REPLAY: President Trump Holds a Press Conference - 03/16/26

[1:54] We take two, just him and me [2:28] Tells me about a church and a sweet carissa too [2:42] Where's your fool turn? [2:50] Talking about the Lord in college football [2:52] Tied proof when you're playing with Chuck [2:56] The joy's the one for the soul [3:04] A single care if you ever need joy or a brie [3:30] Just come tee it up with old Chuck [3:34] We take two shots, I'll tee [3:38] That's how we roll [3:39] Or card one for the soul [3:42] Mulligan's tee at Sagahatchee [3:45] Where we feel free [3:47] Yeah, that's Chuck at [3:52] Take two, just him, a church and a sweet carissa too [29:39] We're approaching the top of the hour [29:46] as we get ready for President Trump's press conference. [29:49] You know, this is something that's interesting [29:51] because the President's schedule from last night, [29:54] the White House, they send out a schedule each night. [29:56] Well, this was a brand new addition [29:59] to the schedule this morning, [30:00] so we're here tracking that, of course. [30:02] We'll also be live later in the day for another event. [30:06] Robert McNeely will be in studio for that one. [30:08] But here in the morning, [30:10] slash almost afternoon, [30:12] we will be going to the White House [30:14] for this press conference. [30:16] The President didn't say on Truth Social [30:19] specifically what the topic will be, [30:21] but we know there's many stories going on, [30:23] so we'll see which ones the President will be talking about. [30:27] This on the heels of speaking to the press on Air Force One [30:31] just recently, [30:32] flying back from Florida to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. [30:36] Also, we know that the President will be meeting [30:40] a number of the Trump-Kennedy Center board members coming up. [30:44] Now, that was in the schedule, [30:46] originally closed to the press [30:48] in the East Room of the White House. [30:50] So what's happening now is this news conference, [30:54] the President calling it, [30:55] will happen right before the Trump-Kennedy Center [30:59] board members' lunch and meeting [31:02] that's going to happen there in the East Room of the White House. [31:04] So as soon as we see that feed start, [31:06] of course, we'll take you there. [31:08] We're also tracking the Save America Act, [31:10] as it will be up for a vote on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. [31:14] We'll also get some updates on Operation Epic Fury in the Middle East, [31:18] the United States Central Command sending an update out there on X as well. [31:24] So what we're going to do is, [31:25] basically, we're going to hold down the fort here. [31:28] We'll stay live with you. [31:29] We'll throw to that White House event. [31:31] After the White House press conference, [31:33] we'll go to a number of our interviews [31:35] and various stories that we're tracking here on the network, [31:38] of course, including this, [31:40] the Save America Act. [31:41] Just got done recording an interview [31:42] with the election security expert and author, [31:46] Seth Keschel, [31:47] who has a brand new book out there doing great. [31:49] Also sat down with Summer Lane out there in California [31:53] on a location interview in the sense of on a Zoom call. [31:57] So we were able to talk to her about the Save America Act. [32:01] And on top of that, [32:02] a few other items that we'll be discussing in that post show. [32:05] So we'll have that all here live for you. [32:06] And then later today at two o'clock, [32:08] the President will also, [32:10] we'll have an event. [32:10] The Vice President will be with him in the Oval Office, [32:14] as will the press and other staffers. [32:17] We'll watch that live as well when it comes to a what the press is calling [32:23] or what the White House comms team is calling a signing time. [32:27] So we'll see what documents or what bills or not really bills, [32:30] but more executive orders or what will be signed. [32:33] That's the question. [32:34] It is called a signing time, [32:36] according to the White House. [32:37] That happens a bit later. [32:38] Our coverage for that [32:40] starts at two o'clock Eastern. [32:41] So two live broadcasts today. [32:43] Of course, [32:43] this one that you're seeing here, [32:45] and then that one that starts at two o'clock. [32:47] On top of that, [32:48] if you'd like to follow us here on Right Side Broadcasting Network on Truth Social, [32:52] it's at RSBN. [32:54] If you'd like to follow us on X, [32:55] it's at RSB Network. [32:58] Meantime, [32:58] of course later this week, [33:00] specifically on Wednesday, [33:02] all eyes will be on the Save America Act on that Senate floor. [33:06] So the Senate Majority Leader, [33:07] John Thune, [33:08] saying there will be a no talking, [33:10] a filibuster, [33:11] which still might mean there will be a silent filibuster. [33:16] At the end of the day, [33:17] President Trump and Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville calling for the filibuster to be nuked in this situation in order to save America, [33:24] to have photo ID and also to have a proof of citizenship. [33:29] This is all for federal elections and voting. [33:31] And then on top of that, [33:32] no mail in ballots except for a few other items like military or medical. [33:39] That kind of thing. [33:41] So we're going to see what happens on Wednesday. [33:44] Now, [33:44] in that interview with Seth Keschel, [33:46] he brought up a great point that if for some reason the filibuster is not nuked or the Save America Act doesn't pass, [33:53] then we have to shift our attention, [33:55] he says, [33:56] to the states for the states to step up and do the right thing within this framework. [34:00] But that's we're not at that point yet. [34:03] We still have to see if this is going to pass on Wednesday. [34:07] Again, [34:07] that's one of the major stories we're tracking, [34:09] and we're going to, [34:09] obviously keep our eye on Operation Epic Fury in the Middle East and any other stories that are happening out there in that 24-7 news cycle. [34:19] Let's go to a few of our sponsors as we await the president there at the White House. [34:23] Let's go to All Family Pharmacy. [34:25] You see it right there. [34:26] You need a pharmacy that actually supports your medical freedom and one that works smarter, [34:31] not harder. 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[36:51] I hope everybody's enjoying a little bit more sunlight later in the day. [36:55] There's a lot of serious things going on in the world. [36:59] Outside of that, of course, we have Operation Epic Fury. [37:02] We have the Save America Act. [37:04] We have a number of stories that we're following and tracking. [37:08] And reporting on and monitoring here at Right Side Broadcasting Network. [37:12] And it's great to be a part of conservative media at the end of the day on the right side of history. [37:16] Really, you know, sharing information with you and not holding back. [37:22] I mean, if you've looked at our broadcast, we cover all sorts of stories here at the network. [37:25] And great to do that because that's really what our job is to be on the side of freedom and truth and the American way and we the people. [37:34] So let's go with some more information about this. [37:37] The Save America Act, as for nuking the filibuster. [37:41] So the nuclear option happened twice in history, in 2013 and in 2017, for nominations, but never in the legislative process for a bill. [37:53] So we've never seen it happen in our country, the nuking of the filibuster, unless it was in 2013 and 2017 for nominations, not for legislative. [38:04] So the option is, according to President Trump, [38:08] to the gubernatorial candidate in Alabama, Senator Tommy Tuberville, is to nuke the filibuster altogether. [38:16] Because according to Grok, which, you know, you verify the sources once they say things like Grok. [38:22] But what's expected on Wednesday is the standard silent filibuster. [38:26] So this is, if you remember, there's a no talking filibuster, that according to the Senate Majority Leader John Thune. [38:34] So what's expected is possibly the standard silent filibuster. [38:38] So instead, the bill is likely to encounter the modern silent filibuster, where Democrats can block it by denying the 60 votes required for cloture, which is ending debate, without needing to speak on the floor. [38:51] So Republicans plan to bring it up for a vote, according to Grok again, primarily to put Democrats on record opposing it, rather than escalating it to a grueling public talking filibuster that could tie up the Senate for days. [39:05] So that's just one angle. [39:07] Is that exact? [39:08] Is that exactly what's going to happen? [39:10] Again, there's a lot of analysis out there about that, so I'm just sharing with you what we've been seeing. [39:16] But really, when it comes to saving the country, saving America, as President Trump so rightly called this act, the Save America Act, saving America really shouldn't be up for debate. [39:27] This is something that should be passed. [39:29] It's pretty simple stuff. [39:30] Nuke the filibuster in this situation. [39:32] You have to have, one of the major things in our country is voting. [39:37] What's more important than that other than the Constitution? [39:40] And on top of that, preserving the United States Constitution through having the right people in the sense of the citizens of our country voting for our federal elections. [39:53] We really should have that happen. [39:55] There should be no rigging of elections. [39:57] There should be none of that going on. [39:59] None of the shenanigans, as they say. [40:02] And we can really take a huge step towards election security. [40:08] Election integrity. [40:10] We've heard Mike Lindell. [40:11] We've heard Seth Keschel. [40:12] We've heard many great people out there. [40:14] There are many great organizations. [40:16] Precinct Strategy. [40:17] Steve Stern. [40:18] Others. [40:19] A lot of people out there. [40:20] Grassroots. [40:21] Because you've got to do something. [40:23] And I think that's what's great about a lot of what's happening in our country right now is people want to do something. [40:29] You don't want to sit back and just let it all play out. [40:33] Because there's a mindset with that. [40:35] If you let it all play out. [40:37] And you think it's just up to God to save the country. [40:41] We can go down a rabbit hole of discussion there. [40:45] We have an ability here to vote. [40:51] We have an ability to fight for our freedoms through prayer, voting, hard work, all the things. [40:56] Yes, of course, it would be great if God intervenes in a lot of ways. [41:00] But think about this. [41:01] If none of us went to the polls in 2024 and we said, oh, God's going to take care of it. [41:06] This is not anti-God. [41:07] This is not anti-God. [41:08] Trust me. [41:09] But if we all said we're not going to vote in 2024, God will take care of it. [41:15] It wouldn't have worked. [41:16] We had to do our part. [41:17] That's all I'm saying. [41:18] That's all I'm saying. [41:19] So let's just keep on keeping on here. [41:21] Let's really speak up about this. [41:23] The Save America Act. [41:25] But also, again, if you're just joining us, Seth Keschel, the election expert, just was speaking with him on an interview that will be airing maybe after this press conference or in the near future. [41:36] Was saying if it does. [41:37] Was saying if it does fail, the Save America Act, then we have to go and push on the states to do the right thing when it comes to all of this. [41:45] So we'll see what happens. [41:47] We're tracking the stories here on Right Side Broadcasting Network. [41:51] Meantime, I think we have a map that we can show on the split screen possibly. [41:56] And there it is. [41:57] All right. [41:58] So what we have here, of course, are the memorials that are out there, the national memorials, the statues of. [42:05] Obviously, you have President Trump. [42:06] Obviously, you have President Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial. [42:08] You have the Jefferson Memorial of the Washington Monument. [42:11] You have the civil rights leader, MLK Jr. [42:14] It's right next to or across from the Jefferson Memorial. [42:19] And rightly so. [42:20] Civil rights leader, MLK Jr., President Washington, President Lincoln, President Jefferson. [42:27] And I posted on True Social and X the following. [42:30] I also think that President John F. [42:34] and the free speech leader, Charlie Kirk, should have standalone in Washington, D.C., a statue or a national memorial, just like we see one for President Lincoln, for JFK. [42:51] We should have one for him. [42:52] That's just my opinion. [42:53] You can agree or disagree. [42:54] It's all good. [42:55] We have freedom of speech, right? [42:57] And then the other thing is, just like MLK Jr., the civil rights leader, what an awesome speech that was right there. [43:04] Right there near that Lincoln Memorial. [43:07] Well, Charlie Kirk should have a memorial there as well. [43:12] It's about the truth in that context, not about anything else. [43:17] So if you'd like to respond, go ahead and follow me on Truth Social at Matthew Alvarez or on X at MatthewUSMedia. [43:26] Share in the replies of that post that I put out there. [43:29] I really felt strongly about this. [43:31] My family and I were just driving the other day. [43:34] And we saw the MLK Jr. expressway. [43:38] And I'm like, that's awesome. [43:40] Civil rights leader, perfect, great. [43:42] But I thought to myself, man, as time goes on that we lost the late, great Charlie Kirk, why can't we have a Charlie Kirk memorial in D.C., just like there's an MLK one, just like for the presidents for having one for John F. Kennedy as well? [43:59] If you look it up, there is no national memorial in the District of Columbia for John F. Kennedy. [44:04] There should be. [44:07] And there should be one for Charlie Kirk. [44:09] Do you agree? [44:10] If you don't, it's all good. [44:12] We're just talking here. [44:13] All right. [44:15] 12-11 Monday, March 16th. [44:16] Again, let's go to a couple of our sponsors as we await the president of the United States. [44:20] And we also interviewed Summer Lane, the great conservative journalist earlier out of California. [44:26] We'll get to that after the press conference. [44:28] But let's go to Rumble Wallet there, as you see. [44:30] You may have seen the conversations happening online lately. [44:33] Censorship, unfortunately, is back. [44:35] And it's happening everywhere. [44:37] Platforms are controlling narratives and pushing the stuff they want us to see. [44:41] So we need to fight back in that information and financial area. [44:45] Rumble is one of the only companies that actually has stood the test of time and deserves our support. 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[46:22] 63% of people say that's what's going to happen. [46:25] How about for the 2026 primaries? [46:27] How many House Republicans will lose their primary this year? [46:31] How many Senate Republicans will lose their primary this year? [46:34] Same thing with the Democrats with their primary. [46:37] So we'll see what happens. [46:39] We're just tracking it as you can to calchi.com slash rsbn. [46:44] Great sponsor here at Right Side Broadcasting Network. [46:47] Let's go to Washington, D.C. right now. [46:51] Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. [46:57] No place like the White House. [47:39] Do we agree? [47:40] Right? [47:41] Mr. Kraft? [47:42] No place like the White House. [47:43] Thank you very much for being here. [47:45] Appreciate it. [47:46] And we'll maybe discuss a couple of general topics. [47:52] This is a board meeting for the Trump Kennedy Center. [47:56] But we'll go into a couple of other things that we have the media present. [48:03] It's always present, unfortunately. [48:06] Constantly. [48:08] And I'll say a few words about what's happening in the Middle East. [48:14] If you have a couple of questions, we'll do that, and then we'll get on with our board meeting. [48:19] So thank you very much for being here. [48:23] We have a wonderful group of very, very smart, talented patriots at this table. [48:31] Our powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime continued in full force over the past few days. [48:41] They have been literally obliterated. [48:46] The Air Force is gone. [48:48] The Navy is gone. [48:51] Many, many ships have been sunk. [48:53] They're warfighting ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them. [48:58] And anti-aircraft is decimated. [49:02] Their radar is gone. [49:03] And their leaders are gone. [49:04] Other than that, they're doing quite well. [49:08] They've been a terror for 47 years. [49:12] And now, I guess, the world, through the United States, with the help of Israel, [49:19] is doing what should have been done many years ago. [49:24] Should have been done many years ago. [49:26] Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran. [49:34] And these have been mostly commercial and military targets. [49:40] We've achieved a 90 percent reduction in their ballistic missile launches [49:45] and a 95 percent reduction in drone attacks. [49:49] The missiles are trickling in now. [49:51] At very low levels. [49:53] Because they don't have too many missiles left. [49:57] We've also attacked the manufacturing plants, [50:01] the places where they manufacture the missiles and the drones. [50:05] And that's going on today. [50:07] We just hit three of them today. [50:09] And it's getting very hard for them to manufacture. [50:14] More than 100 Iranian naval vessels have been sunk or destroyed over the last week and a half. [50:21] That has to be some kind of a record. [50:23] Additional strikes continue to launch from all directions every single hour. [50:28] As you know, we attacked Karg Island and knocked it. [50:34] Knocked it literally. [50:36] Destroyed everything on the island except for the area where the oil is. [50:41] I call it the pipes. [50:42] We left the pipes. [50:44] We didn't want to do that. [50:46] But we will do that. [50:47] We can do that on five minutes' notice. [50:49] It'll be over. [50:51] But for purposes of someday rebuilding that country, [50:56] I guess we did the right thing. [50:58] But it may not stay that way. [51:01] Just one simple word and the pipes will be gone too. [51:04] But it'll take a long time to rebuild that. [51:06] We are aggressively dismantling Iran's defense industrial base. [51:11] And ability to rebuild its missiles and drone capability is getting down to close to zero. [51:17] And we're hammering their capacity to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz [51:25] with more than 30 mine-laying ships destroyed. [51:29] We hit, to the best of our knowledge, all of their mine-laying ships. [51:33] Now they can put them on other types of ships, I guess, and drop them in. [51:36] But we don't know that any have even been dropped in. [51:39] We're not sure that any have been. [51:41] That's a big negative for them if they do it. [51:43] It's a form of suicide. [51:45] But we don't know that they have dropped any in. [51:48] But we've hit all 30 of their ships and destroyed them. [51:53] They're all at the bottom of the sea. [51:55] We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait far more than ours. [52:01] You know, we get less than 1 percent of our oil from the Strait. [52:06] And some countries get much more. [52:09] Japan gets 95 percent. [52:11] China gets 90 percent. [52:13] Many of the Europeans get quite a bit. [52:16] South Korea gets 35 percent. [52:19] So we want them to come and help us with the Strait. [52:23] We have it in very good shape. [52:25] The countries — [52:26] We've already taken care of Iran. [52:28] But now, because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the water [52:34] or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, [52:37] and it's fairly close range because it is a tight area, [52:42] which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon. [52:47] Iran has always used that as an economic weapon. [52:51] And it's not going to be able to be used very long. [52:56] Some countries have told me they're on the way. [53:00] Some are very enthusiastic about it. [53:03] And some aren't. [53:04] Some are countries that we've helped for many, many years. [53:07] We've protected them from horrible outside sources. [53:13] And they weren't that enthusiastic. [53:17] And the level of enthusiasm, it matters to me. [53:20] We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers, great soldiers, protecting them from harm's way. [53:29] And we have done a great job. [53:32] And we want to know, do you have any minesweepers? [53:35] Well, we'd rather not get involved, sir. [53:40] I said, you mean for 40 years we're protecting you, [53:43] and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor? [53:47] Very few shots are going to be taken because they don't have many shots left. [53:50] But they said, we'd rather not get involved. [53:55] I just want the fake news media and everybody else to remember that that was said [54:00] because when, and I've been a big critic of all of the protecting of countries [54:06] because I know that we'll protect them. [54:08] And if ever needed, if we ever needed help, they won't be there for us. [54:14] I've just known that for a long period of time. [54:16] Just like I knew about the Strait, that it would be a weapon, [54:21] which I predicted a long time ago, predicted all of this stuff. [54:25] You guys were very generous in that. [54:26] I predicted all of it. [54:27] I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out Iran. [54:32] I predicted about the World Trade Center. [54:34] I made that prediction a year before he did it. [54:36] I said, you better get him. [54:37] He's a bad guy. [54:39] I watched him be interviewed one time, and I said, that's a bad guy. [54:42] You better get him. [54:44] One year before exactly, I wrote it in a book. [54:47] You can even check about a year before the World Trade Center then came down. [54:52] President Clinton actually had a shot at him, and he didn't take it. [54:56] Unfortunately, I'm not blaming him for that, but he didn't take it. [55:00] And he ended up knocking down the World Trade Center. [55:03] But I predicted that, too. [55:04] I predicted a lot of things. [55:06] We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait for blood. [55:14] I mean, you know, these people literally need it. [55:19] 90, 95 percent of their energy or their oil comes out of the Strait, [55:23] and they should be in here very happily helping us. [55:27] And it's incredible. [55:30] We have such great — we're number one in oil by double now. [55:33] We drill, baby, drill. [55:35] We're double. [55:36] Any other nation — and it's going to be soon triple — any other nation, [55:40] and that doesn't include Venezuela, who's been great. [55:43] By the way, the relationship with Venezuela has been fantastic. [55:49] Millions — literally millions of barrels of oil are being taken out, [55:55] and it's been of great help, and it's been to their great benefit. [55:59] The President has done a really good job. [56:03] We get along with him really well. [56:05] But we've taken out millions of barrels of oil. [56:06] And brought to Houston and other places for — to the refineries. [56:14] We have refineries set up specifically for that. [56:17] And it's been a great — it's been a great relationship. [56:20] And more and more is happening. [56:22] It's a tremendous oil source. [56:25] And we're getting — we're stepping it up very rapidly. [56:29] The big companies are going in. [56:31] And they will actually — numbers — in a pretty short period of time, [56:36] numbers that they've never been able to do will be doing. [56:41] There's a lot of oil under that land. [56:43] We strongly encourage the other nations to get involved with us [56:48] and get involved quickly and with great enthusiasm. [56:52] I have that from a number of them. [56:54] And I'd like to say their names. [56:56] But, frankly, I don't know if they would want me to or not, [56:59] because maybe they don't want to be targeted. [57:02] But I say it wouldn't matter if you're targeted or not, [57:06] because this is a paper. [57:07] This is a paper tiger that we're dealing with now. [57:10] It wasn't a paper tiger two weeks ago. [57:12] It's a paper tiger now. [57:14] So now we're going to get down to the reason. [57:18] We'll take a couple of questions in a moment. [57:21] But we're going to get down to the reason we're here today, actually. [57:24] This was set up a long time ago. [57:26] It's the Trump Kennedy Center. [57:29] Over the past year, we've made incredible strides [57:32] to restore the true purpose and prestige of this revered institution. [57:37] Together, we're going to ensure it remains [57:40] the finest performing arts facility of its kind anywhere in the world. [57:45] And I don't know that it ever really reached that stage, [57:49] but it will over a period of time. [57:53] We're rebuilding it. [57:55] It's in very, very bad condition. [57:57] It's been somewhat of a disaster, to be honest with you. [58:02] It's been let go to hell. [58:06] That's what they've done. [58:09] They did a poor job. [58:11] They spent money in the wrong places. [58:13] They built some theaters underneath that nobody uses, [58:16] little ones, tiny theaters that cost $300 million. [58:20] And the money was spent incorrectly, wrong. [58:25] We're dealing with some networks on the possibility [58:28] of renting those little theaters. [58:30] Nobody's going to use them. [58:31] They want the big halls. [58:33] The halls are going to be incredible. [58:35] They're in bad shape, but when they're completed, [58:38] the phones are potentially something that could be unbelievable. [58:43] So I want to, before we begin, I want to thank Rick Grinnell. [58:47] He's been a friend of mine for a long time. [58:49] He's been unbelievable. [58:51] He went to the, he was the ambassador, as you know, to Germany. [58:54] There was no happier woman in the world than Angela Merkel. [58:59] Angela. [59:01] She called me, thank you, sir, thank you. [59:03] Although she liked Rick a lot, there was nobody happier [59:07] that he was no longer going to be the ambassador to Germany. [59:11] He was difficult for them. [59:13] He was not your typical ambassador. [59:15] He was the opposite. [59:16] He was, he would do what was best for the United States, [59:19] not for Germany. [59:20] And I want to tell you, he did a great job. [59:22] So good that I put him in charge of a thing called intelligence. [59:25] And something he didn't really want to do, [59:28] but he did it and he did it incredibly well. [59:32] There were a lot of leakers. [59:33] He found out the leakers. [59:35] And when he didn't find out who the leaker was in a certain area, [59:38] he fired everybody. [59:39] And he went into one room, [59:42] where there was leaks coming out. [59:44] These are long-term problems that these various places have had. [59:49] And he said, who's the one that leaked this? [59:51] And they wouldn't admit it. [59:52] So he fired the whole room. [59:54] And he did a good job. [59:56] I'll tell you, he was very good. [59:57] And during this transition period, [1:00:00] I asked Ricky if he would run it because we wanted to see. [1:00:05] And if you remember when we first took it over, [1:00:08] I didn't do it with enthusiasm. [1:00:10] I did it because somebody had to do it. [1:00:12] I had to turn it around because it was failing. [1:00:15] It would have closed. [1:00:16] And physically, it would have almost fallen down. [1:00:18] It was in very bad shape. [1:00:20] The steel columns outside, as an example, [1:00:23] were meant to be covered. [1:00:24] You know, exposed steel is unusual to have in building. [1:00:28] What I do best in life is build. [1:00:30] I build buildings really well and under budget and ahead of schedule. [1:00:35] That's what I do. [1:00:36] Unlike the Fed, the Fed building, [1:00:38] which is going to cost billions of dollars. [1:00:41] It may never open. [1:00:43] I mean, right now, they just, you know, [1:00:46] we have a wonderful Kevin, [1:00:48] a wonderful new head of the Fed coming in. [1:00:51] I don't know if he'll ever be able to occupy this complex. [1:00:55] It was destroyed by Jerome. [1:00:58] Too late, pal. [1:00:59] I kill him too late because he's always too late with interest. [1:01:02] Should cut interest rates. [1:01:04] He should cut them right now. [1:01:05] They should have a special meeting. [1:01:07] What's a better time to cut interest rates than now? [1:01:09] A third grade student would know that. [1:01:12] But that's it. [1:01:13] That's a that's a terrible thing. [1:01:16] But what I do is build. [1:01:17] I build great stuff. [1:01:18] And what we're going to do is, you know, right outside. [1:01:22] In fact, if you look behind me, see the nice gold curtains. [1:01:26] If you want to look into a nice foundation and you want to see a lot of work, [1:01:32] very deep, very, very deep for specific reasons. [1:01:36] We have a magnificent ballroom being built because this is the biggest room. [1:01:41] And it holds like 98 people for dinner. [1:01:44] But behind me, you're going to have a ballroom that's going to that this building and the people occupying it in particular. [1:01:52] Every president for 150 years has clamored for a ballroom, a large, beautiful room. [1:01:59] This is a cocktail room. [1:02:01] And this will actually be this whole floor will end up being a cocktail room for the cocktail area or pre area for the ballroom before dinners. [1:02:09] So we'll have heads of that. [1:02:11] We can't even do a heads of state dinner. [1:02:13] Usually what they do is they. [1:02:15] We would do them on the lawn with a tent. [1:02:19] But when it rains, the lawn is very low. [1:02:23] And, you know, the land in Washington, it was built on swampy wet land. [1:02:28] And when it rains and you have the king of Saudi Arabia, we have as an example, the king of the UK, I would say, king of England. [1:02:38] It was a great guy. [1:02:39] He's coming in very soon. [1:02:41] And when it rains, you know what happened? [1:02:44] The rain would go over their feet. [1:02:46] It would be about four or five inches. [1:02:48] Over their shoes. [1:02:49] This was not good. [1:02:50] So and it rained a lot. [1:02:52] So we're building finally because I do that. [1:02:56] And by the way, no taxpayer money. [1:02:58] I want to put that zero. [1:03:00] It's going to be it's on time on budget. [1:03:02] It'll be under budget. [1:03:04] Literally, we're having it under budget other than we've upgraded it in terms of the marbles we're using. [1:03:10] We're using onyx and stones that are incredible. [1:03:13] But it'll be it'll be something really spectacular. [1:03:19] I'm looking at Mr. Steve Wynn, who's over there. [1:03:22] She built a spectacular building. [1:03:24] And he knows Trump builds a spectacular building. [1:03:26] I build better buildings than him. [1:03:28] I don't care what he said. [1:03:30] But Steve is over here. [1:03:31] And he really with his incredible wife, Andrea. [1:03:34] And thank you both for being here. [1:03:36] Andrea is on the board. [1:03:37] And Steve is so in love with his wife. [1:03:39] He asked whether or not he could come. [1:03:41] And I can say the same thing for the great Bob Kraft. [1:03:44] He's got a wife that's so wonderful. [1:03:46] He said, do you think I could come? [1:03:47] She didn't have to accept that. [1:03:48] You know, she could have said no. [1:03:51] But Bob said, I would like to come. [1:03:53] So, Bob, we will we will not let you vote, although his vote would be a good vote. [1:03:58] He will vote for the proper thing. [1:04:00] But it's good to have you both here. [1:04:02] These are two two great couples that know a lot about the things I'm talking about, like fixing whether it's building a stadium or building a building. [1:04:11] We know they know how to do it. [1:04:12] So thank you. [1:04:13] Thank you, Steve, very much. [1:04:16] But we made incredible strides over the past. [1:04:19] Year. [1:04:20] If you remember, I said I want to run it for a year just to see because the place is falling down. [1:04:24] It's horrible. [1:04:25] Air conditioning heater is going to be heating is going to be ripped out in its entirety. [1:04:31] And, you know, needs new. [1:04:33] It's old. [1:04:34] It's how many years is it, Rick? [1:04:36] What's the total? [1:04:37] Fifty. [1:04:39] Almost over 50. [1:04:41] And we have 50 year old air conditioning. [1:04:44] More than that, actually. [1:04:45] And it's in bad shape. [1:04:47] Everything's everything's in bad shape. [1:04:49] It's got to be redone. [1:04:51] So I said, let's run it for a year just to see how it works. [1:04:54] It's better than you can't just go into something, try and figure it out. [1:04:59] And we figured it out over the year. [1:05:01] And you have to close it. [1:05:03] Putting new marbles in beautiful, beautiful marbles. [1:05:06] When you do marbles, you can't have people walking over the marble every night as it's drying and setting and going to a play. [1:05:14] So we thought the best way. [1:05:16] I mean, what I know best in the world is construction. [1:05:19] The best way to do it is close it, do it properly and reopen and have a grand reopening. [1:05:25] And when it's finished, it's going to be far better than it was when it was originally built. [1:05:29] When it was originally built, it was good. [1:05:31] It has one thing that's very good, has great sound. [1:05:34] The I think there's a lot of luck in sound. [1:05:37] You have some of the big opera houses. [1:05:39] I don't want to get involved with saying which one. [1:05:41] But in New York, as an example, where the acoustics were never good and they've ripped it apart four times and rebuilt it. [1:05:48] And it was great. [1:05:49] It was never good. [1:05:50] The good thing about the Kennedy Center, the acoustics are good and they'll only be enhanced based on what we're doing. [1:05:58] A lot of it has to do with the stones and the stones you use, the marbles you use, etc. [1:06:02] Over the past year, we've made incredible strides to restore the true purpose and prestige that this building will soon gain. [1:06:13] I think at a higher level than it had before. [1:06:16] Together, we're going to ensure it remains the finest and will become the finest. [1:06:20] We'll become the finest performing arts facility anywhere in the world. [1:06:26] It's got the location and it will have the building. [1:06:30] It's got good bones. [1:06:31] It's got good structure. [1:06:33] Again, they wanted to originally cover the exposed steel. [1:06:37] It was painted a cheap gold and we turned it into a very expensively painted white, very heavy coat of very, very powerful white paint. [1:06:51] It was meant for steel, exposed steel, a very different kind of paint, but it's almost like putting a stone over the top of it. [1:07:02] And the color is white, shiny white, and it looks, a lot of people have commented it looks so much better. [1:07:09] Before, they had the steel painted gold and the gold was very cheap. [1:07:15] There's actually never been a paint that's made that will look like gold. [1:07:20] Steve will tell you that. [1:07:21] You can't. [1:07:22] You can't leaf it or use real gold bullion or you use a different color, Steve. [1:07:27] Nobody's ever been able to make a gold paint that looks real. [1:07:31] Little minor thing for the media. [1:07:33] I'm sure you're thrilled with hearing that. [1:07:35] But there's never been a paint. [1:07:37] I said someday I'm going to discover a paint where you don't have to actually use gold leaf. [1:07:42] Gold leaf is a very, very big and expensive process, but it's a beautiful thing, but not when you use paint. [1:07:49] So we got rid of the gold columns, which looked always terrible. [1:07:52] They looked cheap and they looked fake. [1:07:55] Very much like the media, actually. [1:07:57] And we took the columns and we painted them white. [1:08:04] Before we painted them, Matt, very importantly, we structuralized them. [1:08:09] We replaced a bad steel that was very badly rusting. [1:08:13] I mean, these are columns that are holding up a building. [1:08:16] And we had to replace areas of columns that were actually rusted out because it was in very bad shape. [1:08:22] It's not even describable how bad this building was, both inside and out. [1:08:28] I want to thank Rick Grinnell. [1:08:31] But you really did a great job, Rick, on this, and we appreciate it. [1:08:34] I'm looking for your next venture because he really was, you know, there was a story. [1:08:41] He got fired. [1:08:42] He didn't get fired. [1:08:43] He was here for a short period of time, for a year, figuring it out with Matt and everybody else. [1:08:48] And Matt now is going to take over, and he's a pro at construction. [1:08:52] Great at construction. [1:08:54] And I think Matt would like to run the facility, too. [1:08:57] He's fallen in love with it. [1:08:59] And I think he'd do a good job. [1:09:00] But if I don't think he will do a good job, I'll say, Matt, you're fired. [1:09:04] I'm getting somebody else. [1:09:06] So you're under no pressure, Matt, okay? [1:09:10] It's like Bob Kraft. [1:09:11] If a football player doesn't perform well, typically you will fire him immediately, Bob. [1:09:16] Do you ever let them stay around for four or five years if they're bad? [1:09:19] Not too many times, right? [1:09:23] So anyway, I learned from him. [1:09:27] So I want to thank also Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been fantastic. [1:09:33] I don't know, is Pam here someplace? [1:09:35] Oh, hello, Pam. [1:09:36] Good. [1:09:37] She's been great. [1:09:38] And the Speaker has got the easiest job of anybody in government. [1:09:42] He's got a majority of two. [1:09:44] I don't like to say one because it varies, but between one, two, and three. [1:09:50] And I think you're the only man that's ever lived [1:09:53] that's able to be very happy about it. [1:09:55] In fact, well, we get up to three. [1:09:57] You know, every once in a while, we get up to three. [1:09:59] Actually, for a period of time, we actually had it up to four. [1:10:02] And then we had a death, and death is very bad when you're the Speaker [1:10:08] and you have a majority of two or three. [1:10:11] But we had a death, and then we had another death, and we had some things. [1:10:15] But we're looking very strong. [1:10:18] We had one man who was very ill. [1:10:20] It looked like he wasn't going to make it. [1:10:22] I don't know. [1:10:23] I'll mention his name. [1:10:24] Should I? [1:10:25] Do other people know his name? [1:10:28] Do you want to mention it? [1:10:29] He'll be proud. [1:10:30] Go ahead. [1:10:31] Tell him the story. [1:10:32] Okay. [1:10:33] Well, thank you, Mr. President. [1:10:36] Congressman Neil Dunn of Florida had had some real health challenges, [1:10:39] and it was very serious and had had a pretty grim diagnosis. [1:10:43] And I mentioned it to the President, and I said, [1:10:46] Congressman Dunn is a real champion and a patriot because he's still coming to work. [1:10:49] And if others got this diagnosis, they would be apt to go home and retire. [1:10:52] What was the diagnosis? [1:10:54] I mean, I think it was a terminal diagnosis. [1:10:56] He would be dead by June. [1:10:58] Okay. [1:10:59] That wasn't public. [1:11:00] But, yeah, okay. [1:11:02] It was grim. [1:11:03] That's what I was going to say. [1:11:04] With a heart problem, by the way. [1:11:05] This was a heart problem. [1:11:06] Long story short, the President called him to encourage him and thank him, [1:11:11] and they had a conversation. [1:11:12] And the President mentioned in the course of the conversation, [1:11:14] you know how to get my doctors involved. [1:11:16] And they did. [1:11:17] And within a number of hours, they took him to Walter Reed, emergency surgery. [1:11:22] The man has a new lease on life. [1:11:23] He acts like he's 30 years younger. [1:11:25] And he walked into the conference meeting, and we thought we'd seen a ghost. [1:11:28] And I spoke with him over the weekend, and he's encouraged and thankful, [1:11:31] and he thanks the President for his leadership and intervention. [1:11:33] And thank you. [1:11:34] Thank you. [1:11:35] He's amazing. [1:11:36] He actually called Mike. [1:11:37] Mike called me, and he said, sir, we're up by three, but we're going to lose one by June. [1:11:43] I said, who? [1:11:44] Neil Dunn. [1:11:45] He's a great congressman, incredible. [1:11:48] He called to say that he was terminal, really bad heart. [1:11:52] There's nothing they can do. [1:11:53] I said, that's bad. [1:11:56] Number one, it was bad because I liked him. [1:11:58] Number two, it was bad because I needed his vote. [1:12:01] But he really said, he said, Mike, I'm going to last this out for the President and you. [1:12:08] And however long I live, I mean, it looks like June is the time. [1:12:12] But however long I live, I'm going to be voting for you. [1:12:17] I mean, how many people are going to say that? [1:12:18] Most of them are going to say, Mike, I'm retiring immediately. [1:12:21] That's the end. [1:12:22] He's an extraordinary man. [1:12:23] But he didn't do that. [1:12:24] It was really impressive. [1:12:25] And I realized, I have doctors in the White House. [1:12:28] The White House doctors are incredible. [1:12:30] And they've helped me with other people. [1:12:33] They're helping me with people right now. [1:12:35] People that are very sick are like, they're miracle workers. [1:12:38] And I said, I have to call them. [1:12:40] And I called the two doctors. [1:12:42] They're both great. [1:12:44] And they immediately went over to see the congressman. [1:12:47] And he was on the operating table like two hours later. [1:12:52] And it was a long operation. [1:12:54] They gave him more stents and more everything. [1:12:56] I think he's got everything that you could possibly have. [1:13:00] And they called up. [1:13:02] They said, sir, I think you'll be fine. [1:13:04] I said, you've got to be kidding. [1:13:06] He said, I think you'll be fine. [1:13:08] And Mike was telling me this story that the other day he came into a meeting for the first time in a long while. [1:13:14] Go ahead. [1:13:15] Well, it was incredible. [1:13:16] I mean, he has a new lease on life. [1:13:18] He has more energy than a man half his age. [1:13:21] And very encouraged and encouraged all of us. [1:13:24] So, again, a testament to great leadership. [1:13:26] And he's my hats off to Neil Dunn and his beautiful wife and family. [1:13:30] He's an extraordinary individual. [1:13:32] And just, you know, because I don't want to have a terrible story about this, I did it for him first and for the vote second. [1:13:39] But it was a close second, actually. [1:13:41] But I did it for the vote second. [1:13:44] All right. [1:13:45] I want to also introduce Susie Wiles, who's fantastic. [1:13:50] She's our chief of staff. [1:13:52] And she's an amazing person, an amazing fighter. [1:13:56] And she announced a minor difficulty, which will be in good shape for her. [1:14:02] She'll be around for a long time. [1:14:04] She had a diagnosis. [1:14:06] You probably saw it. [1:14:08] And she's going to take care of it immediately, as opposed to waiting. [1:14:12] She said, let's do it now. [1:14:13] I said, do it immediately. [1:14:15] Because with that particular ailment, the faster, the better. [1:14:19] That's the only thing I know about it. [1:14:21] The faster, the better. [1:14:22] She's going to do it immediately. [1:14:24] So she just started, actually. [1:14:25] And she's going to be in great shape. [1:14:28] The prognosis there is excellent, beyond excellent. [1:14:33] Thank you, sir. [1:14:34] But who needs it, right? [1:14:35] That's right. [1:14:36] Who needs it? [1:14:39] So before we took over, just a year ago, the legendary, this wonderful place was on the verge of, literally on the verge of collapse, both from a financial standpoint, maybe more from a financial standpoint, but also from a financial standpoint. [1:14:56] But also from a physical standpoint. [1:14:59] Necessary maintenance has been ignored. [1:15:01] The programming was very woke and out of touch with reality. [1:15:06] And we had an orchestra that lost like $18 million a year. [1:15:10] And they subsidized it every year. [1:15:12] I said, what kind of an orchestra loses 18? [1:15:14] And I'm being nice when I say 18 was much more. [1:15:17] And I started looking at the programming. [1:15:19] They had tremendous union difficulties, like 19 different unions and driving everybody crazy. [1:15:26] And I think the unions are going to be great. [1:15:28] I've always gotten along with unions. [1:15:30] As you know, I got great union support. [1:15:32] But you had 19 unions every time somebody wanted to put on a play. [1:15:36] They had to deal with 19 different groups of people. [1:15:39] And they say it was like Broadway, but worse. [1:15:43] And you don't get worse than Broadway when it comes to the unions. [1:15:46] I've watched that for many years. [1:15:48] The programming was terrible. [1:15:51] And they had a budget deficit of about $26 million minimum. [1:15:57] Owed a lot of money. [1:15:59] We're out borrowing money, which is a lot of people don't understand. [1:16:02] So under the leadership of this exceptionally talented and rich board. [1:16:07] It's a very rich board. [1:16:08] Not everybody, but most of you are loaded. [1:16:10] Ike Perlmutter's got so much money. [1:16:12] Look at Ike Perlmutter. [1:16:14] He ended up being the largest owner of Disney. [1:16:16] Started with, was it $100 or less? [1:16:19] It was a little less, Ike, right? [1:16:21] He didn't speak English. [1:16:25] And he became the largest owner of Disney, right? [1:16:28] But then they went woke and he sold his stock. [1:16:30] He didn't like Mickey Mouse being woke, right, Ike? [1:16:34] But he's one of the most brilliant business people. [1:16:36] Thank you, Ike. [1:16:37] It's great. [1:16:38] And, Laurie, thank you very much for being here. [1:16:40] I think it's Laurie that's on the board, though, right? [1:16:43] What's with these husbands? [1:16:45] All the husbands are traveling. [1:16:47] I think it's the White House. [1:16:48] I got all the husbands with the wives. [1:16:50] That's never happened. [1:16:51] Boy, oh, boy, what great relationships. [1:16:55] My wife is going to have to speak to me. [1:16:57] This is pretty good. [1:16:58] The biggest guys in the country travel with their wives to come to a meeting. [1:17:02] But it has something to do with the White House, right, Ike? [1:17:04] Right? [1:17:05] You don't want to see me. [1:17:06] You want to see the White House because it's a special building. [1:17:10] But thank you. [1:17:11] And congratulations on an amazing career. [1:17:13] Most people don't know Ike Perlmutter. [1:17:15] Isidore Perlmutter. [1:17:17] And started with nothing and built a vast fortune just by deal after deal. [1:17:24] Did you ever have a bad deal, Ike? [1:17:26] Which was that? [1:17:27] Don't tell. [1:17:30] See how honest he is? [1:17:31] Most people would say no. [1:17:33] He says what? [1:17:34] And it couldn't have been very bad. [1:17:35] Great to have you. [1:17:36] So, under the leadership of this board, which is, as you see, incredible, we're achieving [1:17:37] a very dramatic and quick turnaround. [1:17:38] We got rid of all of the DEI. [1:17:39] Some of the news media loves DEI. [1:17:41] But we got rid of it. [1:17:42] Maybe you're right. [1:17:43] Brought back patriotic and family-friendly programming. [1:17:44] And last year, we raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:45] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:46] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:47] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:48] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:49] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:50] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:17:51] We raised over $1.5 billion. [1:18:02] We raised over $130 million to keep this place going, otherwise it would have been closed. [1:18:09] The building, let's call it the Kennedy Center from that time, was losing so much money it [1:18:17] could not have stayed alive if we didn't come in as a group of people, and a lot of wealthy [1:18:23] people that made a lot of contributions. [1:18:26] So with the Trump-Kennedy Center honors alone, we raised this year a record $23 million, [1:18:33] which was double what they had ever raised. [1:18:35] Never done before, $23 million. [1:18:38] There's still much to do. [1:18:39] The previous management left us a facility in very bad condition, abysmal is the word, [1:18:45] and everything from busting pipes and leaks to serious electrical and structural problems. [1:18:53] And some of it we fixed, but most of it we're saving for during the construction period [1:18:57] because we'll do a much better job of it that way. [1:19:00] Major renovations are required to keep the facility functional, and that'll start right [1:19:05] after July 4th. [1:19:06] We're going to have a little bit of a celebration, not a big deal, but a little bit of a celebration [1:19:12] on July 4th. [1:19:13] We'll have a little party. [1:19:15] And then after that, we close or we start construction. [1:19:17] We're fully financed. [1:19:19] As I announced in February, after a one-year review based on input from highly respected [1:19:24] experts and subject to board approval today, we determined — it's a little late for the [1:19:30] board because we've already announced it, but these are minor — these are minor details, [1:19:34] but I think it's important. [1:19:35] I think everybody agrees. [1:19:37] But subject to board approval, we determined that the fastest way to bring the Trump Kennedy [1:19:42] Center to the highest level of success, beauty, and grandeur is to cease the entertainment [1:19:47] operations for a two-year period of time as we complete high-quality, really high-quality [1:19:55] construction. [1:19:56] We've already purchased seating, as an example. [1:19:59] We've already purchased a lot of the marbles and some of the things that are hard to get, [1:20:04] getting quality marbles. [1:20:05] Marble is very hard to — takes a long time. [1:20:08] It comes from areas where it takes a long time to mine. [1:20:12] And we're getting some of the best things you can. [1:20:15] The marble is going to be incredible. [1:20:17] The seats that we have — the seating is the highest level. [1:20:21] Everything is the highest level. [1:20:23] So this temporary closure will enable us to complete the work much faster and much — of [1:20:29] a much higher quality. [1:20:30] As an example, it's hard to show Shakespeare when you don't have any seats, you know? [1:20:35] I mean, you know, as the seats are being changed, it's not exactly a great experience for [1:20:40] people. [1:20:41] So the right way to do it is just close it and fix it and open it. [1:20:45] We'll begin right after, as I said, July 4th celebration. [1:20:49] And thanks to the great, big, beautiful bill, we are fully funded, ready to go. [1:20:57] And we have tremendous amounts of money coming in from some people around the table, but [1:21:01] also from people that are not here, but that have made very generous contributions toward [1:21:06] the Trump-Kennedy Center, people that have never given to it before and would never [1:21:11] have given it except I asked them to give. [1:21:15] So Rick, I thank you very much for the job that you've done. [1:21:19] And I'm delighted that — you really are. [1:21:21] You did a great job. [1:21:22] It was a little rough with a couple of the people, but that's okay. [1:21:27] They've survived. [1:21:28] Some of the artistic — the artists, they took a pounding from Rick. [1:21:35] It's almost like this guy right over here. [1:21:37] Anthony, you know, he knows what it is to pound people, right, Ike? [1:21:44] Anthony knows. [1:21:45] Anthony knows. [1:21:46] Anthony is another great — you're not on the board either, Anthony. [1:21:50] You're here with your wife? [1:21:51] What's going on here? [1:21:52] The most successful people, they're all here with their wives. [1:21:55] I'm looking around. [1:21:57] Wow. [1:21:58] That's impressive. [1:22:00] Anthony is another one. [1:22:01] He started off with one truck. [1:22:03] He had one truck 45 years ago. [1:22:05] He ended up with 4,000 trucks. [1:22:08] And he sold his company for billions of dollars. [1:22:10] And you're here, Anthony? [1:22:12] He's a member of one of my clubs. [1:22:14] And all he has is cash. [1:22:15] He said, I have a big problem, sir. [1:22:17] What? [1:22:18] I don't know how to invest my cash. [1:22:20] Most people have a problem. [1:22:21] They don't have any cash, right? [1:22:23] Anyway, thank you, Anthony. [1:22:25] You're the greatest. [1:22:26] So all of these people have done so much, and they've done so much to help. [1:22:31] And, Matt, I just really — I'm here to a certain extent to wish you good luck with [1:22:35] everything and to introduce you to the board. [1:22:38] And many of the board know, because Matt's been running a lot of the initial construction [1:22:42] and planning, and going to be assuming the role of chief operating officer and executive [1:22:49] director, where he'll lead a construction crew for the next — a big crew, by the way, [1:22:54] because it needs a lot of work — for the next two years in preparation for the grand [1:22:59] reopening. [1:23:00] And I think it's going to be something that's going to be very, very special. [1:23:04] We're doing a lot of special things. [1:23:05] We have a lot of things happening. [1:23:07] We have — at the front of the White House. [1:23:08] On June 14th, you've probably read, UFC is going to be here. [1:23:12] Dana White, the great Dana White, he's building a — literally a stadium, a 5,000-seat arena [1:23:19] right outside the front door of the White House. [1:23:21] And they're going to have about 100,000 people in the park right across the street where [1:23:27] he's building, I believe, eight massive screens for people to watch — free, all free — for [1:23:34] people to watch. [1:23:36] It's June 14th. [1:23:37] Happens to be my birthday. [1:23:38] It was only by happenstance. [1:23:41] It was not planned that way. [1:23:43] But it's a Sunday night, which they never did. [1:23:45] Sunday night's super prime time. [1:23:48] It's going to be broadcast on CBS, which is the Ellison family — two great people. [1:23:55] Great people. [1:23:56] It's a great family. [1:23:58] And it's going to be a tremendous event. [1:24:01] And we have — Roger Penske is going to have IndyCar here. [1:24:03] We're going to have a race around the Capitol. [1:24:06] That's going to be in August. [1:24:07] So we have that. [1:24:09] And we have a tremendous number of things. [1:24:11] We have the Olympics. [1:24:12] We have the World Cup. [1:24:13] And we have the 250. [1:24:15] And as you know, I was responsible for getting the Olympics. [1:24:18] Actually, Bob Kraft helped me. [1:24:20] And he helped me with the World Cup, too. [1:24:21] You were very good. [1:24:22] You — who could be better? [1:24:23] Right? [1:24:24] But he helped with the Olympics and the World Cup. [1:24:27] But we have the Olympics coming. [1:24:29] I was responsible for that. [1:24:31] Right, Bob? [1:24:32] We have the World Cup coming right now. [1:24:35] And I was responsible for that. [1:24:36] Then we had a rigged election. [1:24:38] And because of that, I got — I got a rigged election. [1:24:38] And because of that, I got a rigged election. [1:24:39] I was always very upset. [1:24:41] When I got the Olympics, I said, I won't be president, because it was last term, if I [1:24:46] went by the normal progression. [1:24:49] And then I said, well, let's see what happens. [1:24:51] And then they rigged the election. [1:24:54] And I said, let's do it again. [1:24:55] And we won in a landslide. [1:24:57] And I came back, and I ended up with the Olympics and the World Cup. [1:25:00] Somebody said, did you do that on purpose? [1:25:02] So I claimed the Olympics, and I claimed the World Cup, because I did get both. [1:25:06] And then I tried to claim 250-year celebration. [1:25:11] I got that. [1:25:12] They said, no, you didn't. [1:25:13] That one, you didn't get. [1:25:14] They're giving me no credit for that one, Mr. Speaker. [1:25:16] I couldn't — so I gave up on that one quickly. [1:25:18] It wasn't — that wasn't working. [1:25:21] It wasn't working. [1:25:22] But I just want to thank everybody. [1:25:24] This board has been incredible, and it's really — it's really nice. [1:25:30] What we're going to do is we're going to — we could take a few questions from the press. [1:25:35] And then, after that, we'll have our meeting, and we have a little lunch for the — for [1:25:39] the board. [1:25:40] So we'll have a little bit of a lunch. [1:25:42] But it's an honor to have you all here. [1:25:43] It's — so many of you, Jimmy, so many of you are friends. [1:25:47] It's a great honor to have you here. [1:25:48] And we're going to do a great job with the Trump Kennedy Center. [1:25:52] OK, yes, please. [1:25:53] CNN. [1:25:54] Yeah, yeah, yeah. [1:25:56] Q Thank you, Mr. President. [1:25:57] I'm not CNN. [1:25:58] I'm Daily Wire. [1:25:59] But thank you for the question. [1:26:00] THE PRESIDENT. [1:26:01] Q Go ahead. [1:26:02] Q Numerous countries have told me they are on their way. [1:26:03] Can you give us a hint what they are, what that entails, how soon they might be there? [1:26:07] THE PRESIDENT. [1:26:08] You mean who are the countries? [1:26:09] Q Yes, sir. [1:26:10] THE PRESIDENT. [1:26:11] Q I'd rather not say yet. [1:26:12] But we'll be announcing them. [1:26:13] Various people that are doing that we'll be announcing. [1:26:16] And we do — I have to tell you, we have some that are really enthusiastic. [1:26:20] They're coming already. [1:26:21] They've already started to get there. [1:26:23] You know, it takes a little while to get there. [1:26:25] It's like, in some cases, you have to travel an ocean. [1:26:29] So it doesn't go that fast. [1:26:31] But it'll go fast. [1:26:32] And we have some that are fairly local that are doing it. [1:26:36] But we'll be — we'll give you a list. [1:26:39] Some are very enthusiastic, and some are less than enthusiastic. [1:26:43] And I assume some will not do it. [1:26:46] I think we have one or two that will not do it that we've been protecting for about 40 [1:26:50] years at, you know, tens of billions of dollars, Mr. Speaker. [1:26:55] So I'll be reporting that to you in the House and the Senate. [1:26:59] And I'll say, why are we protecting countries that don't protect us? [1:27:03] And I've always felt that was a weakness of NATO. [1:27:05] We were going to protect them. [1:27:07] But I always said, when in need, they won't protect us. [1:27:10] Now, this isn't need. [1:27:12] Need would be — [1:27:14] It's a voice. [1:27:15] But I will say that we built the greatest military in the world, and we protect people. [1:27:22] And if we need their mine boats or if we need anything, any piece of apparatus that they [1:27:28] may have because of a situation that they have, they should be jumping to help us, because [1:27:34] we've helped them for years stay out of wars. [1:27:36] Yeah, please. [1:27:37] Q Thank you very much, Mr. President. [1:27:38] Can you tell us, if you have spoken with French President Macron about the coalition to reopen [1:27:44] the Strait of Hormuz? [1:27:45] Have you been speaking with the French President? [1:27:47] THE PRESIDENT. [1:27:48] What does that mean? [1:27:49] Q Have you been speaking with the French President Macron about the coalition to reopen [1:27:54] the Strait of Hormuz? [1:27:55] THE PRESIDENT. [1:27:56] Yeah, I have spoken to him. [1:27:59] He's been — on a scale of 0 to 10, I'd say he's been an 8. [1:28:06] Not perfect, but it's France. [1:28:09] We don't expect perfect. [1:28:11] Q Are you confident that France will help with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz? [1:28:16] THE PRESIDENT. [1:28:18] Yeah. [1:28:19] I mean, sure. [1:28:20] He's going to — I think he's going to help. [1:28:21] I mean, I'll let you know. [1:28:22] I spoke to him yesterday. [1:28:25] I don't do a hard sell on them, because my attitude is we don't need anybody. [1:28:32] We're the strongest nation in the world. [1:28:34] We have the strongest military by far in the world. [1:28:36] We don't need them. [1:28:37] But it's interesting. [1:28:39] I'm almost doing it — in some cases, not because we need them, but because I want to [1:28:43] find out how they react, because I've been saying for years that if we ever did need [1:28:47] them, they won't be there. [1:28:48] Not all of them, but they won't be there. [1:28:50] I was very surprised with the United Kingdom, because the United Kingdom — two weeks ago, [1:28:56] I said, why don't you send some ships over? [1:28:59] And he really didn't want to do it. [1:29:01] I said, you don't want to do it. [1:29:03] We've been with you. [1:29:04] You're our oldest ally. [1:29:06] And we spend a lot of money on, you know, NATO and all of these things to protect you. [1:29:11] I mean, we're protecting them. [1:29:13] We're working with them on Ukraine. [1:29:15] Ukraine is thousands of miles away, separated by a vast ocean. [1:29:20] We don't have to do that. [1:29:20] We did it. [1:29:21] Well, Biden did it. [1:29:22] I mean, I have to be honest with you. [1:29:24] Biden got taken to the cleaners. [1:29:27] But we worked with them in Ukraine. [1:29:30] We don't need to work with them in Ukraine. [1:29:32] And then they tell us that we have a mine ship around, and they don't want to do it. [1:29:38] I think it's terrible. [1:29:39] No, I was very surprised. [1:29:41] I told him, you know, we requested two aircraft carriers, which they had, and he didn't really [1:29:48] want to do it. [1:29:49] And then right after the war essentially ended. [1:29:51] You know, meaning — [1:29:52] They were obliterated. [1:29:54] He said, I would like to send the aircraft carriers. [1:29:58] I said, I don't need them after the war has ended and won. [1:30:02] I need it before the war. [1:30:04] So I was very upset with — not upset. [1:30:06] I was not happy with the U.K. [1:30:10] I think they'll be involved. [1:30:12] Yeah, maybe. [1:30:13] But they should be involved enthusiastically. [1:30:15] We've been protecting these countries for years with NATO, because NATO is us. [1:30:21] You can ask Putin. [1:30:22] Putin fears us. [1:30:24] He doesn't fear — he has no fear of Europe whatsoever. [1:30:27] He fears the United States of America and the military that was built by me in the first [1:30:33] term. [1:30:35] Yeah. [1:30:36] The Press President, you mentioned the significant amount of oil that China derives from the [1:30:40] Middle East. [1:30:41] What is the status of your conversation with President Xi in terms of getting China to [1:30:46] cooperate in terms of making the Strait of Hormuz safe for those oil tankers? [1:30:51] Yeah. [1:30:52] So China is a great example. [1:30:53] They get 91 percent of their oil from the Hormuz Straits, which we protected for years. [1:31:00] And it always bothered me that we have these countries — Japan gets 95 percent of its [1:31:05] from the Straits, the Hormuz Straits. [1:31:08] And it always bothered me that we're protecting them. [1:31:10] We don't need them. [1:31:12] We didn't need them before we started Dig We Must. [1:31:15] Dig We Must, that's the Trump policy of lots of oil. [1:31:19] And we didn't use them very much. [1:31:22] It used to be at 10 percent. [1:31:24] Now it's at almost zero. [1:31:26] We don't need — you know, we don't need oil. [1:31:28] We have all the oil we need for ourselves. [1:31:30] It's one of the great assets that we have. [1:31:32] We have double — more than double what anybody else — in terms of oil production, we're [1:31:39] at more than double any other country. [1:31:41] So we don't need it. [1:31:43] But we did it. [1:31:44] It's almost — you could say we did it out of habit, which is not a good thing to do. [1:31:49] But we did it because we have some good allies there. [1:31:51] We have some great Middle Eastern countries there. [1:31:55] Israel there. [1:31:56] So we did it for a lot of reasons. [1:31:58] But it always amazed me that we did it. [1:32:01] We never asked for reimbursement. [1:32:03] And it was really there to serve other countries, not us. [1:32:06] And by the way, we have the sugar king. [1:32:10] Same story. [1:32:12] Look at that. [1:32:13] Alfie van Hoole. [1:32:15] Alfie, thank you both very much. [1:32:17] It's — huh? [1:32:18] That's Pepe here. [1:32:20] Pepe. [1:32:21] Hi, Pepe. [1:32:22] How are you? [1:32:24] How are you? [1:32:25] Is Alfie in the backstage? [1:32:27] Huh? [1:32:29] Is he sitting back there waiting for you? [1:32:31] No? [1:32:32] You're doing all right? [1:32:34] Pepe is a great friend of all of ours, I think, in the room — tremendous. [1:32:39] And we appreciate you being here. [1:32:41] Great. [1:32:42] Great to have you. [1:32:43] Thank you. [1:32:44] He was the president honored. [1:32:45] That's great. [1:32:46] Both of you. [1:32:47] Thank you very much. [1:32:48] So go ahead, please. [1:32:49] Mr. President, you've said that Iran does want to make a deal. [1:32:53] Now in the third week of this bombing campaign, what would that deal look like? [1:32:57] What are the asks that you're making of the government in Tehran? [1:33:00] They want to make a deal. [1:33:01] They're talking to our people. [1:33:04] I don't know if they say that to you. [1:33:05] Maybe they do. [1:33:06] Maybe they don't. [1:33:07] Don't forget, they are a country that, for years — I didn't know this until recently [1:33:13] — they're a country based on disinformation. [1:33:15] And now they're using disinformation plus A.I. [1:33:19] And that's a terrible situation. [1:33:21] That's a terrible situation. [1:33:25] They showed all sorts of things happening in the last two weeks that never happened, [1:33:31] between their kamikaze boats and the U.S. government. [1:33:31] They showed the kamikaze boats that don't exist, between blowing up the aircraft carrier, [1:33:37] one of the great ships in the world, the Abraham Lincoln, on fire. [1:33:42] They showed it on fire. [1:33:43] I called the general. [1:33:46] I said, General, what's with the Abraham Lincoln? [1:33:49] It looks like it's burning down. [1:33:50] No, it's not burning down. [1:33:52] Not a bullet was ever fired at it, sir. [1:33:54] They know better. [1:33:55] I said, this is my first glimpse of A.I. and what they've done with it. [1:34:01] They showed buildings in Tel Aviv. [1:34:02] They showed buildings in Tel Aviv burning to the ground, high-rises burning. [1:34:06] They showed buildings in Qatar. [1:34:10] They showed buildings in Saudi Arabia burning. [1:34:12] And they weren't burning. [1:34:13] They weren't hit. [1:34:15] It was all A.I. [1:34:16] A.I.-based. [1:34:17] Terrible. [1:34:18] It's terrible. [1:34:19] And that's their only — that's their only — I think that's the only thing they do [1:34:22] well. [1:34:23] They're negotiating. [1:34:25] And we always talk. [1:34:26] You know, somebody said, well, would you talk — why would you even talk to them? [1:34:30] I talk to everybody, because sometimes good things come out of it. [1:34:34] But I don't know if they're ready yet. [1:34:39] They're taking a pounding. [1:34:42] I don't know if they're ready yet. [1:34:43] And we don't even know their leaders. [1:34:45] Look, all of their leaders are dead, as far as we know. [1:34:51] But they're all dead. [1:34:52] We don't know who we're dealing with. [1:34:53] We knocked out the first group. [1:34:56] Then the second group met — 88 met to pick the leader, because the first group was all [1:35:04] dead. [1:35:05] And the second group got knocked out. [1:35:07] They're all dead. [1:35:08] Then a third group met. [1:35:10] I would think they're a little nervous about meeting. [1:35:12] I don't know if they're nervous. [1:35:14] Maybe they're not. [1:35:15] Maybe they're crazy. [1:35:16] If they're not nervous, then they're crazy. [1:35:19] But we met with the next group, and — but we don't know who their leader is. [1:35:25] We have people wanting to negotiate. [1:35:27] We have no idea who they are. [1:35:31] Yeah, please. [1:35:32] Peter. [1:35:33] President Trump, what are your advisers telling you about the Ayatollah's son, the new Supreme [1:35:40] Leader? [1:35:41] What are they telling you about him? [1:35:42] Well, it's not only them. [1:35:43] It's you people. [1:35:44] I mean, a lot of people are saying that he's badly hurt. [1:35:45] He's badly disfigured. [1:35:47] They're saying that he lost his leg — one leg — and he's, you know, been hurt very [1:35:54] badly. [1:35:55] Other people are saying he's dead. [1:35:57] Nobody is saying he's 100 percent healthy. [1:36:01] And he hasn't — you know, he hasn't spoken, because the Ayatollah would sit and he'd spew [1:36:08] hate from a form of a throne — not as nice as a throne. [1:36:14] I like the English throne much better. [1:36:17] But it was a — it was a fancy chair. [1:36:20] But he'd spew hate from his chair. [1:36:23] But you'd see him a lot, right? [1:36:25] This one we haven't seen at all. [1:36:27] So that could be for a lot of different reasons. [1:36:29] We don't know, Peter, if he's dead or not. [1:36:33] Now that you've announced — [1:36:34] I will say this. [1:36:35] Nobody's seen him, which is unusual. [1:36:37] Something else. [1:36:38] Now that you've announced that the U.S. has destroyed all of Iran's mine-laying ships, [1:36:43] why can't the U.S. just immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz? [1:36:48] Well, we could. [1:36:50] But it takes two to tango. [1:36:51] We have to get people to take their billion-dollar ship and, you know, drive it up. [1:37:01] When Pepe has his big sugar ships coming around, and they cost a billion dollars, and we say, [1:37:08] I think it's okay now, Pepe. [1:37:10] Take your ship. [1:37:11] Drive it through the Strait of Hormuz. [1:37:12] He may say, let me wait a little while. [1:37:16] Because it takes — it takes ship owners and — you know, these ships are very expensive. [1:37:24] They could cost up to $2 billion. [1:37:25] So they don't want to take a chance and say, gee, I think we — I think you'll be okay. [1:37:31] They got to know it. [1:37:32] So they don't have to set — you know, we don't know if they even set any mines. [1:37:37] But the thought that they may have is enough to keep people from saying, we don't need [1:37:44] it. [1:37:45] Now, we are pounding that area, that coast, as you know, left side. [1:37:50] We're pounding it, like, really pounding it hard. [1:37:54] And again, they may have no money. [1:37:56] They may have no money. [1:37:57] They may have no money. [1:37:59] They may have no mindset. [1:38:00] We hit every one of their mine droppers — they call it the mine layers, right? [1:38:03] The ships. [1:38:04] They're pretty sophisticated ships. [1:38:06] Every one of them is gone. [1:38:08] But it only takes one. [1:38:10] So it's a little unfair. [1:38:12] You know, you win a war, but they have no right to be doing what they're doing. [1:38:18] But we're hitting them very hard. [1:38:19] And today is a big day. [1:38:21] We're pounding a certain area that has very much to do with the Strait. [1:38:28] And I think we'll get it going very soon. [1:38:29] In addition, we do have other nations coming in. [1:38:33] You need people to watch and people to see. [1:38:35] We have other nations coming in. [1:38:37] Yes, please. [1:38:39] If the United States is working to secure the Strait of Hormuz for the benefit of other [1:38:43] countries like China, and our allies aren't yet stepping up to your standard, is the United [1:38:49] States getting back to being the world's policeman? [1:38:53] Look, the United States should not be very much involved. [1:38:58] They can on a certain basis. [1:39:00] They've been doing it for a long time. [1:39:02] But I've always said, I said, if you look back years ago, I said, why aren't we being [1:39:06] reimbursed? [1:39:07] You know, these are the richest countries in the world. [1:39:10] Why aren't we being reimbursed for maintaining the Hormuz Strait? [1:39:16] And why aren't we being reimbursed for that? [1:39:19] I've said that for years. [1:39:21] You can look. [1:39:22] Go back. [1:39:23] They reported on it yesterday. [1:39:24] I've been saying I've been saying a lot of things about the Strait. [1:39:26] Number one, I said it's the one advantage they have, but that's a suicidal advantage [1:39:32] because they kill them. [1:39:33] They kill themselves more than they kill the rest of the world. [1:39:36] And there are things you can do with time. [1:39:38] There are other things you can do. [1:39:40] But I think that I think we're going to have the situation straightened out pretty quickly. [1:39:45] And I think we're going to have some good help. [1:39:46] And I think we're going to be disappointed in some nations, too. [1:39:50] And I'll let you know who those nations are. [1:39:53] One of your advisers, David Sachs, said the other week that the U.S. should, quote, declare [1:39:57] victory and get out of the Iran war. [1:39:59] He also warned that if the conflict escalates, Israel may contemplate the use of a nuclear [1:40:04] weapon. [1:40:05] Has he shared that assessment with you? [1:40:07] Oh, yes. [1:40:08] And Israel wouldn't do that. [1:40:10] Israel would never do that. [1:40:11] And yeah, there's no there's a theory. [1:40:15] You pounded them to hell and you could just leave now and it'll take 10 years for them [1:40:19] to build back. [1:40:21] Not nearly what they have right now. [1:40:23] And I guess that's another theory. [1:40:24] But we want to have it ended so that another president doesn't have look for 47 years. [1:40:32] No president was willing to do what I'm doing. [1:40:35] And they should have done it a long time ago would have been a lot easier. [1:40:38] There's no president that wanted to do it. [1:40:40] And yet every president knew I've spoken to a certain president who I like, actually, [1:40:46] a past president, former president, he said, I wish I did it. [1:40:50] I wish I did. [1:40:51] But they didn't do it. [1:40:52] I'm doing it. [1:40:53] Yeah. [1:40:55] I can't tell you that. [1:40:56] I don't want to embarrass it would be very bad for his career, even though he's got no [1:41:00] career. [1:41:01] Go ahead. [1:41:02] You mentioned. [1:41:03] Thank you, sir. [1:41:04] Mr. President, you mentioned that you're not entirely sure who you're dealing with. [1:41:06] I'm not entirely sure who you're dealing with, who the leadership is in Iran. [1:41:09] Do you see a viable opposition movement still in that country following all of the protests [1:41:15] that we had seen before the airstrikes and kind of an opposition movement that could [1:41:20] become a viable leader in Iran? [1:41:23] The biggest problem and, you know, we have brave people in this room, but the biggest [1:41:26] problem that I see is that, you know, they put out a warning and we have the one we get [1:41:31] everything they get. [1:41:33] And it said any protester that goes onto the street will be immediately shot. [1:41:36] And killed. [1:41:37] That's this is a little tougher than the American way. [1:41:41] This is not this is not quite as tough as nobody can believe it. [1:41:47] So I can't imagine they don't have guns and the other ones have guns, highly sophisticated [1:41:54] machine guns and AK 47s and other kinds of guns. [1:41:59] And they did that with the women. [1:42:01] So the women had 250,000, even 500 people protesting a year ago. [1:42:07] And they shot women right through the middle of the forehead with snipers. [1:42:12] And they didn't have to do many. [1:42:14] About 10 went down bleeding profusely and 250 to 500,000 women went running in the other [1:42:22] direction because they can be brave, but they they're not stupid and they have no gun. [1:42:31] And you have snipers in buildings specifically for this reason. [1:42:36] So a woman goes down falling, bleeding from the head. [1:42:40] And it doesn't take long. [1:42:42] How long for that to spread? [1:42:44] And when that spreads, that crowd dispenses and nobody else has been able to do that to [1:42:50] the extent that these people, these people are violent. [1:42:53] They killed a minimum two weeks ago, 32,000 people. [1:42:56] So and they put out actually a notice two days ago. [1:43:01] If you protest, if you protest, you will be shot and killed. [1:43:06] So I don't know. [1:43:08] I would say Mike Johnson is the only person I know is the courage to go out in that kind [1:43:14] of an atmosphere. [1:43:15] I don't think so. [1:43:17] I don't think so. [1:43:18] Yeah. [1:43:19] Your advisers told you anything in terms of how long we can expect gas prices as high [1:43:26] as they are right now. [1:43:27] I don't need advisers to tell me that. [1:43:28] I know I know what it is. [1:43:30] You know, the prime minister of UK, United Kingdom, yesterday told me I'm meeting with [1:43:39] my team to make a determination. [1:43:42] I said, you don't need to meet it with the team. [1:43:44] You're the prime minister. [1:43:45] You can make your own. [1:43:46] Why do you have to meet with your team to find out? [1:43:49] I don't know whether or not you're going to send some minesweepers to us or to send some [1:43:53] boats. [1:43:54] I said, you don't have to meet with your team. [1:43:56] It's the same thing here. [1:43:59] I can tell you that when this is over, oil prices are going to go down very, very rapidly. [1:44:06] So is inflation. [1:44:08] So is everything else. [1:44:09] But frankly, much more important than short term, even long term oil prices, you can't [1:44:16] let the most violent, vicious country in the land. [1:44:19] You can't let the most violent, vicious country in the land. [1:44:20] You've asked 50 years, have a nuclear weapon because the Middle East will be gone. [1:44:28] Israel will go first without question. [1:44:30] And they'll certainly take a shot at us before we get our act together and say we got [1:44:35] to take him out. [1:44:37] You can't let her on, who's truly the a nation of great terror and and and power. [1:44:43] Look, look what happened in the last two weeks. [1:44:49] They weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East, actually. [1:44:52] Right. [1:44:52] You know what? [1:44:52] Yeah. [1:44:53] You know what? [1:44:53] Yeah. [1:44:53] East, those missiles were set to go after them. [1:44:57] So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. [1:45:05] Nobody expected that. [1:45:07] We were shot. [1:45:08] And the other one, you know, they fought back. [1:45:10] They could have yielded. [1:45:12] But think of it, if we weren't around, they have [1:45:15] tremendous, they had tremendous power. [1:45:16] They had thousands of missiles, most of which [1:45:18] we've terminated. [1:45:20] They had thousands of drones. [1:45:22] They were making drones and missiles all over the place. [1:45:25] We've knocked out most of those factories. [1:45:28] I mean, now they're sending out two or three missiles. [1:45:30] Now, you know, they've still got some. [1:45:32] They might have 8 percent left. [1:45:34] But mostly, they've been eliminated. [1:45:37] They've been terminated by what we did and what [1:45:40] Israel did, too. [1:45:41] Yeah, please. [1:45:43] The Press- Israel is expected to expand its [1:45:45] ground offensive in southern Lebanon to go [1:45:47] after Hezbollah. [1:45:48] Have you discussed that with Israeli leaders? [1:45:50] The President- Yeah. [1:45:51] The Press- And does the United States support a [1:45:53] potential Israeli invasion of Lebanon? [1:45:55] The President- Yeah, no, I did. [1:45:56] I know the- Look, Hezbollah is a problem. [1:45:59] It's been a problem for a long time, not just now. [1:46:03] And it's a certain area, because I was with, the [1:46:06] other night, a person whose parents live in Lebanon. [1:46:10] This is a very substantial person, wealthy person, [1:46:13] whose parents live in Lebanon. [1:46:14] I said, really? [1:46:16] How do you live in Lebanon? [1:46:17] Your parents are living- Oh, yeah, they live there. [1:46:20] And over the years, they've gotten used to the fact [1:46:22] that it's being bombed. [1:46:24] But they explained to me that it's really a [1:46:25] different section of Lebanon. [1:46:28] It's a section where Hezbollah is. [1:46:30] And they get used to it, I guess. [1:46:32] I don't know. [1:46:33] I mean, people live in Ukraine. [1:46:34] You would think they wouldn't live in Ukraine, [1:46:36] but they live in Ukraine. [1:46:39] I don't know that I'd do that. [1:46:41] But they live in Ukraine. [1:46:42] They live in Lebanon. [1:46:44] Hezbollah is a big problem, and they're rapidly [1:46:47] being eliminated. [1:46:49] Thank you very much, everybody. [1:46:50] I appreciate it. [1:46:51] The Press- All right. 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But unfortunately, [1:49:19] she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and has decided to take on this challenge [1:49:25] immediately as opposed to waiting. The president says she has a fantastic medical team and her [1:49:31] prognosis is excellent. She has a fantastic medical team and her prognosis is excellent. [1:49:32] During the treatment period, she will be spending virtually full time at the White House, which makes [1:49:38] me as president very happy. Her strength and her commitment to continue doing the job she loves and [1:49:44] does so well while undergoing treatment tells you everything you need to know about her. The [1:49:49] president continuing by saying, Susie, as one of my closest and most important advisors, is tough [1:49:54] and deeply committed to serving the American people. She will soon be better than ever. [1:49:59] Melania and I are with her in every way, and we [1:50:02] look forward to working with Susie on many big and wonderful things that are happening for the [1:50:06] benefit of our country. President Donald J. Trump, end quote. That post happened just a few minutes [1:50:14] prior to that press conference. We're also tracking the latest when it comes to the Save [1:50:19] America Act. It'll be up for a vote on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. So in just 48 hours from now, [1:50:25] let's go right to our election security expert, Seth Keschel, for analysis. [1:50:31] And joining us now is, [1:50:32] and author, Seth Keschel. Thanks again for joining us, Seth. [1:50:38] Hey, Matt. It's always a pleasure to be on your show. Glad to be with you. [1:50:41] Glad to have you here. Let's dive right into your thoughts about the Save America Act, [1:50:45] going to the Senate floor, the no-talking filibuster, all of that. [1:50:50] It's a good thing. You know, the number one goal for all deliberations in the Senate [1:50:54] is to get the Save Act passed. Now, a secondary goal, if that doesn't happen, which is very [1:50:59] possible, is it's going to put a lot of people on record for exactly where they stand. Now, [1:51:05] Democrats stand. I mean, I don't even think Senator Fetterman is behind the Save Act anymore, [1:51:09] which is sort of unfortunate. But the Republican Party is hiding behind the 60-vote filibuster. [1:51:15] So getting that out there for the people to see, so you can see not just Lisa Murkowski, [1:51:19] but folks like John Curtis, who are going to be weak votes on this, [1:51:21] is an important thing for the long run. [1:51:24] Exactly. So let's talk about what Senator Tommy Tuberville said out of Alabama, [1:51:29] of course, running for governor in our great state of Alabama. Also, President Trump saying, [1:51:34] nuke the filibuster. [1:51:36] I mean, in this situation, we've never done this before, except for twice for a couple [1:51:41] nominations in 2013 and 2017. No legislation has ever had the nuke filibuster situation. [1:51:47] But this one's about saving America. Do you think that this is something that should be done? [1:51:51] I think that this is about adapting to new realities. I am a pragmatist above all other [1:51:57] ideologies. And when you look at the Democrats, next time they have Congress and the presidency, [1:52:02] they will 100 percent nuke the filibuster. And they would have already done that, [1:52:06] under Biden, had it not been for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, West Virginia and Arizona [1:52:11] senators, respectively, refusing to do that. So I think that the new law of the land here is going [1:52:16] to be a majority rule in the Senate. It may not be the best thing in the world, but given how things [1:52:21] are on a rate on the present day battlefield, it needs to happen. The Save Act has to happen. [1:52:26] That's a great point. It's perfectly put, especially, as you said, looking into the future. [1:52:32] Also, I understand you just released a break in war on election corruption. [1:52:38] The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting. I see that it's doing quite well. Tell us about that book. [1:52:43] I figured the book would do well. I had no idea that it would just launch like it has. It's a [1:52:48] number one bestseller in three different Amazon categories, and it's on its way to number four. [1:52:53] I'm knocking on the door of history and political theory. I'm at number two right now. So if today [1:52:57] is a big day for me, I might knock down a fourth one. But the American war on election corruption, [1:53:01] it's an important piece of the information war. And I make the point all the time that we have [1:53:07] to take over not just institutions, but all major pillars of that information battle for media, [1:53:13] entertainment, film, literature. So most of the accounts of election corruption in the United [1:53:19] States aren't really highlighting election corruption. They're protecting and defending it. [1:53:23] We have very few works. Now, Molly Hemingway's rigged as one work, but mine is a really [1:53:27] investigative expose through my own journey about what's going on with American elections. It's made [1:53:33] to connect with the average reader to see my authenticity and my background for analyzing [1:53:37] elections and proposing a pathway forward. So I think that the response has been overwhelmingly [1:53:42] positive. It's got a chance to be one of the preeminent books of election corruption ever [1:53:46] written, and it's an honor to have written it. It's awesome. It's awesome to see it having that [1:53:50] traction out there and also the Amazon bestseller list and all that. And it's great to have you back [1:53:55] here on the show to remind people how you got started in this whole thing called election [1:54:01] integrity, election security. Yeah, so it was a hobby for me. My background before getting [1:54:07] interested in politics had been something building up to what I do today. I was a big but not so [1:54:13] athletic kid growing up who loved the game of baseball, and I understood the backs of those [1:54:17] baseball cards, the trends in the stat lines, and I was just a whiz when it came to numbers. [1:54:21] So that led me on to Ole Miss baseball, which is a perennial powerhouse now in college baseball, [1:54:26] but 20 years ago it was just starting to build up. And I helped the coaching staff there develop new [1:54:31] ways of evaluating our players and the opposition. So really a full decade ahead of advanced [1:54:36] analytics in college baseball. [1:54:37] Went off into the military, military intelligence, understanding the battlefield from a 30,000 foot [1:54:42] view, needing to take complicated data and information and condense it into intelligence [1:54:48] for informing the command for best courses of action, not only for keeping our soldiers alive, [1:54:53] but for unaliving the enemy. And once I got involved in politics, it was just local, [1:54:58] you know, Republican Party stuff, pushing certain pillars. And I called the 2016 election accurately [1:55:04] against all the mainstream polling showing double digit blowout wins. [1:55:07] I developed a model through voter registration by party that helped punch through the fraudulent polling. [1:55:13] And in the 2020 election, of course, all those models blew up. That's one of the biggest tells. [1:55:17] In fact, it's in the book about voter registration by party getting blown in places like Pennsylvania. [1:55:22] This suggests that the outcome that happened wasn't really the one that was going to happen. [1:55:26] And once the election integrity movement picked up in earnest in 2021, my models, my data are easily [1:55:33] understandable and my platform spread. The president of the United, well, Donald Trump, [1:55:37] in between presidencies, put me out there on a big scale. And people have relied on my insight [1:55:44] for election forecasting and election integrity ever since. And it's an honor. [1:55:48] Yeah, it's been great. It's been great to see you on various conservative networks, but also [1:55:52] whether it's the grassroots, you know, the various Zoom calls across the country, I mean, [1:55:58] the precinct strategies, the true the vote, all the different places that you've been, [1:56:04] you know, in contact with, I believe, as an expert in this field. [1:56:08] How do you see us moving forward if the Save America Act passes and becomes law? [1:56:14] And if for some reason there is no nuking of the filibuster and it doesn't become law? [1:56:19] Tell us about those those crossroads right there or the fork in the road of the future of our nation. [1:56:24] If they if it passes or if it fails, if it passes, it's a critical bite at the apple of election law. [1:56:32] Newt Gingrich wrote the foreword to my book. [1:56:34] And the reason I asked Newt to write the foreword is to have mainstream appeal throughout the race. [1:56:38] Republican Party. You still have plenty of Trump haters in the party who think that his big mouth [1:56:43] or his posts are what cost the election. That book was written to change minds. Chapter four is [1:56:47] called A History of Election Fraud, which details not only things that happened in recent elections, [1:56:51] but all the way back to the 1800s. Boss Tweed, the plot to remove Abraham Lincoln in 1864 through, [1:56:57] guess what, mail imbalance. So the Save America Act is an important thing. And it is not so much [1:57:03] about illegals voting. I don't believe illegals vote. I believe they're voted for. Because when [1:57:08] they get added to the voter rolls, mail-in ballots are assigned and then harvested up over that [1:57:11] extensive early vote period. So getting back to verifying citizenship, that guts automatic voter [1:57:20] registration because you have to go into the office to prove your citizenship. It's going to [1:57:24] online registration scams, which are also prevalent. But it's not complete because we're [1:57:29] going to have to go through and figure out a way to address corrupted registrations from the past. [1:57:34] I've proposed a number of drastic measures. You know, you and I have to put a tax return [1:57:38] in every year. We have to register our vehicle every year. Why is it such an inconvenience once [1:57:42] in a lifetime to dump the voter rolls at an opportune time and have everyone come up with [1:57:46] an ID and re-register to vote? I think that that's a simple solution. Now, if it does not pass, [1:57:53] which I think is the most likely scenario, unfortunately, then it's going to be incumbent [1:57:57] upon states to change the laws. So Newt Gingrich said he doesn't believe elections are stolen. [1:58:02] He believes they're rigged. And I think I agree with his choice of language, because when you [1:58:08] all have uniformly automatic voter registration, expanded or universal vote by mail, and then [1:58:15] where there's vote by mail, there's extensive ballot harvesting in urban areas, especially [1:58:18] population-dense areas like projects and apartments and dormitories. So states have to fix [1:58:24] things. And unfortunately, there's not a lot of them primed in great position to do that. [1:58:29] Governor DeSantis signed Senate Bill 524 in Florida in 2022 and tightened the knot on mail-in [1:58:35] ballot corruption. So he didn't restrict people from voting by mail. But those who are voting by mail, [1:58:39] who wish to vote by mail, had to verify their addresses with a postcard and send it in to get [1:58:43] a ballot. No more automatic mail-out ballots. And that alone pushed Florida from a close race to a [1:58:49] double-digit Republican state. The one state that is primed to follow in the same path is Arizona, [1:58:55] if and only if Andy Biggs becomes the next governor of the state. There's a good reason [1:58:59] to think that could happen, with the voter registration advantage almost double what it [1:59:03] was in 2022 when Hobbs ran her own election and snuck in past Carrie Lake by 17,000 ballots. [1:59:09] It's awesome to hear all of the analysis when it comes to election integrity, election security, [1:59:21] and to your point, the states, if it doesn't pass the Save America Act, it's up to the states to [1:59:27] take care of business from there, do the right thing, of course, that we can, you know, really [1:59:30] have a push for that to happen as well. Seth Keschel, the election security expert and author, [1:59:37] thank you so much for joining us and get his new book titled The American War on [1:59:41] Election Corruption, The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting. Seth, thank you again for joining us. [1:59:46] No, thank you, Matt. All right. For more reaction on the Save America Act, let's go from Arizona to [1:59:54] California with Summer Lane. And joining us now is conservative journalist Summer Lane. Thanks [2:00:01] so much for joining us, Summer. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be back. [2:00:05] Definitely great to have you back here on Right Side Broadcasting Network. And [2:00:08] let's just dive right into the big story of the week, of course, on Capitol Hill, [2:00:14] Save America Act being debated this week, according to the Senate Majority Leader John [2:00:19] Thune. Your thoughts overall, just that 33,000 foot view on the Save America Act and what it [2:00:25] really entails. Yeah, it seems like very common sense, right? Save America Act. What does that [2:00:30] actually mean? All it means is that we're asking for voters to be citizens of this country. They [2:00:35] need to prove their citizenship to register. You need to show their voter ID or photo identification [2:00:40] to cast that ballot at the ballot box. [2:00:44] And we are looking to universally essentially ban mail-in ballots, which have become a bit of a [2:00:50] bane of our existence in this country. We don't know where they're coming from. We don't know [2:00:53] where they're going. So it's just a good idea to kind of lock down on that. And then recently, [2:00:59] the White House has added a couple of other items to this act, which is banning transgender or [2:01:05] gender-affirming treatment for minors and banning men from women's sports. Now, I don't know if [2:01:11] we're going to get those two items with this. It seems like they're kind of trying to, [2:01:14] roll it all together to get as much done as they possibly can. They might get it. They might not. [2:01:19] I hope they do. But I think the most important aspect, of course, is getting voter ID, because if [2:01:24] we can get voter ID, we can lock down on our elections, make sure our elected officials are [2:01:29] supposed to be there, and that non-citizens are absolutely not casting ballots in this election. [2:01:34] Exactly. So proving citizenship, photo ID. On top of that, you talked about the mail-in ballots. [2:01:44] If you're in the military, you can still use the mail-in ballot for that. But yeah, to your point, [2:01:51] droves of mail-in ballots, where did they all come from in 2020? We don't want to deal with that again [2:01:57] for this midterm election, because we know how important this midterm election is. Your thoughts [2:02:01] about that election in November. Oh, for sure. I mean, people want to see that President Trump's [2:02:07] campaign promises are being codified, that they're permanent. And we have a very limited window of [2:02:12] time to really push these things through. [2:02:14] Yeah, and I think that's a really important point. I think the most important thing is that [2:02:18] we need to win before the midterm elections. If we want to win the midterm elections, then we need to [2:02:23] win now, because we need some wind in our sails, right? And voter ID is such a broadly popular [2:02:29] concept in this country. It's like 85% of Americans, according to Harvard-Harris recent polling, [2:02:35] you've probably seen this, support the concept of voter ID in the Save America Act. It's not [2:02:41] just about voting, it's about voting in the House, all aisles, all spectrums. They're like, yeah, [2:02:48] it makes sense. You should be a citizen to vote. That's fine. The problem is, is we've created the [2:02:52] conditions where the honor system in America is no longer good enough, right? Because we have [2:02:57] introduced potentially tens of millions of people into our country who may or may not be voting in [2:03:03] our election systems. Now, the leftist media will say, oh, illegal voting is already illegal. Well, [2:03:08] yeah, no kidding. But we don't have a mechanism to enforce [2:03:11] voting, unfortunately. So we're really kind of in a bind here and we need to do something. And you [2:03:16] have states like California, where I live, where we have an active ban on voter ID. It is a law. [2:03:22] We cannot show voter ID at the ballot box here. And we have mandatory, universal, compulsory [2:03:27] mail-in ballots that are mailed to our house, whether or not you use them, [2:03:32] but they go out to everybody. So it's a big, slushy mess. [2:03:36] It is. It's awful to see it. And that's what we're trying to do is clean things up. [2:03:42] I'm going to, I was just thinking while you were talking there too, I was like, [2:03:44] what are we saving America from? What's your opinion on what we're saving [2:03:49] America from? If we're going to save America, what are we saving it from? [2:03:52] Corruption. Corruption and the stiltedness of the powers. And this is a point that I would [2:03:58] like to make on this. I think a lot of people are missing that as Congress has become increasingly [2:04:04] hobbled and crippled over the years, because they really don't do a whole lot. Charlie Kirk [2:04:09] famously called them the peanut gallery. [2:04:11] He's right. They don't do a whole lot. A lot of times what they do is they cause problems. [2:04:16] And so you see the congressional branch, that legislative branch kind of diminish in what [2:04:22] they're doing. You see judicial and executive power increase. So now we have a lopsided balance [2:04:27] of powers in this country. There will come a point in our nation where the executive branch [2:04:32] will just kind of be like, you know what, I'm just going to do what I'm going to do because [2:04:34] judicial is politically captured. Congress ain't doing nothing. So now we have a very [2:04:40] powerful executive branch. And so we're going to have a lot of problems. And so we're going to [2:04:41] have voter ID in the executive branch. This is a sort of a [2:04:45] climactic type ofUT. [2:04:50] By bringing Congress to heal and saying, hey, we're going to have voter ID. We're going to actually put our people in there to be in there [2:04:54] authentically because we have a secure election. [2:04:57] We now have lawmakers who actually work for their constituents [2:05:00] who now are grinding those motors back to life in Congress. [2:05:05] And our branches of power are coming back into balance. [2:05:08] So this is literally saving a republic that has been on the brink of devastation for a very, very long time. We've been just hovering there. [2:05:11] will save the republic because our power our peaceful revolutionary mechanism rests in the [2:05:18] ballot box if we don't have that we do not have a country so this is absolutely key to saving [2:05:24] our country amen to that that's perfectly said and then also on top of that you know maybe saving us [2:05:30] from communism or socialism or something worse that would want to take away our freedoms and [2:05:36] on and on and on it's like you know because we know that if harris would have won this election [2:05:40] this we'd be in a woke terrible uh situation in this country and right now the situation [2:05:46] isn't the greatest we have to still save america according to the president so [2:05:51] uh looking forward to seeing that let's get into some of the nitty-gritty we know [2:05:54] the whole filibuster rule uh and nuking the filibuster and all of that uh senator tommy [2:06:00] tubberville out of alabama and then president trump and others they're saying we should just [2:06:04] nuke that thing and just have a simple majority what do you think that may be the way it goes or [2:06:09] that's not [2:06:10] even on the table um i don't know what they're gonna do um i think we have a very difficult [2:06:15] situation here because they say we can't nuke the filibuster because it's like this taboo thing [2:06:20] and if we nuke the filibuster to get our legislation through the democrats will do [2:06:24] the same thing to say pack the supreme court they could do that but the reality is that they're [2:06:29] probably going to do it anyway at some point in the future so we again we have this limited [2:06:35] window where we can actually get our legislation through here's the counterpoint to people who are [2:06:40] trying to argue and house the filibuster i think we have to try and get those laws passed at least [2:06:46] as fast as we can to our own benefit probably aren't we just don't have to worry about that [2:06:53] but the reality is that um i think the reality of the of what the message is is that um [2:06:59] we're going to have to do this no matter what like i just said so we have to do it because if we can [2:07:05] get election integrity and get congress people in to our halls of power we don't even have to worry [2:07:10] it's the cycle that feeds itself. So we really have to do this. It really is about saving America. [2:07:15] It's not comfortable. Again, Democrats, if they take the majority now or years down the road, [2:07:20] they're going to use it anyway. That's the reasoning. And I believe that they're right [2:07:23] about that. I think they will use it. That's a great way to look at it, too. And then also, [2:07:27] when I'm thinking about the Save America Act, it's just something that is a common sense thing [2:07:31] that it seems like the majority of the country wants to see be done in the United States. And, [2:07:37] you know, in 2013 and 2017, there were nominations where the filibuster was nuked. [2:07:45] That is the only time it's happened for nominations. Nothing with the legislative [2:07:49] process with bills. But this is something that, as we know, times have changed. We know that [2:07:56] our country would be on the brink of going way left and more like other countries out there [2:08:01] that are against our constitutional rights. And I think that's part of that saving America. [2:08:05] I like how you looked at it, though, when it comes to the [2:08:07] specific congressmen and congresswomen, you know, having people that are authentically there [2:08:15] because we, the people, voted for them. I mean, that's a good way to look at it. [2:08:18] Right. I hope so. My hope is that if they do get this through, then yes, the caliber of people [2:08:24] that you have in the Senate, in the House, they go up, right? So that way, when you get these sorts [2:08:28] of situations, like, it's ridiculous. We just ping pong legislation back and forth. They block us, [2:08:33] we block them, we go back and forth. Nothing really gets done. This is silly. What if we [2:08:37] actually committed to serving our constituency instead of serving our lobbyists, big pharma [2:08:42] corporations, foreign countries, perhaps in some cases? This has to end. This is insane. [2:08:48] And so Save America Act, it's kind of like, it's kind of a scary thing to think about pushing it [2:08:55] through by nuking the filibuster. But also, it's one of those things that may need to be done [2:08:59] because what other choice do we have? It's just going to sit in the Senate forever. And that is [2:09:04] not an acceptable option either. Exactly. [2:09:07] Where can people follow you and follow your work, Summer? [2:09:10] Oh, thank you. You can follow me on X at Summer Ellen Lane, L-A-N-E, and you can see my work on [2:09:16] rsvnetwork.com. Awesome. Conservative journalist Summer Lane joining us here on Right Side [2:09:21] Broadcasting Network. Thank you again, Summer. Thank you. [2:09:26] All right. 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All you have to do is get the ball rolling by just texting Trump to 989898, [2:12:01] get some information, see if this is something you'd like to do. All right, it is 1-39, Monday, [2:12:07] March 16th. So, [2:12:09] what we're looking at now is the CEDCOM, the United States Central Command. There's an update [2:12:16] from the Admiral there, so let's go to that. Hi, I'm Admiral Brad Cooper, the Commander of [2:12:23] U.S. Central Command, here to provide another update on Operation Epic Fury. First, I want to [2:12:28] remember and honor our fallen warriors who made the ultimate sacrifice in the KC-135 refueling [2:12:33] aircraft incident last week. We hold their memories and their families, their friends and [2:12:38] their teammates in our prayers. Their selfless service and dedication [2:12:41] hardens our resolve. For 16 days, we've delivered overwhelming firepower deep into Iran. This past [2:12:49] Friday, U.S. forces executed a large-scale precision strike on Karg Island, destroying [2:12:55] more than 90 Iranian military targets, including storage bunkers for naval mines and missiles [2:12:59] and other military infrastructure. To date, our Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aviators [2:13:05] have collectively flown more than 6,000 combat flights, demonstrating the unmatched capability [2:13:10] of America's joint force. [2:13:12] As we maintain air superiority over Iranian skies, we continue to remain centered on our military [2:13:19] objectives. These are well-defined and include eliminating Iran's ballistic missiles, drones and [2:13:24] naval threats. It's one thing to defend by striking launchers and intercepting missiles and drones, [2:13:30] but it's another thing to eliminate the wider manufacturing apparatus behind them, and we are [2:13:36] doing that today. We've talked about it in concept. Here's what it looks like in reality. Let me show [2:13:43] you, for the first time, what we're going to do. First, we're going to take a look at the aircraft, [2:13:43] and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, [2:13:44] and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, [2:13:44] and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, [2:13:44] and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, [2:13:44] and we're going to take a look at the aircraft, and we're going to take a look at the aircraft. [2:13:44] A few examples of how we're dismantling Iran's defense industrial base will prevent threats [2:13:50] to the region into the future. Here is a photo from March 1st of a naval drone storage facility [2:13:56] located near the Strait of Hormuz. This is the same location 8 days later completely destroyed. [2:14:04] Next, here's a photo taken of an attack drone production factory in Tehran on March 5th. Here's [2:14:10] that same factory six days later after a devastating barrage of U.S. airstrikes. And finally, the [2:14:17] Yazdi military depot pictured here last month. These eight buildings are part of [2:14:21] the IRGC's missile command infrastructure and are used to produce [2:14:25] light and heavyweight torpedoes. Now here's that same military depot just [2:14:29] last week or what's left of it. U.S. and partner strikes are doing exactly what [2:14:35] they are intended to do, deliver on very clear military objectives to eliminate [2:14:40] Iran's ability to project power against Americans and against its neighbors. [2:14:44] We're also zeroed in on dismantling Iran's decades-old threat to the free [2:14:49] flow of commerce through the Strait of Hormuz. Through a combination of air, land, [2:14:53] and maritime capabilities, we have successfully destroyed over a hundred [2:14:57] Iranian naval vessels and we are done. We will continue to rapidly deplete Iran's [2:15:03] ability to threaten freedom of navigation in and around the Strait of [2:15:06] Hormuz. Our progress remains steady and we remain vigilant against the enemy. Now [2:15:12] a few thoughts about Iran. Over the last two weeks they have launched a task [2:15:16] on Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United [2:15:23] Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Bahrain. In each of these countries they [2:15:29] are deliberately attacking innocent civilians. They've done this more than [2:15:33] 300 times, which demonstrates their true nature as a global leader of terror. In [2:15:38] just the last few days the Iranian regime launched a reckless attack [2:15:42] against civilian neighborhoods in Tel Aviv with cluster bombs, an inherently [2:15:46] indiscriminate attack against civilians. [2:15:47] We join countries across the region in condemning this aggression and we stand [2:15:52] shoulder-to-shoulder with our partners in bolstering our own defenses. In sum, I [2:15:57] will reinforce what I said before. Iran's capabilities are declining as our [2:16:01] capabilities and advantages continue to build. And finally, I'd like to talk about [2:16:06] the extraordinary 50,000 Americans who are deployed across the region [2:16:10] executing this vital mission. It's long been my belief that every success we [2:16:15] have begins and ends with our people and today I'd like to thank you all so much for participating in this tight-knit mission. [2:16:18] And today, I'd like to recognize our unsung heroes, the sustainers enabling America's [2:16:23] joint force to unleash this devastating firepower 24-7. [2:16:27] To be clear, there's no other military on Earth that does logistics like the U.S. military, [2:16:32] and our team is at the top of their game today. [2:16:35] They're managing distribution networks that span thousands of miles to ensure that munitions, [2:16:40] fuel, and supplies reach warfighters on the front line on time, every time. [2:16:45] To all our sustainers and logisticians, thank you and keep up the great work. [2:16:49] And to the entire Operation Epic Fury team, keep pushing, remain steady, fight to win. [2:16:55] Thanks so much and Godspeed. [2:16:56] All right. [2:16:59] So finally, you can join us daily as we cover the president and White House live, various [2:17:05] live events, various political events, of course, along with the news that's happening [2:17:10] within this rapidly changing 24-7 news cycle. [2:17:13] A lot going on, as you guys have seen out there. [2:17:16] We're taking a look at a lot of these stories. [2:17:18] It's a lot going on. [2:17:20] The high gear that we've seen basically kick into that gear for 24-7 news is quite awesome [2:17:28] to cover at this point because there's so much going on, as it's 1-45 Monday, March [2:17:34] 16th. [2:17:35] And speaking of that, you can join us later today at 2-30 Eastern for our live White House [2:17:41] coverage of the president and the vice president, who will participate in what the White House [2:17:45] calls signing time. [2:17:46] So that's happening a bit later today. [2:17:48] Robert McNeely will be in studio for that coverage. [2:17:51] For all of us here at Right Side Broadcasting Network, I'm Matthew Alvarez, and we'll see [2:17:55] you later today.