issue. joe biden, kamala harris. in fact for those who want a passionate following and more for this democratic candidate, she just might provide that. that will do it here. ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone. i am dana perino with jesse watters, greg gutfeld, donna brazile, and katie pavlich. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." the speculation is over. joe biden's name kamala harris as his pick for vice president. both will appear together in delaware tomorrow. biden tweeting "eye of the great honor to announce i have picked kamala harris, fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants, as my running mate."

back when kamala was attorney general, she worked closely with bo. they took on the big banks, protecting women and kids from abuse. i am proud then and proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign." kamala tweeting saying "joe biden can unify the american people because he spent his life fighting for us and asked resident he will build an america that lives up to our deals. i am honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president and do it takes to make him the commander in chief. donna brazile. historic day for kamala harris of the nation. first black woman to be appointed to one of these positions. she will be on the ticket with joe biden. you got the news earlier today. tell us about your reaction. >> donna: first of all, i'm excited. she's the daughter of immigrants. she's hardworking. she's tenacious. most important, kamala started

like so many others believing she could do something to help everyday ordinary people. when she graduated from howard university which is located here in the district of columbia, a historical black college and university, she decided to go back home and worked in the d.a.'s office where she handled a lot of the child sexual abuse cases. i saw her grow into the position of being elected to the d.a. office and of course winning statewide not only as the attorney general but also as a united states senator. i think she's going to help the biden ticket. i think she's going to help him govern if they are elected. this is an exciting day. the fourth time we've seen a woman on a major party ticket. i am very excited and i cannot wait to get to work. there's no time to celebrate. we have 84 days so i'm ready to get to work.

>> dana: one of the things that happened during the primary campaign during the debates is kamala harris did take a big swipe at joe biden. some said she gutted him on the campaign trail. you might remember this exchange. take a look. >> to hear you talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. you know, there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public school. she was bus to school every day and that little girl was me. it's mischaracterized my position. >> dana: greg, there's been moments in primaries where future vice presidential nominees have said even worse

things about whoever the actual nominee ends up being. apparently joe biden was able to forgive it. there was talk that dr. jill biden, biden's wife, took this as a real swipe against her husband and found it a little bit more hard to forgive. kamala harris will obviously be asked about this whenever she doesn't interview. >> greg: i think it's really pointless to ask about what people do in a debate. we remember in 2016 leading up to the election, trump set a lot of stuff and everybody says stuff and when it's all over, everybody's working for each other which is kind of spooky and away. i agree with donna brazile. she does help that ticket because she has a pulse and she immediately improves the ticket because she can complete a sentence. already we have reached a new high. i did get some news from peter doocy that liz warren is now self identifying as kamala harris and gladly accepts the invitation to the ticket.

i don't know how they're going to deal with it. i find it very strange. we can pretty much agree that joe wasn't involved in this decision. i don't believe he was in the room. he might've been in a room but not the room. maybe a room with a shawl on some hot chocolate. i think somebody else made this choice and i will say again i don't think the ticket is done yet. >> dana: that has been your position and you are sticking to it. katie, one thing that's swirling around is that susan rice had been the national security advisor for barack obama was under consideration. one thing i thought about it, it would really tie joe biden backwards. to the barack obama administration which for many democrats, they loved. this ticket is new and it's a signal they want to move forward. i will let you give your reaction to that or your general impression. >> katie: it would've been

easy to say with susan rice on the ticket that it's obama's third term. that the left is looking backwards. i find it interesting she's the pick and i'm curious about the focus group sessions. one of joe biden's biggest vulnerabilities during the primary and the general election is his support for the 1994 crime bill. while joe biden passed it with support from the black community at that time, the opinions about that philip changed. it kamala harris is one of the people who enforce that legislation as the attorney general of california. it'll be interesting to see, she went on that radio show and joked about how yes, she smoked weed and she got a lot of backlash for putting people in trail for doing exactly what she was joking about. so i'm curious about which about which contingencies she satisfies. california will go blue regardless of who's on the ticket. so we'll see how it's going to work out but it's a nice play

for the first african-american female president should joe biden decided to step aside at any point. >> dana: jesse watters, we have to think about this in terms of what does he get joe biden from this ticket? it doesn't necessarily expand the map, as katie was pointing out. california has been voting democrat for a long time. across the board, does it help anywhere else do you think? >> jesse: i don't know if it gets him that much at all. she was kind of a phony who never caught on. i kind of agree with greg. it's like you go to a restaurant with your grandfather and you have to order for him here you take the menu and you're like he'll have the ribeye and you like it medium, right? joe didn't make this pick. this pick was made for joe. it just shows you the kind of bad judgment and bad instincts that the biden campaign. i wouldn't trust kamala harris. i think she's very ambitious.

we all know joe was only running for one term so you're basically ushering in someone that's going to i don't think have the best intentions. she was someone that couldn't even manage her own campaign. it was totally mismanaged. it was a complete catastrophe. i guess she was a strong prosecutor and she will prosecute the case against president trump. she's very telegenic. i get it. the media will say she is very hip and obviously the media is going to say she's going to beat pence in the debate. that's been preordained. she doesn't really have core beliefs. she was for medicare for all until she found out it wasn't really smart politics. then she tried to back out of it but the more the audience and the democrats watched her, the lower her numbers god. i just spent a week in a house with democrats and none of them was excited about kamala harris.

>> dana: did any of them have scissors to cut your hair which apparently has grown so long already in the back? when you turned your head, i couldn't believe it. i want to bring in peter doocy. he's in wilmington, delaware, with an update on this announcement. we talked about it at 2:00 and here we are at 5:00 with the news. >> i hope you can take jasper out. it seems like eric garcetti was telling you not to go too far. i remember being at a kamala harris campaign event in nashua, new hampshire, in may 2019 where a reporter asked kamala harris if she would ever join the ticket, join a joe biden ticket. he was leading the polls of the time. she said she thought joe biden would make a good running mate for her. because he knows a lot about being the vice president. honestly to jesse's point about her popularity with democrats,

she did not catch on when it matters the most as a canon herself and she want of dropping out of the race the first week of december 2019. never made it to 2020 despite a big push in iowa to go all in. her big position was to prosecute the case against donald trump but again it did not catch on when she was at the top of the ticket. despite her clash on stage at that first debate with joe biden, as summer, that was in june of 2019, as the summer wore on, by september i asked her a question and she said leave joe alone. a lot changed from her first initial decision to challenge joe biden. i'm sure there's going to be a lot of questions for her and the two of them announced their first event as a ticket. it's going to be here in wilmington tomorrow. we are awaiting final details. sometime tomorrow afternoon. >> dana: we'll see. maybe it will land at 2:00. good for the show. thank you. donna brazile, i want to ask

about this announcement that the biden campaign announced before we knew it was kamala harris. eight staffers have been assigned to help her. we are going to do john roberts and little bit. the trump campaign has responded. do you think kamala harris is prepared for what's about to hit her with all these attacks and questions about prior positions et cetera? >> donna: i want to respond to greg and jesse that would take up too much time. i'm going to ignore them for a couple minutes but let me say she is battle-tested. she knows what it takes and because she was on the campaign trail along with 23 other candidates, let's be clear. kamala will be able to respond in real time to not just the criticisms. some of it such as ambition. i am glad to see that she has ambition. that's what we want to see in our candidates. they have an ambition to do more for the country and of course

more for those who are struggling during this period of time. the biden team is put together a wonderful group of people. i know many of them, to help kamala navigate this new terrain. i think they will do a fantastic job in making sure that she's not only ready for the one and only debate she will have but to get on the campaign trail, to be out there virtually as she has been over the last couple months, and to continue to fight for those big issues that joe biden has already introduced to his campaign. this is a historic choice. i'm excited about the selection of kamala harris and i hope we get to know more about her and not just those talking points that we sometimes get on our computer. she's really a fantastic person. >> dana: all right. the trump campaign has already responded. i want to go to chief white house correspondent john roberts for the reaction from the trump campaign. we expect the president is going to be giving his press

conference in just a little bit. >> he will be coming out between 5:30, probably 5:45. he'll be asked about this and have it in in-person response. so for his campaign not surprisingly which probably had responses and ads ready to go on any of the potential candidates for vice president, coming out and attacking kamala harris on her integrity basically saying that whatever integrity she had going into the campaign she gave up in order to become accepted by the far left of the democratic party. now the trump campaign has gotten ad, 30 seconds, will play a short bit, they labeled the biden-harris ticket as slow joe and phony kamala. listen. >> kamala harris ran for president by rushing to the radical left, embracing bernie's plan for socialized medicine, calling for trillions in new taxes, attacking joe biden for racist policies.

voters rejected. >> president trump likes to give people nicknames. slow joe and phony camel is the way we're going to hear it going forward in a statement from the trump campaign, katrina pierson on behalf of the president and the campaign started off by saying kamala harris call joe biden erases not long ago and asked for an apology that she never received. she never use the word racist or describe joe biden but in an interview after that famous debate moment joe biden said she believed the inference from kamala harris. that her husband was a racist. kamala harris did ask joe biden for an apology. it appears as always happens in politics you're willing to put aside disagreements of the past. what will be interesting to see is how kamala harris will handle this role because she's a very, very strong woman and joe biden when he was asked about the potential back in 2008 and

becoming barack obama's running mate said "i never had a boss. i don't know how i would handle it." remains to be seen whether kamala harris indeed believes joe biden is the boss and how she will handle it. >> dana: i'm sure she'll be asked that. thank you. greg, i was thinking about another episode in the last few years and that was the supreme court nomination of brett kavanaugh and if you remember back to the hearing in the senate judiciary committee, kamala harris was one of the i guess strongest questioners of brett kavanaugh. some people found it way over the top. i imagine the trauma team will probably remind their voters of that moment. >> greg: i think you're right. it slipped my mind in this new cycle. it's amazing it was a year ago that epstein committed suicide. so many things have happened. we don't think about the

kavanaugh experience. she was remarkably vicious. i'm not going to buy this premise that there's going to be a lot of intensive tax. how is she going to take it and she's going to need to be prepared. any criticism leveled at her will be viewed as sexist or racist. she has it going. she's going to have a pretty easy going because it's histor historic. it's been pretty easy so far for her. she didn't run a great campaign. she made some changes. i think she unloaded her sister who ran the campaign and she corrected some of her flaws but she took the right boxes which is why no one was surprised about this so i don't -- i really question the idea that she's going to gird for some incredible aggression. it ain't going to happen because you can be critical. republicans can be critical because they will be called racist or sexist. >> dana: one thing you might

have is kamala harris doing more interviews than joe biden is done. i imagine that's going to be true. i think they have to be more visible than they have been. what do you think? >> jesse: is a conservative, i think that's great. i would love for kamala harris to overshadow joe biden. all she has to do is do one interview every other week and she has accomplished it. i said it earlier, democrats don't love her. they didn't love her when she ran. she dropped out before the year started and there was no real buzz, no grassroots enthusiasm for kamala harris. she's tenacious, i'll give her that. she draws blood when she goes after people during these hearings but she doesn't have any sort of policy chops people speak of. she doesn't have a clue about china. they will unleash her and she was saying mean and nasty things but to greg's point i don't think donald trump has a problem with tearing into kamala harris.

he's not worried about being called racist or sexist. that much is clear. maybe some other people in the republican party you won't go after her as much. this is really more about joe and how he stacks up against the president. we will stop talking about harris in about three days. >> dana: probably. maybe three days. in the meantime, katie, one thing i noticed is the organization of the rollout was pretty smooth. all the possible other vice presidential picks were joe biden closed ranks very quickly around kamala harris. they tweeted out their support and even nancy pelosi, the speaker who reportedly had suggested karen bass, the congresswoman from southern california, nancy pelosi put out a statement. karen bass put out a statement. it was tightly done. i wonder what it says about the biden team in terms of being effective as a unit. there weren't a lot of leaks.

there haven't been. maybe it's because everybody is socially distanced. they're not together. it seems so far they are holding it together pretty well. >> katie: yeah, nobody really knew who the pick was going to be. there were some clues about the person given the staffers they hired this week to staff the vp pick. some had worked for kamala harris in the past. in terms of the team, you're right, they kept it pretty watertight. joe biden was able to make the announcement himself. the event is tomorrow so they rolled out a day early. to build buzz not only before the event tomorrow but before the convention that starts on sunday. can i just say something about what greg said about the media? they will absolutely protect her in every single way possible and of course there was the letter that was sent last week by number of allies in the democrats who said here are the rules for the broadcasters and journalists about how you should

treat a woman if she were to become the vice presidential nominee and candidate and i can guarantee you that all the social justice politically correct liberal leaning members of the press will be listening to those mornings and be very careful about how they categorize or criticize kamala harris and her record given the warnings they've been given about how they should be doing their jobs. >> jesse: dana, let me respon respond. >> dana: can you let me announce. we have a statement from former president obama who tweeted "i have known senator kamala harris for long time. she is more than prepared for the job. she spent her career defending our constitution and fighting for folks i who need a fair sha. this is a good day for our country now let's go win this thing. just a reminder we are awaiting president trump at the white house. giving a news conference, an update on coronavirus but of course we know he will have his

first in person reaction about this pick of kamala harris. donna brazile, he wanted to make a comment. >> donna: dana, i hope we have an opportunity to talk about how racism and sexism is often portrayed in the media and how we have these conversations. as a black woman who's been a trailblazer in american politics, not only serving as a campaign manager but also as a chair of my political party twice. we come under withering criticism just like other people. i get hammered when i make mistakes just like any man who's ever had my job. while the tone of our skin is different and may be the sound of our voice, we need to understand you can criticize her policies. you can criticize his policies. what is out-of-bounds is basically treating women or women of color to a different standard than you would treat any other human being.

that's all people have ever asked for. treat us the same way you treat everybody else. not special, not different. let me say this. as a black woman, i don't get any love sometimes from conservatives or liberals but guess what. i exist because i want to be in this arena. i want to say on a personal note, working with fox news, working with all of you, my colleagues, this has been one of the most gratifying moments of my political career. i love it. you don't treat me like i can't get hit. you don't treat me like i'm going to break if i come on this show. that's one of the reasons why i look forward to being on the show and also why i watch this show so thank you. treat kamala the same way. >> dana: we love having you on the show and we love having you as a part of fox news. we look forward to you cooking us dinner because you've promised that for quite a while and we are going to hold you to it at some point. i wanted to make a couple poin

points. >> greg: typical dana. immediately thinks she should cook for her. awful. >> donna: no, dana and i have been friends as long as you've been -- >> greg: how racist can you be, dana? >> donna: she's not. no are -- nor are you. you are a little smart ass sometimes. >> dana: i want to bring bret baier. we thought this might come tod today. there was a report from jonathan martin saying it's not happening today but we did get the news. it's kamala harris. he had been covering this campaign since the day after the election in 2016. to get to this moment, your reflections about kamala harris, who did not do well as a presidential candidate but now is on the ticket. >> bret: i wanted to hear about donna's cooking and this dustup on "the five." i will say, do we --

>> dana: we are going to work on bret's audio. >> bret: can you hear me? >> donna: we can hear you. >> dana: you can hear bret? i can hear you now. >> bret: the ticket is set and it's what everybody's been waiting for. it's not that vice president nominees make a ticket. it's not that they are the ones that take it across the finish line. but it is a moment where it is now set. you mention kamala harris in the campaign in her presidential run. it was not long. it was not long in part because there were democratic voters, if you looked at the polls, didn't think she was authentic. they thought she was trying to find her laying whether it was going to be the moderate lane with joe biden and amy klobuchar or it was going to be progressive and elizabeth warren. trying to find out who she was

and what the elevator pitch was that presidential campaign, it really hurt kamala harris if she was running. but she's also a prosecutor. if you watch her in the senate hearings and i know you mentioned this earlier. i think the biden campaign looks at that and says she could be a prosecutor of president trump. not necessarily just the vice presidential debate but out on the stump, even virtually, making the case against the president nonstop. you have seen the president and his campaign already out with the phony kamala and they are going to tap into what they believe was some of the part of why she didn't succeed in the presidential race. >> dana: i believe katie has a question for you, bret. >> katie: hey, bret. good to see you. my question is in the environment we are in with these national police organizations not endorsing joe biden as a democrat, now we have kamala harris was a former attorney general in the vp position. now she has to kind of split the

position of being a former prosecutor in law enforcement, defending her record on that and defending her record enforcing the 199 1994 crime bill which joe biden was criticized for but also appeasing the far left. defund the police movement. how do you see playing out? >> bret: it's going to be a challenge especially on the points that you mentioned. they are going to try to sew everything up next week in their convention. it's largely virtual. they will make a lot of speeches that tie it all together. she was california attorney general, san francisco district attorney. you're right, she has a record that came under scrutiny on the debate stage in the democratic primary. one thing to point out, on the historic front, kamala harris is both a safe pick, conventional pick, but also an historic pick and that's an interesting pick. amy walter made this point on twitter. if you look at the beginning of

when this all started, people said biden-harris, that would make a good ticket. here we are. it's going to be on the bumper stickers. >> dana: bret, we have a photograph from the biden campaign of kamala harris and joe biden skypeing. campaigning in the era of coronavirus. that's the first photo of we have of the two of them together by zoom. a lot of americans, we've been on calls like that. >> greg: dana. you know what joe is thinking? he is thinking how did she get so small and get into my little tv? >> dana: that might be had. you had a question for bret. jesse, go for it. >> jesse: i don't know, bret. i wonder what sarah palin is thinking about all this right now because when she was announced as vp for mccain, i think barack obama said you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.

joe biden said it's a step backwards for women. donny deutsch made all kinds of crazy stuff i don't even want to say. joe biden talked about her attractiveness. norah o'donnell said you have a young kid. maybe you already have your hands too full to be vp. i wonder if you think there's a difference when there is female vp on the ticket if it's a democrat. >> bret: that's interesting and obviously see that difference in coverage and how the media handles different candidates, republicans or democrats. sarah palin obviously with the fact that surprised everybody. and then she had this amazing rollout of the convention. i remember being on the convention floor and i stood behind when she was delivering the speech on the teleprompter went down and she still delivered that speech and a change the dynamic at that moment. then she ran into an interview

with katie couric and the media kind of pounced immediately after that and it changed the dynamic again. i think obviously joe biden and kamala harris will have some cover when it comes to the mainstream media and you guys talk about this a lot. i think we are going to cover this race as fairly as we possibly can. we've asked for both of them to come on either together or separately. all of us i think are trying to make sure we have all sites covered. i don't think this race is set in any way, shape, or form and i think we have a long way to go before november 3rd. in 7 billion new cycles. >> greg>> bret: she's the stepmr of two children. she's married to douglas m hoff, 54. when they met when she was introduced to his children, she brought cookies.

so she might have some idea of how to campaign a little bit for hearts and minds. >> bret: when joe biden tweeted out one of the reasons he chose her was a relationship she had with his late son, beau. that in his mind, at least what he said is what solidified his choice. the fact that he gets beyond the first debate we are going to hear and see the sound bite again and again and again about school busing. it does say something about his decision-making process, that he thinks this is the best choice for him. you're also looking at someone who with a candidate who is 78, if he wins the election he will be older than reagan was and he left office that has to factor in to choosing this vice presidential pick. someone who could be president, in their mind. >> dana: bret, thank you so much. go ahead, greg.

>> greg: one half of democrats polled believe joe is not going to finish the first term if you wins which is basically the opposite of a vote of confidence. everybody keeps talking, shaping the narrative. i think it's not over. i think they are going to try to engineer a new ticket. you don't go on a road trip expecting not to make it halfway. you don't get on the plane and think there's a 50% chance you're not going to land. there something else going on here and bret, here's the question i have for you. when he drops out, did she move to become the p or do she stated vp and they put someone else in there? >> bret: [laughs] only a question greg can ask. i will say when you get on a plane, isn't it a 50/50 chance in your mind? >> greg: yes, i tend to be difficult. [laughter] >> dana: bret baier, thank you. see you at 6:00. we are still awaiting president trump's news conference scheduled at 5:30 but

it's been more like 5:45 so we have a little bit more time. under brazil, i wanted to ask about the split between the far left and the rest of the democratic party. next week obviously we will have speeches from kamala harris, barack obama, michelle obama and biden. it almost seems like one of the most interesting speeches will be given by alexandria ocasio-cortez and i wonder about how that part of the party, the more progressive side, looks at someone like kamala harris. will they be excited about this pick? >> donna: as you well know, aoc, the congressman will be nominating bernie sanders. bernie sanders name is still on the ballot. i have my ballot and i will be submitting my ballot tonight. her role is, and of course senator sanders made that decision, she will be one of the handful of people who will nominate him at the convention. i'm a democrat. i know that you talk about the

democratic party as far left and all this other stuff. my home state governors a moderate. many of my friends in the senate are moderates. yes, do we have progressive? absolutely. it's like a good gumbo since where you using cookie metaphors. a little bit of this in a little bit of apple which keeps us together as a party is the roux and we have a unified party to come together and presented the american people an alternative to their reality show we've been watching over the last three and a half years so i'm excited about the convention. i'm excited about the long list of speakers. i hope we have good music took all the words -- to go with all the words were going to hear. >> dana: we'll see. it will be a different kind of convention. katie, one of the things that kamala harris writes about and that we know from her biography, her mom who raised kamala and her sister together alone because the father and her divorce, she would take them to a lot of protests. kamala harris is as a young girl from the stroller, she had that

view and she has continued to push it and now you have a situation where you have some peaceful protests in some places and you have rioting and looting in others. i wonder how she will address those questions. it's an interesting moment for her. she would put in jail parents of kids who were truant because she thought education was so important. she backpedaled on a lot of those things. >> katie: i think the backpedaling is what got her in trouble in the primary because she has a long record of law and order and a strong record she was prone of which was running for the senate and then she turns around and runs for the presidency and somehow can't explain or defend her record and joe biden is not a problem doing that as well and given the environment we are in with his lawlessness affecting the communities they are trying to get to turn out to vote for them

and not saying much about it. joe biden for the first time over the course of the entire summer two weeks ago said writers and criminals should be prosecuted and put in jail. maybe she kind of fill the role for him. i am on the far left in the sense that i believe in protesting and standing up for what we believe in and i grew up doing that with my family. it's in my blood in my dna. also we have to live in a society where the vulnerable in these communities cannot be a victim to criminals running the streets or rioting and breaking into their businesses to destroy their livelihoods and continue to call it peaceful. we've seen it happened in chicago. the tightest turn there with politicians now noticing they should be prosecuting people. because she's never really stood up for her own record during this presidential cycle, it will be interesting to see if she decides to do that now is joe biden's law enforcement officer but at the same time trying to square the idea

joe biden's had a hard time getting rid of his record on crime. it's been seen as racist and incarcerating too many minorities. it will be an interesting debate to hear them discuss. >> dana: indeed. i want to bring in fox news sunday anger chris wallace -- fox news sunday anchor. the first black woman to be a vp nominee on the ticket. >> hello to all of you. a couple quick thoughts. when obama picked biden to be his running mate back in 2008, he said i want you to regard this as the capstone of your career, given biden's age, which is odd because here we are 12 years later he's running for president. the point was i think obama wanted somebody who wasn't running for president himself as a vice president. there was a lot of thought that

that's what biden want want himself. susan rice, the thought he didn't -- he didn't want the money who will be running for president that would view being vice president as the capstone of the career. what's most important is personal chemistry and somebody to be a partner in governing. susan rice made a lot more sense from both of those points. i think you've pointed out some of the deficits for susan rice. clearly in the end, biden figured i can worry about all of that after i am president. i've got to win first. clearly thought kamala harris would be more of a asset going forward in the 2020 campaign then susan rice would be. maybe not as good of a governing partner and certainly not somebody who's going to think of being vice president as the capstone of our career. >> dana: chris, i'm going to have to cut you off. president trump takes the podium in the white house briefing room. >> president trump: the china virus, i want to address the

violence, looting and rioting taking place in the democrat-controlled cities of new york, portland, chicago, and seattle. the mayors and governors of these states and cities have an absolute duty to use all resources necessary to end the violence and all of the injury and death. new york city has an army of great bullies. i know them very well. -- great police. i know them very well. the new york's finest. they should be allowed to do their job. if they do their job, if they are allowed to do their job the new york city problem will be solved and it will be solved quickly. they do it well. mayor bill de blasio should immediately hire back all of the police who were fired without justification. they were fired. i guess that's part of defund the police by the democrats.

they should hire new york city's finest back. you have some incredible policeman doing specific jobs that nobody else can do actually. when it comes to terrorism and other things. together the city of chicago and the state of illinois have 25,000 police officers, sheriffs and guardsmen available to quell any violence. they can do it very quickly, very easily if allowed to do their jobs. again, if allowed to do their jobs. our police, our law enforcement is incredible but they have to be allowed to do their jobs. the democrats and the radical left democrats. becoming more of the same. you look at election results. the democrats are being taken over by the radical left. the city of portland and the state of oregon have 10,000 flying officers and guardsmen available. seattle, washington, and washington state have 10,000

available. the city of seattle and washington state itself, they have great people. they have to be allowed to do their jobs. i am urging them to deploy these resources to protect their citizens and stop the violence and all of the things that we watch on television going on, although a lot of the unfortunately fake news don't like to put it on because it shows that the democrats are doing a very bad job of law enforcement. they have to put it on. they have to be honest with people of this country. i am offering all available federal support requested to stop the violence and arrest the criminals. we have to be asked by the governors were the mayors and we will be there very rapidly. ready, willing, and able. we are ready, willing, and able to go to these jurisdictions and take care of them. you sow it happened in minneapolis. they ripped the city apart.

when the national guard went in, it ended immediately. it was immediate. and lasted. these acts of destruction are not isolated incidents but demonstrate the pattern of violent left-wing extremism that you get to see if you're watching the right news program. under any rational definition, the arson attack on the police precinct in portland would be considered an active left-wing domestic terrorism. they really are anarchists. these are left-wing anarchists. they are anarchists. i'm directing the department of justice to stop these an anarchs immediately. work with the city in the state to get the job done. local authorities have to investigate and prosecute all of these crimes immediately.

we will work with you. the local authorities know who they are. they know where they come from. they know a lot about them. they ought to get their act together and get it done and we are ready to help. if you need that help, you shouldn't need that help actually. you should be able to do yourselves and get it done very well. again, you have excellent police and law enforcement but you have to let them do their job. what you're seeing from portland, seattle, new york, chicago, it's really the democrat road map for america. they want every city in america to resemble portland. they want to pass federal legislation gutting and hamstringing every police department in america. they want to get rid of your second amendment. they want to end cash bail, closed prisons, defund the police departments or at least largely defund. you see that with new york. a billion dollars they took out of their police department in crime has gone through the roof.

a point far left prosecutors who side with the criminals on target law-abiding citizens. if the left gains power, no city, town or suburb in our country be safe. the vaccine front, very good news. i met with the leaders of operation warp speed. the historic undertaking to produce a safe and effective vaccine in record time. we heard an update from the top scientists and the government and the leaders of pharmaceutical companies which right now are too thrilled with me. they are taking millions of dollars worth of ads because i have created a favored nation status for drugs which is going to reduce drug prices by 40, 50, 60, may be 70%. numbers that have never been heard of are thought of. when you see the ads, it means your drug prices are coming down

and when you see as attacking your president, it's very simple. it means drug prices are going to be falling very soon. this evening i'm pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with montana to -- with moderna. the federal government will own the vaccine doses. we are buying them. we also secured partnerships with johnson & johnson as well as sanofi and gsx to support the large-scale manufacturing of their vaccines, doing very well on the vaccines. tremendous promise in every single one of them and we have many of them. they are years ahead of schedule. it would've been if it were in the previous administration or any of the previous administrations where we are would've taken years. three vaccine candidates are in phase three trials already. the final stage of

clinical trials. this is the final stage. we are investing in the development and manufacture of the top six vaccine candidates to ensure rapid delivery. the military is ready to go. they are ready to deliver a vaccine. as soon as one is fully approved by the fda and we are moving very close to that approval. we are on track to rapidly produce 100 million doses as soon as the vaccine is approved. up to 500 million shortly thereafter. we will have 600 million doses. operation warp speed is the largest and most advanced operation of its kind anywhere in the world and anywhere in history. we have treated more than 86,000 americans with convalescent plasma. a recent mayo clinic study found this treatment may produce results which are incredible. we look to a reduction in

reduced mortality rate by 50%. possibly even more than 50%. i urge americans who have recovered from the virus to go to coronavirus.gov and sign up for and donate. we would really appreciate that. it's been very successful. unbelievably successful. we would love you to go and donate. as we continue to confront the global pandemic, the united states economy is rebounding with strength like nobody thought possible. we've seen the numbers. we've seen what's going on. yesterday, today and tomorrow. we are poised for a great third quarter and poised for some great stock market numbers and 401(k) numbers and everything else. the dow jones passed 28,000 points for the first time. more than a 50% surge since just

march. gained approximately 9,500 points that same. period, marge. it's recovered almost all of its value since the virus struck our nation. america's economy is incredible and its economic recovery is outpacing our pure nations. last quarter the european union's gdp decline, nearly 40% worse than the united states. 40% worse than the united stat united states. such a strong base. we were able to do things and sustain better than anybody in the world by far. france's gdp is nearly 80% worse than ours and spain experienced an economic contraction twice as severe as the united states. nationwide we continue to see improvements in our fight

against the pandemic, very substantial improvements. since last week, 87% of the counties in the united states report declining cases. think of that. 87% of the counties in the united states reported declining cases. mortality has declined by 7% and hospitalizations are declining rapidly. states that were primary hot spots such as florida, texas, arizona, reduced cases by nearly 25%. all americans must remain vigilant. practice good hygiene, social distance, where a mask. whenever possible. whenever you are getting too close to people, wear a mask and protect the elderly. always protect the elderly. since the end of july, the seven day average for cases in the united states has fallen by nearly 20%.

the virus continues to increase in nations across the globe. last week france and germany both recorded their highest daily number of new cases in three months. not that i want to bring that up. might as well. explaining to the media. seven-day case average in germany has increased by 62% since last week unfortunately. that is truly unfortunate. it's increased 82% in france. 113% in spain, 30% in the united kingdom. those are big increases in cases. cases rapidly increasing in the netherlands, sweden, belgium, switzerland, slovakia, estonia and other european countries. in our country, they are going down. we will be seeing it even more rapidly as time goes by. even though america has the largest at risk population,

including 1.5 million residents of nursing homes, about five times that of other european countries, europe has experienced a nearly 40% higher excess mortality rate than the united states. we also have fewer deaths per capita. disastrous deaths from the new york tri-state area. did better than the pure nations of western europe thanks to her excellent and highly advanced medical care and skill, somethit tell you. they don't tell you that. the united states has now more than 66 million tests, india has a population of 1.5 million people, they have done 24 million. we are and 66 million. think of it. india is at 24 million.

india is second. the entire region of latin america comprising 33 countries has conducted 25 million tests. latin america has more confirmed cases by far than the united states. as we safely restore our great economy and reopen our schools and hopefully we can watch colleges play football. we want to get football and colleges. these are young, strong people. they won't have a big problem with the china virus. we want to college football start and hopefully a lot of great people are going to be out there. they're going to be out there playing football and they'll be able to fight it off and hopefully won't bother them one bit. most of them will never get it statistically. we will eventually develop

sufficient immunity in addition to everything else we are doing. college football, get out there and play football. people want to see it. stand for your american flag. stand for your national anthem. people are not happy. you look at the nba in what's happening the nba. they didn't stand. they didn't show respect to our flag. they didn't show respect to our national anthem. maybe that's having an impact. not good. the nfl had its problems two years ago when that happened. they went really down weeds down in their ratings and their struggling back and they're putting themselves in the same position so stand for your flag and stand for the national anthem and i think you're going to do fantastically well. a lot of people aren't going to watch if you don't. i'm one of them. that's why our strategy and attention are focused on preventing the cases that are

most likely to require discussing the opening of schools, hospitalization. we have to maintain vigilance over our elderly population. we have learned that i think more than any single event. we have to be very vigilant all over but we have to really protect our elderly population and especially our elderly population that have problems with heart, lung, any form of sickness, diabetes in particul particular. and we are at the same time in very good shape with respect to hospital room and hospital overcrowding. we are in great shape. on the nursing home front, protecting our nursing home residents is a critical focus of

our strategy. hhs recently announced that they will use the provider really fun to deliver an additional $5 million to further protect nursing homes and long-term care facilities as they combat the china virus. we've delivered over 1,800 wrapping cared testing devices to nursing homes and we are in the process of delivering the devices to all 15,000 medicare and medicaid certified nursing homes by the end of september. they're going to have very, very rapid tests. they won't have to wait around and that number has come down very substantially. compared to what it was when you send to the labs, even accurate test but it takes a period of time to send it, check it, send it back. we are in a position where we are sending very, very rapid tests, 5 minutes to 15 minutes. we will care for america's

seniors as we develop the vaccine and therapeutics. therapeutics are coming along very, very well. we have some great answers on therapeutics and you'll be hearing that, hearing about them in the near future. i'm into the world of therapeutics. you go into the hospital and you give a shot or you do what you have to do, perhaps a transfusion. combinations of what you can do. people get better. i like that very much. i like that very, very much and if they can proceed and are successful in getting it i think it will probably proceed vaccines. therapeutically we are doing very, very well. a lot of people are going to be very happy when they see some of the numbers that i'm seeing in some of the results. tremendous things are happening on the vaccine front, the therapeutic front. our country should be very proud

of itself. we are going to get it delivered very rapidly as soon as it comes in. okay. questions please. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. people do to be evicted from their homes next month. do you feel this could be your herbert hoover moment if you do not reach a deal with congress? >> president trump: we are not allowing that to happen. we are stopping evictions. we are stopping evictions. we are not going to let it happen. we are not going to let people -- the democrats, maybe they don't care but i care. we signed an executive executive order, you know that, right? we are not letting people be evicted. >> reporter: thank you, president trump. if the trickle i could have two questions. what about senator harris. you had a quick response.

you had an ad out the tent she was a phony and i -- >> president trump: she was a what? >> reporter: she was a phony. as san francisco d.a. she oversaw 1900 marijuana convictions. she was asked last year if she smoked marijuana and she appeared to joke and according to some people lie. it is saying that she was listening to snoop dogg and tupac. why would she lie about that? >> president trump: well, she lied. she said things that were untr untrue. she's a person that's told many, many stories that weren't true. she's very big into raising taxes. she wants to slash funds for military at a level nobody can

even believe. she's against fracking. fracking is -- she's against petroleum products. how do you do that and go into pennsylvania or ohio or oklahoma or the great state of texas? she's against fracking. fracking is a big deal. she's in favor of socialized medicine. you're going to lose your doctors. you're going to lose your plans. she wants to take your health care plans away from 180 million americans. 180 millions americans that are very happy with her health insurance, and she wants to take that away. so she was my number-one pick. i mean, as they would say, because hopefully you'll start college football, she was my number one draft pick. we will see how she works out. she did very, very poorly in the primaries, as you know. she was expected to do well. and she ended up right around

2%. spent a lot of money. she had a lot of things happening. i was a little surprised he picked her. i've been watching her for a long time. i was a little surprised. she was extraordinarily nasty to kavanaugh, judge kavanaugh, now justice kavanaugh. she was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing the way she was, the way she treated now justice kavanaugh. i won't forget that soon. she did very poorly in the primaries and now she's chosen. let's see how >> president trum: i can't tell you what she is voting for. i think joe knows less than she does. but i was a little surprised at the pick. a lot of people say that might be the pick but i was more surprised than anything else because she did so poorly. many people did much better than her in the primaries. she did poorly in the primaries.

that is like a poll. >> reporter: president trump, about widely acceptable among republicans that there was buys abuse, but, the page four application, actually the core was rubber-stamped and proving surveillance. i was wondering, about edward snowden, what do you think about a term without prison? >> president trump: as far as fisa abuse is concerned, it is amazing that it has taken this long and everybody knows it. it has been proven substantially not only fisa abuse but changing documents and putting documents in front of the fisa courts and courts that are disgraceful that they could have done it. the fact is, we caught joe biden, president obama, the