It was chinas fault. Oh, maybe you shouldnt say that. Thats not nice t was chinas fault. I would like to see the larger number about. I would like to see it. There are things i disagree with. Nancy pelosi said she doesnt want to leave until we have agreement. She has come a long way. Thats great. If she said that i come along way. I agree with her. We should have an agreement. People should be helped and helped as rapidly as possible i think it is going to happen. I think it is very important. So the problem solvers came up with, its a group of people in congress, as you know, you know them all, i know them all, theyre very good people, you consider them dead center. Many cases theyre not. Theyre left, theyre right. They came up with this idea. I think theyre well on their way to suggesting pretty good things. Yeah. I agree with a lot of it. Reporter in terms of things you dont agree are you comfortable with the 500 billion. President trump i think things we dont agree we could possibly negotiate. I think we made some progress over the last week. I think it was positive they came out with that report. Reporter would you endorse that proposal . President trump not that proposal. Were getting closer. Were getting closer. I do like a lot of money getting sent to people that were really were hurt unnecessarily by china because they could have stopped it. They stopped it from going into their country. They could have stopped it from coming to our country and from going to europe and going to the rest of the world, 188 Different Countries from all over the world. Please. Reporter mr. President also testified today that the max, estimation, mask would protect American Public more from the coronavirus than vaccine. You have detail, poured a lot of resources into vaccine development. And to masks. Reporter why not go through the campaign to have all americans wear a mask, something if more effective than a vaccine would help schools. President trump number one not more effective than vaccine. I called him about that. Those were two things i talked to him. I believe if you ask him, he would probably say that he didnt understand the question because i said to him, i asked him those two questions. The one question which we covered the mask question. I was inaccurately covered. I was on with george last night, George Stephanopoulos and i enjoyed it. I think people enjoyed it. I got, you know a lot of people said very good things about the show. I hope they did well but they said a lot of good things about the show but they always cut my sentences off. You know they cut it off. On masks. Masks have problems too. I talked about the masks have to be handled very gently, very carefully. I see that in restaurants, people with masks and theyre playing around with their mask. They have it, their fingers are in their mask. Theyre serving with plates. I think there is a lot of problems with masks. Vaccine is much more effective than the masks. If we get the vaccine, we have added to the fact that our numbers are going way down. You see the numbers. Im just reading you statistics from wherever they get them but very highly qualified statistics but, no, the mask is not as important as the vaccine. The mask perhaps helps. Dont forget, a lot of people didnt like the concept of masks initially. Dr. Fauci didnt like them. Im not knocking anybody. I understand both sides of the argument but when i called up robert today, i said to him, what is with the mask . I think i answered that question incorrectly. I think maybe he misunderstood it. You have two questions. Maybe he misunderstood both of them. But the answer to the one it is going to be much faster distribution than he said. Maybe he is not aware of the distribution process. It is not really his thing as much it would be say mine but the distribution is going to be much faster. As far as the mask is concerned i hope that the vaccine is going to be a lot more beneficial than the masks because people have used the masks. When i looked at that chart we put up, if you look, you know, were right, if you do the good job, had 240,000. But if you do the, if it worked out well, now look, one death is too much. One death is too much that never happened. Lower level was 240,000. Between 100 something, 240,000. As far as the mask is concerned he made a mistake. Reporter on masks, perhaps they are part of the role for decrease in cases because they are effective as you just said. I President Trump they may be effective. I wear them in a hospital or in setting reporter question why not have white house staff wear more often and example for country. President trump im tested. Im surprised to see somebody sitting, joe feels very safe in a mask. Maybe he doesnt want to expose in a face, what is going on. He will be way away from people. Nowhere near people. There will be nobody with him. He doesnt draw any crowds. He will have summers, big circles. They will be way far away. No reason for him to have masks on. We get tested. Im tested. I have people tested. When people come into the oval office is a big deal. No matter who they are, heads ever countries all get tested. Im in a different position. Maybe if i wasnt in a position i would wear them more. I have worn masks. I like to wear them, not for me so much i wear them for other people. Okay. Reporter question, mr. President. One of the outlets you mentioned minorities would be focus of distribution. How would that exactly work in practice when it is being distributed to minorities . Second President Trump said minorities and senior citizens. Reporter sure, sure. Talk a little bit more on the focus of distributing to minorities how that would work . As for you, mr. President , you mentioned drop in the poverty rate. Specifically we noticed that the news poverty rate for africanamericans hit historic lows. That the Household Wealth increased historically for africanamericans. What was driving that increase in wealth for africanamericans, now in 2020 with the coronavirus, unemployment spiking what would be your plan for the Second Quarter term . President trump i go first, i appreciate your question, yeah weve had a tremendous drop in poverty for all people in our nation but in particular for africanamericans and that statistic came in. It is because the africanamerican community, the black community has had the lowest, the best employment numbers that we ever had, both employment and unemployment depending how you want to define it. Weve had the best employment numbers we ever had. We had the greatest employment in the country ever, almost 160 million people. Weve never been close to that number but we were just six months ago. Yeah, im very proud of the numbers. Africanamerican, hispanicamericans, they had the best numbers they ever had by far. Both employment, unemployment depending on definition. Thank you very much for the question. Scott, you want to answer that . To what i to clarify said, first prioritization is the highrisk people and Front Line Health Care workers but just to reiterate what i said there are 51,000 outlets for distribution, for vaccination and there is over 14,000 federally qualified Health Centers that are particularly targeted to minority and low income areas. So that is a focus. I want to point out two other things. Were also prioritizing testing to historically black colleges and universities. Were in the process of getting that finalized because we know that there is higher morbidity in certaineth neck groups. Last thing i would say, it is particularly heinous, egregious abuse of the media to instill fear into people about taking a vaccine because there is no shortcut here. Everything is safe. Everything is effective. For people who have particularly an influence on minority communities to instill fear and doubt is particularly outrageous abuse of Public Policy and of leadership. These are people that have higher risks and so i implore everyone in a highrisk category, when we get a safe, effective vaccine, they should take the vaccine. President trump i will say this is a phenomena that only happened we may have the vaccine prior to a certain important date, november third. Once they heard that the democrats started just to show how bad the intention, said bad about the vaccine. Put ad about football. With respect to me, im the one got football back. I was always against them going out t was ridiculous that big 10. Open fully pac 10 goes back. I say that, like even worse. They put out a totally faked a, totally madeup sister, madeup story by a thirdrate magazine the head guy, i guess the head person, i have no idea who he is, i dont know him, he is friends with obama and technology. So they made up this horrible story. They were they did ads. They made up this story too. This story is very simple. They started knocking the vaccine as soon as they heard that this actually may come out prior to election. It may or may not but it will be within a matter of weeks, it will be a matter of weeks from november. It is ready to go. It is ready for massive distribution to everybody with a focus again on seniors. I will say, also the historically black colleges and universities. We are doing, at my suggestion because they have had a difficult problem there we are doing more testing there and finer testing. We have our great apparatus there, what weve done on testing in terms of the technology and the amount it has been really amazing. Well crack 100 million tests in the very near future. Well crack 100 million tests. What it does show up more cases. If you didnt test you wouldnt have cases. Other countries dont have test, they dont have cases oh, the United States. Were proud of it shows where there may be a problem and it helps people. Were doing tremendous testing at the historically black legs and universities. That was a suggestion i made, i think its a good suggestion. Yeah, please, go ahead. Reporter the core of Vice President s badens argument you dont trust the scientists, you dont listen to them and here up on the podium today you have twice contradicting the director of your own cdc on the science. You who testified before congress today. President trump he is contradicting himself. I think he misunderstood the questions. I dont have to go through this. I think he misunderstood the questions. Here is the bottom line. Distribution will be very rapid. He may not know that. Maybe he is not aware of that. Maybe he is not dealing with the military et cetera, like i do. Distribution will be very rapid and vaccine will be very powerful. It is going to solve a tremendous problem. Reporter how can the American People trust you on the pandemic when youre contradicting the head of the cdc and because of the great job weve done. Because of the great things weve done in other fields also. Also because of the fact we created ventilators. We built ventilators by the thousands. Were supplying to the world. Because of all of the incredible work weve done for governors, who were on every call saying this is incredible. This is great. Sometimes theyre not quite as friendly at a News Conference with people covering it. We have done a phenomenal job on covid19 as they like to call i. I call it other things. Weve done a phenomenal job. I get calls from other people in other countries, they cant believe the job weve done. Then they will say is there any way you could get us ventilators. I say how many do you need . 1000 ventilators. I said well be able to take care of it. Were making thousands of ventilators, very complex, very expensive, difficult things to make. Were making thousands a month. The cupboard was bare when i got here. I will tell you our distribution will be very rapid and very it is going to be all encompassing. Well have a focus on certain groups that have problems. Senior citizens, et cetera but it is a very powerful, it is going to be a very powerful distribution of the it is going to cover everybody and will cover them rapidly. I dont know whether or not the doctor knows that, how much he covers but i called him i said, why dud say that long . He wasnt that aware of it. The other up with was the mask. The vaccine is going to have tremendous power. It is going to be extremely strong. It is going to be extremely successful. Were not going to have a problem and the masks may help and i hope it helps and i think it probably does but again, the mask is a mixed bag. There are some people, professionals, scott, you would know a lot of them but some people that dont like the mask because of touchiness, the touching, youre touching everything else. They feel that masks have problems. Anyway go ahead in the back. Reporter mr. President [inaudible]. President trump i do. I do. I gave you some answers. He sort of i think maybe misunderstood a question. But were beyond that now. Were really in final stages of vaccines. Were getting ready to go phase one on distribution and i think it may come out even sooner than you think. I think the vaccine will be even better than people thought originally. I think people are going to be really surprised at the success of the vaccine. I think it will be a tremendous success. Were fighting a very powerful party with a poor candidate in my opinion but were fighting a very powerful party and theyre partners with the media and because theyre working together very closely and they only started hitting on the vaccine when they hit on the vaccine, they only hit on it realized wow, this is amazing. They may have it even before the election. All of sudden they didnt like the vacs seen so much. [reporters shouting questions] President Trump in the back. Reporter thank you so much, mr. President , informed about. President trump cannot hear you. Reporter were you informed about coronavirus cases positive cases in the white house today . President trump today . Reporter on your staff. President trump say it . Reporter reports of white house Staff MembersPresident Trump ba about it this morning at very small level. I dont know. We can have a report if you feel it is necessary. Its a small, last night i heard about it for the first time. And its a small number of cases. Maybe it is not even cases. Do you have any idea . Yes. Were not going to confirm the identities of. President trump thats okay. Did not effect the events and press was not around the President Trump not anybody that was near me. From what i heard, a very small number. I think you can give the number out later on what when you find out. One person. President trump one person. Not too much. Not a person i was associated with. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Reporter why are you waiting to release your [inaudible]. Elizabeth okay. President trump just wrapping up a News Conference from the white house. Some headlines coming out of here. News he is making. Calling on blue state governors with on covid19 lockdown to open up. Shutdowns are hurting people more than the disease. A vaccine likely ready next month, contradict being the cdc director. Taking on other issues, going into the middle east was single worst decision this country ever made. Declaring mailin ballots are bigger threat to the integrity of the vote this coming election than foreign countries. Welcome to the show, congressman doug collins from georgia, on house judiciary. Great to see you, congressman. Your reaction to the presser here . My reaction is wow, this president who has energy. This is a president who takes on all question and allcomers and processes information and gives it back. Could there not be a better transition or better contrast than someone hiding in the basement, wearing a mask, never answering questions, barely staying awake to president who is of course tiff, on top of it, getting to fix the covid19 issue, getting economy bacalling people out as he goes. This is another example after president who needs to be reelected working for this country and doing so in a very powerful way. Elizabeth the president is pushing back hard on the bob woodward book. He had the town hall last night on abc, talking about his covid19 response, were doing coverage here of what the democrats response was to covid19 earlier in the year. The democrats never called for border shutdown. They never talked about a travel ban or china or europe. The joe biden after President Trump announced that said it is xenophobic hysteria. Your reaction . This is all about politics. Weve talked about this for years. This election is trying to unseat donald trump. When the virus first started donald trump started taking steps that worked. He stopped china. He stopped flights coming in. He saved lives. He began the process setting up a task force saving lives. What with nancy pelosi doing . Nancy pelosi giving guided tours of chinatown asking everybody to come. This shows an example they are not concerned about solving the problem. Theyre concerned about making a problem. Theyre trying to blame donald trump for everything. If the Mainstream Media and others not willing to report hypocrisy, blatant hypocrisy about this, they shouldnt report about what theyre say about the president. It is all about politics. President is doing something while theyre standing on the sidelines whining. Elizabeth move on to the news breaking today. Senate Homeland Security led by republican senator ron john ordered subpoenas for 41 Obama Administration officials to testify about the fbi trumprussia probe, asking about trump team members, biden conflicts of interest. Your reaction to the news . Im excited. It is about time. Weve been doing this a long time. Im glad to see the senator is stepping up and issuing these subpoenas. Elizabeth what do you want to hear from james comey, john brennan, james clapper, susan rice, a whole list here, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, bruce ohr . There will be a lot of people subpoenaed. Samantha power, denis mcdonough. What do you want to hear . Truth would be nice. They have been deceiving keeping truth from the public a long time. Look at once that swiped phones made sure memories were all wiped i want to see the folks telling the truth, trying to pretend to American People theyre patriots while theyre undermining our government and candidate and president at same time. I would like comey tell the truth for once. Elizabeth they are subpoenaing documents. What do you want to see . I want to see the background what was going on. Every time we talked about this, we talked about the documents, forged, basically misrepresented documen