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. 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