retracted. >> dana: we know that his nominees are continuing their visits on capitol hill. the hearings start next week. after the terror attack in new orleans he will reiterate what mike waltz said. we need our team in place immediately. it is too important. i think he will take questions or make sure to comment on immigration and the economy. the two issues that helped get him elected. people will want to see some results on that. >> bill: it could go for an hour or longer. stay tuned. >> dana: i did my podcast last night. things to watch in the next four weeks but we broke it down between trump and the republicans and also biden and what he is doing and i'm sure president trump will talk about that as well. a big hour ahead and "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: fox news alert now. at any moment president-elect donald trump will speak for the

first time since congress certified his 2024 election victory and i'm told among other things -- there is a wide range of topics, he will talk about securing a brand-new foreign investor, a huge amount of money into the u.s. economy creating jobs. he will get into that. then simultaneously you will see on the right side of your screen there is travel that's involved right now with the casket and family of the former president jimmy carter who passed away about a week ago. his final trip to washington, d.c. is today and so that travel movement will be going on during this hour. a ceremony set for next hour during the news. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." president carter has been lying in repose in atlanta for two days. he is about to travel to the u.s. capitol as i just mentioned and lie in state tonight ahead of his national funeral service which is on thursday. fox team coverage, peter doocy is in washington with more on the incoming president, first

let's go to steve harrigan in georgia where the departure ceremony for president carter will soon begin. steve. >> harris, a beautiful blue sky here in atlanta, 28 degrees. the carter center has been preparing for this day for some time now. we're getting ready to see a departure ceremony with an honor guard. the body has lied in repose here in tens of thousands of people have come to pay their respects to the 39th president. carter's family said they are moved by the outpouring of affection and emotion for jimmy carter. >> he wants to be known as a peacemaker. as someone who promotes human rights. that love for freedom, the american ideal of democracy and equality and the idea that those values that our country has are the most powerful things about this nation. >> after the departure ceremony here carter's remains and his family heads to the air base and

flown to washington, part of the week-long memorial the highlight of which will be the state funeral on thursday. president biden will give the eulogy. before that carter will lie in state in the rotunda in honor 12 presidents before him has had. he will be buried next thursday in georgia next to his wife of 77 years. >> harris: thank you very much. i do want to get to this because we could just be a minute or so away now as we wait to hear from president-elect donald trump. tomorrow he is set to meet with republican leaders on capitol hill to talk about what he calls his quote, unquote, big, beautiful bill. trump has said he wants to put the bulk of his legislative agenda into one massive and ambitious package. of course, they are moving quickly in this transition period so he can be prepared to do that on day one. it includes new immigration laws, energy policies, tax overhaul and increase of the

national debt limit and cuts to federal programs. yesterday vice president kamala harris made her election defeat to trump official. she had to well, oversee all of that. >> the votes for president of the united states are as follows. donald trump of the state of florida has received 312 votes. [cheers and applause] kamala d. harris of the state of california has received 226 votes. >> harris: senior white house correspondent peter doocy is in d.c. >> the trump team is not confirming publicly the topic of his remarks to start any minute. top of mind for the president-elect today is greenland. still video of trump force one. don junior and representatives landing in greenland. reception great. they and the free world need

safety, security, strength, peace. this is a deal that must happen, make greenland great again. we know the president-elect will meet with senate republicans to put their heads together to figure out how to deliver on the ambitious day one promises especially on the economy and immigration. >> people want to do the border. rightfully so. the president can do a lot administrative there. i believe the border is a disaster and they could take disaster money and use that for the border. >> don't expect democratic lawmakers to let republicans start moving money from one bucket to another without a big fight. >> i think the parliamentarian in the senate should take a hard look at whether or not they are trying to camouflage their program stuff under budget reconciliation. that to me is what the danger here is.

>> that process will play out over the next several months. before that the number one job for republicans in the senate according to dr. barrasso is confirming trump's cabinet. those confirmation hearings start next week with pete hegseth and pam bondi. >> harris: on tuesday, january 14th, a week from today. gianno caldwell. as we await the president-elect to start speaking from mar-a-lago and potentially taking questions, since it is a news conference from reporters, what are your top line thoughts about where we are in the fast moving transition period? >> i think we're in a much better place than we saw in 2016. trump has gained the experience and knows who the players are and put people in position like pam bondi, who is on the advisory board of the caldwell institute for public safety and we love her and pete hegseth who

love america. donald trump i think him thinking of it in terms of putting everything in one legislative bill, perhaps two, some of the conversation as well, is a great idea. handle the issues the american people voted to put him back in office for. the border being one of the biggest issues because it is a national security issue for the entire country. economic issues like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. those are economic issues that union members, working and middle class people voted in favor of donald trump and inflation is another issue i think that even though it has gone down, some prices haven't come down. those are the issues the american people are looking to see him tackle. he will cover many of the issues in the press conference today and we'll see the legislative measures for them. >> harris: stay with me for a moment and we'll go to the president-elect the moment he steps up to the lectern. right now there is a ceremony putting the casket from the

carter center in georgia into the hearse and now his remains will head to the state capitol ahead of his official funeral, jimmy carter, on thursday. we're watching this. let's listen in for just a second. [band playing] ♪

>> harris: as we watch this in atlanta, georgia, he is being remembered for being obviously the 39th president of the united states, born in plains, georgia. we make note that at 100 years old so much has happened in his lifetime when he was born in georgia, the first american president born in a hospital. that's an entire lifetime of experience there. but also some of the things that have happened along the way, new presidents. i know gianno, you are with me now. the nation is getting ready to, as donald trump has said many times make a transition and turning point to a golden age. after 100 years of life for jimmy carter, then to usher in a new golden age is really interesting, i think. the country is going in a different direction politically

but the passage of time, i would say. the decades that have gone by and all that has happened in this particular president's lifetime would suggest, of course, there will be change. >> that's right. i'm reminded of something that barack obama said in 2004. it is not about red or blue states but about the united states. as we honor the life of jimmy carter who represented the united states despite his politics or what people believe about him in office he was someone who represented the united states of america, all of us and the impact of his administration still lives on today for many people. so much respect to his family and condolences as american president is now being laid to rest. >> harris: yes, as this is happening now, he of course is headed to the capitol ahead of that national funeral on

thursday. he will lie in state for the next day or so until that happens. and so much will be remembered about the time that he was in leadership even before the white house and what his life was like in georgia. and so from what i've been reading and what his own family has said, that they are just surprised by the outpouring particularly in the state of georgia. not only was he born there and grew up there and leadership started there but many times would go home and just kind of take in the world and being president isn't easy. we hear that often. so i wonder over the years how much has been talked to and about and with former presidents. we know they do talk to each other. on this day respectfully there is now a quiet moment as he gets ready on his final journey to the u.s. capitol. gianno. >> yes. this is one of those moments i think americans can all come together. we can come together despite our

differences and we can salute someone who served in that office. donald trump has talked about how this is such an exclusive club, being a president of the united states. someone who works with world leaders and for jimmy carter, he was the one who even out of office still talked to world leaders across the country and tried to leave a legacy in his philanthropic efforts to really help the world. that's what many people are remembering him for today. >> harris: you know, i look back on his service in the united states. he was in the army, the rank of lieutenant, 1946 to 1953. a farmer. he used to always talk about that. i remember that. and then he was a member of the georgia senate 1963 to 1967. governor of georgia from 1971 to 1975 before becoming president of the united states in 1977. you talk about the world and

really the leadership role that we are as a country. i want to bring in steve hilton, fox news contributor now. steve, the world is hot right now. it always is. there is always something going on. but particularly right now and right before the transition to arguably what will be a very different type of leadership in the united states certainly from what we've had in the last four years. and we won't get too much into politics as we watch this procession happen, but i want to get your take on where we are. >> i think the world is really yearning for leadership. not so much one time or another, just leadership because it is a scary time. i was over in europe over the holidays seeing family and friends in england and in france for a little bit. there is a lot of unease. a lot of anxiety. what was interesting actually was that even people who -- firm

opponents politically of donald trump all recognize that actually we're about to see a return of firmness and strength. actually regardless of your political posture on perhaps domestic issues, on some of these global issues the world does look to america for that sense of leadership. for having someone in charge that the bad guys will fear. i got that sense very strongly from pretty much everyone i spoke to when i was just in europe until a few days ago. >> harris: that's understandable. we're seeing world leaders, many of them in a position of flexing right now as biden departs office. you know, it does leave for some precarious moments around the globe. putin not afraid to flex now. north korea's leadership putting troops on the ground alongside of russian troops in ukraine. you can talk about their lack of fighting ability the north koreans, but the numbers of them and presence of that country on

the ground to help out russia makes a mark. we're watching live atlanta, georgia. the last trip that former 39th president of the united states, former president jimmy carter, will leave his home state and go to the u.s. capitol. go to the nation's capitol for the last time to lie in state. you have family, you have friends, you have people around the state of georgia from his time as governor, his entire life spent in that state. he died at 100 years old. the week before last. now we watch him depart. we'll watch this in silence for a moment and take in the moment. and as that hearse pulls out of sight we are awaiting the

president, the 47th president incoming to speak to the nation for the first time since his election results were certified yesterday. so as soon as president-elect donald trump walks up to that lectern, we'll begin the coverage. i see you nodding, gianno. it is always a moment, a breath, and then you move forward. >> that's right. jimmy carter was the longest living president in history. dying at age 100. no one has been there before. when we look at his work with the carter center and winning the nobel peace prize in 2002, he wanted to expand human rights. his goal and what he attempted to do around the world. someone who will be remembered for that. >> harris: let's talk about the president-elect coming up and some of the things he will hit today. we do know that there is a lot going on around the world. steve, you set that up. i want to talk domestically,

though. what i understand from his team this morning is that he will touch on now this new foreign investment. investor that he has secured, $20 billion that he will announce will go to job creation and how that will fan out across the united states. these are big moments that the nation hasn't really seen much of since 2016. every president has his challenges along the way. inflation undoubtedly was biden's but you have to be able to multi-task with such a huge economy. what do you make of what we'll potentially see? >> i think it is just incredibly exciting sign of the changes that we are about to see because some people might say multi-trillion dollar economy, what is $20 billion. a big number but nothing in the comparison to the overall size of the economy. maybe a few hundred jobs or

thousand job. what is that in comparison to the millions of americans? it sends a message, a signal that america is open for business. it welcomes investment. we'll have a job, an entrepreneur friendly economy. a president who wants to cut taxes. i worked in businesses and started my own companies both here and on the other side of the atlantic. these are very personal decisions, these investment decisions. you have people who lead companies, ceos, finance directors and they see an announcement like this, whatever it will be, and they say what's going on? maybe we should be in america as well. maybe we should take a look. so one initiative like this can lead to many, many others. it tells a story about the revival of the american economy that is incredibly positive. >> harris: the timing of it i think is particularly important considering what is happening with biden leaving. he is just leaving a trail of tears economically behind him as

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>> harris: quick off the top i want to make a correction. the former president, jimmy carter, 39th united states president, served as a lieutenant in the navy from 46 to 1953. i want to correct that. i said the army. sometimes as an army brat i make that mistake. i hope his family and others will forgive me. i knew it was navy. we'll move on. waiting to hear from president trump set to give a news conference at any moment. his first since the election certification, which was yesterday, you know. we could hear him address a few things. particularly this, which you also watched live during this hour yesterday. canadian prime minister justin trudeau announcing that he will resign from the head of his party and as soon as they replace him, the liberal party, then he will resign his position as prime minister. conservatives in canada are

applauding trudeau's resi resignation. this was the truck drives during the height of the pandemic. they were protesting covid restrictions. the headline trudeau exits stage. canadian truckers 1, prime minister 0. with trudeau on the way out can p canadians get their free speech back. good riddance. another giving trump credit. trump helped shiv justin trudeau before he even takes office. kat cammack was with me yesterday. >> it has been a long time coming. i think you are seeing a realignment happening where the people of that nation are sick and tired of tyrannical rule. putting the sovereign nation

first and i think we have president donald trump to thank for that. i think he sat down across the table from president-elect donald trump and said you know, i don't think i'm qualified to handle this and i think that's why we're seeing him exit stage left. >> harris: back with me live is steve hilton. one of the things i said yesterday was we aren't shocked. when he was at mar-a-lago and trump suggested maybe canada becomes part of the united states, would you like to be the governor of the 51st state, prime minister trudeau. it became a meme, his reaction. >> it was fantastic. it was the final humiliation and the final nail in the coffin. canadians could see this guy has embarrassed us enough and it is too much now. i think all of us here in america can see a real parallel.

someone very like trudeau right here in america, the governor of my home state, california. parallels are uncanny. you have all this endless lecturing and climate, equity, justice and all these things they lecture. meanwhile the actual performance and the lives of people just go from worse and worse and worse because of the taxes, the mismanagement and incompetence. it is a strong parallel. the other thing that's so similar with trudeau and gavin newsom is their manner. people are sick of fakery in politics. sick of the acting that goes around. you saw that with the kamala harris campaign and tim walz. they want authenticity. a combination of the substance of trudeau's mismanagement plus. >> harris: you can see it from the monitor. president-elect donald trump. let's watch. >> an honor to be with you. many things are happening that are exciting. very exciting for our country.

and we are honored to welcome one of the most respected business leaders in the middle east, indeed the world. he is a founder and chairman of the mack properties. a very respected gentleman. i'm thrilled to announce today that he will be investing at least $20 billion over a very short period of time into the united states and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money. it is a great thing. i believe he will say that he is doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election. he wouldn't do it without that election. i can tell you, a lot of people wouldn't. you saw last week we have somebody who is going to go from $1 hundred to $2$00 billion and we'll bring some people out.

some like to do it more quietly and some don't. they feel so strongly about the country that they want to let people know about it. but it is an honor to have such a great investor investing in our country. the investment will support massive new data centers across the midwest. sun belt area and also to keep america on the cutting edge of technology and artificial intelligence. he is very big into the data centers and a very hot item in the coming years as you know with a.i. in particular. the first phase of the project will be in texas, arizona, oklahoma, louisiana, ohio, illinois, michigan, and indiana. those places. and hussain, i would love for you to come up and say a few words. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you, mr. president. it has been amazing news for me and my family when he was

elected in november. we've been waiting four years to increase our investment in the u.s. to a very large amount of money. we are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world. we have delivered more than 45 thousand luxury units and another 45 thousand in the pipeline. we are in 10 countries around the world in asia, europe and middle east. and we are very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to the u.s. for the last four years we've been waiting for this moment and we are planning to invest $20 billion and even more than that if the market will allow us. at the moment we're planning $20 billion in data center indicatoring for a.i. and cloud business. thank you, mr. president. >> a great honor.

so nice. that man knows what he is doing. he knows. so hussain, we'll work with you to make sure everything goes smoothly. we have powers that haven't really been used in terms of wire on mentheal. if you invest over a billion dollars in the united states we'll give expedited' views to everyone. people think they'll come and get caught in the quagmire of environmental and other rules. i tell people if you invest a billion dollars or more and do it with people with far less, too. we guarantee it we'll move them quickly through the environmental process. sometimes people are held up 12, 13, 14, 15 years. i saw it with plants in louisiana where i got it approved in a week. they were through the review and

one week after spending 14 1/2 years trying to get it and they were going nowhere. it was a terrible thing. so i've been a victim of that myself over the years. and i think i know all the games and all the tricks that are played. much of it is just done to stop progress. we are going to be helping you and everybody else that comes to the united states and wants to invest their money that you don't get tied up for the rest of your life and can't do anything. this commitment further underscores that many of the greatest business leaders on earth are seeing a very bright economic future for america. since the election, as you know, very -- a lot of positive things have happened. we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration and they are trying everything they can to make it more difficult. inflation is continuing to rage and interest rates are far too

high. i've been disappointed to see the biden administration's attempt to block the reforms of the american people and that they voted for. we had a landslide election and won every swing state and the popular vote by millions and millions of people. nobody knows how many people, millions, and they are still counting in some areas. you know they are still counting the vote in some areas. can you believe this? what a place. what a horrible place. one of the things we'll do is we have to fix the election so we get honest counts and they get done by 10:00 in the evening or something thereabouts. there are places where they are still counting votes. president biden's actions yesterday on off shore drilling, banning it, will not stand. i will reverse it immediately. it will be done immediately. and we will drill, baby, drill. we'll drill in a lot of other

locations and the energy costs will come way down. they will be brought down to a very low level. that's going to bring everything else you down. that's what caused it to go up, along with the ridiculous spending on the green new scam. all this money, trillions of dollars. like throwing it out the window what they are doing. they are trying to spend so much now. they are taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it's certified under the green new scam. and they don't work and it is too expensive. and you know they told me that we are going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new administration very smooth. it is not smooth because they are doing that. they are playing with the courts as you know. they've been playing with the courts for four years. probably got me for votes. i got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a republican by far actually. by a lot. and we had a great election.

i guess it didn't work but even to this day they are playing with the courts and their friendly judges that like to try to make everybody happy on the democrat side. it is called lawfare, weaponization of justice and it has happened at a level nobody has ever seen before. i defeated deranged jack smith. he is a deranged individual. i guess he is on his way back to the hague. we won those cases. those were the biggest ones. the press made such a big deal out of them but we did nothing wrong. we did nothing wrong on anything. the people saw that. when they vote -- when a republican -- not easy for a republican. when the republican wins the popular vote by millions and wins all seven of the swing states, people said well, he could four. we won all seven and won them by a lot. that tells you we won and they've been watching this injustice. i call it the injustice departme what they've done is so bad.

the whole world has watched that. it took work but got me a lot of votes. we have a judge in new york who is a very crooked judge. i'm under a gag order. i can't talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects. i'm under a gag order. i am the president-elect of the united states of america and i'm a former very successful president. we had the greatest economy in the history of our country. borders that were sealed and everything was good. no wars. we defeated isis. we had no wars. now i'm going into a world that's burning with russia and ukraine, with israel, you took a look at that attack on october 7th. the attack on israel, with the horrible way they got out. not the fact that they got out. i would have been out before them but we would have been out of afghanistan. with strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of fools with 13 dead and many, many

horrifically injured. nobody talks about them. no arms or legs. nobody ever talks about them. the way they got out was outrageous, leaving billions of dollars of brand-new military equipment that i bought in the hands of the afghans and specifically the taliban. it is the group. and we were doing very well. we would have been out and we would have been respected. i think it is one of the reasons it so badly handled where people were falling off the sides of airplanes 3 thousand feet in the air. and nobody has ever seen anything like that. the worst. and because of that, i think russia went and attacked ukraine. whether they saw that they said these guys are incompetent and don't know what they are doing. we know what we're doing now. and that is going to all end. i defeated isis. we were in no wars. i just finished a couple and we

got also our soldiers guarding syria and turkey. we're in the middle. had 5 thousand soldiers. it would have been gobbled up with two armies. we had another one 5000 people in the middle. how do they do in that case? the general looked and me and said not well, sir, not well. i took them out. you know what happened? nothing. i got criticized. i saved 5000 lives actually. and we did a great job and we will do an even better job. now we have a tremendous amount of experience. we have people that i can rely on. the 625 million acres. people can't realize. that's like the whole ocean. take an acre. you have a house on half an acre or a quarter acre or an acre. if you have an acre you have a big deal.

now you multiply that by 625 million acres. it's like -- feels like the whole ocean. and that's our strength. you know, people can say we manufacture, we don't manufacture. the thing we have, we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world. we will have more of it, too. but they took away 625 million acres of-off shore drilling. nobody else does that. i will put it back on day one. if we need to -- i don't think we have to go to the courts. they try to be sneaky. they go in and they say, remember, this is a man that says he wants the transition to be smooth. you don't do the kind of things. you don't very a judge working hard to embarrass you. i did absolutely nothing wrong. if i did something wrong i

wouldn't be standing here now. i've won all the cases. nobody has won that many cases as i have against the justice department. jack smith had cases all over the place. lives were being ruined. they were being -- they were subpoenaing people that had no idea what they were talking about. it's a sick group of people and all to influence the election. it was all a fight against a political opponent. we have never had that in this country. we have had that in certain countries. we've had that in third tier countries, we've had that in banana republics but we've never had that in a place like the united states. i don't even know if it's been on a small level. i'm sure it has been on a small level. this was the largest level ever. he is a a mean, nasty guy out of the hague. you look at his picture and say

that's a bad guy with his purple robe. he executes people. he shouldn't be allowed to execute people. he will execute everybody. he is a nut job. we won all of those cases with him and i don't know the judge in florida, but we had a brilliant judge in florida that saw right through it. we won the case. she was a brilliant judge with great courage. you know, the left, as we call them. the radical left, they have a way -- they play rough and they play it very hard. they play the ref. they say horrible things about judges and prosecutors and some judges and prosecutors say look, the only way i will get these people off my back is to give victory to them. they play the ref. i think it is illegal what they do. it is worse than talking to a judge. but the judge in florida, judge cannon, was brilliant and tough and she didn't stand for it.

i don't know her. never met her until the case. i don't believe i said even one word to her. but she was very, very strong and very, very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant they dropped their appeal. they couldn't beat the appeal. that's what we're up against. they say we'll have a smooth transition. all they do is talk. it's all talk. everything they do is talk. we'll have a transition and take 625 million acres and landmark it so you can't ever drill there again. we'll be drilling soon. we'll be opening up anwar and doing all sorts of things that nobody ever thought was even possible. but remember when -- just to get off the subject. i couldn't believe it when i heard it yesterday. i couldn't believe the size of it. put down a map. it is just massive. and remember that that's worth probably -- i have had estimates

40 to $50 trillion. more than our national debt. essentially he is throwing it away. he is throwing it away. he has taken $50 trillion. if we owe 35 trillion, he has taken 50 trillion of value and thrown it right out the window. one other thing he did yesterday which was in many ways worse. hard to believe it can be worse. he wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments. he wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters. i don't know what it is with electric. this guy loves electric. we'll end the electric car mandate quickly. this guy loves electric and we don't have enough electricity and we have a.i. where he needs more and i wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater. gas heater is much less expensive. the heat is much better. it is a much better heat as the

expression goes, you don't itch. does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratch and itch? that's what they want you to have. they don't want you to have gas where you don't have the problems of the electric. and the source is plentiful. they are much cheaper to operate and much better and look and work much better. 60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters. he wants them all removed quickly. these people are crazy. there is something wrong with them. there is something wrong with them. they also want to go back and they have already started that to when you buy a faucet no water comes out. even in areas that have so much water you don't know what to do. it is called rain comes down from heaven. and they want to do no water comes out of the shower. it goes drip, drip, drip so what happens? you are in the shower 10 times as long, you know? no water comes out of the

faucet. you want to wash your hands. they want to go back to stronger than what we have now. as you know, i ended that policy. makes no difference. you can have all the water you want. in some areas we have so much water we don't know what to do with it. these are all things. they want very little water to go into your dishwasher, almost none? they kept pressing and keep it going. they end up using more water. likewise washing machines. they want in your washing machine very little water coming out of the washing machine so when you wash your clothing you have to wash it four times instead of once. you end up using more water. we are a party of common sense and things that i'm telling you now is really all about common sense. january 20th we'll turn the economy around very quickly. right now when i think of our economy i think about inflation. that's what we have. we have inflation. i believe at a level that we never had before.

there has never been anything like it. over the next four years the united states is going to take off like a rocket ship. but really it's already doing it. if you take a look. just last month announced 2 hundred billion. i think it will be 2 hundred. he said between 100 and i said how about making it 200. creating more than 100, 000. hussain will come and do it and do a great job and build the best centers in the country. i know the way he builds. since my election the stock market has set records. s&p 5 hundred index has broken above 6 thousand points for the first time ever. never even close. in a single month small business optimism soared 41 points. it went up 41 points.

and that's the largest in the 39 year history of the group that does it. according to gallup the american people's confidence in the economy has surged to the highest level in history. i take the greatest business leaders in the world and you want to say you will invest the money? they aren't looking for news conferences. they are saying what am i doing? they invest money but it is good to know where smartest business people in the world are investing. they are investing in the united states. so we've done this all in two months of not being there. we haven't been there. and it's pretty amazing. we think we'll do some really great things, really great things. we're being respected again all over the world. panama canal is a disgrace. jimmy carter gave it to them for

$1 and they were supposed to treat us well. it was a terrible thing to do. the most expensive structure ever built in the history of our country relatively. it would be the equivalent of over -- substantially over a trillion dollars today. we lost 38,000 people. think of it. 38,000 people died from malari -- we gave it away for a dollar. the deal was that, you know, they have to treat us fairly. they don't treat us fairly. they charge more for our ships than ships of other countries. they charge more for our navy than they charge for navy at other countries. they laugh at us because we think we're stupid. we're not stupid anymore. the panama canal is under discussion with them now. they violated every aspect of the agreement and morally

violated it also. they want our help because it's leaking and not in good repair. they want us to give $3 billion to help fix it. i said why don't you get the money from china? china is basically taking it over. china is at both ends of the panama canal. china is running this. they come to see biden, this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president. of course she shouldn't have either. that never happened. had to be two people. not one. they want $3 billion to fix the panama canal run by china and makes a lot of money, china. one of the most profitable structures ever built. you have ships lined up back to florida and they keep going through and the numbers are staggering. half a million to a million dollars a ship. they took it away from us meaning we gave it to them for

$1. not going to happen. what they've done to us. they've overcharged our ships, overcharged our navy. and then when they need repair money they come to the united states to put it up. we get nothing. those days are over. working with the republican majorities in congress we'll cut taxes, slash regulations, raise wages and boost incomes at the pace that world hasn't seen before and certainly not from our country. we had a big chunk of it for the first three years prior to covid coming in. we cut the most regulations in the history of our country. i did that all in four years. by four times more than any other president cut we did that in four years. and we were just getting started. we'll impose new tariffs so the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words made in the usa.

and we are not treated well, as you know, by canada. canada is subsidized to the tune of about $2 hundred billion a year plus other things. they don't essentially have a military. they have a very small military. they rely on our military. it's all fine but, you know, they have to pay for that. it's very unfair. i have so many great friends, one of them is the great one, wayne gretzky. i said run for prime minister. you will win. it will take two seconds. he said well, am i going to run for prime minister or governor? i said let's make it gov nameplate i like that better. something has to be done. we have a massive deficit with mexico. we help them a lot. they are run by the cartels essentially. and can't let that happen. mexico is really in trouble. a lot of trouble.

a very dangerous place. and we're going to be announcing a future date pretty soon we are going to change because we do most of the work there and it is ours. we are going be changing. the opposite of biden closing everything up and getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion worth of assets, we'll be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america, which has a beautiful ring. that covers a lot of territory. the gulf of america. what a beautiful name. it is appropriate. it's appropriate. and mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. they can stop them. and we are going to put very serious tariffs on mexico and canada. they come through canada, too. the drugs coming through are at record numbers. record numbers. so we are going to make up for that by putting tariffs on

mexico and canada. substantial tariffs. we want to get along with everybody but, you know, it's got -- it takes two to tango. we are approaching the dawn of america's golden age. it will be a golden age for america. we have things than nobody else has. we have more natural resources. number one, i made us number one in a very short period of time in drilling. and you know you can talk about windmills. they litter our country. they litter our country like dropping paper, like dropping garbage in a field. that's what happens to them because in a period of time they turn to garbage. most expensive energy ever. they only work if you get subsidy. the only people that want them are those getting massive sub

see dees. many times more expensive than clean natural gas. so we're going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built. off the coast of new jersey they want to build 2 hundred windmills. people are going crazy. nobody wants them. they are very expensive. they don't work without subsidy. energy is a good business, you don't need subsidy. when you build this massive towers. 25 stories and 40 stories tall, one 70 stories tall. the blades take three ships to ship them. it is crazy. they are dangerous. you see what's happening up in the massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales wash ashore in a 17 year period and now they had 14 this season. the windmills are driving the whales crazy and they had over -- 125 over a number of years and we don't want that to

happen. it is a disaster. it is amazing the way a true environmentalist would say we love wind. it sounds good. after 10 years you have to redo them. what happens is they don't do that. they let them stand and rust and they say because of the environment. i'm not a believer in this. you can because it's a certain fiberglass that the blades cannot be buried in earth. what do you do with them? what do you do with them? i don't know if you've ever gone to palm springs, california where you have long-term windmills standing. they are a disaster. rusting, rotting, closed, falling down. this is as you enter palm springs. they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down. why should they take them down? it is very expensive to take them down and you can't do anything with them. you can't bury the blades because of environmental protection. we're at the beginning of a

great, beautiful golden age of business. and i think we're also at a golden age of common sense. everything i'm saying to you from a simple water faucet that don't allow water to come out appropriately and all the other elements of what we do and what we're going to do. to take 50 to 60 trillion dollars off our country's balance sheet because of a man that has no idea what he is doing. you and i know it. the democrats know it. it is a crime by allowing it to happen. i bet if you asked him today how much acreage did you submit, essentially did you destroy, you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean. and with a.i. coming along. a lot of people don't realize that a.i. will be a big thing

but you will need double the electricity at least that we have right now. right now we produce electric tris tease for many different things. a.i. is a big deal in terms of the future. china is already building electric facilities. big, bold electric facilities and you know how they are being fired up? with coal. they are being fired up with coal. and we are going to build bigger and better ones. people like hussain that are doing the same thing as he is. i bet they don't do it as well. i know how he does it. they are doing a lot of things. they can't get permits. i say build the plant with the building. with the structure the, build the plant. the grids are old. so they said that's a great idea. in other words, build your electric facility alongside of your plant. and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it, you can make it larger and have extra output to sell to

the public and build it with the plant. people love that idea. we will have a lot of fun making america great again and it will happen, i think, very quickly. it has already happened. i would say this. this has been pretty openly reported by the news. never been anything like happened since we won the election, a couple months, the whole perception of the whole world is different. people from other countries have called me and said thank you, thank you. the perception of the whole world is different. we will have to settle some big problems that are going on right now. we'll have to settle up with russia, ukraine. that's a disaster. i look at numbers every week. people don't know, mostly soldiers being killed. the towns have been obliterated. it was a biden fiasco. that should have never happened. if we had a real president. if we had a president that knew

what he was doing russia would have never gone in. they did go in and we have a mess. cities are all blown up. people left and soldiers are killing each other at levels not seen since the second world war. that's a tough one. much tougher now than before it started. the deal could have been made by an average deal maker. deal could have been made on that. so thank you all for coming. we'll take a couple of questions. yeah. go ahead, please. >> thank you. wanted to touch on the world on fire that you mentioned. but let's start if we could with your references to greenland and panama canal, can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? >> no. >> can you tell us what your plan?

>> no. are you going to negotiate a treaty, are you asking the canadians to hold a vote? >> president donald trump: i can assure you you are talking about panama and greenland, and i can say this, we need them for economic security. the panama canal was built for the military. >> will you -- >> president donald trump: i'm not going to commit to that. it may be that you have to do something. the panama canal is vital to our country. it's being operated by china. china! we gave the panama canal to panama, not china. it was a gift. they abused that gift. giving the panama canal is why jimmy carter lost the election, in my opinion, maybe more so than the hostages, the hostages were a big deal, and but if you remember -- and nobody wants to talk about the panama canal because it's inappropriate, i guess. because it's a bad part of the carter legacy. but he was a good man.

look, he was a good man. i knew him a little bit. and he was a very fine person. but that was a big mistake. giving the panama canal to panama was a big mistake. they lost 38,000 people. it cost us the equivalent of a trillion dollars -- maybe more than that. probably the most expensive -- they say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which i guess you can, ever built. and giving that away was a horrible thing, and i believe that's why jimmy carter lost the election even more so than the hostages. those two things. >> if i could qualify on ukraine and iran, the two negotiations you'll be heading into. on ukraine, you said just before it's a lot more complicated now. >> president donald trump: much more complicated. because it would have never started. >> but it has started. >> president donald trump: well, not only started, but the cities are knocked down. >> you've got what you got. at this point, to hold on the leverage and dealing with president putin, would you make a commitment to th