Today, i will talk with two guests. Dr. Peter navarro, the white house director of trade and manufacturing policy. Then we will be joined by lisa blunt rochester of delaware, a the national cochair of the Biden Campaign. Reported johnson, who in 2016 on voters, now paying attention to democrats in texas and latino voters. We will get an update from her at the end of this program, and at least at the end of the interview with dr. Navarro. A few headlines to get you up to speed. The big thing to Pay Attention to is travel, travel reveals a lot about politics. Why are people making decisions to go certain places . The midwest is the battleground. We hear about the deep south, the sunbelt,a nd there is no doubt those are competitive areas, but when you look at today President Trump, the democratic nominee joe biden, they are going to the midwest today. Both of them will be in minnesota and wisconsin. Biden will also be in iowa. President trump will be in michigan. Vice president mike pence will be in arizona, and the democratic Vice President ial nominee will go to texas, again, the sunbelt. You have the nominees in the midwest, the v. P. s in the sunbelt. One headline that stood out to me is in the final stretch, the Biden Campaign seeking the voters that stayed home in 2016. We talked about senator harris reaching out to the bernie voters. They do not need just the moderates or traditional democrats, it needs to have the voters who may sat on their hands in 2016, the sanders voters, to come out. You have seen them for months trying to balance overtures to the center with those from the left. One headline is the president is superstitious. He will have its final rally on election day, election eve, monday night, in grand rapids, michigan. If you are a political junkie, you will remember he went there in 2016. It looks like the white house will be the setting for the where the president is. He will not be in new york city , or the trump hotel in washington. It is a fluid situation, based on his comments this morning, but it looks like the white house, just like it was for the Republican National convention, could be the setting for election night. Now we will bring in dr. Peter navarro. His trade something the president will hit in the final few days . Dr. Navarro it is the key to unlocking the midwest the midwest battleground states. If you go across, for example, michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. You understand if you are a bluecollar worker, that joe biden voted for nafta in 1994, he voted for china and the wto. Memory, institutional from you and your family, of how we lost over 70,000 factories and 5 million jobs to joe bidens nafta and his courtship of china. And at the president has, as you know, been the toughest president ever to stand up to china. And we have the banking of the rankandfile, as we did in 2016, but there are other things going on with that. Go ahead. You said he has been tough on china, but i spoke to larry kudlow yesterday, who did not make any kind of statement about the coming tariffs on china over the pandemic. If he is so tough, why have it further tariffs been announced due to the pandemic . Let you and i will larry have your conversations. But what i know about donald tariffs onat we have over 325 billion worth of chinese goods. We have put sanctions on china for human rights abuses. We took away all favorable treatment for hong kong after the Chinese Communist party brutally crushed dissent. We have run freedom on navigation patrols in the south china sea. We worked closely with japan to solidify alliances there. President a that the has not been tough enough on china, i think that that is, that is a nonstarter and i think that the people of america know that. , this is the time for Closing Arguments and i think you want to know, boots on the ground, what our expectation is. Trade and manufacturing is crucial to winning the midwest. And there are other things going on. You have been a fierce critic of dr. Fauci. Dr. Navarro every time i try to talk about what we are doing and what we are thinking about, youre interrupting me. I do not mean to interrupt, i just want to cover some ground. Dr. Navarro let me cover this ground and and then you can give me another question because for your viewers, this is what is important. We have a six pillar strategy for growing the economy that dates back to 2016, deregulation tax cuts, defense spending increases, Strategic Energy dominance, things like that. Trade, of course, is crucial to winning michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. But if you go to defense spending, obama and biden cut the defense spending by 16 , a tremendous blow to combat readiness. We have increased defense spending. You go across the battlegrounds. I went to a shipyard in wisconsin days ago. Very vibrant. Oshkosh, they build combat vehicles. That is the kind of thing that will draw strong support for the president. You go to michigan, the stryker plan. You go to pennsylvania, we literally saved a combat vehicle plant when they basically tried to put it in the ground. And my office really played an Important Role in reviving the philly shipyard. That is a beautiful thing. So trade, manufacturing and defense. Then he moved energy dominance. The cornerstone is fracking. You look at michigan and pennsylvania, you have got 18,000 fracking wells across the shale formation in michigan, and the shale formation and pennsylvania. , atop of that, frack sand critical element of the process, is mined in the western part of wisconsin with hundreds of thousands of jobs there. I got your point. Energy and trade. Dr. Navarro it all shows that energy, trade, defense spending, deregulation. Peter what about the pandemic . I want to turn to the house democrats, who are investigating you and your own efforts, in terms of the pandemic, and getting ppe. It is under investigation. What is your response to that investigation . Dr. Navarro [laughter] the democrats investigate whatever. I really do not care what they do. I want to finish one thing. And then i will address the pandemic issues. Do you think that you are in legal jeopardy . Dr. Navarro no. The sides that should change it besides at the Strategic Energy dominance, we are looking at Strategic Mining dominance. Wisconsin recently. I was at the duluth complex. It has the largest resources, untapped of copper, nickel and cobalt. Obama and biden shut it down effectively, during their administration. But we are opening that backup. Nickel is could go to electrification of cars. They call them lithium batteries, but the largest ingredient really is nickel. Minnesota has highgrade nickel. We started a horse race that week, we could have a vaccine by early december. We are actually tracking that. We have a good chance of doing that. And there are people, and at this is something, bob, that the doctors do not really understand how the Trump Administration but the doctors are skeptical about whether we can get large quantities of this vaccine to the american people. But what we have done is we have turned the paradigm on its head. Usually you go sequentially. You go phase i, phase ii, phase 3, you have a vaccine, then you start investment in production. And it takes a year or two or more. That is not what we did. We did a simultaneous process, where for all five of the vaccines, we put in place mass production techniques, so that if that vaccine becomes viable, we are ready to deploy. Toi believe, dating back january 31, when the president stopped of flights to china, we have implemented our tax strategy and we filled the National Stockpile and we made it smarter. Bob speaking of that, what theened to all hydroxychloroquine the administration acquired under your watch . Dr. Navarro that is a great question. The first thing that happened was publications like the Washington Post and new york times, and then cnn, created what was unfortunately a hydroxy hysteria. Bob peter, it was the fda. It was the food and Drug Administration dr. Navarro do not interrupt me on this. Let me finish this point. The latest study has shown unequivocally that hydroxychloroquine works in early treatment to save lives. Heres what i can tell you. We got 63 million tablets of it sitting in their strategic National Stockpile. That is enough for 4 million americans treated in early treatment, enough to cut the death rate of people infected by 20,000 to 30,000 american lives. One of the biggest tragedies, Tomika Miller of this isiticalization 0 to me, this politicalization of a drug that could have saved lives. So, if youre asking me about the hydroxychloroquine, it is sitting there not sitting lives because the Mainstream Media created hysteria about it, when the science is unequivocal it works in early treatment to save lives,. , full stop. Bob you can say what you want critical of the Mainstream Media. Dr. Navarro i just did. Bob that is fine, but it was the food and Drug Administration, not a newspaper, that decided to keep it away from patients due to concerns, is that right or wrong . Dr. Navarro i think that what we have with the food and Drug Administration is a response in many ways to that hydroxy hysteria. They maintain that people can still use hydroxychloroquine. What happened was that they created a climate where it made it much more difficult and people became afraid to use it. And theling you, american people, that this is medicine that is safe and can help save lives. We will see. Until thecouple days election and we can keep having this debate. But maybe you and i can sit down and three, or six or nine months, when the science is fully in, and you will see that we could have saved probably hundreds of thousands of americans at the end of the day, if we had simply deployed that in early treatment. Look, people can disagree about it. You can say whatever you want about it. But that is the way i see it. And there is plenty of evidence to support that. Bob do you believe the president will keep stephen on as the commissioner at the fda after the election . Dr. Navarro all i can focus on right now, like a laser beam, is tuesday. Looking at the possible outcome with the bidenharris ticket coming in, that we could have a Great Depression, as the president said. Why do i say that . It goes back to bob what is your evidence for that . Dr. Navarro im going to give it to you. Is points of the policy compass. We believe tax cuts stimulant growth. Joe biden will raise taxes. When you deregulate, it lowers the cost of businesses and it helps us grow. Joe biden will increase regulations, like you did in the Obama Administration. We are now the Largest Petroleum producer in the world. Clearly, under biden and harris, that will go away and create National Security issues, as well as diminish our growth. If you look at the issue with defense spending bob, do not underestimate this. Feds production has helped to stabilize our economy, because the places i have gone to and visited, oshkosh, the shipyards, wherever, they are still producing. And these are great paying jobs. And we know that joe biden and harris will cut defense spending. That will harm states like michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. So, that is no good. Look, last thought trade. Let me finish. You know that biden was responsible for voting for nafta. He voted for china to get into the wto. He has been sympathetic to china, he does not think that they are going to eat our lun ch. Will he rollback tariffs . If he does any of that, forget about manufacturing in this country. They lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs on their watch. Before the china virus hit, we were up to 500,000. 500,000. Elections have consequences. And this is what i did for years before i got here, i was a forecaster. And i believe joe bidens dark winter is ahead. You peter, dark winter used the term Great Depression. Can you name one economist, be on yourself, can you name anyone else using that term Great Depression with any kind of seriousness about the Biden Economic plan . Dr. Navarro let me turn that around. When i was the top Economic Advisor in the campaign for the president , i said we would have growth way above estimates. And i predicted the day after the election, 25,000 on the dow. I was absolutely correct. What was the nobel prize laureate doing . He was writing if donald trump got elected, we would have a Great Depression. I stand by my forecasting. I predicted, i had investment newsletter, and in november of 2007 i told everybody to get out of the market, because it was going to crash. I predicted the housing bubble. Called, i wrote a book the coming china wars, and i predicted that communist china would create a pandemic that could possibly kill millions. I wrote a book in 1984 that predicted widespread electricity shortages in 2000. Guess what, that is exactly what we had. So, ignore my forecasts at your peril based on my track record, but i am telling you, we are in for hard Economic Times ahead of joe biden is elected. He will raise taxes, turn off the oil wells, he will regulate us out of business, and he will go back to the old globalist ways of shaping our supply chains offshore appeared why do i know that offshore. Why do i know that . That is what he did for over 40 years. You know that and i know that. Bob dr. Navarro, i appreciate you being here. Those are your points, and people can take them as they are. I would urge our audience and viewers to check out the Washington Post reporting on President Trumps economic agenda and plan, and a Vice President s economic proposals, lowering the Corporate Tax rate and other things that go beyond the issues that peter mentioned, but to also read fully about President Trumps record as well. You are always welcome to be here. I appreciate you coming by. Dr. Navarro you take care of yourself. We will see what happens on tuesday. We are all friends. One country. Bob thank you for being here. We will not be joined by my colleague, jenna johnson, political reporter for the Washington Post. It is great to have you. So great to see you. Bob you have been reporting on texas and the democrats for years now. Remember your stories on beto orourke in 2018 when he was running for senate. He narrowly lost a ted cruz. Now it is two years later, what has changed for democrats in a place like texas . I have been fascinated by texas for quite a while now. And the big thing that has been happening for years there, is there is a demographic change happening. There are people who are moving to texas. Peopleestimate, 1000 moved to texas from california, new york, florida, illinois, and many of them are democrats and bring those beliefs with them. It is also a young state. You have people who are turning 18 and qualifying devote, vote,ing a lot of to including young latinos. And they can be a force. For a Long Time Coming democrats a thought maybe in 2024, we could win statewide in texas. It has been the year they were looking at, but beto orourke sped that up. As well as donald trump. As well as the demographic changes, you have a number of republicans, or rightleaning independents, who are willing to vote for a democrat right now, who are fed up with this president and willing to do something different. Bob bob what about latino voters in texas and elsewhere . When you look at President Trumps Closing Argument at the debate, he talked about the obamabiden record on immigration, trying to share the burden of immigration policy with Vice President biden. Is Vice President biden breaking through with latino voters in the way he needs to to win the election . Months, latino activists, lawmakers, and organizers have been yelling at the Biden Campaign, saying you need to do more to reach out to latino voters. They were on track to be the second largest voting group after white voters this election. Has reachedmpaign out, but in these final months, final weeks of the campaign, meanwhile you have the Trump Campaign that has heavily focused on latino voters for months, for years. It is not that he things he will win the latino vote, a majority of latinos are still siding with biden and democrats. But states decided by small margins, like florida, pennsylvania, President Trump can pick out a few more latino voters there. That can be the deciding thing. Again, one of the big things with biden in the Latino Community is immigration. Immigration isnt the only issue latinos care about. It isnt necessarily the top issue they care about. But this was a really big problem for the Obama Administration. There were a lot of people deported during that time. While the Obama Administration did create daca and do other things, there are lasting bad feelings about what happened. A lot of questions about if biden has addressed that or not. 2016 and yourk to chronicles of trump voters across the country, you kept tabs on them for nearly four years, over four years, going back to the campaign of 2016. In a collective sense, where is the trump loader that you met voter that you met who was maybe at a diner or rural area, or workingclass town . Whe