something the president's pressing on right now. >> sandra: absolutely. will hear from the president a short time from now, get an update on all of that. ed, great to be with you this week. we'll see you back here monday morning. the 21 starts now "outnumbered" starts right now. >> melissa: fox news alert, we are awaiting president trump president trump's remarks from the rose garden as the white house is set to announce the leaders of a new public-private partnership to help fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. it is being called operation warp speed. the president yesterday said there should be a vaccine by the end of the year when the event begins we will take you there live. and another fox news alert, lawmakers returning capitol hill today to vote on democrats' latest $3 trillion relief package. the white house already threatening to veto the measure with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell warning democrats that they are pushing

a partisan agenda. >> it's an 1800 page liberal wish list. it strikes me as hardly salvageable. just to give you an example of some of the absurdity, there is money and therefore illegal immigrants. it mentions the word cannabis, of all things. 68 times. more than the word "jobs," or "hire." it's a parade of absurdities that can hardly be taken seriously. >> melissa: but mcconnell did acknowledge republicans are open to another stimulus bill, if it includes liability protection. meanwhile, house speaker nancy pelosi saying it will likely never become law, but that democrats see it as a starting point. >> we are putting our offer on the table. we are open to negotiation. let's see where you are. supporting our heroes, with

state and local support. you have supported testing. >> melissa: this is "outnumbered" and i'm melissa francis. here today's harris faulkner, lisa boothe, fox news contributor. marie harf, executive director of serve america pac and fox news contributor. joining me today, in the center seat, virtually, david webb, a host of "reality check" on fox nation. he is "outnumbered." david, what do you think of ms. pelosi's bill? >> david: pure politics, which is what a lot of democrats have been playing with this, melissa. look, americans watching this, what does $10 million for more national education for the arts belong in this bill? all the things she's doing is just a christmas tree, a way to try and embarrass republicans. we care about jobs for americans as americans and getting our economy back up and running. >> melissa: "the wall street journal" had a take on it this morning in their

op-ed section, saying that house democrats introduced the latest coronavirus relief bill on tuesday, and the way to understand is that it has little to do with fighting covid-19. this is speaker nancy pelosi's agenda for 2021 when she expects democrats will run the entire government, and she will be de facto president. "it basically goes into the fold where business and private industry has disappeared, and replaces it with larger government. so, it pumps up, expands, and creates new programs to fill the gap, but at the expense of the private sector, in a way that'll make it harder for the private sector to come back and will give large government and even stronger footing. how do you respond to that? >> marie: there's a lot of really good things in this bill, melissa. we should focus on those first,

including funding for the postal service, funding for frontline workers. it's similar to what members of the military get, hazard pay. protecting people from being evicted right now. rental help for people. there's a lot of coronavirus-based really good pieces of this legislation that we are seeing coming out of the house today. it is a very large bill, like the past ones where, as well, that i had bipartisan support. we are in a crisis in this country and there are many people, including some republicans, who believe that, yes, this is an expansion of government in some way, but the crisis is so severe that we need it. i do hope that this is a jumping off point for negotiations of the republicans in the senate. the republicans in the senate, who control it, have been focused on passing judicial nominees. that's why they came back into session. i hope we take this piece of legislation, sit down, and hammer out a way to get some of that very needed coronavirus-related assistance through. state and local governments needed, individuals need it.

there is more money for average americans in there. we need to get that done. >> melissa: so, lisa, republicans would respond to that by saying there isn't money in here for small businesses, the paycheck protection. that it's for schools, and places where they are already way over budget and have already received a lot of money. and that if you look at the groups that get money here versus the groups that don't it is exclusively increasing dependence on government, making government bigger, and really hampering free enterprise, private businesses, the private sector. what do you say? >> lisa: a couple things on that. this should be no surprise the democrats are trying to do this. vice president biden, or former vice president biden, said this was an opportunity, the pandemic, to restructure things. like voting, like the

environment, economic reforms. as well you have the majority whip for democrats who have also said this is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit their vision. leasing democrats try to insert things like collective bargaining powers, wind and solar tax credits, changing fuel emission standards for airlines. democrats have already tried to view this and use this as an opportunity to restructure and change things. that is not a surprise. but i think we all need to be honest about the fact that congress can't save the economy. this is not a targeted issue that we are facing with the ramifications of total isolation in this country. 36 million americans that are unemployed right now. this is such a decentralized problem that congress can't write specific policy prescriptions to try and save the economy. the only thing that is going to help the economy, to get it back on track, to save those jobs, is to get people and americans back to work. i think we are kidding ourselves

with the conversation, some of the conversations that have been happening in this country as if somehow congress can resuscitate the economy. it's not going to happen. >> melissa: yeah. so, harris, following that train of thought, it seems like any bill that was about the various should be about how we get things open back up again. what money can government spend to make it safe for people to go to a restaurant, to go to school? that's the way government should be focusing their attention right now, as opposed to money for the arts. >> harris: yeah. i mean, and more than just with a chart of guidelines and that sort of thing. actually walking it out that money behind those things in our economy that can help us reopen. for instance, just in terms of all the rotting food out there, maybe become with the way -- and into the white house has been working on this -- from farm to table. worked behind the scenes, and they are getting ready to do

some work on that. and the rest of us can talk about putting pressure on our legislators and our states and lawmakers that represent us to say, "look, figure out a way, put some money and some ideas behind the cattle that are standing in feces up to their first set of knuckles." we can purpose was already out there and feed our own people and get them strong. help build their immune systems, if you will. i agree with what lisa was saying, and i think it's such a salient point, lisa, what you say. congress cannot cure the financial diseases that covid-19 has put upon us. we have to let them know what we need to spend our money. i'm done for now. >> melissa: yeah, no, i love that point. let's end it there. president trump is expected to take the podium in the white house garden at any moment with an announcement on his administration's push for a covid-19 vaccine.

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>> we will be conducting oversight, beginning the first week of june. starting with the flynn case, and we will look at the carter page warrant application. we will be calling all the people who signed the warrant and will be asking questions, should there ever have been a mueller investigation? >> harris: city judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham announcing multiple hearings on the fbi's now closed investigation into potential links between the camp don my trump campaign in russia. you heard him referring change crossfire hurricane, that's what that was. graham says his committee will

begin with the unmasking of michael flynn during the final days of the obama administration before looking into the claims of fisa and views, that secret court, in the investigation of trump advisor carter page. president trump urge senator graham to call president barack obama before the panel. graham says he's concerned about the precedent that could set. david, is that a valid concern? >> david: i'm always concerned about the separation of powers, but let's be forthright with the american people. if there are egregious acts that may rise to the level of criminal acts, nobody is above the law. president of the united states, it doesn't matter. when you look at what happens here, we've seen senior levels of the obama administration commit these acts. in testimony they contradict themselves. joe biden contradicts himself on what he knew and when he knew it. denis mcdonough, the former white house chief of staff or

president obama, knew about this. you're telling me president obama, who was supposed to know everything going on in his administration, knew nothing about what senior members of his cabinet, senior officials -- this is part of the remaking of history, that we can't let happen. if president obama is called to testify because there is a compelling reason, then he's an american citizen and that is good enough for me. >> harris: if it goes as high as joe biden, just real quickly, i want to go back to david at this point. it is high enough up the food chain, if you will, or does it have to go all the way to the president in your estimation? >> david: look, the evidence, harris, needs to go where it goes. whether it's joe biden, barack obama, we see klapper, brennan, susan rice and others. >> harris: they are all on that list. >> david: we have to look at the connections between judge sullivan, andrew weissmann, and others.

i'm going to break a lot of this on my show next week on radio. we are going to break this down, because this goes back decades of relationships that tie them all together. you've got to ask question, who knew what and when? was their interest, that if it goes to the oval office it goes to the oval office. right now either barack obama knew it was going on in his administration or he didn't. you and i are being asked to believe that the president who knew everything knew nothing of this. >> harris: all right. lisa, i come to you on this point. president trump was asked, "what was the crime here?" had senator blackburn of tennessee on with me yesterday. she said the crime was not the unmasking come of the crime would have been the leaking. so is gotten a little bit deeper into understanding where there might have been a crime. where do you take it from there? >> lisa: wouldn't you want to find out who is behind the leaking? we need to figure that out, figure out who committed this crime.

further, i find democrats trying to say, "there's nothing to see here, there's nothing unseen, there's nothing unsavory." guess what? obama administration used its power to spy on reporters, it used its power supply on the senate intelligence committee as they were looking into interrogation efforts by the cia previously in this country. so the obama administration has already demonstrated its ability to abuse its powers to spy on people. why would anyone think it's out of question that the obama administration abuses its powers to spy on the opposing party, which would be trump? particularly when you look at the fact that the fbi used that dossier, and unverified document that was paid for by the opposing party, that potentially included russian disinformation, and they use it as a central and essential piece to obtaining a fisa warrant against an american citizen who was actually helping the united states, because we know he was working for and with the cia.

but the fbi concealed that information from the fisa court intentionally. we know that because an attorney changed the email to do as much. so there are a lot of things we need to get to the bottom of here, but there's absolutely nothing going in the direction of making the obama administration look good here. >> harris: marie harf, i know the position that you are in now, having worked for and with the obama administration, so we will just say that boldly again and remind everybody and get your take on it all. >> marie: yeah, republicans should be very careful what they wish for. they have hearings and start diving deeply into a michael flynn did, why he lied repeatedly to the fbi into the vice president and to the american people, and why the counterintelligence investigation was opened. not because of politics, not because of the election, but because there was the judgment intelligence that led multiple career intelligence officials in the obama administration who works for presidents of every

party to determine that there was a legitimate investigation to be done here. if republicans want to spend the next six months talking about all the bad things that they did and that concerned intelligence professionals during 2016, i think maybe they think that will help with the base and shore up the base, but a lot of americans are going to say, "wait a second, this has been litigated. donald trump one. all jim comey did was help donald trump. he certainly didn't help hillary clinton. 100,000 americans will be different coronavirus, 20% potentially in employment. are we relitigating some conspiracy theories that there is no evidence to back up from four years ago? we have another election coming up in november. >> harris: well, and we do want to say that would over those numbers where that you were spitting out right now, those are projections. we hope and pray that the toll of coronavirus, as he put it, does not reach those levels. real quickly, melissa, what does it say to you, what senator mcconnell was saying?

the word "cannabis" used 60 times more than the word "jobs," obviously. what does that tell you about as we go to this next phase of how -- i don't want to use the word "toxicity," but how much of a battle, when you take a look back at this particular investigation being opened up now? >> melissa: i just want to respond to what marie said, and that i think pretty much everything she just said has recently been proven to be completely untrue. when you look back at all the people that said all the things republicans were up to, we find out that they testify behind closed doors they didn't find anything anyone was up to. as far as michael flynn lying, one of the most egregious things that happen here is the fact that the fbi officials did not believe he was lying and its exculpatory evidence that they did not turn over to his defense counsel. so, i think what we have found

and what we have learned is that all those talking points that went by her completely untrue. >> harris: marie, do you want a quick rebuttal and that? >> marie: yeah, i mean, melissa, we've talked about this a lot. he talked about it a lot on the show. what i said is, in fact, true. we know that during 2016 multiple trump campaign officials met with russian officials. that is a fact. they met at trump tower, flynn called the russian ambassador and then lied about it to the vice president. that's why he was fired. those things may not add up to a conspiracy to commit a crime, as mueller said, but there was so much smoke in 2016 that led intelligence professionals to say, "we need an investigation. where there is the smoke, maybe there's fire." that investigation was wholly appropriate. if her republicans want to spend the six months or however long until this election diving into that, with everything done

perfectly? know. but the term team and people around it repeatedly lied about their conversations with a hostile foreign government that was attacking our country. that remains as true today as it was back in 2016. >> harris: before move on -- >> melissa: is the same amount of true, which is not true. >> harris: i mean, if you look at it -- i'm sorry, go ahead, melissa. >> melissa: i was just saying, she's right, it's as true today as it was back then, and that's not true. just as true. not at all. >> marie: well -- >> harris: ohio congressman jim jordan is now asking the state department to turn over documents regarding joe biden's son, hunter's, role with the ukrainian energy firm, burisma. they're also pushing forward with investigations and issues dating back to the obama years. sent on that security chairman ron johnson has set up a vote next week on a subpoena related

to his panel's of hunter biden and burisma. lisa? i will let you take the helm on this one first and then we will go around. >> lisa: well, real quick, i just have to address something. it was democrats and people like adam schiff who were abusing their powers being intel chairman july to the american people and to hide the fact that they knew there was never russian collusion, yet they lead with that and use that access that information to allow the american people to think they knew something that wasn't there. so they were the ones that repeatedly lied to the american people. on burisma, we know that they were hiring hunter biden to try and get access to the obama administration. something like a million dollars per year for a guy who has no business being part of the board in the first place. the big question here is, did that work? did the attempts to buy influence to the obama administration work?

that's the question congress needs to get to the bottom of an answer. >> harris: that is very succinct and very to the point just in terms of what we'd all like to know about this case, david. >> david: it is, harris. to follow-up on lisa's point, let's assess not just the biden family and the profiteering off government for 44 years while he was in office as a senator or vice president. you tie this to issues with his brother and his operations in florida. you talk about hunter getting on the plane going to china, coming back with over a billion dollars investment. look, i deal in business and reality. in business and reality you don't put someone on a board unless they have a specific value. hunter had no experience, therefore his value was his access, and that is something we've seen all too often in washington for years, for decades, as a matter of fact. call him up, let's get the answers, let's follow the trail, and where it leads joe biden can defend it. but i doubt if he can, because

he has proven once again that he will profiteer and he will continue to do that if he's given that access. >> harris: you know, one of the favorite conversations i've had with melissa over the months as we've been talking about this is really how difficult it is to get one of those jobs. really, what you need to know and how to do things and maneuver to be on the energy board of burisma, at that salary level. melissa? >> melissa: yeah, i mean, lots of people want board jobs. i think it would be common sense that you wouldn't go join a board -- in this situation, if you have a parent that is in government. i am more focused on the situation in china, and the idea that hunter biden was able to raise $1.5 billion, whatever it was, from the chinese government to come back and invest when he didn't have investment experience. we all kind of know -- what

would you be buying from him? what kind of influence does he have? why would he be involved in that deal? he comes over on a plane with the former vice president, and i think this is true of all children of politicians who might go out and try and, you know, gain any sort of advantage along the way in another country. no one should be doing this. before redo the whataboutism, and we should be doing this. we don't hire children of foreign nationals who are in another country and have a position of power. you wouldn't put them on the board of an american company, because you'd be asking, "what's the influence they are?" it's not proper, it shouldn't be done. in this case, i would want to know, why did you feel like he was going to make some really brilliant investment decisions when he didn't have any of it investment extremes in the past? it's not easy to get $1.5 billion out of china.

>> harris: i go back to what i rode down. that quote by lisa boothe this hour, that has to do with, "well, did it work? close to whatever was talked about in those deals between hunter biden in the countries he got on board or had $1.5 billion to invest. did it work? were both sides getting? all right, we we will move. we are awaiting remarks now from president trump, who is set to make an announcement at any moment now on his administration's push for a covid-19 vaccine. watch for that. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. plus, joe biden says women who believed his former staffers sexual assault claim against him should "vote their heart." he went on to say you don't need to vote for him. as he continues to deny the allegation. the implications that could have on his campaign. >> do you remember a tara reade who worked there for about around a year in 1992-1993? >> well, to be honest with you, i don't.

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>> of the truth is what matters. the truth of the case is nothing like this ever, ever happened. if they believe tara reade, they probably shouldn't vote for me. i wouldn't vote for me if i believed tara reade. the fact is, look at tara reade's story. changes considerably. >> melissa: presumptive democratic presidential nominee, joe biden, once again denying former staffer, tara reade's, sexual assault allegation. he says anyone who believes that probably shouldn't vote for him. marie, it seemed like a pretty good response. >> marie: yeah, i think it's the right response from the former vice president. wealth can he say? he has denied it, he has pointed out that her story has changed, he highlighted the fact that there is no evidence that this assault happen. but he sort of sounded very honest there. "if you believe it, maybe you

shouldn't vote for me." i've also started seeing more pieces from democrats, from democratic leaders, who are sort of tackling this idea for women who might believe tara reade or my believe that something happen, even though there's no evidence. democrats taking that idea head-on and saying, "look, elections or choices between two people. they are not a search for a perfect candidate or a perfect person. come november, the choice on the ballot between joe biden and donald trump, especially when it comes to women's issues, many democrats mind, is pretty stark. so it's really interesting discussion i see democrats starting to have, melissa. >> melissa: yeah. david, i mean, it's very honest. you can believe her and still vote for him. i've heard a lot of democrats say that. just because he is not as bad as president trump, as they would say. the only problem with that, of course, is that he's running on character. you take away the character piece, he was going to restore

the soul of america. that's why this is damaging, perhaps. >> david: the most believable thing about this, melissa, is the fact that joe biden doesn't remember. beyond that, if he doesn't remember, how does he know it didn't happen? but let's go to a real point when it comes to joe biden, tara reade, and this story. what happened to #thetoo, marie quebec would have been to "she must be believe?" what about the difference in the way they treated justice kavanaugh were now justice kavanaugh, versus joe biden? when they ignore the story? not for days, weeks, but for months. the fact is democrats are circling the wagons around the only candidate they have, who is a bad candidate, so they have to defend him. joe biden is going to pick a woman for his vp candidate. i didn't realize you had to base your choice on gender, not qualifications, or your ability to do the job. this is democrats and their virtue signaling, surrounding

joe biden to protect him from what should be just an investigation. i'm with president trump on th this. the president basically said, "should be investigated, but we shouldn't convict joe biden right away." he's being fair to the democrats, more than they've been to him. but the hypocrisy that is spouted by democrats out there, that marie just laid out, is that we should just go by this, and make your choice regardless of whether it's true or not. let's investigated. >> melissa: i want to make sure i let marie respond, here. >> marie: yeah, i repeatedly said, as has joe biden, that women's stories need to be taken seriously and they need to be investigated. that's what democrats were calling for with judge kavanaugh. we didn't get the fbi investigation, we got a hearing. we wanted to be investigated credibly, and looked into. that's what the vice president has asked for, and that investigation has turned up no evidence. i am proud that vice president biden has called for that investigation. also proud that he says he's

going to pick a woman as his vice president. i'm sorry if david thinks are not the most qualified, but clearly there are a bunch of qualified women out there and he's going to pick one of them. there's no hypocrisy here. investigate. believe women come and take them seriously. let investigations lead to the facts. >> david: can i just correct one thing from a reread there? it's insulting for you to tell me that i don't think women are qualified. >> melissa: go ahead, david. >> david: it's insulting for marie to sit here on national television and tell me that i don't think women are qualified. marie, that i won't accept. no american who is reasonable accepts that. i've never believed that. i've never said that publicly, and you're willing to come on my show, we can debate that on radio all the day long. >> melissa: okay. lisa, what were you going to s say? >> lisa: of course democrats are complete democrats here. what is hilarious is whoever

ends up being the females ep has likely before said we should believe all women, period, end of story, who is now going to simultaneously say we shouldn't believe tara reade. so, the hypocrisy is clear. everyone knows it. but here's the thing, it's not going to matter. the allegations against joe biden i don't think are going to impact the election. the problem for democrats is just joe biden. he is obviously a terrible candidate. any time he comes out of hiding in the basement, we see that. even in the interview, he showed everyone what a terrible candidate he was, in his attempts to try to protect himself and to address the allegations against him. he opened a whole nother can of worms. he talked about the fact the reason he doesn't want the university of delaware documents to be released is because conversations he has had with people like putin, which is ironic considering the fact that america has been dragged through years of an investigation and

false allegations of collusion with the trump campaign and russia. so joe biden is a bad candidate, at a soon as we started seeing more of that contrast, as soon as joe biden actually has to be a candidate and get out there and show himself, his numbers are going to drop. >> melissa: harris, real quick last word? >> harris: you know what, i just want to go back to what marie open with. i don't think that you read about this. i don't think that was the best thing joe biden could've said. you know who probably has, like, a real moment of "clutch my pearls?" barack obama, who had a 1-word tweet, "vote." can you imagine what it's like to sit back and be a democrat and hope people go to the polls? and you have a candidate who simply says, "if you believe tara reade, don't vote for me." well, what are the other options if you are a democrat? the process didn't really play out fairly for bernie sanders yet again, so my mind explodes. when i hear candidate say,

"don't vote for me," when you know with the option is going to be, they'll vote for trump. they did that last time. some will sit home. all you do is look at the former presidents twitter feed. i don't think that's what democrats really want. >> melissa: okay. investigations heating up into some questionable transactions by lawmakers during the early stages of the pandemic. where the probe stands, and whether lawmakers should be allowed to trade stocks in the first place. no. ♪

>> melissa: the president right now getting ready to deliver remarks in the rose garden, under operation warp speed. this is the idea of coming together in a private public

partnership in order to create a vaccine. let's listen. >> president trump: develop and manufacture a coronavirus vaccine. we are joined by secretary steven mnuchin, secretary mark esper, secretary alex azar, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, fda director dr. stephen hahn, director of the national institutes of health dr. francis collins, dr. fauci, dr dr. birxe are joined by a terrific group of professionals. tomorrow will mark 30 days since we released white house guidelines for a safe and phased opening of america. that's what we're doing. it's the opening of america. we are going to have an amazing year next year. we're going to have a great transition into the fourth quarter. as of this morning, almost every state has taken steps to begin reopening, and the american people are doing an extra neri job of continuing to take

precautions while at the same time wanting to start, and they will be starting, to resume their american way of life. we will be reigniting our economic engines. we are going to be taking care of our most vulnerable, which are our senior citizens and some others. we are going to be working very, very hard on our senior citizens and our nursing homes, and various communities, to support those that are struggling in this very difficult time. others don't have the same kind of struggle. for example, today, secretary perdue, together with ivanka trump, launched the farmers and families food box program, which will provide $3 billion to help small farmers. it will be helping farmers and ranchers, but it will be bringing food to some of the food lines and some of the food kitchens that you've been seeing on television.

i said, "why are we doing that? we have all this tremendous food produced by our farmers and our ranchers." so we are going to be buying $3 billion worth of that food, great for everybody. our farmers, our ranchers, and the people that need great food. a key feature of our reopening plan is the largest and most ambitious testing system in the world, by far. america is now conducting close to 350,000 tests per day, an unthinkable number just a short while ago. more than anybody in the world, by far, suggesting many states now have excess testing capacity to monitor for new outbreaks. the florida come many other states have so much testing the testers are waiting to be able to show up. it's great. another essential pillar of our strategy to keep america open is the development of effective treatments and vaccines as quickly as possible. i want to see if we can do that very quickly. we are looking -- when i say,

"quickly," we're looking to get a bye the end of the year if we can. maybe before. we are doing tremendously well. from the earliest days of the pandemic, we have marshaled the genius of american scientists and researchers from all across government, and the private sector. from academia, up from everywhere, to vanquish the virus. tremendous strides have been made. i can tell you, i get to see it every day. tremendous strides are being made. scientists at the nih began developing the first vaccine candidate on january 11th. think of that. within hours of the virus' genetic code being posted online. so, january 11th, most people hadn't even heard what was going on january 11th, and we were out there trying to develop a vaccine, not even knowing what we were up against. then, my administration cut through every piece of red tape to achieve the fastest ever, by far, lodge of a vaccine trial

for this new virus. this very vicious virus. i want to thank all of the doctors and scientists and researchers involved, because they've never moved like this, never even close. the nih and the hhs have also been working constantly with private industry to evaluate more than 100 potential treatments. the food and drug administration has swiftly approved more than 130 therapies for active trials, that's what we have right now. 130. and another 450 are in the planning stages. tremendous potential awaits. i think we're going to have some very interesting things to report in the not-too-distant future. thank you very much to dr. hahn. through a historic series of funding bills, my administration is providing roughly $10 billion to support a medical research effort, without parallel.

i especially want to thank senator steve daines of montana for his incredible work. he has worked so hard to secure additional funding for vaccine development. he has been right at the forefront. today i want to update you on the next stage of this momentous medical initiative. it's called operation warp speed. that means big, and it means fast. a massive scientific, industrial, and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the manhattan project. you really could say that nobody has seen anything like we're doing, whether it's ventilators or testing. nobody has seen anything like we are doing now within our country since the second world war. incredible.

its objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible. again, we would love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year. we think we are going to have some very good results coming out very quickly. in addition, it will continue accelerating the development of diagnostics and breakthrough therapies. the great national project will bring together the best of american industry and innovation, the full resources of the united states government, and the excellence and precision of the united states military. we have the military totally involved. we are also working very strongly with other countries who also have some great, great scientists, doctors, and we are all working very closely get dominic together. they are viewing us as the leader, and we are -- the relationship with other countries on solving this problem has been incredible. today, the operation warp speed has brought together all of the experts across the federal government, from places like the nih, cdc, fda, and many other agencies. this historic partnership will now bring together the full resources of the department of

health and human services, with the department of defense. we know what that means, that means the full power and strength of military. the military. that's really talking about the logistics. we get it, when we get it. that means the logistics of getting it out so everyone can take it. today we are proud to announce the addition of two of the most highly respected skilled professionals in our country, worldwide respected. operation warp speed's chief scientist will be a world-renowned immunologist who helped create 14 new vaccines. that's a lot of our new vaccines. in ten years, during his time in the private sector. one of the most respected men in the world, in the production and really on the formation of vaccines.

the chief operating officer will be a four-star general who currently oversees 190,000 service members, civilians, and contractors as commander of the u.s. army material command. that means logistics, that means getting it out. we've got to get it out there. so, general, thank you very much. and doctor, thank you very much. good to have you onboard. a highly respected people, thank you. these outstanding individuals will provide more details following my remarks. in preparation for this initiative, experts throughout the government have been collaborating to evaluate roughly 100 vaccine candidates from all over the world. they have identified 14 that they believe are the most promising, and they are working to narrow that list still further. we started out with over 100, we are down to 14. and we have some really interesting choices to be made. we are doing very well.

through operation warp speed, the federal government is providing unprecedented support and resources to safely expedite the trials, moving on at record, record, record speed. while we accelerate the final phases of vaccine trials, operation warp speed will be simultaneously accelerating its manufacturing and manufacturing process. anothein other words, we are geg ready. so when you get the good where that we have the vaccine, we have the formula. we have what we need. we are ready to go. as opposed to taking years to gear up. we are gearing up. it's risky, it's expensive, but we will be saving massive amounts of time. will be saving years if we do this properly, and that's what we're doing. so we are gearing up on the assumption that we will have, in the near future, relatively near future, a vaccine. typically, pharmaceutical

companies wait to manufacture a vaccine until it has received all of the regulatory approvals necessary, and this can delay vaccines availability to the public as much as a year and even more than that. however, our task is so urgent that, under operation warp speed, the federal government will invest in manufacturing all of the top vaccine candidates before they are approved. so we know exactly what we are doing before they are approved. that means they better come up with a good vaccine, because we are ready to deliver it. this will eliminate any unnecessary delay and enable us to begin providing americans with a proven vaccine the day our scientists say, "we are ready, we've got it." as we work to bring critical medical production back to america, these vaccines will manufacture, that we are going to be focused on manufacturing. they are all going to be right here in the usa. we are working, as i said, with

other people outside. that's fine, too. we want to get to the solution. we know exactly where the other countries are, and will be very happy if they are able to do it. we will help them with delivery, will help them in every way we can. we have no ego when it comes to this. no ego whatsoever. operation warp speed is also making the necessary preparations to distribute these life-saving treatments at scale. so, we are talking about massive numbers, so that millions of americans will quickly have access to them. this includes ramping up production of supplies needed for distribution, and i have to say, we are also very, very much involved in other things other than the vaccine. if you take a look at what we're doing beyond vaccines, it's going to be very interesting. we may talk about that in a

little while. this includes ramping up production of supplies needed for distribution, such as coal storage, glass vials, needles, syringes, and more. love anything on and ready to go. when a vaccine is ready, the u.s. government will deploy every plane, truck, and soldier required to help distribute it to the american people as quickly as possible. america is blessed to have the most brilliant, talented doctors and researchers anywhere in the world. we have the mightiest military by far in the world. our military is completely rebuilt. much of the equipment has been delivered, some of it is on the way. all made right here in the usa. we took over very, very empty cupboards, i say medically. we also had empty cupboards in a military sense. our military was in sad shape. it was depleted. we now have the strongest military the united states has ever had by far, and the best equipment.

you hear that outside, that beautiful sound? those are truckers that are with us all the way. they are protesting in favor of president trump as opposed to against. there's hundreds of trucks out there, and that is the sign of love, not the sign of your typical protest. i want to thank our great truckers. they like me and i like them. we are working on something together. but we have the mightiest -- and they'll be helping us with this, by the way, speaking of truckers. we have the mightiest military in the long history of humankind. we have the best and most devoted workers ever to walk the face of the earth. now we are combining all of these amazing strengths for the most aggressive vaccine project in history. there's never been a vaccine project anywhere in history like this. i just want to make something clear. it's very important. vaccine or no vaccine, we are back, and we are starting the process. in many cases, they don't have vaccines, and a virus or a flu

comes and you fight through it. we haven't seen anything like this in hundred some odd years. 1917. but you fight through it, and people sometimes, i guess -- we don't know exactly yet, but it looks like they become immune. at least were short while, maybe for life. but you fight through it. what we'd like to do if we can is the vaccine. i think will be successful in doing it, hopefully by the end of the year. just as generations of americans before us face down the most difficult trials, set their sights on the highest summit and overcame the biggest obstacles, america will meet the moment, and this moment specifically in our time. with unrivaled speed, unmatched skill, and the unyielding spirit of the american people, our nation will come back stronger and greater than ever. we are going to have a tremendous year next year. we are going to have a really good fourth quarter, we are going have a very interesting and productive transition

quarter where steve is there, and i'm sure our secretary of the treasury, i'm sure you feel the same way, steve. thank you for your good work, really good work. and it's not finished yet, is it? i want to thank steve mnuchin, everybody. now i'd like to ask dr. slaoui and general perna to come up and see a few words, followed by secretary azar and secretary esper. thank you all very much. we are doing something that has never been done before. it is going to result in a tremendous end. i think we are going to come up with a solution to a problem like this country probably has never seen before, but it's an honor to be your president. we are doing a great job. these people are doing an incredible job. the people right here. i want to thank you all. total professionals. great men, great women. thank you both very much. please. >> thank you, mr. president.

good afternoon, everyone. it is a great honor and privilege for me to have the opportunity to serve our country and the world in this remarkable endeavor, extraordinary endeavor, helping them and supporting them to do it. the operation warp speed objectives are very clear. the president has described them. i believe they are very credible. i also believe they are extremely challenging. however, i am really confident that our team across the many governmental agencies that are involved in this efforts -- the nih, the cdc, the fda -- of course, with the support of the army, and our partners in the private sector, we will be able and will do the utmost to deliveries objectives. in fact, mr. president, i very

recently seen early data from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine, and these data made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020. and we will do the best we can, the best we can to do that. thank you. [applause] will of course also focus on progressing and accelerating development of medicines for those who unfortunately already caught the virus, as well as optimize the diagnostic tests. this will be our focus, 24/7, over the next many months. thank you. >> good afternoon, mr. president. thank you for this great honor, for allowing me to be part of this team. i'm very excited about this team. it will be historic as we execute the mission that's been given to us. i also feel very confident that

the team will be able to provide the results as directed. it is going to be a herculean task, but the combination of the two main partners, between health and human services and the department of defense, their combined strengths, partnering with the other teammates, will ensure our success. one of the great advantages that we have as a military is our ability to do logistical and sustainment operations afar. we are just going to apply those capabilities to this mission. this mission is about defeating the enemy. we will defeat the enemy. why? because winning matters. i'm excited to be a part of this team, and mr. president, thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you, mr. president, for your leadership of this historic effort. your vision for operation warp speed, setting a

goal of a vaccine by january 2021, will be one of the great scientific and humanitarian accomplishments in human history. today you are announcing the team that can get it done. dr. slaoui is arguably the world's most experienced and successful vaccine developer, responsible for some of the major recent breakthroughs in vaccines. general perna oversees one of the world's largest logistic and supply chain operations, the one that keeps the army running. three highly accomplished career hhs scientists will oversee each area of operation warp speed. dr. peter marks of fda for vaccines, dr. janet woodcock of fda for therapeutics, and dr. bruce stromberg of nih for diagnostics. this is truly a dream team. we started work on each of these areas in january, and congress has provided nearly $10 billion explicitly for this kind of research and development effort.