Well, thank you very much. This is a very big day for our country. Its an affirmation of the work we have been doing for three and a half years. This is not just for the last few months. This is for three and a half years. Its a great thing. We were very strong. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. And that strength let us get through this horrible pandemic. E pandemic. Largely through, i think we are doing really well. I had a meeting yesterday on vaccines and we are doing incredibly well with that. I think you will have a positive surprises and therapeutics likewise we are doing extremely well. Sure is we are doing well. I think those two words blend with each other. Cures. Tremendous progress is being made on vaccines. We have ready to go in terms of transportation and logistics, over 2 million ready to go, if it checks out for safety. And it is also, the nice part is, we have four companies you , could say seven or eight companies, doing similar, some very different on the vaccine front, some similar and somewhat different on the therapeutic front. So, tremendous progress is being made on that. I think even without that, and i do not think you will have to use that in the future, that statement, even without because i think they will have it, but we are going to be back and we are opening our country. And i hope that the governors, i i hope that the lockdown governors i do not know why they , continue to lock down, because if you look at georgia, florida, if you look at South Carolina and if you look at so many different places that have opened up, i do not want to name all of them, but the ones that are most energetic about opening, they are doing tremendous business. And this is what these numbers are all about. And you have to remember, one of one other thing importantly it is extremely important to , remember that many of our states are closed or almost closed. Some of the big ones, new york, new jersey, they are starting to get open now, i hope. I hope they also use our National Guard. Call me, we will be ready with them so fast their heads will spin. We did it in minnesota, and minneapolis. They were incredible. They were ripping that place apart. I love it, we had such success there. And they were ripping it apart. And i called the governor and the National Guard went in and in one night it was over. You do not see the problem in minnesota at all now, not even a little bit. Take a look at that great city. A great city, minneapolis, and it was under siege like nobody has ever seen, with people running from the police department, the great police. They did not want to run, they were told to. It was bad governing. Im not blaming the governor, i we want to get this finished. I blaming others. This is a great tribute. What we are announcing is a tribute to equality. We are bringing jobs back. When we had our tremendous numbers, when we had just prior plague that floated in we had , numbers, the best in history for africanamericans, hispanic americans and for Asian Americans, and for everybody. The best for people without a diploma young people without a , diploma so many different categories. Our numbers with the best to know most every category. We have the most people working in the history of our country, almost 160 Million People. We were never even close to that. So we had things where we were doing so well. So it came back there. I think we will be back higher next year than ever before. The only thing that can stop us is that policy. Dealsolicy of taxes and in the things you have been writing about. That will stop it like you wouldnt believe. Frankly, it is holding it back. If there was no possibility that could happen, and i like to be an optimistic person. I think we are looking really good. I think even before today, the poles i have seen and the poles we do were looking very good. But if we did not have the possibility of having taxes, and , and i am a big environmentalist. I believe strongly in taking care of our environment. We have the cleanest air we have ever had in the modern era. Which, lets say you go back 30 years, we have the cleanest air and the cleanest water we have ever had. We are sitting all sorts of really Good Environmental records. We are proud of that. The Green New Deal would have an effect on the world. If you look at what they want to do. Something that, this is an important day. The reason it is and has been so good, is the body was strong. Actually close our country save millions of lives, stop people very early on from china, from coming in, because we stopped early. At the end of january, very early, people coming from china who are infected, from coming into our country. It was a very hard decision to make and almost nobody wanted me to make that decision. We saved tens of thousands of lives with that decision. So we did a lot of things. Then we ended up with empty cupboards. We went into a ventilator period that the likes of which nobody has seen since the second world war. We mobilized. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. Then we did tests. 20 million or close by it. More than anybody in the world. Germany is at 4 million, south korea is that three and a half. And we are over 20. When you do more testing you get more cases. We have more cases than anybody because we do more testing. This is outstanding what is happening today. Bey thought the number would a loss of 9 million jobs and it was again of almost 3 million jobs. I think it was incredible in a couple of ways. One, the numbers are great. This leads us into a long period of growth. We will go back to having the greatest economy anywhere in the world, nothing close. I think we will have a very good upcoming few months. I think youll have a very good august, july and may be a spectacular october, november, december and next year will be of the best years we have ever had. At the numbers, where strong. When a person has an operation, wehe person is healthy went in for an operation and we closed the country we closed it , down. We saved lives. I dont think less than a million lives. But if you think we are at 105,000 today, that would mean at the lowest number it would be many times that amount. I think everybody believes the least, if we if you look at brazil, they are having a hard time. And by the way, everyone is looking at sweden. And sweden is having a terrible time. Have did that, we would lost a million and a half or more lives. So we are at 100,000 lives. A big move closing at up. We closed to europe. Europe became infected from china. The gift from china. Not good. They should have stopped it. But it is a gift from china and a very bad gift, i will tell you that. You say, how come in wuhan where it started, and they said we are in bad trouble, but it did not go to beijing or other parts of china you say, how come it china stop tour cold. They knew it was a problem. But they did not stop it cold from coming to the United States, europe and the rest of the world. Somebody has to ask these questions. We will get down to the answer. In the trade deal theyre going to buy 250 million of product. They are online and they are doing ok. Dry on thatnot deal. The plague floated in. On . Is going the trade deal differently than i did. I will say that they are buying a lot from us. I think they want to get along with us. We built a tremendous power platform. ,o, when it got ill when we had a problem, we were able to cut it off and stop it, just like this. Keep everyone inside. Keep them away. Keep them together, away. Uninfected. We saved millions of lives. Now we are opening. We are opening with a bang. We have been talking about it a v. About willre talking , it be a v, u, or l. And i was watching one of the shows and i have Great Respect , for the people. They said, will it be 9 million in job losses . What will the number be . Are they going to report record numbers . What will the number be . And, i do not know. Because we were in. I do not think we are in that territory. We were in unchartered territory. Nobody has had a situation like that. So, the number was 9 million. And somebody said, no, it will be 10 million. 10 million negative, losses. Somebody said, we think it will the 8. 7. These are geniuses come i watch them all the time and often they are right. Warren buffett sold airlines. He has been right his whole life. Sometimes, even people like warren buffett, they make mistakes. The Airline Stocks went through the roof today and others did too. The home market went through the roof. They said 9 million job losses. Are we going to break it . Then the numbers came in and one of the folks said, wow, this is a great number. It is only 3 million job losses. And then reading it, i am not reading this right, let me look at it again oh, wait a minute, 3 million gain. Almost 3 million jobs gained. And then they shouted out, one of them semishouted out, is this a typo . It was probably the greatest miscalculation in the history of business shows. In the history of business shows talking about wall street. And that is ok. But one of the reasons we are in this position is because we have we had such a strong foundation. So we were able to close our country and now the trajectory is great. , do not forget, new york is barely included. That is one of our big ones. California is barely included, because they are not open. And they should open by the way it, the mayor of los angeles wants to keep this close for a long time. Look at what is going on in florida, it is incredible. The numbers they are doing. You have to open it up. You do social distancing, you wear masks if you want. You do things. You can do a lot of things. You are getting closer together. Even you, i notice you are getting closer together. It looks much better, i must say. You are not all the way there yet, but you will be there soon. But it is a tremendous thing that happened. The reason it happened was that we had a strong patient. We had a patient so powerful and strong that we could close it and then open it. I give this analogy. Somebody told me yesterday, larry kudlow. He said, sir, this is like a hurricane. We were worried. We didnt know if it would be a hurricane or a major recession. A major recession that is not artificially closed. We said, boom, closed. And everything stopped. And also, you know what else stopped . Big numbers on death. That is why i had to do it. We made every decision correctly. But it was like we stopped. It was an artificial closing. Then what happened, very incredibly, is the numbers and larry was saying with a hurricane, you have a horrible hurricane in florida or texas. And it is devastating. And then the hurricane goes away within two hours everybody is rebuilding and cleaning and cutting their grass. I have seen it in texas and i have seen it everywhere. Texas had a massive one. In louisiana, hurricanes, florida, hurricanes. But what happens is, right after the hurricane, and this is what this is. This is not a terrible recession. The d even talk about word. Because every time someone even mentions it, i do not like that word. But if you had a really big, bad recession, it could take 10 or 12 years how long did it take in 1929 . It took many years. I heard 10 years. I think longer than 10 years. I heard 14 or 15 years and larry says 10 so lets go with 10. It takes a long time to recover. But with a hurricane you are , back in business in one day, two days or three days. It is devastating and it is and hard. This was a hurricane. But and it will get better fast, because a lot of the numbers and that you see, these are early numbers. They are not even from this last month. And by the way, speaking of that, you had the greatest 50 day rally in the history of our exchanges. The greatest 50 day rally. And we have a lot of protesters. And we have something else, a pandemic. With made tremendous progress on both. Tremendous progress. But youre looking. And people are now starting to return to work. And as been an incredible thing to see. A beautiful thing to see. The experts predicted the economy would lose tremendous numbers of jobs. And of course from the beginning it has. But you will see how fast that is made up. You, next year, this could turn around and your 401 k s will go down. If people did not get rid of stocks in their 401 k s, they are almost even. Think about it. With a pandemic, with one of the worst things that has ever happened, our country has never lost 105,000 people. Whether it was the world trade center, 2900. Or pearl harbor. We have never lost anything close to this. But our country and the whole world is suffering so badly. 186 countries at this moment. But that affects them, too. But we are a positive force. We are the key to the world in a sense. The fact that we are doing well, i see already they are doing better in other parts of the world. That is a great thing, because we are working with the world. And we will work with china too, we will work with everybody. Happened should have never happened. We had a tremendous morning. A tremendous announcement. It was shocking to even great pros. Jim and amaria and lot of people, joe. They were pretty positive for a long time. People had confidence because we were in uncharted territory. I would like to say that renewal, restoration and recovery of the most vulnerable areas of america is my focus. It is taking care of itself. That vulnerable area because they are vulnerable and it is not right and we are helping and we have helped them in the past. There are Opportunity Zones, criminal Justice Reform and nobody has ever done for the black community what President Trump has done. Think of it. Historically, black, small colleges and universities, they would come here for money every year. Every year for many years. After three years, i said, why do you keep coming . They said, because we,. I said, dont you get a longterm deal so you do not have to come . The head of one of the very respected colleges look to me and said sir, we are like , beggars. Every year we have to beg for money. You should have a longterm and i said deal. , and we signed a longterm deal, so they do not have to come. I will miss them. I told them, i will miss them. I got to know them. I did not think anything of it the first year, the first year. The second year, i thought this is strange. Not long ago, the same people, the heads of the historically black small colleges and universities, 44 people, maybe a little more or less than that, sometimes. But after three years i said, what are you doing . They said, the past administration did nothing for us. The administration before that did nothing for them. So, i am going to do it. [bird squawking] so we did. The Opportunity Zone with senator tim scott has been fantastic. You dont talk about it, but by the way it is one of the most incredible Success Stories evers in terms of the inner cities and in terms of black, hispanic, asian unemployment. Doortunity zones, you should some stories about Opportunity Zones. Billions and billions of dollars of private money is being invested and putting people to work and getting money they have never made before. So it has been really a terrific thing. It is now time for us to Work Together as we rebelled, renew and recover the great promise of america. That is true. We are going to Work Together. It will all work out. Some governors may need help, but they are in good shape for the most part. We have a fantastic military, a fantastic National Guard. The National Guard was barely used. And these people have done an unbelievable job. They helped the secret service at washington. The secret service by the way are unbelievable. The job they did at the white house is unbelievable. There was never any form like, oh, gee, this sounds dangerous. All i could see is what i saw on television. But they were outside and the secret service was incredible. But we were also helped by the washington, d. C. Police. The National Guard was and unbelievable. This was like a piece of cake. I really am suggesting because , if you look at minnesota and the Great Success we had there in other places. Of thesesting to some governors who are too proud, like in new york and you see what is going on there. They will be proud. Get the job done. Butget the job done. Call in the National Guard. Call me. We will you have to dominate the have so many people. Streets. You cannot let what is happening, happen. It is called dominating the streets. You cannot where they are let that happen in new york breaking in stores. ,and all the things and by the way hurting Small Businesses you , cannot let it happen. Equal justice under the law must mean that every american receives equal treatment in every encounter with Law Enforcement, regardless of race, color, gender, creed. They have to receive fair treatment from Law Enforcement. They have to receive it. We all saw what happened last week. We cannot let that happen. Hopefully, george is looking down right now and saying, there is a great thing happening in our country. This is a great day for him. It is a great day for everybody. Day fora great everybody. This is a great, great day in , terms of equality. It is really what our constitution requires. It is what our country is all and about. I want to finish by saying to save the economy we passed of criticales legislation totaling trillions of dollars, meaning three. , we are set up to do more. I think we should because we are dominant. For many years, as a bystander, but somebody that has loved government, somebody who loves this country, i would watch and study and see, you know, naturally study by watching. If you go back, china was going to catch us in 2019. That was like a given. If you go back 5, 6, 7 years , they were trying to catch us, and china will catch the United States in then become the 2019 and dominant economy. But it never happened. It is not going to happen. We dominated them over the last two years. We took in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs that they paid for. I give some of that money, a fraction to our farmers, which made them whole. More than whole. That is why they are all in business. More than whole and it came right out of the tariff money. The reason why we did not pay is because china devalued their currency and they paid, plus they also put additional money to it. Because if they did not do it, nobody would have bought their product. We made a great deal because of that, that is the only reason we are able to make a great deal, because of the possibility of tariffs. Because china has taken advantage of the United States. We helped rebuild china. We gave them 500 billion a year how stupid. How stupid are the people that represented our country . And many other countries. With chinaand many other countries. But that is all changing. It was in the process of changing very big. Again, china had a very bad year, before the plague. And now i think, hopefully they , will have a great year. But we will have better years than they ever had. We have a much better system. A better system. We made americans sure of themselves and we took care of families. We gave benefits and we sent 1200 to every individual making less than 75,000, almost 4000 to every family of four earning less than 150,000. That is a lot. Isnt it . That is what is happening with when you think our country. , if you look at other countries, even countries you think are doing well, they do not talk about 150,000 as being median. 150,000, that is tremendous. That is a great tribute to the people of our country. The job surge we are seeing is widespread. Leisure and hospitality added 1. 2 million jobs. Construction jobs are up. Listen to this. 464,000. Education and Health Services rose 424,000. Retail trade is up 368,000. Here is the i like the best. Remember the Previous Administration. You need a magic wand for that manufacturing. Manufacturing, we had it up to 600,000 jobs prior to the plague. Manufacturing rose to 225,000 jobs, up by. So we picked up 225,000 jobs manufacturing jobs. That is very unexpected. Everything you have seen this morning is unexpected. Even the pros setting here would understand that. We also smashed expectations on the Unemployment Rate. The prediction was the on up Unemployment Rate would rise. Instead it dropped to 13 . Time, the greatest comeback in american history. Today if you think about it is probably the greatest comeback in american history. But it will not stop here. It will keep going. Because summary places are closed. Vice watching our great president today, being interviewed on cnbc. He made a statement. He said this is not going to stop. He is always a trimming everything to me. But i will attribute the statement to him. He said, it is not going to stop. Because the numbers you are looking at do not include the states that are closed. That have not been opened yet. We will be stronger than we were when we were riding high. Our stock market is just short of an alltime high. I have had 144 all time high stock markets, during three and a half years. Nobody has ever come close to that and we will do it again but it will be Even Stronger than last time. I have always done well with numbers. But i had a feel for it. I set it the other day. I think we will have a tremendous next year. I think it will be phenomenal next year. I did not think it would start this quickly. I thought it was start in august, september, but it started very early. It is an amazing thing. Amazing, it means that they are likely to return, and all of these jobs we are talking about now are not even included, because some of our biggest places are not open. They are opening up now. I think new york is opening up as of today. That is one of our big ones. New jersey, they are all working hard. The governors are working hard to save millions of american lives. We took the unnecessary evil, we took it out of the equation. We had to do what we did. We had a very, very strong push not to do anything. We would have lost so many people. But very importantly, the economy would not have been as good as it is, because nobody expected this. I do not think anybody can say, i want to see it on tape as opposed to, i did that. Some were predicting pretty good numbers like people i mentioned. We took a tremendous step and a tremendous risk. And we have gone up a level. This level is going to be nothing, compared to what you will see in coming months and especially next year. Ensurebest strategy to the health of people moving forward is to focus resources on protecting populations, like the elderly and those in nursing homes, allowing younger and healthy americans to get back to work. And open up our schools. Open them up. We understand this disease now. We do not understand it. It is very tough and very contagious to certain people. We learned a lot. Nobody knew anything about it. I have to thank everybody for working so hard. Jared and mike and the task force and all of the people. The admiral, the general. They said, you should use admirals. I said, i did. You should use generals. I said, i did. I used them both. We had some incredible people on the task force. The job they did in getting ventilators built by the thousands, we are giving to nigeria, france, spain, italy, to many, many countries. To the u. K. , they are having a hard time. We are giving them ventilators. It is a great thing. They are very hard to make. They are longterm items. We have mobilized nobody has ever seen anything like it. , just like the second world war. There has not been a mobilization like this since the second world war. Especially ventilators. It is hard. Is veryit is big and it complex machinery, computerized all over the place and very , expensive. And we are building thousands a week right now. We are building thousands per week. We have more than we can use. We have you have heard the the governors on calls and calls, youre listening to those calls. You are listening to them anyway, even if you not invited. There has not been one patient in this entire country and we did not have ventilators when we started. The cupboards were empty. The Previous Administration left us empty coverage. There was not one patient that needed a ventilator that did not get one. Think of that. We are talking about millions of people, big country. Millions of people and not one person needed a ventilator that did not get it. So we want that continued blanket lockdown to end for the states. We may have some members or some ashes or flames coming, but we will put them out, we will stomp them out. We understand this now. We will stomp them out very powerfully. So, we made a big step back. This was noise going to be three months ago i said to you, this is very important. In june we will learn whether or not this is a big, powerful recession. Or whether the hurricane we recover from quickly. We recover in a matter of days or weeks. And we have learned. We have learned. And again, as good as these number start, the best numbers are to come because so many areas are closed or partially closed. Very few are open. 50 states and very few are fully opened. Even the ones that are very out there are not fully fully opened. So we will have numbers coming in. When you look at the ridership and the airlines, they went from 2 . To a number that if it is correct i would be surprised, it is a very high number. People are traveling and they are traveling in the United States. And they are driving in their building trailers come a lot of things. People are driving. They have to buy one of those things, drive around town, what you call that . Maybe i will drive back to new york with our first lady in a trailer. What do they call that . An rv. Well you should know. Indiana is the capitol of rvs. I think i will travel with the first lady. I dont think anybody would mind that. So we are coming together. We are coming together. We have never had anything happen like this. We were all, including the media, in uncharted territory. Uncharted. Never happened before. Nobody knew. I could not be sure. I felt it. I felt we were very powerful to come back. The hardest decision i ever made. In, professionals, good people, professional people. They said sir, the best thing we could do is close it down. I said, what are you talking about . We have this incredible, unbelievable country and you want us to close it down . I cannot do that. What are you talking about . After listening for 10 minutes, i said, we have to close it down. Because of the contagion and the power it had with, especially certain people. We did not know the second part. We knew it was highly contagious because it spread like fire. What we did not know it hit a certain groups of people. That helps us so much in testing and other things. So we are going to protect our elderly. We will protect especially our elderly, with problems, whether it is heart or diabetes or any problem. It is like a magnet. And you havederly, and theyor that heart, say if you are heavy. I say, thank goodness i am in perfect shape. [laughter] but if you are heavy, it is not good. It is a brutal, brittle thing. Again, i started by saying we were going to have a vaccine doing. I said it a long time ago based on knowledge. Based on knowledge. I meeting with these geniuses. Based on knowledge i sent a long time ago and i said by the end of the air and i think it will be a lot sooner than that. Just in finishing about vaccines, we have mobilized the logistics arm of our military. We can move hundreds of thousands of men and women in a very short time. The vaccine is easy, by comparison but we can move , hundreds of thousands. It is meant for war. It is not meant for this. But we have our work with this invisible enemy. It is meant for war. We can move hundreds of but thousands. In a very short time. The people doing the vaccine are fully mobilized. So now im going to sign legislation to make important changes to the ppp that will especially help restaurants, hotels, and other businesses that have been very hard hit by the virus. This is going to make it 24 months and i think you know the legislation as well as i do. I want to thank the democrats. We had an essentially unanimous votes in the senate and the house. Whether it is unanimous or very close, a lot of people. I want to thank the democrats who worked together on it, great. I hope we can get along with the and democrats. It has been a disaster in terms of relationship. But i hope we can get along because it is a great thing for our country. We did all of these numbers and all of this greatness and we have the greatest economy we ever had. It will soon be greater than it ever was before. We did this with this court. We did this with a senate and a house that were not dealing with us and we were not dealing with them either. The level of lets just say the warlike posture is ridiculous. Because we have a great country. It would make a difference if we could get along. Maybe we can, maybe we cannot. And there are a lot of differences. We low taxes. We want closed borders. We want people to come in but , they have to come in through merit. You cannot have open borders during a pandemic. We set a record on our southern border. The wall is up to 210 miles long. We have so much wall built and we will have it up to almost 500 miles very early next year. By the end of this year, we will be over 400 miles. We are up to 210 miles of serious wall this is a wall that , people are not penetrating. It is going to be out there a long time and it has saved us a lot of anguish and grief, but you do not hear about that. One of the hardest things i have ever had to do is get the money necessary which is billions of dollars from a party that was opposed to it. They gave me other things. The military we could rebuild and it was not easy in terms of that. Was not their natural instinct. You cannot have it. But the wall we had nine court , cases on the wall. But we won and we got it and nobody talks about it. But it is great for our country. We have to have borders. I have said long before i won, seems like a long time ago. 2016, i said if you dont have borders, you dont have a country. We have a lot to work with the democrats and if we could work along with them, it would be great. We dont, we will degrade as a country anyway. But if we can work along with the democrats, and i am open to it. People say i would not be open. Why wouldnt i be open, they did things they should have never done. You know what but i am totally i am talking about. Open to it. One week ago, steps further. It has already been historic. Nobody has a more in three and a half years than this administration. Nobody has come close. We rebuilt the military. We cut regulations at a level nobody has come close to. Whether it is four years or a years or in one case even more , than that. Nobody has done anything close, regulations, low taxes, rebuilt military, take care of our vets. We got choice approved for the vets. So instead of waiting in line for four weeks to see a doctor, they get a private doctor, we can go immediate outside and pay for the bill and the vet is in great shape. We save money and we save their lives and we save the quality of their life. They were dying. They would come onto a line, they would have to wait four or five weeks. They would by the time they see not be very sick and the doctor, they would be terminally ill. We dont have that anymore. You dont hear any bad stories about the vets anymore. That does not mean go out and find them because tonight you will be traveling all over the for an unhappy vet. We have a lot of accountability. It is called v. A. Accountability we can fire people that do not treat them good. We have sadists. We have thieves. We have a lot of bad people. It is called v. A. Accountability. Almost 50 years they have been trying to get it. Choice, almost 50 years they have been trying to get it. They have been trying to get v. A. Choice choice means you can and have a choice of a doctor. You dont have to wait in line. If you have a long line. The v. A. Has great doctors, but you cannot get to them quickly. Now they go outside and they take care of themselves. So, we have had a great morning. This is just the beginning. It is going to be incredible. I will sign are very important piece of legislation. Again thank you very much to the , democrats. Then we will have a couple of words by a few other people standing alongside of me. I want to tank them so much and we will talk to you soon. A plan for systemic racism . I would like to sign this bill and this is very different. By the way, what is happened to our country and what you now see, happening, is the greatest thing that could happen for race relations, for the africanamerican community, for the Asian Americans, hispanic americans, and women because our country is so strong and that is what my plan is. What is your plan . That is what my plan is we , will have the strongest economy in the world. We are almost there now. We have had the strongest economy anywhere in the world and now we will have an economy that is Even Stronger. Sir, how would a better economy . To followup, how would a better economy have protected george floyd . Unemployment went up by point 1 , for Asian Americans on a plummet when up. How is that a victory . Pres. Trump you are something. Thank you very much. [applause] i have to say it has been an , honor. Such great achievements. I feel so good about it. This is just the beginning. The test is yet to come. My, would you say a few words . A great dayoday is for america. The american comeback begins today. Mr. President , it is a tribute to the strong decisions that you made early on to put the health of america first. From suspending all travel from china to calling on the American People to embrace the kinds of mitigation practices, to practice social distancing. To endure5 days 45 days to slow the spread. We want to thank members of both parties of congress to provide relief for families and Small Businesses and Enterprises Across the country. Todays numbers, historic as they are, are a testament to the leadership that you have provided on medication, on mitigation recovery, and , on recovery, and as you directed the Coronavirus Task force, they are also a tribute to the fact that now all 50 states are reopening our country. Even before we came to the end of the 45 days, you directed us to give guidance to governors to all the states and territories to safely and responsibly reopen. Now all of the states are in the process of doing that. It is remarkable to think that 2. 5 million jobs and declining unemployment numbers actually dates to surveys done in midmay. It is remarkable that we can see mr. President all across the , country that this is a snapshot today of the comeback that was taking place better taking place in the better part of a month ago. But because of the guidance you gave the American People in because of the Recovery Efforts mitigation and because of the Recovery Efforts that bipartisan members of congress supported at your direction, and ultimately because we are reopening the country, we have begun a Great American comeback. So i want to thank you, mr. President , and members of congress, including our team on the task force and Health Officials that have been our partners on every level. Ultimately today is a tribute to the American People. Mr. President , i know that you have said again and again, it was because the patient was strong in the beginning. Put into place to cut policies because the policies youput into place to cut policies and rollback regulation, we have traded more than 7 million jobs and today the strength and resilience of the American People is shining through. This is their day. Congratulations, america. The comeback begins. [applause] pres. Trump thank you, mike. And i think very importantly because it is a great state and you have so many great states involved with energy, but we had basically a disaster just one month ago. We had a disaster with respect to energy. It was down to zero, worthless , energy jobs in texas, north dakota, oklahoma, and other states, new mexico. And we saved that industry a short period of time. And you know who helped us . Saudi arabia and russia. And then we got the president of mexico to do what they really had to do. And i want to thank the president of mexico. In the end, he was terrific. He saved the Industry Energy industry and it would have been catastrophic to lose it. Now it is up to almost 40 per , barrel. People said that wasnt possible but we got saudi arabia, russia, and others to cut back substantially. Opec plus. We call it opec plus. They were the leaders. But we appreciate that very and much. Can i ask kevin and leary to say a few words . Thank you, sir. I will be brief. I know it is hot. Pres. Trump i have not noticed. Preceding this number were a , number of green shoots as we call them in economics. As the president has mentioned, things like apple mobility, traveling indexes, housing applications for new homes are skyrocketing. New businesses and new Business Applications are skyrocketing. We have seen a lot of evidence. 2. 5key to todays number, million payrolls and 3. 8 million households from which the on employment comes. The key is that those who were temporarily laid off have gone back to work. 3 million some odd. That is because of the reopening and the success of the president and Vice President mitigation policies. That reopening begins, on may 12 for the week that the survey was taken, a little less than 50 of Small Businesses had reopened. According to the chamber of commerce, the most recent number in late may early june, 80 , 79 of Small Businesses have reopened. So we will see more progress in the june jobs numbers when they come out. I want to add also, my friend and colleague, secretary Steve Mnuchins leadership on the Paycheck Protection Program has kept people furloughed, but they knew they would come back. It is situated 510 billion distributed 510 billion and has probably saved as much as 50 million jobs and overall, we have extended tax rebates and other payments. 159 million americans for nearly 275 billion. The rescue package works. It was the largest in american history. Now we are seeing weekly on unemployment claims coming down, continued claims coming down. Rate hasnemployment come down. As the president has noted, these trends will continue. This was a sharp, tough, heartbreaking pandemic contraction. There was a lot of heartache and hardship in that, absolutely. But they are sharp and fast and they recover fast. And we are beginning to see this recovery which i believe will extend into the third and fourth quarter. We are looking for 20 economic at a big q3 and q4 number in 2021. Policies of fair and reciprocal trade deals and energy and lower taxes and regulations that created a phenomenal economy before the pandemic and can rebuild a phenomenal economy. I will bring in my pal, kevin. Thank you mr. , president. Today is a historic day. As you remind us, there is still a lot of work left to do. There were 18 Million People that said they expected to be reemployed and it shocked economists that it happened so fast. You instructed us to give you options so we can get everyone back to work. Else in the economy back to work. I think the main economic lesson i take from what we have seen in addition to secretary mnuchins incredible work getting the programs enacted weekly is the Vice President s leadership with task force. Right at the beginning you put out guidance for businesses and governors about how to open safely and because guidance was scientifically based, people did so with confidence and you would never have a jobs number like what we saw today without the confidence that i think was generated by your leadership, mr. Vice president and dr. Birx and her team, thank you so much for your service. Pres. Trump i want to add we will be going for a payroll tax cut which will be incredible in terms of what we are doing because we are going to be bigger and stronger and better than we ever were and that will be a tremendous incentive for businesses. And also a great incentive and maybe to me, most importantly, for the workers. So we will be asking for a payroll tax cut. We will be asking for additional stimulus money because once we going, it will be far bigger and far better than what we have ever seen this country. That includes three or four months ago when everyone thought it was great. And it was great. We will be doing various things for restaurants and pieces of the entertainment industry, which will be an incentive, whether it is deductions or whatever. Steven mnuchins will be working on that because the restaurants will be a little bit harder to come back. Although mike, ive seen some tremendous numbers for restaurants. We are looking at something in terms of a deduction or could be something else. We will be announcing it soon. Despite the numbers on how good they are, we will be so far ahead of everyone else because of what we are doing. Our borrowing cost now is zero. So we are pay no interest which is good. I just want to thank everybody. And i would like to ask Steve Mnuchin to say a few words. Thank you, president and mr. Vice president. I want to especially thank the senate and the house to working for working with us. Another example of overwhelming in bipartisan support that is helping American Business and american workers. Mr. President , this legislation is a direct result of you inviting leaders from the Hotel Industry and restaurant industry, two areas that have been hardhit. The number one ask of the restaurants was extending the ppp for 24 weeks and this legislation delivers on that. So, it is great to see the 500 billion we have put to work in Small Business make its way into the economy and now you see it in these numbers and they are ringing more people back to work. Not only did this save jobs, but we now see people coming back to work and we look forward to working with congress on bipartisan issues to make sure we get every american back at work that was unfortunately laid off as a result of this virus. Thank you. Pres. Trump thank you very much. [crosstalk, questions] no questions . The street reads black lives matter. Painted overnight. The mayor had a new street sign matter black lives plaza. This week jimmy carter, bill clinton, george w. Bush, and barack obama made statements around the killing of george floyd. From president carter, dehumanizing people debases us all. Humanity is beautiful and infinitely diverse. The bonds of our common humanity must come over the divisiveness of our prejudices. Resident clinton remarked, 57 years ago dr. King dreamed of the day when his children would be judged not by the color of his skin but the content of their character. Today that dream seems more out of reach, and we will never reach it if we treat people of the unspoken assumption that they are less human. President trump president bush said this tragedy raises a longoverdue question, how do we end the systemic racism in our society . Only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of america or how it becomes a better place. President obama delivered his message on social media, said, it falls in all of us regardless of our racer station, including the majority of men and women in Law Enforcement who take pride in doing their tough job the right way every day to Work Together to create a new normal in which the legacy of bigotry and unequal treatment no longer affects our hearts. You can read the entire statements from the former president s online at cspan. Org. The president s, from Public Affairs available now in paperback and ebook. It presents biographies of every president , organized by their ranking by noted historians from best to worst. Our chiefes executives and leadership styles. Visit our website, cspan. Org thepresident s to learn more about each president. Order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Jim morrill is a political reporter for the Charlotte Observer newspaper in North Carolina. Cspan interviewed him about the upcoming president ial race and what the impact might be on voters if the Republican Convention were split between charlotte and another city. And another city. Joining us via charlotte, North Carolina is jim morrill for the Charlotte Observer. A lot of mixed messages between the president s tweets, the rnc, and the Business Community in charlotte. What is the state of the Rnc Convention this august . Jim that is a good question because people down here arent sure. One thing we do know is that the president wants a big rally for his acceptance speech. He cant get acceptance speech. He cant get that here, at least right now. They are planning to have the official business of