White House Cabinet Meeting at Camp David

[0:00] of transparency, and we believe in transparency. [0:02] And I think it's good for you to see certain aspects [0:05] of Camp David. It's a very special place. [0:07] But it was not, I guess, the last visit was with Eisenhower, [0:12] where they allowed you onto the actual campus. [0:14] And it's a long time ago, but never into this room. [0:18] I want to thank all of you for being here. [0:21] And again, this is a cabinet meeting. [0:23] It's open. We've done a lot of open cabinet meetings. [0:27] And I feel it works out very well. [0:29] Everybody can ask me. We'll let you talk about certain things, [0:34] certain things we can't answer because they're ongoing [0:37] and very important. [0:39] But this is one of the most talented teams ever [0:41] to serve the United States and in the United States. [0:45] This is a talented group of people. [0:47] Let's see. I'll go one after another. [0:50] Yeah, it's a couple of steps, but that's okay. [0:54] It's an amazing group in America. [0:56] It's safer and stronger and far more successful [1:00] than it was two years ago. [1:02] But I think, frankly, that it ever was. [1:03] I don't think it's ever been anything like this. [1:07] And we're building more factories and plants in this country [1:11] than we've ever built before. [1:13] And we're going to be leaving this country [1:19] in very, very good shape. [1:21] ...inherited catastrophe. [1:28] The last administration created the worst inflation [1:30] in 48 years, the most dangerous and insecure border in history, [1:34] and exploding trade deficits like we have never seen before, [1:39] rampant crime, men and women's sports, [1:42] transgender mutilization of your children, [1:46] and chaos and bedlam all over the world. [1:48] Other than that, they did quite a good job. [1:51] In less than 18 months, we've turned around four years of disaster, [1:55] and we now have the strongest border in American history. [1:58] We went from the worst border, I believe, [2:00] of any country in history. [2:01] Twenty-five million people came through in four years. [2:05] And these are people that, in many cases, you don't want. [2:07] They were murderers. [2:08] They were drug dealers. [2:10] They were people that you do not want. [2:12] But now we have the strongest border in American history, [2:15] and for the last 15 months, [2:17] the report just came out again. [2:19] We've had no people coming in through our southern border. [2:22] Zero. [2:23] And it's almost hard to say because you'd say, [2:25] is that even possible? [2:26] They had 25 million people came in. [2:29] We have no people coming in through illegally [2:31] through our southern border. [2:33] And that's in history. [2:34] So think of that zero, a big, beautiful zero. [2:36] The murder rate saw its single largest drop ever recorded [2:40] to the lowest in 125 years. [2:43] That goes back to, think of it, it goes back to 1,800. [2:47] The lowest murder rate in the history of our country. [2:51] So that's something. [2:52] Today, I just want to mention that we heard in Minnesota [2:57] there was a cyberattack, and they blame it on Iran. [3:00] I don't think so. [3:00] I think I blame it on Minnesota [3:02] because they're grossly incompetent. [3:04] There was a cyberattack of 30 water plants, [3:07] and I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, [3:11] the corrupt governor of Minnesota. [3:13] They like to say, oh, it's Iran. [3:15] Iran should be so lucky. [3:16] Iran has got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota. [3:20] This month, it was announced that inflation is dropping. [3:23] At the fastest rate in more than six years. [3:25] Walmart, Sam's Club, Giant Eagle, and others are slashing prices [3:30] by hundreds of grocery stores and all of the stores. [3:34] I mean, throughout the country, they're slashing prices. [3:37] Something that you haven't seen for a long time [3:39] since my last administration. [3:41] The stock market has set 73 all-time record highs [3:44] since the election. [3:46] That means all-time record highs, 73 days out of a very short period of time. [3:52] And the typical 401 is up by more than $30,000. [3:57] And when you think of that, if you add another $1,000 to it, [4:04] it will be we set the record in the last administration, [4:07] a record still standing. [4:09] This administration is going to blow my last administration away. [4:14] When the factories that we're building at record, [4:16] and we're not building them, all over the world they're building. [4:20] They're coming from all over the world. [4:21] They're coming from Germany with the cars. [4:23] They're coming from Germany. [4:24] They're coming from Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico. [4:29] From all over the world, they're building auto plants here, [4:31] because otherwise they have to pay tariffs. [4:33] The tariffs have made our country rich and successful. [4:37] And all of this, I mean, I'd like to say it was the election. [4:41] On November 5th, it was the election, and that's fine. [4:43] But without the election, you wouldn't have what I've done economically. [4:47] So, we have the most successful environment that we've ever had. [4:51] There's never been anything like it, [4:53] from the standpoint of investment into our country. [4:56] It's five to six times higher than anybody has ever seen, [5:00] than any other country, any other country, not just us, has ever had. [5:04] On July 4th, we launched Trump accounts [5:06] to keep a vision of our great, big, beautiful bill. [5:10] And these tax-free investment savings accounts [5:13] have already been activated by over 7 million children. [5:16] These are investments made in our future, which is our children. [5:20] Our children are the most important aspect of our future, [5:23] with more being added each day. [5:25] So, it's a tremendous hit. [5:27] Over 7 million, and really, it really just got going, [5:30] I would say, Scott, about two weeks ago, [5:33] when it was we got the final approvals. [5:36] And we have over 7 million. [5:37] Actually, there's never been anything quite like that. [5:41] But millions of accounts are pre-funded [5:43] with $1,000 from the U.S. Treasury, [5:46] or generous gifts from private donors [5:47] like Michael and Susan Dell, [5:49] and others who have given billions of dollars, billions. [5:53] People are putting up hundreds of millions [5:54] and billions of dollars into it, [5:57] and buying, really, a great future for children. [6:00] Whether they turn 18 or whether they turn 21, [6:03] instead of having no hope, no future, [6:05] they will end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars, [6:08] and maybe even more than that. [6:10] So, it's going to be something to see. [6:11] With modest additional contributions, [6:14] they'll grow by numbers that should be — [6:17] it could be over $200,000. [6:19] We're looking at the timeline. [6:21] We're looking at — I wish we had an economy [6:23] like we have now, with the stock markets going up. [6:25] But they will benefit by our country being successful. [6:29] And we're going to give every child a head start [6:32] on the American dream. [6:33] So, go to trumpaccounts.gov. [6:36] They're really something the whole world is talking about. [6:38] And it's far ahead of schedule. [6:40] Nobody thought it would be as successful as it's been. [6:44] But it should be. It should be. [6:45] And we start them off with $1,000. [6:47] And this was part of the great, big, beautiful bill. [6:50] With my most-favored nation policy, [6:52] you could say this is even a bigger thing, [6:55] if that's possible, on drug prices. [6:57] We're achieving record discounts on prescription drugs. [7:01] Prescription drugs were going through the roof for many years. [7:05] And now we're getting record discounts [7:07] with price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600 percent. [7:13] Nobody's ever heard of a thing like that. [7:16] What we're talking about is that we were the highest. [7:18] We had the highest prices anywhere in the world, by far. [7:22] Most expensive drugs, prescription drugs, and others. [7:26] The highest in the world. [7:27] The whole world was laughing at us. [7:29] We paid for the rest of the world. [7:30] We subsidized the whole world. [7:32] And I said, we're not going to do that. [7:34] And I started it in the first administration. [7:37] I took it up. [7:38] Obviously, Biden wasn't able to do anything about it. [7:41] Because you had to get the consent of the drug companies, [7:43] and you had to get the consent. [7:45] More difficult would be the consent of other nations. [7:48] The other nations had to agree. [7:50] But they were paying a fraction, sometimes 10 percent, [7:54] 20 percent, 40 percent, 70 percent less. [7:58] So I had to call them, and I had to get them on. [8:00] And I said, if you don't do it, [8:01] we're going to have to charge your tariffs. [8:03] And they all said no at first, very politely. [8:05] They said, sir, we can't do that. [8:07] We're not going to double our prices. [8:09] They had to double their prices, [8:11] and in some case, triple their price. [8:13] And we would come down. [8:14] So a pill that sold for $10 in Germany [8:19] would sell for $130 in New York. [8:22] Same pill from the same company, the same factory, [8:25] the same plant, the same laboratory, from $10, [8:29] and we pay $130. [8:31] I said, no, no. [8:32] Now, the world is a bigger place, [8:34] so it's not as bad as it sounds for them. [8:36] So they went up to 20, and we came down to 20. [8:40] So we now have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world, [8:43] or tied with the lowest, [8:45] but we're basically its favorite nation. [8:46] So we have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world [8:49] from the highest drug prices anywhere in the world. [8:52] Now, what that does for your health care? [8:55] I mean, I see these fake polls [8:56] where the Democrats have wonderful numbers on this stuff, [8:59] and they are horrible what they've done. [9:02] Obamacare is a total disaster. [9:04] It's a costly wreck. [9:05] It's unaffordable. [9:06] We call it the Unaffordable Care Act. [9:09] It's a disgrace. [9:10] They never even thought of being able [9:11] to do something like this. [9:13] They didn't even try. [9:14] They didn't even try. [9:15] So I got the drug companies first, [9:17] and then I got the countries. [9:21] And the drug companies agreed [9:22] because they knew the countries wouldn't agree. [9:24] And when I called Germany, France, [9:26] when I called the UK, [9:28] when I called all of these countries, [9:30] I said, you got to do it. [9:32] It's unfair. [9:32] You're paying 10 times more than you're paying [9:35] for the same drug. [9:36] You can't do this. [9:37] And they said, well, we're not going to do that [9:39] because we're going to have to double our price today [9:40] in order to make you happy. [9:42] I said, no, maybe you're going to have to triple your price. [9:44] They said, well, we can't do it. [9:45] I said, that's all right. [9:47] If you can't do it, then I can't do something also. [9:50] And I'm going to charge you very substantial tariffs, [9:53] which are far more than we're talking about. [9:56] And they all said, we'd love to do it. [9:57] We would love to do it. [9:58] It would be our great honor to do it. [9:59] So nobody else would do this. [10:01] This would have never happened. [10:03] So your drug prices have gone down [10:04] by numbers not even thinkable. [10:06] My first term, I had the privilege of having lower drug prices [10:10] from the beginning of the year till the end [10:12] for the first time in 28 years, you remember. [10:15] And I called a news conference to announce it. [10:17] So the year it ended, and I was turned out one eighth of a percent, [10:23] one eighth of a percent, little tiny, this much. [10:26] It went down that much during one year. [10:29] First time in 28 years, it went down. [10:31] And it was always like this, just up, more expensive. [10:35] And I called the news conference, I was so proud of myself, [10:38] and I said, ladies and gentlemen, the first time in 28 years, [10:42] drug prices have gone down from January till the end of December. [10:48] And I want to just congratulate everybody for being a part [10:52] of this wonderful experiment. [10:54] And one eighth of a point now, we're talking about 400, [10:58] 500, 600 percent coming down. [11:01] We pay the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world from the highest. [11:04] So, you know, and I'll say it again and again, [11:07] because the press doesn't want to report it. [11:08] The fake news doesn't want to report it. [11:10] They don't want to talk about it. [11:12] What that does for healthcare, Bobby, is unbelievable, [11:15] because medicine is a big part of healthcare. [11:17] So I wish that people would understand that. [11:20] And I hope they're going to vote for us in the midterms, [11:22] because you'll see some stuff that will be horrible, [11:25] because they can blow it very fast [11:26] if they don't know what they're doing. [11:28] So your drug prices are great. [11:30] You know, I saw Spain yesterday, [11:33] and I watched the catastrophe that took place. [11:36] It was a ca- it looks like an invasion of a country [11:39] by hundreds of thousands of people. [11:42] And that same thing is going to happen to us [11:44] if the Republicans don't get elected, except worse. [11:48] Much bigger, much easier to get into, [11:51] despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, [11:56] which I said we were going to do. [11:58] But we didn't have that. Forget it. [12:00] But we have the safest border in the world. [12:02] If we're not in office, [12:04] our country will be invaded at levels [12:07] that made Spain look small-time. [12:11] And when I watched it, I said, boy, I said, [12:14] I'm going to say it because I knew you were going to be at Camp David. [12:16] And I say, that's going to be a talking point for the midterms. [12:21] Because when you look at what happened to Spain, [12:23] they don't know what to do. [12:24] And it's happening again today. [12:25] They're coming in by the tens of thousands. [12:28] They're just invading the country. [12:32] And what that is, is weak law, bad management, [12:38] but very liberal law. [12:41] They passed a couple of laws, and people read. [12:44] You know, people are smart. [12:45] They read from other countries. [12:47] And they swam that three-mile swim, [12:49] or however they got in. [12:50] But nobody's seen anything like it. [12:53] That will look good compared to what's going to happen [12:55] to the United States. [12:57] The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did [12:59] is allowing 25 million people into our country. [13:02] Because many of those people are criminals. [13:04] They're murderers. [13:05] A lot of murderers. [13:05] 11,888. [13:08] A lot of them are gone now. [13:09] We got them out. [13:10] But they allowed people to come into this country [13:13] that you can't allow to come into a country. [13:16] We're also making an unprecedented investment [13:18] in the United States Armed Forces, [13:21] where we're doing great. [13:22] And we rebuilt the Armed Forces. [13:24] We rebuilt our military in my first term. [13:27] But we are doing great with our military. [13:29] They spent a lot of money in our military. [13:32] They gave away $300 billion worth of ammo [13:36] and everything else in Biden's term. [13:39] But we're building it up fast, [13:40] and we just have a great military. [13:43] That's all there is, too. [13:45] But we rebuilt it in my first term. [13:48] And we're using it in my second term [13:50] with Venezuela and other places and Iran now. [13:53] Iran is doing very poorly. [13:55] Just in case you read incorrect stories, [13:57] they're doing very, very poorly. [13:58] They're having a hard time. [14:00] They've been very dishonest. [14:01] They've been very dishonorable to deal with. [14:04] But that makes no difference. [14:05] They're doing very, very poorly. [14:08] We're also making that investment [14:10] and looking forward to getting $1.5 trillion next year. [14:15] People see now how important it is. [14:17] We want to keep a safe country. [14:18] We have to keep a safe country. [14:19] And the good news is, [14:21] all of that equipment is made in the USA. [14:23] So we're making it here. [14:25] It's jobs. [14:26] And each one of our defense groups [14:29] are building literally at least four new massive plants, [14:34] as we speak, because we want them to move faster. [14:39] We have the best equipment in the world, [14:41] but we want them to move faster. [14:42] We don't want to wait a year or a year and a half. [14:44] We want to wait a week, maybe. [14:47] So that's happening, and I think the results are very good. [14:49] They're all building at levels [14:52] that nobody has ever seen before. [14:55] And we've had tremendous success, [14:57] and our military was just proud of it. [14:58] Again, Venezuela was a one-day war, [15:03] and we have a great relationship with Venezuela. [15:06] We're working with partners with Venezuela now, [15:08] taking out tens of millions of barrels of oil, [15:12] and going to Houston, going to Alaska, going to Louisiana, [15:16] going to different places for refinement, refineries. [15:20] And it's been very much amazing. [15:23] The administration has done more in 18 months [15:25] than most administrations have done in eight years, [15:28] if you had a two-termer. [15:30] We've done more in 18 months [15:31] than anyone has ever seen before. [15:33] Nobody has ever seen. [15:34] This is the golden age of America, [15:37] and we have a war that's going on. [15:39] I guess you'll call it a war. [15:40] Maybe I call it a military operation, [15:43] because they have no Navy. [15:44] It's been obliterated. [15:46] Their Air Force has been obliterated. [15:48] They have no planes. [15:50] Their missiles have been largely, they have some left. [15:53] They have some, but they have far fewer [15:55] than they had four or five months ago. [15:59] Their manufacturing capacity is almost gone. [16:04] The drone capacity is almost gone. [16:06] They're very few, but they have some. [16:09] If they have one, that's too many, as far as I'm concerned. [16:12] But we've done an amazing job with Venezuela. [16:16] We've done an amazing job here. [16:18] We're in there for five months. [16:19] You know, I know what people like to say, [16:21] because we've done a much bigger job, [16:23] much more important job than we originally anticipated. [16:27] So we're in there for five months. [16:28] And if you look at Vietnam, they were in there for 20 years. [16:32] You look at Afghanistan, they were in there for many years. [16:36] If you look at any one of the wars, Korea, any one of them, [16:38] they're in there for many years, we're in for five months, [16:40] and we have obliterated their military capacity. [16:44] Again, they've got some left, [16:46] but soon they won't have some left. [16:48] So I just want to thank everybody around this table. [16:50] You've been very special. [16:51] I want to thank a lot of the media people, [16:52] because many of you have been very, very fair and very — [16:56] that's one of the reasons you're here, frankly. [16:58] But you've been very fair. [16:59] You've covered me this time much more fairly, I think, [17:02] than the first term. The first term was a great success. [17:06] We had the greatest economy in history in the first term, [17:10] and this term is going to blow it away. [17:12] I think this term is going to actually blow it away. [17:14] So it's an honor to have you. [17:15] And I'd like to ask our great Vice President, J.D. Vance, [17:19] to say a few words, followed by Marco and Pete and Scott [17:24] and Bobby Kennedy. Okay? [17:27] Thank you very much, everybody. Please, J.D. [17:29] Well, great. Thanks, Mr. President. [17:30] First of all, thanks for having us at this historical [17:33] and beautiful place. [17:34] And it's an honor to be on the team, [17:36] an honor to be able to work on fraud, [17:39] which is what I'm going to talk about today, [17:40] though I know we have a lot of things going on. [17:42] This has been an amazing team, [17:43] from Kelly Loeffler at SBA, to Doug at the VA, [17:48] to Todd and Bobby Kennedy. [17:50] This really has required a whole-of-administration approach [17:53] to try to tackle fraud. [17:54] There are a few things that I want to talk about and celebrate. [17:57] The first is that just since the beginning [17:59] of the Fraud Task Force that I started [18:01] under the President's leadership and direction, [18:03] we have identified $230 billion of fraud [18:07] that's being perpetrated against the American people, [18:10] and we have halted already $56 billion of that. [18:13] It's sometimes hard. [18:14] Once the money has already gone out the door, [18:16] it's hard to get it back. [18:17] But stopping it from going out the door [18:19] is how we save the American people. [18:20] $56 billion. [18:22] And, of course, we're going to keep on working on that. [18:24] Just today, Mr. President, [18:26] Mr. President, we will announce 17 new anti-fraud actions [18:29] that will total about a third of a billion dollars, [18:33] and that's added to the $230 billion [18:35] that we've already uncovered. [18:37] And I want to just talk, for the benefit of the American people, [18:40] about why do we care so much about this? [18:42] Because what I always try to remind people [18:44] is that fraud has two victims. [18:46] So, to give one concrete example, [18:48] there is a program that is administered by Medicaid, [18:53] and that program ensures that low-income moms [18:56] and low-income babies have access to neonatal care. [18:59] Now, I think most Americans probably share my view [19:01] that this is one of the great things [19:02] about the United States of America, [19:04] that if we see a baby and we see a young mother [19:07] that requires help, we help our fellow Americans. [19:10] That's a good thing. [19:10] It's something that we should be proud of. [19:12] And yet, there is a program that is defrauded, [19:16] the moms and the babies who benefit from these. [19:18] You've gotten people who've gotten rich [19:20] by setting up false companies [19:22] that are providing false services. [19:24] So, who loses in that equation? [19:26] Number one, of course, is the American taxpayer [19:28] that is $230 billion poorer [19:31] because of the fraud that this country has let go on. [19:34] But I actually think most importantly [19:36] is that we've seen that program run out of money. [19:39] So, we've seen moms and babies [19:41] unable to access the healthcare that they need [19:44] because the fraudsters have gotten rich. [19:46] That is a disgrace. [19:48] And until the President ordered us to stop it, [19:51] no one was doing anything about it. [19:52] So, we've made a lot of progress, Mr. President, [19:55] in just under a year, [19:56] but we're going to keep on working at it [19:58] because we believe the American people deserve [20:00] to have their money spent, [20:01] as you and the Congress have been reckoned with. [20:03] The President has big numbers in your funding, [20:05] tremendous numbers. [20:06] They look like Elliott Ness. [20:07] Does anybody know Elliott Ness? [20:10] They look like that group of people [20:11] that you have lined up behind you. [20:12] They're doing a great job. [20:14] Mr. Yes, sir. [20:15] The President is thinking, not millions, [20:17] billions of dollars is being recovered. [20:20] Billions. [20:21] And you haven't seen anything yet. [20:23] We have things happening [20:24] that people aren't going to believe. [20:26] The level of corruption and fraud [20:28] that took place under the Biden administration [20:30] is unprecedented. [20:32] And Minnesota, California, Maine. [20:35] Maine, believe it or not. [20:36] You know, you think of Maine as this wonderful place. [20:39] It's the level of corruption is incredible. [20:42] All of them. [20:42] All of them. [20:43] So, great job. [20:45] Thank you very much. [20:46] The President. [20:46] The President is my turn. [20:48] Well, for bringing us out here. [20:51] I got the chance to drive for the first time [20:52] in a year and a half. [20:53] It was just a golf cart. [20:54] But it was fun. [20:55] That's it. [20:56] That was great. [20:59] And so, just a couple of points that you can come. [21:04] We all know we've followed in the news, [21:05] obviously, the events in the Middle East [21:06] and others here to talk about that. [21:08] Not that they're not important, [21:09] but there's some other issues happening [21:10] around the world, Mr. President, [21:11] that you've shown great leadership in [21:13] that have not gotten nearly as much attention. [21:14] I think they deserve to mention today. [21:16] The first is the International Criminal Court [21:19] is an illegitimate international organization [21:21] that, frankly, illegitimate. [21:22] They've made themselves illegitimate [21:23] because they claim that even if you're not a member [21:25] of that court, they can come after you. [21:27] What that literally means in the future [21:29] is that Americans politically and others [21:31] could find themselves under indictment [21:35] by this International Criminal Court. [21:37] If you want to know a little bit about it, [21:38] Jack Smith used to work there. [21:39] These are the people that think they can go out [21:41] and basically indict any world leader [21:43] and haul them into The Hague. [21:44] So we've begun to try to get them to reform [21:46] and listen to us. [21:47] They wouldn't do it. [21:47] They're very arrogant. [21:49] We've now begun an effort to really try [21:50] to bring that court to heel. [21:52] The President, by the way, there's no information [21:53] that they're after me. [21:55] It could happen. [21:56] I wouldn't be sure. [21:58] But just so you know, [21:59] because he's talking about it, [22:00] I'm saying that means that maybe... [22:01] He's not trying to defend me. [22:03] He is trying to defend Bibi [22:05] and various other people. [22:06] But there are many people [22:07] that shouldn't be looked at that way. [22:09] But there is no indication [22:11] that I'm one of them at this moment. [22:14] The President, no. [22:16] And I actually think the people [22:17] who are in biggest danger in our system [22:19] are servicemen, people in uniform. [22:21] They'll try to go out for the rest of their lives [22:22] or not be able to travel anywhere in the world [22:24] with their families [22:25] because they can be arrested on one of these, like... [22:27] Imagine, again, you're a soldier. [22:28] You fought in a war, [22:29] and 20 years later, they try to come grab you. [22:31] So this is a big problem. [22:32] So we've had dozens of countries [22:33] already join us in this effort. [22:34] Since we started two weeks ago, [22:36] five countries have already quit the ICC [22:38] and notified them that they're leaving, [22:40] and we think there'll be more. [22:41] The second thing is we had [22:42] an unprecedented ministerial. [22:43] Sixty countries came to Washington [22:46] and were a part of an effort [22:47] where we were shedding light [22:48] on far-left terrorism and violence. [22:51] You know, if a bomb goes off somewhere [22:52] and it's tied to some right-wing group, [22:53] or what I... [22:55] I don't consider neo-Nazis right-wing, [22:56] I consider them Nazis, right? [22:58] But you're going to get a lot of attention on that. [23:00] But if it's a leftist group, [23:01] an Antifa group, [23:03] that gets no coverage, [23:04] or they ignore the ideological spin [23:05] and the ideological reason behind it. [23:08] So we've got 60 countries came up here [23:10] and hopefully creating a strong [23:11] to go after far-left violent terrorism. [23:15] Go after it, call it by name, [23:16] and I think we're building a very strong coalition there. [23:19] We've had some set successes in the Middle East, [23:21] Mr. President, as you know, [23:22] in the diplomatic front. [23:23] The deal with Lebanon and Israel is unprecedented. [23:26] President Ayoun was here a week ago. [23:28] I think that was the first visit [23:30] by the Lebanese President in over 30-some-odd years. [23:32] In fact, this is the first time the Israelis [23:33] and the Lebanese government have spoken [23:35] at the official level close to 30 years. [23:37] And that was 60 years later. [23:39] A lot of work to be done to keep that peace in building, [23:41] but it's a real achievable. [23:43] And of course, as you announced last night, [23:44] Mr. President, this disarmament deal [23:46] that you brought about with Steve and Jared's work [23:49] on Hamas is another big step as well. [23:52] It's something a lot of people thought would never happen. [23:54] It needs to happen, but the fact that you've even agreed [23:56] to it is a real achievable. [23:58] Last point is on the Western Hemisphere. [24:00] For the first time in 15, 20 years, [24:03] the overwhelming majority of the countries [24:05] in the Western Hemisphere are now led [24:07] by pro-American leaders and pro-American governments. [24:10] It's an extraordinary achievement, [24:11] all of it happening through a success. [24:13] Virtually every election that's happened [24:15] in the world, like the president has elected. [24:19] I think this is an incredible situation. [24:22] And last but not least, and I have to thank [24:24] a number of agencies here, particularly the Department of War, [24:26] after that terrible earthquake in Venezuela. [24:29] Within 36 hours, the full force of the American government [24:33] was on the ground, providing humanitarian assistance. [24:35] It was a sight to behold. [24:37] The USS Ford, I think, was in their port. [24:39] Our Marines and Armed Service personnel [24:43] were helping run their airport and their tower. [24:45] It is one of the fastest, most dramatic, [24:47] and most effective humanitarian responses, [24:50] certainly in recent history, if not ever. [24:52] And they came at the direction of the president. [24:54] And in fact, within an hour of that earthquake hitting, [24:56] I remember because I was overseas, [24:58] the president called and said, [24:59] make sure we go in there and help these people recover from this. [25:02] And we did. [25:03] And thanks to your leadership, Mr. President. [25:05] It's a great story. [25:06] Enough needs to be told about it [25:07] because the credit goes to so many agencies [25:10] represented here today. [25:11] But really, the Department of War's effort was phenomenal. [25:13] So, thank you. [25:14] The Vice President, thank you very much, Marco. [25:16] And just before we continue, [25:18] I want to just congratulate Jay Clayton. [25:21] He's with us today, as you know. [25:22] He just had a big, big dream. [25:24] He's going to be a, he's going to do a fantastic job. [25:26] He's only done a, his whole life has been [25:28] about doing a fantastic job. [25:30] Congratulations. [25:40] Well, thank you, Mr. President, [25:41] for the, for the invitation, [25:42] the opportunity to be here. [25:43] It's an honor for the War Department [25:45] to help run this facility also, [25:47] from the, from the food to the fence line. [25:50] It's, it's an honor to have you. [25:51] And it's, it's great Americans here [25:53] and all around the country [25:55] and all core of what keep us safe. [25:59] But in order to do that, you have to have a leader [26:01] that's willing to put them in a position to do it. [26:04] And that, and that's my takeaway, Mr. President, [26:06] is sort of three points. [26:09] One, it takes courage. [26:11] Two, it takes restoring a spirit, which you have done. [26:13] And third, it takes investment. [26:15] And not just an investment, but a generational investment. [26:17] And I think people miss that. [26:19] The courage it takes to seal the border, [26:21] to say we're going to do it every single day [26:23] and we're going to do it on behalf of the American people. [26:26] The courage to bomb the Houthis [26:27] and say we will, we will maintain freedom of navigation. [26:30] You wonder why they're not involved in this conflict, [26:32] the Houthis, even if they're a proxy of Iran, [26:34] because they felt the weight of American power for 45 days. [26:37] And you had the courage to do that. [26:39] The courage to do midnight hammer, the 12 day war, [26:42] by obliterating their nuclear sites. [26:44] Something no one, other presidents had the option [26:47] on their table to do, but they never pulled the trigger. [26:50] Because of the complications, because of the challenges, [26:52] because of the risk, courage. [26:54] The courage to take on cartels and drugs, drug boats, [26:58] and now forming the ACCC, the America's counter cartel coalition, [27:01] with all those friendly governments that Marco talked about, [27:04] who want to be shoulder to shoulder, not just with America, [27:06] but with a bold, strong America, with clear leadership. [27:11] The courage to go get Maduro in the most dangerous, [27:15] most heavily guarded house, inside the most heavily guarded fort, [27:18] inside the most heavily guarded town in their capital city [27:20] in the middle of the night, and change the entire dynamic [27:23] of that country and that region, and the world saw [27:26] what the American military was capable to do. [27:28] But that doesn't happen unless the commander in chief says, [27:31] you're authorized to do it, and we'll take the handcuffs off [27:34] when you do it, to ensure that Americans come home. [27:37] The courage to undertake epic fury, and this Iranian regime, [27:41] and ensure they never have a nuclear weapon, [27:44] which remains your commitment, and frankly, [27:46] the courage to negotiate with people that have shown [27:48] no willingness to do so honestly, with incredible negotiators, [27:52] who are the best in the world, and give them every opportunity [27:54] to do it, give those things up peacefully. [27:56] All of that takes guts, but that comes on the backs [28:00] of the change in the spirit of our department. [28:02] You talk about spirit all the time, and your right to do so. [28:05] When you rip out DEI, when you rip out social engineering [28:09] and social justice, and you put in merit, [28:12] and then you untie the hands of commanders to be commanders [28:15] to enforce discipline and accountability to get back to basics, [28:19] then you get historic reenlistment inside our ranks. [28:21] Our best people, Mr. President, are staying, [28:24] because they want to be in that kind of department. [28:26] And then, historic recruitment record, [28:28] amongst young Americans, every month, [28:31] our department breaks records. [28:32] And when did that trend line start? [28:34] On election day, 2024, when the American people said, [28:38] I want to serve under this president. [28:40] And that new name, the Department of War, [28:42] has become the ethos, the warrior ethos, [28:44] of our department, again, spirit. [28:46] And I will note, the flyovers will indeed continue [28:49] until morale improves. [28:51] But that's also spirit. [28:54] Parades, 250, flyovers, the American people seeing [28:58] and feeling their military in ways they have not in the past. [29:01] That's spirit. [29:02] And then finally, Mr. President, a generational investment. [29:05] You rebuilt the military in your first term, [29:07] and you've spent in your first year $1 trillion, [29:09] and now we are committed in working with Congress [29:12] to get $1.5 trillion, but this is not the same way [29:15] we funded our department in the past. [29:17] This is a businessman in charge. [29:19] This is a deputy secretary of our department [29:21] who's a turnaround guy, just like the president is, [29:24] saying we will not fund money, [29:26] we will not fund the department the way we have in the past. [29:28] In fact, so far, $75 billion in private investment [29:33] from defense companies who are now investing in new plants, [29:36] new equipment, new assembly lines to build the munitions [29:39] of the future faster than ever possible. [29:41] That's saving taxpayer dollars [29:44] because the companies themselves are investing. [29:45] That would never, the arsenal of freedom [29:47] would never happen without you. [29:49] So just like, you know, we use a lot of the things [29:52] Ronald Reagan's buildup was a part of, [29:55] in this administration and in future administrations, [29:57] they will look back at Donald Trump [29:58] and the buildup that he has done, [30:00] and that will be the deterrence of the future [30:02] will be established because of your investment. [30:04] So thank you, Mr. President, for your attention. [30:08] Scott, please. [30:11] Here in this historic place, [30:12] as we celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary, [30:16] and I think if we look back, [30:18] whether our founders was President of Washington, [30:21] Thomas Jefferson, Senator Hamilton, [30:24] could not have imagined the economy [30:27] that we would have created. [30:28] It is the envy of the world, [30:31] and as you said, we have record investment coming in. [30:33] We've never seen anything like it, [30:35] and we're pulling away from the rest of the world. [30:38] It's because of your leadership, [30:40] the policies that you did from day one, [30:42] in terms of digital assets, [30:44] in terms of technology, [30:46] and bringing back American manufacturing. [30:49] You know, it's, you've done it again. [30:51] You had the incredible economy during your first term, [30:56] and we are seeing that carry over here, [30:59] and it is in stark contrast to the Biden economy, [31:03] which was government jobs, government spending, [31:06] and high inflation, the worst inflation in 50 years. [31:11] And with the working families tax cut, [31:14] which I will add, every Democrat voted against, [31:18] every Democrat voted against, [31:20] it is the perfect barbell for this economy. [31:23] On one side, you have full expensing for factories, [31:28] for equipment, for farm structures. [31:31] On the other side, your four signature policies, [31:34] promises made, promises kept, no tax on tips, [31:37] no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, [31:40] deductibility of auto loans, [31:43] if you buy an American-made car, [31:45] and the Americans are starting to feel this. [31:49] Core inflation is low, consumer confidence is strong. [31:53] We have the highest consumer confidence, [31:55] came up today, in five months, [31:57] and Main Street is back. [32:01] Small banks are lent, thanks to your policies, [32:04] small banks, community banks are lending again, [32:08] and the Americans are starting to feel it. [32:11] As you said, these Trump accounts [32:13] are the most successful program launch [32:16] in government history. [32:17] We've had seven million families sign up for them. [32:20] We're gonna get to open enrollment, [32:22] and we will have 70 million families [32:25] who have signed up for this. [32:27] 38% of American families, households, [32:30] have no exposure to our great equity market, [32:33] and thanks to you, [32:34] we're going to have an ownership society. [32:36] An ownership society. [32:37] You were one of the first presidents [32:39] to create assets for the American people, [32:42] not more debt. [32:43] We had the biggest tax refund season ever. [32:47] Trade deals, tax cuts, energy dominance, [32:51] and deregulatory efforts. [32:53] America is ushering in the greatest reshoring wave [32:56] in our history. [32:58] In June, our manufacturing sector expanded [33:00] for the sixth straight month. [33:02] We've got construction jobs, [33:04] and those are going to lead into manufacturing jobs. [33:07] We've got Main Street prosperity. [33:09] Real wages are up $1,000. [33:12] And, sir, what you've done again, too, [33:14] is the bottom 25% of wage earners, [33:17] just like in your first term, [33:19] are outperforming the top 25%. [33:22] This is a Working Families Administration [33:26] that in the past year, [33:30] that group had wage increases of 5.5%. [33:36] They have three times what the top end has done. [33:41] So you've done it again, [33:43] and these are private sector jobs we are creating. [33:46] As you often say in these meetings, [33:48] we could have created a million, [33:50] two million government jobs, but we didn't. [33:53] The private sector is creating. [33:54] We've got incentives, we've got money coming in, [33:57] and we are rebuilding. [33:58] So, and then our energy dominance, [34:01] thanks to you and these policies, [34:03] you can come to the U.S., [34:04] you can have regulatory certainty, tax certainty, [34:07] and energy certainty. [34:08] So it is the best place in the world [34:09] to build your factory. [34:11] And finally, I want to add, [34:12] it has been a pleasure to be a part, [34:15] or a privilege to be a part of, [34:17] as we've gone from epic fury to economic fury, [34:20] to constrict on your orders, [34:22] constrict the Iranian regimes, [34:24] the financial tentacles all around the world. [34:28] We started it on your orders. [34:30] We started it in March, 2025. [34:32] In December of 2025, the largest bank in Iran collapsed. [34:37] The central bank had to print money, [34:39] cost inflation, now they got 180% inflation, [34:42] they aren't able to pay their troops. [34:44] And on your orders, we are searching for their assets [34:47] all around the world, [34:48] and that money will go to the Iranian people, [34:51] Americans who have been harmed by the Iranians, [34:54] whether the U.S. has coal or the barracks in Lebanon, [34:59] or it will go back to when the Iranians attacked [35:03] the ships coming out. [35:05] So it's been a privilege to be part of that, [35:07] and I look forward to the rest of it. [35:10] The President Biden has to say that today, [35:14] there are more people working in India [35:17] than at any time in the history of our country. [35:19] We have more people working today, [35:21] and we'll think of that number. [35:23] More people working today, by far, than at any time [35:26] in the history of our country. [35:28] So it's been something very special. [35:32] Please. [35:33] Mr. President, let me just take a moment [35:35] to take note of the historical significance [35:39] of this occasion. [35:41] Before the press came in, [35:42] you asked all the cabinet members [35:44] who had been to Camp David before and about, [35:47] I think about three-quarters of them had. [35:49] I raised my hand, but I haven't been here for 62 years. [35:53] I came here, awesome. [35:55] I came here on the weekends, as many weekends as we could, [35:58] between 1961 and 1963. [36:01] My father loved this place. [36:03] My uncle loved this place. [36:05] He was, nobody knows about this, [36:07] because it's not in the history books, [36:08] but he was resentful at Dwight Eisenhower [36:11] for renaming it Camp David. [36:14] And he, if he had gotten made it to his second term, [36:17] he was going to rename it Chamberlain, [36:19] which was the original name that Roosevelt had, [36:23] named it, but my uncle prided himself [36:25] on being the most open, transparent administration [36:29] in history. [36:29] He was the first president to have [36:31] standardized press conferences. [36:33] During his 1,000 days in office, [36:35] he had about 30 press conferences. [36:37] You, Mr. President, have press conferences every day. [36:41] Nobody's done anything like that. [36:44] And here you've opened the inner sanctum of the presidency [36:48] for the first time in history, [36:49] and I think that's a beautiful thing. [36:52] As you also face, although you gave these guys [36:54] a lot of compliments, the most hostile press corps [36:58] that any president in the United States history, [37:01] uniformally. [37:02] So anyway, I'm going to talk just briefly [37:08] about a subject you alluded to, which is the MFN, [37:13] and just so everybody has the background. [37:16] You were here to every president, [37:19] promised to fix that disparity between what we pay [37:22] and what the other developed countries pay. [37:25] When you came into office, the list price [37:26] for Ozempic was $1,350 for Americans. [37:30] You could get it at any pharmacy in London, Hamburg, [37:34] Frankfurt for $88. [37:36] And this, every president, President Bush, President Biden, [37:40] President Clinton, President Obama, [37:43] have all promised fixes and none of them did. [37:45] And it's like, you fixed it. [37:47] But today, you leave office, assuming that's in 2028. [38:00] 95% of the drugs that are available to Americans, [38:06] they will be paying the lowest prices in the world. [38:09] TrumpRx, just in the short time since we put it out, [38:13] has saved Americans $700 million. [38:16] We now have 800 drugs on there. [38:18] We have deals with Amazon, with good Rx. [38:22] We're adding more and more drugs every day. [38:24] And I'll just give you one example. [38:26] Preluent is a very popular cholesterol drug. [38:31] Its list price is $522. [38:34] That's what everybody is paying. [38:36] We now have it on TrumpRx for $237. [38:40] That means that the 300,000 Americans who take that drug [38:44] will be saving $3,700 a year on pharmaceuticals every year. [38:51] And you can apply that across the board. [38:55] This is going to change. [38:56] It's making pharmaceuticals affordable, [38:59] the most affordable in this country, if any country, in the world. [39:02] Well, thank you, Mr. President. [39:04] How are you doing on the autism research? [39:08] We will have an answer for you. [39:10] We just got it. [39:10] So important. [39:11] Okay. [39:13] We'll be talking about that. [39:14] We'll be having something of interest. [39:17] Such an important thing. [39:18] There's a picture of your uncle right there on the wall. [39:20] That's why I know he's looking at a handsome guy. [39:22] And that's quite a picture. [39:24] Did you see it? [39:25] Yeah. [39:26] Maybe they gave me the idea to start out that way, [39:28] but it's quite a picture. [39:31] Any questions? [39:31] Mr. President. [39:32] Mr. President. [39:33] Go ahead. [39:34] We've seen these strikes between Iran and the United States [39:36] in the past few days. [39:37] How do you find reviving the ceasefire [39:40] and getting the diplomacy back on track? [39:42] Well, I think we just want to win. [39:43] You know, we just want to win. [39:44] We're doing very well. [39:47] We're trying to be nice. [39:48] As nice as you can be in a situation like that. [39:51] But, you know, they're being decimated. [39:55] They have no Navy. [39:56] They have no Air Force. [39:57] They have no anti-aircraft. [40:00] Doesn't mean they don't have any capability. [40:02] They have some, but very little. [40:04] We just want to win. [40:05] We don't want to have them. [40:06] It's very simple. [40:09] They cannot have a nuclear weapon. [40:11] Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, [40:13] and they can't have a nuclear weapon. [40:15] If they did, the Middle East would have been wiped out by now. [40:18] If I didn't stop the JCPOA, the Obama deal, [40:23] if I didn't say that, they would have had a nuclear weapon. [40:26] I believe Israel would no longer be with us, [40:28] and big parts of the Middle East, [40:29] and perhaps other. [40:34] These people are crazy. [40:36] So they cannot, and they won't. [40:39] Mr. President. [40:42] Four weeks, eight months. [40:43] We'll be hitting them. [40:44] We'll be hitting them very hard. [40:46] And at some point, they're going to say, [40:48] we just can't take them anymore. [40:49] Mr. President, on the disarmament deal that you announced, [40:52] do you have assurances from Israel that they are on board [40:55] with this deal? [40:56] And what comes first? [40:57] Does Israel pull back, and then Hamas disarms, [41:00] or does Hamas need to disarm, and then Israel leaves Gaza? [41:03] Mr. President, we do have an understanding with Israel. [41:05] Israel is very happy about it. [41:06] Israel helped us, and they've been very good. [41:10] They've been very good about it. [41:11] Most people said that would be a deal that would be undoable. [41:14] Now, will it go through its ups and downs? [41:16] It's a very complex situation over there. [41:19] The people are very complex and difficult, [41:23] many cases wonderful, many cases not so wonderful. [41:26] But that will be a great breakthrough. [41:29] Nobody has ever thought that would be possible, [41:32] to disarm Hamas. [41:34] That shows you how much stress we're having with Iran. [41:39] Because if you go four months ago or five months ago, [41:41] a deal like that would have been impossible. [41:43] So it's a big step for the Middle East, [41:45] and people are really impressed by it, [41:47] and they're surprised by it. [41:48] I mean, what comes first, Mr. President? [41:50] What comes first? [41:51] Did FIFA or Mr. Infantino speak to you about their proposal [41:53] to sell a stake in the World Cup? [41:54] And is that something you support? [41:55] How about who? [41:57] Did FIFA or Mr. Infantino speak to you about their proposal [42:00] to sell a stake in the World Cup? [42:01] No, I never spoke to you. [42:02] Mr. President, you said this morning on Truth Social [42:06] that victims of government abuse should be paid back. [42:09] Even if it's not the anti-weaponization fund, [42:12] would you still want the acting attorney general [42:14] to find a new way to do that? [42:15] Weaponization against large numbers of people in our country [42:19] by the Biden administration and by Obama, [42:23] but by the Biden administration in particular in this case. [42:26] But large numbers of people, their lives have been ruined. [42:29] They've been destroyed. [42:31] Families have been, you know, [42:32] decimated, gone to prison for no reason whatsoever. [42:37] There's never been a group of people, most likely, [42:39] I mean, I can think of a couple [42:40] that were treated pretty badly, groups. [42:43] But there's essentially never been a group of people [42:45] treated so badly as these people. [42:47] And this fund, this fund was not for me. [42:49] This fund was for those people that have been weaponized, [42:53] that have been abused. [42:54] Now, I was abused. [42:55] They attacked my house in Mar-a-Lago, where I live. [42:58] And I wish, you know, big damages should have been given to me. [43:02] I don't want anything. [43:03] I'm not talking about myself. [43:06] I think that there's a group of people in this country, [43:08] history will show, that were treated like nobody else [43:14] has ever been treated, so badly, so horribly. [43:18] Their families have been ruined, many, many suicides. [43:21] They've committed suicide. [43:23] People that were very successful, [43:24] that wanted to go to a rally or an event, [43:29] and ended up spending the rest of their lives in horror. [43:33] No? So, I mean, you can say what you want about the fund, [43:37] and they've agreed to not have a fund. [43:40] But there are a lot of people that are very upset about it. [43:42] A lot of Republican people, [43:44] a lot of Democrat people are very upset about it. [43:46] A lot of people were covered. [43:47] I wasn't covered by that fund. [43:49] I don't want to be covered by that fund. [43:50] I probably was abused more than anybody [43:52] in the history of our country. [43:54] But I wasn't looking for that. [43:56] But there were a lot of people. [43:57] And I'll tell you something, [43:58] Todd Blanche is a very, very good man, [44:02] and he shouldn't be in the middle of this. [44:03] He should get approved, [44:05] because you will never get anybody like him. [44:07] You're never going to get anybody. [44:09] And to make him a pawn on this whole thing, [44:11] this is being done by a senator. [44:12] And I don't really blame him, to be honest with you. [44:15] I endorsed his opponent. [44:16] And as soon as I endorsed his opponent, [44:18] his opponent went through the roof, [44:19] and he won the primary election in Texas, with the Senate. [44:25] And the man that lost, the man that I didn't endorse, [44:30] has become very angry. And that's okay. [44:31] I mean, I understand that I probably would do the same thing. [44:34] You want to know the truth? I think I'd do the same thing. [44:36] Mr. President, on that, though, do you agree, [44:38] just to be clear, do you agree with the Acting Attorney General, [44:40] that the Anti-Weaponization Fund is dead? [44:42] And why not just put that in writing? [44:44] Well, it is dead. [44:45] But, you know, I wish it weren't, to be honest with you. [44:47] I think people were horribly treated, horribly abused. [44:51] This has nothing to do with Todd. This was me. [44:54] Horribly abused. [44:55] And I'd like to see them compensated for the pain. [44:59] They lost their families. [45:00] They committed suicide. [45:02] Many people committed suicide. [45:04] They went down for an innocent journey. [45:07] And I'm not only talking there, [45:08] I'm talking about not even having to do with that. [45:11] The way they were treated. [45:12] The Biden administration and the Obama administration [45:16] weaponized government and destroyed lives. [45:19] But should they put it in writing? [45:20] The Press, do you want to accept limits [45:22] on the scope of the audit immunity deal [45:24] in order to get Attorney General Blanche confirmed? [45:27] Well, no, he should be approved forthwith. [45:29] I mean, you're not going to get a person like that. [45:31] Everybody agrees to it. [45:33] Don't forget, Senator Corden thought he was phenomenal [45:36] until he lost. [45:38] You know, when he lost, is that a correct statement? [45:40] You come from Texas. [45:41] I mean, he thought this was the most incredible person. [45:44] Then when he lost, then he lost because of me. [45:47] I endorsed somebody else. [45:48] And as soon as I endorsed the other person, [45:51] the other person became a rocket ship upward. [45:53] And he lost. [45:54] And, you know, I think I'd be the same. [45:57] I mean, I shouldn't say that, but I'd be upset also. [46:02] And so I fully understand it. [46:05] He shouldn't be that way. [46:06] I shouldn't be that way. [46:08] But he is that way. [46:09] He's become a very angry person. [46:10] And I understand you have a couple of others [46:12] that are caused their defeat, too. [46:14] And, you know, you'll probably hear from them, too. [46:16] Yeah. [46:16] The Press, there's a report you got a proposal [46:20] from the military to go big and hit them hard [46:22] over 10 or 14 days. [46:24] The President Trump's going big. [46:24] Are you going to consider that? [46:25] The President Trump's already gone big. [46:26] Look, I mean, what's big? [46:28] They had 159 ships. [46:30] That was their entire Navy, 159. [46:32] Their entire Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea. [46:35] I'd say that's going big. [46:37] They had 200 airplanes. [46:38] They're all gone, every one of them. [46:39] They don't have one airplane. [46:41] They had anti-aircraft weaponry. [46:42] They're very good, but it didn't work. [46:45] And it's all gone. [46:47] Their radar is all gone. [46:48] Their leaders are all gone. [46:49] Everything is all gone. [46:51] But they'll fight onward. [46:53] The Press. [46:53] And on Ukraine, you said the other day [46:55] that you're not sure about whether to grant Ukraine [46:58] the Patriot missile license that have been discussed. [47:00] Do you want to see more from Zelenskyy [47:03] before you take that action? [47:05] Well, it's a big step. [47:06] Look, we have the greatest weapons in the world. [47:09] We have the greatest drones in the world. [47:11] People don't know that. [47:12] We have the greatest weaponry in the world. [47:13] We have, in the case of President Zelenskyy, [47:17] he'd like to have some Patriots. [47:18] He'd like to have some Tomahawks, which are lethal. [47:22] I don't want to say what they've done. [47:25] But if you give somebody the other day, [47:31] you read that five missiles were shot. [47:34] They were going 8,600 miles an hour. [47:37] Think of it, 8,600. [47:40] Now, a car, if you go 60, it gets to be a little faster. [47:43] If you go 100, 8,600 miles an hour. [47:47] And they were big missiles. [47:49] And they were shot at Jordan. [47:51] And our guys were there, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. [47:55] Five, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. [47:58] That would have been a great sound bite. [48:05] There were five missiles, and we shot all five down [48:08] before they got close. [48:10] Nobody else has that capacity. [48:12] These weapons are incredible. [48:14] We have to be very careful about letting somebody build them. [48:18] You know, it's very important now. [48:21] We are building many plants now to make those. [48:24] And the tomahawk missile is the most incredible thing. [48:27] You can go into a doorway. [48:28] You can put it through a window of a house. [48:32] Nobody has ever seen anything like it. [48:33] You have to be very judicious, [48:36] but you have to be very careful. [48:38] Now, we have not agreed to that. [48:41] We're talking about it. [48:43] But it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology. [48:45] And I don't think this would ever happen. [48:48] But, you know, those people that you give that technology, [48:51] they can someday turn on you. [48:53] You know, that is possible. [48:54] You look at war. [48:55] It's happened a couple of times over the years, right? [48:58] So we have to be very careful. [48:59] I mean, we guard that. [49:01] We have the greatest military in the world, [49:03] but we have the greatest weapons in the world. [49:05] Now we have to make them a little bit faster, [49:06] because we've given a lot away. [49:08] You know, President Biden, unfortunately, [49:11] gave a lot away to Ukraine. [49:14] And he gave — and so did I. [49:16] I mean, I gave them the javelins, the tank busters. [49:20] Without the javelins, that war would have been a one-day war. [49:22] It would have been over. [49:23] They wiped out the tanks going up to Kyiv [49:26] when they got stuck in the mud. [49:28] They had a general that decided to go through the mud [49:30] instead of going up the highway [49:32] where they were going very nicely. [49:33] It would have been over. [49:34] But, no, I gave them the javelins. [49:36] The javelins are unbelievably — [49:38] we have the greatest weapons in the world. [49:40] We have to be very careful about giving out [49:43] the secrets to those weapons. [49:44] And they're not — you can't copy them. [49:48] It's a little like NVIDIA. [49:51] They have a chip. [49:52] They say you cannot copy it. [49:54] The complexity is so great, you cannot. [49:56] You know, most of these, you copy. [49:59] China is known for it, other countries, [50:00] that we do something, and I guess we copy also. [50:03] You can copy pretty easily. [50:05] There's a chip that they made there, [50:08] ultimate chip, and they always have the ultimate chip. [50:11] And I say, well, why doesn't somebody copy it? [50:13] Because they can't, the complexity. [50:16] They can't copy our weapons. [50:17] We have the greatest weapons in the world, many of them. [50:20] Those are just two or three that I mentioned. [50:22] But you cannot copy them, so we have to be very careful. [50:26] Mr. President, we're on. [50:27] As Hamas disarms as part of this plan, [50:29] who do you see as taking possession of those weapons that they have? [50:32] Does that go to the new government? [50:33] Well, it's going to be the Board of Peace, mostly. [50:36] It's going to be run by the Board of Peace. [50:37] This Board of Peace has been an amazing, [50:39] it's led by some amazing people. [50:41] Board of Peace. [50:42] On Iran, Mr. President, [50:43] you said they do have some capabilities left. [50:45] Should Americans be prepared for these back-and-forth attacks [50:48] to continue until Iran simply isn't able of striking back? [50:52] They'll get weaker, they'll get a little stronger maybe now, [50:54] but they'll get weaker, and then they peter out. [50:58] Yeah, sure, I think so. [50:59] I mean, it would be foolish to say no. [51:01] You know, you always have to keep your guard up. [51:03] What is the status of talks? [51:04] Who from the administration is talking to the Iran? [51:07] Well, they always want to talk, but they break their words so often. [51:08] Steve is talking, Jared, we have very good people. [51:12] JD's involved, very strongly involved. [51:15] We have great people talking, Marco's involved. [51:18] Because they say talks aren't happening. [51:19] Very good people, we have the best people, [51:21] but they'll make a deal. [51:23] As an example, we'll talk about nuclear, [51:26] and we'll be in there talking about nuclear for seven hours. [51:28] I say, why do you need seven? [51:30] You can take 10 minutes, you have five minutes you should solve it. [51:33] But seven hours, and then they'll go out, [51:36] and I'll say they discussed nuclear. [51:39] And they'll go out and they'll say, [51:40] we never discussed nuclear. [51:42] And I'll say, why do they say that? [51:44] All they do is make me angry. [51:46] You know, they just make me angry. [51:48] Any other questions? [51:49] The Pressure Do you believe that you can reach a deal with Iran, [51:52] given that you talked about how disloyal they are? [51:54] I'm losing faith in them because they do lie and they do misrepresent. [52:02] Well, the other day, the five missiles were shot. [52:04] We knocked them down, but we were in the midst of a negotiation. [52:06] I mean, I'm waiting for Steve to call me. [52:08] How's the negotiation going? [52:11] And instead, I got a call from Pete [52:13] that they just shot five missiles at one of our bases in Jordan. [52:18] And we have bases in Jordan. [52:19] Fortunately, our people operated the equipment. [52:22] It's also very complex to operate. [52:24] You know, you talk about the equipment. [52:25] It's very — you have to be — oftentimes, you see, [52:28] when did you go to school? [52:29] MIT, Caltech. [52:31] I mean, you know, they go to schools [52:33] that are not as normal for the military, to be honest with you. [52:37] We have unbelievably brilliant people operating that equipment. [52:40] And when you don't, you know, the equipment — [52:44] the shots miss — the safety misses or the accuracy misses. [52:48] We have unbelievable people. [52:49] Think of it. [52:50] We had 111 — at one point, a couple of months ago — [52:54] 111, over a short period of time, missiles were shot [52:58] at the Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier. [53:00] Great, beautiful ship. [53:02] One of the most beautiful ships to me — designed ones. [53:05] 111 missiles going out. [53:08] And of the 111 missiles, 111 missiles were shot down [53:15] quite a bit earlier than they got — [53:17] I mean, long before they got there. [53:19] They were shot down, it was almost — in a couple of cases, [53:21] they were shot down almost as they were taking off. [53:25] It's incredible technology. [53:26] So you have a ship that costs billions of dollars, [53:30] and you have missiles heading to it. [53:32] 111 missiles were shot down — routinely shot down. [53:39] And I speak — I spoke to the people. [53:40] I like to reward people. [53:42] I call them up on the President. [53:44] And they were cool as a cucumber. [53:47] The Pressure on the last two weeks of strikes by CENTCOM — [53:51] CENTCOM has said that those were meant to degrade [53:53] Iran's ability to disrupt the Strait of Ormond. [53:55] How many more strikes will it take to — [53:57] which is a significant — [53:58] The President Well, you never know. [53:59] Look, I mean, most people would have given up by now. [54:01] You know, they've got no Navy. [54:02] They've got no Air Force. [54:04] Most people would have given up. [54:05] They haven't. [54:05] So I give them credit for that. [54:07] I mean, they're known as being tough. [54:08] They're tough. [54:09] Back on Ukraine, did you tell President Zelensky about the Patriots? [54:13] Did you explain all that to him? [54:14] I did. [54:15] I spoke to them about Patriots. [54:16] I spoke to them about Tomahawks. [54:18] I spoke to them about everything. [54:19] I also spoke to them about, let's get this war over with. [54:22] So last month, they had 25,000 people. [54:24] It's averaging about 25,000 people a month die. [54:27] Mostly soldiers. [54:28] Almost entirely. [54:30] But, you know, missiles are hitting areas also. [54:32] But mostly soldiers. [54:34] They had 25,000 soldiers. [54:36] The month before that, it was 32,000 soldiers. [54:39] He said, you've got to get this war over with. [54:41] I think he wants to make a deal. [54:43] And I think Putin wants to make a deal. [54:45] But there's a lot of dislike, as you probably noticed. [54:47] The Press, he seems very reluctant to make concessions, [54:50] President Putin. [54:51] Well, nobody wants to make concessions. [54:53] But they're both going to have to make some concessions. [54:56] I mean, you've got to make a deal. [54:58] 25,000 young, beautiful people. [55:01] Soldiers. [55:02] Mostly soldiers are dying a month. [55:05] It's a ... I ended eight wars. [55:08] That was the war I thought would maybe go first. [55:11] And it really hasn't. [55:12] It's gone last. [55:13] I mean, I ended wars that were, in theory, [55:15] much more difficult to end. [55:16] We had a couple that were into the 30-year category. [55:22] Well, the Congo. [55:22] Look at the Congo and Rwanda. [55:24] That was our nasty war. [55:26] And ... peace. [55:28] I don't know how well that was going to stay. [55:30] But we ended India, Pakistan. [55:33] Eleven planes were shot down. [55:35] That was raging. [55:35] That was ... I used tariffs. [55:37] They said, if you're going to go to war, [55:39] 250 percent to each of them. [55:44] And they screamed and yelled and were very angry. [55:46] They were both angry about it. [55:48] And a day later, they called and they said, [55:50] we will not go to war. [55:51] But I ended up ... [55:52] And the Prime Minister of Pakistan said, [55:55] I saved 50 million lives, [55:58] because that's too nuclear power. [56:00] Seriously. [56:01] Thank you very much, everybody. [56:02] Thank you. [56:03] The Press. [56:04] The Press. [56:05] The Press. [56:06] The Press. [56:07] The Press. [56:08] The Press. [56:09] The President, the President, [56:10] you say that Iran is behind the waters? [56:11] Can you rule out that Iran is behind that cyber attack? [56:13] The Press. [56:14] I don't think you think that ... [56:15] The Press. [56:16] The President, you know, [56:17] who's behind it? [56:18] Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent. [56:19] I think the governor's behind it. [56:20] The Press. [56:21] The Press. [56:22] The President, I don't think there was an Iranian cyber attack. [56:24] I think that Minnesota ought to get its act together. [56:25] It's one of the worst-run states, J.D. will tell you. [56:28] We found tremendous corruption in Minnesota. [56:29] The Press. [56:30] And by the way, this gave me a report, massive, massive future things having to do with corruption [56:37] in Minnesota are happening right now. [56:39] Thank you very much. [56:44] Thank you. [56:53] C-SPAN is as unbiased as you can get. [56:56] You are so fair. I don't know how anybody can say otherwise. [56:59] You guys do the most important work for everyone in this country. [57:04] I love C-SPAN because I get to hear all the voices. [57:07] You bring these divergent viewpoints, and you present both sides of an issue, and you allow people to make up their own minds. [57:14] I absolutely love C-SPAN. I love to hear both sides. [57:18] I've watched C-SPAN every morning, and it is unbiased, and you bring in factual information for the callers to understand where they are in their comments. [57:28] This is probably the only place that we can hear honest opinion of Americans across the country. [57:33] You guys at C-SPAN are doing such a wonderful job of allowing free exchange of ideas without a lot of interruptions. [57:41] Thank you, C-SPAN, for being a light in the dark.