chairman graham said about the investing going to get all the information out there and do it before theel election. there is the intention right there. do it before the election. leader mcconnell says the republicans don't feel the urgency to act on the coronavirus but it sounds like it's an urgency to get them going before november. a fever is raging in the conspiracy caucus worried about the outcome of the election and that president trump has done a very poor job in dealing with this j crisis. so they turn to wild conspiracy theories into the senate what should be debating and discussing coronavirus relief come into a partisan and sham chamber. it is disgraceful. leader mcconnell gave a lengthy speech on the floor of the senate yesterday giving cover too many of the presidents crackpot theories about what transpired in 2016. i will say this leader mcconnell reported the water down a bipartisan warning of russian interference in 2016 and installed on election security funding and to this day is blocking election security funding. leaderk mcconnell once to be a part of russian interferen

well these are left to right the so at the top, davis, atfi theel bottom ogilvie, browning, herman. there is not the one guy, who stands out. davis is essentially thein manager. he is the judge in the eighth circuit. he is the most respected one. these guys are both old wigs. corner, is a recent german immigrant. remember, we mentioned in connection with the no nothing party, the number of immigrants immigrants coming into the u.s. in 18 fifties. germans were among them. and lincoln in fact, help to finance a german paper. for the republican party. corner is there to help them with the german delegates, and the places where there is a significant german population. oracle browning, you remember the letter thatyou re lincoln we about high low and he thought he might have been engaged to and married, well that was browning's wife. browning is a conservative, who inthe fact was supporting bate. o and someone said to him hey browning is for bates, and he saidr ba rates will have no-show and or ville will be for me. did . link its law partner, and have you ever had someone around you whe

know that we always have to balance between our concept of security and our concept of freedom and we theel that that there are 2 groups in our population it's almost like there are 2 schools of thought and there are those who are frightened as we ease things up and there are those whom want to go even faster and to strike a balance here we have to use reason but we also have to look at how we can be risky marriage of billie's the lockdowns well i think each federal state is doing at this best they can and i also want to say thank you to the fact that many federal states even though they have a low level of infections much lower than others mr jentzsch and myself are federal states who are really impacted on because of the skiing for example there was a rise of infections there and of course that affected us as well but there are other federal states who didn't have so many cases expressed real solidarity so i think that germany's federal structure not least through the leadership on a national level have really helped us is do as well as we're doing so offering freedoms where we can but no

resident donald trump will theel to camp david for first time leaving the white house compound for more than a month. the president is preparing to resume travel and reopen the economy. york isus from new annmarie hordern. a potential glimmer of hope from the u.s. walk us through the latest data. >> a potential in the sense of what we are seeing in the data looks like a flattening of the curve. and you look at the average for the country. average of cases has grown by 1.2% from the day before. that is down from what we saw last week, an average of 3%. -- when always a "but" you look at some of the states, things are getting worse including new jersey, the neighbor of new york, reporting 460 new deaths. texas also saw its highest death toll and on the west coast in california, they are seeing a pickup in cases. the biggest one-day jump of new infections. on the average, things seem to be getting better but there are certain spots where things are getting worse. ra: and also, a lot of excitement about gilead's coronavirus treatment. how close are we to fda approval? -- a lot ofup exciteme

. >> in late 1862, he issued general order number 11 which from theels south because he believes there engaged an illegal cotton ring. was grant anti-semitic or did he regret it? mr. chernow: he regretted it almost as soon as he issued it. he said it was atrocious and inexcusable. people know that piece of the story. what they don't know is grant spent the rest of his life atoning for that action. moreesident, he appointed jews in public office than any other of the 19th century presidents combined. he became the first president to speak out on human rights abuses. it was because of persecution of the jews, one time in russia and one time in poland. during the last year of his second term, he was invited to a dedication of a synagogue. very tiny synagogue. aant went with his son and u.s. senator. it was a three hour ceremony. probably had 40 or 50 people. one hour into the dedication of this synagogue, the elders of the synagogue went over to grant and said, mr. president, we are very touched you would come to this humble function. you can leave now. grant insisted on staying the full

he is facing mounting public anger over his decision to theel 260 miles while country was in lockdown. >> quite frankly i'm not certain right now that an inquiry into that matter is a very good use of time. we are working on coronavirus. global news 24 hours a day on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. francine. francine: thank you so much. coming up we will stick with our top story as china approves a controversial new security legislation for hong kong. plenty more of that and we also angles including what it means for the markets. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> my question is can we expect china to deliver more ambitious stimulus in the months to come as well as to china have sufficient policy options to deal with a prolonged global pandemic and rising tensions with the united states? to gete: we were hoping translation but we have not just yet. looking at my bloomberg terminal i can tell you what the prime minister is saying. there is a straight question we just heard in chinese and the answe

that was theeling, case. my first year s in high school when i read -- that was written more than a hundred years ago. now, a hundred years after that, descriptions ahead. 10,000 meat packing workers have infected by covid-19. workersrts of some line are reluctant to cover their ouths when coughing because they are afraid that missing ary action for attacks. all meat packing plants are bad actors. think bad actors should be accountable. in missouri, a lawsuit was packing plant a and within weeks of bringing the suit they basically unsafeledged, yes, it was and we're going to make some changes. mr. perron, why important s an instrument to compel bad actors to change their behavior? thank you, senator. absence of in the enforceable regulations, when the workers don't have an go through the egulatory process, that is the only way that they can, in fact, taking place 's inside a facility. you immunize the bad actors, there is not that much for them to do the things they should do. i know we have a certain amount

care workers and small businesses, trial lawyers are looking for ways to line their pockets pursuing theel people we are bending over backwards to help. there it is a recent "washington post" column put it fear of covid-19 is not some mere republican reflex. the "washington post" column, fear of covid-19 lawsuit is not some mere republican reflex. it lists all sorts of lawsuits that are already yen. this kind of hostile climate will create yet another major headwind we cannot afford. republicans insisting on strong legal protections on the frontlines. we won't let our historic recovery efforts be diverted so that taxpayers foot the bill for the texas trial lawyer in our country. madam president our discussions in the weeks ahead did not need to be partisan or contentious. there is nothing partisan about the coronavirus and there's nothing partisan about the inspiring examples being set at citizens all across our country. in my own state of kentucky we are proud of their father-daughter duo. they both came down with the virus. they both beat it and turned right around and started working to