them and, most of all, these mama bears need to know their baby bears are a gift from god who deserve to be celebrated. [cheers and applause] i want to invite you to join the mama bear movement. you can learn more and get connected with our ministry at mamabearcare.org where we advocate for fierce love and tender care. so why do i march for life? i march for life because verity deserves to be celebrated. why do we all march for life? because we know that every mama bear and every baby bear deserves to be celebrated. thank you. [cheers and applause]

live coverage of president come signing new executive orders. >> they are here to take photographs. it is my honor to do so. also the fire department. they are here throughout the room. i will be with you in a little while with some great photos.

policeman, policewoman, fire women, we are here and appreciate it very much. i think it is very important to state incredible things are happening in our country. more progress in three weeks than in four years. especially with respect to the reputation of our country. people are respecting us again as a country. as a powerful country. when you look at some of the waste, fraud, and abuse being uncovered by doge, the people at doge, these are often young but super brilliant people, incredible computer scientists and other things. they are finding levels of fraud, waste, and abuse like i think nobody ever thought possible.

before we do that, i want to ask will to come over. i just finished signing some executive orders. you might want to come here and explain what we did. >> good afternoon. a short while ago, president trump signed three items. the first is an executive order relating to the affordability availability of in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. these are treatments that have become unaffordable for many americans or have in unaffordable for many americans. the executive order is a direct deposit to ways to make ibf and other fertility treatments more affordable for more americans. the second item we signed was a presidential memorandum imposing radical transparency requirements on government departments and agencies and keeping with president trump and the administration's broader commitment to transparency. what the presidential memorandum

would do is require as waste, fraud, and abuse is uncovered, programs are canceled, ultimately as taxpayer dollars. it would require departments and agencies to make all of the details of that freely available to the public. we have another executive order president trump signed relating to independent agencies. this executive order order would establish oversight functions in the office of benton -- management and budget. and many other actions. also reestablishing the long-standing norm only the president or the attorney general can speak for the united states when stating an opinion as to what the law is. >> thank you very much. that was the primary purpose of this conference, to explain that they are important in their own way. fertilization, i have been

saying we will do what we have to do. i think the women and families, husbands, are very appreciated about that. i do want to say while i'm up here, i contacted some of the biggest companies in the world. because of what we are doing economically and through tariffs and taxes and incentives, they want to come back into the united states. and we will be announcing very large companies, the biggest, and they will be coming back. having to do with chips and cars and a lot of other things. we will be announcing some very big, momentous decisions being made by companies around the world. and they want to come back into the u.s. car plants are being canceled in other locations because they want to build them here. not to mention names, but you read about a couple of big ones in mexico just got canceled

because they will be building them in the u.s. simply because of what we are doing with taxes, tariffs, and incentives. i think it is a very important thing. you will see this over the next probably two years, to be honest. you will see a lot over the next couple of weeks. a lot of big ones. so while we are here, i guess we can take a couple of quick questions. >> mr. president, have you decided specifically with the auto tariff rate should be? >> i probably will tell you that on april 2. it will be in the neighborhood of 25%. >> pharmaceuticals? >> 25% and higher and it will go substantially higher over the course of a year. what we want to give them time to come in. when they come into the united states and they have their plant or factory here, there is no tariff. so we want to give them a bit of a chance. >> the eu representative is

going to be here in washington tomorrow. he will be meeting with greer and let nick. what can the eu due to avoid the reciprocal tariffs you have talked about, and you talked a lot about the vat, do you expect them to reduce that? >> they did already as i understand reduce the car tariff to what we have. a lot of that will take place. some will not do it, some will. the eu had a 10% tax on cars and now have a 2.5% tax, the same as us. already we have saved a tremendous amount. it would be great if everyone would do that, we would be on the same playing field. essentially what we are doing with the tariffs, they charge us, we charge them, same amount. it is called reciprocal. whatever they charge us, we are charging them. the eu, i appreciate that they

did this. the eu has been very unfair to us. we have a deficit of $350 billion. they don't take our cars, farm products, almost anything. they take very little. we will have to straighten that out. we will. i have no doubt about it. go ahead please. >> can you tell us about the russia talks? your impression of how they went and if you are more confident or less confident with a deal after what happened today? >> much more confident. they were very good. russia wants to do something. they want to stop the savage barbarian is him, what is going on over there, soldiers are being killed by the thousands on a weekly basis. it is ridiculous. and they are not american soldiers, they are russian soldiers and ukrainian soldiers largely. although a lot of koreans have been killed, as you know. quite a bit of them have been killed. they came over to fight and a

large portion have been wiped out. we want to end it. it is a senseless war, it should have never happened. we have never happened if i was president. it is a shame to see it. and i see pictures that you don't see, of fields that are just horrible. it looks like gettysburg, if you see the old pictures of gettysburg. soldiers lying all over the field, they are all dead. this is going on on a daily basis. it is a horrible thing. both russia and ukraine are losing thousands of soldiers. a lot of people have been killed. i think that is one of the things you will see historically and later on as it goes along. people will be surprised how many people, not only soldiers, have been killed in ukraine. a lot more people than you think. >> president trump. as part of a peace deal with vladimir putin, would you consider removing all american troops from europe? >> nobody has asked me to do

that, so i don't think we would have to do that. i would not want to do that. that question has not really come up. please. >> do you have support stationing european peacekeeping troops in ukraine as part of the peace deal? >> if they want to do that, i'm all for it. i think that would be fine. i know friends and others have mentioned it. the u.k. has mentioned it. if we have a peace deal, i think having troops over there from the standpoint of europe, we will not have to put any over there because we are very far away. but having troops over there would be fine. i would not object to it at all. we are talking about peace. we either have a cease fire or piece itself. we are looking to do both. but start off with a cease fire, and if they want to do that -- i know france was willing to do that.

that was a beautiful gesture. >> do you have any message for ukrainians who three years after fighting might feel betrayed or disappointed not having a seat on the initial talks in saudi arabia? >> i think i'm really disappointed in what has happened. i have been watching this for three years. it is a war that would have never happened if i was president. i have been watching these people being killed at levels you have never seen since the second world war. and i'm very disappointed. i hear that they are upset about not having a seat. they had the seat for three years and a long time before the this could have been settled very easily. just a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago. i think without the loss of much land, very little land. without the loss of any lives. without the loss of cities that are laying on their side. you have the magnificent golden domes that are shattered.

we'll never be replaced. you can't replace that. thousand year old domes that are so beautiful. the whole civilization has changed. when they are worried about not being seated, somebody that should have made a deal a long time ago. you could have made a deal. there was no talk of this during the trump administration. putin would never have done it. we would never have had october 7. we wouldn't have had october 7 in israel. we wouldn't have had that mess going on over there. we have great fire people here, we are putting out fires all over the world. that would not have happened. what else wouldn't have happened, inflation. it was caused really by the cost of energy because of their bad energy policies, and their terrible spending, wasteful spending on the green scam. it is a scam. >> i want to ask you closer to

home. what would it take for you to reconsider the restrictions on the associated press, and secondly, some of your advisers are concerned with the associated press' style guide, using language and giving guidance to not use words like illegal immigrants, or phrases like gender affirming care. they are concerned about that approaching liberalism in the way the press writes about things. do you share the concerns? >> i do think some of phrases they want to use are ridiculous. i think frankly they have become obsolete, especially in the last three weeks. because many things have happened in the last three weeks. i did not know about that, but i would say if they want to use certain phrases like that, and i guess some r.o.k., but many aren't. but the associated press refuses to go with what the law is and what has taken place. it is called the gulf of america now.

it is not called the gulf of mexico any longer. i have the right to do it like we have the right to do mount mckinley. no one is even challenging that. essentially it is primarily the associated press. i don't know what they are doing, that i say we will keep them out until such time that they agree it is the gulf of america. we are proud of this country and we want it to be the gulf of america. the associated press has been very wrong on the election, trump, the treatment of trump and other things having to do with trump and republicans and conservatives. they are doing us no favors, and i guess i'm not doing them any favors. that is the way life works. but thank you for the question. were you with? -- very good question. thank you. >> we are hearing that russia wants to force ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign any kind of a peace deal. is that something the u.s. whatever support? >> we have a situation where we

haven't had elections in ukraine, where we have martial law in ukraine. where the leader in ukraine -- i hate to say it, but he's down at 4% approval rating. and his country has been blown to smithereens. most of the cities are laying on their sites. the buildings are collapsed, it looks like a massive demolition site. they have not in it in kyiv because i guess they don't want to shoot many rockets. 20%, if they wanted to do 100%, they would want it to happen quickly. and you have cities that are decimated. when you want a seat at the table, you can say wouldn't the people of ukraine that is not a russia thing, that is something coming from me and many other countries.

ukraine has just been wiped out. there are cities, there is not even a building standing. you talk about gaza, these cities look like gaza. many have percentagewise, more buildings knocked down then in gaza. people are tired of it, people want to see something happen. the other thing that has been bothering me for a long time, because i solved with -- the problem with nato. they paid into the funds of nato when i said you've got to pay. because the u.s. was paying for european countries and they take advantage. what i have seen it. they have to pay, they have to find out where the money is going from. i believe we have -- volodymyr zelenskyy said he doesn't know where half of the money is that we gave him. i believe we gave them $350

billion. let's say it is something less than that. we have to equalize with europe. given a very much smaller percentage of that. i think europe has given $100 billion. and we have given -- let's say $300 billion plus. it is more important for them than it is for us. we have an ocean in between and they don't. but where is all the money that has been given -- i've never seen an accounting of it. we give hundreds of billions of dollars. i don't see any accounting. i want to see peace. i don't want all of these people killed anymore. i'm looking at people that are being killed. and they are russian and ukrainian people. but they are people. doesn't matter where they are from on the whole planet. and i think i have the power to end this war. and i think it is going well. but today i heard -- we weren't invited to preview have been there for three years, you should have ended it three

years. you should have never started it, you could have made a deal. i could have made a deal for ukraine. that would have given them almost all of the land and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished. not one dome would have been knocked down. but they chose not to do it that way. president biden this -- biden in all fairness, he doesn't have a clue. so bad for this, so pathetic. but with all of that being said, it is what it is. when i left, there was no chance this could have happened. but it happened because we had incompetent when you see what's taking place in ukraine with millions of people killed including the soldiers, a big percentage of their cities knocked down to the ground. i don't know how anybody lives there. they say they took a poll and zelenskyy is at 4%, who was living there? their cities are being knocked down and this is something that

would have never happened. by the way, for four years, it didn't happen. >> how would you counter the perception -- because russia is pushing this, they don't hold true elections -- how would you guard against potentially russia installing a puppet government? finally, how would that new election have an impact on getting zelenskyy to sign the rare earth minerals deal? pres. trump: you have leadership. i like him personally. but, i don't care about personally, i care about getting the job done. you have leadership now that has allowed a war to go on that should have never happened even without the united states. we had a president who was grossly incompetent. he said some very stupid things like going in for portions. he made a lot of bad statements. he's grossly incompetent and i think everyone knew that. this is something that should have never happened, what have

never happened. i used to discuss it with putin. we would talk about ukraine. it was the apple of his eye, but it was never a chance of him going in. i told him he better not go in. don't go in. he understood that fully. i'm only interested -- i want to see if i can save may millions of lives. this could end up in a this could end up. you have been hearing europe saying they will go in. all of a sudden, you will end up in world war iii over something that has never happened. it is a very sad situation. >> the white house said elon musk is not a doge employee and has no authority to make decisions. can you clarify for us? pres. trump: yeah, elon is, to me, a patriot. you can call him an employee, a consultant, whatever you want, but he's a patriot.

i just said -- i wrote it down in case the question got asked. i'm surprised it took so long, actually. ukraine is a bigger deal because people are dying by the thousands a week. look at this. from 1990 to 1999, social security, 6,045,000. maybe that's ok. that's a lot of people. but, people that live to 100 to 109, 4,734,000, that means over 100 years old. over 4 million people. over 120, from 120 years old, people that are 120 years old up to 129, 3,472,000 people, wow.

you know that cannot possibly be because the record, i think it is one person, a woman lived to 127. ok, now we are going really -- people from 130 years old to 139 years old, 3,936,000. wow. i wonder if people are getting paid. are these checks -- that is what we are checking right now. people from 140 years old to 149 years old, 3,542,000. 140 years old. and beyond. now, we are really going because we are looking to break the record by 25 years. people from 150 years old to 159 years old, 1,345,000. by the way, these are the computer files.

this is what they do well. i asked elon, who are these doge people? he said they are super brilliant computer people and they love the country. wait a minute. people from 160 years old to 169 years, 121,000. 170 to 179,000, 6087. but now, let's go into the real numbers. from 200 to 209 years old, 879 people. 210 years old, i have not met any of them, and if i did, i would bless them. i would worship the ground they walk on. 210 to 219 years, 866. from 220 years old to 229 years old, 1039. and then, you have two people from 240 years old to 249 years

old, one person. there's one person that is 360 years old. that is just that. then, where is the money being spent? let's go into that for a second. $520 million million for a consultant on the environment. it is called environmental social and governance investments in africa and mobilized private sector resources. $520 million. somebody got $520 million four it sounds like an environmental study. i have always been one that paid a lot of money for my environment of studies, but i pay like $50,000, like $520 million. for esg.

$25 million to promote biodiversity, conservation, and promote livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in the country of colombia. that is nice, $25 million going to colombia. 40 million dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. $40 million. $42 million for johns hopkins, great place, to research and drive social and behavior change in uganda. what about us? what about social change in our country? $70 million for a center at purdue to research university sourced, evidence-based solutions to developmental challenges. these are massive numbers on things no one ever heard about. $10 million for mozambique voluntary medical male

circumcisions. $10 million for circumcisions in another country. $9.7 million for uc berkeley to develop a cohort of cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills. teach them something about enterprise. what about our people? can't we teach them about enterprise? two point $3 million for strengthening independent voices in cambodia. $32 million to the prague civil society center, which is a very liberal group of people. i wonder how much of the money came back to the people that approved it. $14 million for improving public procurement in serbia. $486 million to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including $22 million for inclusive and participatory political process in moldova. and $21 million for voter turnout in india.

why are we giving $21 million to india? they have a lot of money. one of the highest taxing countries. i have a lot of respect for india, i have a lot of respect for the prime minister. we are giving $21 million for voter turnout. that's voter turnout in india. what about voter turnout here? i guess we did that. it is called the lockboxes. $20 million for fiscal federalism in nepal. listen to these numbers. this is all fraud. $19 million for biodiversity conservation in nepal. $1.5 million for voter confidence. we want to give them confidence in liberia. $14 million for social cohesion in mali. $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in south africa.

$47 million for improving learning outcomes in asia. asia is doing very well. they are doing a lot better than we do in the schools. $2 million to develop sustainable recycling to increase socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in kosovo. and in egypt. we are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. by the way, i could read this all day long. i could go on all day long and you will see hundreds of billions of dollars and we are doing it. when i saw the social security numbers, i said wow, that is really something. let's go above 100 years old. we have millions and millions of people over 100 years old. we have a very corrupt country, very corrupt country and it is a sad thing to say.

we are figuring it out. the good thing about social security in what i read is if you take all of those numbers off because they are obviously fraudulent or incompetent, but if you take all of those millions of people off social security, all of a sudden, we have a very powerful social security with people that are 80 and 70 and 90, but not 200 years old. so, it is a very positive thing. how about over here? please. who resigned? >> the head of social security. pres. trump: i don't know. resigned or got fired. when you fire somebody, they always resign. when you have numbers like that, really, it is got fired. they have to get fired. who would keep them? how could you have numbers like this? the big thing is how many of these people got paid. were they getting paid? how many of them were getting

paid social security? if that is the case, it is massive fraud. we will have to call those great palm beach police into the situation. you guys would figure that out quickly. how many of them are being paid? maybe millions of them. but, it is a total fraud. also, a lot of illegal immigrants aren't social security that should not be there. go ahead. >> there was a big wave of probationary federal workers fired over the weekend. some of these workers focused on nuclear weapon security and were immediately rehired. do you have any concerns about how these terminations were handled? pres. trump: not at all. we have to do what we have to do. it's amazing what has been found right now. it's amazing. if we feel that in some cases, they will fire people and then put some people back. not all of them. don't forget, i got elected on the basis of making our government stronger and smaller. because we have millions of

people that obviously, they are paying millions of people that should not be paid. that has also to do with workers. go ahead. yes, "new york times." >> given your concerns about corruption, you said that if there were any conflicts of interest with elon musk, you would not let him anywhere near. doge and spacex employees are working directly at the federal aviation administration and the defense department, agencies that have billions of dollars in contracts in musk's companies were directly regulate his companies. how does that not become a conflict of interest? pres. trump: obviously, i will not let there be any conflict of interest. he's done an amazing job. they've revealed -- he's going to be on tonight on a big show called "sean hannity" at 9:00. any conflicts, i told elon, any

conflicts, he cannot have anything to do with that. anything to do with possibly even space, we won't let elon partake in that. yeah, please? >> on immigration, you said you would be sending the worst of the worst to guantanamo bay. we are finding out that there are a lot of low risk migrants who don't have a criminal background who are also being sent. are you thinking about this differently now? pres. trump: no, they will be brought back to their countries. with some persuasion, every one of those countries -- as you know, every country is taking the people back so some of them will be brought back, many of them -- any of them that are low risk, as you say, will be brought back to their countries. go ahead, please. >> can you give us a bit of an update on where you stand with venezuela? there's basically a monthly license -- pres. trump: we had venezuela on

the run and it looked like it was going to be very good. when biden came in, he screws it up and they started buying millions and millions of dollars of oil. billions of dollars actually. it gave them a new lease on life. we will see. we had some pretty good discussions with a lot of people within our government, the united states government that are involved in that. and venezuela is a little bit early, but we were not buying from venezuela. when biden came in, instead of taking the beautiful liquid gold -- they started paying a fortune to venezuela. we are looking that actually. why did they do that? why would they go to the enemy and give them billions and billions of dollars? now with that being said, venezuela has said very strongly they will not take any, any

illegal immigrant, any of the people that they sent over to us. probably the worst gang anywhere in the world, as bad as ms 13, maybe worse and they came out of the jails of venezuela. they said we will never take them back. they took them back and they are taking them back. they are taking them back rapidly. sending a lot of people to venezuela. they said they would not take them back. we are looking at venezuela very seriously. don't forget, i've only been here for three weeks. please. >> just a little clarity on -- are you inclined to continue to allow venezuela through chevron and other oil companies to export those petroleum products? pres. trump: maybe not. we are looking at that now. i just got here. when i left, they were not doing anything -- they were ready to go. and biden came along and he gave

them literally billions of dollars. i couldn't believe it. we have so much under our feet, liquid gold. we have so much. it is pretty amazing. we're looking at that whole situation. how about one more? >> what can you tell us about the cia drone flights over mexico? is this the next step in war against the cartels? pres. trump: mexico has allowed tremendous number of people to go through their country, and even people coming from mexico, illegals, totally illegal. they have allowed people to empty jails into mexico and let them come through with this totally ridiculous open border policy of the biden administration. millions of people have come in. actually millions are criminals. they came in from jails all over the world. they release them into mexico and come into our country. they also came in from canada,

by the way, large numbers from canada. when we closed up the one border, they came through the other border. so, canada is not an uninterested party. i will say this, we are dealing with mexico. we have a very good relationship with mexico, but i think mexico is largely run by the cartels and that is a sad thing to say. if they wanted help with that, we would give them help. mexico, if you look at what has gone on, for years now but now especially, it is run by the cartels. they have allowed millions of people to come into our country from jails and prisons and other countries from all over the world, not just south america. africa, asia, a lot from the congo in africa, a lot. they opened their jails and came in through mexico and we have some of the worst criminals coming in from the congo and other places. it is not just south america and it is not just venezuela. you know the crime rates in

venezuela and other places all over the world has gone down because they have given us their prisoners, their drug lords and gang members. and it is hard to believe that we accepted this. it is hard to believe that we allowed open borders and we are taking in hundreds of thousands and millions of people coming in from all over the world that are absolute, stone cold criminals. in fact, 11,088 murderers and many of those people have murdered more than one person. why are they giving us these people and why are we taking these people? hunter biden, you had a borders are that never went to the -- under biden, you had a border czar that never went to the border, happened to be the vice president. here's the good news. we have the most secure border we've ever had right now. as secure and even more secure i had it for years ago. and the border patrol is doing incredible, ice is doing incredible.

tom homan is unbelievable and kristi noem has been working very hard. we have the best numbers we've ever had and we will keep it that way. and we will find out how -- who would allow this to happen? what they've done to our country is so sad. thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you, press. ♪ >> nonfiction book lovers, c-span has a number of podcasts for you. listen to best-selling nonfiction authors and influential interviewers on the afterwords podcast and on q&a, hear wide-ranging conversations with nonfiction authors and others that are making things happen. and book