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that they have caught the murderer. Today it is a legend that we saw Joe Biden continue to politicize a pandemic and show his terrible lack of respect for the American people. That's what happens all the time. Biden has been wrong about the virus, ignoring scientific evidence and putting left-wing politics before facts. and there is evidence that Sleepy Joe opposed travel bans to China and Europe.

You know he opposed the China travel ban that I instituted very early and the Europe travel ban that I instituted quite early if I had followed and if we had followed and listened to his advice. hundreds of thousands more people would have died this is, according to many people, I think dr. Fauci agreed that he said President Trump made a big decision when he imposed the ban on China. Joe Biden wants to open American borders allowing the pandemic to infiltrate every American community based on his policies, he wants to have ridiculous open borders. I've been saying since the first day I started campaigning for this great office that you have open borders, you don't have a country, you don't have a country. with open borders, so he wants open borders, the Democrats want open borders and if you take a look at our southern border, we would have criminals coming through the wall that is approaching 290 miles long and is having a huge impact, so no We agree with him that that's one of many different things we don't agree with, but while Joe Biden would allow rioters, looters, criminals, and millions of illegal aliens to roam freely in our country, he wants the government to federal government issues a broad new mandate to uphold the law. american citizens, you want the president of the united states, with a simple stroke of a pen, to order over 300 million american citizens to wear a mask for a minimum of three months straight, i guess this just happened, you think it's Good policy, I guess, no matter where they are.

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s and no matter its environment, because the different states are very different both in terms of the atmosphere itself but also in terms of the corona problem, it does not identify what authority the president has to issue such a mandate or how the federal authorities could enforce it . or why we would be trampling on governors across our country, many of whom have done a very good job and know what is needed.

Furthermore, many of our 50 states are doing the job at a level that, frankly, people are really surprised, including foreign governments. They call us constantly and ask us for advice, so I just want to say that our governors have worked very hard, they have worked with vice president pence, me and everyone else who has been going, now we have scott involved, so congratulations to scott, but you will. He will work with many governors he has already started and with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Burks, if the president has the unilateral power to order every citizen to wear a face covering in almost all cases, what other powers does he have?

That's why he refused Biden. takes questions he couldn't answer any of them couldn't answer the questions he refuses to take questions he never takes questions I ask questions he never takes questions and you wonder what's going on because they're not that difficult some may be unpleasant, but they're not so difficult, but he never answers questions, so I guess he left. I didn't see it, but I guess he just left the podium. Please remember that my administration has a different approach that we have urged Americans to use. masks and I emphasized uh, this is a patriotic thing, maybe they're great and maybe they're just good, maybe they're not that good, but frankly, what do you have to lose?

You have nothing to lose, so we do it and we. I've been saying to use them when appropriate, especially in terms of social distancing, if you can't distance enough and what do you have to lose, but again it's up to the governors and we want to have some freedom. We want to have some freedom. That's what it's all about, at the same time, we also understand that every state is different and faces unique circumstances. There are very different states that face very unique differences and circumstances. We have entrusted the governors of each state elected by the people to develop them. and enforce its own mass and other policies following federal government and CDC guidelines.

We are working with each state to implement a plan based on facts and science. We will continue to urge Americans to wear masks when they cannot socially distance, but we do not need to put the full weight of the federal government on law-abiding Americans to achieve this goal. Americans should have their freedoms and I have a lot of trust in the American people and their governors. I trust that the American people and the governors want to do what they want. the right thing to do is to make smart decisions and joe doesn't joe doesn't know too much unlike biden's approach our approach is guided by science that's why we're focused on protecting high-risk Americans that's why we're providing medical treatments effective in dramatically reducing the mortality rate and that is why we are developing a vaccine and therapies in record time.

You see, I think very soon Sleepy Joe will reject the scientific approach in favor of locking all Americans in their basements for months, which I think is something Scott would be very opposed to. I think I can speak for you. We've been dealing pretty hard over the past few weeks, but he wants them in the basement for months and you. you have governors who have been very, very strict about keeping people in their homes, keeping people there wherever they are, apartments and, frankly, I don't think the outcomes are necessarily better than other outcomes, but you want to shut down our economy. , close our schools and it will paralyze society and he wants it to be done through a federal decree.

This would lead to long-lasting and crippling depression. This would be a crippling and long-lasting depression. And yesterday I showed you the numbers on how well we're doing coming back. auto sales and auto manufacturing and used car sales and home sales in numbers that no one would have believed and we are back and very strong, it's a very strong v, it's almost a straight v, we'll discuss that over the next two days, but the economy is recovering and the employment figures for the last three months are a record in the history of our country and we will return next year.

I think maybe we will be even stronger than the previous year, where we set all the records. in the book on jobs and the stock market, by the way, our stock market numbers are very close to the record and the Nasdaq is actually a record in the last 14 days 14 times 14 times it has been a record and that is during what we expect are the most final stages. of the pandemic, so if we did what Biden wanted to do, it would shut down our healthcare system and cause a massive increase in mortality, suicide, overdoses, heart disease, and countless other physical and mental harms.

It's very, very bad on the other side of the border. equation when you do something like that those shutdowns are very punitive, very punitive, they hurt a lot of people in a lot of different ways, from depression to suicide, to many other things, alcohol, drugs, Biden's approach is regressive, it's anti-science and very defeatist, but it would be very bad for our country as long as Joe Biden has been playing politics from the sidelines, he has no idea that we have been solving problems and getting tremendous results. The most advanced and robust testing system on the planet.

The number one producer of fans. the world, by far, an unprecedented industrial mobilization, the largest since the second world war, high-speed operation to offer life-saving treatments and very soon a vaccine, which would make a joe biden plan really we have already achieved it, in fact, many of the things that were well reported in the last few days, every one of the things that he said to do, every one of the things that we did and we did them well, so Biden has no idea on his own, alone knows what he thinks we should do when he spits it out and So I guess you could say he plagiarizes and he really did that in our case because I think each of the events, Kayla, we can say was something we had already done, so we'll defeat to the virus, but not by hiding in our basements. he has to get out of his basement, we will defeat this virus through a common sense mitigation effort that protects those most at risk and unleashes America's medical and scientific genius, which is what it is and we have already been doing it and we are very I'm close to having something that is going to be very, very special in the form of therapies and vaccines.

For Joe, I would say stop playing politics with the virus. Overly serious partisan politics has no place here. It is an embarrassing situation for anyone trying to score good political points. We are working to save

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s and defeat the pandemic in times of national challenge. The United States and the Americans and, by the way, we are working with countries around the world and they are trying to learn from us and from some of the countries that you talked about very well, are having a tremendous increase right now, but It will work, but Americans must come together and they must put politics aside and truly come together for the common good.

Three vaccines are in the final stage of clinical trials. We are doing very well, we are producing the most promising vaccine candidates ahead of time, as you know, part of the largest industrialization in history. It's amazing when I meet heads of companies that are doing this and are the best companies in the world. It's amazing where they are how they're doing it and the speed at which they're doing it and also the speed at which the FDA approves things because by any other standard you would have been two or three years away from being at the point where that we are.

By the end of this week we will have shipped 1,846 point-of-care rapid testing devices to nursing homes, which are a very important source, as you know, for people who are not handling the China plague very well just this week. We are sending 992 testing devices and 450,000 tests to more than 950 nursing homes across the country and these tests are incredible, they are all new tests, very modern and we are also doing the tests that are not done immediately. the time of five to 15 minutes when they send them to a laboratory now they come back in three days, so it is a three-day process which is the best you can do: you have one day to deliver, one day to receive and one day in the laboratory, we will also require all nursing homes to test all members of their staff at least weekly, unleashing America's scientific genius.

We have provided effective treatments. The case fatality rate for Americans over age 70 has dropped by about 85 percent. That is fantastic. the number has decreased, the case fatality has decreased by 85 percent, Europe has seen excess mortality 40 percent more than the United States compared to a year without a pandemic, so you listen to the numbers and those numbers are very interesting , but that's how we continue. to urge all Americans to wash their hands social distance wear a mask when necessary and when you cannot distance and protect the vulnerable very important protect the elderly and especially people who have heart problems or diabetes or some other problem today very exciting

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very important news around the world they are talking about it around the world it was surprising that we finalized a historic peace agreement between israel and the united arab emirates after half a century israel and the united arab emirates will completely normalize their relations diplomatic no one thought this was something that could happen for a long time.

This is the most important diplomatic breakthrough since the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was signed more than 40 years ago. We have here the ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. Thank you David for being here. We very much agree. that this was a great day for Israel and a great day for the world. Thank you very much, David, you have been fantastic, also fantastic, ambassador and representative of our country. Thank you so much. The agreement reached today will allow Muslims to have much greater capacity. visiting many historical sites in israel and praying peacefully at the al aqsa mosque, which is very important to them and which they have wanted access to for many decades, this is a monumental step in forging ties of cooperation in the middle east and i think other countries will show up.

I can tell you that we have already done this and that they want to reach an agreement. They could have peace in the Middle East.It would be fantastic. Israel is also suspending settlements in the West Bank, which is a big problem. The agreement is a bold step towards achieving peace. Israel and the United Arab Emirates also agreed to immediately expand and accelerate scientific collaboration to develop effective treatments and vaccines to defeat the China virus. Both have been affected by practically all countries. 188 countries have been affected and saving lives in their region and in their world, so they are working hard on vaccines with us as well and again there will be very good news that our unprecedented diplomatic engagements laid the foundation for this historic agreement of peace that was What we just announced a while ago today we will not rest as we continue to work for a world of greater harmony and prosperity forAll I want to thank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates , fantastic people for their vision and their leadership, and I hope to welcome them to the White House very soon to formally sign the agreement that I will probably do in the next, I would say three weeks, and they will come to Washington, so it was a tremendous day, something tremendous thing that happened and it's a great sign that we have a lot of other interesting things happening.

Other nations are also dealing with peace agreements and in the coming weeks there will be a lot of big news and I'm sure they will be very impressed and more importantly it's a great thing for our country, a great thing for the world. Thank you very much, please go ahead, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. I want to ask you about school-aged children and food. One of the real problems when schools close. These are children who receive free and reduced lunch programs. They need these meals. to get through the day and with districts closing schools, what, if anything, can the federal government do to ensure that children continue to receive decent meals as long as schools function well?

You know, we don't want schools to close. we want the schools to open and especially the very young children who handle the children all the children, but especially the very young children, they handle it very well so we want the schools to open we don't want to be in that position we want the schools to open We have made the payment and we would Frankly, if the school is not going to open, we would prefer to follow the child with the payment, give the money to the child, that is, to the child's parents, and let the parents do what they have to do, including taking the child to another school. school because we're finding that whether it's parents or kids, people want to go back to school, they want to get their lives back, some people are saying they don't want the Democrats to not want the schools to open because that's where there are a lot of voting booths and If you have a closed school it is not very easy to have voting booths in the school and that is becoming, I think maybe we can prove that as a fact, but that is another thing that they are doing to try to keep people away from the ballot boxes, so we have to look into that, but you've been reading about it, I've been reading about it and I don't like it, but we would like to see schools open, so we don't.

I have that problem, good question, thanks, what is your understanding on how long Israel will suspend this West Bank annexation plan? What do you think? Tell me, we have, we are putting all our eggs in the peace basket, we have an agreement with the Emirates, we are going to specify all the details, embassies, commercial overflights, then we are going to extrapolate it to the rest of the region, how long does it take, no? I can tell you, but we have prioritized peace over the sovereignty movement. but it is not off the table, it is simply something that will be postponed until we give peace every chance.

What do you want the Palestinians to take away from this agreement? Since they are not actually part of it, but they have great support. for some of the countries that we're talking to that have already signed, you know, in the case of one country, but others will follow and I think the Palestinians will, without necessarily saying so, but I think they really want to be. . part of what we are doing and I see, ultimately, the Palestinians. I see peace between Israel and the Palestinians. I see that happening. I think as these big, powerful rich countries come in, I think the Palestinians will follow quite naturally.

Yes please. I believe that an agreement could have been reached without Israel's agreement to temporarily suspend the annexation. Say it again. Could you make it stronger? Do you think the agreement could have been reached without Israel's agreement to temporarily suspend the annexation? What do you think of that David? interesting, I think you can't do both at the same time, so I think again to prioritize peace, sovereignty after the pieces, given all the opportunities to resort to sovereignty, I don't think both could have been done at the same time , would you have asked Israel to do it permanently? consider abandoning annexation, this is a temporary process, there have been no applications this morning, you said you don't want to fund the US Postal Service because Democrats are trying to expand mail-in voting, so I have two questions For you, one, is it threatening? veto any legislation that includes funding for the post office no, not at all, so would you sign something that includes funding for something separate, I would, but one of the reasons the post office needs so much money is to have all these millions of ballots that arrive from nowhere and no one knows where and where they go.

You saw what happened to Caitlyn and Virginia. You know, 500,000 applications came in from all over the state. Nobody even knows where they came from. You saw what happened in New York, which was a disaster with Congresswoman, uh, Carolyn Malone, it was a basic disaster and you look at Patterson, New Jersey, what's happening there and we can give you a lot of other locations and sites. What happened is part. of a big negotiation that is actually a small part of a big negotiation to get more money to the people that was not their fault, it was China's fault and the post office is part of it, another part is that they want three thousand five hundred millions of dollars. just because of the ballots themselves why there are so many of them I don't know but that's what the Democrats want but if the bill isn't going to pass that would mean the post office wouldn't get any funding and that would also mean That The three and a half billion dollars is not going to be managed, so I don't know how these ballots could be used, these mail-in ballots, the absentee ballots, by the way, are fine, but the universal mailings that were just sent to all. about the place where people can grab them and grab loads of them and sign them and do whatever they want.

That's what we're against, isn't it? The problem is that you are saying that you don't want to give this post office. funding in this coronavirus legislation they say they need it so they can be prepared, the pandemic is still going on in November when the elections are held and people don't feel safe going to vote in person, they can vote by mail and it can be safe and can be sure, I can understand the post office and if we could agree on an invoice, the general invoice, which is obviously a much larger number than just the post office, that would be fine, but they have the post office as one of their requests , it's your request, you said you were against it, didn't you?

I'm just against doing anything where people aren't taken care of and people aren't taken care of properly. we want people to get money, it wasn't their fault they got shut down, China shut them down, so whether it's the post office or three and a half billion dollars, you know they're asking for three and a half billion. a billion dollars just for universal mail and the balance, but they are not willing to make a deal, these are two points in a very important agreement, what they want more than anything else, caitlyn, and you know, this is money bailout for states and cities that are in trouble, mostly states and cities run by Democrats, so New York has a problem, California has a problem, Illinois has a tremendous problem and others want to be able to bail out these states and we don't want to be doing that or I certainly don't want to be doing that to the extent that they're looking for a trillion dollars we don't want to do that please go ahead I'm really confused because you said they need that money to be able to make the office The post office works so you can get all these millions and millions of ballots and you said that would be fraudulent, so it sounded like you said, you know, I said it's going to end up being fraudulent because if you look at what's happened in the last few weeks just look at the few cases where this happened, it turned out to be fraudulent, well if you look at New York, it was fraudulent, if you look at Paterson, New Jersey was fraudulent, of course, it's all a mess, actually, Carolyn.

Maloney's opponent has gone crazy, he said the election was taken away from him and he may be right, I think they should redo that election and if you look at Virginia it's terrible, look at some of the things that have happened in California, look at California , where they found a million ineligible voters that was done by judicial watch tom fitton and judicial watch we have to have an honest election and if it's not going to be an honest election I guess people have to sit down and think very carefully about but if the post office is not going to pass a bill and therefore the post office is not going to have the money and if they are not going to pass a big bill, a bigger bill and they are not going to have all three one and a half billion dollars for universal voting by mail, how can those votes be obtained?

What it would mean is that people will have to go to the polls and vote like in the old days, like two years ago, three years ago, four years ago. I have to go to the does not say that no one is going to remove the vote but it means that the universal emails do not work the absentee ones do work is a very different thing an absentee one where you make a request and send it they send Votes, it is different, but Caitlyn, no I'm saying nothing wrong with voting. I want them to vote, but that would mean they would have to go to a voting booth like before and vote to vote in person.

The people want. vote by mail because well, they're going to have to feel safe and they're going to be safe and we're going to make sure that they're safe and we're not going to have to spend three and a half billion dollars to do it and when you go to a vote, it would be wonderful if we had ID to vote by mail. and some states have it and some don't because they can't approve it most states want it but we want people to vote but we want people to vote so when they vote it means one vote, it doesn't mean ballots everywhere.

You saw what happened in Virginia, where piles of ballot applications are dumped all over the state. They named them after dogs. They named them after dead people. we want to have an accurate vote I won't do this for any reason maybe the other thing will turn out to be my advantage I don't know I can't tell you but yes I know I just want an accurate vote and it's By the way, it's a fair question, is everyone else okay too , Mr. president? How does the current agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates help struggling and persecuted Christians in the Middle East?

How do you help struggling and persecuted Christians in the Middle East? today, well, I think it will be a great start and you are right that Christians have been persecuted by some countries, particularly in the Middle East, and I think this is a great start, it will be a very strong start. A very powerful beginning and it is something I will tell you. I told David. I told that to each of our negotiators. If you look at the way Christians have been treated in some countries, it is beyond shameful. If I had information. and if I had absolute proof of some of the stories that we have heard that are not easy to understand, I would go and do a series of things in those countries as if you would not believe what they do to Christians in the middle.

This one and it's embarrassing, it's embarrassing, you're right, it's a very important part of the overall negotiation and as countries come in, for example, the United Arab Emirates have firmly agreed to represent us, I think they will do very well regarding Christianity. , because in the Middle East. It is not treated well, it is not treated well at all, it is treated horribly and very unfairly and it is criminal what has happened and that has happened for many years. I think it's a great question and it's a very unfair situation. Thank you, Mr. President, Larry Kudlow said that.

There is a routine check-in call with China on phase one of the trade deal. My question is: what would happen if they mentioned ticking and also on WeChat? and if it's microsoft, i understand that and others are negotiating, we also said it's obviously worthless if we don't allow them into the country, so we said the united states treasury is going to get something out of this deal, something very substantial, but what? that? What we want is complete security, but we have a deadline of September 15, so I know that Microsoft and othersThey are very interested in it, but that is our deadline and it must be proven that it is totally safe.

We don't want any information to enter China. with what we've been through and I have to tell you I talked about the deal, you mentioned the phase one deal, well the phase one deal is a very interesting situation because you've been hearing about the largest corn order in history, the largest soybean order. the biggest order of beef, they've made more than ever, so you'll have to find out where I'm coming from. I could have done it because they see my attitude. My attitude towards China is not friendly. but they have placed orders that are extremely large, extremely large and our farmers are very happy, but with what they did regarding the pandemic, the plague that came from China, it's a different feeling, it was an incredible deal. but I have a very different feeling but they are giving, they are givingthe Midwest, our farmers are among the largest orders they have ever seen.

Someone told me today, Bob Light

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, that about 40% of what they're selling now goes to China, so maybe they're trying to change my mind. a little bit because you know my attitude about China and it's not that it hasn't been very good, well, we're not talking to them, no, we're talking to companies, theory, it's a company, but it's a company within China, that means China and uh the deal will have to be substantially beneficial to the United States and we need full security. Can you tell us if you think annexation should be off the table for Israel, and if so, have you communicated that it's not off the table, no, it's something?

They have discussed it but Israel has agreed not to do so. I mean, more than just off the table, they've agreed not to do it and I think that was very important and I think that was a big concession on Israel's part and I think that was a very smart concession on Israel's part, but, David, you have something else? The Prime Minister was quite clear today in his own press

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that he considers this to be a temporary suspension and that the deal would still be open to him at some point in the future. I'm asking him what he thinks he should do now.

All I can say is off the table, so I can't talk about some point in the future. That is a great statement, but at this moment what is off the table is whether it is a correct statement, Mr. Ambassador, yes. the word suspend was carefully chosen by all parties suspend by definition uh look it up that means temporary suspension uh it's off the table down but it's not off the table minute go ahead to reverse some of the policy changes that have occurred there in order to avoid delays no I wouldn't do that at all no I want the post office to function properly but it makes sense that they need a lot more money if they are going to accept tens of millions of ballots that just came out. from the sky out of nowhere and that's why they need additional financial help, it's a part of the bill that the Democrats don't want to do because they want a trillion.

A much larger portion of the bill wants $1 trillion to go to governed states. by governors who happen to be Democrats who haven't done a good job for many years and those states that owe a lot of money and need a lot of money and they're talking about a trillion dollars, so the post office and the three and five hundred billion of dollars for the votes themselves, which sounds like a lot of money. They are looking for three and a half billion dollars. Think about those three and a half billion dollars to have mail-in ballots. Again, absent.

Good universal mail. Very badly. that negotiations are still ongoing on whether to send more money to the postal service why not put in more resources and more money yourself find a way to do it to make sure it's okay they can do it very easily all they have to do is make a deal if they make a deal the postal service will take care of the money they need for mail-in ballots they would take care of it if we accept it that doesn't mean we're going to take it, but all they have to do is come to an agreement, but again The most important thing for them is not that it is a lot of money, but that in a short time compared to the others, what they want to do and very, very, very strongly, what they want to do is rescue the cities that are run by Democrats and It has been for many years and these cities and states have done very poorly and they desperately need money for that and we are open to some, but we are not open to the kind of money they need, go ahead, please three. years and a half, just a second, what are you doing as president to make sure there is a free and fair election?

What are you doing as president to make sure that there's a free and fair way for everyone to talk about Russia Russia Russia? they talk about china china they talk about all these different countries that come and run our elections, which is false, but what they do and don't talk about is things like very vague mail-in ballots of a universal nature that, frankly, russia china north korea, Iran, all these countries that we're reading about that we're hearing about and in some cases they're writing about intelligence, these countries could take those ballots or print forgeries of those ballots and they would go out and have fun. this is the easiest way for mail-in ballots is the easiest way for a country like China, Russia, North Korea or Iran.

I also listened to Iran. You know that was part of the report. This would be very easy for them. much easier than good, now we have been very strong if you remember that the FBI briefed President Obama about Russia in September, the elections were in November, President Obama decided to do absolutely nothing about it, people don't mention that much anymore, that's a loss. done, but he was told very clearly what they were going to do and president obama did nothing, we have done a lot and we have really shored it up, but what people can never prepare for is millions and millions of mail-in ballots because they can be falsified they can be caught they can't be taken right that's a very difficult thing to do we have to make sure we can do it please Mr.

President after three and a half years do you regret all the lies you have made to the American people all the lies all the dishonesty that who has done you have done uh tensorflow go ahead please go ahead I wanted to ask about the payroll tax cut, is it going to be optional or mandatory for employers? and not collect the payroll taxes, the payroll tax is very important and a very big benefit for the people, as you know, for the companies, because we want the companies to be strong, but now directly for the people and it is a very large number and we are taking care of that and we this will go directly to the people to the workers within the company it is a payroll tax it is called a payroll tax cut we are cutting the payroll tax and it is a very large number big and that will go directly to the workers of the company employers to collect that through fico it will be suspicious if they will be required not to collect that money, it means later, it means later, at a later date, so on the 1st September, when I get my paycheck, employers will collect it and give it to me. employers will most likely pick you up and give you the thumbs up, please continue and I have two questions.

I can't understand the words I'm circulating on social media that pamela harris is not eligible to run for vice president because she was a baby anchor, I hope you can say definitively if pamela harris is eligible or not legally eligible to run as vice president so I just heard today I heard that she doesn't meet the requirements and by the way, The attorney who wrote that article is a highly qualified and very talented attorney. I have no idea if that is correct. I would have thought she would have assumed that Democrats would have verified that before they picked her to run for vice president, but that's a serious thing.

They are saying that they are saying that she does not qualify because she was not born in this country, no, she was born in this country, but her parents were not. The claims say that her parents did not receive permanent residency from her. I don't know, I just found out, I'll take a look back, I recently said that you or she hopes to be able to deliver the speech to the UN general assembly in person, although other leaders will send it. your video recordings, can you confirm yes? I'm thinking of going directly to the UN to give the speech.

A lot of people won't be able to be there because of Covid, as you know, but I think it's appropriate. If we can do it, I will do it directly and again, this will not be like in the past because some countries will not be able to escape the problems that they are having. You know, countries are having a tremendous problem with the China virus. So we'll see what happens, but I'd rather do it. I can do it another way. I can make it viral, since they say I can do it that way, but I'd rather be at the United Nations to deliver it.

I think so. I think it better represents the country, and I also feel at least a semi-obligation as president of the United States to be at the United Nations to deliver what will be an important speech. Well, the room won't be empty. The room will have different people there and country representatives, but I can understand how you know it's very difficult for countries to be there, they won't be there just for that reason they would love to be there. I've already received calls from people. In fact, I gave a couple of them. I'd love to be there if you want, I'll be there.

I said don't be there. You don't have to be there. No, the room would be. I think not the room. Although there may be a space requirement like you have in this room, this room was always full. This room would be full again if we had open seating, but you have a space requirement, so I understand that the United Nations may have that too. Yes, please, thank you, Mr. President, I have a question about the peace agreement, but if you don't mind, could I pass my question on to you, Emma Khan at Epic Times? Surely yes, please, thank you.

I would like to ask your opinion on what happened recently in hong kong recent attack on press freedom in hong kong and jimmy lai was arrested his newsroom was raided how will the US respond to this? Well, I think it's a terrible thing, but one thing that we have done, you know, we gave tremendous incentives to Hong Kong because freedom we want freedom and we were giving tremendous economic incentives to Hong Kong and now we have withdrawn all those incentives and it will be impossible for Hong Kong will simply not compete with the United States on that because we have taken away all incentives.

If you look at China with the World Trade Organization as an example, they are becoming tremendous because they are considered a developing nation, which is ridiculous, why should they be a developing nation but we are not? and they get tremendous incentives. By the way, we told them it's unacceptable and we've been doing it for a long time. They understand exactly how we feel and big changes are being made, but with respect to Hong Kong, they get Tremendous financial incentives so they could do business and compete in the world. Now we have withdrawn all those incentives. It is going to be very difficult for Hong Kong to compete and I will tell you that the United States and I say that from any point of view.

If you want to hear it, we will end up making a lot more money from this, because we lost a lot of business in Hong Kong. We made it very convenient for people to go there, for companies to go there. We have removed all that. and the United States will be a big beneficiary from an economic standpoint, but I hate to see what happened to Hong Kong because freedom is a great thing. Thank you all very much, thank you very much.