mr. mcconnell: so, mr.resident, earlier today, leaders in both chambers and the administration reached a bipartisan agreement to supplement the historic cares act. at the core of our agreement is $320 billion more for the paycheck protection program, which is already saving millions of small business jobs and helping americans get paychecks instead of pink slips. mr. president, this is even more money than we had first requested a while back. in the intervening time and at our request, this new money puts a special focus on community banks and credit unions. separately, thanks to the hard work of senator collins and senator rubio, the bill supplies $60 billion for additional economic injury disaster loans, and because of senator roberts, senator daines, and our other colleagues from rural states, it will be clear that farmers and ranchers will be eligible as well. senate republicans wanted more funding for americans' paychecks nearly two weeks ago. before the program even shut down. but in the days that our

mr. mcconnell: so, mr. president, earlier today, leaders in both chambers and the administration reached a bipartisan agreement to supplement the historic cares act. at the core of our agreement is $320 billion more for the paycheck protection program, which is already saving millions of small business jobs and helping americans get paychecks instead of pink slips. mr. president, this is even more money than we had first requested a while back. in the intervening time and at our request, this new money puts a special focus on community banks and credit unions. separately, thanks to the hard work of senator collins and senator rubio, the bill supplies $60 billion for additional economic injury disaster loans, and because of senator roberts, senator daines, and our other colleagues from rural states, it will be clear that farmers and ranchers will be eligible as well. senate republicans wanted more funding for americans' paychecks nearly two weeks ago. before the program even shut down. but in the days that o

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i would just repeat -- all the amendment i offered would do is change the amount in the bill. that's all. to respond to the obvious emergency we have with the paycheck protection program. with that, i ask unanimous consent that the senate stand adjourned in accordance with the order of march 26, 2020, for previously ordered pro forma sessions. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on monday, april 13, 2020. >> the senate gaveling out after a brief pro forma session which they're holding every three days while they're in recess. we use senate majority leader mitch mcconnell try to bring up a funding bill for small business loan program in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. pandemic. the provision providing funding for workers on the payroll during the health emergency. leader mcconnell was seeking to have the bill approved by unanimous consent but democrat senators objected. senator van hollen offer

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i would just repeat -- all the amendment i offered would do is change the amount in the bill. that's all. to respond to the obvious emergency >> on saturday, senator mcconnell released a statement that said in part, we will continue to see a clean ppp funding increase. help democratic colleagues familiarize ourselves -- themselves with the facts and the data before the program runs dry. senator mcconnell could bring up the request next week during a senate pro forma session. watch monday live at 10:00 a.m. on c-span2. >> members of the white house coronavirus task force made the rounds on the sunday news programs. next, we will hear from dr. anthony fauci and stephen hahn on the status of the pandemic in the united states and the possible timeline for lifting restrictions. >> they had the capability

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i would just repeat -- all the amendment i offered would do is change the amount in the bill. that's all. to respond to the obvious emerge >> the house and senate are expected to return for legislative business on monday, april 20, but that is subject to change due to the coronavirus pandemic. watch live coverage on c-span

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. connell: i would just repeat -- all the amendment i offered would do is change the amount in the bill. that's all. to respond to the obvious emergency >> we will have live coverage of the next white house coronavirus task force re-think today starting at 5 p.m. eastern on c-span. tonight, a special evening addition of washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus crisis. join us at 8 p.m. eastern with the medical director of the special pathogens unit at boston university school of medicine and massachusetts congressman jim mcgovern on the pandemic response in his district. join the conversation. washington journal of primetime tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it's all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials. track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps. watch on-demand

mr. mcconnell: mr.rma session today. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: one week ago, mr. president, i warned that the paycheck protection program was running out of money. i tried to pass a clean funding bill. senate democrats blocked it. so here is where we are. a week later, with absolutely no progress. this morning, the program ran out of money and shut down, just as i warned a week ago. even now, senate democrats are still blocking funding. every senate republican was ready to act today. today. but democrats would not let us reopen the program. so look, mr. president. it's absolutely surreal to see democratic leaders treat support for workers and small businesses as something they need to be goaded, goaded into supporting. this really should be above politics. five million more americans lost their jobs just last week. that makes 20 million layoffs in just one month. americans need democrats to stop blocking emergency paycheck money and let this job-saving

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. connell: i ask consent to be recognized notwithstandi

mr. mcconnell: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. >> shortly after passing the coronavirus relief will by voice vote, mitch mcconnell spoke to reporters about the legislation and possible action on another bill. his remarks were followed by senate minority leader chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi. >> ok, good afternoon, everyone. i wanted to sort of view my thoughts-- give you my as we went into the pandemic. my view was that we need to work together on a bipartisan basis as close as we could to try to develop a rescue package that would make sense for the country. we did that with a $2.2 trillion bill. i want to remind everybody there have been two additional pandemic-related bills before that. t. we allocated a stunning amount of money, $2.2 trillion, knowing full well that probably wouldn't be enough. it became clear 12 days ago that the small business program was out of money already. the demand was enormous. senate republicans and the administration felt we should immediately

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. onnell: i consent to be recognized notwithstanding the order for a pro forma session today. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: it's now been

mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that it be in order to receive h.r. 6322 from the house. the presiding officer: without objection.

mr. mcconnell talks about. mr. mnuchin to the rescue who draws republicans to a consensus for more aid in a shattered economy. out there somewhere, deflation. this is bloomberg "surveillance." we are working homebound, although a little bit of a feel of the pandemic. i look at all the reading and tones of this horrific strategy -- tragedy, and germany leading on trying some way to get back to normal. francine: germany is a good test, but if you look at the number of lockdowns and when it happened, various countries also have very different patterns. they are similar in some ways but depending on when you started the lockdown you will have a different number of infected. i have been looking at mathematic modeling and out of europe, the u.k. comes up with the moats -- most deaths. we look to germany to see if there is a solution. some setbacks, singapore having a tough go of it. the united states, you looked at , andectors of the pandemic massachusetts and california having a tough number of days. right now, we need

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mr. mcconnell: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 4:00 p.m. stands adjourned until 4:00 p.m. that finishes this brief pro forma session in the u.s. senate. lawmakers are expected to return to work on monday, may 4. we have live senate coverage for you then here on c-span2. >> hello, thank you so much for coming. i'm monica the director and manager here. i'm honored to reduce our author, bruce reidel director of intelligence profits at the buck institute and senior fellow of the center for middle east studies. his book "beirut 1958" is a nonfiction thriller provides a cautionary tale for today. he combines ahr real-world poli, experience and a profound understanding of the middle east to leave a fascinating complex topic of cold war era and conspiracies culminating and president eisenhower's president decision to declare [inaudible] of doing a presentation about his book and a topic followed by q&a in a book signing so everyone pleas

mr. mcconnell: it's now been four days since paycheck protection program ran out of money. republicans have been trying to secure mor f

mr. mcconnell, there are more important things than your family friend who has been found unqualified gettinge appointment to the second highest court in america. >> so let me pick up on that point you brought up. as you mentioned there are no immediate plans to take up another coronavirus relief bill. our reporting confirms what you said, which is that mitch mcconnell's focus will be on confirms judges. he told a conservative radio host his motto for this year is leave no vacancy behind. what is your response to the majority leader who wants to make that his priority going forward? >> wouldn't it be nice if his nominees were qualified? nine of the nominees from the trump white house for lifetime appointments to the federal bench have been found unqualified. now your viewers may be saying well, give us the numbers for obama. in eight years not a single nominee was found unqualified for the bench. in this case, the man that mitch mcconnell is trying to elevate to the second highest court in the land life time appointment after six months on the federal bench was found unqualified by the americ

mr. mcconnell, as you mentioned, you can't really overrule the director of the nsc. there are certain factors you have to take into consideration. but you are the voice of the leader of the free world, and that carries a certain weight. so, my question is, to what extent did you feel that you had influence over policy as a speechwriter? >> you know, i -- i don't know if -- i personally did not feel like i had any influence over actually policy. a couple of our colleagues were also policy people, like ben rhodes, who was very instrumental in president obama's foreign policy. but i did feel like i had some influence in shaping how he talked about something. so, specifically by the time i got there, i felt like i could kind of help the president be more vocal about his feminism. and so, i used various opportunities. a few essays we had. and then culminating in a speech he gave at a conference that the white house held called the united state of women in 2016, that i could kind of build up and sort of help, you know, help him find voice, give voice to what i knew he trul

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mr. dominic mitch mcconnell sharpening their pencils and getting ready to unload on people. >> that's always concern that is always insurance programs that you can put together. there's nothing wrong with the government working with insurance companies to protect businesses against that but i think our bigger issue is going to be that we need more money and we need to take the ppp program and make sure it gets to independent contractors for barely seeing a dime out of their money and getting to small businesses who are truly in need. right now with the banks doing all the decision-making individually, it's hard for them to know which businesses need the money the worst and we are going to have to resolve that, because if we don't deal with the fact that this money that's supposed to be used over the next eight weeks will run out before some businesses will even be able to open up, then we are going to have bigger problems. so you know, dealing with legal liability is important, but dealing with how do we keep businesses open and get them spending money and hiring employees back building cons

mr. president, senator mcconnell said today that he would prefer to see states that have high public pensions declare bankruptcy rather than taking on more -- >> i heard he said that. i don't know what he said. i'll have to call him and ask him. >> reporter: that's what he said. >> well, okay. i'll have to look at it directly. >> reporter: do you agree with him on that? >> i can't tell you that. i want to base it on fact and reason. i want to see what he said, how he said it and why he said it. i would have to watch him say it. some of the states are not doing well, let's face it. and some are doing phenomenally well. a state where mike was governor, indiana, i looked at their numbers, they have -- it's incredible what they're doing. some states are doing fantastically well. iowa is doing great. you have states doing well and you have some states that aren't doing well. we know the ones, i don't have to mention the ones that aren't doing well but you do have states that are in trouble. and certainly they're coming back to talk to us. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: are you concerned, are

reporter: leader mcconnell said [indiscernible] mr. mccarthy: the first place you'd want to do about that -- think about how much we have passed already. this is almost -- this is over a $400 billion bill. the one before was more than $2 trillion. we should have that all implemented and working before we look to pass something else. let's see what the data what we need. in doing so, that was why my letter was to the speaker. that was the conversations that the majority leader and i, steny hoyer, have had for many times. how could we operate the capitol states.ook at the they're not all opening up at once but if phases. we could have committees, and committees do the critical work. and that's what needs to come back. you could have committees working today and inside -- inside the letter i asked that. committee size, we could put you in the auditorium. we could use the ways and means committee so we have social distancing just as we are in this press conference. we could have social distancing, we can work in public and work through tha

mr. president, senator mcconnell said today that he would prefer the states that have high public tension declare bankruptcy. president trump: i heard he said -- i don't know what he said. i'll have to call him and ask him. reporter: that's what he said. president trump: ok i'm going to have to look at it directly. reporter: would you iagree on that? president trump: i have to see, i want to base it on fact and reason. i want to see what he said. why he said it and how he said it. i'd have to watch him say it. but some of the states are not doing well. let's face it. some are doing phenomenally well. the state where mike was governor, indiana, i looked at their you were ins. they have, it's incredible what they're doing. some states are doing fantastically well. iowa is doing great. you have states doing well and you have some states not doing well. you do have states that are in trouble. and certainly they're coming back to talk to us. we'll see what happens. reporter: are you concerned, sir, about the growing u.s. national debt as a result of this? president trump: do we have a choice?

mr. president, mitch mcconnell said impeachment diverted the attention of the government. did it divert your attention or your team's attention? pres. trump: well, i don't like to think i did. i think i handled it very well. but i guess it probably did. i mean, i got impeached. i certainly devoted a little time to thinking about it, right? it was a hoax. it was a total hoax. and when you think i got impeached only because they had a majority in the house, they didn't get one republican vote, 196-0, not one republican. i don't think that's ever happened. the republicans stuck together, and they stuck together in the senate, 52 to a half, a half. so when you say that, yeah, i see them saying about speed. they probably illegally impeached me, in the sense that if you look at the fbi today, the horrible things, nobody cares about that now because all they are thinking about is the virus, and that's ok. but you look at the report that came out from ig horowitz, it is disgraceful, what went on, a total disgrace. they got caught in the act. but you know what? we won't talk about

mr. secretary, a separate subject have you been in touching with leader mcconnell and speaker pelosi withifferences right now on a another sthi stimulus package. >> i have spoken to leader and the speaker, i have spoken to president, when they think the next phase is ready, and we talked about infrastructure. again, if we run out of money on small bsmall business program we back right away to get it increased. >> unemployment numbers today, increase -- >> let me say, you know. we're going through something that we have never done before. with government shut down big parts of the economy. because of health reasons. our economy was in great shape, our companies were in great shape. there are three-ways that americans will be protected small business, through this program, direct deposit, and enhanced unemployment. we realize unfortunately there are a lot of companies because they are not in business over a short period of time, we're working with states on enhanced unemployment. and as soon as medical professionals and president give the all clear, we'll have a ton of liquidity, we have ab

mr. hogan himself, is the one ask trg the money, and mcconnell is reflecting with his confidence is.ou talk to republican senators and house members, they're not necessarily comfortable with all of the spending and even though the crisis is so deep, you're going to start to see that as they work through the next package, john. >> the leader also has the good memory. it was ten years ago the tea party borne of all the republican and conservative angs over the spending after the last financial crisis. the leader looks around the senate sometimes and remembers that quite well. >> up next for us here, a cnn exclusive. returning to wuhan, china. the coronavirus pandemic began. more important than ever. s at&t is committed to keeping you connected. so you can keep your patients cared for. your customers served. your students inspired. and your employees closer than ever. our network is resilient. our people are strong. our job is to keep your business connected . it's what we've always done. it's what we'll always do. here hold this. follow that spud. [ tires screech ] the big idaho potato

mr. secretary, on a separate subject, have you been in touch with leader mcconnell and speaker pelosi aboutheir difference right now about another stimulus package? >> i have spoken to the leader. i have spoken to the speaker. i have spoken to the president constantly. when the president is ready and thinks we should do the next ones we are ready. the president talked about the infrastructure since the campaign. i think that's a big priority for him. again if we run out of money on the small business program, we will be right back to congress to get this increased. >> does the unemployment numbers today increase the urgency of took phase 4? >> well, let me just say, we're going through something we've never done before, where the government has shut down big parts of the economy because of health reasons. our economy was in great shape. our companies were in great shape. there are three ways that americans will be protected. for small business, who will get paid by their business through this program. the direct deposit. there is also enhanced unemployment. so we realize unfortunately there

i remember mitch mcconnell coming into the room and he says i'm sorry mr. president i cannot give you 15%, would you take 20 and president trump said absolutely all take 20, i'm convinced trump is a master negotiator, he understood something larry and i didn't at the beginning, you start at 15 and negotiate up, if you started at 20 we would've been 25, 26%. the other thing that trump did that i want to mention that is really important, every time we would bring this up he would say what about the 26 and a half million small business in this country, he would say i want to make sure every business man and woman in this business gets a tax cut. this is been mislabeled, big joint tax cut for the large corporations in every small business actually had a tax liability has gotten tax cut and that's gotten a lot of juice from the economy and we did the repatriation and we have businesses who have money overseas to bring it back at a low rate, that is coming back, have a trillion dollars of money that is come back to build factories that we invested here. >> there

mr. president, we are talking about four phase of the stimulus, but you and mcconnell and pelosi are talking about dirnt thin different things that should be in it. last time you not talking to pelosi was an impediment. if. >> if it were important, i would talk to her. but i can have other people talk to her. infrastructure is important. 50 years ago we were the envy of the world and then we spent all of this money so stupidly in the middle east. it is going to be close to 8 trillion dollars in the middle east. how stupid was that? we have to fix our infrastructure, roads, highways, tunnels, airports, everything. the beauty is because of the fact we are so strong as a country, we are borrowing at zero. even as a country we never had a chaps chance to borrow at zero. this is a great time. this is the time to do it. steve, one more question. >> the projections you shared earlier this week, are we still on the current trajectory for that? >> which one? >> 100 to 240,000. have we made enough improvements -- >> on what? >> on the models. >> i would have to ask dr. fauci and deborah. have the mode

mr president. thank you for all of your work with us thank you for all of your work with us to get this passed. i'd especially like to thank mitch mcconnellnd chuck schumer and the entire senate for passing this. i would also like to think kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi, who have been working with us around the clock as well, and our chief of staff, mark meadows, who was also very instrumental in this. let me just comment, we have had tremendous support for the ppp. this gives us another $310 billion for the ppp. we look forward to the house passing this tomorrow. it was up and running quickly after that. this gives us billions of dollars for disaster loans, that will allow the sba to make $300 billion of disaster loans, all for small businesses. also allows us, as the president said, more money to hospitals and unprecedented amount of money for testing. again, ithink unprecedented amount of money for testing. again, i think we understand hospitals, not only the hospitals that have been impacted by coronavirus, but more importantly, many hospitals that have been shut down and making sure that the doctors and nurses get money. now, let me

mr. secretary, on a separate subject, have you been in touch with leader mcconnell and speaker pelosi about their differences right now about another stimulus package? mr. mnuchin: i've spoken to the leader, i've spoken to the speakering i've spoken to the president constantly. when the president is ready and thinks we should do the next stage, we're ready. the president has talked about the issue of infrastructure since the campaign. i think that's a big priority for him. again, if we run out of money on the small business program we'll be back right away to congress to get this increased. reporter: the unemployment number today increase the urgency of doing a phase four? mr. mnuchin: let me just say we're going through something we have never done before. where the government is shut down big parts of the economy, because of health reasons. our economy was in great shape. our companies were in great shape. there are three ways americans will be protected. for small business, they'll get paid by their business through this program. the direct deposit. there's also enhanced unemployment. so

mr. secretary, on a separate subject. have you been in touch with leader mcconnel and speaker pelosi about their differences right now aboutther stimulus package? >> i spoke -- i've spoken to the leader and i've spoken to the speaker. i've spoken to the president constantly when the president's ready and thinks we should do the next stage we're ready. the president's talked about the issue of infrastructure since the campaign i think you know that's a big priority for him and again, if we run out of minute owe the small business program we'll be back right away to congress to get this increased >> does the unemployment numbers today increase the urgency of doing a phase four >> let me just say, you know, we're going through something that we've never done before where the government has shut down big parts of the economy because of health reasons. our economy was in great shape, our companies were in great shape. there are three ways that americans will be protected. for small business, they'll get paid by their business through this program the direct deposit there's also enhanced unemployment spp so we realize, unfortuna

mcconnell suggestion. >> i would like to talk about it later. >> and i asked mr. brian a question? thank you. when you started your presentation you described this as an emerging result. does this mean that your study is complete or is there more work to do? >> we are continuing not. for example on the aerosol side we are looking to hire humidity levels and we expect we will have a greater impact on the virus. we are looking at other types of disinfectants. and we continue to understand the viruses characteristics. >> can you explain why some of these hot spots we have seen in the u.s. are hot and humid? >> if you look at the coronavirus as a chain with many links, what we have done to our study is identified some of the weak links in that chain. but the transmission of the virus depends upon. we identify the heat and humidity as a weakness in that chain. we've identified sunlight, the weakness in that chain, that doesn't take away the other guidance from the white house and the cdc and others, this is just another tool in our tool belt. another weapon in the fight that we can add to it and i

mr. president, house passed the relief bill. >> signing it probably tonight. reporter: as you know there is no aid to states and localities in that bill. mitch mcconnellf course has talked about states seeking bankruptcy protection. he also, his office referred to this as idea of aiding states as a blue state bailout. what do you say to that? do you agree with that? do you agree with governor cuomo that is a vicious attack on these states? >> not a vicious attack but certainly some people do look at it that way. i've spoken to mitch about it. i have spoken to numerous senators about it and we're working with senators that are on the other side of the issue and we'll see what happens. but we're looking to what is right for the people of this country. we're looking to what's right for a particular state and we'll see what happens. certainly next thing we're going to be discussing because some states, in all fairness, john, some states have not done very well for many years, long before the virus came. you can't blame the plague, this horrible plague that came in, all of sudden, they can't blame that. you look at illinois. he has got a lot of problems lo

mcconnell's suggestion that aid to the states --. >> i will not talk about it. i will talk about it later. i would like to talk about something that is more interesting. >> can i ask mr. brian a question? >> yeah, sure. >> thank you, when you started your presentation, you describe this as an emerging result. does it mean your study is conclusive? is there more work to do? >> we are continuing that. on the aerosole side. we will looking at soar disinfectants. and a scientistic community, we are continuing to study it to understand it characteristics. >> can you explain why some hot spots in the u.s. are hot and humid, like new orleans, for example. >> if you look at the coronavirus adds coronavirus as a chain with many links, we have identified some of the weak links in the chain. heat and humidity. sunlight, sol lor light. uc rays is a weakness. it doesn't take away, the guidance from the white house, the cdc and others on the actions and steps that people need to take to protect themselves. this is just another tool in the tool box. another weapon in the fight. that we can add to it and in the summer, we know that summer-like conditions are going to create the an e

mr. president and thank you for all of your work with us to get this passed. i would like to thank senator schumer and senator mcconnellng this. also kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi, our chief of staff, also very instrumental in this. we have had tremendous support for the ppe. we look forward to the house passing this tomorrow. this gives us $50 billion for disaster loans which will allow the sba to make $300 billion of disaster loans, all for small businesses, also allows us as the president said, more money to hospitals, unprecedented amount of testing. hospitals not only for the impact of the coronavirus but many hospitals have been shut down in making sure the doctors and nurses make money. comment, we have millions of companies that have received this with less than 10 workers. there is very broad participation in small business. there has been the businesses that have taken these loans. i was pleased to see shake shack return to the money. .e will put out faq's i ask people, make sure the intent was for businesses that needed the money. the intent of this money was not for big public companies that have access t

mr. president, and thank you for all your work with us to get this passed. i would especially like to shah mitch mcconnellschumer and the entire senate for passing this. i would also like to stha kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi who have been working with us round the clock and our chief of staff mark meadows. we had tremendous support for the ppp. this gives us $310 billion for the ppp. we look forward to the house passing this tomorrow and being up and running quickly after that. this gives us $50 billion for disaster loans, that will allow the sba to make $300 billion in disaster loans all for small businesses. it also allows us more money to hospitals and unprecedented amounts of money tore testing. again i think we understand hospitals not only the hospitals that have been impacted by coronavirus. but many hospitals that have been shut down and making sure the doctors and nurses get money. let me make one more comment on the program. we have over a million companies that received this with less than 10 workers. so there is very broad participation in really small business. there have been some big bus

mr. president, we are talking about phase four of the stimulus, but you, nancy pelosi, and mitch mcconnell are talking about things that should be in it. last time people were talking to me that the fact that you are not talking to pelosi -- >> president trump: i talked to her. if it were important for the american people, i would talk to her. other than that i can have other people talking to her. look, are we ready. infrastructure is a great thing for me. infrastructure to this country. we have a broken infrastructure. 50 years ago we were the envy of the world, and then we spent all this money so stupidly in the middle east. we spent, it's going to be very close to $8 trillion in the middle east. how stupid was that decision? but they spent it on that and other things. we have to fix our infrastructure. that means roads, highways, tunnels, airports, everything. we have to fix it. in the beauty is because of the fact that we are so strong as a country, we are borrowing at 0. we never had a chance to borrow at 0. we never had a chance. this is a great time. so we can fix our infrastructur

mr. president. we're already talking about phase 4 of the stimulus, right. but you and pelosi and mcconnell are already talking about different things that should be in it. now last time people were telling me that the fact that you wouldn't talk to pelosi was an impediment. it really slowed things down. >> if it were important to talk to her, i'd talk to her. if it wither important for the american people, i'd talk to her. but other than that, i can have other people talking to her. look you ready? infrastructure is a great thing for me. i think infrastructure for this country. we have an old broken infrastructure. 50 years ago, we were the envy of the world. and then we spent all this money, so stupidly in the middle east. we spent -- it's going to be very close to $8 trillion in the middle east. how stupid was that decision? but they spent it on that and other things. we've got fix our infrastructure. that means roads, highways, tunnels, airports, everything. we've got to fix our infrastructure. and the beauty is because of the fact that we are so strong as a country, we're borrowing at