experience will be very different. no tailgating and no alcohol sales after halftime. >> bill, looking forward to that. thanks for joining us. i'm john roberts. here's bill hemmer, a lot of people, the season is not going to officially start until the buccaneers face off against new england. >> bill: 4:00 sunday. thanks, john. have a great afternoon. good to see you. >> bill: good afternoon, everyone. i bill hemmer. interesting hour coming ahead. waiting to hear from the president as new revelations sweep through the campaign. bob woodward's new book claiming the up knew the virus was deadly. the white house said the president never lied about the virus. here's part of the comment that everybody is reacting to today. >> it goes through air, bob. that's always tough. the touch, you don't have to tough things. but the air, you just breathe the air. that's how it's passed.

so that's a very tricky one, a delicate one. it's also more deadly than your -- you know, even your strenuous flus. people don't realize, we lose 25, 30,000 people here. >> bill: the battle for swing states front and center. the campaigns focused on voters in michigan and pennsylvania. two states the president won narrowly in 2016. mike pence speaks north of pittsburgh p.a. and joe biden is in michigan sounding off on trump saying that he knowingly lied about the virus for months. we have team fox coverage with martha maccallum and jacqui heinrich in delaware, kristin fisher kicks off the news from the north lawn at the white house. kristin. >> hey, bill. we're talking and 18 on-the-record interviews that president trump did with bob woodward and there's tapes. there's a ton of headlines to sift through.

here's the two big ones when it comes to the pandemic. the first was the sound bite that you just played in which president trump told bob woodward in february that he believes that covid-19 is much worse than the flu, even though around the same time he was telling the american public the opposite essentially. the second one is this. >> well, i think, bob, really, to be honest with you -- >> i want you to be. >> i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down. because i don't want to create a panic. >> president trump saying he wants to play it down because he doesn't want to incite a panic. during the briefing, that the white house press secretary held, she was asked do you think that president trump intentionally misled the american people about the threat of covid-19. listen to how she responded. >> absolutely not. this president at a time when you're facing insurmountable

challenges, it's important to express confidence, it's important to express calm -- >> is playing it down is that expressing calm? >> now, dr. fauci in a way also came to president trump's defense. about an hour ago, he told our john roberts that he did not think that president trump was down playing the severity of the virus. the exact words he used, he did not get a sense that president trump was distorting the virus severity and we'll see how president trump defends himself. potentially in about 30 minutes. members of the white house press pool will get a chance to at least shout some questions. we'll see if president trump takes the opportunity to address this book. the whole purpose of this event in about 30 minutes is going to be the president unveiling his future supreme court picks. in 2016, president trump did this. it's a big deal. it's a big deal again today. tough to overshadow the tapes

coming from this new book. >> bill: thanks, kristin. leading our coverage there. now to jacqui heinrich about what we're hearing from the vice president's campaign today. jacqui? >> afternoon, bill. former vice president joe biden hit president trump hard on the economy accusing him of breaking promises to american workers. but first, he ripped the president over revelations in bob woodward's book that he knew about how deadly coronavirus was back in february and wanted to down play it. woodward released excerpts of his interview. president said he knew it was more dangerous than the flu. president trump also said he wanted to play it down so as not to create a panic. >> the president of the united states has admitted on tape in february he knew about covid-19 and it passed through the air. he knew it was more deadly than the flu. he knew and purposely played it

down. worse, he lied to the american people. he knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. >> biden wendt on to deride the president, what do you expect from a president that calls war veterans losers and suckers. the rest of the speak focused on the economy accusing the president of failing to live up to his promises of american workers by outsourcing american contracts to outside countries. biden said jobs would be protected. he cited auto manufacturing losses under the trump administration and touted job gains during the obama-biden administration and outlined his plans including and imposing a tax penalties on offshoring jobs. head said there's a better way. make it in america. he said donald trump and i have different philosophies when it

comes to giving words. mine means something. he appeared firely. he ended out without taking any questions. bill? >> bill: jacqui heinrich. and now martha maccallum, anchor of "the story" for analysis. couple things going on the last couple hours. your impressions about the woodward comments and move from there. >> it is extraordinary. the president gave bob woodward 18 hours of phone conversations. karl rove said every president gets convinced that bob woodward will be more sort of open with them and write a book that maybe won't be as unfavorable if they cooperate. the president did cooperate. there's indications from some of the white house that he cooperated more than they knew. that being said, when you look at the two revelations that kristin fisher just pointed out in this book, the two sound bites, one in february and one

in march, with regard to understanding how deadly this disease was, covid-19, but just keep in mind that january 20th is when the world became aware according to china that this disease was transmitted human to human. so that was well-known in the world by february 7. that it was transmitted by air. so this was not a revelation that the president was sharing with bob woodward on inside information. we knew it. we knew it was a deadly disease. people had already died from covid by february -- in asia. so those two things were not a secret from the american people. i think you'll hear more of that today. >> bill: i don't know what he says here, but did you hear the fauci? he didn't say i -- john was trying to figure out what you said in private and talked about private and before the coronavirus task force came out before the press, i didn't really see discrepancies or

distorting anything. where does that leave the argument? >> clearly dr. fauci sort of checked one off for president trump in his conversations. you go back to the public statements that were made. also around that time you had leaders from nancy pelosi to governor cuomo in new york encouraging people to go out to dinner. there wasn't a lot of momentum around mask wearing at that point nationwide. so we were in a very different point with our understanding ofco in february and march. that's just a fact. that's something that was across the board. this audio tape comes at a time when this is an issue that the president continues to be very vulnerable on in this campaign. time and time again, we see polls that show that the american people in different states across the country think that joe biden would do a better job of handling this issue than president trump. so clearly is a campaign issue that the president remains vulnerable on, bill.

>> bill: yeah. i guess it's likely that we're going to see -- this is the first of 20 news cycles over the next 50 days. >> absolutely. >> bill: we're barrelling toward it right now. >> you know, i couldn't agree more. you know, we watch the news cycles come and go in a faster, torrent than we have ever seen covering this. so when you think you have your arms around the issue on people's minds when they go to start voting and that voting will begin very soon, the ends of the month, brace yourself. there's always more to come. it's pretty amazing cycle. >> bill: so we're going to get into voting by american and absentee and all that. take you to the board. reaction for what you're seeing here on the board. this is what we found from a recent poll that just came about how republicans, democrats are so different in how they're approaching this vote. in-person, republicans two to one do it in personal.

asked whether or not absentee by mail, 2 to 1 democrats over republicans. 33 million in 2016, upwards of 140 million. they think this number could be 80 middle or higher what are you gauging right now as you dissect in whether or not you trust a mail-in ballot or do it in person? >> it's fascinating to note those numbers. tells you something about the people that constitute both parties. the republicans want to get out, vote, drop the envelope in the box or pull the lever behind the closed curtain. democrats are more comfortable with voting by mail no doubt about it. the other thing that is here, all of these districts are going to be dealing with numbers of mail-in ballots like they have never seen. so you and i will be covering election night, election week,

is it election month. the "wall street journal," this could be a decision that is even made by the courts as we saw in 2000. so it's beginning. >> bill: my other certain as america begins to open up more and more, you can see this in various states, that the tendency may grow to doing it more in person. see you at 7:00. a fox news alert. adam schiff says he has seen a whistle-blower complaints on suppressed intelligence reports on russian interference. we'll dig into that more and have more from the chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel here on that. president trump taking steps to fulfill another campaign promise announcing plans to bring home hungs of american troops from

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>> former vice president joe biden in michigan. he had a 5-point lead in march in the polls. now it's 3.2 today. president trump won michigan but viewer than 11,000 votes in 2016. chris stirewalt here. nice to see you. go back to the board. you miss this, don't you? it's very interesting where joe biden chose to go this is macomb county, michigan. north of detroit. a lot of reagan democrats. you saw what obama did in 2012. 52-48. this flipped in 2016. same county, warren, michigan, 56-44 for president trump. what kind of a way do these type of voter goes now in 2020? >> well, they go with the

candidate that they think will take their issues to heart. they're going to bring back the auto industry or help america recover ordeal with china. the thing that candidates that win there, you go up the ruther express way into this formerly haven of blue collar union voters that still keep a lot of that attitude. donald trump did so well there as he did with other places like that. you mentioned the reagan democrats. this is where ronald reagan did well, bill clinton did well and george w. bush and barack obama had success. these are swing voters but of a certain attitude and style that donald trump connected with. what you heard from joe biden today, he's taking back the message from trump to buy american and build american. it's an issue that democrats used to win on and talk about in places like, this tariffs, protectionism, punishing companies that outsource. democrats got away from it in

2016. joe biden is bringing it back. >> bill: "usa today," here's the quote. among the president's supporters, 83% said they're voting for him. 11% say they're voting against his opponent. among biden backers, 59% said near voting for him. 33% said they're voting against his opponent. that's the measure of enthusiasm. how do you gauge that? >> i don't know if it's a measure of enthusiasm. >> bill: 83% to 59. >> no, they -- so in 2016, clinton's voters liked her -- more exciting about voting for her than trump's voters. it's versed. the partisan flip is reversed. trump's base is enthused about him. as he proved, the votes count the same. republicans were voting against clinton more than voting for trump. this time democrats are voting for trump more than biden.

they count the same. republicans should not kid themselves into thinking that somehow this is a perfect measure of intensity. democrats hate donald trump like god hates sin and they will turn out to vote against him. republicans should be aware of that. >> bill: you wrote in the halftime report about five critical counties. you talked about lucerne, pennsylvania. this is lucerne county. you can see what barack obama did. 52-47. give or take a little bit. here's what happened four years ago. same county, 60%. are nose the same voters that you're talking about among reagan democrats in macomb county? are those the same type of voters or not? >> same type of voters. when democrats -- hillary clinton, a lot to be desired about hillary clinton in 2016. her inability to reach out to the white working class voters that had been ironically her own husband's core group of support. they talked about the bubbas.

she neglected them. joe biden is like bubba on bubby layered with bubba with a cherry on top. the fact that he's the democratic nominee is how much that democrats understand how their performance with these folks, this is the county neighboring joe biden's home. they picked biden because they know that they got shellacked with voters before and betting a lot that joe biden can take enough of them back from donald trump with whom they love the guy. these voters have loved donald trump. we'll see what biden can do. >> bill: about 3,000 more counties to get there. thanks, chris. >> you and me, brother. >> thanks now. more fallout over the bomb shell from bob woodward and the president's response to covid and details in a moment why a major vaccine trial has now been put on hold. ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance

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>> bill: we expect to see the president at 3:30. speaking at the white house, and will announce his future potential supreme court justices if he were to win a second term. a big issue in 2016 for him. we'll see what he has to say. 3:30 is the announced time. when it begins, we'll take you there. >> obviously when we would speak to the president, we talked about the cold facts. he would get them. often he would want to make sure that the country doesn't get down and out about things. i don't recall anything that was any gross distortion in things that i spoke to him about. >> bill: that is anthony fauci there. the doctor commenting here on fox about president trump's statements to bob woodward that

have now been printed. also on audio and the coronavirus. this is our nation's top health official weighing in on the search for a vaccine during a hearing on the hill. jonathan serrie is watching that from atlanta, the home of cdc headquarters today. jonathan? >> one of the top officials, francis collins from the hih assuring senators today science will be driving the timeline for vaccine development. he says he is cautiously optimistic that a safe and effective vaccine will be found before the end of this year. but he down played speculation of an election day surprise. take a listen. >> certainly to try to predict whether it happens on a particular week before or after a particular date in early november is well beyond anything that any scientist could tell you and be confident that they know what they're saying. so science and science alone is the way this decision is made. otherwise, i'll have no part of

it. >> the hearing comes as astra zeneca has placed a pause on their trial because of an inspecified illness in a volunteer is a side effect of the shot or merely coincidence. >> that is what clinical trials do. you're continuously seeing if there's any issues. out of caution, you put a hold when something serious happens and you want to see what the issue was. >> an spokesperson said they want to impact the timeline. the company says they're committed to the safety of volunteers, this temporary hold that astra zeneca does not affect two other promising trial. >> bill: thanks, jonathan. a live look at the white house,

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we want to bring maximo alvarez. he was at the republican convention. thanks for being here. good afternoon. >> thank you. good afternoon, bill. >> bill: picked up a couple things here. news week, biden losing latino support in south florida. is that true? >> well, you are talking to somebody that does not really pay attention to the polls. i do pay attention to people who i see every day. everybody who i see, they know me and they want to make me feel good. but they seem to be pretty much pro president trump. >> bill: you came to this country the age of 13, started a gasoline story. an american story in so many ways. i want your reaction to joe biden slamming the trump administration for what he considers an abject failure when it comes to policies regarding

venezuela and your native cuba. he says the policies are not working, the people left behind are the people that still live there. what do you think about that? >> bill, this is a very difficult argument. but i can assure you when i tell my story, it is simply something that i live. and i'm not trying to instill any kind of fear. i remember, you know, when older people talk to the younger people like i used to say when i was younger, things change. it's not the same. what i'm trying to do by telling my story, something that i lived, it's something that i know has happened in our back yard. so i am trying to tell the younger people, the younger

generation, trying to tell everybody, not only republicans but democrats, independents, anybody that in this great country of ours, to go on experience and go on and see what is happening in our back yard. what is happening in our back yard is exactly what happened in my country, the 1950s. this is exactly what started to happen in venezuela not very long ago. so when the other fellow running for president tells us anything, this gentleman -- the vice president of the country, this gentleman being in congress, this gentlemen has been a senator almost 50 years -- >> bill: that could very well be, maximo, but you're not alleging that joe biden is a socialist though? what are you driving at and

being so willing to tell your story almost as if it's a warning? bill, i will no longer use the word "socialist." this happened in my country, this is my bones, my body. socialist is a name that communists use to fool you. mr. biden may be or may not be, but i'm telling you, his policies, he's being totally influenced by radical people. you just heard somebody not very long ago say my ideas weren't extreme. today they're common knowledge, common media. this individual brags about being an extreme socialist, which i'm telling you not socialism, it's communism. it totaliarism. look at organizations where the people that run the

organizations tell you it. it took castro two years in power before they accepted him. he bragged that he was a capitalist. >> bill: he said he would reverse the u.s. policies if he's president, a couple seconds left here. where would that leave cuba and venezuela? would that help them? >> right now what we need to concentrate is in keeping america what america has always been. this is our biggest concern. rights now my opinion, cuba is long gone. venezuela is lost. we need to solve our problem. you cannot solve your neighbors problem until you solve your own family's problem. this is what donald trump is doing. he's been putting america first. we solve our prop here around then we'll help every neighbor that we have. this is the most generous country in the world. i am living proof.

if this country would not be as generous as it's been, i wouldn't be here talking to you. >> bill: ever since we saw you at the convention, we've been trying to get you on. thanks for your time today. you live in a county that more than half of the people are born out site the mainland u.s. thanks for your time. thank you. good luck. >> thank you. >> bill: waiting for a police update this hour. police retired early after protests from the department's response to the death of daniel prude. raising questions about policing in our country, the sheriff of butler county, ohio giving folks a firm warn against attacking law enforcement. he said you shoot a at the police, expect us to shoot back. this is sheriff jones. what do you mean by that? >> pretty simple. if you shoot at the police, we will shoot back. we had an incidence we were shot

at last week. we shot back. any time we're shot at, anywhere in the country, the police are under attack. make no mistake about it, bill. they're under attack all over the country. we will shoot back. if you come at the police with knives, that's deadly force. if you throw bricks and you have a brick in your hand and you're going to hit a police officer in the head or anywhere a brick will kill you this isn't a novel idea. police are under attack. they're allowed to go home. these politicians are putting police out there as targets-with they can have projectiles thrown at them, fireworks, professional fireworks shot at them. knock their eyes out. assault them. these police officers are under the supervision of police chiefs. they all have bosses. they're put out there and they have to take it. >> bill: let me get a few questions in here. you say police have not been strong enough about rioters and

proteste protesters. >> absolutely correct. >> bill: where? >> everywhere in the big cities. new york. they're not even allowed to -- they take and throw buckets of water on their head and they have to run and get in their car and leave. they stand out. they take bricks. they put fences up. they don't go in and make massive arrests which they're supposed to. >> bill: sheriff, do you lay that at the feet of the police officers or the leadership? >> it's the leadership. it's not the police officers, bill. it's the leadership. they're not allowed to -- the police chiefs are resigning all over the country in big cities because they're controlled by the mayors, city council. they're not permitted to do their job. the people that are punished the most are the people that live in these communities. >> bill: you think that is true for washington, rochester, portland, seattle? >> oh, yeah. >> bill: chicago? >> absolutely. i talked to police from all over the united states. they're not allowed to do their

job. the chiefs are not allowed to speak out. if they do, they get punished for it. texas people like sheriffs -- i get elected every four years. my boss are the people. i speak for the people. i communicate, i belong to the national sheriffs. we communicate. i've had police chiefs called me from all over the country. i've talked to them locally. >> bill: sheriff, i want to squeeze in one more comment. come to this county, butler county, expressing a free pass to harm one of my men or women, keep in minds nothing in life is free. sounds like a threat. >> it's not a threat. it's true. we have gun shots. people in this community have guns and they're trained. this stuff spreads, bill. don't think it's just in the big cities, what you see. it's coming to a community near you. spreads from california, new york. disrespect of the police. throwing the police under the bus and making them scape goats,

letting them stands out and get injured. police won't take that. they're standing up. >> bill: thank you for your time, sir. richard jones, butler county. know it well. thanks for sharing your story. keep it safe. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> bill: back to our top story. president trump will be at the podium any moment now set to unveil a list of judicial appointees. let's take a break. we'll be right back. boom! that's freshly made, baby! get a free footlong when you buy two subway. eat fresh®.

>> bill: here we go. the president is out now. let's drop in on the white house. >> all will hold and uphold the constitution as written. what has always made american exceptional, the reverence for the impartial rule of law.

people have come from all over the world the pursue the american dream based on this sacred principle, equality under the law is the bedrock of our society. it's the principle that inspired american heros to abolish american slavery and segregation, secure civil rights and build the most free and just nation in american history. unfortunately, there's a growing radical left movement that rejects the principle of equal treatment under the law. if this extreme movement is granted a majority on the supreme court, will fundamentally transform america without a single vote of congress. radical justices will erase the second amendment, silence political speech and require taxpayers to funds extreme late-term abortion. they will give unelected bureaucrats the power to destroy millions of american jobs.

they will remove the words "under god" from the pledge of allegiance. they will unilaterally declare the death penalty unconstitutional, even for the most depraved mass murders. they will cripple police departments, erase borders and grants new protections to anarchists, rioters, violent criminals and terrorists. in the recent past, many of our most endangered freedoms like free speech and the right to keep and bear arms have been saved by a single vote on the united states supreme court. our cherished rights are at risk including the right to life and our great second amendment. over the next four years, america's president will choose hundreds of federal judges and in all likelihood one, two, three and even four supreme

court justices. it will determine if we hold to the our principles or whether they're lost forever. that's why tomorrow i'm announcing 20 additions to my original list of candidates for the united states supreme court. should there be another vacancy on the supreme court during my presidency, my nominee will come from the names i have shared with the american public including original list and these 20 additions. joe biden has refused to release his list perhaps because he knows the names are so extremely far left that they could never withstand public scrutiny or rereceive acceptance. he must release a list of justices for people to properly make a decision as to how they will vote. it's very important that he do so. my original list of potential justices include many of our nation's brightest legal minds such as bill pryor, amy barrett

and thomas hardiman. outstanding people. like those distinguished individuals, the 20 additions that i'm announcing today would be jurist in the mold, justices clarence thomas and samuel alito. the names are as follows. bridget bady of arizona. judge on the ninth circuit court of appeals. daniel cameron of kentucky. attorney general of the commonwealth of kentucky. paul clement of virginia. former solicitor general of the united states. senator tom cotton of arkansas. senator ted cruz of texas. stewart kyle duncan of louisiana. judge on the fifth circuit court

of appeals. stephen engle of the district of columbia. assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel at the department of justice. noel francisco, former solicitor general of the united states. senator josh hawley of missouri. james hoe of texas, judge on the fifth circuit court of appeals gregory katsus, judge on the district of columbia circuit court of appeals. barbara lugoa, the 11th circuit court of appeals. christopher landau, ambassador to mexico. martha packoff of illinois,

judge of the district court for the northern district of illinois. peter phipps of pennsylvania. judge on the third circuit court of appeals. sarah piklick of missouri. judge on the district court. alice rushing, judge on the fourth circuit court of appeals. kate todd of virginia, deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president. lawrence van dyke of nevada. judge on the ninth circuit court of appeals. every one of these individuals will ensure equal justice, equal treatment and equal rights for citizens of every race, color and religion. together we will preserve our mag enough -- magnificent way

of life. thank you. does anybody have questions on the judges? anybody? any questions? they're you'd standing people. very important decision. very important that joe biden put up potential nominees. it's very important thing for our country that he do that. okay. please go ahead. do you have a question? >> you grant the concerns from the politco report in records to whether you intended to mislead the public by down playing the coronavirus? have you repeatedly done that in order to reduce panic? >> i think if you said in order to reduce panic, perhaps that's so. i'm a cheerleader for this country. i love there country. i don't want people to be frightened. i don't want to create panic as you say. certainly i'm not going to drive this country or the world into a

frenzy. we want to show confidence. we want to show strength, we want to show strength as a nation. that's what i've done. we've done very well. we've done well from my standard. you look at our numbers compared to other countries, other parts of the world, it's been an amazing job that we've done. i think it's very sad in many respects because the incredible individuals working so hard on it including our vice president, they've done this great job. they haven't been acknowledged by the news media. they should for the job we've done. whether it's ventilators and now you'll see very soon with vaccines and therapeutics. the job we've done has been incredible. but we don't want to instill panic. we don't want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem, scare everybody. we immediately started buying all over the world. we started buying masks and gowns and everything else.

we don't want to cause pricing to go up to a level that becomes almost unaffordable. so yeah, that sense i agree with you. >> how do you agree sharing with the american public going forward that they can trust what you're saying? >> it's a big part of trust. we have to have leadership, show leadership. the last thing you want to do is create a panic. it was horrible. it was sent to us by china. should have never have happened. a disgusting, terrible situation that was hoisted upon us. we have to show -- we don't want -- the best word is panic. we don't want to have to show panic. we're not going to show panic. that's what i did. was very open, whether it's to woodward or anybody else. it's another political hit job. whether it was woodward or anybody else, you cannot show a sense of panic or you're going to have bigger problems. please. >> in february, you said it's

more deadly than your flu. >> go ahead, please. >> mr. president, don't you think if you were more forthright with the american people more lives could have been saved? you took responsibility at all for the 200,000 deaths that we've had? >> i think if we didn't do what we did, we have had millions die. we closed the country. closed it up very quickly. very effectively. we did a job. we learned about this horrible disease along with the rest of the world which had to learn about it. we opened it up. now we know the vulnerable, who it attacks. we've done from every standpoint an incredible job. we shouldn't have lost anybody. nobody should have lost. china released something that they shouldn't have -- they should have not released. came out of china. went to europe, went all over the world. should have never happened. they could have stopped it. they stopped it from going to

the remainder of china. they didn't stop it here. we had to show calm. if it was up to you or whoever, i have no idea what he said in the book. again, it's a book that i gave him some quotes and frankly we'll see how the book turned out. i have no idea. you're asking me questions for the first time. again, the last thing we can show is panic or excitement or fear or anything else. we had to take care of -- we had to take care of the situation we were given. now, long before anybody else wanted to do it, i closed our borders to a very heavily infected china. if i didn't do that, we would have had hundreds of thousands more people die. dr. fauci said it. many people said it. it was a great decision. it was a decision i made and i had to make. it was with a decision that a lot of people thought i was

wrong. nancy pelosi said i was wrong. joe biden said i was wrong. they all came back and they said it was the right decision. i was way early. that was in january. the ends of january i did that. so that was a very good thing we did. otherwise we would have had hundreds of thousands more. if we didn't close the country, we would have been talking about millions of people instead of the numbers that we have right now. >> you mentioned that you were trying to avoid price gouging. you mentioned to bob woodward that the virus spread through the air and on february 7. you didn't begin until march, you didn't start -- >> you didn't really think it was going to be to the point where it was. all of a sudden the world was infected. the entire world was infected. everybody was scrambling around looking where to buy face masks and all of the other things. we've opened up factories, had tremendous success with face markets and shields and the

ventilators. we're supplying the rest of the world. we have all of the ventilators that we can use. not one person that needed a ventilator didn't get it. very complex, expensive machines to make. we opened up something that hadn't been done since the second world war. we've done an incredible job. but we don't want to run around, screaming, shouting oh, look at this, look at this. we have to show leadership. leadership is about confidence. confidence is confidence in our country. our people have been great. we've been put through a lot by china, by releasing this, by having this come here. we were put through a lot. they could have done something about it and they chose not to. i'm very honored to have presented to you today a list of 20 incredible people and we will talk later. i'm sure we'll meet later in the day. thank you. >> so there it is from the

diplomatic room at the white >> bill: >> bill: so that is from that of a modicum the white house. the story getting all the attention as we talk about covid, reducing panic, that story will continue. we will get more on that. here is neil. >> neil: thank you very much, the president wrapping up seconds ago, 20 nominees he would sit do not consider the supreme court, more questions on what he knew and when he knew it on the deadly coronavirus, this auto time when a bob woodward book is coming out in a few days, all the details are out right now pay the difference in the bob woodward book is that his 18 suppose a conversations with the president were all recorded, you've been hearing some of those recordings by the fallout on all of that right now. welcome, everybody, glad to be with you. i'm neil cavuto and this is "your world." the president was maybe trying