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Karoline Leavitt White House Briefing #1 Donald Trump · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: A lot of familiar faces in the room, a lot
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Speaker 1: of new faces, and President Trump is back, and the
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Speaker 1: Golden Age of America has most definitely begun. The Senate
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Speaker 1: has already confirmed five of President Trump's exceptional cabinet nominees,
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA
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Speaker 1: Director John Ratcliffe, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, and Treasury
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Speaker 1: Secretary Scott Bessant. It is imperative that the Senate continues
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Speaker 1: to confirm the remainder of the President's well qualified nominees as.
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Speaker 2: Quickly as possible.
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Speaker 1: As you have seen during the past week, President Trump
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Speaker 1: is hard at work fulfilling the promises that he made
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Speaker 1: to the American people on the campaign trail. Since taking
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Speaker 1: the oath of office, President Trump has taken more than
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Speaker 1: three hundred executive actions, secured nearly one trillion dollars in
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Speaker 1: US investments, deported illegal alien rapists, gang members, and suspected
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Speaker 1: terrorists from our homeland, and restored common sense to the
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Speaker 1: federal government. I want to take a moment to go
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Speaker 1: through some of these extraordinary actions. On day one, President
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Speaker 1: Trump declared a national emergency at our southern border, to
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Speaker 1: end the four year long invasion of illegal aliens.
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Speaker 2: Under the previous administration.
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Speaker 1: Additionally, President Trump signed an executive order to end catch
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Speaker 1: and release and finished construction of his.
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Speaker 2: Effective border wall.
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Speaker 1: By using every lever of his federal power, President Trump
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Speaker 1: has sent a loud and clear message to the entire world.
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Speaker 1: America will no longer tolerate illegal immigration, and this president
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Speaker 1: expects that every nation on this planet will cooperate with
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Speaker 1: the repatriation of their citizens, as proven by this weekend,
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Speaker 1: when President Trump swiftly directed his team to issue harsh
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Speaker 1: and effective sanctions in tariffs on the Colombian government upon
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Speaker 1: hearing they were denied a US military aircraft full of
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Speaker 1: their own citizens who were deported by this administration. Within hours,
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Speaker 1: the Colombian government agreed to all of President Trump's demands,
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Speaker 1: proving America is once again respected on the world stage.
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Speaker 1: So to foreign nationals who are thinking about trying to
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Speaker 1: illegally enter the United States, think again. Under this president,
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Speaker 1: you will be detained and you will be deported. Every day,
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Speaker 1: Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President
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Speaker 1: Trump's administration is removing from our communities. On January twenty third,
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Speaker 1: ice New York arrested a Turkish national for entry without
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Speaker 1: inspection who is a known or suspected terrorist. On January
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Speaker 1: twenty third, Ice San Francisco arrested a citizen of Mexico
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Speaker 1: unlawfully present in the United States who has been convicted
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Speaker 1: of continuous sexual abuse of a child aged fourteen years
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Speaker 1: or younger. ICE Saint Paul has arrested a citizen of
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Speaker 1: Hernduras who was convicted of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct
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Speaker 1: with a minor. ICE Buffalo arrested a citizen of Ecuador
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Speaker 1: who has been convicted of rape. ICE Boston arrested a
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Speaker 1: citizen of the Dominican Republic who has a criminal conviction
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Speaker 1: for second degree murder.
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Speaker 2: This criminal was.
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Speaker 1: Convicted of murder for beating his pregnant wife to death
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Speaker 1: in front of her five year old son. And ICE
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Speaker 1: Saint Paul also arrested a citizen of Mexico who was
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Speaker 1: convicted of possessing pornographic material of a miner on a
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Speaker 1: work computer. These are the heinous individuals that this administration
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Speaker 1: is removing from American communities every single day. Into the
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Speaker 1: brave state and local law enforcement officer CBP and ICE
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Speaker 1: agents who are helping in the facilitation of this deportation operation.
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Speaker 1: President Trump has your back and he is grateful for
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Speaker 1: your hard work. On the economic front, President Trump took
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Speaker 1: a immediate action to lower costs for families who are
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Speaker 1: suffering from four long years of the Biden administration's destructive
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Speaker 1: and inflationary policies. President Trump ordered the heads of all
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Speaker 1: executive departments and agencies to help deliver emergency price relief
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Speaker 1: to the American people, untangle our economy from Biden's regulatory constraints,
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Speaker 1: and end the reckless war on American energy. President Trump
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Speaker 1: also signed sweeping executive orders to end the weaponization of
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Speaker 1: government and restore common sense to the federal bureaucracy. He
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Speaker 1: directed all federal agencies to terminate illegal diversity, equity and
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Speaker 1: inclusion programs to help return America to a.
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Speaker 2: Merit based society.
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Speaker 1: President Trump also signed in executive order declaring it is
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Speaker 1: now the policy of the federal government that there are
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Speaker 1: only two sexes, male and female. Sanity has been restored.
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Speaker 1: Before I take your questions, I would like to point
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Speaker 1: out to all of you once and again have access
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Speaker 1: to the most transparent, inaccessible president in American history. There
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Speaker 1: has never been a president who communicates with the American
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Speaker 1: people and the American press corps as openly and authentically
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Speaker 1: as the forty fifth and now forty seventh president of
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Speaker 1: the United States. This past week, President Trump has held
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Speaker 1: multiple news conferences, gaggled on Air Force One multiple times,
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Speaker 1: and sat down for a two part interview on Fox
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Speaker 1: News which aired last week. As Politico summed it up best,
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Speaker 1: Trump is everywhere again, and that's because President Trump has
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Speaker 1: a great story to tell about the legendary American revival
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Speaker 1: that is well underway. And in keeping with this revolutionary
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Speaker 1: media approach that President Trump deployed during the campaign, the
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Speaker 1: Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities,
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Speaker 1: not just the legacy media who are seated in this room. Because,
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Speaker 1: according to recent pulling from Gallop, Americans trust in mass media.
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Speaker 2: Has fallen to a record low.
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Speaker 1: Millions of Americans, especially young people, have turned from traditional
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Speaker 1: television outlets and newspapers to consume their news from podcasts, blogs,
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Speaker 1: social media, and other independent outlets. It's essential to our
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Speaker 1: team that we share President Trump's message everywhere and adapt
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Speaker 1: this White House.
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Speaker 2: To the new media landscape. In twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: To do this, i am excited to announce the following
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Speaker 1: changes will be made to this historic James S.
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Speaker 2: Brady Briefing Room, where mister Brady's legacy will endure.
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Speaker 1: This White House believes strongly in the First Amendment, so
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Speaker 1: it's why our team will work diligently to restore the
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Speaker 1: press passes of the four hundred and forty journalists whose
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Speaker 1: passes were wrongly revoked by the previous administration. We're also
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Speaker 1: opening up this briefing room to new media voices who
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Speaker 1: produced news related content and whose outlets is not already
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Speaker 1: represented by one of the seats in this room. We
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Speaker 1: welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators
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Speaker 1: to apply for credentials to cover this White House, and
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Speaker 1: you can apply now on our new website white House
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Speaker 1: dot gov slash new Media. Starting today, this seat in
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Speaker 1: the front of the room, which is usually occupied by
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Speaker 1: the Press Secretary's.
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Speaker 2: Staff, will be called the new Media Seat.
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Speaker 1: My team will review the applications and give credentials to
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Speaker 1: new media applicants who meet our criteria in past United
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Speaker 1: States Secret Service requirements to enter the White House complex. So,
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Speaker 1: in light of these announcements, our first questions for today's
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Speaker 1: briefing will go to these new media members whose outlets,
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Speaker 1: despite being some of the most viewed news websites in the.
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Speaker 2: Country, have not been given seats in this room.
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Speaker 1: And before I turn to questions, I do have news
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Speaker 1: directly from the President of the United States that was
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Speaker 1: just shared with me in the Oval Office from President
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Speaker 1: Trump directly an update on the New Jersey drones. After
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Speaker 1: research and study, the drones that were flying over New
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Speaker 1: Jersey and large numbers were authorized to be flown by
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Speaker 1: the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of
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Speaker 1: these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that
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Speaker 1: enjoy flying jones in meantime, in time.
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Speaker 2: It got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.
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Speaker 1: A statement from the President of the United States to
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Speaker 1: start this briefing with some news, and with that, I
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Speaker 1: will turn it over to questions, and we will begin
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Speaker 1: with our new media members. Mike Allen from Axios, Matt
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Speaker 1: Boyle from Breitbart, Mike, why don't you go ahead?
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Caroline. Does the President see anything
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Speaker 3: fishy about a deep seat, either its origins or its cost,
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Speaker 3: and could try his ability to make these models quick
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Speaker 3: or cheaper affect our thinking about expanding generation data centers,
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Speaker 3: chip manufactor sure.
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Speaker 1: The President was asked about Deep Seak last night on
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Speaker 1: Air Force One when he gaggled for I think the
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Speaker 1: third or fourth time throughout the weekend with members of
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Speaker 1: the traveling Press Corps. The President said that he believes
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Speaker 1: that this is a wake up call to the American
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Speaker 1: AI industry. The last administration sat on their hands and
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Speaker 1: allowed China to rapidly develop this AI program. And so
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Speaker 1: President Trump believes in restoring American AI dominance and that's
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Speaker 1: why he took very strong executive action this past week
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Speaker 1: to sign executive orders to roll back some of the
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Speaker 1: honors regulations on the AI industry. And President Trump is
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Speaker 1: also proudly appointed the first AI in Crypto Zar at
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Speaker 1: this White House, David Sachs, whom I spoke with yesterday,
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Speaker 1: very knowledgeable on this subject and his team is here
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Speaker 1: working every single day to ensure American AI dominance. As
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Speaker 1: for the national security implications, I spoke with NSC this morning.
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Speaker 1: They are looking into what those may be, and when
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Speaker 1: I have an update, I will share it with you.
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Speaker 3: Mike, Carol, you say restore US dominance is there a
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Speaker 3: fear that the US either has fallen or has fallen behind,
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Speaker 3: and how would the President.
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Speaker 2: Make sure of the US.
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Speaker 1: To a second, now, the President is confident that we
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Speaker 1: will restore American dominance in AI.
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Speaker 4: Now, So Caroline, first off, thank you to you and
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Speaker 4: President Trump for actually giving voices to newity outlets that
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Speaker 4: represent millions and millions of Americans. The thing I would add,
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Speaker 4: I've got a two part question for you.
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Speaker 5: The first is is just can you expand upon what
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Speaker 5: steps the White House is going to take to bring
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Speaker 5: more voices, not less, which is what our founder, Andrew
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Speaker 5: bride Park believed in into this room where they rightly belong.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And as I said in my opening statement, Matt,
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Speaker 1: it is a priority of this White House to honor
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Speaker 1: the First Amendment. And it is a fact that Americans
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Speaker 1: are consuming their news media from various different platforms, especially
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Speaker 1: young people. And as the youngest Press secretary in history,
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Speaker 1: thanks to President Trump, I take great pride in opening
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Speaker 1: up this room to new media voices to share the
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Speaker 1: President's message with as many Americans as possible.
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Speaker 2: In doing so, Number one.
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Speaker 1: We will ensure that outlets like Yours, Axios and Breitbart,
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Speaker 1: which are widely respected and viewed outlets.
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Speaker 2: Have an actual seat in this room every day.
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Speaker 1: We also again encourage anybody in this country, whether you
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Speaker 1: are a TikTok content creator, a.
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Speaker 2: Blogger, a podcaster, if you are.
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Speaker 1: Producing legitimate news content, no matter the medium, you will
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Speaker 1: be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House.
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Speaker 1: And as I said earlier, our new media website is
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Speaker 1: white House dot gov slash new Media, and so we
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Speaker 1: encourage people to apply again. As long as you are
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Speaker 1: creating news related content of the day, and you're an
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Speaker 1: legitimate independent journalist, you're welcome to cover this White House.
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Speaker 4: Secondly, Caroline, you said you laid out several of the
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Speaker 4: actions of President Trump.
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Speaker 5: Has taken at Obviously it's start contract with the previous
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Speaker 5: administration or break back speed from President Trump.
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Speaker 4: Can we expect that pace to continue.
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Speaker 5: As the hunt in the first hundred days moves along
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Speaker 5: here and beyond that.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, there's no doubt President Trump has always been the
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Speaker 1: hardest working man in politics.
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Speaker 2: I think that's been proven over the past week.
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Speaker 1: This president has again signed more than three hundred executive orders.
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Speaker 2: He's taken historic action.
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Speaker 1: I gaggle the board Air Force one to mark the
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Speaker 1: first one hundred days of this administration four pm last Friday,
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Speaker 1: our first hundred hours, rather, and this president did more
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Speaker 1: in the first hundred hours than the previous president did
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Speaker 1: in the first one hundred days. So, President Trump, I
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Speaker 1: think you can all expect for him to continue to
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Speaker 1: work at this breakneck speed. So I hope you're all
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Speaker 1: ready to work very hard. I know that we are.
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Speaker 6: Sek Mailer, Thanks Caroline, A question that we've asked your
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Speaker 6: predecessors of both parties in this job.
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Speaker 7: When you're up here.
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Speaker 6: In this briefing room speaking to the American public, you
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Speaker 6: view yourself and your role as speaking on advocating on
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Speaker 6: behalf of the president, or providing the unfurnished truth, that is,
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Speaker 6: you know, not to lie, not to obfuscate to the
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Speaker 6: America faith.
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Speaker 1: I commit to telling the truth from this podium every
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Speaker 1: single day. I commit to speaking on behalf of the
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Speaker 1: president of the United States.
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Speaker 2: That is my job.
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Speaker 1: And I will say it's very easy to speak truth
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Speaker 1: from this podium when you have a president who is
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Speaker 1: implementing policies that are wildly popular with the American people.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what this administration is doing. It's correcting
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Speaker 1: the lies and the wrongs of the past four years,
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Speaker 1: many of the lies that have been told to your
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Speaker 1: faces in this very briefing room.
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Speaker 2: I will not do that. But since you brought up
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Speaker 2: truth seek, I would like to point.
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Speaker 1: Out, while I vow to provide the truth from this podium,
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Speaker 1: we ask that all of you in this room hold
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Speaker 1: yourselves to that same standard.
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Speaker 2: We know for a fact there have.
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Speaker 1: Been lies that have been pushed by many legacy media
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Speaker 1: outlets in this country about this president, about his family,
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Speaker 1: and we will.
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Speaker 2: Not accept that.
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Speaker 1: We will call you out when we feel that your
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Speaker 1: reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House.
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Speaker 1: So yes, I will hold myself to the truth, and
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Speaker 1: I expect everyone in the room to do the same.
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Speaker 6: And Karrolyn just on a substantive question yesterday of the
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Speaker 6: White HOSS Office and Management and Budget directed across the
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Speaker 6: board phreeze with the subceptions for individual assistance, we understand
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Speaker 6: the federal grants. It's caused a lot of confusion around
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Speaker 6: the country head Start providers among services to homeless veterans,
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Speaker 6: Medicaid provider states saying they're having trouble accessing the portal.
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Speaker 6: Could you help us clear up some of the confusion.
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Speaker 6: Give some certainty to folks. Then, also, is that uncertainty.
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Speaker 6: How does that uncertainty service the president's voters.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think there's only uncertainty in this room. Amongst
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Speaker 1: the media, there's no uncertainty in this building. So let
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Speaker 1: me provide the certainty and the clarity that all of
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Speaker 1: you need.
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Speaker 2: This is not a.
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Speaker 1: Blanket pause on federal assistance in grant programs from the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration. Individual assistance that includes I'm not naming everything
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Speaker 1: that's included, but just to give you a few examples,
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Speaker 1: Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food Stamps, welfare benefits. Assistance
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Speaker 1: that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted.
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Speaker 2: By this pause.
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Speaker 1: And I want to make that very clear to any
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Speaker 1: Americans who are watching at home who may be a
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Speaker 1: little bit confused about some of the media reporting this administration.
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Speaker 1: If you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government.
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Speaker 2: You will still continue to receive that.
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Speaker 1: However, it is the responsibility of this president and this
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Speaker 1: administration to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. That is
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Speaker 1: something that President Trump campaigned on. That's why he has
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Speaker 1: launched Doge the Department of Government Efficiency, who is working
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Speaker 1: alongside OMB. And that's why OMB sent out this memo
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Speaker 1: last night, because the President signed an executive order directing
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Speaker 1: OMB to.
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Speaker 2: Do just this.
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Speaker 1: And the reason for this is to ensure that every
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Speaker 1: penny that is going out the door is not conflicting
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Speaker 1: with the executive orders and actions that this president has taken.
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Speaker 1: So what does this pause mean. It means no more
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Speaker 1: funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding
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Speaker 1: for the Green New scam that has cost to Ameria
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Speaker 1: and taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. It means no
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Speaker 1: more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy
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Speaker 1: and agencies. No more funding for Green New Deal social
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Speaker 1: engineering policies.
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Speaker 2: Again, people who are receiving individual assistance assistants, you will
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Speaker 2: continue to receive that.
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Speaker 1: And President Trump is looking out for you by issuing
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Speaker 1: this pause because he is being good steward of your
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Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Caroline. Sure, how long is this pause going to last?
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Speaker 8: And how is the Trump administration recommending that organizations that
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Speaker 8: rely on federal funding make payroll pay their rent In
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Speaker 8: the meantime?
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Speaker 1: It is a temporary pause in the Office of Management
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Speaker 1: and Budget is reviewing the federal funding that has been
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Speaker 1: going out the door. Again, not for individual assistants, but
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Speaker 1: for all of these other programs that I mentioned. I
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Speaker 1: also spoke with the incoming Director of OMB this morning
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Speaker 1: and he told me to tell all of you that
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Speaker 1: the line to his office is open for other federal
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Speaker 1: government agencies across the board, and if they feel that
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Speaker 1: programs are necessary and in line with the President's agenda,
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Speaker 1: then the Office of Management and Budget will review those policies.
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Speaker 1: Think this is a very responsible measure. Again, the past
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Speaker 1: four years, we've seen the Biden administration spend money like
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Speaker 1: drunken sailors. It's a big reason we've had an inflation
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Speaker 1: crisis in this country. And it's incumbent upon this administration
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Speaker 1: to make sure again that every penny is being accounted for.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, why oppose this pause with so little notice?
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Speaker 8: Why not give organizations more time to plan for the
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Speaker 8: fact that they are about to lose in some cases
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Speaker 8: really crucial federal funding.
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Speaker 2: There, at least for a period of time there was notice.
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Speaker 1: It was the executive order that the President signed. There's
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Speaker 1: also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze,
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Speaker 1: and there's also a freeze.
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Speaker 2: On foreign aid.
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Speaker 1: And this is again incredibly important to ensure that this
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Speaker 1: administration is taking into consideration how hard the American people
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Speaker 1: are working and their tax dollars actually matter to this administration.
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Speaker 1: Just during this pause, Doge and Omb have actually found
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Speaker 1: that there was thirty seven million dollars that was about
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Speaker 1: to go out the door to the World Health Organization,
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Speaker 1: which is an organization as you all know, that President Trump,
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Speaker 1: with the swipe of his pen in that executive order,
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Speaker 1: is no longer wants the United States to be a
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Speaker 1: part of, so that wouldn't be in line with the
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Speaker 1: President's agenda.
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Speaker 2: Doje and Omb also found that there.
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Speaker 1: Was about to be fifty million taxpayer dollars that went
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Speaker 1: out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is
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Speaker 1: a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that's what this
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Speaker 1: pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars.
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Speaker 8: This doesn't effect meals on wheels for head Start or
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Speaker 8: disaster aid.
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Speaker 1: Again, it does not affect individual assistance that's going to Americans.
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Speaker 9: To follow up on Nancy, do you think there will
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Speaker 9: be a list of who is affected and how much
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Speaker 9: money is affected.
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Speaker 8: How will these contractors and organizations know if they are
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Speaker 8: actually being having.
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Speaker 2: Their funding frozen?
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Speaker 9: And then, secondly, if you're willing, can you just clarify
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Speaker 9: as the end goal of this to essentially challenge Congress
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Speaker 9: or to prove that the president can withhold federal offending is.
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Speaker 2: In other words, is this an attempt to pick a
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Speaker 2: fight to prove that he can do this? No, absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: As it says right here in the memo, which I
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Speaker 1: have and i'd encourage all of you to read it,
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Speaker 1: it says, the American people elected President Trump to be
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Speaker 1: the president of the United States and gave him a
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Speaker 1: mandate to increase the impact of every federal dollar. This
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Speaker 1: memo requires federal agencies to identify and review all federal
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Speaker 1: financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's
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Speaker 1: policies and requirements. The American people gave President Trump an
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Speaker 1: overwhelming mandate on November fifth, and he's just trying to
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Speaker 1: ensure that the tax money going out the door in
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Speaker 1: this very bankrupt city actually aligns with the will and
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Speaker 1: the priorities of the American people will.
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Speaker 7: Be align Yes, welcome you look great.
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Speaker 10: You're doing a great job.
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Speaker 7: You talked about transparency, and some of us in this
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Speaker 7: room know how just transparent President Trump has been the
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Speaker 7: last five or six years. I think you'll do the same.
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Speaker 7: My question is, do you think this latest incident with
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Speaker 7: the President of Columbia is indicative of the global powerful
20:10
Speaker 7: respect they have for President Trump moving forward not only
20:13
Speaker 7: to engage in economic diplomacy with these countries, but also
20:19
Speaker 7: world peace.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I'll echo the answer that the President gave on Air
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Speaker 1: Force one last night when he was asked a very
20:26
Speaker 1: similar question by one of your colleagues in the media.
20:29
Speaker 1: This signifies peace through strength is back, and this president.
20:33
Speaker 2: Will not tolerate illegal.
20:35
Speaker 1: Immigration into America's interior, and he expects every nation on
20:41
Speaker 1: this planet again to cooperate with the repatriation of their
20:44
Speaker 1: citizens who illegally entered into our country and broke America's laws.
20:49
Speaker 2: Won't be tolerated.
20:50
Speaker 1: And as you saw, the Colombian government quickly folded and
20:53
Speaker 1: agreed to all the President Trump's demands.
20:55
Speaker 2: Flights are underway once again. Two questions on deportation.
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Speaker 11: President Trump has sign on the campaign trail that he
21:03
Speaker 11: would deport pro hamas students who are here on visas,
21:07
Speaker 11: and on his first day in office, he's sign an
21:09
Speaker 11: executive order that said, quote, the US must ensure that
21:12
Speaker 11: admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already president in the US
21:16
Speaker 11: do not bear hostile attitudes towards the citizens. Culture of
21:19
Speaker 11: government institutions are found in principles. So should we take
21:23
Speaker 11: this executive order as Trump saying he would be open
21:26
Speaker 11: to deporting those students who are here on visas, but
21:30
Speaker 11: you know, hold Trahama sympathies.
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Speaker 1: The President is open to deporting individuals who have broken
21:35
Speaker 1: our nation's immigrations laws. So if they are here illegally,
21:40
Speaker 1: then certainly he is open to deporting them. And that's
21:42
Speaker 1: what this administration is hard at work at doing. We
21:45
Speaker 1: receive data from DHS and from ICE every single day.
21:49
Speaker 1: From what we hear on the ground, ICE agents are
21:51
Speaker 1: feeling incredibly empowered right now because they actually have a
21:55
Speaker 1: leader in this building who is supporting them and doing
21:57
Speaker 1: their jobs that they were hired to do, which is
22:00
Speaker 1: to detain, arrest, and deport illegal criminals who have invaded
22:04
Speaker 1: our nation supporters over the past four years. That's what
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Speaker 1: the President is committed to seeing here Carol asked.
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Speaker 12: Very quickly, just following up on the question on immigration. First,
22:12
Speaker 12: President Trump, during the course of the campaign in twenty
22:14
Speaker 12: twenty four, said the following about illegal immigration. He said,
22:18
Speaker 12: they're going back home where they belong, and we start
22:20
Speaker 12: with the criminals. There are many, many criminals. NBC News
22:23
Speaker 12: has learned that ICE arrested eleven hundred and seventy nine
22:25
Speaker 12: on documented immigrants on Sunday, but nearly half of them
22:28
Speaker 12: five hundred and sixty six of the migrants appear to
22:30
Speaker 12: have no prior criminal record besides entering the country illegally.
22:35
Speaker 12: Is the President still focused exclusive which is a civil crime,
22:38
Speaker 12: not a it's not criminal federal crime. So I'm asking
22:43
Speaker 12: though he said he was going to focus on those
22:45
Speaker 12: violent offenders first, so is violent offenders no longer the
22:48
Speaker 12: predicate for these people to be deported?
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Speaker 1: The President has said countless times on the campaign trail.
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Speaker 2: I've been with him at the rallies.
22:54
Speaker 1: I know you've been there covering them to Peter that
22:57
Speaker 1: he has focused on launching the largest mass deportation operation
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Speaker 1: in American history of illegal criminals. And if you are
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Speaker 1: an individual, a foreign national who illegally enters the United
23:07
Speaker 1: States of America.
23:08
Speaker 2: You are by definition a criminal, and so therefore you
23:10
Speaker 2: are subject fartee.
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Speaker 12: I apologize for interrupting. So to be clear, it's not
23:13
Speaker 12: that violent criminals do not receive precedents in terms of
23:16
Speaker 12: the deportations.
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Speaker 1: Taken with President has also said two things can beat
23:19
Speaker 1: you at the same time. We want to deport illegal criminals,
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants from this country. But the President has said
23:25
Speaker 1: that of course the illegal criminal drug dealers, the rapists,
23:30
Speaker 1: the murderers, the individuals who have committed heinous acts on
23:33
Speaker 1: the interior of our country and who have terrorized law
23:37
Speaker 1: abiding American citizens, Absolutely.
23:39
Speaker 2: Those should be the priority of ICE.
23:41
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that the other illegal criminals who
23:43
Speaker 1: entered our nation's borders are off the table.
23:45
Speaker 12: Understood, then, let me ask you a separate question about
23:47
Speaker 12: the confusion that still exists across the country right now
23:49
Speaker 12: as it relates to the freeze or the pause as
23:52
Speaker 12: it's described. The President Trump, of course ran one of
23:55
Speaker 12: the key policy items was that he was going to
23:57
Speaker 12: lower prices, lower the cost of everything from groceries, as
23:59
Speaker 12: all been said. But in many of the cases it
24:02
Speaker 12: would seem that some of these moves could raise prices
24:05
Speaker 12: for real Americans on everything from low income heating that program,
24:08
Speaker 12: childcare programs. Will nothing that the President's doing here in
24:12
Speaker 12: terms of the freeze in these programs raise prices on
24:15
Speaker 12: ordinary Americans.
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Speaker 2: What particular actions are you referring to that woo a
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Speaker 2: l heap right now?
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Speaker 12: That's the low income heating program for example. We can
24:22
Speaker 12: talk about there's no clarity, so I could refer to
24:24
Speaker 12: a lot of them. We don't know what they are specifically.
24:26
Speaker 12: Can you tell us that l heap, that lie heap
24:28
Speaker 12: is not one of those affected?
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Speaker 1: So you're asking hypopthetical based on programs that you can't
24:33
Speaker 1: even identify.
24:34
Speaker 12: What I can tell you just just since you guys
24:37
Speaker 12: haven't identified, let's do it together. Just for Americans at home,
24:39
Speaker 12: Medicaid is that affected. I gave you a.
24:42
Speaker 1: List of examples social Security, Medicare, welfare, benefits of food
24:48
Speaker 1: stamps that will not be impacted by the federal pause.
24:51
Speaker 1: I can get you the fullest after this briefing from
24:53
Speaker 1: the Office of Management and Budget. But I do want
24:55
Speaker 1: to address the cost cutting because that's certainly very important
24:59
Speaker 1: and cutting the cost of living in this country. President
25:03
Speaker 1: Trump has taken historic action over the past week.
25:05
Speaker 2: To do that, he.
25:06
Speaker 1: Actually signed a memorandum to deliver emergency price relief for
25:10
Speaker 1: American families, which took a number of actions.
25:13
Speaker 2: I can walk you through those.
25:14
Speaker 1: He also repealed many onerous Biden administration regulations. We know
25:20
Speaker 1: over the past four years, American households has been essentially
25:23
Speaker 1: taxed fifty five thousand dollars in regulations from the previous administration,
25:28
Speaker 1: and President Trump, with the swipe of his pen, rescinded those,
25:30
Speaker 1: which will ultimately put more money back in the pockets
25:33
Speaker 1: of the American people. So deregulation is a big deal.
25:36
Speaker 1: And then when it comes to energy, I mean, the
25:38
Speaker 1: President signed an executive order to declare a National Energy
25:41
Speaker 1: Emergency here at home, which is going to make America
25:44
Speaker 1: energy dominant. We know that energy is one of the
25:46
Speaker 1: number one drivers of inflation, and so that's why the
25:50
Speaker 1: President wants to increase our energy supply to bring down
25:52
Speaker 1: costs for Americans. The Trump energy boom is in coming,
25:55
Speaker 1: and Americans can expect that.
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Speaker 2: The confusion I think may be here with this pause
26:02
Speaker 2: on federal funding.
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Speaker 13: You've made it clear you're not stopping funds that go
26:05
Speaker 13: directly to individuals, but there certainly are lots of organizations
26:08
Speaker 13: that receive funding and then may pass along a benefit
26:10
Speaker 13: meals on wheels. For one, they provide meals for over
26:13
Speaker 13: two point two million seniors. What is the President's message
26:16
Speaker 13: to Americans out there, many of whom supported him and
26:18
Speaker 13: voted for him, who are concerned that this is going
26:21
Speaker 13: to impact them directly, even if, as you said, the
26:24
Speaker 13: funding isn't coming directly to their wife.
26:26
Speaker 1: I have now been asked and answered this question four
26:28
Speaker 1: times to individuals at home who receive direct assistance from
26:33
Speaker 1: the federal government. You will not be impacted by this
26:36
Speaker 1: federal freeze. In fact, O and B just sent out
26:39
Speaker 1: a memo to Capitol Hill with Q and A to
26:43
Speaker 1: clarify some of the questions and the answers that all
26:45
Speaker 1: of you are asking me right now. Again, direct assistants
26:49
Speaker 1: will not be impacted. I've been asked and answered about
26:52
Speaker 1: this O and B memo. There's many other topics of
26:54
Speaker 1: the day, Jackie Hyder, correct.
26:55
Speaker 13: Assistance Carolina is going to another organization and then trickling
26:58
Speaker 13: down direct assistance that is in the hands of the
27:00
Speaker 13: American people will not be impacted.
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Speaker 1: Again, as I said to Peter, we will continue to
27:04
Speaker 1: provide that list as.
27:05
Speaker 2: It comes to fruition.
27:07
Speaker 1: But O and b right now is focused on analyzing
27:09
Speaker 1: the federal government's spending, which is exactly what the American
27:12
Speaker 1: people elected President Trump to do.
27:15
Speaker 2: Immigration.
27:16
Speaker 13: The thirty five hundred arrests ICE has made so far
27:19
Speaker 13: since President Trump came back into office, can you just
27:21
Speaker 13: tell us the numbers how many have a criminal record
27:24
Speaker 13: versus those who are just in the country illegally.
27:26
Speaker 1: All of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws,
27:28
Speaker 1: and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.
27:31
Speaker 2: I know the last administration didn't see it that way.
27:33
Speaker 1: So it's a big culture shift in our nation to
27:35
Speaker 1: view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal.
27:38
Speaker 1: But that's exactly what they are.
27:41
Speaker 2: All a criminal records and welcome to the rate. If
27:42
Speaker 2: they broke our nation's laws, Yes they are criminal. Yes,
27:46
Speaker 2: thank you.
27:46
Speaker 14: On stripping security details for figures like John Fulton's compe
27:52
Speaker 14: O'Brien hook, Senator Tom Cotton said that he's seen the
27:55
Speaker 14: intelligence and the threat.
27:57
Speaker 2: From Iran is real for anyone who played a role
28:00
Speaker 2: in the Solemani strike.
28:02
Speaker 15: He voiced concerned it wouldn't just impact those individuals, but
28:05
Speaker 15: potentially their family, and it is in bystanders, friends, anyone who's
28:09
Speaker 15: near them when they're out in public. Is the President
28:13
Speaker 15: open to reconsidering his decision.
28:17
Speaker 1: The President was asked and answer this yesterday, and he
28:19
Speaker 1: was firm in his decision despite some of the comments
28:22
Speaker 1: that you had referenced, And he's made it very clear
28:24
Speaker 1: that he does not believe American taxpayers should fund security
28:27
Speaker 1: details for individuals who have served in the government for
28:30
Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. And there's nothing stopping these
28:32
Speaker 1: individuals that you mentioned from obtaining private security.
28:35
Speaker 2: That's where the President stands on it. I have no
28:37
Speaker 2: updates on that.
28:37
Speaker 16: Is there any concern that this decision might jeopardize the
28:42
Speaker 16: administration's ability to hire the best advisors for these kinds
28:47
Speaker 16: of positions.
28:48
Speaker 3: In the future.
28:48
Speaker 14: No.
28:49
Speaker 1: In fact, I've talked to the Presidential Personnel Office who
28:51
Speaker 1: has told me directly that there is such an influx
28:54
Speaker 1: of resumes for this administration that it's incredibly overwhelming. There
28:57
Speaker 1: is no lack of talent for the Trump administration.
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Speaker 15: Would you take any responsibility if anything happened to these people?
29:03
Speaker 1: Would he feel at all that his decision was a
29:06
Speaker 1: factor in that President was asked in answer this yesterday.
29:08
Speaker 2: I had defer you to mis postern Bagan since you're.
29:11
Speaker 1: In the back row, I hear if the back row
29:12
Speaker 1: hasn't forgotten that much attention in the last four years.
29:15
Speaker 2: So I'm happy to answer your question.
29:16
Speaker 3: I can project does.
29:18
Speaker 17: The President intend to permanently cut off funding to NGOs
29:21
Speaker 17: that are bringing illegal foreign nationals to the country, such
29:24
Speaker 17: as Catholic charities.
29:26
Speaker 1: I am actually quite certain that the President signed an
29:29
Speaker 1: executive order that did just that, and I can point
29:31
Speaker 1: you to that well.
29:32
Speaker 17: More, Caroline, President Trump issued an executive order on increased
29:36
Speaker 17: vetting for refugees and visa applications. Part of that order
29:40
Speaker 17: was considering an outbreak ban for countries that have deficient
29:43
Speaker 17: screening processes. As a president considered yet which countries might
29:46
Speaker 17: fall into this category. Are countries like Afghanistan or Syria
29:50
Speaker 17: under consideration for a full ban?
29:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the President signed in executive order to streamline
29:54
Speaker 1: the vetting for visa applicants and for illegal immigrants in
29:59
Speaker 1: this country who are coming up, of course from other nations.
30:01
Speaker 1: It also directed the Secretary of State to review the
30:04
Speaker 1: process and make sure that other countries around the world
30:07
Speaker 1: are being completely transparent with our nation in the individuals
30:11
Speaker 1: that they are sending here, and so the Secretary of
30:14
Speaker 1: State has been directed to report back to the President.
30:17
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that report yet. We've only been here
30:19
Speaker 2: for a few days. May rules one on the freezen
30:23
Speaker 2: federal funding.
30:24
Speaker 18: Who advised the president on the legality of telling government
30:27
Speaker 18: agencies that they don't have to spend money that was
30:29
Speaker 18: already appropriated by Congress.
30:31
Speaker 1: Well, as the OMB memo states, this is certainly within
30:35
Speaker 1: the confines of the law. So White House Counsel's office
30:38
Speaker 1: believes that this is within the President's power to do it,
30:41
Speaker 1: and therefore he's doing it okay.
30:43
Speaker 18: So they disagree with lawmakers who say that they don't
30:45
Speaker 18: have the power to freeze this fund.
30:47
Speaker 2: Again, and I would point you to the language in
30:48
Speaker 2: the memo that clearly this is within the law and all.
30:51
Speaker 18: What happened on Friday night, the administration fired several Inspectors
30:55
Speaker 18: general without giving Congress the thirty day legally required notification
30:58
Speaker 18: that they were being fired. I think only two were
31:01
Speaker 18: left Djsland DOJ. And then yesterday we saw several prosecutors
31:06
Speaker 18: have lived twelve fire from the Justice Department who worked
31:09
Speaker 18: on the investigations into the president. As you know, they
31:12
Speaker 18: are career prosecutors. Therefore they are afforded civil service protections.
31:16
Speaker 18: How is the administration deciding which laws to follow and
31:20
Speaker 18: which ones to ignore?
31:22
Speaker 1: So it is the belief of this White House, in
31:24
Speaker 1: the White House Council's Office, that the President was within
31:26
Speaker 1: his executive authority to do that. He is the executive
31:30
Speaker 1: of the executive branch, and therefore he has the power
31:33
Speaker 1: to fire anyone within the executive branch that he wishes to.
31:36
Speaker 1: There's also a case that went before the Supreme Court
31:39
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty Scala Law llc versus the Customs the
31:44
Speaker 1: Bureau Protection.
31:46
Speaker 2: I would advise you to look at that case. And
31:47
Speaker 2: that's the legality that this White House was wrestled. You're
31:50
Speaker 2: confident that.
31:50
Speaker 18: If they bring lawsuits against you as prosecutors.
31:53
Speaker 2: Who were fired, that they will we will win in court.
31:55
Speaker 2: And did he personally direct this?
31:57
Speaker 18: Given they worked on the cost by Document's investigation in
32:00
Speaker 18: the election interferre it's investigation.
32:02
Speaker 1: This was an memo that went out by the Presidential
32:04
Speaker 1: Personnel Office.
32:05
Speaker 2: And the president is the leader of this White House.
32:07
Speaker 19: So yes, yes, Caroline, thank you, congrats on your firs
32:12
Speaker 19: DA guid the podium.
32:14
Speaker 6: Thank you.
32:16
Speaker 20: President Trump ended funding for UNDROP and also designated the
32:21
Speaker 20: whois a foreign terrorist organization. Both were decisions that the
32:24
Speaker 20: previous administration had reversed.
32:26
Speaker 4: So here's my question.
32:28
Speaker 10: Will there be an investigation.
32:30
Speaker 20: Into who gave the previous administration this terrible advice?
32:34
Speaker 2: Well, that's a very good point.
32:35
Speaker 1: I haven't heard discussions about such an investigation, but it
32:38
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a bad idea considering that the WHO thise
32:41
Speaker 1: certainly are terrorists. They have launched attacks on US naval
32:45
Speaker 1: ships across this world, and so I think it was
32:48
Speaker 1: a very wise move by this administration to redesignate them
32:51
Speaker 1: as a terrorist group because they are, and I think
32:53
Speaker 1: it was a foollest decision by the previous administration to
32:56
Speaker 1: do so. As for an investigation, I'm not sure about that,
32:58
Speaker 1: but it's not a bad idea.
33:00
Speaker 21: Jeli, thank you for the question. I appreciate you gives
33:03
Speaker 21: an ave been in the President's plan for his tariff agenda.
33:05
Speaker 21: He spoke a lot about this yesterday, and there's a
33:07
Speaker 21: couple of dates coming up that he's spoken to. Number
33:10
Speaker 21: one February first, he's alluded to both the potential for
33:12
Speaker 21: terariff for Canada and Mexico, but also China to take
33:15
Speaker 21: effect on those days. Where's what's you thinking about that?
33:19
Speaker 21: Should those countries expect that on Again, he was.
33:21
Speaker 1: Asked to answer this question this past weekend when he
33:23
Speaker 1: took a lot of questions from the press, and he
33:25
Speaker 1: said that the February first date for Canada and Mexico
33:28
Speaker 1: still holds the.
33:30
Speaker 21: China ten percent tariff that he also admused tout last
33:32
Speaker 21: Tuesday going intoffect on the same day.
33:35
Speaker 1: Yes, the President has said that he is very much
33:37
Speaker 1: still considering that for February first.
33:39
Speaker 21: Yesterday he talked also about sectoral tariffs on for instance,
33:42
Speaker 21: pharmaceuticals as well as semiconductor computer chips. He talked about steel, aluminum,
33:46
Speaker 21: and copper. What's the timeline on those? Is that a
33:49
Speaker 21: similar sort of coming day's thing.
33:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, So when the President talked about that in his
33:53
Speaker 1: speech yesterday, that actually wasn't a new announcement. That was
33:55
Speaker 1: within a presidential memorandum that he signed in one of
33:58
Speaker 1: the first days here in the White House on his
34:01
Speaker 1: America First Trade agenda. So there's more details on those
34:04
Speaker 1: tariffs and there as far as a date. I don't
34:06
Speaker 1: have a specific date to read out to you, but
34:08
Speaker 1: the President is committed to implementing tariffs effectively, just like
34:11
Speaker 1: he did in his first term.
34:12
Speaker 21: Finally, he also was asked on the plane when he
34:14
Speaker 21: gaggled about the potentials for a universal tar if. He
34:17
Speaker 21: was asked, maybe about two and a half percent. There
34:19
Speaker 21: was a report, but that he said he wanted much
34:21
Speaker 21: bigger than that. Should we understand that these tariffs would
34:23
Speaker 21: add up, you know? In other words, he might have
34:25
Speaker 21: country specific tariffs like Canada, Mexico, China. You might have
34:29
Speaker 21: sectoral tariffs like on pharmaceuticals, as well as a potential
34:32
Speaker 21: universal tariff on top of that. Did he stack on
34:35
Speaker 21: one of the other or would one sort of take
34:38
Speaker 21: precedence over another.
34:39
Speaker 1: All I can appoint you to is what the President
34:40
Speaker 1: has said on this front, the February first date for
34:42
Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico. Also the China tariff that he has discussed.
34:46
Speaker 1: He rejected the tw two point five percent tarra if.
34:48
Speaker 1: He said that was a little bit too low. He
34:50
Speaker 1: wants it to be higher. I'll leave it to him
34:52
Speaker 1: to make any decisions on that front.
34:55
Speaker 21: What the Mexicans and Canadians have done so far. If
34:56
Speaker 21: you have any comment on whether that has met Labar
34:58
Speaker 21: what he wants to see on federill think I won't.
35:00
Speaker 1: Get ahead of the president again on advocating to foreign
35:05
Speaker 1: nations on what they should or shouldn't do to.
35:08
Speaker 2: Get away from these tariffs.
35:09
Speaker 1: The President has made it very clear again that he
35:11
Speaker 1: expects every nation around this world to cooperate with the
35:15
Speaker 1: repatriation of their citizens. And the President has also put
35:17
Speaker 1: out specific statements in terms of Canada and Mexico when
35:21
Speaker 1: it comes to what he expects in terms of border security.
35:23
Speaker 1: We have seen a historic level of cooperation from Mexico.
35:26
Speaker 1: But again, as far as I'm still tracking, and that
35:28
Speaker 1: was last night talking to the President directly.
35:30
Speaker 2: February first is still on the books.
35:32
Speaker 22: Phil the lady Caroline quick programming note and then a
35:35
Speaker 22: questions on tax and well in terms of programming, should
35:39
Speaker 22: we expect to see you here every day? How frequently
35:41
Speaker 22: will these press bringings be?
35:43
Speaker 2: It is a good question, April.
35:44
Speaker 1: So look, the President, as you know, is incredibly accessible.
35:48
Speaker 1: First day here, he wanted all of you in the
35:50
Speaker 1: Oval Office. You got a sixty minute press conference with
35:53
Speaker 1: the leader of the Free world while he was simultaneously
35:55
Speaker 1: signing executive orders.
35:56
Speaker 2: I may add that's pretty impressive. I don't think the
35:58
Speaker 2: previous office hold would be able to pull such a
36:02
Speaker 2: thing off.
36:02
Speaker 1: So look, the President is the best spokesperson that this
36:06
Speaker 1: White House has, and I can assure you that you
36:07
Speaker 1: will be hearing from both him and me as much
36:11
Speaker 1: as possible tax cuts.
36:13
Speaker 22: You know, the President has promised to extend the tax
36:16
Speaker 22: cuts from the previous term. I'm curious, you know, does
36:19
Speaker 22: the President support corresponding spending cuts as some Republicans have
36:23
Speaker 22: called for in Congress, and will the new Treasury Secretary
36:27
Speaker 22: be leading those negotiations with the Hill as Minutian did
36:31
Speaker 22: during the first administration.
36:32
Speaker 1: The President is committed to both tax cuts and spending cuts,
36:35
Speaker 1: and he has a great team negotiating on his behalf.
36:38
Speaker 1: But there's no better negotiator than Donald Trump, and I'm
36:40
Speaker 1: sure he'll be involved in this reconciliation process as it
36:43
Speaker 1: moves forward.
36:46
Speaker 23: Kron The announced that the made last night on the
36:50
Speaker 23: Iron Dome. It said the President had directed that the
36:54
Speaker 23: United States will build this Iron Dome. Yeah, when you
36:57
Speaker 23: read into the executive order, it seemed short of that.
37:01
Speaker 23: It asked for a series of studies and reports back
37:04
Speaker 23: from Can you tell us whether the president has directed
37:07
Speaker 23: this and if.
37:08
Speaker 10: He is this concerned on this issue. Why the suspensions
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Speaker 10: that we saw listed by OMB included so many different
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Speaker 10: nuclear programs, non proliferation programs, programs.
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Speaker 23: To blend down nuclear weapons.
37:24
Speaker 10: And so forth.
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Speaker 1: First of all, when it comes to the iron Dome,
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Speaker 1: the executive order directed the implementation of an iron dome.
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Speaker 1: It also, as you said, kind of directed research and
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Speaker 1: studies to see or how the United States can go
37:38
Speaker 1: about doing this, particularly the Department of Defense. When it
37:42
Speaker 1: comes to the other question that you asked about those
37:45
Speaker 1: specific programs, again, I would say this is not a ban.
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Speaker 1: This is a temporary pause and a freeze to ensure
37:53
Speaker 1: that all of the money going out from Washington, d
37:56
Speaker 1: C is in aligned with the President's agenda. And as
37:58
Speaker 1: the Office of Management Budget has updates on what will
38:02
Speaker 1: be kickstarted once again, I will provide those to you.
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Speaker 23: Five.
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Speaker 10: For a sec what you were saying before Medicaid, it
38:09
Speaker 10: wasn't clear to me whether you were saying that no
38:12
Speaker 10: Medicaid would be cut off. Obviously a lot of this
38:15
Speaker 10: goes to states before it goes to individuals and so forth,
38:18
Speaker 10: So are you guaranteeing here that no individual now on
38:21
Speaker 10: Medicaid would see you cut off because of the pause.
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Speaker 2: I'll check back on that and get back to you. John.
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Speaker 24: Thanks a lot, Caroline. As you know, in the first
38:30
Speaker 24: week that the President was an office signed and executive
38:33
Speaker 24: order as it relates to birthright citizenship, trying to eliminate that.
38:37
Speaker 24: Our twenty two state attorney generals have said that this
38:42
Speaker 24: is unconstitutional. Federal judge has just agreed with their argument.
38:47
Speaker 24: What's the administration's argument for doing away with birthright citizenship?
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Speaker 1: The folks that you mentioned have a right to have
38:55
Speaker 1: that legal opinion, but it is in disagreement with the
38:58
Speaker 1: legal opinion of this administration. This administration believes that birthright
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Speaker 1: citizenship is unconstitutional, and that is why President Trump signed
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Speaker 1: that executive order. Illegal immigrants who come to this country
39:11
Speaker 1: and have a child are not subject to the laws
39:14
Speaker 1: of this jurisdiction. That's the opinion of its administration. We
39:18
Speaker 1: have already appealed the rule of the lawsuit that was
39:21
Speaker 1: filed against this administration, and we are prepared to fight
39:24
Speaker 1: this all the way to the Supreme Court if we
39:25
Speaker 1: have to. Because President Trump believes that this is a
39:28
Speaker 1: necessary step to secure our nations borders and protect our homeland.
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Speaker 24: Caroline, Foreign Policy, If I may help, the President's commitment
39:39
Speaker 24: to the NATO Defense Alliance. Is it as strong as
39:43
Speaker 24: the prior administration? Is it the same as when he
39:46
Speaker 24: served as president in his first termament office?
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Speaker 1: As long as NATO pays their fair share, and President
39:51
Speaker 1: Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense
39:54
Speaker 1: spending to five percent. You actually saw the head of
39:57
Speaker 1: NATO at Davos last week on Bloomberg Television saying that
40:01
Speaker 1: President Trump is right and if Europe wants to keep
40:04
Speaker 1: itself safe, they should increase their defense spending. I would
40:07
Speaker 1: just add that there was no greater ally to our
40:10
Speaker 1: European allies than President Trump. In his first term, the
40:13
Speaker 1: world for all nations in Europe and of course here
40:17
Speaker 1: at home was much safer because of President Trump's peace
40:21
Speaker 1: through strength diplomatic approach.
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Speaker 25: Thank you, Caroline, and it's great to finally be called
40:26
Speaker 25: on as.
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Speaker 2: Well in the briefing room. I appreciate that. Well, of course,
40:29
Speaker 2: we know President Trump just got back from.
40:31
Speaker 25: North Carolina and California meeting with victims of natural disasters.
40:35
Speaker 25: There's the two year anniversary of the East Palestine, Ohio
40:38
Speaker 25: toxic train derailment. Does President have any plans to go
40:41
Speaker 25: visit the victims of that toxic spill or just visit
40:44
Speaker 25: in general.
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Speaker 1: Not no plans that I can read out for you here.
40:47
Speaker 1: If that changes, I will certainly keep you posted. What
40:49
Speaker 1: I can tell you is that President Trump still talks
40:52
Speaker 1: about his.
40:53
Speaker 2: Visit to East Palestine, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: That was one of the turning points, I would say
40:57
Speaker 1: in the previous election campaign where Americans were reminded that
41:01
Speaker 1: President Trump is a man of the people, and he
41:04
Speaker 1: as a candidate visited that town that was just derailed
41:08
Speaker 1: by the trained derailment, no pun intended, and he offered support.
41:11
Speaker 2: And hope, just like I saw the President do this
41:13
Speaker 2: past week.
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Speaker 1: It was a purposeful decision by this president on his
41:17
Speaker 1: first domestic trip to go to North Carolina into California
41:21
Speaker 1: to visit with Americans who were impacted by Hurricane Helene
41:24
Speaker 1: and also by the deadly fires. A red state and
41:27
Speaker 1: a blue state, both of which feel forgotten by the
41:30
Speaker 1: previous administration. In the federal government that is now ended.
41:34
Speaker 1: Under President Trump, he will continue to put Americans first,
41:37
Speaker 1: whether they're in East Palestine, in Pacific Palisades or in
41:40
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
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Speaker 7: Thank you Caroline.
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Speaker 6: On California, could you please clarify what the military did
41:47
Speaker 6: with the water last night as reference to the president's
41:50
Speaker 6: true social trust.
41:51
Speaker 1: The water has been turned back on in California, and
41:54
Speaker 1: this comes just days after President Trump visited Pacific Palisades
41:58
Speaker 1: and as you all saw, applied tremendous pressure on state
42:03
Speaker 1: and local officials in Pacific Palisades, including Los Angeles Mayor
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Speaker 1: Karen Bass, to turn on the water and to direct
42:10
Speaker 1: that water to places in the south and in the
42:13
Speaker 1: middle of the state that have been incredibly dry, which
42:16
Speaker 1: has led to the expansion, the rapid expansion of these fires.
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Speaker 6: So could you clarify what the military's role was, where
42:23
Speaker 6: the water came from, and how it got there.
42:25
Speaker 1: Again, the Army Corps of Engineers has been on the
42:27
Speaker 1: ground in California to respond to the devastation from these wildfires.
42:33
Speaker 1: And I would point out that just days after President
42:36
Speaker 1: Trump visited the devastation from these fires, the water was
42:39
Speaker 1: turned on. That is because of the pressure campaign he
42:42
Speaker 1: put on state and local officials there who clearly lack
42:45
Speaker 1: all common sense. And I will never forget being at
42:47
Speaker 1: that roundtable with the President last week and hearing the
42:50
Speaker 1: frustration in the voices of Pacific Palisades residents who feel
42:54
Speaker 1: as though their government has just gone insane. Before President
42:57
Speaker 1: Trump showed up on the scene, Karen Bass was telling
43:00
Speaker 1: private property owners that they would have to wait eighteen
43:03
Speaker 1: months to access their private property. So this administration, the
43:07
Speaker 1: President and his team that's on the ground in California,
43:09
Speaker 1: Rick Cornell, who has designated to oversee this great crisis,
43:14
Speaker 1: it will continue to put pressure on Karen Bass and
43:17
Speaker 1: state and local officials to allow residents to access their properties.
43:20
Speaker 2: This is a huge part of it.
43:22
Speaker 1: These residents want to take part in their own clearing
43:25
Speaker 1: out of their properties. They should be able to do that.
43:27
Speaker 1: It's the United States of America. What happened to our freedom?
43:30
Speaker 1: Clearly it's gone in California, but not anymore under President
43:33
Speaker 1: Chump April.
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Speaker 26: Parentline, welcome to the brief and whom thanking several questions.
43:37
Speaker 26: One on the pause will minority serving institutions, it's preferably
43:43
Speaker 26: colleges and universities. Have those moneies held back temporarily at
43:47
Speaker 26: this moment.
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Speaker 1: Again, I have not seen the entire list because this
43:50
Speaker 1: memo was just sent out, So I will provide you
43:53
Speaker 1: all with updates as we receive them.
43:55
Speaker 2: Okay, So that's really also.
43:58
Speaker 26: Secondly, when it comes to immigration, there is this southern
44:02
Speaker 26: border focus. What happens to those who've.
44:06
Speaker 3: Overstayed their visas?
44:07
Speaker 26: That is part of the broken immigration system. In twenty
44:10
Speaker 26: twenty three, there was a report by the Biden administration
44:12
Speaker 26: of Homeland Security Department. It said, overstays of visas but
44:15
Speaker 26: three times more than usual. Will there be a focus
44:18
Speaker 26: on the overstays for visus as well?
44:21
Speaker 1: If an individual is overstaying their visa, they are therefore
44:24
Speaker 1: an illegal immigrant residing in this country and they are
44:26
Speaker 1: subject to deportation.
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Speaker 18: Yes.
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Speaker 26: Lastly, as we're dealing with anti DEI, anti woke efforts,
44:32
Speaker 26: we understand this administration could speaking about celebrating Black History Month.
44:37
Speaker 5: Have you got any word on that, anything that you can.
44:40
Speaker 26: Offer to us?
44:41
Speaker 1: As far as I know, this White House certainly still
44:43
Speaker 1: intends to celebrate and we will continue to celebrate American
44:46
Speaker 1: history and the contributions that all Americans, regardless of race, religion,
44:50
Speaker 1: or creed, have made to our great country.
44:52
Speaker 2: And America is back. Christian Nato.
44:54
Speaker 19: Thanks Carolyn, just real quick you mentioned the Inflation Executive
44:58
Speaker 19: Order the President signed eight prices of skyrocketed since President
45:02
Speaker 19: Trump took office, So what specifically is he doing to
45:05
Speaker 19: lower those costs for Americans?
45:07
Speaker 1: Really glad you brought this up, because there is a
45:10
Speaker 1: lot of reporting out there that is putting the onus
45:12
Speaker 1: on this White House for the increased cost of eggs.
45:15
Speaker 1: I would like to point out to each and every
45:17
Speaker 1: one of you that in twenty twenty four, when Joe
45:20
Speaker 1: Biden was in the Oval office or upstairs in the
45:22
Speaker 1: residents sleeping, I'm not so sure egg prices increased sixty
45:26
Speaker 1: five percent. In this country, we also have seen the
45:31
Speaker 1: cost of everything, not just eggs, bacon, groceries, gasoline have
45:35
Speaker 1: increased because of the inflationary policies of the last administration.
45:39
Speaker 1: As far as the egg shortage, what's also contributing to
45:42
Speaker 1: that is that the Biden administration in the Department of
45:44
Speaker 1: Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than one hundred
45:48
Speaker 1: million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken
45:51
Speaker 1: supply in this country, therefore lack of egg supply, which
45:54
Speaker 1: is leading to the shortage.
45:55
Speaker 2: So I will leave you with this point.
45:57
Speaker 1: This is an example of why it's so incredibly important
46:00
Speaker 1: that the Senate moves swiftly to confirm all of President
46:03
Speaker 1: Trump's nominees, including his nominee for the United States Department
46:06
Speaker 1: of Agriculture, Brook Rawlins, who is already speaking with Kevin Hassett,
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Speaker 1: who's leading the economic team here at the White House,
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Speaker 1: on how we can address the egg shortage in this country.
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Speaker 2: As for costs, I laid out costs. I laid out
46:18
Speaker 2: the plethora.
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Speaker 1: Of dressed saving costs for the American people over the
46:24
Speaker 1: past week.
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Speaker 2: He looks forward to continuing to doing that. In the
46:26
Speaker 2: days of are many played portals down in all fifty states,