voters were misunderstood. if you re the average voter, you re thinking, you know, looks like his policies are working to me to some degree, which explains why trump was able to make some inroads, real inroads among nonwhite voters feeling like you know what? i m working and making decent money. things feel good. martha: sounds like there was concern about that. clearly significant job growth in the trump administration. now you have an unprecedented flood of relief money that is leaving people at home and not work. president biden says he will announce $6 billion in spending to build black wealth and narrow the racial wealth gap. amid the discussion of forgiving students loans and reparations, all of that is in the mix. peter doocy live with the details. we begin with aei scholar, marc thiessen. how are you? hi, martha. martha: what did you make of the comments? it s a tale of three democrats. bill clinton said the era of big government is over. barack obama said t
maintenance of national parks and other federal land open to the public. senators are now working on amendments to the bill. no votes are scheduled yet, but work is expect today continue to next week. now to live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. 1mighty god, thank you for your great and precious promises. you have promised to keep a record of our pain. you have promised that no weapon formed against us will prosper. .you have promised to supply our needs and to surround us with the shield of your blessings. you have promised to keep us from stumbling or slipping. .lord, you have promised that nothing can separate us from your love. you have promised to do for us more than we can ask or imagine. great and precious are your promises. .give our lawmakers confidence in your promises, as they face these tumultuous times. sustain
republican senate finance committee chair, chuck grassley who joins us right now. thank you for coming. glad to be with you, neil. neil: what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate? chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes? i don t think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the opening statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. and then at that point, there might be some debate of that. but i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thought-out testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. neil: as you know the preside
questions from the house intelligence committee. both open sessions. mr. mueller s report into russian interference in the 2016 election will air live on c-span3, online at c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. and now education secretary betside voy devos on her educat freedom scholarships initiative. she spoke at the fund or american studies here in washington, d.c., and also talked about the cost of higher education and free speech on college campuses. if i could please have your attention, please finish your meal of your dessert quietly. thank you, all, for being with us this afternoon. i m roger ream. president of the fund for american studies. i know i said hello to a lot of you, but i, again, want to say thank you to those of you who generously support our educational programs and our work with high school and college students around the world. it s my distinct pleasure and privilege on behalf of our port of tru board of trustees, ask you to join me
military. their armed agents are propping up the regime. there is a real chance here that if there s regime change in venezuela, the leftists of cuba and nicaragua will see real change, too. watch it today. we re on it for you. money, all about apple. even though iphone sales dropped 17%, the stock is still surging this morning. look at it go, nearly 5% higher. $210 is the price. when it opens this morning, it s on track to regain its trillion dollar valuation. that of course is helping the dow industrials. apple is a dow stock. we are going up at the opening bell. the dow is up maybe 70 points. look at that nasdaq, up 47 points. that s a full half of one percent. nice gain. stay there, please. moments from now, john bolton, national security adviser, will be with us. is this end game in venezuela? good question. he will answer it. varney & company is about to begin. stuart: venezuela is the news of the day. let s get at it. eric farnsworth is with us. he s with the cou