so usha had a week where we could go anywhere and we decided to go to ireland. it's such a remarkable combination of incredible community as we were talking about earlier. a beautiful landscape. also a lot of interesting technological growth. one of the more robust areas for us to work on with our irish friends in the years to come is going to be technology and particularly artificial intelligence as we really take the next stage in important level of technological progress. i want to give some acknowledgment of all the honored guests here. i can't call everybody out. thank you to ashley and brett kavanaugh of the supreme court. senator shea hi. and of course the ambassador from ireland who i have met with before but in a previous job. let me say before i introduce our guest, one of the things we try to do with this breakfast is remember re-mind people of the important bonds of friendship between the united states and ireland. edge it's a great opportunity to do that and also a great opportunity for usha to wear her green pants. she's had them in the closet for

usha and i had a week to go anywhere, we went to ireland.ombination of in incredible community of beautiful landscape and interesting technological growth. one of the more robust areas to work on with irish friends is going to be technology, in particular artificial intelligence as we take the next stage in important level of technological progress. i want to give acknowledgement of honored guests here. i can't call everybody out. thank you to ashley and brett kava kavanaugh, justice of the supreme court and his wife, judge roberts and ambassador from ireland, who i met before in a previous job. before i introduce leticia, one thing i try to do with this breakfast is remind people of important bonds of friendship between the united states and ireland. it is great opportunity to do that and great opportunity for usha to wear her green pants. she has had in the closet for years and gets to break them out. perhaps most honored guest is my dear friend from the -- brought his brother, joe, good to see you. here is the thing cullin taught me when

as i wrap up, allow me to thank you and usha once again to -- once again for opening your home to us and the people of ireland. i have been told our small island holds a special place in your shared memories as you said to me earlier. you enjoyed a road trip through ireland. you visited the home of our olympic champions in dublin. you tasted the delights, i believe, of the english market as well. i would love to bring you back there. would be honored and delighted to welcome you both back to our shores before too long. we have some exceptions in ireland, dune bay. mr. vice president, mrs. second lady, thank you once again. thank you for your friendship. [speaking irish] thank you. [applause] announcer: c-span's washington journal, our live forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and public policy from washington and across the country. coming up thursday morning, the wall street journal's richard rubin discusses the examination of how government spending has grown and where the money is going. then we will look at free speech on college campuses, incl

usha vance. usha vance. rajesh rao. ramadan. oh, i'd wait for his call. oh, kate bolduan. oh. thank you, thank you. christopher dring. randi kaye. all right. sean baker thank arlette saenz fred benning. mahmoud basal. akanksha sharma. pinky webb. thank you, mr. president. welcome. john berman. thank you. oh, god. thank you for having me. yes, yes. terrible. yes. thank you, thank you. all right. growing up so. vitrazza here, you go. back up, back up. back. up. again. oh. bless you. khan younis. yeah. thank you. oh. man. mr. president. thank you, thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. robert baer colin duckett. yes. all right. thank you for coming. akanksha sharma. the president, everyone. ines sainz. thank you. yeah. the program. i don't think. thank you, thank you, thank. doge. come on. received. najeebur rahman. misty marris. jeff denard. this time. such a great job. thank you. you're still talking? about. loretta preska? no, no. oh. there's a president. >> trump joining, uh, greeting. supreme court justices. uh, two

. >> usha vance why are we the ones doing the deal? >> well, it's not sure.s not clear that we are. right. i mean, you know, trump is the one that said that he wants the war to be over. but ultimately, if the europeans are supporting the ukrainians, if they're embracing zelenskyy in london, as we saw over the weekend, it's a little bit like the middle east situation, right? i mean, trump says he's going to do gaza. the palestinians aren't all leaving gaza. he's not making gaza riviera. now we have the saudis and the egyptians coming up with a deal, and they will if they're the ones putting in the money and the security, they will end up being the ones doing the deal. >> so, all right, so i want to play you something. this is a center, right? french senator. okay. center. right. french senator caught my attention yesterday. he's talking about trump and elon musk. and he said this. >> washington est devenu le coeur. >> de nir oz. >> washington has become the court of nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive. courtiers and a jester on ketamine. >> tasked with pur

um, but one of the things that's also true is that there's usha vance the second lady.um, one of the things that's also true is that, uh, he likes to riff, and when he does, he sometimes says things that get him into some sort of trouble here. >> yeah, jake, i'm told he'll riff tonight if democrats are severely disrupting his speech, that he is prepared to do that. there you can see the entire trump family. there's na trump jr., tiffany trump, her husband laura trump as well, in addition to ivanka trump and jared kushner in different positions than they were ever during these moments before where they were members of the white house. eric trump is seated to their to your left, as you can see. and also one person, jake, earlier everyone was looking at elon musk, but steve witkoff was also inside that room. obviously, he has proven to be a critical player over the last six weeks when it comes to trump's foreign policy, from israel to russia and ukraine as well. we've just gotten some excerpts of what we are going to hear from president trump tonight. and jeff zeleny is he

as i wrap up, allow me to thank you and usha once again to -- once again for opening your home to usnd the people of ireland. i have been told our small island holds a special place in your shared memories as you said to me earlier. you enjoyed a road trip through ireland. you visited the home of our olympic champions in dublin. you tasted the delights, i believe, of the english market as well. i would love to bring you back there. would be honored and delighted to welcome you both back to our shores before too long. we have some exceptions in ireland, dune bay. mr. vice president, mrs. second lady, thank you once again. thank you for your friendship. [speaking irish] thank you. [applause] announcer: c-span's washington journal, our live forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and public policy from washington and across the country. coming up thursday morning, the wall street journal's richard rubin discusses the examination of how government spending has grown and where the money is going. then we will look at free speech on college campuses, includ