President can make. Candidates for president of the American People a specific list of individuals they consider for the United StatesSupreme Court. Four years ago i announced my first list of highly qualified candidates and promised to fill vacancy fromas among those names. Inauguration,r my i kept that promise when i ,ominated judge neil gorsuch and as you know, he has been very spectacular. A year later, i nominated and the Senate Confirmed another outstanding justice, brett kavanaugh. By the end of my first term, we will have confirmed a Record Number of federal judges, over 300, all of whom will faithfully uphold our constitution as written. What has always made america exceptional is our reverence for the impartial rule of law. People have come from all over the world to pursue the American Dream based on this sacred principle, equality under the law is the bedrock of our society. It is the principal that inspired american heroes to abolish slavery and end segregation and build the most free and just nation. Unfortunately, there is a growing radical Left Movement that rejects the principle of equal treatment under the law. This extreme movement has if thisa majority extreme movement is granted a majority on the Supreme Court, it will fundamentally transform america. Radical justices will erase the second amendment, silence political speech at a require taxpayers to fund extreme alert him lateterm abortion. It will give manufacturers the power to destroy millions of american jobs. They will remove the words from god from the pledge of allegiance. They will declare the Death Penalty unconstitutional, even for the most depraved mass murderers. They will erase National Borders , cripple Police Departments and rent new protections to anarchists, writers, violent criminals, and terrorists. In the recent past, many of our most precious freedoms including free speech, liberty and the right to bear arms have been saved by a single vote on the United StatesSupreme Court. Now our cherished rights are at risk, including the right to life and our great second amendment. Over the next four years, americas president will choose hundreds of federal judges and in all likelihood, one, 2, 3 and even four Supreme Court justices. The outcome will determine whether we hold fast to our nations founding principles are whether they are lost forever. Today, i am announcing 20 additions to my original list of candidates for the United StatesSupreme Court. Be another vacancy on the Supreme Court during my presidency, my nominee will come from the nominee names the names i have shared with the American Public, including the original list and these 20 additions. Joe biden as refused to release his list perhaps because he knows the names are so extremely farleft that they could never withstand public scrutiny or receive acceptance. He must release a list of justices for people to properly make a decision as to how they will vote. It is very important that he do so. My original list of potential justices include many of our nations brightest legal minds, such as bill pryor, amy c. , and thomas hardiman, upstanding outstanding people. Like those distinguished individuals, the 20 additions i am announcing today would be in the mold of justices, antonin scalia, clarence thomas, and samuel alito. Their names are are as follows. Y of arizona. Judge on the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Daniel cameron, of kentucky. Attorney general of the commonwealth of kentucky. Paul clement, of virginia, former solicitor general of the United States. Senator, tom cotton, of arkansas. Senator, ted cruz, of texas. Stewart kyle duncan, of louisiana. Judge on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. Stephen angle, of the district of columbia, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel at the department of justice. Noel francisco, former solicitor general of the United States. Senator, josh hawley, of missouri. James o. , of texas, judge on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. Tsis of virginia, judge on the district of columbia circuit of dust Circuit Court of appeals. Barbara l. , of georgia, and judge on the second court of appeals. Christopher landau of maryland, United States ambassador to mexico. Ooneys, of florida, justice on the Supreme Court of florida. Martha p. , of illinois, judge on the District Court for the Northern District of illinois. Peter phipps, of pennsylvania, judge on the third Circuit Court of appeals. Itlick of missouri, judge , on the District Court for the Eastern District of missouri. Rushing of north , carolina, judge on the fourth Circuit Court of appeals. Kate todd, of virginia, Deputy Assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president. Lawrence van dyck, of nevada. Judge on the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Everyone of these individuals will ensure equal justice, equal treatment, and equal rights for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. Together, we will defend our righteous heritage and preserve our magnificent american way of life. Thank you, god bless america. Thank you very much. Does anybody have any questions on the judges . Please. Anybody . On the judges . Excuse me. Any questions . They are outstanding people. Very important decision. Very important that joe biden put out potential nominees. I think its a very important thing for our country that he do that. Ok, please go ahead. You have a question . Can you address the concerns from the woodward book in regard to whether you misled the public by saying and you downplayed the coronavirus . I think if you said in order to reduce panic, perhaps that is so. The fact is i am a cheerleader , for this country, i love our country, and i dont want people to be frightened, i dont want to create panic. Certainly, i am not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. We want to show confidence, we want to show strength. We want to show strength as a nation, and thats what ive done, and weve done well from any standard. You look at our numbers compared to other countries, other parts of the world, its been an amazing job. I think its very sad in many respects, because the incredible individuals working so hard, including our Vice President , they have done this great job and they have not been acknowledged by the news media. And they should. For the job theyve done. Whether its ventilators, now you will see very soon with vaccines and with therapeutics. The job we have done has been incredible. But we dont want to instill panic. We dont want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem, scare everybody. And i will tell you, the other thing, we immediately started buying, all over the world, we started buying masks, gowns, and everything else. We dont want to cause pricing to go up to a level that becomes almost unaffordable. In that sense, i agree. How do you reassure the American PublicGoing Forward that they can trust what you are saying . Pres. Trump thats a big part of trust. We have to have leadership and show leadership. The last thing you want to do is create a panic in the country. This was a horrible thing, it was sent to us by china. Should not have happened. This is a disgusting, terrible situation that was hoisted upon us. We have to show the best word is panic. We dont want to have to show panic. We are not going to show panic. And that is exactly what i did. I was very open. Whether it is to woodward or anybody else. Its just another political hit job. But whether it was woodward or anybody else, you cannot show a sense of panic, or you will have bigger problems than you ever had before. Please. [indiscernible] on february 14th if you were more forthright with the American People, more lives could have been saved. Do you take responsibility at all for the 200,000 deaths . I think if we did not do what we did we would have had , millions of people die. We close it up very quickly and very effectively. We learned about this horrible disease, along with the rest of the world, which had to learn about it. We know the vulnerable. We have opened it up. We know who it attacks and who its vicious against. I think we have done, from every standpoint, an incredible job. We should not have lost anybody, nobody should have lost. China released something that they should not have been allowed to release. It came out of china, it went to europe, it went all over the world. It should have never happened. They could have stopped it. They stopped it from going into the remainder of china. It started in wuhan, and they stopped it. But they did not stop it from coming to our country. Now, we have to show calm. We have to show if it was up to you or whoever, i have no idea what he said in the book. Again, its a book and i gave him some quotes. Frankly, we will see how the book turned out. I have no idea. Youre asking me questions for the first time. But again, the last thing we can show is panic, or excitement, or fear, or anything else. We had to take care of the situation we were given. Long before anybody else wanted to do it, i closed our borders to a very heavily infected china. If i did not do that, we would have had hundreds of thousands more people die. Dr. Fauci said it, many people said it, it was a great decision. It was a decision i made, and i had to make. A decision a lot of people thought was wrong. Nancy pelosi said i was wrong. Joe biden said i was wrong. They all came back and said it was the right decision and i was way early. That was the end of january. That was a very good thing we did, otherwise, we would have had hundreds of thousands more. If we did not close the country, we would have been talking about millions of people instead of the numbers we have right now. You mentioned you were trying to avoid price gouging. But you recognized the virus spread through the air on february 7. You didnt start setting [indiscernible] up until march. You did not really think it was going to be to the point where it was. All of a sudden, the entire world was infected. The entire world was infected. Everyone was scrambling around looking where to buy face masks and all of the other things. We have opened up factories. We have had tremendous success with face masks, shields, and ventilators. We are now supplying the rest of the world. We have all the ventilators we can use. And remember this, the ventilators were important. Not one person that needed a ventilator did not get it. And these are very complex and expensive machines to make. We opened up something that had not been done since the second world war. We honestly we have done an incredible job. But we dont want to run around screaming, shouting, look at this, look at this, we have to show leadership. And leadership is all about confidence, and confidence is confidence in our country. And our people have been great, we have been put through a lot by china by releasing this, by having this come here. They could have done something and they chose not to. I am very honored to have presented to you today a list of 20 incredible people. And we will talk later, im sure we will be meeting later in the day. Thank you very much. [indiscernible] watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government, created by americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. 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