We will be playing the video on loop for all of you to see during the duration of this introduction. They pelosi was not in halls of congress when i asked where she was. She was not working and good faith to make a deal for the American People. Nancy pelosi was found in San Francisco at a hair salon where she was indoors even though salons in california are not only open for outdoor service. Apparently, the rules do not apply to her. She wants Small Businesses to stay shut down, it only reopen for her convenience. Do as i say, not as i do, says nancy pelosi. 1. 3 pelosi is holding up trillion in relief for the American People while giving special access to the very kind of Small Businesses that this money would support. Businesses like this hair salon. Before she skipped town to violate her States Health guidelines, she proposed a bill called the heroes act which contained no additional paycheck action funding. This is funding that would help the very Small Business she has bizarrely accused of plotting against her. The president sees through democrats disregard for americans in need and he took action unilaterally. Fromovided relief evictions, on employment insurance, he paused student loan payments and he paused the payroll tax. President trump with ivanka trump took action and now usda has extended a Summer Program which will ensure children can have access to free meals through the end of the year. Nancy pelosi is demanding an apology from a single mother who has received threats since Nancy Pelosis comments against her salon. A salon owner said this. Since this happened, i have received nothing but hate text messages, Death Threats saying they are going to burn down my hair salon. It is bad that my community is pulling this saying i threw her under the bus when i did not. That is hurtful. Yes i am pretty much done now. Nancy pelosi, you should apologize to the American People. Better yet, come back to washington and get to work for hardworking americans like this salon owner that you maligned and demanded an apology from. I will now take questions. Reporter do you acknowledge it is illegal in this country to vote twice in the same election . Sec. Mcenany are you referring to the president s comments . Does not condone unlawful voting. He has been very clear about this. I am not surprised the media is taking him out of context. Reporter i have it right here. Said you should vote early by mail and you should go early voting or the day of and try to vote again. He is asking people to vote by mail then to go down to the polling place on election day and vote again. If they cant confirm their vote has been counted. Sec. Mcenany you are missing a crucial line from the president s remarks. If it is not tabulated, then you will be able to vote in person. If it is not tabulated. Anyrter do not call mailin votes until election day. Those votes will not be counted until afterwards. There is no way to know whether or not sec. Mcenany there is a simple answer. A lot of states have whats called electronic whole books. In real time, this is updated. Your vote is counted, they check the book and you will not be able to be to vote in person. There is a secondary solution. Those who do not have the electronic books, you can cast a provisional ballot. If your vote that you mailed and has not been counted, they will count the provisional ballot and that is what the president is referring to. Democrats are saying we want an entire new system, one subject to fraud. Jimmy carter said absentee ballots remain a source of absentee voter fraud. ,he president said trust us dont verify. He once every american to have a vote because he understands what that itrter understood is subject to fraud. Every vote should count and every american should verify that their vote is counted. Reporter the director of North Carolina board of electors said this would create a big problem. Sec. Mcenany i would say the president has laid it out clearly that you should verify your vote. I would point them to the fact 2016, 319,000 votes were not counted that were cast by mail. That is in an election that came down to 80,000 votes in three states. That is untenable and hundreds of thousands more will not be counted due to the democrats voting system. Reporter process and jurisdiction question. The president signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to look at funds that might be withheld to cities that do not do enough to restore law and order. By what authority does the president believe he can do that . Sec. Mcenany the president believes that what we should do, the purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and property. It is imperative that the federal government review the use of funds by jurisdiction. Itt this does, this memo, does three things. It asks federal agencies to detail all federal funds that are being provided to seattle, portland, new york city, and washington, d. C. The attorney general will develop a list of anarchist jurisdictions of lawless zones that are promoting violence. Then 30 days, the white house budget director will issue guidance to the heads of agencies on restricting eligibility or otherwise disfavoring to the maximum extent possible anarchist jurisdictions. They did note that you can withhold funding so long as it pertains to the program you are trying to incentivize. 177 you look at new york, a cent increase in shootings. In seattle, there is a lawless zone. In portland, you saw officers injured. If the states will not act and to secure their streets, the president will supply every mechanism available to him to supplement their failures. In some case, that is federal officers. It wisconsin, this is another attempt to make sure no more children die on our streets. Reporter these are congressionally appropriated funds. You would expect there to be legal action. One from the state of new york warned that if you try to withhold funds she will immediately slap you with a lawsuit. Sec. Mcenany she is free to do that. We believe that what we do is lawful within the balance bounds of the law. They finally stepped up and asked for federal support in kenosha and they got it because too Many Americans are dying on our streets. President tried to withhold federal money room sanctuary cities and he lost. Why isnt this also doomed to fail . Sec. Mcenany im not going to get ahead of what the final product will look like. There is a 14 day timeline. Then a 30 day timeline for the office of management and budget. We believe we are in the right. May, the president said they will designate antifa as a terrorist organization. Sec. Mcenany they said the doj will look at and people related charges. They will be pursuing domestic terrorism charges against antifa and anarchists who are wreaking havoc and the suspect in portland who killed in anniston innocent man. Reporter they didnt declare them a terrorist organization. Sec. Mcenany they will be pursuing domestic terror charges. Reporter in 2017, he threatened to withhold funds from work late. It did he do that . Sec. Mcenany i will follow up on that. Reporter the president has made many threats knowing they are not legal. Is that what he is trying to do . Sec. Mcenany the president will follow through. His memo is exceedingly clear. We will pursue every avenue to make sure the people are protected. When you have a oneyearold in new york killed or a girl and atlanta who lost her life, yes we will do everything within our lawful power and the president is serious. Reporter in walter reed, the president said he went there to begin his physical. This week, he said he was there to complete his physical. Which one was it . Sec. Mcenany the president did his physical in two parts. These are very extensive when you are doing a president ial physical. He used the two visits to complete the physical. The media is engaging in conspiracy theories about the president s health. Reporter he said he completed it. You are saying thats not true. Sec. Mcenany next question. I am not engaging in conspiracy theories. Go ahead. Reporter senator schumer came out with a Statement Today saying that too much of the evidence points to the Trump Administration pressuring the fda to approve a vaccine by election day to boost his reelection prospects. Can you assure the American People that of a vaccine does come out before election day is approved before election day that it is safe and effective and can you address his assertions that youre pressuring the fda to come up with a vaccine before election day . Sec. Mcenany no one is pressuring the fda to do anything. This is a bizarre theory spun up by cnn. Dr. Hahn said this. I can assure you 100 that the president has never pressured me to make a decision regarding any regulatory of the fdas work. That is absolutely the case. Secretary as are said this morning about the vaccine, this is all about saving lives. Briefed theid we president today, this was a few said theredr. Fauci is no political pressure i have seen to move quickly. This president wants to break through regulatory barriers to get a vaccine to the American People as quickly as possible because lives are at stake. He will not in any way sacrifice safety and making sure this is 100 airtight before the American People receive it. The priority is saving lives. There will be a safe and effective vaccine in the works. Cnn is spinning up a Conspiracy Theory always based upon the cdc cnn was peddling a theory on this as well. You had career officials at the cdc who made a decision, who spoke with states about preparing vaccines. Who are preparing in advance to have a vaccine distributed. Unlike the Obama Administration during the swine fluke, they had a problem. They promised doses by october the reduced the number for the swine flu. By mid october when the demand was at its highest, supply fell dramatically short. You even had their cdc director saying we are nowhere near where we thought we would be by now. We hear the frustration of the people who have waited on line or called a number or check the website and have not been able to find a place to get vaccinated. Unlike that administration, we make plans in advance which is why we have contracted for 100 million vaccine production and advance. Thats why officials have worked with all 50 states. We do our homework unlike obama biden. Former Vice President joe biden said on the poisoning that the mode of attack leaves no doubt as to where the responsibility lies, the russian state. Does the president agree with madeassessment and has he his voice known to the russian government on this issue . Sec. Mcenany we are deeply troubled are the results released yesterday. The poisoning is completely reprehensible. Russia has used chemical nerve agents in the past and we are working with allies and the International Community to hold those in russia accountable wherever the evidence leads. The russian people have a right to express their views peacefully without fear of retribution. Certainly not with chemical agents. No one has been tougher on the russian government than this president. Reporter on tiktok, the president said what will that look like . Will people have to delete the app . What will happen on september 15 if there is no deal . Sec. Mcenany i am not going to get ahead of announcing those plans on september 15. I know you have questions on the timing of everything. I told the Commerce Department to expect your call so they can walk you through. You had a question about the 45 day timeframe. We can get you in contact with the Commerce Department. Reporter a couple of contracts were awarded that Peter Navarro was involved with. One, there is investigation going on in terms of the money that went to kodak to develop pharmaceuticals. There are other contracts for ventilators that have received scrutiny. Can you give us an update on how concerned you are that some of these business deals are going through too quickly . Is there any finding you can offer at this point . Sec. Mcenany we have made many 30 times with regard to testing. We are proud of what we have done. If there are new allegations with the company, we look at them closely as we did with kodak. We are very proud of what we have done. We were met with an unprecedented challenge, Novel Coronavirus that came to us from china. We are proud that our contracts have enabled us to have a very large and growing stockpile. We have rapidly increased the number of n95 masks. Surged the number of gowns on hand. We have tremendous level of ventilators on hand. We will have tens of thousands more are the fault. The contracts we have made have enabled these numbers along others among others created wethere is ever allegation, take it seriously as we did with kodak. Reporter are you concerned with how many allegations of wrongdoing youre looking at . Sec. Mcenany one or two that you have named out of the many contracts we have had. Reporter the strategy for the pandemic has been called dangerous by some experts. I wonder if the president has formed an opinion on this concept and if he thinks it is in achievable goal . Was mcenany herd immunity something made up in the fanciful minds of the media. That was never something that was ever considered here at the white house. What we have done is raced to get a safe and effective vaccine in record time. If we get it by the end of the year, it will far outpace ebola. Fastest vaccine ever for a novel pathogen. Here at the white house, we talk about therapeutics and we are proud that we have identified hundreds of Clinical Trials and successful therapeutics like dexamethasone and remdesivir, thats what we do here at the white house. The herd immunity theory reporter the president said he would come out with a list of candidates by september 1. Sec. Mcenany you will see it in the next few weeks. It will be after the labor day weekend. Reporter how would the president plan to reduce funding to cities and protect citizens, which he said was the goal of the president . Sec. Mcenany that is the goal. The intent is to incentivize cities to follow in the way of kenosha and minneapolis, when they were in the midst of a situation that could not handle at the local level, they requested federal assistance and it worked. In 24 hours, you saw a much different scene in kenosha. We want states to work with us. Democrats thate did so. You see much different situations and new york, d. C. , portland and seattle. Factors will be whether they forbid us from intervening, if they have withdrawn Law Enforcement protection from some areas, those are the types of changes and behavior we want to see from cities. Protecting the citizenry should be paramount. Reporter the government runs out of funding by the end of the month, is the white house confident they can avoid another shutdown . Talkedenany i have not to him about that, but we do believe we can get funding to avoid a shutdown. Reporter our negotiations on the way now . Sec. Mcenany i would have to talk with him about that. It has been discussed internally. Reporter can you give us a that woulde funding be under review . White house think sec. Mcenany the first part of your question, it is undergoing a review is step one of the memo, for federal agencies to detail funding provided. I cant give you a readout of which funds are being looked at until the review is conducted. Why now . 177 ork city has seen a increase in shootings in july. You have the government of mayor de blasio and Governor Cuomo pulling funds from the nypd at the same time we learned arrests were down in new york city by 62 . Businesses of 450 that have been damaged. In seattle, the lawless chop zone where two died. Reporter the president and joe commemorateoth 9 11, have you spoke to him about appearing with the former Vice President like he did with secretary clinton in new york . Sec. Mcenany i have no details about the upcoming event. Know it is under review, has the president he ised to make sure exempt . Sec. Mcenany i dont see in what universe that would be connected to the issue at hand. I dont want to get into specific funding ahead of the review process that is ongoing. Thank you. The president was talking about voting twice. , what dos not indicate you have to say about that . Sec. Mcenany you said facebook . Reporter they said they would remove the post from the profile of people who posted and would not say that the assertions of the president are wrong. Sec. Mcenany i have not seen the post what the president is crystal clear. Vote is not tabulated, you will be able to vote in person. This is about verifying every vote is counted. In the 2020 president ial primary, there were 100,000 ballots rejected in california. Mailw york, one in five in ballots were rejected, a total of 84000 and new york city alone. We know the thin margins by which elections are decided. Hispanicack, and voters are more likely to have their mailin ballots rejected. Franchiseent wants meant, not disenfranchisement. Reporter if i may ask another one on immigration. The president said he would be issuing another order in september. Do you have any more information on when he might issue the immigration order . Sec. Mcenany no updates. Reporter you mentioned cities blasionosha, if mayor de were to this week take specific action and get some law and order back under control, with this memo could you to go forward . Sec. Mcenany we would have to see a radical change in behavior of the mayor who allowed a church to burn. And from the mayor of portland, who stood with the protesters only to be chased out of his own home, windows shattered in his buildings by the same protesters, anarchists who took the life of a 39yearold man. When the local government does not act, we use every avenue available to us at the federal level, this pertains to the memo. It also pertains to operation legend, which we are proud of. Since the operation launched, more than 2000 arrests, including 147 homicides, have been made. Hundreds of firearms have been seized. More than seven kilos of fentanyl, 50 kilos of methamphetamine have been seized. 476he originals arrested, have been charged with federal offenses. There