Barrett to the Supreme Court, with National Turn it National Journal Senate Reporter. Maryellen klaas, and then Michael Binder. Journal is next. With eight days to go until election day 2020, congas begins with a stalemate over Economic Relief and a response to the coronavirus pandemic and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the support. The senate has a rare weekend session to move forward on the nomination and democrats are holding the senate in session through tonight, into this morning. You can see live pictures of the senate floor right now. Heres how we are dividing the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can join the conversation by texting with your first name, city and state, at 202 7488003, or go to twitter, or facebook. Com cspan. Has covid19 impacted your vote . If it hasnt, we want to hear from you as well. What is impacting your vote and if the pandemic impacts your vote, we want to know why. Why has it motivated you to
To equate and eventually end this apartment peach met process. This is dead on arrival in the senate. So they look dead on arrival but the vote was not technically at iran pauls motion but it was to table it for their few senators like rob portman who said click declared unconstitutional. Its on both sides is it possible five or more vote to convict. Its possible. Itssa almost certain to end in another acquittal. Never trust on february 9 presold whole lot about what it is going to look like. Republicans certainly do not want to have a lot of time spent will see what happens in the next few weeks how many senators are needed to convict . You need 67ou senators of everybody shows up, two thirds of the people who show up and vote. Those have to devote to convict. But it is never happened before with the president or expresident. Ed sue needs 17 Senate Republicans to vote to convict. We had five who sort of crossed party lines yesterday to get rid of iran pauls motion. Thats a dozen short
I want to finish and i will restate the question. Are you there . Yes, i am. Clark, i will restate the question more singly. Uccictly. They want to substitute their own judgments for the legislature. My concern about judge barrett is that her candor indicates an approach, an active one to the Second Movement that would possibly strike down common. Ense gun violence measures other measures that are designed to stop gun violence. Of janeterned because rice, who is still grieving her son. Barton, whoman, was mourning for her brother. Sons who have a hole forr heart further their son ethan. We are a safer state because of the victims and survivors of gun violence whether newtown or Downtown Hartford and all across the state, often in communities of color. Every neighborhood, every family, every community is vulnerable to the scourge an epidemic of gun violence. Thate ask you about regionalismlosophy, originalism has applied to the second mimic. Could that lead to striking down those laws t
The only person waving a white flag and a white mask is joe biden. We will defeat the virus. We will not control it. We will try to contain it as best we can. If you look at the full context of what i was talking about is we need to make sure we have therapeutics and vaccines. We may need to make sure that when people get sick that they have the kind of therapies that the president of the United States has that we can provide those emergency use authorizations and they should be coming in very short order. Hopeful, based on a number of conversations that vaccines are just a few weeks away when we are in preparation for that. Time, eight National Lockdown strategy or a National Quarantine strategy that is proposed by the left is not effective, is not what ultimately will contain or control this virus. And a suggestion that we are waving the red flag, i mean the white flag, is certainly not in keeping with this president. You know him, he doesnt give up and he will not give up until all
Desk its good to be back here today. Lieutenant governor want to thank you, sender shots, statewide elected officials and the state legislators that are here today. It is an honor to stand before you today as they 57th governor of the great state of missouri. Some point in our lives many of us have probably been reminded of the importance of considering the past when making decisions for the future. It also seems fitting that such a historic milestone, missouris bicentennial celebration, coincides with these challenges. Missouri is seen difficult days in the past 200 years from the civil war and the Great Depression womens suffrage, civil rights, through it all missouri has prevailed . [applause] we had just experienced a chaotic and on precedented series most of ministrations heavily 60 days to prepare the First Six Months of the administration were hectic to say the least we are faced with quick decisions on a 30 billion state budget and nearly 150 of legislation that same summer, an