Barrett to the Supreme Court, with National Turn it National Journal Senate Reporter. Maryellen klaas, and then Michael Binder. Journal is next. With eight days to go until election day 2020, congas begins with a stalemate over Economic Relief and a response to the coronavirus pandemic and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the support. The senate has a rare weekend session to move forward on the nomination and democrats are holding the senate in session through tonight, into this morning. You can see live pictures of the senate floor right now. Heres how we are dividing the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can join the conversation by texting with your first name, city and state, at 202 7488003, or go to twitter, or facebook. Com cspan. Has covid19 impacted your vote . If it hasnt, we want to hear from you as well. What is impacting your vote and if the pandemic impacts your vote, we want to know why. Why has it motivated you to
The only person waving a white flag and a white mask is joe biden. We will defeat the virus. We will not control it. We will try to contain it as best we can. If you look at the full context of what i was talking about is we need to make sure we have therapeutics and vaccines. We may need to make sure that when people get sick that they have the kind of therapies that the president of the United States has that we can provide those emergency use authorizations and they should be coming in very short order. Hopeful, based on a number of conversations that vaccines are just a few weeks away when we are in preparation for that. Time, eight National Lockdown strategy or a National Quarantine strategy that is proposed by the left is not effective, is not what ultimately will contain or control this virus. And a suggestion that we are waving the red flag, i mean the white flag, is certainly not in keeping with this president. You know him, he doesnt give up and he will not give up until all
See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Atlanta . Up hey everybody. Go . E did you ck . T is up, ri he is so good. There you are. You just tore it up. Of i willead tell you one of the things i love about joe biden, and he says it often, he understands his long life of service and education to Public Service. Uplifting those who are the emerging leaders and rick is one of them. Can we give it up for him because that is what it is all about. It is about everybody taking on their role of leadership, knowing that we have so much at stake in the selection. Theres so much at stake. I came back to atlanta. , it wase i was here before the pandemic. I was up on the stage here at morehouse in march of last year. Black and if you are hold elected office, coming to atlanta is like coming back to the womb. It really is. Represents soa much about who we are as america. The hope inesents the dreams and the fight to make real the promise of america. Atlanta is the place that has have beeneaders who National Leaders and interNational Leaders
Association and what do you do . Then our association is voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve rural schools and communities. We are looking at a digital divide. We are looking at reopening schools in a very different way. Thats what a lot of our work has been focused on the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit in rural, remote areas or areas outside of urban, suburban areas. We have connectivity issues with cell phones and wired access as well. We have a 40 beauty issues affordability issues. We are looking at the lack of access and affordability of the surface. How many students are we talking about . Allen overall, you know, rural represents about 9. 7 million students. But you ar