senator ernst, it's so great to have you back at the ronald reagan institute. thank you. >> (applause) >> today we welcome one of the most influential voices from the private sector, a unique awning of security security nets, reagan institute, and they know him for his many, many successful endeavors. among these, joe has founded over a dozen prominent companies and he's been an early investor in several more. here to moderate a discussion among the leading national security voices from the public and private sectors is morgan brennan, co-anchor of cnbc's closing bell overtime. joined cnbc in 2013 and covers a variety of sectors, manufacturing, defense and space, speaking of which, she's hosted a cnbc podcast. morgan has interviewed chief executives of multi-billion dollar corporations and the conversation on the stage promises to be fascinating. please join me in giving a welcome warm to our esteemed guests. [applause] >> thank you. and i'll just say before we get started, the last maybe five minutes or so of this conversation i'll open it up to questions and

war or ronald reagan.re about the fact that donald trump and his doge hatchetman are coming for social security, medicaid, and medicare. trump made that clear last night with his insane and previously debunked lies about social security. and be forewarned, unless you love hearing an old man recite long numbers, this clip is incredibly boring. >> believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million social security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. it lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119. 3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129. 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149. 1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159. and over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases are age over 160 years old. 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229. one person between the age of 240 and 249. and one person is listed at 360 years of age. >> seth: huh? [ laughter ] is it over? [ laughter ] all right. first of all, not cool to call out rudy giul

ronald reagan put a lot of effort into get russia under control.ministration is sacrificing all of that. my thing is the women and children, what will happen to them in that country over there. keep that in mind. we will stand with right. thank you much. host: this is tom in north carolina, republican, good morning. caller: good morning. the issue i have is i don't mind us helping other countries, why do we have to spend so much more in these other countries than our allies do. we are giving ukraine $350 billion. host: i think the numbers a little south of $200 billion but go ahead. caller: whatever. we could use some of that money here. we don't have a problem giving money to these other countries. we need to keep some of that money here. i don't have a problem with president trump did on friday. he stood up, he didn't back down and he has my support. host: that is tom in the tar heel state. to the garden state, this is john. caller: good morning, thanks for taking my call. we have been asking a lot of question about what the u.s. should be doing.

i'm a huge fan of ronald reagan but he was bad on trade. very bad on trade. allowed a lot of businesses to be taken. i say that with due respect. he was so great on other things. but he was bad on trade. we are setting records right now. records like nobody has ever seen before. when you have companies like this coming in, and almost 40% of their company in one signature is going to be devoted to what he does which is one of the most important businesses in the world. that's an unbelievable thing. when apple now is going to start building all of their plants here. all because of what we've done in terms of -- it's not because he likes me or they like me. they don't probably like me at all. jon. i think he likes me a little bit at least. but you know what? it's -- it's the incentive we created. or the negative incentive. i mean it's going to be very costly for people to take advantage of this country. they expect come in and steal our money and steal our jobs and take our factories and take our businesses and expect not to be punished. they're being punished b

president trump, william mckinley, who he mentioned yesterday as well as ronald reagan in the idea a new golden age and also in suggesting that in your view president trump deviates from the model in not thanking his predecessor not engaging in some of that tropes of other inaugural addresses. let's go back to the beginning or nearly and ted widmer maybe i don't know if you want to begin by talking about the model that washington established and where template that you discussed came from. and then perhaps if you want to take us up there to jackson who trump invoked in first inaugural address as a predecessor, it's striking that in the introduction to, jackson's second inaugural address, thomas combs in the volume, says that jackson took the oath of office for the second time in the capitol hill because it was to be on the portico. but a recent snowfall and subfreezing temperatures forced the event indoors. so, you know, maybe tell us to what degree jackson's second inaugural does and doesn't press interest that trump well, i want to begin saying it's very important that michael and

that's actually a line he stole from ronald reagan. after the spectacle that just took place in the oval office last, reagan must be rolling in his grave. we all want and enter the war in ukraine. but reagan understood the true strength -- that scene in the oval office was not just a bad episode of reality tv, is summed up trump's whole approach to the world. he believes enclosing closing up to dictators like vladimir putin and kicking our friends like the canadians in the teeth. he sees american leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions. as a cold war kid, i am thankful it was reagan and not trump in office in the 1980's. trump would have lost us the cold war. donald trump sections -- actions suggest that in his heart he doesn't believe we are an exceptional nation. he clearly does not think we should leave the world. look, america is not perfect but i stand with the majority of americans who believe we are still exceptional, unparalleled. and i would rather have american leadership over chinese or russian leadership a

ronald reagan streets.n because ronald reagan. what did he say? he talked about peace. through strength. and the people of eastern europe. mika's father, one of them. saw their countries absolutely decimated and dominated, in part because countries of the free world, time and time again underestimated whether it was joseph stalin or, as i've been saying, khrushchev. vienna, with jfk. we can talk about, of course, george w bush and then the invasion of georgia by putin in 2008. we can talk about barack obama and then the invasion of crimea, the invasion of ukraine, the shooting down of commercial aircraft. we can talk about syria, putin going in and invading syria, taking russian troops into syria in 2015. time and time again, when you underestimate russian leaders, they do not respect you. they do not respect weakness. as ronald reagan said time and again, they only respect strength. that's why he always talked about peace through strength. that's right. that's right. former secretary of homeland security.

ronald reagan is rolling over in his grave. lech walesa was the gdansk shipyard electrician in poland in the 80s, who became a champion and became the first polish democratically elected president after the fall of the soviet union. he signed a letter today saying that he looked on with horror and distaste as he watched these events. that's how i feel. >> but i can tell you that this vance zelenskyy showdown has been brewing for months, that you know, zelenskyy in the final weeks of the election last year, called vance to radical in his proposals. and, you know, in some ways, vance is actually even more anti-interventionist when it comes to this war than trump himself is. and in in the senate, he was, too. and his, you know, sort of small team that he brought over from the senate, they are they are among the most anti ukraine or, you know, anti-interventionist part of the senate offices, you know, for the last two years. >> i think it is two ways, i think, i don't disagree with you that the items you laid out in terms of what t

the families, friends, and loved ones of victims of the january 29 helicopter-jet collision near ronald reagan airport. live coverage here on c-span. h. 1515. h. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: a bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. comer, and the gentleman from via, mr. connolly, each will control 20 minutes. mr. comer: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material on this measure. the speaker pro tempore: without objection mr. comer: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized mr. comer: i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 1515, the guidance out of darkness act or the good act. regulatory guidance includes agency statements while not intended to have the full force effect of law but have statutory or technical issues. because such guidance how it will administer the law and programs, it has an effect on regulated entities. regulated should know what it says about t

these are students for whom while gerald ford or ronald reagan might as well be abraham lincoln, you know. so but anyway. so i'm going to ask some questions and i don't mean to if anybody feels that i'm trying to get you to reveal your age or anything like that, you don't have to participate. but there are moments in history that sort of. that signal where we are all together at one time, for example, and maybe some. is there anybody in the room who remembers where you were and what you were doing when franklin roosevelt died? anybody okay, hillary? yep. okay. because my mom, this is one of the formative moments in my mother's life. she remembers that she was walking home with some friends from getting some ice cream and she heard the news that the president had died. and it was a really big for her because he, franklin roosevelt, was the only my mother had known at that time. he was president for 12 years and she was in college. so he was elected the first time when she was six years old or something like that. okay. how many of you remember where were and what you were doing? how w

ronald reagan is turning over in his grave.at a national security strategy that i guess has been concocted in the realm of social media and cable television, but has nothing to do with the national security interests of the united states. it can't be defended. i want to also say, while i have the floor, mr. president, and for the record, and i hope people will look it up, i have never met president zelenskyy where he hasn't started the meeting by thanking the american people and ended the meeting by thanking the american people. he's done it in every meeting that i have been in. but i don't want us to lose sight of the fact that we also hold a profound debt of gratitude to him and to his soldiers and to the ukrainian people. the president doesn't seem to understand that. the president seems to think, oh, my gosh, they're doing us a favor by using our weapons. you're in tough shape. your country's in tough shape, he stated the obvious in that embarrassing interaction in the oval office the other day, where he couldn't even keep

that's actually a line he stole from ronald reagan. let me tell you, after the spectacle that just took place in the oval office last week, reagan must be rolling in his grave. >> reporter: some democrats were a no-show, including aoc who instead chose to do a little live streaming, as you can see their pick democratic senator elizabeth warren was seen checking her mobile, not paying much attention to the speech. many female democratic lawmakers wore pink, and claiming it's the color of protest. democrats didn't arrive and be handed. many carried signs which included save medicaid or musk steals, with false written on the back and what they claim was a fact-check during trump's congress. woke mrs. dead and said fixing the southern border was not new legislation wanted. it was a new president instead. >> bill: there is the wrap for now. lucas. much more to get to. lucas tomlinson in washington. back to last night. >> president trump: his name is dj daniel, he is 13 years old and he's always dreamed of becoming a police officer. [cheering

of the art golden don't missile defense shield to protect our homeland full made in the usa the ronald reagan wanted to do it long ago. but the technology just wasn't there, not even close, but now we have the technology, it's incredible actually. and other places that they have it, israel has it. other places have it at the united states should have it to right tim. right. they should have it too. so i want to thank you, but it's a very, very important, this is a very dangerous world. we should have it, we want to be protected and we're going to protect our citizens like never before us to boost our defense industrial base. we are also going to resurrect the american ship building industry, including commercial ship building and military shifts of the for that purpose. i am announcing to know that we will create a new office of ship building and the white house would offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to america where it belonged. we used to make so many ships. we don't make them anymore very much. but we're going to make them very fast, very soon. we will have a huge i

this is the ronald reagan evil empire against democracy.have to be concerned about what's crumbling here, what needs to be put back together. that's what we felt in our stomachs and our anxiety as we watched what was at risk here. the second thing is, how inappropriate this was for zelenskyy. the context is, this was a signing agreement. zelenskyy had been negotiating with the united states on a minerals deal, an economic deal as the treasury secretary said. he had been doing so for weeks. i met with him with members of congress in munich. he told us some of the terms he wanted. he had a successful deal. the united states had conceded. he was flying here under the pretext that he was going to sign this deal. this should have been a win. as he is sitting in the oval office, he says i want the president to stand with ukraine. in moments, he was going to be standing with the president of the united states with a win he had negotiated. instead of taking that win, he turned it into a debate on american security guarantees during peace notegotiat

[applause] >> president trump: ronald reagan wanted to do it long ago but the technology just wasn't there. not even close, but now we have the technology. it's incredible actually. and another place they have it, israel has it. other places have it, and the us should have it, too, right? tim, right? they should have it, too, so i want to thank you but it's very important, this is a very dangerous world. we should have it. we want to be protected and we want to protect our citizens like never before. to boost our industrial base we're also going to resurrect the american shipbuilding industry including commercial shipbuilding, and military shipbuilding. [applause] >> president trump: for that purpose i'm announcing tonight that we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the white house and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to america where it belongs. we used to make so many ships, we don't make them anymore very much but we're going to make them very fast very soon. it will have huge impact. to further enhance our national security my administration will b

> reporter: senator slotkin also attacked president trump's russia-ukraine policy, saying that ronald reagan must be rolling in his grave. after that explosive oval office meeting between the president and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy last week. frances? >> alice, thank you. >>> mr. trump also made news on foreign policy in his speech. after that dust up in the oval office on friday, he now says that ukrainian president zelenskyy sent him a conciliatory letter. >> the letter reads, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible, to bring lasting peace closer. nobody wants peace more than the ukrainians, he said. my team and i stand ready to work under president trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts. >> on the other side of the atlantic, the president reiterated his promise to take the panama canal. >> my administration will be reclaiming the panama canal. and we've already started doing it. >> mr. trump said that secretary of state marco rubio is spearheading that effort, adding, quote, we now know who to blame if anything goes wrong. the presi

a republican president, has so thoroughly reversed the legacy and the political vernacular of ronald reagan central point here. i think i'm right that president trump has a portrait of president reagan that he could probably see there if he had looked up to his right a little bit. but reagan would not have recognized what happened there. and i think that's something that a lot of republicans who have, for various reasons, decided to go along with the trump era should think about in their own role as as an umpire for tuesday night. you know, i think president trump has a very hard time not congratulating himself. we all have this as a human impulse, but he has it in a particular way. he'll have a hard time, i think, not alluding to the fact that, in his view, he stood up for america. he stood up for what he thinks of as a reasonable peace. and so we will see, i think him maybe even adjudicating and commenting on what unfolded there. you know, the text of president trump is always the least interesting thing. it's what he says when he's not riffing isn't quite the right word. >> but maybe goi

trump's russian-ukraine policies, saying that ronald reagan must be rolling in his grave after the meeting in the oval office last week. how are his voters reacting to his first six weeks in office? shaq brewster is in battleground wisconsin. >> reporter: in waukesha, wisconsin, many trump voters are still getting used to that whirlwind start to the president's second term. how are you feeling six weeks in? >> i'm feeling that the world is, it's a lot more stable than it would have been under biden. >> reporter: when we met 28-year-old zach lindsay last year he told us he was embarrassed by his 2020 vote for president biden. >> because i'm not too happy with what's going on. >> reporter: he says he stands by his choice so far. >> he's trying to get the promises that he said. trump is already doing what he said he's going to do. >> reporter: realtor jeff skrima was once mayor here and said this is what he voted for. what are the things that excite you the most. >> i love that he's securing the border, i love what doge is doing, and i'm happy to see that we're no longer going to be funding u

president ronald reagan said, "there is no institution more vital to our nation's survival than the american here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. through love and instruction, discipline, guidance, and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers these values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship." i want that to be our legacy -- a state where the american dream is alive and well because of strong families. every generation has the same longing for the american dream. in the united states, where every state is a laboratory of democracy, we can see in real time which policies promote the american dream, and which ones push it farther out of reach. i want oklahoma to be known around the world as the state where businesses come because they know that they can operate freely without fear of gotcha bureaucrats or burdensome regulations. the state where parents have the freedom to educate their children in line with their values. the state where families flock, because they know their kids can grow up in a safe, hope

i'm a huge fan of ronald reagan, but he was very bad on trade.a lot of business to be taken. i say that with due respect because he was so great on other things, but he was bad entree. we are setting records right now. records like nobody has ever seen before. when you have companies like this coming in and almost 40% of their company, in one signature, is going to be devoted to what he does, which is one of the most important businesses in the world. that is an unbelievable thing. when apple now is going to start building all of their plants here, all because of what we've done in terms of -- it's not because he likes me or they like me. they don't probably like me at all. i don't know, i think he liked me a little bit at least. but you know what, is see incentive we created, or the negative incentive. it's going to be very costly for people to take it vantage of this country. they can't come in and steal our money and steal our jobs and take our factories and take our businesses and expect not to be punished. and they are being punished by tari

you know, ronald reagan did use targeted tariffs against japan. - sure. - george w. bush used tariffs on steel. trump is proposing something much broader. how do you reflect on the republican party's shift on trade? - first, i have to say that jeane was a friend and colleague of mine at the american enterprise institute, and i used to hang out in her office all the time, and it was really wonderful to see that clip of jeane. you know, jeane's discussion right there is a discussion that is 100% admissible in a world where all of our trading partners, you know, have our own best interests at heart. they're not ramping up their militaries, getting ready to invade other people, stealing the intellectual property from the u.s., and so if you think back to a world where there were never any countries that had malice towards others, then absolutely the adam smith free trade answer is the optimal answer in economic models. but if you look at what happened when china entered the wto, china came in and basically created distressed communities by shutting down factories through

industrialize his country, a country that was d industrialized by republicans and democrats alike from ronald reagan right up until the financial crisis. and he sees this is a kind of a short cut to re industrialize the united states. for that, that's one pause, plausible explanation. and this short cut, of course, won't work. it's extremely damaging. president trump also impose 25 percent tires on mexico, blaming americas something. naples has failing to crack down on the flow of migrants and drugs across the border town home and reports on mexico's response that finally he president trump loan, threatened 25 percent targets, new mexican goods. we've got some, some presidents showing them was a mixture, but a you outrage of the reason given by the us administration to the terrorists. it said governments allied with drug cartels. look us up. blanca bully called watch house, published an offensive just arbitrary and unsubstantiated statement about the mexican government. but with a sliver, a po to. she says she has a quote with the us president on thursday before she announces any retaliatory terrace

a country that was d industrialized by republicans and democrats alike from ronald reagan right up until the financial crisis. and he sees this as a kind of a short cut to me, industrialize the united states for that. that, that's one. pause a plausible explanation. and this short cut of course won't work. it's extremely damaging. okay, so julia and i was gonna ask you, i want to make sure everybody understands what you mean by re industrialized trump once more factories, factories that left the us in the last few decades. he wants factories to go back to the us and he wants americans to get those jobs back. in this case, in canada, this case, it means factories leaving canada and going to start a business again in the us. do you see that happening? yes, you know, the, instead of, you know, each if i way of contrast to germany or japan or taiwan the united states and to a lesser extent, the u. k. and canada. we traded our factories a way to the rest of the world instead of goods, particular american particular dentist. and he wants those factories back. we have to remember that it was th

a country that was d industrialized by republicans and democrats alike from ronald reagan right up until the financial crisis. and he sees this is a kind of a short cut to re industrialize the united states. for that, that's one pause, plausible explanation. and this short cut of course won't work. it's extremely damaging. china has set an annual price targets a 5 percent despite a slowing economy, high use unemployment signs and escalating trade will with us. premier leach young made the announcement, the national people's congress in beijing. china is also increasing its defense budget by 7.2 percent and bundle this families of victims who are thoughts in health. and st cloud's attention senses are calling for justice. a commission is found children among hundreds of people in prison during depose vida. she has seen us to know, she was over the phone and a student named uprising last year. tom vis sugary has moved from jack uh last month. but with this, as the interim government to advise i, mohammed yellows, visited 3 separate detention facilities in the capital. commonly known as the

he was an anti-putin, anti-communist, ronald reagan like conservative not all that long ago.and now donald trump has pulled the party mostly his way. and those who don't like and are worried actually about the policy on ukraine tend to keep quiet about it because they don't want comfortable them over. and yeah. >> there's elon musk, the first buddy or whatever. exactly. his title is the guy who is helping to run the, uh, reduction in the size of the workforce. kasie hunt, uh, he, uh, they're enjoying his power, quite frankly, his power, which mostly comes from the proximity he has to president trump. >> indeed. and i will say i had at least one person raise the question of whether he was going to be on the floor of the chamber with the cabinet secretaries, which would have been unprecedented. he is going to be up in that box with the other members that were other people who were invited with the white house, as opposed to being someone who actually has been formally invested with power by the united states congress. so at least that distinction stands. one of the interesting

ronald reagan of course a two term president who left office very popular. someone asked how does an actor being president and i said i cannot imagine this without being an actor. he understood the way he would be perceived at different angles, the stagecraft of the job came through. some of his famous speeches in front of the berlin wall on the anniversary of d-day, the challenger explosion, that was someone who understood the performance aspect. that is probably the part donald trump does best bud it is the everything else part that he does less well. have republicans done anything that can cause permanent damage? the moment late on monday night that the memo came out it was like flipping a switch. some in my party will like me saying this from election night most democrats were dejected, depressed, demoralized. turning away from cable tv and i know people even myself i have to say as a lifelong political junkie i found myself watching more espn. not paying attention to the usual sources that i would. the moment the minimum came out saying freeze all fundi

and ronald reagan left that 1st a meeting, i believe it was in the right of it guys when left, that 1st meeting with no agreement. and they everyone was discouraged and everyone started was terrible. but by standing strong or what it was they were trying to achieve and the regular administration gorbachev came around, it took a lot longer than a few days the way it has with zaleski bucks. similarly, i think the fact that trump said, well, wait a minute, our goal here is piece that. he said that since day one, it always throws people for a loop because he is so boisterous, so you can be rude. he can be brash, but his number one priority is pretty easy, is number one priority between one. he was elected in november, even before he was then i'll get rated in january, was to put together a team and send them to sit down with guitar and egypt, and israel and the palestinians, and worked on a ceasefire. so clearly piece is a priority for him. and so it's great news that zaleski i said, what were onboard, we want peace to read like nothing better, less talk. yeah, absolutely. i work if i can j

the president is following a tradition started in the modern era by ronald reagan to speak to a joint in the first weeks of a new administration. >> maurice: we are joined by margaret brennan, "face the nation" moderator, as we look at the seats inside the chamber. a president who is extremely confident is about to stride into that chamber tonight. >> margaret: more confident than he was during his first term. he is entering the chamber having dealt many shocks to the system at home and abroad. we may get a few more tonight. just overnight, as you are saying, he has launched this trade war against our largest trading partners. it's a big bet consumers will tolerate some degree of financial pain despite the fact that he was elected on this platform of causing less economic pain than people have been experiencing through inflation during the last four years. >> maurice: and fixing the economy on day one. >> margaret: exactly. it takes time, he'll say, given six to 12 months before he owns this economy, that's his approach. he will characterize it as fixing the wrong still. there are sti

and going to not choose a side here and he is on the side of the world peace and he talks about ronald reaganld and absolutely assign blame and culpability going for them to blame here sad herrera putin and -- vladamir putin and aggression going on for the decade and you can still talk and reagan went out and talked about it and along the times america maintained diplomatic relationship with russia and managing them to do things and ultimately won the overall victory and i don't though that's possible in this environment as well too. trey: holding this back and zelenskyy not saying thank you enough and putin poisoning enemies and taking u.s. citizens hostage and going to mislead american voters and not going to apologize for that and >> clear expectation from the white house and going to bend the knee and kiss the ring and going to have zelenskyy going for anytime roush times and going for them and congress has continually done it and going to play here and it's much deeper issues and not really going to just have gratitude and that's going to become a bit of a an excuse and there's a deep re

. >> turns out, the former commissioners and virus commissioners going back tome ronald reagan and we connect with each other and they were very supportive me was a commission going to senate confirmation and when there's news about the irs, we think that we can help, explain was going on with members of the public, you so you heard about the layoffs stood the stated purpose on the layoffs for cost efficiency, we pushed ahead we said health can this be cost efficiency on the irs the primary agency responsible collecting virtually the revenue in the receipts of the u.s. government because they would say is loaded agency and you don't need them paying them for the reason. >> i would say that ms. understand history of the irs the fact is already gone through over a decade budget cuts from 2010 through 2022 naira's budget was cut year over year and inflation and the vast sizeiz 2022 before the reduction act was at its lowest point since the 1970s, in the meantime, population number of viruses from me and growing tax system, an increasing number of employees you have the emergence of chall

question comes up you can train for no other reason than president trump loves to compare himself to ronald reaganrport i like it. >> you are wrong. as a dulles what would you want to call it the trump airport? >> trump, tr trump international precook said donald. [laughter] that will be good. so the last question is, which trump event is being floated as a new federal holiday. here are your options 8, july 13 the assassination attempt it. gee, november 52nd presidential election. or see june 14, trump's birthday birthday. the start of the above. >> 's birthday is flag day but i doubt that the federal holiday or not. i don't think so i'm going to go this birthday. looks okay. >> that is my choice to because july 13, let's not with venerating that and november 5. >> sounds like there's a lot of thinking going on up there. >> a lot of thinking the birthdays probably the most appropriate. i do not want to honor someone thinking of an assassination attempt it. that's what i really do but i don't want to do. >> it is the birthday is the answer. i don't really know who won because i did. i deafly didn't

policy or the biden administration policy or even going back to the roosevelt policy for that of ronald reaganpolicy, are any u.s. government policy to which cuba -- and talking to an official of the cuban government , one other thing that i think we must consider is what are cuban citizens doing in relationship to their government i wanted to pose that question to the deputy ambassador and to private by saying that over the 50 years that i traveled to cuba , i am always amazed at whatever the constrictions are imposed by the u.s. government. whatever the limitations are in cubans figuring out their own internal development. there is always an uplifting perspective in life where cubans are looking forward. conferences on puppets or dance or the education of other abled citizens. of convening conferences and by national art gatherings from the entire world. always despite what the immediate gratification or the immediate limitations, always looking forward of what it may be and how may that be shared with the rest of the world. for example, with people in sports. medical technology. i think tha

. >> ronald reagan would talk about peace through strength. say you never get to peace with russians through being weak that's exactly what is happening now though a show of weakness, weakness more war. more invasions, more suffering. it's of course maybe joe got, peace through strength rebuilding military on a it's rejuvenating our economy. hours his way down with 36 trillion and counting in debt and interest payments debt exceed 1 trillion annually and yet, we are spending like there is no tomorrow. that is not strength. that is weakness. a dynamic trump is trying mightily to turn all of it around. it's going to be hard. but, again, the think tank crowd and they live in alternative reality, apparently still believes that america's patience and resources are unlimited givc addition much trump's dedication to peace to reduce america's involvement as we learn with a positive military aid, it's perfectly in line with past republican presidents. remember, eisenhower won the presidency in large part because he pledged to extract us from the korean

you stated support for 5% spending requirement taking a page out of ronald reagan's playbook of peacethrough strength. what are your thoughts on additional requirements of investment spending. >> i enjoyed the time together. what i would say is european allies in canada need to do much more in the ten years underspending up until over outbreak in 2022 of the more in ukraine. really a weakness of the alliance and i think now we are getting a lot of positive words from our nato allies that they will spend dramatically more, they finally understand this time and we have allies like poland and allies in the baltics, spending much more, group everybody in one group, chastise them all because many allies are doing more. mostly because of their geopolitical location on the border of russia. not just a matter of spending but how the money is spent making sure it goes to modernization, interoperability to address the hybrid threats. in cyber, space. and to address those threats. the most success alliance ever conceived, happy to report to you, on when i get over there and hear what our allies

she said ronald reagan must be rolling over in his grave right now don't for one moment fool yourselfhat democracy isn't precious and worth saving? how do we actually do that? i know a lot of you have been asking that question. first, don't tune out. it's easy to be exhausted. but america needs you now more than ever. if previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today? >> lucas: as you all mentioned some democrats were a no-show. aoc sat this one out instead chose to do posting and live streaming. many female democratic lawmakers wore pink claiming it's the color of protest. democrats also did not arrive empty-handed as you all mentioned since we did this segment already. many carried signs which said save medicaid or musk steals fact-check during donald trump's address to congress. the longest in modern presidential history. a long way from george washington's 833. trump locked in at around 9800 last night. the president also claimed wokeness is dead and as you mentioned democrats claimed for years new legislation was needed to fix the southern border.

president that knew what they were doing and we had a lot of them bad on trade i'm a huge fan of ronald reagan but he was bad on trade very bad on trade he allowed a lot of people and businesses to be taken. i say that would do respect. he was great on other things but he was bad on trade. we are setting records right now, records like nobody has ever seen before. when you have companies like this coming in an oma's 40% of the company, one signature will be devoted to what he does which is one of the most important businesses in the world that's an unbelievable thing. when apple is going to start building all of their plans here. all because of what we've done, not because he likes me or they like me they probably don't like me at all. i think he likes me a little bit at least but it is the incentive that we created were the negative incentive. it's good to be very costly for people to take advantage of this country, they cannot come in and steal our money and steal our jobs and taker factories and taker businesses and expect not to be punished. they're being punished by tariffs. it's a very p

a couple of weeks ago you said what trump is trying to do to the economy is ronald reagan 2.0.aybook. that would be beat inflation, get interest rates down and then look for prosperity later. is that what you think's happening now? >> our conviction on that base with case going into 2025 has increased substantially because it's not just words now. they're actually following through with action. this administration's been crystal clear on what they're going to do. they're giving us the answers to the test. scott bessent doubled down on it again this weekend. he said their primary focus is on main street and small businesses. they're not worried about wall street. so right now we're trying to get $1-2 trillion of cuts in the government from spending, trying to get inflation down and interest rates down. and president trump genre enforced that yesterday. and the reality is -- and they know it, scott bessent's extremely smart, president trump is a a businessman -- the only way that happens is by slowing the economy down substantially. and you're starting to see it in the data. this

that's actually a line he stole from ronald reagan. after the spectacle that just took place in the oval office last, reagan must be rolling in his grave. we all want and enter the war in ukraine. but reagan understood the true strength -- that scene in the oval office was not just a bad episode of reality tv, is summed up trump's whole approach to the world. he believes enclosing closing up to dictators like vladimir putin and kicking our friends like the canadians in the teeth. he sees american leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions. as a cold war kid, i am thankful it was reagan and not trump in office in the 1980's. trump would have lost us the cold war. donald trump sections -- actions suggest that in his heart he doesn't believe we are an exceptional nation. he clearly does not think we should leave the world. look, america is not perfect but i stand with the majority of americans who believe we are still exceptional, unparalleled. and i would rather have american leadership over chinese or russian leadership a