The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence and peace. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting 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 officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , jun
Henry thats barbershop talk. Michael when you were arrested at cambridge, did you know immediately when he answered that question this was going to be a big deal . Because it sounded to me like it was a very obvious point he made but did you see it immediately . Henry well, you know, my phones started ringing off the hook. I dont think you could use that metaphor anymore. Did your phone ring off the hook . [laughter] ken vibrated out of your pocket. Henry barack obama said it was stupid you got arrested. Yeah. But immediately he was attacked for doing it. So i knew he was going to have to pull back so i didnt know what he was going to do. Michael i got you. Henry so the idea of the you know, having a beer came up. And he asked my opinion about that and he talked to the policeman before he talked to me and i said, i think its a great idea. At that point, all i wanted was for heres what happened. We were making finding your roots, and my girlfriend and i flew out to l. A. On a friday. An
The president of the United States, against governors from both sides of the aisle. The white house claims they have all the testing that they need to reopen their states. But ask these governors and the answer pretty much is, what are you talking about . To try to push this off to say that the governors have plenty of testing and they should just get to work on testing, somehow, we arent doing our job is just absolutely false. Thats just delusional, to be making statements like that. We have been fighting every day for ppe and weve got some splice now coming in. Weve been fighting for testing. It would be nice if we had a National Strategy that was working with the states, so every state knew, precisely what was coming in. In the meantime, frustration with social distancing rules is growing across the country. Protests popping up in places like california, texas, maryland, and wisconsin. Officials warning these demonstrations could lead to a spike in infections. And force social dista