A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se
Enormous president ial election. You want drama baby, i will give you 2020 prescription strength drama. Here at the very latest is Foxbusiness White house correspondents, the one and only blake burman. Like break it down, what just have embraced back either kennedy good to be with you. It was exactly one month ago september 26 when President Trump announced that he would be tapping Amy Coney Barrett to head to the Supreme Court of course to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Now that is all beneficial at this hour. Here in washington. As the proceedings are underway. The white house is not yet said what will happen later this evening. However there is expected to be some sort of formal celebration over at the white house later this evening. Once everything has become official. As for President Trump, he was out on the campaign trail earlier today. Three different stops in pennsylvania. This is how he was celebrating his third Supreme Court nominee. Watch price to back that w
Enormous president ial election. You want drama baby, i will give you 2020 prescription strength drama. Here at the very latest is Foxbusiness White house correspondents, the one and only blake burman. Like break it down, what just have embraced back either kennedy good to be with you. It was exactly one month ago september 26 when President Trump announced that he would be tapping Amy Coney Barrett to head to the Supreme Court of course to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Now that is all beneficial at this hour. Here in washington. As the proceedings are underway. The white house is not yet said what will happen later this evening. However there is expected to be some sort of formal celebration over at the white house later this evening. Once everything has become official. As for President Trump, he was out on the campaign trail earlier today. Three different stops in pennsylvania. This is how he was celebrating his third Supreme Court nominee. Watch price to back that w
You can watch for her in the near future on booktv on cspan2. Good evening and welcome back. This evening were delighted to have as our guest congressman abler swail well who is eric swawell. Congress mall swail well we are delighted have them with us here this evening am couple of thing opposite housekeeping. I if you have questions and we hope you do theres a little box on the screen that says ask a question. Type your question in there wellle go through those as we move through the event and of course, you can put comments into the chat room. Please use your best manners, and were very glad youre all here four supporting rakestraw books. Eric swalwell. Thank you, michael. Thank you so. You are such a great supporter of independent authors, all around the bay area, and eric i know that michael will do a great job getting the word out about your book. I guess i want to start off asking you a little bit about your reasons for writing end game inside the impeachment of donald trump. The
Unfortunately, over the last two or three weeks, things have gotten out of hand. I think we let our guard down. Reporter dr. Robert says the period after memorial day weekend was a turning point in that socalled california miracle. These are the charts that worry him. Abc7 news analyzed the numbers and found that six cabrera counties saw a spike in covid19 hospitalizations between may 22nd and june 29th. In the case of marin county, the hospitalization rate went from 1. 15 . In San Francisco, 4. 94 to 7 . If we continue to see some of the surges were seeing, there is no good reason to think we wont be packed with Covid Patients within two, three, four weeks. Reporter here are more troubling numbers. Total covid19 cases in the bay area on june 29th, almost 24,000. Thats a 74 increase from may 29th when we were at just over 13,000. At ucsf, there are currently 20 in patients. 11 are in icu. We are double where we were two or three weeks ago. Overnight, there were a bunch of people admitt