Uae we take you live to bedminster, new jersey, where President Trump is about to hold a trust conference with reporters. Pres. Trump our economic recovery is going very well, as you have been hearing. Nearly 85 of jurisdictions across our country are reporting a very steep decline in cases. That is despite the fact that we have the number one Testing Program anywhere in the world, up to almost 70 million tests. This week, cases have declined by 6 nationwide. The positively rate has fallen to six point 5 did 6. 5 . A big reduction. The hospitalization rate for the virus has been reduced by half ands april half since april. I urge everyone to apply commonsense mitigation and we are all doing that. I want to thank the American People for doing a great job. The United States has administered over 70 million than all of the European Union combined, if you combine all of europe, it is less than what we do. Tests aref of care processed and under 24 hours and many in 15 minutes. Tests are returned in three days. We have gotten that down from eight days to three days. Tests andny 15 minute some fiveminute tests. The turnaround time for federal surge testing sites is two days. When you send them out, despite that you have a delivery time you cannot do anything about, it is down to two days, a substantial reduction. Great job by the people who do it. We are focused on aggressively shielding the highest risk individuals, those living in Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities are less than 1 of the u. S. Population but account for nearly half of all fatalities. That is an incredible thing. 1 of the u. S. Population but they account for nearly half of the fatalities from the china virus. Thats why we have rushed nursing home funding, protective gear and Rapid Testing equipment and we will announce additional measures to protect nursing home residents in the coming days. We have worked very hard with nursing Home Companies and the governors, 50 governors all around the United States. We have developed a very Good Relationship with most of the governors. I think for the most part they are doing a good job and they are focused heavily on Nursing Homes. When they need equipment they cannot get remember, they are supposed to get it but when they cannot get it, we have tremendous amount of equipment in stock. Thanks to my administrations Decisive Action to save american jobs we are currently witnessing the fastest economic recovery in American History, and thats because the foundation we set previously for the virus hit our shore, the foundation was so strong. We had such a Strong Foundation that we are recovering much faster than anybody anticipated. It turns out it will be a very strong v. Retail spending has fully recovered and is now at an alltime high. That is not alltime for this month, last month, that is an alltime high. You can see that on the chart. Plague, previous to the i call it, the plague coming into our land, and really affected 188 we are dealing with 188 countries. You can see we have not only recovered but we are at a higher level, that is an incredible number nobody thought would be possible. We are currently witnessing the fastest economic recovery in American History and it is an amazing statement. Andil spending is great auto production has surged 28 , that is auto production, which is right there. That is about even to where it was and that was at an alltime record high and we are already even if you had a chart for used cars, you would see usedcar sales are setting a record and that is great for production because when used cars are not available, they are very tight, you make a lot of new cars. That number will go up beyond where it is now, but that is a fantastic number, the equivalent of where it was, and that was a record. You see what is happening with respect to the economy and the stock market is almost at an alltime high, nasdaq at an alltime high, 14 days where we broke the record of the last two months. A lot of great things are happening. Through the historic relief package i signed into law, we saved over 50 million american jobs, 50 million american jobs. The Unemployment Rate is rapidly going down. You have seen that and i think you will see it over the next two months and you will have a good report even prior to the election, you will have a very good report. You will have an incredible gdp, a tremendous report on business, and a lot of it is going to be released, which is fortunate prior to the election. The democrats are trying to do whatever they can to stop these kind of numbers, they dont like these kind of numbers because they think it will hurt them in the election. I think we all have to pull together and we have to do the right job and what is good for the American People. We were unfairly treated by china because they could have stopped it. That being said, china has purchased the most amount of corn in history, last week they purchased the two largest days in history of corn purchase. A massive amount of soybeans. Also china has been buying a lot of things. They are doing that to keep me happy but they are dreaming about joe biden, they would love that to happen but i dont think that will happen. They are dreaming about him, and so is iran, dreaming about joe, and numerous other countries, because if that happens, they will own the United States and i can tell you china specifically will own the United States and you cant let that happen. If you remember, china had the worst year they have had in 67 years prior to the plague coming to our shores, and we are now starting to do really well. We will have a very good third quarter, may be a great third quarter, and an incredible next year and less someone comes up and quadruples taxes, it is what they are talking about doing, and also regulations. We have done more in terms of cutting regulations than any administration in history by far, whether it was four years or eight years or in one case more than eight years. In less than four years, we have done more regulation cutting by far and we are doing more as we go. Some of it is statutory and you can only do it at a certain pace, you have to wait 90 days or 120 days before taking the next step. We have tremendous regulation cutting coming. That being said, we will have certain regulations to protect the environment and also safety. Small Business Optimism has come surging back. In june, higher than any month under the Previous Administration think of that. Small Business Optimism higher than any month under the Previous Administration and that is why we are going through a worldwide pandemic. You have a number like that. You see the numbers we quoted as to what is happening with cases , a the hospitalization rates lot of tremendous things are happening. Industrial production is increasing at the fastest rate ever recorded. Think of these numbers. I mean, how does that happen . Industrial production is increasing at the fastest rate on record, which is ever recorded. Consumer spending is expected to grow at an austrian michael at an astronomical rate this quarter. We dont have the number yet but it looks like an astronomical rate. I wantto say that College Football to come back. These are strong, healthy, incredible people, these are people that want to play football very badly. Talent andeat quarterback called me two days ago and i spoke to him a couple of times. He said sir, we want it back, we want to play. He is an incredible quarterback from an incredible school, clemson. He will have a very good future. , height,everything accuracy, strongarm, and he is fast. Other than that, i guess hes got some problems. [laughter] but hes got the whole package. I watched him last year running, he is faster than the backs that were guarding. I think he will be great, he is a great young man and i talked to him a long time here they want to play football and he made the statement that he feels field than he the is outside of the field. He feels very safe. Sec, the big 12 back, they want to come back and i think they are coming back. The big ten, the pack 12 are not. I wish they would come back. I want to say it is sort of sad because ive been fighting for football to come back and we are trying to help the nfl, as long as they stand for our National Anthem and honor our friend our flag and contribute if they start kneeling, i wont be watching and neither will a lot of people. I think what the nba did was atrocious, disgraceful the way they kneeled. Their ratings are effective of that. I think football has to get smart, that is the nfl, we will see what happens be i thought they learned their lesson two years ago when people started not watching and were not going to the games so much. A lot of empty seats all of a sudden. They are going to learn that lesson again if they dont wise up. So trevor lawrence, great. People, sec,reat big 12, acc, i want to thank them and congratulate them for coming back. Had a to also mention cnn story will they blame trump for football in swing states . What a dishonest story that is. I am the one pushing them to come back. They want to try to blame me. Them and i guess the New York Times reported it was one person in the story, one person said they be it is trumps fault. I am the one pushing them back. I would like to see College Football come back, i would like to see them come back proud and strong. I was very impressed by trevor, i was impressed by other people that called me, players called me, coaches called me, coach o. If you are doing a movie, you have to put coach o as the head because he is a central casting. When you have guys like nick saban and others calling fort to come back they wanted to come back. Great athletes and dont seem at all to be susceptible to this horrible disease and they want to play football and we have great testing so you will be able to test. When cnn and the New York Times the New York Times cornered one person and i am the one pushing so we will get it straight, i am pushing for football to come back. I think if i wasnt pushing you would not have anything happening. With that, we will take a few questions. Reporter the u. S. Effort to embargohe arms yesterday, when will you trigger a snapback of sanction on iran . Pres. Trump we will do the snapback and you will watch it next week. Putin wants to hold a video summit with this, are you wanting to do this . Pres. Trump probably not. Iran wants me to lose so badly, you know iran is a different ballgame right now, they have not been sponsoring terror because they dont have much money to sponsor terror and they know we just captured four iranian ships and brought them into houston, they were going to venezuela and they were not supposed to do that. Iran would love to have me defeated. If i win, which i hope to win, how can you not when you see numbers like this both on the virus and the economy . , we should all keep this incredible thing going. I built it once and i will build it again. I think the hardest part is done in terms of the economy. That is with or without additional funds from nancy pelosi. They should have put the things in what you call, the caren act, they did not do that the cares act, they did not do that. They put in things that had nothing to do with corona, they have everything to do with radical left politics. Reporter [indiscernible] letters from your Postal Service saying the ballots for november 3 might not make it in time. As president , isnt it your responsibility since this is your Postal Service, to meet this need . Pres. Trump we have a man in there for two months, he is a talented man and a really is this person and a very nice man also, lewis, and he is working very hard. As you know, the democrats are not approving the proper funding for postal and not approving the pop proper funding for what they want to do, all mailin voting. Universal, you could call it, mailin voting. Absentee voting is great i am an absentee voter because i request it, i got it and i sent in my vote. That works out well and thats what weve had. Now they want to send in millions and millions of ballots. You see what is happening, they are being lost, discarded, they are finding them in piles. It will be a catastrophe. This is beyond the post office. Ejoy is working d hard in the post office has for decades lost billions and billions of dollars. I read numbers today that are unthinkable. What they want to do now is hit the post office with millions of ballots from certain states. If you look at what happen in new york and virginia and various other places, it is a catastrophe, they are losing 20 of the votes and nobody knows what happened. We are going to see what happens but i do say this universal mailin voting is going to be catastrophic, it will make our country a laughingstock all over the world. You cannot send out millions of the look at all of there are many, look at new york and new jersey, the catastrophe in new jersey. New jersey had more than just patterson. Look at virginia, look at what is happening with mailin voting. It is a disgrace. Absentee is good. Mail in universal is very bad. There is no way they will get it accurately, they are off by 20 and 30 . This is beyond the post office. That being said, they want money for the universal male and ballots and universal mailin ballots. And they are not getting it. We want money to go to people and they want money to bailout states that have done poorly. The states that have done poorly, these are run by democrats, usually radical left democrats, look at what is happening in portland. We will go into portland, we have to be asked, we will straighten it out in one hour like happened in minneapolis. In one straighten it out hour, we will straighten it out so fast but i have to ask us. Not need money but they are willing to approve the money they need. If they cant get the money they need for universal mailin voting, i dont see how they can have it. Thats not only post office, that is for voting itself. Does the postmaster have your backing for the actions he has taken . Pres. Trump he wants to make the post office great again. You ever heard the expression . He wants to make the post office great again. The post office is a catastrophe. Reporter mail sorting machines nationwide. Pres. Trump i dont know what he is doing, i can only tell you he is a very smart man and he will be a great postmaster general and he needs obviously if youre going to do millions of ballots out of nowhere, he will need funding. But the democrats are not willing to provide other things and therefore they will not get the funding for that. Au are going to have catastrophic situation with universal mailin voting. On top of it, the democrats are not willing to give the people the money and the post office the money. Reporter what are you doing to ensure that doesnt happen . Wouldnt these problems raise questions about the Election Results if you win . Pres. Trump the problem with mailin voting, number one you will not know when the election is over. They called the election in new york for Carolyn Maloney and i think they should redo that election. You know the opponent is screaming and cant believe it. Ballots lost, defrauded a total mess. And they called it for her. The reason is ive been using it as a case, ive been using it as a case. We are going to have an election that takes place on a beautiful day, november 3, and usually at the end of the evening they say donald trump has won the election, donald trump is your new president , whatever they say. You know what, you will not know this possibly, if you did it right, for months or years, because these ballots will all be lost, they will be gone. Take a look at a smaller basis, but rate tests, we are doing great tests, you could call them ores or tests polls tests, look cross the country when you have universal mail in. The ballots are lost, there is fraud and theft. It is happening all over the place. Now we will do it with this vast big section of the country. It is crazy. You are opposed and do not trust mailin voting. Is your postmaster general using the agency to create delays . Pres. Trump not at all. He would love to see it happen. I didnt speak to him about it, but i imagine would say number one, they did not give me the funding for it because it is sitting in congress because they want 1 trillion to bailout states, just so you understand what they want. Dollarst run chilling 1 trillion to bailout badly run democratic states. They are not giving the money to the post office, they have to give the money to the post office. Reporter the steps the postmaster general are taking are creating delays pres. Trump no, the steps he is theng are trying to stop tremendous losses that have taken place for many years. He is trying to streamline the post office and make it great again, ok . Reporter before an election . Pres. Trump i just read last night that now new jersey is going to try the universal mailin voting. This andy did not know now all of a sudden new jersey will be hit with millions of ballots to be sent out. They did not know anything about this. Service thatstal doesnt know about it, and all of a sudden now new jersey is supposed to take out, and millions of ballots sent all over new jersey . If you look at some of the things they say like take the scam of nevada, take that with the clubhouse politician governor, take that, where the untildont have to be in seven days after november 3. Nevada is an important state and i think we have a great chance of winning that state. If the votes dont have to be in for seven, they are counting the votes, seven days later, how will they predict a winner on november 3 . [indiscernible] pres. Trump absentee is ok. But in theok, what mail, there is not a difference. There must be more resources for the post office. Pres. Trump democrats are not approving the resources, and youre right, there have to be more resources. All of a sudden the post office is tripling up the problem is the democrats are not approving the funds necessary. They have 25 billion, i have seen 15 billion, a lot of money, i dont know how you spend that much but that is what they are saying. Not only do they want 1 trillion to hand out as welfare to the states run by democrats doing badly, they want 25 billion for the post office. But they are not approving it. What i want is a lot of money, thousands of dollars to go to people because they need money spite the good numbers, numbers like that, they need money to live and i want that to happen. The democrats dont care about that, they just want to give bailout money to their friends running states poorly. [indiscernible] people of the United States reporter do you want to give Edward Snowden a pardon . Pres. Trump im not that aware of the situation but i will start looking at. It seemed to be a split decision, many people think he should somehow be treated differently and other people think he did very bad things and i will take a very good look at it, ok . That are veryople conservative and very liberal and they agree on the same issue, they agree both ways. I will take a look at that very strongly, Edward Snowden. You do you agree with dr. Redfield that if america doesnt follow health guidelines, it could be one of the worst falls weve ever faced from a Health Perspective . Pres. Trump no, you cannot compare it to 1917, that was incredible. I was that was the worst ever by far, they lost possibly 100 million people. I dont agree with that. The numbers are coming down substantially and Many Americans are wearing masks, a good thing. Again, some people thought you should not wear a mask. When this started, dr. Fauci mask and sodar a dr. Redfield and then all of a sudden it was like everybody should wear a mask, and that is ok, people can change their mind. Wash your hands, good hygiene, all of those things, i think people are doing it to a level they have never done before. Numbers,look at the the way the numbers are coming out, i mean, it is very impressive when you see what is happening. Welle way, florida doing and hospitalizations and normally you would have had to build more like we did for the first surge. We have done it right, we closed it up, we have the greatest economy in history and we closed it up. We understand the disease now nobody knew what was hitting us, nobody knew that all people would be very susceptible, especially with heart and diabetes problems and other problems. That old people would be very susceptible and young people would be extremely good with it, if you look at the percentages. They are a tiny percentage that have problems, especially the big problem. I think we are doing very well and we are on our way and we are also opening up our economy and our economy is going to set records and if stupid people are not elected next year, we will have one of the greatest years we have ever had. Go ahead. Reporter you have already taken action on tiktok and wechat. Which other Chinese Tech Companies are you looking at banning from operating in the United States . Pres. Trump the big one ishuawei, they are not here, they are not allowed and i told other countries, australia for example has been fantastic. Huawei is not here and we told other countries it is ok if you use them but we will not share intelligence and they have backed away. It looked like the u. K. Was going that way and theyve backed off, the scotland yard. We are looking at other things, we are. Reporter [indiscernible] as quickly as it can, but why is the Postal Service dismantling mail servicing mail sorting machines across the country . Pres. Trump you will have to ask him, he is a very efficient and good operator but he needs money to operate if youre going to hit him with millions of ballots. If you ask him, he will tell you very nicely you have the money, it is sitting there and ready to go and the democrats dont want to approve it. I want money for other things too. I want money to go to people so they can live very nicely because china because the problem, they didnt. Reporter would you say now that Kamala Harris is eligible to run and be Vice President or president . Pres. Trump i have nothing to do with that, i read something about it and i will say that he is a brilliant lawyer, i guess he wrote an article about it, so i know nothing about it that it is not something that bothers me. Reporter but sir, when you do that, it creates pres. Trump i dont know about it but is not something we will be pursuing. Let me put it differently dont tell me what i know. Let me put it differently. To me, it doesnt bother me at all. I dont know about it, i read one quick article. The lawyer happens to be a brilliant lawyer, as you probably know. He wrote an article saying there could be a problem. It is not something i will be pursuing. Reporter is she eligible . Pres. Trump i just told you, ive not gone into it in great detail. If she has a problem, you would have thought she would have been vetted by sleepy joe. Reporter [indiscernible] absolutely no deals. Youve been ragging on democrats constantly. Why not come to the table personally and sit with them . I know that Speaker Pelosi and minority leader Chuck Schumer that did not go so well. Why not invite them and if they dont want to come, it is on them. Pres. Trump we done very well, we have three phases and we are into phase four and we got everything we wanted and weve also got a great economy. You just take a look at these charts and the economy is doing good. We want different things. I want money for the people, they want money to bail out democrat governors and democrat mayors listen to me. My people are doing very good and my people call me, they are in the office and they call me. When it is right, nobody knows the deal better than i do, and right now it is not right. They want 1 trillion to bailout out badly run states. They are democrat states. Will something happen . Possibly. The countries doing very well right now and we can live happily with it, without it, but i would like to do it because i want to give money to the people, i want to put money into the peoples hands they want to put money into politicians hands so the politicians dont look stupid. Have had some differences with your defense secretary. Do you have confidence in his leadership . Pres. Trump did you call him yesper . Some people call him that. I get along with him fine. I consider firing everybody. [laughter] at some point, that is what happens. Jennifer . You are working so hard. Reporter do you think anyone else will leave your cabin and the election, sir . This trump so if we have success, i think we have a solid majority the likes of which has never been seen before, you can read about it, 62 of the people say they are not even telling the truth on polling and where the polling is fake, they do registered voters and many more democrats than republicans same thing happened last time. This year i think we have much more enthusiasm, maybe the people back there would understand it better than anybody, but i think there is more enthusiasm for 2020 than there was even for 2016 and 2016 was a record you found that out. I believe there is much more enthusiasm now than there was even in 2016. We have a silent majority the likes of which nobody has seen. I just looked and there are thousands of votes in lakes, rivers and oceans it is trump, theyrs for have flags on them and are incredible. Thousands. We did nothing to do this and it just happened. Let me tell you, i think the level of enthusiasm for what we are doing we want law and order, low taxes, they want to raise your taxes, they wanted to get rid of to have open borders, and to defund the police. How do you win on that . They want to go to texas and ohio, toking, and in stop fracking. They are against steel, anything with the word petroleum in it. You wont have a contribute these people are crazy you wont have a country. These people are crazy. Reporter do you think you will see more turnover in your cabinet . Pres. Trump generally speaking, a lot of times i understand, if we win, the president will ask for the resignation of everybody and bring back the people he wants, that is happened before. I think that makes sense. I have a very good cabinet, with a few exceptions i am not thrilled with everybody, frankly. Overall, i think we have a good cabinet. , noll say this administration, none, no administration, first three and a half years, has done anywhere near what we have done. 300. More, federal judges, including court of appeals, two Supreme Court justices, nobody has done this. Look at what we have done. The biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts in history, rebuilt our military, took care of our vets and we have a 91 Approval Rating from vets. Nobody had that before. They want to destroy the second amendment. Take a look at Kamala Harris, they want to destroy the second amendment. Joe has no control over anybody. He has no control over himself. Ok, thank you very much. On monday, President Trump travels to minnesota, where he will give a speech on the u. S. Economy. Live coverage begins at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Contenders series continues its a look at the men who ran for the presidency and lost, but changed political history. 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