so-called for biden don't mean anything. state polls are what matters. >> dana: all right. you guys are good on time. thank you so much, jessica and matt, appreciate it. thank you everybody for joining us. i will see you on "the five" in the meantime here is jon scott. >> john: thank you, dana. the first foreign leader to visit the white house since the pandemic really caught fire. we are expecting the leaders to hold a news conference at the bottom of the hour. we will bring that to you live when it begins. president trump also expected to sign an zord to protect federal statues and monuments as protests continue across the country. in a moment i will speak with michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell. first, to chief white house correspondent john roberts he is reporting live from the north lawn now. john? >> jon, good afternoon to you, the president, we are expecting, is going to sign an executive order by the end of the week saying that he will severely punish people who deface or

otherwise damage national monuments. the president yesterday suggesting as he was going out the door of the white house that there was something that he could do under the veterans memorial preservation act. but the president also suggesting in this executive order that he might go beyond that. the president taking action after several high profile cases of monuments that have been damaged. you see there this happened monday night in lafayette square across the street from the white house. you can see the people sprayed graffiti on the statue of andrew jackson and threw some ropes over it trying to pull the whole thing down. andrew jackson, of course, seventh president of the united states. after the protesters got the ropes on, metropolitan police, secret service moved in and stopped them from pulling down the statue. it's unclear exactly what the executive order is going to do. but the president saying yesterday it will reinforce what's already there. but in a more uniform way. listen here. >> we are looking at long term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and these

anarchists and agitators and call them whatever you want. some people don't like that language but that's what they're. they are bad people. they don't love our country. and they are not taking down our monuments. i just want to make that clear. >> about half an hour from now the president will be in the rose garden with a two on two news conference with the president of poland. we expect, jon, we might get more detail about what's coming in executive order during that press conference. >> jon: we will have that live, honestly when it begins. john, there is also that appeals court that ordered a judge to drop the charges against michael flynn. >> and, of course, president trump feels that what has happened to michael flynn was completely unfair. we have had evidence in the last few weeks that suggests that flynn, by one arm of the fbi had been cleared of any wrongdoing and other individuals in the fbi decided that they wanted to continue to go after him. as the president was in the oval office with poland's president, he said that he was very happy

about the flynn decision. listen here. >> he was persecuted and many other people were persecuted. they spied on a campaign and they should never spy on a campaign to put it mildly. never happened before in the history of our country. the obama administration spied on a campaign. this is just the first one. he has been exonerated. >> flynn's attorney filed more evidence today that officials at the highest level were involved in the flynn investigation. sidney powell who was flynn's attorney filing a piece of paper that was declassified by the fbi was a note that was taken by peter strzok and there you see it up on the screen. peter strzok, of course, was the one who said don't drop the investigation to michael flynn and strzok was one of the two fbi agents who came to the white house to interview flynn in late january of 2017. president obama is noted on this memo as saying, quote: had the right people on it. vice president joe biden is noted as mentioning the logan

act and james comey is quoted as saying flynn kislyak calls appear legit. the president tweeting about that today saying, quote, james comey and band of dirty cops going to apologize to general michael flynn and others what they have done to ruin his life and what about robert mueller and his angry democrat cronies? are they going to say so sorry? and what about obama and biden? john, expect to get more on this during the press conference coming up at 3:30. stay tuned. >> a lot 6 answers yet to come. our chief white house correspondent john roberts. thanks. a democratic state senator in wisconsin says protesters attacked him near the state capital last night after he took a picture of the scene. the protesters pulled down two statues and smashed windows as well. matt finn reporting live from our midwest newsroom now. matt? >> jon, protests turn into violent mob at the state capital and today some of the top lawmakers are blasting the governor and madison's mayor

saying the state is in shock over the violence that was allowed to happen yesterday at the capital city. democratic state senator tim carpenter says he was taking video of the protest on his cell phone when people appeared to rush him it. sounds like they asked him to stop recording and then it sounds like the state senator tells people to leave his phone alone. the video cuts off before he was later beaten. here is that interaction. [shouting] >> not recording. will. >> leave my phone alone. >> delete it. [shouting] >> not recording. >> leave my phone alone. >> delete it. >> the state senator wrote in a tweet, quote: this is the picture that got me assaulted and beaten up by a monget punched and kicked in the head. might have concussion. left eye a little blurry. cheek swollen, sore neck and

ribs. this has to stop before innocent people get killed. i locked up in the capitol until it's safe. protest sparked by the arrest of a black man yesterday who followed a white man into a restaurant with a baseball bat and a mega phone harassing the white man and calming him a racist. police say that black man resisted arrest and tried to run away. here is a portion of that black man confronting the white man. >> you racist? why are you a racist? why are you a racist? >> protesters also ripped down statue of wisconsin's model ford and of colonel hans christian hague violent attack on the stat capital responded the governor to respond in part the people who committed these acts of violence will be held accountable. my thoughts are with senator carpenter among the individuals attacked last night and wish him a quick recovery. however, a short while ago some of the state's republican lawmakers said that press

release is not enough and that the governor should have used the state and capital police to make arrest. >> this is a failure of leadership at all levels in the city of madison and it has to end. it can't -- press releases aren't going to do it. >> police say they did use pepper spray to keep some of the protesters out of the state capital building. john? >> jon: matt finn in our midwest newsroom. matt, thank you. >> republicans came here, dropped the bill on the floor and said take it or leave it. even if we were to get on the bill, there is no conceivable way to rectify all of its many problems. >> when this bill is gone and next week we are on the dod or something else, we will forget about this. we will move on. people will forget about it. and do you know what's going to happen? something bad. and we will be right back here talking about what should have been done, what could have been

done, why we must act now. >> jon: that's republican senator tim scott responding after democrats blocked his police reform bill. lawmakers voted 54 to 45 against starting debate mostly along party lines. you also heard top democrat chuck schumer there he says the bill doesn't go far enough and that republicans did not draft the legislation with any bipartisan input. meanwhile, the house is planning to vote tomorrow on the democrats' version of police reform. let's bring in democratic congresswoman debbie dingell from michigan. congresswoman, you represent the house side and not the senate side but what was so terrible about the bill that tim scott, a republican, wrote? >> look, i think that we should be talking to both sides. both parties need to be at the table and we need to try to do something to address these serious problems that are facing us in this country i think that senator scott made an effort but

it did not go far enough. i'm hoping we will pass a bill in the house tomorrow that it can become a possible vehicle for discussion between the house and senate. you know, we are at a crossroads in this country. we have seen a lot of people in a very nonviolent way come together as a community and say it is time for change and hope that we can have important conversations and actually get something done on this issue. >> jon: here is one of the proposals that scott made. he said, you know, police departments really shouldn't be teaching the chokehold. we're going to say that if you teach the chokehold, you are not going to get federal funds for your department. democrats in the senate said that wasn't going far enough. they said have you got to ban the chokehold all together. i mean, withholding federal funds is a pretty big deal and there aren't many police departments that are going to opt out of that particular

reimbursement, are there? >> i'm going to tell you there are a lot of police departments. i have a lot of small towns, some of which voted for president trump last time who have already banned the chokehold or who already discouraging its use. it shouldn't be used. so what is controversial about banning it, either? >either? >> i don't think that policemen should have 18 complaints against them and be able to go to another department and there be no registry. we need to find a way that we can hold people accountable for some of the behavior and the fact of the matter is there is a lot of good members of law enforcement who are glues of community and it is a fact that blacks are treated differently than whites and we need to figure out a way to address that as well. and figure out a way to find common ground. we have got to stop fighting on everything. we should be able to find common ground on justice in police departments and against police

brutality. >> jon: i have got to point to something else regarding politics. you have endorsed joe biden, your fellow democrat. you are also warning that president trump could win michigan again. it's a state you obviously know well. the polls say that joe biden is up, i don't know, 15, 16% in michigan. you think they are not necessarily correct. >> first of all. i didn't believe that poll. the polster who did that poll said 16 points up said october 6th, 2016, that hillary clinton had it in the bag in october 26th, 2016 said there was no way she could lose. subsequent to that there have been two polls, one showing joe biden up two points and one showing him one point up. i think it's competitive in michigan. five months and until november we don't know what the events are that could take place. i don't want anyone to let polls that aren't real or don't really reflect how people think suppress votes or tell people their vote doesn't matter or shurcht care about the future of this country. i think this is a competitive

race. yes, there are a lot of polls right now. and there are a lot of things i'm unhappy about that's happening with this country. people need to be engaged to understand their vote matters and have to get out and vote if they care about the future of their country. >> jon: there are a lot of things we are all not happy about right now in this country. debbie dingell democrat of michigan, thank you. >> thank you. >> john: contentious hearing in the house. a federal prosecutor saying politics has influenced the justice department. but republicans calling the accusation hearsay. this as we learn attorney general bill barr will testify before that same committee next month. plus, new york, new jersey, and connecticut now will require some visitors to quarantine as covid-19 cases surge in certain states. >> there are a lot of people coming to this region. and they could literally bring the infection with them. it wouldn't be malicious or monovalent but it would still be real.

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in a most unusual move said no, i'm not going to do it. now his superiors in the appeals court have said yeah, you have to do that, judge in your view, mr. wray who is write. >> it was a split decision, jon. the majority opinion was definitive, one that i happen to agree with, and that is that overcharging decisions, the executive branch reigns supreme and is not to be second-guessed by the judiciary on some foolser rand about whether or not the dismissal of the prosecution is or isn't in the public interest. we entrust those decisions under the constitution to the executive branch and that is as it should be. that's what the court of appeals held today in a 2 to 1 decision. so what i expect to happen next is the matter goes back to the district court before judge sullivan and judge sullivan now has been ordered to dismiss the

case which means that the michael flynn prosecution will come to an end. >> jon: there has been a lot of evidence that's come out recently fbi files and such that have been opened. john roberts at the white house alluded to them a short while ago that suggest that flynn was railroaded. is the judge not paying attention to that material? it's out there in the newspapers. >> well, he should be even if he isn't that's whole point of the decision today that's a judgment entrusted to the executive branch. the justice department said that it no longer had sufficient evidence to show materiality under the faults statement statute in order to prosecute michael flynn. that should have been the end of the matter comaw point to is the evidence that suggest they could not prove him guilty of the offense. that's why they moved to dismiss the prosecution. and it should have in the ordinary course been routinely

granted. this judge decided to the contrary if i can quote from the opinion this case is about whether the judge can prolong the prosecution by probing the government's motives on that both the constitution and cases are clear he may not that's the decision today from the court of appeals. it's over. >> jon: a victory for the co-equality for the three branches of government, i guess you would say. robert ray? >> that's the way it's supposed to work, jon. >> jon: good to have you on. thanks for come on. >> thank you very much. >> jon: former president obama joining former vice president on the virtual campaign trail for the first time and it pays off. plus, new york democrats may have just voted out a 16-term congressman for a progressive newcomer. sound familiar? our political a team donna brazile and chris stirewalt join

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>> take a live look at the white house hold an event with the president of poland first such visit since the coronavirus blockade began. we will bring that to you when that happens. meantime the trump administration calling in the national guard to help protect monuments in d.c. and overnight new fencing and concrete barriers went up around lafayette park and st. john's church near the white house. protesters have been gathering there. some tried to tear down a statue

of president andrew jackson. lucas tomlinson reporting live now at the park. lucas? all is calm right now. that wasn't the case where d.c. police say they arrested nine protesters as peaceful protests turned violent. so violent the interior secretary has called for reinforcement. >> i requested that the from the secretary of defense that the national guard be available to us to begin to bring back the monuments. earlier today, i instructed the erection of a fence lafayette plaza as well as st. john's church. we will protect the monuments and we will do it with the dispatch and severity. >> a short time ago d.c. police described the violence last night. people igniting fireworks, setting fires, throwing projectiles and even molotov cocktails and smoke grenades at

police officers at the 200-year-old st. john's church. used pepper spray and sting ball grenades. one police officer injured and as i mentioned nine people arrested. earlier this week rioters tried to tear down the statue of andrew jackson right here in lafayette square as a result of violence the pentagon now says 400 national guard troops have been called up and are now on stand by d.c. armory. they have not been deployed yet to protect any of the monuments. unlike the troops called up earlier this month, the pentagon says these new troops will notten armed. while andrew jackson statue remains another might be coming down soon if d.c.'s nonvoting delegate eleanor holmes has her way she's to remove capitol hill which shows abraham lincoln with the a freed slaved. norton says even though freed slaved paid for the statute do you in 1976 done without their input. another protest statue emancipation memorial. we will see if it turns violent.

the d.c. mayor says hopes everything will remain peaceful. jon? >> jon: as we all do. lucas tomlinson. police say a mob ambushed and hurt two of their officers. the chief says the officers were responding to reports of a shooting. when they showed up looking for a victim. a crowd surrounded them throwing glass bottles and jumping on their police cars. at least one person arrested. there is growing pressure on facebook to reign in hateful content or risk losing money. several companies agreeing to pull ads including pat gone i can't. the north face and ben and jerry's all part of the stop hate for profit campaign organized by civil rights groupings after the death of george floyd. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg has been criticized for not taking action after twitter began flagging some of president trump's tweets for violating its policy against, quote, abusive behavior. in a statement, a facebook executive writes we deeply respect any brands' decision and remain focused on the partial

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>> jon: fox news alert. take a look at the rose garden. president trump expected to hold a news conference with the president of poland any minute now. it is one of the loveliest places for this kind of ceremony. we will bring it to you live when it begins. meantime we want to bring in martha mccallum, host of "the story." it's been quite a while since the president has been able to host a foreign dignitary. the covid-19 pandemic obviously got in the way. and in the meantime, the country has gone bonkers with, you know, all kinds of protests, tearing

down statues and, of course, there is the michael flynn investigation and the revelations from the fbi. michael flynn got good news today from the appeals court. >> martha: he sure did. it looks like things have finally gone general michael flynn's way after years of basically, you know, going through torture in the judicial system. he has always maintained his innocence as you will remember jim comey said sort of smug but i we sent a couple of fbi agents in the early days because they weren't all that organized anyways. michael flynn was told they were not investigating him they just wanted to come over and chat. of course, that turned into a two year legal struggle for him. he was never indicted. he was charged. those charges have now been dropped and the appeals court has confirmed that he actually called in to rush limbaugh's radio show. this is the first that we have heard from him. there will be more interviews to come i would expect. i think you guys have a piece of that sound. >> and what the decision today

is really it's a good thing for general flynn. it's a good thing for me. it's a good thing for my family. it's really a great boost of confidence for the american people and our justice system. >> there are an awful lot of indications he got railroaded by the fbi. >> martha: this was a tenuous from the beginning. thanking rush limbaugh from support early on. there was a time when he was really being pressured for years to flip, essentially on the president. and they dragged on his sentencing. they canceled it several times. came back to it. in hopes that he would give them something he never did, he never flipped on the president. he never said this is what i know about russian collusion because he hadn't seen any russian collusion. he had nothing to give him which was the outcome of a two year investigation done by mueller. this has been a mess, really through the last couple of years. now he is finally, it looks like

he is in the homestretch. >> jon: even when the justice department said we don't think we have a case here we want to drop the charges. the judge in the case said no, we are not going to drop the charges. that's what the appeals court decided on today. >> judge emmet sullivan wanted to protract the situation even though there were no charges there. that's a very unusual position for a judge to take where he says no, no, no. i would like this trial to keep going. i think we can get to some sort of indictment here. the appeal courts have said that's simply not the way it's done. there is r. no charges there is no more case. >> jon: the president is talking about writing an executive order to protect federal monuments. a lot of people are saying, look, congress has to write and pass laws, legislation. the president can enforce it. but there is the thinking that the monuments act of 2003 is a vehicle that the president can use some protesters want to tear

down punctuation mark. the president wants to make it clear he thinks this sun lawful. there are plenty of laws on the books already that cover the destruction of public property that they could be pushing forward with already. as you point out there is a monument's act also in effect. the president really wants to emphasize. this he wants there to be a 10-year jail sentence for people who tear down monuments. if you are on the other end of one of these ropes pulling one of these things down hopefully that makes somebody think twice. >> jon: since the charleston church shooting there has been a great number of especially confederate monuments taken down. most of those were done the right way, you know, with the legislature or the city council or various political organizations saying okay, it's maybe time that these should go in a museum or some place besides the town square. but, i think the number is something like 215 statues have come down since that time and about a third of that number, about 70 have just been in the past couple of weeks, essentially by mob rule. that has a lot of people really

angry and concerned. >> martha: thousand it's including people like george washington. >> jon: sure. >> martha: you know, it is people like ulysses grant who, of course, wars the comearnghtd of the union forces during the civil war and fought to end slavery in this country. think there is a lot of question about whether or not people are really genuinely aware. if it's an old guy on a statue they think it should come down there. is a legislative process in small communities and states at the governor's level to make these changes. many of those are underway and have been in a peaceful way. and i think that, you know, that's what we would expect. you just simply can't deface or destroy public property. it is against the law. you can do it if you want but you will probably spend some time in jail. >> jon: we hope. so martha mccallum see you this evening on "the story" at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. >> thank you. >> i appreciate you all being on this call but, man, this is serious business.

whatever you have done so far is not enough. there is no disconnect between the urgency of this election in the political moment and what has been happening on the streets. >> jon: former president obama there warning democrats do not get complacent. he joined joe biden, his former vice president on the virtual campaign trail for the first time and helped pull in $11 million. joining us now donna brazile interim chair of the dnc and a fox news contributor. chris stirewalt, also our fox news politics editor. took a long time for barack obama to endorse his former vice president, donna, but he has done that now. it appears that he has turned on his charm, his considerable charm and opened the fundraising flood gates. >> well, no question he endorsed vice president biden soon after senator sanders dropped out of the race. i thought that was the right thing to do because joe biden earned the nomination. but i thought what was important

last night was the fact that barack obama wasn't just talking about money. he reminded people that there is a lot of work to do. he said i have more work to do. he said his family has more work to do. but he told everyone on that phone call last night don't just give money. go out there, register people to vote. talk about the issues. and get ready to roll up your sleeve to help joe biden. >> jon: to his point, chris, barack obama's attitude toward his former vice president has been lukewarm. is it fair to say that? >> i don't know if i would go that far. i mean, america's attitude about joe biden is a little bit lukewarm in the sense that that's what he is running as. a calming force, a person who is not going to run hot or cold. but is going to be -- the great tepidness of 2020 that joe biden is promising. so i think that's the case. but, also, remember, obama did not want to be seen given the

intensity of the left wing, the progressive pop plus insid popu. quarter of the party very large and intense. he did not to be seen stifling bernie sanders wing or elizabeth warren. he had to be careful not to put his thumb on the scale for biden. now we can expect to see obama coming in and swinging hard and heavy for biden as did he last night. >> jon: also quoted as saying in the early days when joe biden was thinking about running he said joe, you don't have to do. this essentially trying to dissuade him, it seemed, from actually running for president. but, he ran. he is the nominee and he is raising a lot of money. donna, the biden campaign outraised the trump campaign in may. i want to read to you something of a response from the trump campaign. they say: we raised more than 10 million over the weekend president's rally in tulsa well more than the 7.6 million

estimate of joe biden's fundraising event today with former president barack obama. also the trump campaign's haul from friday sunday came from online donors and illustrates the intense grassroots enthusiasm behind president trump's re-election. they are comparing sort of big event fundraising rather than the monthly numbers. but, do they have a point? the president is picking up a fair amount of money from small donors. >> well, look, i'm not going to start talking about sizes of the money haul here. here is what is important. over 175,000 people donated. they were small donations. and like the trump campaign they are going to come back and come back and come back all the way to november. whether it was $5 or $10 or $100. opportunity to go back to those voters, not just for money, but also to get out there and be precinct captains, register

people to vote to talk to their neighbors or talk to co-workers or talk to people they go to church with. the trump campaign has been doing it for a long time. biden and democratic party. they are ready. >> jon: quickly chris though, the trump campaign does have more money in the bank. >> there was a time whereby den was in terrible danger of not having enough money. in politics can you only spend so much. they are both going to spend enough money to burn a well elephant. certain point it doesn't matter once you get threshold. 1.8 billion or 1.4 billion. you have enough and it looks like they are both going to have enough. >> jon: i wish i could turn a phrase like chris stirewalt. chris, donna brazile. >> that's that west virginia humor. that dry humor from west virginia. >> jon: that's what it is. [laughter] >> jon: governors in three northeastern states now requiring visitors from covid hot spots to quarantine for two weeks. details on that ahead. plus, the europe union is considering banning american travelers as it reopens its

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>> we have to make sure we are doing everything and diligent and our citizens are diligent. we also have to make sure the virus doesn't come in on a plane, again. people coming in from states that have a high infection rate must quarantine for 14 days. >> jon: the governors of new york, new jersey, and connecticut there requiring visitors to quarantine if they are coming from states where coronavirus cases are spiking. here's a map of the states affected right now. it comes as dr. anthony fauci warns of a disturbing surge of infections in some parts of the country. he says the next two weeks will be critical in slowing the spread of the virus. let's bring in dr. peter hotez

professor of the baylor college of medicine working to develop a vaccine. you are also working in texas and texas, i'm sorry, dr. hotez, president trump we have been telling our viewers would be speaking in the rose garden and he just emerged along with the president of poland. we are going to go to that now. >> we all know what a wonderful country and great country poland is. and it's my honor to have a friend of mine here, president duda of poland who has done an incredible job. i do believe he has an election coming up and i do believe he will be successful. so thank you very much and all of your representatives. thank you very much for being here. this is the third time that we have hosted president duda, the first lady and i also cherish our remarkable visit to poland three years ago that was an amazing event. we had an event because it was a speech and a lot of people watched that speech it was very historic moment and important moment for our two countries. the american and polish people

enjoy one of the world's oldest, strongest and most enduring friendships. poll liberal patriots battled by our side to secure american independence, american and polish warriors fought and died together to defeat the nazis in world war ii. the united states stood shoulder to shoulder with poland in its courageous struggle against communist oppression. our bond has been forged in battle, sealed in blood and strengthened by our shared cultural values. the united states and poland are united by our firm conviction that western civilization is advanced really and very much advanced. i think i have to add the cause of human progress beyond measure and that it must be strongly defended in will at all times be strongly defended and we will defend it together in our you will president duda alliance

between our nations. last year we signed two joint to collaboration and we look forward to signing a defense cooperation agreement. poland recently purchased 32 brand new state of the art f-35 fighter jets, the best in the world. and poland is one of only eight nato members. the others, some of them haven't done so well in terms of what they are supposed to be paying to nato. i tell them all the time and we have gotten them up a lot but not enough. but poland is one of only eight that is current with the money that they are supposed to be paying. that's the 2%. 2% is a very low number. but we have a large number of countries that haven't paid. they are delinquent. let's put it that way. they are delinquent with respect to their dues. the money they are supposed to be paying for defense or the united states is defending a lot of countries. they are delinquent on what they are supposed to be paying.

and i never feel too good about that. but i will say i spoke with the secretary general. and he said we have done a great job. but i said we haven't done good enough. we haven't done a good enough job. we have secured though over $400 billion in new pledged defense spending from nato members, which is something that no other administration has come even close to. i would say they are off by many, many hundreds of billions of dollars, something the newspaper doesn't like writing about. that the media doesn't like talking about. but we will be only satisfied when all members are paying their fair share. again, only 8 members plus the united states is paying what is considered a fair share. i also applaud poland and the poll liberal people for its devotion to safeguarding their country's borders. very strong borders. and i just left our border by the way. the wall is moving along rapid little and our border is about

as strong as it's ever been our southern border. last year we were able to add poland to the visa waiver program and they wanted that very badly and we gave it to them because they really deserve it. it's a testament to poland's vigilant efforts to uphold the rule of law. the united states and poland have recently signed several long-term contracts for u.s. liquified natural gas. they are a big purchaser of our energy to enhance poland's energy security. and we're working to conclude an agreement that would facilitate poland's development of nuclear energy plants throughout the purchase. they are going to be purchasing with one of our very big, very good companies. technology to do civilian nuclear energy. i want to congratulate poland for its leadership in the three c's initiative. a crucial energy partnership that will provide a reliable

source of energy for eastern europe and it will be free from the threat of foreign extortion. poland understands foreign extortion very well. the three c's initiative relies on fairness, transparency and mutual benefit. our nations have also collaborated on protecting our critical infrastructure and technology. that's why we have signed a 5g joint declaration and poland is leading the way in europe by using trusted providers and provider equipment and supply chains for its 5g network and we are working along with them and they are using our companies. the united states and poland cooperate across the truly wide range of fronts that we're both very much involved in. here today is the head of a polish medical team, very advanced team, very brilliant team fighting the coronavirus alongside of american doctors, captain shavara, thank you very

much for being here, captain. [applause] we are making great progress. i hear we are making great progress and we are working together but we are making great progress on therapeutics and vaccines. thank you very much. i appreciate you being here. the american and polish people have been true friends and trusted partners for almost 250 years. we are forever united by our shared belief in family, faith, law, liberty, democracy, and justice. as the old poll liberal motto goes: we will stand together in the name of god for our freedom and for yours. president duda, let me express once again our gratitude for your visit and friendship. wwe have had a very special relationship. our alliance is powerful and powerful testament to what free people can achieve together. i believe that the greatness of our relationship lies ahead. thank you very much.

president, please. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen. first and foremost, i would like to thank very warmly, i would like to thank very warmly to president donald trump, the president of the united states of america. thank you for inviting me here to washington to the white house to take part in this very important meeting to us. this meeting is important for many reasons. to me, as president of the republic of poland this meeting is important because poland is first country after the coronavirus pandemic which had been invited to the meeting in the white house to discuss the most important matters concerning the future, concerning how the relations will look between the united states and poland in terms of economy. what those relations will be like and the meter sphere and what those relation also be like in the sphere of protection all those elements which are of key

importance today. and very big part of our discussions today with mr. president and our collaborators were dedicated to the coronavirus, to what the situation looks like in europe and on the global stage as concerns fight against the coronavirus also in the united states but first and foremost we are also thinking about what measures to take in the future. but first and foremost, thank you so much, mr. president for your declaration that we are going to cooperate. >> our scientists are going to cooperate and collaborate on conducting research concerning the vaccine and therapy drug against the coronavirus. everything that will be conducive to fighting the coronavirus. so i do believe thanks to this collaboration, those therapeutic call medicines will be available composed for my compatriots. thank you very much, mr. president for that all of us know how high level medical research is in the united states. and this declaration and the will of cooperation on the part

of united states on the part of the president of the united states is of crucial importance to us. thank you very much for that that, ladies and gentlemen, we also discussed the cooperation in the economy and military. let me first mention our economic cooperation as the president has just mentioned. we are developing it both in the sphere of energy and building energy security. today we can say that the united states is cooperating in the sphere of creating energy security not only that energy security with poland but also the energy security of central europe. the president has just mentioned the three c's initiative. all the investments being carried out in poland today the extension of the capacity of [inaudible] increasing capacity by 2.5 billion cubic meters. we are planning to construct another terminal. all of that is conducive to being able to provide deliveries not only poland but also for the countries of central europe. the vast majority of

the vast majority of those countries of central europe are dependent upon russia. in other words, diversification of supply is of key importance for their security. thank you, mr. president for this cooperation. i do believe we are going to further develop it. today, we have those supplies guaranteed until 2023. i know that we are also going to enter into this other contract in this respect. even the more so that for sure, our demand is going to increase. we also discussed conventional energy and nuclear energy cooperation. in the near future, an agreement will be signed between the governments of the united states of america and the republic of poland. thanks to this agreement, we will be able to start designing the large design of introducing conventional nuclear energy for the production of our electricity in poland.

the agreement very advanced on the polish side. in charge of those negotiations right now. an appropriate intergovernmental agreement is about to be finalized. we expect that to be conducted in the near future. i want to mention the contribution of the united states. first and foremost, this is a national contribution to the fund of the previous initiative. this is an element, a vehicle that enables the deponent of the corporation. thank you, mr. president for appreciating this cooperation which takes place in central europe within the framework of the european union. the goal of this corporation is to develop and extend the infrastructure. thank you for noticing and developing corporations in the atlantic stone.

zone. we are speaking about increasing military occupancy. i have no doubt whatsoever that this will lead to this defending of security at the european union, but also in first and foremost from my perspective, it is the security of poland. and it will also land additional financial credibility to poland, investment credibility on the part of american investors. one month ago, a global company microsoft announced that they are going to invest $1 billion in poland to establish the state-of-the-art data center. an official google company published information that they are going to invest in the center including i.t. technologies. mr. president, i have no doubts whatsoever that these american