This is half an hour. Hello, sorry to keep you all waiting. Before i begin, it is day 42 of the botched new york city primary, there is no Election Results and one congressional race. This as the New York Times notes, the deluge of 400,000 mailin ballots, previewing the challenges facing the nation as it looks towards conducting the november general election with mass mail invoicing. I would like to highlight trumps actions, which he detailed yesterday, he signed an executive order to make regulatory reforms allowing for greater access toward making it permanent, the Trump Administration has cut red tape allowing Teller Health services for other americans and seniors, 35 of beneficiaries took advantage of the reform. Seeking Teller Health services over the phone rather than video conference, a simpler and smarter wary to go about things and is now available for medicare beneficiaries. The president took executive action to boost Rule Health Care services. Rule hospitals would be devastated by medicare for all, otherwise known as government takeover of health care. Under that analysis they found that if democrats had their way, 55 of rural hospitals, or 1037 across 46 states would be at high risk of closure. The president s order calls for Strategic Investments in Rural Communications infrastructure which will expand telehealth. Democrats seek to deny americans their health care freedom, President Trump is working hard to save your health care by guaranteeing your protections for people with preexisting conditions, eliminating mandate of obamacare, stopping surprise medical building, increasing transparency and lowering drug prices. He will continue to work hard to enact these health care principles allowing states to purchase drugs from other countries and improving medicare to lower drug prices and reduce costs to seniors. And ending surprise medical billing, making people compete for your business by providing more options and more affordable plans. Lastly, later today, Senior Adviser to the president will be joined by general barr, director of the domestic policy council, executives from organizations that could combat Human Trafficking and survivors across the country for a roundtable to highlight newlyawarded to provide safe stable housing to Human Trafficking victims. To provide Supportive Housing and services to survivors of Human Trafficking. And with that, i will take questions. Yes. Two questions about the coronavirus. The president said two days ago that he believed the only way to have a really strong, robust Economic Growth would be to shut the country down again for a month to six weeks. I know that this idea, short term, long term game has been shut down before by President Trump. But has it been given any more consideration given the recent numbers . No, and i would refer to what doctor fauci said back in may. We cannot say locked don for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences including consequences for help. Several of those consequences have been outlined for you before. For instance, the fact that in any given year you have 120,000 americans who die from Drug Overdose or suicide. We saw during the lockdown previously that overdoses jumped by 18 in march and april, 42 in may. Overdoses go up. Suicides go up. Cancer cases are missed. In the u. S. Alone, there are 150,000 to cancer cases that rise up every month. Most have not been seen. That is referring to the lockdown. The and also noted during the pandemic that they saw an 80 drop in cancer cases being identified. There are many health consequences. So no matter how bad it gets, you dont think theres any way that President Trump will do a lockdown. Im not going to engage in hypotheticals. The president is not considering a national lockdown. What he is encouraging is mitigation efforts like wearing a mask, which is patriotic, like social distancing. Engaging in these common sense safe measures. One more think about the negotiations going on on capitol hill, given the amount of money and the amount of americans that would be impacted for the stimulus bill, why is President Trump not more personally involved. At least not more visible . He is through his chief of sack he, he is regularly updated. I was just an oval office and the chief of staff was updating him on that measure. The democrats are being fundamentally and serious. They have offered no concessions, no plans. If anything they are moving the opposite way to demonstrate their seriousness. There are three trillion plan is now 3. 4 trillion. The president has a very narrow focus. Very specific. Extending Unemployment Insurance, making sure they are not getting evicted. Extending Unemployment Insurance for at least seven days while these negotiations continue. That was this president about ten minutes, said about absentee voting, the florida there like shunt system is safe and secure, tried and true. Was he advised by republicans that he was suppressing his own vote by saying the unfounded fears of mailin voting . Voting by theyll across the country is safe. The president has always said that absentee voting for a reason is different than mass mail out voting like without the vodka is seeking to do. And also, i refer you to the campaign, there was a victory in florida with regard to that ballot. Thats what he was referencing. He has been unmistakably clear that when you have this vast mail out voting, like what nevada wants to do, the consequences are real. When the las vegas journal review was reporting, extensive and good reporting, all male primary election, they know that there were ballots tossed in trash cans, dozens pinned on complexes bolton boards in various complexes. You have a postal worker who said that when she went to go deliver some of these ballots, people had moved or died. She kept 65 ballots in her first delivery, 100 on her second. It there is rift with fraud and delay. That is what the president stands firmly against. Extensive Research Shows that the fraud is extraordinarily rare, you will buy until, you vote by mail, there are dozens of people that vote by mail. With regard to the absentee system, that is right. Theres ample evidence of fraud. I would point to you the best example to was very recent. May 12th, new jersey election, where one in five mailin ballots were found to be fraudulent in the election. You jersey officials were charged in that case. Residents said this, this is corruption, this is fraud. There are neighbors that she knows of that said they voted but they never received a ballot. There are ample examples of fraud. I can get those more to. What can administration tell us about the explosion in beirut . We are tracking it closely, rest assured that we are taking very good look at. That thank you, then fire mental bill that the president signed this morning, it was passed by both parts democrats and republicans, can you explain why there were no democrats at this ceremony or mentioned . The president is very proud of what happened. The single largest investment into the national marks and the most significant conservation since teddy roosevelt. It provides 900 million a year in permanent funding for land and Water Conservation fund. You are asking about recognition of democrats . The only thing we are recognizing is how appalling it is that they are americans who are going without paychecks because they prefer to argue with the president. Many people believe that there are disadvantages as to testing. Can you walk us through what those disadvantages are, and like he stated back in june that testing is overrated and makes the u. S. Look back. I know what the president refers to in regard to testing, the media doesnt often acknowledge when you do the most testing in the world, lead the world intended, that you do identify more cases. That is what he prefers to, that is his point with testing. We lead the world in testing. The president is very proud of this. The administration is very proud. We have done more than 60 million tests on track according to hhs, 100 million by september. That is extraordinary. When you compare that to the next highest number which is india, they have a ballpark of 16 million tests. What we have done in this country is impressive. You still believe texting is overrated. The president again points out that the media refuses to acknowledge that when you test you identify more cases. He is very proud that since march 12th we have increased dealing testing by 32,000 . This was not a test, the person led the way to find a working test and a surge the Testing Capacity by 32,000 by march. On tiktok, the president has argued that the u. S. Should receive money if they were going to sell. Under how would this work . With the speed from microsoft or any other u. S. Buyer to get this done . I am not going to get ahead of the president on official action but he has made that points and both he and secretary pompeo have said the u. S. Will take action in the coming days on chinese apps like tiktok due to the National Security risk. We all agree that there has to be a change, especially with tiktok collecting significant amounts of private data. It is unacceptable. But i wont get ahead of the president on what this action look like. Beijing said with tiktok may hit u. S. Firms. This smash and grab of tiktok. What do you say that in regard to china . And secondly, china has not complied with its commitments under the u. S. China face trade deal, they are recording today that they have completed 5 of the any energy purchases. Could you . We encourage china to encourage and finish their obligations, but the president remains keenly focused on tiktok and protecting the private data of millions of people in this country. The peoples republic of china require Chinese Companies to cooperate. What this means, these entities ultimately answer to the ccp which is hostile to american values. The president will stand firmly against china. I wanted to ask you about the covid relief bill that the president has suggested. If there is no agreement that is reached, the president would act unilaterally. As you know, the power of the purse resides with congress, what would the president to unilaterally. What could he do unilaterally as it relates to the relief an American Families . I wont get ahead of the president as determining what action would look like. I will leave that to him to determine. Right now we have secretary mnuchin who are asking nancy pelosi to come to the table. The ball is in their court. We have made at least four offers. Theyve made zero offers. It is unacceptable for hardworking americans. For mailin voting, the president suggested yesterday that he has the rights to write some sort of jet secondary secular order, can you explain what gives the president the power as it relates to the constitution for mailin voting . Again, i will not get ahead of the president on his actions. I will not engage in a hypothetical. But once again to underscore the president s concern, when you look at the delays in pennsylvania, a report by cbs, he got a quote from a county manager who oversaw and identified some of these delays that they saw in pennsylvania with mass mailin voting. Quote, i have this nightmare of all news outlets waiting for these things to come in on Election Night and we dont have them. It is very hard to speed up this process. And this was replicated across the state. As we have seen in pennsylvania, new york, across the country, the president is very concerned about delays at outright fraud. And finally on tiktok if i may, the president said yesterday the briefing that took place here, the United States should get a very large percentage of that price because we are making it possible. That was referring to microsoft proposed purchase of tiktok. I have never heard of that before. Maybe you can explain that to me how the government could get a percentage of the price of a private transaction. Im not going to get ahead of the president on his action. I want to ask something about executive orders, but i want to follow up on this question, to get a better understanding of what the president is doing personally to ensure that those extra Unemployment Benefits are reinstated. Is he calling senators on capitol hill . Does he have any plans to meet with nancy pelosi personally . Is the white house concerns that all parties will be blamed if there is no deal and voters will stay home. No one has worked harder to make sure those payments get to the administration. They have been on the hill trying to get this worked out. But it is nancy pelosi, democrat, chuck schumer, that is making a mockery of this process. Other than coming towards us and doing a clean suggestion, they are moving beyond their initial request to 3 million, then to 3. 4 trillion. They wanted 105 billion dollars for schools. They are making a mockery of this process, we are still engaging with them. This president has been clear, he is ready to act on this and it is of paramount importance to him. Then why would you reject . Democrats are fundamentally and serious. If you dont want to comment on that, with regards to the executive order, the president has signed a flurry of those. He said yesterday that he has a Health Care Plan by the end of the month and immigration by the end of the month, does the white house feel a sense of pressure to get everything on the president s to do list done. The president moves at a rapid pace and he wants to get as much of his agenda accomplished this term and going into next term. This president has done a lot already. He will work on covid and alongside that, many other issues as he routinely does. This administration is usually accomplishing two or three items on a day, as you can see today with Human Trafficking, the event this morning and also the president will have a covid briefing at 5 30. I want to step back and say this with regard to covid, it is really important to put the successes of this administration in contacts. I got some new information before i came out. This was a novel virus, there were no tests, there were no therapeutics. What did this administration do . As i noted before, surge testing increased by 32,000 since march. Hhs is projecting 100 million tests by september. Because of President Trumps tearing down of red tape, there are more than 230 Clinical Trials of potential covid drugs. And over 500 are in the planning stages today. Nih announced two covid trials and also, by september we have secured more than half 1 million courses of treatment of a drug that is one of several therapeutics at this president has achieved in finding for the American People to treat this novel disease. And the vaccine, moving the phase three Clinical Trial at the fastest rate of any history. This could only be accomplished by a businessman in the white house, hes on a race to get a vaccine but is securing 100 million doses it advances that we are ready to ship them out. This president has been hard at work on covid. Israel open schools, ands dude and scott sick right away. What do you think of that . I have called on you and you did not ask your question. Im not going to speak over another reporter. I was not being rude to another reporter. The president said, that he was doing everything that he is doing to address the virus. I mean is not true . Is there really nothing more we can do . Is he willing to suggests any suggestions . We are looking to defeat the invisible enemy. Lets give you an update on some actions we have taken. Right now there are currently 28,000 u. S. Government personnel deployed for covid response. Next week dr. Brix, she will be visiting indiana, ohio, tennessee, kentucky and virginia. We are hard at work and again getting more treatments and therapeutics and testing. So every day we are rapidly looking at how we can make this the most robust response in the history of this country. And i think that we have done that when you look at the therapeutics at play and the case fatality rate which is addictive of what the president has done. We have one of the lowest in the world. Below europe. That shows that are therapeutics are working. This president is hard at work and he will continue to work. So that you think we have done everything when there are still waiting weeks for test results back, when you have declined when you are saying we wont shut down the entire country. With regard to testing and the timing. When we identify a problem, we identify a solution. And when there were delays in testing we identified pool testing as a way to increase the speed of texan. We lead the speed in testing. That is the flexibility which this administration adepts to. We rapidly develop a solution. With the with the president like to see Mitch Mcconnell put the 600 dollar extension to the Unemployment Benefits through to the end of the year, to put the democrats in the spot of having to go for that extension . I have not talked to him about that proposal i dont want to get into the middle of the negotiations. It is safe to say that there has been one proposal to extend Unemployment Insurance. That was put forward, the president was ready to sign it and it was rejected by nancy pelosi. On a slightly separate topic, whether or not the white house has a view on whether or members of the media should be around to cover the national convention, which apparently as of right now because of the space limitation, the Convention Committee is saying that is not going to be possible. I have not read into the Convention Discussion but i will require about that and follow up with you. Do you have anything with regards to the massive explosion . That was breaking as we came out here, it was safe to say we are monitoring the situation. My question is, first part of the question, israel opened its schools back up and thought it had the virus under control. That virus then spread and students got sick and had close tools down. How worried are you that this could happen here, as far as israel saying they made a mistake . I would talk to our experts, the cdc experts said the leading Public Health agency in the world, it is in the Public Health interest that these students get back to schools and are open for phase two of learning. I want these kids back in school, it is paramount to the health of the child. Mailin voting or absentee voting, he is saying that it is essentially the same thing, why is it now something that can be done in florida but not other states . Why is that separate. He is always made the distinction. Mass mail out voting where nevada are mailed in mass out to voters, so in places like l. A. Were 100 and 12 of at least 12 of those are not active voters. So that is the distinction from absentee voting which is where you proactively request a ballot. There is a difference there and the president repeatedly makes the difference. And as i told jeff, there was a victory in the courts in florida. Thats what he was referencing in the tweet. You mentioned extending the Unemployment Insurance, on saturday trump tweeted that this was still on the table. The president would love to see the payroll tax because it would benefit low and middle income the most. But right now his keen and laser focuses on Unemployment Insurance and evictions. That is the priority especially with that friday deadline that nancy pelosi missed. This administration has worked to identify Human Trafficking, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation has identified tiktok that enables Sexual Exploitation of young people, especially in america. With this administration ever consider, if tiktok became a u. S. Asset, to rules or imposing rules that would help mitigate this risk against young people on tiktok . I dont know about that specific scenario, but that is a priority to combat Human Trafficking and exploitation of children. I would certainly take a close look at that. I have not talked to him about that specific fact. I would like to and by highlighting a troubling trend that we have seen play out across the country. I believe we have a few graphics to illustrate this. It pertains to the defund the police movement, when you look across the country, the ties of defunding the police and increasing violence and cause for concern. The Violent Crime is starting to come down and bring in the defund the police movement. In l. A. You had the mayor proposing a cut of 150 million from the lapd, l. A. Mayor said this, it starts someplace and we have to say we are going to be who we want to be or we are going to continue being the killers that we are. And that was in support of the defund movement. We saw 14 rise in homicides this year over last year. In minneapolis the defeat Defund Police movement was afoot with you manus vote. Their counsel to dismantle the police, Minneapolis City Council member saying, this is one action of many that we need to take on the road to a more equitable and just system that keeps people safe. It did not keep people safe. Weve seen a 94 increase in homicides compared to last year. And finally, defund the police, defund cutting it by one billion. You had congresswoman defunding the police means defunding the police it is not mean budget tricks or funny math. It was not enough, but you had new york city mailer saying we think it is the right thing to do. It was absolutely not the right thing to do. We are seeing a increase in shootings from july 2019. When you defund the police there are consequences. That is where the democrats of today stand, unfortunately we have seen a corresponding rise in these democrat cities. It is not acceptable. You will see the president at five. 30 can i ask a question . Coming up on American History tv, we show you for Police Training films. First, mauve and riot control in 1964, a film that directs police how to use buttons to subdue civil unrest. In orientation film for a new Police Officers from 1965, a great an honorable duty. Since tear gas has been used lately, we wouldnt show tear gas in law enforcement, and 1962 training from describing what it is made of and how to correctly use it. Finally, a more recent Justice Department film from 1993, use of force model, it presents the guidelines of undue use force. And. So big incineration of the 1964 and that demonstrates a cut techniques for mauve control and smoke and batons, federal laboratories funded the film, a manufacture of a popular riot gun used to fire tear gas canisters