Important decision an american president can make. For this reason, candidates for president owe the American People a specific list of individuals they consider for the United StatesSupreme Court. Four years ago, i announced my first list of highly qualified candidates and promised to fill Justice Scalias vacant seat from among those names, and just days after my inauguration, i kept that promise, when i nominated judge neil gorsuch, and as you know, he has been very spectacular. A year later, i nominated and the Senate Confirmed another outstanding justice, brett kavanaugh. By the end of my first term, we will have confirmed a Record Number of federal judges, over 300, all of whom will faithfully uphold our constitution as written. What has always made america exceptional is our reference for the impartial rule of law. People have come from all over the world to pursue the American Dream based on this sacred principle. Equality under the law is the bedrock of our society. It is the principle that inspired american heroes to abolish slavery end segregation, secure civil rights and build the most free and just nation in history. Unfortunately, there is a growing radical Left Movement that rejects the principle of equal treatment under the law. And this extreme movement is granted a majority, on the Supreme Court, it will fundamentally transform america without a single vote of congress. Radical justices will erase the second amendment, silence political speech, and require taxpayers to fund extreme late term abortions. It will give our elected bureaucrats the power to destroy millions of american jobs. They will remove the words under god from the pledge of allegiance. They will unilaterally declare the Death Penalty unconstitutional. Even for the most depraved mass murderers. They will erase national borders. Cripple police departments. And grant new protections to anarchists, rioter, violent criminals, and terrorists. In the recent past, many of our most treasured freedoms including religious liberty, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms have been saved by a single vote on the United StatesSupreme Court. Our cherished rights are at risk, including the right to life, and our great second amendment. Over the next four years, americas president will choose hundreds of federal judges and in all likelihood, one, two, three, and even four Supreme Court justices. The outcome of these decisions will determine whether we hold fast to our nations founding principles or whether they are lost forever. That is why today, i am announcing 20 additions to my original list of candidates for the United StatesSupreme Court. Should there be another vacancy on the Supreme Court, during my presidency, my nominee will come from the names i have shared with the American Public, including the original list, and these 20 additions. Joe biden has refused to release his list. Perhaps because he knows the names are so extremely far left, that they could never withstand public scrutiny, or receive acceptance. He must release the list of justices for people to properly make a decision as to how they will vote. It is very important that he do so. My original list of potential justices include many of our nations brightest legal minds, such as bill prior, Amy Coney Barrett and thomas harding, outstanding people. Like those distinguished bear. The 20 additions im announcing today Clarence Thomas and samuel alito. Their names are as follows bridgett beatty of arizona. Judge on the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Daniel cameron of kentucky, attorney general of the commonwealth of kentucky, paul clement of virginia. Senator tom cotton of arkansas, senator ted cruz of texas, Stewart Kyle Duncan of louisiana, judge on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. Steven engle of the district of columbia, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel at the department of justice. Noel francisco, former solicitor general of the United States, senator josh hawley of missouri, gregory katsiss of virginia, barbara lugoa of florida, judge on the 11th Circuit Court of appeals, Christopher Landow on maryland, carlos munes of florida, martha packall of illinois, peter fipps, sarah pitlik of missouri, Allison Jones rushing of north carolina, judge on the fourth Circuit Court of appeals, kate todd of virginia, Deputy Assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president. Lawrence van dyke of nevada, judge on the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Every one of these individuals will ensure equal justice, equal treatment and equal rights for citizens of every race, color, religion and creed. Together we will defend our righteous heritage and preserve our magnificent american way of life. Thank you, god bless, america. Thank you very much. Does anybody have any questions on the judges . Please. Anybody, on the judges. Excuse me. Any questions outstanding people. Very important decision. Very important that joe biden put up potential nominees. I think its a very important thing for our country that he do that. Okay, please, go ahead. Do you have a question . Have you spoken can you address the concerns from the woodward book in regards to whether did you mislead the public by saying downplayed the coronavirus and that you repeatedly did that in order to reduce panic . Did you mislead the public . If you said in order to reduce panic, perhaps thats so. Im a cheerleader for this country, i love this country. And i dont want people to be frightened. I dont want to create panic, as you say. And certainly im not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. We want to Show Confidence and strength, we want to show strength as a nation and thats what weve done. Weve done very well. Weve done well from any standard. You look at our numbers compared to other parts of the world, its been an amazing job that weve done. I think its sad in many respects because the incredible individuals working so hard on it including our Vice President , theyve done this great job, they havent been acknowledged by the news media and they should, whether its ventilators and now youll see with vaccines and with therapeutics, the job weve done has been incredible. But we dont want we dont want to instill panic. We dont want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem, scare everybody. And ill tell you the other thing, we immediately started buying all over the world. We started buying masks and gowns and everything else. And we dont want to cause pricing to go up to a level that becomes almost unaffordable. So, yeah, in that sense, i agree with it. Please . Reporter how do you reassure the American Public that they can trust what youre saying . I think thats a big part of trust. We have to show leadership and the last thing you want to do is create a panic in the country. This was a horrible thing. It was sent to us by china. Should not have happened. Should never have happened. This is a disgusting, terrible situation that was thrusted upon us and we have to show we just dont have to show panic. Were not going to show panic and thats exactly what i did. And i was very open whether its to woodward or anybody else. Its another political hit job. But whether it was woodward or anybody else, you cannot show a sense of panic or youre going to have bigger problems than you ever had before. Reporter respectfully reporter in february please, please go ahead. Reporter dont you think if you were more forthright with the American People, more lives could have been saved . Do you take responsibility for the 200,000 deaths we had. We closed up our country, we closed up quickly and effectively. We did a job, we learned about this horrible disease, along with the rest of the world, which had to learn about it. And we opened it up and now we know the vulnerable, we know who it attacks, who its so vicious against and i think weve done from every standpoint an incredible job. We shouldnt have lost anybody. Nobody should have lost china released something that they should not have released. It came out of china. It went to europe, it went all over the world. Should have never happened. They could have stopped it. They stopped it from going into the remainder of china. It started in wuhan and they stopped it. But they didnt stop it from coming to our country. We had to show calm. We had to show, you know if it was up to you or whoever, i have no idea what he said in the book. Its a book that i gave him some quotes and frankly well see how the book turned out. I have no idea. Youre asking me questions for the first time. But, again, the last thing we can show is panic or excitement or fear or anything else. We had to take care of we had to take care of the situation we were given. Now, long before anybody else wanted to do it, i closed our borders to a very heavily infected china. If i didnt do that, we would have had hundreds of thousands more people die. Dr. Fauci said it, many people said it, it was a great decision. It was a decision i made and i had to make. It was a decision that a lot of people thought i was wrong. Nancy pelosi said i was wrong, joe biden said i was wrong. They all came back and they said, it was the right decision. And i was way early. That was in january. The end of january i did that. So that was a very good thing we did. Otherwise we would have had hundreds of thousands more. But if we didnt close the country, we would have been talking about millions of people instead of the numbers that we have right now. Reporter is there anything else reporter you mentioned you were trying to avoid price gouging. But you mentioned that you recognized that this virus spread through the air on february 7th. You didnt start ramping up ventilator production until march you didnt think it was going to the point where it was. All of a sudden the entire world was infected. Everyone was scrambling around looking where to buy face masks and all of the other things. Weve opened up factories, weve had tremendous success with face masks and with shields and with the ventilators. Were supplying the rest of the world. We have all the ventilators we can use. And remember this, the ventilators were very important. Not one person that needed a ventilator didnt get it. These are very complex, expensive machines to make. We opened up Something Like hadnt been done since the second world war. We honestly, weve done an incredible job. But we dont want to run around screaming, shouting, look at this. We have to show leadership and leadership is all about confidence and confidence is confidence in our country. And our people have been great. Weve been put through a lot by china, by releasing this, by having this come here. We were put through a lot. They could have done something about it and they chose not to. Im very honored to have presented to you today a list of 20 incredible people. And we will talk later. Im sure well be meeting later in the day. Thank you so much. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Weeknights this month were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3. Tonight, cspan cities tour takes you across the United States and through time as we explore our music history. Some of the stops include the Ryman Auditorium in nashville, the rock n roll hall of fame and the birthplace of jazz music. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. The first africanamerican woman elected to congress, Shirley Chisholm of new york, became in 1972, the first woman and africanamerican to seek a major partys president ial nomination. Up next on reel america, a cspan american profile interview with the trailblazer from june of 1992. Ms. Chisholm talks about the struggles she faced and she discusses the 1992 president ial election in which ross perot emerged as a thirdparty candidate. Shirley chisholm, how do you explain this incredible president ial year . I think i can explain in terms of the fact that its gotten to a point in American History now where the American People feel an