mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: for the information of all senators, after the senate adjourns today, we will have our regular pro forma meetings through the end of the state work period. if the speaker of the house and the minority leader of the senate decide to finally let another rescue package move forward for workers and for families, it would take bipartisan consent to meet for legislative business sooner than scheduled. as has been the case, the senators would receive at least 24 hours' notice before any unanticipated votes. the american people need more help. coronavirus is not finished with our country, so congress cannot be finished helping our people. republicans have been waiting and trying to pass bipartisan relief literally for weeks. i would hope our democratic colleagues will let the senate act sometime soon. i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 771. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have

mr. mcconnell: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: no. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of executive calendar 820 through 832 and all nominations on the secretary's desk in the air force, army, and coast guard, that the nominations be confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following nominations -- executive calendar 833 and 834. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the senate -- the presiding officer: the clerk will report the nominations en bloc. the clerk: nominations, securities and exchange commission, hester maria pierce of ohio to be a member. caroline a. crenshaw of the district of columbia to be a member.

mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 11:00 a.m., wednesday, august 12. further, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. finally, following leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. 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: the senate stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 11:00 a.m. thus day, august 11. further, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. final lurks following leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up it ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: so, if there's no further business to come before the senate i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until m? the presiding have and the coronavirus relief package. >> i hope this week the senate would be busy providing more coronavirus aid, and they would work overtime across the aisle to finalize another major release package and democrats say they see a big priority just like republicans

mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: yesterday i spoke about the disconnect between discourse here in washington and the pain and uncertainty that american families are feeling all across our country. i spoke about the human toll of the democrats' choice to play politics with billions and billions of aid and block it all over non-covid-19-related wish list items. it's been clear for some weeks that the speaker of the house and the senate democratic leader are treating this crisis like an ordinary political game. "the new york times" said speaker pelosi is, quote, playing hardball. "politico" says she is taking a huge risk as she remains almost entirely unyielding in her demands. more than 160,000 americans have been killed by the worst infectious disease outbreak in more than a century. more than 16 million americans are out of work. an entire school year for our kids is in limbo. the democrats are playing political games like this for some run-of-the-mill typical negotiation. partisan gamesmanship and playing

mr. mcconnell: the senate was supposed to spend this week finalizing another bipartisan rescue package for the american people. millions of laid off workers needed more federal assistance to weather the storm. small businesses needed more support to make payroll. schools and families need more funding tools and certainty with reopening dates fast approaching. doctors, nurses, and health care workers need more backup as they hold the line against this disease. and we all need more gas for the race toward more testing, better treatments, and the vaccine that will finish the fight. so last week i canceled the first week of august of our august state work period in the hope that the speaker of the house and the democratic leader would put aside their ideological demands with no relation to this pandemic and finally let congress legislate. unfortunately mister president the democrats have let working families down. they're still reluctant rejecting any more relief for anyone unless they get a flood of the man's with no relationship to covid-19. it's been two weeks since senate republicans put o

mr. mcconnell: it's been one week since senate democrats forced the additional federal benefit for jobless americans to expire. senate republicans tried everything to prevent the lapse. that monday we rolled out a comprehensive proposal for another rescue package that would have kept extra federal benefits flowing. democrats refused to act so we tried to force the issue. one of our senators requested unanimous consent to continue the benefits through the end of the year at a still historically generous level. this plan would have also corrected the bizarre choice facing american workers whom the system was actually paying more to stay home than to resume working. but that wasn't good enough for the democratic leader and he objected. another republican senator then asked unanimous consent to extend federal support exactly as it has been for one more week, one more week so the jobless americans didn't have to bear the cost of democrats' leisurely negotiating pace. once again the democratic leader objected. finally, republicans forced a floor vote to demonstrate whether senators were enwillin

mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: it's been one week since senate democrats forced the additional federal benefit for jobless americans to expire. senate republicans tried everything to prevent the lapse. that monday we rolled out a comprehensive proposal for another rescue package that would have kept extra federal benefits flowing. democrats refused to act so we tried to force the issue. one of our senators requested unanimous consent to continue the benefits through the end of the year at a still historically generous level. this plan would have also corrected the bizarre choice facing american workers whom the system was actually paying more to stay home than to resume working. but that wasn't good enough for the democratic leader and he objected. another republican senator then asked unanimous consent to extend federal support exactly as it has been for one more week, one more week so the jobless americans didn't have to bear the cost of democrats' leisurely negotiating pace. once again the democratic l

mr. mcconnell: i ask that the mandatory quorum call be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session with senators mer mitd to speak -- permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 240, s. 384. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number, 240, s. 384, an act through the national institute of standards and technology to help facilitate the adoption of infrastructure in the united states and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to the proceeding? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the committee-reported amendment be withdrawn, the capito substitute amendment at the desk, be agreed to, and the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered mad

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: the senate stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, it is so ordered. mr. schumer: now, mr. president, mr. schumer: now, mr. president, now, mr. president america's living through a crisis that exceed anything we have seen in generations. other countries were able to test their populations. isolate cases and contain the spread of the disease but here the failure oflu the trump administration to develop or implement a national strategy to defeat covid on the help front and economically has meant that the disease has raged to our country for seven months, is still spreading, and the economy is in very bad shape. we have over 5 million confirmed covid-19. covid-19. it just took 17 days to go from 4 million americans with covid the 5 million. unemployment is high that it was during the great recession.g the great more

mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: it's been one week since senate democrats forced the additional federal benefit for jobless americans to expire. senate republicans tried everything to prevent the lapse. that monday we rolled out a comprehensive proposal for another rescue package that would have kept extra federal benefits flowing. democrats refused to act so we tried to force the issue. one of our senators

so senator graham, south carolina, is saying if mitch mcconnell, if mr. mccullough, if the republican leader can get half the other republican senate of the to do anything, that would be quite an accomplishment. i want, i want all of us to think about what that means, what it means is that many of our colleagues are happy to have packed up and a gone home and tt we are not doing anything because they don't think we need to be doing anything. that, mr. president, is really why we are not here. and that's also why you saw the trump administration emissary, secretary mnuchin and the chief of staff mark meadows, walk away from the negotiating table. because they understood that if they reached what was truly a compromise, a principal compromise, as senator graham said, have the republican caucus would oppose it because they would oppose anything. so that's why you had the trump administration walk away from the negotiating table and refuse to come to a sensible agreement. and what did we get instead wrecks because they walked away from an agreement we had the

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mr. mcconnell has told us, he told pbs news hour that about 20 of my members think that we birdie done enough. let me read that again, this is from the republican leader, about 20 of my members think that we have already done enough. it's obviously referring to republican members of the senate caucus, remember the members of the senate republican caucus think all is well, we have done enough, don't need to do anymore to expand access to testing, don't need to expand access to personal protective equipment, don't need to do anything to help our schools, we d done enough, we don't need to do anything more on unemployment insurance, where the additional $600 a week has expired. senator mcconnell said 20 of his members thought they had already done enough. youbut 20 members of the senate republican caucus, their leaders say they have done enough. here is what senator lindsey graham said on fox, i think if mitch can get one half of the conference, that would be quite an accomplishment. referring to the republican conference, senator graham, south carolina is saying if mitch mcconnell, mitch mcconn

mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: first, madam president, i extend the senate's condolences to the people of lebanon following yesterday's horrific explosion in beirut. reports indicate that at least a hundred have died and more than 4,000, 4,000 others were injured. the lebanese people have seen more than their share of tragedy. civil war, syrian occupation, terrorism, and assassination, violence, economic and political corruption, the burden of caring for more than a million refugees fleeing syria. now, unfortunately, once again in the wake of great tragedy, the lebanese armed forces will have to demonstrate they serve the state of lebanon and its people, not a political party or sect. since the end of syrian occupation, the l.a.f. has demonstrated it can be unifying national force largely free from sectarianism that corrodes other lebanese institutions. now it must do so again. the people of beirut are beginning the hard work of rebuilding their city. their nation continues its hard work to restore its de

how the senate and congress generally works but quickly coming to the realisation that, without mr mcconnellpresidency 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 you usually see rudy giuliani on the screen say, no, no, no, this is com pletely say, no, no, no, this is completely wrong and the president is completely

mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: another day has come and gone in this once in a century national battle for our country. yesterday more of our neighbors had to say goodbye to loved ones whose lives were claimed by this virus. yesterday more doctors and more nurses worked long shifts on the front lines fighting to heal strangers and limit a national death toll that now exceeds 150,000. yesterday more workers brought home pink slips. more main street businesses saw the end of their p.p.p. lifelines fast approaching. yesterday more laid off americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance or laid awake wondering about next month's rent. yesterday more school officials wondered what to tell parents, students, and teachers about september. so what happened here in the capitol yesterday, madam president? with the american people fighting all these battles and more, what did the speaker of the house and the democratic leader do with yet another day of deliberations? yet again it was the exact same refrain. i

mr. mcconnell pressed the pause button will we find a solution? we will. will we have an agreement? we will. here to talk about it is stephanie miller good to see you again. i thought at first everybody agreed on the $1200 checks to people and it was a matter of hammering it out i don't know if there's any agreement. it sounds like the president could do as much as he possibly could, and the market aren't pushing them, it feels, for more of a response. how do you think it plays out? >> it's so interesting i have covered a number of these very big policy pieces of legislation moving through congress wall street is sick and tired of the fighting, so this feel like it's not going to get done, feels like more of the same from washington i think the real question is will this actually not get done? or will they fight up to the very end and come forward with some sort of agreement. >> i see here you still think there will be a bill, by a trillion, trillion and a half in size, roughly done by august 15th again, is all of this just wrangling in public, but we know the broad outlines aid to

mr. mcconnell pressed the pause button will we find a solution? we will. will we have an agreement? we will. it's hard to share, go across the table who wants to give a tax break for somebody to have a business lunch and refuses to give more money for children who are food insecure in our country to giving more for food stamps. that's kind of a definition of who we are >> the president continues to tweet about unilateral executive options he might have. some kind of executive order to extend unemployment bonus pay outs it's not clear that the president has the authority that he says he has to do that and that's why these negotiations on capitol hill are so important. that meeting coming up at 5:00 p.m. we should know a bit more when that breaks up maybe in the 6:00 p.m. hour tonight. back over to you >> that was senator portman he was referring to about not wanting to spend more. what was the full context of portman's comments >> reporter: there's a lot of people in the republican conference who feel we're running a deficit that's too high we don't need to inject a lot more liquidit

mr. mcconnell, ok, if this is what you want, you get it when there's enough money put here. for us to have an election -- and put the procedure there, and americanpeople see exactly who is tryingto subvert thisdemocracy.i think thatis a much moreserious issue than suppressing the vote. the -- of demock sit that's what's taking place here. >> well, thank you very much. i guess this election we also probably cananticipate that we may not haveananswertheevening of the election or eventhe nextday,thatthis may be a prolongedperiod of counting votes and assessingthe situation and that may be fraught as well but a lot for us to be worrying about. next question, please. >> we will take our next question. >> hello, representative. in ffls america. droths democrats in the house of representatives are also up for a vote this november. i would like toknow,and can youshare with the communitywhat is the argument youand speaker pelosi and yourteam are making withregards to yourrecord, what arethe accomplishmentsyou are laying out that you areproud of as ahouse of representatives? >> well,

mr. mcconnell sat on this two moss and it's an outrage. nobody should go home until we have a deal to help people. people are suffering. >> what about loggerheads? you heard mark meadows say if no deal reached the president will issue executive action. do you take that seriously? and can he eve cn do that? >> president trump does not have authority to issue executive action on these issues. president trump makes up rules as he goes along and has no clue what his abilities are at what he's legally able to do. as result he sat on his hands two months going golfing and doing whatever he does, but not actually coming to the tabled to talk to leader schumer and speaker pelosi, to talk about what does the american people need right now. so we stand ready to provide that relief. we need money for cities and states. 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

mr. mcconnell were in the room so we can get the legislative bodies together.e, you know, turned it over to the white house. but we'll get something. >> you sound confident, and that is buoying to me, because i feel like you're a pretty clear-eyed observer about what capitol hill is capable of doing. i would just ask what you would say to americans right now who are really scared about not just the health aspects of this but the economic aspects of this. so many people i know just in my personal life, whether they're small business owners or whether they are employees of public or private entities, people are worried about whether or not the economic blow that's been dealt to individual families and to our country right now is something that we're going to recover from in the long run. how do you see that, and how do you think the government has done in terms of trying to fix some of these wounds? >> well, people are worried. quite frankly, i am worried. we've got really a pandemic within a pandemic here. when you really look at it, we've got a big health care

mr. mcconnell passed -- pressed the pause button. will we find a solution? we will. b when we have an agreement, we will. >> meanwhile, president trump has said he might just go ahead and order executive orders on what congress can't get done. joining me, capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt and nbc news senior white house reporter shannon pettypiece. so that incremental progress, kasie, i took directly from you. but give us an update. so you've got speaker pelosi, leader mcconnell. generally expressing optimism, but where are we really? >> well, chris, it's been a little bit of a stalemate for the course of the morning, and the language has been getting a bit darker. nancy pelosi at her press conference this morning said that while she sees a light at the end of the tunnel in these negotiations, that might may be the light of the oncoming train of the virus. and you know, i think that that sort of metaphor, if you will, illustrates and underscores the political realities around these negotiations. republicans were trying to hold onto the white house, trying to hold

mr. meadows: leader mcconnell has made it clear it is redline and he establishes what goes before his senate colleagues. he has made it very clear that liability protection will be in any bill that gets passed and we support that decision. reporter: is mcconnell going to be involved in these discussions? sec. mnuchin: mcconnell is very involved. we just updated his team. we will be in touch with him later today. yes, let me be clear, both kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell are very involved in everything we are doing. as i have made this constantly, mark and i are a team. we check with the president and there is nothing we are doing without the support of the president and we are fully in touch with kevin and mitch. reporter: you said the president was checking in almost hourly -- mr. meadows: obviously, he didn't check in while we were in there. maybe that was a little bit of hyperbole -- sec. mnuchin: he did speak with him before we went on. mr. meadows: i was on the phone when we went in and i am about to call him as soon we finish. reporter: [indiscernible] they have made clear there is

democrats in the senate than republicans in the senate present nick will mcconnell says that you ought to question it. reporter: mr. schumer if mcconnell's in the room negotiating. [inaudible] >> the bottom line is both a meadows and maneuver and have told us mcconnell does not want to be in the room. i can't force him to get in the room. the bottom line on the other is meadows into the president sent and that's who we have to negotiate with. thank you everybody. reporter: can you respond on the issues with the moratorium on. [inaudible] reporter: could talk about mail-in voting? [inaudible] [background noises] >> house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer gave an update to reporters after their

mr. mcconnell pressed the pause button will we find a solution? we will. will we have an agreement? we will. but it's hard to share -- to go across the table with somebody that wants to give a tax break for somebody to have a business lunch and refuses to give more money for children who are food insecure in our country, giving more food stamps that's kind of a definition of who we are. >> i like your spirit of being more up beat, more optimistic so i will offer this. why can't you go across the aisle and say, representative lewis, civil rights legend, would have loved it if we could do something for the totally disenfranchised for something in the country. can we give a huge chunk of money to the people who are disinfranchised, to minorities who want so badly to stay in business and who can't and to people who are trying to go to college or have student loans who are minorities who are the most affected because they had the least chance in our country? that's got to be something boldt sides can agree to. >> perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn for what you just de

mr. mcconnell have completely transformed the judicial system. just imagine what they can do in another term. so it is with great pride from the state that is known for the best in the world and the fastest horses, we are proud to cast all 46 votes for donald j. trump. [applause] secretary drummond: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules and procedures of the convention, kentucky casts 46 vote, s, president trump. louisiana. 46 delegates. 46 for president trump. i am of chairman, louisiana, home of america's national champion football team. our great oil and gas industry, who has been freed up from silly regulations by bidenent trump where joe would put us under once again. home ofa, also the thousands of hunters across our state, where joe biden would threaten with taking away guns and ammo. louisiana is a pro-life state where we love both mother and child, but where joe biden is hiding in the dark waiting to take the lives of our unborn babies. louisiana, where businesses have thrived for the past three years as a result o

mr. mcconnell have completely transformed the judicial system.t imagine what they can do in another term. so it is with great pride from the state that is known for the best in the world and the fastest horses, we are proud to cast all 46 votes for donald j. trump. [applause] secretary drummond: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules and procedures of the convention, kentucky casts 46 vote, s, president trump. louisiana. 46 delegates. 46 for president trump. i am of chairman, louisiana, home of america's national champion football team. our great oil and gas industry, who has been freed up from silly regulations by bidenent trump where joe would put us under once again. home ofa, also the thousands of hunters across our state, where joe biden would threaten with taking away guns and ammo. louisiana is a pro-life state where we love both mother and child, but where joe biden is hiding in the dark waiting to take the lives of our unborn babies. louisiana, where businesses have thrived for the past three years as a result of pr

mitch mcconnell has only used his power to save the special interests and big corporations and they didn't have to stand in any line. the rest of us, he says kentucky should file for bankruptcy. mr. m mcconnell, the swamp will take care of you but what about us? >> joining us is the kentucky democratic candidate for senate, retired marine corps lieutenant colonel amy mcgrath. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> jumping off the campaign ad we just showed i want to show you something from abc this morning with steve mnuchin. >> so you think it's a disincentive to find a job if you have that extra $600? >> there's no question in certain cases where we're paying people more to work -- stay home than to work, that's created issues in the entire economy. >> lieutenant colonel mcgrath, what do you make of that argument from the -- from steve mnuchin? >> well, i went to the unemployment lines with people who were filing for unemployment and there's a problem with their claims. i talked to each person that i could and everybody that i talked to had a job prior to coronavirus. full-time job. guess what? their job is gone. this is everything from sports photographers to single moms wh

mr. president. well, it's thursday afternoon, and it just looks like any other thursday afternoon. there's no sense of urgency, the leader, senator mcconnell, has sent folks on their way for the weekend, and no agreement on the covid-19 survival package, which is what it real lay is for so many families. we are in a situation where it's another week of not focusing on how we get unemployment extension passed or how we deal with hungry families or make sure people can have a roof over their head or support our small businesses or our small family farms or our first responders on the front lines and others in cities and towns and in states that are providing public services essential to us, people who are in jobs that may lose

party leadership like house minority lder kevin mccarthy and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. some of mrump's closest advisors will speak tonight, including his personal attorney rudyani and his daughter, ivanka trump. and finally tonight, we'll hear from the president directly from the white house south lawn-- ase unprecedenteing for a political acceptance speech, fierce defense of his first four years in office. global pandemic, president trump will address a live crowd at the white house, and a virtual crowd of millions more, on this final night of the 2020 conventions. >> woodruff: and you can follow all ofpecial coverage of this week's republican national convention online. you'll find news updates and dispatches from our team hecoveringonvention. and stay tuned for newshour's pre-show, which begins online in just a moment. that's on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newour for tonight. please join us starting at 8:00 eastern tonight for our special coverage of the republican national convention. i'm judy woodruff. pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll seyou shortly. >>

mr. dejoy and the head of the postal commission before them this week. i'm demanding that leader mcconnell go into regular session so we can have these hearings. if mr. dejoy refuses to appear, he should be stamped return to sender. he shouldn't be allowed to be the postmaster general if all this destruction, he can't answer to the american people what he is doing. >> reporter: we don't yet know whether the postmaster general will agree to testify. we are getting some sense from the white house that the opposition to more funding for the post office may be starting to erode. meadows saying on television this morning that he does think the president would sign some funding for the post office if it's part of deal where the white house got some of what it wapd wa wants. >> jacob, you have been following this story for some time. there is hearing. what would come of it because they have already said this has nothing to do with trying to manipulate the election. they are cost cutting measures. >> that's a good question. the committee leadership is interested in figuring out what kind of commun

mcconnell is not there. i guess, mr. meadows, now, his chief negotiator, is on vacation. but what we have got to do is extend that $600-a-week supplement for workers all over this country who are unemployed. we've got to continue and expand on that $1,200 check that people desperately needed. we have got to provide healthcare to all of our people. provide funding for cities and states and schools, who are desperately in deed need of tha funding. but trump won't talk about that. that's not what he does. he will try to deflect attention. but this is just another racist, stupid attack from a president who must be defeated in november. >> i mean, the other thing he doesn't want to talk about is covid-19. and a pandemic, which has killed more than 160,000 americans. who knows the actual number? and -- and the actual number of people who have, actually, been infected with this -- this virus. the president had -- he attended one task force meeting since april. he tweeted out pictures of it the other week. but i mean, he's not -- there is no national plan. still, we're still talk

mcconnell. my personal favorite, portman of ohio, mr.ober, traditional, russia hawk, a skeptical guy who has just found a way to take a walk, take a pass, turn around, not notice any of it. what has happened to your party on russia? >> it's heartbreaking. i mean just watching those clips makes my heart hurt. there's one thing the republican party stood for, it was a realistic view on foreign policy. i mean, ronald reagan helped bring down the berlin wall, and we thought that words could change the world. we said that in the reagan era, and there was some truth to it. and now with trump, we just say, well, they're just words. it doesn't really matter what the president said. i don't understand it. i don't see how it's patriotic. i don't see how it's in keeping with an oath in office. from the very beginning, trump has been an apologist for putin. if you go back to when he was running and it was brought up that putin kills journalists, he goes, well, you know, it's not like america is so great itself. it's a disgrace. i think it's an abdic

mr. trump will speak from the south lawn of the white house. other speakers include alice johnson, whose life sentence the president commuted at the urging of kim kardashian and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, house minority leader kevin mccarthy and trump's daughter ivanka. a pre-buttal delivered this afternoon and the president's record on the coronavirus and racial injustice. we'll have full coverage of the rnc tonight starting at 7:00 followed by expert analysis and special kpix newscast after cbs prime time. >>> checking on wall street now, the dow is now up a bit. well, a lot actually, 261 points, better than we've seen lately and stocks pushing further into record heights and the latest action by the federal reserve and the federal reserve and they'll go longer ane rarve is related to prop up the economy. slightly more than 1 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. the labor department talked 1,006,000 and the figure matched predictions and about 100,000 less than last week. >>> fda approved a $5 coronavirus test. the test is a nasal swab and test kit and alabama about the size of a credit card and delivers results in 15 minutes. the test has 97% accuracy for po

mr. did joy will follow through on what he said. >> it has nothing to do with voting. it has anything to do with the political statement. >>> mitch mcconnell has said he has no intention to take up that bill passed by the house in the senate. and president trump has said he would veto it. >>> it is now 419. let's get back to monday morning weather. rosemary is in for steve with all the latest. rosemary. >>> yes. good morning to you dave. if you scattered showers reported over the bay area this morning. isolated thunderstorms will remain across our area and the red flag warning continues until 5:00 the entire bay area. a look there out to the golden gate bridge where it is a bit of a dark foggy start. you can kind of see the fog just blowing through. we will have fog along the coastline and inside as we start the morning. temperatures outside right now with some cloud cover out there are warmer than where we were 24 hours ago. and the added humidity as well. 60 degrees santa rosa, 64 in oakland, 66 in san jose. san francisco is in the low to mid 60s. temperatures outside we are looking at seven degrees warmer this morning up by four in the

mr. de joy and the head of the postal commission before them this week. i'm demanding that leader mcconnell go into regular session so we could have these hearings. if dejoy refused to appear, he should be stamped return to sender. he shouldn't be allowed to be the post master general if after all of this destruction he can't answer to the american people what he is doing. >> dad joke, postal puns aside, do we think dejoy will appear? the white house has resisted oversight in every way possible in this administration. >> the schumer -- he always has a trademark joke, doesn't he. >> yes. >> i really don't. other administrations have refrained from putting cabinet secretaries and high ranking white house officials in front of congressional committees. and i think that is what we're going to see here. partially because dejoy is not a career public servant. he's a former trump donor and major republican party donor. this is not someone you want to hoist in front of a congressional committee and the c-span crowd who will be scrutinizing and already scrutinizing him for his past history and his c

mr. schumer. sen. schumer: thank you, madam speaker. it is 83 days since the house passed heroes act. at that point, speaker pelosi and i called on the leader, mcconnell, to start negotiations .n covid we: him three weeks before these deadlines. for two months, lead mcconnell has said mark pause, wait and see. why haven't we come to an agreement? because our republican friends do not seem to see the gravity, the situation, the great crisis we are in. the greatest economic crisis for 75 years, since the great depression, greatest economic health care crisis for 100 years. bottom line is this. the trump administration and senate republican have badly mauled the body politic. believe the patient needs a major operation will republicans want to apply a band-aid. we won't let them pass the band-aid, go home, and leave america bleeding. it is that simple. that is the difference. there are huge problems out there. but so many of the republicans don't want to do anything. let's not spend any government money when people are hurting so badly. the president just debtors. this is the greatest crisis we have had in so many years and one of the five or six greates