i'm kate ferguson welcome to the show. 4 of america's biggest names in tech have appeared before congress to defend themselves against charges that they have become too powerful and are stifling competition appearing via video link at the antitrust committee hearings where space folks mark zuckerberg google some das pichai apple's tim cook and amazons just days off members of congress grilled them on market dominance accusing the bosses of violating and t. trust loyal. fans for more let's go to our business correspondent yan squat in new york can see how did this hearing come abayas. well i mean those companies in that picture and chip big are dominating their market places send people because asians are long in the making to investigation started to be more than a year ago and now with the pandemic those digital controller it's even got to be bigger so the question is if they're misusing bear market power if they're hindering their competition and was that if there is a blocking and innovation segment here in the united states. and how have the c.e.o.'s been defending themselves against

the next time we have vote in this congress or future congresses, think it through. i do thank you both for that indulgence. moving on to the bill, i need to thank my ranking member. his continued commitment to being collegial, transparent, and bipartisan. i cannot overrate the value of his friendship and the partnership that we have. i also want to express my gratitude to the chairwoman and ranking member, we would not be here without their leadership and help. miss granger chaired the subcommittee in the last congress. this will be anita's last, i cannot thank you enough for a dedicated life of service, leaving this world a little better. i really respect you. i also want to thank every member of our subcommittee. it is a joy to work with you regardless of where you sit in that room. i want to thank the subcommittee staff, particularly our clerks as well as the associate staff for their hard work. i also want to recognize the 2020 military fellows for their contributions. having to assemble the bulk of the bill, it increase the degree of difficulty substantially as

because it was an act of congress that created the earmark, it creates -- requires an act of congress to take it back because of the process and how it works, even if money is not used and sits around, it does not expire. congress has to literally take it back so former senators tom moneysused to take back that had never been used, but since it stays in the state pot, they do not like the idea of sending it back. they would like to get it redirected. it is a little tricky to get it back except when some locals have decided, we will write a check and send it back. from ironstone, ohio, on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. the only thing that comes to my mind is both parties are guilty of working with earmarks. they have been doing it for decades. the only thing that really crosses my mind here recently is totally sensed that the fed put $2 trillion into the stock market to make sure it would not belly up, and once again it is a question of accountability, and nobody is raising hell. i do not understand. i work and i pay my taxes and i vote, and that is my c

number one, members of congress can go into congress without wearing masks. they're not tested. ali, this is absolute insanity. they fly in from all over the country, they meet constituents and shake hands without masks back home and come into the capitol where we're all working. i go there every day. i have two children and a wife and family and i have to go there every day to report, and i wear a mask. but there are people there who don't wear masks like mr. gohmert who i've seen not wearing a mask. there's no testing capability. and within each office each member of congress can write their own rules. again, we're supposed to be nonpartisan in this role and i take pride in that both on msnbc and in politico. but this is insanity, and it flies in the face of all public health guidance that we've gotten over the last five months. >> so let me just ask you about the rules at congress. you said in every office they make their own rules, but there's somebody there, right, that deals with certain things. we certainly learned this in the case of sexual harassment and stuff. is there

congress. there -- it is worse than it looks, how the american constitutional system collided with extremism and relevant for tonight, the broken branch, how congress is failing america and how to get back on track. he is a friend of the center and appears frequently on our programs. it is wonderful to have you back. norman: always a pleasure. jeffrey: let us jump right into the history of the violence that consumed the nation in general and congress in particular in the years leading up to the civil war. joanne, we will begin with you because your book, "field of blood," describes it vividly and the statistics are striking. you write that there were more than 70 violent incidents between congressmen in the house and senate chambers or in a nearby streets or dueling grounds. there were 109 riots nationwide. is it true that there was more congress and in the nation in general than now? why was it and give us a sense of how violent congress was. joanne: sure. first,er your question this is an obv

where does that leave congress? where does that leave the house, not just in terms of how they otherwise might have approached this, but in terms of what they do now? i have just the person to ask. joining us now is daniel goldman. you will recognize him from his stint at general counsel at the house kecommittee during the impeachment of president trump. thanks for making time to night. >> thanks for having me. >> so i've spent a long time today thinking about and talking to people about what happened with the new york prosecutors case, that the supreme court ruled on today. i have less of an understanding in terms of what the implications are of the case involving congress. what do you think of the court's ruling, and what do you think people should know about it? >> well, it's interesting. the court and chief justice roberts adopted neither of the parties' proposed test. trump wanted a very specific, demanding test for congress to meet before asking for any presidential papers. and congress basically said as long

oversight on behalf of the american people as it asked for further information from congress congress's constitutional responsibility to uncover the truth the ship a clique related to the president russia connection that he is hiding the congress will continue to conduct oversight for the people polled in the separation of powers that is the genius of our constitution there was nancy pelosi speaking there earlier today for more on today's rulings i'm joined tonight by scott anderson scott who served as a legal adviser at the u.s. state department he's now with the brookings institution and teaches law at georgetown university law school scott is in washington d.c. tonight welcome to the days god it's good to have you with as the court today said that the president is not above the wall 'd when we're talking about the justice system and gathering evidence what does this ruling these 2 rules what do they say about the american justice system and what do they tell us about the current u.s. president. well they certainly serve as noted victories although in some ways limited victories for t

force the president to hand over his tax returns a clear ruling for limits on the power of congress but in the 2nd case the judges ruled that federal prosecutors in new york may indeed ask to see the president's tax returns as part of an investigation now this means the public could eventually see trump's tax returns as well but it will not happen before the november presidential election trump one more time today but the final verdict in the court of public opinion that verdict is still out donald trump is often compared himself to former u.s. president richard nixon and that comparison will forever be strengthened by one of today's court rulings just as the court ruled that president nixon could be compelled to hand over those hidden tapes inside the oval office the court today ruled that trunk must if subpoenaed hand over those tax returns the courts chief justice a conservative noted the public has a right to every man's evidence since the earliest days of the republic every man has included the president of the united states here is what president trump said today about the rul

garrett, how many members of congress -- do we know how many members of congress are actually there? or will be there? >> reporter: we should have a few dozen members. the congressional black caucus and close friends of the congressman will be in the rotunda as this begins in earnest throughout the course of the day. any other members who want to come in and pay their respects privately will get an opportunity to do so after. forgive the motorcycle noise, the motorcade is starting to leave the front of the east steps. but the black caucus members have priority access, if you will. they are specially invited for this purpose. i think also important to note that congressman clyburn, the whip whose friendship wit lewis either of their service in washington going back several decades will give the benediction at the close of the formal proceedings inside the rotunda. only after the family has departed will other members of congress be back. the senate arriving later this in and pay their respects in the rotunda before the congressman's body is moved back out to the east front steps for t

about the case involving subpoenas from congress. and we will talk about it in detail later on in the hour. but in the other case, in the case involving that one big lengthy detailed subpoena from new york state prosecutors, i think that one, it isn't so clear as to when that one may resolve and when it may bear fruit if investigators find things that are incriminating that result in them wanting to bring criminal charges. what the court said, that there's no magic presidential immunity from the legal process, as richard nixon had to hand over the tapes. even though he was president and bill clinton had to give his deposition, donald trump cannot proclaim that evidence of his criminality is off limits from the legal process because he is president. he can be investigated. he is subject to a subpoena, like any of the rest of us. >>> and yes, in the case of the state prosecutors subpoena for his had, the president's financial records in new york, yes, the supreme court did kick it back down to the lower courts in new york. >>> but, the

and with the supply chain congress of congress and who thought that would be a sexy topic. [laughter] >> with that, congresswoman yield back. >> so the gentle lady yields back and we will hear from maryland have any questions? >> i do. and hope everyone can hear me, thank you for returning back to me, madam chair. i just have a couple which to me are significant and maybe even poignant. it was my pleasure to serve on this committee for ten years during my first dent in congress before i decided i would voluntarily leave and go to something else in life. one of the things it's interesting about that is much has changed that much still remains the same respect to the topical areas we are dealing with, madam chair. again, as i said earlier this notion of lasting solutions is a key phrase because the question becomes what happens to the small businesses of america? lasting solutions are going to require ingenuity and creativity. but also access to capital. that was the major driving force to hearings like this in 1989 and throughout the '90s, madam chair, it is still a driving

chris: congress sometimes moves slower than events happen in real life. how have you been able to, as you say, move product to the floor? representative doyle: we would like to do things through regular order. we talked about this a lot when house democrats took effect the majority of the house,, and to the extent the situation allows it, that is how we like to do business, have hearings in a committee, that is subcommittee, than the floor, especially when we are trying to get work done before the august recess. we still have a number of appropriations bills we have to get to the floor in these last weeks of july. we have the heroes act that is still waiting for mitch mcconnell to open his mouth and say something, whether he wants to sit down and negotiate. we have received proposals from mr. waldon and senator wicker on covid, but we don't see numbers, because apparently in the senate and the administration, they are not ready to talk money. my hope is that during this recess, when we are still doing things virtually, and markups, our committee is schedu

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it's not good news for president shops of course has reaffirmed the congress's authority to conduct oversight on behalf of the american people. the u.s. supreme court has said president obama trump asked to turn over his tax and other financial records to a new york prosecutor but not yet to congress. well again i'm going all santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera we've been showing the ruined remains of what is described as a secret prison in libya where opponents of the war khalifa haftar were tortured. as anger and frustration builds in sudan the prime minister has asked the government to resign and with their sacred month fuji off limits we will meet the japanese religious order that's made him a replica so they can keep watch. so the developing news out of the united states this is they those supreme court rulings on president donald trump's financial records things that he has fought hard to keep private however the judges have decided his tax returns can be made available at least to new york prosecutors but not yet to congress a manhattan district attorney wants

congress. his books include "one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, desperate, and not yet departed." and there are other titles, the next one, we did at the constitution center. it depressed us even before we begin the program. "it is even worse than it looks, how the american constitutional system collided with extremism," and, relevant for tonight, "the broken branch, how congress is failing america and how to get back on track." he is a friend of the center and appears frequently on our programs. it is wonderful to have you back. norman: always a pleasure. jeffrey: let us jump right into the history of the violence that consumed the nation in general and congress in particular in the years leading up to the civil war. joanne, we will begin with you because your book, "field of blood," describes it vividly and this did -- the statistics you talk about are so striking. you write that there were more than 70 violent incidents between congressmen in the house and senate chambers or

a righteous voice in congress and he became literally that conscious of congress the moral compass of congress he had a true north when it came to righteousness and it was just an amazing thing to sit there and think of how he was able to make his way from the farmlands to the congress of the united states of america and to have the impact that he did on peace peaceful protest and on human rights and civil rights it was it was quite moving somewhat painful but by the same token. he understandable many people say that his approach of fighting in the nonviolence way is not the right response anymore but you say to that. well that has been a mater of for many people for many many years this is not something new when i was led we heard that this is well and before that it was said but i think that. gandhi gave us a great message about nonviolence and peaceful protest dr king took that message and he shared it with john lewis and john lewis took it to heart he literally became the sermon. that he preached he became the supreme superb example of what nonviolence and peaceful protest is all

exact same way he approaches congress. trump also built dozens of contractors out of millions of dollars in taj mahal and refused to pay $1.2 million for the paving stones. $2 million in losses. the contractor who supplied the marble from italy ended up filing for personal bankruptcy. the contractor putting in the bathroom partitions had to lay off his brother. as the president's niece says, donald trump is a sociopath. here's the thing. i watched the supreme court ruling today. it is remarkable how successful donald trump has been at bullying his way to this point. i mean, he successfully bullied the leftest mexican president into enforcing trump's own inhuman draconian border measures. he bullied senators whose wives and fathers he personally attacked. he bullied congress who ultima e ultimately did not present as strong a case in getting his tax record as they could have. he bullied robert mueller, refusing to give an in person interview, drawing the process out until mueller gave up. here is how mueller himself explain

but i'm not going to do it while i'm under the court has reaffirmed the congress' authority to conduct oversight on behalf of the american people. also coming up tonight dying elam's nearly all of madagascar as iconic lemur species face the threat of extinction. forestation and hunting of the night. for the bush may something that you know he's always going to mean bad news for these animals out there in the wild. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the rule of law that even a u.s. president has to respect today the u.s. supreme court. handed down 2 rulings in cases connected with u.s. president trumps tax returns in one ruling the judges said congress had overreached in how we tried to force the president to hand over his tax returns a clear ruling for limits on the power of congress but in the 2nd case the judges ruled that federal prosecutors in new york may indeed ask to see the president's tax returns as part of an investigation now this means the public could eventually see trump's tax returns as well but it wil

david are in the congress now. and you know the saying, if you're not at the table, you are probably on the menu. and so we're happy to have them and now to have this historic caring. i think we were talking before this that this may be the first real comprehensive hearing that we've had about tribal communities. so i hope it's the first of many and let's work together on women's reproductive health. with that i yield back. thank you so much. >> thank you, jan. and now we get to ms. rodgers for five minutes. >> good morning. good morning, mr. chairman and thank you everyone on the panel for joining us today on this important topic. i have had on her of representing several tribes in eastern washington including the caldwell, and the spokane. like many other tribal communities in the country they had been hit hard especially during this public health crisis, the coronavirus, and the issues that event brought to the forefront. the digital divide is especially highlighted in rural communities, in the tribal communitie

in doing so, it empowers and encourages the congress to follow its constitutional duty and debate the use of military force. president trump has stretched the aumf to its limits without coming to the congress, coming -- conducting worldwide war. just a few years ago for american soldiers died and when the news broke, it was the first time many mentors of congress or members of the public realized america was at a war in northern africa. the justification, the 2001 aumf . 2018ding to the congressional research service report, the 2001 aumf has become a blank check for war. the united states has deployed troops to syria, afghanistan,

that the complete investigative files are turned over to congress so that congress can determine whether this is yet another act of obstruction of justice. so there are remedies. but it's hard to see what remedy we can use now, beyond the ultimate remedy in november when we get to vote these bums out of office. >> let me just ask you about what we started with this hour. and you mentioned it a moment ago. the continuing and, apparently, sort of systematically designed actions of william barr, to undermine or, in fact, end, the independence of important federal prosecutors' offices around the country. to directly intervene and take over criminal investigations and criminal prosecutions involving people and interests related to the president. and, in fact, to command that there be criminal investigations of the president's political enemies, including people who had the tumerity to investigate potential interference in trying to get him elected. i know the judiciary committee, for example, has had a heck of a time of getting william barr to come sit down in a chair in congress and answer q

look, we have more women in congress now than who have ever served in congress. our hope is that number continues to grow and that it is the norm to see a woman in congress, in the house, in the senate come in governor's seats. and hopefully as president sometime in the near future. you know, lucinda, i don't know if you have any other thoughts. lucinda: yeah. rep. bustos: the state of iowa for quite a while has had quotas on, like, state boards, those sorts of things, which i'm intrigued by that idea, but i don't know why the electoral process -- i don't know if i see that working in our country. lucinda: i mean, i would love to have the house, the senate, and the white house so we can debate things like that. if we win all three chambers, you know, i think that would be a really cool thing to get pass ed. but we are making strides, right? you have the nevada legislature that has a majority of women. i think we have a long way to go. majority are democrats in congress, but i think we have to and fighting the fights hopefully get to the point where we can have th

you know, they say, bill, congress is incentivizing people to stay home. they make more on unemployment than i can pay them. and this unemployment extension is temporary. how do we get these people back to work? so, i think that's another one where senator mcconnell and republicans in the senate and the house believe that whatever we do, that unemployment extension has got to be tailored back. it has got to incentivize people to go back to work, not incentivize people not to work. as far as another stimulus to individuals, i think the secretary of treasury has indicated that there might be another round. i think the white house has indicated that they may support that. how much, i don't know. but clearly americans are still suffering from the results of this pandemic and being shut down. we've seen millions of jobs created. but the best thing we can do is get americans back to work. but anything that we do in the future package has got to be targeted. we don't have a limitless, bottomless pot of money. that's not the way it works. >> this is representative

i worked with him in congress and signed . there is something called the powell amendment which was attached to everything. the related to puerto rico and also to education. ethics teardown, the force we should be give to in response is probably a lesson will serve today because it was retribution by a racist congress. and punish him because they were getting static back home. and he said, you'll do it. you won't look at yourselves. so i am your mirror. it was true. it was absolutely true. he was among the most elegant awful important people in congress. for withstanding himself. but on the other hand, running around naked on the second floor crocuses, by 6:00 o'clock nobody says anything sort of gives the relatively of the theory of congress even today. but his reach and what you read was really important because the fact is that her kids just understand. the falling away from our government. in congress. there are no heroes. so he is a hero in a remarkable way. as it was time for nobody was doing anything. there was the king

if congress wants to put back in the conflict rules, we are more than happy to work with congress. we will participate on the same basis of the house and the senate. mr. chabot: secretary mnuchin, one of the things that you all were operating under impossible time constraints. i was at the signing ceremony on friday, next week at the loans were literally going out the door, although not that many. you all got your act together pretty quickly and saved a lot of businesses all around the country. god bless you for that. this committee was involved and many others as well. one of the things that was frustrating, i heard this from vendors and small business folks and from our staff was the time it took to get the guidance out, so people knew what the rules were. do you have any thoughts for the future as to what we might be able to do? sec. mnuchin: let me say, in one of the more ridiculous statements i have ever made, i committed that we get the program up in two weeks. working with the sba staff, we were able to do that. obviously, it ran into a lot of issues, but we made the judgmen

eleanor holmes norton, nonvoting member of congress will put through a bill to build the stadium on the old site where rfk stands currently but they have to change the team name. the path back to washington, d.c., redskins, the team, it will go through the halls of congress. connell. connell: interesting story. even if they don't come back to the district, seems like the name is on its way out. chad pergram on capitol hill. jackie. jackie: racing against the clock. since april third the paycheck protection program gotten more than $521 billion in low interest loans out to more than 4.8 million businesses in america but a lot of companies spent the money before congress relaxed the rules and are now struggling as the pandemic persists. what are those businesses doing at this point? we've got the cfo of one, neil abramson much eci stores, joins us now. neil, i guess the logical place to start here, what kind of predictment did you find yourself in in march when this

congress needs to re-authorize he a.m.l. trust fund to ensure abandoned mine land sites are reclaimed, our environment is protected and our communities are safe. thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield back the balance of my time. -i pursuant to 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess u

of congress as we did in march. this would be a lot worse if we hadn't hadraem repairs to the safety net in march, o but w sothose repairs are worn f, and w arelleeing people hrough the cracks. lewis: katty, what happens next it this legislation i renewed, where do we go from there? katty: it doesn't look like congress he is anywhe close to legislation. you have th head of the american federal reserve this week saying congress has to do ,somethin because people are about to run out of money in their pockets. one of thelaeys that sq package that was agreed back in marc that -- tha rescu package that was agreed to back in march that americans got an extra $1600 in their pockets. that runs out. next week, they are not getting s $1600, and that meey are not going to be able to pay mortgages, rent, bills, services, you are going to r into tough times paying for food eerie data -- paying for food. dithat has a cas effect on the economy. it looks like things are going a to get wor certainly there is going to be a lot more

that is it within the domain of the congress itself. and we've got to look at some of the other smaller things like overly burdensome bonding requirements, the little things that create and push businesses sometimes to the edge. so, i'm looking forward, madam chair, actually to this discussion continuing and going on. and i appreciate your leadership and the leadership of the ranking member on this. it's something that has fascinated me for a long time. now after having watched this unfold for the last 31, 32 years since i first took an oath of office, it's perplexing how this issue is not only vexing, but it is repeating itself over and over and over again. so, there is a lot of work to do in this area. this motion about making sure that we're making sure we're taking care of urban versus rural businesses is important also. i always say urban and rural and whether we're talking about minority owned or women owned businesses, there are a lot of niches here that we have the ability here under the leadership and in this committee to cull

congress congress is appropriatr $2.5 trillion in response. at what point do we start focusing on long-term recovery as opposed to responding to immediate needs that are happening in the here and now? >> guest: that's hard to say. i had originally thought when the crisis began that around the end of the summer we would need to make a strong tilt towards long-term growth. we had sort of a three-part approach to this during the immediate crisis we needed to write liquidity for businesses, for households so they could keep the rent payments if they could, key people in payroll. if there are able to. and then once they key phase that sometime around august we would start on our growth projected. what's called because that is everybody probably knows is that there seems to be a second wave in cases if we don't know what the response to that is going to become whether or not there's going to be a second wave of lockdowns. that happens, we may need to do more on the liquidity in other response again he comes while we can put in a lot of measures to e

but i was not in congress at the time. but when i saw the members of congress taking to the floor and holding a sit-in, i was not surprised that the person leading the way was representative john lewis. to him, the victims were a part of the big family john lewis often spoke about. thank you, john, for never discriminating. thank you, john, for never leaving people behind. the bible defines the fruit of he spirit as love, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. john lewis was all of that. to the house, to the nation, and to the world. and i am grateful for his friendship and his counsel and grateful for a life well lived. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. mr. bishop. mr. bishop: at this time i'm delighted to yield to the gentlelady from georgia, representative lucy mcbath. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from the state of georgia, congresswoman lucy mcbath, is recognized. rs. mcbath: thank

we have a delegation from congress to the agency which is common and sometimes congress delegates narrowly with narrow language and sometimes it delegates broadly. and the rule of thumb of always thought is courts should construe narrow language narrowly and broad language broadly. this seems to be broad language as justice thomas noted and when you have that kind of broad language you are going to get different executive branches who will exercise their discretion within that broad language and balance the interest differently. and then the question is what's the judicial role. it seems to be the judicial role is not to put women's on the agency discretion that congress is not put there. and then we are left as justice breyer said and i want to get your reaction to this with the arbitrary and capricious test at the end of the day meant making exercising its discretion in balancing those interests the agency didn't go outside of the limits of reasonable which is very deferential test, --. why isn't that the way to look at the case if we get down to the bottom line of is this reasonable, ma

he won't have them arising, i think, from his direct testimony to congress. but, you know, what we can do, i think, when this president is gone is we can enact a whole series of what i'm calling our post-watergate reforms where we try to attack these abuses of the pardon power or the power to commute sentence. i introduced a bill, for example, that would require in a case like this where the president is a witness, subject, or target of an investigation and takes action to pardon or commute someone, that the complete investigative files are turned over to congress so that congress can determine whether this is yet another act of obstruction of justice. so there are remedies, but it's hard to see what remedy we can use now beyond the ultimate remedy in november when we get to vote these bums out of office. >> let me just ask you about what we started with this hour, and you mentioned it a moment ago. the continuing and apparently sort of systematically designed actions of william barr to undermine or in fact end the independence of important federal prosecutor

it contains the information you need to stay in touch with members of congress and state governors. order your copy today at c-spanstore.org. >> michigan representative fred upton spoke about the next coronavirus relief package congress was considering during the hills virtual health care summit. congressften than not, is called upon to use its policymaking powers to solve problems, but the premier policymaking body in the country is not designed to move fast. that is to say the least. there are processes to follow and hurdles to overcome. the pandemic galvanized congress into making quick decisions in the early weeks, but now action is needed to ensure the health care system is working for patients today and after the crisis has passed. representative fred upton knows a thing or two about the power of policy and bringing about far-reaching change. fred, good friend, thank you very much for joining us again. we have had many discussions about this. is me start and ask you, how your community doing right now? as i was discussing with dr. fauci, a lot of mixed signals out there. you h

congress made changes to the s.b.a. traditional loan program including increasing the guarantees and fee. as congress weighs long-term recovery with proposals for small businesses, would you recommend similar changes to s.b.a. loan programs to provide access to affordable capital for small businesses? >> yes, i think the p.p.p. program was very help nfl getting capital out to small businesses. s.b.a. could be modified. my colleague, dr. yellen, talked about the fed and the treasury lending to cdfi's, that could be particularly relevant to minority community, for example. so i think there are ways to support small business. many people, many small businesses are run by, on the income of the individual who owns them so, you know, using family resources and credit cards and the like. so supporting the unemployed or supporting people broadly would also be helpful. i think there is an issue at some point in the future, we're going to have to -- this economy may change in very important ways. we have to allow that at some poi

on the congress, congress could make all candidates disclose their tax returns, not just presidential candidates, but members of congress before their name is assigned to the ballot. individual states can also do that. they can say, we'd love to put your name on the ballot, mr. president, as long as you disclosure tax returns. we'll be happy to do that. some states have attempted to do that. that will be adjudicated in the courts, also. i think the american public should demand it. we should know what our president's financial interests are in that the simple reason is when he's making policy decisions, is he making policy decisions vis-a-vis russia because of financial considerations of investments his company has? or is he making them on behalf of the american people? with this president, we just don't know. >> rick tyler. we should point out for our viewers that, no, that is not a green screen. that is actually rick tyler's back yard, and it is beautiful on this thursday -- >> i would lose the room. i go for the outdoor contest. >> room rater, yes, yes. >> i'm going to fail the roo

congress does that. congress adopts the kansas-nebraska act. so the assumption from the northwest ordinance all the way up to the kansas-#act is that the united states congress is vested with the authority to make determinations about the status of slavery in the territories. i mean, no matter what decision it makes the northwest ordinance was no slavery, kansas-#it's, well, slavery if you can get a popular majority. but it's congress that's passing the legislation. it's cross which has the authority to oversee. that's about to change. boy, is that about to change. and it changes because of this gentleman here. the chief justice of the united states of america roger brooke taney, appointed to the supreme court by andrew jackson. he had been a faithful, a secretary of the treasury. in fact, when jackson made his war upon the bank of the united states the hatchet man so to speak with roger brooke taney. jackson appoints taney to the supreme court to succeed the famous john marshall. for more than 20 years taney had been chief justice of the unite

tour of then our landscape of the very first months of the first congress, the first full congress to meet in washington, and how different aspects of society, science, social life, the way you memorized and memorialized people, how it is all politicized during this day when the federalists are still hanging on, although the jeffersonians have created the first major regime change in national history. that is the end of the talk. hopefully there are some questions i can answer from people. >> we have a number of questions, chuck. and we have one piece of good news for the viewers, which is that there is an exhibition tour with the curator that you can see online the mastodon. it is called art, nature, and culture. through be reached those smithsonian website. tohink we can find out a way and the link so you can go see what is going on at the smithsonian while they are under the work from home order like the rest of us. chuck: it is a wonderful tour she gives, by the way. >> a couple people indicated they know about it and it is a fabulous tour. it is now available online. but here is

i think it's a sign of congress that people rarely get to see -- a side of congress that people rarely get to see and i think all of us would be better off if we were able to do this more. when i hear the name john lewis, obviously this is one of the great american heroes in history. but that's not the first thing i think of. when he comes to mind, the first thing i think of was just what a kind and quiet and humble and gentle man he was. always so nice to me from my very first day as a freshman when i heard a voice behind me say, young man is this seat taken, and i looked to the side of me and it was john lewis and i couldn't even speak. he was just always that person. to everyone. and to me that is a great lesson that should inspire us all to be better people. i also believe as a matter of faith that i don't think it was an accident or a coincidence that the lord called him home at this time during this summer of crisis in our nation. america has not quite become. we are constantly in the act of becoming. america is a nation born not of a race or a tribe but out of ideas, a commitmen

congress congresses constitutional accessibility, ask and the rush of connection he is hiding. congress will continue to conduct oversight for the people, upholding the separation of powers that is the genius of our constitution, we will continue to press our case into the lower courts. that's what happened this morning. earlier this morning, for the 16th week in a row, over 1 million americans applied for unemployment insurance. >> sandra: bringing dana perino back in here, the president is not about the law and we will continue to take our case up into the lower courts. >> that's what she is going to say and i think you can tell that they don't think this is that big of a deal for them because she hit it and quit it and then she was back onto the big issues of the day, the pandemic on the economy and trying to say that the president is not doing enough for people who have lost their jobs. so again from an election standpoint i think the democrats realized they did not get a home run at the supreme court this morning and they might be able to get their tax returns but it will

more that more than half the members of congress made it back to d.c. to vote on the care exactly is it safe for them to travel to vote in person. well i mean obviously the safest thing for them to do is insert themselves into bubbles and never leave their homes again that's what we all should be doing apparently but being the essential workers in an international pandemic that they are it is possible for members of the house to travel safely to d.c. although it's not convenient but the fact is that 433 out of the 435 voting members of the house all except the 2 representing hawaii are connected to washington d.c. via the u.s. and canada a system of road they have the option to drive to d.c. see you know we're all safely taking many road trips lately and they can stay in hotels with keyless entry is on the way there then when they get to d.c. they can stay in d.c. during the emergency which they can afford by using the minimum wage of 170 $4000.00 a year that we pay them to rent small apartments and many of them do that and anyway and then while living

congress is essential. [indiscernible] does it concern every time you guys leave you may be bringing the virus and may be transmitted when you go home? mr. mccarthy: you should have the same practice at home as here. and each state is different and each area is different. what is concerning to me, every time we seem to be able to work on a bill that nancy pelosi is able to delay it. there is one common denominator. even when schumer said the bill was done, we came back on a meeting for nancy for her to hold it up a week longer. nancy had some effect on that as well. this is unfortunate. this is an opportunity to do something different and put people before politics and i hope we think of the health. i hope we have a very clear plan and i hope we have learned enough from this that now we can accept the testing. 50 million tests done across america but not inside this building. it's almost that they don't want to work. and the idea from where this virus all came from to defend chivene to say they don't have a

let me say the people in congress are working primarily for the good of the republic what does a win look like today? what does this committee need to accomplish to move the ball forward on getting laws more aligned with where business is and needs to be? >> well, a couple of things. one is they're trying to generate political momentum. so if you are a congressman who wants more regulation today, the win for you is to have some smoking gun email that you've unearthed during the course of this investigation that you can either embarrass or one of these ceos with or use to make a point, hammer home that these ceos are being abusive in their practices and get the ceos on the defensive. what a lot of these members are going to be chasing for, john, is that viral moment that really influences the national debate and gets the consensus in the country to shift to the idea of, you know, we need to regulate these tech giants. they're too scary, right so that kind of moment, finding the incentive for that moment will be key for them for the ceos it's the opposite, right? they want to go in the

diverses with the composition of the 116th congress. committee recognizes the significance of the centennial and the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution, and it encourages the library of congress to continue to raise awareness of this anniversary through exhibits. want to thank the committee for increasing, the recommendation for increasing female representation through who will curator, create a list of 10 notable historic female figures not on display as a capital statute and also to look at 10 former and current members of congress who have set trailblazing records. congress and our memorials and statues should reflect the diversity of this country and the diversity of women who served this country. thank you. chairman lowey: seeing no other member wishing to make remarks, to recognize mr. ryan. representative ryan: i rise to offer a manager's amendment. this amendment has been agreed to on both sides. it has four report language items. the first addresses intern diversity. it directs the cao to start tracking demograph

congress appropriated over $2.5 trillion in response. at what point do we start focusing on long-term recovery as opposed to responding to immediate needs that are happening in the here and now? guest: that is hard to say. i originally thought when the crisis began that around the end of the summer, we would need to make a strong tilt towards long-term growth. so we would have sort of a three-part approach to this during the immediate crisis, providing liquidity for businesses, households so they could keep their rent payments, they could, businesses could keep people on payroll. passed, acute phase had sometime around august, we would start on our growth trajectory. what has complicated that is everybody probably knows that there seems to be a second wave in cases. we don't know what the response to that is going to be, whether there is going to be a second wave of lockdowns that happens. we may need to do more on the liquidity end of the response, because while we can put in a lot of measures to encourage growth, if we have new lockdow

and then congress will enforce this. that means is going to be an ongoing process pretty just doesn't end with gratification. congress and the power to make sure these principles are actually enforced. the most famous supreme court decision of the 20th century, brown versus board of education, outline state-mandated racial segregation in public schools. with the living constitution decision. the eight justices basically said that we don't even know but the people at the time thought about school segregation. that was not a big issue. but we do know that education plays a are bigger role today than it did a hundred years ago. so we have got to deal with what it means to racially segregate people today, not what it meant in 1866. as your concept of a living constitution. certainly, many of the key 14th amendment decisions of our time have been living constitutions. gay marriage. the people 1866 were not thinking like a mate married so you can be sure of that. nonetheless the supreme court has use the 14th amendment equal p

he's also been called the conscience of congress. steve harrigan live in the city that congressman lewis represented for so many years and a look back at his legacy. hi, steve. >> leland the president ordered all flags lowered from half staff. this was on twitter, representative john lewis was icon of the civil rights movement and will never be forgotten. we hold his family in our prayers and remember his contribution to our country. lewis died friday at 80 after a tough fight with pancreatic cancer. he spent over 30 years in congress, but known as a civil rights icon. his parents were share croppers, inspired at an early age by reverend martin luther king and wrote to eventually studying at a seminary in nashville. he began taking part at sit-ins in lunch counters, in 1961 one of the first freedom riders, trying to integrate buses throughout the south. 1963, the youngest speaker at dr. king's march on washington. he's best known for bloody sunday. selma, alabama for voting votes, while crossing the bridge they were attacked by polic

because they can't pay the rent yet congress can't agree on a way forward while democrats and republicans wrestle with how best to keep america afloat during the pandemic a 1000000 new members join the ranks of the country's unemployed each week. but can the fed really help at the height of the pandemic the central bank slashed short term interest rates to near 0. and tried to encourage borrowing with a 2 trillion dollar bond buying scheme. a strong medicine but not yet the panacea washington needs. and as infection rates continue to spike in states like florida texas and arizona the u.s. economy isn't on the path to a speedy recovery. more than $3600.00 companies have filed for bankruptcy this year alone and observers warn more are on the way or actually if the fed and the u.s. government fail to turn the country's economic health around that's just a fact it's let's speak night to joel track and he's the chief u.s. economist at i.h.s. market welcome along mr pracon what's your reaction to what we heard today from the fed the fed's announcement following the conclusion of today's meeting