That is an assumption that the hundreds of millions of vaccines that the administration has paid for from any number of pharmaceutical companies, moderna, pfizer, johnson johnson, which have been paid for, thats an assumption that they will work and that they will be safe. But let us be clear, as of right now, there is no vaccine that we know works. There is no vaccine that we know is safe. And there is no new information to suggest that a vaccine will indeed be available by election day. This is a promise from the president based not on scientific fact, not on any new scientific developments. This is misinformation based, it seems, obvious on his desire to be reelected. As soon as a vaccine is approved, the administration will deliver it to the American People immediately. Distribution will begin within 24 hours after notice. Well have manufactured at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year and likely much more than that. Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month. And we expect to have enough vaccines for every american by april. I mean, that sounds great, except for the fact that there is no vaccine that has been proven to be effective. There is no vaccine that has been proven to be safe. Now maybe there will be, and we sure hope its soon. And the administration is paying pharmaceutical companies for vaccines just in case one of them works. But right now at this moment what hes saying its not true. Sadly what is true is that the United States is on track to mark a devastating milestone potentially as soon as this weekend. Nearly 200,000 people in the United States dead from coronavirus. The largest number of dead of any country according to official records despite the fact that the United States has less than 5 of the worlds population. And yet tonight, President Trump will be defying the recommendations from Top Health Experts and from his very own White House Coronavirus task force holding yet another political rally in front of a packed largely maskless crowd exercising no social distancing. At his rally last night the president mocked the socially distanced cnn town hall with joe biden. Youre seeing images of it right there. He suggested that staying inside to stop the spread is akin to being in prison. The audience isnt quite like this. Theyve got cars. Its the weirdest thing ive ever seen. Youre not allowed to go to church. Youre not allowed to meet. You have to stay in a prison. [ crowd reacting ] your home has become your prison. We should note that there is a personal reason that the president is able to be so glib about this, because he is not concerned about the risk of getting infected himself at one of his rallies as he told a reporter from the Las Vegas Review journal earlier this week. Arent you concerned about getting covid though in an enclosed no. Im more concerned about you because im on a stage thats very far away. And so im not at all concerned. As he said, and its accurate the president is on a stage and hes very far away so hes not concerned. Never mind the crowd in front of him and whether he should be concerned about them. We also know that President Trump gets tested for coronavirus often. And those who come in close contact with him are tested as well before they can even enter the room with him. Thats testing by the way that is denied the rest of us. Our kids would be able to go back to school if there was universal frequent testing of children and teachers and faculty and support staff. But there is not. So the president fails to provide that security that he has for the rest of us. And then he mocks those who take precautions, the precautions that his Health Experts, birx, fauci, hahn, say are vital to stopping this virus from spreading, a virus that has now killed almost 200,000 people in this country. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is in minnesota for us right now where the president will hold his rally this evening. President trump making a big promise to the American People just now. But, like i said, there is no news in the Vaccine Development that would suggest that any vaccine is effective and safe. So why did he do this . Reporter obviously the president is looking through a lot of this in the political lens. He has been very clear and blunt about that. But, jake, saying that every american could have a vaccine by april is not only incredibly ambitious, it does not echo what weve heard from a lot of the Health Experts who have not only talked about actually getting a vaccine, which, as you correctly note, we do not have one yet. But its also about being able to distribute and administer a vaccine to millions of americans, something that they say even though they are preparing now is still going to take several months. But this is a week where the president has undercut his own cdc director when it comes to a vaccine time line. You heard the president and dr. Scott atlas there in the briefing room. Thats the one member of the Coronavirus Task force who has often echoed the president s views on this. But as he said and told a reporter in the room, sometimes he thinks he knows better than his own experts. As he touts an ambitious time line for vaccines, President Trump is arguing that politics isnt taking priority over science when it comes to the federal governments coronavirus response. We expect to have enough vaccines for every american by april. Reporter cnn has now learned that commercial cdc guidance claiming people without covid19 symptoms didnt need to get tested wasnt written by the agencys scientists and was posted online without their approval, despite what officials claimed last month. All the docs signed off on this before it even got to the task force level. Reporter a source telling cnns sanjay gupta that testing document was sent to the cdc by the department of health and Human Services and bypassed the cdcs strict scientific review process. It was even posted online with basic errors using incorrect terms that sources say scientists wouldnt have let slip. The administrations Testing Coordinator admiral giroir told the New York Times the document was reviewed by the cdc director and other members of the White House Task force in advance while acknowledging the editing was done. Cdc director dr. Robert redfield told cnn the guidelines coordinated in conjunction with the White House Coronavirus task force received appropriate attention, consultation, and input from Task Force Experts after saying earlier this week that the guidance will be updated. Again, weve never recommended against asymptomatic testing. You will see in the clarification reporter that story coming on top of another stunning head line. Newly obtained documents show the u. S. Postal service was prepared to distribute 650 Million Masks to american households in april. But the white house nixed the plan because they didnt want people to panic. Instead, the masks were distributed to companies, health care facilities, and Community Organizations with some set aside for schools as trump has argued that nothing more couldve been done to stop the spread. I really dont think so. I think we did a very good job. Reporter now, jake, another headline today. Remember after Hurricane Maria devastated puerto rico back in 2017, the president was so reluctant to grant more aid to puerto rico, calling them corrupt, speaking about them as if they were part of some other territory and not part of the u. S. Well, now conveniently timed shortly before the election, the president is now announcing that fema is going to grant about 13 billion in aid to puerto rico. While the president today maintained his stance that they have corrupt politicians in puerto rico, he was asked about the political implications and the political time line here. He said that the reason it took so long was it just took a long time to get the aid package together, jake. That is an interesting excuse. Kaitlan collins, stay with us. I want to bring in cnns dr. Sanjay gupta and abby phillip into this conversation. Sanjay, i want to start with you. The president says that every american will get a vaccine by april 2021. Obviously the administration is paying for a bunch of vaccines from a bunch of pharmaceuticals hoping one of them will work. But as of now, tell me if im wrong, there is no information and no new development suggesting that any of these vaccines will work definitely and are safe definitely. Is it realistic to make this promise . No. I mean, we are dealing with really limited information here and pretty audacious projections, jake, to your point. I mean, when you go back and look at the data, the phase two data, its really a small number of people who you actually see the data on. Youre now going to expect to see data on tens of thousands of people. But even initially this is all blinded data, no one has seen it yet, its going to go to an independent entity first, basically meaning we really have no idea to your point earlier, whether or not this is going to work. Its so hard to project anything based on this in terms of an actual time line without seeing any of that data. It seems, you know, a bit fruitless in terms of actually trying to make those calendars. You know whats interesting today, jake. If you looked at that briefing behind the president was Moncef Slaoui. I dont know if you watched that. He is the chief adviser to operation warp speed. I talked to him last week. He said that, look, its unlikely were going to have enough doses by the end of the year. He was giving a very realistic time line based on everything he knew now. When the vaccine about the vaccine time line was asked today, the president went to scott atlas, despite the person whos in charge of that entire time line was standing right behind him. Yeah, because hes actually an expert, whereas dr. Scott atlas, who is not an expert on Infectious Diseases, i believe hes a neuroradiologist . Yep. Abby, i mean, this is what he does. He calls these i dont know what else to call them, sycophants, toadies, people who will do and say whatever the president wants them to do, that are politically helpful for him like dr. Atlas, instead of Moncef Slaoui whos actually the expert here on the vaccine, not dr. Fauci, not dr. Birx. I mean, weve seen this before but never when so many lives were actually at stake. Yeah. This is exactly what the president does. He pushes aside the people who have actual knowledge and who are speaking based on the science and the information that they have. And he brings in people who have nothing to do with the subject. Sometimes even his economic advisers talking confidently about hydroxychloroquine for months and months, even though they have absolutely no reason to be talking about anything related to science or medicine or anything like that. This is the pattern with this white house. But it is astounding that for two days in a row now, the president has gone to the podium to talk, you know, futuristically about a vaccine that, as you have pointed out, does not exist yet. And its because this, you know, election day is coming up. It logically doesnt make a lot of sense, because already the polls show the American People are distrustful of anything that seems as if the vaccine is going to be brought into this political sphere. And yet the president does it day after day after day. It is one of those completely counterintuitive things. Hes undermining, you know, hopefully there will be a vaccine, lets just say there is some miracle and theres a vaccine available tomorrow and theres like 330 million doses of it ready the day after that. None of thats going to happen. But, kaitlan, do you think he has any idea that he is undermining his own ability to get people to take that vaccine by being so nakedly political about this . In fact, he brought up joe bidens name trying to paint biden against the vaccine. He just says he trusts the scientists like fauci, not people like trump. Reporter right. That is what the president has cited to say that joe biden is promoting these antivaccine theories, because the idea among the president s allies is donald trump is not the one coming up with this vaccine. So for joe biden to make a Statement Like that, thats why theyve been critical of it saying its obviously the scientists who are coming up with it. And i think the thing that would reassure not only the president s supporters but also even his critics is if you did let the experts speak to the time line here and not people like dr. Scott atlas who is obviously does have medical credentials. Thats why he was brought into the white house. But its not just moncef who is in charge of operation warp speed who could have spoken about it. His expertise in the army and knowing logistics and having this kind of background would really help them with distributing the vaccine when that time came. So he is actually the expert who could have spoken to this. Yet, he did not get the chance to answer that question. It was dr. Scott atlas who instead spoke to it, which is really notable. Because the administration can make this argument. They can be optimistic about a vaccine. They can talk about what exactly they are doing laying it out. But i think if the medical experts were speaking to it, it would have a much different impact than just the president. People just want people to be honest with him about whats going on, not give them an overly ambitious time line thats not realistic. Just to underline this point, dr. Scott might be one of the greatest neuroradiologists in the world. Its completely irrelevant to the idea of Infectious Diseases and vaccines which is what were talking about. 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And people areou wearing the same gear, you feel a sense of connectiveness and belonging right away. Our shirts from custom ink help bring us together. [announcer] custom ink has hundreds of products to help you look and feel like a team. Get started today at customink. Com biden is talking right now in herman, minnesota. Lets listen in. Hello, minnesota. Its great to be back. As amy was saying, ive been here a number of times up in the iron range, and its a magnificent part of the world, magnificent part of the world. And i want to thank you so much, amy, senator, youve been a great friend and a great, great senator. And senator smith, youre something else. I tell you what, thank you for the job youre doing, and im counting on it continuing another six years. You know, i know youre both fighting around the clock to take care of minnesotans in these multiple crises today. We have everything from covid to unemployment to a country that is divided along these racial lines. We have institutional racism that were dealing with, a whole range of things. And the people of minnesota know that they have two of the best senators in the country on their side. And, matt, thank you so much for that introduction and for showing me around today. This incredible Apprentice Program here at the Carpenters Training center. What a lot of people dont know if theyre not involved with labor is Apprenticeship Program not only trains the best workers in the world. Im not being facetious, thats a fact. But they get paid while theyre doing it. Not full wage, but theyre getting paid while theyre doing it. And thats why these union Apprenticeship Programs are so, so critically important they stay this way. It matters. People can still make it while theyre learning a trade, atrade thats going to put them in good stead the rest of their lives. It was great to see some of the practical handson experience that apresents and journeymen and women here receive. And while, as i said, earning a wage as a benefit. Its a big quieter here than usual because of covid19 restrictions. But the pride of these workers who are learning the skills that will carry them throughout their careers is still unmistakable. My father, and i apologize for the press who follows me for repeating this, but my dad used to have an expression. He said, joe, your jobs about a lot more than a paycheck. Its about your dignity. Its about respect. Its about your place in the community. Its about being able to look a kid in the eye and say, honey, its going to be okay and mean it. Thats the lesson ive never forgotten. Its the way i grew up surrounded by hardworking families in scranton, pennsylvania, and a lot of steelworkers in claymont, delaware. And thats what i saw here at this training center, dedicated women and men investing in their dignity. Here in the iron range, we can see the resilience in the great communities that built america, the metal theyre made of. And fortified by the strength of union power, worker power. I think i was saying to you that, you know, my dad, another expression, the only way to deal with the abuse of power is power. And the only real power for workers in america is union power. You are the folks who make sure people can make a decent living. But here, like everywhere else, times are hard. Unemployment is way up due to the pandemic. Few workers can be on the job at one time in order to abide by social distancing rules. And the Economic Outlook for next year including for the Building Trades is more uncertain than it need be. Here in minnesota and all across the country, there are plenty of folks who are hurting. Theyre worried about making their next mortgage payment, keeping their rent payments in check. They see the people at the top of the heap doing very well. An incredible number. Billionaires in america during this pandemic made another 300 billion. Do you hear what i just said . In the middle of the pandemic. Theyre left to wonder as a consequence ordinary folks whos looking out for me . You know, thats been the entire story of Donald Trumps presidency. And now in the midst of this unprecedented national crises, trump has given up on even pretending to do his job. Almost 200,000 lives lost in the last six months. And experts tell us now the same studies the administrations relied on to predict whats coming next, that were going to lose another 215,000 lives between now and january 1st. The United States has lost another 36,000 new covid cases per day, another average thousand deaths a day. Just across the border, a stones throw into canada, one day earlier this month, the United States had a thousand deaths of covid. Canada had zero. Just three days ago i believe it was. America had 1,200 deaths. Canada had nine. So many lives lost unnecessarily because the president is only worried about the stock market and his reelection. He refused to do what youre doing right here in this program, social distance. Wear a mask, sanitize, youre protec protecting america. Its estimated by the scientists that if we just wore a mask nationally, wed save 100,000 lives between now and january 1st. Let me say that again. If we just wore masks nationally, wed save 100,000 lives between now and january according to the same study. And it was estimated by a great medical school, columbia medical school, that if the president had just started one week earlier in march than he did, wed have 36,000 more people sitting at the dinner table tonight or being able to put your arm around grandpa or grandma tonight. And, again, in his own words, recorded by bob woodward, the president knew back in february that this was an extremely dangerous communicable disease. Think about it. How many people across the iron range, how many empty chairs around those dinner tables because of his negligence and selfishness . How many lies said and lives lost . Imagine if he had just maybe on state of the union that year, spoke up and said we got a problem, we can handle it. Heres what we got to do. I cant think of any president who has ever acted, in my view, so selfishly about his own reelection instead of his sworn obligation to protect and defend the American People. As i said last night in my hometown, i view this campaign is between scranton and park avenue. All trump sees from park avenue is wall street. Thats why the only metric of the press period for him is the value of the dow jones. Like a lot of you, i spent a lot of my life with guys like donald trump looking down on me, looking down on people who make a living with their hands, people who take care of our kids, clean our streets. Maybe what bothers me most is the way he talks about reporters he talks about from too many sources confirmed by many outlets. The way hes talked about the men and women who are in the military and gave the full measure for their country as suckers and losers. Unless you think its made up, remember how he just talked about john mccain, a political opponent but a close friend who i did his eulogy. John mccain was no sucker or loser. He was a hero. My son who volunteered and spent a year in iraq, won the bronze war, he wasnt a loser or a sucker. He was a proud patriot. These are the guys who always thought they were better than me, better than us because they had a lot of money. Guys inherit everything theyve got and still manage to squander it. I have to admit, which i guess is coming out pretty obvious, particularly relevant to trump, i just have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder about these guys. Recently, i probably shouldnt have said it last night, but i did, recently i read some stories and was asked questions by a leading columnist that went like this. You know, if you get elected youre going to be the first guy in a long time elected president without an Ivy League Degree. Like somehow a kid who went to a State University isnt qualified to be the president of the United States . He has to have an Ivy League Degree . Let me tell you something. I know how to do the job of being president. Its pretty clear. No matter how wealthy donald trump is, no matter how much he doctors his, if he does, his tax returns, he doesnt have a clue how to be president. One of the lessons my mother taught me, not a joke, a long time ago taught me and my siblings, its probably one you were taught too out here in minnesota. Said joey, remember, nobodys better than you, but everybodys your equal. Nobodys better than you, everybodys your equal. We dont measure people by the size of their bank accounts. I dont respect people based on how big the house they live in is. I dont look down my nose when people are busting their necks just making a living. Nor do any of you. Trump says, by the way, everyones in the stock market, thats why he cares about the stock market. What the hells he talking about . People i grew up in scranton and claymont, they dont have money in stocks. Every penny we made was to pay the bills and take care of the families. Putting clothes on their back and a roof over our head. In the market . Thats why i have a different measure in which i judge a healthy american economy. My measure is scranton, duluth, hermantown, places where i grew up, that so many people i knew grew. I see honest hardworking men and women who are just trying to take care of their families. A little bit of confidence that they can just see around the corner where they dont have to live literally from paycheck to paycheck. Most do, hoping for a little bit of space. Now the American People have seen these women and men, the essential workers, workers who stock the shelves in the middle of these crises at the grocery store, farm workers, nurses who risk their lives, in many cases gave their lives in the middle of this pandemic to save other people. Essential workers. When they walk down the streets and people come out and clap pans and pots together, tell them how much theyre appreciated, thats not enough. Theyre not asking for anything. Theyre asking for a shot. I remind you, giving a shot to the American People have never, ever, ever let their country down. So its about time we start to pay essential workers for the fact that theyre essential. The blinders have been taken off the American People. I think theyre ready. Theyre ready to insist that a minimum wage be 15 an hour. Theyre ready to insist that people have childcare and access to it. Theyre ready to admit and understand the needs that average americans have. Thats why my build back better plan, in fact my entire campaign is built upon a simple concept. Its time to reward hardworking americans, not wealth. Reward work, not wealth. We dont have to penalize wealth. But its the opposite now. We reward wealth and not work. Were going to have to rebuild an economy in the wake of covid19. And as we do, we have an Incredible Opportunity to make a long overdue investments for working families and to make sure the wealthy, the very wealthy and the big corporations finally begin to pay their fair share. Not looking to punish anybody. Just pay your fair share. Its time we give hardworking families who literally built the country through their skills and their sweat and their blood like the united brotherhood of carpenters and joiners a leg up for once. I have a big ambitious plan that bets on the american worker. My plans going to create millions of goodpaying jobs building the products and technologies that we need now and in the future. And it starts with a pretty basic idea. When the government spends taxpayers money, we should spend that money to buy american products, made by american workers, at american supply chains to generate American Growth and opportunity. My plan would tighten the rules to make america a reality. During my first term alone, were going to invest 400 billion of federal money that you go out and spend that i have control over as a president or an administration to invest in purchased products and materials our country needs to modernize infrastructure, to replenish critical stockpiles, to enhance our national security. I was just going through the Apprentice Program with one of your carpenters and he was showing he how to read blueprints. And im a frustrated architect. Years ago my kids bought me a light board. I have no professional training. But i like and i carry around graph paper. Im always making up and designing homes and landscapes. Its my way out. Some people can paint. I cant. And he was showing me the blueprints on how they can change several walls in a particular building to conserve and save energy. And he pointed out what you have to learn to be able to read a blueprint. I pointed out to him that my buy american plant, this carpenter said, and by the way, we can kill two birds with one stone. He didnt use that phrase. We can do two things at once. He said we can improve the environment by using less energy to operate this building and create more jobs. And i said im going to send you a copy of my plan. My Senate Colleagues know exactly what it is. My buy american, build america plan calls for literally what we started in our administration and couldnt finish, retrofitting 4 million buildings in america that are leaking millions of gallons of energy now. And the process creating the 4 million jobs for skilled labor, replacing windows, insulation that works, making sure that the unit is tight, including retrofitting 2 million homes. All of it done at a prevailing wage with union labor. Creating hundreds of thousands of Union Certified jobs. Thats not hyperbole, thats a fact, thats how it will happen. And saving millions of barrels of oil in the process. Improving our environment. Thats why the ibw and a lot of other unions support what were doing. Were going to put in 500,000 charging stations along our highways. Why . So we can own, own, own the electric car market. Estimated creating a million new jobs in michigan and detroit in the automobile industry. Look, we can outcompete anybody if we set our mind to it. My infrastructure plan is going to revitalize american infrastructure so the future is made in america. The president keeps talking about hes going to invest in infrastructure, right . How many times has he said he had a plan, an infrastructure plan, its coming . Then he had one in 18. Then he had one in 19. And he has one for 20. Just like his nonexistent Health Care Plan thats coming next week. He has no plan. When i got started, this wasnt a partisan issue dealing with infrastructure. Republicans wanted to build solid infrastructure to make us first in the world. Now we rank 28th. Just like democrats did. It was totally nonpartisan. And creating thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of goodpaying jobs. Were going to invest over time 2 trillion to build resilient infrastructure. Roads, bridges, ports right here along these great, great lakes. 1. 5 million new Affordable Housing units. Highspeed broadband for every american household, more important than ever with educating our children from home because he has no plan on how to open our schools. 100 billion to rebuild crumbling schools. How many schools in america do you think there are where you cant safely drink the water in the water fountain . Where theyre worried about whether or not there is enough ventilation in the school . Whether theres leaking energy or still has Hazardous Materials in the walls . Its ridiculous. We should be spending the money to improve those schools and the safety of our children and our teachers. As i said retrofitting 4 million buildings and weatherizing 2 million homes. And the way we do that is with the tax credits that wed give them. Again, all done by certified union labor. Ill fight for workers and unions at every step requiring all federal Infrastructure Projects to one pay prevailing wage, prioritize collective bargaining agreements before the project starts. Employ workers from registered apprenticeships. I wont water them down like trump tried to do. Crack down on employers who are trying to block or break unions. And ill do it without raising anyones taxes if you make less than 400,000 a year. I give you my word. You have nothing to worry about if you make less than 400. If you make more, youre going to start to pay your fair share. No one who makes less than 400 is going to pay a single penny more in taxes. In fact, tens of millions of middle class families are going to get tax cuts when they need it most. While youre raising your children, while youre trying to get Affordable Health care, buying your first home or saving for retirement. Almost directly after President Trump passed his tax bill in 2017, almost 2 trillion increased the deficit. He went down to maralago and he said to his guests there, and this is a quote, its on record, you just got a lot richer, end of quote. He was right. They got a hell of a lot richer. How about the person making 50, 60 or even the family making 120,000 a year. How much did you get . How much richer did you get . It may be the only time hes told a plain truth in his entire presidency. 2018 the year after that tax cut passed, 91 corporations in a fortune 500 paid no income tax. Zero tax, zero. Making billions of dollars, paid zero tax. I guess you guys got all your taxes eliminated too, right . He said it was going to be the lowest he was going to lower the cost of prescription drugs. But guess what. Instead big pharma got billios of dollars in tax cuts, sent their manufacturing of those drugs overseas, then unconscionably raised the prices to ordinary americans. How many of you people knew your mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, friends, who had to choose between getting their prescription, not a joke, and putting dinner on the table . And now he says hes going to cut drug prices. [ laughter ] well, hes going to have a Health Care Plan. All hes done, and this big thing about this drug prices cut, all hes done is he sent to the hhs, health and Human Services, he said study the issue. I have a clear plan. I guarantee i will lower prices in america for drugs by allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, which he said he would do. The house and senate were ready to do it, and he said hed veto it if he got it. If you want to participate in the medicare program, youve got to negotiate with medicare for the price of that drug, which would significantly lower prices. And for any new specialty drugs that dont have competition, im setting up a review board to recommend a reasonable price based on the boards evaluation. And that price will not be able to be increased beyond the cost of medical inflation unless they can prove theyve gone and done some more research and changed the nature of the drug. And now astonishingly. And when my staff told me this, i know both the senators knew this. But when they told me this, i said he cant be proposing this. He now is proposing in this budget another multibillion dollars tax cut for the very wealthy millionaires and billionaires. Heres what he wants to do. He wants to lower the Capital Gains tax down to 15 , to 15 . Every one of you including the reporters in this room unless youre making a lot more than i think you are, every one of you is going to be paying at a higher tax rate than someone making a billion bucks off their investment. Youre going to pay a higher tax rate. Because they make their money by investing, not by the sweat of their brow. Another tax cut worth billions of dollars. And whose hide do you think thats going to come out of . Where is it coming from . The deficit is already bonkers. Where do you think its going to come out of . Its going to come out of you and the programs and things that help the American People. Like i said, its about time we start rewarding work, not wealth. Look, im not looking to punish anybody. But, damn, its about time the super wealthy and Corporate America start paying their fair share. So hardworking families can start getting a break on childcare, elder care, buying that first home, and the cost of education beyond high school. Being able to get started in life. And by the way, while all this is going on, donald trump is trying to rip away your health care. I got a new health care program. Im going to protect preexisting conditions. Hes in the Supreme Court saying get rid of preexisting conditions. They should not they should be able to stand in the way of you getting insurance because it helps insurance companies. And as a gimmick, hes got a new one. Hes going to end the payroll tax that you pay on Social Security. Yet, the actuary at the Social Security says if that were to occur, Social Security will be bankrupt by the middle of 2023. You may get a few more bucks in your paycheck, then go home and tell your mom and dad Social Securitys beabout to come to a end. Never liked Social Security and medicare to begin with. So, look, we cant let this happen. Social security will run dry by 2023. Were so much better than this. This is the United States of america. We have never ever, ever, ever been unable to do something. We have done it together. So its time to stand up. Democrats and republicans, i said last night, my colleagues know sometimes democrats im going to be president of the United States, not president of the democratic party. We must unite this country. Its the only way we can move forward. And i believe the American People are ready for it. And i believe in half a dozen to a dozen of our republican colleagues who have been unable and unwilling to have the guts to take him on because hes so vindicative. With him gone i think theyre ready to work. Not on everything but an awful lot. Its time to take the country back, folks. And its going to start here today with voting in minnesota. So god bless you all and may god protect our troops. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [ applause ] former Vice President and counter democratic president ial nominee joe biden in hermantown, minnesota. Jessica dean, cnns jessica dean is there where biden just spoke. Trying to make the case that hes the candidate for working americans talking about how if you make less than 400,000 a year, you will not pay one penny more in taxes. Reporter thats right, jake. And he really kind of foreshadowed this sort of messaging at our cnn town hall last night when he threw out that line that he believes this is about scranton, his hometown, his workingclass roots, versus park avenue, which he kind of elaborated on today. You mentioned he talked about the tax proposals. He also talked about he wove it into covid as well. He found a way to talk about how he believes that Covid Response should be making sure that everyone is doing okay and that he thinks President Trump is solely focused on wall street and the dow jones and what the stock market is doing and how those are two very different ways of looking at covid relief. He also talked about how he has a chip on his shoulder with guys that look down on him who were born into a lot of money, and he says squander them away making that reference there to President Trump. But its something, jake, that is a message very, very detailed and directed at white workingclass voters here in minnesota and in some of the states weve seen him visit recently, michigan and pennsylvania as well. Battleground states. Back to our breaking news. Without providing any scientific evidence, President Trump moments ago declared that 100 million vaccine doses will be produced by the end of the year and every american will have a vaccine by april. But, of course, there is not yet any safe, provenly efficacious vaccine. There just isnt. And as we know with President Trump, his promises should be taken with a grain of salt considering in february he told us the warm weather would get rid of the virus, and has time and time again told us that the virus is under control, when in fact were about to hit 200,000 dead any day now. Joining me now to discuss President Trump is his niece, mary trump. She has a new book on the president called too much and never enough how my family created the worlds most dangerous man. Thank you so much for joining us, mary. We appreciate it. Your uncle, the president just told americans something thats not based in where the science is right now that 100 million doses of a Coronavirus Vaccine will be ready by january. There isnt an approved vaccine yet. Now obviously if one gets approved, there is the infrastructure, the administration has paid pharmaceutical companies for it. And we all hope that happens. But right now there is no proven, safe, effective vaccine. Why does he do this . Hes learned from a lot of experience that he gets away with a lot of his lies. So, you know, why not try again . Beyond that, though, it suits his narrative. He cant let anybody think that hes behind the curve or that were in the desperate situation were in because of his willful inaction. So its a way to change the subject and make people feel good about something no matter how illusory, no matter how dishonest. And with so many things he does, its really dangerous. I feel like i say that all the time these days, but it happens to be true. This is reckless and theres no basis in reality for this. Vaccines are, first of all, extraordinarily complicated to invent. Secondly, deploying them, the logistics of deploying them are enormously complicated. So, i have to just say that he may not be calling on the scientists who will speak those truths, but theyre adult human beings, theyre perfectly capable of saying, excuse me, but it is not true that we can have a safe and effective vaccine within six months or whatever donalds saying. Just moments ago President Trump was asked if hes looking to replace the fbi director that he appointed, christopher wray. This is after wray told congress that russia was a bigger threat to the election than china. And after wray called antifa an ideology, not an organization, apparently President Trump took issue with these assessments by the fbi director. Take a listen to your uncle answering the question about the director of the fbis future. Were looking at a lot of different things, and i did not like his answers yesterday. Im not sure he liked them either. Im sure that he probably would agree with me. Antifas bad, really bad. And if you look at whos the big problem, the big problem is china. We could have others also, and im not excluding anybody. But the big problem is china. And why he doesnt want to say that, that certainly bothers me. So, just a couple things here, what fbi director wray testified was that when it comes to violent groups, it would seem that White Supremacists were the biggest threat within the bucket of ones that were racially based. And then about china, i think its pretty much established among the intelligence agencies that china is the bigger threat writ large, but when it comes to election threats, its russia. He doesnt like people disagreeing with him publicly, and it doesnt matter how good they are at their job. Yeah. And i would rephrase that. Theyre not disagreeing with him. Theyre telling him sorry, theyre giving him factually accurate information. Hes pretending that he knows better, even though he has absolutely no facts to back up what hes saying. So, thats worse. Because in the process, hes undermining the American Peoples confidence in institutions and agencies that are in place to protect us. So, its incredibly damaging. Yesterday a former top pence aid, a Homeland Security aid who worked for the Vice President and was on the Coronavirus Task force from day one, actually there when trump asked pence to head the organization, olivia troy came forward in a new ad for Republican Voters against trump in which she said that President Trump said im paraphrasing here but something along the lines of maybe covid isnt such a bad things, then i wont have to shake hands with all the disgusting people. The white house said he never said anything like that. You obviously have known the president for quite some time. Does that sound like something he would say . Of course. Its precisely the kind of thing he would say. And it makes me wonder again why people who support him are okay with that because theyre the ones hes describing with the word disgusting. The president told bob woodward that he knew back in february that this virus could be transmitted through the air and also was deadlier than the flu. But obviously thats not what he told the public at the time. He said the flu was deadlier, he dismissed all of the concern from democrats as a hoax their concern wasnt real. So youre a psychologist in addition to knowing the president. Why would he leave americans in the dark . Why would he mislead about this virus knowing that that deception could actually cost people their lives because they did not know how deadly this virus was as he downplayed it for weeks if not months . Because he doesnt care what happens to the American People. And for various reasons he believed it was to his benefit to keep it secret or to downplay it. Look, we have so much damning information. That quote is damning. The recent news that the post office was going to send out an excess of 650 Million Masks and the white house torpedoed that idea because they didnt want to panic people . I mean, were getting to the point where this isnt just negligent. Its willfully criminal. Imagine how many tens of thousands of americans would still be with us if we had all been Wearing Masks provided to us for free by the american government. Its mindboggling. Mary trump, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. The book again is korks too much and never enough how my family created the worlds most dangerous man. Kerks we will be right back after this quick break. Of two immunotherapies you can take first. One that could mean. A chance to live longer. Opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with nonsmall cell lung cancer that has spread and that tests positive for pdl1 and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. 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And right now cases are trending up. Look at this. In 30 states, seven of them have seen an increase of at least 50 . And just a short while ago, over at the white house, President Trump claimed there will be enough Coronavirus Vaccines for all americans by april. But his new time line comes amid growing concern the administration is politicizing the