TWO. AND A REMINDER YOU CAN FOLLOW
THE PROGRAMS ON C-SPAN.ORG AND WITH THE FREE C-SPAN RADIO APP.
C-SPAN'S WASHINGTON JOURNAL IS LIKE EVERYDAY WITH
NEWS AND POLICY ISSUES THAT IMPACT YOU.
MORNING, LOSE THEY ANGELES TIMES SUPREME COURT
REPORTER DAVID SAVAGE TALKS ABOUT THE LATEST LEGAL CHALLENGE
TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TRAVEL BAN. AND NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE
COUNCIL BOB DEAN DISCUSSES SCOTT PRUITT'S MANAGEMENT OF THE EPA.
AND AUTHOR ANDREW WILL BE HERE TO DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK, THE
CATALYST COME BACK. SURE TO WATCH C-SPAN'S
WASHINGTON JOURNAL LIVE AT 7:00 A.M. EASTERN SUNDAY MORNING.
JOIN THE DISCUSSION. ANNOUNCER: PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
EMMANUEL MACRON HOSTED THE FIRST STATE DINNER SINCE PRESIDENT
TRUMP FIRST TOOK OFFICE. PRESIDENT TRUMP SPOKE ABOUT THE
HISTORY OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES AND THE
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN GEORGE WASHINGTON AND MARQUIS
LAFAYETTE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: PRESIDENT MACRON AND BRIDGET, WE ARE
PROFOUNDLY HONORED TO HOST YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FRENCH
DELEGATION FOR OUR FIRST OFFICIAL STATE DINNER.
AND TO AMERICA'S ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE FIRST LADY, THANK YOU
FOR MAKING THIS AN EVENING YOU WILL ALWAYS CHERISH AND
REMEMBER. MELANIA.U,
[APPLAUSE]
PRESIDENT TRUMP: TONIGHT WE CELEBRATE 2.5 CENTURIES OF
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE.
YESTERDAY WE HAD A WONDERFUL VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON, A PLACE
THAT IS TRULY SPECIAL IN THE HISTORY OF THIS VERY REMARKABLE
FRIENDSHIP. IT WAS THERE THAT GENERAL GEORGE
WASHINGTON MET WITH THE GENERAL SIGNS OF TO FINALIZE
RICK PERRY AT YORKTOWN, MANY VICTORIES.
WAS THERE AFTER THE WAR GENERALS LAFAYETTE RETURNED TO VISIT HIS
ADOPTED FATHER, GEORGE WASHINGTON.
SON AFTERAND HIS WASHINGTON AS A TRIBUTE TO
RESPECT AND LOVE FOR HIS DEAR FRIEND.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: THERE AT MOUNT VERNON HANGING ON THE WALL FOR
ALL TO SEE IS THE KEY TO THE BASTILLE, A GIFT FROM LAFAYETTE
TO WASHINGTON. HAS TOMB OF IMPRISONMENT
BECAME A SYMBOL OF LIBERTY AND THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM THAT
BURNS BRIGHTLY IN THE HEART OF EVERY FRENCH AND AMERICAN
PATRIOT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: THIS IS THE DIVINE FLAME OF WHICH EVIL
CANNOT FULLY EXTINGUISHED AND GOOD CAN MAKE INTO SPLENDOR.
THIS IS THE FLAME THAT SPURRED AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO JOIN THE
FRENCH ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF WORLD WAR I.
THIS IS THE FLAME OF FRENCH THE COUNTRYF WHICH
RALLIED IN 1940. MORE THAN A MILLION FRENCH
DEFEATED FASCISM IN WORLD WAR II, AND THIS IS THE CONVICTION
THAT TONIGHT'S FRENCH AND AMERICAN SOULS AS HE WORKED
TOGETHER EVERY DAY TO BUILD A FUTURE THAT IS MORE JUST,
PROSPEROUS, AND FREE. THE VEINS THAT LINK OUR NATION
ARE FORGED IN BATTLE, STRENGTHENED THROUGH TRIAL AND
DEFINED BY THE TIMELESS PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE US WHO AND
WHAT WE ARE. RESPECT FOR LIFE, LOVE OUR
NEIGHBORS, PRIDE IN OUR TRADITIONS, THE DEFENSE OF OUR
HERITAGE, AND REVERENCE FOR THE RIGHTS BESTOWED UPON US THROUGH
GRACE AND THE GLORY OF GOD. TONIGHT I ASK THAT WE RAISE OUR
GLASSES AS I OFFER THIS TOAST TO PRESIDENT MACRON AND BRIDGET, TO
THE FRENCH DELEGATION, AND TO -- TOOUNCES AND OF FRANCE
EVERY CITIZEN OF FRANCE. MAY OUR KINSHIP GHOSTWRITER AND
OUR SACRED LIBERTY NEVER DIE. GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS FRANCED
OUR SACRED LIBERTY NEVER GOD BLESS OUR ALLIANCE, AND GOD
BLESS AMERICA.
[APPLAUSE] PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] MR. PRESIDENT,
DEAR DONALD. MADAME FIRST LADY, MELANIA,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND FRIENDS.
IT IS AN HONOR FOR ME TO BE HERE WITH YOU IN THIS VETERINARY
PLACE, THE WHITE HOUSE, FOR THIS DINNER SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS OF
FRIENDS, WHO YOU WERE SO KIND TO INVITE.
[FRENCHT MACRON: TRANSLATION] --
[SPEAKING FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] THIS WHITE
HOUSE FULL OF HISTORY, THAT THE BRITISH BURNED DOWN, AND I SAY
ANIMALS AMAQ AWAY, JAMES MONROE HAD THE BRILLIANT IDEA
DECORATING WITH FRENCH FURNITURE.
A MAN OF FAITH. HE WAS A FORMER AMBASSADOR TO
PARIS. [SPEAKING INON:
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] THANKS TO THE
GIFT YOU KINDLY GAVE US THIS MORNING.
PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[TRANSLATION] MR. PRESIDENT, YOU JUST REMINDED US LIKE WE DID
EARLIER THIS MORNING, HOW DEEP, HOW STRONG AND HOW INTENSE THE
RELATIONSHIP IS BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES.
PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[TRANSLATION] THIS RELATIONSHIP, FROM THE VERY
BEGINNING, IS ROOTED IN REVOLUTION THAT SAW THE BOTH OF
THEED STATES OF AMERICA AND VOLITION THAT FREED US.
ALL ALONG OUR HISTORY AND THE WARS WE HAVE LED TOGETHER FOR
FREEDOM AND TO DEFEND OUR VALUES, THIS RELATIONSHIP, WHICH
IS BASED ON ALL OF OUR VALUES. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] AND TO NINE, MY
THOUGHTS GO TO THE YOUNG LAFAYETTE WHO CAME TO RISK HIS
LIFE BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR FREEDOM.
THOUGHTS ALSO GO TO THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN
SOLDIERS, YOUNG SOLDIERS GAVE THEIR LIFE'S DURING WORLD WAR I
AND WORLD WAR II ON THE SOIL FOR WAS NOT THEIRS, BUT
THESE FREEDOMS WHICH WISH CHERISHED AND WHICH WAS THEIRS.
PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[TRANSLATION] WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR THE APPOINTMENTS
OF THE JOINT HISTORY. THIS IS THE REASON WHY TODAY WE
HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO BE THERE ALSO FOR AN APPOINTMENT
WITH HISTORY. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] THERE IS A
JOINT WILLINGNESS ON BOTH SIDES TO BID -- TO BUILD OUR
COUNTRIES, TO MAKE THEM STRONGER, GREATER YOU WOULD SAY,
THAT OURS NOT FORGET TASK, ACCORDINGLY, IS TO ALWAYS
BE MORE AMBITIOUS. OUR TASK AT THE HEAD OF THE
UNITED STATES, AND AT THE HEAD OF FRANCE, IS ALSO ABOUT
MANYRSAL WHEN TOO GENERATIONS SACRIFICE
THEMSELVES. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] THESE VALLEYS
-- VALUES THAT WE SUPPORT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THEY
REPRESENT YOU WHO ARE HERE WITH US TONIGHT.
THE FIELD OF CULTURE, THE ECONOMIC LIFE, POLITICAL LIFE,
OR DIPLOMACY, THERE IS ALWAYS THIS LITTLE EXTRA, WHICH YOU
REPRESENT BECAUSE YOU ARE FRENCH, BECAUSE YOU ARE
AMERICAN. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] THIS IS THE
REASON WHY, MR. PRESIDENT, WE HAVE DECIDED TO WORK TOGETHER
FOR BOTH OUR COUNTRIES, AND ALSO ABOUTE THIS DUTY IS
SOMETHING THAT GOES BEYOND US. THIS IS ALSO THE REASON WHY OUR
MILITARY TOOK LEGITIMATE ACTION IF YOU DAYS AGO.
THIS IS ALSO THE REASON WHY WE WILL WORK FOR STABILITY AND TO
PRESERVE ALL VALUES. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] THIS IS THE
ONLY WAY WE BOTH HAVE TO DEAL WITH HISTORY THAT GOES BEYOND
US. THE DUTY THAT IS OURS.
AND MANY COMMEND OUR FRIENDSHIP, BUT I THINK IT ONLY HELPS US TO
WORK TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.
PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[TRANSLATION] ON BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEANS, SOME TWO YEARS
AGO, VERY FEW WOULD HAVE BET ON US BEING HERE TOGETHER TODAY.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE SHARE THE SAME DETERMINATIONS AND THE
TO SERVE BOTH OUR COUNTRIES, YOUR COUNTRY, MY
COUNTRY, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.
PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[TRANSLATION] I GOT TO KNOW YOU, YOU GOT TO KNOW ME, WE BOTH
EASILYAT NONE OF US CENTERS HIS MIND.
BUT, WE WILL WORK TOGETHER AND WE HAVE THIS ABILITY TO LISTEN
TO ONE ANOTHER OR IT THIS IS THE REASON WHY OUR RELATIONSHIP WILL
SERVE A STRONG HISTORY. WE ARE ALSO AWARE OF THE
CHALLENGES AHEAD OF US. WE WILL KEEP WORKING TOGETHER.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THIS, AS WELL AS FOR THIS
INVITATION. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] ,> [TRANSLATION] MR. PRESIDENT
DEAR DONALD, DEAR MELANIA, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR HONORING
WIFE AND THED MY FRENCH DELEGATION WITH THIS
FIRST FRENCH VISIT. WHICH COMMEMORATES THE QUALITY
OF OUR TWO COUNTRIES. IN TURN, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO
RAISE MY GLASS. PRESIDENT MACRON: [SPEAKING IN
FRENCH] [TRANSLATION] PLEASE ALLOW ME
TO RAISE MY GLASS TO ALL OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE OCEAN WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR VALUES.
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO RAISE MY GLASS.
DEBTSE TO BE UP TO THE THAT WE OWE THEM AN UP TO THE
SACRIFICE. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO RAISE MY
GLASS TO THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.
[APPLAUSE]
GOOD EVENING FROM WASHINGTON. TONIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MELANIA TRUMP ARE HOSTING THEIR FIRST
STATE DINNER. THE GUEST OF HONOR, FRENCH
PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND HIS WIFE, BRIDGET MACRON.