They have did this for three months. Now its a very serious cliffs that hurt lots of people, unemployment, rental, state and local. They have enough money for 2 billion that benefits trump hotels and they say they stwr no money for food assistance. What the heck is going on . So we got to read the bill really carefully. We hope they can get their act together. We very much want get something done for the needs of the people and the needs of the country. But sometimes its hard to negotiate when youre sort of negotiate wag ghost because one person says one thing and another person says another and one person says the third. The problem in the Republican Senate legion. So in light of taking with the leader was close to ending was about the they didnt have money for food stamps but they have money for an f. B. I. Building just so they can diminish competition for the president s hotel. In any event, i dont think that Mitch Mcconnell knew that was in the bill. But in any event, who knows is right in any event, they have like a tax credit for expensive dinners and lunches but no money or nutrition assistance in the initiative. Heres the thing. Right now, were at a time when children are food insecure in our country. People are hungry, never thought they would ever go to a food bank. People are being in the verge of eviction because they cant pay the rent. Theyve lost their jobs and no fault of their own. And again, again, families cant pay the rent. And they are resenting the fact that people were getting 600 which was helping to get them out of poverty and make ends meet. With all of that happening to people in our country, these are the American People. They just waited, what, 10 weeks, almost two and a half months. They put it all on pause as if hunger could be paused and rent could be paused and needing money in their pockets so that people could make ends meet would be paused but it wasnt. Ow they come back piecemeal. The pause and piecemeal. The piece meal just isnt where this has to be. Piecemeal and pathetic, sometimes. That really is pathetic. It isnt serious, whatever this is. However, we will continue to see as we go forward, but the fact is this is wrong. We have to do whats right for the American People. You know these stock market is being bolstered by big dollars making sure that the market doesnt go down and maybe thats a good idea but why cant we spend trillions of dollars to bolster the middle class in our country . All we did, we had this bill, we had that bill. We think we have to support our heroes, our state and local workers, health care workers, teachers, teachers, teachers, transit, sanitation, food supply, people who meet the needs of the American People. Theyre our heroes they risk their lives to save other lives and yet they may lose their jobs and when they lose their jobs, they go on unemployment. So what are we saving by not helping state and local government . Secondly, went to open our economy, open our schools, testing, testing, testing, tracing, tracking, testing, tracking, treating, separation, it takes es money and equipment which i we dont have. Denial, delay, distortion. Thats their game up until now. So we had this bill. Open to put, again, our economy by tracing, testing, tracing, treating and put money in the pockets of the American People. We had some other priorities that we want to see in the bill. But if theyre not even getting o the fundamentals of food and rent and economic survival, theyre not really ready to have a serious negotiation. However, well continue. Well read what they put forth. But im going to read all that tonight. Im going to have my staff read some of it too. Staff of the committees of jurisdiction to make a judgment about it. But it doesnt address what we just talked about. But it doesnt address this. So there are any things in the bill that might be acceptible . I dont know. Well theres a couple of things left out. Rental assistance, the cliff expired thursday. Not only do they have no rental assistance for people who need help, but they didnt even put a moratorium. So hundreds of thousands of people could be kicked out of their houses next week because they didnt want a moratorium. And on unemployment proposal, the proposal is fraudulent. You dont tell someone who has lost his or her job that theyre getting a 30 pay cut. That is just not fair and not right. There are so many people unemployed. They need the help. Second, this program which we extend until january 31 in the heroes bill has done more to remove millions of people from poverty or prevent millions of people from going into poverty than any other. Were always looking for antipoverty program. This does it. They want to cut that. Third, its done more to bolster the economy than virtually anything else but one bright spot in this economy since the depths of april and may is that Consumer Spending is actually up. Well, one of the reasons is the generous pandemic unemployment insurance. But the fourth reason may be the worst of all. You call upstate governments and state unemployment offices and they say they cant i want policemen their plan for weeks or implement for weeks and months. How are they going to feed their kids . How are they going to pay the mortgage . And my office called about 10 or 11 states and not one of them could implement the program immediately. Most of them said months. So the unemployment has problems. They dont have enough money to open up the schools safely. You need a lot of money to open up the schools safely because the schools have huge expenses. I had one district in upstate new york, 4,000 students, 500 faculty, teachers and staff and it cost them about 350,000 for masks for a year because you have to have a new mask every year. They have to change their bus routes. You cant sit the kids on the buses next to each other. Double the bus routes, overtime for drivers. More gasoline. A lot of schools want to change their gymnasiums and cafeterias into classrooms. Cost money. And their proposal is totally inadequate in these areas. In fact, we think at last punitive provision in there that says, you know, you only get money if you open up your School Almost as if whether its safe or not. So theres loads of problems in their proposals plus all the things they left out, which nance mentioned some of them. Nancy mentioned some of them. Suffice it to say we hope we would be able to reach an agreement. We clearly do not have shared values. Having said that, we just want to see if we can find some Common Ground to go forward. But were not at that place yet. I have nine grandchildren as you may heard me say, again and again, how long does it take me to Start Talking about my grandchildren . He has one, noah, and he talks about him all the time. Almost two years old but mine are older and they are from grade school to college. And one of them is in Public School in san francisco. And this is just disparity and if you want to go remote learning, do kids have the equipment to do so and the rest . It takes money to do that. I have another soninlaw in another state who is a Public School teacher, children with disabilitys and the rest. And that takes another special kind of money to get it done. So if they want to open up schools, they have to do it safely, but if they want to open up schools, they have to do it fairly too so that it reaches all the children. All of this takes money. They dont like to spend money except to give tax cuts to their rich friends. 83 of their tax cam went to the top 1 . Have i said that to you lately . Almost every day, right . But hes got to write it every right . Remember this, nothing brings more money to the treasury than investing in education. And now at this time, when it is a health issue as well, as a distinguished leader has indicated, its about space, its about personnel, its about sanitation, its about ventilation, its about so many things. You need money to do it. I dont know if they have 51 votes, much less 60, to do any of that in the senate, but i do know that we have heard any yet that is even close to what meets the needs of the American People. Its trickle down, money up here, trickle down. If it does trickle down, that would be good, if it doesnt, so be it. We are a bubble up crowd. Are atand this, we consumer economy putting money to the American People so that demandn spend and inject into the economy and create jobs, thats what makes an economy strong. Not just bolstering the stock market. Thank you all. One other thing, to other things im going to say quickly. The republican mantra is let the private sector do it. This is a moment and knows the private sector can do it and they have to overcome some of their resistance to letting the government do it because only the government can help us with the greatest Health Crisis in 100 years after the greatest economic. We are going to keep talking were sleeps. We want done. But they have to come away to solve the real problems of this country. We are you talking. Are going to keep talking. Are going to keep talking. [inaudible] thats what you get when you dont have. Food to eat. You dont have food to eat. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] a hearing with william barr delayed this morning because the house judiciary chair jerry nadler has been in a car accident on his way to the hearing. We understand he has not been seriously hurt and it is now expected to get underway at around 10 45 eastern. While we wait, here is a portion of washington journal. Tea Party Patriots cofounder and delegate to the 2020 rnc convention. Remind our viewers why you started to tea Party Patriots . Guest thank you for having me. I am make a walter to rather than a delegate. I want to make sure we are clear. We got involved