the united states postal service warns it will run out of money unless congress delivers a $75 billion bailout. the postal service is normally apolitical, but now finds itself the target of president trump, who s joke, and demanded it quadruple it's package rates before he'd authorize any emergencai how did one of the most popular government agencies find itself in a cash crisis? we asked our special contributor, joie chen, to look into the post office's past and what may be in store for its future. >> you can go a long way on $.55 to just about the furthest corner of the u.s., bethel, alaska. it is not an island, but you cannot get there by road, because there is not one. no roads lead to bethel. so if you want anything delivered, it is usually going to be by plane. in this part of america, even if $.55 first-class letter is a lifeline. >> i don't think that most people know, what it's like out here. member of the native yupik community. internet service here is not a given. amazon trucks do not deliver. but this is america too, and fredericks says it needs the connections only the po

right this is his fault well yes and you're absolutely right that this person who has the united states postal service is a trump the point but i don't think anyone's going to blame the head of the u.s. service if they're having to deal with. again a massive mouth and i'm president not a mail in ballots at a time of the pandemic where their own labor resources are stretched and and again my point here is that no one with a new system right out the box gets everything right and i really worry most for this country in terms of what would happen in a close election i was there with katherine harris back in the 2000 recount in florida the one thing we couldn't control the one thing that just never quite added up for a lot of americans was the fact that in florida that year it was darn close and our election systems in america yet aren't yet good enough frankly to be able to give people confidence complete confidence in a close result that is the actual and final result so in rosenberg vied that is leading in the polls by a significant amount the economy seems to be tanking in the u.s. the presiden

it is not called the united states postal business. that is done for a reason. called the united states postal service. and the new pmg comes out of business community. he needs to learn that and understand that quickly. so it is not -- this is not just business decisions, this is about universal service, a small democratic right of the people. we go everywhere, no matter who we are, where we live, from the most remote rural outposts to the urban centers and that is the way it should be. and obviously that is not a normal business model. so the idea of cost savings is just a cover that is going to lead to undermining services and delays services. the question of why, who knows. except it is fair to say that this administration has a written plan and proposal to privatize, ie, sell the public post office to corporations and we would lose the right to something that belongs to all of us and that sfrs that belongs to all of us. so our concerns are that some of what is going on could be an effort to carry out that agenda. the administration said through a postal task

what would the loss -- let's theorize the loss of the united states postal service due to the small businesses. >> given that the majority of the smb businesses we work with, 89% is the stat i'm looking at, i woulri of smbs in the united states are using the usps for parts or even the majority of their shipments. if they can't use the usps to ship those packages, they would have to -- if the usps raises their prices, they would have to pay more for their shipping. the issue we're seeing here is that other companies that are significantly larger than smbs, enterprise companies, they're able to get access to discounted shipping rates and, therefore, offer free shipping to the consumers. these days consumers are expecting free and fast shipping from any retailer that they shop from, so smbs would suffer result given that they can't meet those customer expectations. b i have less things in my is there one piece of advice you would give people who are listening to both sides of this argument, the president, who are also consumers as to what to think about this whole fight? >> i think right now espe

also need the public infrastructure of the united states. postal service they put of at least according to the postal service fed ex and u.p.s. puts about 25000000 packages a week into the postal system because it's not profitable profitable to go down a dirt road in rural america or some urban centers back to the future and internal postal service memo obtained by fortune magazine and other news media directs that listen to this over time will be eliminated if our plants run late they will keep the mail for the next day if we cannot deliver all the mail due to call offs or shortage of people and you have to have no other help the mail will not go out hillary kind of brings a tear to why just to see our pal bart again but my question is yes it's only after 6 over 6000 postal workers have tested positive for the virus so far and staffing is already short big picture is that one day deal lay in getting the mail out a real hang up for business. no it won't be holland because nowadays it's estimated that 89 percent of all bills are paid online so most

♪ it is well with my soul it is well it is well ♪ ♪ well with my soul [ applause ] >> the united states postalto change the things i can. and wisdom to know the difference. living one day at a time. accepting hardships as a pathway to peace. taken as he did the sinful world a it is. not as i would have it. trusting that he will make all things right. if i surrender to his will. i may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with him forever in the next. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until you're escorted to pay your respect by the sergeant in arms >> this is the final good-bye for congressman john lewis from so many of his colleagues in the capitol. we just watched a service honoring him for a small gathering of socially distanced lawmakers there who were invited to this ceremony. i want to bring in bakari sellers to talk about what we just witnessed. it was so touching, bakari, just to hear everything from the reverend browning jr. who said he is now on bridge from earth to glory, to mitch mcconnell saying that john lewis led the movement to redeem am

about how he's not already funded the united states postal service when we're going to have to rely heavilyn votes. i don't see any campaign strategy other than cheating that can be the product of not trying to build a base in this time. >> since you brought up mail-in votes, susan, president trump has been casting doubt on the validity of the electoral process and tweeted this. quote, absentee ballots are fine. a person has to go through a process to get and use them. mail-in voting on the other hand will lead to the most corrupt election in usa history. bad things happen with mail-in. look at special election in paterson, new jersey. 19% of ballots a fraud. unquote. >> all right. >> so two things, first of all, absentee ballots are mail-in ballots so his argument is unsound to say the least, doesn't make sense, second, colorado had a record-breaking primary last week using mail-in ballots. we spoke to secretary of state this morning, here's part of what she said. >> he has clearly told us he thinks mail ballots will allow democrats to win more elections than republicans. but that's just f

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is that the results of the presidential election are being placed on the shoulders of the united states postal and reporting by pro publica shows the mail system in this country might not be up to the task. joining me now, one of the authors of that piece. the elections reporter at pro publica. so this is a story not getting any attention, frankly. and it is a worrying one. the president keeps talking about fraud but there are real concerns about the bail of the umpbl sps to deliver mail-in ballots on time to voters and then to get them back to election headquarters. secretaries of state, election boards, in order for them to be count on time. what does your reporting show us? >> sure. we spent a couple months investigating whether or not the u.s. postal service in its current cash strapped state during a pandemic is up to the task of delivering an election that could be conducted largely by mail as states grow their systems. what we found was honestly really worrisome. the postal service in addition to being in financial dire straits is not great at hitting its long time goals. it hasn't hit

each day more than 600,000 -- ii want you to hear that number. 600,000 employees of the united states postal service has reported to work to ensure that critical medical supplies, stimulus checks and packages are delivered across the country, even as states shut down. i want to come in all of the heroic postal service employees who continue to fulfill their mission, even in the face of this global pandemic. my heart also breaks for the dozens of postal employees who have lost their life to this virus, and the more than 2000 that tested positive. this is no ordinary year for the postal service to millions of americans will receive census mailings and absentee ballots for the 2020 election. this body must ensure the united states postal service has the resources it needs to continue fulfilling its mission for the american people. i urge my colleagues to support this, and i yield back. >> mr. calvert is recognized. >> thank you, madam chairman. i seek recognition to express the importance of something that we need to have serious consideration on here in congress, and that's reserving the relia

news is reporting that recent weeks of male -- mail-in voting just this week a memo from the united states postalice to its employees detailed budget cuts that could slow down mail delivery even further. last mongt ag william barr talked about risk in mail-in voting listen to what he said. got to get your reaction. >> there's a big discussion right now about mail-in voting. hillary clinton said it is fine. it's fair. >> well absolutely opens the floodgates to fraud. those things are delivered into male boxes they can be taken out. there's questions about whether or not. even denies a secret ballot because a lot of states have you signing the outside of the envelope so person open this envelope will know how people voted. there's no right now foreign country would precinct up tens of thousands of counterfeit ballottings and be very hard for us to detect which was the right and which was the wrong ballot so i think -- it can -- it can upset and undercut the confidence in the integrity of our elections. maria: tom, i know you testified last month to house judiciary committee about this issue. your r

hice would strike the $25 billion for united states postal service. i mentioned this earlier, trump hates the postal service because he thinks that they are subsidizing amazon. actually amazon is subsidizing the post office, but, hey, we don't deal with facts downtown here very much anymore. he doesn't. and it would also strike the money that they could use to buy a new fleet of vehicles. they should keep driving around in those crappy 35-year-old vehicles which require massive amounts of maintenance and are polluting. i would also oppose that amendment even though it's not in my jurisdiction. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri. mr. graves: mr. speaker, could i inquire how much time? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri has 12 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. graves: mr. speaker, both sides. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon has 9 1/2 minutes. mr. graves: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. hice.

the united states postal service has served our nation ably for over two centuries delivering at the most cost-effective rate. letter carriers walkthrough rain, sleet, snow, dark of night to ensure the mails get delivered. that is why congress already provided $10 billion in financing to the postal service during this pandemic and tragically the trump administration continues to hold it up causing back-ups in mail across our nation. i demand the trump administration release the funds congress provided to our postal service. we must act now to ensure our people have access to medications they need, protect our small businesses, and democratic institutions and end these senseless delays. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i rise today to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, austin, texas, is known as the live music capital of the world and every year millions of people come from around the world to my district to en

so many voters need to cast their ballots by mail and the postal service, really at the direction and behest of the president of the united states, you can hear his rampant attacks on vote by mail. it's being he forced right now in the postal service and that should be, you know, like a three-alarm fire for congress, as the president and white house refused to include funding for the postal service in a run-up to the election. this is a direct way to suppress the vote as president obama described yesterday in that eulogy to john lewis. >> and, peter baker, we know, of course, no president can delay the november election. it's not legally possible. but he did become the first president to even suggest this. and to make a serious effort to delay his only election. it's pretty extraordinary. he got immediate pushback, rare pushback from both mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy and republican leaders across the country. >> yeah, exactly. remember we had elections during the civil war when lincoln was ripe for re-election and he thought he would lose and he thought it was possible to make sure soldiers in the field weren't likely voti

postal voting could be fraudulent, four months. there has been a renewed push across the united states to make it easier for people to vote by mail becausered voter without prompting. donald trump feels this could increase fraud, although there is not much evidence of that in states that have been doing mailing balloting for some time. he also said it could hurt him politically. democrats tend to vote more by mail than republicans. there is also little evidence of that. anthony, the line is very bad but i wonder if i could just ask you very briefly, this is not something that president trump can affect by himself, changing the date of the election? no, it's not. it would require an act of congress for him to change the date of the election. that date was set in the 19th century by congress and it would take democrats as well as republicans to pass a change of date. even if they did that, donald trump bus presidential term is set in the constitution. if there were not an election before there were not an election before the end of january there were not an election before the end ofjanuary 2021, donald trump would cease being president. t

postal service in the runup to an election. >> very strong words, you know, gloria, from the former president of the united states. you don't see him out there publicly attacking the president, the current president of the united states the way he just did today. >> right. i think you're going to see more of it, quite honestly, as we head into the fall election. i think that's probably one reason that president trump came out there today and so strongly talked about the rigged election, how you can't trust these mail in ballots. at the same time barack obama and everyone else is saying you have to get out there, you have to vote, they cannot suppress the vote, they cannot keep you from voting, the president is somehow saying well, if you vote, just understand this is a rigged election, which is why some republicans object to this message. let me add one thing to what john was saying. i believe this is a president who has thrown everything against the wall that he can. he tried to do a rerun of the 2016 election, tried to use cultural issues, tried to use the wedge issues in the way that he did in 2016 and his poll

postal service knowing that we might need to use absentee ballots en masse based upon his failure to prevent the coronavirus spreading throughout the united states and we have over 130,000 americans who have already died. so depending on how americans feel they can turn out to vote, some may have to vote absentee. the president is adamant that he does not want that to happen because there's a certainly level of security through voting in that means. however, we have seen in places like florida and georgia in 2018, the ways that ballots can go missing in particular districts and also how absentee ballot and affidavit ballots can be allocated in racialized ways in black neighborhoods especially. so i think this is the first time we're seeing the president on the defensive. joe biden definitely needs to motivate and mobilize democratic voters. he'll probably do that with his vice presidential pick. but he needs to also maintain a message more than donald trump has been abysmal for american democracy. he needs to continue to put forth a message as to what he will do if and when he's elected and sort of what january 21st, 2021, will look like in a bi

united states has only activated the national guard 12 times. ten of them had to do with race. only two times it did not have to do with race. one was a postal worker strike in new york and the looting that took place in st. croix after a hurricane. every other time had to do with race and so my question is, we continue, we continue dealing with the fact instead of actually dealing with because and we continue coming up with a solution of saying well if there's action here, let's throw in the police. let's throw in the military and its once again, it's because were not dealing with causes that we keep on adding a military solution and so i applaud the people who are out there, and to your point have been out there for weeks now nonstop rain, wind, curfew, no curfew flash bang and still out there saying you will hear us this time and it is not just the american thing we can do, it's not just a core principle, it is literally the first amendment. the first thing they found to be important was freedom of assembly freedom of speech, literally the first thing. the principal, the foundation, and so watching people expressing that and then adding,

regimes in the united states have been warning all of us about november 3rd and how the president would try to use this rhetoric to call into question, obviously defunding the u.s. postal service is part of. plan. the key is to stay vigilant. not just as americans but making sure our republican colleagues are giving in to the whim of the president that is unconstitutional. >> i heard something even more disturbing in the last 45 minutes or so from the president. which is the legality and the talking points lined up from mcconnell on down. that the delay is not an option. what the president was doing, starting about 5:30 eastern time is suggesting that the legitimacy of the election is at stake. he used another l word. litigation. he talked about months and then twice, to my ears, at least twice, he said this could take years, to find out who won. so as ever with trump, he's sort of a jam smeared hand. he puts so much around that it is somewhat hard to focus. the delay thing may be an entry point to an argument, largely emotional, but nevertheless immensely disruptive, to setting up a november where he is crying foul and crooked election and fake news and fake president

postal service he has sent his henchmen over to run it and i'm already getting complaints from people who are saying that they believe that the president of the united states is managing the delivery system, slowing it down, interfering with people being able to get their mail and so i believe what i'm hearing, and we should put this at the top of our agenda that we are not going to allow the president of the united states to dismantle the united states post office and undermine the possibility that absentee votes could be used in the next election he is going to try and say no matter what happens, if he does not win, he's going to say that it was a fraudulent election, that somehow this election has been undermined by the democrats. he's going to blame us for it. and so we can anticipate what he's going to do because he has defined himself. he has shown us who he is. he has shown us what he's capable of doing this man is capable of doing whatever he thinks is in his best interest, be damned the people, and so we should be putting it on top of our agenda. but it's unfortunate, while this pandemic is going on, we're trying to respond to it, we're trying to

postal service. he has sent his henchmen over to run it and already getting complaints from people who are saying that they believe the president of the united states is managing the delivery system, slowing it down, interfering with people being able to get their mail. >> we are looking at a trial run for a genuine attempt to through intimidation and potentially through force to try to steal this election. >> i think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not if he loses, he is going to go quietly or not. and we have to be ready for that. >> sean: okay. you can imagine, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany has to deal with this on a daily basis. jonathan karl, abc news tried to ask a gotcha question about the situation in portland, kayleigh mcenany was prepared. let's take a look. >> where in the constitution does the president derive the authority to send federal law enforcement officers to the streets of american cities against the will of elected officials in those cities? >> what you're referring to is portland and 40 u.s. code 1315 gives dhs the ability to deputize officers in any department or agency like as custom and border p

united states love to see voter i.d. >> attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in the to be dependent on mail-in ballots. >> but i also don't want to have to wait for three months and then finds out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. >> we can witness our federal government sending agents to use teargas and batons. >> we're telling them right now that we're coming in very soon, the national guard. a lot of people, a lot of very tough people. >> that's where real courage comes from, notice from turning on each other, but by turninging towards one another. not by sowing hatred and division, but by spreading love towards one another. not by sowing hatred and division, but by spreading love towards one another. not by sowing hatred and division, but by spreading love towards one another. not by sowing hatred and division, but by spreading love. and truth. >> many should be arrested. these are professional agitators, these are professional anarchists. these are people that hate our country. >> so there is the tale of the tape between th

postal service right now. so we need to get those ballots back and we need to turn them back to the united states right away.ister right now from votefromabroad.org. >> former ambassador to canada. bruce heymann, thank you so much for being on the show this morning. author of memoir "strengthening the canada-u.s. relationship in type times of uncertainty" and thank you very much. >>> a new york federal judge yesterday denies bail to ghislaine max wahmaxwell, accus trafficking one women nor jeffrey epstein. the request rejected for $5 million bail and house arrest in a manhattan hotel saying "it was practically impossible to set conditions to guarantee her appearance at trial. the risks are too great to release her from jail" adding that maxwell's ability to stay out of the spotlight in such a sensational high-profile case shows she has an extraordinary opportunity to evade. and from a brooklyn detention center and several of jeffrey epstein's accusers were on the line to ask she be held in jail until trial. t t the "new york post" reportedly cried when the judge announced her decision, and this revelation. m