Activities and voters back in 2016 and now paying attention to democrats in texas and latino voters. Well get an update from here at the end of this program. And at least at the end of my interview with dr. Navarro. Before we get to dr. Navarro a few headlines to get you up to speed. The big thing to Pay Attention to is travel. Trel reveals a lot about politics. Why are people making decisions to go certrtain places . Anthe midwest is the battleground. We hear a t about the deep south. We hear a lot about the sunbelt. And theres no doubt those are areas that are competitive. But if you look at today, President Trump, and democratic nominee joe biden, theyre going to the midwest today. Friday. Both will be in minnesota and wisconsin. Biden will also be in iowa. President trump will go to michigan. Vice president pence wl be in arizona speaking of the sunbelt. And democratic v v. P. Nominee senator harris, she will go to texas. Again, the sunbelt. So you have the nominees in the midwest, the v. P. s in the sunbelt, arizona and texas, one headline that stands out to me and d the post today, is in the final stretch the Biden Campaign seeking the voters who stayed home in 2016. Weve talked this week about senator harris reaching out to those Bernie Sanders voters and the Biden Campaign needso not just pull those moderates in the suburbs and not just traditional democrats in the cities. It needs to have the voters who maybe sat on their hands in 2016, the sanders voters, to come out. And you see the Biden Campaign for months try to balance its overertures to the center with its overtures to the l left. And one ot thing, one other headline, is the president s pretty superstious. He is going to have his final rally on election day, electn ev excuse me, monday night, in grand rapids, michigan. If you are a political junkie, you remember he went to grand rapids in 2016. It looks like the white house will be the setting for where the president is. He wont be in new york city. He wont be at the trump hotel in washington. That seems to be a fluid situation. Based on the president s comments to repoers 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 lets bring in dr. Eter navarro, the presisidents top advisor onrade. He joinedhe Trump Administration early on, working on trade policy. Hes an antagonist of china if i mate say, dr. Navarro. Great to have you here. Mr. Costa, who you are you, sir . Doing well. You look marvelous in your office there. How do you think trade plays into this campaign . I know youre a policy man. But you u Pay Attention to trad a political issue as well. Is this something the president is going to hit in the final few days . Trade is one of the keys to ununlocking the midwest battleground states. If you go across, for example, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, you understand if yore a blue Collar Worker that joe biden voted for navetta in nafta in 1994 and joe biden voted for china and the world trade organization. You have institutional memory from you and your family of how we lost over 70,000 factories and over five Million Manufacturing jobs to joe bidens nafta to joe bidens courtship of china. And the president has as you know been the toughest president ever to std up to china and we have the backing of the rank and file as we did in 2016. But mr. Costa, theres other things going on over and above that. Go ahead. Yeah. You say hes been very tough on china. I spoke to larry kudldlow, your colleague yesterday, who did not make any kind of statement about coming tariffs on china over the pandemic. With respect, if hes so tough, why havent further tariffs been announced on china due to the pandemic . Ill let you and larry have your conversations. What i know about donald j. Trump is that weve got tariffs on over 325 billion worth of chine goods. We put sanctions on china for s human rights abuses in the zion province. We took away all favorable treatmenent for hong konafter the Chinese Communist party brutly crushed dissent and we have run freedom of navigation patrols relentlessly in the south china sea. Evve worked closely with japn to solidifalliances there. So the idea that the president hasnt been tough enough on china, i think thats tts a nonstarter and i think the people of america know that. But let me just say this because we are this is time, bob, for Closing Arguments. And i think you want to know boots on the ground what were doing and what our expectations is . And trade and manufacturing is ucial to winning the midwest and therees some other things going on. What about the pandemic, peter . Youve been a fierce critic of dr. Fauci. Bob, every time i try to talk about what were doing and what theyre thinking about, youre interrupting me to i dont mean to interrupt. I want to cover some ground here. Let me cover this ground. And then you can hit me with another question. Because i think for your viewers, this is whatts important. We have a six pillar strateg for growing the economy that dates back to 2016. Deregulation, tax cuts, free trade, defense spending increases, Strategic Energy dominance, things like that. And so trade of course is crucial to winning michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. But if you go if i goike the other thingngs, like defens spending, obama, biden, cut defense spending by 16 , a tremendous blow to combat readiness. What weve done is dramatically increase defense spending. If you go across the battlegrounds, wisconsin, a few days ago, went to the Marinette Shipyard which is very vibrant and booming, oshkosh build combat vehicles, thats the kind of thing thats going to really draw a strong support for the president. If you go to michigan, the striker plant in sterling heights, you go to pennsylvania, we literally saved the york combat vehicle plant whenbamaid basicay tried to put it into the grod. And my office really played an Important Role reviving the philly shipyard. So thats a beautiful thing so trade, manufacturing, defense, then you move to the Strategic Energy dominance. The cornerstone of that, bob, is fracking. Nnsylvania, you michigan and fracking wells across right. The antrim shelf formation and the marselis s formation in pennsylvania. And on top of that, frack sand, which is a critical element of the process, is mined in wisconsin in the western part. Hundreds of thousands more jobs there. My part is i got your point. Energy. All about trade. Entral issues. Energy, trade, defense spending, dereregulation. Peter, peter go ahead. 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 p. P. E. Its undernvestigation. Whwhats your respse to that Ongoing Investigation . Democrat whatever. I really dont care what they do. What i can tell you, i want to finish one thing thing and ill address the pandemic issues. Do you think youre in any legal jeopardy there . No. Besides the Strategic Energy dominance, were also seeking Strategic Mining dominance. And this is critical in minnesota, in particular. I was there a couple of days ago. Theres a thing called the duluth complex which is part of the iron range. It has the largest resources untapped of copper and nickel and cobalt. And obamabiden had shut that down effectively during their administration and were opening that back up. Nickel is critical to electricification of cars. Theyey call them lithium batteries. But the largest ingredient really is the cobalt is really essential to our Defense Industrial base because it allows much higher temperatures without degradation of the metals. Peter, i appreciate those points aut minining. [crosstalk] respectfully, go ahead. I have given you time to go through mining policy, energy policy, defense policy, and trade policy. [indiscernible] up the like to bring pandemic. You have been at the forefront of the central issue of this Campaign Going back to your memos to colleagues and president earliern 2020. What is your read on the pandemic . You have been studying this for saysa year, and dr. Fauci. T is getting worse what is the navarro take . We need to carefully thread a needle between a locked and managing the r risk of keeping e economy open. Here is the way we see it. The virus from the Chinese Communist party, they infected us. It kills people. We also kn wn you go into lockdown it kills people in different ways. What we have done, and this goes back to my memo as you mentionod. February 9, i started writing a series of memos which outlined on behalf of the president what had become o four vector attack strategy to defeathe Chinese Communist virus. It is the domestic monitoring of our ppe, our gloves, our goggles, our n95 respirators. We have had Great Success on that in places like rhode island and arizona with the honeywell company. Secondly, we have got testing. The initial was to expanthe testing we do and the amount of and it took to get results we are at that point. The third vector i think is the most important, therapeutics and in many ways therapeutics are as or more important than a vaccine in the short and medium run. This is a way of driving down the mortality rate if you do get sick. These are things like remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma. 9 iy, i remember february wrote a memo to the task force. It said among other things, if we started a five Company Horse race on a Vaccine Development that week, we could have a vaccine by the end of november oror early december. We are actually tracking there. Doctors do not understand how the Trump Administration work. Doctors art about whether we can get large q quantities of the vaccine to the American People but what we have done is turn the standard paradigm on its head. Usually you go sequentially. Phase one, phase twophase three, you have got a vaccine then you start your investment in Production Capacity 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 a viable, we are ready to deploy. To januaryating back 31 over time, what have we done . Vectoremented these four attack strategy and the National Stockpile admitted smarter. What happened to all of that hydroxychloroquine thehe administration acquired under your watch . A great question, bob. The first thing that happened was publications like the Washington Post and New York Times and cnn created what was unfortunately hydroxy hysteria. [crosstalk] the food and Drug Administration. Do not interrupt me on this. Let me finish my point. At the latest study that came out on this has shown unequivocally that hydroxychloroquine works in early treatment to save lives and here is what i can tell you. We have got 63 million tablets of hydroxychloroquinee sitting i the strategic National Stockpile. Millionenough for 4 americans to be treated and enough to cut the death rate of twole infected by 20,000 30,000 american lives and to meet one of the biggest hasedies of this litigation been the suppression of the use of a 12 drug that could have saved countless lives. If you were asking me what about the hydroxychloroquine, it is sitting there not sitting saving lives because the mainstreamedia created a history hysteria about it when the science is unequivocal. It works i in early treatment to save lives. Acknowledgeuld you you can see what you wa critical of the mainstream media. I just did. That is fine. 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 . It is more subtle than that. What we have with the food and Drug Administration is a response in many ways to that hydroxychloroquine hysteria. That people can still use hydroxychloroquine. At happened was they created a climatate where it made it much moreifficult. People became afraid to use it. I am telling you and the American People that this is a medicine that the latest Scientific Evidence shows that it is safe and it can help save lives. Got a couple of days of the election we can keep having this debate but i will guarantee you, maybe you and i can sit down in three or six or r nine months when the science is fully in and there is a randomized Clinical Trial 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. People can disagree about it. You can say whatever you want next, but that is the way i see it and there is plenty of evidence to support that. Do you believe the president will keep stephen hahn as the fda commissioner after the election . Nowll i am focused on right like a laser beam is tuesday from a policy perspective. I really fear looking at the possible outcome with a bidenharris ticket coming in that we could have as the president has had a great depression. Why do i say that . It gets back peter, what is your evidence for that . I will give that to you. What we do here are point to the policy compass. We believe tax cuts stimulate growth. At joe biden will raise taxes. We believe when you deregulate that lowers the cost of businesses, it us more competitive. Helps us grow. Regulationsncrease as he did in the obama administration. If you look at the Strategic Energy dominance we have obtained, we are now the largest pepetroleum producer in thworld and a net exporter. Benharris,der a will go awa that will basically create National Security issues as well as diminish our growth. If you look at the issue of defense spending, do not underestimate this. A lot of ways defense production has help stabilize our economy. The places i have gone and , the shipyards,. Hey are Still Producing these are great paying jobs. Defenserris will cut spending and that will harm state like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, so that is no good. Let me finish it. You know that biden was responsible for voting for nafta. He voted for china getting into the world trade organization. He has been very sympathetic to china. She does not think they will eat our lunch. Will he rolack the china tariff . Will he rollback the steel a aluminum tariffs . If he does any of that, forget about manufacturing in this country. They lost manufacting jobs under their watch. Upof january 2020, we had 500,000. Election have consequences, and i do believe, and this is what i did four years before i got here, i was a forecaster. Bidensieve that joe dark winter is ahead quite dark winter, you use the term great depression. Can you name one economist to nameelf, your phd, can you anyone else using that term great pression with any kind of seriousness about the Biden Economic plan . Christ let me turn that around. When i was the president s top Economic Advisor and i said we growth wayto have above estimates and i predicted the day after the electction 25,000 on the doubt, i was correct. . H was paul krugn doing he was writing if trump got elected we would have a great depression. I stand by my forecasting, bob. In november 2007, i told everybody to get out of the market because the m market was going to crash. I predicd the housing level. It back in 2006, i read a book called the coming china war and in that i predicted communist china wod create a pandemic that could possibly kill millions. I wrote a book in 1984 called the dimming of america that predicted widespread electricity shortages and that is exactly what we had. Youre my forecasts at peril based upon my track record. Am telling you, we are in for hard Economic Times ahead if joe biden gets elected. ,e will cut defense spending raise taxes, he will regulate us out of business go back to the old globalist ways of shaping our supply chains of chores. Why do i know that . That is what he did for 47 years. You know that. I know that. He has a record. Your. Navarro, i appreciate being here. Thosose are your points and peoe can take them as they are. Ouruld urge our audience, viewers to also check out the Washington Post reporting on President Trumps economic agenda and plan and on vice andident bidens proposals other things that go b beyond te issues peter mentioned but lets also read more fully about President Trumps record as well. Peter, you are always welcome to beere to discuss your point of view. To talk to you, bobob. But see what happens on tuesday. You are an old friend. Thinkor being here, peter. Appreciate it. We will now be joined by my colleague, reporter for the Washington Post. Right to have you here. Is so good to see you. Jenna, you have been reporting on texas and the democrats for years now. I remember your stories on beto orourke when he was running for senate. He narrowly lost that race to senator ted cruz. Now it is 2020. What is change for democrats in a place like texas . I have been fascinated by texas