senator lankford. senator lankford? ok. senator carper was here in person, so i will go to senator dames by remote. you suppose our system has broke down or anything? senator cardin? go ahead, senator cardin. sen. cardin: thank you, commissioner. i want to figure out a way to get checks out, rather than having to wait for their refund in the next tax season. i know that would be a terrible inconvenience. thank you for your commitment to find a way to deal with this. i do want to talk to little bit about the taxpayer first act. we recognize that covid-19 has challenged the implementation that requires the irs to be more customer friendly, that deals with training and deals with several of these issues we have been working on for a long time as members of the senate finance committee. you tell me how you have been impacted on implementing that act in covid-19. mr. rettig: unfortunately, we have been impacted. we had to redeploy services in a number of different arenas. somewhere within two to three weeks ago we sent a letter

senators johnson and senator lankford haven't endorsed those ideas.t may not be long before they do. what otherio acts of revolution and cultural desecration can we expect from our suddenly woke republican senator friends? that's a good question. we're going to ask mark steyn in just a minute. what do you think they will do if you don't say anything? which holidays will they be canceling? obviously july fourth would be first on the list. is anyone on "the new york times" can tell you america is inherently racist and has always been there for celebrating independence is also racist -- no less racist. presidents' day. officially presidents' day is washington's birthday and as you just heard, he's evil, to evil to have a statue. how can he have a holiday? every single president has been the man. sexism, anyone? don't tell lankford and johnson. thanksgiving, no way we can have at holiday on our calendar. not only was it established by abraham lincoln, manseau filthy his stature is being removed from boston, not a single one of the pilgrims wasn't from eng

lankford: reserving the right to object. madam president, as senator durbin knows very well, a unanimous consent is trying to get all 100 senators to agree on something. senator durbin has done remarkable work for years advocating on the issue of immigration, and he knows exceptionally well what a difficult issue this is. he's been involved in countless debates and negotiations dealing with this issue, and there's certainly not 100% agreement on a house bill that passed in 2019 on how to be able to solve immigration. so it's not going to pass. i will certainly object in a moment to this. this bill far exceeds just deal with daca, and as this body knows very well because there were four separate votes dealing with immigration in february of 2018. and at that time three of those dealt with the issue of daca. none of those actually were able to get # 0 votes to be able to -- 60 votes to be able to pass. the trump administration was very engaged in those negotiations and the white house itself brought a proposal on what to do wi

lou: well, president trump fighting for america's heritage while rino senators ron johnson, james lankfordlindsey graham and a few others are turning on the president. these ridiculous clowns of senators want to get rid of columbus day. if what a novel idea for them. what is the difference between them and a radical dem activist, these three milk toast senators? the federal holiday would be replaced with something called juneteenth. the senators say removing columbus day is for fiscal reasons, so federal workers wouldn't get an extra day off. these -- may i say to the people of texas, john cornyn and ron johnson in wisconsin, lindsey graham in south carolina, please, don't send any more of these people to washington. there are already enough damn fools there without more of these rino, ridiculous fools. it's just stunning how they behave. and it's time to call them what they are, and that is disastrous. >>> up next, the national left-wing media refuses to ask joe biden why he was trying to unmask a national security designee of president trump. judicial watch's tom fitton is anxiously awai

lankford: february 21, 1940, john lewis was born. troy, alabama. son of share croppers, born to be a person to bring good trouble to the nation. grew up on his family's form, attended segregated public schools in pike, alabama. as a young buy he was inspired by the activism that surrounded him in montgomery bus boycott and the works of a leader named reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. he attended fisk university and organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in tennessee. in 1961 he started participating in freedom rides. he was just a young man. but he would get on board a segregated bus and he would dare to sit in the whites only area. just to make a simple statement that any person of any race should be able to sit anywhere they choose to sit in america and it be okay. he literally risked his life just riding on a bus in the wrong seat. he became best known in 1963 when he helped organize the march on washington. he was part of what they called the big six in the civil rights movement. it was nationally recognized and we lose

ron johnson and james lankford are both republican senators and today they issued legislation to abolisholumbus day. they want to delete it from the national counter implicit with juneteenth. this is a big change. americans have celebrate columbus day as long as we have had a country's in 1792. that's a celebration of the nation itself which is why we have a national holiday. three weeks ago many people had never heard of it, even the media seemed oblivious to its existence. from 2012 through 2017, cnn did not mention the word juneteenth a single time on the air. barack obama who was the president never tweeted about juneteenth once during the entire span of his presidency, not one time. juneteenth commemorates the freeing of the american and emancipation is one of the great moments in america's history which is why we consider abraham lincoln a hero. but paradoxically, and this is audit. the people who are pushing juneteenth on the country do not consider abraham lincoln a hero. they are pulling down the statues along with columbus. confused? that's the nature of hysteria outbreak, they

two republican senators and i want to get into this, two republican senators ron johnson and james lankford have put forward to build columbus day as a federal holiday with juneteenth. this is senator johnson. you said rather, we are celebrating emancipation with a federal holiday but we believe we should eliminate a current holiday in exchange. we chose columbus day as the holiday lightly celebrated and least instructive. here is my question to both of you. juneteenth came two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation, okay? the 13th amendment was actually ratified in 1865. so should we be celebrating -- is that what we should be celebrating? i will let you both get a crack at that. is that what you want, juneteenth and no more fourth of july? >> juneteenth is a celebration of freedom for us. and i think thatan is something that should be a national holiday. i appreciate people stepping up and taking that stance. but even then, you talk about systematic oppression throughout the entire history of america, we still haven't got equality and justice for allth and libery and justice

stonewall jackson.ing general meanwhile, two republican senators, ron johnson of wisconsin and james lankfordma, filed an amendment to replace columbus day with juneteenth as linew federal y. the results from yesatrday's elections are in. former colorado democratic governor john hickenlooper willi face repn senator cory gardner in november after winning his primary tuesday night. in western colorado, five term republican congressman scott tipton lost in his primary to r-rightusinesswoman lauren bogert. in oklahoma, voters narrowly approved expanding medicaid in the state. the trump administration pushein back today a accusations the president neglected reports offoussian bounties killing u.s. troops in afghanistan. mr. trump dismissed those intelligence reports as for canoes. secretary of statete insthe situation was handled incredibly well to safeguard troops. >> we see threats and intelligence reporting to our thldiers stationed all ove world every single day. every single day. the fact that the russians are engaged in afghanistan ins a wy thatverse to the united states is nothing new. >> n

senators-- ron johnson of wiscsin and james lankford o oklahoma-- filed an amendment to replace columbus with juneteenth as a new federal holiday.re thlts from yesterday's state elections are in. former colorado democr governor john hickenlooper will face republican senator cory winning his primary tuesday night.or in western co, five-term republican congressman scott tipton lost in his primary to far-right businesswoman lauren boebert. meanwhile in oklahoma, voters narrowly approd expanding medicaid in the state. the trump administration pushed back today against accusations the president neglected reports of russian bounties for killing u.s. troops in afghanistan. mr. trump took to twitter and dismissed those intelligence reports as "fake news." and secretary of state mike pompeo insisted the situation was handled "incredibly well" to >> we see threats in soldiers stationedver the our world every single day.si everle day. the fact that the russians are engaged in afghanistan ia way that's adverse to us is nothing w, by the way. adviser robert o'brien told fox news a top c.i.a. official

. >> from our perspective, i said as i mentioned to senator lankford, i'm very frustrated with where we are here. what i will say is if the carriers don't take action, i expect we would move forward. >> i think we're going to hold a hearing on that subject. >> i would certainly have the witnesses to send you. >> get the carriers in and we can visit with them. let me jump gears here. i've reviewed the transcript of your testimony in our two prior hearings. you testified, did you not, that one of the reasons, indeed the main reason that we're giving the $10 billion, not the $5 billion to relocate, but the $10 billion to the foreign satellite companies was to avoid litigation. that's correct, isn't it? >> that's -- i don't have any reason to believe that your rendition isn't accurate. >> you say. >> sure. >> did i also understand that you testified that you have reached an agreement with these foreign satellite companies in which taxpayers will give them $10 billion, but you didn't ask them to waive any claims or causes of action they have? >> so, although the incumbents electing these

lankford: the world is watching what's happening with covid-19. it's affecting every single one of our families in some way. while the world is watching and we're doolittleing with all the issues -- and we're dealing with all the issues in the united states, you can't lose track of what's happening on the world stage because china is using this moment when the world is distracted to be able to push its way into hong kong, into i can bring its word -- and to break its word. when we deal with china, we know what they've done, the predatory tactics they've done, either to their own people or to countries around the world. in the united states of americas, when we do foreign aid, we help other countries gain more security, freedom, economic growth. we don't ask anything in return. we engage to be able to help them. china is working with developing countries around the world by moving into countries and taking collateral of their ports, airports, and establishing military bases around the world when poor countries default on the loans they give them. t

>> let me ask you first about these books, here's the lankford oaks reader, how many have you read?i read for, i haven't read the last one, unfortunately. who's on first. >> what have you like? >> i've been in a similar business for a period of time and i find them very realistic superb and i'm wondering how mr. buckley got to writing these books and thank you so much. >> thank you. in case you need. >> these are all available who publishes them ask? and when did you start writing these? >> 1970, what happened was my editor and two associates wanted to have lunch with me. we had lunch and one of them said have you read a novel recently that you especially enjoyed? i said yes, one by david jack well. he said one of you write a novel? the next day there was a contract and there was a novel published by david. had to write it in my own time. they said enough is enough and we terminated or they could say go ahead. three publications. the protagonist goes from episode to episode and the last one, he makes an appearance. just before the wall comes down. he's retired. >> let's go to el pas

a lot coming up in the next hour oklahoma senator james lankford to talk about the latest in the stimulusld and mysterious seeds in china ending up in americans' mailboxes, rudy giuliani on growing unrest, we will take a look across the country, in 8:00 a.m. hours chris coones, trump 2020 secretary hogan talking about race for the white house coming up. plus who is watching you, one prominent pharmacy using technology for nearly a decade. all that and more programming note. fox business will be covering today's technology hearing on capitol hill, you can watch it at noon eastern this morning live right here. plus you've got questions, we've got answers, now segment ask the panel begins next month vend video questions to maria at foxbusiness.com. you are watching mornings with maria live on fox business. maria: one point of contention on both sides of the aisle is funding for noncovid-19 nonrelated items including new fbi building, president trump weighed in yesterday. >> it's sort of semiirrelevant because democrats come with their needs and asks and the republicans go with theirs so we w

2270, inhofe-reed 2248, peters 2275, toomey 2277, inhofe 2204, cantwell-manchin 2417, jones 1797, lankford 1825, loeffler 1878, tester 1966, tester 1971, kennedy 1991, markey 2053, cruz 2138, durbin 2168, feinstein 2217, heinrich 2220, rounds 2235, brown 2257, sasse 2287, boseman 2298, harris 2317, klobuchar 2319, inhofe 2326, young 2327, shelby 2331, wyden 2341, blackburn 2370, blackburn 2378, moran 6789 sanders 2419, lee 2084, van hollen 1849, hassan 2103, and rubio -- excuse me, rubio 2422. the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from new york. mrs. gillibrand: mr. president, i am reserving the right to object. this amendment list does not include my amendment 1932, a bill you, mr. president, and i worked on, a bill the majority leader has voted for. this amendment, it's so simple. it professionalizes how the military prosecutes serious crimes, serious crimes like sexual assault, rape, murder. it removes the systemic fear that survivors have in reporting these crimes. according to the pentagon's most recent survey, almost 21,000 service members were sexually assaulted in