langford said the president asked him if it was more respectful to change the date and langford saidbefore he changed the date. >> your rally in oklahoma is set for june 19th. was that on purpose? >> no, but i know exactly what you're going to say. >> i'm just asking. i've not going anything to say. >> think about it as a celebration. my rally's a celebration. in the history of politics, i think i can say, there's never been any group or any person that's had rallies like i do. i go and say get me the biggest stadium and we fill it up every time. >> doesn't answer the question, does it? the campaign chose to hold the event in tulsa, the sight site tulsa massacre that some have called the single worst racial incident of all time in america. at least 300 people, black people were killed in the riots. that's in the only upcoming event that falls on an important anniversary. now the rnc has moved the convention to florida and hundreds of kkk groups attacked a group of black activists in jacksonville. for the president are these subtle dog whistles or do they need a black important dates

president, my fellow colleagues, senator langford, and others thank you, thank you for giving voice to the serious issue. >> mr. president as everyone knows this country faces an extraordinary set of crises. there crises that are unprecedented in the modern history of our country. over the last several

president, my fellow colleagues, senator langford, and others thank you, thank you for giving voice to the serious issue. >> mr. president as everyone knows this country faces an extraordinary set of crises. there crises that are unprecedented in the modern history of our country. over the last several weeks, hundreds of thousands of americans have taken to the streets and courageously demanded an end to police murder and brutality and to urge us all tohe rethink the natureol of policing in america. in the midst of all of that, we continue to suffer from the covid-19 pandemic which has taken the lives of over 115,000 americans and infected over 2 million of our people. and then on top ofop that, we are experiencing the worst economic meltdown since the greatov depression of the 1930s with over 32 million americans having lost their jobs in the last three months. mr. president, and the midst of all of that, enough is truly enough. united states senate must respond to the pain and suffering of our constituents. let us begin work today, not next week, not next month. but right now in addr

a couple of republican senators, we heard from tim scott of south carolina, we heard from james langford from here in oklahoma, and we heard from ben carson, a member of the president's cabinet and some officials seemed to indicate that the president had to be told about the significance of juneteenth, about the significance of bringing the rally here to tulsa, where in 1921 a white mob killed hundreds of black residents in a bloody massacre, but you know, james langford said that once the president was aware of the significance, he decided to move the rally. we heard ben carson say that he was surprised to learn how much the president knew about this incident. we don't know quite where this is heading. it's clear they were unprepared for the blow-back and it has been significant. we are expecting at the end of this week that there will be significant counter protests here in tulsa. some residents here particularly black residents are incensed by the president deciding to come here. they are not -- it is not being alleviated by the fact that's moved it a day and now just this morning the

senator jim inhofe and james langford. please stand up. very respected, i will tell you. two very respected people in washington. they are respected by everybody. i would have you come up, but you can relax. i will say this. jim is running on november 3, jim inhofe. he's running on november 3. james, dose have any competition? is somebody actually running against? there is no competition that he's got. i know he has james' support and he has my support. i give him 100% endorsement. jim inhofe. i gift to james, too, about -- i give it to james, too, but he's not running this time. what a great senator he is. also here is a man who is respected by so many. he's a little bit right of the people we have been talking about tonight. senator tom cotton of the great state of arkansas. [cheers and applause] thank you, tom. they like you people. thank you, tom. great job you are doing. we are glad to be joined as well by a man that i have gone the to know. he's done an incredible job with covid and everything else he touches. governor kevin stitt. thank you both. thank you both for

. >> yes, sir, senator langford. >> thanks for being here again and we'll continue to pummel you withtions but i want to back up to some lessons learned from covid-19. there's been a lot of waivers and work on the issue of telehealth and making sure that available and accelerating that process. what i want to know is what are the lessons learned, and what is needed long-term to make sure we maintain telehealth? >> we're still waiting to hear back and so i hope in time to give you some clarity how they use that funding and what benefits it's provided. already the cincinnati children's hospital for instance has shown how they've given young transplant patients connected devices to be monitored remotely so they don't have to come into the health Ñq going to use this funding to provide care for folks who can't come into the facility. and going forward i think one of the things that would be very helpful is of course to give more attention to this issue breaking down interstate licensing requirements that some states still have. making sure a provider in kansas can provide patient care in

. >> good morning, chairman langford, the ranking member, and members of the committee, it's an on knorrto address you today and i want to thank you for considering my nomination. i believe government service is a high calling and i consider it an honor to serve my country. my government service began in 1977 when i commenced the marine corp. officer candidate school. ultimately i was commissioned as i asecond lieutenant and served in the marine corp. as a fighter pilot flying the f-4 and the f-18. i did two tours of duty in asia and upon return did a navy turn in florida. after nine year of active duty, i left the marine corp., transitioned to the navy reserve where i continued to fly fighter jets until i retired from the military with the rank of commander in 2001. after my time on active duty, i also became a pilot for a commercial air carrier. as a commercial airline pilot when not performing my primary duty of safely transporting passengers, i volunteered and was elected to the airline pilot's association, an association that was originally conceived in 1931 to represent airmail pil

james langford, a republican senator saying he reads the bible every day and he's never seen anybody in his life hold up a bible like that. i've got to say as a guy raised in a southern baptist church who went to church about four or five times a week for, you know, the first 21 years of my life, i've got to say, i grew up in the culture, i've never saw anybody hoist a bible forward as a political prop. you even have the head of the church he was standing in front of saying it was disgraceful what he was doing. and that's starting to show up, mika, in the polls, the polling coming out showing that the overwhelming majority of americans are opposed by this president talking about when the looting starts the shooting starts. talking about thugs constantly. talking about thugs constantly. clearing a imagine wipath with if you represent us, whatever agency you represent, if you represent us, stop lying to us about using tear gas. we saw it, it happens, we all saw it in realtime. >> and you did that to american citizens. >> the global village saw people in that time with their heads throw

and the great thing is for jim inhofe and james langford likewise. when they hear it, they get it. a lot of people don't get. they get it. we cannot continue to be ripped off. we are ripped off by so many countries and we are stopping it. a lot of people don't want me here. a lot of people that won't want me here. you know, they don't sell a lot of bombs and we are not dropping bombs on people. it's called the military industrial complex. when rioting and looting broke out in our nation's capital i quickly deployed the national guard. i said get them in. after watching for an evening or two. we stopped the violence and restored peace and order. they had a breakout again. they ripped out a statue that was 110 years old, a beautiful piece of art in front of the police precinct with our radical left mayor watching on television. that's going to be expensive for d.c. they are always looking for money. then they don't do the proper job. so it's not going f -- it's noto be good for mayor bowser. they are headed over to the jefferson memorial. and they wanted to do damage to our great, be

. >> senator langford. we can't hear you. still can't you hear, james.so if you don't mind let's go to senator harper and come back to you once you get your audio fixed. sorry about that. >> i want to join my colleagues in expressing our appreciation and our affection to the men and women. it's true when the travel bans used effectively and imposed in a timely manner could help delay the arrival of a highly contagious virus to our shores, but we're reminded just earlier this week by dr. julie gerbirding, a former cdc director who appeared before our committee yesterday. she said back in february -- i'll quote her. she said once you see sustained community transmission the horse is out of the barn. and ron klain who was the ebola czar back a couple of years ago and quite a successful effort as you'll recall and said in february of the president's order blocking travel from chinese, he said we don't have a travel ban. he says we have a travel band-aid right now. first before it was imposed 300,000 people came here from china in the previous month, so the h

we'll get to him and james langford in a second. you have two great senators. we passed va choice. lot of things done. if you are a veteran and you have to wait in line for one week, two weeks, three weeks, seven weeks, two months. what happens, you go outside, you get a private doctor. you get fixed up and they pay your bill. we take care of the bill, and you get immediate service. it never happened before. and our approval rating at the va is 91%. that's how good it is. never been anywhere near that number. and va accountability. we had a lot of bad people in the va. people that didn't love our vets. people that were sadistic. people that stole. a lot of bad people. you couldn't get rid of them because it could be unions or civil service. let's just say. you couldn't get it done. for decades and decades they wanted to get it changed. and i got it done with those people and your congressmen -- your congressmen who i'm going to introduce. va accountability. now somebody treats our veterans badly. we look at them and what do we say? we say, you are fired. get out. they got rid of a

hold a bible and senator langford reminded people that he read the bible every day.ald trump always exploits outside controversies, whether it's the nfl and kneeling during the national anthem, or whether it's charlottesville. in a case like charlottesville, he's masterful in having it both ways. he will at one point say, of course, i condemn the fascists and i condemn the white supremacists, of course. and then on the other hand he will say there were good people on both sides. it allows his supporters all of these years later, after he preached moral equivalency between white supremacists and neo-nazis, who organized that rally by the way, and then people that were protesting against them. but in this case he called the shots. and this case he sent out his roy cohn, in this case he is the one that had the park cleared. in this case he was the one that walked through an area that, you know -- where they'd used chemical agents and then the attorney general lied about using chemical agents. in this case he was the one that perverted the use of the military and the --

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one of the legislators to speak yesterday on this topic was writer jim langford of oklahoma. [video clip] >> where are you on the question of renaming the confederate basis? >> i think we should study it. i don't think we should ignore it. i have been pretty outspoken on schools. i don't think they should be named on confederate leaders and generals. statues and such, i think the committee should make those decisions. a lot of those statues were put there to declare that we are not going to integrate. they put up a monument as some sort of declaration. we should acknowledge that. need to know that the time of jim crow has passed. as well as military bases, entirely reasonable to study it and make an evaluation. reporter: the president says he does not want it. does that make it problematic? >> i think we should talk about it. listen to leaders and folks at those bases. of this, some of those names don't have as much significance now as they had 100 years ago. fort bragg being one of them. a lot of folks don't even know who that was. [indiscernible] host: the "washington post"

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senator langford, buy, my wife had c-span on and she said you had to watch what senator langford had to say. i would recommend everyone go and look at the clip. we're trying to form a more perfect union. >> gentlemen, thanks for your service, what you're doing. you do a lot of work behind the scenes americans don't have an opportunity to say thank you. so from the people of oklahoma let me pass on my thanks because you've done quite a bit to be able to serve the folks in my state and across the country. there was a lot of early engagement on expired n-95 masks and expired prescriptions and such in the national stockpile. help me understand how we got to that point things were expired and how does it get better to deal with a rotation so we don't have expired materials in the future? >> yes, sir, senator. i'm going to refrain from talki talking previous to march 19th, right, so i can't speak to those practices, but i will talk to you about what we're doing going forward. this national stockpile shouldn't be thought about as i buy it, i put it on a shelf and i'm done. but working with

marco rubio, james langford, and one rafael a.k.a. ted cruz, and what they had to say about the decision. here they are. >> some of the folks, that, you know, the republican party have put on its bench are becoming activists in the role they're playing and it's concerning, and frankly, i mean, it undermines the very purpose of the court. >> that they have now said every future administration has to play mother may i with every court to say do i like your opinion and your reasons enough. >> this is gamesmanship. chief justice roberts knows exactly what he's doing. this decision today was lawless. it was gains manship, and it was contrary to the judicial oath that each of the nine justices has taken. >> your thoughts, secretary castro? >> i mean, you know, it is something else to see these senators who lavish praise on justices like justice roberts and gorsuch who was a part of the coalition that voted, the members that voted, you know, on the lgbt decision earlier in the week, they supreme court, and yet, they say that it's all politic

senator james langford has been supportive of the president's decision to hold a rally there despite the spike in cases. i wonder what your message is to him? we >> well, again, we think that it's reckless. we think the health department here has said over and over again, it would be best that such an event not be held, that folks not be in such tight quarters. again, if you're attached at the hip, you cannot look the other way in terms of decisions that are being made. it's very important that we bring the best minds together in this nation to advance all of us, and i tell you when we talk about black lives matter, it simply says this, it's not that black lives matter, it means that we certainly matter just as much. and if folks can't get on to that message, may god help them. >> state representative regina goodwin, thank you. >>> up next, we are going back to tulsa. we'll talk about the president's campaign message at this time of national crisis. >>> and later in the hour, a fort hood soldier has been missing for nearly two months, and now military officials say they are looking i

graham, chairman of thersout judiciary committee, john cornyn oftexas, shelly of virginia, james langford of oklahoma. these are all people who are thout to have had spent time on these issues including past and recent criminal justice reform. the urgency and timing is a bita of ascratcher. the house of representatives, the democrats are taking their bill to committee nxt week, they hope to have a floor vote the following week. so the house is on a two-week trajectory to pass major criminal justice reform. the senate, it isn't clear what their time frame is yet. they hope to have an outline, maybe even legislative language this week, but often things tak longer in the senate than the house, so we're going to have to see. >> woodruff: fli sure. ansa, this has been such a o wrenching coupweeks across the country for the american people. we know protests in, what, 700 american cities. i want to ask you, what's the feeling there on the hill? is that coming across when you talk to members? not there? sense of urgency or >> i think it's really changed across this week, judy, talking to senators

it bipartisan with senator langford and others who have joined in his legislation and the chairman hasinterest so let's see if we can work that out. >> i'm happy to ceo and chairman rubio tomorrow and if you want us to shorten it we will consider that even more quickly . >> iq, appreciate. >> secretary i think this is a historical moment, the first time we had the secretary of treasury before this committee. i think and i think if it's a change in leadership. >> i think it's thestrength of the leadership in the committee . he knows. when they write the history of this, i think you're going to have your own chapter in n that history book area i've spent all my life in public service, one way or another . and i have to tell you when this whole thing hit, this was a tremendous challenge or the united states ofamerica . and i always end reticent to believe that the government can step in and fix things easily. sometimes they make things worse and what they are. i have to tell you i have just been incredibly impressed by your leadership. as we've gone through this. i do have some inside inf

they have the resources necessary to de-escalate some of the situations and frankly through james langford'sork, we bring in the more training and have a better perspective on the history. with that, there's a lot that could be said, but instead of saying more i'm going to give it over to senator mcconnell. >> well, thank you, tim. even before george floyd and breonna taylor, senator scott has made it possible for those of us in the senate republican conference who are not african-american to understand that this problem still exists. we learned about his being stopped on numerous occasions well before the events of this year. but the witnessing of the murder of george floyd and the experience in my hometown of breonna taylor brings to the forefront this issue in front of the senate republicans. my role as the leader is to decide what we're going to do. floor time is the coin of the realm in the senate because it does take a while to do almost anything. so what i'm announcing today is after we do two circuit judges who are queued up early this week or next week we'll return to the scott bill

now, it's important to note we did see senator sasse, collins, burkowski and langford speak out.fact that so many others didn't on a common sense issue they knew was wrong but they didn't because they knew the president would lash out against them. the fact that they didn't, what does that say about the way we are getting governed? >> it says, stephanie, in some ways that donald trump is not simply our problem. that he is in some ways a representative of a broad problem, a broad set of issues and concerns, that there are folks who are complicit. we tend to think of racial racism and racial inequality as individual agents cts of discrimination, a cultural practice. when we think of the form of policing we are seeing, it is viewed as necessary because we think of black folk as inherently criminal. we think of the way in which we tolerated poverty, because we believe poverty is a punishment for laziness. we have seen the last 40 years the erosion of the social safety net because we believe, some of us, we don't want to give the hard earned money of white folk to these undeserving la

have the resources necessary to deescalate some of these situations and, frankly, through james langford's work on this package, we bring in the opportunity to hire more officers and have more training and have a better perspective on the history. so, with that, there's a lot that could be said. instead of saying more, i'm going to give it over to senator mcconnell. >> well, thank you, tim. even before george floyd and breonna taylor, senator scott had made it possible for those of us who are not african-american to understand that this problem still exists. we learned about his being stopped on numerous occasions well before the events of this year. but the witnessing of the murder of george floyd and the experience in my hometown of breonna taylor certainly brings to the forefront this issue for all americans, including senate republicans. my role, as the leader, as you know, is to decide what we're going to do. it does take a while to do almost anything. what i'm announcing today is after we do two circuit judges who are queued up this week or early next week, we're going to turn to the

. >> yes, sir, senator langford. >> thanks for being here again and we'll continue to pummel you with questions but i want to back up to some lessons learned from covid-19. there's been a lot of waivers and work on the issue of telehealth and making sure that available and accelerating that process. what i want to know is what are the lessons learned, and what is needed long-term to make sure we maintain telehealth? >> we're still waiting to hear back and so i hope in time to give you some clarity how they use that funding and what benefits it's provided. already the cincinnati children's hospital for instance has shown how they've given young transplant patients connected devices to be monitored remotely so they don't have to come into the health care facility. we've also heard from mental health providers that they're going to use this funding to provide care for folks who can't come into the facility. and going forward i think one of the things that would be very helpful is of course to give more attention to this issue breaking down interstate licensing requirements that some stat

. >> chairman langford, i appreciate this opportunity to present my qualifications and respond to your questions regarding my nomination to be and associate judge. i want to thank the president for the honor and privilege of his nomination and the district of columbia commission for it's recommendation to the public. i carry out my responsibilities with the highest degree of professionalism and integrity. this is the second time that i have been honored to have a nomination considered by this committee. i have a long and productive history with this committee. both majority and minority as those have shifted over the years. and before that with the senate government affair committees. i believe that my 30 year legal career prepared me well for this new position. i served as a commercial civil litigation attorney. at both law firms and as in-house council. as the sharm noted i was a acting member where i adjudicated over 4,000 cases. i am presently the gll council at opm. i was a rule advisor ape the army's 177nd infantry birgade. covering justice and judicial issues. serving as a judge

so when you have langford and these other republican senators saying, yeah, it's probably time to get rid of those names. where is donald trump these days? he's inside his own head, i guess. but where is he? he's not paying attention. >> stopped asking. >> the guy is on his own. he is isolated and he's isolating himself from members of the republican party on the issue of race. he's isolating himself from military leaders on the issue of race. he's isolating himself from people in his own cabinet. as america shifts on racism, the "new york times" writes, trump digs in. this is a guy, it's his problem. it's why his polls have dropped so much, why he's 39% approval rating in a lot of polls, because since this began, he started talking about, you know, shooting people. when the looting starts, the shooting starts. talking about his vicious dogs he was going to sick on protesters. we remember what happened on june the 1st. we'll talk about how general milly apologized yesterday for being there. he is off on his own right now. and for some reason, he is digging in. i do want to talk, david

one is, senator langford has a proposal that would protect us from government shutdowns through a process -- i hate crs, but this has some teeth in it that would give us an incentive to not leave and get it done before we leave the senate at the end of the fiscal year if we don't have it done. the second is senator romney, we have been working on the trust funds, medicare trust funds, security trust funds, and quiet working groups. there is a possibility we may be moving to a bill there. how do you see the when the's participation with regard to the fact that our total spending, only a less of a third than that is in the budget? most of our spending is mandatory and it is whether growth is, we are spending less discretionary spending than in 2011. the question is, how do we get at the shortfall until we start looking holistically at our total expenses and revenue, all theg tax extenders, things that both sides talk about, how do you cdl when be working through that with us? -- how do you see the omb working through that with us? mr. vought: they have proposed equations on both sides. both

. >> appreciate that, justso everybody is aware , scott and rosen, langford, holly, ronnie and hassan so senator. >> i want to thank you chairman for organizing this and i agree with you. i think it starts with coming up with a order of what the mission is and if you have the right mission and you have the right funding and you probably get a good result. i think in my years as governor of florida we went through a few hurricane and we didn't just sit and wait for the government to show up, he created our own stockpiles for food and water and parts and things like that to make sure that we were prepared because we didn't, you can't expect something else is going to be able to take care of you . i think we had a lot of people up front of the country to try to figure out how to put ourselves in a better position for the next pandemic while they're also trying to figure out how to make sure we have all the right protective gear with this 10 and. i know as i talked to some of my friends in the healthcare community struggling with getting the right protective gear and part of it is all bei

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we're also optimistic that we may hear from senator langford about his plans to get tested or not, althoughe've not gotten a definitive response from his office as yet. for many of these other members who attended, we haven't heard anything at all. and i think this speaks to the challenge and why, you know, when the president tries to create his own reality by saying, well, we have the best testing. we have the most testing. that's why we have all of these cases. that's directly contradicting thousands of americans' actual experience in trying to get a coronavirus test. these tests still do not seem readily available to people. it has certainly been changing in some areas. there is more access to testing. but many areas are still really struggling. our colleague vaughn hillyard has been reporting some of the struggles out of arizona to try to figure out how to get a test. for a lot of members of congress, if you think about it, the headline in their local paper saying, oh, i got a coronavirus test when many of their constituents still are unable to access them is a little politically diffic

this afternoon, by the way, both of oklahoma's governor and senator james langford are urging presidentto visit the greenwood district of tulsa when he travels to the city for a rally. greenwood is the site of one of the worst race massacres in american history. the president's rally has been controversial not own because of the racial sensitivity of its location and the timing, but also because the campaign plans to do this rally indoors despite health concerns during this pandemic. by the way, folks trying to get an injunction against that rally being held have filed an appeal to the supreme court. and moments ago, kayleigh mcenany defended the campaign's precautions saying they would provide masks to rally goers but they're not requiring them to actually wear them. and she equated the chances of giving covid at this rally similar to the chances of getting hit or catching a foul ball at a baseball game. >> meanwhile, in tulsa,porters are also lining up at the bank of oklahoma center, and the mayor who spoke last hour, welcomed the president's rally but cautioned his residents. >> we a

, offered to revisit this issue, and i'm grateful in a bipartisan way, senators portman, cardin, langford, and others put together legislation to eliminate the restrictions preventing people from getting access to these loans. incredible entrepreneurs in cities and communities all across america who are now denied the aid or seeing their small businesses collapse, which are often critical pillars in many communities. and this bipartisan issue, it's been endorsed and supported from everybody from the aclu to the american conservative union. and so, and freedom works. so i just, again, mr. secretary, want to know, do you believe in an individual who has started a business, is contributing to their local economy, is creating jobs, who has prior unrelated convictions, should really be barred from participating in the ppp program? >> first, let me say, we want to work with you and others to fix this, and fix this really quickly. as i said, the original 7-a program had seven years. we reduced it to five years. we are happy if there's bipartisan support, we're happy to make the change this week

ray kelly is here, talking about the recent calls to defund the police and oklahoma senator james langfordo talk about efforts on police reform and the potential for another stimulus. nancy grace joins us and the wek about real estate prices across the country. don't miss a moment of it. stay with us, right here. maria: welcome back. a tale of two retailers, best buy announcing it will bring back 9,000 of its furloughed workers as it gears up to reopen 800 stores on monday. it will allow a limited number of shoppers inside with social distancing measures in place. another retailer facing a lackluster future, signet jewelers announcing it will permanently close more than 150 u.s. stores, following the coronavirus shutdown, a real bifurcated industry in terms of retail. bob nardelli, some retailers americans grew up with may never return. bob: i think that's right, maria. you're exactly right. when you talk about bifurcated. i think what we're dealing with is the certainity of uncertainity of coming out of our shelters. we heard about wear a mask, don't wear a mask, we heard about the vaccin

of the president appearing to bend to public pressure, particularly from his allies like senator langfordf oklahoma, who urged him not to have an event on this celebratory day that really marks the emancipation of the slaves and to move it one day, and the president tweeted publicly that was the reason he was moving it. but of course, the day was only one issue with this event. you mentioned the masks, temperature checks, and hand sanitizer that will be available, still no word on whether masks will be required. unlike some of these protests, this is an indoor event where you'll have 19,000 people packed in very closely, sharing batrooms, sharing concession stands, and shouting and chanting very loudly, which the cdc has said is a known method of transmission. so certainly, a high risk event and something that even oklahoma public health officials have raised concerns about. >> shannon pettypiece, thank you very much. >> the secret service has now admitted it did use pepper spray in a confrontation with peaceful protesters at washington, d.c.'s lafayette park. the agency originally denied

one of the legislators to speak yesterday on this topic was writer jim langford of oklahoma.video clip] >> where are you on the question of renaming the confederate basis? >> i think we should study it. i don't think we should ignore it. i have been pretty outspoken on schools. i don't think they should be named on confederate leaders and generals. statues and such, i think the committee should make those decisions. a lot of those statues were put there to declare that we are not going to integrate. they put up a monument as some sort of declaration. we should acknowledge that. need to know that the time of jim crow has passed. as well as military bases, entirely reasonable to study it and make an evaluation. reporter: the president says he does not want it. does that make it problematic? >> i think we should talk about it. listen to leaders and folks at those bases. of this, some of those names don't have as much significance now as they had 100 years ago. fort bragg being one of them. a lot of folks don't even know who that was. [indiscernible] host: the "washington post" h

. >> senator langford by tv. >> ambassador thank you again for the work you continue to do and the marathon day today to talk there all the issues today meet walk-through a couple issues one is not going to be a surprise two. specific in the uk with the progress for the united states is making on any new trade agreements. >> so, we have discussions ongoing and use you and i have said on the issue of e-commerce with new zealand. we have, of course you know we have a long-standing fta which is been one of our more successful fta's. with australia in terms of trade agreements i'm trying to think that is probably about it. we had trade discussions across the board, and does have led to a variety of successes in terms of clearing up a whole variety of impediments and that some cases opening markets united states but i could go through those to an interesting thing people think of scr as being involved with these big negotiations. in course we are involved with big negotiations. but an awful lot of what we do are like regular negotiations which we have we have a big negotiation with india which i

and republican james langford said he read the bible every day and never saw anyone holding it that way peggy saying donald trump thought his supporters were too stupid to see through his stunt apparently they aren't and they are seeing through his stunt and also very concerned with what they're seeing. president trump's favorability rating among white evangelical prote protestants down 15%. among white main line protestants down 11 points. holding the same with nonwhite proper pr proat the stans down holding the same. and the religiously unaffiliated down 2 percentage points. so since march, mike, donald trump's numbers are collapsed, especially among catholics. and that, obviously -- that's how he won wisconsin, how he won michigan in part, that's how he won pennsylvania, that helped him in florida. it seems if you're inside the trump white house, there are too many fronts right now to shore up, everywhere you look, the president is losing a great deal of support. >> you know, joe, we hear this from various people throughout the course of the day and calling people in washington, peop