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Karoline Leavitt Briefs Media, April 8, 2025 · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 2: Good is that's right? Great? Good afternoon everybody. How are
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Speaker 2: we good to see you all. I have a few
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Speaker 2: announcements off the top today. On April fourteenth, President Trump
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Speaker 2: will welcome President Bucelli of El Salvador for an official
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Speaker 2: working visit here at the White House. They will discuss
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Speaker 2: Al Salvador's partnership on using their supermax prison for Trende
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Speaker 2: Aragua and MS thirteen gang members, and how El Salvador's
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Speaker 2: cooperation with the United States has become a model for
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Speaker 2: others to work with this administration. On April seventeenth, President
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Speaker 2: Trump will welcome Prime Minister Georgia Maloney of Italy for
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Speaker 2: an official working visit at the White House as well.
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Speaker 2: The President's thoughts also remain with the families and communities
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Speaker 2: experiencing devastating loss from the severe storms and flooding affected
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Speaker 2: several states across the central US. President Trump approved emergency
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Speaker 2: declarations for Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee, allowing FEMA to provide
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Speaker 2: federal assistance like equipment in resources to support state and
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Speaker 2: local emergency response officials who are leading this response on
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Speaker 2: the ground. Last night, the Supreme Court delivered a massive
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Speaker 2: legal victory to the Trump administration and allowed us to
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Speaker 2: continue removing foreign terrorists invaders under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Speaker 2: This was a SmackDown to a rogue, left wing, low
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Speaker 2: level district court judge who have relentlessly tried to stop
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Speaker 2: President Trump from using his core constitutional powers as head
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Speaker 2: of the executive branch and as commander in chief. The
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Speaker 2: highest court in the land made it clear that the
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Speaker 2: President of the United States has the power to protect
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Speaker 2: our homeland and forcibly remove foreign terrorists who pose a
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Speaker 2: grave threat to families and communities. Thank you to the
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court for upholding the rule of law and protecting
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Speaker 2: the Constitution. Our message to the monster trend de Aragua
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Speaker 2: and MS thirteen terrorists still hiding illegally inside our country
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Speaker 2: is clear to port yourself now or you will be
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Speaker 2: locked up and sent back to your home country. On
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Speaker 2: another matter, the historic Liberation Day announcement last week by
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Speaker 2: President Trump made it very clear that the era of
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Speaker 2: economic American economic surrender is over. President Trump is no
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Speaker 2: longer going to allow American workers and companies to be
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Speaker 2: ripped off at the hands of foolish trade practices that
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Speaker 2: shipped away millions of high paying jobs and hollowed out
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Speaker 2: communities across the country. It's America First all the way,
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Speaker 2: and despite fear mongering by the media, the world is
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Speaker 2: clearly responding to President Trump's approach. Just yesterday, President Trump
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Speaker 2: held a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnahu
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Speaker 2: here at the White House. The Prime Minister pledged to
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Speaker 2: immediately eliminate America's trade deficit with Israel and remove their
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Speaker 2: trade barriers. Israel's proactive approach should serve as a model
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Speaker 2: for the rest of the world. Also yesterday, the President
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Speaker 2: spoke with Japan's Prime Minister, who wants to negotiate as well.
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Speaker 2: The President also spoke the acting President of South Korea
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Speaker 2: this morning. He has task Secretary Besson and US Trade
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Speaker 2: Representative Jamison Greer to lead these talks. In total, since
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Speaker 2: the Liberation Day announcement, nearly seventy countries have already reached
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Speaker 2: out to the President to begin a negotiation. Countries are
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Speaker 2: falling over themselves to reform their unfair trade practices and
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Speaker 2: free open their markets to our country. Why Because these
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Speaker 2: countries greatly respect President Trump in the sheer power of
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Speaker 2: the American market, these countries realize they've gotten filthy rich
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Speaker 2: over the past few decades by imposing substantial tariffs on
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Speaker 2: American made products and ridiculous non monetary barriers to block
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Speaker 2: out American industry. The jig is up. Past American presidents
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Speaker 2: sat by and let this happen, but President Trump stood
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Speaker 2: up for our country and he is saying no more.
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Speaker 2: The President's message has been simple and consistent from the
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Speaker 2: beginning to countries around the world. Bring us your best
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Speaker 2: offers and he will listen. Deals will only be made
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Speaker 2: if they benefit American workers and address our nation's crippling
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Speaker 2: trade deficits. America does not need other countries as much
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Speaker 2: as other countries need us, and President Trump knows this.
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Speaker 2: He's going to use the leverage of our markets in
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Speaker 2: our country to the advantage of the people he was
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Speaker 2: sworn in to represent. On the other hand, countries like
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Speaker 2: China who have chosen to retaliate and try to double
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Speaker 2: down on their mistreatment of American workers are making a mistake.
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Speaker 2: President Trump has a spine of steel, and he will
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Speaker 2: not break, and America will not break under his leadership.
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Speaker 2: He is guided by a firm belief that America must
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Speaker 2: be able to produce essential goods for our own people
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Speaker 2: and export them to the rest of the world. A
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Speaker 2: strong America cannot be solely dependent on foreign countries for
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Speaker 2: our food, medicines, and critical minerals, and America must always
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Speaker 2: maintain a robust defense supply chain. Reprioritizing and strengthening our
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Speaker 2: manufacturing industry are essential national and economic security issues of
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Speaker 2: the utmost importance to President Trump. By focusing on supercharging
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Speaker 2: the on shoring of American manufacturing, the President is already
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Speaker 2: delivering on his promise to usher in an economic golden
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Speaker 2: age for our country. Just look at Friday's jobs report,
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Speaker 2: which smashed expectations. For the second straight month. The American
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Speaker 2: economy added two hundred and twenty eight thousand jobs, nearly
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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand more jobs and economists predicted, in the
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Speaker 2: fourth highest month for private payroll growth in the past
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Speaker 2: two years. There was also a sharp increase in transportation, construction,
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Speaker 2: and warehousing employment. And in just eleven weeks, President Trump
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Speaker 2: has secured more than one point five trillion dollars in
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Speaker 2: private sector investment. This is a half trillion dollars more
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Speaker 2: than Joe Biden secured in his entire term. This record
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Speaker 2: breaking private sector investment will create roughly three hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand American jobs. Counting, if you add up all
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Speaker 2: of the investment pledges from foreign governments, President Trump has
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Speaker 2: secured an incredible five trillion in total investments already. In
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Speaker 2: the months ahead, president Trump's pro growth economic agenda will
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Speaker 2: be fully realized. The largest deregulatory effort in American history
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Speaker 2: is underway. Unnecessary, burdensome, costly red tape is being eliminated
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Speaker 2: by this entire federal government every day, driving down costs
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Speaker 2: in massively boosting small businesses. So far, President Trump's deregulation
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Speaker 2: effort has already saved Americans more than one hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty billion dollars, equivalent to twenty one hundred per family
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Speaker 2: of four. The President's Drill Baby, Drill energy agenda, which
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Speaker 2: he will discuss later this evening in the East Room,
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Speaker 2: is capitalizing on the abundance of natural resources under our
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Speaker 2: feet to generate more affordable electricity, cheap gas, and quality
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Speaker 2: new jobs. All of this will combine to end the
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Speaker 2: Biden imposed cost of living crisis that's absolutely crushed American families.
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Speaker 2: Under President Trump, the American energy industry will lead the
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Speaker 2: globe over the next century, delivering lower prices and significantly
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Speaker 2: strengthening our country's economic position. At the President's direction, Republicans
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Speaker 2: in Congress are working quickly to pass one big, beautiful bill,
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Speaker 2: which will also include the largest tax cut in American history.
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Speaker 2: As President Trump has said, the House must pass this
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Speaker 2: budget resolution quickly. Here in our new media seat today,
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Speaker 2: we have Jasmine Wright, the White House Reporter for Notice.
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Speaker 2: Notice is a nonprofit and nonpartisan news site which launched
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Speaker 2: in early twenty twenty four. They've gained millions of readers
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Speaker 2: across the country since newsroom's goal is both to inform
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Speaker 2: readers and train the next generation of politics and policy journalists.
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Speaker 2: They also partner with state newsrooms and to give local
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Speaker 2: communities more knowledge of what their representatives are doing in Washington, DC.
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Speaker 2: With that, please kick us off, Jasmine, Thanks so much, Caroline.
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Speaker 2: A couple questions for you, the first one being can
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Speaker 2: you explain the White House's evolution from this is not
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Speaker 2: negotiation on tariffs too. Countries should pitch us and start
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Speaker 2: negotiations for sure, As the President said yesterday, Jasmine, both
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Speaker 2: things can be true at the same time, and it
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Speaker 2: is a non negotiable position that the United States has
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Speaker 2: faced a national security and economic crisis because of the
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Speaker 2: unfair trade practices by countries around the world. As for
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Speaker 2: the President, I have maintained this position. The entire administration
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Speaker 2: has always said that President Trump is willing to pick
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Speaker 2: up the phone and talk. And the President met with
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Speaker 2: his trade team this morning and he directed them to
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Speaker 2: have tailor made trade deals with each and every country
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Speaker 2: that calls up this administration to strike a deal and listen.
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Speaker 2: And each and every one of these trade deals should
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Speaker 2: be tailored and unique based on that country's markets, based
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Speaker 2: on that country's exports, the imports here in the United
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Speaker 2: States of America, what makes the most sense for the
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Speaker 2: American worker and for our industry. The President is focused
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Speaker 2: on putting America first. So was the evolution not factored
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Speaker 2: in or determined by of the tumult in the stock market?
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Speaker 2: Was that not a part of the consideration to start
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Speaker 2: making these negotiations and deal with again, I would reject
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Speaker 2: that there was an evolution. On day one, we had
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Speaker 2: said that the President will always pick up the phone
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Speaker 2: for other nations and other companies that call this administration.
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Speaker 2: The President always has a listening ear and it's a
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Speaker 2: non negotiable fact that America has faced a national security
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Speaker 2: and economic crisis for many decades, and President Trump is
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Speaker 2: just the first to address this. My last question, how
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Speaker 2: negotiations change. How much revenue the White House is planning
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Speaker 2: to make from the tariffs, Well, that has yet to
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Speaker 2: be seen. But as the President said, the reciprocal tariffs,
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Speaker 2: which will continue to go in effect as these deals
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Speaker 2: are negotiated and ongoing, will generate trillions of dollars in
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Speaker 2: revenue to the United States. And this is twofold. The
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Speaker 2: President wants to onshore jobs here to the United States
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Speaker 2: of America. He wants to boost our manufacturing industry. He
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Speaker 2: also wants to tackle these crippling deficits with almost every
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Speaker 2: single country around the world. Jackie, thanks Caroline.
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Speaker 3: The Treasury Secretary, Scott Besstt warned that some of these
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Speaker 3: negotiations might take up to months, that we could be
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Speaker 3: doing this through April maye into June, and then you
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Speaker 3: had Kevin Hassett say it's going to take a lot
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Speaker 3: for the President to put his signature on the lines.
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Speaker 3: So he wants to make sure there's a good deal
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Speaker 3: for America. Is the President operating on any sort of
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Speaker 3: a timeline or deadline where he wants this completed bike.
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Speaker 2: Well, we always move at Trump speed here at the
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Speaker 2: White House, which is incredibly fast. I know you all
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Speaker 2: know that from covering this White House day to day.
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Speaker 2: The President likes to get things done. But he's very
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Speaker 2: much focused on ensuring that these deals are good for
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Speaker 2: the American worker, they are good for American manufacturing, and
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Speaker 2: again that they tackle these crippling deficits with these countries.
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Speaker 2: All options are on the table for each country, but again,
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Speaker 2: these are going to be tailor made deals. They are
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Speaker 2: not going to be off the rack deals, as the
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Speaker 2: President has called it. And he has directed his entire
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Speaker 2: trade team to be part of this effort. So that
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Speaker 2: includes Secretary Besson and our National Economic Director Kevin Hassett.
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Speaker 2: It also includes Secretary Lutnik, Peter Tomorrow, the entire trade team,
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Speaker 2: Jamison Greer who was on the hill today. Everybody who
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Speaker 2: was involved in this incredible, fair reciprocal trade agenda will
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Speaker 2: continue to be involved in negotiating these deals.
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Speaker 3: So yesterday Goldman Sachs put out a research note. It
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Speaker 3: put the odds of a recession at forty five percent
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Speaker 3: within the next twelve months, up from thirty five percent.
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Speaker 3: But Peter Navarro guaranteed last night no recession. Does the
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Speaker 3: President agree with him on that? I know the President
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Speaker 3: in the past has been leary of making definitive statements
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Speaker 3: on that.
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Speaker 2: I can speak for the President and I can speak
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Speaker 2: for the optimism that he sees in our economy every day. Again,
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Speaker 2: when you talk about the massive deregulatory efforts that are
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Speaker 2: happening across the board, when you talk about how oil
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Speaker 2: prices are down, gas prices are down, egg prices are down.
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Speaker 2: We're cutting costs for the American worker, for the American consumer.
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Speaker 2: We also see trillions of dollars of investments pouring into
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Speaker 2: this country every day. And we're working hard now on
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Speaker 2: the tariff side of the President's economic agenda. But don't
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Speaker 2: forget the next side of this is tax cuts, and
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Speaker 2: we're counting on Capitol Hill to get those done, the
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Speaker 2: largest tax cuts in history.
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Speaker 3: Does that mean that without that those tax cuts coming through,
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Speaker 3: that the likelihood of a recession is rare.
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Speaker 2: That's not what I said. I'm just saying, be mindful
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Speaker 2: of the whole of government economic approach that this administration
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Speaker 2: is taking. Every day, Sure, go ahead, Thank.
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Speaker 4: You, Caroline.
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Speaker 5: You just said that one of the reasons these tariffs
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Speaker 5: are going into effect is that some countries have been
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Speaker 5: ripping out the United States. But some of the tariff's
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Speaker 5: target countries like Madagascar, Bangladesh, it's very high levels of property.
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Speaker 5: So can you explain how the president wants to correct
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Speaker 5: the deficits with those countries? Is their plan, for example,
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Speaker 5: to unsure the textile industry that these countries are known
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Speaker 5: because and you know, just like can you be specific
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Speaker 5: about those low income sure?
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the reciprocal tariff rates that were
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Speaker 2: implemented by country. We're focused on the monetary tariff that
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Speaker 2: those countries have imposed on the United States, but also
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Speaker 2: the not monetary tariff barriers and the regulations, if you will,
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Speaker 2: that have been put into effect over the years making
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Speaker 2: it harder for America to export to these countries. These
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Speaker 2: were very carefully crafted numbers. There was also a ten
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Speaker 2: percent baseline tariff across the board as well, as you know,
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Speaker 2: moving forward, the President will talk to any country that
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Speaker 2: picks up the phone to call, and I can tell
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Speaker 2: you the phones have been ringing off the hook wanting
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Speaker 2: to talk to this administration, this President and his trade
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Speaker 2: team to try to strike a deal. And it's because
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Speaker 2: the world knows that they need the United States of America,
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Speaker 2: they need our markets, they need our consumer The President
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Speaker 2: has a lot of leverage on his side because he
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Speaker 2: has the best economy and the best country in the
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Speaker 2: world that he leads, and he knows that. And it's
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Speaker 2: about daying time we finally have a president who uses
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Speaker 2: that economic leverage to benefit American workers. And that's what
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Speaker 2: the President is trying to do. Maggie, Caroline, Thanks.
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Speaker 6: Does the President endorse something that Howard let me said
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Speaker 6: Intellivision this weekend, which was the army of millions and
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Speaker 6: millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones,
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Speaker 6: That that kind of thing is going to be to
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Speaker 6: the US. Is that how the President visions manufacturing shifting
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Speaker 6: and if so, how long would that take?
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Speaker 2: Roughly, the President wants to increase manufacturing jobs here in
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Speaker 2: the United States of America, but he's also looking at
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Speaker 2: advanced technologies. He's also looking at AI and emerging fields
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Speaker 2: that are growing around the world that the United States
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Speaker 2: needs to be a leader in as well. So there's
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Speaker 2: an array of diverse jobs, more traditional manufacturing jobs as
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Speaker 2: you discussed, but also jobs in advanced technologies. The President
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Speaker 2: is looking at all of those. He wants them to
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Speaker 2: come back home with iPhones specifically.
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Speaker 6: Is that something that he thinks is the kind of
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Speaker 6: technology that can move to the US.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, he believes we have the labor, we have the workforce,
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Speaker 2: we have the resources to do it. And as you know,
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Speaker 2: Apple has invested five hundred billion dollars here in the
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Speaker 2: United States. So if Apple didn't think the United States
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Speaker 2: could do it, they probably wouldn't have put up that
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Speaker 2: big chunk of change. Elena, Oh my god.
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Speaker 7: It's clear the president has gone the world's attention with
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Speaker 7: these tariffs. Is there is he considering at all potentially
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Speaker 7: holding off on imposing some of them before the deadline
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Speaker 7: or meet later, you know, reversing them because he's having
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Speaker 7: these negotiations and having these good talks with other leaders.
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Speaker 2: The President was asked and answer this yesterday. He said
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Speaker 2: he's not considering an extension or delay. I spoke to
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Speaker 2: him before this briefing. That was not his mindset. He
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Speaker 2: expects that these tariffs are going to go into effect.
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Speaker 2: And you said something very important Elena, in your question
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Speaker 2: you said the president has captivated the attention of the world.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely he has, and it's about time we have a
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Speaker 2: president in the Oval Office who is putting the world
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Speaker 2: on notice and is putting the American people first, and
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Speaker 2: again is using the leverage of the United States to
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Speaker 2: negotiate good trade.
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Speaker 7: I just a quick follow up, there's been some public
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Speaker 7: sparring between Elon Musk and the President's trade advisor, Peter
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Speaker 7: Navarro on some of these tariffs. Must actually refer to
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Speaker 7: Novara today as being quote dumber than a sack of bricks.
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Speaker 7: Are you what ur is the administration, the President all
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Speaker 7: concerned that this is maybe impacting the public's understanding of
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Speaker 7: these tariffs, it might be messing with the message on it.
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Speaker 2: No, look, these are obviously two individuals who have very
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Speaker 2: different for reviews on trade and on tariff's. Boys will
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Speaker 2: be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue.
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Speaker 2: And you guys should all be very grateful that we
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Speaker 2: have the most transparent administration in history. And I think
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Speaker 2: it also speaks to the President's willingness to hear from
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Speaker 2: all sides that he has people at the highest levels
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Speaker 2: of this government in this White House, who have very
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Speaker 2: diverse opinions on very diverse issues. But the President takes
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Speaker 2: all opinions in mind and then he makes the best
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Speaker 2: decision based on the best interests of the American public.
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Speaker 1: Deanna, thanks Caroline on Truth Social today, Trump was talking
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Speaker 1: about one stop shopping talks with foreign leaders, you know,
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Speaker 1: bringing leaders to the US, to Washington and talking to
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Speaker 1: them about tariffs, but also other topics.
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Speaker 2: So is that part of.
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Speaker 1: His strategy to bring the leaders to Washington and trying
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Speaker 1: to get deals, you know, outside of tariffs on foreign
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Speaker 1: policy issues as well.
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Speaker 2: I think the President again is going to have a custom,
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Speaker 2: tailor made up approach to each and every country. And
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Speaker 2: if that means discussions of foreign aid, of our military
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Speaker 2: presence in these countries, how those troops are paid for
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Speaker 2: come to the table, that could be part of the
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Speaker 2: negotiation in these economic negotiations. But it's the President's economic
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Speaker 2: team who will be leading these. These are tariff and
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Speaker 2: trade negotiations, and yes, they will be one stop shopping
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Speaker 2: for each and every country. They will be as the
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Speaker 2: President said, again, tailor made, not off the rack, to
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Speaker 2: each and every country based on America's needs. Think is
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Speaker 2: a good Tarra from Linda elsb On.
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Speaker 8: So President Trump is designeded trenday Aragua as a foreign
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Speaker 8: terrorist organization and deported its members while also moving to
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Speaker 8: restrict Venezuela's oil exports. Is the administration preparing additional military
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Speaker 8: or economic actions against Venezuela and the Maduro regime? And
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Speaker 8: my second question is about Supreme Court Justice Ammykomi barrt
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Speaker 8: Is the administration have a comment on her decision to
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Speaker 8: go with the liberals and go actually with the trende Araguas.
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Speaker 8: This is the same justice that actually cided against January
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Speaker 8: sixth hostage last year. So is the administration of a
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Speaker 8: common Are they disappointed in Supreme Court Justice Amy Coomy
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Speaker 8: Barrett to your.
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Speaker 2: First question, I don't have any actions to read out.
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Speaker 2: In terms of Venezuela. The President has imposed secondary tariffs
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Speaker 2: on the Maduro regime in on Venezuela in the form
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Speaker 2: of oil, which is obviously going to have a crippling
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Speaker 2: effect on the Maduro regime. And that's the intended effect
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Speaker 2: of this administration. As for the justice you mentioned, as
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Speaker 2: for the Supreme Court, we've made our feelings very clear.
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Speaker 2: We believe this was a massive victory certainly we wish
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Speaker 2: this was a nine and nothing decision because we firmly
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Speaker 2: believed that the President was well within his constitutional authority,
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Speaker 2: and the Supreme Court made that very clear last night
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Speaker 2: and they put Judge Boseburg in his place. We called
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Speaker 2: on the Supreme Court to reign in these judges who
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Speaker 2: are acting as judicial activists, not real arbiters of the
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Speaker 2: truth in the law, and that's exactly what we saw
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court to yesterday, Christian.
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Speaker 9: Thanks Carolyne.
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Speaker 10: Now that the President's reciprocal tariffs are here going into
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Speaker 10: effect tomorrow, what's the status of the ear When will
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Speaker 10: they actually start collecting revenue? And will that be nested
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Speaker 10: under CBP or somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: Entirely, it is something Secretary Lutnik has taken up, so
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Speaker 2: I defer you to the Department of Commerce. But it's
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Speaker 2: something that he and the President believe quite strongly in
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Speaker 2: and it's something it's a promise that they intend to
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Speaker 2: keep to the mayor career.
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Speaker 10: Real quickly, can you explain why the President opt to
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Speaker 10: send Secretary Hexith to the dignified transfer last week instead
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Speaker 10: of attending himself.
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Speaker 2: Sure the Secretary Hegseth was there to represent the administration.
19:32
Speaker 2: The President has expressed his condolences to these families, as
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Speaker 2: have I from this podium. Shelby, thank you.
19:37
Speaker 11: The President's trade representative this morning told senators that the
19:41
Speaker 11: President does not intend on carving out exemptions for products
19:44
Speaker 11: and companies when it comes to tariffs, but would the
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Speaker 11: administration consider changing that stance should bankruptcies begin among US
19:52
Speaker 11: companies who are dependent on China trade.
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Speaker 2: I won't get ahead of the President on any exemptions
19:56
Speaker 2: or his decision on that. I will leave that to him.
19:58
Speaker 2: But again, we're looking at this country by country and
20:01
Speaker 2: based on the needs of the American people and the
20:03
Speaker 2: American workforce.
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Speaker 11: Or can you walk us through how this specific terror
20:07
Speaker 11: plan was decided on and which advisor came up with it.
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Speaker 2: The reciprocal tariff plan, It was a plan that was
20:14
Speaker 2: discussed by the President's entire trade team over the course
20:17
Speaker 2: of many, many meetings, and the President ultimately decided on
20:21
Speaker 2: which way to go. A few proposals were given to
20:23
Speaker 2: the President, there was debate and discussion, and the President
20:27
Speaker 2: made his decision. And as you've seen very publicly, the
20:29
Speaker 2: entire trade team is on board with this plan and
20:31
Speaker 2: the negotiations that will ensue because of it.
20:33
Speaker 10: Sure on a ran and given what's going to be
20:37
Speaker 10: happening on Saturday, what exactly is the current administration doing
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Speaker 10: to stop Iran's funding of terrorist.
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Speaker 2: Aggression worldwide that the previous administration wasn't doing well. First
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Speaker 2: of all, when it comes to Saturday, I won't get
20:49
Speaker 2: ahead of the president. He has said there will be
20:51
Speaker 2: direct talks with Iran on Saturday. I won't further any
20:55
Speaker 2: details from this podium for obvious reason, security reasons, and
20:59
Speaker 2: will provide an update as we always have. However, when
21:03
Speaker 2: it comes to Iran, the President has reimposed crippling sanctions
21:06
Speaker 2: on the Iranian regime and he's made it very clear
21:08
Speaker 2: to Iran they have a choice to make. You can
21:10
Speaker 2: strike a deal with the President, you can negotiate, or
21:13
Speaker 2: there will be hell to pay. And as the President
21:15
Speaker 2: said yesterday, if they don't choose to move forward with
21:17
Speaker 2: diplomacy in a deal, which is the direction we do
21:20
Speaker 2: see them headed in, there will be grave consequences. Today
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Speaker 2: to the backro, thank.
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Speaker 12: You Carolin on the President's threat yesterday on social media
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Speaker 12: to increase tariffs against China by an additional fifty percent
21:30
Speaker 12: in response to their retaliation. Has he signed anything in
21:34
Speaker 12: terms of an executive order, any documentation around that. Will
21:37
Speaker 12: that additional fifty percent go into effect tomorrow?
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Speaker 2: They will be going into a fact dot twelve one
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Speaker 2: am tonight, so effectively tomorrow. Yes, work on that today,
21:47
Speaker 2: of course, as always to the gentleman in front of you,
21:49
Speaker 2: because that's who I originally called them. Go ahead.
21:52
Speaker 4: Over the weekend, President Trump said that he would be
21:54
Speaker 4: willing to have US citizens deported to Al salvo Or
21:57
Speaker 4: with the cooperation of President Would that work legally and
22:01
Speaker 4: how many people would potentially be available for that operation?
22:06
Speaker 2: So the President has discussed this idea quite a few
22:08
Speaker 2: times publicly. He's also discussed it privately. You're referring to
22:12
Speaker 2: the President's idea for American citizens to potentially be deported.
22:18
Speaker 2: These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our
22:21
Speaker 2: nation's laws repeatedly, and these are violent repeat offenders in
22:26
Speaker 2: American streets. The President has said, if it's legal right,
22:30
Speaker 2: if there is a legal pathway to do that, he's
22:32
Speaker 2: not sure. We are not sure if there is. It's
22:34
Speaker 2: an idea that he has simply floated and has discussed
22:37
Speaker 2: very publicly, as in the effort of transparency. Reagan, Thank you, Erlan.
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Speaker 13: There's been more reporting coming out now about President Biden's
22:44
Speaker 13: declineal in the White House. Is the White House considering
22:47
Speaker 13: releasing the audio bidence interview with Special Council I've heard
22:51
Speaker 13: in the public, which the former president had previously blocked.
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Speaker 2: I don't have an update on that, but I can
22:57
Speaker 2: certainly check. I think the American people would be quite
23:00
Speaker 2: interested to hear that tape, but I'll double check on
23:02
Speaker 2: those days of it, Michael.
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Speaker 14: Thank you, Carolyn. On Saturday, during meetings with Iran, President
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Speaker 14: Trump says high level officials will be meeting directly with
23:14
Speaker 14: Iranian officials. We're hearing some pushback from Iran now saying
23:17
Speaker 14: those talks will be indirect. Can you clarify they will.
23:20
Speaker 2: Be direct talks on Saturday? And I won't get ahead
23:22
Speaker 2: of the president on any further details, Jennifer, Yeah, two
23:26
Speaker 2: things on the Israel tariffs. Can you give us an
23:28
Speaker 2: update on the discussion on relaxing those tariffs? And then
23:31
Speaker 2: I had another question about the dog team after that.
23:34
Speaker 2: That discussion is ongoing. I don't have any definitive, definitive
23:38
Speaker 2: details to iron out for you here.
23:39
Speaker 6: And then The President on Thursday told us that there
23:42
Speaker 6: was an incredible discovery that the dose team had made,
23:45
Speaker 6: called it horrible and incredible.
23:47
Speaker 2: Can you reveal that yet, give us details on what
23:49
Speaker 2: it was about. There has been a discovery. I hate
23:52
Speaker 2: to leave you hanging on a cliff, but I don't
23:54
Speaker 2: want to get ahead of the president on that. But
23:56
Speaker 2: I can't confer there has been a discovery. It's just
23:58
Speaker 2: not quite yet ready for release.
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Speaker 1: Y go ahead.
24:02
Speaker 2: I was calling on the young lady behind you. I'll
24:05
Speaker 2: come to you after ed not discriminating here meeting today
24:09
Speaker 2: with House Republicans. Can you say who is in that meeting?
24:12
Speaker 3: And his message to Republicans that are skeptical of the
24:14
Speaker 3: Senate cast budget framework.
24:16
Speaker 2: Sure, the President will be meeting with Republican lawmakers today
24:20
Speaker 2: here at the White House to talk to them about
24:22
Speaker 2: the framework that the Senate passed. The President was very
24:25
Speaker 2: quick to put out a statement about his support for
24:27
Speaker 2: the reconciliation package that the Senate passed, and he is
24:31
Speaker 2: counting on House Republicans to pass it. The Republicans received
24:35
Speaker 2: an overwhelming mandate from the American public to govern. We
24:38
Speaker 2: have an extraordinary opportunity. There are key promises that the
24:42
Speaker 2: American that the President made to the American people in
24:44
Speaker 2: this bill, tax cuts, securing the border, deregulation, unleashing the
24:50
Speaker 2: might of American energy. These are good things for the
24:52
Speaker 2: American people. The President wants to see this get done,
24:55
Speaker 2: and that's why he's engaging with lawmakers today. Follow up
24:58
Speaker 2: on tariffs, Kevin Hasset said today that administration is prioritizing
25:01
Speaker 2: talks with Japan and South Korea other trading partners. Are
25:04
Speaker 2: the other countries on that list that you guys can
25:07
Speaker 2: name publicly that you're having serious discussions with. Sure, as
25:11
Speaker 2: you have heard from various administration officials, myself included, there
25:15
Speaker 2: have been nearly seventy countries that have reached out to
25:17
Speaker 2: the administration last time I checked. But again I hear
25:20
Speaker 2: the phones are ringing off the hook. There are foreign
25:22
Speaker 2: leaders who want to fly to Washington tonight and get
25:24
Speaker 2: on a plane to negotiate with this country. Which shows
25:28
Speaker 2: you the leverage that the President is using. That shows
25:30
Speaker 2: you the rest of the world needs the United States
25:32
Speaker 2: of America to do business with Israel. Obviously, yesterday you
25:36
Speaker 2: heard a public statement from Prime Minister get at Yahoo.
25:39
Speaker 2: The President has detailed his calls with the leaders of
25:41
Speaker 2: Japan in South Korea. We are going to prioritize our
25:45
Speaker 2: allies and our partners around the world first when it
25:48
Speaker 2: comes to these negotiations, and the Trade team will be
25:51
Speaker 2: divvying them up again to make tailor made trade deals
25:53
Speaker 2: around the world. I promise, yes, thank you.
25:57
Speaker 5: You mentioned the seventy countries or so. I'm curious, though,
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Speaker 5: under what conditions at this point would President Trump talked
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Speaker 5: to President she about tariffs.
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Speaker 2: Look, I've just spoke to the President about this, and
26:07
Speaker 2: he believes that China wants to make a deal with
26:09
Speaker 2: the United States. He believes China has to make a
26:11
Speaker 2: deal with the United States. It was a mistake for
26:14
Speaker 2: China to retaliate. The President. When America is punched, he
26:18
Speaker 2: punches back harder. That's why there will be one hundred
26:21
Speaker 2: and four percent tariff's going into effect on China tonight
26:25
Speaker 2: at midnight. But the President believes that she and China
26:28
Speaker 2: want to make a deal. They just don't know how
26:29
Speaker 2: to get that started. And the President also wanted me
26:32
Speaker 2: to tell all of you that if China reaches out
26:34
Speaker 2: to make a deal, he'll be incredibly gracious. But he's
26:36
Speaker 2: going to do what's best for the American people.
26:38
Speaker 4: China has to call first.
26:39
Speaker 2: The Chinese want to make a deal, they just don't
26:42
Speaker 2: know how to do it. But the President will be
26:44
Speaker 2: implementing these one hundred and four percent tariffs on China tonight.
26:47
Speaker 10: Sure what conditions might he considered lowering tariffs on China.
26:51
Speaker 2: At this point, it would be imprudent of me to
26:53
Speaker 2: tell you those conditions here from the podium.
26:55
Speaker 1: Sure, game, Thanks Caroline.
26:58
Speaker 15: With regards to the Supreme Court rolling on the Alien
27:01
Speaker 15: Enemies Act, you're right, it was a win for the administration.
27:04
Speaker 15: But the justices also said that deportees are entitled to
27:07
Speaker 15: due process. Does the administration agree with that?
27:10
Speaker 2: That's not quite true, Gabe. They said that they are
27:12
Speaker 2: entitled to a habeas petition, and we are going to
27:16
Speaker 2: continue to comply with the law. And we are wholly
27:19
Speaker 2: confident that every single person that has been deported under
27:22
Speaker 2: the Alien Enemies Act, every person that will continue to
27:24
Speaker 2: be deported under the Alien Enemies Act, qualifies for that deportation.
27:30
Speaker 15: NBC News is reporting that the administration is considering drawn
27:34
Speaker 15: strikes on drug cartels in Mexico. We're citing several officials
27:39
Speaker 15: this morning. Mexico's president was asked about that and she
27:42
Speaker 15: said that we reject any of those actions.
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Speaker 2: Your response, I saw that reporting. I don't want to
27:47
Speaker 2: confirm it from this podium. I don't want to comment
27:49
Speaker 2: on it because I'm not sure, but I would defer
27:51
Speaker 2: you to the National Security Council.
27:53
Speaker 15: So you haven't confirmed a report. But with Mexico's president
27:57
Speaker 15: saying that she rejects any of that, what would your response,
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Speaker 15: B How is the relationship then between Mexico's president and
28:04
Speaker 15: the White House right now over targeting drug cartels?
28:07
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the relationship between President Shinebaum and
28:10
Speaker 2: President Trump is quite good, and I think both world
28:13
Speaker 2: leaders would tell you that the President has been engaged
28:16
Speaker 2: directly with President shine bamb on a number of different topics,
28:19
Speaker 2: particularly when it comes to clamping down on the Mexican
28:22
Speaker 2: drug cartels, on clamping down on illegal immigration, human trafficking,
28:26
Speaker 2: drug trafficking through our southern border. She's taken significant steps
28:29
Speaker 2: towards doing that. But as for that specific report, again,
28:32
Speaker 2: I'm not going to comment.
28:33
Speaker 9: Caroline two questions on trade, First, as a part of
28:38
Speaker 9: these negotiations, is it possible for countries to lower their
28:42
Speaker 9: tariffs below that ten percent bare minimum that's been said.
28:46
Speaker 2: Again, I'll leave that to the President to make those determinations,
28:48
Speaker 2: but I can tell you that ten percent universal baseline
28:51
Speaker 2: will go into effect as these negotiations are ongoing.
28:53
Speaker 1: Got it?
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Speaker 9: And then what is your thinking just as far as
28:57
Speaker 9: low labor cost countries, Like if you've got a country
29:00
Speaker 9: Vietnam that wants to negotiate, but obviously they have some
29:03
Speaker 9: advantages in terms of trade, in terms of the people
29:06
Speaker 9: that are not paid as much as American citizens, what
29:09
Speaker 9: is kind of the thinking can they still achieve a
29:11
Speaker 9: good kind of trade outcome with the United States.
29:14
Speaker 2: Well, again, you're right to point out that different countries
29:17
Speaker 2: have different labor markets, they have different skills, if you will,
29:20
Speaker 2: different resources, and the President is going to take all
29:23
Speaker 2: of that into account. His team will take all of
29:25
Speaker 2: that into account when they're negotiating these deals. I do
29:28
Speaker 2: just want to point out one thing that the president.
29:31
Speaker 2: Everybody in Washington, whether they want to admit it or not,
29:34
Speaker 2: knows that this president is right when it comes to
29:37
Speaker 2: tariffs and when it comes to trade. In fact, Democrats
29:40
Speaker 2: have long said that the United States of America has
29:43
Speaker 2: been ripped off by the countries around the world. They
29:46
Speaker 2: just don't want to admit it now because it's President
29:48
Speaker 2: Trump who is saying that. In June of nineteen ninety six,
29:50
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor. She urged her
29:54
Speaker 2: colleagues at the time to fight against the status quote
29:56
Speaker 2: trade policies that had contributed to America's trade deficit with
30:00
Speaker 2: In fact, Nancy Pelosi said, how far does China have
30:03
Speaker 2: to go? How much more repression, how big a trade deficit?
30:06
Speaker 2: How many jobs have to be lost for the American workers?
30:09
Speaker 2: How much dangerous proliferation has to exist before members of
30:12
Speaker 2: this House of Representatives will say I will not endorse
30:15
Speaker 2: the status quo. Those are the words of Nancy Pelosi
30:18
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety six. While President Trump is finally answering
30:22
Speaker 2: her call twenty seven years later, Nancy Pelosi can thank
30:26
Speaker 2: President Trump today for the one hundred and four percent
30:28
Speaker 2: retaliatory tariff that will be going into effect on China.
30:31
Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, Chuck Schumer spoke of our
30:34
Speaker 2: nation's crippling trade deficits, saying, these are the kinds of
30:37
Speaker 2: records the American people don't want us to be breaking.
30:39
Speaker 2: The administration needs to move beyond words, take action now
30:43
Speaker 2: to reverse a trend that threatens our prospects for future
30:45
Speaker 2: economic growth. And Chuck Schumer said that in two thousand
30:49
Speaker 2: and seven. Finally, in twenty twenty five, President Trump is
30:53
Speaker 2: taking action. Recently defeated Democrat Chared Brown said on deficits
30:57
Speaker 2: in twenty and twelve that our deficit, but then at
31:00
Speaker 2: China had reached an all time high and it was
31:03
Speaker 2: on pace to recede last year's record. The trade deficit
31:06
Speaker 2: had cost American workers millions of jobs at the time.
31:10
Speaker 2: These are the words of Democrats years ago. It is
31:13
Speaker 2: about time America finally has a president who is taking
31:16
Speaker 2: action to restore those millions of jobs back to the
31:19
Speaker 2: United States of America, to boost our manufacturing industry. He's
31:23
Speaker 2: doing what's right for the American people. It will take
31:25
Speaker 2: a lot of labor, it will take a lot of effort.
31:27
Speaker 2: That's exactly what the American people elected this president to do.
31:30
Speaker 2: He will be talking about our energy agenda at three
31:33
Speaker 2: o'clock today over in the easter. As you all know,
31:35
Speaker 2: he will be signing a bill to unleash the might
31:39
Speaker 2: of our beautiful clean coal industry. In this country, which
31:43
Speaker 2: is a reliable energy source. Also for AI. There's a
31:46
Speaker 2: great story in Bloomberg today actually about the executive order
31:49
Speaker 2: that we'll be signed later. So we'll see you all there.
31:51
Speaker 2: I'll let the President speak more. We'll see you later.
31:53
Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
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Speaker 10: You