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00:00Thank you very much for being with us.
00:03It's a good time for this country, whether you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
00:08I think you're hearing it from a lot of people, not just from me.
00:13We're doing very well in so many ways.
00:16And the gentleman on my right, we recruited him.
00:20We tried to get the best person.
00:22We got a man that you'll hear in a second.
00:24He's done an amazing job with respect to Social Security.
00:28He's running it, and he's running it like nobody ever even dreamt possible.
00:34And it's the 90th anniversary right now of Social Security.
00:39So today we celebrate that 90th anniversary of one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever signed into law,
00:48the Social Security Act of 1935.
00:51And we're going to make it stronger, bigger, and better.
00:55We're doing a job.
00:56In the campaign, I made a secret pledge to our seniors that I would always protect Social Security.
01:02And under this administration, we're keeping that promise and strengthening Social Security for generations to come.
01:09You keep hearing stories that in six years, seven years, Social Security will be gone.
01:13And it will be if the Democrats ever get involved, because they don't know what they're doing.
01:17But it's going to be around a long time with us, very much.
01:21You'll be surprised to hear some of the numbers.
01:23I'm delighted to be joined by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Frank Bizzignano,
01:33who, in the world of business, in fact, I wrote some of the little things down.
01:38He said that he's had an amazing, amazing chief operating officer of J.P. Morgan Chase.
01:44He worked for Jamie Dimon.
01:46And Jamie Dimon said that he was amazing.
01:50So think of that chief operating officer.
01:52J.P. Morgan Chase had a storied career.
01:54Then he went to First Data.
01:58For those in the business, you know, it's the largest payment company anywhere in the world.
02:03And it worked for Henry Kravis.
02:05And it was in big trouble.
02:06He took it over as CEO.
02:08He made it incredible.
02:09They merged with Fiserv.
02:11And he became CEO of that.
02:13And that became extremely successful.
02:16I was in Milwaukee.
02:17I guess they had the Milwaukee Arena.
02:19And where we had some good success and some good speeches.
02:23But he's a really legendary guy.
02:27And he wanted to do this.
02:28I mean, he just wanted to straighten out Social Security because he loves our country.
02:32And what he's done in, you know, a few months is amazing.
02:36Almost 60 million American seniors rely on Social Security for peace of mind and a life of dignity and retirement.
02:44These Americans paid into the system.
02:46And they deserve leaders in Washington who are going to protect the benefits they've had and protect Social Security.
02:52Under Biden, Social Security went down like nobody's ever seen.
02:59It deteriorated.
03:01There's never been anything like it.
03:03The four years of Biden were very, very destructive.
03:07It couldn't have gone on much longer.
03:08Social Security was going to be destroyed.
03:11It was being destroyed.
03:12Under the average call, wait time reached an all-time high of more than 42 minutes.
03:17Field office wait times were at 32 minutes, which is unheard of.
03:22And the disability claims backlog was the longest ever in recorded history.
03:29In other words, it was run just like the country was run.
03:31It was run really badly.
03:32But I'm pleased to report that under our leadership, and Frank in particular, the changes he's made and what he's done is sort of a miracle.
03:42Sort of like what happened with the country as a whole.
03:45Field office wait times are now down 30 percent since last year.
03:49And it looks like it's going to a total record number.
03:53And the record was set in a long time ago when the world was a lot different place.
03:59We're going to beat that record.
04:01Call wait times are down 73 percent while serving twice as many customers per day.
04:08The disability claims backlog is down 26 percent.
04:11And seniors now have 24-7 online access to their accounts, which they never had before.
04:16Whereas under Biden, the website was down 29 hours a week for maintenance purposes.
04:25It was essentially not open very much.
04:28They were always maintaining it, but they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
04:31They had a person running that that had no idea what they were doing.
04:35Among my very first acts was to order all government employees to return to the office or be removed from the job,
04:43which means our Social Security offices are now open for full business hours five days a week.
04:49So unlike being shut down all the time, we're open at record levels also.
04:55We're making it really great for the people that want and demand Social Security.
05:00And they paid into the system.
05:01They deserve it.
05:02Last month, I signed one big, beautiful bill and allowed no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.
05:09OK, so how's that?
05:11Not bad, right?
05:12No tax on Social Security for our seniors.
05:16And to protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
05:25These are people, many of them have already left the country.
05:29And yet we were sending them checks all the time.
05:33And 275,000, and that number is now even larger than that, Frank.
05:37It's an unbelievable job.
05:38And what that's doing is making the system strong.
05:43It's making it strong.
05:45Biden never kicked anybody off.
05:47Everybody joined.
05:49And we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing Social Security fraud.
05:54It's the Social Security fraud that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
06:00We cleared 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database over 120 years of age.
06:08Think of that.
06:08So we had 12.4 million names where they were over 120 years old.
06:15Is that right?
06:17That's a hell of a statement.
06:19I have a feeling, Dan, that's not really going to, really didn't happen, did it?
06:24So you have 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database that were over 120 years of age,
06:34meaning you're breaking records because I've never heard of anybody at 125.
06:38There were nearly 135,000 people listed who were over 160 years old, and in some cases getting payments.
06:47So somebody's getting those payments, and we're after that.
06:50We're also fighting the menace of inflation to make life more affordable for American seniors,
06:56and we've ended Biden's inflation nightmare.
06:58So we had the worst inflation in the history of our country,
07:03and now our inflation is down to a perfect number, a beautiful number, hardly any at all.
07:08And yet our country's taking in tens of billions of dollars, and trillions of dollars, actually,
07:14trillions of dollars in tariffs.
07:17You know all about it.
07:19It's been amazing.
07:21They say, why are we taking in so much money?
07:23Last week, they found $29 billion, and they couldn't figure out where it came from.
07:29I said, check the tariff shelf, and they said, how did you know that's where it came from?
07:35We're taking in billions and even trillions of dollars in tariffs,
07:40paid by other countries who, frankly, were taking advantage of us for many, many years,
07:46and they were doing that to us, but our people didn't know it.
07:49We didn't have smart business people.
07:53We've ended Biden's inflation nightmare and came in below expectations,
07:57and yet, again, this past month, we have set records.
08:02Gasoline prices are way down, and really dramatically, as everybody knows,
08:07and energy prices have been going down, other than in certain states where you have Democrat-run states
08:14where they put windmills all over the place.
08:16Anytime you see a windmill, you'll say, well, they have bad energy costs.
08:21It's happening in New Jersey.
08:22I saw that there's a revolution going on in New Jersey.
08:26They closed up a nuclear power plant, and they're raising electricity rates by 21, 22, and 28 percent, something like that.
08:35And you're going to have a new governor in New Jersey.
08:38I'll tell you what.
08:39You have a good man running in the Republican Party.
08:43He'll get them down.
08:44But what they've done is they've killed so many good sources of energy for very expensive windmills and lots of other things that don't work.
08:53401ks and retirement accounts are soaring, and the stock market is setting record highs.
08:59Almost every day we're going record highs.
09:01And yet we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs.
09:07So it's turned out that Trump was right, and they were wrong.
09:11A few smart people knew what was going to happen.
09:14A few of us were right.
09:15So we're going to keep the fighting going.
09:17We're going to make America's seniors every single day.
09:21We're going to fight for them.
09:22We're going to make them richer, better, stronger in so many different ways.
09:26But Social Security is, like, pretty much the one that we think about, and we love it, and we love what's happening with it.
09:33And it's going to be good for 90 years and beyond.
09:36Again, you were given only a short period of time.
09:39Social Security was supposed to be, like, down.
09:42Had they won the election, Social Security would have defaulted during Biden or Kamala's election, whoever they so chose.
09:50Two beauties.
09:52And now what I'd like to do is ask Frank to say a few words.
09:55Again, this is a man with a really storied past.
09:59One of the most successful anywhere in the world.
10:02What he did at JPMorgan Chase and what he did for Henry Kravis and all of the others are, like, legendary stories.
10:10And he just wanted to do this.
10:11He's making about a tiny fraction, I would say, a tiny fraction of what he used to make.
10:17But he didn't care.
10:18He wanted to do it.
10:18He made a lot of money.
10:19And he said, I want to run that system.
10:21I want to put it back on track.
10:23And he's got an unbelievable talent over there.
10:25It's like a different place.
10:27So, Frank, would you say a few words, please?
10:29There's less than 1% a tiny fraction, sir.
10:34Is that what it is?
10:35Less than 1%.
10:35That's a tiny fraction.
10:37It's an honor.
10:37It's an honor.
10:38It is an honor.
10:39And I'd like to start off by thanking the president for his tireless effort in running the country
10:47and what he's done across the country, meaning every commitment.
10:52And, you know, I see it directly in the big, beautiful bill, the opportunity that it's brought
10:56up to seniors, but his effort on every commitment delivering against it and delivering on world
11:03peace tirelessly.
11:05I'd like to also thank him for my opportunity.
11:08You know, he's teasing me.
11:10I'm teasing him about the economics of the job.
11:13But the reality is to serve 300 million Americans, which is what Social Security serves, is a tremendous
11:23honor.
11:24And him putting that faith in me and building what I believe, what I believe, and I think
11:31I have a right to say it, is the best leadership team ever assembled in the White House and
11:39in the Cabinet.
11:40So that's my great honor.
11:42So I come here and get the opportunity to serve the American public in a manner that I
11:49never imagined in my life.
11:51And what we found was the opportunity to fix a foundation.
11:55The reality is people talk about 72 beneficiaries.
11:59I talk about over 300 million Americans with a Social Security number that we must protect
12:07through the system.
12:08And when you look at what we talk about in eliminating Social Security numbers that were
12:15live in the system, they could carry fraud through the whole system.
12:19So the first thing was root out fraud, waste, and abuse.
12:24But while doing it, the best way to be more efficient is provide more accurate payments and better
12:33service.
12:34And you heard the numbers.
12:37I think the most staggering number is that we had a website that was down 29 hours.
12:42This will be a digital-first agency, and we are building my SSA accounts.
12:49That's the digital account.
12:52And we have a bold goal of 200 million Americans to have a digital SSA account by the end of next
12:59year.
13:00It will happen.
13:01Just like we had a bold goal of single-digit wait time on the calls when they were at 40 minutes.
13:10And we did that.
13:11This is my 100th day.
13:12We did that within 90 days.
13:16Right?
13:16Get the web up and running.
13:18Bring technology to our field offices.
13:21Use digital presence to answer.
13:23And serve the American public.
13:27That's the job.
13:28When we do all that, then we'll really know the answer to if we have a whole.
13:33Right?
13:34I was presenting my second week on the job with $18 billion in errors by the inspector general.
13:43It was public.
13:46In less than a month, we solved $9 billion of it.
13:49So that's the type of swift action we can take.
13:54Right?
13:55You see the things like the big, beautiful bill for the seniors.
13:59You see better digital services.
14:01You see field office wait times down.
14:04If you make an appointment to have a field office visit, it now happens in six minutes.
14:12Unprecedented.
14:13We are serving more people and delivering more than was ever delivered before in a manner
14:20with the highest possible quality.
14:22And we've just begun.
14:23You should expect this to be a great digital first agency.
14:27My commitment to make this happen is as deep as the president's commitment to make the world
14:35a great place.
14:36And you see the fabulous job happening here across America and what he's doing in the world.
14:42You should expect Social Security, just like the president, I thank him for making America great again.
14:50It's happening.
14:52Social Security will be great again.
14:55You have my commitment.
14:56Thank you, Mr. President.
14:58Thank you very much.
15:00I'm going to sign the new proclamation, please.
15:03Sir, this is a proclamation both commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act,
15:09the signing of the Social Security Act, and also the incredible accomplishments of your
15:13administration, fixing and promoting and safeguarding Social Security.
15:17And it also obviously mentions the fact that as part of the one big beautiful bill, a vast majority
15:23of our senior citizens are no longer paying taxes on their Social Security benefits as you
15:28promised in your campaign and as you delivered for the American people.
15:30That's a big factor, isn't it?
15:32Yes, sir.
15:33That's great.
15:34I think they're very happy about it, too.
15:36They're very happy about a lot of things.
15:38Good job, Frank.
15:39Thank you, sir.
15:44And Frank has brought with him some of the most talented people in business.
15:49And they were making, again, they were making a lot of money.
15:52But they made a lot of money.
15:53They had money they didn't have to make anymore.
15:54And they just want to do this.
15:56They want to have our country become strong and good.
16:00And that's what's happening.
16:01And we're doing that in a lot of locations, a lot of areas.
16:04You deal with some of the people that are commissioners, that are secretaries of state,
16:10secretaries of treasury and commerce, people that were really, really successful people.
16:16And they gave all that up to make a very small amount of money.
16:22They don't even consider it a fraction.
16:24You say 1%, less than 1%.
16:26That's pretty good.
16:28That's a big pay cut.
16:30But Frank is one of the most outstanding of all.
16:33His career has been incredible.
16:34And you just have to look at what happened at JPMorgan Chase and look at what happened with First Data.
16:39First Data was the biggest company of its kind in the world.
16:42But it was not going to make it.
16:45He went in and it became a tremendous success and merged into another company.
16:51And he became the head of that company.
16:53Then he said, let me go save Social Security.
16:56Because as big as that stuff is, it's small potatoes compared in terms of numbers, right?
17:00In terms of numbers, these are big numbers.
17:02Government numbers are big numbers.
17:04So I want to thank everybody for being here.
17:06But I'm really proud of you, Frank.
17:07And here's your proclamation.
17:09And let's take a look at what that looks like.
17:11Signed by the human hand.
17:15For a change.
17:17That's good, right?
17:20Do you have any questions for Frank?
17:23How about questions for Frank?
17:25For Frank?
17:26Yes, on Social Security.
17:27Please.
17:28First and foremost, this was a major campaign promise that you had.
17:312023 was one of the first Agenda 47s that you put out.
17:35It was titled, We Must Protect Medicare and Social Security.
17:38Why was this important for both of you to get done, given the fact that it will impact millions of lives?
17:44Well, it was very important to me because I knew how Social Security, I've been hearing about it for years long before I came to office, that it was really going to die very shortly.
17:55And I had to do, I had to put somebody outstanding in, and we were talking, I was talking to him on a business sense once, and I said, this guy's amazing.
18:04And he said, I'd love to help you with Social Security, because it's sort of what he does.
18:09You know, he takes troubled entities in terms of, turns them around.
18:13And he did some of the biggest messes in the world, and Social Security in a certain way, I guess, you know, you reported it all the time.
18:23In four or five years, it's going to go bust, but not anymore, it's not.
18:27And he's got it turned around so well.
18:30The proclamation helps.
18:31All of the things we've done help.
18:32And he's finding such tremendous fraud, where we have illegal aliens.
18:37We have people that don't even exist on Social Security now.
18:41They don't exist.
18:42And what it does, it makes it totally secure and powerful for the people that are on it and need it.
18:48And we're very proud of the job he's done.
18:51One of the best.
18:52How are you today, sir?
18:55Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren continue to peddle the lie and the claim that you're trying to cut Social Security,
19:00despite your repeated promises to protect it.
19:03Why do you think they keep pushing this misinformation and literally terrorizing the elderly in America that sadly keep watching the very misleading mainstream media?
19:12I love your question.
19:13I should have called you almost first, but I love his questions also.
19:17But it's such a good question.
19:19It's so vicious what they do.
19:21Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian.
19:25We call her Pocahontas.
19:27She's a liar.
19:28She lied her whole career.
19:31Based on the fact that she was an Indian, she was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there.
19:40She's a liar and a mean person.
19:42She's a nut job.
19:45I watched her the other night.
19:46She's all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City.
19:50And she was all excited and jumping up and down.
19:52She's got to take a drug test.
19:54She really does.
19:54She's got to take a drug test.
19:56There's no way somebody can act that way and be normal.
19:59What she's done to our financial institutions, she destroys people.
20:03Do you know that you had a lot of great banks in the Midwest and banks that loaned to farmers and others and they went out of business?
20:10She put them out of business.
20:11Stone cold, mean.
20:12Banks that were open 150 years.
20:14Family banks that supplied the farmers and manufacturers and others.
20:18And she put them out of business.
20:20She's a mean, horrible human being.
20:22Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders.
20:24I don't mind him so much.
20:26He's just a liberal guy.
20:27Very liberal guy.
20:28He's a wacky guy.
20:31He's still sharp.
20:32I got to tell you, you know, he's 86 or 87 or something.
20:35He's still sharp.
20:36You compare that to Joe Biden.
20:38It's, you know, sort of what happened.
20:40So I don't mind Bernie Sanders.
20:41With him, you know what you're getting.
20:43You're getting a guy.
20:44He's a nasty guy.
20:45But he's somebody that, I don't know if I call it a fastball, but he's able to throw the ball pretty well.
20:54He's okay.
20:54I watched him the other day.
20:55He was totally on the opposite side of things.
20:57I will say this, the biggest issue right now and an issue that's really taken hold is crime, stopping crime in the cities.
21:05And the Democrats are fighting the stopping of crime.
21:09So I think that's like men playing in women's sports is okay or transgender for everybody okay.
21:17But this is a bigger issue.
21:18This is the biggest of all issues.
21:20Crime is rampant in D.C.
21:22It's rampant in our generally blue-run cities.
21:26And they've got to do something about it.
21:28And they're never going to win another election.
21:30And instead of calling me a dictator, they like to say Trump's a dictator.
21:33Trump's a dictator.
21:34Well, I had calls from many, many friends, including Democrats.
21:39I have a lot of Democrat friends, but they're normal people.
21:42And they were thanking me so much for what I'm doing in D.C.
21:45They feel so safe already.
21:48And, you know, at the border, we had, Frank, we had zero people come in.
21:53And this is done by a liberal group.
21:54They're the people that do it.
21:56I have nothing to do with it.
21:57Zero people in three months.
22:00We had zero, zero, and zero for three months.
22:02And last year, we had millions of people pouring in from all countries, from jails, from drug addicts, gang members, drug dealers by the thousands and thousands.
22:1411,888 murderers, half of whom committed more than one murder.
22:22They flowed into our country.
22:24And for the last three months, we had none.
22:26And I didn't get, remember when Joe Biden used to always go, I need legislation.
22:30I had no legislation.
22:31I just said, we're closing the borders.
22:33And the whole world understood it because they respect your country again.
22:36They really respect this country again.
22:39They didn't respect it.
22:40When he said it, it didn't mean anything.
22:42But now they know it meant a lot.
22:44And Mexico does what we tell them to do.
22:47And Canada does what we tell them to do because we had the two borders.
22:50We have the northern border, the southern border, and they were both horrible.
22:55But now it's, some people say it's a miracle.
22:58Well, what Frank has done with Social Security also is something very special.
23:02But what we're doing with crime, which will be your next question, I guess.
23:06That's because everyone's fascinated.
23:08They're afraid.
23:09Half of the people here, maybe all of the people here, most of you live in D.C., you are petrified to go out.
23:16And you're liberal.
23:17And if you're liberal, you're going to have to change.
23:19You're Democrats.
23:21You're going to have to change your ways.
23:22So we will have crime under control very shortly in D.C.
23:26But there are record numbers.
23:28And sadly, what I guess the mayor did, but whoever it was, they asked the numbers to be fudged so that it would show less crime than the fact.
23:37The fact is, it's worse than it's ever been.
23:39And we will have it just like we did at the border, where borders are totally in great shape right now, the best ever, record-setting shape.
23:47We'll have the crime situation solved in D.C. very soon.
23:51And we're also going to beautify the city.
23:52We have a beautiful city.
23:53But you can't have graffiti, and you can't have roads with potholes, and you can't have the medians, the dividers in the roads, falling down on the street.
24:03We're going to be beautifying the city, making it really beautiful.
24:06Well, we're going to be getting the criminals the hell out of here.
24:09We don't want the criminals in Washington, D.C.
24:11Mr. President, one on your Putin meeting and then one on D.C. crime.
24:15Are you prepared to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare minerals to incentivize him to end the war?
24:22We're going to see what happens with our meeting.
24:24We have a big meeting.
24:26It's going to be, I think, very important for Russia, and it's going to be very important for us.
24:31And important for us only that we're going to save a lot of lives.
24:34Look, we have, you know, we're not paying any money, as you know, to Ukraine.
24:38We're supplying equipment, and we're being paid 100% plus for that equipment by NATO.
24:46And I got NATO up from 2% to 5% of GDP.
24:50They now have billions of dollars.
24:55NATO is a very rich group of countries, and we make the best military equipment anywhere in the world by far.
25:01And they're buying our equipment, and they're paying 100% for the equipment, 100%.
25:05In fact, they owe us about $2 billion now.
25:07They're going to send a check.
25:10Another one was sent recently for $1 billion.
25:12So we're not spending any money anymore.
25:14Biden gave them $350 billion.
25:16We've got nothing for it.
25:18And if you look, and by the way, we also signed a rare earth deal where we get, you know, years of rare earth to get our money back, the money we spent.
25:27But what I'm really doing this for is to save thousands of soldiers a week.
25:32You have Russian soldiers, you have Ukrainian soldiers, and then you'll have missiles dropped into various cities and towns in Ukraine.
25:40And they're losing seven, last week they lost 7,251 people, mostly soldiers, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers.
25:51I'm doing it for that reason.
25:52We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow.
25:55I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having.
26:00We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders along.
26:07Maybe not.
26:08I don't know that it's going to be very important.
26:10We're going to see what happens.
26:11And I think President Putin will make peace.
26:16I think President Zelensky will make peace.
26:19We'll see if they can get along.
26:20And if they can, it'll be great.
26:22You know, I've solved six wars in the last six months, a little more than six months now.
26:29And I'm very proud of it.
26:30I thought the easiest one would be this one.
26:32It's actually the most difficult.
26:33We had one war raging, as you know, for 37 years.
26:36One in the Congo with Rwanda was raging for 31 years.
26:40We solved six of them, made peace, not just solved them.
26:43We made peace.
26:44If you look at Pakistan and India, that was, planes were being knocked out of the air.
26:50Six or seven planes came down.
26:52They were ready to go.
26:54Maybe nuclear, we solved that.
26:56I thought this would be maybe an easier one.
27:00It never made sense, this war.
27:02It would have never happened when I was President.
27:04If I were President, this war would have never happened.
27:06But millions of people have been killed.
27:08And I'm there for one reason, to see if I can solve.
27:12This was Biden's war.
27:13This isn't my war.
27:14I want to see if I can stop the killing.
27:16Yeah.
27:16Do you plan to offer him access to that at all?
27:20We have great rare earth.
27:23We made that as payment for all of the money that we've spent so foolishly in Ukraine.
27:31We've spent $350 billion.
27:34Now, Europe spent a billion.
27:36That's a lot of money.
27:37They spent $100 billion.
27:39That's a lot of money.
27:41But we shouldn't be spending a lot more money than them.
27:45And they understand that.
27:47And I think that's maybe why we're not spending money anymore.
27:50We're not spending any money.
27:51They're paying us for everything.
27:53So it's pretty, people are shocked when they hear it.
27:56They don't even understand.
27:57They don't even write about it.
27:58But we're not spending money.
27:59But we are spending a lot of time trying to get the war solved.
28:02If we can get the war solved, we'll be very happy.
28:04As far as rare earth, that's very unimportant relative to that.
28:07I'm trying to save lives.
28:08On D.C. crime, sir.
28:10On D.C. crime, do you have a message for the Democrat lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi or media
28:15who are saying after living here for many years that there is no crime
28:18and you're trying to start a new news cycle?
28:20It's another reason why the Democrats lost the election in a landslide.
28:24They lie.
28:25It's just, look, the crime is very bad.
28:27I think they'd be much better off saying we want to help President Trump with a crime
28:32because it's an epidemic.
28:33It's a tragic situation.
28:35It's the worst it's ever been.
28:37And we want to help President Trump with a crime as opposed to he's a dictator.
28:41He's a dictator.
28:42People are so happy to see our military going into D.C. and getting these thugs out.
28:48As you know, we arrested a lot of people yesterday.
28:51We arrested a lot of people today.
28:52We're getting people that have arrest records that you wouldn't believe.
28:5828 arrests, 15 arrests, brutal, brutal people.
29:04And we're going to have to do something about this cashless bail because people shoot somebody,
29:10they kill somebody, and they're out on the street in less than an hour.
29:13Now, that's when it's all started.
29:16In New York, in Chicago, Los Angeles, you take a look.
29:20If we didn't go to Los Angeles to help this incompetent governor and a mayor that doesn't
29:25know what the hell she's doing, if we didn't go to Los Angeles, you wouldn't have a big
29:30part of it burned down.
29:32The other part of it would have burned down, too.
29:34You would have not had, I don't think you would have been able to have the Olympics.
29:37We have the Olympics.
29:38I have a lot at stake with that because I'm the one that got the Olympics.
29:42I got it in my first term.
29:43And I didn't, I was sad because I got it for what would be my third term, okay, which
29:50turned out to be second term.
29:53And the Olympics, it's a great honor, but I felt badly because I said I won't be president
29:59when the Olympics came.
30:01Well, through circumstance, I am president.
30:03I want to make sure the Olympics is great, the World Cup is great, and the 250, maybe the
30:08most important of all, is the 250-year celebration is great.
30:11So what's happening is we will work very hard.
30:16You would not have had, I don't believe that if I didn't send in the troops, I don't think
30:21you would have had Los Angeles in condition to have the Olympics.
30:25I think you would have had to tell them, I'm sorry, you're going to have to go someplace else.
30:29And if you look at the police commissioner or the sheriff, he said, we really needed them.
30:35Thank God they were here.
30:36We really needed them.
30:37That was the first two or three days.
30:38After we solved their problems, then he said, well, I think we could have maybe done it.
30:42Now, he was told what to say.
30:44He said, you go back to your files and see what he said.
30:48He said, thank goodness they came.
30:50If I didn't go and put our military there or National Guard in that case, and we'll go
30:55military if we have to.
30:56But the National Guard went there.
30:58They were very effective.
31:00If we didn't do that, I don't think you would have had the Olympics in Los Angeles.
31:03The place would have been just like the 25,000 houses that burned down.
31:07Where, by the way, the governor ought to focus on getting their permits.
31:11You know, the federal permits are given.
31:13Those are the hard ones.
31:14And they were given a long time ago.
31:16People can't rebuild the house because they can't get permits from the state and the city.
31:21And they ought to focus on that because it's very upsetting.
31:24I went there right after the fires.
31:27I walked the streets, and I met a lot of great people.
31:30They wanted to rebuild their homes.
31:31We took care of it from the federal standpoint.
31:33But they're not taking care of it from the city, the mayor, and the governor.
31:38They're not getting their permits.
31:40They can't build their houses.
31:41Mr. President, do you think this summit and the incentives for peace
31:48you were putting on the table could end up rewarding Putin for his invasion of Ukraine?
31:53And what kind of signal do you think that could potentially send to other aggressors?
31:58No, I don't think it's a reward.
31:59I think that what we have is a situation that should never have started.
32:04It should have never started.
32:05It didn't start under me, and for four years it wasn't even discussed.
32:09And I could see it was going to happen after I left.
32:12I could see what was happening.
32:14Everything that we did was wrong.
32:17Everything that was done was wrong.
32:20Everybody's to blame.
32:21Putin's to blame.
32:22They're all to blame.
32:24This is a war that would have never happened.
32:26Mr. President, Mr. President, what's the problem?
32:28The other question on L.A.?
32:30Mr. President, earlier today, the Washington, D.C. police chief issued an executive order
32:34allowing metropolitan police officers conducting traffic stops
32:38to notify federal immigration and customs enforcement about undocumented immigrants that they encounter.
32:44Yet the city has a long-standing pro-immigration policy, including allowing non-citizens to vote.
32:50Which is ridiculous.
32:52And limiting cooperation with federal immigration agencies.
32:54Right.
32:55Did your administration pressure the D.C. police chief to review and repeal these policies?
32:59And will you require other cities to roll back similar policies to avoid possible federal takeover of local law enforcement?
33:06So what you're saying is that it was a very positive thing.
33:08When they stop people, they find they're illegal, they report them, they give them to us, etc.
33:12That's a very positive thing.
33:13I have heard that.
33:14It just happened.
33:16That's a great step.
33:17That's a great step if they're doing that.
33:19Yeah, I think that's going to happen all over the country.
33:22We want to stop crime.
33:23I think if the Democrats aren't strong in this issue, they won't be able to do it.
33:26I think this is a bigger issue than all of the other ridiculous things like open borders.
33:32Well, open borders is bad.
33:34Open borders has caused a lot of this problem.
33:36Allowing millions and millions.
33:38I think 24 million people were allowed to come into our country.
33:41Many of these people from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions.
33:47This was the Biden policy.
33:49And I don't believe it was him.
33:50He was never there before.
33:52It was the people that encircled this very beautiful desk, the resolute desk.
33:57Radical left lunatics who were smart, but radical left.
34:02And I'm very happy to hear what you just said because I've heard that.
34:06And Mr. President, on L.A., if I may, the mother of a 15-year-old California boy was briefly detained at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity.
34:15The LAUSD superintendent says that surveillance video shows armed agents wearing police and border patrol insignia.
34:22Given the National Guard, the border control, ICE agents, they're not trained in local policing.
34:29What specific steps are you taking to ensure that young people are not put in harm's way with these types of operations?
34:35Yeah, what they are trained in is common sense, and they're very tough people.
34:39And they have great common sense.
34:41And they are highly trained.
34:43I heard the mayor of L.A. was saying, oh, they're not trained this way.
34:48I heard this character from, where was he from?
34:52They talk about him as a candidate.
34:53He's got no chance.
34:55The governor of Maryland, I watched him this morning, saying that the governor of Maryland, yeah, they say maybe he'll be a president.
35:03He's not presidential timber at all.
35:05But I heard him today talking about how the National Guard or the military is not trained in police.
35:12But they're trained in common sense.
35:14And they're trained in not allowing people to burn down buildings and bomb buildings and shoot people and all of the things.
35:20They've done a great job.
35:22Again, if we didn't send them, and very importantly, if we didn't send them into Los Angeles, Los Angeles, the rest of Los Angeles would have been burned down to the ground.
35:31When you look at Minnesota, Minneapolis, I sent them into Minneapolis because the governor wouldn't make the call.
35:37If I didn't do that, you wouldn't have a Minneapolis.
35:40It wouldn't be, I don't think it would be existent today.
35:42You remember the famous scene burning over the CNN anchor's shoulder?
35:46He said everything seems to be very peaceful.
35:48And behind him, the whole city's burning down.
35:51And so you had the whack job governor who ran for vice president and made a fool out of himself.
35:57You would have had, I saved that city.
36:00I'll tell you, I saved that city.
36:02So the bottom line is he's a very tough people that are trained in a thing called common sense.
36:10And they're also trained in doing what we're talking about right now.
36:13And you watch Crime Stop.
36:15But you wouldn't have Los Angeles.
36:17It wouldn't be existent today.
36:18We would have had to cancel the Olympics if I let that go on.
36:21Mr. President, will you pressure Israel to allow journalists into Gaza to cover the humanitarian efforts the U.S. is pursuing?
36:31Mr. I'd like to see that happen, Jim.
36:34I'd like to see it.
36:34Mr. Yeah, would you pressure him?
36:35Mr. I would like to see it happen.
36:36I would be very fine with journalists going in.
36:38It's a very dangerous position to be interviewed, as you know, if you're a journalist.
36:42But I would like to see it.
36:44Mr. Add on tariffs.
36:45Brazil, Mexico, and Latin America are getting closer to China.
36:49And they say it's partly because of the tariffs you're imposing in those countries.
36:52Are you concerned with them getting closer to China?
36:55Mr. No, not at all.
36:56I'm not concerned at all.
36:57They can do what they want.
36:58You know, none of them are doing very well.
37:00And what we're doing in terms of economics, we're blowing everyone away, including China.
37:05We're doing better than any other country in the world right now.
37:09Brazil has been a horrible trading partner in terms of tariffs.
37:15As you know, they charge us tremendous tariffs, far, far more than we were charging them.
37:18We weren't charging anything, essentially.
37:21And Brazil has some very bad laws happening where they took a president and they put him in jail
37:27or they're trying to jail him.
37:28And I happen to know the man.
37:29And I will tell you, I'm pretty good at people.
37:32I think he's an honest man.
37:33I think what they've done, this is an electric, this is really a political execution that they're
37:39trying to do with Bolsonaro.
37:40I think that's terrible.
37:41But they also treated us very badly as trading partners for many, many years.
37:46One of the worst.
37:47One of the worst countries on earth for that.
37:49They charged tremendous tariffs and they made it very difficult to do anything.
37:53So now they're being charged 50% tariffs and they're not happy, but that's the way it goes.
38:00Mr. President, Mr. President, on D.C. crime, sir, on D.C. crime, are you concerned at all
38:04that some federal officers that are helping D.C. police might be being pulled away from
38:10other high-priority assignments?
38:11Like what?
38:12Like what?
38:13Terrorism.
38:14Oh, really?
38:15Terrorism?
38:16They'll stop terrorism as part of what they're doing right now?
38:19No.
38:20The soldiers that we have, first of all, we have plenty of them, long beyond what they,
38:26that you have here.
38:27We're just using a very small force.
38:29You know, in Washington, D.C., they have thousands of police.
38:33They have a lot of police, but the police weren't allowed to do their job.
38:37We have a lot of great ones.
38:38And you have some that weren't so good, to be honest, but they weren't allowed to do their job.
38:42But now they are allowed to do their job.
38:44And essentially we've, it's only two days, but you look at the numbers already, they're dropping.
38:50And no, they're not being pulled off for anything.
38:52Mr. President, as you know, there were some very concerning reports about crime statistics.
38:58Police are manipulating crimes out.
38:59It's a downplay crime in D.C.
39:01Will the administration release its own crime statistics to counter their misinformation?
39:05And will those individuals who are intentionally misrepresenting crime data and fudging the books,
39:10like you said, be penalized for endangering the public?
39:13They are under investigation right now.
39:16They are giving us phony crime stats, just like they gave other stats in the financial world.
39:22But they're phony crime stats.
39:23And Washington, D.C. is at its worst point.
39:27And it will soon be at its best point.
39:29You're going to have a very safe, you're going to have a crime-free city.
39:31I mean, I say that.
39:33You're going to have virtually a crime-free city.
39:35And these are strong men.
39:38But the criminals are strong men and women.
39:40But they're strong men.
39:42And these are people that don't play games.
39:46We're not playing games.
39:47These are criminals we're dealing with.
39:49And they treated people.
39:50They took one of the people that worked for us the other day.
39:52You saw the beating, the pounding.
39:54Ten against one.
39:56And they pounded the hell out of him.
39:58He's lucky to be alive.
39:59He's barely, almost killed.
40:01And we're not going to have that happening.
40:03Please.
40:03Mr. Tulsi Gabbard declassified more documents last night related to the Russia game hoax.
40:08She's doing a great job, by the way.
40:09That was another fake story.
40:10I'm very happy with the job she's done.
40:13That's right.
40:13They declassified some terrible documents talking about Democrats and what they did.
40:19Radical left lunatics.
40:20It showed that then DNI, James Clapper, sent out emails to IC officials saying that it would be a team sport to push them the debunked 2017 ICA report.
40:30And that it might need them to compromise on their normal modalities.
40:34What's your reaction to the latest declassification?
40:36And in your view, sir, what does real accountability look like for the players?
40:40It's incredible what we're finding.
40:43Absolute proof of guilt.
40:46And we'll see what happens.
40:48But Clapper and Comey and that whole group of criminals, they're criminals.
40:53And they made it very tough.
40:55You know, they did the fake Russia, Russia, Russia witch hunt that lasted for two years.
41:01And I get totally exonerated.
41:04There was no doubt about it.
41:04They should have done it in one day, not two years.
41:07But there was a whole scheme to try and demean Trump so that I couldn't win an election.
41:12And that is a criminal group of people.
41:16They're sick people.
41:17And they're criminals.
41:18And they should be taken care of.
41:20Mr. President.
41:22Does Putin have a strong hand tomorrow?
41:23Well, he came to our country.
41:26And I heard CNN fake news talking about that that was a big win for him.
41:33Normally, you would say the opposite.
41:35But they said, oh, it's a big win that he came here.
41:38Normally, we'd say the opposite.
41:39You know, he came here.
41:40I think that President Putin would like to see a deal.
41:45I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine.
41:48It's a war that should have never happened.
41:51If I weren't president, in my opinion, he would much rather take over all of Ukraine.
41:58But I am president, and he's not going to mess around with me.
42:01On Russia, Mr. President, would you support or agree to reducing NATO troops in Europe,
42:08in countries like Poland, in order to get Russia to agree to a peace deal?
42:13That hasn't been put before me, and I'll think about that for later.
42:17But it has not been put before me.
42:18Go ahead.
42:19Is anything less than an unconditional and immediate ceasefire a victory for the U.S.?
42:24Tomorrow?
42:24Yes.
42:25Well, tomorrow we'll see.
42:26I say, you know, I don't know where that comes from.
42:29It's sort of not a good question.
42:31I would say that tomorrow, all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting,
42:35which should happen shortly.
42:36I'd like to see it happen very quickly, very shortly after this meeting.
42:41I'd like to see it actually happen maybe in Alaska, where we just stay, because it's
42:45so much easier.
42:46But I think that it's going to be very interesting.
42:50We're going to find out where everybody stands, and I'll know within the first two minutes,
42:55three minutes, four minutes, or five minutes, like we tend to find out, whether or not we're
42:59going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting.
43:01And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly.
43:03And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future.
43:08Okay?
43:08How about one more?
43:09Mr. President.
43:10Thank you, Mr. President.
43:12On the Smithsonian, I know that your administration is seeking to weed out a lot of this left-wing
43:16spin that's in the museums.
43:18But we're seeing from people like Brian Stelter or other commentators that they're insinuating
43:23that you are trying to change history according to your narrative.
43:26What's your response to that?
43:28And is there anything you'd particularly like to do on that?
43:29Well, we want the museums to treat our country fairly.
43:32We want the museums to talk about the history of our country in a fair manner, not in a woke
43:37manner or in a racist manner, which is what many of them, not all of them, but many of
43:41them are doing.
43:42Our museums have an obligation to represent what happened in our country over the years,
43:47good and bad, but what happened over the years in an accurate way.
43:51Thank you very much, everybody.
43:52Thank you, Fred.
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