force and because the officers have done great work and i want to think our partners in the department of defenceed with some of these flights back home and other government agencies, or sisters or brothers across the united states government in this ministration that have helped get these people back, and lastly aside from our repatriation efforts we continue to help countries around the world as well and we have the cdc officials helping his countries with expertise in all of the things that these countries need to get their citizens safe and and back so that they can get the economy all across the world, the global economy back on its feet when this crisis is over. thank you, mr president. can you say a little while and see if anyone has the questions for the secretary of state. anybody, please. mr secretary, an amazing effort you have made, do you know when you are done? a measure there americans of all corners of the world and someone's going to pop up and say i wa nt to someone's going to pop up and say i want to go home now, what you get that call? we shall have several thousand people tha

the number one priority in the department of defence and corps of engineers is to protect the forest.ntinue to take care of our billions and servicemembers out there so every single thing we are doing whether we are building for the va or civil works projects or the va or civil works projects or the southwest border, we are going out of our way and i talked to my commanders this morning and we have over 4000 contractors on the ground out there and we have no positives as of this morning and knock on wood as of this morning and knock on wood as with the employees. we want to make sure everyone is safe and goes out of their way to do things the right way. construction is going very smooth and what we are seeing is that our contractors are extremely focused now that we have a clear path both to make both on the cdp and dod programme am i think we are well postured and it is a very aggressive bill for build but we are going to make it by december 2020. 164 miles and we will have it done sometime pretty early next year. i am excited. yes sir. i would like to say the quality of the wall to

are also exposing and getting as quickly as we can portions of it to the department of veterans affairs and the department of defencend speaking of the department of defence they will be sending us 10,000,095 masks and in every way we are in great shape. with ventilators, protective clothing, we have additional plane loads coming in but we are not getting any calls from governors at this moment, i can speak i think for president penske be speaking in a little while, we will be getting very little calls from governors. —— i think i can speakfor vice from governors. —— i think i can speak for vice president mike pence. it isa speak for vice president mike pence. it is a good job, you have done a greatjob. i it is a good job, you have done a great job. i appreciate it is a good job, you have done a greatjob. i appreciate it, the whole country appreciates it. more than 2 million coronavirus tests have now been completed and we are conducting approximately 100,000 more every day. we are also looking to bring blood based tests to the market as quickly as possible so they can be determined if they had they can be determine

was really designed for national security, companies that are either major suppliers for the department of defencees that have top—secret clearance. that national security division was very clear when we did that. the president has has asked me to work with the secretary, obviously, the energy business is important to us. as has national security issues, and we look forward to looking at what existing capabilities we have, and that will be something we may need to go back to congress and get additional funding for. so for the airline bill out at all? it's a completely different situation. what you have at the airlines is you know, we had a very very good airline industry because of the virus, they basically shut down. we have a situation now with the oil business, partially because of the virus, 0k? for less demand, but also partial because of too much supply. but you know, the president is determined, we want to maintain our energy independence, and the president has asked me to look at all of our options,

we received a report from the department of defence about the active—duty medical personnel that haveyork, new jersey connecticut and the personnel that are working on the ground at the javits centre working at the comfort shift and at the present moment, the utilisation of both of those facilities is been fairly modest and they actually worked with new york to a uniform, temp service. they called it the bullpen and today, they literally deployed from the ship into the centre, 75 medical personnel to relieve dedicated health care workers within the hospital system and will continue to see that it is fully staffed and the us this military personnel are also going to be deployed across the city to bring much—needed relief for health care workers intersystem. from a va standpoint, we have opened up from a va standpoint, we have opened upa from a va standpoint, we have opened up a facility in new york city, east orange newjersey up a facility in new york city, east orange new jersey and up a facility in new york city, east orange newjersey and detroit, michigan and opening up the va facil

from public health england, the crime commercial service cabinet office, communities department of the ministry of defenced forces, the devolved administrations and the territorial offices, the business department of the treasury, the foreign office, and the department for international trade for their enormous hard work on this. i'm also very grateful to lord dighton who delivered the olympics for stepping forward to lead this national effort and deliver once again for his country. the secondary i want to talk about his vaccines. in the long run, the best way to defeat coronavirus is through a vaccine. after all, this is a new disease. this is uncertain science, but i'm certain that we will throw everything we've got at developing a vaccine. the uk is at the forefront of the global effort. we have put more money than any other country into the global search for a vaccine, and for all of the efforts around the world, two of the leading vaccine developments taking place here at home at oxford and imperial, both of these promising projects are making rapid progress, and i've told the scientists leading them

from public health england, the crown commercial service, cabinet office, communities department, the ministry of defencethe treasury, the foreign office and the treasury, the foreign office and the department for international trade, for their enormous hard work on this, and i'm also very grateful to lord dighton, who delivered the 0lympics, for stepping forward to lead this national effort and deliver once again for his country. the second area i want to talk about is vaccines. in the long run, the best way to defeat coronavirus is through a vaccine. after all, this isa through a vaccine. after all, this is a new disease. this is uncertain science, but i'm certain that we will throw everything we've got at developing a vaccine. the uk is at the forefront of the global effort. we've put more money than any other country into the global search for a vaccine. and for all the efforts around the world, two of the leading vaccine developments are taking place here at home, at oxford and imperial. both of these promising projects are making rapid progress, and i'm told the scion —— i've told the scientists le

defence budget, it is of $1 trillion. the pentagon alone gets sent two 760 billion. if you add in the intelligence community, the departments responsible for nuclear energy, veterans administration and department of homeland security, you realise the united states spends more on defence than the entire international community. what has gotten from that in vietnam, iraq, afghanistan? when you look at the united states, we have tremendous social and economic inequality. you have terrible diseases and suicides related to drugs, the opioid crisis, our infrastructure is crumbling. needs to reinvest in our roads and ridges and i bet you you have to do the same thing in europe we have division between prosperous countries in the north and the less prosperous countries in the south. and you have a division within nato between east and west with regard to reception towards russia. i think we have to get away from this focus on the so—called rogue threats, the money that we've wasted, blood and treasure that has been lost in places like vietnam and iraq and afghanistan. the iraq and afghanistan itself may be responsible for the loss

handling of covid—19 in the case of the ship's captain who spoke out about the problems that his ship was having and appealed for more help from the department for defence, it seems, because he thinks he's not getting a fair hearing from the press. it's turning into a bit ofa of a rough ride for the administration. it is felt that trump is shooting himself in the foot by appearing every day. older voters who are more vulnerable to the virus and supported him last time around, and he is a few points down in florida, a must win state. 0ther poll showings in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and he is down there as well. republicans are worried they may lose the senate as well, but they are also cautioning trump not to get rid of the health and human services secretary in the middle of a pandemic. the brutal truth is that he is a lightning rod and could be fired at any point. it is good to have a fall guy, but if you get rid of him, who is the fall quy- you get rid of him, who is the fall guy. especially, you don't want him on the outside, because he might criticise trompe more in media interviews. remember, he was the guy that first led the task force be