The minority leader. Mr. Schumer thank you. Madam president , over the past few months, both parties have worked together to provide historic levels of funding to help Small Businesses retain employees, meet payroll, and stay afloat during the covid19 pandemic. The Paycheck Protection Program, the main instrument to help Small Business, received 349 billion under the cares act and another 310 billion in supplemental legislation. The public has know how this money is being spent. Oversight, transparency, and accountability are crucial because from the moment the administration began implementing these funds, it became clear much of it wasnt going to those who needed it most. So today we are not taking any other action on the floor dealing with covid, so we thought we would take this opportunity to ask unanimous consent to get Something Real done that should have bipartisan support on both sides of the aisle. Who can be against transparency . Who can be against accountability . Who can n
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today after local prosecutors told giuliani s lawyers this week he is a target of their election interference investigation meaning an indictment is possible. in a separate investigation, cnn learned that two former trump white house lawyers were interviewed by the fbi about the classified documents seized last week at the former president s home in florida. let s get to it and begin with nick valencia live at the courthouse. rudy dgiuliani is still in the courtroom. you caught up with him. what did he say? reporter: defiant and computicom compcomexuding confidence. he asked for a continuance last week because of health concerns and ultimately a fulton county judge ordered him to appear today. on his way in to court, i p peppered him with questions including asking whether or not he lied before georgia lawmakers when he spoke to them at least three times in the wake of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani when you met with l lawmakers did you lie to them? we will not talk abou
today wyoming voters decide if that will cost liz cheney her seat in congress. we begin with important developments in several different investigations involving donald trump. first, a new court filing details the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the justice department asserting the affidavit it filed must be kept secret for now because it implicates highly classified material and because doj says its publication right now would damage the investigation. separately, a dramatic turn in the georgia investigation into trump s effort to overturn the 2020 results. rudy giuliani was told he is a target of that criminal investigation. and in the federal january 6th investigation, the trump white house lawyer is under subpoena to share what he knows with a federal grand jury. let s find out what this new court filing tells us about that mar-a-lago search. reporter: john, the justice department is really tipping their hand a little bit on what is going on in this investigation. and they
Have made to washington, d. C. , over the years. The the doors that they have knocked on, the efforts that they have contributed are just are just considerable. And you start to name names. You start thinking about tara sweeney and the folks that have been there year in and year out. Those who have been supportive, either traveling back here or those who call, those who write. It really is it really is its gratifying, its heartwarming, and it is it is a its a reality that you can never say thank you for the efforts that you have made over the years. So to know that as you as you spoke as alaskans that your voices have been heard and that congress has finally listened is, indeed, gratifying. And, of course, we would not have reach this point without two particular alaskans, the one im proud to serve with here in our delegation, don young, the dean of the house, the congressman for all alaska. He has singlehandedly kept this issue alive in the house for a generation. It has been 13 times