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"Yesterday, the Justice Department announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate individuals who were purportedly targeted by the Biden administration, in exchange for which President Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for the completely..."
[0:05] Yesterday, the Justice Department announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate individuals who were purportedly targeted by the Biden administration,
[0:23] in exchange for which President Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for the completely inappropriate leak of the president and his organization's tax data.
[0:41] Amounts for this new fund will come from the Judgment Fund, a permanent law appropriation for paying claims and settlements brought against the United States government.
[0:55] Amounts in the Judgment Fund have traditionally been used for the payment of specific claims against the government,
[1:05] or amounts owned for the settlement of those claims, but not for future claims that have yet to be bought.
[1:14] So I have some questions for you.
[1:17] First, has the DOJ ever used amounts in the Judgment Fund to pay claims that have yet to be brought against the United States government
[1:30] based on the settlement of a completely unrelated case?
[1:35] Thank you, Senator.
[1:38] So the short answer is yes.
[1:39] I mean, we have done this in the past.
[1:41] This was done during the Obama administration, something almost identical in structure to what we announced yesterday.
[1:48] In that case, there were allegations made by Native Americans that the Department of Agriculture had systematically treated them unfairly.
[1:58] And some had filed claims, there was a pending lawsuit, but many had not.
[2:03] A fund very similar to the one that was established yesterday was set up.
[2:09] It was funded by, in today's dollars, a little over a billion dollars.
[2:14] And a single claims commissioner was appointed to review the claims and to distribute funds.
[2:22] In that case, at the end, there was around $300 million left over.
[2:28] And the Obama administration had set it up so that that money from the Judgment Fund was distributed to nonprofits and other NGOs.
[2:37] So what we've done with this fund, and by the way, it is true that this is unusual.
[2:43] That is true.
[2:44] But it is not unprecedented.
[2:45] And it was done to address something that had never happened again either.
[2:50] So there is an unprecedented nature of what we did yesterday in response to years and years of weaponization.
[2:56] Just to correct a few things, Senator, it's not limited to Republicans.
[3:02] It's not limited to Biden.
[3:03] I didn't say it was.
[3:05] It's not limited to the Biden weaponization.
[3:10] It's not limited to in any way scope or form to January 6th or to Jack Smith.
[3:17] There's no limitation on the claims.
[3:21] So the other thing we've done, just to finish up in comparison to what was done previously, is we intend to appoint five commissioners.
[3:31] And also at the end, the money goes back.
[3:34] Any leftover funds go back to the federal government, not to nonprofits.
[3:37] So how would the commission that you've just referenced that oversees the fund determine whether future claims from the fund are eligible to be paid out of it?
[3:50] And how will they determine how much will be paid for each claim?
[3:55] What's the legal basis for those decisions?
[3:58] So there's, well, there's commissions that are established all the time where a commissioner is charged with determining the correct amount, if any, to repay a claimant who's asking for funds.
[4:11] So in this case, what we expect is the commissioners will take in information.
[4:16] It's entirely voluntary if an individual wants to apply and assert that they were a victim of weaponization.
[4:23] And the commission can do anything according to what was set up yesterday from issuing an apology to the claimant to awarding compensation and the monetary compensation.
[4:35] So it depends on, on the claim and there will be five commissioners who will review each, each claim.
[4:41] It won't be reviewed by me.
[4:42] It won't be reviewed by, by others in the administration.
[4:45] It'll be reviewed by the five commissioners.
[4:48] Aren't those commissioners appointed by the president?
[4:51] No, they're appointed by, four of them are appointed by the attorney general.
[4:55] And one of them is appointed by the attorney general in consultation with leadership of this body.
[5:01] Will the information related to the claims be publicly reported?
[5:07] So that's a good question.
[5:09] I mean, look, there's privacy laws that exist.
[5:11] So I don't want to sit here today and say every scintilla of data collected will be released.
[5:17] But of course, I mean, of course, there's, there's the, there's accountability that the commission has a quarterly report that has to come to the attorney general, which will, will certainly be public.
[5:29] There's a process that, that you all will get information and there's a FOIA process.
[5:33] So I very much anticipate that the claims that are awarded the basis in the amount will, will for sure be, be made public along the way.
[5:42] Wow.
[5:44] This is one of those days, some of those days is like, I wonder what I'm going to talk about.
[5:47] This isn't one of those days today.
[5:50] There is so much going on.
[5:53] SV is posting all kinds of breaking news stuff at any minute, any, any couple of minutes from now, President Trump is going to come out or actually post who he's going to endorse between Cornyn and Paxton's.
[6:07] We should know about that.
[6:08] Uh, Thomas Massey is out there crying all over Fox news and blaming Israel and yada, yada, yada.
[6:15] The, the, the, the Massey nuts that follow him.
[6:18] They're out there just spamming everybody on X and calling them names and attacking.
[6:23] This is, this is going to be a fun day.
[6:27] So as you know, um, JD Vance is coming out at one o'clock and he's going to be doing the white house press conference.
[6:35] Funny that the first two out the box for Rubio and JD Vance.
[6:38] So we're going to see, you know, possible presidential candidates back to back.
[6:44] Let's see how JD handles these people, which I don't think he'll have a problem.
[6:48] But then I'm planning the show and I've got all these different segments that I want to talk about, which I will be talking about Thomas Massey in a little while.
[6:56] But then all of a sudden I get the notification.
[6:59] President Trump's out there walking around and bring the cameras.
[7:02] We're going to go for a walk.
[7:03] And he just decides he's going to do an impromptu presentation and press conference at the same time.
[7:10] So I'm going to go to that first.
[7:12] Um, it's 45 minutes long.
[7:15] So I'll probably have to break once JD Vance comes on or you guys can put in a chat, go to some other stories, play JD and then play Trump without breaking it up.
[7:26] You guys let me know which way you want to go.
[7:28] The President Trump presentation is pre-recorded.
[7:32] So I have that in the tank ready to go at any time.
[7:35] Obviously, JD Vance is going to be live.
[7:37] So at one o'clock, depending on if he's prompt or not, we can cut to you, JD.
[7:42] We can go back to you.
[7:44] Let me know as I get ready to go.
[7:46] Jeff, let me check in with SV on a crazy day.
[7:50] SV, what you got, man?
[7:51] Things going nuts over here?
[7:52] Hey, man.
[7:53] I posted everything in the chat.
[7:54] I'm done.
[7:55] For a minute.
[7:58] Actually, I was doing the, uh, the ballroom blitz song.
[8:01] You know, you ever hear that ballroom blitz?
[8:03] Ballroom blitz.
[8:04] Boondoggle blitz.
[8:05] Okay.
[8:06] I'm going to tease something, but I want to see how, who, who sang that song?
[8:13] Can I, can I challenge you real quick right off the top of my head?
[8:16] I know.
[8:17] I know there's people Googling it right now.
[8:20] Ballroom blitz.
[8:21] Yeah.
[8:22] I mean, I, I used to play it on rock band years ago.
[8:25] Mike with my daughter and my, uh, yeah.
[8:28] Let's see here.
[8:29] Uh, let's see.
[8:30] I believe it was a band called sweet.
[8:34] If I'm not.
[8:35] That's right.
[8:36] That's the one.
[8:37] Yes.
[8:38] That's a good song.
[8:39] My rock and roll archives in here.
[8:41] All right.
[8:42] So I'm going to jump or get going to introduce our sponsor.
[8:44] And then everyone's saying, uh, just go ahead and jump into Trump.
[8:48] Somebody says JD then Trump.
[8:49] Somebody says Trump, JD back to Trump.
[8:51] Uh, you know what?
[8:53] Here's what I'll do.
[8:54] I'll, I'll go ahead and do the, well, everyone's saying sweet.
[8:58] They're like, how the hell do I know that?
[8:59] I told you I was in a rock promoter for a long time.
[9:02] I love it.
[9:03] I love it.
[9:04] We could probably get, uh, if he's going to be late, I'm not sure if he'll be on time.
[9:08] We'll, we'll start the Trump stuff.
[9:10] SB text me if you see otherwise, what the, what the consensus.
[9:13] All right.
[9:14] I have a one quick, one quick thing before you go.
[9:16] Did you know it was in your state?
[9:17] Over 2,500 students and Americans were baptized at Hannah park in Jacksonville this weekend.
[9:22] Yes.
[9:23] I did.
[9:24] I did see that.
[9:25] I was going to cover that as well.
[9:27] The beach was absolutely packed because, because I have a, I have a, a, a segment today.
[9:33] If I get to it, if not, I'll get it the next show.
[9:35] Oh, by the way, we may end up doing two shows today.
[9:38] And let me tell you why we got an early one today.
[9:41] So I'll be off the rest of the afternoon.
[9:43] And from everything I can see, it looks like president Trump and Melania are going to be hosting
[9:48] an event and making speeches tonight.
[9:51] And I figured, you know, if we did that, then maybe we could also segue into some election
[9:56] results around eight o'clock.
[9:57] So.
[9:58] I like it.
[9:59] Yeah.
[10:00] I think it's scheduled for seven o'clock for him to make remarks with Melania at the congressional
[10:06] picnic or something they're going to be at.
[10:08] So we figured we, you know, since we're here early today, it's only 1230.
[10:11] I got no excuse not to do a second show.
[10:14] I got all day free.
[10:15] We'll do that.
[10:16] All right.
[10:17] All right.
[10:18] Let me jump.
[10:19] I'm looking to see if they've got the cameras up in the press room and they do have the cameras
[10:26] on in the press room.
[10:27] So I don't know what that means.
[10:28] If he's going to be on time, but let me know what people think.
[10:31] I think.
[10:32] Should I start trumping and jump or just wait until JD?
[10:35] I'll be back.
[10:36] We're going to hurry here.
[10:38] We got a whole bunch, whole bunch of stuff to do.
[10:40] I mean, it's crazy what's going on right now.
[10:43] So I just want to let you guys know early onset dementia and Alzheimer's.
[10:49] Many of us thought those were one in the same are on the rise.
[10:52] Reports show a 373% increase in diagnosis amongst 30 to 44 year old people and a 300%, 311% increase in people age 45 to 54.
[11:07] That's crazy.
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[11:41] It's actually a thing.
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[13:07] One man is being victimized by our own government.
[13:11] One man who they fear, yet who millions love.
[13:17] One man who is willing to take the poison arrows of lawfare.
[13:23] One man whose voice has been taken away by a corrupt judge operating in a corrupt system.
[13:30] One man who has been ridiculed and insulted.
[13:35] One man who refused to back down.
[13:39] One man who refused to back down.
[13:46] And refused to back down.
[13:54] One man who stands between us and them.
[14:00] One man that wants to see America protected again.
[14:06] One man who wants to see America prosper again.
[14:12] One man who understands that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
[14:19] One man who understands and protects the blessing of life.
[14:25] One man who wants to restore American exceptionalism.
[14:31] One man who once again wants to make America that shining city on a hill for all to see.
[14:39] A place where all the people of the world glowingly set their eyes upon America.
[14:45] Who unashamedly wants to make America great again.
[14:54] And one man is Trump.
[14:59] Is fanfare breaking news into the fanfare news feed.
[15:44] Right.
[15:45] So we got some breaking news.
[15:46] President Trump has made his choice.
[15:48] I pretty much felt this was where he was headed.
[15:51] Many of you will probably feel this was the only real choice he could have made in Texas.
[15:56] Here it is.
[15:57] The highly respected Attorney General of Texas.
[16:00] Ken Paxton.
[16:01] An America first patriot.
[16:03] And someone who has always been extremely loyal to me.
[16:06] And our amazing MAGA movement.
[16:08] Is running for the United States Senate to represent a place I love.
[16:12] And won big three times.
[16:13] With 6.4 million votes in 2024.
[16:17] The most votes in the history of the state of Texas by far.
[16:22] I know Ken well.
[16:23] Have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels.
[16:27] And he is a winner.
[16:28] Ken is a strong supporter of terminating the filibuster.
[16:32] And very importantly.
[16:33] The Save America Act.
[16:34] Something which polls at 87%.
[16:37] Including with Democrats.
[16:40] And yet can't seem to get approved.
[16:42] Perhaps Ken could help move these important elements of government forward.
[16:46] Because with the filibuster.
[16:47] As an example.
[16:48] The Democrats will terminate it on their first day in office.
[16:51] And they keep saying it.
[16:52] They keep saying we are going to terminate the filibuster.
[16:54] We are going to make D.C. a state.
[16:57] We are going to make Puerto Rico a state.
[16:59] Automatically pick up four more senators.
[17:01] Pack the Supreme Court.
[17:03] There is no doubt that the filibuster at this point has to be eliminated.
[17:08] And these new justices will be radical.
[17:11] Left lunatics.
[17:12] Two years ago our country was dead.
[17:14] Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
[17:16] And I want to keep it that way.
[17:18] Ken Paxton will help me do that.
[17:20] Making America bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
[17:23] Ken is a true MAGA warrior who has always delivered for Texas.
[17:28] And will continue to do so in the United States Senate.
[17:31] He will tirelessly fight to continue the great growth of our economy.
[17:35] Cut taxes and regulations.
[17:37] I just delivered the largest tax and regulations cut in American history.
[17:42] An advance made in the United States of America.
[17:45] Unleash American energy dominance.
[17:47] Champion Texas oil and gas.
[17:49] Advocate for our amazing farmers and ranchers.
[17:53] Promote school choice.
[17:54] Keep our borders secure.
[17:56] Stop migrant crimes.
[17:57] Support our incredible military and veterans.
[18:00] Safeguard elections.
[18:02] And protect our always under siege Second Amendment.
[18:06] He then tried to be a little bit magnanimous in talking to John Cornyn.
[18:12] John Cornyn is a good man.
[18:13] And I worked well with him.
[18:15] But he was not supportive of me when times were tough.
[18:18] And despite having the most successful economy in the history of our country.
[18:22] During my first term.
[18:24] And with all the many other things that I accomplished.
[18:26] Secure border.
[18:27] Military dominance.
[18:29] Space Force.
[18:30] All-time high stock markets.
[18:32] And 401ks.
[18:33] Record job.
[18:34] Economic growth.
[18:35] And so many other things that would be impossible to readily list.
[18:40] Which are considered by many to be legendary.
[18:43] John was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a historic run.
[18:47] For the Republican nomination.
[18:48] And then the presidency.
[18:50] So it's a pretty long one here.
[18:52] He goes on and on to talk about it.
[18:55] But at this point.
[18:56] President Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton.
[19:00] John Cornyn.
[19:01] Take your steak knives.
[19:03] Whatever other consolation prizes you have.
[19:06] And hit the door.
[19:07] Hit the bricks.
[19:08] The door is over there.
[19:09] So Ken Paxton.
[19:10] Is going to be pushed by President Trump.
[19:12] To be the next senator.
[19:14] From the great state of Texas.
[19:16] Fantastic.
[19:17] Love that pick.
[19:18] Actually.
[19:19] Actually.
[19:20] I personally like Ken Paxton.
[19:22] I just didn't like John Cornyn.
[19:24] Didn't like how he handled things.
[19:26] So.
[19:27] Let me go to.
[19:28] We're going to start.
[19:29] As J.D. Vance.
[19:30] Is not.
[19:31] Obviously.
[19:32] Not up yet.
[19:33] So we'll cut to it.
[19:34] But I want to start.
[19:35] Because.
[19:36] This.
[19:37] What President Trump did this morning.
[19:39] Is interesting.
[19:41] And.
[19:42] I'm wondering.
[19:43] If many of you.
[19:44] Will pick up.
[19:45] On what's really interesting.
[19:46] About this.
[19:47] And I'm not going to leave you in a lurch.
[19:49] That you're.
[19:50] Well.
[19:51] I'll cut to it.
[19:52] When.
[19:53] When you can actually see it.
[19:54] All right.
[19:55] I told you.
[19:56] I was going to cut to it.
[20:00] As soon as you could see it.
[20:02] What did you see.
[20:03] Just in that.
[20:04] 15 seconds.
[20:05] Well.
[20:06] If you look behind him.
[20:07] As he's talking.
[20:08] Which I think.
[20:09] Was the message.
[20:10] He was giving here.
[20:11] They're working.
[20:12] You've had judges.
[20:13] You've had Democrats.
[20:14] You've had the Senate.
[20:15] Parliamentarian.
[20:16] You've had all these people say.
[20:17] You can't do.
[20:18] The ballroom.
[20:19] Watch me.
[20:20] And he walks out.
[20:21] And as you're going to continue to see.
[20:22] Throughout this.
[20:25] There's guys working.
[20:26] There's hammers.
[20:27] There's cranes.
[20:28] You can hear everything happening.
[20:29] No stoppage.
[20:30] It's full speed ahead.
[20:31] F you.
[20:32] To the Senate.
[20:33] Parliamentarian.
[20:35] F you.
[20:37] To the Democrats.
[20:38] F you.
[20:39] To some of these local district judges.
[20:40] There can be no accident.
[20:41] That he brought everybody out there.
[20:42] Bring the cameras.
[20:43] Bring the cameras.
[20:44] Bring the cameras.
[20:46] Bring the cameras.
[20:47] Bring the cameras.
[20:48] Some of these local district judges.
[20:50] You've had the Senate parliamentarian.
[20:52] You've had the Senate parliamentarian.
[20:53] Watch me.
[20:54] And he walks out.
[20:55] And as you're going to continue to see throughout this.
[20:56] There's guys working.
[20:57] There's hammers.
[20:58] There's cranes.
[20:59] You can hear everything happening.
[21:00] No stoppage.
[21:01] There's cameras.
[21:02] Bring the cameras.
[21:03] So America can see what's happening.
[21:05] And there's no stoppage of work.
[21:07] Of the finished product.
[21:08] It's all knit together.
[21:10] At the top of the ballroom is what they call a drone gallery.
[21:15] We have tremendous amounts of military able to be on the top.
[21:20] It'll be the highest point.
[21:22] It'll be actually the highest of this building abroad.
[21:26] It'll be something very special.
[21:33] So if you look up at the top, you'll see some interesting things.
[21:39] And I'll show that to you in a second.
[21:40] You want to grab that, please?
[21:41] I'll show that to you in a second.
[21:44] The facade of the building.
[21:48] The facade of the building.
[21:49] There will never be another building like this, Bill.
[21:51] That I can tell.
[21:52] I've built a lot of great things.
[21:53] There will never be anything like this, Bill.
[21:56] And what we have is the roof is dead flat with absolutely nothing but strength on it.
[22:01] It's very strong steel.
[22:03] It's drone-proof.
[22:04] And it's meant for our military to be able to stay on it.
[22:07] You get a view of Washington.
[22:09] Also, for the drone building capacity, some of that takes place right down here.
[22:15] You can see the very large piping and the other things.
[22:20] It's a very complex building.
[22:22] It's all knit together.
[22:23] The roof goes with the ground floor.
[22:25] The ground floor goes with the roof.
[22:27] The roof also goes down into the basement.
[22:31] Everything is connected, intertwined.
[22:33] Elevators, heating, air conditioning.
[22:36] It's one building.
[22:37] That's why we're trying to explain that.
[22:39] This is one well-knit building.
[22:42] One thing doesn't work without the other.
[22:45] Very importantly, though, in terms of the beauty,
[22:49] probably the closest thing to this would be the U.S. Supreme Court,
[22:53] the facade of the U.S. Supreme Court.
[22:56] So here's a couple of things you can look at.
[22:59] Are we here?
[23:04] There will never be another thing like this, I don't believe,
[23:08] from a court standpoint.
[23:11] This is all my money and donors' money.
[23:14] This is tax-free.
[23:15] Now, everyone's talking about they're going to give money,
[23:17] they're going to give money.
[23:18] The money they're going to give is really for the security of that
[23:22] and the whole White House.
[23:24] And I guess you probably need that nowadays.
[23:28] We've done the fencing on the outside of the White House.
[23:31] It's all titanium.
[23:32] You see the black fencing.
[23:34] That's been just done recently.
[23:36] And it was approved originally by me.
[23:39] And it's been completed.
[23:40] And it's very powerful.
[23:41] Very powerful.
[23:42] The tractor, a bulldozer, cannot knock it over.
[23:45] It goes down deep.
[23:46] And it's titanium, which is the strongest of all of the metals.
[23:49] Much stronger than steel, as an example.
[23:52] The ballroom is all — it's going to be a tremendous,
[23:56] tremendous thing.
[23:57] As an example, what happened a couple of weeks ago at the White House
[24:01] Correspondents said it could not happen here.
[24:04] One thing that we have is we don't have people living above it.
[24:07] We don't want that.
[24:08] That's no good.
[24:09] They have 1,000 units above it with the elevator coming right down next to
[24:13] where the convention or whatever it may be is.
[24:16] So this is a room that's been wanted for 150 years by presidents.
[24:23] We have no room to have an event.
[24:25] The only way you can have an event is if you build a tent on the lawn
[24:28] and the tent will not do the job.
[24:30] And by the way, if it rains here because it's built on a wetland,
[24:33] the lawn is impossible to deal with.
[24:36] The water goes over everybody's shoes.
[24:39] It literally goes over the shoes.
[24:41] So — and they've had a lot of catastrophes with the tent.
[24:45] So we have this.
[24:46] And if you take a look at this section, this is the different facade.
[24:53] So this is a Greek, more or less.
[24:57] It comes out of Greece.
[24:58] This is the ultimate facade for Greece.
[25:01] This faces the treasury building.
[25:04] This faces — this is a different facade.
[25:06] That's Rome.
[25:07] And that faces the Washington —
[25:11] I don't know if you guys are seeing the same thing I'm doing.
[25:15] I'm watching this, and I'm like, oh, you see all this stuff here?
[25:19] The press can't — they can't look away.
[25:22] They're looking at this magnificent project.
[25:25] They're looking at all these people working, like somebody said.
[25:28] All these people are working, meaning they're getting paid.
[25:32] They're building this monstrous-sized building.
[25:36] And he's got them facing it.
[25:38] I mean, he could have turned it around and said, face me here.
[25:41] And he's letting them look right at this job site.
[25:44] And they're seeing guys running around like bugs over there, hammering.
[25:48] And you're hearing piled drivers and everything else.
[25:51] And he's like, oh, yeah, so hear this?
[25:53] We're not stopping.
[25:54] You can't make me stop.
[25:56] Not stopping, not gonna stop us.
[25:58] And I love the image that he's putting out here.
[26:01] Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, et cetera.
[26:04] So you have two facades.
[26:05] Primarily, you have two entrances.
[26:07] You have here, you have here.
[26:08] But the primary entrance is through the White House,
[26:11] directly through the White House.
[26:13] And it's really something — I think you can see the complexity.
[26:17] All of these columns go directly up to the roof.
[26:20] And the roof is a barrier.
[26:22] It's a shield because it's made out of — the sidewalls are steel,
[26:27] impenetrable steel, and also impenetrable steel.
[26:31] The glass is approximately four inches thick.
[26:36] And yet it's amazing.
[26:37] You can see through it as though it didn't exist.
[26:40] It's amazing.
[26:41] And it can stop just about anything.
[26:45] Just about anything.
[26:46] On the other side of the glass, we have steel and concrete.
[26:50] So that the glass is very powerful.
[26:53] What's holding the glass is equally as powerful.
[26:56] And that's here.
[26:58] And you can see they're just about ready to go up to the top.
[27:01] All of these columns, they go directly right to the roof of the building.
[27:05] And again, we call it a drone port.
[27:07] It's set up for unlimited numbers of drones.
[27:11] Purposely, we don't have any air conditioning equipment up there
[27:15] because we don't want anything coming down through the pipes if anybody gets —
[27:19] Normally, you'd have a lot of air conditioning equipment in the roof.
[27:22] We built it all inside the building — inside the case of the building —
[27:27] because we don't want to have anything having to do with air or air quality
[27:31] or any problems playing with the air.
[27:33] So you'll notice it's a dead flat roof with no equipment on it.
[27:38] All of the equipment is inside of the building.
[27:42] And that's for safety reasons.
[27:44] Normally, you'd do it a lot less expensive.
[27:46] You'd do it a different way.
[27:47] So all of this was paid for by myself.
[27:50] And — because I keep hearing, like, I'm not — we are making a gift of this one.
[27:55] This is a gift.
[27:56] This is not going to be paid for by the taxpayer.
[27:58] We have a judge that thinks it's a terrible thing that we're making a gift.
[28:03] He said, it's terrible that we're making a gift that should be paid for by the taxpayer.
[28:07] That's one I've never heard before.
[28:09] I'm sure maybe — I don't know.
[28:10] Maybe he doesn't understand.
[28:12] This is a gift to the United States of America.
[28:15] And more than a gift, it's going to be one of the most beautiful buildings
[28:19] that's ever been built in the country or in Washington, D.C.
[28:23] So here's the other facade you see over here.
[28:26] And again, this is taking — these great classical buildings
[28:32] are taken out of different parts of the world from glamorous times.
[28:36] This is Rome.
[28:38] They like the flat room.
[28:39] Greece likes the — they call it the triangles.
[28:43] And you see that.
[28:45] This is a porch that looks out over the city.
[28:50] Also, it's developed in such a way that we can have military there.
[28:54] But the entire roof is developed for military.
[28:57] Very high.
[28:59] They're higher than about anything else.
[29:01] They have a 360-degree vision of Washington, D.C.
[29:05] They have a massive drone capacity.
[29:07] Not only is it drone-proof — if a drone hits it, it bounces off.
[29:11] It won't have any impact.
[29:13] But it's also meant as a drone port.
[29:17] So it protects all of Washington — the roof of the building.
[29:21] Okay?
[29:22] Now, does anybody have any questions?
[29:25] If you want, you can take — if you — I think you can bring it.
[29:29] I want to take a look at the complexity.
[29:34] These are all different rooms down here.
[29:36] They're building a hospital.
[29:37] They're building — it's a military hospital.
[29:39] They're building a — all sorts of research facilities.
[29:44] Also, meeting rooms and rooms that go hand-in-hand for the military using the ballroom.
[29:50] And the ballroom is really a shield and protecting all of the things that are built here.
[29:55] This goes — as you see, it's already up to the ground.
[29:59] This goes down very deep.
[30:01] You get a better view right over here.
[30:03] This is down — because we've already done these floors — but these are already down two floors.
[30:10] It's down about six stories deep.
[30:12] Big stuff.
[30:14] You build a ballroom, you build a flat.
[30:17] You just build a ballroom.
[30:18] It would have been built.
[30:20] So I don't know if you heard what he was — as he's trolling these guys.
[30:26] I mean, it's loud and it's breaking up because there's interference and everything else.
[30:30] But what he just said is, if it was building just a ballroom, I would have just put it on a slab and we'd be done.
[30:38] But this is some kind of a military installation.
[30:41] I have no idea.
[30:43] And he just said, it goes six stories deep.
[30:47] That's how deep this thing is.
[30:49] I have no idea what the hell this thing is.
[30:51] It's six stories deep.
[30:53] It's got anti-drone things all over the place.
[30:56] This is a monster of a facility.
[31:01] It's all knit together between the drone proofing, the missile proofing, we have — and the drone capacity upstairs.
[31:10] He says, we can have all sorts of military up with — I hate to use the word snipers, but we have great sniper capacity.
[31:17] It's built for our snipers, not the enemy snipers, our snipers.
[31:22] And because of the height, we get a very clear view of everything all over Washington.
[31:27] Yeah.
[31:28] The President mentioned that this is being paid for out of pocket.
[31:31] But why is Congress in pocket?
[31:33] If planes put up a different —
[31:34] Well, they're not.
[31:35] Congress is approving — yeah.
[31:37] Congress is approving money for security.
[31:39] It may go — some of it may go here for additional security.
[31:42] I don't know.
[31:43] But Congress is approving money.
[31:45] But this building — I mean, I put up the money to build this building, along with a lot of great patriots.
[31:51] I've put up a lot of money to build the building.
[31:55] And we have a building that is going to be — I think it's going to be potentially the most beautiful building in all of Washington.
[32:02] And with that is great military capacity.
[32:06] We're building it in conjunction with the United States military and the Secret Service.
[32:11] Can the project still be completed?
[32:15] Well, they have a budget in the Secret Service and the military to do some of the work that you see right here.
[32:21] So the answer is, I think they want to enhance what you see.
[32:25] It's very powerful to see what's happening.
[32:28] It's a very powerful country.
[32:30] It's 9,000-pound concrete.
[32:33] If you know anything about the contract, they probably want to enhance the area.
[32:42] They're going to spend money.
[32:44] This is a very sacred piece of land.
[32:46] This is the White House.
[32:47] And they want to do things.
[32:49] But everything that you see and the money that's being put up to build the ballroom — and, again, the ballroom — it's necessary for the ballroom to be built with what you see over here.
[33:01] It's all knit in.
[33:03] The air conditioning, the heating, the drone capacity, the shield.
[33:08] You know, the ballroom becomes a shield for everything that you see right here.
[33:12] Without that, they couldn't have this.
[33:14] They couldn't build the lower floors.
[33:16] Without that shield over the top of it, it's a shield that will totally protect what's downstairs.
[33:21] They have a lot of things going on downstairs.
[33:24] And some of it, you see.
[33:25] This goes down six stories because it's already been built.
[33:30] This will be — shortly, this will be in the form of a — the roof goes along these lines.
[33:38] Basically, it goes outside.
[33:42] You see where the wood is.
[33:44] You're going outside of that line, and then it goes straight up.
[33:48] And it's all protection.
[33:50] And everything's together.
[33:51] You can't build one without the other.
[33:54] And what we have is we have the safest building ever built, in my opinion.
[33:59] You can have — and, you know, the other thing is when we're right on budget, we're right on plan.
[34:07] The only budget change would be that we doubled the size.
[34:10] At the request of the military, we doubled the size.
[34:13] But we're right on budget, right on plan.
[34:15] And originally, we were going to build a much smaller room, and it wouldn't have done the job.
[34:20] It just wouldn't have done the job.
[34:21] You have too many events.
[34:22] Like, if we have President Xi coming here, we have no place to put them.
[34:26] We had the king and the queen the other day.
[34:29] And we had 1,000 people wanted, and we ended up having 100 people sitting in a very small room.
[34:36] After this for a long time, but maybe more important is the safety element.
[34:41] This is a shield that protects everything that's inside, everything that's on top.
[34:46] And, you know, obviously, the White House was built in 1792.
[34:51] You know, it's awfully hard there.
[34:54] It's awfully hard to do that kind of a capacity that we've done here.
[34:58] So this will give future Presidents.
[35:00] But you have to understand, when this is finished, my term ends shortly after that.
[35:06] This is really for other Presidents.
[35:09] This is not for me.
[35:10] This is my gift to the United States of America.
[35:13] I'm going to be able to use it very little, because when it's finished, we're talking about six or seven months.
[35:18] But we've been used for, hopefully, hundreds of years for other Presidents.
[35:23] And there will never be anything like this built again.
[35:26] There will never be a room built like with the safety.
[35:29] As an example, if we had the White House Correspondents in here, it would have been no problem.
[35:35] When it opens, we'll have about six, seven months.
[35:41] Have you come to that, around that time?
[35:43] I have.
[35:44] I better not tell you about that, Daniel.
[35:49] But, yeah, we have, everybody wants to be here for the first event.
[35:52] So we're talking about heads of nations.
[35:54] So we have some very special places that it could happen.
[35:59] You know, we have, if we had, literally, we, you know, if we had this finish, we would have, you know, an event that would have been ten times a second.
[36:12] I mean, we literally were in a little room in the White House.
[36:14] The President, now, now we're not even talking about safety.
[36:17] The Presidents have been asking for this, literally, from the time the White House has been built.
[36:22] But, on record, for 150 years, they've said, what about a big room?
[36:27] And you all know, you've probably attended, they have some where they use tents.
[36:31] If it rains, it's a disaster.
[36:33] You mentioned that this is going to be a gift for America, a future president and a country.
[36:40] What's your hope for America?
[36:42] We will have to have a safe country.
[36:45] We have to have a great country.
[36:46] We have to make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon.
[36:49] All of the things that you see me fighting for so hard.
[36:52] And it's always tough.
[36:53] You know, we're negotiating with Iran.
[36:55] And then you have the Democrats, I call them the Democrats, putting in a bill that Trump should immediately stop.
[37:01] You know how it is to negotiate with a country where you're beating them badly, they come to the table, they're begging to make a deal.
[37:09] Because they're begging to make a deal.
[37:10] I hope we don't have to do the work, but we may have to give them another big hit.
[37:14] We may have to give them another big hit.
[37:16] I'm not sure yet.
[37:17] You'll know very soon.
[37:19] But how do you feel when you're negotiating?
[37:22] You're winning every point.
[37:24] And they say, but in Washington, they want to stop you from negotiating.
[37:28] They want to stop you.
[37:30] And it's only political.
[37:32] It's the Democrats.
[37:33] They're dumb.
[37:34] It's a new name.
[37:35] It's a very accurate name.
[37:36] So I'm in the middle of a negotiation.
[37:38] I'm saying you cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[37:41] And it comes over the wire that the Democrats want to stop Trump from further negotiations.
[37:47] They want to stop Trump from, if he has to, giving them another slap.
[37:52] They want to have a nuclear weapon to blow up the Middle East and to blow up frankly the world.
[37:57] It's not going to happen.
[37:58] It's nice to see you, by the way.
[38:01] How close were you breaking?
[38:05] I was an hour away.
[38:08] We were all set to go.
[38:11] You're talking about yesterday.
[38:12] Yes.
[38:13] We were going to be striking.
[38:14] It would have been happening right now.
[38:16] Yeah, it was all done.
[38:17] The boats, the ships are all loaded.
[38:19] They're loaded to the brim.
[38:20] And we're all set to start.
[38:22] They said that they feel they've had for the first time in almost,
[38:31] almost 47 years.
[38:33] You know, Iran's been the bully of the Middle East for 47 years.
[38:36] I mean, literally the bully of the Middle East.
[38:38] And then they wanted a nuclear weapon.
[38:44] Had I not terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal,
[38:48] had I not terminated it, see, that's the wind.
[38:51] That can't happen with the real structure.
[38:53] Mr. President, on Cuba, what do you want to see?
[38:59] You're talking about Cuba?
[39:01] Well, we're going to see.
[39:02] Look, Cuba's calling us.
[39:03] They need help.
[39:04] Look, Cuba is a failed nation.
[39:07] Cuba needs help.
[39:09] And we'll do that.
[39:10] Just hold them, though.
[39:11] It's like an exercise game for us.
[39:15] Give that to me.
[39:16] I'll hold it.
[39:17] It's so beautiful.
[39:21] See, I look so thin.
[39:22] They'll say, oh, it's gotten so thin because I'm holding this.
[39:26] You don't have to look at my waist.
[39:27] You can look at this.
[39:28] You saw enough of my waist along with President Xi.
[39:31] Are you confident that you can deal with the security?
[39:36] With Cuba?
[39:37] I think so.
[39:38] Yeah, I think so.
[39:39] I am very prone toward the Cuban Americans.
[39:42] They've been incredible people.
[39:43] Many of them have lost family members.
[39:45] They've been very badly hurt themselves.
[39:47] They've been in prison.
[39:48] They've come to this country and they've been very successful.
[39:51] The Cuban American people in Miami, I mean, they are amazing people.
[39:55] Most of them are in Miami, in Florida, but mostly in Miami.
[39:59] I'm very, very prone to helping them.
[40:01] I mean, that's, they've been, I think I got 97% of their vote.
[40:05] I want to help them.
[40:09] Now, they have family members in Cuba.
[40:11] They've been treated very, very badly.
[40:13] They've been treated extremely badly.
[40:14] And we're going to get that solved.
[40:16] That's not going to be hard for us to solve.
[40:18] I don't know about changing the regime.
[40:23] I can do that, whether you change your regime or not.
[40:26] You know, it's been a rough regime.
[40:27] They've, they've killed a lot of people.
[40:29] But it's, it's a country that really needs help.
[40:33] It has nothing.
[40:34] They can't turn on the lights.
[40:35] They can't eat.
[40:36] We don't want to see that.
[40:48] They called me over the last two days to say they made a lot of progress.
[40:51] Because we have them negotiating with us.
[40:54] And primarily Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, a little bit, and Bahrain, and some of the others.
[41:04] And we have them negotiating with them.
[41:06] We're all working together.
[41:07] It's like a team.
[41:08] And Israel, of course.
[41:09] And Israel has been a great partner.
[41:11] And so we are negotiating together.
[41:14] I got a call from numerous of these people.
[41:16] They know the people in Iran.
[41:18] Don't forget.
[41:19] When you talk about regime change, I think it's the ultimate regime change.
[41:23] Because the first level and the second level are no longer with us.
[41:26] They're someplace, but they're no longer with us.
[41:29] So we have real regime change.
[41:31] But we got a call yesterday.
[41:33] Sir, could you wait?
[41:34] We think we're close to a deal.
[41:37] And that's okay.
[41:38] Now, I've heard it before with these people.
[41:40] They changed their mind.
[41:41] I made deals with them.
[41:42] No nuclear.
[41:44] We immediately get the nuclear dust.
[41:46] And they said, you're the only one who can get it.
[41:48] Because the bombers did such an unbelievable job that the mountain literally collapsed on top of it.
[41:54] They said, us, and they thought China would be the only two countries that could even get it.
[41:58] But I think it's important to get it, maybe psychologically more than anything else.
[42:02] How long did they know that you were going to attack?
[42:07] They knew I was getting ready to attack.
[42:11] I didn't tell them.
[42:12] I never tell anybody when.
[42:13] You're in constant contact.
[42:14] I never tell anybody when.
[42:16] But they knew that we were very close.
[42:18] I would say we were, I was an hour away from making the decision to go today.
[42:23] And we would probably not be talking about a beautiful ballroom today.
[42:28] We'd be talking about that.
[42:30] And, no, we were, I had made the decision.
[42:33] So they called up.
[42:34] They had heard I made the decision.
[42:36] They said, sir, could you give us a couple of more days?
[42:38] Because we think they're being reasonable.
[42:42] How long will it take?
[42:44] Well, I mean, I'm saying two or three days.
[42:46] Maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something.
[42:48] Maybe early next week.
[42:50] A limited period of time.
[42:51] Because we can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
[42:56] If they had a nuclear weapon, they would start with Israel.
[42:59] They would blow it up.
[43:00] And they would blow it up fast.
[43:02] But they'd blow it up.
[43:03] And I'll tell you what.
[43:05] They go after Saudi Arabia.
[43:07] They go after Kuwait.
[43:10] They go after UAE.
[43:12] They go after Qatar.
[43:13] They go after, I think they go after the entire Middle East.
[43:17] And it would be a whole different negotiation.
[43:19] It would not be, it would be, it would be nuclear holocaust.
[43:23] And there's no question in my mind that they'd use it.
[43:28] There's no question.
[43:29] And I deal with these people.
[43:31] They're extremely radicalized.
[43:33] These are not people like when I deal with you.
[43:35] You're a very nice guy.
[43:37] These are people that are seriously radicalized.
[43:41] They would use it.
[43:42] The only question, would it be the first minute, the first hour, or the first day?
[43:47] I'm not doing this politically.
[43:56] I'm doing, look, everyone tells me it's unpopular.
[43:58] But I think it's very popular.
[44:00] When you, when they hear that it's having to do with nuclear weapons,
[44:04] weapons that could take out Los Angeles, could take out major cities very quickly.
[44:10] When they hear that, you know, when they're explaining, I'll tell you what, when we explain it to people,
[44:16] I don't really have enough time to explain to people.
[44:18] I'm too busy getting it done.
[44:20] When they understand, I think it's a very, I think it's frankly very popular.
[44:24] But whether it's popular or not popular, I have to do it.
[44:28] Because I'm not going to let the world be blown up on my watch.
[44:32] It's not going to happen.
[44:33] You're saying you're saying you're saying you're at Thomas Massey and endorsing it.
[44:37] Do you think your candidate can, and what are you saying?
[44:41] Yeah, Thomas Massey's a terrible congressman.
[44:44] He's been a terrible congressman from day one.
[44:47] Dealing with him is just a horrible, I don't think he's a Republican.
[44:50] I think he's actually, I think he's actually a Democrat.
[44:53] He's not a libertarian.
[44:55] You know, sometimes they say he's really a Democrat.
[44:58] He votes against us all the time.
[45:00] He voted against the border wall.
[45:02] He voted against men playing in women's sports.
[45:05] He voted against transgender for everybody, the mutilization of your children.
[45:10] He voted against, again, open borders.
[45:13] We have the best border we've ever had right now.
[45:15] Nobody's coming in.
[45:16] I mean, a report just came out in the last 11 months.
[45:19] Literally nobody has been allowed into our country illegally.
[45:23] We're taking people legally.
[45:24] They go through a process.
[45:26] But nobody's coming to our country.
[45:28] But we've taken out hundreds of thousands of people.
[45:31] We had 10,000, it was 10,800, 11,888 murderers.
[45:39] I just wanted to pop in real quick, let you know J.D. Vance has not come out yet.
[45:44] So I will jump to it as soon as he does.
[45:46] And I also want to remind you, President Trump is holding court there,
[45:50] talking to these people in the press.
[45:52] And it's about 85, 90 degrees in Washington, D.C.
[45:57] And they're standing out there while all these skies are working.
[46:00] So just keep that in mind as well.
[46:02] Many of these murders allowed into our country from prisons.
[46:05] They were in prisons.
[46:06] Many of these people killed more than one.
[46:08] More than 50% killed more than one person.
[46:11] This was gross malfeasance.
[46:14] This was on behalf of the Biden administration.
[46:16] I don't know Biden because I don't think he knew he was alive.
[46:19] But she, Kamala, was the border czar.
[46:22] She never called.
[46:23] Not one time, she never called the Border Patrol.
[46:27] She never called ICE.
[46:28] She never called law enforcement.
[46:30] She never went to the border.
[46:31] Think of it.
[46:32] I used to call every single day.
[46:35] And that's recently.
[46:37] Now I call less.
[46:38] We have nobody coming through.
[46:39] We had caravans coming through with tens of thousands of people
[46:43] pouring into our country.
[46:45] We had no idea who they were.
[46:47] We would have been.
[46:48] I'll tell you what.
[46:50] That would.
[46:51] Our country would have been destroyed.
[46:52] If they won this election, our country would have been.
[46:54] We have now the hottest country anywhere in the world.
[46:57] If they had won the election, our country would have been destroyed.
[47:00] Our country was a dead country two years ago.
[47:03] And now we have really the hottest country in the world.
[47:06] And this is the ballroom.
[47:08] And it's going to be something incredible.
[47:10] You see the quality of it.
[47:11] And they go right, those columns go right into the roof.
[47:14] And on top of the roof, we're going to have the greatest drone empire that you've ever seen.
[47:19] And it's going to protect Washington.
[47:21] Thank you all very much.
[47:22] We have a little breakfast for you.
[47:24] Really?
[47:25] Yeah.
[47:26] Where is the breakfast?
[47:27] I'd have it.
[47:28] Where is it?
[47:29] Oh, it's right over there.
[47:31] We have a little bit of a breakfast for you.
[47:33] I figured I'd be nice to you for it.
[47:34] We dedicate to just thousands of people gathered there.
[47:38] It was great.
[47:39] You just passed on.
[47:40] Yeah.
[47:41] You spoke by a video.
[47:42] I did.
[47:43] Scripture.
[47:44] Scripture.
[47:45] How did that happen?
[47:48] I'd be pleased at the front.
[47:50] Well, I think that it was great.
[47:52] Thousands of people showed up.
[47:53] And it was a beautiful everything.
[47:55] Beautiful day.
[47:56] I did.
[47:57] I did scripture.
[47:58] You think it's easy to read scripture?
[48:00] It's not easy to read scripture.
[48:01] That's a whole different ball game.
[48:03] And that's not like reading a speech.
[48:05] We will build a wall.
[48:06] This is a whole different deal.
[48:08] But I did it proudly.
[48:10] And I guess it was broadcast.
[48:13] We had tremendous classes.
[48:14] I think religion is very important for a country.
[48:17] I think having religion.
[48:18] This country was built largely on religion, if you look.
[48:22] It was built.
[48:23] And when you have strong religion, you have less crime.
[48:27] It's just a fact.
[48:28] You know, whatever it may be.
[48:30] It's like, gee, I want to go to heaven.
[48:32] So I'm not going to do this or that.
[48:33] Who knows?
[48:34] But we have a country that was based on religion.
[48:38] And I'm very proud of that.
[48:40] And if you look and you see all of the polling.
[48:43] I mean, polling is so fake.
[48:45] But on this, it's not fake.
[48:46] Religion is really going up in the last year.
[48:50] And during the time, I mean, really, during the time I first got elected in 2016.
[48:55] It's a much different thing.
[48:56] I'm very proud of that.
[48:58] Religion is a good thing.
[48:59] Christianity, it's a great thing for our country.
[49:02] I mean, so many of the things that we've done, the successes that we've had have been based on Christianity and religion.
[49:11] So I'm very proud of that.
[49:12] Religion is taking off like our country has taken off.
[49:16] Our country is hotter now than it's ever been.
[49:18] And I'll tell you, religion is making a tremendous comeback.
[49:22] You look at churches today, they're full.
[49:24] You go back two, three years, nobody was going.
[49:27] We're very happy that we see happening.
[49:32] Yeah.
[49:33] Yeah.
[49:34] No, I'm always concerned.
[49:35] I see things happening.
[49:36] Look, from the beginning of mankind, you've had that.
[49:39] You've had the good and you have the bad.
[49:41] I'd like to get rid of the bad, but somehow that's going to be there.
[49:44] But the good has been many times what it was.
[49:47] Really, many times what it was.
[49:48] On the ballroom.
[49:49] On the ballroom.
[49:50] On the ballroom.
[49:51] If Elvis is not here for this one billion dollars for your security funding, would you be willing or would you willing to go to your donors to ask them?
[49:58] Well, this is money for the whole premises, including the East Wing.
[50:02] This is the East Wing section.
[50:04] But the ballroom is, as you see, it's going up.
[50:07] It's ahead of schedule.
[50:09] It's larger because they wanted more military capacity.
[50:14] They wanted more drone capacity.
[50:16] They needed a larger roof.
[50:18] And frankly, we needed a larger facility.
[50:20] And so we're doing that.
[50:21] And we've done this in strict coordination with the military and with the Secret Service.
[50:26] And they've been great to work with.
[50:28] The money that they're talking about is the surrounding areas and maybe enhancing some security aspects of it.
[50:34] But the building, the building, as you see, it's a very active site.
[50:39] And a lot of people are amazed.
[50:41] And by the way, that floor goes down three floors, just so you understand.
[50:44] You're seeing the almost the top floor.
[50:46] That floor goes down three floors.
[50:48] And there are many things in there having to do with security.
[50:51] And many of those things are going to be taken from there and put onto the roof of the building.
[50:57] And that has to do with drone and missile capacity.
[51:00] The President had done renovations to the White House, to all these things.
[51:04] Why are you so mad about your renovations, though?
[51:08] Because I'm doing it.
[51:09] You got the water flowing in, all of it.
[51:12] Yeah.
[51:13] Well, it's a sad thing, actually.
[51:16] You know, it's very nice.
[51:17] I appreciate the question.
[51:19] First, I said, oh, this is going to be a negative question.
[51:21] Then I heard, she's really saying, why do they hate you for fixing the water fountains?
[51:26] So, you know, we have 40.
[51:29] I know, because I want to see Washington be beautiful.
[51:32] To me, it's very important.
[51:33] But as an example, you mentioned the water fountain.
[51:35] We didn't have one water fountain.
[51:37] I think we have 40.
[51:38] We didn't have one in Washington that worked.
[51:41] And soon they'll all be working.
[51:43] Many of them work right now.
[51:44] And the, I think one of the best things, Obama, President Obama, President Biden spent
[51:50] much more than $100 million on the Reflecting Lake between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington
[51:58] March.
[51:59] They spent much more.
[52:00] They spent, some people say, $200 million.
[52:02] You know what they got out of it?
[52:03] A closed lake.
[52:04] It never opened.
[52:06] And when it did, it shut right away.
[52:08] It leaked.
[52:09] It was a disaster.
[52:10] I'm doing a job on the Reflecting Lake for a fraction of what they paid.
[52:16] Now, I've upgraded it very soon.
[52:18] I got so into it.
[52:19] I've upgraded it like you wouldn't believe.
[52:21] I'm doing all the walkways outside.
[52:23] You know, I'm doing it properly.
[52:25] But it's a much bigger job.
[52:27] But you see it's happening now.
[52:29] It's going to be beautiful.
[52:30] It's going to be waterproof.
[52:31] It's going to be reflecting again.
[52:33] I took over a dirty, filthy thing that wasn't open.
[52:37] And it was disgusting.
[52:39] And friends of mine would come to the Lincoln or the Washington
[52:42] and they'd say, sir, it's disgusting.
[52:45] I said, what's disgusting?
[52:46] The Reflecting Lake.
[52:47] So I drove down.
[52:48] I looked with Secretary Berger, who's fantastic, of Interior.
[52:52] He's fantastic.
[52:53] And we got together.
[52:54] And we have — it's under construction right now.
[52:58] I want to get it open before July 4th, which we'll easily be able to do.
[53:02] It'll be open before that.
[53:03] But easily be able to do July 4th being a very special day.
[53:07] And it is going to be beautiful.
[53:09] Beautiful blue color.
[53:10] Dark blue color.
[53:11] It's very reflective.
[53:13] I put a thing out yesterday showing the reflection.
[53:15] We did a little test.
[53:17] We wanted to see it.
[53:18] It's unbelievable.
[53:19] It's like a mirror.
[53:20] Well, it's like a mirror.
[53:21] It's beautiful.
[53:23] There was guys out here.
[53:24] Yeah.
[53:26] They're doing — well, they're fixing the stone outside.
[53:28] And they're sandblasting the stone.
[53:31] We're doing a much bigger job than we wanted to do.
[53:34] Think of it.
[53:35] Obama and Biden spent over $100 million.
[53:37] And you know what?
[53:38] They got nothing.
[53:39] They opened it up, and it leaked like a sieve.
[53:41] And they closed it, and it stayed closed.
[53:43] They've been working on it for years.
[53:45] I've been working on this for a couple of months.
[53:47] When it's finished, it's going to be incredible.
[53:49] But we have other fountains.
[53:52] Beautiful fountains.
[53:53] They haven't worked in 30 years.
[53:55] They're just sitting there, rotting.
[53:57] And most of them are now open.
[53:59] And right across the street, I made a donation,
[54:02] and I'm building Lafayette Park.
[54:04] And it's going to be beautiful.
[54:05] How much did the President donate?
[54:07] The President see?
[54:08] I like her.
[54:09] How much did the President donate?
[54:10] How much did the President donate?
[54:11] About $10 million.
[54:12] Are you happy with American flag building?
[54:14] Well, I put up the American flag.
[54:16] No, the American flag is the story.
[54:17] I think so.
[54:18] I mean, I'll let you know.
[54:19] I wanted a lighter color blue.
[54:21] The person that really knows this stuff said,
[54:23] no, dark is much better.
[54:25] You don't see the leaves, and you know,
[54:28] things won't get in there.
[54:29] But most importantly, the dark reflects much better.
[54:32] The President, is he asking me so desperately
[54:36] that night is divided?
[54:38] Well, I think it's the strongest it's ever been.
[54:40] You know, you take a look at what happened in Louisiana,
[54:43] two nights ago with a certain senator that was very disloyal to me
[54:47] and to the Republican Party.
[54:49] He's not even allowed to run for office.
[54:52] We have another big race.
[54:53] This guy, Massey, is terrible.
[54:54] Let's see what happens.
[54:55] It's not easy beating incumbents, but we have a great guy
[54:58] running against Massey.
[54:59] Massey's a terrible, I think the worst congressman
[55:02] the Republican Party's ever had.
[55:04] That'll be tonight.
[55:05] That'll be good television.
[55:06] And we'll see what happens there.
[55:08] But I think MAGA's never been more together, actually.
[55:11] I'm going to be making an endorsement today in Texas.
[55:14] I'm going to be putting out an endorsement in a little while in Texas,
[55:17] the great state.
[55:18] You know, I won Texas all six times, meaning primaries and the race.
[55:23] And I got the highest vote in the history of Texas.
[55:26] And I love Texas.
[55:27] But I'm going to be making an endorsement at about 1230,
[55:31] one o'clock today for the big race, the Senate race in Texas.
[55:36] And I hope you find it good.
[55:40] I do think, I mean, I appreciate the question because even CNN,
[55:44] they did a poll two, three weeks ago.
[55:46] They said Trump is at 100 percent.
[55:49] That's Harry Enden.
[55:50] I like Harry Enden.
[55:51] He got a lot of energy.
[55:52] I like him.
[55:53] But he did a poll and he's a good pro.
[55:56] And he is the good and the bad.
[55:58] But I think he's an honorable guy because he got a lot of good.
[56:01] You know, he predicted I was going to do great with the Muslims in Michigan
[56:06] and win Michigan.
[56:07] And I did.
[56:08] I did good and I won Michigan by a lot.
[56:09] He made a lot of good predictions.
[56:11] But he did a poll two weeks ago that said Trump is, I mean, this is up.
[56:18] You can check 100 percent popularity with MAGA.
[56:23] MAGA is most of the Republican Party.
[56:25] The rhinos are gone to a large extent.
[56:28] A few of them are still left.
[56:30] So hopefully we get rid of one tonight in the form of Tom Massey, who's horrible.
[56:35] But no, it's been amazing.
[56:37] But I'll be making a statement in a little while as to who I'm endorsing
[56:41] in Texas for the Senate.
[56:43] And there are those that say whoever I endorse is going to win.
[56:45] I don't know if that's true.
[56:46] But historically that's absolutely true.
[56:48] I just don't like to say it because I don't like to brag.
[56:51] What helped you make up your mind?
[56:54] Well, I've had my mind made up for a long time.
[56:56] But I just think it's, I just think it's going to be, you know, I just think it's appropriate.
[57:03] Mr. President, I have a question to be told you during your meeting that perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin would come to regret invading Ukraine.
[57:14] Did he say that to you?
[57:15] No, he never said that.
[57:16] Mr. President, you mentioned that the fall rule was your gift to the country.
[57:20] It's a gift.
[57:21] It's a gift from me and from incredible, successful companies and patriots.
[57:27] And they put up close to $400 million.
[57:30] And you see the, you see what's happening.
[57:33] And it's beautiful.
[57:34] And again, it's ahead of schedule, unlike the Fed building.
[57:37] This building at $400 million.
[57:40] The Fed building at $4 billion.
[57:42] And it's a tiny little comparison.
[57:45] A lot of times, I do.
[57:51] Putting up the American flag, the flagpole, on each side.
[57:55] Why was this so important for you to be part of your legacy?
[58:00] Well, this is the most important because, number one, security.
[58:03] And number two, it was so needed just on a social basis for presidents.
[58:07] And again, I'll be here for a very short period of time when this opens.
[58:10] I'll be here for a very short period of time.
[58:13] This is really being built for other presidents.
[58:15] It's not being built for me.
[58:16] And I'm a really good builder.
[58:18] The thing I do best in life is build.
[58:20] I'm a great builder.
[58:21] I build beautiful product.
[58:22] This, this, there will never be anything like this.
[58:25] I always admired the facade of the Supreme Court.
[58:28] I said, I wonder if that can be duplicated or bettered.
[58:32] Even not to say bettered, but even bettered.
[58:34] And we've actually bettered it.
[58:35] What we're doing is something that will, you'll never see it again.
[58:39] Mr. President, one more on Iran, if I may.
[58:41] When you were having your discussions with the regional partners, the regional leaders,
[58:46] did they express to you any concern about Iran's ability to still retaliate in the event of the U.S.
[58:52] They have a little ability.
[58:53] Their missiles, their missiles are 82 percent gone, we estimate.
[58:57] Their capacity to build is very little right now because we hit, you know, we hit all of their manufacturing areas.
[59:04] Same thing with drones, largely gone.
[59:06] But they still have a little capacity.
[59:08] Yeah, not much, but they have a little.
[59:10] Their Navy is completely gone.
[59:11] Their Air Force is completely gone.
[59:13] President Xi has promised me that he's not sending any weapons to Iran.
[59:18] That's a beautiful promise.
[59:19] I take him at his word.
[59:22] I appreciated it.
[59:23] We had an amazing time in China.
[59:26] You know, look, we got along very well before this, but President Xi and I had a really an amazing time.
[59:32] I think he'd say the same thing, but he promised that he's not sending any weapons.
[59:36] And, you know, if you think about it, he gets 40 percent of his oil.
[59:39] He's not sending oil boats in, you know, tankers in with 20 destroyers alongside of him.
[59:47] No, he wants it.
[59:48] He does want it open like me.
[59:49] I want it open and we'll get it open.
[59:51] But Iran has used the straits as a military weapon for 47 years, really much more than that.
[59:58] And that's not their straits.
[1:00:00] That's international waterways.
[1:00:01] That's not for them to do.
[1:00:03] And look, they've learned their lesson.
[1:00:07] If I left today, it would take them 25 years to rebuild.
[1:00:11] But we're not leaving.
[1:00:12] We're going to do it right so that in five years, 10 years, if you have a bad president,
[1:00:17] who doesn't want to do what's right to do, this should have been done by Obama.
[1:00:22] This should have been done by Biden.
[1:00:23] It should have been done by other presidents long before.
[1:00:26] And everybody agrees to this.
[1:00:29] They are.
[1:00:33] Yeah.
[1:00:34] Are there other years?
[1:00:36] Well, there may be.
[1:00:37] It's very temporary.
[1:00:38] Yeah, there may be.
[1:00:39] Anything to keep it down.
[1:00:40] Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is going.
[1:00:43] You know, I had gasoline down to $1.85 in Iowa.
[1:00:47] I was in Iowa.
[1:00:48] And the stations had it at $1.85.
[1:00:52] But I was down to, in many cases, less than $2 a barrel, a gallon.
[1:00:57] And then I said to myself, this is great.
[1:01:00] We just hit a new high in the stock market.
[1:01:02] Everything is going good.
[1:01:03] I'm sorry.
[1:01:04] But we have to go down and take a little journey down to do something with the rent.
[1:01:11] We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.
[1:01:14] You want to see the world exploded?
[1:01:16] You want to see a problem?
[1:01:17] And this is peanuts.
[1:01:18] And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while.
[1:01:21] It won't be much longer.
[1:01:23] But you're going to have — and frankly, there is so much oil out there.
[1:01:28] One of the things that is happening is these big ships are coming up to Texas, Louisiana,
[1:01:32] and Alaska, and they're loading up.
[1:01:35] But I don't even think about that.
[1:01:37] What I think about is you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
[1:01:40] And they won't have a nuclear weapon.
[1:01:41] And they fully understand it.
[1:01:42] Mr. President, I once asked you, how do you deal to divide America?
[1:01:48] And just some time ago, during your first term,
[1:01:51] you told me success is bringing the best.
[1:01:53] Yeah, success.
[1:01:54] Mr. President, why do you continue to do what you do,
[1:01:57] knowing that so many people are criticizing it at the same time?
[1:02:00] What do you think every day you try to bring that success?
[1:02:03] Well, you know, you have some people disagree with, like, the Iran thing.
[1:02:07] To me, it's no question.
[1:02:08] To me, you have to have borders.
[1:02:10] You have to have walls, and you have to let people in legally.
[1:02:13] But you have to have borders.
[1:02:15] Some people think you don't have borders.
[1:02:17] You should let anybody — murderers, drug dealers, you should let them in.
[1:02:20] So there is some — but I said to you once, I remember it,
[1:02:23] the greatest healer of our country.
[1:02:26] When we had — just before COVID, we were so successful.
[1:02:29] You know, we had the best economy we've ever had in my first term.
[1:02:33] This term is going to blow it away, I think.
[1:02:35] And you see all the numbers.
[1:02:36] Even during the war, we have the highest stock market we've ever had.
[1:02:40] I thought the market would go down 25 percent.
[1:02:43] And I was okay with that, to get rid of a nuclear potential holocaust.
[1:02:49] It would have been a nuclear holocaust.
[1:02:51] So going down 25 percent is okay if you're going to get rid of a nuclear holocaust.
[1:02:55] So most people agree with me.
[1:02:58] When I'm with people and they — let's say, oh, gee, why do — and I say, here's the problem.
[1:03:03] Is it okay for Iran — and they are very volatile people, I'm being nice —
[1:03:08] is it okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon?
[1:03:12] Everybody says no.
[1:03:13] I said, then we have nothing further to discuss, you know?
[1:03:16] It's like one of those things.
[1:03:18] And they will never have a nuclear weapon.
[1:03:19] It's not going to happen.
[1:03:20] And probably that's going to be very soon.
[1:03:22] So one way or the other, whether it's military or an agreement, they — that'll start opening up very soon.
[1:03:29] The Press Press, why would you waste a lot of work in this next retirement?
[1:03:33] Because now both of their names are going to be on the ballot.
[1:03:36] The President, no, I've waited.
[1:03:37] I've pretty much always known who I was going to embrace.
[1:03:41] I just thought this was a good time.
[1:03:43] You know, the voting's starting.
[1:03:45] And I thought this was a good time.
[1:03:46] I'm going to be doing that very shortly.
[1:03:48] The Press Press, how do you play any thought into potentially endorsing someone to run against J.B. Pritzker, like Darren Bailey or —
[1:03:55] Well, I like Darren Bailey.
[1:03:56] J.B. Pritzker is a slob of a governor.
[1:03:58] You know, he could call me and I'd send the National Guard in Chicago, would have no crime.
[1:04:03] Look at Washington, D.C.
[1:04:04] Did you see the crime stats?
[1:04:06] It's down to, like, nothing.
[1:04:07] People go to restaurants now, new restaurants.
[1:04:10] Restaurants are all being closed in Washington.
[1:04:12] Now they're building new restaurants.
[1:04:14] It's a hot city.
[1:04:15] We have a beautiful city.
[1:04:16] We have very little crime, almost no crime.
[1:04:19] And we could have the same thing in Chicago.
[1:04:21] All he'd have to do is say, President, I don't want to have any crime in Chicago.
[1:04:26] Can you help me?
[1:04:27] Three months, Chicago would be a different place.
[1:04:31] What can I say?
[1:04:35] He's so big.
[1:04:36] He's so big.
[1:04:37] Mr. President, you're going to law enforcement.
[1:04:40] I talked about making healthcare more affordable.
[1:04:42] Right.
[1:04:43] You've done that.
[1:04:44] And you made a major announcement yesterday.
[1:04:46] That was a big announcement.
[1:04:47] Got no coverage.
[1:04:48] I reduced drug prices by 50, 60, 70, 80 percent, and it gets no coverage.
[1:04:54] I think it's maybe, other than medical itself, like a cure.
[1:04:59] I think it's the biggest thing to happen in healthcare ever, maybe.
[1:05:02] I brought the price.
[1:05:03] We paid the highest price in the world.
[1:05:05] Now we're paying, as of now, we're paying the lowest price in the world.
[1:05:10] Prices of drugs have gone down 70, 80, 90 percent.
[1:05:14] For 28 years, they never went down.
[1:05:17] Within my administration, I got it down one-eighth of one percent that I thought it was great.
[1:05:22] The first time, the only time in 28 years that it went down.
[1:05:25] Now I got them down 50, 60, 70, and even 80 percent.
[1:05:29] And that has a huge impact on healthcare.
[1:05:32] Listen, go have breakfast.
[1:05:33] Have a good time.
[1:05:34] Thank you very much.
[1:05:35] Have breakfast.
[1:05:36] Enjoy your sight.
[1:05:37] You can shoot down there.
[1:05:38] But those, the next time you come here, those columns will be standing even taller.
[1:05:45] Actually, the underneath part's a good question.
[1:05:52] It's far more complex than the upper.
[1:05:54] You don't see the floors that are beneath here.
[1:05:58] And they have very, very important rooms in there.
[1:06:01] Very, the most important.
[1:06:03] And this was the one opportunity for the military to do something.
[1:06:07] You know, they came.
[1:06:09] Normally, I'd build a ballroom.
[1:06:10] All right.
[1:06:11] I only had 38 seconds left, so we got it all in.
[1:06:14] J.D. Vance is on stage right now.
[1:06:16] Let me start out with a few things.
[1:06:17] So, first of all, proud to announce that next week I will be speaking at the Air Force
[1:06:21] Academy commencement ceremony.
[1:06:23] Last year, I spoke at the Naval Academy commencement ceremony, and it was one of the great honors
[1:06:28] and privileges of my life.
[1:06:29] So, I'm excited to go out there to Colorado and participate in that ceremony.
[1:06:32] The second thing is I want to highlight a little bit some of the work that we've been
[1:06:36] doing, the great work our team has been doing on the anti-fraud task force, where we have
[1:06:40] caught just the last couple of months billions upon billions of dollars of fraud in our hospice
[1:06:45] system, in our Medicaid system, in our Medicare system, in our immigration system.
[1:06:49] We've seen hundreds of millions of dollars of fraudulent loans that were being handed
[1:06:54] out through the Small Business Administration that we've identified and stopped.
[1:06:57] And we've also started investigating some of the fraudulent criminal activity and also
[1:07:01] prosecuting some of the fraudulent criminal activity.
[1:07:04] So, the thing that I say to the American people, and I'll repeat here to all of you, is fraud
[1:07:08] is a crime that has two victims.
[1:07:11] It has, first of all, the American taxpayer, people who pay their taxes, who out of their
[1:07:15] generosity, and because they have to, of course, they pay their taxes expecting that it's going
[1:07:20] to go to pay our troops and ensure that low-income children have access to food and ensure that
[1:07:25] people get medical benefits, even if they're not able to afford a doctor.
[1:07:28] I think that's a great thing about our country is that we have this generosity of spirit where we
[1:07:31] take care of one another, but fraud takes that away from us because it steals money from the
[1:07:36] taxpayer when they pay their taxes, and it also steals money from innocent people who are meant
[1:07:41] to benefit from these programs but can't when the money runs dry because it's gone to fraudsters
[1:07:46] instead of the people who benefit from it or should benefit from it.
[1:07:49] So, we're going to keep that work up.
[1:07:51] The President of the United States has been very clear that he wants us to focus on fraud.
[1:07:55] He wants us to prosecute the fraudsters, and he wants us to save the American people as much money
[1:08:00] as we possibly can.
[1:08:01] So, we're going to keep at it.
[1:08:02] We're very proud of that work and, importantly, very proud of the team who have done an incredible job.
[1:08:07] And then, finally, just to give an update on the Iran negotiation, the Iran situation,
[1:08:11] I just talked to the President very briefly before I came out here.
[1:08:14] It's actually a very simple proposition here.
[1:08:17] There are two options, two pathways we can go down when it comes to the Iran situation.
[1:08:22] So, step back for a little bit.
[1:08:24] What the President of the United States has said is, number one, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
[1:08:28] And I think it's important for the American people and all of you to appreciate that when we say that,
[1:08:32] it's not just that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[1:08:35] It's what would happen if the Iranians did get a nuclear weapon.
[1:08:38] We know that a lot of nations all across the Gulf would then want their own nuclear weapon,
[1:08:43] and then a lot of nations all across the world.
[1:08:46] And what has been a very effective bright spot of American foreign policy,
[1:08:50] really for the last 20 or so years, would disappear overnight.
[1:08:54] If you have every country in the world scrambling to try to get a nuclear weapon,
[1:08:58] it would make us all much less safe.
[1:09:01] And Iran would really be the first domino in what would set off a nuclear arms race all over the world.
[1:09:06] That's very, very bad for the safety of our country.
[1:09:09] As the father of three young kids, I don't want them to inherit a world where 20 additional regimes,
[1:09:15] half of them very dangerous and very sympathetic to terrorists, have nuclear weapons.
[1:09:20] We want to keep the number of countries that have nuclear weapons small,
[1:09:23] and that's why Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[1:09:26] On top of all the other things that we might be worried about, that they themselves could use it,
[1:09:30] that they could use it in leverage and economic control or economic negotiations.
[1:09:34] We just don't want them to have a nuclear weapon.
[1:09:37] Now, what we did here is that we effectively degraded their conventional military capability.
[1:09:42] That has been done. That has been successfully done.
[1:09:45] You could always do a little bit more, but where we are now is the president has asked us,
[1:09:49] has told us to aggressively negotiate with the Iranians.
[1:09:52] Why did I go to Islamabad, Pakistan? Why did I spend, I think, probably 22 hours on a plane going there,
[1:09:59] 24 hours coming back, and then 21 hours on the ground negotiating with the Iranians,
[1:10:04] is because we wanted to show a sign of good faith.
[1:10:06] The vice president of the United States is willing to cut a deal,
[1:10:09] so long as the Iranians are willing to meet us again on that core issue of never having a nuclear weapon.
[1:10:16] We think that we've made a lot of progress. We think the Iranians want to make a deal.
[1:10:20] The president of the United States has asked us to negotiate in good faith,
[1:10:23] and that's exactly what we've done. So we're in a pretty good spot here, but there's an option B.
[1:10:29] And the option B is that we could restart the military campaign to continue to prosecute the case,
[1:10:35] to continue to try to achieve America's objectives, and we could talk a little bit about what that looks like,
[1:10:40] but that's not what the president wants, and I don't think it's what the Iranians want either.
[1:10:43] We have an opportunity here, I think, to reset the relationship that has existed between Iran and the United States for 47 years.
[1:10:51] That's what the president has asked us to do, and that's what we're going to keep on working at.
[1:10:55] But it takes two to tango. We are not going to have a deal that allows the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon.
[1:11:01] So as the president just told me, we're locked and loaded. We don't want to go down that pathway,
[1:11:05] but the president is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to.
[1:11:09] So with that, I will say thank you all. It's cool to be here.
[1:11:13] I'm going to give a shout out, of course, to the person I am replacing today, Carolyn Leavitt,
[1:11:17] who hopefully is at home enjoying some time with her beautiful kids.
[1:11:21] I told Carolyn I would stand in for her today for the White House press briefing on the condition
[1:11:27] that when Usha has our baby in July that she would be vice president for a couple weeks.
[1:11:31] So thank you, guys.
[1:11:33] And I actually want to start first with Nick from Breitbart. Nick, it's good to see you.
[1:11:37] Vice President, thank you.
[1:11:40] Today we saw the president endorse Ken Paxton over John Cornyn in the Texas Senate race.
[1:11:45] Do you think that sends a message going forward for the next cycle to senators, you know,
[1:11:51] considering running for reelection or any mega-aligned potential candidates that are considering challenging them?
[1:11:57] Well, I'd say a couple things, Nick. First of all, the president's very gratified by the response that he's heard from the base
[1:12:04] and from a lot of voters. I think we're passionate about Ken Paxton.
[1:12:07] We think Ken Paxton is going to be a great senator for the people of Texas, but most importantly,
[1:12:11] a great United States senator who can work on solving the problems that all of us confront as a country together.
[1:12:17] I've known John Cornyn for a long time, but unfortunately, you know, when it really counted,
[1:12:23] Ken Paxton was there for the country, was there for the president.
[1:12:27] And that's why he ultimately earned the president's endorsement.
[1:12:29] He thinks he's going to be a better senator, thinks he's going to make a better candidate.
[1:12:33] And so I do think it sends a message, but really not just the endorsement,
[1:12:38] but one of the things the president has done very effectively going back 10 years in his leadership of the Republican Party
[1:12:44] and the country as president of the United States is he said, you know, I want people who fight for the good.
[1:12:51] I want people who can't be bought by corporate lobbyists, who can't be bought by Wall Street,
[1:12:55] who can't be bought by special interests, who are going to go to Washington and fight for the people who actually elected them to those positions.
[1:13:01] And I think one of the things we've seen in the Republican Party, while I can't say that all of our representatives are perfect
[1:13:07] or all of our senators are perfect, we have seen a much better crop of talent come into Washington
[1:13:14] since Donald Trump has been the leader of the party and the leader of the movement.
[1:13:17] I do think we're going to continue to see that happening.
[1:13:19] But I think the message that people should take from this is fundamentally you have got to serve the people who sent you.
[1:13:26] And if you don't do that, you're going to find yourself out of step with voters or out of step with the president of the United States.
[1:13:31] And that's not a good place to be politically. Yeah. Go ahead.
[1:13:36] Just following up on what you just said, you said that the White House is negotiating with Iran in good faith.
[1:13:43] I think Americans tend to believe that. But what is it about the Iranian side that you personally have seen where you believe that they are negotiating with us in good faith?
[1:13:54] Well, first of all, I'd say it's a very complicated country. And it's a country that I wouldn't pretend that I understand,
[1:14:00] even after as as deep as I've been involved in this process from the very beginning.
[1:14:04] It's a great and proud civilization, amazing people.
[1:14:07] Obviously, I have a great Iranian American community here in the United States of America, smart people, very hardworking.
[1:14:13] And you see some of that in the negotiating team on the other side.
[1:14:17] You also see some very hardline positions in the negotiating team on the other side.
[1:14:22] And so I think you see that that conflict, the fact that maybe the Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go to.
[1:14:29] They also are just a fractured country. So you have the leadership of the country.
[1:14:33] There's the supreme leader and there are a lot of officials below the supreme leader that has some influence in the negotiation.
[1:14:39] It's not sometimes totally clear what the negotiating position of the team is.
[1:14:44] And I don't know if that's sometimes bad communication, if that's bad faith.
[1:14:48] I don't I wouldn't pretend to venture a guess there.
[1:14:51] But I will say with confidence, it's sometimes hard to figure out exactly what it is that the Iranians want to accomplish out of the negotiation.
[1:14:58] So what we've done is tried to be as clear as possible.
[1:15:02] What are our red lines?
[1:15:03] What are the things that we're willing to be accommodating on?
[1:15:05] And what are the things that we absolutely must have?
[1:15:08] And as the president has said ad nauseam, and I think I've said a lot to Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[1:15:14] We want to see not just the commitment to not have a nuclear weapon, but the commitment to work with us on a process to ensure that not just now, not just when Donald Trump is president, but years down the road that the Iranians are not rebuilding that nuclear capability.
[1:15:27] Sorry, you had a follow up commitment to not have a nuclear weapon, but the commitment to work with us on a process to ensure that not just now, not just when Donald Trump is president, but years down the road that the Iranians are not rebuilding that nuclear capability.
[1:15:43] And that's what we're trying to accomplish in the negotiation.
[1:15:46] Sorry, you had a follow up Americans at home because this has been going on for several weeks now.
[1:15:50] I think what people just want to know is, do you personally believe that the Iranians will come to a deal because we keep seeing this over and over again when they go back and forth?
[1:16:00] So do I personally believe it? The honest answer is how could I possibly know, right?
[1:16:05] And you negotiate with people and sometimes you feel like you're making progress and sometimes you feel like you're not making progress.
[1:16:11] What I think, what I think is that the Iranians want to make a deal.
[1:16:15] What I think is that the Iranians recognize that a nuclear weapon is the red line for the United States of America, that they've internalized that.
[1:16:22] But we're not going to know until we're actually putting pen to paper on signing a deal.
[1:16:26] We've had a lot of drafts, a lot of, you know, a lot of pieces of paper going back and forth.
[1:16:31] But I will not say with confidence that we're going to reach a deal until we're actually signing a negotiated settlement here.
[1:16:38] And I think that it's ultimately up to the Iranians whether they are willing to meet us, because I think we're certainly doing a good job and we're certainly negotiating in good faith.
[1:16:47] We're going to have to see what ultimately happens with them.
[1:16:49] I can't say with confidence because I don't know what's in the mind of the other side.
[1:16:53] John.
[1:16:54] Mr. Vice President, thank you.
[1:16:56] I want to ask you about that $1.8 billion fund set up, weaponization fund as it's being called.
[1:17:02] Why should taxpayers be paying to settle a $10 billion lawsuit that was brought by the President of the United States?
[1:17:10] And should people that attacked the Capitol building and assaulted police officers, should they be eligible?
[1:17:18] Should they receive money? Should they receive money from this fund?
[1:17:21] Well, let me say a couple things about that. First, John, I think in some ways the media has misrepresented what this is actually about.
[1:17:27] This is about compensating Americans for the lawfare that we saw under the last administration.
[1:17:32] And by the way, anybody can apply for it. Republicans can apply for it. Democrats can apply for it.
[1:17:37] As you know, the President of the United States has pardoned a number of Democrats who he felt were actually subject to this lawfare.
[1:17:44] I mean, if Hunter Biden wants to apply for this particular fund, he is welcome to.
[1:17:49] It's going to go through a normal process where we vet everything, where we try to identify whether people's claims are actually legitimate.
[1:17:55] But here's the question. You say, why should taxpayers fund this?
[1:17:59] Whenever the United States government incurs legal expenses, it pays out those legal expenses.
[1:18:05] When it's settling a lawsuit, it pays out money to settle that lawsuit.
[1:18:09] And the question is, is a dollar of this money going to the Trump administration? No.
[1:18:15] Is a dollar of this money going to Donald Trump personally? No.
[1:18:18] Is a dollar of this money going to Donald Trump's family? No.
[1:18:21] The people that would get the money are people, some of whom have been prosecuted completely disproportionate to any crime they've ever committed.
[1:18:29] Like, let's just take a couple of examples. Tina Peters is this woman who is about to get out of prison, thanks in large part to the President's good work in Colorado.
[1:18:37] This is a woman who, at worst, if you believe everything that the prosecutors said about her, committed misdemeanor trespassing and somebody threw the book at her,
[1:18:48] this innocent grandmother was going to spend 10 years in prison completely disproportionate to any misdemeanor trespassing that I've ever seen.
[1:18:55] Was that fair? No. Is it reasonable for her to get some compensation for the fact that she was treated unfairly?
[1:19:01] I think the answer is yes. And I think that what we're going to see, hopefully, is the entire country, led by this Department of Justice, turning the page on the lawfare.
[1:19:10] What I would like to propose, and I think the Democrats, you know, hopefully they're willing to meet us halfway here.
[1:19:16] I won't hold my breath. But what I would propose is something very simple, that if you are willing to turn the page on Joe Biden's lawfare,
[1:19:23] why don't we prosecute people? Very simple principle. Why don't we prosecute people who violate the law?
[1:19:29] Let's not prosecute people because they said the wrong thing or because they had the wrong political candidate or because they had the wrong viewpoint.
[1:19:36] And I think part of that, part of turning the page on that, is to actually ensure the real victims of that lawfare receive some compensation.
[1:19:44] That's what this fund is going to be targeted at. And again, there's going to be a process to ensure that that money is only given to people who have actually, I hate to say earned it,
[1:19:52] but the people who actually were really mistreated by the previous administration and Department of Justice.
[1:19:57] Go ahead.
[1:19:58] I understand that everybody is eligible to apply for this fund. I mean, you're eligible, but I assume you're not going to apply.
[1:20:07] You don't think you should get money out of this fund. Of course.
[1:20:09] So isn't it just as easy to say that people that attacked police officers should not get taxpayer money from this fund?
[1:20:16] Well, look, John, we're not trying to give money to anybody who attacked a police officer. We're trying to give money, not give money.
[1:20:23] We're trying to compensate people where the book was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal system.
[1:20:29] Sometimes, you know, we are, we do have John in this, in this country, innocent until proven guilty.
[1:20:34] We do have people who were accused of attacking law enforcement officers.
[1:20:38] That doesn't mean that we're going to completely ignore some of the claims that they're going to make.
[1:20:45] We're going to evaluate these things on a case by case basis. And if we think that somebody, whatever they were accused of,
[1:20:51] if we think that somebody was unfairly prosecuted and deserves just compensation, then that's what this fund is going to exist to provide.
[1:21:00] It's just going to correct a wrong. And I think that's a good thing.
[1:21:03] And I'd encourage everybody, Democrat, Republican, Independent, let's turn the page on this thing that we did under the last administration,
[1:21:09] where we tried to throw people in prison because they had the wrong politics.
[1:21:13] Let's throw people in prison who broke the law.
[1:21:15] I think this fund is a good part of getting justice for the people who are wrongly treated.
[1:21:20] Back there. Yeah.
[1:21:22] Thank you, sir.
[1:21:23] Just to follow up on that quickly.
[1:21:25] What does that mean that people that maybe don't meet the eye?
[1:21:34] We're just going to look at every case case by case.
[1:21:36] That's all I'm saying. I'm not committing to giving anybody money or committing to giving no one money.
[1:21:42] What I'm committing to is a legal process to review these claims and to make sure that people who are mistreated by their government get a little bit of compensation because of it.
[1:21:51] Go ahead.
[1:21:52] Thank you, sir.
[1:21:54] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:21:55] I realize that the pointer finger is not as precise as I thought it was.
[1:21:59] The guy in, sorry, I have this cheat sheet, but the problem with being 41 years old is you are, I'm blinder than I was a few years ago.
[1:22:07] So we'll say blue blazer, blue ties.
[1:22:09] Yeah.
[1:22:10] Okay.
[1:22:11] Great.
[1:22:12] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:22:13] I'd like to ask a quick follow up on Iran, but first I'd like to ask you about fentanyl.
[1:22:16] A fentanyl source largely from China killed about 403,000 Americans over the past seven years, according to CDC data.
[1:22:24] That's one in every one, one in every 850 Americans who died.
[1:22:29] White House counterterrorism director Sebastian Gorka said last week that China's exports amounted to the targeted killing of Americans and war by other means.
[1:22:38] Do you agree with that assessment?
[1:22:40] And what is the Trump administration doing to punish and deter China, especially since the Supreme Court struck down the fentanyl tariffs?
[1:22:47] So go ahead and ask the second question, because I'll try to take each question and then I'll try to answer them and then we'll go on.
[1:22:52] And if you ask two questions, I can only guarantee they'll answer one.
[1:22:55] In fact, I'm a politician.
[1:22:56] Maybe I won't even answer the one that you asked.
[1:22:58] But I will try at least to answer one question.
[1:23:01] Well, I'd love to hear the fentanyl response too, if not today sometime.
[1:23:04] Go ahead.
[1:23:05] On Iran, is Russia taking possession of the enriched uranium in Iran a plausible end to the war?
[1:23:11] And if not, why not?
[1:23:13] So first, on the Russia taking possession of the enriched uranium, look, these things are being discussed through negotiation.
[1:23:19] That is not currently our plan.
[1:23:20] That has never been our plan.
[1:23:21] I've seen some reporting on that.
[1:23:23] I don't know where it comes from, but the president's going to continue to negotiate a deal.
[1:23:27] So that is not currently the plan of the United States government.
[1:23:30] The Iranians have not raised it.
[1:23:31] My sense is that's not something the Iranians would be particularly excited about.
[1:23:35] And I know the president isn't particularly excited about it either.
[1:23:38] But who knows?
[1:23:39] I'm not going to make pre-commitments in a negotiation on any particular topic.
[1:23:43] On the question of fentanyl, a lot of people have died from fentanyl.
[1:23:46] Absolutely.
[1:23:47] A lot of it has come from mainland China.
[1:23:49] We're certainly aware of that.
[1:23:50] But here's what I'll say.
[1:23:51] First of all, we've made incredible strides under Donald Trump's leadership to cut down on fentanyl deaths.
[1:23:57] If you look at the number of people who died in 2026, it's going to be lower than the number who died in 2025, which is way lower than the number who died in 2024.
[1:24:06] This is one of the things that I think all Americans, we should be celebrating.
[1:24:10] And I'm certainly proud of the president's leadership for making this possible.
[1:24:13] We ran, if you remember, in November of 2024 on a very simple idea that a lot of fentanyl came from East Asia.
[1:24:20] It was smuggled into Central and South America.
[1:24:23] And then the cartels would bring it into our country.
[1:24:26] And a lot of our people would get poisoned and killed because of it.
[1:24:29] We said if you got control of the southern border, we would see a substantial reduction in the number of people who died from fentanyl overdoses in the United States of America.
[1:24:38] And that is exactly what's happened.
[1:24:40] Now, yes, the president has raised this with President Xi any number of times.
[1:24:43] I know it came up during the meeting that they had in China just last week, but it's come up in any number of phone calls.
[1:24:49] And our sense is that President Xi has been willing to work with us on this.
[1:24:53] And obviously, we want to continue to ensure that the Chinese work with us as much as possible because we don't want our people to be poisoned.
[1:24:59] So we'll keep working on that issue with the Chinese.
[1:25:04] There's been, I think, a big amount of progress that's been made.
[1:25:07] But of course, we can make a lot more progress, and we're certainly going to be committed to doing exactly that.
[1:25:12] Right.
[1:25:13] Yeah.
[1:25:14] White jacket.
[1:25:15] Sorry.
[1:25:16] Oh, hey, yeah.
[1:25:17] Natalie with the Washington Post.
[1:25:18] Natalie, thank you.
[1:25:19] Yeah, thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:25:20] Does the government need to create a new mandatory review process for new AI models given the concerns about mythos?
[1:25:26] And secondly, in a few days, Pope Leo is going to release his encyclical on artificial intelligence.
[1:25:32] What influence, if any, do you see the Pope's guidance on AI having to broader society?
[1:25:39] Well, I mean, I think when the Pope issues an encyclical on artificial intelligence, what influence, if any, do you see the Pope's guidance on AI having to broader society?
[1:25:51] Well, I mean, I think when the Pope issues an encyclical on artificial intelligence, it's going to have some influence.
[1:25:56] I, of course, don't know how much influence.
[1:25:58] I don't know exactly what it's going to say.
[1:26:00] But I think when the leader of the world's largest Christian denomination speaks on an issue like that, it's certainly going to have some influence.
[1:26:06] And I'm sure it'll contain a lot of insights, some of which I'll probably agree with, some of which I may not.
[1:26:12] But I think that it's going to be a very, very important document.
[1:26:15] And I think that, you know, one of the things I always found fascinating about Pope Leo is that he chose the name Leo XIV, which, of course, is recollecting Leo XIII.
[1:26:24] Leo XIII was the Pope during a period of incredible industrial transformation in the entire world.
[1:26:30] Of course, that industrial transformation, according to a lot of people, led to the rise of fascism and communism in Europe.
[1:26:36] I think it was interesting that Leo XIV chose that name to maybe apply Christian social teaching in a new era with a new technological innovation in the same way that the Industrial Revolution was the technological innovation of its time.
[1:26:49] So I think it'll be fascinating. I'm looking forward to reading it. My guess is it's going to have a lot of influence on the question of what our policy is going to be.
[1:26:56] Look, what we're trying to do in the Trump administration is very simple. The president wants us to be pro-innovation.
[1:27:01] He wants us to win the AI race against all other countries in the world.
[1:27:05] He recognizes that AI is going to be an important tool, not just for our economy, but for our military.
[1:27:10] And so he wants to ensure that we are winning that particular race.
[1:27:13] We also want to make sure that we're protecting people. We're protecting people's data.
[1:27:17] We're protecting people's privacy. I think with this Mythos release, one of the things that we're very focused on, of course, is whether not necessarily the developers of Mythos,
[1:27:26] but whether some other bad actor could use Mythos to target various cyber security vulnerabilities.
[1:27:32] So it's something that we're right now we're working in a collaborative way with the technology companies, and we're just trying to make sure that the American people are as safe as possible.
[1:27:41] I'm not going to get ahead of the executive order or any other actions that are going to come out, but we're trying to balance those two things.
[1:27:47] We want to be pro-innovation. We recognize, I mean, artificial intelligence could be great.
[1:27:52] It could help us find cures to diseases that currently, you know, people are dying from or suffering from.
[1:27:57] It also does have some downsides, and we're trying to balance that safety against innovation, and we think that we've got the right balance here in the Trump administration.
[1:28:06] But it's something we're going to have to keep on working on because that's just the nature of these technologies is they certainly change.
[1:28:12] Let's go. Is that Reagan all the way in the back? Daily Caller? There we go. Okay.
[1:28:17] Awesome.
[1:28:18] I figured out finally how the seating chart works.
[1:28:20] I want to ask you about the anti-fraud task force.
[1:28:24] You previously mentioned that Ilhan Omar seemed to have committed immigration fraud.
[1:28:30] Do you anticipate an indictment against her, an indictment related to that situation?
[1:28:35] Yeah. So, Reagan, I don't want to prejudge an investigation.
[1:28:38] I mean, you read the things about Ilhan Omar and about, you know, who she married and whether she didn't marry this person or that person.
[1:28:45] It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody's entitled to equal justice under the laws.
[1:28:50] So, we're going to investigate it. We're going to take a look at it.
[1:28:53] If we think that there's a crime, we're going to prosecute that crime.
[1:28:56] And that's something the Department of Justice is looking at right now.
[1:28:59] Mr. Wester.
[1:29:00] Go ahead.
[1:29:01] Based on what you've seen during your work on this anti-fraud task force,
[1:29:05] do you believe anything should change about our immigration or refugee policies to stop fraud in the United States?
[1:29:11] Well, yeah. I mean, look, one thing I'd say is that the biggest immigration fraud that existed under the Biden administration,
[1:29:18] it's not just that they let a flood of people across the southern border.
[1:29:21] That was obviously a very major problem and something I'm proud of the president for stopping.
[1:29:25] But it's also that they allowed the asylum and refugee claimant process to become totally fraudulent.
[1:29:31] And so, here's what would happen, right?
[1:29:33] You would take a person who, in normal cases, would just be a traditional economic immigrant.
[1:29:38] Whether you let them into the country or not, they're trying to come because they want a better job, okay?
[1:29:42] They would come into the country and say that they were fleeing persecution,
[1:29:46] and they would say that they were an asylum claimant.
[1:29:48] And then, effectively, what the Biden administration would do is say,
[1:29:51] okay, you're an asylee, go into the interior of the country, here's a work permit,
[1:29:58] maybe come back in 10 or 12 years for your hearing on whether you actually have a legitimate asylum claim.
[1:30:03] So, what did that mean?
[1:30:04] That meant that person was just completely given amnesty and released into the interior of the country.
[1:30:08] Well, what if that person was a criminal?
[1:30:10] What if that person actually had a violent history?
[1:30:13] We didn't do any of the work necessary to ensure that the people coming into our country claiming to be asylum claimants
[1:30:19] actually had anything legitimate or anything good in their background.
[1:30:23] So, that is a serious problem.
[1:30:25] It is something that we have fixed in the Trump administration.
[1:30:27] But fundamentally, that loophole, you're going to see sometime in the future,
[1:30:32] somebody is going to try to exploit that loophole.
[1:30:35] And it's one of the things that we're very focused on in the Fraud Task Force,
[1:30:38] is making sure that the people who exploited that loophole
[1:30:41] are actually prosecuted for it, assuming they committed a crime.
[1:30:44] So, I don't know your name.
[1:30:47] You have a beautiful cross necklace, though.
[1:30:49] So, go ahead.
[1:30:50] Kara Castanova from Lent LTV.
[1:30:51] Hi, Kara.
[1:30:52] Thank you so much.
[1:30:53] I have two questions.
[1:30:54] One of them is going back to the $1.8 billion fund, not to keep beating that,
[1:30:59] but sadly, Democrat lawmakers are misrepresenting that fund.
[1:31:02] I agree.
[1:31:03] Yes.
[1:31:04] That's a great question.
[1:31:05] And sadly, some of the mainstream media doesn't understand the magnitude
[1:31:08] of the political persecution of J6ers.
[1:31:10] So, if a violent offender like a J6er was still over-sentenced and mistreated,
[1:31:15] literally, some of them were sentenced to 24 years in prison,
[1:31:18] put in unconstitutional pretrial detention, literally tortured in cages,
[1:31:23] wouldn't that person still be able to apply for the fund because of due process?
[1:31:28] This is why we say, just to answer that very briefly,
[1:31:31] this is why we say we have to evaluate this thing case by case, right?
[1:31:34] We don't in the United States say that everybody who's accused of a crime is automatically guilty in a court of public opinion.
[1:31:42] You've got to actually look at this stuff and figure out what were they accused of.
[1:31:46] Maybe they did something bad even, but what they were accused of was way worse of what they actually did.
[1:31:51] Maybe they had their entire lives ruined in a totally disproportionate way.
[1:31:55] That's fundamentally illegitimate and political.
[1:31:58] And I find just, Carol, on this point, one of the interesting things about the American media is there is a fascination.
[1:32:05] If you go to any American law school, there are these, you know, prisoner rights clinic.
[1:32:10] There are people who objectively committed heinous crimes, but the American media and the American legal academy has decided that even though they committed bad crimes,
[1:32:20] their sentence was disproportionate. They were mistreated in some way.
[1:32:23] You know who never ever gets an ounce of sympathy when it comes to that disproportionate sentencing is people who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6th protest.
[1:32:34] Go to your second question.
[1:32:36] You know, he made a horrific obscene joke about the murder of your friend Charlie Kirk.
[1:32:40] What does this still say about where our political divisions have gone?
[1:32:43] And what are you specifically doing to bridge the divide, especially as a potential future president?
[1:32:48] Well, sorry, who was it that said something made a really obscene joke about Charlie Kirk.
[1:32:53] So what are you doing as a potential future candidate or president to bridge the divide?
[1:32:57] Well, first off, I'm not a potential future candidate. I'm a vice president and I really like my job and I'm going to try to do as good of a job as I can.
[1:33:04] But let me just say this. So you talked about Pete Davidson, who said something bad about Charlie Kirk.
[1:33:09] Look, Charlie was a very, very dear friend.
[1:33:11] But more importantly than that, Charlie was a father of two beautiful kids, and he did not deserve to have all of those moments with his kids,
[1:33:19] all those moments with his beautiful wife taken from him in the way that that happened.
[1:33:24] I would expect everybody, everybody with a heart or a conscience would say whatever we agreed or disagreed with about his particular viewpoints.
[1:33:32] This is a tragedy and it's totally unacceptable that it happens in the United States of America.
[1:33:37] To their credit, a lot of the reporters in this room, even though I don't agree with their politics,
[1:33:41] they were open about the fact that what happened to Charlie was disgusting and it shouldn't happen in a civilized country.
[1:33:47] You talk about bridging the divide. I mean, one thing that happened that hits, you know, not quite literally close to home,
[1:33:53] but there was a very terrible shooting that happened today at a Muslim community center.
[1:33:57] It seems like three people are dead, plus the shooters.
[1:34:00] And, you know, that community center is actually very close to this restaurant that Usha and I go to every time we visit.
[1:34:09] Her family lives in San Diego. She was born and raised in San Diego.
[1:34:12] Every time we go to San Diego, we go to this restaurant that is like maybe a five minute drive from this community center.
[1:34:19] And I found out about it actually on my way to the White House this morning and I texted her.
[1:34:23] I said, you know, would you have known anybody who was like involved in this?
[1:34:26] And she said, absolutely. I would have known some people or at least their parents who might have actually used the services at this community center.
[1:34:33] I don't know a single person who would say anything other than what I'm about to say,
[1:34:37] which is that that type of violence in the United States of America is reprehensible.
[1:34:41] And I encourage every single American to pray for everybody who was involved and affected by it.
[1:34:47] We don't want that to happen in our country and may God rest the souls of the people who lost their lives.
[1:34:52] What I do find a little distressing is that while every person I know,
[1:34:57] every politically conservative person I know would say exactly what I said about these innocent people who were killed,
[1:35:04] there were a lot of people who were celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
[1:35:07] And I think one way we can bridge the divide is just have a very simple principle in this country.
[1:35:11] Number one, we don't want the government throwing people in prison because they have bad politics,
[1:35:16] however you define bad politics.
[1:35:18] Number two, and way more importantly, political violence, wherever it comes from,
[1:35:23] is unacceptable in the United States of America.
[1:35:26] Let's talk with one another, not shoot each other when we disagree.
[1:35:29] I think that's the principle that everybody in this room agrees with.
[1:35:32] It's certainly the principle the President of the United States agrees with.
[1:35:36] Okay. All right. Sorry. I'm going to try to read this here.
[1:35:45] I'm sorry. Okay. I don't. Okay. That was kind of interesting, so I'm going to give you the question.
[1:35:52] Thank you very much.
[1:35:53] So, last week, the Pentagon halted deployment of 4,000 troops, U.S. troops, in Poland, to Poland.
[1:36:04] This is in direct contradiction to President Trump explicitly promised not to reduce the troop level in Poland.
[1:36:13] So, I'm going to ask you this question, which many people in Poland think.
[1:36:18] Why are you rewarding Putin and punishing your best ally in Europe?
[1:36:24] Well, first of all, I'd say there's been no president who's done more, frankly, to ensure that Ukraine survived the invasion of Russia than Donald Trump.
[1:36:35] As he famously said, Obama gave him sheets, I gave him javelins, and it was those javelins that ensured that Ukraine still has its territorial sovereignty.
[1:36:42] What he's also said is that he wants to pursue an American policy that focus on the interests of the United States.
[1:36:47] And part of that foreign policy is not to reward Putin or not to punish a country like Poland, which we love.
[1:36:55] We love Poland. We love the Polish people. No, no, no.
[1:36:58] What we're trying to do, what our foreign policy is geared towards, is promoting European independence and sovereignty.
[1:37:05] We want Europe to take more ownership over its own territorial integrity.
[1:37:10] We want Europe to step up in a big way.
[1:37:12] Now, I think you said 4,000 troops. We've not reduced the troop levels in Poland by 4,000 troops.
[1:37:18] What we did is that we delayed a troop deployment that was going to go to Poland.
[1:37:23] That's not a reduction. That's just a standard delay in rotation that sometimes happens in these situations.
[1:37:29] But here's the fundamental problem.
[1:37:31] Poland is capable of defending itself with a lot of support from the United States.
[1:37:37] We're not talking about pulling every single American troop out of Europe.
[1:37:41] We're talking about shifting some resources around in a way that maximizes American security.
[1:37:46] I don't think that's bad for Europe. That's encouraging Europe to take more ownership.
[1:37:51] The United States cannot be the policeman of the world.
[1:37:54] We want to be good allies. We want to make sure that our troop presence promotes regional stability in Europe.
[1:38:00] The president has not said, though he could, the president has not said that he's taken all of the troops out of Europe.
[1:38:06] But Europe has to stand on its own two feet.
[1:38:09] And that's something that he's been consistent of, frankly, not even since the beginning of this administration.
[1:38:14] Going back to the first administration is we have got to have more sovereignty and more of Europe standing on its own two feet.
[1:38:22] That will continue to be our policy in Europe.
[1:38:25] Those troops will go eventually to Poland?
[1:38:28] What I said is that is it a delay in troop rotation? Those troops could go elsewhere in Europe.
[1:38:33] We could decide to send them elsewhere.
[1:38:34] We actually haven't made the final determination about where those troops are ultimately going to go.
[1:38:38] But what I'm saying is it is not accurate to say that we are pulling a bunch of troops out.
[1:38:43] It is a very small and very minor thing.
[1:38:46] And I think, frankly, a lot of the European media, again, is overreacting to this a bit.
[1:38:50] And here's one thing I'll say about about this.
[1:38:53] Look, I have for my entire life, I'm 41 years old.
[1:38:56] For my entire life, I have heard chirping from the European media about everything that's wrong with the United States of America.
[1:39:04] We don't have this. We don't have that.
[1:39:06] We don't spend enough on health care, even though part of the reason why we spend so much on defense was because we have tens of thousands of troops in Europe.
[1:39:14] I think that if the European media wants to attack the president of the United States, they need to start looking in the mirror.
[1:39:21] All he has said is that we're going to be good allies.
[1:39:23] We're going to be good friends.
[1:39:25] We're going to be trading partners.
[1:39:26] But it is reasonable for Europe to take a little bit more ownership over its continental integrity.
[1:39:33] I have a question on the war.
[1:39:38] But just to follow up, you previously told me that anyone who assaulted a police officer on January 6th should go to prison.
[1:39:44] So why not rule out giving them taxpayer-funded money?
[1:39:47] Well, Caitlin, what I said is we're going to look at everything case by case.
[1:39:50] But why not rule it out?
[1:39:52] Because, Caitlin, there are people who I don't know their individual circumstances.
[1:39:58] And I don't rule things out categorically when I know nothing about a person's individual circumstances.
[1:40:03] Let's say a person is accused, let's just say hypothetically, a person is accused of doing something that they never actually did,
[1:40:10] that they got a kangaroo court, that they had a judge who mistreated them.
[1:40:14] I think that we should look at those things case by case.
[1:40:17] We're not making commitments to give anybody money.
[1:40:19] We're just making commitments to look at things case by case.
[1:40:22] But just to follow up on the war, you last week denied that the president said he was not taking Americans' financial situations into consideration when he's making decisions on the Iran war.
[1:40:34] He was asked about that again.
[1:40:36] He stood by it, called it a perfect statement, and said he would make it again.
[1:40:39] Do you believe that Americans' financial situations should be taken into consideration when you're making decisions as an administration about the war?
[1:40:46] See, Caitlin, what you did is you misrepresented the question that I was asked, and then you misrepresented the answer that I gave.
[1:40:52] What I said, the question that was asked where the president allegedly, he allegedly said that he didn't care about Americans' financial situations, he never said that.
[1:41:02] What he said is that when he, it was totally taken out of context, what he said is that when he is negotiating with the Iranians,
[1:41:08] he's focused on the national security objectives that he's trying to achieve.
[1:41:13] Of course, the president has a mandate to be focused on a number of things.
[1:41:17] And I guarantee you, every single day, I have conversations with him about it.
[1:41:21] Every single day, he's worried about his fellow Americans.
[1:41:24] He wants them to be prosperous.
[1:41:25] He wants them to thrive.
[1:41:26] He wants them to have good jobs.
[1:41:28] That's why we've done the things and taken the steps that we've taken in order to create record job growth,
[1:41:33] in order to create record wage growth, in order to induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.
[1:41:39] That's because he cares about that stuff.
[1:41:41] What he also said is that when he's talking to the Iranians, he's talking to the Iranians about questions, of course, of national security, like their nuclear program.
[1:41:49] You could hold two thoughts in your head at the same time that the president cares about financial security for Americans.
[1:41:54] But also, when he's negotiating with the Iranians, he's talking about the issues that are germane to the concerns of that particular conflict.
[1:42:01] Going back to the price tag for this DOJ fund, $1.8 billion.
[1:42:11] You have people that can't afford groceries.
[1:42:14] Gas is high.
[1:42:15] People are making sacrifices in their personal lives to accommodate for this rise in crisis.
[1:42:20] People are telling us that they feel financially works off.
[1:42:24] They're very concerned about the uncertainty.
[1:42:26] How can you justify that amount of taxpayer money for that fund when people are struggling?
[1:42:32] What do you say to Americans who wonder why this fund is getting all this money and I can't afford basic life amenities?
[1:42:39] Well, let me say a couple things about that.
[1:42:41] First of all, you said $1.8 billion.
[1:42:43] And it's important for people to realize we're not just writing a $1.8 billion check.
[1:42:49] We're going to take a lot of people who are going to apply and say that they have been mistreated by their government.
[1:42:54] We're going to handle those situations case by case.
[1:42:56] And if we determine they were, in fact, mistreated by their government, we think it's reasonable to give them just compensation.
[1:43:02] But when you talk about funds and pots of money that are out there, I mean, thanks to Donald Trump's leadership and the working families tax cut, we put $40 billion into a rural health care fund in order to stop the closure or at least prevent some closure of rural hospitals and rural clinics that have been decimated under the Biden administration.
[1:43:22] We had a piece of tax legislation that put hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of families, no taxes on Social Security, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on tips.
[1:43:33] So I reject the idea that we can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
[1:43:38] We can give just compensation to people who are mistreated by the government.
[1:43:42] We can also make sure that the American people, we do everything that we can to make their lives better, to make them more prosperous, to give them better jobs.
[1:43:50] That is the primary focus of Donald J. Trump's White House.
[1:43:54] That's the question all of us ask every single day is, how do we make our fellow citizens more prosperous?
[1:43:59] We can do that while also taking care of people who were mistreated by the last semester.
[1:44:03] Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President.
[1:44:11] Mr. Kurdish here.
[1:44:12] After the ceasefire with Iran, drone and missile attacks on the Kurdistan region have not stopped it.
[1:44:18] That happened yesterday as well.
[1:44:20] What is your position on this issue and what do you expect from the new Iraqi government regarding the control of militias?
[1:44:29] Well, as you know, you've asked the president this question before and we certainly love the people of Kurdistan.
[1:44:36] Anytime that drone attacks or missile attacks are hitting anybody, particularly civilian populations, that's not something we like to see at all.
[1:44:43] And it's one of the things that sometimes happens. Unfortunately, these ceasefires, they're not always perfect.
[1:44:48] We've seen that in Gaza. We've seen that certainly in Iran and some of its neighbors.
[1:44:53] But we have seen a significant reduction in violence over the last few weeks of the ceasefire.
[1:44:58] And look, fundamentally, the president's been quite clear.
[1:45:01] This is going to go again in one of two directions.
[1:45:03] We're going to restart the war, which is not the preference of the president of the United States.
[1:45:07] We're going to restart the operation or we're going to strike a deal.
[1:45:12] And I think that's that's an important thing.
[1:45:14] That's what we're focused on and that's what we're going to keep on working on.
[1:45:17] Kind of the purple dress there. Yeah, go ahead.
[1:45:30] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:45:35] Go ahead.
[1:45:36] Mr. Vice President, Rowena Ortiz with Turning Point USA.
[1:45:39] There has been an uptick in religious violence across the country.
[1:45:43] What's your message to protect people across all faiths in America?
[1:45:51] I appreciate that question. Obviously, Turning Points would would know a lot about this issue.
[1:45:55] As we talked about earlier, you guys have been the subject of a fair amount of violence yourself.
[1:45:59] I guess what I would say is the principle of religious violence is particularly disgusting, especially in the United States of America.
[1:46:10] And as a devout Christian, I would say it's one of the most anti-Christian things and anti-American things that you could do.
[1:46:17] And here's why. One, because a fundamental principle of all the great faiths is we are all children of God.
[1:46:25] And because of that, we are endowed by certain rights that are unique to our status as human beings.
[1:46:31] You violate those rights most importantly when you commit violence against another person.
[1:46:35] You can violate them in other ways as well.
[1:46:37] But the most profound way to violate the fundamental right of human dignity is to commit violence.
[1:46:42] But here's why the religious piece of it is particularly egregious.
[1:46:45] One of the fundamental American rights that I think came from our Christian heritage as a civilization is the idea that we respect people's religious freedom,
[1:46:54] in part because we respect them as human beings, but also because we respect their right to find their own pathway to God.
[1:47:01] You can't force anybody to a pathway to God.
[1:47:05] They have to, through their own free will, find God themselves.
[1:47:08] That's one of the reasons why that right of religious freedom is the very first right enshrined in our Constitution.
[1:47:14] So when you commit acts of violence, you're committing an act against this fundamental idea that people are created in the image of God
[1:47:21] and that they have the right through their own free will to find God however they might want.
[1:47:26] And as a Christian, of course, you might have your preference for how they find their pathway to God.
[1:47:31] They have to find that choice.
[1:47:33] And anybody who would commit violence against another human being in the name of religion is, I think, doing something that is a violation, of course, of the laws of man.
[1:47:42] But I think more importantly, it is a fundamental violation of the laws of God.
[1:47:47] Let me let me go. Let me go with.
[1:47:55] Okay, Garrett, you have your hand up. Garrett.
[1:47:58] That's right. That's right. Okay.
[1:47:59] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:48:00] Midterms are well underway.
[1:48:01] You've got voters going to the polls in six states today.
[1:48:04] You and the President ran on a platform that included no new wars, cutting gas prices, cutting inflation.
[1:48:10] What do you say to the people who are going to the polls today and who feel like those promises are unkept?
[1:48:15] Well, I'd say a few things.
[1:48:16] First of all, we've delivered great wins for the American people.
[1:48:20] We ran on delivering tax cuts to the American people, which we did, the largest tax cuts in American history.
[1:48:25] We ran on cutting taxes, particularly on people who were working on overtime, working on tips.
[1:48:31] We cut taxes for those Americans.
[1:48:33] We ran on the promise of bringing investment back into the United States of America, that rather than factory closures, we were going to have factories opening.
[1:48:40] And we've seen both construction jobs and manufacturing but also manufacturing jobs have great rebounds under the Trump administration and under our leadership.
[1:48:48] We are very aware that because of what's going on in the Middle East, gas prices have gone up and a lot of Americans are struggling because of that.
[1:48:56] Our view is that it is a temporary increase.
[1:48:59] We're taking a number of steps to try to push back against it and try to ensure that Americans are paying as little at the pump as possible.
[1:49:06] But I feel quite confident after we've taken care of business in the Middle East, those prices are going to come down.
[1:49:11] And there have been a lot of prices, as you know, a lot of prices from rent to housing where we still got a lot of work to do.
[1:49:18] But we do see some real progress made across the economy on pricing, but also on people's jobs.
[1:49:25] John, I'm going to call on John.
[1:49:33] I'm just going to start calling John Rosh.
[1:49:35] John Rosh with the Daily Mail.
[1:49:36] Yes.
[1:49:37] Great to see you.
[1:49:38] Great to see you too.
[1:49:39] Thank you.
[1:49:40] So Trump initially said that the war would last six weeks.
[1:49:42] We are now, it's been going on for 11 weeks and three days.
[1:49:45] What's your message to the American people as to why it's gone on so long and it hasn't ended yet?
[1:49:50] Well, first of all, the president said it's going to be a short term operation.
[1:49:53] And I think that is proven out to be true.
[1:49:55] The active period of conflict lasted about five, five and a half weeks.
[1:49:59] And now we've been in the ceasefire where we're trying to get a negotiated settlement that gets the American people the things that we need for our national security.
[1:50:06] So I've said before that we're going to go one of two options here.
[1:50:09] We're going to have a good settlement that actually gets the American people what they need.
[1:50:13] Or we're going to go back to a kinetic operation.
[1:50:16] Obviously, the president prefers to get that settlement.
[1:50:19] I think the Iranians prefer to get that settlement.
[1:50:21] But regardless of what direction the president ultimately goes down, whatever he ultimately decides, I think it's important for the American people to know two things.
[1:50:28] Number one, it will be for their security and their prosperity.
[1:50:31] That's why we're doing this.
[1:50:32] And number two, it will not.
[1:50:34] This is not going to be the sort of thing that lasts forever.
[1:50:38] I think a lot of Americans, especially in my generation, who are worried about forever, endless conflicts.
[1:50:43] We have to remember, I think you said 11 weeks.
[1:50:45] A big chunk of that has been a ceasefire.
[1:50:47] This is not a forever war.
[1:50:49] We're going to take care of business and come home.
[1:50:51] That's what the president's promised.
[1:50:52] And that's exactly what he's going to deliver.
[1:50:54] The orange.
[1:51:02] Yeah.
[1:51:03] Yeah.
[1:51:04] Guys, please don't shout over each other.
[1:51:05] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:51:06] The Egyptian foreign minister today, in an interview on CNN, he said that the Arab countries are working with you on a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran.
[1:51:20] That can lead to a deal.
[1:51:22] Can you confirm that?
[1:51:23] And one other question also on Iran.
[1:51:26] You've spent over than 20 hours with the Iranian negotiating.
[1:51:31] Do you believe that other countries may be able to achieve what those negotiations could not?
[1:51:38] Well, I think that the purpose of our initial negotiation was, one, to establish some relationships between two countries that hadn't talked directly in a very, very long time.
[1:51:48] And number two, just to get the pathway started to negotiation.
[1:51:52] I don't think any of us, meaning me, Jared Kushner and Steve Wyckoff, had any great confidence that we were going to be able to reach a deal.
[1:51:59] But we did think we were going to take important steps along the pathway to reaching a deal.
[1:52:03] And we did.
[1:52:04] Now, you asked what the Egyptian foreign minister said.
[1:52:07] I haven't seen those comments, so I won't comment on them myself.
[1:52:09] What I'd say is I'm not going to detail what's going on in the negotiation.
[1:52:13] There's a lot of back and forth.
[1:52:14] A lot of good progress is being made.
[1:52:16] But we're just going to keep on working at it.
[1:52:18] And eventually we'll either hit a deal or we won't.
[1:52:22] But we're going to keep on working at it.
[1:52:23] And I think it's important for us to actually privately have these conversations,
[1:52:27] because sometimes when you're doing a negotiation and you put everything out there in public,
[1:52:32] it actually complicates things more than it should.
[1:52:34] So we're going to keep these negotiations private until we've got something, of course, to tell the American people.
[1:52:39] And at that time, we will.
[1:52:40] Is that a magenta tie?
[1:52:46] It's hard to tell.
[1:52:47] It's like a purple tie there, right?
[1:52:52] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:52:54] So this guy insists that he has the real purple tie.
[1:52:59] So I'll give you a question, too. Go ahead.
[1:53:01] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:53:03] Two questions for you.
[1:53:04] One on Iran and one on China, given the President's trip last week to Beijing.
[1:53:09] On Iran, you met on April the 11th with Iranian negotiators, including the foreign minister.
[1:53:15] Is it your sense, Mr. Vice President, that they're just stringing the U.S. along?
[1:53:20] That's the sense from lawmakers from both parties.
[1:53:24] And then on China, you come from a state that manufactures a lot of automobiles.
[1:53:29] Is it your sense that within this term that you have with the president that China branded vehicles will be sold right here in America?
[1:53:39] Well, I think that what the president has shown a willingness to do, unlike any president in my lifetime, is to protect the American automotive industry.
[1:53:48] We are not going to let the American automotive industry disappear.
[1:53:51] There are a lot of ways in which we've reinvested and which we've tariffed foreign competitors to ensure that American car workers, American auto workers and the products they develop are going to be made right here in the United States of America and also available right here in the United States of America.
[1:54:06] I think it's important for just the American people.
[1:54:09] I want to make this point.
[1:54:11] Car manufacturing is one of those skills that when it disappears, it's hard to regain.
[1:54:16] And when you've got people who can build complex machines and are great workers in Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere, they do a very good job.
[1:54:23] They also, God forbid, in times of national emergency, can be called on to manufacture other complex machinery.
[1:54:29] So it's very, very important that we protect that native auto industry.
[1:54:33] The president has done more on this than anybody, but we're certainly going to keep on working at it.
[1:54:37] You asked about being strung along.
[1:54:39] Look, you never know until you know, right?
[1:54:41] Right.
[1:54:42] Well, what all we can do is negotiate in good faith, try to find a pathway that accomplishes the president's objectives, that accomplishes the national security interest of the American people and gets this thing in a good place.
[1:54:52] I think somebody earlier asked this question.
[1:54:54] I am not certain and I'm not going to be certain until we sign a deal that we have a deal, but I feel confident enough to keep on doing the work and to try to find a good deal for the American people.
[1:55:04] And that's what I'm going to do.
[1:55:05] So the guy with the real purple tie, I will give you the final question and then I'm going to have to hit the road.
[1:55:10] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:55:14] Sorry, this guy and then the very tall guy here.
[1:55:18] Sorry, I can't get to everybody.
[1:55:23] Marco's right.
[1:55:24] This really is chaos.
[1:55:25] This is crazy.
[1:55:26] You guys got to behave yourself.
[1:55:27] Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
[1:55:30] The president's financial disclosures were released recently and they showed a lot of stock trades in companies that he has talked up at events, official events at the White House, on his true social account, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbols in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock.
[1:55:57] Americans, according to recent polling, are increasingly describing the president as corrupt and trading stocks.
[1:56:06] This is a hell of a question.
[1:56:08] Thank you, sir.
[1:56:09] Trading individual stocks is something that you said that public officials should not be able to do when you ran for Senate all those years ago.
[1:56:18] And yet the president, who arguably has access to more non-public information than your average senator, is not only buying and selling individual stocks, either through his trust.
[1:56:32] OK.
[1:56:33] What's the question?
[1:56:34] The question is, the question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you're cleaning up corruption, you're preventing fraud, you're fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people's financial situations when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself?
[1:56:56] OK.
[1:56:57] So shut up, bitch.
[1:56:58] Question here.
[1:57:00] That was a doozy.
[1:57:01] Before I answer your question, I want to just observe.
[1:57:04] There are different ways to ask a question.
[1:57:06] OK, you can just ask a question and try to get your answer.
[1:57:09] Or you could do like a speech where you say, you know, Mr. Vice President, every you know, you're you're a terrible human being.
[1:57:16] And so is the president.
[1:57:17] So is the entire cabinet.
[1:57:19] And then I'm like, what's your question?
[1:57:20] And then your question is, how dare you?
[1:57:22] Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions, because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn't actually get asked.
[1:57:32] OK, number one, the president doesn't sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his like Robin Hood account buying and selling stocks.
[1:57:40] That's absurd.
[1:57:41] He has independent wealth of divisors who manage his money.
[1:57:46] He is a wealthy person.
[1:57:47] He has had success in business.
[1:57:48] He's not making making these stock trades himself.
[1:57:51] And your question imputes that sort of it doesn't say it exactly.
[1:57:55] But a reasonable person listening to that question would assume the president is sitting around and doing that.
[1:57:59] He's not.
[1:58:00] Second of all, you're right.
[1:58:02] I am a big fan of banning members of Congress from trading stocks.
[1:58:05] So is the president of the United States.
[1:58:08] All of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks.
[1:58:16] We want to ban.
[1:58:17] We want to ban that.
[1:58:18] We want to ban that process.
[1:58:19] And I think the way to lead by example is banning that process, banning that approach and making it illegal, which is exactly what the president has proposed doing.
[1:58:28] Yes.
[1:58:30] Thank you, sir.
[1:58:31] We're in congrats with the Gateway Pundit.
[1:58:32] I'll try to make this short.
[1:58:33] You might have seen this.
[1:58:34] There was a massive United Kingdom rally in London just last weekend.
[1:58:39] They were protesting mass illegal immigration and the replacement of British culture.
[1:58:43] What message do you think this should send to globalist European leaders and to leaders here?
[1:58:48] And also, I wanted to ask about several House members are revamping this push to pass a – it's called the Dignity Act.
[1:58:57] But it's really just an amnesty bill giving work visas and allowing millions of illegals in countries.
[1:59:02] Is that something the White House wants to see stopped in the House?
[1:59:05] Well, number one, I don't like giving amnesty to anybody.
[1:59:08] Number two, since you asked about Great Britain and the United Kingdom rally, one of the ironies when – one of the great ironies of this job is that for the past couple of years, you see these protests break out all over the country.
[1:59:20] And sometimes, you know, they're fairly well attended and sometimes they're very poorly attended.
[1:59:24] Everybody holds these signs saying no kings, right?
[1:59:27] And how many Democratic lawmakers have I seen holding up signs that say no kings?
[1:59:31] They're very, very insistent that we not have kings.
[1:59:34] And then King Charles comes to the Congressional Chamber and these guys break out in rapturous applause.
[1:59:40] So maybe they don't care so much about kings as they pretend that they do.
[1:59:44] Maybe they just don't like the agenda that we're implementing that's actually making American workers and American families safe and prosperous again.
[1:59:51] But to answer your question about this immigration issue, look, one of the problems that we have in all of Western societies
[1:59:59] is that we have a lot of people who have decided – Wall Street bankers, corporate lobbyists, and government officials – that what the United States and what the West need is more and more cheap labor.
[2:00:10] What we believe in this White House is what we need more and more of is high wages for American workers and investing in our own people.
[2:00:17] What you see all over the West, and it's kind of crazy, is this idea that the way to generate prosperity is to bring in millions and millions of unvetted people and drop them into your neighborhoods and we simply reject that idea.
[2:00:32] So to everybody in the UK who rejects that idea, I'd encourage them to just keep on going.
[2:00:37] It's okay to want to defend your culture. It's okay to want to live in a safe neighborhood.
[2:00:42] It's okay to want your job to go to yourself and your neighbors and not to a stranger who you don't even know.
[2:00:48] It is reasonable for the people in Western societies to want to control who comes into their country and who doesn't.
[2:00:56] A lot of people – frankly, a lot of people in the media have tried to persuade all of those people that it's somehow racist to want to protect your borders,
[2:01:04] even though very often the very people who are most affected by low-wage immigration are lower-income Black and Hispanic Americans right here in the United States of America.
[2:01:14] And I guarantee that's true in the UK. So we believe in making America great again. You can't do that unless you protect your borders.
[2:01:21] I'd encourage our friends in the UK to follow the same path. Thank you all. Good to see you.
[2:01:24] All right, Vice President J.D. Vance handling the White House brief.
[2:02:53] Fanfare with Barry Cunningham.
[2:02:55] Wow. Wow. He did a great job. I didn't have time to put up a poll yet. I'll put it up now.
[2:03:02] I really do have a question for you guys. The question will be, who did better, Rubio or J.D.?
[2:03:12] My personal belief is they both crushed it. I think Marco, when he came on, he had a lot more of the international issues.
[2:03:32] And J.D. Vance, I thought, handled the domestic issues very well.
[2:03:38] But I'd love to see what you guys think in terms of who did better.
[2:03:43] Who did you think did better?
[2:03:45] I think they both rocked it, but I think Rubio has a little bit of edge.
[2:03:50] He was able to speak Spanish to a couple of the questions.
[2:03:54] Hola, como esta?
[2:03:56] I'm going to give him a slight edge.
[2:03:58] You got to give J.D. some style points because he whooped up on a few.
[2:04:02] You know what's funny? And there was a guy I knew a long time ago.
[2:04:06] And he could, like, look at you and insult you.
[2:04:09] And you didn't know you were insulted until after he left the room.
[2:04:12] You're like, did he just, like, undress me and leave?
[2:04:17] That's what he just did.
[2:04:19] You know, your question.
[2:04:21] Trump would have said, you're stupid.
[2:04:23] You're an idiot.
[2:04:24] And when it went after that guy, he's like, you know, you don't even know how to ask a question.
[2:04:28] You spent all this time and you're setting it up with the narrative instead of just.
[2:04:33] And he was basically just ripping this guy one.
[2:04:36] And he must have, like, shrunk way down.
[2:04:39] Way down like the little pine cone, if you know what I mean.
[2:04:42] Yeah, Vance is a great attorney.
[2:04:44] I mean, just he's so eloquent, very calm.
[2:04:47] He never see any emotion, you know, though I'm sure he would like to.
[2:04:51] But he keeps it real, keeps it soft.
[2:04:53] And some people seem to think he's not strong enough.
[2:04:57] But I don't know.
[2:04:58] He dismantled.
[2:04:59] He dismantled.
[2:05:00] That thing with Caitlyn was perfect.
[2:05:02] The way he just.
[2:05:03] Because he's got a memory, too, because some of these questions are very long.
[2:05:06] So, I mean, after like a minute, I lost where that guy was going.
[2:05:09] I'm like, I just want to slap him.
[2:05:11] Yeah.
[2:05:12] That's not a question.
[2:05:13] Okay.
[2:05:14] You're pontificating.
[2:05:15] You're giving people your opinion.
[2:05:18] Yes.
[2:05:19] Yes.
[2:05:20] And Caitlyn Collins.
[2:05:21] I mean, she just.
[2:05:23] There's something wrong with her.
[2:05:25] She always, like you say, RBS, she always has this angry look about her.
[2:05:31] I'm like, you're not an ugly woman, but you come across as ugly because you're always snarling and you have your teeth out.
[2:05:39] She could learn from what she just saw on that podium.
[2:05:42] A guy who, you know, he confronted a few people, but he said it with a smile.
[2:05:46] And she's always looking like that.
[2:05:49] And it doesn't come across well because it's from a perspective.
[2:05:53] And I just don't like it.
[2:05:56] Just didn't like it.
[2:05:57] I don't want to be around people like that.
[2:05:59] I mean, it's, it's, it's so negative.
[2:06:01] So just down all the time.
[2:06:02] I mean, you know, you look at last week down in Florida, all the fun, the planes flying.
[2:06:08] Everybody's on the beach.
[2:06:09] Everybody's having a good time.
[2:06:10] When a liberal walks in a room, it's like, it gets cold.
[2:06:13] Crickets are chirping.
[2:06:14] It's, it's, it's, it's really ugly.
[2:06:17] And how many, I didn't, I couldn't count how many times about this.
[2:06:22] 1.8 billion dollars.
[2:06:25] And I wrote it down.
[2:06:27] The answer that made the most sense is he's like, we're not writing a check for 1.8 billion dollars.
[2:06:32] You morons.
[2:06:33] It's a fund.
[2:06:34] We're not spending it.
[2:06:35] We may never spend it.
[2:06:37] We, it may never get approved based on what somebody or whoever it is applies.
[2:06:42] It's a fund.
[2:06:43] It's just sitting there and we're not writing a check.
[2:06:46] Whereas the Democrats, the first thing that they always want to say is,
[2:06:51] we need to give people all this money and like, hold, you know, slow your roll.
[2:06:56] We're going to have people apply.
[2:06:58] They're going to examine.
[2:06:59] We're actually going to know what they need, but they don't want to hear that.
[2:07:03] They just don't want to hear that at all.
[2:07:05] Crazy.
[2:07:06] Crazy.
[2:07:07] Yeah.
[2:07:08] I saw, I saw that Hunter Biden can actually apply.
[2:07:10] I'm not kidding.
[2:07:12] I saw that.
[2:07:13] No, he said it too.
[2:07:14] He could apply.
[2:07:15] He needs more yayo.
[2:07:16] I'm laughing because I'd love to see the application.
[2:07:20] Go ahead.
[2:07:21] Oh boy.
[2:07:22] The application would be funny.
[2:07:24] So I just want to let you guys, that was a good one.
[2:07:28] All right.
[2:07:29] Thanks.
[2:07:30] Let me move on here.
[2:07:31] All right.
[2:07:32] Excuse me.
[2:07:33] The notice on television says that President Trump is meeting with the national security
[2:07:40] team on Iran, and I guess he's going to be going down into the situation room.
[2:07:44] So things might go boom, boom later on.
[2:07:46] We shall see.
[2:07:47] But before I close today, and just to let you know, we will do a second show.
[2:07:54] Right about seven o'clock is when he's planning on meeting with Melania.
[2:07:59] And what are they calling this thing?
[2:08:01] Hold on.
[2:08:02] Let me just get you the right information here.
[2:08:04] That is probably not going to be long, but who knows when President Trump starts talking.
[2:08:09] He's going to be speaking with Melania at the congressional picnic on the White House lawn.
[2:08:16] So it might be a nice festive thing.
[2:08:18] And then we'll roll into some election coverage, and I'll have some stories as well.
[2:08:21] But before I close, and I put up on a poll earlier, you know,
[2:08:26] SV found there was like 1% or 2% of people that were Massey supporters.
[2:08:31] So we're probably going to lose those real quick here.
[2:08:34] I just want to let you know, if you're a Massey supporter, you might want to leave now.
[2:08:39] As many people who have asked me, say something about Massey.
[2:08:41] Oh, I'm about to say something.
[2:08:43] Okay.
[2:08:44] Let me introduce you to some stuff about Massey right here.
[2:08:48] He went on Fox this morning.
[2:08:51] And I don't like talking and being around people who blame other people for my perspective.
[2:08:59] If I do something, it's on me.
[2:09:02] I'm a big boy.
[2:09:03] I want to take full culpability for something.
[2:09:07] This is what he said this morning.
[2:09:09] And that's the wrong video.
[2:09:12] Hold on.
[2:09:13] Where is it?
[2:09:14] Wait a minute.
[2:09:15] No, no.
[2:09:16] Yeah, here it is.
[2:09:17] Okay.
[2:09:18] But do you think the people of your district can understand the distinction you're trying
[2:09:24] to make after seven terms serving that district?
[2:09:29] Will they decide to keep you in Washington now, sir?
[2:09:33] I think they will.
[2:09:34] Like I said, we've got the endorsement of the pro-life groups, the pro-gun groups, the local elected officials, the congressmen in Kentucky who've come down and campaigned with me.
[2:09:45] And my people are smart enough to understand that this is Israel trying to buy an election.
[2:09:50] Miriam Adelson has spent so much money on my election.
[2:09:53] There it is.
[2:10:51] Okay.
[2:10:52] Sorry about that.
[2:10:53] Just saw it.
[2:10:54] Testing one, two, three.
[2:10:57] What I was saying, and I was surprised.
[2:11:00] Oh, he's trying to get ahold of me.
[2:11:02] What I was saying is this.
[2:11:04] Thomas Massey is that type of person who's blaming other people for his problems.
[2:11:09] I don't care who you slept with.
[2:11:12] I don't care what you did with your ex-wife.
[2:11:14] I don't care what you did with Lauren Boebert.
[2:11:16] I don't care if you got texts calling about the pine cone.
[2:11:20] I don't care about any of that.
[2:11:22] I don't care at all about that.
[2:11:25] What I care about is you're supposed to be a Republican.
[2:11:29] And because you're a Republican, we expect, and I would think the people in Kentucky would expect that you work to further the agenda of the man,
[2:11:39] who leads your party.
[2:11:41] Now, I'm not saying that you have to agree with him 100%, but I'm not saying that you have to disagree with him 100%.
[2:11:49] That's what Massey has done.
[2:11:51] Every single time they have needed something from him, he has said no.
[2:11:55] He has been out there on an island.
[2:11:58] He continues to live on an island.
[2:12:00] He does what he wants.
[2:12:02] And so now you're going to get what you get, which may be reelection if the people in Kentucky are happy with that.
[2:12:09] That's fine.
[2:12:10] That is completely fine if that's who the people of Kentucky want.
[2:12:14] But you can't expect the rest of us to sit back and go, we think Thomas Massey is a good guy.
[2:12:21] You know, I don't look at polls.
[2:12:25] None of that stuff matters to me.
[2:12:27] I want to see your voting record.
[2:12:29] Your voting record and how you handled yourself means you are against America first.
[2:12:34] I don't even, I don't know if you're like me, if you're watching TV or anything and a political, you know, campaign commercial comes on, you click the button or pause it or skip it.
[2:12:47] I don't care how much money Israel spent to go against you.
[2:12:51] I don't know anybody who's taken the money.
[2:12:54] I don't think you can confirm anybody has taken the money.
[2:12:57] You're just pointing fingers.
[2:12:59] It's Israel.
[2:13:00] It's Israel.
[2:13:01] It's Israel.
[2:13:03] You made your bed.
[2:13:05] You are the one who put yourself in this position.
[2:13:08] And it abhors me.
[2:13:09] I can't stand people who blame other people for their position.
[2:13:15] And so right now he's setting, he's setting the stage of what will happen if he loses.
[2:13:21] It's Israel's fault.
[2:13:22] Now he may win.
[2:13:25] And I don't have a problem with that because if the people in Kentucky in that district say we want that guy, you know, we're out here.
[2:13:33] I'm just hoping I can reach some people in Kentucky and go, let me, let me tell you a little bit about this dude.
[2:13:39] To scale down that ballroom that she was paying for.
[2:13:42] And she was born in Israel.
[2:13:44] The Republican Jewish Coalition and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have spent millions of dollars in this race on a guy that's never showed up for a single debate.
[2:13:55] They think they can buy Kentuckians.
[2:13:57] They think they can buy this seat because they tried to buy my vote and I wouldn't sell it.
[2:14:01] And they're finding out it's real expensive.
[2:14:04] And what they're going to find out is they can't afford to buy this seat in Kentucky.
[2:14:07] This is the most expensive race.
[2:14:09] Yeah.
[2:14:10] Okay.
[2:14:11] So he says he can't be bought, but obviously he can because we know that he has certain people that have endorsed him.
[2:14:17] And we see some of the people online who have endorsed him.
[2:14:20] We see some of the projects he's gotten behind.
[2:14:23] I wouldn't be surprised even this much if he turns into a Democrat after this election.
[2:14:29] I don't trust the guy at all.
[2:14:33] But then again, like I said, it's not for me.
[2:14:36] I don't live in Kentucky.
[2:14:38] Unless you live in Kentucky, we're all on the outside looking in.
[2:14:41] We want this guy to be evaporated.
[2:14:43] We want him to have to go away.
[2:14:45] But we, if we're not in Kentucky, don't really have much to say about it.
[2:14:52] Now, what I want to play for people who may not know is why I personally have a problem with Thomas Massey.
[2:15:02] And I saw this event.
[2:15:04] I actually broadcast it here.
[2:15:06] And ever since this event, it really struck me.
[2:15:10] This is what the problem is.
[2:15:12] Yes, President Trump has posted many, many times about Massey.
[2:15:16] But understand what I'm going to show you happened, when was this?
[2:15:22] A while ago?
[2:15:23] It was at a Turning Point USA event in Oxford, Mississippi.
[2:15:27] Some of you guys may have seen it.
[2:15:29] And a lady comes up to the microphone and she asks, what's the big deal?
[2:15:34] Why are you and Trump just going after Thomas Massey?
[2:15:38] What's the problem?
[2:15:41] I don't understand what's going on.
[2:15:43] Here, let's listen.
[2:15:45] I've endorsed a candidate to run against Republican Representative Thomas Massey, who is opposed and criticized some of the Trump administration's aims.
[2:15:53] How would you address those who fear that principled disagreement or independent thinking is discouraged within the party because of how it can be framed as a betrayal instead of as internal accountability or an opportunity for debate and negotiation?
[2:16:07] So it's a very good question.
[2:16:09] And let me say this one is hard for me.
[2:16:11] And the reason it's hard for me is because Thomas Massey and I, he's one of the first people that ever reached out to me about my book or about political office.
[2:16:19] I've known Thomas Massey well before I ever got involved in politics.
[2:16:22] Thomas' wife died a, well, maybe it was a year and a half ago, two years ago.
[2:16:28] It was a little while ago.
[2:16:29] She died very unexpectedly, was a very sweet and kind woman.
[2:16:32] And I was probably one of the first people that called Thomas to offer my condolences.
[2:16:37] All right.
[2:16:38] So what J.D. Vance just did right there, the lady asks a question.
[2:16:41] He gives her a backstory.
[2:16:43] I'm like, listen, I'm not like these other people who are out here trashing him.
[2:16:49] Not me at all.
[2:16:50] I go way back before I even got into politics.
[2:16:53] When I wrote my book, Thomas Massey and I go way back.
[2:16:57] You understand me, lady?
[2:16:58] This isn't just someone making an off the cuff, you know, decision or a judgment.
[2:17:04] He's established.
[2:17:05] I know this guy.
[2:17:07] I've known this guy for quite some time.
[2:17:11] I knew what happened when his wife died, which is different than me.
[2:17:15] Probably different than SV.
[2:17:18] Probably different from you.
[2:17:19] We're all on the outside watching this train wreck that he has become, but we don't know him.
[2:17:25] We've never been buddies with him.
[2:17:27] And so now somebody who actually knows him, somebody who has actually been somewhat close to him,
[2:17:33] is going to tell you what the problem is.
[2:17:36] I think the problem with Thomas, and I've told him this in private, and now I guess I'll say it in public, is it's one thing to disagree with the party on a particular issue.
[2:17:46] It's one thing to take, you know, to have your independence stand on a number of questions.
[2:17:51] And by the way, some of the stuff where Thomas Massey has been independent against the Republican Party, I've agreed with him.
[2:17:57] Thomas and I worked together during 2023, where I was trying to stop the limitless flow of American money to Ukraine, and Thomas was one of the people I was working closest with it.
[2:18:08] But that's one thing.
[2:18:10] Being independent, having your own opinions is one thing.
[2:18:13] Voting against the party on every single issue, you're eventually going to make too many enemies.
[2:18:19] Bingo.
[2:18:21] You know, you can have some disagreements, but if you're telling me every single thing that we're doing, especially now that I'm the vice president, you know, we go back.
[2:18:31] But now I'm the vice president.
[2:18:32] You're saying every single thing that we want to do.
[2:18:37] No matter what it is, you want to vote against us.
[2:18:41] You're basically being a Democrat.
[2:18:43] You are acting as a Democrat or some sort of subversive against us.
[2:18:49] You're constantly voting against the president and, in essence, me.
[2:18:54] And then, you know, after all this happens and Massey wins his district, he wanted endorsements and everything else.
[2:19:03] He is in a district that Trump won by 40 points.
[2:19:09] 40 points.
[2:19:11] So this wasn't even close.
[2:19:14] This should have been a no-brainer.
[2:19:16] Hey, this guy just won the presidency, and he won it with the people in my district in a monumental-sized landslide.
[2:19:26] He won it with over 40 percent margin.
[2:19:30] The American people were screaming for Trump's agenda, for J.D.'s agenda.
[2:19:38] Your friend is telling you this is what we're going to do.
[2:19:41] They told the people of Kentucky this is what we're going to do.
[2:19:44] And instead, you turn around and you betray those very voters.
[2:19:50] I don't care about any personal stuff.
[2:19:54] I really don't care who he's booping and bopping with.
[2:19:57] That's his business.
[2:19:59] I was going to say that's he and his wife's business, but she's dead.
[2:20:02] So if you want to go out there and slut around, I don't care.
[2:20:07] It has nothing to do with me.
[2:20:08] It has nothing to do with anybody.
[2:20:10] It's stuff that's out there.
[2:20:12] It's scandalous.
[2:20:13] It's titillating, literally.
[2:20:16] But that's between him and the good Lord and whatever he's doing behind closed doors.
[2:20:20] Maybe I'd feel different if I was in Kentucky.
[2:20:24] Maybe I would feel much different if I was in his district.
[2:20:28] But in any event, forget all of the extracurricular stuff.
[2:20:34] Forget everything that's going on around him about the pine cone and everybody else.
[2:20:39] It comes back to your performance as the congressperson from that district.
[2:20:47] You know, we all knew people that we either worked with or played ball with or something.
[2:20:54] And they may not have been the best of people, but damn, you're good at your job.
[2:20:58] And I don't care what you're doing on your off time.
[2:21:02] I don't care when we're not practicing.
[2:21:04] But if you show up and you're doing a good job, people will look the other way often.
[2:21:09] But this guy has basically been giving the middle finger to President Trump and J.D. Vance.
[2:21:18] That is the problem that Thomas has had.
[2:21:20] It's not one issue.
[2:21:21] It's not three or four issues.
[2:21:23] It's that every time that we've needed Thomas for a vote, he has been completely unwilling to provide it.
[2:21:28] That is why the President of the United States has trained his ire on Thomas Massey.
[2:21:33] It's because we can never count on him for some of the most difficult votes.
[2:21:38] That right there.
[2:21:41] Every single one of you, as I've said many times, if the phone rings and it says, Ashley,
[2:21:46] if the phone rings and it says, my wife, and it says 911 or something, it's like, bye, I got to go.
[2:21:51] We got something to take care of.
[2:21:53] I can count on you.
[2:21:55] Right now, Thomas Massey is in a district that's redder than a fire truck on the 4th of July.
[2:22:03] Trump won it by 40 points.
[2:22:06] They completely rejected the left.
[2:22:08] They embraced Donald Trump by a mile, which means they embraced J.D. Vance by a mile.
[2:22:14] They fought.
[2:22:15] They wanted lower taxes.
[2:22:16] They wanted a secure border.
[2:22:18] They wanted energy independence, and they wanted an America first policy.
[2:22:25] Nobody.
[2:22:27] Not a single person from that district said, you know what?
[2:22:33] Let's go with the Epstein strategy.
[2:22:35] Not a single person.
[2:22:39] But that's what he hung his hat on.
[2:22:43] And then he lied to everybody and said, I'm going to go list the names off.
[2:22:47] I'm going to tell you all these victims.
[2:22:50] I'm going to tell you about the Trump speedo administration.
[2:22:54] And everybody's looking at, what the hell are you talking about?
[2:22:56] Which, by the way, you didn't do.
[2:22:59] The one thing that you said was going to separate you from everybody else was that you were going to tell everybody the names of all these people.
[2:23:09] And now we're finding out you're one of the scumbags.
[2:23:12] You may not be diddling kids, but you're doing everything else.
[2:23:15] You are completely unreliable.
[2:23:18] You are completely undependable.
[2:23:21] You're definitely not loyal.
[2:23:24] Vice President Vance just said it.
[2:23:26] He said it best.
[2:23:27] I can't count on him.
[2:23:29] We cannot count on Thomas Massey when he's needed.
[2:23:35] That is the death bell.
[2:23:37] That is the most defining thing anybody can say on Twitter or Facebook.
[2:23:45] I don't care about your other stuff.
[2:23:48] I can't count on you when we need you.
[2:23:51] And if I can't count on you when we need you, when we need tough things done,
[2:23:55] then what do we need you here for at all?
[2:23:58] That's the problem with Thomas Massey.
[2:24:03] That's what people who are Massey nuts aren't addressing.
[2:24:07] I don't even get into conversations with him because it doesn't matter.
[2:24:12] I don't care what you think.
[2:24:14] You can have the money bombs and all this crazy stuff.
[2:24:16] It doesn't matter.
[2:24:18] I heard this.
[2:24:19] I've had this on my computer for months where the vice president of the United States said,
[2:24:24] I can't count on you.
[2:24:26] You don't have our back.
[2:24:27] And if you don't have my back, then I don't need you.
[2:24:31] Every single one of you right now is probably thinking the same way.
[2:24:36] If the vice president who is your friend says, I can't count on you, don't need you.
[2:24:42] Just that that weren't the case.
[2:24:44] I say that it's somebody who's known Thomas well before I got into politics, but politics
[2:24:48] is politics.
[2:24:49] And when you always vote against the party, you can't expect the party to actually back
[2:24:54] you.
[2:24:57] And that lady got the answer.
[2:24:58] It may not have been the one she expected and she may have forgotten it since then.
[2:25:02] You may not have seen that before, but that's, that is the number one thing.
[2:25:07] In addition to President Trump trashed him, but Trump never said that in it that way.
[2:25:12] I can't count on you.
[2:25:14] And so if you're a Republican, you don't even have to be MAGA.
[2:25:18] But if the people at the head of the party can't find you to be loyal, can't find you
[2:25:26] to be countable, they can count on you, then I can't.
[2:25:30] But then again, I don't live in Kentucky.
[2:25:32] I'm just hoping people in Kentucky can see that piece, can push all the crap off the
[2:25:39] table, everybody talking about Israel and everybody talking about Epstein and everybody,
[2:25:44] you know, can we count on you?
[2:25:47] Because if we can't count on you, you might as well be a Democrat.
[2:25:51] And if you're a Democrat, then I definitely don't want to be around you.
[2:25:55] So those are your choices, Kentucky.
[2:25:58] You can vote in somebody who President Trump feels he can count on, the other guy, Gary,
[2:26:04] or you can put somebody in that you know for the next four or six years is completely wasting
[2:26:11] your vote.
[2:26:13] There is nothing he's going to be able to do.
[2:26:16] He is literally going to be sitting on an island, not going to have any friends.
[2:26:20] Democrats, they may try to get him to screw some things over, but they'll never be friends
[2:26:25] with him.
[2:26:26] And Republicans, you're persona non grata.
[2:26:29] Nobody cares.
[2:26:31] So why would you send somebody intentionally into Congress who you know has the effectiveness
[2:26:37] of me being in Congress?
[2:26:39] Well, me being here, I can't do anything.
[2:26:44] You're going to be paying him to go up there and slut around with everybody.
[2:26:48] Not that it matters, but he won't be able to help you with your vote.
[2:26:51] He's not going to help with the Save America Act.
[2:26:54] He's not going to help with securing the borders.
[2:26:56] He's not going to help with beating back socialism.
[2:26:59] I don't even know what he wants.
[2:27:03] I don't even know other than Epstein.
[2:27:07] And I don't know what this guy stands for.
[2:27:12] But that's where the ancillary stuff comes in.
[2:27:15] Because if you can't trust them to vote with President Trump and J.D. Vance,
[2:27:20] and you see all the slimy stuff that's going on, is that someone you want to get behind?
[2:27:26] Is that someone you want to know?
[2:27:28] Well, Barry, you know, it was after his wife was dead.
[2:27:30] Okay.
[2:27:32] Not that long.
[2:27:33] And I don't even know this stuff about Lauren Boebert.
[2:27:37] It could be just people talking.
[2:27:39] I don't know.
[2:27:40] But I know he has aligned himself with people who specifically want America and Americans dead.
[2:27:50] Alpha Warrior put out a video earlier today.
[2:27:53] And it just stunned me.
[2:27:55] I didn't know that some of these rabid Massey fans were actually people who were hoping that
[2:28:02] Ukraine, that Iran killed Americans.
[2:28:05] That's the kind of insanity your boy is aligning himself with.
[2:28:11] That is the kind of insanity that you're voting for somebody.
[2:28:15] If you show me a picture of Trump saying, I wish there were more Americans dead, I'm out.
[2:28:21] If you show me a picture or any short sort of thread where J.D. Vance is saying, I wish Americans were dead, I'm out.
[2:28:30] Don't want to hear it.
[2:28:31] Don't want to know it.
[2:28:32] I'm done with you.
[2:28:33] So how the hell can people be voting for Thomas Massey?
[2:28:36] And I'm not trying to, let me see if I can find Alpha Warrior's post today.
[2:28:42] I know it's got some music out.
[2:28:44] He always puts music on the back of his post.
[2:28:46] And it might be copyrighted, but we'll see.
[2:28:50] But I think you guys need to see this.
[2:28:52] Need to hear it.
[2:28:53] Alpha Warrior is a good guy.
[2:28:56] I like talking to him, but he brought receipts, actual receipts.
[2:29:00] Let me go ahead and pull this down.
[2:29:02] I wasn't going to show this.
[2:29:03] I wasn't really going to talk too much about Massey.
[2:29:05] But people, I feel like Al Pacino in The Godfather.
[2:29:10] Every time I'm out, they pull me back in.
[2:29:13] I was like, I don't got nothing to do with this.
[2:29:15] But since you asked, now you get it.
[2:29:17] Okay?
[2:29:18] That's how it goes.
[2:29:19] All right.
[2:29:20] Here we go.
[2:29:22] Let me bring this in.
[2:29:23] It's about two and a half, two and a half, three minutes that I want you guys to hear from Alpha Warrior if you haven't heard it.
[2:29:29] Especially if you're in Kentucky.
[2:29:31] If you're in Kentucky, you heard what I just said.
[2:29:34] You heard what JD Vance just said.
[2:29:36] Here, let's listen in here.
[2:29:38] Ready?
[2:29:39] Yeah.
[2:29:40] Warning for my Kentucky Americans.
[2:29:44] Share this ASAP and share it everywhere.
[2:29:47] This photo right here, you recognize Thomas Massey.
[2:29:50] You're probably asking, who's the guy that's next to him that has on his sweater the American right?
[2:29:56] Well, that guy would be Ryan Matta.
[2:29:58] Why should this matter to you?
[2:29:59] Let me read you off some notes of one of the few things that Ryan Matta has stated on social media publicly over the last 18 months.
[2:30:08] And the first one is really going to piss you off if you're a veteran.
[2:30:10] So listen.
[2:30:11] Ryan Matta has called for Iran to kill American Navy sailors out in the Middle East.
[2:30:17] Here's the evidence.
[2:30:18] Ryan Matta has cheered for Iran while America was in direct conflict with them.
[2:30:24] Here's the evidence right here.
[2:30:26] Ryan Matta has encouraged US military servicemen and women to leave the military, seek a dishonorable discharge, just to go in defiance of President Trump, the military, and our country.
[2:30:38] While we're in conflict, there's the evidence right there.
[2:30:41] Why should this matter?
[2:30:43] Most people write it off and be like, it's a campaign photo, campaign selfie.
[2:30:47] Massey doesn't have a chance to know who everybody is.
[2:30:49] And I would concede that argument.
[2:30:51] We've seen that weaponized against President Trump several times.
[2:30:53] But here's where things change.
[2:30:55] This man that has called for Iran to kill American service members.
[2:31:01] Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
[2:31:04] Oh, sorry.
[2:31:06] My bad.
[2:31:07] My bad.
[2:31:08] I hit the wrong button.
[2:31:09] While we're at war with Iran, Massey just didn't take a selfie with him.
[2:31:12] Massey brought Ryan Matta and other influencers like him that share that opinion into his home.
[2:31:18] introduced him to his wife.
[2:31:20] Thomas Massey, Mr. America First, brought a man into his home, introduced him to his new wife, who has called for the death of American service members, has cheered for Iran, has told the military to act in defiance of their president and leave the military.
[2:31:39] Why is this important?
[2:31:41] Let's shift to some other notes right here.
[2:31:43] There are roughly just under 50,000 veterans that are living in Thomas Massey's Kentucky 4th Congressional District.
[2:31:51] Why is this important?
[2:31:52] In Thomas Massey's most recent Republican primary, he got about 52,500 total votes.
[2:32:01] Why does that matter?
[2:32:02] That means that the veteran population in Kentucky's 4th is nearly the size of the entire primary electorate.
[2:32:09] Vietnam veterans, Gulf War veterans, post 9-11 veterans, these aren't background numbers.
[2:32:15] This is a political force of veterans.
[2:32:19] Whatever your position may be, Thomas Massey brought a man into his home that has called for the death of our brothers and sisters and cheered for the jihadis that are out in Iran.
[2:32:31] But that's America First.
[2:32:34] You'll see a lot of simps down in the comments that are going to try to make excuses for that.
[2:32:38] There's no excuses for that.
[2:32:40] Massey has a choice.
[2:32:41] Publicly denounce this.
[2:32:43] Publicly denounce Ryan Matta or get primaried by a vet.
[2:32:50] Veterans, if you're in Kentucky and you're listening to this, if you're the family of a veteran in Kentucky or an active service member, this should piss you off.
[2:32:57] Bringing a man into his home that has cheered for the enemy and not just cheered but called for the death of our most precious military.
[2:33:08] Let me know what you think, Donald Thomas.
[2:33:10] All right.
[2:33:12] So y'all asked me.
[2:33:14] I was getting all kinds of people saying, you're going to say something about Massey.
[2:33:18] I'm like, I don't think you want me to, but I don't want somebody on my team who's basically not a team player or at least only wants to play when the score is high or when it suits them.
[2:33:33] This is not a libertarian think tank kind of stuff.
[2:33:37] This is a guy who's straight up full of crap and he's a traitor.
[2:33:44] This is the United States Congress.
[2:33:47] We're in the majority right now.
[2:33:50] And because of all this redistricting, we may get into a bigger majority because of what Trump has done.
[2:33:56] We won.
[2:33:57] President Trump and J.D. Vance are in office because of the MAGA movement.
[2:34:02] And now some guy wants to play I'm on my own man while the rest of us are still trying to figure out how we're going to get the results that President Trump wants to do.
[2:34:15] And you got guys like Thune and Massey who are standing as impediments.
[2:34:20] It's absurd.
[2:34:22] It's completely absurd.
[2:34:26] Real conservatives know it's absurd.
[2:34:29] Real conservatives don't want this kind of backtracking.
[2:34:32] I'm sorry for some of the guys who are out there on X supporting him, giving him money, all the money bonds and everything else.
[2:34:42] I don't know what their objective is.
[2:34:44] They're not going to see any success.
[2:34:47] Even if Massey was to somehow get reelected tonight, he is going to do nothing for that which they want to see happen.
[2:34:56] Nothing.
[2:34:58] He's going to be a complete powerless stooge that the media won't wait until put there.
[2:35:04] That's what they're going to do.
[2:35:06] The media will put him on television all the time so he can trash Trump, trash MAGA and trash Israel.
[2:35:16] Those are his three big targets.
[2:35:21] He doesn't care what's going on in this country.
[2:35:25] We have Democrats out there saying—well, should I tell you this?
[2:35:32] I don't know if you saw what Hakeem Jeffries said today.
[2:35:35] I was going to wait until later and show it.
[2:35:37] I don't think I have it queued up.
[2:35:38] But Hakeem Jeffries came out today.
[2:35:41] They just don't want to win.
[2:35:46] You haven't seen it.
[2:35:47] I should probably find it.
[2:35:48] But he actually came out and said his objective now isn't to win.
[2:35:55] It is to break you, to break the spirit of MAGA.
[2:36:01] Those were his exact words.
[2:36:03] Break the spirit.
[2:36:06] And I'm thinking to myself—and I told Ashley this earlier—that tells me that we are basically
[2:36:14] staring into the face of a demonic presence.
[2:36:18] I'll cover it tonight.
[2:36:20] But let me just tell you, you can't break a spirit.
[2:36:26] The American spirit, which has been here for quite some time, is an ideology that we all
[2:36:34] have that we have in here as well.
[2:36:37] It's not just here.
[2:36:38] It's in our heart.
[2:36:39] We stand for America.
[2:36:41] And they're saying now they want to break our spirit like we're some sort of horse that
[2:36:47] they need to ride the rough out of.
[2:36:51] So, no.
[2:36:52] I don't have any, any respect for Thomas Massey.
[2:36:55] I have less respect for Hakeem Jeffries.
[2:36:57] But they're getting close to being in the same arena.
[2:37:00] And I'm only telling you this because people ask me.
[2:37:05] And at this point, again, I'll say it one more time.
[2:37:08] I don't care who he's stooping.
[2:37:10] I don't care what he did with his wife's land or his wife's parents' land.
[2:37:14] I don't care about any of that.
[2:37:16] I don't care about the text.
[2:37:17] I don't care about the salacious stuff that he has been saying.
[2:37:21] I care that we can't count on him.
[2:37:24] That's it.
[2:37:25] That's where the vote lies.
[2:37:27] Can I count on this guy to do what's right?
[2:37:29] No.
[2:37:30] That's it.
[2:37:32] I don't need to even hear the rest.
[2:37:33] The fact that J.D. Vance said, that's our problem.
[2:37:37] Our problem with him is we can't count on him.
[2:37:41] So y'all asked.
[2:37:45] That's how I feel.
[2:37:46] And I feel that about anybody I can't count on.
[2:37:49] If I can't count on you, why do I need to be around you?
[2:37:53] Why do I want to be involved with you?
[2:37:56] And I'm pretty sure that's how you feel in your circle of friends and people in your family.
[2:38:02] I mean, there's probably people in your family you can't count on, but the ones that you can count on are very close to you.
[2:38:10] No matter what, you can tell them anything.
[2:38:13] Like, I'm here, man.
[2:38:14] I am ride or die with you.
[2:38:16] And I think right now with what the Democrats are doing and what Hakeem Jeffrey said about breaking our spirit, you better be ride or die.
[2:38:26] There's no room.
[2:38:29] I don't expect people to be complete sycophants, but if you know the other side and their agenda is to, quote, break your spirit, what are you waiting for?
[2:38:42] Sure.
[2:38:43] Like I said, I was going to show it tonight.
[2:38:44] I'll close with it.
[2:38:46] I've got some Christian stuff to talk about tonight.
[2:38:50] Let me see if I can pull this up real quick.
[2:38:53] SV, go ahead.
[2:38:55] Say some things while I'm looking for this.
[2:38:57] Okay.
[2:38:58] Well, I'm going to give you an update.
[2:38:59] Israel has entered its highest level of alert since the start of the ongoing ceasefire with Iran as U.S. and Israel forces have now completed preparations for renewed military action against Iran.
[2:39:12] With combat operations set to potentially resume soon.
[2:39:15] That just came off the press.
[2:39:16] Apparently, U.S. officials have told Israel's con news that.
[2:39:20] So that means that they're ready.
[2:39:23] The war is getting ready to start again.
[2:39:25] That's basically what they're saying at this point is to, you know, get ready, everybody.
[2:39:29] Here we go.
[2:39:30] And this is going to be literally the final countdown.
[2:39:33] If it starts again, it is not going to end until everything is over.
[2:39:41] You realize it, right?
[2:39:42] It has to be.
[2:39:43] Enough.
[2:39:44] Enough is enough.
[2:39:45] Yeah.
[2:39:46] And I had a factoid that just came in from Virginia.
[2:39:48] I don't know if you knew this.
[2:39:50] Secretary Mullen attended some meeting up.
[2:39:53] It was an ICE operation meeting up in Manassas last week.
[2:39:56] He said that roughly 50% of, I didn't know this, unalivings in liberal Fairfax County were committed by illegal aliens because it's a sanctuary city.
[2:40:06] He says actually the-
[2:40:07] 50%.
[2:40:08] You said 50%.
[2:40:09] Yep.
[2:40:10] And then in April, apparently DHS data puts the figure higher with three and four unaliving suspects charged in the county this year were illegal aliens.
[2:40:20] I mean, there's nothing good from sanctuary cities.
[2:40:23] You know, it's just crime and unalivings and yeah.
[2:40:27] Yeah.
[2:40:30] Let me-
[2:40:31] Coming to a town near you, folks.
[2:40:32] Oh, yeah.
[2:40:33] I'm going to-
[2:40:34] And seriously coming to a town near you.
[2:40:37] You guys all heard Hakeem Jeffery say that maximum warfare crap all the time.
[2:40:43] SV, thank you.
[2:40:45] I'm going to jump to this.
[2:40:46] Yeah, yeah.
[2:40:47] You got to bounce.
[2:40:48] I'll see you.
[2:40:49] Thank you.
[2:40:50] I always end up cutting him off early.
[2:40:52] But listen to this and it should chill you to your boats.
[2:40:56] Okay?
[2:40:57] Listen.
[2:40:58] I guess part of how we as House Democrats view this moment, either MAGA extremists are going
[2:41:03] to break the country or we're going to break them.
[2:41:06] And our goal is to break them.
[2:41:08] We will defeat them.
[2:41:12] We have to beat them electorally.
[2:41:13] And then we have to break their spirit because of the extremism that's being unleashed
[2:41:18] on the American people.
[2:41:19] That's completely and totally unacceptable.
[2:41:21] I didn't make it up.
[2:41:24] When someone tells me they want to break my spirit, I mean, MMA fighters, boxing, I'm
[2:41:32] not trying to break your spirit.
[2:41:33] I'm trying to win.
[2:41:35] We're going to break MAGA down.
[2:41:37] We are going to break you down to the point we're going to break your spirit.
[2:41:41] That tells me right there, sycophant stuff be gone.
[2:41:46] We need a full, cooperative, loyal, ride-or-die people behind us because our enemy is telling
[2:41:52] us in no uncertain terms over and over, this is what we're going to do to you.
[2:41:57] This is how it's going to be.
[2:42:00] We are going to stack the court.
[2:42:02] We are going to reopen the border.
[2:42:04] We are going to tax you into oblivion.
[2:42:07] We are going to throw you all in jail.
[2:42:09] We're going to do all kinds of things and we're going to break your spirit so that this never
[2:42:14] happens again.
[2:42:15] That you people never get out of line ever again.
[2:42:18] That you always understand who your daddy is.
[2:42:22] And your daddy is the government run by Democrats.
[2:42:26] I am going to break your spirit like a dog that peed on a couch and will never pee on
[2:42:32] that couch again.
[2:42:33] I'm sorry.
[2:42:36] I don't need anybody like Thomas Massey on my side.
[2:42:40] I don't want anybody like that.
[2:42:42] I don't need the people on X.
[2:42:44] Go to hell.
[2:42:45] Because right now, it is in the trenches.
[2:42:49] And if your enemy is willing to say this stuff in public, how the hell can we be arguing
[2:42:55] against anything that MAGA doesn't want?
[2:42:59] Be careful who you align with because the other side is being very, very definitive
[2:43:07] and even more so.
[2:43:09] They are telling their people.
[2:43:11] They are telling everybody they can get in front of, it's coming.
[2:43:15] We're going to do this.
[2:43:17] We're going to pull up in the South.
[2:43:19] We're going to break your spirit.
[2:43:20] What would be happening if Trump was saying that right now?
[2:43:24] What if Trump said, you know, we're going to pull up in California.
[2:43:28] We're going to break all them Democrats' spirit.
[2:43:30] We're going to break all those transformers.
[2:43:32] We're going to break all these illegals.
[2:43:35] What would they be doing if we said this kind of stuff?
[2:43:38] We're going to make sure that we smash them.
[2:43:41] I think you know.
[2:43:45] I think you know.
[2:43:48] Absolutely stunning where people are right now.
[2:43:53] And yes, I did have this massy anger built up for some time.
[2:43:57] But I kept saying, I'm not going to go there.
[2:44:00] I'm not going to go there because it's not in my area.
[2:44:03] I don't got nothing to say about it.
[2:44:05] This is on Kentucky.
[2:44:07] But now you asked and that's where I am.
[2:44:10] And it's where these people are.
[2:44:15] They want a war.
[2:44:16] You got a war.
[2:44:17] I just hope there's enough people who understand what you got to do.
[2:44:22] All right.
[2:44:23] Let's go to Super Chats and then we'll talk tonight and watch some of the results.
[2:44:28] Barry, always a good show and informative.
[2:44:30] God bless you and your family.
[2:44:31] Thank you, Judy.
[2:44:32] Cheosap.
[2:44:33] The DOJ wants to recompensate people censored by the Biden admin.
[2:44:39] We should freeze the assets of the entire Biden administration and use those funds to compensate.
[2:44:46] Exactly.
[2:44:47] That would be nice.
[2:44:48] We should also freeze the assets of the Democrat Party and use those assets for reparations since they were the KKK and want to give them out so badly.
[2:44:57] But you know where they want to get it from.
[2:44:59] They want to get it from you.
[2:45:02] Liza.
[2:45:03] Thank you.
[2:45:04] Cheosap again.
[2:45:05] Compensation from the media for lying and misrepresentation.
[2:45:08] I agree with that.
[2:45:09] Caitlin never smiles.
[2:45:11] Always looks constipated.
[2:45:13] Send a complimentary bottle of kimchi to her so she could poop.
[2:45:19] Megan Blankenship.
[2:45:20] I wish, while answering idiots like that, one of them would say, you're one of those lizard people, huh?
[2:45:26] That would be funny.
[2:45:28] All right.
[2:45:29] So it is 315.
[2:45:30] We'll see you, I guess, right about 715 is when all the festivities kick off and it'll lead us into the picnic and then we'll watch some results as well.
[2:45:42] All right, so I will see you guys in the seven o'clock hour.
[2:45:46] Thank you guys for tuning in.
[2:45:47] The difference one administration, the difference one political.