Mercedes we were just talking about our homeschooling experiences. The kids just finished school. That was quite a test through this pandemic. Rep. Scalise families have pulled together and have had to do challenging things. With the economy shut down, you have a lot of turmoil. In the midst of all this, parents are having to homeschool their kids. We had interesting times. I relearned all those math formulas like area of a circle. It still works. We had a good time with the kids and the kids were good about it. Mercedes i think these kids are ready to go back to school. I dont know about you. Rep. Scalise we need to open school is again in the fall. Mercedes parents definitely want the schools back open, thats for sure. Lets get started. I know it has been such a busy week. This past week we have seen a split screen unfolding across america. On the one hand, thousands of Peaceful Protesters on the street. On the other hand, violent nurse, writers, and antifa hijacked the noble cause of justice for george floyd. We have even seen joe biden, who has not condemned these violent writers, some of whom have attacked even our own Police Officers. President trump will not allow Peaceful Protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob. I was with him last week. He said he was the president of law and order. Im sure he shared that with you as well. Rep. Scalise he has. He has made clear to the country we all mourn the loss of george floyd. Justice needs to be served. Nobody in Law Enforcement has the right to abuse their position of power and there needs to be accountability. At the same time, you cant have violent outbursts where people are looting and rioting and burning down cities. It cant happen and i am glad President Trump has been clear he is going to stand up for law and order. When you look at the death of that retired police captain, david dorn, that should not have happened. That murder was coldblooded and i think all of us were outraged. Its a shame you dont see more people on the left, from joe biden and nancy pelosi, standing up against the violence and rioting and looting. Thats not what we should be about. We should be about protesting and demanding justice. Mercedes i think thats absolutely right. We should all say we stand with the Peaceful Protesters as they exercise their First Amendment rights. Going down this path of violent rioting and destruction of our cities. We also saw the attempt to burn down the historic st. Johns church by the white house. Lets watch this clip. I can add just a moment ago it does appear st. Johns church is on fire. We saw graffiti when the door was open. We saw something similar earlier. There is definitely a fire here. Mercedes that is an Historic Church just across Lafayette Park from the white house. Numerous president s have sat in those pews. They have gone there in times of National Trouble and for regular sunday services. Andgenerations, president s their families have gone and sat in the pews of st. Johns. President trump went to go see st. John and what had happened, stand there for a moment. Of course, the media mocked him. The democrats went after him. Nancy pelosi decided to read a passage from the bible. Let me get your reaction to the clip and destruction we are seeing in our communities. Rep. Scalise my heart dropped when i heard the reports st. Johns church was burning. Initially they didnt know how bad it was. You think about the history of the church and what it represents to our country. To think that was burning down. In this country, they are threatening some people to be arrested if you go to church, and yet they are allowing a church to be burned down in washington, d. C. It was heartbreaking. Im sure there were miracles that happened to save the church. It opened peoples eyes to the fact that we are all in unison that george floyd should not have been murdered that day and the Minneapolis Police have real issues they have got to deal with. But at the same time, to burn a church down and to burn cities down is not the answer. Mercedes i think we want to find constructive solutions. What we are seeing instead from the left is that there solution is defunding our police. This includes some members from the house of representatives. Omar woman l han congresswoman ocasiocortez. You have seen multiple examples of cities saying, we are going to defund our police. Why is this so dangerous . Rep. Scalise you are seeing the socialist left really take over the Democratic Party and coming up with things like this. I wouldnt be alive today if it wasnt for the heroic actions of Police Officers. The Capitol Police not only saved my life, but so many others that day three years ago on the baseball field. They dont talk about those stories. If a cop does the wrong thing, and in the case of george floyd, clearly Justice Needs to be served. Everybody is in agreement on that. If you are in a community, depending on where you live, if you call 911, there is going to be nobody to answer the call. That is a chilling thought to most people in the country. Mercedes no question. You are talking about unsafe streets, unsafe community, and i would say chaos. I think joe biden is promoting this chaos. He has barely mentioned you have had police in new york city who have been violently attacked by these riders, ending up in the hospital. You see mayors like bill de blasio saying, we are going to move away from funding the police, shifting that money for social services. Vetoproofee the majority in minnesota, minneapolis, their city council saying we need to dismantle the police. It is dangerous moves by the democratic farleft representatives we are seeing across the board. Congressman, what does this say about joe biden and the democrats who are embracing the defund the police movement, which will lead to unsafe communities . Rep. Scalise this is one of those telling times. In the midst of a campaign, you are going to have issues going back and forth. The president takes positions. ,he democrat nominee, joe biden has to be clear about where he is on this. He is trying to play both sides and you cant. Donald trump has been clear he supports the ability of Law Enforcement to protect communities and hold people accountable if they cross that line. Joe biden is mysteriously silent. I guess he is stuck in his basement because they are afraid to let him out and answer this tough question. Frankly it is not tough, it is straightforward. Are you for or against Defunding Police . Joe biden and nancy pelosi are dodging this question. When you want to run for president , you cant hide from tough issues. Joe biden has to be vocal and it has to happen soon. He cant let this go on for days. Mercedes you mentioned that fateful day in june 2017 when you nearly lost your life at the republican baseball practice. We were also sad to hear you had been shot. We were all praying for your quick recovery. It was really the u. S. Capitol police, including your special agents, crystal and corey, that saved your life. It shows how important Law Enforcement is in keeping our country safe. Viewers it was a dreadful day just what you went through, how those special agents, those Police Officers save your life, and why it is so critical to give Police Officers the backing they need to do their job. Rep. Scalise this was one of those days you never hope or think would happen. A crazed gunman shows up on a ballfield. We are getting ready to play for a Charity Baseball game. He starts shooting at republicans because he wanted to kill all of us. If it was not for the heroic action david and crystal were there that day. If they were not, all of us would have been killed. He went there with the element of surprise, a lot of ammunition and capability. They were welltrained. They did their job as they were trained. Both of them were shot in the shootout and kept going at it to protect all of us and took the shooter down. Law enforcement does not every day unheralded. They dont do it for notoriety. They do it because it is a calling to protect and serve. Positiony abuses their of power, they need to be held accountable. Nobody is disputing that. You also need to recognize the heroic action that is taken every day that often goes unnoticed. On that day, i saw it firsthand. I would not be here and a lot of other members of congress would not be here if not for the heroic actions of those Police Officers, david and crystal. Mercedes we do have those officers with infractions. They should not be on the front line and should not be out in the communities. The bad cops, no room for them, no tolerance for that. , because you have this one bad person, try to destroy our Law Enforcement. That is just a horrible direction to go in. Because there is the Police Officers who are there to save peoples lives, to keep the Community Safe to ensure safe, to ensure we are decreasing violent crimes. They play a Critical Role in our communities. How does it work in louisiana with the Police Department . Rep. Scalise if you look at the new orleans Police Department we have got mardi gras every year, so you have a Million People that congregate and come into new orleans to celebrate mardi gras. It is always very peaceful. I have been a lawenforcement officer with that many people. Some people are inviting and ing andg are imbib enjoying the moment, but they are able to keep the peace and keep people safe. Families from all around the world want to have a good time and be safe. That is able to happen. If you have a lawenforcement officer that crosses the line, they ought to be held accountable. When you watch how they are able to keep that many people safe in a peaceful environment, it shows you how it can be done the right way. Mercedes we dont want to go down the route of demoralizing Law Enforcement during this time. Lets take a quick break, but we will be back with martin trump online. Welcome back. , joined byes schlapp congressman steve scalise, one of our Great American patriots. Thank you for being with us. Rep. Scalise great to be with you. Mercedes there was a really big story last week, but the media didnt cover too much of it. The Great American comeback story. It is well underway after the economy was artificially interrupted by the global pandemic. To the surprise of many, including the media, the economy added back 2. 5 million jobs in may, the largest one month jobs gain in u. S. History. I want to play this clip about the historic jobs report. [video clip] this is a stunner. 2. 5 million jobs added. I had to double check because that is not what we were expecting. It appears to be a stunner. Much better than expected. We can sum it up in three words. Jobs, jobs, jobs that may job report is far better than analysts had predicted. I have never seen anything like this. It shows the u. S. Economy is more resilient than we anticipated. Great news for the American People. The fact is we are back. Pres. Trump today is probably the greatest comeback in american history, but it is not going to stop here. It is going to keep going. Mercedes it is going to keep going. Jobs, jobs, jobs. It is a stunner. How would you describe the latest jobs report . Rep. Scalise President Trump brought this economy back after it was on his heels on its heels for eight years. He did it once, he is doing it again. People want to get back to work, back to things they enjoy. We know covid is out there. We have seen medical research being done at a tremendous pace. President trump moved agencies like the fda to expedite the test we are seeing come online, as well as the search for a cure and a vaccine. This is because President Trump has put the focus on government for doing that. He also knows we have to get our economy going again. This states that have moved aggressively are not seeing an uptick in hospitalizations. People are going to restaurants, getting their hair cut, seeing each other at a social distance. Jobs are coming back. It is what this president did once. He is doing it again and we are going to continue to see a great economic recovery faster than any other country in the world. Every country has dealt with this in different ways, but america can lead the comeback, led by President Trump. Mercedes the media was shocked by the jobs numbers. We also saw joe biden. I think he pretty much had to change his speech on friday. I think they were thinking the numbers would be pretty bad. Tell me how President Trumps and the republicansbold leadership began to bring our economy roaring back. Rep. Scalise when democrats were talking about mailin ballots to a legally registered illegally to registered people, the president was talking about keeping families and businesses going. We passed the paycheck protection program, one of the most successful programs congress has put together in a crisis, that has been successful saving millions of Small Businesses. Last week President Trump signed into law another revision to make that program work even better for Small Businesses. Thats why they are able to stay afloat and bring people back to work. Thats why you are seeing job numbers increase. Businesses were able to Stay Together because of President Trumps leadership at a time when a lot of people were on their heels, wondering if they would be able to make it back. President trumps vocus was on protecting the health and safety of families Holding Small businesses together. And the pelosi and aoc farleft and biden were able to do was bailout the failing states that were failing before and give ballots and health care to illegals. It is a stark contrast. Mercedes and adding Energy Credits and Green New Deal stuff we know doesnt work. Rep. Scalise solar panels on airplanes when the Airline Industry is about to go under. What planet are they coming from and who are they trying to fool with this radical left agenda . Frankly, i think the president s leadership has put us in the position where we are starting a great comeback. There is more to come. As the president said, the best is yet to come. Mercedes the planet the democrats are coming from is planet clueless. That would be my take. Joe bidens 40 plus years in office have shown his policies would be a disaster for the economy. Now he is embracing extreme socialist policies, like we were talking about, the Green New Deal. How would a joe biden presidency devastate the economy, especially at a time we are recovering from the coronavirus pandemic . Rep. Scalise oh my gosh. Lets keep this vision in our mind as we recognize whats at stake this november, why we need to focus on reelecting President Trump, taking the house back, and keeping the senate. Joe biden, who knows what he stands for these days . He has taken every position on every issue. Lately he has embraced the socialist left. He was one that raised their hand when they said, should people here illegally get Free Health Care . There is joe biden raising his hand. You know what he has to stand for. It is about crushing Small Businesses just starting to come back with mountains of taxes, mountains of regulations. This is a real contrast election. Let alone who he would put on the Supreme Court and federal ventures. President trump has put great constitutionalists, people who believe in the constitution as it was written versus people who want to make up their own view based on their vision today. I think there is a clear choice people have. If they let joe biden out of his bunker for more than a couple minutes at a time, you would see even more about how dangerous his radical positions have become. Mercedes there is no question these historic economic results make it clear we need to continue reopening our country safely and get americans back to work. Thats what President Trump is working on everyday, his transition to greatness. Republicanrun states that have been open for a month are reaping the benefits. What we are seeing with democrat governors as they are still slow walking churches they are essential businesses. Why are democrat gives so let people go back to work . Are they playing politics . Rep. Scalise it is an important question raised especially when you look at the data. It is all about the health and safety of families. Look at the states that over a monthopened mainstream stream media said they would have a spike but their health car and hospital numbers are the same as the states that stay reopen o you can safely the economy. You dont have to wonder and you attacks on up the religious freedom from some of the same governors going on before President Trump. Donald trump said he would restore religious freedom. Of the many promises made nd kept by donald trump is to fight and stand up for religious sanctity of life. You have the same governors saying if a baby is born alive the womb you can kill the baby and call that abortion. Murder and President Trump has made it clear. E wants a bill on his desk to protect those unborn babies that are born alive. We have a bill that pelosi wont bring to the floor so President Trump has been clear standing up life and religious freedom and it has been at stake a long time. Merecedes if you can remember flipflopped on the hight amendment. You know where he was on with abortion. G hes become more extreme as a it shows itician so that joe biden is not where the American People are on this of abortion especially lateterm abortion which is so horrific. Rep. Scalise you dont need to ask him think more who he would put on the Supreme Court. We know the constitutionalist conservative judges that President Trump has put on the court. E exactly the ones he put a list done d no president has his before where the schoolia scalia seat was open and he said this is the list and you cab kavanaugh on the bench and who would joe biden ut on the bench if there was a vacancy. I think we have an idea and somebody from the fartherest will make up hat the rules as they go along and not read the constitution and it is supposed to be. Erecedes for months democrats shamed the people who wanted to open the economy. About y are silent not sters and people stkoerb stkoerb. This is in konta costa county, california, where they are limiting out dodoor outdoor soc up to 12 people but permitting protests up to 100 people. How hypocritical are the this . Rats and media on rep. Scalise they are treading on the very Constitutional Rights that we have in the first amendme amendment. You cant say this part of the that amendment applies but do not. Religious freedom is front and and one of our ingrained ights and they cant take that away. I think they would lose into challenge, yet it shows you leanings are when the first thing they want to go exercise right to your religious freedom and worship in your place of worship. Have that right if you are going to burn the city down. Is not who we are. We have to restore what this is president nd i think trump has been very clear he stands up to the right of religious freedom. Merecedes i know our faith is so important it helping to get through this coronavirus pandemic. You see americans turning to this very during difficult time and it has been tough to have the churches closed. You see individuals who want to get back to work saying we have to move on, get the country moving. Exactly hose are all what President Trumps mindset s which is lets get our churches open and get the economy going because we are back. To get our country we have seen it. America is very resilient. Spirit of america is strong and we will also work on restoring or communities. We let you go we have one final break and we will have trump online. Welcome back to team trump on line. Great congressman kalice. Always alise it is great to talk about what we are dealing with. Merecedes we have to stay fact that we have the election in november and i now that we here at team trump are focused every day in making calls, getting our grassroots motivated. He. Re is huge enthusiasm on t are you accepting with republicans in terms of what hey think can happen in this election . Rep. Scalise people are focused on what is at stake in november. Longer a debate between oderate or conservatives or liberals. It is the freedom we as conservatives versus socialism. That is where the Democratic Party has moved. There there are a lot of dont embrace that socialist view so the talked ip that trump about through his presidency where he took over when the the tank eight years, he got it back going. In einstalled conference america and the support of our allies around the world standing bullies like china and north korea and iran and the Previous Administration refused to do it. Joe biden was part of that they let tion where russia try to interfere with our elections. But to getup to them through this crisis and i think this will have a lot at stake in of how we go into november, as this economy starts o recover and it is already starting to happen and it will get better as businesses come get and people are able to more of the economy open. Should cower and not confront this challenge is america is. Two days ago we recognized the d day. Sary of you think of what the greatest generation did and challenge of that day. From that. Hide they went toward the danger and confronted the enemy. Confront this hiddenen my and be successful because as on challenges. Ke we dont run and hide from them. That is why we will come back President Trump has that philosophy and belief in america the greatness of america. Of these people want to sit back apnd lets not do a cure until theres and vaccine or do you just say we are going to go out there and we are smart and we know how to get back doing the things we do to shut e not going this economy down. We will get back to what is decorate about america. Great. To keep america we need to keep donald trump in office with Vice President pence the decorate work they have been doing the great work they have been doing. We want to reopen the economy in a safe and at the ble way and but same time we are also seeing the between President Trump and joe bidens leadership. Risen to trump has this moment right now. Hes offering a unifying message to bring our country together nd think about just months ago we saw having to deal with with. His coronavirus you have seen the president up close and personal. Focused has he been to help us get through this pandemic and seeing with what we are in the country . Rep. Scalise i worked with the through this and what i see is a man focused on protecting the health and safety the American People. That was his primary goal as t. Sident and hes focused on you see him bringing in the Top Health Experts and bringing in that can give the best guidance on how to do there safely. Going tonows if we are have the American Dream that is for here, the opportunity people to succeed you have to open our economy back up again. It shut down. P people want to get back to their jobs and they want a job to get to. We are seeing dire Health Consequences by people staying home. A lot of data that shows people are missing mammograms colonoscopies and kids are immunized. That is why President Trumps is so vital because hes been focused on how to safely do it and getting the out there but having that vision to say we will confront this hiddenen my and be successful and get our country back on track. Biden has sought o divide the country for political gain. He has consistently attempted to this painful ring time for our nation. N a town hall last week he openly showed how much he detests millions of americans. Watch this clip. There are 10 to 15 of the people not very good people. Merecedes how does joe biden of the o be president he ed states when disrespects 15 of americans. That is his deplorable moment . It. Scalise when you see you wonder who he is talking about and what america is he thinking about . Believes in the greatness of people. He found the Second Chance act led to get people more opportunity and to create so things that this country wants and you contrast it with biden who is trying to look for areas of Division Even party so i think people see through there. They dont want that kind of times of n these crisis. They want a leader who will work toward helping people get back great about this country. That is the leadership that has provided. P merecedes we just saw biden staffers who were violent kreuls and set up a fund and it would be so destructive. They are want ting to bail out e criminals and what dots it say about him and his gain . Wonder if the i people are contributing to those funds are proud of the fact that might have gone to bail out the murder of retired dorn or ptain david when you saw the video of the their trying to stop bidding from being destroyed and looted and they were beaten with laders. D that is not who we are as americans. Not peaceful protest. That is going to advance the justice. When people see that it reminds maintain law and order in difficult times. Merecedes we want to work on our nation. The president said it is hatred, justice, not chaos. I think that is the contrast with hat you are seeing President Trump with his leadership versus joe bidenen chaos. Ng just to close, what final message would you like to leave with the American People . Rep. Scalise the mental i would leave is that we are a resilient people. Tough times through and these are part of those ough times and we will look back and say we confronted something that nobody had ever stayed ore and yet we together through this and then we had difficult times that we through even more challenges with george floyd and there. G for justice yet as america we are only going o get through this if we stay united and prison is providing the learn that will get us through this and get us back to place that shining city on the hill that we know we can be to be a ways strive greater nation than we are and leave a better nation to the and we are ion headed on that track and we need to see President Trumps leadership get us through this. Merecedes thank you for joining us tonight. Great workte all the that you do for our country, your service to our nation and up for freedom. You are a Great American. Rep. Scalise wow, thank you mercedes. God bless you and good pwhres all of team trump that is keep america great. Merecedes thank you to all of home azing supporters at for tuning in. If you want to get involved with trump paign just text us trump. Com arm for and we have that great trump app that you can download. We will see you next time as we reelect o fight to President Donald Trump and keep america great. All. 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Ssages and in this Election Year several novembere place before including primary electionsment one takes place today and to talk about it the inside elections, several take but georgia being a focus of many things today. Tell us why . Pedro. Yes, good morning, georgia today is going to host ts primaries at the president ial, senate and congressional level. He president ial primary is a forego foregone conclusion with joe competitive election at senate and house level. Main event is the primary democratic primary for senate. Georgiahave heard about senators and insider trading. Th scandal surrounds chemical leffler who is up for going to be is not on the ballot today. Because she is running in a election. He election today is for the regular Georgia Senate seat. Is a question of redemption for 33yearold film who you might remember as he loseer of the post expense sieve house race ever in june of the sixth district. He is now running for senate and frontrunner it remains to be seen whether he 50 ne enough of the vote, focus on runoff and the general election against david purdue. Your publication has labeled this a likely republican pickup. You say so . Pickup ell, it is not a because the republicans already hold the seat. Host right. The thing about georgia and democrats it is like lucy and the football in charlie brown. Decade democrats have been saying this is your year in georgia. 2014 with n 2012 and phrbl nunn and phrbl nun and talkeden Hillary Clinton a big game about winning georgia and lost by five points. Saw it in 2018 where democrats nationwide were super of ted about the candidacy abrams and she got closest but by a point and a half. So, on a fundamental level eorgia is still a republican state. That may be changing but the changing fasts it enoughor democrats to make a serious play for it in 2020. Stkpwhost rob wood all is reti. Of who would atus replace hil replace him. His old e election for seat this was the closest race in the country in 2018 decided just 419 votes and we are seeing competitive primaries on sides. It wasnttic side the nominee is expected to be the frontrunner but there to win it you have to win 50 lus one and she faces spirited challengers on two fronts with tate senator an air force veteran who was endorsed by multiple veterans and Congress Progressive from person who is endorsed by cortes. Ocasio if she can get above 50 she the nominee. If not she will face another round of elections before she on the general election. On the republican side it is the same situation. Candidates a major state senator and former home Human Resources epresentative and conservative doctor named richard mccormick. Primary is tonight we may not know who the nominees potential runoffs. Host is there a President Trump factor in these special and what is going on today in georgia . Trump has stayed out so far of the republican primary in and obviously he supports david purdue as the senator. But the president is looming large over every race in georgia right now because at a fundamental level what is georgia so competitor democrats is the president s and he has struggled to maintain his support in georgia. E have seen several polls showing joe biden running dead even or even ahead of the georgia. T in so if trump cant consolidate it support he had in 2016 creates appear optionor democrats in the senate race and some of the house races. Jacob is talking about the primary elections particularly in georgia. For your time today, sir. Guest thank you. Unfiltered s coverage of congress, the white house, Supreme Court and public events. You can watch all of cspans Public Affairs programming on or listen on ine or free radio app and be part of conversation through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or social media feet. 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