The white house. Without further adieu lets get and the individual states. To that video. Winning the trade war, i will be going this weekend protecting and strengthening and congratulations, thank you medicare and social security, for that great job out there. Lowering the cost of insulin, delivering the first real drop we really appreciate it. We are one National Family and in drug prices in 50 years, we will always protect, love restoring our military, fixing the va, bringing our troops and care for each other. Home and taking the worlds here tonight are the people who deadliest terrorists off the have made my journey possible battlefield, soleimani, al baghdadi, isis brought to and filled my life with so much justice, moving americas joy. Embassy to jerusalem, a new era of strength and solidarity with for her Incredible Service to our nation and its children, i our ally israel, negotiating a historic peace deal between want to thank our magnificent israel and the united arab first
Resident of the United States. [applause] President Trump thank you very much. Thank you very much. Its very hot today. Please sit down. It is going to be a very hot one. We apologize to everybody who is going to suffer through it. But you know what, its better than bad weather. And its great to be in the rose garden. I want to especially thank this group for joining us as we announce a historic groundbreaking initiative in our ongoing effort to rapidly develop and manufacture a coronavirus vaccine. Were joined by secretary steven mnuchin, secretary mark esper, secretary alex caesar, secretary of the joint chiefs f staff, general mark milly. F. D. A. Director dr. Steven hahn, dr. Francis collins, dr. Fauci, dr. Birx. Were joined by a very terrific group of professionals. Tomorrow will mark 30 days since we release the white house guidelines for a safe and phased opening of america. Thats what were doing. Its the opening of america. Going to have an amazing year next year. Were going to
A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Retail sales were down over 13 16. 4 is the most on record. Of the 13 categories, only one was up, internet shopping. What we bought we did buy online. Even Grocery Store sales down 12 on the month. I guess we are still eating the macaroni and cheese we bought in march. The control group, leave out food, cars, gasoline, building materials. That was down and that is also a record. That is the part that goes into gdp and in this case does not go into gdp. Not the only data out. Industrial production down 11 . Manufacturing production down 13. 7 . That was the worst number in the history of the index going back to 1919. Two bits of good news. Empire manufacturing improved. 78. 2. 48. 5 from the Michigan Sentiment number. From 71. 8. To 73. 7 the Current Conditions index rises. Everybody scratches their head, but the folks at the university of michigan say it is because during the month people started getting the checks, the 1200 checks and that made them feel little bit better about thems
Ongoing effort to rapidly develop and manufacture a Coronavirus Vaccine. Were joined by secretary steven mnuchin, secretary mark esper, secretary alex azar, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, fda director doctor stephen on, director of the National Institute of health, dr. Francis collins, dr. Fauci, dr. Birx. We are joining my every terrific group of professionals. Tomorrow will mark 30 day since we released the white house guidelines for safe phase opening america. The saluting, opening america. We will have an amazing year next year. Will have a great transition into the fourth quarter. As of this morning almost every state has taken steps to begin reopening and the American People are doing an extraordinary job of continuing to take precautions while at the same time wanting to start, and it will be starting to resume their american way of life. We will be reigniting our economic engines. We will be taking care of our most vulnerable, which are our Senior C