President trump thank you very much. I would like to begin by saying that we just closed out another month of stock market, we have the best stock market dow in 36 years. It is very impressive. People are very happy with their 401 k s and the stocks they have. That is a tremendous achievement. The best in 36 years. Let me begin with a brief update on the china virus. The new cases in the United States have declined by 38 . Last week, we announced a breakthrough in testing that will allow us to have over 150 rapid pointofcare tests. 150 million rapid pointofcare tests. These tests were returned in less than 15 minutes. Many will be deployed to nursing homes. We are focusing very strongly on nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other locations that serve highrisk populations. We will have the 15 minute and less test. We will have 150 million rapid pointofcare tests. That is something. This evening, im pleased to announce that astrazeneca vaccine has reached phase three clinical trials, so that is joining another group of vaccines very close to the end. And hopefully approval. In the United States, we are doing things that nobody would have thought even possible. This is the process that would have taken years. We did it in a matter of months. Thanks to the efforts of operation warp speed, we remain on track to deliver a vaccine very rapidly, in record time. I also want to provide an update on leftwing Political Violence that we are seeing in democratrun cities. Under my administration, federal Law Enforcement is working with state and local authorities all over the country to comb through hours of video, track down rioters, looters, and arsonists, and bring them to justice. We have come up with a report that we have arrested a large number of people. It is over 200. You will be hearing about that, but they have been arrested in various cities throughout the United States. We are doing it very lowkey, but we are trying to help cities, they are in all cases democrat run. But we are doing our best to help them without really much of a consent. We would like to have consent in portland. We can solve that in approximately one hour, but the mayor refuses, perhaps for political reasons. I dont know why it is good for him to have a city that is falling apart and that is under siege now for 94 days. But really, it has been under siege for years if you know portland. To the mayor i say whenever you are ready, let us know, we will solve your problem of violence. We will solve your problem of crime. We will arrest those criminals very rapidly and you will be able to have some nice evenings in portland. The department of Homeland Security and the department of justice are announcing a joint operation to investigate the violent leftwing civil unrest. In portland alone, the federal government has already taken care of and arrested 100 rioters. Just in that one city. The wave of violence and destruction we have seen in recent weeks and months have occurred in cities dominated by the joe biden party. If you take a look, the top 10 in the country are democrats, it is democratrun cities. It is a shame and it could be solved so easy. It could be solved very easily. The violence is fueled by dangerous rhetoric from farleft politicians that demonize our nation and human eyes our police. We have to allow our police to do what they are very good at doing. We have taken that power away. They are afraid to lose their pension. Their job, their everything. They are afraid to be destroyed. You saw when leftwing extremists attacked lawabiding citizens attending the Republican National convention at the white house, including senator rand paul and his wonderful wife, kelly. What they went through. But other people went through it. That was done very systematically. That was done on purpose. They knew we were having the convention. They wanted to do everything they could to disrupt it. The good news is the public is very wise to it. They see what is happening and they are wise to it. And i think they are probably acting accordingly. Leftwing rioters are repeating the same false narrative about america that you hear you hear this from people what they are saying, how they are saying it, the violence, it is terrible. Again, it is democrat politicians. I dont know if they are spurring it on or afraid to stop it. But in any event, we are there to help, we are there to get things under control. What they did on thursday night at the white house, just outside the white house to people that came from all over the world is a disgrace. It is a disgrace. Frankly, the mayor, democrat mayor, mayor bowser should have done a better job. She did a very poor job. At the same time, we had the police that were very brave. They took a beating if you can believe this. They really took some heavy hits. One went down. But got right up and two others joined them. They were able to get rand and kelly through. But it was a terrible, terrible thing to witness. But other people went through similar, but not in terms of taping, but some people went through what ive heard is bad or worse. The rioters share bidens same talking points and agenda for the nation. Even his strange speech that he made today in pittsburgh, he did not mention the fact and he did not mention the farleft. He did not mention the farleft. From what i saw, i dont believe he mentioned the word antifa. Antifa is a criminal organization. He did not mention antifa thugs. But mostly seemed to blame the police and Law Enforcement. He went on point after point after point. He even talked about those on the right, but he did not talk about those on the left. Those on the left are the problem. Antifa is the problem. The rioters and joe biden have a side. Theyre both on the side of the radical left. And that is so obvious. Until that neutralizes, you are never going to have safe areas in those democratrun areas. For months, joe biden has given moral aid and comfort to the vandals repeating the monstrous lie that these were fees for protests peaceful protests. These are not peaceful protests. That is anarchy. You look at the agitators, the looters, the rioters, that is not a peaceful protest. They keep using the term, it is so nice. Peaceful protest. And behind the reporter, the cities are burning. We could solve it very quickly. If they ask us to come in, like we did in minneapolis, like we just did in wisconsin, where i will be going tomorrow. At least the governor asked me, if i could, i said, you got to get the National Guard. He finally agreed to a small number. They were able to take care of things. That was five or six days ago. Ever since, it has been very good. 13 members of bidens Campaign Staff donated to bail, rioters, getting them out of jail, looters. His running mate, kamala, urged their supporters to do the same thing. It is outrageous that they are now seeking to shift the blame for the mayhem and they really want to put it on the backs of the police. I see it. The police. There is a war on Law Enforcement in this country. Without Law Enforcement, we would not have a country. We have very talented people, they are not allowed to do their job. If you give the radical left power, what you are seeing in the democratrun cities will be brought to every city in this country. If they have that power, every city in this country could potentially be another portland or another chicago, where they have had such problems. To defeat them, we must jail lawbreakers and defeat their hateful ideology about this country, about america. We must teach our children that america is an exceptional, free, and just nation worth defending, preserving, and protecting. They want to destroy our country. They are going to destroy our suburbs. But i think i have gone a long way from allowing that to happen. The suburbs are protected especially with the rule changes i made. I took them out of the obama administration. They were going to be made much worse. What we are witnessing today is the result of leftwing indoctrination in our nations schools and universities. Many Young Americans have been fed lies about america being a wicked nation plagued by racism. Indeed, joe biden and his party spent their entire convention spreading this hateful and destructive message while refusing to say one word about the violence. They did not even discuss Law Enforcement and police. Those words were not mentioned. Two words that were taken out where the words under god, under god two very important words in the pledge of allegiance and they did it twice in their caucus. They took it out of their pledge of allegiance. I heard it the one time and i said that is strange. I thought maybe they made a mistake, something happened. No, they didnt make a mistake. Then they did it later on. They took the word god out of the pledge of allegiance. We are not taking the word god out of anything. We are not taking it out of our pledge of allegiance. We are not taking the great word god out of anything. At our convention, we highlighted Law Enforcement heroes and repeatedly emphasized that violence has no place in american political discourse. The lefts war on police, history, and values is tearing our country apart. They think it is good, but it has gotten out of control. They are unable to control this radical left, crazy movement. But we can control it very quickly. The only path to unity is to rebuild a shared National Identity focused on common American Values and virtues of which we have plenty. This includes restoring Patriotic Education in our nations schools, where they are trying to change everything that we have learned. In fact what most of you have learned, they want to change it. For whatever reason. Cancel culture, whatever you want to call it. At the same time, we must fully and strictly enforce our law and have no tolerance for anarchy and no tolerance, zero for violence. Anyone who breaks the law should be arrested, prosecuted, and punished. This includes targeting Law Enforcement efforts to focus on antifa, the leftwing domestic terror organization. The message of antifa is to spread terror in the u. S. Population with the goal of getting americans to give up to their agenda. This is how terrorist organizations have always operated. Biden wont even say the name antifa. I dont believe he said it today. He made a speech and he didnt mention that. He mentioned others, but he didnt mention antifa. He mentioned Law Enforcement and the police. But he did not mention antifa. I wonder why. If he cannot name the problem, there is no way that he will solve the problem. If you dont name it, you dont solve it. In fact, biden would give antifa exactly what it wants. The farleft policy agenda it is asking for. If that happened, we dont have much of a country left. If you give violent extremists what they want, the violence does not go away. They gain new power to spread the terror nationwide. Most of our nation is extremely safe, by the way. You see portland and chicago and you see what has happened in new york just in a very short period of time. It is horrible what has happened in new york. I love new york. I come from new york. Four years ago, i left. I could see there were problems under this mayor. He is one of the worst. I cant say the worst. I have witnessed portland every hard to top him. But he is one of the worst. When i look at what is happening in new york and i look at what is happening in the city, so quickly, it happens so quickly. It is a shame. Bidens strategy is to surrender to the leftwing mob, which is exactly what he is doing. I dont even think he knows what he is doing. Give them control over every lever of power in the United States government. But when you surrender to the mob, you dont get freedom, you get fascism. That is what happens in all cases. You take a look at venezuela. Look what has gone on their and other places. Biden is using mafia talking points. The mob will leave you alone if you give them what they want. That is what it is. The mob will leave you alone but it does not work that way. Once you give to them, they keep taking. What happens is you give and give and give and they take and they no longer respect you. That is what happened with the democrats. I actually think they have lost control of these radical left maniacs. I think they lost control. Because i dont think they feel that is helping them win new york and chicago and portland. You look at oakland and you look at baltimore and you look at so many different places and what is going on there. The top 10 are all run by democrats. You can go a lot further down the list than 10. In america, we will Never Surrender to mob rule. Because if the mob rules, democracy is dead. The reason we are continuing to see violence in leftwing cities today is that liberal politicians, mayors, prosecutors, and judges are refusing to enforce the law and put the rioters in jail. These are rioters, these are dangerous people, killers. They kill a lot of people. And they dont even think about it. They wake up the next morning and dont even think about it. This is the extreme left agenda for america. They want to appoint radical prosecutors. Judges and federal officials who will set criminals free. Their stated plan is to cut police funding, abolish cash bail, close down prisons, reeducate our children, preach leftwing social justice, establish a National Sanctuary for criminal illegal aliens, and abolish the death penalty. Even for cop killers. No one will be safe. In fact, they want very much to let people in prison, like as an example, the boston bomber. They want to let everybody vote. If you are in prison, if you are the boston bomber, they want you to have a vote. I dont think that sells too well. My administration has a different approach. We want states to work with us to deploy the National Guard to quell the unrest. All they have to do is call us. We will have the National Guard we are prepared, we are ready to go no matter where they may call from. Any part of the country, east coast, west coast, it does not matter. We are ready to move immediately, as we did in minneapolis. As we did we are ready to move as quickly as you can imagine. Tomorrow, im going to a place where we move very quickly. You know that in wisconsin, we move very quickly. As soon as we moved, that was the end of that. It was very well behaved. I will appoint more tough on crime prosecutors, support stiffer penalties and longer jail terms for rioters, and support effective policing methods that are proven to be great crime reducers. When you enforce the law, order follows. And we need order. We need we need order. You cant have cities run like these cities are run. They give a little, then they gave a little, then they gave a little more, and all of a sudden they have lost these cities. I will get them back very quickly. All they have to say is please come in. As you know, they have to ask, unless we go a much tougher route, which we could, but you dont like to do that. They have to ask us to come in. When they ask me to come in, we will be there in a matter of minutes. When i signed an executive order instituting 10 year prison sentences for destroying monuments and statues, it immediately stopped. That was three months ago or so. I signed an order and i said 10 years in prison, 10 years if you knock down the statue. It immediately stopped. I mean, to the best of my knowledge. I have not seen it happening for about that time. They were going to have a big march on washington. They canceled that march. They said 10 years was too long. Before the outbreak of leftwing extremism, our strategy produced a historic reduction in violent crime. In the last two years of the obama administration, murder increased 30 in the largest american cities. We witnessed the largest twoyear nationwide increase in murder in over half a century. In the first two years of my presidency, the number of murders went down significantly. Earlier this year, we announced that operation legend, surging federal Law Enforcement to cities plagued by violent crime. And we did a lot of it very quietly. But we did a lot. Since the beginning of operation legend, we have conducted more than 1000 arrests. We reduced the murder rate in kansas city, which is one of the cities we targeted. By one third. Cut it down 33 . In the last month alone, we cut the murder rate in chicago in half. People dont know that, but we sent them in to chicago without fanfare at all, but we cut it down in half. It is still far too high. If they had asked for full help instead of just sending in some very talented people, we would be able to cut it down to a very low number. While i am president , we will defend the rights of lawabiding citizens and honor the heroes that keep america safe. And we do. We honor our police and Law Enforcement. I have the privilege of having gotten, i guess, most every Law Enforcement group in the country. The sheriffs in florida, all them. Law enforcement in ohio and texas. North carolina. Almost no matter where you live. I think of gotten all of them. I will have to do a little study so im totally accurate, but i would say all of them. The ones who did not, i think we have to look at them, where they come from. So, we have done a real job. We are ready, willing and able to help these democrat run cities that are doing poorly. They have to call. All they have to do is call. They dont have to put it in writing. We will put it in writing later. We will get them in there and straighten of the city very quickly. Whichever city we may be talking about. So, those governors that are responsible for the state that has a city that has a lot of problems, call me or the mayor can call me, and we will be there very quickly. Tomorrow, we are making a trip to wisconsin. I think a lot of you are going to be going. It should be very interesting. It should be very interesting, what we are proud of it. Because in six days, it has been like a different world. And it took place immediately. As soon as we went in, it took place immediately. Ok, please, thank you. Are you giving any consideration or did you give any consideration to the governor and mayors request to not to come to kenosha tomorrow . Pres. Trump no, because kenosha was something we did a good job on. The governor did not want us there. He did not want the National Guard. He was very reluctant. But i give him credit. Because ultimately he said yes. As soon as he said yes, the problem ended. But i have to see the people that did such a good job for me. And we are meeting with numerous people. We have tremendous support in the state of wisconsin. So, i promised them when it all gets taken care of. There are concerns that that could exacerbate tensions and increase violence. Do you give any consideration to that . Pres. Trump it could also increase enthusiasm. It could increase love and respect for our country. That is why i am going. They did a fantastic job. As soon i called and told them lets go, the whole problem stopped. That was what, six days ago . Why arent you meeting with the family of jacob blake . Pres. Trump i spoke with the pastor. Wonderful man. The familys pastor. I thought it would be better to not do anything where there are lawyers involved. They wanted me to speak, but they wanted to have lawyers involved. I thought that was inappropriate. So i didnt do that. I did speak with the pastor of the family, who is a fine man, a wonderful man. I think we had a great talk. And i may at some point, you know, do that, but they did have a lawyer that wanted to be on the phone and i said, no, that is inappropriate. I just gave my best regards. But again, i spoke with the pastor. Oni have a question coronavirus. You were just criticizing joe biden saying he did not mention the farleft or antifa. But i noticed you did not mention that your supporters were also in portland this weekend firing paintball gun s at people, pepper spray. Do you want to also take this chance to condemn what your supporters did . Pres. Trump i understand they had large numbers of people that were supporters, but that was a peaceful protest. Paint is a defensive mechanism. Paint is not bullets. Your supporters your supporters and they are your supporters indeed shot a young gentleman and killed him. Not with paint. But with a bullet. And i think it is disgraceful. These people protested peacefully. They went in very peacefully. I tell you what they are protesting, they are protesting when they turn on television or read whatever they may be reading and they see a city like chicago, where 78 people were shot and 13 died or a city like new york with a crime rate has gone through the roof. Or a city like portland where the entire city is ablaze all the time and the mayor says we dont want any help from the federal government. These people turn that on and see that, they say, this is not our country. That was a peaceful protest. Go ahead. [indiscernible] it was a supporter of yours who killed someone. Will you condemn the actions of vigilantes like Kyle Rittenhouse . Pres. Trump we are looking at all of that. That was an interesting situation. You saw the tape i saw. He was trying to get away from them, i guess. Looks like. And he fell and they very violently attacked him. It is something that we are looking at right now and it is under investigation. I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed. But it is under investigation. Do you think private citizens should be taking guns pres. Trump i think Law Enforcement should take care of everything. I think everything should be taken care of Law Enforcement. But we have to give our cops and police the dignity back. They are very talented people. They are strong, they are tough, but we have taken it away. We dont want to have somebody makes a mistake, he chokes. In some cases, we have bad cops, we have to take care of them. In other cases, they choke. They have a quarter of a second. A quarter of a second to make a decision, sometimes they make the wrong decision. If they make the wrong decision, if they make it in the other direction, they are probably dead. So they choke sometimes. And that goes on the evening news for weeks. And the thousands and tens of thousands of great things they do, nobody covers that. Nobody writes about that. But if they make a mistake, and again the bad cops, everybody who is out there very tough on bad cops, but sometimes you have a cop or a Police Person who is a good police, a good Police Person, right . Good . But they choke. The timing, they go through this and they study this and work on it all the time. They literally have a quarter of a second to make some of these decisions. And they make a wrong decision and it is very devastating, but i will say this. I honor Law Enforcement. We would not be here right now if it wasnt for Law Enforcement. We have to stop this horrible, leftwing ideology in our country. Basically, it is weakness on behalf of democrat politicians and republicans. We dont have problems. You take a look at our cities, they are doing very well. They are safe, they are secure. I spent a lot of time in texas. As you know, just a couple of days ago. I was with the governor of texas , greg abbott. He was explaining that they would not put up with it for a minute. They just dont have the type of problems other people have. Thank you very much. [indiscernible] i would like to finish my question. If you can come back. You did not answer my question, mr. President. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] record is a shameful rollcall of the most catastrophic betrayals and blunders in our lifetime. He has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to the nation. He has failed to protect us, he has failed to protect america. And my fellow americans, that is unforgivable. The first president ial debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe bidens september 29 at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Watch live coverage on cspan, watch ondemand at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Cspans washington journal, everyday taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. Ofsday morning, the host cnns reliable sources discusses his new book, hoax. Then, a biographer and president ial historian talks about campaign 2020 and the history of postconvention president ial campaigns. Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency ManagementAgency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal government learned in terms of response to hurricanes in particular . Guest i think the biggest lesson was that we dont wait until we are asked to start getting ready. To be ana, there seem lot of confusion about the governor having to make requests and what femas role was going to be. Congress, after katrina launched substantial legislation. Governors are going to be is he dealing with this. The federal government doesnt have to wait. We start moving resources and i think you see this response has increased. We are not waiting for these assessments. You talked about states being prepared and fema being prepared, but what about individuals . Do you think u. S. Households are better prepared than they used to be to handle things during a Natural Disaster . Guest we get better at some things and not as good in others. If you look at what has happened in hurricane laura, we were fortunate. There seem to be very low lossoflife due to the impacts of the storm. A lot of people heated the