>> kennedy: thanks to everyone for being part of the virtual couch. happy labor day for all. if you are in labor, we are pushing for you. thanks, everyone. here is arthel neville leland vittert with america's news headquarters. take it away, folks. >> arthell: we begin with the fox news alert, a live look at the white house, where we are waiting for president trump to speak. he is said to hold a labor day news conference at any moment now. we'll bring it to you live once it starts. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. i am arthel neville. end, lee linda. >> leland: nice to be with you and you at home on this labor day. everyone's different, it's 2020. even a press conference at the northern portico, which we don't often see, president trump will speak as joe biden on quality has hit the tramped on my campaign trail they are both in battleground states today. joe biden in pennsylvania, his

running mate in wisconsin, where she met with members of jacob blake's family and their legal team, peter doocy live in milwaukee with more. hi, peter. >> leland, the first sub for kamala harris on her first day of in-person campaigning as joe biden's running mate is a private meeting with jacob blake's family in an airport hangar at the milwaukee airport. she is there right now. we understand that some members of the family are there in person, some are joining by phone. biden did something similar when he got to town on thursday. that's where biden eventually dialed jacob blake's hospital room where he is being treated after being shot in the back by a kenosha police officer in august. from here, harris will do a to a train facility, and she's been criticized for a past position on trade. "the fact that anti-usmca kamala harris is attempting to

pander to wisconsin workers on labor day is insulting." dominic harris and biden have nothing to offer wisconsinites except lip service in a terrible record of 40 plus years of helping china prosper at americans' expense." the campaign continues to keep a lot of their focus on covid-19, harris now explained that the national mask mandate joe biden has been pushing isn't actually mandate a at all >> there's a difference between the standard and the mandate. would it be a federal mandate under the biden harris at administration? >> it would be a standard. this is not about -- in terms of the priorities of joe biden and myself, this is not about punishment. it's not about big brother. >> mike pence is doing some counter programming on the other side of the state. he is in la crosse, a city just across the border from a state that trump campaign has been trying to flip red for the last couple of weeks now. that is minnesota.

pence's first stop is that a power company called dairyland. leland? >> leland: he is close in minnesota and closer in the polls in wisconsin as they were in 2016. peter doocy on the ground. back to you as the news warrants. thank you. arthel? >> arthel: all right, leland. thank you, peter, as well. portland marking more than 100 consecutive days of protests at the situation once again took a violent turn over the weekend. one demonstrator was seen scrambling for help after being hit with a fire bomb. in louisville, tensions were high as protesters rally outside the kentucky derby. meanwhile, jacob blake, who was shot seven times in the back by kenosha, wisconsin, police, delivered a message from his hospital bed. >> your life, and not only just your life, your legs, something that you need to move around and move forward in life, can be taken from me like this, man. it hurts to breathe, it hurts to

sleep. it hurts to move from side to side. it hurts to eat. please, i'm telling you, we can stick together. >> arthel: meanwhile, shootings over the weekend in chicago reportedly left five people dead and 34 others injured. mike tobin's lives in chicago. mike? >> portland, oregon, cross that threshold of 100 straight days of protests on saturday night. the protests were not peaceful. most dramatically, it demonstrator was hit by a fire bomb, a molotov cocktail thrown by fellow demonstrators. people in the crowd helped put him out. firebombs. on saturday night, that is when police declared a riot. one officer was injured when he was hit by commercial grade fireworks. 59 people arrested, to have knives. 150 calls for service were unanswered as police were occupied with the demonstrations. the kentucky derby ran with no crowds in the stands, but there were crowds on the street. people protesting the death of

breonna taylor, shot and killed when police served a no-knock warrant on her boyfriend's apartment. they were met by county demonstrators. police and demonstrators clashed in rochester, new york. daniel prude died there in police custody after officers put a bag over his head to stop him from spitting at them. with police and protesters were injured in those demonstrations. riots that turned deadly in kenosha, wisconsin, started when police shot jacob blake. for the first time, over the weekend, blake spoke from his hospital bed. >> please, i'm telling you. we can stick together, make some money. make everything easier for our people out here, man. there are so much time that has been wasted. >> once again, demonstrators were out on the streets in chicago. but the pro police demonstrators outnumbered those who want to do away with the police. arthel? >> arthel: mike tobin live in chicago.

thanks, mike. leland? >> leland: meanwhile, naked protesters showed up in rochester, new york, earlier today wearing nothing but spit hoods, the same as daniel prude was forced to wear before he lost custody back in march. this comes before protests gave way to multiple arrests on saturday. >> whether they are from here for four elsewhere, who do want to provoke and want some kind of confrontation. there have been frozen water bottles that have been thrown at police officers, other types of debris. glass bottles, rocks, that a been thrown at police officers. our states have been measured, we have 200 straight. >> leland: president trump is watch this, reacting on twitter. "rochester, new york, brooklyn, new york, and portland all had bad nights. all weakly run by democrat

mayors. get the picture?" the president, meantime. laura ingle is following this on the investigation into daniel prude's death, and also the violence in new york state. hi, laura. >> hi, leland. over the weekend, the new york attorney general who was overseeing the investigation into daniel prude's death announced that she has been paneling a grand jury for what she calls an exhaustive investigation into this matter. eve mentioned a lot of the action that has been going on in rochester paid the city has seen a wide range of protests in response to the death of prude, who died after being restrained by police as he was having a mental health episode, according to his family, back in march. last night was the fifth night of demonstrations and it was much calmer. but friday and saturdays protests escalated into chaos, as some protesters started going after businesses and restaurant patrons, chasing people away,

pushing over tables and chairs, and rioting in the streets. this reaction to that newly released police body cam video of daniel. being handcuffed naked in the street with police putting a spit out over his head to help restrain him. although he had some pcp in his system at the time, his death was ruled a homicide. city leaders have vowed reform, including moving their crisis intervention team from the police department. >> it is my cell on duty as the mayor of this city honor mr. prude, do not let his death be in vain. to truly protect and serve our residents. >> rochester police announced no arrests were made yesterday. we are waiting to find out if any of those naked protesters were arrested or charged today. leland? >> leland: that is rochester,

new york. down in new york city, the understandably 20% of shootings in the city this year have ended in arrests. that means 80% of the shootings are unsolved. it seems like another violent labor day weekend. correct, laura? >> it was. it was really a horrific scene that unfolded on the streets of brooklyn early this morning and started all last night. you've got some video to show you as five people, including a 6-year-old boy, were shot during a celebration on the streets of brooklyn. the child's mother was also shot, along with three men. all five are transported to the hospital with injuries that were considered not to be life-threatening. some good news they are. the nypd chief of department tweeting that two men were arrested in two guns recovered. a staggering statistic. the nypd announcing there was a 166% increase in shootings in the month of august this year compared to last year. leland? >> leland: st. louis,

milwaukee, indianapolis, all cities seeing a spike in violent crime. laura, thank you. arthel? >> arthel: all right, leland. laura. we are waiting to hear from president trump at the white house any moment. we will bring that to you when it happens. plus, mike huckabee joins us next to talk about how president trump can win over suburban voters, and the backlash the president is facing after reports he insulted fallen american soldiers. there is no bigger defender, not only of our active military but of our veterans. not only in words, but in actions. ♪ multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis to help you look and feel better. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if you've had a vaccine or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur.

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magazine that president trump called fallen american soldiers "losers" and "suckers." that th according to breitbart. following the report in the atlantic. >> i would be offended, too, if i thought it was true. again, i think these are the same people that brought you fake heart attacks, fake strokes, russian collusion. >> i think this president has enormous respect for the military and for the generals. i've been at the tank at the pentagon with him, i've been at 9/11 at the pentagon with him. this president respects and supports the u.s. military. >> my experience with the president is he's extremely respectful, exactly what you would expect from a president in regard to any reference, any conversation, in regard to the military. >> arthel: national security correspondent jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon. jennifer, any word from your sources on this new development?

>> l, arthel, i think it's important to mention that treasury secretary steve mnuchin, you just heard from, was in the tank meeting at the pentagon on july 20th, 2017, when the president berated the pentagon four-star generals, calling them "losers," "dopes," and "babies." "i would go to were many people " address in the room president trump, "you are a bunch of dopes and babies." when seam agent says he has never are the president speak that way of the military were to generals, that is patently false. i confirm with people who were present at the meeting, the president used those exact words in the pentagon. i also circle back with my sources and confirm the president did not want to go to the aisne-marne cemetery in france to honor the american war dead when he could no longer fly by helicopter, and that one of the president's favorite words when he uses when he's angry is

"loser." my sources include former trump administration officials who were on the trip to france. my source did not hear the president called those buried in aisne-marne "losers" or "suckers." they did say when the president spoke about the vietnam war that he always said it was a "stupid war. anyone who went was a sucker." according to the source, he would often say about americans, "what's in it for them? they don't make any money." the source said it was a character flaw of the president. he couldn't understand why someone would die for their country. not worth it to him. separately, during the white house planning session, after seeing that bastille day parade in france, president trump did not want to include in his july 4th parade "wounded guys." that's not a good look. americans don't like that. that's according to this source who was present for those planning meetings. regarding the trip to the front cemetery, he was not a good mood, he was furious at french

president mike cohen, he had to question why he had to go to two cemeteries. "why do i have to do two?" john bolton said he didn't hear this comments in the decision was weather-related. in this case, i am told bolton was on in the room more it happened. arthel? >> arthel: jennifer, quickly, do you think we will hear public remarks from general kelly and madden? >> i don't know. i think they've been asked rhetorically. the president has called out at least one of them at the podium from the white house. it is my understanding from talking to multiple military sources this weekend that it is unlikely that many of the former or current serving members of the military want to come on the record and speak about what they saw in various situations that, at times, alarmed them. they want to keep the military apolitical, and that's what

everyone wh is trying to do in recent months. they don't want the military dragged into this. one other quick point, the president has been very good to veterans. he has given the pentagon almost a blank check, but he views the relationship as transactional and expects complete loyalty. he likes to use the military as props and that's what my sources have been telling me. >> arthel: to be clear, i'm not at all suggesting that they are your sources. i have no idea who your sources are. it is no you have good sources. those are just two people i thought would be intereste interested -- interesting to hear from on this subject. jennifer griffin, thank you very much for your great reporting. >> thank you. >> arthel: leland? >> leland: the president is about 20 minutes away from his news conference. something pretty unusual, we will have a news conference at the north portico. jeff mason has been covering this for a long time. he says he hasn't seen something like that in all of his years.

we bring in fox news contributor, former arkansas governor, mike huckabee. he's the author of the new book, "the 3 cs that made america great: christianity, capitalism, and the constitution." i will interrupt you when the president comes out. you have to imagine he's going to come out swinging on these issues, as secretary mnuchin and others did over the weekend, defending him from the atlantic reporting and jennifer griffin's reporting, as well. >> i hope he does. i certainly think he has to. here's the thing. there have been at least ten different people who were with the president who have gone in front of the microphone, put their face in the camera, and absolutely said that this story is false. that it is complete misrepresentation. one of those sources, by the way, i have a lot of confidence in. my daughter. she was there. she was with the present. but she's also been with the president at walter reed in the middle of the night when he goes without any press, any press even being informed, to go talk

to wounded warriors. or to be with him when he goes to arlington cemetery, or -- >> leland: governor, i don't think anybody is disputing that he's done those things. we reported on it. i guess the bigger question is this -- when you've got former senior administration officials saying that -- >> who are they? >> leland: the saying they've said these things. more portly, what does it say that there's former members of the administration talking about that? i've covered you for a long time. i couldn't find anybody in your former staff who would speak in that way about you. >> i'm glad they didn't. but this president has fired a lot of people, he has wrinkled a lot of people. there are a lot of people who don't like him. one of the people who doesn't like him as john bolton. john bolton wrote a whole book that was not pro-trump. even john bolton said that this did not happen. here is my question. if these sources are so dang good, trot them out in front of a microphone and a camera. if there are not willing to put their name and face in the

middle of an election, which they are trying to influence, they have no right to be heard. this unnamed source, this anonymous person, how high ranking? what does "high-ranking" even mean? until we know that, i think all of this stuff is just a bunch of hogwash. there are too many people who say it didn't happen to believe that, somehow, in the middle of an election, just before we get to the hot zone of the election, you got unnamed anonymous sources, supposedly high up -- but we don't know how high up they were -- and they are doing something that would hurt this president. >> leland: from a political perspective, we are seeing joe biden try to at least make inroads on this. within hours of the atlantic article dropping, you point out the timing on this is certainly circumstantial. 60 days out before an election, about an event that happened a long time ago. but he put out an ad on friday, almost instantly, when this article came out.

saying, "if you don't respect our troops, you can't lead them." does biden win by trying to make this argument about the troops? or would he be better off just staying in the shadows and letting the media make the argument for an? >> the whole thing stinks. you've got steve jobs' widow, one of the major financiers of the atlantic, giving $500,000 to joe biden. i mean, that kind of smells. then you have this ad that just mysteriously shows up, almost within minutes of the story breaking. the democrats like to talk about collusion? sounds like a little bit of collusion went on with that. why, if this story was so important, did it take over two years or longer to break? this is one of those things that just as a head-scratcher. where are these people who have the allegations? let them stand up and be counted. hold themselves accountable for that kind of information. then, joe biden, the other day, i watched him.

he said, "we don't know if this is true." then he went on for about 10 minutes talking about it as if it were true. you can't use these kinds of terms without saying "allegedly" said. "reported to have said." "unnamed sources." trot those people out to the mic and camera. >> leland: we've got to go. >> the gold star -- >> leland: governor, we got to go. appreciated print thank you, sir. >> gotcha, thank you. >> leland: begot event. >> arthel: thanks, governor pritzker x, leland. we are waiting different president trump himself. it's 83 degrees there in d.c. as the summer ends, parts of the u.s. are seeing record-breaking heat as other areas prepare for a cold and snow. what? the forecast is up next. then, campers airlifted to safety during a massive rescue

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plus 0% interest for 36 months & free premium delivery when you add a base. ends labor day. >> arthel: okay, we are going to take you live to d.c. and listen to the president. >> president trump: people are very happy with the way things are going, as you probably seen the numbers are terrific. we've called some people, wish them a very happy labor day, and they told us how we are doing. we really celebrate the american worker. we are in the midst of the fastest economic recovery in u.s. history. we have a lot to be thankful for, including this really beautiful day. i thought i would do this outside as opposed to in your more normal place. the united states experienced the smallest contraction of any

major western nation. you probably know that. you look around and see how we are doing compared to every other nation, and our rise is spectacular. we are rebounding much more quickly from the pandemic. the u.s. economy added 1.4 million jobs last month. we have added a record-setting 10.6 million jobs since may. 10.6 million jobs since may. that's a record. that's not even close. second place is a long ways away. in july, the congressional budget office was projecting unemployment over 10.5% through the end of 2020. they thought 2020, review would be a lot longer than that. some projections, you go through the entire year, that would include a lot of months in the following year. 2021. instead, the unemployment rate plunged, really to the surprise

of many, all the way down to 8.4% in august. that is the second largest single-month decline on record. we have the first, we have both of them. we have the two number one decline per os. decline being positive, not negative. we are witnessing the fastest labor market recovery from an economic crisis. in history. world history. by contrast, biden presided over the worst scum of the weakest, and the slowest economic recovery since the great depression. it was a long, slow slog, and vy small and growth in any other factor you need. under my leadership next year, we will be the greatest economic here in the history of our country, a project. some people are starting to agree. we have a v shape. it's probably a super v. d.c. was what's going on with the stock market, in certain

cases it's already setting record. nasdaq has set 17 records already. as we are hopefully rounding the final turn in the pandemic, first we will end the pandemic under operation warp speed. we have pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since april. you don't hear that from the press very often. they don't like to talk about that. the fatality rate, 85%. think of that, since april. the united states has experienced among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country in the world, and we are an absolute leader in every way. under my leadership, we will produce a vaccine in record ti time. biden and his very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in congress, by the way,

not a competent person in my opinion. destroyed this country and will destroy this economy. should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives. it undermines science and what is happening is all of the sudden you have this incredible vaccine, and because of that fake rhetoric -- it's a political rhetoric, that's all it is. just for politics. now they see we've done an incredible job, and in a speed like nobody's ever seen before. this could have taken two or three years, and instead it's going to be done in a very short period of time. could even have it during the month of october. contrary to all of the lies -- they are political lies. they will say anything. it is so dangerous for our country, what they say. but the vaccine will be very safe and very effective, and it

will be delivered very soon. you could have a very big surprise coming up. i'm sure you will be very happy. but the people will be happy. the people of the world will be happy. next we will turn to unprecedented prosperity through our pro-american policies. we'll pass new tax cuts to boost take-home pay period will be cutting taxes very substantial substantially. we've had tremendous growth until he got hit with the china virus. we will continue our historic regulatory campaign. as you know, in three and a half years we have cut more regulations than any other administration, no matter how long or what period of time you are talking about. we will enact fair trade deals and we are working on seven major fair trade deals right now. when i say "fair," for her our country. our country is ripped off by every nation. friend, foe, didn't matter. every nation was ripping us off at a level that is just

unbelievable, to be honest. we are going to be expanding opportunity zones, and we will keep that going. it's been a tremendous program. i want to thank senator scott, south carolina, for coming up with that whole concept. i liked it right away. this has turned out to be a tremendous thing, especially for african-americans and hispanic-americans. we will continue to unleash american energy. we are number one of the world, and we are totally energy independent right now. in 2021 we will create 10 million jobs at least in the first ten months. joe biden, the radical socialist democrats, would immediately collapse the economy. if they got in, they would collapse. you'd have to crash the likes of which you've never seen before. your stocks, your 401(k)s. remember, it's the people who own these massive companies.

a lot of people, rich people, not so rich people, middle income people, those stocks will crash like you've never seen before. the biden plan begins with a $4 trillion tax hike, and that will end everything, including growth. there will be growth, there will be total contraction. biden has also pledged to demolish the u.s. energy industry and implement the same policies causing blackouts in california. he wants to have things lit up with wind. he will have to talk to china, russia, india, and lots of other countries, because they're not doing that, and it puts out at a tremendous economic disadvantage and it doesn't work. you take a look at the blackouts in california, it's rather amazing what's going on there. that's just with a small portion going that route. it doesn't work and it can't fire up our big plans. we are going to have this great industry we've created, can't fire up our big plans.

biden's plan for the china virus is to shut down the entire u.s. economy. it'll totally rely rely on somebody to walk up, "time to shut it down." laying off tens of millions of workers in deaths from suicide, since abuse, depression, heart disease, and other serious illnesses. we need to shut down, there's a problem on the other side. it's not just from the virus. you have a big problem with suicides, losing jobs, all sorts of things. you just take a look. depression is a massive problem. what happens is they turn to substance abuse, alcohol, drugs. we can't do that. we'll have to give up all of the gains i've been talking about over the last three months. what we have done is incredible. we've set records all over the world, no matter where you go. nobody has been able to do what we do. you will see some very big numbers, third-quarter numbers, calm down not coming out right

before a very special day, november 3rd. you have the numbers coming out, and i think they are going to be fantastic. i think they're going to be fantastic. the best numbers of all, if somebody doesn't come along and raise taxes, double, triple, quadruple your taxes, it'll be the numbers from next year. but you have a good third-quarter number coming out. i think it's going to be hard for even the media to disparage that. biden wants to surrender our country to the virus. he wants to surrender our families to the violent left-wing mob, and he wants to surrender our jobs to china. our jobs and our economic well-being. i have taken them billions of dollars from china. no other president has done what i've done. i've given it much to the farmers, manufacturers, but most of it to the u.s. treasury. nobody has done that. we haven't taken in $0.10 from china ever. they targeted our farmers and i targeted them. i gave $28 billion to our

farmers. our farmers wouldn't be existent right now. right now they are very happy. in fact, they are setting records on purchases. china is purchasing more corn than they have ever done. record purchase of torn corns and soybeans, beef paving are not happy with them, not happy at all. frankly, i don't want to set the world necessarily to thinking too much about it now, but there has been no country anywhere at any time that ripped us off like china has. we use billions and billions of dollars, for years and years, decades. we have lost billions and billions and billions of dollars dealing with china. we get nothing from china. nothing other than the loss, giving our money -- they take that money and build the military. you see them building up a powerful military, and it is very lucky that i've been

building ours up. otherwise we would be dwarfed right now by china. it would be a terrible thing. terrible thing. we are way ahead of the nuclear front, we have upgraded our nuclear -- hopefully we never have to use that, but we will be in a position that we are not in right now. but china is spending the money we give them to build up their military. when he mentioned the word "decouple," it is a very interesting word. we lose billions of dollars, and if we didn't do business with them, we wouldn't lose billions of dollars. it's called decoupling. he will start thinking about that, they take their money and spend it on building airplanes and ships and building rockets and missiles. biden has just been a pond for them. he's been so easy, they dream about biden. there was a report today that they hope that joe biden becomes president. if joe biden becomes president, china will on the united states, and every other country will be

smiling also. they'll be smiling. when reports come out that certain countries don't really like me too much, that's not because of my personality. although it could be that, also, frankly. it's the fact that i've been very tough on countries that have been ripping us off for so many years. if you look at nato, with the exception of eight countries, we are one of them. every country is way behind it, delinquent. especially germany, in paying their nato bills. that means we end up paying. we are not doing it. i told them, we're not doing it. they have increased their spending now, $130 billion, going up to $400 billion a year. it's all because of may. then you hear the country doesn't like me. i mean, i can understand that. because president obama and other presidents, in all fairness, would go in there and make a speech and leave. i'd go in and look and say, "this is unfair. we are paying for nato. almost all of them." they rip us off in the military and they rip us off with the

european union on trade. biden doesn't have a clue. you know he doesn't have a clue. everybody knows he doesn't have a clue. in prime time he wasn't good, and now it's not prime time. he spent 47 years sending american jobs to china, mexico, and other countries while collecting millions of dollars in campaign and super pac contributions from global corporations. got rich by making american workers poor. his son, where is hunter? i call him "where is hunter?" walked away with billions of dollars to manage even though he never did that before. he walked away with a fortune from ukraine, from china, and other countries. between his son and his brother, he ought to read the statements. if i ever did that, it would be

hell even worse than it has been, okay? even worse. what he has done is so incredible, he says, "i won't give it unless they get rid of that prosecutor." voila, they got rid of the prosecutor. and the presses want to talk about it. you talk about quid pro quo, with me there was none. with him, he is right on tape, and you don't want to cover it. you should be ashamed of yourselves. the press should be ashamed of themselves. with biden, he shipped away our jobs, threw open our borders, and sent our youth to fight in these crazy endless wars. i'm not saying the military -- the soldiers, the top people in the pentagon probably are, because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. but we are getting out of the endless wars. you know how we are doing it. we defeated 100% of the isis

caliphate. 100%. when i came in, it was a mess. it was all of them. they have it in a certain color, all isis. a year later i said, "where is it," "it's all gone commissary. because of you, it's all gone." i said, "that's good. let's bring our soldiers back home. some people don't like to come home, some people like to continue to spend money. one coldhearted betrayal after another, that's what it was. biden supported nafta, he supported china's entry into the world trade organization. true disasters. the most disastrous trade deals in history. i can't tell you which was worth it on, they were both terrible. as you know, and did it. ended nafta. and we are looking at the world trade organization. they've become much better. i will say that.

world health, i got out of, because we are spending $500 million, are we spending $38 million in china controlled? the world trade, they've been very nice to us lately, i will say that. amazing. we never used win anything, we would lose every case. now all of a sudden we're winning lots of cases. we just won $7 billion in the case, and they are talking to us much differently than they used to. not treated fairly. china is treated as a developing nation. we are treated as a nation that is fully developed. we are not fully developed as far as i'm concerned. when he looked around at portland deceiving these democrats are doing to our cities, take a look at what's happening in new york and chicago. we have democrat run studies dominic cities , mayors and governors running states so badly, running city so badly, it's very sad to look at.

it's democrat-run. every one of them that i see. i guess we could probably find one or two that aren't, but so far i haven't been able to. if you look at biden, he supported ppp, trans-pacific partnership, which would have been a disaster, would have destroyed our automobile business. by the way, many plans are being built right now. auto plants, in michigan. they are being built and don't like in ohio, south carolina, north carolina, all over, and e. at a level we've never seen before. as such as japan, germany, and others, "sorry, you've got to come here and build plants. otherwise we will have to make a very tough on you with tariffs." we got out of the horrible paris climate accord that he'll go back into. that sounds wonderful. it's a disaster for this count country. they take away your wealth. the paris climate accord.

at the other countries don't have to adhere to it. china doesn't kick in until 2030. they don't have to do anything until 2030. we have very high standards. under some scenarios, 25% of our businesses would have to close in order to qualify under this ridiculous paris climate accord. sounds good, was very bad, very expensive. "the new york times" published an entire story of biden's china sellouts, which was amazing, from "the new york times." i appreciate that. 2001, biden said the united states welcome the emergence of a prosperous integrated china on the global stage, because we expect this is going to be a china that plays by the rules. they didn't play by the rules. they didn't play by the rules. the world trade organization, one of the reasons it is so bad is that china didn't play by the rules. we did. but there rules were easier, because they are considered a developing nation. they had a much lower standard. even that, they didn't play by the rules. that's when they became a

rocket ship. they were flatlined for years and years and years, then they joined the world trade organization. frankly, they cheated, okay? they cheated. i'll say it, what differences that make? i made a great trade deal with china. great. and they are buying. you know why? because i know i'm not happy. that's why they are buying. i talk about because today is labor day and it's a good time to talk about where we are being ripped off by countries. but nobody's even close to chi china. biden called it a great power because great powers adhere to international norms in the areas of nonprin nonproliferation, hun rights, and trade. they didn't. they took advantage of stupid people. and biden is a stupid person. you know that. you're not going to write it, but you know that. because of biden's economic treachery, 16,000 shuttered american factories. i hear this morning that new number is probably 70,000.

70,000 shuttered american factories, and he's talking about how wonderful it is with china. no, china has been very bad. on top of which, we have the china plague sent to us. and other viruses. nothing near this serious, but the swine -- we had the virus is sent in over the years that came from china. i wonder why? if biden wins, china wins, because china will own this country. if biden wins, china will own this country, and hopefully you're not going to be able to find that out. it's the most important election in their history, right now. most important election in their history. under my administration, we will make america into the manufacturing superpower of the world, and we will end our reliance on china once and for all. whether it is decoupling or putting in massive tariffs, like i've been doing already, i'm going to end our reliance on china, because we can't rely on china. i don't want them building a military like they are building

right now. they're using our money to build it. we will manufacture our critical medical supplies in the united states, we will create made in america tax credits, and bring our jobs back from china to the united states, and impose tariffs on companies that desert america to create jobs in china and other countries. if they can't do it here, let them pay a big tax to build it someplace else and send it into our country. we will prohibit federal contracts from companies that outsource to china, and hold china accountable for allowing this virus to spread around the world. now you can understand why china would much rather see sleepy joe the donald trump. as long as i'm president, we will never waver in our undying loyalty to the american worker, and to our country as a whole. happy labor day, everybody. yeah, go ahead. >> reporter: [unclear audio]

>> president trump: you're going to have to take that off. how many feet are you awake? well, if you don't take it off, you are very awful. it would be a lot easier -- >> reporter: is that better? >> president trump: it's better, yeah. >> reporter: mr. president, some are having a hard time believing your denial that -- [inaudible] what you said about john mccain in the past. >> president trump: i never said that. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> president trump: i don't understand it at all. i've always been on the opposite side of john mccain. john mccain liked wars. i will be a better warrior than anybody, but when we fight a war, we are going to win them. frankly, i was never a fan of john mccain. you know that. it's been very obvious. i had to approve his entire funeral. i wanted him to get what he deserved. it was approved by me, we sent

air force one to pick up the casket. a lot of things. i was not a fan of john mccain, because he wanted the endless wars. i didn't. i thought the way they were taking care of our great vets is not good, not appropriate. of course, he took the fake dirty dossier and give it over to the fbi. this is not somebody -- am i supposed to say what a wonderful guy? you know what? i lived with him, he lived with me. we had different philosophies. i think my philosophy is right. it has turned out to be right. but i wasn't a fan. i respect people, and i respect a lot of people. that doesn't mean i necessarily have to agree with them, and i didn't agree with him on a lot of things. the story is a hoax, written by a guy who has got it tremendously bad history. the magazine itself, which i don't read, but i hear it is total anti-trump. he's a big obama person, a big clinton person.

he made up the story. it's a totally made up story. fact, i was very happy to see -- i think that's number 15. these are people that were there. that's the 15th person. general kellogg, everybody that was there knew what happened. i was happy to see that he came out and said it's not true. just came out. it is a disgrace. he would say a thing like that? only an animal would say thing like that. as nobody who has more respect for her not only our military but for people that gave their lives in the military. there is nobody -- i think john kelly knows that, i think he would know that. i think he knows that for me. zach fuentes, as you know, worked for john. i think they both know that, but zach came out, as you know, today -- or yesterday, last night -- and said very strongly that he didn't hear anything like that. even john bolton came out and said that was untrue. what was true is we have the

worst weather -- i think it was as bad a rain as i have just about every scene. it was a fog, you literally couldn't see. i walked out, i didn't need somebody to tell me. i walked out and said, "there's no way you can take helicopters." i understand helicopters very well. they said, "no, sir, that's been canceled." secret service, they would have had to go through a very, very busy section during the day of paris. they would have had to go through the city. the paris police were asking us, "please don't do it," because i'm not ready. when you do that, you need a lot of time. they take days and days to prepare for that. i wanted to do it very badly. i was willing to sit in a car for two hours, three hours, four hours, i didn't care. it didn't matter. i had nothing else to do. i went there for that. i had nothing else to do. it was ended because of the terrible weather, and nobody was prepared to go through, in terms

of paris, the police, the military, and the secret servi secret service, and they came out very strongly and said, "we can't allow you to make this trip." if i wanted to. "we can't allow you come from a safety standpoint." it was a funny story, like the dirty fake dossier. just like the russia collusion, like all the other phony stories. they will be more phony stories. i do appreciate zach coming out. but zach now is the 15th person that has denied it. i think he also talked about the weather aspect of it, and he is probably the 14th or 15th person that blamed it on weather. that's enough of that. yes, please. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> president trump: thank you. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> president trump: we are talking about where? the right?

riots? the toughness, these are democrat run cities, all. there is no retribution. there is no -- they stand there and throw things at the people that are supposed to be protecting something, and nothing happens. they throw rocks, they throw cans of soup, they throw lots of hard objects, and really does anything happen. but i -- when we have the federal and they are, as you know, i told the u.s. marshals to get the man who killed another man, and they know who it was. you have to arrest him. after two and a half days, they didn't arrest him. the u.s. marshals went in, and it ended up being a gunfight and the man was killed. but this is a man that had a bad record and a man that killed a man in the street. i witnessed it, most people witness it, and the was marshals went in.

they weren't playing games. they can't play games. if somebody is breaking the law, there's got to be a form of retribution. i watch, so often, when i watch one of the areas we are talking about, now we have rochester. again, democrat governor, democrat mayor. all democrats, every one of them. it always will be. i was with the governor of texas, he looked at me and said, "i can't imagine how they allowed this to happen." it's different. i could talk about other governors saying the same thing pretty please, go ahead. >> reporter: we are also hearing reports like black lives matter traveling around the country, leaving their home cities to go riot and protest in other cities where they are causing damage. >> president trump: yeah. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> president trump: we have now over a thousand people, federal, in jail. we are prosecuting many people. a big thing was when i signed the law putting people in jail if you knocked on monuments. that was three months ago.

there hasn't been the federal monument knocked down in three months, or even thought about. i don't think they've even thought about it. that's had a very big impact. very big impact. but yeah, we are going around, and the nice part is you people -- see those people if they are? they taste take nice pictureseverybody so r photos. have a photo of andrew jackson, the money meant, he was getting ready. this guy was a big brave guy, he was up like this, showing off to all his friends, and he got arrested. so did a lot of other people get arrested. i would say we have the ultimate proof. in that case, we got there before they ripped down the statue of andrew jackson, which is so beautiful. it's right over there. but then never got it. after that, i signed an order saying you go to credit dominic prison for ten years. as soon as i signed that order, that was the end of the statues coming down. they have other ideas. they've got plenty of ideas. they are not that want to for ideas. please go ahead. report back david spunt

from fox news, thank you for taking my question. you talk a lot about the economy, and how the economy -- three weeks ago in bedminster ask you specifically why we have not called democratic leaders in the white house to meet with them. if they don't want to meet, it is on them. a lot of people are criticizing you. i cover you on the weekends -- >> president trump: i don't think they are. >> reporter: why have you not met with them? we are in september, there is no deal, there is no hope of a deal. we are two months out from the election. >> president trump: don't say there's no hope. why do you say there's no hope connect what do you know? what do you know? let me just tell you. i know my customers, that's what i do. i know pelosi, i know schumer. they don't want to make a deal because they think it's good for politics if they don't make a deal. this has nothing to do with anything other than you have to know who you're dealing with. i do. these are people that i don't have a lot of respect, i don't think they have a lot of respect for the american people. i know who i'm dealing with.

i don't need to meet with them to be turned down. they don't want to make a deal because they know that's good for the economy. if they make a deal that's good for the economy and therefore good for me for the election in november, november 3rd, therefore they are not going to make a deal. if they give the store away, if we bailed out all of the democrat run cities, give them a trillion dollars, which is the kind of money they want, they want a trillion dollars to bail out badly when democratic cities and states, whether it's new york or illinois or others, they want to bail them out. we are saying, "we are not going to pay that kind of a price in order to bail the city out. we'll do something to help cities, but that will have to rest on its own. why didn't you do this at the beginning?" because they could have done at the beginning. so, i know what i'm dealing with. i'm on the phone with steve mnuchin, mark meadows, all these people constantly while they are there. but i also know when it's time to meet with people. i've done very well with deals, okay?

that's what i do. i know when it's time to meet. but i don't have to meet them in order to be turned down and in order for them to walk out to the sticks, which is the microphones, and give you people a false report of what just took place in the oval office. they don't want to make a deal, because they think that, if the country does as badly as possible, even though a lot of people are being hurt, that's good for the >> as president, shouldn't you take the high road? >> i am. i'm taking the high road but not saying that. yeah. if i thought it made a difference, i'd do it in a minute. my question is about the durham report. you've accused people of many crimes against you during the russia investigation. >> yeah. they spied on my campaign. and if they were democrats, they would have been in jail two years ago. they would have been in jail

literally. if this side -- the democrats said they would have been in two years ago for 50 years for treason and other things. >> [question inaudible] >> i'm not going to say that. i said i purposely -- i don't know if that was a good thing, smart thing. i don't know. but nobody can complain about it. i have every right to have been very much involved and maybe some day i'll get involved. they spied on my campaign and that includes biden and obama. they spied on my campaign trying to defeat me. they wrote up a fake dossier that has proven to be totally fake. written by christopher steele. paid for by hillary clinton and the democrats. they used that illegally in the fisa courts. if we did what they did, you would have many people in jail right now. and you have -- other than the one agent that admitted his guilt that he forged documents, we don't have that yet. let's see what happens. let me just say something.

president obama and biden, sleepy joe, he knew everything that was happening. they spied on my campaign and they got caught. now let's see what happens. if this were the opposite way, people -- they would have been in jail already for a period of at least -- it would have started two years ago and would have been for 50 years for treason. nothing like that has ever happened before. then they created a tremendous expense, the money they paid is tremendous, millions of dollars. they created a fake dossier. a fake dossier. proven to be now fake. and they used it in the fisa courts. that's a crime. so far i haven't seen anybody have a problem. but the report hasn't been issued yet. let's see what happens with the durham report. this started with obama. some people would say and some people -- he was the president like let's leave him alone. if it were me, they wouldn't be leaving me alone.

i can tell you, it's a double standard and a disgrace. if i were a republican senator and if i were a republican congressman and we have great ones but we have a lot of them that don't fight the way that the other side fights. we have much better policy, much better things going for us like borders and walls and immigration and no sanctuary cities. they have a lot of bad stuff going. but they're dirty fighters. and the dirtiest fight of all is the issuance of 80 million ballots. they're unrequested. just sending 80 million ballots all over the country. 80 million nonrequested. i call them unsolicited ballots. that's going to be the dirtiest fight of all. they're going to harvest, do other things. if you look at the last period of six months -- take a look at the races where they sent ballots out. take a look at carolyn malone

whose race should be redone because she won that race. totally unfairly to her opponent. her opponent did well. that race should be rerun. but they declared her the winner because they heard i found out about it. take a look at what has happened in new jersey and in virginia and different places. it's a disgrace. that will be a beauty. >> thank you, mr. president. if proven true, are you okay with post master general dejoy and the fact that he asked former employees of private companies to make donations to the gop and reimburse them? are you okay -- >> i don't know much about it. i read something this morning. other than that, i have to see it. he's very respected man. he was approved very much by both parties, i guess. it was sort of an approval that took place by both parties. i don't know exactly what the story is. i'll know within a short period of time. read it for the first time this morning like you did. >> you support an

sir? >> sure. >> let the investigations go. but he's a very respected man. again, it was a bipartisan commission. post master general is appointed by a bipartisan commission. we'll see how that goes. i think he's a very honest guy. we'll see. >> mr. president, a follow up. is it proven to be a campaign finance scheme, you think he could lose his job? >> yes, if something can be proven, always. they have been looking at me for four years. they found nothing. four years. think of it for four years, from the day i came down to escalator, i've been under investigation by sleaze. they found nothing. friend of mine said you have to be the most innocent, honorable man ever to hold the office of president. think of it. they spent -- mueller alone, the rule number turns out to be $48 million.

many, many millions of dollars. they had 18 angry democrats looking. they had fbi agents all over the place. they had -- and they have no collision. friends of mine have said, sophisticated friends have said, you have to be the most innocent guy ever to hold this office. there's a lot of truth to that. >> thank you, mr. president. chancellor angela merkel is being pressured to cancel a pipeline from germany to russia. would you support the move? >> sure. i've been supportive of that. i was the first one that brought it up. you never heard of nordstream 2. i said wait a minute. we're protecting germany from russia. we're protecting germany from russia, nato. germany is paying russia billions of dollars to get their energy and the real number is probably 60 to 70% ultimately of

their energy is going to come from russia. and i said this for years that nobody talks about it. one of the many things between sanctions and all of the -- what we've done for ukraine relative to what the past -- they used to send pillows and we send tank busters. i brought it up. russia is unhappy. you never heard of nordstream 2. why is germany making this deal and we're protecting germany from russia? how does that work? on top of it, germany is delinquent because they're only paying a little more than 1% and they're supposed to be paying 2% and even the 2% is low. but just remember, trump, me. i got the countries of nato to spend $130 billion going to $400 billion a year. think of it.

$400 billion a year more for nato. and the purpose of nato primarily. now they can use it for other -- they have a little bit in the middle east, et cetera, et cetera. i'm the one that did that. so nobody talks about that. nobody talks about nordstream 2. the answer is absolutely if they feel that something happens. i don't know that germany is in a position right now. because germany is in a weakened position energy-wise. they're closing their plants, nuclear, coal, a lot of plans. and they put themselves in a very bad position frankly. very bad position. >> [question inaudible] >> no, i have nothing john. i have nothing against anybody. no. i was very heartened to see that a friend of his -- i know zach

is a friend of his and worked for him. heartened to see that zach fuentes that came out with the statement last night that it's not true. >> mr. president, what is un-american about federal government programs that are aimed at improving -- >> we're going to do a report. i fired those people. they're all done. it was a disgrace, frankly. we're going to give you a big report that will make you very happy. please. >> thank you. you said a moment ago -- you talked about joe biden and kamala harris and their comments. >> they say negative. they say negative. they're going to make the vaccine into a negative so that when we have it -- and i spoke to the head adviser, the head of johnson & johnson. to the greatest medical companies in the world. we're doing great. we're going to have it soon. so now what they're saying oh,

wow, this is bad news. president trump is getting this in record time. if this were the obama vaccine, you probably wouldn't have it for three years or at all. we'll have the vaccine soon, maybe before a special date. you know what date i'm talking about. let me tell you. what they're doing, because they think it is going fast. and if you talk to a lot of your sources, if you have sources, if you talked to your sources and the fda, you'll see it's going very well. the numbers are looking unbelievably strong, unbelievably good. so now they're saying, wow, trump has pulled this off. okay. let's disparage the vaccine. that's so bad for this country. so bad for the world to even say that. that's what they're saying. i watch kamala's poll numbers drop from 15 to almost 0 and drop out before she ran in iowa because people didn't like her.

i understand why. she will never be president, although i have to be careful because obama used to say that about me. i have to be careful. you have to look at her more closely. obviously joe is not doing to well. so you have to look at her too closely. she's talking about disparaging a vaccine. so people don't think the achievement was a great achievement. i don't want the achievement for myself. i want something that will make people better, that people aren't going to get sick with, that includes therapeutics, where we're doing equally as well. therapeutics. go ahead. >> your point is that what they're saying is that they're saying it for a purpose. >> yes. >> you have asserted repeatedly the vaccine will be on the market before the election -- >> i didn't say they will. i said by the end of the year. you're not following me accurately. i said the vaccines will be on the market before the ends of the year. they may even be on the market -- may even be developed fully developed, tested,

everything else. we have 30,000 people in one vaccine under test in very, highly infected areas. so we're going to get a good result one way or the other very soon. so i didn't say what you said. what i said is by the end of the year. i think it could be sooner than that. it could be during the month of october actually. could be before november. >> also saying that for political reasons. >> no, i'm saying that because we want to save a lot of lives. with me, it's the faster the better. with somebody else, maybe they would say it politically. i'm saying it in terms of this is what we need. we have to have. if we get the vaccine early, it's a great things. whether it's politics or not. do benefits -- if you're able to get something years ahead of schedule? i guess maybe they do. the most important thing to me is saving lives. it's the most important thing. go ahead. >> hi.

you sound so clear as opposed to everybody else. >> [question inaudible] >> so i want everybody to know everything that they can about our history. i'm not a believer in cancel culture. the good or the bad. you don't study the bad, it can happen again. i do want that subject studied very, very carefully and very accurately. but we grew up with certain history and now they're trying to change our history, revisionist history. that's why they want to take out our monuments, take down our statues. i saw something the other day which was horrendous. washington monument. they want to rename it. the d.c. committee. the d.c. committee is all democrats. abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson. we're talking about -- this is the big stuff now. the big stuff. they want to rename it? they want to redesignate it? they want to take some down?

no, we don't do that. never going to happen with me. i guarantee you that. i want to thank you all. i want to wish you a happy labor day and we're having tremendous success were it's on the vaccine, the pandemic, the plague that came in from china that china should have never let happen because i will never feel the same about china. i just want to again wish you a happy labor day. thanks very much, everybody. >> president trump wrapping up a labor day press conference about 45 minutes there from the north portico. a long list of what he calls his accomplishments the past four years. talking a lot about the economy and job growth on this labor day. grievances about the press and the biden campaign as well. a couple of headlines to the economy. the world trade organization is better and nicer to the united states and also talking about decoupling the u.s. economy from china. that is the headlines from the

associated press. we bring in roger fisk, former senior aid to john kerry. and tarah skinner, former state department adviser and fox news contributor. appreciate you sitting through this and bringing your thoughts and insights. roger to you, there were a lot of attacks about joe biden in this. biden is out on the campaign trail in pennsylvania with labor, with afclio head, mr. trumka. any thoughts? >> yeah, thanks for having me. great to be here as well. you know, the president is clearly frustrated. he's been -- he spent three or four months now trying to cram a round peg in a square hole. he desperately wants the former vice president to be a molotov cocktail within he said very clearly that rioting is not protesting. looting is no protesting --

>> there's that part of it, which is the public safety part. he also made this very clear point and said it a number of times. if biden wins, china wins. if biden wins, china owns the united states. anyone can agree. you worked in the obama administration and would say that president trump's policies towards china are very difference than those of barack obama. >> they're very different to the extent that there's a policy at all. previrus, he was running the economy by borrow ago trillion a year, which is gobbled up by the chinese and the japanese. i don't necessarily buy it when you're borrowing a trillion -- >> the obama administration was borrow ago ton of mine from china, too. different conversation there. as we look at this in terms of a domestic political conversation, 60 days and less from the electi

election. american labor has been crushed by shipping jobs to china. president trump said i might sanction companies that ship jobs from federal contracts. a pretty clear political play, right? >> i don't see the president as making a political play. i listened very carefully to his press conference. i think this is the kinds of theme that he's developing for the next two months as we head into the election. he's trying to establish a sharp difference and a sharp difference from his opponent. it's clear on policy issue. he's trying to run down the list of where the differences exist. i think that line, that if biden wins, china wins. there's deep area natural cyst that we need to do about that. the president does have a china policy right out of the white house. he's been tougher on trade. he's helped the american farmer, he's helped the american worker. these are hard things that have

to be looked at. they weren't being done during the obama-biden years. doesn't mean that they didn't have their own china policy but it does mean that this president has the developing that is very different from theirs. >> guys, we appreciate you breaking this down. obviously a lot in that press conference. took about 45 minutes. there's guests on the other side of the break. thanks. >> thanks, leland. >> thank you. we'll toss on a new round of coronavirus stimulus remains stalled. the two sides still not budging. so can we expect to see any progress on capitol hill this week? that's up next. to severe psoriasis, little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea or vomiting.

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trump. david spunt reporting live from the white house. i just saw you in that press conference with the president. >> hi, arthel. yes it's been rare for a

president to have a press conference on the north portico of the white house. he spoke for a little under an hour many times referenced joe biden his running made. also unusual for a sitting president to do so at the white house. we saw what happened at the rnc several weeks ago. the big topic today -- first of all, he came out talking about the economy and the economic gains that you just mentioned. the big topic the president discussed is a potential covid-19 vaccine. the president teased to it the american people here saying that he believes that one will be available and then he said before, a special day you know what it is. another time arthel, he mentioned the month of october. a lot of people speculating this could be a potential october surprise. president trump also hitting vice presidential candidate and california senator kamala harris for on-camera over the weekend saying that she would not take a vaccine at this point. she believes it rushed for political purposes.

here's what she had to say followed by the president criticizing senator harris. listen here, arthel. >> his priority was to do whatever he thought was politically expedient. so no, i would not trust his word. i would trust the word of scientists but not donald trump. >> immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives and undermines science and what is happening is all of a sudden you'll have this incredible vaccine. because of that fake rhetoric. it's a political rhetoric. that's all it is. now they've seen we've done an incredible job and speed like nobody has seen before. >> the president also added, arthel, he's been in the touch of certain companies, pfizer, to talk about a potential vaccine. a little curious.

president trump did say several times, did talk a little bit about a surprise. he mentioned the month of october and mentioned a date, which leads everybody to believe is election day when he said a very special day. you know what it is. he is insisting any vaccine coming out is not related to political pressure. he wants to just get things done as quickly as possible and as safely as possible though many other medical experts are waiting to see exactly what this means. arthel? >> david spunt. thanks very much for that wrap-up from the white house. now we're going to bring our panel back in. roger and kyron with us. the president covered a lot of topics at that press conference. he did speak about the stimulus stall that is happening in d.c. that is what i want to talk to you -- with you guys about. so first of all, who or which sides that the right tools to unclog the flow of more stimulus to the american people that are

among -- talking about among those the 13.6 million people that are still unemployed. you have small business owners that are hurting. kyron, i'll start with you and then roger, your take. >> yeah, it has to be a bipartisan effort with the previous stimulus bill. we've seen remarkable bipartisanship in this arena when it comes down to voting, this one is particularly difficult because we're getting close to a presidential election and, you know, the charge, the president is using politics when the other side is. if you look at the targeted bill that steve mnuchin, our treasury secretary is putting forth, he's saying that we want to help the american worker but we can't bail out everything that has happened. we can't bail out all of the american cities. we can't pile on everything and to one bill. there's an attempt to get the economy moving even more.

look what has happened when we shut down the american economy, there was a sense that we would have maybe 25 or 35% unemployment. that didn't happen. we're down to 8.4%. there's an expectation of 3 to 4% unemployment before this year is over. it's coming from a more targeted approach. that is the debate right now. >> all right. roger, you hear that side. i want to hear what you think. who is really causing this stall on the stimulus? >> of course. i agree with a lot of what she just said in terms of bipartisanship. something this massive with this urgent of need, it has to bring everyone to the table. i think both sides have to continue to give some. much credit has to go to a fox reporter there. i believe it was a fox reporter, maybe the one that you just touched base with that asked the president where has he been. why is he awol during this? when this got really difficult, the i alone can fix it became

not my problem. so to say mnuchin and meadows up to capitol hill is kind of the mechanical parts of this that need to work but the president should be able to summon the character and the love of country enough to get over his inability to deal with the speaker and the senate minority leader, pick up the phone and talk to nancy pelosi and this could get done. i don't think he has that kind of character and love of country. >> i'm not sure if you can say that the president doesn't love the country. however, i do know that the president builds himself as the chief negotiator. you're saying why not bring -- >> where is the chief negotiator. exactly. >> roger fisk and kyron, i have to leave it there. thanks to both of you. >> thank you. >> now back to the issue of the coronavirus vaccine. david spunt reporting. what does that mean for you family when we come back. needs help customizingre

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>> contrary to all of the lies, the vaccine, they'll say anything. it's so dangerous for our country, what they say. the vaccine will be very safe and very effective and it will be delivered very soon. now, you could have a very big surprise coming up. i'm sure you'll be very happy. >> president trump today at the white house a couple minutes ago accusing democrats of politicizing the developments of a covid-19 vaccine. he says we may see one next month after the cdc last week told states to be ready to distribute a potential vaccine by november 1. we bring in dr. marc siegel. good to see you, sir. is this up to the president or is this up to the fda or the cdc or the states? who makes the final call? >> actually, it's not up to the

president at all but the president could be reporting on intel that he's getting from the scientists. there's something called the data safety monitoring board. that board from helping human services does what it sounds likes, monitoring the ongoing clinical trials to see if they're safe and if you have events where people encounter the virus and the vaccine protects them. there's three vaccines in latter stage trials in the united states. pfizer, moderna and the oxford vaccine from england is also in trials here. we can use data from around the world for that vaccine. as they're monitored, if they decide that enough protection is shown and enough safety is shown, they may make a recommendation to the fda that the vaccine gets a conditional approval. >> you laid out all of these different manufacturers that are working on this including the who's who of drug companies. the "wall street journal" reporting that they will come together and issue a joint

statement saying that we're not going to push forward for commercialization individually but more as a group and we're going to have all of these to try to make the american public feel better about the safety an standards of this. i have never heard of that. have you? >> well, because -- i never heard of that either. leland, it's because of the politics of the situation here. this has been so overly politicized. what i'm excited about, the actual science. using new technology that has never been used before. showing robust immune response. now being given to 30,000 people here. the standard is being followed. what is new is ramping up manufacturing and potential distribution. that is why it's occurring so fast. i don't see any sign that the science is being compromised. >> you listen to the president when he talked about before november 1 and a potential surprise. then -- that was in response to kamala harris saying that she wouldn't necessarily trust a

vaccine that president trump endorsed. just to put a bow on this, it's not up to the president or not whether to decide whether he can endorse it or whether or not it's effective and whether or not it should be distributed. >> correct. it's not up to the president. one of the concerns i have is vaccine noncompliance in our communities. when the vaccine comes out, we have to work on the issue of fear and people should be more afraid of the virus than the vaccine, if the vaccine is effective. if we feel that the vaccine is safe. that's what is key. that's where the fda gets involved and cdc gets involved. i talked to dr. fauci. he thinks the vaccine will emerge in the fall. >> the letter from the drug companies saying one for all, all for one to get this done to speak with a consistent voice. dr. marc siegel, thank you. arthel? >> thank you, leland. >> thanks, dr. siegel. the president denying the report

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>> it was a phony story like the dirty dossier, the fake dossier. just like the russia collusion, just like all of the other phony stories and there will be more phony stories. >> president trump again today denying the report that he trashed fallen troops during a 2018 trip to france. an opinion piece in the hill said the story was to publish with anonymous sources so close to the election. bernard goldberg said when a politician make his dislike for the president, when he describe

as sorry as dead marines and suckers, it's crucial to back up the claim otherwise it looks like a hit job. hugo, journalists have unnamed sources, anonymous sources. doesn't mean if it a hit job that it's not credible. but does it work in the president's favor for the solicitors to remain anonymous? he can just dismiss the story as questionable. >> certainly it looks more questionable if the sources won't come forward. there is -- not exactly a rule but when you do a piece which is evidently designed to make the president look bad, it's a very bad piece, you want to see the sources. you know, on the other hand, also made the decision that the information he had was important enough that he was going to grant anonymity.

one of the things that i would like to see is more context for the actual words. it's notable i thought that when -- even john kelly thought that president trump was making a half handed effort to be admiring of his son when they were standing by his son's grave when he said i don't get it. what is in it for them. that is probably what president trump was doing, trying to make a compliment. it was only later that president -- that john kelly is said to have decided that this is a character flaw in president trump. clearly unless there's some sort of defeat here, john kelly didn't say this himself -- >> what you're saying context -- excuse me. the president in his press conference that we carried. listen, i get your point. you're saying that context is king. i think that's what you're telling me. so now i ask you, what if the sources go on report publicly? would that add credibility to their claims? would you believe their

allegations at that point? >> it would be -- look, i don't even say i disbelieve the allegations. it would certainly add a lot of credibility if people step forward and they had a first-happened account of what the president said, it would be a much stronger story. there is a suspicion that a lot of these -- the sources are not first hand and it's clearly the case with what john kelly's views about what president trump said at his son's grave site. if people came forward and said i heard president trump say this, that would be a more credible and damaging story. >> in 15 seconds, hugo, you know what happens to people that make their -- themselves known publicly. any sort of criticism in an inflammatory case like this. the rats come down on them. some people don't want it. they say i'll tell you what i know but i'm not going to reveal

myself. >> absolutely. yeah. journalists use anonymous sources. we want to use those for information. there's a tendency and a good tendency not to use them on a smear kind of attack piece. but it does happen. you know, perhaps jeffrey goldberg is right that the information is strong that he had to put this out even though he has to protect the sources. >> hugo, sorry for the truncated segment. thanks for hanging in there with us. thanks so much. leland? >> great conversation. one that will continue through the days and weeks. also talking about the coronavirus pandemic. so many young folks are rethinking college and even their career plans. the man known as the million dollar ditch digger has some advice. >> tech: when you've got auto glass damage...

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>> as covid-19 complicated college, more young people are considering alternative career paths. the man that they call the million dollar ditch digger is here with advice for them. ken rusk is a construction entrepreneur that hires, trains and develops job seeker that don't have college degrees. he's also the author of "blue collar cash." what are the best blue collar

jobs and where can one find a market for such jobs? >> the thing that happened -- first off, happy labor day. thanks for having me. our kids started to grow up looking at ipads and cell phones and they didn't get a chance to discover trades on their own like they might have in shop class and high school. so that's created a huge supply and demand problems for these types of jobs, which has created lucrative opportunities for people in carpentry and plumbing, crane operators, welders, electricians. these are great jobs and making a lot of money these days. >> how much is a lot of money and where are the jobs? if i wanted to move to a city with plenty of those jobs for the taking, where would i go? >> pretty much any city has had this simply and demand problems, this shortage for quite a while. anywhere there's construction or anything has to do with improving a home or fixing, repairing, those types of things, that's where all the

activity is right now. when you think about building a house these days, there's a good chance that the carpenter, the plumber, the stone mason, the people working on that house are making more than the people buying that house. we're seeing six figure jobs in a lot of these careers today. >> how do you get it though? you mentioned construction. you have the foreman. he usually has his go-to crew or her go-to crew that they use. so if i were to break in, what do i do? >> you simply have to do like anybody else would do. you have to get a job there, have to apprentice, have to learn from those people. you have to remember this: the average age of a construction worker in the trades these days is 52 to 55 years of age. those people are now starting to retire. for every five that are retiring, only one is replacing them. so again, that is creating a huge problem, a crisis of blue collar workers in america. again, wherever there a crisis, there's an opportunity for

someone to make a good living. >> all right. so do you have any websites or anything? you help get these folks hired, i believe we said. is there some sort of, you know, website that they can go to or do you have a book that they can read? i don't know. there's source material to help -- >> yeah, the book is called "blue collar cash." what we're seeing is a lot of parents are buying it for their kids as gifts and reading it together and just determining what their future could look like for some of these young people. you can get it at amazon or kenrusk.com or barnes & noble or anyplaces that sell books. >> i think it's interesting. there's a lot of people in this business that feel like -- or in this climate that feel like they need more education to survive. in this case, you're saying no, guys, let's go back to the basics and use your hands, blue collar jobs. ken rusk, have to go. i appreciate your advice for everyone today. thanks for joining us. happy labor day. >> great. thanks for having me.

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wisconsin. we'll keep monitoring that if she makes any news there in that conversation. i think an electrical factory. arthel, this is now -- we had the meeting with joe biden and jacob blake's family and now kamala harris clearly an issue that the democratic ticket wants to keep on the forefront heading in now for the last 60 days. >> yeah, in fact after senator harris leaves there, the training facility, she's going to be participating in -- what they're calling a build back better roundtable of the black business leaders in milwaukee. apparently they'll be talking about how she and mr. biden, should they win, how their administration will advance racial equality as part of the economic recovery. so racial equality front and center of her mind as she -- senator kamala harris visited

with the blake family following that shooting in kenosha, wisconsin. >> you think about the intersections of everything happen in wisconsin. this is a state that hillary clinton neglected. candidate trump won. the state that has seen an explosion in crime in milwaukee. seeing the death of jacob blake in kenosha, violence. the auto industry hit hard by the pandemic. if you want to say how does something play in peoria, you can change that to how do things play in kenosha or milwaukee where the vice president's tent is today talking about how much focus wisconsin will have in the presidential race over the next 50 or so days. >> absolutely. and i'm sure the folks of wisconsin are enjoying the attention as they deserve it. as you said, they were ignored four years ago. that may have served as

consequential for mrs. hillary clinton. >> get ready for a lot of television commercials if you're living in wisconsin. it's been a great labor day, arthel. we have jon scott in for bill hemmer. happy labor day. thanks for joining us. >> arthel and leland, thank you. i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. vice president nominee kamala harris meeting with union letters in milwaukee, wisconsin right now. a democratic strong hold in a key battleground state. the ticket is doubling down on this labor day. joe biden meeting with union members in swing state, pennsylvania. he says he will sign a law to make it easier for workers to organize and be labor's stronger ally ever in the oval office. president trump says joe biden would be a disaster for our economy. >> job, the radical sociali