00:00Caroline, so the clock is ticking on the Friday deadline by which the BBC must retract and
00:05apologize for their malicious edits of the president in the documentary shown last year.
00:11The recently resigned director general of the BBC yesterday described the organization as the
00:16very best of society and blamed the enemies of the BBC for this outcome. Also yesterday,
00:23a senior government minister launched a fierce defense of the channel in the House of Commons
00:28saying that the broadcaster remains a light on the hill for people all over the world. So does
00:35the president feel that the network is taking this situation seriously? Does he believe that
00:40they've shown sufficient regret? Does this strain the relationship between the president and the
00:46prime minister? And given that the organization is publicly funded, is the president prepared to
00:52bankrupt the BBC in his pursuit of truth and justice? Well, thank you, Bev. There's a lot of
00:57questions in one there. I will say I know the president has a very good relationship with
01:01Prime Minister Starmer. You have been there. You've seen them in their interactions. You've questioned
01:05both leaders in your time joining us when we've gone to the United Kingdom a few different times now.
01:12However, he has always been very frank when he disagrees with leaders, even whom he has a good
01:17relationship with. And the BBC, being a fair news organization, is definitely an outlet. I think
01:22these two leaders would disagree. The president has made it very clear that this is a leftist
01:27propaganda machine that is unfortunately subsidized by British taxpayers. And he thinks that's extremely
01:33unfortunate for the great people of the United Kingdom and Great Britain. And I think that the
01:38president was deeply concerned by the editing, the purposeful and dishonest editing of his speech
01:45that was so clearly fake news. And he rightfully dubbed that term many years ago. And this is a
01:51classic example of that. We see it in the United States all the time. We see it now in the United
01:55Kingdom. As you know, the president's external legal counsel has filed a lawsuit against the BBC.
02:01We expect that to continue. And whether they apologize or not is up to them. Thanks for being here,
02:06Bev. Ouija. Thank you, Caroline. Sure.
02:08I have your statement about the new Epstein emails that have been released by House Democrats.
02:16Separate from why you believe the emails were made public, can you address their substance?
02:22Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein's house with a victim?
02:26These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.
02:32And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein.
02:38Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out
02:42because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. And this email you refer to with the name
02:49of a victim that was unredacted now and has since been reported on in this room. So I will go ahead
02:55and say it. Virginia Guffrey. And it was CBS's own reporting Ouija that recently wrote that Miss Guffrey
03:00maintained, and God rest her soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever
03:06witnessed, that President Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her.
03:11And so I think it's a question worth asking the Democrat Party, and you should all go ask them
03:15after this briefing, of why they chose to redact that name of a victim who has already publicly
03:20made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and is unfortunately no longer with us.
03:25Mary.
03:26Thank you, Kelly. Two questions on this. In the interest of transparency, why not just go ahead,
03:30release the full files on Epstein, get this all over with?
03:34We have, this administration has done more with respect to transparency when it comes to Jeffrey
03:39Epstein than any administration ever. In fact, this administration, the Department of Justice,
03:45has turned over tens of thousands of documents to the American people. We are cooperating and showing
03:51support for the House Oversight Committee. That's part of the reason you are seeing these documents
03:56that were released today, because of the House Oversight Committees and Republicans' efforts
04:00to get these out to the public. This administration also moved, the Department of Justice also moved
04:05to unseal grand jury testimony, which we know, unfortunately, a judge declined those requests.
04:12So this administration has done more than any. And it just shows how this is truly a manufactured
04:17hoax by the Democrat Party for now they're talking about it all of a sudden because President Trump
04:23is in the Oval Office. But when Joe Biden was sitting in there, the Democrats never brought
04:27this up. This wasn't an issue that they cared about because they actually don't care about the
04:31victims in these cases. They care about trying to score political points against President Trump,
04:35as we have, of course, seen with this government shutdown. And this entire thing, again,
04:40it's not a coincidence to the American people at home. There are no coincidences in Washington,
04:45D.C. And it is not a coincidence that the Democrats leaked these emails to the fake news
04:50this morning ahead of Republicans reopening the government. This is another distraction campaign
04:56by the Democrat and the liberal media. And it's why I'm being asked questions about Epstein instead
05:01of the government reopening because of Republicans and President Trump. Reagan.
05:04But given your interest in transparency, Caroline, why are White House officials then
05:08meeting with Representative Boebert in an effort to try and get her to not sign this petition
05:13calling for the release of the files? Doesn't it show transparency that members of the Trump
05:18administration are willing to brief members of Congress whenever they please? Doesn't that show
05:23our level of transparency? Doesn't that show the level of transparency when we are willing
05:27to sit down with members of Congress and address their concerns? That is
05:31that's a defining factor of transparency. Having discussions, having discussions with members of
05:37Congress about various issues. And I'm not going to detail conversations that took place
05:40in the situation room, in the press briefing room. Reagan.
05:43I have a question about the government shutdown.
05:45Thank you. I'm glad someone does.
05:47First, on the government shutdown, the shutdown deal reverses the administration's rents,
05:53and it also prohibits more from happening until the end of January. I'm wondering if the
05:57President had input on this element of the deal, and if he's at all disappointed that's
06:01going to reverse the downsizing of the federal government that they did during the shutdown?
06:05I mean, look, I think it's about 6,000 workers total. When you look at that in comparison
06:09to the reduction in the federal workforce that this administration has done since January
06:14to get rid of the waste, the fraud, the abuse, and to reduce the size of our federal bureaucracy,
06:20we've done a lot of great work on that front, and we will continue to. But obviously the
06:25President's main priority was to reopen the federal government and get people back to
06:29work, and that's what this deal accomplishes.
06:31On the Middle Eastern line, there's been reports in Israeli media that the U.S. is considering
06:36building a temporary military base on the Gaza border. Can you confirm these reports here?
06:41So I had a conversation directly with the reporter who wrote this article, and this article was based
06:46on a single piece of paper, an inquiry that somebody in the Department of Navy made about an idea that
06:54may happen in the future. And this reporter deemed that as an official plan and ran with a story that the United States is
07:01looking into it. I checked with the highest levels of the United States federal government. This is not
07:06something the United States is interested in being engaged in. It's not something we are currently
07:10involved in right now that we will be funding. And the President has been very clear he doesn't want
07:14to see boots on the ground with respect to what's happening in the Middle East. We've made great peace.
07:18We've made great progress with the peace plan in Gaza, and we want to continue to see that move forward. But
07:24I put a comment in that story for a reason. And sometimes we see reporters take a piece of paper like this and
07:30just deem it as official policy. And sometimes that misleads people a little bit. Sure. Sure.
07:35There's been a question about UK intelligence sharing regarding the drunk interdictions
07:43involving non-times militants. How will that affect the gross military operation? There's been a lot of
07:50discussion about the high caliber of the intelligence that has been provided before any of these military
07:58actions that have taken place. I've seen that report. Oh, hello. I've seen that report. I'm
08:05familiar with the reporting, but we don't comment on intelligence matters, classified intelligence
08:09matters, as you know. As for the Trump administration's position on our narco-terrorist campaign in the
08:14Caribbean, it is going to continue. And the President has made it very clear he's not going to allow
08:20terrorists to bring illegal drugs that kill American citizens into our great country.
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