also on the house floor today majority leader steny hoyer, democrat of maryland, since he thought talks might produce a deal this weekend. he said they wouldn't have a vote monday or tuesday. we are hearing from both sides a significant push forward after it look like they were stuck last night. perhaps this national story, this national trauma of seeing our president and first lady test positive for this dreadful disease that's affected so many american families, maybe it's forced everybody back to the table to get serious about cutting a deal. >> bret: mike, from a capitol hill perspective, both sides of the aisle at least for one day seem to send out wishes of get well thoughts and prayers to the president as opposed to what we usually hear in statements from both sides of the aisle. >> absolutely right. a lot of the president's harshest critics extending their thoughts and prayers from chuck schumer to nancy pelosi to the congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. it was interesting that this news that they tested positive came out at 1:00 a.m. and there was no capitol hill reaction fo

yes, that pause is the sound of crickets. >>> with me is steny hoyer.o see you, as always. today is the deadline. but a deadline over what? i saw john thune earlier today who is number two in the senate among senate republicans said he doesn't know if there's 13 republicans to join all the democrats to avoid a filibuster in the senate to get your 60 votes. he doesn't think there's 13 republicans for whatever the president is proposing. where does that leave us? >> it leaves us with a deeply divided republican party. you just did a quote from the president about he wanted to do higher than pelosi. he says pelosi doesn't want a deal. that's baloney. we passed a deal at less sums apparently than the president wants to exceed pelosi by. so the fact of the matter is we passed a bill. apparently less sums than the president says he'll support. have his republicans put that on the floor in the united states senate and see what the vote is. i think there are 13 republicans who are worried about their election and worried about helping people. mcconnell and mcca

house majority leader steny hoyer spoke about legislative priorities, healthcare coverage and republicans decision to move forward with the supreme court nominee. he gave a brief update on the covid-19 economic aid bill. >> since the beginning of this congress house democrats have fought for the people from lowering healthcare costs to raising wages by rebuilding america. cleaning up corruption and strengthening democracy, house democrats passed major legislation and shown the american people what our priorities are. the same time, sadly republicans have made clear what their priorities are, priorities of the american people in my view do not share. for example, particularly on healthcare. for years, madame speaker donald trump and republicans have been telling the american people they have a plan that is better than the affordable care act which will cover more americans, he said would cover everybody a lower cost and higher quality, not a single member of the house could rise and say i know what the president's bill is. with no plan being put forward, not clear what the plan really is.

steny hoyer talked about the house schedule and legislative priorities. hoyer: madam speake this congress, house democrats have fought for the people. costs wering health care to raising wages by rebuilding america, to cleaning up and strengthening democracy, house democrats have assed major legislation and shown the american people what our priorities are. sadly, ame time, republicans have also made clear are.their priorities priorities the american people, in my view, do not share. for example, and particularly, on health care. speaker, , madam president trump and republicans have been telling the american people that they have a plan than the tter affordable care act, which will cover more americans. the matter of fact, president said he would cover everybody at lower cost and quality. not a single member of this house can rise and say i know president's bill is, because they've never seen it and eight years months. but after years with no plan being put forward, it's clear their plan really is -- eliminate the affordable act and offer nothing in retur

earlier, house majority leader steny hoyer talked about the legislative priorities. >> madame speakerbeginning of this congress, house democrats have fought for the people. from lowering health care costs to rebuilding america, to cleaning up corruption and strengthening democracy, house democrats passed major legislation and have shown the american people what our priorities are. at the same time, sadly, republicans have made clear what their priorities are, priorities the american people in my view do not share. for example, on health care. for years president trump and republicans have been telling the american people they have a plan that is better than the affordable care act, which will cover more americans. the president said he would cover everybody at lower cost and higher quality. member of this house can rise and say i know what the president's bill is, because they have never seen it after three years and eight months. it is clear what their plan thely is, eliminate affordable care act and offer nothing in return. they continue to tell the american people, you are on your

steny hoyer are you concerned about the state being suited if not meeting its standards? >> zuckerman: the attorney general reviewed the bill and said it is constitutional regardless of those that aren't lawyers claiming that it is not and when you look at the legal framework the legislature restricted where and how those suits can be done with respect to damages or expert witnesses and the cost that come into it. the ideas to give citizens the power because we as elected officials have not done the job. let's look at the impact of the maple industry, the ski industry, tourism industry, waterways, agriculture, we have opportunities to build a climate economy for the future looking at sequestering carbon in our soil through agriculture and forest 3, weatherizing people's homes and saving them money on their bills, need to be looking forward and adjusting the climate crisis and this will stand up to legal scrutiny. >> moderator: this is the vermont pbs 2020 debate series, we are hearing from david's a come in and fill scott. when we come back, you can question one another o

joining us now house majority leader congressman steny hoyer of maryland.the show. kasie hunt is on capitol hill. she has got to run, but she's got the first question. kasie. >> let's start right there because, i mean, even mitch mcconnell has been out there saying he is confused about the state of coronavirus relief negotiations and the white house has been insisting that they can get senate republicans onboard. senate republicans seem to have different plans. do you think that there is any possibility that a relief plan could pass before election day or not? >> well, it ought to. it ought to pass in the near -- in the next few days, frankly. but as your lead-in pointed out, kasie, joe and mika, he's erratic. he's impulsive. you don't foe what he believes from time to time, and he sends mixed messages, and as i understand it from mcconnell, he has at least halfom time to tim mixed messages. as i understand it from mcconnell, he's got at least half of his caucus who don't want to do anything. sort of like mcconnell's response to our may 15th bill where he s

steny hoyer said we will give you 24 hours notice to get you back to washington and vote on a bill president could sign into law. that is why the senate, in my view, the senate can get a deal passed and they can work in the judiciary committee on a nomination. we can do more than one thing at a time. david: thank you so much. that is republic and representative from arkansas french hill. i'm happy to say nancy pelosi will join us tomorrow on "balance of power" at 12:00 with her take on where the stimulus tops are. now it is time for a check on the markets with abigail doolittle. where are we? coming back from yesterday? abigail: we certainly are. never a dull day. yesterday president trump had tweeted out the idea of ending a big stimulus package. at that the s&p 500 dropped about 2%. however, if the markets were really concerned stimulus is off the table, we probably would have seen a bigger selloff, suggesting some folks might've thought it was a negotiating tactic. today we have markets bouncing slightly higher. theets up 1.3 percent on possibility of these skinny targeted stimulus deals.

with me now is the number two democrat in the house, congressman steny hoyer of maryland. thank you for being here. >> hi. >> is a deal going to be reached this afternoon? >> that will depend upon whether or not we give the assistance to all the people who need it. the conversation has been sort of like we've saved half of the people on the titanic. we won't need boats for everybody because the titanic won't sink but when it does sink we'll take care of half the people. that's not what americans want. that's not what americans need. that's not what economists tell us is essential. states and locals are a perfect example. where senator mcconnell said let them go bankrupt, but the states go bankrupt they'll drag down the economy with all of us. i'm hopeful we get to an agreement. i think security mnuchin and speaker pelosi clearly want to get a deal. >> right. >> the problem is they've been dealing with people who i don't think want a deal and the president is all over the ballpark. now he says go big and bigger than we suggested in our $2.2 trillion reduction by 35% of our

house majority leader steny hoyer says the house would be available to vote on an aid package despite scheduled break. let's bring in ed mills from raymond james. good to see you. clearly, hopefully and everyone's base case expectation that president will make a full and swift recovery, in that scenario, is there any impact on the election of having gone through this >> that's been the question of the day. some want to make the case that, you know, if the president recovers as would be the hopeful outcome and there's not a big impact, maybe this is yet the next thing that we have in 2020 where it seems like a big event but it does not really change the political calculus the flip side is that it is going to remind voters of his performance related to covid-19 and will there be a view that as commander in chief, your first job is to keep folks safe. if he hasn't kept himself safe, is the job he did in response to covid-19 bringing that back up a month before the election? >> does the change the likelihood of a stimulus deal? >> it went from being dead-dead to just slightly dead. so the

in talking to steny hoyer and leader mccarthy, it appears there are just a few issues remaining to useords, he basically says there are some tactical manueverring that is still going on, whatever that means but they're very close. even suggested on friday when they let us go be prepared to come back this week to vote on it. charles: you know it is so interesting because i feel that hoyer has been more genuine with respect to his commentary on this. maybe it is his role to be that way than nancy pelosi who i guess you know, they're playing nice guy good guy, nice guy good woman, whatever you call it. certainly when i hear from him throughout this process i have felt better maybe there is a possibility. do you feel the same way? >> yeah. i'm not sure their messaging is the same. i, they, one maybe is playing good cop, bad cop, i don't know. i know he manages the floor of the house, and on the floor that is what he put out. our big concern there is still 1.8 trillion unspent from the previous bill. there is five trillion from the fed hasn't been completely -- five trillion, 1.8 trillion,

prospect of a deal with the administration was looking pretty grim, but this morning majority leader steny hoyer sounded a lot more optimistic. >> hopefully those negotiations will bear fruit sooner rather than later when i say sooner rather than later, i hope that this weekend perhaps an agreement can be reached. >> reporter: kelly, he said that right now both sides are operating with good will back over to you >> ylan, if there's movement, where is the movement coming from which side and toward what kind of middle goal, do you think >> reporter: i think it could possibly come from both sides here pelosi had been holding firm against doing any kind of piecemeal action on stimulus here with this announcement, saying that she would look at a standalone bill for the airlines, perhaps a sign that she's willing to bend there. meanwhile on the republican side, democrats are saying this could be the moment where they look at the money that's needed for things like testing, tracing and treatment and say, it is time to come back to the table and do another deal and perhaps spend more money on that deal.

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kevin mccarthy said, people traveling from all over the country, it is a dangerous thing to have, steny hoyere of the house leaders in the capital looking at this, considering trying to add more testing, experiencing symptoms, we think you could have been exposed but you are right, it is not required and reporters showing up to the capital, social the distance, and use a lot of hand sanitizer but that is the only protocol and safety measures they are taking could. rick: it is surprising when you consider the petri dish and senators and congresspeople going back and forth, meeting with constituents, a rotating cast of characters for these representatives and we don't know how the president talks about it but it could have come from one of these major events and senators getting it too. things will have to change. we have to leave it but appreciate you joining us this morning. donald trump did test positive for the coronavirus on friday and he is now at walter reed army medical center, was taken there by a helicopter friday evening and is said to be resting comfortably. you are looking at live

there's had a strange dynamic, the house leader steny hoyer said on the floor that they might be ableo announce that they have an agreement this weekend and then maybe bring members back after several days of putting this into legislative language late in the week and maybe vote late in the week or next weekend or something like that. now, what's interesting is i have been hearing from several republican sources that they don't like what might be going into this bill. neil: all right. chad. if you can just wait a second here, we're going to pause for a moment to let our fox stations join us right now. this is fox news coverage of president trump's physician and physicians, i should say, giving us an update on his condition. i am a neil cavuto in new york and now an update on how president trump is doing. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for coming. dr. sean conley, physician to the president. this morning i'd like to start by first sharing that the president and first family, first lady, extremely grateful for the enormous outpouring of support and prayers that the whole world and