Coronavirus relief negotiations. Well also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. As the United States approaches 5 million confirmed covid19 cases, White House Coronavirus response coordinator dr. Deborah birx says that we have now entered a new phase of the pandemic. Good morning, its monday, august 3, 2020. We will start the program talking about that new phase. We will hear comments from dr. Birx on the state of the Union Yesterday and we will look at other headlines as well. Thes how to be a part of conversation. For those of you in the eastern and central time. 202 7488000 mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. Send us a text if you like, 202 7488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. Your tweets are welcome as well, cspanwj, and we will look for your posts on facebook. One view from abroad, bdc and the reporting on her comments yesterday, headline from the new phase oftering coronavirus out
Reaction to the Government Shutdown. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. Democrats 202 7488000. Worker we a federal want to hear from you as well at 202 7488003. Worker we want to hear from you as wellses on facebook. Thank you for being with us on what is likely to be a busy day determining whether or not the house and senate resolve differences or the Government Shutdown moves into the work week. Of the the front page Washington Post. Besides cast bitter blame over the shutdown impact impasse. The country is sick of shutdown games. From one budget crisis to another is getting tiresome. Americans barely flinch anymore at the dire warnings of what might happen to them should the federal behemoth run out of cash. It was not supposed to work this way writes the detroit news. Decisions about how to spend taxpayer dollars should not be made in a panic as the clock ticks down to a to Government Shutdown. The process of debating and putting in place of f
Would reopen the government through february the eighth. Host why 1 00 in the morning . Guest because it is the senate. In the senate, under the the way the rules are set up, if there is a filibuster, and you have to move to limit debate, the earliest the vote can occur is one hour after the senate , two days after the majority leader has called for the vote. You were watching the senate floor at about 2 00 a. M. On saturday morning, that is when Mitch Mcconnell filed the motion to set up the vote, normally you would have a situation where it would be one hour after the senate comes in, a normal time. It would be at 9 00 or 10 00 in the morning. Because of this Government Shutdown situation they are trying to make sure they have the vote to before federal workers are supposed to report to work and that is 1 00 a. M. At the white house, the president was supposed to be in florida. He is here for the weekend. He is scheduled to leave for switzerland on wednesday. That trip is now very mu
Term for Justice Neil Gorsuch the supported in the confirmation hearings. A particular issue or cases you are following in the term ahead . There are a few interesting cases will be argued in the forthcoming term. One of them was just recently granted. The janice case involves this issue that was before the Supreme Court before Justice Scalias death and deals with the ability to collect union dues from state employees without their willingness to do so, against their will. And it should be an interesting issue, an issue that was left open. Being deadlocked 44 the year that Justice Scalia died. And the Masterpiece Cake shop involving a bakery owner charged by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for refusing to decorate a specialty cake for a samesex couple in connection with their wedding. Both of those should be interesting as well. And whitford, a wisconsin case dealing with restricting. Brent you clerked for a justice. What intercontinental action will Justice Alito have . Senator l
Lesniewski for cq roll call. Senator, let me ask you about the news from this past week. You have concerns about the meeting between director comey general,eputy attorney where he was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing. My. Grassley it is understanding that within a few hours of this interview, somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. You accept that explanation from the Justice Department depart despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept what i am told unless there is lingering suspicion. Ms. Werner you have questions about the way the president handled the situation and the firing of director comey . Sen. Grassley i would look at my relationship with the fbi generally and i would look at a particularly with my relationship with comey. In my constitutional job of oversight, of having a