Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio discusses the Senate GOP's HEALS Act, his small business relief proposal and the 2020 election on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Theres still, they are trying to
get their act together.
Ainsley lets bring in Florida,
GOP, Marco Rubio, chairman of the
Senate, small business and
entrepreneurs committee good
morning to you Senator
Senator Good Morning, Guys
Ainsley whats. Your reaction to
this
can a deal get done when
Republicans and Democrats are on
different pages,
Senator anything that we put
out and Democrats and Chuck
Schumer will attack and theres
an election in two and a half
months.
They want to win their seats.
Ultimately, look this bill
touches on a lot of bases and
things that we need to do
the way the place works. We cant
pass a bill without Democrats,
supporting it as well, and we
obviously have to get it through
the house which is controlled by
the Democrats and has to be
signed by President Trump, who is
a Republican.
This bill will have to touch a
lot of things,
its not easy to get there, but I
believe we ultimately will. I
dont know if itll take one
week, two weeks or three weeks,
but im, confident that we will
do something thats, meaningful
Steve. The meter is running
because it sounds like the
payments are going to be running
out. I believe, at the end of this
week,
Senator yesterday Mitch
Mcconnell said you know. The
quandary we are in is right. Now
America, as a country, we have one
foot in the pandemic and one
foot in the recovery- and there
are a number of Republicans who
say: look we dont have the
money to you know just keep
writing gigantic checks. You are
proposing the small business
relief package.
What is in that
senator yeah? I can. The
question is chopping in and out,
but I think your question is
what is in our PPP proposal and
the answer is more targeted,
its available its very
similar to what we had before
sixty percent for payroll, forty percent for other
expenses. That now includes the
personal protective equipment
and other technology that they
need in order to comply with
local covid restrictions that
cost money, but its only
available to businesses that are
three hundred employees or smaller, who
suffered fifty percent in reduction in
revenues either first
Quarterover this year or second
quarter of this year, compared to
the same time frame a year ago,
and we also set aside some of
that money for businesses with
ten employees or less sort of
small mom and pop businesses.
Brian lets talk a little bit
about two thousand and twenty and the balance on
the Senate is on Everybodys. Mind Democrats feel, as though
mind Democrats feel as though
its within shouting distance,
but lets talk about the
President of the United States
trailing most battleground
states
in CBS Tracking poll. They had
him back in Ohio,
knowing what you know from twenty sixteen
and knowing whats ahead, the
unknown of the pandemic and more
and China. Now too, what does
President Trump have to do to
close the gap, or are you one of
the many who dont believe the
polls?
Yeah look. I think polls snapshot of the moment
snapshot of the moment.
They are not nowadays theres
a challenge, and I will say this
right now: its strange
environment because of the
pandemic and everything thats
going on.
It becomes a choice between Joe
Biden and Donald Trump and when
it becomes a choice between two
candidates. Thats, where I think
Donald Trump will win,
itll be a close election,
they always are, and I believe he
will win- and that includes
Florida
Ainsley. I was reading the
op ed. Everybody is asking about
Covid and reopening and sports,
and will schools reopen in the
fall and can athletes safely
compete? And you say yes, they
can whats your plan. How can
we do this?
Senator game of football comes
with inherent risks.
If you leave it to doctors, no
kid will play football.
We have to be in the job of
mitigating risks, whether its
schools or sports field, and we
have to do cost, benefit
analysis, theres benefits to
opening schools and sports in
high school, because they attach
a lot of kids to school, keeps
this of them from coming back
and many from dropping out,
and we have to weigh with
potential costs, and I do think
you can safely return to school.
Well, it be on the scheduled
date. Will we we need extra few
weeks, its going to be
different and we have to be
flexible
in Florida. We have option to
starting season in October and
we are not expecting snow in the
winter months.
We need to be flexible, with it
Steve sure, baseball with the
Marlins half of the team tested
positive yesterday
and down in Miami, if particular
senator, it has been a hot spot.
Although we hear its
plateauing
is part of the problem, people
not getting the Miami on how you
spread it or whats going on
Senator. I think part of the
problem. We have large extended
families. As you know, hispanic
community. We have big our
family for the most part all
live in Miami Dade. We dont
have a lot of relatives living
in another part of the country
that visit us on Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
You have a lot of family living
together and you have gatherings
and we have densely populated
areas, households in some parts
of Miami Dade, where mom dad
the four kids, grandmother and
grandfather all live in the same
house, thats a factor as well
so theres a variety of
different factors in play, and I
am look. We are starting to see
the covid like symptoms visits
to the er, begin to fall,
thats, usually the first
indicater that you will see
dropoff. We are hoping right
if people go back to doing what
we were doing a month ago, the
numbers will spike up again
so ultimately a lot of credit to
our doctors, hospitals, but im
hoping here over the next few
days and weeks as people begin
to sort of limit. The number of
people that come in contact with
they can begin to bring this
under Control
Brian. That would certainly help
because we need sports on all
levels.
A lot of postponements in new.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.