1 00:00:00,119 --> 00:00:02,690 Thank you for all being here as we take 2 00:00:02,690 --> 00:00:04,969 a major new step to support our 3 00:00:04,969 --> 00:00:07,136 incredible military family , something 4 00:00:07,136 --> 00:00:09,247 that we've been working on for a long 5 00:00:09,247 --> 00:00:11,080 time , I guess you could say for 6 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,191 decades . There's never been anything 7 00:00:13,191 --> 00:00:15,159 like this . Today , I'm signing an 8 00:00:15,159 --> 00:00:17,326 executive order to establish the first 9 00:00:17,326 --> 00:00:20,180 ever presidential military spouse 10 00:00:20,180 --> 00:00:22,600 commission . It'll be chaired by 11 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,159 Jennifer Hegseth , the wife of and 12 00:00:25,159 --> 00:00:27,600 highly respected wife , I may add , of 13 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,656 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth , both 14 00:00:29,656 --> 00:00:31,959 here . I also want to congratulate the 15 00:00:31,959 --> 00:00:33,737 new executive director of the . 16 00:00:34,569 --> 00:00:36,860 Commission , Desiree . So where's 17 00:00:36,860 --> 00:00:39,082 Desiree ? Where are you ? Desiree , you 18 00:00:39,082 --> 00:00:41,193 do such a good job . Desiree Thompson 19 00:00:41,193 --> 00:00:43,500 Sale , along with new commission member 20 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:45,939 Christy Mullen , wife of Secretary of 21 00:00:45,939 --> 00:00:49,180 Homeland Security , Secretary Mark 22 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:52,180 Wayne Mullen . These are outstanding 23 00:00:52,180 --> 00:00:54,470 people , everyone , male and female , 24 00:00:54,659 --> 00:00:56,826 outstanding . The commission will also 25 00:00:56,826 --> 00:00:59,139 include the spouses of our wonderful 26 00:00:59,139 --> 00:01:01,195 service secretaries , the spouses of 27 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:03,195 the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and the 28 00:01:03,195 --> 00:01:05,620 spouses of their senior enlisted 29 00:01:05,620 --> 00:01:08,760 leaders , and , uh , we have some 30 00:01:08,980 --> 00:01:11,139 incredible talent , and I won't tell 31 00:01:11,139 --> 00:01:13,389 you these spouses I've looked at 32 00:01:13,410 --> 00:01:15,243 educationally in every other way 33 00:01:15,243 --> 00:01:17,466 they're amazing . We're also pleased to 34 00:01:17,466 --> 00:01:19,632 be joined by Secretary Hegseth and the 35 00:01:19,632 --> 00:01:21,854 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , 36 00:01:21,854 --> 00:01:24,132 General Dan Kane . Thank you very much , 37 00:01:24,190 --> 00:01:27,150 Dan . America cannot have the strongest 38 00:01:27,150 --> 00:01:29,317 military in the world without the love 39 00:01:29,317 --> 00:01:31,539 and devotion of our remarkable military 40 00:01:31,539 --> 00:01:33,750 spouses who make the extraordinary 41 00:01:33,750 --> 00:01:35,639 sacrifices for our country . They 42 00:01:35,639 --> 00:01:37,569 really are extraordinary . Many . 43 00:01:38,220 --> 00:01:40,699 Military spouses spend months separated 44 00:01:40,699 --> 00:01:42,980 from their loved ones while our heroes 45 00:01:42,980 --> 00:01:45,980 are deployed overseas . Military 46 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:48,599 families also endure frequent moves and 47 00:01:48,819 --> 00:01:51,099 other unique challenges , and the 48 00:01:51,099 --> 00:01:53,300 challenges are legendary . They write 49 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:56,050 books about them . This commission will 50 00:01:56,050 --> 00:01:58,161 provide recommendations for improving 51 00:01:58,529 --> 00:02:00,362 the quality of life for military 52 00:02:00,362 --> 00:02:02,550 spouses so that we can better support 53 00:02:02,849 --> 00:02:04,793 both our military families and the 54 00:02:04,793 --> 00:02:07,980 entire United States armed forces . The 55 00:02:07,980 --> 00:02:10,147 commission will develop suggestions to 56 00:02:10,147 --> 00:02:11,980 address particular challenges in 57 00:02:11,980 --> 00:02:13,980 housing , employment , healthcare , 58 00:02:14,220 --> 00:02:17,500 education , childcare , and just about 59 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:19,833 everything else you can think of . It's , 60 00:02:19,833 --> 00:02:21,778 we've never had this opportunity . 61 00:02:21,778 --> 00:02:24,000 We're doing it now because we've done a 62 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,944 lot for our military . We love our 63 00:02:25,944 --> 00:02:28,167 military . Every day our administration 64 00:02:28,167 --> 00:02:30,000 is fighting to give our military 65 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,111 families the support they dearly need 66 00:02:32,111 --> 00:02:34,339 and they deserve . As part of the great 67 00:02:34,339 --> 00:02:36,172 big beautiful bill , we provided 68 00:02:36,172 --> 00:02:38,172 hundreds of millions of dollars for 69 00:02:38,172 --> 00:02:40,395 military childcare and improved housing 70 00:02:40,395 --> 00:02:42,580 on military bases . It's being built , 71 00:02:42,699 --> 00:02:44,755 much of it's being built right now . 72 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:47,131 Last Christmas , every service member 73 00:02:47,131 --> 00:02:48,964 received a warrior dividend of . 74 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,240 $1,776 . Think of that . I wonder 75 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,018 where we got that number . It's 76 00:02:55,018 --> 00:02:57,520 actually 1775 . The number worked out 77 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,160 to be $170 . I said if you add $1 we 78 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,216 have $17 . That was one of my genius 79 00:03:02,216 --> 00:03:05,800 ideas . We have 1,776 , but that's , 80 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:07,804 that was a great thing . And we've 81 00:03:07,904 --> 00:03:10,904 given every member of our military hard 82 00:03:10,904 --> 00:03:13,264 earned pay raise . We've also given the 83 00:03:13,264 --> 00:03:15,985 pay raise . The commission will help 84 00:03:15,985 --> 00:03:17,985 ensure we continue to give military 85 00:03:17,985 --> 00:03:20,625 spouses our very best so our military 86 00:03:20,625 --> 00:03:22,458 can continue to be the strongest 87 00:03:22,458 --> 00:03:24,514 military anywhere in the world , and 88 00:03:24,514 --> 00:03:26,736 we're proving that , uh , as you know , 89 00:03:26,736 --> 00:03:28,958 we had a conflict with Venezuela worked 90 00:03:28,958 --> 00:03:31,264 out very well , and we have a conflict 91 00:03:31,264 --> 00:03:33,486 with Iran , and that's working out very 92 00:03:33,486 --> 00:03:35,729 well , very , very well . So now I'd 93 00:03:35,729 --> 00:03:38,330 like to ask Jennifer Hegseth to say a 94 00:03:38,330 --> 00:03:40,970 few words , followed by Pete , General 95 00:03:40,970 --> 00:03:42,850 Kane , and then I will sign the 96 00:03:42,850 --> 00:03:45,270 executive order putting this into play , 97 00:03:45,289 --> 00:03:48,449 and it's uh an order that's long 98 00:03:48,449 --> 00:03:50,639 overdue as far as I'm concerned , like 99 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:52,695 by decades . And we're going to do a 100 00:03:52,695 --> 00:03:54,910 real job with it . And Jennifer , if 101 00:03:54,910 --> 00:03:56,966 you will , please , Mr . President , 102 00:03:56,966 --> 00:03:58,799 you have been a champion for the 103 00:03:58,799 --> 00:04:00,910 military , and we are so grateful for 104 00:04:00,910 --> 00:04:02,910 that and that continues today . And 105 00:04:02,910 --> 00:04:05,077 like you said , these are generational 106 00:04:05,077 --> 00:04:07,410 issues that are long overdue to address , 107 00:04:07,410 --> 00:04:09,632 and we have the most amazing women here 108 00:04:09,632 --> 00:04:11,521 who have decades of experience as 109 00:04:11,521 --> 00:04:14,059 military spouses themselves . To take a 110 00:04:14,059 --> 00:04:16,059 look at it , there's really nothing 111 00:04:16,059 --> 00:04:18,170 we're going to find that they haven't 112 00:04:18,170 --> 00:04:20,059 experienced . And so between what 113 00:04:20,059 --> 00:04:22,337 they've experienced and what they know , 114 00:04:22,337 --> 00:04:24,281 we're going to really tackle these 115 00:04:24,281 --> 00:04:26,392 things . And I've spent the last year 116 00:04:26,392 --> 00:04:28,559 traveling around meeting with military 117 00:04:28,559 --> 00:04:30,670 spouses and families around the world 118 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:32,781 and around the country , and it's the 119 00:04:32,781 --> 00:04:34,948 same from Kentucky to Singapore . It's 120 00:04:34,948 --> 00:04:34,779 housing , it's healthcare , it's 121 00:04:34,779 --> 00:04:37,500 employment . It's childcare , it's 122 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:39,611 education , and so we're gonna take a 123 00:04:39,611 --> 00:04:41,667 look at all of those things . Even , 124 00:04:41,667 --> 00:04:44,000 even one of the women up here , I won't , 125 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,222 I won't say who , but was a paramedic , 126 00:04:46,222 --> 00:04:48,444 and As they moved from state to state , 127 00:04:48,444 --> 00:04:50,611 she could not get the license . Switch 128 00:04:50,611 --> 00:04:52,722 to that state in time before you move 129 00:04:52,722 --> 00:04:54,833 again , before you PCS , and it makes 130 00:04:54,833 --> 00:04:57,000 it really difficult for these families 131 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:56,429 to survive , let alone all the other 132 00:04:56,429 --> 00:04:58,750 sacrifices we're asking for them . So 133 00:04:58,750 --> 00:05:00,917 this is a big deal today . We're super 134 00:05:00,917 --> 00:05:02,861 grateful . Every time Pete travels 135 00:05:02,861 --> 00:05:05,269 around , Secretary Hexa travels around 136 00:05:05,269 --> 00:05:07,450 talking to the troops , he tells them 137 00:05:07,709 --> 00:05:09,820 the president has your back , and now 138 00:05:09,820 --> 00:05:11,931 the families know that you have their 139 00:05:11,931 --> 00:05:14,098 back too , and we are grateful . Thank 140 00:05:14,098 --> 00:05:14,049 you . Thank you , Jennifer . Great job . 141 00:05:14,230 --> 00:05:16,820 Thank you . Um , how about you say 142 00:05:16,820 --> 00:05:18,931 something first and then we'll go , I 143 00:05:18,931 --> 00:05:20,931 can't , then we'll go back into the 144 00:05:20,931 --> 00:05:20,850 general . You're not gonna talk . I 145 00:05:20,850 --> 00:05:23,017 can't top that , Mr . President . Give 146 00:05:23,017 --> 00:05:25,128 it a shot . You're not going to . You 147 00:05:25,128 --> 00:05:28,320 know , it's true . Strong families 148 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,720 equal strong formations . When you look 149 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,887 at it from a military perspective as a 150 00:05:32,887 --> 00:05:35,109 secretary , our job is to make sure our 151 00:05:35,109 --> 00:05:37,331 troops are prepared and ready on behalf 152 00:05:37,331 --> 00:05:36,959 of the nation . And if your family is 153 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:38,929 not taken care of , then it causes 154 00:05:38,929 --> 00:05:41,040 hesitations and complications for the 155 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,279 warfighters out front . And so we say 156 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,390 often , and we mean it , no soldier , 157 00:05:45,390 --> 00:05:47,335 no marine , no member of the joint 158 00:05:47,335 --> 00:05:49,446 force serves alone . And so if we can 159 00:05:49,446 --> 00:05:51,612 address the issues of housing and make 160 00:05:51,612 --> 00:05:53,723 sure it's quality housing , make sure 161 00:05:53,723 --> 00:05:53,239 employment opportunities are maxed . 162 00:05:53,380 --> 00:05:55,602 Out . Make sure childcare is taken care 163 00:05:55,602 --> 00:05:58,339 of . Make sure schools are the best in 164 00:05:58,339 --> 00:06:00,339 the world so that military kids are 165 00:06:00,339 --> 00:06:02,506 being educated . The trade skills they 166 00:06:02,506 --> 00:06:04,672 might want to take the next chapter in 167 00:06:04,672 --> 00:06:06,728 life . If that warfighter knows that 168 00:06:06,728 --> 00:06:08,895 their family is good to go , uh , they 169 00:06:08,895 --> 00:06:11,061 will go the extra mile , which is what 170 00:06:11,061 --> 00:06:13,172 our nation asks . So we're in , we're 171 00:06:13,172 --> 00:06:15,117 in this is not one of those window 172 00:06:15,117 --> 00:06:17,117 dressing efforts that Jen's right . 173 00:06:17,117 --> 00:06:19,061 This entire group has mountains of 174 00:06:19,061 --> 00:06:21,228 experience and they're raring to go to 175 00:06:21,228 --> 00:06:23,283 put it to use on behalf of the great 176 00:06:23,283 --> 00:06:23,230 Americans who serve our nation . And 177 00:06:23,230 --> 00:06:25,452 this is going to be full speed ahead to 178 00:06:25,452 --> 00:06:27,619 address every quality of life issue we 179 00:06:27,619 --> 00:06:29,786 can , which Mr . President , you , you 180 00:06:29,786 --> 00:06:32,063 invested in the one big beautiful bill . 181 00:06:32,063 --> 00:06:30,989 People don't know how much went into 182 00:06:30,989 --> 00:06:33,267 housing and into barracks and into pay . 183 00:06:33,267 --> 00:06:35,322 That's a down payment . And now with 184 00:06:35,322 --> 00:06:37,433 the $1.5 trillion which we're working 185 00:06:37,433 --> 00:06:39,600 to get every dollar of , it's going to 186 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,378 be a generational investment in 187 00:06:41,378 --> 00:06:43,433 barracks . Housing and healthcare in 188 00:06:43,433 --> 00:06:45,545 pay in ways no commander in chief has 189 00:06:45,545 --> 00:06:47,711 ever done before . So Mr . President , 190 00:06:47,711 --> 00:06:47,410 thank you for leading on this , and 191 00:06:47,410 --> 00:06:49,632 this commission is ready to go . Well , 192 00:06:49,632 --> 00:06:51,688 thank you very much . You're doing a 193 00:06:51,688 --> 00:06:53,910 fantastic job , General . Please , Mr . 194 00:06:53,910 --> 00:06:56,077 President , Mrs . Heckseth , Secretary 195 00:06:56,077 --> 00:06:58,132 Hegseth , it's an honor for me to be 196 00:06:58,132 --> 00:06:59,966 here today at the launch of this 197 00:06:59,966 --> 00:07:01,869 commission . As we stand here now 198 00:07:01,869 --> 00:07:03,869 around the world , military service 199 00:07:03,869 --> 00:07:05,813 members are out doing our nation's 200 00:07:05,813 --> 00:07:07,989 business and ready to do what is asked 201 00:07:07,989 --> 00:07:10,350 of them . The foundation of American 202 00:07:10,350 --> 00:07:12,429 military readiness is the families , 203 00:07:12,470 --> 00:07:14,709 and the backstopping of all of that is 204 00:07:14,709 --> 00:07:16,950 the military spouses that serve behind 205 00:07:16,950 --> 00:07:19,670 them . Inevitably every time somebody 206 00:07:19,670 --> 00:07:22,190 deploys that refrigerator will break 207 00:07:22,190 --> 00:07:24,510 down , the car will break down . You 208 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:26,989 think we're strong . American military 209 00:07:26,989 --> 00:07:29,709 spouses are 10 times stronger , and the 210 00:07:29,709 --> 00:07:31,709 lift that they carry is significant 211 00:07:31,709 --> 00:07:34,309 every single day . I want to thank this 212 00:07:34,309 --> 00:07:36,365 commission for the Work that they're 213 00:07:36,365 --> 00:07:38,510 going to do to help improve military 214 00:07:38,510 --> 00:07:40,660 families' lives and military spouses' 215 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:43,779 lives , it is a critical enabler for 216 00:07:43,779 --> 00:07:46,001 American war fighting capabilities . So 217 00:07:46,001 --> 00:07:48,001 to all of you here and all the work 218 00:07:48,001 --> 00:07:50,168 that went into putting this commission 219 00:07:50,168 --> 00:07:52,390 together , thank you , Mr . President , 220 00:07:52,390 --> 00:07:54,619 we're honored to be here today . Where 221 00:07:54,619 --> 00:07:56,563 will they be meeting when you have 222 00:07:56,563 --> 00:07:58,563 meetings because you're going to be 223 00:07:58,563 --> 00:07:58,170 having a lot of meetings . Do you know 224 00:07:58,170 --> 00:08:00,337 where you're going to be meeting every 225 00:08:00,337 --> 00:08:02,392 month here at the White House . Oh , 226 00:08:02,392 --> 00:08:04,559 that's great . We can't do better than 227 00:08:04,559 --> 00:08:06,726 that . Can't do better than that . Use 228 00:08:06,726 --> 00:08:09,829 the Oval Office . Would anybody like to 229 00:08:09,829 --> 00:08:11,773 say anything ? Maybe Desiree , you 230 00:08:11,773 --> 00:08:13,885 could start , and then if you want to 231 00:08:13,885 --> 00:08:15,996 say anything , great time to say it . 232 00:08:15,996 --> 00:08:18,107 Desiree . I'll just be really short . 233 00:08:18,107 --> 00:08:20,273 It's a pleasure for me to serve as the 234 00:08:20,273 --> 00:08:22,496 executive director of this commission . 235 00:08:22,496 --> 00:08:22,190 I think it's a long time coming . Um , 236 00:08:22,290 --> 00:08:24,457 it's a little bit of a pet project out 237 00:08:24,457 --> 00:08:26,568 of my office , uh , simply because we 238 00:08:26,568 --> 00:08:28,512 have the chief of staff of the Air 239 00:08:28,512 --> 00:08:30,012 Force's wife that has been 240 00:08:30,012 --> 00:08:32,179 inspirational for this . Um , she's 41 241 00:08:32,179 --> 00:08:34,179 year spouse , um , but collectively 242 00:08:34,179 --> 00:08:36,869 this group has over 400 years of 243 00:08:36,869 --> 00:08:39,091 experience . As an active duty military 244 00:08:39,091 --> 00:08:41,775 spouse , 400 , and they've probably 245 00:08:41,775 --> 00:08:44,294 moved about 300 times . So if you can 246 00:08:44,294 --> 00:08:46,575 imagine that level of experience coming 247 00:08:46,575 --> 00:08:48,965 to this commission and solving real 248 00:08:48,965 --> 00:08:52,015 problems for the future of our military 249 00:08:52,015 --> 00:08:54,015 spouses and families , it's just an 250 00:08:54,015 --> 00:08:56,071 incredible thing that you're doing , 251 00:08:56,071 --> 00:08:58,237 President Trump , actually asking them 252 00:08:58,237 --> 00:09:00,459 to solve these problems and to give you 253 00:09:00,459 --> 00:09:02,626 good recommendations , and we're happy 254 00:09:02,626 --> 00:09:04,848 to help them do that . So you know , we 255 00:09:04,848 --> 00:09:07,015 have Desiree's been with us for a long 256 00:09:07,015 --> 00:09:09,010 time . And she's directly and 257 00:09:09,010 --> 00:09:11,489 indirectly done what she's doing for a 258 00:09:11,489 --> 00:09:13,539 long , long time , covered numerous 259 00:09:13,539 --> 00:09:16,210 presidents , and She basically responds 260 00:09:16,210 --> 00:09:18,266 to the public when the public , uh , 261 00:09:18,266 --> 00:09:20,432 they send things . Sometimes they send 262 00:09:20,432 --> 00:09:22,654 gifts . Actually it amounts to millions 263 00:09:22,654 --> 00:09:25,049 of dollars in small money , and I said , 264 00:09:25,169 --> 00:09:27,169 Well , what happens to that money ? 265 00:09:27,169 --> 00:09:29,391 They send it back or they do charitable 266 00:09:29,391 --> 00:09:31,447 work , but it's literally millions . 267 00:09:31,447 --> 00:09:33,558 They send it to me . I should be able 268 00:09:33,558 --> 00:09:35,780 to get it . She won't give it to me . I 269 00:09:35,780 --> 00:09:37,780 should be entitled to it . No , but 270 00:09:37,780 --> 00:09:40,058 they send it to me as just a . Gesture , 271 00:09:40,058 --> 00:09:42,169 but they write thousands and hundreds 272 00:09:42,169 --> 00:09:44,391 of thousands of letters , and she's got 273 00:09:44,391 --> 00:09:46,479 a staff that's all volunteer , and I 274 00:09:46,479 --> 00:09:48,646 have one question . How did I , how do 275 00:09:48,646 --> 00:09:50,646 I compare in terms of response with 276 00:09:50,646 --> 00:09:52,960 other presidents of the past ? No 277 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,440 comparison , sir . Is that good or bad ? 278 00:09:55,599 --> 00:09:58,630 No , it's good . It's very good . It's 279 00:09:58,630 --> 00:10:00,960 very good . We do OK . We do a little 280 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,929 more than . Sleepy Joe , 281 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:07,890 yes , I think so . Thank you . Thank 282 00:10:07,890 --> 00:10:10,001 you . Uh , does anybody have anything 283 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:12,169 to say or a question or statement ? 284 00:10:12,239 --> 00:10:14,295 Would you like to make a statement ? 285 00:10:14,295 --> 00:10:16,350 Yes , please . Can I just say , um , 286 00:10:16,350 --> 00:10:18,406 I'm so excited . I've , we've served 287 00:10:18,406 --> 00:10:20,572 with the Wills Box now for a number of 288 00:10:20,572 --> 00:10:22,795 years , and I've seen them champion the 289 00:10:22,795 --> 00:10:24,795 enlisted Corps . Um , as a , as the 290 00:10:24,795 --> 00:10:26,850 spouse of a senior enlisted leader , 291 00:10:26,850 --> 00:10:29,017 it's pretty easy for something amazing 292 00:10:29,017 --> 00:10:31,239 like this to happen and not include the 293 00:10:31,239 --> 00:10:33,295 enlisted corps , the senior enlisted 294 00:10:33,295 --> 00:10:35,350 leaders from the enlisted corps . It 295 00:10:35,350 --> 00:10:37,572 means the world to me that this started 296 00:10:37,572 --> 00:10:40,140 with them in mind . And , um , I don't 297 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:42,380 know if you remember , but a few years 298 00:10:42,380 --> 00:10:44,658 ago , my husband was serving in Alaska , 299 00:10:44,658 --> 00:10:46,713 and before you got on the plane , he 300 00:10:46,713 --> 00:10:48,936 asked your detail if he could ask you a 301 00:10:48,936 --> 00:10:50,991 question , and he asked if you would 302 00:10:50,991 --> 00:10:53,159 FaceTime me , and you did . I 303 00:10:54,789 --> 00:10:58,229 It meant , it meant the world . You're 304 00:10:58,229 --> 00:11:00,340 getting ready to get on the plane and 305 00:11:00,340 --> 00:11:02,690 this E-9 , this enlisted , uh , uh , 306 00:11:02,859 --> 00:11:05,026 command chief asked you to FaceTime me 307 00:11:05,026 --> 00:11:07,137 and you put your arm around him . You 308 00:11:07,137 --> 00:11:09,137 said , he's doing a good job . Take 309 00:11:09,137 --> 00:11:10,970 good care of him . And that that 310 00:11:10,970 --> 00:11:13,026 picture hangs has hung in his office 311 00:11:13,026 --> 00:11:15,192 since , and it just means the world to 312 00:11:15,192 --> 00:11:17,137 me that you highlight the enlisted 313 00:11:17,137 --> 00:11:19,359 court every chance you get , and I love 314 00:11:19,359 --> 00:11:21,581 to tell people that story that you took 315 00:11:21,581 --> 00:11:21,559 the time for . Thank you very much . 316 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:25,289 Say hello . OK , I remember . Please , 317 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,599 anybody else , this is Cindy Wilsbach 318 00:11:27,599 --> 00:11:30,830 who's humble to her core and has had a 319 00:11:30,830 --> 00:11:32,663 significant role in putting this 320 00:11:32,663 --> 00:11:34,886 commission together . So I just want to 321 00:11:34,886 --> 00:11:37,052 highlight Cindy . I would just like to 322 00:11:37,052 --> 00:11:39,163 say this is a red letter day for me , 323 00:11:39,163 --> 00:11:40,997 just the honor that I feel to be 324 00:11:40,997 --> 00:11:43,565 surrounded by these spouses who , what 325 00:11:43,565 --> 00:11:45,787 I like to say is we serve by oath or by 326 00:11:45,787 --> 00:11:47,787 vow . We didn't all raise our right 327 00:11:47,787 --> 00:11:49,787 hand to take an oath , but we began 328 00:11:49,787 --> 00:11:51,676 serving this great nation when we 329 00:11:51,676 --> 00:11:53,787 extended our left hand and said a vow 330 00:11:53,787 --> 00:11:55,954 to the person that we love that served 331 00:11:55,954 --> 00:11:58,121 this country , and we represent people 332 00:11:58,121 --> 00:12:00,287 that are at the end of their careers . 333 00:12:00,287 --> 00:12:02,232 We have served decades , 2030 , 40 334 00:12:02,232 --> 00:12:04,232 years of . This is about the legacy 335 00:12:04,232 --> 00:12:06,398 that we leave for the people that come 336 00:12:06,398 --> 00:12:08,454 after us , for these people who have 337 00:12:08,454 --> 00:12:10,565 children who are serving now , or for 338 00:12:10,565 --> 00:12:12,676 families that we say we love you , we 339 00:12:12,676 --> 00:12:14,454 care about you , and we are the 340 00:12:14,454 --> 00:12:16,509 greatest military in the world , and 341 00:12:16,509 --> 00:12:16,409 part of that is taking care of our 342 00:12:16,409 --> 00:12:18,187 families , and that's what this 343 00:12:18,187 --> 00:12:20,298 commission and your husband is highly 344 00:12:20,298 --> 00:12:22,465 respected , I have to tell you that by 345 00:12:22,465 --> 00:12:24,687 everybody , by everybody . Anybody over 346 00:12:24,687 --> 00:12:26,853 here ? Yes , please , Mr . President , 347 00:12:26,929 --> 00:12:29,015 on behalf of the Coast Guard . We 348 00:12:29,015 --> 00:12:31,375 cannot thank you enough for the amount 349 00:12:31,375 --> 00:12:34,664 of money that you have put into our 350 00:12:34,664 --> 00:12:37,015 organization . We are beyond excited 351 00:12:37,015 --> 00:12:39,237 about the new potentials that we have . 352 00:12:39,534 --> 00:12:41,645 We can just feel it . The whole , the 353 00:12:41,645 --> 00:12:43,867 whole Coast Guard , every time we go to 354 00:12:43,867 --> 00:12:45,756 visit our different units and our 355 00:12:45,756 --> 00:12:47,867 families , people are super excited . 356 00:12:47,867 --> 00:12:49,978 11 ice gutters , right ? Absolutely . 357 00:12:50,335 --> 00:12:52,335 I'll be talking . Yes , going to be 358 00:12:52,335 --> 00:12:54,391 beautiful . Yes sir , yes sir . They 359 00:12:54,391 --> 00:12:57,229 had 1 . Russia has 48 . They had one 360 00:12:57,429 --> 00:12:59,950 and it was 50 years old and you're 361 00:12:59,950 --> 00:13:02,172 gonna soon be getting 11 brand new ones 362 00:13:02,172 --> 00:13:04,580 at top of the line , so that's our 363 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:06,729 people are very thrilled and super 364 00:13:06,729 --> 00:13:08,673 excited and very thankful to you . 365 00:13:08,673 --> 00:13:10,896 Thank you , sir . Thank you very much . 366 00:13:10,896 --> 00:13:13,062 Good . Anybody else like to say ? Last 367 00:13:13,062 --> 00:13:16,190 chance . That's it . So I'm gonna sign 368 00:13:16,190 --> 00:13:19,349 this and it's a real honor and then if 369 00:13:19,349 --> 00:13:21,909 you like , you could ask questions of 370 00:13:21,909 --> 00:13:24,940 the people . And or me if you want . 371 00:13:37,869 --> 00:13:40,229 OK , that's a good one . So I wouldn't 372 00:13:40,229 --> 00:13:42,710 want a bad one on this topic . Some are 373 00:13:42,710 --> 00:13:45,739 good , you know , we rate them from . 6 374 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,380 To 10 . 6 is usually when I'm standing 375 00:13:49,380 --> 00:13:51,539 up holding it . You can't do a very 376 00:13:51,539 --> 00:13:54,260 good one , but uh that's a 10 , so 377 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:55,982 we're , you deserve a 10 too . 378 00:14:03,619 --> 00:14:07,419 OK . I think you should know that , OK . 379 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,320 Questions , please , please . On behalf 380 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,542 of the press corps , I thank you ladies 381 00:14:13,542 --> 00:14:15,764 for what you do for our service members 382 00:14:15,764 --> 00:14:17,931 in this country . Mr . President , are 383 00:14:17,931 --> 00:14:19,931 the talks with Iran now off and air 384 00:14:19,931 --> 00:14:21,931 strikes ? No , they're on . They're 385 00:14:21,931 --> 00:14:23,987 going on right now . It's an amazing 386 00:14:23,987 --> 00:14:26,098 thing . We have a little problem with 387 00:14:26,098 --> 00:14:28,098 Iran because we have many talks and 388 00:14:28,098 --> 00:14:30,153 we'll say we have or we don't have , 389 00:14:30,153 --> 00:14:29,750 you know , we're straight about it , 390 00:14:30,309 --> 00:14:32,531 but they deny , but they're not denying 391 00:14:32,531 --> 00:14:34,809 it now . They just put out a statement , 392 00:14:34,809 --> 00:14:36,865 not denying it , but for some reason 393 00:14:36,865 --> 00:14:39,229 they . When they're talking , they 394 00:14:39,229 --> 00:14:41,507 don't like saying that they're talking , 395 00:14:41,507 --> 00:14:43,673 so I say , wait , we're in talks . Big 396 00:14:43,673 --> 00:14:45,673 deal , we're in talks , and they'll 397 00:14:45,673 --> 00:14:47,618 sometimes deny it even though they 398 00:14:47,618 --> 00:14:49,896 spend hours and hours together talking . 399 00:14:49,989 --> 00:14:52,710 No , the talks are going along . We're 400 00:14:52,710 --> 00:14:54,932 going to hit them very hard yesterday , 401 00:14:54,932 --> 00:14:57,520 very , very hard , harder than . Any 402 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,049 attack , I think I can say , general , 403 00:15:00,239 --> 00:15:03,450 from A point of knowledge , any attack 404 00:15:03,789 --> 00:15:06,210 since World War II , that's pretty big , 405 00:15:06,669 --> 00:15:08,780 and we were set to go and they called 406 00:15:08,989 --> 00:15:11,289 and in addition , Saudi Arabia called 407 00:15:11,789 --> 00:15:15,580 and uh UAE called . Qatar 408 00:15:15,580 --> 00:15:18,280 called , got calls from numerous people , 409 00:15:18,979 --> 00:15:20,812 not , I don't wanna use the word 410 00:15:20,812 --> 00:15:22,535 begging , but some , some , in 411 00:15:22,535 --> 00:15:25,080 particular , Iran did not want to be 412 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,859 hit . And they said we want to talk , 413 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,687 we want to talk about the strait , but 414 00:15:30,687 --> 00:15:32,798 more importantly from my standpoint , 415 00:15:32,830 --> 00:15:34,440 we want to talk about the 416 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,080 denuclearization of Iran because it's 417 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,191 what it's all about . This is why I'm 418 00:15:39,191 --> 00:15:41,247 doing this , and it should have been 419 00:15:41,247 --> 00:15:43,191 done . It's now 50 years . We keep 420 00:15:43,191 --> 00:15:45,413 saying 47 years , but 3 years have gone 421 00:15:45,413 --> 00:15:48,390 by , but it's for 50 years that other 422 00:15:48,390 --> 00:15:50,557 presidents should have been doing what 423 00:15:50,557 --> 00:15:52,668 I or other countries . It didn't have 424 00:15:52,668 --> 00:15:54,723 to be us , but other countries . And 425 00:15:54,723 --> 00:15:56,890 nobody did it , and it was time and we 426 00:15:56,890 --> 00:15:59,057 hit him hard with the B-2s more than a 427 00:15:59,057 --> 00:16:01,210 year ago now . And that knocked out 428 00:16:01,210 --> 00:16:03,154 their capability , their potential 429 00:16:03,154 --> 00:16:06,530 capability , uh , and uh we've done a 430 00:16:06,530 --> 00:16:08,849 great job , but when we talk we say 431 00:16:08,849 --> 00:16:11,016 we're talking . If we're not talking , 432 00:16:11,016 --> 00:16:13,182 when you ask me no we're not talking , 433 00:16:13,182 --> 00:16:15,349 I'll say it , but we are talking right 434 00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:17,516 now we're talking and we're talking at 435 00:16:17,516 --> 00:16:19,627 the request of Iran . Backed by Saudi 436 00:16:19,627 --> 00:16:23,080 Arabia , backed by UAE , and backed by 437 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,302 Qatar in particular , but others also , 438 00:16:25,302 --> 00:16:27,320 many , many countries called the 439 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,542 leaders of many are friendly with a lot 440 00:16:29,542 --> 00:16:31,764 of them , almost all of them one way or 441 00:16:31,764 --> 00:16:34,679 the other , and they all wanted to give 442 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:36,679 this a last chance . This is a last 443 00:16:36,679 --> 00:16:39,320 chance . This is not something that if 444 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,376 it doesn't happen , this is the last 445 00:16:41,376 --> 00:16:45,340 chance for them to sign a . Good 446 00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:47,260 document . Yes , please , Mr . 447 00:16:47,369 --> 00:16:49,580 President , New York City Mayor Zoran 448 00:16:49,580 --> 00:16:52,340 Mamdani is requiring an ID to access 449 00:16:52,340 --> 00:16:54,640 his government-run grocery stores . 450 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:57,627 What then is your message to Democrats 451 00:16:57,627 --> 00:16:59,460 who do not want to pass the Save 452 00:16:59,460 --> 00:17:01,738 America Act and ensure , uh , you know , 453 00:17:01,738 --> 00:17:03,793 ID at the ballot box was announced . 454 00:17:03,793 --> 00:17:06,016 This was just announced . I heard about 455 00:17:06,016 --> 00:17:08,127 it . Yeah , well , I wish they'd have 456 00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:10,293 an ID to access the voting booth , you 457 00:17:10,293 --> 00:17:12,349 know , they don't want to access the 458 00:17:12,349 --> 00:17:14,516 voting booth with any identification . 459 00:17:14,516 --> 00:17:16,738 We want voter ID . And we want proof of 460 00:17:16,738 --> 00:17:19,739 citizenship . Uh , well , he also had a 461 00:17:19,739 --> 00:17:21,517 thing where you had to have two 462 00:17:21,517 --> 00:17:23,780 different IDs to shovel snow during the 463 00:17:23,780 --> 00:17:25,669 winter , right ? So that's a very 464 00:17:25,669 --> 00:17:27,724 friendly question . I like her . Who 465 00:17:27,724 --> 00:17:30,939 are you with ? Very good , good 466 00:17:30,939 --> 00:17:34,410 question . Very good . Almost 20 GOP 467 00:17:34,410 --> 00:17:36,632 senators who have pledged to stay in DC 468 00:17:36,632 --> 00:17:38,540 to pass the Save America Act . So 469 00:17:38,540 --> 00:17:40,707 what's your message to the rest of the 470 00:17:40,707 --> 00:17:42,873 senators who are still on their summer 471 00:17:42,873 --> 00:17:44,984 recess ? I think there's nothing more 472 00:17:44,984 --> 00:17:47,207 important than the Save America Act . I 473 00:17:47,207 --> 00:17:49,318 think they should stay . They do what 474 00:17:49,318 --> 00:17:51,318 they want , but I think they should 475 00:17:51,318 --> 00:17:54,010 stay . I think it's so important to get 476 00:17:54,010 --> 00:17:56,319 it passed . Yes , where are the Iran 477 00:17:56,319 --> 00:17:58,486 talks and what are your requirements ? 478 00:17:58,486 --> 00:18:00,597 You'll find out today or tomorrow . I 479 00:18:00,597 --> 00:18:02,763 mean , they're going to go quickly one 480 00:18:02,763 --> 00:18:02,199 way or the other . It's not very 481 00:18:02,199 --> 00:18:04,300 complex . We're talking about the 482 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:06,356 strait , the opening of the strait , 483 00:18:06,356 --> 00:18:08,739 having it open literally by tomorrow , 484 00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:12,819 completely open , and that's phase one 485 00:18:12,819 --> 00:18:14,819 and phase two is we then will talk 486 00:18:14,819 --> 00:18:17,739 about the nuclear , uh , capacity , the 487 00:18:17,739 --> 00:18:19,795 nuclear , what , you know , as we've 488 00:18:19,795 --> 00:18:21,906 been mentioned , basically , it's , I 489 00:18:21,906 --> 00:18:24,500 think Moss , the denuclearization . Of 490 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,890 Iran has to happen , has to happen , 491 00:18:27,189 --> 00:18:29,310 and that'll be the second phase , but 492 00:18:29,310 --> 00:18:31,421 the first phase is the opening of the 493 00:18:31,421 --> 00:18:33,588 straits . The second phase will be the 494 00:18:33,588 --> 00:18:35,699 denuclearization , and that'll take a 495 00:18:35,699 --> 00:18:38,780 little while , but we They're very 496 00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:40,669 strong on it . They cannot have a 497 00:18:40,669 --> 00:18:42,669 nuclear weapon . Iran cannot have a 498 00:18:42,669 --> 00:18:45,002 nuclear weapon , and I've never changed . 499 00:18:45,002 --> 00:18:46,947 Yeah , please , in the back . Mr . 500 00:18:46,947 --> 00:18:49,113 President . You said that if Democrats 501 00:18:49,113 --> 00:18:51,336 get back into power , what is happening 502 00:18:51,336 --> 00:18:53,447 in Spain awaits America . What should 503 00:18:53,447 --> 00:18:55,169 voters in other countries with 504 00:18:55,169 --> 00:18:57,391 elections coming up soon take away from 505 00:18:57,391 --> 00:18:59,391 what's going on in Spain to be very 506 00:18:59,391 --> 00:19:01,669 careful with the whole socialist thing . 507 00:19:01,669 --> 00:19:03,724 I think in many cases it's much more 508 00:19:03,724 --> 00:19:03,560 than socialists . They skipped 509 00:19:03,819 --> 00:19:05,708 socialism . They went directly to 510 00:19:05,708 --> 00:19:07,800 communism . But when I saw what 511 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,022 happened in Spain , I said , you know , 512 00:19:10,170 --> 00:19:12,226 we had a version of that , you could 513 00:19:12,226 --> 00:19:14,930 say much worse . We , we allowed 25 514 00:19:14,930 --> 00:19:18,479 million people under Joe Biden . The 515 00:19:18,479 --> 00:19:21,589 Democrats , we had open borders and 516 00:19:21,599 --> 00:19:23,710 countries all over the world , almost 517 00:19:23,710 --> 00:19:25,880 all of them , sent people that they 518 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,520 don't want into our country , and we've 519 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,464 gotten a lot of them out and we're 520 00:19:30,464 --> 00:19:32,631 getting more , including murders , and 521 00:19:32,631 --> 00:19:34,920 I always say 11,888 , that was the 522 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:36,753 number of murders . Many of them 523 00:19:36,839 --> 00:19:40,270 committed more than one murder and . 524 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:43,821 We're going to be just like that if you 525 00:19:43,821 --> 00:19:45,655 put these lunatics in that I see 526 00:19:45,655 --> 00:19:48,560 running for office . Uh , they had , we 527 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,616 had an open border a year and a half 528 00:19:50,616 --> 00:19:52,671 ago . We had the worst border in the 529 00:19:52,671 --> 00:19:54,727 history of our country . Now we have 530 00:19:54,727 --> 00:19:56,782 the best border . We haven't had one 531 00:19:56,782 --> 00:19:58,838 person come in , and this is done by 532 00:19:58,838 --> 00:20:01,420 the Democrats by left-leaning people . 533 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,920 They do charts , and they have in 15 534 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,640 months , not one person has come in 535 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,959 through our southern border illegally . 536 00:20:10,030 --> 00:20:12,599 Now that's pretty amazing . I'd say 537 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:15,170 maybe 10 , maybe 15 , they say none , 538 00:20:15,709 --> 00:20:17,820 and believe me , if they did , they'd 539 00:20:17,820 --> 00:20:19,876 love to report it , but you could go 540 00:20:19,876 --> 00:20:21,820 outside in those vast plazas where 541 00:20:22,069 --> 00:20:23,847 hundreds of thousands of people 542 00:20:23,847 --> 00:20:26,013 gathered when they stormed our country 543 00:20:26,013 --> 00:20:28,069 just like they did , in my opinion , 544 00:20:28,069 --> 00:20:31,089 worse , just like they did to Spain . 545 00:20:31,459 --> 00:20:33,550 They , they stormed our country and 546 00:20:33,550 --> 00:20:35,930 those borders are those , those big 547 00:20:35,930 --> 00:20:37,819 plazas that were built , they put 548 00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:40,300 concrete down . And now you look at 549 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:42,411 them and there's grass growing in the 550 00:20:42,411 --> 00:20:44,670 cracks . Nobody comes up because they 551 00:20:44,670 --> 00:20:46,892 know they're not going to get through , 552 00:20:46,892 --> 00:20:48,948 and if they do get through , they're 553 00:20:48,948 --> 00:20:51,170 going to be taken out , brought back to 554 00:20:51,170 --> 00:20:53,337 their country . So , uh , we've done a 555 00:20:53,337 --> 00:20:53,150 fantastic job , you know . Somebody 556 00:20:53,150 --> 00:20:55,317 said you did it too fast . I did it in 557 00:20:55,317 --> 00:20:58,069 30 days , my 1st 30 days . Biden 558 00:20:58,069 --> 00:21:00,069 couldn't do it . He couldn't get it 559 00:21:00,069 --> 00:21:02,180 done . He tried at the end . He tried 560 00:21:02,180 --> 00:21:04,069 to do something because it was so 561 00:21:04,069 --> 00:21:05,680 overwhelming . It was so bad 562 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,013 politically . But we did it in 30 years . 563 00:21:08,013 --> 00:21:10,236 Somebody said you should have taken 1.5 564 00:21:10,236 --> 00:21:12,125 or 2 years to complete it because 565 00:21:12,125 --> 00:21:13,625 everyone forgets . Even my 566 00:21:13,625 --> 00:21:15,847 speechwriters , they say , Sir , nobody 567 00:21:15,847 --> 00:21:18,125 wants to hear about the border anymore . 568 00:21:18,125 --> 00:21:20,347 You've done it . It's an incredible job 569 00:21:20,347 --> 00:21:19,959 you've done , but nobody wants to hear 570 00:21:19,959 --> 00:21:22,760 about it , and I should have taken a 571 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,400 couple of years to do it because , uh , 572 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,439 and it actually was the public has 573 00:21:28,439 --> 00:21:31,109 about a 2 year people do . They have a 574 00:21:31,109 --> 00:21:33,750 two year memory for certain things . 575 00:21:33,829 --> 00:21:36,069 They have a two week memory . I may 576 00:21:36,069 --> 00:21:37,958 have gotten elected , I certainly 577 00:21:37,958 --> 00:21:40,739 partially on the border , and because 578 00:21:40,750 --> 00:21:42,972 we did such a great job , it was a long 579 00:21:42,972 --> 00:21:45,194 time ago . I did it twice . I did it in 580 00:21:45,194 --> 00:21:48,099 2016 . When it was bad , but I did it 581 00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:50,859 this last time when it was really bad . 582 00:21:50,939 --> 00:21:53,119 It was , Steve , I would say many , 583 00:21:53,130 --> 00:21:55,297 many times worse than it was in 2016 . 584 00:21:55,439 --> 00:21:59,260 2016 was bad , but what we just had a 585 00:21:59,260 --> 00:22:01,660 year and a half ago , that was the 586 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:03,810 worst border maybe in world history . 587 00:22:04,020 --> 00:22:06,689 There's not a third world country that 588 00:22:06,689 --> 00:22:08,856 would have allowed that to happen with 589 00:22:08,856 --> 00:22:10,745 people coming in from prisons and 590 00:22:10,745 --> 00:22:12,619 people coming in from mental 591 00:22:12,619 --> 00:22:14,900 institutions . And people forced in by 592 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,122 government because these are the people 593 00:22:17,122 --> 00:22:18,844 that those governments , those 594 00:22:18,844 --> 00:22:20,789 countries , I know them all , they 595 00:22:20,789 --> 00:22:22,844 didn't want , and they walked into a 596 00:22:22,844 --> 00:22:24,789 country totally unvetted , totally 597 00:22:24,789 --> 00:22:26,956 unchecked . Not anymore . Nobody comes 598 00:22:26,956 --> 00:22:29,170 in . Except if they come in legally , 599 00:22:29,290 --> 00:22:31,290 yeah , thank you , Mr . President . 600 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,169 Yesterday I'm with the Washington 601 00:22:34,169 --> 00:22:36,410 Examiner , sir . They're good . They've 602 00:22:36,410 --> 00:22:38,890 been very nice to me . You were asked 603 00:22:38,890 --> 00:22:40,946 yesterday whether Representative Max 604 00:22:40,946 --> 00:22:43,168 Miller should resign from Congress over 605 00:22:43,168 --> 00:22:45,168 the allegations , and you said that 606 00:22:45,168 --> 00:22:47,112 you'd have a look at it . Have you 607 00:22:47,112 --> 00:22:49,279 thought about that ? And also , it's a 608 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:51,501 very sad thing . I know Max , he's uh , 609 00:22:51,501 --> 00:22:51,449 is a good person . I mean , I always 610 00:22:51,449 --> 00:22:53,671 thought he was a very good person , and 611 00:22:53,671 --> 00:22:55,727 I'm going to let the families figure 612 00:22:55,727 --> 00:22:57,893 that out , you know , those families . 613 00:22:57,893 --> 00:23:00,005 I know they're working on it . It's a 614 00:23:00,005 --> 00:23:02,060 very sad thing , especially when you 615 00:23:02,060 --> 00:23:03,949 know somebody so well to be going 616 00:23:03,949 --> 00:23:07,300 through that , but it's accusations , 617 00:23:07,699 --> 00:23:09,977 and I'm gonna let them figure that out . 618 00:23:09,977 --> 00:23:12,032 Yeah , please , Mr President , did , 619 00:23:12,032 --> 00:23:13,810 did you sign off on Todd Blanch 620 00:23:13,810 --> 00:23:16,088 rescinding the anti-weaponization fund ? 621 00:23:16,088 --> 00:23:18,255 And also there are Democrats right now 622 00:23:18,255 --> 00:23:20,255 who say there's essentially two tax 623 00:23:20,255 --> 00:23:20,239 codes . There's the Trump family tax 624 00:23:20,239 --> 00:23:23,469 code and a normal people tax code . Why 625 00:23:23,469 --> 00:23:25,636 do you think that your family deserves 626 00:23:25,636 --> 00:23:27,858 some level of special exemption when it 627 00:23:27,858 --> 00:23:30,080 comes to the auditing of taxes ? Well , 628 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,136 I'll go into that . First of all , I 629 00:23:32,136 --> 00:23:34,136 had a 10-year case that was settled 630 00:23:34,510 --> 00:23:36,510 until I announced I was running for 631 00:23:36,510 --> 00:23:38,510 office . It was a settled deal like 632 00:23:38,510 --> 00:23:40,732 I've been doing all my life . I've been 633 00:23:40,732 --> 00:23:42,954 audited every year for my entire life , 634 00:23:42,954 --> 00:23:45,177 which I have a lot of wealthy friends . 635 00:23:45,177 --> 00:23:47,288 They were never audited . To this day 636 00:23:47,288 --> 00:23:49,510 they were never audited . I was audited 637 00:23:49,510 --> 00:23:51,732 and my deal was settled in writing . It 638 00:23:51,732 --> 00:23:54,066 was settled . Subject to final approval , 639 00:23:54,066 --> 00:23:56,010 then I announced I was running for 640 00:23:56,010 --> 00:23:58,177 president , and all they did was haunt 641 00:23:58,177 --> 00:24:00,343 me with it . They ended the settlement 642 00:24:00,343 --> 00:24:02,399 and they went after it and they went 643 00:24:02,399 --> 00:24:04,510 after me illegally and they did a lot 644 00:24:04,510 --> 00:24:06,566 of bad things to me like they did to 645 00:24:06,566 --> 00:24:08,869 other people and uh I was treated very 646 00:24:08,869 --> 00:24:11,339 unfairly by the IRS . I was , it was 647 00:24:11,339 --> 00:24:13,750 weaponized against me . Think of it and 648 00:24:13,750 --> 00:24:16,290 a case from this is a 10 year old case 649 00:24:16,790 --> 00:24:19,300 and . It was settled . It was done . 650 00:24:19,550 --> 00:24:21,579 The case was over . I announced I'm 651 00:24:21,579 --> 00:24:23,800 running for president . And they 652 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,699 terminated the settlement in Washington 653 00:24:27,329 --> 00:24:29,385 and they went after me and what they 654 00:24:29,385 --> 00:24:32,569 did here was very frankly , uh , if you 655 00:24:32,569 --> 00:24:34,680 talk about reparations or if you talk 656 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,902 about payment , what they did to me , I 657 00:24:36,902 --> 00:24:38,958 had a very good case against them so 658 00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:41,241 this was a case that was settled that 659 00:24:41,241 --> 00:24:43,241 when I decided to run for president 660 00:24:43,241 --> 00:24:45,463 right at the beginning , this is a long 661 00:24:45,463 --> 00:24:47,519 time it's been . Going on for a long 662 00:24:47,519 --> 00:24:49,741 time , they terminated the settlement , 663 00:24:49,741 --> 00:24:52,300 which is something that never happened 664 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,189 before . We have letters from the 665 00:24:54,189 --> 00:24:56,380 biggest law firms in Washington saying 666 00:24:56,380 --> 00:24:58,547 that this case is nonsense , just like 667 00:24:58,780 --> 00:25:00,613 the Russia , Russia , Russia was 668 00:25:00,613 --> 00:25:02,836 nonsense . They weaponized government , 669 00:25:02,836 --> 00:25:06,280 and so that's that , and most people 670 00:25:06,290 --> 00:25:08,512 understand that . On the other , on the 671 00:25:08,512 --> 00:25:10,401 fun , these were people that were 672 00:25:10,401 --> 00:25:13,420 treated unbelievably 22 suicides , more 673 00:25:13,420 --> 00:25:15,949 than that , I think . Look at Ashley , 674 00:25:16,030 --> 00:25:18,197 look at , look at so many other things 675 00:25:18,197 --> 00:25:20,086 that happened . These people were 676 00:25:20,086 --> 00:25:22,252 treated horribly , and this fund could 677 00:25:22,252 --> 00:25:25,680 have given them some solace , but , uh , 678 00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:27,983 you know , it happens to be very 679 00:25:27,983 --> 00:25:30,280 popular among . Many quarters and I 680 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,447 don't participate in that fund . I was 681 00:25:32,447 --> 00:25:34,760 certainly treated badly . I don't 682 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,982 participate , but I thought it would be 683 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,520 very fair for people that spent years 684 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,742 in prison , people that were treated so 685 00:25:41,742 --> 00:25:43,853 badly , for in many cases people that 686 00:25:43,853 --> 00:25:47,319 did absolutely nothing wrong . So I 687 00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:49,486 view that fund as a positive and a lot 688 00:25:49,486 --> 00:25:52,239 of Republicans do too . Not so many 689 00:25:52,239 --> 00:25:54,517 Democrats , and it's not only for that , 690 00:25:54,517 --> 00:25:56,739 it's for other things too , people that 691 00:25:56,739 --> 00:25:58,906 have been treated unfairly , that have 692 00:25:58,906 --> 00:26:01,128 been weaponized by a corrupt government 693 00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:03,640 that we had with Obama and that we had 694 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,362 with Biden . You had a corrupt 695 00:26:05,362 --> 00:26:09,359 government with both of them . I didn't 696 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,415 look at it . All I know is that Todd 697 00:26:11,415 --> 00:26:14,119 Blanche is great . He's going to do a 698 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,119 great job . Everybody knows it . And I 699 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,175 understand there's been a sign off , 700 00:26:19,175 --> 00:26:21,286 but I didn't , I don't know what they 701 00:26:21,286 --> 00:26:23,508 agreed . I think Todd Blanche agreed to 702 00:26:23,959 --> 00:26:26,292 reconfirm things that he's already said , 703 00:26:26,292 --> 00:26:28,292 and what he said was OK . Please go 704 00:26:28,292 --> 00:26:30,515 ahead other avenues you have supporters 705 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,560 get paid potentially if it's not the 706 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,727 anti-ization fund . Is there ? Who are 707 00:26:35,727 --> 00:26:37,671 you with ? I'm with MS now , sir . 708 00:26:37,671 --> 00:26:41,400 You're MS MS now . What a terrible show . 709 00:26:42,449 --> 00:26:44,782 They have the worst people on that show . 710 00:26:45,689 --> 00:26:47,745 No , there's no other avenues that I 711 00:26:47,745 --> 00:26:51,369 know about . Go ahead , MS now , that's 712 00:26:51,369 --> 00:26:54,890 the failed MSDNC , right ? The failed . 713 00:26:55,425 --> 00:26:57,647 They failed . They gave it a new name . 714 00:26:57,647 --> 00:26:59,758 You know why ? Because nobody watched 715 00:26:59,758 --> 00:27:01,925 it . Go ahead . And , and fewer people 716 00:27:01,925 --> 00:27:04,258 are watching it now . On the Iran talks , 717 00:27:04,258 --> 00:27:07,785 Iran willing to return to a fully free 718 00:27:07,785 --> 00:27:09,896 navigation of the strait ? Is that on 719 00:27:09,896 --> 00:27:12,755 the table ? Uh , say it again 720 00:27:12,755 --> 00:27:16,660 differently . Iran be willing to 721 00:27:16,660 --> 00:27:19,660 return to fully free navigation ? It 722 00:27:19,660 --> 00:27:21,771 has to be . I'm not going to let them 723 00:27:21,771 --> 00:27:23,993 charge . If anybody's going to charge , 724 00:27:23,993 --> 00:27:26,104 we'll charge . We're the one that has 725 00:27:26,104 --> 00:27:28,382 total we have total control , you know , 726 00:27:28,382 --> 00:27:30,549 we have a thing called a blockade with 727 00:27:30,549 --> 00:27:32,660 his navy , and that navy is they call 728 00:27:32,660 --> 00:27:34,827 it a wall of steel , the United States 729 00:27:34,827 --> 00:27:37,250 Wall of steel . And no , no , there's 730 00:27:37,250 --> 00:27:39,306 not going to be charging . We're not 731 00:27:39,306 --> 00:27:41,417 talking about charging at all . There 732 00:27:41,417 --> 00:27:43,472 won't be charging . Yeah , please do 733 00:27:43,472 --> 00:27:42,500 back you said last week that who are 734 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:43,500 you with 735 00:27:46,729 --> 00:27:48,785 you said that illegal immigration is 736 00:27:48,785 --> 00:27:51,007 killing the UK . Nigel Farage today has 737 00:27:51,007 --> 00:27:53,007 proposed the use of the . to combat 738 00:27:53,007 --> 00:27:55,118 small boats crossing the Channel . Do 739 00:27:55,118 --> 00:27:57,007 you think that European nations , 740 00:27:57,007 --> 00:27:58,951 including the UK , should be using 741 00:27:58,951 --> 00:28:01,062 their militaries to stop ? Look , you 742 00:28:01,062 --> 00:28:03,062 have to stop illegal immigration in 743 00:28:03,062 --> 00:28:05,007 Europe . I know Europe better than 744 00:28:05,007 --> 00:28:07,118 anybody , better than the people that 745 00:28:07,118 --> 00:28:09,340 run it . And have great relationships . 746 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,689 Two things are killing Europe . Number 747 00:28:11,689 --> 00:28:13,911 1 is immigration . Number 2 is energy . 748 00:28:15,290 --> 00:28:17,512 Like the UK , when you look at the UK , 749 00:28:17,512 --> 00:28:19,734 they have one of the best energy fields 750 00:28:19,734 --> 00:28:21,790 in the world , North Sea Oil , and I 751 00:28:21,790 --> 00:28:23,957 think your new prime minister is gonna 752 00:28:23,957 --> 00:28:23,849 actually open up the , from what I hear , 753 00:28:23,890 --> 00:28:25,668 I spoke to him , and he sounded 754 00:28:25,668 --> 00:28:28,369 terrific on this subject , but you open 755 00:28:28,369 --> 00:28:30,480 it up , you'll be a wealthy country . 756 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,647 You keep it closed , you're gonna be a 757 00:28:32,647 --> 00:28:34,702 bankrupt country , which is what you 758 00:28:34,702 --> 00:28:36,536 are now . Essentially , you're a 759 00:28:36,536 --> 00:28:38,702 bankrupt country . You have one of the 760 00:28:38,702 --> 00:28:40,925 greatest energy for the North Sea oil . 761 00:28:40,925 --> 00:28:43,258 One of the greatest fields in the world , 762 00:28:43,258 --> 00:28:45,425 you know , the UK buys its energy from 763 00:28:45,425 --> 00:28:47,536 Norway , who gets the energy from the 764 00:28:47,536 --> 00:28:49,939 North Sea , from not as vibrant a part 765 00:28:49,939 --> 00:28:52,900 of the North Sea oil-wise . You're 766 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,699 sitting on top of gold , better 767 00:28:56,699 --> 00:28:59,260 than gold , and you don't do anything 768 00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:01,619 with it . It , it doesn't , it doesn't 769 00:29:01,619 --> 00:29:03,341 work . You don't allow the oil 770 00:29:03,341 --> 00:29:06,089 companies in . And it doesn't work and 771 00:29:06,089 --> 00:29:08,256 I spoke with your new prime minister . 772 00:29:08,256 --> 00:29:10,256 I was very impressed and he sort of 773 00:29:10,256 --> 00:29:12,367 indicated to me and said , look , you 774 00:29:12,367 --> 00:29:14,533 can be a wealthy country or a bankrupt 775 00:29:14,533 --> 00:29:16,589 country . You have your choice . Not 776 00:29:16,589 --> 00:29:18,756 every country has that choice . Almost 777 00:29:18,756 --> 00:29:20,978 no country has that choice , but in the 778 00:29:20,978 --> 00:29:23,200 case of the UK , Scotland , I'm talking 779 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,311 about Scotland right off the shore in 780 00:29:25,311 --> 00:29:27,422 Aberdeen , Scotland . That Aberdeen , 781 00:29:27,422 --> 00:29:29,589 Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe 782 00:29:29,589 --> 00:29:31,479 for years , and then one day the 783 00:29:31,479 --> 00:29:33,535 Liberals got in and they closed it . 784 00:29:34,369 --> 00:29:36,591 And your energy rates have quadrupled . 785 00:29:37,030 --> 00:29:38,919 You have among the highest energy 786 00:29:38,919 --> 00:29:40,919 prices in the world . You could cut 787 00:29:40,919 --> 00:29:43,141 them in half . You could give away free 788 00:29:43,141 --> 00:29:45,363 energy if you'd open up the North Sea , 789 00:29:45,363 --> 00:29:47,474 and it's good for another 500 years , 790 00:29:47,474 --> 00:29:49,641 maybe more , probably 1000 years . Has 791 00:29:49,641 --> 00:29:51,697 our new Prime Minister restored your 792 00:29:51,697 --> 00:29:51,359 faith in the leadership of Britain , or 793 00:29:52,189 --> 00:29:54,078 has our , um , new Prime Minister 794 00:29:54,078 --> 00:29:56,189 restored your faith in the leadership 795 00:29:56,189 --> 00:29:55,890 of Britain , or do you think it's too 796 00:29:55,890 --> 00:29:59,170 late ? Look , I think we're gonna have 797 00:29:59,170 --> 00:30:01,337 a very good relationship . We'll see . 798 00:30:01,337 --> 00:30:03,448 I'm not gonna tell him how to run his 799 00:30:03,448 --> 00:30:05,059 country , but I can tell you 800 00:30:05,059 --> 00:30:07,170 immigration is an incredible problem 801 00:30:07,170 --> 00:30:10,079 for Europe . You're allowing people in 802 00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:13,150 that in many cases . They're not going 803 00:30:13,150 --> 00:30:15,206 to help you . I'm going to be nice . 804 00:30:15,206 --> 00:30:17,428 They're not going to help you . And the 805 00:30:17,428 --> 00:30:19,540 people that are there , people from 806 00:30:19,930 --> 00:30:21,763 your country , people from other 807 00:30:21,763 --> 00:30:23,819 countries that have been there for a 808 00:30:23,819 --> 00:30:25,597 long time and did a great job , 809 00:30:25,597 --> 00:30:27,652 beautiful place , look , I love it , 810 00:30:27,652 --> 00:30:29,819 you know , my parents both came from . 811 00:30:29,819 --> 00:30:32,479 Europe indirectly . So a German . 812 00:30:33,689 --> 00:30:37,140 Scott And you know it's like 813 00:30:37,630 --> 00:30:39,797 one of those things it's very sad when 814 00:30:39,797 --> 00:30:41,908 I see what's happening to Europe it's 815 00:30:41,908 --> 00:30:43,741 very sad to me , but they have a 816 00:30:43,741 --> 00:30:45,797 problem with immigration they have a 817 00:30:45,797 --> 00:30:45,709 problem with energy . You have 818 00:30:45,709 --> 00:30:47,431 windmills all over the place , 819 00:30:47,431 --> 00:30:49,542 windmills , you lose your shirt . Any 820 00:30:49,542 --> 00:30:52,670 country with windmills is a loser , OK ? 821 00:30:53,189 --> 00:30:55,245 You just have to look . If they have 822 00:30:55,245 --> 00:30:57,569 windmills , they're a loser because you 823 00:30:57,569 --> 00:30:59,736 lose , you lose money with windmills . 824 00:31:00,030 --> 00:31:02,630 Yeah , please go ahead . Go ahead . Who 825 00:31:02,630 --> 00:31:05,189 are you with ? John Fergus Media . Yeah , 826 00:31:05,229 --> 00:31:07,949 that's right . Original name . What was 827 00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:11,160 your name before ? John Ferguson . Go 828 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,959 ahead , John . Uh , two domestic 829 00:31:14,959 --> 00:31:16,903 questions , sir . The first one is 830 00:31:16,903 --> 00:31:20,400 Exxon and Chevron integrated all US 831 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,680 just announced record profits second 832 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,989 quarter . Unbelievable for , for Exxon , 833 00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:29,190 for instance , 14 million and highest 834 00:31:29,190 --> 00:31:31,135 they've had in over a decade . For 835 00:31:31,135 --> 00:31:33,190 Chevron for the quarter , highest in 836 00:31:33,190 --> 00:31:36,839 history . By 12 times on the back you 837 00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:38,450 saw that , yes , I mean it's 838 00:31:38,450 --> 00:31:40,672 unbelievable on the back . I don't like 839 00:31:40,672 --> 00:31:43,390 it . Workers paying higher debts . What 840 00:31:44,530 --> 00:31:47,109 is they're making too much money . OK . 841 00:31:47,609 --> 00:31:49,665 Based on a shortage , they're making 842 00:31:49,665 --> 00:31:51,831 too much money . I don't like it , and 843 00:31:51,831 --> 00:31:53,942 I'm , I should be the last one to say 844 00:31:53,942 --> 00:31:56,165 because I'm a big free enterprise guy . 845 00:31:56,165 --> 00:31:58,800 Nobody bigger . And , you know , when 846 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,578 you're gonna see oil when we're 847 00:32:00,578 --> 00:32:02,689 finished with Iran , you're gonna see 848 00:32:02,689 --> 00:32:04,911 the prices drop through the floor , but 849 00:32:04,911 --> 00:32:06,911 they made too much money , too much 850 00:32:06,911 --> 00:32:08,856 money . Chevron , too much money . 851 00:32:09,959 --> 00:32:12,500 ExxonMobil , too much , too much money . 852 00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:15,642 When you look at one company where they 853 00:32:15,642 --> 00:32:17,753 made 12 times what they made the year 854 00:32:17,753 --> 00:32:19,920 before , they're going to give some of 855 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,864 that back to the public , and they 856 00:32:21,864 --> 00:32:23,753 better cut the retail price , the 857 00:32:23,753 --> 00:32:25,642 consumer price . Too much money . 858 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:27,771 You're surprised I'm saying it ? I'll 859 00:32:27,771 --> 00:32:29,882 say it loud and clear . I'm not happy 860 00:32:29,882 --> 00:32:32,250 about it . Go ahead . Go ahead . Just , 861 00:32:32,260 --> 00:32:35,420 just one for us , for those of us here 862 00:32:35,420 --> 00:32:37,420 that live in Washington DC with our 863 00:32:37,420 --> 00:32:40,829 families like I do . The renaissance of 864 00:32:40,829 --> 00:32:43,051 the city that you've been able to do in 865 00:32:43,051 --> 00:32:45,670 18 months is incredible . I hope you 866 00:32:45,670 --> 00:32:47,699 heard that . Did you hear that , 867 00:32:47,709 --> 00:32:49,790 everybody ? The renaissance of 868 00:32:49,790 --> 00:32:53,469 Washington DC in 1516 months is 869 00:32:53,469 --> 00:32:55,849 incredible , and it is , it's clean , 870 00:32:56,030 --> 00:32:58,140 it's safe , and you haven't seen 871 00:32:58,140 --> 00:33:00,251 anything yet . We're replacing all of 872 00:33:00,251 --> 00:33:02,418 the grass that hasn't been replaced in 873 00:33:02,418 --> 00:33:04,529 the fields , all the beautiful fields 874 00:33:04,529 --> 00:33:06,640 where the grass is , you know , grass 875 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,751 is like humans . Uh , it has a life . 876 00:33:08,751 --> 00:33:10,862 This grass hasn't been changed in 100 877 00:33:10,862 --> 00:33:13,196 years . Uh , we're doing all the fields . 878 00:33:13,196 --> 00:33:15,251 We're doing , uh , all the , most of 879 00:33:15,251 --> 00:33:17,307 the graffiti is moved , but the most 880 00:33:17,307 --> 00:33:19,640 important thing is it's been beautified . 881 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,569 We did 78 monuments and fountains and 882 00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:25,790 waterfalls . And they went from being 883 00:33:25,790 --> 00:33:29,670 horrible , mostly graffiti , and most 884 00:33:29,670 --> 00:33:31,670 of them for 25 years never worked , 885 00:33:31,670 --> 00:33:33,503 they haven't worked , and it's a 886 00:33:33,503 --> 00:33:35,503 renaissance , like you use the word 887 00:33:35,503 --> 00:33:37,670 renaissance , but it's a renaissance , 888 00:33:37,670 --> 00:33:39,892 but the biggest thing is . We have very 889 00:33:39,892 --> 00:33:42,003 little crime now . This was the crime 890 00:33:42,003 --> 00:33:44,114 capital , frankly , of the world . It 891 00:33:44,114 --> 00:33:46,530 was the most unsafe capital of any 892 00:33:46,530 --> 00:33:48,910 country in the world . Now it's one of 893 00:33:48,910 --> 00:33:51,021 the safest and it's one of the safest 894 00:33:51,021 --> 00:33:53,130 places in the United States , and 895 00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:55,781 people are coming down . You see it , 896 00:33:55,781 --> 00:33:57,948 the tourism in Washington , everyone's 897 00:33:57,948 --> 00:34:00,003 safe now . Nobody , nobody's getting 898 00:34:00,003 --> 00:34:03,160 mugged , shot . We used to lose 3 899 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,479 people a week . Death . That's the 900 00:34:06,479 --> 00:34:08,701 least , I mean , it's 3 people in terms 901 00:34:08,701 --> 00:34:12,159 of death . 150 people a year were 902 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,159 killed . They come down from Iowa , 903 00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:16,103 they come from Indiana . Mom , I'm 904 00:34:16,103 --> 00:34:18,159 looking at the Washington Monument . 905 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:19,992 I'm looking at . And they end up 906 00:34:19,992 --> 00:34:22,326 getting killed . You call their parents . 907 00:34:22,326 --> 00:34:24,548 I'm sorry . It doesn't happen anymore . 908 00:34:24,548 --> 00:34:26,603 We don't have that anymore . We play 909 00:34:26,603 --> 00:34:28,659 we're rough , but we don't have that 910 00:34:28,659 --> 00:34:30,437 anymore . Our military has been 911 00:34:30,437 --> 00:34:32,603 unbelievable , and they work very well 912 00:34:32,603 --> 00:34:34,715 with the DC police , but our military 913 00:34:34,715 --> 00:34:36,770 came in . The general people that we 914 00:34:36,770 --> 00:34:38,881 know so well , general , right , they 915 00:34:38,881 --> 00:34:40,937 don't play games and we , we got the 916 00:34:40,937 --> 00:34:43,709 gangs out . We removed almost 5000 917 00:34:43,709 --> 00:34:46,129 people who are career criminals who 918 00:34:46,129 --> 00:34:47,962 came in with Biden with the open 919 00:34:47,962 --> 00:34:50,389 borders , a lot of them . And they're 920 00:34:50,389 --> 00:34:52,500 no longer here . We sent them back to 921 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:54,611 their countries . You've got to say , 922 00:34:57,429 --> 00:34:58,873 have you ever seen such a 923 00:34:58,873 --> 00:35:01,040 transformation of it's unbelievable if 924 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,040 you live here . It's just you don't 925 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,262 wanna go back . And now you can walk to 926 00:35:05,262 --> 00:35:07,540 work , you can walk to the White House . 927 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:07,489 The people in the White House , they 928 00:35:07,489 --> 00:35:09,433 work in the , they tell me , sir , 929 00:35:09,433 --> 00:35:11,656 thank you , they're thanking me all the 930 00:35:11,656 --> 00:35:13,767 time . They used to have to take Uber 931 00:35:13,767 --> 00:35:15,767 and the Uber would be robbed , OK ? 932 00:35:15,767 --> 00:35:17,878 They weren't even said they'd go to a 933 00:35:17,878 --> 00:35:20,209 restaurant . And they'd feel safe in a 934 00:35:20,209 --> 00:35:22,153 restaurant and then the restaurant 935 00:35:22,153 --> 00:35:24,042 would be robbed . Do you know the 936 00:35:24,042 --> 00:35:26,098 restaurants were all closing and now 937 00:35:26,098 --> 00:35:28,153 you can't if you're a restaurateur , 938 00:35:28,153 --> 00:35:30,320 you can't get a a restaurant . You , I 939 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,042 mean you literally can't . The 940 00:35:32,042 --> 00:35:34,265 restaurants are booming . Crime is down 941 00:35:34,265 --> 00:35:36,770 92% , maybe more . I want to get down 942 00:35:36,770 --> 00:35:38,492 100% . You know , the greatest 943 00:35:38,492 --> 00:35:41,370 statistic though that you have is that 944 00:35:41,649 --> 00:35:45,010 2% of the people create 91% of the 945 00:35:45,010 --> 00:35:47,429 crime . You could really handle that . 946 00:35:48,169 --> 00:35:50,447 And we've moved almost 5000 people out . 947 00:35:50,447 --> 00:35:52,613 They're criminals , career criminals . 948 00:35:52,613 --> 00:35:54,780 We moved that in some cases they're in 949 00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:56,989 jail . In some cases they were so bad 950 00:35:57,449 --> 00:35:59,671 they came in through Biden . They're so 951 00:35:59,671 --> 00:36:01,893 bad we don't want to move them out . We 952 00:36:01,893 --> 00:36:04,116 want to put them in jails because we're 953 00:36:04,116 --> 00:36:03,409 afraid they're going to come back in 954 00:36:03,409 --> 00:36:05,909 somehow . So I appreciate you saying 955 00:36:05,909 --> 00:36:06,909 that 956 00:36:10,010 --> 00:36:13,239 if they come in and try to roll it back . 957 00:36:13,649 --> 00:36:15,816 Well , you had a mayor who's , I guess 958 00:36:15,816 --> 00:36:17,927 she's a communist . I mean , she says 959 00:36:17,927 --> 00:36:20,399 she's a Socialist , but I guess she's a 960 00:36:20,399 --> 00:36:22,566 communist based on what she says , but 961 00:36:22,566 --> 00:36:24,788 I have not met her yet . I look forward 962 00:36:24,788 --> 00:36:26,455 to meeting her . Uh , would I 963 00:36:26,455 --> 00:36:28,719 federalize ? Basically you're saying 964 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,830 federalize DC . Well , I'm allowed to 965 00:36:30,830 --> 00:36:33,239 do that . Would I do it if they want to , 966 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,840 we took something that was in deep 967 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,429 trouble . It was a graffiti-filled , 968 00:36:38,590 --> 00:36:41,340 crime-filled mess . We turned it into 969 00:36:41,350 --> 00:36:43,629 Shangri-La . We turned it into a great 970 00:36:43,629 --> 00:36:45,573 place . Look outside . Look what's 971 00:36:45,573 --> 00:36:47,462 happening . Look at the beautiful 972 00:36:47,462 --> 00:36:49,573 ballroom and military center . It's a 973 00:36:49,573 --> 00:36:51,573 military center , much more than we 974 00:36:51,573 --> 00:36:53,685 have a drone port on top . We look at 975 00:36:53,685 --> 00:36:55,796 the grass in front of the White House 976 00:36:55,796 --> 00:36:58,018 being all replaced with the top stuff . 977 00:36:58,149 --> 00:37:00,310 The parks are all being replaced . It 978 00:37:00,310 --> 00:37:02,500 starts very soon actually . We'll do 979 00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:04,979 one at a time . It's about 700 acres of 980 00:37:04,979 --> 00:37:07,257 parks . We're all gonna have brand new , 981 00:37:07,260 --> 00:37:09,649 the best grass you can get . Scott's , 982 00:37:09,780 --> 00:37:11,969 you know , Scott's ? Scott's Miracle 983 00:37:11,969 --> 00:37:14,136 Gro . They're doing it . They do great 984 00:37:14,136 --> 00:37:16,247 grass . What can I tell you ? I gotta 985 00:37:16,247 --> 00:37:18,358 give them a plug because they did the 986 00:37:18,358 --> 00:37:20,469 White House for free . Sir , a friend 987 00:37:20,469 --> 00:37:22,525 of mine , a guy that he's terrific . 988 00:37:22,570 --> 00:37:24,626 We'd like to give you a new grass at 989 00:37:24,626 --> 00:37:26,959 the White House . I said , I'll take it . 990 00:37:26,959 --> 00:37:29,070 How much ? He said , Free . I'll take 991 00:37:29,070 --> 00:37:31,237 it . Thank you . Thank you very much , 992 00:37:31,237 --> 00:37:33,348 Mr . President . This is at least the 993 00:37:33,348 --> 00:37:35,459 5th time you've turned off airstrikes 994 00:37:35,459 --> 00:37:37,681 against Iran since April to negotiate . 995 00:37:37,681 --> 00:37:39,737 What is your message to the American 996 00:37:39,737 --> 00:37:41,626 people who are wondering what has 997 00:37:41,626 --> 00:37:43,792 changed this time ? Why shouldn't it ? 998 00:37:43,792 --> 00:37:43,340 Well , you don't know . I don't know . 999 00:37:43,419 --> 00:37:45,252 I think we're going to maybe get 1000 00:37:45,252 --> 00:37:47,252 something , but I want to give them 1001 00:37:47,252 --> 00:37:49,475 every last chance before decapitation . 1002 00:37:50,270 --> 00:37:53,459 Very tough to do what we have planned , 1003 00:37:53,790 --> 00:37:56,068 still planned . We'll see what happens , 1004 00:37:56,310 --> 00:37:58,421 but it's a very , very tough thing to 1005 00:37:58,421 --> 00:38:02,030 do . I think I'm very proud of the fact 1006 00:38:02,030 --> 00:38:04,030 that I will give people , I'll give 1007 00:38:04,030 --> 00:38:06,252 people a chance . This is a big move to 1008 00:38:06,252 --> 00:38:08,586 do an attack that big . On the contrary , 1009 00:38:08,810 --> 00:38:11,070 I'd rather not do it now we've already 1010 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,330 through lots of large attacks , but 1011 00:38:14,330 --> 00:38:17,870 they were normal large . Hopefully 1012 00:38:17,870 --> 00:38:20,510 they'll come to their senses because 1013 00:38:20,510 --> 00:38:23,149 what happened you cannot have a nuclear 1014 00:38:23,149 --> 00:38:25,316 weapon , but hopefully they'll come to 1015 00:38:25,316 --> 00:38:28,739 their senses , so they called me . And 1016 00:38:28,739 --> 00:38:30,961 they said , please don't attack . We'll 1017 00:38:30,961 --> 00:38:33,239 make a deal . That's the real truth , 1018 00:38:33,899 --> 00:38:36,066 and everyone knows it and who wouldn't 1019 00:38:36,066 --> 00:38:39,379 call ? And they found out through 1020 00:38:39,379 --> 00:38:41,739 leaks and sleazebags , you know , a lot 1021 00:38:41,739 --> 00:38:44,020 of sleazebags , leak leakers , leakers 1022 00:38:44,020 --> 00:38:46,131 should be put in jail . They should , 1023 00:38:46,131 --> 00:38:48,353 they have to strengthen up the laws for 1024 00:38:48,353 --> 00:38:50,298 leakers , but in this case leakers 1025 00:38:50,298 --> 00:38:52,409 helped because they said the severity 1026 00:38:52,409 --> 00:38:56,290 of the attack . And Iran knew it . 1027 00:38:56,540 --> 00:38:58,484 They knew what was coming . It was 1028 00:38:58,484 --> 00:39:00,596 going to come last night and it would 1029 00:39:00,596 --> 00:39:02,639 have gone on for a long time . And 1030 00:39:02,649 --> 00:39:04,982 there'd be essentially very little left . 1031 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000 There'd be nothing left . And If 1032 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,800 I'm given a chance to let a lot of 1033 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,429 people live . I want to give that 1034 00:39:15,429 --> 00:39:17,419 chance , so I , I'm under no time 1035 00:39:17,419 --> 00:39:19,419 constraint , you know , I , I don't 1036 00:39:19,419 --> 00:39:21,419 happen to be running , but a lot of 1037 00:39:21,419 --> 00:39:23,641 very good Republicans are running , and 1038 00:39:23,641 --> 00:39:25,752 you have a sick ideology taking place 1039 00:39:25,752 --> 00:39:27,863 right now that , you know , hopefully 1040 00:39:27,863 --> 00:39:27,709 they'll be defeated because they'll 1041 00:39:27,709 --> 00:39:29,820 destroy the country if they ever take 1042 00:39:29,820 --> 00:39:32,070 over . But this desk is like a blocking 1043 00:39:32,070 --> 00:39:34,469 desk no matter who gets in . If it's 1044 00:39:34,469 --> 00:39:36,469 bad , I block , and I'm good at 1045 00:39:36,469 --> 00:39:39,270 blocking . If it's bad , if it's stupid 1046 00:39:39,270 --> 00:39:41,548 things like the things they want to do , 1047 00:39:41,548 --> 00:39:43,770 we want to get rid of the US Senate . I 1048 00:39:43,770 --> 00:39:45,826 don't like a lot of senators , to be 1049 00:39:45,826 --> 00:39:47,937 honest with you . I don't want to get 1050 00:39:47,937 --> 00:39:50,103 rid of the Senate . We want to get rid 1051 00:39:50,103 --> 00:39:52,326 of the Supreme Court . They want to put 1052 00:39:52,326 --> 00:39:54,548 now 21 or 23 people , that , that's the 1053 00:39:54,548 --> 00:39:56,770 real on the Supreme Court or get rid of 1054 00:39:56,770 --> 00:39:58,603 it . They want to get rid of the 1055 00:39:58,603 --> 00:40:00,492 presidency . They want to have an 1056 00:40:00,492 --> 00:40:02,659 appointed executive running . That's a 1057 00:40:02,659 --> 00:40:04,770 communist thing , you know , that's a 1058 00:40:04,770 --> 00:40:06,992 communist thing . These are sick people 1059 00:40:06,992 --> 00:40:09,159 and you know I said it the other day , 1060 00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:10,937 and it maybe doesn't sound that 1061 00:40:10,937 --> 00:40:13,560 important , but when a country goes bad , 1062 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,000 like look at the blue cities , what do 1063 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,167 they have in common aside from massive 1064 00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:20,419 crime , much more crime . The 1065 00:40:20,419 --> 00:40:22,475 Republicans have very little crime . 1066 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:24,475 But what do the blue cities have in 1067 00:40:24,475 --> 00:40:26,586 mind ? And also you can say this with 1068 00:40:26,586 --> 00:40:29,459 nations when they go bad . The blue 1069 00:40:29,459 --> 00:40:32,070 cities have something in common crime , 1070 00:40:32,479 --> 00:40:34,646 high crime , vicious , violent crime . 1071 00:40:35,790 --> 00:40:37,679 But what do they have in common ? 1072 00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:41,320 They're all . They're filthy . The 1073 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,540 streets are , their streets smell , 1074 00:40:45,010 --> 00:40:47,959 their storefronts are broken , their 1075 00:40:47,959 --> 00:40:51,360 trees are all gross . Everything about 1076 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,840 the place is , and I don't want to 1077 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,879 mention any specific city . It's really 1078 00:40:56,879 --> 00:40:59,060 all of them . But you go into these 1079 00:40:59,060 --> 00:41:01,300 cities that are blue , they're crime 1080 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:04,179 ridden , and they're filthy . They're 1081 00:41:04,179 --> 00:41:07,060 like Washington DC was a year and a 1082 00:41:07,060 --> 00:41:09,540 half ago with graffiti all over the 1083 00:41:09,540 --> 00:41:11,762 place , with crime all over the place , 1084 00:41:11,762 --> 00:41:14,219 with people afraid to be here . You had 1085 00:41:14,219 --> 00:41:16,441 to be ashamed of your Capitol , some of 1086 00:41:16,441 --> 00:41:18,552 the most beautiful buildings built in 1087 00:41:18,552 --> 00:41:20,699 the real time , like you look at the 1088 00:41:20,699 --> 00:41:22,699 Supreme Court building and they put 1089 00:41:22,699 --> 00:41:24,699 graffiti on it . The most beautiful 1090 00:41:24,699 --> 00:41:26,866 columns I've ever seen . In fact , our 1091 00:41:26,866 --> 00:41:28,755 columns are gonna be nicer at the 1092 00:41:28,755 --> 00:41:30,921 ballroom . I said , I want the Supreme 1093 00:41:30,921 --> 00:41:32,866 Court but better . But you look at 1094 00:41:32,866 --> 00:41:34,977 those columns , how magnificent , and 1095 00:41:34,977 --> 00:41:37,032 then you see graffiti on the side of 1096 00:41:37,032 --> 00:41:39,870 the building . No artistry , just bad 1097 00:41:39,870 --> 00:41:41,989 people . But the one thing they all 1098 00:41:41,989 --> 00:41:45,149 have in common , crime . There are two 1099 00:41:45,149 --> 00:41:47,510 things , crime , but they're disgusting . 1100 00:41:47,790 --> 00:41:51,149 They're filthy . The streets are . They 1101 00:41:51,149 --> 00:41:53,260 have people lying all over the street 1102 00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:56,139 doing , you know what . They're all the 1103 00:41:56,139 --> 00:41:58,639 same And this is what we're going to 1104 00:41:58,639 --> 00:42:00,806 put in it , not going to happen in our 1105 00:42:00,806 --> 00:42:00,780 country . 1106 00:42:05,169 --> 00:42:07,340 Go ahead . Yeah , in the back . 1107 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,889 Go ahead . Well , let him go . 1108 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,520 He was very rude to you , right ? Go 1109 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,520 ahead . Who are you with ? I'm with 1110 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,129 Real Americans . So when a group such 1111 00:42:21,129 --> 00:42:23,379 as the Haitians lose their temporary 1112 00:42:23,379 --> 00:42:26,169 protective status , how soon should 1113 00:42:26,169 --> 00:42:28,280 they be bussed and flown out ? Well , 1114 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,590 we had a big victory in court on 1115 00:42:31,169 --> 00:42:33,280 temporary , you know , the protective 1116 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,379 status . And I largely leave it up to 1117 00:42:36,379 --> 00:42:39,219 my people , but we've had people here 1118 00:42:39,219 --> 00:42:41,108 for many years and they were here 1119 00:42:41,108 --> 00:42:43,275 temporarily , you know , we had people 1120 00:42:43,275 --> 00:42:45,275 coming in and they've been here for 1121 00:42:45,275 --> 00:42:47,108 many , many years and they had a 1122 00:42:47,108 --> 00:42:49,108 tragedy in their country . They had 1123 00:42:49,108 --> 00:42:51,275 sometimes it was storms , it was , you 1124 00:42:51,275 --> 00:42:53,540 know , it was hurricanes . And they 1125 00:42:53,540 --> 00:42:55,651 come in and you know they're here for 1126 00:42:55,651 --> 00:42:57,979 12 years , 14 years , so something's 1127 00:42:57,979 --> 00:43:01,100 got to be done . Yeah , please have you 1128 00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:03,860 spoken to Jeanine Pirro about her 1129 00:43:03,860 --> 00:43:05,971 decision to drop ? No , Jeanine Pirro 1130 00:43:05,971 --> 00:43:08,550 made a mistake . There was vandalism . 1131 00:43:08,860 --> 00:43:11,027 I just told you we did , I think '78 . 1132 00:43:11,379 --> 00:43:13,712 1 of the things was the reflecting pool . 1133 00:43:13,712 --> 00:43:15,899 Hasn't worked since 1922 because it 1134 00:43:15,899 --> 00:43:18,010 always leaked . It always leaked from 1135 00:43:18,010 --> 00:43:20,066 1922 , you know , it's the largest , 1136 00:43:20,379 --> 00:43:23,280 longest pool ever and all that . The 1137 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,336 concept is beautiful , but it always 1138 00:43:25,336 --> 00:43:27,558 leaked because of the size , because of 1139 00:43:27,558 --> 00:43:29,558 maintenance , whatever , but it was 1140 00:43:29,558 --> 00:43:32,199 built in 1922 , and from the day it was 1141 00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:35,219 built , it leaked . Biden spent 1142 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,229 $58 million . Barack Hussein 1143 00:43:39,229 --> 00:43:42,100 Obama spent much more than that . He 1144 00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:44,267 said , I have an idea . Let's take the 1145 00:43:44,267 --> 00:43:46,433 river from , let's take the water from 1146 00:43:46,433 --> 00:43:48,489 the Potomac . So they took the water 1147 00:43:48,489 --> 00:43:50,711 from the Potomac and it was putrid . It 1148 00:43:50,711 --> 00:43:53,689 was putrid . It was a disaster . Biden 1149 00:43:53,870 --> 00:43:55,926 was a disaster . I said I'm going to 1150 00:43:55,926 --> 00:43:58,037 get that fixed along with Doug Burgum 1151 00:43:58,037 --> 00:44:00,037 and Department of Interior , and we 1152 00:44:00,037 --> 00:44:02,037 worked hard on that . Now we worked 1153 00:44:02,037 --> 00:44:04,203 hard on all 70 , it's actually I think 1154 00:44:04,203 --> 00:44:06,259 81 now . You saw the new horses that 1155 00:44:06,259 --> 00:44:08,592 just opened by the bridge with the gold . 1156 00:44:08,592 --> 00:44:10,703 That was the way they were many years 1157 00:44:10,703 --> 00:44:12,759 ago . Now they look better than they 1158 00:44:12,759 --> 00:44:14,481 did many years ago , but these 1159 00:44:14,481 --> 00:44:16,481 monuments look better than they did 1160 00:44:16,481 --> 00:44:18,592 when they were originally built , not 1161 00:44:18,592 --> 00:44:20,814 just a little fix up . We made them the 1162 00:44:20,814 --> 00:44:22,926 way they were , plus . And everyone's 1163 00:44:22,926 --> 00:44:24,981 so proud . The biggest , uh , one of 1164 00:44:24,981 --> 00:44:26,926 the bigger jobs was not really the 1165 00:44:26,926 --> 00:44:29,037 biggest , believe it or not , but one 1166 00:44:29,037 --> 00:44:31,314 of the biggest was the reflecting pool , 1167 00:44:31,314 --> 00:44:34,020 and we did a great job . We sandblasted 1168 00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:36,131 the stone outside it was granite , so 1169 00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:38,419 it has a long life . We , uh , did a 1170 00:44:38,419 --> 00:44:40,540 great job . We got very expensive 1171 00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:43,060 material to put on top of the surface 1172 00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:45,393 that always leaked because it was stone . 1173 00:44:45,393 --> 00:44:47,671 It was a stone surface , always leaked , 1174 00:44:47,671 --> 00:44:50,790 and we put it on . And it was beautiful . 1175 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,659 Now , we have photographs or tapes 1176 00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:58,120 like moving cameras , right ? We have 1177 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,139 them where people are on the side , 1178 00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:03,810 cutting it with a box knife . So 1179 00:45:04,959 --> 00:45:07,159 now I'm not saying I was 100% thrilled 1180 00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:10,800 with uh the contractor , but the 1181 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,911 contractor was rushing . We wanted to 1182 00:45:12,911 --> 00:45:15,022 get it open for July 4th , and we got 1183 00:45:15,022 --> 00:45:18,879 it done . But in addition , there was 1184 00:45:18,879 --> 00:45:21,389 vandalism . Number one , look at the 1185 00:45:21,389 --> 00:45:25,330 grass where the grass was , uh , 1186 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,719 all knocked out with a very , very 1187 00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,179 powerful , uh . Ingredient that we know 1188 00:45:32,179 --> 00:45:34,235 very well what it is . I'm not gonna 1189 00:45:34,235 --> 00:45:36,457 say the name because people get ideas , 1190 00:45:36,479 --> 00:45:38,790 but , and they put a terrible phrase , 1191 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,618 I won't say that either , but a 1192 00:45:40,618 --> 00:45:42,729 terrible phrase on a massive piece of 1193 00:45:42,729 --> 00:45:44,784 grass that we had just replaced kill 1194 00:45:44,784 --> 00:45:47,118 the grass . We had to replace the grass , 1195 00:45:47,118 --> 00:45:49,600 a lot of grass . In addition , they 1196 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,189 took knives or cutters and they cut the 1197 00:45:52,189 --> 00:45:54,580 material material . And they put their 1198 00:45:54,580 --> 00:45:58,370 hands and they pulled it . And there 1199 00:45:58,370 --> 00:46:00,481 was also some maintenance things that 1200 00:46:00,481 --> 00:46:02,648 we would have routinely fixed , but we 1201 00:46:02,648 --> 00:46:05,689 had that up and it was perfect . And 1202 00:46:05,689 --> 00:46:07,911 then you had the bubblers which get rid 1203 00:46:07,911 --> 00:46:10,022 of the , you know , the what forms in 1204 00:46:10,022 --> 00:46:12,189 the water , and that works great , but 1205 00:46:12,189 --> 00:46:14,411 they turned it off because of the fight 1206 00:46:14,411 --> 00:46:16,850 because it competed a little bit of 1207 00:46:16,850 --> 00:46:19,072 noise during the fight . They turned it 1208 00:46:19,072 --> 00:46:21,830 off . And it grows very rapidly in the 1209 00:46:21,830 --> 00:46:23,886 water , but that actually works very 1210 00:46:23,886 --> 00:46:26,489 well , and that's all . So now we're 1211 00:46:26,709 --> 00:46:29,979 just about set to reopen it and we had 1212 00:46:29,979 --> 00:46:33,389 to , we had to replace cut areas where 1213 00:46:33,389 --> 00:46:36,030 they cut it and ripped it , but there's 1214 00:46:36,030 --> 00:46:38,308 a tape , and Jesse Waters , by the way , 1215 00:46:38,310 --> 00:46:40,709 did a whole big thing on it . There's a 1216 00:46:40,709 --> 00:46:43,260 tape that's out there that I posted on 1217 00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:45,371 Truth . Where you have people leaning 1218 00:46:45,371 --> 00:46:47,204 over the side , the weakest part 1219 00:46:47,204 --> 00:46:49,427 because of the flexibility , you know , 1220 00:46:49,427 --> 00:46:51,538 it moves , it's very complicated , it 1221 00:46:51,538 --> 00:46:53,704 moves , and the softest part has to be 1222 00:46:53,704 --> 00:46:56,270 flexible , and that's the stuff you can 1223 00:46:56,270 --> 00:46:58,270 cut , and these guys knew what they 1224 00:46:58,270 --> 00:47:01,030 were doing , and they cut all the way 1225 00:47:01,030 --> 00:47:03,790 along the base , cut , cut , cut . 1226 00:47:04,679 --> 00:47:07,949 Now , When Janine looked at it , it was 1227 00:47:07,949 --> 00:47:10,270 the day after the 4th of July with the 1228 00:47:10,270 --> 00:47:13,020 largest fireworks display in the world , 1229 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,711 and the stuff was laying all over the 1230 00:47:15,711 --> 00:47:17,822 pool , the fireworks , because they , 1231 00:47:17,822 --> 00:47:19,933 they use the pool as one of the , and 1232 00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,295 it was all over the pool was the day 1233 00:47:22,295 --> 00:47:24,600 after , very shortly thereafter . But 1234 00:47:25,310 --> 00:47:27,629 that was working beautifully and it was 1235 00:47:27,629 --> 00:47:29,790 vandalized . And if you look at the 1236 00:47:29,790 --> 00:47:31,957 tape now , the tape isn't a great tape 1237 00:47:31,957 --> 00:47:34,229 in the sense that it's a little hard to 1238 00:47:34,229 --> 00:47:36,870 say who it exactly was , but it was 1239 00:47:36,870 --> 00:47:40,530 people cutting this very expensive 1240 00:47:41,229 --> 00:47:43,229 material , waterproofing material . 1241 00:47:43,649 --> 00:47:47,360 Anyway , it looked beautiful , and then 1242 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,050 they cut it and they vandalized and we 1243 00:47:50,050 --> 00:47:52,209 weren't necessarily thrilled with the 1244 00:47:52,209 --> 00:47:55,489 contractor , but they did a job and 1245 00:47:55,489 --> 00:47:58,689 they were fixing any problems , but 1246 00:47:59,050 --> 00:48:01,106 then it got carried away because the 1247 00:48:01,106 --> 00:48:03,250 judge was extremely unfriendly to 1248 00:48:03,250 --> 00:48:06,110 Janine and frankly I think she choked . 1249 00:48:06,510 --> 00:48:09,449 Because the judge was really vicious . 1250 00:48:09,669 --> 00:48:11,836 Instead of going after the people that 1251 00:48:11,836 --> 00:48:14,629 did it , the judge went after her and 1252 00:48:14,629 --> 00:48:17,110 went after her department , and I guess 1253 00:48:17,110 --> 00:48:19,709 she choked . I don't know what the hell 1254 00:48:19,709 --> 00:48:22,989 happened . I don't know what you , you 1255 00:48:22,989 --> 00:48:24,933 don't , you're fake news . Don't , 1256 00:48:24,933 --> 00:48:26,933 don't ever talk again . You're fake 1257 00:48:26,933 --> 00:48:29,156 news , one of the , one of the worst in 1258 00:48:29,156 --> 00:48:31,045 the business . Fortunately nobody 1259 00:48:31,045 --> 00:48:33,211 watches you , but something happened . 1260 00:48:33,211 --> 00:48:35,211 There was vandalism there and there 1261 00:48:35,211 --> 00:48:37,267 were some things from the contractor 1262 00:48:37,267 --> 00:48:39,322 which you , which we would fix , but 1263 00:48:39,322 --> 00:48:42,020 it's almost complete and when it opens , 1264 00:48:42,030 --> 00:48:43,697 it's incredible . It's really 1265 00:48:43,697 --> 00:48:45,697 incredible , but remember this . It 1266 00:48:45,697 --> 00:48:48,590 leaked from 1922 . It opened in 1267 00:48:48,590 --> 00:48:51,550 1922 . They never solved the leak 1268 00:48:51,550 --> 00:48:54,699 problem because it was stone and the 1269 00:48:54,699 --> 00:48:56,921 cracks with the stone , it , it's not a 1270 00:48:56,921 --> 00:48:58,921 stone is really not a waterproofing 1271 00:48:58,921 --> 00:49:01,110 material . We essentially use a very 1272 00:49:01,110 --> 00:49:04,520 high grade swimming pool type material , 1273 00:49:05,149 --> 00:49:07,371 which was my idea . I was very proud of 1274 00:49:07,371 --> 00:49:09,482 that idea . And by the way , I didn't 1275 00:49:09,482 --> 00:49:11,705 know the contractor . Everyone said the 1276 00:49:11,705 --> 00:49:11,129 contract . I didn't know the contractor , 1277 00:49:11,629 --> 00:49:14,909 but when it was completed . It was 1278 00:49:14,909 --> 00:49:17,429 perfect , but then somebody went in and 1279 00:49:17,429 --> 00:49:19,870 cut it just like they did the grass , 1280 00:49:19,909 --> 00:49:22,242 you know , nobody talks about the grass . 1281 00:49:22,242 --> 00:49:24,449 The grass have helicopter pictures of 1282 00:49:24,750 --> 00:49:27,449 what they did . Wasn't it '87 ? 1283 00:49:28,949 --> 00:49:30,949 Right . Do you know what they did , 1284 00:49:30,949 --> 00:49:33,171 right ? Did you see what they did ? Did 1285 00:49:33,171 --> 00:49:35,393 you see what they wrote ? What did they 1286 00:49:35,393 --> 00:49:38,310 write ? 87 , I'm sorry , 8647 . That's 1287 00:49:38,310 --> 00:49:41,989 right , 8647 . They 86 , 1288 00:49:42,429 --> 00:49:46,350 so it's 8647 . They didn't do 45 , at 1289 00:49:46,350 --> 00:49:49,870 least they left 45 , but they and 1290 00:49:49,870 --> 00:49:53,389 massive letters on the grass , 8647 . 1291 00:49:54,090 --> 00:49:56,290 And nobody talked about that was 1292 00:49:56,290 --> 00:49:58,401 vandalism too . We had to replace all 1293 00:49:58,401 --> 00:50:00,623 that grass . It was a tremendous amount 1294 00:50:00,623 --> 00:50:02,790 of grass because when you hit , hit it 1295 00:50:02,790 --> 00:50:05,012 with this poison , it's acid , it kills 1296 00:50:05,012 --> 00:50:07,179 the grass no matter how you can't even 1297 00:50:07,179 --> 00:50:07,159 clean it , even if you got there right 1298 00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:09,530 after it's very powerful so I know it 1299 00:50:09,530 --> 00:50:12,270 well , so uh . 1300 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,929 People did great damage to this thing 1301 00:50:15,929 --> 00:50:18,096 because they're sick people . You know 1302 00:50:18,096 --> 00:50:20,250 who's representing the man is a man 1303 00:50:20,250 --> 00:50:23,139 from Crewe . A sleazebag who's been 1304 00:50:23,139 --> 00:50:25,659 suing me for my whole political hasn't 1305 00:50:25,659 --> 00:50:28,199 won , he's lost all the time , but 1306 00:50:28,419 --> 00:50:30,586 crude , do you know what CRE is ? It's 1307 00:50:30,586 --> 00:50:32,752 a third rate operation that's supposed 1308 00:50:32,752 --> 00:50:34,863 to be a charity , but it's not . They 1309 00:50:34,863 --> 00:50:38,770 used it for political reasons , so . We 1310 00:50:38,770 --> 00:50:40,992 should be proud of our monuments and we 1311 00:50:40,992 --> 00:50:42,992 should be proud of our city and you 1312 00:50:42,992 --> 00:50:45,048 know that was opened before they did 1313 00:50:45,048 --> 00:50:47,048 the damage . It was open . It never 1314 00:50:47,048 --> 00:50:49,214 looked more beautiful . It looked like 1315 00:50:49,214 --> 00:50:50,992 a mirror and that's what it was 1316 00:50:50,992 --> 00:50:50,949 supposed to be . It was a very dark 1317 00:50:51,090 --> 00:50:53,201 color because otherwise you don't see 1318 00:50:53,201 --> 00:50:55,312 it as a reflecting pool and it looked 1319 00:50:55,312 --> 00:50:57,423 beautiful . Well , it'll look just as 1320 00:50:57,423 --> 00:51:00,290 beautiful . It'll be fixed and open 1321 00:51:00,290 --> 00:51:04,209 over the next 1.5 , 2 weeks . One 1322 00:51:04,209 --> 00:51:06,098 more . Who are you rooting for in 1323 00:51:06,098 --> 00:51:09,260 Michigan ? Well , you have a , a very 1324 00:51:09,260 --> 00:51:11,316 interesting group who I really voted 1325 00:51:11,316 --> 00:51:13,739 for is Mike Rogers because I think he's 1326 00:51:13,739 --> 00:51:16,060 gonna be a great senator , but you have 1327 00:51:16,060 --> 00:51:19,149 a , a communist versus a socialist , 1328 00:51:19,189 --> 00:51:21,356 that's the way I look at it . You have 1329 00:51:21,356 --> 00:51:23,899 a communist versus a socialist . It 1330 00:51:23,899 --> 00:51:26,010 looks like the communist is leading , 1331 00:51:26,010 --> 00:51:28,066 we're talking about for the Democrat 1332 00:51:28,066 --> 00:51:30,232 primary , but for the Republican , you 1333 00:51:30,232 --> 00:51:32,455 have a very good man . And uh he should 1334 00:51:32,455 --> 00:51:34,677 be able to , he should be able to win , 1335 00:51:34,677 --> 00:51:37,070 yeah . OK , one more in the back , yeah , 1336 00:51:37,149 --> 00:51:40,750 go ahead . Lafayette Park , it's 1337 00:51:40,750 --> 00:51:42,649 great . Do we do a good job in 1338 00:51:42,649 --> 00:51:45,270 Lafayette Park ? So Lafayette Park is 1339 00:51:45,270 --> 00:51:47,492 right across from the other side of the 1340 00:51:47,492 --> 00:51:50,080 street . And I made a donation of $10 1341 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:53,959 million . That was me personally , and . 1342 00:51:54,830 --> 00:51:57,860 It's unbelievable . It was so and so 1343 00:51:57,860 --> 00:52:00,989 disgusting . Like everything liberal . 1344 00:52:01,739 --> 00:52:04,169 Becomes and disgusting . So 1345 00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:08,459 socialism . Liberalism , progressivism , 1346 00:52:08,530 --> 00:52:10,752 you know , the word progressive is such 1347 00:52:10,752 --> 00:52:12,808 a nice word they love using it , but 1348 00:52:12,808 --> 00:52:15,030 the radical left isn't letting them use 1349 00:52:15,030 --> 00:52:17,197 that word anymore . But Lafayette Park 1350 00:52:17,197 --> 00:52:19,449 is a large park . It was known as the 1351 00:52:19,449 --> 00:52:22,699 gateway to the White House . And it was 1352 00:52:22,699 --> 00:52:25,540 disgusting . Uh , the monument is 1353 00:52:25,540 --> 00:52:28,419 beautiful , graffiti all over it . Uh , 1354 00:52:29,260 --> 00:52:31,427 I won't say what was on the sidewalk , 1355 00:52:31,427 --> 00:52:33,482 but horrible , horrible , horrible , 1356 00:52:33,482 --> 00:52:35,649 disgusting stuff . And not only did we 1357 00:52:35,649 --> 00:52:37,593 fix it , we have military standing 1358 00:52:37,593 --> 00:52:39,459 there watching it and if anybody 1359 00:52:39,459 --> 00:52:41,699 touches it , we , that was the one 1360 00:52:41,699 --> 00:52:43,921 mistake with the reflecting pond . They 1361 00:52:43,921 --> 00:52:45,977 hadn't put up the cameras yet . They 1362 00:52:45,977 --> 00:52:48,032 had enough up because you see what's 1363 00:52:48,032 --> 00:52:50,199 happening . But if they would have had 1364 00:52:50,199 --> 00:52:52,366 them up , uh , we would have had a lot 1365 00:52:52,366 --> 00:52:54,532 of , it would have been a lot easier , 1366 00:52:54,532 --> 00:52:56,421 but , and I was disappointed with 1367 00:52:56,421 --> 00:52:58,421 Jeanine Pirro , really disappointed 1368 00:52:58,421 --> 00:53:00,489 with Jeanine Pirro . She , uh , she 1369 00:53:00,489 --> 00:53:03,610 folded like an umbrella and people get 1370 00:53:03,610 --> 00:53:05,832 away with things and it's it's , it's a 1371 00:53:05,832 --> 00:53:07,777 disgrace , but we're very proud of 1372 00:53:07,777 --> 00:53:09,721 Lafayette Park . Now we have a big 1373 00:53:09,721 --> 00:53:11,610 decision to make . Do we take the 1374 00:53:11,610 --> 00:53:13,666 pavers that are red , you know , the 1375 00:53:13,666 --> 00:53:15,666 red brick pavers , and do we change 1376 00:53:15,666 --> 00:53:17,554 them into a granite . It's a gray 1377 00:53:17,554 --> 00:53:19,443 granite . They're beautiful , but 1378 00:53:19,443 --> 00:53:21,443 they're not the original , so we're 1379 00:53:21,443 --> 00:53:23,610 gonna have to make that decision . You 1380 00:53:23,610 --> 00:53:25,832 have a good sense of taste . What would 1381 00:53:25,832 --> 00:53:27,832 you do , huh ? Yes , it . You would 1382 00:53:27,832 --> 00:53:30,054 change the red brick into the granite . 1383 00:53:30,054 --> 00:53:32,277 The granite is much stronger , holds up 1384 00:53:32,277 --> 00:53:34,443 much better , different color . Change 1385 00:53:34,443 --> 00:53:36,610 it . OK . They're considering firing , 1386 00:53:36,610 --> 00:53:38,666 Mr . President . Go ahead , please . 1387 00:53:38,666 --> 00:53:40,777 Thank you , Mr . President . Today is 1388 00:53:40,777 --> 00:53:40,649 the MLB trade deadline , and there's 1389 00:53:40,649 --> 00:53:42,593 been talk lately about a potential 1390 00:53:42,593 --> 00:53:44,705 lockout next year . Um , I think over 1391 00:53:44,705 --> 00:53:48,290 salary cap , uh , salary cap . Do you , 1392 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,800 uh , support the salary cap in the MLB , 1393 00:53:50,919 --> 00:53:52,919 and what are your thoughts ? Well , 1394 00:53:52,919 --> 00:53:54,752 we're gonna talk about that at a 1395 00:53:54,752 --> 00:53:56,697 different time , you know , it's a 1396 00:53:56,697 --> 00:53:58,919 complex situation , but not too complex 1397 00:53:58,919 --> 00:54:01,030 for me . Yeah , please . What did you 1398 00:54:01,030 --> 00:54:00,419 think of the Nationals trading Luis 1399 00:54:00,419 --> 00:54:03,899 Garcia to the Yankees one ? Luis 1400 00:54:03,899 --> 00:54:06,121 Garcia from the Washington Nationals to 1401 00:54:06,121 --> 00:54:08,455 the New York Yankees . New York Yankees . 1402 00:54:08,455 --> 00:54:10,399 What do you think of the job Brian 1403 00:54:10,399 --> 00:54:12,399 Cashman's doing ? Well , I've known 1404 00:54:12,399 --> 00:54:12,330 Brian Cashman for a long time . Look , 1405 00:54:12,379 --> 00:54:14,435 he's done a good job . I think Randy 1406 00:54:14,435 --> 00:54:16,157 Levine is great . He's a great 1407 00:54:16,157 --> 00:54:18,379 executive . And by the way , the NIL or 1408 00:54:18,379 --> 00:54:21,139 whatever it is , uh . Is very close to 1409 00:54:21,139 --> 00:54:24,020 getting solved college sports , and 1410 00:54:24,020 --> 00:54:27,020 Randy Levine and Nick Saban and a whole 1411 00:54:27,020 --> 00:54:29,050 group of people have done an 1412 00:54:29,050 --> 00:54:31,860 unbelievable job . That was a case that 1413 00:54:31,860 --> 00:54:34,080 should have been appealed by the NCAA 1414 00:54:34,500 --> 00:54:36,556 and they never appealed it . Whoever 1415 00:54:36,556 --> 00:54:38,778 ran the NCAA , they never appealed it . 1416 00:54:38,778 --> 00:54:40,889 The original case was thrown out by a 1417 00:54:40,889 --> 00:54:43,056 judge that knew nothing about sports , 1418 00:54:43,056 --> 00:54:45,333 nothing about sports or college sports . 1419 00:54:45,979 --> 00:54:48,312 And that case should have been appealed . 1420 00:54:48,379 --> 00:54:50,379 They didn't appeal it . They didn't 1421 00:54:50,379 --> 00:54:52,101 know . I , I think they forgot 1422 00:54:52,101 --> 00:54:54,268 something happened . In college sports 1423 00:54:54,268 --> 00:54:56,209 was and is in turmoil right now , 1424 00:54:56,649 --> 00:55:00,429 turmoil . And Randy 1425 00:55:00,909 --> 00:55:03,131 Levine from the Yankees , the president 1426 00:55:03,131 --> 00:55:05,187 of the Yankees , got together with a 1427 00:55:05,187 --> 00:55:07,353 lot of people . We had it right here , 1428 00:55:07,353 --> 00:55:09,576 60 people , 60 people that were in that 1429 00:55:09,576 --> 00:55:11,742 world , including legal people , and , 1430 00:55:11,742 --> 00:55:13,909 uh , from football , it was Nick Saban 1431 00:55:13,909 --> 00:55:15,719 who won 6 or 7 championships , 1432 00:55:16,090 --> 00:55:18,146 fantastic coach and very respected , 1433 00:55:18,146 --> 00:55:20,146 and many other people , very , very 1434 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,330 respected . And we have a bipartisan 1435 00:55:23,330 --> 00:55:25,330 deal as of right now , so we'll see 1436 00:55:25,330 --> 00:55:27,497 what happens . We have to , they'll be 1437 00:55:27,497 --> 00:55:29,774 voting on it soon . I hope they get it . 1438 00:55:29,774 --> 00:55:31,997 I hope they get it done . Thank you all 1439 00:55:31,997 --> 00:55:33,997 very much . Thank you . Thank you . 1440 00:55:33,997 --> 00:55:34,810 Thank you for that question .