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Separate televised town halls. Trump spoke to booters in miami at the same time biden was speaking to booters in philadelphia. Amy Coney Barrett took center stage as she was grilled by senators during her multiday confirmation hearing. She sidestepped answers to specific questions by senators and, including Dianne Feinstein and, harris. Joined me now by skype from San Francisco is kqed Senior Editor scott shaver. Also joining by skype is kqed politics and government correspondent marie sub august lets talk with the president is back providing relief money on california wildfires. Whats going on here. There was an Emergency Declaration request sent to the white house and fema by governor gavin newsom and we found out on thursday that the application had been rejected by fema, which is kind of a surprise because these applications have been approved, so that created a bit of a stir. Suddenly we had House Minority leader on the phone and within a few hours the president overruled the orig
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