Trump's new press secretary faces reporters for first time

[0:04] good morning i am so honored to work for president trump and the american people [0:15] as the new white house press secretary i want to thank president trump for his trust that he [0:24] has placed in me i have wanted to work for him for a very long time i'm looking forward to working [0:33] with each of you as well especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and [0:40] excitement never seen before in the history of midterms thanks to president trump just look no [0:49] further than last night in youngstown ohio where president trump delivered another blockbuster [0:56] rally out on the trail the arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support [1:04] president trump as well as special guests jake paul and football legend john gruden the president also [1:13] announced the department of war has officially selected cleveland ohio as the new home for the [1:20] u.s navy's submarine component repair center this massive 46 000 square foot facility will manufacture [1:30] repair and maintain key parts for virtually all new and existing submarines this is historic [1:40] everyday americans are showing up in droves to attend these rallies because of president trump's america [1:47] first agenda of lower taxes higher wages and one of my favorite secure borders but it doesn't stop there [2:00] president trump is planning to hold rallies in alaska arizona montana where i will be with him and georgia [2:11] building off of the incredible momentum generated over the last several days from his stops in tennessee [2:19] new york texas and nebraska he is an energetic president attendance is at record highs as enthusiastic [2:29] hard-working americans are lining up and packing arenas to support president trump and republicans it's not [2:40] hard to see why president trump is fighting and delivering for american workers every minute of [2:48] every day real wages are up 1.2 percent since president trump took office with average annual earnings [2:57] outpacing inflation by 800 under biden real wages fell nearly four percent with the average private sector [3:08] workers annual purchasing power declining by nearly three thousand dollars annually president trump is [3:16] the first president in modern history to actually lower prescription drug prices delivering the biggest drop [3:25] in 63 years president trump has created more than one million private sector jobs in his second term [3:32] including nearly 112 000 factory construction jobs and 72 000 manufacturing jobs this year alone and thanks to [3:44] president trump we are once again bringing back american energy dominance because energy security [3:52] is national security president trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history delivering the u.s majority [4:02] control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in venezuela he had a historic one-day war [4:12] and now we are have a booming economy and a great relationship with venezuela the u.s achieved record [4:21] domestic domestic oil and gas production in 2025 and record crude and petroleum product exports in 2026 [4:30] building off of his historic boom in energy production in the first 15 months of this administration [4:36] we have secured trillions of dollars and new investments trillions of dollars including 1.4 trillion [4:44] dollars from the united arab emirates 600 billion dollars from apple and 340 billion dollars from amazon [4:52] no other president could have gotten these deals done just weeks ago president trump announced that [4:58] masabe metallics will build a massive 15 billion dollar steel complex in iowa the largest steel plant [5:09] ever built in the united states this facility a historic facility will create 1750 new permanent jobs and [5:21] support up to 6 000 construction jobs and generate an estimated 95 billion dollars in economic output [5:32] in addition president trump and enduro announced arsenal 2 the biggest american shipyard push since world [5:40] war ii in maryland this new facility will create about 3100 direct jobs and support more than 11 000 indirect jobs [5:50] president trump also unveiled a south korea energy investment package of up to 200 billion dollars in the united [5:58] states this is an amazing deal this includes as much as 120 billion dollars to build eight to build eight [6:07] large-scale nuclear power plants something we've needed as the united states and something president trump [6:13] promised on the campaign trail and something president trump is delivering on just like he delivers on [6:19] every promise in addition to that we will be we will be doing here there is 54 billion dollars tied to the [6:29] alaska lng pipeline and terminal to service the pacific rim and sell fuel to our allies as well as 22.3 billion [6:40] for a six gigawatt natural gas power facility in texas not only is the trump administration bringing in [6:48] trillions of dollars to invest throughout the country but we are also protecting your tax dollars by [6:55] addressing fraud head on since taking office the trump administration has uncovered over 260 billion [7:04] dollars of fraud stopped 72 billion dollars of fraud annually through administrative actions and recovered [7:12] 58.58.9 billion dollars through indictments settlements and civil monetary penalties above all [7:22] president trump is working to secure the western hemisphere for centuries to come president trump [7:31] signed an unprecedented agreement giving the united states lasting control over security interests in [7:38] greenland president president trump has used the power of tariffs to stop china from producing fentanyl precursor [7:47] chemicals those fent the fentanyl killed many of our citizens and he is hard at work and ensuring [7:53] that that that won't happen and here at home fentanyl trafficking across the southern border is down [8:00] 56 percent and fentanyl link deaths plunged 22 percent in a single year because of president trump this is [8:10] a president and administration that is looking out for you the american people and i'm thrilled to [8:19] officially be part of this incredible journey together and with that i will take your questions [8:28] here in our new media seat we have nick gilbertson from breitbart hi katie uh welcome to the briefing [8:34] rooms and congrats on the new position one of the things that your predecessor caroline levitt did is open [8:39] this room up to more voices not less at breitbart that's something our founder andrew breitbart certainly [8:45] believed in um and whether that's adding this new media seat adding new media voices to the pool [8:51] can you tell us what you plan to do to continue to ensure that new media voices continue to be heard [8:57] here at the white house yeah well firstly my predecessor caroline levitt did an incredible job [9:02] and i completely agree with the choice of new media seat we are absolutely going to keep it [9:08] and we're going to expand on it to the extent possible we love new media and we want to be able [9:13] to embrace it absolutely and then just to follow up too you did touch on presidential travel um the [9:19] president's been all over the place and you kind of laid out his schedule over the next couple days but [9:24] is it only going to intensify here in the next couple of weeks up to midterms [9:27] uh absolutely you can expect more of the midterm blitz uh just now we've added kentucky and we have [9:35] a few other stops as he goes down to florida so it'll be georgia kentucky and florida [9:43] hello we will take peter ducey thanks katie nice to meet you um you're starting as white [9:50] house press secretary three weeks before a midterm cycle that president trump himself says [9:55] will be very tough for republicans is your job just to speak about white house matters or is it [10:03] to make things less tough for republicans in the midterms well but peter i get to do what i was doing [10:10] on the outside already which was hoping to amplify multiply and expand upon president trump's [10:17] incredible agenda for the american people and what i hope to do in this position is to take that into [10:23] an official capacity and only build on only amplify and only multiply to the extent possible [10:30] all of the wins he's making for americans for for americans to understand how much has changed in this [10:37] brief period of time what he's been able to accomplish my goal is to be able to communicate that in [10:42] complete tandem with the president as he is his own best spokesperson and will absolutely be leading the way [10:48] as with that and i want to ask a policy question has the u.s stopped sharing intel with ukraine i'll have [10:58] to get back to you on that alina shirazi yes alina shirazi hi congrats on the job thank you first of all and [11:10] i have two questions for you if i can uh first of all on kimberly gilfoyle the daily mail has been [11:16] reporting on her since last year the president said yesterday to reporters that he is considering [11:22] firing her do you know a timeline for that and also potentially who could be on the short list to [11:27] replace her if he does we have asked ambassador gilfoyle to resign she has been a wonderful asset to [11:34] the team and we wish her well okay second question for you if i may a personal question your family is in [11:43] california your husband you have four children um i'm wondering how you manage how are you going to [11:49] manage that caroline levitt left because she wanted to spend more time with her family and also did she [11:54] give you any advice on how to handle this job and the people in this room well first of all i want to [12:01] give my husband an amazing shout out we have four kids ranging from 12 10 8 and 6 three of them are [12:07] boys so we have a handful and i adore my family i love them they are my priority they i love being [12:15] with my kids the idea of not spending evenings with my kid kids are is completely uh unacceptable so my [12:22] president excuse me my husband uh that's a that's a good one my husband is out here is out here for the [12:31] week because we have two birthdays in our family and we are very very protective of celebrating birthdays as a [12:37] family so he brought the entire crew out here blessed him it's a lot and we will be moving out here and [12:44] as far as your second question is yes caroline has been an incredible support she gave me great and [12:51] wonderful feedback on how to balance i think this job is not one you necessarily balance and i would love [12:57] to share that in my career i stayed home with my kids from 2014 to 2020 in in the process of having them [13:05] and then when i started working again i was able to integrate them into my life there are many photos [13:10] of which are not public of the kids and i at fox bureau where they are sitting with me in the pod before [13:16] a hit so i intend to to the extent possible include my family include my kids in my work though my work [13:23] will be demanding they will always be a priority and i i president trump is the most family friendly [13:29] president we've ever had he has hired more women with families and the fact that he knew i had four [13:34] kids and he knew that this job would be demanding and still places trust in me shows that i know i'm [13:40] capable of being able to step up to that so thank you for that question in fact i am going to end it [13:45] because president trump is heading out to marine one for our historic trip to alaska and we can ask him [13:53] all of the questions out there so thank you so much to the question on 30 the president will be back [14:05] on thursday and that's what i will answer i'll leave it there he will he will answer those questions [14:11] out and marine