president responding that it is just not so, the comeback in the market at the worst level, but still shaken, and wondering if investors are stirred to get out, be exploring that today at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. right now here comes "the five." ♪ >> jesse: hello, everyone. i am jesse watters along with greg gutfeld, dana perino, geraldo rivera, and dagen mcdowell. it is 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." a huge hour of news and to the week president trump set to hold a press conference live from the white house in just a few minutes. it comes as the 2020 race gets even more contentious, president trump going on offense against joe biden during a rally in pennsylvania. >> he wants to surrender to the radical left wing mob. he is trying to change now, you understand?

that is not working, because we are going up and he is dropping like water. he will never be able to protect your jobs or your family us. he has a puppet of the socialist, marxist, and the extremists. or did you see a man that likes a mask as much as him? if i was a psychiatrist -- [laughter] right? i am saying -- i would say this guy has some big issues. >> jesse: and earlier the candidates clashing over a new report, insulting fallen u.s. service members and chose to skip a ceremony honoring them back in 2018. the president fiercely denying it to all biden is trying to use it to his advantage. take a look. >> it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by the many people that were there. it was a terrible thing that somebody would say that kind of things, especially to me, because i have done more for the military than almost anybody else.

>> if what is written in the atlantic is true, it is disgusting. it confirms what most of us believed to be true, that donald trump is not fit to do the job of being the commander in chief. always caution not to lose my temper. this may be as close as i have come in this campaign. >> jesse: greg gutfeld, we have seen anonymously sourced stories like this against the president for quite some time. what do your instincts tell you about this one. >> greg: first off, never lost his temper, every 10 minutes when joe biden is talking to somebody he gets paced off, the whole joke is that he yells come on, man. he gets in arguments with voters who are asking questions. so that is pretty funny, but don't you find at the least bit questionable that the biden campaign, perhaps the slowest, clumsy us entity since joe biden himself already had an ad made

based on this hoax. so this is obviously coordinated. the timing is way too perfect, the questions were planned, the press are involved it's pretty -- i have to say, i have to give them credit for coming up with something this pretty disgusting, but that's the real story. create a hoax times with an ad, planning the questions in advance, he boosted on social media. if you do not see this, you are blind. there are no sources, it's already debunked by i think four other sources including bolton who is no fan of trump. so it feels like this was created in a lab and unleashed at the time when they saw joe collapsing. this is the first hail mary of maybe 50 hail marys that you will see, and you have to ask, will it work? well, where the targets here? the targets of his scam are military families who are naturally pro-trump, because he has been so good with the

military, so they are going right at his strength. and he has to fight back. if this is in my opinion it will just be the beginning and it will get super ugly. >> jesse: i would agree with that, you mention john bolton, here is some sound, and geraldo, you can react to that. >> i did not hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. i was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go to the cemetery. he decided not to do it because of john kelly's recommendation, it was entirely a weather-related decision than i thought the proper thing to do. >> jesse: your thoughts, geraldo? >> geraldo: you have to remember that john bolton hates donald trump, for him to a quickly denied that the president uttered these despicable comments should be pretty conclusive. i did "fox & friends" this morning and when i went upstairs

to do my radio show i got a call from the white house and the president of the united states calling to congratulate me on my 50th anniversary. i was honored, but he segued right away into the story. did you see that phony story, he asked me. aside from his warm words expressing his congratulations, he was frustrated. he was even anguished over the phony story and the failing far left magazine atlantic alleging that he called the dead g.i. pluralist losers prayed he was really very, very upset. in my opinion, and i have had a dozen conversations with him, he has never been so deeply affected for exactly the reasons you state. he is very proud of his record vis-a-vis g.i.s and the administration and so forth. i don't like what happened between him and john mccain back in 2015, but i can tell you, absolutely that the president of the united states denies this from the bottom of his heart.

this is something that really hit him blindsided. he thought that latrobe was great. he had a huge triumph, and then he was informed that sleepy joe had waking up. >> jesse: as you know it has been a busy week. you have had this and some economic numbers come out today. you have had portland. i can ever remember, kenosha, there is been a lot of action. how do you see things unfolding? >> dana: i feel like the campaign is on, and it's going to be ugly and get tight, the battleground will be the battleground, and it's going to just be a real finish to the. when you are in a campaign the one thing you want to do is go after your opponent strength. and so that's one of the reasons that i don't understand why joe biden does not try to go after donald trump on the economy except that the numbers

don't bear it out. so it often goes beyond the "daily briefing." and even he had to say that they have to do more. they have to deal with the economy, because the numbers continue to hold up very well. if i can just comment on the atlantic piece for just a moment. so journalistically i feel like at this point in the campaign for something this explosive, you really should not be granting anonymity to people making these charges. one, i would ask where these people were at the time when it was said, why would they wait to give this to the atlantic on background, and one of the things they said is that people were granted anonymity because they did not want to deal with mean tweets, well, that is not an acceptable excuse for people like us with tweets all the time. the thing is if you stand by it are principled, you don't have

to worry about the tweets. so if the shoe had been on the other foot, i would feel the same way. i don't believe in attacks like this that are anonymous, i don't think that the anonymity should be protected. and i'm not suggesting that they out the people now, because they already made the agreement with the people to keep them anonymous, but i do very much question that judgment. >> jesse: all right, dagen, i will give you the opportunity to talk about the story and this looks like a really sharp review shape recovery with some of the numbers we came out and saw today. >> dagen: we have made back nearly half, 48% of the jobs that were lost because of the pandemic shutdown in the month of march and april. that is reason for touring dramatically. so i wanted to hear these members of the press ask joe biden why do you want to raise taxes on corporations and take their money rather than letting them have that money to hire people back, hire new

workers, give people raises, why do you want to raise people's electricity prices with this crackpot idea that you got from bernie sanders about getting rid of fossil fuels and our power plant, why did they not get asked about that? because i have never seen to greg's .8 press corps more in the bag for any political candidate. of sickly a sync of fans. i know that that is redundant, but we need more adjectives to describe the grump smooch armpit licking that we have seen today from those members of the press corps. here is an actual question, aren't you angrier about all of this? i was waiting for, how do you get your skin to stay still moist? do you need a foot rub? i gave really good foot rubs. your dogs look like they are tired from all that campaigning. it was the most shameful display.

and greg explained it. it is a hail mary, a sign of desperation. the press is worried about joe biden and there in lies donald trump's opening. >> jesse: i don't like everybody flattering greg's commentary, he needs to stay in his place. >> dana: he did not call for any elements. >> greg: i have an extra stooge album that was sent to me. and if you want it, you have to go to the website and give me your favorite iggy pop song and why. >> jesse: what a show already, that strong out of the gate. up next, police with a supporting activists murdering a pro-trump demonstrator in portland. more details ahead on that. ♪ ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance

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♪ >> dana: the man accused of gunning down a protest supporter in portland instead. they shot and killed him while trying to make an arrest in washington state. the suspect says he is 100% antifa and defended his actions during an interview that aired yesterday. >> what i will say is that i felt that my life and other people around me as lives were in danger. and i felt like i had no choice but to do what i did. >> dana: that development coming as portland nears 100 nights of protests and other big cities are breaking forth the

possibility of more violence this weekend including in new york city and certainly others. jesse, let's go to you first. this is a man who was the father of two and he had been protesting all summer. i understand that he felt really committed to his cause, but he was making a choice, and the choice ended in his death. >> jesse: god rest his soul, leaving behind two children, but do one google search on this guy, i don't want to speak badly of the dead, but it is not a pretty picture. and to a certain extent, it's not only wheeler's fault who is a total failure in portland, he was picked up on gun charges just a couple of weeks ago. and they drop the charges. they did not even prosecute him for it he would've been in jail and not able to do this. to get on device while there is a fugitive task force looking to arrest you and trying to plead your case shows how arrogant and emboldened antifa has become. they think that they can get away with that stuff.

the video evidence and the eyewitness testimony he tells a completely different story about that shooting from everything we know this was not an act of self-defense. he was not saving anyone's life. this looks like cold-blooded murderer. he would have gone away for life if he had not been shot by deputies. and he was shot because he pulled out a rifle as they approached him. we warned that this was going to happen. what do we say about chas. you let this thing go, someone is going to die, and they died. we have been saying for 100 days in portland that someone is going to die and now they are dead. it's funny the way that the media characterizes this. they speak nicely about the shooter and kind of denigrates the guy that was shot dead. they are calling -- labeling the dead guy some right wing trump supporting militia patriot member, and then they whitewash this guy who is about as radical as they come. it is sad.

they are lying to you. and i think that it is really going to backfire. >> dana: greg, what about the fact that these gun crimes basically don't get prosecuted? they let them go and then it exacerbates the problem. >> greg: it is not just this guy, he was busted and let go, it happens in a lot of other cities with handguns. if they can't control the handguns in inner cities, how are they going to have a national gun control plan is what i don't understand, i applaud the feds for making the world safer by eliminating an armed murderous hooligan. the variables involved in his life whether he was a family man or involved in a cause, i don't care. i really don't care. i think the lesson every group needs to learn is that you don't have to glorify a martyr because of their skin color. i'm not going to call in sick over this guy because he is white. he murdered a citizen, and jesse

is right. i've already seen certain kinds of language that are being employed to kind of portray him as a martyr, because he believed in and cause. i'm sorry. you know, this started when the media deliberately mislabeled violence protests, justify the actions of miscreants. we knew the violence was happening. we were told by people in the media that we were crazy even as the killing spiked. i think that we have now 50% increase in murder in new york that we mentioned yesterday, and we were told that we are just sensationalizing this. if people listen to us, there will be two man alive right now. that guy and a trump supporter. >> dana: geraldo, what are your thoughts? >> geraldo: well, i don't miss him. i think that jesse is way too compassionate. this was a confessed killer, he lived by the gun, you die by the gun. you pull a gun on a federal

fugitive task force and you expect to survive. i mean, that shows that they are so living in their own bubble, you did not want to blame mayor wheeler, but they have allowed for 100 days this anarchy, this disorder, this disruption and violence and mugging, this usurping of private property, trashing everything. you know, defying the rule of law, killing someone in cold blood at point-blank range, this is where you end up. they should have happened 50 days ago, or 100 days ago. this was -- >> geraldo: this antifa fog is what the president is complaining about. they are bringing their violence with them, conspiring with others to disrupt and taking a naive innocent protesters and bending them to their diabolical purpose. this guy was a terrorist. and he died at a to death.

>> dana: dagen, let's get a final thought. >> dagen: the feds are on the case, refusing to call in the guard, and not prosecuting many of those people arrested, but attorney general bill barr said earlier this week that he talked about radicals crossing state lines and carrying out planned coordinated attacks on law enforcement public property and on private property, guess what. that means, and andy mccarthy wrote about this that the justice department is going to be converting and looking at these federal crimes converting state crimes into federal crimes. crossing state lines coupled with kind of a loose criminal organization, that is a racketeering enterprise. so you are talking about the feds being in charge now, we are talking about long sentences for these crimes to prevent murder potentially, so, sanctuary city

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♪ >> geraldo: welcome back, everybody. we are expecting the president of the united states to come out. here he is. the president and the press. >> president trump: so as we begin labor day, weekend, america is unprecedented economic recovery continues coming to see what is going on. it has been pretty amazing. the united states economy today 1.4 million jobs last month lost

bringing the total to over 10.6 million jobs created in just four comonths. that is a record by far. in august we had a 249,000 retail jobs, 174,000 leisure and hospitality jobs, and 29,000 new manufacturing jobs. the unemployment rate plummeted to 8.4%, the second largest single month drop ever recorded surpassed only by our big decline in june. last month we saw large declines in the unemployment rate for african-americans, hispanic-americans, and asian-americans. very big decline. we are witnessing the fastest labor market recovery from any economic crisis in history by far. by contrast the last administration had the slowest, weakest, and worst recovery in american history, that was well-documented as you know. this year the united states has

seen the smallest economic contraction of any major western nation and we are recovering at a much faster rate than any other nation, business confidence is higher today in america than in any other g7 or e.u. country, that covers a lot of territories, so we have the business confidence. and too many -- and then in any of those countries. in july, retail sales not only recovered but reached a all new high. retail sales, that is a basic statistic in a big statistic. it is not only recovering, but reached the highest level ever, auto sales have surged to an incredible 74% since their april low, and are nearly back to their previrus levels, and that has been a tremendous thing. used cars and new cars have both been doing incredibly well. mortgage applications where 27%

higher in august than during the same period last year. homebuilder sentiment reach the highest level on record indicating that more high paying construction jobs are on the way. home building has been great and the lending has really incredible. u.s. manufacturing activity reached a 19 month high in august while my administration has fought every day to restore prosperity, however, nancy pelosi and the democrats in congress are holding additional china virus relief hostage to reasons that nobody understands. i guess i do. i think i understand. it's called politics. in speaking of politics. i think that north carolina -- i think that michigan and pennsylvania and other states, they should open the democratic governors will open on november 4th, but they should open now. it's very unfair to people to have shutdowns continuing at the

level that they continue. democrats are insisting on a massive taxpayer bailout of states. the stimulus checks for illegal aliens and the mass release from inmates from jail. they want to release a lot of inmates, some of them for a very serious reasons, they want to release them from jail. they want that as part of a stimulus package, can you believe it? it's time for the democrats in congress to start working across the aisle and put the american people first. we have $300 billion in an account that we did not use. 300 billion, and we are willing to use that -- i would be willing to release it subject to congress and use that as stimulus money. and it would go right to the american people. so we have $300 billion sitting in an account that we did not need because things are going so well with the economy, but it

would be a very appropriate thing to release that to the american people, and i am willing to do it, all we need is a sign off, but that does not mean that we will release prisoners, some very vicious people, actually. we are not going to put them on the streets like the democrats want us to, and we are not going to give stimulus checks to eat illegal aliens that came into the country illegally and now we give them a check. we want to get the checks to the american people. so remember we have 300 million -- say we don't need the money, just let that money get released to the american people. as our economy rebounds, there is only one thing that could stop the economic comeback and wipe out the future of american workers, and that's what the democrats want to do with a $4 trillion tax hike implementing things that will be really bad for our country, and this will just absolutely cripple what we are doing on

regulations and so many other elements of success could we had the greatest economy in history prior to the china virus coming in. now they want to stop regulations. they want to bring up regulations to a level, stop the things that we are doing, which are at a much smaller level and bring up regulations at a level that no one has ever seen before. they want to do things that will make it impossible for any economy to grow. they want to ban fracking, and as you saw, ban, ban, and they see the polls going down, and now he says, well, i was only talking about two -- maybe not banning fracking, but he wants to ban fracking. it does not matter what he wants, the people that control him want to ban fracking and whether it is pennsylvania, texas, oklahoma, north dakota, so many other states, you cannot ban fracking, that would be a disaster. ohio, they want to abolish

american energy. that's what is going to happen. adopt disastrous trade deals and inflict a devastating shutdown. as you know, he said we want to shut it down. we would be willing to shut it down, and you don't shut down when we are setting records, and by the way, we are rounding the corner. we are rounding the corner on the virus. joe biden's blanket shutdown would collapse the economy. it was because -- because countless deaths from suicide, drug, heart abuse and more. shutdowns cause a lot of problems. a lot of very serious problems. more so than the virus itself. biden's plan is not a solution. it is a virtual surrender, and our country is doing so well. we are starting to do so well. you will see for yourself, because the numbers will be announced prior to the election on november 3rd. and as you know, joe spent his entire career sending american jobs to china and other faraway

countries for 47 years people were pillaging our country, taking our jobs and our companies, and that's never going to change with that mind-set. and with that group, joe biden is not going to be standing up to these foreign countries. he will not stand up may be more importantly to the people that run the democrat party. he does not have the strength to do that. he refuses even to condemn antifa. a bad group, a far left domestic terrorist organization. he does not want to say anything bad about it. his plan to appease the domestic terrorists is the exact opposite of what i am doing. and i think that you saw that last night. yesterday at the u.s. marshals, we sent them in, u.s. marshals, we were waiting for our local government to take care of it. they did not do that, so the u.s. marshals went in, law enforcement, they took down

the nt 4.0 who murdered a man in the middle of a street in portland. the suspect was killed after drawing a weapon when officers attempted to take him into custody. they wanted to take him -- u.s. marshals, credible people. so i want to thank them for their strength, their bravery, and i really do wish that the mayor of portland and the governor of oregon would get going and stop the crime in that city. it would be so easy to do. we are focused on creating good paying jobs, the radical left is focused on unleashing really violent mobs. and you see that whether you are a conservative or liberal, republican, democrat, or independent, almost all agree the need for peace and order and safety -- under my administration, law enforcement is conducting arrest nationwide of writers, looters, and the reason we did not put chicago into the list, we are holding

back funds from some of the states and cities that are doing such a poor job -- such an incompetent job. a job that nobody can even imagine how bad. we are holding it back until they get their act together, and we are having a lot of people in chicago right now, and you notice that their numbers are going down -- rapidly, but we have deployed a law enforcement inside chicago taking out quite a few people and being arrested and put in jail, with respect to the mayor we did not hold back funds in chicago, but they are experiencing a tremendous crime rate over 300%. and they have to do something quickly. we just spoke to mayor bowser and she is willing to do whatever is necessary. i had a very good talk with her. and the other places they speak

for themselves, we are working with the state and local authorities to comb through hours of videotape and identify and arrest suspects and prosecute lawbreakers. we arty have over 300 in jail and we have tremendous evidence. and i want to thank the media for helping us out, because they are taking different angles. we have it from every different angle. you probably can have better than what we have. we see it from the sky and the ground, and from the rights and the left. so when they say they did not do it, we say, well, what's this? we get that from the media free of charge under operation legend we have surged federal law enforcement to cities plagued by crime, it has already resulted in tremendous success and nationwide we have over 2,000 arrests. and we don't talk about it too much, but now we might as well. so we have arrested over 2,000

criminals, criminals. and in a single month, murder rate in chicago as you know, and as i said, it was cut in half, actually. so on the china virus front, the nations of europe have experienced a 38% greater excess mortality then the united states. 38% more greater excess mortality than the united states. a lot of you don't want to report that. and if we took new york out of the equation, there is nobody even close. the job we have done is incredible. and we don't get any credit for it. but we have done an incredible job through operation warp speed we have three vaccines in the final stage of clinical trials, yesterday fisa announced, i just spoke to the head of fisa, great guy. they announced that he expects to have the results of the trial very, very shortly, next month.

but very shortly. we remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year, and maybe even before november 1st. we think we could probably have it sometime during the month of october. and fisa is among the leaders as you know. and it is a great company. johnson & johnson also doing very well. we have some really great companies and they are all doing very well. they are all in final stages. and i think that you will see results that are shockingly good. finally i want to provide you with a brief update of the virus. cases in the united states has declined 28% nationwide over the last month. and hospitalization and deaths have continued to decline over the past week. very substantially declined things to america's medical genius, the mortality rate has been reduced by 85 percent in april. mortality rates reduced by 85%.

hospital lengths of stay are one-third their average length in april. so the hospitalization is down. the length of stay is way down. in order to keep making progress against the virus we ask all americans to remain vigilant, especially over labor day, you know, you have the labor day weekend coming upon us immediately. i guess we can say pretty immediately, and we need everybody to be careful, apply common sense and do all of the things that we have told you to do as quickly and as much as you can. social distancing, wearing a mask when ever the distancing is not possible. and staying like -- staying with a group that you know. let's just try and get through this one weekend and i think that we have a chance of doing that. just social distance, wash her hands. all of the hygiene things that we speak about, and we are

really rounding the turn. and the vaccines are coming. the therapeutics have artie come, but they continued to co come. the convalescent plasma has had a tremendous impact already. you see what his been happening there. and remdesivir has been incredible. we have a lot of things happening. we have a lot of therapeutics coming out from the standpoint of common sense, i guess therapeutics, you go into a hospital and you give somebody a shot or transfusion, might be a transfusion, probably more than 50 percent are transfusions, and they will leave the hospital shortly thereafter. i mean, to me that's more important in a certain sense than the vaccine, but the vaccines will be great over the long term, the therapeutics over the short term, and knowing that you have the therapeutics is great from the standpoint of the mind, from the standpoint of the mind. that's great. do i want to thank everybody for being here.

i will ask larry kudlow to give a couple of examples of how strong our economy is recovering, how strongly it is recovering, and it is setting records at every level. we are doing better than every other country. and we are very proud of all of the people for doing such an incredible job. this is a super v. again, we have $300 billion ready to go. all congress has to do is say use it. if they say use it, i would like to use it without their permission, but i guess i'm not allowed to do that. i did ask that question. so congress has to say use it. all they have to do is say use it and $300 million gets immediately put into our system and will really help the american people. there is nothing else to do. just a very quick statement. i will ask larry to come up and i want to thank another man for being here today, there is a man that is an incredible leader who holds, i've known them for a long time. he has been a friend of mine. and i think that i receive

letters from every football coach almost in the nation. that's an exaggeration, but some of the greats. nick saban wrote a letter. coach oh, i said i'm going to have to put them in a movie has a football coach. he really would be good playing a football coach, don't you think? and urban meyer a beautiful letter, and so many of the other great legendary coaches, not only coaches, but people in sports and life, and even great political people recommending lou for the presidential medal of freedom, and we have analyzed it very closely. we have looked at all of those recommendations. we look at his life and his career, and what he has done for charity, and football is obvious. he was a great coach, but what he has done beyond coaching, so lou will be getting the presidential medal of freedom. and the date is being picked. it will not be in the too

distant future. he was married to a great woman, right, lou? and she just passed away a few months ago, an incredible woman, she was stronger -- i knew her, she was stronger than lou. i think she was stronger than you, and he to tell you. you are strong, but she was special, right? so i just want to congratulate coach lou holtz on soon to receive the presidential medal of freedom. and we look forward to that. thank you very much. and you can stay around and listen the larry for a couple of seconds or go to your friend. you probably know half of the people in the room, they probably treat you better than they treat me. they treat you good. i wish they would treat me that way. larry, come on up. >> thanks, i appreciate it, coach, many congrats. many, many congrats. just underscore the president's

assessment of the economy, very strong jobs report today. 8.4% unemployment rate, 1.4 million payrolls increased, but i want to add 3.8 million, 3.8 million increasing in the important household survey which aims at small businesses, particularly from which the unemployment is calculated. in the past four months we have generated a 10.6 million increase in payrolls, and a 14 million increase in households, so we have restored basically half of the jobs that were lost in the pandemic contraction. today this report also included how to lower wage industries and minority groups across the board. the diffusion index was a whopping 69%. so these gains are very, very broad-based. there is still too many people out. there is still too much hardships due to those

unemployed. we are working on that and moving in the right direction. that's why today's numbers are encouraging and optimistic. now other areas of the president mentioned just to underscore, we are in a housing boom. there can be no disagreement about that. sales, mortgage applications, prices, home starts up 23% annually in july. we are in a car boom, automobile boom, from 8.7 million in sales to 15.2 million in sales in the recent four months. that is a big jump. as the president mentioned, the leading indicator is used car sales and prices. the manufacturing indexes are very strong. this recovery includes manufacturing. the isms running in the high 50s. the new order at 68, production index is 63. we had a manufacturing report per durables over the past three

months, orders of 35%. shipments up to 35%. so these are very strong numbers, new business applications from 25,000 to 66,000 per 160% gain through august as the president referred consumer spending is blooming. of 84% annually over the past three months. my view of course, we are in a v-shaped recovery. it is a self-sustaining recovery, high demand increase production and manufacturing. along with the decline in inventories will give us a tremendous momentum going into the second half of the year. i still recommend that the third quarter will be at least 20% growth, and the atlanta fed gdp index is close to 30%. i think 20 percent is a good number. i think that the whole second half and next year provided that economic policies remain full growth. and i just want to mention

mention one thing on the policy front, i don't understand the other side wanting a $4 trillion tax increase after a deep pandemic contraction. and on this point i believe the vast majority of my economists. i don't care if you are a demand or a supply coming you just don't raise taxes by this amount, or by any amount, but 4 trillion, really picking the pockets of taxpayers who are returning to work and need all the resources they can get. you just don't do it. the profession should be -- have a complete consensus on that. so i'm quite surprised. and i think that that is a potential obstacle. and people are beginning to speak about that. but all i can say is factually the numbers are coming in very positively. with a lot of optimism going on. more work to be done, but we are rolling in the right direction. >> thank you, president trump,

if you can clarify questions about the 300 billion, you ruled out doing that unilaterally. for stimulus checks. >> president trump: yes, what about that? there is a theory that i can do it without the approval, but i would rather get the approval so that we have it, but there is a theory that i could take the 300 billion, it's money that we have an money that we built up and money that we have not spent, and i would love to give it to the american people as a very powerful stimulus. so yes, i think that there is a theory that i could do it without having to go back. but i think it would it be appropriate to go back. and i would ask congress to approve it. it's a very simple approval. literally a one sentence approval. and the democrats should do that. the republicans will do that. there would be glad to do that. so we will see whether or not they do it. okay?

>> yes, mr. president, john solomon had an exclusive interview with the delaware police officers, he said that they were going to review joe biden, i would like your response as well as the national organization as well. >> president trump: i don't see him anywhere but delaware, and i like delaware too, but to have the law enforcement in delaware give their endorsement to me is really a great honor. it just shows you how pathetic the democrats are when it comes to crime, when it comes to law and order. if so would please extend my very great things. that's a great honor to get it from delaware law enforcement. we have gotten it from almost all law enforcement, but that is -- because every time i see him speak it says delaware, delaware, delaware. he never leaves.

i'm all over the place. yes. go ahead. >> reporter: thanks, mr. president. germany has said that to the russian opposition leader, what do you think should be done to russia about that? what is your message to them about that, and how should the national community and the united states respond? >> president trump: we have to look at it very seriously if that is the case. and i think that we will. there's nobody been tougher on russia than i have, i get along with almost all countries. i get along with north korea. we are supposed to be going to war with north korea, if hillary got elected, he would be in a war right now with north korea. that would be a very messy bad war, millions of people would be killed. in the meantime we have gone along with them. we did not get to war. everybody said that if i was elected i would be at war in one week. it has been the opposite. we have brought the troops down, and other things are happening very interestingly.

we have a great peace deal in the middle east with uad and israel, and that has been received like probably very few things that many people have done has been very well-received. and we will be having other countries announcing soon that they are joining that. and you will have a lot of countries that are saying, hey, why did you not bring us in right from the beginning? they would love to be there. but they want to be in. we are doing a lot of things. i think i was the one that alerted the united states and the world, i said why is germany spending billions and billions of dollars to russia to get their energy from russia and we are supposed to protect germany from russia? what is that all about? and at the same time right now we are negotiating a nuclear nonproliferation -- nonproliferatiotreaty, itis the,

some people say global warming, i say this is far more important. we are the biggest, they are the second biggest nuclear control, china's third. they are a distant third, but they are building pretty rapid rapidly. and at some point we will include china into the talks, but we are doing very well with russia on nuclear nonproliferation. so i don't know exactly what happened. i think that it is tragic. it is terrible. it should not happen. we have not had any proof he had but i will take a look. it is interesting that everybody is always mentioning russia. i don't mind you mentioning them, but china at this point is probably a nation that you should be talking about much more so than russia, because the things that china is doing are far worse if you take a look at what is happening with the world, look at what happen with the china virus. look at what they did by not keeping it within the confines

of china. they should have kept it in the confines. look at what they have done to 188 countries all over the world. but you never asked about china, you are always asking about russia, so i would be very angry if that is the case. we will take a look at the numbers and the documents, because we are going to be sent a lot of documents over the next few days. >> reporter: mr. president. >> president trump: in the back. >> reporter: thank you. you mentioned the convention with outreach and the committee with four more years for you -- looking at the battleground states, so my question is -- [indistinguishable question] >> president trump: i did not understand everything you said, i understood india and those

young people that you mention, they are very good young people. and i know their relationship to end yet is very good and so is mine. and prime minister modi is a friend of mine doing very good job. nothing easy, but a very good job. we are talking. while we are at it we are talking about china and india, they are going at it pretty good on the border as you know. it has been very nasty. it has been a very nasty situation. and we stand ready to help with respect to china and india. if we could do anything we would love to get involved and help. and we are talking to both countries about that. but i appreciate the nice sentiments. they think a lot of india and so do i. and a lot of your prime minister. thank you. >> reporter: do you think that they are voting for you? >> president trump: we had an event in houston, as you know,

it was a fantastic event. i was invited by prime minister modi. and this was -- this was at -- where they play football, the houston football team. and it was -- it was incredible. it was actually incredible. in a prime minister could not have been more generous. we have great support from ind india. great support from prime minister modi's, and i would think that the people, the indian people will be voting for trump. i went to india just prior to the pandemic setting, because they have been hit really hard, left about a week before that and we had an incredible time. what we saw, the people are so incredible. it's really an incredible place. an incredible country. and it is definitely big. it is definitely big. but you have a great leader. and he is a great person. >> reporter: do you think that

china is bullying india? >> president trump: i hope not, but they are certainly going at it much more strongly than a lot of people understand. yes, please, go ahead. >> reporter: just a follow-up, you have not had any proof yet, you have not -- >> president trump: no, i don't, i hear germany has made -- was it definitive or almost definitive, but we have not seen it ourselves, no. we had not seen it ourselves heard but it would certainly be okay with that. if they want to do something or take action, should not happen. it should not happen. but again, we are working very closely with a lot of countries and a lot of different things. we have taken stronger action against russia than any other country in the world as you know, i will tell you president putin will tell you that right now. but the fact that i get along with russia and that i get along frankly with everybody right

now, i'm not getting along with china, but that is my choice. i don't like what happened with respect to the pandemic and the china virus. i don't like what they have done to this world and this country in europe and everywhere else is terrible. but i do get along with president putin, but i have been tougher on russia than anybody else by far. you look at the obama administration they were weak. you look at the land they gave up, and look at what happened with respect to ukraine, such a big part given up the obama administration. and i don't think they would have done that with me. i don't think that they would have done that with me at all. we gave -- have you heard that expression, we they sent pillows, and we send tank busters to ukraine. with that being said, if we can do with a nuclear nonproliferation agreement, that

would be a great thing. but i would not be at all happy if that were the case. and it looks like it might very well be the case. based on what germany is saying, that seems to be the case. john. >> reporter: mr. president, i want to ask you about something that you said a while back that has been talked about many times. in 2015 you said i don't think john mccain was the hero that you prefer people who don't get captured. in light of all of this happening and all you have learned, do you regret saying that? >> president trump: i say what i say, and i never got along with john mccain, i disagreed, you know that better than everybody, frankly. i was not a fan. i disagreed with many of his views. i disagreed with his views on these ridiculous endless wars. i disagree with the way that he handled the vets, the va. the va is running much better now. and it did with the mission act and the accountability and all of the things that we have done

for the va. he was not able to do that. but i disagree with john mccain on a lot of things, that does not mean that i don't respect him. i respected him. but i really disagreed with him on a lot of things. and i think that i was right. i think that time has proven me right to a large extent. >> reporter: >> reporter: in the statement he read before the question, as you put it, rounding the corner on the coronavirus pandemic. yesterday, as well, and i think everybody would love to see the pandemic come to an end, there is no doubt about that, but the forecast that has come out from the ih and e at the university of washington, they are forecasting by january the 1st, of next year, that we will have 410,000 american deaths from