schumer: thank you. democrats are working hard to protect americans, but we need americans to fight with us to keep holding republican senators accountable. senator durbin? i want to thank you, senator schumer. when we used to do tours of the capital, people would point out the room and say it is the senate, but they are wrong. it is just a room. the senate is the men and women who come together. the only way they can be a senate is if they have basic understandings. understandings of history, tradition, the rules, and mutual respect. what we see happening with senator mcconnell's decision to reverse his position of four years ago and pushed through the vacancy filling the nominee of the trump administration is an assault on all of those things. we watched as his colleagues have come forward and squirmed away from their positions of four years ago which kept merrick garland's name from even being considered. here today we face another issue, not just who is going to win how to choose the nominee to fill

schumer said everything is on the table.mably the president of the united states is going to have quite a bit of influence over whether they move forward or not. and that will be interesting because joe biden is a creature of the senate, 36 years there, he's an institutionalist. when he's asked about this during the primaries, he was not very keen on the notice of restructuring the court or adding justices to the court. that is a next-level concern and i think schumer wants to leave it out there, but i don't think he wants to be too specific about it because he doesn't really know where the leader is on this and that is what they're going to have to resolve if in fact biden becomes president. there's a democratic senate and there's a democratic house. >> huge ifs right now, if biden is elected and if the democrats become the majority in the senate. jeffrey toobin, on november 3rd, we're not going to know for a few days until there's a winner, unless it's a landslide one way or the other. on november 10th, the supreme court i

nancy plugs in chuck schumer say no. we hear from folks back home that we need additional paycheck protection money to keep paychex going for small businesses. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer say no. we need money for testing and treatment and for vaccines. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer say no. these are commonsense things things print these are things people all across the country agree with. they are things democrats used to agree with but it does seem to me that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer think it is a smart play to block additional health for american families. this is no time for political games. there are people who need and deserve our help. we are ready to go and they seem to be dead set on obstruction and they need to be held accountable for that obstruction. >> the targeted bill we are for, you heard the list already, back to work, back to school, back to childcare. senator ernst and senator lauper had legislation on that and we had it in our original bill we got twice as much money for child care assistanc

shannon: this is what senator schumer said in a tweet, february 2016, the last time we face this.e said, attention gop, senate has confirmed 17 scotus justices in presidential election years # do your job. someone influential asked in 2016 the summer of 2016 about whether the senate to move ahead and said this, that is their job there is nothing in the constitution that says the president stopped being president in his last year and that was justice ginsburg. >> i understand but mitch mcconnell was one who held off the merrick garland nomination. he had the power to do that and said it was because it was an election year and it would be the height of hypocrisy if he brings his nomination to the floor during this time. as you pointed out in the introduction to this segment, we have over not had one over years of vacancy this close to the national election. shannon: senator, what do you think happens and for publicans move forward? clearly they won't have democratic votes on the senate judiciary committee or if it skips to the floor but this talk of what will happen next year, senat

schumer. senator schumer: thank you. thank you, speaker pelosi. always a joy to hear you and all the things you say and put it so well, so thank you. i thank all of my colleagues. i'm sorry i didn't hear them. i did hear representative mucarsel-powell and doing a good job of representing my former constituents who moved to florida. when i was in congress, they said the only place i could get lected owner brooklyn was fort lauderdale. it's great to be here and testing has been the key to crushing the coronavirus early. but the trump administration totally failed to meet the moment and the virus spread out of control. you know, the first place that was hit hard was the city of new rotchell and the day it was discovered, i called up the mayor. and i said, what do you need? he said if you could get me 70,000 tests, i could test the people of new rotchell and stay isolated and the others could walk on the streets or shop in the stores. but he said because we have no tests, everyone has to be isolated and that story could be repeated over and over and o

so i think in schumer's mind, this is probably the first act of a long play.orn yesterday in thinking there was a strong chance for republicans doing the honorable statesman-like thing. i think he wants to lay bare for the public that this is really going to happen, they're really going to push through with. and then we're able to parlay that into a political permission structure to do something big about it. >> and interesting to get your perspective on that. you and other officials who are seen as part of the leadership of the party, we mentioned your credentials, have also been pushing for this larger systemic reform, which is very interesting. we've covered that here. i want to play a little bit of joe biden's response on that. take a look. >> would you consider adding more supreme court justices to the bench? >> it's a legitimate question. but let me tell you why i'm not going to answer that question. because it shifts all focus. that's what he wants. he never wants to talk about the issue at hand. he always tries to change the subject. if i answered that

that's not what schumer wantings.en to aoc, his sidekick, yesterday, she goes on and on. we'll lose those rights and these rights. they have a whole laundry list, and that's how they view the court. and it's understandable, because one of their great inte intelles a hundred years ago, woodrow wilson, he said, basically, in order for the left to talk over the country, they need to take over the courts. this is no talk about what will these justices do on the court. the only legitimate thing a justice can do on the court is follow the constitution. the reason they're fighting like hell over this is they want another radical on the court who'll advance their agenda. that's number one. now they talk about packing the senate. they want to add puerto rico and d.c., four democrats. what else? i eliminating the filibuster. they're telling us what they want to do. push through all legislation, permanently have a majority in the senate, have a majority ideological control over the supreme court. you know what that's called wher

schumer. no for schumer andover gillibrand. for gillibrand. we need term limits. that is the root of corruption. thank you, c-span. armand at a georgia plans to reelect his member of congress. caller: i am not exec leisure who is running for the republican seat in my city, my district. i know i am a republican. whoever the republican is will get elected as far as i'm concerned because i am not happy with the politics being played by the democrats. don't know why i politics is being played with the funds to help people. half a glass is better than an empty glass. alreadyw they could gave money to help people. instead they would rather use that towards winning the election. i appreciate you letting me say that. trump 2020. can't wait for the election. host: hank johnson is the democrat? caller: if i have anyway of getting him out of his seat. host: what do you think happens in both senate races, the special election in the senate, as well as the regular election taking place? both of your senators are coming up on the ballot this fall. what happens to those seats? c

he's funded $80 million by chuck schumer. chuck schumer told -- tim scott, an african-american senator from south carolina, understands that we have a problem. he wanted to put something on thes floor. cal must have had that rubber stamp fedexed to him. >> right now on we had to show you results of a new poll. in some cities president trump has recommended using federal forces to quell riots in our next policy, north carolina voters are evenly divided on this issue. where do you stand? mr. cunningham, 30 seconds. >> i'm proud to have worn the nation's uniform is the american people are not the enemy. when they are in the streets in front of the white house raising and exercising their first amendment freedoms, that's not where troops should be. when fuel was added to the flames of unrest, senator tillis sat quietly unwilling and unable to call out those voices. >> so you say no to using federal forces. >> that is correct. >>> senator tillis, 30 seconds. >> i believe in a governor or mayor asks the president for help, the pres

tillis: you received $80 million from chuck schumer. chuck schumer was on stage last night with aoc saying they need to expand the supreme court. though you support the expansion of the u.s. supreme court? mr. cunningham: i don't. justice ginsburg herself said nine justices was the right number and that is the right number for our country, rather than continue to inject partisanship into our federal bench. let me be clear, i am speaking to some of the voices in my own party now, we need to stop injecting partisanship into our courts. we have seen too much of that from senator thune's and senator mcconnell and the folks running the u.s. senate right now. we need a strong, independent judiciary. we also need reform in washington, which is why i have called for overturning citizens united, and getting the big money out of politics but has come to dominate elliptical campaigns like the one we're seeing that dominate political dominate political campaigns like the one we are seeing right now. moderator: you have 30 seconds. sen. tillis: cal

speaker pelosi and leader schumer were attacking our new proposal yesterday before they even read it, before it had even come out. i would normally make fun of that, madam president, but in this case it makes perfect sense because their position is clearly they do not want any bipartisan relief whatsoever. they do not want any bipartisan relief whatsoever to reach american families prior to the election. they didn't even need to see what we were proposing. if it helped working families in any way, in any way between now and november 3, speaker pelosi and leader schumer knew for sure they opposed it. their red herrings and cherry-picked arguments have given way to total dishonesty. yesterday our colleague from new york railed against a provision pertaining to critical supply chains, calling it some sinister giveaway to big business. a provision pertaining to critical supply chains, he called a sinister giveaway to big business? madam president, that provision is cosponsored by his own democratic ranking member on the committee. so either the democratic leader is impugning his own ranki

he also said that they funded $80 million by chuck schumer told him to take a position against it in the african-american senator from south carolina understands whatever problem. he wanted to put something on the floor cal cunningham had the rubberstamp he was against getting of the bill to solve the problems to make sure police offended properly. . . . . unwilling and unable to call out those places. >> so you say no to federal forces. you have 30 seconds. >> a governor or mayor should provide them with hope. help. what i disagree with is being silenced when 33 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty over this year when hundreds have been injured. he's not taken the position what's happened in portland and seattle and chicago. our communities are less safe and they are failing their people. i hope they do ask for help and i do believe that the president would help them. but he seems to be on their si side. >> i take a backseat to no one when it comes to keeping the community safe having served in uniform here and overseas, having worked with law enforcement, h

chuck schumer said the same thing at the end of george w. bush's term, that if the vacancy occurred with the president, bush, a republican in the white house, democrats under harry reid and chuck schumer in charge of the senate, that they would not confirm. but now that you have both parties in the white house and the senate, historically, the confirmation goes forward and that's what's going to happen here. i'll tell you -- >> senator, look -- >> the senate will be back in session and the president's going to make a nomination, i believe this week. >> look, i get that, but senator, nobody -- nobody in the senate republican conference was arguing these fine footnote points that you and your colleagues argue now. i want to play a clip from you from 2018 from lindsey graham, take a listen. >> if an opening comes in the last year of president trump's term and the primary process has started, we'll wait until the next election. and i've got a pretty good chance of being the judiciary -- >> you're on the record. >> yeah. >> all right. >> hold the

the reason's schumer -- the reason schumer's name gets brought up is because he flew out and talked steve bullock into the race. to answer your question about the supreme court, i took an oath to defend the constitution. it is very clear, article 11 section 11. the president shall nominate for a vacancy in the u.s. supreme court and the senate will either confirm or reject that nominee. 2016 the senate rejected that nominee. the senate controlled by republicans, barack obama made the nomination. now you have the senate controlled by the same party. when time since 1888, there has been a vacancy in an election year, it has been filled 15 times. i support the nomination of amy coney barrett. she is exactly the kind of justice i want to see on the supreme court. she is a minivan mom, a brings a intellect, great mind to the supreme court. i'm grateful somebody like her wants to share the united states court. john: this is the open discussion, rebuttals, follow-up. to get it started, governor bullock, we go with you. gov. bullock: i am running with senate -- for senate because i think washingt

but democrats, led by chuck schumer, again accused republicans of changing their previous positions.nge the rules of t senate to pass supreme court justices on a majority vote, rush it through before an election. 'doesn' matter if you said the yearsopposite thing for ago, two years ago, or even for some senators, a few months ago. stephanie: psident trump said today he will announce his court nominee on saturday. we will look at all of this after the news summary.re the house of rntatives and the white house agreed to a spending bill tonight. the bill drew wide bipartisan support in the house and now moves to the senate where it is expected to pass. the bill covers government spending through december 11. the united states has officially passed 200 thousand deaths in the covid-19 pandemic. johns hopkins university reported the number today. about two thirds othose who ha died were over 65, but young people are now driving increased infections in some states. restill,dent trump claimed last night that the virus afcts "virally nobody" in lower age groups. in britain, restrictions snapp

but democrats, led by chuck schumer, again accused republicans of changing their previous positions.change the rules of the senate to pass supreme court justices on a majority vote; rush it through before an election. it doesn't matter if you said thexact opposite thing fou years ago, two years ago, or even some senators, a few months ago. >> woodruff: presint trump said today that he will announce his court nominee on saturday. we'll look at all of this, after the news summary. tropical storm beta weakened today as it stalled over theea texas coast, uing heavy downpours. inat least 14 inches of ra touched off flash floods that stranded cars and closed highways. the storm came ashore ernight near port o'connor, south of houston. a spreading inferno northeast of los angeles reatened more than 1,000 homes today.e -called bobcat fire is now larger than the city of denver, and advancing as much ah two miles anr. it's within striking distae of the mojave desert town of pearblossom. warnings for possible acuation have gone out to pasadena, that's home to the rose bowl and annual rose parad

he also said that they funded $80 million by chuck schumer told him to take a position against it in the african-american senator from south carolina understands whatever problem. he wanted to put something on the floor cal cunningham had the rubberstamp he was against getting of the bill to solve the problems to make sure police offended properly. . . . . when fuel was added to the flames of unrest, senator tillis sat quietly unwilling and unable to call out those voices that were putting those troops in the streets. >> so you say no to using federal forces? cunningham: that is correct. tillis: i believe governor or may ask the president for help, that the president should provide them with hell. what i disagreehe with is cal cunningham being silent when 33 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty over this year. when hundreds have been injured he's not taking a position what's happening in portland come in seattle and chicago. our communities are less safe and these mayors and governors are failing their people. i hope they do ask for help attitude believe the

next hour, we'll hear from chuck schumer about the democratic strategy. we're told he'll also be joined by alexandria o case area cortez. at the same time, our nation is inching close tore a terrible number. 200,000 lives lost to the coronavirus over the past seven months. that's more than any other country in the world. and it's truly a milestone that suggests just how poorly our country has done in the fight against the virus. let's get to the white house. john harwood is standing by. president trump at a campaign rally last night in north korea told his supporters he'll likely announce his choice for the supreme court this week and one step further, he promised the choice will be a woman. what more can you tell us about the timeline for the announcement, maybe some of the possible names he's floating? >> some conservatives at the outset when the news broke, w t wanted the president to hold off, thinking that would be to his advantage politically. to keep some of his supporters hungry for the election. to diminish some of the intensity on the other side

he has schumer and pelosi in congress -- this is his team right there? they win and you can start singing bye-bye miss american pie because it's over, is he going to tap the ever incompetent cuomo to lead his coronavirus task force? is he going to tap comrade de blasio as his law and order is our? just last week, biden in his own words agreed that funds should be diverted away from the police. he has embraced the beef on the police movement, he said last week police have now become the enemy. if in new york city, comrade de blasio slashed the nypd budget by a billion dollars, he has disbanded the undercover come of the most effective anti-crime unit in the city, he has banned all stop and frisk. meanwhile, new york governor cuomo is the genius who let the thousands of criminals out of jail with his idiotic $0 bail policy, as a result, what do we see? shootings in new york city and new york state, they have more than doubled over the last year. on monday, at least 70 people shop, that includes three drive-by shootings, at one point over the weekend there

schumer: madam president, our adversaries sow disinformation in our society and seek to influence our elections. vladimir putin will stop at nothing to diminish western democracies. a resurgence in china wants to take america's place on our world stage. but the gravest threat to our democracy right now does not come from any foreign capital. it comes from our own. the greatest threat to democracy in america is president donald trump. yesterday in a news conference, president trump refused to commit to the peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election in 41 days. let me repeat. yesterday in a news conference president trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election in 41 days. quote, we'll have to see what happens. i've been complaining about the ballots and ballots are a disaster. pressed further, get rid of the ballots. there won't be a transfer. there will be a continuation. get rid of the ballots, there won't be a transfer there will be a continuation. get rid of the ballots. that's what he is saying. now, everyone from school children t

chuck schumer said the same thing at the end of george w. bush's term that if the vacancy occurred with the president bush a republican in the white house and democrats under harry reid and chuck schumer in charge of the senate that they would not confirm. now when you have both parties and the white house and the senate historically the confirmation goes forward. and that's what's going to happen here. >> look, senator, i want -- >> the senate will make a nomination this week i believe. >> i get that. senator, nobody, nobody in the senate republican conference was arguing these fine footnote points that you and your other colleagues argue now. i want to play a clip for from you 2018 from lindsey graham. take a listen. >> if an opening comes in the last year of president trump's term, and the primary process started, we'll wait until the next election. i have a pretty good chance being -- >> you're on the record. >> all right. >> hold the tape. >> senator, i guess the question is should viewers -- when should -- should viewers just not belie

chuck schumer worked to stop his nomination. it is a fair point that there have been efforts on both sides to filibuster and block nominees. i would argue that under barack obama's presidency got taken to new levels. literally the reason donald trump has had so many vacancies to fill -- we've talked about how he has gotten more than 200 judges on the federal bench. the reason that was made possible is because he hit -- he inherited. that is not because barack obama did not prioritize judicial nominations, it is because mitch mcconnell made a point of not filling those seats. senate,y took over the --ublicans did not [indiscernible] to exercisesenators their ability to block. he saw judgeships in the rightist states of the country that remained open for donald trump to fill solely because of the fact -- [indiscernible] the other consequences, we have a wider and more male judiciary under donald trump. barack obama made a priority of emphasizing racial and gender diversity in his nominations. we have large swathes of the country t

then reaction by democratic leader chuck schumer. the senate is expected to vote on the republican coronavirus bill on thursday. >> our nation has spent the last six months fighting the medical, economic, and social effects of this pandemic. the senate's historic rescue package from back in march, the cares act, has gone a long way to help american workers and families endure these incredible challenges. it delivered the extra federal unemployment benefits that helped laid off workers make ends meet. it created a paycheck protection program which has helped millions of small businesses keep the lights on, and keep employees on payroll. it sent resources to the from nt lines of the health care fight and it invested billions in the race for treatments and for vaccines. but, madam, president, this relief is never going to last forever. today enhanced federal unemployment benefits are only still available because of action by president trump. the paycheck protection program has closed new applications and the funds it has delivered are b

and chuck schumer stood by nodding approvingly.the plans of the house democrats is so radical that even senator tim kaine rebuked the idea calling the idea of using impeachment to delay a supreme court vote foolish. some democrats already have a backup plan if they don't get their way on the nomination. congressman joe kennedy said if he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021. it is that simple. senator ed markey went further. no supreme court vacancy filled in an election year, he said. if he violates it when the democrats control the senate in the next congress we must abolish the filibuster and expand the supreme court. senator, the president is elected to a four-year term. you can't unlal rattily reduce it to three years. the president is the president. democrats cannot win the argument on the merits. they cannot win on precedent. so they must search and destroy. don lemon said the quiet part out loud last night. he said this. we are going to have to blow up the entire system if the president does his job as outlined i

when republicans tried to help american workers keep their jobs, speaker pelosi and leader schumer said it was piecemeal. but when house democrats' fears about mail-in voting made them think maybe their own jobs could be in jeopardy, that argument suddenly disappeared. that's the score, madam president. democrats are all for piecemeal bills when they concern their own reelection, but when it comes to bipartisan aid for kids, jobs, and schools, democrats say it's either their entire wish list, all of it, or nobody gets a dime. well, republicans see this quite differently. we don't think this crisis cares about partisan politics. we think people are hurting, and congress should do its job. we want to agree, where bipartisan agreement is possible, get more help out the door, and then keep arguing over the rest later. that's how you legislate. that's how you make law. you find agreement where agreement is possible and keep arguing over the rest later. so republicans are making yet another overture. today we're releasing a targeted proposal that focuses on several of the most urgent aspects

>> let me say this one thing because you brought this up with amy and chuck schumer. chuck schumer has been very he democrats have clear, the democrats have been very clear if they win the white house and the senate all bets are off. they are going to blow up the filibuster they are going to use the nuclear option they are going to stack the supreme court. they've talked about raising the number of -- >> do you believe that >> even though ruth bader ginsburg said it's a bad idea and she said it would politicize the court. she said nine is the right number the democrats and schumer are in a war room and they've been at this for a long time and these are the promises that they have made including stacking the senate by making the district of columbia -- >> you have no regrets yeah but you have no regrets that senate republicans are going to look like hypocrites 44 days before the election for just a complete flip-flop to the average american i know you're trying to come up with these caveats nothing about it makes any sort of sense to the average person >> this is the c

chuck schumer, the democratic senate leader.s was mcconnell's rule when merrick garland was nominated by president obama, the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice, therefore this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. certa certainly implying now. leader mcconnell has basically the rules don't apply to republicans, even their own rules, it's just brute political force. if that becomes the standard in the senate, how can we expect to trust the other side again? why should the american people trust the republican senators to do anything they say when they are proving right now that their speeches mean nothing the moment the shoe is on the other foot. senate republicans should heed leader mcconnell's own words from 2013, quote, he said, you'll regret this and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think. the american people don't want republicans to move forward with a confirmation, they know this is wrong, a reuters recent poll showed 52% of americans said

if it helps them in any way speaker policy and leader schumer knew that they opposed it. there cherry picked arguments have given way to total dishonesty yesterday railing against critical supply chain calling it a giveaway to big business. the provision pertaining to critical supply chain to give way to big business that is cosponsored by the ranking member on the committee so either the democratic leader and simply doesn't know what to talk about likewise a junior senator from vermont says this is corporate welfare but to go against is very provision on two occasions. there so desperate not to give any help before the election they are now opposing what they previously supported at this point it is just silly. they run out of excuses not to legislate and that just backfires in embarrassing ways. but w tomorrow the senate will cut through all the noise every senator will say they want to move forward, agree where we can and keep arguing over the differences later are say they prefer to do absolutely nothing. every senator will vote to secure unemployment benefits re- ope

>> mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer both spoke on the senate floor earlier about the current supreme court vacancy. during his remarks, senator schumer relocked to the comments made by president trump yesterday. he talked about the protests and violence in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. >> i spoken repeatedly in recent months about the tragic killing of breonna taylor in my hometown of louisville. the healing work ahead for our community. kentucky's attorney general, daniel cameron conducted exactly the kind of the world in partial investigation justice demands. yesterday the chapter concluded the grand jury conducted handoff to criminal prosecution. i have full confidence in the painstaking pursuit of facts and justice. many kentuckians channeling the grief and anger in the exercise of their first amendment rights but last night, we saw more lawlessness, lights and violence in american cities too often this year. businesses were vandalized, flyers set in the streets and to officers of the police department were shot public safety downtown. as of last night, one officer was st

you said just now, know, that chuck schumer has been clear.t of people feel like it's not clear. all options could mean just simply dealing with this, or mean those larger reforms. do you support any of those reforms as a potential antedote to this? >> there are two things, first of all. people didn't think we would succeed at stopping them from blowing up the affordable care act. we passed those changes out of the house of representatives under paul ryan. we ended up defeating their effort to blow up the affordable care act by one vote in the united states senate. how did we do it? by enlisting the help of the american people who understood that the consequences were really bad for them. and as we look at all these senate races in swing states around the country, it's very important that we communicate that to those voters so they will be holding those republican senators accountable as they make this decision. second, look, no one is playing ping-pong when we're supposed to be playing hardball. if the republicans blow this up, if they engage

you saw senator schumer there talking about coney barrett specifically. there are those who say don't make this about the nominee. focus on the nomination. focus on the time line under which this is happening. i mean, do we need to choose which we speak about? do we need to be talking about both? where should the emphasis be as this nomination continues? amani, i'm having some trouble hearing you so while you figure that out, because i do want to hear what you have to say, maya, i'm going to kick this over to you. >> here's the central point. we're talking about a court that is going to decide, for example, how hard it is for a woman to make a decision over her body. we're going to have a court decide whether or not people with pre-existing conditions are going to still have the protection of federal law or whether they're going to lose it. we have a supreme court that's going to decide whether or not hotels that are suing on the emoluments clause of the constitution, on whether donald trump has been corruptly using his office in violation of the constitu

he said justice ginsburg's statement was something that sounds like i schumer deal or maybe a policy or shifty schiff. that's the president baselessly suggesting democrat fabricated the dying wish of the late justice ginsburg. it was a coarse, shameful, lying insult to the late justice ginsburg and to her family. if the president had a shred of human decency, even a little heat apologize. but we all know he won't. everyone here in the senate ought to be disgusted by the president's comments. how low can this president go ? he knows no depths. you'd never know that. you would think that after the republican majority led a historic blockade four years ago to keep open a vacancy on the supreme court because it was an election year and have the honor and decency to apply their own rules when the same scenario came around again . you expect the senate majority to follow their own rule . what's fair is fair . this is whatleader mcconnell said in 2016 . the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice, therefore this vacancy should not be filled u

schumer: the truth is if you want to draft a bill that is certain to fail, this is it. this is one of the most cynical moves i have ever seen. we all know what's going on here. lead every mcconnell -- lead every mcconnell had to create the most paltry, partisan cynical bill because he had 20 members of his caucus who don't want to support anything by his own admissions they want zero dollars. so leader mcconnell keeps whittling down the republican proposal until he can find something, anything that he can claim his party supports. he had to throw in the right wing's favorite goodies to sweeten the pot, to even approach the number of votes in his caucus to make it look like a republican bill that had broad support republican bill that had broad support. leader mcconnell knows this bill won't pass. he knows most of his members don't want it to pass and amazingly, he seems happy with that situation. this is one of the most cynical moves i've ever seen in the middle of a pandemic when americans are crying out for relief. the states and workers and families opening up school

brings up what senator schumer said, saw him on camera, how do democrats want to engage.ing to talk to senator blumenthal on this in moments. democrats have been in a debate amongst themselves, believe this to be an illegitimate pick, do they show up for the hearing, meet with amy coney barrett at all. you heard from schumer said, they want to know her philosophy, writings, they believe when it comes to health care and roe vs wade, they think that will politically help them raise outside pressure on republican senators to sink the nomination, even though it seems unlikely. keep in mind, wolf, this is in the middle of a heated election season. democrats if they can't defeat the pick want to take something politically out of it when people go to the polls november 3rd. >> between now and november 3rd, it will be a big issue in the election season. phil mattingly on capitol hill. thanks very much. democratic senator richard blumenthal is joining us now, key member of the judiciary committee. so is it a done deal, senator blumenthal? you know politics, you know the republican

you saw the e-mail from chuck schumer. moneyen off of this donate now. >> the republicans strategy at this point because they have such limited ability to control things in the senate. the senate, the democrats have only very limited power they can delay things by week or so here or there and what they'll try to do is galvanize to talk about what they'll do if they're in the majority. that includes eliminating filibuster and expanding the court. >> those conversations are ongoing. okay suzanne harold ford jr. and guy thank you all for joining us. >> you bet. >> thank you. >> congress is divided on judge barrett her former clerk and colleagues are urging senate to swiftly confirm her to high court one of them joins us, next. when managing diabetes you can't always stop for a fingerstick. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what

schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with.

schumer: well, thank you, mr. president. now, after senate republicans established the principle that the senate shouldn't consider supreme court nominations in presidential election years, on saturday, president trump nominated amy coney barrett to the supreme court with less than 40 days left in the presidential election. the senate has never, never confirmed a nominee to the supreme court this close to a presidential election. in fact, the election is already under way. but president trump gets to play by different rules under this republican majority. by nominating judge amy coney barrett to the supreme court, president trump has once again put americans' health care in the crosshairs. president trump has promised to nominate supreme court justices who will, quote, terminate -- his words -- our health care law. in judge barrett, president trump has found the deciding vote. judge barrett strongly criticized the ruling to uphold the affordable care act, claiming that if justices read the law the way she does, they would ha

let's consult the new york newspapers from the year 2003 quotes, schumer decided to put ideology on the front burner in the confirmation process, i am the leader of the filibuster movement. and you know, i am proud of it. said the senator from brooklyn. quotes, mr. schumer urge democratic colleagues use a tactic to somewhat initially to pursue, that has since the senate. throughout president bush's 432 terms, our colleague built an entire personal brand out of filibustering judicial nominees. talented hard-working people's were destroyed by the brilliant lawyer a close friend who says he is extraordinary and thoughtful and would have made an excellent addition to any federal court. people like that, literally destroyed by democratic tactics. this version of the now democratic leaders said filibustering judges was an essential part, an essential arpart of the senate pretty said that that as republicans every is a nuclear option to change rules midstream because they cannot get their way on every judge, it will be doomsday for democracy. doomsday for democracy. but of course, the very nex

so to translate that schumer statement, what senator schumer -- when he says nothing is off the tableh this, i would point you to three things. one, adding justices to the supreme court. republicans will call it court packing, democrats will call it court reform. sect, doing away with the -- second, doing away with the 60-vote threshold, and third, statehood for d.c. and pert eerie coe, a -- pert radioeco, a democratic wish list, and they're going to go for it if republicans jam this. las vegas e lee another four democratic senators would change the balance of the senate immeasurably. jamie, as we look at the rhetoric about this, and we were talking all through this with kevin corke at the white house who's bringing us tapes of folks in 2016 that sound awfully different. you tweeted, oh, wow, you have a video of the other party saying the opposite of what they're saying now. this should change everything. occasionally, sarcasm can be missed on twitter, but i don't think we did in this case. >> no, you didn't. the reality is the supreme court is power politics, and whoever has the powe

democrats like chuck schumer generally oppose this nomination.s at this point and we should know starting october 12th that's when the president says he believes in lindsey graham is going to begin holding hearings on her nomination. well joe biden was quick to respond to the president big announcement as two prepare to meet tuesday for first time on the debate stage. rich edson is live in wilmington, delaware with that. rich. reporter: good evening jon an biden campaign you heard if from the senate minority leader they are tieing vacancy in the nomination torn that they want to hit in this campaign and that is health care. vice president joe biden tweeted on all of this, quote, today president trump nominated judge amy coney barrett to supreme court the jurist with a written track record of disagreeing with court decision to uphold affordable care act vote like your shk on the ballot because it is. running mate senator kamala harris tweeted, quote, trump hand pick successor make it is clear, they intend to destroy the affordable care act and ove