Just made. Had a mcennanny briefing. His is about 40 minutes. Nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer and representative ork have shown their blatant disregard for the United States constitution. Apparently it is now a high crime and misdemeanor worthy of impeachment for a lawfully elected president of the United States to exercise his constitutional duty. Article 2, section 2 of the constitution clearly states that the president , quote, shall nominate, end quote, justices of the Supreme Court when a vacancy occurs. No matter the time, no matter the politics of the day, the president is the president. Theres nothing in the constitution that says the president stopped being the president in an Election Year. The president has already appointed two strong conservative justices to the Supreme Court, justices who will interpret the constitution as written. Now he will nominate a third. As senator cruz reminds us, we are one vote away of seeing our religious liberty stripped away, free speech and second amendment, just one vote. Contrast the president s solemn constitutional duty with democrats search and destroy politics. Nancy pelosi is going to attack the president with arrows and will not rule out impeaching this president for doing his job and fulfilling his. A. O. C. Said impeachment is an option on the table while chuck humer stood by nodding approvalingly. Jean democrat senator tim kai nmp e called the idea of using impeachment to delay foolish. Some democrats have a backup plan if they dont get their way. Congressman joe contendy said if he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021, its that simple. Senator ed markey, nor supreme vacancy is filled in an Election Year. If he violates it when democrats control the senate, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court. The president is elected to a fouryear term. You cannot reduce it to three years. The president is the president. Democrats cannot win their argument on the merits. They cannot win on precedent, so they must search and destroy. Don lemon said this. We are going to have to blow up the entire system if the president does his job as outlined in the constitution. Thats the difference between republicans and democrats. We fight to protect the system. We fight to protect the constitution. When democrats say we are going to blow up the entire system because we do not get our way. This president will proceed undaupted by democrats threats. President trump will appoint the next Supreme Court justice and will protect religious liberty and our freedom of speech and our second amendment. Under this president , our rights will be upheld and our constitution safeguarded and this president will fill that seat. With that, ill take questions. As you know, the country has hit 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, what do you say to americans that blame this administration for so many lives lost in this country . Several doctors from this podium and looking at the prospect of two Million People perishing from the coronavirus. We grieve when one life is lost. The fact that we have come nowhere near that number is a testament of the president taking immediate action, shutting down travel. Democrats were saying xenophobic and developing they are putics. Excess mortality, europe has experienced a higher mortality rate than the United States and testament done by the task force. Reporter last night the president said at one of his rallies about the virus and talked about younger americans and said it doesnt affect nobody. Everybody, open your schools. He said to bob woodward, its not just older people, its younger people, too. At 200,000 deaths shouldnt the president be telling the American People the truth . He is telling the truth. Reporter he is not. He says it doesnt affect young people and not telling the truth. You are taking the president out of context. You are right he was referring to young people. Reporter he was talking about younger people. You are taking it out of context and he is giving critical information and i will underscore information. He said you know in some states thousands of people and they have had nobody young below the age of 18. They have a strong immune system. U can go to the American Academy pediatric website and there are a number of states that have zero pediatric deaths. Reporter they can spread it to older people. And for the president to go out to his rallies and say it virtually affects nobody and that in some states its not affecting young people that is glossing over the fact and diminishing that they can spread it to older people. Do you have the quote with you . Thats how i read it to you. In zero, zero pediatric. Arkansas, delaware, district of columbia, hawaii, idaho, kansas and the list goes on. As you may not know, the covid has a. 01 mortality rate for people under the age of 18. It is not a disease that affects young people as older people which is the point that the president was making last night. Reporter one person who believes that the president has a Constitutional Authority to utah senator mitt romney. The president and romney have found themselves at odds and said unkind if not untempered things, how is the president feeling about mitt romney today . Senator romney is recognizing what any of us who take a cleareyed look at precedent that the precedent is on our side. 29 times has there been an appointment during an Election Year 29 times. And 19 times when those nominations were made, the senate and the president were of the same party. 1719, that nominee went on to be confirmed. 10 times when it was a in difference in party between democrats and president , only two went on to be confirmed. Democrats are trying to have it both ways here and i cite national review, choosing not to fill a vacancy would be historically unprecedented act. Report report timing now. The president will have 37 days from the time he makes the announcement to the last time he could have a vote. John paul stevens was confirmed and 19 days. Justice Sandra Day Oconnor in 33. Can you do it in 37 days . We certainly believe we can. We heard optimistic words from senator graham. We will go about this by putting forward a constitution organizationalist that we believe the American People will appreciate and get through the approval process and nomination confirmation process quite quickly. Reporter on the 200,000 deaths will the president recognize that publicly today . And on twitter, is this something that he would like to simply emorse over or to people the president has done just that. He has said before that it keeps him up at night thinking even one life lost. He has taken this incredibly seriously. He has worked harder each and every day. He works hard and puts his head down and that isest dent, the largest mobilization of the private sector since world war ii. And got working therapeutics to the American People. This is the fastest pace for a vaccine in history as we seek to reach that goal by the end of the year. The president takes this seriously and you have seen the fatality rate that has fallen since 85 and 1. 5 of emergency room visits are people sick with covid is a testament by the hard work done by President Trump. Reporter could you speak about why the president prefers to have the confirmation vote before the election . How does he think this is going to help senator gardner and senator earns . One of the low points for this process was the cavanaugh hearings and what democrats did there making baseless allegations against Justice Cavanaugh prior to President Trump appointing him and democrats dragged his name through the mud and the president wants a fair confirmation process and one that does not look like what happened to cavanaugh. That was the real low point for democrats. Reporter were there are stumbles help republicans . He thinks democrats themselves the lowest point. I think the American People show democrats after the partisan games and people are seeing pelosi and schumer talking about impeachment for executing your power. It is inane and outlandish and they seem to be doubling down on their cavanaugh approach. And didnt work too well with Justice Cavanaugh. Reporter the president gave himself an aplus for handling f covid but a d for public relations. What would an aplus look like. Kayleigh the president is saying he wants to make sure we get good information to the American People. Reporter did he provide information at times that was not true. He said he was downplaying it so he was providing information that was not true. Kayleigh thats inaccurate. The president never downplayed Critical Health information. He never downplayed the covid response. You can see that by the historic effort we have put forward. I would also point you to dr. Fauci who said i dont recall anything different in our discussions with the president that he said things quite similarly in public and he was asked directly by nonother than john roberts. Did you ever get the sense that he was or wasnt playing this down, no, no, i didnt, thats an assertion echoed by the Vice President. Our response, 100 million tests weve exceeded. The fact that weve brought fatality down by 85 . This was a novel pathogen that came in for which there were no tests and no identified therapeutics but they were identified quickly. Also with regard to the vaccine, when you look at the notion that we are manufacturing this at commercial level which is i was told by dr. Salawi that that normally takes years to do an we are already producing, the goal is 100 million doses by the end of the year. Reporter if the vaccines arent effective what is plan b . Kayleigh youre asking a hypothetical. We have six american vaccine we was identified, three of them in phase three Clinical Trials. Theres also one were getting there, by the end of the year is the goal. Reporter what will we do if theyre not approved. We all hope for good news. But what if theyre not approved. Kayleigh we have six candidate, we are of strong belief that we will identify one, hopefully more than one, working vaccine, producing them in advance. When you compare this, ebola taking 14 months to get to phase three Clinical Trials, we already have two candidates in phase three. Ebola took two years to get to completion, we will have done this in under a year. Reporter tremendous the president did retweet a segment from Rush Limbaugh where limbaugh suggested that it would be great the republican skipped hearings altogether. Does the president want to republicans to skip Committee Hearings . Theyre a coequal branch of government. Kayleigh the president as a fan of Rush Limbaugh appreciates his commentary and retweeted it but e are working with the senate. Reporter on the stimulus, and can you confirm the president s planning for the wall down there, he said yesterday he had spoken to candidates beforehand. I wonder if you could talk about any of the others he may have had contact with. Kayleigh i wont get into private meet, well find out which constitutionalist text yulist and originalist is hes appointing on saturday. Reporter i think theres concern that the Supreme Court may have killed the last gasp of getting a stimulus bill done before the election. Do you agree that thats probably not going to happen until after the election if at all or if youre still hopeful, the president said when the time is right hed be willing to reach out to Speaker Pelosi, it seems like were getting down into the last legislative days before the election. Is the time now right . Kayleigh weve wanted to see a phase four relief bill get to the American People. Thats why the chief of staff and secretary mnuchin have been in negotiations. Unfortunately though theyve been in negotiations with a fundamentally unserious, partisan named Speaker Pelosi who when we would exed what she asked for with School Funding she would reject the money in excess of what she previously asked for. Democrats showed what they were about when they filibustered a bill that would have provided 300 a week to the American People, they filibustered that i believe last week. The onus is on Speaker Pelosi. We encourage her to send oneoff bills, perhaps airline funding or other elements that we could work through the process to get to the American People. Its always been this president s priority to do that. Reporter you think you may not see a stimulus bill but some oneoff bills. Kayleigh the onus is on nancy pelosi. We have come up in our numbers but at this point if she doesnt want to deliver relief to the American People to that degree she wan oneoff some bills that we would look at and be happy to move forward with because the priority has always been getting money to the American People which is why the president has had those e. O. s on evictions and Unemployment Insurance and student lens and others. Reporter the first president ial debate a week from today. How do you expect the Supreme Court issue to impact that debate . Kayleigh a lot of that is for the campaign with regard to the debate. I have to refer you there. But i think the American People are going to get a very cleareyed look, they have the previous nominees weve made of what this president stands for, he wants a judge who will protect our fundamental rights to look at the constitution as written. Not fansfully interpret that document, but who looks at the plain meaning of statutes. The president will protect the second amendment, the First Amendment and these fundamental rights are at stake should another party have their way with the judiciary but this president will continue to appoint justices in the mold of gorsuch and justice kavanaugh. Reporter the democrats are threatening to add justices to the Supreme Court as you mentioned. Does that concern you at all as you go gow about the process . Kayleigh thats, unfortunately, another example of trying to blow up the system. If you dont get your way, democrats will blow up the system. They will change the system. They will trample on the constitution. And you know, i would point them to the words of Justice Ginsburg who called Court Packing a bad idea. She called it partisan. She said nine seems to be a good number. I think packing the court was a bad idea when president roosevelt tried it, im not in favor of all of that reporter i have a question on the virus but i want to follow up on justin, he asked about the speaker. As the president called the speaker about the recovery bill and why not if he wants to get this done . Is he calling other lawmakers as well . Kayleigh im not aware of any conversation that theyve had. There have been communications through the chief of staff, through the secretary of treasury. But until Speaker Pelosi becomes serious in her negotiating, instead of engaging in political drama, we are really at a stalemate them ball is in her court to become serious in these negotiations. Reporter it would carry more weight if the president called than mark meadows, correct . Kayleigh theyve been negotiating. When we believe the speaker is in a serious spot we can do that but when you ask for a certain amount of School Funding and we offer more and she rejects that. Reporter some polls are showing the majority of americans dont trust what the president is saying on the virus vaccine. I wonder if you all keep talking about the vaccine possible coming out. How will you get people to believe that the vaccine is safe and that people should go get it when it does come out in whats the process going to be looking like . Kayleigh so, i think first, i want to point out that several of the doctors have been on the record and have said that this vaccine is going through the same rigorous process it should as dr. Hahn said, i said all f. D. A. Decisions have been and will continue to be based solely on good science and data. Dr. Fauci said certainly there are no corners being cut here. And several others, secretary azar, have been on the record about this. Members of the Task Force Said this is going through the rigorous f. D. A. Process and it will be a good, safe, effective vaccine. How soon would the president feel comfortable taking a vaccine himself . And would he support a nonamerican vaccine, perhaps even from china or russia . Kayleigh first i would say this, the president has been on the record saying, im happy to be the first person to take the vaccine or the last person, whatever is best for the American People. He believes itll be a safe and effective vaccine, one he will certainly be open to taking. He said this, im going to really Say Something that is not like me. I dont care, i just want to get a vaccine that works. I dont care if its another country, ill take my hat off to them. But currently i think the other vaccine in phase three Clinical Trial is the one in oxford. Eporter to clarify on the romney development. With senator romneys announcement, does the president think he has a Bulletproof Group of republicans who will vote no matter what even before the nominee is named . Does he fear some detractors after the nominee is named . Kayleigh he thinks his nominee will be someone with a stellar track record, several of the qualities i mentioned, text yulist, originalist, and someone we believe republicans will rally around. Senator graham said he believes that hell have the votes. Leave it to the senators at this point. But this will be a nominee that will really, i think, unify republicans. Does he think reporter hes been a pretty good nose counter, does he think he has 51 . Kayleigh i think at this point hes just trying to select the nominee. I havent spoken to him about the vote count. We believe republicans will remain unified and this nominee will get across the finish line. Reporter the president is giving a Health Care Speech on thursday. Is there a doubt that a comprehensive Health Care Policy exists . Kayleigh it does exist. The president in the next week or so will be laying out his vision for health care. Some of that has been put out there. Telemedicine and lowering the cost of drugs. The president and protecting preexisting conditions. The president will be laying out Additional Health care steps in the coming two weeks. Reporter i have two questions, the first is the president has said roe v. Wade would be overturned if he got a chance to change the balance of the court. He said in 2016, quote if we put another two or perhaps three justices on that will happen. Is that the ultimate goal here, to overturn roe v. Wade . Kayleigh the president and the administration would not ask a judge to prejudge a case. And i would point you to the rule set by none other than senator joe biden at the confirmation hearing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg when he instructed no questions on how ginsburg will decide any specific case that will come before her. S Justice Ginsburg said in her confirmation, no hint no previews. The rules say the reporter im asking about the president s quote in 2016, does he want to see it overturned . Kayleigh the president s philosophy is hes moving ahead with the nomination process, hes looking for a judge with certain qualities, interprets the constitution as written, intepts the plain meaning. Reporter can i ask you a second question about the virus . 00,000 americans have died from the coronavirus. Could you try to reconcile the president telling bob woodward, his words, plenty of young people arent affected by the coronavirus, with him saying in front of a crowd that virtually nobody young dies or gets infected by this virus, can you reconcile those two . Why kid he tell bob wood ward that plenty of young people are impacted by the virus and not say that in front of the crowd. Ayleigh this is a novel pathogen. We know more about it today. He said we now know a lot more about the virus and we know that elderly people, particularly those with comorbidities are affected by it and we know that young people are by and large, in some states theres been no young people that have succumbed to this disease, ive listed off a few states for you. We know that a verying very small percentage of those under 18 have actually perished buzz of covid. It was a novel pathogen, now we know more about it, who it affect, who our most vulnerable are, which is why we started testing in communities that are vulnerable and we will continue to make sure those that are elderly and with comorbidities. Reporter he told bob wood ward he wanted to downplay to not cause panic. Kayleigh the president has never downplayed critical information. Dr. Fauci said pointblank, no, he didnt and the Vice President who led the task force did as well. Reporter can the Administration File an appeal to the Supreme Court on apportionment trying to make sure that people in the country illegally are not counted when congressional seats are handed out. Texas is one of the states that would lose a seat if those people are not counted. The constitution says that the people in a state are the number that is used fair portionment. Are those people in the country illegally not people . Why does the president not want texas to have more seats rather than fewer in the u. S. House . Kayleigh i havent done a deep dive into that legal case. I can look into it and get back to you. Reporter can i ask you another question . You mentioned the democrats talked about impeachment and you last id the president year, is there anything to prevent an impeachment in the final months of a presidency . Kayleigh first, i mean, pursue impeachment based on someone executing their lawful duty, their constitutional duty is just preposterous. It told us a whole lot about what Democrats Use impeachment for. It shows that theyve always viewed impeachment, at least in the nancy pelosi era, as a partisan tool to take down a sitting president , to disempower the American People who voted to empower President Trump. Theyve used impeachment as a political tool. That will be the history and record of nancy pelosi. Shes on the record saying she would use impeachment to try to undo the constitution, particularly article 2, section 2, that is shameful but unsurprising from the speaker. Reporter the president in a speech mentioned carbon emission in the u. S. Kayleigh i cant really hear you. Carbon emission. Porter because its reduced because of coal is that les coal a good thing . Kayleigh the u. S. Is number one in oil and Gas Production and simultaneously reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. Reporter i want to follow up on the speech the president prepared for the u. N. General assembly. He hit china really hard. The Chinese Ambassador introducing president xi responded, accusing the president of bullying, protectionism and unilateralism. I wonder what the white house response is to that and how concerned is this white house of the growing rift between the worlds two largest economies is going to hurt the efforts to combat coronavirus . Kayleigh nothing has hurt the efforts to combat the coronavirus more than china concealing information about covid19 from the very beginning. What china did was inexcusable. In partnership with the w. H. O. Hid critical information about transmission of covid from us. About the severity of covid not just from us but from the world. Theres no bigger bully than china when it comes to covid. Thats pretty clear. Just look at what happened at the w. H. O. Reporter with regard to intelligence around the poisoning of the russian opposition leader, the president said well talk about that another time. Trying to get a sense of has the president reviewed the german assessment is he rejecting that assessment that he was indeed poisoned . Kayleigh the United States, as president of the g7, joined by our g7 partners has condemned in the strongest possible terms the condition firmed poisoning and germany briefed the g7 on clinical and tox cological findings by medical experts in a specialized German Armed Forces laboratory determined mr. Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent, a substance developed by russia and any use of chemical weapons anywhere, any time by anyone under any circumstance is unacceptable. Reporter what would the u. S. Response be . Kayleigh ive told you so far the United States has condemned it along with g7 and rest assured theres been no one tougher on russia than this country, seeing what weve done with sanctions and expelling diplomats among other actions. Reporter expanding on the last couple of question, the president specifically on chinas slave labor processes but the c cleansing, chinese ecological problems. China dumps more clastic into the ocean than anywhere in the world. How responsive have the yates allies been to this message from the president and on confronting china on these issues . Kayleigh to say the world is unified in condemning the him Rights Violations by china. Also i would note just on the issue of co2 emissions, theres no bigger emitter than china itself. Reporter a Heritage Foundation report discovered a Financial Link between an organization linked to black lives matter and a prochinese regime group. Is that something the white house will investigate . Is it something youre concerned about . Kayleigh i havent seen that particular reporting but just on the note of some of the violence that weve been see, i would point out this New York Times parents hat came out marched down their street. Mr. Moses wasnt sure what the protesters were upset about. But then he saw it, his neighbor had an American Flag on display. It went from a peaceful march to bang, how dare you fly the American Flag, said mr. Moses who is black and runs a Nonprofit Group in the portland, oregon, area. They said take it down. They wouldnt leave. They said theyre going to come back and burn down the house. Mr. Moses and others blocked the demonstrators and told them to leave. Mr. Moses said, we dont go around terrorizing folks to try to force them to do something they dont want to do. He runs a Nonprofit Group that provides support for local homeless people. He said im a veteran, im for these liberties. Im ashame of the violence weve seen in our cities that is spilling into suburbs across the country. Good work and good reporting by the New York Times on that. Now id lake to invite Lieutenant GeneralKeith Kellogg to the podium to discuss a disgruntled former detailee. General degree log is a threestar general, veteran of the vietnam war and operation desert storm. The again has been supporting President Trump from the beginning and has been by the president s side for major Foreign Policy decisions. General . Thanks, kayleigh. Good afternoon. Im Keith Kellogg, olivia troy worked for me, i fired her. The reason i fired her was her performance started to drop after six months on the task force as a back bencher. She was responsible for coordinating meetings, bringing people together, and when the performance level dropped off, i went to the Vice President of the United States and recommended she leave. Im the one that escorted her off the compound. What she has said, i have never heard. Thats never happened. I have been to every single meeting of the task force, with the president and the Vice President through every meeting. What bothers me about what olivia said is by insinuation the disparagement of the task force, the Vice President , and the president of the United States. When you look at what the task force that is done has done, we are now facing the worst pandemic we have seen in over 100 years and were fighting through it. We are this close to a vaccine that will work. We are finally fighting through it. Were developing some opportunities to make sure the American People are protected as we go forward. When we have had the doctors that are out there, with the comment she is has made, look at birx, dr. W chees, dr. Redfield, steven hahn, all these doctors who work exceptionally hard for the American People. The president has made some critical decisions. All the way along the line. Tough decisions. He made a decision with the china travel ban when we had less than a dozen known cases ear in the United States. He was the one who set up the air bridge working with commercial companies so we would develop and bring in p. P. E. In 27 hours instead of 27 days. Hes the one who when the Companies Went to Companies Like 3m so we could more rapidly manufacture n95 masks Going Forward. Hes the one who drove all those efforts. I heard comments made about the people we have lost. Do not think for a minute that that has not bothered us. It does. Because we on the task force several of those people, scores of those people died without relatives because they couldnt get in because of covid. We know that. Scores of them died on ventilators. When theyre erned sedation. Because they didnt have an opportunity to see their loved ones that bothers us every single day. Dont think it doesnt. It bothers the president. And the president has been very confident that were going to get to a solution. You want a president , you want a leader that displays confidence that we have something Going Forward were going to win an beat this virus. Thats what hes done all the way along the line. Im very proud of the president of the United States. Im very proud of the Vice President of the United States. Im very proud of the task force and the work it has done. Im not proud of olivia troy. Reporter general kellogg. Kayleigh thank you, Lieutenant General. We appreciate you doing that what we have here with this former disgruntled detailee and with miles taylor as well, these are not profiles in courage but these are profiles in cawar dis. Less than two months ago, now disgruntled former detailee olivia troy proudly declared she was serving in the Trump Administration and it had been, quote, the honor of her life. Troy said, quote, i witnessed firsthand how dedicated and committed all of you have been to doing the right thing. She wrote that just about a month and a half ago. Troy failed to speak up and she struggled to keep up because she was constantly complaining about how exhausted and overwhelmed she was coordinating Conference Calls and scheduling meetings. Troys detail was cut short. Now shes cutting commercials for a fringe club of, quote, nevertrumpers, who are desperate for relevancy and the price of admission to this club is fabricated smears and flat out lies against President Trump. Troy joins the similarly irrelevant miles taylor, cnns latest contributor. Taylor proudly pose forward photo with the president smiling ear to ear. Taylor wrote that, quote, it was the honor of his lifetime to serve as d. H. S. Chief of staff. But miles couldnt go the distance so those who knew miles in his short time in the administration knew he couldnt get results. After he left d. H. S. Got the results in securing the border, building the border wall and more. Desperate to please his new Silicon Valley friends he made up lies against President Trump to fit in. He can now rest easy at google having earned his antitrump credentials and the approval of his big tech peers. Neither of these individuals knew the president but they are certainly trying to profit off their time here in the white house, flat out lies. Thank you, general kellogg for setting the record straight. Can we have some follow up questions . [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] youre 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. The house is currently in recess but its possible members will return tonight to work on a bill that extends Government Spending through december 11. 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