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c-span. scan the qr or visit c-span.org today. >> president trump announced an investment program to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence. he made the announcement during an address at the white house. following his remarks, he takes questions from reporters on pardoning the january 6 defendants, selling tiktok, and the cease-fire deal in gaza. this is just over 45 minutes.

he will go around. [. president trump: nice to see you, some very familiar faces. it's an honor to be here today. we have first full day as president. we're back. and we had a great first term, but we're going to have an even better second term and do things that people will be shocked at, we are starting off with tremendous investment coming into our country at levels that nobody has seen before. and we're happy with the fact that i won the race and feel confident in their investments and big money and high quality

people. my first day back from having a nice laugh, it's my honor to welcome three of the world leading technology c.e.o. and larry ellison, it is well beyond technology. c.e.o. of everything. amazing man and amazing business person. but to announce the largest ai infrastructure project in history and all taking place right here in america. as you know there is great competition for ai and other things and they are coming in at the highest level. and/ora call larry ellison, softbank c.e.o., my friend and c.e.o. of openai and i would say

the leading expert based on everything i read. sam altman. massive group of money. these technology giants are announcing the formation of stargate. put that name down in your books because you are going to hear a lot about it in the future, a new american company that will invest $500 billion in infrastructure in the united states and very quickly moving very rapidly, 100,000 american jobs. this monumental undertaking is a declaration of confidence in america's potential under a new president. let me be -- a new president, i didn't say it, they did. i appreciate it. it will ensure the future of technology. we want to keep it in this

country. china is a competitor and others are competitors. we want it to be in this country and making it available. i'm going to high a lot through emergency declarations because we have an emergency. we have to get this stuff built. they have to produce a lot of like that and will make it possible for them to get that production very done very easily at their own plants if they want and will planned build energy generation and that will be incredible. but it's technology and artificial intelligence all made in the u.s.a. stargate will be building the physical and to power the next generation of advancements in ai and this will include colossal of data structures, massive structures. i was in the real estate -- big

beautiful buildings and physical campuses scattered and making their choices. i think they have their choice. i would like to ask larry to say a few words and talk about what they are doing and if you have any questions and we'll go into a couple of other subjects also. but this to me, $500 billion stargate project. i think tea it's special and will lead to something that could be the biggest of all. larry, we'll start with you and go down the line. thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. we certainly couldn't do this without you. it would be impossible. ai holds incredible promise for all of us and for every american.

we have actually been working with openai and the data centers are under construction. and the first of them are under construction in texas, each building and 10 buildings currently being built and will expand to other locations beyond the and i will lean location. the kind of applications we are building may be the most qua rays matic and electronic health records, not just maintaining them but looking at their records, understanding the condition of doctors and better understanding the condition of their patients and provide health care plans than they otherwise would be. a doctor on indian river reservation would see a doctor at memorial sloan eter ring

would treat a patient. we actually provide all of that information and guidance to the doctors who are treating cancer patients or any other kind of disease made possible by ai. i'm not going to take a lot of time, but this is an exciting time for oracle to be a part of. thank you. >> that's, good, that's great. [laughter] >> thank you, mr. president. last month i came to and promise we would invest $100 billion and you told me, go after 200 and i came back with 500.

as you said yesterday, this is the beginning of golden age for america. this is one great example, i think, right. this is beginning of golden age. we wouldn't have decided unless you won. and we agreed to make this happen. [indiscernible] >> so we are going to make this happen and immediately start deploying $100 billion with the goal of $500 billion in the next four years, right? because of your success. so we are very, very excited to do this. and our partners, softbank,

oracle and investing with mgx. on top of that we have the technology partner in media and microsoft has been very, very supportive and continues to support all of our success. this is not just for business. this will help people's life. this will help solving many, many issues, difficult things that otherwise we could not have solved with the power of ai. i think it is coming very soon and after that, that's not the goal. after that, ai superintelligence will come to solve the issues that mankind would never have thought that we could solve. well, this is the beginning of

our golden age. thank you very much. >> i don't have too much to add. i am thrilled we get to do this in the united states of america. this will be the most important project of this to get this built here and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. we wouldn't be able to do this without you, mr. president and i think it will be an exciting project and do all of the wonderful things these guys talked about but the fact we get to do this in the united states is wonderful. thank you very much. president trump: i hear what it is going to do for medical research and cancer and the different problems. how ai will help with diseases, et cetera? >> these guys can share more about some of the work.

they will join some of the leaders about driving partners here, but i believe as this technology progresses, diseases will be cured. and how cure ing cancer and heart disease and what it will do for to deliver high quality health care and dure the diseases at a rapid rate. it will be among the most important things this technology does. [indiscernible. [laughter] >> one of the most exciting things we are working on, using the tolls that sam and masa is the cancer vaccine.

it is all of our cancers, cancer tumors, little fragments of those tumors float around in your blood. using -- you can do early cancer detection with a blood test and using ai to look at the blood test. you can find the cancers that are threatening the person. so, again, cancer diagnosis using ai as a simple blood test. and beyond that, once we gene sequence that cancer tumor, you can vaccinate the person, design a vaccine for every individual person to vac innature them against that and make that

vaccine and make that again using ai in 48 hours. early cancer detection, the development of a cancer vaccine for your particular cancer aimed at you and having it available in 48 hours. this is the promise of ai and the promise of the future. president trump: just one second and we'll finish up. these are highly respected guys. i was shocked i don't think larry does this stuff. he did a very good job. but he is so respected and the group and it's really an honor. but for larry to be here and do this is unusual. he doesn't need it and you don't need it, do you, huh? i think it's an honor to the

country. it's a great honor -- these are the top people and they are going to do it here and make it as easy as it can be. 500 million comes from a separate pledge between 100 and $200 billion from masa that we talked about and $20 billion and many others. some i would announce. but with some -- and i know they are highly respected and do it this way. many would like it to do it this way. but we are letting the world do it this way. money would have gone to china. business day in washington and the white house and we have secured nearly $3 trillion of

new investments in the united states and probably going to be 6 or 7 by the end of the week. tremendous amounts of money are coming in for many things other than ai. ai is very hot and seems to be a lot of smart people are looking at. our country will be prospering and it will be the golden age of america. yesterday, we had the most ambitious action-oriented day of any administration in history. never been a first day. i signed a sweeping executive orderers to stop the invasion of borders and defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life and cost of energy. and when energy comes down and i say generally speaking, energy comes down, everything comes

down, the prices of food and everything else. energy is the big that's the big baby and we declared an national energy emergency to drill, baby, drill. we will do that. we ended destructive d.e.i. mandates in return our country to a merit-based system and commonsense system. the supreme court gave us a decision that everything can be based on merit instead of rules and regulations instead of things that put our country and stopped government see sensorship and restored and renamed gulf of mexico the gulf of america. sounds so beautiful. and returned the name of the great president william mckinley to mount mckinley and he was a

great president. he was a very successful businessman and ran for governor of ohio and won and ran for president and he won. and he was assassinated in his second term unfortunately. but he was the tariff king. i don't think he is as bad as i am. but he believed in it very strongly and raised massive amounts of money. our country was at its richest from 1870 to 1913, that's when we were the richest. we were the richest during that period of time. that was tariffs from other countries. and our administration is moving with unprecedented emergency and spreed to confront every single crisis facing us and i want to thank sam, maa and larry and

take a few questions. [indiscernible. among those you pardoned -- [indiscernible] why does he deserve a pardon? president trump: we are looking at pardons. we will look at everything. murderers today are not even charged. you have murderers that aren't charged all over. take a look at what is going on in philadelphia and l.a. where people murder people and don't get charged. these people have served years in prison and served them viciously. a disgusting prison. horrible, inhumane and terrible, terrible thing. i say this, you go to portland

where they wrapped police officers, shot police officers, nothing happened to anybody. you go to seattle where they took over a big chunk of the city and people died. portland. take a look at minneapolis, because i was there and i watched it. and if i didn't bring in the national guard, that city wouldn't exist today. people were killed and nobody went to jail. these people have served a long period of time. joe biden gave a barredon yesterday to criminals. you should be asking that question, why did he give a pardon to people who committed crimes. why did he give a pardon to j6 unselect committee when they burned and destroyed all documents which showed that they did what was wrong. wait a minute. wait a minute.

why did he give a pardon to his brother. he gave pardons. that's the question you should be asking. go ahead. [. [indiscernible question] president trump: no. no. >> speaker johnson and senator thune -- [indiscernible] president trump: it has been made simpler by los angeles because they are going to need a lot of money and find that a lot of democrats are going to be asking for help and makes it more one-sided. we are going to take care of los angeles and going to north carolina, which has been abandoned by the democrats and going to north carolina first. i will be there on friday and going from there to los angeles. and then i'm going to nevada and i'm going to nevada to thank them for the vote because we won

nevada overwhelmingly and that is usually a democratic vote and i want to thank people for the big vote. >> the leaders of the proud boys and the oath keepers were freed yesterday. back in 2021, you urged them to stand back and stand by, is there a place for them in the political conversation? president trump: i thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive. one of the guys took down a flag that was an antiamerican flag and was given years, many years in jail and i thought it was very excessive and at least the spacees we looked at these are people we they loved their country. >> is it also true that you asked them to consider recess

appointments for cabinet officials? president trump: marco got passed overwhelming with 99-0, which is pretty amazing. marco is going to do a grated job, secretary of state. i get he was the first one. 99-0. and the nothing was a vote that he would have gotten if we wanted to do it. you know who is doing a great job as vice president. [indiscernible] >> a trade -- [indiscernible] president trump: what i really want to have done and i was talking about that with the guys in the oval office. los angeles has massive amounts of water and turn the valve and the valve coming back from the

pacific northwest and millions of gallons of water a week and a day pours into california. goes all through california, down to los angeles. and they turned it off. the valve goes turns towards the pacific ocean and all of that goes towards the pacific ocean. if they did it what i told them to do -- i think it's great politically. what they have done, is they have destroyed the city. the sprinklers, their sprinklers like this right here, none of them had any water. they didn't have any water. the fire hydrants, 40% had no water. the brush was dry. everything was dry. the sprinklers on the lawn weren't allowed to be used. everything was dry. they created an inferno a turn

the valve back towards los angeles. just so you know, they have a valve a it turns. think of a sink and multiply it many times. and you turn it back towards los angeles. they either have a death wish, they're stupid or something else going on. but we want the water that they are throwing the way to be used for california. and that includes the farmers of california. when you drive up north, you see all of the land -- i couldn't believe it. i was with deficient and nunes and driving up the highways and the land is bone dry and an acre with the most beautiful green plants growing in it.

the most beautiful -- it's rich stuff. and look at the soil and it's so rich. that soil is almost the equivalents of iowa soil. it's phenomenal. it has no water. do you have a drought? no. what do you mean? it's dry as a bone. the reason you have like an acre, they say you can farm one acre but no more. but they throw the water into the pacific ocean. these people are crazy. we will be issuing an executive order demanding that they let that waterdom down to california. farmers and people link in beverly hills. believe it or not, they were having restrictions, they wanted to restrict to 38 gallons a day. sounds like a day. but when you are a rich person,

you would like to take a shower. 38 gallons doesn't last very long. and they have all this water. up high, pacific northwest. and some comes in from canada, comes all the way through california and restricted and even have the half pipes. big you ones, bigger than this one and go all the way down and bone dry and loaded up with water. isn't it incredible they don't do it? it's to protect the delta smelt. how are you protecting them by not giving it water? nobody can answer that question. [indiscernible question]

president trump: i heard about it, too. i have a right to make the deal. larry let's negotiate in front of the media. the deal -- and i met with owners of tiktok, the big owners. it's whortless. the whole thing is worthless. worth like a trillion dollars. what i'm thinking about is buy it and give half of the united states and give you a permit and a great partner in the united states and have something that is more valuable and have the ultimate partner and the united states will make it worth while for them in terms of the permits and everyone else. you have an asset that has no value or a trillion dollar value and whether or not the united states gives the permits. let the united states give the

permit and the united states get half. sounds reasonable. what do you think? [indiscernible] >> aren't you a sending a message that assaulting officers is ok? president trump: the opposite. i'm going to let be two officers, police from d.c., i believe they are from d.c. but i believe they are from d.c. but i just approved it, but they were arrested, put in jail for five years because they went after an illegal and i guess something happened and something went wrong and they arrested the two officers and put them in jail for going after a criminal, a rough criminal, by the way. i'm a friend of police more than any president that's ever been in this office. reporter: more than 400 of the people you pardoned, though,

assaulted officers. i want to talk about the -- j.d. vance said if you committed violence on january 6, obviously you should not be pardoned. why is your vice president wrong? president trump: well, only for one reason. they served years in jail. they should not have served -- excuse me -- and they served years in jail and murderers don't even go to jail in this country. and we had 1,500 -- we had 1,600 under review. we commuted 16 of them because it looks like they could have done things that were not acceptable for a full pardon but these people served years of jail. their lives have been ruined. listen to me for a second. stop interrupting. they have served years in jail and if you look at the american public -- the american public is tired of it. take a look at the election. just look at the numbers in the election. we won this election in a

landslide because the american public is tired of people like you that are just one-sided. horrible people in terms of crime. you don't talk about all the people that have been killed and what happens to those murderers. murderers get no time. you take a look at some of these d.a.'s, they go after political opponents but they don't go after people. they shoot people in the treat. they're caught. they know where they're living. they know everything. they don't even go to pick them up anymore. they just let them live there. they know all about it. they have the pictures. they have the tape of the shooting, and they don't even go up. and you're talking about this. no. we pardoned people that were treated unbelievably well -- poorly. in the history of our country there has not taken place. they are still looking for them but they are not looking for the murderers, the people killing everybody, but we are, though, and we're getting them out of the country. they are going to be gotten out of the country. they came in illegally from

jails and from prisons, they killed many people. some of them killed many people. about 50% of them killed more than one person. they were released into our country. that's what we're focused on, not the kind of nonsense you're talking about. reporter: you call for a cease-fire in ukraine. if vladimir putin doesn't come to the table to negotiate with you, will you put additional sanctions on russia? president trump: sounds likely. the war should have never started. if you have a competent president, which you didn't, the war in ukraine would not have happened. the war would not have happened if i were president because the election was rigged. go ahead. reporter: to keep or elame nate h 1-b's visas. do you want to keep them? president trump: i like both sides of the argument but i like very competent people coming into the country even though that means training other people

that may not have the qualifications they do but i don't want to stop -- and i'm not just talking about engineers. i am talking about people at all levels. we want competent people coming into our country. and h-b-1, i used the program. mate are a deis -- matre di's, even high-quality waiters, you have to get the best people. you go to people like larry and he needs engineers and masa. and this person needs engineers like nobody has needed engineers, right? we have to have the quality people coming in. by doing that we're expanding businesses and that takes cares of everybody. so i'm sort of on both sides of the argument. what i feel is we have to let really xe fent -- competent people, great people come into the country and we do that through that program. reporter: are you looking to impose tariffs on canada and mexico in an effort to force

negotiations on usmca? president trump: it has nothing to do with that. they've allowed, both of them -- canada very much so. they allowed millions and millions of people come into our country that shouldn't be here. they could have stopped them and they didn't and they killed 300,000 people last year, my opinion, have been destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl. the fentanyl coming through canada is massive. the fentanyl coming through mexico is massive, and people are getting killed and families are being destroyed. i mean, the son gets killed and the family is a basket case for the rest of their lives. i mean, i've seen mothers that thought they'd heal. they never heal. they say it gets worse with time. it gets worse with time. they lose their boy. they lose their baby. they lose their -- their young daughter to fentanyl poisoning. and i had that talk with

president xi the other day from china. we don't want that crap in our country. i had a deal with him where he was going to give the maximum penalty which in china is the death penalty for drug dealing and he was all set. he was going to give the maximum penalty to fentanyl dealers if they send to the united states, they were going to get the death penalty and, of course, biden didn't pick that up. i had that deal done. it was all wrapped up. we were going to get it done, and then the election went -- let's put it nicely. didn't go the proper way. i am trying to be nice about it. it was rigged. and we had an incompetent president elected and he never followed up on that deal, but he should have followed up because if they got the death penalty, they wouldn't be sending fentanyl to mexico, canada, and other places. reporter: how much will the -- president trump: we're thinking about that, too. we're talking about a tariff of 10% on china based on the fact they're sending fentanyl to mexico and canada.

reporter: how soon on those tariffs? president trump: probably february 1 is the date we're looking at. for mexico and china, we're talking about approximately -- approximately 25%. reporter: do you have an update on the gaza seas fire and were you -- cease-fire and are you planning to go to the middle east very soon? president trump: i think the hostages are coming back. they are coming back. some of them have been very, you know, very damaged. you look at the young lady with her hand practically blown off. you know how that happened, right? do you know how that happened? when you found out, you're not going to be too happy, because it was terrible. but the hostages are starting to come back. if i weren't here, they wouldn't be back ever. they would have never come -- they would have all died. if this were done a year earlier, if biden would have done this deal a year and a

half, two years ago, or frankly, it should have never happened. october 7 should have never happened. nobody should be dead. but through weakness they allowed it to happen and then it was a disaster from there. but you go back just six months ago, many of these young people were living -- you know, young people don't die like that. they are just dying. young people aren't dying at 22 and 23 years old. they don't die, but now they're dying, and you wonder why they're dying. they're being killed. and they have been killed, but they say six months ago you would have had 11 more living hostages. think of that. six months ago. but biden couldn't get it done, and it was only the imposition that i put on as a deadline that got it done. but it's -- it's a very sad situation. should have -- it should have never happened. two things should have never happened. inflation would have never happened except what they did to energy and their crazy spending.

and ukraine would have never happened. never. by the way, russia would have never gone into ukraine. i had a very strong understanding with putin. that would have never ever happened. he disrespected biden, very simple. he disrespects people. he's smart. he understands. he disrespected biden. and also, the middle east would have never happened because iran was broke. they had no money. they had no money for hamas. they had no money for hezbollah. it would have never happened. october 7 would have never happened, but it did happen, so this is the cards i've been given, and we're getting the hostages back. that would have never happened under biden. they would have never come back. they were just dying, not that slowly. they were dying or being killed, but that what was happening. reporter: are you going to keep sending weapons to ukraine or [indiscernible]? president trump: well, we're

talking with zelenskyy. we're going to be talking to president putin very soon. we'll see what happens. one thing i do feel: the european union should be paying a lot more they should be paying because under biden -- we're in there for $200 billion more. now, it affects them more than it affects us. we have an ocean in between. a little thing called a ocean. the european union should equalize. we're in there for $200 billion more than the european union. what are we, stupid. i guess the answer is yes, because they must think so. but the european union takes advantage of us tremendously us on trade and always have. if i didn't get involved years ago in my first term, one of the first things i noticed, they're not paying enough. and a lot of those countries were not paying -- the nato countries weren't paying. only seven out of 28 were paying. we were one of them. and poland was one. and they had a few of them and some were paying very proudly.

usually, the closer to the borderline of russia they were, the faster they paid, ok? the ones that were further away tended to not peso fast. -- not to pay so fast. nato should be at 5%, not at 2%. 2% is ridiculous. reporter: you mentioned president xi in your conversation about ukraine. you asked him get involved. president trump: you ought to get it settled because he's not done very much on that. he's got a lot of -- a lot of power, like we have a lot of power. i said, you ought to get it settled. we did discuss it, yes. reporter: the cryptocoin the other day. do you continue to sell products that benefit you personally while you're president? president trump: i don't know if we benefited. i launched it. i heard it was very successful. i haven't checked it. where is it today? reporter: you made a lot of money, sir.

president trump: how much? reporter: several billion dollars it seems like in the last days. president trump: several billion. that's peanuts for these guys. reporter: can you give us some sense -- president trump: he wrote me a nice letter. i did open it the other night. peter said, did you get the letter? the letter is sort of a tradition. you put it in the drawer, especially of the beautiful resolute defshg. it said: to number 47. i could show it because i think it was a nice letter. reporter: message-wise, what are you saying? president trump: just basically, it was a little bit of -- an inspirational-type letter. enjoy it. do a good job. important. very important. how important the job is. but i may -- i think it was a nice letter. i think i should let people see it because it was a positive -- for him in writing it, i

appreciated the letter. reporter: mr. president, were security concerns at all a factor when having your inauguration indoors? president trump: not at all. it was just cold. hey, look, if we would have -- i just went out to the helicopter to -- we say goodbye, it's a tradition. before it used to be a stage coach and then helicopters came along but that's been a tradition. you go out and you do that. we stood out there for 10 minutes and i tell you what, people were would -- would not have been able to get through that day. it was cold. don't let the sun fool you. tell me something, sunny days can get cold, because it was so freezing yesterday. you couldn't have gotten through it. it would have been -- and the answer is, no, it wasn't secured. with that being said, i thought the capitol -- the rotunda was beautiful. 72 degrees. unbelievable sound. you know, it's like being in an

opera house. i could see people wanting to do it there rather than outside. reporter: why did you remove john bolton's security clearance? president trump: i think it was enough time. we take a job. you take a job, you want to do a job, we're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. why should we? i thought he was -- i thought he was a very dumb person, but i used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with john bolton standing behind me they thought he'd attack them because he was a war-monger. he's the one that got us involved along with cheney and a couple of others convinced bush, which was a terrible decision, to blow up the middle east. we blew up the middle east and we left. we got nothing out of it except a lot of death. we killed a lot of people, and john bolton was, you know, one of those guys, a stupid guy. but, no, you can't have that for life. you shouldn't expect it for life.

reporter: you mentioned president zelenskyy, will that take place where? president trump: i don't know. president zelenskyy would like to have peace. he's told me that very strongly, he would like to have peace. but it takes two to tango. reporter: when will you meet president putin? president trump: millions people are being killed and they're being killed. it's a vicious situation. and there are now largely soldiers. a lot of people have been killed in the cities, they look like demolition sites. massive buildings bombed, coming down. the thing about ukraine, many people died than what you're reporting. i am not blaming you for that. i'm blaming maybe our government for not wanting to release those numbers. many more people died than what you know about. when those big buildings come down and they say two people were injured. no. no. many people. thousands of people are being killed. but the people, the real killing now is on the war front. it's a very flat land, and the only thing that stops a bullet

is somebody's body. and you have young soldiers. russia has lost about 800,000 soldiers now. ukraine's lost about 600,000 or 700,000. i think the numbers are low that they're giving out. but they've lost massive numbers of young soldiers. and that war should stop. it's very flat, you know, it's beautiful farmland and it's flat and really beautiful in a different kind of way but they don't have any protection. the only thing that stops a bullet is a body, and those bodies are stopping a lot of bullets and they're getting -- they're being decimated, both sides. reporter: in your conversation with president xi, what did you tell him about when to expect tariffs and how to avoid them? president trump: about what? we didn't talk too much about tariffs other than he knows where i stand. i have taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. until i was president, china

never paid. not 10 cents to the united states. with me they paid hundreds of -- $600 billion or so. maybe more of tariffs. and if i didn't do that, you wouldn't have a steel mill opened in the united states right now. you wouldn't have one steel mill open in the united states. so what i did is i saved the steel industry. i saved other industries, too, with other tariffs. other countries are big abusers, also. you know, it's not just china. china's an abuser, but the european union is very, very bad to us. they treat us very, very badly. they don't take our cars. they don't take our cars at all. they don't take our farm products, essentially. they don't take very much. we have a $350 billion deficit with the european union. they treat us very, very badly, so they're going to be in for

tariffs. it's the only way you're going to get fairness. you can't get fairness unless you do that, but the european union has treated us very badly. essentially everybody treats us very badly. you know, everybody treats us very badly. yes. go ahead. because we allowed them to. because we've had stupid people doing this and i can't -- i'd like to have these people negotiate for us. just for one week and we'd be a rich country again. but we'll be rich. reporter: mr. president, on a.i. data centers, will you rescind president biden's zek -- executive order that opens up federal lands for data centers and energy production? president trump: no, i wouldn't do that. that sounds to something i would like. i would like federal lands to be opened up for data centers. they will be very important. again, we have a lot of competition for that, so it's an honor to have these great people, great, great c.e.o.'s and great geniuses, all three.

it's an honor they want to come to our country. but we're going to make it as easy as we can for them because other countries want them, too. i am going to have to go now. thank you all very much. thank you. reporter: one question. do you have tiktok on your phone? president trump: no. but i think i will -- by the way, again, we won the young vote. i think i won it through tiktok. i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok. ok. thank you. reporter: thank you, mr. president. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: on wnesday, office of management and budg nominee, russell vought, will answer questions from senate budget committee hearings in his

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