of september 11th and even on that morning i was on my way to capitol hill to brief the senate education committee on early childhood education wanted a summit on early childhood education that summer and i was gonna brief that committee on early childhood education and i was getting into the car and a secret service agent plea delivered to me and said a plan is just planted the world trade center and we went ahead to the capital, we got the car, which is soon as we started driving the day it was some strange, you know, accident, but at the time we got to the capital we knew the second plane had hit, and we knew what it was so i join senator kennedy who is the chair of the senate education committee in his office and then in just a few minutes, chant senator judge gray from new hampshire was one of our closest friends, joined me. he was the minority chairman of the committee. and so it he talked the whole time and told stories about things that were in his office. he left, he had a letter, a friend of his brother jack had written to his mother that said, teddy is getting fat, and he thought that w

alexander whotor runs the senate education committee, he is talking about possibly providing $70 billion for schools. that money would be geared toward reopening costs such as ppe, transportation, etc. school districts need to pay their staff. ,he reopening costs might help but really what districts need is enough money to survive the school year. what i should really emphasize -- federal dollars are only 10% of funding. majority of districts rely on local and state aid and state aid has plummeted. host: we showed it article last segment we were talking about school reopening. report, reopening means an additional $1.8 million in cost for the average school district. there are other numbers out there. can you dive into those numbers? guest: sure. i have talked to several administrators about some of the logistical challenges and financial challenges with reopening. the superintendents association 's estimate was for the district the size of 15,000 students and $2 million. they are talking about the hardware of schools. ppe and equipment, they were estimate and that masks cost one dollar

most districts or most education advocates missing are saying td need around $200 billion to reopen schools. right now senator lamar alexander who is the senate education committee, he's talking about possibly providing 60-$70 60-$70 billion for schools and that money would really be wgeared toward reopening costs such as ppe, transportation, et cetera, school district did you pay their staff. so the reopening costs might help but billy what districts need is enough money to basically survive the school year. what i should would emphasize that federal dollars are only 10% of school funding. the vast majority of schools will local and state aid and state aid has plummeted. >> host: we show this article in the last segment when we talk about school reopens. in early june report from association of school administrators reopening means an additional $1.8 million in cost of the average size school district.ch there other numbers are out there. can you type into those numbers a bit? >> guguest: short. reopening, talk to several administrators abouter some of e logistical challenges and financial challenges in reopening. the aasa or the superintendent association esti

so i joined senator kennedy who was the chairman of the senate education committee in his office. in just a few minutes senator judd greg from new hampshire who's one of our closest friends joined me. the committee and so the three of us sat in senator kennedy's office and he talked the whole time and told stories about things in his office. he showed me and laughed at a letter he had framed that his brother jack had written to his mother that said teddy is getting fat. and he thought that was funny, and i've often wondered if that was just his reaction to something as shocking and as horrible because that was just the way he had to deal with it because of course he'd had many shocks in his life. or if he thought i would fall apart and he thought the way he could keep things going was just to keep small talk and talking and keeping things going. but anyway then in a few minutes i left and went to a secure location. >> how did you leave? >> well, the secret service came to get me and said it's time to -- at first they were thinking they would take me back to the white house. and so

education advocates are saying the $200 billion to reopen school. right now, senator lamar alexander who runs the senate education committee, he's talking about possibly providing six to $70 billion for and that money would really be geared towards reopening costs such as transportation etc. school districts need to pay their staff so the reopening costs might help but really what districts need is enough money to survive the school year . and what i should emphasize is that federal dollars are only 10 percent of school funding. the vast majority of school districts rely on local and state aid and state aid has plummeted a. >> we show this article in the last segment of the washington journal when we were talking about school reopening . in early june report from the association school administrators reopening even an additional $1.8 million in costs for the average sized school district, i know there's other numbers out there. can you dive into those numbers of it ? >> sure. so reopening we talked to several administrators about some of the logistical challenges andfinancial challenges in reopening . the asa or the superintendent association estimate

testifying before the senate education committee during the past six years while we considered reauthorizing the higher education act. these concepts have been suggested by many senators on both sides of the aisle. democrats, republicans, including senators king and burr and rubio and merkley and portman and warner, wicker, manchin, shaheen, and collins. all of these have suggested these concepts. and, mr. president, while we're simplifying the student loan repayment system, i propose we also finish the job of reducing the federal loan application of grants and loans which everyone calls fafsa. from about 108 questions to 20 to 33 questions. this is an enterprise that a number of us, both democrats and republicans, have been working on for years, including senator murray, bennet, jones, king, collins, whitehouse, gardner, cornyn, stabenow, tillis, and hassan. so you see there is an unusual amount of bipartisan support for both of these ideas. experts before the senate education committee have testified that simplifying the fafsa this way would remove obstacles that would make it easier for l

. >> i was on my way to capitol hill to brief the senate education committee on early childhood education'd hosted a summit on early childhood education that summer and i was going to brief that committee on early childhood education when i was getting into the car and my agent, secret service agent, leaned over to me and said, a plane has just flown into the world trade center. and we went ahead to the capitol. we got in the car. we just assumed as we started driving, that it was just a some strange, you know, accident. so, but by the time we got to the capitol, we knew the second plane had hit and we knew what it was. >> how did you leave? >> well, the secret service came to get me and said it's time to, at first, they were thinking they will take me back to the white house and so they, they had to re-group and figure out where i should go because obviously people at the white house were getting, the staff at the white house was getting the word to run and people who, in my office, young women, who worked for me, were kicking off their high heels and running from the white house. and i

alexander whotor runs the senate education committee, he is talking about possibly providing $70 billion schools. that money would be geared toward reopening costs such as ppe, transportation, etc. school districts need to pay their staff. ,he reopening costs might help but really what districts need is enough money to survive the school year. what i should really emphasize -- federal dollars are only 10% of funding. majority of districts rely on local and state aid and state aid has plummeted. host: we showed it article last segment we were talking about school reopening. report, reopening means an additional $1.8 million in cost for the average school district. there are other numbers out there. can you dive into those numbers? guest: sure. i have talked to several administrators about some of the logistical challenges and financial challenges with reopening. the superintendents association 's estimate was for the district the size of 15,000 students and $2 million. they are talking about the hardware of schools. ppe and equipment, they were estimate and that masks cost one dollar each

start calling in now as we begin with some of yesterday's hearing before the senate health education, labor and pension committeesenator lamar alexander the chairman of the committee convening a hearing yesterday on school reopening's. this is what he had to say about the disruption that has been caused by school closures around the country. [video clip] alexander: among the casualties of this dangerous and very sneaky covid-19 virus other 75 million students who were sent home from school and college in march. add to the casualties the teachers who were not prepared to teach remotely and the working parents who suddenly had children at home and who were not prepared to homeschool, add the lost sports seasons and the once-in-a-lifetime graduation opportunities, than there were unprecedented dilemmas for administrators in inadequate school budgets. being sent home from school does not rank with the sickness and the death that the virus has caused. the united states has over 2.5 million cases of the virus and over 125,000 deaths, according to johns hopkins. while states and communities continue to take action to k

at 9:30 a.m., the senate continues work on the defense programs bill. at 10:15 am on c-span3, a house education committee holds a hearing on ways to safely reopen schools. the house ways and means committee considers the impact of covid-19 on trade, manufacturing, and the national supply chain. president trump spoke about efforts to combat violent crime in u.s. cities. the president announced federal law enforcement would be sent to cities including chicago and albuquerque, new mexico. at the event, attorney general william barr, acting homeland security secretary chad wolf, christopher wray, and families of crime victims. pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you. great honor to be with you today. being here is a real, really important moment, as far as i am concerned. my first duty as president is to protect the american people, and today, i am taking action to fulfill that sacred obligation. in recent weeks, there has been a radical movement to defund, dismantle, and dissolve our police departments.extreme , andpolice crusade relentlessly vilified our law enforcement heroes. anyook at it from standp

on c-span two, the senate continues work on the 2021 defense programs bill. three, the house education committee holds a hearing on ways to safely reopen schools. on2:00 p.m., a hearing covid-19 on trade, manufacturing, and the national supply chain. >> fema administrator peter gaynor testified about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic at a hearing of the house homeland security committee. questions focused on the distribution of ppe to states, the status of federal testing sites, covid resources for schools, and current and future national guard assistance. this runs three hours. this runs. the committee on homeland security will come to order.

the senate continues work on the 20 defense programs do. at 10:15 a.m. on c-span3 the house education committee holds a hearing on wayso safely reopen schools. at 2 p.m. the house ways and means com covid-19 on trade manu chain.bo >> next, florida senator mark arri u.s.-china relations and the coronavirus pandemic. this was hosted by the hoover institution. >> good afternoon i'm a fellow at the hve wel conversations. the hoover institution one of the centers dedicated to producing pols iisaffirm economic prosperity, national security governance. detail a bit about our capital conversations series this is a time when hoover feels like they get to talk also some of our nation's leading policymakers. today were fortunate to have with us senator marcoo talk aboutmerica's future after-19. as part of a discussion will be taking audience questions from you so encourage you to submit your question at the q&a button located at the bottom of your screen. without let's get started. senator rubio as all of you know is the trade center from florida. number of committee assignments, committee on aging he is

education. >> sandra: senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham says he wants a memo from the russianation declassified which could have been in days. he says the memo describes a russian sub source. the senator told hannity last night but that source was actually an employee of christopher steele's. >> the russian was on christopher steele's payroll, but after you talk to the guy who put the memo together, and you put a 40 page document explaining why it's not reliable and do you it after that, you are really in trouble. >> sandra: at lindsey graham wants former fbi director james comey and andrew mccabe to testify in front of his committee in september. >> it was not just the knee of officer derek chauvin on george floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. but it was then the of the entire minneapolis police department on the neck of george floyd that killed him. >> john: and new developments in the george floyd case, the public getting its first look at body cam video from two of the officers charged in his death that could only be viewed at the courthouse by appointment. thias af

at 9:30 am, the senate works on the 2021 defense programs bill. three, the c-span house education committee holds a hearing on ways to safely reopen schools. at 2:00 p.m. the house ways and means considers the impact of thed-19 on trade and national supply chain. coming up in 30 minutes, ohio congress when bill johnson, a

something that comes up in this committee all the time, the education of either our elderly or others, i appreciate senatorklobuchar bringing up the scanning of the elderly. we have a lot in our rural areas. what do you find is the best way to transmit to people who may not have broadband connectivity, and to prevent you from getting covid-19, how do you address that? >> we are the lead consumer protection agency at the state level in kansas. in ordinary times we have robust consumer education and prevention program, we do a lot of in person presentations around the state whether it is nursing homes, senior centers, people spend a large proportion of their time talking with kansans, to avoid losing your money in the first place, better for you and better for us so we can focus on the back end so that is how we normally do it. as your question implies, we are less mobile, communicating remotely. that disables one of our principal tools for reaching kansans which is go where they are and talk with them. we struggled with that. we are doing more online and recognize the limits that are not effective because o

also thank chairman bobby scott and senator patty murray, ranking member of the senate health, education, and pensions committee for their leadership on these bills. thank you, mr. kot -- mr. scott, for every day reminding us and leading us on how we can help our children. i thank and recognize the outside organizers who have been relentlessly persistent and dissatisfied as they fight for our children and work force needs. when people ask what are the three most important issues facing congress, i always say the same thing and have for over 30 years. the three most important issues facing the congress are our children, our children, our children. their health, their education, the economic security of their families, a safe environment in which they can thrive, a world at peace in which they can reach their fulfillment. my motivations for even coming to congress is one in five children in america who live in poverty. but it isn't only families in poverty who are affected by this child care issue. it's our entire society, our entire economy. that's why we have to think transformatively about this. because as we

on c-span two, the senate continues work on the 2021 defense programs bill. three, the house education committee holds a hearing on ways to safely reopen schools. on2:00 p.m., a hearing covid-19 on trade, manufacturing, and the national supply chain. >> fema administrator peter gaynor testified about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic at a hearing of the house homeland security committee. questions focused on the distribution of ppe to states, the status of federal testing sites, covid resources for schools, and current and future national guard assistance. this runs three hours. this runs. the committee on homeland security will come to order. we are following the attending physicians guidance on wearing face coverings at all times while not under recognition and the chair will only recognize those who are following the guidance. today, the committee on homeland security is meeting for part two of our hearing to examine the national response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. two weeks ago, the committee heard from state and local officials about how the trump administration's

at 9:30 am, the senate works on the 2021 defense programs bill. three, the c-span house education committee holds a hearing on ways to safely reopen schools. at 2:00 p.m. the house ways and means considers the impact of thed-19 on trade and national supply chain. coming up in 30 minutes, ohio congress when bill johnson, a member of the budget and energy and commerce committees on the coronavirus relief bill. at a: 30, more with representative a member of the small business committee. ♪ host: this is a wash we will get your reaction to the house voting to remove several statues of confederate historical figures from the u.s. capitol around. some republicans joining the democrats in passing this legislation. here's how you can let us know your thoughts on yesterday's action. if you support removing the statues, call us at 202-748-8000 , if you oppose it, 202-748-8001 is the number to call. if you want to text us, you can do so at 202-748-8003. you can post on twitter or facebook. a breakdown of what occurred yesterday saying a bipartisan vote gave the buildings architect $2 million in four mo

louisiana senator bill cassidy is a republican on the house education labor and finance committee.l doctor and if i could start there because i know one of the big contentions is whether or not kids are going back to school as a parent of three myself, very concerned about this. on one hand, you have this new research coming out of south korea that says children younger than ten transmit to others much less often than adults, but those between the ages of ten and 19 seem to spread the virus at least as well as adults do. on the other hand, when you don't send kids to school, they risk food insecurity. a lot of kids get their meals at school, and there's a huge disparity in the damage that is being done to kids. we are actively expanding the divide between rich and poor in the sense that in some districts, 20 to 50% aren't logging into remote learning and those are along economic lines. what is the best for their health for your opinion? >> you nailed the essence of the argument. it's not because they have an increased risk of complications is because they don't want to spread it to

senate finance committee, only side -- one citation have been issued in health and safety --response to goodpresident pence: morning. the white house coronavirus task force met at the department of education on our ongoing effort to save lives, meet the needs of our state and our healthcare workers, to protect the vulnerable and to safely reopen america and reopen america's schools. as you will hear today from admiral giroir, we have tested 39 million americans. among those, or than 3 million have tested positive and more than 1.3 million americans have recovered. 133,000re than americans have lost their lives and our sympathy is with all of the impacted families. because of what the american people have done, the extraordinary work of our healthcare workers around the country, we are encouraged that the average fatality rate continues to be low and steady. days earlier this week, it was 90% lower than at the height of the pandemic. again, it is a credit to the sacrifice the american people have made, the extraordinary work that healthcare workers are doing. forcedge that this task working in partnership with governors across the country will continue to work our hearts out 24 hours a day

at 9:30 a.m., the senate continues work on the defense programs bill. at 10:15 am on c-span3, a house education committee holds a hearing on ways to safely reopen schools. the house ways and means committee considers the impact of covid-19 on trade, manufacturing, and the national supply chain. president trump spoke about efforts to combat violent crime in u.s. cities. the president announced federal law enforcement would be sent to cities including chicago and albuquerque, new mexico. at the event, attorney general william barr, acting homeland security secretary chad