00:00I think something fantastic can be done.
00:04AI, for our foundation, is that we want a doctor for everyone in Africa through AI.
00:12We want farmers to have incredible advice and kids to have a chance to learn.
00:17So the work being done by the people at this table is changing the world.
00:22It's coming fast, so it's great we all get together and talk about how the U.S. can lead in this key area.
00:30And apply it even to the poorest outside the U.S. as well as to our great citizens.
00:37So thank you for incredible leadership, including getting this group together.
00:41Thank you, Bill. That was very nice.
00:44Tim Cook, you've done an incredible job with Apple, a little company called Apple.
00:49Thank you, Mr. President.
00:50Very, very few people have been able to do what you've done. Congratulations.
00:54Thank you, sir. That means a lot to me.
00:56I want to thank you for including me this evening.
01:00It's incredible to be among everyone here, particularly you and the First Lady.
01:06I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.
01:10I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we could make a major investment in the United States
01:17and have some key manufacturing, advanced manufacturing here.
01:23I think that says a lot about your focus and your leadership and your focus on innovation.
01:28I also want to thank you for helping American companies around the world.
01:35This is a very key, key thing.
01:39And I really enjoy working with your administration on those topics as well,
01:46because I think they're so important to the country.
01:48I want to thank the First Lady for focusing on education.
01:52There's nothing more important than education.
01:56It is the great equalizer and always will be.
02:01And so thank you so much for including me.
02:05We are all different in some ways, but we all believe in the power of technology to improve people's lives.
02:12And that is the thing that binds us all together.
02:16And, Tim, how much money will Apple be investing in the United States?
02:20Because I know it's a very lot.
02:22And it's, you know, you were elsewhere, and now you're really coming home in a big way.
02:28How much money will you be investing?
02:30$600 billion.
02:31$600 billion.
02:33That's a lot of jobs.
02:33We're very proud to do it.
02:35That's great.
02:35Thank you very much.
02:37Appreciate it.
02:37Thank you, sir.
02:38Sam, you're a big leader of a very new industry at a very young age.
02:42You're a young guy.
02:44Do you want to tell us about what you're doing?
02:47You told me things before that are absolutely unbelievable.
02:50So what are you doing?
02:52First of all, to echo the comments of Tim and others, thank you so much for getting us all together.
02:56And thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president.
03:00It's a very refreshing change.
03:01We're very excited to see what you're doing to make all of our companies and our entire country so successful.
03:07The investment that's happening here, the ability to get the power and the industry back in the United States,
03:12I think will set us up for a long period of great success leading the world.
03:16And I don't think that would be happening now without your leadership.
03:20We're very grateful to be able to build our company here, to build data centers here,
03:24to build the entire AI industry and lead the world in the United States.
03:27Echoing many other people's comments, I think this will transform the world in a profound way.
03:33And I think it really will be to the United States' advantage to be able to lead the world this way.
03:39The event that the First Lady posted today about education was really wonderful.
03:42And watching what AI is doing, even today, for education and so many other industries is really great.
03:47So thank you so much for enabling this.
03:50We will invest a ton in the United States, and we will do our best to make sure that we continue to lead here.
03:57That's right. Thank you.
03:58Hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's going to be well worth it.
04:01And you have an unlimited market, right?
04:04It seems like it.
04:05Come to think of it, how much is Google investing?
04:08We are, well, not 100 billion dollars.
04:12In the next two years, it's 240 billion dollars.
04:15That's great.
04:16That's great.
04:17We're proud of you.
04:18Very good.
04:19A lot of jobs.
04:21Yeah, good.
04:22What about Microsoft?
04:23That's a big number.
04:25I would say each year we are close to, in the United States, around 75 to 80 billion dollars.
04:31Good.
04:32Very good.
04:33Thank you very much.
04:33Absolutely.
04:34Would anybody like to say anything?
04:36You have a lot of geniuses on my right, some young, some not so young.
04:41Mostly young, come to think of it.
04:44Yes, please.
04:45I just wanted to echo everyone's comments.
04:47I think we've been just very impressed with how this administration has really embraced AI.
04:51And I think that in addition to the infrastructure, the most massive infrastructure built in history,
04:55I mean, we're talking 10X the size of the Apollo program,
04:58I think also, to me, the most important thing is what AI will do for all of us.
05:02And I think that there's been a choice of whether to approach it with optimism.
05:06And I think that that's what I've really seen from this administration.
05:10So I just wanted to say thank you for that.
05:11Great job you're doing.
05:14Incredible job you're doing.
05:15I know every inch that you're building, and I can't believe it.
05:18They're big.
05:19The biggest buildings ever.
05:20You know, we talked about 100-story buildings.
05:22These buildings blow them away, right?
05:24So I just want to – they're more lateral than they are up and down, but they blow everything away.
05:31So congratulations.
05:32Would anybody like to say anything, please?
05:36Satya?
05:38Mr. President.
05:39Would you like to – Safra?
05:40Safra?
05:44This is a most incredible time.
05:47AI is going to change everything.
05:50You hear all of us saying that.
05:51But the fact that you are our president, and you recognize this right away, and you've unleashed American innovation and creativity,
06:02all the work you're doing in basically every cabinet post in addition to what's coming out of the White House is making it possible for America to win.
06:14Today's event that was spearheaded by our wonderful First Lady focusing on education is the center of where we need to go
06:26because it is all of these young people who can't be afraid of new technologies.
06:32They literally have to embrace it and make America even stronger, and that focus was very, very critical.
06:41And I think this is the most exciting time in America ever, ever, at least that I remember.
06:49So thank you.
06:50Thank you for everything you're doing.
06:53Thank you very much.
06:55I appreciate saying hello to everybody, Larry and everybody else.
06:58It's an amazing company that you're involved with and running.
07:03I just want to thank everybody for being here.
07:06I want to thank the media.
07:07They've been very nice lately, although I'm still here.
07:11They made a couple of bad predictions.
07:16That was not good.
07:17I've never had that feeling before.
07:19I went to an event and people are coming up to me and saying, you're still here.
07:23I said, what do they mean by that?
07:25I didn't hear about this.
07:26But anyway, but I do.
07:28The press has been great in terms of this industry, and they understand the importance of it.
07:33This is taking our country to a new level.
07:36We're leading the world.
07:37We're leading China, but we're leading the world by a lot.
07:40And we're leading it because of the people around the table.
07:42And all I can do is implement and make it a lot easier for you.
07:46And I'll be doing that 100 percent.
07:49So I just want to thank you all.
07:50Yes.
07:51Did you have a question?
07:52Go ahead, please.
07:54Thank you, Mr. President.
07:55Tomorrow we have a jobs report coming out, the first since the BLS commissioner who you fired won't be there.
08:02A lot of people will be turning to you to see if you believe the data that's released.
08:06Can you commit to saying the data will be credible?
08:09Well, we're going to have to see what the numbers – I don't know.
08:10They come out tomorrow.
08:11But the real numbers that I'm talking about are going to be whatever it is, but we'll be in a year from now when these monstrous, huge, beautiful places, the palaces of genius.
08:24And when they start opening up, you're seeing – I think you'll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible.
08:30Right now it's a lot of construction numbers, but you're going to see job numbers like our country has never seen before.
08:36Thank you very much.
08:38Thank you, Mr. President.
08:39I have two questions for you.
08:40First, after your phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky today, do you plan to speak with Russia's President Putin in the near future?
08:48What?
08:49If you will speak with President Putin in the near future.
08:52I will be.
08:53Yeah, I will be.
08:54We're having a very good dialogue.
08:56I settled seven wars, the one that I thought would be maybe one of the easiest.
09:02You know that feeling?
09:02You think one thing is going to be easier, turns out to be a little bit tougher.
09:06But the one that I thought would be an easier one because of my relationship with President Putin and with Ukraine and everything else.
09:13I thought it would be the Russia-Ukraine disaster where this week 7,014 people were killed, soldiers, in most cases soldiers, a few from Kiev, relatively few, but mostly soldiers.
09:28And they're being killed at levels that we haven't seen since World War II.
09:33And they're not American.
09:36They're not from any of the countries that some of you are from, but they're people, they're souls.
09:42And we'll get it done.
09:44But that's turned out to be the most difficult of the group.
09:48You know, I settled three wars.
09:50One was 31 years going.
09:52A lot of people killed 10 million people.
09:54Another was 34.
09:55And another was 37 years it was going on.
09:58And people said, you can't settle them.
10:01And I settled them.
10:02This one turned out to be more difficult.
10:04But we'll get it.
10:05We're going to get it settled.
10:06Mr. President, Senator Bill Cassidy has said, effectively, we're denying people vaccines.
10:11Do you have full confidence in what RFK Jr. is doing?
10:14Well, I didn't get to watch the hearings today, but he's a very good person.
10:21He's and he means very well.
10:23And he's got some little different ideas.
10:24I guarantee a lot of the people at this table like RFK Jr.
10:27And I do.
10:28But he's he's got a different take.
10:31And we want to listen to all of those takes.
10:33But I heard he did very well today.
10:36But it's not your standard.
10:38It's not your standard talk, I would say that.
10:41And that has to do with medical and vaccines.
10:44But if you look at what's going on in the world with health and look at this country also with regard to health, I like the fact that he's different.
10:52OK.
10:52Mr. President, Mr. President is thinking on semiconductor tariffs, sir, which you're considering imposing.
10:59And have you discussed that with any of the leaders?
11:02Yeah, I have.
11:02I've discussed it with the people here.
11:04Chips and semiconductors.
11:06We'll be putting tariffs on companies that aren't coming in.
11:11We'll be putting a tariff very shortly.
11:14You probably are hearing we'll be putting a fairly substantial tariff on.
11:18Not that high, but fairly substantial tariff.
11:21With the understanding that if they come into the country, if they're coming in, building, planning to come in, there will not be a tariff.
11:29If they're not coming in, there's a fairly substantial tariff.
11:37Well, I don't know if they're building here.
11:39And for the most part, I think they're building here.
11:40That's probably why they're here for them.
11:42But like I would say, Tim Cook would be in pretty good shape.
11:47Mr. President, are you urging or encouraging any candidates in the New York City mayor's race to drop out to clear the field?
11:58No, I don't like to see a communist become mayor.
12:01I will tell you that.
12:02And I don't think you can win unless you have one on one, because somehow he's gotten a little bit of a lead.
12:09I would know.
12:10I have no idea how that happened.
12:12But I'd prefer not to have a communist mayor of New York City.
12:18And, you know, that's what he is based on his policy, if you look at his statements in the past.
12:23So I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one on one.
12:30And I think that's a race that could be won.
12:35Mr. President, you'll be heading to the U.K. in a few weeks.
12:38Yesterday, Nigel Farage was on Capitol Hill.
12:41He really was talking a lot about pushing back on censorship online.
12:46He was asking politicians like yourself, some of the people in this room, to really push back on that.
12:51How concerning is that to you?
12:53And, Mr. Zuckerberg, if I don't mind, you don't mind answering.
12:56How concerning is that to you, the lack of freedom of speech online in the U.K.?
13:00He didn't think he'd get that question.
13:03He's looking at me saying, how did I get that question?
13:08If you'd like to answer, free speech.
13:10Sorry, actually, I wasn't paying attention.
13:12There seems to be a crackdown.
13:14The British government seems to be cracking down on social media posts, people being arrested for tweets, social posts.
13:21Just wondering how concerning that is to you, Mr. President, and Mr. Zuckerberg.
13:25This is the beginning of your political career.
13:27No, it's not.
13:27I will just say that in terms of U.K., strange things are happening over there.
13:35They are cracking down, and surprisingly so.
13:38And I've spoken to the prime minister, and let's see what happens.
13:43But it is a different, a little bit different situation.
13:46I'm very surprised to see what's happening in, are you talking about the U.K. in particular, right?
13:52Yeah?
13:52I'm very surprised to see what's happening.
13:54Say it.
13:55And it's not a good thing.
13:57Yeah, please.
13:58Mr. President, thank you.
13:59America is first in artificial intelligence.
14:02But what are your concerns in the alliance of Axis of Evil, China, Russia, and North Korea, towards artificial intelligence, but also as military, sir?
14:13Well, I have no concerns.
14:15We have the most brilliant people at this table, and nobody's close.
14:20And I spoke to world leaders, and they admit, and they admit privately, but they admit the biggest.
14:26They admit we have the smartest people, we have the greatest technology.
14:30They can copy, but they can't create like we can create.
14:34We have the smartest people in the world right at this table.
14:36So thank you for the question.
14:38Thank you very much, everybody.
14:40Thank you very much.
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