learning which is a set of practices that have grown in k-12 schools that advocates say are designed to help students manage their emotions and behavior. and that conservative critics say are a distraction from regular academics reading, writing and arithmetic. i would have to look at the particular examples that you referred to to really focus on that. host: daniel in pennsylvania, a democrat line. caller: i want your guest to address lobbying efforts and soft moaning the goes into public schools. and in addition to your past guest about farming and soft money lobbying efforts that keep the chemicals in our food. host: we will take the education part of that.

>> they're certainly spending, political spending around education and if there isn't, that spending includes folks on both sides of the you can continue watching c-span.org. president trump met with the prime minister of japan in his oval office. >> i think it easy for japan, a fantastic relationship. i don't think we'll ever have a problem whatsoever. [inaudible question] >> you have reaction to the new time magazine cover that has you and muscat must sitting r resolute desk? >> is a time magazine still in business? i didn't even know that.

elon is doing a great job. he signed a tremendous fraud and corruption and waste. you see it with the usaid but you will see the more so with other agencies. he's got a staff that fantastic. he's wanted to be able to do this for a long time. everybody else new it was existent. i think never so much when you look at usaid. that's fraud, holding is a fraud. very little, very little being put to good use. every single line that i look at in terms of events and transactions is either corrupt or ridiculous. and we're going to be doing that throughout government. and i think we are going to be very close to balancing budgets for the first time in many years. i think we're going to be very close to in addition to monies coming in from tariffs et cetera, et cetera but now he's

doing a very good job. very happy with him. [inaudible question] weekly elon musk up on a podium trust as question. >> was oh, yeah. he's not sure. elon is not shy. >> any further deliberations on gaza, timetable for takeover? >> no deliberations that it's been very well received. where basically the united states would view it as a real estate transaction where we will be an investor in that part of the world. and in no rush to do anything. don't need anybody there. be given to us by israel. they will watch it in terms of security. we're not talking up boots on the ground or anything but i think we all, the fact we're there, we have investment there i think would go a long way to greeting peace. we don't want to see everybody -- creating -- this is been going on for 50 years come much more than that.

we just want to seek stability. that would be having us have that particular piece in that particular location i think what show great stability and would lead to great stability in the area for very little money, very little price, and we would need soldiers at all. that would be taken care by others. and investments are taken care by others also. so for no investment i mean virtually no investment whatsoever it would bring stability to the area. and others can invest in it for later on. but we in no rush on it. absolutely no rush. >> president trump, deeply deepseek is national security threat and speeded on where? >> deepseek. you think it's a national security threat. >> us know. i think it's happening. i mean it's a technology that's happening. it's very commit sexual i think i think we will benefit if it's correct what's going on now, but

it will be a lot less expensive, the ai we're talking about. would be a lot less expensive than people originally thought. that's a good thing. i view that as a very good development not bad development. [inaudible question] >> sure, that some cable. that's always on on the tabl. that's a very big deal. because we are you know we have cases where we don't supply autos and other countries do. we have to equalize it. we have to stabilize it and equalize it. >> would you meet with president zelensky next week? >> i will probably be meeting with president zelensky next week. i will probably talking to president putin. like to see the war ended. for one primary reason. the killing so many people. you are losing millions of people on a battlefield, discussed mostly the battlefield.

you have eight or 900,000 russian soldiers are dead, and very badly wounded. and the same thing with ukraine. you have probably 700,000 with ukraine. the numbers they gave our little bit lower than that but i believe those numbers aren't correct. i'd like to see it and just on a human basis. it's terrible what's going on. they have open fields with no protection. the only thing about can it is a human body and the human body dies as soon as it gets hit. i'd like to see that end. it's a ridiculous war. it would never have started if i were president. that war would have never started, putin would've not have started that were if i were president. and by the way you would not have had october 7 if i was president either. that mess would not have started. started. but no, i would very much like to help out. one of the things we looking at with president zelensky is having the security other assets, dave as its underground,

rare earth and other things but primarily rare earth. and we want to have secure, really we want security because as you know, europe is putting up much less money than us, much, nato, europe, call it whatever you want. and we're at probably 300,000,000,000+ and they're probably the real numbers, 100. that's a lot of money but it's 200 million less than us and there's an ocean in between. they need more than us so were asking them to equalize and get even but we are also asking president zelensky for the security of, putting all this money up and we are saying where does it stop. and yet we want to see it into. but we're going to be asking for the security and we've already told him of, an equal amount of something where our money, i mean the american taxpayer is in

for $300 million. biden never negotiated, he never told you to put in more money and he got out of hand. just like nato. nato we were, , wielding almost 100% of nato when i first came in. everybody was taking revenge of the good old united states but not anymore. so what and now a you speak to the secretary general of nato, very nice he was here two weeks ago he said what trumped it was amazing. he got everybody to pay. and to do that jeff to ask. biden never asked so we are in for probably close to $200 billion more than europe. yet obviously it affects -- much more than us. we would like them to stay, to equalize. to have to go more. and from our standpoint we do a security in all this money where putting up. [inaudible] >> we may meet next week, whenever he would like. i'm here. well, i'm not going there.

>> do you plan on meeting with president putin? >> we, we have always had good relationship. president putin and i have always had a good relationship. that's why so said it happen. this would've never happen if i were president. it's so sad to see that happen. so many dead people. by the way so many cities are demolished, talk about gaza, take a look at ukraine. so many of the cities are demolition sites, demolished, so sad. should never happen. almost beautiful golden domes but much more important all those pitiful people are dead and it should never happen. thank you very much everybody. [inaudible]

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