Mike headed up the task force, he worked with cdc. I could ask mike to give you a part of it but i will say that they originally, they had no tests and one of the tests had a problem, very early on but that was quickly remedied. Now we have the best tests anywhere in the world. I think, i give ourselves a lot of that credit, a lot of the brilliant people that worked on testing. A lot of brilliant people worked on ventilators to the point where we have the best testing in the world. We have the best ventilators, distribution of the most ventilators in the world, it is not even close. I cant tell i would like to ask mike that question. Cdc you work with them all the time, certainly much more than i do, mike. We do, mr. President , let me say i think Peter Navarros point was that cdc and our Public Health labs at the state level were operating with an arcane testing system and it was one of the reasons why early on we brought in all of the commercial labs around the country. The president created a consortium of these commercial labs and we reinvented testing in america. Thats the reason why at the end of february we had done a total of 8400 tests at that time using state public labs and cdc labs but because of the president s efforts with, with basically innovating testing in america we now reached 11 million tests. You heard the statistics, more than 400,000 tests yesterday and were actually hearing as the president said earlier, were hearing reports of excess capacity that, i think the state of new york, Governor Cuomo reportedly has the ability to test 15,000 people a day but they were only testing 5000 people. We heard the same reports from florida and other states around the country but again, it is all a testament to the fact that President Trump essentially brought in the power of the private marketplace, private laboratories, reinvented testing in america and thats how we have been able to be at a place as we talk about opening up america, every state in America Today has the Testing Capacity and the supplies to be able to move into phase one reopening. And were going to make that a reality. We made a lot of governors look very good, that i can tell you. Im reading some of the reviews on some of the governors. Theyre getting these reviews. We were able to get them ventilators they didnt have. We were able to get them testing they didnt have. Including helping them fill up their stockpiles which really they should had done. They werent supposed to be using us for that. But we made a lot of governors look very good. Frankly it is good for our country. Okay . Reporter why did you pass up an opportunity to speak to the World Health Organization their Virtual Meeting today. I chose not to make a statement today. I will give them a statement sometime in the near future. I chose not to give a statement. I think they have done a very sad job in the last period of time and again, the United States pays them 450 million a year. China pays them 38 million a year. And theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of china. I think they have done even when i did the ban, mike remember this is very well, when i did the ban they thought it was inappropriate to do. I did a ban very early. If i didnt do that ban you would have lost hundreds of thousands of more people in this country t was a very important ban. People dont like talking about the ban. It was very important. I was only one wanted to do it. We did it. We saved thousands of lives. Hundreds of thousand of lives probably. Dr. Fauci said that, other people said that. Deborah said that, you know that. But the world healthorg saying was against it. They were against me doing the ban. They said you dont need it. It is too much. It is too severe all of these things and they turned out to be wrong. Sleepy joe biden said same thing. He came out said i was xenophobic. Do you believe that one . I was xenophobic you cant come from china into our country very early. And china said i was xenophobic. Town in San Francisco at same time. This is my guy. Always got along, didnt we . The twins, they call us. So, no, its a very sad, very sad thing. So im not happy with the World Health Organization and guess what . Some of the people around this table would understand being in a business in some cases international. Im not happy with the World Trade Organization at all either. Reporter can you explain sir why you decided to fire the Inspector General of the state department . Yeah. I dont know him at all. I never even heard of him but i was asked to by the state department, by mike. I offered most of my people, almost all of them, i said these are obama appointees. If you would like to let them to i think you should let them go. That is up to you. He is an obama employee. I understand he had a lot of problems with the dod. There was an investigation on him, on the Inspector General. I dont know anything about it. So i dont know him. Never heard of him but they asked me to terminate him. I have the absolute right as president to terminate. I have said who appointed him. They said president obama. Look i will terminate him. I dont know what is going on other than that. But you would have to ask mike pompeo they asked me to do it. I did it. I have the right to terminate the Inspector Generals. I would have, i would have suggested and i did suggest, pretty much all cases you get rid of the attorney generals because it happens to be very political, whether you like it or not. And many of these people were obama appointments. And so, i just got rid of him. Reporter you have got some criticism from democrats in congress who are saying this is a pattern of you trying to avoid having accountability. I know. If i didnt fire him, they would have criticized me too. They criticize no matter what you do. If you have too many ventilators, gee he has too many ventilators. If you dont have enough, they say he doesnt have enough. No matter what you do, partner and Fake News Media, they will find something. I dont know the gentleman. I was happy to do it. Mike requested that i do it. He should have done it a long time ago, in my opinion. He is as an obama appointment. He had some difficulty but i just dont know who he is. I never heard of his name. Reporter do you believe there is a role for Inspector Generals to keep an Administration Like yours or anyone elses accountable. But i think they have to be fair and i think it is a death wish when you, i told my people, i think you should study your situation but, let us know. I think weve been treated very unfairly by Inspector Generals. I can go into instances but im not going to do it now but the Inspector Generals when theyre put in by obama, just like it could be if they were put in by me and it was somebody elses administration, especially the other party, you could very well be treated unfairly. We had a lot of cases where we thought that was unfair. So yeah, they asked me to do that. I think the big thing is they should have asked me to do it a long time ago. Reporter you said you doesnt know him, sir what was he doing that was treating you unfairly . I dont know. I dont anything about him. I dont know anything about him other than the state department, and mike in particular, i guess they werent happy with the job he is doing or something. Because it is my right to do it, i said, sure i will do it. I have gotten a rid of Inspector Generals. Every president has. I think every president , probably more than i have. A lot of our people kept the obama Inspector General. I think generally speaking that is not a good thing to do but they have kept them. But i told them, for three years, i said anybody wants to get rid of their Inspector Generals because they were appointed by president obama, i think you should do so. Some of them didnt. But now theyre doing a couple of them are doing it now. Reporter mr. President , isnt there appearance of conflict of interest if secretary pompeo is asking you to fire an Inspector General that i cant tell you. I dont think so. I think maybe he thinks he is being treated unfairly. Again, he wanted to, he asked me if that would be possible. I said i will do that, sure. I think it should have been done a long time ago, frankly. This is a man that has had some controversy, this Inspector General but, so again i dont know anything. I havent even read much about him. He see a little bit after story, not much of a story, everybody agrees i have the absolute right to fire Inspector Generals. I think they have done it a long time ago. Yes, please. Reporter some executives said they expect the recovery to be a little bumpy, take a while. Are you forecasting a faster bounce back . I think theyre forecasting a bounceback. I see great optimism. These are big restaurant people up on the business. They are very successful. They have been very successful. I think they will be even more successful again especially if we get deductibility. And, no, i really enjoyed this. This was a long meeting for me. Normally i wouldnt stay at a meeting this long but i liked hearing about your great basketball team. I didnt know those guys got paid 40. I thought they made 25. For the record, for, my casino in louisiana, opened up today, it opened up extremely, extremely business in louisiana. Good. So that is good. Other people are cog out. Thats great. What you do works. I have watched you for a long time. What you do works. Were very proud of you. I. I appreciate that. Good job. Reporter generally surprised about the pp Extension Proposal . Why was i surprised . That they asked for it . Surprised that was all they asked for. I know too many of these people. Im surprised all they asked for. What theyre asking for is reasonable. Well have to get it approved. Again weve saved, and well continue to save the Restaurant Business and ultimately well be paid back many, many times because they pay a lot of taxes. And they really, they create tremendous numbers about jobs. Think of that, 600, 650,000 restaurants who would think that is even possible. Reporter final decision to fully defund the, contribution to the w. H. O. Going forward . Well i have a concept because we paid 450,000, somebody came out, because we have different ideas. One was, that i mean i could ask these brilliant people, so, we helped fund the World Health Organization. We use it like everyone else does. They gave us a lot of very bad advice, terrible advice. They were wrong so much, always on the side of china. China paid 40 million last year. And we have been paying 450 million a year for many years. Somehow that doesnt work out too well. So i was bringing our 450 down to 40. Some people thought that was too much. So, were going to make a decision fairly soon. I think it is very unfair when we pay 450, for many years, weve been paying 400, 450, almost 500 sometimes. And were not treated right. Were not treated by world trade. Were not treated right, the World Trade Organization. China there is considered a developing nation. If youre developing nation you get massive Tax Advantages and other advantages. Well, i want the United States to be a developing nation then, okay . We should get the same advantages as china gets. Why should china get advantages over the United States because they got somebody to say theyre a developing nation . And so thats under review also. Reporter secretary pompeo was reportedly under investigation both for having staffers do personal errands like walking his dog and picking up his dry cleaning. And concerns that he may have subverted the will of congress with saudi, deals with saudi arms deals. Are you concerned that he may have made this request to avoid an investigation . I dont know anything about it. I heard about it same dime you heard about it. You mean he is under investigation because he have had somebody walk his dog from the government . I dont know . I dont think it sounds like that important. You have a man, he is brilliant guy, number one at west point, number one at harvard, Harvard Law School, close, but he was number one at west point. Number one at Harvard Law School or very close to number one and, theyre bothered because he is having somebody walk his dog youre telling me . I didnt know that. I didnt hear that. I didnt know about an investigation but this is what you get with the democrats. Here is a man supposed to be negotiating war and peace with major, major countries, with weaponry like the world has never seen before and the democrats and the Fake News Media theyre interested in a man who is walking their dog . And maybe he is busy and maybe he is negotiating with kim jongun, okay, about nuclear weapons. So that he would please walk my dog . You mind walking my dog . Im talking to kim jongun or im talking to president xi about paying us for some of the damage they have caused to world and to us. Please walk my dog. To, who is a secret Service Person or something, right . I dont know. I think this country has a long way to go. Priorities are really screwed up when i read this. I dont know anything about the investigation but, youre just telling me about walking a dog. Doing dishes . Reporter saudi arms deals . What saudi arms deals . Reporter Congress Passed a law to restrict sales to saw saud over certain arms. Yeah. Reporter over the yemeni crisis. The question is whether secretary pompeo tried to subvert the deal with actions he may have taken . Snoots. I mean i think when somebody pays us a fortune for arms, we should get the deal done. I will tell you that. I dont know what youre talking about. I know this, we have countries that want to buy our arms, we make it so difficult for them they end up going to russia and china. Under my administration, if theyre friendly countries i try to make it as easy as possible. If they want to buy our fighter jets and give us billions and billions of dollars, they have other alternatives including china, russia and others we should make it as easy as possible for them, take the jobs and take the money because it is billions of dollars. In past administrations they waited so long people didnt even want to do business with us. One of the things weve done, we make the greatest equipment in the world by far, especially now under this administration because we upped the scale or not as you know, we bought a lot, totally rearmed the military, 1. 5 trillion. But if somebody wants to give us billions of dollars to buy an airplane or number of airplanes and missiles and all of the other things we make better than anybody in the world we should take the money and make the deals fast. I would certainly say that. Reporter even if at least human rights why dont you take your mask off, for a second. Dont worry about jeff. Jeff, why dont you move out of the way so he doesnt infect you. I dont want you to become infected. Reporter even results in human rights abuses . Human rights . Reporter abuse. That i dont know. You know. You tell me something i never heard of. Now youre talking about human rights abuses. You will figure something out im sure. Look he is a high quality person. Mike. He is very high quality, he is very brilliant guy. And now i have you telling me about dog walking, washing dishes, and you know what . I would rather have him on the phone with some world leader than have him wash dishes, maybe his wife isnt there or kids arent what are you telling me . It is terrible. So stupid. You know how stupid that sounds to the world . Unbelievable. Okay. Reporter president obamas speeches over the weekend . I think he was an incompetent president. I think president obama was one of the worst president s in the history of our country. I think he was an incompetent president. I know what left us. He left us a broken military. He left us a military isis was all over the place. I got rid of it. I knocked out 100 of the caliphate. Even you will admit that, john. I came in it was a mess. We had a broken military. We had a depleted military. We had little on the shelves if you talk about pandemics. We had a country that was a mess. We were paying high taxes. Outside of this artificial event took place two months ago i will build a country stronger and better than it was even then. It is already happening. You can see it. You can see it today. Take a look at the stock market. Look what is going on. Look at great numbers being called, medical companies calling in. Were talking about more than one. So many things are happening. But i think president obama was an incompetent president. He did a terrible job. And by the way, there was Great Division in our country with president obama. You didnt see it as much but there was tremendous division in our country. Okay. Reporter there is division now, too, right . Success brings. We had success going, things were going along and china gave us a wonderful gift, it wasnt pretty. It came out of china, in case you had any questions, john, came out of china, spread to europe but also came here. The whole world became infected by this horrible thing that they unleashed one way or the other. Not a good situation. Not a good situation. Im not a man that likes taking that, what happened to us, and it was totally preventable. They could have stopped it at the source. They knew it was happening. We wanted to go in. Others wanted to go in. They winter let the world as you know, they wouldnt let, they wouldnt let other countries go in. They wanted, other countries wanted to. World health in all fairness to world health, they wouldnt let world health in. Were part of world health. They wouldnt let th