Vice President Pence on Reopening America
May 15, 2020
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/05/15/vice-president-pence-on-reopening-america/
RUSH: We are now joined by Vice President Mike Pence, have him for a few minutes here before the end of the hour. Great to have you back, sir! It’s always a pleasure.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Rush Limbaugh, it’s great to be back on the program, and when the president and I were catching up this morning, he wanted me to send his very best regards to you.
RUSH: I appreciate that. Everybody’s being so great. It’s really… It’s warming my heart. I need to ask you, we were watching a little bit of the president’s Rose Garden ceremony today on the vaccine.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: You bet.
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RUSH: How realistic is this, Mr. VP, a vaccine by the end of the year?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, we think it is very possible, and what the American people saw today with the announcement of Operation Warp Speed is just as the president has done from the very beginning of the coronavirus, is we’re gonna continue to bring the full weight of the federal government but also the ingenuity and creativity of American researchers and our incredible pharmaceutical companies to bear on developing not just therapeutics but, most importantly — as we announced today — a vaccine.
The big part of it, too, was not only did the president introduce Dr. Moncef Slaoui — who will be coordinating the public and private research that’s done — but also General Gus Perna is going to oversee the development of these prospective vaccines, to scale them up, to do everything in our power to meet the president’s objective to have 100 million doses by the fall and 300 million doses by the winter.
But it is… Some of the early results from one vaccine continue to be encouraging, but I hope what the American people saw today is the president’s just gonna continue to bring this whole of government, whole of America approach to bring these medicines forward.
RUSH: Well, I have to tell you — if you permit me a brief moment of editorial analysis — this is phenomenal, for the president to put his presidency on the line here: A vaccine for a virus. We don’t have many vaccines for many viruses. We don’t have one for AIDS yet, for example. We’ve got flu shots but no vaccine. To me, this is typical Donald Trump. What you say can’t be done, he says it can, and then he sets out about trying to show you how.
Somebody asked him today, “All of your health experts have said a vaccine, if we get one, is 12 to 18 months away.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right.
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