penalty making fentanyl and sending it into the united states. then we had a very unusual result in the election. we had a rigged election we had a very unusual result. it went nowhere. he would have absolutely done it. he shook hands on it. and biden didn't follow anything up. but, if that would have happened, you would have had a lot less gent deaths i can tell you. you would have had very little fentanyl coming in to the southern border. last week i also signed an order that will designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. that's a very big designation. [applause] and as we are fighting hard to get birthright citizenship or automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, that's another way. it's automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens. that's the other term that they use, which is actually more accurate, more understandable. and it's ridiculous. we are the only country that has

it and certainly the only country that has it to that extent. and it wasn't meant, if you look, it was really meant for children of slaves. this is when it happened. the children of slaves. it was not meant for everyone to come into our country by airplane or charging across the borders from all over the world and think they are going to become citizens. it's not meant for that it wasn't meant for that hopefully at some point the courts will understand that without having to go through a whole big deal. this was meant for the children of slaves and look at the timing of it and you will see. and i hope judges will understand that and it has to stop. because it's really hurting our country very badly. in the coming weeks, i'm looking forward to working with congress on a reconciliation bill that financially takes care of our plans to totally and permanently restore the sovereign borders of the united states once and for all. [applause] this should include full funding for record increase in border security personnel and retention

bonuses for ice and border patrol. these people are incredible people. i got to know them so well. i was on the phone with them all the time when i was president. when she was the border czar. she never called them. remember? we went like four years and they started asking her did you ever speak to -- no. we asked the border patrol did you ever speak to the president -- the head of the border patrol? did you ever speak to the vice president who was your border czar? no, i never got to speak to her. this was a terrible thing that was going on. this was a con job. we also need a massive increase in the number of detention beds and funding for all border security infrastructure and barriers including the completion of the border wall. we did 500 miles of wall and that's one of the reasons we had the lowest number. you remember the famous chart that i looked to my right, bring down the chart and i looked to my right, something went right by and but that chart, i don't know if they have it now, frankly, i didn't tell them to bring it, but they are very competent people. if you have the chart, put it up. if you don't, that's okay.

too. that chart showed we had the lowest number of illegals coming into our country in history. i love the chart. even if it didn't show that i would have loved that chart. i wouldn't be here right now without that particular chart. but it was pretty amazing. it was pretty really amazing. and we did a great job. we had the lowest -- the week i left office, we had the lowest number of illegal immigrants coming into our country that we ever had. simultaneously record investment in interior enforcement including deportation flights and aircraft as well as funding for our new task force to eradicate the presence of foreign gangs. we have. so worst foreign gangs. it's not even believable. and criminal networks that have brought devastating crime to american soil. we are getting them all out. we are getting them all out. i won on that, you know. >> it's like some people explain it very well. they say gee-whiz, they look people as you know in colombia

they agreed with us. marco rubio and i worked together department of a great job. we really did and mike waltz. we have a great group of people. but we were being scolded because we had them in shackles. in an airplane. and he said this is no way to treat people. now, you understand these are murder he iss. gang lords. drug members you ever met or seen. how would you like to be the pilot of a plane. two pilots up there and 300 people sitting on the plane, every one of them either a murderer, a drug lord, a king pin of some kind, the head of the mob. or a gang member, and you are flying that plane. it's not going to end well. ever see the movie con air? [laughter] that's what except here's the difference. the people in con air were actors. they weren't nearly as tough as these guys. i would say that plane would be gone before it ever left. those pilots would be gone

before it ever left. they don't want us to shackle them. i don't want to be in that plane. i want to thank every republican house member for voting to pass the laken riley act. first enforcement only bill. [applause] that's been passed in three decades. i met the parents laken they were incredible people. they were just so devastated. i can't even explain to you. you can't say somebody's life is over but essentially their life is so different. it can never be the same. she was beautiful. she was great. great person. but to have a bill of such importance named after her is a great tribute. but what these parents and, you know, you have so many of them where they have lost a loved one to crime. but to this new form of crime. criminal illegal aliens, it's massive. the numbers are massive. and you add that to the crime we already had. this shows the potential for

additional enforcement bills that will help us crack down on criminal aliens and totally restore the rule of law in our country. i'm also eager to get to work with congress on the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in american history. we don't want to get hung up on the budget process. we just want whether it's one bills two, bills, i don't care. they are going to work it out one way are othe other. the end result is going to be the same. we want to have all of those benefits we want to keep people's taxes low and make them lower. that's not just rich people. it's everybody. proportionately the lower scale much more so than the higher scale not only must we extend the permanent trump tax cuts if you don't 60% increase keep my promises with no tax on tips.

no tax on social security and no tax on overtime we're working very hard to get them done i went to nevada the last couple of days. i started off in north carolina. i didn't want to forget the people of north carolina were treated so badly by fema. and they came to me, they said, sir, you are going it california tomorrow. i said well, what about north carolina? well, we will do that another time. i said no, we won't. i'm stopping in north carolina first. stopped there and met great people. franklin graham has done a fantastic job others also and i met people devastated. the democrat party with fema, their fema did absolutely nothing. and we have that worked out. your congressman are helping very much there. your three congress people are working hard on that thing michael whatley and lara trump wants to be involved, too.

michael and lara unbelievable as the head of the rnc unbelievable. you know why i picked michael. i showed ran north carolina? tell me. in 2016 election, we did so -- we did so well and then in 2020, we did great in north carolina. but, others we watched ping, iowa ping. what going on. 601 lawyers working for him and they didn't play games in north carolina. i said that's the guy i want to run it. and michael whatley has done an unbelievable job. and he worked with lara so well. she comes from that state, from north carolina. they have done such an incredible job. so, thank you very much. i want to thank you in front of leadership. [applause] incredible.

i don't want to give another job most important job. sir i will go everywhere. i said i don't want you to go anywhere. i want you to stay where you are. we will give you plenty of money to get the job done, right? we don't want to lose you. he could do anything, actually. but he is very talented person. there is nothing more important because we have to win in two years and we have to win in four years. there is nobody better to head it up. thank you very much, michael. stand up. on on just an incredible job. [applause] , really amazing are. >> i wanted to leadership. i say it all the time people don't know what i'm talking about. leadership know what is i'm talking about the two of you as a team unbelievable. administration will also be working to implement people said

inflation and economy and border was third. i felt the border was first. i think people understand that you can't have people pouring in from the prisons all over the world and from mental institutions all over the world and dumped into our country. so i talked about that much more so than i did inflation. i think was worse than the history of our country. could only talk about it so long. the price of apples doubled. the price of bacon quadrupled. severing a disaster. and you say it and then what do you do? i could give examples of what they're doing to destroy our country. i felt it was the strongest thing. you know, it's funny in 2016 i won on the border. in 2020 we did so well i couldn't talk about the border. my people would say sir, don't bring up the border. nobody wants to hear it. no, i did a great job. it was a horrible border in 2016. and then, but, that border was beautiful compared to what we have now. so, i didn't talk about it. and we did great. i mean, look, i got millions of

more votes in 2020 than i got in 2016. nobody ever got -- got the most votes of any republican in history in 2020. but this time i said's make it too big to rig. make it too big to rig and that's what happened. and they couldn't -- they tried. they tried, these cheaten guys they tried. but they gave up. he brought taxes down 40% to 21%. everybody said was impossible. >> i did it with these people up here and a lot of people there great congressman. i want to be naming all of them. i would be naming them all night. looking at these people so great ruffle and you and every single look at virginia, she is a killer. nobody would know she is a killer. i got all these congressman. i want to name every one of them but i got like 100 and something. people say let's get the hell out of here this is getting very boring. i will tell you as a group and individually they are incredible people. every one of them i like.

although every once in a while somebody votes against me i don't like them for a little while. we like every one of them. this guy has the ability to get along with everybody he has to when you have a majority of really five. they say one but it will be. right now it's one. i want to make them sound a little better. but he has an ability to get along with people he is very smart and very tough. everyone likes him because he is a high quality person. very religious person and is he a high quality person. [applause] you know, we have other guys here. and i know that everybody likes them but they are about -- like one of them in particular i love this guy so much. i won't name him because i don't want to embarrass him. i don't know if he would be happy or not happy. but is he very, very strong. very, very popular but he has 36 people that won't vote for him that's a small percentage. tom has a couple people probably

beaten badly and beaten up. little tougher. i became friendly with him. i didn't really know him and over the last year or so i have become friendly. is he incredible leader. you really are you have a couple of people more than one. but the it that way. >> they all love him. your wife loves you. that i can tell you. he has a great -- where are you? stand up, please. come on. what a great wife and family. that's true. thank you. she is a great -- look at her. very popular, isn't she? huh? more than you, very popular. i'm bringing the taxes down 21 to 15%. but only if they make their product in america. so if they make their product in america, we are bringing it down. so if you think of it.

we took it down from 40 to 15%. but, again, you keep 21, but you go down to 15 if you make your product here. we are going to have so many businesses moving back into our country and remember, again, the word tariff. we are going to protect our people and our businesses and we are going to protect our country with tariffs. and you got a little indication of that yesterday with a very strong country. colombia is traditionally a very, very strong country. if they don't make their product in america they should have to pay a tariff which will bring in trillions of dollars neuro treasury from countries that never paid us 10 cents. we are not going to let that happen. we are not going to let them destroy our country. and in the words of president mckinley who is the tariff king. the protective system invokes the highest law of nature that a self-preservation and that is self-preservation. there is every reason founded in justice why the american producer should in any way be

favored against a foreign producer whose products compete with his. we have made enormous cost capital insertion and we did that through exertion and brain and muscle and guts and santana. foreign wars. fantastic. the farm producer has contributed nothing to the growth or development if you want to share with the citizens of the united states our home market. you must pay for the privilege of doing it. in other words, you have to pay for the privilege of coming neuro country, taking our jobs taking our product and destroying our countries. we mentioned north carolina the furniture business what they have done. i used to go down to north carolina all the time for hotels i was building. and they had the most

incredible, whole thing wiped out by china but just wiped out. going to come roaring back. it's all going to come roaring back. we will put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean us harm. they mean us harm but they actually want to make their country good. look what others do. india and brazil. some countries. and so we're not going to let that happen any longer because we're going to put america first. always put america first. that's what is going to happen. we're going to establish we're going to establish a very fair system where where money is going to come into our coffers and america is going to be very rich again and it's going to happen very quickly. it's time for the united states to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before. the united states in 1870 to

1913 all tariffs and that was the richest period of the united states relatively speaking. in other words, relatively. they set up the great tariff commission of 1887. and this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. it was so enormous that they had no idea it was a blue ribbon committee was set up 1887. and what to do with all of the money that we had and again, teddy roosevelt was a beneficiary, because when mckinley was killed. he took over this vast sum of money and he did all of those national parks all of the other things and i'm not knocking him but he was given a vast amount of money and that was all made through tariffs. we had no income tax. the income tax came in 1913. as i said in my speech last night and said if taxing our citizens to enrich foreign

nations, we should be terrifying and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. does that make sense, right? [applause] under the american first economic model tariffs in other countries go up. factory also come home. the job creation will be enormous, in particular if i look at the automobile sector, we are just being wiped out. you take a look at what has happened to that over the years and the auto workers voted for me. i have an obligation to do what is right and i'm going to do that. you know in mexico they were going to build the largest auto plant anywhere in the world and it was during the campaign my most recent campaign and very great gentleman, all he did was build auto plants. he was building this factory. i said how is it going? i want to go around and take a look at one of your factories that you are building one of the big ones, one of the good ones i said okay, are you ready?

this is 8 months ago, nine months ago i said you will have to go mexico. i said what about the united states? he said we are putting up a couple but they are small. he is the biggest guy at doing it. in mexico they are building massive automobile factories i said you mean they doing it and who the is owner of the factories? mostly china, one in particular is massive built fairly close to the border. build cars and send them into the united states for no tax or very little tax and destroy detroit just destroy what is left of it. they have already taken mexico has taken 32% of our business over years, over 30 years. and the other one is canada. canada has taken massive amounts of -- you know, they send us millions of cars. we don't need them for that south carolina or many other locations whether it's union or not union. i said to them i said so when is this plant going to hope? we're going to start in a couple

of month and own in about a year and a half. it's the largest plant in the world i said i'm not happy with that i said in my next speech that i am going to charge them if it takes 100 percent or 200 percent no car is coming in from mexico into the united states without a massive tariff and i said it three or four times. and what happened is about two months later i see that same gentleman who was in the office i said i want to see them back stage after i'm finished with the speech. i said john, let me ask you, what happened with that plant? where is did now? china has canceled it you are elected and charge big tariffs on the cars coming in it doesn't work if you are going to charge. they canceled the plant and detroit now will breathe and we are going to do just the opposite. we're going to have these companies come in and they can build that plant if they want but they have to build it across the line. they have to build it in the

united states amazing. we did so many things and we weren't even elected yet. that would have a been a disaster. if that plant were built, it would have been a disaster that would have wiped out. that was bigger than most of the factories put together. the auto plants put together in particular the very near future foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals to return production of these essential goods to the united states of america. they left us and they went to taiwan where, which has about 98% of the chip business by the way. and we want them to come back. and we don't want to give them billions of dollars like this ridiculous program that biden has. give everybody billions of dollars. they already have billions of dollars. they have got nothing but money, joe. they didn't need money. they needed an incentive. the incentive is going to be they are not going to want to pay 25, 50 or even 100 percent tax. build factory with own money.

don't have to give then money. come in because it's good for them to come in. giving them money. they don't know what they will do with it. i have people tell me we don't need money. they don't know -- probably going to use the money to build in other places, other countries it's a ridiculous plant. very expensive and ridiculous. the only way get out of this is to build your plant. if you want to stop paying tax's or tariffs build here in america. more plants built in the next short period of time than anybody ever envisioned before. because the incentive is going to be there they have no tariff whatsoever. in fact, they have help from us if they build their plant in america. we are going to look at pharmaceuticals, drugs, we are going to look at chips, semiconductors and we are going to look at steel and some other industries and you are going to see things happening. if i didn't put on the massive steel tariffs, you wouldn't have one steel plant right now in the united states. if i didn't put on the tariffs

on washing machines, dryers and alike, you wouldn't -- in ohio, you would have lost all of those companies that made washing machines and dryers. jim jordan is the one -- is jim here by any chance? is jim here? where is jim? where is jim? oh, look at him. wow. that's not a great seat for man of such power. [laughter] you know, jim has a couple -- is he a great wrestler. all-american wrestler three times. 128 in one. that's not a bad record. and that's the way he fights, too. he has a better record. undefeated as a wrestler in high school. and i say how can do you that because a freshman can't beat a senior but he figured out how to beat seniors. stand up again, jim, give you hand as a wrestler. as a wrestler. as a politician very good. but, jim, is it true that we say we went up there, remember we had 25,000 people standing on the streets and little beautiful

town with whirlpool, right? they were going to close up their factories because they were -- south korea was dumping washing machines and other things like that. and they were dumping. 50% tariff. 75, even 100 percent. now they are thriving, right? without trump they would have been closed up. but jim was the one that got me involved are guys happy with jim? i like him. we like jim. what's not to like? he gets on television it's like a wrestler he has this boom, boom, boom, boom. very impressive, jim. anyway, good to see you. i like that guy a lot. i lot a lot of the people in the audience. i like the nominee room. same basic philosophy. same thoughts. we have to bring production back to our country. you know there was a time when we made one ship day now we can't build a ship.

we don't know what the hell we are doing. it's all gone to other locations and other lands and to further return production to the united states we're going to environmentally free up our rare earth minerals. we have some unbelievable sites. we have some of the best rare earth anywhere in the world not allowed to use it. environmentalists got there thirst. you can't touch that land. look at the land. looks like every other piece of land? they is very protected. they have no idea what they are doing to our country. they use the environment to stop progress we are not going to let that happen. we have lee zeldin. he is going to be fantastic. is he going to head up the whole environmental we put in for a power plant and if we don't get the approval like can you start within 12 days, 12 days, 14 days, see what you can do. lee is great. he know what is is good and bad. he will be very fair the ones in

louisiana. they were 14, 15 years they couldn't get their approvals. we couldn't let that happen. when people come here with massive amounts of money. we know what is good and we know what is bad, too. lee zeldin is going to do a great job environmentally. as we fix our tax system we can cut colossal amounts of government waste, fraud and abuse of which there is a lot. tonight i restate my pledge from the campaign i will not sign any bill that cuts even a single penny from medicare or social security for our great seniors. we don't have to do it. [applause] we don't have to do it. we'll not touch those benefits in any way, shape, or form. i want to use that because during the campaign they this these fake ads trump is going to cut social security. they are the ones going to cut it. the country is going to go bankrupt. that's why it's going to cut because they don't have a choice. our country was led for absolute bankruptcy using reconciliation

i also look forward working with to you make our manufacturing policies permanent and meaning our historic deregulation efforts a fixture of u.s. law so that no future president like they did with in war. anwr approved. nobody could do it including ronald reagan in alaska. it's the largest site, potentially the largest site in the world. larger than saudi arabia. i got it done. ronald reagan couldn't get it. nobody could get it done. they tried but they couldn't get it done. i got it done. first thing they did was end anwr in alaska. the biggest most powerful site maybe anywhere in the world and we got it done and we will get it done again very quickly. now i think i can do it with an executive order because it didn't go through congress. i got it approved through congress. i think we get it done fast. that can supply all of asia with its location. all of asia can be supplied by anwr. there are so many things. we don't want to have any future president ever sabotage our economy without w. out-of-control regulations as the last two democrat presidents have done.

they went crazy. last week i signed an order revoking joe biden's destructive artificial intelligence regulations so that ai companies can once again focus on being the best, not just being the most woken. today and over the last couple of days i have been reading about china and some of the companies in china, one in particular coming up with a faster method of a.i. and much less expensive method and that's good because you don't have to spend as much money. i view that as a positive. as an asset. i really think if it's fact. and if it's true. and nobody really knows if it is. but i view that as a positive because you will be doing that, too. so you won't be spending as much and you will get the same result, hopefully. the release of deep seek a.i. from a chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win. because we have the greatest scientists in the world. even chinese leadership told me that. they said you have the most

brilliant scientists in the world. in seattle and various places. but, silicon valley and they said there is nobody like those people. this is very unusual whether you have a deep seek. when you have here somebody come up with something. we always have the ideas. we are always first. i would say that's a positive, that could be very much a positive development. instead of spending billions and billions, you will spend less and come up with hopefully the same solution. under the trump administration, we're going to unleash our tech companies and we're going to come to nate the future like never before. and finally, we need to work together on a defense bill that, once again, fully rebuilds our military for our great areas. we have to a strong, strong defense. and in a little while i will be signing four new executive orders. first i am directing our new secretary of defense, pete hegseth, who going to be great by the way.

[cheers] >> thank you for the support thank you very much for the support. he is going to be fantastic. i know him very well. he is going to be fantastic. he is what we need to immediately begin construction of the state of the art iron dome defense shield which will be able to protect americans. we protect other countries but we don't protect ourself. and when ronald reagan wanted to do it many years ago, luckily we didn't. we didn't have the technology then it was concept. now we have phenomenal technology you see that with israel where out of 319 rockets they knock down just about every one of them i think the united states is entitled to that everything will be made right here in the u.s.a., 100 percent. [applause] next to ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military. it's going to be in addition, we will stop our service members

from being indoctrinated identical left critical condition totally halt. and finally we will offer full reinstatement to any service member who was expelled from the armed forces due to the covid vaccine mandate. and we will restore them to their former rank with full pay. and i think we're going to have a lot of people that join and one thing i will say if you looked at our recruitment over the last week or so, two weeks, it's through the roof. we were having a lot of people weren't signing. we were having a hard time recruiting people because they would looking at these people that they would supposedly be their leaders and they weren't happy. they didn't like people fall going upstairs. if you are going to fall at least go downstairs from the plane. that triple fall. i use that thing in more ads. i didn't have an ad where i didn't put that in just a little quick 1, 2, 3. reminded me of joe frazier when

he went down. george foreman and joe frazier. three falls in matter seconds. can you speed it up a bit people are getting tired of it. we have the best recruitment we have seen in a long time. the tremendous number of people wanting to sign up january 20th, 2025 a turning point in american history. starting last week. we are ending years of incompetence, radicalism and betrayal. and we're ushering in the most exhilarating reform renewal in the 250 year history of our country. and just in conclusion, i just want to say that this has been a very exciting and will be a very exciting new chapter. there is nothing we cannot achieve as long as the republican party remains united. i hope you can remain united. [applause] and one thing i give the democrats a lot of credit fore. they have lousy policy.

i think frankly half of them are totally crazy how can you want prisons emptied out in our country. they stick together in everything. impeachment hoax number one. impeachment hoax number two. you quay knee great support during thos two problems. those two fake witch hunts which have now turned out to be totally fake and disgusting. you gave me tremendous support. but the republican party has to stick together. we just can't have people going 1, 2, 3 votes. and we don't have that luxury. it will be different if we had 20 point, 30 point, 30 person majority but we don't. we have to help leadership you can be assured that have you certain philosophies. that if you are going to have most of the people, almost all of them voting for something, you are going to be okay. it's not going to be bad. you have to stick together. it's the one thing that i would

say we don't get very high marks. everything is so hard. 2 or 3 or five people that just don't want to do it just got to do it. make life easy just got to do it so right now we have a very special period because we have the house we have the senate, and we have the white house. and we're a team. and we're really good team. and i appreciate so many times i call three or four people. when i called, we have gotten such a great response. we just had that what happen pete hegseth. and we have had happening with others. situation when you have that small of a majority in a certain way it brings you together.

actually unify more than anybody would ever know and a victory is sweeter as they say because of it we have take is it together and work together and win together like never before. as long as we stay united the 119th congress will be remembered the most successful and accomplished republican majority in american history. . huh? and in january, 2027, we will have a larger republican house, a larger republican senate and our country will be richer, safer, stronger, prouder, greater, freer than ever before. i really think that we are going to have some big victories coming back. helping every single one of you. i'm raising a lot of money and i want to use it for the house and the senate. raised a lot of money. and you know, i told my people. we raised 1.7 billion.

they raised 2.6 billion with checkoffs, which is always tough. $10 a month. that's millions and millions of people and then we won, we won by a lot. they wanted to go out and still haven't raised it. trying to raise $28 million. they cannot raise 10 cents. it's good to win. i tell you really good win. i told my people the morning after normally because we have so many donors here and so many people that i love and respect, a lot of great friends of mine susie, how good is susie the ice maiden. she is so great. she is so great. stand up, suzie. the ice maiden. ladies and gentlemen. [applause] wow, look at that most powerful

woman in the world they say. most powerful woman in the world. she is made of ice. she is great. when i came to florida. florida was democrat state. had a democrat governor. they had one democrat senator. it was largely a democrat state. through various reasons i ended up with susie running the campaign and she was unbelievable. we won it in a landslide and then the second time we won it in a even bigger landslide. and when it came time to choosing somebody to run the campaign, the whole campaign i said what about susie from florida? she never lost. i won every primary. i won -- i didn't lose anything. again, it was a democrat state. and it was a landslide both sometimes. all the republican stuff it was almost like it didn't exist. what about susie? sir, a woman has never been in

this position before. i said really? by the way we have kellyanne conway, she didn't do too badly either, right? she did a great job 2016. never been a woman chief of staff? but there is now. there is now. right? i didn't know that. i'm have surprised. it came time to running the campaign and i said well, i have never had a loss with suzie. pat summerall is her father. a football player. a great football player. but a really great announcer. 27 years or something. it was great, and a leader. he worked with john madden. and he was able to get john madden to do things that nobody else could do they would call him and say john is really difficult. john was a difficult guy. but he got big ratings and he was good. pat would come on.

let's. come on, i know you don't like the heads of the company. they are paying you a lot of money. come on john, get this done. this went on for 27 years. he was a leader a father this is somebody that has the gene. i will tell you she is great. she has done a fantastic job. she was so good with the campaign. let's let her do the campaign. it was flawless. and, again, i said before, we had a win a lot of votes because it's crooked as hell. and i hope i hope you can go to voter i.d. and same day voting and paper ballots and all of those things because ultimately we will never lose a race if we do that i'm tell you never lose a race. that is said to the governors mostly but, you know, you people have a lot of power over it. but susie ran the race and we did phenomenally. we made her the chief of staff. and she is doing great. they say it was the greatest week opening week in presidential history. and i think, you know, could be

a hell of a lot. even cnn is saying this guy is amazing. i couldn't believe at this said did cnn really say that? because nobody watches. nobody was able to confirm. [laughter] it was pretty amazing. that camera just went off. [laughter] usually you get them by surprise. i just want to thank everybody. we're going to make this tremendously successful. we're going to have -- i believe we are going to have one of the greatest four years in the history of our country. we are going to turn it around quickly and go on and progress like nobody ever thought possible. and i want to thank these great four people because they really are leaders. and they are phenomenal people. i want to thank all of my friends in the audience. many of whom are congressman and congresswomen and people that have just tremendous talent. every single one of you i know every one of you and have you tremendous talent. if we stick and fight together. there is nobody can stop us. we are going to have because they have bad policy. their policy is so bad.

nobody could win with this policy nobody. we say and i say and i have been saying a long time. we are the party of common sense and the party that's going to have the best four years ever. thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you very much. >> president donald j. trump in doral, florida for the g.o.p. meeting down there retreat. congressional institute speaking for an hour and five minutes. here comes the dance. [ymca] ♪ >> exactly one week to the day since being president of the united states he need to vote for big things legislative agenda. covered all kinds of topics going to deal with some of them on the rest of this show. good evening, welcome to "special report."

i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, just moments ago as the president was speaking, the senate confirmed president trump's nominee for treasury secretary 16 democrats voted in favor of scott bessent treasury secretary of the united states. also tonight the world as you heard the president talking about there has reacted to news that china has developed its own artificial intelligence start-up and it might be very good. in fact, scary good according to some. the news sent global tech stocks plummeting today. the uaai leader nvidia lost 17%. erasing $593 billion in market value. largest ever one day loss for company on wall street. largest ever. an index of semiconductor stocks saw biggest single day drop since march of 2020. falling 9.2%. the dow overall bounced back 289 up. but the s&p 500 lost 89. the nasdaq fell 612.

let's get details tonight from fox business correspondent jacqui deangelis with this story. good evening, jacqui. >> that's right, bret. it was a large sail sale off. pressure coming from company called deep seek it. powers ai models and own version of chatgpt temporarily only available to users in mainland china. the ai race deep seek r 1 is one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs i have ever seen. deep seeks r 1 and v 3 models are performing well the company says better or close to western models and they are cheaper to produce. one of the latest $1.6 million to produce far less than

100 million to billion dollars range that it usually cost an american company industry insiders is say could be overblown. copying and existing u.s. model is easier than actually inknow valgt. trump's newly appointed crypto and a.i. czar posted this on x david said president trump was right to rescind the biden eo rescind without asking whether china would do the same. obviously not. i'm confident in the u.s. but we can't be complacent. another issue with deepseek is equity. deepseek's model is said to be biased when it comes to criticizing the ccp. john moolenaar, chairman of the house committee said u.s. cannot allow ccp models such as risk our national security and leverage our technology to advance ai ambition. he also called for more export controls on technologies relating to the platforms and

a.i.'s infrastructure. bret? >> more on this with charles payne and brit hume in a bit. thank you. the trump administration says colombia has agreed to accept deportation flights from the u.s. the south american country had initially refused to take the detainees sparking threats of tariffs from president trump. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has details plus breaking news on a major piece of legislation. good evening, jacqui. >> jacqui: good evening, bret. president trump will sign the first bill of second term on wednesday. the laken riley act, excuse me, requires detention of illegal immigrants accused of theft or violent crimes. that means that ice's job is about to get bigger. and it comes after trump weaponized the tariffs sanctions, and travel bans to force a key deportation agreement. >> president trump's brief game of trade war chicken ended with colombia's president backing down offering his presidential plane to repatriate deported

criminal migrants but it just wasn't the u.s. ratcheting up pressure. >> it effects us. it will effect all people exporting their products. this will put a halt on colombian commerce with the united states. this will completely effect us. >> if you come to your own country, how you cannot be accepted? it's not logical. >> but congressional democrats were quick to criticize trump. alexandria ocasio-cortez posting: remember, we pay the tariffs, not colombia. trump is all about making inflation worse for working class americans, not better. the "new york post" headline that followinged aoc roasted over post about colombia tariffs and coffee prices that aged like hot milk. republicans end the day with a victory lap. >> we can do this the easy way or hard way. one way or another the american people have spoken on this. >> house speaker mike johnson says all nation should be on notice to take their people back or else. in chicago on sunday alone ice says it arrested 9 tren de aragua gang members one allegedly selling guns and more. >> we arrested two illegal

aliens had murder convictions at least seven sexual predators. mostly child predators. we arrested people extreme sexual assault. >> crossings at the southern border are still a problem. border patrol agents changing fire today with suspected cartel gunmen front and texas blocking a group from crossing the river. >> dhs tells fox that ice agents will descend on new york next. the target list will also expand to include 1.4 million fugitives who have already had due process. tom homan says third countries are lining up to take depoor tees from countries with which the u.s. does not have repatriates agreement, bret. >> bret: jacqui heinrich on the north line, thank you. the president's new defense chief is on the job tonight. pete hegseth was confirmed by the senate last friday.

echoing president trump's agenda for reforming and strengthening the u.s. military. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight. >> defense secretary pete hegseth was met at the pentagon by chairman of the joint chiefs general c.q. brown. >> support on removing dei inside the pentagon. reinstating troops who were pushed out because of covid mandates. the iron dome for america. this is hang quickly. >> an executive order calling on the pentagon to examine the issue of transgender troops in the military. which could lead to an eventual ban impacting an estimated 1,700 transgender troops already serving. according to the palm center an lgbtq advocacy institute. an executive order to reinstate with back pay the 8,000 u.s. troops separated from service for refusing to take the covid vaccine during the pandemic. congress forced the biden administration to rescind the mandate in 2023. when the u.s. navy reached out

of to all 1878 sailors who had been separated, only two wanted to rejoin the navy. >> the war fighters are ready to go. there is emergencies at the southern border. as a result, this pentagon snapped to last week we helped move forward troops. barriers, and also to ensure when referring to the troops the new defense secretary used the prior names for two bases named after confederate generals whose names were changed by congress in 2020. >> pete: i'm thinking about the guys and gals in guam, in germany, fort benning and fort bragg. >> hegseth was asked whether he planned to follow through with threats he made last year prior to being nominated to fire general c.q. brown. >> meeting with him right now. i'm looking forward to working with him. >> over the weekend, the pentagon's inspector general robert storch, who has overseen many critical reports on pentagon waste fraud and abuse

was one of 17 inspector generals fired by president trump. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer. >> thank you. next up, we will talk about china's a.i. technology, the markets and the first week of the trump administration with brit hume and charles payne. ♪ s. save up to 20% now for a limited time. whether you're moving across town or across the country. save up to 20% at pods dot com today.

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♪ policy to make america intelligence and to come to nate and to lead the world in ai. >> so that should take us to the forefront, right? >> absolutely. we got to win. >> try to come the forefront of artificial intelligence but some news out of china about something called deepseek. the headlines reading that china's deepseek ai app. sends tech stocks reeling a global technology. does it spell doomsday for nvidia and other ai stocks the markets in the first week of the trump administration joining us tonight fox news chief political analyst brit hume and charles payne of fox business. charles, the markets got jumpy today especially tech stocks is this an overreaction or do you think this is the real deal? >> i think it's an overreaction. but, listen, these stocks were

arguably priced for perfection. nvidia had the largest one day loss in history. but if you look at the 10 largest one day losses in history nvidia has seven of them. this isn't the first time we have seen this crazy add versz reaction. it is a great wake-up call. no doubt about it. these stocks have been cruising up almost every single day for the last two years. nvidia is in a pretty good position. this thing called cuda deepseek used nvidia chips used a lot more. they piggybacked off of open ai. gimmicky things by. this by no means should it be down played. this was a huge salvo in the war for a.i. supremacy. >> it t. is a big war, brit, the president is clearly investing it in it you had mark saying this deepseek is the a.i. sputnik moment for china brakes through shaking the dominance.

can you see that president trump is clearly admitted to that race. yeah. mark is somebody you should always pay attention. to say but it would really be quite remarkable if it turned out that that chimple with inferior championships is able to produce application as the ones we are producing and turns out to be as good as it's cracked up to be. because the united states possesses and the companies in this country possess chips that are far more powerful and thought to be necessary for the kind of computational power that a.i. requires than anything china has or is likely to have any time soon. so they may have pulled off a real magic trick here with this a.i. app. that they have. but i think it's well to remain skeptic until it's really been proven over time we saw pushback

when colombian president said they weren't taking any of the flights from illegal immigrants from colombia being flown back in there threat from president trump for tariffs and he turned around the colombian president did trpd 180. also reflecting on history back in the first temple for president reagan i had standoff with air traffic controllers and this is what he said tell those who fail to report for duty this morning they are in violation of the law and any do not report for work within 48 hours. they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated. >> people at the time, brit, said that's crazy. that standoff is crazy. but it ended up working and it was a show of strength. i'm not saying it's apple to apples but it is something like that a lot of hand ringing about that when reagan did that. i will never forget it turned out to be quite popular and turned out to be effective.

what we see this president doing now is a blizzard of action. it's not mere activity. there is real action here. concern with colombia, which triggered some semi hysterical reactions from democrats and other trump critics. worked. the guy the colombian president backed down and next thing you know is he volunteering to send his own personal airplane to pick up these criminals. so, it was a complete success in a matter of hours and my -- looking at this, you know, the democrats are looking in trump's looking for something to attack him on things is he doing to round up people is equally popular. >> i only have 10 seconds. the economy right now, the fear of tariffs, right now he is

choose using them as a weapon in negotiation mckinley and roaring 20's, three things in common, tariffs, tech no and tough immigration policies, those two eras had amazing economic prosperity. president trump is trying to recreate them. >> bret: guys, great to have you on the show in abbreviated format. we appreciate the time. thank you. tomorrow on "special report" our "common ground" segment deals with bipartisan effort to help families of first responders died suffered service related cancers. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. a unique show tonight for "special report." but we have you covered, fair balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" is now. ingraham angle from washington tonight as always. >> thank you for