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This is an NBC News special

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presentation of Today with

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Savannah Guthrie.

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Tonight, Donald Trump in the

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arena, his first primetime network

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appearance since falling ill with

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coronavirus.

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I'm feeling great.

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I don't know about you. How is

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everyone?

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With tonight's debate canceled, the

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president faces our questions

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live and hears from voters

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about their concerns in the

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battleground state of Florida.

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It's great to be back in my home

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state for to

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make my official return to

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the campaign trail.

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With just 19 days to

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go, the president makes his

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case. My goal is to fight for

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you and fight for your

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family.

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NBC News

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decision. Twenty twenty President

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Trump Town Hall.

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Live from the Perez Art Museum

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in Miami, here's Savannah

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Guthrie.

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And good evening.

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It's good to have you with us today.

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Welcome to Miami and our town hall

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with President Donald Trump.

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We want to say right off the top,

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this is not how things were supposed

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to go tonight. This was supposed to

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be a town hall debate between

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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But after the president contracted

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covid, the debate commission

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announced it would have to be a

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virtual debate because of health

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concerns. The president said he

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would not participate in a virtual

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debate.  At that point, Joe Biden

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scheduled a town hall tonight in

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Pennsylvania on another network.

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And now the president is doing the

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same, his own town hall with the

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same venue, format and time as NBC's

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town hall with Joe Biden last

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week. So the two candidates go head

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to head tonight, though not face to

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face each in a key battleground

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state. And tonight, the president

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will be taking questions from voters

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here in Miami, who we should

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mention, are socially distanced and

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they're wearing masks.

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And I should say this audience looks

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a bit like America, it is

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divided. Some here voted for the

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president in 2016 and plan to

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again some support Joe

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Biden. And some say they are truly

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undecided. We're going to get a mix

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of questions on a range of topics

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and we're going to get to those

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questions in a moment.

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But first, with all that ado,

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welcome, Mr. President, and thank

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you for being here.

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Very well stated.

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I have to say good job.

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Thank you.

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We're glad you're here with.

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Well, we had our best to the first

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lady and Baron.

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Thank you. Do you have any remaining

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symptoms from covid?

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Nothing whatsoever.

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I feel good.

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I was in North Carolina today

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and did a big rally with tremendous

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turnout. And I just feel

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really good.

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Florida, Pennsylvania, we're all

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over the place. It's been great.

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You receive some treatments that are

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generally reserved for those with

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the most severe form of the

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disease. How severe were your

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symptoms in particular?

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Did you have pneumonia?

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I'll tell you what happened.

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I didn't feel good.

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I didn't feel strong.

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I had a little bit of a temperature.

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The doctors at the White House are

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fantastic, as you can imagine, and

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they really didn't want to take a

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chance. And they said, let's go to

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the hospital. I said, that's OK.

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I'm going to respond to what you

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say. And we went over to Walter

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Reed, where you have tremendous

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professionals. They gave me

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Regeneron and Remdesivir

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both. And I just all

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I know is I felt good the following

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day. I felt really good.

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Did the doctors ever tell you that

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they saw pneumonia on your

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lungs?

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No, but they said the lungs are a

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little bit different, a little bit

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perhaps infected.

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Infected it with?

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I don't know. I mean, I didn't do

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too much asking.

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I really felt good.

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I didn't have much of

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a problem with the lungs.

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I did have a little bit of a

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temperature.

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Obviously, I felt there was something

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missing. And then I tested.

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You know, I tested positive.

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Let's talk about testing because

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there's a little bit of, I guess,

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confusion about this.

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And I think we can clear it up.

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And there shouldn't be.

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Your first positive test was

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Thursday, October 1st.

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When was your last negative

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test? When did you last remember

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having a negative test?

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Well, I test quite a bit.

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And I can tell you that before the

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debate, which I thought it was a

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very good debate and I felt

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fantastically I was I had

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no problem before.

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Did you test the day of the debate?

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I don't know. I don't even remember.

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I tested all the time.

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But I can tell you this

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after the debate,

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like, I guess a day or so I think

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it was Thursday evening, maybe even

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late Thursday evening.

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I tested positive.

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That's when I first found out.

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Back to the debate because the

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debate commission's rules, it was

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the honor system that you would come

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with a negative test.

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You say you don't know if you've got

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a test on the day of the debate?

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I have no problem, again, the

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doctors do it, I don't ask them, I

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test all the time.

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And they.

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Did you take a test on the day of

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the debate?

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If you ask the doctor to give you a

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perfect answer?

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They take a test and I leave and I

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go about my business.

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Did you take a test on the day of

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the debate?

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I probably did.

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And I took tests the day before and

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the day before.

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And I was always in great shape and

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I was in great shape for the debate.

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And it was only after the debate,

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like a period of time after the

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debate that I

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said, that's interesting.

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And they took it, tested it, tested.

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Just button it up, do you take a

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test every single day?

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No, no. But I take a lot of tests,.

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OK, and you don't know if you took a

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test the day of the debate?

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Possibly I did.

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Possibly I didn't.

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But, you know, the doctor's very

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accurate information.

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And it's not only that doctors, many

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doctors, the one thing as if you're

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president, you have a lot of doctors

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you're surrounded by.

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But I was in great shape for the

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debate. And sometime after the

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debate, I tested positive and

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that's when they decided to let us

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go.

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OK, good.

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I've hopefully provided some clarity

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for folks. Let's talk about the

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event that was held at the White

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House on the Saturday before you

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tested positive.

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Subsequent to that, 13

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people connected to that event

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tested positive.

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There was an outdoor reception.

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You've seen the pictures there is an

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indoor reception.

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People were not wearing

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masks. My question to you is, at

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this point in the pandemic, knowing

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what we know, shouldn't you have

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known better? Shouldn't the White

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House know better than to hold an

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event like that?

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Well, they do a lot of testing in

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the White House. They test

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everybody, including me, but they

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test everybody and

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something happened.

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But as far as the mask is concerned,

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I'm good with masks.

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I'm OK with this.

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I tell people wear masks.

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But just the other day, they came

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out with a statement that eighty

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five percent of the people that wear

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masks catch it.

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So I

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know, but that's what I heard

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and that's what I saw.

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And regardless.

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But everybody's tested and they

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tested often.

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And I also knew

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that, hey, I'm president.

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I have to see people I can't be

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in a basement. I can't be in a

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room. I can't be.

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I have to be out.

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You can see people with masks though

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right?

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I can.

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But people with masks are catching

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it all the time.

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I mean, if you look at the governor

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of Virginia, he was known for a

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mask. If you look at Thom Tillis, a

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great guy, he always had a mask and

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they caught it.

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Well, there are pictures of Thom

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Tillis, actually with one of Judge

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Barrett's kids not wearing a mask.

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But, you know, Chris Christie, he

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was part of your debate prep.

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Yeah, he was, I believe, at that

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event. He came out tonight.

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He was very sick.

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He was in the hospital for about a

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week. I came out tonight and said

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I was wrong not to wear a

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mask.

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Well, I mean, he has to say that I

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think it's great. He's a friend of

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mine. He's a good guy.

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And wrong or not

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wrong, you have to understand, as

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president, I can't be locked in a

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room someplace the next year and

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just stay and do nothing.

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And every time I go into a crowd,

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I was with the parents

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of our fallen heroes.

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These people are the most incredible

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people. And they came up to me and

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they would hug me and they would

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touch me and I'm not going

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to not let them do it.

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There was an event with the Gold

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Star was basically way after the

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Supreme Court,.

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Our event with the most incredible

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people you've ever seen.

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And I could have chosen not

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to talk to them or to keep everybody

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away. You know what, as

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I don't think that's probably where

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it was caught, but maybe it was

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something.

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You bring it up, you brought it up

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because I mean, are you trying to

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suggest that you believe a grieving

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military family gave you covid?

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No, I don't know where it came from.

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You don't know where it came from.

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And the doctors don't know where it

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came from.

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But as the president, I have to be

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out there. I also know...

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There's no one that says you can't

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be out there, but it's just about

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wearing masks and having, for

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example, your rallies, your rallies

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don't require masks.

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Now let's see,

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Kamala. She's got people now that

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people have it and I'm not blaming

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her. I'm not saying, oh, she did a

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terrible thing.

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As president, I have to be out

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there. I can't be in a

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basement. I can't be locked in a

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very beautiful room someplace in the

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White House. And I want to see the

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Gold Star families and I want to see

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everybody. And I also say to people

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all the time, it's risky doing

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it. It is risky to do it.

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You're right. You don't want to you

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want to be a leader, but you also

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are a leader and set of an

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example. And if you're not wearing a

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mask when your administration is

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saying best practice right now is

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wear a mask, no, it's not foolproof.

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But many,

01:08:55:20 01:08:57:20
many people are getting this disease

01:08:57:21 01:08:59:11
that was sent to us by China and it

01:08:59:12 01:09:00:11
shouldn't have been allowed to

01:09:00:20 01:09:02:07
happen. But many people are getting

01:09:02:14 01:09:04:15
this. And I mean, nobody is being

01:09:05:03 01:09:06:18
blamed. Everybody is working hard to

01:09:06:19 01:09:08:04
get this thing out of our

01:09:08:18 01:09:10:02
country, get it out of the world.

01:09:10:03 01:09:11:14
Look at what's going on in Europe.

01:09:11:15 01:09:12:14
Massive spikes.

01:09:13:02 01:09:14:08
They've done a very good job.

01:09:14:09 01:09:15:19
But now you take a look today at the

01:09:15:20 01:09:17:09
U.K. You take a look at Spain and

01:09:17:14 01:09:18:14
France and Italy.

01:09:18:25 01:09:20:15
This tremendous spikes that...

01:09:20:19 01:09:22:04
Our death rate is worse than, well,

01:09:22:18 01:09:23:06
not Spain.

01:09:23:07 01:09:24:15
But I have things right here

01:09:25:06 01:09:26:16
that will tell you exactly the

01:09:27:04 01:09:28:04
opposite. The U.K.

01:09:28:13 01:09:30:01
is up two thousand five hundred

01:09:30:02 01:09:31:04
percent because I knew you'd be

01:09:31:05 01:09:32:19
doing this. I know you very well.

01:09:32:20 01:09:34:07
The UK is up two thousand five

01:09:34:15 01:09:36:08
hundred percent to EU is

01:09:36:15 01:09:38:13
up seven hundred twenty two percent

01:09:38:21 01:09:40:15
and the United States is down twenty

01:09:40:21 01:09:41:13
one percent.

01:09:41:14 01:09:42:21
But we have, our deaths per

01:09:43:09 01:09:45:04
capita is among the highest

01:09:45:18 01:09:46:18
and...

01:09:47:03 01:09:48:19
Excess mortality, we're a winner

01:09:49:01 01:09:50:05
of the excess mortality.

01:09:50:19 01:09:52:19
And what we've done has been amazing

01:09:52:21 01:09:54:18
and we have done an amazing job

01:09:55:00 01:09:56:19
and it's rounding

01:09:56:25 01:09:58:16
the corner and we have the vaccines

01:09:58:17 01:10:00:01
coming and we have the therapies

01:10:00:12 01:10:01:22
coming. And I'll tell you what - one

01:10:02:07 01:10:03:17
thing when I got it,

01:10:04:04 01:10:05:19
I had a choice, do nothing or use

01:10:05:25 01:10:07:07
some of the things that we're

01:10:07:08 01:10:08:17
looking at like in this case,

01:10:08:18 01:10:09:20
Regeneron and Eli Lilly

01:10:10:12 01:10:12:01
make something that's supposed to be

01:10:12:16 01:10:13:10
incredible.

01:10:13:11 01:10:15:04
And I think that maybe I wouldn't be

01:10:15:07 01:10:17:07
doing this discussion with you right

01:10:17:15 01:10:18:17
now. We have therapies

01:10:19:12 01:10:21:02
now and cures - maybe you can use

01:10:21:08 01:10:22:15
the word cure - but we have

01:10:22:16 01:10:24:17
therapies that are absolutely

01:10:24:18 01:10:24:23
incredible.

01:10:25:06 01:10:26:05
I want to pick up on something you

01:10:26:06 01:10:27:06
just said. You said were rounding

01:10:27:15 01:10:28:07
the corner.

01:10:28:08 01:10:29:02
I believe we're roundg the corner
yes.

01:10:29:03 01:10:30:23
Now 10 percent of the country

01:10:30:24 01:10:32:07
approximately has had covid.

01:10:32:14 01:10:33:19
That means 80, 90 percent

01:10:34:09 01:10:35:24
- 90 percent, let's do the math - is

01:10:36:06 01:10:37:20
still vulnerable, right.

01:10:37:23 01:10:39:13
There's been some talk, including

01:10:39:14 01:10:41:00
from the White House lately, that

01:10:41:01 01:10:42:11
perhaps it approves of what's

01:10:42:25 01:10:44:00
called herd immunity.

01:10:44:07 01:10:45:20
That's where you basically just

01:10:46:03 01:10:47:19
let young people and everybody get

01:10:48:05 01:10:49:09
sick. You try to protect the old

01:10:49:10 01:10:50:20
people and those who are sick.

01:10:50:21 01:10:52:04
And hopefully it gets up to a

01:10:52:05 01:10:53:22
certain level and now we're all

01:10:54:09 01:10:55:17
immune. So let's just be clear about

01:10:55:19 01:10:57:05
it. It also means more deaths.

01:10:57:21 01:10:59:23
Do you support herd immunity

01:10:59:24 01:11:01:05
as a strategy, essentially

01:11:01:21 01:11:03:15
just let people get sick?

01:11:04:12 01:11:05:12
The cure can not be

01:11:06:10 01:11:08:12
worse than the problem itself.

01:11:08:16 01:11:10:02
We did the right thing.

01:11:10:06 01:11:11:25
We were expected to lose two million

01:11:12:09 01:11:13:19
two hundred thousand people and

01:11:13:20 01:11:14:24
maybe more than that.

01:11:15:04 01:11:16:07
We're at two hundred and ten

01:11:16:08 01:11:17:01
thousand people.

01:11:17:02 01:11:18:05
One person is too much.

01:11:18:06 01:11:19:05
It should have never happened

01:11:19:06 01:11:20:05
because of China.

01:11:20:07 01:11:21:17
It happened because of China.

01:11:22:04 01:11:23:13
And you have to get that and

01:11:23:18 01:11:24:18
understand that.

01:11:24:23 01:11:26:11
But it shouldn't have happened.

01:11:26:12 01:11:28:00
But we were expected to lose - if

01:11:28:01 01:11:29:20
you look at the original charts from

01:11:29:21 01:11:31:13
original doctors who are respected

01:11:31:19 01:11:32:19
by everybody, two

01:11:33:15 01:11:34:24
million two hundred thousand people.

01:11:35:00 01:11:36:14
Four million figure, though, if you

01:11:36:18 01:11:38:10
really two million people, the two

01:11:38:18 01:11:40:11
million figure is if you did

01:11:40:16 01:11:42:04
absolutely nothing, it would be

01:11:42:14 01:11:43:19
two million Westernness.

01:11:44:04 01:11:45:25
Should the deaths be

01:11:45:26 01:11:47:14
better than two hundred thousand

01:11:47:16 01:11:48:21
when relative to the rest of the

01:11:48:22 01:11:49:21
world we have a worse death rate?

01:11:50:18 01:11:51:23
I'll tell you what is happening. I
left North Carolina,

01:11:51:24 01:11:52:22
which I love.

01:11:52:23 01:11:53:22
I left

01:11:54:18 01:11:56:10
Pennsylvania. We won a big case in

01:11:56:12 01:11:58:08
Michigan because that governor has

01:11:58:14 01:12:00:14
a lockdown where nobody

01:12:00:15 01:12:01:24
but her husband can do anything.

01:12:02:00 01:12:03:13
He can go boating and do whatever he

01:12:03:20 01:12:05:01
wants, but nobody else can.

01:12:05:02 01:12:06:13
The fact is, we're winning all these

01:12:06:14 01:12:09:00
cases because it's unconstitutional

01:12:09:01 01:12:10:04
what they're doing. And I think

01:12:10:05 01:12:11:07
they're doing it for political

01:12:11:18 01:12:12:25
reasons. But the fact is, the

01:12:13:15 01:12:15:02
cure - you can't you can't let

01:12:15:14 01:12:16:22
this continue to go on with the

01:12:17:08 01:12:18:19
lockdown. Well, I believe that on

01:12:18:22 01:12:20:12
November 4th, you're gonna have a

01:12:20:16 01:12:21:19
lot of these governors look at

01:12:21:20 01:12:22:21
what's happening to New York.

01:12:22:22 01:12:23:22
New York is a mess.

01:12:24:11 01:12:26:06
They lost almost forty thousand

01:12:26:14 01:12:27:23
people. They have a lockdown like

01:12:27:24 01:12:28:23
you've never seen.

01:12:28:24 01:12:30:07
Now they're open. It's like a ghost

01:12:30:08 01:12:30:09
town.

01:12:30:16 01:12:31:11
Let's keep up.

01:12:31:12 01:12:33:02
And Savannah it's very important.

01:12:33:08 01:12:34:25
People are leaving New York

01:12:35:09 01:12:37:04
by the thousands and

01:12:37:19 01:12:39:06
you're gonna have a hard time ever

01:12:39:07 01:12:40:16
building it up again.

01:12:41:05 01:12:42:14
So that cure, that so-called

01:12:43:07 01:12:44:23
cure that you talk about, it can't

01:12:45:10 01:12:46:19
be worse than the

01:12:47:09 01:12:48:11
problem. The problem is a bad

01:12:48:12 01:12:48:15
problem.

01:12:49:01 01:12:50:04
We've got more questions on COVID,

01:12:50:05 01:12:51:10
so let's drop it for now.

01:12:51:24 01:12:53:03
We were supposed to as mentioned be

01:12:53:08 01:12:55:06
watching you on a debate stage right

01:12:55:15 01:12:56:12
now.

01:12:56:13 01:12:57:17
We're not doing that. So let's clear

01:12:57:18 01:12:59:06
up a few things from the last one.

01:12:59:07 01:13:00:21
You were asked point blank to

01:13:00:22 01:13:02:10
denounce white supremacy.

01:13:02:16 01:13:04:17
In the moment you didn't.

01:13:04:18 01:13:06:08
You asked some follow up questions -

01:13:06:09 01:13:07:22
who specifically? A couple of days

01:13:07:23 01:13:09:18
later on a different show, you

01:13:09:19 01:13:11:20
denounced white supremacy.

01:13:11:25 01:13:13:18
And you is you've done this why

01:13:13:19 01:13:15:16
everybody seem like I denounce

01:13:15:17 01:13:16:16
white supremacy.

01:13:16:25 01:13:17:25
OK, you try to downplay.

01:13:18:04 01:13:19:11
I denounced white supremacy for

01:13:20:04 01:13:21:05
years, but you always do it - you

01:13:22:01 01:13:23:15
always start off with the question.

01:13:23:16 01:13:25:04
You didn't ask Joe Biden whether

01:13:25:14 01:13:26:22
or not he denounces Antifa.

01:13:27:14 01:13:29:10
I watched him on the same basic show

01:13:29:11 01:13:30:18
with Lester Holt and he was

01:13:31:08 01:13:33:04
asking questions like Biden

01:13:33:05 01:13:33:21
was a child.

01:13:33:22 01:13:34:17
Well, so this is a little bit of a
dodge.

01:13:34:18 01:13:36:01
Are you listening, I dennounce white
supremecy. What's your next

01:13:36:02 01:13:36:06
question?

01:13:36:07 01:13:37:19
Do you feel, it feels sometimes like
you're hesitant to do so, like, you

01:13:37:20 01:13:38:00
wait a beat.

01:13:38:01 01:13:39:13
Hesitant? Here we go again. Everytime
- in fact my people came - I'm sure

01:13:39:14 01:13:40:21
they'll ask you the white supremacy
question. Here we go again,

01:13:40:22 01:13:41:06
everytime, in fact.

01:13:41:07 01:13:47:23
Every time, in fact. But people came. I'm sure they'll ask you the white supremacy question. I denounced white supremacists. And frankly, you want to know something. I denounce AntiFa and I denounce these people on the left that are burning down our cities that are run by Democrats who don't know what they're doing.

01:13:47:24 01:13:53:14
Alright, while we're denouncing, let me ask you about. QAnon it is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior of that. Now, can you just once and for all state that that is completely not true? And disavow QAnon in its entirety?

01:13:53:15 01:13:54:03
I know nothing about QAnon.

01:13:54:04 01:13:54:12
I just told you.

01:13:54:13 01:13:59:05
I know very little. You told me. But what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia, they fight it very hard. But I know nothing.

01:13:59:06 01:14:00:11
They believe it is like a car run by the other day subject.

01:14:00:12 01:14:05:05
I'll tell you what I do know about. I know about Antifa and I know about the radical left. And I know how violent they are and how vicious they are. And I know how they're burning down cities run by Democrats, not Republicans.

01:14:05:06 01:14:07:16
Republican Senator Ben Sasse said, quote. QAnon is nuts. And real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theory.

01:14:07:17 01:14:08:09
He may not just say it's not true.

01:14:08:10 01:14:11:18
He may be right. I just don't know about you. And on you do now. I don't know. No, I don't know. I don't know. Let me ask you about it. Let's waste a whole show.

01:14:11:19 01:14:14:10
You start off with white supremacy. I denounce it. You start off with something else. Let's go. Keep asking me these questions.

01:14:14:11 01:14:14:19
I have one more.

01:14:14:20 01:14:17:10
Let me just. Let me just tell you what I do hear about it is they are very strongly against pedophilia. And I agree with that.

01:14:17:11 01:14:22:05
I mean, I do that and I agree there is not a satanic pedophile. No, no. No doubt about that. OK. No, I don't. I mean, do you know. OK. Just this week he writes asking me about an TIFA. Why are you asking the radical in your life?

01:14:22:06 01:14:24:14
Why aren't you asking Joe Biden questions about why doesn't he condemn antifa? Why does he say it doesn't exist?

01:14:24:15 01:14:25:10
Because your hair is known to soak it in.

01:14:25:11 01:14:28:07
AnTifa exists. They're vicious. They're violent. They kill people and they're burning down our cities and they happen to be radical left.

01:14:28:08 01:14:32:13
Just this week, you retweeted. You're 87 million followers, a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden orchestrated to have SEAL Team six, the Navy SEAL Team Six killed to cover up the fake death of bin Laden.

01:14:32:14 01:14:33:18
Now, why would you send a lie like that to your followers?

01:14:33:19 01:14:36:14
That was a retweet. That was a an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I'll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.

01:14:36:15 01:14:37:21
Like someone's crazy uncle. He doesn't really mean whatever.

01:14:37:22 01:14:42:22
That was a retweet. And I do a lot of retweets. And frankly, because the media is so fake and so corrupt. If I didn't have social media, I don't call it Twitter. I call it social media. I wouldn't be able to get the word out and the word...

01:14:42:23 01:14:43:08
But the word is false.

01:14:43:09 01:14:47:05
But you know what the word is? The word is very simple. We're building our country stronger and better than it's ever been before. And that's what's happening. And everybody knows it.

01:14:47:06 01:14:48:02
OK, we've got a bunch of questions for you.

01:14:48:03 01:14:49:20
The word is we're winning in a lot of states. We're winning in a lot of states. [.

01:14:49:21 01:14:54:01
Let me. OK. I'm glad you brought up the election because I do want to ask about that. That's another kind of leftover item. A lot of people have asked you, will you accept a peaceful transfer of power?

01:14:54:02 01:14:57:23
You have said repeatedly the only way we lose this election is if it is rigged. Now, that is simply not true. The fact is, either candidate can lose fair and square without ballot fraud.

01:14:57:24 01:14:58:02
Right.

01:14:58:03 01:14:59:03
And so will you accept the results of the election?

01:14:59:04 01:15:05:04
Well, I want it to be. But when I see thousands of ballots, right. Unsolicited ballots being given out by the millions and thousands of them are dumped in dumpsters. And when you see ballots with the mail drop military ballots from our great military and they're dumped in garbage cans.

01:15:05:05 01:15:07:11
That is a handful we could go all night, which we won't know that day one by one, a single case a single day.

01:15:07:12 01:15:09:18
You're talking about 150 million votes. Your own FBI director says there is no evidence of widespread fraud.

01:15:09:19 01:15:26:12
Oh really, that he's not doing a very good job. All you have to do is pick up the papers every day. Fifty thousand in Ohio, the great state of Ohio. Fifty thousand in another location, I think North Carolina. Five hundred thousand applications in Virginia. No, no. There's a tremendous problem. But let me just tell you, they talked about the peaceful transfer, right? They spied on my campaign and they got caught and they spied heavily on my campaign and they tried to take down a duly elected sitting president. And then they talk about, will you accept a peaceful transfer? And the answer is, yes, I will. But I want it to be an honest election. And so does everybody else. When I see thousands of ballots dumped in a garbage can and they happen to have my name on it. I'm not happy about that.

01:15:26:13 01:15:29:12
But just in case, there is no there is, in fact, no evidence of widespread fraud. And you were sowing doubt about our democracy, our democracy.

01:15:29:13 01:15:29:23
How can you say that?

01:15:29:24 01:15:31:12
You do read newspapers. You watch the news, you read. I do watch you. I do.

01:15:31:13 01:15:33:07
Because every day they're talking about ballots that are corrupt, that are fraudulent.

01:15:33:08 01:15:34:07
And millions that are being processed right now.

01:15:34:08 01:15:35:24
But you can win the race. Take a look at me. You can win a race by one percent.

01:15:36:00 01:15:37:04
But why are you laying the groundwork for that right now?

01:15:37:05 01:15:39:00
I don't want my husband and I say my ankles. You know, Rob, I don't want that to happen.

01:15:39:01 01:15:48:12
Savannah, I wanted to be clean. I really feel we're going to win. But I want this to be clean. Let's get it's sort of ironic that you and them talk about the peaceful transfer when I spent three and a half years fighting off these maniacs and now it turns out everything's there, that they were the ones that dealt with Russia. And it's too bad. A peaceful transfer, I absolutely want that. But ideally, I don't want to transfer because I want to win.

01:15:48:13 01:15:54:09
And I think that your words will probably reassure some folks. Let's get to our first voter. We've got Jaqueline Lugo. Now she is I told you this. This audience is truly split between y'all. You are leaning Biden. She voted for Clinton in 2016. She's registered as an independent.

01:15:54:10 01:15:57:06
Jacqueline, what's your question for the president? And you hold the mike up close and take off your mask as it's hard to figure out here.

01:15:57:07 01:15:57:23
Good evening. Welcome to Miami.

01:15:57:24 01:15:58:11
Thank you, it's beautiful.

01:15:58:12 01:15:59:25
Mr President. If you knew Covid 19, as you told Bob Woodward in February.

01:15:59:26 01:16:00:04
As what?

01:16:00:05 01:16:05:15
As you told Bob Woodward in February, was airborne and deadlier than the flu. Why did you only put in place a travel ban from China and not put in place other measures, mitigating the spread of Covid 19, potentially saving tens of thousands of American lives?

01:16:05:16 01:16:26:18
Well, I didn't put it in very early. As you know, Joe Biden was two months behind me and he called me xenophobic and racist and everything else because I put it in and it turned out that I was 100 percent right. I also put it on Europe very early because I saw there was a lot of infection in Europe. And it's sort of an amazing question. And I appreciate the question and respect the question. But the news doesn't get out the right answer because I put on a travel ban far earlier than Dr Fauci thought it was necessary, who I like, far earlier, that the scientists I was actually the only one that wanted to put it on, and I did it actually against the advice of a lot of people, including Nancy Pelosi, who had no clue what she was doing. And Biden, when I put on the travel ban, you know, I put it on in January, the end of January, when I put on the travel ban, Joe Biden and and others said, this is ridiculous. You don't do that. Well, Dr. Fauci, you said I saved thousands and thousands of lives.

01:16:26:19 01:16:26:22
Did you?

01:16:26:23 01:16:28:05
I was barely I was extremely early when I put on the travel ban.

01:16:28:06 01:16:31:21
Can I ask you, did your national security adviser on January 20th in the Oval Office warn you that this would be the greatest National Security risk of your administration?

01:16:31:22 01:16:31:22
No.

01:16:31:23 01:16:32:16
He didn't say or you don't remember?

01:16:32:17 01:16:34:17
I remember I read it someplace. Maybe Woodward said it or something. But no, he did not say that.

01:16:34:18 01:16:38:02
But I knew it was a big threat. At the same time, I don't want to panic this country. I don't want to go out and say everybody is going to die. Everybody's got...

01:16:38:03 01:16:39:05
Isn't there a middle ground. But you can. No, no, no.

01:16:39:06 01:16:41:08
There's not a middle ground. You have to be safe. You have to be vigilant. And you have to be smart.

01:16:41:09 01:16:49:15
You're going to like this next couple of voters and a mom and a daughter. Mom, Barbara voted for you in 2016. She's leaning toward vote for you again. Now, her daughter was too young to vote last time. She's going to vote for her first time in a presidential campaign. And she is leaning Biden. So imagine the dinner table at their house. So, Barbara, why do you go first and ask your question?

01:16:49:16 01:17:00:14
Bienvenido en Miami. Thank you, Mr. Trump, as a frontline E.R. doctor working through the Corona virus pandemic. I know firsthand and I've seen that many hospitals throughout the United States are suffering financial hardships. These economic effects are trickling down to the frontline workers. We are being...Across the country, frontline workers are being fired or being furloughed. Our salaries are being cut. And this is also happening in other economic sectors as well, including the travel industry and hospitality.

01:17:00:15 01:17:00:17
Right.

01:17:00:18 01:17:03:09
My question to you is, how are you going to get the United States back on track, both in terms of the economy and the pandemic?

01:17:03:10 01:17:17:09
So it's happening. We just had a record eleven point four million jobs. We are going to have a phenomenal third quarter, which will be announced on November 1st, just prior to the big November 3rd day. We're thinking this is a red wave, but we're going to have a tremendous announcement, I believe. I mean, we're going to find out. But GDP is going through the roof. Jobs, real estate, houses, so many things are happening. So people were saying we're going have a forty two percent unemployment. Look, this was a thing that came into our country and it happened 100 more than 100 years ago and it happened now that we're talking about a 42 percent unemployment rate.

01:17:17:10 01:17:18:03
Who was talking about it I heard 20%.

01:17:18:04 01:17:24:23
It just came out at seven point eight percent unemployment and people can't even believe it. Our economy is going to be next year if we don't have somebody that raises taxes and quadruples taxes, which they want to do, and kills everything, our economy is going to be phenomenal. Next year. We're going to have a phenomenal.

01:17:24:24 01:17:40:17
And I'll tell you, Savannah, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country last year, including the state of Florida where we are now and Pennsylvania, North Carolina, every place with the greatest economy we ever had, we had to close it down. We saved two million lives. We're opening it up. We have a V shape and it's coming back. It's coming back very fast. One other thing, we really help the hospitals. We've sent billions and billions of dollars to the hospitals. In addition, hundreds of millions of masks and gowns. And we went into the ventilator business because this country was not equipped with ventilators. And I'm not blaming anybody for it. But we're now making thousands of ventilators a month and we have all we can use.

01:17:40:18 01:17:43:25
We're sending them all over the world because the world needs them. So they've worked very hard and really very, very effectively. Thank you. Great question.

01:17:43:26 01:17:45:11
Let's talk to Isabella, put the mic close to your mouth. OK. Go ahead.

01:17:45:12 01:17:53:20
Mr. President, my parents are, as you heard, both frontline health care workers. And I've seen the physical and the mental toll that this pandemic has taken on them firsthand, as well as the exacerbation of coronavirus due to Americans who are not wearing masks or participating in social distancing. After contracting CVOID 19 yourself, has your opinion changed on the importance of mask wearing?

01:17:53:21 01:18:08:10
No, because I was OK with the masks. I was good with it, but I've heard many different stories on masks. I mean, I had, you know, being president, you have people, they bring meals, they bring this. And I had an instance recently where a very wonderful person is bringing me a meal and he's playing with his mask and he's touching his mask all over the place. And then he's bringing a plate in. And I'm saying, well, I don't know if that's so good. I mean, the good news, I didn't eat it, OK? I didn't I decided not to eat it. This was a month ago. But look, you have on the masks - you know, you have two stories. You have a story where they want, a story where they don't want. I am all for it.

01:18:08:11 01:18:16:01
I don't get that because it's just - all of your public health officials, your administration, they're in unison about this. They're all in unison about it. University of Washington, which is a sta - is a - they have a model that your coronavirus task force relies on, says that if everyone wore a mask, you could cut expected deaths in half, sixty thousand lives.

01:18:16:02 01:18:16:25
And then you have other people that disagree.

01:18:17:00 01:18:17:13
Well what does that mean?

01:18:17:14 01:18:20:01
Scott Atkins, if you look at Scott, Dr. Scott, he's from - great guy - Stanford. He will tell you he disagrees with you.

01:18:20:02 01:18:20:21
He's not an infectious disease expert.

01:18:20:22 01:18:22:15
Oh, I don't know. Look, he's an expert. He's one of the great experts of the world.

01:18:22:16 01:18:27:03
But I don't get it because you have so much power and influence as president. You could go to your - you could require it at your rallies and you could say "Everyone put on a mask right now" and you would say lives.

01:18:27:04 01:18:30:04
You have University of Washington, and you have other places say different things. You have a lot - hey, Dr. Faucci said don't wear a mask right?

01:18:30:05 01:18:30:23
At first, but then everybody agreed.

01:18:30:24 01:18:34:06
Well, I don't know that he changed his mind. But then you have a report coming out two days ago that eighty five percent of the people wearing masks catch it.

01:18:34:07 01:18:36:05
I looked at that report. It's not about mask wearing. It was neutral on the question of masks.

01:18:36:06 01:18:37:18
Savannah, we're on the same side. I say wear the mask. I'm fine with it.

01:18:37:19 01:18:37:19
OK.

01:18:37:20 01:18:38:21
I have no problem with it. We're on the same side.

01:18:38:22 01:18:40:08
Let's take a break. We're going to get more questions right after this.

01:30:29:05 01:30:30:05
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01:30:35:19 01:30:36:12
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01:30:36:13 01:30:37:13
Thank you again, Mr. President.

01:30:37:14 01:30:39:02
We've another voter now, Kristi

01:30:39:22 01:30:41:06
Alonzo, come on out, Kristi.

01:30:41:07 01:30:43:04
She is leaning slightly towards

01:30:43:07 01:30:45:04
you. She says she voted for you

01:30:45:05 01:30:46:10
in 2016.

01:30:46:14 01:30:47:23
Kristi, you ready? Take the mask

01:30:48:05 01:30:49:00
off, hold the mic close and let's
hear

01:30:49:01 01:30:50:05
your question.

01:30:50:06 01:30:51:10
Thank you for your service, Mr.

01:30:51:11 01:30:51:15
President.

01:30:51:23 01:30:53:02
Thank you very much.

01:30:53:03 01:30:54:23
We're a hardworking middle class

01:30:54:24 01:30:55:22
family of four.

01:30:55:23 01:30:56:24
My husband and I are both

01:30:57:00 01:30:58:05
self-employed and we have

01:30:58:22 01:31:00:07
to get our own individual health

01:31:00:16 01:31:02:11
care. As you know, health care costs

01:31:02:15 01:31:04:02
have gone up considerably over

01:31:04:19 01:31:05:19
the decades. And you

01:31:06:17 01:31:07:20
had originally said you were going

01:31:07:21 01:31:09:15
to repeal and replace Obamacare.

01:31:09:18 01:31:11:07
What is your plan now in

01:31:11:16 01:31:13:02
2020 to make health care costs

01:31:13:17 01:31:15:10
affordable for Americans like

01:31:15:21 01:31:16:11
myself?

01:31:16:12 01:31:17:23
So we got rid of the individual

01:31:17:24 01:31:19:16
mandate on Obamacare, which was the

01:31:19:17 01:31:20:22
worst part of Obamacare.

01:31:20:24 01:31:22:05
And now you could actually say it's

01:31:22:06 01:31:23:25
not Obamacare because that's how big

01:31:23:26 01:31:25:06
it was. Well you had to pay a

01:31:25:07 01:31:26:20
fortune for the privilege of not

01:31:26:22 01:31:28:22
having to pay for bad health

01:31:29:10 01:31:30:14
insurance. So we got rid of that.

01:31:30:15 01:31:31:21
That was a big, big thing.

01:31:32:07 01:31:33:20
And by doing that - and we will

01:31:34:03 01:31:35:19
always have - by the way, we're

01:31:35:21 01:31:37:22
always protecting people with

01:31:37:23 01:31:39:17
pre-existing conditions and I can't

01:31:39:18 01:31:40:20
say that more strongly.

01:31:41:02 01:31:42:20
But we've been able to bring health

01:31:42:21 01:31:44:25
care costs way down.

01:31:45:09 01:31:47:06
Now, I took over Obamacare, got

01:31:47:07 01:31:48:24
rid of the individual mandate, made

01:31:49:00 01:31:50:20
it, good managed, much better.

01:31:50:23 01:31:52:10
Remember, they had the five billion

01:31:52:11 01:31:54:18
dollar website disaster

01:31:54:24 01:31:56:21
and all of the problems they had.

01:31:57:02 01:31:58:25
The problem with Obamacare, it's not

01:31:59:08 01:32:00:22
good. We'd like to terminate it.

01:32:00:24 01:32:02:15
And we want a much less expensive

01:32:03:09 01:32:05:02
health care that's a much

01:32:05:05 01:32:06:23
better health care and that's where

01:32:07:04 01:32:09:03
we're aiming. And if we can do that

01:32:09:04 01:32:10:18
and we have a very good chance of

01:32:10:19 01:32:11:24
doing it - but we've also

01:32:12:18 01:32:14:24
brought down the price of Obamacare.

01:32:15:03 01:32:16:22
Problem with Obamacare, it basically

01:32:17:03 01:32:18:11
is never going to be great.

01:32:18:17 01:32:20:13
And I want to give great health

01:32:20:14 01:32:21:13
care. It's so important and thank you
very much.

01:32:22:25 01:32:24:02
Mr. President I've gotta follow up on
the preexisting

01:32:24:03 01:32:25:04
conditions. This is such a big issue

01:32:25:05 01:32:25:21
for voters.

01:32:25:22 01:32:27:01
It is a big issue for me too.

01:32:27:02 01:32:28:14
In point of fact, your

01:32:28:15 01:32:30:03
administration is about to go to the

01:32:30:04 01:32:31:22
Supreme Court to argue, to throw out

01:32:31:24 01:32:33:08
the rest of Obamacare, which

01:32:33:21 01:32:35:05
includes the protections for

01:32:35:06 01:32:36:08
preexisting conditions.

01:32:36:09 01:32:36:15
That's right.

01:32:36:19 01:32:38:01
So your administration is in court

01:32:38:02 01:32:39:19
right now trying to get rid of that

01:32:39:23 01:32:40:12
protection.

01:32:40:13 01:32:42:04
In order to replace it with a much

01:32:42:18 01:32:44:03
better health care at a much

01:32:44:19 01:32:45:23
lower price.

01:32:45:24 01:32:46:23
And always under

01:32:48:02 01:32:49:18
all circumstances, we are going to

01:32:49:23 01:32:51:21
protect. The Republicans - and

01:32:51:22 01:32:53:14
I mean, maybe I changed the party a

01:32:53:15 01:32:55:01
lot over the last three years - but

01:32:55:11 01:32:56:19
we will protect people with

01:32:56:25 01:32:58:03
preexisting conditions.

01:32:58:07 01:32:59:18
And Savannah, what I want to do is

01:33:00:01 01:33:01:19
get rid of the terrible

01:33:02:05 01:33:03:03
Obamacare - I've already done it to

01:33:03:04 01:33:04:24
a large extent because, as you know,

01:33:04:25 01:33:06:05
the individual mandate is

01:33:06:21 01:33:08:18
gone. That was the worst part of it.

01:33:08:19 01:33:09:16
You've repealed but you have it
replaced

01:33:09:17 01:33:11:13
now. You've been in office for

01:33:12:00 01:33:12:11
almost four years -

01:33:12:12 01:33:12:21
We have done -

01:33:12:22 01:33:14:04
You had you had both houses of

01:33:14:16 01:33:16:02
Congress, Senate and House in

01:33:16:15 01:33:17:15
Republican hands.

01:33:17:22 01:33:19:09
And there is not a replacement yet.

01:33:19:18 01:33:20:23
That's right. I'm sorry, but if you

01:33:21:04 01:33:22:03
look, we had both houses.

01:33:22:04 01:33:23:12
What did we do? We got rid of the

01:33:23:13 01:33:24:14
individual mandate that went through
the legislature

01:33:24:16 01:33:24:20
-

01:33:24:21 01:33:26:00
But the problem is with repeal and

01:33:26:14 01:33:26:22
replace.

01:33:26:23 01:33:28:15
Look, look, we should be on the same

01:33:28:24 01:33:30:09
side. I want it very simple.

01:33:30:13 01:33:31:19
I'm going to put it very simple.

01:33:31:20 01:33:33:10
We would like to terminate it and

01:33:33:15 01:33:35:00
we would like to replace it with

01:33:35:01 01:33:36:19
something that's much less expensive

01:33:36:21 01:33:37:21
and much better.

01:33:38:03 01:33:39:23
We will always protect people with

01:33:39:24 01:33:40:25
preexisting conditions -

01:33:40:26 01:33:42:25
, those

01:33:42:26 01:33:43:25
preexisting conditions.

01:33:43:26 01:33:45:04
We will be fine.

01:33:45:09 01:33:46:12
If we don't succeed, we

01:33:47:05 01:33:48:13
are running the remnants of

01:33:48:18 01:33:50:10
whatever's left because we took it

01:33:50:20 01:33:52:11
apart. We are running the remnants

01:33:52:13 01:33:54:07
of whatever is left much better than

01:33:54:11 01:33:56:03
the previous administration, which

01:33:56:04 01:33:57:03
ran it very badly.

01:33:57:20 01:33:59:00
But we'd like to have new

01:33:59:18 01:34:01:01
health care much better and

01:34:01:14 01:34:02:14
much less expensive.

01:34:02:15 01:34:04:01
Let me get to question number

01:34:04:10 01:34:05:06
five, and you'll like this.

01:34:05:07 01:34:06:07
He's stuck in traffic.

01:34:06:09 01:34:08:01
His name is Joe White.

01:34:08:04 01:34:09:11
He is registered as a

01:34:10:01 01:34:11:01
Democrat. He says he's leaning

01:34:11:15 01:34:13:10
toward Biden and

01:34:13:12 01:34:15:03
voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

01:34:15:04 01:34:16:14
And his question was a second

01:34:16:22 01:34:18:05
stimulus payment has been broadly

01:34:18:06 01:34:19:15
agreed upon by the Republicans and

01:34:20:03 01:34:21:04
Democrats. And now we're in October

01:34:21:05 01:34:22:10
and it's still not passed.

01:34:22:11 01:34:23:22
Why not use your office to make the

01:34:23:23 01:34:25:14
second stimulus payment a separate

01:34:25:23 01:34:27:11
targeted emergency relief

01:34:27:22 01:34:29:07
package to help Americans weather

01:34:29:08 01:34:29:14
the pandemic.

01:34:29:15 01:34:30:22
Well we've actually passed three

01:34:31:14 01:34:32:14
packages, we're on our fourth. And

01:34:33:17 01:34:34:22
I agree with him, one hundred

01:34:35:07 01:34:36:08
percent, he should vote for me.

01:34:36:09 01:34:37:18
The problem you have is Nancy

01:34:38:06 01:34:39:10
Pelosi. She couldn't care less about

01:34:39:11 01:34:41:01
the worker. She couldn't care less

01:34:41:03 01:34:42:03
about our people.

01:34:42:21 01:34:44:07
And we should have a stimulus.

01:34:44:09 01:34:45:11
And I want a stimulus.

01:34:45:15 01:34:46:23
The Republicans will approve a

01:34:47:12 01:34:49:04
stimulus. The problem is she doesn't

01:34:49:05 01:34:50:11
want to do it because she thinks

01:34:50:21 01:34:52:08
it's bad for her election.

01:34:52:12 01:34:54:04
The fact is she's wrong

01:34:54:09 01:34:55:20
because people know she's in our

01:34:56:05 01:34:57:05
way. She's not approving it.

01:34:57:14 01:34:59:07
She doesn't appreciate our people

01:34:59:08 01:35:00:25
and she doesn't approve - appreciate

01:35:00:26 01:35:01:25
at all our workers.

01:35:02:06 01:35:03:13
Nancy Pelosi, we are ready

01:35:04:11 01:35:06:05
to sign and pass

01:35:06:23 01:35:07:22
stimulus, but she's going to -

01:35:07:23 01:35:08:21
People do not love the back and forth

01:35:08:22 01:35:10:11
of Washington. But this has been a

01:35:10:12 01:35:11:11
roller coaster.

01:35:12:11 01:35:14:04
Back in early October, you one day

01:35:14:05 01:35:16:06
tweeted "no more negotiations

01:35:16:09 01:35:17:09
until

01:35:18:10 01:35:19:06
after Election Day.

01:35:19:07 01:35:20:24
I'm walking away." Then I think the

01:35:21:03 01:35:22:14
next couple of days she said maybe

01:35:22:15 01:35:23:25
we can do something targeted.

01:35:24:09 01:35:25:22
Then you said, I want a big, big

01:35:26:07 01:35:28:02
bill. But then Senate Republicans

01:35:28:09 01:35:30:10
said, no, we're not for that.

01:35:30:13 01:35:32:03
So you're the big deal

01:35:32:12 01:35:32:17
maker.

01:35:32:18 01:35:34:17
What this is. So you yourself

01:35:35:16 01:35:37:03
Did you ever hear of a word

01:35:37:17 01:35:39:00
called negotiation?

01:35:39:10 01:35:40:24
We're negotiating OK.

01:35:41:11 01:35:43:01
The people are negotiating, lives

01:35:43:02 01:35:44:01
are hanging, you know

01:35:44:17 01:35:45:24
And you know who I'm negotiating

01:35:46:00 01:35:47:13
against Nancy Pelosi because she

01:35:47:17 01:35:48:21
doesn't want to give the money.

01:35:48:22 01:35:50:01
We should have stimulus.

01:35:50:09 01:35:51:23
This was not for people's fault.

01:35:52:01 01:35:53:04
This was China's fault.

01:35:53:16 01:35:55:05
And she's penalizing our people.

01:35:55:06 01:35:56:23
I'm ready to sign a big, beautiful

01:35:57:04 01:35:58:17
stimulus. You saw the other

01:35:59:01 01:36:00:13
day - I said go big or go home.

01:36:00:14 01:36:00:17
Right.

01:36:00:21 01:36:01:03
That's what.

01:36:01:04 01:36:02:03
I want it to be big.

01:36:02:07 01:36:03:07
I want it to be bold.

01:36:03:12 01:36:04:20
I want the money go to direct.

01:36:05:08 01:36:06:06
Applicants with you. They're going

01:36:06:07 01:36:07:06
to go big number.

01:36:08:01 01:36:09:07
They'll go they're going to be very

01:36:09:08 01:36:09:09
far.

01:36:09:18 01:36:10:23
They have not because.

01:36:10:24 01:36:12:01
I haven't asked them to because I

01:36:12:02 01:36:13:14
can't get through Nancy Pelosi.

01:36:14:10 01:36:16:13
If Nancy Pelosi and I

01:36:16:21 01:36:18:09
through my representatives or

01:36:18:22 01:36:20:04
directly - I don't care - if we

01:36:20:05 01:36:21:22
agree to something, the Republicans

01:36:22:00 01:36:23:00
will agree to it.

01:36:23:05 01:36:25:01
OK, our next question comes from

01:36:25:13 01:36:26:16
- oh, this is interesting. She voted

01:36:26:17 01:36:28:07
for Clinton in 2016, but recently

01:36:28:15 01:36:30:12
changed her registration from

01:36:30:13 01:36:31:17
Democrat to independent.

01:36:32:07 01:36:33:19
She says she's truly undecided.

01:36:33:24 01:36:35:16
Her name's Becky Leitman.

01:36:35:22 01:36:37:11
Hello, Becky. What's your question?

01:36:37:12 01:36:38:04
How are you?

01:36:38:05 01:36:39:03
Hi, I'm great. How are you?

01:36:39:04 01:36:39:23
Nice to see you.

01:36:39:24 01:36:40:03
Thank you.

01:36:40:04 01:36:40:24
Good to see you.

01:36:41:00 01:36:42:01
So corporate tax rates

01:36:43:05 01:36:44:12
are a hot button issue and

01:36:45:07 01:36:47:01
you have cut corporate tax rates

01:36:47:07 01:36:48:17
and your opponent, Joe Biden, is

01:36:48:18 01:36:49:21
planning to raise them.

01:36:49:22 01:36:49:24
Right.

01:36:50:17 01:36:52:03
A lot of Americans think that

01:36:52:07 01:36:53:23
corporations don't pay their share

01:36:54:04 01:36:55:21
of taxes and want to see those tax

01:36:56:04 01:36:57:04
rates increase.

01:36:57:17 01:36:59:13
What do you say to those Americans

01:36:59:16 01:37:01:23
to maybe tell them why

01:37:02:02 01:37:03:15
you want the corporate tax rate

01:37:03:19 01:37:05:20
lower and why that helps

01:37:06:01 01:37:06:05
them?

01:37:06:06 01:37:07:04
It's a great question.

01:37:07:05 01:37:08:14
We've created more jobs than

01:37:09:01 01:37:10:13
this country has ever created.

01:37:10:14 01:37:11:23
We're up to one hundred sixty

01:37:11:25 01:37:12:20
million jobs.

01:37:12:21 01:37:14:02
We were never even close to that

01:37:14:12 01:37:15:19
number. We were just hitting one

01:37:15:20 01:37:17:07
hundred and sixty million jobs.

01:37:17:11 01:37:18:23
Companies are pouring into our

01:37:19:00 01:37:20:13
nation because of the tax rate.

01:37:20:23 01:37:22:15
And if Biden comes in and raises

01:37:22:16 01:37:24:07
taxes on everybody, including middle

01:37:24:08 01:37:26:02
income taxes, which he wants to do,

01:37:26:05 01:37:27:16
you will blow this thing and you'll

01:37:27:17 01:37:29:08
end up with a depression the likes

01:37:29:14 01:37:30:16
of which you've never had.

01:37:30:17 01:37:32:02
That's what's going to happen.

01:37:32:03 01:37:33:12
We have something that's really

01:37:33:16 01:37:34:17
good. The reason we're coming back

01:37:34:18 01:37:36:08
so strong is because we built a very

01:37:36:09 01:37:37:08
strong foundation.

01:37:37:21 01:37:38:25
Companies are moving in.

01:37:39:07 01:37:40:20
Car companies are moving into

01:37:41:19 01:37:43:06
Michigan, into Ohio, into South

01:37:43:07 01:37:45:02
Carolina and North Carolina -

01:37:45:06 01:37:46:18
just today. So what's happening

01:37:47:02 01:37:48:07
is they're coming in because we

01:37:48:08 01:37:49:22
reduced the taxes, our

01:37:50:11 01:37:51:16
taxes, our corporate taxes were the

01:37:51:17 01:37:52:25
highest in the world and now

01:37:53:14 01:37:55:04
they're among the lower

01:37:55:18 01:37:56:22
taxes. They're not the lowest, but

01:37:56:24 01:37:58:05
they're among the lowest.

01:37:58:11 01:37:59:20
And what that means is jobs.

01:38:00:01 01:38:01:09
But also we're doing a very

01:38:02:05 01:38:04:02
big - and we've done - a very big

01:38:04:08 01:38:05:15
middle income tax package.

01:38:06:10 01:38:07:14
So if we get in, we're going to do

01:38:07:15 01:38:08:22
the middle income tax package.

01:38:08:23 01:38:10:06
But it's a great question.

01:38:10:09 01:38:12:03
If he comes along and raises

01:38:12:12 01:38:13:18
rates, all those companies that are

01:38:13:19 01:38:15:16
coming in, they will leave the

01:38:15:17 01:38:16:17
US so fast, your head

01:38:17:14 01:38:19:07
will spin. We can't let that happen.

01:38:19:14 01:38:20:22
On the subject of taxes, as

01:38:21:11 01:38:22:12
you know, with The New York Times

01:38:22:13 01:38:23:22
has obtained, it says, years

01:38:24:14 01:38:25:18
of your tax returns.

01:38:25:19 01:38:27:12
Among other things, it says that you

01:38:27:14 01:38:29:03
have debts of approximately four

01:38:29:08 01:38:30:18
hundred twenty one million dollars

01:38:30:19 01:38:32:17
that you have personally guaranteed

01:38:32:18 01:38:34:06
and that will come due in the next

01:38:34:07 01:38:35:06
four years.

01:38:35:09 01:38:36:21
The question is, on behalf of

01:38:37:06 01:38:38:15
voters, who do you owe four hundred

01:38:38:16 01:38:39:20
twenty one million dollars to?

01:38:39:25 01:38:40:21
OK, first of all let me answer -

01:38:40:22 01:38:42:19
what they did is illegal number one.

01:38:43:12 01:38:44:22
Also, the numbers are all wrong with

01:38:44:23 01:38:46:00
the numbers they released.

01:38:46:02 01:38:47:21
And just so you understand, when you

01:38:47:22 01:38:49:07
have a lot of real estate - I have

01:38:49:10 01:38:51:01
real estate, you know, a lot of it,

01:38:51:02 01:38:52:03
OK right down the road

01:38:52:23 01:38:54:22
[inaudible]. Big stuff, great

01:38:55:06 01:38:57:04
stuff. I'm very under - when I

01:38:57:06 01:38:58:06
decided to run.

01:38:58:07 01:39:00:14
I'm very under levered,

01:39:01:01 01:39:02:01
fortunately, but I'm very under

01:39:02:12 01:39:04:05
leverage. I have a very, very small

01:39:04:07 01:39:05:24
percentage of debt compared - in

01:39:06:09 01:39:07:22
fact, some of it I did as favors to

01:39:07:23 01:39:09:15
institutions that wanted to loan me

01:39:09:20 01:39:11:12
money. Four hundred million dollars

01:39:11:13 01:39:13:03
-compared to the assets that I

01:39:13:15 01:39:15:02
have, all of these great properties

01:39:15:03 01:39:16:03
all over the world.

01:39:16:04 01:39:17:17
And frankly,

01:39:18:02 01:39:19:25
the Bank of America building in San

01:39:20:21 01:39:21:18
Francisco. I don't love what's

01:39:21:19 01:39:23:01
happening to San Francisco.

01:39:23:04 01:39:24:04
You're right. It sounds like

01:39:25:18 01:39:27:06
million dollars isn't my

01:39:27:14 01:39:28:12
office buildings.

01:39:28:13 01:39:29:12
Are you - are you - are you

01:39:29:13 01:39:31:05
confirming that yes, you do own

01:39:31:16 01:39:33:03
some four hundred million dollars?

01:39:33:04 01:39:34:08
And what I'm saying is that it's a

01:39:34:09 01:39:36:09
tiny percentage of my net

01:39:36:18 01:39:36:24
worth.

01:39:37:00 01:39:37:10
That sounds like yes.

01:39:37:11 01:39:38:20
And you'll see that soon because

01:39:39:01 01:39:40:20
we're doing things -

01:39:40:21 01:39:41:15
you know, we've given I think it's
one

01:39:41:19 01:39:42:21
hundred and eight or one hundred and

01:39:42:22 01:39:44:21
twelve pages of financial details

01:39:45:02 01:39:46:02
to elections.

01:39:46:14 01:39:48:06
And, you know, we have to file - as

01:39:48:07 01:39:49:12
the president, as any

01:39:50:04 01:39:51:03
politician, you have to file.

01:39:51:04 01:39:52:14
Nobody ever looks at that.

01:39:52:16 01:39:53:23
When they do, they see how

01:39:54:02 01:39:55:09
incredible the company is.

01:39:55:10 01:39:56:17
But more importantly, they

01:39:57:10 01:39:58:20
see where this debt is.

01:39:59:06 01:40:00:16
No, I don't owe Russia money.

01:40:00:21 01:40:01:21
I don't know owe

01:40:02:19 01:40:04:02
- I owe very small - it's called

01:40:04:17 01:40:06:02
mortgages. People have a house, they

01:40:06:03 01:40:06:16
put a mortgage -

01:40:06:17 01:40:07:16
Any foreign bank? Any foreign

01:40:07:17 01:40:07:25
entity?

01:40:07:26 01:40:09:08
Not that I know of. But I will

01:40:09:09 01:40:11:04
probably - because it's so easy to

01:40:11:16 01:40:13:03
solve. And if you'd like to do, I

01:40:13:04 01:40:15:02
will let you know who - who

01:40:15:03 01:40:16:18
I know whatever small amount of

01:40:16:23 01:40:18:04
money. I want to say two things.

01:40:18:05 01:40:19:13
Number one, it's a very small amount

01:40:19:14 01:40:20:09
of money.

01:40:20:10 01:40:22:00
Number two, it's very

01:40:22:16 01:40:24:10
straight. It's very, very straight.

01:40:24:12 01:40:26:10
But it's a tiny percentage of

01:40:26:11 01:40:27:15
the worth.

01:40:27:22 01:40:29:03
Did you ever hear the expression

01:40:29:04 01:40:30:03
under levered?

01:40:30:04 01:40:30:05
Yes.

01:40:30:06 01:40:31:15
I am extremely under levered.

01:40:31:20 01:40:33:00
Here's the thing. You could clear

01:40:33:01 01:40:34:16
this up tonight by just releasing

01:40:34:19 01:40:35:24
your tax returns yourself.

01:40:36:00 01:40:36:09
I mean -.

01:40:36:10 01:40:38:07
I think people are just

01:40:38:08 01:40:39:10
what are you talking about?

01:40:39:19 01:40:41:12
It turned out that I am wrong to say

01:40:41:13 01:40:42:12
actually that.

01:40:43:01 01:40:45:00
No, no. But that doesn't stop

01:40:45:01 01:40:46:01
the release.

01:40:46:07 01:40:47:04
You accused me of not being under

01:40:47:05 01:40:48:04
audit previously.

01:40:48:05 01:40:48:12
That did not -

01:40:48:13 01:40:50:07
And so did other people at NBC.

01:40:51:06 01:40:51:14
You are.

01:40:51:15 01:40:52:18
And I am under audit - so that was

01:40:52:19 01:40:54:11
solved, that's good - I am under it.

01:40:54:19 01:40:56:12
No person in their right mind would

01:40:56:19 01:40:59:01
release prior to working

01:40:59:02 01:41:00:07
out the deal with the IRS.

01:41:00:10 01:41:01:16
And I'll go a step further.

01:41:01:17 01:41:03:11
I'm treated very badly by the

01:41:03:24 01:41:05:16
IRS. They treat me very, very badly.

01:41:05:17 01:41:06:19
You have people in there from

01:41:06:20 01:41:07:25
previous administrations.

01:41:08:10 01:41:09:16
They treat me very badly.

01:41:09:19 01:41:11:18
But we're under audit.

01:41:11:21 01:41:13:08
It's very routine in many

01:41:13:18 01:41:14:16
ways, but we're under audit.

01:41:14:17 01:41:16:10
They like to change the game, change

01:41:16:13 01:41:17:17
the rules to everything.

01:41:17:22 01:41:19:05
You saw what they did with the Tea

01:41:19:06 01:41:20:20
Party people. You saw what they did

01:41:20:21 01:41:21:22
with the religious group.

01:41:21:23 01:41:23:10
But to be clear there is no law or

01:41:23:11 01:41:24:20
rule that prohibits you from

01:41:25:10 01:41:26:15
releasing your tax returns -

01:41:27:06 01:41:28:03
No, except common sense and

01:41:28:04 01:41:29:23
intelligence and having lawyers to

01:41:30:09 01:41:31:14
say - because I would love to

01:41:31:15 01:41:33:14
release them and as soon as we

01:41:33:19 01:41:35:19
come to a conclusion, I will release

01:41:35:20 01:41:36:19
them and very gladly.

01:41:36:20 01:41:38:13
But if you go to

01:41:38:17 01:41:40:12
elections and if you take a

01:41:40:18 01:41:41:18
look, you'll see one hundred and

01:41:41:19 01:41:42:19
twelve, I think it's one hundred and

01:41:43:01 01:41:44:17
twelve. It talks about the income,

01:41:44:18 01:41:45:22
which is rather massive.

01:41:46:06 01:41:47:11
It talks about all of the

01:41:47:15 01:41:49:07
properties, they have them listed.

01:41:49:16 01:41:50:22
You can never learn more.

01:41:51:07 01:41:52:11
But you know what happened?

01:41:52:12 01:41:53:06
People went there.

01:41:53:07 01:41:54:08
All the reporters went.

01:41:54:09 01:41:55:16
It was like a feeding frenzy.

01:41:55:17 01:41:57:07
This was originally when I filed it.

01:41:57:08 01:41:58:20
And I file it every year.

01:41:58:21 01:42:00:06
I updated every year.

01:42:00:10 01:42:01:10
My son is here.

01:42:01:14 01:42:02:14
They run the company.

01:42:02:15 01:42:03:13
I don't run the company.

01:42:03:14 01:42:04:23
It also says that you pay 750 dollars
in taxes in the year you were

01:42:04:24 01:42:05:14
elected - is that true or not?

01:42:05:15 01:42:05:22
And even though

01:42:06:03 01:42:08:00
taxes and the here you are like

01:42:08:24 01:42:09:21
a story.

01:42:09:22 01:42:10:22
No, that's a statutory number - I

01:42:11:19 01:42:12:20
think it's a filing number.

01:42:12:21 01:42:14:05
You pay seven hundred and fifty.

01:42:14:06 01:42:15:11
It's a filing fee -

01:42:15:14 01:42:16:09
Is that all you paid? Most people

01:42:16:10 01:42:17:02
here probably paid more.

01:42:17:03 01:42:18:10
No, I don't know. I can tell you

01:42:18:19 01:42:19:15
this.

01:42:19:16 01:42:21:17
If they have my tax

01:42:22:05 01:42:23:08
returns, as you know, they have to

01:42:23:09 01:42:24:24
go to jail. It's illegal.

01:42:25:11 01:42:26:22
But their numbers were wrong.

01:42:27:06 01:42:29:02
But let me tell you what else.

01:42:29:22 01:42:31:01
I don't owe money to any

01:42:31:19 01:42:33:05
of these sinister people.

01:42:33:11 01:42:34:14
This has been going on for years

01:42:34:19 01:42:36:04
now. Russia, Russia, Russia, turned

01:42:36:05 01:42:37:04
out to be a hoax.

01:42:37:05 01:42:38:19
And it turned out to be that Hillary

01:42:38:20 01:42:40:06
Clinton and the Democrats were

01:42:40:14 01:42:42:07
dealing with Russia, not me.

01:42:42:11 01:42:43:11
It's a whole hoax.

01:42:43:13 01:42:44:13
So I would not mind

01:42:45:17 01:42:46:22
at all saying who it is.

01:42:47:12 01:42:49:01
But it's a very small - when you

01:42:49:02 01:42:50:23
look at vast properties, like I have

01:42:50:24 01:42:51:18
and they're big and they're

01:42:51:19 01:42:53:10
beautiful and they're well located -

01:42:53:14 01:42:55:04
when you look at that, the amount

01:42:55:13 01:42:56:14
of money - four hundred million

01:42:56:15 01:42:57:15
dollars is a peanut.

01:42:57:19 01:42:59:09
It's extremely under levered.

01:42:59:17 01:43:01:21
And it's levered with normal

01:43:02:11 01:43:03:13
banks. Not a big deal.

01:43:03:14 01:43:04:19
All right, let's take a break.

01:43:04:20 01:43:05:25
We'll get more voter questions right

01:43:05:26 01:43:06:25
after this.

01:43:06:26 01:43:08:12
We are live in Miami in the middle of
a town hall with president Trump.

01:43:08:13 01:43:09:24
Thank you for being here. We've got
another voter Adam Sugar. He voted

01:43:10:00 01:43:11:11
for Hilary Clinton in 2016. He's
registered as a democrat and says
he's

01:43:11:12 01:43:12:05
supporting Biden. Adam, take it away.

01:43:12:06 01:43:13:15
Thank you Savannah, thank you Mr
President. Four year aga, Senate

01:43:13:16 01:43:15:00
leadership said it was inappropriate
to push through a nominee in an

01:43:15:01 01:43:16:13
election year. Yet they fast-tracked
your nominee for the supreme court,

01:43:16:14 01:43:18:01
just today. The question I have for
you, is how do you...what do you say

01:43:18:02 01:43:19:14
to the voter who thinks it's
hypocritical to act in that manner
and they

01:43:19:15 01:43:20:06
can't trust the Republicans word?

01:43:20:07 01:43:21:19
So, when I was elected, and when a
president is elected, they're elected

01:43:21:20 01:43:23:06
for a period of four years, and
justice Ginsberg said it best, I
think

01:43:23:07 01:43:24:18
talking about President Obama having
to do with somebody else, that the

01:43:24:19 01:43:26:04
president is put there for four
years. Not for three years, so during

01:43:26:05 01:43:27:16
this forth year, it happened to come
up, unfortunately, because I had

01:43:27:17 01:43:29:02
great respect for Justice Ginsberg,
but a vacancy happened to come up,

01:43:29:03 01:43:30:15
and we picked somebody that's
outstanding. She has been an absolute
star

01:43:30:16 01:43:32:03
and I'm extremely proud of it, but
again, plenty of time, I mean there's

01:43:32:04 01:43:33:14
plenty of time, I mean, we're going
to do it before the election, but

01:43:33:15 01:43:35:02
there's much time after the election,
there's no reason to wait. Because

01:43:35:03 01:43:36:14
it's almost unanimous to me,
certainly within the Republican
party, and

01:43:36:15 01:43:38:03
frankly, most of the Democrats,
within closed rooms, I guarentee you
that

01:43:38:04 01:43:39:15
this is an outstanding person, and,
I'm using my full term. And if you

01:43:39:16 01:43:41:00
look at it, if you put the shoe on
the other foot. If they had this,

01:43:41:01 01:43:42:13
they'd do it, one hundred percent. So
there's been twenty nine this has

01:43:42:14 01:43:43:25
happened, and all twenty nine time,
the president has done exactly what

01:43:43:26 01:43:44:05
I've done.

01:43:44:06 01:43:45:18
To the voters point, and I'll just
say, that in 2016, you were on
another

01:43:45:19 01:43:46:13
show, actually, another morning show,

01:43:46:14 01:43:52:24
and you were asked whether President Obama should nominate a Supreme Court justice, Merrick Garland. And you said, I think the Senate should wait until the next president and let the president pick. Now, that was eight months before the election. This is three weeks before. You have changed your position.

01:43:53:00 01:44:04:04
I have a lot of respect for Judge Garland. I want to tell you that. But I'll tell you, the whole ballgame changed when I saw the way they treated Justice Kavanaugh. I have never seen any human being - and I'm not just talking about Supreme Court - I have never seen a human being treated so badly with false accusations and severything else. I have never seen anything like it. And you know what the truth is, Savannah? Like it or not, the ballgame changed a lot. There has never been anybody treated so badly as now Justice Kavanaugh.

01:44:04:05 01:44:08:05
You've mentioned that you would like to see Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the Supreme Court in case any challenges come up in connection with the election. Do you expect her to rule for you?

01:44:08:06 01:44:22:03
I think she'll have to make that decision. I don't think she has any conflict at all. You know, a Supreme Court judge does not have - I mean, they can make their own decision. They actually have additional power to make that decision. It would be totally up to her. I would think that she would be able to rule either for me or against me. I don't see any conflict whatsoever. We have an election coming up. I think it's the most important election in the history of our country. If for any chance - and it probably won't and I hope it doesn't ever get to the Supreme Court - but if it did, I would think that she would rule one way or the other. I would think so.

01:44:22:04 01:44:23:03
But for you. You think she would rule for you?

01:44:23:04 01:44:23:10
I have no idea.

01:44:23:11 01:44:24:16
I mean, of course she'll rule one way or the other, but -.

01:44:24:17 01:44:36:21
But believe it or not, I'd never asked her about it. I never talked about it. I didn't talk about any of the obvious things that you could talk about. And I think a lot of people in my position might. But in speaking to a lot of very brilliant people and people that do this for a living, they say it's better not to talk. So I talk to her about life. I talk to her about the fact, would you like to do this? Are you willing to do this? Because it's a tremendous burden. The answer is yes. She is unbelievably well qualified. But I never spoke to her about these various questions.

01:44:36:22 01:44:40:14
Let's get our next voter. She's leaning to you, Mr. President. She voted for you in 2016. She is a registered Republican. Her name is Mariah Green. Mariah, what's your question?

01:44:40:15 01:44:40:24
Thank you very much.

01:44:40:25 01:44:48:05
Thank you. Good evening, Mr. President. I'm honored to be with you here tonight, sir. So thank you. I'm a pro-life millennial. And my question for you today is, if Roe v. Wade is ultimately overturned in the future, what protections would be put in place or kept for where the mother's life is in jeopardy in relation to high risk pregnancies?

01:44:48:06 01:45:05:18
Well, again, I'm not ruling on this, and Roe v. Wade is something that a lot of people say, obviously, you're going to speak to somebody - I also - two other other great justices, Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh. I never spoke to them about Roe v. Wade. I never spoke to them about election laws. I never spoke to them about anything. And I've done the right thing from a moral standpoint. I don't even know from a legal standpoint, but it was the right thing. I think depending on what happens with Roe v. Wade, I think that perhaps it could get sent down to the states and the states would decide. I also think perhaps nothing will happen. I have not talked to her about it. I think it would be inappropriate to talk to her about it. And some people would say, you can talk to her about it. I just think would be inappropriate.

01:45:05:19 01:45:08:23
But what is your preference? Because, agreed. That's not something you should talk to the judge about. But would you like to see Roe vs. Wade overturned?

01:45:08:24 01:45:20:00
I would I would like to see a brilliant jurist, a brilliant person who has done this in great depth and has actually skirted this issue for a long time make a decision. And that's why I chose her. I think that she's going to make a great decision. I did not tell her what decision to make. And I think would be inappropriate to say right now, because I don't want to do anything to influence her. I want her to get approved. And then I want her to go by the law. And I know she's going to make a great decision for our country.

01:45:20:01 01:45:20:16
A lot of her life, Republican.

01:45:20:17 01:45:22:12
Most pro-life Republicans would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion banned.

01:45:22:13 01:45:22:22
Many of them would.

01:45:22:23 01:45:23:06
What do you think?

01:45:23:07 01:45:32:06
Perhaps most of them would. I am telling you, I don't want to do anything to influence anything right now. I don't want to go out tomorrow and say, oh, he's trying to give her a signal because I didn't speak to her about it. I've done the right thing in so doing. How she's going to rule, you're going to find out perhaps, or you might not find out. I mean, it may never get there. It may never get there. We'll see what happens.

01:45:32:07 01:45:36:17
All right. We have another question. This is Cindy Vélez. She is undecided. She says she's leaning to Biden and she did vote for Clinton in 2016. She's registered as a Democrat. Hi, Cindy. What's your question?

01:45:36:18 01:45:37:18
Good evening, Savannah. Good evening Mr. President.

01:45:37:19 01:45:38:04
[Thank you very much.

01:45:38:05 01:45:49:13
As the mother of a young male of color, I have reason to respect authority, not only because it's the right thing to do, but also out of fear that he may face profiling or be considered a criminal. As an educator, I've also had similar conversations with my high school students. Mr. President, what will you and your administration do to better prepare our law enforcement officers to work in collaboration with the communities that they serve and also to protect the lives of innocent black and Latinos from police brutality and injustice?

01:46:19:11 01:46:53:10
Right. I fully understand the question. And I saw everything that you saw over the summer. And it was a terrible thing, a terrible thing to watch. We were very strongly - we have a a senator named Tim Scott from South Carolina. He came up with a bill that should have been approved. It was great. It was a bill that was strong in terms of law enforcement and strong in terms of enforcing the proper thing and doing the proper thing by law enforcement. And the Democrats just wouldn't go for it. They wouldn't go for it at all. And I don't know why, because it was a really great bill. But I do have to say this. And some people don't like it when I say it, but a lot of people agree. I have done more for the African-American community than any president, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln. Criminal justice reform, prison reform, historically black colleges and universities - I got them funded. They were on a year to year basis. They could have been put out of business. As soon as our country had a little bad year, they would have said, "I'm sorry, we're not going to fund you." I got them 10 year funding and financing and more than they even asked for. I became very friendly with a lot of the heads, but we've done more -  and of course, opportunity zones - but criminal justice reform, everybody said it could, it could not be done. President Obama and Biden never even tried to do it. They never even tried. But I say that and I say it often. I'll say it loud. And I'm very proud of it. And I have a great relationship because of what I've done with the African-American community. I'm very proud of it.

01:55:39:23 01:55:41:16
Let's go to our next question. We have Paulette Dale. She leans slightly to Biden.

01:55:41:17 01:55:42:07
She voted for Clinton in twenty

01:55:42:08 01:55:42:23
sixteen. She's registered as a

01:55:43:10 01:55:44:10
Republican. Paulette, what's your

01:55:44:14 01:55:45:13
question? Thank you. Good evening,

01:55:45:14 01:55:46:07
Mr. President.

01:55:46:08 01:55:46:25
Thank you very much.

01:55:47:00 01:55:48:13
I have to say, you have a great

01:55:48:14 01:55:49:13
smile.

01:55:50:01 01:55:51:01
Thank you Thank you.

01:55:51:02 01:55:52:10
OK. He does. You're so handsome when
you smile. As the daughter of

01:55:52:11 01:55:53:24
immmigrants to the United States who
fled Eastern Europe due to religious

01:55:54:00 01:55:55:12
persecution, the United States
immigration policies are very
personal for

01:55:55:13 01:55:56:23
me. Surveys show that most Americans
and the majority of Republicans

01:55:56:24 01:55:58:11
support the Dreamers Program. So my
question for you Mr. President, is if

01:55:58:12 01:55:59:24
you are elected to a second term, do
you expect to pursue your previous

01:56:00:00 01:56:00:24
efforts to cut the DACA program? Why
or why not?

01:56:01:00 01:56:02:08
Yeah. And the DACA - DACA is somewhat
different than Dreamers. You

01:56:02:09 01:56:03:21
understand that. You understand that
better than anyone probably in this

01:56:03:22 01:56:04:23
room. Where do you come from by the
way originally?

01:56:04:24 01:56:05:21
My grandparents were from Russia and
Poland.

01:56:05:22 01:56:07:09
That's very good. OK. So we're gonna
take care of DACA. We're gonna take

01:56:07:10 01:56:08:22
of Dreamers. It's working right now.
We're negotiating different aspects

01:56:08:23 01:56:10:10
of immigration and immigration law.
We built now over four hundred miles

01:56:10:11 01:56:11:23
of border wall - southern border -
Mexico's working very closely with
us.

01:56:11:24 01:56:13:11
We have the strongest border we've
ever had. We want people to come into

01:56:13:12 01:56:14:24
our country - they have to come in
legally - but we are working very
hard

01:57:22:12 01:57:23:17
on the DACA program. And you will be
I think, very happy

01:57:23:18 01:57:25:01
over the course of the next year.

01:57:25:07 01:57:25:16
Thank you.

01:57:25:17 01:57:26:24
Because I feel the same way as you

01:57:26:25 01:57:27:12
do about it.

01:57:27:13 01:57:28:04
Thank you Mr. President.

01:57:28:05 01:57:29:05
Thank you. Thank you very much.

01:57:29:22 01:57:30:19
Mr. President, in point of fact, the

01:57:30:20 01:57:32:14
DACA program - there are, under your

01:57:33:08 01:57:34:23
administration, no new applicants

01:57:34:24 01:57:35:21
are allowed.

01:57:35:22 01:57:36:22
And in fact, the

01:57:36:23 01:57:38:08
DACA receipients now have to renew
every year as opposed to every two

01:57:38:09 01:57:39:16
years. So in fact, the DACA program
has been curtailed by your

01:58:07:22 01:58:08:05
administration.

01:58:08:06 01:58:09:15
Well what happened is because of the
pandemic, much changed on the

01:58:09:16 01:58:11:02
immigration front. Mexico is heavily
infected as you know and we've made

01:58:11:03 01:58:12:13
it very very difficult to come in
because of the pandemic and other

01:58:12:14 01:58:13:24
reasons - and crime. But we have a
very strong border right now and we

01:58:14:00 01:58:15:11
have to keep it that way. But, we
want people to come into our country

01:58:15:12 01:58:16:24
but they have to come in through a
merit system and they have to come in

01:58:17:00 01:58:17:17
legally. And people are very, very

01:58:17:18 01:58:17:24
happy with it.

01:58:18:00 01:58:18:16
You haven't heard any complaints

01:58:18:17 01:58:19:06
about that. But what happened

01:58:19:07 01:58:19:21
is because of the pandemic,

01:58:19:22 01:58:20:06
we have to be extra

01:58:20:07 01:58:20:10
cautious.

01:58:20:11 01:58:21:00
You have been promising this

01:58:21:01 01:58:21:17
immigration bill since, well, at

01:58:21:18 01:58:22:06
least July when you told my

01:58:22:07 01:58:23:13
colleague on Telemundo it was coming
but nothing's come yet.

01:58:23:14 01:58:24:25
It's very happy - the factis we got
rid of catch and release which is a

01:58:24:26 01:58:26:12
disaster - you know, you catch
somebody, they could be a murderer,
they

01:58:26:13 01:58:27:25
could be a rapist, and we're supposed
ot release them into our country?

01:58:27:26 01:58:29:12
These are the laws that I inherited.
We ended that program. Now I think

01:58:29:13 01:58:31:00
you're gonna see something very very
good. The whole immigration - if you

01:58:31:01 01:58:32:10
loo at what's goign on, people used
to pour into our country - and

01:58:32:11 01:58:33:21
especially during the pandemic, I
think you'll be - I think even you

01:58:33:22 01:58:34:12
Savannah will be very impressed.

01:58:34:13 01:58:35:25
Sir we have about thirty seconds
left. I think about people sitting
out

01:58:35:26 01:58:37:10
there tonight. There are some who
love you. Some of them are sitting

01:58:37:11 01:58:38:22
right around here. And some who will
never vote for you. But there are

01:58:38:23 01:58:40:08
people in the middle, there are
people who wanna know why they should

01:58:40:09 01:58:41:19
give you a second chance and how you
might improve in a second term.

01:58:41:20 01:58:42:17
Thirty seconds - what would you say
to them?

01:58:42:18 01:58:44:02
Because I've done a great job. We
have the strongest economy in the

01:58:44:03 01:58:45:14
world. We closed it up. We are coming
around the corner. Vaccines are

01:58:45:15 01:58:47:01
coming out soon. And our economy is
strong. We are at a level with jobs

01:58:47:02 01:58:48:13
like we've never been before. We've
rebuilt our military. We've rebuilt

01:58:48:14 01:58:50:02
our borders. We had no borders, we
had no nothing. We've rebuilt so
much.

01:58:50:03 01:58:51:12
We've given you the greatest tax cut
in the history of our country,

01:58:51:13 01:58:52:04
greatest regulation cut - equally

01:59:37:20 01:59:38:15
as important.

01:59:38:16 01:59:39:21
And we created new levels

01:59:40:25 01:59:42:15
of jobs that nobody thought was

01:59:43:04 01:59:44:18
possible. And next year is going

01:59:45:02 01:59:46:14
to be better than ever before.

01:59:46:23 01:59:47:18
I got to leave it there.

01:59:47:19 01:59:48:18
I got it

01:59:50:00 01:59:50:25
a rap from the control room. Mr.

01:59:51:00 01:59:51:25
President, thank you for your time.

01:59:51:26 01:59:53:05
Thank you for listening to the
voters. That concludes our

01:59:54:08 01:59:55:03
town hall.

01:59:55:04 01:59:56:10
We do want to thank the president

01:59:56:16 01:59:57:20
again, as well as our audience in

01:59:58:02 01:59:59:15
hot Miami and all of you watching at

01:59:59:22 02:00:01:14
home. And a reminder, Donald Trump

02:00:01:15 02:00:02:23
and Joe Biden are scheduled to meet

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in person a week from tonight in

02:00:05:14 02:00:06:13
Nashville, a second and final

02:00:06:14 02:00:08:05
presidential debate moderated by our

02:00:08:06 02:00:09:12
own Christian Walker.

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Have a good evening and thanks for

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being with us.

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