though it is in our future, then continuing large numbers of people will die. mind you, let's just compare to influenza. a really bad flu season such as two or three years ago, 85,000 people died from influenza. already, 200,000 people from covid have died and that is an underestimate. continuing very serious infection that will continue to make people very sick, taken many people into the hospital. you would not ask your question if i could take you by the hand, bring you into the intensive care unit [indiscernible] pres. trump: does everybody

know. it is great to have you guys. yesterday, i was very proud to nominate judge amy connie barrett to the supreme court. we are moving along very quickly. tremendous unity and the republican party. it is the consequence of winning elections, which we did very substantially both in the senate and obviously in the white house. i think we are going to take back the house. ,evin is doing a fantastic job and i really believe we are going to take back the house. we are working very hard on that. we have noticed comments made in the media about my incredibly qualified nominee. the new york times said her religion is not consistent with american values. she is catholic.

that covers a lot of people. that is a very disgraceful thing to say. some of the comedians -- i do not think they are comedians because they are not funny. they are nasty, mean, and they think they are funny, and someday, hopefully it's in five years, they will be off television because their ratings which are not very good anyway, but their ratings will go down like you have never seen before. that includes a lot of others. i am waiting for the new york times and washington post, abc, cnn, msnbc, i am waiting for them to endorse me, because if they do not, they will drop with a thud. it was supposed to happen long ago. we won the race, and it was a great victory. we have never had a more

energized base. nobody has ever seen anything like it. we have had are incredible. we called in protest. we do not want to call them rallies. the friendly protest rallies have been incredible. i do not think anybody has ever seen anything like it. this is before an election. anse are long before election, the incredible crowd we had in pennsylvania, virginia, in every state no matter where. north carolina, florida, no matter where we go we are having crowds like nobody has ever gotten before, not even close. there is a level of enthusiasm. thousands of detractors in ,ifferent states, the votes thousands and thousands of votes, voters for drug, tractors for trump -- trump, tractors for trump, farmers for trump.

it is nice to see the enthusiasm. the situation with amy, i thought we settled this 60 years ago with the election of john f. kennedy. we are going after four catholicism, i will stand with her, fight with her, and we will make sure these attacks stop because it is unprecedented. they are basically fighting a major religion in our country. justing catholicism is incredible that they can be doing it. [indiscernible] 29 supreme court vacancies have occurred during an election year, well before inauguration. in every single instance going back to george washington, the president has performed his constitutional duty and nominated a justice and in almost every one of these cases over the past 230 years, when the president and the senate

were the same party, the justice as you know it was confirmed. centuries,ut two more than two centuries of precedent, and i think it will continue. to go quickly. i do not know if i have ever seen the republican party more unified. i think it was probably more unified than -- by the impeachment notes. that really turned out to be a hoax. now you look at what is happening with the fbi and justice department, if you look at all of those text messages, emails that were sent. they spied on our campaign. and everybody knew it. biden knew it, obama knew it, everybody knew it and the mainstream media it does not want to pick it up. has done a fantastic job on

it. we appreciate that. this is a major scandal. this is a scandal the likes of which nobody has ever seen. this is the biggest political scandal in the history of our country, with the exception of a few they do not want to write about it. you should write about that, kelly. you should write about it. you should do something on cnn about it because it is the biggest scandal of our time. it is the biggest political scandal perhaps in history. they spied on our campaign and then they tried for a coup that did not work out too well. the texts that came out over the it really wass, reversed. it was the dnc and the democrats that were using russia. related or unrelated, hunter --en got 3.5 billion dollars

$3.5 million. why did he get $3.5 million and millions more from ukraine and he got millions more from china. we is hunter? these are questions that are very big on the internet. the biggest thing on the internet is exactly this. we will have to see how that turns out. ruining people's lives. it turned out to be just the opposite. it was the democrats that were dealing with russia and other things. hopefully our attorney general and others working on this very diligently will lead to something that will be very important for our nation. it is one of the most important things. the 2018 issue of

midterm elections was the ghvanaugh -- kavanau confirmation. we picked up two seats, something that has not been reported on very much but we picked up two seats and expanded our senate majority to confirm supreme court justices. now democrats are brazenly attacking judge merrick again -- ,arrett again for her faith mostly what i'm hearing for her catholic faith. whether it is diane feinstein or anybody else, they ought to treat religion with much more respect. disgraceiscreet -- a she can do it. distract fromto the issues. the party has been taken over by

socialists, extremist, and probably communist. it could be many steps beyond. if they went, they will nominate justices who will destroy the american way of life and the american dream. they will destroy the american dream. it will destroy america, destroy the united states of america. willright to own a firearm be totally eliminated. your guns will be confiscated. would begious faith devastated. they will abolish america's borders and give government health care to illegal aliens, which will destroy our health care system because so many people will pour into our country. that is a tremendous incentive. fraud, hopefully there will not be a very big movement, because obviously we will be able to win. we have a massive movement. i think we will have a

tremendous victory. there will not be a transition, because i cannot imagine the kind of transition if we win. have ase there will, we big problem. you see it happening every day with the balance. we are greatly concerned about the democratic assault on election integrity. ballots weren ruled invalid during june's primary. in new jersey, 25% of the balance are being thrown out and people are being prosecuted for fraud. 35,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in florida's primary at 100,000 were rejected in california. a week after the primary, half of the counties were still counting ballots and you will still be counting them here. this is a bigger version of that. a number of discarded military

ballots were discovered in pennsylvania. all of the recovered ballots, ballots that were thrown out had been cast for a person named donald j. trump. ofwisconsin, three trays mail containing absentee ballots were found in a ditch. at three trays, that is a lot. in north carolina, voters are reporting receiving two ballots in the mail. i hear it is thousands, but they are getting two ballots. i wonder if those are democrat areas. last winter, you know what happened there in the iowa caucus. that was not good, right? in iowa, they still do not know who the winner was. it was many weeks later, but they have no idea and that continues to be -- and that is little. that continues to be litigated.

,hey cannot run a simple caucus yet now they are trying to radically write election laws just weeks before the election. i heard in new york today that governor cuomo wants to try to simplify the balance because he thinks they are too complicated. i agree with them. i think that is good, but you do not do that now. you cannot do it now, it is too late. joe biden and the democrat extremists oppose all of these efforts to ensure election integrity. they opposed voter id. think of it. they have a picture for almost everything nowadays. you had a picture to get into the democratic national convention. did you know that? to get into the democratic national committee and, you have a card and your picture is on it. [indiscernible] very sacred right.

we want proof of citizenship, a social security requirement. they do not want any of this to happen, and they want no signature verification. they do not want to have a verified suture -- signature. they oppose voter id. they opposed proof of citizenship. they oppose a social security number requirements as a safety even, and they opposed simple signature verifications. they do not want to have signature verification. they want to require all states to do mail in balloting. i call it unsolicited. some people call it universal. universalerstands why -- it is unsolicited.

sending ballots to whoever you can think of. we had a case i guess integers jersey -- new they got two names. democrat.f that was a it probably was. mailing millions of ballots who have not asked to have so millions of will be getting ballots. maybe they want them. not. they will -- do if you look what happened in iowa. that was run by very smart people. it was a very limited election. talking about doing that for the entire nation, and you can forget about november 3, because you will be counting those things forever. it is very dangerous for our country. , we ally transition

believe in transition, not only in transition but a very friendly but with the balance, the system is rigged. obviously it is. the only one that knows that better than me are the democrats. they go into closed rooms and they must laugh like hell at what is going on. this is the beginning. i talk about it now at the rallies. all of those people are watching, eyes and ears, tens of thousands, but there is no justification for these extreme changes to the election. if you can go to the grocery store, you can have an id with your picture on it to vote is so important. a lot of things are going on, very importantly though. is when you doy you'll reporting, i think you ought to report on the fbi schedule because it is one of the great scandals in the history of our country, and i think people want to hear about it.

if you look at the internet, you will see how people want to hear about it. and you know about it and it makes the media look so bad. and there is so much reporting. i could go into it right now but i am not going to. it would be a tremendous thing for the mainstream media. i think your ratings would go through the roof because people are tired of this fake stuff where you do not even talk about it. certainly the biggest political scandal in the history of our country by far, bigger than watergate, much bigger than watergate. they try to avoid it as much as possible. it is getting very hard to avoid. we will take a couple of questions. you may have a question for these two wonderful people, very brilliant from the standpoint of politics i would say and law. kaylee.ave anything for

>> last wednesday when you were speaking to the attorney general you said that federal judges were watching what was going on with mail-in ballots. do you open amy coney barrett is watching as well? president trump i think she has. i hope she is. i think we have made it a big issue. so many reports with funny ballots. i do not know if it would have been reported before, but all of these rallies with thousands of people last night as you know, and we were in harrisburg, pennsylvania. at the night before we were in virginia. , 30,000, those crowds are massive. that is on very short notice. all of those people watching. we have eyes and ears now that we would not have had. i am sure that she is watching and i am sure that everybody is looking at it. discuss the election

with her? pres. trump: no, i did not. i watched over the years as presidents would interview and talk and make a decision on the supreme court justice. i am surprised they would not talk about various things. they would not talk about things that are very important. i do not know that it is inappropriate, but i have gone by that custom. are arguing that acb puts in danger not only roe number but another of decisions. do you think they are correct? pres. trump: i think she is going to move on the law. i think she will be a great justice for many years to come. i cannot say. you also bring up health. obamacare is terrible. we have made the best of it.

we got rid of the individual mandate, which is great. we are going to protect people with pre-existing conditions 100%. if we can end obamacare and come up with a much better health care system that is much cheaper and much better, which is what we will do. on the other hand, if the court rules against, we will manage the system better. we have already essentially got rid of obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate and it was based on that. a tremendous amount because the individual mandate was the most unpopular aspect. you had to pay a lot of money for the privilege of not paying for that health care. that was a terrible thing for people, and what we will do is if we are fortunate enough to get rid of the little remaining obamacare. , that wasdual mandate the central point and we one

that. we already want --won that. it is no good. it is too expensive. you do not get your doctor, your plan. all of the things that president obama said you do not get, and if biden -- and biden to by the way. do not get your doctor, your plan. said you get your doctor, you get your plan. we are going to have a much better plan, and you will have your doctor, your plant, a lot of things you did not get with obamacare. believe thatlly joe biden will be on any type of performance enhancing drug before the debate or are you joking? pres. trump: i am not joking. i think you should take a drug test.

i watched him when he was harrisg pocahontas and who treated him so badly. i watched him. i was adamant, and then watched him against bernie sanders and he was ok. he was not great -- not terrible.as there was no way he can continue. then he debated crazy bernie sanders and he was ok. how did he go from there from those horrible performances we was ok. he is no winston churchill intimating, but he is fine. people say that he was on performance-enhancing drugs. a lot of people have said that. a lot of people have written that. >> [indiscernible] trump: you can.

check out the internet. whether he was or not. i would love to take a test and he can to. >> obviously it is coming up. how are you preparing? [indiscernible] are you doing any prep at all? pres. trump: i am. you?o plays biden for thesetrump: i would say two. they are five times smarter than sleepy joe. before comingprep here. i am taking questions from people all of the time. i have taken a lot of questions from you over there the last number of years. i watch the way he was treated wassdnc, and it

disgraceful. i know her and she was a pretty tough reporter. the weight she was helping him along with those. it was so obvious what was going on. she was giving him a question and then helping him to answer. i know her very well. she does not do that. it was embarrassing. play some of those clips, the answers where she was not able to give an answer and she is pushing him. they never do that with me. i can tell you but i do not have the kind of problems she has. >> [indiscernible] i am running a country. i do not have the luxury. go into ached people cabin, lock themselves into a cabin, and he came out and he was not very effective. he had so many other things going on. sometimes she can go too much.

i have never debated before but then i debated a lot four years ago and if you look at the polls, those polls that came out , hundreds of thousands of people at time magazine and all of the different bulls, -- polls , according to those i when every debate. every debate. this is the polls. you might time magazine pull, this, that. you have the internet, phone calls. according to that i when every every debate. i understand the subject. chris is tough. i hope chris will be equally tough on joe biden. lady, i will young not say her name but it was embarrassing the young -- the way she was getting him along.

i did ask about drugs. you cannot have a president that needs that kind of help. if you have a president that needs that kind of help when you tin andt to deal with pu president xi of china and kim jong-un. you know there is no war going on with north korea, which they thought it was going to happen immediately. no war. and that is saving perhaps millions of lives. 50,000 people, millions and millions of people could have died. >> [indiscernible] a new york times story came out about an hour that says when you came to the white house you are -- $750,000 $50,000

in income tax. in your tax return, does that sound right? fake.trump: it is totally you could've asked me the same question to four years ago. i had to litigate this and talk about it. totally fakeness. actually, i pay tax. it is under order. they have been under order for a long time. the irs does not treat me well. and they treat me like the tea party. they treat me very badly. you have people in the irs. they treat me very badly, but they are under order. i would be proud to show. that is fakeness. the new york times want to create a little bit of a story. they are doing anything they can. that is the least of it. the stories that i read are so fake, so phony.

>> [indiscernible] they only do negative stories. i do not think -- i used to get new stories -- good stories in the new york times and i happen to be conservative, republican. they predicted by loss four years ago. they did not apologize for that better reporting, that they predicted the fbi. that is proven to be a hoax. they got pulitzer prizes along with the washington post. they should give all of those prizes back because everything is wrong. there reporting was so bad, they were wrong. there are people who should get pulitzer prizes, solomon, carter. they are not in the business of pulitzer prizes but sean hannity got it, lou dobbs got it, laura got it, dr. got it. other than great ratings, i do

not know what they get. on the new york times story, you have to understand that americans read that you may have paid only a few hundred dollars in income tax every year, that billionaire.w as a can you tell us how much you are paying? pres. trump: i paid a lot and i pay a lot of it will all be revealed, it is going to come out. -- they are doing their assessment, we have been negotiating for a long time, things get settled like in the irs. when you are under audit, you do not do that. we are under audit, the story is totally fake. we had the same exact questions

usually asked by the same people and that took place four years ago. it is incredible. filings ik at the have, i think i have a 108 pages of filings for all those different companies that do very well, obviously, because the filings -- nobody talks about that. you will learn much more if you look at those filings that i have to file every single year, but you will learn much more. those filings are very complete, they are very big, very powerful, they are very accurate. those are the filings that you will learn much more -- when it is done, when you're under audit , you just do not release them. they treat me -- talking to him, you should be more respectful of this gentleman. i will tell you that i look forward to releasing that, i look forward to releasing many things.

i'm going to release many things, people are going to be very shocked. the new york times has been doing fake story after fake story. it, that isstand why the media has such a low approval rating now because what they have done. questions. i was going to ask both you and governor christie and mayor giuliani, your guests have talked about possible bias against judge barrett's religion only to catholic beach -- bishops have come out to say the same thing you have. is any effort being made by any of you to get the u.s. conference of -- these other leaders -- we are in the process of doing that, i think it is horrible. they are playing the religious

card, and you're talking about catholics. that is a very major religion in our country. chris, do you have anything to say? she willll be strong, set up for what she believes in. pres. trump: she went through what i did four years ago in terms of different things, she went through and did very well, rudy, what do you think? >> the article in the new york times today reveals a very strong anti-catholic bias. it says in the article that catholicism and the american -- [indiscernible] the american --, what is their version of it? catholics have difficulty separating public and private morality, i do not have difficulty separating public and private reality -- morality. what i see is a very strong

anti-catholic attack and having listened to the john kennedy election, that article reminded me -- it should have been written before john kennedy. she made an awful remark to the judge. >> let me repeat my question again, why are only two bishops within the church speaking out and will you make an effort to get the u.s. -- pres. trump: they will come out, this is day one, we have just started this. they are going to be coming out very strong. the catholic church is very well united on this. they are so thrilled that amy was chosen. it has been 24 hours, it is been a very short period of time. briefing,ou for the you talked earlier about some of the subject joe biden has been refusing to answer questions on,

ukraine, even china and obamagate -- pres. trump: and the press does not ask those questions. >> do you think joe biden will be able to answer those questions? pres. trump: we are going to find out, a lot of things will come up in the debate. that will be one, his son did not have a job. he had difficulties and suddenly he is making millions of dollars as soon as his father becomes vice president, i think that will come up. i don't think joe can answer it frankly. i think there is only one reason he made all that money. you have to say what about his involvement? billionjoe not get the dollars over chief rand for example until such time as they let go of a prosecutor that was investigating company's company -- his son was involved with. i do not think they have answers. fair,had a media that was

even just reasonable, this would be the biggest story for years and years and years. ton you would be entitled pulitzer prizes. it isa fair question, but hard to believe it when you see the kind of money that he has made from china. , from the wife of the mayor of moscow gives him $3.5 million and nobody has any question about it. $3.5 million? the i will tell you because joe was in on it, there is no way that he was not. forcee biden's plane, air two and they go to china and he comes back and he never mentioned it to his father that he just got $1.5 billion. now it is turning out that is much more money than that. they have a member of the china's commonest already gave him a lot of money.

the press has no interest in these stories, it is very disheartening for the people of our country. dodge theries to questions are you prepared with information to answer that question? pres. trump: i have all the information, it just came out. i did not know about moscow, i did not know about the -- that. he is a very influential man in russia as you know, it was not me. i did not have anything to do with russia, that came out loud and clear. they should've not gone into this fake molar investigation and it also came out of that 31 phones that were wiped clean should not have been wiped clean and that is a metal act and bloomberg should not be paying for prisoners to go in florida and go and vote. which is totally illegal, you are paying prisoners -- i hope he has not done it yet. this is what he wants to do so

that he can ingratiate himself to the democrats after they made him look like a total fool at the debate. dashcam isid to his incredible and that he goes out and spends money, it shows you the problems he has got. votes, to go out and buy i don't know. are you allowed to go tell people you'll go votes -- go vote and pay for them? yep, please go ahead. [indiscernible] there has been [indiscernible] , civilians are killed and according to the official came fromthere, that -- what is your comment on the?

pres. trump: we're looking at it very strongly, i learned about it today and yesterday and we are looking at it very strongly. we have a lot of good relationships in that area, we'll see if we can stop it. thank you very much. you claimed it zero dollars in income tax. [indiscernible] >> tonight on q and a, 2020 curtis brooke ties finalist eric dolan talks about his book a furious sky which looks at the history of hurricane destruction in the u.s.. category four hurricane barreling directly into galveston, it was pushing before it an enormous wave essentially on the right-hand side of the hurricane .host: and an the wavester with

crashing, it slammed into galveston that day and it turned galveston into a lake. >> eric dolan tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. c-span's washington journal, everyday we are taking your calls live on the air, on the news of the day, and we'll discuss policy issues that impact you. monday morning we will discuss president trump's supreme court nominee with bloomberg senate reporter. then we will talk about the trump campaign with lou harrington, republican national spokesperson and lincoln project co-founder discusses his group opposition to president trump's reelection and the future of the republican party. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone call, facebook comments, for -- text messages, and tweets.

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