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Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders While Taking Questions From Reporters · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for being here. We have UH
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Speaker 1: largely an energy group today. We're looking to be very
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Speaker 1: energy dominant, and we will be in a very short order.
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Speaker 1: These are great professionals. But before we do that, we'll
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Speaker 1: be signing an executive order having to do with UH,
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Speaker 1: COVID and schools.
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Speaker 2: Lindsay, yeah, So this first executive order, it UH prohibits
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Speaker 2: federal funding for COVID nineteen mandates, vaccine mandates, and schools.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and that will be being They want to clear
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Speaker 1: that up the discrepancy.
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Speaker 2: So any schools that UH require students to be vaccinated
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Speaker 2: with COVID nineteen shot, then there's no more f federal funding.
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Speaker 3: So okay, okay, that solves that problem.
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Speaker 1: Sera Will the Department of Education have to UH handle that? Yes,
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Speaker 1: it'll go through the Department of Education. Kay. Thanks, Okay.
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Speaker 1: Can I make one comings President? Yes? Please?
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Speaker 4: UH, As a father of nine, thank you.
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Speaker 5: UH.
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Speaker 4: We should have parental freedom to decide what vaccines UH
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Speaker 4: our kids take, as opposed to school systems and governors
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Speaker 4: forcing upon UH the the people that love these kids
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Speaker 4: the most, which is the parents.
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Speaker 1: So thank you for signing that right, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: People wanted that very badly.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, And here is an executive order establishing the
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Speaker 2: National Energy Dominance Council. So that will be chaired by
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Speaker 2: uh the Secretary of the Interior, UH mister Burgham and
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Speaker 2: UH the vice chair Chris Right. And and so this
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Speaker 2: will reduce costs with respect to energy, establish American independence
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Speaker 2: with energy, and also unleash energy dominance.
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Speaker 1: Good, thank you, And this is a big deal. We
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Speaker 1: have more energy than any other country and now we're
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Speaker 1: unleashing it, to put it nicely, And I'd like to
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Speaker 1: ask Doug, you're going to be heading it up, you
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Speaker 1: and Chris, would you say a few words about it place? Yeah, absolutely, sir,
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 6: President Trump wisely understood that under the Biden administration there
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Speaker 6: was a war against American energy, and today that war
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Speaker 6: officially has ended. President Trump on day one declared a
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Speaker 6: national Energy Emergency. And this is a real emergency because
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Speaker 6: under the Biden administration restricted the production of oil and gas.
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Speaker 6: Production is still coming. But when you stop holding leases,
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Speaker 6: when you take six hundred and twenty five million acres
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Speaker 6: of land of ocean land out of production possibilities to
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Speaker 6: an executive order, you're really restricting the balance sheet of America.
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Speaker 6: But today, as President Trump said, this is unleashed. The
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Speaker 6: National Energy Dominance Council will be made up all the
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Speaker 6: folks that are standing beside me here, other Cabinet leaders,
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Speaker 6: and many more represent President Trump's wise decision that we
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Speaker 6: need a whole of government approach to unwine. The Biden
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Speaker 6: administration had a whole of government approached that had the
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Speaker 6: war against US energy. Now we need to turn that
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Speaker 6: around one hundred and eight degrees and unleash that potential.
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Speaker 6: And we've got to unleash it from the Gulf of
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Speaker 6: America all the way up to Alaska. We have amazing
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Speaker 6: resources this country, and we haven't beginning a return on
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Speaker 6: Many of these are under public lands. The interior has
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Speaker 6: five hundred million acres of surface, seven hundred million acres
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Speaker 6: of subsurface minerals critical minerals, and offshore close to two
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Speaker 6: billion acres. And that balance sheet makes is the biggest
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Speaker 6: balance sheet in the world, and it's been completely underutilized.
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Speaker 6: Everybody knows we have thirty six trillion in debt as
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Speaker 6: a country, but no one knows how hundreds of trillions
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Speaker 6: of dollars of assets we have. And President Trump is
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Speaker 6: asking us to go get a return on that investment
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Speaker 6: for the American people, and with that, we're to have
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Speaker 6: prosperity at home with lower prices, and we're also going
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Speaker 6: to have peace abroad because the wars that we've been
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Speaker 6: engaged in our allies have been fighting over the past
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Speaker 6: few years have been funded by the oil sales of
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Speaker 6: our adversaries.
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Speaker 1: So we have an opportunity.
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Speaker 6: And we also were in.
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Speaker 1: An AI arms race with China.
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Speaker 6: The only way we win that is with more electricity,
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Speaker 6: and we also have an energy emergency in terms of electricity,
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Speaker 6: too much, intermittent, unreliable, not enough baseload. We've been shutting
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Speaker 6: down the baseload that we have. President Trump is going
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Speaker 6: to reverse that and it's going to allow us to
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Speaker 6: win the AI arms race, which is the most important
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Speaker 6: thing that we have to do relative to our future.
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Speaker 6: So with that, I want to say again thank you
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Speaker 6: to President Trump, and I want to thank my fellow
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Speaker 6: members of the Energy Council.
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Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to kick it over to the vice chair,
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Speaker 6: Chris Wright, who's the Secretary of the Department of Energy.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Secretary Bergham.
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Speaker 5: Today is truly a great day for our country today
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Speaker 5: and Secretary Bergham laid out so many of the problems
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Speaker 5: the last four years.
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Speaker 6: If you put barriers in front of.
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Speaker 5: Energy, you make it more expensive, you make it less reliable,
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Speaker 5: you make it harder to do business here and harder
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Speaker 5: for our consumers.
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Speaker 1: To pay their bills.
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Speaker 5: With this fantastic action from our President, we now have
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Speaker 5: authority across the government to lean in to fix these problems.
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Speaker 5: And I'll start out with one specific right away. This morning,
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Speaker 5: I signed our first LNG export license, unpausing the pause
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Speaker 5: in action. The Commonwealth LNG project that'll be on the
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Speaker 5: Gulf Coast in Louisiana is now officially ready to go.
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Speaker 5: This will be a large construction project for American workers.
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Speaker 5: It'll draw a demand for more American energy production that
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Speaker 5: will be shipped overseas to our allies. Many more of
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Speaker 5: those to come. We're also working aggressively to roll back
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Speaker 5: standards that have made appliances more expensive for Americans. Swashers
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Speaker 5: that take two hours long and don't get your dishes clean,
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Speaker 5: nobody likes that.
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Speaker 1: That's about standing in the way.
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Speaker 5: And with this president President Trump and our new National
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Speaker 5: Energy Dominance Council, there's so many things we can do
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Speaker 5: to make American lives better, bring down costs, and grow opportunities.
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Speaker 5: And with that, I'm going to kick it over to
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Speaker 5: a fellow member of the council, our Administrator of the EPA,
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Speaker 5: Leez Elden, Thank.
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Speaker 8: You, Secretary, and honor to be serving on the Energy
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Speaker 8: Dominance Council at EPA. We're doing our part to power
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Speaker 8: the great American comeback, and President Trump has made it
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Speaker 8: clear that he wants EPA to be doing our job
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Speaker 8: to ensure that we are unleashing energy dominance. However, we
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Speaker 8: can help, that we are assisting in making America the
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Speaker 8: AI capital of the world, that we are pursuing permanent reform,
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Speaker 8: that we are helping to bring back American auto jobs.
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Speaker 8: This is the mandate of the American public, that the
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Speaker 8: Trump mandate. It was clear and the guidance from President
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Speaker 8: Trump to me when he asked me thankfully for the
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Speaker 8: opportunity for us to be able to serve together in
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Speaker 8: partnership to unleash energy dominance. This is a moment that
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Speaker 8: we must meet to that end. It is important to
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Speaker 8: note that the prior Biden Harris EPA issued a waiver
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Speaker 8: to California for tailpipe emissions. This was a rule that
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Speaker 8: should have been submitted to Congress. We will submit it
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Speaker 8: to Congress. Congress will have the opportunity through the Congressional
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Speaker 8: Review Act to make that waiver go away. We will
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Speaker 8: do everything in our part to help the American people
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Speaker 8: to make life in America more affordable.
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Speaker 1: The golden age.
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Speaker 8: Of American success is upon us. If you're excited about
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Speaker 8: the last three weeks, that was just a taste of
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Speaker 8: the main event, the entree to come the next four
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Speaker 8: years being the greatest term in the history of the
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Speaker 8: American presidency. With that, I'd like to introduce Sean Duffy.
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Speaker 9: Thank you, so, first of all, thank you for the
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Speaker 9: work on washers. We use more water to wash our
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Speaker 9: dishes before we put them in the dishwashers, and we're
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Speaker 9: not saving water, we're using more water, so thank you
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Speaker 9: for that.
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Speaker 1: But I'm also joining the EPA.
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Speaker 9: We've introduced our rules to start to look at the
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Speaker 9: cafe standards, so we're looking at how how much it
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Speaker 9: costs for end users when they put gas in their car,
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Speaker 9: and the Biden era standards are costing billions of dollars
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Speaker 9: in taxes and carbon credits, which drive up the costs
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Speaker 9: of vehicles, and so we're going to revenue that, rectify
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Speaker 9: it and make sure we're bringing down the cost of
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Speaker 9: a car. Number two, if I can just mentioned muster
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Speaker 9: President prier direction. We are going to move forward with
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Speaker 9: a permitting process for the Texas Golf Link deep water Port,
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Speaker 9: making sure we can move energy in and out of
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Speaker 9: the country. So that's that was held up for five
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Speaker 9: years and it was stonewall bureaucrat Scott in the way.
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Speaker 1: We're now going to move forward.
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Speaker 4: With that, making sure we have great oil infrastructure in
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Speaker 4: the country.
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Speaker 1: Thanks great Howard. What neck.
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Speaker 10: Yes, So the nanny state, you're feeling the end of
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Speaker 10: the nanny state, from straws made of paper to regulation
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Speaker 10: endlessly harming Americans and holding us back.
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Speaker 11: It slows down our production of manufacturing, which we were
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Speaker 11: talking about with the Prime Minister of India yesterday. You're
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Speaker 11: hearing that about energy dominance. It's going to go away.
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Speaker 11: We're going to care about Americans. The Trump administration and
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Speaker 11: this president cares about Americans, and you're going to feel
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Speaker 11: a change. You're got to feel the price of energy
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Speaker 11: coming down. You gotta feel prices coming down. You're gonna
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Speaker 11: feel an explosion. The golden age of manufacturing of America
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Speaker 11: has always been there, it's just been stifled by regulation,
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Speaker 11: and that time is over.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 12: Please, mister President, I just want to say that you've
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Speaker 12: built such an incredible team and secretary and Chairman Bergham
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Speaker 12: that he's been working on this his whole life, and
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Speaker 12: so what I expect you to see, Sir, is action
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Speaker 12: as early as next week.
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Speaker 1: That is going to shock people about how.
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Speaker 2: Good it is for Americans.
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Speaker 12: And so thank you for your leadership service.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Kevin. And we are also working
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Speaker 1: on a project that has been under wraps for twenty years.
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Speaker 1: Everybody wanted it, it's been held up by New York.
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Speaker 1: It's a pipeline that will bring down the energy prices
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Speaker 1: in New York and in all of New England by
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Speaker 1: fifty sixty seventy percent. It should have been done years ago.
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Speaker 1: We'll be speaking to New York and the New York
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Speaker 1: is actually the biggest beneficiary because their energy costs are
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Speaker 1: very high. This will reduce the very substantially. But all
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Speaker 1: of the governors want this to happen, and I think
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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. It's not going to happen. It's
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Speaker 1: something that's would rather not have to go. Eminent Domain
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Speaker 1: will do that if we have to in New York,
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Speaker 1: but hopefully we won't have to do that. This again,
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Speaker 1: will bring down energy prices in New England by numbers
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Speaker 1: that nobody can even believe. Probably fifty sixty percent, maybe
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Speaker 1: even more than that. A lot of them don't even
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Speaker 1: pay energy because they have no energy. They use logs,
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Speaker 1: they go out and they cut down a tree through
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Speaker 1: a terrible situation. So we're going to get this done,
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Speaker 1: and we can have it done once we saw construction.
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Speaker 1: We're looking at anywhere from nine to twelve months if
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Speaker 1: you can believe it, it's going to go very rapidly.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I'd like Doug to mention the six
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five million acres that Biden so viciously
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Speaker 1: took out of our net worth. If you look at
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Speaker 1: it from the standpoint of a company, you talk about
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Speaker 1: net worth, they've destroyed our net worth. We're putting it back.
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Speaker 1: It will be back as of this afternoon. And Doug,
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Speaker 1: could you mentioned that all of the millions and millions
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Speaker 1: of acres that he just ended.
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Speaker 6: Back the executive order by President Biden that wiped out
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Speaker 6: these trillions from our balance sheet. President Trump signed an
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Speaker 6: executive order instructing me as the Sector of Interior to
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Speaker 6: unban that ban, and that's been accomplished, and so those
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Speaker 6: are back on the US balance sheet. Okay, Which one
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Speaker 6: is that the six hundred and twenty five million acres
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Speaker 6: of offshore that was banned from further lease sales. Six
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Speaker 6: hundred and twenty five million acres is one third the
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Speaker 6: size of the lower forty eight that was taken off
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Speaker 6: or a balance sheet. It's back on there now. President
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Speaker 6: Trump cares about the American people. He knows that these
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Speaker 6: public lands belonged to the public. They don't belong to
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Speaker 6: Washington bureaucrats from the prior administration. And we're going to
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Speaker 6: make sure that we get a return on investment for
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Speaker 6: the American people.
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Speaker 1: The amount of money that he took off a balance sheet,
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Speaker 1: if you look at as a balance sheet, it was incalculable.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And he did that,
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Speaker 1: I guess in the last few days of the administration.
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Speaker 1: He just wiped it out hundred and thirty five million acres,
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Speaker 1: which if you sit down and look, it's like it's
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Speaker 1: a major part of the ocean, and he just gave
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Speaker 1: it away and took it away. And fortunately it wasn't
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Speaker 1: done with an Act of Congress or anything. And we
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Speaker 1: did it in i think, very abbreviated, very quick and
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Speaker 1: very legal procedure, and it's now back on our balance sheet.
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Speaker 1: It's back as part of our country. What they did
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Speaker 1: was so horrible. It was just a terrible thing to do,
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Speaker 1: an unbelievable thing to do. Also, they mentioned dishwashers and
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Speaker 1: sinks and showers of the whole thing. We're going to
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Speaker 1: get rid of those restrictions. And you have many places
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Speaker 1: where they have water. They have so much water they
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do with it. But people buy
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Speaker 1: a house, they turn on the sink and water barely
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Speaker 1: comes out. They take a shower of water barely comes out,
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Speaker 1: and it's an unnecessary restriction. And basically I think we
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Speaker 1: were going to be going back to the Trump Row.
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Speaker 1: We had it and everybody was happy, and then these
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Speaker 1: people came in and they restricted it again. So we're
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Speaker 1: going back and we'll get it approved by Congress. In addition,
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Speaker 1: we'll get it approved by Congress. So for four years
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Speaker 1: it's good, but we're going to get it permanently taken
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Speaker 1: care of and again very environmental, very environmentally friendly. But
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Speaker 1: we want to be able to when somebody turns on
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Speaker 1: a sink to wash their hands, or presses the button
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Speaker 1: for a dishwasher and there's barely enough water to I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's no water, and you know what they do. They
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Speaker 1: press the button ten times, they run it ten times,
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Speaker 1: so it ends up crossing a lot more. So I
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Speaker 1: know you're working on that. And where are we on that.
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Speaker 8: We're working closely with the Department of Energy with regards
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Speaker 8: to rules that were enacted during the Biden administration. Inside
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Speaker 8: of the EPA, we are overhauling the water sense standards
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Speaker 8: that are there to update them for the American people,
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Speaker 8: to bring down cost of living and combat inflation and
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Speaker 8: just pursue common sense.
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Speaker 1: Good. Well, we have more oil and gas than anybody
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Speaker 1: else in the world. Where opening up and wire Again,
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Speaker 1: as you know, we got something Ronald Reagan couldn't do it.
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Speaker 1: President was able to do it. I got it, and
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Speaker 1: the first week in office, the Biden administration terminated that
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Speaker 1: A war is the biggest site, probably bigger than Saudi Arabia.
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Speaker 1: We don't know yet, but it's of that size or bigger.
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Speaker 13: And we hit gold and I call it liquid gold,
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Speaker 13: but we hit gold and they for whatever reason, they
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Speaker 13: terminated it and we were just ready to start utilizing it.
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Speaker 1: This could take care of all of Asia. Energy was
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Speaker 1: very close to Japan. In fact, Japan wants to go
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Speaker 1: and be our partner of doing the pipeline going right
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Speaker 1: into the ships. So they expressed tremendous interest. So did
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Modi of India. And just in closing, both
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Moni and the Prime Minister of Japan both
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Speaker 1: very good people. They said, we couldn't make a deal,
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Speaker 1: We couldn't get any energy. I mean, you wonder what
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Speaker 1: was going on with our country. They couldn't make a
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Speaker 1: deal to get any energy from the Biden administration. They
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Speaker 1: just couldn't do it. There was nobody to deal with.
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Speaker 1: They didn't know how to go about it. And they're
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Speaker 1: very happy that we're here. But we're going to really
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Speaker 1: benefit our taxpayers. Then we're going to benefit our country.
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Speaker 1: So I want to thank everybody for coming. This is
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Speaker 1: a very big bill. This is really going to be
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Speaker 1: energy dominant. We're going to be energy dominant like nobody else.
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Speaker 1: And this doesn't even discuss all of the electricity that
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Speaker 1: we're going to be producing for all of the AI plans.
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Speaker 1: You know, they need double the electricity at least that
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Speaker 1: we have right now. So you take all of our
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Speaker 1: electricity that we have all over the country just for
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Speaker 1: AI to do it right and to win that war,
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Speaker 1: which we're leading by a lot because of what we've
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Speaker 1: done over the last few weeks. We're leading by actually
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Speaker 1: a lot. But if you take all of it, we
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Speaker 1: have to double our electricity needs just for the AI
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Speaker 1: and that doesn't include the other technologies. So it's a
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Speaker 1: real honor to sign this bill. We're going to also
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Speaker 1: work on cafe standardsally, you're going to be doing that
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Speaker 1: and make that whole situation, bring that back into reality,
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Speaker 1: and I think very quickly having to do with cars,
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Speaker 1: thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: What happens yesterday is the media.
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Speaker 1: No, but in two weeks we will have another one.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday was very big. Reciprocal tariffs was very big and
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Speaker 1: it I I explained to the Prime Minister of India,
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Moti very good men. Is tariffs are very
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Speaker 1: very high. India's tariffs are among the highest. And I said, well,
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Speaker 1: now you know we we were very low. We were
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Speaker 1: the lowest. They're just about the highest. There are others
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Speaker 1: as high, but not much higher. And I said, no, no,
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Speaker 1: from now on, what we do is what you charge us.
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Speaker 1: We charge you very simple. So whatever you're charging us,
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Speaker 1: you go as high as you want. Whatever you charge us,
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Speaker 1: we charge you. And I wouldn't say they were thrilled
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Speaker 1: to hear that, but that's the way it is. Uh, Tariff,
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Speaker 1: I told you, is a beautiful word, fourth most beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Do you make any pleasures.
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Speaker 9: To help res nations not undermine the dollar?
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Speaker 1: Friends? Yeah? Ter uh bricks the bricks nations. Uh, I
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Speaker 1: think that's breaking up very rapidly. We said that if
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Speaker 1: they're gonna go and and do anything to undermine the dollar,
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Speaker 1: that includes China. Uh. I don't even know that they
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Speaker 1: are a member of bricks. But they had a few
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Speaker 1: nations get together to try and play cute, and uh,
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Speaker 1: I said, we're gonna put a hundred percent terif on
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Speaker 1: every one of those nations. And uh at the mere
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Speaker 1: thought of saying that, I think that's all broken up.
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Speaker 1: That idea has no longer sailed. Now that would be
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Speaker 1: a terrible thing for our country and be bad for
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Speaker 1: the world. They wanted to undermine the dollar. Six nations
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Speaker 1: got together. They want to undermine the dollar. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: that didn't work out too well, not gonna happen. And
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Speaker 1: we're getting along with a lot of nations now. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of respect for the United States. We
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Speaker 1: have uh regained our the respect that we should have
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Speaker 1: and uh, but we've also done things to deserve it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we freed up our country. And you're going
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Speaker 1: to see this is basically energy dominance, and it's going
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Speaker 1: to be environmentally clean, environmentally wonderful, and taxes will be
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Speaker 1: very reasonable based on this. We're going to make more
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Speaker 1: money than anybody's ever made with energy. We have more
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Speaker 1: energy than anybody else, and it's clean energy, very clean,
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Speaker 1: beautiful energy. We're lucky we have it. I call it
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Speaker 1: liquid gold under our feet, and we're going to utilize it.
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Speaker 1: So this is a very big bill and I have
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Speaker 1: a very talented group of people behind me. This gentleman
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Speaker 1: was the number one man in all of the oil industry.
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Speaker 1: They said, there's nobody like him, Chris right, and you
19:41
Speaker 1: know Doug. Doug actually made a tremendous fortune in technology,
19:46
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm going to run for the governorship
19:48
Speaker 1: of he loves this state of North Dakota, and he did,
19:52
Speaker 1: and he made it so energy powerful that he's I
19:56
Speaker 1: think he's I think you're more proficient energy than thatechnology.
20:00
Speaker 1: But what do I know? And this guy, everybody knows
20:03
Speaker 1: him Sean, he's he's done a fair study on transportation,
20:08
Speaker 1: and he knows he's learned a lot over the last
20:11
Speaker 1: few months. He's learned a lot. He's really been great.
20:14
Speaker 1: And Howard has built one of the great companies, Canter Fitzgerald.
20:19
Speaker 1: It was wiped out, completely wiped out other than a
20:22
Speaker 1: few people left in Europe, and he rebuilt the company
20:25
Speaker 1: into a bigger, better company. Canter Fitzgerald is one of
20:28
Speaker 1: the most absolutely one of the top companies on Wall
20:32
Speaker 1: Street stocks, bonds trading. And he took that. I mean
20:36
Speaker 1: he literally watched the plane go into the building, into
20:39
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center. Amazing story. That alone is amazing story.
20:43
Speaker 1: He was delayed because his wife insisted that he finally,
20:47
Speaker 1: after years, take his child to school. So he took
20:51
Speaker 1: his child to school that one day because normally he
20:53
Speaker 1: would have been in the building at six o'clock in
20:55
Speaker 1: the morning. That's that business, right, So you owe your
20:58
Speaker 1: wife a lot and your child lot. Right. But his
21:01
Speaker 1: wife insisted that he take his child to school for
21:06
Speaker 1: five years, he didn't do it. He was horrible. What
21:08
Speaker 1: kind of a father was He Okay, I'll do it,
21:11
Speaker 1: and he took and he was therefore driving down at
21:14
Speaker 1: eight forty three whatever at the time, was down the
21:17
Speaker 1: West Side Highway and he saw the plane going to
21:20
Speaker 1: the side of the building. He said wow. And he
21:22
Speaker 1: occupied the top three floors of the World Trade Center,
21:26
Speaker 1: of the one building of the World Trade Center. And
21:29
Speaker 1: you know what happened there? He lost one hundred percent
21:31
Speaker 1: of the people in that all his whole company was there.
21:35
Speaker 1: And he rebuilt his company step by step over years
21:40
Speaker 1: and became bigger and stronger. And he gave a tremendous
21:44
Speaker 1: amount of the profit to the families of the people
21:47
Speaker 1: that died, which he didn't have to do. And now
21:51
Speaker 1: he's working with us. He did an incredible job. I mean,
21:54
Speaker 1: anybody in that world, they know Howard Lutnick very well.
21:58
Speaker 1: And I'm honored to have him running commerce. He's going
22:01
Speaker 1: to be incredible. He loves he loves the country. And
22:04
Speaker 1: Lee was a great lawyer, a great congressman, very successful
22:09
Speaker 1: person both as a lawyer and as a congressman, and
22:12
Speaker 1: knows a lot about the environment, cares about the environment.
22:15
Speaker 1: And we were lucky that. I was very happy that
22:18
Speaker 1: you joined. And he was with me right from the beginning,
22:21
Speaker 1: always was with me, and I've always been with him.
22:24
Speaker 1: And Kevin Hassett. We know everybody knows Kevin, and he's fantastic.
22:30
Speaker 1: And you and Lindsey, you and your team are incredible.
22:32
Speaker 1: The job you've done, we've done we really appreciate. Thank Will.
22:36
Speaker 1: And the job you guys are doing is really fantastic.
22:38
Speaker 1: We're knocking this out. Brian, do you have a question
22:41
Speaker 1: I actually do.
22:42
Speaker 7: What kind of piqued my interest is growing up on
22:45
Speaker 7: the Texas Gulf Coast natural Gap l G that you mentioned.
22:49
Speaker 7: What's the potential for new jobs or growth in that area.
22:53
Speaker 7: I mean that part of the country, Southwest Louisiana, Southeast Texas.
22:57
Speaker 1: They depend on that.
22:59
Speaker 5: I would say that potential is simply tremendous. You know,
23:03
Speaker 5: twenty years ago, the United States was the biggest importer
23:07
Speaker 5: of natural gas in the world, and we had natural
23:10
Speaker 5: gas prices two or three times higher than they are today.
23:14
Speaker 1: But with shale revolution and great.
23:15
Speaker 5: Entrepreneurs in Texas and Louisiana and across our great country,
23:19
Speaker 5: we are now today the largest net exporter of natural
23:23
Speaker 5: gas in the world, and so much of the world
23:26
Speaker 5: is depending upon natural gas. Is the fastest growing energy source,
23:30
Speaker 5: has been for fifty years.
23:32
Speaker 1: We were the driver of that.
23:34
Speaker 5: And then we paused, we stopped our ability to grow
23:38
Speaker 5: natural gas exports. Both the Japanese government and Indian government
23:42
Speaker 5: expressed great distress about that they're going to count on
23:45
Speaker 5: energy imports from the US and we may just change
23:47
Speaker 5: our mind. So I think they're thrilled to see the
23:50
Speaker 5: actions of this president say America is open for business. Yes,
23:54
Speaker 5: we have the energy, we have the people. We have
23:56
Speaker 5: huge job opportunities and investment opportunities, not just in the
24:00
Speaker 5: gas industry, but all those surrounding communities that are lifted
24:03
Speaker 5: up by that more production here. And as we produce
24:06
Speaker 5: more production at scale, not only does it allow us
24:09
Speaker 5: to export, but it becomes more efficient and it helps
24:11
Speaker 5: us drive down the cost for our domestic consumers as well.
24:14
Speaker 1: I know that really, Thank you, Brian, And I will
24:20
Speaker 1: say this that this all started eight years ago when
24:25
Speaker 1: I got elected. We were doing this, not to the
24:29
Speaker 1: extent that we're doing it now, but we were doing this,
24:31
Speaker 1: and we became number one in oil and gas by far,
24:35
Speaker 1: and we were number three, even number four. Some would
24:38
Speaker 1: say when I left, we were number one by a lot.
24:42
Speaker 1: And then they pulled way back and the prices started
24:44
Speaker 1: going through the roof, and then they went back to
24:46
Speaker 1: my plan, but by that time the prices had already
24:48
Speaker 1: gone up, so they really disrupted it. But now we're
24:52
Speaker 1: going to take it to a new level. It's going
24:54
Speaker 1: to be amazing. And we're also it's very powerful, clean call.
25:00
Speaker 1: We have more coal than anybody. This is good, beautiful,
25:02
Speaker 1: clean coal. And if you notice, China's opening up a
25:05
Speaker 1: coal plant a month, Germany is now opening up a
25:09
Speaker 1: coal plant every two months. Very powerful. It's probably the
25:14
Speaker 1: most powerful source of energy in terms of generation, generation
25:17
Speaker 1: of electricity and other things. And we're going to utilize
25:20
Speaker 1: our good, clean, beautiful coal and oil and gas. Would
25:25
Speaker 1: we have more than anybody of everything, and we're going
25:28
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. And I appreciate everybody being.
25:31
Speaker 14: Here, sir, about what's happening in Munich.
25:36
Speaker 2: Senator Roger Wicker shepherded Defense Secretary Headset through his confirmation.
25:42
Speaker 9: He got through that process, and he had some tough
25:44
Speaker 9: words for him overseas.
25:45
Speaker 5: He said it was a rookie mistake for Secretary Headsets.
25:49
Speaker 2: To outline what water would not happen as far as
25:52
Speaker 2: Ukraine's membership in NATO goes.
25:55
Speaker 1: And then I haven't heard that. I mean, Roger is
25:57
Speaker 1: a very good friend of mine, and Peter's obviously been
26:00
Speaker 1: doing a great job. I haven't let me look at
26:03
Speaker 1: you tell me something I'm I have not heard about it.
26:07
Speaker 2: I had is were you aware of what Secretary hexapt
26:11
Speaker 2: is going to say in his speech at NATO?
26:13
Speaker 1: Generally speaking? You generally speaking?
26:15
Speaker 5: I was.
26:15
Speaker 1: I'll speak to Roger, I'll speak to Pete.
26:17
Speaker 14: I'll find out Senurgy Dominance councils for all forms of energy?
26:22
Speaker 1: Does that include all forms of energy?
26:24
Speaker 14: And the pipeline you mentioned, sir, is that a constitution's
26:27
Speaker 14: pipeline in New York?
26:29
Speaker 1: Can you? I believe, Yeah, that's what it is. And
26:33
Speaker 1: you know they've been trying to get it for twenty years.
26:35
Speaker 1: And what it means is for New York, up State
26:37
Speaker 1: New York and even everywhere in New York, also other states,
26:42
Speaker 1: but in particular New England. That New England will now
26:46
Speaker 1: I think we'll cut the energy prices, and big cuts
26:49
Speaker 1: in New York too, but cut the energy prices literally.
26:53
Speaker 1: And if we have the permits. We have permits that
26:56
Speaker 1: just about everything we need a New York permit, and
27:00
Speaker 1: I would imagine they want to because their energy prices
27:02
Speaker 1: will come down so far, and it's a lot of
27:04
Speaker 1: jobs for New York. It's a great thing for New York.
27:06
Speaker 1: Everybody wants it. We'll be meeting with the various governors
27:11
Speaker 1: Governor of New York and the other governors too, and
27:14
Speaker 1: we can have it built in about nine months and
27:16
Speaker 1: let's say one year, but we can actually have it
27:18
Speaker 1: built in pretty close to nine months. It's all set.
27:21
Speaker 1: We have most of the permits, almost all of the permits.
27:25
Speaker 14: And on just your prioritizing energy dominance today, you've also
27:28
Speaker 14: prioritized trade balance. The oil industry is a little worried
27:32
Speaker 14: about the steel tariff. I mean, they put twenty thousand
27:34
Speaker 14: feet steelm the ground at a well, how will you
27:36
Speaker 14: balance that is there?
27:38
Speaker 1: I'm talking about steel and aluminum steel care. So the
27:41
Speaker 1: steel I saved the steel industry in my first term
27:45
Speaker 1: by putting on tariffs because China was dumping messive amounts
27:48
Speaker 1: of steel. Others also, but mostly China, and I put
27:52
Speaker 1: very substantial. We took in six hundred billion dollars worth
27:55
Speaker 1: of tariffs, so China, no other presidents taken up. Literally
27:59
Speaker 1: haven't gotten ten cents from China, not ten cents. And
28:03
Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars came in from China, and
28:06
Speaker 1: they understood it. They understood what I did. But the
28:10
Speaker 1: dumping stopped. And had I not done that, you wouldn't
28:13
Speaker 1: have one steel mill. I think I can say not
28:15
Speaker 1: one steel mill operating in this country. And we need steel,
28:19
Speaker 1: we need steal. I mean, there are some things you
28:21
Speaker 1: have to have and steel is one of them for
28:23
Speaker 1: military et cetera. So I think steel is gonna be
28:28
Speaker 1: very strong. It's gonna be very strong. I think it'll
28:30
Speaker 1: go back to being really powerful. We saved it. I
28:34
Speaker 1: mean we were talking about US Steel last week. US
28:37
Speaker 1: Steel would have been closed, totally closed. We saved it,
28:41
Speaker 1: and now it's going to become I think, very very profitable.
28:44
Speaker 1: The tariffs are going to save a lot of industries.
28:52
Speaker 12: If the Japanese company that's interested in US Steel wants
28:55
Speaker 12: to take a minority stake as opposed to full ownership.
28:57
Speaker 1: Is a minority stake, I wouldn't mind greatly. But what
29:01
Speaker 1: they're doing right now is they're going to be investors
29:03
Speaker 1: and they're going to be investing, and I think debt
29:05
Speaker 1: and various other things. But we didn't want to let
29:09
Speaker 1: US Steel go to a foreign company. And US Steel
29:12
Speaker 1: was the greatest company in the world for a period
29:15
Speaker 1: of fifteen years. It was you know, it was the
29:17
Speaker 1: big deal eighty years ago or so. And psychologically we
29:22
Speaker 1: can't we can't even think about letting that happen. But
29:25
Speaker 1: what is going to happen, and we've already seen it.
29:27
Speaker 1: You see it in the stock price with the tariffs,
29:30
Speaker 1: US still is going to be a real powerhouse again.
29:33
Speaker 1: How can just follow up on Jackie's question about Munich.
29:36
Speaker 14: Vice President of Vance's speech to the conference has ruffled
29:40
Speaker 14: quite a few fathers in Europe.
29:41
Speaker 1: What did you say to ruffle them?
29:43
Speaker 14: He was still about the freedom of speech and migration
29:46
Speaker 14: in Europe.
29:47
Speaker 13: Do you believe that European leaders have a fundamentally different
29:51
Speaker 13: view of the world than this administration?
29:53
Speaker 1: Well, I heard his speech, and I tell you're talking
29:55
Speaker 1: about Jad's speech. I guess so. I heard his speech
29:58
Speaker 1: and he talked about freedom of speech, and I think
30:02
Speaker 1: it's true. In Europe it's losing. They're losing their wonderful
30:06
Speaker 1: right of freedom of speech. I see it. I mean,
30:08
Speaker 1: I thought he made a very good speech, actually a
30:12
Speaker 1: very brilliant speech. You know, Europe has to be careful,
30:15
Speaker 1: and he talked about immigration, and Europe has a big
30:19
Speaker 1: immigration problem. Just take a look at what's happened with crime,
30:21
Speaker 1: take a look at what's happening in various parts of Europe.
30:25
Speaker 1: I thought his speech was very well received. Actually everd
30:28
Speaker 1: very good remarks and it gosse to Ukraine as well.
30:31
Speaker 12: Yesterday you mentioned that you thought Ukraine's natal.
30:34
Speaker 2: Aspirations for one of the main reasons that the war
30:37
Speaker 2: broke out.
30:38
Speaker 3: You blamed for the war in Ukraine or Russia.
30:41
Speaker 1: Well, I think this. I think that there were a
30:44
Speaker 1: lot of people to blame. All I can say is
30:46
Speaker 1: very simply, if I were president, that war would never
30:49
Speaker 1: have happened. And you know what else wouldn't have happened.
30:51
Speaker 1: The Middle East wouldn't be all blown up. And October
30:54
Speaker 1: seventh wouldn't have happened either those two areas. You wouldn't
30:58
Speaker 1: have inflation, you wouldn't have October se you wouldn't have
31:01
Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine fighting. None of those things would have
31:04
Speaker 1: happened if I were president. Yeah, place you mentioned auto
31:09
Speaker 1: terrace the other day. When when you planned to Howard,
31:12
Speaker 1: I'd say over the next sometime, or maybe around April. Second,
31:17
Speaker 1: I would have done them on April first. Believe I'm
31:21
Speaker 1: a little superstitious. No, literally, we had it planned for
31:24
Speaker 1: April first. I said, let's make it April April. Second.
31:27
Speaker 1: You know how much money that costs. That costs a
31:29
Speaker 1: lot of money just that one day. But we're going
31:31
Speaker 1: to do it on April second. I think, is that right?
31:33
Speaker 1: That's right? Okay.
31:36
Speaker 8: The lead prosecutor in Eric Adam's case resigned today, saying
31:40
Speaker 8: anyone who didn't.
31:41
Speaker 1: Press forward would be a coward.
31:42
Speaker 8: What's your reaction to that and to the overall implication
31:45
Speaker 8: that politics were played here?
31:47
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about it. I mean, obviously I'm
31:49
Speaker 1: not involved in that, but I would say this that
31:52
Speaker 1: if they had a problem, and these are mostly people
31:54
Speaker 1: from the previous administration, you understand, so they weren't going
31:57
Speaker 1: to be there anyway. They were going to all be
31:59
Speaker 1: gone or dismissed. If not. They know, on Tuesday they're
32:03
Speaker 1: all being You know, the whole country is being because
32:06
Speaker 1: what you do is you come in and you put
32:08
Speaker 1: new people in. So when you say resigned, they're going
32:10
Speaker 1: to be gone anyway. But I know nothing about the
32:13
Speaker 1: individual case. I know that they didn't feel it was
32:16
Speaker 1: much of a case. They also felt that it was
32:19
Speaker 1: unfair with the election. Look, I would know that better
32:21
Speaker 1: than anybody, because I was weaponized more than any human
32:25
Speaker 1: being in the history probably of the world. And I
32:29
Speaker 1: won the election in a landslide, winning all seven swing states,
32:32
Speaker 1: winning the popular vote and everything else because the people
32:36
Speaker 1: got it. It was weaponized, and I was weaponized literally
32:40
Speaker 1: weeks before the election. But I think there's also something
32:44
Speaker 1: to be said. I read that there's something to be
32:46
Speaker 1: said for what they were doing. It looked to me,
32:48
Speaker 1: it looked to me to be very political. But why
32:51
Speaker 1: didn't they bring this up like four or five weeks ago,
32:53
Speaker 1: six weeks ago or whatever it happened. You know, they
32:55
Speaker 1: just sat around and didn't complain. Then all of a
32:58
Speaker 1: sudden they complained. And they know they're all being dismissed anyway,
33:01
Speaker 1: So you know that's called politics. I guess yeah, Please, mos,
33:13
Speaker 1: what do you expect to happen tomorrow in tens? I
33:16
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow or twelve o'clock. It
33:19
Speaker 1: was up to me and take a very hard stance.
33:21
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what Israel's going to do, but
33:24
Speaker 1: uh I watched the last people come out, and I
33:28
Speaker 1: looked at it before and after. Picture. One guy was
33:31
Speaker 1: a big, strong, healthy guy. Could could you could say
33:34
Speaker 1: he was a little bit overweight. He's not overweight anymore.
33:37
Speaker 1: He looks like he just came out of the Holocaust.
33:40
Speaker 1: It looks like a Holocaust picture. I've looked at him
33:42
Speaker 1: for a long time, and they've been treated very badly.
33:46
Speaker 1: The young lady came out last week. Her hand was
33:48
Speaker 1: blown off, I mean literally, her hand was trying to
33:51
Speaker 1: stop a bullet that was headed for her face. She
33:54
Speaker 1: put up her hand she ghosts like this and wiped
33:57
Speaker 1: out her fingers and a lot of her hand. Now
34:02
Speaker 1: I would take a different stance, but it depends. Look,
34:05
Speaker 1: it depends what BB's going to do. It depends what
34:09
Speaker 1: Israel's going to do. But and now I understand they've
34:12
Speaker 1: totally changed. Hamas has totally changed. You want to release
34:15
Speaker 1: hostages now again, But you have to see. This started
34:19
Speaker 1: by them saying we're not going to release the hostages
34:22
Speaker 1: as we said we were. I said, good, you have
34:25
Speaker 1: till twelve o'clock on Saturday, which is tomorrow at twelve
34:28
Speaker 1: o'clock to do it. And we didn't hear anything. Then
34:32
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, two days ago, they said, no,
34:34
Speaker 1: we've decided we're going to release the hostages. But I
34:38
Speaker 1: actually think they should release all of the hostages. Remember,
34:43
Speaker 1: they're probably as as bad as they looked. I don't
34:48
Speaker 1: like to say that, but they look real bad four
34:52
Speaker 1: days ago, five days ago when I saw and the
34:54
Speaker 1: young ladies that came out were treated really badly. You
34:57
Speaker 1: don't know what happened, but I do they would treat
34:59
Speaker 1: it really badly. But as bad as they look, the
35:03
Speaker 1: ones that follow probably will look a lot worse. I
35:05
Speaker 1: think they're sending out their most healthy and they've been
35:09
Speaker 1: hit hard on that UMAs, so they probably didn't want
35:13
Speaker 1: to release, but they obviously they changed him. And I
35:16
Speaker 1: said twelve o'clock tomorrow, and all of a sudden two
35:19
Speaker 1: days ago. Yesterday they said we're gonna they're going back
35:21
Speaker 1: to release it. But this all started by them saying
35:24
Speaker 1: we are not going to release any more hostages, and
35:27
Speaker 1: then yesterday they said they are going to release the hostages.
35:31
Speaker 1: But I think they should release all of the hostages.
35:35
Speaker 14: Seventy five thousand workers took this to Ford resignation.
35:38
Speaker 1: It's a little bit short of the five to ten
35:39
Speaker 1: percent goal.
35:40
Speaker 2: You were open tod Do you think you'll have to
35:42
Speaker 2: make up the rest.
35:43
Speaker 1: Of that number. I look that seventy five thousand more
35:45
Speaker 1: than we would have had, and nobody knows what that
35:47
Speaker 1: final number is because in the end, I think a
35:49
Speaker 1: lot of people aren't going to show up to work.
35:51
Speaker 1: A lot of people they got used to staying home
35:53
Speaker 1: and quote working. But you know, I wonder if they
35:57
Speaker 1: had of the jobs or other things. You know, they
35:59
Speaker 1: have a lot of problems with that. No, seventy five
36:01
Speaker 1: thousands a lot of people, and we paid them well,
36:05
Speaker 1: you know, we gave them a lot of months of
36:07
Speaker 1: severance pay, if you call it that. But now I
36:11
Speaker 1: think you'll probably have some more to In addition, it's
36:14
Speaker 1: a big tremendous saving for we want to downsize government,
36:18
Speaker 1: but make it better. Run it better, but down, says Yepless.
36:23
Speaker 1: I understand that you had a film call with I
36:26
Speaker 1: just signed a letter to him. He asked for a meeting,
36:30
Speaker 1: and I agreed to the meeting. We're going to have
36:31
Speaker 1: a friendly meeting. Very good. We have a lot of
36:33
Speaker 1: good things going on. But he asked to come and
36:36
Speaker 1: see me, and I just accepted his asking very soon.
36:42
Speaker 1: I think he wants to come next week or the
36:44
Speaker 1: week after. I don't know. It was his requests, not mine,
36:48
Speaker 1: but you know I met him twice already. We get
36:51
Speaker 1: along very well. Very nice guy. Thank you very much, everybody.
36:55
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
36:57
Speaker 14: Thank you our thank you, press, thank you press, thank
37:02
Speaker 14: you said thank you, thank you.
37:04
Speaker 1: Thank you so