does mitch mcconnell care about that? does the republicans care about having a home in the middle of all this? at the end of the week the additional $600 for people who are on unemployment goes away. that is about 60% of the income of the people, the millions of people getting help right now through unemployment insurance. it goes away. 60%. this mitch mcconnell care about that? do republicans care about that? so far they're just turning their backs. every single day moms and dads, i am worried whether or not my grandkids can go back to school safely. whether or not members of my family who are teachers will be able to be in the classroom. will they be able to teach and be safe? and the clock is ticking. a lot of schools go back in august. so far we have nothing coming from republicans. they are talking about it but schools are having to make decisions, parents are making decisions about what's going to happen. when are they going to act? they are just turning their backs on them. that goes for food assistance, state and

and all leader mcconnell wants to talk about is to protect giant corporations. people across the country blue states and red states need protection and help in leader mcconnell needs to hear from all of them. [inaudible] >> the devil is in the details. how much? what i do for schools? you can negotiate until you have a detailed proposal. and then they are not unified. they were not sure. that doesn't make sense. >> in those protections. >> they do not have the view. one month ago in 20 million people were out of work. and to assess the situation and to be out of touch. one of the main reason it is as bad as it is and to be so enthralled by the business leadership that cares about protecting themselves from all liability way over the top. this is the greatest economic crisis in 75 years. he doesn't mention them to talk about the new york times and the cancel culture. [inaudible] it's very important for us and it's a high priority. think everybody.

senator mcconnell: good afternoon, everyone. we just had a fulsome discussion of the proposals that were developed over the last two weeks by various republican colleagues in conjunction with the administration, including the presence of secretary mnuchin and the president's chief of staff, and we are now in the process of absorbing all of this, and we know that the process of reaching out to the democrats has begun. obviously, that will be led by mark meadows and steven mnuchin. i want to underscore again today that no bill will be put on the senate floor that does not have liability protections. and i want to make sure everybody understands here we are not talking about for businesses. please do not write that, because that is not the entire story. in the lead on this issue is our colleague, senator cornyn, and i will ask him to come forward now and explain exactly what the liability protection is about. senator cornyn: well, it strikes me as a cruel joke to send essential workers in to treat patients at our hospitals and then

why did they not bring mcconnell alone.because the senate republicans cannot get their act together and produce a unified system simply me, i have a suggestion. instead of blaming democrats, how about senate republicans and later m mcconnell get their act together, roll up their sleeves and actually had to do real work. and solve these problems. every time, every time we've come to pass critical belief, democrats and force her republican colleagues in the white house to come to the table and negotiate in a serious way. that's what we will have to do again. we need five partisan negotiations reduce the bill that meets the needs of the american people. democrats will continue to do that. speaker pelosi and i will be pleading with an effort to try and get a bill because we need of the market people, the american economy theco american health is so great. let us come together and get something done, america desperately needs our help. >> venom speaker want to thank the culligan the date mechanic side, senator schumer for his sp

on - - has senator mcconnell forgotten? senator stab and output the list together. 400 pieces of legislation passed by the house deemed ignored by senator mcconnell he wants the house to produce more legislation 400 and what is included in this package? . . . about the urgency of the current health care crisis and the urgency of the current economic crisis. the kentucky hospital association, hospitals in kentucky have lost $1.6 billion since march. only 53 out of 118 hospitals in kentucky have received enough federal aid to cover the losses. 18 hospitals are financially vulnerable and at risk of closing. you know what would help them, the heroes act that passed the house of representatives on monday go would provide 100 billion in relief for hospitals. that would help my hospitals in illinois. it would also help in kentucky. how about the aid to state and local governments. as that's needed in kentucky? they expect to lose between ten to 17% of the revenue because of this crisis. without help from the government, the govern

i have a suggestion to mcconnell. instead of calling our plan a socialist manifesto, how about senate republicans and mitch mcconnell get their act together, roll up their sleeves and get to real work in helping us solve these problems. we want to get something done. see the urgency of this crisis. with so many small business people who struggled for years losing their businesses, of hard-working people being thrown off the job through no fault of their own. people can't feed their kids. people getting evicted from their homes, and so much more. we want to get something done. americans cannot afford anymore republicand right ideology. we are going to keep negotiating, meeting today with speaker pelosi, secretary mnuchin, and mr. meadows. mcconnell doesn't want to be at these meetings, i guess, because his caucus is so divided, but we're going to meet and continue to work. .enator stabenow sen. stabenow:: hunger has been on the rise for millions of americans. there's the 85 euros senior citizen who is isolated in her a

so we are mcconnell, i have a suggestion. instead of blaming democrats, how about senate republicans and the leader mcconnell get their act together, roll up their sleeves and get to do real work and solve these problems? every time we'vef, come to pass critical relief, democrats forced republican colleagues in the white house to come to the table and negotiate in a serious way. that's what we have to do again. we need a bipartisan, bicameral negotiations to produce a bill to meet the needs of the american people. we democrats will continue to do that. speaker pelosi and i will be bmeeting again tonight in an effort to try to get a bill, because the needs of the american people and the american economy, theme american health s so great. let us come together to get something done. america desperately needs our help. >> here is a look at our live coverage wednesday. ..

leader mcconnell is in his alice in wonderland characterizations here on the floor. i can't believe them . he keeps insisting on a bipartisan spirit of the cares act but he skips over the fact that he dropped a partisan bill on the floor and the democrats had to insist on continuing negotiation to make the bill significantly better . there's a lot of revisionist history going on on the other side of the aisle and mcconnell continued with his alice in wonderland logic. suggesting that democrats are going to be the ones standing in the way of morerelief . let's not forget republicans dithered for three months while democrats pleaded for action on covid. speaker pelosi and i wrote to mcconnell three weeks ago and said let's sit down and talk. we didn't hear a p out ofhim . and when republicans finally woke up to the calamity in our country a record among themselves for a week as the country approach several clips. unemployment, eviction, state and local governments and more and now that the republicans finally have a proposal that's corporate focused doesn't meet the ne

this morning senator mcconnell said an epidemic of frivolous lawsuits. it so happens we keep track of lawsuits filed in the united states of america and we can look to the pleadings in those lawsuits to see how many times they mention coronavirus or covid-19. so we know how many lawsuits have been filed. since the first of the year related to this pandemic. we know that despite the fact that 4 million at least 4 million infections have been established in the united states, 4 million. if you know how many medical malpractice cases have been filed by any of those 4 camillion americans or anyone else? against doctors, hospitals, providers ? what is the epidemic number? we haven't been here the exact number of medical malpractice cases filed in the us in the last six months . six. six. an epidemic? a soon on me? how about personal injury lawsuits, senator? how many havebeen filed ? listing coronavirus as one of the reasons for these lawsuits ? 15. 4 million infected americans, 15 lawsuits and the republicans have come to us and want to turn upside down the

mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. tuesday, july 28. further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. further, following leader remarks, the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the joseph nomination under the previous order. finally, that following a cloture vote on the wade nomination, the senate recess until 2:15 to allow for the weekly conference meetings. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: so if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order following the remarks of senators coons and whitehouse. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: mr. president. the presid

we start with senator mitch mcconnell. when the senate passed the care zach back in march, we were trying to prepare the nation for economic paralysis. and medical battle of the century. at the very same time. hospitals healthcare providers in small businesses and working families neededd help fast and the senate stepped up and historic fashion. from is our legislation is help cushion of pain of the crisis from coast-to-coast. our nation is not finished with

>> mcconnell. based on the conversation we have had for weeks about political capital from the white house. the lack thereof, that is the perception among democrats. as a result, you are seeing republicans in the senate and house are feeling emboldened with their own negotiation strategies in order to move forward. quite honestly, this is based off of so many conversations we have had for the past couple of weeks, i think the pelosi camp would rather deal with the treasury department than to deal with the senate. is a calculation that mcconnell would be able to get in the next couple of days more of his caucus on board. francine: kevin, good morning from london. i have been trying to keep up to speed. bigger between democrat and republican's on what should be done or between fiscal hawks in the republican party and those who are more moderate? >> it's a political one to punch. the first step to getting across the finish line will be for leader mcconnell to unify his party. i don't think the republi

mcconnell: regarding that proposal, we had to have an agreement with the administration to get started. they will have to answer the question of why they insisted on that provision. you will have to ask them why they insisted that the included. ok. thank you. rum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now, a short time ago, a ceremony honoring the life of the great representative john lewis was held in the capitol rotunda. the first time in our nation's history that an african american lawmaker had laid in state. last week i shared my reflections on the life and legacy of john lewis here on the floor. in the story of america, john was one of those special who's rose whose moral clarity shone out like a beacon for others to follow. today, as we honor his extraordinary life here in the capitol, many of us -- his friends, his colleagues -- are filled with a deep sense of loss. but i want to share a short message of hope. it seems easy to forget that john was just a teenager when he started the work of redeeming -- it seems easy to forget that john lewis

mitch mcconnell that seat open. i do think that is the way of deterring future mitch mcconnell's from pulling the same kind of stuff, should you do that they won't get away with the long-term. we will balance that out. then the second thing is, and i really believe this, though we know what's pretty, my view is if you commit a crime to win the presidency which thankfully doesn't come up often but if you commit a crime to win the presidency, we should be able to do something about the judges that will last for life because if we do something with the president we can go out or put r impeach the judges on the bench for life. i think the fact president of trump seems likely he committed crimes in order to win his office, that should change how we view the judges on the regardless whether they are principle or not and how they rule, the fact that they are only there because of movies and affects everything they do. whether or not they wanted to. >> host: thanks. super interesting stuff. the last question is from heather

mcconnell and trump's proposal? nobody knows any of that. you cannot negotiate that with respect and ask about leader mcconnell had been saying is the impression he gave he is going to be negotiating with the senate democrats. they would come up with something as congress works his will, one puts it out in the other comes back. they have nothing for state and local. and our bill that's $915 billion, state, local, tribal, government, territory nine and $15 billion. go to speaker.gov/heroes act and see what it means to you and your community. then understand its half of what they were willing to add to the national debt for their tax cut for the rich, 83% going to the top 1%. so when you see what they have on paper you see what they don't have on paper. so when they say a trillion dollars and nothing for state and local, nothing for food stamps, feeding the hungry, nothing for rent and the rest of that, so many things they don't have. then you realize how they are at a trillion dollars and how unacceptable it is. reporter: madams figure you're

worst still, based on reports on leader mcconnell's bill just now, the response to covid-19 is totally inadequate. it won't include food assistance for hungry kids, kids whose parents can't feed them. they say no relief. how hard-hearted, how cruel. is it that those wealthy right wing people who don't want to pay any taxes should say kids shouldn't eat? the private sector ain't doing it, you need the government. hazard pay for essential workers, risking their lives for us. what about funding for state and local or tribal governments. their in the tank, we're approaching a new month. >> many, many, many he thinks is workers will be laid off. bus drivers, sanitation workers, and firefighters. the republican proposal would ignore not one or two or three, but scores of major crises in america right now. in addition, based on what the leader has said, the republican proposal won't go nearly far enough even in the pieces they try to do something with, the small number, the disparate number, the unaggregated number since each piece seem to be separate since they can't get agreement among them

this so -- the language from senator mcconnell. this so-called red line has been promised for months. let's see the details and move forward from there. the notion of immunity for businesses by he any standard that will not protect employees and customers is unacceptable. it would not make america safe. it would make the situation even worse. madam president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call in process be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: thank you. we have three groups of speakers having to do with the vote that will take place at, i think it's 11:45. is that correct? 11:45. during that time i will take the first 15 minutes. then it will take place by the other members that have the amendments. it will be two amendments, the schatz amendment and my amendment. i did have t

mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: on monday, republicans introduced a $1 trillion proposal to give american families more coronavirus relief. most urgently, the republicans want to continue a federal supplement to state unemployment insurance which is set to expire, as we all know, tomorrow. if our democratic dleetions had acted -- colleagues had acted with the urgency struggling people deserve we could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for kids, jobs, and health care. if our democratic colleagues had acted with urgency, unemployed americans wouldn't be facing a total elimination of this extra help. but instead jobless americans are staring down this cliff because speaker pelosi and the democratic leader have to neg

mcconnell: i know of no further debate on the resolutions. the presiding officer: if there's no further debate, the question's on the resolution en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the resolutions are agreed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the filing deadline for first-degree amendments with respect to the cloture motions filed during today's session be filed by 5:00 p.m. monday, july 20, that no second-degree amendments be in order to 2252, 2411, 1788, 1729, and 1972 as inside. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i have two requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate, they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. mcconnell: at the request of my democratic colleagues, i

they mcconnell has said the democrats will engage. i would remind him he refuses to go into the room when speaker pelosi and secretary and secretary mnchin and i when we go in there. once again senato mcconnell is s alice in wonderland ideas predict were trying to negotiate in the senate republicans are not. next. it ised clear this in the republicans do not have a unified position on anything. the main thing we hear from later mcconnell is that he needs all relief, that americans are counting on the lesser is a giant corporate immunity provision attached and he says he morning and negotiate on it. who is holding things up. who is standing in the way. later mcconnell and his republican caucus is certainly the top of the list. and president trump is all over. he himself called the republican senate proposals semi irrelevant premium president center proposal semi irrelevant is competent to the senate republicans, you know they are tied in a ninth entrant not in the can't get anything done. the president seems to endorse a different poli

by 50 to 75 percent with another rent payment due in just 24 hours so while mitch mcconnell is resting his corporate job on a mint julep in his old kentucky home reveling in the true art of irresponsibility the new york times is reporting 'd that almost 40000000 people do not expect to be able to make their next rent or mortgage payment almost 30000000 americans said they did not have enough to eat during the week ending of july 21st and that according to ernie to be chic and an economist at every core i.s.i. failing to resume the federal unemployment payments would cause a drop in consumer spending large enough to eliminate about 1700000 jobs. that my friends are job losses on par with what we saw during the recessions of the early 1990 s. and the early 2000. so please enjoy that jewel upon us mitch while the rest of us take responsibility seriously and start watching the hawks if you want to know what's going on on a city street you want to see it is so you like to see the rises you always state see you rolls royce gracie displays systemic deception is the late show which would be so

mcconnell said we need things not extraneous to covid. you know what's in this bill? no medical malpractice suits until 2024.

is this going to be mcconnell's proposal? is this going to be the senate republicans' proposal, mcconnell and trump's proposal? you can't negotiate that way. >> actually what leader mcconnell had been saying is, the impression he gave was that he was going to be negotiating with the senate democrats and then they would come up with something as congress works its will one side makes a proffer, the other body comes back with what they have. to your point, they have nothing for state and local, and our bill that's $915 billion, state local i trib local, tribal, governments and territories. $915 billion. go to speaker.gov/heroesact and see what it means to you in your community, and then understand it's half of what they were willing to add to their national tax, 83% of the benefits going to the top 1%. so when you see what they have on paper you see what they don't have on paper. they say $1 trillion and nothing for state and local, nothing for food stamps, feeding the hungry, nothing for helping with rent and the rest of that,

and this is all by the way i believe this is firmly all mitch mcconnell's doing mitch mcconnell is pushing these judges through at an alarming rate because chuck schumer worked out deals with them and said we'll let you do these judges if you give us ok let me tell let me tell the back story here this is what everybody misses it was the democrats. the did away with the 60 vote margin right you understand that the democrats did that and when they did it everybody was saying you idiots don't you understand this is going to be turned around you idiots and if you do this we're going to see it rise up in the future and that's what's happening and so the democrats are going to say oh my god what did we do they're run around like with a hair on fire the truth is they created this atmosphere this allowed all this to happen mitch mcconnell the turtle man i can tell you his goal is a point young people 3035 year old they're going to be there their entire career most of which have very little judiciary background they have very little capabilities they you know when you take a look at a most of these

and mcconnell argued that democrats hinted at the same approach. in 1982, then senator joe biden raised the possibility of holding any vacancy since george hush esche walker bush noting that it didn't happen. still republicans tagged biden as setting the standard. in 2016, president trump instead of hillary clinton appointing justice scalia's successor. that was a mhuge motivator. where just deciding the election you could make a case that the supreme court issue won the race for trump. when he won, he named neil gore su goresuch to the court. what would happen if a vacancy were to happen now? the republican controlled senate would confirm a nominee this year despite the events of 2016. >> let me remind you what i said in 2016. i said you'd have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy on the supreme court occur during a presidential election year was confirmed by a senate of a different party than the president. that was the decision in 2016. that would not be the situation in 2020. >> this week cnn's man mou raju tweeted when asked

>> another mistake by mitch mcconnell.he president's approval rating is going on the way up because people approve of the job he's doing both on the economy and his response to the lawlessness on the streets. i think there's another thing going on, lou, and that is the social desirability bias, that's what the pollsters call it. trump has always performed less well in the polls than he does in the election because some people think that the desirable answer is not to say you're it voting for -- voting for trump. in addition to the fact that more people approve, he's going to have an even bigger boost on election day because of those people who are not telling the pollsters they are trump voters or will be trump voters. plus there's the enthusiasm gap. i think this looks great for the president. lou: and you, obviously, are a strong trump supporter. you were considered for a number of posts. tell us where you are in the race, the primary race for the senate running against a mitch mcconnell-designated candidate. an establis

does not want that in there. >> the mcconnell will go the way of the bill.eciate it so much. we'll continue this conversation and we'll see how long it takes. up next, we shift to the sports world. the miami marlins has a coronavirus problem and it affects much more than major league baseball. is that net carbs or total?... eh, not enough fiber... chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. with nutrients to help support immune health. looking to repair dry, damaged hair without weighing it down? try pantene daily moisture renewal conditioner. its color-safe formula uses smart conditioners to micro-target damage helping to repair hair without weighing it down. try pantene. hey frank, our worker's comp insurance is expiring, should we just renew it? yeah, sure. hey there, small business owner. pie insurance here with some sweet advice to stop you from overpaying on worker's comp. try pie instead and save up to 30%. thirty p

of >> leader mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy where there to discuss the framework of the base for the coronavirus relief package. one treasury secretary steven mnuchin says that it will likely come at $1 trillion. >> we think that will make a big impact in the focus as i said is really about kids and jobs in vaccines. >> the key component for president trump, payroll tax cuts giving workers an additional 6.2% in their weekly paycheck. >> it's an incentive for companies to hire their workers back into keep the workers and the payroll tax cut is important. we're working on it. i don't think there's that much dispute in the terms of importance. >> in the works for weeks, it will also include incentive money for schools to reopen. >> kids in school, jobs, health care. if it would be the thing of the proposal that we hope to come together and present to republicans. >> trying to block new money and protesting the cdc in the bill. >> it goes beyond ignorance, it is beyond and hopefully it's a mistake and they'll back off it. >> president trump setting his sights on the bonds in portland

months, senator mcconnell said come to the floor and criticized speaker pelosi for her efforts to pass the heroes aftermost ten weeks ago. ten weeks ago. the house of representatives passed legislation to provide covid-19 relief that we knew was coming. because many of the unemployment benefits are going to expire in just a few days. she saw that coming in ten weeks ago, did with that was the right thing tosh do. she mustered her troops, they voted for the package to move this forward. help state and local governments, thanks to the reality of this economy. else hospitals and helps individuals pay for their health insurance, a good package one that i could readily support. sooner falcon to the floor frequently. regularly. several times a week saying how bad the package was. how terrible it was. but he did nothing where the republicans propose no alternative. just like the affordable care's act they did everything they can hundred 50 times to try to repeal it and never once proposed to notes alternative freighted the same thing is true when it comes to this covid-19 really credit the ci

senator mcconnell: good afternoon. acted withnate last regard to covid-19 back in march and april, we had at that point added about $3 trillion to the national debt. we then of course ended up with a debt the size of our economy for the first time since world war ii, which is concerning. i said i thought we needed to push the pause button. i began to see the impact of the cares act and related acts that passed during that time. see how we did when the economy began to reopen and take another look at what the country needed in july. senate republicans and the administration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal with what we think is an appropriate amount of additional debt to be added to the economy at this time. we think it is about a trillion dollars. we have allocated that in a way that we think makes the most sense for the country at this particular time. it will include liability --urance, which senator liability protections, which senator cornyn is going to describe. the

mcconnell voted for the $600 benefit.lmost every republican and democrat voted for that $600 benefits. back when we passed the cares act. they thought it was a good idea then. they thought it was the right thing to do because we were in this pandemic. we all thought, perhaps, if we are fortunate, this will pass through more quickly. we did not believe it would this appear like the president says, but we believed maybe this could be a quicker pandemic. we didn't really know what the course of the spread of the disease would be. we now know. the conditions that were existent back when we passed the cares act are still in place. my question to leader macconnell is, if you thought it was a great idea that you had the entirety of the u.s. senate andort it a few months ago, the same conditions exist now, in fact in places like florida and texas they are far worse than then, why is that great idea, a bipartisan idea a few months ago, suddenly an assault on everything he believes in. -- in? i don't get it. host: blocker in florid

mitch mcconnell said let's do very little. we democrats said no. and they were forced to come back to the table and we got most of what we wanted. the person who should really want something to happen is trump. because if the economy goes to hell in a hand basket, which it will do if we don't pass anything, he is finished if that happens. >> but this is what is so bizarro world about the entire dynamic here. i don't get it. >> i don't either. they don't -- >> if you're president trump and the republicans, you should be raining trillions of dollars down, because it's the last hope for anything politically. >> here's what they think. let them eat cake. they have so many -- this is an article in "the daily news" and has a picture of mcconnell, let them eat cake. they are so enthralled by the right wing ideal logs, that say don't spend any money, so it is bizarre. it is totally bizarre. but they are totally at war with themselves. when we have negotiations, mcconnell won't even show up. >> he wasn't in the room today, right? >> nope. he was not. he was

that's the hurdle that mitch mcconnell and republican leaders have tried to get over. they are straddling that divide between camps. president trump for the white house has made some demands that were not palatable even to senate republicans so that to jump those girls as well. we are expecting to see their counterproposal to date in the range of about $1 trillion. >> host: and what will happen next? >> guest: again there's no indication that mcconnell can pass this even through the senate. in fact, he almost certainly can't. not only does have those conservatives who don't want to pass a trillion dollars and they would probably vote against this package but then of course the democrats to a filibuster power think it is woefully inadequate. the house bill that nancy pelosi bill that passed in may is $3.4 trillion. so this enormous divide just in the size of what is needed here and that doesn't even get into all the details of the different provisions that the two sides want. you were just talking to callers about the unemployment benefit and that is going to be one of

today on the floor of the senate, senator mcconnell the republican leader, called her efforts quotes a loony ideological fantasy. loony q ideological fantasy. for senator mcconnell who is the leader of the majority here in the senate is aware of you been for the past ten and a half weeks? where is the republican alternative? the republican substitute? why have we not seen that come forward andll a real negotiation take place between the house and the senates. well for the longest time senator mcconnell told us pages not feel quote a sense of urgency to take up this matter. did not feel a sense of urgency. will history was made in the chamberua this monday he actually use the word urgent. finally urgency is stirring and he announced this week republicanwh alternative. but not quite. he announced a series of bills to be introduced by the republican side, always series of bills? we are just days away. we are days away from the issues when these expire with unemployment assistance part and yet in this circumstance, we are dealing with the problem will redo not have alternatives from the

they need help in these communities and the president and senator mcconnell are just sort of saying, well, we'll get around to it when we get around to it. >> yeah, that all makes sense. you know, you and others have called on president trump to be more scientific, to follow his own cdc guidelines he now is out there, late, many people would say, but saying that wearing a mask is patriotic. your response? >> well, i have seen so many people not wearing masks in places they ought to be wearing them i mean, being outside among other people, and i just go back and think, back in march, the last time i was on a plane, ari, was in mid-march somebody in my office drive back and forth every week, it's a six-hour drive to cleveland and that week that i stopped flying, at that point, 90 koreans and 90 americans died 90 people in each country had passed away from coronavirus since then, fewer than 300 people in korea have died. their unemployment rate is under 4% look at our unemployment rate. look at how many people have died in this country imagine if the president back in march or april, ev

and so mcconnell said, let's take a look. let's do a pause then he said maybe localities should go bankrupt donald trump has avoided this problem, says it's going away. well, you can't make the coronavirus go away just by wishing it to go away. you have got to do something so for months -- three weeks ago speaker pelosi and i sent a letter to mitch mcconnell and said let's sit down and start negotiating. we didn't hear a peep out of him. now finally they're beginning to talk to one another. but if you believe the press reports, and from what i'm hearing they were all divided amongst themselves there are 10 or 15 republicans who don't want to spend a nickel and let us go into the great depression because they're such hard right ideologues. then there are all kinds of disputes the president actually told the republican senators not to put in any money for testing or contact tracing. well, when you ask yourself, why are we doing so much worse, this is a shame, a shame, we should be ashamed of this, we are doing so much worse tha

a mcconnell set a hard cap one trillion.he last time i checked in with someone close to mcconnell, they said that still stands. i dot know if that's sustainable. i think they'll have to go more than that because it looks like a bumpy road to november. we have had some of the most powerful economic states like texas and calora have to retreat a little from their reopening. so that surely has to change the calculations. robert: never forget about mitcd mcconnell, gdvice for all of us reporters because he is a factor, congresss a factor. that reminds me that the facing incoming on national security. according to the "times," russia offered bounties to the taliban to kill ameri cn andlition troops in afghanistan. "the times" reported that the intelligence was part of the president's dai document in february. the president has lashed out in that he ignored russian, threats claiming they were a hoax, saying that some officials did not find the statements credible. vice president biden: the idea that somehow d hen't know or isn't b

mcconnell's challenger is amy mcgrath, former fighter pilot in the marine corp. she's brought in $47 million sense she entered the race last year. now mcgrath's cam papaign shari with this network, showing mcgrath trailing mcconnell by just 4 points. we say that by knowing donald trump carried the red state of kentucky by 30. joining us now lieutenant colonel amy mcgrath. thank you for being with us. as has been constantly recognized and mentioned, you don't scare easily, but mitch mcconnell can build a post office, interstate highway, a bridge a tunnel on a whim. he can confirm a federal judge on a whim and a grin. you almost lost your primary. what gives you optimism to get up every day and continue in this race to unseat this guy in your state? >> well, thanks for having me on. i got to tell you, there are a lot of people here in kentucky who are tired of mitch mcconnell. the primary you had a lot of angry folks who came out in droves to vote because they're so angry and they want their voices heard. mitch mcconnell has been around so long, but he hasn't done

so i have communicated that to senator mcconnell.ery governor out there is pushing for this to be included. it's something where if we want our economy to rebound, which i would hope everybody wants it to, it simply must be included. >> all right. what has he said? he doesn't seem to be very publicly in favor of this. do you feel like he'll move on this? >> well, our conversations are cordial. i always had a good relationship, despite being in different parties with senator mcconnell. my hope is that something that he is willing to do, that it seems like everything is a negotiation in washington, and isn't that frustrating? i see a little bit of that here. doing the right thing in the midst of an international pandemic shouldn't be that hard. and pushing all the rest aside and just saying what do we need and let's do it, instead of let's horse trade back and forth, but that's the way things appear to be done in d.c. so my hope is that there are plans in that horse trade to get it done, but it's got to happen quick. both the unemploym

that was quite a moment that you caught mcconnell off guard. their $600 payments are essentially up and it seems like mitch mcconnell didn't know what was in the bill when you asked him about the fbi building. >> good morning. it's just emblematic of the problems that republicans have had trying to get this bill out of the starting gate. mcconnell has been negotiating with the administration for the past couple of weeks, and it has not gone well. mcconnell was shocked that the money for the fbi building, which is a pet project of the president. it has come under scrutiny and it's being investigated within this bill. you know, it was pretty stunning, and it also is clear that mcconnell does not want that money in this legislation as well is, but it's a big black mark for mcconnell and the republicans. as well as another round of the direct sim ligs,stimulus and th other money and the $600 to $200 a week, this is really where the negotiations begin with democrats. moments after republicans unveiled this legislation, treasure secretary mnuchin and

that is roughly where mitch mcconnell's head is at. it will be tough to get there.very guest we have on talks about stimulus. i have been asking this question to kind of get a gauge about where we stand within small businesses. it has been tough to get workers back to work because they are incentivized to stay home given that many make war on $600 per week -- make more on $600 per week than $200 per week or so. what is your research telling versusut $600 per week $200 per week, or let's say in the middle. there is a political challenge here because democrats are saying, you have people who are still unemployed, we need to support them. the republicans are making a more nuanced argument, saying they want to support them but make a pathway back to work. that is not a campaign slogan you can put on a bumper sticker. substantively, i think republicans' heads are in the right place, can we transition down to an amount that will force states to put in place a more sophisticated unemployment system, that is hard to explain. republicans may be pressured into accepting more

mcconnell: mcconnell to sit down with us almost a month ago. mr. schumer: we asked leader mcconnell sit down with us almost a month ago and he would not. so we got here because our republican colleagues couldn't get their act together. they still don't have their act together. now they're word. but instead of being serious in negotiating, they have created a stunt which shows oncerious the republicans are at coming to an agreement. i dare say, if this bill were voted on by the floor, a large new -- a large number of republicans, perhaps a majority, would vote against it. it would fail in the senate and would never pass the house. so unstead of engaging in this stunt to try and get the heat of america off their backs, they ought to do something real, which is sit down and seriously negotiate with democrats about this issue. this proposal, amazingly enough, is even stingier than the one the republicans introduced a few days ago. instead of giving workers who lost jobs through no fault of their own a 30% pay cut, they give them a 33 pay cut. it is jus