we are not seeing kevin mccarthy or mitch mcconnell be in the stocks themselves. host: i was going to ask you

she was also pointed to be a federal judge but had her appointment blocks by mitch mcconnell per day feel particularly invested in this race and we are going to show mitch mcconnell that we are sending packets and to washington one way or another.

mitch mcconnell has decided that the senate doesn't matter. mitch mcconnell will not move in contradiction of donald trump under any circumstances. and one of the most disappointing things for me is mark esper, the secretary of the department of defense. there was some hope that, although a republican, that he would try to uphold the institution of the d.o.d. and keep it from becoming partisanized and polluted by donald trump's racism, and he failed on that count. you now have the number three person in the d.o.d. who is a racist nut ball. >> well, note to future democratic president, advice and consent for all intents and purposes doesn't mean anything. so don't let it stop you. senator, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, chris. >>> next, the president is pulling out all the stops to undermine faith in our elections. today he promised to sue to try to keep people from voting safely. that story next. >>> like many other states that are trying to responsibly guarantee people's right to vote during a pandemic, lawmakers in nevada yes

mitch mcconnell made fun of it when it got there. had it the last four or five days and still not put anything on the table. joe, you know as well as i do that these people are in need of funds. not just for housing, rent and mortgages, but to take care of their children. their staying at home, they have children at home, day care centers are closed, and so they need the resources. and we should provide it. my goodness, 100% deduction for business. what is that all about? building a new fbi building. those are not emergencies. that's something we can do at any time. let's concentration on the american people and let's get them back to work to help them, and let's do what is necessary to get the country beyond this pandemic. >> yeah and, you know, the president seems obsessed on building a new fbi building. the fbi is supposed to protect american democracy. and yet you look at what's happening at the united states post office, the real threat to american democracy is an election where every american doesn't get to vote. now, you've sp

in particular has decided to take a 3 day weekend no i'm not making it up yes chucky schumer mitch mcconnell an arrest and decided to take friday the 31st of july off despite the fact that the covert 19 emergency $600.00 weekly federal unemployment benefits expires and you guessed it friday the 31st of july all but guaranteeing that tens of millions of americans will see. their incomes drop 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 corner 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 duri

since we passed the heroes act, over 100 days ago, mitch mcconnell pressed the pause button. over 4 million people have been added to the infection list. 82,000 more people have died. could we have saved all of them? no. but any of them, we could have. science tells us that's how other countries are dealing and managing this vicious virus. for this administration to show its face to any children in our country, i say to you those who support the president, i respect that. i respect if you vote an exercise that. understand this. he is asking you to put him before your children. he is doing that in the schools by saying he wants to put the bulk of the money into schools that actually open up instead of recognizing the costs to opening up actually, virtually, online education and any hybrid of that. stunning, when you see that of the hundred largest school systems in the country, 62 of them are 100% virtual as of last week. another dozen or so hybrid. partially virtual. then, a small percentage actually opening 100%. we all want our children, grandchildren in my casem to go to s

mitch mcconnell just lighting it up with a taped speech about fearing democrats. take a look. >> today's democrat party doesn't want to improve life in middle america. they prefer that all of us all over the country keep quiet and let hem decide how they should live their lives. they want to tell you when you can go to work. when your kids can go to school. >> michael? >> moving. moving. just riveting. and that's -- that's the goal. look, you know, i think in one sense, it's funny you should play mitch mcconnell of all the speeches tonight. because when i was watching, i was like, mitch isn't feeling this. >> you don't think he was into it? >> no, not in the least! but he knows he has to because he has a down ballot problem and right now, republicans are looking at at least four seats and by some pollings i have seen, six or seven seats that are on the block for a loss this november. sop he's got do his thing. the fact that hoe was not hear in washington was a very loud signal. i don't care how you cut it. the reality of it is, while seemingly everybody's together

and i asked chuck schumer yesterday, why not sit down one on one with mitch mcconnell. and he said, quote, ask him. and i asked him to characterize the relationship between mcconnell and schumer said, look, he's a senate leader, but he's not in the room and it's hard to negotiate with someone who's not in the room and didn't want to elaborate any further. and i asked mitch mcconnell about why he's not negotiating with schumer directly. and he said, because you need the guy with the pen, referring to the president. you cannot make a deal unless you have the president involved. the two power centers on legislation are the president and the democratic majority in the house and a substantial democratic minority in the senate. he added that he is getting briefed on the matter. and he also added that, you know, his relationship with schumer, in his view, is fine. they haven't met much, but i can tell you, talking to some republican senators, there is some unease about letting the administration take the lead in those talks. we'll see if anything changes here. but those two pow

we need mitch mcconnell and the u.s.enate to meet under george floyd's policing and justice act, or we are going to meet you, senator, at the poll on november 3. we want our bill passed. [cheering and applause]

to even beating mitch mcconnell? >> well, i am going around the state and talking to my fellow kentucki kentuckians, listening to what's going on right now and really for a lot of people they know that a guy who has been around for 35 years and hasn't done what kentucky needs. and what i always tell people, hey, look around. are things getting any better? you know, this man has been in office 35 years, he wants to be in office 42 years. kentucky has even before coronavirus a lot of problems. the highest cancer rates in the country. one of the highest rates of diabetes, some of the lowest wages and we have a man who continually has sold out to special interests and, you know, just to bring it back when the last coronavirus bill was passed, a few weeks later it was mitch mcconnell who then said to state and local governments, oh, well, you ought to consider bankruptcy. i mean, that's our school systems. those are teachers, firefighters, police officers. and people are tired of that and they know this. and so i believe

where does that leave mitch mcconnell? and who does it really leave driving negotiations for republicans? >> oh, nobody is driving negotiations. at some point, we've had negotiations that are being driven off a cliff or being driven in a circle. no one is driving. the car has no driver. they don't know what they're doing. mitch mcconnell is trying to put together. here is a catch what the real conflict is in the senate. it's not just between you're sort of hard right people and the people up for office. it is for the people who are susan collins, cory gardner, who are up for reelection, and then all the people who want to run in 2024. right? that's what mitch mcconnell is trying to stitch together. he has a white house who doesn't care one way or another. i want to point this out because as you mentioned in the last segment, the post office is a part of these negotiations. none of this matters. it doesn't matter if you give people $400, $600, or $1200 a month if we do not have the right and the ability this fall to vote th

mitch mcconnell is the republican leader in the senate. his caucus members, republicans have told us, don't want to vote for one penny. so what did mitch mcconnell do? he walked away from the talks. he's been awol. so he contracts out his negotiating authority to president trump. where is president trump? at his golf resort in new jersey and then he sends mnuchin and mark meadows in. clearly with instructions to blow up these negotiations. they were not willing to compromise. i guess because the president wants to have a big press event today at his club. this is really going to do great damage to the country. all those millions of americans who are hurting are not going to really benefit from what the president is announcing because for the most part he is not able to implement it. maybe the extension on the eviction moratorium will stick. many of the other provisions will be very difficult to implement in an effective way. so the better course of action would have been let's negotiate seriously and have a vote. the reason they couldn't d

it's sitting on your desk, mitch mcconnell.at is mitch mcconnell's protest of this bill? he says in part that it offers a tax break to rich people in blue states, that it costs too much money. the headline, though, is that people who need the $600 a week aren't getting it right now. so, what is their objection right now to the bill as it stands? >> they basically say it costs too much and it has too much in it that they say is unrelated to the coronavirus and to fighting the coronavirus. but i think the price tag is really the main sticking point. what mitch mcconnell moved forward with was closer to $1 trillion, the heroes act, the democratic bill you're talking about, is $3 trillion. so, there's a big difference there. if you dig down a little bit deeper, you know, there are three major pieces where they disagree. the first big question is this unemployment insurance. and it looks like republicans may be willing to cede a lot of ground to democrats on that. the other big piece of this is, what are state and local governments

well and the relationship started off very rockley indeed and the president trying to belittle mitch mcconnellot acting fast enough, not understanding how the senate and congress generally works but quickly coming to the realisation that, without mr mcconnell, his presidency in congress at least was going nowhere. that is one line and then the second alliance between his former friend rudy giuliani. america's mare ended. another big law and order advocate. he rose to great prominence during the 9/11 attacks. he was the one who united the country but he has become more of a... we do not know what his role is that personal lawyer? attack dog? you name it, rudy giuliani has taken up the roles. it is amazing seeing the former mayor acting as the president personal lawyer. that is probably the best job description. he pops up at various times when the president is particularly under legal jeopardy president is particularly under legaljeopardy or president is particularly under legal jeopardy or someone president is particularly under legaljeopardy or someone is claiming he has acted unethically and

mitch mcconnell does nothing over the summer, waits until the last minute and puts up a bill that isfully inadequate and walks away. it's dereliction of duty. that is just one of the reasons we have got to get rid of him. >> i mean, the race is close. you had a very tough primary, but he is going for his seventh term. he's a republican leader. he's got the republican money behind him. you've been a good fundraiser as well. how do you try to, you know, flip this seat, which is really been so much in republican hands? >> well, i think for my fellow kentuckyians, many of them for the first time, they are seeing the reality of mitch mcconnell, the fact that he is bought off by special interests, the fact that he really represents the washington swamp and the wealthiest 1% more than he represents kentucky. kentucky is hurting right now with coronavirus in a big way and people, you know, they're saying, hey, what about the dysfunction? why can't we get anything done? why can't we provide aid? you are the leader of the senate, you're supposed to be, but the reality is he's not caring about

congress funds the post office, and congress, the senate has gone ghost on us, led by mitch mcconnellthe republicans have not spoken out on this issue that goes to the core of american democracy. we have the right to pressure the representatives, they've left washington, d.c., but supposed to be at districts in states around the country. are we making it uncomfortable for them is the question i would ask. will be litigation from a variety of fronts, i have no doubt. but at this point it's important for us to decide we're going to vote no matter what. what that means, tonight, tomorrow, every person who can go online and order absentee ballot does so now. order it so it arrives in time and they can get it back to the board of elections on time. encourage people to take the ballot to drop off at board of elections rather than the mail if they can't return it quickly. drop it of f. some states have dropboxes, use them. for those voting in person, suggesting and encouraging people to prepare, you need to know when early voting starts and try to early vote. need as many people to do that a

that's why i'm here tonight saying mitch mcconnell, call the senate back in.e want to pass the bill to make sure the post office is operating and that they have the money they need so we can do vote by mail. >> senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts, it is a great pleasure to have you here tonight at the start of the dnc. thanks for helping us understand what's going on. >> you bet. it is great to see all of you. >> all right. thanks a lot. all right. we do have a big night ahead of us. you will note we are in chris hayes' hour, which is rude of us. but he will be joining us in a moment and we will be doing a live interview with stacey abrams from georgia, which is going to be fantastic. we're super happy you are here with us. stay with us. as a dependent! because it's inanimate! people ask me what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant. and, i tell them, "nobody should." hey, buddy. what's the damage? i bought it! the waterfall? nope! a new volkswagen. a volkswagen? i think we're having a breakthrough here! welcome to caesar's palace. thank

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says lawmakers will get 24 hours notice to return to vote if a deal is reached. you are watching coverage of the senate on c-span2. dr. barry bla, will open the senate with prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, who rules the raging of the sea, we seek your face in these turbulent times. lord, help us to so live that the generations to come will know of your mighty acts. today, give our lawmakers the hearts to seek, find, and follow your will so that their legacy

than the senate majority leader, the self-appointed grim reaper of the legislative graveyard, mitch mcconnell. mcconnell and the republicans have refused again and again to take action to protect americans' health care, to address the coronavirus. billsuse passed mcconnell have refused to even bring up to a vote, 80% of which have bipartisan support in the house, and many that would strengthen health care for millions of american families who desperately need it. america, we can do better than this. this november, americans have a chance to elect joe biden and kamala harris. send mitch chance to mcconnell packing into secured democratic leadership in the senate. americans are really ready and waiting for leaders who will fight to ensure that more americans have quality, affordable health care. >> cap time for questions -- we have time for questions. let's start with tommy christopher. are you on the line? >> yeah, i am here. can you hear me? >> yup. >> my question is for speaker pelosi, but leader schumer and tj can time -- chime in too. i am wondering if you are of potentialkind and whethero

and it does not matter to him or mitch mcconnell or all the people that facilitate him how many people get sick or die in the process. joining me now by phone from his d.c. home where he is quarantining after testing positive for coronavirus is congressman raul grijalva. democrat of arizona. thank you for joining us, i want to start off by asking just how you are feeling. >> i'm feeling okay, chris. you know, no severe symptoms and hopefully, you know that's the pattern that will continue for the next 14 days. i'm hoping and taking care of myself and, you know, waiting this out, trying to do some work from home. but, you know, it's disruptive and, you know, other staff, not only mine, had to be tested as well. fortunately they were all negative. but, you know, the exposure goes beyond one person. i'm not unique. i mean, there is four million plus people in america that have

>> mitch mcconnell is irrelevant to the process.ould be a negotiation between the senate and the house but that is never the way things work on any of the packages. mitch mcconnell has thrown his hands up saying whatever donald trump wants. it is really sad. he has taken away what should be an independent chamber and has given away all of the power. the negotiations are between mark meadows, steven mnuchin, nancy pelosi. chuck schumer . >> i am sure he would love that description. i take your point. >> i think this is the thing, kasie. it is supposed to be a separate body. time and time again, even when we have bipartisan votes that pass the house and the senate, mitch mcconnell does nothing to assure that he can get a majority in the senate that is veto proof. if the president doesn't want it mitch mcconnell abides by it. i am putting my money on nancy pelosi and the movement across the country, the american people who are showing over and over again how desperate they are for relief. >> so, speaking of the speaker of the house, th

with roger marshall winning that nomination, i can tell you republicans in washington, mitch mcconnell in particular, breathing a big sigh of relief with that result from kansas tonight. also a primary in arizona tonight. not a surprise here. martha mcsally, the appointed republican incumbent in arizona winning that primary. she will face off -- she's got an uphill fight here. that's what the polls say right now. she's trying to defend that seat. democrat mark kelly is who she will face in november. the polling has consistently put kelly ahead in this race, so mcsally trying to defend that seat. if she fails, democrats flip it. democrats get a gain in arizona if they can knock off martha mcsally. also news from kansas tonight. steve watkins, a republican member of congress. it looks like he has been defeated in his primary. all sorts of scandals around

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i heard you discussing with jim, i've seen mitch mcconnell out traveling around visiting rural hospitals to talk about coronavirus. so, i don't -- i would not expect people to get on a plane and fly back to washington to listen to a speech, especially when this is not aytra dish nal convention. most of the speeches have had no crowd at all -- >> scott, you have the majority leader who takes coronavirus

i think she is our best chance at beating mitch mcconnell. one way or another, we are going to make sure mitch mcconnell is not the leader of the senate. but it sure would be nice if you were not in the senate. host: from madeleine in west virginia, republican line. sayer: i would just like to i am all for women's rights. but women need to follow the bible. speak --f them that realize we kill our babies by the hundreds. right.en, that's their it's their body. no, it isn't their body. god, and we are ,o recognize and protect life see the convention does not even mention the stuff that is going on. democrats, they kill -- they knock a man unconscious. you don't hear that from the democrats. why? host: ok, madeleine. thank you. guest: i think, madeleine, i appreciate your position. we are going to disagree on this. i think it is important that women have the ability to make the best choices for themselves and for their families. seven out of 10 americans agree with that, that we just have to -- those very personal choices be made by women, as re

senator mitch mcconnell says the post office is going to be just fine. our reporting is next. >>> plus, more on tonight's big kick jaup of the democratic national convention. michelle obama, the big headliner. does she plan to take on president trump? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. >> tech: we'll fix it right with no-contact service you can trust. >> tech: so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ find your get-up-and-go. find pants that aren't sweats. find your friends. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again. at chevy we'd like to take you there. now during the chevy open road sales event, get up to 15% of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. that's over fifty-seven hundred dollars cash back on this equinox. it's time to find new roads, again. and whether we connect pnc kover the phone, online,ing. or face to face, we're here to help- utilizing our resources as one of the nation's largest banks and a local approach with a focus on customized insigh

mitch mcconnell gets mail. does he not have family members?s he not have senior citizens in his life? he's almost like he doesn't care if no one gets the mail, just like he did with russian collusion, he's going to look the other way because it keeps trump in power and that keeps him in power. >> well, guess what, he's running for election and the race is very tight. if he wants to give his opponent an issue, he couldn't give her a better issue amy mcgrath to just say i will promise you i will make sure that we save the post office, that we save social security, that we save medicare. and i won't cower in the corner from this president. so i think he's in some kind of trouble. and i would bet you'll see some money going to the post office. that's a bold prediction. >> well, she's also a military veteran, 15% of the staff of the post office are military. there are already signs that trump is already prethrowing dejoy under the bus. he said i don't know what he's doing. he's already kind of set the table that he's going to throw him under the bu

mitch mcconnell unveiled a bill last month. how will they meet in or anywhere near the middle? even with more negotiations we could see lawsuits from democrats over the president's executive orders, particularly the ones that allocate money. let us begin this hour with democratic congressman hakeem jeffries of new york. his district includes brooklyn and queens. congressman, good evening. >> evening, joshua. great to be with you. >> good to have you. how are folks in your district doing right now marley as it relates to schools. schools are due to reopen. how does it look in your district for that right now? >> well, people are anticipatxi. i've got one son returning to the public school system in the fall. certainly we are lft in the leadership governor cuomo has given the green light for schools to come up with an appropriately safe plan to transition back into the school system as something that i think parents throughout the district that i represent take comfort in. it's still unclear that it will be entirely in person. i think there is a great likelihood that there will b

why would americans choose to support or trust mitch mcconnell seeing as they cannot get a relief billough, they cannot get a relief bill past to help americans through this crisis? >> well, i think the senators' comments that things will be just fine beg the question. just fine for who exactly. perhaps he's talking about the voters who support him and the voters who support the president, and the voters who perhaps want things to continue as usual and maintain the status quo. perhaps for them things will be just fine, but for many other americans, and we're not just talking about the election here. we're talking about people trusting the mail service for their medicine, for veterans getting care packages through the mail, we're talking about individuals who get many of their needs they rely on each day who have a lot of questions because when they listen to the president or follow him on social media, they give him the impression he can't be trusted and that's really concerning for a lot of people. >> people that are struggling. relief checks, unemployment checks. not all folks are ge

with the massive trillion dollar bills there was an attempt to cut her out mitch mcconnell originally did not agree to her demands with the four corner negotiations between the house and senate and she said look. i need to be part of this discussion and be reasonable i need to be at that table. so i think that's what she talks about going forward as well. and that is some of the things that you referenced. >> if it was ever truly and by the caucus i guess probably the last time was 2017? tim ryan? did he actually run against her? >> 2016 but not 2018. >> especially 18 younger people have talked about this but do you have a sense going back and forth between the majority and minority she was threat and inside the caucus? >> yes there was a fair amount of angst in a leadership that was is think this a lot of house democrats were frustrated to see leaders 131517 years now they are in their upper seventies and early eighties people thought it was time for a fresh face and also personal ambition and then moving up the ladder because it was frozen in place that wasn't fair to members with g

no mitch mcconnell. no agreement on senate republicans on a covid relief package. the president decided to go around congress and try to do it himself. ali velshi is with us. let's talk about the practicality of this. the politics are pretty obvious. he is going to try to blame the democrats saying i can do something because you do nothing. but how do they respond given the fact that they passed legislation back in may and mitch mcconnell hasn't done a thing with it? ali velshi, are you still on the line? i think we may have a -- we may have lost ali. harry litman, let's talk about the executive orders that he is going to sign whether or not he can carry them out. there have been a lot of executive orders that have gone through. agencies have -- and environmental regulations and all kinds of things have actually gone through but a lot of others have just been signed and we never hear from them again. >> yeah. they have a pretty bad record in the court. but importantly, the way -- he can -- let's go to the foreclosures. he can cut some people a break. congress can c

lou: even as, well, mitt romney, mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham are working to avoid supporting this many cases workig dead straight against him. your reaction to their posture. >> look, i've watched mitch mcconnell, i've worked with him a lot of times sitting in the room with mark meadows and others. he's got a very strong front. the difficulty here are the rules in the senate where you've got to have 60 votes to do anything. what we really need is a house majority. go to take the house.com, retire nancy pelosi. and you know what the house would be doing? we wouldn't be voting by proxy. members of congress wouldn't get to stay home and get their paychecks. we wouldn't be coming back for politicizing something, we'd be coming back to rebuilding this economy. we would help those who are unemployed, we'd make sure the schools were safe for the children and also for the teachers. lou: yeah. could we get a twofer deal here, kevin? could we get rid of pelosi and mcconnell? can that work? okay. just wanted to negotiate that deal. kevin mccarthy, always great to have you with us. thanks so

in the senate, majority leader mitch mcconnell says he plans to remain in session in case an agreement is reached. no votes are currently scheduled for when the senate returns monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. if the deal is announced, all lawmakers will have 24 hours' notice to return to the capital for votes. you can follow the house live on c-span and the senate live on c-span2. spoke to latino officials about his support for immigrant households, education initiatives, and anti-hate crime laws. this is from a conference hosted by national association of latino elected and appointed officials. former v.p. biden: good to see you again. i want to say a special hi to my good friend. it has been a long time. glad to see you looking so well. i look forward to seeing you pretty soon. i'm honored to be with you all today and i want to start by thanking arturo for this opportunity to share my vision for latinos in our country. if i have the honor of being elected president, i want to thank you for your opening remarks. i'm going to need you if i get elected. not just getting elected, if i get el

there's no other way to explain the conduct of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who would haveowed this report to be released in the middle of the democratic national convention. mcconnell, along with the likes of marco rubio, lindsey graham, richard burr, dud i mention -- did i mention mitt romney? all showing that they are part of the pop in -- of the problem in this nation and not the solution. >>> the postmaster of the postal service says he's suspending -- ron johnson is allowing the radical dems on his committee to call dejoy to testify on friday. johnson says it's the postmaster general's chance to explain himself before he faces a, quote, show trial in his hearing before the dems in the house. what does he think he is putting on in the senate? and just who to be on johnson's committee? none other than joe biden's running mate, kamala harris. on friday harris gets to question the postmaster yen the day after biden's convention speech. monday dejoy will testify before the dem-run house oversight committee. what a joke. that's the day, by the way, the republican convention

and then, you have mitch mcconnell sitting back. the democrats were ready to negotiate the heroes bill that has support for workers. >> right. >> for states and local governments. two months ago. and only now is mitch mcconnell saying, well, okay, maybe we'll talk about it. and came up with some separate bills because his own caucus can't be -- can't get together on what they are going to do for the american people. >> i'm with you. i'm getting it. i'm just saying, desperate time call for desperate measures. and desperate people should do desperate things. and, right now, we have a window of somewhere between six and ten weeks. and once we get past that ten weeks, as you know, senator, in your home state, my home state, here in new york, and all across this country. kids are going to be done for the first half of the school year. the economic impact is going to be huge. the louder we can be. the louder everyone can be, right and left, and reasonable, the better. senator mazie hirono, thank you for making the case, as always. god ble

mitch mcconnell did absolutely nothing.ame up with these phony proposals that i don't even know if his-- his executive orders, i don't even know if they arimplementable. instead of $600 a week for unemployed workers, at best, he wants $300. some states may not go forward even doing that. i don't even know if he can implement that. there's no $1200 check. i think it should be more. no money for health care. no money for states. no money for cities. in other words, the republicans literally-- and i don't mean to be overly partisan-- but they have literally turned their backs on the pain and the suffering that tens of millions of people are experiencing right now. and i ask mitch mcconnell again, call back the senate. let us act. >> stephen: besides the sort of moral bankruptcy of turning your back on the american people, does it strike you as just politically dumb that the only reason why the economy was chugging along at all was that the average people had some money to spend. thabd pay their rent. >> right. that's right. st

senator mitch mcconnell is now speaking. ... they senator mitch mcconnell is now speaking.y offer no protection at all with non— born americans. they want to erode our constitutional rights and they want to quantify this by making the swamp itself, washington, dc, america's 53rd state. we cannot undo the damage they have done. now you understand why democrats spent an entire week telling us about who joe an entire week telling us about whojoe biden an entire week telling us about who joe biden ease, an entire week telling us about whojoe biden ease, not what he intends to do. ——is. i am immensely proud by the work the senate have done. we fought against nancy pelosi's agenda and like president trump will not be bullied by a liberal media intent on destroying america's institutions. we will stand on behalf of the millions of americans whose stories are not told in today's newspapers, whose struggles are just as real. we will continue to support american families as we defeat coronavirus and return oui’ defeat coronavirus and return our economy to the envy of the world. the s

so take us inside the fight between the white house and the hill and mitch mcconnell especially, his clamp-like hold on his republican majority in the senate. this won't look good if he fails to deliver to people something to help them further during this pandemic. >> you know, brian, it's such a fascinating conundrum for conservative lawmakers in congress, mitch mcconnell among them, but many others including mark meadows, who not long ago was the leader of sort of a conservative rumpus group in congress and now is the white house chief of staff. it's such a conundrum for them to be hurtling themselves towards spending more money on unemployment benefits when it's not something that's really part and parcel of what they describe as their party's mission. but they realized in painful, painful detail while scanning poll numbers in the last few weeks that their ship is going down unless they do something about the pandemic. they can see that the president is not doing it. he's trying to argue that it's the governors' responsibilities or it's china's fault, so there's nothing that can b

all that mitch mcconnell asked for is liability relief. he's doing the bidding of his corporate coners who all they want make sure they can't be sued even if they're terrible employers and put their employees at risk. absurd. democrat it's stand ready to make the negotiations happen and provide relief that our cities and states need. that people need. people are really struggling. i have constituents living in their cars. constituents who don't have a home because they live with an abuser and can't go home, or they'll be killed or harmed. our homeless shelters are over-filled. our blinds outside of food -- the lines outside of food banks are long. >> i hear you senator, but going back to, can't let go of your first point you wouldn't be okay with a temporary short-term deal? like, for all of the reasons you just outlined. just to give people some temporary relief until a bigger solution is met. why not be willing to do that from the democrats' side? >> because it won't work. if you say, okay. one more week. they're not even getting the che

mitch mcconnell from kentucky, also spoke.video clip] mitch mcconnell: the democratic party does not want to improve theyfor middle america, want us to keep quiet and let them decide how to live our lives. they want to tell you when you can go to work, when your kids can go to school, they want to tax you and send you a government check for unemployment. they want to tell you what kind of car you can drive, what sources of information are credible. and even how many hamburgers you can eat. they want to do you find the police and take away your second amendment rights. they want free health care for illegal immigrants, yet they offer no protection for unborn americans. they want to pack the supreme court with liberals intent on eroding our constitutional rights. they want to codify all this by making the swamp itself america's 51st state, with two more liberal senators. we cannot undo the damage they have done. now you understand why democrats spent a week telling us about who joe biden is, not what he intends to do. host: that

. >>> and mitch mcconnell admits a lack of support and says he'll have to rely on democrats to help come up with the deal. >>> new overnight, the trump campaign has officially filed in the state of nevada over its plans to hold the 2020 election almost entirely by mail-in ballots. >>> good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, august 5th. a warning for the viewers, the following images are they are disturbing. the latest death toll was at least 100 people and 4,000 injured. the aftermath led shattered buildings and plumes of smoke. and warned of toxic gases and advised people to stay indoors and to wear masks. lebanon's prime minister said the blast is linked to a warehouse at the beirut port which contained hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate stored for years. the compound is often used in fertilizers and explosives. lebanon called for a two-week state of emergency in beirut. citing unnamed generals, though, the president yesterday speaking about the explosion in beirut, saying it looked like an attack. >> you called this an attack. are you confident that this was an attack and not an a

mitch mcconnell doesn't seem to really care. joe biden, for all his little hiccups and gaffes is the person people are clinging to as like a life raft to the isle of sanity. i wonder if you think that the chaos around the v.p. pick detracts from the pick he's the warm fuzzy blanket that we can throw over ourselves. >> i think people around biden have done him no favors. i'm going to differ with james on this and they are playing and replaying the same troep that really hits women that they are too ambitious. they have offended men. only a certain type of woman can be chosen for an important position. that is going to stick in the craw of a lot of women. they will probably vote for him but he should have the presence of mind to tell these people to shut the heck up. you've seen some effort from the campaign. you saw a letter from a whole slew of prom innocent women, women's groups saying you are part of the problem. you're fanning this same atmosphere of really taking what would be an attribute for man and making this into a nega

and unfortunately mitch mcconnell let congress go for two weeks. president trump played golf and people aren't doing the work we were sent here to do, which is to help the american people. so we need to pass the house passed bill to provide relief. >> yeah. i mean, this is not rocket science. like the problem is people don't have money. they don't have money because the economy is contracting at great depression levels. there was i think $175 billion if i'm not mistaken in the house passed bill in the heroes act for rent support so landlords also will get paid. you can't just interrupt the chain of payments. >> right. >> it is that simple. you just pass that and you can deal with it. >> it is. what democrats and what the house has done is provide money for states and cities and localities to provide money so people aren't homeless, to provide food and food stamps so they don't go hungry. people need basic necessities. we need money for health care. we need money for schools. if you want the schools to reopen safely, you will need to get them resour