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I know that here in pennsylvania, not only are we going to do what we have to do to make sure the mail is delivered on time, with this morning i was in contact with our attorney general, josh shapiro, they will be filing lawsuits, make sure the mail gets delivered on time. >> and, again, that's in pennsylvania. you talk about, i know you've been writing about this too, congress should bail out the post office, no conditions, just like congress and lawmakers have done with big corporations in the past. is it too late? if congress does allocate a bunch of money to the postal service, for example...

>> geoff bennett, you're knee deep in the postal service story now. i guess the question is, number one, is the post master general going to show up for congressional hearings, and number two, we've heard over the weekend that certain things are now at least temporary halt is being put to, supposedly dismantling sorting machines, removi removing the blue bins. what have you learned over the weekend? >> yeah, as a result of push back from the american people as relates to removal of blue post office drop boxes, the postal service says they're putting a pause on removals for at least 90 days, wh...

This is postmaster general dejoy doing this. this is completely wrong. the guardrails are off and our democracy right now. and this sort of behavior is happening. >> and that from "the new york times." you don't buy the counterargument, the postal service moves around the big blue post office box all the time, this is not unusual, that doesn't hold water with you? >> this is another example of the trump strategy of delay, delay, delay, to hopefully they will lose our attention span on this. this is wrong. this is happening now and we got to stop it in real time. that's why -- i'm a moderate. i...

Election, and he's using the postal service as his cudgel. what the postal worker yz have talked to and the union workers i have talked to so far say, what they view dejoy as doing is trying to privatize the postal service. republicans. conservatives, have been trying to do this, they say, for generations. and that the steps he is taking in slowing down delivery times has a way of reducing confidence. public confidence in the postal service, so that when either dejoy or the president tries to take that next step in terms of privatizing the postal service, the american people wisay, you know wh...

President clinton and under president bush, i never heard from the white house. i never heard from the white house. we were running a profit. we were running it in an efficient manner, and there's no reason to believe the postal service can't be run in that manner now. clearly, the postal service has lost money as a result of the pandemic, and -- >> it's also a different time. you have amazon now and ups and fedex and all these other companies that have gotten involved. >> absolutely. we had, you know, in 2006, the act was changed, and they created both competitive mail and monopoly mail. comp...