was from politico.com. the president is holding a town hall meeting. it is a fox news exclusive, taking place near washington along the mall, a virtual town hall meeting. we'll have excerpts of it tomorrow morning on the "washington journal." roger in bedford, ohio, thanks for waiting. good morning. who is your candidate? caller: joe biden. there is no way i would ever vote for trump. that's the first thing. because you people, i don't know what world y'all living in. y'all forget that washington is the one that got us into office. that's the first thifpblg since he's been in there, he did nothing. he reads from a script he can't stay on. you keep talking about he's rich. if he's so rich, why is all his properties falling apart? you know, just answer that for me. y'all claim he is so rich. he's this, he's that. what has he did for this country? host: thank you. david next in oklahoma. good morning, david. caller: good morning. i am a lifelong republican. i'll be supporting joe biden. and i honestly believe

hosting virtual events throughout the coming weeks from journalists across our newsroom, so to go to politico.com to see the latest schedule. announcer: mitch mcconnell announced the senate will return for work this monday. they will vote on executive nomination. the house majority leader said after consulting with members and the attending physician, the house will not return for legislative work next week. they will continue to hold, pro-forma session's every three days. continuen negotiations on different options for voting remotely in committees and on the house floor. follow live senate coverage on c-span2 in the house on c-span. >> the court is now sitting. here thee first time, u.s. supreme court live. due to the coronavirus pandemic, the court is hearing oral arguments in 10 cases by teleconference. c-span will provide live coverage of each session. monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, justices hear the case of the u.s. patent and trademark office versus booking.com, concerning the fight to trademark its website. history and listen to the supreme court oral argument heard by the justices, live m

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go to politico.com/virtual briefings to see the latest schedule. >> the house remains out of session but the senate returned today to vote on an executive nomination. work this week, possible on pfizer reauthorization and talks on future coronavirus relief legislation. what senate live on c-span two. the house, after consultation of members and the attending physician, is not expected to resume legislative business until next week at the earliest. the chamber holds brief pro forma sessions every three days and negotiations continue on possible options for remote voting. watch the house live on c-span. because of the coronavirus, for the first time in history, the supreme court heard an oral argument via teleconference earlier today. the case involved a popular travel reservation company and fight to trademark its website, booking.com. here is the argument now.

translations newsletter so that sculpt the long game, it's starting may 6 and you can sign up at politico.com/newsletters/long dash game. >> the senate returns for legislative work with a vote scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on an executive nomination. later in the week work possible on fisa reauthorization in talks will likely continue off the floor on future coronavirus relief legislation. watch the senate live starting at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the house after consultations with members and the attending physician is not expected to resume legislative business until at least the week of may 11 until then they continue to hold pro forma sessions every three days as bipartisan negotiations continue on possible options for remote voting. follow live senate coverage on c-span2. the house on c-span. >> while the coronavirus pandemic continues, your members of cars are working on their home districts. >> many of my folks, 30%, are ones that are at the automotive industry. the of the majority of what i would call your frontline workers comp now to consider essential workers. i hope people don't forge

host: we will follow your reporting at politico.com. thank you very much for joining us.uest: thank you so much for having me. host: joining us from his home in maryland is democratic senator ben cardin. thank you for joining us here on c-span tonight. guest: it is good to be with you. thank you. host: from my home to your home. let's talk about this hearing tomorrow that will be potentially the new norm in the senate. these virtual hearings, in order to make sure lawmakers practice physical distancing. what are you hearing from your colleagues? guest: i think we all recognize that this is what we need to do. we have got to follow the public health recommendations. it is not going to be as effective as if we were in the it isoom together, but acceptable. it gives us a chance to get testimony on the record. each of us can participate by asking questions vis-a-vis the electronic equipment that we have, so we will be able to participate in the hearing but we will not be physically present. host: let's talk about the situation in your home state of maryland with 30,000 cases

politico.com just reporting that under pressure the trump administration is weighing extending the national guard deployments. oh, yeah. when people find out what you're doing, sometimes they pressure you about it. especially when it's something that evil. all right. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> rachel, day 89. what's some veteran's benefits? veteran's benefits have changed people's lives. it couldn't be more im

nobody could really figure out why they picked that day until somebody finally did the math and as politico.com reports today, we've now realized that if this thing ends on june 24th, that means that the federal deployment for these 40,000 national guard troops will end at day 89 of that deployment. and ending on day 89 is really important because if their deployment had gone to day 90, if it had gone one more day, those national guardsmen and women would have become eligible for benefits toward retirement and education funding under the new g.i. bill, if that federal deployment had gone one more day. so president trump is cutting off their deployment. they're calling it a hard stop at day 89 of the federal deployment specifically so they don't get their benefits. thank you, national guard. this is how your president thanks you. this is how the trump administration wants you to know that you're valued and appreciated for your work. and not only did the guardsmen and guardswomen get screwed this way personally, but the states of course that are counting on all these folks to do all of this front

politico.com just reporting that under pressure the trump administration is weighing extending the national guard deployments. oh, yeah. when people find out what you're doing, sometimes they pressure you about it. especially when it's something that evil. all right. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> rachel, day 89. what's some veteran's benefits? veteran's benefits have changed people's lives. it couldn't be more important. congressman max rose did deploy with the national guard during this pandemic service. he's going to join us later in this hour because he's one of the people putting pressure on this administration and as you just reported, it looks like the trump administration is going to have to, against their will, end up doing the right thing here. >> yes. pressure -- i mean, listen, when you can't defend what you're doing and you're not doing it for shock and awe effect, when you actually can't answer why you're doing something that evil to people that have done that much good ulti

politico.com, german-speaking german about coronavirus, joining us from berlin is the chief european correspondent for politico. good sunday afternoon to you. thank you for being with us. guest: nice to be with you today. 'ost: let's talk about germans response to his pandemic. what has it been on a personal level about those you have talked to? at the beginning, these germans generally underestimated the severity of the crisis, just as everyone else did. it was not until the beginning of march when you saw the explosion of covid in northern italy and you saw the prime minister in italy effectively put the northern part of the country under quarantine that the germans woke up to what was happening and from that point on , i believe it was march 8, they scrambled to put measures into thee to start to combat virus, but prior to that, you did not really hear much from senior politicians, angela merkel barely addressed the issue, you did hear from the health minister, but beyond that, people were not worried about it. from that point on, they put a lot of measures into place quite quickl

from politico.com. germans being german about coronavirus.nd joining us from berlin the chief correspondent for politico. good sunday afternoon to you. thank you for being with us. guest: nice to be with you today. host: let's talk about germans' overall response to this pandemic. what has it been on a personal level, those you've talked to? guest: well, i would say that the beginning the germans generally underestimated the severity of the crisis just as everyone else did. it wasn't until the beginning of march when you saw the explosion of covid in northern italy and you saw the prime minister in italy effectively put the northern part of the country under quarantine that the germans really woke up to what was happening. and from that point on i believe it was march 8th, they really scrambled to put measures into place to start to combat the virus. but prior to that we didn't really hear much from senior politicians. angela merkel barely addressed the issue. beyond that people weren't very worried. [inaudible] that have proved effective. ho

ost: that's from politico.com. thank you for being with us. so how does the white house thread the needle? guest: well, they're trying to do that right now. you've seen about 12 or 15 states starting to reopen, but the president has said they don't want -- he doesn't want the states to open too fast. they'll allow some businesses to open, but not others. it's really a balancing act, as they are looking around at the country. in some states, as you just mentioned, they haven't even peaked yet. around the washington, d.c., area, we're talking about a peak right about now. so he really has to look at that and push states to open, and you're going see him doing that in the coming weeks. but, you know, not go fully there, not go there with every single business and every single state. host: the back drop to all of this is the president spending a rare weekend at camp david. he's not there that often, hasn't been there over the last three years of his presidency. what's the significance of what he's doing there today and through the weekend? guest: