we couldn't leave you without reminding you about my new book, "the trump century," how our president changed the course of history forever. available for preorder. get your copy at amazon.com. thanks for being with us. good night from sussex. ♪. elizabeth: good evening. we begin with breaking news. reports of sounds of shots and gunfire near the white house. the presser was halted. here is the president back in. let's listen. president trump: there was a shooting outside of the white house. seems to be well under control. i would like to thank the secret service for doing their always quick and very effective work but there was an actual shooting and somebody has been taken to the hospital. i don't know the condition of the person. seems that the person was, was shot by secret service. so we'll see what happens and,

did you have something? reporter: tell us -- president trump: no details. we just found out just now t was outside of the white house, this area right over here, and they will have details for you in a little while. somebody is taken to the hospital. seems that the shooting was done by law enforcement at that person, at the suspect t was the suspect who was shot. it just took place a couple of people out side. i man named john roberts you know very well, he was outside and heard shots. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: we don't know. they were going to find out. reporter: did the individual say anything? president trump: we don't know that. reporter: secret service did shoot the suspect. president trump: seems to be. reporter: president were you taken? to the bunker?

president trump: no, to the oval office. you saw it pretty much like i did. sir, can you come with me. you were surprised. i was surprised also. that is pretty unusual, but very professional people. they do a fantastic job as you know. seems to me, seems to be from what i would say a shooting. it was law enforcement shot someone, seems to be the suspect and the suspect is now on the way to the hospital. i can't tell you the conditional of suspect. there was nobody else injured. there was no other law enforcement injured. i just want, we'll get on to the press conference. but i do want to thank secret service. they are fantastic. the job they do. reporter: [inaudible]. president trump: from what i understand the answer is yes. reporter: he was armed mr. president. president trump: what i understand. you will have -- reporter: type of weapon? president trump: i don't know.

other to port male or female? president trump: they will have a briefing maybe for you outside. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: i didn't ask the question. it might not have had anything to do with me or something else. it was on the outside of the premises, the wall, as you know the fencing, especially the new fencing they put up is very powerful but it was on the outside of the white house. okay? they will have a full report, secret service in a little while we'll have a full report. reporter: are you rattled by this at all, mr. president? president trump: do i seem rattled? it is unfortunate but the world has always been a dangerous place. it is not something that is unique. the world has been, you look back over the centuries, the world has been a dangerous place, very dangerous place and, it will continue i guess for a period of time. reporter: [inaudible]. personal safety inside of the white house? president trump: i feel very

safe with secret service. they're fantastic people. they're the best of the best. they're highly trained. i don't know if anybody got to walk outside but there were a lot of terrific-looking people ready to go if something was necessary. people at the highest level of law enforcement. there is nobody like these people. so they just wanted me to step aside for a little while, just to make sure that everything was cleared outside because it was right in this area. reporter: why did you come back, mr. president? why did you decide after that, created a lot of commotion. what made you decide to come back to continue the briefing? president trump: i didn't think about not coming back. i said am i able to go back. they said you have to wait a little while. i waited a little while as you know in the oval office area. i said can i get back now? they said yes. they have a lot of fortification outside in case. it was one person.

okay? reporter: said shooting outside. how far away? president trump: they will give you a full briefing a little while. reporter: far from the white house? president trump: i can only tell you they will give you a briefing. it was outside the fence. reporter: pretty close. president trump: pretty close. i was telling you that the dow jones and the s&p 500 are now 50% above the march level. nasdaq is setting new records. it is already broken the record despite the situation of having the china virus. we have new jobs arising and unemployment is falling faster than nearly anyone thought. over the past three month we've created over nine million jobs. that's a record, a three-month record if you add it up, it's a three month record by far. and we beaten expectations by

12 million, 12 million above expectations which is pretty remarkable. today we had great reports on new job openings and, there is clearly a housing boom which has been incredible numbers in both housing and automobile boom. we've rarely seen anything like it. it is going on right now in america. inventories are at rock bottom. used car sales are at record levels. and we will have, we built, we're doing a rebuilding league reich nobody has ever seen. construction is getting close to record territory. manufacturing is doing very well. car companies are doing great. very happy for the michigan, the state of michigan. we have a lot of car companies moving in. a lot of plants are being built and expanded in michigan and ohio there is no reason why the economy grant grow at a 20% pace in the third quarter.

that would be a record and interestingly it will be a number that is going to be announced before november 3rd. it gets announced probably around november 1st which is very interesting but it is going to grow at a very substantial pace based on all the numbers we're looking at, probably a lot more substantial than we originally thought. we're creating new incentives to work in jobs. we're also providing much-needed assistance to those who are still suffering from the effects of the pandemic contraction and the contraction is now, while we have the pandemic, we have a lot of great things happening in terms of the vaccines and therapeutics as you know and i think we'll be making tremendous progress over the next period of a few months and certainly before the end of the year. i think we'll have a vaccine before the end of the year, very substantially, we may have a therapeutic resolvement very

quickly, very, very quickly. that is the one i would rather have faster, you go in, give a transfusion or a shot to people that are very ill and they would be able to come out of the hospital the flex day or -- next day or a few days later. if the states participate in our core sharing unemployment plan we're going to be doing something very, very interesting with all of the things that we announced on saturday. i don't have to repeat what they are. you know very well. we've had, we've had some tremendous success already if you look what's happening with the stock market and people are very thrilled at what we're doing. we'd like to get the democrats to focus on other than what they're focusing on which is a bailout of poorly running states. they have many great running states, states setting records and let's see what happens with respect to that. but the, we're looking at also considering a capital-gains tax cut which would create a lot

more jobs. so we're looking very seriously at capital-gains tax cut. and also at an income tax cut for middle income families. we're looking at expanding the tax cuts that we've already done but specifically for middle income families. you will be hearing about that in the upcoming few weeks. i think it will be very exciting. so capital-gains tax is going to be, a lot of people put to work and it will be a cut in the capital gains tax and also a cut in the middle income tax. so i now want to just discuss a little quick briefing, then we'll take a few more questions but, we took some, who would have known we take questions before we started, right? is that right, jennifer? that is the way it happens sometimes. we want to discuss if we might the china virus and the world

continues its fight against this horrible plague. countries on every continent are seeing increases in cases. we have a rapid increase only in cases where, it is very interesting because we're so far ahead of testing we have more cases. if we had much smaller testing would have fewer but we feel that having testing is a very important thing. it's a great, it is a great record to have in many ways. we have tested, i guess close to 65 million people right now. nobody is even close to that number. no other country is close. india would be second at 11 million and they have 1.5 billion people. so we, we have the number one testing anywhere in the world by far. we also have, i think the highest quality tests. we have a lot of different ones but we have the highest quality including the short term and lab tests. the lab tests take a little bit longer and dr. birx was tell me

a little while ago we're down to two days, 2 1/2 days on getting you a result on the lab tests. the other ones you get them in five minutes to 15 minutes so that's exciting but countries on every continent are seeing increases in cases in recent days. cases rapidly increased in japan and australia unfortunately. they're now experiencing higher peaks than they did in march. to the south of the border, of our border, cases continued to surge in mexico, central america, argentina, colombia, peru, brazil and throughout latin america. it is really the hot spot. it is posing a major challenge for this continent. latin america is now the region with the most number of confirmed cases by far despite a relative scarcity of testing. so when you think of that, that means it's pretty much on fire. having a hard time. we're helping them, we're

sending them tremendous numbers of ventilators which we're making by the thousands every month. we're helping latin america very much. it is hard for them to come into the country because we have big sections of wall up now. the new wall is being built. people don't talk about. they used to talk about nothing but the wall. now that it is being built they're not talking about it so much but it helped us, almost getting close to 280 miles. 80 miles in the most important areas, helping us a lot in terms of not having people come in to the country who are infected with the coronavirus. this global trend underscores the persistence of the virus including the nations that apply the strictest most punishing lockdowns. you have nations really tough on the lockdowns and they're getting hit very hard. that is why my administration is pursuing a science-based

approach that protects the most vulnerable, preserves hospital capacity and focusing on the delivery and development of treatments, ultimately the vaccine. i feel strongly we will have a vaccine by the end of the year and it will be put in service, maybe even as we get it because we're all set militarily. we're using our military to distribute the vaccine. and logistically there is nobody like this group of people. i meet with them a lot and they're ready to go. soon as they have it they will be going but more importantly the therapeutics as i said. i think the therapeutics could be great, initially speaking. i think that would be, if i had my choice. but you will have them both. you will have them both very soon too. at the same time wee urge all americans to apply common sense mitigation. you all know what that mitigation is. everybody knows it by heart now. nearly half of all of the deaths from the china virus in the united states have occurred in

nursing homes and long-term care facilities. that's why we have delivered funding, equipment and rapid testing to our nation's nursing homes to protect those at high-risk. we're very focused on nursing homes and senior citizens areas. anywhere that we have senior citizens we're very, very focused. we delivered over 1800 rapid point of care testing devices. those are very quick and shipped over 700,000 tests to nursing homes. nursing homes are being protected like never before. the united states faces a unique range of challenges that requires our constant vigilance. america has the largest at-risk population of any developed country by far, 1.5 million residents of nursing homes. about five times that of the united kingdom and other european countries. our country also has a higher prevalence of underlying conditions that this virus targets. yet we have fewer deaths per

capita than the united kingdom and most other peer nations in western europe. that is important. we have fewer deaths per capita than the united kingdom and most other nations in western europe and heading for even stronger numbers but one person is too much as far as i'm concerned. should have never been allowed to happen. should have never been allowed to escape china. nationwide we continue to see encouraging signs. in the last seven days nationwide cases declined by 14%. hospitalizations decreased by 7%. fatalities decreased by 9%. arizona and that are improving rapidly with fewer patients coming to emergency rooms by far as well as decreasing cases, decreasing fatalityies and expected and expanded hospital capacity. so we have an expanded hospital capacity. it's. it's pretty dramatic when you

look at it, meaning we have more room should we need it. so a lot of tremendous work has been done. in texas likewise, the number of patients going to emergency rooms has dropped from july by more than 2/3. that's a lot. nevertheless we continue to monitor texas very closely. terrific governor, terrific people, working on that whole situation in texas especially, at its test positivity rate which rose over 20% this weekend. overall cases in texas are coming down and have stablized in the border counties. that is again where you have the wall and you're next to, in some cases the wall and some cases you will have it very shortly. you will have it all built within a number of months. but those areas were hit very hard and they're likely cases from mexico that come in back and forth from the border. they come in legally.

as doctors have found more effective ways to treat patients the fatality rate continue toes improve. texas 1/6 the fatality rate of new york and new jersey that they had in april. and, if you look at new york and new jersey they worked very, very hard. very heavy densecy and they had a lot of different kinds of difficulty. the fatality rates in florida now and arizona are between 25 and 33% of the peak rates of new york and new jersey. again, different, different climate, a different grouping. different density. tremendously different density. in california the situation is starting to stablize and improve throughout the major metropolitan areas. statewide hospitalizations continue to decline very substantially with about 20% fewer in patients now than on july 21st. california is starting to really show signs of correcting.

we're monitoring regions with increasing cases including boston, chicago and the midwest and we're monitoring them very, very strongly, and very, very hard. i do want to say that i think at the end of a fairly short period of time you will be in very, very good shape all over our country. every loss of life is tragic and all nations must work together to defeat this horrible virus. my administration is going to continue to save as many lives as possible. we are working round-the-clock, everybody, it is incredible how hard they're working and people from other countries, we're working with them also. they're working very hard this is something that is now attacked 188 different countries. there are a wide range of factors that determine you who the virus impacts a nation such as age, underlying conditions, underlying conditions is a very

big one. if you're sick in any way, if you're have, especially heart and diabetes, that is not a good thing to have if you, if you're going to have this, if you're going to catch it. so we're trying to protect it, especially those people that have problems with their heart or diabetes, and levels of preexisting many immunity from past exposureother viruses happen. we must stop politicizing the virus and be united in our condemnation how this virus came to america. how this virus came to the world. and we're going to figure it out and we're going to find out and we're very angry about it. on the therapeutics and vaccine updates, three vaccine candidates are currently in phase three clinical trials, something that would have been impossible under the previous administration or any other administration. and several others are showing

considerable promise. we have great companies, very well-known companies. i think everyone in this room would know these companies but they're the biggest and the best in the world. we're working with other foreign companies and countries that have been really working very closely with us. we're trading, we're not looking to do anything but come up with the answer and we really don't, we don't care. we want to come up with the answer. if it is one much ours or one of theirs, it's okay. we have to come up with the answer. we're very close to getting it. some people think we have it. we may have it. we have the best scientists in the world racing to develop a safe vaccine that will end this pandemic, save millions of lives and, that's millions of lives all over the world and end the harm inflicted by this virus to our society and to all other nations. last week the nih began a clinical trial of remdesivir

paired with another approved anti-viral drug and anti-inflammatory drug. you know that remdesivir has been very successful and now they're experimenting with others including anti-virals and anti-inflorida inflammatories. they're having interesting success. we've secured enough remdesivir to treat over 650,000 patients. on saturday i took executive action in signing to save american jobs and support american workers. i signed directives to give a payroll tax holiday with the understanding that after the election, or the assumption that it would be victorious for an administration that has done a great job. we will be ending that tax, we will be terminating that tax. on the other hand the other group wants to raise taxes and they may want to leave it where

you pay it but the payroll tax is a big deal for people. it is a tremendous savings for people and we're going to be doing it. we intend to terminate it at the end of the appropriate period of time. it's for those making less than $100,000 to the end of 2020, to provide an extra $400 per week, also in unemployment benefits and to extend a freeze on home evictions. we want to extend the freeze so people are not evicted. it is not their fault that the virus came from china. it is china's fault. to us spend payments on student loans through the end of the year and beyond. again, you know, they're paying interest on loans and they're not allowed to go to their college. so we're going to suspend payments on student loans through the end of the year. then another extension most likely because it is not fair to the students to have to pay when the colleges are not doing the

job of getting open. i think probably many of them could be open. so i want to thank you all. i'm sorry for the disturbance before. things happen. and if you would like we take a few questions. yeah. reporter: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate it. kaley said earlier today you're working around the clock to get unemployment payments to americans. president trump: yeah. reporter: give me your timetable, talking next week, two weeks, a month? >> next week or two -- reporter: mr. secretary, you're saying when? >> i think within the next week or two most of the states will be able to execute. reporter: got it. >> this gentleman, you know everybody. you know russell. you know, this is scott atlas. you know that, right? scott is a very famous man who is also very highly respected, stanford. he is working with us and will be working with us on the

coronavirus and he has many great ideas. and he thinks what we've done is really good. we'll take it to a new level. it is great to have scott working along with us. we appreciate it very much, scott. thank you very much. we've had some great discussions. reporter: follow up on that, mr. president, if you don't mind, talking about the states have all the governors signed on to this? president trump: we just had a meeting with the governors and they were very anxious to get money for the people in their states and if they, depending on the state, we have the right to do what we want to do. we can terminate the 25% or we don't have to do. that we'll see what it is. depends on the individual state. but a lot of money will be going to a lot of people very quickly. i've instructed the secretary of the treasury to move as quickly as he can. all right? so we'll get it done. yeah, please. reporter: i i have a question about coronavirus. wanted to just ask you to be clear on the incident outside. there is a fairly significant perimeter around the

white house. does it concern you at all someone who is armed was able to get so close that you needed to be removed from the briefing room? reporter: i don't know if. president trump: i don't know if he was close or not. i don't know if it was a he or she. i have such confidence in these people, they're so good. i don't think the person breached anything. it was on the outside grounds. so i don't believe anything was breached. i asked that question. so, they were relatively far away. reporter: on coronavirus, 97,000 children have been positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of july according to the american academy of pediatrics. does that give you any pause about schools reopening for in-person learning. president trump: no. because they may have, as you would call it a case, there may be a case but it is also a case where there is a tiny, it's a tiny fraction of death, tiny fraction. and they get better very

quickly. yeah, they have, they may have it for a short period of time but, as you know the seriousness of it in terms of what it leads to is extraordinarily small, very, very much less than 1%. john? reporter: do you still believe children are essentially immune? president trump: i think for the most part they do very well. they don't get very sick. they don't catch it easily. they don't get very sick. according to the people i've spoken to they don't transport it or transfer it to other people or certainly not very easily. so, yeah, i think schools have to open. we want to get our economy going. we have incredible numbers despite this if we could get this going, i think it is very important thing going to get the schools going. jonathan. reporter: mr. president, in ohio a few days ago you said, quote, joe biden has god. the vice president said he is man of deep catholic faith. he is credited for helping

endure personal strategies. what did you mean by that, joe biden has hurt god or is against god? president trump: look at the manifesto and they have come up with and their tons on religion, very importantly with aspects of religion and faith i don't think a man of deep religion would be agree together bernie sanders plan. you take a look what they have in, you just, you can't put that into the realm of a religious group of people, i will say that. and i think it is one of the reasons why if you look at polls which i'm not a big believer in polls. if i was, i guess i wouldn't be standing here right now. by the way our poll numbers are going up very rapidly as you know. joe's are going down very rapidly. he will have to come out of the basement it looks like pretty soon because that, you know, one of those things. no, if you look at the manifesto, i call it the manifesto, a lot of people are calling it the manifesto, my

opinion it is further left than where bernie was before. normally he would be left and bring it somewhere a little bit toward the center but, some of the things that they have down there, i'm not only talking in terms of religion, i'm not talking even in terms of religion, but some of the things they have in the agreement made, this was an agreement made by bernie sanders and joe. it's a terrible thing t would be a terrible thing for our country. it will destroy our country. we will go into a depression. we will put on regulation. we will double and triple taxes. we will, it will be terrible for health care, just terrible. you will have 180 million people lose their health care. it will be a terrible, terrible thing for our country. yeah, please, yeah. reporter: thank you, sir i like to ask you question about something you said in bedminster as well. you said you're planning to issue an executive order to insurance that health insurance companies prevent or cover people with preexisting

conditions. president trump: yes. reporter: you said that had never been done before. that not the case because that is the law under the affordable care act. my question why do you need to issue an executive order -- president trump: i said as an executive order. as you said, said as an executive order it hasn't been done before. we want to, we want to be able to assure people that preexisting conditions is always taken care of. as you know we've done tremendous things having to do with the individual mandate. we got rid of the individual mandate from obamacare which really ended obamacare as it would be officially known because the individual mandate was the biggest part. it was also the most unpopular part where you pay for a terrible privilege of overpaying for insurance you pay not to have to pay for your health care. that was a disaster for people and a very unpopular. that was, called the individual mandate and we terminated that

and officially terminated that and that was something that we have been given thanks for by many, many people but the individual mandate will always be with us, the individual mandate termination will always be. they can't start it up. i don't even believe, you have to tell me, i don't think it has been challenged when we ended it. preexisting conditions the republicans are 100% there. i will be issuing at some point in not-too-distant future a very strong statement on that, probably in the form of an executive order. reporter: why do you need to do the executive order if it is already part -- >> just a double safety net. let people know the republicans are totally strongly in favor of preexisting conditions, taking care of people with preexisting conditions. it is a, it is a signal to people. it is a second, it's a second platform. we have preexisting conditions will be taken care of, 100% by

republicans and the republican party. i think it is, i actually think it's a very important statement. yes, please. reporter: mr. president, do you still intend to try to hold an in-person g7 meeting in the united states at some point in august and september? have you already sent out invitations to do so? president trump: we haven't sent out invitations. i was talking with them, on the phone with many of them yesterday with lebanon, which is truly one of the most saddest catastrophic things i have seen. they don't know how many people have died. they are having revolution in that country. it is just a terrible thing but i was yesterday, 8:00 in the morning we had an, our time, we had a big teleconference call. some of those people were there i'm more inclined to do it after the election. we were going to do it in september. they would like to do it. we could do it through teleconference or a meeting. i am now suggesting, i told my

people yesterday actually why don't we do it sometime after the election when things are a little bit, you have a little more time to think about it because it is very important, the g7 is very important. reporter: [inaudible]. to that meeting? >> i don't know. we invite ad number of people to the meeting. i certainly would invite him to the meeting. he is an important factor. we will invite certain people that aren't in the g7. some people already accepted but we're going to be doing it after the election. it is better atmosphere to have a g7. i think it's a better, calmer atmosphere to have a g7. yeah, please. reporter: thank you, mr. president. i wanted to ask you have you spoken to any democrats this friday or reached out to you at all about restarting negotiations? >> i have spoken to several democrats. i have not spoken to schumer or pelosi since then. reporter: do you expect, would you reach out at all to them?

>> anytime they want to meet, they're willing to negotiate, have a new proposal we're more than happy to meet. president trump: they are hurting people very badly. this was easy to do. i saw senator schumer said today on a show, i don't know what show, he said we should meet, we should do something. where has he been how many weeks have you been negotiating like four? and they should do something. it would have been so much easier than doing it the way we did it. but we did something that is very important and strangely it has been well-received, very well-received. go ahead, please. reporter: thank you, mr. president, you tweeted that you're considering gettysburg for the rnc nomination. what is your thinking as a possible location? president trump: i've been to gettysburg numerous times. it's a national park. it is a national historic site. it is incredible. it is the history. it is incredible to me.

it was very important place and is a very important place in our country. so we're looking at that. and we're looking at the white house. the white house woe be very much easier for secret service. you see what just went on here. they're all here. just like you have your seats, they have their seats at the white house. so there wouldn't be any expense or any extraordinary expense and the white house would be a lovely place to do it also. least expensive place you could do it would be at the white house. this is a government, a government expense. you know, look, i watch also with government, i watch to make sure that we do what's right but we're looking at gettysburg and we're looking at the white house. we have other sites too. i think these would be two beautiful sites. reporter: would you envision having an audience for that speech? president trump: could you coul. you have plenty of room at both

locations. i see john roberts. you heard shots? reporter: two in succession. president trump: you know the difference. you thought they were shots, done. reporter: definitely sounded like gunfire. i. president trump: i saw your report when you went inside t was a good report. thank you very much, appreciate it. jennifer, please. reporter: update on china. do you think your administration will respond to the sanctions that china announced this morning on american officials? president trump: we already responded in many different ways. we're talking a lot about china. we shouldn't have been talking about china. we did a phase one deal and it was a wonderful deal. all of sudden it means very little in the overall import of things they sure never allowed what happened to the world including us but this was released into europe. it was released into the u.s. it was released all throughout the world but it wasn't released into china. and we were doing numbers that

will, you know, just were incredible. we hope to be able to do them perhaps even next year. i think we'll have an incredible year next year but that will never pay for the loss of life in our country and all over the world. so we are, we view china differently than we did eight months ago, very much differently. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: yes, please. reporter: consideration delisting chinese companies. >> delisting? reporter: delisting. >> we never comment on discussions. you're talking about delisting on the exchange? i'm sorry, yes, to be clear we did make the recommendation and the sec will be putting out that, yes, as of the end of next year, if they do not fully comply, and that's chinese companies, any other companies, they all have to comply with the

same exact accounting or they will be delisted on the exchanges. i was confused when you said delist. president trump: jennifer, we're also talking on the wto, the world trade organization. china is treated much differently than we are. this should have been handled many years ago when it first happened but they're treated as a nation that's developing. they're treated as what they call a developing nation, which gives them tremendous incentives and advantages over and above what the united states gets and over and above what other countries get also. this is a developing nation. i don't think so. i don't think for purpose what is we're talking about it should be. we are putting in and we've already put in a request that china should no longer be declared a developing nation to have advantages over the u.s. and i told them that a year ago. i told them that two years ago. we put it in very powerfully, they should not have advantages over other countries frankly and, they're not going to have

anymore advantages over -- this should have been done by numerous presidents a long time ago because it gives them a tremendous, a tremendous boost over everybody else. it's a very unfair situation. no, we are upset with china because of what they did. china was not good. china will be, if you look at what's going to happen, whether it's iran, iran will make a deal with us in a month after the election's over if we win the election but the greatest dream in the world is that joe biden wins because they will own this country. china will own this country. north korea will own this country. they will own our country and they're all waiting to see the election. if we make a, if we have a win on november 3rd, we will have a deal, in my opinion iran, within one month, and i don't know that we want to have a deal with china to be honest with you.

i'm saying to myself, gee, china wants us to lose very badly. you know who else is not happy with us winning? russia. phony people, tell fake news stories about russia. it was reported the numbers, i raised $400 million extra in nato, you know that, went from 130 to $400 billion. that is a year in order to strengthen up nato. nobody says. that we became the biggest energy exporter. we are now, if you look at what we have, we're energy independent. so many different things. our military is stronger than it ever was. we spent $2.5 trillion on our military. i exposed the terrible deal between germany and russia on the pipeline. nobody even knew about the pipeline, in order stream, in orderstream ii. what is this all about. we protect germany from russia and germany pays russia billions

of dollars a year for energy. it's a big portion of germany's energy. it i was a person that was a german citizen i would not be happy with that deal because they're at a very big disadvantage. no, russia would not be happy. i can tell you that china would not be happy at all. we've taken in tens of billions of dollars, there is your head of the treasury, steve, right? we've taken in tens of billions of dollars from china. we never took 10 cents from china, not even 10 cents. $28 billion we gave to our farmers because they were targeted by china. they were actually targeted. and we gave $28 billion, compliments of china to our great farmers and ranchers because they were unfairly targeted by china. in order to make a better deal with us. i said we're not going to do that. instead of making a better deal we're going to tariff you at very high numbers, 25%, 10%, actually numbers that could go up a lot.

and we had a lot of money left over, after giving the 28 billion to the farmers and ranchers and some others frankly, we, we had many, many billions of dollars left over. we're still receiving that money. even though we made the deal we're still receiving that money so if we win the election, we'll have deals with a lot of countries very fast. they are just waiting to see who wins because they are hoping, they are hoping that joe biden wins, "sleepy" joe. if he wins, you know what is going to happen? china will own us. our markets will crash. the 401(k)s will go down to practically nothing. stocks will go down to practically nothing. remember stocks, these big companies, they're owned by millions of people that are carpenters and policemen and farmers and lots of other people and, they are the ones that benefit by having a good stock market, probably more than

anybody else but the 401(k)s, the stocks, the economy, will be in a shambles. they want to raise taxes. they want to triple taxes. they want to raise the corporate tax but they want to raise all taxes. ultimately they can't pay for what they want to do anyway what they will do is destroy your health care and some other things. we will have 180 million people so happy with their private health care they will lose it under this crazy plan these people are proposing. so you will have a crash like you have never seen before. i've been very, i've been very good at predicting these things. go ahead. reporter: thank you, sir. you mentioned president putin -- [inaudible]. rush is a is currently planning meddling with the election have you raised that directly? president trump: they said china, russia, iran, and probably others because of fake

news they seem this think russia plays the best. so what they do -- all right. well i'm just saying the way politicians, the other day they said the three countries. they said china, russia and iran and some reporter got up and said russia is meddling. i said didn't it mention china and iran? why didn't you mention them too. i don't know. i have tell you who is meddling in our elections. the democrats are meddling by wanting and insisting sending mail-in ballots where there is corruption all over the place. if you check what happened in new york, a small, relatively small race with carolyn maloney and they called her the winner the other day because i was mentioning it at conferences and getting a lot of action on that statement. so they called, they declared her the winner and they have no idea who won. the person, her opponent is very angry. but they had mail-in voting and they had hundreds and i think even thousands of ballots that are missing, that were

fraudulent. take a look at the carolyn maloney race. take a look at patterson, new jersey. take a look now at this one in virginia where they mailed out 500,000 applications and they're going to people that aren't supposed to be getting an application. yeah, please, go ahead. reporter: thank you, sir. secretary pompeo came to europe again this week. do you have any updates on when the travel restrictions of eu will be lichted? seems strange we're offering exemptions for professional athletes but not visa holders, so-called -- president trump: we try to do the best we can. we have big sporting events. that is good for our economy and good for us. they talk about certain exemptions and they make everyone is perfectly tested and comes in at 100%. we make certain accomodations. you do have star athletes. that is good thing for the country. that is economic development, et cetera. but we are working very closely

with europe and other countries to see what is the best timing. don't forget i was the one who turned europe off. they led the way. led it much more so than we did. we were months following them. in terms of they got hit earlier than we did, quite a bit earlier than we did. so i put the restrictions on europe. i put the restrictions on china which was a great thing to do, in retrospect we're getting, that was a very important day. dr. fauci said that was one of the most important days. and a lot of people didn't want me to do it. but we first put a ban on anybody from china coming in. then we put a ban on europe coming in. but we're working very closely with europe to see when that will all come off. yeah, please. reporter: 160,000 people have died on president obama's watch, do you think you would have called for his resignation? >> no, i wouldn't have done. that i think it's, i think it has been amazing what we've been able to do. if we didn't close up our

country, we would have had 1 1/2, or two million people already dead. we've called it right. now we don't have to close it. we understand the disease. nobody understood it because nobody has ever seen anything like this. the closest thing is in in 1917, right? the great pandemic where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. probably ended the second world war. all the soldiers were sick. that was a terrible situation. and this is highly contagious. this one is highly, highly contagious. no, if i would have listened to a lot of people we would have kept it open. by the way we keep it open now all the way. we keep it open, but we would have kept it open you could be up to twonal or two million people. one 1/2 to two million people. our people have done a fantastic job. our consultants and doctors. with this disagreements and a

lot of things happening what we've done with ventilators has been amazing. what we've done with medical equipment has been incredible. we've supplied the governors. nobody, not one person in this country that needed a ventilator dent get get it. at the beginning nobody had stockpiles or anything you would have -- we would have lost, you mentioned 1 60,000 people. multiple that times 10 right now t would have been unsustainable and unacceptable. that is what would have happened if we kept it open. i think we're a very large country. we are -- i said all the time, a lot of people like to leave that out, one person is too many. it you have should have never happened but they have done really an extraordinary job. they will never be given credit, i'm not talking about me, the people worked on this so hard will never be given the credit,

done an extraordinary job with very large diverse country. really an extraordinary job. a lot of governors as you know, they sort of do the micro in their states, they go up a lot of governors do an extraordinary job. go ahead. reporter: thank you. did you ask the u.s. ambassador to -- eliminating ethanol tariffs in brazil? president trump: you can't -- reporter: ambassador to brazil to eliminate ethanol tariffs in brazil? president trump: we haven't really discussed that too much. at some point we probably will be. we don't want people tariffing us. if they tariff us, although i must tell you i have a very good relationship with president bolsonaro. he's great. i hear he is doing well. he recovered from having covid, having covid-19 as they say and that's freight. send him my regards. i think as far as brazil is concerned if they do tariffs we

have to have an equalization of tariffs. we, we are going to be presenting something having to do with tariffs in fairness. we have many countries many years charging us tariffs and we don't charge them. it is called reciprocity. it is called reciprocal tariffs. you may be doing something very soon. did you have one, oen? reporter: thank you, mr. president. thank you for coming back to the briefing. president trump: thank you very. reporter: so i have an opinion question for you. joe biden is set to announce his running mate at anytime now. we expect him to announce her. many of your supporters feel that the reason that obama former nsa susan rice is at the top of biden's list is that she can best cover up a lot of the obama gate surveillance crimes

that have taken place during your campaign. what are your thoughts, what is your opinion, do you subscribe to that line of thought? how do you feel about it? president trump: well look, the obama campaign spied on our campaign and they have been caught, all right? now let's see what happens to them. but, they have been caught. they have been caught red-handed. it's probably treason. it's a horrible thing they did. probably never happened before. at least nobody got caught doing it but they used the intelligence agencies of our country top spy on my campaign and they have been caught and there are a lot of people involved. i don't want to say how much she's involved. frankly if he chooses her that's fine but that is a potential liability. we'll see. president obama knew about it. joe biden knew about it. comey knew about it. brennan, clapper, the whole

group, they all knew about it. lisa page and her lover strzok, they all knew about it and we have it documented. we have it in texts. we have it in all sorts of forms. they knew about it. it was a terrible thing, should have never happened, should never be allowed to happen again to a president. this should never happen again. this was a setup like we have never seen. i think it is the political crime of the century and they have been caught so let's see what happens to them all. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. elizabeth: okay. we started the presser the president was about five minutes in and then he was evacuated when john roberts of fox news reported that two shots were fired outside the fence of the white house. let's get right to acting customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan.

sir, great to have you on. can you tell us more what happened with the gunshots that were fired outside the white house fence? can you fill us in? >> liz, well what i'm being told right now it looks apparently this is one suspect that posed a threat of some kind and the secret service did engage to address that threat. the suspect was shot. has been transferred to the hospital. that's all i know right now. i'm kind of hearing it at the same time you are. i think you know, your listeners know that is what we know right now. as we get some more information some of those details could change but that is what we know right now. elizabeth: do we know what kind of threat this individual posed to white house? >> no, we don't have those details right now, i'll tell you, liz. if i was going to be in or around a threat like that, the white house with be a good place to be. my career as an fbi agent, i was able to work with secret service

multiple times over the course of my year. i can tell you when it comes protection, specifically ppd, the president's protection detail, they're absolutely the best in the world. elizabeth: the secret service surrounded the while house. the press room went into lockdown -- [inaudible]. was evacuated into the oval office. this happened five minutes into the press conference. "the evening edit" was tracking it. ten minutes later, do i appear rattled? i'm not rattled. your comments on that? >> he doesn't feel rattled, because as the president came back in his presser is he has the utmost confidence in the secret service. the cameras, they were calm, collected. asked the president to come with him, calm, cool, collected. they're professionals what they do. the president clearly has confidence in the service. elizabeth: mark, you oversee a group of professionals taken to

u.s. cities to stop the chaos and violence swamping u.s. cities in washington, 20 people shot, a 17-year-old now dead. you're looking at images now of the suspect who was shot by secret service outside of the white house fence. he was taken to the hospital according to president. we have no further details. we do not know right now what danger this individual posed to the white house. we're in breaking news mode. mark, there is violence in d.c. and other cities. can you talk to us about this? what is going on with the chaos in u.s. cities like chicago, new york and washington? >> liz, we actually have a couple things going on. we have the violence in portland which is very narrow. so you have a group of criminals, thugs, anarchists as i call them, criminal violent opportunitiesists going there to specific intent to burn down a federal courthouse or burn down a local police department.

there is that type of violence going on in portland a very long time. we shift to kansas city, chicago, other areas, like d.c. you mentioned. we have a spike in overall violent crime. right now the federal agencies are trying to address both. both kind of narrow violence going on in portland as well as the surge in genzyme lens, violence, gang violence going on in other cities across the country. americans need to pay attention. this is serious and which need to take action to stop. elizabeth: you know, mark, we're looking again at the moment the president was evacuated from the james brady press room. secret service, we heard the word, said shots fired to the president. the president was removed about ten minutes from the press room. then he returned. can you talk to us about any threats that you know of to the white house right now. >> no, i don't know anything. i'm kind of sitting here, listening getting information as

you are right now. it is pretty standard. i think what you saw was kind of sop, we call it standard operating procedure. if they see a threat, first thing they do go into the protective mode with the president being the primary focus. we're going to make sure there are no other threats, verify this was a lone suspect. once they do that, they will lift that quote, temporary lockdown as you saw. took them about ten minutes to do it. again standard kind of sop. elizabeth: okay, mark. we're so sorry we're in breaking news mode. thank you for coming on the show to help us with the coverage there we showed the photo of the suspect taken down by secret service, two shots fired outside of the white house fence. bring back to the show, republican doug collins of georgia . congressman, this is a rare event when you have an individual shot outside of the white house fence right in the middle of the president doing a press conference. your reaction to the developing

story? >> my reaction is the amazing action of our secret service protects us and the police. we knee normalcy. we need return to law and order. because there are people out there doing things harmful to society. we see it right at the white house. we talked about it, mark talking about it all over the country. goes to the bravery of the men and women across the country, secret service and police department hogs who do think every day. our police and law enforcement folks do a great job. there is no finer example of that than the secret service. elizabeth: portland had its deadliest month in 30 years. new york city is now seeing more shootings, on track for more shootings this year than 2018 and 2019 combined. we have 76 children shot and killed since the beginning of the year in u.s. cities. d.c. had a horrific crime a shooting committed by anywhere three to four individuals at a cookout early in the wee hours

of sunday morning. 20 people shot. a 17-year-old now dead. a police officer now shot in washington, d.c. in the cone text what we're seeing happening, developing story breaking right now at the white house, tell us what is going on in washington. tell us about the fear factor in d.c. given the violence swamping u.s. cities. >> violence swamping our cities is something we could have predicted. when you start attacking the very institutions designed to protect us, washington, d.c., atlanta, see it in portland, new york, what do people think they will say? when is the mainstream media, liberal media rise up to figure out these are not peaceful protests. defunding the police has a cost, cost of human life. how many times will they look at minority communities, other communities, see children killed, people killed, actually say something about it. instead of going on there protecting the anarchists and protecting the movement. they're not there for peaceful protests. these are folks using it the advantage of police being curled back and defunded to actually do

what is damaged. my question, when will we see the outrage for deaths take place? when will they see it what it actually is instead of flicking political statements making -- elizabeth: quick reaction to gallup. gallup find eight out of den african-americans, hispanic-americans, asian communities want police and increased presence. >> everybody wants a safe, secure community to live in. this is not hard. it is only hard for liberals who don't get it. this is what people want. they want a safe neighborhood. people don't move to areas where they're unsafe. there is confirms where everybody is always known, logical to us as conservatives but liberals don't seem to get it. elizabeth: congressman, collins, great to have you on. thanks for your insight. >> appreciate it. >> i'm elizabeth macdonald, exceedingly rare historic event a shooting outside of the white house while the president was doing a press conference. we'll stay on the developing

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