Just made. Had a mcennanny briefing. His is about 40 minutes. Nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer and representative ork have shown their blatant disregard for the United States constitution. Apparently it is now a high crime and misdemeanor worthy of impeachment for a lawfully elected president of the United States to exercise his constitutional duty. Article 2, section 2 of the constitution clearly states that the president , quote, shall nominate, end quote, justices of the Supreme Court when a vacancy occurs. No matter the time, no matter the politics of the day, the president is the president. Theres nothing in the constitution that says the president stopped being the president in an Election Year. The president has already appointed two strong conservative justices to the Supreme Court, justices who will interpret the constitution as written. Now he will nominate a third. As senator cruz reminds us, we are one vote away of seeing our religious liberty stripped away, free speech and second amendment, just one vote. Contrast the president s solemn constitutional duty with democrats search and destroy politics. Nancy pelosi is going to attack the president with arrows and will not rule out impeaching this president for doing his job and fulfilling his. A. O. C. Said impeachment is an option on the table while chuck humer stood by nodding approvalingly. Jean democrat senator tim kai nmp e called the idea of using impeachment to delay foolish. Some democrats have a backup plan if they dont get their way. Congressman joe contendy said if he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021, its that simple. Senator ed markey, nor supreme vacancy is filled in an Election Year. If he violates it when democrats control the senate, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court. The president is elected to a fouryear term. You cannot reduce it to three years. The president is the president. Democrats cannot win their argument on the merits. They cannot win on precedent, so they must search and destroy. Don lemon said this. We are going to have to blow up the entire system if the president does his job as outlined in the constitution. Thats the difference between republicans and democrats. We fight to protect the system. We fight to protect the constitution. When democrats say we are going to blow up the entire system because we do not get our way. This president will proceed undaupted by democrats threats. President trump will appoint the next Supreme Court justice and will protect religious liberty and our freedom of speech and our second amendment. Under this president , our rights will be upheld and our constitution safeguarded and this president will fill that seat. With that, ill take questions. As you know, the country has hit 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, what do you say to americans that blame this administration for so many lives lost in this country . Several doctors from this podium and looking at the prospect of two Million People perishing from the coronavirus. We grieve when one life is lost. The fact that we have come nowhere near that number is a testament of the president taking immediate action, shutting down travel. Democrats were saying xenophobic and developing they are putics. Excess mortality, europe has experienced a higher mortality rate than the United States and testament done by the task force. Reporter last night the president said at one of his rallies about the virus and talked about younger americans and said it doesnt affect nobody. Everybody, open your schools. He said to bob woodward, its not just older people, its younger people, too. At 200,000 deaths shouldnt the president be telling the American People the truth . He is telling the truth. Reporter he is not. He says it doesnt affect young people and not telling the truth. You are taking the president out of context. You are right he was referring to young people. Reporter he was talking about younger people. You are taking it out of context and he is giving critical information and i will underscore information. He said you know in some states thousands of people and they have had nobody young below the age of 18. They have a strong immune system. U can go to the American Academy pediatric website and there are a number of states that have zero pediatric deaths. Reporter they can spread it to older people. And for the president to go out to his rallies and say it virtually affects nobody and that in some states its not affecting young people that is glossing over the fact and diminishing that they can spread it to older people. Do you have the quote with you . Thats how i read it to you. In zero, zero pediatric. Arkansas, delaware, district of columbia, hawaii, idaho, kansas and the list goes on. As you may not know, the covid has a. 01 mortality rate for people under the age of 18. It is not a disease that affects young people as older people which is the point that the president was making last night. Reporter one person who believes that the president has a Constitutional Authority to utah senator mitt romney. The president and romney have found themselves at odds and said unkind if not untempered things, how is the president feeling about mitt romney today . Senator romney is recognizing what any of us who take a cleareyed look at precedent that the precedent is on our side. 29 times has there been an appointment during an Election Year 29 times. And 19 times when those nominations were made, the senate and the president were of the same party. 1719, that nominee went on to be confirmed. 10 times when it was a in difference in party between democrats and president , only two went on to be confirmed. Democrats are trying to have it both ways here and i cite national review, choosing not to fill a vacancy would be historically unprecedented act. Report report timing now. The president will have 37 days from the time he makes the announcement to the last time he could have a vote. John paul stevens was confirmed and 19 days. Justice Sandra Day Oconnor in 33. Can you do it in 37 days . We certainly believe we can. We heard optimistic words from senator graham. We will go about this by putting forward a constitution organizationalist that we believe the American People will appreciate and get through the approval process and nomination confirmation process quite quickly. Reporter on the 200,000 deaths will the president recognize that publicly today . And on twitter, is this something that he would like to simply emorse over or to people the president has done just that. He has said before that it keeps him up at night thinking even one life lost. He has taken this incredibly seriously. He has worked harder each and every day. He works hard and puts his head down and that isest dent, the largest mobilization of the private sector since world war ii. And got working therapeutics to the American People. This is the fastest pace for a vaccine in history as we seek to reach that goal by the end of the year. The president takes this seriously and you have seen the fatality rate that has fallen since 85 and 1. 5 of emergency room visits are people sick with covid is a testament by the hard work done by President Trump. Reporter could you speak about why the president prefers to have the confirmation vote before the election . How does he think this is going to help senator gardner and senator earns . One of the low points for this process was the cavanaugh hearings and what democrats did there making baseless allegations against Justice Cavanaugh prior to President Trump appointing him and democrats dragged his name through the mud and the president wants a fair confirmation process and one that does not look like what happened to cavanaugh. That was the real low point for democrats. Reporter were there are stumbles help republicans . He thinks democrats themselves the lowest point. I think the American People show democrats after the partisan games and people are seeing pelosi and schumer talking about impeachment for executing your power. It is inane and outlandish and they seem to be doubling down on their cavanaugh approach. And didnt work too well with Justice Cavanaugh. Reporter the president gave himself an aplus for handling f covid but a d for public relations. What would an aplus look like. Kayleigh the president is saying he wants to make sure we get good information to the American People. Reporter did he provide information at times that was not true. He said he was downplaying it so he was providing information that was not true. Kayleigh thats inaccurate. The president never downplayed Critical Health information. He never downplayed the covid response. You can see that by the historic effort we have put forward. I would also point you to dr. Fauci who said i dont recall anything different in our discussions with the president that he said things quite similarly in public and he was asked directly by nonother than john roberts. Did you ever get the sense that he was or wasnt playing this down, no, no, i didnt, thats an assertion echoed by the Vice President. Our response, 100 million tests weve exceeded. The fact that weve brought fatality down by 85 . This was a novel pathogen that came in for which there were no tests and no identified therapeutics but they were identified quickly. Also with regard to the vaccine, when you look at the notion that we are manufacturing this at commercial level which is i was told by dr. Salawi that that normally takes years to do an we are already producing, the goal is 100 million doses by the end of the year. Reporter if the vaccines arent effective what is plan b . Kayleigh youre asking a hypothetical. We have six american vaccine we was identified, three of them in phase three Clinical Trials. Theres also one were getting there, by the end of the year is the goal. Reporter what will we do if theyre not approved. We all hope for good news. But what if theyre not approved. Kayleigh we have six candidate, we are of strong belief that we will identify one, hopefully more than one, working vaccine, producing them in advance. When you compare this, ebola taking 14 months to get to phase three Clinical Trials, we already have two candidates in phase three. Ebola took two years to get to completion, we will have done this in under a year. Reporter tremendous the president did retweet a segment from Rush Limbaugh where limbaugh suggested that it would be great the republican skipped hearings altogether. Does the president want to republicans to skip Committee Hearings . Theyre a coequal branch of government. Kayleigh the president as a fan of Rush Limbaugh appreciates his commentary and retweeted it but e are working with the senate. Reporter on the stimulus, and can you confirm the president s planning for the wall down there, he said yesterday he had spoken to candidates beforehand. I wonder if you could talk about any of the others he may have had contact with. Kayleigh i wont get into private meet, well find out which constitutionalist text yulist and originalist is hes appointing on saturday. Reporter i think theres concern that the Supreme Court may have killed the last gasp of getting a stimulus bill done before the election. Do you agree that thats probably not going to happen until after the election if at all or if youre still hopeful, the president said when the time is right hed be willing to reach out to Speaker Pelosi, it seems like were getting down into the last legislative days before the election. Is the time now right . Kayleigh weve wanted to see a phase four relief bill get to the American People. Thats why the chief of staff and secretary mnuchin have been in negotiations. Unfortunately though theyve been in negotiations with a fundamentally unserious, partisan named Speaker Pelosi who when we would exed what she asked for with School Funding she would reject the money in excess of what she previously asked for. Democrats showed what they were about when they filibustered a bill that would have provided 300 a week to the American People, they filibustered that i believe last week. The onus is on Speaker Pelosi. We encourage her to send oneoff bills, perhaps airline funding or other elements that we could work through the process to get to the American People. Its always been this president s priority to do that. Reporter you think you may not see a stimulus bill but some oneoff bills. Kayleigh the onus is on nancy pelosi. We have come up in our numbers but at this point if she doesnt want to deliver relief to the American People to that degree she wan oneoff some bills that we would look at and be happy to move forward with because the priority has always been getting money to the American People which is why the president has had those e. O. s on evictions and Unemployment Insurance and student lens and others. Reporter the first president ial debate a week from today. How do you expect the Supreme Court issue to impact that debate . Kayleigh a lot of that is for the campaign with regard to the debate. I have to refer you there. But i think the American People are going to get a very cleareyed look, they have the previous nominees weve made of what this president stands for, he wants a judge who will protect our fundamental rights to look at the constitution as written. Not fansfully interpret that document, but who looks at the plain meaning of statutes. The president will protect the second amendment, the First Amendment and these fundamental rights are at stake should another party have their way with the judiciary but this president will continue to appoint justices in the mold of gorsuch and justice kavanaugh. Reporter the democrats are threatening to add justices to the Supreme Court as you mentioned. Does that concern you at all as you go gow about the process . Kayleigh thats, unfortunately, another example of trying to blow up the system. If you dont get your way, democrats will blow up the system. They will change the system. They will trample on the constitution. And you know, i would point them to the words of Justice Ginsburg who called Court Packing a bad idea. She called it partisan. She said nine seems to be a good number. I think packing the court was a bad idea when president roosevelt tried it, im not in favor of all of that reporter i have a question on the virus but i want to follow up on justin, he asked about the speaker. As the president called the speaker about the recovery bill and why not if he wants to get this done . Is he calling other lawmakers as well . Kayleigh im not aware of any conversation that theyve had. There have been communications through the chief of staff, through the secretary of treasury. But until Speaker Pelosi becomes serious in her negotiating, instead of engaging in political drama, we are really at a stalemate them ball is in her court to become serious in these negotiations. Reporter it would carry more weight if the president called than mark meadows, correct . Kayleigh theyve been negotiating. When we believe the speaker is in a serious spot we can do that but when you ask for a certain amount of School Funding and we offer more and she rejects that. Reporter some polls are showing the majority of americans dont trust what the president is saying on the virus vaccine. I wonder if you all keep talking about the vaccine possible coming out. How will you get people to believe that the vaccine is safe and that people should go get it when it does come out in whats the process going to be looking like . Kayleigh so, i think first, i want to point out that several of the doctors have been on the record and have said that this vaccine is going through the same rigorous process it should as dr. Hahn said, i said all f. D. A. Decisions have been and will continue to be based solely on good science and data. Dr. Fauci said certainly there are no corners being cut here. And several others, secretary azar, have been on the record about this. Members of the Task Force Said this is going through the rigorous f. D. A. Process and it will be a good, safe, effective vaccine. How soon would the president feel comfortable taking a vaccine himself . And would he support a nonamerican vaccine, perhaps even from china or russia . Kayleigh first i would say this, the president has been on the record saying, im happy to be the first person to take the vaccine or the last person, whatever is best for the American People. He believes itll be a safe and effective vaccine, one he will certainly be open to taking. He said this, im going to really Say Something that is not like me. I dont care, i just want to get a vaccine that works. I dont care if its another country, ill take my hat off to them. But currently i think the other vaccine in phase three Clinical Trial is the one in oxford. Eporter to clarify on the romney development.