i'm dana perino. bill hemmer, we are on your home to her pier, talking about joe montana. >> bill: yes you are you are. >> dana: you remember that from your childhood. >> bill: i was all you a quick story, takes about seven seconds very joe montana, you are responsible for the two of the worst days of my childhood. he said "i hear from a lot of people." nice to see you, hang on. >> bill: welcome to the broadcast here live in cleveland, president trump and joe biden taking the stage tomorrow night with the first of three presidential debates but this one might mean the most. chris wallace will moderate i'm of the big debate set to start at 9:00 eastern time. president trump speaks from the rose garden about coronavirus testing. we will see if he takes questions, other major stories we are watching including "the new york times" battle over the open cws supreme court.

meanwhile, his opponent joe biden taking a break today to get ready for the big debate tomorrow night. we are in the part of the country that determines whether that election, northeastern ohio is a big part of the state, in 2016 we are going to show that to you and again as the election day approaches, some 36 days away. joe biden is on the trail preparing for tomorrow night's debate, peter doocy reporting in cleveland, ohio. peter, good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon, bill, he's getting ready by preparing himself, bracing himself for personal attacks as opposed to just policy attacks. >> it is going to be difficult, i know, my guest be my guess is it's going to be a straight attack, that's the only thing he knows

how to do, he's not that smart. >> the former vp is staying in delaware today, he's not going to get into town until tomorrow and remember during the primary debates, rivals mostly left him alone with the exception of kamala harris, who is now on the ticket. kamala looks back on the days of challenging joe biden fondly. >> >> who threw the best shade during the democratic primary debate? you've got to pick one. >> besides myself? >> biden has never participated in a presidential debate but he has participated in two vice presidential's, paul ryan and sarah palin. there is a question of whether there is going be a drug test as though it is an mma fight. there is not going to be. president trump said he would submit some sort of a sample for

a performance-enhancing drug destest, he alleges that biden s been taking something. a campaign official looks like it like this. "vice president intends to deliver his answers in words rate if the president thinks his best case is made in urine, he can have at it." there are plenty of very qualified people in the neighborhood here who could administer such a test but it's not going to happen. bill? >> bill: thank you, peter. peter doocy watching that one. we will bring in our panel, dana perino, anchor of "the daily briefing" and cohost of "the five" and juan william will enter our discussion as well. nice to see you both. what is your expectation tomorrow? it's the first time i've had a chance to ask you what you think happens. >> i think it's clear that the president is trailing in the polls pretty consistently, so i think what you need here is the game changer from president trump.

i think that's why we are talking about stuff like drug tests, clearly nothing to do with anything but i guess it's entertaining and i think for former vice president biden it's about being steady and conveying to people that they can trust him to be president. >> bill: dana, go ahead and size it up and the way that only you can. >> wow, okay, that's a lot of pressure. i think on the point about the drug test, i didn't love the biden campaign response in which they kind of pushed back and did it in a way that tried to sound like trump. and when people do that it doesn't work. it falls flat. think about marco rubio about he tried to talk about the president's hand size, they would've been better off just saying "we will see you on tuesday, champ" and not try to deal with him on that level. the other thing is i don't think the president needs to constantly go after joe biden's mental acuity. if joe biden is not sharp tomorrow night everyone will see it and that's, he doesn't have

to continue to poke at him at him. >> bill: conversely if there is our gaffe it will be replayed repeatedly for days and days to come. joe biden was asked about that over the weekend. here's how they kind of answer that. >> your husband has been known to make the occasional gaffe. >> you can't even go there. after donald trump you cannot even say the word "gaffe." >> i cannot say the word "gaffe?" >> don, it's gone. so over. >> bill: so last week it was iran and iraq, 2 million deaths from covid, the list is pretty gone. >> you play this game, i think this is part of what dana was referring to her mother trump campaign i think has ill-served themselves by lowering

expectations for joe biden. donald trump does gaffe's on a daily basis, a daily basis an and -- >> bill: give me one from today. >> i haven't been following. >> bill: give me one from yesterday. >> yesterday he had the most rambling, incoherent press conference. if you are going to come before the american people on a sunday afternoon you think it might make the news. >> bill: here's what i think is unique about tomorrow night. the way we understand it, chris wallace is going to start with president trump, give them a question, 2 minutes to answer it. joe biden then can reply on the two of them are expected to engage. i think that is where the drama is held in how these two men take and one of the categories is your record, your political record, how do you make the argument about one of the other? >> i think you're president trump it's very different from 2016, he didn't have a list of policy accomplishments and now he does.

joe biden as i'm sure president trump will say, has been there for 47 years, nothing got solved, and i you want to be president after i came in and fix all the problems? i can imagine it. the other thing is americans are looking for them to be respectful of each other, right? and it's going to be difficult because they are going to be amped up and they're going to want to punch and counterpunch but i think listening and trying not to interrupt and allowing for the moment to come or you make the moment because remember, debate moments don't just happen, they are made. >> bill: on that point, the lack of an audience could have an impact on whether you land anything or not. thank you, nice to see you, dana. i could talk for an hour with you guys. >> we could talk with you. >> bill: have a lot more people to talk to, nice to see you. in the meantime, president trump about 20 minutes from now. we're going to get to kristin fisher and what she expects today. >> this upcoming announcement in

the rose garden is about a new initiative to deploy more coronavirus tests nationwide. over the last week or so the supreme court vacancy nomination of judge amy coney barrett has sussed out a lot of the oxygen here in washington so the white house wants to make sure that the president is really front and center on the coronavirus heading into tomorrow's debate. in terms of how president trump is getting ready for tomorrow, he said he is doing some debate prep. people like chris christie and rudy giuliani playing the role of joe biden but the president also said he believes the best debate prep that he does is the back and forth with reporters that he does on a regular basis like the briefing he held at the white house just yesterday. >> i think this whole thing is debate prep. what i do is debate prep every day, i take questions from you people all the time, i've taken a lot of questions from you over the last number of years and he doesn't. >> two of the biggest issues the white house is dealing with

right now heading into tomorrow's debate are the battle to get judge amy coney barrett confirmed before election todayy and a "new york times" report claiming that "donald j. trump page $750 in federal income taxes that year he won his presidency and his first year in the white house he paid another $750 and paid no income tax at all in ten of the previous 15 years largely because he reported losing much more money than he made. president trump is just missing that report is fake news saying "i paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled like everyone else to depreciation and tax credits." president trump is continuing to say that eventually he will release his tax returns but not until this decade-long audit is complete, bill. >> bill: we are waiting for that event in the rose garden, thank you for standing by on that. in cleveland as we wait to hear for the president back in d.c.

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♪ >> bill: a live look back here in cleveland, ohio, so many major political events going back five years, the summer of 22015, we came back here for the republican convention and now we are back in cleveland, ohio, on the east side of the excellent outstanding medical facility. communications director for president trump's campaign join me live, getting ready for events tomorrow night. did you know that "new york times" story was going to drop yesterday on the president's taxes and tax history? >> we didn't have any warning it was coming but it's not a surprise, they used the same

playbook in 2016, they dropped it right before the first debate about the president's taxes. they tried it in 2016, this has been litigated in front of the voters before, the president released more than 100 pages of financial records and americans made their judgment in 2016 and elected him president. there's nothing in there that changes anyone's mind, the president has paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes, the story is completely and inaccurate. >> bill: on the one aspect of the report, how do i feel about zero being in the line where the president is expected to pay taxes? >> it's just inaccurate, the president has made tens of millions of dollars. >> bill: how does a vote or interpret that? >> the voter should look at that and realize it's "the new york times" doing the same thing they did in 2016. at what point does it become a contribution to the biden campaign to run that same playbook.

the president has paid millions of millions of dollars in taxes, 10,000 words in "the new york times," that's just a fact and people read that story and they should know that this is "the new york times," they've been out to get the president from the very beginning and they try this in 2016 and voters rejected it, the president has been transparent about this. they also uncovered, the media didn't want to believe this but "the new york times" was forced to confirm that the reason the president hasn't released his taxes is because he has been under audit for ten years in "the new york times" confirmed that end of the media didn't want to hear that and they didn't want to hear that there's connection t no connection to russia or any other foreign interest. it's fake news. it's very frustrating where they would spend 10,000 words on something that has already been reported on four years ago and spend no words at all on the fact that hunter biden got a three and a half million dollar wire from the billionaire wife of the former mayor of moscow,

three and a half million dollars to hunter biden when his father was vice president of the united states, "the new york times" doesn't care, most of the mainstream media doesn't care about any of that and i wonder why, because their main goal all the time is to throw up barriers to try to undermine, criticize and defeat president trump, that's our whole mission. >> bill: two more minutes, two more topics. debate prep, how would you describe it on behalf of the president? speak of the president gets ready for debates by being the president and i think by going before and having his skirmishes with the hostile washington, d.c., press corps. we expect the guy who has been in washington 47 years, joe biden came through in democrat primaries and managed to beat 24 opponents. joe biden is a guy who knows his way around the debate stage, a lot of people in washington know him as the guy who won't shut up when he's in the senate and he's

a master debater. >> bill: joe biden yesterday suggested the president isn't as smart as he thinks he is, why has the president have been harping on that aspect of joe biden's help for weeks now? >> i think it's pretty obvious that joe biden has his good days and his bad days and there's got to be some reason for that. the president was serious about that. he said "i will take a drug test and let's go in there." i guess the answer from camp biden is a no on that. >> bill: last question, do you expect tomorrow night to move the needle much? the percentage of undistorte und voters seems to be quite small. >> this is an opportunity to get joe biden once and for all to defend the fact that he is carrying this radical left agenda for his party. these are things of the mainstream press corps does not ask him, they never pressed him

on his radical agenda that he's carrying. >> bill: the president on those issues -- >> this is an opportunity to show the real contrast between them, the president has an excellent record, he built the world's best economy in months, joe biden is an economic failure throughout the course of his five years in washington and now he's going to raise taxes on everybody right when recovery is getting underway. >> bill: thank you for your time, we will speak again tomorrow, thank you, tim. a showdown over the highest court in the land continues, now underway at capitol hill. i will speak about the process to confirm amy coney barrett, that's next after this. alright, everyone, we made it. my job is to help new homeowners who have turned into their parents.

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beco i clerked for justice scalia more than 20 years ago but the lessons i learned still resonate. his judicial philosophy is mine, too. i judge it must apply the law as written. judges are not policymakers and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold. >> bill: judge amy coney barrett speaking over the weekend as lawmakers get ready for a fight over her supreme court nomination. lindsey graham saying the hearing will begin october 12, he will meet with her tomorrow in his office late in the afternoon, the hearing could be just two weeks away. the judicial crisis network, nice to see you today, what do you think america will learn

about her judicial track record? >> i'm excited for people to get to see more of judge barrett's track record because she has an outstanding record in terms of what she said, following the law as justice scalia did come of the text of the law and text of the constitution covers so many areas from religious freedom, second amendment, all these cases where she's been careful to really clarify it's not their job to be legislating and rewriting the law, that's the job of the legislature and she just wants to stick to what the text says, sometimes that means conservative results, sometimes it means liberal results but it always means legal and constitutional results and that's what we should want in a judge. >> bill: in the senate with 55 votes, three of the vote she got were from democrats, two of those democratic senators are

still in the senate today, tim kaine from virginia, joe manchin from west virginia. will either of them vote for her this time around? >> i would hope that both of them and maybe even other democrats would vote for her, i know the political pressures are intense because their radical wings of the party are trying to say, take no prisoners, nothing's off the table that kind of thing but it's going to be a hard when you see an outstanding, accomplished woman, a real trailblazer in many ways, justice ginsburg commente, she d on saturday, had shattered the glass ceiling, i think it's going to be hard to look her in the face and say wow, this outstanding and articulate woman shouldn't be on the court. >> bill: i think with regard to senator kaine the whole up merrick garland thing is in the way for him. i want to interpret a moment in

2017, that hearing with senator feinstein and your interpretation. >> i think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. the law is totally different. and i think in your case, professor, when you read your speech is, the conclusion one draws is that the dog lives loudly within you. and that's of concern. >> bill: that has to do with her religion, or catholicism, how is that interpreted by those watching the appearances and how does that turn out? >> i think a lot of people saw that i think correctly as really pushing up against the constitutional limits on having a religious test, you're a

little too religious or maybe the wrong religious, none of that is constitutional and remember justice ginsburg herself articulately spoke about her own' jewish faith inspiring her search for justice and desire to go into the law in the first place, that something we should celebrate, shouldn't something we should be attacked for and i hope they don't go down this route. i think a lot of democratic strategists are saying, maybe that's not a good look for us. tell senator feinstein and all the people who are already suggesting, well, maybe she ought to be asked questions, that's not right and that's not what i expected from the party of jfk. >> bill: i've got 100 more questions, i wish we had more time. we will have a lot of time to talk about it, october. thanks for coming back here. in the meantime, live in the

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>> bill: awaiting the president t's rose garden event, the planned topic will be covid response, a lot of this could deal with testing so if he takes questions we will bring that to you live when it happens. my colleague now, martha maccallum live from cleveland, ohio, we spent a lot of time together in cleveland, ohio. >> i think we spent a year in

cleveland together in 2016. >> bill: how does it look to you? >> it's quite impressive, to a kind of change venues over the course of covid-19, it looks great in there and i think people are going to be surprised at how the people who are in there, 80-100 is the estimate, fill that room. it's a great space. >> bill: how important is this debate on how you make decisions in 2020. extremely important has 18%. not at all has 24%. look at the top line, if you are saying this debate is extremely important to your vote, 84 million in 2016 watch debate number one, that's a lot of ma math. >> i was trying to do the very complicated math of adding together the top three categories and is roughly more

for those who say it doesn't matter at all. most people say it does matter to them either somewhat or extremely and i think that's where you're going to get tuning in over the course of this exciting debate tomorrow night. i think there are a lot of folks who have already decided although i did meet a few people in ohio in the past couple days who said they are watching the debate to figure out who they're going to vote for. >> bill: why was that? >> they are on the offense, most of them said they voted for president trump last time but they are not so sure and the behavior and rhetoric bothered them but they're not so sure about joe biden. i think, you know better than anybody being from ohio, it's a really broad makes in this area. >> bill: you know how they are feeling, some of the rules now on the screen, no handshakes between the candidates and the moderator chris wallace, once on stage neither candidate nor chris wallace will wear a mask and on and on it goes way

chris wallace will bring the president on first and pose a question, yes 2 minutes to answer it, joe biden can respond end of the two men after that are expected to go at each other. >> i like when there is no opening statements, i think everybody wants to see them dive right in. hello, thank you for coming, here's the first question. i think it starts off with an exciting bang. i think this tax issue is going to be something joe biden is going to dig in on, the $750 number is going to stick in people's heads and president trump has to be ready with an answer for that. the whole scranton versus park avenue lineup of discussion for joe biden parlays quite nicely with that so i'd expect them to take advantage of that. >> bill: something you and i and all of our colleagues have been asked on the street or in the office or whatever that may be in the neighborhood, they'll say, who do you think is going to win? and what i've been saying for a week is to keep it until

wednesday and see how it turns out tuesday night. if joe biden comes out with an energy people don't expect that change things a little bit. if you have a significant gaffe on behalf of joe biden is going to be played repeatedly for days if not weeks. >> i think if you are in the trump campaign, you are better off if you say "we expect joe biden to win tonight." we've been hearing this from the president all week, you know, i do this job every day, and then they get in the room and it's them versus the other guy who has been preparing and preparing and preparing so it can be a bit of a challenge for an incumbent president, so for his camp they should hope that he's ready. >> bill: as far as with the media every day -- >> that's what they're saying, yeah. >> bill: nice to see you.

thank you, martha. as we get ready for debate number one here in cleveland, nancy pelosi warning members of the house to get ready for the possibility that neither candidate will win the electoral college. mike emanuel runs that story now, live in washington with us today. >> bill, good afternoon, speaker nancy pelosi morning democrats of the race for the white house could come down to them but it's complicated. writing "instead of giving every member of congress to vote, the 12th amendment gives each state one vote which is determined by a delegation, in other words how many state delegations of the democrats win in an upcoming election could determine who our next president is. republicans currently lead with delegations, democrats control 22, pennsylvania, michigan democrats lead 7-6 but with a retirement in a conservative district michigan could soon be starting to 7-7. pelosi emphasized that the delegation strategy could help

elect more democrats to the house is well-paid > well. >> this has collateral, by the time you get to the house, he has all kinds of violations of our democracy that could end up there because that's what the constitution said. >> doug collins reacting on twitter. "speaker pelosi is already lining up her troops to decide the result of the november election. a quic quick reminder to my democratic colleagues. >> bill: mike emanuel in washington. we are given the few minute warning a short time ago so we will see momentarily how this turns out. we were led to believe that this will go to the testing about covid and priorities for some americans, that would expect

schools and nursing homes to be at the top of that list. i'm going to squeeze in my friend geraldo rivera who is in cleveland, ohio, sitting next to me, nice to see you in person my friend. welcome back to ohio. good to be home during these to be eight times, it's nice to see you again, what would you expect with regard to testing, what's a priority? >> i think making it available to everyone, i would like to see it like a home pregnancy test, in terms of pink or blue, whatever it is. here at the cleveland clinic which is my neighborhood doctor's office and obviously hospital, they've been very active with the testing but it's been uneven and that you have to wait a day or two at the results back. when the president was here because of the urgent situation, they had results back for me in 15 minutes and today it was like an hour and 15 minutes. i'd like to see uniformity,

availability, reliability and i think that would put the nation back into more -- >> bill: i agree with that, they are making 150 million of these things a month, it just takes time to roll that out and once that's accomplished you're going to be able to get access to that. i think the big hang up is they were waiting seven days and if you had to wait seven days that test was essentially worthless. >> this result that i got for tomorrow night's debate is good until the end of tomorrow and that's about what it should become a 48 hours. in that you really have to take it again and again and again and i had to why we are all waiting for a vaccine. >> bill: if he comes out and says schools are my priority, nursing homes are my priority, that will go a long way to help ease some of the angst you're describing. >> i know that going to school tomorrow for the first time, 15 years old, just starting

high school and tomorrow will be her first day physically in school, she's been virtually learning for several weeks. they've given the parents that option, if you're worried even under the circumstances that they've developed which are extreme caution and plastic partitions between desks and temperature checks out the door and all the rest of it, then you can keep your child at home and keep them virtually learning. that's a tragedy. i was saying to her last night, we want you to go to school, we want you to experience what it's like in high school for the first time and i love them and, i'm so glad she's not a senior, her senior year. >> bill: your beautiful young daughter notwithstanding, there are school districts throughout the state of ohio who have been in class for more than a month and they've been playing football and they've been playing soccer and stair i suggested a guilt of the big ten into playing football again,

they made them look bad. >> at the president had a lot to do with that end ohio state had a lot to do with the big ten's ultimate decision. football and intramural sports in general are so important to life in the midwest. you know, as a lifelong new yorker sports were always kind of in the perspective, okay, you're good, you're good. here, there are high school rankings that come out weekly, parents are totally engaged, there's a whole social life that develops around the browns a couple miles away, 6,000 spectators last week in a stadium that holds almost ten times that number, it's kind of sad in a way. i feel melancholy. >> bill: the sense of community you get in the midwest that you probably don't get in manhattan or brooklyn. when you think about western pennsylvania and ohio and michigan and wisconsin and

minnesota and before he speaks i'm going to get you to answer this, that is the sense of community in this part of the country. >> it is and the election will be decided in the suburbs. >> bill: thank you, geraldo. the president at the rose garden. >> >> president trump: last week we crossed a historic milestone when the united states conducted our 100 millionth test. far more than any other country and not even close, actually i'm a second seems to be india with 1.5 million people and the numbers would be at least 50 million more tests by us, we've conducted more tests than the entire european union and of more than of latin america combined. we are thrilled to be joined by vice president mike pence, secretary of health and human services alex azar, secretary of education betsy divorce, administrator for the centers for medicine and medicaid

services, and admiral giroir whs done such an incredible job. we are also joined by mississippi governor tate reeves and a tremendous victory, we are so proud of you. and as well by robert ford, robert, thank you very much. great job. today i'm pleased to report that we are announcing our plan to distribute 150 million rapid point-of-care tests in the coming weeks, very, very soon. this will be more than double the number of tests already performed and here is our plan, 50 million tests will be going to protect the most vulnerable communities which we've always promised to do including 18 million for nursing homes, 15 million for assisted living facilities, 10 million for home health and hospice care agencies and nearly 1 million for historically black colleges and

universities and also tribal nation colleges, 100 million rapid point-of-care tests will be given to states and territories to support efforts to reopen their economies and schools immediately and as fast as they can. the support my administration is providing will allow every state on a very regular basis to test every teacher who needs it. this continues our critical effort to use testing to protect high-risk communities. these new abbott rapid point-of-care tests are easy to use and returned results within just minutes, we will have the result that a maximum 15 minutes, no machine is required to process them so in the old days when we just started these, we'd go out and we'd have defined these massive laboratories with tremendously expensive equipment, that was just something you'll see that is really from a different planet. i would like to ask you, admiral

giroir two come up and demonstrate how these tests are performed. we'll do this very nicely, hope you don't positive. >> thank you, mr. president. as of today, the nation has performed over 111 billion tests for the virus causing covid. we have achieved tests over 1 million per day in the average test number is now approximately 920,000 per day. we are now at an inflection point for testing, we have available on average 3 million tests per day, which could multiply that number. nearly half of our current tests are rapid point-of-care. all the actions of our administration including aggressive use, hundreds of millions of dollars in hhs and

dod investment and regulatory flexibility including over 200 fda authorizations, and application of the prep act have led us to this inflection point. which brings us to why we are here today. on august 27th after months of planning and only after one day, the trump administration awarded a contract of $760 million to abbott for the delivery of 150 million of these abbott rapid tests. the test reflects the presence of the antigen and that swab comes with tests and the reason why swabs are here is because the administration in $120 billion in investments to make the swabs available to use my habit. it does not require instruments to determine the results, in

15 minutes a result. testing may be performed by laboratories, this is not a home test but during the health emergency, laboratories are permitted to extend their certificate to operate in temporary sites like schools or churches or parking lots. so although we anticipate the tests will generally be performed by a trained individual on a patient i will demonstrate a self-swab for you to show you how easy the test is performed. so literally it almost could not be easier, it starts with six drops of liquid onto a piece of paper. one, two, three, four, five, six. and then there is a nasal swab and again, this is not the deep brain biopsy that we talk about. this is generally done by a health care provider but it can be done supervised.

one, two, three, four, five. into the test, twisted three times. the adhesive is pulled off and you wait 15 minutes and that is the test. it really could not be easier and this is a very sophisticated little piece of cardboard with lots of antibodies and incredibly technology. we've already shipped 65,000 of these two disaster operations in california, oregon, texas, and louisiana and we've already shipped 2.1 million tests to 77,600 nursing homes, over 900,000 tests to assisted living and 339,000 tests to historically black colleges and universities. today we start the shipment of 100 million tests to governors beginning with a total of 6.5 million tests this week to be shipped this week. this is in addition to the continuing support to other

priorities like nursing homes rate allocation to states and territories is based strictly on the relative populations. governors have the fox ability to use these tests as they see fit but we strongly encourage gs to utilize them in settings that are in need of rapid point-of-care texts like opening and keeping open our k-12 schools, responding to outbreaks specifically in certain demographics or locations and screening of surveillance. mr. president, we just completed a briefing to the governors and their state health officials and we heard words like "game changer" for their states. thank you, mr. president, for your leadership and support of all our efforts to defeat this virus. >> president trump: let me ask you, governor reeves, do you agree? would you like to say something?

>> thank you, mr. president, for your leadership through this pandemic and through this crisis. this is, it was said by republicans and democrats alike earlier, this is a game changer. in our state of mississippi, our k-12 schools have been open for nine weeks, our institutions of higher learning have been open for about the same, but while we have testing available in at least once a week in every county of our stage, with this allocation is going to allow for us as we will have testing available for our k-12 teachers every single day going forward and the thing we know is that kids learn, and secretary devos knows this so well, kids learn better in the classroom then distance-learning or hybrid and we want to get 100% of our kids back in the classroom.

it is also critically important, your decision to allocate on the front end to the historically black colleges and universities means the world, provide testi testing, mississippi with jackson state university and mississippi valley university, three of our eight institutions of higher learning will get an allocation but kids all across our state, and i want to personally thank you mr. president. thank you. >> president trump: in a short period of time i administration has built the most advanced testing system in the world. there has never been anything like this. when the pandemic struck there were zero tests. for the china virus but we have

achieved these unparalleled capabilities. we slashed red tape and emergency use authorizations for 233 type of tests, and i invoke the defense production act, 100 times and distributed $171 million to expand testing production. we've done nearly twice as much testing per capita as france, italy, and germany and over six times more testing per capita than south korea. we've done far more than any other country. usually times two, three, four, five, or six, we've performed nearly 40 million more tests than india, over 100 million tests about it, more than half will be point-of-care tests, really the ones that have the best impact with the results of less than 15 minutes.

we've also prioritized resources for the most vulnerable including nursing home residents, rapid testing devices to nearly 14,000 certified nursing homes. we opened over 1,000 community testing sites in low income communities, unprecedented $8 billion now, tribal communities have the tests and resources they need to combat the virus and it's important to remember that as younger and healthier people returned to work and as we massively increase testing capacity, we will identify more cases, in low risk populations, the total number of cases, hospitalization, capacity, mortality rates are far more instructive metrics as we do more tests, you're going to have

more cases, we are relentlessly focused on protecting the vulnerable well enabling healthy americans to go back to work, we can do both as florida and arizona and other states have recently showed. over the last eight weeks, hospitalization's have declined by 48% and they just reached the lowest point since march. due to advances in treatment, the fatality rate has fallen 85% since april, considerably lower than comparable countries, excess mortalities compare total deaths to a what would be expected, in a normal year this is a critical measurement because it includes undetected china virus deaths along with deaths resulting from lockdowns. lockdowns can be very harmful and we have too many states that are in lockdown right now, nobody knows what the governors

are doing, actually. europe has experienced a 50% greater excess mortality rate during the virus then the u.s. and their economic contraction has been far more severe. under operation warp speed my administration is on track to deliver a safer, more effective vaccine in record time. we are doing very well with the vaccines as you know. four vaccines are in the final stage of trials, the data vaccine is approved by the fda we will begin to strip eating it within 24 hours with hundreds of millions of doses to follow very quickly, we are all set to go, logistically we have the military lined up and some incredible people are just waiting to have it, over 100 million doses will be available before the end of the year, we will defeat the virus and into the pandemic again next year will be one of the greatest years in our history and it's going to be a very exciting period of time.

with that, i'd like to ask mike to say a >> thank you, mr. president. this is a historic day. and other than the day that i believe will come soon, that america produces the first safe and effective magazine. it's announced today that the distribution of 150 million rapid point-of-care tests all across america. it's a testament to your leadership, esther president. it is a testament to this great team that you have assembled from secretary azar and others. it is a testament to the partnership that we forged with the governors all across america, and it is a testament to great companies like abbott laboratories and thousands of employees who, mr. president, i know, have literally worked

around-the-clock since those early days in this pandemic when you brought in the greatest research companies in america. and so that we need medicines known as therapeutics. we need a vaccine for america, but you also challenge them to develop our rapid point-of-care test that could be distributed all across america and enable us to more effectively to slow the spread, flatten the curve, protect the vulnerable, and save lives. and mr. president, today's announcement is really emblematic of the public-private partnership that you forged from the early days of this pandemic. as you said, we met today with the nation's governors. the white house coronavirus task force completed our 30th conference call with america's governors. all along the way from our very first meeting, you made it clear that we would spare no expense to the federal government hear the full resources of the

federal government, you made available to put the health of america first. but you also challenge us, and you challenged american industry to bring the full power and innovation of the american economy to bear on this moment, and whether it be pp where we forged that hundreds of millions of personal protective equipment, whether it be how we started with 15,000 ventilators in the strategic national stockpile, and today, in partnership with g.e., ford, general motors, and the stockpile. whether it be the extraordinary progress on therapeutics. convalescent plasma literally saving lives, or whether it be, as he reflected, mr. president, on our steady progress towards achieving a safe and effective vaccine before the end of this year. it has been that partnership that you let that's made these