♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hello america i'm mark levin. this is life, liberty and levin with the vice president of the united states, mike pence, thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> there is a lot to get to hear. i want to hit a lot of topics. the first topic is the coronavirus. joe biden is trying to blame the president of the united states for every death in the

united states due to the coronavirus. they say the trump administration was slow out of the gate. they said they have a plan. i have no idea what the plan is to be honest. how do you respond to this? from the early days of the chronic virus, president trump put the health of america first. i was there in the oval office when our scientist came in in january, when there were five coronavirus cases in the united states, all of which had come back from china and they said we need to suspend all travel from the second largest economy in the world and president trump come up behind the desk, made the decision on the font to suspend all travel from china. i can tell you, as the head of the white house coronavirus task force, that decision alone saved countless american

lives because it bought us invaluable time to stand up the greatest national mobilization since 142 will understand that joe biden criticized the president's decision in january and said it was enough phobic and hysterical. in fact, he wrote earlier that the closing down travel from china or any other tree would actually make things worse. the truth is, it bought us time to reinvent testing. with now done 120 million tests around the country, just distributed a hundred million to school so we can open up our schools again and keep kids there safely. we saw the development and distribution of literally billions of supplies. no american ever required of ventilator was denied a ventilator or denied an icu bed. early in the month of february, the moment that we got the genetic coding for the coronavirus, we began work on a vaccine. in six weeks we were in phase one clinical trials. as we sit here today, the

president and i are confident with the extraordinary research scientists in companies that we have in this country under operation warp speed that will help the first coronavirus vaccine before the end of this year and were already going to have tens of millions of doses to be able to distribute. joe biden got it wrong at the beginning. the truth is it should come as no surprise because when you look back when he was vice president, he had the swine flu impact this country in 2009 and they refused to close off any travel from mexico at the time. in fact, in a very real sense they had an utterly failed response. by the fall of 2009 when joe biden was vice president, the swine flu also known as h1 and one had infected 60 million

americans. if it had the same fatality rate as the coronavirus does, we would have lost more than 2 million american lives. joe biden's chief of staff ron klein was actually candid last fall when he said it was only luck that it wasn't one of the worst mass casualty events in american history. he said the obama biden administration response to each one and one, he said we got everything wrong but from early on president trump took decisive action to put the health of america first and all along the way he listened to the scientists and even in that momentous decision that he made in the middle of march to ask american businesses and american families to make incredible sacrifices during that 45 days to slow the spread, i couldn't be more proud of this presidents leadership. i believe with all my heart

that while we grieve the loss of more than 200,000 americans in any of the families that are looking into night should know there's never a day gone by that their families haven't been in our hearts and in our prayers. i'm absolutely convinced that because of the presidents leadership, because of our partnership with state health officials, because of doctors and nurses and because of the cooperation of the markham people that we literally saved hundreds of thousands of american lives and we are a matter of weeks away from having a coronavirus vaccine that will be the beginning of us putting this pandemic in the past once and for all. mark: it sounds like you had to do multiple things at the same time. you had to figure out what the viruses. >> right. mark: you had to make sure the states that were short on supplies had supplies come of it states that were short on hospital beds had hospital beds and those short on ventilators had ventilators. on top of that you had to

begin the process immediately of trying to figure out how to fix this with a vaccine in various therapeutics. all this was taking place at once. it sounds like a massive task to bring in these desperate entities of the federal government and the pharmaceutical world and the lab world, to build up tests, so my question is this. you had to start from scratch. did you have anything available to you when this pandemic from the prior administration. >> the truth is, the strategic national stockpile was emptied out at the end of each one and one in 2009. in the next seven years they never replenished it. when coronavirus began to strike in our country, we had 15000 ventilators in the strategic national stockpile. it was one of the reasons why, here's the advantage of having a business man become president of the united

states. he made it clear to me from the outset and not only did he want the whole of government approach at every level, a seamless partnership, but the president made it clear that we wanted a whole of america approach and we began to immediately partner, not just with research companies developing a vaccine in developing medicine, but we partnered with manufacturing firms around the country, with ge healthcare, with general motors and ford. they literally repurposed manufacturing lines to build ventilators around america, and as we sit here today and as we see cases begin to rise in some heartland states, we have 150,000 ventilators in the strategic national stockpile. we prove this summer during the outbreak in the sun belt that we now have the ppe, we have the testing, we have the supplies to meet this moment and make sure every american has a level of healthcare we would want any member of our family to have. none of that would've been

possible but for the fact that the president literally, in one industry after another in those early days, called businesses into the white house, sat them down around the table in the cabinet room and said what are you going to do to respond to this moment. there were times that he used what's called the defense production act. he used the authority he has as president of the united states to direct firms to manufacture and create certain items and materials, swabs and the like, but i must tell you that i've been so inspired hathaway american free enterprise respond to this moment not only the sacrifice that businesses made putting the health of their employees and their customers first during this 45 days to slow the spread, but the partnership we saw this president forge with industries all across the country and reinventing

testing, seeing it in the production and distribution of billions of supplies, and we have that coronavirus vaccine before the end of the year, again it's going to be a testament to american ingenuity and to the kind of public-private partnership that president trump forged from the very beginning. mark: you can get these masks anywhere now. you can get them online, in the grocery store, in the pharmacy, it wasn't that way six month ago. we didn't have masks. when joe biden and the scientists say everybody wear a mask, everyone's able to wear a mask now because of the efforts of the trump administration to make sure there's enough masks in america to where. i can remember early on when they said don't wear a mask and when they were asked about it they said we didn't have any masks. we need to save it for the frontline personnel. now you can get these all most anywhere. i want to ask you a question. the vaccine, if joe biden, camel harris and others are saying this vaccine, i'm not sure about the safety, i'm not sure i'm going to use it, are

you concerned that when they're talking like this and it's going to cost people lives you should use a vaccine when the vaccine comes out? joe biden, harris and people like andrew cuomo need to stop playing politics with people's lives by undermining confidence in the safety of the vaccine. the president said this week we have the greatest research companies in the world that are developing this vaccine. the president has fed the process along through operation work speed, but we have cut no corners on safety. we are not going to distribute a coronavirus vaccine until the fda independent board, independent evaluation all say that it's safe and effective for the american people. so to have camelot harris three times in a row refused to say she would take it

vaccine produced under the tron administration and in our own vp debate say she wouldn't trust a vaccine from the president, the governor of new york this last week literally said he would not trust, it's unconscionable. were really talking about people's lives so all of this has got to stop and the american people can be very confident that while we have moved at record speed that we will only go to the public with a vaccine that has been confirmed by the best scientists in the world as being safe and effective for the american people and joe biden and camel harris have to stop undermining the administration. >> many of those who passed away passed away in nursing home and assisted living facilities and so forth, decisions made by governors like cuomo and murphy and

newsom and others, where they placed people with positive coronavirus tests into these homes with other elderly people, upwards of 40% of the population, 80% of the people as of the last review of the cdc number, did the president have a policy where people who are positive with a coronavirus should be placed with elderly or frail people? >> from very early in this pandemic we realized the seniors, particularly those with serious underlying health conditions were very vulnerable. there were serious outcomes with the coronavirus. it's one of the reasons why the president directed that the standards for infectious disease prevention were all raised in every nursing home in america. we have 8000 inspectors we oversee. we dedicated all of them to ensuring that infectious disease standards are being

met. we focused on seniors from the very beginning and we've never stopped. we know they have been at risk. the cdc issued guidance for nursing homes to be able to safely operate, but to see some governors like the governor of new york literally returned positive coping patients to nursing homes, it breaks my heart to think of the lives that were lost, particularly as we were surging resources into new york and new jersey and new orleans and detroit during those difficult days of pandemic in march and april. we literally, we sailed the ship into new york harbor. we surged military medical personnel. we built overflow facilities in cities around the country and really there's no excuse for any public official

returning seniors into the nursing home environment that hadn't been created to be safe and quarantine under cdc guidance. there will be plenty of time for people to be held accountable for that, but i will tell you, from early in this pandemic president trump has put a specific focus on seniors every single day. i expect through the vaccine, there will be an independent board that determines who received the vaccine first, but if history is the future, we would anticipate that seniors, particularly those that have underlying conditions, any american with an immunodeficiency, the most vulnerable will have the coronavirus vaccine first. mark: yes or no, has joe biden ever condemned cuomo and these other governors policies for putting coronavirus positive patients in nursing homes? cannot know. >> never condemned the governors or the policy.

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. mark: welcome back mr. vice president. so the economy took a big hit and the president and you have been working to rebound the economy. joe biden has a very different approach for the economy.

explain what it is that you want to do and what he wants to do. >> we come into office in the eight years that joe biden was president america had experienced the slowest economic recovery since the great depression. not strikingly i was in congress at the time. the last administration tried to tax and spend and bail and regulate us back to a growing economy. when we came into office president trump said look, we are going to cut taxes. working out rollback regulation, unleash american energy, fight for fair and free trade and that's exactly what this president has done. we cut taxes across the board for working families and businesses large and small. we unleashed american energy where now we are a net exporter of energy for the first time in 70 years and president trump fought for the free and fair trade where we stood up to china. we renegotiated all treating

relationship with mexico and canada to put american jobs and american workers first. the result of that, 7 million jobs created. record unemployment for african-americans, hispanic americans, literally we saw wages rid rising across this country at the fastest pace in ten years and then when the coronavirus pandemic struck and we lost 22 million jobs at the height of this pandemic, this president made it clear we were going to spare no expense to get families and businesses large and small through this. we secured $4 trillion in aid, paycheck protection program saved 50 million american jobs and paid directly to help americans through this difficult time on already it's amazing to think in the last five months, having lost 22 million jobs because of the foundation the president poured and because of the recovery unprecedented

recovery and relief efforts we secured from the congress, 11 and half million americans have already gone back to work in the unemployment rate is now 7.8%. we have a ways to go, it's one of the reasons why the president is reaching out to the congress now and asking for more support for families and for businesses. it's the other reason why this election is so important. president trump and i are absolutely ca committed. we will defeat the virus, cut taxes in the next four years, keep lower regulation, keep fighting for unleashing american energy. joe biden, by contrast has said in the middle of a global pandemic he wants to raise taxes by $4 trillion. he wants to return to a massive avalanche of regulation that will stifle jobs beginning with the 2 trillion-dollar version of the green new deal that would require the retrofitting of 4 million business buildings and 2 million homes and beyond

that, on economic trade joe biden never lifted a finger. democrats used to complain about nafta all the time. i remember those days, never lifted a finger to do anything about it, but now we have a stngro new agreement, the usmc ape but joe biden wants us to take down all the tariffs president trump has imposed on china better leveling the playing field in bringing china back to the table to open their markets to american goods, services and lastly on energy which is a driver of our economy, low-cost energy helps families, utility rates in their homes, helps businesses be able to grow, but it supports hundreds of thousands of energy jobs across the country. that green new deal and joe biden and kamala harris plan would literally crush our

american energy renaissance. this election is so important as our economy is just getting back on its feet. i think the american people know that the right president at this time in the life of our nation, the president has committed to all the policies that created 7 million jobs in our first three years in a president that is going to continue to drive policy versus joe biden and kamala harris, more taxes, more government, more regulation, the choice is clear we need four more years of president trump in the white house to bring this economy all the way back and then some. mark: this study out of the hoover institute they said the biden plan would cost 5 million blue-collar jobs. it would destroy her energy independence. we've been trying for 15 years to be energy independent and now we finally are. you talk about fracking which

could drive parts of this country into a deep depression. other parts of the country where we rely on oil and natural gas and so forth. doesn't concern you when you look at joe biden's long career, 39 years in the senate, eight years as vice president. he has never led the way for tax cuts, for opportunity zones, for deregulation, he's always been a big government guy. that's all he knows so, how would a guy that's a big government guy that's all he knows, taxes, regulation, how would he help bring this economy further along. >> there's no question, 47 years in public office, joe biden has been advocating higher taxes, more government, less economic freedom and again, i go back in the last

administration, tried to borrow and spend and tax and bail our way back to a growing economy and joe biden wants to go back to the same economic policies you hear him talking about under his $2 trillion version of the green new deal. when everybody brings up all the energy jobs that will be lost, he talks about green jobs. you remember all those green jobs in the last ministration. the green new deal would be on steroids. all the sudden you would have a whole new era of government subsidies for so-called green jobs and green energy. the truth of the matter is today our air and land are cleaner than any time in history. our water is among the cleanest in the world

objectively. we've actually reduced greenhouse gases in this country because of energy in the nation because of the introduction of natural gas into our energy economy. joe biden and kamala harris, no matter what they're saying now, they want to ban fracking and abolish fossil fuels and take us back down the boondoggle path of green new jobs and we saw the weak economic recovery the last eight years and the american people know for a robust american people were what president trump says would be the greatest economy in 2021, we need to reelect donald trump. mark: next i want to ask you about race in the joe biden administration and the trump administration.

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live from america's news headquarters, i'm jon scott. with nine days to go until the election, both candidates are preparing for the final stretch of their campaign. joe biden making virtual remarks this hour while his vice presidential pick kamala harris was out in battleground michigan. meanwhile president trump is blitzing through a staggering number of rallies. he spent most the day in new hampshire before making a surprise visit to a main apple orchard. he is back at the white house now wrapping up a busy weekend by hosting a socially distance hollowing trick-or-treat on the white house grounds.

over the next few days the president has planned events in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin and nebraska. i'm jon scott, now back to life, liberty and levin. mark: welcome back. mr. vice president, race. it amazes me how joe biden gets away to talk about race, racial equality, he's been around 47 years. he talks about systemic racism and i have to ask myself, what has he done about systemic racism in 47 years. early in his career he said some terribly horrible things, worked with segregationist, this administration is on many, many positive things. how do you, it's a stark contrast. >> i think it is a stark

contrast. president trump rightly says he's accomplished more in 47 months then joe biden has accomplished in 47 years. i think that's especially true when it comes to african-americans in this country. joe biden's career laid bare in his debates with kamala harris, the way he worked with segregationist and opposed bussing back in the day, but i must tell you, i couldn't be more proud to be part of an administration that saw the lowest unemployment ever recorded for afternoon americans. this president made funding for historically back colleges and universities permanent and at a record level. we worked with senator tim scott. we've created more than 8000 opportunity zones in cities around the country with largely african-american populations that are attracting billions dollars of investment.

this president passed criminal justice reform after joe biden's record on the crime bill back in the '90s. this president step forward and worked with republicans and democrats, liberals and conservatives and moved forward criminal justice reform in a way that no one had been able to accomplish. for decades. finally, this president has stood for the principle that every parent ought to be able to choose whether children go to school regardless of income and area code. that's why it's really unconscionable that joe biden and kamala harris want to end school choice in this country. they want to shut down charter schools in america. the truth is our minority communities in major cities are predominantly those who benefit from school choice. the truth is kamala harris called out joe biden because he opposed bussing. she said she was that little girl on a bus that wanted to go to a better school. i would say to joe biden and

kamala harris there are many young african american boys and girls that deserve to go to a better school, better trapped, as we speak and some of the most dangerous in failing schools in america and their parents deserve to have a choice and president trump and i with four more years will continue to fight for parental choice in education. we will continue to support economic opportunities for african-americans. we will continue to support law enforcement in our communities because every american of every race and creed and color deserves to live on state street. so with joe biden, it's all talk. 47 years of talk paying lip service to their commitment to the african-american community. president donald trump has been results one after another that has contributed to economic opportunities, educational opportunities,

educational choice, historically black colleges and universities, a more just criminal justice system and we will continue to build on that record for african americans, all over, every american for four more years. >> very briefly, kamala harris record as a prosecutor. how did that look. you touched on that during the debate. >> when she ended up her career in san francisco, african-americans went 19 times more likely to be prosecuted for minor drug offenses that hispanics and whites in that community. when she was attorney general she talked about talking terminal justice reform. she never lifted a finger to do it. the portion of afternoon americans in the california prisons actually grew relative to the broader prison population when she was attorney general. tim scott was working on police reform in the wake of

the killing of george floyd. he sat down with republicans and democrats. kamala harris literally got up and walked out of a meeting with senator tim scott and refused to even consider or work with him on legislation to give more resources to law enforcement, more accountability, more training and so the american people deserve, kamala harris record, her record in california and on capitol hill. >> when we come back i want to ask about law and order. i want to ask you about a summer riot and how president handled it and how joe biden handled it. we'll be rightea back.

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one year of law enforcement can be have a record number of law enforcement organization supporting you, endorsing yo your candidacy and you have a record number of left-wing groups endorsing biden and his candidacy. we had a summer of riots, we still see them in portland and other places when police officers are brutalized, they're told to stand down, citizens are brutalized, homes are burned and businesses are burned. what do you make of it, a stark difference between the trump and biden position on the. >> from the first day of this administration, president donald trump has stood with the men and women of law enforcement every level. the endorsements that you see in law enforcement associations around the country is evidence of the fact that they know it and they appreciate it. they have a president who is standing with them. this summer, when we saw the horrific killing of george floyd in minneapolis, and let

me be very clear, there's no excuse for what happened to george floyd and justice will be served but there's also no excuse for the writing and the looting that followed. the vice presidential debate, i brought as one of my guess, the wonderful african-american woman who 35 years ago started a little salon minneapolis and became the center of the community. she told me in the days that followed the killing of george floyd how she saw the rioters and the looters go closer and closer to her business in the night they just burned it to the ground. this president has spoken out against that, we deploy the national guard internationa nations capital. we supported the deployment of the national guard that quieted the streets of minneapolis quickly. we launched operation. [inaudible] but all summer long, all joe

biden talked about was peaceful protesters will literally businesses like those around the country were burning to the ground. joe biden is explaining all of it by saying america is systemically racist and police have an implicit bias against minorities. when joe biden was asked if you could cut funding to law enforcement he said yes, absolutely, kamala harris said we need to reimagine police and she recently praised the mayor of los angeles decision to cut hundred $50 million from lapd. president trump and i made it clear we are going to stand with the men and women of law enforcement. were not going to defend the police. we know that you don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement and supporting our african-american neighbors and friends and all the minorities and families that live in our cities.

as i said earlier, we have done both. i am proud of our records for supporting african-americans but all along the way this president has made it clear that we are going to stand with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line and, mark my uncle was a police officer in chicago for 25 years. i remember as a little boy with my three brothers going up to chicago and seeing him coming out of his bedroom and my grandparents house that uniform on, the badge, we just looked at him in awe. all my heroes wear uniforms and president trump feels just the same way. that's why you see so many law enforcement organizations endorsing this president. to have joe biden and kamala harris literally undermining support for law enforcement and speaking about cutting funding and reimagining it, defunding the police, really they're just doubling down on

the policies that are contributing to violence with four more years of president donald trump. were support law enforcement and are neighbors and we will have law and order in all of our cities for every american of every race and creed and color. >> when we come back i want to ask you about foreign policy. mayou've traveled from china to iran and other parts. we'll be right back. for 36 months. experience amazing. at your lexus dealer.

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mark: the president has been very engaged in foreign policy in significant ways that are quite different from the china, iran deal, israel and so forth. i call it the trump doctrine. it's a pretty strong doctrine, isn't it. >> we call it america first. after eight years when joe biden was president, we had a president apologizing for america on the world stage. president donald trump, we've had a president who's out championing america on the world stage and embracing his role as leader of the free world. when we came into office, we inherited a mess on the foreign stage. isis had overrun an area the size of pennsylvania. russia was redrawing europe by force. syria had used chemical weapons on innocent civilians

with no repercussions. north korea was testing nuclear weapons and firing long-range missiles, threatening the united states and all along the way china was taking advantage of america economically as they built up their military and their economic influence across the asia pacific. president trump stepped into the breach, stood strong as commander-in-chief. he directed the armed forces of our country, they destroyed the caliphate, took down their leader without one american casualty. he got us out of the iran nuclear deal. iran had got him $1.8 million when joe biden was vice president of the united states. president trump stood up to them and earlier this year he gave the order to take down an iranian general responsible for the death of hundreds of american servicemen and

women. solemn money is gone. this president has been tougher than any in history. president donald trump, unlike when joe biden was president, president trump made javelin missiles available to ukraine, tank buster missiles in the last ministration, the obama biden administration would send blankets, mr e, military mills to ukraine. we stood with them to defend their territory and three's summits, no nuclear tests, no long-range missiles being fired, no threats against the united states and most meaningful is i was there in hawaii when 54 caskets were offloaded the remains of korean war euros had finally come home.

he has made strong and engaged leaders in the world and stood strong for the american people. he willing to use force and america is safer as a result. with regard to israel i couldn't be more proud. the last four presidents promised the american people and the people of our allies that we would recognize their capital. it was president donald trump who removed the american embassy to jerusalem, the capital of the jewish state of israel. he recognized the goal and i will tell you, speaking to our friends in israel, the president's strong stand against iran, withdrawing from the nuclear deal, everyone has believed that for the first time in 26 years to arab nations recognize their right to exist.

i was watching the town hall that joe biden was in a week or so and one of the questioners went through that litany including the outbreak of peace between arab nations and israel and asked if he deserved any credit and he actually said, yes, but then no. the truth is it is yes. president trump has stood with all her allies. he stood up to our enemies, he has put america first and america is stronger and americans are safer as a result. >> hhe won numerous nobel peace prizes. we'll be right back.

welcome back. what would your closing argument be to the american people to vote for the president and you. >> president donald trump has literally kept every promise he has made to the american people and seen our nation through the worst global pandemic in 100 years where as we sit here today we are literally weeks away from a

coronavirus vaccine and being able to put this pandemic in the past. the president and i believe the best is yet to come. for four more years of president donald trump in the white house, we will distribute that vaccine and we will defeat the virus. then we will revive this american economy bigger and better than ever before. not with joe biden's plan of higher taxes, agree new deal, more regulation president trump will cut middle-class taxes across the board. we will continue t rooll back regulation and continue to support american energy independence and continue to stand strong on china. put america first, fight for free and fair trade that puts the american workers in the forefront of all our considerations on trade and all along the way we will stand for all the god-given liberties enshrined in our constitution. 230 conservatives appointed to our federal courts and very soon we will have a third justice on the supreme court of the united states when

justice amy comey barrett is confirmed by the senate we believe in just a matter of days. we will support law enforcement with more resources and more funding. we will end sanctuary cities and were just going to uphold all the ideals of this country. this election is about choices and the choice in this election has never been clear, the stakes have never been higher. joe biden and kamla harris want higher taxes, socialized medicine, they want to defund the police and take our nation on the path driven by the radical left, take us to a place america has never been before and president donald trump, we made america great again in those first three years. we've seen america through challenging days and we will make america greater than ever before with four more years of president donald trump. mark: and you and the president have said to joe

biden, keep your hands off our constitution of our supreme court and off arsenic. god bless you. be safe on the campaign trail. it's been a pleasure. thank you. see you next time on life, liberty and levin. >> good evening and welcome to "the next revolution" i'm steve hilton and this is the home of positive populism. propos. tonight we bring you the election choice on foreign and defense policy. national security advisor robert o'brien is here to react. sarah carter and matt gates, they are with us for the hour and here we go. in thursday's debate, the president made clear that this election is not an opinion on trump. it's not about whether you love his tweets or his behavior, it's a choice between two very different leaders with very different