tom: does grassley help senator ernst? kevin: chuck grassley, i would argue, based on the conversations i have, is the could essential republican in the trump era -- is the quintessential republican in the trump era. president inst the the way he uses social media, and they are two peas in a political pod, grassley and ernst.

grassley: long ways to go. we do not have an agreement on is six figure, which weeks ago is $3.5 trillion. we table to build 10 days ago at $1 trillion. there has to be some agreement on what we will spend before you get into details. they are going through the details now. all of this stuff is going on at one time. report onime i had a how steve mnuchin and metals were making out with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi was late yesterday afternoon. i presume they will reconvene today and i would get a report about 1:00, and by the way, you say i am involved in it, i am involved in it, but there only those four people at the table. , maybe get a report after 2:00 i could tell people more, but right now i think the big holdup is the $600 versus the $200 we have in our bill for the federal enhancement of state unemployment compensation. concerned, am democrats need to start compromising. as of yesterday, they had not moved off of the $3 trillion figure. thatkeep saying republicans are not compromising. we have someth

graham: senator grassley. sen. grassley: miss yates, thank you for your public service. approved the carter page fisa applications. did you review each application in its entirety? miss yates: yes. sen. grassley: i didn't hear that. miss yates: i did, senator, yes. i'm sorry to interrupt, but -- sen. grassley: you told me you did review them in their entirety. possible that is there is some boilerplate language that i might not have reviewed again, i certainly reviewed all of the factual information. sen. grassley: number two, when you were interviewed by horowitz's office about your decision to approve the carter page fisa application, you stated the following about steele's research. "while certainly there was an implication that he was doing opposition research, it's got to be for somebody. i mean, he has been hired someone. my understanding was that the who."d not know dossiersaid the steel was essential to the carter page pfizer. fisa. , why was clear to you didn't you act responsibly to at least have an elementary understanding of the extreme conflict involved rega

actors are trying to interfere in the 2020 elections, republican senators ron johnson and chuck grassley are accusing democratic leaders of, quote, knowingly and recklessly promoting false election narratives for political purposes. the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warners, is one of the leaders who received that complaint in a letter from those two republican chairs and joins me now. what's going on here, senator? >> andrea, i don't know.

graham: senator grassley. sen. grassley: miss yates, thank you for your public service. approved the carter page fisa applications. did you review each application in its entirety? miss yates: yes. sen. grassley: i didn't hear that. miss yates: i did, senator, yes. i'm sorry to interrupt, but -- sen. grassley: you told me you did review them in their entirety. possible that is there is some boilerplate language that i might not have reviewed again, i certainly reviewed all of the factual information. sen. grassley: number two, when you were interviewed by horowitz's office about your decision to approve the carter page fisa application, you stated the following about steele's research. "while certainly there was an implication that he was doing opposition research, it's got to be for somebody. i mean, he has been hired someone. my understanding was that the who."d not know dossiersaid the steel was essential to the carter page pfizer. fisa. , why was clear to you didn't you act responsibly to at least have an elementary understanding of the extreme conflict involved rega

grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: every day we can see that this public health crisis is also an economic crisis. during the shutdowns, some employers shuttered completely and others were forced to lay off workers. tens of billions of jobs were saved thanks to the paycheck protection program and other cares act provisions, but millions of other americans lost their jobs and remain unemployed. while jobs numbers have improved since the more dire days of march and april, there are still many americans facing unemployment. talks are continuing to determine how best to modify and extend a federal supplement to state unemployment insurance programs, but those talks are going miserably slowly. these state programs and the actual federal aid have been important safety nets for folks who have lost their income. but they are only a piece of what we can and should do and what a bill before the united states senate lays out. it's called the heals act, put forth by our leade

tom: does grassley help senator ernst? kevin: chuck grassley, i would argue, based on the conversations i have, is the could essential republican in the trump era -- is the quintessential republican in the trump era. president inst the the way he uses social media, and they are two peas in a political pod, grassley and ernst. they are all embracing the ethanol industry, they don't hide it, and they are not afraid to take it to the president when they disagree with him. tom: kevin cirilli, thank you so much. really informative, just encyclopedic knowledge there. there is a convention -- no, it is not tonight, the democrats. david westin leading our coverage on the republican convention. of course, one of the great distinctions here is i believe the president will be much more evident through each night of the convention. francine, this is so different than over in england, isn't it? francine: it certainly is because, first of all, if you look at our election campaigns, they are much shorter. the money is also a fraction of

senator grassley said, we are paying people more than what they got when they were working.hat's not something i can adhere to. it doesn't make sense to me. it was something the democrats and the republicans and the administration agreed on because they had to have a fixed number. there has to be an adjustment, we should sit down. there has to be a way to proceed to get this worked out. it's just ridiculous. >> neil: a number of ideas were advanced including reducing the weekly figure and updating iter 30 days if there is improvement in the national unemployment rate. variations of that. open to any of those? >> i had people back home saying if you went to $400 or $300 for 2 months until we could invest to upgrading the systems of every state to get them up to speed. they could say this is what their salary is. they are at 70% of their salary. >> neil: to your point, that seems to be the middle ground, the way we are going. i am misinterpreting that? >> i think you are right. i don't think we will stay at $600. even in the president did it he would do if for a week or two. i

informed the governor and senator grassley, senator joni ernst.e are heading out to a combination of different places. visit.do a surprise surprisey this, a visit to iowa if we can get in. the most thing is we approved the emergency declaration for iowa. they are in good shape there. they are working full force as we speak. >> are you pressing the fda to approve [indiscernible] >> you have to say it? in?oleander >> i've heard of it. >> is it something you support? >> are people talking about it strongly? we will look at it. the fda says we are very close to a vaccine, very close to a therapeutic. i have heard that name mentioned. will get back to you. >> [indiscernible] iowa today? >> is possible. i want to see the people. i love the people of iowa, they have been very loyal. very soon, maybe today. >> [indiscernible] belarus situation? >> yeah, it's terrible. situation.rrible we have -- we will be following it closely. >> [indiscernible] southeast afghanistan, iran, did you hear about that? >> i haven't heard. >> [inaudible] flex we are going to

liz: here's what senator chuck grassley has told us that concerns him, he keeps saying if they couldthey could do to you, they can do it to the viewer, here's what he is saying happen, the oval office meeting with president obama, you know this and james comey writes down in his notes the general flynn's phone call with the russian ambassador appeared legit is about policies, differences in incoming trump in obama administration and then james comey exploits the incoming chaos with peter strzok to interview flynn under the pretext of a briefing and you know about this, criminal interview. it was a perjury trap as they admit. so that is the issue, no marine the warning, no lawyer present. that is what senator grassley says is scary. >> is a real abuse of power, if they canan do it -- they tried o do to me, they tried to catch me in a perjury trap, they knew, what they have is the answer, they quiz you and things that they think that you should remember, if you cannot remember quite right, that happened on the phone calling tuesday, not wednesday, they can pop up and say you must be ly

little zen from senator grassley there which is important.resident shouldn't be fighting with his own people and triply important with the moment we're in. the president needs to prove to voters he has a handle on this and when you see this infighting on the team will they have a consistent communication strategy more importantly a consistent public health strategy going forward when they can't agree on so much? >> as kaitlan said, the president has repudiated the public health experts. you have a number of folks in the white house, john, who have not wanted to talk about coronavirus and then convincing the president to do more briefings and had to talk about it when the poll numbers slipped so far. what's frustrating to the advisers around the president is that they thought they had 90 days or so to come back. they want to come back and beat joe biden and every day they fight with deborah birx, dr. fauci or fighting among each other on the coronavirus. they're not prosecuting joe biden in the way they want to. and trying to convince voters t

grassley: history has a way of repeating itself. if we don't learn from the mistakes of the past, we're apt to repeat them. as the november election draws near and as foreign adversaries again seek to meddle in our democracy, let's review our history so we can better identify and prevent future threats. in late july 2016, obama's f.b.i. opened an investigation into the trump campaign that ended up spiraling out of control for years -- four years. the investigation was ultimately based in large part on what's known as the steele dossier, which was a bunch of unverified claims from russian government sources. it happens that that dossier was paid for by the democratic national committee and by the clinton campaign. we know that its author, christopher steele, simultaneously pitched those same unverified claims to the united states media outlets which then reported on them without even testing their veracity. that is not responsible vurnlism. -- journalism. we know that members of this sean publicly seize -- senate publicly seized on t

so that's what senator grassley says scary, kt. go ahead. >> yeah. it's a real abuse of power.they tried to catch me in a perjury trap, and they knew what the -- it's like they have the answer key x they ask you, they quiz you things they think you should remember, and if you can't remember it quite right, well, that happened on a phone call on tuesday, not wednesday, they can pop up and say, well, you must be lying because you should have remembered that. i mean, after all, that wases so important. and then they've gotcha. it's a gotcha question, and that's what they did with mike flynn. and in the end they extort him and blackmailed him and said if you don't plead guilty to crimes that, frankly, we know you didn't commit, we're going to go after your son. that's what they did. they wanted us to say donald trump had committed a crime when donald trump didn't quit the crime. -- didn't commit the crime. and yet they were holding it over people's heads, flynn, myself and others. and they know at the end of the day, and this is where grassley e is right, they know they can bankrup

grassley and i have a bill. rounds and king have a bill. we need to get those two bills passed, move on to ensure fairness in the marketplace. with that, i yield the floor. mr. cassidy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from from louisiana. mr. cassidy: madam president, i rise to address the issues regarding the covid crisis. as we know, the covid crisis is a public health crisis which has led to an economic crisis and, in turn, an educational crisis. today i'm going to speak about an aspect of the economic crisis. specifically, state and local governments, which have had to shut down their economy and in turn have lost all the tax revenue that they otherwise would receive, and because they have lost that tax revenue, put the jobs of firefighters, police officers, teachers, sanitation workers, other essential frontline workers at risk. so let me proceed. senate republicans have unveiled a proposal for a second line of support for american families and small businesses as our nation continues to combat the covid-19 pandemic

grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: one minute for morning business, please. the presiding officer: the senator may proceed. mr. grassley: today our national public health and economic crisis continues without additional legislative action. reports over the weekend indicate that the senate minority leader believes that he can hold out for a massive, unwieldy bill that even includes unrelated policies yet refuse to consider action where there is already consensus. "the new york times" reported that the speaker said, quote, believes she has the upper hand and does not intend to lose it, end of quote. the other side refuses to support even the relief measures where there is broad bipartisan agreement, such as providing additional funds for unemployment benefits, the paycheck protection program, education, state and local governments, recovery checks, and hiring and employee retention incentives. this shows us where their priorities are -- politics, not people. i yield the floor. that's a shame. mr. mcconnell: mr.

join me in thanking senator joni ernst and senator chuck grassley for standing strong.plause] all, i could not be more proud to serve as vice president to the most pro-life president in american history. [applause] with an election 80 days away, we have worked to do to carry our message forward. despite all the progress we have made, including two justices to the supreme court, a few recent decisions remind us we have a ways to go. like that 5-4 decision that struck down a louisiana law that simply require doctors that work in abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, or like the 5-4 decision that said the state of nevada can impose greater restrictions on a chapel than caesar's palace. one thing is clear with those decisions, we need more conservatives on the supreme court of the united states. we need four more years of president trump in the white house. [applause] for american strength and american jobs and law and order and liberty and life, we have to decide right here and right now that joe biden will never be president of the united stat

grassley: i'd like to have permission, one minute morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: iowa's secretary of state paul paite will mail an absentee ballot request. that form will go to every registered iowa voter for the november election. that's a request for a form. that's not a ballot being mailed out to everybody. iowa's current absentee ballot system allows anyone who wants to vote by mail the option to do so. just send in the request form when you receive it or download it online. but if iowans prefer to vote in person, that remains your choice, their choice. there's been a lot of misinformation claiming that some massive federal intervention is needed to allow citizens to vote by mail. this isn't true in iowa or elsewhere. every state has vote by mail. 16 states ask for a reason, such as being over 65, for example. but most have waived or loosened this requirement. some groups are now using the pandemic to push for a federal mandate on states to adopt a new universal vote-by-mail system overnight. it took five

bye-bye. >> neil: chuck grassley. we have a lot more. we might get some details on this.ay. who knows? maybe this whole issue of a payroll tax cut could come up. we just don't know who will win out. over time, you go noseblind to the odors in your home. (background music) but others smell this... (upbeat music) that's why febreze plug has two alternating scents and eliminate odors for 1200 hours. ♪breathe happy febreze... ♪la la la la la. here's your iced coffee! ♪ america runs on dunkin' >> neil: you are hot as all get out. you don't have a pool but your neighbor does. there's a neat app that may be makes it available to view. kristina partsinevelos. what's this about? >> it's about the fact that the heat is taking a toll on so ma many. public pools. it's an excellent opportunity for a business. a peer-to-peer platform that rents out private pools like this one to the public. you have to just dish out $40 to $60 on average per hour. pools become more expensive depending on how nice they are. if they have a hot tub, if they have a barbecue, if they're heated. up to the ow

phil rucker, for chuck grassley, that's some extended haiku there.i will point out that your colleagues at "the post," after there was quite a hit job in "the new york times," your colleagues at "the post" have done some continued reporting on dr. birx. >> that's right, brian. and this was an extraordinary row that the president had today with dr. birx, who by the way was just acknowledging what all the data show us publicly, what the fact is, which is that the virus is out of control in a lot of these states and that the u.s. is in a new phase here. but she is somebody who for months had sacrificed her own professional reputation to the defend the president, to defend his handling and management of the coronavirus. she has been ostracized by many in the scientific and medical communities because of her fierce defense of the president and loyalty to him. and yet the president is not showing that same loyalty back to her, which, you know, if it were not a pattern of his behavior would be startling to see, and yet we've seen this time and again where a

i think senator ron johnson and senator chuck grassley have been doing a very quiet investigation off interest in ukraine involving the biden family. they have state department officials who con firm thaw saw a conflict of -- they saw a conflict of interest. they now have learned through this foia lawsuit i filed that there were documents kept from the senate meaning the senate has not gotten these documents that show that burisma was in constant contact with the embassy in ukraine and with the department in washington. -- the state department in washington. that conflicts with the very testimony state department officials gave last january during the impeachment trial when they said we didn't know anything about burisma, it wasn't on our radar except for a briefing memo, maria van vuch said, before i went before the senate. their lobbyists were cornering them at confirmation hearings, at events, meetings at the embassy headquarters in washington, and hunter biden's company was pressuring the obama tate department to make those corruption allegations go away. that's a narrative that

senator from iowa, chuck grassley, who runs the finance committee in the united states senate. i mean, this is remarkable. the guy who is named by u.s. intelligence in this specific public warning today about what russia is doing to interfere in the 2020 election to try to reelect trump, the way he's been doing his work for the russian government to mess with our election, is by feeding material to a purported investigation of joe biden by senator ron johnson on the homeland security committee and senator chuck grassley on the finance committee in the senate, because those two senators have been use information from that specific named guy as the basis for what they say is going to be their big investigation, a big report on their investigation into biden that they're planning on releasing in mid-september right in time for the election. this guy, who is doing this work on behalf of the russian government, per this intelligence statement to the american push todblic today, he course has been feeding anti-biden stuff to rudy giuliani. here is july july on tguiliani d this guy on

signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:30 p.m. on tuesday, august 25, 2020. >> finishing up his pro forma session the u.s. senate will return for legislative work tuesday september 8th. now back to the house rules committee and their work on a postal service bill on c-span2. >> this was requested unanimously by the postal service board of governors, all of whom were appointed by donald trump. we in the house, more than 3 months ago as part of the heroes act, languishes in the senate. my bill includes the $25 billion requested by the postal service, leaves will be spit almost entirely by the end of 2021. the knees is that dyer. alarmingly the postal service is under attack from within by its own leadership. the president's new postmaster general is using the lack of funding to justify sweeping changes for the operations and organizational structure of the postal service. within a month of taking office postmaster general dejoy began orderin

they are being putin's puppet, not me, not chuck grassley. >> okay. we're going to have to leave it there. >>> i want to congressman adam schiff of california. we have a lot to get to, but first your reaction to what you just heard from your colleague in the senate. >> well, dana, i'm not sure where to start. but as you point out, what the administration is saying makes no sense in terms of their refusal to brief congress on russian interference designed to help the trump campaign. they're going to put it in writing now instead of give us an oral briefing. that doesn't make any sense unless the goal is not to allow members of congress, the representatives of the american people, to ask questions, to point out the false equivalence that the administration is trying to promulgated that somehow russian interference in our election, russian active measures help donald trump is no different than other countries are doing. they don't want those questions answered. they don't want that information going to the public. this is what the president is after. aft

to schools covid testing the postal service and vaccine research, iowa republican senator chuck grassley says the idea could be a way to break the current gridlock, few can agree on a comprehensive package i was so bored or target impacting we ought to get their money out yesterday but democrats say they are ready to give up on a larger stimulus plan, illinois senator dick durbin says essential services are on the line with republicans had their way we provide no assistance, none. >>2 towns and cities are going to be substantial layoffs of teachers. policeman thursday speaker nancy pelosi said democrats are willing to go below their 2 trillion dollar compromise we're not budging. >>understand this then how do you break the impasse. they have to move just going to have to come up with more money but blunt says that's on reasonable and was on a number close to the 2 numbers we both already agreed on, but has yet to formally introduced his skin your alternative in washington raquel martin. according to senator roy blunt's office the plan will not include a direct stimulus check or extended

grassley: yesterday many parts of my home state of iowa were hit by extreme winds and severe storms. 90 mile-an-hour winds probably along a path, along interstate 80 from the missouri river to the mississippi river. trees were uprooted. roadways are obstructed. crops are severely damaged. green bends are busted. out buildings lost. some homes hurt and over 400,000 households lost power. just like any other natural disaster, iowa has experienced, is know that iowans are going to ban together and support each other as we recover from this storm. senator ernst and i stand ready to help with any federal assistance iowa may need, and i hope that you will not hesitate to contact our respective offices, both in washington, d.c., and iowa, if you need us. and for sure, if governor reynolds declares this as a disaster area, senator ernst and i will be quick to advise the president to follow the recommendations and requests of senator -- of governor reynolds. i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr.

senate finance chairman chuck grassley said he doubts if the president is serious about taking that action. >>> cnn predicting bill hayiggey is the winner. he will be favored to beat whichever democrat he is expected to face. one other critical decision in tennessee. the state supreme court vacating a ruling that would have allowed all registered voters in the state to vote absentee in 2020 of a state currently requires an excuse to vote absentee. >>> seven minutes past the hour. the streets of beirut filled with rage about cleanup. cnn is live there next. ♪ hey allergy muddlers... achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec... ...it starts working hard at hour one... and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. zyrtec muddle no more. an army family who is always at the ready. so when they got a little surprise... two!? ...they didn't panic. they got a bigger car for their soon-to-be-bigger family. after shopping around for insurance, they called usaa - who helped find the right coverage for them and even some much-needed savings. that was the easy part. usaa insurance

you commit to the -- commit that the department will be responsive to our requests from senator grassley and myself? we need these documents. >> senator, we'll do our best to be responsive. we understand the requests. we're working through it and yes, i am familiar with the information that you set forth there with respect to the behavior that took place in october of 2016 in the state department. >> were there any other specific instances that caused you to ask for the removal of inspector general linick. >> there were several. at the end it's about accomplishing the core function. one of the central functions is to make sure we can represent to you all the financial statement for the state department is accurate and full, we have an audit team to do that. inspector general linick screwed that. it said oversight by the oig was ineffective, placing the department's information as well as the reputation, human capital and operations at considerable and unnecessary risk. that's an enormous failure for one of the most important tasks that the i.g.'s office does conduct an audit of the state

i remember accosting senator grassley when he is head of the committee.t to do something about the foundation whose funding black lives matter? he just look like he wanted to flee. i've had that experience before the republicans. >> host: a couple questioners are asking on the lines of making the news media accountable for their lives and rewriting history. >> guest: editorial is racist. in my book i forget where i got this, might've been published late editorial committee when the first impeachment failed there's an editorial is exposed as a hoax. he forgot he didn't say it was a hoax. [inaudible] were going to build a newsroom now around american racism. this guy is a racist. an associate of the 6019 project is an anti-american racist. talked about canceling white people. the only racism that's allowed in the country is white racist. course and you say that you're going to be called a racist. so probably should just leave it to me to it say that. actually we need more people to stand upright when enough people stand up this will all go away. but univers

david will be speaking with republican senator chuck grassley of iowa as the countdown continues foreen democrats and republicans. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: from bloomberg's world headquarters in new york to our tv and radio audiences worldwide, i am david westin. welcome to "balance of power," where the world of politics meets the world of business. we will start as we always do with a check on the markets. joining us is abigail doolittle. i do not see a lot of movement. is this in anticipation of tomorrow's jobs numbers? abigail: you are probably correct. wait and see mode ahead of the jobs report. there is a huge variance between the high estimate of about 48 -- added, 3.2 million jobs let's hope that happens, and the low, a loss of 600,000 jobs. folks are in wait and see mode ahead of that report. we have stopped shuffling along, wanting to also note when will the fiscal stimulus deal happen? we have the s&p 500 and the nasdaq up just slightly. where we have more action is for some of the tech stocks. apple is once again higher, up 1.4%.

senator grassley has made those suggestions in the senate bill, and that is why i think we are headinge right direction. david: americans across the country are watching this closely, it affects them in their personal lives. what do we not understand? you are on the inside of the process. what do we not understand about this process, and what needs to be done? french: we are in a political year, and nancy pelosi is the leader of the opposition against president trump. anything that president trump for., she is not she needs to put that aside and focus on bipartisan support that reinforces the public health needs we have in this country, and the final steps we need to take to get our economy open. she needs to check the politics at the door, get a bipartisan bill that can get 60 votes in the senate, and let's get the relief to the american people. that is congressman french hill of arkansas, member of the house financial services committee. even as we were talking with him, we had the picture of the speaker of the house speaking, saying that there are differences on testing and tracing,

into our records based on false intelligence and they leaked to the media, and didn't tell chuck grassley and i about it. the democrats are again being putin's puppet, not me. >>> we're going to leave it there. thank you for your time this morning senator ron johnson. >> have a good morning. >>> i want to turn to the house intelligence commit year chairman, adam schiff. we have a lot to get to. first, your reaction to what you just heard from your colleague in the senate. >> i'm not sure where to start, but as you point out, what the administration is saying neighbors no sense in terms of their refusal to brief congress. they're going to put it in writing instead of giving us an oral briefing. that doesn't make sense, unless the goal is not to allow members of congress, the representatives of the american people, to ask questions, to point out the false equivalence that the administration is trying to promulgate that smoul russian active measures to try to decide our election to help donald trump, is no different from other countries. the they don't want those question questions answered

next is chuck grassley of iowa.oining us is natasha brown, co-founder of the black voters matter fund. good evening. >> good evening. good to see you. >> what do you make of the rhetoric of absentee versus mail-in, and i won't give him money for coronavirus. this is connected to a larger coronavirus relief package. the president went on fox business this week and laid out his side of the argument. here is part of what he said. >> they want $25 billion, billion, for the post office. now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take millions and millions of ballots. now n the meantime, they aren't getting there. by the way, they are just two items. it means you can't have universal mail-in voting. they are not equipped to have it. >> he has laid it all bare. where does it lead us? thmpblts a failed impeached, corrupt president that knows he is not going well in the polls. he can see the writing on the walls and he can sense the new energy around the biden-harris ticket, and is base cliical

johnson writes, quote, it is neither me, chairman grassley, or our kmut tees being used to dissem mate russian discrimination. puppet masters in the kremlin could not be more pleased at the political division and discord that has been driven by the resistance movement against president trump. msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos joined es me this mor. good morning. >> good morning. >> in this letter that i mention, they talk about hunter biden and burisma as well. talk about this, danny. >> the subpoena duces tecum is for documents only. it may be revealed to more than one person in a committee. the documents can be from all over and the republicans on the committee can build a case from whatever circumstantial evidence they can get from all those documents, but it is a broad swath of documents for a very broad investigation. if you'll recall, last december the inspector general for the justice department concluded that although the initial russia investigation was valid, the fbi made a lot of mistakes. this is going before a pre-mueller report era. it was the genesis of that mueller rep

the republican senator from iowa grassley doesn't think president trump is serious about this. he thinks the president is sick and tired of the negotiations. neil. >> neil: you know, nothing gets by you. you are like that pete falk character. i regret that he asked that question because it's a good question. they are a long way from done? >> yes, this is a long way from done. even with a deal it would take a long time to massage it with the house and the senate. what you have with the meetings starting at 5 o'clock both sides are daring the other one to push back from the table so they can blame the other side. >> neil: you and i are the only ones who got that reference. chad, you are the best. thank you very much. he is relentless. they can't ignore him. rebecca joins us now. smart and sassy in her own right. she is following this drama on california. you didn't build any of your market estimates based on how things are going. but if a deal is struck, we are now about wall street likes this federal spending. >> yes, we will take federal stimulus. the market loves the stimulus

he was joined in a powerful letter by senator charles grassley, like wise a deeply reported member ofrenumbered renounce -- for his , saying we really top get to bottom of this. what did among other people president obama himself know and eewhen. we need to know these facts, and valerie jarrett and others need cooperate, but i don't think thatoi is what we'll be getting. atizabeth:h: let's show you what senator johnson said valerie jarrett, dodging maria bartiromo's questions, saying, this happened 4 years ago, let's move it. watch senator johnson here. >> well you notice she didn't answer your question. she just talked about in general the process should be, that not the process they followed. it is very clear that there was corruption at the highest levels, certainly fbi we have evidence. i am looking forwardo to john durham wrapping up his investigation, i believe that intelligence communityel was involved.. their initial goal was to exonerate hillary clinton, so she could win election, when she lost election their goal shifted to first sabotaging trump administration, they have do

yesterday i had a chance to catch up with chuck grassley, iowa senator and chair of the finance committee. it sticks in his craw right now that democrats want to push the 600-dollar a week federal dollar benefit, it disincentivizes folks from finding work in the first place. take a look at this. >> it is very unfair to people that create these jobs that people want to go back to for the federal government to be an unfair competitor by paying people more not to work than if you're working. neil: now a lot of those folks are saying with the states closing down again or reimposing restrictions, they don't have that opportunity and they need this what do you say? >> well, first of all, there is a general agreement between enough republicans and democrats that there ought to be some continuation of some help. neil: all right. the most pivotal part of that exchange there ought to be some continuation of some help even for people who have very black and white view on this, chuck grassley is no fan of adding this extra 600-dollar a week federal jobless benefit. the question what that will be, wha

grassley, i chuck will get to that momentarily. florida,argo, republican line, go ahead.r: i just want to say republicans and the democrats should stop worrying about battling each other and worry about taking care of the people that need help, it is getting embarrassing watching on the news every night the back between parties and it forget about what is important -- the people. people need help right now and they are missing the message of who really needs help -- the american people. host: here is the tweet from senator chuck grassley of iowa -- i don't blame president trump of talking about executive orders to help the unemployed and get the economy running. i imagine he is fed up with how democrats are not negotiating in good faith, instead of sticking with an unreasonable $3 trillion bill, democrats should prioritize needs of american people and not election-year politics. independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my phone call. my comment is a lot of people anymore are thinking that the $600 or the increased unemployment benefits that was for the