cooler just around the corner. good afternoon, i'm kristen z. >> and i'm larry beil. thanks for joining us. of course, we're waiting for a news conference with president biden. we'll bring that to you live just as soon as it starts. >> but first, let's begin with weather. it is another hot day for many of us. >> absolutely. spencer christian here now what? two down, one to go in terms of triple digit days this week. >> you're right about that, larry. it is. this is the hottest day in the current heat wave that we're experiencing. so let me show you right now what our current temperature readings are. 107 in brentwood, 108 in livermore, 110 in fairfield. you can see it for yourself right there. virtually all of our inland communities, most of them certainly are in the triple digits and not just 100, but well above 100, even right around the bay shoreline. we have temperatures right now in the low to mid 90s, so it will be great to get this hot day behind us, but we still have this excessive heat warning in effect for our inland communities through 8 p.m. friday and we have tomorrow. i beg your pardon? well, that is friday. no, that's right,

today's thursday. so through 8 p.m. tomorrow, the excessive heat warning is in effect. and the heat advisory in effect through 8 p.m. tomorrow for all of the remaining communities except san francisco and the immediate coastline. so for tomorrow, look for high temperatures still in the triple digits in many inland spots, but just barely above 100. tomorrow. finally, when we get to saturday, we'll see some cooling that we can actually feel and sense when we go outside. so cooler days are coming, but we just have to power our way through the next 36 hours or so. >> kristen spencer, thank you. developing news out of vacaville where a police officer has died following a crash. it happened at 1030 this morning. video of the scene shows a heavily damaged motorcycle that belonged to the vacaville police department. there were at least two other vehicles that appeared to have been involved. the vacaville police department says the officer was making a traffic stop when he was hit by a passing vehicle. it's not clear if anyone else was hurt in the collision. the intersection was closed off in the chp, shut down one of the ramps to interstate

80. >> in the east bay, a man is under arrest, accused of killing four family members and seriously injuring a toddler. alameda police say a man shot his wife, their six year old son and parents in law in a home on kitty hawk road just before nine last night. officers arrived. they found the father in law outside. he was still alive and provided some information before he passed the suspect. then came outside and was taken into custody. officers then found the other victims inside the house. the police chief had some strong words for the suspect. >> this is a tragic and sad incident and i'll say this. these are the actions of a coward. i know what happened. i have some idea of what happened. and this, this person, this person's actions were those of a coward. >> the victims names have not yet been released. police say they found multiple guns at the scene. you'll hear from neighbors about this situation coming up on abc seven news at five. >> a home depot security guard is recovering after being

stabbed on the job last night in san leandro. it happened at the store on davis street. police say the guard confronted a person who was trying to steal a battery. the suspect then became aggressive and stabbed the security guard in the arm with a sharp tool before running off. the injuries are not life threatening. south bay police and prosecutors are alerting the public about a church janitor who's charged with molesting teenagers. this is 54 year old norlan macias. we're showing his photo because investigators believe there may be other victims, and they're asking for them to come forward. norland worked as a janitor at the north valley baptist church in santa clara. police say he molested teens during church trips at his house on a morgan hill lake. the alleged abuse happened between 2001 and 2012. macias also worked as a janitor at the campbell union in mountain view school districts. >> governor newsom, stepping up the effort to boost public safety in the east bay. it's yet another effort to help build a

better bay area. now, the plans include expanding chp patrols, particularly in oakland. the governor also took issue with the alameda county da, pamela price, about the prosecutor's on loan to her office. abc seven news reporter ryan curry was in oakland today for the announcement, and he has the details. >> it's been almost one year since governor newsom announced chp would help patrol oakland. on thursday, he called that decision a success. >> has already generated 1162 stolen vehicles that have been recovered, 1162. 562 arrests as the commissioner noted, and now 5556 guns that are linked to crimes. >> however, oakland still deals with brazen crime. now the governor is taking it a step further. he announced at least 20 chp officers will be in oakland seven days a week. he also said some of the people arrested could be prosecuted by the state instead of the county. >> we're going to be moving some of the prosecution to the state

of california. the attorney general's office. >> that decision comes as the governor rescinded an offer to give prosecutors to alameda county district attorney pamela price. the governor's office says da price had not been cooperating, but the governor said many arrests will still get turned over to her office for the cases that do go before the alameda county da. how would you like her to act and respond? >> she was independently elected. i'm not here to offer advice or counsel. i can only observe what i've observed. we extended a hand of partnership. unfortunately, it wasn't reciprocated. >> district attorney price had a press event thursday afternoon and responded with this. >> the question is, are you saying that we never told them we weren't interested and we were in the process? and then the governor's office said, no, forget it. yes. that is exactly what happened. >> the move by the governor is drawing mixed reviews. ken houston recently had a lot of his stuff stolen. >> we welcome his decision. he's changing from 42 shifts to 164 shifts. it's needed. our city is

in dire need, but the anti-police terror project thinks this won't deter any crime. >> we want our youths to stop, engaging in these acts. we have to give them resources and something to do and some guidance. right. there are programs that are proven that do those things. we're just underinvested in them. >> this move from the governor is only temporary. he says the new patrol will last only four months in oakland. ryan curry, abc seven news. >> you can see some of the crime statistics for yourself on the abc seven neighborhood safety tracker. it includes information and trends for the cities of oakland, san francisco and san jose. you can find that at abc seven news.com. >> oakland mayor chantel responded today to recent questions about oakland's reported crime drop. the police department says overall crime is down 33. but according to the san francisco chronicle, that number was based on incomplete statistics from last year, and the number may be closer to only 20% drop. >> there has been no change in how the oakland police

department has reported our weekly crime data since they began sharing it with the community in 2011. so this is opd's process in regards to being transparent. other cities, they actually are not. this transparent. >> mayor tao went on to say there are discrepancies if crimes are miscategorized when they're reported, and there's typically about a three month lag between a report being filed and that data being reflected in statistics. mayor tao also commented on the fbi raid of her home and three other locations in oakland, as part of a political corruption probe. when asked today if there was any wrongdoing by her, this was the mayor's response. >> i am not the subject of this investigation. i have done nothing wrong, and i expect that there will be an opportunity to say more. but now isn't the time and that i am fully cooperating with the investigation and look forward to the opportunity to vindicate myself. >> mayor tao maintains to us that she is focused on doing her job and handling issues impacting the community. >> uh- castro valley man is in custody charged with vandalizing

waymo vehicles in san francisco, prosecutors say cameras on those autonomous vehicles captured 36 year old ronald burton slashing the tires on 17 waymo cars over the course of three days. last month, burton pleaded not guilty to 17 counts of vandalism in court yesterday, a judge ordered him to be held without bail after prosecutors claimed he poses a threat to public safety. >> the california public utilities commission has unanimously approved another rate increase for p-g-and-e's, the cpuc authorized more than $144 million in revenue for p-g-and-e's energization projects in 2024. more than 91,000,000 in 2025, and more than 99,000,000 in 2026, officials say this won't impact utility bills this year. they say p-g-and-e's won't be reimbursed until projects are placed into service and operations. >> it comes at a time when ratepayers are experiencing unsustainable rate increases, and at a time when the cost of living is increasing overall.

but i want to emphasize that efficiently energizing new loads actually has positive impacts on the electricity grid, and it's good for rate electric rate affordability in the long run. >> in march, the cpuc approved a separate p-g-and-e's rate hike that took effect in april that followed another increase that began january first. the irs always gets their money. today, the agency says it collected more than $1 billion in past due taxes from millionaires since last fall. that's when the irs identified 1600 taxpayers with more than $1 million in income and more than $250,000 in tax debts. >> coming up on abc seven news at four. covid spiking again, vaccinations down, new concerns about the ongoing illness as the heat wave left you in a bad mood. if so, you're not alone. the heat and your mental health also take you live to the espy awards. red carpet ahead of tonight's big show, and we are waiting for president biden to step up for a news conference.

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will be a little bit different tonight. >> no question. but from everything we've heard, she is more than up for the task approaching it very much how she approached her tennis career. all in that being said, the espys turned 32 this year. if you think about it, maybe the first jurassic park or the year that michael jordan beat charles barkley in the nba finals, that was espys number one. but serena, a 23 time champion grand slam champion and l.a. native, she'll be under the hollywood spotlight tonight. >> i knew that she was a fierce competitor on the court. i did not know that she would apply that same tenacity to this project. she has been incredibly present. she has brought amazing ideas, and she's funny. >> serena williams, a 12 time espy winner, will be the seventh athlete to host the show and the first to have a song dedicated to her by a former host. can i be your tennis ball?

>> tennis ball. tennis you can smack me up against the wall, babe. >> the espys will be held at the dolby theater for an eighth time, and there will be 22 sports performance awards handed out tonight. >> i think there's going to be some stuff that makes people really laugh and have a good time. i think you can expect some really powerful, moving moments where you feel very good about the universe and the world, but the espys will always be remembered for former north carolina state head coach jimmy valvano and his emotional yet inspiring speech. >> cancer can take away all my physical abilities. it cannot touch my mind. it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. and those three things are going to carry on forever. >> the espys helped to raise awareness and funds for the v foundation, south carolina women's basketball head coach dawn staley will be honored with the jimmy v award for perseverance tonight. her award

will be presented to her by stuart scott's daughter, ten years after the longtime espn anchor received the same award. >> i think it's going to be an exceptional moment on stage. i think it will be nice to remember stuart scott and go back to that moment, and i think it will hopefully trigger an emotional response in people so that they then donate to the v foundation so we can knock out cancer. >> and when you think about how divided our country is, or maybe even sports franchises like, say, the dodgers and the giants, the 40 niners and the rams, tonight is the night that everybody comes together for a higher purpose. the fight against cancer. we've all been touched by cancer and the v foundation. is there. 100% of their money goes to the fight against cancer. reporting live from hollywood boulevard, kurt sandoval abc seven eyewitness news i was going to say myself and chris alvarez, but i thought, no, we'll just keep it, keep it simple. let's go back to

you guys. >> don't add any confusion to the mix here. we're confused enough as it is. thanks so much, kurt. all right. another reminder. you can watch the espys tonight at eight right here on abc seven. >> the owners of the oakland ballers are looking to add to their ranks by giving members of the public the opportunity to buy into the team. the ballers are taking, allowing people to express their interest in investing in their team. you can sign up on their website. then, starting next month, the team will allow people to buy an ownership stake, which they say will be unlike any other tried in pro sports. shareholders will be allowed input on such decisions on things like logos and even some front office hiring decisions. that is such an interesting concept. >> the ballers, even though it's a minor league team, they have some really creative ideas and they get stuff done. >> yeah, it's very silicon valley, yes. >> i think in their very, very much so. okay. >> i'm not sure today is the best day to be out there watching a baseball game or anything else because, you know,

in some areas of the bay area anyway. spencer, maybe not a great day to be out there playing, that's for sure, is a day on which we should restrict our outdoor activity. >> so yeah, it's been a really, really hot day. the hottest day in the current heat wave. let's take a look at the satellite and radar. and you can see that the marine layer has been trying to form. but this lid of high pressure is compressed it and squashed it. and so there has been no cooling relief. we've got gentle breezes right now. so up to 15mph at oakland, 17mph at sfo. but it certainly hasn't cooled things down. in fact, as you look at the 24 hour temperature change, you can see that every location is several degrees warmer right now or hotter, if you will, than at this time yesterday. so let's take a closer look from sutro tower looking out over san francisco. temperature readings right now are 73 here in the city, 80 in oakland. we've got 93 at hayward, 99 at san jose, redwood city, 92 and 64 at half moon bay. the view from mount tam looking down onto the bay, and you can see the absence of fog there. 101 right now in santa rosa, 90 in petaluma, napa, 94 110 right now in fairfield, 106 at concord, 108

at livermore. it is hot. now. you can see a little bit of a haze or some thin marine layer beginning to present itself at the golden gate. these are our forecast headlines. heat waves. final day is tomorrow weekend weather. heat eases. it will be mild to warm, not exactly cool, but certainly more comfortable than the weather we're having right now. and next week. july warmth a typical july warmth with no extremes one way or the other. and speaking of extremes, that takes us to our heat alerts, the excessive heat warning and our heat advisory excessive heat warning for the inland areas heat advisory advisory for everyone else remains in effect until nine. well, now it says 9:00 saturday. i guess that's been updated since i last checked. it was supposed to be in effect until 8 p.m. tomorrow, and now the graphic says 9 a.m. saturday, so i guess it's been extended. and i'll confirm that a little bit later. here's our forecast animation taking us into the overnight hours. we'll see a little bit of a marine layer trying to form there. some low clouds may push out over the bay and we'll have mainly clear skies inland, though during the

overnight hours, with overnight lows mainly in the upper 50s near the bay and the coast, and we'll see mid to upper 60s, maybe even some 70s in inland areas. highs tomorrow mid 60s at the coast, mainly low or low to mid 80s around the bay shoreline and lots of triple digits inland, but not quite so many as we had today. so look for 104 in concord tomorrow one o 104 in livermore, rather 104 in antioch, up in the north bay, 90s at napa and santa rosa. and here is the accuweather seven day forecast. one more very hot day with triple digit temperature readings inland and then over the weekend, the cooling begins. now i call it cooling. we're still going to have some upper 90s inland on saturday. larry's laughing right. it is cooler though, that 106 or 108, don't you think? mid 90s on sunday. and finally down to low 90s on monday, tuesday and wednesday. so relief is on the way, but it's going to be a gradual arrival. >> yeah, technically you are obviously correct as always, but we're plummeting from 104 to 98 is not exactly uh- not exactly a plummet drop. we were hoping

for. >> i know, but we'll take it. >> you need a coping strategy. thank you. yeah okay. >> check out these long lines. as people tried to beat the heat at 711 today to get their free slurpees. it's seven eleven's annual slurpee day where you can get a free one, but only while supplies last. it's to celebrate the chain's 97th birthday. and this year, in collaboration with the children's miracle network, you can even get a special edition cup designed by a seven year old artist and cancer survivor. >> well, is all this heat getting you hot under the collar? you're not alone. how the weather affects your mental health. >> the next covid cases. oh yeah, going up again. what that means for

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it's the same situation. >> abc seven news reporter luz pena spoke with experts about how people can be protected, and who's most at risk of a booster. the one that's coming out. luz. >> yeah. scientists are detecting a surge in covid 19 cases in our wastewater at hospital. doctors are also seeing a slight increase. so why is this happening? doctors tell me it's the summer. people are traveling, and more transmissions are happening. covid 19 cases are increasing across the country and right here in the bay area. >> summer surge is upon us. we

definitely have seen an increase in the number of covid patients coming seeking care in our emergency department. >> the surge is also showing up in wastewater samples from three bay area water plants, and they're still trending upwards, so we're not sure how high they're actually going to get. >> and the levels right now are actually almost as high as they were during the omicron surge, which happened in 2022. >> stanford professor alexandra baim showed us their data up close. >> the black line is the average line across the bay area. it's a little bit higher than where we were last, the last holiday season in the winter. and it's, you know, high as high as many of these peaks that we saw over time. >> our abc7 news data team also looked at nationwide cdc data on covid 19 hospitalizations, while they're also trending up, they're still much lower compared to past surges. doctor dager says at ucsf, parnassus campus is seeing more cases, but patients are not as sick as in

the early days of the pandemic. >> they're fully vaccinated. so we're very lucky to have a very high proportion of our patient populations fully vaccinated. so their symptoms aren't as serious. they're really able to get better in just a few short days, and they aren't needing the higher levels of like respiratory care that they needed. in previous surges when we didn't have vaccines in the bay area, according to the california department of public health, hospitalizations began to go up in june. >> they're still trending up, but not as high as in january. during the winter surge. the groups most impacted right now are those 65 and older or the immunocompromised. >> they mount a less robust immune response to the vaccine, and therefore they're less protected after booster vaccination, ucsf professor and senior investigator at the gladstone institutes, doctor ron is urging people to get boosted. >> if you're elderly or immunocompromised, you can end up with severe covid. >> you can end up in the hospital, and you can even end up dying from covid. now, for

individuals with that are young, that have a generally healthy immune system, i would say it's still important to boost immunity. >> and according to doctors, if you're young and have your initial vaccine plus boosters, chances are you still have protection against severe illness. but what scientists say is that we're seeing now are breakthrough infections, so they recommend to get boosted, especially if you're traveling or meeting with large groups of people. luz pena, abc seven news. >> all right. thank you, luz. and now able to hold his first full news conference in eight months amid growing pressure from some members within his own party to withdraw from the race against donald trump. >> president biden will be live here unscripted, taking questions from reporters, the international press corps assembled after the nato summit in washington. of course, that means the world is watching the country is watching this tonight. the president has repeatedly insisted he will not step aside in this race, saying he is staying in this race for president. more than a dozen

democrats now on capitol hill have called for him to withdraw from the race. all of this after his debate performance earlier today. the president's top campaign aides went to capitol hill to meet with senate democrats behind closed doors, trying to ease their concerns. despite the turmoil of the last two weeks and the debate tonight, a new abc news washington post poll, also conducted with ipsos showing president biden and donald trump essentially tied trumpet 47, biden, 46. the poll also shows vice president kamala harris doing slightly better in a hypothetical matchup against trump. harris 49, trump 46. the president set to take questions live again, an unscripted moment for him. mary bruce, you're in that room and you know how rare this is. >> it certainly is, david. it has been eight months since we have seen the president come on a stage like this alone to face reporters, and he is under an intense microscope here tonight. the president well aware of that, david mary bruce, our chief white house correspondent, as we continue to watch this room, reporters in the room who are gathered now standing along with others, and here comes

president biden after the nato summit in washington. >> let's listen. >> thank you. please be seated. well, good evening. we just concluded this year's nato summit and the consensus among the members was it was a great success, especially momentous because it represented the 75th year, the most important military defense alliance in the world. history of the world. we should never forget that nato grew out of the wreckage of world war two. the most destructive war in history. the idea was to create an alliance of free and democratic nations that would commit themselves to a compact of collective defense. standing together, they knew we'd all be safer. attack on one would be treated as an attack on all. and it's worked because a would be aggressor knows the attack. one of us, they'll be attacked by all of us. sending

that message is the best way to deter aggression and prevent wars. in the first place. for those who thought nato's time had passed, they got a rude awakening when putin invaded ukraine. some of the oldest and deepest fears in europe roared back to life because, once again, a murderous madman was on the march. but this time cowered in appeasement, especially the united states. we collected intelligence that russia was planning to invade ukraine months before the invasion. i, i directed the intelligence community to be a significant amount of intelligence, be declassified so i can start building an international coalition to oppose the invasion. then in february, some of you remember, i warned the world that the invasion was imminent. i rallied a coalition of 50 nations from europe to asia to help ukraine defend itself. my foreign policy

met many foreign policy experts thought as putin amassed russian forces just 100 miles north of kyiv, the capital of ukraine but he thought he putin thought it was the mother home of russia, the capital would fall in less than a week, but the ukrainian people, backed by a coalition to help build, stop them today, kyiv still stands and nato stands stronger than it has ever been. during the week of this summit, several head of states made it a point in their statements to thank the united states and to thank me personally for all that nato has achieved. nato is not only stronger, nato is bigger because we led the charge to bring in finland and sweden into the alliance, and it makes a gigantic difference. excuse me. meanwhile my predecessor has made it clear he has no

commitment to nato. he's made it clear that he would feel no obligation to honor article five. he's already told putin, and i quote, do whatever the hell you want. in fact, day after putin invaded ukraine, here's what he said it was genius. it was wonderful. some of you forgot that. but that's exactly what he said. but i made it clear a strong nato is essential to american security. and i believe the obligation of article five is sacred. i would remind all americans article five is invoked only once in nato's long history, and that was to defend america. after nine over 11. i made it clear that i will not bow down to putin. i will not walk away from ukraine. i will keep nato stron. that's exactly what we did and exactly what we'll continue to

do. now. the future of american policy is up to the american people. this is much more than a political question. it's more than that. it's a national security issue. don't reduce this to the usual testament that people talk about issues of being a political campaign. it's far too important. it's about the world we live in for decades to come. every american must ask herself or himself is the world safer with nato? are you safer? is your family safer? i believe the american people know the answer to all those questions. is yes. and i believe the american people understand that america is stronger, stronger because of our alliances. i believe the american consensus from truman to reagan to me, still holds today. america cannot retreat from the world.

the must lead the world where our indispensable nation is. madeleine albright wrote. now let me turn to three other key issues. just this morning we had a great economic report showing inflation is down. overall prices fell last month. core inflation is the lowest it's been in three years. prices are falling for cars, appliances and airfare. airfares grocery prices have fallen since the start of the year. we're going to keep working to take down corporate greed, to bring those prices down further. meanwhile, trump is calling for a 10% tariff on everything americans buy, including food from overseas, vegetables and other necessities. and economists tell us that that would cost the average american working family another $2,500 a year. it's a tax of $2,500 a year. second, our efforts to secure our border

a southern border is working. after trump killed the bipartisan effort to secure the border, republicans and democrats had worked on because he thought it would benefit me and make him a loser. republicans walked away. so i took executive action last month as a consequence, working with mexico, border encounters have gone down over 50. the current level is lower today than when trump left office. third, for months, the united states has been working to secure a cease fire in gaza to bring the hostages home to create a path for peace and stability in the middle east. six weeks ago, i laid out a detailed plan in writing, was endorsed by the un security council, the g7. that

framework is now agreed on by both israel and hamas, so sent my team to the region to hammer out the details. these are difficult, complex issues. there still gaps to close. we're making progress. the trend is positive and i'm determined to get this deal done and bring an end to this war, which should end now. let me conclude where i began. we're the united states of america. we are the indispensable nation. our leadership matters. our partnerships matter. this moment matters. we must rise to meet i. with that, i'll take your questions. i've been given a list of people to call on here. reuters. jeff mason. >> mr. president, your political future has hung over the nato summit a little bit. this week,

speaker pelosi made a point of suggesting that your decision on whether to stay in the race was still open. george clooney and a handful, a handful of lawmakers have called on you to step aside. reuters is reporting tonight that uaw leadership is concerned about your ability to win. >> uaw just endorsed me, but go ahead. >> thank you, my question for you is how are you incorporating these developments into your decision to stay and separately what concerns do you have about vice president harris's ability to beat donald trump? if she were at the top of the ticket? look i wouldn't have picked vice president trump to be vice president, but i think she's not qualified to be president. >> so let's start there. number one, the fact is that the consideration is that i think i'm the most qualified person to run for president. i beat him once and i will beat him again. secondly the idea i served in

the senate a long time, the idea that senators and congressmen are running for office worry about the ticket is not unusual, and i might add, there are at least five presidents running or incumbent presidents who had lower numbers than i have now. later in the campaign. so there's a long way to go in this campaign. and so i i'm just going to keep moving, keep moving. and because, look i got more work to do. we've got more work to finish. there's so much we made so much progress. think about it. think about what we are economically relative to the rest of the world. name me a world leader who wouldn't want to trade places with our economy. we've created over 800,000 manufacturing jobs, 1.5 million. i mean, so things are moving. we've got more to go.

working class people still have need help. corporate greed is still at large. their prices, the corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic. they're coming down. and so i'm optimistic about where things are going. danny kemp a >> thanks. thank you, mr. president, i wanted to ask you about your, you mixed up, president, zelensky and putin earlier today, that, and you now have sort of your key allies, including the british prime minister, the president of france, and the german chancellor having to step in and make excuses for you on that, officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable, hasn't this? now, frankly, become damaging for america's standing in the world? >> thank you. did you see any damage to our standing by leading this conference? have you seen a more successful

conference? what do you think? and the putin piece i was talking about putin and i said, now at the very end, i said, here, i mean putin. i said, no, i'm sorry. zelensky and then i added five other names. look guys, the idea anybody suggests that that we haven't h incredibly successful conferenc. how many times did you hear in that conference? i know it sounds too self-serving, but other leaders heads of state in thanking me, saying the reason we're together is because of biden, because biden did the following. look, folks, this is a well, anyway, i thought it was the most successful conference i've attended a long time, and find me a world leader who didn't think it was next one, sorry. nancy cordes, cbs.

>> thank you, mr. president. you mentioned other instances in history where presidents have faced a challenge, but what makes this moment in history so unique is that it is not your enemies who are calling on you to reconsider your decision to stay in the race. it's your friends, supporters, people who think you've done a great job. over the past four years. have you spent time thinking about what it would mean for your legacy, which you've worked decades to build? if you stay in the race despite the concerns that voters say they have and you lose to someone who you yourself have argued is unfit to return to the oval office, well, look, i'm not in this for my legacy. >> i'm in this to complete the job. i started. as you recall, understandably, many of you and many economists thought my initial initiatives that i put forward can't do that. it's

going to cause inflation. things are going to skyrocket. the debt's going to go up. what are you hearing now from mainstream economists? 16 economic nobel laureates said, i've done a hell of a job, but under my plans, they're so far. and what's going to happen in the future if i, if i'm reelected, that things are going to get much better. our economy is growing. i was determined when i got elected to stop the trickle down economic theory that the wealthy did very well. everybody else would do well. my dad was a well-read, decent guy. i don't remember much trickling down on his kitchen table, middle class people and working class people need help. and so what happened is i decided to implement was able to implement as president what i believed when i was a senator. and that is that the way to build this economy is from the middle out and the bottom up. that way we grow the economy and the wealthy still do

very well. they do fine. and guess what? find me an economy. mainstream economists have said we haven't done well. what have we not done? that isn't working right now? and so we got more to do that we got to finish the job. and by the way, i come from a corporate state of the world. delaware has more corporations and, you know, registered in delaware than every other state in the nation combined. i'm not anti corporate, but corporate corporate profits have doubled since the pandemic doubled. it's time things get back in order a little bit. it's time, for example, if i'm reelected, we're going to make sure that rents are kept at 5% increase of corporate rents for apartments and the like, and homes are limited to 5. we're going to make a lot of changes that i've been talking about, because we're going to continue to grow this economy. and by the way, i know remember how i got so roundly criticized for being so pro-union and not labor union?

union. well, guess what? i've been the most pro-union labor president in history. not a joke. and guess what? we had the treasury department do a study. when unions do better, everybody does better. everybody does better. and we talk about how for example, when i went, remember when we talked about getting the computer chip industry back in the united states used to be 40% of the industry. we invented the chip, 40% of the industries in the united states. and former presidents decided that the best way to do is to find the cheapest labor in the world, send the product over there and import what the product was. and so what i do, i was told not to go over to europe, i mean to asia, including europe, but asia. i remember going to south korea, convincing them to invest $20 billion in the united states to build computer chip factories. and i asked why, when

they finally decided to do it. and the answer was because you have the safest economy in the world. you have the best workers in the world. so the whole idea here is we've we've invested over $50 billion in investment in computer chip manufacturing just coming into being. none of you thought that would happen. none of you thought that would happen. but it's happening. it's happening and it's going to grow economies all through. and by the way, red states and blue states matter of fact, there's as much in red states and blue states. i've made no distinction. so my generic point is that the idea that we can't continue to build and grow the economy, make it fair. like i said, from my standpoint, when the middle class does well, that's when the whole economy grows. the poor have a shot, the wealthy do well, but the wealthy

got to start paying their taxes. sir, you mentioned that your vice president, kamala harris, would be ready to serve on day one. >> can you elaborate on that? what is it about her attributes and her accomplishments over the last four years that make her ready to serve on day one, if necessary? >> first of all, the way she's handled the issue of freedom of women's bodies to have control of their bodies. secondly, her ability to handle almost any issue on the board. this was a hell of a prosecutor. she was a first rate person, and in the senate, she was really good. i wouldn't have picked her unless i thought she was qualified to be president. from the very beginning, i made no bones about that. she is qualified to be president. that's why i picked her. felicia schwartz times thank you, mr. president >> the presidency is the most straining job in the world, and it's 24 over seven. how can you say you'll be up for that next

year in two years and four years, given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today. >> the limits i've acknowledged. i have there has been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight. that's not true. look what i said was instead of my every day starting at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself a little more. and i said, for example, the eight, seven, six stuff. instead of starting the fundraiser at 9:00, start at 8:00, people get to go home by 10:00. that's what i'm talking about. i'm not talking about. and if you look at my schedule, since i've since i made that stupid mistake of in the campaign, in the debate, i mean, my schedule has been full bore. i've done when where's trump been riding around in his golf cart, filling out his scorecard before he hits the ball? i mean,

look, he's done virtually nothing and i have i don't know how many don't hold me to roughly 20 major events. someone with thousands of people showing up. and so i just thin better. i always have an inclination whether i was playing sports or doing politics just to keep going, not stop. i just got to just pace myself a little more, pace myself. and the next debate i'm not going to be traveling into 15 time zones a week before anyway. that's what it was about. this was about and by the way, even with that, i love my staff. but the add things add things all the time. the very end. i'm catching hell from my wife for that. anyway.

associated press thank you, mr. president, >> two questions for you. first, on the nato summit, president zelensky, in your meeting with him, he pressed you to lift your limitations on the ukrainian use of american weapons, saying that in his public remarks afterwards, saying that ukraine cannot win the war unless those limitations are lifted. are you reconsidering your position on that? and then secondly, following up on felicia's question there, leaders of your own party have said that they are not worried about that debate. they're worried about the next bad night and the bad night after that. how can you reassure the american people that you are up to the task, and that there won't be more bad nights at a debate stage, or somewhere else? >> first thing about zelensky asking for the ability to strike deep into russia. we have allowed zelensky to use american

weapons in the near term and the near abroad into russia. whether or not he has, we should be he should be attacked. for example, should zelensky he's not. if he had the capacity to strike moscow to strike the kremlin, would that make sense? it wouldn't. the question is, what's the best use of the weaponry he has? and the weaponry we were getting to him? i've gotten them more. i got them more long range capacity as well as defensive capacity. and so our military is working. i'm following the advice of my commander in chief, my, my, my, the chief of staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people. and we're making a day to day basis on what they should and shouldn't, how far they should go in. that's a logical thing to do. second question related to bad nights, sir, how can you

reassure the american people that you won't have more bad nights, whether they be on a debate stage or in some matter of foreign policy? well, i'll tell you what, the best way to assure them is the way i share myself. and that is, am i getting the job done? am i getting the job done? can you name me somebody who's got more major piece of legislation passed in three and a half years? i created 2000 jobs just last week. so if i slow down, i can't get the job done. that's a sign that i shouldn't be doing it. but there's no indication of that yet. none we got here merrick. polskie radio. >> thank you, mr. president. how are you? >> i'm well. >> the elections in the us have consequences around the world.

you have pretty high standing in europe. i just asked president macron about you, and he said we are happy to have him as the president of the united states. but there is a concern, many people in poland and across europe are worried that the former president may win the election. and there's a lot of concern that donald trump may weaken nato, stop supporting ukraine or push ukraine to give up territories to russia. they're correct. and your yourself was warning just two minutes ago about it. so my question is, do you think that europe will be left on its own if donald trump wins the election? and what's your advice to european leaders to prepare

for a possible us disengagement? well, look. >> i think, how can i say this without sounding too self-serving? i'm not having any my european allies come up to me and say, joe, don't run. what i hear them say is, you've got to win. you can't let this guy come forward. he'd be disaster. it'd be disaster. i mean, i think said in one of his rallies, don't hold me this recently where nato, i just learned about nato or something to that effec. foreign policy has never been his strong point, and he seems to have an affinity to people who are authoritarian. that worries, as i tell you, from poland, that worries europe, that worries poland. and nobody, including the people of poland,

think that if he wins in ukraine, he's going to stop in ukraine, if that's going to be the end of it and so what i can say is i think i'm the best qualified person to do the job to make sure that ukraine is not fall, that ukraine succeeds, that the european alliance stays strong. you may recall no one was talking about finland joining nato. i remember talking to putin and when, right after he got elected in geneva and he was talking about what we should do, he we couldn't be in eastern europe, etc. and i said, you're looking for the federalization of ukraine because you can get the nato ization of finland. and about four weeks later, i got a call from that's not true. probably five months later when the president of finland, could he come and see me in my office? and i had i invited him to the

oval office. we sat down and talked. he said he wanted to join nato. could i help? and i did. it wasn't automatic. and then i got a call from the swedes. i beg your pardon so finland joined nato border is a significant. and they're already allies. but they weren't part of nato. and you heard i think you heard maybe. i can't recall whether he said a public in our closed meeting, but he wouldn't mind if he repeated. he said, we decided in finland, the people of finland decided they had to be part of nato. it was in our interest because of the joint ability to be together, to dissuade any attack on finland. and the same thing with with sweden. it took a lot of selling to some folks,

particularly, in turkey and other places, to agree to the expansion, but it expanded, and we're a hell of a lot stronger because of it. we're more secure because of it. and by the way, i was able to get 50 other nations, 55 zero to support ukraine, 50 we were able to bring about a coalition between in of europe and asia, japan and south korea. i just met with we talked about aukus and we talked about the relationship between australia, new zealand, japan, south korea, the united states. we're making the world safer and stronger because we have to deal with the new arrangement that exists in the world. the cold war is over. the postwar era is over. what is going to replace it? and i respectfully suggest i

have a pretty good idea what that should be. i could miss a lot of people to follow it. we're just going to get stronger. david sanger. what is it? >> thank you, mr. president. >> be nice. david >> mr. president, the nato declaration that was, issued yesterday, was very notable because it described china as a decisive enabler of the war in ukraine and for its provision of critical goods to the russians, that's part of a broader partnership that seems to have cemented in place in the past 2 or 3 years, i think one that you were a little bit doubtful of when we asked you about it some time ago, so i'd be interested to know whether you have a strategy now of trying to interrupt the partnership between china and russia, and

whether or not in a second term you would pursue that. if you could describe that strategy to us. and along the way, could you also tell us whether you think just to follow up on felicia's question, that if you were in a room with vladimir putin again, the way you were three years ago, or with president xi that a few years from now you will be able to go negotiate with them, handle them one on one. >> well, the first part of your question is we discussed and i raised in the nato summit and others raised the future of china's involvement. what they're going to do, what they're doing with russia in terms of accommodating, facilitating their getting access to additional they're not supplying they're not supplying weapons themselves. they're supplying mechanisms for them to be able to get weapons. and china's position is basically and i've spent more time with xi

jinping than any world leader has over 90 hours since being vice president, all the way through, for real. and by the way, i handled all my notes, but my point is that. she that china is a large enough market that they can entice any country, including european countries, to invest there in return for commitments from europe to do a, b, c or d, or not to do certain things. what's happened is we had a long discussion about what we cannot we have to make clear china has to understand that if they are supplying russia with information and capacity, along with working with north korea and others to help russia in armament, that they're not going to benefit economically as a

consequence of that, by getting the kind of investment they're looking for. and so, for exampl, we're in a situation where and we've reestablished direct contact with china after that. remember the balloon, quote unquote, going down all of a sudden thing came to an end. well, we set up a new mechanism. there's a direct line between she and me and our military has direct access to one another, and they contact one another when we have problems. the issue is that we have to make sure that she understands there's a price to pay for undercutting if you want to invest in invest,

as you know, you know this area really well, ryan, invest in china. you have to have a 51% chinese owner. you have to make sure that you do by their rules and you can't. you don't have the authority and you have to provide all access to all the data and information you have. there was a while there, as you recall, the last administration and other administrations where the access to that market was enticing enough to get companies to come in because they had access to over a billion people in the a market. not a billion, but a lot of people in the market. and so they were doing it. but that that got curtailed when we started saying we're going to play by the same rules. for example, the idea they don't abide by the international rules related to subsidizing products by the government funding. so guess what? they're not going to be able to export their electric