Administer chinas takeover of hong kong. Blake burman is at the white house as we await the president s remarks. What are you hearing from the folks at the white house about what hell be telling us . Reporter the president will be making remarks about china upcoming at what is billed as a press conference from the rose garden which we expect to hear from the president moments from now. You mentioned that reuters report about hong kong and the autonomy act that was passed by congress. Keep in mind one thing on that, the president that was signed, or passed, rather, by both the house expect senate, overwhelming support. Earlier this month. Without getting too granular, the way that it works the president has to sign that into law or at least take action on that give or take within ten days. That puts the clock at about that time that the president would have to take some sort of action as today on the hong kong autonomy act which would call for sanctions on certain individuals that the president would want to sanction inside china. So its certainly possible that that is what we will be seeing and hearing from the president in the rose garden moments from now, as ive been told it will be about china and, certainly, the timetable on hong kong and the awe on autonomy act would pn the direction of the president taking that up at any moment now. The white house has described it as a press conference that has about half a dozen or so different meanings around here. [laughter] there are many chairs inside the rose garden, and the setup would lead to a press conference, though though we will see if the president actually takes questions from the media any moment from now. Lou . Lou well, blake, the granularity focused on the legislative process and the signing of the autonomy act but less so about what actually the president will be talking about. I presume thats because no one has hold you. Am i correct on that . Reporter well, what ive been directly pointed to is china. And so ive been told to lou thats a big subject. [laughter] reporter that is a big subject. You have got a lot going on. Youve got huawei, the trade deal, hong kong, theres a lot under that umbrella. Reuters is pointing at the autonomy act, and i would say at this point if you look at the calendar and the way it all shakes out, it would certainly makes sense if thats what the president talks about or signs upcoming. Lou as the president would say, china. And as to the press conference, the news conference, i think you were right about the number of interpretations. Its for every reporter who seems to show up there as to what actually it should be about. Blake burman, thanks for joining us and bringing us uptodate. Appreciate it. The Trump Administration drawing a hard line against chinese aggression in the South China Sea. Secretary of state pompeo yesterday said most of chinas pursuits in the South China Sea are unlawful. The secretary said, quote the prc, the peoples republic of china, has no legal grounds to unilaterally impose its will on the region. The world will not allow beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire. America stands with our Southeast Asian allies and partners in protecting their sovereign rights, offshore resources consistent with their rights and obligations under international law. Well, secretary pompeos comments come as china increases its aggression and its military buildup. The Chinese Military saying its begun mass production of its fifth generation Stealth Fighter jet, the j20. The unveiling of the modified stealth jet fighter was attended by the general in charge of Weapons Development for the peoples lib are ration army. Liberation army. The chinese announcement of the jets mass production comes as the state Department Approved the 23 billion sale of f35 fighter jets to japan. The Trump Administration earning another victory today in their battle against chinas access to critical 5g infrastructure. The United Kingdom has made a uturn on its proposed policy, now saying that the British Government will ban the purchase of huawei equipment for its 5g network. The u. K. Had originally allowed huawei limited access, but culture secretary oliver doudham says their reversal followed a recent review of u. S. Transitions that bar huawei and its suppliers from using American Technology ask software. Has reviewed the consequences of the u. S. action. The ncsb has now reported to ministers that they have significantly changed their and for huaweis presence in the u. K. s 5g network. The u. K. Can no longer be confident it will be able to guarantee the security of future 5g, huaweis 5g equipment affected by the change in u. S. Foreign direct product rules. Lou thats a british form of uturn. In a statement secretary of state pompeo says, quote with this decision, the u. K. Joins a growing list of countries from around the world that are standing up for their National Security, prohibiting the use of highrisk vendors. The u. K. s ban on huawei equipment takes effect december 31st, plenty of time for adjustments. British Telecom Companies also have until, well, 2027 to strip their 5g infrastructure of all huawei products and components. Well, as the president moves toward new action against chinas takeover of hong kong, the National Basketball association is now you under fie because it censored prohong kong slogans on their official online store. Fans who wanted customized jerseys with the phrase Free Hong Kong on the back were denied while slogans endorsing anticop, antisemitic, antitrump rhetoric were permitted. This is, this is todays nba. Hillary vaughn in washington with the latest on the story. Hillary . Reporter hi, lou. Well, in the nba store, that phrase was prevented from jerseys, it did raise some eyebrows because, as you mentioned, they did allow phrases like kill cops to be added to their customized jerseys. Those were not censored. And it also put the nbas business dealings in china under a microscope. The company that runs the store says that ban on the grade, Free Hong Kong, was an accident. The phrase was inadvertently prohibited on all our online store sites and has now been fixed. But now the nbas billion dollar behemoth of a business in beijing is catching lawmakers attention in congress. Senator josh hawley wants nba commissioner adam silver subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary committee to disclose the nbas financial ties to the Chinese Communist party. The nba makes billions of dollars in china every year. They wont say a word about what china is doing in the world. They wont say a world about what chinas doing in hong kong or in the concentration camps. Why . Because the nba makes so much money. Reporter they do bring in about 500 million every year in direct revenue from china. Nba china, which is a separate business arm of the nba, is also valued at 5 billion. They also have a 1. 5 billion deal with chinas streaming platform, and their fan base there is huge, 500 million chinese fans tune in to at least one nba game last season, and that gives the Chinese Government that owns the airwaves in the country a lot of power over how many eyes tune in the games there. In october after the Houston Rockets e executive tweeted support for the hong kong protesters, the nbas live games went dark, they were taken off the air, and it also provoked a number of chinese businesses to temporarily ban selling apparel from the Houston Rockets. The nba commissioner, adam silver, says the standoff had a dramatic financial cost on the leagues bottom line. And, lou, the nbas business in china is only growing. Right now about 10 of their revenue comes in from china, but its expected to double by 2030 bringing in about 20 of the nbas revenue. Lou quickly, where are we with the slogans fans can have on the backs of nba jerseys . They can have slogans about Free Hong Kong . They can still have all of that anticop, antitrump nonsense on their backs . Reporter so the Free Hong Kong slogan is now green lighted, fans can put that on their jerseys. And alternatively, antipolice rhetoric has been banned. They also tell me they have a system in place that if for some reason a customization goes through that does have derogatory language directed towards the police, that sale ultimately would be rejected. They have Quality Controls in check to make sure that those orders do not go through and those actual jerseys dont get manufactured. Lou . Lou good to hear. Thanks so much. Hillary vaughn, appreciate it. We have a stacked lineup here tonight. On all the latest news regarding china as well as President Trumps remarks at the white house from the rose garden. Well be joined tonight by the hudson institutes dr. Michael pillsbury, one of the foremost experts on china joining us as well, gordon chang from the gatestone institute, one of the foremost experts on asia. And the president of Security Studies group jim hanson on National Security and global challenges including, of course, china. 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The States Health department told fox orlando that private and public labs are required to report both positive and negative results. Some of them, they say, have not. The Health Department is now working to obtain the correct data from those laboratories and probably to give some form of education in basic math. On wall street stocks finishing higher. The dow surged ahead 557 points, a big rally on wall street. The s p gained 42. The nasdaq gained 98. Volume on the big board, 4. 5 billion shares. Crude oil closing at 40. 30 a barrel. Back above 40. And a reminder, listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Up next, we await President Trump to deliver remarks from the rose garden about china. The rose garden, and there you see it, with you can see the anticipation rolling off the shoulders of those White House Press correspondents. We will bring you the president and his Subsequent Press conference as soon as it all starts. 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Joining us now to discuss what is likely to happen and what has been transpiring in the relationship between the two countries, dr. Michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. Mike, good to have you with us. We expect this to be effectively the signing of the autonomy act and the president taking the first steps to apply sanctions. Your thoughts. Well, this is a very good act that passed both houses of congress unanimously, lou, and its all it serves the United States government into the protection of hong kongs autonomy. The way it does that, there will be a department of state report on anyone whos helping china crack down in hong kong and violate 1984 treaty with the british. So its a very big step. Its a very good thing, and its about as bipart an as vow bipartisan as you get. Passed both houses unanimously. Lou bipartisan, a first step. But what does it actually do for the people of hong kong who have lost their liberty and hong kong itself which is no longer autonomous, far from it there now under the thumbs of beijing absolutely . It doesnt do anything to help the people of hong kong, lou, with their awe on the and their struggles autonomy. The important thing this is not being said out loud, but its extremely important. Some people wanted to close the consulate in hong kong. 200 officers, they monitor monitor the crackdown on human rights. I think the president s decided to keep that consulate open, enter the fight to keep hong kong as free as possible. Hong kongs part of china. Mrs. Thatcher gave it back to china. Its not independent. So they can crack down on people who demand independence. But to try to preserve hong kongs freedoms another 25 years or so, its very important that we keep our really large consulate and our officers and intelligence agencies there and continue the fight. Not just to give up, go home and forget hong kong. Lou well, i think theres something of a hobsons choices and a bit of a false choice at that. There is a lot in between those two possibilities that the United States could be doing, mike, as you well know. This business, this is a sorry business when the United States lets a territory just simply be subsumed by china without response. And i mean, a significant response. Were better than that. Or at least we used to be. Why in the world are we dancing around this . I mean, we just lost 140,000 americans to the china virus. We have just watched china take over hong kong. Where in the hell does this end, and when does this great nation rise up and say no more and there will be an accounting . I think the accounting or the punishment is going to have to cover several areas. One is not helping us at all on the virus even inflicting harm on us. Secondly, is their unlawful activities in the South China Sea. Third just no progress on phase two trade deal, the subsidies and the thing on corporations. Theres four or five more examples where china is just really stiffing the president. Theyre not saying anything. They dont i check every thursday to see new purchases, theres no new purchases of our Agricultural Products this thursday. Lou do you also check intellectual property . [laughter] because the them. S rage on. Were talking about the thefts rage on. Were talking 600 billion a year. Mike, i i mean, i understand, you know, this is an absurdity and sometimes the only response is laughter to absurdity. But the fact of the matter is this country is being pillaged by china, and they are thumbing their noses at this president , at this nation if, and theyre doing so to terrible effect on the people of hong kong and the region. For gods sake, weve got to be better than this. I think we can be better. Theres a number of steps the president , no doubt, is considering, lou, that could be very harsh. But once we start down that path, it means u. S. Investments, u. S. Trade, general u. S. Relations with china better be really are going to be really severely set back for generations. Im not sure the president s quite ready yet to do that. Lou if this nation continues to put commercial interests ahead of the National Interests as all of wall street does, as all of Corporate America does and now as all of capitol hill, it seems, does, this president was elected to change all of that. And change, he must. Or this nation does not survive. Im worried about the military balance of power with china too. Thats been slipping. We used to be 2 or 3 to 1 superior in terms of naval units. Now theres more Chinese Navy Ships than there are american ships not just in the pacific, but worldwide. So this is a comprehensive challenge to our government, to our nation. But as i say, once the president takes extreme measures, theres no going back. Well be in a cold war for sure, and itll be for a long time because china is so strong. Some say chinas going to collapse. I hope theyre right. I suspect theyre wrong. Lou well, i dont know anybody who i says theyre going to collapse anytime soon, and the fact of the matter is theyre running roughshod over the United States, our allies in the region, and we are doing absolutely nothing about it. And that is unacceptable. That isnt, that isnt who this president is. That isnt who this nation is. Am i wrong . No, youre not wrong at all, but there are some people advising the president that commercial interests and investment and trade is more important than what they consider these trivial issues of the South China Sea and so forth. As you saw today, Robert Obrien wrote a pathbreaking article, im sure the president approved it, about the uighurs. Thats a huge turn around, focus on the uighurs basically facing genocide. The National Security adviser published that. But you see a number of steps being taken just in the past few days, lou. Today could be another big one. Lou well, i, indeed, hope that this is a big one, as you style it. The fact of the matter is that this is the only president in decades, since the opening of china, who has stood up against china and insisted and demanded that there be balanced and reciprocity and balance in the relationship between the two countries. This is going to be a moment of reckoning. And anyone who wants to try to ignore it, who thinks that writing an oped, who thinks writing a white paper or that rhetoric no matter the site from which it is heard is sadly, sadly mistaken. We have a kohl war, mike cold war, mike, and you know it. And we have to say it straight up. And, by god, if we dont understand that, woe is us. You get the last word. Well, moving toward a showdown has some benefits, but i think before we move toward a showdown, lou, weve got to make sure weve got our plan and our strategy, weve thought about this as a comprehensive way. We may have heard attorney general barr talk about our future generationsing with robbed of innovation and technology. This is another area lou yeah. If our pentagon, our state department, our National Security council, if they is have not spent all this time preparing strategies, contingency plans and have a overwhelming range of options to bring the president to assert against the communist nation of china, then i dont know what the hell you can say about our military or our National Security bureaucracy. Dr. Michael pillsbury, great to have you with us. Well be right back. Were awaiting President Trump for his comments on china from the rose garden. Stay with us, well be right back. Dont just think about where youre headed this summer. Think about how youll get there. 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Things are coming back, and theyre coming back very rapidly. A a lot sooner than people thought. People are feeling good about our country, people are feeling good about therapeutic es and possible vaccines. But were going to go over quite a bit, and maybe at the end well take some questions if we have time. Its not too hot. Today i signed legislation and an executive order to hold china accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of hong kong. The hong kong autonomy act, which i signed this afternoon, pa passed unanimously through congress. This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing hong kongs freedom. Weve all watched what happened. Not a good situation. Their freedoms been taken away, their rights have been taken away, and with it goes hong kong, in my opinion, because it will no longer be able to compete with free markets. A lot of people will be leaving hong kong, i suspect. And were going to do a lot more business because of with it, because we just lost one competitor. Thats the way it is. We lost a very, very serious competitor, a competitor that we incentivized to take a lot of business and do well, and we gave them a lot of business by doing what we did. We gave them things that nobody else had the right to do, and that gave them a big edge over other markets. And because of that edge, theyve done really historic business, tremendous business, far bigger than anybody would have thought years ago when we did this gift. It was really a gift of freedom. Today i also signed an executive order ending u. S. Preferential treatment for hong kong. Hong kong will now be treated the same as mainland china, no special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies. In addition to that, as you know, were placing massive tariffs and have placed very large tariffs on china. First time thats ever happened to china. Billions of dollars have been paid to the United States of which ive given quite a bit to the farmers and ranchers of our country, because they were targeted. And thats been going on for three years. Its the first time anybodys ever done anything like that. And prior to the plague pouring in from china, they were having the worst year, as you know, in 67 years. And i dont want them to have a bad year, i want them to have a good year, but they were taking advantage of the United States for many, many years, and thats stopping. But then the virus came in, and the world is a different place. But were now getting back, and one of the reasons the markets its almost at the point that it was at prior to the plague. Almost. Were getting very close. A great thing. Its an amazing thing, what our people have done and what theyve endured. No administration has been tough the or on china than this administration tougher on china. We imposed historic tariffs, we stood up to chinas intellectual property theft at a level that nobodys ever come close. We confronted untrustworthy Chinese Technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries, many countries and i did this myself for the most part not to use huawei. Because with we think its an unsafe security risk, its a big security risk. I talked many countries out of using it. They want to do business with us. They cant use it. Just today, i believe, the u. K. Announced that theyre not going to be using it. And that was up in the air for a long time, but theyve decided. You look at italy, you look at many other countries. We withdrew from the chinese nominated w. H. O. , and we fully rebuilt the United States military, the w. H. O. World health organization, we were paying close to 500 million a year. China was paying 39 million a year. And china had too much say. They worked it very hard which is a bad thing done by our past administrations, but we were tough, and were saying i was asking, i was saying why are we paying so much more than china . China has 1. 4 billion people, we have 325, probably 325 million approximately. Nobody can give me the exact count. Were trying to get an exact count but you have over the years many illegals who come into the country. But you could say i 325350 Million People as opposed to 1. 4 billion people. And the world trade is terrible. That deal is terrible. The world health is a terrible deal. Weve been very tough on the world trade organization, and weve been i guess as touch tough as you can get on world health. Weve told them were getting out. They made a lot of bad production, and they said a lot of bad things about what to do and how to do it, and they turned out to be wrong. And they were really a puppet of china. And make no mistake, we hold china fully responsible for concealing the virus and unleashing it upon the world. They could have stopped it, they should have stopped it. Would have been very easy to do at the source when it happened. In contrast, bidens entire career joe bidens entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist party and to the calamity of errors that theyve made. Theyve made so many errors. And its been devastating for the american worker. China has a taken out hundreds of billions of dollars a year from our country. And we rebuilt china. Give them all the credit in the world. I dont give the credit for the people that used to stand here because they allowed this to happen where hundreds of billions of dollars were taken out of the United States treasury in order to rebuild china. Theres no company and no country in the world, no country in the world has ever ripped off the United States like the incredible job that they did on this country and the people that ran it. Possibly its one of the reasons, certainly its one of the very big reasons trade and things related to trade that e got elected in the first place. Ive been talking about it for a long time along with many other subjects, frankly. Joe biden supported chinas entry into the world trade organization, one of the greatest geo political and economic disasters in world history. You look at china, you look at the moment they joined the world trade, they were flatlining for years and years and years and decades. And then all of a sudden they joined the world trade organization, and they went like a rocket ship. They were given all sorts of advantages, they were considered a developing country. As a developing country, they got tremendous advantages over the United States and other countries. And they took advantage of those advantages and then some. Biden personally led the effort to give china permanent most favored nation status which is a tremendous advantage for a country to have. Few countries have it. But the United States doesnt have it. Never did. Probably never even asked for it, because they didnt know what they were doing. As Vice President , biden was a leading advocate of the Paris Climate Accord which was unbelievably expensive to our country. It would have crushed american manufacturers while allowing china to pollute the atmosphere with impunity. Yet one more gift from biden to the Chinese Communist party. They took all of the advantage away from us. They took everything away. They dont have oil. We would have had to close up tremendous amounts of our energy to qualify eventually not too far in the future. We would have had to do things that would have been unbelievably destructive to our country including the possible closing of 25 of our diss of our businesses. Think of that. And it was going to cost us hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars for the privilege of being involved in the Paris Climate Accord. And you just have to look at what took place this year in paris and france where money was being sent to countries all over the world, and the people of france didnt want to take it, and they didnt. They did a lot of rioting. They had their taxes raised. We would have had to raise our taxes. And it was a disaster. Ive been given a lot of credit for what i did this. Took a certain amount of courage, i guess. Sounds so nice, the Paris Climate Accord. But it wasnt good for us at all. America lost nearly 10,000 factories while joe biden was Vice President. Think of that, 10,000 factories. He wrote something today, and he made a Statement Today that i wrote down. Its pretty accurate. So biden was here for 47 years. Eight years, the last eight years not long ago as Vice President he said one in five miles of our highways are still in poor condition. Well, were doing a good job on highways. But why didnt he fix em . Three years ago . Why didnt he fix em . Tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair and on the verge of collapse. Thats probably not a right number, but we have bridges that should have been fixed. Why didnt he fix em . He was there for eight years with president obama. Why didnt they fix them . Tens of thousands of bridges, this is what he wrote. Highspeed broadband, we want well, why didnt they get it in three years ago, its not a long time. He didnt do any of the things, but now he says hes going to be president , and as president hes going to do all the things that he didnt do, never did. Never did anything except make very bad decisions especially on foreign policy. So joe biden and president obama freely allowed china to pillage our factories, plunder our communities and steal our most precious secrets. And ive stopped it, largely, but ive stopped it. And it wasnt easy. Because you talk about a certain power of the telephone and the calls where they would call and say, no, we dont want to do that. Other countries would call on behalf of china, but i did it. I did what has to be done. You just take a look at whats gone on and take a look at the kind of at the numbers where they devalued their currency in order to pay the tariffs. Now the Democrat Party calling for defunding of our military, think of that. They want to defund our military. When china is building a massive military. Theyre building a massive military, and biden wants to defund our military. And the world needs american strength right now more than ever, and weve got it. Weve got with now soon as all this equipment comes in, all made in the usa, weve got the newest, most incredible weaponser in in the world. We have the best techs, the best ships, the best missiles, rockets, we have the best of everything. We have the best fighter jets, the f35, the f18. All of these assets are being built. Thankers, incredible tankers. Bombers. Hope we dont have to use them. But we have the most incredible military. When i came in, the military was totally depleted. It was at a level that was just shul incredible. Absolutely incredible. I made the statements before. I e told you what generals told me about our military, and ill make em again if somebody needs them. Well give them to you. Very well documented. As Vice President , biden opposed tariffs, and he was standing up for china, didnt want to do anything to disrupt the relationship with chai i that each though china was taking us to the cleaners. He opposed my very strict travel ban on chinese nationals to stop the spread of the china virus. He was totally against it. Xenophobic, he called me. Xenophobic. A month later he admitted i was right. We would have had thousands of people additionally die if we let people come in from heavily infected china. But we stopped it. We did a travel ban in january. Nancy pelosi was dancing in the streets of chinatown in San Francisco a month later and even later than that. And others too. They all thought what i did was a terrible mistake. We would have lost in fact, dr. Fauci said we would have lost thousands of additional people if President Trump atlanta done that, and hadnt done that, and i was a crowd of one because even experts didnt want to do it. And then i did europe when i started seeing what was going on in italy and spain rain france, other countries in europe. I did a ban on people coming in from europe. That would have been disastrous for our country also. And we saw saved tens of thousands of lives, but we actually saved millions of lives by closing, closing up. We saved millions, potentially millions of lives. Could be a number that were actually working on, but it could be 23 million lives. So were at 135,000, which is terrible. One is too much. But we would have had millions of people dead from this curse that came at us. But we did what we had to do, and now well put out the flames as it, as it happens. We have to get the schools open. We have to get everything open. A lot of people dont want to do that for political reasons, not for other reasons. But if we had listened to joe biden, hundreds of thousands of additional lives would have been lost. And if you look at the job he did on swine flu, i looked at a poll they have polls on everything nowadays. They got very bad marks on the job they did on the swine flu. H1n1. He calls it n1h1. H1n1. God very poor marks from gal got very poor marks from gallup on the job they did on swine flu. And they stopped very early on testing. They totally stopped it. They just said stop. And, frankly, if we didnt test, you wouldnt have all the headlines because were showing cases. And we have just about the lowest mortality rate. But if we did, think of this, if we didnt do testing, instead of testing over 40 Million People if we did half the testing, have have half the cases. If we did another you cut that in half, wed is have yet again half of that. But the headlines are always testing. Now, the testing a good thing, but at the same time its fodder for the fake news to report cases. So were doing 40 million plus, its going to be very close to 45 Million People, and when i turned on the news, i see cases, cases, cases. E thaw dont talk about deaths being cut down to a level that actually tenfold, i got that from one of the very respected media outlets. Tenfold. Cut tenfold. Yes, but they dont talk about that. They talk about cases. And the cases are created because of the fact that we do tremendous tests. We have the best testing in the world. We now make ventilators for the world. We had very few ventilators. There wasnt one person in any hospital anywhere in this country that needed a ventilator that didnt get it. And that was because we mobilized to a level using the purchasing act in some cases, we mobilized to a level that nobody thought possible. Nothings happened like that since world war ii. Our task force has done a great job. Mike fence works so is hard mike pence works so hard, gets so little credit. Sad to see, actually. The governors, would be on the phone with 50 different governors, they tell us great job, and then they go to the media and say, hell, they didnt do such a good job. We made a lot of governors look fantastic. What we did in new york was one of the most incredible things. 2,800 beds in Javits Center, but the governor used very few of them, unfortunately. Then we moved in one of our two great hospital ships, we moved one also to lang heless. And we could have used that for our senior is citizens, for our, for other people. They could have used it instead of sending our seniors back into Nursing Homes that were inconnectfected where you lost thousands of people. And its a very sad thing to see and very sad to watch and very sad to look at those statistics. We have an incredible Javits Center that we built with thousands of beds; i think it was 2,800. All ready to go. And they could have sent people there, or they could have sent Senior Citizens there instead of sending them into the Nursing Homes x. After all of that work, the army records of edge years corps of engineers. They built it in a matter of days. When it was all completed, fema, everybody was there. Doctors, we ended up getting doctors. They said, we cant man it. I said, well man it and woman it. Thats what we did. We brought in doctors, nurses, everything, were all set. Where are the people . Very few people came in. They could have sent them into the Javits Center, to the hospital ship which was virtually unused, but we were there. By contrast, my administration acted very early to ban travel from china, from europe saving all of these lives. Incredible. And i want everyone to know, i want with every citizen to know that were using the full power of the federal government to fight the china virus and to keep our people safe. Through operation warp speed, we will deliver a vaccine in recordbreaking time. Were doing very well on the vaccines. We have many, many different vaccines being studies right now, many of which are looking really good. And and were ready to distribute the vaccine when we get it. Were all set. Taking an economic risk of preparing for delivery, because we feel certain its going to be there. Logistically, we have military ready to go. Thats all they do is distribute things, or a therapeutic, and its coming out really bell very, very quickly having to do with the vaccines. Were also look with many other countries on the back soon. Many countries are working for us. Joe biden didnt just side with china on the virus he did, he called me, again, xenophobic. Thats what he said. You all heard it many times. He described the rise of china, quote, a very positive development. Not a positive development, not for us, its not. He said that the ideas china is our competition is really bizarre. Hes really bizarre. He said chinas not a problem, no. Nobodys ripped us off more than china over the last 25, 30 years. Nobody close. And he says chinas not a problem. Now he takes it all back. Now he wants to be mr. Tough guy. But for years, 47 years he never came out against china, never said anything wad. Just the opposite. His son walked out with 1. 5 billion money to invest. Hell make hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of dollars a year. I asked one of the biggest people on wall street, maybe the biggest, that possible . He said, no, hes never seen it. But hunter, where is hunter, by the way . Hunter biden walked out with 1. 5 billion. In ukraine he got 83,000 a month and, guess, an upfront payment of 3,000. So he went from not having a job to getting 83,000 a month with a lot of money paid up front to work for bris ma. Burisma. And you all know about burisma. But nothing happens, nobody cares. And if he was unemployeded, as you know, he was unfortunate forced to leave the military. Didnt have a job, and all of a sudden waste making a fortune. Nobody talks about that. Indeed, biden expressed more fawning praise about china on an ordinary day than about america. On the fourth of july, the last independence day, biden attacked the united United States and sae had, quote, never lived up to the ideals of our fathers, our forefathers or our founding fathers. Those founding illinoiss, and yet he enthusiastically stated that china is a great nation, and we should hope for its continued expansion. Well, we all wish well to china, but what chinas unleashed on the world, its hard to even fathom. I see people now, friends of mine. Way walk up, they want to say hello, and they have to keep their distance and their all covered occupy like you all covered up with face masks. Its a different world but were coming out on top. Biden sides with america time and time again. And he said on the fourth of july American History is no fairly tail. And yet blindly celebrates china saying few nations in history have come so far so fast. Hes no sprowd of them. Hes proud of them. In you joe biden is plushing a platform that would demolish the u. S. Economy. So we built the greatest economy in the history of our country, greatest in the history of the world. That was a few months ago. Best unemployment numbers ever. Best for africanamerican, asianamerican, hispanicamerican. Best for women, best for everybody. Best for young people that didnt have a high schoolty moment saw, didnt have have a collegety moment ma. They had a diploma, they were really in good shape. The greatest ever stock market, highest ever in history. We had 143 days of alltime tock market highs in less than three and a half years. And we had to close it down because we did the right thing by doing that, as i said. We saved millions of lives. But china was saying this is incredible, whats going on china was, for the first time, respecting the United States. And how they want to do something thats much different from joe biden. So so ive watched this, and ive watched it with great interest. Were building our economy again. I guess the stock market went up almost 5000 pointed today, something thereabouts. Its up a lot when i left. And our economys coming back. Were am at a level before the very important, maybe the most important ever election of november 3rd. But long before that, were close to to record stock markets again. The nasdaq hit an alltime high for the 16th time. Think of that, for the 16th time over the last month or so for the 16th time. So one of our markets already hit an alltime high. Today joe biden gave a speech in which he said that the core of his economic agenda is a hard left crusade against american he wants to reenter the unfair, onesided Paris Climate Accord which will destroy us. At the expense of many other nations who benefit t was actually drawn in my opinion to take advantage of the United States. Just like so many other deals that are done to take advantage of the fools running the United States. But this would do nothing for the environment but would cripple american industry while greatly helping china. He wants to impose Massive Energy taxes and jobcrushing mandates to eliminate carbon from the United States economy. Let him define the word carbon because he wont be able to. Obliterating american oil, clean coal, natural gas, and the Natural Energy resources that supply countless american jobs. Joe biden put aoc, a young woman not talented in many ways, in charge of his energy plan. And the environment essentially her and bernie sanders, who ran a lot of times for president , never made it. Good base but thats about it. In other words he wants to impose the Green New Deal on our country. When i first saw the Green New Deal i thought it was a joke. I said this will never go anywhere. Now theyre trying to impose it. This will destroy our country and make us noncompetitive with other countries. Dont forget were in competition with china and with many other countries throughout the world. Were in tremendous economic competition. Including europe which has never treated us well. The European Union was formed in order to take advantage of the night. They formed and they take advantage of the United States and, i know that. And they know i know that, but other president s had no idea. Last week joe biden released his unity platform developed with socialist bernie sanders, describing what he would do if elected president. The bidensanders agenda is the most extreme platform of any Major Party Nominee by far in American History. I think it is worse than actually bernies platform it has gone so far right, he is doing that because he begging for that vote but one of the things i just asked my people to do, draw up for me quickly some of the things weve been hearing about over the last couple of weeks. These are actual key elements of the bidensanders unity platform. Abolish immigration detention. No more detention. You come in here illegally, no more detention. Stop all deportations. So if we get an ms13 gang member which we have taken out of our country by the thousands, brought them back to honduras, guatemala, cant do that anymore. El salvador. Stop all deportations. Lou that is it for us. The president from the rose garden. My new book the trump century, now available for preorder at thetrumpcentury. Com and barnes noble and amazon. Com. Were joined tomorrow by president ial Senior Advisor stefen miller, former civil rights advocate, bob woodson. The follow me on twitter, like me on facebook, and follow me onesti gram loudobbstonight. Good night from sussex. Elizabeth im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. The president now delivering remarks in the rose garden. The president started speaking about china and hong kong. He is really tearing into joe biden and heart left democrats in the party. Lets listen back in. With guatemala, el el el salvador, we have great agreements. Biden and obama, they wouldnt take them, now with us they take them. Some day i will tell you why. Some day i will tell you why. They take them and they take them very gladly