>> sandra: all right any moment now a game changing announcement from president trump on chips, massive new investment coming to the united states as the semiconductor company, the biggest in the world, expected support $100 billion into american chip manufacturing over the next four years. >> j >> john: added onto a growing list of more than one and a half trillion dollars worth of new investments announced since inauguration day. we will listen into president trump's announcement coming soon. and our big money panel. that's all ahead. >> sandra: meanwhile, one of the largest human smuggling

rings busted as they crackdown on illegal immigration. announcing charges against two leaders of the guatemalan operation that brought us small town's worth of people onto american soil. welcome back as "america reports" heads into its like an hour. i'm sandra smith you're good to be with you, john. >> john: john roberts from washington. the ring leader accused of smuggling 20,000 illegal guatemalan immigrants since 2019 and up to $18,000 a pop. prosecutors making stunning claims of thoughts what the lieutenant you see here did as police moved in. keep in mind the suspect is still at large. >> search warrants were being executed in los angeles on friday. he telephoned a member of the investigative team and threatened to kill that agent and his family members by cutting off their heads.

>> sandra: alicia acuna is following this for us. they could face the death penalty? >> yeah, if convicted, sandra, they could face the death penalty. this is the takedown of a transnational criminal organization on friday. federal agents in los angeles arrested two guatemalan men. eduardo domingo and cristobal mejia are being held without bond for smuggling more than 20,000 illegal immigrants into the u.s. >> the offenses show a criminal group that acted with callous disregard for immigration laws and no real regard for the immigrants that they smuggled. >> the justice department alleges that his organization charged up to $18,000 to smuggle migrants from guatemala to the u.s. federal authorities say they would sneak in at the arizona border and place them in stash houses in the phoenix area.

sometimes to be taken to other stash houses in l.a. and then to a location in the country. the suspects ran an emigrant shuttle service of sorts inside the united states, moving emigrants from place to place, charging transport see is that if one, migrants were held hostage sometimes for months. two other men face charges for a car crash in oklahoma. smuggler driving a group of immigrants from new york to los angeles. authorities say he is in custody. seven migrants were killed, including a 4-year-old child. cops say he sent these photos to one of the rings lieutenants. homer hernandez who is on the run. the feds also say when they were searching this man's home, he actually called the agent and said that he was going to track him down, cut off his head, and that of his family. again, they don't know where he

has, so we will continue to follow this. >> sandra: thank you very much. john. >> john: meanwhile, the violent nicaraguan gang now recognized as a national security threat. some officials tell flex their repeated warnings fell on deaf ears. live in dallas. what are law enforcement officials telling you? >> john, we spoke to border patrol and the fbi in el paso. this was the first group of people to really discover and identify tda and sound the alarm across the country. years later now they say they finally heal their voices are being heard under the trump administration. they have said they are going to make it a priority to take down tda. but for years agents and the fbi were pretty much ignored. this is what the border looks like now with illegal crossings at the lowest we have seen in decades. look at the same spot back in el paso. more than 71,000 venezuelans

crossed the el paso sector. that is when agents realize criminals and the tdm members were taking advantage of that influx. they teamed up with the fbi in el paso. >> i think it immediately became obvious that this was not just some other street game but a very violent gang with very bad intentions. >> you take the street violence of ms-13, sophistication of cartels, put them together, and that is what worried us. >> without support from venezuela, fbi and border patrol agent said they had to start from scratch, interviewing hundreds of people for hours and hours coming across the border to learn more about that again. the public did not become aware of tda until recently. that's because the fbi and border patrol agents say many people ignore them or just did not believe them.

>> in nicaragua has no limits, has no boundaries, and there is no stopping them once they get the foothold. >> border patrol agents and the fbi say that tda is constantly on the move. they infiltrate different cities, build their networks, and go after these vulnerable populations and just exploit them, john. >> john: brooke taylor with the latest for us. appreciate it. now this. ♪ ♪ [singing] ♪ ♪ >> sandra: anti-doge protesters defiant, but that is not stopping the trump administration from pushing forward with its mission. that all agencies are key in putting this all into motion. department of interior says it is completely and praising the

doge effort. how? let's ask him ourselves. mr. secretary, great to have you on the program today. first off, detail to us, how has doge so far hit the interior? >> are to be both of you. this is -- the bloat in federal government is so huge. we cut 27% out of the state of north dakota which was pretty lean because states have to have balanced budgets. even with that pressure, still able to cut 27% out in the first four months. so exciting to have elon musk leading this effort, opening his jacket, talking about tech support. we have so failed to modernize federal government. the systems -- we still have people receiving information by fax machines and interior. so there is such an opportunity to modernize what were doing,

and we could end up more responsive, get permits done faster, via jobs for federal employees that have more meaningful and purpose because so much of what's being done today is just outdated and inefficient. >> john: elon musk about to joe rogan on his podcast the other day, saying the situation he believed was worse than he ever could have imagined. just listen to how he put it. >> i thought it would be that, but i did not think it would be as bad as this. the good news is it is a target rich environment. it is not rocket science. it is not rocket science. >> john: he knows rocket science. the left is screaming from the rooftops that everything that is being done by doge and president trump is wholly unfair, and there are a lot of people losing their jobs. >> well, the good news is that in america right now there are over 10 million jobs available in the private sector. that is not good news. we are not in the middle of a

depression. anytime we can move people off of where taxpayers are paying for the salary then being in a job for the private sector, that is good for productivity. i also would say that part of their reaction on doge, in north dakota, if you have an old barn filled with stuff for the last hundred years, everybody has got one of these. people don't throw things away. those tools in the barn had a valuable use at the time, but that barn is the federal government with 100 years of growth and change, you have a committee of dozens of people that go in and say should we take this one object out of the barn and get rid of that? they all debate, cannot agree, so nothing ever get shredded. luckily this approach, we are cleaning out the whole barn, deciding what to put back in. this is an approach of -- 36,000 contracts and grants must in the

interior. 36,000, and the money that was being spent on grants is double what it was when trump left office, so you can cut grants by 50%. back to some 1930s level, back to the 2020 level of spending, and i don't think anybody was screaming then. >> sandra: if you could take this down to the interior and what you've been able to do there and what you've seen since you've taken the reins, i saw a report set the workforce in the interior was downsized by about 2,000 jobs in just the last week alone. about 1,000 of those were newly hired public park service employees. can you sort of clarify what's happening here? did you realize some jobs were let go where people actually were needed? >> i think there's maybe some inaccuracies in the number, but we do have 5,000 jobs posted for summer firefighters and seasonal

park, but in talking to our park leaders, parts are going to be opened. they will be well staffed and managed this summer absolutely for sure. the interior is the balance sheet of america. 500 million acres of land to manage. over 2 billion acres of offshore. we've got to make sure as the revenue-generating agency, that we are part of the solution, because the effort as we are going to cut a trillion, raise a trillion in the revenue. and we have a role to play on the revenue side. >> john: one small piece of that is alaska. trying to cut a deal with ukraine for rare earth minerals. mike dunlevy says come to alaska. we are a giant when it comes to critical minerals, essential to produce sustainable energy. if the biden-harris administrations alaska policy is depriving alaskans of opportunities for good paying

jobs and stifling their ability to pay for itself. that was the biden administration. this is a new day, new sheriff in town. will you allow alaska to start mining these rare earth metals? >> alaska is a huge priority for us. every is saying. alaska is a huge resource for us. it is not a snow globe that you just look at. half of those numbers i gave you for the land in the subsurface, half of those are in alaska. it is bigger than california, montana, texas, most of new mexico new mexico combined. it is a huge resource for us. multiple in person over the phone and videoconference with governor mike dunlevy. he has a friend of mine. the biden administration sanctioned alaska more than iran. 68 executive orders to stop --

>> sandra: long way of saying yes? >> absolutely we are. the president signed an emergency order on energy because we have issues with our electoral grid, with minerals. signed one about unleashing alaska. one of the directives from the president to secretary of energy and myself, to get things going in alaska. one of the most exciting projects as we had an opportunity to talk to the leaders of japan about. met with korea last week. 800-mile gas pipeline that would allow us to sell energy to our friends and allies in the north pacific. traditional world war ii allies. helps raise money but would be a game changer for the next 50 years for alaska. >> sandra: certainly wed. we will keep following all of that. >> thank you. >> john: to capitol hill where melania trump is making her first solo appearance since

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>> sandra: all right, fox news alert. you are looking at the white house where president trump any minute now is expected to make an investment announcement. edward lawrence is in the room. could certainly of course take questions, but expected to make an announcement about this taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer appeared intends to invest $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants right here in the u.s. over the next four years. this would be the latest effort by this administration to get private companies to make big investments in the united states. we will hear from the president shortly. live when it happens. carbon monoxide ruled out as a possible cause in the depths of gene hackman and his wife. combing through clues to figure out what may have happened. live outside the hackman home. what clues are they looking for right now? >> sandra, they are looking at his pacemaker, cell phone

records, and toxicology. jean and his wife lived on a massive estate inside of an exclusive neighborhood. once you get inside the subdivision, they had a very large gate at the edge of their driveway, so it was very clear that they valued their privacy. i talked with the medical investigator's office. they are rolling out carbon monoxide. they are waiting to get toxicology and other test back as soon as possible. they are aiming for weeks, not months because law enforcement wants answers. there are of their big focal points of this investigation. hackman's pacemaker which the sheriff said registered its last event february 17, indicating that they hackman likely passed away. that pacemaker could provide a lot of help. police took a lot of evidence from the home in santa fe, including two cell phones, thyroid medication, medication

to treat high blood pressure or chest pain. tylenol, medical records, 2025 monthly planner. the cell phone records could reveal whether gene or his wife tried to place any emergency calls. text messages and photos could perhaps give insight into what happened. a friend says that the actor was extremely fit well into his 90s, but recently gene did slow down during the pandemic. >> very set, you know. he was 6'2". ex-marine. he did pilates like three times a week. then on the days that he did not do pilates, he would load his bicycle up to his suv. >> authority is safe three dogs were on the property. one dog, a german shepherd, was in a crate near betsy. that is that dog that passed away. >> sandra: thank you. >> john: as we await the present, the protection of women

and girls in sports act gets a vote later on today. would set a stronger precedent to keep trans athletes out of women sports. states who don't comply with face consequences. seven democrats will need to get on board for it to pass a filibuster. let's bring in tommy, alabama senator who introduced a bill. do you have seven democrats out there who care enough about protecting women in sports to join with republicans? >> i would hope so, but it's a heavy lift. third time i have had it on the floor. one democratic vote. that was joe manchin. obviously he is gone. getting to a point where women and girls forts are getting ready to be extinct. we have high school teams that are made up of totally boys participating as girls. it's a very serious. hopefully we can get something done today. president trump's executive order is only going to last four years. after that it will probably go

the other way. >> john: here's where the american people are according to a recent "new york times" poll. 79% of all americans believed transgender athletes should not be allowed in women sports pier 94% of republicans believe that. 67% of democrats. the tide would seem to be in your favor. >> well, you would think so. the democratic party believes men can get pregnant, you know you've got problems. it is such an attack on gender up here, john. every day we see something from the democrats, want to do away with something to do with feminism or being a woman. it is dead wrong. young girls need the opportunity that boys have, but it's going to be extinct now if we don't get something done. a lot of these democrats, they don't vote with their constituents. they about how they want to vote. >> john: riley gaines eliminated what is at stake. she said with the protection of women and girls and sports act now being heard, one step closer

to ensuring women no longer used trophies, roster spots, fair competition to men in their own support. this really is a one-way street. we don't hear a lot about biological women going into men sports and blowing away the competition. this is about biological men going into women sports, taking spots, taking championships from women if you're not allowing women who have spent their entire lives trying to compete for these top prizes to really do what they are trained to do. >> and i talked to democrats and say what is that you don't understand here? they say it's got to be fair. wait a minute, fair? you are going to do away with women sports. that is what is fair. it is being really unfair and it is also dangerous. president trump did this executive order, and people are defining -- ncaa says we are not going to let them compete, but we are going to let them compete and shower with girls. they have lost their minds. we have to get back to the

common sense in this country especially when it comes to something like this because this will grow, and we have to do something for the women and girls in sports and let them learn leadership, work ethic, all those things. democrats, they just want to destroy it. >> john: we talked about the tide being with you in terms of where the american public opinion is. continuing to swim against the tide. had a dustup with the president last week. here's what she said. she is fund-raising off of her spot with the president, saying "i want to make one thing clear. maine will not be intimidated. the pushback starts at the state level. can you donate $10 to make sure they have the resources to fight for our state?" this is a state that had a biological boy who was a mediocre athlete go into a women's division and blow away the competition. so what is she defending? >> first of all, this is not a

democrat or republican issue. this is an american and equal rights issue. again, this governor has no right to defy president trump, but also take away the right of young girls to work hard, to take that opportunity that this country gives you to do the best you can and sports. i coached 40 years. you learn and work ethic, time, how to work with other people, you learn how to win, how to lose, do all those things together. but again they want to do away with women sports for some reason. >> john: senator, we will be watching later on today to see if you can break the filibuster. we thank you for your time. >> sandra: president trump expected to make a game changing announcement any moment now. this is a big effort to get private business to invest in the united states of america, and this is a big one. we are going to take you there

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>> sandra: all right, so any moment now, you're looking live at the white house, expected to see president trump shortly. going to make a announcement on a new investment. brian and taylor are here to break down what we are about to see. $100 billion from this chipmaker, largest in the world to manufacture right here at home. how much does this matter? >> well, it matters that's unjust from an economic standpoint. we need to lead in this industry. these are the right guys to do it. you can have different people say they are going to invest. one time semiconductor says we are going to spend $100 billion, that is a big deal. they have done some of that in

arizona already. and it is good timing for this. the reason i paused for a second is because we need this news where all the popular talk is tariff talk and where the limit is going to be, this is the way forward. companies overseas coming into the u.s. and building here because they know it's a good economic deal. i'm glad trump is able to make this announcement today. >> sandra: these are chips that are going to go into major ai development, smartphones, you name it. it has got applications for -- >> partner with all the big chipmakers including nvidia. they are the designer. this is absolutely what the president does best. he's great at bringing in business leaders, private sectors, foreign investors, say hey, come make your stuff here. not to mention to brian's point, this is taiwan semi manufacturing company. we need to get them close to shore, closer to america, so the

fact that they want to build here is great. we want foreign investment that is good for good paying american jobs. >> sandra: heads up, inside the two-minute warning for this announcement. to be your point, and i will bring you back, there is a long list of investment announcements that we have heard since inauguration day. $500 billion from stargate. seems like a lot of these are positioning us for the future of artificial intelligence. $600 billion, increased trade from saudi arabia. we know that that was a big one. >> we need to dominate the space. we need to do it economically because it is the economic future. from a national security standpoint, we want the stuff designed here, made here. you cannot overstate how important it is feared that trump administration is making a real play for this, and it is private dollars. this is not government picking

winners or losers. there is a huge difference. don't understate the importance of that. >> sandra: economic and national security implications as well for us to have the supply for our military. >> all the rumors about china at deep-sea, able to get those nvidia chips, this always comes down to national security. we have to be the leader in ai. i am very excited about this. i just want to make sure it's not another foxconn actuation. i want them to build something tangible so we can be a leader, and i really want to see it come to fruition. when tim cook says we are building $500 year. i want to sit here two years from now and be able to say look at the plan. that's what came out of it. >> that's why it's so important to get tax rates down. regulation down because when you put that foundation -- when that's the playing field, it is not just going to be a few

companies here and there, but it's going to make economic sense for them. will not dangle a carrot out here. the basic fundamentals. these companies can make money. they do it voluntarily for economic reasons. >> sandra: getting a federal reserve report that we are still seeing a slow down reported in the economy. this is still the hangover from the biden administration, but it's going to take a major effort to get things going ag again. four years to do it. >> they need tax cuts immediately because that gdp reports, it is volatile. now negative 2.8. it is really volatile, but that's because all we are hearing about as the prices paid. leading indicators of the index rolling over. not hearing about the supply side, the tax cuts. you have to get that out in the narrative. manufacturers feel that. the consumers feel that. gdp report starting to feel that.

if you get the tax cuts combined with tariffs, that's perfect offset, but i am a little bit worried about the economic side of the story when it comes to the consumer. >> we are getting signs here and there, trump administration is trying to unravel an economy that was absolutely tied up in government spending and hiring. which is totally unsustainable because it is nobody's money but the taxpayers. as they do that, it is going to be painful. at least four years of heavy, heavy, heavy government weighing on this economy. >> scott alluded to that cute. >> it's going to take work, so expect a little bit of pain in the short-term. >> sandra: president trump now entering the room with his announcement. let's listen. >> president trump: thank you very much. this is a very big day for a lot of reasons, but this gentleman

is a very unique man. i think i can say in the world of chips, certainly, but in business know that he has done what he's done. for those of you that are into that world, you would say while matt, he's a legend. it is an honor to be with you. thank you very much. welcoming from tsmc, the there is at a level that you cannot even calculate, frankly. to the white house for a very historic announcement. this is a tremendous thing for our country and hopefully for his company. we are also pleased to be joined by commerce secretary howard lutnick and white house ai and crypto czar, david sachs. another two very highly respected people. great to have you guys involved.

david, thank you very much for coming on. david is sort of the king of intellect in that world. we have some good people. today, taiwan semiconductor announcing they will be conducting at least $100 billion in new capital in the united states over the next right. of time i think mostly it is going to be in arizona, which is what i understand, a great state. i like it because i won it. but i won most of them actually. but i did. we won it big. the most powerful ai chips in the world will be made right here in north america. it will be a big percentage of the chips made by has country. as you know, they are based mostly in taiwan. faraway the biggest. this new investment will go into

building five cutting-edge fabrication facilities in the great state. that we just discussed. arizona. we will create thousands of jobs, many thousands of jobs and high-paying jobs. in total, today's announcement brings investments to about $165 billion. they started already. the largest new foreign direct investments in the united states. apple as you know made a big announcement of $500 billion, and we have some others that have announced. of many that want to announce, but i don't have time to do all of these announcements. for you i'm doing a announcement. this will create hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity and boost america's dominance in artificial intelligence and beyond. semiconductors are the backbone of the 21st century. without the semiconductors, there is no economy. powering everything from a high to automobiles to advance

manufacturing. we must be able to build the chips and semiconductors that we need right here in american factories with american skill and american labor. and that is exactly what we are doing. as you know, taiwan pretty much as a monopoly on the market, and i think pretty much that is not a term that is even appropriate. they do have a monopoly. this is a tremendous move by the most powerful company in the world. it is a matter of economic security. also a matter of national security for us. at the same time, he will be able to diversify and have tremendous president in other places, and i want to thank taiwan semiconductor for doing the announcement. i would like to ask mr. wei to say a few words. and howard and david. but maybe you should go first because right now he is the most important man in the room.

sorry, fellas. >> thank you. great honor, mr. president. i have to pull out my piece of paper. mr. president, secretary, and i do not know your title. okay. first, i want to say thank you to mr. president, to give me this opportunity to announce in the u.s. tsmc is the world's largest chip manufacturer. founded in 1987. it is now at the forefront of semiconductor technology, supporting ai advancement at the

industry court. in fact, in order to -- at the time, in 2020, we have to think president trump's vision and his support. so tsmc started the journey of establishing advanced chip manufacturing in arizona. and now makes me proud to say that we appreciate it has become reality. 3,000 employees, we are producing the most advanced chip made on u.s. soil. with the success, so we are now very happy to announce we are going to invest an additional 100 billion u.s. dollars in addition to our current

65 billion u.s. dollar investment in arizona. we are going to build three m more -- already and another two packaging -- and most important, center in arizona. for this, an investment of $165 billion, we are going to create thousands of high-paying jobs as the president has announced. and most importantly, we are going to produce many ai chips. we are going to produce many chips to support ai progress, to support progress. and again, we start -- i want to thank president trump again for

his support. in addition, i also want to share with my customers that in the u.s., apple, nvidia, they all support manufacturing in the u.s. without their support, we probably cannot make it. so again, i want to send them -- also i would like to thank tsmcr their efforts. we just could not make it. that is all i want to say. thank you. [applause] >> david. >> thank you. >> so, i, i'm thrilled to be here today because president trump has made it a fundamental objective to bring

semiconductor chip manufacturing home to america. under the biden administration, tsmc received a $6 billion grant, and that encourage them to build $65 billion. south america gave tsmc 10% of the money to build here. and now you are seeing the power of donald trump's presidency because tsmc, the greatest manufacturer of chips in the world, is coming to america with $100 billion investment. and of course that is backed by the fact that they can come here because they can avoid paying tariffs. so the idea is come to america, built greatness in america, built for the american customers. apple, nvidia. that whole list that chairman wei gave in order to bring production to america. we are really excited. this continues the most incredible path you've ever seen

in these first weeks and months of the trump administration of incredible manufacturing coming to america. the key is that the president has called out are coming here. they are coming here and each size because they want to be in the greatest market in the world, and they want to avoid the terrorist that if they are not here they would have to suffer, so i want to congratulate cc wei, but it is on the shoulders of our president donald trump, which is why he is coming. so thank you. musk david. >> thank you, sir. the products tsmc makes are literally the most important products in the world. these advanced chips power everything. ai, your phone, your cars. without them, the whole modern economy would stop, but they are not made in the united states, so are tsmc to move here is a huge development. we owe that to president trump's

leadership on the economy. cc, thank you for coming here. >> president trump: thank you very much. they percentage of chips with this investment will be made n now. big percentage. worldwide we have very little. almost none. we used to have a lot with intel, but we had very little, and we will be had close to 40% of the market with this transaction and a couple of others that we are doing. that is a tremendous leap. like a leaf that nobody would have really said was possible, so i just want to thank you all for being here. if you want a couple of questions, ideally on the subject. >> the jobs that it will create -- >> president trump: you are probably talking about 20,000, 25,000 jobs, but it will get bigger and bigger with time. there will be no stopping them. >> mr. president -- >> in addition to the jobs come you talked about national security. that is one thing that americans

don't understand. explain the national security aspect of this. >> president trump: without the chips and semiconductors, nothing runs today. you can buy the car without them. you cannot get a radio, television, you cannot get anything. we thought it was very important for business but even in terms of national security to have this large percentage of the chips semiconductors and other things that they may, the most important product. not a product you can really copy. it takes years and years. on the needle of the pen, total genius. they can put things -- something the size of the needle -- the point of the pen, they put information that is just not even believable. anyone sees this, it is just really something. >> honda announced they are coming to indiana because of the tariffs. once again, bringing additional jobs and manufacturing.

>> president trump: honda is coming. i told you about apple. they are starting to build massively here. and we have many other companies to be announced, but many that have already announced. now it is going to be great. it is looking really strong. i don't think this country has ever seen anything like what we are seeing right now. the tariffs as you know will start weed earlier than the reciprocal, which is going to be a couple years earlier. reciprocal tariffs start april 2nd, and i wanted to make it april 1st, but i did not want to go april fools' day because that costs a lot of money, so we are going april 2nd, but very importantly, tomorrow, 25% on canada. 25% on mexico. so they are going to have to have tariffs -- build their car plans frankly and other things in the united states. in which case they have no tariffs.

this is exactly what mr. wei is doing. if they did them in time want to send them here, they will have 25% or 30% or 50% or whatever wr the number may be. they will go only up, but by doing it here, he has no tariffs, so he is way ahead of the game. i would just say this to people in canada or mexico, if they are going to build car plans, the people that are doing them are much better off building here because we have the market where they sell the most, so i think it's going to be very exciting. very exciting for the automobile companies. very exciting for -- an example, north carolina, i used to go there to buy furniture for hotels. and it has been wiped out, the business all went to other countries. now it is all going to come back into north carolina. the furniture manufacturing business. >> ukraine minerals deal now dead or cannot be revived?

>> president trump: we are making a speech. you have probably heard about it. but no, i don't think so. it is a great deal for us because you know, biden very foolishly, stupidly, frankly, gave $300 billion on $350 billion, more accurately, to a country to fight and to try and do things, and you know what happened? we get nothing. we could have rebuilt our entire u.s. navy with $350 billion. think of it. we could have rebuilt our u.s. navy, so he gave it away as fast as i money could be got, and we are getting that all back. and a lot more than that. we need it -- it's very important for this business we are talking about here with chips and semiconductors, we need rare earth's, and the deal we have, we have the finest --

>> mr. president, what you need to see from president zelenskyy to restart these negotiations? >> president trump: i just think he should be more appreciative because this company has stuck with him during thick and thin, giving him much more than europe. that's right there. that's the border. this country really was like the fence on the border. it was very important to europe. i am not knocking europe. i am saying they were a lot smarter than joe biden here joe biden did not have a clue. he just gave money hand over fist, and they should have been able to equalize with us. if we give a dollar, they should have given a dollar. they probably gave 100. on top of it all, they get their money back because they are doing it in the form of the loan. when i saw that, i said it is time for us to be smart. at the same time, it's great for them because they got us in the

country taking their rare earth, which is going to feel this big engine, especially the engine that we have created. re there. we have a presence there. with all of that being said, i want one thing that happened. i want all of those young people to stop being killed. they are being killed by the thousands every week. last week 2700 were killed. 2700 young -- just about all young boys. from ukraine. and from russia. that is not young people from the united states, but on the human basis, i want to see it stop. the money is one thing, but the death -- they are losing thousands of soldiers a week. that is not including the people that get killed every time a town goes down or a missile goes into a town. and i want to see it stop.

yes. >> have you been considering military aid to ukraine? can we get a reaction to what he says, that your administration is bringing the u.s. worldview in alignment with moscow's? >> president trump: this is a deal that should have never happened. this is a deal that would not have happened, and it didn't happen for four years, not even close to happening if i were president. would not have happened. october 7th would not have happened in israel. and inflation would not have happened here to afghanistan, disastrous, the way they withdrew. not the fact that they withdrew about the way that they withdrew. we would have had bob graham right now instead of china having it. we would have kept it, one of the biggest airbases in the world. all of these things happen, and it's a shame, but it is what it is, and now we are here. i want to see it end fast. i don't want to see this go on for years and years. president zelenskyy supposedly

made a statement today in ap -- not a big fan of ap, so maybe it was an incorrect statement. he says he thinks the war is going to go on for a long time, and he better not be right about that. that's all i'm saying. >> could this minimize the impact, should china decide to isolate taiwan or china decides to take time want? >> president trump: great question actually, but this would certainly -- i cannot say minimize. that would be a catastrophic event obviously, but it will at least give us a position where we have in this very important business, we would have a very big part of it in the united states. have a big impact if something should happen with taiwan. >> are you looking at relieving russian sanctions if there is a peace deal? >> everybody to get this work, including european nations, and they've acted very well.

most of them are friends of mine. the heads of state, various prime ministers from the different -- i get four prime ministers. four prime ministers, five presidents called me over the last two days, and they want to work it out. they want to get it worked out. i think they're also -- they are talking money, but the money is less important than the death. we are talking thousands of young people a week. people say why do i care about ukraine young people? why do i care about -- not all young, but they are pretty young. ukraine is running a little bit low, and they are getting older. they are recruiting older people. it's a very sad thing that's happening over there, and we want to get it finished. we want to stop the death. >> is there in the room for canada and mexico to make a deal before midnight, and should we expect to the chinese terrace to take effect?

>> no room left for mexico or canada. they are all set. they go into effect tomorrow. >> just a follow up on my colleagues question. >> president trump: vast amounts of fentanyl have poured into our country from mexico, and as you know also from china where it goes to mexico and goes to canada, and so it is ten plus ten. and it comes in from canada and comes in from mexico. that is a very important thing to say. >> have you decided if you are going to suspend military aid to ukraine? >> president trump: i have not even talked about that right now. we will see what happens. a lot of things are happening right now. as we speak right now, literally as we speak i could give you an answer and go back to my office. the beautiful oval office. i could go back and find out that the answer is obsolete. it's like his business. you come up with the new chip, and it's obsolete about 2 minute