Were also continuing to make progress in the development of a vaccine. This is something so important. Also therapeutics are on the front burner. Were having tremendous, i think well let you know very soon, i think long before the end of the year, were having tremendous success on therapeutics and tremendous success on vaccines. Were ready to deliver them literally as soon as theyre okayed. This morning my administration approved one billion dollars for Johnson Johnson who has been working very hard. They have something very special, to manufacture and distribute 100 million doses of a china virus vaccine as soon as one is available. And again we think that is going to be soon. We think we will have the vaccines before the end of the year, maybe long before the end of the year. Finally today im pleased to announce the department of justice has issued 35 million in grants to 73 organizations nationwide providing assistance to Human Trafficking victims, a terrible thing. You think of Human Trafficking as being an ancient form of crime. It is not. Because of the internet. It is a very modern crime all over the world. Not just here. All over the world. Human trafficking. It is usually in women or women and children but it is, again because of the internet, it is a terrible situation. Never been like this. Also survivers who face heightened damagers during the pandemic t actually increased during the pandemic. Some reasons are obvious and some reasons are less obvious but Human Trafficking, were working very, very strongly. The wall is up to 277 miles right now. And it is going up by the end of the year, it will be largely finished, shortly after the end of the year. It has had a tremendous impact, a very positive impact on Human Trafficking. Unbelievable impact, actually. My administration will never rest in our fight against the Human Trafficking. It is one of the most horrific of crimes. And we work very hard on that. With that, well take some questions. Please. Reporter thank you, mr. President. First of all you said voting by mail is an invitation to fraud. Could you lay out and tell us exactly where the evidence is right now that mailin ballots and nevada in other states will lead to widespread fraud . President trump if you read the Washington Post had terrible story on mail in and New York Times, many newspapers have had terrible stories. You see them all over the internet. They have just some horrible stories on mailin ballots. You look at arizona. You dont even have to, as you know, they have a provision where they dont have to check signatures. So you sign it and you could have a totally different signature. It is okay. It wont be approved. They have the right to go seven days after the election for approval. You will not even know who won the state of nevada. Reporter point out, we called nevadas secretary of state Office Elections division, that simply isnt true, mr. President. Nevada will check ballot signatures against Voter Registration cards. It is not interest. President trump that is not what they said they will not check signatures and machinery which is old doesnt allow them to. It will be physically impossible for them to do that especially in a short period of time. In addition you have the november 3rd. Election theyre allowed to count votes until seven days after the election. So what does that mean . If nevada, which is a big state a great state, a state i like very much, i think well do very well there, are we waiting a week after november 3rd if it comes down to nevada, which it could very well . I dont think so. I dont think it is appropriate. So with all of the bundling that youre going to have, with the harvesting youre going to have, with people being sent ballots all over that, that have maybe nothing to do with the state anymore, it is a terrible thing. In new york they had the Carolyn Maloney situation and i criticized it badly over the last two years, two days. I mean i gave it some very, very strong criticism and all of sudden, like a miracle, they just approved the winner. What happened . Did the person that was second concede the race even though it was very close and all mixed up . They have a terrible situation in new york with the ballots. You know that. And as soon as i said, well i think you should have a new election because the election obviously theyre not going to know what to do, i think you should have a new election, all of sudden they announced a winner. I assume it was her, but they announced a winner. I dont agree with it. Did somebody speak to the person on the other side, the opponent in did they do something for the opponent on the other side . Take a look at patterson, new jersey, look at many things. It is all over newspapers what is going on with the mailin ballots. They send out millions of ballot, millions of ballots, totally unprepared to do it. They come back in the millions. It is going to be a disaster. Im doing our country a big favor bringing it up. Even from a common sense standpoint, if you look at it out of common sense and pure basic, beautiful, intelligence, you know it cant work. Now florida has worked very hard for years and years in developing a system. Im sure they probably have problems also but absentee ballots are different than mailin ballots. What you call universal mailin ballots. Much safer. You have to apply for it. You have to do much different things. Its a much better system and a system that can be reasonably accurate there is no system like going to the poll and voting. So i with like to find out why all of sudden out of nowhere in the midst of all of this grief why is it that they approved the new york race . Why you ask that question. Reporter there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud . President trump really . Reading a different newspaper. Go ahead, please. Go ahead, please, go. Reporter on coronavirus this thing is going away, it will like things go away. Like ongoing cases [inaudible] out of touch with reality . President trump it will go away like things go away. Absolutely. No question in my mind it will go away. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Reporter you praised governor ducey handling of [inaudible]. One of the things he did was delay the start of Public Schools opening s that a model that governors in states experiencing hot spots should do as beginning of School President trump i would like to see the schools open. Many of the schools, most of the schools will be open. I can say that republican areas want to see them open and democrats probably want to keep them closed until after november 3rd because they think it is good for them politically. I dont think it is good for them politically. Parents want schools open. They want them open safely. Well practice strong hygiene and all other things i enumerated many times. We want to see the schools open. Reporter follow governor duceys model here. What part President Trump model, he has done a really good job. He has done a great job. Look at numbers, how it dropped. He is a great governor. Reporter in interview this morning, mr. President , you said opening the schools schools are virtually immune from covid19. Children have contracted the virus. Im talking about from getting very sick. Look at children theyre able to throw it off easily. It is amazing things, some you . S they dont. They get very sick. They have problems with flus and other things. For whatever reason the china virus children handle it very well. They may get it but get it and it doesnt have much of an impact on them. If you look at the numbers, the numbers of, in terms of mortality, fatality, the numbers for children under a certain age meaning, young, theyre immune systems are very, very strong. Theyre very powerful and they seem to be able to handle it very well. That is according to every statistic. Reporter mr. President , at least two people connected to kanye west effort to get on the ballot are connected to the republican party. President trump whose ballot . Reporter kanye west. His wife has issues whether he has mental issues right now. President trump i dont know about that. Who said that . Reporter his wife. Said he might be going through a episode. President trump i like him. He always been very nice to me. Kanye westport port are you aware of encouraged anyone in the party to help him get on the ballot . President trump not at all. Not at all. Other than i get along with him. I like his wife. His wife recommended certain people as you know for, including alice johnson, a fantastic woman. His wife recommended certain people to get out of prison. They were in prison for a long time. A long, long time. And should have never happened and, i took what she said very strongly, kim kardashian. And has a good heart, a very good heart. I like kanye very much. No i have nothing to do with him getting on the ballot. Well see what happens. If he gets own the ballot but im not involved. Reporter mr. President , i wanted to ask you, the group of republican senators are backing 25 billion in payroll assistance to keep the airlines, being able to pay their payroll. Do you endorse that plan . President trump republican senators . Reporter republican senators want to go ahead with 25 billion for airlines to keep their payrolls going. President trump if they need it. Some businesses doing better than they would normally, we know what their businesses are. Obviously the Airline Business is not doing well. Shutdowns all over the world. Airlines are essentially shut down. Some airlines are doing modest, best theyre doing is modest. I think it is very important we keep the airlines going. There will be good times very soon i hope. We dont want to lose our airlines. So if theyre looking at that, whether theyre republican or democrat i would be certainly in favor. We cant lose our transportation system. Yes, go ahead. Reporter ask you too on, been some question about your comments yesterday saying that it was an attack and that you heard from military officials that there was, you know, an explosion. President trump i can tell you whatever happened it is terrible. They dont really know what it is. Nobody knows yet. At this moment, theyre looking, how can you say accident . Somebody was, left, some terrible explosive type devices and things around perhaps, perhaps, it was that. Perhaps it was an attack. I dont think anybody can say right now. Were looking into it very strongly. Right now, some people think it was an attack and some people think it wasnt. In any event it was terrible even and lot of people were killed and tremendous number of people were badly wounded, injured. And were standing with, with that country. You know we have a very Good Relationship with that country but its a country under a lot of turmoil. A lot of problems. But we stand with them. Reporter spokes earlier today that you are considering using the white house as the venue for your nomination speech. Senator john thune questioned whether or not that is actually legal, given the hatch act. Is this something that you would get clearance for . President trump john thune, republican john thune . Oh. Okay. It is legal. There is no hatch act because it doesnt pertain to the president. But if i used the white house, we save tremendous amounts of money for the government in terms of security, traveling. If we go to another state or some other location the amount of money is, you know very enormous so that is something to consider also. I think it would be a very convenient location. It would be by far the least expensive location. That would be very little in terms of that tremendous traveling security with airplanes and everybody flying all over the place. So i think it would be a very convenient idea. Something that we threw out. It would be very costconscious by comparison to any other location. Yeah, please. Reporter yeah. Your son don, jr. , tweeted yesterday asking you to direct the epa to reject the pebble mine in bristol bay, alaska. It is a giant copper and gold mine and President Trump reject it in what way . Reporter reject the construction. The army corps of engineers two weeks ago suggested it would be okay to proceed with the project but people like your son saying it would be harmful to fisheries. President trump i have listened to both sides. I dont know the argument yet but i have listened to both sides. My son has strong opinions. Very much of an environmentalist. He was very impress what we did yesterday. That is one of the great environmental bills, beyond that ever signed since, since, well, i guess overone one years if you think about it. It has been a long time. But i will look at both sides of it. I had heard about it. I will be, i understand theyre going to be doing a briefing sometime over the next 48 hours. It is going very quickly. I have done a lot for alaska. Its a special place. Anwr was one thing, the cold highway, whatever the new name is, whatever the old name is, were getting approvals for tremendous highway that has been sought for 40 years. They have been trying to get it approved. Im getting it approved. Weve done a lot for alaska. It is a special place and i will take a look at that. It is interesting. Yeah, please. Reporter thank you, mr. President. Two brief questions. First, your administration has praised ambulance drivers, the Ambulance Service for their role dealing with the coronavirus. President trump sure. Reporter recently there has been scuttlebutt that the ambulance associations drivers and all have not been fully reimbursed for the work theyre doing. They said they are owed 2. 89 billion and they have only received 300 million from the Provider Relief Fund. President trump not 300 billion. 300 million . Reporter Provider Relief Fund at hhs. Are you going to look into this . President trump i will. Just heard of it for the version time. The ambulance people have done incredible job, doctors, nurses, front line workers, Law Enforcement has been incredible. The military, fema. I could name almost every group. I cant tell you of a group that has done poorly, but ambulance people, it is a tough job too. Very dangerous job. Tough job. I will certainly look into it. You tell me something for the first time, nobody is complaining about not getting paid too much but well take a look at the ambulance drivers. Reporter the other thing, secretary esper said today that based on what he had heard the incident in beirut, he felt was an accident. Now he disagreed with you on other things before. Do you have any comment about his remarks . President trump whatever he, if that is what he heard, i heard it both ways too. I heard accident. I have heard, you know, explosives and obviously must have been some form of explosives, whether it was a bomb intentionally set up, it ended up being a bomb. I heard it both ways t could have been an accident. It could also been something very offensive. I wouldnt be very happy with that. Reporter you have no problem with him . Reporter mr. President , even if you just had suspicion the beirut explosion is a bomb, do you have any plans pertaining to u. S. Assets in the region, for example . How are you looking into this . President trump were working very closely with the government and working very closely with many different agencies including the military. We will be able to figure it out. We probably already figured it out. Thank you very much. [reporters asking questions] elizabeth that is President Trump wrapping up his press conference, Administration Response to covid19 pushing back on questions, challenging that the president s position there is problems with mailin ballots with voter fraud. Talking about the attack, he said it was an attack in beirut, lebanon. Pentagon chief says seemed like accidental explosion. Ammonium nitrate was stored at facility. Questions pouring in on that. Well stay with the president , and developments coming out of the press conference. We will move to this story. Questions are pouring on top obama official sally yates. She today faced a grilling from Senate Judiciary about her role in the botched trump rush that probe and general michael flynn. The she criticizes former fbi director james comey in the handling of these probes. Watch this. I was upset that director comey didnt coordinate that with us. And acted unilaterally. Yes i was. Did comey go rogue . You could use that term, yes. Finally. Elizabeth okay. Joining me now, House Intelligence Committee ranking republican, he is congressman devin nunes. Great to have you on, congressman. Your reaction to that . Well, there is a lot of fingerpointing. That is what i would say. It is pretty clear that i thought senator graham did a nice job of explaining that on january 4th, the agents that were in charge of the Flynn Investigation had decided that there was nothing more to do to investigate general flynn. And remember, this was an exhaustive, sixmonth investigation that had begun in july of 2016. And then we know about the emails, the communications that went on, and there is white house meaning on the 5th. Joe biden is there. It es still unclear to me who on earth brought up the logan act and the idea that sally yates, Deputy Attorney general would be talking about the logan act, even when senator graham pushed her on the question whether or not if he as a senator calls israel and says this is not in the best interests, this obama poll is not in the best interests of the United States or of israel, would he be violating the logan act . And essentially she said possibly. This is a law that has never been used. We can go on and on about this, liz, just another point that was brought up, bruce ohr, her deputy, basically running like Shadow Campaign between the Clinton Campaign, his wife working for clinton, helping on the steele dossier. He is meeting with all the fusion gps guys, he is running stuff for the state department, the guy is still working there. Lets not forget that. But 2018s is oblivious to this. This is the most oblivious Deputy Attorney general in u. S. History. Elizabeth yeah. That