want to see people not have to go through tla loss. rhonda, thank you for sharing your story. we're happy to do the same with our audience. and i hope you keep helping people for a listening time. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you for making the most of the opportunity to help others. we are a call away if we can help get word out. be well, stay healthy. god bless. >> god bless you. thank you. >> not everybody can do what she is doing to honor our pandemic warriors. there is something you can do each night. especially in the big cities where you have case density and workers the healthcare workers. open your window. shout your lungs out. it's good for you. it's good for them. if you happen to be part of the new york city f

snowden revealed that clapper and others were using the patriot act to spy on virtually every american. snowden revealed that the secret fisa court was allowing a single court order to command the collection of millions of americans' personal phone data. most members of congress had no idea that this was going on. in fact, one of the authors of the patriot act publicly expressed his shock that such a massive surveillance of americans was occurring with no notification of congress. clapper and others, though, said that's not true. they justified their actions by saying we have been briefing the elite eight congressmen. who are the elite eight and who made them elite? the elite eight are the majority and minority leaders of the house and the senate, and the majority and the minority leader of the intelligence committee in the house and the senate. eight people. when they were quizzed about this program, most of them said they couldn't remember ever being briefed on it, but the real constitutional question is have we not changed the burden of the constitution to make eight people more imp

it is just unbelievable and it should frighten every american citizen that they even thought they couldy with doing this. >> but senator, the problem is they did get away with doing it. the fear of the american people and i can tell you now is there will be no consequence. only the good people end up being raked over the coals. you look at the lives that were ruined. paul manafort on the tax case or bank application. in solitary confinement at 72 years old. flynn and george papadopoulos, a volunteer on the campaign. even more significant is what we know about the president and the fact he was involved from the get-go and was have much in the middle of this and they were disappointed putin did not react to the sanctions obama put on them. so the issue of russia collusion, the pot started stirring. nunes it seems along with jordan had a handle on this right at the beginning. >> yes, indeed they did. what we are firing out is the things they were saying from their investigation there in the house were indeed direct. and as you said, they got away with this to a point. they created this sto