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has taken yet another extraordinary and unprecedented twist. the full d.c. appellate court today announced that they will be re-examining the justice department's decision to drop its prosecution of general flynn. the activist clinton-appointed judge who has overseen this case for two years, the district court judge who asked the appellate court the take the unprecedented action of reviewing the entire case, judge emmet sullivan, a recent ruling from three judges on that same appellate court ruled that the case should be dismissed. but the full court has now reversed them as well. without basis in law, without precedent anywhere in our court system and has set oral arguments for august 11th to effectively retry general flynn and to extend further the judiciary, the judiciary's

persecution of him. as if three years has not been more than enough to watch as a corrupt, politically corrupt department of justice and federal bureau of investigation needed the help of the left-wing judges who make up the d.c. circuit court of appeals. seven of those eleven judges appointed by either bill clinton or barack obama. that's right. this is an obvious and outrageous, politically motivated and politically corrupt judiciary. seven of the eleven judges left wing and acting as if they cannot constitute a left-wing organization. it is a disturbing trend, to say the least, emerging in our legal system. billionaires like george soros are packing courthouses and district attorneys' offices with left-wing, sympathetic judges and prosecutors all across the

country, all who support the radical left's agenda and in most cases support the violence in america's democrat-run cities. st. louis circuit attorney, called a district attorney in most regions, ken gardener, is one of those -- kim gardener is supported by soros. she recently announced felony charges against the st. louis couple who were pictured across the country with their weapons on their, in their arms and hands but within their property and at their home would be charged. and kim fox notoriously from cook county, illinois, another soros-backed states' attorney, she drew international attention, when asked about charges in chicago, fox told the chicago sun times it wouldn't be a good use of time and resources

to, i guess, bring justice in her community. other beneficiaries of the soros contributions are advocating to fundamentally transform the justice system. district attorneys from san francisco, philadelphia, boston have all been participating in a project founded by left-wing radical activist john king. that group is called the, quote, truth, justice and reconciliation commission. their web site says the justice system is, quote, operating exactly the way it was designed and built to function. that's why we're imagining and building something new. a political action committee co-founded by king has also supported several soros-backed prosecutors and state attorneys general since 2018. one of their candidates is mike smith who won his election to become the top prosecutor in, that's right, portland, oregon. his term begins this saturday in this critical moment when

violent, left-wing activists and anarchists are trying to burn down the federal courthouse every day, attacking law enforcement including federal officers and agents protecting that federal courthouse. smith telling a local nbc affiliate he potentially would drop charges against nonviolent protesters when he's in office. if he can find a nonviolent protester, well, with supporting video. that would be quite astonishing in itself. former president barack obama today in atlanta for the john lewis services. the former president chose the moment to raise his voice to further attack the trump administration and support mail-in voting. >> there are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrict thive id laws --

[applause] and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in the runup to an election. [applause] lou: in the runup to the election, the former president sounds like someone running for office, doesn't he? mr. obama's worry for people getting sick from the china virus made before packed church with people standing shoulder to shoulder in the pews. i'm sorry, what is that about? twitter is defending their decision to block tweets from president trump and allow anti-semitic tweets to be published and stay up from iran's ayatollah. a policy executive for twitter who strangely represents both the nordic countries and israel telling israeli lawmakers that ca mainny's tweets were saber-rattling on economic issues that are generally not in violation of our rules. is there a more corrupt arbiter

of what should be permitted to be expressed than twitter? well, a reminder the former deep state attorney james baker is now on the twitter legal team. actions like these raise more questions as to why the house judiciary and one of their subcommittees failed to bring up the section 230 protections for big tech and the lawsuits that are underway by the justice department and states' attorneys general to deal with their massive and deeply anti-competitive behavior. neither of the hearings heard over the past two days; that is, featuring the attorney general and four tech titans. they decided not to talk about the central issue. joining us tonight to talk about the central issue involved here is brendan carr, exhibitioner of the fcc -- commissioner of the fcc. he previously served as the fcc's general counsel.

brendan, it is good to have you with us, and thanks for being here. quite a remarkable display with all the time spent on capitol hill in a democratic-led house that the central issue here, the behavior of those massively powerful economically and politically titans of technology wasn't even discussed. how could that be? >> look, lou, this is one of the most important conversations we can be having within the conservative movement right now. when it comes to big tech, there are many on the right -- including a lot of people here in d.c -- who say we simply have to sit on our hands and do nothing. faced with impassive accumulation and abuse of power, they take an ostrich-like approach. i don't think that's right, and there are some in d.c. that are standing up. the trump administration this week took a big step in the right direction, they filedded a petition at the fcc on section 230 which is going to look at some of the special protections that these social media platforms have enjoyed above and

beyond the first amendment rights that you have here and that i have. lou: watching jim jordan and matt gaetz and andy biggs and a handful of others, they raised a voice in defense of our constitution and conservatives who are being crushed by each one of the people that you saw there with whether it's amazon and jeff bezos, facebook and mark zuckerberg, you know, it is just stunning to watch what they are doing. and almost without comment from the national media. which should be standing up for, you would think, of all things freedom of expression. 230, section 230 to protect these technology companies, these social media companies in particular from liability for their users. that has become an artifact, has it not? it is a relic of a moment that

no longer exists on our history. why should there be special protection and immunity for these massively powerful technology companies who are swinging that power in the direction of the conservatives with seemingly every opportunity they get? >> what's interesting is there's actually bipartisan support for this. vice president biden has said that section 230 should be revocked immediately. section 230 was passed in the 1990s to deal with a limited content moderation, that nascent web sites like prodigy e and compuserve were engaged in. flash forward 20 years, today looks nothing like it did in the 990s. courts have taken section 230 and given it expansive reading, so the trump administration appropriately petitioned the fcc asking us about rules that clarify the scope of section 230 so we can hue more closely to the text and the purpose of that law. lou: the text, the purpose and the conclusive action, it seems

to me, should be, brendan, get the hell rid of it. just get rid of it altogether. why should there be any immunity for any reason in this should be, if anything else, protection from them for every american citizen. >> there's a lot of straw man arguments about preserving the status quo. one said it's the law that created the internet. we don't have section 230 in europe, these web sites still exist in europe with. not right. there is no first amendment right to section 230. so i think there's plenty of paths where we can promote more speech. that's what 230's about. the law itself talks about promoting diversity of use and empowering users to engage in their own content monotoring filter, i think we should let people make their own decisions about what they want to see online. lou: what is the mood and the appetite of the fcc to, as you

evaluate this and interpret it, what is the likely time frame for a decision and how quickly will we see that? >> the petition came in this week. it was an interesting, sort of academic petition. we will move to put that out for public comment, everyone can participate, and i hope we move expeditiously from that point. three ideas, transparency, accountability and user 'em pa powermentment -- empowerment. we have a rule in place that says if you're going to manipulate traffic, block traffic, throttle traffic, lawful content, you need to be transparent. if you violate that, you can be held accountable. right now big tech a black box. let's let people know what's going on when they post these things on the internet. lou: i've got an addendum for that. if one of these firms manipulates or block traffic or in any way shows any favor to one political view or another, it should be shut down

forthwith. that is, that effort to do so. and that power should reside with the fcc. brendan carr, great to have you with us. thanks, come back soon. we'll be talking about this for some time, i can tell. up next, nasa launches a usa mission to mars. but a member of the bush family is helping the chinese in their own space venture to the red planet. we'll tell you all about it. also tonight, the fbi defends its fraudulent fisa applications. congressman andy biggs is with us in just a few moments. and preorder "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever." this is an important building block in our effort to save the republic and drive the left nuts. you can do so preordering at the trump century, amazon.com or barnes & noble.com. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪

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lou: breaking news now, china gettine help in the space races from a member of the bush family. neil bush, the younger brother of george w. bush, is the co-chairman of a chinese real estate firm that's partnering with the communist party's principal producer of space and military equipment. ing senate republicans also

continuing their investigation into joe biden's son, hunter biden, and his business practices in china. we'll be taking all of this up later in the broadcast with the hudson institute's michael pillsbury. also breaking tonight, the fbi and department of justice found 29 fisa court applications during obamagate had, quote, inaccuracies but not enough to affect how the court ruled. this add adds to the 17 errors or omissions the fbi made in applications to spy on carter page and the trump campaign. a reminder the fisa court has approved more than 99% of all the warrant withs sought in its 42-year history. doing important work for the nation, don't you think? well, joining us tonight is congressman andy biggs. he's chairman of the house freedom caucus, a member of the house judiciary committee who was at the hearing with attorney general barr. first of all, great to have you with us, congressman.

let's start with finding out that a member of the bush family is doing business with the chinese on a level that i find outrageous. hunter biden, the same situation. and, in fact, it's corruption, it is, it is driven by the trading on their fathers' -- and in one instance brother's -- standing as a public servant. it's outrageous, it's suck. ing that it's permitted -- sickening that it's permitted. >> i agree with you, lou. china has this advanced rocket telemetry, deepwater navy and middle class stealing our intellectual property is a direct result of the washington elite establishment that's been in place for 20 some odd years dealing with the chinese and giving them this information and these opportunities. that's a huge problem, and this is just one more example of

that. lou: yeah. and don't leave out the people who fund their corruption -- >> yes. lou: -- that is, of course, k street, the chamber of commerce, the business round table representing the interest and pleasures of this big business establishment and, of course, wall street with sloshing fortunes around in pursuit of further profit. it's disgusting, it's appalling. i have to say i was encouraged by you, by matt gaetz, but jim jordan and others to take on, to take on the issue before attorney general william barr which is the absolute despicable conduct. it is as if every democratic district in the country sends the biggest low lives and liars that they can find in their communities to represent them. it is outrageous what these

people stand the for. >> yeah. lou, it was despicable. and, you know, you had everything from a barbara boxer moment where you had a member saying i can't believe you would treat a member of congress with such lack of respect after they had just pummeled this guy, wouldn't let him answer questions, maltreated him, misrepresented him. and it was, quite frankly, it was an old-style soviet style of hearing. and it was reprehensible, and we were in there trying to allow him to make opportunities to respond to them. they didn't want that. we, you know, bill barr sat there stoically and patiently, and when he asked for a bathroom break, he had -- jerry nadler didn't want to give him the bathroom break. they'd ask him a question, and they would not give him a minute to even answer the question. they would say we're going to reclaim our time which is -- that is not the usual method of

doing that. lou: i have to tell you, as i watched that, do you know what my takeaway was though? i was really very angry with you republicans -- >> yeah. lou: -- and with paul ryan, the speaker of the house, who actually sacrificed 40 seats and turned over control to a left wing that is as obnoxious and inept as one could imagine is and corrupt. this is disgusting, what the republican if party did to good people like attorney general barr. and i don't, by the way, i don't see the fire amongst you republicans. a handful of you, yes. but it looks to me like the same just or -- sordid nonchalance about critical issues and a fight for the soul of this country in november. it's as if much of your party doesn't give a damn how that turns out. am i wrong about that? >> i pray you're wrong because we have got to fight.

i know there's plenty of people fighting with me, but sometimes we look back and think they're behind us, all right, but they're way behind us. we have got to take this back, lou. if there was nothing that we have seen -- your first story about the china intervention, that is part of this uni-party that's here. you've got to fight that and get through that, and we saw the way they treated bill barr and the way they are trying to suppress president trump and his agenda. those types of things are actually going to lead to defeat. we have got to recognize that president trump's the standard bearer, he's going to get out the vote, and he's going to be the guy that we have our wagons hitched to. that is where you have to be. and that's the argument. so we have leaders who want to undermine the president and we can't stand for that. and we've got to keep fighting for the ageneral da he ran on and, quite frankly, we ran on including people who don't really want to support him. we've got to take this back. we have got to talk this back.

it's a crisis moment. lou: yeah. it is a cry us moment, and it's -- crisis moment, and it's my judgment that the president will be reelected. and i don't know what's going to happen to the house and to the senate, because those are some of the most callow and, i i think, cowardly people i've ever seen in politics, and i've been covering politics for a very long time. to see the low lives of the democrats and the gutless wonders of the rinos and the republican party, it's a hell of a, it's a hell of a situation in the nation's capital. thank god we've got this president and a handful of folks like you and jordan and gaitz to reed the way. appreciate it. congressman andy biggs. >> thanks, lou. lou: up next, we'll be taking up more on this remarkable president of ours who has been hit with everything imaginable and then some during the course of his first term and managed to

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lou: breaking news now, we have a date for you. we're pleased to announce that i'll be interviewing president trump tuesday. be sure to join us tuesday at 5 p.m. eastern for the conversation. be sure to join us each and every weekday at 5 eastern time for the conversation. senator lindsey graham once again doing, well, a lot of talking. he was outright gleeful at the judiciary committee he chairs finally doing something. it passed a bill that would allow americans to sue china for the impact of the china virus. he is said, quote: i promise to hold china accountable for the coronavirus and i am. this is patterned on the legislation to hold saudi arabia accountable after september 11th. you know how that worked out. the globalists at the economist

magazine seeking mightily to appease the communist chinese party. the globalist magazine saying a treaty is the best way to stop the chinese fishing fleet's encroachment on the galapagos islands. the economist suggested ecuador was overreacting to the chinese fishing armada, 260 fishing trawlers moving in within 20 miles of the marine reserve that surrounds those islands, saying there's little ecuador can do to stop china from ransacking marine life in international waters. well, there's something the united states and other nations can do. there's something here the united nations should be doing, but no one, no one, i assure you, is holding their breath about that. the department of agriculture and the fbi say the mysterious chinese seeds that were a mailed to americans may be a marketing scam known as brushing.

they suggest it's also a way to artificially boost their sales by sending free seeds to all 50 states. no word yet on who mailed the seeds, whether they are harmful, nor how that particular scam works, but that's what we're getting. just wanted to bring you to date. now you know what we do which is not enough about this sorry e business. that mystery batch of seeds mailed all over the country. joining us tonight, dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. mike, great to have you with us. let's start, first of all, with a quick reaction to senator graham complimenting himself for coming up with a, with an answer to holding china accountable by allowing americans to sue the chinese. how effective do you think that would be? i mean, are they quivering in beijing at the prospect in. >> no, they're not quivering in beijing, lou. i think i've heard you use a

wonderful term that applies to senator graham. it's signaling when you claim you're doing something but you actually know that it's not going to be effective. the chinese are have responded to pressure in the past, usually when it has to do with like president trump putting the tariffs on. that's very effective. military maneuvers and exercises have an effect. there's a list of things you can do to get china's attention. i don't think this is one of them. lou: no. and the other, the other question is neil bush, george w.'s brother, doing business with one of the preeminent chinese technology and space companies and at the same time i'd like to share with you what he said in a, in a statement. this from neil bush in which he said effectively that this is

all about pro-america rhetoric e. this is about nationalism rising in the united states manifested in anti-immigrant, anti-chinese, pro-america first rhetoric. i will tell you something, i believe neil bush is a, he's absolute scum to talk like that about his native land. and i really, i find him absolutely disgusting. your thoughts? >> well, i think we need to make a list of people like neil bush who have benefited enormously, maybe they pretend it's because of their native genius that they can make so much money, but outsiders know it's not that at all, it's their relationship to the president. it's really a major -- lou: nobody's fooled here by any -- yeah. there's nothing -- [inaudible conversations] there's nothing here that the american people don't understand.

they're trading on a family name, both he and hunter biden, and those like them. it is disgusting. it ought to be, you would think that there would be enough class in two families that have been so fortunate in politics that they would at least hold their family accountable for the way they trade on a name. but it's not to be done. this -- i want to turn to the trawler fleet off the, just off the federal marine reserve around the galapagos. what can be done to turn these sorry fishing vessels and their crews back? i mean, the chinese government is really pushing it. i've had a bell hi full of their nonsense, frankly. >> yes. lou, i think we need to find effective measures that china is afraid of. there are a few of those. applying anything else but effective pressure seems to me is a waste of time and even

encourages additional -- lou: there is no effective pressure. you know, you and i know that -- >> not yet. lou: there's no rhetoric, there's no pressure. this is about nose to nose confrontation with the chinese, and if they're going to pick on the weak -- and that's ec ecuad. here's a nation of 1.4 billion people going after precious natural wildlife in a marine reserve because they are bigger than anyone else? where the hell are we? we need to be standing up for countries like this and against this behemoth that thinks it's looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies. isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance. i just... when i... let's try again. everybody back to one.

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must be must be. ♪ finish. ♪ lou: we're back with dr. michael pistol burr arely. mike, this is -- pillsbury. this is two chinese nationals charged with trying to steal secrets from those companies, biotechs that are building vaccines. we know moderna today has been under attack since at least january. what are we doing about this? this is just one affront after another, one act of aggression after another, and we do absolutely nothing but give speeches. speeches are important -- >> yes. lou: -- but, by god, action is far more important because they are assailing this country every damn day without response. >> i agree with you, lou. e i think what the chinese are afraid of is prosecutions.

if the department of justice prosecutes a lot of these cases, tells the fbi, okay, investigation's over, we're going to court, the effect on china is to see so many of their people arrested and put in prison, that'll have some deterrent effect. but so far they need our technology and capital so much, lou, that almost nothing seems to deter them. president trump has said that we built china, and he means we allowed them to stealing and get away with this. lou: they stole china from us, are you kidding? half a trillion dollars a year in intellectual property. we've turned over technology, military secrets to them. we have -- without us, who knows? let's hope for better times. thanks so much. the president on the stage now approaching the podium. here he is. >> -- the passing of a wonderful man and a dear friend of mine, herman cain. he was a very special person.

i got to know him very well, and unfortunately, he passed away from a thing called the china virus. we send our prayers to herman's great wife gloria, wonderful family. and i have to say, america grieves for all of the 150,000 americans who had their lives taken by this horrible invisible enemy. we mourn their loss as a nation, we mourn their loss as people, as people that love one another. and we're working very hard to not only contain this horrible event, this horrible plague -- that's what it is, it's a plague -- but also to come up with therapeutics and vaccines, and we're making a lot of strides. all over the world they're

having tremendous problems. resurgence has taken place in many countries that people thought were doing well. despite a wide range of approaches to the pandemic between countries, this resurgence in cases is occurring throughout large portions of our planet. in japan, china, australia with, belgium, spain, france, germany, hong kong, places where they thought it was -- they'd really done great. it came back, and there are a couple of cases came back very strongly. the virus was said to be under control, but new cases have risen very significantly once again. so when you think minute's doing well, sometimes you have -- somebody's doing well, sometimes you have to hold your decision on that, you have to hold your statement. since the beginning of june, daily new cases have increased by a factor of 14 times in

israel, 35 times -- that's 35 times in japan and nearly 30 times in australia just to name a few. these were countries that were doing incredibly well. leadership was being praised. latin america now leads the world in confirmed infections. and with the scarcity of testing in latin america, the true numbers, you have no idea what they might be. and i can say scarcity of testing almost anywhere except for our country. this disease is highly contagious and presents unique challenges to our border states. meanwhile, states like california, washington state, maryland, virginia, nevada, illinois, oregon and many others, they were thought to be doing well and they had a big resurgence and were hit very hard. governors that were extremely popular are not so popular anymore. they were held up as models to

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we certainly have understood a lot about the disease that we didn't have any idea. we didn't -- nobody ever saw anything like this. the primary purpose of the shutdown was to flatten the curve, insure sufficient hospital capacity and develop effective treatments and therapies to reduce mortality. and we've done that, but it can the come rearing back when you least suspect it. we did the right thing initially. we saved millions of lives, what we did. did do the right thing. but a permanent shutdown would no longer be the answer at all. a small shutdown of certain areas, we don't want to do that. maul shutdowns can be -- small shutdowns can be very helpful but not for long periods of time. we understand what we're dealing with now, but it's a very complex situation. and i can only say thank heaven

that we are so advanced in what we're doing in terms of vaccines and therapies. we now know a great deal about the virus and how to treat it and who are targets. almost half of the deaths come from less than 1% of our population. half of the deaths, a really tremendous number, half of the deaths come from less than 1% of our population. those living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. the average age of those who die from the illness is 78. we've announced very strong measures to protect those who are most vulnerable. the scientific path forward is to protect those at highest risk while allowing those at lower risk to carefully return to work and to school with appropriate precautions. i'm once again urging the american people to protect their

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coronavirus.gov and volunteer to donate maas ma. we need plasma. it's something that's been very effective, and we need plasma from those that were infected and successfully recovered. as most people do can. most people do. plasma's one of the many promising treatments my administration is accelerating. we've secured over 90% of the world's ply of remdesivir, which is terrific, an encouraging antiviral drug that can effectively block reply caution of the virus. -- replication of the virus. we've also approved use of the widely available steroid which has been very successful, dexamethasone which has shown success in patients even in more advanced stages of the disease. on july 17th we announced a $450 million agreement with regeneron

to build manufacturing plants and hundreds of thousands of doses of its antibody treatment which is currently in late stage clinical trials. moving along very rapidly. that's regeneron. as a result of such significant strides in treatment, the mortality rate in those over the age of 18 is 8 a 5% low -- 85% lower than it was just in april. so in a very short period of time. think of that. just 18, 85% lower than it was in april. that's a big statement. now i want to provide an update on our efforts to insure a strong economic comeback including our negotiations on capitol hill. throughout this crisis, my administration has taken the most aggressive action in history to rescue american workers. we love our american workers, and we've set records on job creation. records. two months in a row. we enacted a $3 trillion

economic relief package. the paycheck protection program alone saved over 50 million jobs. we delivered $30 0 billion through direct cash payments to american. we approved $500 billion for our hardest hit industries. $500 billion. we allowed struggling homeowners to reduce or defer their mortgage payments, and we put a nationwide moratorium on evictions from federally-backed properties. that's a big thing, very bug thing. we also suspended student loan payments for six months, and we're looking to do that additionally and for additional periods of time. as a result of these extraordinary steps by the administration, we added a record 7 million jobs in the two months past alone. to insure this comeback continues -- which we think it

will. we had a great foundation to build on. we were the strongest country in the world. nobody close. we were outdoing everybody from china. if you remember for many years, you heard that in 2019 china would surpass the united states. well, it didn't. we gained on them very significantly. we took it to a level that nobody's ever seen, 2019, and we'll be back there very shortly. it won't take very long based on everything that we're seeing. it's not going to take very long. i think next year's going to be an excellent year, maybe one of our best years ever from an economic standpoint. we can never, ever forget the people that have been lost. we never will. we'll never forget them, never forget what happened. this could have been stopped in china. they should have stopped it e, and they didn't. but i'm asking congress to pass additional legislation to support americans in need. first, we want a temporary extension of expanded

unemployment benefits. this will provide a critical bridge for americans who lost their jobs to the pandemic through no fault of their own. this was not anybody's fault from the standpoint of jobs. it happened. terrible thing happened. could have been stopped, it happened. i want to thank senate republicans for fighting to extend unemployment benefits today and to face a very strong democrat obstruction which i'm surprised at. because this is great for our country, and it's great for our workers x and it wasn't our workers' fault. second, we're asking democrats to work with us to find the solution that will temporarily stop evictions. we don't want people who have lost their jobs due to the virus to be evicted from their homes or apartments. we don't want that to happen. third, we need democrats to join us to pass additional economic relief payments for american citizens. like the payments sent directly

to 160 million americans earlier this year, which was a tremendously successful program, this money will help millions of hard working families get by. my administration is also asking democrats to work with us to pass $105 billion to help schools safely reopen. children are not at the lowest risk. if you look at what's going on, the younger the better. amazing, the immune system. for children the lower they are in age, the lower the risk in term of the age group utah. age group itself. i tell the story in new jersey with thousands and thousands of people dying, sadly dying, the governor was telling me that only one, phil murphy, only one died under the age of 18. that's incredible. with thousands of people that died in the state of new jersey, one. it made an impact.

one died under the age of 18. children are at the lowest risk of any age group from the virus. indefinite school closures will inflict lasting harm to our nation's children, so we must follow the science and get students safely back to school while protecting children, teachers, staff and family. we have to remember that there's another side to this. keeping them out of school and keeping work closed causing death also. economic harm, but causing death. for different reasons,. if governors do not want to open the public schools the money should go to parents so they can send their children to the school of their choice. so we say if a school doesn't want to open or if a governor doesn't want to open, maybe for political reason, maybe not, but there is some of that going on. the money should go to the parents so they can send their children to the school of their choice. if schools stay closed the money

should follow the students so family ares in control of decisions about their sons and daughters, about their children. but to pass a bill democrats must reject the extreme partisan voices in their party. they have tremendous voices. they're looking at november 3rd and probably a day later they will say let's open up the country. but the democrats have to reject the extreme partisan voices in their party so that we can get our country going even quicker than it is going right now. we have a lot opening, we have a lot of state has you thought were doing pretty poorly from the standpoint of virus and coming back fairly strong. this pandemic underscored the importance of economic policies that put american families and workers first. got elected on the fact that i

put america first, for many, many decades, in my opinion, we put america last. if you look at the crazy, horrible, disgraceful trade deals that we've watched for many years, destroy our country. nafta we terminated it. we have usmca now which is a great deal and our farmers are doing really well despite the pandemic. but we put america first, america's families first and america's workers first. but that means bringing jobs and factories back to our shores, reducing unnecessary regulations and creating new training opportunities for jobs and for the future. we've got regulations at a level no president has ever cut regulations. we've got taxes more than any president in the history of our country. americans always rise to the challenge. we will emerge more resilient, more self-reliant, more independent and more prosperous than ever before.

so i just want to thank you all. if you would like we will take a few questions. steve, please. >> are you going to launch an effort to try to delay the election or was that a trial balloon this morning. president trump: i want to explain to people. it doesn't need must explanation. if you look at article after article, new york's mail in vote disaster. tens of thousands of mail-in ballots have been tossed out in this year's primaries. this is done about it "washington post," of all papers. fake news but in this case it is not fake it is true. lou: that's it for us tonight. the president wrapping up his news conference. judicial's watch's tom fitton, pastor robert jeffress is among our guests tomorrow. we'll take up mail-in voting. president trump our special guest tuesday. we hope you are with us for that. look forward to see you tomorrow. "the trump century," my new book how our president changed the course of history forever.

order it at thetrumpcentury.com, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. thanks for joining us. good evening from sussex. ♪. president trump: anything else >> everything else that can happen, years, years? or you never even know who won the election? you're serving out hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots. hundreds o millions. where are they going? who are they being sent to? it's common sense. you don't have to know anything about politics. and the democrats know this. the democrats know this, steve. so i want to see, i want an election and a result much, much more than you. i think we're doing very well. we havee the same fake polls, bt with we have real polls. we're doing very well. i just left texas, and b