- Alyssa Farah, good to see you.

- Good to see you, David.

Thank you for having me.

- COVID-19, look, if you,

if you hear the media talk about COVID-19,

they like to say that thispresident has blood on his hands

and all of that.

What is the reaction towhen this administration

hears that type of talk from the media?

- Well, first off it's atragedy that our nation

is united and that we'velost 150,000 Americans.

This weighs heavier on no one'sheart than the president's.

I'm in with him in meetings daily

when he's getting updates,he's getting data reports,

he's deploying PPE,

he's sending support tostates and it's just,

he doesn't let the noise bother him.

It's hard for those who careabout him and those around him.

He's focused on leading though.

And what our government hasbeen able to do to respond

to this unprecedentedcrisis is truly amazing.

One thing I would tell your viewers

that I think is important to know

is just how far we'vecome since March and April

at the height of this virus.

Yes, cases are still rising,but we have therapeutics,

we have PPE, we have hospital capacity.

We've actually got someexciting announcements coming

on further therapeutics soon,

and we're racing toward a vaccine.

And that is all thank you toPresident Trump's leadership.

- So you think that medianarrative is pretty much bogus?

- It is.

Listen, the media plays animportant role in public health,

and in getting informationto the American people.

What's not helpful iswhen they're weighing in

and not giving all the facts,

not properly contextualizing it

and really politicizing what's a tragedy.

We all really need tobe united and together.

- Hydroxychloroquine.

I'm glad I pronounced it correctly.

There are a lot of folks that say,

hey, the president was right all along.

What's the feeling

inside the White Houseabout hydroxychloroquine?

- Well, I would startby saying the president

is the right to try president.

He passed historic legislationthat helped terminally ill

patients try medications thatare still in the trial phase,

anything to try to save their lives.

So that's the mindset heapproaches this virus with as well.

We've always said, whiletalking about hydroxychloroquine

you should only take it in consultation

with your medicalprofessionals, so with a doctor.

- Let me move on to newsof the day, a little bit.

There was a tweet from thepresident this morning,

on Thursday morning,where he talked about,

and he put a lot of question marks after,

but should the election be delayed?

We've already heard SenatorMitch McConnell and Ted Cruz

come out and say, no, we'renot gonna delay the election.

What was the thinking behind that tweet?

- Yeah, so the presidentwas raising awareness

about the issues with mass mail-in voting.

So he's been raising alarmsabout this for a while.

When you have states send out mass ballots

to voters to turn in at anytime, they're ripe for fraud.

So an example we would point to

is a New York congressional district

had their election results

or their election was weeks ago,

but the results have yet tobe called three weeks later

because of mass mail-invoting, some fraud related to,

and just not being able toaccount for the ballots.

So the point he's makingis if we go to this model

and we do this across the board,

how can we even be surethat the election results

are gonna come on election day.

- The economy, some tough numbers today

in that second quarter.

What does that portend forthe future potentially?

Because last time I checked,

the third quarter comesafter the second quarter.

And oh, by the way, thatcould be right around October.

- Yeah, so we were anticipatingpoor numbers for Q2,

just to be honest.

If you think about it, April and May,

the economy was artificially shut down

to deal with coronavirus,

so millions of businessesweren't operating,

money wasn't beingcirculating in the economy.

We started some phasesof reopening in June.

So we anticipated, actuallyour projections showed

it would be worse than32% it ended up being,

but we have, we do think a GDP growth

is a bit of a lagging indicator.

We expect that Q3 is gonnabe significantly better.

- Speaking of a president and the economy,

he's also, as he says, thepresident of law and order.

And of course, what we've seen in Portland

for what now, 63 straightnights, has just been,

it's been hard to watch it.

What's the view of this White House

when you see Democrats likeJerry Nadler and others

at the bar hearing the otherday and others who were saying,

they're calling these folks protestors,

sometimes peaceful protesters

and we're seeing the imagesare the exact opposite.

- Oh, it's the exact opposite.

And we've been getting footage.

The Department of Homeland Security

has been doing an incredible job,

trying to maintain the peacein the streets of Portland.

When frankly, the governorand local police enforcement

have not stepped up to the job.

And what you see as organized agitators,

you see anarchists trying toburn down a federal courthouse.

Men and women across this country

aren't gonna stand for that.

We've heard tremendousfeedback on this issue.

It's one that just really resonates

with the American people,

because if we're notgonna defend, you know,

our federal buildings, what's next,

is it my neighborhood next?