Todd Lucas Tomlinson says support is growing for the stimulus boost. Reporter Donald Trumps treasury secretary, second ramsden was checks ship out to millions of americans via direct deposit last night. In the senate the increase the payments to 2,000 hit a snag. The president highlighted 3 additional issues of National Significance we would like to see congress tackle together. The senate will begin the process to bring these priorities into focus. Reporter Mitch Mcconnell blocking a unanimous vote on the 2,000 stimulus checks questioned by the president. He lump them into two other proposals the president wanted, repealing section 230 to protect big tech, forming an Advisory Committee that will study the results of the 2020 elections, democrats call this proposal poison pills. Leader mcconnell holds the key to unlocking this dilemma. The solution is a simple one. Put both bills up for simple up or down vote and let the chips fall where they may. Reporter Bernie Sanders doubling down
The many problems created by obamacare. From senator collins bill to repeal obamacares 30hour work week, which i just mentioned earlier, to a provision that i came up with that would exempt schools, colleges and universities from obamacares crippling employer mandate, something that our colleges and universities across the country are feeling and its impacting their ability to hire employees. Instead of fleeing from obamacare or attempting to put a positive spin on its many failures, madam president , democrats should join republicans to repeal this broken law and replace it with real reforms. Then the democrats would have a real accomplishment to take home to their constituents and they wouldnt have to worry about having the white house send a team of people in the war room assigned to democrats here on capitol hill who are trying to figure out ways to message the bad news that keeps coming out about higher premiums, higher copays, higher deductibles, fewer doctors and fewer hospitals
Reaper in the foreground and people dropping body bags on the front steps of the capitol at his feet. The body bags are stamped county coroner. Again, this is tallahassee. Florida State Capitol building this morning. Weve seen similar protests like this outside the president s hotel in downtown washington, d. C. But at the florida State Capitol today, i think this happened i think weve also got shots of the signs that they held as well after they dropped the body bags on the steps. You can see them there. There you go. One of these signs was actually echoed at the trump hotel body bag protest, trump lies, people die. You can see a corpse is not a customer. Mourning in america. Also one of the signs there, we are better than this. Florida has more than 41,000 cases of coronavirus now, over 1,700 people in florida dead. Theres also similar scene today outside the Governors Mansion in austin, texas. People dumping body bags outside that building today too in texas, People Holding signs sh
Health officials, most of whom are selfquarantining, will all testify remotely. New overnight, dr. Anthony fauci laying bare his emotions about opening prematurely. If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to open america again, then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks around the country. This will not only result in needles suffering and death, but it will set us back. This wont be the first time fauci has gone public with his concerns. He said this about testing back in march. It is a fail. It is admitted. The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, were not set up for that. Do i think we should be . Yes, but were not. Reporter last night the testing issue front and center at the white house. Notably dr. Fauci and other Health Officials were not there despite being at the white house on monday. On the same day the u. S. Covid death toll topped 80,000. The president boasted about the achievement falsely stating the u. S. Outpaces
Happening now, the Obama Administration says it is fine tuning the strategy in iraq. Pentagon officials are looking for a way to bring sunni tribes into the fight against the Islamic State militants. One possibility, the u. S. Could begin arming sunni fighters directly. That would replace or supplement the Current System where it goes through the shiite government in baghdad. This as forensic teams are trying to identify 500 bodies exhumed in tikrit. The bodies are believed to belong to military cadets that isis claims to have killed last year at a nearby military base. Overnight in baghdad, at least nine People Killed and 14 injured in twin car bomb blasts at hotels popular with officials and foreigners. Standing by live in baghdad is Senior International correspondent arwa damon. Good morning, arwa. Reporter good morning. We just sent a team out to both of those locations that were targeted overnight. Extensive damage done to the front of the babylon hotel. Security on the ground not