you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. thanks so much for watching. we'll stay on all the breaking headlines tomorrow night. join us then. have a good evening. ♪ "lou dobbs tonight." have a great night. everybody. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. president trump this hour is expected to make his return to the white house briefing room to resume the daily updates on the china virus pandemic and the response of local and state governments to the pandemic and, of course, the response of his administration as well. the president will not only be updating the american people on his administration's response to the virus, but also taking a broad range of questions about other policy issues as well, we expect. the president and his china virus task force last held a briefing on april 27th. since then the virus unleashed on the world by china has

infected an additional 2.8 million americans and culled 86,000 -- and killed 86,000 more. 3.8 million have been infected. 141,000 have now been culled by the china -- killed by the china virus. daily cases up by 154% in that same time period, but as the president reminds the left-wing national media expect radical dem defeatists, is the most important number in all these statistics is the number of deaths. daily deaths have actually fallen by 68% since the task force last briefed the country almost three months ago. the white house, says president trump, will be delivering a message about promising advancements in therapeutic treatments as well as the biotech race to invent and to produce a vaccine. the president and his administration's operation warp speed already cutting down

barriers for five early potential vaccine candidates and incentivizing those companies to proceed with their efforts to create that vaccine. they include astrazeneca, moderna, johnson & johnson, merck, pfizer and novavax. the president's message is expected to be short, concise and direct. the president will, though, be taking questions. >> he's the right person to give the information to the american people and, boy, does he get the information to a lot of the american people during his briefings as noted by the readings, as he himself pointed out. yes. lou: as you might imagine, the radical dems and their cohorts in the left-wing national media simply can't stand the idea of president trump returning to the podium and drawing the nation's attention. the president's appearances and direct messaging to the american people during this national emergency further showcase his

leadership, leadership the country needs. while his opponent, joe biden, continues to, well, rest up comfortably in his basement or some other part of the house. further aggravating the daffodils and the buttercups on the left. the president tweeted an image of himself today wearing a mask, and this was its caption: we are united in our effort to defeat the invisible china virus, and many people say that it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you can't socially distance. there is nobody more patriotic than me, your favorite president. take that, buttercups. president trump today also continuing his attacks on the failed radical dem leaders that are in charge of america's largest cities. president trump says those leaders have lost control of the anarchists, agitators and acts who cause nothing but chaos and destruction since the death of george floyd in minneapolis on may 25th.

over the past few months, the radical dems, the left-wing media, the rinos have all used their politics of division and destruction, lying as they did to the american people about what they call systemic racism in america and talking about black lives matter as incredibly more and more black lives have been lost. incredibly, a new "wall street journal"/nbc poll shows 56% of americans are buying into the left's lies, believing that american society is racist, that our history should be destroyed. minnesota's democrat attorney general keith ellison who charged the police officers involved in floyd's death is now pushing another of the radical dems' policy ideas. here he is as he says police should no longer respond to rape calls. >> if you're a woman who's been

a haven't of a a sexual assault -- a victim of a sexual assault and the assailant has ran away, wouldn't you rather talk to somebody who is trained in helping you deal with it, what you're dealing with, as opposed to somebody whose main training is that they know how to use a firearm? right? lou: the attorney general didn't seem too persuaded of his own arguments. his comments an attempt, apparently, to further cement the radical left's idea that police officers are no longer of value, that their departments should be disbanded as in minneapolis. another new poll, however, shows a majority of americans reject the idea altogether. 55% of vote e, according to an abc/washington post poll, oppose defunding the police. the american people have seen what the dems' police-free utopia leads to. just ask the folks in the city

of seattle. the city now faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a 19-year-old. he was shot and killed in the cop-free area once known as c.h.o.p.. and importantly, the police department has been defunded and handcuffed while riots and anarchy go on. arsonists setting several fires last night, looting, stealing from a jewelry store. members of antifa and black lives matter trying to remove prewood protections on the federal courthouse -- plywood. you ask how did they get close? that's a great question. the only ones stepping in to stop the violence, the federal officers and agents outside that courthouse, and they were sent in by president trump to maintain order and to protect federal property. the president demanding action and accountability from the radical dem mayors who have allowed chaos to rule their streets, and today president trump called on the commerce department to exclude illegal

immigrants who have exploited u.s. immigration law from being counted in the 2020 census for the purpose of congressional representation. the president's action supports his executive order from a year ago in which he called on federal departments and agencies to collect information to secure an accurate census. the president saying: my administration will not support giving congressional representation to aliens who enter or remain in the country unlawfully because doing so would create reverse incentives and undermine our system of government. just as we do not give political power to people who are here temporarily, we should not give political power to people who should not be here at all. the justice departmented today filed charges against two chinese nationals accused of trying to steal american research on the china virus and the creation of vaccine and therapeutics against that virus.

over the past decade, the two men worked to benefit the chinese government by stealing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of u.s. trade secrets and intellectual property. the cyber attackers targeted u.s. companies along with others in australia, germany, japan and south korea. in announcing the charges, the justice department made clear china is willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to maintain some proximity to the leadership of the united states in almost every area, technology and commerce. >> the activities outlined in the indictment are concrete examples of two concerning trends: china is using cyber intrusions as part of its rob, replicate and replace strategy to technological development. second and one that is perhaps less appreciated by the public and international partners, china is providing a safe haven for criminal hackers who, as in

this case, are hacking in part for their own personal game but willing to help the state and uncalled to do so. lou: turning now to wall street, stocks mixed on the day. the dow up 160 points, the s&p gained 5. the nasdaq, however, fell back 87 points from its record heights. volume on the big board picking up to 4.6 billion shares. crude oil up more than 2%, over -- almost over, almost to $42 a barrel. so excited about being above 41 is. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. and breaking news, joe biden has a new campaign strategy. voter registration physicians -- don't know what that means. it appears neither does joe biden. here we go. >> we have a whole group of lawyers who are going out to every polling, every voter

registration physician in the states, the secretaries of state making sure that they, in fact, have a game plan as to how they're going to allow the voting to take place. we are continuing to push what nancy pelosi and democrats in the house did, they passed money to allow for voting in place, to have not only voting by mail, but also voting in place by providing the necessary equipment for social distancing, sanitation. lou: have no idea what he was trying to say. also break now, members of the house freedom caucus calling out liz cheney, the congresswoman's disrespect for the president, congressman jim jordan and andy biggs accused her of undermining the republican party's chance of taking back the house from the radical dems. congressman matt gaetz tweeted, quote: liz cheney has worked behind the scenes and now in

public against@real donald trump. liz cheney should step down or be removed. and the president, i am told, is now walking out to podium in the briefing room, and there he is. president of the united states. >> -- seems largely in the sun belt it could be spreading. my team is also working night and day with capitol hill to advance the next economic relief package. we're working very hard on it. we're making a lot of progress. i also know that both sides want to get it done. we'll call it phase four. i think we're going to get it done. we'll protect our workers, our schools and our families and protect them very strongly. as one family, we mourn every precious life that's been lost. i pledge in their honor that we will develop a vaccine, and we defeat the virus. we're doing very well with vaccine development and therapeutic development.

but i want to thank our brave doctors and nurses and front-line responders. the job they do is incredible x they are truly brave. my administration stop at nothing to save lives and shield the vulnerable which is so important. we've learned so much about this disease, and we know who the vulnerable are, and we are going to, indeed, shield them. and, again, the vaccines are coming, and they're coming a lot sooner than anyone thought possible. by years. if you look at the old system and look at the new system, i think by years. the i china virus is a vicious and dangerous illness, but we've learned a great deal about it and who it targets. we are in the process of developing a strategy that's going to be very, very powerful. we've developed as we go along. some areas of our country are doing very well, others are doing less well. it will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better,

something i don't like saying about things, but that's the way it is. that's the way -- that's what we have. you look over the world, it's all over the world, and it tends to do that. the governors are working very, very hard, and we are supporting them 100%. everything they need, they get. and we are taking good careful we have tremendous supplies and great supply chain whether it's ventilators or gowns or just about anything they need. so that's a big difference from inheriting very, very empty cupboards. the median with age of those who succumb to the china virus is 78 years old. roughly half of all deaths have been individuals in nursing homes or long-term care. in one study 90% of those hospitalized had underlying medical conditions. when it's heart or diabetes, but usually it's some kind of a condition, it seems that people have that, and if they do, it's

a problem, no question about it. young adults may often have mild or even no symptoms, they won't even know they're sick. they won't have any idea that they have a virus. they won't have any idea at all. america's youth act responsibly, and we're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask. get a mask. whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact. they'll have an impact, and we need everything we can get. data shows children have the lowest fatality risk. 99.96% of all virus fatalities are in adults. think of that. so that's much, much, much less than 1% for children, young people. by understanding these risk profiles and learning how to treat the disease, we've been able to greatly reduce mortality in the united states. in fact, we'll show you a chart

and how well we do compared to the rest of the world. we have several treatments already available that significantly reduce the severity and duration of the disease including remdesivir which has been very successful and a widely-available steroid treatment, and we have many more happening and coming out. we've learned best practices for treatment of the virus at every stage and have shared these findings with medical providers, and we've shared them all over the world. the relationship with other countries has been very strong. we're all working together. this includes insuring all hospitals are aware of the importance of different approaches to oxygen treatment including high-flow oxygen, the importance of steroid treatment for those on ventilators. and when you're on a ventilator, we've learned a tremendous amount about the use of the ventilator. and at the beginning, people never had an experience like

this where we needed so many ventilators so fast and even the use of the ventilators. but the doctors have become incredibly -- and nurses and helpers -- have become incredibly good at the use of a ventilator which is actually a very complicated procedure. and allocating remdesivir to hospitals based on new admission systems that works best early in hospitalization. and that's something that they've really started. they're using it much earlier. if fatalities nationwide have fallen 75% since mid april. that's a great number. as cases and fay a tallties rise -- fatalities rise in certain hard-hit states, which you're looking at right now, we're surging personnel, supplies and therapeutics. we, again, have tremendous amounts of supplies. we are in very good shape, and we can move them quickly. our case fatality rate has continued to decline and is lower than the european union and almost everywhere else in the world.

if you watch american television, you'd think the united states was the only country involved with and suffering from the china virus. well, the world is suffering are badly. but the fact is that many countries are suffering very, very, very badly, and they've been suffering from this virus for a long time. we've done much better than most, and with the fatality rate at a lower rate than most, it's something that we can talk about, but we're working again with them because we're helping a lot of countries that people don't even know about. i get calls all the time asking for help especially as it pertains to the ventilators. they need help with ventilators. they have to get them. they're very hard to get. we're making thousands now a month, thousands of ventilators a month. it's been quite amazing. we keep doing the good job and things will get better and better. we'll be putting up charts behind me showing different statistics, different rates of

success and i guess you could say also things that we can do better on. but you'll see them, they'll be put up as we go. in april the average age of individuals who tested positive for the virus was over 50 years old. today the average age is significantly younger. hospital lengths of stay the are almost half -- stay are almost half of what they were in april. so the stays are about half. the rate of cases requiring hospitalization has been reduced and mortality among those admitted to the hospital is nearly one-half of what it was in april. we've learned a lot. we've learned a lot about this disease, how to handle it. the doctors have learned a lot not only in the use of ventilators, but in many other things. and things are happening too like the remdesivir and other elements, steroids, etc. but these trends could change without our continued and relentless focus. and that's what we have, we have a relentless focus, and it's

been that way from the beginning. but we've learned so much. as you know in recent weeks, we've seen a concerning rise in the cases in many parts of our south. you look at south, southwest and west, this growth in cases first began to appear in mid june primarily among 18 to 35-year-old withs, many of whom were asymptomatic. we're also facing the challenge of a significant spike in virus cases across the rest of the western hemisphere including mexico. mexico has been hit very, very, very hard. as you know, the president, a great gentleman, was here two weeks ago, and they have really been hit hard. because we've achieved a nearly fourfold increase in testing capacity in two months, we're successfully identifying more asymptomatic and mild cases. some cases so muled that you really -- so mild that you really don't even treat them. some cases with children where they don't even know that

they're ill. and i guess they're not very ill because they recover almost immediately. per capita, the u.s. conducting 50% more tests than europe. we've conducted nearly three times as many tests as all of the other countries in the western hemisphere combined. it'll be over 50 million tests. this allows us to isolate those who are infected, even those without symptoms so we know exactly where it's going and when it's going to be there. we're also working to reduce turn-around time. my administration has been aggressively responding to case growth in the sun belt, and we continue to do so working very close with all governors, but right now in particular those governors. we're coordinating closely with hospitals and governors. in the last three weeks, i've sent senior officials into nine states to meet with governors and provide recommendations to the various leaders of the state including hospital

administrators, etc. my administration currently has zero unfilled requests for, unfulfilled requests for equipment or anything else that they need from the governors. no governor needs anything right now, and we think we'll have it that way til the end because, frankly, we are stocked up and ready to go. wherever we have to go. with nearly 7,000 national guard and military medical personnel in texas, california, florida and arizona that's helping us greatly. want to thank them very much. the military's been fantastic. we're closely monitoring hospital capacity in these states. hospitals are open for elective surgeries and other procedures, so hospitals are open for elective surgeries. we want americans to get the medical treatments they need. all of the governors we've spoken with say they have enough bed capacity. that's a great thing. our initial shutdown was to prevent the overflow of our

hospitals and to allow us to meet the demands caused by this global pandemic including the ventilators and a permanent shutdown was really never an option in terms of what we're doing right now. this would be completely unsustainable, produce debilitating economic fallback and lead to catastrophic public health consequences. there are consequences to shutdowns, if we've saved -- and we've saved potentially millions of lives by doing the initial shutdown. but now we're very aware of this disease. we understand the disease to a large extent. nobody's going to ever fully understand it, but we'll end up with a cure, we'll end up with therapeutics, we'll end up with a vaccine very soon, all three. we're instead asking americans to use masks, socially distance and employ vigorous hygiene. wash your hands every chance you get while sheltering high risk populations. we are imploring young americans

to ace void packed -- avoid packed wars and other crowded -- packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings. be safe and be smart. we're surging testing capacity to identify and isolate cases. this includes a newly-approved testing platform to nursing homes across the south. we're being very vigilant because you know all of the problems that we've had with so many people so sadly that were infected. so that a all of the staff and residents can be routinely tested and isolated to insure our elderly are even more strongly protected than anybody else. that's really the high risk people, the high risk. wonderful people. once this current surge in cases declines, the same testing platform will enable people to visit their loved ones after taking a test, which is a big difference. ultimately, our goal is not merely to manage the pandemic, but to end it. we want to get rid of it as soon as we can. that is why getting a vaccine

remains a top priority. two vaccine candidates are entering the final stage of clinical trials this month. this was achieved in record time. it used to be years before you were in a position like we are right now. four other vaccines will enter final trials in the following weeks, and we're mass producing all of the top candidates so that the first approved vaccine will be available immediately. and logistically we have the military ready to go. we have great people, logistic military people. a wonderful general who's waiting for the vaccine so they can distribute it in record time, that's what's going to happen. so our military is all set to go. we will deliver a vaccine, therapeutics, whatever it is that's necessary and defeat the virus once and for all. and i'll take a few questions, if you'd like. i will say this, i want to thank all of the staff, the white house staff, all of the doctors that we've been working with so

closely and just a lot of very positive things are happening. it's a nasty, horrible disease that should have never been allowed to escape china, but it did, and it infected the world, and the world is suffering. but we're going to get it taken care of, and we're helping lots of other countries. john? >> mr. president, first i just wanted to get clarification. your press secretary said today you sometimes take more than one test a day. >> well, i didn't know more than one. i do take probably on average a test every two days, three days. i don't know of any time i've taken two tests in one day, but i could see that happen. >> republicans and democrats both said they want to see more money for testing, they want to send billions to the states, and you probably saw mick mulvaney the other day said that his kid, it took him a week to get test results back. said this is simply inexcusable given where we are in the

pandemic. do you think we have a problem with testing in this country right now? are you in favor of more money for testing? >> we've done more testing by far than anybody. it is massive volume, it takes longer. others of the tests, as you know, are very quick. they're 5-minute and 15-minute fests and those are -- tests, and those are, frankly, the ones that i prefer. numbers are coming down. and as we go, as an example, there are thousands and thousands of kits being made right now which give you with a 5-minute and a 15-minute test. those numbers are similar in other places. they're also doing massive numbers, numbers like nobody thought possible. but those numbers will be coming down. i agree, i think it's a good thing -- >> you in favor of more money for -- >> well, they're going to make a presentation for me tonight and tomorrow on that. again, we're leading the world. i think the second country, i mean, we're over 50 million tests. second country is india with 12 million. then you have 7 million, 6

million and 4 million. i think that we are doing tremendous amount of testing. but if the doctors and the professionals feel that even though we're at a level that nobody ever dreamt possible that they would like to do more, i'm okay with it. >> why are your doctors not here with you today? dr. fauci, dr. birx? >> dr. birx is right outside. yes, please. >> [inaudible] number one, i just wanted to know in november -- [inaudible] do you want people to -- >> could you speak up, please? >> do you want the american people to judge you on the ballot in november by how you've handled this pandemic so far? >> this among other things. i think the american people will judge us on this, but they'll judge us on the economy that i create and that already we're creating. we're setting record job numbers, as you know. i think we're going to have a very strong year next year. i think we're going to have a very strong third quarter, a very good fourth quarter. but i think next year's going to be a record year, and i think they're going to judge me with

that, on the tax cutting and the regulation cutting which nobody's ever done to the extent that we've been able to do it, on rebuilding the military, on how we've handled the v.a. on the v.a. we got veterans choice. nobody thought that would be possible. many decades they've been trying to get veterans choice. it's called choice where they can go get a doctor if they have to wait on line for two weekes or five weeks or two days. and frankly, that's been a great thing. i think they'll judge me on that. they'll judge me on all of the things we've done. and i think we can say this before, there's never been a challenge. in the first three and a half years, the first years of a presidency i don't think any administration, any president has accomplished so much as we've accomplished from energy to health, to so many other things. and then this came and the plague, i call it the plague, the plague came in, terrible thing, should have been stopped, wasn't stopped. it came in, we had to shut things down to save potentially

millions of lives. we did that and now we've started them up. and i think we've really started it up very successfully -- [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, mr. president. you've been saying for months the virus would simply disappear, and now you're saying it's likely to yet worse before it gets were better. if it does keep getting worse and americans keep dying, are you responsible for that? >> well, the virus will disappear. it will disappear. i think that, i always like to say, you know, either way when you look at it, the governors are working with me, i'm working with the governor. i think we're all responsible. i view it as a team. very good relationships with the governors. very, very good relationships. i could say i'm fully responsible, but, you know, one day we had a virus come in, and i closed the borders, did a lot of things that were very good. in fact, dr. fauci said we saved tens of thousands of lives when i closed the border. nobody wanted to do that. i wanted to do it. we closed the border to china.

we put on the ban. we didn't want people coming in from heavily infected china. fairly shortly thereafter, i closed the borders coming in from europe. those were tremendous moves. we would have -- if it's one person, it's too much. let's say we're at 140,000? we could have double, triple, quadruple that if we didn't. we did a lot of things right including with equipment. so it's a shame that it happened, it shouldn't have happened. china should have stopped it -- [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible] two questions. my first question is very quick testing platform here at the white house. >> yes. >> it's great, you get tested, you know very quickly. do you think it would be easier to reopen and restart businesses if we could produce more of those -- >> we're trying to do that. great question. we're trying as much to do that. rather than sending the tests in and, you know, goes through the mail one day, comes back another day no matter how they send it,

it's a day and a day so that's two days already wasted. and it's three or four days if they do an efficient job. we're trying to get the testing on site. i like it the best. >> and my follow-up question is a little different topic but one that a lot of people are talking about it. jee lane maxwell is -- ghislaine maxwell is in prison, and a lot of people know if she's going to turn in powerful people. you've criticized prince andrew and bill clinton, how do you see that working out? >> i don't know. i just wish her well, frankly. i've met her numerous times over the years especially since i lived in palm beach, and i guess they lived in palm beach. but i wish her well, whatever it is. i don't know the situation with prince andrew, don't know. not aware of it. [inaudible conversations] >> on unemployment insurance, how much below $600 are you willing to go, and you've said

that the economy's bouncing back strong, so why do we need it at all? >> well, the economy's getting stronger. i think we have a, chance to have a very strong economy especially if some of the things that i just spoke about work. we want to have people go back and want to go back to work as opposed to be sort of forced into a position where they're making more money than they expected to make, and the employers are having a hard time getting them back to work. so that was a decision that was made. i was against that original decision, but they did that. it still worked out well because it gave people a lifeline. now we're doing it again. they're thinking about doing 70 percent of the amount. the amount would be the same but doing it in a little bit smaller initial amounts so that people are going to want to go back to work as opposed to making so much money that they really don't have to. but we were very generous with them the. i think that it's been a tremendously successful program. the whole thing has been successful if you look. i mean, we have -- we're in a

pandemic, and yet we're producing tremendous number of jobs. that was something that nobody thought possible, okay? >> mr. president if, thank you very much. yesterday you said that wearing a mask was an act of patriotism. is that -- if that is the case, why don't you do it more frequently? >> i do actually do it when i need. i carry the mask. i went into walter reed hospital, i have the mask right here, i carry it. i will use it gladly, no problem with it. and i've said with it. i say if you can use the mask, when you can use the mask. if you're close to each other if you're in a group, i would put it on. when i'm in a group. if i'm in an elevator and there are other people with me including security people, it's not their fault, i want to protect them also, i put on a mask. i have no problem with the masks. i view it this way: anything that potentially can help x that certainly can potentially help, is a good thing. i have no problem. i carry it, i wear it. you saw me wearing it a number

of times, and i'll continue. please. [inaudible conversations] >> you sending mixed messages? yesterday you tweeted out that you were wearing a mask and last week you were not wearing a mask at your hotel. >> well, i don't know the hotel. i was pretty far away from people. i would say this, i've explained it, i think, very well. if you're chose together, i would put on the mask. and if you're not, i would say that if you're, for instance, i'll see like here, you've been all tested, i've been tested. often times i'll be with people that are fully tested, i've been tested. in theory, you don't need the mask. i'm getting used to the mask, and the theory is -- i think about patriotism. it helps. we have experts that have said in the recent past that masks aren't necessarily good to wear. you know that. but now they've changed their mind. if they changed their find, that's good enough for me, so i wear it when appropriate. please. please? >> thank you, sir. a lot of americans may be

surprised at your change of tone over all of this, a more perhaps realistic tone the, some would look at it that way; the sudden embrace of masks, social distancing -- >> i've always agreed with that. i mean, i've never fought either one but, certainly, social distancing. i want to -- that's common sense. >> the idea -- >> to me, it's common sense. maybe make it a little bit further. >> the idea that things will get worse, perhaps, before they get better here. and perhaps the realization that this resurgence, if you will, is for real when you used to talk about it in terms of little fires being put out here and there. >> no, we have embers and fires and we have big fires. unfortunately now florida is a little tough or in a big, tough position. you have a great governor there, you have a great governor in texas. you have people that are very skilled people, and i think they're going to handle it very well. their hospital capacities are holding up. but texas is a big state, and

it's very well run and so is there'll. i think they'll -- so is florida. i think they'll do a good job. [inaudible conversations] >> i wanted to ask you about the issue of vaccine which you already mentioned. yesterday a study by a chinese company showed promising results for its coronavirus vaccine candidate. if china were first in developing the vaccine, would the administration be willing to work with china to bring a successful chinese vaccine to the u.s.? >> we're willing to work with anybody that's going to get us a good result. we're very close to the vaccine. i think we're going to have some very good results. we're already in testing. nobody thought that would be possible. under the old system it would be a year to two years before you could even think about using the testing. so i think we've had a lot -- and the reason we're testing is they've had good results. now we have to see safety, have to make sure it's safe. and i think you're going to see something over the next fairly short period of time, maybe very short period of time having to do with therapeutics and

vaccines that are very good. so we'll be doing these quite often. we're going to keep you abreast of this, and we'll also talk about some of the other topics like our economy which is doing well. the stock market had another good day. i think they see a lot of positive things happening on this front too. thank you very much. thank you. [inaudible conversations] lou: the president wrapping up what is his first china virus pandemic briefing in almost three months. he took questions on a number of topics there. the president saying he has a relentless focus as he said and doesn't want to just manage this pandemic, he wants to end it entirely. we're going to take up the president's briefing and much more in just a few moments. and house minority whip steve scalise, dr. marc siegel, the hudson institute's michael pillsbury will all be joining us here. and i'd also like to tell you about my new book, "the

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♪ ♪ lou: well, joining us tonight -- and we want to thank him for being so patient and staying with us through the president's remarks today -- house minority whip steve scalise joins us. the ranking member of the select committee on the coronavirus crisis. congressman, great to have you with us. your reaction, first, to the president reinstituting this daily briefing, or as near as daily as the white house chooses to make it. your thoughts. >> thanks, lou. good to be with you. it was really good to hear the president talking about the things that those of us who are in those meetings with him hear from him all the time. he's very well in command of the issues before us. we're dealing a -- with a lot of different challenges, but ultimately if you look at what he's done, operation warp speed

which is the president's directive to get agencies like the fda fully focused on finding a vaccine and therapies, getting test equipment approved so so we can more of the 15-minute rapid are testing, those are all things president trump has done, giving orders to the folks that are working in order to move every piece of red tape out of the way to help solve this crisis, deal with the cry us, get the economy back on track. there are a lot of other issues going on, and he's in full command and is well awar of what needs to be done and, frankly, he's making really good decisions. he doesn't get the credit for the work that he does, but i think you saw a president who's very well aware of what needs to be done, and he's doing those things and getting the full weight of the government to work for families so that we can get through this. lou: he's obviously very much in command on the administration's response to this crisis. it is also, to me as you point out, he doesn't get credit for it, but what he has done with

the fda, with the nih and with operation warp speed and to move and accelerate and incentivize these biotechnology companies to create, invent vaccines is and pear to produce it massively -- prepare to produce it massively, this is going to, this is changing pharmaceuticals and biotechnology forever. and also changes public health challenges and the response to them dramatically and historically. your thoughtses? >> yeah, lou, this is nothing short of revolutionary. name a time in the history of our country where any kind of virus or pandemic that could possibly be cured within months, usually it's years. we have till some diseases out there that have been out for tens of years that still don't have a cure. what president trump did and, again, it's called operation warp speed, but he removed the red tape out of the way that agencies can fully focus on getting a cure and a vaccine.

and i've talked to the heads of some of these companies, and they tell me how much it's helped them that the president's moved this weight of the federal government behind their efforts because they're now in stage three of testing in many cases of very pomsing drugs that are -- promising drugs that have cleared big, big hurdles. they're able to do this quicker getting thousands of people that have already gone through tests and have had very positive results. we are see remdesivir being proven as a therapy, but vaccines that are already through multiple stages of testing. they're not going to wait, by the way, until they get fda approval. because if one of these drugs gets approval in a month, some other presidents might have waited to start producing it. these companies are already mass producing these. they might have to throw them away if they don't get approval, but if they're fda-approved, you will see hundreds of thousands of vials of vaccine already manufactured. this is president trump's biggest initiative, and he's done some big things, as you heard. getting the economy back once,

he's going to rebuild our great economy again once we get through this, but he's focusing his efforts on getting the weight of the federal government behind curing this disease, getting a vaccine, helping people get through it. every state that he's gotten a request for aid from, he's given that aid. and whether it's fema, hhs, i've been with dr. birx and the vice president last week, we were talking about reopening schools and how important it is to those children. over 50 million children are continuing on us to figure it out, and there's medical research that was done. nobody's trading safety with reopening schools or our economy, but some people are just saying, oh, it's too hard to get done. president trump is saying we have to keep doing the work to get it done. and you see his vigor, what he's doing, and i think it's a big contrast to joe biden who hides out in a basement. when you see him on tv, you can't understand half of what he's saying. president trump is actually

delivering real results. he doesn't get the credit for it but, ultimately, when you see a vaccine come, when you see some of the other things that are in development, it's only because of the things president trump did to push federal agencies to make sure this is our number one priority. and i am seeing very positive results, and i think a lot of other families based on what they saw today probably have a better view of where we are because he was at least able to articulate that going around the media's filter. lou: yep, absolutely. congressman, we thank you, as always. and amongst the most important results is, as the president has pointed out, while these cases are dramatically rising, the death, the death toll has dramatically dropped. and that is, as he has said, the essential number here. congressman steve scalise, thank you so much. we appreciate it. joining us now, fox news medical correspondent dr. marc siegel to give us his latest perspective on where we are in

this pandemic and the president's response to it. let's start with declining, declining death rates, so. -- dramatically so. your explanation in 15 words or less. i'm kidding. >> well, lou, i agree with congressman scalise that the president was never more in command of the science than today. he talked science, and he had the facts at his fingertips, and he talked about how the reason the case rates are climbing because young people are spreading covid-19 in our emerging hot spots. the death rate is not climbing along with it, that's because we're seeing more and more asymptomatic people being tested and mild symptoms. he understood that. he talked about how there isn't a supply shortage in these hospitals like we had here in new york. he really understood the use of remdesivir in the hospital and dexamethasone in severely ill patients. and finally, he understood where

we are with the vaccines. he's getting really good information right now because these two vaccines that have emerged this week, lou, have very, very promising results. and he said we're already starting to gear up the manufacturing. lou: yes. and indeed they are preparing this -- actually, it's an international gearing up, getting ready for the vaccines even before they're developed, they are parallel processes instead of formerly sequential which this president has made possible. you used the expression the president understood, you used it several times. and if i could, i would like to point out two things. one that he understood before anyone else at least publicly that, how critically important it was to shut down travel from china. he later then understood how important it was to shut down travel from europe. and in both instances, the national left-wing media and the radical dems excoriated him.

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spread it here in the united states. all of the politicization of this virus has been very detrimental to the science, and it's not coming from the white house. no question about that. lou: yeah. >> all of this divisiveness -- how about giving credit? lou: it's one of those things too, i think there should be some considerable modesty on the part of, of science in this as well. because the president pointed out our physicians, our researchers, those folks in the labs, the bright people that we are utterly dependent upon both for care as well as the research to create the vaccine, there has been a broad realization that we don't have all the answers, that our scientists and our doctors don't have all of the answers. in fact, i talked on this broadcast with dr. fauci. he said, no, don't stop international trade -- international travel from china.

don't bother with the mask, it's just basically a faux comfort that does very little. and the list goes on. and he's not alone. he's been wrong, some doctors have been wrong and certainly the researchers have had to spend more time, i think, than many people thought to get their arms, their mental arms around this virus and understand it. would you agree or disagree with my call for modesty on all our parts? >> of course. and we certainly don't need a media sound bite every time a scientist has something to say. many of these scientists serve at the pleasure of the president. they're there to inform him, and that's what i meant today. it looks like they're informed him rather than stepping out into the spotlight and saying contradictory things. the president was saying wear a mask, socially distance. the other point you made that's huge here, and i spoke to the head of the fda today about this, lou, is that the international cooperation that's

going on and the rate that the science is proceeding here with operation warp speed is unprecedented. we've never seen treatments and a vaccine emerge this quickly -- lou: right. >> in history. lou: dr. marc siegel, as always, thanks so much. we appreciate it. good to see you. we'd like to hear your thoughts. share your comments, follow me on twitter @loudobbs on facebook and instagram @loudobbstonight. a programming note, congressman andy biggs, former civil rights activist bob woodson among our guests tomorrow evening. please join us for that. up next, are the u.s. and china, are they in a cold war? dr. michael pillsbury joins us on that question and some answers when we continue. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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♪. lou: we're back with dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. mike, good to see you this is a cold war by any definition between china and the united states, isn't it? >> i saw the cold war myself, lou, i'm that old. the cold war had detente and moments of nuclear terror like the cuban missile crisis. there are elements of the cold war between the u.s. and china now, yes. moments of detente and real terror we might get into a shooting war, a hot war. lou: two chinese nationals now,

stand charged with carrying outside per attacks, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, which means the total is probably vastly higher than that. seeking to learn all they can about the virus, the therapeutics, our biotechs are working on and of course the vaccine of the chinese are liars, they're cheaters, they're thieves and common and coarse. it is that straightforward. if there is detente we should be ashamed of ourselves because they have killed 140,000 americans and it is outrageous that people are talking as if you know, they can put together a syndicate to open up the bond market on wall street for china. it's nuts! >> yeah. wall street investment bankers, lou, seem to be the last holdout on the idea that china is still

our friend and we can make billions of dollars there. it is a dangerous attitude. they may suffer financial loss if they're not careful. lou: yeah. only fools would consider commerce ahead of the national security which is exactly what corporate america, globalists have chosen. doctor, we're out of time. thanks for being patient with us. we appreciate it as always. mike pillsbury. that is it for us tonight. reminder of my new book, "the trump century," how the president changed the course of u.s. history forever. it is available at thetrumpcentury.com and amazon.com and barnes & noble. really drive the left nuts, order several copies, preorder that is. thanks for being with us tonight. we will be back tomorrow. we look forward to. that we'll see you then. good night from sussex.

♪ elizabeth: i'm elizabeth macdonald. thanks for joining us. this is "the evening edit." we're in breaking news mode. we begin with a "fox business alert." president trump just wrapping up his first coronavirus task force briefing in months. edward lawrence has the headlines in washington, d.c. edward. reporter: yeah, liz. you see right there the president solo for this coronavirus briefing. he says doctors have learned so much from the coronavirus that the death rates across the united states are actually coming down. he believes we can beat this virus. the president also saying masks save lives. listen to this. president trump: i do actually do it when i need it. i carry the mask. when i w