CS VO ON THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE BAYER COMPANY TESTED DRUGS ON AUSCHWITZ PRISONERS FOR THE NAZIS SEGMENT [2] 1999/06/11 ************************************************ KEYWORDS: 20/20; ASPIRIN; AUTOMOBILES; BROADCAST ADVERTISING; CANCER; CONCENTRATION CAMPS ; DISEASES AND DISORDERS; DRUGS; GERMANY; GUINEA; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PRISON INMATES; PRISONS; REAL ESTATE; TRADEMARKS; UNIVERSITIES; WAR CRIMES; WORLD WAR I (1914-18) 22:04:42 WARNING: THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED COPY. NOT A FINAL VERSION. ANNOUNCER From ABC News in New York, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters. HUGH DOWNS, ABC NEWS Good evening, and welcome to 20/20 Friday. We begin with the truly shocking accusations that have been leveled against one of the most trusted pharmaceutical companies in the world -- the makers of Bayer aspirin. Did the Bayer company collude with the Nazis, using the Auschwitz concentration camp as an opportunity to test new drugs on humans? BARBARA WALTERS, ABC NEWS It is a terrible accusation, if true, to use defenseless camp inmates, especially children, as guinea pigs. Tonight, Brian Ross will introduce you to one of the few people who survived the infamous Dr Josef Mengele's horrifying experiments done on twins at Auschwitz. Her searing memories are the basis of an explosive lawsuit against a company we all know. BRIAN ROSS, ABC NEWS (VO) For many in the small Indiana town of Terre Haute, it comes as no surprise that a 65 - year - old real estate agent by the name of Eva Kor would be taking on one of the world's biggest companies over something that happened decades ago during World War II. In fact, she's often been accused of overreacting when the subject has come up. EVA KOR Nobody really understood why I reacted the way I reacted and why I could not ignore it. BRIAN ROSS (VO) This is why -- Auschwitz. UNIDENTIFIED MAN Among the 2,819 liberated Auschwitz inmates, there were 180 children. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Eva Kor was one of them. Her parents were killed, and she and her twin sister, Miriam -- remarkably seen here at the head of the line holding hands -- became, at the age of 10, the subjects of painful, mysterious medical experiments by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. EVA KOR The supervisors would get very nervous and say, "Mengele is coming." And we'd straighten up like little soldiers, because everybody was scared of him. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Mengele especially valued twin children for his experiments. He castrated them, blinded them, beheaded them. He infected them with disease. Years after the horrors of Auschwitz ended, Eva Kor and her sister suffered serious health problems. And she never stopped wondering whether there was a connection with Mengele's experiments involving what she says were hundreds of injections of unknown substances from unknown sources. EVA KOR They would tie down my arm with a rubber hose, both arms. They took a lot of blood from my left arm, and they gave many injections in my right. We didn't know. They were not marked, nor were they volunteering any information. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) You were never told what they were ... EVA KOR Absolutely not. BRIAN ROSS ... injecting you with? EVA KOR No. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But now, some 55 years after the fact, Eva Kor thinks she may be about to solve the mystery. Going through a recently published book that chronicles Nazi documents from the Auschwitz archives, Eva Kor made a startling corporate connection -- a summary of a letter from a doctor for the huge German pharmaceutical company Bayer about Bayer experimental drugs to be tested on Auschwitz prisoners. Meaning, if true, that Eva Kor and others were essentially used as laboratory animals. EVA KOR I said, "Oh, my God, is that possible? That was the reason?" Here is -- I never even knew that Bayer corporation was a German corporation. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Bayer is a company whose products are well known to American consumers. NARRATOR (TV COMMERCIAL) Powerful pain relief and so much more. BRIAN ROSS (VO) In addition to Bayer aspirin, today there's Alka - Seltzer, One - A - Day vitamins, plus a range of other widely advertised products that make Bayer one of the biggest pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. So now, what's turning up in long - forgotten World War II archives puts this very well - known company in a much different light. For example, one of the SS doctors at Auschwitz, a Dr Helmut Vetter, was a longtime Bayer employee, who was involved in the testing of Bayer experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates. Vetter, later executed for giving inmates fatal injections, wrote back to his bosses at Bayer headquarters. "I have thrown myself into my work wholeheartedly, especially as I have the opportunity to test our new preparations. I feel like I am in paradise." EVA KOR For a big company like Bayer to be involved in such evil, perpetrated on small children or innocent people for no other reason but to make money, the bottom line, it's a -- it's very difficult to accept. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) This is a company, we all know. Everyone ... EVA KOR Right. BRIAN ROSS ... knows Bayer aspirin. EVA KOR That's why -- that's why it's so difficult to accept. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And now, Eva Kor is the lead plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit brought against Bayer in federal court in Terre Haute, claiming the company, with the help of Dr Mengele and the Nazis, injected healthy inmates with toxic chemicals and germs to intentionally make them sick in order to test its experimental medicines. EVA KOR They have benefited. They should pay restitution. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But the people who run Bayer today weren't the people who ran Bayer then. You know that. EVA KOR That's quite possible, but that is not my concern. The corporation is the same corporation. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But that's very much in dispute in Leverkusen, Germany, where Bayer, or "bye - er" as it is pronounced here, has been headquartered since the 1890s, with its executive office building now decked out as a giant aspirin box to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its best - known product. (on camera) No one here at Bayer headquarters would agree to be interviewed on the record for our report. And in fact, Bayer took the highly unusual step of banning 20/20 from its yearly news conference, citing the questions we might ask. (VO) Instead a Bayer spokesperson was sent out, saying he would answer no questions but would briefly state for 20/20 the company's official response to Eva Kor's lawsuit -- that Bayer is not responsible because, during the war, it was a simply a subsidiary of a larger company, IG Farben, which now exists only on paper. BAYER SPOKESPERSON Today's Bayer AG is neither identical to nor is Bayer the successor to IG Farben. There is no doubt about the evil that happened. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) But were Bayer drugs used? BAYER SPOKESPERSON But we are talking about a lawsuit. BRIAN ROSS But, sir, were Bayer drugs used? BAYER SPOKESPERSON And against the background of this lawsuit, we have no further comment at this point. BRIAN ROSS Were Bayer experimental drugs used at Auschwitz on the concentration camp victims? BAYER SPOKESPERSON Bayer did not exist as a legal entity between 1925 and 1951. MEL WEISS, ATTORNEY Oh, they were there. And they're trying to use a fiction to pretend that they weren't. BRIAN ROSS (VO) One of the key lawyers behind Eva Kor's lawsuit, Mel Weiss, says by accepted legal standards, the Bayer company of today is, in fact, the Bayer of World War II. MEL WEISS We follow the money. We traced the assets. We traced the personnel. And when you put it all together, it's the same. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Weiss has become hugely successful by bringing controversial class - action lawsuits against some of the biggest corporations in America. And now, he's using those same tactics without charging his usual fee on behalf of victims of the Holocaust. (on camera) Why now, 50, 55 years after all of this took place, would you bring a lawsuit? MEL WEISS It's never too late when you're dealing with remedies for atrocities. What they were doing during the war were using human guinea pigs to develop commercial products. BRIAN ROSS (VO) But Bayer says the matter was settled years ago at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, when three executives of its then - parent, IG Farben, were acquitted after prosecutors failed to prove the company knew of what was happening at the camps. But the judges then did not have a number of documents only recently discovered, including this letter in which one of the men acquitted, the Bayer sales director, Wilhelm Mann, praised the experiments of Dr Mengele and promised to discuss financing from the company. "I have enclosed the first check. Dr Mengele's experiments should, as we both agreed, be pursued. Heil Hitler! Wilhelm Mann." This from one of Bayer's top executives, although Bayer says there's no evidence any money was actually sent. WOLFGANG ECKHARDT (PH), INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL MEDICINE If this document is true, there is a very clear link between what Mengele did and who did his financial support. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The director of the Institute of Historical Medicine at Heidelberg University in Germany, Professor Wolfgang Eckhardt, says there is abundant evidence that Bayer used concentration camp victims to test medicines for typhus and malaria, as well as a variety of other experimental products. WOLFGANG ECKHARDT No question this was human experimentation. Bayer supplied the concentration camps with the drugs. Those drugs were sent there and then tested by physicians. BRIAN ROSS (VO) In one case, according to the testimony of an inmate, Bayer actually purchased 150 female Auschwitz prisoners to test an experimental sleeping medication, even complaining about their emaciated condition. MEL WEISS Later on, they acknowledge that all 150 died. And then finally, they said, "We will contact you soon regarding another shipment." This is what was going on. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) That's Bayer? MEL WEISS That was Bayer. BRIAN ROSS (VO) Because of postwar treaties, it's only been in the last few years that German companies could be sued for what happened at places like Auschwitz. And when we came to Auschwitz, we were shown things that had never been seen publicly. Most telling, in a locked storeroom, on a stack of dusty shelves, the prominent Bayer trademark on an original box of experimental drugs, number BE - 1034 -- according to the archives, an experimental medicine for typhus. WOLFGANG ECKHARDT The patients were infected -- or the prisoners, better to say, were infected. Then they tried to cure them by using those drugs. Some of them died. Some of them survived. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And according to the professor, typhus matches what Eva Kor has described she went through in the Auschwitz medical labs. EVA KOR I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size, and it had a lot of red this - size patches and that. BRIAN ROSS (VO) And she says Dr Mengele was personally involved. EVA KOR Dr Mengele and Dr Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr Mengele said, laughingly, "Too bad she's so young. She has only two weeks to live." BRIAN ROSS (VO) Hundreds of twins did die from such experiments. Eva, on the right, and her sister, Miriam, survived. But as adults, Eva suffered from miscarriages and tuberculosis. Her son had cancer. Miriam's kidneys never fully developed, and she died of cancer. EVA KOR I want to know why my sister died. I want to know why all the other twins died. BRIAN ROSS (on camera) What do you say to Eva Kor and the others who are ... BAYER SPOKESPERSON I said I am not going to comment on any details. BRIAN ROSS You have nothing to say to her but that? BAYER SPOKESPERSON I said I'm not going to comment on any details. BRIAN ROSS (VO) The answers to Eva Kor's questions could be in the Bayer archives from the war years, located in a building deep inside the Bayer compound. But neither Eva Kor nor 20/20 are being allowed to see the files, even as Bayer maintains it has done nothing wrong and has no connection to what happened during the war. MEL WEISS It says to me that they are still hiding the ball, and that's what we're going to use American courts for. EVA KOR They were involved. They were in Auschwitz. We know that for a fact. They have prepared the injections that we were injected with. What were those injections? Fifty - five years later, I would like to know. BARBARA WALTERS Bayer continues to contend that it was a different company during those dark days, simply a subsidiary of a larger company. There are also a number of German companies other than Bayer that have come under fire for alleged experimentation on concentration camp inmates. Last month, two other companies were named along with Bayer in yet another lawsuit. And just yesterday, Bayer was among more than a dozen German companies and banks that announced plans to set up a $1 billion - plus fund to benefit Holocaust victims. We'll be right back. ANNOUNCER Are you rolling the dice with your child's life, leaving your baby alone strapped in a car seat? 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1145 WH COVID19 TASK FORCE BRIEF VEGA ISO FS37 88 TRUMP: Thank you very much. I had a very good telephone conversation extremely good with Senator Schumer a little while ago. We are working on various elements of the deal, and the Democrats are very much wanting something to happen, and the Republicans likewise are very much wanting something to happen, and I think it will. I spoke with--at length with Mitch McConnell and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my conversation was very good with Senator Schumer. I thank you all for joining us, and I would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the Chinese virus on our nation's students. With many schools closed due to the virus the Department of Education will not enforce standardized testing requirements, very importantly for students in elementary through high school for the current year. They have been through a lot. They been going back and forth schools open, schools not open it's been all standardized testing, and you know it's we are not going to be enforcing that. So I think you can let people know. I think probably a lot of the students will be extremely happy some probably not the ones that work hard maybe not, but it's one of those things. Unfortunate, very unfortunate circumstance. We have also temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. They will be very happy to hear that, and I have instructed them to take that action immediately, and today Secretary DeVos has directed federal lenders to allow borrowers to suspend their student loans and loan payments without penalty for at least the next 60 days, and if we need more, we will extend that period of time. Borrowers should contact their lenders, but we have given them very strong instructions. So we have temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. That's a big thing. That's going to make a lot of students are happy. And we have more to come on student loans, more good news for the students but we will do that at a different time. This morning the Treasury Department also announced that we are moving tax day from April 15 to July 15. So we are moving it out to July 15 so that people will have time and people will be able to hopefully by that time we'll have people getting back to their lives. Families and businesses who have this extra time to file with no interest or penalties we're getting rid of interest and penalties however, if you have refunds or credits you would like to claim you may still file. In other words you can file early if you are owed money by the IRS. Other than that, we are moving at all of the way out to July 15, no interest, no penalties. Your new date will be July 15. Today our team will also provide an update on our continuing effort to prevent the transmission of virus across America's borders. And I watched what's been happening in California with Governor Newsom and this morning with Governor Cuomo, and I applaud them. They are taking very strong bold steps, and I applaud them, and we are all working together we are working very closely together including those two governors. But I would say based on the call the media was there I think we can say that with respect to virtually every governor on the call I think every governor we had almost all of them if not all of them and I would say that you could see for your selves the level of respect and (INAUDIBLE) working together was extraordinary. There was nobody angry, nobody upset. We are able to help them, and that is what we are all about. We want to help--we are doing things that a lot of people wouldn't be able to do but the relationship with governors and states is I think very extraordinary especially under the circumstances where this just came upon us. We are working with Canada and Mexico to prevent the spread of the virus across North America very closely. You heard what we did yesterday with Canada and Secretary of State Pompeo will be making a statement in a little while having to do with Mexico and the border and Chad likewise. Chad Wolfe will likely be making a statement. There is a joint comprehensive effort in collaboration with our neighbors. The measure and all of those measures that we are putting in place will protect the health of all three nations and reduce the incentive for a mass global migration that would badly deplete the healthcare resources needed for our people and so we are working very closely with Mexico. Very, very closely with Canada, the relationship has never been better. We are all working for the same--toward the same goal. Our nation's top healthcare officials are extremely concerned about the great public health consequences of mass uncontrolled cross-border movement, and that would be mostly and even beyond but mostly during this global pandemic. Every week our border agents encounter thousands of unscreened, unvetted, and unauthorized entries from dozens of countries, and we have had this problem for decades, for decades. You know the story, but now it's the national emergencies, and all of the other things that we have declared we can actually do something about it. We are taking a very strong hold of that and we have before, but this is now at a level that nobody has ever approached. In normal times these massive flows place a vast burden on our healthcare system, but doing a global pandemic, they threaten to create a perfect storm that would spread the infection to our border agents, migrants, and to the public at large. Left unchecked, this would cripple our immigration system, overwhelm our healthcare system, and severely damage our national security. We are not going to let that happen. So we have a lot of information, and they will be discussing that in a moment. To confront these public health degrees, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to exercise its authority under the Title 42 of the U.S. code to give Customs and Border Protection the tools it needs to prevent the transmission of the virus coming through both the northern and the southern border so we're treating the borders equally. The northern border and the southern border. It is being treated--they are both being treated equally; a lot of people say that they are not treated equally well, they are. As we did with Canada, we are also working with Mexico to implement new roles at our ports of entry to suspend nonessential travel. These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce furthermore, Mexico has taken action to secure our own southern border and suspend their travel for Europe so we are coordinating very closely with the air travel going to Mexico and then try to come into the United States. The actions we are taking together with our North American partners will save countless lives. At the conclusion of my remarks Secretary Azar, Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Wolfe we are going to be also taking some questions with Tony and Debora who you've gotten to know very well but they will be discussing certain things, and I think you'll find them a great interest. We are going to be providing tremendous amounts of detail over the coming days, but a lot of it will be provided right now if you would like to find out about it. There's been a week of resolute action, tremendous action, tremendous relationships have developed with people that frankly didn't get along, people that didn't like each other they are now working together and maybe even in some cases learning about each other and liking each other; that's a nice thing. I invoked the Defense Production Act, and last night we put it into gear. We move the national response coordination highest level of act--I mean if you--if you take a look at what we did the level of activation has been increased to a grade one level. We are providing historic support to small businesses and to the states. The states need support normally they would do this themselves, but because of the magnitude of it, the federal government has gotten very much involved in terms of getting the equipment they need, so we are helping them. It's a responsibility they have, but we are helping the states a lot that is why the governors I think in every case have been impressed and very nice. We enacted legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers at no cost to employers, and I think it's very important, so they get paid sick leave at no cost to employers. We are considering the use of new drug treatments. We are advancing legislation to give direct payments to hard-working families. Throughout our country Americans from all walks of life are rallying together to defeat the unseen TRUMP: enemy striking our nation. In times of struggle we see the true greatness of the American character and we are seeing that. A lot of people are talking about it. We are at 141 countries, from what they are telling me, and some of those countries are really working in a unified manner and they're working very unified with us, almost, I can say a good number of them. Doctors and nurses are working nonstop to heal the sick. Citizens and churches are delivering meals to the needy. Truckers are making the long haul to keep shelves stocked. We've been dealing with the big stores in the big chains, Walmart, they've been fantastic, and others. They've all been fantastic. We have made it much easier for them to stock in terms of travel and travel restrictions. We are lifting restriction so they can get their trucks on time. You're seeing very few empty shelves, and yet the amount of volume that they are doing is unprecedented because people want to have what they have to have, what they feel they have to have. And they are also buying in slightly smaller quantities which is good because we're not going anywhere. We're going to be here. So I want to thank all of those very great companies for working so well. Americans from every walk of life are coming together. And thanks to the spirit of our people, we will win this war. We are. We're winning and were going to win this war. America will triumph and America will rise higher than ever before. It will be stronger than ever before and we've learned a lot. We've learned a lot. We've learned a lot about relying on other countries and I can say that I think in both very good and very bad way. Some good things came out of it and some not so good things came out of it. So I'd like to move now to invite our team to provide information on the new measures to prevent viral spread at our borders, and I'll start by asking Secretary of State Pompeo to speak. He's doing a fantastic job. And like everyone else, he's worked been working very, very long and very, very hard and he's doing the other more normal jobs of a great Secretary of State. But he got tied into this like everybody else and he's been doing really doing a fantastic job. Mike, please. POMPEO: Thank you, Mr. President. Before I address the efforts that we have been engaging to push back against the Chinese virus, I want to assure the American people that, as President Trump just said, your State Department, your entire national security team is staying focused on the other diplomatic challenges around the world. Those include reducing risk to America from Afghanistan, holding the Iranian regime accountable for its malign activities and our counterterrorism efforts against ISIS remain a priority for our team. Our number one priority across those mission sets remains the protection of the American people. The president and our team are very focused on it. I'll take this moment to thank my teams, State Department team whose working long hours all around the world to take care of Americans who are stuck places around the world. I'll talk about that more in just a minute. You've all seen Dr. Birx with me. State Department officials are doing great work, but I want to--I want to give a shout out to all of the State Department team here in Washington and around the world are working overtime to help us push back against this pandemic. Under the presidents leadership this week, we've taken two important steps. First, as President Trump announced on Wednesday, the United States and Canada jointly agreed to restrict all nonessential traffic across our border. This decision goes into effect tonight at midnight and the restriction will be reviewed after 30 days and they exclude traffic and movement across the border for work or other essential reasons. We're grateful to have such an outstanding friend to the north who is committed as we are to defeating this virus. I also want to announce today that the United States and Mexico have agreed to restrict nonessential travel across our shared border. Both our countries know the importance of working together to limit the spread of the virus to ensure the commerce that supports our economy continues to keep flowing. Here to the United States is glad to have a friend who's working side--side beside us in the fight. Secretary Wolf will talk a little bit more about the details of how we're working alongside our partner in Mexico to keep our southern border safe and secure as well. On another note, yesterday, the state department issued level four global travel advisory. This means that all international travel from U.S. citizens should be avoided. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who reside in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States unless they're prepared to remain abroad for an extended time. If you choose to travel internationally, your travel plans may well be severely disrupted. And finally, I wanted to talk about the disinformation the people are seeing both on Twitter and around the world. Some of it coming from government, some of it coming from other individuals. I did just urge everyone as they are seeing information--information that at one time suggested somehow this virus emanated from the United States Army, this information--information about lockdowns that are taking place, every American, indeed people all around the world should ensure that where they turn to for information is reliable source and not a bad actor trying to create and flow information that they know is wrong. This is a tough fight. The American people are tougher. Our diplomatic teams are working around the clock to help them keep safe both home and abroad and we're showing once again the global leadership that America has always delivered. It's been great to see countries around the world rallied behind what President Trump and her team are doing. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. We'll take questions right after this. Chad Wolf, please. WOLF: Well, let me start off by thanking the president and the Vice President for their continued leadership and commitment for protecting the American people during this crisis. Early on, the president again took unprecedented actions to restrict travel from areas affected with the coronavirus. And to date, DHS has a screen over 200,000 individuals coming back from those affected countries. This has been an immense undertaking but one that the men and women of DHS have successfully accomplished. Today's announcement is yet another example of the extraordinary steps the administration is taking to ensure the safety of the American public. Before I comment on the CDC ordered that I'm sure Secretary Azar will later elaborate on, let me first address the progress as Secretary Pompeo and others have made with our Canadian and Mexican partners regarding cross-border travel. As we continue to evaluate commonsense measures that reduce risk and prevent further spread, it only makes sense that we have looked to--look to the measures that are neighbors to the north and south are undertaking. And so we've been working closely with those partners since the earliest days of this virus and the outbreak. And again, as the president did--said earlier this week, and Secretary Pompeo, we've reached an agreement with both Canada and Mexico to limit--to limit nonessential travel across our land borders. Let me be clear that neither of these agreements with Canada or Mexico applies to lawful trade or commerce. Essential commercial activity will not be impacted. We will continue to maintain a strong and secure economic supply chain across our borders. A few examples of essential travel include but certainly are not limited to individuals traveling for medical purposes to attend educational institutions, for emergency response, public health services, and individuals engaged in lawful cross-border trade. As a secretary said, the agreements with both Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Saturday, March 21. Furthermore, were also working collaboratively with Canada and Mexico to take decisive joint action regarding individuals seeking entry between our ports of entry. The CDC order directs the department to suspend the introduction of all individuals seeking to enter the U.S. without proper travel documentation. That's for both the northern and southern border. CDC director has determined that the introduction and spread of the coronavirus in the departments border patrol stations and detention facilities presents serious danger to migrants, our frontline agents, and officers and the American people. So it's important to note that the department currently apprehends foreign nationals from over 120 different countries around the world, the vast majority of those having coronavirus cases. Many of these individuals arrived with little or no identity, travel, medical documentation, making public health risk determinations all but impossible. It's also important to note that the outbreak on our southern border would likely increase the start strain on health systems and our border communities, taking away important and lifesaving resources from American citizens. Tonight, again, at midnight, we will execute the CDC order by immediately returning individuals arriving without documentation to Canada, Mexico, as well as a number of other countries without delay. So again, CBP is positioned to execute these measures as we continue to keep our borders secure and safe. Before I conclude, let me just wrap up by thanking the brave men and women of DHS, specifically CBP and across the government for the work that they do day in and day out to keep the American people safe from the coronavirus. The department has a number of front-line officers that have been--have tested positive as well as others who are so quarantining. I am doing everything that I can to protect these patriots as they continue to defend our homeland during this crisis. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes, Secretary. AZAR: Today's announcement is just the latest in a long line of bold, decisive actions the President has taken to protect Americans from the coronavirus spreading across our borders. In January within two weeks of China's notifying WHO about the virus and with only 45 cases in China we began screening travelers from Wuhan. Then over time as the outbreak evolved the President restricted travel from China, Iran and Europe. Our health experts say that these measures have been truly effective at slowing the viruses spread to our shores. Just think about this. Italy and the United States both saw their first travel related case of coronavirus around the exact same time the last week of January and get we have had precious time to continue our work around vaccines, therapeutics and other preparations while Italy has tragically been overwhelmed with critical patients for several weeks now. The President today is taking action to slow the spread of infectious disease via our border. Under section 362 of the public health service act the CDC is suspending the entry of certain persons into the United States because of the public health risk that they are entry into the United States represents. This order applies to persons coming from Mexico and Canada who are seeking to enter the country illegally and who would normally be held and a congregant setting like a customs and border protection station. It does not apply to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. During this pandemic a number of health challenges arise when a legal immigrants arrive at our northern and southern borders and are taken into immigration custody. We are talking about significant numbers of the legal immigrants. From this past October through February DHS has processed more than 21,000 and admissible aliens at the northern border and more than 151,000 and admissible aliens that the southern border. CBP facilities were never designed to hold large numbers of people and to protect agents and migrants from infection during a pandemic nor to treat them for a novel virus if large numbers are infected. When held at border facilities these migrants were spreading the virus to other migrants, to CBP agents and border healthcare workers and even the United States population as a whole. In such circumstances the kind of social distancing measures the CDC and the President have recommended are simply not possible. On top of that any resources that we are using to reduce the risk of infection among CBP agents, healthcare workers and migrants in these facilities are drawing on American--and American healthcare system that is already fighting the coronavirus pandemic. That is why the President and his administration are taking these important steps to keep Americans and our immigration systems safe from these health risk as part of our whole of government approach to combating the coronavirus. Thank you Mr. President for the work that you have been doing throughout this crisis to slow the spread of the coronavirus and to keep our country safe. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. (INAUDIBLE) Tony or Deborah, please. BIRX: Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. So we continue to review the data very carefully from around the globe as I know many of you are. We continue to see signs that again individuals under 20, 19 and under may have severe disease but the majority and all have recovered to date. We still see that same trend and frankly from Italy we are seeing another concerning trend that the mortality in males seems to be twice in every age group of females. This should alert all of us to continue our vigilance to protect our Americans that are in nursing homes. This requires all of the community and when you see the sacrifices that many Americans have made, the sacrifices that the service industry has made to close their restaurants, close their bars and so that the spread is discontinued and then you really understand how all of Americans must make the same sacrifice. We continue to ask you to follow the presidential guidelines. No groups coming together of more than 10, that if anyone in the household is sick that everyone quarantines in the household together and that we continue to focus on those who have the most vulnerability to this illness. Now to the moms and dads out there that have children with immuno deficiencies or other medical conditions we don't know the level of risk and I know you will also protect them in the same way. There just is not enough numbers that this time to really tell them if they are at additional risk or not in the same way that adults are. I don't have any new data. I can see the look on your face saying is she's seeing something new? I don't have any new data about I think it is important for us to be as honest with the American people as we can and when we don't have data be very clear that we don't know. Finally no one is immune. I sometimes hear people on radio or others talking about I am immune to the virus. We don't know if the contagion levels are difference in age groups but we know it is highly contagious to everyone. Do not interpret mild or moderate disease as lack of contagion or that you are immune. You just happen to have a better email system and the ability to fight the virus in a way that may be older people or people with existing medical conditions can't and that is why it is very important that this moment that all of you care event message about the sacrifices that many have made particularly our service providers and our front-line healthcare workers. They are making that sacrifice every day so that every American can move through this well. But we need every American following the presidential guidelines. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Tony (INAUDIBLE). FAUCI: Thank you very much Mr. President. I just want to underscore a couple of things that I have said a few times to this group. You may recall that just a week ago or so I said the two pillars, the two elements of our capability to contain the infection and the--and the search of infections in this country rely on two things, keeping infections from coming from without in. We have been very successful in doing that with China and with your it. Now we have the northern and southern border issues. There is a fundamental public health reason for doing that because we cannot be preventing people from coming in from one area when they can go into the other so that is an important reason. Understand that there is a public health reason for doing that. The second thing I think is really important is what happened in New York today with Governor Cuomo mentioned about an hour ago some rather strong issues that have been addressed with his recommendations, not recommendations, essentially orders. Now we have a group of--of recommendations and guidelines that are applicable to the entire country. You know them, we have been over them yet there are places regions, states, cities in this country that are being stressed much, much more than the country as a whole. Clearly one of them was Washington, another one was California. Governor Newsom made some very important difficult decisions. Today Governor Cuomo did the same thing and I want to say I strongly support what he is doing and one think as a New Yorker myself for those of you who haven't figured out from my accent that I am from New York as a New Yorker I know what New Yorkers can do. We are tough. I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, and I know what the New Yorkers can do so please cooperate with your governor, cooperate with your mayor. It is very important. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Tony. PENCE: Thank you, Mr. President. The White House coronavirus task force met this morning and we continue at the president's direction to bring the full resources not just of the federal government but in full partnership with our state governments, businesses around the American and in partnership with the American people to respond to the threat of the coronavirus and I know I can speak on behalf of the President with confidence when I say how inspired we are by the way the American people and American businesses are coming together to help defeat this virus in our country. Millions of Americans are putting into practice the president's 15 day guidelines and we encourage everyone even those that are not in areas with significant outbreak to review these guidelines over the next week and more and put them into practice and you will continue to do your part. Later today we will be talking with manufacturers around the country and the President and I continue to be inspired by the way American industry is stepping forward. We have businesses around the country that are literally volunteering to retrofit plants to help us meet the needs of our healthcare workers and our healthcare system in confronting the coronavirus. As the President mentioned yesterday following his decision to put FEMA in the lead, the emergency declaration we actually met with all of the nation's governors from the FEMA national response coordination center. The President and I, our entire team at the federal level couldn't be more grateful for the efforts of all of our governors in implementing the guidance that is being issued not only from our task force but also in taking strong measures in their own communities to protect their citizens. We want to urge every American to heed your local authorities, listen to their guidance, and a--and also do your part to slow the spread. We reiterated to all of the governors that the president, by putting FEMA in the lead, will continue to implement a plan that is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported that puts the health of American first. We have received a report today, as the president mentioned, on our legislative team on Capitol Hill. We're working with Republicans and Democrats at this very hour to pass an economic recovery package that the president described, and we hope to see the Congress act on that early next week. On the subject of supplies, we continue to make steady progress on testing. Thanks to the president's involvement of commercial labs, the public and private partnership, more and more Americans are being tested every single day. And tomorrow, Admiral Giroir and FEMA will update the American public on the status of testing and our support of state-based testing efforts that are literally expanding by the hour. On the subject of medical supplies, we continue, at the president's direction, to pursue every means to expand the supply of personal protective equipment for the extraordinary and courageous healthcare workers that are ministering to the needs of people impacted by the coronavirus. We have a policy of procuring, allocating, as well as conserving the resources that we have in our system. And now that the president worked with the Congress to make industrial masks fully available for hospitals to be able to purchase, to be able to use as protective equipment, we're more encourage than ever about the availability of those important N95 masks to our healthcare facilities. And over this weekend, will be announcing a major procurement from the federal government of N95 masks as well. We're also encouraged that we are finding new alternatives to increase the supply of ventilators. We've mentioned that we have a federal stockpile, some 20,000 ventilators on--on standby, but that doesn't count the tens of thousands of ventilators that are in our healthcare system around the country. But the president has challenged us to work to free up other ventilators from other sources around the country, and there are two different ways that we're doing that. Number one, in our recent discussion with anesthesiologists, we've literally identified tens of thousands of existing ventilators that can be retrofitted and converted to be ventilators for people struggling with the coronavirus. But also, the president's behalf and behalf of all of our task force, we want to continue to urge every American and every American hospital and healthcare facility to postpone any elective medical procedures. This will free up bed space, free up hospital capacity for people that are struggling with the coronavirus, and it'll also free up equipment that our healthcare workers need. It is inspiring that we continue to receive reports that businesses around America are donating N95 masks to their local hospitals. Businesses large and small are donating hundreds, in some cases millions of N95 masks. And I know--I know how grateful the president is and we all are. And let me close by saying, as all of our experts have said many times, while the threat of serious illness to the average American from the coronavirus remains low, every American can do your part to reduce the burden on your health, on your family, the burden on our healthcare system, and especially the threat to the most vulnerable among us by putting into practice the president's 15 days to slow the spread. And as a president said at the outset of his remarks, I know that millions of Americans are doing that just now, and the greatness of the American character is shining forth. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. Okay. QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Thank you. Go ahead. QUESTION: You had a call with Senator Schumer. He says you've now agreed to invoke the Defense Production Act to actually make those medical supplies that hospital say are in severe shortage. So, two questions. Is that what you're doing now? TRUMP: It is. I did it yesterday. We invoked it I think the day before. We signed the evening of the day before and invoked yesterday. We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things, yes. QUESTION: So, you're using it now to tell businesses they-- TRUMP: --We are using it-- QUESTION: --Need to make ventilators, masks-- TRUMP: --We are-- QUESTION: --Respirators-- TRUMP: --We're going to for--for certain things that we need-- QUESTION: --Okay-- TRUMP: --Including--including some of the very important emergency--I would say ventilators, probably more masks to a large extent. We have millions of masks which are coming and which will be distributed to the states. The states are having a hard time getting them, so we--we're using the act. The act is very good for things like this. We have millions of masks that we've ordered. They will be here soon. We're having them shipped directly to state. QUESTION: So, you said you would only--that you are signing this but not invoking it. This is what you said yesterday, and that you would only do so in a worst case scenario. TRUMP: Yeah, last-- QUESTION: --So, are we now at a worst case scenario? TRUMP: We--we need--no, it's no different other than we need certain equipment that the states are unable to get by themselves. So, we're invoking it to use the powers of the federal government to help the states get things that they need, like the masks, like the ventilators. Yeah, Steve? QUESTION: Given what Governor Cuomo has done in a--in New York, is there any more consideration to a national lockdown to keep people in their homes? TRUMP: I don't think so. Essentially, you've done that in California. You've done that a New York. Those are really two hotbeds. Those are probably the two hottest of them all in terms of hotspots. I don't think so, because you got to the Midwest, you go out to other locations and--and they're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems. They don't have by--by any means the same problem. New York, California, Miami, the governor is doing an excellent job, Governor DeSantis in Florida. We have some pretty hotspots in Florida too. But we're general--and the state of Washington, of course, but that was largely--if you look at it, it was one nursing home that had problems like you wouldn't believe. So, no, we're working with the governors, and I don't think you'll--I don't think we'll ever find that necessary. QUESTION: So, we're about a week into your 15 days guidelines. Are you happy with the progress? Would you like to see-- TRUMP: --I am happy-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) 16 day? TRUMP: I am happy with it. We'll have to see what the results are at the end of 14 days, let's say. We'll know by the 15th day to see what we do. But I'm certainly honored by the way the American people are working, because it's work. It's work not to work. This is the first time this is ever happened, and we're working out a tremendous financial package for them so they don't work. Whoever heard of this? Usually you work out a financial package to get people working. We're asking people not to work; social distancing, new term that's become probably the hottest term there is. So, no, I'm very honored by the way the American people are--are taking this, I mean, so seriously. Yes, John (PH)? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for you in a question for Dr. Fauci, if I could. There's been some concern among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the phase three fiscal stimulus is weighted it too much in favor of corporations and not enough in terms of individuals. What did your conversations with Senator Schumer yield on that front? TRUMP: Well, I think that really all of that is being discussed right now. We talked about, as an example, buy back--stock buybacks. I don't want to have stock buybacks. I don't want people spending--I don't want some executive saying we're going to buy 200,000 shares of stock. I want that money to be used for the workers and also for the company, to keep the company going, but not for buybacks. I would--I mean, I haven't spoken to a lot of the Republicans or Democrats on it. We discussed it, and I--I don't like buybacks. I didn't like them the first time. QUESTION: Are you and Senator Schumer-- TRUMP: --So, we're always discussing--we're discussing that. We're discussing many things. QUESTION: Are you on the same page with Senator Schumer? TRUMP: We're not so far away, I'll tell you. We're not very--we're not very far away. QUESTION: And to Dr. Fauci, if I could, Dr. Fauci, as was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine as potential therapy for people who are infected with coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19? FAUCI: No. The answer is--is no. And--and the--the evidence that you're talking about, John, is anecdotal evidence. So, as the commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned yesterday, we're trying to strike a--a balance between making something with a potential of an--of an effect to the American people available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe and truly effective. But the information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any definitive statement about it. QUESTION: Mr. President, on that front-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: On those therapies-- TRUMP: --I think without seeing too much, I'm probably more of a fan of that than--maybe than anybody. But I'm a big fan, and we'll see what happens. And we all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct. It's early. You know, I see things that are impressive. We'll see. We're going to know soon. We're going to know soon, in--including safety. But, you know, when you get to safety, this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem. And it's very effective. It's a strong--it's a strong drug. So, we'll see. QUESTION: It was also apparently effective against SARS. TRUMP: It was a very--it was, as I understand that. I--is that a correct statement? --It was fairly effective on SARS. FAUCI: John, you've got to be careful when you say fairly affected. It was never done in a clinical trial. They compared it to anything. It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked, so you really-- QUESTION: --But was there anything to compare it to? FAUCI: Well, that's the point. Whenever you do a clinical trial and you do standard of care versus standard of care plus the agent you're evaluating. That's the reason why we showed back in the Ebola by particular interventions worked. QUESTION: Sir, on that topic-- QUESTION: --Mr. President-- QUESTION: --About the possible therapies, yesterday, Mr. President, you said that they were for "Immediate delivery, immediate." We heard that from Dr.-- TRUMP: We were ordering--yes. We had millions of units ordered. Bayer is one of the companies, as you know. Big company. Very big, very great company. Millions of units are ordered and we're going to see what happens. We're going to be talking to the governors about it and the FDA is working on it right now. The advantage is that it has been prescribed for totally different problem, but it has been described for many years and everybody knows the levels of--of the negatives and positives. But I will say that I am a man that comes from a very positive school when it comes to, in particular, one of these drugs. And we'll see how it works out, Peter. I'm not--I'm not saying it will, but I--I think that people may be surprised. By the way, that would be a game changer. We're going to know very soon, but--but we have ordered millions of units. It's being ordered from Bayer and there is another couple of companies also that--the do it. QUESTION: For clarity, Dr. Fauci said there is no magic drug for coronavirus right now, which you would agree. I guess on--on this issue-- TRUMP: --Well, I think we only-- QUESTION: --Is it possible-- TRUMP: --I think we should only-- QUESTION: --I'm sorry-- TRUMP: --I disagree. Maybe and maybe not. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. We have to see. We're going to know. QUESTION: Is it possible that-- TRUMP: --We're going to know soon. QUESTION: Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope-- TRUMP: --No, I don't think so-- QUESTION: --By misrepresenting the preparedness right now? TRUMP: No, I don't think so. I think that--I think it's got-- QUESTION: --A ship that's not ready to sail, that not yet approved drug. TRUMP: Such a lovely question. Look, it may work and it may not work and I agree with the doctor what he said. It may work, it may not work. I feel good about it. That's all it is. Just a feeling. You know, I'm a smart guy. I feel good about it. And we're going to see. You're going to see soon enough. And we have certainly some very big samples of people if you look at the people. You have a lot of people that are in big trouble and this is not a drug that, obviously, I think I can speak for a lot of--from a lot of expense because it's been out there for over 20 years. So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with. It's not like a brand-new drug that's been just created that may have an unbelievable monumental effect, like to kill you. We're going to know very soon. And I can tell you, the FDA is working very hard to get it out. Right now, in terms of malaria, if you wanted, you can have a prescription. You get a prescription. And by the way, and it's very effective, it works. I have a feeling you may--and I'm not being overly optimistic or pessimistic. I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try. I mean, there's been some interesting things happened and some good--very good things. Let's see what happens. We have nothing to lose. You know the expression what the hell do you have to lose, okay? QUESTION: So what you say to Americans-- QUESTION: (--INAUDIBLE--) QUESTION: --I'll just follow-up-- TRUMP: --John, go ahead. QUESTION: What do you say to the Americans were scared, though? I guess nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? TRUMP: I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --I think that's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope and you're doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Comcast. I don't call-- QUESTION: --With respect to though, you can provide that the-- TRUMP: --I don't call it Comcast. I call it Concast (SP). Let me just--just--for whom you work. Let me just tell you something. That's really bad reporting and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let's see if it works. It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it but who knows? I've been right a lot. Let's see what happens. John. QUESTION: Can I go back to the science and the logistics here-- TRUMP: --You ought to be ashamed of yourself. QUESTION: The units that were ordered, are they for clinical trials? Are they for distribution to the general patient population? TRUMP: We are going to, I as an as I understand it, we are going to be taking samples in New York. Governor Cuomo very much is interested in this drug and they are going to work on it also after they get a certain approval. We are waiting for one final approval from the FDA, we'll see what happens. But will use it on people that are not doing great or even at the beginning of not feeling well. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) under the modified-- TRUMP: --And John, what do we have to lose? QUESTION: So this would-- TRUMP: --Wait, John, it's been out there for so long. We hear good things. Let's see. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't. QUESTION: I understand all that. I'm just thinking the application here. So that would be under sort of a modified compassionate access? TRUMP: We're doing that, I guess, and that's what it's called, yeah. Yes. QUESTION: I would like Dr. Fauci, if you don't mind, to follow up on what the president is saying. Should Americans have hope in this drug right now? And sir, I would like to follow-up on Peter's question here. Could you please issue--address Americans in this country who are scared right now? This is a very valid concern that people have. FAUCI: No, there really isn't that much of a difference in many respects with what we're saying. The president feels optimistic about something. His feeling about it. What I'm saying is that it might--it might be effective. I'm not saying that it isn't. It might be effective. But as a scientist, as we are getting it out there, we need to do it in a way as while we are making it available for people who might want the hope that it might work, you also collecting data that will ultimately show that it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of COVID-19. So there really isn't different, it's just a question of how one feels about it. QUESTION: Is there any reason to believe it's not safe? FAUCI: Well, certainly as a drug--any drug, John, has some toxicities. The decades of experience that we have with this drug indicate that the toxicities are rare and they are, in many respects, reversible. What we don't know is when you put it in the context of another disease whether it's safe. Fundamentally, I think it probably is going to be safe, but I'd like to prove things first. So it really is a question of not a lot of difference. It's the hope that it will work versus proving that it will work. So I don't see big differences here. TRUMP: I agree. QUESTION: Sir, your message to Americans-- TRUMP: --I agree-- QUESTION: --Who are working at home or had their children in their homes right now who are homeschooling-- TRUMP: --Here we go. Go ahead-- QUESTION: --Doctors who say they don't have the masks they need to do their jobs. Your message to them. TRUMP: My message to the American people is that there is a very low incidence of death. You understand that. And we're going to come through this stronger than ever before. If you get it, if you happen to get it, it is highly unlikely. It's looking like it's getting to a number that's much smaller than people originally thought in terms of the ultimate--the ultimate problem, which would be death. My message to the American people is, number one, you've done an incredible job, incredible, which you've gone through. It's been incredible. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't the fault of 140 other countries where this has happened. And there is a tremendous hope and I think we're going to come out stronger, better, bigger. In every way I think we're going to be a better country than we were before and we learned a lot. We learned on reliance, who to rely on, who not to rely on. But our country--our country has been incredible the way they pull together, including the fact that I just spoke to Senator Schumer. We had a wonderful commercial conversation. We both want to get to a good solution. But it's been, really for me, watching and seeing people that work speaking getting along well because we all have one common aim, and that's to get rid of this invisible enemy, get rid of it fast, and then go back to the kind of economy that we had and maybe even better. Yeah, please, in the back. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, in the back, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, two questions, if you'll indulge me. That first question is many small businesses are concerned that they have weeks, not months, and are worried about how long it will take-- TRUMP: --We're going to be helping them a lot and were going to be focused--the big focus and including my conversation with both Mitch and with Chuck, a big focus of that conversation was small businesses because they are really the engine behind our country more so than the big ones. They are the engine behind our country. QUESTION: Second, if I may, sir, are you concerned about numbers of Congress that may have used information they learned on updates to sell stocks and profit off of this? TRUMP: I'm not aware of it. I saw some names. I'm not--I know all of them. I know everyone mentioned Diane Feinstein, I guess, and a couple of others. I don't know too much about what it's about, but I find them to all be very honorable people. That's all I know and they--they said they did nothing wrong. I find them, the whole group, very honorable people. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Can I follow-up, Mr. President? So the whole group would include Richard Burr, the head of the intelligence committee and it also would include Senator Kelly Loeffler, and so the question is whether or not they should be investigated for that behavior. TRUMP: Well, it also includes Diane Feinstein, a Democrat. You did mention her name. Why didn't even mention her name? And I think she's a very honorable person, by the way, so I'm not saying that but you know-- QUESTION: --So any Senator--any Senator-- TRUMP: --You mentioned to people but you don't mention one that happens to be a Democrat. QUESTION: Any senator. Any senator should they be investigated-- TRUMP: --I don't know because I have to look at it. Possibly, but I find them to be honorable people. Yeah? QUESTION: Should they resign? QUESTION: You said the other day you compare yourself--you see yourself as a wartime president right now leading the country through this pandemic that we are experiencing. Do you really think, you know, going off on Peter, going off on a network is appropriate-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) countries going through something like this? TRUMP: I do because I think Peter is--you know I have dealt with Peter for a long time and I think Peter is not a good journalist when it comes to fairness. QUESTION: But he is asking for your message to the country (INAUDIBLE) you went off on Peter. TRUMP: I think it is a good message because I think the country has to understand that there is indeed whether we like it or not in some of the people in this room won't like it there is a lot of really great news and great journalism and there's a lot of fake news out there and I hear it all and I see it all and I understand it all because I am in the midst of it so when somebody writes a story or does a story on television and I know it's false, I know it's fake and when they say they have 15 sources have said and I know there's no sources, there is no sources. They are just making it up I know that and I call Peter--I called Peter L but I call other people out to and you know this is a time to come together. But coming together is much harder when we have dishonest journalist. It's a very important profession that you are in. It is a profession that I think is incredible. I cherish it. But when people are dishonest they truly do hurt our country. Yeah, in the back. Please go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, China has been in communication with the United States and also WHO about coronavirus-- TRUMP: Right, that's true. That's true. QUESTION: And the U.S. shuttered(PH) its border to travelers from China on February 2. Also will Hans has been in lockdown since January 20 force and this all happened almost 2 months ago. Why did you just say if you could have known earlier? And also you have been calling coronavirus-- TRUMP: I have to say this. We have and I can speak for myself but I have a very good relationship with China and with President Xi. I have great respect for President Xi. I consider him to be a friend of mine. It is unfortunate that this got out of control. They came from China, it got out of control. Some people are upset. I know--I know President Xi. He loves China. He respects the United States and I have to say I respect China greatly and I respect President Xi. Okay. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) stock buybacks the airlines and Boeing did stock buybacks is this a dealbreaker for you in this-- TRUMP: Know(PH), but I never like stock buybacks from their standpoint. When we did a big tax cut and when they took the money and did buybacks that's not building a hangar, that's not buying aircraft, that's not doing the kind of things that I want them to do and we are now talking about buybacks. We didn't think we would have had to restrict it because we thought they would have known better but they didn't know better in some case--not in all cases obviously. Some people did an incredible job. They built plants(ph) all over the country. I mean you see what's happening. I mean we were doing until this invisible enemy appeared we were I mean we never had an economy like this but there were some companies that use that money to buy back stock driving up the price of the stock artificially in many cases. I don't like that. I don't like it. And as far as whether or not we will have that--allow them when we give them money because we have to keep these great companies in business because of the workers. Frankly for the most part because of the workers, the workers are my number one concern that the way we take care of the workers is we have to keep the companies going. I am fine with restricting buybacks. In fact I would--I would demand that there be no stock buybacks. I don't want them taking hundreds of millions of dollars and buying back their stock because that does nothing. Yet(PH), please. QUESTION: Thank you very much. I have one for Dr. Fauci and hopefully one for you. TRUMP: Sure and--and one thing. Secretary of State Pompeo is extremely busy so if you have any questions for him right now could you do that because you know what I would like to do I would like for him to go back to the State Department or as they call it the deep State Department you know, Mike, I would like to have him go back and do his job. So does anybody have any question--please. Yeah, how about you? Only--only for the Secretary. QUESTION: The exemptions on work travel can you do find that? Is all work--anyone with a work visa can still cross the border can you define what measures you are taking? POMPEO: That is a great question. We--we are working--we are real concerned about age to a visas particularly agricultural workers that need to get across. We are going to make sure that we do everything we can to keep that part of our economic lifeblood working between our two countries. DHS and the State Department will work together. We want to make sure and keep commerce between Canada, the United States and Mexico alive, functional and prepared for the day that this economy bounces back like we expect that it will. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary the Mexican government has not announced any travel ban on Europe(ph). Where--have you been in touch with them as to when they are going to do this and what it is that they are telling you? And then a second question they also are telling us and said in a press conference this morning that they will not take back any non-Mexican citizen. In the other third parties will have to--we don't know what will happen to them. So can you address what will happen to those third country immigrants that you are saying that will not be allowed to enter the U.S. and Mexico is saying that it would not be allowed to stay in Mexico either or sent back from the U.S.? POMPEO: I will take the first one and then Chad I will give you the second one. With respect to travel into Mexico from outside I spoke with Foreign Minister (INAUDIBLE) about this a couple of times about this. I am very confident we are going to get to a really good place that protects the Mexican people and the American people from those who might be traveling in two places where we have got designations, the (INAUDIBLE) zone from China so that they are not coming into Mexico and then coming into the United States. I'm very confident we will do that and we will make that announcement shortly together. WOLF: Again as we implement the CDC's order again we are going to take a number of individuals across the border illegally and repatriate them or remove them quickly back to Mexico, back to the northern triangle and back to any other countries so we are going to do that in a rapid fashion. We will continue to work with Mexico to make sure that Mexican nationals go back as well as other populations. QUESTION: But are you sending Guatemalans back to Guatemala or Cubans back to Cubans? What would you do with those-- WOLF: Yes. QUESTION: --third countries that are not Mexicans? WOLF: So we are doing all of the above. We are going to be sending again individuals back to Mexico, individuals back to the northern triangle countries, Cuba, Haiti, all of the--we again 122 different nations that we see nationalities that, across that border we will be sending them back individually to their countries but also with work--working with Mexico to send additional populations back there as well. TRUMP: And just to put it you know when you said before you said the non-Mexicans going to Mexico. We are not sending them to Mexico. We are sending them back to their own countries, not to Mexico. Why would Mexico take people that are from Mexico? We are sending them back in the case of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, a lot of other countries they go back to the country from where they came. Okay and Mike, please. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo on the issue of disinformation is there any particular locus for this disinformation or is it defused? POMPEO: It is pretty defused unfortunately but we have certainly seen it come from places like China and Russia and Iran where there are coordinated efforts to disparage what America is doing and our activity to do all of the things that President Trump has set in motion here. QUESTION: Yeah, other than what you are doing this morning what are you doing to fight back? POMPEO: Lots of things. Lots of work. One of the things we want to make sure is the American people go to trusted sources for that information but we have made clear and we have spoken to these countries directly that we don't that they need to knock it off that we don't approve of it and then there are a handful of other things we are engaged in to make sure that the right information is out there and accurate information is given. This idea of transparency and accurate information is very important. It is how we protect American people from something like this ever happening again. QUESTION: Do you want the American people to be coming to trusted sources of information does it undermine you at all when the President stands up here and he attacks news outlets calling us untrustworthy? POMPEO: Does anyone else have a question? QUESTION: Peace Corps volunteers have all--sir, the (INAUDIBLE) core volunteers-- TRUMP: Please. QUESTION: In terms of Americans who find themselves stranded in places where there are no longer flights to get back to the United States what efforts are being made to help them? POMPEO: I appreciate that question. So we are doing lots of things. We have had a couple of places in particular Peru and Morocco I think we have had the first two maybe three now flights out of Morocco. We--we are going to work to get people back. We are urging individuals when they can get back on their own they--they traveled there on their own, when they can get back they are on their own they ought to try to do that but we are--we have a team stood up at the State Department the repatriation task force that is working each of these instances so we have heard from individuals, members of Congress. We're trying to get a Americans back from these places where air travel has been disrupted and we--we will get that done and over time we will get it done successfully. QUESTION: Do you have any sense of how big that problem is? Is there any sense of just how big the problem is, how many-- POMPEO: We don't know--we don't know the full scale of it yet but we think we have the largest number identified and we are working if there are those who are watching that are someplace and you can go on the State Department website you can log into I think it is (INAUDIBLE) and go login and we will--we will track and we will try to get everybody back just as fast as we can. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary how long are these border restrictions likely to last along the south and north borders? POMPEO: They will last as long as we need to do it to protect the American people from the virus. I--I couldn't tell you how long it's going to last. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) we have you, have you determined whether Iran is responsible for that rocket attack last week? POMPEO: So-- TRUMP: Maybe we shouldn't say anything. POMPEO: So let me--let me just get back to you on the answer to that and what we-- TRUMP: We know plenty. POMPEO: What we can say--what we can say certainty is we have made clear all along that the Iraqi Shia militias are funded, trained, equipped by the Iranians and we have heard to the Iranians not to do that and we have told the Iranians that they will be held responsible for those attacks when they threaten American lives. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Peace Corps volunteers, the Peace Corps volunteers that are in 60+ countries have they all been return? POMPEO: You know I don't know if they are all back or not yet. I know that they were directed to come back. I know that most of them are back. I couldn't tell you if we have all of them back yet. I don't know. QUESTION: And then Secretary--Secretary Esper is not here, but to get the tests to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, are you able to give us a progress report on the status of that, if they're all able to get tests? POMPEO: I don't know the answer to that. I know we have State Department officials too who are concerned and want to make sure we get them tests, our team as well. And we're working on that. We have had significant success on that to date. There are few places we've not been able to get them. But we--we will. We'll get them there. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo, how exactly are you going to get those Americans back, and you have any plans to get the military involved in that? POMPEO: We're going to use all the tools we can. These first efforts are combined commercial/private flights that will fly in, bring them back, bring them back to a destination here in the United States. So, we'll do that. There are some that'll travel back other ways as well. And we've worked with the Department of Defense to say, where there are space available, we'll be able to bring them back on those flights as well. It's a whole of government effort to make sure we get them back. QUESTION: So, you think you'll get all-- POMPEO: --They're going to--they're going to help us every place they can. Secretary Esper and I have talked about it a couple times. QUESTION: Thank you, Secretary; a question on Iran again. Is there any consideration to relaxing sanctions on Iran during the coronavirus crisis, as they've been particularly hard hit? POMPEO: That's an important question. The--the whole world should know that humanitarian assistance into Iran is wide open. It's not sanctioned. We've offered to provide assistance to the Iranians as well. I talked with Dr. Tedros from the World Health Organization about this. We're doing everything that we can to facilitate both the humanitarian assistance moving in and to make sure that financial transactions connected to that can take place as well. There is no sanction on medicines going to Iran. There is no sanctions on humanitarian assistance going into that country. They've got a terrible problem there, and we want that humanitarian medical healthcare assistance to get to the people of Iran. QUESTION: But the sanctions themselves, no--no movement? POMPEO: We are--we are--we are working to do all the things we've had in place for the first three years here to deliver security for the American people. TRUMP: They know the answer. Iran--they know the answer, Iran, the leaders. They know the answer to your question. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, was it appropriate for the president to call your department the Deep State Department at a time when thousands of diplomats are working very hard around the world to combat this pandemic? POMPEO: I've worked for the president for three years now. I know how much he values the people that work on my team. I know when I was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency how much he valued the work we did. I know that he watches our team, Dr. Birx, all the team that's working to push back against this virus to keep America safe. I know my--how much he values them. TRUMP: What a good answer. Yes, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Can I ask a question? POMPEO: It's truth. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Very true, too. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, behind you. QUESTION: Okay. I apologize. TRUMP: Please, go ahead. QUESTION: The news--I have two questions. The first is to Secretary Pompeo. The NewsHour has learned that the CDC picked up that there was some sort of virus happening in Wuhan--the coronavirus happening in Wuhan as early as December. When did that CDC start letting other agencies know that there was something in China happening, that this coronavirus was happening? And then when did the whole government approach happen--start to happen? POMPEO: So, I'll let the CDC--or Dr. Fauci, you want to--you want to-- QUESTION: --The State Department, when did you-- POMPEO: --Talk to that, Doctor--Secretary Azar, please. Yeah. AZAR: Yeah. So--so, we were alerted by some discussions that Dr. Redfield, the director of the CDC, had with Chinese colleagues on January 3rd. It's since been known that there may have been cases in December, not that we were alerted in December. QUESTION: Then, Mr. President, the other question I have for you, when-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. We'll do it in a second. Let Mike--yes, go back. POMPEO: May I just add one more thing? TRUMP: Just go back and-- POMPEO: --There--there's been some discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it. And I've--I've been very critical. We--we--we need to know immediately. The world is entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world, and that puts a special obligation to make sure that data--that data gets to our scientists, our professionals. This is not about retribution. This matters going forward. We're in a--we're in a live exercise here-- TRUMP: --It sure is-- POMPEO: --To get this right. TRUMP: Truly it is, yeah. POMPEO: We--we need to make sure that even today the data sets that are available to every country, including data sets that are available to the Chinese Communist Party, or made available to the whole world. It's--it's an imperative to keep people safe. We--we talk about the absence of data sets, not being able to make judgments about what to do. This is abso--this transparency, this real-time information sharing isn't--isn't about political games or retribution. It's about keeping people safe. And so, when you see a delay in information flowing from the Chinese Communist Party to the technical people who we wanted to get into China immediately to assist in this, every moment of delay connected to being able to identify this risk vect--the risk vectors creates risk to the people all around the world. And so, this is why it's not about blaming someone for this. This is about moving forward to make sure that we continue to have the information we need to do our jobs. QUESTION: Continuing with you, Mr. Secretary, what--what message do you think it sends to other countries when you have the president of the United States lashing out at reporters? POMPEO: I--I've had my frustration with reporters too. All I ask when I talked to the media is that you listen to what we say and reported accurately. And it's frustrating. It's frustrating when you see-- QUESTION: --The president said to other countries though-- POMPEO: --When you see that that doesn't happen, it's--it's enormously frustrating. We have a responsibility to tell the American people the truth. And those who are reporting on what it is we're doing and saying have an equal responsibility to reported accurately. QUESTION: But what message does it send a countries when you're lashing out at reporters? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) being reported, that the news media-- POMPEO: --I've seen--I've seen many things at the State Department be reported wildly accurately on--on multiple-- QUESTION: --Specifically can you say-- POMPEO: --On multiple occasions. And I have spoken to those reporters about it each and every time. And I will continue to do so. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, Senator Johnson is suggesting-- TRUMP: --Well, I'd rather have--if you could finish up with the secretary of state. POMPEO: I think of one them out, Mr. President. QUESTION: Well, I--let me ask you both-- TRUMP: --Has everybody finished secretary of state? QUESTION: Let me ask you both if that's all right. Mr. Secretary, Senator Johnson has suggested that you and the administration may be overreacting. He said we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. We don't shut down our economies because tens of thousands of people die from the Kung Flu. At worst, 3.4% of Americans will die from this virus, he said. What do you say to people that have that view? That's 11 million people he's talking about. TRUMP: Well, I can just say the entire world is agreeing with us, because there are--they all have their choice and everybody's doing the exact same thing. We want to shut it out, and we can do that and we'll see what happens in two weeks or three weeks. But if we can save thousands of lives, and even millions of lives, potentially--you don't know where it goes, but you could be talking about millions of lives. So, if you look at the--the world, I mean, you have some very smart people in the world. You have some smart leaders in the world. And everybody's doing it the way we're doing it. I think we're doing a better job than hopefully most, if not all. We're doing a very effective job, but we'll--we'll know better in 14 or 15 days. But, you know, you're talking about hundreds of thousands and maybe more than that numbers of people. And, you know, we can bring our finances back very quickly. We can't bring the people back. QUESTION: Mr. President, to follow up on that, there are millions of people out there that share that view, that say I don't really need to shut things down. I don't really need to stay away from the stores. I don't--I can go to the beach. And those people making multiple actions exponentially--it's the difference between life and death, isn't it? TRUMP: Yeah, I agree with that. But I think I'd like to have Anthony answer that because, to be honest, that's what he does. And he--we had a lot of--a lot of very talented people telling us what they think we should do. FAUCI: Thank you, Mr. President. Well, I--first of all, I think that's a false equivalency to--to compare traffic accidents with--I mean, that's totally way out. That's really a false equivalency. When you have something that is new and its emerging and you really can't predict totally the impact it's going to have, and you take a look at what's going on in China and you see what's going on right now, right now in Italy and what's happening in New York City, I don't think with any moral conscience you could say what we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die. I don't understand that reasoning at all. QUESTION: Mr. Trump? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Okay. So, the secretary of state will be leaving. Any other question for him? QUESTION: Mr. President, do you still-- TRUMP: --Go ahead in the back, please. QUESTION: --Favor direct payments-- TRUMP: --In the back for Mike-- QUESTION: --To Americans. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr.-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. I didn't call on you. Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President; two things. In New York cases are doubling every day. They fear that supplies are going to run out in a matter of weeks. Yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio called on you to mobilize the military to deliver urgent supplies. Yesterday he said, "The fate of New York City rests in the hands of one man. He is a New Yorker and right now he is betraying the city he comes from." I've personally spoken to emergency department nurses who say that they're being told not to wear N95 masks because supplies are so low. So, how do you respond to those remarks by Mayor DeBlasio? TRUMP: Well, I just think this. QUESTION: And too, there have been doctors looking to-- TRUMP: --I'm--deal--I'm not dealing--yeah-- QUESTION: --You. When will those supplies rise? TRUMP: I'm not dealing with him. I'm dealing with the governor and the governor agrees with me and I agree with him. So far we been very much in sync. I--I guess they're not agreeing with each other necessarily. But the relationship with New York, I love New York. I grew up in New York, as you probably have heard, and the relationship's been a very good. And I think government and the governor have been getting along incredibly well with the federal government. Okay. Mike, thank you. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Sir-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Wolf, if I could. Just on--on illegal entries of people who are OTM, how will the turn back process work? Will they be taken to a common area and then put on a plane and sent back to Northern Triangle countries or others? I mean, how would that process work? WOLF: Again, it's a--it's a public health crisis. If so, what we're trying to do is limit the--the amount of contact that we have with these individuals, not putting them in Border Patrol facilities-- WOLF: ICE detention facilities and the like. Sue is going to be very rapid. We're going to obviously take them into custody and then--and then send them back to a port of entry or other means. So it will be very quickly. It will be that 6 or 7 or 10 days that we currently have, it will be much more rapid. QUESTION: But if they are OTM, will you--will they be taken to an airfield nearby or-- WOLF: That's correct. That's correct. QUESTION: And sent back-- WOLF: That's correct. QUESTION: Mr. President TRUMP: Anybody? Anybody? QUESTION: Mr. President, the checks to Americans, the bill as proposed creates sort of tiers of checks for income. TRUMP: Yeah, it will be. QUESTION: Do you believe philosophically that makes sense? TRUMP: Well, we're working on--well, we believe in a lot of things. I want to get workers money. And whichever way the best way to get it, and I want to keep the businesses open to because without the businesses, they're not going to be getting money for very long, but were going to be--going to be talking QUESTION: Is there enough money in that bill as it's written rhetoric is there enough or do you want to see it juiced up? TRUMP: If not, we'll do something later, I'm sure. I'm sure we will. QUESTION: Mr. President, a follow-up on that. Mr. President, I follow up on that. QUESTION: Wall Street analysts are predicting and unemployment numbers can skyrocket next week. But some analysts say as many as 3 million people applying for unemployment, which would be a historic number in a one-week spread. So is a $1000 check going to cut it? Is I going to be enough? TRUMP: We're not talking about $1000 check. We're talking about much more than that. Were also talking about doing faces if this doesn't work. We're going to keep doing it until we get it going. And, frankly, we are once we get the economy back, and once this enemy is defeated, the invisible enemy, as I call it, once it's defeated, we get the economy back, it's going to all come back to us very quickly. It comes back very--we have a tremendous economy. We do numbers like no other country has ever done before. Number one in the world if you go back two weeks and still, obviously, but if you go back two weeks, number one in the world by far. That money comes back to us very rapidly. We want to keep it--we wanted to have it so that when, not if, but when we went to war with the invisible enemy, when we went it, these companies can immediately start. Not that they have to start rebuilding, which takes a long time. Steve? QUESTION: Are you confident that those are jobs that will come back? TRUMP: Steve, please. QUESTION: What projections-- TRUMP: --I'm confident-- QUESTION: --What projections for job losses in March and April are you hearing? TRUMP: Well, we're looking at different numbers. We have a best case and a not best case. But the big thing is to defeat the virus. Once that virus is defeated, Steve, I think everything else falls into place very rapidly. I think you're going to have a tremendous upswing. A lot of people agree with me. A lot of, if you look at your stock market geniuses and some of whom are not geniuses, but they think they are, a lot of people think that I'm right about that that once we defeat the virus, I think you're going to have a very steep like a rocket ship. It's going to go up and everything will be back. And I really believe were going to be stronger than ever before. Yeah, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, on the issue of supplies, you've told governors to try to find whatever supplies they can on their own. TRUMP: Absolutely. QUESTION: But some of them are now saying when they go to try to buy them, they're being outbid by the federal government. TRUMP: Well, you heard my news conference yesterday-- QUESTION: --So what--what do you expect those governors to do-- TRUMP: --That was sort of yesterday's news. No, that does happen because they want to buy supplies. We want to buy as a backup to them in case they get--and sometimes that will happen, but regardless of who gets them, when they need them, we're getting them to them. Now, we're doing the production act, were doing it very much, and we have a lot of things to think right now at a high level. Remember this, nothing like this has ever happened before. Over 140 countries and you have supply chains that are broken down for two reasons, because they can't supply that much, because people are sick. They can't be on the chain. So you have a lot of interesting things all over the world. You have supply chains the breakdown because of the illness and also because of the fact, the quantity. But we're getting it ordered, or getting it done, and the--if you just had to--look, some of you were at the call yesterday where I spoke with the governors, almost all of the governors, and every one of them was very impressed with what we've done. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go-ahead, in the middle, please. QUESTION: There are reports that the Labor Department has told states not to disclose their unemployment numbers. Do you agree with that decision? TRUMP: I'd have to talk to him. I would have to talk to him. QUESTION: And just one more clarifier if I could-- TRUMP: --Second question-- QUESTION: --I just want to be clear. Are you saying that the administration is requiring these industries to--to create these products or just asking? TRUMP: You know, so far, we haven't had too. It's an amazing thing that happened. We're getting calls from automobile companies, returning calls from other companies saying they have plant capacity. They want to make ventilators, they want to make other things. We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that wanted to do the work. They want to do the job. They want to help us, they want to help our country. So wait we haven't had a problem with that at all. QUESTION: Mr. President, how do you help out states and localities that are trying to bid on things like ventilators and other items that are being outbid by the federal government? TRUMP: Well, when they call us, they let us know. If there's a conflict, they will call us and we will drop our bid because we want them to go first because they're point--they're point-of-sale. So we've had four or five instances where literally that was happening because, you know, were both trying to get stock and if were going against, they will call us, the smart ones, frankly, will call us and we will immediately--we want them to buy it because it gets to them quicker if they buy it. QUESTION: Do they know that they're-- TRUMP: --We really--they know that and it's happening more and more where their calling and they say we're bidding against each other. They want to get it. There(ph) get it much quicker that way. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Azar. There are labs across the country that don't have the testing supplies they need. What specific actions is the administration-- TRUMP: --Well, it's going very well. I'll tell you what. QUESTION: What specific actions-- TRUMP: --We inherited an obsolete deal and we made a good thing out of it. I haven't heard that question in a while, but go ahead. AZAR: Yeah, so first, and were making tremendous progress in terms of lab testing. Tens of thousands of tests are being done every single day both through the CDC and the public health labs as well as now through the private sector commercial labs. They're getting to scale, they have supplies, they have high throughput. We do hear anecdotally, occasionally of, say, a public health lab or another one that has a concern about this supply or that supply. Through FEMA, we actually are standing up laboratory task force to answer those questions. Usually, it's that the lab people do not understand that there are actually alternative supplies in the marketplace that they are perfectly free to use. We've actually had to put out some common myths and truths about that. For instance, the other day, we were getting calls from governors saying we don't have swabs. There are no swabs. There are no swabs. Our supply people went in the open marketplace and bought 200,000 swabs in the open market and I just sent a letter to every governor sending them swabs. So some of it just they aren't listening or checking with us about all the freedom, all the capacities out there. It's a complex system with 300 million Americans in all of these labs, so sometimes there's a lab that doesn't understand how much electability they have and how much supply there is out there. And were working through the new FEMA integration center to help correct that for folks. QUESTION: Secretary Azar-- TRUMP: --Mike, do you want to say about the-- PENCE: --He happy to-- TRUMP: --Tests, how well that's working PENCE: Well, as I said, more and more tests are being performed every day and, as we learn about the results that are being reported around the country of coronavirus tests, our experts continue to look at the numbers and see some 90 percent of Americans that are tested do not test positive for the coronavirus. And so it can give you a sense of the magnitude of testing that's going on. We have the number of cases that we've reported today, but it's--it's in some cases near to 10 times that that have been tested. But let me also emphasize how important it was in answering these questions for governors and local officials that the president stood up FEMA and the national response Center where we brief governors yesterday. Now every governor and their State Department, state health departments have the ability to reach out with--to our regional FEMA administrators, and that's how, as the president said, we are sorting out those potential conflicts between very significant federal purchases and procurements and--and as hospitals and state governments are purchasing as well. I think the new streamlined system operating now in all 50 states and our territories of governors and states going through their regional administrator for FEMA is going to make it more possible for us to ensure that our hospitals, our healthcare providers have access to what's available on the open market and elsewhere. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President, you're the head of the task force. You've seen the numbers, you spoken to average Americans. You're a former governor. What do you say to Americans right now who are watching and who are scared? PENCE: I would say do not be afraid, be vigilant. All the experts tell us that the risk of serious illness to the average American for the coronavirus is low, but we need every American to put into practice the presidents coronavirus guidelines 15 days to slow the spread because the coronavirus is about 3 times more contagious than the flu according to our best estimate and you can contract the coronavirus, have very mild symptoms, if any, not even be aware that you have it, and expose someone who is vulnerable to a very serious health outcome. That's the reason why we are encouraging people to avoid groups of more than 10, to not eat in restaurants, but to use drive-through's, to wash their hands on a regular basis. And particularly, we're going to continue, as the president has directed us to focus on the most vulnerable population which are seniors with serious underlying health conditions or anyone with an underlying immunodeficiency. It is those people we need to care for but it is going to take all of us working together to make sure they are safe. QUESTION: You just said that you haven't had to require companies to up their production of medical supplies but you said last night you invoked the DPA. I'm (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: When we need something--when we need something because of the act when we need something we order something and as you know two days ago I invoked the act which was a big step. I'm not sure that it had been done before certainly not very much and when we need something we will use the act. What has happened is before we even go out many, many companies great companies, companies in a totally different business are willing to do things and make things because that is what they do they make product. They are willing to make product for us, medical product that we need very badly for the states, that the states can't get, they haven't been able to get and you know most of the states in no way did they do anything wrong. They were stocked up, they were all equipped. Unfortunately they have never had a thing like this so they need help from the federal government. QUESTION: This is important. You haven't actually directed any companies to start making more ventilators or mask? TRUMP: I have. I have. Yes, I have. QUESTION: How many (INAUDIBLE)? TRUMP: And they are making a lot of ventilators and they are making a lot of masks. Go ahead please. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President partially following up on that are--are your automakers right now who are retooling their production facilities to make ventilators or-- JONES: I can't say they are but they will be very shortly because we are working with one in particular that wants to make ventilators. They called us yesterday and they are already were working on a transaction. They are going to make ventilators. They say they have done it before which surprised me but they can't do it very easily. QUESTION: This is partially for you, partially for Secretary Azar. You said yesterday that you have spoken to Carnival(ph) corporation's chairman-- TRUMP: (INAUDIBLE) QUESTION: And he said that he could donate some ships-- TRUMP: No, not donate. That's not (INAUDIBLE) donate. QUESTION: Not donate, okay, land. Land. TRUMP: He's not giving them, he's (INAUDIBLE) use them. I spoke with Mickey Harrison(SP) who is the President, Chairman, CEO and owner he's got every title you can have. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) to potentially-- TRUMP: He said--he said to me that he was willing to if we need ships, if we need ships for helping people that carnival would be absolutely willing to help us in Los Angeles and New York, wherever they may be in Miami, where they are very big. If we needed something they would be willing to. So far we haven't needed to and we are bringing the big hospital ships up in California. We haven't, we are working with the governor of California as you know with Gavin and we haven't made a determination. We are also talking to folks (INAUDIBLE) Seattle so we are discussing where it can be most useful. We have spoken with Governor Cuomo and we are bringing the big hospital ship up in two weeks and we are going to have it in New York harbor some place in New York. QUESTION: So--so my question is one, it sounds like you haven't taken them up on it yet but-- TRUMP: No, I have taken them up. I said if we needed I will let you know. That is called taking them up. QUESTION: And--and secondly-- TRUMP: Right now we don't need them. QUESTION: The ships have a lot of frequently contacted surfaces and so this is where you come in Secretary Azar potentially Dr. Fauci do you have concerns about those cruise ships being used as hospitals? TRUMP: Well, I can tell you they are very clean and also those surfaces the German is you know the virus disappears over a period of time in the ships are very clean. They happen Very clean. They have been gone over but the virus as you know if it is on a surface for a certain they have actually charts, different kinds of surfaces it disappears over a period of time. QUESTION: Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: I mean what are you trying to get it? Go ahead. QUESTION: Well, that is what I'm asking. Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: It disappears. The--the virus disappears when it is on surface after a certain number of days or in some cases hours depending on the surface it's on. Please. QUESTION: A quick follow-up. So can you say can you name any of the companies that just asked to start making these ventilators or facemask? TRUMP: I will be but first I want to get the approval from the company because I don't want to be doing that. I assume they would like it but I will let you know. QUESTION: Okay. Well thank you and this is for Dr. Fauci-- TRUMP: One company that has openly stated it is General Motors. QUESTION: So that is one of--did you--did the government asked General Motors? TRUMP: I didn't speak to them about announcing it but I will announce it. I am sure they wouldn't be but we have others also. QUESTION: Okay, thank you. So for Dr. Fauci there is new research out that the CDC has released that many of the people that or the 13% of people with the prone a virus got it from someone that was asymptomatic so my question is does that change the way the approach that should be taken if you think that is the case or I mean do you think that or do you not agree with that research? FAUCI: The recommendations that are here applies to whether you are in physical contact with someone who could be infected with symptoms versus asymptomatic. I don't think it really changes anything. Certainly there is some degree of asymptomatic transmissibility. It is still not quite clear exactly what that is but when people focus on that I think they take their eye off the real ball which is the things you do will mitigate against getting infected no matter whether you are near someone who was asymptomatic or not. It is the same thing. Physical separation in the care that is outlined here is going to take care of both of those things. QUESTION: Mr. President, I have a question about testing. When will every American who needs a test get a test and be able to get a test and why not have medical equipment being shipped right now to hospitals who need it-- TRUMP: We are hearing very positive things about testing and just so you understand we don't want every American to go out and get a test. 350 million people. We don't want that. We want people that--that have a problem, that have a problem with they are sneezing, they are sniffling, they don't feel good, they have a temperature, there are a lot of different things. You know--you know them better than I do. So ready? We don't need that but what we are having is we are having these private labs have come and they have been really fantastic and we also have a great system for the future because as I said we inherited--we meaning this administration and obsolete broken system that wasn't meant for anything like this. Now we have a system that you can see because look, we are well into this and nobody is even talking about it except for you which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are Americans-- TRUMP: Which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are of Americans that will say that they have symptoms and they can't get a test. What--what do you say to the Americans-- TRUMP: I am not hearing it. We don't want everyone to go out and get a test because there's no reason for it. Yeah? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Americans who have symptoms -- TRUMP: We will do one more after this. QUESTION: So I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci (INAUDIBLE) is one of the people who is now suggesting that the real way to get to the end of this or life to return to normal is for every single person living in this country to be tested that way you could see who is contagious and you could then have people who don't have it go back to work. Is there any possibility this country could ever get to a point where every single person could be tested and how long would that take? FAUCI: Thank you for the question. I have heard that before. I don't see--I don't connect the dots they are. I don't see how testing everybody in the country is going to help you to implement this. This should be implemented universally at least at this level for everyone. The things we spoke about a while ago that you want to really ratchet it up like the governor Newsom is doing in California, like Governor Cuomo is doing in New York or how you put an end to this outbreak testing is important. It would be nice to know and there are certain things you could do but let's not conflate testing with the action that we have to take. Whether or not you test do this. I'm not--I'm not putting down testing as an important issue that people seem to link them so much that if you don't have universal testing you can't respond to the outbreak. You really can. TRUMP: What I do think and that's after listening to Tony and everybody else that's an expert I do think it is important that not everybody be tested. If you feel great and if you have no symptoms whatsoever it's just not a good thing to be doing. All right. Steve(SP) please. QUESTION: A question for Dr. Fauci. Yesterday you mentioned the possibility of aerosol transmission of the virus. How likely is that to happen? FAUCI: That--the possibility of aerosol transmission always comes up when you have situations like that. It comes up with influenza, it came up with SARS in which there was a documented you know one off episode of some aerosol transmission. Aerosol means that it can stay in the air for a period of time because it is in a droplet that is very small and doesn't go down. Is it possible that there is aerosol transmission? Yeah, it certainly is but clearly what we have seen in the situations where people have gotten infected from the areas that we have experienced China, South Korea, now Europe most of it is in a situation where people are close enough to each other that asymptomatic person will have a real droplet transmission. So I am not ruling out the possibility that it is aerosol but again it's not going to substantially change doing this. QUESTION: Let me just ask this in a very simple way. What is the demand pressure on testing in this country and are we meeting it? FAUCI: I get the same calls that many of you get that someone goes into a place who has a symptom and wants to get it tested for one reason or another multiple logistic technical what have you they can get it. That is the reality that is happening now. Is it the same as it was a few weeks ago? Absolutely not, because as the secretary and others have said, right now that we have the private sector involved, the availability--not only just availability, but the implementation of the availability is getting better and better and better. Having said that, I--I understand and empathize with the people who rightfully are saying I'm trying to get a test and I can't. QUESTION: So--so, is that a way of saying we are not yet at a point where we are meeting the demand pressure? FAUCI: Well, the answer is yes, John. We're not there yet because otherwise people would be never calling up saying they can get a test. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, I just want to make sure-- TRUMP: --You want to finish that? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Go ahead. I think you might have a response. PENCE: Well, I just can't emphasize enough about the incredible progress that we have made on testing. All of you are reporting and--and media outlets around the country are as well that--that many, many more tests are being performed every day literally by the tens of thousands. And this has only been made possible because several weeks ago the president brought in the commercial labs, these enormous companies, Quest and LabCorp, working with companies like Roche and the--and Abbott Laboratories and Thermo Fisher and said we have this existing system of state laboratories and the CDC processing tests for certain infections. But given the magnitude of this outbreak, the president apprehended early on that it wouldn't be enough to meet the need. And I just want every American to know that literally hour by hour in partnership with these extraordinary commercial labs we are making more and more tests available every day. We'll detail the--the way that we're working with states to distribute those tests. We've obviously focused on states that have been with the--with the most serious outbreaks of coronavirus, Washington State, California, New York, and others. We've been making sure the tests are in those areas, working closely with those governors. But I think the American people should be encouraged at the progress that we are making. Tomorrow, we'll take some time to detail that progress for (INAUDIBLE) who might be concerned that they have symptoms. As the president said so well, we--we don't want every healthy American to get a test. But if people feel that they have symptoms that they identify with the coronavirus, call your doctor. Their doctor can call their state health authorities. They can work very closely with our entire team through HHS and FEMA and work to identify the more and more tests are available every day. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President? TRUMP: Just--just so you know--just for the probably 100th time, I, this administration, inherited an obsolete, broken, old system that wasn't meant for this. We discarded that system and we now have a new system that can do millions of people as you need them. But we had to get rid of a broken, old system that didn't work. It worked only on a very limited basis. And we're very proud of what we've done. It's incredible what we've done. And this system will now serve them for the future for future problems. Hopefully you don't have a problem like this, but something will come up. We have now a great system, and it's almost fully in gear, but is able to test millions of people. But we inherited a broken, old, frankly a terrible system. We fixed it and we've done a great job. And we haven't been given the credit that we deserve, that I can tell you. But the one that really deserves the credit are the American people, because they are doing things that nobody thought they would do. What they are doing is incredible. And we're making a lot of progress. And we'll see you folks tomorrow. Thank you very much.

1145 WH COVID19 TASK FORCE BRIEF CUTS FS24 74 TRUMP: Thank you very much. I had a very good telephone conversation extremely good with Senator Schumer a little while ago. We are working on various elements of the deal, and the Democrats are very much wanting something to happen, and the Republicans likewise are very much wanting something to happen, and I think it will. I spoke with--at length with Mitch McConnell and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my conversation was very good with Senator Schumer. I thank you all for joining us, and I would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the Chinese virus on our nation's students. With many schools closed due to the virus the Department of Education will not enforce standardized testing requirements, very importantly for students in elementary through high school for the current year. They have been through a lot. They been going back and forth schools open, schools not open it's been all standardized testing, and you know it's we are not going to be enforcing that. So I think you can let people know. I think probably a lot of the students will be extremely happy some probably not the ones that work hard maybe not, but it's one of those things. Unfortunate, very unfortunate circumstance. We have also temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. They will be very happy to hear that, and I have instructed them to take that action immediately, and today Secretary DeVos has directed federal lenders to allow borrowers to suspend their student loans and loan payments without penalty for at least the next 60 days, and if we need more, we will extend that period of time. Borrowers should contact their lenders, but we have given them very strong instructions. So we have temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. That's a big thing. That's going to make a lot of students are happy. And we have more to come on student loans, more good news for the students but we will do that at a different time. This morning the Treasury Department also announced that we are moving tax day from April 15 to July 15. So we are moving it out to July 15 so that people will have time and people will be able to hopefully by that time we'll have people getting back to their lives. Families and businesses who have this extra time to file with no interest or penalties we're getting rid of interest and penalties however, if you have refunds or credits you would like to claim you may still file. In other words you can file early if you are owed money by the IRS. Other than that, we are moving at all of the way out to July 15, no interest, no penalties. Your new date will be July 15. Today our team will also provide an update on our continuing effort to prevent the transmission of virus across America's borders. And I watched what's been happening in California with Governor Newsom and this morning with Governor Cuomo, and I applaud them. They are taking very strong bold steps, and I applaud them, and we are all working together we are working very closely together including those two governors. But I would say based on the call the media was there I think we can say that with respect to virtually every governor on the call I think every governor we had almost all of them if not all of them and I would say that you could see for your selves the level of respect and (INAUDIBLE) working together was extraordinary. There was nobody angry, nobody upset. We are able to help them, and that is what we are all about. We want to help--we are doing things that a lot of people wouldn't be able to do but the relationship with governors and states is I think very extraordinary especially under the circumstances where this just came upon us. We are working with Canada and Mexico to prevent the spread of the virus across North America very closely. You heard what we did yesterday with Canada and Secretary of State Pompeo will be making a statement in a little while having to do with Mexico and the border and Chad likewise. Chad Wolfe will likely be making a statement. There is a joint comprehensive effort in collaboration with our neighbors. The measure and all of those measures that we are putting in place will protect the health of all three nations and reduce the incentive for a mass global migration that would badly deplete the healthcare resources needed for our people and so we are working very closely with Mexico. Very, very closely with Canada, the relationship has never been better. We are all working for the same--toward the same goal. Our nation's top healthcare officials are extremely concerned about the great public health consequences of mass uncontrolled cross-border movement, and that would be mostly and even beyond but mostly during this global pandemic. Every week our border agents encounter thousands of unscreened, unvetted, and unauthorized entries from dozens of countries, and we have had this problem for decades, for decades. You know the story, but now it's the national emergencies, and all of the other things that we have declared we can actually do something about it. We are taking a very strong hold of that and we have before, but this is now at a level that nobody has ever approached. In normal times these massive flows place a vast burden on our healthcare system, but doing a global pandemic, they threaten to create a perfect storm that would spread the infection to our border agents, migrants, and to the public at large. Left unchecked, this would cripple our immigration system, overwhelm our healthcare system, and severely damage our national security. We are not going to let that happen. So we have a lot of information, and they will be discussing that in a moment. To confront these public health degrees, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to exercise its authority under the Title 42 of the U.S. code to give Customs and Border Protection the tools it needs to prevent the transmission of the virus coming through both the northern and the southern border so we're treating the borders equally. The northern border and the southern border. It is being treated--they are both being treated equally; a lot of people say that they are not treated equally well, they are. As we did with Canada, we are also working with Mexico to implement new roles at our ports of entry to suspend nonessential travel. These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce furthermore, Mexico has taken action to secure our own southern border and suspend their travel for Europe so we are coordinating very closely with the air travel going to Mexico and then try to come into the United States. The actions we are taking together with our North American partners will save countless lives. At the conclusion of my remarks Secretary Azar, Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Wolfe we are going to be also taking some questions with Tony and Debora who you've gotten to know very well but they will be discussing certain things, and I think you'll find them a great interest. We are going to be providing tremendous amounts of detail over the coming days, but a lot of it will be provided right now if you would like to find out about it. There's been a week of resolute action, tremendous action, tremendous relationships have developed with people that frankly didn't get along, people that didn't like each other they are now working together and maybe even in some cases learning about each other and liking each other; that's a nice thing. I invoked the Defense Production Act, and last night we put it into gear. We move the national response coordination highest level of act--I mean if you--if you take a look at what we did the level of activation has been increased to a grade one level. We are providing historic support to small businesses and to the states. The states need support normally they would do this themselves, but because of the magnitude of it, the federal government has gotten very much involved in terms of getting the equipment they need, so we are helping them. It's a responsibility they have, but we are helping the states a lot that is why the governors I think in every case have been impressed and very nice. We enacted legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers at no cost to employers, and I think it's very important, so they get paid sick leave at no cost to employers. We are considering the use of new drug treatments. We are advancing legislation to give direct payments to hard-working families. Throughout our country Americans from all walks of life are rallying together to defeat the unseen TRUMP: enemy striking our nation. In times of struggle we see the true greatness of the American character and we are seeing that. A lot of people are talking about it. We are at 141 countries, from what they are telling me, and some of those countries are really working in a unified manner and they're working very unified with us, almost, I can say a good number of them. Doctors and nurses are working nonstop to heal the sick. Citizens and churches are delivering meals to the needy. Truckers are making the long haul to keep shelves stocked. We've been dealing with the big stores in the big chains, Walmart, they've been fantastic, and others. They've all been fantastic. We have made it much easier for them to stock in terms of travel and travel restrictions. We are lifting restriction so they can get their trucks on time. You're seeing very few empty shelves, and yet the amount of volume that they are doing is unprecedented because people want to have what they have to have, what they feel they have to have. And they are also buying in slightly smaller quantities which is good because we're not going anywhere. We're going to be here. So I want to thank all of those very great companies for working so well. Americans from every walk of life are coming together. And thanks to the spirit of our people, we will win this war. We are. We're winning and were going to win this war. America will triumph and America will rise higher than ever before. It will be stronger than ever before and we've learned a lot. We've learned a lot. We've learned a lot about relying on other countries and I can say that I think in both very good and very bad way. Some good things came out of it and some not so good things came out of it. So I'd like to move now to invite our team to provide information on the new measures to prevent viral spread at our borders, and I'll start by asking Secretary of State Pompeo to speak. He's doing a fantastic job. And like everyone else, he's worked been working very, very long and very, very hard and he's doing the other more normal jobs of a great Secretary of State. But he got tied into this like everybody else and he's been doing really doing a fantastic job. Mike, please. POMPEO: Thank you, Mr. President. Before I address the efforts that we have been engaging to push back against the Chinese virus, I want to assure the American people that, as President Trump just said, your State Department, your entire national security team is staying focused on the other diplomatic challenges around the world. Those include reducing risk to America from Afghanistan, holding the Iranian regime accountable for its malign activities and our counterterrorism efforts against ISIS remain a priority for our team. Our number one priority across those mission sets remains the protection of the American people. The president and our team are very focused on it. I'll take this moment to thank my teams, State Department team whose working long hours all around the world to take care of Americans who are stuck places around the world. I'll talk about that more in just a minute. You've all seen Dr. Birx with me. State Department officials are doing great work, but I want to--I want to give a shout out to all of the State Department team here in Washington and around the world are working overtime to help us push back against this pandemic. Under the presidents leadership this week, we've taken two important steps. First, as President Trump announced on Wednesday, the United States and Canada jointly agreed to restrict all nonessential traffic across our border. This decision goes into effect tonight at midnight and the restriction will be reviewed after 30 days and they exclude traffic and movement across the border for work or other essential reasons. We're grateful to have such an outstanding friend to the north who is committed as we are to defeating this virus. I also want to announce today that the United States and Mexico have agreed to restrict nonessential travel across our shared border. Both our countries know the importance of working together to limit the spread of the virus to ensure the commerce that supports our economy continues to keep flowing. Here to the United States is glad to have a friend who's working side--side beside us in the fight. Secretary Wolf will talk a little bit more about the details of how we're working alongside our partner in Mexico to keep our southern border safe and secure as well. On another note, yesterday, the state department issued level four global travel advisory. This means that all international travel from U.S. citizens should be avoided. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who reside in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States unless they're prepared to remain abroad for an extended time. If you choose to travel internationally, your travel plans may well be severely disrupted. And finally, I wanted to talk about the disinformation the people are seeing both on Twitter and around the world. Some of it coming from government, some of it coming from other individuals. I did just urge everyone as they are seeing information--information that at one time suggested somehow this virus emanated from the United States Army, this information--information about lockdowns that are taking place, every American, indeed people all around the world should ensure that where they turn to for information is reliable source and not a bad actor trying to create and flow information that they know is wrong. This is a tough fight. The American people are tougher. Our diplomatic teams are working around the clock to help them keep safe both home and abroad and we're showing once again the global leadership that America has always delivered. It's been great to see countries around the world rallied behind what President Trump and her team are doing. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. We'll take questions right after this. Chad Wolf, please. WOLF: Well, let me start off by thanking the president and the Vice President for their continued leadership and commitment for protecting the American people during this crisis. Early on, the president again took unprecedented actions to restrict travel from areas affected with the coronavirus. And to date, DHS has a screen over 200,000 individuals coming back from those affected countries. This has been an immense undertaking but one that the men and women of DHS have successfully accomplished. Today's announcement is yet another example of the extraordinary steps the administration is taking to ensure the safety of the American public. Before I comment on the CDC ordered that I'm sure Secretary Azar will later elaborate on, let me first address the progress as Secretary Pompeo and others have made with our Canadian and Mexican partners regarding cross-border travel. As we continue to evaluate commonsense measures that reduce risk and prevent further spread, it only makes sense that we have looked to--look to the measures that are neighbors to the north and south are undertaking. And so we've been working closely with those partners since the earliest days of this virus and the outbreak. And again, as the president did--said earlier this week, and Secretary Pompeo, we've reached an agreement with both Canada and Mexico to limit--to limit nonessential travel across our land borders. Let me be clear that neither of these agreements with Canada or Mexico applies to lawful trade or commerce. Essential commercial activity will not be impacted. We will continue to maintain a strong and secure economic supply chain across our borders. A few examples of essential travel include but certainly are not limited to individuals traveling for medical purposes to attend educational institutions, for emergency response, public health services, and individuals engaged in lawful cross-border trade. As a secretary said, the agreements with both Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Saturday, March 21. Furthermore, were also working collaboratively with Canada and Mexico to take decisive joint action regarding individuals seeking entry between our ports of entry. The CDC order directs the department to suspend the introduction of all individuals seeking to enter the U.S. without proper travel documentation. That's for both the northern and southern border. CDC director has determined that the introduction and spread of the coronavirus in the departments border patrol stations and detention facilities presents serious danger to migrants, our frontline agents, and officers and the American people. So it's important to note that the department currently apprehends foreign nationals from over 120 different countries around the world, the vast majority of those having coronavirus cases. Many of these individuals arrived with little or no identity, travel, medical documentation, making public health risk determinations all but impossible. It's also important to note that the outbreak on our southern border would likely increase the start strain on health systems and our border communities, taking away important and lifesaving resources from American citizens. Tonight, again, at midnight, we will execute the CDC order by immediately returning individuals arriving without documentation to Canada, Mexico, as well as a number of other countries without delay. So again, CBP is positioned to execute these measures as we continue to keep our borders secure and safe. Before I conclude, let me just wrap up by thanking the brave men and women of DHS, specifically CBP and across the government for the work that they do day in and day out to keep the American people safe from the coronavirus. The department has a number of front-line officers that have been--have tested positive as well as others who are so quarantining. I am doing everything that I can to protect these patriots as they continue to defend our homeland during this crisis. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes, Secretary. AZAR: Today's announcement is just the latest in a long line of bold, decisive actions the President has taken to protect Americans from the coronavirus spreading across our borders. In January within two weeks of China's notifying WHO about the virus and with only 45 cases in China we began screening travelers from Wuhan. Then over time as the outbreak evolved the President restricted travel from China, Iran and Europe. Our health experts say that these measures have been truly effective at slowing the viruses spread to our shores. Just think about this. Italy and the United States both saw their first travel related case of coronavirus around the exact same time the last week of January and get we have had precious time to continue our work around vaccines, therapeutics and other preparations while Italy has tragically been overwhelmed with critical patients for several weeks now. The President today is taking action to slow the spread of infectious disease via our border. Under section 362 of the public health service act the CDC is suspending the entry of certain persons into the United States because of the public health risk that they are entry into the United States represents. This order applies to persons coming from Mexico and Canada who are seeking to enter the country illegally and who would normally be held and a congregant setting like a customs and border protection station. It does not apply to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. During this pandemic a number of health challenges arise when a legal immigrants arrive at our northern and southern borders and are taken into immigration custody. We are talking about significant numbers of the legal immigrants. From this past October through February DHS has processed more than 21,000 and admissible aliens at the northern border and more than 151,000 and admissible aliens that the southern border. CBP facilities were never designed to hold large numbers of people and to protect agents and migrants from infection during a pandemic nor to treat them for a novel virus if large numbers are infected. When held at border facilities these migrants were spreading the virus to other migrants, to CBP agents and border healthcare workers and even the United States population as a whole. In such circumstances the kind of social distancing measures the CDC and the President have recommended are simply not possible. On top of that any resources that we are using to reduce the risk of infection among CBP agents, healthcare workers and migrants in these facilities are drawing on American--and American healthcare system that is already fighting the coronavirus pandemic. That is why the President and his administration are taking these important steps to keep Americans and our immigration systems safe from these health risk as part of our whole of government approach to combating the coronavirus. Thank you Mr. President for the work that you have been doing throughout this crisis to slow the spread of the coronavirus and to keep our country safe. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. (INAUDIBLE) Tony or Deborah, please. BIRX: Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. So we continue to review the data very carefully from around the globe as I know many of you are. We continue to see signs that again individuals under 20, 19 and under may have severe disease but the majority and all have recovered to date. We still see that same trend and frankly from Italy we are seeing another concerning trend that the mortality in males seems to be twice in every age group of females. This should alert all of us to continue our vigilance to protect our Americans that are in nursing homes. This requires all of the community and when you see the sacrifices that many Americans have made, the sacrifices that the service industry has made to close their restaurants, close their bars and so that the spread is discontinued and then you really understand how all of Americans must make the same sacrifice. We continue to ask you to follow the presidential guidelines. No groups coming together of more than 10, that if anyone in the household is sick that everyone quarantines in the household together and that we continue to focus on those who have the most vulnerability to this illness. Now to the moms and dads out there that have children with immuno deficiencies or other medical conditions we don't know the level of risk and I know you will also protect them in the same way. There just is not enough numbers that this time to really tell them if they are at additional risk or not in the same way that adults are. I don't have any new data. I can see the look on your face saying is she's seeing something new? I don't have any new data about I think it is important for us to be as honest with the American people as we can and when we don't have data be very clear that we don't know. Finally no one is immune. I sometimes hear people on radio or others talking about I am immune to the virus. We don't know if the contagion levels are difference in age groups but we know it is highly contagious to everyone. Do not interpret mild or moderate disease as lack of contagion or that you are immune. You just happen to have a better email system and the ability to fight the virus in a way that may be older people or people with existing medical conditions can't and that is why it is very important that this moment that all of you care event message about the sacrifices that many have made particularly our service providers and our front-line healthcare workers. They are making that sacrifice every day so that every American can move through this well. But we need every American following the presidential guidelines. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Tony (INAUDIBLE). FAUCI: Thank you very much Mr. President. I just want to underscore a couple of things that I have said a few times to this group. You may recall that just a week ago or so I said the two pillars, the two elements of our capability to contain the infection and the--and the search of infections in this country rely on two things, keeping infections from coming from without in. We have been very successful in doing that with China and with your it. Now we have the northern and southern border issues. There is a fundamental public health reason for doing that because we cannot be preventing people from coming in from one area when they can go into the other so that is an important reason. Understand that there is a public health reason for doing that. The second thing I think is really important is what happened in New York today with Governor Cuomo mentioned about an hour ago some rather strong issues that have been addressed with his recommendations, not recommendations, essentially orders. Now we have a group of--of recommendations and guidelines that are applicable to the entire country. You know them, we have been over them yet there are places regions, states, cities in this country that are being stressed much, much more than the country as a whole. Clearly one of them was Washington, another one was California. Governor Newsom made some very important difficult decisions. Today Governor Cuomo did the same thing and I want to say I strongly support what he is doing and one think as a New Yorker myself for those of you who haven't figured out from my accent that I am from New York as a New Yorker I know what New Yorkers can do. We are tough. I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, and I know what the New Yorkers can do so please cooperate with your governor, cooperate with your mayor. It is very important. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Tony. PENCE: Thank you, Mr. President. The White House coronavirus task force met this morning and we continue at the president's direction to bring the full resources not just of the federal government but in full partnership with our state governments, businesses around the American and in partnership with the American people to respond to the threat of the coronavirus and I know I can speak on behalf of the President with confidence when I say how inspired we are by the way the American people and American businesses are coming together to help defeat this virus in our country. Millions of Americans are putting into practice the president's 15 day guidelines and we encourage everyone even those that are not in areas with significant outbreak to review these guidelines over the next week and more and put them into practice and you will continue to do your part. Later today we will be talking with manufacturers around the country and the President and I continue to be inspired by the way American industry is stepping forward. We have businesses around the country that are literally volunteering to retrofit plants to help us meet the needs of our healthcare workers and our healthcare system in confronting the coronavirus. As the President mentioned yesterday following his decision to put FEMA in the lead, the emergency declaration we actually met with all of the nation's governors from the FEMA national response coordination center. The President and I, our entire team at the federal level couldn't be more grateful for the efforts of all of our governors in implementing the guidance that is being issued not only from our task force but also in taking strong measures in their own communities to protect their citizens. We want to urge every American to heed your local authorities, listen to their guidance, and a--and also do your part to slow the spread. We reiterated to all of the governors that the president, by putting FEMA in the lead, will continue to implement a plan that is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported that puts the health of American first. We have received a report today, as the president mentioned, on our legislative team on Capitol Hill. We're working with Republicans and Democrats at this very hour to pass an economic recovery package that the president described, and we hope to see the Congress act on that early next week. On the subject of supplies, we continue to make steady progress on testing. Thanks to the president's involvement of commercial labs, the public and private partnership, more and more Americans are being tested every single day. And tomorrow, Admiral Giroir and FEMA will update the American public on the status of testing and our support of state-based testing efforts that are literally expanding by the hour. On the subject of medical supplies, we continue, at the president's direction, to pursue every means to expand the supply of personal protective equipment for the extraordinary and courageous healthcare workers that are ministering to the needs of people impacted by the coronavirus. We have a policy of procuring, allocating, as well as conserving the resources that we have in our system. And now that the president worked with the Congress to make industrial masks fully available for hospitals to be able to purchase, to be able to use as protective equipment, we're more encourage than ever about the availability of those important N95 masks to our healthcare facilities. And over this weekend, will be announcing a major procurement from the federal government of N95 masks as well. We're also encouraged that we are finding new alternatives to increase the supply of ventilators. We've mentioned that we have a federal stockpile, some 20,000 ventilators on--on standby, but that doesn't count the tens of thousands of ventilators that are in our healthcare system around the country. But the president has challenged us to work to free up other ventilators from other sources around the country, and there are two different ways that we're doing that. Number one, in our recent discussion with anesthesiologists, we've literally identified tens of thousands of existing ventilators that can be retrofitted and converted to be ventilators for people struggling with the coronavirus. But also, the president's behalf and behalf of all of our task force, we want to continue to urge every American and every American hospital and healthcare facility to postpone any elective medical procedures. This will free up bed space, free up hospital capacity for people that are struggling with the coronavirus, and it'll also free up equipment that our healthcare workers need. It is inspiring that we continue to receive reports that businesses around America are donating N95 masks to their local hospitals. Businesses large and small are donating hundreds, in some cases millions of N95 masks. And I know--I know how grateful the president is and we all are. And let me close by saying, as all of our experts have said many times, while the threat of serious illness to the average American from the coronavirus remains low, every American can do your part to reduce the burden on your health, on your family, the burden on our healthcare system, and especially the threat to the most vulnerable among us by putting into practice the president's 15 days to slow the spread. And as a president said at the outset of his remarks, I know that millions of Americans are doing that just now, and the greatness of the American character is shining forth. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. Okay. QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Thank you. Go ahead. QUESTION: You had a call with Senator Schumer. He says you've now agreed to invoke the Defense Production Act to actually make those medical supplies that hospital say are in severe shortage. So, two questions. Is that what you're doing now? TRUMP: It is. I did it yesterday. We invoked it I think the day before. We signed the evening of the day before and invoked yesterday. We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things, yes. QUESTION: So, you're using it now to tell businesses they-- TRUMP: --We are using it-- QUESTION: --Need to make ventilators, masks-- TRUMP: --We are-- QUESTION: --Respirators-- TRUMP: --We're going to for--for certain things that we need-- QUESTION: --Okay-- TRUMP: --Including--including some of the very important emergency--I would say ventilators, probably more masks to a large extent. We have millions of masks which are coming and which will be distributed to the states. The states are having a hard time getting them, so we--we're using the act. The act is very good for things like this. We have millions of masks that we've ordered. They will be here soon. We're having them shipped directly to state. QUESTION: So, you said you would only--that you are signing this but not invoking it. This is what you said yesterday, and that you would only do so in a worst case scenario. TRUMP: Yeah, last-- QUESTION: --So, are we now at a worst case scenario? TRUMP: We--we need--no, it's no different other than we need certain equipment that the states are unable to get by themselves. So, we're invoking it to use the powers of the federal government to help the states get things that they need, like the masks, like the ventilators. Yeah, Steve? QUESTION: Given what Governor Cuomo has done in a--in New York, is there any more consideration to a national lockdown to keep people in their homes? TRUMP: I don't think so. Essentially, you've done that in California. You've done that a New York. Those are really two hotbeds. Those are probably the two hottest of them all in terms of hotspots. I don't think so, because you got to the Midwest, you go out to other locations and--and they're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems. They don't have by--by any means the same problem. New York, California, Miami, the governor is doing an excellent job, Governor DeSantis in Florida. We have some pretty hotspots in Florida too. But we're general--and the state of Washington, of course, but that was largely--if you look at it, it was one nursing home that had problems like you wouldn't believe. So, no, we're working with the governors, and I don't think you'll--I don't think we'll ever find that necessary. QUESTION: So, we're about a week into your 15 days guidelines. Are you happy with the progress? Would you like to see-- TRUMP: --I am happy-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) 16 day? TRUMP: I am happy with it. We'll have to see what the results are at the end of 14 days, let's say. We'll know by the 15th day to see what we do. But I'm certainly honored by the way the American people are working, because it's work. It's work not to work. This is the first time this is ever happened, and we're working out a tremendous financial package for them so they don't work. Whoever heard of this? Usually you work out a financial package to get people working. We're asking people not to work; social distancing, new term that's become probably the hottest term there is. So, no, I'm very honored by the way the American people are--are taking this, I mean, so seriously. Yes, John (PH)? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for you in a question for Dr. Fauci, if I could. There's been some concern among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the phase three fiscal stimulus is weighted it too much in favor of corporations and not enough in terms of individuals. What did your conversations with Senator Schumer yield on that front? TRUMP: Well, I think that really all of that is being discussed right now. We talked about, as an example, buy back--stock buybacks. I don't want to have stock buybacks. I don't want people spending--I don't want some executive saying we're going to buy 200,000 shares of stock. I want that money to be used for the workers and also for the company, to keep the company going, but not for buybacks. I would--I mean, I haven't spoken to a lot of the Republicans or Democrats on it. We discussed it, and I--I don't like buybacks. I didn't like them the first time. QUESTION: Are you and Senator Schumer-- TRUMP: --So, we're always discussing--we're discussing that. We're discussing many things. QUESTION: Are you on the same page with Senator Schumer? TRUMP: We're not so far away, I'll tell you. We're not very--we're not very far away. QUESTION: And to Dr. Fauci, if I could, Dr. Fauci, as was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine as potential therapy for people who are infected with coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19? FAUCI: No. The answer is--is no. And--and the--the evidence that you're talking about, John, is anecdotal evidence. So, as the commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned yesterday, we're trying to strike a--a balance between making something with a potential of an--of an effect to the American people available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe and truly effective. But the information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any definitive statement about it. QUESTION: Mr. President, on that front-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: On those therapies-- TRUMP: --I think without seeing too much, I'm probably more of a fan of that than--maybe than anybody. But I'm a big fan, and we'll see what happens. And we all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct. It's early. You know, I see things that are impressive. We'll see. We're going to know soon. We're going to know soon, in--including safety. But, you know, when you get to safety, this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem. And it's very effective. It's a strong--it's a strong drug. So, we'll see. QUESTION: It was also apparently effective against SARS. TRUMP: It was a very--it was, as I understand that. I--is that a correct statement? --It was fairly effective on SARS. FAUCI: John, you've got to be careful when you say fairly affected. It was never done in a clinical trial. They compared it to anything. It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked, so you really-- QUESTION: --But was there anything to compare it to? FAUCI: Well, that's the point. Whenever you do a clinical trial and you do standard of care versus standard of care plus the agent you're evaluating. That's the reason why we showed back in the Ebola by particular interventions worked. QUESTION: Sir, on that topic-- QUESTION: --Mr. President-- QUESTION: --About the possible therapies, yesterday, Mr. President, you said that they were for "Immediate delivery, immediate." We heard that from Dr.-- TRUMP: We were ordering--yes. We had millions of units ordered. Bayer is one of the companies, as you know. Big company. Very big, very great company. Millions of units are ordered and we're going to see what happens. We're going to be talking to the governors about it and the FDA is working on it right now. The advantage is that it has been prescribed for totally different problem, but it has been described for many years and everybody knows the levels of--of the negatives and positives. But I will say that I am a man that comes from a very positive school when it comes to, in particular, one of these drugs. And we'll see how it works out, Peter. I'm not--I'm not saying it will, but I--I think that people may be surprised. By the way, that would be a game changer. We're going to know very soon, but--but we have ordered millions of units. It's being ordered from Bayer and there is another couple of companies also that--the do it. QUESTION: For clarity, Dr. Fauci said there is no magic drug for coronavirus right now, which you would agree. I guess on--on this issue-- TRUMP: --Well, I think we only-- QUESTION: --Is it possible-- TRUMP: --I think we should only-- QUESTION: --I'm sorry-- TRUMP: --I disagree. Maybe and maybe not. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. We have to see. We're going to know. QUESTION: Is it possible that-- TRUMP: --We're going to know soon. QUESTION: Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope-- TRUMP: --No, I don't think so-- QUESTION: --By misrepresenting the preparedness right now? TRUMP: No, I don't think so. I think that--I think it's got-- QUESTION: --A ship that's not ready to sail, that not yet approved drug. TRUMP: Such a lovely question. Look, it may work and it may not work and I agree with the doctor what he said. It may work, it may not work. I feel good about it. That's all it is. Just a feeling. You know, I'm a smart guy. I feel good about it. And we're going to see. You're going to see soon enough. And we have certainly some very big samples of people if you look at the people. You have a lot of people that are in big trouble and this is not a drug that, obviously, I think I can speak for a lot of--from a lot of expense because it's been out there for over 20 years. So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with. It's not like a brand-new drug that's been just created that may have an unbelievable monumental effect, like to kill you. We're going to know very soon. And I can tell you, the FDA is working very hard to get it out. Right now, in terms of malaria, if you wanted, you can have a prescription. You get a prescription. And by the way, and it's very effective, it works. I have a feeling you may--and I'm not being overly optimistic or pessimistic. I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try. I mean, there's been some interesting things happened and some good--very good things. Let's see what happens. We have nothing to lose. You know the expression what the hell do you have to lose, okay? QUESTION: So what you say to Americans-- QUESTION: (--INAUDIBLE--) QUESTION: --I'll just follow-up-- TRUMP: --John, go ahead. QUESTION: What do you say to the Americans were scared, though? I guess nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? TRUMP: I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --I think that's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope and you're doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Comcast. I don't call-- QUESTION: --With respect to though, you can provide that the-- TRUMP: --I don't call it Comcast. I call it Concast (SP). Let me just--just--for whom you work. Let me just tell you something. That's really bad reporting and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let's see if it works. It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it but who knows? I've been right a lot. Let's see what happens. John. QUESTION: Can I go back to the science and the logistics here-- TRUMP: --You ought to be ashamed of yourself. QUESTION: The units that were ordered, are they for clinical trials? Are they for distribution to the general patient population? TRUMP: We are going to, I as an as I understand it, we are going to be taking samples in New York. Governor Cuomo very much is interested in this drug and they are going to work on it also after they get a certain approval. We are waiting for one final approval from the FDA, we'll see what happens. But will use it on people that are not doing great or even at the beginning of not feeling well. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) under the modified-- TRUMP: --And John, what do we have to lose? QUESTION: So this would-- TRUMP: --Wait, John, it's been out there for so long. We hear good things. Let's see. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't. QUESTION: I understand all that. I'm just thinking the application here. So that would be under sort of a modified compassionate access? TRUMP: We're doing that, I guess, and that's what it's called, yeah. Yes. QUESTION: I would like Dr. Fauci, if you don't mind, to follow up on what the president is saying. Should Americans have hope in this drug right now? And sir, I would like to follow-up on Peter's question here. Could you please issue--address Americans in this country who are scared right now? This is a very valid concern that people have. FAUCI: No, there really isn't that much of a difference in many respects with what we're saying. The president feels optimistic about something. His feeling about it. What I'm saying is that it might--it might be effective. I'm not saying that it isn't. It might be effective. But as a scientist, as we are getting it out there, we need to do it in a way as while we are making it available for people who might want the hope that it might work, you also collecting data that will ultimately show that it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of COVID-19. So there really isn't different, it's just a question of how one feels about it. QUESTION: Is there any reason to believe it's not safe? FAUCI: Well, certainly as a drug--any drug, John, has some toxicities. The decades of experience that we have with this drug indicate that the toxicities are rare and they are, in many respects, reversible. What we don't know is when you put it in the context of another disease whether it's safe. Fundamentally, I think it probably is going to be safe, but I'd like to prove things first. So it really is a question of not a lot of difference. It's the hope that it will work versus proving that it will work. So I don't see big differences here. TRUMP: I agree. QUESTION: Sir, your message to Americans-- TRUMP: --I agree-- QUESTION: --Who are working at home or had their children in their homes right now who are homeschooling-- TRUMP: --Here we go. Go ahead-- QUESTION: --Doctors who say they don't have the masks they need to do their jobs. Your message to them. TRUMP: My message to the American people is that there is a very low incidence of death. You understand that. And we're going to come through this stronger than ever before. If you get it, if you happen to get it, it is highly unlikely. It's looking like it's getting to a number that's much smaller than people originally thought in terms of the ultimate--the ultimate problem, which would be death. My message to the American people is, number one, you've done an incredible job, incredible, which you've gone through. It's been incredible. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't the fault of 140 other countries where this has happened. And there is a tremendous hope and I think we're going to come out stronger, better, bigger. In every way I think we're going to be a better country than we were before and we learned a lot. We learned on reliance, who to rely on, who not to rely on. But our country--our country has been incredible the way they pull together, including the fact that I just spoke to Senator Schumer. We had a wonderful commercial conversation. We both want to get to a good solution. But it's been, really for me, watching and seeing people that work speaking getting along well because we all have one common aim, and that's to get rid of this invisible enemy, get rid of it fast, and then go back to the kind of economy that we had and maybe even better. Yeah, please, in the back. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, in the back, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, two questions, if you'll indulge me. That first question is many small businesses are concerned that they have weeks, not months, and are worried about how long it will take-- TRUMP: --We're going to be helping them a lot and were going to be focused--the big focus and including my conversation with both Mitch and with Chuck, a big focus of that conversation was small businesses because they are really the engine behind our country more so than the big ones. They are the engine behind our country. QUESTION: Second, if I may, sir, are you concerned about numbers of Congress that may have used information they learned on updates to sell stocks and profit off of this? TRUMP: I'm not aware of it. I saw some names. I'm not--I know all of them. I know everyone mentioned Diane Feinstein, I guess, and a couple of others. I don't know too much about what it's about, but I find them to all be very honorable people. That's all I know and they--they said they did nothing wrong. I find them, the whole group, very honorable people. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Can I follow-up, Mr. President? So the whole group would include Richard Burr, the head of the intelligence committee and it also would include Senator Kelly Loeffler, and so the question is whether or not they should be investigated for that behavior. TRUMP: Well, it also includes Diane Feinstein, a Democrat. You did mention her name. Why didn't even mention her name? And I think she's a very honorable person, by the way, so I'm not saying that but you know-- QUESTION: --So any Senator--any Senator-- TRUMP: --You mentioned to people but you don't mention one that happens to be a Democrat. QUESTION: Any senator. Any senator should they be investigated-- TRUMP: --I don't know because I have to look at it. Possibly, but I find them to be honorable people. Yeah? QUESTION: Should they resign? QUESTION: You said the other day you compare yourself--you see yourself as a wartime president right now leading the country through this pandemic that we are experiencing. Do you really think, you know, going off on Peter, going off on a network is appropriate-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) countries going through something like this? TRUMP: I do because I think Peter is--you know I have dealt with Peter for a long time and I think Peter is not a good journalist when it comes to fairness. QUESTION: But he is asking for your message to the country (INAUDIBLE) you went off on Peter. TRUMP: I think it is a good message because I think the country has to understand that there is indeed whether we like it or not in some of the people in this room won't like it there is a lot of really great news and great journalism and there's a lot of fake news out there and I hear it all and I see it all and I understand it all because I am in the midst of it so when somebody writes a story or does a story on television and I know it's false, I know it's fake and when they say they have 15 sources have said and I know there's no sources, there is no sources. They are just making it up I know that and I call Peter--I called Peter L but I call other people out to and you know this is a time to come together. But coming together is much harder when we have dishonest journalist. It's a very important profession that you are in. It is a profession that I think is incredible. I cherish it. But when people are dishonest they truly do hurt our country. Yeah, in the back. Please go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, China has been in communication with the United States and also WHO about coronavirus-- TRUMP: Right, that's true. That's true. QUESTION: And the U.S. shuttered(PH) its border to travelers from China on February 2. Also will Hans has been in lockdown since January 20 force and this all happened almost 2 months ago. Why did you just say if you could have known earlier? And also you have been calling coronavirus-- TRUMP: I have to say this. We have and I can speak for myself but I have a very good relationship with China and with President Xi. I have great respect for President Xi. I consider him to be a friend of mine. It is unfortunate that this got out of control. They came from China, it got out of control. Some people are upset. I know--I know President Xi. He loves China. He respects the United States and I have to say I respect China greatly and I respect President Xi. Okay. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) stock buybacks the airlines and Boeing did stock buybacks is this a dealbreaker for you in this-- TRUMP: Know(PH), but I never like stock buybacks from their standpoint. When we did a big tax cut and when they took the money and did buybacks that's not building a hangar, that's not buying aircraft, that's not doing the kind of things that I want them to do and we are now talking about buybacks. We didn't think we would have had to restrict it because we thought they would have known better but they didn't know better in some case--not in all cases obviously. Some people did an incredible job. They built plants(ph) all over the country. I mean you see what's happening. I mean we were doing until this invisible enemy appeared we were I mean we never had an economy like this but there were some companies that use that money to buy back stock driving up the price of the stock artificially in many cases. I don't like that. I don't like it. And as far as whether or not we will have that--allow them when we give them money because we have to keep these great companies in business because of the workers. Frankly for the most part because of the workers, the workers are my number one concern that the way we take care of the workers is we have to keep the companies going. I am fine with restricting buybacks. In fact I would--I would demand that there be no stock buybacks. I don't want them taking hundreds of millions of dollars and buying back their stock because that does nothing. Yet(PH), please. QUESTION: Thank you very much. I have one for Dr. Fauci and hopefully one for you. TRUMP: Sure and--and one thing. Secretary of State Pompeo is extremely busy so if you have any questions for him right now could you do that because you know what I would like to do I would like for him to go back to the State Department or as they call it the deep State Department you know, Mike, I would like to have him go back and do his job. So does anybody have any question--please. Yeah, how about you? Only--only for the Secretary. QUESTION: The exemptions on work travel can you do find that? Is all work--anyone with a work visa can still cross the border can you define what measures you are taking? POMPEO: That is a great question. We--we are working--we are real concerned about age to a visas particularly agricultural workers that need to get across. We are going to make sure that we do everything we can to keep that part of our economic lifeblood working between our two countries. DHS and the State Department will work together. We want to make sure and keep commerce between Canada, the United States and Mexico alive, functional and prepared for the day that this economy bounces back like we expect that it will. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary the Mexican government has not announced any travel ban on Europe(ph). Where--have you been in touch with them as to when they are going to do this and what it is that they are telling you? And then a second question they also are telling us and said in a press conference this morning that they will not take back any non-Mexican citizen. In the other third parties will have to--we don't know what will happen to them. So can you address what will happen to those third country immigrants that you are saying that will not be allowed to enter the U.S. and Mexico is saying that it would not be allowed to stay in Mexico either or sent back from the U.S.? POMPEO: I will take the first one and then Chad I will give you the second one. With respect to travel into Mexico from outside I spoke with Foreign Minister (INAUDIBLE) about this a couple of times about this. I am very confident we are going to get to a really good place that protects the Mexican people and the American people from those who might be traveling in two places where we have got designations, the (INAUDIBLE) zone from China so that they are not coming into Mexico and then coming into the United States. I'm very confident we will do that and we will make that announcement shortly together. WOLF: Again as we implement the CDC's order again we are going to take a number of individuals across the border illegally and repatriate them or remove them quickly back to Mexico, back to the northern triangle and back to any other countries so we are going to do that in a rapid fashion. We will continue to work with Mexico to make sure that Mexican nationals go back as well as other populations. QUESTION: But are you sending Guatemalans back to Guatemala or Cubans back to Cubans? What would you do with those-- WOLF: Yes. QUESTION: --third countries that are not Mexicans? WOLF: So we are doing all of the above. We are going to be sending again individuals back to Mexico, individuals back to the northern triangle countries, Cuba, Haiti, all of the--we again 122 different nations that we see nationalities that, across that border we will be sending them back individually to their countries but also with work--working with Mexico to send additional populations back there as well. TRUMP: And just to put it you know when you said before you said the non-Mexicans going to Mexico. We are not sending them to Mexico. We are sending them back to their own countries, not to Mexico. Why would Mexico take people that are from Mexico? We are sending them back in the case of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, a lot of other countries they go back to the country from where they came. Okay and Mike, please. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo on the issue of disinformation is there any particular locus for this disinformation or is it defused? POMPEO: It is pretty defused unfortunately but we have certainly seen it come from places like China and Russia and Iran where there are coordinated efforts to disparage what America is doing and our activity to do all of the things that President Trump has set in motion here. QUESTION: Yeah, other than what you are doing this morning what are you doing to fight back? POMPEO: Lots of things. Lots of work. One of the things we want to make sure is the American people go to trusted sources for that information but we have made clear and we have spoken to these countries directly that we don't that they need to knock it off that we don't approve of it and then there are a handful of other things we are engaged in to make sure that the right information is out there and accurate information is given. This idea of transparency and accurate information is very important. It is how we protect American people from something like this ever happening again. QUESTION: Do you want the American people to be coming to trusted sources of information does it undermine you at all when the President stands up here and he attacks news outlets calling us untrustworthy? POMPEO: Does anyone else have a question? QUESTION: Peace Corps volunteers have all--sir, the (INAUDIBLE) core volunteers-- TRUMP: Please. QUESTION: In terms of Americans who find themselves stranded in places where there are no longer flights to get back to the United States what efforts are being made to help them? POMPEO: I appreciate that question. So we are doing lots of things. We have had a couple of places in particular Peru and Morocco I think we have had the first two maybe three now flights out of Morocco. We--we are going to work to get people back. We are urging individuals when they can get back on their own they--they traveled there on their own, when they can get back they are on their own they ought to try to do that but we are--we have a team stood up at the State Department the repatriation task force that is working each of these instances so we have heard from individuals, members of Congress. We're trying to get a Americans back from these places where air travel has been disrupted and we--we will get that done and over time we will get it done successfully. QUESTION: Do you have any sense of how big that problem is? Is there any sense of just how big the problem is, how many-- POMPEO: We don't know--we don't know the full scale of it yet but we think we have the largest number identified and we are working if there are those who are watching that are someplace and you can go on the State Department website you can log into I think it is (INAUDIBLE) and go login and we will--we will track and we will try to get everybody back just as fast as we can. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary how long are these border restrictions likely to last along the south and north borders? POMPEO: They will last as long as we need to do it to protect the American people from the virus. I--I couldn't tell you how long it's going to last. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) we have you, have you determined whether Iran is responsible for that rocket attack last week? POMPEO: So-- TRUMP: Maybe we shouldn't say anything. POMPEO: So let me--let me just get back to you on the answer to that and what we-- TRUMP: We know plenty. POMPEO: What we can say--what we can say certainty is we have made clear all along that the Iraqi Shia militias are funded, trained, equipped by the Iranians and we have heard to the Iranians not to do that and we have told the Iranians that they will be held responsible for those attacks when they threaten American lives. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Peace Corps volunteers, the Peace Corps volunteers that are in 60+ countries have they all been return? POMPEO: You know I don't know if they are all back or not yet. I know that they were directed to come back. I know that most of them are back. I couldn't tell you if we have all of them back yet. I don't know. QUESTION: And then Secretary--Secretary Esper is not here, but to get the tests to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, are you able to give us a progress report on the status of that, if they're all able to get tests? POMPEO: I don't know the answer to that. I know we have State Department officials too who are concerned and want to make sure we get them tests, our team as well. And we're working on that. We have had significant success on that to date. There are few places we've not been able to get them. But we--we will. We'll get them there. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo, how exactly are you going to get those Americans back, and you have any plans to get the military involved in that? POMPEO: We're going to use all the tools we can. These first efforts are combined commercial/private flights that will fly in, bring them back, bring them back to a destination here in the United States. So, we'll do that. There are some that'll travel back other ways as well. And we've worked with the Department of Defense to say, where there are space available, we'll be able to bring them back on those flights as well. It's a whole of government effort to make sure we get them back. QUESTION: So, you think you'll get all-- POMPEO: --They're going to--they're going to help us every place they can. Secretary Esper and I have talked about it a couple times. QUESTION: Thank you, Secretary; a question on Iran again. Is there any consideration to relaxing sanctions on Iran during the coronavirus crisis, as they've been particularly hard hit? POMPEO: That's an important question. The--the whole world should know that humanitarian assistance into Iran is wide open. It's not sanctioned. We've offered to provide assistance to the Iranians as well. I talked with Dr. Tedros from the World Health Organization about this. We're doing everything that we can to facilitate both the humanitarian assistance moving in and to make sure that financial transactions connected to that can take place as well. There is no sanction on medicines going to Iran. There is no sanctions on humanitarian assistance going into that country. They've got a terrible problem there, and we want that humanitarian medical healthcare assistance to get to the people of Iran. QUESTION: But the sanctions themselves, no--no movement? POMPEO: We are--we are--we are working to do all the things we've had in place for the first three years here to deliver security for the American people. TRUMP: They know the answer. Iran--they know the answer, Iran, the leaders. They know the answer to your question. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, was it appropriate for the president to call your department the Deep State Department at a time when thousands of diplomats are working very hard around the world to combat this pandemic? POMPEO: I've worked for the president for three years now. I know how much he values the people that work on my team. I know when I was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency how much he valued the work we did. I know that he watches our team, Dr. Birx, all the team that's working to push back against this virus to keep America safe. I know my--how much he values them. TRUMP: What a good answer. Yes, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Can I ask a question? POMPEO: It's truth. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Very true, too. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, behind you. QUESTION: Okay. I apologize. TRUMP: Please, go ahead. QUESTION: The news--I have two questions. The first is to Secretary Pompeo. The NewsHour has learned that the CDC picked up that there was some sort of virus happening in Wuhan--the coronavirus happening in Wuhan as early as December. When did that CDC start letting other agencies know that there was something in China happening, that this coronavirus was happening? And then when did the whole government approach happen--start to happen? POMPEO: So, I'll let the CDC--or Dr. Fauci, you want to--you want to-- QUESTION: --The State Department, when did you-- POMPEO: --Talk to that, Doctor--Secretary Azar, please. Yeah. AZAR: Yeah. So--so, we were alerted by some discussions that Dr. Redfield, the director of the CDC, had with Chinese colleagues on January 3rd. It's since been known that there may have been cases in December, not that we were alerted in December. QUESTION: Then, Mr. President, the other question I have for you, when-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. We'll do it in a second. Let Mike--yes, go back. POMPEO: May I just add one more thing? TRUMP: Just go back and-- POMPEO: --There--there's been some discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it. And I've--I've been very critical. We--we--we need to know immediately. The world is entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world, and that puts a special obligation to make sure that data--that data gets to our scientists, our professionals. This is not about retribution. This matters going forward. We're in a--we're in a live exercise here-- TRUMP: --It sure is-- POMPEO: --To get this right. TRUMP: Truly it is, yeah. POMPEO: We--we need to make sure that even today the data sets that are available to every country, including data sets that are available to the Chinese Communist Party, or made available to the whole world. It's--it's an imperative to keep people safe. We--we talk about the absence of data sets, not being able to make judgments about what to do. This is abso--this transparency, this real-time information sharing isn't--isn't about political games or retribution. It's about keeping people safe. And so, when you see a delay in information flowing from the Chinese Communist Party to the technical people who we wanted to get into China immediately to assist in this, every moment of delay connected to being able to identify this risk vect--the risk vectors creates risk to the people all around the world. And so, this is why it's not about blaming someone for this. This is about moving forward to make sure that we continue to have the information we need to do our jobs. QUESTION: Continuing with you, Mr. Secretary, what--what message do you think it sends to other countries when you have the president of the United States lashing out at reporters? POMPEO: I--I've had my frustration with reporters too. All I ask when I talked to the media is that you listen to what we say and reported accurately. And it's frustrating. It's frustrating when you see-- QUESTION: --The president said to other countries though-- POMPEO: --When you see that that doesn't happen, it's--it's enormously frustrating. We have a responsibility to tell the American people the truth. And those who are reporting on what it is we're doing and saying have an equal responsibility to reported accurately. QUESTION: But what message does it send a countries when you're lashing out at reporters? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) being reported, that the news media-- POMPEO: --I've seen--I've seen many things at the State Department be reported wildly accurately on--on multiple-- QUESTION: --Specifically can you say-- POMPEO: --On multiple occasions. And I have spoken to those reporters about it each and every time. And I will continue to do so. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, Senator Johnson is suggesting-- TRUMP: --Well, I'd rather have--if you could finish up with the secretary of state. POMPEO: I think of one them out, Mr. President. QUESTION: Well, I--let me ask you both-- TRUMP: --Has everybody finished secretary of state? QUESTION: Let me ask you both if that's all right. Mr. Secretary, Senator Johnson has suggested that you and the administration may be overreacting. He said we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. We don't shut down our economies because tens of thousands of people die from the Kung Flu. At worst, 3.4% of Americans will die from this virus, he said. What do you say to people that have that view? That's 11 million people he's talking about. TRUMP: Well, I can just say the entire world is agreeing with us, because there are--they all have their choice and everybody's doing the exact same thing. We want to shut it out, and we can do that and we'll see what happens in two weeks or three weeks. But if we can save thousands of lives, and even millions of lives, potentially--you don't know where it goes, but you could be talking about millions of lives. So, if you look at the--the world, I mean, you have some very smart people in the world. You have some smart leaders in the world. And everybody's doing it the way we're doing it. I think we're doing a better job than hopefully most, if not all. We're doing a very effective job, but we'll--we'll know better in 14 or 15 days. But, you know, you're talking about hundreds of thousands and maybe more than that numbers of people. And, you know, we can bring our finances back very quickly. We can't bring the people back. QUESTION: Mr. President, to follow up on that, there are millions of people out there that share that view, that say I don't really need to shut things down. I don't really need to stay away from the stores. I don't--I can go to the beach. And those people making multiple actions exponentially--it's the difference between life and death, isn't it? TRUMP: Yeah, I agree with that. But I think I'd like to have Anthony answer that because, to be honest, that's what he does. And he--we had a lot of--a lot of very talented people telling us what they think we should do. FAUCI: Thank you, Mr. President. Well, I--first of all, I think that's a false equivalency to--to compare traffic accidents with--I mean, that's totally way out. That's really a false equivalency. When you have something that is new and its emerging and you really can't predict totally the impact it's going to have, and you take a look at what's going on in China and you see what's going on right now, right now in Italy and what's happening in New York City, I don't think with any moral conscience you could say what we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die. I don't understand that reasoning at all. QUESTION: Mr. Trump? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Okay. So, the secretary of state will be leaving. Any other question for him? QUESTION: Mr. President, do you still-- TRUMP: --Go ahead in the back, please. QUESTION: --Favor direct payments-- TRUMP: --In the back for Mike-- QUESTION: --To Americans. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr.-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. I didn't call on you. Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President; two things. In New York cases are doubling every day. They fear that supplies are going to run out in a matter of weeks. Yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio called on you to mobilize the military to deliver urgent supplies. Yesterday he said, "The fate of New York City rests in the hands of one man. He is a New Yorker and right now he is betraying the city he comes from." I've personally spoken to emergency department nurses who say that they're being told not to wear N95 masks because supplies are so low. So, how do you respond to those remarks by Mayor DeBlasio? TRUMP: Well, I just think this. QUESTION: And too, there have been doctors looking to-- TRUMP: --I'm--deal--I'm not dealing--yeah-- QUESTION: --You. When will those supplies rise? TRUMP: I'm not dealing with him. I'm dealing with the governor and the governor agrees with me and I agree with him. So far we been very much in sync. I--I guess they're not agreeing with each other necessarily. But the relationship with New York, I love New York. I grew up in New York, as you probably have heard, and the relationship's been a very good. And I think government and the governor have been getting along incredibly well with the federal government. Okay. Mike, thank you. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Sir-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Wolf, if I could. Just on--on illegal entries of people who are OTM, how will the turn back process work? Will they be taken to a common area and then put on a plane and sent back to Northern Triangle countries or others? I mean, how would that process work? WOLF: Again, it's a--it's a public health crisis. If so, what we're trying to do is limit the--the amount of contact that we have with these individuals, not putting them in Border Patrol facilities-- WOLF: ICE detention facilities and the like. Sue is going to be very rapid. We're going to obviously take them into custody and then--and then send them back to a port of entry or other means. So it will be very quickly. It will be that 6 or 7 or 10 days that we currently have, it will be much more rapid. QUESTION: But if they are OTM, will you--will they be taken to an airfield nearby or-- WOLF: That's correct. That's correct. QUESTION: And sent back-- WOLF: That's correct. QUESTION: Mr. President TRUMP: Anybody? Anybody? QUESTION: Mr. President, the checks to Americans, the bill as proposed creates sort of tiers of checks for income. TRUMP: Yeah, it will be. QUESTION: Do you believe philosophically that makes sense? TRUMP: Well, we're working on--well, we believe in a lot of things. I want to get workers money. And whichever way the best way to get it, and I want to keep the businesses open to because without the businesses, they're not going to be getting money for very long, but were going to be--going to be talking QUESTION: Is there enough money in that bill as it's written rhetoric is there enough or do you want to see it juiced up? TRUMP: If not, we'll do something later, I'm sure. I'm sure we will. QUESTION: Mr. President, a follow-up on that. Mr. President, I follow up on that. QUESTION: Wall Street analysts are predicting and unemployment numbers can skyrocket next week. But some analysts say as many as 3 million people applying for unemployment, which would be a historic number in a one-week spread. So is a $1000 check going to cut it? Is I going to be enough? TRUMP: We're not talking about $1000 check. We're talking about much more than that. Were also talking about doing faces if this doesn't work. We're going to keep doing it until we get it going. And, frankly, we are once we get the economy back, and once this enemy is defeated, the invisible enemy, as I call it, once it's defeated, we get the economy back, it's going to all come back to us very quickly. It comes back very--we have a tremendous economy. We do numbers like no other country has ever done before. Number one in the world if you go back two weeks and still, obviously, but if you go back two weeks, number one in the world by far. That money comes back to us very rapidly. We want to keep it--we wanted to have it so that when, not if, but when we went to war with the invisible enemy, when we went it, these companies can immediately start. Not that they have to start rebuilding, which takes a long time. Steve? QUESTION: Are you confident that those are jobs that will come back? TRUMP: Steve, please. QUESTION: What projections-- TRUMP: --I'm confident-- QUESTION: --What projections for job losses in March and April are you hearing? TRUMP: Well, we're looking at different numbers. We have a best case and a not best case. But the big thing is to defeat the virus. Once that virus is defeated, Steve, I think everything else falls into place very rapidly. I think you're going to have a tremendous upswing. A lot of people agree with me. A lot of, if you look at your stock market geniuses and some of whom are not geniuses, but they think they are, a lot of people think that I'm right about that that once we defeat the virus, I think you're going to have a very steep like a rocket ship. It's going to go up and everything will be back. And I really believe were going to be stronger than ever before. Yeah, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, on the issue of supplies, you've told governors to try to find whatever supplies they can on their own. TRUMP: Absolutely. QUESTION: But some of them are now saying when they go to try to buy them, they're being outbid by the federal government. TRUMP: Well, you heard my news conference yesterday-- QUESTION: --So what--what do you expect those governors to do-- TRUMP: --That was sort of yesterday's news. No, that does happen because they want to buy supplies. We want to buy as a backup to them in case they get--and sometimes that will happen, but regardless of who gets them, when they need them, we're getting them to them. Now, we're doing the production act, were doing it very much, and we have a lot of things to think right now at a high level. Remember this, nothing like this has ever happened before. Over 140 countries and you have supply chains that are broken down for two reasons, because they can't supply that much, because people are sick. They can't be on the chain. So you have a lot of interesting things all over the world. You have supply chains the breakdown because of the illness and also because of the fact, the quantity. But we're getting it ordered, or getting it done, and the--if you just had to--look, some of you were at the call yesterday where I spoke with the governors, almost all of the governors, and every one of them was very impressed with what we've done. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go-ahead, in the middle, please. QUESTION: There are reports that the Labor Department has told states not to disclose their unemployment numbers. Do you agree with that decision? TRUMP: I'd have to talk to him. I would have to talk to him. QUESTION: And just one more clarifier if I could-- TRUMP: --Second question-- QUESTION: --I just want to be clear. Are you saying that the administration is requiring these industries to--to create these products or just asking? TRUMP: You know, so far, we haven't had too. It's an amazing thing that happened. We're getting calls from automobile companies, returning calls from other companies saying they have plant capacity. They want to make ventilators, they want to make other things. We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that wanted to do the work. They want to do the job. They want to help us, they want to help our country. So wait we haven't had a problem with that at all. QUESTION: Mr. President, how do you help out states and localities that are trying to bid on things like ventilators and other items that are being outbid by the federal government? TRUMP: Well, when they call us, they let us know. If there's a conflict, they will call us and we will drop our bid because we want them to go first because they're point--they're point-of-sale. So we've had four or five instances where literally that was happening because, you know, were both trying to get stock and if were going against, they will call us, the smart ones, frankly, will call us and we will immediately--we want them to buy it because it gets to them quicker if they buy it. QUESTION: Do they know that they're-- TRUMP: --We really--they know that and it's happening more and more where their calling and they say we're bidding against each other. They want to get it. There(ph) get it much quicker that way. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Azar. There are labs across the country that don't have the testing supplies they need. What specific actions is the administration-- TRUMP: --Well, it's going very well. I'll tell you what. QUESTION: What specific actions-- TRUMP: --We inherited an obsolete deal and we made a good thing out of it. I haven't heard that question in a while, but go ahead. AZAR: Yeah, so first, and were making tremendous progress in terms of lab testing. Tens of thousands of tests are being done every single day both through the CDC and the public health labs as well as now through the private sector commercial labs. They're getting to scale, they have supplies, they have high throughput. We do hear anecdotally, occasionally of, say, a public health lab or another one that has a concern about this supply or that supply. Through FEMA, we actually are standing up laboratory task force to answer those questions. Usually, it's that the lab people do not understand that there are actually alternative supplies in the marketplace that they are perfectly free to use. We've actually had to put out some common myths and truths about that. For instance, the other day, we were getting calls from governors saying we don't have swabs. There are no swabs. There are no swabs. Our supply people went in the open marketplace and bought 200,000 swabs in the open market and I just sent a letter to every governor sending them swabs. So some of it just they aren't listening or checking with us about all the freedom, all the capacities out there. It's a complex system with 300 million Americans in all of these labs, so sometimes there's a lab that doesn't understand how much electability they have and how much supply there is out there. And were working through the new FEMA integration center to help correct that for folks. QUESTION: Secretary Azar-- TRUMP: --Mike, do you want to say about the-- PENCE: --He happy to-- TRUMP: --Tests, how well that's working PENCE: Well, as I said, more and more tests are being performed every day and, as we learn about the results that are being reported around the country of coronavirus tests, our experts continue to look at the numbers and see some 90 percent of Americans that are tested do not test positive for the coronavirus. And so it can give you a sense of the magnitude of testing that's going on. We have the number of cases that we've reported today, but it's--it's in some cases near to 10 times that that have been tested. But let me also emphasize how important it was in answering these questions for governors and local officials that the president stood up FEMA and the national response Center where we brief governors yesterday. Now every governor and their State Department, state health departments have the ability to reach out with--to our regional FEMA administrators, and that's how, as the president said, we are sorting out those potential conflicts between very significant federal purchases and procurements and--and as hospitals and state governments are purchasing as well. I think the new streamlined system operating now in all 50 states and our territories of governors and states going through their regional administrator for FEMA is going to make it more possible for us to ensure that our hospitals, our healthcare providers have access to what's available on the open market and elsewhere. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President, you're the head of the task force. You've seen the numbers, you spoken to average Americans. You're a former governor. What do you say to Americans right now who are watching and who are scared? PENCE: I would say do not be afraid, be vigilant. All the experts tell us that the risk of serious illness to the average American for the coronavirus is low, but we need every American to put into practice the presidents coronavirus guidelines 15 days to slow the spread because the coronavirus is about 3 times more contagious than the flu according to our best estimate and you can contract the coronavirus, have very mild symptoms, if any, not even be aware that you have it, and expose someone who is vulnerable to a very serious health outcome. That's the reason why we are encouraging people to avoid groups of more than 10, to not eat in restaurants, but to use drive-through's, to wash their hands on a regular basis. And particularly, we're going to continue, as the president has directed us to focus on the most vulnerable population which are seniors with serious underlying health conditions or anyone with an underlying immunodeficiency. It is those people we need to care for but it is going to take all of us working together to make sure they are safe. QUESTION: You just said that you haven't had to require companies to up their production of medical supplies but you said last night you invoked the DPA. I'm (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: When we need something--when we need something because of the act when we need something we order something and as you know two days ago I invoked the act which was a big step. I'm not sure that it had been done before certainly not very much and when we need something we will use the act. What has happened is before we even go out many, many companies great companies, companies in a totally different business are willing to do things and make things because that is what they do they make product. They are willing to make product for us, medical product that we need very badly for the states, that the states can't get, they haven't been able to get and you know most of the states in no way did they do anything wrong. They were stocked up, they were all equipped. Unfortunately they have never had a thing like this so they need help from the federal government. QUESTION: This is important. You haven't actually directed any companies to start making more ventilators or mask? TRUMP: I have. I have. Yes, I have. QUESTION: How many (INAUDIBLE)? TRUMP: And they are making a lot of ventilators and they are making a lot of masks. Go ahead please. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President partially following up on that are--are your automakers right now who are retooling their production facilities to make ventilators or-- JONES: I can't say they are but they will be very shortly because we are working with one in particular that wants to make ventilators. They called us yesterday and they are already were working on a transaction. They are going to make ventilators. They say they have done it before which surprised me but they can't do it very easily. QUESTION: This is partially for you, partially for Secretary Azar. You said yesterday that you have spoken to Carnival(ph) corporation's chairman-- TRUMP: (INAUDIBLE) QUESTION: And he said that he could donate some ships-- TRUMP: No, not donate. That's not (INAUDIBLE) donate. QUESTION: Not donate, okay, land. Land. TRUMP: He's not giving them, he's (INAUDIBLE) use them. I spoke with Mickey Harrison(SP) who is the President, Chairman, CEO and owner he's got every title you can have. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) to potentially-- TRUMP: He said--he said to me that he was willing to if we need ships, if we need ships for helping people that carnival would be absolutely willing to help us in Los Angeles and New York, wherever they may be in Miami, where they are very big. If we needed something they would be willing to. So far we haven't needed to and we are bringing the big hospital ships up in California. We haven't, we are working with the governor of California as you know with Gavin and we haven't made a determination. We are also talking to folks (INAUDIBLE) Seattle so we are discussing where it can be most useful. We have spoken with Governor Cuomo and we are bringing the big hospital ship up in two weeks and we are going to have it in New York harbor some place in New York. QUESTION: So--so my question is one, it sounds like you haven't taken them up on it yet but-- TRUMP: No, I have taken them up. I said if we needed I will let you know. That is called taking them up. QUESTION: And--and secondly-- TRUMP: Right now we don't need them. QUESTION: The ships have a lot of frequently contacted surfaces and so this is where you come in Secretary Azar potentially Dr. Fauci do you have concerns about those cruise ships being used as hospitals? TRUMP: Well, I can tell you they are very clean and also those surfaces the German is you know the virus disappears over a period of time in the ships are very clean. They happen Very clean. They have been gone over but the virus as you know if it is on a surface for a certain they have actually charts, different kinds of surfaces it disappears over a period of time. QUESTION: Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: I mean what are you trying to get it? Go ahead. QUESTION: Well, that is what I'm asking. Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: It disappears. The--the virus disappears when it is on surface after a certain number of days or in some cases hours depending on the surface it's on. Please. QUESTION: A quick follow-up. So can you say can you name any of the companies that just asked to start making these ventilators or facemask? TRUMP: I will be but first I want to get the approval from the company because I don't want to be doing that. I assume they would like it but I will let you know. QUESTION: Okay. Well thank you and this is for Dr. Fauci-- TRUMP: One company that has openly stated it is General Motors. QUESTION: So that is one of--did you--did the government asked General Motors? TRUMP: I didn't speak to them about announcing it but I will announce it. I am sure they wouldn't be but we have others also. QUESTION: Okay, thank you. So for Dr. Fauci there is new research out that the CDC has released that many of the people that or the 13% of people with the prone a virus got it from someone that was asymptomatic so my question is does that change the way the approach that should be taken if you think that is the case or I mean do you think that or do you not agree with that research? FAUCI: The recommendations that are here applies to whether you are in physical contact with someone who could be infected with symptoms versus asymptomatic. I don't think it really changes anything. Certainly there is some degree of asymptomatic transmissibility. It is still not quite clear exactly what that is but when people focus on that I think they take their eye off the real ball which is the things you do will mitigate against getting infected no matter whether you are near someone who was asymptomatic or not. It is the same thing. Physical separation in the care that is outlined here is going to take care of both of those things. QUESTION: Mr. President, I have a question about testing. When will every American who needs a test get a test and be able to get a test and why not have medical equipment being shipped right now to hospitals who need it-- TRUMP: We are hearing very positive things about testing and just so you understand we don't want every American to go out and get a test. 350 million people. We don't want that. We want people that--that have a problem, that have a problem with they are sneezing, they are sniffling, they don't feel good, they have a temperature, there are a lot of different things. You know--you know them better than I do. So ready? We don't need that but what we are having is we are having these private labs have come and they have been really fantastic and we also have a great system for the future because as I said we inherited--we meaning this administration and obsolete broken system that wasn't meant for anything like this. Now we have a system that you can see because look, we are well into this and nobody is even talking about it except for you which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are Americans-- TRUMP: Which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are of Americans that will say that they have symptoms and they can't get a test. What--what do you say to the Americans-- TRUMP: I am not hearing it. We don't want everyone to go out and get a test because there's no reason for it. Yeah? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Americans who have symptoms -- TRUMP: We will do one more after this. QUESTION: So I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci (INAUDIBLE) is one of the people who is now suggesting that the real way to get to the end of this or life to return to normal is for every single person living in this country to be tested that way you could see who is contagious and you could then have people who don't have it go back to work. Is there any possibility this country could ever get to a point where every single person could be tested and how long would that take? FAUCI: Thank you for the question. I have heard that before. I don't see--I don't connect the dots they are. I don't see how testing everybody in the country is going to help you to implement this. This should be implemented universally at least at this level for everyone. The things we spoke about a while ago that you want to really ratchet it up like the governor Newsom is doing in California, like Governor Cuomo is doing in New York or how you put an end to this outbreak testing is important. It would be nice to know and there are certain things you could do but let's not conflate testing with the action that we have to take. Whether or not you test do this. I'm not--I'm not putting down testing as an important issue that people seem to link them so much that if you don't have universal testing you can't respond to the outbreak. You really can. TRUMP: What I do think and that's after listening to Tony and everybody else that's an expert I do think it is important that not everybody be tested. If you feel great and if you have no symptoms whatsoever it's just not a good thing to be doing. All right. Steve(SP) please. QUESTION: A question for Dr. Fauci. Yesterday you mentioned the possibility of aerosol transmission of the virus. How likely is that to happen? FAUCI: That--the possibility of aerosol transmission always comes up when you have situations like that. It comes up with influenza, it came up with SARS in which there was a documented you know one off episode of some aerosol transmission. Aerosol means that it can stay in the air for a period of time because it is in a droplet that is very small and doesn't go down. Is it possible that there is aerosol transmission? Yeah, it certainly is but clearly what we have seen in the situations where people have gotten infected from the areas that we have experienced China, South Korea, now Europe most of it is in a situation where people are close enough to each other that asymptomatic person will have a real droplet transmission. So I am not ruling out the possibility that it is aerosol but again it's not going to substantially change doing this. QUESTION: Let me just ask this in a very simple way. What is the demand pressure on testing in this country and are we meeting it? FAUCI: I get the same calls that many of you get that someone goes into a place who has a symptom and wants to get it tested for one reason or another multiple logistic technical what have you they can get it. That is the reality that is happening now. Is it the same as it was a few weeks ago? Absolutely not, because as the secretary and others have said, right now that we have the private sector involved, the availability--not only just availability, but the implementation of the availability is getting better and better and better. Having said that, I--I understand and empathize with the people who rightfully are saying I'm trying to get a test and I can't. QUESTION: So--so, is that a way of saying we are not yet at a point where we are meeting the demand pressure? FAUCI: Well, the answer is yes, John. We're not there yet because otherwise people would be never calling up saying they can get a test. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, I just want to make sure-- TRUMP: --You want to finish that? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Go ahead. I think you might have a response. PENCE: Well, I just can't emphasize enough about the incredible progress that we have made on testing. All of you are reporting and--and media outlets around the country are as well that--that many, many more tests are being performed every day literally by the tens of thousands. And this has only been made possible because several weeks ago the president brought in the commercial labs, these enormous companies, Quest and LabCorp, working with companies like Roche and the--and Abbott Laboratories and Thermo Fisher and said we have this existing system of state laboratories and the CDC processing tests for certain infections. But given the magnitude of this outbreak, the president apprehended early on that it wouldn't be enough to meet the need. And I just want every American to know that literally hour by hour in partnership with these extraordinary commercial labs we are making more and more tests available every day. We'll detail the--the way that we're working with states to distribute those tests. We've obviously focused on states that have been with the--with the most serious outbreaks of coronavirus, Washington State, California, New York, and others. We've been making sure the tests are in those areas, working closely with those governors. But I think the American people should be encouraged at the progress that we are making. Tomorrow, we'll take some time to detail that progress for (INAUDIBLE) who might be concerned that they have symptoms. As the president said so well, we--we don't want every healthy American to get a test. But if people feel that they have symptoms that they identify with the coronavirus, call your doctor. Their doctor can call their state health authorities. They can work very closely with our entire team through HHS and FEMA and work to identify the more and more tests are available every day. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President? TRUMP: Just--just so you know--just for the probably 100th time, I, this administration, inherited an obsolete, broken, old system that wasn't meant for this. We discarded that system and we now have a new system that can do millions of people as you need them. But we had to get rid of a broken, old system that didn't work. It worked only on a very limited basis. And we're very proud of what we've done. It's incredible what we've done. And this system will now serve them for the future for future problems. Hopefully you don't have a problem like this, but something will come up. We have now a great system, and it's almost fully in gear, but is able to test millions of people. But we inherited a broken, old, frankly a terrible system. We fixed it and we've done a great job. And we haven't been given the credit that we deserve, that I can tell you. But the one that really deserves the credit are the American people, because they are doing things that nobody thought they would do. What they are doing is incredible. And we're making a lot of progress. And we'll see you folks tomorrow. Thank you very much.

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1145 WH COVID19 TASK FORCE BRIEF ROBO HEAD ON UNI FS36 87 TRUMP: Thank you very much. I had a very good telephone conversation extremely good with Senator Schumer a little while ago. We are working on various elements of the deal, and the Democrats are very much wanting something to happen, and the Republicans likewise are very much wanting something to happen, and I think it will. I spoke with--at length with Mitch McConnell and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my conversation was very good with Senator Schumer. I thank you all for joining us, and I would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the Chinese virus on our nation's students. With many schools closed due to the virus the Department of Education will not enforce standardized testing requirements, very importantly for students in elementary through high school for the current year. They have been through a lot. They been going back and forth schools open, schools not open it's been all standardized testing, and you know it's we are not going to be enforcing that. So I think you can let people know. I think probably a lot of the students will be extremely happy some probably not the ones that work hard maybe not, but it's one of those things. Unfortunate, very unfortunate circumstance. We have also temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. They will be very happy to hear that, and I have instructed them to take that action immediately, and today Secretary DeVos has directed federal lenders to allow borrowers to suspend their student loans and loan payments without penalty for at least the next 60 days, and if we need more, we will extend that period of time. Borrowers should contact their lenders, but we have given them very strong instructions. So we have temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. That's a big thing. That's going to make a lot of students are happy. And we have more to come on student loans, more good news for the students but we will do that at a different time. This morning the Treasury Department also announced that we are moving tax day from April 15 to July 15. So we are moving it out to July 15 so that people will have time and people will be able to hopefully by that time we'll have people getting back to their lives. Families and businesses who have this extra time to file with no interest or penalties we're getting rid of interest and penalties however, if you have refunds or credits you would like to claim you may still file. In other words you can file early if you are owed money by the IRS. Other than that, we are moving at all of the way out to July 15, no interest, no penalties. Your new date will be July 15. Today our team will also provide an update on our continuing effort to prevent the transmission of virus across America's borders. And I watched what's been happening in California with Governor Newsom and this morning with Governor Cuomo, and I applaud them. They are taking very strong bold steps, and I applaud them, and we are all working together we are working very closely together including those two governors. But I would say based on the call the media was there I think we can say that with respect to virtually every governor on the call I think every governor we had almost all of them if not all of them and I would say that you could see for your selves the level of respect and (INAUDIBLE) working together was extraordinary. There was nobody angry, nobody upset. We are able to help them, and that is what we are all about. We want to help--we are doing things that a lot of people wouldn't be able to do but the relationship with governors and states is I think very extraordinary especially under the circumstances where this just came upon us. We are working with Canada and Mexico to prevent the spread of the virus across North America very closely. You heard what we did yesterday with Canada and Secretary of State Pompeo will be making a statement in a little while having to do with Mexico and the border and Chad likewise. Chad Wolfe will likely be making a statement. There is a joint comprehensive effort in collaboration with our neighbors. The measure and all of those measures that we are putting in place will protect the health of all three nations and reduce the incentive for a mass global migration that would badly deplete the healthcare resources needed for our people and so we are working very closely with Mexico. Very, very closely with Canada, the relationship has never been better. We are all working for the same--toward the same goal. Our nation's top healthcare officials are extremely concerned about the great public health consequences of mass uncontrolled cross-border movement, and that would be mostly and even beyond but mostly during this global pandemic. Every week our border agents encounter thousands of unscreened, unvetted, and unauthorized entries from dozens of countries, and we have had this problem for decades, for decades. You know the story, but now it's the national emergencies, and all of the other things that we have declared we can actually do something about it. We are taking a very strong hold of that and we have before, but this is now at a level that nobody has ever approached. In normal times these massive flows place a vast burden on our healthcare system, but doing a global pandemic, they threaten to create a perfect storm that would spread the infection to our border agents, migrants, and to the public at large. Left unchecked, this would cripple our immigration system, overwhelm our healthcare system, and severely damage our national security. We are not going to let that happen. So we have a lot of information, and they will be discussing that in a moment. To confront these public health degrees, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to exercise its authority under the Title 42 of the U.S. code to give Customs and Border Protection the tools it needs to prevent the transmission of the virus coming through both the northern and the southern border so we're treating the borders equally. The northern border and the southern border. It is being treated--they are both being treated equally; a lot of people say that they are not treated equally well, they are. As we did with Canada, we are also working with Mexico to implement new roles at our ports of entry to suspend nonessential travel. These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce furthermore, Mexico has taken action to secure our own southern border and suspend their travel for Europe so we are coordinating very closely with the air travel going to Mexico and then try to come into the United States. The actions we are taking together with our North American partners will save countless lives. At the conclusion of my remarks Secretary Azar, Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Wolfe we are going to be also taking some questions with Tony and Debora who you've gotten to know very well but they will be discussing certain things, and I think you'll find them a great interest. We are going to be providing tremendous amounts of detail over the coming days, but a lot of it will be provided right now if you would like to find out about it. There's been a week of resolute action, tremendous action, tremendous relationships have developed with people that frankly didn't get along, people that didn't like each other they are now working together and maybe even in some cases learning about each other and liking each other; that's a nice thing. I invoked the Defense Production Act, and last night we put it into gear. We move the national response coordination highest level of act--I mean if you--if you take a look at what we did the level of activation has been increased to a grade one level. We are providing historic support to small businesses and to the states. The states need support normally they would do this themselves, but because of the magnitude of it, the federal government has gotten very much involved in terms of getting the equipment they need, so we are helping them. It's a responsibility they have, but we are helping the states a lot that is why the governors I think in every case have been impressed and very nice. We enacted legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers at no cost to employers, and I think it's very important, so they get paid sick leave at no cost to employers. We are considering the use of new drug treatments. We are advancing legislation to give direct payments to hard-working families. Throughout our country Americans from all walks of life are rallying together to defeat the unseen TRUMP: enemy striking our nation. In times of struggle we see the true greatness of the American character and we are seeing that. A lot of people are talking about it. We are at 141 countries, from what they are telling me, and some of those countries are really working in a unified manner and they're working very unified with us, almost, I can say a good number of them. Doctors and nurses are working nonstop to heal the sick. Citizens and churches are delivering meals to the needy. Truckers are making the long haul to keep shelves stocked. We've been dealing with the big stores in the big chains, Walmart, they've been fantastic, and others. They've all been fantastic. We have made it much easier for them to stock in terms of travel and travel restrictions. We are lifting restriction so they can get their trucks on time. You're seeing very few empty shelves, and yet the amount of volume that they are doing is unprecedented because people want to have what they have to have, what they feel they have to have. And they are also buying in slightly smaller quantities which is good because we're not going anywhere. We're going to be here. So I want to thank all of those very great companies for working so well. Americans from every walk of life are coming together. And thanks to the spirit of our people, we will win this war. We are. We're winning and were going to win this war. America will triumph and America will rise higher than ever before. It will be stronger than ever before and we've learned a lot. We've learned a lot. We've learned a lot about relying on other countries and I can say that I think in both very good and very bad way. Some good things came out of it and some not so good things came out of it. So I'd like to move now to invite our team to provide information on the new measures to prevent viral spread at our borders, and I'll start by asking Secretary of State Pompeo to speak. He's doing a fantastic job. And like everyone else, he's worked been working very, very long and very, very hard and he's doing the other more normal jobs of a great Secretary of State. But he got tied into this like everybody else and he's been doing really doing a fantastic job. Mike, please. POMPEO: Thank you, Mr. President. Before I address the efforts that we have been engaging to push back against the Chinese virus, I want to assure the American people that, as President Trump just said, your State Department, your entire national security team is staying focused on the other diplomatic challenges around the world. Those include reducing risk to America from Afghanistan, holding the Iranian regime accountable for its malign activities and our counterterrorism efforts against ISIS remain a priority for our team. Our number one priority across those mission sets remains the protection of the American people. The president and our team are very focused on it. I'll take this moment to thank my teams, State Department team whose working long hours all around the world to take care of Americans who are stuck places around the world. I'll talk about that more in just a minute. You've all seen Dr. Birx with me. State Department officials are doing great work, but I want to--I want to give a shout out to all of the State Department team here in Washington and around the world are working overtime to help us push back against this pandemic. Under the presidents leadership this week, we've taken two important steps. First, as President Trump announced on Wednesday, the United States and Canada jointly agreed to restrict all nonessential traffic across our border. This decision goes into effect tonight at midnight and the restriction will be reviewed after 30 days and they exclude traffic and movement across the border for work or other essential reasons. We're grateful to have such an outstanding friend to the north who is committed as we are to defeating this virus. I also want to announce today that the United States and Mexico have agreed to restrict nonessential travel across our shared border. Both our countries know the importance of working together to limit the spread of the virus to ensure the commerce that supports our economy continues to keep flowing. Here to the United States is glad to have a friend who's working side--side beside us in the fight. Secretary Wolf will talk a little bit more about the details of how we're working alongside our partner in Mexico to keep our southern border safe and secure as well. On another note, yesterday, the state department issued level four global travel advisory. This means that all international travel from U.S. citizens should be avoided. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who reside in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States unless they're prepared to remain abroad for an extended time. If you choose to travel internationally, your travel plans may well be severely disrupted. And finally, I wanted to talk about the disinformation the people are seeing both on Twitter and around the world. Some of it coming from government, some of it coming from other individuals. I did just urge everyone as they are seeing information--information that at one time suggested somehow this virus emanated from the United States Army, this information--information about lockdowns that are taking place, every American, indeed people all around the world should ensure that where they turn to for information is reliable source and not a bad actor trying to create and flow information that they know is wrong. This is a tough fight. The American people are tougher. Our diplomatic teams are working around the clock to help them keep safe both home and abroad and we're showing once again the global leadership that America has always delivered. It's been great to see countries around the world rallied behind what President Trump and her team are doing. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. We'll take questions right after this. Chad Wolf, please. WOLF: Well, let me start off by thanking the president and the Vice President for their continued leadership and commitment for protecting the American people during this crisis. Early on, the president again took unprecedented actions to restrict travel from areas affected with the coronavirus. And to date, DHS has a screen over 200,000 individuals coming back from those affected countries. This has been an immense undertaking but one that the men and women of DHS have successfully accomplished. Today's announcement is yet another example of the extraordinary steps the administration is taking to ensure the safety of the American public. Before I comment on the CDC ordered that I'm sure Secretary Azar will later elaborate on, let me first address the progress as Secretary Pompeo and others have made with our Canadian and Mexican partners regarding cross-border travel. As we continue to evaluate commonsense measures that reduce risk and prevent further spread, it only makes sense that we have looked to--look to the measures that are neighbors to the north and south are undertaking. And so we've been working closely with those partners since the earliest days of this virus and the outbreak. And again, as the president did--said earlier this week, and Secretary Pompeo, we've reached an agreement with both Canada and Mexico to limit--to limit nonessential travel across our land borders. Let me be clear that neither of these agreements with Canada or Mexico applies to lawful trade or commerce. Essential commercial activity will not be impacted. We will continue to maintain a strong and secure economic supply chain across our borders. A few examples of essential travel include but certainly are not limited to individuals traveling for medical purposes to attend educational institutions, for emergency response, public health services, and individuals engaged in lawful cross-border trade. As a secretary said, the agreements with both Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Saturday, March 21. Furthermore, were also working collaboratively with Canada and Mexico to take decisive joint action regarding individuals seeking entry between our ports of entry. The CDC order directs the department to suspend the introduction of all individuals seeking to enter the U.S. without proper travel documentation. That's for both the northern and southern border. CDC director has determined that the introduction and spread of the coronavirus in the departments border patrol stations and detention facilities presents serious danger to migrants, our frontline agents, and officers and the American people. So it's important to note that the department currently apprehends foreign nationals from over 120 different countries around the world, the vast majority of those having coronavirus cases. Many of these individuals arrived with little or no identity, travel, medical documentation, making public health risk determinations all but impossible. It's also important to note that the outbreak on our southern border would likely increase the start strain on health systems and our border communities, taking away important and lifesaving resources from American citizens. Tonight, again, at midnight, we will execute the CDC order by immediately returning individuals arriving without documentation to Canada, Mexico, as well as a number of other countries without delay. So again, CBP is positioned to execute these measures as we continue to keep our borders secure and safe. Before I conclude, let me just wrap up by thanking the brave men and women of DHS, specifically CBP and across the government for the work that they do day in and day out to keep the American people safe from the coronavirus. The department has a number of front-line officers that have been--have tested positive as well as others who are so quarantining. I am doing everything that I can to protect these patriots as they continue to defend our homeland during this crisis. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes, Secretary. AZAR: Today's announcement is just the latest in a long line of bold, decisive actions the President has taken to protect Americans from the coronavirus spreading across our borders. In January within two weeks of China's notifying WHO about the virus and with only 45 cases in China we began screening travelers from Wuhan. Then over time as the outbreak evolved the President restricted travel from China, Iran and Europe. Our health experts say that these measures have been truly effective at slowing the viruses spread to our shores. Just think about this. Italy and the United States both saw their first travel related case of coronavirus around the exact same time the last week of January and get we have had precious time to continue our work around vaccines, therapeutics and other preparations while Italy has tragically been overwhelmed with critical patients for several weeks now. The President today is taking action to slow the spread of infectious disease via our border. Under section 362 of the public health service act the CDC is suspending the entry of certain persons into the United States because of the public health risk that they are entry into the United States represents. This order applies to persons coming from Mexico and Canada who are seeking to enter the country illegally and who would normally be held and a congregant setting like a customs and border protection station. It does not apply to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. During this pandemic a number of health challenges arise when a legal immigrants arrive at our northern and southern borders and are taken into immigration custody. We are talking about significant numbers of the legal immigrants. From this past October through February DHS has processed more than 21,000 and admissible aliens at the northern border and more than 151,000 and admissible aliens that the southern border. CBP facilities were never designed to hold large numbers of people and to protect agents and migrants from infection during a pandemic nor to treat them for a novel virus if large numbers are infected. When held at border facilities these migrants were spreading the virus to other migrants, to CBP agents and border healthcare workers and even the United States population as a whole. In such circumstances the kind of social distancing measures the CDC and the President have recommended are simply not possible. On top of that any resources that we are using to reduce the risk of infection among CBP agents, healthcare workers and migrants in these facilities are drawing on American--and American healthcare system that is already fighting the coronavirus pandemic. That is why the President and his administration are taking these important steps to keep Americans and our immigration systems safe from these health risk as part of our whole of government approach to combating the coronavirus. Thank you Mr. President for the work that you have been doing throughout this crisis to slow the spread of the coronavirus and to keep our country safe. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. (INAUDIBLE) Tony or Deborah, please. BIRX: Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. So we continue to review the data very carefully from around the globe as I know many of you are. We continue to see signs that again individuals under 20, 19 and under may have severe disease but the majority and all have recovered to date. We still see that same trend and frankly from Italy we are seeing another concerning trend that the mortality in males seems to be twice in every age group of females. This should alert all of us to continue our vigilance to protect our Americans that are in nursing homes. This requires all of the community and when you see the sacrifices that many Americans have made, the sacrifices that the service industry has made to close their restaurants, close their bars and so that the spread is discontinued and then you really understand how all of Americans must make the same sacrifice. We continue to ask you to follow the presidential guidelines. No groups coming together of more than 10, that if anyone in the household is sick that everyone quarantines in the household together and that we continue to focus on those who have the most vulnerability to this illness. Now to the moms and dads out there that have children with immuno deficiencies or other medical conditions we don't know the level of risk and I know you will also protect them in the same way. There just is not enough numbers that this time to really tell them if they are at additional risk or not in the same way that adults are. I don't have any new data. I can see the look on your face saying is she's seeing something new? I don't have any new data about I think it is important for us to be as honest with the American people as we can and when we don't have data be very clear that we don't know. Finally no one is immune. I sometimes hear people on radio or others talking about I am immune to the virus. We don't know if the contagion levels are difference in age groups but we know it is highly contagious to everyone. Do not interpret mild or moderate disease as lack of contagion or that you are immune. You just happen to have a better email system and the ability to fight the virus in a way that may be older people or people with existing medical conditions can't and that is why it is very important that this moment that all of you care event message about the sacrifices that many have made particularly our service providers and our front-line healthcare workers. They are making that sacrifice every day so that every American can move through this well. But we need every American following the presidential guidelines. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Tony (INAUDIBLE). FAUCI: Thank you very much Mr. President. I just want to underscore a couple of things that I have said a few times to this group. You may recall that just a week ago or so I said the two pillars, the two elements of our capability to contain the infection and the--and the search of infections in this country rely on two things, keeping infections from coming from without in. We have been very successful in doing that with China and with your it. Now we have the northern and southern border issues. There is a fundamental public health reason for doing that because we cannot be preventing people from coming in from one area when they can go into the other so that is an important reason. Understand that there is a public health reason for doing that. The second thing I think is really important is what happened in New York today with Governor Cuomo mentioned about an hour ago some rather strong issues that have been addressed with his recommendations, not recommendations, essentially orders. Now we have a group of--of recommendations and guidelines that are applicable to the entire country. You know them, we have been over them yet there are places regions, states, cities in this country that are being stressed much, much more than the country as a whole. Clearly one of them was Washington, another one was California. Governor Newsom made some very important difficult decisions. Today Governor Cuomo did the same thing and I want to say I strongly support what he is doing and one think as a New Yorker myself for those of you who haven't figured out from my accent that I am from New York as a New Yorker I know what New Yorkers can do. We are tough. I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, and I know what the New Yorkers can do so please cooperate with your governor, cooperate with your mayor. It is very important. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Tony. PENCE: Thank you, Mr. President. The White House coronavirus task force met this morning and we continue at the president's direction to bring the full resources not just of the federal government but in full partnership with our state governments, businesses around the American and in partnership with the American people to respond to the threat of the coronavirus and I know I can speak on behalf of the President with confidence when I say how inspired we are by the way the American people and American businesses are coming together to help defeat this virus in our country. Millions of Americans are putting into practice the president's 15 day guidelines and we encourage everyone even those that are not in areas with significant outbreak to review these guidelines over the next week and more and put them into practice and you will continue to do your part. Later today we will be talking with manufacturers around the country and the President and I continue to be inspired by the way American industry is stepping forward. We have businesses around the country that are literally volunteering to retrofit plants to help us meet the needs of our healthcare workers and our healthcare system in confronting the coronavirus. As the President mentioned yesterday following his decision to put FEMA in the lead, the emergency declaration we actually met with all of the nation's governors from the FEMA national response coordination center. The President and I, our entire team at the federal level couldn't be more grateful for the efforts of all of our governors in implementing the guidance that is being issued not only from our task force but also in taking strong measures in their own communities to protect their citizens. We want to urge every American to heed your local authorities, listen to their guidance, and a--and also do your part to slow the spread. We reiterated to all of the governors that the president, by putting FEMA in the lead, will continue to implement a plan that is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported that puts the health of American first. We have received a report today, as the president mentioned, on our legislative team on Capitol Hill. We're working with Republicans and Democrats at this very hour to pass an economic recovery package that the president described, and we hope to see the Congress act on that early next week. On the subject of supplies, we continue to make steady progress on testing. Thanks to the president's involvement of commercial labs, the public and private partnership, more and more Americans are being tested every single day. And tomorrow, Admiral Giroir and FEMA will update the American public on the status of testing and our support of state-based testing efforts that are literally expanding by the hour. On the subject of medical supplies, we continue, at the president's direction, to pursue every means to expand the supply of personal protective equipment for the extraordinary and courageous healthcare workers that are ministering to the needs of people impacted by the coronavirus. We have a policy of procuring, allocating, as well as conserving the resources that we have in our system. And now that the president worked with the Congress to make industrial masks fully available for hospitals to be able to purchase, to be able to use as protective equipment, we're more encourage than ever about the availability of those important N95 masks to our healthcare facilities. And over this weekend, will be announcing a major procurement from the federal government of N95 masks as well. We're also encouraged that we are finding new alternatives to increase the supply of ventilators. We've mentioned that we have a federal stockpile, some 20,000 ventilators on--on standby, but that doesn't count the tens of thousands of ventilators that are in our healthcare system around the country. But the president has challenged us to work to free up other ventilators from other sources around the country, and there are two different ways that we're doing that. Number one, in our recent discussion with anesthesiologists, we've literally identified tens of thousands of existing ventilators that can be retrofitted and converted to be ventilators for people struggling with the coronavirus. But also, the president's behalf and behalf of all of our task force, we want to continue to urge every American and every American hospital and healthcare facility to postpone any elective medical procedures. This will free up bed space, free up hospital capacity for people that are struggling with the coronavirus, and it'll also free up equipment that our healthcare workers need. It is inspiring that we continue to receive reports that businesses around America are donating N95 masks to their local hospitals. Businesses large and small are donating hundreds, in some cases millions of N95 masks. And I know--I know how grateful the president is and we all are. And let me close by saying, as all of our experts have said many times, while the threat of serious illness to the average American from the coronavirus remains low, every American can do your part to reduce the burden on your health, on your family, the burden on our healthcare system, and especially the threat to the most vulnerable among us by putting into practice the president's 15 days to slow the spread. And as a president said at the outset of his remarks, I know that millions of Americans are doing that just now, and the greatness of the American character is shining forth. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. Okay. QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Thank you. Go ahead. QUESTION: You had a call with Senator Schumer. He says you've now agreed to invoke the Defense Production Act to actually make those medical supplies that hospital say are in severe shortage. So, two questions. Is that what you're doing now? TRUMP: It is. I did it yesterday. We invoked it I think the day before. We signed the evening of the day before and invoked yesterday. We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things, yes. QUESTION: So, you're using it now to tell businesses they-- TRUMP: --We are using it-- QUESTION: --Need to make ventilators, masks-- TRUMP: --We are-- QUESTION: --Respirators-- TRUMP: --We're going to for--for certain things that we need-- QUESTION: --Okay-- TRUMP: --Including--including some of the very important emergency--I would say ventilators, probably more masks to a large extent. We have millions of masks which are coming and which will be distributed to the states. The states are having a hard time getting them, so we--we're using the act. The act is very good for things like this. We have millions of masks that we've ordered. They will be here soon. We're having them shipped directly to state. QUESTION: So, you said you would only--that you are signing this but not invoking it. This is what you said yesterday, and that you would only do so in a worst case scenario. TRUMP: Yeah, last-- QUESTION: --So, are we now at a worst case scenario? TRUMP: We--we need--no, it's no different other than we need certain equipment that the states are unable to get by themselves. So, we're invoking it to use the powers of the federal government to help the states get things that they need, like the masks, like the ventilators. Yeah, Steve? QUESTION: Given what Governor Cuomo has done in a--in New York, is there any more consideration to a national lockdown to keep people in their homes? TRUMP: I don't think so. Essentially, you've done that in California. You've done that a New York. Those are really two hotbeds. Those are probably the two hottest of them all in terms of hotspots. I don't think so, because you got to the Midwest, you go out to other locations and--and they're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems. They don't have by--by any means the same problem. New York, California, Miami, the governor is doing an excellent job, Governor DeSantis in Florida. We have some pretty hotspots in Florida too. But we're general--and the state of Washington, of course, but that was largely--if you look at it, it was one nursing home that had problems like you wouldn't believe. So, no, we're working with the governors, and I don't think you'll--I don't think we'll ever find that necessary. QUESTION: So, we're about a week into your 15 days guidelines. Are you happy with the progress? Would you like to see-- TRUMP: --I am happy-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) 16 day? TRUMP: I am happy with it. We'll have to see what the results are at the end of 14 days, let's say. We'll know by the 15th day to see what we do. But I'm certainly honored by the way the American people are working, because it's work. It's work not to work. This is the first time this is ever happened, and we're working out a tremendous financial package for them so they don't work. Whoever heard of this? Usually you work out a financial package to get people working. We're asking people not to work; social distancing, new term that's become probably the hottest term there is. So, no, I'm very honored by the way the American people are--are taking this, I mean, so seriously. Yes, John (PH)? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for you in a question for Dr. Fauci, if I could. There's been some concern among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the phase three fiscal stimulus is weighted it too much in favor of corporations and not enough in terms of individuals. What did your conversations with Senator Schumer yield on that front? TRUMP: Well, I think that really all of that is being discussed right now. We talked about, as an example, buy back--stock buybacks. I don't want to have stock buybacks. I don't want people spending--I don't want some executive saying we're going to buy 200,000 shares of stock. I want that money to be used for the workers and also for the company, to keep the company going, but not for buybacks. I would--I mean, I haven't spoken to a lot of the Republicans or Democrats on it. We discussed it, and I--I don't like buybacks. I didn't like them the first time. QUESTION: Are you and Senator Schumer-- TRUMP: --So, we're always discussing--we're discussing that. We're discussing many things. QUESTION: Are you on the same page with Senator Schumer? TRUMP: We're not so far away, I'll tell you. We're not very--we're not very far away. QUESTION: And to Dr. Fauci, if I could, Dr. Fauci, as was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine as potential therapy for people who are infected with coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19? FAUCI: No. The answer is--is no. And--and the--the evidence that you're talking about, John, is anecdotal evidence. So, as the commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned yesterday, we're trying to strike a--a balance between making something with a potential of an--of an effect to the American people available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe and truly effective. But the information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any definitive statement about it. QUESTION: Mr. President, on that front-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: On those therapies-- TRUMP: --I think without seeing too much, I'm probably more of a fan of that than--maybe than anybody. But I'm a big fan, and we'll see what happens. And we all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct. It's early. You know, I see things that are impressive. We'll see. We're going to know soon. We're going to know soon, in--including safety. But, you know, when you get to safety, this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem. And it's very effective. It's a strong--it's a strong drug. So, we'll see. QUESTION: It was also apparently effective against SARS. TRUMP: It was a very--it was, as I understand that. I--is that a correct statement? --It was fairly effective on SARS. FAUCI: John, you've got to be careful when you say fairly affected. It was never done in a clinical trial. They compared it to anything. It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked, so you really-- QUESTION: --But was there anything to compare it to? FAUCI: Well, that's the point. Whenever you do a clinical trial and you do standard of care versus standard of care plus the agent you're evaluating. That's the reason why we showed back in the Ebola by particular interventions worked. QUESTION: Sir, on that topic-- QUESTION: --Mr. President-- QUESTION: --About the possible therapies, yesterday, Mr. President, you said that they were for "Immediate delivery, immediate." We heard that from Dr.-- TRUMP: We were ordering--yes. We had millions of units ordered. Bayer is one of the companies, as you know. Big company. Very big, very great company. Millions of units are ordered and we're going to see what happens. We're going to be talking to the governors about it and the FDA is working on it right now. The advantage is that it has been prescribed for totally different problem, but it has been described for many years and everybody knows the levels of--of the negatives and positives. But I will say that I am a man that comes from a very positive school when it comes to, in particular, one of these drugs. And we'll see how it works out, Peter. I'm not--I'm not saying it will, but I--I think that people may be surprised. By the way, that would be a game changer. We're going to know very soon, but--but we have ordered millions of units. It's being ordered from Bayer and there is another couple of companies also that--the do it. QUESTION: For clarity, Dr. Fauci said there is no magic drug for coronavirus right now, which you would agree. I guess on--on this issue-- TRUMP: --Well, I think we only-- QUESTION: --Is it possible-- TRUMP: --I think we should only-- QUESTION: --I'm sorry-- TRUMP: --I disagree. Maybe and maybe not. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. We have to see. We're going to know. QUESTION: Is it possible that-- TRUMP: --We're going to know soon. QUESTION: Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope-- TRUMP: --No, I don't think so-- QUESTION: --By misrepresenting the preparedness right now? TRUMP: No, I don't think so. I think that--I think it's got-- QUESTION: --A ship that's not ready to sail, that not yet approved drug. TRUMP: Such a lovely question. Look, it may work and it may not work and I agree with the doctor what he said. It may work, it may not work. I feel good about it. That's all it is. Just a feeling. You know, I'm a smart guy. I feel good about it. And we're going to see. You're going to see soon enough. And we have certainly some very big samples of people if you look at the people. You have a lot of people that are in big trouble and this is not a drug that, obviously, I think I can speak for a lot of--from a lot of expense because it's been out there for over 20 years. So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with. It's not like a brand-new drug that's been just created that may have an unbelievable monumental effect, like to kill you. We're going to know very soon. And I can tell you, the FDA is working very hard to get it out. Right now, in terms of malaria, if you wanted, you can have a prescription. You get a prescription. And by the way, and it's very effective, it works. I have a feeling you may--and I'm not being overly optimistic or pessimistic. I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try. I mean, there's been some interesting things happened and some good--very good things. Let's see what happens. We have nothing to lose. You know the expression what the hell do you have to lose, okay? QUESTION: So what you say to Americans-- QUESTION: (--INAUDIBLE--) QUESTION: --I'll just follow-up-- TRUMP: --John, go ahead. QUESTION: What do you say to the Americans were scared, though? I guess nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? TRUMP: I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --I think that's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope and you're doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Comcast. I don't call-- QUESTION: --With respect to though, you can provide that the-- TRUMP: --I don't call it Comcast. I call it Concast (SP). Let me just--just--for whom you work. Let me just tell you something. That's really bad reporting and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let's see if it works. It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it but who knows? I've been right a lot. Let's see what happens. John. QUESTION: Can I go back to the science and the logistics here-- TRUMP: --You ought to be ashamed of yourself. QUESTION: The units that were ordered, are they for clinical trials? Are they for distribution to the general patient population? TRUMP: We are going to, I as an as I understand it, we are going to be taking samples in New York. Governor Cuomo very much is interested in this drug and they are going to work on it also after they get a certain approval. We are waiting for one final approval from the FDA, we'll see what happens. But will use it on people that are not doing great or even at the beginning of not feeling well. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) under the modified-- TRUMP: --And John, what do we have to lose? QUESTION: So this would-- TRUMP: --Wait, John, it's been out there for so long. We hear good things. Let's see. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't. QUESTION: I understand all that. I'm just thinking the application here. So that would be under sort of a modified compassionate access? TRUMP: We're doing that, I guess, and that's what it's called, yeah. Yes. QUESTION: I would like Dr. Fauci, if you don't mind, to follow up on what the president is saying. Should Americans have hope in this drug right now? And sir, I would like to follow-up on Peter's question here. Could you please issue--address Americans in this country who are scared right now? This is a very valid concern that people have. FAUCI: No, there really isn't that much of a difference in many respects with what we're saying. The president feels optimistic about something. His feeling about it. What I'm saying is that it might--it might be effective. I'm not saying that it isn't. It might be effective. But as a scientist, as we are getting it out there, we need to do it in a way as while we are making it available for people who might want the hope that it might work, you also collecting data that will ultimately show that it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of COVID-19. So there really isn't different, it's just a question of how one feels about it. QUESTION: Is there any reason to believe it's not safe? FAUCI: Well, certainly as a drug--any drug, John, has some toxicities. The decades of experience that we have with this drug indicate that the toxicities are rare and they are, in many respects, reversible. What we don't know is when you put it in the context of another disease whether it's safe. Fundamentally, I think it probably is going to be safe, but I'd like to prove things first. So it really is a question of not a lot of difference. It's the hope that it will work versus proving that it will work. So I don't see big differences here. TRUMP: I agree. QUESTION: Sir, your message to Americans-- TRUMP: --I agree-- QUESTION: --Who are working at home or had their children in their homes right now who are homeschooling-- TRUMP: --Here we go. Go ahead-- QUESTION: --Doctors who say they don't have the masks they need to do their jobs. Your message to them. TRUMP: My message to the American people is that there is a very low incidence of death. You understand that. And we're going to come through this stronger than ever before. If you get it, if you happen to get it, it is highly unlikely. It's looking like it's getting to a number that's much smaller than people originally thought in terms of the ultimate--the ultimate problem, which would be death. My message to the American people is, number one, you've done an incredible job, incredible, which you've gone through. It's been incredible. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't the fault of 140 other countries where this has happened. And there is a tremendous hope and I think we're going to come out stronger, better, bigger. In every way I think we're going to be a better country than we were before and we learned a lot. We learned on reliance, who to rely on, who not to rely on. But our country--our country has been incredible the way they pull together, including the fact that I just spoke to Senator Schumer. We had a wonderful commercial conversation. We both want to get to a good solution. But it's been, really for me, watching and seeing people that work speaking getting along well because we all have one common aim, and that's to get rid of this invisible enemy, get rid of it fast, and then go back to the kind of economy that we had and maybe even better. Yeah, please, in the back. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, in the back, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, two questions, if you'll indulge me. That first question is many small businesses are concerned that they have weeks, not months, and are worried about how long it will take-- TRUMP: --We're going to be helping them a lot and were going to be focused--the big focus and including my conversation with both Mitch and with Chuck, a big focus of that conversation was small businesses because they are really the engine behind our country more so than the big ones. They are the engine behind our country. QUESTION: Second, if I may, sir, are you concerned about numbers of Congress that may have used information they learned on updates to sell stocks and profit off of this? TRUMP: I'm not aware of it. I saw some names. I'm not--I know all of them. I know everyone mentioned Diane Feinstein, I guess, and a couple of others. I don't know too much about what it's about, but I find them to all be very honorable people. That's all I know and they--they said they did nothing wrong. I find them, the whole group, very honorable people. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Can I follow-up, Mr. President? So the whole group would include Richard Burr, the head of the intelligence committee and it also would include Senator Kelly Loeffler, and so the question is whether or not they should be investigated for that behavior. TRUMP: Well, it also includes Diane Feinstein, a Democrat. You did mention her name. Why didn't even mention her name? And I think she's a very honorable person, by the way, so I'm not saying that but you know-- QUESTION: --So any Senator--any Senator-- TRUMP: --You mentioned to people but you don't mention one that happens to be a Democrat. QUESTION: Any senator. Any senator should they be investigated-- TRUMP: --I don't know because I have to look at it. Possibly, but I find them to be honorable people. Yeah? QUESTION: Should they resign? QUESTION: You said the other day you compare yourself--you see yourself as a wartime president right now leading the country through this pandemic that we are experiencing. Do you really think, you know, going off on Peter, going off on a network is appropriate-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) countries going through something like this? TRUMP: I do because I think Peter is--you know I have dealt with Peter for a long time and I think Peter is not a good journalist when it comes to fairness. QUESTION: But he is asking for your message to the country (INAUDIBLE) you went off on Peter. TRUMP: I think it is a good message because I think the country has to understand that there is indeed whether we like it or not in some of the people in this room won't like it there is a lot of really great news and great journalism and there's a lot of fake news out there and I hear it all and I see it all and I understand it all because I am in the midst of it so when somebody writes a story or does a story on television and I know it's false, I know it's fake and when they say they have 15 sources have said and I know there's no sources, there is no sources. They are just making it up I know that and I call Peter--I called Peter L but I call other people out to and you know this is a time to come together. But coming together is much harder when we have dishonest journalist. It's a very important profession that you are in. It is a profession that I think is incredible. I cherish it. But when people are dishonest they truly do hurt our country. Yeah, in the back. Please go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, China has been in communication with the United States and also WHO about coronavirus-- TRUMP: Right, that's true. That's true. QUESTION: And the U.S. shuttered(PH) its border to travelers from China on February 2. Also will Hans has been in lockdown since January 20 force and this all happened almost 2 months ago. Why did you just say if you could have known earlier? And also you have been calling coronavirus-- TRUMP: I have to say this. We have and I can speak for myself but I have a very good relationship with China and with President Xi. I have great respect for President Xi. I consider him to be a friend of mine. It is unfortunate that this got out of control. They came from China, it got out of control. Some people are upset. I know--I know President Xi. He loves China. He respects the United States and I have to say I respect China greatly and I respect President Xi. Okay. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) stock buybacks the airlines and Boeing did stock buybacks is this a dealbreaker for you in this-- TRUMP: Know(PH), but I never like stock buybacks from their standpoint. When we did a big tax cut and when they took the money and did buybacks that's not building a hangar, that's not buying aircraft, that's not doing the kind of things that I want them to do and we are now talking about buybacks. We didn't think we would have had to restrict it because we thought they would have known better but they didn't know better in some case--not in all cases obviously. Some people did an incredible job. They built plants(ph) all over the country. I mean you see what's happening. I mean we were doing until this invisible enemy appeared we were I mean we never had an economy like this but there were some companies that use that money to buy back stock driving up the price of the stock artificially in many cases. I don't like that. I don't like it. And as far as whether or not we will have that--allow them when we give them money because we have to keep these great companies in business because of the workers. Frankly for the most part because of the workers, the workers are my number one concern that the way we take care of the workers is we have to keep the companies going. I am fine with restricting buybacks. In fact I would--I would demand that there be no stock buybacks. I don't want them taking hundreds of millions of dollars and buying back their stock because that does nothing. Yet(PH), please. QUESTION: Thank you very much. I have one for Dr. Fauci and hopefully one for you. TRUMP: Sure and--and one thing. Secretary of State Pompeo is extremely busy so if you have any questions for him right now could you do that because you know what I would like to do I would like for him to go back to the State Department or as they call it the deep State Department you know, Mike, I would like to have him go back and do his job. So does anybody have any question--please. Yeah, how about you? Only--only for the Secretary. QUESTION: The exemptions on work travel can you do find that? Is all work--anyone with a work visa can still cross the border can you define what measures you are taking? POMPEO: That is a great question. We--we are working--we are real concerned about age to a visas particularly agricultural workers that need to get across. We are going to make sure that we do everything we can to keep that part of our economic lifeblood working between our two countries. DHS and the State Department will work together. We want to make sure and keep commerce between Canada, the United States and Mexico alive, functional and prepared for the day that this economy bounces back like we expect that it will. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary the Mexican government has not announced any travel ban on Europe(ph). Where--have you been in touch with them as to when they are going to do this and what it is that they are telling you? And then a second question they also are telling us and said in a press conference this morning that they will not take back any non-Mexican citizen. In the other third parties will have to--we don't know what will happen to them. So can you address what will happen to those third country immigrants that you are saying that will not be allowed to enter the U.S. and Mexico is saying that it would not be allowed to stay in Mexico either or sent back from the U.S.? POMPEO: I will take the first one and then Chad I will give you the second one. With respect to travel into Mexico from outside I spoke with Foreign Minister (INAUDIBLE) about this a couple of times about this. I am very confident we are going to get to a really good place that protects the Mexican people and the American people from those who might be traveling in two places where we have got designations, the (INAUDIBLE) zone from China so that they are not coming into Mexico and then coming into the United States. I'm very confident we will do that and we will make that announcement shortly together. WOLF: Again as we implement the CDC's order again we are going to take a number of individuals across the border illegally and repatriate them or remove them quickly back to Mexico, back to the northern triangle and back to any other countries so we are going to do that in a rapid fashion. We will continue to work with Mexico to make sure that Mexican nationals go back as well as other populations. QUESTION: But are you sending Guatemalans back to Guatemala or Cubans back to Cubans? What would you do with those-- WOLF: Yes. QUESTION: --third countries that are not Mexicans? WOLF: So we are doing all of the above. We are going to be sending again individuals back to Mexico, individuals back to the northern triangle countries, Cuba, Haiti, all of the--we again 122 different nations that we see nationalities that, across that border we will be sending them back individually to their countries but also with work--working with Mexico to send additional populations back there as well. TRUMP: And just to put it you know when you said before you said the non-Mexicans going to Mexico. We are not sending them to Mexico. We are sending them back to their own countries, not to Mexico. Why would Mexico take people that are from Mexico? We are sending them back in the case of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, a lot of other countries they go back to the country from where they came. Okay and Mike, please. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo on the issue of disinformation is there any particular locus for this disinformation or is it defused? POMPEO: It is pretty defused unfortunately but we have certainly seen it come from places like China and Russia and Iran where there are coordinated efforts to disparage what America is doing and our activity to do all of the things that President Trump has set in motion here. QUESTION: Yeah, other than what you are doing this morning what are you doing to fight back? POMPEO: Lots of things. Lots of work. One of the things we want to make sure is the American people go to trusted sources for that information but we have made clear and we have spoken to these countries directly that we don't that they need to knock it off that we don't approve of it and then there are a handful of other things we are engaged in to make sure that the right information is out there and accurate information is given. This idea of transparency and accurate information is very important. It is how we protect American people from something like this ever happening again. QUESTION: Do you want the American people to be coming to trusted sources of information does it undermine you at all when the President stands up here and he attacks news outlets calling us untrustworthy? POMPEO: Does anyone else have a question? QUESTION: Peace Corps volunteers have all--sir, the (INAUDIBLE) core volunteers-- TRUMP: Please. QUESTION: In terms of Americans who find themselves stranded in places where there are no longer flights to get back to the United States what efforts are being made to help them? POMPEO: I appreciate that question. So we are doing lots of things. We have had a couple of places in particular Peru and Morocco I think we have had the first two maybe three now flights out of Morocco. We--we are going to work to get people back. We are urging individuals when they can get back on their own they--they traveled there on their own, when they can get back they are on their own they ought to try to do that but we are--we have a team stood up at the State Department the repatriation task force that is working each of these instances so we have heard from individuals, members of Congress. We're trying to get a Americans back from these places where air travel has been disrupted and we--we will get that done and over time we will get it done successfully. QUESTION: Do you have any sense of how big that problem is? Is there any sense of just how big the problem is, how many-- POMPEO: We don't know--we don't know the full scale of it yet but we think we have the largest number identified and we are working if there are those who are watching that are someplace and you can go on the State Department website you can log into I think it is (INAUDIBLE) and go login and we will--we will track and we will try to get everybody back just as fast as we can. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary how long are these border restrictions likely to last along the south and north borders? POMPEO: They will last as long as we need to do it to protect the American people from the virus. I--I couldn't tell you how long it's going to last. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) we have you, have you determined whether Iran is responsible for that rocket attack last week? POMPEO: So-- TRUMP: Maybe we shouldn't say anything. POMPEO: So let me--let me just get back to you on the answer to that and what we-- TRUMP: We know plenty. POMPEO: What we can say--what we can say certainty is we have made clear all along that the Iraqi Shia militias are funded, trained, equipped by the Iranians and we have heard to the Iranians not to do that and we have told the Iranians that they will be held responsible for those attacks when they threaten American lives. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Peace Corps volunteers, the Peace Corps volunteers that are in 60+ countries have they all been return? POMPEO: You know I don't know if they are all back or not yet. I know that they were directed to come back. I know that most of them are back. I couldn't tell you if we have all of them back yet. I don't know. QUESTION: And then Secretary--Secretary Esper is not here, but to get the tests to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, are you able to give us a progress report on the status of that, if they're all able to get tests? POMPEO: I don't know the answer to that. I know we have State Department officials too who are concerned and want to make sure we get them tests, our team as well. And we're working on that. We have had significant success on that to date. There are few places we've not been able to get them. But we--we will. We'll get them there. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo, how exactly are you going to get those Americans back, and you have any plans to get the military involved in that? POMPEO: We're going to use all the tools we can. These first efforts are combined commercial/private flights that will fly in, bring them back, bring them back to a destination here in the United States. So, we'll do that. There are some that'll travel back other ways as well. And we've worked with the Department of Defense to say, where there are space available, we'll be able to bring them back on those flights as well. It's a whole of government effort to make sure we get them back. QUESTION: So, you think you'll get all-- POMPEO: --They're going to--they're going to help us every place they can. Secretary Esper and I have talked about it a couple times. QUESTION: Thank you, Secretary; a question on Iran again. Is there any consideration to relaxing sanctions on Iran during the coronavirus crisis, as they've been particularly hard hit? POMPEO: That's an important question. The--the whole world should know that humanitarian assistance into Iran is wide open. It's not sanctioned. We've offered to provide assistance to the Iranians as well. I talked with Dr. Tedros from the World Health Organization about this. We're doing everything that we can to facilitate both the humanitarian assistance moving in and to make sure that financial transactions connected to that can take place as well. There is no sanction on medicines going to Iran. There is no sanctions on humanitarian assistance going into that country. They've got a terrible problem there, and we want that humanitarian medical healthcare assistance to get to the people of Iran. QUESTION: But the sanctions themselves, no--no movement? POMPEO: We are--we are--we are working to do all the things we've had in place for the first three years here to deliver security for the American people. TRUMP: They know the answer. Iran--they know the answer, Iran, the leaders. They know the answer to your question. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, was it appropriate for the president to call your department the Deep State Department at a time when thousands of diplomats are working very hard around the world to combat this pandemic? POMPEO: I've worked for the president for three years now. I know how much he values the people that work on my team. I know when I was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency how much he valued the work we did. I know that he watches our team, Dr. Birx, all the team that's working to push back against this virus to keep America safe. I know my--how much he values them. TRUMP: What a good answer. Yes, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Can I ask a question? POMPEO: It's truth. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Very true, too. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, behind you. QUESTION: Okay. I apologize. TRUMP: Please, go ahead. QUESTION: The news--I have two questions. The first is to Secretary Pompeo. The NewsHour has learned that the CDC picked up that there was some sort of virus happening in Wuhan--the coronavirus happening in Wuhan as early as December. When did that CDC start letting other agencies know that there was something in China happening, that this coronavirus was happening? And then when did the whole government approach happen--start to happen? POMPEO: So, I'll let the CDC--or Dr. Fauci, you want to--you want to-- QUESTION: --The State Department, when did you-- POMPEO: --Talk to that, Doctor--Secretary Azar, please. Yeah. AZAR: Yeah. So--so, we were alerted by some discussions that Dr. Redfield, the director of the CDC, had with Chinese colleagues on January 3rd. It's since been known that there may have been cases in December, not that we were alerted in December. QUESTION: Then, Mr. President, the other question I have for you, when-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. We'll do it in a second. Let Mike--yes, go back. POMPEO: May I just add one more thing? TRUMP: Just go back and-- POMPEO: --There--there's been some discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it. And I've--I've been very critical. We--we--we need to know immediately. The world is entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world, and that puts a special obligation to make sure that data--that data gets to our scientists, our professionals. This is not about retribution. This matters going forward. We're in a--we're in a live exercise here-- TRUMP: --It sure is-- POMPEO: --To get this right. TRUMP: Truly it is, yeah. POMPEO: We--we need to make sure that even today the data sets that are available to every country, including data sets that are available to the Chinese Communist Party, or made available to the whole world. It's--it's an imperative to keep people safe. We--we talk about the absence of data sets, not being able to make judgments about what to do. This is abso--this transparency, this real-time information sharing isn't--isn't about political games or retribution. It's about keeping people safe. And so, when you see a delay in information flowing from the Chinese Communist Party to the technical people who we wanted to get into China immediately to assist in this, every moment of delay connected to being able to identify this risk vect--the risk vectors creates risk to the people all around the world. And so, this is why it's not about blaming someone for this. This is about moving forward to make sure that we continue to have the information we need to do our jobs. QUESTION: Continuing with you, Mr. Secretary, what--what message do you think it sends to other countries when you have the president of the United States lashing out at reporters? POMPEO: I--I've had my frustration with reporters too. All I ask when I talked to the media is that you listen to what we say and reported accurately. And it's frustrating. It's frustrating when you see-- QUESTION: --The president said to other countries though-- POMPEO: --When you see that that doesn't happen, it's--it's enormously frustrating. We have a responsibility to tell the American people the truth. And those who are reporting on what it is we're doing and saying have an equal responsibility to reported accurately. QUESTION: But what message does it send a countries when you're lashing out at reporters? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) being reported, that the news media-- POMPEO: --I've seen--I've seen many things at the State Department be reported wildly accurately on--on multiple-- QUESTION: --Specifically can you say-- POMPEO: --On multiple occasions. And I have spoken to those reporters about it each and every time. And I will continue to do so. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, Senator Johnson is suggesting-- TRUMP: --Well, I'd rather have--if you could finish up with the secretary of state. POMPEO: I think of one them out, Mr. President. QUESTION: Well, I--let me ask you both-- TRUMP: --Has everybody finished secretary of state? QUESTION: Let me ask you both if that's all right. Mr. Secretary, Senator Johnson has suggested that you and the administration may be overreacting. He said we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. We don't shut down our economies because tens of thousands of people die from the Kung Flu. At worst, 3.4% of Americans will die from this virus, he said. What do you say to people that have that view? That's 11 million people he's talking about. TRUMP: Well, I can just say the entire world is agreeing with us, because there are--they all have their choice and everybody's doing the exact same thing. We want to shut it out, and we can do that and we'll see what happens in two weeks or three weeks. But if we can save thousands of lives, and even millions of lives, potentially--you don't know where it goes, but you could be talking about millions of lives. So, if you look at the--the world, I mean, you have some very smart people in the world. You have some smart leaders in the world. And everybody's doing it the way we're doing it. I think we're doing a better job than hopefully most, if not all. We're doing a very effective job, but we'll--we'll know better in 14 or 15 days. But, you know, you're talking about hundreds of thousands and maybe more than that numbers of people. And, you know, we can bring our finances back very quickly. We can't bring the people back. QUESTION: Mr. President, to follow up on that, there are millions of people out there that share that view, that say I don't really need to shut things down. I don't really need to stay away from the stores. I don't--I can go to the beach. And those people making multiple actions exponentially--it's the difference between life and death, isn't it? TRUMP: Yeah, I agree with that. But I think I'd like to have Anthony answer that because, to be honest, that's what he does. And he--we had a lot of--a lot of very talented people telling us what they think we should do. FAUCI: Thank you, Mr. President. Well, I--first of all, I think that's a false equivalency to--to compare traffic accidents with--I mean, that's totally way out. That's really a false equivalency. When you have something that is new and its emerging and you really can't predict totally the impact it's going to have, and you take a look at what's going on in China and you see what's going on right now, right now in Italy and what's happening in New York City, I don't think with any moral conscience you could say what we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die. I don't understand that reasoning at all. QUESTION: Mr. Trump? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Okay. So, the secretary of state will be leaving. Any other question for him? QUESTION: Mr. President, do you still-- TRUMP: --Go ahead in the back, please. QUESTION: --Favor direct payments-- TRUMP: --In the back for Mike-- QUESTION: --To Americans. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr.-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. I didn't call on you. Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President; two things. In New York cases are doubling every day. They fear that supplies are going to run out in a matter of weeks. Yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio called on you to mobilize the military to deliver urgent supplies. Yesterday he said, "The fate of New York City rests in the hands of one man. He is a New Yorker and right now he is betraying the city he comes from." I've personally spoken to emergency department nurses who say that they're being told not to wear N95 masks because supplies are so low. So, how do you respond to those remarks by Mayor DeBlasio? TRUMP: Well, I just think this. QUESTION: And too, there have been doctors looking to-- TRUMP: --I'm--deal--I'm not dealing--yeah-- QUESTION: --You. When will those supplies rise? TRUMP: I'm not dealing with him. I'm dealing with the governor and the governor agrees with me and I agree with him. So far we been very much in sync. I--I guess they're not agreeing with each other necessarily. But the relationship with New York, I love New York. I grew up in New York, as you probably have heard, and the relationship's been a very good. And I think government and the governor have been getting along incredibly well with the federal government. Okay. Mike, thank you. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Sir-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Wolf, if I could. Just on--on illegal entries of people who are OTM, how will the turn back process work? Will they be taken to a common area and then put on a plane and sent back to Northern Triangle countries or others? I mean, how would that process work? WOLF: Again, it's a--it's a public health crisis. If so, what we're trying to do is limit the--the amount of contact that we have with these individuals, not putting them in Border Patrol facilities-- WOLF: ICE detention facilities and the like. Sue is going to be very rapid. We're going to obviously take them into custody and then--and then send them back to a port of entry or other means. So it will be very quickly. It will be that 6 or 7 or 10 days that we currently have, it will be much more rapid. QUESTION: But if they are OTM, will you--will they be taken to an airfield nearby or-- WOLF: That's correct. That's correct. QUESTION: And sent back-- WOLF: That's correct. QUESTION: Mr. President TRUMP: Anybody? Anybody? QUESTION: Mr. President, the checks to Americans, the bill as proposed creates sort of tiers of checks for income. TRUMP: Yeah, it will be. QUESTION: Do you believe philosophically that makes sense? TRUMP: Well, we're working on--well, we believe in a lot of things. I want to get workers money. And whichever way the best way to get it, and I want to keep the businesses open to because without the businesses, they're not going to be getting money for very long, but were going to be--going to be talking QUESTION: Is there enough money in that bill as it's written rhetoric is there enough or do you want to see it juiced up? TRUMP: If not, we'll do something later, I'm sure. I'm sure we will. QUESTION: Mr. President, a follow-up on that. Mr. President, I follow up on that. QUESTION: Wall Street analysts are predicting and unemployment numbers can skyrocket next week. But some analysts say as many as 3 million people applying for unemployment, which would be a historic number in a one-week spread. So is a $1000 check going to cut it? Is I going to be enough? TRUMP: We're not talking about $1000 check. We're talking about much more than that. Were also talking about doing faces if this doesn't work. We're going to keep doing it until we get it going. And, frankly, we are once we get the economy back, and once this enemy is defeated, the invisible enemy, as I call it, once it's defeated, we get the economy back, it's going to all come back to us very quickly. It comes back very--we have a tremendous economy. We do numbers like no other country has ever done before. Number one in the world if you go back two weeks and still, obviously, but if you go back two weeks, number one in the world by far. That money comes back to us very rapidly. We want to keep it--we wanted to have it so that when, not if, but when we went to war with the invisible enemy, when we went it, these companies can immediately start. Not that they have to start rebuilding, which takes a long time. Steve? QUESTION: Are you confident that those are jobs that will come back? TRUMP: Steve, please. QUESTION: What projections-- TRUMP: --I'm confident-- QUESTION: --What projections for job losses in March and April are you hearing? TRUMP: Well, we're looking at different numbers. We have a best case and a not best case. But the big thing is to defeat the virus. Once that virus is defeated, Steve, I think everything else falls into place very rapidly. I think you're going to have a tremendous upswing. A lot of people agree with me. A lot of, if you look at your stock market geniuses and some of whom are not geniuses, but they think they are, a lot of people think that I'm right about that that once we defeat the virus, I think you're going to have a very steep like a rocket ship. It's going to go up and everything will be back. And I really believe were going to be stronger than ever before. Yeah, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, on the issue of supplies, you've told governors to try to find whatever supplies they can on their own. TRUMP: Absolutely. QUESTION: But some of them are now saying when they go to try to buy them, they're being outbid by the federal government. TRUMP: Well, you heard my news conference yesterday-- QUESTION: --So what--what do you expect those governors to do-- TRUMP: --That was sort of yesterday's news. No, that does happen because they want to buy supplies. We want to buy as a backup to them in case they get--and sometimes that will happen, but regardless of who gets them, when they need them, we're getting them to them. Now, we're doing the production act, were doing it very much, and we have a lot of things to think right now at a high level. Remember this, nothing like this has ever happened before. Over 140 countries and you have supply chains that are broken down for two reasons, because they can't supply that much, because people are sick. They can't be on the chain. So you have a lot of interesting things all over the world. You have supply chains the breakdown because of the illness and also because of the fact, the quantity. But we're getting it ordered, or getting it done, and the--if you just had to--look, some of you were at the call yesterday where I spoke with the governors, almost all of the governors, and every one of them was very impressed with what we've done. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go-ahead, in the middle, please. QUESTION: There are reports that the Labor Department has told states not to disclose their unemployment numbers. Do you agree with that decision? TRUMP: I'd have to talk to him. I would have to talk to him. QUESTION: And just one more clarifier if I could-- TRUMP: --Second question-- QUESTION: --I just want to be clear. Are you saying that the administration is requiring these industries to--to create these products or just asking? TRUMP: You know, so far, we haven't had too. It's an amazing thing that happened. We're getting calls from automobile companies, returning calls from other companies saying they have plant capacity. They want to make ventilators, they want to make other things. We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that wanted to do the work. They want to do the job. They want to help us, they want to help our country. So wait we haven't had a problem with that at all. QUESTION: Mr. President, how do you help out states and localities that are trying to bid on things like ventilators and other items that are being outbid by the federal government? TRUMP: Well, when they call us, they let us know. If there's a conflict, they will call us and we will drop our bid because we want them to go first because they're point--they're point-of-sale. So we've had four or five instances where literally that was happening because, you know, were both trying to get stock and if were going against, they will call us, the smart ones, frankly, will call us and we will immediately--we want them to buy it because it gets to them quicker if they buy it. QUESTION: Do they know that they're-- TRUMP: --We really--they know that and it's happening more and more where their calling and they say we're bidding against each other. They want to get it. There(ph) get it much quicker that way. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Azar. There are labs across the country that don't have the testing supplies they need. What specific actions is the administration-- TRUMP: --Well, it's going very well. I'll tell you what. QUESTION: What specific actions-- TRUMP: --We inherited an obsolete deal and we made a good thing out of it. I haven't heard that question in a while, but go ahead. AZAR: Yeah, so first, and were making tremendous progress in terms of lab testing. Tens of thousands of tests are being done every single day both through the CDC and the public health labs as well as now through the private sector commercial labs. They're getting to scale, they have supplies, they have high throughput. We do hear anecdotally, occasionally of, say, a public health lab or another one that has a concern about this supply or that supply. Through FEMA, we actually are standing up laboratory task force to answer those questions. Usually, it's that the lab people do not understand that there are actually alternative supplies in the marketplace that they are perfectly free to use. We've actually had to put out some common myths and truths about that. For instance, the other day, we were getting calls from governors saying we don't have swabs. There are no swabs. There are no swabs. Our supply people went in the open marketplace and bought 200,000 swabs in the open market and I just sent a letter to every governor sending them swabs. So some of it just they aren't listening or checking with us about all the freedom, all the capacities out there. It's a complex system with 300 million Americans in all of these labs, so sometimes there's a lab that doesn't understand how much electability they have and how much supply there is out there. And were working through the new FEMA integration center to help correct that for folks. QUESTION: Secretary Azar-- TRUMP: --Mike, do you want to say about the-- PENCE: --He happy to-- TRUMP: --Tests, how well that's working PENCE: Well, as I said, more and more tests are being performed every day and, as we learn about the results that are being reported around the country of coronavirus tests, our experts continue to look at the numbers and see some 90 percent of Americans that are tested do not test positive for the coronavirus. And so it can give you a sense of the magnitude of testing that's going on. We have the number of cases that we've reported today, but it's--it's in some cases near to 10 times that that have been tested. But let me also emphasize how important it was in answering these questions for governors and local officials that the president stood up FEMA and the national response Center where we brief governors yesterday. Now every governor and their State Department, state health departments have the ability to reach out with--to our regional FEMA administrators, and that's how, as the president said, we are sorting out those potential conflicts between very significant federal purchases and procurements and--and as hospitals and state governments are purchasing as well. I think the new streamlined system operating now in all 50 states and our territories of governors and states going through their regional administrator for FEMA is going to make it more possible for us to ensure that our hospitals, our healthcare providers have access to what's available on the open market and elsewhere. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President, you're the head of the task force. You've seen the numbers, you spoken to average Americans. You're a former governor. What do you say to Americans right now who are watching and who are scared? PENCE: I would say do not be afraid, be vigilant. All the experts tell us that the risk of serious illness to the average American for the coronavirus is low, but we need every American to put into practice the presidents coronavirus guidelines 15 days to slow the spread because the coronavirus is about 3 times more contagious than the flu according to our best estimate and you can contract the coronavirus, have very mild symptoms, if any, not even be aware that you have it, and expose someone who is vulnerable to a very serious health outcome. That's the reason why we are encouraging people to avoid groups of more than 10, to not eat in restaurants, but to use drive-through's, to wash their hands on a regular basis. And particularly, we're going to continue, as the president has directed us to focus on the most vulnerable population which are seniors with serious underlying health conditions or anyone with an underlying immunodeficiency. It is those people we need to care for but it is going to take all of us working together to make sure they are safe. QUESTION: You just said that you haven't had to require companies to up their production of medical supplies but you said last night you invoked the DPA. I'm (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: When we need something--when we need something because of the act when we need something we order something and as you know two days ago I invoked the act which was a big step. I'm not sure that it had been done before certainly not very much and when we need something we will use the act. What has happened is before we even go out many, many companies great companies, companies in a totally different business are willing to do things and make things because that is what they do they make product. They are willing to make product for us, medical product that we need very badly for the states, that the states can't get, they haven't been able to get and you know most of the states in no way did they do anything wrong. They were stocked up, they were all equipped. Unfortunately they have never had a thing like this so they need help from the federal government. QUESTION: This is important. You haven't actually directed any companies to start making more ventilators or mask? TRUMP: I have. I have. Yes, I have. QUESTION: How many (INAUDIBLE)? TRUMP: And they are making a lot of ventilators and they are making a lot of masks. Go ahead please. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President partially following up on that are--are your automakers right now who are retooling their production facilities to make ventilators or-- JONES: I can't say they are but they will be very shortly because we are working with one in particular that wants to make ventilators. They called us yesterday and they are already were working on a transaction. They are going to make ventilators. They say they have done it before which surprised me but they can't do it very easily. QUESTION: This is partially for you, partially for Secretary Azar. You said yesterday that you have spoken to Carnival(ph) corporation's chairman-- TRUMP: (INAUDIBLE) QUESTION: And he said that he could donate some ships-- TRUMP: No, not donate. That's not (INAUDIBLE) donate. QUESTION: Not donate, okay, land. Land. TRUMP: He's not giving them, he's (INAUDIBLE) use them. I spoke with Mickey Harrison(SP) who is the President, Chairman, CEO and owner he's got every title you can have. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) to potentially-- TRUMP: He said--he said to me that he was willing to if we need ships, if we need ships for helping people that carnival would be absolutely willing to help us in Los Angeles and New York, wherever they may be in Miami, where they are very big. If we needed something they would be willing to. So far we haven't needed to and we are bringing the big hospital ships up in California. We haven't, we are working with the governor of California as you know with Gavin and we haven't made a determination. We are also talking to folks (INAUDIBLE) Seattle so we are discussing where it can be most useful. We have spoken with Governor Cuomo and we are bringing the big hospital ship up in two weeks and we are going to have it in New York harbor some place in New York. QUESTION: So--so my question is one, it sounds like you haven't taken them up on it yet but-- TRUMP: No, I have taken them up. I said if we needed I will let you know. That is called taking them up. QUESTION: And--and secondly-- TRUMP: Right now we don't need them. QUESTION: The ships have a lot of frequently contacted surfaces and so this is where you come in Secretary Azar potentially Dr. Fauci do you have concerns about those cruise ships being used as hospitals? TRUMP: Well, I can tell you they are very clean and also those surfaces the German is you know the virus disappears over a period of time in the ships are very clean. They happen Very clean. They have been gone over but the virus as you know if it is on a surface for a certain they have actually charts, different kinds of surfaces it disappears over a period of time. QUESTION: Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: I mean what are you trying to get it? Go ahead. QUESTION: Well, that is what I'm asking. Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: It disappears. The--the virus disappears when it is on surface after a certain number of days or in some cases hours depending on the surface it's on. Please. QUESTION: A quick follow-up. So can you say can you name any of the companies that just asked to start making these ventilators or facemask? TRUMP: I will be but first I want to get the approval from the company because I don't want to be doing that. I assume they would like it but I will let you know. QUESTION: Okay. Well thank you and this is for Dr. Fauci-- TRUMP: One company that has openly stated it is General Motors. QUESTION: So that is one of--did you--did the government asked General Motors? TRUMP: I didn't speak to them about announcing it but I will announce it. I am sure they wouldn't be but we have others also. QUESTION: Okay, thank you. So for Dr. Fauci there is new research out that the CDC has released that many of the people that or the 13% of people with the prone a virus got it from someone that was asymptomatic so my question is does that change the way the approach that should be taken if you think that is the case or I mean do you think that or do you not agree with that research? FAUCI: The recommendations that are here applies to whether you are in physical contact with someone who could be infected with symptoms versus asymptomatic. I don't think it really changes anything. Certainly there is some degree of asymptomatic transmissibility. It is still not quite clear exactly what that is but when people focus on that I think they take their eye off the real ball which is the things you do will mitigate against getting infected no matter whether you are near someone who was asymptomatic or not. It is the same thing. Physical separation in the care that is outlined here is going to take care of both of those things. QUESTION: Mr. President, I have a question about testing. When will every American who needs a test get a test and be able to get a test and why not have medical equipment being shipped right now to hospitals who need it-- TRUMP: We are hearing very positive things about testing and just so you understand we don't want every American to go out and get a test. 350 million people. We don't want that. We want people that--that have a problem, that have a problem with they are sneezing, they are sniffling, they don't feel good, they have a temperature, there are a lot of different things. You know--you know them better than I do. So ready? We don't need that but what we are having is we are having these private labs have come and they have been really fantastic and we also have a great system for the future because as I said we inherited--we meaning this administration and obsolete broken system that wasn't meant for anything like this. Now we have a system that you can see because look, we are well into this and nobody is even talking about it except for you which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are Americans-- TRUMP: Which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are of Americans that will say that they have symptoms and they can't get a test. What--what do you say to the Americans-- TRUMP: I am not hearing it. We don't want everyone to go out and get a test because there's no reason for it. Yeah? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Americans who have symptoms -- TRUMP: We will do one more after this. QUESTION: So I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci (INAUDIBLE) is one of the people who is now suggesting that the real way to get to the end of this or life to return to normal is for every single person living in this country to be tested that way you could see who is contagious and you could then have people who don't have it go back to work. Is there any possibility this country could ever get to a point where every single person could be tested and how long would that take? FAUCI: Thank you for the question. I have heard that before. I don't see--I don't connect the dots they are. I don't see how testing everybody in the country is going to help you to implement this. This should be implemented universally at least at this level for everyone. The things we spoke about a while ago that you want to really ratchet it up like the governor Newsom is doing in California, like Governor Cuomo is doing in New York or how you put an end to this outbreak testing is important. It would be nice to know and there are certain things you could do but let's not conflate testing with the action that we have to take. Whether or not you test do this. I'm not--I'm not putting down testing as an important issue that people seem to link them so much that if you don't have universal testing you can't respond to the outbreak. You really can. TRUMP: What I do think and that's after listening to Tony and everybody else that's an expert I do think it is important that not everybody be tested. If you feel great and if you have no symptoms whatsoever it's just not a good thing to be doing. All right. Steve(SP) please. QUESTION: A question for Dr. Fauci. Yesterday you mentioned the possibility of aerosol transmission of the virus. How likely is that to happen? FAUCI: That--the possibility of aerosol transmission always comes up when you have situations like that. It comes up with influenza, it came up with SARS in which there was a documented you know one off episode of some aerosol transmission. Aerosol means that it can stay in the air for a period of time because it is in a droplet that is very small and doesn't go down. Is it possible that there is aerosol transmission? Yeah, it certainly is but clearly what we have seen in the situations where people have gotten infected from the areas that we have experienced China, South Korea, now Europe most of it is in a situation where people are close enough to each other that asymptomatic person will have a real droplet transmission. So I am not ruling out the possibility that it is aerosol but again it's not going to substantially change doing this. QUESTION: Let me just ask this in a very simple way. What is the demand pressure on testing in this country and are we meeting it? FAUCI: I get the same calls that many of you get that someone goes into a place who has a symptom and wants to get it tested for one reason or another multiple logistic technical what have you they can get it. That is the reality that is happening now. Is it the same as it was a few weeks ago? Absolutely not, because as the secretary and others have said, right now that we have the private sector involved, the availability--not only just availability, but the implementation of the availability is getting better and better and better. Having said that, I--I understand and empathize with the people who rightfully are saying I'm trying to get a test and I can't. QUESTION: So--so, is that a way of saying we are not yet at a point where we are meeting the demand pressure? FAUCI: Well, the answer is yes, John. We're not there yet because otherwise people would be never calling up saying they can get a test. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, I just want to make sure-- TRUMP: --You want to finish that? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Go ahead. I think you might have a response. PENCE: Well, I just can't emphasize enough about the incredible progress that we have made on testing. All of you are reporting and--and media outlets around the country are as well that--that many, many more tests are being performed every day literally by the tens of thousands. And this has only been made possible because several weeks ago the president brought in the commercial labs, these enormous companies, Quest and LabCorp, working with companies like Roche and the--and Abbott Laboratories and Thermo Fisher and said we have this existing system of state laboratories and the CDC processing tests for certain infections. But given the magnitude of this outbreak, the president apprehended early on that it wouldn't be enough to meet the need. And I just want every American to know that literally hour by hour in partnership with these extraordinary commercial labs we are making more and more tests available every day. We'll detail the--the way that we're working with states to distribute those tests. We've obviously focused on states that have been with the--with the most serious outbreaks of coronavirus, Washington State, California, New York, and others. We've been making sure the tests are in those areas, working closely with those governors. But I think the American people should be encouraged at the progress that we are making. Tomorrow, we'll take some time to detail that progress for (INAUDIBLE) who might be concerned that they have symptoms. As the president said so well, we--we don't want every healthy American to get a test. But if people feel that they have symptoms that they identify with the coronavirus, call your doctor. Their doctor can call their state health authorities. They can work very closely with our entire team through HHS and FEMA and work to identify the more and more tests are available every day. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President? TRUMP: Just--just so you know--just for the probably 100th time, I, this administration, inherited an obsolete, broken, old system that wasn't meant for this. We discarded that system and we now have a new system that can do millions of people as you need them. But we had to get rid of a broken, old system that didn't work. It worked only on a very limited basis. And we're very proud of what we've done. It's incredible what we've done. And this system will now serve them for the future for future problems. Hopefully you don't have a problem like this, but something will come up. We have now a great system, and it's almost fully in gear, but is able to test millions of people. But we inherited a broken, old, frankly a terrible system. We fixed it and we've done a great job. And we haven't been given the credit that we deserve, that I can tell you. But the one that really deserves the credit are the American people, because they are doing things that nobody thought they would do. What they are doing is incredible. And we're making a lot of progress. And we'll see you folks tomorrow. Thank you very much.

1145 WH COVID19 TASK FORCE BRIEF STIX FS23 73 Dr. Anthony Fauci attends TRUMP: Thank you very much. I had a very good telephone conversation extremely good with Senator Schumer a little while ago. We are working on various elements of the deal, and the Democrats are very much wanting something to happen, and the Republicans likewise are very much wanting something to happen, and I think it will. I spoke with--at length with Mitch McConnell and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my conversation was very good with Senator Schumer. I thank you all for joining us, and I would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the Chinese virus on our nation's students. With many schools closed due to the virus the Department of Education will not enforce standardized testing requirements, very importantly for students in elementary through high school for the current year. They have been through a lot. They been going back and forth schools open, schools not open it's been all standardized testing, and you know it's we are not going to be enforcing that. So I think you can let people know. I think probably a lot of the students will be extremely happy some probably not the ones that work hard maybe not, but it's one of those things. Unfortunate, very unfortunate circumstance. We have also temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. They will be very happy to hear that, and I have instructed them to take that action immediately, and today Secretary DeVos has directed federal lenders to allow borrowers to suspend their student loans and loan payments without penalty for at least the next 60 days, and if we need more, we will extend that period of time. Borrowers should contact their lenders, but we have given them very strong instructions. So we have temporarily waived all interest on federally held student loans. That's a big thing. That's going to make a lot of students are happy. And we have more to come on student loans, more good news for the students but we will do that at a different time. This morning the Treasury Department also announced that we are moving tax day from April 15 to July 15. So we are moving it out to July 15 so that people will have time and people will be able to hopefully by that time we'll have people getting back to their lives. Families and businesses who have this extra time to file with no interest or penalties we're getting rid of interest and penalties however, if you have refunds or credits you would like to claim you may still file. In other words you can file early if you are owed money by the IRS. Other than that, we are moving at all of the way out to July 15, no interest, no penalties. Your new date will be July 15. Today our team will also provide an update on our continuing effort to prevent the transmission of virus across America's borders. And I watched what's been happening in California with Governor Newsom and this morning with Governor Cuomo, and I applaud them. They are taking very strong bold steps, and I applaud them, and we are all working together we are working very closely together including those two governors. But I would say based on the call the media was there I think we can say that with respect to virtually every governor on the call I think every governor we had almost all of them if not all of them and I would say that you could see for your selves the level of respect and (INAUDIBLE) working together was extraordinary. There was nobody angry, nobody upset. We are able to help them, and that is what we are all about. We want to help--we are doing things that a lot of people wouldn't be able to do but the relationship with governors and states is I think very extraordinary especially under the circumstances where this just came upon us. We are working with Canada and Mexico to prevent the spread of the virus across North America very closely. You heard what we did yesterday with Canada and Secretary of State Pompeo will be making a statement in a little while having to do with Mexico and the border and Chad likewise. Chad Wolfe will likely be making a statement. There is a joint comprehensive effort in collaboration with our neighbors. The measure and all of those measures that we are putting in place will protect the health of all three nations and reduce the incentive for a mass global migration that would badly deplete the healthcare resources needed for our people and so we are working very closely with Mexico. Very, very closely with Canada, the relationship has never been better. We are all working for the same--toward the same goal. Our nation's top healthcare officials are extremely concerned about the great public health consequences of mass uncontrolled cross-border movement, and that would be mostly and even beyond but mostly during this global pandemic. Every week our border agents encounter thousands of unscreened, unvetted, and unauthorized entries from dozens of countries, and we have had this problem for decades, for decades. You know the story, but now it's the national emergencies, and all of the other things that we have declared we can actually do something about it. We are taking a very strong hold of that and we have before, but this is now at a level that nobody has ever approached. In normal times these massive flows place a vast burden on our healthcare system, but doing a global pandemic, they threaten to create a perfect storm that would spread the infection to our border agents, migrants, and to the public at large. Left unchecked, this would cripple our immigration system, overwhelm our healthcare system, and severely damage our national security. We are not going to let that happen. So we have a lot of information, and they will be discussing that in a moment. To confront these public health degrees, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to exercise its authority under the Title 42 of the U.S. code to give Customs and Border Protection the tools it needs to prevent the transmission of the virus coming through both the northern and the southern border so we're treating the borders equally. The northern border and the southern border. It is being treated--they are both being treated equally; a lot of people say that they are not treated equally well, they are. As we did with Canada, we are also working with Mexico to implement new roles at our ports of entry to suspend nonessential travel. These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce furthermore, Mexico has taken action to secure our own southern border and suspend their travel for Europe so we are coordinating very closely with the air travel going to Mexico and then try to come into the United States. The actions we are taking together with our North American partners will save countless lives. At the conclusion of my remarks Secretary Azar, Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Wolfe we are going to be also taking some questions with Tony and Debora who you've gotten to know very well but they will be discussing certain things, and I think you'll find them a great interest. We are going to be providing tremendous amounts of detail over the coming days, but a lot of it will be provided right now if you would like to find out about it. There's been a week of resolute action, tremendous action, tremendous relationships have developed with people that frankly didn't get along, people that didn't like each other they are now working together and maybe even in some cases learning about each other and liking each other; that's a nice thing. I invoked the Defense Production Act, and last night we put it into gear. We move the national response coordination highest level of act--I mean if you--if you take a look at what we did the level of activation has been increased to a grade one level. We are providing historic support to small businesses and to the states. The states need support normally they would do this themselves, but because of the magnitude of it, the federal government has gotten very much involved in terms of getting the equipment they need, so we are helping them. It's a responsibility they have, but we are helping the states a lot that is why the governors I think in every case have been impressed and very nice. We enacted legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers at no cost to employers, and I think it's very important, so they get paid sick leave at no cost to employers. We are considering the use of new drug treatments. We are advancing legislation to give direct payments to hard-working families. Throughout our country Americans from all walks of life are rallying together to defeat the unseen TRUMP: enemy striking our nation. In times of struggle we see the true greatness of the American character and we are seeing that. A lot of people are talking about it. We are at 141 countries, from what they are telling me, and some of those countries are really working in a unified manner and they're working very unified with us, almost, I can say a good number of them. Doctors and nurses are working nonstop to heal the sick. Citizens and churches are delivering meals to the needy. Truckers are making the long haul to keep shelves stocked. We've been dealing with the big stores in the big chains, Walmart, they've been fantastic, and others. They've all been fantastic. We have made it much easier for them to stock in terms of travel and travel restrictions. We are lifting restriction so they can get their trucks on time. You're seeing very few empty shelves, and yet the amount of volume that they are doing is unprecedented because people want to have what they have to have, what they feel they have to have. And they are also buying in slightly smaller quantities which is good because we're not going anywhere. We're going to be here. So I want to thank all of those very great companies for working so well. Americans from every walk of life are coming together. And thanks to the spirit of our people, we will win this war. We are. We're winning and were going to win this war. America will triumph and America will rise higher than ever before. It will be stronger than ever before and we've learned a lot. We've learned a lot. We've learned a lot about relying on other countries and I can say that I think in both very good and very bad way. Some good things came out of it and some not so good things came out of it. So I'd like to move now to invite our team to provide information on the new measures to prevent viral spread at our borders, and I'll start by asking Secretary of State Pompeo to speak. He's doing a fantastic job. And like everyone else, he's worked been working very, very long and very, very hard and he's doing the other more normal jobs of a great Secretary of State. But he got tied into this like everybody else and he's been doing really doing a fantastic job. Mike, please. POMPEO: Thank you, Mr. President. Before I address the efforts that we have been engaging to push back against the Chinese virus, I want to assure the American people that, as President Trump just said, your State Department, your entire national security team is staying focused on the other diplomatic challenges around the world. Those include reducing risk to America from Afghanistan, holding the Iranian regime accountable for its malign activities and our counterterrorism efforts against ISIS remain a priority for our team. Our number one priority across those mission sets remains the protection of the American people. The president and our team are very focused on it. I'll take this moment to thank my teams, State Department team whose working long hours all around the world to take care of Americans who are stuck places around the world. I'll talk about that more in just a minute. You've all seen Dr. Birx with me. State Department officials are doing great work, but I want to--I want to give a shout out to all of the State Department team here in Washington and around the world are working overtime to help us push back against this pandemic. Under the presidents leadership this week, we've taken two important steps. First, as President Trump announced on Wednesday, the United States and Canada jointly agreed to restrict all nonessential traffic across our border. This decision goes into effect tonight at midnight and the restriction will be reviewed after 30 days and they exclude traffic and movement across the border for work or other essential reasons. We're grateful to have such an outstanding friend to the north who is committed as we are to defeating this virus. I also want to announce today that the United States and Mexico have agreed to restrict nonessential travel across our shared border. Both our countries know the importance of working together to limit the spread of the virus to ensure the commerce that supports our economy continues to keep flowing. Here to the United States is glad to have a friend who's working side--side beside us in the fight. Secretary Wolf will talk a little bit more about the details of how we're working alongside our partner in Mexico to keep our southern border safe and secure as well. On another note, yesterday, the state department issued level four global travel advisory. This means that all international travel from U.S. citizens should be avoided. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who reside in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States unless they're prepared to remain abroad for an extended time. If you choose to travel internationally, your travel plans may well be severely disrupted. And finally, I wanted to talk about the disinformation the people are seeing both on Twitter and around the world. Some of it coming from government, some of it coming from other individuals. I did just urge everyone as they are seeing information--information that at one time suggested somehow this virus emanated from the United States Army, this information--information about lockdowns that are taking place, every American, indeed people all around the world should ensure that where they turn to for information is reliable source and not a bad actor trying to create and flow information that they know is wrong. This is a tough fight. The American people are tougher. Our diplomatic teams are working around the clock to help them keep safe both home and abroad and we're showing once again the global leadership that America has always delivered. It's been great to see countries around the world rallied behind what President Trump and her team are doing. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. We'll take questions right after this. Chad Wolf, please. WOLF: Well, let me start off by thanking the president and the Vice President for their continued leadership and commitment for protecting the American people during this crisis. Early on, the president again took unprecedented actions to restrict travel from areas affected with the coronavirus. And to date, DHS has a screen over 200,000 individuals coming back from those affected countries. This has been an immense undertaking but one that the men and women of DHS have successfully accomplished. Today's announcement is yet another example of the extraordinary steps the administration is taking to ensure the safety of the American public. Before I comment on the CDC ordered that I'm sure Secretary Azar will later elaborate on, let me first address the progress as Secretary Pompeo and others have made with our Canadian and Mexican partners regarding cross-border travel. As we continue to evaluate commonsense measures that reduce risk and prevent further spread, it only makes sense that we have looked to--look to the measures that are neighbors to the north and south are undertaking. And so we've been working closely with those partners since the earliest days of this virus and the outbreak. And again, as the president did--said earlier this week, and Secretary Pompeo, we've reached an agreement with both Canada and Mexico to limit--to limit nonessential travel across our land borders. Let me be clear that neither of these agreements with Canada or Mexico applies to lawful trade or commerce. Essential commercial activity will not be impacted. We will continue to maintain a strong and secure economic supply chain across our borders. A few examples of essential travel include but certainly are not limited to individuals traveling for medical purposes to attend educational institutions, for emergency response, public health services, and individuals engaged in lawful cross-border trade. As a secretary said, the agreements with both Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Saturday, March 21. Furthermore, were also working collaboratively with Canada and Mexico to take decisive joint action regarding individuals seeking entry between our ports of entry. The CDC order directs the department to suspend the introduction of all individuals seeking to enter the U.S. without proper travel documentation. That's for both the northern and southern border. CDC director has determined that the introduction and spread of the coronavirus in the departments border patrol stations and detention facilities presents serious danger to migrants, our frontline agents, and officers and the American people. So it's important to note that the department currently apprehends foreign nationals from over 120 different countries around the world, the vast majority of those having coronavirus cases. Many of these individuals arrived with little or no identity, travel, medical documentation, making public health risk determinations all but impossible. It's also important to note that the outbreak on our southern border would likely increase the start strain on health systems and our border communities, taking away important and lifesaving resources from American citizens. Tonight, again, at midnight, we will execute the CDC order by immediately returning individuals arriving without documentation to Canada, Mexico, as well as a number of other countries without delay. So again, CBP is positioned to execute these measures as we continue to keep our borders secure and safe. Before I conclude, let me just wrap up by thanking the brave men and women of DHS, specifically CBP and across the government for the work that they do day in and day out to keep the American people safe from the coronavirus. The department has a number of front-line officers that have been--have tested positive as well as others who are so quarantining. I am doing everything that I can to protect these patriots as they continue to defend our homeland during this crisis. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes, Secretary. AZAR: Today's announcement is just the latest in a long line of bold, decisive actions the President has taken to protect Americans from the coronavirus spreading across our borders. In January within two weeks of China's notifying WHO about the virus and with only 45 cases in China we began screening travelers from Wuhan. Then over time as the outbreak evolved the President restricted travel from China, Iran and Europe. Our health experts say that these measures have been truly effective at slowing the viruses spread to our shores. Just think about this. Italy and the United States both saw their first travel related case of coronavirus around the exact same time the last week of January and get we have had precious time to continue our work around vaccines, therapeutics and other preparations while Italy has tragically been overwhelmed with critical patients for several weeks now. The President today is taking action to slow the spread of infectious disease via our border. Under section 362 of the public health service act the CDC is suspending the entry of certain persons into the United States because of the public health risk that they are entry into the United States represents. This order applies to persons coming from Mexico and Canada who are seeking to enter the country illegally and who would normally be held and a congregant setting like a customs and border protection station. It does not apply to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. During this pandemic a number of health challenges arise when a legal immigrants arrive at our northern and southern borders and are taken into immigration custody. We are talking about significant numbers of the legal immigrants. From this past October through February DHS has processed more than 21,000 and admissible aliens at the northern border and more than 151,000 and admissible aliens that the southern border. CBP facilities were never designed to hold large numbers of people and to protect agents and migrants from infection during a pandemic nor to treat them for a novel virus if large numbers are infected. When held at border facilities these migrants were spreading the virus to other migrants, to CBP agents and border healthcare workers and even the United States population as a whole. In such circumstances the kind of social distancing measures the CDC and the President have recommended are simply not possible. On top of that any resources that we are using to reduce the risk of infection among CBP agents, healthcare workers and migrants in these facilities are drawing on American--and American healthcare system that is already fighting the coronavirus pandemic. That is why the President and his administration are taking these important steps to keep Americans and our immigration systems safe from these health risk as part of our whole of government approach to combating the coronavirus. Thank you Mr. President for the work that you have been doing throughout this crisis to slow the spread of the coronavirus and to keep our country safe. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you. (INAUDIBLE) Tony or Deborah, please. BIRX: Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. So we continue to review the data very carefully from around the globe as I know many of you are. We continue to see signs that again individuals under 20, 19 and under may have severe disease but the majority and all have recovered to date. We still see that same trend and frankly from Italy we are seeing another concerning trend that the mortality in males seems to be twice in every age group of females. This should alert all of us to continue our vigilance to protect our Americans that are in nursing homes. This requires all of the community and when you see the sacrifices that many Americans have made, the sacrifices that the service industry has made to close their restaurants, close their bars and so that the spread is discontinued and then you really understand how all of Americans must make the same sacrifice. We continue to ask you to follow the presidential guidelines. No groups coming together of more than 10, that if anyone in the household is sick that everyone quarantines in the household together and that we continue to focus on those who have the most vulnerability to this illness. Now to the moms and dads out there that have children with immuno deficiencies or other medical conditions we don't know the level of risk and I know you will also protect them in the same way. There just is not enough numbers that this time to really tell them if they are at additional risk or not in the same way that adults are. I don't have any new data. I can see the look on your face saying is she's seeing something new? I don't have any new data about I think it is important for us to be as honest with the American people as we can and when we don't have data be very clear that we don't know. Finally no one is immune. I sometimes hear people on radio or others talking about I am immune to the virus. We don't know if the contagion levels are difference in age groups but we know it is highly contagious to everyone. Do not interpret mild or moderate disease as lack of contagion or that you are immune. You just happen to have a better email system and the ability to fight the virus in a way that may be older people or people with existing medical conditions can't and that is why it is very important that this moment that all of you care event message about the sacrifices that many have made particularly our service providers and our front-line healthcare workers. They are making that sacrifice every day so that every American can move through this well. But we need every American following the presidential guidelines. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you very much. Tony (INAUDIBLE). FAUCI: Thank you very much Mr. President. I just want to underscore a couple of things that I have said a few times to this group. You may recall that just a week ago or so I said the two pillars, the two elements of our capability to contain the infection and the--and the search of infections in this country rely on two things, keeping infections from coming from without in. We have been very successful in doing that with China and with your it. Now we have the northern and southern border issues. There is a fundamental public health reason for doing that because we cannot be preventing people from coming in from one area when they can go into the other so that is an important reason. Understand that there is a public health reason for doing that. The second thing I think is really important is what happened in New York today with Governor Cuomo mentioned about an hour ago some rather strong issues that have been addressed with his recommendations, not recommendations, essentially orders. Now we have a group of--of recommendations and guidelines that are applicable to the entire country. You know them, we have been over them yet there are places regions, states, cities in this country that are being stressed much, much more than the country as a whole. Clearly one of them was Washington, another one was California. Governor Newsom made some very important difficult decisions. Today Governor Cuomo did the same thing and I want to say I strongly support what he is doing and one think as a New Yorker myself for those of you who haven't figured out from my accent that I am from New York as a New Yorker I know what New Yorkers can do. We are tough. I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, and I know what the New Yorkers can do so please cooperate with your governor, cooperate with your mayor. It is very important. Thank you. TRUMP: Thank you, Tony. PENCE: Thank you, Mr. President. The White House coronavirus task force met this morning and we continue at the president's direction to bring the full resources not just of the federal government but in full partnership with our state governments, businesses around the American and in partnership with the American people to respond to the threat of the coronavirus and I know I can speak on behalf of the President with confidence when I say how inspired we are by the way the American people and American businesses are coming together to help defeat this virus in our country. Millions of Americans are putting into practice the president's 15 day guidelines and we encourage everyone even those that are not in areas with significant outbreak to review these guidelines over the next week and more and put them into practice and you will continue to do your part. Later today we will be talking with manufacturers around the country and the President and I continue to be inspired by the way American industry is stepping forward. We have businesses around the country that are literally volunteering to retrofit plants to help us meet the needs of our healthcare workers and our healthcare system in confronting the coronavirus. As the President mentioned yesterday following his decision to put FEMA in the lead, the emergency declaration we actually met with all of the nation's governors from the FEMA national response coordination center. The President and I, our entire team at the federal level couldn't be more grateful for the efforts of all of our governors in implementing the guidance that is being issued not only from our task force but also in taking strong measures in their own communities to protect their citizens. We want to urge every American to heed your local authorities, listen to their guidance, and a--and also do your part to slow the spread. We reiterated to all of the governors that the president, by putting FEMA in the lead, will continue to implement a plan that is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported that puts the health of American first. We have received a report today, as the president mentioned, on our legislative team on Capitol Hill. We're working with Republicans and Democrats at this very hour to pass an economic recovery package that the president described, and we hope to see the Congress act on that early next week. On the subject of supplies, we continue to make steady progress on testing. Thanks to the president's involvement of commercial labs, the public and private partnership, more and more Americans are being tested every single day. And tomorrow, Admiral Giroir and FEMA will update the American public on the status of testing and our support of state-based testing efforts that are literally expanding by the hour. On the subject of medical supplies, we continue, at the president's direction, to pursue every means to expand the supply of personal protective equipment for the extraordinary and courageous healthcare workers that are ministering to the needs of people impacted by the coronavirus. We have a policy of procuring, allocating, as well as conserving the resources that we have in our system. And now that the president worked with the Congress to make industrial masks fully available for hospitals to be able to purchase, to be able to use as protective equipment, we're more encourage than ever about the availability of those important N95 masks to our healthcare facilities. And over this weekend, will be announcing a major procurement from the federal government of N95 masks as well. We're also encouraged that we are finding new alternatives to increase the supply of ventilators. We've mentioned that we have a federal stockpile, some 20,000 ventilators on--on standby, but that doesn't count the tens of thousands of ventilators that are in our healthcare system around the country. But the president has challenged us to work to free up other ventilators from other sources around the country, and there are two different ways that we're doing that. Number one, in our recent discussion with anesthesiologists, we've literally identified tens of thousands of existing ventilators that can be retrofitted and converted to be ventilators for people struggling with the coronavirus. But also, the president's behalf and behalf of all of our task force, we want to continue to urge every American and every American hospital and healthcare facility to postpone any elective medical procedures. This will free up bed space, free up hospital capacity for people that are struggling with the coronavirus, and it'll also free up equipment that our healthcare workers need. It is inspiring that we continue to receive reports that businesses around America are donating N95 masks to their local hospitals. Businesses large and small are donating hundreds, in some cases millions of N95 masks. And I know--I know how grateful the president is and we all are. And let me close by saying, as all of our experts have said many times, while the threat of serious illness to the average American from the coronavirus remains low, every American can do your part to reduce the burden on your health, on your family, the burden on our healthcare system, and especially the threat to the most vulnerable among us by putting into practice the president's 15 days to slow the spread. And as a president said at the outset of his remarks, I know that millions of Americans are doing that just now, and the greatness of the American character is shining forth. TRUMP: Thank you, Mike. Thank you very much. Okay. QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Thank you. Go ahead. QUESTION: You had a call with Senator Schumer. He says you've now agreed to invoke the Defense Production Act to actually make those medical supplies that hospital say are in severe shortage. So, two questions. Is that what you're doing now? TRUMP: It is. I did it yesterday. We invoked it I think the day before. We signed the evening of the day before and invoked yesterday. We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things, yes. QUESTION: So, you're using it now to tell businesses they-- TRUMP: --We are using it-- QUESTION: --Need to make ventilators, masks-- TRUMP: --We are-- QUESTION: --Respirators-- TRUMP: --We're going to for--for certain things that we need-- QUESTION: --Okay-- TRUMP: --Including--including some of the very important emergency--I would say ventilators, probably more masks to a large extent. We have millions of masks which are coming and which will be distributed to the states. The states are having a hard time getting them, so we--we're using the act. The act is very good for things like this. We have millions of masks that we've ordered. They will be here soon. We're having them shipped directly to state. QUESTION: So, you said you would only--that you are signing this but not invoking it. This is what you said yesterday, and that you would only do so in a worst case scenario. TRUMP: Yeah, last-- QUESTION: --So, are we now at a worst case scenario? TRUMP: We--we need--no, it's no different other than we need certain equipment that the states are unable to get by themselves. So, we're invoking it to use the powers of the federal government to help the states get things that they need, like the masks, like the ventilators. Yeah, Steve? QUESTION: Given what Governor Cuomo has done in a--in New York, is there any more consideration to a national lockdown to keep people in their homes? TRUMP: I don't think so. Essentially, you've done that in California. You've done that a New York. Those are really two hotbeds. Those are probably the two hottest of them all in terms of hotspots. I don't think so, because you got to the Midwest, you go out to other locations and--and they're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems. They don't have by--by any means the same problem. New York, California, Miami, the governor is doing an excellent job, Governor DeSantis in Florida. We have some pretty hotspots in Florida too. But we're general--and the state of Washington, of course, but that was largely--if you look at it, it was one nursing home that had problems like you wouldn't believe. So, no, we're working with the governors, and I don't think you'll--I don't think we'll ever find that necessary. QUESTION: So, we're about a week into your 15 days guidelines. Are you happy with the progress? Would you like to see-- TRUMP: --I am happy-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) 16 day? TRUMP: I am happy with it. We'll have to see what the results are at the end of 14 days, let's say. We'll know by the 15th day to see what we do. But I'm certainly honored by the way the American people are working, because it's work. It's work not to work. This is the first time this is ever happened, and we're working out a tremendous financial package for them so they don't work. Whoever heard of this? Usually you work out a financial package to get people working. We're asking people not to work; social distancing, new term that's become probably the hottest term there is. So, no, I'm very honored by the way the American people are--are taking this, I mean, so seriously. Yes, John (PH)? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for you in a question for Dr. Fauci, if I could. There's been some concern among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the phase three fiscal stimulus is weighted it too much in favor of corporations and not enough in terms of individuals. What did your conversations with Senator Schumer yield on that front? TRUMP: Well, I think that really all of that is being discussed right now. We talked about, as an example, buy back--stock buybacks. I don't want to have stock buybacks. I don't want people spending--I don't want some executive saying we're going to buy 200,000 shares of stock. I want that money to be used for the workers and also for the company, to keep the company going, but not for buybacks. I would--I mean, I haven't spoken to a lot of the Republicans or Democrats on it. We discussed it, and I--I don't like buybacks. I didn't like them the first time. QUESTION: Are you and Senator Schumer-- TRUMP: --So, we're always discussing--we're discussing that. We're discussing many things. QUESTION: Are you on the same page with Senator Schumer? TRUMP: We're not so far away, I'll tell you. We're not very--we're not very far away. QUESTION: And to Dr. Fauci, if I could, Dr. Fauci, as was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine as potential therapy for people who are infected with coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19? FAUCI: No. The answer is--is no. And--and the--the evidence that you're talking about, John, is anecdotal evidence. So, as the commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned yesterday, we're trying to strike a--a balance between making something with a potential of an--of an effect to the American people available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe and truly effective. But the information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any definitive statement about it. QUESTION: Mr. President, on that front-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: On those therapies-- TRUMP: --I think without seeing too much, I'm probably more of a fan of that than--maybe than anybody. But I'm a big fan, and we'll see what happens. And we all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct. It's early. You know, I see things that are impressive. We'll see. We're going to know soon. We're going to know soon, in--including safety. But, you know, when you get to safety, this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem. And it's very effective. It's a strong--it's a strong drug. So, we'll see. QUESTION: It was also apparently effective against SARS. TRUMP: It was a very--it was, as I understand that. I--is that a correct statement? --It was fairly effective on SARS. FAUCI: John, you've got to be careful when you say fairly affected. It was never done in a clinical trial. They compared it to anything. It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked, so you really-- QUESTION: --But was there anything to compare it to? FAUCI: Well, that's the point. Whenever you do a clinical trial and you do standard of care versus standard of care plus the agent you're evaluating. That's the reason why we showed back in the Ebola by particular interventions worked. QUESTION: Sir, on that topic-- QUESTION: --Mr. President-- QUESTION: --About the possible therapies, yesterday, Mr. President, you said that they were for "Immediate delivery, immediate." We heard that from Dr.-- TRUMP: We were ordering--yes. We had millions of units ordered. Bayer is one of the companies, as you know. Big company. Very big, very great company. Millions of units are ordered and we're going to see what happens. We're going to be talking to the governors about it and the FDA is working on it right now. The advantage is that it has been prescribed for totally different problem, but it has been described for many years and everybody knows the levels of--of the negatives and positives. But I will say that I am a man that comes from a very positive school when it comes to, in particular, one of these drugs. And we'll see how it works out, Peter. I'm not--I'm not saying it will, but I--I think that people may be surprised. By the way, that would be a game changer. We're going to know very soon, but--but we have ordered millions of units. It's being ordered from Bayer and there is another couple of companies also that--the do it. QUESTION: For clarity, Dr. Fauci said there is no magic drug for coronavirus right now, which you would agree. I guess on--on this issue-- TRUMP: --Well, I think we only-- QUESTION: --Is it possible-- TRUMP: --I think we should only-- QUESTION: --I'm sorry-- TRUMP: --I disagree. Maybe and maybe not. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. We have to see. We're going to know. QUESTION: Is it possible that-- TRUMP: --We're going to know soon. QUESTION: Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope-- TRUMP: --No, I don't think so-- QUESTION: --By misrepresenting the preparedness right now? TRUMP: No, I don't think so. I think that--I think it's got-- QUESTION: --A ship that's not ready to sail, that not yet approved drug. TRUMP: Such a lovely question. Look, it may work and it may not work and I agree with the doctor what he said. It may work, it may not work. I feel good about it. That's all it is. Just a feeling. You know, I'm a smart guy. I feel good about it. And we're going to see. You're going to see soon enough. And we have certainly some very big samples of people if you look at the people. You have a lot of people that are in big trouble and this is not a drug that, obviously, I think I can speak for a lot of--from a lot of expense because it's been out there for over 20 years. So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with. It's not like a brand-new drug that's been just created that may have an unbelievable monumental effect, like to kill you. We're going to know very soon. And I can tell you, the FDA is working very hard to get it out. Right now, in terms of malaria, if you wanted, you can have a prescription. You get a prescription. And by the way, and it's very effective, it works. I have a feeling you may--and I'm not being overly optimistic or pessimistic. I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try. I mean, there's been some interesting things happened and some good--very good things. Let's see what happens. We have nothing to lose. You know the expression what the hell do you have to lose, okay? QUESTION: So what you say to Americans-- QUESTION: (--INAUDIBLE--) QUESTION: --I'll just follow-up-- TRUMP: --John, go ahead. QUESTION: What do you say to the Americans were scared, though? I guess nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? TRUMP: I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --I think that's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope and you're doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Comcast. I don't call-- QUESTION: --With respect to though, you can provide that the-- TRUMP: --I don't call it Comcast. I call it Concast (SP). Let me just--just--for whom you work. Let me just tell you something. That's really bad reporting and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let's see if it works. It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it but who knows? I've been right a lot. Let's see what happens. John. QUESTION: Can I go back to the science and the logistics here-- TRUMP: --You ought to be ashamed of yourself. QUESTION: The units that were ordered, are they for clinical trials? Are they for distribution to the general patient population? TRUMP: We are going to, I as an as I understand it, we are going to be taking samples in New York. Governor Cuomo very much is interested in this drug and they are going to work on it also after they get a certain approval. We are waiting for one final approval from the FDA, we'll see what happens. But will use it on people that are not doing great or even at the beginning of not feeling well. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) under the modified-- TRUMP: --And John, what do we have to lose? QUESTION: So this would-- TRUMP: --Wait, John, it's been out there for so long. We hear good things. Let's see. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't. QUESTION: I understand all that. I'm just thinking the application here. So that would be under sort of a modified compassionate access? TRUMP: We're doing that, I guess, and that's what it's called, yeah. Yes. QUESTION: I would like Dr. Fauci, if you don't mind, to follow up on what the president is saying. Should Americans have hope in this drug right now? And sir, I would like to follow-up on Peter's question here. Could you please issue--address Americans in this country who are scared right now? This is a very valid concern that people have. FAUCI: No, there really isn't that much of a difference in many respects with what we're saying. The president feels optimistic about something. His feeling about it. What I'm saying is that it might--it might be effective. I'm not saying that it isn't. It might be effective. But as a scientist, as we are getting it out there, we need to do it in a way as while we are making it available for people who might want the hope that it might work, you also collecting data that will ultimately show that it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of COVID-19. So there really isn't different, it's just a question of how one feels about it. QUESTION: Is there any reason to believe it's not safe? FAUCI: Well, certainly as a drug--any drug, John, has some toxicities. The decades of experience that we have with this drug indicate that the toxicities are rare and they are, in many respects, reversible. What we don't know is when you put it in the context of another disease whether it's safe. Fundamentally, I think it probably is going to be safe, but I'd like to prove things first. So it really is a question of not a lot of difference. It's the hope that it will work versus proving that it will work. So I don't see big differences here. TRUMP: I agree. QUESTION: Sir, your message to Americans-- TRUMP: --I agree-- QUESTION: --Who are working at home or had their children in their homes right now who are homeschooling-- TRUMP: --Here we go. Go ahead-- QUESTION: --Doctors who say they don't have the masks they need to do their jobs. Your message to them. TRUMP: My message to the American people is that there is a very low incidence of death. You understand that. And we're going to come through this stronger than ever before. If you get it, if you happen to get it, it is highly unlikely. It's looking like it's getting to a number that's much smaller than people originally thought in terms of the ultimate--the ultimate problem, which would be death. My message to the American people is, number one, you've done an incredible job, incredible, which you've gone through. It's been incredible. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't their fault. It wasn't the fault of 140 other countries where this has happened. And there is a tremendous hope and I think we're going to come out stronger, better, bigger. In every way I think we're going to be a better country than we were before and we learned a lot. We learned on reliance, who to rely on, who not to rely on. But our country--our country has been incredible the way they pull together, including the fact that I just spoke to Senator Schumer. We had a wonderful commercial conversation. We both want to get to a good solution. But it's been, really for me, watching and seeing people that work speaking getting along well because we all have one common aim, and that's to get rid of this invisible enemy, get rid of it fast, and then go back to the kind of economy that we had and maybe even better. Yeah, please, in the back. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, in the back, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, two questions, if you'll indulge me. That first question is many small businesses are concerned that they have weeks, not months, and are worried about how long it will take-- TRUMP: --We're going to be helping them a lot and were going to be focused--the big focus and including my conversation with both Mitch and with Chuck, a big focus of that conversation was small businesses because they are really the engine behind our country more so than the big ones. They are the engine behind our country. QUESTION: Second, if I may, sir, are you concerned about numbers of Congress that may have used information they learned on updates to sell stocks and profit off of this? TRUMP: I'm not aware of it. I saw some names. I'm not--I know all of them. I know everyone mentioned Diane Feinstein, I guess, and a couple of others. I don't know too much about what it's about, but I find them to all be very honorable people. That's all I know and they--they said they did nothing wrong. I find them, the whole group, very honorable people. Yeah, please. QUESTION: Can I follow-up, Mr. President? So the whole group would include Richard Burr, the head of the intelligence committee and it also would include Senator Kelly Loeffler, and so the question is whether or not they should be investigated for that behavior. TRUMP: Well, it also includes Diane Feinstein, a Democrat. You did mention her name. Why didn't even mention her name? And I think she's a very honorable person, by the way, so I'm not saying that but you know-- QUESTION: --So any Senator--any Senator-- TRUMP: --You mentioned to people but you don't mention one that happens to be a Democrat. QUESTION: Any senator. Any senator should they be investigated-- TRUMP: --I don't know because I have to look at it. Possibly, but I find them to be honorable people. Yeah? QUESTION: Should they resign? QUESTION: You said the other day you compare yourself--you see yourself as a wartime president right now leading the country through this pandemic that we are experiencing. Do you really think, you know, going off on Peter, going off on a network is appropriate-- QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) countries going through something like this? TRUMP: I do because I think Peter is--you know I have dealt with Peter for a long time and I think Peter is not a good journalist when it comes to fairness. QUESTION: But he is asking for your message to the country (INAUDIBLE) you went off on Peter. TRUMP: I think it is a good message because I think the country has to understand that there is indeed whether we like it or not in some of the people in this room won't like it there is a lot of really great news and great journalism and there's a lot of fake news out there and I hear it all and I see it all and I understand it all because I am in the midst of it so when somebody writes a story or does a story on television and I know it's false, I know it's fake and when they say they have 15 sources have said and I know there's no sources, there is no sources. They are just making it up I know that and I call Peter--I called Peter L but I call other people out to and you know this is a time to come together. But coming together is much harder when we have dishonest journalist. It's a very important profession that you are in. It is a profession that I think is incredible. I cherish it. But when people are dishonest they truly do hurt our country. Yeah, in the back. Please go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, China has been in communication with the United States and also WHO about coronavirus-- TRUMP: Right, that's true. That's true. QUESTION: And the U.S. shuttered(PH) its border to travelers from China on February 2. Also will Hans has been in lockdown since January 20 force and this all happened almost 2 months ago. Why did you just say if you could have known earlier? And also you have been calling coronavirus-- TRUMP: I have to say this. We have and I can speak for myself but I have a very good relationship with China and with President Xi. I have great respect for President Xi. I consider him to be a friend of mine. It is unfortunate that this got out of control. They came from China, it got out of control. Some people are upset. I know--I know President Xi. He loves China. He respects the United States and I have to say I respect China greatly and I respect President Xi. Okay. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) stock buybacks the airlines and Boeing did stock buybacks is this a dealbreaker for you in this-- TRUMP: Know(PH), but I never like stock buybacks from their standpoint. When we did a big tax cut and when they took the money and did buybacks that's not building a hangar, that's not buying aircraft, that's not doing the kind of things that I want them to do and we are now talking about buybacks. We didn't think we would have had to restrict it because we thought they would have known better but they didn't know better in some case--not in all cases obviously. Some people did an incredible job. They built plants(ph) all over the country. I mean you see what's happening. I mean we were doing until this invisible enemy appeared we were I mean we never had an economy like this but there were some companies that use that money to buy back stock driving up the price of the stock artificially in many cases. I don't like that. I don't like it. And as far as whether or not we will have that--allow them when we give them money because we have to keep these great companies in business because of the workers. Frankly for the most part because of the workers, the workers are my number one concern that the way we take care of the workers is we have to keep the companies going. I am fine with restricting buybacks. In fact I would--I would demand that there be no stock buybacks. I don't want them taking hundreds of millions of dollars and buying back their stock because that does nothing. Yet(PH), please. QUESTION: Thank you very much. I have one for Dr. Fauci and hopefully one for you. TRUMP: Sure and--and one thing. Secretary of State Pompeo is extremely busy so if you have any questions for him right now could you do that because you know what I would like to do I would like for him to go back to the State Department or as they call it the deep State Department you know, Mike, I would like to have him go back and do his job. So does anybody have any question--please. Yeah, how about you? Only--only for the Secretary. QUESTION: The exemptions on work travel can you do find that? Is all work--anyone with a work visa can still cross the border can you define what measures you are taking? POMPEO: That is a great question. We--we are working--we are real concerned about age to a visas particularly agricultural workers that need to get across. We are going to make sure that we do everything we can to keep that part of our economic lifeblood working between our two countries. DHS and the State Department will work together. We want to make sure and keep commerce between Canada, the United States and Mexico alive, functional and prepared for the day that this economy bounces back like we expect that it will. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary the Mexican government has not announced any travel ban on Europe(ph). Where--have you been in touch with them as to when they are going to do this and what it is that they are telling you? And then a second question they also are telling us and said in a press conference this morning that they will not take back any non-Mexican citizen. In the other third parties will have to--we don't know what will happen to them. So can you address what will happen to those third country immigrants that you are saying that will not be allowed to enter the U.S. and Mexico is saying that it would not be allowed to stay in Mexico either or sent back from the U.S.? POMPEO: I will take the first one and then Chad I will give you the second one. With respect to travel into Mexico from outside I spoke with Foreign Minister (INAUDIBLE) about this a couple of times about this. I am very confident we are going to get to a really good place that protects the Mexican people and the American people from those who might be traveling in two places where we have got designations, the (INAUDIBLE) zone from China so that they are not coming into Mexico and then coming into the United States. I'm very confident we will do that and we will make that announcement shortly together. WOLF: Again as we implement the CDC's order again we are going to take a number of individuals across the border illegally and repatriate them or remove them quickly back to Mexico, back to the northern triangle and back to any other countries so we are going to do that in a rapid fashion. We will continue to work with Mexico to make sure that Mexican nationals go back as well as other populations. QUESTION: But are you sending Guatemalans back to Guatemala or Cubans back to Cubans? What would you do with those-- WOLF: Yes. QUESTION: --third countries that are not Mexicans? WOLF: So we are doing all of the above. We are going to be sending again individuals back to Mexico, individuals back to the northern triangle countries, Cuba, Haiti, all of the--we again 122 different nations that we see nationalities that, across that border we will be sending them back individually to their countries but also with work--working with Mexico to send additional populations back there as well. TRUMP: And just to put it you know when you said before you said the non-Mexicans going to Mexico. We are not sending them to Mexico. We are sending them back to their own countries, not to Mexico. Why would Mexico take people that are from Mexico? We are sending them back in the case of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, a lot of other countries they go back to the country from where they came. Okay and Mike, please. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo on the issue of disinformation is there any particular locus for this disinformation or is it defused? POMPEO: It is pretty defused unfortunately but we have certainly seen it come from places like China and Russia and Iran where there are coordinated efforts to disparage what America is doing and our activity to do all of the things that President Trump has set in motion here. QUESTION: Yeah, other than what you are doing this morning what are you doing to fight back? POMPEO: Lots of things. Lots of work. One of the things we want to make sure is the American people go to trusted sources for that information but we have made clear and we have spoken to these countries directly that we don't that they need to knock it off that we don't approve of it and then there are a handful of other things we are engaged in to make sure that the right information is out there and accurate information is given. This idea of transparency and accurate information is very important. It is how we protect American people from something like this ever happening again. QUESTION: Do you want the American people to be coming to trusted sources of information does it undermine you at all when the President stands up here and he attacks news outlets calling us untrustworthy? POMPEO: Does anyone else have a question? QUESTION: Peace Corps volunteers have all--sir, the (INAUDIBLE) core volunteers-- TRUMP: Please. QUESTION: In terms of Americans who find themselves stranded in places where there are no longer flights to get back to the United States what efforts are being made to help them? POMPEO: I appreciate that question. So we are doing lots of things. We have had a couple of places in particular Peru and Morocco I think we have had the first two maybe three now flights out of Morocco. We--we are going to work to get people back. We are urging individuals when they can get back on their own they--they traveled there on their own, when they can get back they are on their own they ought to try to do that but we are--we have a team stood up at the State Department the repatriation task force that is working each of these instances so we have heard from individuals, members of Congress. We're trying to get a Americans back from these places where air travel has been disrupted and we--we will get that done and over time we will get it done successfully. QUESTION: Do you have any sense of how big that problem is? Is there any sense of just how big the problem is, how many-- POMPEO: We don't know--we don't know the full scale of it yet but we think we have the largest number identified and we are working if there are those who are watching that are someplace and you can go on the State Department website you can log into I think it is (INAUDIBLE) and go login and we will--we will track and we will try to get everybody back just as fast as we can. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary how long are these border restrictions likely to last along the south and north borders? POMPEO: They will last as long as we need to do it to protect the American people from the virus. I--I couldn't tell you how long it's going to last. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) we have you, have you determined whether Iran is responsible for that rocket attack last week? POMPEO: So-- TRUMP: Maybe we shouldn't say anything. POMPEO: So let me--let me just get back to you on the answer to that and what we-- TRUMP: We know plenty. POMPEO: What we can say--what we can say certainty is we have made clear all along that the Iraqi Shia militias are funded, trained, equipped by the Iranians and we have heard to the Iranians not to do that and we have told the Iranians that they will be held responsible for those attacks when they threaten American lives. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Peace Corps volunteers, the Peace Corps volunteers that are in 60+ countries have they all been return? POMPEO: You know I don't know if they are all back or not yet. I know that they were directed to come back. I know that most of them are back. I couldn't tell you if we have all of them back yet. I don't know. QUESTION: And then Secretary--Secretary Esper is not here, but to get the tests to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, are you able to give us a progress report on the status of that, if they're all able to get tests? POMPEO: I don't know the answer to that. I know we have State Department officials too who are concerned and want to make sure we get them tests, our team as well. And we're working on that. We have had significant success on that to date. There are few places we've not been able to get them. But we--we will. We'll get them there. QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo, how exactly are you going to get those Americans back, and you have any plans to get the military involved in that? POMPEO: We're going to use all the tools we can. These first efforts are combined commercial/private flights that will fly in, bring them back, bring them back to a destination here in the United States. So, we'll do that. There are some that'll travel back other ways as well. And we've worked with the Department of Defense to say, where there are space available, we'll be able to bring them back on those flights as well. It's a whole of government effort to make sure we get them back. QUESTION: So, you think you'll get all-- POMPEO: --They're going to--they're going to help us every place they can. Secretary Esper and I have talked about it a couple times. QUESTION: Thank you, Secretary; a question on Iran again. Is there any consideration to relaxing sanctions on Iran during the coronavirus crisis, as they've been particularly hard hit? POMPEO: That's an important question. The--the whole world should know that humanitarian assistance into Iran is wide open. It's not sanctioned. We've offered to provide assistance to the Iranians as well. I talked with Dr. Tedros from the World Health Organization about this. We're doing everything that we can to facilitate both the humanitarian assistance moving in and to make sure that financial transactions connected to that can take place as well. There is no sanction on medicines going to Iran. There is no sanctions on humanitarian assistance going into that country. They've got a terrible problem there, and we want that humanitarian medical healthcare assistance to get to the people of Iran. QUESTION: But the sanctions themselves, no--no movement? POMPEO: We are--we are--we are working to do all the things we've had in place for the first three years here to deliver security for the American people. TRUMP: They know the answer. Iran--they know the answer, Iran, the leaders. They know the answer to your question. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, was it appropriate for the president to call your department the Deep State Department at a time when thousands of diplomats are working very hard around the world to combat this pandemic? POMPEO: I've worked for the president for three years now. I know how much he values the people that work on my team. I know when I was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency how much he valued the work we did. I know that he watches our team, Dr. Birx, all the team that's working to push back against this virus to keep America safe. I know my--how much he values them. TRUMP: What a good answer. Yes, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Can I ask a question? POMPEO: It's truth. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Very true, too. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --No, behind you. QUESTION: Okay. I apologize. TRUMP: Please, go ahead. QUESTION: The news--I have two questions. The first is to Secretary Pompeo. The NewsHour has learned that the CDC picked up that there was some sort of virus happening in Wuhan--the coronavirus happening in Wuhan as early as December. When did that CDC start letting other agencies know that there was something in China happening, that this coronavirus was happening? And then when did the whole government approach happen--start to happen? POMPEO: So, I'll let the CDC--or Dr. Fauci, you want to--you want to-- QUESTION: --The State Department, when did you-- POMPEO: --Talk to that, Doctor--Secretary Azar, please. Yeah. AZAR: Yeah. So--so, we were alerted by some discussions that Dr. Redfield, the director of the CDC, had with Chinese colleagues on January 3rd. It's since been known that there may have been cases in December, not that we were alerted in December. QUESTION: Then, Mr. President, the other question I have for you, when-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. We'll do it in a second. Let Mike--yes, go back. POMPEO: May I just add one more thing? TRUMP: Just go back and-- POMPEO: --There--there's been some discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it. And I've--I've been very critical. We--we--we need to know immediately. The world is entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world, and that puts a special obligation to make sure that data--that data gets to our scientists, our professionals. This is not about retribution. This matters going forward. We're in a--we're in a live exercise here-- TRUMP: --It sure is-- POMPEO: --To get this right. TRUMP: Truly it is, yeah. POMPEO: We--we need to make sure that even today the data sets that are available to every country, including data sets that are available to the Chinese Communist Party, or made available to the whole world. It's--it's an imperative to keep people safe. We--we talk about the absence of data sets, not being able to make judgments about what to do. This is abso--this transparency, this real-time information sharing isn't--isn't about political games or retribution. It's about keeping people safe. And so, when you see a delay in information flowing from the Chinese Communist Party to the technical people who we wanted to get into China immediately to assist in this, every moment of delay connected to being able to identify this risk vect--the risk vectors creates risk to the people all around the world. And so, this is why it's not about blaming someone for this. This is about moving forward to make sure that we continue to have the information we need to do our jobs. QUESTION: Continuing with you, Mr. Secretary, what--what message do you think it sends to other countries when you have the president of the United States lashing out at reporters? POMPEO: I--I've had my frustration with reporters too. All I ask when I talked to the media is that you listen to what we say and reported accurately. And it's frustrating. It's frustrating when you see-- QUESTION: --The president said to other countries though-- POMPEO: --When you see that that doesn't happen, it's--it's enormously frustrating. We have a responsibility to tell the American people the truth. And those who are reporting on what it is we're doing and saying have an equal responsibility to reported accurately. QUESTION: But what message does it send a countries when you're lashing out at reporters? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) being reported, that the news media-- POMPEO: --I've seen--I've seen many things at the State Department be reported wildly accurately on--on multiple-- QUESTION: --Specifically can you say-- POMPEO: --On multiple occasions. And I have spoken to those reporters about it each and every time. And I will continue to do so. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, Senator Johnson is suggesting-- TRUMP: --Well, I'd rather have--if you could finish up with the secretary of state. POMPEO: I think of one them out, Mr. President. QUESTION: Well, I--let me ask you both-- TRUMP: --Has everybody finished secretary of state? QUESTION: Let me ask you both if that's all right. Mr. Secretary, Senator Johnson has suggested that you and the administration may be overreacting. He said we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. We don't shut down our economies because tens of thousands of people die from the Kung Flu. At worst, 3.4% of Americans will die from this virus, he said. What do you say to people that have that view? That's 11 million people he's talking about. TRUMP: Well, I can just say the entire world is agreeing with us, because there are--they all have their choice and everybody's doing the exact same thing. We want to shut it out, and we can do that and we'll see what happens in two weeks or three weeks. But if we can save thousands of lives, and even millions of lives, potentially--you don't know where it goes, but you could be talking about millions of lives. So, if you look at the--the world, I mean, you have some very smart people in the world. You have some smart leaders in the world. And everybody's doing it the way we're doing it. I think we're doing a better job than hopefully most, if not all. We're doing a very effective job, but we'll--we'll know better in 14 or 15 days. But, you know, you're talking about hundreds of thousands and maybe more than that numbers of people. And, you know, we can bring our finances back very quickly. We can't bring the people back. QUESTION: Mr. President, to follow up on that, there are millions of people out there that share that view, that say I don't really need to shut things down. I don't really need to stay away from the stores. I don't--I can go to the beach. And those people making multiple actions exponentially--it's the difference between life and death, isn't it? TRUMP: Yeah, I agree with that. But I think I'd like to have Anthony answer that because, to be honest, that's what he does. And he--we had a lot of--a lot of very talented people telling us what they think we should do. FAUCI: Thank you, Mr. President. Well, I--first of all, I think that's a false equivalency to--to compare traffic accidents with--I mean, that's totally way out. That's really a false equivalency. When you have something that is new and its emerging and you really can't predict totally the impact it's going to have, and you take a look at what's going on in China and you see what's going on right now, right now in Italy and what's happening in New York City, I don't think with any moral conscience you could say what we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die. I don't understand that reasoning at all. QUESTION: Mr. Trump? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Okay. So, the secretary of state will be leaving. Any other question for him? QUESTION: Mr. President, do you still-- TRUMP: --Go ahead in the back, please. QUESTION: --Favor direct payments-- TRUMP: --In the back for Mike-- QUESTION: --To Americans. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr.-- TRUMP: --Excuse me. I didn't call on you. Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President; two things. In New York cases are doubling every day. They fear that supplies are going to run out in a matter of weeks. Yesterday Mayor Bill de Blasio called on you to mobilize the military to deliver urgent supplies. Yesterday he said, "The fate of New York City rests in the hands of one man. He is a New Yorker and right now he is betraying the city he comes from." I've personally spoken to emergency department nurses who say that they're being told not to wear N95 masks because supplies are so low. So, how do you respond to those remarks by Mayor DeBlasio? TRUMP: Well, I just think this. QUESTION: And too, there have been doctors looking to-- TRUMP: --I'm--deal--I'm not dealing--yeah-- QUESTION: --You. When will those supplies rise? TRUMP: I'm not dealing with him. I'm dealing with the governor and the governor agrees with me and I agree with him. So far we been very much in sync. I--I guess they're not agreeing with each other necessarily. But the relationship with New York, I love New York. I grew up in New York, as you probably have heard, and the relationship's been a very good. And I think government and the governor have been getting along incredibly well with the federal government. Okay. Mike, thank you. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Sir-- QUESTION: --Mr. President? Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Wolf, if I could. Just on--on illegal entries of people who are OTM, how will the turn back process work? Will they be taken to a common area and then put on a plane and sent back to Northern Triangle countries or others? I mean, how would that process work? WOLF: Again, it's a--it's a public health crisis. If so, what we're trying to do is limit the--the amount of contact that we have with these individuals, not putting them in Border Patrol facilities-- WOLF: ICE detention facilities and the like. Sue is going to be very rapid. We're going to obviously take them into custody and then--and then send them back to a port of entry or other means. So it will be very quickly. It will be that 6 or 7 or 10 days that we currently have, it will be much more rapid. QUESTION: But if they are OTM, will you--will they be taken to an airfield nearby or-- WOLF: That's correct. That's correct. QUESTION: And sent back-- WOLF: That's correct. QUESTION: Mr. President TRUMP: Anybody? Anybody? QUESTION: Mr. President, the checks to Americans, the bill as proposed creates sort of tiers of checks for income. TRUMP: Yeah, it will be. QUESTION: Do you believe philosophically that makes sense? TRUMP: Well, we're working on--well, we believe in a lot of things. I want to get workers money. And whichever way the best way to get it, and I want to keep the businesses open to because without the businesses, they're not going to be getting money for very long, but were going to be--going to be talking QUESTION: Is there enough money in that bill as it's written rhetoric is there enough or do you want to see it juiced up? TRUMP: If not, we'll do something later, I'm sure. I'm sure we will. QUESTION: Mr. President, a follow-up on that. Mr. President, I follow up on that. QUESTION: Wall Street analysts are predicting and unemployment numbers can skyrocket next week. But some analysts say as many as 3 million people applying for unemployment, which would be a historic number in a one-week spread. So is a $1000 check going to cut it? Is I going to be enough? TRUMP: We're not talking about $1000 check. We're talking about much more than that. Were also talking about doing faces if this doesn't work. We're going to keep doing it until we get it going. And, frankly, we are once we get the economy back, and once this enemy is defeated, the invisible enemy, as I call it, once it's defeated, we get the economy back, it's going to all come back to us very quickly. It comes back very--we have a tremendous economy. We do numbers like no other country has ever done before. Number one in the world if you go back two weeks and still, obviously, but if you go back two weeks, number one in the world by far. That money comes back to us very rapidly. We want to keep it--we wanted to have it so that when, not if, but when we went to war with the invisible enemy, when we went it, these companies can immediately start. Not that they have to start rebuilding, which takes a long time. Steve? QUESTION: Are you confident that those are jobs that will come back? TRUMP: Steve, please. QUESTION: What projections-- TRUMP: --I'm confident-- QUESTION: --What projections for job losses in March and April are you hearing? TRUMP: Well, we're looking at different numbers. We have a best case and a not best case. But the big thing is to defeat the virus. Once that virus is defeated, Steve, I think everything else falls into place very rapidly. I think you're going to have a tremendous upswing. A lot of people agree with me. A lot of, if you look at your stock market geniuses and some of whom are not geniuses, but they think they are, a lot of people think that I'm right about that that once we defeat the virus, I think you're going to have a very steep like a rocket ship. It's going to go up and everything will be back. And I really believe were going to be stronger than ever before. Yeah, go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President, on the issue of supplies, you've told governors to try to find whatever supplies they can on their own. TRUMP: Absolutely. QUESTION: But some of them are now saying when they go to try to buy them, they're being outbid by the federal government. TRUMP: Well, you heard my news conference yesterday-- QUESTION: --So what--what do you expect those governors to do-- TRUMP: --That was sort of yesterday's news. No, that does happen because they want to buy supplies. We want to buy as a backup to them in case they get--and sometimes that will happen, but regardless of who gets them, when they need them, we're getting them to them. Now, we're doing the production act, were doing it very much, and we have a lot of things to think right now at a high level. Remember this, nothing like this has ever happened before. Over 140 countries and you have supply chains that are broken down for two reasons, because they can't supply that much, because people are sick. They can't be on the chain. So you have a lot of interesting things all over the world. You have supply chains the breakdown because of the illness and also because of the fact, the quantity. But we're getting it ordered, or getting it done, and the--if you just had to--look, some of you were at the call yesterday where I spoke with the governors, almost all of the governors, and every one of them was very impressed with what we've done. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go-ahead, in the middle, please. QUESTION: There are reports that the Labor Department has told states not to disclose their unemployment numbers. Do you agree with that decision? TRUMP: I'd have to talk to him. I would have to talk to him. QUESTION: And just one more clarifier if I could-- TRUMP: --Second question-- QUESTION: --I just want to be clear. Are you saying that the administration is requiring these industries to--to create these products or just asking? TRUMP: You know, so far, we haven't had too. It's an amazing thing that happened. We're getting calls from automobile companies, returning calls from other companies saying they have plant capacity. They want to make ventilators, they want to make other things. We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that wanted to do the work. They want to do the job. They want to help us, they want to help our country. So wait we haven't had a problem with that at all. QUESTION: Mr. President, how do you help out states and localities that are trying to bid on things like ventilators and other items that are being outbid by the federal government? TRUMP: Well, when they call us, they let us know. If there's a conflict, they will call us and we will drop our bid because we want them to go first because they're point--they're point-of-sale. So we've had four or five instances where literally that was happening because, you know, were both trying to get stock and if were going against, they will call us, the smart ones, frankly, will call us and we will immediately--we want them to buy it because it gets to them quicker if they buy it. QUESTION: Do they know that they're-- TRUMP: --We really--they know that and it's happening more and more where their calling and they say we're bidding against each other. They want to get it. There(ph) get it much quicker that way. QUESTION: Mr. President-- TRUMP: --Go ahead, please. QUESTION: Mr. President, a question for Secretary Azar. There are labs across the country that don't have the testing supplies they need. What specific actions is the administration-- TRUMP: --Well, it's going very well. I'll tell you what. QUESTION: What specific actions-- TRUMP: --We inherited an obsolete deal and we made a good thing out of it. I haven't heard that question in a while, but go ahead. AZAR: Yeah, so first, and were making tremendous progress in terms of lab testing. Tens of thousands of tests are being done every single day both through the CDC and the public health labs as well as now through the private sector commercial labs. They're getting to scale, they have supplies, they have high throughput. We do hear anecdotally, occasionally of, say, a public health lab or another one that has a concern about this supply or that supply. Through FEMA, we actually are standing up laboratory task force to answer those questions. Usually, it's that the lab people do not understand that there are actually alternative supplies in the marketplace that they are perfectly free to use. We've actually had to put out some common myths and truths about that. For instance, the other day, we were getting calls from governors saying we don't have swabs. There are no swabs. There are no swabs. Our supply people went in the open marketplace and bought 200,000 swabs in the open market and I just sent a letter to every governor sending them swabs. So some of it just they aren't listening or checking with us about all the freedom, all the capacities out there. It's a complex system with 300 million Americans in all of these labs, so sometimes there's a lab that doesn't understand how much electability they have and how much supply there is out there. And were working through the new FEMA integration center to help correct that for folks. QUESTION: Secretary Azar-- TRUMP: --Mike, do you want to say about the-- PENCE: --He happy to-- TRUMP: --Tests, how well that's working PENCE: Well, as I said, more and more tests are being performed every day and, as we learn about the results that are being reported around the country of coronavirus tests, our experts continue to look at the numbers and see some 90 percent of Americans that are tested do not test positive for the coronavirus. And so it can give you a sense of the magnitude of testing that's going on. We have the number of cases that we've reported today, but it's--it's in some cases near to 10 times that that have been tested. But let me also emphasize how important it was in answering these questions for governors and local officials that the president stood up FEMA and the national response Center where we brief governors yesterday. Now every governor and their State Department, state health departments have the ability to reach out with--to our regional FEMA administrators, and that's how, as the president said, we are sorting out those potential conflicts between very significant federal purchases and procurements and--and as hospitals and state governments are purchasing as well. I think the new streamlined system operating now in all 50 states and our territories of governors and states going through their regional administrator for FEMA is going to make it more possible for us to ensure that our hospitals, our healthcare providers have access to what's available on the open market and elsewhere. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President, you're the head of the task force. You've seen the numbers, you spoken to average Americans. You're a former governor. What do you say to Americans right now who are watching and who are scared? PENCE: I would say do not be afraid, be vigilant. All the experts tell us that the risk of serious illness to the average American for the coronavirus is low, but we need every American to put into practice the presidents coronavirus guidelines 15 days to slow the spread because the coronavirus is about 3 times more contagious than the flu according to our best estimate and you can contract the coronavirus, have very mild symptoms, if any, not even be aware that you have it, and expose someone who is vulnerable to a very serious health outcome. That's the reason why we are encouraging people to avoid groups of more than 10, to not eat in restaurants, but to use drive-through's, to wash their hands on a regular basis. And particularly, we're going to continue, as the president has directed us to focus on the most vulnerable population which are seniors with serious underlying health conditions or anyone with an underlying immunodeficiency. It is those people we need to care for but it is going to take all of us working together to make sure they are safe. QUESTION: You just said that you haven't had to require companies to up their production of medical supplies but you said last night you invoked the DPA. I'm (INAUDIBLE) TRUMP: When we need something--when we need something because of the act when we need something we order something and as you know two days ago I invoked the act which was a big step. I'm not sure that it had been done before certainly not very much and when we need something we will use the act. What has happened is before we even go out many, many companies great companies, companies in a totally different business are willing to do things and make things because that is what they do they make product. They are willing to make product for us, medical product that we need very badly for the states, that the states can't get, they haven't been able to get and you know most of the states in no way did they do anything wrong. They were stocked up, they were all equipped. Unfortunately they have never had a thing like this so they need help from the federal government. QUESTION: This is important. You haven't actually directed any companies to start making more ventilators or mask? TRUMP: I have. I have. Yes, I have. QUESTION: How many (INAUDIBLE)? TRUMP: And they are making a lot of ventilators and they are making a lot of masks. Go ahead please. Go ahead. QUESTION: Mr. President partially following up on that are--are your automakers right now who are retooling their production facilities to make ventilators or-- JONES: I can't say they are but they will be very shortly because we are working with one in particular that wants to make ventilators. They called us yesterday and they are already were working on a transaction. They are going to make ventilators. They say they have done it before which surprised me but they can't do it very easily. QUESTION: This is partially for you, partially for Secretary Azar. You said yesterday that you have spoken to Carnival(ph) corporation's chairman-- TRUMP: (INAUDIBLE) QUESTION: And he said that he could donate some ships-- TRUMP: No, not donate. That's not (INAUDIBLE) donate. QUESTION: Not donate, okay, land. Land. TRUMP: He's not giving them, he's (INAUDIBLE) use them. I spoke with Mickey Harrison(SP) who is the President, Chairman, CEO and owner he's got every title you can have. QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) to potentially-- TRUMP: He said--he said to me that he was willing to if we need ships, if we need ships for helping people that carnival would be absolutely willing to help us in Los Angeles and New York, wherever they may be in Miami, where they are very big. If we needed something they would be willing to. So far we haven't needed to and we are bringing the big hospital ships up in California. We haven't, we are working with the governor of California as you know with Gavin and we haven't made a determination. We are also talking to folks (INAUDIBLE) Seattle so we are discussing where it can be most useful. We have spoken with Governor Cuomo and we are bringing the big hospital ship up in two weeks and we are going to have it in New York harbor some place in New York. QUESTION: So--so my question is one, it sounds like you haven't taken them up on it yet but-- TRUMP: No, I have taken them up. I said if we needed I will let you know. That is called taking them up. QUESTION: And--and secondly-- TRUMP: Right now we don't need them. QUESTION: The ships have a lot of frequently contacted surfaces and so this is where you come in Secretary Azar potentially Dr. Fauci do you have concerns about those cruise ships being used as hospitals? TRUMP: Well, I can tell you they are very clean and also those surfaces the German is you know the virus disappears over a period of time in the ships are very clean. They happen Very clean. They have been gone over but the virus as you know if it is on a surface for a certain they have actually charts, different kinds of surfaces it disappears over a period of time. QUESTION: Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: I mean what are you trying to get it? Go ahead. QUESTION: Well, that is what I'm asking. Why not just use hotels? TRUMP: It disappears. The--the virus disappears when it is on surface after a certain number of days or in some cases hours depending on the surface it's on. Please. QUESTION: A quick follow-up. So can you say can you name any of the companies that just asked to start making these ventilators or facemask? TRUMP: I will be but first I want to get the approval from the company because I don't want to be doing that. I assume they would like it but I will let you know. QUESTION: Okay. Well thank you and this is for Dr. Fauci-- TRUMP: One company that has openly stated it is General Motors. QUESTION: So that is one of--did you--did the government asked General Motors? TRUMP: I didn't speak to them about announcing it but I will announce it. I am sure they wouldn't be but we have others also. QUESTION: Okay, thank you. So for Dr. Fauci there is new research out that the CDC has released that many of the people that or the 13% of people with the prone a virus got it from someone that was asymptomatic so my question is does that change the way the approach that should be taken if you think that is the case or I mean do you think that or do you not agree with that research? FAUCI: The recommendations that are here applies to whether you are in physical contact with someone who could be infected with symptoms versus asymptomatic. I don't think it really changes anything. Certainly there is some degree of asymptomatic transmissibility. It is still not quite clear exactly what that is but when people focus on that I think they take their eye off the real ball which is the things you do will mitigate against getting infected no matter whether you are near someone who was asymptomatic or not. It is the same thing. Physical separation in the care that is outlined here is going to take care of both of those things. QUESTION: Mr. President, I have a question about testing. When will every American who needs a test get a test and be able to get a test and why not have medical equipment being shipped right now to hospitals who need it-- TRUMP: We are hearing very positive things about testing and just so you understand we don't want every American to go out and get a test. 350 million people. We don't want that. We want people that--that have a problem, that have a problem with they are sneezing, they are sniffling, they don't feel good, they have a temperature, there are a lot of different things. You know--you know them better than I do. So ready? We don't need that but what we are having is we are having these private labs have come and they have been really fantastic and we also have a great system for the future because as I said we inherited--we meaning this administration and obsolete broken system that wasn't meant for anything like this. Now we have a system that you can see because look, we are well into this and nobody is even talking about it except for you which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are Americans-- TRUMP: Which doesn't surprise me. QUESTION: There are of Americans that will say that they have symptoms and they can't get a test. What--what do you say to the Americans-- TRUMP: I am not hearing it. We don't want everyone to go out and get a test because there's no reason for it. Yeah? QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) Americans who have symptoms -- TRUMP: We will do one more after this. QUESTION: So I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci (INAUDIBLE) is one of the people who is now suggesting that the real way to get to the end of this or life to return to normal is for every single person living in this country to be tested that way you could see who is contagious and you could then have people who don't have it go back to work. Is there any possibility this country could ever get to a point where every single person could be tested and how long would that take? FAUCI: Thank you for the question. I have heard that before. I don't see--I don't connect the dots they are. I don't see how testing everybody in the country is going to help you to implement this. This should be implemented universally at least at this level for everyone. The things we spoke about a while ago that you want to really ratchet it up like the governor Newsom is doing in California, like Governor Cuomo is doing in New York or how you put an end to this outbreak testing is important. It would be nice to know and there are certain things you could do but let's not conflate testing with the action that we have to take. Whether or not you test do this. I'm not--I'm not putting down testing as an important issue that people seem to link them so much that if you don't have universal testing you can't respond to the outbreak. You really can. TRUMP: What I do think and that's after listening to Tony and everybody else that's an expert I do think it is important that not everybody be tested. If you feel great and if you have no symptoms whatsoever it's just not a good thing to be doing. All right. Steve(SP) please. QUESTION: A question for Dr. Fauci. Yesterday you mentioned the possibility of aerosol transmission of the virus. How likely is that to happen? FAUCI: That--the possibility of aerosol transmission always comes up when you have situations like that. It comes up with influenza, it came up with SARS in which there was a documented you know one off episode of some aerosol transmission. Aerosol means that it can stay in the air for a period of time because it is in a droplet that is very small and doesn't go down. Is it possible that there is aerosol transmission? Yeah, it certainly is but clearly what we have seen in the situations where people have gotten infected from the areas that we have experienced China, South Korea, now Europe most of it is in a situation where people are close enough to each other that asymptomatic person will have a real droplet transmission. So I am not ruling out the possibility that it is aerosol but again it's not going to substantially change doing this. QUESTION: Let me just ask this in a very simple way. What is the demand pressure on testing in this country and are we meeting it? FAUCI: I get the same calls that many of you get that someone goes into a place who has a symptom and wants to get it tested for one reason or another multiple logistic technical what have you they can get it. That is the reality that is happening now. Is it the same as it was a few weeks ago? Absolutely not, because as the secretary and others have said, right now that we have the private sector involved, the availability--not only just availability, but the implementation of the availability is getting better and better and better. Having said that, I--I understand and empathize with the people who rightfully are saying I'm trying to get a test and I can't. QUESTION: So--so, is that a way of saying we are not yet at a point where we are meeting the demand pressure? FAUCI: Well, the answer is yes, John. We're not there yet because otherwise people would be never calling up saying they can get a test. QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President? QUESTION: Mr. President, I just want to make sure-- TRUMP: --You want to finish that? QUESTION: Mr. President? TRUMP: Go ahead. I think you might have a response. PENCE: Well, I just can't emphasize enough about the incredible progress that we have made on testing. All of you are reporting and--and media outlets around the country are as well that--that many, many more tests are being performed every day literally by the tens of thousands. And this has only been made possible because several weeks ago the president brought in the commercial labs, these enormous companies, Quest and LabCorp, working with companies like Roche and the--and Abbott Laboratories and Thermo Fisher and said we have this existing system of state laboratories and the CDC processing tests for certain infections. But given the magnitude of this outbreak, the president apprehended early on that it wouldn't be enough to meet the need. And I just want every American to know that literally hour by hour in partnership with these extraordinary commercial labs we are making more and more tests available every day. We'll detail the--the way that we're working with states to distribute those tests. We've obviously focused on states that have been with the--with the most serious outbreaks of coronavirus, Washington State, California, New York, and others. We've been making sure the tests are in those areas, working closely with those governors. But I think the American people should be encouraged at the progress that we are making. Tomorrow, we'll take some time to detail that progress for (INAUDIBLE) who might be concerned that they have symptoms. As the president said so well, we--we don't want every healthy American to get a test. But if people feel that they have symptoms that they identify with the coronavirus, call your doctor. Their doctor can call their state health authorities. They can work very closely with our entire team through HHS and FEMA and work to identify the more and more tests are available every day. QUESTION: Mr. Vice President? TRUMP: Just--just so you know--just for the probably 100th time, I, this administration, inherited an obsolete, broken, old system that wasn't meant for this. We discarded that system and we now have a new system that can do millions of people as you need them. But we had to get rid of a broken, old system that didn't work. It worked only on a very limited basis. And we're very proud of what we've done. It's incredible what we've done. And this system will now serve them for the future for future problems. Hopefully you don't have a problem like this, but something will come up. We have now a great system, and it's almost fully in gear, but is able to test millions of people. But we inherited a broken, old, frankly a terrible system. We fixed it and we've done a great job. And we haven't been given the credit that we deserve, that I can tell you. But the one that really deserves the credit are the American people, because they are doing things that nobody thought they would do. What they are doing is incredible. And we're making a lot of progress. And we'll see you folks tomorrow. Thank you very much.

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1635 WH KAG RALLY TRAVEL POOL CUTS FS26 83 *TIME MARK NOT THE SAME AS OUR TIME STAMPS* Donald Trump: (01:19) Well, thank you very much. And hello Las Vegas. Great to be with you. They have a big election tomorrow. We've already won the state. We've already won. I like ours better. We just take it. Just take it. We've won it. I like it that better. Donald Trump: (01:37) You know they say they're going to have a lot of problems tomorrow. I hate to tell you this. I don't know. Have you heard? I hear their computers are all messed up. Just like they were in Iowa. They're not going to be able to count their vote. They're going to tell you about healthcare. They're going to tell you about our military and the jet fighters and the missiles and rockets, but they can't count votes. They just can't count them. They can't count votes, but they're saying they may not be able to do it again. They're still trying to tell us. I called up yesterday, how are they doing in Iowa? Was that two weeks ago? They say we're getting close. They're not getting close, they'll never know. They'll never know, but I hear the same thing could happen tomorrow. I hope it doesn't, actually. Crowd: (02:22) I love you President Trump. Donald Trump: (02:23) I hope it doesn't, but I'm delighted to be back in a state I love. I have a beautiful building right down the road. With the proud, hardworking patriots of Nevada. You're going to say Nevada. You say that wrong, you got problems. You say Nevada, they go, what the hell? Got to be Nevada. Donald Trump: (02:55) With your help this November, we're going to defeat the radical socialist Democrats and we are going to win Nevada in a big beautiful landslide. Now, we have some special people here, you know the special very special people. Donald Trump: (03:17) And we celebrate one of the greatest moments in the history of sports. Some people say it was the single greatest moment in the history of sports. It was called the miracle on ice. Do you remember that? That was when the Russians had a team assembled. That was probably, they say maybe the greatest team ever assembled. They were unbelievable. And our guys played a practice game with them was it a couple of weeks before, and I hate to tell you the score was 10 to 3, and the USA was not on top, and this team was an incredible team and they went in and it was amazing, but tomorrow marks the 40 years since the United States men's hockey team defeated then Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics. Donald Trump: (04:15) Incredible. That was incredible. Most of you remember that. I'm looking. We've got a lot of young ones, but we've got a lot of people that remember that. A lot of people. And by the way, we got the Olympics coming back or coming to Los Angeles. Thank you. Thank you President Trump. Thank you President Trump. Thank you very much. Thank you President Trump. Eight years. Eight years, 2028 you know what? Unless I'm still president then, which is a distinct possibility, I won't be here, and you know what they'll do? I'll say, how's the Olympics going? Does anybody have a ticket for the president that got the Olympics to come here? They'll say, I want to thank and they'll thank hundreds of people, but they won't thank you president that I'm the one that pulled it off. But that's okay. 2028 Olympics is coming to Los Angeles. It's going to be great. Donald Trump: (05:27) And we worked with the mayor of Los Angeles. He was great. He called up and we gave him a lot of help. I was president elect then because the president didn't want to get involved. He didn't want to get involved in getting the Olympics, so they called me and I was president elect, hadn't taken office. Then I got involved and I'll tell you, they were happy we got involved. It was great. It's going to be very exciting today. Donald Trump: (05:49) We are thrilled to have with us 14 players of that really incredible gold medal team. Give him a big hand. And they were amazed. They said, boy is a big crowd. I said, it's only because you guys are coming. Donald Trump: (06:10) This day was supposed to be for this evening. And I said, let me get back to Washington, do it early. So we gave you almost no notice. You have thousands of people outside, thousands of people inside. You had to see, we were in Iowa we were in New Hampshire. You saw what happened in Colorado last. That was unbelievable. Every place we go it's the same. It's been incredible. Donald Trump: (06:37) I don't know if you saw the pictures last night of the outside in Colorado. It was incredible. It was. You could have filled that arena up four times and it was a big arena, and it's something. Donald Trump: (06:49) So I hated to do it to you at 12 o'clock but I said, let's go. I want to get back. We got to deal with China. We got to deal with Russia. We got to deal with North Korea, South Korea. We got to deal with the rest of the world. Get my people back. We got to get the hell out of here, right? But we have a lot of time. I'd like now to invite these incredible sport legends to join me on stage. A friend of mine and a very good golfer, by the way, Captain Mike he rode a bike. Mike. Where's Mike? Where is he? Mike. Do you know who he is? He's a fake handicap is what he is. Say something Mike. Mike Eruzione: (07:38) Just welcome everybody to ironic we happen to be here to celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Vegas Knights flew the whole team out to honor us tonight and for the weekend and we obviously thank the people of Las Vegas for having us here and we're looking forward to celebrating a special time, and it's a great honor for the president to invite us to be part of this event as well. So Vegas, thanks for having us. Donald Trump: (08:01) But just tell them, am I a good athlete and am I a good golfer? Mike Eruzione: (08:10) You are. Yes sir. Whatever you say. Donald Trump: (08:16) Thanks Mike. That was some goaltending right? How many did you rebuff? Mike Eruzione: (08:23) [inaudible 00:08:24]. Donald Trump: (08:24) I mean, but how many did Jim have? Many did. Mike Eruzione: (08:27) Very few. Donald Trump: (08:28) Very few. But a lot of shots, right? Mike Eruzione: (08:29) A lot of shots. Donald Trump: (08:30) He was like a pinata. Mike Eruzione: (08:33) Yes. Donald Trump: (08:35) So Mike, that was great. Goaltender Jim Craig. So Jim rebuffed come here, Jim. Great goaltender, great goaltender. They didn't know what was happening. They kept shooting. He doesn't know how many you rebuffed. How many did you rebuff? Jim Craig: (08:56) 37. Donald Trump: (09:01) 37. So let me ask you, was that as goaltender, because that was incredible. Was that the greatest game you ever played? You've had a lot of great games. But was that the greatest game you've ever played? Jim Craig: (09:09) It was an important. Donald Trump: (09:10) It was slightly important. 37. 37. Bill Baker. Bill, come up. Bill Baker. Dave Christian, Ken Morrow, Jack O'Callahan, Mike Ramsey. Speaker 1: (09:46) Walk like an old hockey player. Donald Trump: (09:47) Those legs took a beating. Mark Wells, Neil Brotton, John Harrington, Rob McClanahan, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Phil Verchota, and a great coach and assistant coach at the time, Craig Patrick. Crowd: (10:24) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (10:52) They said four more years, 12 more years left for them. Look at that. Look at the press. Hey Mike, look at the fake news back there. It's a lot. I always say that's like the Academy Awards used to be. This year, we had a movie, they said best movie, they announced the movie from South Korea. I said, what's that all about? The movie was made in South Korea. Look, I get along great with South Korea, but you know, I never saw that one before. They used to go best foreign movie, but now we do it that way. Donald Trump: (11:36) I don't get it, but that's what it used to be and this is really an incredible time. I'll tell you what, for our country, that's why I like to see things that we do get honored because nobody is doing what we do. Nobody can do it like us. Donald Trump: (11:50) We're the greatest country in the world again. We have the greatest people. We have the greatest military by far. We've totally rebuilt our military. Jobs are booming, incomes are surging, poverty is plummeting. Factories are returning confidence is soaring, like these guys, the confidence is soaring, but you know, we do have somebody that I'd like to point out because this team is, they had a coach, and that coach was a very inspirational coach, would you say Mike? And I'd like to have maybe one of you come up and just say a few words about Coach Brooks because he was very, very, he was really a big, he was a big heart on this team. Please. Mike Eruzione: (12:41) I think it would be appropriate if you've got a few minutes that Herb Brooks' daughter Kelly is here representing her father. And I can honestly tell you that Kelly was not ready for this at all. You got it? Donald Trump: (13:05) Say something. Mike Eruzione: (13:06) Her dad was an amazing coach. He was a great teacher. He was a great motivator at times, maybe too much of a motivator. He was very demanding. He was very difficult to play for. But trust me on one thing, there never once was a day that we didn't respect the man and never once was a day that we didn't trust him and what he was trying to do. He orchestrated the greatest sports moment of the 20th century and the guys behind me were so proud and honored to have been a part of him and what he was able to put together. It was a perfect environment, a perfect storm sometimes. Not only a great coach, but great players and great people that stand behind me now. So if Kelly would like to say a couple of words. No, she doesn't. Kelly Brooks: (14:02) Thank you. I'm honored that his legacy still is alive today and he would be proud to be here with you all. In my personal opinion, he would have been a Trump fan. Donald Trump: (14:17) So tell me one thing, one thing. So I see those tears. That means you think, you miss him and you love him. Right? Was he actually a nice guy? Because he looked tough. Mike was just saying he was brutal, but he was a good guy, right? Kelly Brooks: (14:37) Right. Donald Trump: (14:38) Tough but great. Thank you very much. Thanks Kelly. Thank you all. Greatest sports story could be number one. Crowd: (15:09) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (15:30) So a lot of people, a lot of these sports experts, sports writers have voted that as the single greatest sporting event or athletic achievement. I think so, yeah? They put it number one, certainly top five. In the history of our country, we have a lot of things that we've done to break records. We're going to go over them, but we've broken a lot of records now, but I want to thank that great team for being with us. Very inspirational. This is a big day. The anniversary. Thank you fellas. Thank you. Donald Trump: (16:04) In my state of the union address, I proudly declare that we are in the midst of the great American comeback and we're just getting started. Donald Trump: (16:18) After three years of ridiculous witch hunts and partisan Democrat crusades. By the way, I think they're starting another one. Did you see that? I see these phoneys. These are the do nothing Democrats. They said today that Putin wants to be sure that Trump gets elected. Here we go again. Here we go again. Did you see it? A story. Aren't people bored? Now, does that include because a couple of weeks ago, crooked Hillary said Chelsea Gabbard, right. Tulsi Gabbard and right? Crowd: (16:54) She was a Russian agent. Donald Trump: (16:56) She was a Russian agent. Tulsi and also Stein from Jill Stein. I don't know Jill Stein. I never met the woman. She is a Green Party candidate or was they said she's an agent of Russia. I don't know her and I don't know Tulsi. The only thing I know about both of them is they're not agent. They are not agents of Russia. These people are sick. That's pencil neck, pencil neck again. Little pencil. No, I just see it again. I was told that was happening. I was told a week ago. They said they're trying to start a rumor. It's disinformation. That's the only thing they're good at. They're not good at anything else. They get nothing done. Do nothing Democrats. That Putin wants to make sure get elected. Listen to this. So doesn't he want to see who the Democrat's going to be? Wouldn't you rather have, let's say Bernie? Wouldn't he rather that Bernie who honeymooned in Moscow? Wouldn't that be? Donald Trump: (18:04) These people are crazy. That's all they think about. They don't think about the country. They don't think about jobs. They don't think about lowering your drug costs. Infrastructure. These people are crazy. Trust me, I like what we're doing and I love this country. I love this country. Donald Trump: (18:30) Now, and I campaigned on it, at the same time we want to get along with Russia, we want to get along with China, we want to get along with all these countries. Who the hell needs to have conflict? But these people are sick, they are sick people. The radical left's attempts to poison our democracy and overturn the last election have totally ended in a big fat failure. Donald Trump: (18:55) And by the way, you saw today, single best day I've ever had is the polls and any poll that the fake news gives you, because the real numbers are higher, but any poll they give you as a fake. But Wisconsin, the great state of Wisconsin, I was leading by many, many, many points against every one of these characters. Can you believe it? We got a new one. Mini Mike. How did he do in the debate the other day? Mini Mike. Here's a box Mike. Here Mike. Mini Mike. He was a beauty. Donald Trump: (19:38) What happened huh? He couldn't breathe. What happened? Mike would like to know how about that Pocahontas screaming at him. She forgot. She forgot that she lied about her own heritage. She said she was an Indian because she had high cheekbones. That was the only thing. Remember what I said, I have more Indian blood in me than she has and I have none. Right? I have none. To the best of my knowledge, wouldn't mind having some, but I happen to have none. And she choked and she went out and got a report done. One, 1 thousandth and 24 you know what that means? That means probably I do have more. Now why did he bring that up when she was screaming at him? Why? Because he was gasping for breath. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. She's hitting me too hard. Pocahontas. Well, she won that debate cause Mike could not respond. Crowd: (20:59) [inaudible 00:00:20:55]. Donald Trump: (21:05) That's what they all said. They all said that. That's funny. I won, they're all shouting. It's not me that's saying it. Fake news. You fake news people. No, they all said it though. Who won the debate? Trump. You know what? The way I look at it, when fake news CNN oops, there goes the camera off. Red light just went off. See, I can tell every one of them. I know them by heart. I know the operators. I know the camera men. They're okay. They're all on our side by the way. They're screamed at. Get that camera off. I don't want to do that. Get that camera off, or it's going to be you job. All right, I'm sorry. Precedent. Donald Trump: (21:58) But how bout MSDNC? They're worse than CNN. And they're owned by people that really are bad. I think they're very bad for our country. The owners of Comcast, rotten company, bad for our country, very bad. They try, they have all these PR things to try and keep their image nice and clean. What they do on television is so disgusting. I think in the old days you had to have licenses for this stuff, right? They can say whatever they want to say. Let's see what happens over the next period of time. Bunch of dishonest people. Comcast, terrible company. Terrible people running that company. And you know what, I had Celebrity Apprentice, I had the Apprentice on for 14 seasons, 14 seasons, and they used to come to my office and they would kiss my ass. Please sign. Please. Please sign. Donald Trump: (23:05) It's an interesting story. They came and we signed, you know who signed me, Jeff Zucker. It's one of the only things he's done good in broadcasting, but I signed and NBC, as you know, is owned by Comcast, but I signed and they figured the show would be a total failure. So they only signed me for one season. You know I was going to have it. It was go on and then the show goes, started at ten went to eight, went to seven, went to five, went to four, went to two. It went to one. I had the number one show in all of television. Number one. It was a phenomenal and the final episode, remember that? With the, you remember that? Do you remember the final? We had, I don't know, it was one of the biggest shows of the year. It was a tremendous success there. Donald Trump: (23:58) But here I was, I signed with NBC and they didn't even want to waste the ink on an option. Usually they have an option for not, you know, just like they didn't do it. You stupid people. So they paid me very little for the first season I think $25,000 a show, which is considered not good. That's okay. It was fun. I didn't know it was going to be success, you know? Hey, just like this was successful. It's a recent. Donald Trump: (24:27) Because when I left and Arnold Schwarzenegger and I like Arnold said some very nice things, so I'm not, but the show did not exactly succeed when I left, but I had it on and they wanted me to sign for more and I said, no, I'm going to run for president but I'll never forget. Donald Trump: (24:46) I looked at, I didn't know anything about this business and I had an agent, wonderful guy from William Morris, and he said, sir, I don't want you to sign. No business show has ever done well on network television. Well, it's not business, it's entertainment, celebrity. Sir, I don't want you to sign. Sir, don't sign. I said, yeah, okay. But I have a problem. I shook the hand of somebody I have to. Donald Trump: (25:11) And Mark Burnett was great. He was my guy and but we shook hands. So I have to, but I agreed, you know, I didn't know that no business or no business type show had ever succeeded on a network television. So he said, I don't want you to sign sir, break it. I said, I can't break it. Can't break it. Anyway, so the show I said started at ten, went to nine, went to became, it was the number one show all of a sudden, and the agent called me up and he said, sir, I remember it was six in the morning. I was in bed. He said, sir, the show just went to number one. I'd love to see you because I think I'm entitled to more money. I said, you didn't want me to do the show. Well, not really. I mean, I was okay. He said, I'd really like more money. I said, Jim, I like you very much, Jim, you're fired. Get out. Donald Trump: (26:07) Anyway, I had 14 great seasons over about 11 years because it was so successful, they kept. They would have run it. Remember when they did the three hours, the whole night was the Apprentice. I said, wait a minute. Gone With the Wind, to mention the movie a second time, Gone With the Wind is shorter. They had the Apprentice on for three hours. I said even I think it's too long. You can't put it up for three. You got leave a little bit like I want to come back next week. Donald Trump: (26:33) But they had it on for three weeks. We did fantastically with it. Comcast did great. NBC did great. They wanted me to sign for another three years. I said, no, I'm going to for president. And that was actually the time when I knew I was going to run. Because you know how they were paying a lot of money and whether you're rich or not, it's still a lot of money. I don't care how rich you are. It's a lot. Millions and millions of dollars. And I said no, I'm going to run for president. And I did that. But from the day I ran, they went from being, you know one. Donald Trump: (27:03) But from the day I ran, they went from being wonderful, they were nice. They were nice. I guess if I didn't do well with the show they wouldn't have been nice because they weren't nice to other people that failed. People that didn't have good ratings, that business is a very simple business. If you have good ratings, you can treat them like garbage. If you have bad ratings, you can say, "Sir, I really respect you so much." Donald Trump: (27:25) Get out of here. Get him out of my yard. They're very ruthless people. But Comcast is a rotten company. They forgot totally. And they are worse than CNN. I will tell you that right now. Comcast is worse than CNN. We should call it Comcast, because that's their beautiful maiden name, Comcast. They're worse than CNN. Donald Trump: (27:49) I'll, tell you something about CNN. Jake Tapper, today he put out. Now I know you don't like him. I know. Who likes him? Who the hell can like him? I think his wife likes him. Actually. I really believe she does. But let me just tell you, he put out a couple of social media posts today, because I never call it tweet, I call it social media because it's much bigger than tweet. Donald Trump: (28:10) What we have, Dan Scavino. The great Dan Scavino. We have won five sites. We're number one on Twitter, we're number one on Facebook, and the whole world. The whole world. So it's powerful. But Jake Tapper put out some things, basically saying, I believe it, that's the way I read it, that the new Russian thing that started yesterday, that Putin wants to be sure that Trump, which give me a break. Give me a break. But Jake Tapper said it ain't so, and if he did say that because they were a little complex, they can turn them around, or when Zucker sees him and said, "Why did you put that? I want that deleted and I want you to do a different one." But he did say that. So I respect that because it's another hoax story. But we're standing up for the defense of our constitution, for our freedom, and democracy itself. You know that. Donald Trump: (29:03) [inaudible 00:29:03] I got to get that. Hey, Bobby? Bobby? See that guy? I love that shirt. Bobby, I don't know. He looks like a nice guy. Can you please walk him up, even if you have about five. Come here, come here. Come here. Come here. You got to see this shirt. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Donald Trump: (29:29) I've got to order me one that I can ride around. Come on. Come on up here. He looks safe. He doesn't look like he's going to start a fist fight. He's a good fan, I guess. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Is there any place that's more fun than a Trump rally? Right? Donald Trump: (29:52) How many rallies have you been to? Crowd: (29:53) [inaudible 00:29:55]. Donald Trump: (30:01) 80? 80? 80. He said 80 rallies. Come up here. Come on. Come on. Come on. Look at these two guys. These guys are serious. These are serious fans, right? Are you with him? Are you with him? Are you with him? You're with him? Speaker 2: (30:19) Come on up, baby. Donald Trump: (30:19) Come on. Come up here. Man. Crowd: (30:20) Hello again, sir. We met yesterday at your rally [inaudible 00:03:34]. Speaker 3: (30:34) I've been to two rallies in one week, so I'm just getting started. I'm just getting started. Crowd: (30:34) Welcome. [inaudible 00:30:40]. Donald Trump: (30:40) And look at this guy Come on. Speaker 4: (30:52) God bless you. Thank you, president. [inaudible 00:30:53] Thank you for saving America. Donald Trump: (30:52) Thank you, fellas. Speaker 2: (30:56) We love you. You saved us. You saved us, thank you. Crowd: (30:58) Thank you, president Trump, for saving America. [inaudible 00:31:01] Donald Trump: (31:13) Wow. I just said, "How long have you two been together?" I figured they'd say, "We're married." He met her at the rally in Colorado. Can you believe this? Can you believe it? Man, did he get lucky. They both got lucky, right? They both got lucky. Well, that's cool. No, I just see there's so much stuff out here. It's genius, actually. While the extreme left has been wasting America's time with viral hoaxes, we've been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. As you heard, we added another 225,000 new jobs last month alone. Way above anticipated schedule. And that makes 7 million new jobs since the election. The number was supposed to be under 2 million and we added 7 million. And remember, if I give you wrong numbers, the fake news is going to have headlines. Donald Trump: (32:28) "Trump gave you wrong." I mean, it's very tough. I've got to be very careful. Even if I give you wrong in the wrong way, they'll say it was wrong. I said, "Yeah, but it was wrong in the low way." No, that's no good either. Got to be very precise with these characters. The Democrats don't have to be, but we have to be. We've destroyed he ISIS territorial caliphate 100%, we killed the founder and leader of ISIS. Al Baghdadi is dead. Al Baghdadi is dead. 17 years. They looked for him. 17 years. Donald Trump: (33:17) Al-Baghdadi. One of the first things I did when I came in. He's the founder of ISIS and when I came in three years ago, ISIS was all over the place. And I said, "You got to knock it out." We knocked it out of Syria, and, Iraq and other places. We really knocked at 100%. Donald Trump: (33:35) Remember I wanted to leave. I said, "All right." We were at 96%, then 98, then 99%. I said, "Let some of these other countries do it." Wouldn't you say, right? So what happened is I wanted to leave and they said, "No, no, no, we want 100%." So we wait and stayed. We got 100%, then we moved them all out of Syria, except we did keep the oil. You noticed that, right? We kept the oil. Sorry. They said, "He left soldiers in Syria." Yeah, I did to keep the oil, if you don't mind. Which is what we should have done in Iraq too, by the way. Donald Trump: (34:07) I would have done that. I'm making a lot of money with all that oil. But you remember that whole thing, that whole. I said, "You got to find Al Baghdadi." I've been saying that actually for two years. I had a lot of other things to do the first year, like fight off the Democrats. These crazy Democrats with their hoaxes. Think of it. Donald Trump: (34:30) If they use their genius, because they are genius at that stuff, right? They're really good. They can take nothing. They can take a perfect phone call made to the Ukrainian president who said very specifically there was no pressure. He doesn't even know what's going on and they can take this perfect call. Thank goodness I had a transcriber. Do you agree with it? Because the fake whistleblower said that the call was totally different than what the call was. Donald Trump: (34:59) So when I released the call, when I released the transcripts, they died. They said, "Oh we got a problem." They never thought I was going to do it, but I had no choice. I had to because I had to show they're liars. But think of it, they can take something like that, a perfect phone call, or they'll take just out of thin air they can make something up. Donald Trump: (35:19) And they ended up today, front page, New York Times. They used to call it the eighth column. That's the big column on the right. I don't know. The papers become so small. I don't know if they have an eighth column anymore. They used to have the eighth column, was a big deal, right? That was the big deal. Today it's too narrow. Think they're probably. After I'm gone, they won't have any columns. That's why eventually they're going to support me. Donald Trump: (35:42) Eventually, the Times and the Washington post, which will be dead as a doornail after I leave, and the CNN, it'll be an obsolete business, the cable business. MSDNC will be out of business. You know, cable was supposed to be obsolete and now they're doing the highest numbers they've ever done. If an airplane goes down with 700 people, they don't cover it. If it's not Trump related, they don't cover it. It's got to be Trump or Trump related. So if a plane goes down and it's total devastation, if the ship goes down, if the Titanic- Speaker 5: (36:18) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:20) If the Titanic equivalent went down, they wouldn't cover it unless I was on the sucker. It's true. They wouldn't cover it. The fake news would not cover the equivalent of the Titanic. Speaker 5: (36:33) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:35) But you know what they're going to do before the election? They're going to say, "We want to just say something. We're going to endorse the president." You know why? Because they'll be out of business. Can you imagine if they had to cover mini Mike? Who I don't think, I think he's gone, but you know what? He'll spend another 500 million. Don't forget I spent 70 and I won, of my money. In other words, they said, and this was in the New York Times, I said the other night in Colorado. Donald Trump: (37:04) I spent 70, mini Mike so far has spent almost $500 million dollars in order to get embarrassed by Pocahontas. Pocahontas. And she's mean, isn't she? Did you see that? Do you see the anger on her face? That nervous energy. She's jumping up and down. She's a mess. But no, no, she's mean. Right? Right? That face is just. "You want to get him?" She said, "I got him. I want to see those agreements." "I," "You open up those agreements." This poor guy probably signed a hundred of them and each one's a disaster. He said, "I don't want to open those agreements. Nobody told me this was going to happen." Donald Trump: (37:53) Said, "Actually, sir." "Nobody told me. Get me out of here." After the debate, he went backstage, fired a lot of people. He said, "How the hell did you get me into this thing?" But Pocahontas was really mean, but she's going to be easy. I hope it's her. It's not going to be her. Donald Trump: (38:19) She made a little comeback the other night because she took mini Mike to the cleaners. But it's not going to be here. It can't be [inaudible 00:11:28]. Can't be, I don't think. Alfred E. Neuman, ladies and gentlemen, introducing president Alfred E. Neuman. Nobody knows because you're all too young. Nobody knows who Alfred. it's Mad Magazine. Donald Trump: (38:46) They all said. No. Howdy Doody. See nobody knows who Alfred E. Neuman is. Only the real aficionados. They're the ones and they love it. But that's only 15% of the crowd, right? Am I right? Better than Howdy Doody. Howdy Doody. Donald Trump: (39:02) But he's got to learn. He's got to worry about his own city. It's going to hell, so he's got to worry. Because that city's got a lot of problems. I don't get the whole thing, but he's not a bad debater, I will say. He's probably the best up there. And Bernie is too emotional. He's screaming, going crazy. And Biden is angry. Biden is angry. Everything's anger. [inaudible 00:39:26] And that's what happens when you can't get the words out. No it does. Donald Trump: (39:35) That's what happens, right? When you can't get the words out, you get angry. You get angry because you can't get the words. That might happen to me someday. Can you imagine if that happened to me? Man, would I be a bad guy. I'd be the meanest man in history. No, but Biden is very angry. Donald Trump: (39:52) He gets angrier, and angrier, and angrier. He's changed. And then you have the Tom. Yeah. He said Tom Steyer. Tom said, " Mister impeachment." How did that work out, Tom? Thank you very much for the great poll numbers between him and nervous dancing. Donald Trump: (40:09) How did that work out? This schmuck spends $250 million dollars, he ends up with one third of a percent in Iowa. But maybe that could be Rick, because they still don't have any idea what he got. Maybe he won Iowa, they took it away from him. No, but he was substantially below it. All I know, it said 1% and an arrow left. Donald Trump: (40:31) So he spends 250 million, Tom Steyer. Never heard of this guy. Who is he? Where did he get his money? Who is he? He was in the coal business, did you know that? This guy, this phony is a big environmentalist. He made his money, a lot of it, in the coal business. Nobody knows that, but he's a fake. Donald Trump: (40:48) Remember when he walked up to Bernie the other day. "Hi Bernie. Hi." Oh, and he was having a fight with Pocahontas, right? Is this the greatest? Mark Burnett said, "This is the greatest reality show in history." He said, "You can take The Apprentice, and you can take Survivor, and you can take every other reality show ever made, multiply it times 10,000, and you still don't have what we have. And even the CAS." He did say this. You got the perfect president. You got the perfect first lady. How about the first lady? You got the perfect kids. The kids, though. Those beautiful kids. My beautiful kids. They had such a great life, before I did this. Sorry, kids. Sorry. My beautiful Ivanka. She had such a great life. She Had a company that was selling shoes and everything you could sell. She'd just put her name on it and she said, "Daddy, does it matter? I want to come to Washington and help people get jobs." Donald Trump: (42:02) Right? Ain't that true? And she left the company. And when you leave a company, all of a sudden it doesn't do as well. I wouldn't say that I exactly helped talking about the wall and other things, but she left the company, came to Washington and she said 500,000 jobs. That was her goal. And she did that in the first month. She actually did. Donald Trump: (42:29) She's gotten these great companies like Walmart, and many others, Exxon, she's gotten them to take millions of people. She's now over 15 million jobs where they train people and bring them into the companies. It's incredible. 15 million. And she's smart. She got it figured out, but most people can't, but she does. But all they do is give them heat. They work so hard. And could you imagine you take Biden's son. Can you imagine? Donald Trump: (43:10) I deal with all these big companies and these great, great countries. I think I could get my sons 25 board chips for millions of dollars a piece. My kids would be [inaudible 00:43:21]. But you know what? We don't do any of that stuff. We don't do that stuff. We don't do it. The kid got $3 million dollars, 83,000 a month and he didn't have a job until his father became vice president. And speaking of vice presidents and speaking also of reality television, because it's the greatest show of all time, right? Look at us. Look. Donald Trump: (43:48) We told you, what, last night? Little change here, folks. We're going to move it up from eight o'clock in the evening until 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Little change. Just a minor change. Because I have to get back to Washington to work. I feel guilty. This is too much fun. But speaking to vice presidents and speaking of perfect vice presidents, if you become president, the first thing you have to do is choose a really horrible, horrible vice president. So if the idiots ever want to impeach you, they have to say, I can't impeach him. Look who we have. I have the perfect vice president. I have the greatest in the world. I have the greatest vice president. Donald Trump: (44:39) I don't know. I got the great ones. I said, "I can't do that." I picked a great guy. He's done a fantastic job. He's been a great vice president. But it is true. I could have picked, I'll give you names, but don't want to do that because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But there are plenty of them out there. Donald Trump: (44:51) They're mostly out there and I don't want to do that. But Mike Pence has been great. But tell me, is it perfect casting the whole thing? And this isn't about casting, this is about real life. But when Mark Burnett said to me the other day, he said, "The greatest reality show of all times, times of million." That's exactly except for one thing, we work our asses off and we are doing things like nobody has ever done before. Donald Trump: (45:19) Right? Right? So, we took out Al Baghdadi and then we just took out two weeks ago the world's top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani of Iran, ending his evil reign of terror forever. He's the father of the roadside bomb. When you see our beautiful people walking around with no legs, they're walking, and trying to walk so hard, and they're really in rough shape. Donald Trump: (46:01) Incredible the job that doctors do at Walter Reed and some of these hospitals. And they get them to a point where sometimes they really can, they walk around, but it's hard. And they lose legs, and they lose arms. That was [inaudible 00:46:14] he's the father of the. he loved the roadside bomb. He thought it was a great thing. Where is he now? Donald Trump: (46:24) Soleimani. And I'll tell you what, you know who's happy about it? The people of Iran are happy and even the leaders of Iran, because the leaders of Iran were afraid of him. Okay? And the fact is, America is respected again. We're winning. We're winning all over. We're winning in Washington that Democrats keep losing their minds. That is why millions of registered Democrat voters are leaving their party to join our movement. Donald Trump: (46:57) It's not even a party, it's a movement. They're joining the Republican party. It's true. We have a lot of. Look at the energy in this room. They're all [inaudible 00:47:10]. They're all [inaudible 00:47:13]. Look, we're a unified party. The Republican party has never been unified like it is today. Donald Trump: (47:22) I'll show you. I could say, "We're going to go over to the Hill. No, we're going to go over to someplace and we're going to do a rally at eight o'clock tonight." We'd have tens of thousands of people there. There's never been this. Ronald Reagan was great. I thought he was a great guy, great president, didn't like his policy on trade. That's okay. Trade. Donald Trump: (47:42) But if he came to Las Vegas, you know they'd have a ballroom, and they'd have 500, maybe a thousand people. What we're doing. And this isn't even, I must say this, I don't want to tell you this, this is not election season. Because we're nine months away. Election season is when you're two months away. We're not even in election season and we have more enthusiasm now. Believe it or not, then we had even before the election in 2016. It's true. It's too early. It's too early. It's true. We have a great gentleman and a woman with us, a friend of mine, mister and misses Sheldon Adelson, right over here. Great, great person. Two great people. He's got so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. He owns the Sands Hotel. That's like one of the smaller businesses. Donald Trump: (49:05) Sheldon, that's like your small business, right? He is a great guy. She's an incredible, she's a doctor, and she studies addiction, and drugs, drug addiction, all sorts of addictions. And she knows more about that subject, I think, than anybody, and she works hard and she doesn't need it. He does not need the money that she brings in. Okay? Donald Trump: (49:25) He also happens on the paper. He owns the paper. You own the paper in town, right? They wanted like a couple of hundred million dollars too much. You said, "Give it to them. It's peanuts. What the hell difference does it make? We want to thank the Adelsons. They've been incredible fans and they love Israel. They love Israel. I just saw him sitting there. I didn't know they were here. I just see him sitting there. He's something. Speaker 6: (49:54) [inaudible 00:49:56]. Donald Trump: (49:56) The chairman of the Nevada Republican party, who's really been great. He's been with me for a long time and he's a very committed man. Make America great again. Oh, oh, oh. Let's do a poll quick. Just quick. I'll never get rid of MAGA because I'm superstitious. But we just hit an all time high with the stock market. Our military is rebuilt. You just got the greatest tax cuts in history, the greatest rate, regulation cuts, and all this stuff. So, let me ask you this. Donald Trump: (50:29) So, "Make America great again," it sort of doesn't work quite as well. So now we have keep America great and we have the new hat. It's higher, stiff. It's like a billboard, right? I call it the billboard. It's a billboard. So let's go just that. Because I am very surprised by it. We're going to keep them both, but I just curious if we did go to one, "Make America great again?" " Keep America great?" Donald Trump: (51:03) I can't. I would have said that's impossible. "Make America great again," is the greatest phrase. A lot of people, again, fake news, I think will agree to it. It's the greatest phrase ever used in politics. It's the greatest phrase. Now, who has the greatest phrase ever used in the history of politics and say, "Oh, let's go with a new phrase." Right? Donald Trump: (51:40) But we're going to keep it. So we have to keep MAGA. But now we have CAG, now we have CAG. So we have a both. I just don't have the courage to get rid of the one. It would be too disrespectful. Too disrespectful. But Michael McDonald, I want to thank you and the members of the Nevada Republican central committee. You're all here. They're great people. And the man came here. He loves us. He's been with us. Rick Harrison of the world famous gold and silver pawn shop. Rick Harrison. Donald Trump: (52:22) You better win, Michael. Otherwise, that's the last time I'm introducing you like that. I hear we're up. I hear we're doing nicely. I hear we're doing great. And by the way, the union, I have a lot of respect for that union. Last time, I had a strike in my building during the election. It's the only reason we would have won this state. Brilliantly to save three cents. I could have settled the strike before the election. I wanted to save $2 total. Donald Trump: (52:49) That was a brilliant move. And then we had some guy running. A guy named [inaudible 00:25:55]. And he wasn't too good. He didn't do too good. But we almost won this state despite. I had a big strike. Had thousands and thousands of union guys. They had it, look, they wanted, wanted to show us. But I think that the unions are really with us and the unions have been with us. They're Teamsters, so many of the unions. Donald Trump: (53:16) Because I'm for the working man and woman, whether you're union or non-union. Some States are all union, some states are no union. But we get them all. And I think we're going to have tremendous success. And a lot of the Democrats are going to ruin the healthcare programs that these unions have. The unions have worked hard on healthcare and they're going to ruin them. Donald Trump: (53:38) They're going to take away. Well, we're going to. you can lose 180 million people off of great private healthcare. So we'll see what happens. But a lot of the Democrats want to do that. They think it's wonderful. But together we're building the world's most prosperous economy and the most inclusive society. That's true. Since my election, over 125- Donald Trump: (54:02) That's true. Since my election, over 125,000 new jobs have been created right here in Nevada, including over 40,000 new Nevada manufacturing and construction jobs. A 30% increase. The national unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century, and soon we're going to have that be a historic number like so many of the others. The average unemployment rate for my administration, this is the coolest of them all, is the lowest for any United States president in recorded history. That's pretty good. When I'm in a debate, they're saying, "we're going to do this." I say, "listen, we have the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country." African American unemployment, Hispanic American. Hispanic, we got a lot of Hispanic. I love Hispanic. Who in this audience is Hispanic? Yeah, we're doing great. Well, we should be doing great. You have the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded. Asian Americans, likewise the lowest ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest rate in 71 years. African American youth unemployment has reached an all time historic low. People I love, people I might've helped more than anybody because of choice and accountability. The veteran's unemployment rate drop to the lowest record. Lowest in history. Donald Trump: (56:02) The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all time historic low and you got to remember they're back there checking every word. They're going," oh, my god. He's right." I can't say it because I got all these maniacs back there. They're trying to find. "He put the comma in the wrong place. He didn't make that word plural, therefore he lied." Now I've got to be very accurate because all these numbers, they check them out. "They're in there, checking them out. Check on the African American unemployment, please." Please tell me it's not historic. These people are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Not all of them. Workers without a high school diploma. We have millions of people that didn't go through high school. They left. They had problems, good problems, bad problems, families where they don't have the money. They didn't get a high school diploma. They've achieved the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded in the history of the United States. Donald Trump: (57:14) Those are important groups of people. Half a million more Hispanic Americans now own a home. Now, Hispanic have done so good. And by the way, you know who understands the border, because we are building that wall like crazy. Remember, they also said, "if you build the wall you'll lose the Hispanic vote." I said, "I got to do what's right. You know who understands the border better than anybody? You know who understands crime at the border better than anybody? The Hispanics understand it and they don't want to be working and have people come and take their job. Have people come in where they can't pay for their house, have people come in who are very bad people." You have some very bad people. You have murderers and rapists, and we have set all sorts of records at the border, but we're up to 122 miles of wall, and it is true. The people that understand it the best are Hispanic. So, thank you. We got to make our country safe. We've lifted 10 million people off of welfare. Median household income is now the highest ever recorded in our country. Think of that. I say it all the time. President Bush, eight years, $450. President Barack Hussein Obama, eight years, $ 975. President Donald John Trump, three years. It's actually less when they did the numbers. Three years, including the big tax cuts that we got you and the regulation cuts. Three years. Donald Trump: (59:22) So, you had 450, 975, that's eight and eight. Now we're down to three years, a little less, three years, $ 10,000 per family a year. 10,000 a year. Our historic regulatory reduction campaign is restoring American liberty and ending the tyranny of federal bureaucrats. I deal with them. They're not good. It's called the swamp. We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, reducing your prices. Part of that number is all of the money that we save at the pump and on electric. I also recently took action on an issue Nevada has been dealing with for over 30 years. Yucca mountain. You know Yucca mountain? My budget stops funding for the licensing of waste storage at Yucca mountain, so that we can focus on positive solutions and for much better reasons and alternatives. Why should you have nuclear waste in your backyard? I won't say which countries, but you know what other countries do? I will not say which ones. Donald Trump: (01:00:49) They put it on a ship. They float it out into the middle of the ocean. They find a nice deep spot and they dump it. That's the end of it. But we would never do that for environmental reasons. We are reversing decades so Yucca mountain. You're okay, please. Okay. Just relax. Sheldon, do you have somebody at your newspaper back there who can write. Yucca mountain, please. He'll call up, "Yucca mountain is okay." That's the end of that. So Yucca mountain, you're in great shape. Maybe they can finally report it properly, but we're reversing decades of calamitous trade policies. For years, Washington politicians took money from lobbyists, global corporations and corrupt special interest to ship our jobs and factories and all of this stuff and all of this wealth. They stole our wealth. They shipped it overseas and to other countries. America lost one in four manufacturing jobs following the twin disasters of NAFTA and China's entrance into the WTO, the world trade organization. Probably an even worse deal for us than NAFTA, if that's possible, but under my administration, the great betrayal of America is over. America is no longer for sale. Last month we ended the NAFTA catastrophe and I signed the brand new U.S., Mexico, Canada agreement USMCA. See, we played the song YMCA because that's the only way you'll remember. Just think of the song YMCA. Think of the song and you'll remember that USMCA is a gigantic victory for farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers all across the great state of Nevada. I also took the strongest ever action to confront China's massive theft of America jobs. Our strategy worked. Last month, we signed a ground breaking trade agreement. Probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property and boost American exports by a lot. China will be buying $250 billion worth of goods from us now and 50 billion from our farmers. My guys wanted 16, I said, "make it 50." My guys wanted 16, they got China up to 20. I said, "Nope. Got to make it 50," and then I said to China, "you got a billion and a half people. What difference does it make?" They said, "you're right." 50 billion, I don't think our farmers can produce that much, but we're going to soon find out. They're going to buy very large tractors. After years of building up other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. we are finally putting America first. Donald Trump: (01:04:26) Or no issue of Washington Democrats more thoroughly sold out the American people than the issue of immigration. Before I came into office, the far left's policy of open borders allowed deadly drugs to flow freely into our country, poisoning our children, including right here in a very big way. The great state of Nevada. Washington Democrats put the needs of illegal immigrants before the wellbeing of American citizens. You know that, you've been complaining about it for a long time. It's one of the reasons you voted for Trump. They want to let anyone from around the world simply walk across the border and then they want to give them a lifetime of free welfare, of healthcare, of lots of other things, including education. All paid for by the taxpayers of the United States. Illegal immigration costs Nevada taxpayers, think of it, more than $1.6 billion every year, over $1,500 per household. For the amount of money Washington Democrats want to spend supporting illegal immigrants, we could rebuild every city, all of these distressed areas in the United States, throughout our country. The money spend, it's not even thinkable and don't forget when we say come, like in California the clown, he says, "come, we'll give you free healthcare." People that weren't even thinking about coming. That's why we have caravans of people that we're turning back. Mexico's been great. By the way, they gave us 27,000 soldiers on our border. Donald Trump: (01:06:16) But when a governor, nice guy actually, he's a nice guy. We just got to explain the facts of life. He's a nice guy. Oh doctor, please. Doctor in the house, please. Medical, please. A doctor. Thank you. Take your time. We've got plenty of time. Yeah, take your time please. A lot of these people have been here for three days. It's a lot. Those front row people are tough. Take your time, doc. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, doctor. That's true. They get here so. They stand and sit and sometimes days early. In Colorado, they're there three, four days early. It's tough. And we work it and make sure that you have everything you want. Number one, we cover the facts and number two, we want to have a good time because we have to have a good time. But things like that happen a lot because after two, three days, it's not easy and these are strong people. I'm not going to fight any of them, okay? Donald Trump: (01:10:05) Now, amazing people. Thank you very much. Under my administration, we're finally taking care of our own citizens first, including millions of illegal immigrants who follow our laws, pay their taxes, lift up our society, and are entitled to a government that protects their families and protects their communities. Every day, Democrats' open border policies are harming and killing innocent people. You know what's happening, you know what's going on. In this region alone last year, ICE officers, and they're patriots. They're strong, tough patriots. If we didn't have them. They remove thousands and thousands of MS13 gang members a year and plenty of others. Who else is going to do it? ICE officers arrested over 5, 000 criminal aliens charged or convicted of dangerous offenses, including robbery, rape, and even murder. Many murders. In Western Nevada, an illegal alien was charged with robbing and brutally executing four victims last year. Right here in Las Vegas, three MS13 gang members abducted a man, tied him up with his shoelaces, shot him repeatedly, and hacked him to death with a machete. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It's right here in your place, in Las Vegas, right here. Tied up and hacked him to death. Yet left wing politicians oppose all detention of illegal aliens, even convicted criminals and murderers, and they support deadly sanctuary cities. I say this all the time and I just. How the hell, where are they coming from? I don't get it right. Seriously, I don't get it. Sanctuary cities imperil American lives by releasing dangerous criminal aliens directly into your communities. If you want to shut down sanctuary cities, if you want to protect your family and your loved ones, you must vote Republican in 2020. And you have some great ones here, Michael. Thanks to our tireless efforts to secure the border, we have reduced illegal border crossings eight straight months in a row. And as the wall gets longer, it gets easier and easier. Remember when the Democrats were saying, "you don't need a wall." Two things that never change, right? All these computers, they said, "use drones." Oh great, we'll fly over with drones. Watch the people pour in by the thousands. That's great. Use drones. Before I came along, they all wanted a wall. They just didn't know how to build it. They had no clue. They had the money, they actually gave the money back, but they had no clue. But as soon as I came in and I said, "Wall," they went against and I made a terrible mistake. Donald Trump: (01:13:22) They always say I never admit mistakes. I do, but I'll admit a mistake now. I should have said, we will never, ever under any circumstances build a wall. They would have given me so much money for a wall, you have no idea. They would've forced me to build it. I made a terrible mistake, right? Terrible mistake. If it ever happens again, which it won't. This wall is one of a kind. They will say, "we will not build a wall," and they'll say, "we demand that you build a wall," and it would have been so easy. Illegal crossings are down 75% since last spring and we have ended catch and release. A horrible [inaudible 00:01:14:08]. Donald Trump: (01:14:06) We catch them. You know the story. They come over, could be a killer, murderer, rapist. They come over. We can't do anything. We have to be politically correct. We catch them. We then say, "what's your address?" They don't know. They don't even know their country in many cases. Where do you come from? We don't know and they mean it, but some are very serious criminals. So, we catch them, we take whatever they can take, which is nothing, and then we had to release them in our country. We can't bring them back. And then we have a system of judges, thousands of judges all over the place. You got to be like Perry Mason and every illegal that comes in, they have the lawyers. The lawyers meet them, they get paid fees, but we're breaking the system. No more catch and release, you think that was easy? And the big thing is that 30 foot. And this wall is built exactly to the specifications of border patrol. Totally. And border patrol has seized the largest amount, just recently, of deadly narcotics ever recorded. The largest amount. We've deported record numbers of gang members. We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history. We are, as I said, building the wall faster than ever. Faster and bigger than anyone thought possible. They can't believe we're getting it done. We'll have over 500 miles of wall built sometime next year. 500 miles. Donald Trump: (01:15:55) Washington Democrats have never been more extreme than they are right now. 132 congressional Democrats have now signed up for Bernie Sanders takeover of healthcare that would strip 180 million Americans, many of them in this room, of their private coverage. Remember president Obama? Remember, he said, "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan." 28 times, he lied, so we should impeach him. We're going to impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. 28 times, "you can keep your doctor," right? Remember, you could keep your doctor. Unfortunately, when they found out you can't keep your doctor, he said, "I was just kidding." Now, we should impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. Fake news, you have it. See, you have to be very careful when you say impeachment because you know what they do? They go back and they write. President Trump said that Obama should be impeached, but he's not in office and so therefore they can't impeach. He doesn't know what he's talking about because he's not in office, so therefore they can't. So, you have to be very careful. That's why I use the word belated impeachment. Belated, meaning I'm just kidding, okay? Donald Trump: (01:17:20) They do it all the time. They had it the other day. I said, "bring back Gone With The Wind," right? I said a little bit up here, but I said the movie the other day in Colorado, I guess. I said, "Huh, South Korean movie won." They said, "ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Academy Award is ." A movie made in South Korea, what's this all about? And I deal with them, they like me. We're helping them a lot. They're killing us on trade. They beat us on trade and then they win the Academy Award for a fricking movie. Donald Trump: (01:17:54) But we redid that trade deal, but the other day they got me on this one too. I said, "whatever happened to Gone With the Wind, that beautiful movie? Vivian Lee, Clark Gable, right? Whatever happened, bring back Gone With the Wind." And some of them wrote, "he doesn't know that that movie was made in 1936." He says fake news. It is fake news, they're fakers. But now, anybody sitting there reading this saying, "man, Trump, can't be that smart. He said bring back Gone With the Wind. That's an old movie." Yeah, it's an old classic. What I say is make great movies, not this computerized garbage. And I was never a fan of Brad Pitt, I will tell you that. Donald Trump: (01:18:48) No, I thought he was a stiff. He was a stiff, it's like a boring guy. All of a sudden he wins the Academy Award, so fitting. Their ratings aren't so good at the Academy Awards. You know when that stopped? When they started attacking us, their ratings went right down the tubers. I told somebody, the evening newscasts, they're terrible for conservative people and they're crooked, they're absolutely dishonest. I said to one of the big broadcasters, I'm friendly with him. I said, "if you ever did a conservative newscasts, instead of. you got, ABC is terrible. NBC is just absolutely atrocious." And they do badly. Not a lot of people are watching. They used to, when we had the late, great Walter Cronkite and these legends, right? But ABC is terrible and NBC is terrible and CBS is terrible. They're all the same. And I said, "your ratings stink. If you would do a newscast that's conservative, I'd get them a host. I could recommend guys right now, right? I'd get them a host. We'll call up. Don't take Sean Hannity away from us. Don't take our show. Donald Trump: (01:20:03) That's my problem, I don't want to take away any of our people. You get a Pete Hegseth. You get a Jesse Waters. You get. I could name so many of them, right? And you put them on that broadcast, their ratings would go up five fold but they don't know that. I don't know. They're stupid. Their ratings would go through the roof, but they would rather have a failed broadcast that nobody watches than put on a conservative person and lift the ratings five times. They would rather have a fail. Seven months ago we had a little skit, and they were hoping the market would crash because they would rather lose their money, or big parts of it, and have a really horrible market on the basis that we, not me, we could not be elected on November 3rd. This is how crazy- Donald Trump: (01:21:03) . on November 3rd. This is how evil, this is how crazy they are. They've gone crazy. I guess you call it Trump derangement syndrome. But if they ever did a conservative broadcast, meaning very fair, very honest When I say that, it's almost like do a fair broadcast. Just a fair broadcast. That thing would be the hottest show. But they don't realize it. And if they do, they probably wouldn't do it anyway because they don't want to go away from what they're doing, which is crazy because it is, they're doing very poorly. Donald Trump: (01:21:30) While the social and socialist Democrats are trying to destroy American healthcare and your Social Security, they're putting it at risk, my administration is protecting your Social Security. Remember they said, four years ago in the debates and you had this crazy woman. I mean, I hate to mention her name. I did it you know, yesterday. I threw all the runs, hates it. Donald Trump: (01:21:59) She's a zero. It's got zero television personality. Aero AB Stoddard, whoever that is. She said, "Donald Trump lost all of his debates." I won every debate and maybe, I don't know maybe one somebody, but I won with tremendous numbers. He says, "You always won." I'm not sure. We try, I'll tell you that and we're winning now. Donald Trump: (01:22:21) But this crazy woman who's got zero going, zero. She said, "Donald Trump lost his debates that he won." You know, she was talking about how badly Benny Mike did. So she said, "Well, Donald Trump." No, I won every single debate. I won them against crooked Hillary. I won them in the primaries like 15 or 16 debates. And for some reason, you know, sometimes you do say, it's not a big deal. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Nobody even knows who she is. I just made her famous, right? Donald Trump: (01:22:49) She's nothing. She's nothing. She's got no talent, got nothing. She's probably got a little drive. That's how she keeps getting on television. Other people don't have her drive. But you know what? I said, "That's really unfair." So I took out the polls, Time magazine, Drudge, good guy, Drudge, Drudge. We took out a lot of different things and we put up the Drudge poll, the Time magazine and many others. And some of them had to be down to like at 91% and they didn't have many people and I can't really show up because many of those people are now great friends of mine. Donald Trump: (01:23:18) Some of them are great Republican senators. I'm not going to show results, but I'm holding it up just quickly glancing. I call it a glancing blow, but we won the debates and I have this fake news person saying, "Donald Trump did very poorly in the debates." I want every debate easily. I never did it before. Remember my first question? I said, "Rosie O'Donnell." That was one of my best answers. Rosie O'Donnell who violated the campaign finance laws as badly as anybody I've ever seen and nothing happens to her. Right? And yet Dinesh violate . He made a little mistake and they want to destroy him. So we pardoned him. We pardoned him. Donald Trump: (01:24:08) By the way, he made a mistake. Rosie O'Donnell. That was a massive violation of the campaign finance laws but Dinesh, Dinesh, they wanted to put him in jail. I don't know. I think he might've even gone to jail for a period of time for doing something that was really very understandable. Rosie O'Donnell. Five times what she did is incredible. Nothing happens. And then she gets on and says, what a bad guy I am. I'm not a bad guy, but it's really a disgrace. You know, it's a disgrace. I'm glad they didn't do anything with it, frankly because you know what to do for something like that. But you know what? We have two sets of justices in this country. It's no good. It's no good. It's no good. You know the thing we're working on right now? We're trying to get fairness for a certain person who's been treated very unfairly. Donald Trump: (01:25:04) A man who had a juror, who was a radical anti-Trump person, and she didn't say that when she went up there and she became the foreperson of the jury and she did terrible things and said terrible things. And you know how they caught her. When he was convicted and then a statement was made, she started jumping up and down screaming, " Yes, yes." And started telling everybody. They said, "Wait a minute. Wasn't she just a juror?" The woman was totally biased. How do you do this? So I fight. Look, I fight. A lot of times it's not worth it, but I got to fight for fairness. Donald Trump: (01:25:44) I got to fight for fairness. Got to fight for fairness. It's a very unfair system. I guess it's called the swamp. When I said drain the swamp, it was a nice phrase. I never liked the phrase. When I was campaigning, somehow the phrase came up, "Sir, I think we have a phrase, drain the swamp." I said, "I don't like it. That's too hokey." But one day I was in a big arena, 25,000 people packed before the election and I said, "And we will drain the swamp." The place went crazy. I said, "Wow, you never know. You never know." Donald Trump: (01:26:22) Frank Sinatra said his best song. I won't tell you which one because I'll ruin it for you, but his best song is the song that he thought would never make it, the song that he liked the least, but he said that's the one that was the most successful that the people like you never know. So I said, "Drain the swamp." And the people went crazy. I said, "Woah." I said, "Let's try that again." And the next time I did it again and again and again. I only didn't know how disgusting and dirty the swamp is and a lot of the media is a big part of the swamp. Donald Trump: (01:26:56) So my administration is protecting your social security, your Medicare, and is fighting to give you great healthcare. We're defending your right to keep your doctor and your plan. We're defending that right. You're going to have that right back. We're going to cancel that Obamacare if we could win the case and we're going to give you great healthcare and we're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before I took office. We're managing it very well. We got rid of the individual mandate, by far the most unpopular thing where you had to pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay for bad healthcare, right? We got rid of it. Donald Trump: (01:27:39) And it was upheld in the Supreme Court, what we did. Whenever we get sued, everything we do, if we move, if we take 10 steps right or left, we get sued and we're now offering plans that are up to 60% less expensive. We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign. Donald Trump: (01:27:54) We're protecting people with preexisting conditions and we always will. That's why if we are successful, you don't want the Supreme Court to try and get rid of this, the caucus. It's a caucus known as Obamacare, but we're running it much better than they did. Remember when they had, this was the greatest, the $5 billion website, right? 5 billion. It was supposed to cost 5 million. I have a son at home. He's 13. He's a genius with computers. Donald Trump: (01:28:23) "Hi, dad. What's up? Dead dad. Get out of here." Donald Trump: (01:28:27) Hey listen. I'm the president of the United States, pal. Don't talk to your dad. "Dad, Come on dad. Can't you see I'm playing with my computer?" The guy talks to me and he's working with his computer. These guys are genius. You know, they grow up with like walking, right? But he's looking at me. I could have given him their healthcare site. He would have done it for nothing and it would have been better than what they have. Donald Trump: (01:28:47) So remember, come on, dad. I'm busy, dad. What do you want? What do you want, dad? Audience: (01:28:54) Barron. Barron. Barron. Barron. Donald Trump: (01:29:04) Barron, woah. Wow, he's going to like that. He's a good boy. He's a tall boy. I'll tell you that. Just turned 13. He's up there. I'm saying, "Hi Barron. How are you doing?" But they're great with the computers. They spent 5 billion. Donald Trump: (01:29:26) Okay. It was going to cost 50. It was going to cost five. It was going to cost 50. Then it was going to .. What was the final number? Five hundreds. The number that they spent, $5 billion. Right? It still doesn't work. They spent $5 billion. Right? And they spent $500 million on all of the problems it caused and we've really straightened it out, but it's still lousy healthcare, Obamacare. And it's really not Obamacare anymore because when you get rid of the individual mandate, it's no longer Obamacare but we're going to terminate it. We're going to give you your preexisting a hundred per- otherwise I won't do it. We're going to give you brand new preexisting and we're going to have a great healthcare that's much less expensive. Audience: (01:30:12) [inaudible 01:30:15]. Donald Trump: (01:30:15) And we're fighting to stop surprise medical bill and Barron's is going to be very happy. I signed an executive order imposing price transparency because when providers are required to show their prices, those same prices fall very fast. You know, a man that does this very professionally is great, into the healthcare business and you have to be careful when you say it, but you know it was just a very strong statement. Donald Trump: (01:30:45) But he said, "Sir, price transparency in hospitals. Where you can bid it out and you can look at the prices. Right now you can't see. If you go to a hospital, they won't even tell you how much it's going to cost. They operate and then they'll give you a bill and you'll say, "Oh my god, I had no idea it could be." They take blood. We have one person, blood $39. Another place, the exact same thing, $2500. Take blood, a blood test. One is $39 one, is $2500. The same test. Maybe the $39 test is better. Who the hell knows? But it's crazy. Price transparency and he looks at me. He goes, and he's a real pro. One of the top in the country. He said, "Sir," and nobody wanted to do it because it's a little bit controversial and a lot of the drug companies don't exactly love it. The hospitals don't love it, but I got to do what's right for you. The people, I don't care, I'm not. I got to do it. Audience: (01:31:37) [inaudible 01:31:39]. Donald Trump: (01:31:41) But he looked at me. And this is why I did it. It was one phrase. You know, do you ever do where you're not going to do something? And then somebody hits you with a perfect phrase. He said, "Sir, price transparency is bigger than healthcare." I said, "What do you mean by that?" He said, "You will see numbers that far outweigh healthcare, hospitals, doctors." He said, "You'll be able to price out everything. You'll be able to see costs." He said, "Price transparency." You know, people you've heard about this for 15, 20 years. No president has the guts to do it. Probably means I won't get campaign contributions from certain people, but I'm not going to get them anyway. Donald Trump: (01:32:24) What the hell difference does that make? I don't want them. I don't want them. I got to do what's right. You know, we're here for a short period of time. Even if it's a long period, it's still a short period and we've got to do so. Price transparency is a big deal. He said it's bigger than healthcare. Think of that. Bigger than healthcare. So let's see what happens. But that'll kick in. Unfortunately, that kicks in after the election because we're going through the final stages. We going through a statutory process, unfortunately. So think of it, we're going to win. Donald Trump: (01:32:53) But let's say the fake news could give me enough phony stories, enough bad stuff that we don't make it. The new president will get all the credit for price transparency and he won't even know what the hell it is. And I took the heat. Isn't that something? But we're going to win. We got to win for that reason alone. Audience: (01:33:15) [inaudible 00:12:17]. Donald Trump: (01:33:18) We've approved a record number of affordable new generic drugs, which are just as good as the name brand drugs, but a fraction of the cost. And that was another one. Tremendous political pressure. Think of it. You own Bayer aspirin. You own all these name name brand drugs that are making so much money. And then the guy comes along said, "I want to make 20 forms of aspirin." They're exactly the same. Exactly. But they don't have a big name on it. Exactly as good. I don't say better. I don't say worse. They're exactly the same. You know, people still, they want to go out and buy the name. You know? I do. I do. You know? Because it's just because we're stupid. No, it's true. They're exactly the same. We're approving so many of the generic drugs, a record number. Nobody's ever approved so much. The drug companies hate it. Donald Trump: (01:34:07) They hate it. Never happened like what we're doing. We also took down the trial periods from 12 years down to five or six years. They'd have a new drug. The thing was obsolete by the time it got approved. We've passed a really spectacular thing that they've been trying to get for 40 some odd years. Right to try. So you don't have to now go if you get, hopefully nobody in this room has those kind of problems. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:34:35) And so now you go and you sign a waiver and you get everything. It's great. If you're terminally ill. If you're very, very sick, you're not going to make it. And you know why they didn't do it? They wouldn't approve it because they didn't want to be sued. And they said, "No, this could be dangerous." They said, "The people are terminally ill, they're going to die. Donald Trump: (01:34:55) Let them use the experimental drugs. Don't wait because they have another four or five years before they can come onto the market." And it turned out we are having such unbelievable results. And you know what else? Some of those drug companies are now like it. That they fought me like crazy because it's really showing if it works there, it's really showing that it works. It's pretty amazing. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:35:15) I hope you don't have to use it. We're combating the opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths have declined for the first time in nearly 31 years and I've launched [inaudible 01:35:30] and this is really something, brand new initiatives combating kidney disease and combating Alzheimer's disease. We've made a lot of progress. We've made a lot of progress, Sheldon and we're pursuing new advances in the neonatal research to care for America's youngest patients, our babies, and breaking all records in so doing. Donald Trump: (01:35:53) All of the radical Democrats in the presidential debates have declared their unlimited support for extreme late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the very moment of birth. This is why in my state of the union address, did you like it? Audience: (01:36:15) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:20) Good. It's a different kind of address. You know, we can go lots of different ways, right? Presidential, not presidential. I was presidential. Totally. You'd have about three people standing here, but I asked Congress to prohibit late term abortion of babies because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. Audience: (01:36:41) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:44) The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total obliteration of your very, very important second amendment. Audience: (01:37:05) Yeah. Boo. Donald Trump: (01:37:05) The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family, the American dream, and the late great Abraham Lincoln, which everybody forgot. Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background, every community, and every single walk of life. We are the party of boundless optimism, excitement, energy, and enthusiasm. We are wealthy, right? Are we enthusiastic? Audience: (01:37:48) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:37:48) You know how many of these I've done in the last four days? People say, "Where the hell do you get your energy?" I say, "Well, the truth is I like what I do and if we weren't getting the results, I wouldn't like it." If we weren't getting the results. If I didn't see the results, I wouldn't like it at all. We're welcoming Americans of all parties and political persuasions to join our incredible movement to make America great again. Donald Trump: (01:38:19) We're a very big party. We are the party of big ideas for the future. Republicans are fighting for school choice because no parent should ever be forced to send their child to a failing government school. Donald Trump: (01:38:39) I passed criminal justice reform to give former prisoners a second chance at life. Was never going to happen. We got it done. This could not have been done by anyone but the Republican party and ourselves. You know the Democrats have tried for years. They couldn't get it done. We got it done. To uphold the rule of law. We are confirmed and this is something they say. Most important thing you can do, judges. I say most important thing is defense. Second is judges. Donald Trump: (01:39:08) A record number of 217 federal judges who will interpret the constitution as written. And we have appointed two great new Supreme court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. I recognized Israel's true capital and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and we recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. We have invested $2.2 trillion to rebuild the United States military, including more than $130 million for Nellis air force base right here. And we just created the sixth branch of the American armed forces, the Space Force, 72 years, 72 years. Donald Trump: (01:40:14) The air force was 72 years ago. We just did a branch. It's a big deal, isn't it? Think of it. A branch, the army, the air force. Think of it. We did a branch. For years you watched as your politicians apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and we are standing up for the people of Nevada. At stake in our present battle is the survival of our nation. If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died for to secure, then we must devote everything we have toward victory in November of 2020 November 3rd. November 3rd. Only this way can we save the America we love and drain the Washington swamp once and for all. With your help, we will lift millions more of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence and poverty to prosperity. Together we will elect a Republican Congress to create a fair, safe, sane and lawful system of immigration. We will continue to enact new trade deals that result in more products proudly stamped with that very beautiful phrase, "Made in the USA." Donald Trump: (01:41:41) We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic within nine years in America. Donald Trump: (01:41:56) And we will land the first woman on the moon and become the first nation in the world to plant its flag on Mars. We will defend privacy, free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. Donald Trump: (01:42:22) And that is under siege in case you haven't noticed. You know, your second amendment is under siege. Just don't worry. Long as I'm here, they're not touching it. Above all, we will never stop fighting for this. Donald Trump: (01:42:38) So true. But we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one America, we support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. We stand with the incredible heroes and they are heroes. We love them, of law enforcement. We believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. We believe that faith and family, not government bureaucracy are the true American way. We believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag. Donald Trump: (01:43:22) And we live by the words of our national motto, in God we trust. From Carson city to Reno to right here in Las Vegas, we stand on the shoulders of red blooded American patriots who poured out their heart, sweat, and soul to secure our liberty and to defend our great, beautiful, lovely freedom, freedom, freedom. Freedom. Donald Trump: (01:43:59) Nevada was founded by pioneers and prospectors, miners and cowboys who tamed the frontier, raised the mighty Hoover dam. That's a beauty. Transformed the barren desert into a shining oasis, lit up the lights of the Las Vegas strip and help to make this the greatest nation ever to exist on the face of the earth. And we are making it greater than ever before. Proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. America is thriving like never before. And ladies and gentlemen of Nevada, the best is yet to come together. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again and we will make America great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Nevada. Thank you, Las Vegas. We love Las Vegas. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Audience: (01:46:16) Yeah.

1530 KAG RALLY LAS VEGAS HEAD ON FS23 82 *TIME MARK NOT THE SAME AS OUR TIME STAMPS* Donald Trump: (01:19) Well, thank you very much. And hello Las Vegas. Great to be with you. They have a big election tomorrow. We've already won the state. We've already won. I like ours better. We just take it. Just take it. We've won it. I like it that better. Donald Trump: (01:37) You know they say they're going to have a lot of problems tomorrow. I hate to tell you this. I don't know. Have you heard? I hear their computers are all messed up. Just like they were in Iowa. They're not going to be able to count their vote. They're going to tell you about healthcare. They're going to tell you about our military and the jet fighters and the missiles and rockets, but they can't count votes. They just can't count them. They can't count votes, but they're saying they may not be able to do it again. They're still trying to tell us. I called up yesterday, how are they doing in Iowa? Was that two weeks ago? They say we're getting close. They're not getting close, they'll never know. They'll never know, but I hear the same thing could happen tomorrow. I hope it doesn't, actually. Crowd: (02:22) I love you President Trump. Donald Trump: (02:23) I hope it doesn't, but I'm delighted to be back in a state I love. I have a beautiful building right down the road. With the proud, hardworking patriots of Nevada. You're going to say Nevada. You say that wrong, you got problems. You say Nevada, they go, what the hell? Got to be Nevada. Donald Trump: (02:55) With your help this November, we're going to defeat the radical socialist Democrats and we are going to win Nevada in a big beautiful landslide. Now, we have some special people here, you know the special very special people. Donald Trump: (03:17) And we celebrate one of the greatest moments in the history of sports. Some people say it was the single greatest moment in the history of sports. It was called the miracle on ice. Do you remember that? That was when the Russians had a team assembled. That was probably, they say maybe the greatest team ever assembled. They were unbelievable. And our guys played a practice game with them was it a couple of weeks before, and I hate to tell you the score was 10 to 3, and the USA was not on top, and this team was an incredible team and they went in and it was amazing, but tomorrow marks the 40 years since the United States men's hockey team defeated then Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics. Donald Trump: (04:15) Incredible. That was incredible. Most of you remember that. I'm looking. We've got a lot of young ones, but we've got a lot of people that remember that. A lot of people. And by the way, we got the Olympics coming back or coming to Los Angeles. Thank you. Thank you President Trump. Thank you President Trump. Thank you very much. Thank you President Trump. Eight years. Eight years, 2028 you know what? Unless I'm still president then, which is a distinct possibility, I won't be here, and you know what they'll do? I'll say, how's the Olympics going? Does anybody have a ticket for the president that got the Olympics to come here? They'll say, I want to thank and they'll thank hundreds of people, but they won't thank you president that I'm the one that pulled it off. But that's okay. 2028 Olympics is coming to Los Angeles. It's going to be great. Donald Trump: (05:27) And we worked with the mayor of Los Angeles. He was great. He called up and we gave him a lot of help. I was president elect then because the president didn't want to get involved. He didn't want to get involved in getting the Olympics, so they called me and I was president elect, hadn't taken office. Then I got involved and I'll tell you, they were happy we got involved. It was great. It's going to be very exciting today. Donald Trump: (05:49) We are thrilled to have with us 14 players of that really incredible gold medal team. Give him a big hand. And they were amazed. They said, boy is a big crowd. I said, it's only because you guys are coming. Donald Trump: (06:10) This day was supposed to be for this evening. And I said, let me get back to Washington, do it early. So we gave you almost no notice. You have thousands of people outside, thousands of people inside. You had to see, we were in Iowa we were in New Hampshire. You saw what happened in Colorado last. That was unbelievable. Every place we go it's the same. It's been incredible. Donald Trump: (06:37) I don't know if you saw the pictures last night of the outside in Colorado. It was incredible. It was. You could have filled that arena up four times and it was a big arena, and it's something. Donald Trump: (06:49) So I hated to do it to you at 12 o'clock but I said, let's go. I want to get back. We got to deal with China. We got to deal with Russia. We got to deal with North Korea, South Korea. We got to deal with the rest of the world. Get my people back. We got to get the hell out of here, right? But we have a lot of time. I'd like now to invite these incredible sport legends to join me on stage. A friend of mine and a very good golfer, by the way, Captain Mike he rode a bike. Mike. Where's Mike? Where is he? Mike. Do you know who he is? He's a fake handicap is what he is. Say something Mike. Mike Eruzione: (07:38) Just welcome everybody to ironic we happen to be here to celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Vegas Knights flew the whole team out to honor us tonight and for the weekend and we obviously thank the people of Las Vegas for having us here and we're looking forward to celebrating a special time, and it's a great honor for the president to invite us to be part of this event as well. So Vegas, thanks for having us. Donald Trump: (08:01) But just tell them, am I a good athlete and am I a good golfer? Mike Eruzione: (08:10) You are. Yes sir. Whatever you say. Donald Trump: (08:16) Thanks Mike. That was some goaltending right? How many did you rebuff? Mike Eruzione: (08:23) [inaudible 00:08:24]. Donald Trump: (08:24) I mean, but how many did Jim have? Many did. Mike Eruzione: (08:27) Very few. Donald Trump: (08:28) Very few. But a lot of shots, right? Mike Eruzione: (08:29) A lot of shots. Donald Trump: (08:30) He was like a pinata. Mike Eruzione: (08:33) Yes. Donald Trump: (08:35) So Mike, that was great. Goaltender Jim Craig. So Jim rebuffed come here, Jim. Great goaltender, great goaltender. They didn't know what was happening. They kept shooting. He doesn't know how many you rebuffed. How many did you rebuff? Jim Craig: (08:56) 37. Donald Trump: (09:01) 37. So let me ask you, was that as goaltender, because that was incredible. Was that the greatest game you ever played? You've had a lot of great games. But was that the greatest game you've ever played? Jim Craig: (09:09) It was an important. Donald Trump: (09:10) It was slightly important. 37. 37. Bill Baker. Bill, come up. Bill Baker. Dave Christian, Ken Morrow, Jack O'Callahan, Mike Ramsey. Speaker 1: (09:46) Walk like an old hockey player. Donald Trump: (09:47) Those legs took a beating. Mark Wells, Neil Brotton, John Harrington, Rob McClanahan, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Phil Verchota, and a great coach and assistant coach at the time, Craig Patrick. Crowd: (10:24) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (10:52) They said four more years, 12 more years left for them. Look at that. Look at the press. Hey Mike, look at the fake news back there. It's a lot. I always say that's like the Academy Awards used to be. This year, we had a movie, they said best movie, they announced the movie from South Korea. I said, what's that all about? The movie was made in South Korea. Look, I get along great with South Korea, but you know, I never saw that one before. They used to go best foreign movie, but now we do it that way. Donald Trump: (11:36) I don't get it, but that's what it used to be and this is really an incredible time. I'll tell you what, for our country, that's why I like to see things that we do get honored because nobody is doing what we do. Nobody can do it like us. Donald Trump: (11:50) We're the greatest country in the world again. We have the greatest people. We have the greatest military by far. We've totally rebuilt our military. Jobs are booming, incomes are surging, poverty is plummeting. Factories are returning confidence is soaring, like these guys, the confidence is soaring, but you know, we do have somebody that I'd like to point out because this team is, they had a coach, and that coach was a very inspirational coach, would you say Mike? And I'd like to have maybe one of you come up and just say a few words about Coach Brooks because he was very, very, he was really a big, he was a big heart on this team. Please. Mike Eruzione: (12:41) I think it would be appropriate if you've got a few minutes that Herb Brooks' daughter Kelly is here representing her father. And I can honestly tell you that Kelly was not ready for this at all. You got it? Donald Trump: (13:05) Say something. Mike Eruzione: (13:06) Her dad was an amazing coach. He was a great teacher. He was a great motivator at times, maybe too much of a motivator. He was very demanding. He was very difficult to play for. But trust me on one thing, there never once was a day that we didn't respect the man and never once was a day that we didn't trust him and what he was trying to do. He orchestrated the greatest sports moment of the 20th century and the guys behind me were so proud and honored to have been a part of him and what he was able to put together. It was a perfect environment, a perfect storm sometimes. Not only a great coach, but great players and great people that stand behind me now. So if Kelly would like to say a couple of words. No, she doesn't. Kelly Brooks: (14:02) Thank you. I'm honored that his legacy still is alive today and he would be proud to be here with you all. In my personal opinion, he would have been a Trump fan. Donald Trump: (14:17) So tell me one thing, one thing. So I see those tears. That means you think, you miss him and you love him. Right? Was he actually a nice guy? Because he looked tough. Mike was just saying he was brutal, but he was a good guy, right? Kelly Brooks: (14:37) Right. Donald Trump: (14:38) Tough but great. Thank you very much. Thanks Kelly. Thank you all. Greatest sports story could be number one. Crowd: (15:09) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (15:30) So a lot of people, a lot of these sports experts, sports writers have voted that as the single greatest sporting event or athletic achievement. I think so, yeah? They put it number one, certainly top five. In the history of our country, we have a lot of things that we've done to break records. We're going to go over them, but we've broken a lot of records now, but I want to thank that great team for being with us. Very inspirational. This is a big day. The anniversary. Thank you fellas. Thank you. Donald Trump: (16:04) In my state of the union address, I proudly declare that we are in the midst of the great American comeback and we're just getting started. Donald Trump: (16:18) After three years of ridiculous witch hunts and partisan Democrat crusades. By the way, I think they're starting another one. Did you see that? I see these phoneys. These are the do nothing Democrats. They said today that Putin wants to be sure that Trump gets elected. Here we go again. Here we go again. Did you see it? A story. Aren't people bored? Now, does that include because a couple of weeks ago, crooked Hillary said Chelsea Gabbard, right. Tulsi Gabbard and right? Crowd: (16:54) She was a Russian agent. Donald Trump: (16:56) She was a Russian agent. Tulsi and also Stein from Jill Stein. I don't know Jill Stein. I never met the woman. She is a Green Party candidate or was they said she's an agent of Russia. I don't know her and I don't know Tulsi. The only thing I know about both of them is they're not agent. They are not agents of Russia. These people are sick. That's pencil neck, pencil neck again. Little pencil. No, I just see it again. I was told that was happening. I was told a week ago. They said they're trying to start a rumor. It's disinformation. That's the only thing they're good at. They're not good at anything else. They get nothing done. Do nothing Democrats. That Putin wants to make sure get elected. Listen to this. So doesn't he want to see who the Democrat's going to be? Wouldn't you rather have, let's say Bernie? Wouldn't he rather that Bernie who honeymooned in Moscow? Wouldn't that be? Donald Trump: (18:04) These people are crazy. That's all they think about. They don't think about the country. They don't think about jobs. They don't think about lowering your drug costs. Infrastructure. These people are crazy. Trust me, I like what we're doing and I love this country. I love this country. Donald Trump: (18:30) Now, and I campaigned on it, at the same time we want to get along with Russia, we want to get along with China, we want to get along with all these countries. Who the hell needs to have conflict? But these people are sick, they are sick people. The radical left's attempts to poison our democracy and overturn the last election have totally ended in a big fat failure. Donald Trump: (18:55) And by the way, you saw today, single best day I've ever had is the polls and any poll that the fake news gives you, because the real numbers are higher, but any poll they give you as a fake. But Wisconsin, the great state of Wisconsin, I was leading by many, many, many points against every one of these characters. Can you believe it? We got a new one. Mini Mike. How did he do in the debate the other day? Mini Mike. Here's a box Mike. Here Mike. Mini Mike. He was a beauty. Donald Trump: (19:38) What happened huh? He couldn't breathe. What happened? Mike would like to know how about that Pocahontas screaming at him. She forgot. She forgot that she lied about her own heritage. She said she was an Indian because she had high cheekbones. That was the only thing. Remember what I said, I have more Indian blood in me than she has and I have none. Right? I have none. To the best of my knowledge, wouldn't mind having some, but I happen to have none. And she choked and she went out and got a report done. One, 1 thousandth and 24 you know what that means? That means probably I do have more. Now why did he bring that up when she was screaming at him? Why? Because he was gasping for breath. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. She's hitting me too hard. Pocahontas. Well, she won that debate cause Mike could not respond. Crowd: (20:59) [inaudible 00:00:20:55]. Donald Trump: (21:05) That's what they all said. They all said that. That's funny. I won, they're all shouting. It's not me that's saying it. Fake news. You fake news people. No, they all said it though. Who won the debate? Trump. You know what? The way I look at it, when fake news CNN oops, there goes the camera off. Red light just went off. See, I can tell every one of them. I know them by heart. I know the operators. I know the camera men. They're okay. They're all on our side by the way. They're screamed at. Get that camera off. I don't want to do that. Get that camera off, or it's going to be you job. All right, I'm sorry. Precedent. Donald Trump: (21:58) But how bout MSDNC? They're worse than CNN. And they're owned by people that really are bad. I think they're very bad for our country. The owners of Comcast, rotten company, bad for our country, very bad. They try, they have all these PR things to try and keep their image nice and clean. What they do on television is so disgusting. I think in the old days you had to have licenses for this stuff, right? They can say whatever they want to say. Let's see what happens over the next period of time. Bunch of dishonest people. Comcast, terrible company. Terrible people running that company. And you know what, I had Celebrity Apprentice, I had the Apprentice on for 14 seasons, 14 seasons, and they used to come to my office and they would kiss my ass. Please sign. Please. Please sign. Donald Trump: (23:05) It's an interesting story. They came and we signed, you know who signed me, Jeff Zucker. It's one of the only things he's done good in broadcasting, but I signed and NBC, as you know, is owned by Comcast, but I signed and they figured the show would be a total failure. So they only signed me for one season. You know I was going to have it. It was go on and then the show goes, started at ten went to eight, went to seven, went to five, went to four, went to two. It went to one. I had the number one show in all of television. Number one. It was a phenomenal and the final episode, remember that? With the, you remember that? Do you remember the final? We had, I don't know, it was one of the biggest shows of the year. It was a tremendous success there. Donald Trump: (23:58) But here I was, I signed with NBC and they didn't even want to waste the ink on an option. Usually they have an option for not, you know, just like they didn't do it. You stupid people. So they paid me very little for the first season I think $25,000 a show, which is considered not good. That's okay. It was fun. I didn't know it was going to be success, you know? Hey, just like this was successful. It's a recent. Donald Trump: (24:27) Because when I left and Arnold Schwarzenegger and I like Arnold said some very nice things, so I'm not, but the show did not exactly succeed when I left, but I had it on and they wanted me to sign for more and I said, no, I'm going to run for president but I'll never forget. Donald Trump: (24:46) I looked at, I didn't know anything about this business and I had an agent, wonderful guy from William Morris, and he said, sir, I don't want you to sign. No business show has ever done well on network television. Well, it's not business, it's entertainment, celebrity. Sir, I don't want you to sign. Sir, don't sign. I said, yeah, okay. But I have a problem. I shook the hand of somebody I have to. Donald Trump: (25:11) And Mark Burnett was great. He was my guy and but we shook hands. So I have to, but I agreed, you know, I didn't know that no business or no business type show had ever succeeded on a network television. So he said, I don't want you to sign sir, break it. I said, I can't break it. Can't break it. Anyway, so the show I said started at ten, went to nine, went to became, it was the number one show all of a sudden, and the agent called me up and he said, sir, I remember it was six in the morning. I was in bed. He said, sir, the show just went to number one. I'd love to see you because I think I'm entitled to more money. I said, you didn't want me to do the show. Well, not really. I mean, I was okay. He said, I'd really like more money. I said, Jim, I like you very much, Jim, you're fired. Get out. Donald Trump: (26:07) Anyway, I had 14 great seasons over about 11 years because it was so successful, they kept. They would have run it. Remember when they did the three hours, the whole night was the Apprentice. I said, wait a minute. Gone With the Wind, to mention the movie a second time, Gone With the Wind is shorter. They had the Apprentice on for three hours. I said even I think it's too long. You can't put it up for three. You got leave a little bit like I want to come back next week. Donald Trump: (26:33) But they had it on for three weeks. We did fantastically with it. Comcast did great. NBC did great. They wanted me to sign for another three years. I said, no, I'm going to for president. And that was actually the time when I knew I was going to run. Because you know how they were paying a lot of money and whether you're rich or not, it's still a lot of money. I don't care how rich you are. It's a lot. Millions and millions of dollars. And I said no, I'm going to run for president. And I did that. But from the day I ran, they went from being, you know one. Donald Trump: (27:03) But from the day I ran, they went from being wonderful, they were nice. They were nice. I guess if I didn't do well with the show they wouldn't have been nice because they weren't nice to other people that failed. People that didn't have good ratings, that business is a very simple business. If you have good ratings, you can treat them like garbage. If you have bad ratings, you can say, "Sir, I really respect you so much." Donald Trump: (27:25) Get out of here. Get him out of my yard. They're very ruthless people. But Comcast is a rotten company. They forgot totally. And they are worse than CNN. I will tell you that right now. Comcast is worse than CNN. We should call it Comcast, because that's their beautiful maiden name, Comcast. They're worse than CNN. Donald Trump: (27:49) I'll, tell you something about CNN. Jake Tapper, today he put out. Now I know you don't like him. I know. Who likes him? Who the hell can like him? I think his wife likes him. Actually. I really believe she does. But let me just tell you, he put out a couple of social media posts today, because I never call it tweet, I call it social media because it's much bigger than tweet. Donald Trump: (28:10) What we have, Dan Scavino. The great Dan Scavino. We have won five sites. We're number one on Twitter, we're number one on Facebook, and the whole world. The whole world. So it's powerful. But Jake Tapper put out some things, basically saying, I believe it, that's the way I read it, that the new Russian thing that started yesterday, that Putin wants to be sure that Trump, which give me a break. Give me a break. But Jake Tapper said it ain't so, and if he did say that because they were a little complex, they can turn them around, or when Zucker sees him and said, "Why did you put that? I want that deleted and I want you to do a different one." But he did say that. So I respect that because it's another hoax story. But we're standing up for the defense of our constitution, for our freedom, and democracy itself. You know that. Donald Trump: (29:03) [inaudible 00:29:03] I got to get that. Hey, Bobby? Bobby? See that guy? I love that shirt. Bobby, I don't know. He looks like a nice guy. Can you please walk him up, even if you have about five. Come here, come here. Come here. Come here. You got to see this shirt. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Donald Trump: (29:29) I've got to order me one that I can ride around. Come on. Come on up here. He looks safe. He doesn't look like he's going to start a fist fight. He's a good fan, I guess. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Is there any place that's more fun than a Trump rally? Right? Donald Trump: (29:52) How many rallies have you been to? Crowd: (29:53) [inaudible 00:29:55]. Donald Trump: (30:01) 80? 80? 80. He said 80 rallies. Come up here. Come on. Come on. Come on. Look at these two guys. These guys are serious. These are serious fans, right? Are you with him? Are you with him? Are you with him? You're with him? Speaker 2: (30:19) Come on up, baby. Donald Trump: (30:19) Come on. Come up here. Man. Crowd: (30:20) Hello again, sir. We met yesterday at your rally [inaudible 00:03:34]. Speaker 3: (30:34) I've been to two rallies in one week, so I'm just getting started. I'm just getting started. Crowd: (30:34) Welcome. [inaudible 00:30:40]. Donald Trump: (30:40) And look at this guy Come on. Speaker 4: (30:52) God bless you. Thank you, president. [inaudible 00:30:53] Thank you for saving America. Donald Trump: (30:52) Thank you, fellas. Speaker 2: (30:56) We love you. You saved us. You saved us, thank you. Crowd: (30:58) Thank you, president Trump, for saving America. [inaudible 00:31:01] Donald Trump: (31:13) Wow. I just said, "How long have you two been together?" I figured they'd say, "We're married." He met her at the rally in Colorado. Can you believe this? Can you believe it? Man, did he get lucky. They both got lucky, right? They both got lucky. Well, that's cool. No, I just see there's so much stuff out here. It's genius, actually. While the extreme left has been wasting America's time with viral hoaxes, we've been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. As you heard, we added another 225,000 new jobs last month alone. Way above anticipated schedule. And that makes 7 million new jobs since the election. The number was supposed to be under 2 million and we added 7 million. And remember, if I give you wrong numbers, the fake news is going to have headlines. Donald Trump: (32:28) "Trump gave you wrong." I mean, it's very tough. I've got to be very careful. Even if I give you wrong in the wrong way, they'll say it was wrong. I said, "Yeah, but it was wrong in the low way." No, that's no good either. Got to be very precise with these characters. The Democrats don't have to be, but we have to be. We've destroyed he ISIS territorial caliphate 100%, we killed the founder and leader of ISIS. Al Baghdadi is dead. Al Baghdadi is dead. 17 years. They looked for him. 17 years. Donald Trump: (33:17) Al-Baghdadi. One of the first things I did when I came in. He's the founder of ISIS and when I came in three years ago, ISIS was all over the place. And I said, "You got to knock it out." We knocked it out of Syria, and, Iraq and other places. We really knocked at 100%. Donald Trump: (33:35) Remember I wanted to leave. I said, "All right." We were at 96%, then 98, then 99%. I said, "Let some of these other countries do it." Wouldn't you say, right? So what happened is I wanted to leave and they said, "No, no, no, we want 100%." So we wait and stayed. We got 100%, then we moved them all out of Syria, except we did keep the oil. You noticed that, right? We kept the oil. Sorry. They said, "He left soldiers in Syria." Yeah, I did to keep the oil, if you don't mind. Which is what we should have done in Iraq too, by the way. Donald Trump: (34:07) I would have done that. I'm making a lot of money with all that oil. But you remember that whole thing, that whole. I said, "You got to find Al Baghdadi." I've been saying that actually for two years. I had a lot of other things to do the first year, like fight off the Democrats. These crazy Democrats with their hoaxes. Think of it. Donald Trump: (34:30) If they use their genius, because they are genius at that stuff, right? They're really good. They can take nothing. They can take a perfect phone call made to the Ukrainian president who said very specifically there was no pressure. He doesn't even know what's going on and they can take this perfect call. Thank goodness I had a transcriber. Do you agree with it? Because the fake whistleblower said that the call was totally different than what the call was. Donald Trump: (34:59) So when I released the call, when I released the transcripts, they died. They said, "Oh we got a problem." They never thought I was going to do it, but I had no choice. I had to because I had to show they're liars. But think of it, they can take something like that, a perfect phone call, or they'll take just out of thin air they can make something up. Donald Trump: (35:19) And they ended up today, front page, New York Times. They used to call it the eighth column. That's the big column on the right. I don't know. The papers become so small. I don't know if they have an eighth column anymore. They used to have the eighth column, was a big deal, right? That was the big deal. Today it's too narrow. Think they're probably. After I'm gone, they won't have any columns. That's why eventually they're going to support me. Donald Trump: (35:42) Eventually, the Times and the Washington post, which will be dead as a doornail after I leave, and the CNN, it'll be an obsolete business, the cable business. MSDNC will be out of business. You know, cable was supposed to be obsolete and now they're doing the highest numbers they've ever done. If an airplane goes down with 700 people, they don't cover it. If it's not Trump related, they don't cover it. It's got to be Trump or Trump related. So if a plane goes down and it's total devastation, if the ship goes down, if the Titanic- Speaker 5: (36:18) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:20) If the Titanic equivalent went down, they wouldn't cover it unless I was on the sucker. It's true. They wouldn't cover it. The fake news would not cover the equivalent of the Titanic. Speaker 5: (36:33) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:35) But you know what they're going to do before the election? They're going to say, "We want to just say something. We're going to endorse the president." You know why? Because they'll be out of business. Can you imagine if they had to cover mini Mike? Who I don't think, I think he's gone, but you know what? He'll spend another 500 million. Don't forget I spent 70 and I won, of my money. In other words, they said, and this was in the New York Times, I said the other night in Colorado. Donald Trump: (37:04) I spent 70, mini Mike so far has spent almost $500 million dollars in order to get embarrassed by Pocahontas. Pocahontas. And she's mean, isn't she? Did you see that? Do you see the anger on her face? That nervous energy. She's jumping up and down. She's a mess. But no, no, she's mean. Right? Right? That face is just. "You want to get him?" She said, "I got him. I want to see those agreements." "I," "You open up those agreements." This poor guy probably signed a hundred of them and each one's a disaster. He said, "I don't want to open those agreements. Nobody told me this was going to happen." Donald Trump: (37:53) Said, "Actually, sir." "Nobody told me. Get me out of here." After the debate, he went backstage, fired a lot of people. He said, "How the hell did you get me into this thing?" But Pocahontas was really mean, but she's going to be easy. I hope it's her. It's not going to be her. Donald Trump: (38:19) She made a little comeback the other night because she took mini Mike to the cleaners. But it's not going to be here. It can't be [inaudible 00:11:28]. Can't be, I don't think. Alfred E. Neuman, ladies and gentlemen, introducing president Alfred E. Neuman. Nobody knows because you're all too young. Nobody knows who Alfred. it's Mad Magazine. Donald Trump: (38:46) They all said. No. Howdy Doody. See nobody knows who Alfred E. Neuman is. Only the real aficionados. They're the ones and they love it. But that's only 15% of the crowd, right? Am I right? Better than Howdy Doody. Howdy Doody. Donald Trump: (39:02) But he's got to learn. He's got to worry about his own city. It's going to hell, so he's got to worry. Because that city's got a lot of problems. I don't get the whole thing, but he's not a bad debater, I will say. He's probably the best up there. And Bernie is too emotional. He's screaming, going crazy. And Biden is angry. Biden is angry. Everything's anger. [inaudible 00:39:26] And that's what happens when you can't get the words out. No it does. Donald Trump: (39:35) That's what happens, right? When you can't get the words out, you get angry. You get angry because you can't get the words. That might happen to me someday. Can you imagine if that happened to me? Man, would I be a bad guy. I'd be the meanest man in history. No, but Biden is very angry. Donald Trump: (39:52) He gets angrier, and angrier, and angrier. He's changed. And then you have the Tom. Yeah. He said Tom Steyer. Tom said, " Mister impeachment." How did that work out, Tom? Thank you very much for the great poll numbers between him and nervous dancing. Donald Trump: (40:09) How did that work out? This schmuck spends $250 million dollars, he ends up with one third of a percent in Iowa. But maybe that could be Rick, because they still don't have any idea what he got. Maybe he won Iowa, they took it away from him. No, but he was substantially below it. All I know, it said 1% and an arrow left. Donald Trump: (40:31) So he spends 250 million, Tom Steyer. Never heard of this guy. Who is he? Where did he get his money? Who is he? He was in the coal business, did you know that? This guy, this phony is a big environmentalist. He made his money, a lot of it, in the coal business. Nobody knows that, but he's a fake. Donald Trump: (40:48) Remember when he walked up to Bernie the other day. "Hi Bernie. Hi." Oh, and he was having a fight with Pocahontas, right? Is this the greatest? Mark Burnett said, "This is the greatest reality show in history." He said, "You can take The Apprentice, and you can take Survivor, and you can take every other reality show ever made, multiply it times 10,000, and you still don't have what we have. And even the CAS." He did say this. You got the perfect president. You got the perfect first lady. How about the first lady? You got the perfect kids. The kids, though. Those beautiful kids. My beautiful kids. They had such a great life, before I did this. Sorry, kids. Sorry. My beautiful Ivanka. She had such a great life. She Had a company that was selling shoes and everything you could sell. She'd just put her name on it and she said, "Daddy, does it matter? I want to come to Washington and help people get jobs." Donald Trump: (42:02) Right? Ain't that true? And she left the company. And when you leave a company, all of a sudden it doesn't do as well. I wouldn't say that I exactly helped talking about the wall and other things, but she left the company, came to Washington and she said 500,000 jobs. That was her goal. And she did that in the first month. She actually did. Donald Trump: (42:29) She's gotten these great companies like Walmart, and many others, Exxon, she's gotten them to take millions of people. She's now over 15 million jobs where they train people and bring them into the companies. It's incredible. 15 million. And she's smart. She got it figured out, but most people can't, but she does. But all they do is give them heat. They work so hard. And could you imagine you take Biden's son. Can you imagine? Donald Trump: (43:10) I deal with all these big companies and these great, great countries. I think I could get my sons 25 board chips for millions of dollars a piece. My kids would be [inaudible 00:43:21]. But you know what? We don't do any of that stuff. We don't do that stuff. We don't do it. The kid got $3 million dollars, 83,000 a month and he didn't have a job until his father became vice president. And speaking of vice presidents and speaking also of reality television, because it's the greatest show of all time, right? Look at us. Look. Donald Trump: (43:48) We told you, what, last night? Little change here, folks. We're going to move it up from eight o'clock in the evening until 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Little change. Just a minor change. Because I have to get back to Washington to work. I feel guilty. This is too much fun. But speaking to vice presidents and speaking of perfect vice presidents, if you become president, the first thing you have to do is choose a really horrible, horrible vice president. So if the idiots ever want to impeach you, they have to say, I can't impeach him. Look who we have. I have the perfect vice president. I have the greatest in the world. I have the greatest vice president. Donald Trump: (44:39) I don't know. I got the great ones. I said, "I can't do that." I picked a great guy. He's done a fantastic job. He's been a great vice president. But it is true. I could have picked, I'll give you names, but don't want to do that because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But there are plenty of them out there. Donald Trump: (44:51) They're mostly out there and I don't want to do that. But Mike Pence has been great. But tell me, is it perfect casting the whole thing? And this isn't about casting, this is about real life. But when Mark Burnett said to me the other day, he said, "The greatest reality show of all times, times of million." That's exactly except for one thing, we work our asses off and we are doing things like nobody has ever done before. Donald Trump: (45:19) Right? Right? So, we took out Al Baghdadi and then we just took out two weeks ago the world's top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani of Iran, ending his evil reign of terror forever. He's the father of the roadside bomb. When you see our beautiful people walking around with no legs, they're walking, and trying to walk so hard, and they're really in rough shape. Donald Trump: (46:01) Incredible the job that doctors do at Walter Reed and some of these hospitals. And they get them to a point where sometimes they really can, they walk around, but it's hard. And they lose legs, and they lose arms. That was [inaudible 00:46:14] he's the father of the. he loved the roadside bomb. He thought it was a great thing. Where is he now? Donald Trump: (46:24) Soleimani. And I'll tell you what, you know who's happy about it? The people of Iran are happy and even the leaders of Iran, because the leaders of Iran were afraid of him. Okay? And the fact is, America is respected again. We're winning. We're winning all over. We're winning in Washington that Democrats keep losing their minds. That is why millions of registered Democrat voters are leaving their party to join our movement. Donald Trump: (46:57) It's not even a party, it's a movement. They're joining the Republican party. It's true. We have a lot of. Look at the energy in this room. They're all [inaudible 00:47:10]. They're all [inaudible 00:47:13]. Look, we're a unified party. The Republican party has never been unified like it is today. Donald Trump: (47:22) I'll show you. I could say, "We're going to go over to the Hill. No, we're going to go over to someplace and we're going to do a rally at eight o'clock tonight." We'd have tens of thousands of people there. There's never been this. Ronald Reagan was great. I thought he was a great guy, great president, didn't like his policy on trade. That's okay. Trade. Donald Trump: (47:42) But if he came to Las Vegas, you know they'd have a ballroom, and they'd have 500, maybe a thousand people. What we're doing. And this isn't even, I must say this, I don't want to tell you this, this is not election season. Because we're nine months away. Election season is when you're two months away. We're not even in election season and we have more enthusiasm now. Believe it or not, then we had even before the election in 2016. It's true. It's too early. It's too early. It's true. We have a great gentleman and a woman with us, a friend of mine, mister and misses Sheldon Adelson, right over here. Great, great person. Two great people. He's got so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. He owns the Sands Hotel. That's like one of the smaller businesses. Donald Trump: (49:05) Sheldon, that's like your small business, right? He is a great guy. She's an incredible, she's a doctor, and she studies addiction, and drugs, drug addiction, all sorts of addictions. And she knows more about that subject, I think, than anybody, and she works hard and she doesn't need it. He does not need the money that she brings in. Okay? Donald Trump: (49:25) He also happens on the paper. He owns the paper. You own the paper in town, right? They wanted like a couple of hundred million dollars too much. You said, "Give it to them. It's peanuts. What the hell difference does it make? We want to thank the Adelsons. They've been incredible fans and they love Israel. They love Israel. I just saw him sitting there. I didn't know they were here. I just see him sitting there. He's something. Speaker 6: (49:54) [inaudible 00:49:56]. Donald Trump: (49:56) The chairman of the Nevada Republican party, who's really been great. He's been with me for a long time and he's a very committed man. Make America great again. Oh, oh, oh. Let's do a poll quick. Just quick. I'll never get rid of MAGA because I'm superstitious. But we just hit an all time high with the stock market. Our military is rebuilt. You just got the greatest tax cuts in history, the greatest rate, regulation cuts, and all this stuff. So, let me ask you this. Donald Trump: (50:29) So, "Make America great again," it sort of doesn't work quite as well. So now we have keep America great and we have the new hat. It's higher, stiff. It's like a billboard, right? I call it the billboard. It's a billboard. So let's go just that. Because I am very surprised by it. We're going to keep them both, but I just curious if we did go to one, "Make America great again?" " Keep America great?" Donald Trump: (51:03) I can't. I would have said that's impossible. "Make America great again," is the greatest phrase. A lot of people, again, fake news, I think will agree to it. It's the greatest phrase ever used in politics. It's the greatest phrase. Now, who has the greatest phrase ever used in the history of politics and say, "Oh, let's go with a new phrase." Right? Donald Trump: (51:40) But we're going to keep it. So we have to keep MAGA. But now we have CAG, now we have CAG. So we have a both. I just don't have the courage to get rid of the one. It would be too disrespectful. Too disrespectful. But Michael McDonald, I want to thank you and the members of the Nevada Republican central committee. You're all here. They're great people. And the man came here. He loves us. He's been with us. Rick Harrison of the world famous gold and silver pawn shop. Rick Harrison. Donald Trump: (52:22) You better win, Michael. Otherwise, that's the last time I'm introducing you like that. I hear we're up. I hear we're doing nicely. I hear we're doing great. And by the way, the union, I have a lot of respect for that union. Last time, I had a strike in my building during the election. It's the only reason we would have won this state. Brilliantly to save three cents. I could have settled the strike before the election. I wanted to save $2 total. Donald Trump: (52:49) That was a brilliant move. And then we had some guy running. A guy named [inaudible 00:25:55]. And he wasn't too good. He didn't do too good. But we almost won this state despite. I had a big strike. Had thousands and thousands of union guys. They had it, look, they wanted, wanted to show us. But I think that the unions are really with us and the unions have been with us. They're Teamsters, so many of the unions. Donald Trump: (53:16) Because I'm for the working man and woman, whether you're union or non-union. Some States are all union, some states are no union. But we get them all. And I think we're going to have tremendous success. And a lot of the Democrats are going to ruin the healthcare programs that these unions have. The unions have worked hard on healthcare and they're going to ruin them. Donald Trump: (53:38) They're going to take away. Well, we're going to. you can lose 180 million people off of great private healthcare. So we'll see what happens. But a lot of the Democrats want to do that. They think it's wonderful. But together we're building the world's most prosperous economy and the most inclusive society. That's true. Since my election, over 125- Donald Trump: (54:02) That's true. Since my election, over 125,000 new jobs have been created right here in Nevada, including over 40,000 new Nevada manufacturing and construction jobs. A 30% increase. The national unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century, and soon we're going to have that be a historic number like so many of the others. The average unemployment rate for my administration, this is the coolest of them all, is the lowest for any United States president in recorded history. That's pretty good. When I'm in a debate, they're saying, "we're going to do this." I say, "listen, we have the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country." African American unemployment, Hispanic American. Hispanic, we got a lot of Hispanic. I love Hispanic. Who in this audience is Hispanic? Yeah, we're doing great. Well, we should be doing great. You have the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded. Asian Americans, likewise the lowest ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest rate in 71 years. African American youth unemployment has reached an all time historic low. People I love, people I might've helped more than anybody because of choice and accountability. The veteran's unemployment rate drop to the lowest record. Lowest in history. Donald Trump: (56:02) The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all time historic low and you got to remember they're back there checking every word. They're going," oh, my god. He's right." I can't say it because I got all these maniacs back there. They're trying to find. "He put the comma in the wrong place. He didn't make that word plural, therefore he lied." Now I've got to be very accurate because all these numbers, they check them out. "They're in there, checking them out. Check on the African American unemployment, please." Please tell me it's not historic. These people are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Not all of them. Workers without a high school diploma. We have millions of people that didn't go through high school. They left. They had problems, good problems, bad problems, families where they don't have the money. They didn't get a high school diploma. They've achieved the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded in the history of the United States. Donald Trump: (57:14) Those are important groups of people. Half a million more Hispanic Americans now own a home. Now, Hispanic have done so good. And by the way, you know who understands the border, because we are building that wall like crazy. Remember, they also said, "if you build the wall you'll lose the Hispanic vote." I said, "I got to do what's right. You know who understands the border better than anybody? You know who understands crime at the border better than anybody? The Hispanics understand it and they don't want to be working and have people come and take their job. Have people come in where they can't pay for their house, have people come in who are very bad people." You have some very bad people. You have murderers and rapists, and we have set all sorts of records at the border, but we're up to 122 miles of wall, and it is true. The people that understand it the best are Hispanic. So, thank you. We got to make our country safe. We've lifted 10 million people off of welfare. Median household income is now the highest ever recorded in our country. Think of that. I say it all the time. President Bush, eight years, $450. President Barack Hussein Obama, eight years, $ 975. President Donald John Trump, three years. It's actually less when they did the numbers. Three years, including the big tax cuts that we got you and the regulation cuts. Three years. Donald Trump: (59:22) So, you had 450, 975, that's eight and eight. Now we're down to three years, a little less, three years, $ 10,000 per family a year. 10,000 a year. Our historic regulatory reduction campaign is restoring American liberty and ending the tyranny of federal bureaucrats. I deal with them. They're not good. It's called the swamp. We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, reducing your prices. Part of that number is all of the money that we save at the pump and on electric. I also recently took action on an issue Nevada has been dealing with for over 30 years. Yucca mountain. You know Yucca mountain? My budget stops funding for the licensing of waste storage at Yucca mountain, so that we can focus on positive solutions and for much better reasons and alternatives. Why should you have nuclear waste in your backyard? I won't say which countries, but you know what other countries do? I will not say which ones. Donald Trump: (01:00:49) They put it on a ship. They float it out into the middle of the ocean. They find a nice deep spot and they dump it. That's the end of it. But we would never do that for environmental reasons. We are reversing decades so Yucca mountain. You're okay, please. Okay. Just relax. Sheldon, do you have somebody at your newspaper back there who can write. Yucca mountain, please. He'll call up, "Yucca mountain is okay." That's the end of that. So Yucca mountain, you're in great shape. Maybe they can finally report it properly, but we're reversing decades of calamitous trade policies. For years, Washington politicians took money from lobbyists, global corporations and corrupt special interest to ship our jobs and factories and all of this stuff and all of this wealth. They stole our wealth. They shipped it overseas and to other countries. America lost one in four manufacturing jobs following the twin disasters of NAFTA and China's entrance into the WTO, the world trade organization. Probably an even worse deal for us than NAFTA, if that's possible, but under my administration, the great betrayal of America is over. America is no longer for sale. Last month we ended the NAFTA catastrophe and I signed the brand new U.S., Mexico, Canada agreement USMCA. See, we played the song YMCA because that's the only way you'll remember. Just think of the song YMCA. Think of the song and you'll remember that USMCA is a gigantic victory for farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers all across the great state of Nevada. I also took the strongest ever action to confront China's massive theft of America jobs. Our strategy worked. Last month, we signed a ground breaking trade agreement. Probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property and boost American exports by a lot. China will be buying $250 billion worth of goods from us now and 50 billion from our farmers. My guys wanted 16, I said, "make it 50." My guys wanted 16, they got China up to 20. I said, "Nope. Got to make it 50," and then I said to China, "you got a billion and a half people. What difference does it make?" They said, "you're right." 50 billion, I don't think our farmers can produce that much, but we're going to soon find out. They're going to buy very large tractors. After years of building up other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. we are finally putting America first. Donald Trump: (01:04:26) Or no issue of Washington Democrats more thoroughly sold out the American people than the issue of immigration. Before I came into office, the far left's policy of open borders allowed deadly drugs to flow freely into our country, poisoning our children, including right here in a very big way. The great state of Nevada. Washington Democrats put the needs of illegal immigrants before the wellbeing of American citizens. You know that, you've been complaining about it for a long time. It's one of the reasons you voted for Trump. They want to let anyone from around the world simply walk across the border and then they want to give them a lifetime of free welfare, of healthcare, of lots of other things, including education. All paid for by the taxpayers of the United States. Illegal immigration costs Nevada taxpayers, think of it, more than $1.6 billion every year, over $1,500 per household. For the amount of money Washington Democrats want to spend supporting illegal immigrants, we could rebuild every city, all of these distressed areas in the United States, throughout our country. The money spend, it's not even thinkable and don't forget when we say come, like in California the clown, he says, "come, we'll give you free healthcare." People that weren't even thinking about coming. That's why we have caravans of people that we're turning back. Mexico's been great. By the way, they gave us 27,000 soldiers on our border. Donald Trump: (01:06:16) But when a governor, nice guy actually, he's a nice guy. We just got to explain the facts of life. He's a nice guy. Oh doctor, please. Doctor in the house, please. Medical, please. A doctor. Thank you. Take your time. We've got plenty of time. Yeah, take your time please. A lot of these people have been here for three days. It's a lot. Those front row people are tough. Take your time, doc. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, doctor. That's true. They get here so. They stand and sit and sometimes days early. In Colorado, they're there three, four days early. It's tough. And we work it and make sure that you have everything you want. Number one, we cover the facts and number two, we want to have a good time because we have to have a good time. But things like that happen a lot because after two, three days, it's not easy and these are strong people. I'm not going to fight any of them, okay? Donald Trump: (01:10:05) Now, amazing people. Thank you very much. Under my administration, we're finally taking care of our own citizens first, including millions of illegal immigrants who follow our laws, pay their taxes, lift up our society, and are entitled to a government that protects their families and protects their communities. Every day, Democrats' open border policies are harming and killing innocent people. You know what's happening, you know what's going on. In this region alone last year, ICE officers, and they're patriots. They're strong, tough patriots. If we didn't have them. They remove thousands and thousands of MS13 gang members a year and plenty of others. Who else is going to do it? ICE officers arrested over 5, 000 criminal aliens charged or convicted of dangerous offenses, including robbery, rape, and even murder. Many murders. In Western Nevada, an illegal alien was charged with robbing and brutally executing four victims last year. Right here in Las Vegas, three MS13 gang members abducted a man, tied him up with his shoelaces, shot him repeatedly, and hacked him to death with a machete. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It's right here in your place, in Las Vegas, right here. Tied up and hacked him to death. Yet left wing politicians oppose all detention of illegal aliens, even convicted criminals and murderers, and they support deadly sanctuary cities. I say this all the time and I just. How the hell, where are they coming from? I don't get it right. Seriously, I don't get it. Sanctuary cities imperil American lives by releasing dangerous criminal aliens directly into your communities. If you want to shut down sanctuary cities, if you want to protect your family and your loved ones, you must vote Republican in 2020. And you have some great ones here, Michael. Thanks to our tireless efforts to secure the border, we have reduced illegal border crossings eight straight months in a row. And as the wall gets longer, it gets easier and easier. Remember when the Democrats were saying, "you don't need a wall." Two things that never change, right? All these computers, they said, "use drones." Oh great, we'll fly over with drones. Watch the people pour in by the thousands. That's great. Use drones. Before I came along, they all wanted a wall. They just didn't know how to build it. They had no clue. They had the money, they actually gave the money back, but they had no clue. But as soon as I came in and I said, "Wall," they went against and I made a terrible mistake. Donald Trump: (01:13:22) They always say I never admit mistakes. I do, but I'll admit a mistake now. I should have said, we will never, ever under any circumstances build a wall. They would have given me so much money for a wall, you have no idea. They would've forced me to build it. I made a terrible mistake, right? Terrible mistake. If it ever happens again, which it won't. This wall is one of a kind. They will say, "we will not build a wall," and they'll say, "we demand that you build a wall," and it would have been so easy. Illegal crossings are down 75% since last spring and we have ended catch and release. A horrible [inaudible 00:01:14:08]. Donald Trump: (01:14:06) We catch them. You know the story. They come over, could be a killer, murderer, rapist. They come over. We can't do anything. We have to be politically correct. We catch them. We then say, "what's your address?" They don't know. They don't even know their country in many cases. Where do you come from? We don't know and they mean it, but some are very serious criminals. So, we catch them, we take whatever they can take, which is nothing, and then we had to release them in our country. We can't bring them back. And then we have a system of judges, thousands of judges all over the place. You got to be like Perry Mason and every illegal that comes in, they have the lawyers. The lawyers meet them, they get paid fees, but we're breaking the system. No more catch and release, you think that was easy? And the big thing is that 30 foot. And this wall is built exactly to the specifications of border patrol. Totally. And border patrol has seized the largest amount, just recently, of deadly narcotics ever recorded. The largest amount. We've deported record numbers of gang members. We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history. We are, as I said, building the wall faster than ever. Faster and bigger than anyone thought possible. They can't believe we're getting it done. We'll have over 500 miles of wall built sometime next year. 500 miles. Donald Trump: (01:15:55) Washington Democrats have never been more extreme than they are right now. 132 congressional Democrats have now signed up for Bernie Sanders takeover of healthcare that would strip 180 million Americans, many of them in this room, of their private coverage. Remember president Obama? Remember, he said, "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan." 28 times, he lied, so we should impeach him. We're going to impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. 28 times, "you can keep your doctor," right? Remember, you could keep your doctor. Unfortunately, when they found out you can't keep your doctor, he said, "I was just kidding." Now, we should impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. Fake news, you have it. See, you have to be very careful when you say impeachment because you know what they do? They go back and they write. President Trump said that Obama should be impeached, but he's not in office and so therefore they can't impeach. He doesn't know what he's talking about because he's not in office, so therefore they can't. So, you have to be very careful. That's why I use the word belated impeachment. Belated, meaning I'm just kidding, okay? Donald Trump: (01:17:20) They do it all the time. They had it the other day. I said, "bring back Gone With The Wind," right? I said a little bit up here, but I said the movie the other day in Colorado, I guess. I said, "Huh, South Korean movie won." They said, "ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Academy Award is ." A movie made in South Korea, what's this all about? And I deal with them, they like me. We're helping them a lot. They're killing us on trade. They beat us on trade and then they win the Academy Award for a fricking movie. Donald Trump: (01:17:54) But we redid that trade deal, but the other day they got me on this one too. I said, "whatever happened to Gone With the Wind, that beautiful movie? Vivian Lee, Clark Gable, right? Whatever happened, bring back Gone With the Wind." And some of them wrote, "he doesn't know that that movie was made in 1936." He says fake news. It is fake news, they're fakers. But now, anybody sitting there reading this saying, "man, Trump, can't be that smart. He said bring back Gone With the Wind. That's an old movie." Yeah, it's an old classic. What I say is make great movies, not this computerized garbage. And I was never a fan of Brad Pitt, I will tell you that. Donald Trump: (01:18:48) No, I thought he was a stiff. He was a stiff, it's like a boring guy. All of a sudden he wins the Academy Award, so fitting. Their ratings aren't so good at the Academy Awards. You know when that stopped? When they started attacking us, their ratings went right down the tubers. I told somebody, the evening newscasts, they're terrible for conservative people and they're crooked, they're absolutely dishonest. I said to one of the big broadcasters, I'm friendly with him. I said, "if you ever did a conservative newscasts, instead of. you got, ABC is terrible. NBC is just absolutely atrocious." And they do badly. Not a lot of people are watching. They used to, when we had the late, great Walter Cronkite and these legends, right? But ABC is terrible and NBC is terrible and CBS is terrible. They're all the same. And I said, "your ratings stink. If you would do a newscast that's conservative, I'd get them a host. I could recommend guys right now, right? I'd get them a host. We'll call up. Don't take Sean Hannity away from us. Don't take our show. Donald Trump: (01:20:03) That's my problem, I don't want to take away any of our people. You get a Pete Hegseth. You get a Jesse Waters. You get. I could name so many of them, right? And you put them on that broadcast, their ratings would go up five fold but they don't know that. I don't know. They're stupid. Their ratings would go through the roof, but they would rather have a failed broadcast that nobody watches than put on a conservative person and lift the ratings five times. They would rather have a fail. Seven months ago we had a little skit, and they were hoping the market would crash because they would rather lose their money, or big parts of it, and have a really horrible market on the basis that we, not me, we could not be elected on November 3rd. This is how crazy- Donald Trump: (01:21:03) . on November 3rd. This is how evil, this is how crazy they are. They've gone crazy. I guess you call it Trump derangement syndrome. But if they ever did a conservative broadcast, meaning very fair, very honest When I say that, it's almost like do a fair broadcast. Just a fair broadcast. That thing would be the hottest show. But they don't realize it. And if they do, they probably wouldn't do it anyway because they don't want to go away from what they're doing, which is crazy because it is, they're doing very poorly. Donald Trump: (01:21:30) While the social and socialist Democrats are trying to destroy American healthcare and your Social Security, they're putting it at risk, my administration is protecting your Social Security. Remember they said, four years ago in the debates and you had this crazy woman. I mean, I hate to mention her name. I did it you know, yesterday. I threw all the runs, hates it. Donald Trump: (01:21:59) She's a zero. It's got zero television personality. Aero AB Stoddard, whoever that is. She said, "Donald Trump lost all of his debates." I won every debate and maybe, I don't know maybe one somebody, but I won with tremendous numbers. He says, "You always won." I'm not sure. We try, I'll tell you that and we're winning now. Donald Trump: (01:22:21) But this crazy woman who's got zero going, zero. She said, "Donald Trump lost his debates that he won." You know, she was talking about how badly Benny Mike did. So she said, "Well, Donald Trump." No, I won every single debate. I won them against crooked Hillary. I won them in the primaries like 15 or 16 debates. And for some reason, you know, sometimes you do say, it's not a big deal. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Nobody even knows who she is. I just made her famous, right? Donald Trump: (01:22:49) She's nothing. She's nothing. She's got no talent, got nothing. She's probably got a little drive. That's how she keeps getting on television. Other people don't have her drive. But you know what? I said, "That's really unfair." So I took out the polls, Time magazine, Drudge, good guy, Drudge, Drudge. We took out a lot of different things and we put up the Drudge poll, the Time magazine and many others. And some of them had to be down to like at 91% and they didn't have many people and I can't really show up because many of those people are now great friends of mine. Donald Trump: (01:23:18) Some of them are great Republican senators. I'm not going to show results, but I'm holding it up just quickly glancing. I call it a glancing blow, but we won the debates and I have this fake news person saying, "Donald Trump did very poorly in the debates." I want every debate easily. I never did it before. Remember my first question? I said, "Rosie O'Donnell." That was one of my best answers. Rosie O'Donnell who violated the campaign finance laws as badly as anybody I've ever seen and nothing happens to her. Right? And yet Dinesh violate . He made a little mistake and they want to destroy him. So we pardoned him. We pardoned him. Donald Trump: (01:24:08) By the way, he made a mistake. Rosie O'Donnell. That was a massive violation of the campaign finance laws but Dinesh, Dinesh, they wanted to put him in jail. I don't know. I think he might've even gone to jail for a period of time for doing something that was really very understandable. Rosie O'Donnell. Five times what she did is incredible. Nothing happens. And then she gets on and says, what a bad guy I am. I'm not a bad guy, but it's really a disgrace. You know, it's a disgrace. I'm glad they didn't do anything with it, frankly because you know what to do for something like that. But you know what? We have two sets of justices in this country. It's no good. It's no good. It's no good. You know the thing we're working on right now? We're trying to get fairness for a certain person who's been treated very unfairly. Donald Trump: (01:25:04) A man who had a juror, who was a radical anti-Trump person, and she didn't say that when she went up there and she became the foreperson of the jury and she did terrible things and said terrible things. And you know how they caught her. When he was convicted and then a statement was made, she started jumping up and down screaming, " Yes, yes." And started telling everybody. They said, "Wait a minute. Wasn't she just a juror?" The woman was totally biased. How do you do this? So I fight. Look, I fight. A lot of times it's not worth it, but I got to fight for fairness. Donald Trump: (01:25:44) I got to fight for fairness. Got to fight for fairness. It's a very unfair system. I guess it's called the swamp. When I said drain the swamp, it was a nice phrase. I never liked the phrase. When I was campaigning, somehow the phrase came up, "Sir, I think we have a phrase, drain the swamp." I said, "I don't like it. That's too hokey." But one day I was in a big arena, 25,000 people packed before the election and I said, "And we will drain the swamp." The place went crazy. I said, "Wow, you never know. You never know." Donald Trump: (01:26:22) Frank Sinatra said his best song. I won't tell you which one because I'll ruin it for you, but his best song is the song that he thought would never make it, the song that he liked the least, but he said that's the one that was the most successful that the people like you never know. So I said, "Drain the swamp." And the people went crazy. I said, "Woah." I said, "Let's try that again." And the next time I did it again and again and again. I only didn't know how disgusting and dirty the swamp is and a lot of the media is a big part of the swamp. Donald Trump: (01:26:56) So my administration is protecting your social security, your Medicare, and is fighting to give you great healthcare. We're defending your right to keep your doctor and your plan. We're defending that right. You're going to have that right back. We're going to cancel that Obamacare if we could win the case and we're going to give you great healthcare and we're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before I took office. We're managing it very well. We got rid of the individual mandate, by far the most unpopular thing where you had to pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay for bad healthcare, right? We got rid of it. Donald Trump: (01:27:39) And it was upheld in the Supreme Court, what we did. Whenever we get sued, everything we do, if we move, if we take 10 steps right or left, we get sued and we're now offering plans that are up to 60% less expensive. We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign. Donald Trump: (01:27:54) We're protecting people with preexisting conditions and we always will. That's why if we are successful, you don't want the Supreme Court to try and get rid of this, the caucus. It's a caucus known as Obamacare, but we're running it much better than they did. Remember when they had, this was the greatest, the $5 billion website, right? 5 billion. It was supposed to cost 5 million. I have a son at home. He's 13. He's a genius with computers. Donald Trump: (01:28:23) "Hi, dad. What's up? Dead dad. Get out of here." Donald Trump: (01:28:27) Hey listen. I'm the president of the United States, pal. Don't talk to your dad. "Dad, Come on dad. Can't you see I'm playing with my computer?" The guy talks to me and he's working with his computer. These guys are genius. You know, they grow up with like walking, right? But he's looking at me. I could have given him their healthcare site. He would have done it for nothing and it would have been better than what they have. Donald Trump: (01:28:47) So remember, come on, dad. I'm busy, dad. What do you want? What do you want, dad? Audience: (01:28:54) Barron. Barron. Barron. Barron. Donald Trump: (01:29:04) Barron, woah. Wow, he's going to like that. He's a good boy. He's a tall boy. I'll tell you that. Just turned 13. He's up there. I'm saying, "Hi Barron. How are you doing?" But they're great with the computers. They spent 5 billion. Donald Trump: (01:29:26) Okay. It was going to cost 50. It was going to cost five. It was going to cost 50. Then it was going to .. What was the final number? Five hundreds. The number that they spent, $5 billion. Right? It still doesn't work. They spent $5 billion. Right? And they spent $500 million on all of the problems it caused and we've really straightened it out, but it's still lousy healthcare, Obamacare. And it's really not Obamacare anymore because when you get rid of the individual mandate, it's no longer Obamacare but we're going to terminate it. We're going to give you your preexisting a hundred per- otherwise I won't do it. We're going to give you brand new preexisting and we're going to have a great healthcare that's much less expensive. Audience: (01:30:12) [inaudible 01:30:15]. Donald Trump: (01:30:15) And we're fighting to stop surprise medical bill and Barron's is going to be very happy. I signed an executive order imposing price transparency because when providers are required to show their prices, those same prices fall very fast. You know, a man that does this very professionally is great, into the healthcare business and you have to be careful when you say it, but you know it was just a very strong statement. Donald Trump: (01:30:45) But he said, "Sir, price transparency in hospitals. Where you can bid it out and you can look at the prices. Right now you can't see. If you go to a hospital, they won't even tell you how much it's going to cost. They operate and then they'll give you a bill and you'll say, "Oh my god, I had no idea it could be." They take blood. We have one person, blood $39. Another place, the exact same thing, $2500. Take blood, a blood test. One is $39 one, is $2500. The same test. Maybe the $39 test is better. Who the hell knows? But it's crazy. Price transparency and he looks at me. He goes, and he's a real pro. One of the top in the country. He said, "Sir," and nobody wanted to do it because it's a little bit controversial and a lot of the drug companies don't exactly love it. The hospitals don't love it, but I got to do what's right for you. The people, I don't care, I'm not. I got to do it. Audience: (01:31:37) [inaudible 01:31:39]. Donald Trump: (01:31:41) But he looked at me. And this is why I did it. It was one phrase. You know, do you ever do where you're not going to do something? And then somebody hits you with a perfect phrase. He said, "Sir, price transparency is bigger than healthcare." I said, "What do you mean by that?" He said, "You will see numbers that far outweigh healthcare, hospitals, doctors." He said, "You'll be able to price out everything. You'll be able to see costs." He said, "Price transparency." You know, people you've heard about this for 15, 20 years. No president has the guts to do it. Probably means I won't get campaign contributions from certain people, but I'm not going to get them anyway. Donald Trump: (01:32:24) What the hell difference does that make? I don't want them. I don't want them. I got to do what's right. You know, we're here for a short period of time. Even if it's a long period, it's still a short period and we've got to do so. Price transparency is a big deal. He said it's bigger than healthcare. Think of that. Bigger than healthcare. So let's see what happens. But that'll kick in. Unfortunately, that kicks in after the election because we're going through the final stages. We going through a statutory process, unfortunately. So think of it, we're going to win. Donald Trump: (01:32:53) But let's say the fake news could give me enough phony stories, enough bad stuff that we don't make it. The new president will get all the credit for price transparency and he won't even know what the hell it is. And I took the heat. Isn't that something? But we're going to win. We got to win for that reason alone. Audience: (01:33:15) [inaudible 00:12:17]. Donald Trump: (01:33:18) We've approved a record number of affordable new generic drugs, which are just as good as the name brand drugs, but a fraction of the cost. And that was another one. Tremendous political pressure. Think of it. You own Bayer aspirin. You own all these name name brand drugs that are making so much money. And then the guy comes along said, "I want to make 20 forms of aspirin." They're exactly the same. Exactly. But they don't have a big name on it. Exactly as good. I don't say better. I don't say worse. They're exactly the same. You know, people still, they want to go out and buy the name. You know? I do. I do. You know? Because it's just because we're stupid. No, it's true. They're exactly the same. We're approving so many of the generic drugs, a record number. Nobody's ever approved so much. The drug companies hate it. Donald Trump: (01:34:07) They hate it. Never happened like what we're doing. We also took down the trial periods from 12 years down to five or six years. They'd have a new drug. The thing was obsolete by the time it got approved. We've passed a really spectacular thing that they've been trying to get for 40 some odd years. Right to try. So you don't have to now go if you get, hopefully nobody in this room has those kind of problems. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:34:35) And so now you go and you sign a waiver and you get everything. It's great. If you're terminally ill. If you're very, very sick, you're not going to make it. And you know why they didn't do it? They wouldn't approve it because they didn't want to be sued. And they said, "No, this could be dangerous." They said, "The people are terminally ill, they're going to die. Donald Trump: (01:34:55) Let them use the experimental drugs. Don't wait because they have another four or five years before they can come onto the market." And it turned out we are having such unbelievable results. And you know what else? Some of those drug companies are now like it. That they fought me like crazy because it's really showing if it works there, it's really showing that it works. It's pretty amazing. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:35:15) I hope you don't have to use it. We're combating the opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths have declined for the first time in nearly 31 years and I've launched [inaudible 01:35:30] and this is really something, brand new initiatives combating kidney disease and combating Alzheimer's disease. We've made a lot of progress. We've made a lot of progress, Sheldon and we're pursuing new advances in the neonatal research to care for America's youngest patients, our babies, and breaking all records in so doing. Donald Trump: (01:35:53) All of the radical Democrats in the presidential debates have declared their unlimited support for extreme late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the very moment of birth. This is why in my state of the union address, did you like it? Audience: (01:36:15) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:20) Good. It's a different kind of address. You know, we can go lots of different ways, right? Presidential, not presidential. I was presidential. Totally. You'd have about three people standing here, but I asked Congress to prohibit late term abortion of babies because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. Audience: (01:36:41) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:44) The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total obliteration of your very, very important second amendment. Audience: (01:37:05) Yeah. Boo. Donald Trump: (01:37:05) The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family, the American dream, and the late great Abraham Lincoln, which everybody forgot. Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background, every community, and every single walk of life. We are the party of boundless optimism, excitement, energy, and enthusiasm. We are wealthy, right? Are we enthusiastic? Audience: (01:37:48) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:37:48) You know how many of these I've done in the last four days? People say, "Where the hell do you get your energy?" I say, "Well, the truth is I like what I do and if we weren't getting the results, I wouldn't like it." If we weren't getting the results. If I didn't see the results, I wouldn't like it at all. We're welcoming Americans of all parties and political persuasions to join our incredible movement to make America great again. Donald Trump: (01:38:19) We're a very big party. We are the party of big ideas for the future. Republicans are fighting for school choice because no parent should ever be forced to send their child to a failing government school. Donald Trump: (01:38:39) I passed criminal justice reform to give former prisoners a second chance at life. Was never going to happen. We got it done. This could not have been done by anyone but the Republican party and ourselves. You know the Democrats have tried for years. They couldn't get it done. We got it done. To uphold the rule of law. We are confirmed and this is something they say. Most important thing you can do, judges. I say most important thing is defense. Second is judges. Donald Trump: (01:39:08) A record number of 217 federal judges who will interpret the constitution as written. And we have appointed two great new Supreme court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. I recognized Israel's true capital and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and we recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. We have invested $2.2 trillion to rebuild the United States military, including more than $130 million for Nellis air force base right here. And we just created the sixth branch of the American armed forces, the Space Force, 72 years, 72 years. Donald Trump: (01:40:14) The air force was 72 years ago. We just did a branch. It's a big deal, isn't it? Think of it. A branch, the army, the air force. Think of it. We did a branch. For years you watched as your politicians apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and we are standing up for the people of Nevada. At stake in our present battle is the survival of our nation. If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died for to secure, then we must devote everything we have toward victory in November of 2020 November 3rd. November 3rd. Only this way can we save the America we love and drain the Washington swamp once and for all. With your help, we will lift millions more of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence and poverty to prosperity. Together we will elect a Republican Congress to create a fair, safe, sane and lawful system of immigration. We will continue to enact new trade deals that result in more products proudly stamped with that very beautiful phrase, "Made in the USA." Donald Trump: (01:41:41) We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic within nine years in America. Donald Trump: (01:41:56) And we will land the first woman on the moon and become the first nation in the world to plant its flag on Mars. We will defend privacy, free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. Donald Trump: (01:42:22) And that is under siege in case you haven't noticed. You know, your second amendment is under siege. Just don't worry. Long as I'm here, they're not touching it. Above all, we will never stop fighting for this. Donald Trump: (01:42:38) So true. But we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one America, we support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. We stand with the incredible heroes and they are heroes. We love them, of law enforcement. We believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. We believe that faith and family, not government bureaucracy are the true American way. We believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag. Donald Trump: (01:43:22) And we live by the words of our national motto, in God we trust. From Carson city to Reno to right here in Las Vegas, we stand on the shoulders of red blooded American patriots who poured out their heart, sweat, and soul to secure our liberty and to defend our great, beautiful, lovely freedom, freedom, freedom. Freedom. Donald Trump: (01:43:59) Nevada was founded by pioneers and prospectors, miners and cowboys who tamed the frontier, raised the mighty Hoover dam. That's a beauty. Transformed the barren desert into a shining oasis, lit up the lights of the Las Vegas strip and help to make this the greatest nation ever to exist on the face of the earth. And we are making it greater than ever before. Proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. America is thriving like never before. And ladies and gentlemen of Nevada, the best is yet to come together. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again and we will make America great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Nevada. Thank you, Las Vegas. We love Las Vegas. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Audience: (01:46:16) Yeah.

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1330 KAG RALLY LAS VEGAS HEAD ON FS23 73 *TIME MARK NOT THE SAME AS OUR TIME STAMPS* Donald Trump: (01:19) Well, thank you very much. And hello Las Vegas. Great to be with you. They have a big election tomorrow. We've already won the state. We've already won. I like ours better. We just take it. Just take it. We've won it. I like it that better. Donald Trump: (01:37) You know they say they're going to have a lot of problems tomorrow. I hate to tell you this. I don't know. Have you heard? I hear their computers are all messed up. Just like they were in Iowa. They're not going to be able to count their vote. They're going to tell you about healthcare. They're going to tell you about our military and the jet fighters and the missiles and rockets, but they can't count votes. They just can't count them. They can't count votes, but they're saying they may not be able to do it again. They're still trying to tell us. I called up yesterday, how are they doing in Iowa? Was that two weeks ago? They say we're getting close. They're not getting close, they'll never know. They'll never know, but I hear the same thing could happen tomorrow. I hope it doesn't, actually. Crowd: (02:22) I love you President Trump. Donald Trump: (02:23) I hope it doesn't, but I'm delighted to be back in a state I love. I have a beautiful building right down the road. With the proud, hardworking patriots of Nevada. You're going to say Nevada. You say that wrong, you got problems. You say Nevada, they go, what the hell? Got to be Nevada. Donald Trump: (02:55) With your help this November, we're going to defeat the radical socialist Democrats and we are going to win Nevada in a big beautiful landslide. Now, we have some special people here, you know the special very special people. Donald Trump: (03:17) And we celebrate one of the greatest moments in the history of sports. Some people say it was the single greatest moment in the history of sports. It was called the miracle on ice. Do you remember that? That was when the Russians had a team assembled. That was probably, they say maybe the greatest team ever assembled. They were unbelievable. And our guys played a practice game with them was it a couple of weeks before, and I hate to tell you the score was 10 to 3, and the USA was not on top, and this team was an incredible team and they went in and it was amazing, but tomorrow marks the 40 years since the United States men's hockey team defeated then Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics. Donald Trump: (04:15) Incredible. That was incredible. Most of you remember that. I'm looking. We've got a lot of young ones, but we've got a lot of people that remember that. A lot of people. And by the way, we got the Olympics coming back or coming to Los Angeles. Thank you. Thank you President Trump. Thank you President Trump. Thank you very much. Thank you President Trump. Eight years. Eight years, 2028 you know what? Unless I'm still president then, which is a distinct possibility, I won't be here, and you know what they'll do? I'll say, how's the Olympics going? Does anybody have a ticket for the president that got the Olympics to come here? They'll say, I want to thank and they'll thank hundreds of people, but they won't thank you president that I'm the one that pulled it off. But that's okay. 2028 Olympics is coming to Los Angeles. It's going to be great. Donald Trump: (05:27) And we worked with the mayor of Los Angeles. He was great. He called up and we gave him a lot of help. I was president elect then because the president didn't want to get involved. He didn't want to get involved in getting the Olympics, so they called me and I was president elect, hadn't taken office. Then I got involved and I'll tell you, they were happy we got involved. It was great. It's going to be very exciting today. Donald Trump: (05:49) We are thrilled to have with us 14 players of that really incredible gold medal team. Give him a big hand. And they were amazed. They said, boy is a big crowd. I said, it's only because you guys are coming. Donald Trump: (06:10) This day was supposed to be for this evening. And I said, let me get back to Washington, do it early. So we gave you almost no notice. You have thousands of people outside, thousands of people inside. You had to see, we were in Iowa we were in New Hampshire. You saw what happened in Colorado last. That was unbelievable. Every place we go it's the same. It's been incredible. Donald Trump: (06:37) I don't know if you saw the pictures last night of the outside in Colorado. It was incredible. It was. You could have filled that arena up four times and it was a big arena, and it's something. Donald Trump: (06:49) So I hated to do it to you at 12 o'clock but I said, let's go. I want to get back. We got to deal with China. We got to deal with Russia. We got to deal with North Korea, South Korea. We got to deal with the rest of the world. Get my people back. We got to get the hell out of here, right? But we have a lot of time. I'd like now to invite these incredible sport legends to join me on stage. A friend of mine and a very good golfer, by the way, Captain Mike he rode a bike. Mike. Where's Mike? Where is he? Mike. Do you know who he is? He's a fake handicap is what he is. Say something Mike. Mike Eruzione: (07:38) Just welcome everybody to ironic we happen to be here to celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Vegas Knights flew the whole team out to honor us tonight and for the weekend and we obviously thank the people of Las Vegas for having us here and we're looking forward to celebrating a special time, and it's a great honor for the president to invite us to be part of this event as well. So Vegas, thanks for having us. Donald Trump: (08:01) But just tell them, am I a good athlete and am I a good golfer? Mike Eruzione: (08:10) You are. Yes sir. Whatever you say. Donald Trump: (08:16) Thanks Mike. That was some goaltending right? How many did you rebuff? Mike Eruzione: (08:23) [inaudible 00:08:24]. Donald Trump: (08:24) I mean, but how many did Jim have? Many did. Mike Eruzione: (08:27) Very few. Donald Trump: (08:28) Very few. But a lot of shots, right? Mike Eruzione: (08:29) A lot of shots. Donald Trump: (08:30) He was like a pinata. Mike Eruzione: (08:33) Yes. Donald Trump: (08:35) So Mike, that was great. Goaltender Jim Craig. So Jim rebuffed come here, Jim. Great goaltender, great goaltender. They didn't know what was happening. They kept shooting. He doesn't know how many you rebuffed. How many did you rebuff? Jim Craig: (08:56) 37. Donald Trump: (09:01) 37. So let me ask you, was that as goaltender, because that was incredible. Was that the greatest game you ever played? You've had a lot of great games. But was that the greatest game you've ever played? Jim Craig: (09:09) It was an important. Donald Trump: (09:10) It was slightly important. 37. 37. Bill Baker. Bill, come up. Bill Baker. Dave Christian, Ken Morrow, Jack O'Callahan, Mike Ramsey. Speaker 1: (09:46) Walk like an old hockey player. Donald Trump: (09:47) Those legs took a beating. Mark Wells, Neil Brotton, John Harrington, Rob McClanahan, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Phil Verchota, and a great coach and assistant coach at the time, Craig Patrick. Crowd: (10:24) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (10:52) They said four more years, 12 more years left for them. Look at that. Look at the press. Hey Mike, look at the fake news back there. It's a lot. I always say that's like the Academy Awards used to be. This year, we had a movie, they said best movie, they announced the movie from South Korea. I said, what's that all about? The movie was made in South Korea. Look, I get along great with South Korea, but you know, I never saw that one before. They used to go best foreign movie, but now we do it that way. Donald Trump: (11:36) I don't get it, but that's what it used to be and this is really an incredible time. I'll tell you what, for our country, that's why I like to see things that we do get honored because nobody is doing what we do. Nobody can do it like us. Donald Trump: (11:50) We're the greatest country in the world again. We have the greatest people. We have the greatest military by far. We've totally rebuilt our military. Jobs are booming, incomes are surging, poverty is plummeting. Factories are returning confidence is soaring, like these guys, the confidence is soaring, but you know, we do have somebody that I'd like to point out because this team is, they had a coach, and that coach was a very inspirational coach, would you say Mike? And I'd like to have maybe one of you come up and just say a few words about Coach Brooks because he was very, very, he was really a big, he was a big heart on this team. Please. Mike Eruzione: (12:41) I think it would be appropriate if you've got a few minutes that Herb Brooks' daughter Kelly is here representing her father. And I can honestly tell you that Kelly was not ready for this at all. You got it? Donald Trump: (13:05) Say something. Mike Eruzione: (13:06) Her dad was an amazing coach. He was a great teacher. He was a great motivator at times, maybe too much of a motivator. He was very demanding. He was very difficult to play for. But trust me on one thing, there never once was a day that we didn't respect the man and never once was a day that we didn't trust him and what he was trying to do. He orchestrated the greatest sports moment of the 20th century and the guys behind me were so proud and honored to have been a part of him and what he was able to put together. It was a perfect environment, a perfect storm sometimes. Not only a great coach, but great players and great people that stand behind me now. So if Kelly would like to say a couple of words. No, she doesn't. Kelly Brooks: (14:02) Thank you. I'm honored that his legacy still is alive today and he would be proud to be here with you all. In my personal opinion, he would have been a Trump fan. Donald Trump: (14:17) So tell me one thing, one thing. So I see those tears. That means you think, you miss him and you love him. Right? Was he actually a nice guy? Because he looked tough. Mike was just saying he was brutal, but he was a good guy, right? Kelly Brooks: (14:37) Right. Donald Trump: (14:38) Tough but great. Thank you very much. Thanks Kelly. Thank you all. Greatest sports story could be number one. Crowd: (15:09) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (15:30) So a lot of people, a lot of these sports experts, sports writers have voted that as the single greatest sporting event or athletic achievement. I think so, yeah? They put it number one, certainly top five. In the history of our country, we have a lot of things that we've done to break records. We're going to go over them, but we've broken a lot of records now, but I want to thank that great team for being with us. Very inspirational. This is a big day. The anniversary. Thank you fellas. Thank you. Donald Trump: (16:04) In my state of the union address, I proudly declare that we are in the midst of the great American comeback and we're just getting started. Donald Trump: (16:18) After three years of ridiculous witch hunts and partisan Democrat crusades. By the way, I think they're starting another one. Did you see that? I see these phoneys. These are the do nothing Democrats. They said today that Putin wants to be sure that Trump gets elected. Here we go again. Here we go again. Did you see it? A story. Aren't people bored? Now, does that include because a couple of weeks ago, crooked Hillary said Chelsea Gabbard, right. Tulsi Gabbard and right? Crowd: (16:54) She was a Russian agent. Donald Trump: (16:56) She was a Russian agent. Tulsi and also Stein from Jill Stein. I don't know Jill Stein. I never met the woman. She is a Green Party candidate or was they said she's an agent of Russia. I don't know her and I don't know Tulsi. The only thing I know about both of them is they're not agent. They are not agents of Russia. These people are sick. That's pencil neck, pencil neck again. Little pencil. No, I just see it again. I was told that was happening. I was told a week ago. They said they're trying to start a rumor. It's disinformation. That's the only thing they're good at. They're not good at anything else. They get nothing done. Do nothing Democrats. That Putin wants to make sure get elected. Listen to this. So doesn't he want to see who the Democrat's going to be? Wouldn't you rather have, let's say Bernie? Wouldn't he rather that Bernie who honeymooned in Moscow? Wouldn't that be? Donald Trump: (18:04) These people are crazy. That's all they think about. They don't think about the country. They don't think about jobs. They don't think about lowering your drug costs. Infrastructure. These people are crazy. Trust me, I like what we're doing and I love this country. I love this country. Donald Trump: (18:30) Now, and I campaigned on it, at the same time we want to get along with Russia, we want to get along with China, we want to get along with all these countries. Who the hell needs to have conflict? But these people are sick, they are sick people. The radical left's attempts to poison our democracy and overturn the last election have totally ended in a big fat failure. Donald Trump: (18:55) And by the way, you saw today, single best day I've ever had is the polls and any poll that the fake news gives you, because the real numbers are higher, but any poll they give you as a fake. But Wisconsin, the great state of Wisconsin, I was leading by many, many, many points against every one of these characters. Can you believe it? We got a new one. Mini Mike. How did he do in the debate the other day? Mini Mike. Here's a box Mike. Here Mike. Mini Mike. He was a beauty. Donald Trump: (19:38) What happened huh? He couldn't breathe. What happened? Mike would like to know how about that Pocahontas screaming at him. She forgot. She forgot that she lied about her own heritage. She said she was an Indian because she had high cheekbones. That was the only thing. Remember what I said, I have more Indian blood in me than she has and I have none. Right? I have none. To the best of my knowledge, wouldn't mind having some, but I happen to have none. And she choked and she went out and got a report done. One, 1 thousandth and 24 you know what that means? That means probably I do have more. Now why did he bring that up when she was screaming at him? Why? Because he was gasping for breath. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. She's hitting me too hard. Pocahontas. Well, she won that debate cause Mike could not respond. Crowd: (20:59) [inaudible 00:00:20:55]. Donald Trump: (21:05) That's what they all said. They all said that. That's funny. I won, they're all shouting. It's not me that's saying it. Fake news. You fake news people. No, they all said it though. Who won the debate? Trump. You know what? The way I look at it, when fake news CNN oops, there goes the camera off. Red light just went off. See, I can tell every one of them. I know them by heart. I know the operators. I know the camera men. They're okay. They're all on our side by the way. They're screamed at. Get that camera off. I don't want to do that. Get that camera off, or it's going to be you job. All right, I'm sorry. Precedent. Donald Trump: (21:58) But how bout MSDNC? They're worse than CNN. And they're owned by people that really are bad. I think they're very bad for our country. The owners of Comcast, rotten company, bad for our country, very bad. They try, they have all these PR things to try and keep their image nice and clean. What they do on television is so disgusting. I think in the old days you had to have licenses for this stuff, right? They can say whatever they want to say. Let's see what happens over the next period of time. Bunch of dishonest people. Comcast, terrible company. Terrible people running that company. And you know what, I had Celebrity Apprentice, I had the Apprentice on for 14 seasons, 14 seasons, and they used to come to my office and they would kiss my ass. Please sign. Please. Please sign. Donald Trump: (23:05) It's an interesting story. They came and we signed, you know who signed me, Jeff Zucker. It's one of the only things he's done good in broadcasting, but I signed and NBC, as you know, is owned by Comcast, but I signed and they figured the show would be a total failure. So they only signed me for one season. You know I was going to have it. It was go on and then the show goes, started at ten went to eight, went to seven, went to five, went to four, went to two. It went to one. I had the number one show in all of television. Number one. It was a phenomenal and the final episode, remember that? With the, you remember that? Do you remember the final? We had, I don't know, it was one of the biggest shows of the year. It was a tremendous success there. Donald Trump: (23:58) But here I was, I signed with NBC and they didn't even want to waste the ink on an option. Usually they have an option for not, you know, just like they didn't do it. You stupid people. So they paid me very little for the first season I think $25,000 a show, which is considered not good. That's okay. It was fun. I didn't know it was going to be success, you know? Hey, just like this was successful. It's a recent. Donald Trump: (24:27) Because when I left and Arnold Schwarzenegger and I like Arnold said some very nice things, so I'm not, but the show did not exactly succeed when I left, but I had it on and they wanted me to sign for more and I said, no, I'm going to run for president but I'll never forget. Donald Trump: (24:46) I looked at, I didn't know anything about this business and I had an agent, wonderful guy from William Morris, and he said, sir, I don't want you to sign. No business show has ever done well on network television. Well, it's not business, it's entertainment, celebrity. Sir, I don't want you to sign. Sir, don't sign. I said, yeah, okay. But I have a problem. I shook the hand of somebody I have to. Donald Trump: (25:11) And Mark Burnett was great. He was my guy and but we shook hands. So I have to, but I agreed, you know, I didn't know that no business or no business type show had ever succeeded on a network television. So he said, I don't want you to sign sir, break it. I said, I can't break it. Can't break it. Anyway, so the show I said started at ten, went to nine, went to became, it was the number one show all of a sudden, and the agent called me up and he said, sir, I remember it was six in the morning. I was in bed. He said, sir, the show just went to number one. I'd love to see you because I think I'm entitled to more money. I said, you didn't want me to do the show. Well, not really. I mean, I was okay. He said, I'd really like more money. I said, Jim, I like you very much, Jim, you're fired. Get out. Donald Trump: (26:07) Anyway, I had 14 great seasons over about 11 years because it was so successful, they kept. They would have run it. Remember when they did the three hours, the whole night was the Apprentice. I said, wait a minute. Gone With the Wind, to mention the movie a second time, Gone With the Wind is shorter. They had the Apprentice on for three hours. I said even I think it's too long. You can't put it up for three. You got leave a little bit like I want to come back next week. Donald Trump: (26:33) But they had it on for three weeks. We did fantastically with it. Comcast did great. NBC did great. They wanted me to sign for another three years. I said, no, I'm going to for president. And that was actually the time when I knew I was going to run. Because you know how they were paying a lot of money and whether you're rich or not, it's still a lot of money. I don't care how rich you are. It's a lot. Millions and millions of dollars. And I said no, I'm going to run for president. And I did that. But from the day I ran, they went from being, you know one. Donald Trump: (27:03) But from the day I ran, they went from being wonderful, they were nice. They were nice. I guess if I didn't do well with the show they wouldn't have been nice because they weren't nice to other people that failed. People that didn't have good ratings, that business is a very simple business. If you have good ratings, you can treat them like garbage. If you have bad ratings, you can say, "Sir, I really respect you so much." Donald Trump: (27:25) Get out of here. Get him out of my yard. They're very ruthless people. But Comcast is a rotten company. They forgot totally. And they are worse than CNN. I will tell you that right now. Comcast is worse than CNN. We should call it Comcast, because that's their beautiful maiden name, Comcast. They're worse than CNN. Donald Trump: (27:49) I'll, tell you something about CNN. Jake Tapper, today he put out. Now I know you don't like him. I know. Who likes him? Who the hell can like him? I think his wife likes him. Actually. I really believe she does. But let me just tell you, he put out a couple of social media posts today, because I never call it tweet, I call it social media because it's much bigger than tweet. Donald Trump: (28:10) What we have, Dan Scavino. The great Dan Scavino. We have won five sites. We're number one on Twitter, we're number one on Facebook, and the whole world. The whole world. So it's powerful. But Jake Tapper put out some things, basically saying, I believe it, that's the way I read it, that the new Russian thing that started yesterday, that Putin wants to be sure that Trump, which give me a break. Give me a break. But Jake Tapper said it ain't so, and if he did say that because they were a little complex, they can turn them around, or when Zucker sees him and said, "Why did you put that? I want that deleted and I want you to do a different one." But he did say that. So I respect that because it's another hoax story. But we're standing up for the defense of our constitution, for our freedom, and democracy itself. You know that. Donald Trump: (29:03) [inaudible 00:29:03] I got to get that. Hey, Bobby? Bobby? See that guy? I love that shirt. Bobby, I don't know. He looks like a nice guy. Can you please walk him up, even if you have about five. Come here, come here. Come here. Come here. You got to see this shirt. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Donald Trump: (29:29) I've got to order me one that I can ride around. Come on. Come on up here. He looks safe. He doesn't look like he's going to start a fist fight. He's a good fan, I guess. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Is there any place that's more fun than a Trump rally? Right? Donald Trump: (29:52) How many rallies have you been to? Crowd: (29:53) [inaudible 00:29:55]. Donald Trump: (30:01) 80? 80? 80. He said 80 rallies. Come up here. Come on. Come on. Come on. Look at these two guys. These guys are serious. These are serious fans, right? Are you with him? Are you with him? Are you with him? You're with him? Speaker 2: (30:19) Come on up, baby. Donald Trump: (30:19) Come on. Come up here. Man. Crowd: (30:20) Hello again, sir. We met yesterday at your rally [inaudible 00:03:34]. Speaker 3: (30:34) I've been to two rallies in one week, so I'm just getting started. I'm just getting started. Crowd: (30:34) Welcome. [inaudible 00:30:40]. Donald Trump: (30:40) And look at this guy Come on. Speaker 4: (30:52) God bless you. Thank you, president. [inaudible 00:30:53] Thank you for saving America. Donald Trump: (30:52) Thank you, fellas. Speaker 2: (30:56) We love you. You saved us. You saved us, thank you. Crowd: (30:58) Thank you, president Trump, for saving America. [inaudible 00:31:01] Donald Trump: (31:13) Wow. I just said, "How long have you two been together?" I figured they'd say, "We're married." He met her at the rally in Colorado. Can you believe this? Can you believe it? Man, did he get lucky. They both got lucky, right? They both got lucky. Well, that's cool. No, I just see there's so much stuff out here. It's genius, actually. While the extreme left has been wasting America's time with viral hoaxes, we've been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. As you heard, we added another 225,000 new jobs last month alone. Way above anticipated schedule. And that makes 7 million new jobs since the election. The number was supposed to be under 2 million and we added 7 million. And remember, if I give you wrong numbers, the fake news is going to have headlines. Donald Trump: (32:28) "Trump gave you wrong." I mean, it's very tough. I've got to be very careful. Even if I give you wrong in the wrong way, they'll say it was wrong. I said, "Yeah, but it was wrong in the low way." No, that's no good either. Got to be very precise with these characters. The Democrats don't have to be, but we have to be. We've destroyed he ISIS territorial caliphate 100%, we killed the founder and leader of ISIS. Al Baghdadi is dead. Al Baghdadi is dead. 17 years. They looked for him. 17 years. Donald Trump: (33:17) Al-Baghdadi. One of the first things I did when I came in. He's the founder of ISIS and when I came in three years ago, ISIS was all over the place. And I said, "You got to knock it out." We knocked it out of Syria, and, Iraq and other places. We really knocked at 100%. Donald Trump: (33:35) Remember I wanted to leave. I said, "All right." We were at 96%, then 98, then 99%. I said, "Let some of these other countries do it." Wouldn't you say, right? So what happened is I wanted to leave and they said, "No, no, no, we want 100%." So we wait and stayed. We got 100%, then we moved them all out of Syria, except we did keep the oil. You noticed that, right? We kept the oil. Sorry. They said, "He left soldiers in Syria." Yeah, I did to keep the oil, if you don't mind. Which is what we should have done in Iraq too, by the way. Donald Trump: (34:07) I would have done that. I'm making a lot of money with all that oil. But you remember that whole thing, that whole. I said, "You got to find Al Baghdadi." I've been saying that actually for two years. I had a lot of other things to do the first year, like fight off the Democrats. These crazy Democrats with their hoaxes. Think of it. Donald Trump: (34:30) If they use their genius, because they are genius at that stuff, right? They're really good. They can take nothing. They can take a perfect phone call made to the Ukrainian president who said very specifically there was no pressure. He doesn't even know what's going on and they can take this perfect call. Thank goodness I had a transcriber. Do you agree with it? Because the fake whistleblower said that the call was totally different than what the call was. Donald Trump: (34:59) So when I released the call, when I released the transcripts, they died. They said, "Oh we got a problem." They never thought I was going to do it, but I had no choice. I had to because I had to show they're liars. But think of it, they can take something like that, a perfect phone call, or they'll take just out of thin air they can make something up. Donald Trump: (35:19) And they ended up today, front page, New York Times. They used to call it the eighth column. That's the big column on the right. I don't know. The papers become so small. I don't know if they have an eighth column anymore. They used to have the eighth column, was a big deal, right? That was the big deal. Today it's too narrow. Think they're probably. After I'm gone, they won't have any columns. That's why eventually they're going to support me. Donald Trump: (35:42) Eventually, the Times and the Washington post, which will be dead as a doornail after I leave, and the CNN, it'll be an obsolete business, the cable business. MSDNC will be out of business. You know, cable was supposed to be obsolete and now they're doing the highest numbers they've ever done. If an airplane goes down with 700 people, they don't cover it. If it's not Trump related, they don't cover it. It's got to be Trump or Trump related. So if a plane goes down and it's total devastation, if the ship goes down, if the Titanic- Speaker 5: (36:18) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:20) If the Titanic equivalent went down, they wouldn't cover it unless I was on the sucker. It's true. They wouldn't cover it. The fake news would not cover the equivalent of the Titanic. Speaker 5: (36:33) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:35) But you know what they're going to do before the election? They're going to say, "We want to just say something. We're going to endorse the president." You know why? Because they'll be out of business. Can you imagine if they had to cover mini Mike? Who I don't think, I think he's gone, but you know what? He'll spend another 500 million. Don't forget I spent 70 and I won, of my money. In other words, they said, and this was in the New York Times, I said the other night in Colorado. Donald Trump: (37:04) I spent 70, mini Mike so far has spent almost $500 million dollars in order to get embarrassed by Pocahontas. Pocahontas. And she's mean, isn't she? Did you see that? Do you see the anger on her face? That nervous energy. She's jumping up and down. She's a mess. But no, no, she's mean. Right? Right? That face is just. "You want to get him?" She said, "I got him. I want to see those agreements." "I," "You open up those agreements." This poor guy probably signed a hundred of them and each one's a disaster. He said, "I don't want to open those agreements. Nobody told me this was going to happen." Donald Trump: (37:53) Said, "Actually, sir." "Nobody told me. Get me out of here." After the debate, he went backstage, fired a lot of people. He said, "How the hell did you get me into this thing?" But Pocahontas was really mean, but she's going to be easy. I hope it's her. It's not going to be her. Donald Trump: (38:19) She made a little comeback the other night because she took mini Mike to the cleaners. But it's not going to be here. It can't be [inaudible 00:11:28]. Can't be, I don't think. Alfred E. Neuman, ladies and gentlemen, introducing president Alfred E. Neuman. Nobody knows because you're all too young. Nobody knows who Alfred. it's Mad Magazine. Donald Trump: (38:46) They all said. No. Howdy Doody. See nobody knows who Alfred E. Neuman is. Only the real aficionados. They're the ones and they love it. But that's only 15% of the crowd, right? Am I right? Better than Howdy Doody. Howdy Doody. Donald Trump: (39:02) But he's got to learn. He's got to worry about his own city. It's going to hell, so he's got to worry. Because that city's got a lot of problems. I don't get the whole thing, but he's not a bad debater, I will say. He's probably the best up there. And Bernie is too emotional. He's screaming, going crazy. And Biden is angry. Biden is angry. Everything's anger. [inaudible 00:39:26] And that's what happens when you can't get the words out. No it does. Donald Trump: (39:35) That's what happens, right? When you can't get the words out, you get angry. You get angry because you can't get the words. That might happen to me someday. Can you imagine if that happened to me? Man, would I be a bad guy. I'd be the meanest man in history. No, but Biden is very angry. Donald Trump: (39:52) He gets angrier, and angrier, and angrier. He's changed. And then you have the Tom. Yeah. He said Tom Steyer. Tom said, " Mister impeachment." How did that work out, Tom? Thank you very much for the great poll numbers between him and nervous dancing. Donald Trump: (40:09) How did that work out? This schmuck spends $250 million dollars, he ends up with one third of a percent in Iowa. But maybe that could be Rick, because they still don't have any idea what he got. Maybe he won Iowa, they took it away from him. No, but he was substantially below it. All I know, it said 1% and an arrow left. Donald Trump: (40:31) So he spends 250 million, Tom Steyer. Never heard of this guy. Who is he? Where did he get his money? Who is he? He was in the coal business, did you know that? This guy, this phony is a big environmentalist. He made his money, a lot of it, in the coal business. Nobody knows that, but he's a fake. Donald Trump: (40:48) Remember when he walked up to Bernie the other day. "Hi Bernie. Hi." Oh, and he was having a fight with Pocahontas, right? Is this the greatest? Mark Burnett said, "This is the greatest reality show in history." He said, "You can take The Apprentice, and you can take Survivor, and you can take every other reality show ever made, multiply it times 10,000, and you still don't have what we have. And even the CAS." He did say this. You got the perfect president. You got the perfect first lady. How about the first lady? You got the perfect kids. The kids, though. Those beautiful kids. My beautiful kids. They had such a great life, before I did this. Sorry, kids. Sorry. My beautiful Ivanka. She had such a great life. She Had a company that was selling shoes and everything you could sell. She'd just put her name on it and she said, "Daddy, does it matter? I want to come to Washington and help people get jobs." Donald Trump: (42:02) Right? Ain't that true? And she left the company. And when you leave a company, all of a sudden it doesn't do as well. I wouldn't say that I exactly helped talking about the wall and other things, but she left the company, came to Washington and she said 500,000 jobs. That was her goal. And she did that in the first month. She actually did. Donald Trump: (42:29) She's gotten these great companies like Walmart, and many others, Exxon, she's gotten them to take millions of people. She's now over 15 million jobs where they train people and bring them into the companies. It's incredible. 15 million. And she's smart. She got it figured out, but most people can't, but she does. But all they do is give them heat. They work so hard. And could you imagine you take Biden's son. Can you imagine? Donald Trump: (43:10) I deal with all these big companies and these great, great countries. I think I could get my sons 25 board chips for millions of dollars a piece. My kids would be [inaudible 00:43:21]. But you know what? We don't do any of that stuff. We don't do that stuff. We don't do it. The kid got $3 million dollars, 83,000 a month and he didn't have a job until his father became vice president. And speaking of vice presidents and speaking also of reality television, because it's the greatest show of all time, right? Look at us. Look. Donald Trump: (43:48) We told you, what, last night? Little change here, folks. We're going to move it up from eight o'clock in the evening until 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Little change. Just a minor change. Because I have to get back to Washington to work. I feel guilty. This is too much fun. But speaking to vice presidents and speaking of perfect vice presidents, if you become president, the first thing you have to do is choose a really horrible, horrible vice president. So if the idiots ever want to impeach you, they have to say, I can't impeach him. Look who we have. I have the perfect vice president. I have the greatest in the world. I have the greatest vice president. Donald Trump: (44:39) I don't know. I got the great ones. I said, "I can't do that." I picked a great guy. He's done a fantastic job. He's been a great vice president. But it is true. I could have picked, I'll give you names, but don't want to do that because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But there are plenty of them out there. Donald Trump: (44:51) They're mostly out there and I don't want to do that. But Mike Pence has been great. But tell me, is it perfect casting the whole thing? And this isn't about casting, this is about real life. But when Mark Burnett said to me the other day, he said, "The greatest reality show of all times, times of million." That's exactly except for one thing, we work our asses off and we are doing things like nobody has ever done before. Donald Trump: (45:19) Right? Right? So, we took out Al Baghdadi and then we just took out two weeks ago the world's top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani of Iran, ending his evil reign of terror forever. He's the father of the roadside bomb. When you see our beautiful people walking around with no legs, they're walking, and trying to walk so hard, and they're really in rough shape. Donald Trump: (46:01) Incredible the job that doctors do at Walter Reed and some of these hospitals. And they get them to a point where sometimes they really can, they walk around, but it's hard. And they lose legs, and they lose arms. That was [inaudible 00:46:14] he's the father of the. he loved the roadside bomb. He thought it was a great thing. Where is he now? Donald Trump: (46:24) Soleimani. And I'll tell you what, you know who's happy about it? The people of Iran are happy and even the leaders of Iran, because the leaders of Iran were afraid of him. Okay? And the fact is, America is respected again. We're winning. We're winning all over. We're winning in Washington that Democrats keep losing their minds. That is why millions of registered Democrat voters are leaving their party to join our movement. Donald Trump: (46:57) It's not even a party, it's a movement. They're joining the Republican party. It's true. We have a lot of. Look at the energy in this room. They're all [inaudible 00:47:10]. They're all [inaudible 00:47:13]. Look, we're a unified party. The Republican party has never been unified like it is today. Donald Trump: (47:22) I'll show you. I could say, "We're going to go over to the Hill. No, we're going to go over to someplace and we're going to do a rally at eight o'clock tonight." We'd have tens of thousands of people there. There's never been this. Ronald Reagan was great. I thought he was a great guy, great president, didn't like his policy on trade. That's okay. Trade. Donald Trump: (47:42) But if he came to Las Vegas, you know they'd have a ballroom, and they'd have 500, maybe a thousand people. What we're doing. And this isn't even, I must say this, I don't want to tell you this, this is not election season. Because we're nine months away. Election season is when you're two months away. We're not even in election season and we have more enthusiasm now. Believe it or not, then we had even before the election in 2016. It's true. It's too early. It's too early. It's true. We have a great gentleman and a woman with us, a friend of mine, mister and misses Sheldon Adelson, right over here. Great, great person. Two great people. He's got so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. He owns the Sands Hotel. That's like one of the smaller businesses. Donald Trump: (49:05) Sheldon, that's like your small business, right? He is a great guy. She's an incredible, she's a doctor, and she studies addiction, and drugs, drug addiction, all sorts of addictions. And she knows more about that subject, I think, than anybody, and she works hard and she doesn't need it. He does not need the money that she brings in. Okay? Donald Trump: (49:25) He also happens on the paper. He owns the paper. You own the paper in town, right? They wanted like a couple of hundred million dollars too much. You said, "Give it to them. It's peanuts. What the hell difference does it make? We want to thank the Adelsons. They've been incredible fans and they love Israel. They love Israel. I just saw him sitting there. I didn't know they were here. I just see him sitting there. He's something. Speaker 6: (49:54) [inaudible 00:49:56]. Donald Trump: (49:56) The chairman of the Nevada Republican party, who's really been great. He's been with me for a long time and he's a very committed man. Make America great again. Oh, oh, oh. Let's do a poll quick. Just quick. I'll never get rid of MAGA because I'm superstitious. But we just hit an all time high with the stock market. Our military is rebuilt. You just got the greatest tax cuts in history, the greatest rate, regulation cuts, and all this stuff. So, let me ask you this. Donald Trump: (50:29) So, "Make America great again," it sort of doesn't work quite as well. So now we have keep America great and we have the new hat. It's higher, stiff. It's like a billboard, right? I call it the billboard. It's a billboard. So let's go just that. Because I am very surprised by it. We're going to keep them both, but I just curious if we did go to one, "Make America great again?" " Keep America great?" Donald Trump: (51:03) I can't. I would have said that's impossible. "Make America great again," is the greatest phrase. A lot of people, again, fake news, I think will agree to it. It's the greatest phrase ever used in politics. It's the greatest phrase. Now, who has the greatest phrase ever used in the history of politics and say, "Oh, let's go with a new phrase." Right? Donald Trump: (51:40) But we're going to keep it. So we have to keep MAGA. But now we have CAG, now we have CAG. So we have a both. I just don't have the courage to get rid of the one. It would be too disrespectful. Too disrespectful. But Michael McDonald, I want to thank you and the members of the Nevada Republican central committee. You're all here. They're great people. And the man came here. He loves us. He's been with us. Rick Harrison of the world famous gold and silver pawn shop. Rick Harrison. Donald Trump: (52:22) You better win, Michael. Otherwise, that's the last time I'm introducing you like that. I hear we're up. I hear we're doing nicely. I hear we're doing great. And by the way, the union, I have a lot of respect for that union. Last time, I had a strike in my building during the election. It's the only reason we would have won this state. Brilliantly to save three cents. I could have settled the strike before the election. I wanted to save $2 total. Donald Trump: (52:49) That was a brilliant move. And then we had some guy running. A guy named [inaudible 00:25:55]. And he wasn't too good. He didn't do too good. But we almost won this state despite. I had a big strike. Had thousands and thousands of union guys. They had it, look, they wanted, wanted to show us. But I think that the unions are really with us and the unions have been with us. They're Teamsters, so many of the unions. Donald Trump: (53:16) Because I'm for the working man and woman, whether you're union or non-union. Some States are all union, some states are no union. But we get them all. And I think we're going to have tremendous success. And a lot of the Democrats are going to ruin the healthcare programs that these unions have. The unions have worked hard on healthcare and they're going to ruin them. Donald Trump: (53:38) They're going to take away. Well, we're going to. you can lose 180 million people off of great private healthcare. So we'll see what happens. But a lot of the Democrats want to do that. They think it's wonderful. But together we're building the world's most prosperous economy and the most inclusive society. That's true. Since my election, over 125- Donald Trump: (54:02) That's true. Since my election, over 125,000 new jobs have been created right here in Nevada, including over 40,000 new Nevada manufacturing and construction jobs. A 30% increase. The national unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century, and soon we're going to have that be a historic number like so many of the others. The average unemployment rate for my administration, this is the coolest of them all, is the lowest for any United States president in recorded history. That's pretty good. When I'm in a debate, they're saying, "we're going to do this." I say, "listen, we have the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country." African American unemployment, Hispanic American. Hispanic, we got a lot of Hispanic. I love Hispanic. Who in this audience is Hispanic? Yeah, we're doing great. Well, we should be doing great. You have the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded. Asian Americans, likewise the lowest ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest rate in 71 years. African American youth unemployment has reached an all time historic low. People I love, people I might've helped more than anybody because of choice and accountability. The veteran's unemployment rate drop to the lowest record. Lowest in history. Donald Trump: (56:02) The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all time historic low and you got to remember they're back there checking every word. They're going," oh, my god. He's right." I can't say it because I got all these maniacs back there. They're trying to find. "He put the comma in the wrong place. He didn't make that word plural, therefore he lied." Now I've got to be very accurate because all these numbers, they check them out. "They're in there, checking them out. Check on the African American unemployment, please." Please tell me it's not historic. These people are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Not all of them. Workers without a high school diploma. We have millions of people that didn't go through high school. They left. They had problems, good problems, bad problems, families where they don't have the money. They didn't get a high school diploma. They've achieved the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded in the history of the United States. Donald Trump: (57:14) Those are important groups of people. Half a million more Hispanic Americans now own a home. Now, Hispanic have done so good. And by the way, you know who understands the border, because we are building that wall like crazy. Remember, they also said, "if you build the wall you'll lose the Hispanic vote." I said, "I got to do what's right. You know who understands the border better than anybody? You know who understands crime at the border better than anybody? The Hispanics understand it and they don't want to be working and have people come and take their job. Have people come in where they can't pay for their house, have people come in who are very bad people." You have some very bad people. You have murderers and rapists, and we have set all sorts of records at the border, but we're up to 122 miles of wall, and it is true. The people that understand it the best are Hispanic. So, thank you. We got to make our country safe. We've lifted 10 million people off of welfare. Median household income is now the highest ever recorded in our country. Think of that. I say it all the time. President Bush, eight years, $450. President Barack Hussein Obama, eight years, $ 975. President Donald John Trump, three years. It's actually less when they did the numbers. Three years, including the big tax cuts that we got you and the regulation cuts. Three years. Donald Trump: (59:22) So, you had 450, 975, that's eight and eight. Now we're down to three years, a little less, three years, $ 10,000 per family a year. 10,000 a year. Our historic regulatory reduction campaign is restoring American liberty and ending the tyranny of federal bureaucrats. I deal with them. They're not good. It's called the swamp. We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, reducing your prices. Part of that number is all of the money that we save at the pump and on electric. I also recently took action on an issue Nevada has been dealing with for over 30 years. Yucca mountain. You know Yucca mountain? My budget stops funding for the licensing of waste storage at Yucca mountain, so that we can focus on positive solutions and for much better reasons and alternatives. Why should you have nuclear waste in your backyard? I won't say which countries, but you know what other countries do? I will not say which ones. Donald Trump: (01:00:49) They put it on a ship. They float it out into the middle of the ocean. They find a nice deep spot and they dump it. That's the end of it. But we would never do that for environmental reasons. We are reversing decades so Yucca mountain. You're okay, please. Okay. Just relax. Sheldon, do you have somebody at your newspaper back there who can write. Yucca mountain, please. He'll call up, "Yucca mountain is okay." That's the end of that. So Yucca mountain, you're in great shape. Maybe they can finally report it properly, but we're reversing decades of calamitous trade policies. For years, Washington politicians took money from lobbyists, global corporations and corrupt special interest to ship our jobs and factories and all of this stuff and all of this wealth. They stole our wealth. They shipped it overseas and to other countries. America lost one in four manufacturing jobs following the twin disasters of NAFTA and China's entrance into the WTO, the world trade organization. Probably an even worse deal for us than NAFTA, if that's possible, but under my administration, the great betrayal of America is over. America is no longer for sale. Last month we ended the NAFTA catastrophe and I signed the brand new U.S., Mexico, Canada agreement USMCA. See, we played the song YMCA because that's the only way you'll remember. Just think of the song YMCA. Think of the song and you'll remember that USMCA is a gigantic victory for farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers all across the great state of Nevada. I also took the strongest ever action to confront China's massive theft of America jobs. Our strategy worked. Last month, we signed a ground breaking trade agreement. Probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property and boost American exports by a lot. China will be buying $250 billion worth of goods from us now and 50 billion from our farmers. My guys wanted 16, I said, "make it 50." My guys wanted 16, they got China up to 20. I said, "Nope. Got to make it 50," and then I said to China, "you got a billion and a half people. What difference does it make?" They said, "you're right." 50 billion, I don't think our farmers can produce that much, but we're going to soon find out. They're going to buy very large tractors. After years of building up other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. we are finally putting America first. Donald Trump: (01:04:26) Or no issue of Washington Democrats more thoroughly sold out the American people than the issue of immigration. Before I came into office, the far left's policy of open borders allowed deadly drugs to flow freely into our country, poisoning our children, including right here in a very big way. The great state of Nevada. Washington Democrats put the needs of illegal immigrants before the wellbeing of American citizens. You know that, you've been complaining about it for a long time. It's one of the reasons you voted for Trump. They want to let anyone from around the world simply walk across the border and then they want to give them a lifetime of free welfare, of healthcare, of lots of other things, including education. All paid for by the taxpayers of the United States. Illegal immigration costs Nevada taxpayers, think of it, more than $1.6 billion every year, over $1,500 per household. For the amount of money Washington Democrats want to spend supporting illegal immigrants, we could rebuild every city, all of these distressed areas in the United States, throughout our country. The money spend, it's not even thinkable and don't forget when we say come, like in California the clown, he says, "come, we'll give you free healthcare." People that weren't even thinking about coming. That's why we have caravans of people that we're turning back. Mexico's been great. By the way, they gave us 27,000 soldiers on our border. Donald Trump: (01:06:16) But when a governor, nice guy actually, he's a nice guy. We just got to explain the facts of life. He's a nice guy. Oh doctor, please. Doctor in the house, please. Medical, please. A doctor. Thank you. Take your time. We've got plenty of time. Yeah, take your time please. A lot of these people have been here for three days. It's a lot. Those front row people are tough. Take your time, doc. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, doctor. That's true. They get here so. They stand and sit and sometimes days early. In Colorado, they're there three, four days early. It's tough. And we work it and make sure that you have everything you want. Number one, we cover the facts and number two, we want to have a good time because we have to have a good time. But things like that happen a lot because after two, three days, it's not easy and these are strong people. I'm not going to fight any of them, okay? Donald Trump: (01:10:05) Now, amazing people. Thank you very much. Under my administration, we're finally taking care of our own citizens first, including millions of illegal immigrants who follow our laws, pay their taxes, lift up our society, and are entitled to a government that protects their families and protects their communities. Every day, Democrats' open border policies are harming and killing innocent people. You know what's happening, you know what's going on. In this region alone last year, ICE officers, and they're patriots. They're strong, tough patriots. If we didn't have them. They remove thousands and thousands of MS13 gang members a year and plenty of others. Who else is going to do it? ICE officers arrested over 5, 000 criminal aliens charged or convicted of dangerous offenses, including robbery, rape, and even murder. Many murders. In Western Nevada, an illegal alien was charged with robbing and brutally executing four victims last year. Right here in Las Vegas, three MS13 gang members abducted a man, tied him up with his shoelaces, shot him repeatedly, and hacked him to death with a machete. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It's right here in your place, in Las Vegas, right here. Tied up and hacked him to death. Yet left wing politicians oppose all detention of illegal aliens, even convicted criminals and murderers, and they support deadly sanctuary cities. I say this all the time and I just. How the hell, where are they coming from? I don't get it right. Seriously, I don't get it. Sanctuary cities imperil American lives by releasing dangerous criminal aliens directly into your communities. If you want to shut down sanctuary cities, if you want to protect your family and your loved ones, you must vote Republican in 2020. And you have some great ones here, Michael. Thanks to our tireless efforts to secure the border, we have reduced illegal border crossings eight straight months in a row. And as the wall gets longer, it gets easier and easier. Remember when the Democrats were saying, "you don't need a wall." Two things that never change, right? All these computers, they said, "use drones." Oh great, we'll fly over with drones. Watch the people pour in by the thousands. That's great. Use drones. Before I came along, they all wanted a wall. They just didn't know how to build it. They had no clue. They had the money, they actually gave the money back, but they had no clue. But as soon as I came in and I said, "Wall," they went against and I made a terrible mistake. Donald Trump: (01:13:22) They always say I never admit mistakes. I do, but I'll admit a mistake now. I should have said, we will never, ever under any circumstances build a wall. They would have given me so much money for a wall, you have no idea. They would've forced me to build it. I made a terrible mistake, right? Terrible mistake. If it ever happens again, which it won't. This wall is one of a kind. They will say, "we will not build a wall," and they'll say, "we demand that you build a wall," and it would have been so easy. Illegal crossings are down 75% since last spring and we have ended catch and release. A horrible [inaudible 00:01:14:08]. Donald Trump: (01:14:06) We catch them. You know the story. They come over, could be a killer, murderer, rapist. They come over. We can't do anything. We have to be politically correct. We catch them. We then say, "what's your address?" They don't know. They don't even know their country in many cases. Where do you come from? We don't know and they mean it, but some are very serious criminals. So, we catch them, we take whatever they can take, which is nothing, and then we had to release them in our country. We can't bring them back. And then we have a system of judges, thousands of judges all over the place. You got to be like Perry Mason and every illegal that comes in, they have the lawyers. The lawyers meet them, they get paid fees, but we're breaking the system. No more catch and release, you think that was easy? And the big thing is that 30 foot. And this wall is built exactly to the specifications of border patrol. Totally. And border patrol has seized the largest amount, just recently, of deadly narcotics ever recorded. The largest amount. We've deported record numbers of gang members. We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history. We are, as I said, building the wall faster than ever. Faster and bigger than anyone thought possible. They can't believe we're getting it done. We'll have over 500 miles of wall built sometime next year. 500 miles. Donald Trump: (01:15:55) Washington Democrats have never been more extreme than they are right now. 132 congressional Democrats have now signed up for Bernie Sanders takeover of healthcare that would strip 180 million Americans, many of them in this room, of their private coverage. Remember president Obama? Remember, he said, "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan." 28 times, he lied, so we should impeach him. We're going to impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. 28 times, "you can keep your doctor," right? Remember, you could keep your doctor. Unfortunately, when they found out you can't keep your doctor, he said, "I was just kidding." Now, we should impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. Fake news, you have it. See, you have to be very careful when you say impeachment because you know what they do? They go back and they write. President Trump said that Obama should be impeached, but he's not in office and so therefore they can't impeach. He doesn't know what he's talking about because he's not in office, so therefore they can't. So, you have to be very careful. That's why I use the word belated impeachment. Belated, meaning I'm just kidding, okay? Donald Trump: (01:17:20) They do it all the time. They had it the other day. I said, "bring back Gone With The Wind," right? I said a little bit up here, but I said the movie the other day in Colorado, I guess. I said, "Huh, South Korean movie won." They said, "ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Academy Award is ." A movie made in South Korea, what's this all about? And I deal with them, they like me. We're helping them a lot. They're killing us on trade. They beat us on trade and then they win the Academy Award for a fricking movie. Donald Trump: (01:17:54) But we redid that trade deal, but the other day they got me on this one too. I said, "whatever happened to Gone With the Wind, that beautiful movie? Vivian Lee, Clark Gable, right? Whatever happened, bring back Gone With the Wind." And some of them wrote, "he doesn't know that that movie was made in 1936." He says fake news. It is fake news, they're fakers. But now, anybody sitting there reading this saying, "man, Trump, can't be that smart. He said bring back Gone With the Wind. That's an old movie." Yeah, it's an old classic. What I say is make great movies, not this computerized garbage. And I was never a fan of Brad Pitt, I will tell you that. Donald Trump: (01:18:48) No, I thought he was a stiff. He was a stiff, it's like a boring guy. All of a sudden he wins the Academy Award, so fitting. Their ratings aren't so good at the Academy Awards. You know when that stopped? When they started attacking us, their ratings went right down the tubers. I told somebody, the evening newscasts, they're terrible for conservative people and they're crooked, they're absolutely dishonest. I said to one of the big broadcasters, I'm friendly with him. I said, "if you ever did a conservative newscasts, instead of. you got, ABC is terrible. NBC is just absolutely atrocious." And they do badly. Not a lot of people are watching. They used to, when we had the late, great Walter Cronkite and these legends, right? But ABC is terrible and NBC is terrible and CBS is terrible. They're all the same. And I said, "your ratings stink. If you would do a newscast that's conservative, I'd get them a host. I could recommend guys right now, right? I'd get them a host. We'll call up. Don't take Sean Hannity away from us. Don't take our show. Donald Trump: (01:20:03) That's my problem, I don't want to take away any of our people. You get a Pete Hegseth. You get a Jesse Waters. You get. I could name so many of them, right? And you put them on that broadcast, their ratings would go up five fold but they don't know that. I don't know. They're stupid. Their ratings would go through the roof, but they would rather have a failed broadcast that nobody watches than put on a conservative person and lift the ratings five times. They would rather have a fail. Seven months ago we had a little skit, and they were hoping the market would crash because they would rather lose their money, or big parts of it, and have a really horrible market on the basis that we, not me, we could not be elected on November 3rd. This is how crazy- Donald Trump: (01:21:03) . on November 3rd. This is how evil, this is how crazy they are. They've gone crazy. I guess you call it Trump derangement syndrome. But if they ever did a conservative broadcast, meaning very fair, very honest When I say that, it's almost like do a fair broadcast. Just a fair broadcast. That thing would be the hottest show. But they don't realize it. And if they do, they probably wouldn't do it anyway because they don't want to go away from what they're doing, which is crazy because it is, they're doing very poorly. Donald Trump: (01:21:30) While the social and socialist Democrats are trying to destroy American healthcare and your Social Security, they're putting it at risk, my administration is protecting your Social Security. Remember they said, four years ago in the debates and you had this crazy woman. I mean, I hate to mention her name. I did it you know, yesterday. I threw all the runs, hates it. Donald Trump: (01:21:59) She's a zero. It's got zero television personality. Aero AB Stoddard, whoever that is. She said, "Donald Trump lost all of his debates." I won every debate and maybe, I don't know maybe one somebody, but I won with tremendous numbers. He says, "You always won." I'm not sure. We try, I'll tell you that and we're winning now. Donald Trump: (01:22:21) But this crazy woman who's got zero going, zero. She said, "Donald Trump lost his debates that he won." You know, she was talking about how badly Benny Mike did. So she said, "Well, Donald Trump." No, I won every single debate. I won them against crooked Hillary. I won them in the primaries like 15 or 16 debates. And for some reason, you know, sometimes you do say, it's not a big deal. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Nobody even knows who she is. I just made her famous, right? Donald Trump: (01:22:49) She's nothing. She's nothing. She's got no talent, got nothing. She's probably got a little drive. That's how she keeps getting on television. Other people don't have her drive. But you know what? I said, "That's really unfair." So I took out the polls, Time magazine, Drudge, good guy, Drudge, Drudge. We took out a lot of different things and we put up the Drudge poll, the Time magazine and many others. And some of them had to be down to like at 91% and they didn't have many people and I can't really show up because many of those people are now great friends of mine. Donald Trump: (01:23:18) Some of them are great Republican senators. I'm not going to show results, but I'm holding it up just quickly glancing. I call it a glancing blow, but we won the debates and I have this fake news person saying, "Donald Trump did very poorly in the debates." I want every debate easily. I never did it before. Remember my first question? I said, "Rosie O'Donnell." That was one of my best answers. Rosie O'Donnell who violated the campaign finance laws as badly as anybody I've ever seen and nothing happens to her. Right? And yet Dinesh violate . He made a little mistake and they want to destroy him. So we pardoned him. We pardoned him. Donald Trump: (01:24:08) By the way, he made a mistake. Rosie O'Donnell. That was a massive violation of the campaign finance laws but Dinesh, Dinesh, they wanted to put him in jail. I don't know. I think he might've even gone to jail for a period of time for doing something that was really very understandable. Rosie O'Donnell. Five times what she did is incredible. Nothing happens. And then she gets on and says, what a bad guy I am. I'm not a bad guy, but it's really a disgrace. You know, it's a disgrace. I'm glad they didn't do anything with it, frankly because you know what to do for something like that. But you know what? We have two sets of justices in this country. It's no good. It's no good. It's no good. You know the thing we're working on right now? We're trying to get fairness for a certain person who's been treated very unfairly. Donald Trump: (01:25:04) A man who had a juror, who was a radical anti-Trump person, and she didn't say that when she went up there and she became the foreperson of the jury and she did terrible things and said terrible things. And you know how they caught her. When he was convicted and then a statement was made, she started jumping up and down screaming, " Yes, yes." And started telling everybody. They said, "Wait a minute. Wasn't she just a juror?" The woman was totally biased. How do you do this? So I fight. Look, I fight. A lot of times it's not worth it, but I got to fight for fairness. Donald Trump: (01:25:44) I got to fight for fairness. Got to fight for fairness. It's a very unfair system. I guess it's called the swamp. When I said drain the swamp, it was a nice phrase. I never liked the phrase. When I was campaigning, somehow the phrase came up, "Sir, I think we have a phrase, drain the swamp." I said, "I don't like it. That's too hokey." But one day I was in a big arena, 25,000 people packed before the election and I said, "And we will drain the swamp." The place went crazy. I said, "Wow, you never know. You never know." Donald Trump: (01:26:22) Frank Sinatra said his best song. I won't tell you which one because I'll ruin it for you, but his best song is the song that he thought would never make it, the song that he liked the least, but he said that's the one that was the most successful that the people like you never know. So I said, "Drain the swamp." And the people went crazy. I said, "Woah." I said, "Let's try that again." And the next time I did it again and again and again. I only didn't know how disgusting and dirty the swamp is and a lot of the media is a big part of the swamp. Donald Trump: (01:26:56) So my administration is protecting your social security, your Medicare, and is fighting to give you great healthcare. We're defending your right to keep your doctor and your plan. We're defending that right. You're going to have that right back. We're going to cancel that Obamacare if we could win the case and we're going to give you great healthcare and we're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before I took office. We're managing it very well. We got rid of the individual mandate, by far the most unpopular thing where you had to pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay for bad healthcare, right? We got rid of it. Donald Trump: (01:27:39) And it was upheld in the Supreme Court, what we did. Whenever we get sued, everything we do, if we move, if we take 10 steps right or left, we get sued and we're now offering plans that are up to 60% less expensive. We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign. Donald Trump: (01:27:54) We're protecting people with preexisting conditions and we always will. That's why if we are successful, you don't want the Supreme Court to try and get rid of this, the caucus. It's a caucus known as Obamacare, but we're running it much better than they did. Remember when they had, this was the greatest, the $5 billion website, right? 5 billion. It was supposed to cost 5 million. I have a son at home. He's 13. He's a genius with computers. Donald Trump: (01:28:23) "Hi, dad. What's up? Dead dad. Get out of here." Donald Trump: (01:28:27) Hey listen. I'm the president of the United States, pal. Don't talk to your dad. "Dad, Come on dad. Can't you see I'm playing with my computer?" The guy talks to me and he's working with his computer. These guys are genius. You know, they grow up with like walking, right? But he's looking at me. I could have given him their healthcare site. He would have done it for nothing and it would have been better than what they have. Donald Trump: (01:28:47) So remember, come on, dad. I'm busy, dad. What do you want? What do you want, dad? Audience: (01:28:54) Barron. Barron. Barron. Barron. Donald Trump: (01:29:04) Barron, woah. Wow, he's going to like that. He's a good boy. He's a tall boy. I'll tell you that. Just turned 13. He's up there. I'm saying, "Hi Barron. How are you doing?" But they're great with the computers. They spent 5 billion. Donald Trump: (01:29:26) Okay. It was going to cost 50. It was going to cost five. It was going to cost 50. Then it was going to .. What was the final number? Five hundreds. The number that they spent, $5 billion. Right? It still doesn't work. They spent $5 billion. Right? And they spent $500 million on all of the problems it caused and we've really straightened it out, but it's still lousy healthcare, Obamacare. And it's really not Obamacare anymore because when you get rid of the individual mandate, it's no longer Obamacare but we're going to terminate it. We're going to give you your preexisting a hundred per- otherwise I won't do it. We're going to give you brand new preexisting and we're going to have a great healthcare that's much less expensive. Audience: (01:30:12) [inaudible 01:30:15]. Donald Trump: (01:30:15) And we're fighting to stop surprise medical bill and Barron's is going to be very happy. I signed an executive order imposing price transparency because when providers are required to show their prices, those same prices fall very fast. You know, a man that does this very professionally is great, into the healthcare business and you have to be careful when you say it, but you know it was just a very strong statement. Donald Trump: (01:30:45) But he said, "Sir, price transparency in hospitals. Where you can bid it out and you can look at the prices. Right now you can't see. If you go to a hospital, they won't even tell you how much it's going to cost. They operate and then they'll give you a bill and you'll say, "Oh my god, I had no idea it could be." They take blood. We have one person, blood $39. Another place, the exact same thing, $2500. Take blood, a blood test. One is $39 one, is $2500. The same test. Maybe the $39 test is better. Who the hell knows? But it's crazy. Price transparency and he looks at me. He goes, and he's a real pro. One of the top in the country. He said, "Sir," and nobody wanted to do it because it's a little bit controversial and a lot of the drug companies don't exactly love it. The hospitals don't love it, but I got to do what's right for you. The people, I don't care, I'm not. I got to do it. Audience: (01:31:37) [inaudible 01:31:39]. Donald Trump: (01:31:41) But he looked at me. And this is why I did it. It was one phrase. You know, do you ever do where you're not going to do something? And then somebody hits you with a perfect phrase. He said, "Sir, price transparency is bigger than healthcare." I said, "What do you mean by that?" He said, "You will see numbers that far outweigh healthcare, hospitals, doctors." He said, "You'll be able to price out everything. You'll be able to see costs." He said, "Price transparency." You know, people you've heard about this for 15, 20 years. No president has the guts to do it. Probably means I won't get campaign contributions from certain people, but I'm not going to get them anyway. Donald Trump: (01:32:24) What the hell difference does that make? I don't want them. I don't want them. I got to do what's right. You know, we're here for a short period of time. Even if it's a long period, it's still a short period and we've got to do so. Price transparency is a big deal. He said it's bigger than healthcare. Think of that. Bigger than healthcare. So let's see what happens. But that'll kick in. Unfortunately, that kicks in after the election because we're going through the final stages. We going through a statutory process, unfortunately. So think of it, we're going to win. Donald Trump: (01:32:53) But let's say the fake news could give me enough phony stories, enough bad stuff that we don't make it. The new president will get all the credit for price transparency and he won't even know what the hell it is. And I took the heat. Isn't that something? But we're going to win. We got to win for that reason alone. Audience: (01:33:15) [inaudible 00:12:17]. Donald Trump: (01:33:18) We've approved a record number of affordable new generic drugs, which are just as good as the name brand drugs, but a fraction of the cost. And that was another one. Tremendous political pressure. Think of it. You own Bayer aspirin. You own all these name name brand drugs that are making so much money. And then the guy comes along said, "I want to make 20 forms of aspirin." They're exactly the same. Exactly. But they don't have a big name on it. Exactly as good. I don't say better. I don't say worse. They're exactly the same. You know, people still, they want to go out and buy the name. You know? I do. I do. You know? Because it's just because we're stupid. No, it's true. They're exactly the same. We're approving so many of the generic drugs, a record number. Nobody's ever approved so much. The drug companies hate it. Donald Trump: (01:34:07) They hate it. Never happened like what we're doing. We also took down the trial periods from 12 years down to five or six years. They'd have a new drug. The thing was obsolete by the time it got approved. We've passed a really spectacular thing that they've been trying to get for 40 some odd years. Right to try. So you don't have to now go if you get, hopefully nobody in this room has those kind of problems. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:34:35) And so now you go and you sign a waiver and you get everything. It's great. If you're terminally ill. If you're very, very sick, you're not going to make it. And you know why they didn't do it? They wouldn't approve it because they didn't want to be sued. And they said, "No, this could be dangerous." They said, "The people are terminally ill, they're going to die. Donald Trump: (01:34:55) Let them use the experimental drugs. Don't wait because they have another four or five years before they can come onto the market." And it turned out we are having such unbelievable results. And you know what else? Some of those drug companies are now like it. That they fought me like crazy because it's really showing if it works there, it's really showing that it works. It's pretty amazing. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:35:15) I hope you don't have to use it. We're combating the opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths have declined for the first time in nearly 31 years and I've launched [inaudible 01:35:30] and this is really something, brand new initiatives combating kidney disease and combating Alzheimer's disease. We've made a lot of progress. We've made a lot of progress, Sheldon and we're pursuing new advances in the neonatal research to care for America's youngest patients, our babies, and breaking all records in so doing. Donald Trump: (01:35:53) All of the radical Democrats in the presidential debates have declared their unlimited support for extreme late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the very moment of birth. This is why in my state of the union address, did you like it? Audience: (01:36:15) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:20) Good. It's a different kind of address. You know, we can go lots of different ways, right? Presidential, not presidential. I was presidential. Totally. You'd have about three people standing here, but I asked Congress to prohibit late term abortion of babies because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. Audience: (01:36:41) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:44) The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total obliteration of your very, very important second amendment. Audience: (01:37:05) Yeah. Boo. Donald Trump: (01:37:05) The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family, the American dream, and the late great Abraham Lincoln, which everybody forgot. Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background, every community, and every single walk of life. We are the party of boundless optimism, excitement, energy, and enthusiasm. We are wealthy, right? Are we enthusiastic? Audience: (01:37:48) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:37:48) You know how many of these I've done in the last four days? People say, "Where the hell do you get your energy?" I say, "Well, the truth is I like what I do and if we weren't getting the results, I wouldn't like it." If we weren't getting the results. If I didn't see the results, I wouldn't like it at all. We're welcoming Americans of all parties and political persuasions to join our incredible movement to make America great again. Donald Trump: (01:38:19) We're a very big party. We are the party of big ideas for the future. Republicans are fighting for school choice because no parent should ever be forced to send their child to a failing government school. Donald Trump: (01:38:39) I passed criminal justice reform to give former prisoners a second chance at life. Was never going to happen. We got it done. This could not have been done by anyone but the Republican party and ourselves. You know the Democrats have tried for years. They couldn't get it done. We got it done. To uphold the rule of law. We are confirmed and this is something they say. Most important thing you can do, judges. I say most important thing is defense. Second is judges. Donald Trump: (01:39:08) A record number of 217 federal judges who will interpret the constitution as written. And we have appointed two great new Supreme court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. I recognized Israel's true capital and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and we recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. We have invested $2.2 trillion to rebuild the United States military, including more than $130 million for Nellis air force base right here. And we just created the sixth branch of the American armed forces, the Space Force, 72 years, 72 years. Donald Trump: (01:40:14) The air force was 72 years ago. We just did a branch. It's a big deal, isn't it? Think of it. A branch, the army, the air force. Think of it. We did a branch. For years you watched as your politicians apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and we are standing up for the people of Nevada. At stake in our present battle is the survival of our nation. If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died for to secure, then we must devote everything we have toward victory in November of 2020 November 3rd. November 3rd. Only this way can we save the America we love and drain the Washington swamp once and for all. With your help, we will lift millions more of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence and poverty to prosperity. Together we will elect a Republican Congress to create a fair, safe, sane and lawful system of immigration. We will continue to enact new trade deals that result in more products proudly stamped with that very beautiful phrase, "Made in the USA." Donald Trump: (01:41:41) We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic within nine years in America. Donald Trump: (01:41:56) And we will land the first woman on the moon and become the first nation in the world to plant its flag on Mars. We will defend privacy, free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. Donald Trump: (01:42:22) And that is under siege in case you haven't noticed. You know, your second amendment is under siege. Just don't worry. Long as I'm here, they're not touching it. Above all, we will never stop fighting for this. Donald Trump: (01:42:38) So true. But we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one America, we support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. We stand with the incredible heroes and they are heroes. We love them, of law enforcement. We believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. We believe that faith and family, not government bureaucracy are the true American way. We believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag. Donald Trump: (01:43:22) And we live by the words of our national motto, in God we trust. From Carson city to Reno to right here in Las Vegas, we stand on the shoulders of red blooded American patriots who poured out their heart, sweat, and soul to secure our liberty and to defend our great, beautiful, lovely freedom, freedom, freedom. Freedom. Donald Trump: (01:43:59) Nevada was founded by pioneers and prospectors, miners and cowboys who tamed the frontier, raised the mighty Hoover dam. That's a beauty. Transformed the barren desert into a shining oasis, lit up the lights of the Las Vegas strip and help to make this the greatest nation ever to exist on the face of the earth. And we are making it greater than ever before. Proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. America is thriving like never before. And ladies and gentlemen of Nevada, the best is yet to come together. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again and we will make America great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Nevada. Thank you, Las Vegas. We love Las Vegas. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Audience: (01:46:16) Yeah.

1725 KAG RALLY LAS VEGAS HEAD ON FS23 73 *TIME MARK NOT THE SAME AS OUR TIME STAMPS* Donald Trump: (01:19) Well, thank you very much. And hello Las Vegas. Great to be with you. They have a big election tomorrow. We've already won the state. We've already won. I like ours better. We just take it. Just take it. We've won it. I like it that better. Donald Trump: (01:37) You know they say they're going to have a lot of problems tomorrow. I hate to tell you this. I don't know. Have you heard? I hear their computers are all messed up. Just like they were in Iowa. They're not going to be able to count their vote. They're going to tell you about healthcare. They're going to tell you about our military and the jet fighters and the missiles and rockets, but they can't count votes. They just can't count them. They can't count votes, but they're saying they may not be able to do it again. They're still trying to tell us. I called up yesterday, how are they doing in Iowa? Was that two weeks ago? They say we're getting close. They're not getting close, they'll never know. They'll never know, but I hear the same thing could happen tomorrow. I hope it doesn't, actually. Crowd: (02:22) I love you President Trump. Donald Trump: (02:23) I hope it doesn't, but I'm delighted to be back in a state I love. I have a beautiful building right down the road. With the proud, hardworking patriots of Nevada. You're going to say Nevada. You say that wrong, you got problems. You say Nevada, they go, what the hell? Got to be Nevada. Donald Trump: (02:55) With your help this November, we're going to defeat the radical socialist Democrats and we are going to win Nevada in a big beautiful landslide. Now, we have some special people here, you know the special very special people. Donald Trump: (03:17) And we celebrate one of the greatest moments in the history of sports. Some people say it was the single greatest moment in the history of sports. It was called the miracle on ice. Do you remember that? That was when the Russians had a team assembled. That was probably, they say maybe the greatest team ever assembled. They were unbelievable. And our guys played a practice game with them was it a couple of weeks before, and I hate to tell you the score was 10 to 3, and the USA was not on top, and this team was an incredible team and they went in and it was amazing, but tomorrow marks the 40 years since the United States men's hockey team defeated then Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics. Donald Trump: (04:15) Incredible. That was incredible. Most of you remember that. I'm looking. We've got a lot of young ones, but we've got a lot of people that remember that. A lot of people. And by the way, we got the Olympics coming back or coming to Los Angeles. Thank you. Thank you President Trump. Thank you President Trump. Thank you very much. Thank you President Trump. Eight years. Eight years, 2028 you know what? Unless I'm still president then, which is a distinct possibility, I won't be here, and you know what they'll do? I'll say, how's the Olympics going? Does anybody have a ticket for the president that got the Olympics to come here? They'll say, I want to thank and they'll thank hundreds of people, but they won't thank you president that I'm the one that pulled it off. But that's okay. 2028 Olympics is coming to Los Angeles. It's going to be great. Donald Trump: (05:27) And we worked with the mayor of Los Angeles. He was great. He called up and we gave him a lot of help. I was president elect then because the president didn't want to get involved. He didn't want to get involved in getting the Olympics, so they called me and I was president elect, hadn't taken office. Then I got involved and I'll tell you, they were happy we got involved. It was great. It's going to be very exciting today. Donald Trump: (05:49) We are thrilled to have with us 14 players of that really incredible gold medal team. Give him a big hand. And they were amazed. They said, boy is a big crowd. I said, it's only because you guys are coming. Donald Trump: (06:10) This day was supposed to be for this evening. And I said, let me get back to Washington, do it early. So we gave you almost no notice. You have thousands of people outside, thousands of people inside. You had to see, we were in Iowa we were in New Hampshire. You saw what happened in Colorado last. That was unbelievable. Every place we go it's the same. It's been incredible. Donald Trump: (06:37) I don't know if you saw the pictures last night of the outside in Colorado. It was incredible. It was. You could have filled that arena up four times and it was a big arena, and it's something. Donald Trump: (06:49) So I hated to do it to you at 12 o'clock but I said, let's go. I want to get back. We got to deal with China. We got to deal with Russia. We got to deal with North Korea, South Korea. We got to deal with the rest of the world. Get my people back. We got to get the hell out of here, right? But we have a lot of time. I'd like now to invite these incredible sport legends to join me on stage. A friend of mine and a very good golfer, by the way, Captain Mike he rode a bike. Mike. Where's Mike? Where is he? Mike. Do you know who he is? He's a fake handicap is what he is. Say something Mike. Mike Eruzione: (07:38) Just welcome everybody to ironic we happen to be here to celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Vegas Knights flew the whole team out to honor us tonight and for the weekend and we obviously thank the people of Las Vegas for having us here and we're looking forward to celebrating a special time, and it's a great honor for the president to invite us to be part of this event as well. So Vegas, thanks for having us. Donald Trump: (08:01) But just tell them, am I a good athlete and am I a good golfer? Mike Eruzione: (08:10) You are. Yes sir. Whatever you say. Donald Trump: (08:16) Thanks Mike. That was some goaltending right? How many did you rebuff? Mike Eruzione: (08:23) [inaudible 00:08:24]. Donald Trump: (08:24) I mean, but how many did Jim have? Many did. Mike Eruzione: (08:27) Very few. Donald Trump: (08:28) Very few. But a lot of shots, right? Mike Eruzione: (08:29) A lot of shots. Donald Trump: (08:30) He was like a pinata. Mike Eruzione: (08:33) Yes. Donald Trump: (08:35) So Mike, that was great. Goaltender Jim Craig. So Jim rebuffed come here, Jim. Great goaltender, great goaltender. They didn't know what was happening. They kept shooting. He doesn't know how many you rebuffed. How many did you rebuff? Jim Craig: (08:56) 37. Donald Trump: (09:01) 37. So let me ask you, was that as goaltender, because that was incredible. Was that the greatest game you ever played? You've had a lot of great games. But was that the greatest game you've ever played? Jim Craig: (09:09) It was an important. Donald Trump: (09:10) It was slightly important. 37. 37. Bill Baker. Bill, come up. Bill Baker. Dave Christian, Ken Morrow, Jack O'Callahan, Mike Ramsey. Speaker 1: (09:46) Walk like an old hockey player. Donald Trump: (09:47) Those legs took a beating. Mark Wells, Neil Brotton, John Harrington, Rob McClanahan, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Phil Verchota, and a great coach and assistant coach at the time, Craig Patrick. Crowd: (10:24) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (10:52) They said four more years, 12 more years left for them. Look at that. Look at the press. Hey Mike, look at the fake news back there. It's a lot. I always say that's like the Academy Awards used to be. This year, we had a movie, they said best movie, they announced the movie from South Korea. I said, what's that all about? The movie was made in South Korea. Look, I get along great with South Korea, but you know, I never saw that one before. They used to go best foreign movie, but now we do it that way. Donald Trump: (11:36) I don't get it, but that's what it used to be and this is really an incredible time. I'll tell you what, for our country, that's why I like to see things that we do get honored because nobody is doing what we do. Nobody can do it like us. Donald Trump: (11:50) We're the greatest country in the world again. We have the greatest people. We have the greatest military by far. We've totally rebuilt our military. Jobs are booming, incomes are surging, poverty is plummeting. Factories are returning confidence is soaring, like these guys, the confidence is soaring, but you know, we do have somebody that I'd like to point out because this team is, they had a coach, and that coach was a very inspirational coach, would you say Mike? And I'd like to have maybe one of you come up and just say a few words about Coach Brooks because he was very, very, he was really a big, he was a big heart on this team. Please. Mike Eruzione: (12:41) I think it would be appropriate if you've got a few minutes that Herb Brooks' daughter Kelly is here representing her father. And I can honestly tell you that Kelly was not ready for this at all. You got it? Donald Trump: (13:05) Say something. Mike Eruzione: (13:06) Her dad was an amazing coach. He was a great teacher. He was a great motivator at times, maybe too much of a motivator. He was very demanding. He was very difficult to play for. But trust me on one thing, there never once was a day that we didn't respect the man and never once was a day that we didn't trust him and what he was trying to do. He orchestrated the greatest sports moment of the 20th century and the guys behind me were so proud and honored to have been a part of him and what he was able to put together. It was a perfect environment, a perfect storm sometimes. Not only a great coach, but great players and great people that stand behind me now. So if Kelly would like to say a couple of words. No, she doesn't. Kelly Brooks: (14:02) Thank you. I'm honored that his legacy still is alive today and he would be proud to be here with you all. In my personal opinion, he would have been a Trump fan. Donald Trump: (14:17) So tell me one thing, one thing. So I see those tears. That means you think, you miss him and you love him. Right? Was he actually a nice guy? Because he looked tough. Mike was just saying he was brutal, but he was a good guy, right? Kelly Brooks: (14:37) Right. Donald Trump: (14:38) Tough but great. Thank you very much. Thanks Kelly. Thank you all. Greatest sports story could be number one. Crowd: (15:09) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (15:30) So a lot of people, a lot of these sports experts, sports writers have voted that as the single greatest sporting event or athletic achievement. I think so, yeah? They put it number one, certainly top five. In the history of our country, we have a lot of things that we've done to break records. We're going to go over them, but we've broken a lot of records now, but I want to thank that great team for being with us. Very inspirational. This is a big day. The anniversary. Thank you fellas. Thank you. Donald Trump: (16:04) In my state of the union address, I proudly declare that we are in the midst of the great American comeback and we're just getting started. Donald Trump: (16:18) After three years of ridiculous witch hunts and partisan Democrat crusades. By the way, I think they're starting another one. Did you see that? I see these phoneys. These are the do nothing Democrats. They said today that Putin wants to be sure that Trump gets elected. Here we go again. Here we go again. Did you see it? A story. Aren't people bored? Now, does that include because a couple of weeks ago, crooked Hillary said Chelsea Gabbard, right. Tulsi Gabbard and right? Crowd: (16:54) She was a Russian agent. Donald Trump: (16:56) She was a Russian agent. Tulsi and also Stein from Jill Stein. I don't know Jill Stein. I never met the woman. She is a Green Party candidate or was they said she's an agent of Russia. I don't know her and I don't know Tulsi. The only thing I know about both of them is they're not agent. They are not agents of Russia. These people are sick. That's pencil neck, pencil neck again. Little pencil. No, I just see it again. I was told that was happening. I was told a week ago. They said they're trying to start a rumor. It's disinformation. That's the only thing they're good at. They're not good at anything else. They get nothing done. Do nothing Democrats. That Putin wants to make sure get elected. Listen to this. So doesn't he want to see who the Democrat's going to be? Wouldn't you rather have, let's say Bernie? Wouldn't he rather that Bernie who honeymooned in Moscow? Wouldn't that be? Donald Trump: (18:04) These people are crazy. That's all they think about. They don't think about the country. They don't think about jobs. They don't think about lowering your drug costs. Infrastructure. These people are crazy. Trust me, I like what we're doing and I love this country. I love this country. Donald Trump: (18:30) Now, and I campaigned on it, at the same time we want to get along with Russia, we want to get along with China, we want to get along with all these countries. Who the hell needs to have conflict? But these people are sick, they are sick people. The radical left's attempts to poison our democracy and overturn the last election have totally ended in a big fat failure. Donald Trump: (18:55) And by the way, you saw today, single best day I've ever had is the polls and any poll that the fake news gives you, because the real numbers are higher, but any poll they give you as a fake. But Wisconsin, the great state of Wisconsin, I was leading by many, many, many points against every one of these characters. Can you believe it? We got a new one. Mini Mike. How did he do in the debate the other day? Mini Mike. Here's a box Mike. Here Mike. Mini Mike. He was a beauty. Donald Trump: (19:38) What happened huh? He couldn't breathe. What happened? Mike would like to know how about that Pocahontas screaming at him. She forgot. She forgot that she lied about her own heritage. She said she was an Indian because she had high cheekbones. That was the only thing. Remember what I said, I have more Indian blood in me than she has and I have none. Right? I have none. To the best of my knowledge, wouldn't mind having some, but I happen to have none. And she choked and she went out and got a report done. One, 1 thousandth and 24 you know what that means? That means probably I do have more. Now why did he bring that up when she was screaming at him? Why? Because he was gasping for breath. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. She's hitting me too hard. Pocahontas. Well, she won that debate cause Mike could not respond. Crowd: (20:59) [inaudible 00:00:20:55]. Donald Trump: (21:05) That's what they all said. They all said that. That's funny. I won, they're all shouting. It's not me that's saying it. Fake news. You fake news people. No, they all said it though. Who won the debate? Trump. You know what? The way I look at it, when fake news CNN oops, there goes the camera off. Red light just went off. See, I can tell every one of them. I know them by heart. I know the operators. I know the camera men. They're okay. They're all on our side by the way. They're screamed at. Get that camera off. I don't want to do that. Get that camera off, or it's going to be you job. All right, I'm sorry. Precedent. Donald Trump: (21:58) But how bout MSDNC? They're worse than CNN. And they're owned by people that really are bad. I think they're very bad for our country. The owners of Comcast, rotten company, bad for our country, very bad. They try, they have all these PR things to try and keep their image nice and clean. What they do on television is so disgusting. I think in the old days you had to have licenses for this stuff, right? They can say whatever they want to say. Let's see what happens over the next period of time. Bunch of dishonest people. Comcast, terrible company. Terrible people running that company. And you know what, I had Celebrity Apprentice, I had the Apprentice on for 14 seasons, 14 seasons, and they used to come to my office and they would kiss my ass. Please sign. Please. Please sign. Donald Trump: (23:05) It's an interesting story. They came and we signed, you know who signed me, Jeff Zucker. It's one of the only things he's done good in broadcasting, but I signed and NBC, as you know, is owned by Comcast, but I signed and they figured the show would be a total failure. So they only signed me for one season. You know I was going to have it. It was go on and then the show goes, started at ten went to eight, went to seven, went to five, went to four, went to two. It went to one. I had the number one show in all of television. Number one. It was a phenomenal and the final episode, remember that? With the, you remember that? Do you remember the final? We had, I don't know, it was one of the biggest shows of the year. It was a tremendous success there. Donald Trump: (23:58) But here I was, I signed with NBC and they didn't even want to waste the ink on an option. Usually they have an option for not, you know, just like they didn't do it. You stupid people. So they paid me very little for the first season I think $25,000 a show, which is considered not good. That's okay. It was fun. I didn't know it was going to be success, you know? Hey, just like this was successful. It's a recent. Donald Trump: (24:27) Because when I left and Arnold Schwarzenegger and I like Arnold said some very nice things, so I'm not, but the show did not exactly succeed when I left, but I had it on and they wanted me to sign for more and I said, no, I'm going to run for president but I'll never forget. Donald Trump: (24:46) I looked at, I didn't know anything about this business and I had an agent, wonderful guy from William Morris, and he said, sir, I don't want you to sign. No business show has ever done well on network television. Well, it's not business, it's entertainment, celebrity. Sir, I don't want you to sign. Sir, don't sign. I said, yeah, okay. But I have a problem. I shook the hand of somebody I have to. Donald Trump: (25:11) And Mark Burnett was great. He was my guy and but we shook hands. So I have to, but I agreed, you know, I didn't know that no business or no business type show had ever succeeded on a network television. So he said, I don't want you to sign sir, break it. I said, I can't break it. Can't break it. Anyway, so the show I said started at ten, went to nine, went to became, it was the number one show all of a sudden, and the agent called me up and he said, sir, I remember it was six in the morning. I was in bed. He said, sir, the show just went to number one. I'd love to see you because I think I'm entitled to more money. I said, you didn't want me to do the show. Well, not really. I mean, I was okay. He said, I'd really like more money. I said, Jim, I like you very much, Jim, you're fired. Get out. Donald Trump: (26:07) Anyway, I had 14 great seasons over about 11 years because it was so successful, they kept. They would have run it. Remember when they did the three hours, the whole night was the Apprentice. I said, wait a minute. Gone With the Wind, to mention the movie a second time, Gone With the Wind is shorter. They had the Apprentice on for three hours. I said even I think it's too long. You can't put it up for three. You got leave a little bit like I want to come back next week. Donald Trump: (26:33) But they had it on for three weeks. We did fantastically with it. Comcast did great. NBC did great. They wanted me to sign for another three years. I said, no, I'm going to for president. And that was actually the time when I knew I was going to run. Because you know how they were paying a lot of money and whether you're rich or not, it's still a lot of money. I don't care how rich you are. It's a lot. Millions and millions of dollars. And I said no, I'm going to run for president. And I did that. But from the day I ran, they went from being, you know one. Donald Trump: (27:03) But from the day I ran, they went from being wonderful, they were nice. They were nice. I guess if I didn't do well with the show they wouldn't have been nice because they weren't nice to other people that failed. People that didn't have good ratings, that business is a very simple business. If you have good ratings, you can treat them like garbage. If you have bad ratings, you can say, "Sir, I really respect you so much." Donald Trump: (27:25) Get out of here. Get him out of my yard. They're very ruthless people. But Comcast is a rotten company. They forgot totally. And they are worse than CNN. I will tell you that right now. Comcast is worse than CNN. We should call it Comcast, because that's their beautiful maiden name, Comcast. They're worse than CNN. Donald Trump: (27:49) I'll, tell you something about CNN. Jake Tapper, today he put out. Now I know you don't like him. I know. Who likes him? Who the hell can like him? I think his wife likes him. Actually. I really believe she does. But let me just tell you, he put out a couple of social media posts today, because I never call it tweet, I call it social media because it's much bigger than tweet. Donald Trump: (28:10) What we have, Dan Scavino. The great Dan Scavino. We have won five sites. We're number one on Twitter, we're number one on Facebook, and the whole world. The whole world. So it's powerful. But Jake Tapper put out some things, basically saying, I believe it, that's the way I read it, that the new Russian thing that started yesterday, that Putin wants to be sure that Trump, which give me a break. Give me a break. But Jake Tapper said it ain't so, and if he did say that because they were a little complex, they can turn them around, or when Zucker sees him and said, "Why did you put that? I want that deleted and I want you to do a different one." But he did say that. So I respect that because it's another hoax story. But we're standing up for the defense of our constitution, for our freedom, and democracy itself. You know that. Donald Trump: (29:03) [inaudible 00:29:03] I got to get that. Hey, Bobby? Bobby? See that guy? I love that shirt. Bobby, I don't know. He looks like a nice guy. Can you please walk him up, even if you have about five. Come here, come here. Come here. Come here. You got to see this shirt. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Donald Trump: (29:29) I've got to order me one that I can ride around. Come on. Come on up here. He looks safe. He doesn't look like he's going to start a fist fight. He's a good fan, I guess. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Is there any place that's more fun than a Trump rally? Right? Donald Trump: (29:52) How many rallies have you been to? Crowd: (29:53) [inaudible 00:29:55]. Donald Trump: (30:01) 80? 80? 80. He said 80 rallies. Come up here. Come on. Come on. Come on. Look at these two guys. These guys are serious. These are serious fans, right? Are you with him? Are you with him? Are you with him? You're with him? Speaker 2: (30:19) Come on up, baby. Donald Trump: (30:19) Come on. Come up here. Man. Crowd: (30:20) Hello again, sir. We met yesterday at your rally [inaudible 00:03:34]. Speaker 3: (30:34) I've been to two rallies in one week, so I'm just getting started. I'm just getting started. Crowd: (30:34) Welcome. [inaudible 00:30:40]. Donald Trump: (30:40) And look at this guy Come on. Speaker 4: (30:52) God bless you. Thank you, president. [inaudible 00:30:53] Thank you for saving America. Donald Trump: (30:52) Thank you, fellas. Speaker 2: (30:56) We love you. You saved us. You saved us, thank you. Crowd: (30:58) Thank you, president Trump, for saving America. [inaudible 00:31:01] Donald Trump: (31:13) Wow. I just said, "How long have you two been together?" I figured they'd say, "We're married." He met her at the rally in Colorado. Can you believe this? Can you believe it? Man, did he get lucky. They both got lucky, right? They both got lucky. Well, that's cool. No, I just see there's so much stuff out here. It's genius, actually. While the extreme left has been wasting America's time with viral hoaxes, we've been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. As you heard, we added another 225,000 new jobs last month alone. Way above anticipated schedule. And that makes 7 million new jobs since the election. The number was supposed to be under 2 million and we added 7 million. And remember, if I give you wrong numbers, the fake news is going to have headlines. Donald Trump: (32:28) "Trump gave you wrong." I mean, it's very tough. I've got to be very careful. Even if I give you wrong in the wrong way, they'll say it was wrong. I said, "Yeah, but it was wrong in the low way." No, that's no good either. Got to be very precise with these characters. The Democrats don't have to be, but we have to be. We've destroyed he ISIS territorial caliphate 100%, we killed the founder and leader of ISIS. Al Baghdadi is dead. Al Baghdadi is dead. 17 years. They looked for him. 17 years. Donald Trump: (33:17) Al-Baghdadi. One of the first things I did when I came in. He's the founder of ISIS and when I came in three years ago, ISIS was all over the place. And I said, "You got to knock it out." We knocked it out of Syria, and, Iraq and other places. We really knocked at 100%. Donald Trump: (33:35) Remember I wanted to leave. I said, "All right." We were at 96%, then 98, then 99%. I said, "Let some of these other countries do it." Wouldn't you say, right? So what happened is I wanted to leave and they said, "No, no, no, we want 100%." So we wait and stayed. We got 100%, then we moved them all out of Syria, except we did keep the oil. You noticed that, right? We kept the oil. Sorry. They said, "He left soldiers in Syria." Yeah, I did to keep the oil, if you don't mind. Which is what we should have done in Iraq too, by the way. Donald Trump: (34:07) I would have done that. I'm making a lot of money with all that oil. But you remember that whole thing, that whole. I said, "You got to find Al Baghdadi." I've been saying that actually for two years. I had a lot of other things to do the first year, like fight off the Democrats. These crazy Democrats with their hoaxes. Think of it. Donald Trump: (34:30) If they use their genius, because they are genius at that stuff, right? They're really good. They can take nothing. They can take a perfect phone call made to the Ukrainian president who said very specifically there was no pressure. He doesn't even know what's going on and they can take this perfect call. Thank goodness I had a transcriber. Do you agree with it? Because the fake whistleblower said that the call was totally different than what the call was. Donald Trump: (34:59) So when I released the call, when I released the transcripts, they died. They said, "Oh we got a problem." They never thought I was going to do it, but I had no choice. I had to because I had to show they're liars. But think of it, they can take something like that, a perfect phone call, or they'll take just out of thin air they can make something up. Donald Trump: (35:19) And they ended up today, front page, New York Times. They used to call it the eighth column. That's the big column on the right. I don't know. The papers become so small. I don't know if they have an eighth column anymore. They used to have the eighth column, was a big deal, right? That was the big deal. Today it's too narrow. Think they're probably. After I'm gone, they won't have any columns. That's why eventually they're going to support me. Donald Trump: (35:42) Eventually, the Times and the Washington post, which will be dead as a doornail after I leave, and the CNN, it'll be an obsolete business, the cable business. MSDNC will be out of business. You know, cable was supposed to be obsolete and now they're doing the highest numbers they've ever done. If an airplane goes down with 700 people, they don't cover it. If it's not Trump related, they don't cover it. It's got to be Trump or Trump related. So if a plane goes down and it's total devastation, if the ship goes down, if the Titanic- Speaker 5: (36:18) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:20) If the Titanic equivalent went down, they wouldn't cover it unless I was on the sucker. It's true. They wouldn't cover it. The fake news would not cover the equivalent of the Titanic. Speaker 5: (36:33) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:35) But you know what they're going to do before the election? They're going to say, "We want to just say something. We're going to endorse the president." You know why? Because they'll be out of business. Can you imagine if they had to cover mini Mike? Who I don't think, I think he's gone, but you know what? He'll spend another 500 million. Don't forget I spent 70 and I won, of my money. In other words, they said, and this was in the New York Times, I said the other night in Colorado. Donald Trump: (37:04) I spent 70, mini Mike so far has spent almost $500 million dollars in order to get embarrassed by Pocahontas. Pocahontas. And she's mean, isn't she? Did you see that? Do you see the anger on her face? That nervous energy. She's jumping up and down. She's a mess. But no, no, she's mean. Right? Right? That face is just. "You want to get him?" She said, "I got him. I want to see those agreements." "I," "You open up those agreements." This poor guy probably signed a hundred of them and each one's a disaster. He said, "I don't want to open those agreements. Nobody told me this was going to happen." Donald Trump: (37:53) Said, "Actually, sir." "Nobody told me. Get me out of here." After the debate, he went backstage, fired a lot of people. He said, "How the hell did you get me into this thing?" But Pocahontas was really mean, but she's going to be easy. I hope it's her. It's not going to be her. Donald Trump: (38:19) She made a little comeback the other night because she took mini Mike to the cleaners. But it's not going to be here. It can't be [inaudible 00:11:28]. Can't be, I don't think. Alfred E. Neuman, ladies and gentlemen, introducing president Alfred E. Neuman. Nobody knows because you're all too young. Nobody knows who Alfred. it's Mad Magazine. Donald Trump: (38:46) They all said. No. Howdy Doody. See nobody knows who Alfred E. Neuman is. Only the real aficionados. They're the ones and they love it. But that's only 15% of the crowd, right? Am I right? Better than Howdy Doody. Howdy Doody. Donald Trump: (39:02) But he's got to learn. He's got to worry about his own city. It's going to hell, so he's got to worry. Because that city's got a lot of problems. I don't get the whole thing, but he's not a bad debater, I will say. He's probably the best up there. And Bernie is too emotional. He's screaming, going crazy. And Biden is angry. Biden is angry. Everything's anger. [inaudible 00:39:26] And that's what happens when you can't get the words out. No it does. Donald Trump: (39:35) That's what happens, right? When you can't get the words out, you get angry. You get angry because you can't get the words. That might happen to me someday. Can you imagine if that happened to me? Man, would I be a bad guy. I'd be the meanest man in history. No, but Biden is very angry. Donald Trump: (39:52) He gets angrier, and angrier, and angrier. He's changed. And then you have the Tom. Yeah. He said Tom Steyer. Tom said, " Mister impeachment." How did that work out, Tom? Thank you very much for the great poll numbers between him and nervous dancing. Donald Trump: (40:09) How did that work out? This schmuck spends $250 million dollars, he ends up with one third of a percent in Iowa. But maybe that could be Rick, because they still don't have any idea what he got. Maybe he won Iowa, they took it away from him. No, but he was substantially below it. All I know, it said 1% and an arrow left. Donald Trump: (40:31) So he spends 250 million, Tom Steyer. Never heard of this guy. Who is he? Where did he get his money? Who is he? He was in the coal business, did you know that? This guy, this phony is a big environmentalist. He made his money, a lot of it, in the coal business. Nobody knows that, but he's a fake. Donald Trump: (40:48) Remember when he walked up to Bernie the other day. "Hi Bernie. Hi." Oh, and he was having a fight with Pocahontas, right? Is this the greatest? Mark Burnett said, "This is the greatest reality show in history." He said, "You can take The Apprentice, and you can take Survivor, and you can take every other reality show ever made, multiply it times 10,000, and you still don't have what we have. And even the CAS." He did say this. You got the perfect president. You got the perfect first lady. How about the first lady? You got the perfect kids. The kids, though. Those beautiful kids. My beautiful kids. They had such a great life, before I did this. Sorry, kids. Sorry. My beautiful Ivanka. She had such a great life. She Had a company that was selling shoes and everything you could sell. She'd just put her name on it and she said, "Daddy, does it matter? I want to come to Washington and help people get jobs." Donald Trump: (42:02) Right? Ain't that true? And she left the company. And when you leave a company, all of a sudden it doesn't do as well. I wouldn't say that I exactly helped talking about the wall and other things, but she left the company, came to Washington and she said 500,000 jobs. That was her goal. And she did that in the first month. She actually did. Donald Trump: (42:29) She's gotten these great companies like Walmart, and many others, Exxon, she's gotten them to take millions of people. She's now over 15 million jobs where they train people and bring them into the companies. It's incredible. 15 million. And she's smart. She got it figured out, but most people can't, but she does. But all they do is give them heat. They work so hard. And could you imagine you take Biden's son. Can you imagine? Donald Trump: (43:10) I deal with all these big companies and these great, great countries. I think I could get my sons 25 board chips for millions of dollars a piece. My kids would be [inaudible 00:43:21]. But you know what? We don't do any of that stuff. We don't do that stuff. We don't do it. The kid got $3 million dollars, 83,000 a month and he didn't have a job until his father became vice president. And speaking of vice presidents and speaking also of reality television, because it's the greatest show of all time, right? Look at us. Look. Donald Trump: (43:48) We told you, what, last night? Little change here, folks. We're going to move it up from eight o'clock in the evening until 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Little change. Just a minor change. Because I have to get back to Washington to work. I feel guilty. This is too much fun. But speaking to vice presidents and speaking of perfect vice presidents, if you become president, the first thing you have to do is choose a really horrible, horrible vice president. So if the idiots ever want to impeach you, they have to say, I can't impeach him. Look who we have. I have the perfect vice president. I have the greatest in the world. I have the greatest vice president. Donald Trump: (44:39) I don't know. I got the great ones. I said, "I can't do that." I picked a great guy. He's done a fantastic job. He's been a great vice president. But it is true. I could have picked, I'll give you names, but don't want to do that because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But there are plenty of them out there. Donald Trump: (44:51) They're mostly out there and I don't want to do that. But Mike Pence has been great. But tell me, is it perfect casting the whole thing? And this isn't about casting, this is about real life. But when Mark Burnett said to me the other day, he said, "The greatest reality show of all times, times of million." That's exactly except for one thing, we work our asses off and we are doing things like nobody has ever done before. Donald Trump: (45:19) Right? Right? So, we took out Al Baghdadi and then we just took out two weeks ago the world's top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani of Iran, ending his evil reign of terror forever. He's the father of the roadside bomb. When you see our beautiful people walking around with no legs, they're walking, and trying to walk so hard, and they're really in rough shape. Donald Trump: (46:01) Incredible the job that doctors do at Walter Reed and some of these hospitals. And they get them to a point where sometimes they really can, they walk around, but it's hard. And they lose legs, and they lose arms. That was [inaudible 00:46:14] he's the father of the. he loved the roadside bomb. He thought it was a great thing. Where is he now? Donald Trump: (46:24) Soleimani. And I'll tell you what, you know who's happy about it? The people of Iran are happy and even the leaders of Iran, because the leaders of Iran were afraid of him. Okay? And the fact is, America is respected again. We're winning. We're winning all over. We're winning in Washington that Democrats keep losing their minds. That is why millions of registered Democrat voters are leaving their party to join our movement. Donald Trump: (46:57) It's not even a party, it's a movement. They're joining the Republican party. It's true. We have a lot of. Look at the energy in this room. They're all [inaudible 00:47:10]. They're all [inaudible 00:47:13]. Look, we're a unified party. The Republican party has never been unified like it is today. Donald Trump: (47:22) I'll show you. I could say, "We're going to go over to the Hill. No, we're going to go over to someplace and we're going to do a rally at eight o'clock tonight." We'd have tens of thousands of people there. There's never been this. Ronald Reagan was great. I thought he was a great guy, great president, didn't like his policy on trade. That's okay. Trade. Donald Trump: (47:42) But if he came to Las Vegas, you know they'd have a ballroom, and they'd have 500, maybe a thousand people. What we're doing. And this isn't even, I must say this, I don't want to tell you this, this is not election season. Because we're nine months away. Election season is when you're two months away. We're not even in election season and we have more enthusiasm now. Believe it or not, then we had even before the election in 2016. It's true. It's too early. It's too early. It's true. We have a great gentleman and a woman with us, a friend of mine, mister and misses Sheldon Adelson, right over here. Great, great person. Two great people. He's got so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. He owns the Sands Hotel. That's like one of the smaller businesses. Donald Trump: (49:05) Sheldon, that's like your small business, right? He is a great guy. She's an incredible, she's a doctor, and she studies addiction, and drugs, drug addiction, all sorts of addictions. And she knows more about that subject, I think, than anybody, and she works hard and she doesn't need it. He does not need the money that she brings in. Okay? Donald Trump: (49:25) He also happens on the paper. He owns the paper. You own the paper in town, right? They wanted like a couple of hundred million dollars too much. You said, "Give it to them. It's peanuts. What the hell difference does it make? We want to thank the Adelsons. They've been incredible fans and they love Israel. They love Israel. I just saw him sitting there. I didn't know they were here. I just see him sitting there. He's something. Speaker 6: (49:54) [inaudible 00:49:56]. Donald Trump: (49:56) The chairman of the Nevada Republican party, who's really been great. He's been with me for a long time and he's a very committed man. Make America great again. Oh, oh, oh. Let's do a poll quick. Just quick. I'll never get rid of MAGA because I'm superstitious. But we just hit an all time high with the stock market. Our military is rebuilt. You just got the greatest tax cuts in history, the greatest rate, regulation cuts, and all this stuff. So, let me ask you this. Donald Trump: (50:29) So, "Make America great again," it sort of doesn't work quite as well. So now we have keep America great and we have the new hat. It's higher, stiff. It's like a billboard, right? I call it the billboard. It's a billboard. So let's go just that. Because I am very surprised by it. We're going to keep them both, but I just curious if we did go to one, "Make America great again?" " Keep America great?" Donald Trump: (51:03) I can't. I would have said that's impossible. "Make America great again," is the greatest phrase. A lot of people, again, fake news, I think will agree to it. It's the greatest phrase ever used in politics. It's the greatest phrase. Now, who has the greatest phrase ever used in the history of politics and say, "Oh, let's go with a new phrase." Right? Donald Trump: (51:40) But we're going to keep it. So we have to keep MAGA. But now we have CAG, now we have CAG. So we have a both. I just don't have the courage to get rid of the one. It would be too disrespectful. Too disrespectful. But Michael McDonald, I want to thank you and the members of the Nevada Republican central committee. You're all here. They're great people. And the man came here. He loves us. He's been with us. Rick Harrison of the world famous gold and silver pawn shop. Rick Harrison. Donald Trump: (52:22) You better win, Michael. Otherwise, that's the last time I'm introducing you like that. I hear we're up. I hear we're doing nicely. I hear we're doing great. And by the way, the union, I have a lot of respect for that union. Last time, I had a strike in my building during the election. It's the only reason we would have won this state. Brilliantly to save three cents. I could have settled the strike before the election. I wanted to save $2 total. Donald Trump: (52:49) That was a brilliant move. And then we had some guy running. A guy named [inaudible 00:25:55]. And he wasn't too good. He didn't do too good. But we almost won this state despite. I had a big strike. Had thousands and thousands of union guys. They had it, look, they wanted, wanted to show us. But I think that the unions are really with us and the unions have been with us. They're Teamsters, so many of the unions. Donald Trump: (53:16) Because I'm for the working man and woman, whether you're union or non-union. Some States are all union, some states are no union. But we get them all. And I think we're going to have tremendous success. And a lot of the Democrats are going to ruin the healthcare programs that these unions have. The unions have worked hard on healthcare and they're going to ruin them. Donald Trump: (53:38) They're going to take away. Well, we're going to. you can lose 180 million people off of great private healthcare. So we'll see what happens. But a lot of the Democrats want to do that. They think it's wonderful. But together we're building the world's most prosperous economy and the most inclusive society. That's true. Since my election, over 125- Donald Trump: (54:02) That's true. Since my election, over 125,000 new jobs have been created right here in Nevada, including over 40,000 new Nevada manufacturing and construction jobs. A 30% increase. The national unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century, and soon we're going to have that be a historic number like so many of the others. The average unemployment rate for my administration, this is the coolest of them all, is the lowest for any United States president in recorded history. That's pretty good. When I'm in a debate, they're saying, "we're going to do this." I say, "listen, we have the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country." African American unemployment, Hispanic American. Hispanic, we got a lot of Hispanic. I love Hispanic. Who in this audience is Hispanic? Yeah, we're doing great. Well, we should be doing great. You have the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded. Asian Americans, likewise the lowest ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest rate in 71 years. African American youth unemployment has reached an all time historic low. People I love, people I might've helped more than anybody because of choice and accountability. The veteran's unemployment rate drop to the lowest record. Lowest in history. Donald Trump: (56:02) The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all time historic low and you got to remember they're back there checking every word. They're going," oh, my god. He's right." I can't say it because I got all these maniacs back there. They're trying to find. "He put the comma in the wrong place. He didn't make that word plural, therefore he lied." Now I've got to be very accurate because all these numbers, they check them out. "They're in there, checking them out. Check on the African American unemployment, please." Please tell me it's not historic. These people are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Not all of them. Workers without a high school diploma. We have millions of people that didn't go through high school. They left. They had problems, good problems, bad problems, families where they don't have the money. They didn't get a high school diploma. They've achieved the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded in the history of the United States. Donald Trump: (57:14) Those are important groups of people. Half a million more Hispanic Americans now own a home. Now, Hispanic have done so good. And by the way, you know who understands the border, because we are building that wall like crazy. Remember, they also said, "if you build the wall you'll lose the Hispanic vote." I said, "I got to do what's right. You know who understands the border better than anybody? You know who understands crime at the border better than anybody? The Hispanics understand it and they don't want to be working and have people come and take their job. Have people come in where they can't pay for their house, have people come in who are very bad people." You have some very bad people. You have murderers and rapists, and we have set all sorts of records at the border, but we're up to 122 miles of wall, and it is true. The people that understand it the best are Hispanic. So, thank you. We got to make our country safe. We've lifted 10 million people off of welfare. Median household income is now the highest ever recorded in our country. Think of that. I say it all the time. President Bush, eight years, $450. President Barack Hussein Obama, eight years, $ 975. President Donald John Trump, three years. It's actually less when they did the numbers. Three years, including the big tax cuts that we got you and the regulation cuts. Three years. Donald Trump: (59:22) So, you had 450, 975, that's eight and eight. Now we're down to three years, a little less, three years, $ 10,000 per family a year. 10,000 a year. Our historic regulatory reduction campaign is restoring American liberty and ending the tyranny of federal bureaucrats. I deal with them. They're not good. It's called the swamp. We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, reducing your prices. Part of that number is all of the money that we save at the pump and on electric. I also recently took action on an issue Nevada has been dealing with for over 30 years. Yucca mountain. You know Yucca mountain? My budget stops funding for the licensing of waste storage at Yucca mountain, so that we can focus on positive solutions and for much better reasons and alternatives. Why should you have nuclear waste in your backyard? I won't say which countries, but you know what other countries do? I will not say which ones. Donald Trump: (01:00:49) They put it on a ship. They float it out into the middle of the ocean. They find a nice deep spot and they dump it. That's the end of it. But we would never do that for environmental reasons. We are reversing decades so Yucca mountain. You're okay, please. Okay. Just relax. Sheldon, do you have somebody at your newspaper back there who can write. Yucca mountain, please. He'll call up, "Yucca mountain is okay." That's the end of that. So Yucca mountain, you're in great shape. Maybe they can finally report it properly, but we're reversing decades of calamitous trade policies. For years, Washington politicians took money from lobbyists, global corporations and corrupt special interest to ship our jobs and factories and all of this stuff and all of this wealth. They stole our wealth. They shipped it overseas and to other countries. America lost one in four manufacturing jobs following the twin disasters of NAFTA and China's entrance into the WTO, the world trade organization. Probably an even worse deal for us than NAFTA, if that's possible, but under my administration, the great betrayal of America is over. America is no longer for sale. Last month we ended the NAFTA catastrophe and I signed the brand new U.S., Mexico, Canada agreement USMCA. See, we played the song YMCA because that's the only way you'll remember. Just think of the song YMCA. Think of the song and you'll remember that USMCA is a gigantic victory for farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers all across the great state of Nevada. I also took the strongest ever action to confront China's massive theft of America jobs. Our strategy worked. Last month, we signed a ground breaking trade agreement. Probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property and boost American exports by a lot. China will be buying $250 billion worth of goods from us now and 50 billion from our farmers. My guys wanted 16, I said, "make it 50." My guys wanted 16, they got China up to 20. I said, "Nope. Got to make it 50," and then I said to China, "you got a billion and a half people. What difference does it make?" They said, "you're right." 50 billion, I don't think our farmers can produce that much, but we're going to soon find out. They're going to buy very large tractors. After years of building up other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. we are finally putting America first. Donald Trump: (01:04:26) Or no issue of Washington Democrats more thoroughly sold out the American people than the issue of immigration. Before I came into office, the far left's policy of open borders allowed deadly drugs to flow freely into our country, poisoning our children, including right here in a very big way. The great state of Nevada. Washington Democrats put the needs of illegal immigrants before the wellbeing of American citizens. You know that, you've been complaining about it for a long time. It's one of the reasons you voted for Trump. They want to let anyone from around the world simply walk across the border and then they want to give them a lifetime of free welfare, of healthcare, of lots of other things, including education. All paid for by the taxpayers of the United States. Illegal immigration costs Nevada taxpayers, think of it, more than $1.6 billion every year, over $1,500 per household. For the amount of money Washington Democrats want to spend supporting illegal immigrants, we could rebuild every city, all of these distressed areas in the United States, throughout our country. The money spend, it's not even thinkable and don't forget when we say come, like in California the clown, he says, "come, we'll give you free healthcare." People that weren't even thinking about coming. That's why we have caravans of people that we're turning back. Mexico's been great. By the way, they gave us 27,000 soldiers on our border. Donald Trump: (01:06:16) But when a governor, nice guy actually, he's a nice guy. We just got to explain the facts of life. He's a nice guy. Oh doctor, please. Doctor in the house, please. Medical, please. A doctor. Thank you. Take your time. We've got plenty of time. Yeah, take your time please. A lot of these people have been here for three days. It's a lot. Those front row people are tough. Take your time, doc. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, doctor. That's true. They get here so. They stand and sit and sometimes days early. In Colorado, they're there three, four days early. It's tough. And we work it and make sure that you have everything you want. Number one, we cover the facts and number two, we want to have a good time because we have to have a good time. But things like that happen a lot because after two, three days, it's not easy and these are strong people. I'm not going to fight any of them, okay? Donald Trump: (01:10:05) Now, amazing people. Thank you very much. Under my administration, we're finally taking care of our own citizens first, including millions of illegal immigrants who follow our laws, pay their taxes, lift up our society, and are entitled to a government that protects their families and protects their communities. Every day, Democrats' open border policies are harming and killing innocent people. You know what's happening, you know what's going on. In this region alone last year, ICE officers, and they're patriots. They're strong, tough patriots. If we didn't have them. They remove thousands and thousands of MS13 gang members a year and plenty of others. Who else is going to do it? ICE officers arrested over 5, 000 criminal aliens charged or convicted of dangerous offenses, including robbery, rape, and even murder. Many murders. In Western Nevada, an illegal alien was charged with robbing and brutally executing four victims last year. Right here in Las Vegas, three MS13 gang members abducted a man, tied him up with his shoelaces, shot him repeatedly, and hacked him to death with a machete. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It's right here in your place, in Las Vegas, right here. Tied up and hacked him to death. Yet left wing politicians oppose all detention of illegal aliens, even convicted criminals and murderers, and they support deadly sanctuary cities. I say this all the time and I just. How the hell, where are they coming from? I don't get it right. Seriously, I don't get it. Sanctuary cities imperil American lives by releasing dangerous criminal aliens directly into your communities. If you want to shut down sanctuary cities, if you want to protect your family and your loved ones, you must vote Republican in 2020. And you have some great ones here, Michael. Thanks to our tireless efforts to secure the border, we have reduced illegal border crossings eight straight months in a row. And as the wall gets longer, it gets easier and easier. Remember when the Democrats were saying, "you don't need a wall." Two things that never change, right? All these computers, they said, "use drones." Oh great, we'll fly over with drones. Watch the people pour in by the thousands. That's great. Use drones. Before I came along, they all wanted a wall. They just didn't know how to build it. They had no clue. They had the money, they actually gave the money back, but they had no clue. But as soon as I came in and I said, "Wall," they went against and I made a terrible mistake. Donald Trump: (01:13:22) They always say I never admit mistakes. I do, but I'll admit a mistake now. I should have said, we will never, ever under any circumstances build a wall. They would have given me so much money for a wall, you have no idea. They would've forced me to build it. I made a terrible mistake, right? Terrible mistake. If it ever happens again, which it won't. This wall is one of a kind. They will say, "we will not build a wall," and they'll say, "we demand that you build a wall," and it would have been so easy. Illegal crossings are down 75% since last spring and we have ended catch and release. A horrible [inaudible 00:01:14:08]. Donald Trump: (01:14:06) We catch them. You know the story. They come over, could be a killer, murderer, rapist. They come over. We can't do anything. We have to be politically correct. We catch them. We then say, "what's your address?" They don't know. They don't even know their country in many cases. Where do you come from? We don't know and they mean it, but some are very serious criminals. So, we catch them, we take whatever they can take, which is nothing, and then we had to release them in our country. We can't bring them back. And then we have a system of judges, thousands of judges all over the place. You got to be like Perry Mason and every illegal that comes in, they have the lawyers. The lawyers meet them, they get paid fees, but we're breaking the system. No more catch and release, you think that was easy? And the big thing is that 30 foot. And this wall is built exactly to the specifications of border patrol. Totally. And border patrol has seized the largest amount, just recently, of deadly narcotics ever recorded. The largest amount. We've deported record numbers of gang members. We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history. We are, as I said, building the wall faster than ever. Faster and bigger than anyone thought possible. They can't believe we're getting it done. We'll have over 500 miles of wall built sometime next year. 500 miles. Donald Trump: (01:15:55) Washington Democrats have never been more extreme than they are right now. 132 congressional Democrats have now signed up for Bernie Sanders takeover of healthcare that would strip 180 million Americans, many of them in this room, of their private coverage. Remember president Obama? Remember, he said, "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan." 28 times, he lied, so we should impeach him. We're going to impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. 28 times, "you can keep your doctor," right? Remember, you could keep your doctor. Unfortunately, when they found out you can't keep your doctor, he said, "I was just kidding." Now, we should impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. Fake news, you have it. See, you have to be very careful when you say impeachment because you know what they do? They go back and they write. President Trump said that Obama should be impeached, but he's not in office and so therefore they can't impeach. He doesn't know what he's talking about because he's not in office, so therefore they can't. So, you have to be very careful. That's why I use the word belated impeachment. Belated, meaning I'm just kidding, okay? Donald Trump: (01:17:20) They do it all the time. They had it the other day. I said, "bring back Gone With The Wind," right? I said a little bit up here, but I said the movie the other day in Colorado, I guess. I said, "Huh, South Korean movie won." They said, "ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Academy Award is ." A movie made in South Korea, what's this all about? And I deal with them, they like me. We're helping them a lot. They're killing us on trade. They beat us on trade and then they win the Academy Award for a fricking movie. Donald Trump: (01:17:54) But we redid that trade deal, but the other day they got me on this one too. I said, "whatever happened to Gone With the Wind, that beautiful movie? Vivian Lee, Clark Gable, right? Whatever happened, bring back Gone With the Wind." And some of them wrote, "he doesn't know that that movie was made in 1936." He says fake news. It is fake news, they're fakers. But now, anybody sitting there reading this saying, "man, Trump, can't be that smart. He said bring back Gone With the Wind. That's an old movie." Yeah, it's an old classic. What I say is make great movies, not this computerized garbage. And I was never a fan of Brad Pitt, I will tell you that. Donald Trump: (01:18:48) No, I thought he was a stiff. He was a stiff, it's like a boring guy. All of a sudden he wins the Academy Award, so fitting. Their ratings aren't so good at the Academy Awards. You know when that stopped? When they started attacking us, their ratings went right down the tubers. I told somebody, the evening newscasts, they're terrible for conservative people and they're crooked, they're absolutely dishonest. I said to one of the big broadcasters, I'm friendly with him. I said, "if you ever did a conservative newscasts, instead of. you got, ABC is terrible. NBC is just absolutely atrocious." And they do badly. Not a lot of people are watching. They used to, when we had the late, great Walter Cronkite and these legends, right? But ABC is terrible and NBC is terrible and CBS is terrible. They're all the same. And I said, "your ratings stink. If you would do a newscast that's conservative, I'd get them a host. I could recommend guys right now, right? I'd get them a host. We'll call up. Don't take Sean Hannity away from us. Don't take our show. Donald Trump: (01:20:03) That's my problem, I don't want to take away any of our people. You get a Pete Hegseth. You get a Jesse Waters. You get. I could name so many of them, right? And you put them on that broadcast, their ratings would go up five fold but they don't know that. I don't know. They're stupid. Their ratings would go through the roof, but they would rather have a failed broadcast that nobody watches than put on a conservative person and lift the ratings five times. They would rather have a fail. Seven months ago we had a little skit, and they were hoping the market would crash because they would rather lose their money, or big parts of it, and have a really horrible market on the basis that we, not me, we could not be elected on November 3rd. This is how crazy- Donald Trump: (01:21:03) . on November 3rd. This is how evil, this is how crazy they are. They've gone crazy. I guess you call it Trump derangement syndrome. But if they ever did a conservative broadcast, meaning very fair, very honest When I say that, it's almost like do a fair broadcast. Just a fair broadcast. That thing would be the hottest show. But they don't realize it. And if they do, they probably wouldn't do it anyway because they don't want to go away from what they're doing, which is crazy because it is, they're doing very poorly. Donald Trump: (01:21:30) While the social and socialist Democrats are trying to destroy American healthcare and your Social Security, they're putting it at risk, my administration is protecting your Social Security. Remember they said, four years ago in the debates and you had this crazy woman. I mean, I hate to mention her name. I did it you know, yesterday. I threw all the runs, hates it. Donald Trump: (01:21:59) She's a zero. It's got zero television personality. Aero AB Stoddard, whoever that is. She said, "Donald Trump lost all of his debates." I won every debate and maybe, I don't know maybe one somebody, but I won with tremendous numbers. He says, "You always won." I'm not sure. We try, I'll tell you that and we're winning now. Donald Trump: (01:22:21) But this crazy woman who's got zero going, zero. She said, "Donald Trump lost his debates that he won." You know, she was talking about how badly Benny Mike did. So she said, "Well, Donald Trump." No, I won every single debate. I won them against crooked Hillary. I won them in the primaries like 15 or 16 debates. And for some reason, you know, sometimes you do say, it's not a big deal. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Nobody even knows who she is. I just made her famous, right? Donald Trump: (01:22:49) She's nothing. She's nothing. She's got no talent, got nothing. She's probably got a little drive. That's how she keeps getting on television. Other people don't have her drive. But you know what? I said, "That's really unfair." So I took out the polls, Time magazine, Drudge, good guy, Drudge, Drudge. We took out a lot of different things and we put up the Drudge poll, the Time magazine and many others. And some of them had to be down to like at 91% and they didn't have many people and I can't really show up because many of those people are now great friends of mine. Donald Trump: (01:23:18) Some of them are great Republican senators. I'm not going to show results, but I'm holding it up just quickly glancing. I call it a glancing blow, but we won the debates and I have this fake news person saying, "Donald Trump did very poorly in the debates." I want every debate easily. I never did it before. Remember my first question? I said, "Rosie O'Donnell." That was one of my best answers. Rosie O'Donnell who violated the campaign finance laws as badly as anybody I've ever seen and nothing happens to her. Right? And yet Dinesh violate . He made a little mistake and they want to destroy him. So we pardoned him. We pardoned him. Donald Trump: (01:24:08) By the way, he made a mistake. Rosie O'Donnell. That was a massive violation of the campaign finance laws but Dinesh, Dinesh, they wanted to put him in jail. I don't know. I think he might've even gone to jail for a period of time for doing something that was really very understandable. Rosie O'Donnell. Five times what she did is incredible. Nothing happens. And then she gets on and says, what a bad guy I am. I'm not a bad guy, but it's really a disgrace. You know, it's a disgrace. I'm glad they didn't do anything with it, frankly because you know what to do for something like that. But you know what? We have two sets of justices in this country. It's no good. It's no good. It's no good. You know the thing we're working on right now? We're trying to get fairness for a certain person who's been treated very unfairly. Donald Trump: (01:25:04) A man who had a juror, who was a radical anti-Trump person, and she didn't say that when she went up there and she became the foreperson of the jury and she did terrible things and said terrible things. And you know how they caught her. When he was convicted and then a statement was made, she started jumping up and down screaming, " Yes, yes." And started telling everybody. They said, "Wait a minute. Wasn't she just a juror?" The woman was totally biased. How do you do this? So I fight. Look, I fight. A lot of times it's not worth it, but I got to fight for fairness. Donald Trump: (01:25:44) I got to fight for fairness. Got to fight for fairness. It's a very unfair system. I guess it's called the swamp. When I said drain the swamp, it was a nice phrase. I never liked the phrase. When I was campaigning, somehow the phrase came up, "Sir, I think we have a phrase, drain the swamp." I said, "I don't like it. That's too hokey." But one day I was in a big arena, 25,000 people packed before the election and I said, "And we will drain the swamp." The place went crazy. I said, "Wow, you never know. You never know." Donald Trump: (01:26:22) Frank Sinatra said his best song. I won't tell you which one because I'll ruin it for you, but his best song is the song that he thought would never make it, the song that he liked the least, but he said that's the one that was the most successful that the people like you never know. So I said, "Drain the swamp." And the people went crazy. I said, "Woah." I said, "Let's try that again." And the next time I did it again and again and again. I only didn't know how disgusting and dirty the swamp is and a lot of the media is a big part of the swamp. Donald Trump: (01:26:56) So my administration is protecting your social security, your Medicare, and is fighting to give you great healthcare. We're defending your right to keep your doctor and your plan. We're defending that right. You're going to have that right back. We're going to cancel that Obamacare if we could win the case and we're going to give you great healthcare and we're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before I took office. We're managing it very well. We got rid of the individual mandate, by far the most unpopular thing where you had to pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay for bad healthcare, right? We got rid of it. Donald Trump: (01:27:39) And it was upheld in the Supreme Court, what we did. Whenever we get sued, everything we do, if we move, if we take 10 steps right or left, we get sued and we're now offering plans that are up to 60% less expensive. We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign. Donald Trump: (01:27:54) We're protecting people with preexisting conditions and we always will. That's why if we are successful, you don't want the Supreme Court to try and get rid of this, the caucus. It's a caucus known as Obamacare, but we're running it much better than they did. Remember when they had, this was the greatest, the $5 billion website, right? 5 billion. It was supposed to cost 5 million. I have a son at home. He's 13. He's a genius with computers. Donald Trump: (01:28:23) "Hi, dad. What's up? Dead dad. Get out of here." Donald Trump: (01:28:27) Hey listen. I'm the president of the United States, pal. Don't talk to your dad. "Dad, Come on dad. Can't you see I'm playing with my computer?" The guy talks to me and he's working with his computer. These guys are genius. You know, they grow up with like walking, right? But he's looking at me. I could have given him their healthcare site. He would have done it for nothing and it would have been better than what they have. Donald Trump: (01:28:47) So remember, come on, dad. I'm busy, dad. What do you want? What do you want, dad? Audience: (01:28:54) Barron. Barron. Barron. Barron. Donald Trump: (01:29:04) Barron, woah. Wow, he's going to like that. He's a good boy. He's a tall boy. I'll tell you that. Just turned 13. He's up there. I'm saying, "Hi Barron. How are you doing?" But they're great with the computers. They spent 5 billion. Donald Trump: (01:29:26) Okay. It was going to cost 50. It was going to cost five. It was going to cost 50. Then it was going to .. What was the final number? Five hundreds. The number that they spent, $5 billion. Right? It still doesn't work. They spent $5 billion. Right? And they spent $500 million on all of the problems it caused and we've really straightened it out, but it's still lousy healthcare, Obamacare. And it's really not Obamacare anymore because when you get rid of the individual mandate, it's no longer Obamacare but we're going to terminate it. We're going to give you your preexisting a hundred per- otherwise I won't do it. We're going to give you brand new preexisting and we're going to have a great healthcare that's much less expensive. Audience: (01:30:12) [inaudible 01:30:15]. Donald Trump: (01:30:15) And we're fighting to stop surprise medical bill and Barron's is going to be very happy. I signed an executive order imposing price transparency because when providers are required to show their prices, those same prices fall very fast. You know, a man that does this very professionally is great, into the healthcare business and you have to be careful when you say it, but you know it was just a very strong statement. Donald Trump: (01:30:45) But he said, "Sir, price transparency in hospitals. Where you can bid it out and you can look at the prices. Right now you can't see. If you go to a hospital, they won't even tell you how much it's going to cost. They operate and then they'll give you a bill and you'll say, "Oh my god, I had no idea it could be." They take blood. We have one person, blood $39. Another place, the exact same thing, $2500. Take blood, a blood test. One is $39 one, is $2500. The same test. Maybe the $39 test is better. Who the hell knows? But it's crazy. Price transparency and he looks at me. He goes, and he's a real pro. One of the top in the country. He said, "Sir," and nobody wanted to do it because it's a little bit controversial and a lot of the drug companies don't exactly love it. The hospitals don't love it, but I got to do what's right for you. The people, I don't care, I'm not. I got to do it. Audience: (01:31:37) [inaudible 01:31:39]. Donald Trump: (01:31:41) But he looked at me. And this is why I did it. It was one phrase. You know, do you ever do where you're not going to do something? And then somebody hits you with a perfect phrase. He said, "Sir, price transparency is bigger than healthcare." I said, "What do you mean by that?" He said, "You will see numbers that far outweigh healthcare, hospitals, doctors." He said, "You'll be able to price out everything. You'll be able to see costs." He said, "Price transparency." You know, people you've heard about this for 15, 20 years. No president has the guts to do it. Probably means I won't get campaign contributions from certain people, but I'm not going to get them anyway. Donald Trump: (01:32:24) What the hell difference does that make? I don't want them. I don't want them. I got to do what's right. You know, we're here for a short period of time. Even if it's a long period, it's still a short period and we've got to do so. Price transparency is a big deal. He said it's bigger than healthcare. Think of that. Bigger than healthcare. So let's see what happens. But that'll kick in. Unfortunately, that kicks in after the election because we're going through the final stages. We going through a statutory process, unfortunately. So think of it, we're going to win. Donald Trump: (01:32:53) But let's say the fake news could give me enough phony stories, enough bad stuff that we don't make it. The new president will get all the credit for price transparency and he won't even know what the hell it is. And I took the heat. Isn't that something? But we're going to win. We got to win for that reason alone. Audience: (01:33:15) [inaudible 00:12:17]. Donald Trump: (01:33:18) We've approved a record number of affordable new generic drugs, which are just as good as the name brand drugs, but a fraction of the cost. And that was another one. Tremendous political pressure. Think of it. You own Bayer aspirin. You own all these name name brand drugs that are making so much money. And then the guy comes along said, "I want to make 20 forms of aspirin." They're exactly the same. Exactly. But they don't have a big name on it. Exactly as good. I don't say better. I don't say worse. They're exactly the same. You know, people still, they want to go out and buy the name. You know? I do. I do. You know? Because it's just because we're stupid. No, it's true. They're exactly the same. We're approving so many of the generic drugs, a record number. Nobody's ever approved so much. The drug companies hate it. Donald Trump: (01:34:07) They hate it. Never happened like what we're doing. We also took down the trial periods from 12 years down to five or six years. They'd have a new drug. The thing was obsolete by the time it got approved. We've passed a really spectacular thing that they've been trying to get for 40 some odd years. Right to try. So you don't have to now go if you get, hopefully nobody in this room has those kind of problems. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:34:35) And so now you go and you sign a waiver and you get everything. It's great. If you're terminally ill. If you're very, very sick, you're not going to make it. And you know why they didn't do it? They wouldn't approve it because they didn't want to be sued. And they said, "No, this could be dangerous." They said, "The people are terminally ill, they're going to die. Donald Trump: (01:34:55) Let them use the experimental drugs. Don't wait because they have another four or five years before they can come onto the market." And it turned out we are having such unbelievable results. And you know what else? Some of those drug companies are now like it. That they fought me like crazy because it's really showing if it works there, it's really showing that it works. It's pretty amazing. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:35:15) I hope you don't have to use it. We're combating the opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths have declined for the first time in nearly 31 years and I've launched [inaudible 01:35:30] and this is really something, brand new initiatives combating kidney disease and combating Alzheimer's disease. We've made a lot of progress. We've made a lot of progress, Sheldon and we're pursuing new advances in the neonatal research to care for America's youngest patients, our babies, and breaking all records in so doing. Donald Trump: (01:35:53) All of the radical Democrats in the presidential debates have declared their unlimited support for extreme late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the very moment of birth. This is why in my state of the union address, did you like it? Audience: (01:36:15) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:20) Good. It's a different kind of address. You know, we can go lots of different ways, right? Presidential, not presidential. I was presidential. Totally. You'd have about three people standing here, but I asked Congress to prohibit late term abortion of babies because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. Audience: (01:36:41) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:44) The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total obliteration of your very, very important second amendment. Audience: (01:37:05) Yeah. Boo. Donald Trump: (01:37:05) The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family, the American dream, and the late great Abraham Lincoln, which everybody forgot. Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background, every community, and every single walk of life. We are the party of boundless optimism, excitement, energy, and enthusiasm. We are wealthy, right? Are we enthusiastic? Audience: (01:37:48) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:37:48) You know how many of these I've done in the last four days? People say, "Where the hell do you get your energy?" I say, "Well, the truth is I like what I do and if we weren't getting the results, I wouldn't like it." If we weren't getting the results. If I didn't see the results, I wouldn't like it at all. We're welcoming Americans of all parties and political persuasions to join our incredible movement to make America great again. Donald Trump: (01:38:19) We're a very big party. We are the party of big ideas for the future. Republicans are fighting for school choice because no parent should ever be forced to send their child to a failing government school. Donald Trump: (01:38:39) I passed criminal justice reform to give former prisoners a second chance at life. Was never going to happen. We got it done. This could not have been done by anyone but the Republican party and ourselves. You know the Democrats have tried for years. They couldn't get it done. We got it done. To uphold the rule of law. We are confirmed and this is something they say. Most important thing you can do, judges. I say most important thing is defense. Second is judges. Donald Trump: (01:39:08) A record number of 217 federal judges who will interpret the constitution as written. And we have appointed two great new Supreme court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. I recognized Israel's true capital and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and we recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. We have invested $2.2 trillion to rebuild the United States military, including more than $130 million for Nellis air force base right here. And we just created the sixth branch of the American armed forces, the Space Force, 72 years, 72 years. Donald Trump: (01:40:14) The air force was 72 years ago. We just did a branch. It's a big deal, isn't it? Think of it. A branch, the army, the air force. Think of it. We did a branch. For years you watched as your politicians apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and we are standing up for the people of Nevada. At stake in our present battle is the survival of our nation. If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died for to secure, then we must devote everything we have toward victory in November of 2020 November 3rd. November 3rd. Only this way can we save the America we love and drain the Washington swamp once and for all. With your help, we will lift millions more of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence and poverty to prosperity. Together we will elect a Republican Congress to create a fair, safe, sane and lawful system of immigration. We will continue to enact new trade deals that result in more products proudly stamped with that very beautiful phrase, "Made in the USA." Donald Trump: (01:41:41) We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic within nine years in America. Donald Trump: (01:41:56) And we will land the first woman on the moon and become the first nation in the world to plant its flag on Mars. We will defend privacy, free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. Donald Trump: (01:42:22) And that is under siege in case you haven't noticed. You know, your second amendment is under siege. Just don't worry. Long as I'm here, they're not touching it. Above all, we will never stop fighting for this. Donald Trump: (01:42:38) So true. But we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one America, we support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. We stand with the incredible heroes and they are heroes. We love them, of law enforcement. We believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. We believe that faith and family, not government bureaucracy are the true American way. We believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag. Donald Trump: (01:43:22) And we live by the words of our national motto, in God we trust. From Carson city to Reno to right here in Las Vegas, we stand on the shoulders of red blooded American patriots who poured out their heart, sweat, and soul to secure our liberty and to defend our great, beautiful, lovely freedom, freedom, freedom. Freedom. Donald Trump: (01:43:59) Nevada was founded by pioneers and prospectors, miners and cowboys who tamed the frontier, raised the mighty Hoover dam. That's a beauty. Transformed the barren desert into a shining oasis, lit up the lights of the Las Vegas strip and help to make this the greatest nation ever to exist on the face of the earth. And we are making it greater than ever before. Proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. America is thriving like never before. And ladies and gentlemen of Nevada, the best is yet to come together. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again and we will make America great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Nevada. Thank you, Las Vegas. We love Las Vegas. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Audience: (01:46:16) Yeah.

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1435 WH KAG RALLY TRAVEL POOL CUTS FS26 76 *TIME MARK NOT THE SAME AS OUR TIME STAMPS* Donald Trump: (01:19) Well, thank you very much. And hello Las Vegas. Great to be with you. They have a big election tomorrow. We've already won the state. We've already won. I like ours better. We just take it. Just take it. We've won it. I like it that better. Donald Trump: (01:37) You know they say they're going to have a lot of problems tomorrow. I hate to tell you this. I don't know. Have you heard? I hear their computers are all messed up. Just like they were in Iowa. They're not going to be able to count their vote. They're going to tell you about healthcare. They're going to tell you about our military and the jet fighters and the missiles and rockets, but they can't count votes. They just can't count them. They can't count votes, but they're saying they may not be able to do it again. They're still trying to tell us. I called up yesterday, how are they doing in Iowa? Was that two weeks ago? They say we're getting close. They're not getting close, they'll never know. They'll never know, but I hear the same thing could happen tomorrow. I hope it doesn't, actually. Crowd: (02:22) I love you President Trump. Donald Trump: (02:23) I hope it doesn't, but I'm delighted to be back in a state I love. I have a beautiful building right down the road. With the proud, hardworking patriots of Nevada. You're going to say Nevada. You say that wrong, you got problems. You say Nevada, they go, what the hell? Got to be Nevada. Donald Trump: (02:55) With your help this November, we're going to defeat the radical socialist Democrats and we are going to win Nevada in a big beautiful landslide. Now, we have some special people here, you know the special very special people. Donald Trump: (03:17) And we celebrate one of the greatest moments in the history of sports. Some people say it was the single greatest moment in the history of sports. It was called the miracle on ice. Do you remember that? That was when the Russians had a team assembled. That was probably, they say maybe the greatest team ever assembled. They were unbelievable. And our guys played a practice game with them was it a couple of weeks before, and I hate to tell you the score was 10 to 3, and the USA was not on top, and this team was an incredible team and they went in and it was amazing, but tomorrow marks the 40 years since the United States men's hockey team defeated then Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics. Donald Trump: (04:15) Incredible. That was incredible. Most of you remember that. I'm looking. We've got a lot of young ones, but we've got a lot of people that remember that. A lot of people. And by the way, we got the Olympics coming back or coming to Los Angeles. Thank you. Thank you President Trump. Thank you President Trump. Thank you very much. Thank you President Trump. Eight years. Eight years, 2028 you know what? Unless I'm still president then, which is a distinct possibility, I won't be here, and you know what they'll do? I'll say, how's the Olympics going? Does anybody have a ticket for the president that got the Olympics to come here? They'll say, I want to thank and they'll thank hundreds of people, but they won't thank you president that I'm the one that pulled it off. But that's okay. 2028 Olympics is coming to Los Angeles. It's going to be great. Donald Trump: (05:27) And we worked with the mayor of Los Angeles. He was great. He called up and we gave him a lot of help. I was president elect then because the president didn't want to get involved. He didn't want to get involved in getting the Olympics, so they called me and I was president elect, hadn't taken office. Then I got involved and I'll tell you, they were happy we got involved. It was great. It's going to be very exciting today. Donald Trump: (05:49) We are thrilled to have with us 14 players of that really incredible gold medal team. Give him a big hand. And they were amazed. They said, boy is a big crowd. I said, it's only because you guys are coming. Donald Trump: (06:10) This day was supposed to be for this evening. And I said, let me get back to Washington, do it early. So we gave you almost no notice. You have thousands of people outside, thousands of people inside. You had to see, we were in Iowa we were in New Hampshire. You saw what happened in Colorado last. That was unbelievable. Every place we go it's the same. It's been incredible. Donald Trump: (06:37) I don't know if you saw the pictures last night of the outside in Colorado. It was incredible. It was. You could have filled that arena up four times and it was a big arena, and it's something. Donald Trump: (06:49) So I hated to do it to you at 12 o'clock but I said, let's go. I want to get back. We got to deal with China. We got to deal with Russia. We got to deal with North Korea, South Korea. We got to deal with the rest of the world. Get my people back. We got to get the hell out of here, right? But we have a lot of time. I'd like now to invite these incredible sport legends to join me on stage. A friend of mine and a very good golfer, by the way, Captain Mike he rode a bike. Mike. Where's Mike? Where is he? Mike. Do you know who he is? He's a fake handicap is what he is. Say something Mike. Mike Eruzione: (07:38) Just welcome everybody to ironic we happen to be here to celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Vegas Knights flew the whole team out to honor us tonight and for the weekend and we obviously thank the people of Las Vegas for having us here and we're looking forward to celebrating a special time, and it's a great honor for the president to invite us to be part of this event as well. So Vegas, thanks for having us. Donald Trump: (08:01) But just tell them, am I a good athlete and am I a good golfer? Mike Eruzione: (08:10) You are. Yes sir. Whatever you say. Donald Trump: (08:16) Thanks Mike. That was some goaltending right? How many did you rebuff? Mike Eruzione: (08:23) [inaudible 00:08:24]. Donald Trump: (08:24) I mean, but how many did Jim have? Many did. Mike Eruzione: (08:27) Very few. Donald Trump: (08:28) Very few. But a lot of shots, right? Mike Eruzione: (08:29) A lot of shots. Donald Trump: (08:30) He was like a pinata. Mike Eruzione: (08:33) Yes. Donald Trump: (08:35) So Mike, that was great. Goaltender Jim Craig. So Jim rebuffed come here, Jim. Great goaltender, great goaltender. They didn't know what was happening. They kept shooting. He doesn't know how many you rebuffed. How many did you rebuff? Jim Craig: (08:56) 37. Donald Trump: (09:01) 37. So let me ask you, was that as goaltender, because that was incredible. Was that the greatest game you ever played? You've had a lot of great games. But was that the greatest game you've ever played? Jim Craig: (09:09) It was an important. Donald Trump: (09:10) It was slightly important. 37. 37. Bill Baker. Bill, come up. Bill Baker. Dave Christian, Ken Morrow, Jack O'Callahan, Mike Ramsey. Speaker 1: (09:46) Walk like an old hockey player. Donald Trump: (09:47) Those legs took a beating. Mark Wells, Neil Brotton, John Harrington, Rob McClanahan, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Phil Verchota, and a great coach and assistant coach at the time, Craig Patrick. Crowd: (10:24) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (10:52) They said four more years, 12 more years left for them. Look at that. Look at the press. Hey Mike, look at the fake news back there. It's a lot. I always say that's like the Academy Awards used to be. This year, we had a movie, they said best movie, they announced the movie from South Korea. I said, what's that all about? The movie was made in South Korea. Look, I get along great with South Korea, but you know, I never saw that one before. They used to go best foreign movie, but now we do it that way. Donald Trump: (11:36) I don't get it, but that's what it used to be and this is really an incredible time. I'll tell you what, for our country, that's why I like to see things that we do get honored because nobody is doing what we do. Nobody can do it like us. Donald Trump: (11:50) We're the greatest country in the world again. We have the greatest people. We have the greatest military by far. We've totally rebuilt our military. Jobs are booming, incomes are surging, poverty is plummeting. Factories are returning confidence is soaring, like these guys, the confidence is soaring, but you know, we do have somebody that I'd like to point out because this team is, they had a coach, and that coach was a very inspirational coach, would you say Mike? And I'd like to have maybe one of you come up and just say a few words about Coach Brooks because he was very, very, he was really a big, he was a big heart on this team. Please. Mike Eruzione: (12:41) I think it would be appropriate if you've got a few minutes that Herb Brooks' daughter Kelly is here representing her father. And I can honestly tell you that Kelly was not ready for this at all. You got it? Donald Trump: (13:05) Say something. Mike Eruzione: (13:06) Her dad was an amazing coach. He was a great teacher. He was a great motivator at times, maybe too much of a motivator. He was very demanding. He was very difficult to play for. But trust me on one thing, there never once was a day that we didn't respect the man and never once was a day that we didn't trust him and what he was trying to do. He orchestrated the greatest sports moment of the 20th century and the guys behind me were so proud and honored to have been a part of him and what he was able to put together. It was a perfect environment, a perfect storm sometimes. Not only a great coach, but great players and great people that stand behind me now. So if Kelly would like to say a couple of words. No, she doesn't. Kelly Brooks: (14:02) Thank you. I'm honored that his legacy still is alive today and he would be proud to be here with you all. In my personal opinion, he would have been a Trump fan. Donald Trump: (14:17) So tell me one thing, one thing. So I see those tears. That means you think, you miss him and you love him. Right? Was he actually a nice guy? Because he looked tough. Mike was just saying he was brutal, but he was a good guy, right? Kelly Brooks: (14:37) Right. Donald Trump: (14:38) Tough but great. Thank you very much. Thanks Kelly. Thank you all. Greatest sports story could be number one. Crowd: (15:09) USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. Donald Trump: (15:30) So a lot of people, a lot of these sports experts, sports writers have voted that as the single greatest sporting event or athletic achievement. I think so, yeah? They put it number one, certainly top five. In the history of our country, we have a lot of things that we've done to break records. We're going to go over them, but we've broken a lot of records now, but I want to thank that great team for being with us. Very inspirational. This is a big day. The anniversary. Thank you fellas. Thank you. Donald Trump: (16:04) In my state of the union address, I proudly declare that we are in the midst of the great American comeback and we're just getting started. Donald Trump: (16:18) After three years of ridiculous witch hunts and partisan Democrat crusades. By the way, I think they're starting another one. Did you see that? I see these phoneys. These are the do nothing Democrats. They said today that Putin wants to be sure that Trump gets elected. Here we go again. Here we go again. Did you see it? A story. Aren't people bored? Now, does that include because a couple of weeks ago, crooked Hillary said Chelsea Gabbard, right. Tulsi Gabbard and right? Crowd: (16:54) She was a Russian agent. Donald Trump: (16:56) She was a Russian agent. Tulsi and also Stein from Jill Stein. I don't know Jill Stein. I never met the woman. She is a Green Party candidate or was they said she's an agent of Russia. I don't know her and I don't know Tulsi. The only thing I know about both of them is they're not agent. They are not agents of Russia. These people are sick. That's pencil neck, pencil neck again. Little pencil. No, I just see it again. I was told that was happening. I was told a week ago. They said they're trying to start a rumor. It's disinformation. That's the only thing they're good at. They're not good at anything else. They get nothing done. Do nothing Democrats. That Putin wants to make sure get elected. Listen to this. So doesn't he want to see who the Democrat's going to be? Wouldn't you rather have, let's say Bernie? Wouldn't he rather that Bernie who honeymooned in Moscow? Wouldn't that be? Donald Trump: (18:04) These people are crazy. That's all they think about. They don't think about the country. They don't think about jobs. They don't think about lowering your drug costs. Infrastructure. These people are crazy. Trust me, I like what we're doing and I love this country. I love this country. Donald Trump: (18:30) Now, and I campaigned on it, at the same time we want to get along with Russia, we want to get along with China, we want to get along with all these countries. Who the hell needs to have conflict? But these people are sick, they are sick people. The radical left's attempts to poison our democracy and overturn the last election have totally ended in a big fat failure. Donald Trump: (18:55) And by the way, you saw today, single best day I've ever had is the polls and any poll that the fake news gives you, because the real numbers are higher, but any poll they give you as a fake. But Wisconsin, the great state of Wisconsin, I was leading by many, many, many points against every one of these characters. Can you believe it? We got a new one. Mini Mike. How did he do in the debate the other day? Mini Mike. Here's a box Mike. Here Mike. Mini Mike. He was a beauty. Donald Trump: (19:38) What happened huh? He couldn't breathe. What happened? Mike would like to know how about that Pocahontas screaming at him. She forgot. She forgot that she lied about her own heritage. She said she was an Indian because she had high cheekbones. That was the only thing. Remember what I said, I have more Indian blood in me than she has and I have none. Right? I have none. To the best of my knowledge, wouldn't mind having some, but I happen to have none. And she choked and she went out and got a report done. One, 1 thousandth and 24 you know what that means? That means probably I do have more. Now why did he bring that up when she was screaming at him? Why? Because he was gasping for breath. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. She's hitting me too hard. Pocahontas. Well, she won that debate cause Mike could not respond. Crowd: (20:59) [inaudible 00:00:20:55]. Donald Trump: (21:05) That's what they all said. They all said that. That's funny. I won, they're all shouting. It's not me that's saying it. Fake news. You fake news people. No, they all said it though. Who won the debate? Trump. You know what? The way I look at it, when fake news CNN oops, there goes the camera off. Red light just went off. See, I can tell every one of them. I know them by heart. I know the operators. I know the camera men. They're okay. They're all on our side by the way. They're screamed at. Get that camera off. I don't want to do that. Get that camera off, or it's going to be you job. All right, I'm sorry. Precedent. Donald Trump: (21:58) But how bout MSDNC? They're worse than CNN. And they're owned by people that really are bad. I think they're very bad for our country. The owners of Comcast, rotten company, bad for our country, very bad. They try, they have all these PR things to try and keep their image nice and clean. What they do on television is so disgusting. I think in the old days you had to have licenses for this stuff, right? They can say whatever they want to say. Let's see what happens over the next period of time. Bunch of dishonest people. Comcast, terrible company. Terrible people running that company. And you know what, I had Celebrity Apprentice, I had the Apprentice on for 14 seasons, 14 seasons, and they used to come to my office and they would kiss my ass. Please sign. Please. Please sign. Donald Trump: (23:05) It's an interesting story. They came and we signed, you know who signed me, Jeff Zucker. It's one of the only things he's done good in broadcasting, but I signed and NBC, as you know, is owned by Comcast, but I signed and they figured the show would be a total failure. So they only signed me for one season. You know I was going to have it. It was go on and then the show goes, started at ten went to eight, went to seven, went to five, went to four, went to two. It went to one. I had the number one show in all of television. Number one. It was a phenomenal and the final episode, remember that? With the, you remember that? Do you remember the final? We had, I don't know, it was one of the biggest shows of the year. It was a tremendous success there. Donald Trump: (23:58) But here I was, I signed with NBC and they didn't even want to waste the ink on an option. Usually they have an option for not, you know, just like they didn't do it. You stupid people. So they paid me very little for the first season I think $25,000 a show, which is considered not good. That's okay. It was fun. I didn't know it was going to be success, you know? Hey, just like this was successful. It's a recent. Donald Trump: (24:27) Because when I left and Arnold Schwarzenegger and I like Arnold said some very nice things, so I'm not, but the show did not exactly succeed when I left, but I had it on and they wanted me to sign for more and I said, no, I'm going to run for president but I'll never forget. Donald Trump: (24:46) I looked at, I didn't know anything about this business and I had an agent, wonderful guy from William Morris, and he said, sir, I don't want you to sign. No business show has ever done well on network television. Well, it's not business, it's entertainment, celebrity. Sir, I don't want you to sign. Sir, don't sign. I said, yeah, okay. But I have a problem. I shook the hand of somebody I have to. Donald Trump: (25:11) And Mark Burnett was great. He was my guy and but we shook hands. So I have to, but I agreed, you know, I didn't know that no business or no business type show had ever succeeded on a network television. So he said, I don't want you to sign sir, break it. I said, I can't break it. Can't break it. Anyway, so the show I said started at ten, went to nine, went to became, it was the number one show all of a sudden, and the agent called me up and he said, sir, I remember it was six in the morning. I was in bed. He said, sir, the show just went to number one. I'd love to see you because I think I'm entitled to more money. I said, you didn't want me to do the show. Well, not really. I mean, I was okay. He said, I'd really like more money. I said, Jim, I like you very much, Jim, you're fired. Get out. Donald Trump: (26:07) Anyway, I had 14 great seasons over about 11 years because it was so successful, they kept. They would have run it. Remember when they did the three hours, the whole night was the Apprentice. I said, wait a minute. Gone With the Wind, to mention the movie a second time, Gone With the Wind is shorter. They had the Apprentice on for three hours. I said even I think it's too long. You can't put it up for three. You got leave a little bit like I want to come back next week. Donald Trump: (26:33) But they had it on for three weeks. We did fantastically with it. Comcast did great. NBC did great. They wanted me to sign for another three years. I said, no, I'm going to for president. And that was actually the time when I knew I was going to run. Because you know how they were paying a lot of money and whether you're rich or not, it's still a lot of money. I don't care how rich you are. It's a lot. Millions and millions of dollars. And I said no, I'm going to run for president. And I did that. But from the day I ran, they went from being, you know one. Donald Trump: (27:03) But from the day I ran, they went from being wonderful, they were nice. They were nice. I guess if I didn't do well with the show they wouldn't have been nice because they weren't nice to other people that failed. People that didn't have good ratings, that business is a very simple business. If you have good ratings, you can treat them like garbage. If you have bad ratings, you can say, "Sir, I really respect you so much." Donald Trump: (27:25) Get out of here. Get him out of my yard. They're very ruthless people. But Comcast is a rotten company. They forgot totally. And they are worse than CNN. I will tell you that right now. Comcast is worse than CNN. We should call it Comcast, because that's their beautiful maiden name, Comcast. They're worse than CNN. Donald Trump: (27:49) I'll, tell you something about CNN. Jake Tapper, today he put out. Now I know you don't like him. I know. Who likes him? Who the hell can like him? I think his wife likes him. Actually. I really believe she does. But let me just tell you, he put out a couple of social media posts today, because I never call it tweet, I call it social media because it's much bigger than tweet. Donald Trump: (28:10) What we have, Dan Scavino. The great Dan Scavino. We have won five sites. We're number one on Twitter, we're number one on Facebook, and the whole world. The whole world. So it's powerful. But Jake Tapper put out some things, basically saying, I believe it, that's the way I read it, that the new Russian thing that started yesterday, that Putin wants to be sure that Trump, which give me a break. Give me a break. But Jake Tapper said it ain't so, and if he did say that because they were a little complex, they can turn them around, or when Zucker sees him and said, "Why did you put that? I want that deleted and I want you to do a different one." But he did say that. So I respect that because it's another hoax story. But we're standing up for the defense of our constitution, for our freedom, and democracy itself. You know that. Donald Trump: (29:03) [inaudible 00:29:03] I got to get that. Hey, Bobby? Bobby? See that guy? I love that shirt. Bobby, I don't know. He looks like a nice guy. Can you please walk him up, even if you have about five. Come here, come here. Come here. Come here. You got to see this shirt. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Donald Trump: (29:29) I've got to order me one that I can ride around. Come on. Come on up here. He looks safe. He doesn't look like he's going to start a fist fight. He's a good fan, I guess. You got to see this shirt. I love it. Is there any place that's more fun than a Trump rally? Right? Donald Trump: (29:52) How many rallies have you been to? Crowd: (29:53) [inaudible 00:29:55]. Donald Trump: (30:01) 80? 80? 80. He said 80 rallies. Come up here. Come on. Come on. Come on. Look at these two guys. These guys are serious. These are serious fans, right? Are you with him? Are you with him? Are you with him? You're with him? Speaker 2: (30:19) Come on up, baby. Donald Trump: (30:19) Come on. Come up here. Man. Crowd: (30:20) Hello again, sir. We met yesterday at your rally [inaudible 00:03:34]. Speaker 3: (30:34) I've been to two rallies in one week, so I'm just getting started. I'm just getting started. Crowd: (30:34) Welcome. [inaudible 00:30:40]. Donald Trump: (30:40) And look at this guy Come on. Speaker 4: (30:52) God bless you. Thank you, president. [inaudible 00:30:53] Thank you for saving America. Donald Trump: (30:52) Thank you, fellas. Speaker 2: (30:56) We love you. You saved us. You saved us, thank you. Crowd: (30:58) Thank you, president Trump, for saving America. [inaudible 00:31:01] Donald Trump: (31:13) Wow. I just said, "How long have you two been together?" I figured they'd say, "We're married." He met her at the rally in Colorado. Can you believe this? Can you believe it? Man, did he get lucky. They both got lucky, right? They both got lucky. Well, that's cool. No, I just see there's so much stuff out here. It's genius, actually. While the extreme left has been wasting America's time with viral hoaxes, we've been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed. As you heard, we added another 225,000 new jobs last month alone. Way above anticipated schedule. And that makes 7 million new jobs since the election. The number was supposed to be under 2 million and we added 7 million. And remember, if I give you wrong numbers, the fake news is going to have headlines. Donald Trump: (32:28) "Trump gave you wrong." I mean, it's very tough. I've got to be very careful. Even if I give you wrong in the wrong way, they'll say it was wrong. I said, "Yeah, but it was wrong in the low way." No, that's no good either. Got to be very precise with these characters. The Democrats don't have to be, but we have to be. We've destroyed he ISIS territorial caliphate 100%, we killed the founder and leader of ISIS. Al Baghdadi is dead. Al Baghdadi is dead. 17 years. They looked for him. 17 years. Donald Trump: (33:17) Al-Baghdadi. One of the first things I did when I came in. He's the founder of ISIS and when I came in three years ago, ISIS was all over the place. And I said, "You got to knock it out." We knocked it out of Syria, and, Iraq and other places. We really knocked at 100%. Donald Trump: (33:35) Remember I wanted to leave. I said, "All right." We were at 96%, then 98, then 99%. I said, "Let some of these other countries do it." Wouldn't you say, right? So what happened is I wanted to leave and they said, "No, no, no, we want 100%." So we wait and stayed. We got 100%, then we moved them all out of Syria, except we did keep the oil. You noticed that, right? We kept the oil. Sorry. They said, "He left soldiers in Syria." Yeah, I did to keep the oil, if you don't mind. Which is what we should have done in Iraq too, by the way. Donald Trump: (34:07) I would have done that. I'm making a lot of money with all that oil. But you remember that whole thing, that whole. I said, "You got to find Al Baghdadi." I've been saying that actually for two years. I had a lot of other things to do the first year, like fight off the Democrats. These crazy Democrats with their hoaxes. Think of it. Donald Trump: (34:30) If they use their genius, because they are genius at that stuff, right? They're really good. They can take nothing. They can take a perfect phone call made to the Ukrainian president who said very specifically there was no pressure. He doesn't even know what's going on and they can take this perfect call. Thank goodness I had a transcriber. Do you agree with it? Because the fake whistleblower said that the call was totally different than what the call was. Donald Trump: (34:59) So when I released the call, when I released the transcripts, they died. They said, "Oh we got a problem." They never thought I was going to do it, but I had no choice. I had to because I had to show they're liars. But think of it, they can take something like that, a perfect phone call, or they'll take just out of thin air they can make something up. Donald Trump: (35:19) And they ended up today, front page, New York Times. They used to call it the eighth column. That's the big column on the right. I don't know. The papers become so small. I don't know if they have an eighth column anymore. They used to have the eighth column, was a big deal, right? That was the big deal. Today it's too narrow. Think they're probably. After I'm gone, they won't have any columns. That's why eventually they're going to support me. Donald Trump: (35:42) Eventually, the Times and the Washington post, which will be dead as a doornail after I leave, and the CNN, it'll be an obsolete business, the cable business. MSDNC will be out of business. You know, cable was supposed to be obsolete and now they're doing the highest numbers they've ever done. If an airplane goes down with 700 people, they don't cover it. If it's not Trump related, they don't cover it. It's got to be Trump or Trump related. So if a plane goes down and it's total devastation, if the ship goes down, if the Titanic- Speaker 5: (36:18) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:20) If the Titanic equivalent went down, they wouldn't cover it unless I was on the sucker. It's true. They wouldn't cover it. The fake news would not cover the equivalent of the Titanic. Speaker 5: (36:33) Titanic. Donald Trump: (36:35) But you know what they're going to do before the election? They're going to say, "We want to just say something. We're going to endorse the president." You know why? Because they'll be out of business. Can you imagine if they had to cover mini Mike? Who I don't think, I think he's gone, but you know what? He'll spend another 500 million. Don't forget I spent 70 and I won, of my money. In other words, they said, and this was in the New York Times, I said the other night in Colorado. Donald Trump: (37:04) I spent 70, mini Mike so far has spent almost $500 million dollars in order to get embarrassed by Pocahontas. Pocahontas. And she's mean, isn't she? Did you see that? Do you see the anger on her face? That nervous energy. She's jumping up and down. She's a mess. But no, no, she's mean. Right? Right? That face is just. "You want to get him?" She said, "I got him. I want to see those agreements." "I," "You open up those agreements." This poor guy probably signed a hundred of them and each one's a disaster. He said, "I don't want to open those agreements. Nobody told me this was going to happen." Donald Trump: (37:53) Said, "Actually, sir." "Nobody told me. Get me out of here." After the debate, he went backstage, fired a lot of people. He said, "How the hell did you get me into this thing?" But Pocahontas was really mean, but she's going to be easy. I hope it's her. It's not going to be her. Donald Trump: (38:19) She made a little comeback the other night because she took mini Mike to the cleaners. But it's not going to be here. It can't be [inaudible 00:11:28]. Can't be, I don't think. Alfred E. Neuman, ladies and gentlemen, introducing president Alfred E. Neuman. Nobody knows because you're all too young. Nobody knows who Alfred. it's Mad Magazine. Donald Trump: (38:46) They all said. No. Howdy Doody. See nobody knows who Alfred E. Neuman is. Only the real aficionados. They're the ones and they love it. But that's only 15% of the crowd, right? Am I right? Better than Howdy Doody. Howdy Doody. Donald Trump: (39:02) But he's got to learn. He's got to worry about his own city. It's going to hell, so he's got to worry. Because that city's got a lot of problems. I don't get the whole thing, but he's not a bad debater, I will say. He's probably the best up there. And Bernie is too emotional. He's screaming, going crazy. And Biden is angry. Biden is angry. Everything's anger. [inaudible 00:39:26] And that's what happens when you can't get the words out. No it does. Donald Trump: (39:35) That's what happens, right? When you can't get the words out, you get angry. You get angry because you can't get the words. That might happen to me someday. Can you imagine if that happened to me? Man, would I be a bad guy. I'd be the meanest man in history. No, but Biden is very angry. Donald Trump: (39:52) He gets angrier, and angrier, and angrier. He's changed. And then you have the Tom. Yeah. He said Tom Steyer. Tom said, " Mister impeachment." How did that work out, Tom? Thank you very much for the great poll numbers between him and nervous dancing. Donald Trump: (40:09) How did that work out? This schmuck spends $250 million dollars, he ends up with one third of a percent in Iowa. But maybe that could be Rick, because they still don't have any idea what he got. Maybe he won Iowa, they took it away from him. No, but he was substantially below it. All I know, it said 1% and an arrow left. Donald Trump: (40:31) So he spends 250 million, Tom Steyer. Never heard of this guy. Who is he? Where did he get his money? Who is he? He was in the coal business, did you know that? This guy, this phony is a big environmentalist. He made his money, a lot of it, in the coal business. Nobody knows that, but he's a fake. Donald Trump: (40:48) Remember when he walked up to Bernie the other day. "Hi Bernie. Hi." Oh, and he was having a fight with Pocahontas, right? Is this the greatest? Mark Burnett said, "This is the greatest reality show in history." He said, "You can take The Apprentice, and you can take Survivor, and you can take every other reality show ever made, multiply it times 10,000, and you still don't have what we have. And even the CAS." He did say this. You got the perfect president. You got the perfect first lady. How about the first lady? You got the perfect kids. The kids, though. Those beautiful kids. My beautiful kids. They had such a great life, before I did this. Sorry, kids. Sorry. My beautiful Ivanka. She had such a great life. She Had a company that was selling shoes and everything you could sell. She'd just put her name on it and she said, "Daddy, does it matter? I want to come to Washington and help people get jobs." Donald Trump: (42:02) Right? Ain't that true? And she left the company. And when you leave a company, all of a sudden it doesn't do as well. I wouldn't say that I exactly helped talking about the wall and other things, but she left the company, came to Washington and she said 500,000 jobs. That was her goal. And she did that in the first month. She actually did. Donald Trump: (42:29) She's gotten these great companies like Walmart, and many others, Exxon, she's gotten them to take millions of people. She's now over 15 million jobs where they train people and bring them into the companies. It's incredible. 15 million. And she's smart. She got it figured out, but most people can't, but she does. But all they do is give them heat. They work so hard. And could you imagine you take Biden's son. Can you imagine? Donald Trump: (43:10) I deal with all these big companies and these great, great countries. I think I could get my sons 25 board chips for millions of dollars a piece. My kids would be [inaudible 00:43:21]. But you know what? We don't do any of that stuff. We don't do that stuff. We don't do it. The kid got $3 million dollars, 83,000 a month and he didn't have a job until his father became vice president. And speaking of vice presidents and speaking also of reality television, because it's the greatest show of all time, right? Look at us. Look. Donald Trump: (43:48) We told you, what, last night? Little change here, folks. We're going to move it up from eight o'clock in the evening until 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Little change. Just a minor change. Because I have to get back to Washington to work. I feel guilty. This is too much fun. But speaking to vice presidents and speaking of perfect vice presidents, if you become president, the first thing you have to do is choose a really horrible, horrible vice president. So if the idiots ever want to impeach you, they have to say, I can't impeach him. Look who we have. I have the perfect vice president. I have the greatest in the world. I have the greatest vice president. Donald Trump: (44:39) I don't know. I got the great ones. I said, "I can't do that." I picked a great guy. He's done a fantastic job. He's been a great vice president. But it is true. I could have picked, I'll give you names, but don't want to do that because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But there are plenty of them out there. Donald Trump: (44:51) They're mostly out there and I don't want to do that. But Mike Pence has been great. But tell me, is it perfect casting the whole thing? And this isn't about casting, this is about real life. But when Mark Burnett said to me the other day, he said, "The greatest reality show of all times, times of million." That's exactly except for one thing, we work our asses off and we are doing things like nobody has ever done before. Donald Trump: (45:19) Right? Right? So, we took out Al Baghdadi and then we just took out two weeks ago the world's top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani of Iran, ending his evil reign of terror forever. He's the father of the roadside bomb. When you see our beautiful people walking around with no legs, they're walking, and trying to walk so hard, and they're really in rough shape. Donald Trump: (46:01) Incredible the job that doctors do at Walter Reed and some of these hospitals. And they get them to a point where sometimes they really can, they walk around, but it's hard. And they lose legs, and they lose arms. That was [inaudible 00:46:14] he's the father of the. he loved the roadside bomb. He thought it was a great thing. Where is he now? Donald Trump: (46:24) Soleimani. And I'll tell you what, you know who's happy about it? The people of Iran are happy and even the leaders of Iran, because the leaders of Iran were afraid of him. Okay? And the fact is, America is respected again. We're winning. We're winning all over. We're winning in Washington that Democrats keep losing their minds. That is why millions of registered Democrat voters are leaving their party to join our movement. Donald Trump: (46:57) It's not even a party, it's a movement. They're joining the Republican party. It's true. We have a lot of. Look at the energy in this room. They're all [inaudible 00:47:10]. They're all [inaudible 00:47:13]. Look, we're a unified party. The Republican party has never been unified like it is today. Donald Trump: (47:22) I'll show you. I could say, "We're going to go over to the Hill. No, we're going to go over to someplace and we're going to do a rally at eight o'clock tonight." We'd have tens of thousands of people there. There's never been this. Ronald Reagan was great. I thought he was a great guy, great president, didn't like his policy on trade. That's okay. Trade. Donald Trump: (47:42) But if he came to Las Vegas, you know they'd have a ballroom, and they'd have 500, maybe a thousand people. What we're doing. And this isn't even, I must say this, I don't want to tell you this, this is not election season. Because we're nine months away. Election season is when you're two months away. We're not even in election season and we have more enthusiasm now. Believe it or not, then we had even before the election in 2016. It's true. It's too early. It's too early. It's true. We have a great gentleman and a woman with us, a friend of mine, mister and misses Sheldon Adelson, right over here. Great, great person. Two great people. He's got so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. He owns the Sands Hotel. That's like one of the smaller businesses. Donald Trump: (49:05) Sheldon, that's like your small business, right? He is a great guy. She's an incredible, she's a doctor, and she studies addiction, and drugs, drug addiction, all sorts of addictions. And she knows more about that subject, I think, than anybody, and she works hard and she doesn't need it. He does not need the money that she brings in. Okay? Donald Trump: (49:25) He also happens on the paper. He owns the paper. You own the paper in town, right? They wanted like a couple of hundred million dollars too much. You said, "Give it to them. It's peanuts. What the hell difference does it make? We want to thank the Adelsons. They've been incredible fans and they love Israel. They love Israel. I just saw him sitting there. I didn't know they were here. I just see him sitting there. He's something. Speaker 6: (49:54) [inaudible 00:49:56]. Donald Trump: (49:56) The chairman of the Nevada Republican party, who's really been great. He's been with me for a long time and he's a very committed man. Make America great again. Oh, oh, oh. Let's do a poll quick. Just quick. I'll never get rid of MAGA because I'm superstitious. But we just hit an all time high with the stock market. Our military is rebuilt. You just got the greatest tax cuts in history, the greatest rate, regulation cuts, and all this stuff. So, let me ask you this. Donald Trump: (50:29) So, "Make America great again," it sort of doesn't work quite as well. So now we have keep America great and we have the new hat. It's higher, stiff. It's like a billboard, right? I call it the billboard. It's a billboard. So let's go just that. Because I am very surprised by it. We're going to keep them both, but I just curious if we did go to one, "Make America great again?" " Keep America great?" Donald Trump: (51:03) I can't. I would have said that's impossible. "Make America great again," is the greatest phrase. A lot of people, again, fake news, I think will agree to it. It's the greatest phrase ever used in politics. It's the greatest phrase. Now, who has the greatest phrase ever used in the history of politics and say, "Oh, let's go with a new phrase." Right? Donald Trump: (51:40) But we're going to keep it. So we have to keep MAGA. But now we have CAG, now we have CAG. So we have a both. I just don't have the courage to get rid of the one. It would be too disrespectful. Too disrespectful. But Michael McDonald, I want to thank you and the members of the Nevada Republican central committee. You're all here. They're great people. And the man came here. He loves us. He's been with us. Rick Harrison of the world famous gold and silver pawn shop. Rick Harrison. Donald Trump: (52:22) You better win, Michael. Otherwise, that's the last time I'm introducing you like that. I hear we're up. I hear we're doing nicely. I hear we're doing great. And by the way, the union, I have a lot of respect for that union. Last time, I had a strike in my building during the election. It's the only reason we would have won this state. Brilliantly to save three cents. I could have settled the strike before the election. I wanted to save $2 total. Donald Trump: (52:49) That was a brilliant move. And then we had some guy running. A guy named [inaudible 00:25:55]. And he wasn't too good. He didn't do too good. But we almost won this state despite. I had a big strike. Had thousands and thousands of union guys. They had it, look, they wanted, wanted to show us. But I think that the unions are really with us and the unions have been with us. They're Teamsters, so many of the unions. Donald Trump: (53:16) Because I'm for the working man and woman, whether you're union or non-union. Some States are all union, some states are no union. But we get them all. And I think we're going to have tremendous success. And a lot of the Democrats are going to ruin the healthcare programs that these unions have. The unions have worked hard on healthcare and they're going to ruin them. Donald Trump: (53:38) They're going to take away. Well, we're going to. you can lose 180 million people off of great private healthcare. So we'll see what happens. But a lot of the Democrats want to do that. They think it's wonderful. But together we're building the world's most prosperous economy and the most inclusive society. That's true. Since my election, over 125- Donald Trump: (54:02) That's true. Since my election, over 125,000 new jobs have been created right here in Nevada, including over 40,000 new Nevada manufacturing and construction jobs. A 30% increase. The national unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century, and soon we're going to have that be a historic number like so many of the others. The average unemployment rate for my administration, this is the coolest of them all, is the lowest for any United States president in recorded history. That's pretty good. When I'm in a debate, they're saying, "we're going to do this." I say, "listen, we have the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country." African American unemployment, Hispanic American. Hispanic, we got a lot of Hispanic. I love Hispanic. Who in this audience is Hispanic? Yeah, we're doing great. Well, we should be doing great. You have the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded. Asian Americans, likewise the lowest ever recorded. The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest rate in 71 years. African American youth unemployment has reached an all time historic low. People I love, people I might've helped more than anybody because of choice and accountability. The veteran's unemployment rate drop to the lowest record. Lowest in history. Donald Trump: (56:02) The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all time historic low and you got to remember they're back there checking every word. They're going," oh, my god. He's right." I can't say it because I got all these maniacs back there. They're trying to find. "He put the comma in the wrong place. He didn't make that word plural, therefore he lied." Now I've got to be very accurate because all these numbers, they check them out. "They're in there, checking them out. Check on the African American unemployment, please." Please tell me it's not historic. These people are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Not all of them. Workers without a high school diploma. We have millions of people that didn't go through high school. They left. They had problems, good problems, bad problems, families where they don't have the money. They didn't get a high school diploma. They've achieved the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded in the history of the United States. Donald Trump: (57:14) Those are important groups of people. Half a million more Hispanic Americans now own a home. Now, Hispanic have done so good. And by the way, you know who understands the border, because we are building that wall like crazy. Remember, they also said, "if you build the wall you'll lose the Hispanic vote." I said, "I got to do what's right. You know who understands the border better than anybody? You know who understands crime at the border better than anybody? The Hispanics understand it and they don't want to be working and have people come and take their job. Have people come in where they can't pay for their house, have people come in who are very bad people." You have some very bad people. You have murderers and rapists, and we have set all sorts of records at the border, but we're up to 122 miles of wall, and it is true. The people that understand it the best are Hispanic. So, thank you. We got to make our country safe. We've lifted 10 million people off of welfare. Median household income is now the highest ever recorded in our country. Think of that. I say it all the time. President Bush, eight years, $450. President Barack Hussein Obama, eight years, $ 975. President Donald John Trump, three years. It's actually less when they did the numbers. Three years, including the big tax cuts that we got you and the regulation cuts. Three years. Donald Trump: (59:22) So, you had 450, 975, that's eight and eight. Now we're down to three years, a little less, three years, $ 10,000 per family a year. 10,000 a year. Our historic regulatory reduction campaign is restoring American liberty and ending the tyranny of federal bureaucrats. I deal with them. They're not good. It's called the swamp. We've ended the war on American energy, lowering utility bills, reducing prices at the pump, reducing your prices. Part of that number is all of the money that we save at the pump and on electric. I also recently took action on an issue Nevada has been dealing with for over 30 years. Yucca mountain. You know Yucca mountain? My budget stops funding for the licensing of waste storage at Yucca mountain, so that we can focus on positive solutions and for much better reasons and alternatives. Why should you have nuclear waste in your backyard? I won't say which countries, but you know what other countries do? I will not say which ones. Donald Trump: (01:00:49) They put it on a ship. They float it out into the middle of the ocean. They find a nice deep spot and they dump it. That's the end of it. But we would never do that for environmental reasons. We are reversing decades so Yucca mountain. You're okay, please. Okay. Just relax. Sheldon, do you have somebody at your newspaper back there who can write. Yucca mountain, please. He'll call up, "Yucca mountain is okay." That's the end of that. So Yucca mountain, you're in great shape. Maybe they can finally report it properly, but we're reversing decades of calamitous trade policies. For years, Washington politicians took money from lobbyists, global corporations and corrupt special interest to ship our jobs and factories and all of this stuff and all of this wealth. They stole our wealth. They shipped it overseas and to other countries. America lost one in four manufacturing jobs following the twin disasters of NAFTA and China's entrance into the WTO, the world trade organization. Probably an even worse deal for us than NAFTA, if that's possible, but under my administration, the great betrayal of America is over. America is no longer for sale. Last month we ended the NAFTA catastrophe and I signed the brand new U.S., Mexico, Canada agreement USMCA. See, we played the song YMCA because that's the only way you'll remember. Just think of the song YMCA. Think of the song and you'll remember that USMCA is a gigantic victory for farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers all across the great state of Nevada. I also took the strongest ever action to confront China's massive theft of America jobs. Our strategy worked. Last month, we signed a ground breaking trade agreement. Probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property and boost American exports by a lot. China will be buying $250 billion worth of goods from us now and 50 billion from our farmers. My guys wanted 16, I said, "make it 50." My guys wanted 16, they got China up to 20. I said, "Nope. Got to make it 50," and then I said to China, "you got a billion and a half people. What difference does it make?" They said, "you're right." 50 billion, I don't think our farmers can produce that much, but we're going to soon find out. They're going to buy very large tractors. After years of building up other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. we are finally putting America first. Donald Trump: (01:04:26) Or no issue of Washington Democrats more thoroughly sold out the American people than the issue of immigration. Before I came into office, the far left's policy of open borders allowed deadly drugs to flow freely into our country, poisoning our children, including right here in a very big way. The great state of Nevada. Washington Democrats put the needs of illegal immigrants before the wellbeing of American citizens. You know that, you've been complaining about it for a long time. It's one of the reasons you voted for Trump. They want to let anyone from around the world simply walk across the border and then they want to give them a lifetime of free welfare, of healthcare, of lots of other things, including education. All paid for by the taxpayers of the United States. Illegal immigration costs Nevada taxpayers, think of it, more than $1.6 billion every year, over $1,500 per household. For the amount of money Washington Democrats want to spend supporting illegal immigrants, we could rebuild every city, all of these distressed areas in the United States, throughout our country. The money spend, it's not even thinkable and don't forget when we say come, like in California the clown, he says, "come, we'll give you free healthcare." People that weren't even thinking about coming. That's why we have caravans of people that we're turning back. Mexico's been great. By the way, they gave us 27,000 soldiers on our border. Donald Trump: (01:06:16) But when a governor, nice guy actually, he's a nice guy. We just got to explain the facts of life. He's a nice guy. Oh doctor, please. Doctor in the house, please. Medical, please. A doctor. Thank you. Take your time. We've got plenty of time. Yeah, take your time please. A lot of these people have been here for three days. It's a lot. Those front row people are tough. Take your time, doc. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, doctor. That's true. They get here so. They stand and sit and sometimes days early. In Colorado, they're there three, four days early. It's tough. And we work it and make sure that you have everything you want. Number one, we cover the facts and number two, we want to have a good time because we have to have a good time. But things like that happen a lot because after two, three days, it's not easy and these are strong people. I'm not going to fight any of them, okay? Donald Trump: (01:10:05) Now, amazing people. Thank you very much. Under my administration, we're finally taking care of our own citizens first, including millions of illegal immigrants who follow our laws, pay their taxes, lift up our society, and are entitled to a government that protects their families and protects their communities. Every day, Democrats' open border policies are harming and killing innocent people. You know what's happening, you know what's going on. In this region alone last year, ICE officers, and they're patriots. They're strong, tough patriots. If we didn't have them. They remove thousands and thousands of MS13 gang members a year and plenty of others. Who else is going to do it? ICE officers arrested over 5, 000 criminal aliens charged or convicted of dangerous offenses, including robbery, rape, and even murder. Many murders. In Western Nevada, an illegal alien was charged with robbing and brutally executing four victims last year. Right here in Las Vegas, three MS13 gang members abducted a man, tied him up with his shoelaces, shot him repeatedly, and hacked him to death with a machete. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It's right here in your place, in Las Vegas, right here. Tied up and hacked him to death. Yet left wing politicians oppose all detention of illegal aliens, even convicted criminals and murderers, and they support deadly sanctuary cities. I say this all the time and I just. How the hell, where are they coming from? I don't get it right. Seriously, I don't get it. Sanctuary cities imperil American lives by releasing dangerous criminal aliens directly into your communities. If you want to shut down sanctuary cities, if you want to protect your family and your loved ones, you must vote Republican in 2020. And you have some great ones here, Michael. Thanks to our tireless efforts to secure the border, we have reduced illegal border crossings eight straight months in a row. And as the wall gets longer, it gets easier and easier. Remember when the Democrats were saying, "you don't need a wall." Two things that never change, right? All these computers, they said, "use drones." Oh great, we'll fly over with drones. Watch the people pour in by the thousands. That's great. Use drones. Before I came along, they all wanted a wall. They just didn't know how to build it. They had no clue. They had the money, they actually gave the money back, but they had no clue. But as soon as I came in and I said, "Wall," they went against and I made a terrible mistake. Donald Trump: (01:13:22) They always say I never admit mistakes. I do, but I'll admit a mistake now. I should have said, we will never, ever under any circumstances build a wall. They would have given me so much money for a wall, you have no idea. They would've forced me to build it. I made a terrible mistake, right? Terrible mistake. If it ever happens again, which it won't. This wall is one of a kind. They will say, "we will not build a wall," and they'll say, "we demand that you build a wall," and it would have been so easy. Illegal crossings are down 75% since last spring and we have ended catch and release. A horrible [inaudible 00:01:14:08]. Donald Trump: (01:14:06) We catch them. You know the story. They come over, could be a killer, murderer, rapist. They come over. We can't do anything. We have to be politically correct. We catch them. We then say, "what's your address?" They don't know. They don't even know their country in many cases. Where do you come from? We don't know and they mean it, but some are very serious criminals. So, we catch them, we take whatever they can take, which is nothing, and then we had to release them in our country. We can't bring them back. And then we have a system of judges, thousands of judges all over the place. You got to be like Perry Mason and every illegal that comes in, they have the lawyers. The lawyers meet them, they get paid fees, but we're breaking the system. No more catch and release, you think that was easy? And the big thing is that 30 foot. And this wall is built exactly to the specifications of border patrol. Totally. And border patrol has seized the largest amount, just recently, of deadly narcotics ever recorded. The largest amount. We've deported record numbers of gang members. We've done more to secure the border than any administration in history. We are, as I said, building the wall faster than ever. Faster and bigger than anyone thought possible. They can't believe we're getting it done. We'll have over 500 miles of wall built sometime next year. 500 miles. Donald Trump: (01:15:55) Washington Democrats have never been more extreme than they are right now. 132 congressional Democrats have now signed up for Bernie Sanders takeover of healthcare that would strip 180 million Americans, many of them in this room, of their private coverage. Remember president Obama? Remember, he said, "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan." 28 times, he lied, so we should impeach him. We're going to impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. 28 times, "you can keep your doctor," right? Remember, you could keep your doctor. Unfortunately, when they found out you can't keep your doctor, he said, "I was just kidding." Now, we should impeach him. We'll do a belated impeachment. Fake news, you have it. See, you have to be very careful when you say impeachment because you know what they do? They go back and they write. President Trump said that Obama should be impeached, but he's not in office and so therefore they can't impeach. He doesn't know what he's talking about because he's not in office, so therefore they can't. So, you have to be very careful. That's why I use the word belated impeachment. Belated, meaning I'm just kidding, okay? Donald Trump: (01:17:20) They do it all the time. They had it the other day. I said, "bring back Gone With The Wind," right? I said a little bit up here, but I said the movie the other day in Colorado, I guess. I said, "Huh, South Korean movie won." They said, "ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Academy Award is ." A movie made in South Korea, what's this all about? And I deal with them, they like me. We're helping them a lot. They're killing us on trade. They beat us on trade and then they win the Academy Award for a fricking movie. Donald Trump: (01:17:54) But we redid that trade deal, but the other day they got me on this one too. I said, "whatever happened to Gone With the Wind, that beautiful movie? Vivian Lee, Clark Gable, right? Whatever happened, bring back Gone With the Wind." And some of them wrote, "he doesn't know that that movie was made in 1936." He says fake news. It is fake news, they're fakers. But now, anybody sitting there reading this saying, "man, Trump, can't be that smart. He said bring back Gone With the Wind. That's an old movie." Yeah, it's an old classic. What I say is make great movies, not this computerized garbage. And I was never a fan of Brad Pitt, I will tell you that. Donald Trump: (01:18:48) No, I thought he was a stiff. He was a stiff, it's like a boring guy. All of a sudden he wins the Academy Award, so fitting. Their ratings aren't so good at the Academy Awards. You know when that stopped? When they started attacking us, their ratings went right down the tubers. I told somebody, the evening newscasts, they're terrible for conservative people and they're crooked, they're absolutely dishonest. I said to one of the big broadcasters, I'm friendly with him. I said, "if you ever did a conservative newscasts, instead of. you got, ABC is terrible. NBC is just absolutely atrocious." And they do badly. Not a lot of people are watching. They used to, when we had the late, great Walter Cronkite and these legends, right? But ABC is terrible and NBC is terrible and CBS is terrible. They're all the same. And I said, "your ratings stink. If you would do a newscast that's conservative, I'd get them a host. I could recommend guys right now, right? I'd get them a host. We'll call up. Don't take Sean Hannity away from us. Don't take our show. Donald Trump: (01:20:03) That's my problem, I don't want to take away any of our people. You get a Pete Hegseth. You get a Jesse Waters. You get. I could name so many of them, right? And you put them on that broadcast, their ratings would go up five fold but they don't know that. I don't know. They're stupid. Their ratings would go through the roof, but they would rather have a failed broadcast that nobody watches than put on a conservative person and lift the ratings five times. They would rather have a fail. Seven months ago we had a little skit, and they were hoping the market would crash because they would rather lose their money, or big parts of it, and have a really horrible market on the basis that we, not me, we could not be elected on November 3rd. This is how crazy- Donald Trump: (01:21:03) . on November 3rd. This is how evil, this is how crazy they are. They've gone crazy. I guess you call it Trump derangement syndrome. But if they ever did a conservative broadcast, meaning very fair, very honest When I say that, it's almost like do a fair broadcast. Just a fair broadcast. That thing would be the hottest show. But they don't realize it. And if they do, they probably wouldn't do it anyway because they don't want to go away from what they're doing, which is crazy because it is, they're doing very poorly. Donald Trump: (01:21:30) While the social and socialist Democrats are trying to destroy American healthcare and your Social Security, they're putting it at risk, my administration is protecting your Social Security. Remember they said, four years ago in the debates and you had this crazy woman. I mean, I hate to mention her name. I did it you know, yesterday. I threw all the runs, hates it. Donald Trump: (01:21:59) She's a zero. It's got zero television personality. Aero AB Stoddard, whoever that is. She said, "Donald Trump lost all of his debates." I won every debate and maybe, I don't know maybe one somebody, but I won with tremendous numbers. He says, "You always won." I'm not sure. We try, I'll tell you that and we're winning now. Donald Trump: (01:22:21) But this crazy woman who's got zero going, zero. She said, "Donald Trump lost his debates that he won." You know, she was talking about how badly Benny Mike did. So she said, "Well, Donald Trump." No, I won every single debate. I won them against crooked Hillary. I won them in the primaries like 15 or 16 debates. And for some reason, you know, sometimes you do say, it's not a big deal. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Nobody even knows who she is. I just made her famous, right? Donald Trump: (01:22:49) She's nothing. She's nothing. She's got no talent, got nothing. She's probably got a little drive. That's how she keeps getting on television. Other people don't have her drive. But you know what? I said, "That's really unfair." So I took out the polls, Time magazine, Drudge, good guy, Drudge, Drudge. We took out a lot of different things and we put up the Drudge poll, the Time magazine and many others. And some of them had to be down to like at 91% and they didn't have many people and I can't really show up because many of those people are now great friends of mine. Donald Trump: (01:23:18) Some of them are great Republican senators. I'm not going to show results, but I'm holding it up just quickly glancing. I call it a glancing blow, but we won the debates and I have this fake news person saying, "Donald Trump did very poorly in the debates." I want every debate easily. I never did it before. Remember my first question? I said, "Rosie O'Donnell." That was one of my best answers. Rosie O'Donnell who violated the campaign finance laws as badly as anybody I've ever seen and nothing happens to her. Right? And yet Dinesh violate . He made a little mistake and they want to destroy him. So we pardoned him. We pardoned him. Donald Trump: (01:24:08) By the way, he made a mistake. Rosie O'Donnell. That was a massive violation of the campaign finance laws but Dinesh, Dinesh, they wanted to put him in jail. I don't know. I think he might've even gone to jail for a period of time for doing something that was really very understandable. Rosie O'Donnell. Five times what she did is incredible. Nothing happens. And then she gets on and says, what a bad guy I am. I'm not a bad guy, but it's really a disgrace. You know, it's a disgrace. I'm glad they didn't do anything with it, frankly because you know what to do for something like that. But you know what? We have two sets of justices in this country. It's no good. It's no good. It's no good. You know the thing we're working on right now? We're trying to get fairness for a certain person who's been treated very unfairly. Donald Trump: (01:25:04) A man who had a juror, who was a radical anti-Trump person, and she didn't say that when she went up there and she became the foreperson of the jury and she did terrible things and said terrible things. And you know how they caught her. When he was convicted and then a statement was made, she started jumping up and down screaming, " Yes, yes." And started telling everybody. They said, "Wait a minute. Wasn't she just a juror?" The woman was totally biased. How do you do this? So I fight. Look, I fight. A lot of times it's not worth it, but I got to fight for fairness. Donald Trump: (01:25:44) I got to fight for fairness. Got to fight for fairness. It's a very unfair system. I guess it's called the swamp. When I said drain the swamp, it was a nice phrase. I never liked the phrase. When I was campaigning, somehow the phrase came up, "Sir, I think we have a phrase, drain the swamp." I said, "I don't like it. That's too hokey." But one day I was in a big arena, 25,000 people packed before the election and I said, "And we will drain the swamp." The place went crazy. I said, "Wow, you never know. You never know." Donald Trump: (01:26:22) Frank Sinatra said his best song. I won't tell you which one because I'll ruin it for you, but his best song is the song that he thought would never make it, the song that he liked the least, but he said that's the one that was the most successful that the people like you never know. So I said, "Drain the swamp." And the people went crazy. I said, "Woah." I said, "Let's try that again." And the next time I did it again and again and again. I only didn't know how disgusting and dirty the swamp is and a lot of the media is a big part of the swamp. Donald Trump: (01:26:56) So my administration is protecting your social security, your Medicare, and is fighting to give you great healthcare. We're defending your right to keep your doctor and your plan. We're defending that right. You're going to have that right back. We're going to cancel that Obamacare if we could win the case and we're going to give you great healthcare and we're making healthcare better and much cheaper while premiums more than doubled in the last five years before I took office. We're managing it very well. We got rid of the individual mandate, by far the most unpopular thing where you had to pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay for bad healthcare, right? We got rid of it. Donald Trump: (01:27:39) And it was upheld in the Supreme Court, what we did. Whenever we get sued, everything we do, if we move, if we take 10 steps right or left, we get sued and we're now offering plans that are up to 60% less expensive. We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign. Donald Trump: (01:27:54) We're protecting people with preexisting conditions and we always will. That's why if we are successful, you don't want the Supreme Court to try and get rid of this, the caucus. It's a caucus known as Obamacare, but we're running it much better than they did. Remember when they had, this was the greatest, the $5 billion website, right? 5 billion. It was supposed to cost 5 million. I have a son at home. He's 13. He's a genius with computers. Donald Trump: (01:28:23) "Hi, dad. What's up? Dead dad. Get out of here." Donald Trump: (01:28:27) Hey listen. I'm the president of the United States, pal. Don't talk to your dad. "Dad, Come on dad. Can't you see I'm playing with my computer?" The guy talks to me and he's working with his computer. These guys are genius. You know, they grow up with like walking, right? But he's looking at me. I could have given him their healthcare site. He would have done it for nothing and it would have been better than what they have. Donald Trump: (01:28:47) So remember, come on, dad. I'm busy, dad. What do you want? What do you want, dad? Audience: (01:28:54) Barron. Barron. Barron. Barron. Donald Trump: (01:29:04) Barron, woah. Wow, he's going to like that. He's a good boy. He's a tall boy. I'll tell you that. Just turned 13. He's up there. I'm saying, "Hi Barron. How are you doing?" But they're great with the computers. They spent 5 billion. Donald Trump: (01:29:26) Okay. It was going to cost 50. It was going to cost five. It was going to cost 50. Then it was going to .. What was the final number? Five hundreds. The number that they spent, $5 billion. Right? It still doesn't work. They spent $5 billion. Right? And they spent $500 million on all of the problems it caused and we've really straightened it out, but it's still lousy healthcare, Obamacare. And it's really not Obamacare anymore because when you get rid of the individual mandate, it's no longer Obamacare but we're going to terminate it. We're going to give you your preexisting a hundred per- otherwise I won't do it. We're going to give you brand new preexisting and we're going to have a great healthcare that's much less expensive. Audience: (01:30:12) [inaudible 01:30:15]. Donald Trump: (01:30:15) And we're fighting to stop surprise medical bill and Barron's is going to be very happy. I signed an executive order imposing price transparency because when providers are required to show their prices, those same prices fall very fast. You know, a man that does this very professionally is great, into the healthcare business and you have to be careful when you say it, but you know it was just a very strong statement. Donald Trump: (01:30:45) But he said, "Sir, price transparency in hospitals. Where you can bid it out and you can look at the prices. Right now you can't see. If you go to a hospital, they won't even tell you how much it's going to cost. They operate and then they'll give you a bill and you'll say, "Oh my god, I had no idea it could be." They take blood. We have one person, blood $39. Another place, the exact same thing, $2500. Take blood, a blood test. One is $39 one, is $2500. The same test. Maybe the $39 test is better. Who the hell knows? But it's crazy. Price transparency and he looks at me. He goes, and he's a real pro. One of the top in the country. He said, "Sir," and nobody wanted to do it because it's a little bit controversial and a lot of the drug companies don't exactly love it. The hospitals don't love it, but I got to do what's right for you. The people, I don't care, I'm not. I got to do it. Audience: (01:31:37) [inaudible 01:31:39]. Donald Trump: (01:31:41) But he looked at me. And this is why I did it. It was one phrase. You know, do you ever do where you're not going to do something? And then somebody hits you with a perfect phrase. He said, "Sir, price transparency is bigger than healthcare." I said, "What do you mean by that?" He said, "You will see numbers that far outweigh healthcare, hospitals, doctors." He said, "You'll be able to price out everything. You'll be able to see costs." He said, "Price transparency." You know, people you've heard about this for 15, 20 years. No president has the guts to do it. Probably means I won't get campaign contributions from certain people, but I'm not going to get them anyway. Donald Trump: (01:32:24) What the hell difference does that make? I don't want them. I don't want them. I got to do what's right. You know, we're here for a short period of time. Even if it's a long period, it's still a short period and we've got to do so. Price transparency is a big deal. He said it's bigger than healthcare. Think of that. Bigger than healthcare. So let's see what happens. But that'll kick in. Unfortunately, that kicks in after the election because we're going through the final stages. We going through a statutory process, unfortunately. So think of it, we're going to win. Donald Trump: (01:32:53) But let's say the fake news could give me enough phony stories, enough bad stuff that we don't make it. The new president will get all the credit for price transparency and he won't even know what the hell it is. And I took the heat. Isn't that something? But we're going to win. We got to win for that reason alone. Audience: (01:33:15) [inaudible 00:12:17]. Donald Trump: (01:33:18) We've approved a record number of affordable new generic drugs, which are just as good as the name brand drugs, but a fraction of the cost. And that was another one. Tremendous political pressure. Think of it. You own Bayer aspirin. You own all these name name brand drugs that are making so much money. And then the guy comes along said, "I want to make 20 forms of aspirin." They're exactly the same. Exactly. But they don't have a big name on it. Exactly as good. I don't say better. I don't say worse. They're exactly the same. You know, people still, they want to go out and buy the name. You know? I do. I do. You know? Because it's just because we're stupid. No, it's true. They're exactly the same. We're approving so many of the generic drugs, a record number. Nobody's ever approved so much. The drug companies hate it. Donald Trump: (01:34:07) They hate it. Never happened like what we're doing. We also took down the trial periods from 12 years down to five or six years. They'd have a new drug. The thing was obsolete by the time it got approved. We've passed a really spectacular thing that they've been trying to get for 40 some odd years. Right to try. So you don't have to now go if you get, hopefully nobody in this room has those kind of problems. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:34:35) And so now you go and you sign a waiver and you get everything. It's great. If you're terminally ill. If you're very, very sick, you're not going to make it. And you know why they didn't do it? They wouldn't approve it because they didn't want to be sued. And they said, "No, this could be dangerous." They said, "The people are terminally ill, they're going to die. Donald Trump: (01:34:55) Let them use the experimental drugs. Don't wait because they have another four or five years before they can come onto the market." And it turned out we are having such unbelievable results. And you know what else? Some of those drug companies are now like it. That they fought me like crazy because it's really showing if it works there, it's really showing that it works. It's pretty amazing. Right to try. Donald Trump: (01:35:15) I hope you don't have to use it. We're combating the opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths have declined for the first time in nearly 31 years and I've launched [inaudible 01:35:30] and this is really something, brand new initiatives combating kidney disease and combating Alzheimer's disease. We've made a lot of progress. We've made a lot of progress, Sheldon and we're pursuing new advances in the neonatal research to care for America's youngest patients, our babies, and breaking all records in so doing. Donald Trump: (01:35:53) All of the radical Democrats in the presidential debates have declared their unlimited support for extreme late term abortion, ripping babies straight from the mother's womb right up until the very moment of birth. This is why in my state of the union address, did you like it? Audience: (01:36:15) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:20) Good. It's a different kind of address. You know, we can go lots of different ways, right? Presidential, not presidential. I was presidential. Totally. You'd have about three people standing here, but I asked Congress to prohibit late term abortion of babies because Republicans believe that every child is a sacred gift from God. Audience: (01:36:41) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:36:44) The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total obliteration of your very, very important second amendment. Audience: (01:37:05) Yeah. Boo. Donald Trump: (01:37:05) The Republican party is the party of the American worker, the American family, the American dream, and the late great Abraham Lincoln, which everybody forgot. Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background, every community, and every single walk of life. We are the party of boundless optimism, excitement, energy, and enthusiasm. We are wealthy, right? Are we enthusiastic? Audience: (01:37:48) Yeah. Donald Trump: (01:37:48) You know how many of these I've done in the last four days? People say, "Where the hell do you get your energy?" I say, "Well, the truth is I like what I do and if we weren't getting the results, I wouldn't like it." If we weren't getting the results. If I didn't see the results, I wouldn't like it at all. We're welcoming Americans of all parties and political persuasions to join our incredible movement to make America great again. Donald Trump: (01:38:19) We're a very big party. We are the party of big ideas for the future. Republicans are fighting for school choice because no parent should ever be forced to send their child to a failing government school. Donald Trump: (01:38:39) I passed criminal justice reform to give former prisoners a second chance at life. Was never going to happen. We got it done. This could not have been done by anyone but the Republican party and ourselves. You know the Democrats have tried for years. They couldn't get it done. We got it done. To uphold the rule of law. We are confirmed and this is something they say. Most important thing you can do, judges. I say most important thing is defense. Second is judges. Donald Trump: (01:39:08) A record number of 217 federal judges who will interpret the constitution as written. And we have appointed two great new Supreme court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. I recognized Israel's true capital and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and we recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. We have invested $2.2 trillion to rebuild the United States military, including more than $130 million for Nellis air force base right here. And we just created the sixth branch of the American armed forces, the Space Force, 72 years, 72 years. Donald Trump: (01:40:14) The air force was 72 years ago. We just did a branch. It's a big deal, isn't it? Think of it. A branch, the army, the air force. Think of it. We did a branch. For years you watched as your politicians apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and we are standing up for the people of Nevada. At stake in our present battle is the survival of our nation. If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died for to secure, then we must devote everything we have toward victory in November of 2020 November 3rd. November 3rd. Only this way can we save the America we love and drain the Washington swamp once and for all. With your help, we will lift millions more of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence and poverty to prosperity. Together we will elect a Republican Congress to create a fair, safe, sane and lawful system of immigration. We will continue to enact new trade deals that result in more products proudly stamped with that very beautiful phrase, "Made in the USA." Donald Trump: (01:41:41) We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer and ending the AIDS epidemic within nine years in America. Donald Trump: (01:41:56) And we will land the first woman on the moon and become the first nation in the world to plant its flag on Mars. We will defend privacy, free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. Donald Trump: (01:42:22) And that is under siege in case you haven't noticed. You know, your second amendment is under siege. Just don't worry. Long as I'm here, they're not touching it. Above all, we will never stop fighting for this. Donald Trump: (01:42:38) So true. But we will never stop fighting for the sacred values that bind us together as one America, we support, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. We stand with the incredible heroes and they are heroes. We love them, of law enforcement. We believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. We believe that faith and family, not government bureaucracy are the true American way. We believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag. Donald Trump: (01:43:22) And we live by the words of our national motto, in God we trust. From Carson city to Reno to right here in Las Vegas, we stand on the shoulders of red blooded American patriots who poured out their heart, sweat, and soul to secure our liberty and to defend our great, beautiful, lovely freedom, freedom, freedom. Freedom. Donald Trump: (01:43:59) Nevada was founded by pioneers and prospectors, miners and cowboys who tamed the frontier, raised the mighty Hoover dam. That's a beauty. Transformed the barren desert into a shining oasis, lit up the lights of the Las Vegas strip and help to make this the greatest nation ever to exist on the face of the earth. And we are making it greater than ever before. Proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people. With your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working. We are going to keep on fighting and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. America is thriving like never before. And ladies and gentlemen of Nevada, the best is yet to come together. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again and we will make America great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Nevada. Thank you, Las Vegas. We love Las Vegas. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Audience: (01:46:16) Yeah.

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