United states due to the coronavirus. They say the Trump Administration was slow out of the gate. They said they have a plan. I have no idea what the plan is to be honest. How do you respond to this . From the early days of the chronic virus, President Trump put the health of America First. I was there in the oval office when our scientist came in in january, when there were five coronavirus cases in the United States, all of which had come back from china and they said we need to suspend all travel from the second largest economy in the world and President Trump come up behind the desk, made the decision on the font to suspend all travel from china. I can tell you, as the head of the White House Coronavirus task force, that decision alone saved countless american lives because it bought us invaluable time to stand up the greatest National Mobilization since 142 will understand that joe biden criticized the president s decision in january and said it was enough phobic and hysterical. In fact, he wrote earlier that the closing down travel from china or any other tree would actually make things worse. The truth is, it bought us time to reinvent testing. With now done 120 million tests around the country, just distributed a hundred million to school so we can open up our schools again and keep kids there safely. We saw the development and distribution of literally billions of supplies. No american ever required of ventilator was denied a ventilator or denied an icu bed. Early in the month of february, the moment that we got the genetic coding for the coronavirus, we began work on a vaccine. In six weeks we were in phase one clinical trials. As we sit here today, the president and i are confident with the extraordinary Research Scientists in companies that we have in this country under operation warp speed that will help the first Coronavirus Vaccine before the end of this year and were already going to have tens of millions of doses to be able to distribute. Joe biden got it wrong at the beginning. The truth is it should come as no surprise because when you look back when he was Vice President , he had the swine flu impact this country in 2009 and they refused to close off any travel from mexico at the time. In fact, in a very real sense they had an utterly failed response. By the fall of 2009 when joe biden was Vice President , the swine flu also known as h1 and one had infected 60 million americans. If it had the same fatality rate as the coronavirus does, we would have lost more than 2 million american lives. Joe bidens chief of staff ron klein was actually candid last fall when he said it was only luck that it wasnt one of the worst mass casualty events in american history. He said the Obama Biden Administration response to each one and one, he said we got everything wrong but from early on President Trump took Decisive Action to put the health of America First and all along the way he listened to the scientists and even in that momentous decision that he made in the middle of march to ask american businesses and American Families to make incredible sacrifices during that 45 days to slow the spread, i couldnt be more proud of this president s leadership. I believe with all my heart that while we grieve the loss of more than 200,000 americans in any of the families that are looking into night should know theres never a day gone by that their families havent been in our hearts and in our prayers. Im absolutely convinced that because of the president s leadership, because of our partnership with state health officials, because of doctors and nurses and because of the cooperation of the markham people that we literally saved hundreds of thousands of american lives and we are a matter of weeks away from having a Coronavirus Vaccine that will be the beginning of us putting this pandemic in the past once and for all. Mark it sounds like you had to do multiple things at the same time. You had to figure out what the viruses. Right. Mark you had to make sure the states that were short on supplies had supplies come of it states that were short on hospital beds had hospital beds and those short on ventilators had ventilators. On top of that you had to begin the process immediately of trying to figure out how to fix this with a vaccine in various therapeutics. All this was taking place at once. It sounds like a massive task to bring in these desperate entities of the federal government and the pharmaceutical world and the lab world, to build up tests, so my question is this. You had to start from scratch. Did you have anything available to you when this pandemic from the prior administration. The truth is, the Strategic National stockpile was emptied out at the end of each one and one in 2009. In the next seven years they never replenished it. When coronavirus began to strike in our country, we had 15000 ventilators in the Strategic National stockpile. It was one of the reasons why, heres the advantage of having a business man become president of the United States. He made it clear to me from the outset and not only did he want the whole of government approach at every level, a seamless partnership, but the president made it clear that we wanted a whole of america approach and we began to immediately partner, not just with Research Companies developing a vaccine in developing medicine, but we partnered with manufacturing firms around the country, with ge healthcare, with General Motors and ford. They literally repurposed manufacturing lines to build ventilators around america, and as we sit here today and as we see cases begin to rise in some heartland states, we have 150,000 ventilators in the Strategic National stockpile. We prove this summer during the outbreak in the sun belt that we now have the ppe, we have the testing, we have the supplies to meet this moment and make sure every american has a level of healthcare we would want any member of our family to have. None of that wouldve been possible but for the fact that the president literally, in one industry after another in those early days, called businesses into the white house, sat them down around the table in the cabinet room and said what are you going to do to respond to this moment. There were times that he used whats called the defense production act. He used the authority he has as president of the United States to direct firms to manufacture and create certain items and materials, swabs and the like, but i must tell you that ive been so inspired hathaway American Free enterprise respond to this moment not only the sacrifice that businesses made putting the health of their employees and their customers first during this 45 days to slow the spread, but the partnership we saw this president forge with industries all across the country and reinventing testing, seeing it in the production and distribution of billions of supplies, and we have that Coronavirus Vaccine before the end of the year, again its going to be a testament to American Ingenuity and to the kind of Publicprivate Partnership that President Trump forged from the very beginning. Mark you can get these masks anywhere now. You can get them online, in the grocery store, in the pharmacy, it wasnt that way six month ago. We didnt have masks. When joe biden and the Scientists Say everybody wear a mask, everyones able to wear a mask now because of the efforts of the Trump Administration to make sure theres enough masks in america to where. I can remember early on when they said dont wear a mask and when they were asked about it they said we didnt have any masks. We need to save it for the frontline personnel. Now you can get these all most anywhere. I want to ask you a question. The vaccine, if joe biden, camel harris and others are saying this vaccine, im not sure about the safety, im not sure im going to use it, are you concerned that when theyre talking like this and its going to cost people lives you should use a vaccine when the vaccine comes out . Joe biden, harris and people like andrew cuomo need to stop playing politics with peoples lives by undermining confidence in the safety of the vaccine. The president said this week we have the greatest Research Companies in the world that are developing this vaccine. The president has fed the process along through operation work speed, but we have cut no corners on safety. We are not going to distribute a Coronavirus Vaccine until the fda independent board, independent evaluation all say that its safe and effective for the American People. So to have camelot harris three times in a row refused to say she would take it vaccine produced under the tron administration and in our own vp debate say she wouldnt trust a vaccine from the president , the governor of new york this last week literally said he would not trust, its unconscionable. Were really talking about peoples lives so all of this has got to stop and the American People can be very confident that while we have moved at record speed that we will only go to the public with a vaccine that has been confirmed by the best scientists in the world as being safe and effective for the American People and joe biden and camel harris have to stop undermining the administration. Many of those who passed away passed away in nursing home and assisted living facilities and so forth, decisions made by governors like cuomo and murphy and newsom and others, where they placed people with positive coronavirus tests into these homes with other elderly people, upwards of 40 of the population, 80 of the people as of the last review of the cdc number, did the president have a policy where people who are positive with a coronavirus should be placed with elderly or frail people . From very early in this pandemic we realized the seniors, particularly those with serious Underlying Health conditions were very vulnerable. There were serious outcomes with the coronavirus. Its one of the reasons why the president directed that the standards for Infectious Disease prevention were all raised in every nursing home in america. We have 8000 inspectors we oversee. We dedicated all of them to ensuring that Infectious Disease standards are being met. We focused on seniors from the very beginning and weve never stopped. We know they have been at risk. The cdc issued guidance for Nursing Homes to be able to safely operate, but to see some governors like the governor of new york literally returned positive coping patients to Nursing Homes, it breaks my heart to think of the lives that were lost, particularly as we were surging resources into new york and new jersey and new orleans and detroit during those difficult days of pandemic in march and april. We literally, we sailed the ship into new york harbor. We surged military medical personnel. We built overflow facilities in cities around the country and really theres no excuse for any public official returning seniors into the nursing home environment that hadnt been created to be safe and quarantine under cdc guidance. There will be plenty of time for people to be held accountable for that, but i will tell you, from early in this pandemic President Trump has put a specific focus on seniors every single day. I expect through the vaccine, there will be an independent board that determines who received the vaccine first, but if history is the future, we would anticipate that seniors, particularly those that have underlying conditions, any american with an immunodeficiency, the most vulnerable will have the Coronavirus Vaccine first. Mark yes or no, has joe biden ever condemned cuomo and these other governors policies for putting coronavirus positive patients in Nursing Homes . Cannot know. Never condemned the [announcer] meet the ninja foodi air fry oven. Make familysized meals fast. And because its a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. The ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away. Women with metastatic we breast cancer. Rs. Our time. For more time. 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We cut taxes across the board for working families and businesses large and small. We unleashed American Energy where now we are a net exporter of energy for the first time in 70 years and President Trump fought for the free and fair trade where we stood up to china. We renegotiated all treating relationship with mexico and canada to put american jobs and American Workers first. The result of that, 7 million jobs created. Record unemployment for africanamericans, hispanic americans, literally we saw wages rid rising across this country at the fastest pace in ten years and then when the coronavirus pandemic struck and we lost 22 million jobs at the height of this pandemic, this president made it clear we were going to spare no expense to get families and businesses large and small through this. We secured 4 trillion in aid, Paycheck Protection Program saved 50 million american jobs and paid directly to help americans through this difficult time on already its amazing to think in the last five months, having lost 22 million jobs because of the foundation the president poured and because of the recovery unprecedented recovery and relief efforts we secured from the congress, 11 and half million americans have already gone back to work in the Unemployment Rate is now 7. 8 . We have a ways to go, its one of the reasons why the president is reaching out to the congress now and asking for more support for families and for businesses. Its the other reason why this election is so important. President trump and i are absolutely ca committed. We will defeat the virus, cut taxes in the next four years, keep lower regulation, keep fighting for unleashing American Energy. Joe biden, by contrast has said in the middle of a Global Pandemic he wants to raise taxes by 4 trillion. He wants to return to a massive avalanche of regulation that will stifle jobs beginning with the 2 trilliondollar version of the Green New Deal that would require the retrofitting of 4 million business buildings and 2 million homes and beyond that, on economic trade joe biden never lifted a finger. Democrats used to complain about nafta all the time. I remember those days, never lifted a finger to do anything about it, but now we have a strong new agreement, the usmc ape but joe biden wants us to take down all the tariffs President Trump has imposed on china better leveling the Playing Field in bringing china back to the table to open their markets to american goods, services and lastly on energy which is a driver of our economy, lowcost energy helps families, utility rates