Houses top investigative arm. That committees been busy. Today the chair woman issued subpoenas for the post master general. Lewis lajoie being ordered to appear at a hearing one week from tomorrow. T it has been dismantling mail sorting machines and removing mailboxes around the country. That last part seems to be on hoeshlgsd at least for now. This afternoon, the usps release add statement that reads in part, quote, given the recent customer concerns, the Postal Service will remove the boxes for 90 days while we evaluate our customers concerns. End quote. You never know when the elections are over. We are going to have an election that takes place on a beautiful day, november 3rd, and usually at the end of the evening, they say donald trump has won the election. Donald trump is your new president. Whatever they say. You know what . Youre not going to know this possibly, if you really did it right, for months or for years. The president has made no secret of his desire to advance his reelection by impeding voting by mail. Polls continue to show mr. Trump has a lot of ground to make up before november. The latest poll out today shows joe biden leading the president nationally by nine points. 50 to 41 . They know when we vote, things change. When we vote, we get the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act and the fair housing act. Lets remember why they dont want us to vote. It is because that is a wray to strip us of the power of our voices. And we learn tonight that House Democrats are about to cut their vacations short. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told neighbors this week, the house will be called back from recess. Members plan to vote on chairwoman maloneys bill, the delivering for america act. It would lock the Postal Service into the same level of operation it had at the beginning of the year. Carolyn maloney joins us. Congresswoman, thanks for being here. Its an important day. A lot is happening. It is. Let me catch you up. Who all has been subpoenaed to appear before your committee next monday . First, there is no subpoena at this point. An invitation has been sent to the post master general to appear before our committee on august 24th. We also sent him a 10pagelong letter. Its on the website of the committee of government reform. Asking specific questions on why he took actions that would slow down the mail, removing post offices, boxes, removing equipment, denying overtime. When you have a surge of mail, you need overtime for it. And limiting the amount of deliveries from the Processing Centers to only one a day. Now, the leadership of the union tells me that already he has reports in the new york metropolitan area that this is slowing down the mail of five to six days. We have an emergency. Were acting on it. And he has got to have answers for us on august 24th. He has not turned down our invitation. We expect him to accept it. But you havent heard back yet . We have not. We should hear on monday. What do you hope to accomplish with the hearing that will lead to change with the Postal Service. I understand there are general attorneys who are prepared to sue. What would you like to see happen after the hearing. There have been suits, Inspector General investigation that are announced on it, and we have had many, many actions. The president said that he would reverse his position that he would not receive the 25 billion that the president s own board of governors have said is needed for the post office to make up for the coronavirus interruption. So we have a bill my bill that would reverse all of hissings, Speaker Pelosi is calling us in to vote this week on the 25 billion and on reversing these actions that should not take place in the middle of a Coronavirus Crisis and several weeks before a very important vote in our country for the president of the United States. So we want to reverse thesings. It should be a bipartisan the post office is by partisan. Its a pillar of our democracy. Its in our constitution. I expect to have bipartisan support on the vote. Theres bipartisan support for my bill and the president says hes reversing his position and supporting the funding, which is good news. Lets fund the payoffs, reverse all these terrible actions and go for it in a positive way. How hopeful are you . You said the payoffs is bipartisan but we havent heard Many Republican representatives that this is wrong. Mitch mcconnell will say you know what, Speaker Pelosi, lets get back to work and empanel the senate to pass legislation. It also feels this could be a game of whackamole. If something the president has done to improve his chances of election, im pretty sure this boopt the last thing he will try. How optimistic ares you, really, that democrats do anything about this other than push to vote him out . Well, i would say that as Kamala Harris just said, we are empowered with the vote. We will use that vote. We have put forward whatd we are confronting in this nation now. The American People should speak out to their members of congress and senators and make sure that they vote to fund the payoffs. It belongs to the American People. Joshua, we have funded so many businesses and weve had all kinds of programs for all kinds of agencies and everything else. Why not the payoffs . It even preceded our constitution, and its important now more than every. People, americans depend on it for their medications, Social Security checks, stimulus checks and their mailin battllots. Support the payoffs in their work, not undermine them by slowing it down. My bill would reverse these slowdown actions and return it to the standard that was there before. Lets support the payoffs, the people need it, it belongs to the people. I believe the American People will vote for people who support the payoffs. Thats what my legislation does. Hopefully, the president says he spores the funding. Lets give him the funding. Let him sign it into law. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of new york, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Joining for us for analysis, beth fui and koermd for yahoo news. I wonder what you made of what the chair woman told us about what the plan is Going Forward from here, particularly based on whether or not congress is able to actually get anything done . If the Coronavirus Relief negotiations are any indicator, it looks slim. Yeah. But this is going to be different, i think, joshua. The congresswoman who is chairing the committee, the one you just had on is taking a personal stand as is nancy pelosi. We may not see the holdup we typically see in these types of situations, ie, the coronavirus bill you mentioned. People in the United States depend on the payoffs just as much as they do in blue starkts perhaps more. They represent rural people. Rural people depend on the payoffs more than anybody else the country. Theres not going to be a lot of acceptance among the republican senators for any sort of shenanigans around delaying mail. Even though we may not see a lot of people speaking up publicly at this point, that doesnt mean theyre going to sit by and let this happen. This is going to be something that Mitch Mcconnell will be pulled into much more forcefully than other items that require spending, but that the senate can just block. Its that urgent. Hunter, whats your sense of how the white house is reacting to Nancy Pelosis call to get a vote on chair woman maloneys bill and for the request for the post master general to testify. The white house is saying move along, nothing to see here. Mail sorting machines are not going to be shut down before the election, and nothing is really going on that wasnt going on before. But one of the things thats really disingenuous about this, youve seen meadows say the president wants everyone to be able to vote by mail. Dont believe your lying eyes, orwellian, asking you to forget. Every false attack, claiming false evidence of voter fraud that the president s made in the past couple of months. I think you hit the head on the nail, joshua, at the end of the interview with congresswoman malone any, if the president sees this as a campaign thread and he wants to curb this, this isnt going to be the end of this. I think whether this is rhetorical, whether this is the post master changing practices in the usps year seeing an efrlt to at the least undermine the outcome of the election. I should read a tweet that came through. Senator Susan Collins just tweeted the senate should return this week to consider a covid19 pamg that includes the Postal ServiceEmergency Assistance act. A bill which would provide usps with up to 25 billion to cover losses or operational expenses resulting from covid19, unquote. Thats from senator Susan Collins from maine that she tweeted out just about 15 or 20 minutes ago. Beth, let me ask you about the dnc. It starts on monday, our coverage begins monday evening. What in the terms of this hybrid event, definitely not going to have the same kind of gigantic arena and delegates from states saying the great state of minnesota pledges its dell gans for the next United States thats not happening but whats your assessment of how they will make sure the convention always does and what the convention needs to do this year in everything going on in 2020 . The convention has been a big tv show, basically. They go to the parties and so on. What most American People is what they see on the tv each night, a very carefully produced tv show. Thats what theyre going to see this time as well, particularly on the democratic side. As you remember, democrats decided months ago that most of the convention was going to be virtual, recognizing the threat of the virus and couldnt bring people together physically at the convention in a conventional way. Theyve worked on this for quite some time of a tv event, a streaming event that will show up on peoples tvs. It could be produced well and look great. The Republican Convention is coming together so late. President trump wanted a physical inperson convention, was pushing for it. He only abandoned that idea a few weeks ago. Its left the republicans scramble a little bit. Certainly, the pressure will be on democrats to show how they can do this, make it a compelling piece of tv for viewers whol tune in. The big speeches from Kamala Harris and joe biden, theres going to be a lot of pressure on them. They are stepping out for the first time with this level of visibility, so people will be watching. Appreciate you both being with us. Thanks very much. 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What is your sense of how the convention is going to message itself this weekend in terms of making the case for joe biden and Kamala Harris rather than dwelling on making the case against donald trump and mike pence . Wheres the balance . I think youre exactly right. Thats what were going to spend our time doing. I think donald trump is doing a good job telling the people himself why he should not be in the office. Were going to be spending this week getting people to know exactly who and what joe biden is and what his administration will mean to them, to their families and to their communities. We know that the country is at a inflexion point and we have to let people know exactly where we will take the country, if allowed, the presidency. I think that joe and kamala are up to the task and i think theyre going to demonstrate very well on wednesday evening and thursday evening exactly why they should be elected. Well lay the predicate on monday and tuesday nights, but i think on wednesday night and thursday night, they will connect with the American People and i think the American People will be very pleased with what they see and hear. When it comes to winning over independent or undecided voters, where do you think senator harris fits into the strategy to win them over . Id say she fits really within that. You know, when i was out there during the primaries, even early on when she was still very active in the primaries, id run across people who would tell me they were very interested in a ticket of biden and harris. That was very early in the campaign. And i think one of the reasons shes never got the kind of traction that a lot of people thought she could get is because people always saw her in this role that joe biden has put her in. I think that that is going to be a very, very attractive duo for the American People. Told somebody earlier, i am reminded, victor hugos adage, nothing more powerful in all the world than an idea whose time has come and i believe that that is whats going to make this ticket so powerful, is that having Kamala Harris on this ticket is an idea whose time has come, and no matter what this president does, he will not be able to start this. The armies will not be able to stop this. Were going to win this election. Before i let you go, i have to ask you to about the survegs portfolio service. Theres a request for the post master general to testify in the hearing a week from tomorrow. This is connected to the negotiations over a Coronavirus Relief bill. This money was supposed to be part of that. Theres talk of trying to cleave it off and doing a payoffs bill and then a coronavirus bill. Nothing has moved forward. Seems like both sides remain at loggerheads. What leverage do democrats have here . It seems like as long as President Trump goes, nope, dont like it, no, theres nowhere for anything to go. What leverage do democrats have in. Well, we have any leverage. Democrats control the house. Were one third of the equation. The republicans control senate. Thats the second third. The third third is in the white house. So the fact of the matter is we have to depend upon the public to weigh in on this. People who want the post office to continue to operate as efficiently and effectively as it possibly can will have to weigh in. This president really doesnt care that he really doesnt mind people not being able to get their medications. He doesnt care whether or not they get their support checks on time. He only thinks about himself. So nancy pelosi, right, shes going toably us back. Were going back. Were going to pass another piece of legislation. Just remember, the house passed the heroes act 11 weeks ago and we have all of this money there in o