National interest and be shoulder to shoulder with the president in confronting more threats, more crises than any president since abraham lincoln, it is stunning to see what has actually been the result. I understand the president is on the phone now, and i want to go to him straight away. Mr. President , were delighted to have you with us on the broadcast. We hope that you can stay with us a while to go through all of these issues. But my first question would be at what point, at what point do you expect or do you expect the Democrat Party to align itself with the National Interests and the welfare of american citizens . Well, maybe the point of great success. You know, we were at that point where we had a tremendous, nobody covered it better than you, lou, we had a tremendous economy. We had the best employment numbers, best stock market numbers a although theyre catching up, were very close. But we had the best numbers that youve ever seen and the best numbers anybodys ever seen. Probably the best numbers ever for an economy. Beating chai i that badly, beating everybody badly. And they were coming along because they werent able to fight that. And the covid actually, now they try and, you know, play that game. But they were very close. Theres nothing like success for bringing people together. Sometimes they dont want to necessarily come for that reason, but we were getting much closer. And this came and now i dont know if you heard some of the numbers on cars and manufacturing, but some of the numbers are released yesterday and today were absolutely incredible, beyond anybodys belief. Lou we are seeing some remarkable numbers with an economy that has at one point was all but shut down by the china virus. We have seen now new voices arise saying to you that, mr. President , you should shut down the economy again. A i dont know where the Federal Reserve gets these people, mr. President , but neel kashkari, the president of the minneapolis fed, saying that we need to shut down the entire economy 46 weeks, saying that we have plenty of money to sustain the economy new such a closure. Finish its remarkable, the voices that are chiming in to say shut down the economy. Its as if they havent been paying attention for the past four or five months. Well, thats not going to happen, lou. What we did is we were, as we said, setting records in every way, and then we got hit by the plague, i call it the china plague, china virus, call it whatever you want. Its got like 20 different names. And we got hit hard. We did close up, we did the right thing. We saved millions of lives, lou. We would have had millions of lives. We have a a number now which is unacceptable, but anything more than one person unacceptable because they could have stopped it. They could have stopped it from coming in. You say it all the time. They stopped it from coming into china, but they didnt stop it from here, europe or the rest of the world. So we closed it down, and were now opening it up, and it looks like its a v. Its absolutely a v. But were not going back to shutdowns now. We understand the disease. We understand the problems welled elderly, especially elderly with heart or diabetes or other problems. And were able to take care of them. We understand it now. Were not shutting down. Weve done really very well. The numbers are looking very good, by the way, in florida, texas and california. Theyre heading down. Lou right. Right. And a lot of people dont realize those numbers, the combination between florida and texas never rose to a significant portion of the deaths in new york state. Thats true. Lou to the point of opening this economy, anthony fauci, your, one of your doctors on the task force, saying that finally acknowledging very clearly and somewhat loudly that you saved lives and a great number of american lives by shutting down travel from china. Finally a clear statement by fauci on that particular issue. There are other ambiguities that hes left hanging, but that one finally he is being direct and forthright. But speaking of fauci, he has also acknowledged that schools not all of them, but most schools need to reopen. The economy needs right. Lou to be reopened. Youre also getting support for that initiative. You were standing absolutely alone saying weve got to reopen the economy. Now the secretary general of the United Nations is joining in to say, absolutely, open up the economy, put the kids in school because it could be otherwise a generational disaster for the entire world. Your thoughts. Well, we are opening the economy very rapidly are and, frankly, some of the blue states we wish theyd do it and theyd do it fast. Were asking them to do it, but they like to keep it closed. Itll probably open up on november 4th. You understand that the, theyll announce that theyre opening on november 4th. [laughter] theres a lot of politics involved in some of these states that are closed. Lets say democrat governors, were being kind, well say democrat governors. Some radical left and maybe some not so radical left, but theyre all democrats. Frankly, they want to keep it closed, i think, as long as possible. Maybe for some good reasons but maybe also for political reasons. But we want it opened. We want the schools open, lou. You know, young people have better immune systems than we do, lou. I hate to tell you this. They are in very good shape, virtually, virtually immune from this disease. Theyre incredible, the strength of their probably you have to give the credit to their immune system. Its called being young. And yet with the flu and various other things, they dont do so well. So, you know, somebody will explain that someday practice. Lou exactly. But certainly for the china virus, they do very well. They do very, very well. So we want to open the schools. We going to be opening most of the schools. The parents, generally speaking, want them open. And we want to do it safely, lou, but we want the whole deal open. We want people starting to go to the office and starting to work. And and i have to say despite that, the numbers have been very, very good. We have a big number coming out on friday, i believe it will be friday, and thats going to be another jobs number. The last two have been incredible, recordsetting numbers. Lou right. 7. 5 million jobs. And the third one after this whole catastrophe, and thatll be coming up, i believe, on friday. Lou yes. And that Unemployment Rate will be followed by everyone, it will be one of the measures by which the reopening of the economy being judged, without question. As you talk about the cools, its interesting the schools, its interesting that we have such a politicized, deeply partisan divide in this country that is finding expression even in the education of our children. And in particular for minorities in this country. This will be a tremendous, tremendous back step for them because they need desperately education. Our Public Schools right. Lou are the great equalizer in our society. And to defer their education is absolutely outrageous. And for the democrats to pretend that theyre doing this for the American People is absurd. These radical dems and the federation of teachers and the National Education association, the two largest teachers unions, seem to be on the front of wanting not to work and wanting not to be in the classroom teaching those who need education most. Our young people. Well, thats, thats, as you know, a very political group, and they want to see if they can get biden in there. I dont know if you saw rasmussen yesterday, 51 , we were at 51 . And maybe, i dont know almost more importantly, strongly favor this is a number people dont see very far but 40 strongly favor, that means theyre enthusiastic. We have tremendous, recordsetting enthusiasm on our side, and they have recordsetting lack of enthusiasm. Theyve never had [laughter] anybody so unenthusiastic, i mean, its an amazing thing. Its a very unenthusiasticallyendorsed candidate. So well see what happens. You never know, its an election, but i think we have more than weve ever had. We went down, as you know, to texas three days ago, and we had literally tens of thousands of people on the roadways with the flags and the whole thing. I mean, they were going wild. And then we went to florida on friday. All of the sheriffs of florida and Law Enforcement endorsed me 100 . Texas also, by the way. But, you know, when you think of it, hes against that group. And its not him, hes told what to do. Hes a puppet for the radical left. But when you think about it, theyre against oil and gas, theyre against guns x i guess theyre against god, okay . But theyre against religion, theyre against the bible, certainly. I mean, you look at what they say. But if youre against oil, if youre against the guns and youre against the bible and youre supposed to win texas, i dont think thats working out too well. I was with the governor of texas, he said, no, you have a very tremendous lead. You know, they like to say texas is in play, but how can you be against oil and gas and guns and lots of other things and youre in play. So these polls are fake. I had it, i had it you know better than anybody, youve been so incredible. Number one, youre a talented guy. I wouldnt want to have you as my enemy, that i can tell you, but you are one hell of a man. And youve been there from the beginning, and we really appreciate it. Thats why i do things with you and i dont bother with others. But when you look at the kind of polls we get, and i had the same thing last time, but the real polls and the internal polls are really fantastic. And when you take into consideration the enthusiasm and also the fact that a lot of people just dont want to get involved. You saw the one poll, i think it said 62 of the people dont want to either get involved or say who theyre voting for, so how do you do a poll in i think youre going to have a big surprise. I think we actually have much more enthusiasm and many more people than we had in 2016. Well take 2016 right now, but i think the enthusiasm level i mean, you would know better than i. I think the enthusiasm level is at a number people havent seen before. Not a in a long time. Lou yeah, i think theres almost a 30point gap between republican enthusiasm for donald trump and those democrats for joe biden. Its really a record gap, lou. Lou a deficit for biden the overcome. Right. Its a record. Its a record gap on enthusiasm. And, you know, i feel it. When you see thousands, tens of thousands of people on these highways in texas, and we went to maine, and we had unbelievable crowds. Nobodys ever seen crowds like that in maine. We went to other places, pennsylvania, we were in pennsylvania, tennessee. No matter where we go, the level of enthusiasm, they meet you at the plane and literally as far as the eye can see, the people that are along the roadways. Its a beautiful thing to see. Theres tremendous spirit in our country, tremendous spirit. Lou and that spirit is expressed in a number of ways, but one certainly is the market itself. We are, as you alluded to earlier, watching this market move forward, advance and stocks appreciate significantly despite the setbacks that have occurred, despite the level of fear that that the radical left, it seems, is very involved in encouraging. Its really quite something to watch because weve never gone through this before, and you are leading the nation in a direction that i think americans if they could vote right now would say thats the way we want to go. This is a nation, you promised that all restore prosperity. You not only promised that, you promised you would restore prosperity for all americans. We saw net worth of black households in this country soar to record highs, the Unemployment Rates for all minorities move to record lows before the china virus. When you reflect on it, what is your sense . Because the relationship, without question, with china is complex and difficult. When you reflect on all of this, what is your thought about china and the prospects for the relationship Going Forward . Well, its been very badly hurt by what happened because i really believe they could have stopped it in wuhan, and i feel strongly about that. And its certainly been very badly hurt. The farmers will tell you over the last few days they ordered a record amount of corn, a record amount of soybeans, numbers that have never been literally a record. I heard it was a record corn order and a record soybean order. Lou right. The trade deal was a wonderful deal. But after this happened, i dont feel the same about the deal. We did usmca too with mexico and canada. I feel thats been a great deal because that took the place of probably the worst trade deal ever made, nafta, which was just a horrible deal. Emptied out our factories. The deal with china was a great deal, but i dont feel the same way as i did. Look, weve been weve lost 160,000 people. Were going to lose more. We would have lost millions had i just let it ride as the expression. We could have lost millions. Can you imagine with all of the death and now you multiply that number times 10, 15 or even 20 the . It would have been unsustainable and unacceptable. But this was caused by china, and so it certainly has had a negative impact. I have, you know, i had a really great relationship with president , and i, as good as you can have president xi, as good as you can have, i would suggest. But its been such a horrible, horrible thing when you see everyone Walking Around now with masks and you see all the death and you see whats happened to this country but really to the world. If you look at the world, the world is some countries have been just literally devastated. Hook at europe. Look at look at europe. Look at what happened to italy and spain and france and all of these countries. They were just devastated by this. It could have been stopped. So it certainly has had an impact. Tiktok is one thing that were doing, and we just, i dont know, maybe i would have done that anyway, i dont know. It could have been affected by this. You know, huawei, ive stopped huawei from coming into this country. I mean, there were lou right. I actually called the great lou dobbs to tell him, by the way, you have one report wrong. You were sort of indicating that i was allowing it in. No, i wasnt allowing it in. In fact, we were actually taking down equipment, huawei equipment bought years and years ago long before my time. And were actually taking it down off the tops of towers around the country. And ive gotten many countries not to buy it too because we think its a very big security risk. So i dont know, maybe i wouldnt be the same, maybe i wouldnt feel the same, maybe id sort of close a blind eye. But, you know what . It is what it is. Its been a horrible, horrible thing. And, again, we never did we had the greatest year in the history of the world, if you think of it. Not just this country lou yep. Theres never been a country that did better than us last year. And now were fighting back, and now it looks like its a v based on the auto sales, based on, i mean, based on a lot of different i dont know if you saw used car sales, you cant even get a used car now which is a big indicator, by the way. Lou right. But you look at manufacturing numbers, and itll be interesting to see what happens on friday. I dont know the answer yet, but well find out on friday, another jobs number. But it looks very certainly like were going to have a very strong v. Im dealing with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, and were trying to get some real good money to take care of people. That should be taken care of and helped. The problem is theyre more interested in taking care of lets say democrats who did a very poor job running a state. You know the states im talking about. Theres a number of them where theyre run by democrats, some radical left are. You look at whats been going on in portland. And, by the way, the wall street journal gave us a great editorial that trump wins in portland. A group of very tough, very talented people to protect, can you believe it . A courthouse, a major federal courthouse from being burned to the ground, torn down, decimated. And weve saved that very easily, frankly, and weve helped them beyond that. We could solve that problem totally very quickly and easily, but were not doing that just yet. Its been a big victory in portland, in seattle. We were going to send in the troops, i mentioned that once, and and they did it instead. Which is the way its supposed to be done. It was supposed to be done locally, but they knew we were coming the following morning, and it worked very well. The an around an artists and the agitators just held up their hands and gave up. But weve had tremendous success, and i think next years going to be one of the best years weve ever had, lou. But in the meantime, you can never forget the death, and you can never forget all of the tremendous amounts of money weve needed to put back into our country to keep it going well, the keep it going the way it should. Lou and the direction is decidedly the correct one. The quibbling and the detractors that are with you 24 7 from the left are really right now operating in a way that i find incomprehensible. Because this is a time for the National Interests. And were not hearing from other leaders; that is, ceos, Corporate Leaders who could be influencing the Democratic Party, who could be influencing the left. And instead many of them, many of them are supporting leftwing organizations including black lives matter who are bringing anarchy and violence to our streets. It is a peculiar time for the leadership of Corporate America as well. And particularly because in addition they are the ones who own the fake news outlets that you refer to so often and correctly with some [laughter] some bitterness, if i may say. It is those companies could change all of this in a matter of days. Do you find it absolutely stunning that they will not rise to the occasion . Well, i find a company like comcast i call it con cast because its a whole big con job. They own nbc and msdnc, and i call that company to be a disgraces. They could make our they could heal the wounds because, you know, whats wrong with having strong military, low taxes, great school, great protection, good, Strong Police forces so you dont get hurt, suburbia strong. I ended that horrible rule where they were building low Income Housing right in the middle of the suburbs right next to your house and destroying a lot of families and a lot of the american dream, and i ended it. I totally they wanted to change it, i said, nope, youve got to end it. Got much worse under obama and would have gotten much worse. Cory booker was going to take it over, so you could imagine how that would have been. That would h