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Speaker 1: been a volatile day on Wall Street. What's the latest, Linda?
Speaker 1: I can pull it up here on my phone because
Speaker 1: I am, you know, capable of doing more than one
Speaker 1: thing at a time. All right, Dad Jones, right now
Speaker 1: today it's been up and down for sixty sixty four. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: a minute ago it was down one twenty eight. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the day, it was down like twenty three hundred.
Speaker 1: It's been blowing out, you know, up and down and everywhere,
Speaker 1: and everyone in the stock market's freaking out. Let me
Speaker 1: just say a couple of things about this. And the
Speaker 1: first thing I want to start with is an understanding,
Speaker 1: and Treasury Secretary Scott Percent made this point is eighty
Speaker 1: eight percent of the stock market is owned by the
Speaker 1: wealthiest ten percent of Americans. After four years of Biden
Speaker 1: and Harris, we have fifty percent of Americans have debt,
Speaker 1: credit card bills, they rent their homes, they have auto loans,
Speaker 1: and if you look at what where President Trump is
Speaker 1: on this, he's looking out for American farmers, he's looking
Speaker 1: out for American automakers, he's looking out for American ranchers,
Speaker 1: he's looking out for American manufacturers, and he is betting
Speaker 1: he is also thinking long term in terms of national
Speaker 1: security here. This runs a lot deeper than what the
Speaker 1: surface analysis you're getting from these morons that are on
Speaker 1: these you know, on these cable channels that just freak
Speaker 1: out at the very site or anything that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: that does that's outside the box. And this is very
Speaker 1: outside the box. You are an institutionalist if you can't understand.
Speaker 1: And this is goes back to the choice that I've
Speaker 1: been pointing out from day one, and that is you
Speaker 1: only really have two choices here. For the last fifty years,
Speaker 1: our country has allowed friend and foe, allies and enemy
Speaker 1: countries to take full advantage of US and rip us
Speaker 1: the hell off, and they have abused the United States
Speaker 1: for decades. Now keep in mind, especially our allies, we
Speaker 1: provide them with most of their national security or the
Speaker 1: technology to buy the weaponry so that they can fight back.
Speaker 1: In the case of NATO and Europe and European countries
Speaker 1: and the European Union, Now we can use Europe as
Speaker 1: a quick example. European Union charges a ten percent tariff
Speaker 1: on American made automobiles. Then you go to countries that
Speaker 1: have value added taxes, which are national sales taxes like Germany,
Speaker 1: that's another twenty percent. So that makes an American car
Speaker 1: being sold in Germany that adds thirty percent to the
Speaker 1: sticker price, which then has resulted in almost ten cars
Speaker 1: from Germany being sold in America for every one car
Speaker 1: American car being sold in Germany. Now does that sound
Speaker 1: like free and fair trade to you? So we have
Speaker 1: a choice. We could do nothing, continue to get ripped
Speaker 1: off by other countries and get abused by other countries
Speaker 1: like we have for decades, or we can insist or
Speaker 1: give them the choice actually and demand free and fair trade.
Speaker 1: And countries will have the choice. And my bet is
Speaker 1: where I'm betting, is that over time, when they evaluate
Speaker 1: this situation, and if anyone has any common sense in
Speaker 1: these countries, they are going to want access to our markets.
Speaker 1: They are going to want access to you, the American consumer.
Speaker 1: They are going to want to sell their products here.
Speaker 1: And the choice is going to be simple. Now if
Speaker 1: they continue to choose to hurt our farmers, our ranchers,
Speaker 1: our manufacturers, are automakers with high tech we will stand up.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has said he will stand up for American industry,
Speaker 1: American workers, and the American people. Now there's an added
Speaker 1: benefit to all of this, like, for example, the Taiwanese
Speaker 1: a semiconductor chip company that is moving facilities here and
Speaker 1: they're going to spend one hundred billion dollars in the
Speaker 1: next four years. We have other semiconductor chip companies they're
Speaker 1: going to now be building. Those are things that we
Speaker 1: are reliant on. That pharmaceuticals we need to need. There's
Speaker 1: certain things we need to manufacture here. Are we going
Speaker 1: to go back to the industrial age that once built
Speaker 1: this country? Probably not. But do we for national security
Speaker 1: reasons need to produce certain items that are critical for
Speaker 1: national security here, like semiconductors. Yeah, we do. Now, all
Speaker 1: the President is doing here is offering a choice to
Speaker 1: countries friend and foe alike, demanding fundamental fairness. And while
Speaker 1: it might be a temporary shock to the old way
Speaker 1: of doing things, because every past president has known about
Speaker 1: the tariffs these countries put on us and has been
Speaker 1: unwilling to challenge it or stand up for the American people,
Speaker 1: American consumers, American workers, American manufacturers. So the President is
Speaker 1: simply saying, here is the choice is yours. The days
Speaker 1: of your free ride is over. You can choose free
Speaker 1: and fair trade, or you can choose to put tariffs
Speaker 1: on products that we've sell in your country, but we're
Speaker 1: going to do the same thing back to you. In
Speaker 1: other words, the United States of America is not going
Speaker 1: to be taken advantage of any longer. Now, I'll just
Speaker 1: pay you one guy that's a really smart guy. His
Speaker 1: name is Bill Lackman, and he had been proposed. And
Speaker 1: this is when the market really went crazy. Earlier today
Speaker 1: was deep in the red, and then boom came flying back,
Speaker 1: and it was believed temporarily that Donald Trump was going
Speaker 1: to back down and put a ninety day pause in effect,
Speaker 1: which I strongly disagree with, because then these countries are
Speaker 1: going to have no incentive to deal with this now.
Speaker 1: If you're going to deal with something that might be
Speaker 1: a little painful in the beginning, you might as well
Speaker 1: deal with it now. And I believe that long term,
Speaker 1: this is the strategy America's got to take unless we
Speaker 1: want to be taken advantage of however, so I don't
Speaker 1: agree with the ninety day pause. But Acman's a really
Speaker 1: smart guy, and he's a Trump supporter. But I think
Speaker 1: he has rightly pointed out one thing. If you go
Speaker 1: back to last week's announcement by the President, I believe
Speaker 1: it was in the Rose Garden at the White House.
Speaker 1: If you look at the White House calculations, they did
Speaker 1: include things besides tariffs. Would I would bifurcate those things
Speaker 1: out separately. In other words, if we were to exclusively
Speaker 1: just focus on tariffs only, for example, you know, if
Speaker 1: we would just say, if you want free in fair
Speaker 1: trade with the US, no tariffs at all between US
Speaker 1: and every European country, that would be free and fair trade.
Speaker 1: And if Canada wants to do the same thing, that
Speaker 1: deal would would be open to them also. Now, this way,
Speaker 1: on the issue of tariffs, we can have apples to
Speaker 1: apples and free and fair trade policy. Now there are
Speaker 1: other issues. For example, Canada is a good case in point.
Speaker 1: That's not the only issue we have with Canada. We
Speaker 1: have issues with them not securing the northern border. Last
Speaker 1: year alone, we had the equivalent of the past seventeen
Speaker 1: years of illegal immigrants coming from our northern border into
Speaker 1: our country illegally or from over one hundred countries. They've
Speaker 1: got to do more to secure their border. Canada does
Speaker 1: not pay their fair share to NATO. All of these
Speaker 1: things have got to change. And I think that is
Speaker 1: just simple basic friendship, common sense. It really, it is
Speaker 1: what it is now. I don't think this is a
Speaker 1: complicated issue by any stretch of the imagination. I really don't,
Speaker 1: you know, unless we get we have to understand where
Speaker 1: we are as a country. We're a country that is
Speaker 1: now headed to forty trillion dollars in debt. We are
Speaker 1: a country where social security, medicare, Medicaid, they're all headed
Speaker 1: towards insolvency. We are a country that needs to invest
Speaker 1: in our energy infrastructure so we become energy dominant, which
Speaker 1: also would benefit our allies and friends, especially in Western Europe,
Speaker 1: which gets most of the lifeblood of their economy energy
Speaker 1: from Russia. Not exactly the most reliable partner. And I
Speaker 1: think it's very, very important that we understand where we
Speaker 1: are as a country. We for the most part, especially
Speaker 1: our allied friends, they benefit from the brillion dollars that
Speaker 1: we spend your money every single year on national defense.
Speaker 1: Trust me, Canada couldn't take out a spy balloon because
Speaker 1: they didn't have a plane that could reach a high
Speaker 1: enough altitude to do it, so they relied on the
Speaker 1: United States. If Canada ever comes under attack, it's going
Speaker 1: to be the United States that comes to its rescue.
Speaker 1: They will not be able to defend themselves on any
Speaker 1: level that would resemble a real defense against any real
Speaker 1: security threat. The stakes are high, but this country and
Speaker 1: we've got to accurately assess where we are. That's why
Speaker 1: it is critical that we eliminate all this waste, fraud,
Speaker 1: abuse and corruption that doge e Elon Musk and others
Speaker 1: have identified. That's why it's now important to take the
Speaker 1: stand now to demand free and fair trade and stop
Speaker 1: letting the world take advantage of us the way they
Speaker 1: have and ripping us off the way they have, because
Speaker 1: that is just money out of the pocket of our
Speaker 1: children and our grandchildren and working men and women in America.
Speaker 1: These are fundamental but necessary steps to protect our country
Speaker 1: and our economy, and the DC swamp has frankly allowed
Speaker 1: the country to unilaterally surrender economically. And President Trump insisting
Speaker 1: on free and fair trade will be and moving towards
Speaker 1: energy and dependence will be the biggest, best wealth producing
Speaker 1: steps in both the short term and the long term,
Speaker 1: the very very short term because it's such a shock
Speaker 1: to the system. I mean, you have establishment Republicans, right,
Speaker 1: you have establishment Democrats. The establishment in DC are incapable
Speaker 1: of thinking out of the box. I mean, they're afraid
Speaker 1: of their own shadows. Most of these people, they really are.
Speaker 1: They're not people. You know, which one of these countries
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, which which one who thinks out of the box.
Speaker 1: What other person would say that, well, if we're going
Speaker 1: to liberate a rack, they should pay for their liberation.
Speaker 1: What other country we go into a mineral deal with
Speaker 1: Ukraine and say, wait a minute, we gave you hundreds
Speaker 1: of billions of dollars. We want to be repaid. And
Speaker 1: by the way, it'll be a good deal for you
Speaker 1: because we'll have a presence in your country and provide
Speaker 1: you security, and then we'll also provide you part of
Speaker 1: the profits and you can rebuild your country after hopefully
Speaker 1: we get a negotiated settlement with Russia and your war
Speaker 1: with Russia comes to an end. You know, because if
Speaker 1: you look at many of the people in the arguments
Speaker 1: that I've been hearing the tariffs are amazing, and revive
Speaker 1: manufacturing and bring good jobs and rebuild the middle class.
Speaker 1: You know, this may in the end turn out being true. Ranchers, farmers, manufacturers,
Speaker 1: the UAW union workers, steel workers, every industry. In other words,
Speaker 1: the people that make this country great. They're loving this idea.
Speaker 1: You know, you have less than half the country or
Speaker 1: even invested a little bit in the stock market. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight percent of the money is there by the top
Speaker 1: ten percent of Americans, which liberals have been teaching us
Speaker 1: for years that we're supposed to hate these people. You know,
Speaker 1: we talk, we talk to talk of elitists. You know,
Speaker 1: the people that are all wigged out over the stock
Speaker 1: market the most are the people that have money in
Speaker 1: the market, large sums of money. But they're not following
Speaker 1: some basic stock market rules either. And I don't know
Speaker 1: why people don't understand if you're investing in the stock market, Frankly,
Speaker 1: if it's money that you're going to need it in
Speaker 1: the next ten years, you probably should be reducing your
Speaker 1: exposure dramatically and thinking more along the lines of wealth preservation.
Speaker 1: I mean, when treasury returns for one two year treasuries
Speaker 1: or five percent. I'm like, yeah, I like that option
Speaker 1: better than the risk of the stock market, especially a
Speaker 1: stock market that's probably long overdue for a correction. I
Speaker 1: don't like the volatility of the stock market. Now, with
Speaker 1: that said, when Donald Trump was president the first time
Speaker 1: and he talked about tariffs, the initial reaction was similar
Speaker 1: to what we've seen in the last three days. But
Speaker 1: in the end, by the time he left office, the
Speaker 1: stock market was up. That was up sixty percent, and
Speaker 1: as that doubled, it was up one hundred percent. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not my wheelhouse, and nor is it I don't
Speaker 1: have the desire for the risk reward that the stock
Speaker 1: market offers. In many ways, it kind of is a
Speaker 1: form of gambling. You know, tariffs there are uncertain outcomes,
Speaker 1: caused fear among people. But I have other news to
Speaker 1: share with you today that over fifty countries have reached
Speaker 1: out to this White House already looking to negotiate free
Speaker 1: and fair trade deals with the United States. Prior to
Speaker 1: the announcement last week, over six trillion dollars an investment
Speaker 1: was committed for industry here in the US. Nissan and
Speaker 1: Honda pulled out of building plans in metas ago, Apple
Speaker 1: committed five hundred billion dollars. Other countries are now investing
Speaker 1: a one point five trillion from the UAE, one trillion
Speaker 1: from Saudi Arabia because they're betting on America and these
Speaker 1: manufacturing facilities, these automobile plants, this new industry, this chip industry,
Speaker 1: semiconductors will being built here, etc. Are going to create
Speaker 1: high paying career jobs for Americans and we will ultimately benefit.
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Speaker 1: with Prime Minister Nataniello at the White House as they are.
Speaker 1: The President gives opening remarks, then starts taking questions from
Speaker 1: the state run legacy media mob.
Speaker 2: At lunch together.
Speaker 3: We had meetings together along with his very capable staff,
Speaker 3: and I think we've come up to some pretty good
Speaker 3: solutions and conclusions, and we'll be working a little bit
Speaker 3: after this, and then I.
Speaker 2: Assume you're going back home.
Speaker 3: This is a quick stop in and out, but we
Speaker 3: appreciate you being here, and we are a friend of Israel,
Speaker 3: as you know. I would say that I'm by far
Speaker 3: the best president that Israel has ever even thought of seeing.
Speaker 3: And it's an honor to be so and to be
Speaker 3: so brought up many friends in Israel. They are not
Speaker 3: in an easy area, doesn't go easy, but we are
Speaker 3: helping them, and likewise they've been helping us very much,
Speaker 3: and so we'll see how it all works out. But
Speaker 3: we had great discussions today, I think on the obvious
Speaker 3: subject of Iran and also the less obvious subject with
Speaker 3: respect to Israel and that's trade, and I think the
Speaker 3: Prime Minister is going to tell you a little bit
Speaker 3: about trade and what they're doing for the United States.
Speaker 2: So I want to thank you all for being here.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, and thank you Benjamin, thank you
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mister President, thank you Dom Thank you as President.
Speaker 4: I want to first thank you for inviting me again
Speaker 4: to the White House. You've been a remarkable friend of
Speaker 4: the State ofsm You stand by us, you're standing with us.
Speaker 4: You are a great, great champion of our lives, and
Speaker 4: you actually do things that you say you do, and
Speaker 4: I think that people respect that enormously. I certainly do,
Speaker 4: and the people of Israel doing I think the Jewish
Speaker 4: people do as well. We just saw your representative in
Speaker 4: the Department of Justice fighting anti Semitism, standing up for
Speaker 4: Israel in international forms. I just want you to know
Speaker 4: from the heart it's deeply, deeply appreciated. As you said,
Speaker 4: we had the opportunity to talk today about many subjects. First,
Speaker 4: if I can mentioned TRAbs, it's the subject of some
Speaker 4: interested in I can tell you that I said to
Speaker 4: the President of a very simple thing. We will eliminate the
Speaker 4: trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do
Speaker 4: it very quickly. We think it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 4: And we're going to also eliminate trade barriers, a variety
Speaker 4: of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily, and
Speaker 4: I think Israel conserve as a model for many countries
Speaker 4: who are to do the same. I recognize the the
Speaker 4: position of the United States. It says, you know, we
Speaker 4: allowing other countries to put tariffs on us, but we
Speaker 4: don't put tariffs on them. And you know, I'm a
Speaker 4: free trade champion, and free trade has to be fair trade.
Speaker 4: And I think that's basically the position that you have
Speaker 4: put forward, mister President. We are going to eliminate the
Speaker 4: tariffs and rapidly. I added the opportunity to speak to
Speaker 4: Secretary Lutnik yesterday. We talked about how we could affect
Speaker 4: this quickly, and I hope to bring the solution very quickly.
Speaker 4: We're not talking about intentions, we're not talking about, you know,
Speaker 4: just words. We're talking about results. Those results are going
Speaker 4: to come back. That's the first.
Speaker 3: Thank you, that's very nice, thank you, Thank you you well.
Speaker 4: I have been of what we did. We spoke about
Speaker 4: not only the hostages, but about Gazam, the hostages obviously
Speaker 4: is a human story of un just, unbearable agony. I
Speaker 4: speak to the families. I spoke to them yesterday, spoke
Speaker 4: to another one when I was in Ungary before I came,
Speaker 4: and I speak to them every day. They're in agony.
Speaker 4: The hostages are in agony, and we want to get
Speaker 4: them all out. Steve Whitcoff, President Trump's very able representative,
Speaker 4: helped us get a deal that got twenty five out.
Speaker 4: We're working now on another deal that we hope will succeed,
Speaker 4: and we're committed to getting all the hostages out, but
Speaker 4: also eliminating the evil taranty of Hamas in Ghazam and
Speaker 4: enabling the people of Gaza to freely make a choice
Speaker 4: to go wherever they want. I mean, they should have
Speaker 4: another choice. And the President put forward a vision of
Speaker 4: bold vision which we discussed as well, including the countries
Speaker 4: that might be amenable and are amenable to accepting Palestinians
Speaker 4: of their free choice if they choose to go there.
Speaker 4: And I think that's the second thing that we discuss.
Speaker 4: Uh ad Ostia's game right on top. UH. We also
Speaker 4: discussed the situation UH in Syria. UH we have UH
Speaker 4: We've had neighboring relations with Turkey that have deteriorated, and
Speaker 4: we don't want to see Syria being used by anyone,
Speaker 4: including Turkey, as a base for attack in Israel. Turkey
Speaker 4: is a country that UH hasn't a uh A great
Speaker 4: relationship with the United States. The President has a relationship
Speaker 4: with the leader of Turkey. We discussed how we can
Speaker 4: avoid this conflict, UH in a variety of ways, and
Speaker 4: UH I think we can have a better interlocutor than
Speaker 4: the President of the United States for this purpose. And
Speaker 4: of course we also discussed Iran. Look, we're both united
Speaker 4: in the goal that Iran does not ever get nuclear weapons.
Speaker 4: If it could be done diplomatically, in a full way,
Speaker 4: the way it was done in Libya, I think that
Speaker 4: would be a good thing. But whatever happens, we have
Speaker 4: to make sure that you want does not have the wedness.
Speaker 4: That's the end of my speak.
Speaker 3: We are we're having directing talks with wait wait wait wait,
Speaker 3: we're having direct talks with Iran and.
Speaker 2: They've started. It'll go on Saturday.
Speaker 3: We have a very big meeting and we'll see what
Speaker 3: can happen.
Speaker 2: And I think everybody.
Speaker 3: Agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing
Speaker 3: the obvious, and the obvious is not something that I
Speaker 3: want to be involved with, or frankly that is your
Speaker 3: wants to be involved with if they can avoid it.
Speaker 3: So we're going to see if we can avoid it.
Speaker 3: But it's getting to be very dangerous territory. And hopefully
Speaker 3: those talks will be successful, and I think it would
Speaker 3: be intern's best interests if they are successful, and we
Speaker 3: hope that's going to happen. Uh, And we had just
Speaker 3: a lot of good talks on a lot of things.
Speaker 2: I appreciate very much what you said about the tariffs.
Speaker 3: We've been ripped off and taken advantage of by many
Speaker 3: countries over the years, and can't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: We just can't do it anymore. Can't be the stupid
Speaker 2: people anymore.
Speaker 3: And it's all because of the.
Speaker 2: People that sat in the seat right here, not yourc
Speaker 2: but the city.
Speaker 3: They allowed things to happen to our country that they
Speaker 3: shouldn't have allowed to happen on trade and other things.
Speaker 2: Many other things.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at what's happened with our last president,
Speaker 3: where we allowed millions of people come into our country
Speaker 3: with an open border. Who would want an open how
Speaker 3: stupid was that? But he allowed millions and millions of people.
Speaker 3: And of the millions, and I think it was twenty
Speaker 3: one million people, but let's say three of them were
Speaker 3: serious criminals, serious murderers, and drug dealers and gang members
Speaker 3: and people from jails. All the jails emptied out right
Speaker 3: into our country, right along the open border on Mexico.
Speaker 4: Generally the Mexico we came in from.
Speaker 3: Canada to by the way a lot, but generally speaking
Speaker 3: on the southern border. And what a shame it is
Speaker 3: that we are now working very hard to get them out,
Speaker 3: get the criminals, get the murderers out, the drug dealers,
Speaker 3: the mentally insane, get them out. They drop them mentally
Speaker 3: insane in our country too. And this was all done
Speaker 3: by the Biden administration. It's a disgrace that we have
Speaker 3: to work so hard, and then we have judges that
Speaker 3: try and protect these people, but they didn't protect us
Speaker 3: when the people were being let in. But to get
Speaker 3: them out is never easy with these people. So I
Speaker 3: think we're doing a great job. The border is the
Speaker 3: best it's ever been. Even as strong as it was,
Speaker 3: I had a creating solid border.
Speaker 2: I think it might even be tougher right now and stronger.
Speaker 3: So people are coming into our country, but they're coming
Speaker 3: in legally.
Speaker 4: We have a legal.
Speaker 3: Process and we have that moving along properly because we
Speaker 3: need people to come into our country, but we want
Speaker 3: people that can love our country and cherish our country.
Speaker 2: So that's what we are.
Speaker 3: And with any questions, mister to.
Speaker 5: The markets today and would you be open to a
Speaker 5: pause in tariffs to allow.
Speaker 3: For negotiations, Well, we're to look into that. We have many,
Speaker 3: many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us,
Speaker 3: and they're going to be fair deals and in certain
Speaker 3: cases they're going to be paying substantial tariffs.
Speaker 2: They'll be fair deals.
Speaker 3: As you know, I spoke this morning with the Prime
Speaker 3: Minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation.
Speaker 3: They're coming, and I said, one thing, you're going to
Speaker 3: have to open up your country because we sold no cars,
Speaker 3: like zero cars in Japan, and they sold millions of
Speaker 3: cars into our country. They don't really take our agriculture,
Speaker 3: a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy,
Speaker 3: but they don't take what this of us to be taking.
Speaker 2: So we have a great relationship with Japan. We're going
Speaker 2: to keep it that way.
Speaker 3: But they're coming in to meet, and other countries are
Speaker 3: coming in with China, as you know, against my statement,
Speaker 3: they put a thirty four percent tariff on above what
Speaker 3: their ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Tariffs were already.
Speaker 3: And I said, if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow.
Speaker 2: At twelve o'clock, we're putting a fifty minus. All right.
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Speaker 3: So they've gone for years, They've become a rich country
Speaker 3: because of people again.
Speaker 2: That we're in the White House that allowed this to
Speaker 2: have and.
Speaker 3: Hundreds of billions of dollars a year, they'd maken us
Speaker 3: on trade and it shouldn't be that way. And I
Speaker 3: have a great relationship with Presidency. I hope it's going
Speaker 3: to stay that way. I have great respect for China,
Speaker 3: but they can't do this. We're just we're going to
Speaker 3: have one shot at this, and no other president's going
Speaker 3: to do this what I'm doing. And I'll tell you what,
Speaker 3: it's an honor to do it because we have been
Speaker 3: just just destroyed what they've done to our system. You know,
Speaker 3: we have thirty six trillion dollars of debt for a reason,
Speaker 3: and the reason is that people allowed it to get
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: So we'll be talking to China, We'll be talking to a.
Speaker 3: Lot of different countries, and I think, you know, if
Speaker 3: if we can make a really fair deal and a
Speaker 3: good deal for the United States, not a good deal
Speaker 3: for others. This is America first. It's now America first.
Speaker 3: And we didn't put America first. We put America lass.
Speaker 3: The people that were in the Oval Office put America asked,
Speaker 3: and we're not going to stand for it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, two questions, do you expect any of these deals.
Speaker 2: To be made before April ninth?
Speaker 6: And secondly, there have been some mixed messages from your administration.
Speaker 6: You're talking about negotiations, and yet others in your administration
Speaker 6: are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent.
Speaker 2: What is that actual? Well it it can both be true.
Speaker 3: There can be permanent tariffs and they can also be
Speaker 3: negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs.
Speaker 3: We need open borders. You know, we almost had a
Speaker 3: deal with China where we're going to open up China.
Speaker 3: It was almost done. Some of you remember it during
Speaker 3: my first term, and it was very disappointing. We ended
Speaker 3: up making a great deal of fifty billion dollars worth
Speaker 3: of product. Was so fifty billion you'd like that in Israel.
Speaker 3: And I made that deal, but it wasn't the deal
Speaker 3: that I wanted. It was the deal that I wanted.
Speaker 3: Was that plus they were going to open up China
Speaker 3: so that our companies go into China and compete with
Speaker 3: other countries and China.
Speaker 2: For the you know, for a large number of people.
Speaker 3: And at the very end that deal was terminated and
Speaker 3: we went to a piece of the deal and there's
Speaker 3: so there are a lot of things outside of teriffs,
Speaker 3: but tariffs are very important, but there are a lot
Speaker 3: of things like opening up countries that were totally close.
Speaker 3: China is essentially a closed country. In fact, it is
Speaker 3: a closed country. And what they do is they charge
Speaker 3: tariffs so that if you if you sell cars, or
Speaker 3: if you sell anything, nobody's going to buy it because
Speaker 3: the price is out of control.
Speaker 2: But that's true with a lot of other countries also.
Speaker 3: So we're going to get fair deals and good deals
Speaker 3: with every country, and if we don't, we're going to
Speaker 3: have nothing to do with them. They're not going to
Speaker 3: be allowed to participate in the United States.
Speaker 7: The reaction time these gentlemen is all day long. Many
Speaker 7: of uh, thank you for check.
Speaker 8: Many Palasinian Americans who voted for you, voted for you
Speaker 8: enough for a Biden because you've promised them to turn
Speaker 8: the war in Gaza.
Speaker 2: By that vote too.
Speaker 8: The war's still going on. There's no hostage, Deel. Do
Speaker 8: you have any updating that.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to see the war stop, and I
Speaker 3: think the war will stop at some point. That won't
Speaker 3: be the two distant future. Right now, we have a
Speaker 3: problem with hostages. We're trying to get the hostages out.
Speaker 3: We got quite a few of them out, but it's
Speaker 3: a long process. It shouldn't be that long. We have
Speaker 3: a big problem that we've done. I think Alas Peter
Speaker 3: maybe talk about it for a second, because a lot
Speaker 3: of people are rescued.
Speaker 2: The Hooties.
Speaker 3: We've we've been very tough and very successful militarily.
Speaker 2: We've really damaged them badly.
Speaker 3: These were people shooting down ships and other things by
Speaker 3: the way, flying objects like airplanes, and we we've put
Speaker 3: a major hurt on the Hoodies, which nobody's been able
Speaker 3: to do. We've really hit them hard and they know
Speaker 3: it and they don't know what to do. And it's
Speaker 3: every night, night after night, and we've gotten many of
Speaker 3: their leaders and their experts, their experts on missiles, I
Speaker 3: mean they actually make missiles.
Speaker 2: Nobody thought that, but they make missiles.
Speaker 3: They's highly sophisticated and then they're very tough.
Speaker 2: But they've been very badly damaged. Nobody else was able
Speaker 2: to do that, but us Pete. You want to discuss that, Yes, sir, it's.
Speaker 5: Been a bad three weeks for the Houthis and it's
Speaker 5: about to get worse. It's been a devastating campaign, whether
Speaker 5: it's underground facilities, weapons manufacturing, bunkers, troops in the open
Speaker 5: air defense assets. We are not going to relent and
Speaker 5: it's only to get more unrelenting until the Houthis.
Speaker 2: Declare they will stop shooting at our ships. And we've
Speaker 2: been very clear at the Iranians.
Speaker 5: As well, they should not continue to provide support to
Speaker 5: the Hoothies, and that mess has been made very clear.
Speaker 5: So we have a lot more options and a lot
Speaker 5: more pressure to apply. And we know because we see
Speaker 5: the reports how devastating this campaign has been.
Speaker 2: An end and we will not look like we have
Speaker 2: a great military. There's no military like our military.
Speaker 3: And despite Biden having given a lot, but nevertheless a
Speaker 3: pretty small piece, but it was a lot of our
Speaker 3: military way in Afghanistan and one of the dumbest situations,
Speaker 3: I think, and maybe the most embarrassing situation we've ever
Speaker 3: been involved in that short period of time in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: What a disgrace that was.
Speaker 3: But left a lot of our military behind left you
Speaker 3: see them in their annual parades where they're parading trucks.
Speaker 2: That are armor plated in different things that they can
Speaker 2: but it's.
Speaker 3: Many billions of dollars, but despite that, we have a
Speaker 3: tremendous military. That was a very small portion because we
Speaker 3: rebuilt the military during my first term and we have
Speaker 3: great things happening with our military. We also essentially approved
Speaker 3: a budget which is at the facility, you'll like to
Speaker 3: hear this of a trillion dollars, one trillion dollars and.
Speaker 2: Then nobody's seeing anything like it.
Speaker 3: We have to build our military, and we're very coarse conscious,
Speaker 3: but the military is something that we have to build
Speaker 3: and we have to be strong because you have a
Speaker 3: lot of bad forces out there now.
Speaker 2: So we're going to be approving a.
Speaker 3: Budget and I'm proud to say, actually the biggest one
Speaker 3: we've ever done for the military.
Speaker 2: We're cutting other things.
Speaker 3: That were underdoge, but under a lot of other When
Speaker 3: you look at a woman getting two billion dollars for
Speaker 3: environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and
Speaker 3: they had one hundred dollars in the bank and they
Speaker 3: give her two billion. Many many of those cases, all
Speaker 3: that stuff is going to be cut out.
Speaker 2: But we are getting a very very powerful military.
Speaker 3: We have things under order now the likes of which
Speaker 3: we've never had before we at the kind of aircraft,
Speaker 3: the kind of missiles or anything that we have ordered.
Speaker 3: And it's in many ways too bad that we have
Speaker 3: to do it, because hopefully we're not going to have
Speaker 3: to use it.
Speaker 2: But the military is very, very.
Speaker 3: Powerful, and uh, it's going to remain that way.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister President. I want to talk to you
Speaker 2: about Iran because this is the.
Speaker 4: First time we hear that the US is having a
Speaker 4: direct contact with the Iranians. Is it possible to give
Speaker 4: us some more information at what level the US is.
Speaker 2: We're dealing with the Iranians.
Speaker 3: We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we're
Speaker 3: dealing with them directly. You know, a lot of people say, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe you're going through Saragate, so you're not dealing directly.
Speaker 3: You're dealing through other countries.
Speaker 2: Now we're dealing with them directly, and maybe a deal
Speaker 2: is going to be made.
Speaker 3: That would be great, it'd be it'd be really great
Speaker 3: for Iran, I can tell you that, but hopefully we're
Speaker 3: not going to have to get into that.
Speaker 2: We we're meeting very.
Speaker 3: Importantly on Saturday at almost the highest level, and we'll
Speaker 3: see how it works out.
Speaker 2: Please, how do you make sure.
Speaker 4: The President that these tariffs don't drive the US trading
Speaker 4: partners into the hands of the Chinese.
Speaker 2: They're not worried about it. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 3: If they want to be in the hands of the US,
Speaker 3: they don't want to be in the hands of the Chinese.
Speaker 3: And the Chinese have turned out to be really not
Speaker 3: very good at that. People that are with us, they're
Speaker 3: with us, but we cannot be taken advantage of any longer.
Speaker 3: I used to watch these deals for years. I've been
Speaker 3: talking about it for years, and I've been talking about
Speaker 3: it for thirty five years. How our country is being
Speaker 3: ripped off? I mean which thirty years ago? It was Japan,
Speaker 3: then it was something else, and it was another group.
Speaker 3: Then it was China. Chinese doing the best job.