00:00If the war is almost over, why is the Pentagon going to ask Congress for an additional $200 billion?
00:08Well, we're asking for a lot of reasons beyond even what we're talking about in Iran.
00:13This is a very volatile world, and the military equipment, the power of some of this weaponry is unthinkable.
00:24You don't even want to know about it.
00:26Oh, you could end this thing in two seconds if you wanted to.
00:29But we are being very judicious.
00:34But we want to do â don't forget, Biden gave away â I rebuilt the military my first time.
00:39Biden gave away so stupidly to Afghanistan a lot.
00:44He didn't want to move it.
00:45He was too lazy, too stupid to move it.
00:48But it was a very small â it was a lot, but it was very small relative to what I
00:52purchased and what I built.
00:53So we want to have a good â we want to have vast amounts of ammunition, which we have right
01:01now.
01:01We have a lot of ammunition.
01:02But it was taken down by giving so much to Ukraine.
01:06They gave so much â you know, Biden gave $350 billion worth of cash and military equipment to Ukraine.
01:13And he didn't rebuild anything.
01:16Fortunately, we have a lot â we have a tremendous â unlimited supply of what you'd call middle and upper
01:23-middle armaments and military equipment.
01:28Munitions, armaments, but munitions in particular.
01:32At the high end, we have a lot, but we're preserving it.
01:35We don't really need it.
01:36But we're building â our manufacturers of military equipment are building at a level they've never seen before.
01:43They've never done before.
01:44Pete's in charge of it with all of us, really.
01:48But Pete's been very strong on it.
01:50The general and Pete, myself, the whole group.
01:54And Raytheon is building four factories.
01:57Lockheed is building five or six factories.
01:59And they're building them fast because we had a very tough meeting with them.
02:04They were going out and buying â buying back stock for $51 billion in one case.
02:09They spent $51 billion buying back stock.
02:12Now they're not allowed to do that.
02:14And they are now building a tremendous â there's never been anything like it, what's taking place right now.
02:22So we're in very good shape, but we want to be in the best shape, the best shape we've ever
02:27been in.
02:27And we were that â you know, when I rebuilt the military, we were in great shape.
02:30And then Biden blew it.
02:32And he didn't do anything.
02:33He didn't build â he didn't do anything.
02:36And if you listen to the Democrats, they don't even want to have a military.
02:39Now you see how important it is.
02:42But we have the strongest military in the world.
02:46We have the best equipment.
02:47We make by far the best equipment.
02:48The other night, they had 114 rockets shot at a certain location.
02:54And out of 100 â highly sophisticated rockets, out of 114 sophisticated rockets,
03:00every single one of them was shot down with our equipment.
03:04All our equipment.
03:05It's amazing, actually, how good it is.
03:07So we want to be sure.
03:09And it's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy-top.
03:11Thank you very much.
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