Correspondent. Thank you so much for being here. I am going i am going to read the opening paragraph of your fantastic column in todays paper who said no one alive has ever seen a president ial debate like tuesday night between President Trump and former Vice President biden. 90 minutes of invective it was an insult to the public and a set example of the state of american democracy five weeks before the election. Go on. We know what happened last night. The president of the United States decided to come in and destroy the format of the debate he had agreed to the terms of. Debate the tone for this he set the tone for this debate. It was not that surprising even though it was farther over the top one might have expected. Vice President Biden came to expect a somewhat more traditional debate. I think he knew he was in for a night in which the president would be hectoring, but probably not to the extent that he did, and he was grappling with it. He was more focused on the president then t
The president ial election. We will take your calls and you can join on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Live shot of the Supreme Court. Good morning, everyone. Its monday, september 21 read we begin this morning with the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death friday night of ruth ginsburg. We want to know, does the Supreme Court pick impact your vote . The president has vowed to move forward and Mitch Mcconnell says a vote will happen in the coming weeks. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can text us, with your first name, city and state, at 202 7488003. Or post your comments on or facebook,anwj, facebook. Com cspan. How does the Supreme Court pick impact your vote . We have divided the lines, democrats, rojo skins democrats, republicans, independents. Tom cotton on the sunday shows yesterday, heres what he had to say. The president said that hes going to submit a nominee as early as this week and the senate will ex
Of months ago, but also smaller than what republicans had put forward which was closer to 1 trillion back in july. It includes cuts to the cares act to offset mcconnells goal to coalesce the senate and republican conference. It seems like you will get that. Host when it comes to the justification of the small figure, go a little bit deeper into the majority leaders thinking. Guest a lot of republicans have been concerned about the spending already taken place. Plus other trillion funding packages. A lot of that has not even been sent out yet. It remains in the treasury or in the holding of the fed. A lot of republicans have said, let us wait until that is spent first. This particular bill republicans put forward would fill the gap. Ofwould allow another draw the Paycheck Protection Program for instance. Host for the people at home who assistanceed an assistantshi check, what does this do for getting money in their hands . Guest it does not include any direct checks like with the cares
Announcer Senate Democrats also spoke to reporters about the Supreme Court vacancy, expressing their opposition to moving forward with the confirmation before the november elections. This is 20 minutes. Sen. Schumer okay, whoa [indiscernible] good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. I am proud to be joined by my , dickgues in our caucus durbin and patty murray. There, thousands have come to the steps of the highest court to pay tribute to justice ginsburg. Is was an amazing lady and in a male dominated world of legal giants. She was smarter than they were, more persistent, and she accomplished much more than they did. I admire her. I come from her neighborhood. She did so much in our neighborhood. We both went to James Madison high school, brooklyn, new york. So many have paid tribute to come to the steps of the highest to justicey tribute ginsburg. My Senate Colleagues have paid tribute as well, but in words only. Empty words, because their actions havent. Republican major
American where at least i know im free. And i wont forget the men who me, who gave that life to and id gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. But there aint no doubt i love this land god bless the usa from sea to shining sea. From detroit down to houston and new york to l. A. Where there is pride in every american heart and its time we stand and say that im proud to be an american where at least i know im free. And i wont forget the men who died fight to me. I would gladly stand up next to you and defend her cell today. But there aint no doubt i love this land god bless the usa and im proud to be an american where at least i know im free. And i wont forget the men who died. Ho gave that fight to me i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. But there aint no doubt i love this land usa ess the [cheering] [crowd chanting usa] pres. Trump we brought you a lot of car plans, michigan. You know that, right . Im thrilled to be in freeland with thousands of hard