can't reach Google at the moment.....HELP!

Did you try cycling the power? 90% of the time that fixes most issues. Also have you tried turning off wifi and see if the problem is still there? Just a couple of quick thoughts, mine seems to be working fine.
 
I can't explain this but my non-techie girl friend just added the app "Google" to the to the Google grouping and now it works!
 
After some updates I just started experiencing this same issue on my Moto Z. Tried everything I could find online relating to google app. Finally resolved it by turning off voice commands in Moto app. This interfered with Google Assistant.
 
After some updates I just started experiencing this same issue on my Moto Z. Tried everything I could find online relating to google app. Finally resolved it by turning off voice commands in Moto app. This interfered with Google Assistant.

I did a similar thing to fix it. I found google now interfered with google assistant and vice versa. By turning off google assitsant google now started working again.