FACT CHECKING THE MEDIA: Kayleigh McEnany TAKES ON Reporters

out now to the white house news briefing that just getting started good afternoon everyone two briefings ago i asked where is nancy pelosi today i can announce we have found nancy pelosi as you can see we found nancy pelosi going into her hair salon we will be playing the video on loop for all of you to see during the duration of this introduction nancy pelosi was not in the halls of congress when i asked where she was she was not working in good faith to make a deal for the american people nope nancy pelosi was found in san francisco at a hair salon where she was indoors even though salons in california are not only open for outdoor service apparently the rules do not apply to speaker nancy pelosi she wants small businesses to stay shut down but only reopen for her convenience do as i say not as i do says nancy pelosi nancy pelosi is holding up 1.3 trillion dollars in relief for the american people while getting special access to the very kind of small businesses that this money would support businesses like this hair salon before she skipped town to violate her state's health guidelines pelosi proposed a bill it was called the heroes act which contained no additional paycheck protection funding this is funding that would help with a very small business she has bizarrely accused of plotting against her the president sees through democrats disregard for americans in need and he took action unilaterally in his own accord he provided relief from evictions he provided unemployment insurance he paused student loan payments and he cut the payroll tax putting money in the american people's pockets congress also failed to authorize funding to provide children with free lunches for the 2020-2021 school year and again president trump with senior advisor ivanka trump took action and now usda has extended a summer program which will ensure children continue to have access to free meals through the end of the year nancy pelosi is demanding an apology from a single mother and small business owner who has received threats since nancy pelosi's comments against her salon salon owner erica kyas said this since this happened i've received nothing but hate text messages death threats saying they're going to burn down my hair salon it's just sad that my community is pulling this saying that i threw her under the bus when i did not so that's hurtful but yes i think i'm pretty much done now nancy pelosi you ought to apologize to the american people or better yet come back to washington and get to work for hardworking americans like this salon owner that you maligned and demanded an apology from and with that i'll take questions yes john kelly do you acknowledge that it is illegal in this country to vote twice in the same election are you referring to the president's comments earlier today i'm just asking you a basic yes or no question do you believe it is illegal in this country the president does not condone unlawful voting uh the president's been very clear about this some once again not surprised the media is taking the president out of context do you recall what the president said on this matter specifically i have it right here okay maybe you should read it out for me then okay so the the president said that you should go to your poll you should vote early by mail and you should go either early voting or day of and try to vote again so he is asking people to vote by mail and then to go down to the polling place on election day and to vote again if their vote has if they can't confirm their vote has been counted you're missing a very crucial line from the president's remarks if it is not tabulated meaning your mail-in vote then you will be able to vote in person if it is not tabulated this is why at least five states in this country that do not count any mail-in votes until election day so those votes won't be counted until afterwards so that there's no way to know whether or not they're voting there's a very simple answer and this is how it works first a lot of states have what are called electronic poll books and what this means is that in real time this is updated so if your vote is counted they check the electronic poll book and you will not be able to vote in person because your vote has been counted um there's a secondary situation so those who do not have electronic poll books every single state in the country you can cast a provisional ballot and that is a ballot that is there and if your your vote that you have not mailed in is not counted they will then count the provisional ballot and that is exactly what the president's referring to but what democrats are doing is saying this we want an entire new system for voting one subject to fraud don't take it from me take it from jimmy carter who said in 2005 as part of a bipartisan commission absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud so what democrats want you to do is say trust us but don't verify don't verify that your vote's been counted this president's trying to enfranchise americans which is exactly what he's been saying he wants every american to have a vote because he understands what jimmy carter understood and what so many of us understood until the president started putting the focus on mail-in voting and that was this that it is subject to fraud every vote should count and every american should verify that their vote is counted by going to their polling to the executive director of the north carolina board of electors who says that this would be creating a big problem on election year what i would say is that the president has laid it out very clearly you should verify your vote and not only that i would appoint them to the fact that in 2016 before we tried this entire new system of mass mail out voting 319 000 votes were not counted that were cast by mail 319 000 in an election that came down really to 80 000 votes in pennsylvania wisconsin in michigan that's untenable and hundreds thousands more will not be counted with the democrats fraudulent mass bailout voting system the president wants enfranchisement plain and simple john can i ask you a process and jurisdiction question the president signed a memorandum last night directing federal agencies to look at funds that might be withheld to city as to cities that do not do enough to restore a law in order by what authority does the president believe he can do that yeah the president um believes that what we should do that the purpose of government um is to protect life liberty and property that is the purpose of the federal government and it's imperative that the federal government review um the use of funds by jurisdiction so what this does this memo it really does three things one it asks federal agencies to detail all federal funds that are being provided to seattle portland new york city and washington d.c secondly within 14 days the attorney general will develop a list of anarchist jurisdictions of lawlessness zones that are permitting violence and destruction of property and then within 30 days the white house budget director will issue guidance to the heads of agencies on restricting eligibility of or otherwise disfavoring to the maximum extent possible by law anarchist jurisdictions in the receipt of federal grants in south carolina v dole did note that you can withhold funding so long as it pertains to the federal program pertains uh to what you're trying to incentivize so we believe here when you look at new york a 177 percent increase in shootings in seattle where there was a lawless chop zone where two died in portland where you've seen 140 officers injured this is a dereliction of duty and if the states will not act in their police power and secure their streets this president will use every lawful mechanism available to him to try to supplement their failures and in some cases that's meant federal officers in minneapolis and kenosha where we've been invited this is yet another attempt to make sure no more children like legend talifaro die on our streets congressionally appropriated funds i i expect that you would expect there to be immediate legal action taken latisha james the attorney general for the state of new york warned a few minutes ago that if you try to withhold any funds she will immediately slap you with a lawsuit well she's free to do that we believe that what we will do will be lawful within the bounds of the law and we encourage states to act and cities to act in the way that kenosha and minneapolis did although be it delayed a little bit there they finally stepped up and asked for federal support and they got it because too many americans are dying on our streets too many businesses being burned to the ground that's not the american way uh by a long shot okay just to follow up on that the president as we know tried to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities and he lost as per the courts so why isn't this also doomed to fail i'm not going to get ahead of exactly what the final product will look like again i just walked you through there's a 14-day timeline for the doj and then a 30-day timeline for office of management and budget but we believe that we are on the right here let me up let me do a couple calls if i can so in may the president said the u.s will be designated antifa as a terrorist organization yes or no did the president do that um what the doj said is that they would be looking at antifa related charges in the lens of domestic charities to be clear they did not designate antifa to be clear they will be pursuing domestic terrorism charges against antifa individuals anarchists who are wreaking havoc across our country and who uh the suspect at least in portland killed an innocent man out in portland uh just over the weekend right for sure and then in 20 but they didn't declare him a terrorist organization as they said he said he's pursuing domestic terror charges in 2017 without a difference in 2017 he threatened to withhold federal funds from uc berkeley if they did not allow free speech has he done that i have to i'll follow up with you on that i guess the question is the president makes a lot of threats knowing that he's not going to follow through or that they're not legal so is this what he's trying to do here yet again no the president will follow through his memo is exceedingly clear we are pursuing every avenue within the federal government to take care of the american people when you have a one-year-old being killed in new york when you have a little beautiful girl in atlanta named sequoia turner who lost her life yes this federal government will do everything within our lawful power and yes the president is serious about this can i follow up with one last one if i can on walter reed the president november said he went to walter reed to begin his physical he said he was there this week he said he was there to complete his physical in fact your predecessor said the same back then that it was to begin it so which one was it when the president went to walter reed the president did his physical and two parts these are very extensive when you're doing a presidential physical and he used the two visits to walter reed to complete the physical and two stops again the media is engaging in conspiracy theories about the president's health just to be clear you said he did in two stops but he said he completed it this week he said he was there to complete it you're saying that's not true so his statement yes next question i'm not engaging in conspiracy theories anymore i'm just asking if he was correct please no go ahead um senator schumer came out with a statement today saying that too much of the evidence points to the trump administration pressuring the fda to approve a vaccine by election day to boost his re-election prospects can you assure the american people that if a vaccine does come out before election day is approved before election day that it is safe and effective and can you address his assertions that you are pressuring the fda to come up with the vaccine before election no one is pressuring the fda to do anything this is again a bizarre theory spun up by cnn among others let me note that the fda you had dr hanu said this i can assure you 100 percent that the president has never pressured me to make a decision regarding any regulatory aspect of the fda's work he said that just a few months ago it is absolutely the case you had secretary azar saying this morning about the vaccine whether it's october 15th or november first or november 15th this is all about saving lives um you've had dr fauci say we in fact brief the president today this was a few weeks ago about this in the oval office i was there for that briefing and dr fauci said there is no political pressure that i have seen at all to move quickly this president wants to break through regulatory barriers to get a vaccine as safe as to the american people as quickly as possible because lives are at stake but he will not in any way sacrifice safety um and making sure that this is 100 airtight before on the american people receive it so the priority here is saving lives um safety and there will be a safe and effective vaccine in the works and again i think the cnn spinning up this conspiracy theory it always based upon the cdc career brought this up yes and cnn was peddling a theory on this as well basically you had career officials at the cdc who made a decision who spoke with states about distributing vaccines were preparing in advance to have a safe and effective vaccine distributed because unlike the obama administration during swine flu they had real problems in that regard the obama administration promised 100 million doses by october they then reduced that number to 40 million for the swine flu by mid-october when the demand for vaccine was at its highest supply fell dramatically short with as few as 11 million doses on hand you even had their cdc director saying we are nowhere near where we thought we'd be by now we are not near where vaccine manufacturers predicted we would be we share the frustration of the people who have waited online or called a number or checked a website and haven't been able to find a place to get vaccinated unlike the obama biden administration we make plans in advance it's why we have contracts for 100 millions of vaccine production in advance and it's why cdc career officials have worked with all 50 states to make sure that we can distribute this vaccine we do our homework in advance unlike obama by just another one so uh vice president joe former vice president joe biden said uh on alexey noviny's poisoning that the mode of attack leaves no doubt as to where the responsibility lies the russian state does the president agree with that assessment and has he made his uh voice known to the russian government on this issue so we're deeply troubled by the results released yesterday alexi navalny's poisoning is completely reprehensible russia has used chemical nerve agents in the past and we're working with their allies and the international community to hold those in russia accountable wherever the evidence leads and restrict funds for their malign activities the russian people have a right to express their views peacefully without fear of retribution of any kind and certainly not with chemical agents and no one has been tougher on the russian government than this president thanks kaitlyn on tick tock the president said that that ban is going to take effect on september 15th if the deal is not agreed to what will that look like or is google and apple gonna have to delete that app from their app stores are people gonna have to delete it off their phones tell us what will happen on september 15th if there's no deal i'm not going to get a hand ahead of announcing on those plans on sept september 15th i know you had some questions on the timing of everything and i i told the commerce department to be expecting your call because they can walk you through you were had questions about the 45 day time frame so i did get some clarity for you on that if you follow up with me we can get you in touch with the commerce department okay yeah kaylee i just wanted to ask you about the investigation there's a couple of uh contracts that were awarded that peter navarro was involved with one uh there's some investigation going on in terms of the kodak uh the money that went to kodak to allow them to develop pharmaceuticals there are other contracts now for ventilators that have received scrutiny um can you give us an update on on how concerned you are that maybe some of these business deals are going through too quickly you're not getting enough scrutiny is there any particular finding that you can offer at this point on that we've made many contracts using the dpa 78 times 30 times with regard to testing we're very proud of what we've done of course um if there are new allegations with a given company we certainly look at those and look at them closely as we did with the kodak situation but we're very proud of what we've done we were met with an unprecedented challenge a novel coronavirus that came to our shores from china and we are very proud that our contracts have enabled us to have a very large and growing stockpile in fact we've rapidly increased the amount of n95s on hand to more than 60 million we're on track to have 10 times more than pre-pandemic levels by the fall significantly surge the number of gowns on hand to more than 27 million and we have tremendous level of ventilators on hand at 109 000 and we will have tens of thousands more by the fall so the contracts we've made have enabled enabled these numbers among others i'm not even getting into therapeutics like from deservier but of course if there's ever allegation we take it seriously and look at it as we did with kodak confirm how many how many allegations of wrongdoing uh that you're looking at that i'm only aware of the one or two that you named out of the many many contracts that we've had yes thanks kaylee the herd immunity strategy for the pandemic has been called dangerous by some experts and i'm wondering if president trump has formed an opinion on this concept and if he thinks that that is an achievable goal yeah the herd immunity so-called theory was something made up in the fanciful minds of the media that was never something that was ever considered here at the white house here at the white house what we've done is race to get a safe and effective vaccine in record time but if we get it by the end of the year i will far outpace ebola which took 14 months to get to phase three clinical trial three years to get to completion this will be the fastest vaccine ever for a novel pathogen i'm here at the white house we talk about therapeutics and are very proud that we've identified we have more than 270 clinical trials 570 in the planning stages and successful therapeutics that we know of like dexamethasone and rem de severe that's what we do here at the white house um the herd immunity theory again uh with something made up in the mind of the media on the supreme court the president said that he would come out with a list of candidates by september 1st when can we expect to see that list you will see it soon um certainly within the next few weeks um but it will be after the labor day weekend thank you back on the cities how would the president's plan to reduce funding to cities actually help protect citizens that you said was the goal of the president now that is the goal and what the intent is is to incentivize cities to follow in the way of kenosha and minneapolis who when they were in the midst of a situation that they couldn't handle just at the local level they requested federal assistance and it worked within 24 hours you saw a much different scene in kenosha within 24 hours a much different scene in minneapolis so we want states to work with us and those two models are examples of democrats who have done so on the contrary you see a much different situation in new york and portland and dc and seattle and some of the factors as noted in the memo that will go into the lawlessness assertion are whether they've forbid police from intervening whether they've withdrawn law enforcement protection from certain areas like we saw where a police precinct was abandoned in the lawless chop zone in seattle those are the types of changes in behavior we want to see from cities because protecting the citizenry should be their paramount concern thanks bailey the government runs out of funding by the end of the month is the white house confident it can avoid another shutdown and um is the president open to including some of this coveted stimulus as part of the cr i haven't talked to him about that but we do believe that we'll be able to get funding to avoid a shutdown are negotiations underway now like have you guys started talking to congress about this yet i have to talk with the chief i haven't talked to him specifically about that but it we it has been discussed internally i know at least that yes thanks haley can you give us a sense um on the memo we issue last night can you give us more of a sense of the funding that would be under review and also why does the white house believe that this is the right time to be considering restricting funding to the first states were in the middle of a pandemic and there's some are dealing with violence yeah again so first to the first part of your question it's undergoing a review part of that step one of this memo is for federal agencies to detail the funds being provided so i can't give you a readout of exactly which funds are being looked at until that review is conducted but why now why now because in new york city you've seen a 177 percent increase in shootings in july meanwhile you have the feckless government of mayor de blasio and governor cuomo pulling one billion dollars with a b from nypd at the same time we learned that in a 28 day period arrests were down in new york city by 62 percent the looting of 450 businesses that have been damaged in seattle a lawless chop zone where two died now is the right time when you see numbers like this because lives are at stake and oftentimes the lives of innocent little babies who should be here today if democrat mayors got their act together didn't cut funding from police i did start arresting people and enforce the laws yes thanks kaley uh the president and joe biden are both gonna be in shanksville pa uh next friday commemorate 9 11. have you spoken to him about appearing with the former vice president like he did with secretary clinton back in 2016 up in new york i have no details on for that upcoming event but we are intending to be in shanksville as well okay and then just one more follow-up on the cities um again i know it's it's under review has the president directed director vaught to make sure that future coronavirus aid is exempt from this this memorandum um i don't see in what universe that would be connected uh to the issue at hand which is ensuring lawfulness or hhs or anything like that but again i don't want to get into the specific funding ahead of the review process that is ongoing yes are we all set okay there we go yeah thank you facebook said earlier today that he would be removing the post where the president was talking yesterday with a local reporter about voting twice if it's not corrected and if it doesn't indicate that the president was wrong in those assertions what what do you have to say about facebook's move on this post um you said facebook designated a post i missed the very first part right they said that they would remove the post from those profiles who posted and do not say that the what the assertions of the presidents are wrong yeah i haven't seen the particular post you're referring to but the president is crystal clear here that he only again to read that part of his quote if your vote isn't tabulated then you'll be able to vote in person this is about verifying that every vote is counted because we know voters are disenfranchised just in the 2020 presidential primary for instance there were 100 000 ballots rejected in california mail-in ballot in new york one in five think about that one in five mail-in ballots were rejected a total of 84 000 ballots rejected in new york city alone and we know the thin margins by which elections are decided and we also know that as research has shown young black and hispanic voters are more likely to have their mail-in ballots rejected that's according to a washington post article so the president wants enfranchisement not disenfranchisement that's his goal um with the comments that he made yesterday if i may ask another one on immigration please okay the president had said that he will be issuing another order in september do you have any more information on that when he may be issuing that immigration order yeah no updates on a forthcoming immigration year thank you uh if you mentioned role models cities like kenosha um if say mayor de blasio and mayor bowser for instance if they were to this week take specific actions and uh and get some of the law order back under control would this memo continue to go forward or would you continue to uh propagate the plans listed in this memo we have to see a radical change in behavior from the mayor of dc who allowed a church to burn from the mayor of portland who stood with the protesters only to be chased out of his own home uh the windows shattered of his building by the very protesters he deemed peaceful who were actually anarchist who took the life of a 39 year old man this past weekend but look when the local government does an act we use every avenue available to us at the federal level i mean that it pertains to this memo as one example another example is operation legend which we're very proud of and have some new numbers for you on that since the operations launch more than 2 000 arrests including 147 homicides have been made more than 544 firearms have been seized and more than those are illegal weapons and more than seven kilos of fentanyl 14 kilos of heroin 12 kilos of cocaine and 50 kilos of methamphetamine have been seized and of the individuals arrested 476 have been charged with federal offenses and there's a detailed readout from doj of each offense and the great work that our federal law enforcement officials have done so thank you to our police thank you to our federal law enforcement you keep us safe when democrat mayors and derelict governors do not thank you voting twice knowingly voting twice is a crime why is he telling people and there you go the media trying to get that last question in or maybe even a

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Published: Thu Sep 03 2020