White House briefing with Dr. Oz may address Pulte's new role, Iran war

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[31:52] Thank you. [31:53] Thank you. [31:54] Thank you. [31:55] Thank you. [31:56] Thank you. [31:57] Thank you. [31:58] Thank you. [31:59] Thank you. [32:00] Thank you. [32:01] So the administration has been stressing reshoring manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing is [32:13] part of that. [32:14] From those announcements of those 17 pharmaceutical companies, what's the timeline that we could [32:18] see those projects come to fruition? [32:20] Is it summer? [32:21] Is it end of this year? [32:22] Well, these companies are already making investments in America. [32:25] are ongoing. Some have announced. I went to a ribbon cutting in one in Charlottesville recently. [32:29] And so there's a lot of investment coming to America. But think about what you would do if [32:33] you're a pharma executive. If you're a pharma executive and America's open for business and [32:38] we're trying to support innovation, you know, saving people from, you know, cancer, autoimmune [32:43] problems, dementia, all these different, you want to be where the action is. So these companies are [32:48] coming here. It's actually a brain drain from Europe in particular, but other parts of the [32:52] world as well of companies who want to come here. So it's not just that we're already going. It's [32:55] going to get bigger and bigger and louder. No, the jobs are starting as we, when the first time you [33:00] hire someone to build a plan for you, we have a job. If you're asking for people with picks and [33:04] helmets, that's also coming quickly. But again, I've been to facilities that are already under [33:08] construction. So they're starting and it will get, and the president and I visited a facility [33:12] in Cincinnati a few months ago that, again, they're already in, they already have the facility. They're [33:19] already running the facility. They're making additional investments to upgrade their program. [33:23] Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. I know this isn't your wheelhouse, but you are speaking on behalf of [33:28] the White House today. Can you respond to any of the criticism from Republicans on President Trump's [33:33] decision to tap Bill Pulte, who has no known intelligence experience as acting DNI? Well, I think [33:42] Bill is a great guy. I know him socially. I've not worked with him in his current job, but I do trust [33:48] the president's judgment. He is a very sharp and quick study of people. They're emotional with [33:55] abilities and their ability to persevere in the face of hardship. So I have confidence in his [34:01] decision. Yes, ma'am. Back on Ebola, given the World Cup coming up and millions of visitors coming [34:07] to the United States, on the U.S. preparation for this, who is in charge of proactive surveillance [34:12] measures and what type of surveillance will the United States be doing for visitors coming [34:17] in? Will that be expanded beyond the DRC, Uganda and Sudan? Can you describe what is in place, [34:23] knowing this influx of people coming soon? So Jay Bhattacharya, who I spoke to this morning, [34:28] who is our brilliant leader of the NIH, but also CDC now is running this program. He's got [34:32] a lot of help from Dr. Heidi Overton and many others at the White House. So it's a well-constructed [34:39] game plan. They aggressively got into, and they're funding now, a lot of the treatments [34:44] that are being offered in the DRC and the Kenya facilities, just an extra way for us to take [34:50] folks who are Americans who need help. But we have very purposefully put up testing tools [34:56] and mechanisms at the major airports that people will be traveling through. I have great confidence [35:00] in Jay's ability. He's a brilliant scientist and knows a lot about viruses. You want one of [35:05] the most important papers really describing the true reality of what was happening during [35:09] COVID early in the pandemic. It got him in the hot water because it was not convenient [35:13] to hear it, but he's a brave man who will make the right decisions and be transparent about [35:16] them. In pink. Just back to the question about Bill Pulte. Congressional statute says, [35:23] any appointee for the position of the Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive [35:27] national security expertise. What extensive national security expertise does he have? [35:32] You're asking me a question. It's not in my lane. I'm so focused on making sure Americans [35:35] are healthy that I have not been looking at what other agencies. [35:37] Go ahead. [35:42] Yellow tie. Go. [35:47] Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Okay. That was fun. So Dr. Oz, just now you said that [35:56] it should be surprising to people that personal care service attendant is now by two-fold the [36:04] most common job in California and the most common job in New York. The U.S. healthcare industry [36:11] has been growing rapidly, 7% to 8% annually. It's an estimated $5.3 trillion in growth. Healthcare [36:20] accounts for about 18% of GDP. Why should people be surprised that in two of the most populous [36:28] states in the country, a healthcare-related job like that would be a common job when it [36:36] is, again, one of the fastest growing and continuously growing industries in the U.S.? I mean, what's [36:43] going on here? The primary difference between paying for a hernia operation and paying someone [36:49] to be a personal care service is the reason it's concerning to us. If you're having a [36:53] hernia operation, you have a scar, so I know you got something. And you have a doctor who [36:57] was licensed and you had it done in a facility that's also credentialed and has been inspected. [37:01] When you get personal care services, it's an unlicensed person in an unmonitored setting [37:06] promising they did something. That's a lot of handshakes and, you know, finger-crossing and [37:11] hoping that it worked out okay. This is a problem that has been growing for years. It's just gotten [37:17] now to a crisis mode. It is just difficult to imagine that it's twice as many jobs as [37:22] anything else. It's not that healthcare jobs aren't important. Of course they are. But [37:25] if we put guardrails around these programs, we'll allow them to thrive. I'm here because [37:31] I love Medicaid. The president has already said he loves and cherishes Medicaid and [37:36] Medicare. These are, Medicaid in particular, is the ultimate payer of last resort. We [37:40] cannot allow these programs to be defrauded into a turmoil that they cannot pull up from. [37:48] And so we, if we love these programs, we'll make the difficult decisions. Let me pivot from [37:52] that just to describe what came out yesterday, which is the work requirement rule that our [37:57] agency and Dan Brillman and Caprice Knapp did a fantastic job writing this, dealt with a lot [38:01] of states. But as you know, in the working families tax legislation, which I believe saved Medicaid. [38:08] And the reason I say that is our actuarials told us we would be spending 5.4 trillion [38:14] more dollars for this program over the next decade if we didn't deal with some of the [38:18] legalized money laundering that was siphoning money out of the program. Part of the reason [38:22] that this is so attractive to states is they could take money in, in, in ways that it was [38:27] not designed to be used, paying people along the way so they didn't have to pay for it themselves. [38:31] I get it. I understand why the governors did it, but it didn't align the president with the [38:35] governors. With that law, we also had a work requirement rule. Now what was that? The work [38:40] requirement was based on concepts that date back from when Bill Clinton was president with [38:44] the temporary assistance for needy families. When the Democratic administration said the [38:48] fraud is getting so bad, the abuse so big in these programs, we need to clean them up. [38:52] We need to get people to try to work. It's a path to prosperity. I believe, I hope you share this [38:57] belief that we're put on this earth with agency to change our future, change the country's future to [39:02] make the planet a better place. We're put here to make a difference. But if you're sitting at home, [39:07] which is true for the millions of people who are on, who are able bodied on Medicaid, on average, [39:14] you're spending 6.1 hours watching television or just hanging around. That's not why you're here. [39:19] So as a path to prosperity, Congress very wisely said, let's get you back into the workforce. [39:25] Let's require you to get free healthcare coverage to be able to work for 20 hours a week or volunteer [39:32] to make up the difference. If you haven't worked 20 hours or get an education, just participate. [39:38] And so that rule came out. It's a, I think, beautifully written effort to try to define for our nation, [39:45] what your part of the puzzle is. Because if you are, are going to get something that are of value [39:50] from the American people, there should be some obligation, if you're able to, if you're not able to, [39:54] if you're disabled, if you're, you know, in one of the categories that are well defined in general, [39:59] not able to work, it's different. But if you can work, you should get up and work again, [40:02] because that's historically how it always was. In 1961, in 1965 rather, when Medicaid was created, [40:08] that was the deal. There were 11 million people in the program. We perverted that. Yes, sir. [40:13] Doctor, thank you. Since you're here speaking on behalf of the administration, [40:16] part of the reason we're asking about the president's decision to appoint Bill Pulte to be the head of [40:21] the director of National Intelligence is it's been four hours and we've been asking the White House [40:26] why he's qualified to do so. You're a heart surgeon or a heart doctor? [40:30] Yeah. Would you recommend a patient go see someone who isn't? [40:34] You're asking the question with the premise that Bill Pulte is not qualified. [40:37] I don't know anything about his situation. And I appreciate you wanting an answer. [40:40] I'm not going to be the one giving it to you. Go ahead. [40:42] Thank you so much. This is Elizabeth at The Daily Signal. [40:45] What are you doing, first of all, to remove any illegal immigrants who are still receiving Medicaid [40:49] from the program you mentioned earlier? That's something you've been working on. [40:52] And then secondly, Medicaid reimbursement for Planned Parenthood will resume July 4th [40:57] unless Congress acts to extend the Women's Beautiful bill as CMS administrator. [41:01] What's your message to Congress on that? [41:03] On the illegal immigrants side, I'll take one question at a time if you don't mind, just a lot of folks. [41:07] We have, because we now can do it, a very straightforward way for the 44 states [41:13] that don't have state-based Medicaid plans for us to be able to audit if the people that we're paying for [41:18] are citizens or not. In the state-based plans like I mentioned in California, [41:22] and there's a few other states, Colorado, Washington, et cetera, Illinois, they have their own plan. [41:27] So we have to now audit their plans. This is a challenge, and that's why, before I came here, [41:32] I met with a bunch of Medicaid directors from many states, red and blue, [41:36] and they want us to help rebuild the tech infrastructure of Medicaid in this country. [41:42] Imagine 50 balkanized programs. You spend $20 billion a year, $20 billion for a tech infrastructure, [41:49] and we're not getting our money's worth. So we're putting $200 million more [41:53] because of the working families tax cut legislation. We've negotiated, Dan Brillman did $600 million [41:58] of in-kind contributions from the vendors to be able to get the work requirement done in an effective way. [42:03] But I think it's the first step of a much larger national opportunity to fix how data flows. [42:08] And one bit more bit on this, Medicare, Medicare's billing system, which many of your relatives are using, [42:14] was a 1979-era cobalt-based system. I don't even have engineers who know how to use that system. [42:21] And so if you're going to really use cloud-based tools, if you want to use technology to help Americans [42:27] connect better with the healthcare system, you have to update them. [42:29] The president has been supportive of this, so we are upgrading the system. [42:32] And my hope is that we can use the tech transformation tools of this government [42:36] to bring people to work with us from the private sector. [42:39] And every major tech company is a partner of ours now. I'm pledging 700. [42:42] Yes, go ahead. [42:45] Hey, I just wanted to follow up on her question behind me. If the president's in such perfect health, [42:51] why does he keep going back in for checkups? [42:53] I think he likes the results. He does really well. He aces the test every single day. [42:58] And I do actually believe that he is curious to make sure everything is going in the right direction. [43:04] He's a very meticulous person in so many ways that are often underappreciated. [43:09] But for him to want to know all the numbers and keep on top of them, it's the same reason he calls people at odd hours [43:14] because something's on his mind and he wants to deal with it. [43:16] Yes, in purple. [43:19] The president recently invested in the parent company of UFC. [43:24] Is it a conflict of interest for him to be promoting this event while he's invested in UFC's parent company? [43:30] I don't think the president sits at the Oval Office and makes individual investment decisions. [43:34] But I don't know about that issue. But knowing him, I suspect someone else is making those decisions for him. [43:39] Go ahead. [43:41] Thank you, Dr. Oz. The Obamacare subsidies expired earlier this year. [43:46] What negative consequences have you seen? And do you see any policy adjustments that need to be made? [43:52] Let's talk about Obamacare. Let's take a step back. [43:55] 2015, 16, 17, 18, 2020, there were 9 million people on Obamacare. 9 million. [44:03] Today, it's more than 20 million. Like, what happened? [44:06] What happened was we completely took the guardrails off. [44:10] And I know this because I'm working in the agency that actually was told to take the guardrails off. [44:13] And because there wasn't an earnest desire to keep track of whether you are appropriately on it or not. [44:19] But more importantly, just get the number to where we all feel good about ourselves. [44:23] We had massive increases of people joining the program. [44:26] We believe that 35%, roughly, of the people that are using the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare exchanges, because they've never used the program once, they've never filed a claim, may not be legit. [44:40] And that actual number may translate to 5, 6 million people we could be paying premiums for because they don't have to contribute anything. [44:48] So they don't even know they're getting it. [44:50] These are people who have Medicaid and someone, often a broker, is just honestly enrolling them in an Affordable Care Act. [44:57] Or they're in two states at once getting full insurance paid for by us in multiple states at once. [45:03] So we have evaluated these numbers. They're extremely concerning. [45:06] There's a very strong effort by us. We actually made a rule two weeks ago that starts the process. [45:11] We had tried to do this when we first came into office. A court enjoined us. [45:15] They did not feel we'd follow appropriate APA guidelines, government guidelines. [45:21] And so we redid it and now went back out again. [45:23] But if you care about the ACA, then you want us to take the fraud out. [45:27] And let me just take a step back. If we want you to go back to work on Medicaid, what's going to happen? [45:32] You're going to start making money. As you make money, you're going to make enough money. [45:35] You get above the poverty level, you're going to want to buy an Affordable Care Act product. [45:39] Or private industry, commercial insurers are going to start using it. [45:42] That's a good thing. We're getting America back up. [45:44] They're getting into work, getting them into the stratosphere, building prosperity. [45:48] So we want these programs to work together. [45:50] But if you've got millions of people, literally, who are getting insurance that they don't want. [45:55] They don't even know they have it. And we're all paying for it. [45:58] That's tens of billions of dollars worth throwing away. [46:00] That increases premiums for everybody. It drives affordability down. [46:04] We're not going to tolerate it anymore. [46:05] Sir, in the back, in the beer. Yes. [46:07] Thank you so much, Dr. Rose. You're happy to see you. [46:10] I'm sorry, I lost your question because I'm Turkish-American. [46:12] No, only one question. It doesn't matter. One question. [46:14] Okay. So I'm going to ask you, you know, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, [46:19] an American president has a good relation. [46:21] And there's a report they are going to meet in Turkey and United States game in Los Angeles. [46:27] Have you heard about it? And also there's a NATO summit in Turkey in July. [46:33] So you're Turkish-American. I don't know. Do you have any idea? Are you going to join? [46:38] And what are you thinking about Erdogan and Trump relations? [46:41] I have no idea about these meetings. I've not been invited to anything. [46:44] I suspect I won't be invited to everything because I've got a lot of work to do here. [46:49] Right there. Go ahead. [46:50] Thank you, sir. [46:51] Jordan Conrad, the Gateway Pundit, you know, back to the illegal aliens on Medicare and Medicaid. [46:56] Last October, you announced that you had found over $1 billion in federal tax dollars going to illegal aliens. [47:03] How much money, how much has that amount increased as of today? [47:07] And, you know, it's kind of like fish in a barrel. [47:09] Are these people being referred to immigration for prosecution and deportation? [47:14] The number has doubled from what I said last year. We're about $2 billion. [47:18] The good news is that many states realize this is a problem and they themselves have stopped doing this. [47:23] Listen, it's the same basic story again and again. [47:25] We as a nation make a decision because we're one people. [47:28] Individual states have to take that decision and use it to the best of their ability. [47:32] Some states don't do as good a job as other states. [47:34] That's why we're looking to individual states for leadership, for better ideas, to deal with many of these social problems [47:40] that unfortunately begin to pile up over time and they threaten the very foundation of our social net that supports all of us. [47:49] That's why this matters so much. [47:51] If you quiz the vice president, he grew up in an environment where he saw people abuse this. [47:55] I know that's the case of people who are in the task force right now, the anti-fraud White House Task Force. [47:59] So there's a passion about this and for good reason. [48:03] I mean, the president calls the vice president Elliot Ness. [48:06] He wants him. [48:07] You know, he likes the fact that he's taking this serious. [48:09] He's going at it and he's doing what's best for the American people by making some tough decisions. [48:13] One last question. [48:14] Take it away. [48:15] Back to Bill Pulte, but with the national security angle. [48:21] The president has pushed very hard to renew FISA, Section 702. [48:26] Expires in 10 days, just ahead of the World Cup. [48:30] And there's this heightened threat environment with the war in the Middle East. [48:34] We've heard all these intel agencies talk about the threat environment these days and how people have been very concerned about it. [48:39] On Capitol Hill, you've had lawmakers today raising concern about Bill Pulte. [48:44] And on the Democrat side, questioning his ability to carry out that role fairly and not weaponize it. [48:53] What can you say about to allay their concerns? [48:57] And can you also answer a question that was posed by Susan Collins about whether Pulte has a security clearance himself? [49:03] I don't know anything more about Bill Pulte than you do. [49:06] I did not think that would be one of the questions that would even come up here. [49:08] I hadn't even heard the news when I walked out. [49:10] Okay. [49:11] Let me leave you with that. [49:13] We have one last question, but I do want to. [49:15] Thank you. [49:16] Okay. [49:17] Go ahead. [49:18] Ask him. [49:19] I'll come to you. [49:20] I have a GOP question. [49:21] What's your question? [49:22] Very quick. [49:23] Do you have any medical advice for the Americans out there that are suffering from a very serious ailment called Trump Durant Syndrome? [49:29] I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on dislike of the president. [49:36] It's disheartening to see people lost in that way. [49:39] But, you know, treating stupid is really hard. [49:45] And it becomes a real problem. [49:47] And these folks are off. [49:48] The GLP ones. [49:49] Thank you. [49:50] One question on GLP. [49:51] Thank you very much. [49:52] Let me just answer because I'm out of time. [49:53] Very quick one. [49:54] Are Americans getting real deal medication brand name like Vigove Ozampic or it will be generic on TrumpRx at $50 monthly rate? [50:03] The TrumpRx product is the real deal, the true API, the pharmaceutical product that's made by the two major providers right now, which are Nova Nordisk and Eli Lilly. [50:13] There are other companies coming into the space. [50:15] You know, we have these products that are given by these companies as part of this deal. [50:19] So we like to use the real product to be able to satisfy the needs of the American consumer. [50:23] It's the brand name. [50:24] It's the brand name. [50:25] It's the brand name. [50:26] Last question from the middle. [50:27] Go with the last question. [50:28] Take it away. [50:29] Thank you, Dr. Oz. [50:30] So Kenya basically has stopped, you know, has asked U.S. not to build the quarantine facility there. [50:40] And the people, the responders from here who are supposed to go there, do you think the Trump administration's policy of not allowing people who are exposed, [50:53] Americans who are exposed to the virus come back to the U.S., will dissuade these responders from going there? [50:59] No, I think we're going to work out with Secretary Rubio's leadership a very favorable arrangement with Kenya. [51:05] I've been to Kenya. [51:06] It's a beautiful country, very sophisticated people. [51:08] They're going to do the right thing for everybody. [51:10] And I think it's a perfect solution. [51:12] I thank you very much relating to this faith. [51:13] God bless you all. [51:14] Take care. [51:15] Microplastics. [51:16] Thank you.