senator mcconnell. i want toconnell: start by graduating colonel mcgrath for her service in the military. it has been my privilege to nominate 131 kentucky women have the same opportunity she did. i also was involved in making it possible for women in the military to go into different jobs, like being able to fly in combat. with regard to the question you asked, what i did was shepherd through the senate an almost $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which has provided $13 billion for kentucky. over a billion dollars for hospitals and health care providers. and i have tried to be a good .xample, too when we went back in session in may, i was the one who said we need to wear masks, practice social distancing. dr. fauci has made it clear that coronavirus is not going away we need to practice , distancing and masks until we finally get a vaccine and can put this in the rearview mirror. bill: lt. col. mcgrath, do you have a rebuttal? lt. col. mcgrath: senator mcconnell, that legislation was passed in march.

senator mcconnell. sen. mcconnell: good question. it has been a devastating issue.ot just for us but around the world. around the country. the 21stve done is century cures act in the last two years of barack obama. the cares act after that produced a total of 275 million dollars for kentucky. in that 200 sunday five million dollars is the single largest grant in u.k. history. $87 million, the single biggest grant of the ever got. in addition to that, there are law-enforcement areas called high intensity drug trafficking areas. i have gotten a number of those for kentucky. roughly half of our state is covered. this combination of law-enforcement and social workers working together to go very intense drug trafficking areas. we are still fighting the battle. not over yet. my cloud has made a big difference in providing funds for kentucky on this big problem. bill: thank you. lt. col. mcgrath: senator mcconnell's clout has allowed billions of prescription medication pills to flood into kentucky. the first thing we need to do is hold big farm accountable for that. he is

senator mcconnell. >> well, what she supported after the cares act was the so-called heroes bill over in the house, a $3 trillion which included in it, by the way, tax cuts for rich people in new york and california, health care for illegal immigrants, and by the way, that bill that she supported, that they passed in the house after the cares act, provided more money for puerto rico than it did for kentucky. in spite of her best efforts, she's a national democrat. she is in line with schumer and pelosi and the rest on all of those issues. >> for kentuckians, president trump and governor andrew bashir are the most two important voices they hear regarding covid-19 and they are afr afrey-- frequently different. >> they did the best they could with an unknown disease trying their best to handle. imagine the situation in early march when dr. fauci recommended we shut down the economy in order to deal with the health care pandemic. we were confronted with problems. a health care emergency and shut down econom

senator mcconnell had done it. these let the coal industry guy with no plan for the last 36 years and look at where we areright now. look at where we are . >> kentuckians are not confused 3about who wants the war unfold. but the beginning of the obama administration, 50 percent of electricity in america was supplied by coal-fired generation read at the end of the obama administration , 30 percent . country and particularly in eastern kentucky. we were then left to clean up the mess. the collateral damage from the war unfold. and so i did in short, healthcare benefits and pension benefits for coal miners so they didn't lose what was almost wiped out by the administration. and retraining so they could get another job. unfortunately some of them have had to leave the area to do it. they love eastern kentucky so much a drive all the way up to the toyota plant every day in order to attend their new jobs. that's why we're in the situation we are in eastern kentucky. and there's no mistake about who caused it. >> lieutena

why is mcconnell relating or doing stunts? the truth is because the leader can't pass anything on the floor, he is resorting to a series of political stunts. that's all. everyone knows it. the republican leader himself admitted that as many as 20 republican senators don't want to vote for, quote, a dime more, a dime more, his quote, of relief for the american people. so out of touch. so calloused. so cruel. so what we have here are a series of show stunt votes, designed to fail, because the republicans want them to fail. it's not going to get the job done for the american people. they can't even put a real bill on the floor. the only bill that they can pass are filled with poison pills that they know no democrat will support in the house or senate. that was the only way they could get them to vote even for this meager amount in tomorrow's bill. by telling the big corporations no liability for you if you egregiously hurt a worker who has covid. by telling wealthy parents you can pay for private school education with a complete

mitch mcconnell says those folks get a first-class ticket on the mcconnell train. and how about parents, wealthy parents who want to send their kids to private schools, the mcconnell train says let's have the taxpayers pick up the bill for that. full tax credit for sending your kids to a fancy boarding school. how about that. in other words, what mcconnell is doing is playing politics of the ugliest sort. he wants to stand up and claim he's helping the american people know. he's playing the same game. no help for the people who needed and lots of help for the people who don't. that's not where the democrats are. the democrats are here for working families, people struggling, small businesses, restaurants, minority owned businesses, for our doctors and nurses and people in public health trying to get their arms wrapped around this covid crisis. this is what it's going to take not only to deal with this immediate healthcare crisis, but also the economic crisis that is tumbling behind it. that's why the democrats will be voting know today. >> questions on this subject

mcconnell: so, mr. president, if there's on further business to come before the senate, i ask that is stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.

which bring us to mcconnell.ing a debate last week the democratic opponent took him to task for the failure to pass a relief package. after months of waiting and leaving hundreds of pieces of house legislation for dead. in the senate. including a specific relief bill called the heros act. >> the house passed a bill in may. and this senate went on vacation. you just toedon't do that. you negotiate. it's a national crisis. you knew the coronavirus wasn't going to end end of july. we knew this. here's the thing. if you want to call yourself a leader, you have to get things done. those of us that served in the marines don't point fingers. >> she joins me next. on his cynical politics. ashwagandha, an herbal stress reliever that helps you turn the stressed life... into your best life. stress less and live more. with stressballs. my hygienist cleans with a round head, so does my oral-b. my hygienist personalizes my cleaning, so does my oral-b. my hygienist uses just the right pressure, and so does my oral-b. oral-b com

so what has changed for majority leader mcconnell? in the last decade, the court has made razor thin 5-4 rulings on women's rights, lgbtq rights, immigration, civil rights, climate change, and much else. now, my republican colleagues will say that these decisions were made by activist judges and that all they want are judges who will call balls and strikes. but what they really want are judges who will make those calls consistently biased towards wealth and power rather than towards people. for all the talk of activist judges, it is my republican colleagues who are right now attempting to add one whopper of an activist to the supreme court. next month the supreme court will take up president trump's case to eliminate the affordable care act in its entirety. that's right. in the middle of this pandemic that has now killed more than 220,000 americans and infected millions more, the supreme court is taking up a case that could eliminate health care coverage for millions of americans. now, judge barrett refused to answer questions about t

leader mcconnell is taking care of his contributors. he's taking care of the big-money people, taking care of wall street. the stock market is up. i know i said that many times. but that's what matter to far too many people around here and the president of the united states of the we should be rolling up our sleeves to invest in neighborhoods and the small businesses that sustain this. instead, we've had another trump appointee working to make it harder to invest in these communities. redlining, government banks sank -- you know how it started. it was the brac codes after reconstruction. then it was jim crow. then it was redlining. now it is locking in discrimination by trump nominees. we've had another trump appointee working to make it harder to invest. for decades, redlining government-backed discrimination left parts of this country, communities in ohio and arkansas with virtually no investment from banks. all kinds of people dream to get loans, but they couldn't do it. whole communities struggled toest go the loans they needed. ban

only one thing will, leader mcconnell. withdraw the nomination of amy coney barrett until after the election. plain and simple. now, we meet here on a rare saturday session because there is nothing, nothing remotely normal about the republican drive to confirm judge barrett to the supreme court only days before a presidential election. four years ago, four years ago, the entire republican senate said it was a principle -- that was their word -- principle that supreme court justices should not be confirmed in presidential election years. leader mcconnell said, quote, the american people deserve a choice in the selection of their next supreme court justice, unquote. that is the principle they insisted the senate must follow, and they declared that this principle bound the senate not to consider the nomination of judge garland, even though it was eight months before the presidential election of 2016. well, here we are today, just a few days from another presidential election. more than 50, 50 million americans have already vo

patty murray on 2 congressional committees and he is in washington ok it is get right to it david mcconnell said he'll have a vote on the nominee well we haven't before election day. i think he's going to do everything he can to push it through before election day because i think the stakes larry are incredibly high and fraught for the republicans if they went after the election when you know if that only speak believe doll trouble be a losing president and senate republicans will have lost their majority in the senate but the reality is this is a this is a dangerous political calculus for the majority leader because what he's really doing fundamentally is pushing through political force a nominee whoever that person is who is deeply unpopular with the american people 60 percent of americans including nearly half of republicans hope want the next president not this president but the next president to be the one who gets to decide who will replace ruth bader dense or on the supreme court and so it's a deeply unpopular thing that because doing it fundamentally the stakes yourself because any

i'm not surprised that leader mcconnell was able to get the votes together i'm a little surprised at the speed at which he was able to get the votes together we're only a couple of days into this and already generally people are conceding that leader mcconnell has the votes to go ahead and move this nomination. and trouble to me is set to announce the nominee on saturday and do you think if that does that you think they can get a confirmation before november 3rd it is certainly possible the reality is that once we started chipping away at the filibuster with all the various nuclear option permutations going back in the last 15 or so years a lot of really road blocks simply went away there are certainly some procedural games that can be played the senate is not designed under the best of circumstances but i think a vote confirmation by election day is definitely possible what do you make of the hypocrisy of those senators saying when the last time when obama lost when scalia died now let's lay the best way the only election it was 9 months away and now they rush this through you don't

a mcconnell senate is a disaster. we've seen what a mcconnell senate does.ads have been spun around so much. there's a combination of anxiety. the one thing -- i don't see a lot of complacency among people in this sort of broad anti-trump coalition in america right now. is that your sense? >> absolutely. i mean our volunteer shifts are increasing every week. we are so excited. i wroould say not only are we n complacent, we are doing everything possible to grow our phone banking. if your viewers are watching these polls and they're cautious and they want to figure out how they can really make the most of these opportunities, come on over and continue to help us reach millions of voters because none of us can afford to take anything for granted, even as we continue to see a really -- i was going to see a steady race in we're continuing to see democrats make gains and hold their gains across the map. so we welcome everyone to come join us. i'm an organizer, so i have to make an organizing pitch to your viewers. >> yes. >> who are tuning in and following the pol

mcconnell and graham rushed this nominee through, didn't give her a chance for america to understand what she is all about because she couldn't hardly answer the question, she didn't want to answer questions during her confirmation hearing but the sad part about it, mitch mcconnell may have had intentions unpacking the court themselves, they want to use the word packing the court, they intended on packing the court but what they didn't do is underestimated donald trump and his hard headedness. what he is doing now, he's losing the election so what he's doing now is having all these rallies, i know i am going to lose but many of you get sick as i can so it will be a messed up situation. that is a shame. that is the part about the constitution this gentleman didn't talk about, hardheaded man like donald trump being put in office but the thing is just like constitutional right for mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham to put her in the position she is in, the door swings both ways. should biden and harris getting there like chuck schumer said, don't say anything, don't say anything because

mcconnell, anyway. who so don't care about trying to pick a justice who will look at the law as opposed to ideological views. i hope it doesn't happen again. i pray it doesn't happen again. just four years ago we all know the republican leader, the former chairman of the judiciary committee, the current chairman of the judiciary committee and nearly every single republican member argued that prem's -- president obama nominee didn't deserve a vote on the floor of the senate because there was a national election eight months away. hours after the passes of -- passing of judge scalia, -- not if one party or the other controlled the presidency. the american people deserve a voice. that was eight months from an election. leader mcconnell confirmed yesterday that the vote to confirm president trump's nominee to the supreme court will take place eight days before an election. the senate republicans could wait eight months to give the american people a voice in selecting a supreme court justice. now they can't

mcconnell: i know of no further debate on the measure. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not, all in favor say aye. all those opposed no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the resolution is agreed to. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 743 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 743, supporting the goals and ideals of national retirement security month, and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate

mcconnell claimed it would be great for them.nd don't care whether they pass a bill to help people. they want to try to control the court. because they can't control the vote. what do you do about that on the ground and convince people that they can stop that through voting? >> i think voters first of all are reminded that we have the power to choose who the leader of the country is. also choose who represents us in congress. and what i'm going to be conveying to voters is remember, carry this as yet another failure from trump, mcconnell and republicans. to meet your needs in present day. another failure if you are black, a person of color. a person living with preexisting condition. or disability. as an attack on civil rights. carry this with you to the poll and stay motivated to bring three people with you. this is a turn out game. your vote will decide the civil rights and democracy our nation has. i don't understand how the gop sees it as a political asset. it's not for the women who left of the work force. black and brown co

i think mcconnell already decided that trump will lose.n his mind he understands they'll lose the senate and this is one last power grab that mitch mcconnell is doing it cap the career. and i think he knows that. and we go big next year and what we do. the voting rights and john lewis act. the proact for the child tax credit. that puts money in working families pockets. when climate and all racism and all the big things. the best answer to mcconnell's power grab is move the country forward in pa progressive direction. and that's what next tuesday will do. and start january the first week in january and inauguration january 2. circuit courts have 20 people on them. there's nothing in the constitution that would prevent democrats from adding seats to the court. other president's have done it. they expanded from five to six to nine. that isn't unusual. how do you explain the resis tense of biden to talk about it? packing the court. republicans packed the court. it's unpacking. >> i think every option is on the table. most democrats and progre

mitch mcconnell will not allow a vote on daca on the senate floor. it would pass if mcconnell would allow a vote. he is waiting for someone. block any vote on anything progressive. >> you list yourself as a second amendment supporter but i believe you support the background check? mr. o'connor: i support background checks. >> would you support a background check for a high-capacity magazine elimination and an assault weapons ban, yes or no? mr. o'connor: those issues all depend on definitions. are common.hey you support a of salt weapons ban or you don't? on howonnor: it depends that weapon is defined. we have sound laws in massachusetts and those with laws were guelph -- those work well for us. high-capacity magazines, limiting assault weapons and background checks. would you will for the same provisions in congress? mr. o'connor: i have issues with some of those provisions. >> you support them here? mr. o'connor: overall, we have a sound system. >> the case in 2007 established a reverse timeline in the history of the second amendment's right to bea

but senator mitch mcconnell has no time for that. he has time only for the political agenda no time for the coronavirus and the economy and no time for them to personally attend negotiations to try to come up with a massive covid-19 relief bill to me to this national challenge. senator mcconnell and the republicans have only one priority. it is political. they need to reverse the position when they denied the opportunity to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. they need to deny the american people a voice in this election process. they need to force through this nomination of amy coney barrett. millions of americans watched the senate judiciary committee last week. they could draw their own conclusions. i will tell you mine. what i want to know is what she has in her heart. what we learned was she did not have the compassion for 23 million americans who are wee depending on the affordable care act to provide some refuge and confidence in the nation of the pandemic. she didn't have the courage to stand up to president trump and say

the senate leadership fund say pac associated with mitch mcconnell.r numbers last night and they are at $92 million. for the month of september, almost three times is what they raised two years ago in the month of september. $90 million out there coursing throughout the five to ten campaigns the senate leadership fund is really spending heavily in. now, they're going up against fat nom nan th the phenomenon that you mentioned. democrats are crushing it on the small dollar, hard dollar campaigns. lindsey graham is being outraids by $30 million across the board democrats are outraising republicans. that's the money you can get the cheaper unit wlhen you're buyin ads on these tv stations. so they're pulling more with soft money, but democrats clearly have an early advantage heading in -- and a late advantage at this point as we're five weeks away. kasie. five weeks? two weeks. what am i saying? >> two weeks. i know, it feels like much longer than that. thank you so much, my friend. it you can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. my question th

mitch mcconnell made the senate into a nasty, hypocritical body.onnell will go down in history calling for merritt garland not to be appointed eight months before the election so we should wait and eight days before the election, he's willing to put a nomination forward. it's total rank hypocrisy. why are they doing it? the hard right. >> let me ask you -- >> the right hard master run the right wing of the republican party and run mcconnell don't want to bill so they aren't for a bill. they want to put on the supreme court. someone who is so far over they know they could never accomplish those goals but one unelected body so they are rushing her through. >> let me ask you about that. you came out in front congress, joined by the ranking member feinstein. you're criticizing lindsey graham. you've been clear and people hear you and understand the evidence for that. she, of course, ended those hearings by saying she thought that graham led some of the best supreme court confirmation hearings ever. do you agree with her on that and do you think she wil

the mcconnell and trump my follow-up right successfully. the democrats, a lot of people said wait a minute. they didn't get a hearing, they getting get a vote. and in reality, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell can pose these things. so there is much more, i think this is trump luck when one of the long conversations i had with him a couple of months ago, he said he thought in 2016 that he had won the election in the last four weeks of the campaign. and i you can see that. and you can argue that. and i think he is hoping to duplicate that. jane: you have in your book, i conversation that seems with i don't know if you're directly interviewed him but with lindsay graham. you say that lindsay graham and chief justice jon roberts talk a lot. that was news to me. because lindsay graham is the senate judiciary committee right now. bob: pivotal position in all of this for me to all of this but, in the book, graham seems to express that he is worried that justice robert to are both worried that the court has become so split and so politici

this is what mcconnell said after justice scalia died. the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice. that is all he said. he did not say that the american people should have a voice but only when there is divided government. that last best is ex post facto. if this was about divided government, republican senators would not have promised on the record to follow their own standard if the situation was reversed. i went you to use my words against me, said the chairman of the just jury committee. if there is a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term you can say lindsey graham said but the next president whoever it might be make the nomination. the claim by the leader that this is consistent with their own principle, please, rather than accept the consequences of its own words, the majority is lighting its credibility on fire. this hypocritical 180 degree turn is obvious to the american people. the second lie is that the republican majority is justifi

mitch mcconnell has put the senate in recess. house speaker pelosi passed a $3 trillion relief package through the house of representatives on may 15th. like all legislation that passes the house, it was delivered to the united states senate, where mitch mcconnell would not even look at it. wouldn't even discuss it. speaker pelosi then engaged in negotiations with donald trump's treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, because donald trump is afraid of dealing directly with nancy pelosi since this moment in the white house in the white house cabinet room humiliated donald trump. donald trump lives in fear of another moment like that, caught by a photographer. but past presidents have frequently left legislative negotiations to cabinet members. and so things were moving slowly but least they were moving when last week donald trump on twitter declared an absolute end to any negotiations on providing any relief to any americans suffering in this unprecedented crisis. donald trump shut it all down completely and the stock market immediate

why can't he call mcconnell and tell him mcconnell will be able to deliver the votes?he really was that confident he wouldn't let mcconnell put his entire presidency at risk. the negotiations between the speaker and mnuchin are dog well and narrowed their differences and mnuchin made key concessions on the national testing and on state and local aid. i believe the speaker will get a deal. the whole thing is in mcconnell's hands and it's shocking to me after trump has done every single thing mcconnell wants with judges, he can't get mcconnell to do something that his presidency rides on and that the country nee needs. >> the president insists he'll get it done and we have see. you previously urged her to accept the white house offer of $1.8 trillion. a lot of money for the needy people out there. but was she right to hold out as she has? >> she has gotten a better deal. i had urged her to make a deal but i think she deserves tremendous credit. the deal is better than a week ago and she has gotten more aid for children area more language on testing and more aid for state

and they're goes back to senator mcconnell.process he has polarized it and made is it so dysfunctional that we had senators saying they would vote for or against the nominee even before her name came out. i mean, he has broken our system just like he's broken the senate. the first step to reform is getting rid of him. and then beyond that, we have to make sure that we get this process back. >> how? >> so i think -- i'm not interested in packing the courts, that's what senator mcconnell has done. i'm interested in unpacking the senate so that we can get our process back in this country. >> the senate has gone home. they're not going to meet again until november 9th. your view on that. >> well, i think it's a dereliction of duty. you know, we in the moment of national crisis right now. we have 230,000 americans dead in nine months. and we have a senator in the senate majority leader that fast tracks supreme court nominees and slow tracks everything else. president trump has said he wants to do coronavirus aid, effective coronavir

i have met mitch mcconnell -- i have never met mitch mcconnell. an independent senator, unlike senator shaheen who is loyal to progressives. >> i have heard this in every debate, that he or she is using it -- is in lockstep. sen. shaheen: my opponent is using republican talking points, is why assume he is in lockstep with mitch mcconnell. but he should not talking about leadership. i served as governor when i worked with the legislature to extend kindergarten. when i had to balance three budgets and make tough decisions to do that. when i worked to get children's health insurance when the republican legislature would not support it we got it done three private foundation. and the next session the republican legislator supported. i know about leadership. i have lead and it made a difference. messnerast question mr. about race in policing. the fbi said the biggest threat to americans comes not from international terrorism but what it calls mystic violent extremists, including those motivated by a white supremacy, anti-semitism, islamophobia, and mis

and then the race between mcgrath and mitch mcconnell.t feels like those two races are would be gold stars for the democratic senate caucus. if they can unseat those two. particularly mitch mcconnell because everything that democrats want to do seems to stop by his very existence. what's your sense of how the races are going? >> wow. if the democrats pull off those two seats they are closer to 60 than to 51. that will be a day reckoning. no doubt. what's interesting talking about how do you spend a lot of money. harrison decided to support a third party candidate who has called himself more conservative than lindsey graham. there are ways to be get a message out there when you have extra cash on hand. and use it effectively. that can be one of the ways he's successful. when you look at mcconnell, i don't think he's as vulnerable as it looks. the money raised was against him. and sending a signal and a message. but you never know in this environment. anything can happen. >> with regard to mitch mcconnell's race. i wonder what it says if mi

that is the pattern we have seen from leader mcconnell.hink the republican viewpoint is that democrats are being unreasonable for trying to spend so much money when there is already agreement on a host of different issues. democrats argue that this is a dire situation where there needs to be more funds allocated. jonathan: one line that stood out for me is a big portion of republican senators that think we have done enough aid. that was leader mcconnell yesterday. surely that is the bottom line here. we go nowhere. kevin: exactly. i think when you have the stare down between speaker pelosi and leader mcconnell, these are two incredibly skilled and gifted politicians. neither is blinking. i think what is interesting about the airlines is that it allows for president trump to say he did not cave to speaker pelosi, and it allows speaker pelosi to say she did not cave to president trump. tom: 25 days to the election, it is what you don't do. who is most advantaged by not doing stimulus? kevin: you know, honestly, i think it is the far right wh

the problem has been mitch mcconnell. democrats we passed something five months ago for 3.4 trillion anticipating the scale of the problem. we then passed a 2.2 trillion bill. the white house was absent. mcconnell was absent, and now the speaker is negotiating with steve mnuchin. i believe mnuchin is trying to negotiate in good faith. every time they make progress, mitch mcconnell says he's not going to put it on the floor. mitch mcconnell is the obstacle in terms of getting a deal right now. >> so why is mnuchin even sitting down with pelosi if he doesn't have his house in order in the first place with mitch mcconnell? i want to ask, though, you are the only progressive member out there who is urging speaker pelosi to do something. why is that? >> well, the others have followed now. you've had peter welch come out and other members come out. and it's really because the suffering in my district. i remit one of the most affluent districts, and i've seen food bank lines longer than any time in our history. almost double the

it was mitch mcconnell's brother )-right-parenthesis before. and then that the election is important and not to agree with any leader. host: how many times supporting president trump and mitch mcconnell but we heard from is that you do the same thing with joe biden is president and checks schumer as majority leader you whatever differently. >> good evening thank you for attending and at hosting as this is an upon question. but he became a leader in the state house in my second term because there were directions we needed to with the people of maine and taking action. hampshire protecting healthcare so now in the senate exactly what people can expect that is representing us here in maine so asking her why would she support and what she continues? this is very cracks of what is happening here. because of mitch mcconnell as a student one - - as the majority leader with the issues that we care about whether it is healthcare or the judiciary will be a risk. host: i want to ask the independence, which party were dukakis and why. linn: thank you for t

and then to use the benefit and voting to have minimum wage and equal pay for equal work so mcconnell will not bring it up we invested in a new infrastructure and innovation with new high paying american jobs and house democrats have been working to make government more transparent and accountable to the people with the strongest and most comprehensive legislation the decades. >> the house is not in order madam speaker. >> the house will be in order. >> thank you madam speaker. to hold them more accountable and with those ethical standards and increase border protections with the redistricting reforms. where is it? in theen senate left unattended and then considered by the united states senate because it is on mcconnell's desk and he will not move it. and then to make it harder for americans to vote on to put confusion and uncertainty house democrats passed hr four to restore the john lewis act to restore the protections of the voting rights act that so many fraud on - - thought and demonstrated and died for. but unfortunately too many in this country are trying to make it more diffic

mcconnell said he's avoided the white house for months because of covid concerns. i'm glad he's able to not go to the white house, and keep himself safe. the folks hospitalized on an icu, they didn't get to escape the wrath of donald trump's incompetence. all of these people know who donald trump is and what he's doing, they're going to get what they can out of him. >> like rats flee from a sinking ship, mitch mcconnell and outside super pac are appealing to republican donors, telling them, give us as a check on president biden. they're writing off donald trump. donald trump would benefit mightily from a covid relief package that nancy pelosi is desperately trying to negotiate with steven mnuchin, and it's mitch mcconnell that would rather see donald trump thrown overblown than give relief to average americans that are suffering here. this is the corrupt bargain all for the sake of getting judges, and it's going to take a sustained grass roots movement. there's a new generation of democratic leaders come to go washington in january, if you look at mondare, jones, w

so what is the -- leader mcconnell suggesting? you got to follow this, because i know the public will find this -- if it wasn't so serious, they would find it somewhat amusing. first i wants to withdraw the amendment that was championed by the republicans to deal with preexisting conditions. now, i must tell you, we all said on our side of the aisle, that was just another political cover vote. now leader mcconnell is making that prediction very clear by withdrawing it. now he'll offer it again later as an effort to block the democrats from being able to offer a clean vote on an amendment. we're going to make it a year vote anyway, but that's his motivation. so he's withdrawing the amendment dealing with preexisting conditions, so it's no longer part of the bill. thens a. going to offer an amendment -- then he's going to offer an amendment to the underlining helping to is $178 -- that's legislation that deals with sanctions against china. you heard me right. this is a message on legislation that deals with sanctions against china.

the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has no intention of bringing this to the senate floor let alone trying to help pass it. it seems like the negotiations for a bill have been at loggerheads for quite sometime. is there any way out of this mess, other than trying to get rid of mitch mcconnell or move him out of the way, you know, defeat him in november, is that all that, you know, democrats have to cross their fingers for? or is there another way forward? >> we've been working, josh, as you know. we passed one heroes bill over $3 trillion several months ago. the republicans would not even begin to negotiate. just this past thursday night we passed another one.

i think mcconnell's logic is the opposite. mcconnell knows as trump knows they're going to lose. mcconnell doesn't want to do anything right now that would help the country, the $600 a week, putting money into schools to open safely, helping people -- that might be about to be evicted. putting money in local governments, so mcconnell doesn't want to do that. he wasn't to put those problems on the steps at the feet of the democrats in january, and he will not let up on the supreme court justice. he lives -- mitch mcconnells lives for power, for tax cuts and for young right-wing judges. he will put numbers of his own staff and his fellow senators at risk. they continue they weekly lunches. we do ours on the phones as democrats. these lunching, they don't care about the food service workers, they don't care about security people. i'm not sure he cares a whole lot about his colleagues so, it's full speed ahead for mcconnell, no matter how desperate. >> i'm glad your skype setup got a lot of use this morning. >> thanks. >>> i traveled to ohio this week. we're going to get to the impor

so what has changed for majority leader mcconnell? in the last decade, the court has made razor thin 5-4 rulings on women's rights, lgbtq rights, immigration, civil rights, climate change, and much else. now, my republican colleagues will say that these decisions were made by activist judges and that all they want are judges who will call balls and strikes. but what they really want are judges who will make those calls consistently biased towards wealth and power rather than towards people. for all the talk of activist judges, it is my republican colleagues who are right now attempting to add one whopper of an activist to the supreme court. next month the supreme court will take up president trump's case to eliminate the affordable care act in its entirety. that's right. in the middle of this pandemic that has now killed more than 220,000 americans and infected millions more, the supreme court is taking up a case that could eliminate health care coverage for millions of americans. now, judge barrett refused to answer questions about t

i am not in lockstep with mitch mcconnell. i have never met mitch mcconnell.be an independent u.s. senator, unlike senator shaheen who is loyal to progressives in washington, d.c. laura: 30 seconds, senator shaheen. i have heard this in every debate, that he or she is in lockstep. with that party or this party. go ahead, senator shaheen, 30 seconds. sen. shaheen: my opponent is using republican talking points, which is why i assume he is in lockstep with mitch mcconnell. but my opponent should not talking about leadership. i know about leadership. i served as governor when i worked with the legislature to extend kindergarten. when i balanced three budgets and make tough decisions to do that. when i worked to get children's health insurance when the republican legislature would not support it we got it done three -- through a private foundation. and the next session the republican legislator supported. -- supported it. so i know about leadership. i have led and it made a a difference for the people of new hampshire. laura: one last question mr. messner about ra