tv The Presidential Address to Congress and Democratic Response CNN March 4, 2025 6:00pm-8:00pm PST
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substance and actual age. it's something that, you know, nancy pelosi did a pretty masterful job of handing over power to hakeem jeffries and at something of a new generation of leadership in the house. but that new generation, quote unquote, still much older than the new generation of republicans. >> erin burnett. >> all right, jake and david axelrod looking through some of these excerpts here, and we're getting soon, you're going to have the first lady coming in the cabinets going to come in. we'll note last time six members of the supreme court came. it looks like only four this time. um, so, you know, obviously they don't always all go, but you've got less. mahjong this time then, right? alito and thomas did not go last year either. but in these excerpts, one thing really stands out to you, which is a claim that the president is going to make about the right direction, wrong direction of the country. john king was just going through our numbers on that. 45% of americans say that it's going in the wrong direction, 39% say the right direction. but that's not what we're going
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a lot there's been dramatic gains among republicans. but the fact is, people are still struggling with the same problems that they've been struggling with. and you can see in later in the excerpts that he is, you know, pledging himself once again to deal with costs, sort of inferring that it's biden's fault. and that's what politicians do. it will only last so long. and one thing i'm wondering about is, are you going to address the budget that's coming up and the big fight where he wants a $4.5 trillion tax cut to be offset by $2 trillion in cuts, including 800 billion or so in medicaid, something that he said he wouldn't do that. that's what how specific. >> will he get? and obviously that's not in here yet. prices are up. i should note 3% since he took office. ashley, one thing is people are looking at this room and we do expect first ladies to be coming in and
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announced and the cabinet then this is going to begin is and as this camera pans down, we don't control it. but you'll see a lot of the democratic women appear to be wearing pink and color coordination. we've seen that before. when they did white in honor of suffrage one year. but what does this mean? >> unity? i guess the democratic party. look, i mean. >> were you not provided a messaging? >> i didn't wear my pink. i got. >> to check the color chart. >> i protest. >> and power. it signals. protest and power. and there will be some blue and yellow scarves. we know what that symbolizes. obviously. support for ukraine. >> i want to be respectful of the members. they were elected by their constituents, and so i understand why they felt like they needed to be in the room. i think their constituents want more than coordinated colors right now. i think they are, you know, desperate for their members to resist if they make cuts to a budget that have cuts to medicaid, medicare, social security, they democrats don't have the power. and so i do not want to pretend that what is happening in this country is
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because of the governing of democrats. but democrats do have an opportunity to make it very clear that if they get governing power, at least in the house in 2026, the changes they will make, this is the time not to focus on what color you're wearing, but decide what is the message. how are you speaking to the american people, and how do you actually get out of washington, d.c.? get in your district and talk to your. >> so manu raju is there looking down upon all of this? and what are you seeing as we await the first lady in the cabinet? >> yeah. the way when donald trump enters it will be very interesting to see how democrats respond. remember, oftentimes members sit along the aisle. they wait for sometimes hours near the aisle in order to greet the president, make their own points as he enters the chamber. here you see some of donald trump's biggest foes sitting on the democratic side of the aisle, very close to it, including congressman former congressman adam schiff. now the. current senator. >> just sorry to interrupt. >> you, aaron, back to you. >> okay. sorry. i don't know if you can hear me, but first lady melania trump is coming in now
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being escorted into the executive gallery where she is going to sit alongside her special guest. she's been talking about someone there who had suffered from revenge porn and issues she is taking on. also, elon musk going to be in the box with the first lady. and there's the applause for her after she comes in taking the vice president, j.d. vance's wife usha's hand. we're going to see the cabinet announced and come in. veterans affairs secretary doug collins will be the one who is not there because of being the designated survivor. so because, alyssa, you have been through this before and been there with them. so there she is. and we talked about who's going to be in the box with her. >> she's she's with laken riley, who was tragically killed by an undocumented migrant. she's with their family. there's angel moms present cabinet. >> and the cabinet is announced. we're going to watch them coming out here. >> there's also guests who are
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supposed to highlight this issue around title nine and trans women in sports, which has been a big priority for donald trump. so a lot of this i mean, the excerpts we've gotten seemed really generic. they sound very similar to his swearing in. i expect there will be some surprises that they're waiting till he's up there. and i'm kind of curious to see if there's any real policy pronouncements he loves. he knows he's been doing them at a fast pace. he may be kind of holding his cards close. >> and we'll see what they do. and as marco rubio secretary of state, who is in that zelenskyy meeting, sitting on the couch next to jd vance, he was the first one. and now you can see the treasury secretary right behind him, scott bessent, as the cabinet is coming out. >> scott, the thing in the excerpts that we have that jumps off the page, to me is the phrase common sense. you know, he promised a revolution of common sense. and his inaugural address. and in a lot of ways, trump has somewhat redefined the ideology of the republican party. it's not just a conservative party. he wants it to be known as the party of common sense. it's how he defines it. in order to have the most elastic coalition possible. and i honestly think a lot of the issues he tackled in his
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executive orders and in some of the legislation is working for him on that front. we saw it on display this weekend. you're going to hear it in the speech tonight. the idea that boys should be playing in girls sports, which was filibustered and voted against by every senate democrat. >> i just say. >> just just say we got defense secretary pete hegseth. you saw the commerce secretary howard lutnick all of them coming in here, rfk jr.. hhs secretary is also there. >> look at look at what's happening. the democrats are not even acknowledging the cabinet right now. i just don't remember that being at least they would get up and shake their hands. >> just a visual here that they're. >> not they're not engaging. this is not a pathway for to bipartisanship. i mean, i think if donald trump is trying to expand and have an elastic coalition, the elastic is about to pop because you cannot attack every group, women, people of color, lgbt folks. i mean, when you fire the black joint chief of staff, when you fire the woman joint chiefs of staff, when you say the reason a plane crash happens because of maybe a person of color or a woman was flying the i mean, that's
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attacking people when you don't want folks to be able to feed their family, that you're going after pieces of your coalition. the elastic is not sustainable at this point. >> brooke rollins just walked in. >> does this stand out to you, david, when you see the the lack of interaction with the cabinet here by democrats, i. >> mean, i think it's a reflection of the mood in washington. and yes, i do think that when you consider the overheated rhetoric, uh, of the president of musk and so on, i think that contributes to it. but, you know, i to me, this is less important. scott talks about common sense. and i hear you, i think that has some appeal on some of some of these issues, broad appeal. but i tell you that families out there are more concerned about dollars and cents than you know, what you define as common sense. and so they're ultimately going to judge based on their lived experience. kids in our classrooms, our colleague, our new colleague rahm emanuel has pointed this out. we've had terrible reading scores. people
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are concerned about what's going on in their classrooms and not, you know. >> i'm not disputing you. i agree that these are real issues that people care about. but i also think trump is beginning to make progress on some of them. he has more to do on some of them as well. the guy has been in office for just a little over 40 days, and the amount of anger with the previous administration was real. it's why donald trump won the election. i just think he has more political leash than maybe you're willing to give him. >> i. >> i concede that he has some leash. >> ellen, is the cabinets going in the person above them? right. there's them. and then there's one above is literally sitting above in the first lady's box. >> right. and usually a senior adviser would be in the speaker's lobby behind off of the floor with stephen miller and others would be. but i think it just shows he's in this sort of above the cabinet different position with this sweeping influence within the administration. but listen, i think that donald trump is messaging doge better than elon musk is if he's talking about efficiency, if he's talking about making the government work better for people, that's a
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winning message. but the constant errors that we've been seeing, the announcements of what have been cut. >> and the chainsaw. >> it was a lot. >> i mean, you know, let me say, if i were democrats, i would never be opposed to, uh, you know, cutting waste, fraud and abuse, making government more efficient, seeing how we can make government more responsive. and i think they make a mistake by being resistant to the notion of making government more efficient. but what musk is doing seems much more indiscriminate. and i think that that's what people. >> yeah, and guess what? republicans love it. and i will just say, i think the democrats. >> what the country's bigger than just republicans. >> i know. well, he's got over a 50% approval rating and your party has got 21%. so he's doing okay, i think. i think making dying on this hill of defending every single federal worker, that the idea that we can't ever shrink the size of government because this sob story or that sob story that is not going to play with the american people, democrats gave no care
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whatsoever to the 10,000 people who lost their jobs when the big pipeline was canceled by joe biden, or the people who lost their businesses in the covid shutdowns. that went on and on and on, or the firefighters or the military that lost their jobs because they wouldn't get the covid vaccine. no care for that. but care for government workers? >> just i'm not, i'm not i don't want to have a you can take this on another show. i don't have a partisan debate about it, but we should note that there were 16 million jobs created when biden was president and jobs were lost when trump was president. >> so and you know how dishonest that is because of what happened at the end of covid and the restoration, even during. >> the period before covid, there was, you know, there was more robust job creation in the last three years of obama than the first three years. >> i don't think democrats are actually messaging this doge thing. right. i think that people don't want waste, fraud and abuse, but i don't actually think that's what they're doing. i think they're just putting a hatchet to our government without any strategy, integrity
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or real analysis. they are firing people that play critical roles in our government. people. people want our government to be more efficient, but that's not the way that doge is approaching it. >> but the reality is, most americans can relate to their person, someone in their family being laid off. most people do not get this idea that federal workers are so hard to fire, and i think the messaging of bringing them like they're martyrs. when most people have lost jobs, most people have experienced layoffs. i don't know that it resonates with average americans. >> all right, well, we're getting ready here. cabinet is there, and soon we'll have the president presented to senators and representatives by the speaker. jake, uh, running a little bit behind here, but we're getting there. >> uh, indeed. uh, and john king, president trump talks a lot about how high his approval rating is. and we know that in his speech tonight, he's going to talk about how great the right track, wrong track numbers are, how many, how many, the percentage of individuals who think the country is on the right track versus wrong track. those numbers were disastrous for president biden. and it is true that president trump is more popular right now than he
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ever was during his first term. um, but i think it. misdiagnoses the situation he's in to act as if his right track, wrong track numbers and his approval ratings are where he would want them to be. they're not. no. and in fact, most voters, according to lots of different polls that i've seen. and i'm sure you and casey and abby have seen, uh, don't think he has addressed inflation sufficiently. it's only been five weeks, but still don't think he's focused enough on inflation, which is what he promised he would do from day one. um, the majority of the public is still sympathetic to ukraine. the majority of republicans are still sympathetic to ukraine, not russia. uh, and, you know, there are a lot of people out there, majorities in in polls i've seen are concerned that he's overreaching. now, that's not to say he shouldn't give a confident state of the union address and the like, but it is to say that were i advising him
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and look, he's not asking me and nobody nobody's asking me. but were i advising him? i'd say this is an opportunity where you could really build your approval rating. i'm not even saying reaching across the aisle, but talking about here are the ten things i'm going to do to bring down inflation. yes, you make a logical political characterization of what a president whose numbers. >> aren't horrible but aren't great would think of this challenge at the moment. but remember, donald trump has never shown an interest in reaching out to those who oppose him. his interest in those who oppose him is usually to tell them they're wrong. >> and to destroy them. >> and to and to try to destroy them. so i look at this two ways today. what is donald trump trying to accomplish? and how does those republicans right there who have the tiniest majority, how do they process what he's doing? because his approval rating, look, he won reelection by lying about a lot of things. i'm sorry. that's just a fact. he said a lot of things that were just not true. so when he says his approval rating is off the charts and he says the right track, wrong track is off the charts, that's just not true. the fact checkers can deal with that after the speech, but that's what he says to pump himself up for his base. and that has been his style for quite some time. and guess what?
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he won the election. it works for him. it works for him. the challenge is, does he remember he's the leader of the republican party, and the next election is about them, and they have the tiniest majority in the house. and his approval rating will be the north star of the midterms. >> president of the united states. >> who? who, who? jake knapp. thank you. thank you. good. thank you. usha vance. usha vance. rajesh rao. ramadan. oh, i'd wait for his call. oh, kate bolduan. oh. thank you, thank you. christopher dring. randi kaye. all right. sean baker thank arlette saenz fred benning. mahmoud basal. akanksha
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sharma. pinky webb. thank you, mr. president. welcome. john berman. thank you. oh, god. thank you for having me. yes, yes. terrible. yes. thank you, thank you. all right. growing up so. vitrazza here, you go. back up, back up. back. up. again. oh. bless you. khan younis. yeah. thank you. oh. man. mr. president. thank you, thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. robert baer colin duckett. yes. all
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right. thank you for coming. akanksha sharma. the president, everyone. ines sainz. thank you. yeah. the program. i don't think. thank you, thank you, thank. doge. come on. received. najeebur rahman. misty marris. jeff denard. this time. such a great job. thank you. you're still talking? about. loretta preska? no, no. oh. there's a
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president. >> trump joining, uh, greeting. supreme court justices. uh, two of whom there he appointed amy coney barrett and brett kavanaugh. kavanaugh, obviously, uh, were contentious confirmation process. and there were those in the white house who wanted president trump to drop him to cut, uh, and put somebody else in. president trump said, no, uh, brett kavanaugh no doubt very appreciative of that here. the joint chiefs, the new chairman, that president trump appointed, someone who met, i believe, in iraq years before. >> a brief note, jake, on kavanaugh, the playbook that got him to congress is one that you've seen them repeat. they did it again with pete hegseth to make sure that he became secretary of defense. >> yeah, they just keep fighting and fighting and pushing and pushing. and then they have the vote. when they have the votes, uh, with a lot of intense
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pressure on anybody wavering, not a lot of outreach from house democrats or senate democrats there, just in terms of physically approaching the president or his cabinet. christopher dring is giving the vice president and the speaker copies of the address, the joint address to congress, not an official state of the union address, but basically the same thing. >> serves the same function in our national life. so. >> yeah. you can tell which ones are
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democrats because they're not standing. to the president's left. are republicans, to the president, right behind the joint chiefs and the supreme court justices are democrats. so keep that in mind as you see to whom he plays as he delivers his address. >> thank you. >> and we're worth noting that traditionally, the joint chiefs and supreme court justices, of course, refrain from reaction basically entirely. it's not always been true, but that's largely the norm. >> indeed. let's listen in. uh. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. it's a great honor. thank you very much. speaker johnson. vice president vance, the first lady of the united states.
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>> six weeks ago, i stood beneath the dome of this capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of america. from that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. we have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years. and we are just getting started. >> thank you. >> i return to this chamber tonight to report that america's momentum is back. our spirit is back. our pride is
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back. our confidence is back. and the american dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. the american dream is unstoppable and our country is on the verge of a comeback. the likes of which the world has never witnessed. and perhaps will never witness again. it's never been anything like it. the presidential election of november 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades. we won all seven swing states, giving us an electoral college victory of 312 votes.
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we won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country. >> lactaid usa. usa. usa. usa. usa. usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa. >> and won counties in our country 2700 to 525. on a map that reads almost completely red for republican. now, for the first time in modern history, more americans believe that our country is headed in the right
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direction than the wrong direction. in fact, it's an astonishing record 27 point swing, the most ever. likewise, small business optimism saw its single largest one month gain ever recorded, a 41 point jump. >> john lough warren burger. >> members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the house, and to cease any further disruptions. that's your warning. members are engaging in willful and continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint session.
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>> jennifer hansler. great leadership. >> members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the house. mr. president, you continue. >> thank you. over the past six weeks, i have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record to restore common sense, safety, optimism and wealth all across our wonderful land. the people elected me to do the job, and i'm doing it.
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in fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it's our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation. by many. and what makes it even more impressive is that do you know who number two is? george washington. how about that? how about that? i don't know about that list, but. but we'll take it. within hours of taking the oath of office, i declared a national emergency on our southern border. and i deployed the u.s. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country. and what a job
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they've done. as a result. illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded ever. they heard my words and they chose not to come. much easier that way. in comparison, under joe biden, the worst president in american history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members and people from mental institutions and insane asylums were released into our country. who would want to do that? this is my fifth such speech to congress, and once again, i look at the democrats in front of me
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and i realize there is absolutely nothing i can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. nothing i can do. i could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history, or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded. and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. they won't do it no matter what. five. five times i've been up here. it's very sad. and it just shouldn't be this way.
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so democrats sitting before me for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for america? for the good of our nation? let's work together and let's truly make america great again. every day my administration is fighting to deliver the change america needs to bring a future that america deserves, and we're doing it. this is a time for big dreams and bold action. upon taking office, i imposed an immediate freeze on all federal
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hiring, a freeze on all new federal regulations, and a freeze on all foreign aid. i terminated the ridiculous green new scam. i withdrew from the unfair paris climate accord, which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying. i withdrew from the corrupt world health organization. and i also withdrew from the anti-american u.n. human rights council. we ended all of biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable. and importantly, we ended the
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last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction. to unshackle our economy. i have directed that for every one new regulation, ten old regulations must be eliminated. just like i did in my very successful first term. and in that first term, we set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like no other president had done before. we ordered all federal workers to return to the office. they will either show up for work in
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person or be removed from their job. and we have ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me. how did that work out? not too. >> great, not too good. >> and i have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in america. it's back. and two days ago, i signed an
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order making english the official language of the united states of america. i renamed the gulf of mexico the gulf of america. and likewise, i renamed for a great president, william mckinley. mount mckinley. again. beautiful alaska. we love. >> alaska. >> we've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government. and indeed the private sector
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and our military. and our country will be woke no longer. we believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, not race or gender. very important. you should be hired based on merit. and the supreme court, in a brave and very powerful decision, has allowed us to do so. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we have removed the poison of critical race theory from our
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public schools. and i signed an order making it the official policy of the united states government that there are only two genders, male and female. i also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's sports. three years ago, payton mcnabb was an all star high school athlete, one of the best preparing for a future in college sports. but when her girls volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in payton's
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face, causing traumatic brain injury. partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career. it was a shot like she has never seen before. she has never seen anything like it. payton is here tonight in the gallery and payton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding. and if you really want to see numbers, just take a look at what happened in the women's
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boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming or cycling where a male recently finished a long distance race five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new record by five hours. broke the record by five hours. it's demeaning for women and it's very bad for our country. we're not going to put up with it any longer. what i have just described is only a small fraction of the common sense revolution that is now because of us sweeping the entire world. common sense has become a common theme, and we will never go back, never, ever going to let that happen. among
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my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families. as you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation. nightmare. their policies drove up, energy prices, pushed up grocery costs and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of americans. they've never had anything like it. we suffered the worst inflation in 48 years. but perhaps even in the history of our country, they're not sure. as president, i'm fighting every day to reverse this damage and make america affordable again. joe biden especially let the
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price of eggs get out of control. the egg price is out of control, and we're working hard to get it back down. secretary, do a good job on that. you inherited a total mess from the previous administration. do a good job. >> oh. >> a major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy. the previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt, and closed more than 100 power plants. we are opening up many of those power plants right. >> now. >> and frankly, we have. never
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seen anything like it. that's why on my first day in office, i declared a national energy emergency. as you've heard me say many times, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any nation on earth, and by far. and now i fully authorized the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it. it's called drill, baby. drill. my administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in alaska, among the largest in the world, where japan, south korea, and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each. it has never been
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anything like that one. it will be truly spectacular. it's all set to go. the permitting has gotten, and later this week, i will also take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the usa. to further combat inflation, we will not only be reducing the cost of energy, but will be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars. and to that end, i have created the brand new department of government efficiency. doge. perhaps you've heard. >> of it. perhaps.
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>> which is headed by elon musk, who is in the gallery tonight. thank you ellen. he's working very hard. he didn't need this. he didn't need this. thank you very much. we appreciate it. everybody here, even this side, appreciates it. i believe. they just don't want to admit that. just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified. $22 billion from hhs to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens, $45 million
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for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in burma, $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. nobody knows what that is. $8 million to promote. lgbtq plus in the african nation of lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. $60 million for indigenous peoples and afro-colombian empowerment in central america, $60 million $8 million for making mice, transgender. this is real. $32 million for a left wing propaganda operation in moldova. $10 million for male circumcision in mozambique. $20
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million for the arab sesame street in the middle east. it's a program $20 million for a program $1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of homes committee headed up. and we know she's involved. just at the last moment the money was passed over by a woman named stacey abrams. have you ever heard of. >> her? >> a $3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish. monitoring, $1.5 million for voter confidence in liberia, $14 million for social cohesion in mali, $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in new york city. he's a real estate developer. he's done very well. $250,000 to increase local
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climate action. innovation in zambia, $42 million for social and behavior change in uganda. $14 million for improving public procurement in serbia. $47 million for improving learning outcomes in asia. asia is doing very well with learning. you know what we're doing if you use it ourselves. and $101 million for die contracts at the department of education, the most ever paid nothing even like it under the trump administration, all of these scams and there are far worse. but i didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them. they're so bad. many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people headed up by ellen, and we appreciate it. we found hundreds of billions of dollars
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of fraud. and we've taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things taken back a lot of that money. we got it just in time. this is just the beginning. the government accountability office, a federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation. and we are working very hard to stop it. we're going to. we're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the social security program for our seniors, and that our seniors and people that we love rely on. believe it or not,
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government databases list 4.7 million social security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. >> oh it lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119. >> i don't know any of them. i know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly. 3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129. 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. lives 3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149, and money is being paid to many of them. and we're searching right now. in fact, pam, good luck. good
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luck. you're going to find it. but a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does. and it really hurts social security and hurts our country. 1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases, are age over 160 years old. we have a healthier country than i thought, bobby. including. to finish 1039 people
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between the ages of 220 and 229. one person between the age of 240 and 249, and one person is listed at 360 years of age. more than 100 years. more than 100 years older than our country. but we're going to find out where that money is going, and it's not going to be pretty. by slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft we can find. we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of american families. and today, interest rates took a
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beautiful drop. big, beautiful drop. it's about time. and in the near future, i want to do what has not been done in 24 years. balance the federal budget. we're going to balance. >> that. >> with that goal in mind. we have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card, which goes on sale very, very soon for $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to u.s. citizenship. it's like the green card, but better and more sophisticated, and these people will have to pay tax in our country. they won't have to pay
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tax from where they came. the money that they've made, you wouldn't want to do that, but they have to pay tax, create jobs. they will also be taking people out of colleges and paying for them so that we can keep them in our country, instead of having them be being forced out. number one at the top school as an example, being forced out and not being allowed to stay and create tremendous numbers of jobs and great success for a company out there. so while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers and child predators who were allowed to enter our country under the open border policy of these people, the democrats, the biden administration, the open border, insane policies that you have allowed to destroy our country, we will now bring in brilliant. hardworking, job creating people. they're going to pay a lot of money, and we're going to reduce our debt with that money.
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americans have given us a mandate for bold and profound change. for nearly 100 years, the federal bureaucracy has grown until it has crushed our freedoms, ballooned our deficits, and held back america's potential in every possible way. the nation founded by pioneers and risk takers now drowns under millions and millions of pages of regulations and debt approvals that should take ten days to get. instead, take ten years, 15 years, and even 20 years before you reject it. meanwhile, we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work. my administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to america again.
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and any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately. because we are draining the swamp. it's very simple. and the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over. and the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this congress to pass tax cuts for everybody. they're in there. they're waiting for you to vote. and
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i'm sure that the people on my right, i don't mean the republican right, but my right right here. i'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts, because otherwise i don't believe the people will ever vote you into office. so i'm doing a big favor by telling you that. but i know this group is going to be voting for the tax. >> thank you. >> it's a very, very big part of our plan. we had tremendous success in our first term with it. a very big part of our plan. we're seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board and to get urgently needed relief to americans hit especially hard by inflation. i'm calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on social security benefits for our great seniors.
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>> would you like? to? >> and i also want to make interest payments on car loans tax deductible, but only if the car is made in america. and by the way, we're going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody's ever seen. plants are opening up all over the place. deals are being made, never seen. that's a combination of the election win and tariffs. it's a beautiful word, isn't it? that along with our other policies, will allow our auto industry to absolutely boom, it's going to boom. spoke to the majors today. all three
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the top people and they're so excited. in fact already numerous car companies have announced that they will be building massive automobile plants in america, with honda just announcing a new plant in indiana, one of the largest anywhere in the world. and this has taken place since our great victory on november 5th, a date which will hopefully go down as one of the most important in the history of our country. in addition, as part of our tax cuts, we want to cut taxes on domestic production and all manufacturing. and just as we did before, we will provide 100% expensing. it will be retroactive to january 20th,
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2025. and it was one of the main reasons why our tax cuts were so successful in our first term, giving us the most successful economy in the history of our country. first term, we had a great first term. if you don't make your product in america. however, under the trump administration, you will pay a tariff and in some cases a rather large one. other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries. on average, the european union, china, brazil, india, mexico and canada. have you heard of them? and countless other nations charge us tremendously. higher tariffs than we charge them. it's very unfair. india charges u.s. auto tariffs higher than 100%.
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china's average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them. and south korea's average tariff is four times higher. think of that four times higher. and we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to south korea. but that's what happens. this is happening by friend and foe. this system is not fair to the united states and never was. and so on april 2nd, i wanted to make it april 1st, but i didn't want to be accused of april fool's day. that's that's not just one day was cost us a lot of money. but we're going to do it in april. i'm a very superstitious person. april 2nd. reciprocal tariffs kick in and whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them. that's reciprocal back and forth, whatever they tax us, we will
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tax. >> them. >> if they do non-monetary tariffs. to keep us out of their market, then we will do non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market. there's a lot of that too. they don't even allow us in their market. we will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before. i did it with china and i did it with others, and the biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money. they couldn't do anything about it. we have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on earth, and we will not let that happen any longer. much has been said over the last three months about mexico and canada, but we have very large
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deficits with both of them. but even more importantly, they have allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people destroying families. nobody has ever seen anything like it. they are, in effect, receiving subsidies of hundreds of billions of dollars. we pay subsidies to canada and to mexico, of hundreds of billions of dollars. and the united states will not be doing that any longer. we're not going to do it any longer. thanks to our america first policies we're putting into place. we have had $1.7 trillion of new investment in america in just the past few weeks. the combination of the election and our economic policies that people have. softbank, one of the most brilliant anywhere in the world, announced a $200 billion
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investment. open a.i. and oracle larry ellison announced $500 billion investment, which they wouldn't have done if kamala had won. apple announced $500 billion investment tim cook called me. he said i cannot spend it fast enough. it's going to be much higher than that. i believe it will be building their plants here instead of in china. and just yesterday, taiwan semiconductor, the biggest in the world, most powerful in the world, has a tremendous amount. 97% of the market announced a $165 billion investment to build the most powerful chips on earth right here in the usa.
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and we're not giving them any money. your chips act is a horrible horrible thing. we give hundreds of billions of dollars and it doesn't mean a thing. they take our money and they don't spend it all that meant to them. we're giving them no money. all that was important to them was they didn't want to pay the tariffs. so they came and they're building and many other companies are coming. we don't have to give them money. we just want to protect our businesses and our people, and they will come because they won't have to pay tariffs if they build in america. so it's very amazing. you should get rid of the chip act and whatever is left over. mr. speaker, you should use it to reduce debt or any other reason you want to. a new trade policy will also be great for the american farmer. i
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love the farmer. who will now be selling into our home market, the usa, because nobody is going to be able to compete with you because there's goods that come in from other countries and companies. there really, really in a bad position in so many different ways. they're. uninspected. they may be very dirty and disgusting, and they come in and they pour in and they hurt our american farmers. the tariffs will go on, agricultural products coming into america and our our farmers starting on april 2nd. it may be a little bit of an adjustment period. we had that before when i made the deal with china, $50 billion of purchases, and i said, just bear with me. and they did. they did probably have to bear with me again. and this will be even better. that was great. the problem with it was that biden didn't enforce it. he didn't enforce it. $50 billion
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of purchases. and we were doing great. but biden did not enforce it. and it hurt our farmers. but our farmers are going to have a field day right now. so to our farmers have a lot of fun. i love you too. i love you too. all going to. >> happen. >> and i have also imposed a 25% tariff on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber and steel. because if we don't have, as an example, steel and lots of other things, we don't have a military and frankly, we don't have we just won't have a country very long here today is a proud american steelworker, fantastic person from decatur, alabama. jeff denard has been working at the same steel plant for 27 years, in a job that has
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allowed him to serve as the captain of his local volunteer fire department, raised seven children with his beautiful wife, nicole, and over the years provide a loving home for more than 40 foster children. so great job! >> thank you. thank you jeff. >> stories like jeff's remind us that tariffs are not just about protecting american jobs. they're about protecting the soul of our country. tariffs are about making america rich again and making america great again. and it's happening. and it will happen rather quickly. there will be a little disturbance. but we're okay with that. it won't be much. no, you're not
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all. and look and look where biden took us. very low. the lowest we've ever been. jeff, i want to thank you very much. and i also want to recognize another person who has devoted herself to foster care community. she worked so hard on it, a very loving person. our magnificent first lady of the united states. melania's work has yielded incredible results, helping prepare our nation's future leaders as they enter the workforce. our first lady is joined by two impressive young women, very impressive haley ferguson who benefited from the first lady's fostering the future initiative and is poised
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to complete her education and become a teacher and elliston berry, who became a victim of an illicit deepfake image produced by a peer. with ellison's help, the senate just passed the take it down act, and this is so important. thank you very much, john john thune. thank you. stand up. >> john. thank you joe. thank you all very much. thank you. >> and thank you to john thune and the senate. great job to criminalize the publication of such images online is terrible, terrible thing. and once it passes the house, i look forward to signing that bill into law. thank you. and i'm going to use
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that bill for myself, too, if you don't mind, because nobody gets treated worse than i do online. nobody. that's great. thank you very much to the senate. thank you. but if we truly care about protecting america's children, no step is more crucial than securing america's borders. over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the united states. many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world because of joe biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies, they are now strongly embedded in our country, but we are getting them out and getting them out fast. and i want to thank tom homan
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and kristi. i want to thank you and paul of border patrol. i want to thank you. what a job they've all done. everybody, border patrol, ice, a law enforcement in general is incredible. we have to take care of our law enforcement. we have to. >> last year. >> a brilliant 22 year old nursing student named. laken riley the best in her class, admired by everybody, went out for a jog on the campus of the university of georgia that morning. laken was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized and horrifically murdered. laken was stolen from us by a savage illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across
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biden's open southern border and then set loose into the united states under the heartless policies of that failed administration. it was indeed a failed administration. he had then been arrested and released in a democrat run sanctuary city, a disaster before ending the life of this beautiful young angel with us this evening. our laken's beloved mother, allison and her sister lauren. last year i told lincoln's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain. that's why
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the very first bill i signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety. it's a very strong, powerful act. it's called the laken riley act. so, allison and lauren, america will never, ever forget our beautiful. laken hope riley. thank you very much. since
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taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in american history. and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded. thank you. the media and our friends in the democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation. we must have legislation to secure the border. but it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.
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>> thank you. >> joe biden didn't just open our borders, he flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country. entire towns like aurora, colorado and springfield, ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody has ever seen before. beautiful towns destroyed. now, just as i promised in my inaugural address, we are achieving the great liberation of. america. but there is still. is much work to be done. here tonight is a woman i have gotten to know.
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alexis nungaray from houston. wonderful woman last june. alexis is 12 year old daughter. her precious jocelyn walked to a nearby convenience store. she was kidnaped, tied up, assaulted for two hours under a bridge and horrifically murdered, arrested and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from venezuela, released into america by the last administration through their ridiculous open border. the death of this beautiful 12 year old girl and the agony of her mother and family touched our entire nation greatly. alexis, i promised that we would always remember your daughter, your magnificent daughter. and earlier tonight, i signed an order keeping my word to you. one thing i have learned about jocelyn is that she loved animals so much. she loved nature. across galveston bay,
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from where jocelyn lived in houston, you will find a magnificent national wildlife. refuge, a pristine, peaceful, 34,000 acre sanctuary for all of god's creatures on the edge of the gulf of america. alexis. moments ago, i formally renamed that. refuge in loving memory of your beautiful daughter, jocelyn. so, mr. vice president, if you would. may i have the order?
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thank you very much. all three savages charged with jocelyn and lincoln's murders were members of the venezuelan prison gang. the toughest gang, they say, in the world. known as. tren de aragua. two weeks ago, i officially designated this gang, along with ms 13 and the bloodthirsty mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations. they are now officially in the same category as i.s.i.s., and that's not good for them. countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into
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the u.s. by the biden administration, but now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country. or if they're too dangerous, put in jails, standing trial in this country because we don't want them to come back ever with us. this evening is a warrior on the front lines of that battle. border patrol agent roberto ortiz, great guy. in january, roberto and another agent were patrolling by the rio grande near an area known as
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cartel island. doesn't sound too nice to me when heavily armed gunmen started shooting at them, roberto saw that his partner was totally exposed at great danger, and he leapt into action, returning fire and providing crucial seconds for his fellow agents to seek safety just and just barely. i have some of the prints of that event, and it was not good. agent ortiz, we salute you for your great courage and for your line of fire that you took and for the bravery that you showed. we honor you, and we will always honor you. thank you, roberto, very much. >> thank you. roberto.
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>> and i actually got to know him on my many calls to the border. he's a great, great gentleman. the territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels. that murder, rape, torture and exercised total control. they have total control over a whole nation, posing a grave threat to our national security. the cartels are waging war on america, and it's time for america to wage war on the cartels, which we are. >> doing. >> five nights. >> ago. >> mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies being imposed on them. think of this handed over to us 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their
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country. that has never happened before. they want to make us happy. first time ever. but we need mexico and canada to do much more than they have done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the usa. they're going to stop it. i have sent congress a detailed funding request, laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in american history, larger even than current record holder, president dwight d eisenhower, a moderate man, but someone who believed very strongly in borders. americans expect congress to send me this funding without delay so i can sign it into law. so, mr. speaker, john thune, both of you, i, i hope you're going to be able to do that. mr. speaker. thank you. mr. leader. thank you. thank you very much. and
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let's get it to me. i'll sign it so fast you won't even believe it. and as we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring back law and order to our cities and towns. in recent years, our justice system has been turned upside down by radical left. lunatics. many jurisdictions virtually ceased enforcing the law against dangerous repeat offenders while weaponizing law enforcement against political opponents like me. my administration has acted swiftly and decisively to
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restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law, starting at the fbi and the doj. pam. good luck kash, wherever you may be. good luck. good luck. pam bondi. >> good luck. so important. >> going to do a great. >> job. kash. thank you. >> thank you. >> kash. >> they have already started very strong. they're going to do a fantastic job. you're going to be very proud of them. we're also once again giving our police officers the support, protection and. respect they so dearly deserve. they have to get it. they have such a hard, dangerous job, but we're going to make it less dangerous. the problem is the bad guys don't
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respect the law, but they're starting to respect it and they soon will respect it. this also includes our great fire departments throughout the country, our firemen and women are unbelievable people and i will never forget them. and besides that, they voted for me in record numbers, so i have no choice. one year ago this month, 31 year old new york police officer jonathan diller unbelievably wonderful person and a great officer was gunned down at a traffic stop on long island. i went to his funeral. the vicious criminal charged with his murder had 21 prior arrests and they were rough arrests, too. he was a real bad one. the thug in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests and went by the name of
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killer. he was killer. he killed other people. they say a lot of them. i attended officer killers service and when i met his wife and one year old son, ryan, it was very inspirational, actually. his widow's name is stephanie and she is here tonight. stephanie, thank you very much, stephanie. >> thank you very much. >> stephanie. we're going to make sure that ryan knows his dad was a true hero. new york's finest. and we're going to get these cold blooded killers and repeat offenders off our streets. and we're going to do it fast. got to stop it. you get out with 28 arrests, they push
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people into subway trains. they hit people over the head, back of the head with baseball bats. we got to get them out of here. i have already signed an executive order requiring a mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer. and tonight, i'm asking congress to pass that policy into permanent. >> law. >> i'm also asking for a new crime bill getting tough on repeat offenders while enhancing protections for america's police officers so they can do their jobs without fear of their lives being totally destroyed. they don't want to be killed. we're not going to let them be killed. astead herndon joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police. his
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since that time, d.j. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and dj has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer. actually, a number of times. beast. the police love him, the police departments love him. and tonight, d.j., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director, sean curran, to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service.
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presidential commission to make america wealthy again, chaired by our new secretary of health and human services, robert f. kennedy jr.. >> my baby. >> with the name kennedy. you would have thought everybody over here would have been cheering how quickly they forget. our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong. as an example, not long ago, and you can't even believe these numbers. 1 in 10,000 children had autism, 1 in
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10,000, and now it's 1 in 36. there's something wrong. 1 in 36. think of that. so we're going to find out what it is. and there's nobody better than bobby and all of the people that are working with you. you have the best to figure out what is going on. okay, bobby. good luck. it's a very important job. >> thank you. good job. thank you. >> my administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools. a few years ago, january littlejohn and her husband discovered that their daughter's school had secretly, socially transitioned their 13 year old little girl. teachers and administrators conspired to deceive january and her husband, while encouraging her daughter to use a new name and pronouns.
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they them pronouns actually all without telling january who is here tonight and is now a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse. january. thank you. >> thank you, thank you very much. thank you. >> stories like this are why, shortly after taking office, i signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology. >> i. >> i also. >> signed an. >> order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation
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of our youth. and now i want. congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body. this is a big. >> lie. and our message to. >> every child in america is that you are perfect. exactly the way god made you. because we're getting wokeness out of our schools and out of our military, and it's already out, and it's out of our
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society. we don't want it. wokeness is trouble. wokeness is bad. it's gone. it's gone, and we feel so much better for it, don't we? don't we feel better? our service members won't be activists and ideologues. they will be fighters and warriors. they will fight for our country. and pete. congratulations. secretary of. >> defense, congratulations. harakat al-muqawama al-islamiyya. >> and he's not big into the woke movement, i can tell you. i know him well. i am pleased to report that in january, the u.s. army had its single best recruiting month in 15 years and that all armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever in the history of
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our services. what a difference. >> and. >> you know, it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite. we couldn't recruit anywhere. we couldn't recruit. now we're having the best results, just about that we've ever had. what a tremendous turnaround. it's really a beautiful thing to see people love our country again. it's very simple. they love our country and they love being in our military again. so it's a great thing. and thank you very much. great job. >> thank you. >> we're joined tonight by a young man, jason hartley, who knows the weight of that call of duty. jason's father, grandfather and great grandfather all wore the
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uniform. jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a los angeles county sheriff's deputy, when he was just a boy. and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service. jason is a senior in high school, a six letter varsity athlete, a really good athlete. they say a brilliant student with a 4.46. that's good gpa and his greatest dream is to attend the u.s. military academy at west point. and jason, that's a very big deal getting in. that's a hard one to get into, but i'm pleased
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to inform you that your application has been accepted. you will soon be joining the corps of cadets. >> you. thank you. >> jason, you're going to be on the long gray line. jason, as commander in chief, my focus is on building the most powerful military of the future. as a first step, i'm asking congress to fund a state of the art golden dome missile defense shield to protect our homeland. all made in the usa.
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>> and ronald reagan. >> wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there. not even close. but now we have the technology. it's incredible actually. and other places that have it. israel has it, other places have it. and the united states should have it too, right, tim. right. they should have it too. so i want to thank you, but it's a very, very important. this is a very dangerous world. we should have it. we want to be protected and we're going to protect our citizens like never before, to boost our defense industrial base. we are also going to resurrect the american shipbuilding industry, including commercial, shipbuilding and military shipbuilding. >> and for.
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>> that purpose, i am announcing. tonight that we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the white house and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to america, where it belongs. we used to make so many ships, we don't make them anymore very much, but we're going to make them very fast very soon. it will have a huge impact to further enhance our national security. my administration will be reclaiming the panama canal, and we've already started doing. >> it. >> just today, a large american company announced they are buying both ports around the panama canal and lots of other things having to do with the panama canal and a couple of other canals. the panama canal was built by americans for americans, not for others, but others could use it. but it was
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built at tremendous cost of american blood and treasure. 38,000 workers died building the panama canal. they died of malaria. they died of snake bites and mosquitoes. not a nice place to work. they paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die. the most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history. if you bring it up to modern day costs, it was given away by the carter administration for $1. but that agreement has been violated very severely. we didn't give it to china. we gave it to panama, and we're taking it back. and we have marco rubio in charge. good luck. marco. now we
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know who to blame if anything goes wrong. now, marco has been amazing and he's going to do a great job. think of it. he got 100 votes. you know, he was approved with actually 99, but the 100th was this gentleman. and i feel very certain. so let's assume he got 100 votes. and i'm either very, very happy about that or i'm very concerned about it. but he's already proven i mean, he's a great gentleman. he's respected by everybody. and we appreciate your voting for marco. he's going to do a fantastic job. >> thank you. thank you. >> he's doing a great. >> job. great job. >> and i also have a message tonight for the incredible people of greenland. we strongly support your right to determine your own future. and if you
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choose, we welcome you into the united states of america. we need greenland for national security and even international security. and we're working with everybody involved to try and get it. but we need it really for international world security. and i think we're going to get it one way or the other. we're going to get it. we will keep you safe. we will make you rich, and together we will take greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before. it's a very small population, but very, very large piece of land and very, very important for military security. america is once again standing strong against the forces of radical islamic terrorism. three and a half years ago, i.s.i.s. terrorists killed 13 american service members and countless others in the abbey gate bombing. during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from afghanistan. not
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that they were withdrawing, it was the way they withdrew. perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. tonight, i am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of american justice. >> and i. >> want to thank especially the government of pakistan for helping arrest this monster. this was a very momentous day for those 13 families who i actually got to know very well. most of them whose children were
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murdered and the many people that were so badly, over 42 people so badly injured on that fateful day in afghanistan. what a horrible day. such incompetence was shown. that when putin saw what happened, i guess he said, wow, maybe this is my chance. that's how bad it was. should have never happened. grossly incompetent people. i spoke to many of the parents and loved ones and they're all in our hearts tonight. just spoke to him on the phone. we had a big call. every one of them called and everybody was on the line and they did nothing but cry with happiness. they were very happy. as happy as you can be under those circumstances. there, child, brother, sister. son, daughter was. killed for no reason whatsoever in the middle
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east. we're bringing back our hostages from gaza. in my first term, we achieved one of the most groundbreaking peace agreements in generations the abraham accords. and now we're going to build on that foundation to create a more peaceful and prosperous future for the entire region. a lot of things are happening in the middle east. people have been talking about that so much lately, with everything going on with ukraine and russia. but a lot of things are happening in the middle east, rough neighborhood, actually. i'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in ukraine. millions of ukrainians and russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this
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horrific and brutal conflict, with no end in sight. the united states has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support ukraine's defense, with no security, with no. >> energy. >> do you want to keep it going for another five years? yeah, yeah, you would say pocahontas says yes. >> okay. >> 2000 people are being killed every single week. more than that, they're russian young people, they're ukrainian young people. they're not americans. but i want it to stop.
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meanwhile, europe has sadly spent more money buying russian oil and gas than they have spent on defending ukraine by far. think of that. they've spent more buying russian oil and gas than they have defending, and we've spent perhaps $350 billion, like taking candy from a baby. that's what happened. and they've spent $100 billion. what a difference that is. and we have an ocean separating us. and they don't. but we're getting along very well with them. and lots of good things are happening. biden has authorized more money in this fight than europe has spent by billions and billions of dollars. it's hard to believe that they wouldn't have stopped it and said at some point, come on, let's equalize. you got to be equal to us. but that didn't happen. earlier today, i received an important letter from president zelenskyy of ukraine. the letter reads
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ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody wants peace more than the ukrainians, he said. my team and i stand ready to work. under president trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts. we do really value how much america has done to help ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. regarding the agreement on minerals and security, ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you. i appreciate that he sent this letter, just got it a little while ago. simultaneously, we've had serious discussions with russia and received strong signals that they are ready for peace. wouldn't that be beautiful? wouldn't that be. >> beautiful?
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wouldn't that be beautiful? >> it's time to stop this madness. it's time to halt the killing. it's time to end this senseless war. if you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides. nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named marc fogel was detained in russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony. rough stuff the previous administration barely lifted a finger to help him. they knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin. but last summer i promised his 95 year old mother, malphine fogel, that we would bring her boy safely back home after 22 days in office. i did just that and they are here tonight.
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i just happened to go there last july 13th for a rally. that was not pleasant. and that is where i met his beautiful mom right before i walked onto that stage. and i told her i would not forget what she said about her son, and i never did, and i never forgot less than ten minutes later, at that same rally. gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper's perch into a crowd of many thousands of people. my life was saved by a fraction of an inch, but some were not so lucky. corey comperatore was a firefighter, a veteran, a christian, a husband, a devoted father, and above all, a
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protector. when the sound of gunshots pierced the air, it was a horrible sound. corey knew instantly what it was and what to do. he threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body. corey was hit really hard. you know the story from there. he sacrificed his life to save theirs. two others, very fine people were also seriously hit, but thankfully, with the help of two great country doctors, we thought they were gone and they were saved. so those doctors had great talent. were joined by corey's wife, helen, who was his high school sweetheart, and their two beloved daughters, alison and kaylee. >> thank you.
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>> to helen, alison and kaylee. corey is looking down on his three beautiful ladies right now, and he is cheering you on. he loves you. he is cheering you on. corey was taken from us much too soon, but his destiny was to leave us all with a shining example of the selfless devotion of a true american patriot. it was love like corey's that built our country, and its love like corey's that is going to make our country more majestic
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than ever before. i believe that my life was saved that day in butler for a very good reason. i was saved by god to make america great again. i believe that. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. from the patriots of lexington and concord to the heroes of gettysburg and normandy, from the warriors who crossed the delaware, to the trailblazers who climbed the rockies, and from the legends who soared at kitty hawk, to the astronauts who touched the moon. americans have always been the people who defied all odds, transcended all
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dangers, made the most extraordinary sacrifices, and did whatever it took to defend our children, our country, and our freedom. and as we have seen in this chamber tonight, that same strength, faith, love and spirit is still alive and thriving in the hearts of the american people. despite the best efforts of those who would try to censor us or silence us, break us, destroy us. americans are today a proud, free, sovereign and independent nation that will always be free and we will fight for it till death. we will never let anything happen to our beloved country, because we are a country of doers, dreamers, fighters and survivors. our ancestors crossed a vast ocean, strode into the unknown wilderness, and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very
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dangerous frontier. they chased our destiny across a boundless continent. they built the railroads, laid the highways, and graced the world with american marvels like the empire state building, the mighty hoover dam, and the towering golden gate bridge. they lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of american industry, vanquished the. communist fascists and marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculpted out of iron, glass and steel. we stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age. these workers, who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities, these warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle and gave everything they had for our
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rights and for our freedom. now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of american liberty, and it is our turn to take america's destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country. this will be our greatest era. with god's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth. we are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and most vital communities anywhere in the world. we are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the american flag on the planet mars, and even far beyond.
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and through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the american spirit. and we are going to renew unlimited promise of the american dream. every single day. we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe. in and for the country our people deserve. >> and.
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>> my fellow americans, get ready for an incredible future because the golden age of america has only just begun. it will be like nothing that has ever been seen before. thank you. god bless you and god. >> bless america. >> president trump wrapping up his first address to congress since returning to power. in moments, we're going to hear the democratic response from senator elissa slotkin of michigan. but, uh, it was in some ways a campaign speech, almost very if one thinks that normally state of the union addresses joint address to congress end up being kind of laundry lists of legislation, uh, that a that a president wants. this was quite
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different in many respects. um, he talked about tariffs. he talked about the border. he brought in some cultural issues. there were some touching moments with. americans, uh, one getting into west point. one a 13 year old suffering from brain cancer being made an honorary secret service agent. it was disruptive. what? congressman al green, democrat of texas, stood and yelled at the president and had to be escorted out. he, i believe, was saying that the president didn't have a mandate to get rid of medicaid. many democrats made their displeasure with the president's speech known by walking out or holding up signs. the president went on an extended length, talking about doge, the department of government inefficiency, and alleged
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