the idea of a comprehensive coronavirus relief bill so-called phase four appears to be off the table right now. what the white house and republican senate are trying to work on is a smaller module to enact measure with enhanced unemployment for people as well as eviction protection for those hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. the white house chief of staff mark meadows and steve mnuchin, the secretary of the treasury says that they met with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer yesterday, they made four proposals including a one-week extension of the $600 enhanced unemployment insurance that is currently in place now and expires today in order to give more time for negotiations, but the nancy pelosi and chuck schumer rejected all of those proposals, here s what the president said earlier this afternoon. i told my people, the democrats do not care about the people of our country, they do not want to do what you should be doing for the people of our country. whether it is unemploym
quorum call: reid: mr. president i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel robert stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e.salas. 606 with the exception of brigadier general john k. kelk. and then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretary s desk in the air force and army. that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified of the
overlooked they should have another look. but now with the cause. final word mercedes. if the employer makes use signed the petition they are skirting the law and violating the law it is problematic. liz: i am sorry for if i was a little tricky at the end. tomorrow we have ronald reagan and former budget director. have a great evening. gerri: hello. tonight on the willis report. a new federal tax policy with the push to make marijuana legal and tax it. obama proposes to delay automatic spending cuts after he blows another budget deadline. and proved that leaders just want more power. not more power to the people. we are on the case. that and more coming up, but first the top story story, efforts building in washington to change change, rewrite, remake current marijuana laws including legalizing industrial production and have the federal pot tax. lawmakers quietly working on the bills one was introduced today one from oregon one from colorado calling for the end of f
men treat democracy. this week well stories. directs it stokes fears of new conflict in island a taxi drives and then becomes an opera star but 1st we start off in iran much of the world s oil supply passes through the strait of hormuz now the conflict between iran and the us is affecting people on the inside and. it s early morning in the sun beating down on the island of moose is relentless there s no natural water source and few other resources for that matter despite that the island has been highly valued for centuries as a strategic location portugal for instance constructed this fortress back in 1507 to control mara team traffic in the persian gulf today the strait of hormuz is once
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the government shutdown is over for now. president trump signing a short-term spending bill re-opening the u.s. government today. democrats relenting in return for assurances that the senate will vote on immigration in the coming weeks. the party now facing intense backlash from some for not fighting harder to protect d.r.e.a.m.ers. this morning president trump not focusing on the next round of immigration talks. instead he s tweeting about missing fbi text messages. comes amid the bombshell report that the fbi threatened to resign amid pressure from the president and firing the deputy director. joining me is the white house budget director mick mulvaney, good to have you, sir, as always. sounds like there s a lot of caffeine in the coffee. if you think i ll spend any of my time talking about that, you are sadly mistaken, my friend. we ll take that conversation off line a different time. you re no stranger to shutdowns. do you think the democrats did the right thing a