Current Coronavirus Vaccine development progress. This is one hour. This is an hour. President trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Good afternoon. Hurricane sally made landfall, and u know, in alabama florida last night as a category it caused 35 and inches of rainfall in some places. Lot. s a we have hundreds of fema, coast guard, the National Guard ersonnel on the ground assisting, in response to the efforts, and alabama is in great shape. Every place that were working with the state governments, great shape. Were working very hard on that, like its going to be mostly safe but just follow your structions of all of local and federal people there. The best people you can have. To thank everybody. I want to thank everybody for working so hard in florida, and very good at this. The people in florida handle it. They know how to handle it and know ople working there how to handle it. The governors have all been to, and its a combination of spirit. They have a tremendous core. They have a tremendous sense of hurricanes. They have gotten very good at it and weve certainly had plenty since ive been here. Weve had a lot of them. Thats in good shape. Sally. Ne were going to talk about big 10 football but thats a terrific thing. That at the end. I just want to go into the vaccine distribution. Administration released vaccine National Distribution plan, to ensure that we swiftly deliver the americas Senior Citizens in Nursing Homes, and its all set. We have our military lined up. Is lined up. And we think thats going to go very nicely. Were very close to that you know. S i think closer than most people say. To certainly closer than most people understand. To get the vaccine into the people. The american were fully mobilizing the awesome power of the american industry and also our military. This is the largest, fastest and most advanced vaccine american on effort in history by far. I was reading where biden was to have oh, hes going a plan. They did so bad on swine flu, you wouldnt even believe it. Their record on swine flu. In fact, person who headed it up it was a total disaster. Were on track to distribute and deliver the vaccine in a very effective manner. We think we can start sometime in october. Announced as its well be able to start. That will be from midoctober on. A little bit later than that but well be all set, so as soon as its given the go ahead, they are doing trials as and as soon as we get the goahead well get out to virus. The weve manufactured all the 234es supplies so as soon as the vaccine, as es the you know were very close to that well be able to distribute t least a hundred million vaccine doses by the end of much and a large number, sooner than that. m calling on biden to stop promoting his antivaccine theories because all they are hurting the importance of what were doing, and i know hat if they were in this position they would be saying how wonderful it is. Endangering ly are lives. You cant do that. Case this is really a that they are only talking, just started talking a little bit negatively and thats only they know we have it, or we will soon have it, and the to that is very soon. The case updates, its very to see whats happening because the test Positivity Rate is down among its fallen s and below 5 for the first time nightmare of le the china virus began. 5 . Its fallen below the number of hospitalized patients has decreased by 43 midjuly. 43 . Nationally people sick with the now make up only 1. 5 of all emergency room were down to the lowest number weve had. Visits isergency room for the china virus. Lifesaving o our therapies and treatments, i think this is the best of all in erms of our great percentages, and all the progress weve made, fallen 85 e has since april. 85 fatality rate. You look at what weve done and all of the lives that weve going to ask that a graph be put up and now its up. This was right at the beginning. Our prediction, if we ata really good job well be about a hundred thousand to 240,000 deaths and were below substantially and well see what comes out. That would be if we did the good job. Not so good job was done it would be between 1. 5 million numbers so hese well, 2. 2 million. Thats quite a difference. So were down in this territory, fact that despite the the blue states had tremendous death rates. States out,the blue were at a level that i dont think anybody in the world would at. Out of all those levels but some of the states, they were blue states managed. By the way we recommend that they open up their states. Theynk its very important open up their states, because if you look at certain of them, carolina, pennsylvania, others, we couple of have to get those states opened. Its hurting people. Far more ng people than the disease itself. So we would recommend that you let your people have freedom and its unfair to your people to keep them closed at stage. We know the vaccines are coming but we know the problem. Who the venerable primarily people with medical problems, particularly lder people with medical problems so open up your states. To facilitate routine testing of residents and me staff, weve delivered rapid devices to all 13,850 ertified Nursing Homes nationwide. O you have 13,850 certified Nursing Homes nationwide and they are being facilitated in and testing testing apparatus. Everything is there. Tests coming ew and we have one in particular that i think i showed last night literally two pieces of very fine cardboard. Delicate lly a lot of things going on inside that cardboard, but its an test. Dible its very quick and its very accurate. Rapidly. S along we bought millions of those tests, and they are going to be distributed rapidly. So the Testing Process, where there is nobody in the world process like ting ours. In addition to being number one. India, is which is close to 50 million tests hyped us, i believe, scott. Million. They have 1. 5 billion people. Tomorrow, Vice President pence findings nouncing the of the Nursing Home Commission to continue protecting our most our senior which is citizens, and were going to take good care of them. To congratulate big 10 football. Its back. In particular, ive been dealing with them. Thank kevin commissioner warren of the great job he did. Weve been working with him for a while. There was a rumor being spread that i didnt want football back. It was just the opposite. Disinformation rumor put out by the biden campaign. Nd it was just the opposite, but it really spurred me into action. Called the commissioner a couple of weeks ago and we started putting a lot of pressure on, frankly, because for it not reason to come back. Kevin went to work very hard. Want to thank the players and coaches for working along. They wanted it very badly. Coaches in and particular. The parents also. Big 10 football just announced, you know, their schedule. They announced a schedule and it ill be great, important to have. I recommend that the pac12 also get going because there is no why pac12 shouldnt be playing now. Erhaps they will start with at least partially, i had recommended today to kevin and start maybe you want to off with 25 of the stadium, or maybe you want to start out with know. , i dont i think they could have fans go they want to be careful and safe. Very good ot a Testing Process for the players, families, coaches. Congratulate big 10. It will be great. Well love watching that. To recommend pac12. Now, open only one up, pac12, get going. 10 id the same thing to big and they did and now im saying to it pac12. You have time. Get going. Cess to over the last couple of weeks. Anthony was a great player and cismd went to the nfl. I. I want to thank my staff. Up day and night working with everybody else. Hank you, great job, so big 10 is back and it will have hopefully a great season. In thesus recently found Second Quarter of 2020, hispanic americans Home Ownership reached alltime high. Thats all time in the history of our country. Census reported that Median Income for americans ncreased by an unprecedented 4,400 last year to a record of 68,700. In 2019, income inequality fell for the second straight year. The income gap widened under the administration and widened quite substantially narrowed under my administration. Income grew more. Ast year alone, than over the entire eight years of obamabiden. Thats a big statement but thats the way it is. Were 2 million americans lifted out of poverty. Thats the largest Poverty Reduction under any president in history. 4. 2 million americans were lifted out of poverty. Poverty nic american rate reached the lowest level ever. In the history of our country. Hispanic american poverty rate, lowest level ever. Created the greatest and fairest economy in the history. The biggest gains went to lower ncome americans, as they measure that kind of thing. Well be back to full strength very soon. Have a fantastic year next year, Something Like that. I think youll have an quarter. Le third the numbers are looking very, very strong for the third quarter. Put ve numbers that well out tomorrow. Some of the individual things. Production, housing production. Housing ownership. O many Different Things are just at levels that nobody thought possible. S we round the turn on the pandemic. Antipolice crusade from the democrats and the radical left radical left democrats also has to stop. War on cops puts our offices in danger and our risk. Ities at very grave cant do this. Biden described the police as enemy. They are not the enemy. They are our friend. You are helping us, and if go to i just saw a poll that came ame out or recently out, where africanamericans by police. Ted more they wanted safe neighborhoods. In phoenix last night a federal gunned down in a driveby shooting. In l. A. This weekend everybody that, this horrible human might want ver you to call him. Looking all over, trying to find him. Were going to find him. Were going to get him. Ut in l. A. This weekend, two sheriffs deputies were ambushed and viciously shot, and they can never be the same. They are Getting Better but they can never be the same. Always stand by our heroes of Law Enforcement and we want horrible rhetoric and stop it fast. Scott atlas to say a couple of words because i about,iden talking today he wants to come up with a distribution plan, a distribution for the vaccine up with. Ame a couple of things. We came up with the vaccine, it announced fairly soon but regardless, this month, next time that level of nobody thought was possible because of what we did with our f. D. A. In terms of streamlining it. I want to thank dr. Hawn, but with the done streamlining has been incredible. And very safely. Number one is safety. Number two is speed. But you can have perfect safety and have much more speed and what we did. We did this for more than the vaccine. Having to do with the china virus. This was also for other things. So many other great drugs are out there that would take 10 or to get them approved. E moved those schedules up a lot. But if this were obamabiden, taken two or e three years before you were at a stage where were now at. Going to be very soon. Ts sort of funny to watch joe biden getting up and reading a he prompter and saying how would have done this. It had h1n1, he calls the n1h1, its called the it was a disaster, and, as i said, the person who him said the worst things about it. They didnt know what they were doing. They quit. Clue and that was easy by comparison to this. Contagious, contagious flu or virus that anybody has seen. How is unbelievable contagious it is. We found that out but i watched as he discussed without having without knowing a thing about a said bution plan, and he that we dont have a distribution plan, but we do indeed. Our military. We have military. Involved. Erybody its a great plan, and its a lan like no other, and we can start doing it. I believe the day that we come when its vaccine, done, well start that same day or the day after. Our military is very much deploy , and they troops. These are the generals who do logistics and all of those hings and well have it all over the country and hopefully well be helping the world with vaccine. But maybe i would ask atlas to come up and describe a little distributiont, the plan in particular, because biden i didnt develop the plan. Its a 57page document a different part of this was given congress. Hsf. As released by on the site. I thought it was coverage by the media. Comprehensive plan. A publicprivate partnership. Everything done in terms of logistics. The i. T. Thats necessary to race the first dose because some of these vaccines are anticipated to be two doses. Taylor, of course, by the states, and there is a specific and administration of that will be an 51,000 outlets including paying particular attention to minority areas. Qualified federally Health Centers, and as the president just said been the f. D. A. s ours of approval. Under an emergency use well vaccines being delivered within the first 24 hours. At virtually no cost to americans. Of the dosage, it is anticipated no later than anuary, all the top priority people will have received vaccine or already be able to steve vaccine. Prioritization, which is a general prioritization done for all vaccines that are developed in the pandemic setting, goes to the highrisk with other people underlying conditions as well as First Responders and people healthcare, ctly in and so thats going to be done rapidly. Hank you schulte mr. President , earlier today, redfield conferred that it looked like november or december, the first doses would distributed. But then you said the vaccine or the general public likely would not be available until probably next summer. Maybe even early fall. Are you comfortable with that time frame . President trump i think he made that. Take when he said thats just incorrect information, and i called him nd he didnt tell me that, and i think he got the message maybe confused. Maybe it was stated incorrectly. Ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced. It could be announced in october. Could be announced a little bit after october. Ready. Ce we go, were as you know, pfizer is making taking a tremendous financial risk and spending billions of dollars on actually making this vaccine. At the stage where they are actually making it because they feel very confident as to the results. Be announcing the results fairly soon. No, thats incorrect information. He was clear in the way President Trump i dont think he means that. When he said it, i believe he was confused. Im just telling you. Were ready to go. As soon as the vaccine happens. Timeline . You want to see President Trump well start immediately. It for the general public . President trump very shortly, to the general public immediately. When we go, we go. Were not looking to say in six start were going the giving it to the general public. It was an incorrect statement. I saw the statement and i called said what did you mean by that . And i think he just made a mistake. Mistake. Ade a i think he misunderstood the question probably. A so if you were to put timeline on when every person in america will be able to get a would that be . President trump very soon. Our Distribution Process is going to go very quickly. You, weve engaged the military. We have a general who is in all logistics who deliver soldiers. Hes a fantastic guy. Be fantastic at what he does. Thats better than any company you can hire. You cant hire a company like that. We look to distribution get the ly after we word that its good. And i think they are having the ndous success with vaccine itself. I think the results will be early and strong. A hundred has to be percent and were going to insist on that and obviously the that ies will insist on also. Could you put an actual date on it . Resident trump what would you think . As i said, the high priority will have it sometime no later than january. Of course, it depends on when things are approved. Im talking to then anticipated therapy, 700 million doses by the end of q1. Doses. Lion by the end of march. Q1. Do you mind if i ask you a question. Sure. March, right . As public a lot experts, this is happening in you have to socially distance. So have to space it out thats one thing. Another thing they are worried is storing these vaccines. Since we dont know which one is the winner, you know, doctors not have dry ice to handle negative 80 degrees. Challenges. Are you prepared to say you can overcome all of those in three months . Yes. Least ive been briefed on the vaccine. So all the refrigerators that are necessary, everything is to be in place for them. Here is a very detailed logistical plan that started months ago. Youre welcome to read it on the eb but basically, yeah, all of those things are not a problem really. Know how to ople shop for groceries, the usingrants that are open, social distancing, they can do it. President trump you also have company. N one you have johnson and johnson, miderna. Ner are you prepared to sign even though the treasury isnt getting paid and does the your requirement . President trump they have giving me studies on the deal. It has to be hahn percent as far secured is concerned. No, im not prepared to sign off on anything. I have to see the deal. Security especially after what weve seen with respect to china and whats going on. We want security. Let you know. They will be reporting to me morning. Ill let you know. The payments to the treasury . President trump well see. Youre not allowed to accept money. Kind of thing is this . If they are willing to make big payments to the government they there is owed because ay of doing that from there is no legal path to doing that. They are willing to make a big payment to the government and we arent allowed to take the money . When does this happen . Foolish can we be . Into that right now. I said no, i want a big chunk of to the ernment to come government. The lawyers say there is no way of doing that. You know what . Ecause nobody has ever said that before. Nobody has said well approve the deal but we want a lot of to the government because by approving the deal were making the deal valuable. They have never heard of that before. Okay . Can you believe that . You. Said it was earlier [inaudible] proposals o the submitted, they would keep a majority stake and oracle would a minority . President trump were looking at that from the standpoint of dance. Conceptually i dont like that. Yet. s not been told to me thats been reported but it hasnt been told to me. It could be very accurate reporting. If thats the case i wont be with it. Ssuming bike dance is china, which im assuming it is. [inaudible] you told judge jeannine if there is violence on Election Night youll put it down why that kind of use rhetoric . President trump the question was asked if you have violent yes, well put it down very quickly if there is. Absolutely. And i think the American Public to see that. Yeah. Mr. President President Trump if there is any kind of demonstration or violence, there will be nothing that interferes with this product. Vote. There will be nothing. The biggest problem we have ballots. Are the millions of ballots going out. Thats the biggest problem. When you talk about other countries, whether its china, russia or many others that get in a much hey are better position with these paper than s to do something they would ever be under the old system and thats our biggest problem. This ggest threat to election is governors from opposing parties controlling ballots. Millions of ballots, to me, thats a much bigger threat than oreign countries because much of the stuff coming out about Foreign Countries turned out to untrue. What is true is that many elections have taken place over year and a half using this ballot system. They have been off by 5 , 10 , 15 , i think i read one at 40 , easy to these are small control elections. This whole ballot system, where it in, and its not even requested, were not solicited, they are unsolicited ballots and they are sent in. Our very dangerous for country. And you know who knows that better than anybody . The democrats. Ook at what happened in manhattan where they had this and it was so n fraudulent that it should never have been allowed to be called. Five, 10, 15, 20 off. We could have more than that. Stolen. Ots will be who knows where they are going, who knows where they are coming from . Its not just the counting of the ballots, which, by the way, will take forever. Forever. Ake you think november 3, you might point guess at a certain it goes to congress. At a certain point you goes to congress, you know that . This is a disgrace. This is being done on purpose. They know its no good. Its going be fraudulent. There is going to be fraud all over the place. Who is getting the ballots. Sending the ballots . They have people saying you dont need a verified signature. To our a serious threat democracy. And the democrats know that. Solicite asking, if you the ballot, you go through a process. Ballot because you cant be there for a large number of reasons. Whatever, im doing it myself. I wont be able to be in florida. You solicit and they send it back. You do it and you send it back. Process you go through and its pretty secure. I use the word pretty secure. Foolproof. The most foolproof thing, the thing that really works is you ballot box. It will be very safe. I think by that time covid will be even lower. It will be very low. It will be a very safe process. World war i. Ing we did it during world war ii. To this st threat election is these unsolicited out by the millions, controlled by nevada, who isin a political person, very political. Beyond being governor. Where they try to stop from you speech, unsuccessfully but we had to move around a lot and move quickly so this same stop from you to making free speech outside, utside, not inside, outside, they forced us inside because of what they did, but outside, this guy thats controlling ballots. Then you look at pennsylvania, places, it is her a big threat, and as far as china is concerned and russia, say north korea, they say iran, they say places, who knows, who knows, but they say all of these different places. Forgeries of these ballots. They can do things that will blow your mind, and the wrong. Ats know its they know it will end up being a disaster. Just take a look at whats happened. Whats happened over the last year with this same kind of thing. Setting, a very small ith very few ballots going out so thats much easier. Not 353 to 80 million going out. Number. Small you know whats happened . Fraud like youve never seen. Missing ballots. That never showed up. Allots with bad signatures, ballots with no signatures. In the case of nevada they dont ven want verification of the signature. Its a disgrace. Judges. Fore in pennsylvania, before judges, evada, before judges, in other places before federal judges and hopefully they will do what they did the other day in pennsylvania where we had a victory. Open up your state. Its unconstitutional to close it. Is use what they were doing losing it and they are closing it for political reasons. It will open up right after the election but they want people be as nt our numbers to bad as possible but the problem is our numbers are so good with or without various states up, with or without. But we had a big legal victory you know three days ago. A federal judge told them to open up their state. Its unconstitutional what doing. Thats in the case of pennsylvania. Ow, the big cases are going to be the cases on these unsolicited ballots, and well happens. Oan, please. Communist party has been using slave labor. Your administration has imposed ban on certain products coming out of that province, stopping short of a region ban. What is your response to the Chinesecommunist Party who are saying this is an outright lie. Forced labor, e and number two, have allies expressed interest in standing ith this administration in taking action against forced labor . President trump yeah. We dont want to see that. Been very strong on that were getting reports in over the next two to three days and story is andat the way or the tion one other. The wanted to ask you about w2 recent ruling should. The u. S. Remain part of the w. H. O. . President trump i have real questions. Look, the u. S. , we just won a 7. 5 billion lawsuit which nobody used to sue before i cam along, you know. Every used to lose them single time. Now they havent been losing reports were getting on the wto. Its not good. Never been good to us. The wto, as far as im concerned, was created to suck unitednd jobs out of the states to the benefit of china and other countries. Thats what my opinion is. Whether it was created or just way but t to be that the World Trade Organization has been not good for the United States. Good for everybody else but its not been good ofwas a method in my opinion taking advantage of the United States so were looking into well get backnd to you. You spoke with dr. Redfield earlier i think he made a mistake. I was very surprised to hear it. Matter. Nt really were set to distribute it immediately. As soon as that vaccine comes works, whether , its pfizer or johnson and johnson or anybody else were eady to distribute it very rapidly. As scott said, and as our team knows, and they are ready, and could be on it could be in october, sometime in october or november. I dont think it will be much than that. But i think it could be sometime in october. And it will o move be a very full distribution. He madeaid you told him a mistake. President trump i didnt tell him anything. I said what happened . Impression he didnt realize he said what he might have said. Him say it but if he said that it was a mistake. Were ready to distribute it immediately. So a vast, section of our country, and then beyond. Help other ant to countries also but were ready he was talking about the general public. Pres. Trump we are focused on high risk but we will also focus on general public. Our immediate aim is elderly people, especially elderly people with heart, diabetes problems. We are not looking at a small distribution program. We are looking at distributing to the whole United States with the immediate focus of the elderly. Under no circumstance will it be as late as the doctor said. Frankly if hehat analyzes they hit him with that question. We are ready at a much faster level than what he said. We will have rapid distribution. We have set up the military and others to do it. I think it could be taking place in october, but certainly during november, december would be the latest. Based on what we are hearing, results are good. You told bob woodward the problem with the vaccine is it will take 13, 14 months before you have it because you have to test. Pres. Trump that was a long time ago before i said that. We were not set up at that time. Book last, i read the night very rapidly because it was very boring. Did you see what i said. I said a lot of good things. For the most part, people like to turn it around. I said really good things in that book. For example, key does not cover what we are doing in the middle east we are doing it in an entirely different way and that is not covered in his book. Ie thing i will say, and respect the press for this one, almost diversely we have been praised for the deal we made yesterday with israel and two very important countries in the middle east. And uae in particular, where it is a powerful group. It is a warrior country led by a great warrior and a man who is highly respected. If you take a look at that and bahrain and israel making a deal and four or five others that want to come in. Two of them yesterday and they are ready to trot. I think you will have a whole level of peace without blood all over the seine. Nobody was shot, killed. Hundreds of thousands of people in the middle east. I always say it is the bloodiest said anywhere in the world, and it did not have to be that way. The single worst decision our country ever made was to go into the middle east. Not only the millions of people killed, and i include people on both sides. Such a horrible thing was done, such a horrible mistake was made. We are doing this a different way. We have those two countries, at least five we are negotiating with right now. You can only negotiate with so many. Theink ultimately palestinians are going to come in. I stopped funding the fairlyns very early on. Millioniving them 750 a year and they are saying bad things about our country, so i stopped finding them early on. They get funded by other rich countries. I think now that these very rich ,ountries are part of the deal and you will see over the next short period of time, other countries will come in. I think saudi arabia ultimately will come in too. I think saudi arabia will be great. It is not based on knowledge other than a couple of conversations i had with the king. Saudi arabia will be coming in too, and you will end up with peace in the middle east and nobody thought it could be done and nobody thought it could be done this way. I went to some very smart people and they said you will never be able to do it. Now they are saying to me nobody ever thought of doing this. They all thought you make the deal first with the palestinians. I will say the resistance is some countries did not want to do it unless the palestinians were there first. That was a psychological thing more than anything else. People, our great representatives that have been doing this for 35 years that were telling me how to do it, they were in clintons obama, allion, bush, these great brilliant people telling me how to do it. I said they were wrong. I guess i was right. Lets finish this. Countries thate will be coming in a very short period of time, all of the countries that will be coming in just like you saw bahrain think of, uae, i can at least five that will be quite and easy. Quick andbe qwik easy. We will have peace in the middle east. We want to get out. Our soldiers are largely coming on. The endless, ridiculous wars. If i did not withdraw our country from that horrible iran nuclear deal, that horrible stupid deal where president fora paid 150 billion nothing and gave 1. 8 billion in cash. That is more impressive than the 150 billion paid normally. She gave he gave all of this money. We had these tips and he gave them all away. It was a shortterm deal. It would be practically expiring now. It starts to expire right now, but it would be practically, and there is no way we would let iran have a nuclear weapon. Told woodward about the 13th, 14th month for the time i. Pres. Trump we stepped it up very substantially. This is what it is. We have been able to step it up very rapidly. I never thought we could have a vaccine as quickly as we did. I have freed up the fda. Dr. Hahn has done a great job and they are ready to approve something when it comes in. Another thing, you look at a company like pfizer, one of the Great Companies of the world, johnson johnson, they are doing a lot of testing at a rapid rate that nobody has ever seen. They are on the third level of the trial, and i think you will see things that are amazing. When i made statements like that, that is an old statement. I had no idea what we are producing it only because of what i have done with the fda and other things can we come up with numbers like that. We are lucky that we do not have to, because that was considered fast. If this were an administration from the past, and i think i can say far beyond obama, it was other administrations also, you 2. 5d not have a vaccine for to three years. Do you support the proposal that was put forward . Are you comfortable with pres. Trump Something Like that. Some republicans disagree but i think i can convince them to go along with that. I like the larger number. I went to see people get money. It was not their fault that this happened. It was chinas fault. People say it you should not say that. That is not nice. It was chinas fault. I would like to see the larger number. There are some things i disagree with, but i am sure they can be negotiated. I heard nancy pelosi say it she does not want to leave until they have an agreement. If she said that, she has come a long way. People should be helped, and they should be helped as rapidly as possible and i think it is going to happen. I think it is very important. The problem solvers came up with it is a group of people. Themss you would consider dead center. In many cases, they are not. They are left, they are right. They are well on their way to suggesting pretty good things. I agree with a lot of it. In terms of things you do not agree, are you comfortable with pres. Trump the things we do not agree we can negotiate. I believe we have made progress over the last week and i believe it was positive. Would you endorse that proposal . Pres. Trump not that proposal but we are getting closer. Money gettingf sent to people that really were hurt unnecessarily by china because they could have stopped it. They stopped it from going into their country. They could have stopped it from going into our country and into europe and the rest of the world. 188 different countries. The director of the cdc also testified today that a mask is guaranteed to protect the public more than a vaccine. Why not devote your energy now into a campaign to have all americans wear a mask, something that would also help schools. Pres. Trump a mask is not more effective than a vaccine. Those are the two things i discussed with him. He wouldk him, probably say he did not understand the question. Questions him the two i asked him to two questions. I was inaccurately covered. I was on with George Stephanopoulos last night. I enjoyed it. I think people enjoyed it. A lot of people said good things about the show. I hope they did well. They always cut my sentences off. To, and i problems talk about masks have to be handled gently, carefully. You haverestaurants people with masks and their fingers are in their mask and then they are serving with plates. I think there are a lot of problems with mass. The vaccine is much more effective than the masks and if we get the vaccine, we have added to the fact our numbers are going way down. I am just reading statistics from wherever they get them, but they are very highly qualified statistics, but the mask is not as important as the vaccine. Perhaps helps. A lot of people did not like the concept of masks initially. I am not knocking anybody because i understand both sides of the argument. Today, illed up robert said to them what is with the masks. He said i think i misunderstand. The answer to the one is it will be a much faster distribution than what he said. Thee he is not aware of Distribution Process. It is not much of his thing as it would be mine. As far as the mask is concerned, i hope the vaccine will be a lot more beneficial than a mass, masks. I looked at that chart. If you are doing a good job, they had 240,000. If it worked out well. One death is too much. It should have never happened. The lower level was at that 240,000, between 100 something and 240,000. As far as the mask is concerned, he made a mistake. They are effective and that is what you just said. Pres. Trump they may be effective. Why not have the staff wear them more often. Safe trump joe feels very in a mask. Maybe he does not want to expose his face. People,be way away from nowhere near people. Crowds, so draw any there is no reason for him to have masks on. I am tested. I have people tested. Of countries, they all get tested. I am in a different position. Maybe if i was not in that position i would wear it more. Maskscially like to wear in hospitals, not for me so much as other people. Mr. President. [indiscernible] minorities would be the first focus of the distribution. I say to and Senior Citizens. Can you talk more about the focus of disturbing to minorities and how that would work . You mentioned the drop in the poverty rate, specifically the news that the party rates for africanamericans are at record lows. Increasedriving that and now with unemployment spiking, what are your plans in terms of pres. Trump i appreciate your question. We have had a tremendous drop in poverty for all people, but in particular for africanamericans and that statistic came in. It is because the Africanamerican Community has had the lowest, best employment numbers that we have ever had, both employment and unemployment depending on how you want to define it. We had the greatest employment in the country, almost 160 one million people. We have never been close to that number just six months ago. I am very proud of the numbers. Africanamericans, hispanic americans had the best numbers by far, both employment and unemployment. Thank you very much for that question. , the firstfy privatization is the highrisk people and Frontline Health care workers, but to reiterate, there are 51,000 outlets for distribution for vaccination and over 14,000 targeted Health Centers particularly targeted to minority and lower income areas. I want to point out two other things. We are also prioritizing testing at historically black colleges and universities. We are in the process of getting that finalized because we know there are higher comorbidity in certain groups. It is particularly heinous and egregious abuse of the media to instill fear about taking a vaccine. There are no shortcuts here. For people who are particularly in influence in minority communities, it is an outrageous use of news of Public Policy and leadership. These are people that have higher risk. I implore everyone in the highrisk category that when we get the safe, effective vaccine they should take the vaccine. Pres. Trump this is a phenomenon that only happened when they realized we may have the vaccine prior to a certain very important date, namely november 3. Once they heard that, the you, they started knocking the vaccine. It had nothing to do with the vaccine. Misinformation, just like they put an ad in about football with respect to me. I am the one that got football back and i was always against them going out. That big tenlous and hopefully pac10 goes back. They put out a totally fake at, totally made up story by a thirdrate magazine where the head guy, the head person, i have no idea who he is but he is friends with obama and clinton, so they made up this horrible story and they did ads. They made up the story too. The story is very simple. They started knocking the vaccine as soon as they heard this might come out prior to election. It will be within a matter of weeks. It will be within a matter of weeks from november. It is ready to go and ready for massive distribution to everybody with a focus on seniors. Thei will say also historically black colleges and doing at my, we are suggestion because they have had a difficult problem there. We are doing more testing and finer testing. We have our great apparatus there. When you look at what we have done on testing in terms of the technology and the amount has been amazing. I think we will crack 100 million tests very soon. What that does do is it shows up more cases. If we did not test, we would have no cases. Other countries dont test and they do not have cases. And they say the United States we are part of it because it shows where there may be a problem and it helps people, but we are doing tremendous testing at the historically black colleges and universities and that was a suggestion i made and i think it is a good suggestion. The core of Vice President bidens argument is you do not trust the scientists. You do not listen to them. Here on the podium today, you contradicting the director of your own cdc who testified before congress today. Pres. Trump i think he misunderstood the question. I do not have to go through this. I think he misunderstood the question. Here is the bottom line. It distribution will be very rapid. He may not know that. Maybe he is not dealing with the military, etc. Like i did. Distribution will be very rapid at the vaccine will be very powerful. It is going to solve a tremendous problem. Alcan American People trust you on the pandemic you are of theicting the head cdc . Pres. Trump because of the great job we have done. The right things we have done in other fields. We created ventilators by the thousands and that was applied to the rest of the world because of all of the incredible work we have done for governors who were on every call saying this is great. Sometimes they are not quite as friendly at a News Conference when you have people covering it. We have done a phenomenal job on the covid19, as they like to call it. I like to call it other things. People ins from other other countries. They cannot believe the job we have done. They say is there any way you can get us ventilators. How many do you need . 1000 ventilators. I say we will be able to take care of it. We are making thousands of ventilators, very complex, very difficult thing to make. We are making thousands of them. The cupboard was bare. I will tell you the distribution is going to be very rapid and it is going to be all encompassing. We are going to have a focus on certain groups that have problems, Senior Citizens, etc. , but it is a very powerful. It is going to be a very powerful distribution. It is going to cover everybody and it will cover them rapidly. I do not know whether or not the doctor knows that, how much he covers, but i called him. I said why did you say that wrong . He was not aware of it and the other is the mask. The vaccine is going to have tremendous power. It is going to be extremely strong, extremely successful. We are not going to have a problem. And the mask may help, and i hope it helps. Eight mixedmask is bag. There are some people that do not like the masks because of the touchiness and you are touching and judging everything else. Go ahead in the back. [indiscernible] pres. Trump i do. Maybet of i think misunderstood the question. We are beyond that right now. We are in the final stages of vaccines. We are getting ready to go phase one on distribution and i think it may come out sooner than you think. I think the vaccine will be even better than what people thought originally. I think people are going to be really surprised at the success of the vaccine. I think it will be a tremendous success and we are fighting a very powerful party with a poor candidate in my opinion, but we are fighting a very powerful party at they are partners with the media because they are working together very closely and they only started hitting on the vaccine. When they hit on the vaccine, they only had on it when they realized this is amazing. They may have this before the election. All of a sudden, they did not like the vaccine very much. Thank you so much, mr. President. [indiscernible] pres. Trump i cannot hear you. [indiscernible] pres. Trump about today . Your staff. Pres. Trump say it. Reports of the white out pres. Trump i heard about it this morning at a very small level. I do not know. We can have a report to you if you feel it is necessary. Last night i heard about it for the first time. ,t is a small number of cases maybe it is not even cases. Do you have any idea if it is we are not going to confirm the identities of the individuals but it does not affect the events and the press was not around. Pres. Trump it was not anybody that was near me. From what i heard, a small number. I think we can get the number out when we find out what is going on. It was one person, ok . It was one bruce one person. Thank you very much, everybody. [indiscernible] President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden are set to debate tuesday, september 29. Pres. Trump biden supports Cutting Police funding and he has pledged to end cash ail. 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On cspan 2, the senate convenes at 9 45 to continue work on two nominations to District Courts in illinois. Later at 7 00 p. M. , coverage of the formal dedication of the dwight d. Eisenhower memorial in washington, d. C. On cspan 3 at 9 00 a. M. , acting Homeland Security secretary chad wolf and f. B. I. Director Christopher Ray testify at a house hearing on National Security threats. Jill biden, and doug emhoff the spouses of president ial candidate joe biden and senator Kamala Harris were in delaware on wednesday. They b distributed campaign lawn signs and spoke with supporters. I retired this year after working for 37 years. She taught me the ropes and we have been doing phone banks yeah, we have been doing that for a while and we went to the democratic convention. [indiscernible]