US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to supercharge AI in pediatric cancer research. The order directs $50 million in AI-based childhood cancer grants, matched by NIH, doubling funding for the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. Focus is on diagnostics, treatments, prevention, and data integration.
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00:00Thank you very much. Great to have you again. We've seen you a couple of times today, but I'm thrilled to sign a very historic executive order to massively accelerate pediatric cancer research and harness the extraordinary potential of artificial intelligence to fight this terrible disease.
00:18We're going to hook up the artificial intelligence with all of the other things that we have at hand. And we're going to come for answers. And these young children who are just really some are absolutely better and others are getting better. You're going to be better versus. So they won't even need it. I don't believe. I want to thank secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who we see a lot of lately.
00:44You've been very active. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, who's so fantastic. And I guess we reached a deal with Harvard today. So we'll see how that what you have to do is paper it. Right, Linda?
01:04Yes, sir. Paper it out. That'll be great. It's going to have to do with something that's very important to everybody. CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, FDA Commissioner.
01:14Marnie McCary, Director of the National Institute of Health, Jay Bhattacharya. Is that good, Jay? That's pretty good.
01:23That's perfect. I'm getting better. That's perfect. I'm getting better. Science and Technology Advisor, Michael Kratios.
01:31AI and Cryptozar, David Sachs. You're doing great, David. As well as a friend of mine, Stephanie McMahon, and her incredible husband, Triple H.
01:40You all know Triple H. I'm not going to fight that guy. He's one of the greatest.
01:46I also want to thank all of the brave young people who are with us today, and they've gone through a lot, but it's really coming out very good.
01:55And I just gave them a beautiful coin, and we're going to save that coin, right? Beautiful coin.
02:00In 2019, I was proud to launch the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, and I think Stephanie was a big factor, right, Linda?
02:08She was a big factor as to what we're doing right now.
02:11Absolutely.
02:11Which invested $50 million a year into pediatric cancer research, and today, in line with recommendations made by Secretary Kennedy and the Maha Commission,
02:22we're doubling that investment, adding another $50 million to Childhood Cancer Data Initiative.
02:28We're doing that immediately, and we have a lot of money coming in with the tariffs.
02:32We've never had money like this coming in.
02:34We're a rich country again.
02:36We were a dead country one year ago, and now we're the richest country.
02:40We're hot. We're a hot country.
02:43So it's an honor to do that, and honor of all of you, we're doing that, okay?
02:48With this order, I'm also directing the federal government to fully utilize artificial intelligence to supercharge pediatric cancer research.
02:57It's pretty amazing what's happening.
02:59For years, we've been amassing data about childhood cancer, but until now, we've been unable to fully exploit this trove of information
03:06and apply it to practical medicine.
03:10Using cutting-edge AI, we will empower scientists and researchers to discover new treatments, cures, and prevention strategies.
03:18AI can also make groundbreaking trials and therapies, and it's just going to be so accessible to everybody, families all across the country.
03:28So it's going to be amazing.
03:29What's happening is amazing, and we have more AI.
03:32We're leading at AI.
03:33We're leading China by a lot.
03:35We're leading everybody by a lot.
03:36They're creating their own energy.
03:38We let them build their own energy plant because we don't have the energy.
03:42Nobody does to feed them.
03:45The amount of energy just the AI needs coming into this country is double what we have right now.
03:51So we're letting them go out and create their own energy plants and their own electricity, and they're doing it.
03:59We're giving them permits to build electric plants.
04:02They're becoming sort of a utility.
04:04Maybe they'll do better with being a utility.
04:06Who knows?
04:06They'll do better with being a utility than they will being AI.
04:10What do you think of the chances that they—I hope I'm wrong about that or they made a bad bet, right?
04:14So anyway, but I want to just say that we're going to defeat childhood cancer once and for all, and I'd like to ask Stephanie to say a few words.
04:25She's a very special person and very, very much involved in this.
04:30Thank you very much, Steph.
04:31Well, Mr. President, thank you very much.
04:39You've already acknowledged this incredible team here, and all of these people standing behind me were inspired by the story of a little boy named Connor Mihalik.
04:48He was a little boy who didn't want to hug me because he gave choke-out hugs.
04:53He booed his favorite nurse when she came to give his chemo, and he always worried about his dad because his dad was Connor's best friend.
05:01Connor was a WWE fan who I met after one of our big events, the Royal Rumble.
05:06You could tell he was sick.
05:07He had a big scar that was running up the back of his neck and a lump on his head, but you would never know it from his personality.
05:14He told me about the t-shirt that he was wearing that was dragging on the ground because WWE superstar Sheamus, who's 6'5", had given it to him.
05:23Underneath that was his Daniel Bryan t-shirt, and underneath that was his Skylanders t-shirt because that was his favorite toy.
05:30And as I stood up from my aforementioned choke-out hug, Connor's dad told me that he didn't have long to live.
05:38And I didn't want to believe that.
05:40I kissed him goodbye on his soft little cheek, and when he looked back at me, I made an unspoken promise to fight for him and kids just like him.
05:51Kids shouldn't even know what cancer is, let alone have to face it, and this incredible team believes that too.
05:59This executive order makes kids with cancer the first focus of AI innovation across healthcare in America.
06:09If there is one thing in the world that could bring us together, please let it be our children.
06:16Because I can almost guarantee, if your child was diagnosed with cancer, you wouldn't care what party their doctor belonged to.
06:25You would just want the best.
06:28And President Trump is doing just that, enabling that every child with cancer gets the best care possible.
06:36And we couldn't be more grateful.
06:38Thank you, Senator.
06:38Great job.
06:39Thank you very much.
06:40She's done that before, hasn't she?
06:42Great job.
06:44Bobby, please.
06:46Today, President Trump signed an executive order that makes an historic promise.
06:51We will harness America's innovation in artificial intelligence to find cures for pediatric cancer.
06:58We stand here today because of Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, who never wavered in her 11-year commitment to give every child a future free of cancer.
07:08She proves how one person's courage can change what is possible.
07:13Cancer is now the leading cause of chronic disease-related death in children.
07:18And its incident has risen by more than 40% since 1975.
07:23We cannot accept that.
07:25We must act with urgency.
07:27The Maha strategy report released earlier this month directs HHS to focus on research that harnesses AI to uncover causes, identify risks early, and take action in childhood and young adulthood to prevent cancer.
07:43Now, this executive order directs the Maha Commission, working with our nation's top science and technology leaders that deploy AI to transform cancer care and research.
07:56We will accelerate progress in the childhood cancer data initiative that President Trump launched in 2019.
08:02And that means building stronger data systems, using AI to decode complex biology, designing better clinical trials that deliver faster, more effective treatment for kids.
08:16The order doubles federal investment in the Child Cancer Data Initiative with an additional $50 million just this year.
08:26NIH will expand research while the private sector and universities will bring their best tools to the table.
08:32Together, we will ensure that every innovation, every breakthrough, goes to work for our children.
08:38The order guarantees that AI will be integrated into HHS interoperability networks.
08:47We will make electronic health records and claims data work for patients and researchers.
08:52We're already doing that.
08:53And always with parents in control of their child's health information.
08:57No family should have to fight cancer with outdated tools or without access to the very best science.
09:05Are too long families have fought childhood cancer while our systems lag behind?
09:10President Trump, thank you for your leadership in changing all that.
09:14This executive order is about action, unlocking cures, empowering families, and giving every child the chance to grow up healthy and strong.
09:24With American innovation and leadership, we can make our children healthy again.
09:30Bobby, do they know why there's quite an increase that's taken place over the last number of years?
09:36Do they know why that?
09:38Do they have any idea why that's happening?
09:39We are doing that research, and Jay Bhattacharya can talk about that.
09:43We're doing that research now for the first time.
09:46We're focusing on that, in particular, colon cancers and these cancers that have suddenly, that never affected children before.
09:54And suddenly are epidemic in our children.
09:56And we're going to find the causes, their environmental causes.
10:00We're going to identify them and work to eliminate them.
10:03Thanks.
10:03Thanks, Bobby.
10:04Jay, go ahead, please.
10:05Hello.
10:06Thank you, everyone.
10:07Thank you, President Trump, for signing this historic executive order directing your administration to use advanced artificial intelligence technologies to cure childhood cancer.
10:15By signing this executive order, the administration is advancing the NIH childhood cancer data initiatives, coordinated pediatric, adolescent, and young adult rare cancer, first launched under President Trump's direction in 2019.
10:27When I was a young medical student in the 1990s, I had the privilege of spending a month in a pediatric cancer ward treating children with cancer.
10:37And I have to say it was the most difficult month of my life.
10:39I left for home every day in tears.
10:42Watching little children cope with a deadly disease is hard.
10:45They should be playing with their friends, going to school, living their best lives.
10:49But instead, they bravely face cancer.
10:52These are the bravest kids I've ever met.
10:55I have tremendous admiration for the scientists who devote their lives to finding cures for kids with cancer, the doctors and nurses who take care of them, and for their parents who suffer alongside them, care for them, and love them.
11:07This year, nearly 9,500 children will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S.
11:11In the mid-1970s, the five-year survival for cancer was 58%.
11:16Today, the cancer survival rate for children with cancer is 85%.
11:20This is because of the tremendous investments we've made in treating childhood cancer and researching it, and it's worth celebrating its achievement.
11:28But I say that 85% is still too low.
11:31We need to be at 100.
11:32We still have a long way to go.
11:35The treatments these little kids undergo involve therapies like chemo or radiation that put them through hell.
11:41Even with 85% will be cured, the therapies themselves can cause health problems as kids age into adulthood.
11:46Nearly 60% of cancer survivors experience severe life-threatening complications in adulthood because of these treatments.
11:53And so we need better treatments so that we can raise the survival rate and reduce the side effects.
11:59This initiative builds on the CCDI's mission to gather data from every child, adolescent, and young adult diagnosed with cancer, no matter where they receive care.
12:07It aims to develop a platform and tools to bring together clinical care, research tools like molecular characterization and genetic information, tools that will improve preventive measures, treatment, quality of life, survival for a child with cancer.
12:20By uniting families, clinicians, and researchers, by harnessing the power of AI, CCDI will accelerate diagnosis, inform treatment, and develop the next generation of life-saving therapies.
12:29This is not about collecting data alone.
12:32It's about giving families hope.
12:34Today, we commit to taking this work to the next level.
12:37With the executive order that President Trump is signing, we're building a future where every child's data contributes to faster diagnosis.
12:42Artificial intelligence helps us uncover faster, more precise treatments, improve quality of life, and better survival.
12:48And finally, let me extend my sincere congratulations and gratitude to President Trump for his leadership and vision in giving us this opportunity to make America healthy again, to rigorously push the boundary of science, and bring hope to millions of families.
13:01Thank you very much, Chair.
13:02It's very nice.
13:03Appreciate it.
13:04Director Kretzios, please.
13:07Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Secretary Kennedy, for your leadership on this issue.
13:11I am thrilled that our Maha strategy prioritizes utilizing AI in the fight against cancer, and that this executive order is putting a priority to this action.
13:22Thank you for your commitment, Mr. President, to the United States for maintaining its global leadership in artificial intelligence across models, data sets, applications, and to issue an AI action plan to do just that.
13:34Your foresight in the first term, leading you to establish the CCDI to gather, harness, and share data on childhood cancers, has positioned us today to leverage AI in a way we could never imagine before.
13:47With America's pioneering models, American researchers now have the best tools in the world to turn the CCDI data into the building blocks of life-changing breakthroughs.
13:57So, I and my team at OSTP are thrilled to partner with our teams at HHS and NIH and with David to empower the development of gold standard applications for the pediatric cancer research and to play our very small part in trying to protect the health and happiness of America's children.
14:13Thank you, Mr. President.
14:15David, please.
14:16Thank you, sir.
14:17Well, first of all, I just want to thank Stephanie McMahon and all of us for helping all together here.
14:21You know, for years, they played villains on TV, but they're actually very nice people in real life, but it's because of your passion that we're all here today, so thank you for that.
14:32And thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership on this.
14:34First of all, you did have the foresight to create this childhood cancer database way back in 2019, and that's what's going to power the AI.
14:42It's going to give us the data to find all the patterns in.
14:44The other thing you've done is you've made your policy of this administration to support innovation, to support infrastructure, to support energy, and because of that, we have an AI boom going on right now.
14:543.8% growth rate in the last quarter in GDP, and a big part of that is because of the AI boom that you've unleashed.
15:00So, thank you, sir, for doing that, and I think that we can see today that this AI boom is not just going to be about dollars and cents, but about saving lives as well.
15:08We're going to get some miraculous cures out of this.
15:10So, thank you to everyone who's here today.
15:12Thank you very much.
15:12Good job.
15:13We just had a meeting, and Oz was at the meeting, and really was a dominant factor along with Bobby.
15:20Maybe you could just say a couple of words about our past meeting where we're going to be lowering drug prices by 50, 100, 200, even 500 percent, even 1,000.
15:30We have 1,000 percent also.
15:32We have one coming up next week, a big one, 1,000 percent reduction in price.
15:37Do you want to give just a couple of words on that, Oz?
15:40It's a historic day.
15:41For the first time, we've had the magnitude of give from the pharmaceutical industry.
15:47One of their leading likes, Alfred Bulla and his company, Pfizer, agreed.
15:51It's something the president has been pushing on since his first term, and he's been calling me quite frequently on speed dial over this term to make sure that Secretary Kennedy and I would seriously engage industry.
16:02They have agreed to several important concessions.
16:05First, we will have most favored nation drug pricing in this country for everyone on Medicaid.
16:10So our most vulnerable populations will not be forced to pay three times or more, five, six, seven times more for the exact same pills and the same bottles as it costs in other countries.
16:19That will make it a lot easier for governors to manage their budgets and shows, again, a distinct passion that the president has for helping people who are most vulnerable.
16:31We've also gotten all new drugs to be released in this country to be priced at most favored nation, which means by the end of the president's term, 95 percent of all pharmaceutical drugs in America will be at most favored nation pricing.
16:43Again, no more discrepancies between what folks in other countries can buy their drugs for and what to be purchased in this country.
16:50Pfizer also agreed, as will companies next week when they come to visit this same White House, to onshore drugs, to bring their production back into America so American workers will benefit as well.
17:01But at the same time, this is critical. It allowed Pfizer and we believe for other pharmaceutical companies to maintain their innovative edge.
17:09We want America to continue to find cures like the ones that saved the lives of some of the children that I'm looking at right now.
17:15Those beautiful faces and smiles are here because American innovation was not dulled, not blunted.
17:20But we can solve that need and thread the needle by also making health care affordable so Americans no longer, including children like this, will be forced to make a difficult choice between groceries and pharmaceuticals.
17:33And I must say, Mr. President, since this morning, if you just look at the stock market, there's been support of this decision made by the CEO of Pfizer.
17:41Their stock has benefited.
17:42So I think it's the right thing for the company, the right thing for the for the policies of this administration, which is a pretty cool place to work.
17:49But most importantly, it's the right thing for the American people.
17:52Thank you very much. And maybe we'll just finish it off with Linda because she's been such an incredible cabinet member and done such a good job.
18:00Maybe you want to say something about your unbelievable daughter and son-in-law because they've worked very hard on this.
18:07Well, thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to do that.
18:09I don't think that, you know, any mother could be any more proud of all of the efforts that Stephanie's made in support also of Paul.
18:19Stephanie first talked about this 10 or 11 years ago after little Connor.
18:23And I remember one of the things that she said to me was,
18:26I really would like to somehow convene the people and the scientists who think outside of the box because research is done in very standard terms.
18:39You do this, you do this. And yes, you have to do that.
18:42But she said, I really would like to tap into some of the most creative and inventive minds in the country to be able to look at research differently for pediatric cancer.
18:52And she did that. It took her about 10 years and she kept tapping in and calling people, being pretty relentless about it.
19:00Driven herself by a mother's heart. And I couldn't be any more proud of the work she's done.
19:04I'm happy to stand by and be a supportive mom and be very proud of her today.
19:10Thanks. Good job you're doing. Thank you very much, Linda.
19:13Okay. Any questions, please?
19:15Mr. President, as we inch closer to a government shutdown this morning, you said you might do a lot of layoffs.
19:23If Doge is already reducing the federal workforce, why is it necessary to link more federal jobs cut to a shutdown?
19:31Well, the Democrats want to shut it down. So when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs.
19:35So we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected and the Democrats, they're going to be Democrats.
19:42As you know, we this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country.
19:49And that's what they're insisting. And obviously I have an obligation to not accept that that would affect everybody.
19:55You know, when I see what we're doing with AI and all the plants that are opening up in the country, 17 trillion dollars is coming.
20:02And if you compare that to Biden, Biden had in four years less than a trillion.
20:07We have 17 trillion more than that. I think it's going to be much more than that, David.
20:11By the end of this year, I think it's going to be far over.
20:15That's a record. It's already a record in eight months. It's a record by a lot.
20:19And so we're doing well as a country. So the last thing we want to do is shut it down.
20:23But a lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want.
20:30And they'd be Democrat things, but they want open borders. They want men playing in women's sports.
20:35They want transgender for everybody. They never stop. They don't learn.
20:39We won an election in a landslide. They just don't learn. So we have no choice.
20:43I have to do that for the country. Yes.
20:45You mentioned a deal with Herbert, Mr. President. What is that deal? Will they be paying the administration?
20:50Well, we're in the process of getting very close. And Linda's finishing up the final details.
20:55And they'd be paying about 500 million dollars. And they'll be operating trade schools.
21:01They're going to be teaching people how to do AI and lots of other things. Engines.
21:06Lots of things. You know, we need people in trade schools.
21:08I remember when I went to school, I had some people that weren't particularly good students.
21:12But they could take a motor or an engine apart, blindfolded or put it back, blindfolded.
21:18But they weren't too good at other things. And many of them ended up doing better than the people that were.
21:26So trade schools are very important. And we've lost trade schools.
21:29We used to have a lot of trade schools in this country. We don't have them anymore.
21:33We have tremendous plants opening. And we want to have people at top level for those plants, whether it's AI or whether it's auto motor plants.
21:41You know, we have many automobile companies opening up plants in the United States.
21:46They're all coming back for two reasons. Tariffs. And I think they like November 5th.
21:51You know, they liked the person that was chosen. And they're moving in from Canada.
21:55They're moving in from Mexico. They're coming in from all over the world.
21:58China is coming. They're all coming. And that way they avoid paying tariffs.
22:02So, you know, they're coming for that reason. So by opening up trade school, because we're going to need employees,
22:08we're going to need people with skill. And I think I can say, Linda, you feel the same way by opening up trade school.
22:13This would be a giant trade school series of trade schools. It would be run by Harvard.
22:18Now, this is something that we're close to finalizing. We haven't done it yet.
22:22But they put up $500 million interest and everything else would go to that account, meaning go to the trade school.
22:31And, you know, it's a big investment in trade school done by very smart people.
22:35And then their sins are forgiven. So we have a good chance of getting that close. Yeah, please.
22:43Thank you. I've been looking at this chart that you showed us earlier since you left the office earlier.
22:49U.S. prices for brand drugs were 422% higher in comparable countries.
22:54You know, I'm young, maybe I'm inexperienced, but I think a lot of Americans are wondering,
22:58how did we even get here being one of the biggest guys?
23:01You got here by incompetent people sitting behind this desk. You had a lot of incompetent people.
23:07I did it, as you know, I did. I started it in my first term. We rebuilt the military.
23:14We got the largest tax cuts in history. We did all these things.
23:17And we had the best economy in the history of our country during my first term.
23:20And by the way, this is blowing it away based on what we're seeing.
23:24But we got it by having people allow that to happen.
23:28And as you know, I started the process. But then when COVID came, we focused on COVID, not on this.
23:34And I said, if I ever go back, if I ever go back and do it again, I'm going to make this a primary thing.
23:41Because other countries are paying a fraction of what we pay for the same exact drug, same exact pharmaceutical, everything.
23:48And I said, no, it's not right. And the drug companies actually came along.
23:53You know, don't forget, they make 30, 40, 50 million a year, these people.
23:57They're very smart. And they had a lot of people convinced that, you know, that's the way it has to be.
24:02They talked about research and development. We had to pay.
24:05I said, well, why isn't Germany paying? Why aren't other countries paying?
24:08And they always had a good answer. But it got to a point where I didn't like the answer anymore.
24:14And I said, we have to do this. And we did.
24:15And the team that we have with Oz and Bobby and Chris and all of the people that we had working on it.
24:21And I must tell you, Marty's been a big, wherever you're at here, Marty.
24:26But Marty's been a big, a big factor.
24:29We have a great team. There's never been a medical team like this.
24:32And I said, let's go do it. And then I just, I did, as I said, I would bug them every single day, every week.
24:39Because I said, we have to have, I mean, why should we be paying 10 times what another country is paying?
24:45And that was just an excuse, you know, research and development.
24:48We do research and development.
24:49So now we're going to be paying whatever the lowest price is.
24:53We're going to be paying that price. It's a great thing.
24:55But there won't be anything that can have the impact on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security,
25:01anything where you need pharmaceuticals, medicines, the numbers are going to come way down.
25:07Even Obamacare, which is terrible.
25:09It's not been good, as you know.
25:11It's a weak form of health care.
25:13But it'll be better because the medicine's going to come in at a very low price.
25:17Yes, please.
25:18Yes, Mr. President.
25:19It seems like every time you assemble your Maha team and your cabinet members behind here in regards to health issues,
25:25it just keeps getting powerful.
25:27So when I look at these young kids there and the weight that is on the world right now that you can lift by what you're doing,
25:35I've often said Trump could cure cancer and people would still criticize him.
25:41That's true.
25:42It is true.
25:42What is your message to America that this potentially could bring us all together, get us on the same page and have unity?
25:49And I'd like to see if some of the kids or the parents have what it means to you to see President Trump get involved.
25:55Well, we've made tremendous strides in cancer research, far more than anyone has done.
25:59And we have the greatest minds, the greatest people working on it.
26:03And childhood, you know, they call it childhood cancer.
26:06It's a very specific thing.
26:07And we've really made a lot of progress.
26:11I think something that's going to allow us to make a lot of progress is the money we're saving on pharmaceuticals.
26:18We'll be saving 500, 600, 1,000 percent.
26:23Nobody's ever heard of that.
26:25I told the story, you were here before, that when I was in the previous administration, my first term,
26:31I was so proud of myself because I'm the first president in 28 years that cut drug prices from beginning to end.
26:39So they went down, I think it was one eighth of a percent or one quarter of one percent.
26:43And I was so proud of that as I thought that was great.
26:46Now I'm cutting them 500 percent.
26:48And I will say this, politically speaking, the people understand.
26:53Otherwise, I wouldn't have won in a landslide.
26:55You know, I get 97 percent bad press and I won in a landslide, which tells you the press has no credibility.
27:01But I will say that what we've done has been a great tribute to the people that's standing behind me in different forms.
27:09Linda in education, different.
27:11But what she's doing in education, she's sending education back to the states.
27:16That's a big move.
27:17The states, like, you know, you go back to Indiana, Iowa, you know, I would say 40 states will be great.
27:2545 will be, you know, the five percent of them will be pretty good.
27:30But and then you're going to have a Gavin Newsom and some other people that aren't going to do a good job.
27:35But, you know, we'll help them out.
27:37I want to help them out.
27:38And we're going to have safe cities again.
27:40We're going to be very safe.
27:41We're going to be going to Chicago pretty soon because a friend of mine, a great guy, the head of the Union Pacific, he said, sir, you have to save Chicago.
27:50It's going bad.
27:51It's going bad fast.
27:52And it's a great city.
27:53He's right.
27:54It's a great city.
27:54I know it very well.
27:56And we have to save Chicago.
27:58So we're going to Memphis, Tennessee right now.
28:01We've had a home run in D.C.
28:03You can walk out.
28:03Brian, you got mugged here a long time ago.
28:06Yes, sir.
28:07And the mugger must have felt some pain because you're a tough cookie.
28:10Well, he had a gun.
28:11I know.
28:12Well, then.
28:15If he had a gun, all you can do is say thank you very much.
28:18Yeah.
28:19No, but it's everybody here.
28:21I mean, you were here in the room.
28:24When I said to the reporters, who got mugged in the last year and like half of the people raised their hand.
28:30Now, if you said who got mugged over the last 60 days, nobody, nobody, no killing, no nothing.
28:37And the restaurants are booming.
28:39The town is booming.
28:40It's clean.
28:41You know, the National Guard actually went out and started cleaning all the crap out of the parks.
28:46The tents are knocked down.
28:48We had one that you said it was a blue tent.
28:50And you said it was a communist tent, right?
28:52See, we're going to have a communist mayor of New York.
28:54So, you know, let's see how that works out.
28:56And I've gotten a lot of feedback on that.
28:57Everyone's very appreciative.
28:59Yeah.
29:00You told me about a blue tent.
29:01And I said, it's not.
29:02I can't be there because we knocked them down.
29:04But this was a very highly sophisticated group of people that had permits and all the other thing.
29:10Well, the permit expired.
29:11We knocked it down.
29:12It took, what, 24 hours less, maybe.
29:15So I appreciate you telling me that.
29:16No, we have a great thing going on.
29:18The country is doing incredible.
29:20We are a hot country.
29:22The hottest.
29:22We're the hottest country in the world right now.
29:24Do the parents or the kids have anything they like to say?
29:26Yeah, that's a great question.
29:27Would you like to say something?
29:29I would.
29:29That's a good comment right there.
29:31That's the best comment you've made in a long time.
29:33Thank you, sir.
29:34Mr. President, good evening.
29:36I'm Josh Armstrong.
29:37My name is Josh Armstrong.
29:38I'm from West Virginia.
29:40And I'm the father of this amazingly brave and resilient little six-year-old, Laurel.
29:44Laurel was diagnosed with leukemia when she was two years old, just before her third birthday.
29:49And we went on to watch as she spent months in the hospital fighting for her life.
29:53As she received blood transfusions and platelet transfusions.
29:56As she fought off one potentially fatal infection after another.
30:00We watched as her body swelled and became painful from steroids.
30:05And then as it became frail and weak from chemotherapy.
30:08And we watched and we wondered why there aren't better treatments available.
30:11And we wondered what might happen if she doesn't get the drugs she needs.
30:15And we wondered why isn't anybody doing it.
30:17And on behalf of myself and all the parents that have watched and wondered, we'd like to say that what you're doing today gives parents like me and children like Laurel the one thing that we most desperately need.
30:29And that's hope.
30:31And Laurel is in remission today.
30:35She looks so beautiful.
30:37You're feeling good with her?
30:43That's for you.
30:45That's for you.
30:46You look so great.
30:47Because of this bill, doctors are going to be able to get better treatments faster to patients like Laurel.
30:53And because of you making children like her real children, not cases or statistics with children like Laurel and all of these children here today.
31:01We have that hope.
31:03And we are so proud that you're standing with children with cancer.
31:05You're making it a national priority.
31:07That's very nice.
31:07Thank you, Mr. President.
31:08We're with you all the way.
31:10How about you?
31:11Back there, Dad?
31:12Actually, I'd like my daughter to speak.
31:15Oh, I'd like that much.
31:16I'd like to speak.
31:16She's offered here.
31:17That's very good.
31:17I'd like you to speak.
31:19Good afternoon.
31:20My name is Carolyn Hendricks.
31:22When I was four years old, I was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a pediatric bone cancer.
31:27Eleven years later, I'm now 16 years old and I'm doing great.
31:31What you're doing today, Mr. President, means that kids like me will get better options and so much more hope for the future.
31:38This will help doctors use technology to find cures faster, match patients to trials more quickly, and give our families more control over our health.
31:47For kids' everyday counts, this order shows that our lives matter enough to be first in line for innovation.
31:54On behalf of children and young adults with cancer, those still fighting and those of remission like me, and families who wish that they had more time together, thank you for making us a national priority.
32:06Mr. President, because of actions like this, kids like me have the chance to grow up, to chase our dreams, and to live full lives.
32:15And that's the greatest gift anyone could ever give.
32:17Wow.
32:17That was so good.
32:20I'm wondering if your father could not have done that like you.
32:26You did a great job.
32:28You did as a big service, father.
32:30Yes, sir.
32:30That's great.
32:31When did you learn how to speak like that?
32:34I've done lots of speeches for childhood cancer over the last few years, and I'm also in a theater program, so that helps a lot.
32:40That's great.
32:41Well, good.
32:41That's a great job.
32:42Would anybody like to say something?
32:44Would anybody?
32:45Would you like to say something, honey?
32:47Yes.
32:48I'm Elani Myers.
32:49I'm nine years old, and I had a blood cancer called leukemia when I was only two years old.
32:55And I had to get treated at seven different hospitals across this country, and I had to
33:03have two bone marrow transplants, one for my dad and one for my mom.
33:08And I had to spend many days and the nights in the hospital getting pokies and yucky medicine.
33:13And me and my parents were very worried, and I had to go through those seven different hospitals
33:19to find the best treatment that could make me better.
33:21And thank you, Mr. President, for making everything happen today so kids like me and Laura, we can
33:31still be living today and speaking.
33:34All right.
33:39They're doing better than any of us have done.
33:42We're doing amazing.
33:44We're not doing so well today.
33:46They're doing so good.
33:47That was fantastic.
33:48And you're feeling good now?
33:49Yes.
33:50Are you all better?
33:51You're pretty close, right?
33:53Yeah.
33:54Yeah, I hear you're going to do good.
33:56Anybody like to say something?
33:58Yes, sir.
33:58Go ahead.
33:59I've had a brain tumor since all those four months.
34:03Now I'm off brain.
34:05I'm off home medicine since I'm a cancer survivor.
34:08I've had a brain tumor since all those four months, and I'm doing great.
34:10I'm 15 now.
34:11I'm going to 10.
34:12And you're going to be a football player, offensive lineman.
34:14You look fantastic.
34:17You look fantastic.
34:22How about somebody else?
34:23I love hearing this.
34:24I love hearing you talk because you talk better than any of us, right?
34:28Thank you, Mr. President.
34:30Well, I want to thank you all for being here.
34:32Amazing.
34:33We wouldn't miss this.
34:35But, you know, we're doing a lot for you, and you're all going to be better very soon.
34:41I don't think you're going to need any of the help that we're giving.
34:43It's going to be for the future.
34:45But I want to thank you for being with us, and I'm going to bring them back to a room.
34:48We have a room where we have lots of hats and things in the back, and we're going to
34:52Would you like to go back, and we'll pick some nice presents?
34:55Yes.
34:56We'll get rid of the wonderful people of the media.
34:59Do you like the media?
35:01Yeah, nice, right?
35:03They have good days, right?
35:05They do.
35:06Actually, they do.
35:07Thank you very much.
35:08That's beautiful.
35:09That's really good.
35:10And thank you.
35:10We're not going to top that.
35:11So I want to thank you all very much.
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