have one month behind us and she will bring kevin hassett, the national economic council sure to field some questions about inflation, stephen miller in touch with everything. give a very passionate defense of doge yesterday. and michael waltz who was just in saudi arabia with marco rubio, steve lit cough as they were talking about the ukraine war. there will no doubt be a ton of questions about the path forward as that meeting with vladimir putin's on the horizon. and there will be questions about the state of israel who today received four of their hostages back home, at nine months old when he was captured, ariel bibas, their mom shiri, and odette... , who lost his life in the hands of hamas terrorists. we will keep you updated, watch the briefing, "america reports."

>> the president of the united states. >> john: he became the 47th president of the united states. >> we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. >> it's about time we secure our own border. >> number of those got a ways is falling off a cliff during the first week in office. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip sending reciprocal tariffs. the world has taken advantage of the united states for many years. >> for the first time in history, flying over the recently renamed gulf of america. >> i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. president trump is a hero. >> now you're going to go out and win those events, right? spit on a jam-packed first month of trump 2.0, and buckle and it's only going to get faster from here. two big ticket items on the list for this hour, when press secretary colette carolyn levitt takes the podium, and the

national security. we are also watching to see if the senate after narrowly breaking the filibuster confirms one of the most highest profile cabinet picks cash patel as director of the fbi. i told you it was going to be a big week, john roberts in washington, get ready, sandra, here we go. >> sandra: nothing going on today, it's "america reports" will be a busy two hours in a whirlwind first month for president trump in the oval office. he has signed a total of 73 executive orders so far. >> john: and 93% decrease in border encounters, 16 israeli hostages released, more than $55 billion in doge savings, and president trump has given 32 formal remarks. and that's just in the first 30 days. >> sandra: martha maccallum and byron york are here to break all that down with us. but first peter doocy is live from the white house ahead of this big briefing. hi, peter. >> lots of executive orders and

it will be good to hear from the team that they are going to have here later on today as a hush falls across the room what we do this live shot. it will be good to hear from the team what they have here today. carolyn levitt, steve miller, and hassett about these doge dividends. maybe 20% of the savings from waste, fraud, and abuse that doge picks up going back to us certain number of taxpaying households, does congress have to approve of that, does it only happen if they find $2 trillion of waste, maybe we will find out. we also expect some news from at least mike waltz about what exactly has happened in the last few hours with president trump and volodymyr zelenskyy. there is talk now about the talk that the u.s. might audit money going to ukraine, it does not sounds like president trump is going to be okay with any money

going to ukraine if he does not move away from his most recent position which is that zelenskyy is a dictator without elections. they just did an overhead for two-minute warning, don't take my word for it, they will be here soon. sandra. >> sandra: the one thing is that room has not let up. it has been jam-packed. every single time there is a briefing, every single seat as far as we can see has been filled. i know what you are going to do, we will ask you if you turn your camera around even though we are in the two-minute warning, thank you very much and we will be watching for this to begin. all right, john. >> john: you know why when peter talks, they all want to hear what he has to say. let's bring a martha maccallum, host of byron york, chief for the medical examiner. we will have to go fast here, a lot on the plate today, martha, the potential dividend, ukraine, court cases that the president seems to be doing much better than he did before, eric adams a whole lot more to talk about

today. >> indeed, in that montage at the top of your show is remarkable when you look at all that has been accomplished so far in the first month, i expect that you will hear questions from karoline leavitt on these doge dividends in the lawsuits as we see push pack, and cash patel we expect to be approved for the position of the director of the fbi is a huge moment in terms of w what the president trump seeds as the rule of law and to the focus at the fbi on crime and the border and counterterrorism. >> john: and peter was gracious enough to flip his camera around, everybody wants to hear from karoline leavitt, but also mike waltz, stephen miller, and kevin hassett, this is going to be a big one with big questions put to them. >> this is a carefully selected group. the most important issues donald trump was elected on as president where the economy,

making things more affordable, the border and immigration and doing something about to the sense of disorder in the world, so having kevin hassett the economy guy, having stephen miller, a big expert on immigration and the border, and mike waltz, the national security advisor makes a lot of sense to address the reasons that voters actually put donald trump the white house again. >> john: you know, i would say settle in with some popcorn, because this briefing is going to go on for a while. with all of those white house officials coming in to detail their piece of the pie. but martha, we talked about the first hundred days of this presidency as we always do with presidents, but really the first 30 days have clips what we have seen most presidents do when 100. >> sandra: you saw on the wall moments ago an astonishing list of executive orders of hostages released. it is a breakneck pace that the president has gone, and i also think it is significant that you see that he has empowered all of these individuals at the

white house and in his cabinet to get out and to travel sitting down with a volodymyr zelenskyy he said in the interview, i did not really understand that there was a national security up component to this job as well. and ended up sitting down with him and started to negotiate the deal which is a little bit of a roadblock, that may be ignited some anger as this process finds its way forward. >> john: all right, let's go to the briefing room. >> secretary leavitt: hello, everyone, i brought some heavy hitters with me today. this is one month since the oval office and no denying this administration is off to a historic start. the president has signed 73 executive orders. that is more than doubled the number assigned by joe biden, and more than quadruple the number assigned by barack obama over the same period. these executive orders have ended up burdensome regulations,

sealed the border, unleashed our domestic energy sector, eliminated divisive dei from our federal government. stop the weaponization of government, cut waste, fraud, and abuse, reinstituted american first trade and policies and ultimately restored common sense. the president also signed the laken riley act into law which insures i.c.e. will detain illegal aliens arrested or charged with theft or violence. as of today, the senate has confirmed 18 level nominees which is more at this point then the obama administration in 2009 more than double the pace of the biden administration in 2021. and today we expect cash patel to be confirmed as the next director of the fbi. we are proud to announce that with the president hosting his first official cabinet meeting at the white house next wednesday february 26. and just four weeks, president trump has hosted the leaders of israel, japan,

jordan, and indiana. and next monday the president will host emmanuel macron. and on thursday, the u.k. prime minister will visit the white house as well. as you all know, over the past month, the president has taken questions from the press, all of you. nearly every single day. sometimes on multiple different occasions in the same day on any topic any of you wish to talk about. president trump set the tone on this approach immediately when he took more than 12 times the questions in its first few hours in office as joe biden did in his entire first week. yesterday we hosted a local media row here at the white house with television and radio stations from across the country that reached up to 60 million viewers and listeners. in our ongoing pursuit of transparency on this one month celebration, i am thrilled to bring three of my colleagues from her policy experts to the white house to further recap this incredible first month of

accomplishments in greater detail. we have deputy chief of staff or a policy and homeland security advisor stephen miller, the director of the national economic council kevin hassett, and our national security advisor mike waltz. i will hand it over to them and deliver brief remarks on the administration and the first month, and then we will open it up to q&a. when we open to q&a, i do ask for the sake of efficiency in this room that you direct to your question to the principle you seek an answer from and i will call on you in this room. first i will let them roll through their remarks and first up i will turn it over to stephen miller. >> thank you. it is great to be back. and i want to thank you all for joining today. our one month celebration of the most historic opening to a presidency and american history. no president comes close to what donald trump has achieved over just the last 30 days. he has packed eight years of transformative action, restoring

this nation, restoring our laws, restoring fairness, restoring economic opportunity, restoring security in just one month. no one in this country has ever seen anything like it. and when you look at the consequence reality and the significance in the transformative nature of the actions he is taking, it truly defies description. for example, am just one area of this nation has been plagued in crippled by illegal discrimination, diversity equity and inclusion policy is it strangled our economy, and every aspect of life more difficult, more painful and les. he has ended all dei across the federal government. he has terminated all federal workers involved in propagating this policy. he has ended diversity equity and inclusion and all federal contracting. he has restorative merit as the cornerstone of all federal policy. restored the full fair and

impartial enforcement of our federal civil rights laws for the first time in generations. and he has cracked down on individuals across this government and nonprofits who have engaged in illegal racial discrimination against the american people. this includes making clear to every educational institution in this country that ending diversity, equity, and inclusion, ending unlawful race discrimination is a precondition of receiving federal funds. he has also saved women sports by ending the participation of men and women sports. he has ended radical gender ideology across the entire federal government, and he has pressured the private sector to also end to the combative radical ideology. he has reestablished a scientific and biological truth that there are only two sexes in this country, male and female and that those are biologically based determinations, they are not based and can never be based on gender identity.

that includes routing out of the department of defense all dei policies, all critical race theory, all gender madness. and once again having a military that is focused solely and exclusively on readiness, preparedness, and low fidelity. as i'm sure kevin will talk about more he has undertaken a historic cost-cutting effort across the federal government launching the first ever department government efficiency uncovering corruption on a scale we never thought imaginable, terminating every single federal worker that we have found to be engaged in the corruption and theft, and a waste of taxpayer dollars. and already saving $50 billion in a single year which over a 10-year period would be $500 billion. just think about how vast an enormous that sum is. of course as you all know, he has renamed to the gulf of mexico to its correct and proper name the gulf of america, and back to mount mckinley, two routes restore patriotism across this land.

he has ended the weaponization of federal government, restored the department of justice to its true mission of combating threats to this nation and keeping the american people safe. he has ended all federal censorship of free speech. this has been one of the greatest crises that has plagued this nation. years and years and years of the federal government violating the first amendment to take away americans right of free speech, president trump has ended that and he has demanded that all federal workers all law enforcement cease any effort to intimidate the rise of the americans or to police their speech. he has also restored the death penalty at the department of justice including for illegal aliens who commit murder including for those who murder cops and including for all of those who threaten americans with heinous acts of violence. the death penalty is back, law and order is back at, the streets are being made safe once again. on the public health fronts, he

has launched the nation's first ever commission, make america healthy again, following historic confirmation of rfk jr. to finally uncover the true root causes of the public health crisis in this country the childhood disease epidemic in this country, the spiraling rates of pediatric cancer and devastating childhood sickness. he is finally created a situation where the federal health agencies in this country will be focused on preventing disease, on keeping children from getting sick and the first place, not sending them to a lifetime in and out of hospitals suffering needlessly what we can find ways to prevent this epidemic of illness. then of course, on homeland security, today it is officially the law of the land at the conclusion of the congressional notification process that six mexican cartels and two transnational gains, tda and

ms-13, so eight organizations in total are formally designated as foreign terrorist organizations which means that every single member of those organizations who operates on u.s. soil is now as a legal matter a terrorist, and they will be treated as terrorists. this is a sea change in u.s. policy, and this means that the department of justice and the department of homeland security along with the arrest of u.s. law enforcement and the department of defense are now operating in a legal reality where these cartels are recognized as terrorists. and there will be a whole of government effort to remove these terrorists from our soil and to degrade their ability to threaten or undermine any american security or sovereignty interests. border crossings since the day he took office are down 95%. i think it is almost impossible to even describe the scale and scope of that achievement. president trump, within days of

taking office cut border crossings 95%. and those few who have dared cross are being either prosecuted or deported. they are either facing significant jail time for trafficking, smuggling, harboring, aiding, impeding, or they are being immediately removed from our soil. at the end of the day, they are going home. he is reimplementing to remain in mexico, and he has obtained historic operation from countries all over the world and accepting their deportees back. and he has used the united states military to fully seal the southern border with a historic deployment of both active duty and national guard troops resumed the building of infrastructure. he has opened up guantanamo bay and is using military aircraft to carry out deportations all across this country. and i.c.e. is joining the fbi to carry out to the largest deportation operation in american history. the criminals are going home, the border is sealed shut,

america safe, sovereign, proud, and free. we are a nation that everyone in the world understands all across this planet, you do not come here illegally. you will not get in. you will go to jail. he will go home. he will not succeed. this is the biggest and most successful change in any area of law enforcement that this nation has ever seen, and he did it in under one month. thank you. >> well, thank you karoline, thank you, stephen. the one thing president trump cares about his job creation, and i had the pleasure of joining you in this room for the first time, and it looks like we have created more in the last month. i asked if there are 180? but i did not count, so thank you. it is really an honor to be back here. i just want to go over a few things and then handed off to mike. the first thing is that the president has told us to prioritize fighting inflation.

and he had to do that because president biden let inflation get completely out of control. and he did it with policies that made no sense. a lot of times people say to us, our friends of journalists, why are you doing that? but i like to think why did they do that? why did they spend so much money? and why did the fed print so much money so we have inflation as high as we have seen since jimmy carter? why did they do that? we are addressing inflation. we did not have to address it in the first term, because it was always in the 1s, how are we doing it? what the plan the president trump and i and others have talked about in the oval that involves every other of fighting inflation. the back economic level, cutting spending in negotiations with people on the hill, cutting spending with the advice of our i.t. consultant elon musk. and we are also looking into the supply side of things, like

restoring trump's tax cuts, may be expensing new factory so there is an explosion of supply. if you have an explosion of supply and a reduction of government demand, then inflation goes way down. in one of the things you want to say is when are you going to see it? the person you will see when the markets believe that we are going to get inflation under control is that a 10-year treasury rate goes down, because that's how they think about future expected inflation. so we will still see some memory of biden's inflation. it's not going to go away in a month, but the consumer index dropped about 40 basis points, because markets were optimistic about our ability to fight inflation. 40 basis points is kind of not a fun thing to say. economists talk that way, i apologize. but the thing is for a typical mortgage if that affects the mortgage rate it will save a typical family buying a house about 1,000 bucks a year. and that's just in the first month. so the second thing we have done has had a lot of trade talks. i was meeting and it minister

from mexico just a couple of hours ago, and we are talking about reciprocal trade and we are also talking about the fentanyl crisis. and so reciprocal trade is about our government treating other governments the way that they treat us. we want trade to be fair. it turns out that americans have been disadvantaged by foreign governments over and over and president trump wants it to stop. and the fact that struck me as most noticeable when i started to look at what president trump is asking us to do is that last year, last year we have data, last year u.s. companies paid $370 billion in taxes to foreign governments. 370 billion. last year of foreign multinationals paid us $57 billion in taxes. we have one quarter of world gdp, they have three quarters of world gdp and they are paying 57. this is not reciprocal. we will try or we are going to fix it. the other thing we have done is an all above energy approach

that has led by doug burnham and chris and a really large team of epa, and we have already made so many actions that are going to affect to the price of energy and lower inflation. we have open up 625 million acres to energy exploration. we have cut 50 years of red tape that makes it so you can't have permits. and we even made it so that when you go home if you get a new one, then you can take a shower or flush the toilet or read under a light bulb. we are doing that too. so finally let's just think about the facts that we can see right now that we think are awesome. so guess what, small business optimism has gone up by the most ever since president trump came in. ism which is the measure of what is going on in manufacturing is expanding again for the first time in years. ceo confidence is the highest it has been in years, and the

reason, the reason people are thinking this is that our policies give people cause for optimism. and then i want to reiterate what stephen miller said, because it is so important. it is so important for financial markets to digest this. that if say the treasury secretary or any secretary with elon musk is able to find some savings, say $100 billion, well in ceo lands that's actually about ten times that, or maybe 12 times that over a 10-year window. when you're thinking about the negotiations over right now, 4 trillion or 5 trillion, well, most numbers in terms of the savings are going to end up being small because of the ways we are buying. we are optimistic about the future of inflation and the future of our economy and we are optimistic because we are making so much product progress so far. and we arty see it in the market. and now i will handed off to mike. >> good afternoon.

what's a month. and what a sea change in our foreign policy and edition to what we are doing on the border and restoring american sovereignty in addition to what we are doing in our economy and the job creation in the inflation reduction, we are bringing the world back to where it was at the end of president trump's first term, which is a world of peace, prosperity, and looking forward. and getting us out of the chaos that we have just seen over the last four years. so over the last month, just to name a few, i had the honor of sitting in the oval office as president trump spoke with president putin, and then immediately spoke with president zelenskyy, and both of them said only president trump could bring both sides to the table. and only president trump could stop their horrific fighting that has been going on now for

the better part of four years. and that only president trump could drive the world back to peace. both of those leaders said that in back-to-back calls. and of course we just had our historic talks mediated by our good friends and partners saudi arabia, we give great thanks to crown prince mohammad bin salman for hosting and sat it down for the first time in years with the russians and talked about a path forward with peace. on top of that, in one of the things that lead to that was the tremendous confidence building measure we have with the release of mark vogel. i will remind everyone the last time that we had an american released from the russians either we gave up a deadly spike, pressured our allies to give up a lethal killer or we released under the biden administration the world's most notorious arms dealer, who by the way had one of his main

clients from the cartels in mexico and central american. we gave up none of that. this was released as a confidence building measure working with our great middle east envoy steve wycoff and our secretary of state as a first step towards opening these talks and moving forward towards peace. on top of that we have secured just in a month the return of a dozen -- 12 american hostages from russia, from bulgaria, from venezuela, from belarus, and from hamas. for the first time in quite some time, we have taken out a senior leader of isis, an international financier and recruiter that the military had been trying to take out for quite some time, and was not able to do so frankly

because of a bureaucratic approval process. president trump said take him out and that isis financier and leader is no longer on this earth. we have also taken action to eliminate other terrorist organizations in the middle east. we drove before the president was even in office, he started talking consequences for people that would hold americans. heretofore there has been nothing but upside. you take an american, you get some better deal. you take another one, maybe you get a better deal. no more. there is now nothing but downside for taking americans illegally either as hostages or illegal detainees. and when president trump sent a very clear message across the middle east, but particularly to hamas there will be all hell to pay, we saw a breakthrough. and now we just saw the release of yet another group of hostages as they are been dozens now including two americans we have seen once again reunited with their families.

as part of the talks with king of della, he offered and i think the entire world has accepted to take 2,006 children cancer patients and others out of gaza as a humanitarian gesture, 2,000 and gaza will come out of that that it is. that wasteland, that gaza is right now with unexploded ordnance, with debris everywhere, with no sewage, with no water, and president trump has put forward a plan to deal with the practical reality that is 1.8 million gazans now truly suffering. and you know, just to bring it back to our own hemisphere, we have seen literally and the last month after years of national security experts, the generals in charge and others testify am

ringing the alarm bells about the chinese communist party's presence in our own hemisphere, particularly in the panama canal. we are seeing the leadership of panama step away from the belton road program, move away from china back towards the united states. and even enter into talks and other negotiations about addressing the ports on either side of the canal. and then finally, last but not least, we have had four world leaders in the white house and the oval office. we have had the prime minister of japan, the prime minister of india, the king of jordan, and of course the prime minister of israel just in the last four weeks. next week we will have their prime minister of the united kingdom and we will have the president of france. so president trump is on what we call trump warp speed. we are all honored to be really

serving under his leadership and his vision, and truly when we all say on the president himself says he is a president of peace, he is a president focused on restoring stability. i think the entire world saw what the world would look like without strong american leadership in the last four years, and it has truly been an honor to get us back to where we were and back on track under president trump's leadership. >> secretary leavitt: thank you, mike. thank you. hello, he everyone. i'm sure you are eager to ask questions to these very smart people working on behalf of the president. we have john stole and our media seat today as head of x, you are all on x. it has large independent journalists and news organizations across geographies and political spectrums, and at the same time, x remains

the go-to platform for many legacy news outlets and many of the reporters in this room use it to attract eyeballs to your work. there were two decades of journalism including seven years at "the wall street journal." we are excited to have them in the briefing room today. we will let you kick it off. and as i said at the top, please direct your question to the individual appeared who you would like an answer from him. john, why don't you begin. >> thank you very much. i am sitting in for a thriving ecosystem of journalists independent and emerging organizations who do depend on x for a publicity, for a business model. and so, i look forward to seeing many of them in the seat in months and years to come. i also thank you, for opening the seat up to media. it really is a testament not only to your open mindedness, but also to innovation that you would actually think about folks that are not traditionally credentialed to be in this room to be in this room. and not only have a question,

but also to witness, this is a very important intersection of power and the free process, and so just the ability to witness this and be a part of it brings everybody's game out. so thank you for that. i think this is for mike waltz, my question is about ukraine. >> sure. >> for about more than ten years with an investment like many with what is going on in your northern europe working out of the ball pit when crimea was annexed, and a lot of this came on twitter where the platform used to be known as twitter was a lot of european leaders would talk about their disappointment and solidarity with ukraine. but when it came to actually doing something, it felt like they were passing the hot potato unscented over the atlantic. i wonder how much of what we are seeing right now under the administration of president trump is a call to europe and the european leaders and allies we traditionally had

to pick up the hot potato and start doing something a little bit more concrete to win and preserve the peace in ukraine. the second question i have is related as there has been some a lot of speculation that president trump and the administration might be manipulated by vladimir putin, i wonder if you can talk a little bit about the ministrations posture and your confidence in the competence of this administration to go toe-to-toe with vladimir putin? >> i will take the second question first. if there is anybody in this world that can go toe-to-toe with vladimir putin, that can go toe-to-toe with xi, toe-to-toe with kim jong un, we can go down the list. it's donald j. trump. he is the commander-in-chief. there is no question he is the commander-in-chief. and i for one, and i think all americans around the world should have no doubt about his ability to not only handle hooton, but the complexity of

driving this war to an end. and then on your first piece, on europe, i will take you back to 2014, you are right, there was a lot of hand-wringing in europe and not a lot of action. there was also a lot of hand-wringing here in washington under the obama administration and not a lot of action. they literally threw blankets at the problem. so i will remind everyone that putin had some type of conflict, invasion issue with their neighbor under president bush with george, under president obama with ukraine 2014, not under president trump 45, and again with president biden in 2022. the word should have been deterred. it never should have happened. and i have no doubt it would not have happened under president trump and will stop under president trump again. but i want to talk about the european allies not being consulted as we have entered into this process. i already mention the immediate phone call president trump made to president zelenskyy. he has talked to

president macron of france repeatedly last week. president macron convened to european leaders and then it's coming here on monday. prime minister store burn is coming, next thursday, we have also -- i talked to everyone on my national security adviser counterparts, across the spectrum in europe, i've talked to secretary general ruta, the leader of nato. the secretary general of nato. and oh, by the way, we had half the cabinet, seven cabinet officials including the vice president at the munich's security conference all engaging and listening and making sure that our allies are heard. however, we have also made it clear for years, decades even that it is unacceptable that the united states in the united states taxpayer continues to bear the burden. not only of the cost of the war in ukraine, but of the defense of europe. we fully support our nato

allies. we fully support article five commitment, but it is time for our european allies to step up. in one of the things that secretary general ruta said when our call was the last couple of weeks have been a wake-up call. and i asked him, what have you been missing the last couple of years? the fact that we are going to enter into a nato summit this june with a third of our nato allies still not meeting the 2% minimum, a commitment they made a decade ago, literally a decade ago with a war on their doorstep, the largest war that they are all extremely concerned about, but yet it's, well somebody else needs to pay, we've got other domestic priorities. it's on acceptable. president trump has made that clear, and the minimum needs to be met. we need to be at 100% this june in the nato summit and then let's talk about exceeding ant which is what president trump has been talking about with 5% of gdp, europe needs to step up for their own defense as a

partner. and we can be friends and allies and have those tough conversations. >> secretary leavitt: peter. >> reporter: i have doge, who can talk doge? we are hearing about these dividend checks that will be 20% back to taxpayers and 20 percent to pay down the debt, 60 percent is left, who gets that? >> the way that it works is when you achieve savings, you can either return it to the taxpayers, you can return it to our debtors, or it can be cycled into next year's budget and it lowers the overall baseline for next year. so in other words it can transfer into the next fiscal window and underline the lower spending level. and that reduces the deficit. >> reporter: and when is it that people might see those checks? >> that will be worked on through the reconciliation process with congress underway right now as you have seen, the senate is moving the bill, the house is moving a bill, the

president has great confidence in both chambers to deliver. i would take this opportunity to note that president trump has made a historic commitment to the working class of this country to fight for a major tax relief and major price relief. and cutting spending as doge is doing and cutting taxes is a key delivery on those promises and president trump is resolute to doing both. >> reporter: and on ukraine, i guess this is for mike, after the president posted on true social yesterday, we need to know, who does he think is more responsible for the russian invasion of ukraine? putin or zelinski? >> his goal is to bring this war to an end, period, and there has been ongoing fighting on both sides, it is world war i styled trench warfare, his frustration with president zelenskyy that you have heard is multifold. one, there needs to be a deep appreciation for what the american people, with the

american taxpayer, what president trump did in his first term and what we have done since, so some of the rhetoric coming out insults to president trump were unacceptable, number one, number two, our own secretary of treasury personally made the trip to offer ukrainians what can only be described as a historic opportunity for america to coinvest with ukraine in their minerals, and the resources to truly grow the pie. so case in point, there is a foundry that process aluminum in ukraine that has been damaged and is not at its current capacity. if that is restored, it would account for america's entire imports of aluminum for an entire year. that one foundry. there are tremendous resources there. not only is that long-term security for ukraine, not only do we help them grow the pie with investments, but we do have

an obligation to the american taxpayer and helping them recruit the hundreds of billions that have occurred. so rather than enter into some constructive conversations about what's that deal should be going forward, we have a lot of rhetoric in the media that was incredibly unfortunate. and i could just tell you, peter, you know, as a veteran, as someone who has been in combat, this war is horrific. and i think that we have lost sight of that period of the literally thousands of people that are dying a day. families that are going without the next generation. and i find it kind of, frankly ridiculous. so many people in washington that were just demanding, pounding the table for a cease-fire in gaza are suddenly aghast that the president would demand one and both sides come to the table with talks when it comes to ukraine. a war that has been arguably far

greater in scope and scale and far more dangerous in terms of global escalation to u.s. security. >> reporter: i do have one for karoline. does president trump have a bet with the hockey game tonight, and when there is a big hockey game on, is the president watching for the goals or the fights? >> secretary leavitt: probably both. i think he is watching for the usa to win tonight. he talked to the hockey team this morning after their morning practice around 10:00 and i also spoke to some folks from that team after as they were jubilant over president trump's comments to the team and i believe they will put out a video of that call. he looks forward to watching the game tonight. and we look forward to the united states beating our soon to be 51st state canada. bloomberg, go ahead. spill we will take a quick break from all of this. we have a couple of bills to pay. we will be right back at it.

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>> sandra: back to the white house briefing, stephen miller taking a question now. >> so thank you, and i will promise you that the full might of the department of homeland security, the department of justice, the department of defense, and every element to it

instrument of national power will be used to remove with speed all criminal illegals from the soil of the united states of america to enforce final removal orders and to ensure that text country is for american citizens and for those that legally belong in this country. we inherited an i.c.e. that was shuttered, the department of homeland security whose sole mission was to resettle illegal aliens within the united states of america. in 30 days, the president sealed the border shots, declare the cartels to be terrorist organizations, as increased i.c.e. deportation to levels not seen in decades, and we are shortly on the verge of achieving of pace and speed of deportations this country as never before. thank you. >> reporter: there been reports that there are some underground opposition to donald trump's pick for secretary eldridge colby, have you or anyone from the administration heard about the

support of eldridge colby. >> i have worked with him in the past. he has the president's full support to be the undersecretary of policy, which will be a critical policy arm for secretary hegseth going forward. and that is been the extent of it. there is been a lot of breathless, i don't know back and forth in the press, but we are full speed ahead to get the president's in place so we can implement his america first policy. >> secretary leavitt: mike has spoken extensively, no one wants to talk about the economy, irs, okay, go. >> reporter: so we reported from other outlets have reported that about 3500 people are due to be -- lose their jobs by the day ended the week. if the goals of the spending cuts across the federal

government has been to reduce the debt, why impose some of the deepest cuts we have seen so far at the agency responsible for raising refuge to the federal government. >> our objective is to make sure the employees we pay are being productive and effective. and there are many, many more than 100,000 people working to collect taxes and not all of them are fully occupied. in the treasury secretary is studying the matter and feels like a 35 is a small number and could probably get bigger as we approve the i.t. at the irs. so i think that it is absolutely something that is on the table for good reasons. the point is don't just talk about the irs, talk about all of government. there are so many places, i live in d.c., you may be live in d.c. where no one is going to the buildings. people aren't commuting because nobody is doing their job. we look back and we see that they are all these people doing two jobs while they are on a government payroll. so we are fixing that and the irs is a small part of that picture. >> reporter: you are saying

everyone who is being let go was doing a bad job? >> i am saying that we are studying every agency and deciding who to let go and why. and doing so rationally with a lot of support from analysis. >> reporter: we are being told by a lot of people who have been let go at other agencies that they were being told they were let go from poor performance, when some cases they have not even had a performance review yet because they have only been on the job for a couple of months. >> i've never seen someone being laid off for poor performance saying they were performing poorly. >> reporter: thank you for being here, and i have a question for mr. waltz. on the checks from doge, is there a concern as you are thinking through this they could be inflationary? >> absolutely not. if we don't spend government money and we give it back to the people, then if they spend it all, then you are even, but they are probably going to save a lot of it, one in which case you are reducing inflation, and we

learned that from joe biden, so if we reduce government spending, then that reduces inflation, and if you give people money, than they are going to save the budget. and when they save, that reduces demand and inflation. >> reporter: you are not worried about it. and mr. waltz, to follow up on peter's question, you wrote in an op-ed that putin is to blame like al qaeda was to blame for 9/11, do you feel that way now or share the president's assessment as he says ukraine is to blame for the start of the war. >> it should not surprise you that i share the presidents assessment on all kinds of issues. what i wrote was a former member of congress, and share the presidents assessment on is that the war has to end. and what comes with that? what comes without should be at some point elections. what comes with that should be peace. what comes with that is prosperity that we just offered in this natural resources and economic partnership arrangement, and end to the killing. any european security and a

security for the world. the president has not only determined to do that in europe, he is determined to do that in the middle east coming in just a few months ago, we had an administration that had tried for 15 months week after week sitting with you here and could not get us to a cease-fire, could not get our hostages out. now we are at that point where we are back to the maximum pressure on iran, and we will -- we have just begun, and we will drive towards a cease-fire and all of those other steps. i'm not going to prenegotiate or get ahead of the sequencing of all of that. it is a very delicate situation, but this is a president of peace. and who here would argue against peace? >> reporter: you do share that assessment. and in 2017 -- >> secretary leavitt: jordan go ahead. >> so mr. hassett, you were speaking about tariff revenue and address the question about n

about replacing income tax with the tariff revenue especially with all of the waste abuse we are seeing cut, is that a possibility? >> absolutely. when you think about the china tariff revenue, estimating coming in from 10% that we just added, plus the minimus things that it is between 500 billion and a trillion dollars over ten years is our estimate. and that is something that is outside of the reductions that the markets are seen through the negotiations up on the hill. so we expect that the tariff revenue is actually going to make it much easier for republicans to pass a bill. that was t the presidents plan l along. >> reporter: i have oppression for stephen miller about doge coming he spoke about doge roughly $50 billion is said to be cut in a year of waste, fraud, and abuse on unelected bureaucrats. we are hearing this narrative from the president's critics and the left-wing media that elon musk is an unelected bureaucrat and is doing all of this terrible stuff, isn't it

one of doge's objectives to get rid of the federal bureaucracy, the deep state? and also who is running the white house when joe biden was in office? because i don't know a single person who believes that it is joe biden. >> you're attempting me to say very harsh things about some of our media friends. yes, it is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that joe biden was mentally incompetent. and was not running the country. it is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking points that elon musk is not elected it failed to understand how government works. so i am grateful for the opportunity of a brief civics lesson. the president is elected by the whole american people pair the official in the entire government elected by the entire nation peer judges are appo appointed, and others at the district and state level, the one man as a clause, known as a vested clause that the executive

power shall be vested in a president. singular. the whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. that president that appointed staff to the impose of the democratic will on to. the threat to democracy, the existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe the answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence. who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what americans vote for. so americans vote for radical fbi reform, an fbi agent say they don't want to change. or americans vote for reform under an energy policy is, that the epa says they don't want to change. or they vote and dei racist dei policies, and lawyers the department of justice saying they don't want to change. what president trump is doing is removing federal bureaucrats who are defined democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders

which are the will of the whole american people. thank you. >> secretary leavitt: thank you very much, everybody. we have almost had an hour of time. >> sandra: looks like they are going to take some more questions. we will squeeze in another break, john. >> john: she might be wrapping up, so we will see.

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