ms. pelosi: good morning. well, our dear john lewis has been laid to rest. i don't know if you saw the double rainbow over the capitol on tue speaker pelosi: good morning. well, our dear john lewis has been laid to rest. i don't know if you saw the double rainbow over the capitol on tuesday night. saying good-bye to him as he made his transition. and on the last night before he would be leaving the capitol, he said his good-bye to us with a double rainbow. saying as he would say, i'm home in heaven. i'm with lillian. may he rest in peace, our dear john. we mourn him as a death in the family. but now we've passed 150,000 americans who are dead from the coronavirus. many of them were not necessary. to have met that fate. today on the floor of the house, we'll have a moment of silence, to observe the loss of 150,000 americans. 10 weeks ago we passed the heroes act. more than 10 weeks ago. we passed the heroes act. which had a path to containing this virus with testing, tracing, treatment, mask wearing, sanitation. the republicans said they wanted to take a pause

ms. pelosi: you have a three wrong question there. [laughter] we will pass the bill and in a bipartisan way today and we will send it to the senate. let me just say as i've always said, public sentiment is everything and they will be hearing from their constituents. because this hits home. not receiving your mail in a timely fashion hits home, not receiving your prescriptions, especially for veterans, hits home in a way that is harmful to our country as well. hoping that the need for us to go forward in terms of we can open our economy if we have our testing, we can open our schools more safely if testing,oint-of-care tracing, treatment, etc. why they will not follow sciences beyond me, but nonetheless, we have to make that case, and it is safer. said, it was 99 days since we passed our bill. in that time, how anymore people -- it was a 4.2 million more people had become infected. 4.2 million since we passed our bill. died, more people have taking us past 175,000 people. you see the statements that are being made that if we wear masks

in a letter, ms pelosi accused president trump of a "campaign to sabotage the election". of mail ballotsrrive in time to be counted in november's election. in north carolina, protesters gathered again outside the home of the head of the postal service, postmaster general louis dejoy. he's a loyal supporter of the president and a republican donor. critics blame him for a slowdown in deliveries, and say he's intentionally gutting the postal service to help president trump. earlier i spoke to steve herman, the white house bureau chief at the voice of america, and asked him if a vote on legislation would put an end to the dispute. maybe not. it really remains to be seen if there will be enough pressure put on republican senators to act on whatever the house presents to them. normally, you would be right, that something that would come from the democrat—controlled house would really not go anywhere with the republican—controlled senate. but what we do know is this issue with the post office is affecting some rural districts where there are republican senators who are feeling vulnerable in thi

ms pelosi has accused president trump of a "campaign to sabotage the election" and her democratic partyind recent changes which they say could hamper postal voting in november's presidential election. alanna petroff has the story. it has come to this. a musical protest about the post office. demonstrators are gathered outside the home of the new postmaster general louis de joy, postmaster general louis de joy, for another day of dissent. louis dejoy recently appointed to the role, is a big trumpet donor. —— mac trump donor. it has slowed down mail delivery. i was overseas and i cast my vote by mail—in ballot! protesters worried about louis dejoy protesters worried about louis de joy public changes protesters worried about louis dejoy public changes will hamper mail—in voting during the 2020 presidential election. voting by mail is especially important this year. many americans will want to avoid busy polling stations to cut down on the risk of catching the coronavirus. president trump is not a fan of voting by mail. he has warned of potential voter fraud, without proof, and he says he i

ms. pelosi said no.yment run out knowing that that would increase the pain hoping to leverage our heroes act. heroes act, by the way, mentions marijuana more than it mentions jobs. the president cares. he is trying to get aid to the american people ms. pelosi wants to deny. i approve it because we're about the american people. >> sandra: the "wall street journal" points out the hypocrisy of the moment with a lot of pointing back to the obama years and republicans criticizing his use of a pen and phone and what the president is doing now, president trump. it writes this. he escapes pelosi's political trap but uses obama's pen and phone method. yes, there obama did it first. he paid health insurers cost sharing subsidies without an appropriation from congress. as part of his pen and phone strategy he used executive dictates to provide work permits for millions of undocumented aliens. democrats and the media cheered these abuses and mrs. pelosi's charge that trump's saying is unconstitutional is partisan hy

ms. pelosi are saying it is troubling because we see this as russia hoax 2.0 now it is not the russians nowthe -- people the men and women that work at the u.s. post office that's supposedly going to slow this down. and anybody who knows hardworking men and women at the post office like the president of the united states does, knows that they're not going to do that. he's not going to do that. we're willing to send money to make the post office great again and somehow this is one more reason why they believe that they're going lose in november and chock it up to some excuse that has nothing to do with casting a ballot on behalf of the american men and women. >> so something that's not getting a lot of play which i wanted to bring up on "watters world" with we've had now four straight weeks in this country where coronavirus cases have gone down. >> right. jesse: we have hospitalizations down. if you could look at the graph. we have daily deaths now down. i guess half to where they were. in april, and now the sun belt cases are on the down swing and, you know, we heard about this big sun belt

ms. pelosi in a long time. with all of your washington experience, how do you break silence?enrietta: with time and external pressure. i would love to see unemployment data reports come out every single day. i would like to see a gdp report everyday. that kind of macro push really helps move the needle. we have seen a lot of action behind the scenes in d.c., and it has come from republican campaign donors and major base advocates like the club for growth or the heritage foundation, they have encouraged the republicans to oppose reaching a big deal, so the action you are referring to has place,y taken and has resulted in no action. just talking with folks i am close within the senate and the house and the administration over the last four days, this is the happiest i've seen them in several months because they were on a $2 trillion package that none of their donors wanted to really see. to talk about working the logjam now is actually to miss that right now, republicans view the state of affairs as having won. so i think it will be at least three weeks into september before we

ms. pelosi ever been interested running for the senate or president? >> no and yes. there was a time in politics isn't long list of patent potential candidates and always said she was and interested she never dangled any hints and every politician says this that if somebody asks you are supposed to say no i am working in the house with the people of the district. but she has been saying that long enough it is believable. it is a big part of her power which is a very smart observation from jessica because her members know she is in trying to make a name for herself. and her predecessor everyone knows he wanted to be the president so everyone knew he also had his eye on the next thing and the ambition and state government was going on and she has never had that. no members of the caucus think she just tries to pass the resume. so that gives her a lot of credibility that she's focused on looking out for their interest. >> this is the last question. >> what access did you get to the speaker? >> a series of interviews. and working on the biography. she never invited me or

ms pelosi has accused president trump of a "campaign to sabotage the election" and her democratic partylooking to unwind recent changes which they say could hamper postal voting in november's presidential election. alanna petroff has the story. banjo playing and singing # do not deliver us mail should be against the law #. cheering it's come to this. a musical protest about the post office. demonstrators gathered outside the home of the new postmaster general louis dejoy, for another day of dissent. de joy, recently appointed to the role, is a big trump donor. his cost cutting moves at the cash—strapped postal service have slowed down mail delivery. i was overseas and i cast my vote by mail—in ballot! protesters worried de joy's changes will hinder mail—in voting during the 2020 presidential election. voting by mail is especially important this year. many americans will want to avoid busy polling stations to cut down on the risk of catching the coronavirus. president trump isn't a fan of voting by mail. he's warned of potential voter fraud, without proof, and he says he's blocking billi

ms. pelosi b& but when you look at the incredible work doctor giroir is doing on testing to get those into nursing homes, that part of presidenttrump's plan and in fact it is saving lives . if those five governors did not follow the federal guidelines would have followed the federal guidelines again as testimony under oath confirmed thousands of deaths would not have happened. i wish they would have followed the guidelines and share the data. they're still having the data those five governors area and asked them those on the republican side of one number on the democrat side would join us in asking those governors to share the data that they'rehiding from the american people . they're hiding from the families, the sons, daughters and grandchildren of those who died in those nursing homes. they're hiding the data and they will give it to us. they said they don't have to because not a majority ofthis commission had asked . i wish you'd ask to get that data, what's wrong for asking for the facts. then you look at opening schools. you want to talk about saving lives and this is one of those un

ms pelosi has accused president trump of a "campaign to sabotage the election" and her democratic party deliver us mail should be against the law #. cheering. it's come to this. a musical protest about the post office. demonstrators gathered outside the home of the new postmaster general, louis de joy, for another day of dissent. de joy, recently appointed to the role, is a big trump donor. his costcutting moves at the cash—strapped postal service have slowed down mail delivery. i was overseas and i cast my vote by mail—in ballot! protesters worried dejoy‘s changes will hinder mail—in voting during the 2020 presidential election. voting by mail is especially important this year. many americans will want to avoid busy polling stations to cut down on the risk of catching the coronavirus. president trump isn't a fan of voting by mail. he's warned of potential voter fraud — without proof — and he says he's blocking billions of additionalfunding for the postal service which democrats want to deliver a fair election. you are going to have a catastrophic situation with universal mail—in votes.

ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and her kind words of enter ducks by i most importantly want to thank her for being the champion, the champion for the -- in defense of the postal service. i rise in joining her in support of the delivering for america act to protect lives and livelihoods and the life of our american democracy in a critical moment for our nation. i thank you madam chair again for the intellectual resource you have been in shaping the legislation, making us current in terms of the report from the postal service and what is at stake and why this legislation, mr. speaker, is so important. i salute house democrats for their enthusiasm, energy, and insistence on delivering for america. sin day one of the postal crisis they have conveyed the concerns of their communities to the congress holding event, accelerating a drum beat and shining light on this crisis. this postal service, i'm going to say three things, talk about three things, mr. speaker. madam chair. ranking mem

ms. pelosi and chuck schumer would agree to it, we could pass as a stand-alone bill as well as stimulus checksnt to include in the package to get the overall agenda, not to meet the immediate need. david: is not important as unemployment checks but a lot of people care a lot about football and i know you're an lsu grad, there is a lot of football season being canceled, what do you think about this? >> i think if the medical science says that you could play safely, we should allow them to play, if you test an athlete three times a week, you will know if she or he is positive, if the positive recording team if not they play. that is just what the science tells us. the athletes want to play, think about joe burrell, last or he would've been amid six round draft pick getting a contract for $300,000 maybe and now he's number one overall, the opportunity calls for these athletes to not be able to further their career is tremendous. by the way we could also say that for the accounting grad if the accounting grad cannot graduate and go into a job that all the money she has borrowed to set up her caree

ms. pelosi wants the government to bail them out. understand that they get stayed aid for emergency services, fire, police, and all the necessary services. but to bail out these people out for mismanaging their economies over the number of years is ridiculous. host: short time here. mark zandi, final thoughts on his comments. guest: yeah. i don't agree. if you look, and i have looked, the budget situation actually coming into the pandemic across states was uniformly good. there were a handful of states, some r states and d states were in more difficult situations. didn't manage things well. for the vast majority of states, they did a very good job. they had big rainy day funds coming into this. no, i think the problem with state and local governments are facing is economical in terms of political party. host: mark zandi, chief economist with moody's analytics. thanks again. guest: thanks for having meefment host: that will do it for the program this morning. "washington journal" returns tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. eastern as we are e

ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and her kind words of enter ducks by i most importantly want to thank her for being the champion, the champion for the -- in defense of the postal service. i rise in joining her in support of the delivering for america act to protect lives and livelihoods and the life of our american democracy in a critical moment for our nation. i thank you madam chair again for the intellectual resource you have been in shaping the legislation, making us current in terms of the report from the postal service and what is at stake and why this legislation, mr. speaker, is so important. i salute house democrats for their enthusiasm, energy, and insistence on delivering for america. sin day one of the postal crisis they have conveyed the concerns of their communities to the congress holding event, accelerating a drum beat and shining light on this crisis. this postal service, i'm going to say three things, talk about three things, mr. speaker. madam chair. ranking mem

ms. mcenany: they need to call the offices of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and tell them to get to work and say we need to protoket these people. reporter: liability protection? ms. mcenany: that's a question for mitch mcconnell. the martha mcsally bill is a great example of what the democrats are focused on. reporter: if the president is worried about how long it will take to count ball lo lots why aren't they doing everything they can to secure more funding for staffing and other resources to make sure we can have a safe and proper election? ms. mcenany: what this white house is focused on is making sure that our election is not riddled with voting fraud and that the timetable is not hung up here. we are -- there are several lawsuits that the campaign has engaged on, i would point you to campaign for specifics on that. reporter: my question is what is the white house doing to get more resources for funding and staff to make sure as the president says it will be a safe and secure election? ms. mcenany: as you know, states run their elections. reporter: they're asking for more money. ms

pelosi. this was his reaction. is he a republican. >> i'm saying tha say sorting ms between now and the election will not be taken offe. when you look at it the normal process of doing all of this, jake. i had the postal system under -- i had the only bipartisan bill to actually deal with the 146 billion-dollar loss that the postal service has been -- will see over the next 10 years. and so when you are looking at this, these postal machines and the drawdown, that was a 2006 bill that has been implemented that i don't necessarily agree with. but that's not this postmaster general that did that. that was the previous postmaster general under obama. ainsley: republicans are saying that the post office has been a disaster for decades as you most know. and they are pretending to pin this on donald trump; therefore, if he wins they can say he rigged the election. mark meadows goes on to say democrats should return to washington. begin negotiating again. let's get stimulus check to the americans, protect small businesses. let's get more ppp and put postal founding in there and he says the president will vote for it. brian:

pelosi a b. nobody said anything in reference to her and her anger, but yet due to ms.a harris winning, she has to be mean and nasty but nobody is saying anything about her being mean and nasty. of course, one thing i would give president 45, what i will give him credit for is the criminal justice system. he did well in that. that also could have been done through barack obama but we have to understand that we had a senate and we have a congress and the congress said the president will do nothing. he will help them with nothing. that is the reason why when barack was in office, it was not done. i did not hear you are bringing that up. all do not hear you bringing that up. i would like you to have a program that identifies biracial individuals dealing with people of color as far as the american black culture. have white people and other people call in about how inclusive we are as a culture and how we invite all cultures in our community. men of color, women of color, they marry chinese, they marry white, they marry hispanic. we are very inclusive and we are loving peopl

host: nancy pelosi and chuck schumer dismissing the legality of the president's executive actions and saying they are not enough. do they also signal any willingness for potential, msmurray comes to future talks? guest: i don't think so. two of the biggest issues heading into the negotiations were federal and has been that is giving people an additional $600 per week to get through these lockdown orders and various economic issues that we have seen throughout the pandemic. they really did not want to move on that issue and that was a republicanfor negotiators. democrats are also adamant that state and local governments need additional funding from the federal government to avoid a drop-off in public service and a layoff in public employees. those are things it sounds like they did not get as many concessions from the administration if they wanted to. then there are a lot of other issues in the negotiations around funding for education, food aid, and things like that. it sounds it there were still some issues on that. host: since the president signed those executive actions on saturday, over the weekend, where does that leave his negotiators here -- mark meadows and

ms. pelosi: they're dazzling in terms of that. i also want to pay tribute to the chairman of the committees, both on our side -- ranking members on your side. because there is, as an intellectual resource, they and their committees have been very helpful. we don't come to this with a notion. we come to this with a well-developed, strategic plan on how to strop the growth of the virus, how to honor our heroes with state and local, and to put money in the pockets of the american people. mr. schumer: and they don't get -- yet really have a strategic plan. they have little pieces that are supported by some republicans and that's part of the difficulty. but we're making progress. [talking simultaneously] reporter: [indiscernible] -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] >> president trump said it could be january before we know who wins the november election. thanks to the surge in