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not a very tough job to do if they knew what they were doing. so we will be talking about that next week. an announcement as to what we are planning to do to help them. >> bill: that was the oval office, and the president saying about the ag will be part of next week's announcement. she is the justice department director and public affairs. good afternoon. welcome to our program. >> good to see you, bill. >> bill: what is this operation legend, and how should we look at it? >> it is something the department of justice announced. it is named after a 4-year-old boy who was killed in kansas city as he was sleeping in his bed. a stray bullet hit him. it is the highest it has ever been, and so we watched operation legend being named after this child who was tragically killed, and what it means, as we speak, whether federal access, fbi, dea, to come along local law enforcement there and help them deal with this terrible violent crime issue that they are currently experiencing. >> bill: that's kansas city. did you hear the news out of portland? the mayor says we don't want your help. and apparently -- will this operation apply to places like portland? >> i don't want to get ahead of the cities that we will be going to. we will be making that announcement next week as to which cities we are going to. i was particularly dismayed by the comments made by that portland mayor, considering that just over the weekend, a protester went after one of our u.s. marshals with a hammer, hitting him over and over again. protesters were surging federal buildings, armed with sledgehammers, slingshots, lasers. i don't care if you're republican or democrat, but if you're prioritizing prioritizing your own personal politics and violent anarchists and agitators over the safety and security of the very people who elected you, that's not leadership. that's a disgrace. >> bill: the mayor is ted wheeler. and he pointed to dhs. your response to his statement? "we do not need or want their help." >> well, perhaps that mayor missed the fact that there are hundreds of these people, and these officers were rightfully defending federal property. just over the weekend, they made ten arrests. we arrested and charged a case of individual who had set fire to was seattle police precinct right outside the zone as well, which if anyone is taking notes, brings our grand total up to almost 200. cases and arrests nationally with offenses ranging from destruction of federal property, monuments, and also assaulting federal law enforcement officers. >> bill: let's see where this goes next week. your boss goes to michigan to talk about china. what's the message? >> that's right. memo to american businesses. stop bowing to communist china. 80%, bill, all their economic espionage cases, let it conduct that directly benefited the chinese state, and 60% of our trade secret theft cases also have some kind of connection to china, and what he is going to talk about yesterday, he will be speaking directly to dozens of business leaders and say enough is enough. when are we going to stop bowing to china? when are we going to be the american businesses that pride independence, individuality, instead of bowing to the demands of a totalitarian regime? >> bill: it is almost a tripod strategy here. you hear it from the ag, you hear it from the president. what is this administration hoping to accomplish in terms of changing the behavior of the chinese communist government? >> well, it is really an existential threat in many ways. american businesses have short-term gains. china thinks in decades and centuries. their goal obviously is to dominate, not just as a political superpower but economically as well. so the ag is giving the speech as part of a series of speeches that began with the national security advisor robert o'brien, director chris wray of the fbi gave a speech. it is going to culminate in a speech by secretary pompeo in the coming weeks addressing the malfeasance of china, which has been a top priority for the trumpet administration since the day that he took office. >> bill: when will there be news on that? >> obviously, this is a criminal investigation. the goal is not a report. but certainly there is a story to be told they appear the american people deserve resolution and frankly justice deserves resolution. and that report, i think, is going to be really pivotal to the restoration of the system of justice. people need to see what was going on. >> bill: i apologize. i'm short on time. he said by the end of the summer? is not a guarantee? >> there are no guarantees in life, but we hope to see one? >> bill: can you guarantee pre-election? >> bill, i will just tell you this. we are hopeful, and we expect to see a report by the end of the summer. >> bill: thanks for coming out today. lots of topics to go through. thanks for coming here today. thanks. the first covid-19 vaccine tests in the u.s. already in its final phase. is that right? that's according to researchers anyway. the immune system's had positive response. moderna is a company developing it. is this the real deal? >> you know, that is a big question. it seems to be. this is in coordination with the national institutes of health with the moderna folks. what we are seeing in the markets, it is a tug-of-war between the positive news and the negative news that you were just talking about. on the positive, moderna says that all 45 people that got the trial vaccine created the antibodies necessary to get rid of the virus in their body. in addition, all 45 did not show any long-term side effects from this trial vaccine. that's very important, according to doctors. what happens now? on july 27th, moderna gives this to 20,000 people. the speed at which this is happening is thanks to the demand and billions of dollars, but also the federal government offering money. here is the president on this from the news conference yesterday. >> through operation warp speed, we will deliver a vaccine in record-breaking time. we are doing very well on the vaccine. many, many different vaccines being studied right now. many of which are looking really good. and we are ready to distribute the vaccine. we are all set. >> having the promising news on the moderna vaccine go to phase three trials. also, a vaccine which is being worked on in the u.k. is being moved to phase three trials. that goes for an approval later on this year. senior administration officials say that they are actually going to start manufacturing a vaccine i do that before the approval for two reasons. one, they want to have the product there, we need go on the market. and also the u.s. wants to have 100 million doses of that, according to senior administration officials, this year. >> bill: we shall watch and stay positive. thank you, edward lawrence, for. talking about rebuilding america's infrastructure comes after joe biden, part two of his economic plan, focusing on the economy. meanwhile, asking today what is going on at the white house? the reporters pointing to his wide-ranging rose garden speech, and undercutting dr. anthony fauci. i want to bring in my colleagu colleagues, martha maccallum. how are you doing? if so, what is going on at the white house? >> good question, right? when you look at the difference in opinion between what peter navarro wrote in his op-ed between his differences with dr. fauci, you can easily stir up a lot of story lines. when you look at what is happening right now. i also think that the rose garden speech that we saw yesterday was definitely unusual. it's not typical for an incumbent president to spend that much time on a campaign oriented drive, as he did yesterday, but i do also think that there's probably some frustrations on the part of the president that he hasn't had an opportunity to go sort of a little bit more mano a mano with joe biden, and he had a laundry list of things that he wanted people to take a look out. the reality is now that everybody is so focused on this virus, and obviously, that is going to be a huge factor in the election, but there are other things that are going on in the world, and he wants to talk about infrastructure, immigration, the green deal, and all of those things that might be part of the biden package. >> bill: he talked about china -- >> for a little bit. >> bill: a colleague of ours from time to time as this take on the primary results from yesterday. "if trump is the big winner, sessions is the big loser well dems remain the divided." jackson in texas, the former doctor at the white house won's primary battle as well. in the meantime, democrats are a little bit all over the board. progressives, they are giving a lot of people threats right now. how do you see that? >> it's very interesting because when you look at joe biden's campaign, there were other forces, the progressive forces that keep trying to pull him farther left. you look at the green deal. when you look at what happened in the recent primaries on the democratic side, you had a lot of power coming from the democratic campaign committee. a lot of money to flowing to candidates like amy mcgrath, for example. in those races, there were progressive insurgent candidates that were running against those individuals. so the democratic senate committee did very well. the money that they did to work, they won in those cases, but there were rivals who may push away some progressives in terms of whether or not they will show up and be progressive. those senate races are really -- >> bill: to viewers, if you are trying to look to some tea leaves, check out the peas at foxnews.com, and check out martha tonight at 7:00. a human being. >> in studio. come see us at 7:00. >> bill: will do. the police here reporting that protesters attack some officers at a much, including the chief of police. details on not coming up in a moment here. a "new york times" opinion columnist, we will talk to a former "new york times" reporter about that as well as covid. and later, the legendary college football coach, urban meyer, on the chance of the team getting back out on the field this fall. . record low mortgage rates have now fallen even lower. by refinancing, you can save $3000 a year with one call to newday usa. our team is standing by right now to take your call. and from start to finish, you can do it all without ever leaving the house. with our va streamline refi, there's no income verification. no appraisal. and no out of pocket costs. nobody works harder for veterans than my team at newday usa. in a highly-connected lexus vehicle at the golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2020 es 350 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. extra cheese, extra pepperoni right to the edge and the biggest slices in papa john's history. but it's bigger than pizza because $1 from each sale is donated to support communities. because $1 from each sale is donated bshouldn't prevent you from pushing your limits. because every baby deserves the very best start in life. because a changing environment should mean caring for the land that takes care of us all. at bayer, everything we do, from advances in health to innovations in agriculture, is to help every life we touch. at bayer, this is why we science. we see you. doing your part by looking out...for all of us. and though you may have lost sight of your own well-being, aetna never did. by setting up virtual monitoring for chronic patients, 24-hour telemedicine visits, and mental health resources for everyone. we're always here to help you focus on your health. because it's always, time for care. ♪ >> bill: power of prayer march turning violent today in new york city. did you see this? police say a group of counter protesters attack for officers appeared in the video, you can see somebody's eating officers with our rod. in favor of defunding that apartment. nypd reports trey cobb seriously injured, and the chief of the department head injuries to his hand. across the brooklyn bridge. there are pictures. they arrested multiple protesters following another night of gun violence in brooklyn. >> it was not just the knee of officer derek chauvin on george floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. but it was the knee of the entire minneapolis police department on the next of george floyd. that killed him. >> bill: that was from a bit earlier today in minneapolis. george floyd's attorney now announcing the civil lawsuit against the city of minneapolis, and the former officers charged in floyd's death. also today, members of the media getting their first look at a couple of the officers body cam videos. the county court is making the footage available to view by appointment. it is not allowing news outlets to release it. reporting live from minneapolis, what's on there? >> starting with that first development, bill, that attorney benjamin crump, along with his legal team have now filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the minneapolis police department named as defendants. the officers who were making that contact when george floyd died. it says that the department has a history of racism and bad behavior, that the officers had no reason to believe that he was unarmed threat, that their training leads them to behave aggressively, and the other officers were obligated to stop officer derek chauvin when he knelt on the neck of george floyd. the development today, reporters have been able to see the body cam video that shows the initial contact with george floyd up until the point where officer layne attempted cpr in the ambulance. the encounter begins when thomas lane cannot see the hands of george floyd. he pulls a weapon here george floyd becomes increasingly panicked, erratic, and emotional. officers asked if he is on something. floyd complains that he is claustrophobic, and before he is on the ground, he starts to say that he can't breathe, something that he repeats more than 20 times throughout the encounter. there's a long struggle with police that leads to a panicked george floyd of being pulled all the way through the suv and wrestled it to the ground. officer thomas lane inquires about his breathing. he asks if he can be rolled on his side, and we hear derek chauvin say no, he will stay put. lane also checks the pulse of george floyd and says that he cannot find a pulse. bill. >> bill: mike tobin from minneapolis today, thank you. waiting on the president. he is going to talk about the economy. we will see if he counters the policy that joe biden laid out yesterday, and a bit earlier today, the president calling the dash we look for a reaction. look at that pair. they are next. are you still at risk for a heart attack or stroke? 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[laughs] >> no, he wasn't. [laughs] >> bill: you know, look. i think there is quite a lot of similarities between these two guys and their approaches to politics. trump is not a different decibel level and with a different approach, but there is a lot that's the same there, but i think for trump, with the suburban voters who right now i just pacing him and republicans in 2018, issues like taxes, regulations, or climate change and a host of issues where those suburbanites are leery about democrats, he's got to hit those things in order to convince them that even if they don't like him or don't like his approach, that those policy questions are too important to risk having a democrat in office. >> bill: here is joe biden from yesterday. >> when donald trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is "hoax." when i think about climate change, the word i think of is "jobs." good paying union jobs to put americans to work. >> bill: it's starting to feel like a campaign. how about this? they will spend $2 trillion in his first term. achieving 100% carbon free by the year 2035. no change in that today. biden calls for construction of 1.5 million energy-efficient homes. reduce the wealth and raise cap it. how are we going to do all that? >> this is a historic opportunity, and i hope the vice president of it. millions of americans are concerned about this. this is a big issue. we are going to have to discuss it this fall. and i hope that there are real concrete solutions that the vice president came up with can penetrate the country so that people understand that we have someone who is coming up with ideas and not just related to himself. >> bill: i thought what was significant about last night, where there was a news conference, press conference, whatever you thought it was, what he was doing, chris, was drawing a contrast between -- there we go. between what he sees in a joe biden presidency and what he sees in the second term of donald trump. >> well, it's still not exactly clear what he thinks a second term of donald trump would look like, although i think a lot of american voters do. i'm afraid for the president's sake that what he did in the rose garden is indicative of a larger problem, which is he can't stick to anything. he's all over the place. people want to talk about the coronavirus. people want to talk about the economy. they want to talk about can kids get back to school? am i going to have a job? they want to talk about those things. using the pulpit of the president is a great thing but not if you squander it. what the president is struggling with now is staying focused, staying on topic, and it being careful, cautious, and earnest about the things that americans are very skeptical about his leadership on. >> bill: nice to see you guys. it must be a wednesday since the two of you are together and looking great. the president has arrived in atlanta. we are going to squeeze in a commercial break before the speech gets underway. to our viewers, stick around. the governor in texas with a message about wearing masks. a record high numbers. we will talk with an emergency room doctor in texas about what it is like inside the hospital today, and then i will speak with the former "new york times" reporter about why he has been a skeptic about some of what we are hearing. all of that still to come this hour. ♪ once-weekly ozempic® is helpig many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! 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what is happening with hospitals in dallas and san antonio from your perspective? >> things are definitely getting tired down here. the red alarms are going off. our icus are feeling, and that inevitably trickles down to the rest of the hospital. we still have a revolving door of emergency room patients coming in, and we are holding onto these covid patients because our hospitals are filling, and the toll it is taking on our health care system is unfathomable. it is very difficult. you know, we are constantly stressed and scared. we might get this virus from anyone. patients that don't know that they have covid yet. it's been very difficult. we are trying to use our resources and move patients from one covid unit, put infection is patients in a certain area. once you are using up the resources that an icu patient takes off, then you have a resource issue, a personnel issue. we have a treatment for this. we have plasma. we have steroids. we have methods to manage this, but we can't have this many patients coming in at a time to anyone hospital with this disease and expect to be able to continue to have those resources because we don't. >> bill: i can hear the desperation in your voice, and i certainly hope you get the situation solved quickly. the feds gave us the hospital ships, converted the convention center, built to the field hospital. do you need the help of the federal government? are you at that point? >> we are getting there. we've already had some help from the military setting some respiratory therapist and nurses. we are not quite at the point of pulling the trigger for doctor shortages, but we are getting there, and i think the problem is we are working really hard, like they did in new york to fill another bathtub with water and make more bathtub space when we've got faucet flowing with patients, and we need to turn the faucet off. we are really working hard, and we really want the public to take this seriously. children can get this virus. they can transmit this virus. they can fall sick from this virus. that is a fact. masks help prevent the spread of this virus to our parents and our grandparents who can die from covid-19. we know that. we need the public to take this seriously and wear a mask. >> bill: no doubt. i can hear it in your voice. you sound like you are going through what new york did a couple weeks ago. thank you for your time, doctor. we will stay in contact. he wrote the book "unreported truths about covid-19 and lockdowns." good to see you. what are you hearing about houston, san antonio? >> so, i think texas, like arizona, like florida, the hospitals are filling up. they are not at capacity. houston might be a little bit. the surge of icus. houston had about 1300 to 1400 people in icus right now. and they have about 1300 icu beds. they can also add about 1,000 icu beds. what i hear from people, it sort of what the doctors have said, but it's a difference -- it's a different frame of reference. >> bill: also? >> things are tough, we are working hard. our systems are managing. right now, it doesn't look like there is hospital overrun, and right now, if you look at the number of deaths in houston and in texas as a whole, texas has 30 million people. new york has 20 million people. the deaths and texas are, you know, a fraction. they are 10% of what they were in new york. >> bill: among 60 million people, they are experiencing roughly one-tenth of the deaths that new york did. you just heard the doctor say that they are near capacity. now, if she right? do they still have room? >> no, no, she is right, but hospitals can run near capacity. the only time that they have into is when we lock them all down in april and may, and that wasn't good for our hospitals. they laid off a lot of people. not just in texas but all over the country. we have this phenomenon where hospital workers were actually being furloughed and laid off. we don't want that either. we want hospitals to be almost full. the question i would ask, and it is a very legitimate question, and the next two weeks, is the number of cases that we have seen, the number of positive test, is that going to translate into more strain that the hospitals can handle? right now, it doesn't look like that is happening. right now, in houston, in arizona, hospitals seem to have lucked out in terms of the number. a level that is high, level that it is a strain, but not that they can't handle. if it doubles again, we will have to acknowledge this is a very serious thing. >> bill: we will monitor along with you. i mentioned you are a former "new york times" reporter. what did you think of that resignation of bari weiss from "the new york times" opinion page yesterday? >> you know, listen, i have tried to focus on covid right now. i am very sorry about what has happened to my old newspaper in the last two years. i think it used to be a place where reporters were encouraged to do the absolute best work they could come to find the facts wherever they lead, and i'm afraid that that's not what it is anymore. i hope it still is, but there has been a number of really discouraging signs. >> bill: such as? >> well, i think the fact that james bennett especially, to me, the resignation of james bennett, who is a great a journalist and a really fine guy, that he was forced to resign because he published in all better, or his page published an op-ed by a u.s. senator that's not something -- can agree or disagree. a lot of the countries certainly did agree, that that was considered essentially an offense that would lead to his resignation, not that there in a place where they want a lot of intellectual diversity. that is really troubling. >> bill: nice to see you, alex, and if you want a good lesson on a podcast, check out "hemmer time." it was very interesting. we will see you. thanks for coming back. meanwhile, the pandemic and back links schools and fall sports, and there is a lot of talk about moving football to the spring? i want to bring in former college football coach, the legend, urban meyer, retired as one of the winningest coaches. sports analyst here at fox. how are you doing, coach? nice to see you today. >> good to talk to you. >> bill: lou holtz was on our program yesterday. i said coach, are you going to play football? he said no, it's not going to happen. i said are you okay with that? he said absolutely not. you, coach, do you think being able to play football will happen this fall? >> two weeks ago, no. i am back to yes. we are going to play. i've just got so much confidence. the way these universities are handling this right now, i love the fact that we went conference only so that they can have control over the protocol and start and stop dates, et cetera. i'm optimistic right now. >> bill: what changed? that convinces you that they can do it? if you get a positive test the day before, you lose a couple linemen? how do you make that season happen? >> wealth, what really change for me was a conference on the games. i didn't say every conference is going to play. i didn't say every team is going to play. is that we are going to play college football, and i really believe that they are going to work together with the head coaches, and they are going to work this thing out. i just have a lot of confidence in our sciences, team doctors. i really do. i've talked to a few of my colleagues that i'm very close with, and i really believe we are. >> bill: i hope you're right. we've got to try, right? >> and bill, if they push it back, they push it back. when you live life and you have options, the one option, cancel everything. i don't think you can do that. if there are spikes and it is proven unsafe, then you keep moving it back, or maybe you don't do it at all. >> bill: let's hope. >> i'm trying to be optimistic. >> bill: may too. we are getting interrupted by the president now speaking in atlanta. it's great to see you. urban meyer. here we go. atlanta, georgia. >> president trump: goes by many different names. about 20 ones that i can think of. maybe we will use a different one every time, but whatever it is, it was a terrible thing, and it could have been stopped, and it should happe has been stoppen china. we are here today -- [applause] to celebrate a historic breakthrough that will transform the lives of workers and families all across our nation. for decades, the single biggest obstacle to building a modern transportation system has been the mountains and mountains of before i took office, reviews for highways ballooned to an average of nearly 750 pages in length, and those were the good ones. they were the short ones. i know because i was in business for a long time, and i had to go through the processes that were so ridiculous. it was so ridiculous. we went through a process for building buildings, usually. it would take forever. by the time you start building, the market changed. you said you know, that market was good when we started. then it changed. to with it. sometimes you start building, you say that was a mistake. but we went through years and years of litigation and it tumbled, and it was just not good. you go through to an even greater extent. the mazelike approval process for a lobbyist. i remember going up to albany, new york, to see the lobbyists up there. i knew what they were doing. they were trying to make it more difficult. so you had to hire them for more and more work. spend millions and millions of dollars for nothing, but too often, they caused massive delays on top of everything else, and that way, they got their fees over a longer period of time. it's one of the reasons why, for example, the average atlanta driver spends an incredible 77 hours in traffic during a short period of time. but all of that ends today. we are doing something very dramatic. [applause] we just completed an unprecedented -- and i don't want to say it is absolutely unprecedented -- top to bottom overhaul. should have been done years ago. of the infrastructure approval process. this approval process that has cost of trillions of dollars over the years for our country and it delays like you wouldn't believe. this is a truly historic breakthrough, which means better roads, bridges, tone tunnels for every ups driver and others across our nation. we are a nation of builders and a nation that can get things done. because with these horrible roadblocks that were put in front of us, you couldn't get it done. no matter how good you were come you couldn't get it done. you would wait and wait. go to the next step. you can't start that next step until you finish the first. joining us for this special occasion are council of environmental quality councilwoman, mary. where is mary? thank you. [applause] thank you, mary. secretary of transportation and a very special woman. a great woman. somebody that has done an incredible job, alien. elaine. she was very instrumental in getting this done. when she speaks, we all listen, but she was very much instrumental. secretary of agriculture, a man who has done a fantastic job for our farmers and ranchers. [applause] i learned more about farming from sonny perdue that all of these consultants that came in. i learned more and a half of an hour from them in right there. we had a great call with the farmers too. great call. they are doing very, very well. bright, sunny? they were targeted by china. they were targeted by others. we just signed the usmca, which is phenomenal for our country and our farmers. got rid of one of the worst trait deals in history, nafta. one of the worst trade deals ever appeared how anybody could have signed it, but worse, how anybody could have let it run for 25 years or whatever it was. they just took advantage of us. we have 60,000 empty plants and factories in our country by the time that got finished. usmca. it is the largest trade deal ever. mexico, canada. largest ever made. i know some of you would like me to think the ups. all of the drivers and workers, for all of the help in delivering nearly 30 million meals to rural children throughout the country and. meals to you program. do you know what that is? you do, right? we are also pleased to be joined by a great senator. somebody that has done a phenomenal job. but i can tell you he is a friend of mine, so i'm a little prejudiced, but he is a man that is respected by everybody on both sides of the u.s. senate. he works hard. he loves your stay. and i always say, does david get the kind of recognition that he deserves? because he is a very, very special man. david perdue. where is david? david. thank you. [applause] and a woman who has come in and done a great job, and she's been so supportive of me and the agenda and a good person. a good woman with a husband who is a terrific man. senator kelly loeffler. thank you very much. thank you, kelly. great job, kelly. [applause] warriors. these are warriors. they fought for us through thick and thin, through very, very unfair territory. we were treated terribly, and they came in, and they turned out to be tougher than the other side by a lot, and i just want to introduce representatives rick allen. rick. the great buddy carter. buddy. an incredible spokesman, an incredible man and friend, doug collins. thank you. great job, doug. drew ferguson. drew. thank you very much, drew. jody hice. thank you. great job, jody. and barry loudermilk. [applause] thank you very much. and also to people, friends of mine, they will be there soon, in my opinion. they have to be. we need all the help we can get in washington. karen handel. karen, thank you very much. thank you, karen. and rich mccormick. rich. thank you. they will be there soon, i hope. we need them. we need them. get them in there. you, as well, to a man who i became very good friends with. a man who was running against somebody that was unbeatable. running against a superstar. i said oh, she's a superstar. wow. can you beat superstars? i don't think so. but he figured out how to beat a superstar, and i don't know. is she still a superstar? i'm not sure. i don't think so. i don't know. governor bryan. i will tell you, what a worrier he is. he's tough, and he's done a great job and every aspect of running this stage. i've always been there. everything we have needed in georgia, you have been there. perhaps more important than brian, however, far more important is georgia first lady, marty kemp. please watch those mail-in ballots. watch them for me please. you know, they have a lot of problems all over the country. in new jersey, massive percentages of the vote was a fraud. mail-in ballots. be careful. be careful. they would understand because they deliver them. in fact, i'm going to have to be very nice to ups. ups, i love you, carol. forever you are. i love you, carol. no, it's a very bad what's going on with mail-in ballots, okay? as differentiated from absentee ballots where you have to go to a process because you can't be there for some reason, but the mail-in ballots is going to be -- they are going to be rigged. they are going to be a terrible situation, and you have to be careful in georgia, but you have to be careful anywhere they are doing it. we went through first world war and second world war, and people want to vote. now they are saying let's use this as a way not to vote. it has been tremendous corruption. tremendous corruption on mail-in ballots. so, absentee ballot, great. mail-in ballots, it makes no sense. a governor sends out millions of ballots all over the place. they don't know where they're going. they are going to wherever. i have a friend who got one for his daughter, another one for his daughter, and a second one for the first daughter. they didn't know what to do with them. i had another friend, really wonderful guy who lost his son seven years ago. robert. his son, robert. and his son was sent to the ballot. he called me. he said what do i do? robert died seven years ago. so it is a terrible situation if they decide to use it, and we will see what happens. there's a lot of litigation. a lot of court cases right now, and it makes sense. just think of it. millions of ballots appeared in california, they are sending out millions of ballots. they don't even know -- maybe they know good well who they are sending them to, and maybe it's the people who don't get it. maybe it is an area of republicans or democrats that don't get any ballots. we've had a lot of problems. just small city in new jersey. i think they said something like 20% of the ballots were corrupted or something happened with them. 20%. and even in a 2016 election, 1% are in question. but i don't want to talk about that one, because i won. i don't want anyone going back and looking. all right? i'm not gonna talk about 2016. that was the greatest election. we have to do something very important. we are going to keep it going, or this country will be in big, big trouble. i want to think also for being here, georgie attorney general, chris carr. you're the one, chris. watch that, chris, will you? watch that, chris. you've got to speak to the man that handles it. you know what i'm talking about. thank you, chris. superintendent richard woods. richard, thank you very much. thank you. and members of the georgia public service commission and the state senate and house transportation committees. got a lot of politicians in this room. and really good luck to karen and to rich. go out and get them. they are really great people. today's action is part of my administration's fierce commitment of slashing the web of nameless bureaucracy that is holding back our citizens. i've been wanting to do this from day one. and we started it on day one, literally on day one. but it takes a long time. you have statutory requirements in a lot of different roadblocks even to changing it. but the change will be hearing about in a minute, it's one of the biggest things we will be doing to our country. the last administration increased in the register by 16,000 pages of job killing regulations under my administration. we have cut the federal register by nearly 25,000 pages. more than any president in history, whether it is four years, eight years, or in one case, more. frankly, this i would think is maybe the biggest of all. we did the u.s. waters. if you saw that. the u.s. waters act. that was a big one. that was a big one. i thought i was going to take a lot of heat when i did data. instead, it was just the opposite. people came up. a grown men who have never cried even when they were a baby, they were standing behind me when i signed that bill out of the white house. and they were crying. they were crying, because we gave their life back to them. that took their life away until their livelihood away. ed was a big, big moment. but this is a big moment today, too. probably today possibly equally as big. today's action completely modernizes the review process under the national environmental policy act of 1969. we are cutting the federal permit time from a staggering ten years, 15 years, 18 years, 21 years -- you know the story. you have seen it. projects that start out. a young guy has a project by the time it gets approved or disapproved in many cases. disapproved, usually disapproved. he's getting ready to retire. what'd you do for your life? i worked on one project. we didn't get it there in the end. we won't get certain projects through for environmental reasons. they have to be environmentally sound. but you know what? we are going to know in a year. we can all know a 1.5 years. we are not gonna know in 20 years. so we are cutting the federal timeline from a major timeline from up to 20 years or more. hard to believe down to two years or less. so we have it down to about two years right now. i think two years or less. and our goal is one year. and you make it disapproved. they may vote at the end, they didn't like something environmentally or safetywise. i'm all for that. but you're not gonna devote a lifetime to doing a project that doesn't get approved weather gets approved. and oftentimes, when it gets approved, inc. i in at ten, 20, 30 times the cost. there is a highway in a certain state, short road, not even a highway i guess, more of a roadway. and they put in -- it was a straight line from point to point. by the time they finished at 18 years later, it was this. it costs tens of times. a cost many, many, many times more than the original. is it a dangerous roadway, because layers turns. you have to be in good shape. you have to be wide-awake to make those tyrants. you have to see the guardrails. they had a simple straight roadway. it ended up -- they took 17 years to get it approved. it ended up costing many, many times what the original estimates wear. it's no good. under the last administration, a mere 7% of reviews for federal highways were processed within two years. now, what we're doing is the two years won't be the exception, it will be the rule. so what we are doing, as we are going to have that coming down at a much steeper rate. this will reduce approval times for highways alone by at least 70%. about the 70% is a very unambitious number, because the number is going to actually be much lower than that at the heart of rare forms. the one federal decision policy. it really spells it out when you hear that name. one federal decision. before applicants for infrastructure permits were forced to spend years and years navigating a labyrinth of federal agencies. >> bill: here is the message from atlanta to cut the red tape as the president calls that come up mountains and mountains of red tape. we will see how this goes. i wanted to share that with you. back tomorrow with you until 3:00 eastern. until then, here is neil. >> neil: thank you bill very much appeared we are monitoring the president's remarks. after he's done with that speech, right now we are looking at the great debate as to whether we have an in person school year. right now, that could be in doubt. they are debating it as we speak now in houston. this has been the trend as we look at the united states where school systems in los angeles and in san diego atlanta, san francisco, so many other places that are looking at delaying in person learning. some going just a virtual route. others are considering a co
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