Environment that will support a full economic recovery. I yield the floor. In march, our country lost a great statesman and my fellow squealer, former senator tom coburn of oklahoma. A family physician who delivered more than 4,000 babies, he was known as dr. Tom in oklahoma. But in washington, he was called dr. No because of his fierce opposition to adding more red ink to the National Debt. Having served just 10 years in the senate before retiring in 2014, the year i was elected, i never had the honor to serve alongside dr. Coburn. Nonetheless, his leadership and his efforts to eliminate government waste and overreach continues to be an inspiration to me and to many others. If you cannot find waste in any part of the federal budget, he once commented, it can only be for one reason, you havent looked. Many of the outlandish examples he exposed are now what i like to call legendary. Take, for example, the shrimp on a treadmill, and of course, there was the bridge to nowhere. Every feder
Nomination of James Trainer to the commissioner on the federal election commission. When the Senate Returns live coverage youre on cspan2. The editor of the military times joins us to talk about Veterans Health and the coronavirus pandemic. We saw the numbers this past weekend 02 1000 veterans that have died from this disease. There is this happening . What is this trend about . This is right up all over the country and this morning its around 1060. About a quarter of those deaths are in new york city. New york has been the hardest hit region of the country by this virus. So theres more va centers that have 260 deaths there but the other depths and spread out across 110 different va facilities and this is all over the country. Every place has been touched by this in some way or in some places its just a handful of cases, one or two dots other places. New orleans has been hit hard. Chicago has i believe between 60 deaths so this is not a regional problem. This is not just one area and i
Outbreak. Also a National Reporter with the hill. Ebola and the global scramble to prevent the next killer outbreak, what was the scramble like . Guest the scramble has been going on for a couple decades. In the wake of the Ebola Outbreak in west africa that infected more than 128,000 people and killed more than 11,000, the world has undergone a change and they are understanding how pandemics have the potential to spread. We live in a different world than we did back in 1918 when the spanish flu struck or even the end of the 1960s when there were significant flu outbreaks. We are a globalized world. We travel all over the place. Americans travel to every continent in the world and people in every continent travel here. That sort of interconnectedness means something pops up in a wet a planen china is only flight away from the United States. Something that a reps in the jungles of south america is only a short way away from the United States. The american cdc funded a bunch cdcs in 49 c
Im trying to grab the cleaver, but hes swinging. Now the ensuing struggle between the crazed man and the firefighters, jose ortiz and James Trainer was on a Security Camera and new yorks bravest put their lives on the line in order to subdue the attacker until the police arrived. The 28yearold man has been charged with attempted murder and remains behind bars at this hour and the wife according to the New York Post is listed in Critical Condition at a new york area hospital, but she is thankfully expect today survive and thanks to the horrific actions of the new York City Fire department and all americans can be proud of brave first be responders. As always, thank you for being with us. Let not your heart be troubled. Greta is next to go on the record and well see you here tomorrow night. Thanks for being with us. Tonight, the sequester ax falls in four days. Are you scared . The sequester. Im not here to scare people, im here to inform. Have you stocked up your food . Rest assured the
States Michelle Obama to clintons former rival who is here, Bernie Sanders, and therein lies a big problem for the Clinton Campaign. How to get senator sanders supporters on their side. We know he has endorsed her. He wants her to beat trump come november but as far as supporters are concerned, not exactly an easy task considering what we just witnessed at a sanders event moments ago. We have got to defeat donald trump. [ boos ] and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and tim kaine. [ boos ] brothers and sisters [ boos ] brothers and sisters [ boos ] this is this is the real world that we live in. That happened moments ago, we have to talk about that. Also the backdrop of all of this email hacking, a leadership coup and a big bounce for donald trump from his convention. No dearth of news on this monday. Lets kick things off first with manu raju, cnns senior political reporter and the fbi investigating russias alleged role in an email leak. That has just brought down in part the head o