The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, give our lawmakers the wisdom to remember and be grateful for all the things you have already done. Lord, you have sustained our nation during seasons of war and peace. You have helped us to find creative ways to strive for a more perfect union. You have provided us with solutions to difficult problems, just when we needed you most. Let this day be a time when senators find time to thank you for your bountiful blessings and faithfulness. As our lawmakers strive to live one day at a time, may they keep their focus on your power and love. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding
Disturbing and said it could top 100,000 cases per day. And we are preparing to close the books on what has been a rough first half of the year its included a painful, record breaking sell off followed by a fast, record setting climb back up stocks set therefore for their best quarter in decades. 59 minutes left of the session morgan, we are up a full percent on the s p 500 yeah, were watching that last day of the quarter, last day of the first day my goodness. Coming up, as we wrap up the first half of the year, were going to focus on why not work from home. Twilio stocks up in 2020 well speak with the ceo about the demand for his companys Cloud Services during the pandemic mike is tracking the Market Action kayla has the highlights from fed chair powell and secretary mnuchins testimony on capitol hill and joining us to look ahead to the second half of the year is lori but mike, lets start off with you and a look at the market this is a good illustration of the old say a iing dont sho
Whitaker on the Senate Judiciary today firing up the subpoena cannon straight at 507, mostly former senior obama officials 50. In probe of abuses of power in the russia probe. Weve got the names. Plus this, newly declassified documents show what weve been reporting for three years now. Republicans are now outraged that in these documents the fbi knew that democrat funded Opposition Research used to do unlawful surveillance of the Trump Campaign was not verified, was uncorroborated and there was no there there. This is early 2017, well before Robert Mueller launched the trump russia probe. Former Police Commissioner howard safir is with us tonight. President trump warning Washington State officials take back seattle from anarchists. Reports are coming in, anarchists using armed guards and doing extortion of local businesses, literally seized control of six city blocks. With us tonight, senator rick scott on progressive like alexandria ocasiocortez misleading the public on the facts in t
Country and the world that he is possibly rejecting the social distancing and stay at home quarantines that every Health Professional and Infectious Disease scientist has told us would save us and our hospitals from total catastrophe. And why why would the president reject these potentially lifesaving recommendations you may ask because its the economy stupid yes like all good tinpot weakling wanna be tough guy leaders trump and a host of others on capitol hill and wall d street are suddenly sounding a new call to arms that we must sacrifice our elderly and our own personal wealth so that we can save their oso precious economy here is Lieutenant Governor out of texas dan patrick telling fox news as Tucker Carlson that he and other Older Americans are ready to literally fall d d on the coronavirus sword take a listen that we cant lose our whole country we were having an economic collapse im also a Small Businessman i understand it and i talk with Business People all the time tucker and
A listen that we cant lose our whole country we were having an economic collapse im also a Small Businessman i understand it and i talk with Business People all d the time tucker and and so just my heart is lifted tonight by what i heard the president say basically saying. This disease could take your life but thats not the scariest thing to you theres something that would be worse than dying. Yeah. But dont be fooled my friend those are the words of my self sacrificing brave man those are the words of a zealot a cultist if you will as former f. B. I. Special agent ali soufan tweeted in response i dealt with suicidal cults before i encountered people who are willing to die for their faith ideology race except for but i have never encountered anyone who is willing to die for someone elses for a one k. This is all new level of craziness so as our leaders appear to be seriously considering once again to put profits over people as they try to convince you and i to make the ultimate sacrifi