That causes more deaths in our country because we have ignored science. We havent acted in an evidencebased way. In this p but say that election in november, science, science, science, and science are going to be on the ballot. That is what is at stake here. And its a matter of life and death. With that, im pleased to take any questions. Es, sir. Reporter last time we saw compromise last time we rought states in to compromise [inaudible] is this part of the inherent problem with bringing in d. C. , the challenge of the political balance so they proceed, d. C. Is automatically a Democratic State. Speaker pelosi that shouldnt be how we have enfranchisement in our country. Whats the nature of the vote. Actually, mr. Hoyer said here from the podium yesterday, not here, we were in a different room, but that at the time of that late 1950s, people thought that alaska would be a Democratic State and hawaii would be a republican state. And of course theyre not. Repud of course they are not. While that is interesting, it shouldnt be part of the issue. About two black, too democratic, to whatever. Otherer is there any d of compromise [indiscernible] was votingosi that on the floor of the house. Ideater but that is the there was a balance [indiscernible] Speaker Pelosi forgive me for not valuing your question to the extent you are valuing it. Think what a state is can change over time, but people in the District Of Columbia pay taxes, fight our wars, risk their lives for our democracy, they have this place, no vote in the house or senate about whether we go to war and how those taxes are exacted and how it is all paid. You dont want to hear about it, but this is in my dna. I am very committed to this. When i was born, my father was a member of congress from chairore and he served as of the District Of Columbia committee. Whoever chaired that was considered the unofficial mayor of washington because they made all the decisions for the District Of Columbia. He was a big believer in home rule and over time, you see some evolution in all of this home rule emerge and then a mayor there was a time there wasnt even a mayor in washington, much less a governor of a state. Now we are to this place. We are at a state of compromise. We think it is very long overdue that the residents of the all goodof columbia a vote inshould have house and in the senate. Yes, sir . Reporter you regularly criticize the president s rhetoric. That its ok to say republicans are trying to get away with the murder of george floyd with Police Reform . What wepelosi i think are talking about is how we go forward. You we are talking about something that is an incident that everybody saw the martyrdom. Everybody saw eight minutes and 46 seconds of a knee on the neck. And that may come up with a bill that says or the president comes out with whatever it is saying no choke holds, but maybe some . I absolutely not. We are talking right now, the minute the administration in terms of their denial, their delay on coronavirus caused death. That bill in particular. We canhas an impact and prevent future deaths if we banned chokehold. Im fully committed to that. Reporter [indiscernible] Speaker Pelosi i dont know that that is determined yet. I know he loves his strict and loves his constituents and i whoever ld welcome it may be another week before we know the outcome of another couple of races in new york. We have another powerful chairman, maloney weaker pelosi next week, will see what the results are, but im not going to speculate on what we dont even know has happened. But in those districts, a district like mine, anything can happen. It has nothing to do with who control the house of representatives, and that is where my focus is, not within democratic districts, but who control the house of representatives. Im very proud of how we are proceeding, our chair has been wonderful in mobilization on the ground. Worksing in a way that all over as a country on our for the people agenda, lower healthcare care costs, bigger paychecks for the structure in a greenway, cleaner government, justice in policing, District Of Columbia becoming a state, part of that, passing the Voting Rights act. Not only are we proud of what we call our frontline, our freshman who are up for reelection, but we are proud of the candidates in the red to blue, where we hope to pick up more seats. Thats where my focus is. Back on the policing bill. Yesterday, good going into the weekend, are there negotiations, talks happening between the chambers . Are scott or mcconnell involved in this . Speaker pelosi you will have to talk to them on this. It would be important for the senate to pass a bill, one that can pass the senate. And in order to do that, they should engage in negotiations with the democrats in the United States senate. Committee, may be the auspice is, i dont know. That is up to them. Mcconnell, the grim reaper, who doesnt want to pass any of our bills cant even pass his own bills. They should get together and formulate legislation that can pass the senate and then we can see how we come together on them. We are very proud of our bill. 134 civil rights organizations voted to support, the moms of some of the young people who were killed by Police Brutality support the bill, we are very proud of it. Now the Business Roundtable has supported it, so the range of support for what we have in our bill is very broad. It is focused, it is disciplined, and it will save lives. Lives ifuld have saved it had been the law already. Reporter democrats report something in the senate odds are democrats would report it in the house Speaker Pelosi the bill we put forth was shaped by senator harris, senator kamala and senator cory booker. They were part of putting the bill together. So we will see what they can do in the senate. People will not take no for an answer. Hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets day in and day out, week in, week out, now one month saying enough is enough. As George Floyds brother testified before congress, and im very proud for the Judiciary Committee that before he testified, he said to me, madam speaker, do you think i can tell georges daughters name wont always be room or because you will name the bill for him . I said i would recommend it to the Judiciary Committee and the Congressional Black Caucus who have shaped the bill. But i will only do that if you tell me this legislation is worthy of his name. He said it is. So we are very proud. Not a tipping point, that would be too easy. A precipice the country went over. Just a different place to say thats not who we are, we can do better and the senate can certainly do better. Yes, maam. About whatm curious you want [indiscernible] thank you for that question. We put together as a result of decades of concern on the subject of Police Brutality. Everyone of our First Responders with the same brush. Sure. Overwhelmingly, we do not. But, where there is need to make change, we will make change. I think the press gave republicans too much credit for that senate bill. It did nothing. It took our language and defanged it. And youre like why cant you cooperate . What would you do. We are saying no choke holds. The president is saying maybe sometimes. Should we agree on the number of choke holds . Would that be a good compromise . Thats not the point. Its not even an issue, it is an ethic. We have two differences of opinion. The president is in the Supreme Court where he sent people there purposefully to overturn the Affordable Care act, which is something the American People need, especially in the time of a pandemic. Passed is aion we result of decades of work on this subject. Thats why over 130 civil Rights Groups have come out in support of it. Read their letter. The senate has to do better. It isnt about the whole thing of equivalence, why cant you Work Together its because they dont share our values on this subject. Not yet, but i hope they will. Reporter why not agree to go to conference Speaker Pelosi to go to conference, you have to pass the bill in your house. Do you think i should suggest nor what i or any of my members, 100 of them voted against that bill yesterday. What are you suggesting . Vote for something that is completely contrary to your values so you can go to conference . I Want Congress to work its will. Im always open to the four corners of our negotiations. We always respect each others opinions. But if one person saying choke holds any other person is saying no chokehold, its very hard to compromise. The president is going to have Data Collection but its not going to be shared. What . How will people know for example, tamir rice he died he died at the hands of a Police Officer who had been fired by another department, but the information was not shared by the department that hired him. His misconduct resulted in the so i appreciate your question. As i said when i became speaker, i partisanship, transparency, e pluribus unum, we always have a responsibility to reach across the aisle. But instead of a handshake, you get a slap in the face, then you better go back to the drawing board. That is what they better do. Thats up to the senate. And they come to their conclusion, they cannot pass a bill and you think we should embrace it . No. Thank you for your question. Thats it. Thank you all very much. [inaudible] safety is first and people have families at home that they have to go home to and they dont want to carry somebody elses virus there. When the president of the United States says he doesnt want to wear a mask and understands the ad example i dont know if he understands anything but somebody must over there understand the bad example that is to the country and that we are at a place we dont have to be, this is a president who doesnt want to wear a mask, who hoax, isls the virus a going to go away magically, its going to be a miracle thats going to make it go away. Im a catholic and i believe in miracles and i pray for them, but i think science is an answer to our prayers. Science says wear a mask, test, treat, and the president doesnt support any of that. He has events that are counter to that. Im in a mood because this is a matter of life and death. This administration has failed miserably. Justice. T its about justice in policing. Its about justice in health care and recognizing coronavirus is having a disproportionate impact on communities of color. So when you talk about sports, you have to talk about safety and health, and the families of the people sports figures go home to. They know that very well. Everybody has to make the judgment in terms of testing, tracing, treating, keeping distance, how does that work . Sports. O miss our we miss baseball i dont know if we are going to be missing football, we will see as we go along. Sports are more have more physical contact. Lets hope and pray for a vaccine. Lets hope and pray for a cure. Testing,e and pray for tracing, and treating. But im telling you two days in a row of record numbers of cases. One of those days, the president going to overturn access to quality, Affordable Care. About detect my dismay saying why dont you go and agree with them, find an area of agreement, we always want to. , we havey in our bill negotiation. The president said he wants to negotiate. I guess not, anymore. We just have to defeat the virus so we can open our economy, so we can send our kids to school, but we have to have it based on science and governance. And we have an answer to that and that is the heroes act. The senate is going to have to take at take up some version of the heroes act. I hope its the house and senate are back in session next week before taking their expected twoweek holiday recess. The house returns monday at 9 00 a. M. Eastern and will spend the week working on the health care law, infrastructure, credit score reporting, and Housing Needs that have arisen due to the coronavirus. Follow the house live on cspan. And the Senate Returns monday at 3 00 p. M. Eastern to continue debate on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill, which provides for defense programs and policies for the next fiscal year. Senators will hold a vote at 5 30 eastern to formally begin debate. Watch the senate live on cspan2. This is a crisis. People are losing their lives. With Police Reform taking center stage in congress, watch our live unfiltered coverage of the latest developments. Plus, the governments response to the coronavirus pandemic. We were going down some 30,000, 25,000, 20,000, now we stayed flat, and now we are going up. Briefings from the white house on foreign affairs. Congress on health care. Insight from former administration officials. But i do think there is a line one should not cross where governmental power is used essentially exclusively for personal benefit. We will stand proud and we will stand tall. And the latest from the campaign 2020 trail. Join in the conversation every day on our live callin program, washington journal. And if you missed any of our live coverage, watch anytime on demand at cspan. Org, or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Florida Governor Ron Desantis held a News Conference after his estate reported almost 9000 new coronavirus cases. He said he does not believe requiring people to wear a mask or enforcing such a rule would be productive. Statesupdated the efforts to counter the coronavirus at a briefing in fort myers. Good afternoon. I want to thank dr. Anthony fauci for having us back. I was able to have a roundtable with some of the doctors and other folks in the hospital. Got a really good update of what really going on here in southwest florida. Today, a loteeing of news saying a huge number of cases. Really nothing has changed in the past week, in terms of we had a big test dump. We have been testing 10 to 15 positive for really the last week. Thats a huge change from where we were at the beginning of june, when we were three or 4 , in terms of the positivity statewide. So the number of cases, if im going to get 75,000 test results like today, you will get a certain number of cases, if i get 35,000, you will get less. Thats really what were seeing, in terms of an increased Positivity Rate, which is one of the major factors driving the cases. The last week of may, the Positivity Rate statewide was about 3 of test results coming in that were positive. That was good. March,the cases go up in through april, and then decline. Then the positivity, once we got into may, was really low and steady for all of may and into june. We started to see an increase in the positivity that second week of june. Some of that was driven by some hotspots around the state. Then some of it was driven, particularly in the last two weeks, by a lot of Community Transmission, particularly from the younger demographic. Positivity, particularly in the last week, has trended up. It started creeping up the second week of june. The last two weeks at ghana. We like where we were in early maine and june, but we are also seeing more cases in addition to positivity. We are doing more tests. The last week of may, we would get about 24,000 test results a day. The last seven days, we have gotten 45,000 test results a day. Thats a good clip, in terms of getting test results in. Of course, if you have a stable Positivity Rate, the more tests you do, the more cases you will discover. If our Positivity Rate was back down in the 3 , 4 range, we would be getting more cases today than we were in may, simply because we are testing more. A higher positivity, more number of tests. Probably the most significant change we have seen is a radical change in the median age of people testing positive. When we started at the beginning of march, really starting to test, the median age half the tests positive were people 60 and over. I started going through most of april and may usually in the low to mid 50s. Then, really in the last two to three weeks, you have seen a dramatic decline. First it went to 38, 37. Now, it consistently is 33, 34, 35. You have a day were you have a median age of 33, which means half of the positive test result that come in are under that age. We were talking about a lot of people in their 20s, in particular, early 30s. Even the ones above that median age, we are seeing a lot of people in their late 30s and early 40s. Those groups by a large will be much less at risk for really serious consequences as we know with this virus. In florida, weve had 86 of all covid related fatalities have been in the age group of 65 or older. There have been more covid linked fatalities over the age of 90 than under the age of 65. By and large, you are talking about folks 55 and under, but certainly 35 and under. You are talking about much less of a risk group now. If you have significant conditions, this is something that can certainly aggravate that. But, that is what we are seeing. The Community Transmission is being driven by that 18 to 35yearold group. In fact, the Positivity Rate for 15 to 1444 is getting close to 20 . So, thats a lot different than where we were at the beginning of june. If you go from june 1 until now, the number of cases from 25 to 34 is almost tripled just in less than a month now. Thats a really, really big group of folks. Part of the message is, is most of these people are a symptomatic. Most of them, if they do have symptoms, it wil