This is the federal that passes 24 trillion federal debt passes 24 trillion. Can find us on twitter and facebook. For being with us. We want to begin with the numbers from johns hot and university, which has been covid19sck of january. More than will and. The death five countries has surpassed 203,000. That this morning from Johns Hopkins university. The comments this past week from the Senate Republican leader on the states declaring bankruptcy, getting a lot of attention across the country. Here is what he told the radio talkshow last week. [video clip] i would be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. Theres no good reason for it to not be available. Is that it would be for federal government to send it down to future generations. Host that from the Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell. Lets get right to your phone calls. Marvin is joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. I thinknk it caller they should get the states money. At this point right now they are
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0 he s got about the historians say about a hundred day window, really, to get anything, in terms of his legislative agenda, set for the second term and about a year and a half in total before all the congressional campaigns, mid term campaigns begin. so that s what we re going to see tonight and i think you re going to see in an unusual step go from tonight, right out to the campaign trail because he s dealing with a republican party that he feels is intransigent. and he s going to i think north carolina, atlanta and then on to chicago to try to build a case for his agenda going into that second term and a lot of it, and i suspect what we re going to see tonight, is about the economy, about budget. that s got to be the first thing, because unless he gets the money under control, he can t get to that second term agenda. these are the justices of the supreme court attending. you ll remember back in 2010 there was a big to-do about the congressional democrats criticized the court s is