take 84 year-old senator pat roberts who explained, he would likely not be attending because he had " things to do in kansas" and, in any case, he "didn't know what was canceled and what was not and whatever." "oh, i'd love to go but i've already scheduled... things. kansas stuff. you know, polish the tornadoes. meet the wheat. gotta do the whatchamacallit with whose his face. not to mention put the doohickey on my thingamabob with... (mumbles). sorry. i can't hear you, my mask is going through a tunnel!" i don't blame any of these people for not going. not only is florida the new epicenter, but in addition "party officials were considering docking cruise ships in the city's port to provide extra lodging." so you're in florida, spending all day in an auditorium full of screaming people who don't wear masks, then you go home to a floating petri dish. only way it would be more infectious is if dinner was an all you can bob lasagna buffet. of course, not everyone's afraid. one 80-year-old r.n.c. member from virginia says, "it's a risk you have to take. you take risks every day. you drive

hitting home at the kitchen table in a recent virtual senate committee meeting kansas republican pat roberts said people are finally realizing that food doesn't come from a store and if you have masked up and browse the one way street aisles at the supermarket lately it is a creepy experience and you have seen some bare shelves is this the new normal let's ask the host of the american family farmer radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back. and promote a mass crime just for you and i think they're going to have. whatever you know thank you it was nearly 3 years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to r.t. america you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately i'm thinking about that mythical doomsday clock that shows us how many minutes and seconds we are away from nuclear annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ad fantz even during this pandemic. well you make it dramatic because you're so good at that but you have also a great memory as needed to you know and i've been saying that to my

hitting home at the kitchen table in a recent virtual senate committee meeting kansas republican pat roberts said people are finally realizing that food doesn't come from a store.

hitting home at the kitchen table in a recent virtual senate committee meeting kansas republican pat roberts said people are finally realizing that food doesn't come from a store and if you have masked up and browse the one way street aisles at the supermarket lately it is a creepy experience and you have seen some bare shelves is this the new normal let's ask the host of the american family farmer radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back. master i'm just for you and i to going off because i'm not going to. when i don't know you know thank you.

lamar alexander, roy blount, susan collins, lisa murkowski, pat roberts, chuck grassley. that's a lot of congress members. they plan to skip their party's convention. joining me now, political reporter for the "washington pos post", eugene scott. eugene, good morning to you. thanks for getting up this morning. lots to cover. get let's get to the gop senators who say they're skipping the national convention, an unprecedent break from the trump administration as we have seen them resistant do this before, but saying they assume a lot of folks aren't even going to be going. what reaction are you hearing? >> well, it's unsurprising to many people who followed some of these senators, particularly people like susan collins and mitt romney who very often attempt to distance themselves from the president and the republican party as a whole, but i think the fact that you have so many lawmakers perhaps not really willing and/or wanting to be seen interacting with the president and the leadership of their own party, it's alarming. it suggests that perhaps on issues related to policy

. >>> in political news, senator pat roberts joins the growing list of republican senators who say they're planning not to attend the republican convention in jacksonville next month. >> do you plan to attend the convention? >> well, i have some things in kansas i've got to do, and unfortunately i didn't know what was canceled, what was not. >> roberts becoming the sixth senator to take a pace joining chuck grassley, lisa murkowski, susan collins, and mitt romney. earlier mitch mcconnell said he would attend. he told the party they'll wait and see if the event can be held safely. >> i think the convention is a challenging situation, and a number of my colleagues have said they're not going to attend. we'll have to see how things look in late august to determine whether or not we can safely convene that many people. >>> still ahead, president trump is raging over the supreme court's new rulings concerning his financial records, but his aides are framing it as a win. >>> plus, joe biden lays out a new economic plan that takes on president trump's "america first" policies. we're back in a mom

tonight pat roberts gave us a nonanswer.enator's office told us, quote, we are not releasing any plans regarding the rnc. is that a yes you're going? since we started asking, more senators who are under the age of 80 say for sure they are not going. mitt romney says he's not going. no reason giving. lisa murkowski says she likes to spend august back home in alabama and susan collins says she never goes when she's up for re-election. i wonder why. whether they factored into the coronavirus or the need to get distance from the president or just a dislike of jacksonville, we don't know. but the jacksonville convention is turning out to be in advance one of the weirder ones ever held as we get closer and closer to it by day. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. and we have alice frankston joining us tonight. she is, at the moment, the next best thing to mary trump because he is a lifetime fr

tonight pat roberts gave us a nonanswer. senator's office told us, quote, we are not releasing any plans regarding the rnc. is that a yes you're going? since we started asking, more senators who are under the age of 80 say for sure they are not going. mitt romney says he's not going. no reason giving. lisa murkowski says she likes to spend august back home in alabama and susan collins says she never goes when she's up for re-election. i wonder why. whether they factored into the coronavirus or the need to get distance from the president or just a dislike of jacksonville, we don't know. but the jacksonville convention is turning out to be in advance one of the weirder ones ever held as we get closer and closer to it by day. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> we have alice frankston joining us tonight. she is, at the moment, the next best thing to mary trump because he is a lifetime friend of mary trump's and knows her very well and spoke

senator pat roberts said he's unlikely to attend. he's blaming scheduling conflicts for this one.ut it brings the total number of gop senators skipping or likely skipping to six and after his office told nbc earlier he had every intention of going to the convention, here's what the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said today about attending. >> -- another colleague announced he's not going to atte attend -- atte attend - hi, i'm pat and i'm 75 years old. we live in the mountains so i like to walk. i'm really busy in my life; i'm always doing something. i'm not a person that's going to sit too long. in the morning, i wake up and the first thing i do is go to my art studio. a couple came up and handed me a brochure on prevagen. i've been taking prevagen for about four years. i feel a little bit brighter and my mind just feels sharper. i would recommend it to anyone. it absolutely works. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. and mine super soft? with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help u

senators who said on the record that, no, they will not go, including 84-year-old kansas senator pat robertsers, quote, well, i have some things to do in kansas that i've got to do and unfortunately i didn't know what was canceled and what was not or whatever, so i will probably not be going. the man has things to do. meanwhile, there is the leader of the senate republicans, this time last week senator mitch mcconnell seemed pretty gung ho according to a spokesperson who said the leader has every intention for attending. then a different answer from the senator himself. >> well, i think the convention is a challenging situation, and a number of my colleagues have announced that they're not going to attend, and we'll have to wait and see how things look in late august to determine whether or not we can safely convene that many people. >> hmm, some question about safety, is there? as of this morning, "the new york times" is reporting even more names saying no including senator roy blunt of missouri, and mario diaz-balart and frances rooney. "the times" also notes some republicans who will not

. >>> senator pat roberts has joined the growing list of republican senators who say they're not planningin jacksonville next month. he's the sixth to take a pass joining chuck grassley, lamar alexander, susan collins, mitt romney. meanwhile mitch mcconnell who said he would attend the convention told reporters yesterday the party may need to wait and see if the event can be held safely. >> it's challenging situation. and a number of my colleagues have announced that they're not going to attend and we'll have to wait and see how things look in late august to determine whether or not you can safely convene that many people. >> according to several officials with knowledge of plans around the convention, it could be moved outdoors. "the washington post" reports that no decision has been made yet but republican officials are studying two outdoor sports stadiums near the arena in jill where the convention is currently scheduled to be health. the idea there is it's less likely to be transmitted in an outdoor setting, maybe you can distance in a bigger space. the fact of the matter is this is w

indictment says, robert justice drove carrillo's white van past the guard post at the oakland federal building, that carrillo slid the side door open and fired a machine gun killing security officer pat injuring his partner. carrillo was excited after the shooting and said, "did you see how they fell?" >> he seemed agitated, like breathing, like all weird, basically. he was very short, like he wanted to get off the phone. >> reporter: carlson says he lost contact with carrillo, didn't hear a word until eight days later. a witness spotted the same white van parked in ben lomond with weapons and explosive inside. when deputies went to carrillo's house, he opened fire with the same machine gun and tossed explosive, killing deputy damon gu gutswiler. neighbors tackled him and police arrested him. >> i'm sick of this [ bleep ] police. >> reporter: investigators found this boogaloo patch and before his arrest, he scrawled boogaloo sayings on a car with his own blood, including "i became unreasonable." >> it doesn't sound like the steven i know. >> reporter: daniel carlson tells me he has already tried to reach carrillo's defense team to urge them to pursue an insanity defense. >> this wasn

of pleasure of e working with robert on many occasions, and i will miss his assion, professionalism and friendship. i offer my sincere condolences to his beloved wife, pat, and children. they can be part of the legacy of service that robert leaves back., and i yield the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i rise to seek unanimous consent to address the one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is minute.zed for one >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize an amazing member of our community. is a christopher 12-year-old from yeardley, pennsylvania, who has been working to brighten the day of across our community. over the last several months, decorated thousands of homes to celebrate birthdays, and bar mitzvahs and other causes for celebration. mr. fitzpatrick: an amazing how of community spirit, families have donated supplies and decorations to help nicky ourinue to bring joy across community. and while nicky receives some cash donations, he takes any spent on 's not supplies and he donates that money to children who h

with this tweet -- 's pat toomey and mitt if comey, mccaig, page and her lover, peter st zrok, ran rampant, wild and unchecked, lying and leaking all the way? no. a quote from robertueller, he said roger stone became a central figure in our investigation for two reasons. he communicated and 2016 with individuals known to us to be russian intelligence officers, and claimed advance knowledge of wikileaks emails stolen by those russian intelligence officers. ,ueller goes on to write roger stone was can -- convicted of five counts of lying to congress and tampering with the witness. we made every decision in stone's case, as in all of our cases, based solely on the facts and the law in accordance with the rule of law, and the women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity , claims of the contrary are false. that from robert mueller. a convictedremains felon, and rightly so. that is available at washingtonpost.com. virginia is next, back to your calls and reaction to mary trump's new book, coming out on tuesday. good morning, virginia. i am a first-time caller so i am a little nervous. but donald trump, his brother th

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable pat roberts, a senator from the state of kansas, to perform the duties of the chair. signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 5:30 p.m. on monday, july 13, 2020. on monday, july 13, 2020. >> and the you sent gaveling out after a brief pro forma session. they're holding the sessions every few days while they are in recess. senders working back and home states. senators will return on monday july 20. you can follow live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. we are going to stay on capitol hill the house appropriations committee is working on 2021 spending for state department, agriculture military construction. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]