so we're motoring about downtown why don't the southern tip of the museum it lies submerged 30 feet below us on al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm marianna marzio watching the news hour live from london coming up a commander in chief on the fire president trying faces scrutiny over his opinions on america's war dead it follows explosive allegations in the atlantic magazine. most of these believed to be true. don't chump is not sure to be jumped through to be the committee. but there is a diplomatic win for donald trump after days of talks in washington serbia and

kosovo agreed to normalize ties also coming up on the news hour lebanon falls silent one month after the explosion that tore through the capital beirut and the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activist behind the nation's fight for women's rights. in school enormous see is to remain a barcelona player messi says he's changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal disputes with the club. welcomes the news our top story donald trump's allies are scrambling to his defense amid growing backlash of the u.s. president's alleged remarks on war veterans suckers and losers are amongst the times the president has called america's war dead according to an article in the

atlantic magazine but given trump's support in the military and with less than 60 days to go until the election it's become the focus of both campaigns of a night party call hayne has more. the u.s. military and veterans are a big part of u.s. president donald trump's base he needs their support and now that could be much more of a challenge for those who believe the allegations that on this visit to france and 2018 the president was supposed to visit a cemetery where more than 2000 american soldiers are buried he didn't go blaming the weather but according to the report in the atlantic he skipped it concerned about what the rain would do to his hair and he reportedly said why should i go to that cemetery it's filled with losers the story claims he then called the marines buried their suckers and that he didn't want wounded troops to take part in military parades saying nobody wants to see that it also says on this visit to arlington national cemetery with his then homeland security secretary who son was

buried there after being killed in action the president reportedly said i don't get it what was in it for them trump is denying the allegations and it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there it was a terrible thing that somebody could say that kind of thing but that denial is being met with skepticism because of the president's past comments like this one about senator john mccain but you know the last side of it like that was what you have to that because i don't like it. but frank frank let me get to where he is that a war hero or hero is a war in iraq for years he's a warrior i presume was captured by like people that weren't captured ok i hate to say the biden campaign was quick to make this an issue really seen this ad. the former vice president called the allegations if true disgusting my son volunteered to join the united states military as you turn the general want to relax for year

one the bronze star and other commendations he wasn't a sucker. servicemen and women he served with. particularly those did not come home were not lose reaction was also swift on social media this from a retired general we met with the chairman of the joint chiefs general dunford his comment was that's a smart guy in the military and from a veterans organization opposed to trump my message to donald trump is that this you have no right being commander in chief president trump didn't serve in vietnam claiming to have bone spurs he denigrated the parents of a soldier killed in iraq and prisoners of war it didn't cost him support from the military community in 2016 the biden campaign hoping this time this might just be different political hane dizzier while he's batting away criticism of the

u.s. president appears to be aiming for a win on foreign policy at least 2 countries that for one of the most devastating wars in the balkans on normalizing economic ties in a deal announced by donald trump trump is called the agreement between serbia and kosovo a major breakthrough kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 but is not recognized by the serbian government or its allies trump says serbia will also follow his controversial diplomatic policy and move its embassy to jerusalem while kosovo will establish ties with israel so let's go live to our white house correspondent of course the hope the trouble ministration is that this will be a diplomatic victory at a very difficult time on the domestic front but is that the serbia kosovo agreement getting much much coverage there in the u.s. . it's not getting a lot of coverage truthfully the story that patty cole payne reported on just a few moments ago is the one that is getting most of the play domestically what i

can tell you is that you know particularly comes young people they don't remember the conflict and when it comes to just ordinary americans they tend to be somewhat insular and also really hold the military dear so that is sort of the man on the street perspective when you talk about sort of the journalistic perspective reporter is kind of drilled down on this is the white house held a press briefing about this agreement trying to get specific details about it and the conclusion from a lot of the questions was that there seemed to be a lot of style here and a little less substance there was quite a bit of defensiveness on the part of the administration officials as the reporters asked some more pointed questions about this deal so now the question becomes particularly in foreign policy circles here in washington was this done for how to try and distract from some of the more negative headlines that the president has been dealing with not just the story that he allegedly called those in the military

suckers and losers but also the fact that he's trailing in the polls with just weeks until the u.s. election behind his democratic rival joe biden and also the fact that when it comes to cope with 19 infections are still rising and there are still roughly 30000000 americans that are out of work so there's no question the president looking for a diplomatic win whether or not he scored it domestically it's not clear and of course president trump is continuing to deny these reports about the language she's used when referring to the u.s. servicemen how how his aides trying to stem the fallout what kind of damage control are we getting from the white house. well the white house has for almost 24 hours now been hammering away bringing forward testimonies of various members of former administration officials members of the military who say the president either didn't say this or would never say this the problem is that we've now had

confirmation from one of the reporters on the fox news network that leans conservative that has been a very strong supporter of the president terms of its editorial perspective and there are sources now saying that these allegations against the president are in fact true now the president will have an opportunity to refute this he's about to hold a press briefing in the white house in the next hour and we're watching that carefully to see what he might say but in the midst of this again it's some of the president's own statements that are most problematic whether it be on twitter when he called in 2015 john mccain a loser or whether the fact that he has done some things that the military doesn't think is very supportive for example we've just had a report that the pentagon has abruptly shut down one of the oldest military newspaper supporting soldiers the dates back to the civil war it's known as the stars and stripes it's being shut down the funding being polled and has to kind of fold its operation by mid september so the problem is for the president is that

he's making these denials but at the same time people are looking at other actions and questioning the validity of his apology all right thank you very much for now kimberly help our white house correspondent of course our of the headline story today a suspect linked to the fatal shooting of a protester in the u.s. as he of portland has been shot dead by federal agents security forces fired at michael raynal while trying to arrest him on thursday he was being investigated for allegedly shooting a far right count to protest and last week the victim was among dozens of trump supporters who clash with protest as a demonstration against racial injustice and police brutality. michael raynal spoke to vice news before he was shot by police and said his actions were an act of self-defense totally justified had i not acted on i am confident that my friend and i'm sure i would have been killed because i was either going to stand there and let something happen but they've done is they are trying to make it look

like we're all terrorists and they're trying to make me look like a murderer i've noticed that they keep saying that it's not clear that it's related to the protests and that's a law they know that is related to the protests when all the developments take a blade a black man who was shot by police last month in the city of kind osha has appeared in court on a video link are you able to hear me clearly today sir. blake faces charges of sexual assault and domestic abuse charges unrelated to the incident that led to his shooting he was paralyzed after an officer shot him 7 times in the back and was initially shackled to his hospital bed it triggered days of protests in the city of and elsewhere in the u.s. well john hendren joins us live now from chicago he's been following this story what happened in the court hearing today. it was an extraordinary

scene jacob blake was shown in this zoom call lying on his hospital bed in a blue shirt and yellow tie the 1st time any of us have seen him since he was shot nearly 2 weeks ago on that sunday and he was asked for his pleas to the charges of 3rd degree sexual assault disorderly conduct and trespassing he pleaded not guilty to all of those now those charges weren't directly linked to his shooting but apparently when police encountered him on this street in konoha they at some point discovered that he had the that he had a warrant out for him that his girlfriend had made these accusations against him and they tried to take him into custody according to police story they tried to tase him twice then chased him to his van in that video that we've all seen and shot him 7 times in the back so this case in directly led to that shooting that

has jacob blake in the hospital room he has is out on $10000.00 bond in theory but of course he's still in that hospital room he was held remotely on line for 2 reasons one because of the covert 1000 prices too because he is paralyzed just got out of the intensive care unit in his on able. to really get around so he's got a court appearances coming up meanwhile his family says i talked to justin blake his uncle he says that jacob blake he's prepared to get through this he did. herman did make something good out of this experience but it was an extraordinary court experience and he's going to have to get through this case before he does more jails all right thanks very much for the latest on that story john hendren joining us from chicago. much more still ahead on this news hour from london nato demands rusher of elites nerve agent program following the alleged poisoning of alexina

volley. vaccine nationalism the world health organization i just countries to back coordinated efforts for a coronavirus treatment. and in sport i mean us soccer has to dig deep to stay in title contention at the u.s. open. now lebanon has fallen silent to mark the moment exactly a month ago when a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut was caused by nearly $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate which caught fire and blew up after being improperly stored for years official figures say 191 people died 6 still missing but that toll could be even higher with many undocumented refugees living in lebanon at least 6 and a half 1000 people were injured many of them permanently disabled and 300000 people

have lost their homes some remain in structures deemed unsafe because they have nowhere else to go. say no harder has more on this now. the 191 victims of the devastating explosion that tore through the lebanese capital were remembered one months on a vigil was held outside the port where nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate on safely stored in a warehouse ignited one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history one minute of silence was observed at the exact time of the explosion 6 o 8 pm it was a moment many still vividly remember. they've gone to. court and customs

employees have been arrested but many lebanese believe senior officials as high up as the president should be the ones to be held accountable they were aware of the highly explosive material and did nothing about it today is about just this airlines are 20 years old she writes i'd ask you when you literally work every single day you know it is the thing over of violence financially. it's a bit like. basically like to live a kilometer away a desperate search for life underneath the rubble of a building that collapsed from the impact of the blast sniffer dog alerted a team from chile that were surveying the damage in the neighborhood specialist sensors then detected breathing 18 breaths a minute which gave hope 24 hours later the breathing slowed significantly pace rescuers refused to say when they last had had proof of life but they did promise

not to call off the search until they have answers it's unlikely someone could have survived for a month under the debris but it is not unheard of and while many remained hopeful it was. another example of the state feeling its people a month later we're still being our bodies why did it take so long this is another you know commemorative moment where we have to pay attention to how the situation was dealt what it was dealt and of in a very haphazard manner nonprofessional manner and honestly i had to do this with absolutely no conscious and no feelings and no humanity there was already much outrage over how the authorities handled the crisis since the port explosion they have been absent in the rescue relief recovery and rebuilding efforts there's volunteers local and international n.g.o.s who have taken the lead and yet again it is them on the front lines of lebanon's latest calamity many wonder if it was false hope or whether there was a real chance to find life amid all the darkness so. beirut.

nato is saying military level talks are underway between greece and turkey in an effort to deescalate the territorial dispute playing out in the eastern mediterranean this despite denials from the greek side both nations have held large scale air and sea exercises in the region in recent weeks and nato is concerned about the military build up greece is unhappy turkish research ships are respecting the seed bed for oil and gas in a sea area claimed by both nations. well now to political developments in batteries the opposition leaders fit on a ticking off skier is calling on the united nations to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters they accuse president alexander lukashenko of rigging his election victory last month. but it's missed reports on the story now from vilnius in neighboring lithuania. so a lot of chicken also believes that by now she should have been sworn in as the new

president of ballads instead she's exiled to neighboring lithuania via video link she asked an informal meeting of the u.n. security council for help. today in the country where the rose is in turn were a peaceful protest and been illegally detained beaten and imprisoned. in the balance capital men's cooperation colleague maria kolesnik over and others a former political party chicken of sky i haven't been told in advance but all signs insist any misunderstandings have been ironed out and the other more united than they were on the swift flannels court of the nation council we want political prisoners screech we want an investigation into the killings of peaceful protesters and we want new fair and transparent there lecture us all to the force of law not our choice will stall on and we're not going to leave it like that speaking to al-jazeera at the new vilnius headquarters of her coordination council chicken or

sky i acknowledge the challenges of not being in belarus is difficult for both of us because i'm here it's safer for me to be here but it's more difficult to. not morally to be here because i understand that i should be there in my people and it is difficult for her as well because she is under pressure of the time she is in danger all the time as any person and. also on friday police arrested students at the minutes state linguistics institute who ignored calls from arab ministration to stop protests. there been demonstrations across baton rouge since the august 9th election which president alexander lukashenko said he'd won with 80 percent of the vote. many belorussians and major western powers to the vote was blocked. alexander lukashenko says lithuania and other neighboring countries are

behind the protests and he says nato is building up its troops along the borders u.s. troops times have started arriving here with the lithuanian government says there are exercises planned long before the elections next door. bernard smith al-jazeera news. world health organization has again urged countries to join forces to tackle the corona virus saying vaccine nationalism would only slow the response to the pandemic the organization is leading a global vaccine allocation plan known as kovacs aimed at helping to buy and distribute vaccination shots fairly but some countries that have secured their own supplies through a lateral deals including the united states have said they won't be taking part. well w.h.o. has also said that it would never endorse a vaccine until it has been proven safe it's been revealed that people who received russia's coronavirus vaccine in early trials have developed antibodies with no

serious side effects that's according to a study published in the lancet one of the world's leading medical journals the report is also warn that the trial is too small to prove that a vaccine is safe and effective in august russia became the 1st country in the world to authorize a coronavirus vaccine before large scale trials were completed well dr maria elena but ted c. is the associate dean at the national school of tropical medicine joins me now over skype from houston texas so patients have developed antibodies without any major side effects from this russian vaccine does that give you some reason for optimism . sure absolutely i think a good meal so if you mentioned that adversary has now been published in the lancet which it's a great thing he gives a good service to that all the scientists are great scientists that are actually doing all this hard work i think you know it's very interesting that if it is

getting any be patient similar scenes that were there again or viral platform. as we say then certainly we've seen. neutralizing antibodies as well and certainly antibodies i think is very unique they're thinking neat because they're using a combination of a kind of like 2 vaccine thing while they're they're doing a crime was separate safe. and then your viral flat which is kind of unique and i think it's the neatest thing approach that they are in and what do you make of the fact that the information was published in in the lancet is that sort of does that provide some kind of validation will seal of approval on russia's efforts what concerns do you still have. well i think that of course you know abbe other you have the ability of our reading and reviewing that has to be r e z u n i related by our there are so happy x.

30 so we're it's a great indication that indeed they are they're transparent with that they'd only evidence are very. concerned as we have been hearing around with our air. dry it is that our youth are really being able to. register a news widely that vaccines will have to go through very large base 3 clinical trials and 4 of those i believe. many others. have already started doing this large clinical 1000 so i think we need to have a little bit more patients to really categorize are any of these vaccines. why is the current information or is the current testing in these early trials not enough to be able to roll out a wide scale immunization program. slow deliberate years though the initial studies

you're talking. not even thousands are its own just early indications are now small number of people normally with our mary experimental design are on the x. a selective type are in the most likely have our own healing age range so when you are starting to good then expand to these large place you travel when you get the opportunity of identifying when there are any potential safety concerns but also you are expanding the schedules and doses. of the populations of among graphics of the population the crucial part of that phase 3 testing where you see you scale up the the proportion of testing is that you get genetic ethnic gender diversity so that you can confirm that the safety of this vaccine absolutely instead of course you can be turning better the percent effectiveness eventually of

these are seeing in some of the epic a-c. . the work really going to work on one dose is going to work a studio so it's so i think that the reason why we need to be. a little bit more patient in seeing this very forth and i i i i'm reluctant to put you on the spot with this but with the information that we have and the testing that's currently underway by pharmaceutical giants and you know countries russia china u.s. and others how long do you think it might be would you say the end of this year or next year more likely. well i think that if you look at how these subsidies are designed the 5 of they all need to enrol every hour so if our only video it's the fact that they're starting to look at. how many seconds to doso which are one month separate and then they're most likely no earlier than the end of this year

lalas like in the 1st quarter of one turn what would be able to really look as a day. and certainly he said which of these that seems and how each of these vaccines will be new because it's in a great spiral we actually use smaller on one of these that seems thank you dr maria elena but see thank you you're welcome thank you. francis recorded its biggest single day rise and you corona virus infection since the beginning of the pandemic nearly 9000 cases were reported on friday such as forced at least a dozen schools across the country to close just days into the new academic year say the rise is partially because of an increase in testing. well it's largest economy might be recovering employees in the u.s. a hiring again but so far only huff of the $22000000.00 jobs lost in the pandemic have actually been recovered and some jobs in ad lines hotels and restaurants might

be gone for a good while brunell's has mom. mary benedetto lost her job as a janitor months ago when the coronavirus pandemic crashed the u.s. economy like millions of others she's worried for the future that's a buy plant around america. i can live on a stroke for months president donald trump and his advisors have been predicting a rat hole speaking about us because on the employment and unemployment actually president trump just speaking about that issue now an employment rate plummeted to 8.4 percent the 2nd largest single month drop ever recorded surpassed only by our big decline in june last month we saw a large declines in the unemployment rate for african-americans hispanic americans and asian americans very big that alliance we're witnessing the fastest labor market recovery from any economic crisis in history by far by

contrast the last administration had the slowest weakest and worst recovery in american history that was well documented as you know this year the united states has seen the smallest economic contraction of any major western nation and we are recovering at a much faster rate than any other nation business confidence is higher today in america than in any other g 7 or 8 you country that covers a lot of territory so we have the business confidence is higher. then many in any of those countries in july retail sales not only recovered but reached a new all time high so think of that retail sales that's a very basic statistic and it's a big statistic it not only recovered but reached the highest level ever ordo sales of surged to an incredible 74 percent since their april low and are

nearly back to their previous levels and that's been a tremendous thing used cars and new cars have been both doing incredibly well mortgage applications were 27 percent higher in august than during the same period last year homebuilder sentiment reached the highest level on record indicating that more high paying construction jobs are on the way home building has been great and lending has been really incredible u.s. manufacturing activity reaching 1000 month high in august while my administration is for every day to restore prosperity however nancy pelosi and the democrats in congress are holding additional china virus relief hostage to. 2 reasons that nobody understands i guess i do i think i understand scope politics and speaking of politics i think north carolina i think that michigan and

pennsylvania and other states they should open the governors a democrat governor should open the states all up and i'm on november 4th but that it should open now it's very unfair to the people to have the shutdowns continuing at the level that they continuing democrats are insisting on a massive taxpayer bailout of badly run blue states stimulus checks for illegal aliens and the mass release of inmates from jail they want to release. a lot of inmates some of them for very serious reasons they want to release them from jail they want that power as part of a stimulus package can you believe it it's time for the democrats in congress to start working across the aisle and put the american people 1st now we have $300000000000.00 in a an account that we didn't use $300000000000.00 and we are willing to use that i would be willing to release it subject to congress and use that as

stimulus money and it would go right to the american people so we have $300000000000.00 sitting in an account that we didn't need because things are going so well with the economy but it would be a very appropriate thing to release that to the american people and i am willing to do it all we need is a sign off but that doesn't mean that we're going to release prisoners some prisoners some very vicious people actually we're not going to put them on the streets like the democrats want us to and we're not going to give stimulus checks to illegal aliens they came into the country and now we give him a check we want to give the checks to the american people so remember we have 300000000 it's there we don't need the money we don't need it they just let that money get released to the american people as our economy rebounds is only one thing that could stop the extraordinary economic comeback and wipe out the future of american workers and that's what the democrats want to do with

a 4 trillion dollar tax hike. implementing it. things that will be really bad for our country and this will just absolutely cripple what we're doing on regulations and so many other. elements of success we had the greatest economy in history prior to the china virus coming in now they want to stop regulations they want to. bring up regulations to a level stop the things that we're doing which aired a much smaller level and bring up regulations at a level that nobody's ever seen before they want to do things that will make it impossible for any economy to grow they want to ban fracking and as you saw banned bandanas all of a sudden he sees us polls going down and now he says well i was only. talking about not maybe banning fracking but he wants to ban fracking and it doesn't matter what he wants to ban the people that control him want to ban fracking from and whether

it's pennsylvania texas oklahoma north dakota so many other states you can't ban fracking it would be a disaster ohio want to abolish american energy i mean that's what's going to happen adopt disastrous trade deals and inflict a devastating shutdown. as you know he said we want to shut it down we would be willing to shut it down and you don't shut down when we're setting records and by the way were rounding the corner we're rounding the corner on the virus joe biden's blanket shutdown would collapse our economy would cause countless deaths from suicide drug alcohol abuse heart disease and more you know shutdowns because a lot of problems a lot of very serious problems more so than the virus itself biden's plan is not a solution it's a virtual surrender and our country is doing so well we're starting to do so well i

think will that have a great 3rd quarter i mean you're going to see for yourself because the numbers will be announced sometime prior to the election on november 3rd. and as you know joe spent his entire career sending american jobs to china and other far far away countries for 47 years people who are pillaging our country taking our jobs taking our companies and that's never going to change with that mindset and with that group in biden is not going to be standing up to these foreign countries is not going to be standing up maybe more importantly to the people that run the democrat party it isn't of the strength to do that he refuses even to condemn and a bad group of far left domestic terrorist organization he doesn't want to say anything bad about it his plan to appease the domestic terrorists is the exact opposite of what i'm doing and i think you saw that last night yesterday the u.s.

marshals we sent a man u.s. marshals we will waiting for a local government to take care of it but they didn't do that so the u.s. marshals one and law enforcement they took down the ante for a member who murdered a man in the. middle of a street in portland the suspect was killed after drawing a weapon when offices attempted to take him into custody they want to take him and the u.s. marshals credible people so i want to thank them for their strength their bravery and i really do wish that the mayor of portland and the governor of oregon would get going and stop the crime in that city be so easy to do well we're focused on creating good paying jobs the radical left is focused on unleashing by really violent mobs and you see that whether you're conservative or liberal republican democrat or independent we must all agree the need for peace and order in safety.

under my administration law enforcement is conducting arrests nationwide of rioters looters and domestic terrorists a reason we didn't put chicago into our list what we're holding back funds from some of these states and cities that are doing such a poor job such an incompetent job. a job that nobody can even imagine how bad it was holding it back until they get their act together and we are having a lot of people in chicago right now and you notice that the numbers are going down rapidly but we have we've deployed a lot of federal law enforcement inside of chicago and they're taking out quite a few people and they're being arrested they're being put in jail and that's why you see those numbers going down that's why you see that with respect to the mayor we did not hold back funds in chicago but new york is experiencing a tremendous crime wave in some cases up over 300 percent and they have to do

something quickly we just spoke to mare bowzer and she's willing to do whatever's necessary to have very good talk with her that's in d.c. and the other places they speak for themselves we're working with the state or local authorities to comb through hours of videotape identify and arrest suspects and prosecute lawbreakers we've already got over $300.00 in jail. and we have tremendous evidence and i want to thank the media for helping this out because they take in different angles we have it from every different angle you can't probably have any better than what we've got we see it from the sky in the ground and from the right and from the left so when they say they didn't do it we say well what's this so we get that from the media free of charge under operation legend we've surge federal law enforcement to cities plagued by violent crime the initiative has

already resulted in tremendous success and nationwide we have over 2000 arrests and we don't talk about it too much but now we might as well so we've arrested over 2000 criminals the criminals and in a single month the murder rate in chicago is you know one as i said it was cut in half actually so on the china virus front the nations of europe have experienced a 38 percent greater excess mortality then the united states 38 percent more a greater excess mortality than the united states lot of you don't want to report that and if we took new york and out of the equation is nobody even close the job we've done is incredible and. we don't get any credit for it but we've done an incredible job through operation warp speed with 3 vaccines and the final stage of

clinical trials yesterday pfizer announced i just spoke to the head of pfizer great guy they announced that it expects to have the results of its trial very very shortly next month but very shortly we remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the and maybe even before november 1st. with it we could probably have it sometime during the month of october and pfizer is among the leaders as you know and it's a great company johnson and johnson also doing very well. moderna we have some really great companies are all doing very well they're all in final stages and i think you're going to see results that are shockingly good finally i want to provide you with a brief update of the virus cases in the united states have declined 28 percent nationwide over the last month and hospitalizations and deaths have continued to

twine over the past week verse substantially decline thanks to america's medical genius the mortality rate has been reduced by 85 percent in april mortality rate reduced by 85 percent hospital length of stay one 3rd of their average length in april so the hospitalizations down the length of stay is way down in order to keep making progress against the virus we ask all americans to remain vigilant especially over labor is that labor day you know you have the labor day weekend coming upon us immediately i guess we can say pretty immediately and we need everybody to be careful to apply common sense and do all of the things that we've told you to do as quickly as much as you can social distancing wearing a mask when ever the distancing is not possible and staying like.

staying with a group that you know let's just try and get through this one weekend and i think we have a chance of doing that just social distance washing hands all of the hygiene things that we speak about and we're really rounding the turn and the vaccines are coming therapeutics have already come but they continue to. the convalescent plaza has had a tremendous. impact already you see what's happening there and rammed as severe has been incredible so we have a lot of things happening we have a lot of therapeutics coming out i think from the standpoint of common sense i guess their appearance to me right now you go into a hospital you give somebody a shot or or transfusion it might be a transfusion probably more than 50 percent are actually transfusions and they'll leave the hospital shortly thereafter i mean to me that's more important in a certain sense in the vaccine but the vaccines will be great over the long term

the therapeutics over the short term and also knowing you have the therapeutics i think is great from the standpoint of mind of the standpoint of the mind it's great so i want to thank everybody for being here i'm going to ask larry kudlow to give a couple of examples of how strong our economy is recovering how strongly it's recovering and it's setting records at every level and we're doing better than every other country and we're very proud of all of the people for doing such an incredible job this is a very it's a super very again we have $300000000000.00 ready to go all congress has to do is say use it if they say use it i'd like to use it without their permission but i guess i'm not allowed to do that i did ask that question. so the congress has to just say use it all they have to do is say use a $300000000000.00 gets immediately. put into our system. will really help the american people there's nothing else to do just

a very quick statement so when as larry to come up i want to think. of another man for being here today there's a man that's a incredible leader lou holtz i've known him for a long time he's been a friend of mine and i think i've received letters from every football coach almost in the lation that's a little exaggeration but some some of the greats nick saban wrote a letter coach. coach joe is central casting he said we're going to have to put him in the movie right as a football coach he really be good playing a football coach is an urban meyer wrote a beautiful letter and so many of the other great legendary coaches not only coaches the people in sports and people like. so we've been listening to us president donald trump here obviously speaking touching on a number of different issues but no particular issue in any depth he spoke about immigration u.s. economic figures just released today the prospect of

a coronavirus vaccine he's still optimistic that one can be found before the end of the year i think you mentioned october and his remarks there and then of course lauren order spoke about recent protests and violence and of course that is a key issue for president trump in the upcoming election in november is he really tries to play up his support for nor enforcement and betray at protesters and demonstrators as being anti-american in a bid to try and win over those swing voters so let's go live to our white house correspondent kelly help that is obviously listening to all of this and i suppose company conspicuous and its absence was any remark or even denial of the reports on the president's alleged denigrating comments about u.s. servicemen and women. yeah that was the glaring absence given that is what is leading newscasts in this country right now the president scored a bit of a diplomatic win today he says with regard to the agreement was signed involving serbia kosovo no one's talking about that the president has not really brought that

up and he also isn't talking about this what his rival joe biden has said needs to be an apology the president has to apologize for calling service members suckers and losers for enlisting or serving in the u.s. military at least that's what an atlantic article has alleged and this white house for 24 hours almost has been spinning and deflecting this story but the problem is for the president is that it has now been corroborated at least through sources from the fox network this is a network that leans conservative traditionally and has been very supportive of the president its editorial perspective so the fact that their sources are now confirming that these statements made by the president that he denies disparaging service members is certainly going to be a problem for the press and so we're watching carefully he's now got his economic adviser speaking at the podium whether or not the president will take questions

because this really the only clash question that anyone in the press corps wants to ask right now just very quickly in terms of some of the points the president made touting this is being one of the swiftest economic recoveries it's important for our viewers to know that in the united states there is a swift recovery if you're in the top income brackets but if you are working class american communities of color they have not seen that same level of recovery so it's been known as a case shaped recovery summer going up others are going down many of these job losses have become permanent and then one other point that there is a little bit of news in there the u.s. president suggesting when it comes to covert relief not as a bigger package this time around as we saw aback. in march and even april but the president suggesting now there could be $3000000000.00 of additional funds sitting there that were allocated for another area that could go to helping americans but he is once again using this is

a political weapon against democrats in congress he accuses of holding it up all right thank you very much following developments there at the white house thank you kimberly or political analyst eric hamm joins us now and eric of course president trump speaking began that press conference that by speaking about the latest u.s. economic think is this jobs report is a good one to be fair i mean unemployment rate down to 8.4 percent so below the peak of the great recession it's just that the recovery is going to take a bit longer because of the pandemic. well that's right but not only that the president is already doing very well on the economy even though we're seeing any common in the economy that still sees millions of americans out of work and he leeched joe biden by double digits on this area unfortunately it isn't doing anything to help him close the gap in those all important swing states right now so while the president is touting these numbers kimberly is right the major focus

right now not me think people want to talk about is what is the president's response to these comments that were made in the atlantic about the commissary made about dead soldiers u.s. soldiers and so i think that is going to just be another issue that will see joe biden potentially do very well with a key demographic that the president needs in this reelection effort we already knew about the president's animosity towards the late senator john mccain he has made remarks before of this nature why why is it going to be different this time round. that's a really good question and i think the answer to that now is i think because we're seeing a weary weakened president a president who millions of americans disapprove of his handling of the colb it 19

pandemic as well as race relations in this country and so on now i think it becomes pro-forma to really attack president donald trump for many of his failings and so i think because now that very near has been burst if you will i think now there's actually a willingness and also a a vulnerability to this president which is allowing some of this to actually get through whereas 4 years ago it simply could not would not just get back in the white house for a bit where the president is taking questions so that we have it but there's a very good take this 300000000000 it's money that we have money that we've built up and money that we haven't spent and i would love to give it to the american people as a very powerful stimulus so i think there is a theory that i could do it without having to go back but i think would be appropriate to go back and i would ask congress to approve it it's

a very simple approval it's literally it's a one sentence approval and the democrats should do the republicans will do that they'll be glad to do that so we'll see whether or not they do ok please the. president all right here in st john's on the scene with the head of the delaware fraternal order of police counter. that they are going to endorse you there being a joe biden i like your response as well as the national organization for our police force and as. well i'm honored that delaware because i don't see biden anywhere but delaware he's and i like delaware too but to have the. law enforcement in delaware. their endorsement to me is really a great honor it's really it just shows you how how pathetic the democrats are when it comes to crime when it comes to a lot of water so would you please extend my very great thanks it's

a great honor to get it from delaware law enforcement we've gotten from almost all on 4 spent but that's because every time i see biden speak it says delaware delaware delaware never lived all over the country i'm all over the place. he. takes a different. turn but he has said nothing of all me the russian opposition leader of course what do you think should be done to russia about what is your most instructive offer and how much of the international community have you know that states respond well i think we have to look at it very seriously if that's the case and i think we will there's nobody been tougher in russia than i have. we get along i get along with almost all countries get along with north korea remember we're supposed to be going to war with north korea if hillary got elected you'd be at war right now with north korea that would be a very messy were very bad war many millions of people would be killed in the meantime. we got along with them we didn't get to war everyone said that if i was

elected i'd be at war in one week it's been just the opposite we're doing very well in afghanistan bringing the troops down very low level and other things are happening very interesting way we have a great peace deal going on in the middle east actually with the u.a.e. and israel and that's been received like probably very few things that many people have done it's been very well received and will be having other countries announcing soon they're joining that and you can have a lot of countries in that a lot of countries are saying hey why don't you bring us in right from the beginning they would have loved to have been there but they want to they want to be and so we're doing a lot of things i think that. i was the one that alerted. the united states in the world nord stream to i said why is germany spending billions and billions of dollars to russia to get their energy from russia and then we're supposed to

protect germany from russia what's that all about and the sanctions and everything else at the same time with russia we're right now negotiating a nuclear nonproliferation treaty which is very important it's a very important. thing to me it's the most important thing some people say global warming i don't i say this is far more important and we are the biggest they're the 2nd biggest nuclear was china's 3rd they're actually a distant 3rd but they're building pretty rapidly and at some point we'll include china into those talks but we're doing very well with russia on nuclear nonproliferation so i don't know exactly what happened i think it's it's tragic it's terrible it shouldn't happen we haven't had any proof yet but i will take a look. it is interesting that everybody's always mentioning russia and i don't mind you mentioning russia but i think probably china at this point is. it is a nation that you should be talking about much more so than russia because the

things that china is doing. far worse if you take a look at what's happening with the world to look at what happened with the china virus look at what they did by not keeping that within the confines of china they should have kept it in the confines of china look what they've done to. 188 countries all over the world but you never ask about china always asking about russia so i would be very angry of that's the case and we'll take a look at the at the numbers and the documents because we're going to be sent a lot of documents over the next few days. for the rest. seems to. be a matter for financial. planning for them to keep money and on to. the how piece they need to consider community b.t.o. car bomb or here he will be caught by the home heating system back in town steve something pushing east with the money lead on to the problem what the fallout of

defeat would be guaranteed to be obvious to him. but. well i didn't understand everything he said i know you india and i understood those young people that you mentioned they're very good young people and i know their relationship to n.d. is very good and so is mine and the prime minister modi is a friend of mine and he's doing a very good job nothing easy nothing easy but he's doing a very good job. we're talking i mean while we're at it we're talking about china and india they're pretty going at a pretty good on the border as you know it's been never nasty it's been a very nasty situation and we stand ready to help with respect to china and india if we can do anything we would love to get involved and help and we are talking to both countries about that but i appreciate the nice sentiments. they think a lot of india and so do i and i think

a lot of your prime minister thank you mr bush who was lucky to meet you p.d.f. would be for you paul harvey i disappointed you i do know we had a an event in east and as you know and it was a fantastic event i was invited by prime minister modi and this was a. a massive this was at the where they played football used in football to and it was it was it was a great a ball that was actually incredible and. the prime minister could not have been more generous we have great support from india we have great support from prime minister modi and i would think that the people. indian people would be voting for trump i also as you know went to india just pride to the pandemic setting in because india has been hit very hard left really about a week before that and we had an incredible time what what what we saw the people are so incredible it's really an incredible place an incredible country and it's

definitely big it's definitely big but you've got a great leader and he's he's a great great person and just a few people trying to push india. i hope not i hope not but they're certainly going at it they're going at it much more strongly than a lot of people even understand yeah please go ahead. because are just products you know what he just said you haven't got any proof yet you have any reasons to doubt the results from turn off i mean i don't i i hear germany has made if it was a definitive or almost offended but we have not seen an arson. but we have not seen a their selves but i would certainly be. ok with that they want to do something they want to take action shouldn't happen shouldn't happen but again we are working very closely with a lot of countries a lot of different things. we've taken stronger action against russia than any

other country in the world as you know i'll tell you president putin would tell you that right now but the fact that the fact that i get along with russia and that i get along frankly with everybody right now up. not getting along with china but that's my choice i don't like what happened with respect to the pandemic with respect to the china virus i don't like it at all what they've done to this world in this country and europe and everyplace else is terrible but i do get along with . with president putin. but i've been tougher on russia than anybody else by far if you look at the obama administration they were weak look at the land they gave up look at what happened with respect to look at what happened with respect to ukraine it's such a big part of ukraine given up during the obama administration and i don't think they would have done that with me i don't think they would have done that with me at all. we gave tank busters and they gave pelosi area that expression they sent

pillows and we sent tank busters to ukraine so with that being said if we can do a nuclear nonproliferation agreement that would be a great thing but i would not be at all happy if that were the case and it looks like it might very well be the case i mean based on what germany she wasted want to germany is saying that seems to be the case john. cost too much something you said a while talked about many many times back in 2015 you said you didn't think john mccain was a hero that you prefer people don't get captured on it when it all is happenstance that no you or do you regret saying that is that something you wish you. so i say what i say and i never got along with john mccain i disagreed with john mccain you know that better than anybody frankly. i wasn't a fan i disagreed with many of his views i disagreed with his views on these

ridiculous endless wars i disagreed with the way he handled the vets the v.a. the v.a. is running much better now and we did with the mission act and the. accountability and all the things we've done for the v.a. he was not able to do that but i disagreed with john mccain and a lot of things that doesn't mean i don't respect him i respected him but i really disagree with him on a lot of things and i think i was right i think time has proven me right to a large extent for more through the president for your statement that you read the 4 questions he spoke about how you believe that the were as you put it around the corner on the protocol and. yesterday as well and i think everybody would love to see that happen if it comes to what happens no doubt about that but i wanted to ask you a lot of work cast has probably already that.