Did you have something . Reporter tell us President Trump no details. We just found out just now t was outside of the white house, this area right over here, and they will have details for you in a little while. Somebody is taken to the hospital. Seems that the shooting was done by Law Enforcement at that person, at the suspect t was the suspect who was shot. It just took place a couple of people out side. I man named john roberts you know very well, he was outside and heard shots. Reporter [inaudible] President Trump we dont know. They were going to find out. Reporter did the individual say anything . President trump we dont know that. Reporter secret service did shoot the suspect. President trump seems to be. Reporter president were you taken . To the bunker . President trump no, to the oval office. You saw it pretty much like i did. Sir, can you come with me. You were surprised. I was surprised also. That is pretty unusual, but very professional people. They do a fantastic job as you know. Seems to me, seems to be from what i would say a shooting. It was Law Enforcement shot someone, seems to be the suspect and the suspect is now on the way to the hospital. I cant tell you the conditional of suspect. There was nobody else injured. There was no other Law Enforcement injured. I just want, well get on to the press conference. But i do want to thank secret service. They are fantastic. The job they do. Reporter [inaudible]. President trump from what i understand the answer is yes. Reporter he was armed mr. President. President trump what i understand. You will have reporter type of weapon . President trump i dont know. Other to port male or female . President trump they will have a briefing maybe for you outside. Reporter [inaudible] President Trump i didnt ask the question. It might not have had anything to do with me or something else. It was on the outside of the premises, the wall, as you know the fencing, especially the new fencing they put up is very powerful but it was on the outside of the white house. Okay . They will have a full report, secret service in a little while well have a full report. Reporter are you rattled by this at all, mr. President . President trump do i seem rattled . It is unfortunate but the world has always been a dangerous place. It is not something that is unique. The world has been, you look back over the centuries, the world has been a dangerous place, very dangerous place and, it will continue i guess for a period of time. Reporter [inaudible]. Personal safety inside of the white house . President trump i feel very safe with secret service. Theyre fantastic people. Theyre the best of the best. Theyre highly trained. I dont know if anybody got to walk outside but there were a lot of terrificlooking people ready to go if something was necessary. People at the highest level of Law Enforcement. There is nobody like these people. So they just wanted me to step aside for a little while, just to make sure that everything was cleared outside because it was right in this area. Reporter why did you come back, mr. President . Why did you decide after that, created a lot of commotion. What made you decide to come back to continue the briefing . President trump i didnt think about not coming back. I said am i able to go back. They said you have to wait a little while. I waited a little while as you know in the oval office area. I said can i get back now . They said yes. They have a lot of fortification outside in case. It was one person. Okay . Reporter said shooting outside. How far away . President trump they will give you a full briefing a little while. Reporter far from the white house . President trump i can only tell you they will give you a briefing. It was outside the fence. Reporter pretty close. President trump pretty close. I was telling you that the dow jones and the s p 500 are now 50 above the march level. Nasdaq is setting new records. It is already broken the record despite the situation of having the china virus. We have new jobs arising and unemployment is falling faster than nearly anyone thought. Over the past three month weve created over nine million jobs. Thats a record, a threemonth record if you add it up, its a three month record by far. And we beaten expectations by 12 million, 12 million above expectations which is pretty remarkable. Today we had great reports on new job openings and, there is clearly a housing boom which has been incredible numbers in both housing and automobile boom. Weve rarely seen anything like it. It is going on right now in america. Inventories are at rock bottom. Used car sales are at record levels. And we will have, we built, were doing a rebuilding league reich nobody has ever seen. Construction is getting close to record territory. Manufacturing is doing very well. Car companies are doing great. Very happy for the michigan, the state of michigan. We have a lot of Car Companies moving in. A lot of plants are being built and expanded in michigan and ohio there is no reason why the economy grant grow at a 20 pace in the third quarter. That would be a record and interestingly it will be a number that is going to be announced before november 3rd. It gets announced probably around november 1st which is very interesting but it is going to grow at a very substantial pace based on all the numbers were looking at, probably a lot more substantial than we originally thought. Were creating new incentives to work in jobs. Were also providing muchneeded assistance to those who are still suffering from the effects of the pandemic contraction and the contraction is now, while we have the pandemic, we have a lot of great things happening in terms of the vaccines and therapeutics as you know and i think well be making tremendous progress over the next period of a few months and certainly before the end of the year. I think well have a vaccine before the end of the year, very substantially, we may have a therapeutic resolvement very quickly, very, very quickly. That is the one i would rather have faster, you go in, give a transfusion or a shot to people that are very ill and they would be able to come out of the hospital the flex day or next day or a few days later. If the states participate in our core sharing unemployment plan were going to be doing something very, very interesting with all of the things that we announced on saturday. I dont have to repeat what they are. You know very well. Weve had, weve had some tremendous success already if you look whats happening with the stock market and people are very thrilled at what were doing. Wed like to get the democrats to focus on other than what theyre focusing on which is a bailout of poorly running states. They have many great running states, states setting records and lets see what happens with respect to that. But the, were looking at also considering a capitalgains tax cut which would create a lot more jobs. So were looking very seriously at capitalgains tax cut. And also at an income tax cut for middle income families. Were looking at expanding the tax cuts that weve already done but specifically for middle income families. You will be hearing about that in the upcoming few weeks. I think it will be very exciting. So capitalgains tax is going to be, a lot of people put to work and it will be a cut in the Capital Gains tax and also a cut in the middle income tax. So i now want to just discuss a little quick briefing, then well take a few more questions but, we took some, who would have known we take questions before we started, right . Is that right, jennifer . That is the way it happens sometimes. We want to discuss if we might the china virus and the world continues its fight against this horrible plague. Countries on every continent are seeing increases in cases. We have a rapid increase only in cases where, it is very interesting because were so far ahead of testing we have more cases. If we had much smaller testing would have fewer but we feel that having testing is a very important thing. Its a great, it is a great record to have in many ways. We have tested, i guess close to 65 Million People right now. Nobody is even close to that number. No other country is close. India would be second at 11 million and they have 1. 5 billion people. So we, we have the number one testing anywhere in the world by far. We also have, i think the highest quality tests. We have a lot of different ones but we have the highest quality including the short term and lab tests. The lab tests take a little bit longer and dr. Birx was tell me a little while ago were down to two days, 2 1 2 days on getting you a result on the lab tests. The other ones you get them in five minutes to 15 minutes so thats exciting but countries on every continent are seeing increases in cases in recent days. Cases rapidly increased in japan and australia unfortunately. Theyre now experiencing higher peaks than they did in march. To the south of the border, of our border, cases continued to surge in mexico, central america, argentina, colombia, peru, brazil and throughout latin america. It is really the hot spot. It is posing a major challenge for this continent. Latin america is now the region with the most number of confirmed cases by far despite a relative scarcity of testing. So when you think of that, that means its pretty much on fire. Having a hard time. Were helping them, were sending them tremendous numbers of ventilators which were making by the thousands every month. Were helping latin america very much. It is hard for them to come into the country because we have big sections of wall up now. The new wall is being built. People dont talk about. They used to talk about nothing but the wall. Now that it is being built theyre not talking about it so much but it helped us, almost getting close to 280 miles. 80 miles in the most important areas, helping us a lot in terms of not having people come in to the country who are infected with the coronavirus. This global trend underscores the persistence of the virus including the nations that apply the strictest most punishing lockdowns. You have nations really tough on the lockdowns and theyre getting hit very hard. That is why my administration is pursuing a sciencebased approach that protects the most vulnerable, preserves Hospital Capacity and focusing on the delivery and development of treatments, ultimately the vaccine. I feel strongly we will have a vaccine by the end of the year and it will be put in service, maybe even as we get it because were all set militarily. Were using our military to distribute the vaccine. And logistically there is nobody like this group of people. I meet with them a lot and theyre ready to go. Soon as they have it they will be going but more importantly the therapeutics as i said. I think the therapeutics could be great, initially speaking. I think that would be, if i had my choice. But you will have them both. You will have them both very soon too. At the same time wee urge all americans to apply common sense mitigation. You all know what that mitigation is. Everybody knows it by heart now. Nearly half of all of the deaths from the china virus in the United States have occurred in Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities. Thats why we have delivered funding, equipment and Rapid Testing to our nations Nursing Homes to protect those at highrisk. Were very focused on Nursing Homes and Senior Citizens areas. Anywhere that we have Senior Citizens were very, very focused. We delivered over 1800 rapid point of care testing devices. Those are very quick and shipped over 700,000 tests to Nursing Homes. Nursing homes are being protected like never before. The United States faces a unique range of challenges that requires our constant vigilance. America has the largest atrisk population of any developed country by far, 1. 5 million residents of Nursing Homes. About five times that of the United Kingdom and other european countries. Our country also has a higher prevalence of underlying conditions that this virus targets. Yet we have fewer deaths per capita than the United Kingdom and most other peer nations in western europe. That is important. We have fewer deaths per capita than the United Kingdom and most other nations in western europe and heading for Even Stronger numbers but one person is too much as far as im concerned. Should have never been allowed to happen. Should have never been allowed to escape china. Nationwide we continue to see encouraging signs. In the last seven days nationwide cases declined by 14 . Hospitalizations decreased by 7 . Fatalities decreased by 9 . Arizona and that are improving rapidly with fewer patients coming to Emergency Rooms by far as well as decreasing cases, decreasing fatalityies and expected and expanded Hospital Capacity. So we have an expanded Hospital Capacity. Its. Its pretty dramatic when you look at it, meaning we have more room should we need it. So a lot of tremendous work has been done. In texas likewise, the number of patients going to Emergency Rooms has dropped from july by more than 2 3. Thats a lot. Nevertheless we continue to monitor texas very closely. Terrific governor, terrific people, working on that whole situation in texas especially, at its test Positivity Rate which rose over 20 this weekend. Overall cases in texas are coming down and have stablized in the border counties. That is again where you have the wall and youre next to, in some cases the wall and some cases you will have it very shortly. You will have it all built within a number of months. But those areas were hit very hard and theyre likely cases from mexico that come in back and forth from the border. They come in legally. As doctors have found more effective ways to treat patients the fatality rate continue toes improve. Texas 1 6 the fatality rate of new york and new jersey that they had in april. And, if you look at new york and new jersey they worked very, very hard. Very heavy densecy and they had a lot of different kinds of difficulty. The fatality rates in florida now and arizona are between 25 and 33 of the peak rates of new york and new jersey. Again, different, different climate, a different grouping. Different density. Tremendously different density. In california the situation is starting to stablize and improve throughout the major metropolitan areas. Statewide hospitalizations continue to decline very substantially with about 20 fewer in patients now than on july 21st. California is starting to really show signs of correcting. Were monitoring regions with increasing cases including boston, chicago and the midwest and were monitoring them very, very strongly, and very, very hard. I do want to say that i think at the end of a fairly short period of time you will be in very, very good shape all over our country. Every loss of life is tragic and all nations must Work Together to defeat this horrible virus. My administration is going to continue to save as many lives as possible. We are working roundtheclock, everybody, it is incredible how hard theyre working and people from other countries, were working with them also. Theyre working very hard this is something that is now attacked 188 different countries. There are a wide range of factors that determine you who the virus impacts a nation such as age, underlying conditions, underlying conditions is a very big one. If youre sick in any way, if youre have, especially heart and diabetes, that is not a good thing to have if you, if youre going to have this, if youre going to catch it. So were trying to protect it, especially those people that have problems with their heart or diabetes, and levels of preexisting many immunity from past exposureother viruses happen. We must stop politicizing the virus and be united in our condemnation how this virus came to america. How this virus came to the world. And were going to figure it out and were going to find out and were very angry about it. On the therapeutics and vaccine updates, three vaccine candidates are currently in phase three Clinical Trials, something that would have been impossible under the Previous Administration or any other administration. And several others are showing considerable promise. We have great companies, very wellknown companies. I think everyone in this room would know these companies but theyre the biggest and the best in the world. Were working with other Foreign Companies and countries that have been really working very closely with us. Were trading, were not looking to do anything but come up with the answer and we really dont, we dont care. We want to come up with the answer. If it is one much ours or one of theirs, its okay. We have to come up with the answer. Were very close to getting it. Some people think we have it. We may have it. We have the best scientists in the world racing to develop a safe vaccine that will end this pandemic, save millions of lives and, thats millions of lives all over the world and end the harm inflicted by this virus to our society and to all other nations. Last week the nih began a Clinical Trial of remdesivir paired with another approved antiviral drug and antiinflammatory drug. You know that remdesivir has been very successful and now theyre experimenting with others including antivirals and antiinflorida inflammatories. Theyre having interesting success. Weve secured enough remdesivir to treat over 650,000 patients. On saturday i took executive action in signing to save american jobs and support american workers. I signed directives to give a payroll tax holiday with the understanding that after the election, or the assumption that it would be victorious for an administration that has done a great job. We will be ending that tax, we will be terminating that tax. On the other hand the other group wants to raise taxes and they may want to leave it where you pay it but the payroll tax is a big deal for people. It is a tremendous savings for people and were going to be doing it. We intend to terminate it at the end of the appropriate period of time. Its for those making less than 100,000 to the end of 2020, to provide an extra 400 per week, also in Unemployment Benefits and to extend a freeze on home evictions. We want to extend the freeze so people are not evicted. It is not their fault that the virus came from china. It is chinas fault. To us spend payments on Student Loans through the end of the year and beyond. Again, you know, theyre paying interest on loans and theyre not allowed to go to their college. So were going to suspend payments on Student Loans through the end of the year. Then another extension most likely because it is not fair to the students to have to pay when the colleges are not doing the job of getting open. I think probably many of them could be open. So i want to thank you all. Im sorry for the disturbance before. Things happen. And if you would like we take a few questions. Yeah. Reporter thank you, mr. President. I appreciate it. Kaley said earlier today youre working around the clock to get unemployment payments to americans. President trump yeah. Reporter give me your timetable, talking next week, two weeks, a month . Next week or two reporter mr. Secretary, youre saying when . I think within the next week or two most of the states will be able to execute. Reporter got it. This gentleman, you know everybody. You know russell. You know, this is scott atlas. You know that, right . Scott is a very famous man who is also very highly respected, stanford. He is working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus and he has many great ideas. And he thinks what weve done is really good. Well take it to a new level. It is great to have scott working along with us. We appreciate it very much, scott. Thank you very much. Weve had some great discussions. Reporter follow up on that, mr. President , if you dont mind, talking about the states have all the governors signed on to this . President trump we just had a meeting with the governors and they were very anxious to get money for the people in their states and if they, depending on the state, we have the right to do what we want to do. We can terminate the 25 or we dont have to do. That well see what it is. Depends on the individual state. But a lot of money will be going to a lot of people very quickly. Ive instructed the secretary of the treasury to move as quickly as he can. All right . So well get it done. Yeah, please. Reporter i i have a question about coronavirus. Wanted to just ask you to be clear on the incident outside. There is a fairly significant perimeter around the white house. Does it concern you at all someone who is armed was able to get so close that you needed to be removed from the Briefing Room . Reporter i dont know if. President trump i dont know if he was close or not. I dont know if it was a he or she. I have such confidence in these people, theyre so good. I dont think the person breached anything. It was on the outside grounds. So i dont believe anything was breached. I asked that question. So, they were relatively far away. Reporter on coronavirus, 97,000 children have been positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of july according to the American Academy of pediatrics. Does that give you any pause about schools reopening for inperson learning. President trump no. Because they may have, as you would call it a case, there may be a case but it is also a case where there is a tiny, its a tiny fraction of death, tiny fraction. And they get better very quickly. Yeah, they have, they may have it for a short period of time but, as you know the seriousness of it in terms of what it leads to is extraordinarily small, very, very much less than 1 . John . Reporter do you still believe children are essentially immune . President trump i think for the most part they do very well. They dont get very sick. They dont catch it easily. They dont get very sick. According to the people ive spoken to they dont transport it or transfer it to other people or certainly not very easily. So, yeah, i think schools have to open. We want to get our economy going. We have incredible numbers despite this if we could get this going, i think it is very important thing going to get the schools going. Onathan. Th rerererere mr. Re mre pnt p in po aou y sd,d,d,uote q q q e bijon bisbi. The vithe re paint hes i fofn ee d d d dho ccho fth f iredditeteor hel hng h h h enre pduso pdul pdul p p strat. Wh douea my mt, tha joe biden bihashat gtod or os agagt god . Od . 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Normally he would be left and bring it somewhere a little bit toward the center but, some of the things that they have down there, im not only talking in terms of religion, im not talking even in terms of religion, but some of the things they have in the agreement made, this was an agreement made by Bernie Sanders and joe. Its a terrible thing t would be a terrible thing for our country. It will destroy our country. We will go into a depression. We will put on regulation. We will double and triple taxes. We will, it will be terrible for health care, just terrible. You will have 180 Million People lose their health care. It will be a terrible, terrible thing for our country. Yeah, please, yeah. Reporter thank you, sir i like to ask you question about something you said in bedminster as well. You said youre planning to issue an executive order to insurance that Health Insurance companies prevent or cover people with preexisting conditions. President trump yes. Reporter you said that had never been done before. That not the case because that is the law under the Affordable Care act. My question why do you need to issue an executive order President Trump i said as an executive order. As you said, said as an executive order it hasnt been done before. We want to, we want to be able to assure people that preexisting conditions is always taken care of. As you know weve done tremendous things having to do with the individual mandate. We got rid of the individual mandate from obamacare which really ended obamacare as it would be officially known because the individual mandate was the biggest part. It was also the most unpopular part where you pay for a terrible privilege of overpaying for insurance you pay not to have to pay for your health care. That was a disaster for people and a very unpopular. That was, called the individual mandate and we terminated that and officially terminated that and that was something that we have been given thanks for by many, many people but the individual mandate will always be with us, the individual mandate termination will always be. They cant start it up. I dont even believe, you have to tell me, i dont think it has been challenged when we ended it. Preexisting conditions the republicans are 100 there. I will be issuing at some point in nottoodistant future a very strong statement on that, probably in the form of an executive order. Reporter why do you need to do the executive order if it is already part just a double safety net. Let people know the republicans are totally strongly in favor of preexisting conditions, taking care of people with preexisting conditions. It is a, it is a signal to people. It is a second, its a second platform. We have preexisting conditions will be taken care of, 100 by republicans and the republican party. I think it is, i actually think its a very important statement. Yes, please. Reporter mr. President , do you still intend to try to hold an inperson g7 meeting in the United States at some point in august and september . Have you already sent out invitations to do so . President trump we havent sent out invitations. I was talking with them, on the phone with many of them yesterday with lebanon, which is truly one of the most saddest catastrophic things i have seen. They dont know how many people have died. They are having revolution in that country. It is just a terrible thing but i was yesterday, 8 00 in the morning we had an, our time, we had a big teleconference call. Some of those people were there im more inclined to do it after the election. We were going to do it in september. They would like to do it. We could do it through teleconference or a meeting. I am now suggesting, i told my people yesterday actually why dont we do it sometime after the election when things are a little bit, you have a little more time to think about it because it is very important, the g7 is very important. Reporter [inaudible]. To that meeting . I dont know. We invite ad number of people to the meeting. I certainly would invite him to the meeting. He is an important factor. We will invite certain people that arent in the g7. Some people already accepted but were going to be doing it after the election. It is better atmosphere to have a g7. I think its a better, calmer atmosphere to have a g7. Yeah, please. Reporter thank you, mr. President. I wanted to ask you have you spoken to any democrats this friday or reached out to you at all about restarting negotiations . I have spoken to several democrats. I have not spoken to schumer or pelosi since then. Reporter do you expect, would you reach out at all to them . Anytime they want to meet, theyre willing to negotiate, have a new proposal were more than happy to meet. President trump they are hurting people very badly. This was easy to do. I saw senator schumer said today on a show, i dont know what show, he said we should meet, we should do something. Where has he been how many weeks have you been negotiating like four . And they should do something. It would have been so much easier than doing it the way we did it. But we did something that is very important and strangely it has been wellreceived, very wellreceived. Go ahead, please. Reporter thank you, mr. President , you tweeted that youre considering gettysburg for the rnc nomination. What is your thinking as a possible location . President trump ive been to gettysburg numerous times. Its a national park. It is a National Historic site. It is incredible. It is the history. It is incredible to me. It was very important place and is a very important place in our country. So were looking at that. And were looking at the white house. The white house woe be very much easier for secret service. You see what just went on here. Theyre all here. Just like you have your seats, they have their seats at the white house. So there wouldnt be any expense or any extraordinary expense and the white house would be a lovely place to do it also. Least expensive place you could do it would be at the white house. This is a government, a government expense. You know, look, i watch also with government, i watch to make sure that we do whats right but were looking at gettysburg and were looking at the white house. We have other sites too. I think these would be two beautiful sites. Reporter would you envision having an audience for that speech . President trump could you coul. You have plenty of room at both locations. I see john roberts. You heard shots . Reporter two in succession. President trump you know the difference. You thought they were shots, done. Reporter definitely sounded like gunfire. I. President trump i saw your report when you went inside t was a good report. Thank you very much, appreciate it. Jennifer, please. Reporter update on china. Do you think your administration will respond to the sanctions that china announced this morning on american officials . President trump we already responded in many different ways. Were talking a lot about china. We shouldnt have been talking about china. We did a phase one deal and it was a wonderful deal. All of sudden it means very little in the overall import of things they sure never allowed what happened to the world including us but this was released into europe. It was released into the u. S. It was released all throughout the world but it wasnt released into china. And we were doing numbers that will, you know, just were incredible. We hope to be able to do them perhaps even next year. I think well have an incredible year next year but that will never pay for the loss of life in our country and all over the world. So we are, we view china differently than we did eight months ago, very much differently. Reporter [inaudible] President Trump yes, please. Reporter consideration delisting chinese companies. Delisting . Reporter delisting. We never comment on discussions. Youre talking about delisting on the exchange . Im sorry, yes, to be clear we did make the recommendation and the sec will be putting out that, yes, as of the end of next year, if they do not fully comply, and thats chinese companies, any other companies, they all have to comply with the same exact accounting or they will be delisted on the exchanges. I was confused when you said delist. President trump jennifer, were also talking on the wto, the world trade organization. China is treated much differently than we are. This should have been handled many years ago when it first happened but theyre treated as a nation thats developing. Theyre treated as what they call a developing nation, which gives them tremendous incentives and advantages over and above what the United States gets and over and above what other countries get also. This is a developing nation. I dont think so. I dont think for purpose what is were talking about it should be. We are putting in and weve already put in a request that china should no longer be declared a developing nation to have advantages over the u. S. And i told them that a year ago. I told them that two years ago. We put it in very powerfully, they should not have advantages over other countries frankly and, theyre not going to have anymore advantages over this should have been done by numerous president s a long time ago because it gives them a tremendous, a tremendous boost over everybody else. Its a very unfair situation. No, we are upset with china because of what they did. China was not good. China will be, if you look at whats going to happen, whether its iran, iran will make a deal with us in a month after the elections over if we win the election but the greatest dream in the world is that joe biden wins because they will own this country. China will own this country. North korea will own this country. They will own our country and theyre all waiting to see the election. If we make a, if we have a win on november 3rd, we will have a deal, in my opinion iran, within one month, and i dont know that we want to have a deal with china to be honest with you. Im saying to myself, gee, china wants us to lose very badly. You know who else is not happy with us winning . Russia. Phony people, tell fake news stories about russia. It was reported the numbers, i raised 400 million extra in nato, you know that, went from 130 to 400 billion. That is a year in order to strengthen up nato. Nobody says. That we became the Biggest Energy exporter. We are now, if you look at what we have, were energy independent. So many different things. Our military is stronger than it ever was. We spent 2. 5 trillion on our military. I exposed the terrible deal between germany and russia on the pipeline. Nobody even knew about the pipeline, in order stream, in orderstream ii. What is this all about. We protect germany from russia and germany pays russia billions of dollars a year for energy. Its a big portion of germanys energy. It i was a person that was a german citizen i would not be happy with that deal because theyre at a very big disadvantage. No, russia would not be happy. I can tell you that china would not be happy at all. Weve taken in tens of billions of dollars, there is your head of the treasury, steve, right . Weve taken in tens of billions of dollars from china. We never took 10 cents from china, not even 10 cents. 28 billion we gave to our farmers because they were targeted by china. They were actually targeted. And we gave 28 billion, compliments of china to our great farmers and ranchers because they were unfairly targeted by china. In order to make a better deal with us. I said were not going to do that. Instead of making a better deal were going to tariff you at very high numbers, 25 , 10 , actually numbers that could go up a lot. And we had a lot of money left over, after giving the 28 billion to the farmers and ranchers and some others frankly, we, we had many, many billions of dollars left over. Were still receiving that money. Even though we made the deal were still receiving that money so if we win the election, well have deals with a lot of countries very fast. They are just waiting to see who wins because they are hoping, they are hoping that joe biden wins, sleepy joe. If he wins, you know what is going to happen . China will own us. Our markets will crash. The 401 k s will go down to practically nothing. Stocks will go down to practically nothing. Remember stocks, these big companies, theyre owned by millions of people that are carpenters and policemen and farmers and lots of other people and, they are the ones that benefit by having a good stock market, probably more than anybody else but the 401 k s, the stocks, the economy, will be in a shambles. They want to raise taxes. They want to triple taxes. They want to raise the Corporate Tax but they want to raise all taxes. Ultimately they cant pay for what they want to do anyway what they will do is destroy your health care and some other things. We will have 180 Million People so happy with their private health care they will lose it under this crazy plan these people are proposing. So you will have a crash like you have never seen before. Ive been very, ive been very good at predicting these things. Go ahead. Reporter thank you, sir. You mentioned president putin [inaudible]. Rush is a is currently planning meddling with the election have you raised that directly . President trump they said china, russia, iran, and probably others because of fake news they seem this think russia plays the best. So what they do all right. Well im just saying the way politicians, the other day they said the three countries. They said china, russia and iran and some reporter got up and said russia is meddling. I said didnt it mention china and iran . Why didnt you mention them too. I dont know. I have tell you who is meddling in our elections. The democrats are meddling by wanting and insisting sending mailin ballots where there is corruption all over the place. If you check what happened in new york, a small, relatively small race with Carolyn Maloney and they called her the winner the other day because i was mentioning it at conferences and getting a lot of action on that statement. So they called, they declared her the winner and they have no idea who won. The person, her opponent is very angry. But they had mailin voting and they had hundreds and i think even thousands of ballots that are missing, that were fraudulent. Take a look at the Carolyn Maloney race. Take a look at patterson, new jersey. Take a look now at this one in virginia where they mailed out 500,000 applications and theyre going to people that arent supposed to be getting an application. Yeah, please, go ahead. Reporter thank you, sir. Secretary pompeo came to europe again this week. Do you have any updates on when the travel restrictions of eu will be lichted . Seems strange were offering exemptions for professional athletes but not visa holders, socalled President Trump we try to do the best we can. We have big sporting events. That is good for our economy and good for us. They talk about certain exemptions and they make everyone is perfectly tested and comes in at 100 . We make certain accomodations. You do have star athletes. That is good thing for the country. That is economic development, et cetera. But we are working very closely with europe and other countries to see what is the best timing. Dont forget i was the one who turned europe off. They led the way. Led it much more so than we did. We were months following them. In terms of they got hit earlier than we did, quite a bit earlier than we did. So i put the restrictions on europe. I put the restrictions on china which was a great thing to do, in retrospect were getting, that was a very important day. Dr. Fauci said that was one of the most important days. And a lot of people didnt want me to do it. But we first put a ban on anybody from china coming in. Then we put a ban on europe coming in. But were working very closely with europe to see when that will all come off. Yeah, please. Reporter 160,000 people have died on president obamas watch, do you think you would have called for his resignation . No, i wouldnt have done. That i think its, i think it has been amazing what weve been able to do. If we didnt close up our country, we would have had 1 1 2, or two Million People already dead. Weve called it right. Now we dont have to close it. We understand the disease. Nobody understood it because nobody has ever seen anything like this. The closest thing is in in 1917, right . The great pandemic where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 Million People. Probably ended the second world war. All the soldiers were sick. That was a terrible situation. And this is highly contagious. This one is highly, highly contagious. No, if i would have listened to a lot of people we would have kept it open. By the way we keep it open now all the way. We keep it open, but we would have kept it open you could be up to twonal or two Million People. One 1 2 to two Million People. Our people have done a fantastic job. Our consultants and doctors. With this disagreements and a lot of things happening what weve done with ventilators has been amazing. What weve done with medical equipment has been incredible. Weve supplied the governors. Nobody, not one person in this country that needed a ventilator dent get get it. At the beginning nobody had stockpiles or anything you would have we would have lost, you mentioned 1 60,000 people. Multiple that times 10 right now t would have been unsustainable and unacceptable. That is what would have happened if we kept it open. I think were a very large country. We are i said all the time, a lot of people like to leave that out, one person is too many. It you have should have never happened but they have done really an extraordinary job. They will never be given credit, im not talking about me, the people worked on this so hard will never be given the credit, done an extraordinary job with very large diverse country. Really an extraordinary job. A lot of governors as you know, they sort of do the micro in their states, they go up a lot of governors do an extraordinary job. Go ahead. Reporter thank you. Did you ask the u. S. Ambassador to eliminating ethanol tariffs in brazil . President trump you cant reporter ambassador to brazil to eliminate ethanol tariffs in brazil . President trump we havent really discussed that too much. At some point we probably will be. We dont want people tariffing us. If they tariff us, although i must tell you i have a very Good Relationship with president bolsonaro. Hes great. I hear he is doing well. He recovered from having covid, having covid19 as they say and thats freight. Send him my regards. I think as far as brazil is concerned if they do tariffs we have to have an equalization of tariffs. We, we are going to be presenting something having to do with tariffs in fairness. We have many countries many years charging us tariffs and we dont charge them. It is called reciprocity. It is called reciprocal tariffs. You may be doing something very soon. Did you have one, oen . Reporter thank you, mr. President. Thank you for coming back to the briefing. President trump thank you very. Reporter so i have an opinion question for you. Joe biden is set to announce his running mate at anytime now. We expect him to announce her. Many of your supporters feel that the reason that obama former nsa susan rice is at the top of bidens list is that she can best cover up a lot of the obama gate surveillance crimes that have taken place during your campaign. What are your thoughts, what is your opinion, do you subscribe to that line of thought . How do you feel about it . President trump well look, the Obama Campaign spied on our campaign and they have been caught, all right . Now lets see what happens to them. But, they have been caught. They have been caught redhanded. Its probably treason. Its a horrible thing they did. Probably never happened before. At least nobody got caught doing it but they used the intelligence agencies of our country top spy on my campaign and they have been caught and there are a lot of people involved. I dont want to say how much shes involved. Frankly if he chooses her thats fine but that is a potential liability. Well see. President obama knew about it. Joe biden knew about it. Comey knew about it. Brennan, clapper, the whole group, they all knew about it. Lisa page and her lover strzok, they all knew about it and we have it documented. We have it in texts. We have it in all sorts of forms. They knew about it. It was a terrible thing, should have never happened, should never be allowed to happen again to a president. This should never happen again. This was a setup like we have never seen. I think it is the political crime of the century and they have been caught so lets see what happens to them all. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Elizabeth okay. We started the presser the president was about five minutes in and then he was evacuated when john roberts of fox news reported that two shots were fired outside the fence of the white house. Lets get right to acting customs and Border Protection commissioner mark morgan. Sir, great to have you on. Can you tell us more what happened with the gunshots that were fired outside the white house fence . Can you fill us in . Liz, well what im being told right now it looks apparently this is one suspect that posed a threat of some kind and the secret service did engage to address that threat. The suspect was shot. Has been transferred to the hospital. Thats all i know right now. Im kind of hearing it at the same time you are. I think you know, your listeners know that is what we know right now. As we get some more information some of those details could change but that is what we know right now. Elizabeth do we know what kind of threat this individual posed to white house . No, we dont have those details right now, ill tell you, liz. If i was going to be in or around a threat like that, the white house with be a good place to be. My career as an fbi agent, i was able to work with secret service multiple times over the course of my year. I can tell you when it comes protection, specifically ppd, the president s protection detail, theyre absolutely the best in the world. Elizabeth the secret service surrounded the while house. The press room went into lockdown [inaudible]. Was evacuated into the oval office. This happened five minutes into the press conference. The evening edit was tracking it. Ten minutes later, do i appear rattled . Im not rattled. Your comments on that . He doesnt feel rattled, because as the president came back in his presser is he has the utmost confidence in the secret service. The cameras, they were calm, collected. Asked the president to come with him, calm, cool, collected. Theyre professionals what they do. The president clearly has confidence in the service. Elizabeth mark, you oversee a group of professionals taken to u. S. Cities to stop the chaos and violence swamping u. S. Cities in washington, 20 people shot, a 17yearold now dead. Youre looking at images now of the suspect who was shot by secret service outside of the white house fence. He was taken to the hospital according to president. We have no further details. We do not know right now what danger this individual posed to the white house. Were in breaking news mode. Mark, there is violence in d. C. And other cities. Can you talk to us about this . What is going on with the chaos in u. S. Cities like chicago, new york and washington . Liz, we actually have a couple things going on. We have the violence in portland which is very narrow. So you have a group of criminals, thugs, anarchists as i call them, criminal violent opportunitiesists going there to specific intent to burn down a federal courthouse or burn down a local Police Department. There is that type of violence going on in portland a very long time. We shift to kansas city, chicago, other areas, like d. C. You mentioned. We have a spike in overall violent crime. Right now the federal agencies are trying to address both. Both kind of narrow violence going on in portland as well as the surge in genzyme lens, violence, Gang Violence going on in other cities across the country. Americans need to pay attention. This is serious and which need to take action to stop. Elizabeth you know, mark, were looking again at the moment the president was evacuated from the james brady press room. Secret service, we heard the word, said shots fired to the president. The president was removed about ten minutes from the press room. Then he returned. Can you talk to us about any threats that you know of to the white house right now. No, i dont know anything. Im kind of sitting here, listening getting information as you are right now. It is pretty standard. I think what you saw was kind of sop, we call it standard operating procedure. If they see a threat, first thing they do go into the protective mode with the president being the primary focus. Were going to make sure there are no other threats, verify this was a lone suspect. Once they do that, they will lift that quote, temporary lockdown as you saw. Took them about ten minutes to do it. Again standard kind of sop. Elizabeth okay, mark. Were so sorry were in breaking news mode. Thank you for coming on the show to help us with the coverage there we showed the photo of the suspect taken down by secret service, two shots fired outside of the white house fence. Bring back to the show, republican doug collins of georgia. Congressman, this is a rare event when you have an individual shot outside of the white house fence right in the middle of the president doing a press conference. Your reaction to the developing story . My reaction is the amazing action of our secret service protects us and the police. We knee normalcy. We need return to law and order. Because there are people out there doing things harmful to society. We see it right at the white house. We talked about it, mark talking about it all over the country. Goes to the bravery of the men and women across the country, secret service and Police Department hogs who do think every day. Our police and Law Enforcement folks do a great job. There is no finer example of that than the secret service. Elizabeth portland had its deadliest month in 30 years. New york city is now seeing more shootings, on track for more shootings this year than 2018 and 2019 combined. We have 76 children shot and killed since the beginning of the year in u. S. Cities. D. C. Had a horrific crime a shooting committed by anywhere three to four individuals at a cookout early in the wee hours of sunday morning. 20 people shot. A 17yearold now dead. A Police Officer now shot in washington, d. C. In the cone text what were seeing happening, developing story breaking right now at the white house, tell us what is going on in washington. Tell us about the fear factor in d. C. Given the violence swamping u. S. Cities. Violence swamping our cities is something we could have predicted. When you start attacking the very institutions designed to protect us, washington, d. C. , atlanta, see it in portland, new york, what do people think they will say . When is the mainstream media, liberal media rise up to figure out these are not peaceful protests. Defunding the police has a cost, cost of human life. How many times will they look at minority communities, other communities, see children killed, people killed, actually Say Something about it. Instead of going on there protecting the anarchists and protecting the movement. Theyre not there for peaceful protests. These are folks using it the advantage of police being curled back and defunded to actually do what is damaged. My question, when will we see the outrage for deaths take place . When will they see it what it actually is instead of flicking political statements making elizabeth Quick Reaction to gallup. Gallup find eight out of den africanamericans, hispanicamericans, asian communities want police and increased presence. Everybody wants a safe, secure community to live in. This is not hard. It is only hard for liberals who dont get it. This is what people want. They want a safe neighborhood. People dont move to areas where theyre unsafe. There is confirms where everybody is always known, logical to us as conservatives but liberals dont seem to get it. Elizabeth congressman, collins, great to have you on. Thanks for your insight. Appreciate it. 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