Feb. 14, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Narendra Modi, back to the White House. | ||
| We spent a lot of time here and a lot of time in India, and he's a very special man. | ||
| Prime Minister, it is a pleasure to extend to you the same hospitality that you showed Melania and myself when we traveled to your beautiful country five years ago. | ||
| It's hard to believe so long ago. | ||
| It seemed like yesterday it was beautiful. | ||
| We opened the cricket stadium, 129,000 seats, I think the largest stadium in the world. | ||
| And it was an incredible period of time. | ||
| There is truly a special bond between the United States and India and the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy. | ||
| And I believe the world's largest country in terms of the numbers of people. | ||
| And today the Prime Minister. | ||
| And I are announcing a framework to strengthen those ties even further economically. | ||
| And the U.S.-India Compact for the 21st century is a historic initiative that will deepen every aspect of our partnership and our friendship. | ||
| Starting this year, we'll be increasing military sales to India by many billions of dollars. | ||
| We're also paving the way to ultimately provide India with the F-35 stealth fighters. | ||
| In 2017, my administration revived and reinvigorated the Quad Security Partnership. | ||
| In our meeting today, the Prime Minister and I reaffirmed that strong cooperation among the United States, India, Australia, and Japan. | ||
| And it's crucial, really, to maintaining peace and prosperity, tranquility, even in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| In addition, the United States and India will be working together like never before to confront the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, a threat all over the world, actually. | ||
| Today I'm pleased to announce that my administration has approved the extradition of one of the plotters and one of the very evil people of the world, and having to do with the horrific 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. | ||
| To face justice in India, so he's going to be going back to India to face justice. | ||
| As we deepen our defense partnership, we'll also strengthen our economic ties and bring greater fairness and reciprocity to our trading relationship. | ||
| As a signal of good faith, Prime Minister Modi recently announced the reductions to India's unfair... | ||
| Very strong tariffs that limit U.S. access into the Indian market very strongly, and really it's a big problem, I must say. | ||
| India imposes a 30 to 40 to 60 and even 70 percent tariff on so many of the goods, and in some cases far more than that. | ||
| And as an example, a 70 percent tariff on U.S. cars going into India, which makes it pretty much impossible to sell those cars. | ||
| Today, the U.S. trade deficit with India is almost $100 billion. | ||
| And Prime Minister Modi and I have agreed that we'll begin negotiations to address the long-running disparities that should have been taken care of over the last four years, but they didn't do that in the U.S.-India trading relationship with the goal of signing an agreement. | ||
| And we want, really, we want... | ||
| A certain level playing field, which we really think we're entitled to. | ||
| And he does also, in fairness. | ||
| So we're going to work on that very hard. | ||
| And we can make up the difference very easily with the deficit, with the sale of oil and gas, LNG, of which we have more than anybody in the world. | ||
| The Prime Minister and I also reached an important agreement on energy that will restore the United States as a leading supplier of oil and gas to India. | ||
| Hopefully their number one supplier in the groundbreaking development for U.S. nuclear industry. | ||
| India is also reforming its laws to welcome U.S. nuclear technology, which is at the highest level, into the Indian market. | ||
| This will bring safe, clean, and affordable electricity to millions of Indians and tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. civilian nuclear industry in India. | ||
| And under the framework we are announcing today, the United States and India are also joining forces to ensure that artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies are developed by the two of the most, really two of the most advanced nations, intellectually and otherwise technologically, anywhere in the world. | ||
| There's nobody very much closer. | ||
| We have an incredible relationship there, and this is where it seems to be heading. | ||
| And artificial intelligence, complex, a very complex subject, but it seems to be where people want to be and they want to go. | ||
| And we're leading right now by a lot, but other people will try to catch us. | ||
| I don't know if they're going to be able to. | ||
| We're going to make it available. | ||
| We're going to make tremendous amounts of electricity available. | ||
| We're going to let the people that are buying the electricity make their own electric plants, electric generation plants. | ||
| And we've never done this in our country, but we're going to get it done very quickly. | ||
| Lee Zeldin and his group are going to get the approvals in very rapid form, and we're calling it a national emergency, and that's exactly what it is. | ||
| So we're going to remain at the top of the AI or artificial intelligence, I think, for a long time to come, and we're going to be working very closely with India and other countries on that. | ||
| But right now, we're the leader by quite a bit. | ||
| Finally, we agreed to work together to help build one of the greatest trade routes in all of history. | ||
| It will run from India to Israel to Italy and onward to the United States, connecting our partners by ports, railways and undersea cables, many, many undersea cables. | ||
| It's a big development. | ||
| It's a lot of money going to be spent. | ||
| We've already spent some, but we're going to be spending a lot more in order to stay advanced and stay the leader. | ||
| I'm pleased to report that with today's announcements, the friendship between the United States and India is the strongest I believe it's ever been. | ||
| I think our relationship is the best it's ever been between two leaders of the two countries, and it's an honor to say that. | ||
| I'd like to now invite the Prime Minister to say a few words, and then we'll take some questions. | ||
| We appreciate you all being here. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| I will give my master, the President Trump, to give my blessings and blessings of the peace and peace of mind for all of my people. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| The President Trump has the United States and the United States have made a life. | ||
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| Today's journey was we worked 2% of them. | ||
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| They did not work in their journey. | ||
| We believe that the people of America and the people of America can be better shaped by the people of India. | ||
| Friends, America's people, the Trump's motto, Make America Great Again, is a great place. | ||
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| Friends! | ||
| We have worked with the Dripakshiya Vyapar to 2030 to 2% of the $500 billion to reach the $500 billion to reach the $500 billion. | ||
| We have worked with the trade agreement to achieve the $500 billion. | ||
| भारत की उर्जा सुरक्षा सुनिश्चित करने में हम ओईल तता गैस ट्रेड को बल देंगे. | ||
| उर्जा इंफ्रासेक्टर में निवेश भी बड़ेगा. | ||
| नुकलियर एनर्जी खेत्र में हमने We'll work on concluding very soon a mutually beneficial trade | ||
| agreement. | ||
| In order to ensure India's energy security, we will focus on trade in oil and gas. | ||
| Investment in energy infrastructure will also increase. | ||
| In the area of nuclear energy, we also discussed increasing cooperation on small modular reactors. | ||
| America plays an important role in India's defense preparedness. | ||
| As strategic and trusted partners, we are moving forward actively towards joint development, joint production and transfer of technology. | ||
| In the times to come as well, new technologies We have decided to launch the Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance and a defense cooperation framework for the next decade will be prepared. | ||
| Defense interoperability, logistics, Repair and maintenance will also be its key components. | ||
| Friends, the 21st century is a technology-driven century. | ||
| Close cooperation in the area of technology between countries that believe in democratic values can give new direction, strength. | ||
| And opportunities to the entire humanity. | ||
| India and the US will jointly work in areas of artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum, biotechnology, and several other technologies. | ||
| Today, we also agreed on trust. | ||
| which stands for Transforming Relationships Utilizing Strategic Technology. | ||
| Under this, our focus will be on establishing strong supply chains for critical minerals, advanced materials, and pharmaceuticals. | ||
| We have also decided to launch a recovery and processing initiative for strategic minerals like lithium and rare earths. | ||
| We have had close cooperation with the US in the area of space. | ||
| Nisar satellite developed with mutual cooperation between ISRO and NASA will soon be flying into space on an Indian launch vehicle. | ||
| Friends, partnership between India and the US strengthens democracy and strengthens democratic values and systems. | ||
| We will work together To enhance peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| The Quad will play a special role in this. | ||
| During the court summit scheduled to be held in India this year, we will expand cooperation in new areas with our partner countries. | ||
| Under the IMEC and I2U2, we will work together for the development of economic corridors and in the area of connectivity. | ||
| India and U.S. will stand strongly together in the fight against terrorism. | ||
| We agree that in order To eliminate cross-border terrorism, we need concrete actions. | ||
| And I'm very grateful to President Trump that he, in 2008, somebody who carried out genocide in India, that criminal is now going to be handed over to India, and I'm grateful to President Trump for this. | ||
| And appropriate action will be taken in the courts in India. | ||
| Friends? | ||
| The Indian community living in the US is an important link in our relations. | ||
| In order to further deepen our people-to-people ties, India will soon open new consulates in Los Angeles and Boston. | ||
| These will be new consulates. | ||
| We have invited American universities and educational institutes to open their offshore campuses in India. | ||
| President Trump, I am grateful to you for your friendship and strong commitment towards India. | ||
| The people of India still fondly remember your visit I hope that President Trump will come and visit them again. | ||
| On behalf of 1.4 billion Indians, I invite you to visit India. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The President: Beautiful. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
| That was excellent. | ||
| We'll do a few questions, please. | ||
| Please, go ahead. | ||
| Please, go ahead. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Blue shirt. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| People in India will naturally welcome your decision to extradite Haburana to India back home. | ||
| In that context, I'd like to ask you a question about, in the last few years, we have seen several groups in the U.S. Thank you | ||
| very much. | ||
| And the president, you both spoke about combating ISIS. You both sounded very excited about this partnership upcoming. | ||
| And I was curious, how much more confident are you with President Trump leading this country that there will be peace through strength and you will have a successful partnership with the United States versus with Biden's incompetence and weakness how much more confident are you with President Trump leading this country that there will | ||
| That's your question, but I'll answer it. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| Gross incompetence. | ||
| We're going to have a fantastic relationship. | ||
| And it has been... | ||
| Look, the whole world's been set back over the last four years by the weakness of the United States, the weak leadership of the United States. | ||
| But I think we've taken care of it in just three weeks. | ||
| It seems to me that... | ||
| Even some of the media that we wouldn't prefer has been writing that this is a much different country right now, that the world has a light over it. | ||
| Not only our country, but the whole world. | ||
| The Prime Minister told me that before, too, even over India. | ||
| The world has a light. | ||
| They need the United States to be strong and powerful, but good. | ||
| And I think it's happened in a very short period of time. | ||
| time, but I will tell you we're going to have a fantastic relationship and it'll make both countries much stronger. | ||
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Okay, Geeta Mohan from India today, sir. | |
| I'll just take my colleague Lalit Jha's question forward because you couldn't understand. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| The question is about the fact that you've decided to extradite the Havar Ranath. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| India has been waiting to have him back in India to bring him to justice. | ||
| But there are many other elements in the United States of America, particularly Khalistani separatists who've been working against Indian interests. | ||
| How is the United States of America going to cooperate on that front? | ||
| With India, there have been allegations that have been levelled against Indian agencies by the Biden administration. | ||
| Are you going to re-look that with Tulsi Gabbard as DNI now? | ||
| Well, I don't think India had a very good relationship with the Biden administration. | ||
| They wouldn't sell them oil and gas, which is rather hard to believe, because it's a good thing to do. | ||
| And a lot of things happened that weren't very appropriate, I thought, between India and the administration, the Biden administration. | ||
| But as you said, we're giving a very violent man, it seems to me. | ||
| I mean, I don't know that he's been convicted yet or will be, but let's assume he's a pretty violent person. | ||
| We're giving him back to India immediately. | ||
| And there are more to follow because we have quite a few requests. | ||
| So we work with India on crime. | ||
| And we want to make it good for India, and it's very important. | ||
| So that kind of a relationship is very important to us. | ||
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Okay? | |
| Go ahead, please. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Mr. President, you've repeatedly called India a big abuser of trade and said it is really difficult to do business in India because of tariffs. | ||
| You announced reciprocal tariffs today. | ||
| I am hoping you can speak about what kind of reciprocal tariffs India can expect. | ||
| Are you willing to make any concessions? | ||
| And how can India head off these tariffs? | ||
| I also have one for the Prime Minister. | ||
| Well, India has been To us, just about the highest tariffed nation anywhere in the world, they've been very strong on tariffs. | ||
| I don't blame them necessarily, but it's a different way of doing business. | ||
| It's very hard to sell into India because they have trade barriers, very strong tariffs. | ||
| We are right now a reciprocal nation. | ||
| We are going to, if it's India or if it's somebody else with low tariffs. | ||
| We're going to have the same. | ||
| We're going to have whatever India charges, we're charging them. | ||
| Whatever another country charges, we're charging them. | ||
| So it's called reciprocal, which I think is a very fair way. | ||
| We didn't have that. | ||
| I was going to do that in my other term, and we had the greatest economy ever in the world. | ||
| There's never been an economy like we had, and then we got hit with COVID. We had a focus on that, and I wasn't... | ||
| Really in the mood to be putting it on Italy and Spain and France and India, frankly, and a lot of other countries, because the world was very troubled until we got rid of that nightmare. | ||
| But we had the strongest economy anywhere in the world during that fairly long period of time during my first term, as you know. | ||
| And we didn't do the tariffs. | ||
| We would have done the reciprocal tariffs, but we decided, and I decided, I think, on a human basis, on a humane basis. | ||
| Not to do them because of the fact that there was such suffering all over the world. | ||
| The last thing we needed to talk about is trade problems. | ||
| But now we do. | ||
| We're doing... | ||
| We see a tremendous future for our country. | ||
| But we felt that now it's finally time after 45 or 50 years of abuse that we will do... | ||
| And this isn't India. | ||
| This is among a lot of nations. | ||
| The European Union is very difficult for us, very, very difficult. | ||
| They tax our companies at levels that nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| They take advantage of a lot of things, so we're not happy about that. | ||
| China, of course, is terrible, and we've never taken in 10 cents until I was president. | ||
| We've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars from China since I've been president in the first term and now, and we have to do that just as a mechanism of fairness. | ||
| That's what I've done. | ||
| And so we are being reciprocal with India. | ||
| Whatever India charges, we charge them. | ||
| So, frankly, it no longer matters to us that much what they charge, because whatever they charge. | ||
| I had discussions with India in the first term about the fact that their tariffs were very high, and I was unable to get a concession. | ||
| So we're just going to do it the easy way, and we're just going to say, whatever you charge, we charge. | ||
| And I think that's fair for the people of the United States. | ||
| And I think it's actually fair for India. | ||
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Are you willing to make any concessions, sir? | |
| Any concessions? | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
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Ask to the Prime Minister, please. | |
| Ask to the Prime Minister, please. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Prime Minister, the U.S. is giving a lot of push to curb illegal immigration, and India has been cooperating on this issue. | ||
| How does India see this issue in the larger context? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The Press: I don't think this is a question that is about India only, but even globally you can talk about this issue. | ||
| And we are of the opinion that anybody who enters another country illegally, they have absolutely no right to be in that country. | ||
| And as far as India and the U.S. is concerned, we have always been of the same opinion, Verified Indian who is in the US illegally, we are fully prepared to take them back to India. | ||
| However, it doesn't stop there. | ||
| These are children of very ordinary families, and they are lured by big dreams and big promises. | ||
| A lot of them are brought in without them knowing about why they're going to a country and in fact they are connected with a human trafficking system and we have to make sure that we fight against this system as far as the US and India is concerned. | ||
| I think what we should do is make efforts to make sure that we uproot these from within the system so that we can reduce or remove Human trafficking and basically the young, vulnerable, poor people of India are fooled into coming over as illegal immigrants. | ||
| And our bigger fight actually is against this ecosystem or this system that encourages such gangs to thrive. | ||
| And I can tell you that India will completely support your endeavor. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| The question from the Prime Minister Modi first, if I may. | ||
| I wanted to ask you, did you discuss any possible business deals with Elon Musk during your meetings today, Mr. Prime Minister? | ||
| Mr. President, I wanted to ask you, today you spoke about hoping to have three-way talks with President Xi and President Putin. | ||
| What would you say to European leaders and other allies who may be concerned that you're apparently more keen to speak to America's adversaries than to its allies? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, maybe I'll just go first on this one. | ||
| We had some talks and we told the European Union, we told the NATO people, largely they overlap, you have to pay more money because it's unfair what we're doing. | ||
| We're doing a tremendous amount more. | ||
| We're probably $200 billion more going into Ukraine, using for Ukraine to fight. | ||
| And Europe has not really carried its weight in terms of the money. | ||
| It's not equitable. | ||
| And we want to see a counterbalance. | ||
| We want to have them put up more money. | ||
| They have to do that. | ||
| At the same time, we had a very good conversation with President Putin the other day, yesterday, and we also had a very good conversation, I did, in both cases, with President Zelensky. | ||
| And I think we're going to be able to do something. | ||
| I think we're going to be able to make a deal. | ||
| And I hope so, because it's a horrible war. | ||
| It's a very terrible, bloody war with a million and a half soldiers at least already dead on the battlefield, lying all over the fields like nobody's ever seen anything like it, certainly since the Second World War. | ||
| And so I think we're going to be able to do something. | ||
| We're working with President Zelensky and with President Putin. | ||
| And my impression is that I know that President Zelensky wants to make a deal. | ||
| And I also feel that I know that President Putin wants to make a deal. | ||
| I wanted to know that before I began any detailed discussions. | ||
| But the meeting and the conversation, also the meeting with Steve Witkoff in Moscow was a very successful one. | ||
| And my phone call with him was a very successful one. | ||
| Please. | ||
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You asked a question regarding Elon Musk. | |
| I have known him for a very long time. | ||
| I was not even prime minister at the time when I first met him. | ||
| I was chief minister. | ||
| And today he came to meet me along with all his family, with his children, and so we had a nice discussion. | ||
| As far as the EV is concerned, EVs are concerned. | ||
| The word "EV" has a copyright, and that is one person who has a copyright for the word "EV" and that is Trump. | ||
| The Press: Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Can I ask whether you discussed at all today the case of Gautam Adani, who's one of the wealthiest men in Asia and perceived as an ally of Prime Minister Modi? | ||
| Prime Minister Modi, have you asked the President to take action on that case? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ms. | ||
| Firstly, India is a democratic country, and our culture and our thought philosophy is , which basically means that the entire world is a family. | ||
| Every Indian is my own family member. | ||
| And when it comes to such personal matters, leaders of two countries will not get together on that topic and discuss anything on an individual matter. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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Sir, go ahead, please. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. | ||
| I have a question for you as well. | ||
| But, Mr. President, you have suggested, with regards to the Russia-Ukraine war, you've suggested several things that Ukraine should give up. | ||
| The idea of NATO membership, territory that was seized back in 2014 by Russia. | ||
| What should Russia give up? | ||
| Russia has gotten themselves into something that I think they wish they didn't. | ||
| If I were president, it would not have happened. | ||
| Absolutely would not have happened. | ||
| And it didn't happen for four years. | ||
| If you look at what has taken place under President Bush, they lost a lot. | ||
| Under President Obama, they lost Crimea. | ||
| Under Biden, it looks like they could lose the whole thing. | ||
| Under Trump, they lost nothing. | ||
| Ukraine lost nothing. | ||
| They didn't give up anything. | ||
| And you take a look at the other three presidents surrounding Me, they gave up a lot. | ||
| I think that when you look at Ukraine and when you look at the mess that they're in, it's got to be ended and it's got to be stopped. | ||
| Now, Russia has taken over a pretty big chunk of territory. | ||
| And they also have said from day one, long before President Putin, they've said they cannot have Ukraine be in NATO. They said that. | ||
| Very strongly. | ||
| I actually think that that was the thing that caused the start of the war. | ||
| And Biden said it, and Zelensky said it, and I think that was one of the reasons, one of the starts of the war. | ||
| But from long before Putin, they said, you cannot have Ukraine going in in any way into NATO. And I start from that standpoint. | ||
| I think everybody knew that. | ||
| Now, if a better deal can be negotiated, They're able to make a deal where they can do that. | ||
| That's fine with me. | ||
| I really don't care. | ||
| I want that bloodshed to stop. | ||
| I don't want to see... | ||
| You know, we have an ocean between us and the site we're talking about, the site of death. | ||
| We're calling it the fields of death. | ||
| We have a big ocean in between us. | ||
| This is more important for Europe. | ||
| We shouldn't be in. | ||
| They have to equalize, and they're going to have to do it fast, but they have to equalize. | ||
| But as far as the negotiation, it's too early to say what's going to happen. | ||
| Maybe Russia will give up a lot. | ||
| Maybe they won't. | ||
| And it's all dependent on what is going to happen. | ||
| The negotiation really hasn't started. | ||
| But I will say, as far as NATO is concerned, from many years before President Putin, I will tell you that I've heard that Russia would never accept that. | ||
| And I think Ukraine knew that because Ukraine wasn't in and never requested to be in until more recently. | ||
| So that's the way it is. | ||
| I think that's the way it's going to have to be. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
| Go ahead, please, with the time. | ||
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Mr. President, you spoke about Prime Minister Modi as a tough negotiator. | |
| Who was a tougher negotiator today and who has a better negotiating tactic when it comes to tariffs? | ||
| Oh, he's a much tougher negotiator than me and he's a much better negotiator than me. | ||
| There's not even a contest. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, please. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| How do you see this relationship between India and the United States to counter China? | ||
| And what is your vision when it comes to India, you know, brokering peace in the Ukraine and Russia conflict? | ||
| Well, I think we're going to have a very good relationship with China. | ||
| I got along with President Xi very well until COVID. That was a bridge too far. | ||
| But until then, I got along with President Xi very well. | ||
| We were very close, as leaders go. | ||
| I don't want to be naive, but as leaders go, I think we were very close. | ||
| And I think that China is a very important player in the world. | ||
| I think they can help us get this war over with Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| And I look at India, I do see the skirmishes on the border, which are quite vicious, and I guess they continue to go on. | ||
| If I could be of help, I'd love to help, because that should be stopped. | ||
| That's been going on for a long time. | ||
| And it's quite violent. | ||
| It's quite violent. | ||
| But I would hope that China and India and Russia and U.S. and all of us can get along. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
| You know, the power of weaponry today is, and not only nuclear, but nuclear in particular, the power of weaponry is very important. | ||
| I said before that I had very constructive talks in my first term with President Putin about The denuclearization of the two countries, and then we were going to go to China after we worked some kind of a deal. | ||
| And we, at the confines of a deal, we were, I thought, he really wanted to do it, so did I. Denuclearize. | ||
| And it's so, it's such a beautiful term when you think about it. | ||
| In other words, to bring it down, because the power of those weapons is too great. | ||
| And I did speak to President Xi about that, and I was getting also a very good response. | ||
| Building a very strong nuclear power. | ||
| He's not very close to Russia or the United States right now, but he will be soon. | ||
| I mean, he'll catch up over the period of four or five years, they say. | ||
| But it would be a great thing if we could, on a military basis, we're going to spend this year $900, let's say $915 billion on military. | ||
| Russia, without the war, was spending close to $100, but with the war, I can't tell you what they're spending, but they're spending a lot, and China is spending $400 and $450 billion. | ||
| We're over $900 billion. | ||
| And I said, you know, it doesn't really make sense, does it? | ||
| We're spending the money against each other, and we could spend that money for better purpose if we got along. | ||
| And I'll tell you, I think that something like that will happen. | ||
| First, when I left, as you know, four years ago, we didn't have Israel and the Middle East. | ||
| We didn't have October. | ||
| Seventh, a disaster, the disaster. | ||
| Nothing was happening. | ||
| Iran was not going to do anything because Iran did not have much money at that point. | ||
| They were broke. | ||
| They were totally broke. | ||
| They didn't have money for Hamas or for Hezbollah. | ||
| And you didn't have Russia with Ukraine, and that would never have happened. | ||
| But now I come back, and the whole world is on fire, so I have to put out the fires. | ||
| But after I put out the fires... | ||
| I'm going to meet with China, and I'm going to meet with Russia, and we're going to see if we can de-escalate, if we can bring it down military, especially as it pertains to nuclear. | ||
| Please. | ||
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Speaker 1: Speaker 1: Mike, please. | |
| Prime Minister, how do you see India's role? | ||
| You have had discussions with President Trump about de-escalating the conflict in Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| As you know, I have been in constant contact with both Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| I have also visited both countries. | ||
| And many peoples are mistaken and they feel that India is neutral. | ||
| I would like to clarify, India is not neutral. | ||
| We have taken a side and we have taken the side of peace. | ||
| And it is based on this principle of ours that in The presence of President Putin, I clearly said in front of the media that this is not the era of war. | ||
| And even today, it is my conviction that solutions cannot be found on the battlefield. | ||
| Ultimately, you have to come to the negotiating table. | ||
| And India has constantly made efforts that there are talks. | ||
| That take place where both parties are present, it is only then that we will find a solution. | ||
| The efforts being made by President Trump, I support them, I welcome them, and I would like that President Trump is successful as soon as possible so that the world is on the path to peace once again. | ||
| Everybody, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And I very much appreciate the Prime Minister visiting our great country, and I do really appreciate it. | ||
| We have so much in common, and all we want to do is have peace, and we want to have strength, and we want to have lots of different things together. | ||
| But the relationship with India and with the Prime Minister has never been better. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Okay, let's hold that shot until we lose it. | ||
| That's the President of the United States and Modi. | ||
| Amazing, amazing press conference. | ||
| Amazing out of both President and Modi. | ||
| You can tell, I think it's pretty clear how highly the President thinks of Modi. | ||
| And it's just incredible. | ||
| And said, look, a lot of good things together. | ||
| And there's tough talks going on behind the scenes. | ||
| The reciprocity of tariffs is specifically, I think, Talking about India. | ||
| India's got some very high tariffs when it comes to the United States. | ||
| And Modi's a tough negotiator, so I'm sure the president's got into it with him on that. | ||
| And they will figure it out. | ||
| These are what allies do. | ||
| The president also dropped... | ||
| He said earlier today that he'd had an hour and a half phone call with... | ||
| With Vladimir Putin, an hour and a half. | ||
| I think that had been reported, but I don't know if it was that clear, an hour and a half. | ||
| And now, Witkoff, he had sent Witkoff, Steve Witkoff, who basically struck the Hamas ceasefire. | ||
| In Israel, Witkoff has been sent to, I guess, Moscow to meet with Putin and his team. | ||
| Steve Witkoff's a guy to keep your eye on in this administration. | ||
| He is a doer. | ||
| He's a real estate guy. | ||
| President Trump has known him for a long time. | ||
| They're close friends. | ||
| And Witkoff will get stuff done. | ||
| He's a deal guy. | ||
| I mean, he got the... | ||
| I wasn't crazy about all of the ceasefire, but it's pretty extraordinary he was able to get it done. | ||
| And Witkoff can get done very hard things. | ||
| And he's now, it looks like, very engaged in the... | ||
| In the Ukraine situation. | ||
| Kind of some consternation or some, I don't want to say confusion, about the team. | ||
| They've named another team, really, with Marco Rubio to kind of head it up with Pete Hegseth in talking to the Ukrainians. | ||
| President Trump made a phone call. | ||
| Do I have Brian Clinton? | ||
| Can I go to... | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Okay, they cleared the room, the East Room. | ||
| A lot of the reporters get thrown out immediately afterwards. | ||
| We're going to get a hot wash-up from Brian about exactly what went on. | ||
| Let's put us in the room. | ||
| Once again, these are bilats. | ||
| Really important with India. | ||
| Hugely tariffs today. | ||
| I don't have time to play, so I'll do it on the morning show tomorrow. | ||
| But President Trump had an extraordinary statement earlier in the day. | ||
| I call it beating swords into plowshares. | ||
| President Trump announced that he wanted to have a three-part negotiation or meeting with President Xi and President Putin where he would negotiate a deal that we would be able to cut our – we have the clip? | ||
| We would be able to cut the defense budget by 50 percent. | ||
| I think I've got that. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
| One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia. | ||
| and I want to say let's cut our military budget in half. | ||
| And we can do that. | ||
| And I think we'll be able to do it. | ||
| Okay, cut in half. | ||
| So we see what he's thinking. | ||
| This is another big power move like Greenland, like Canada, like Gaza. | ||
| President Trump's trying to bring peace and prosperity. | ||
| I think, I would say the watchword in President Trump's, what he's doing geopolitically is, number one, put the guns down. | ||
| Let's everybody put the guns down, put them on the front of you, on the table, and let's try to hammer out deals. | ||
| This is why he's a deal guy. | ||
| You know, President Trump's read a lot of military history, has quite a martial aspect about much of what he does and his bearing and how he conducts himself. | ||
| It's one of the reasons the military respects him so much and one of the reasons the law enforcement respects him so much. | ||
| But he's a man of peace, and he realizes you can only get peace if you're prepared to go to war. | ||
| If they think that you'll break bad on them, they'll listen up. | ||
| This was the lesson of Ukraine. | ||
| Putin would have never, ever, ever even considered going into Ukraine if President Trump had been president. | ||
| Only weakness invites that. | ||
| Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood would never in a million years have considered going into Gaza with President Trump as president. | ||
| Not going to do it. | ||
| You don't want to trigger that guy. | ||
| Xi, in the whole first term, never, ever, ever, ever considered any type of assault on Taiwan. | ||
| From the South China Sea or through the Straits of Taiwan. | ||
| That's what a strong president gives you. | ||
| And President Trump now today saying, hey, I think I'd like to sit down with Xi and Putin to talk about an arrangement, our understanding that we don't have to continue to build up these massive weapons. | ||
| Now you've got AI weapons, hypersonic weapons, you've got all this new weaponry. | ||
| One thing that history shows us, like in World War II, these wars go on and the attrition gets higher. | ||
| People get angry. | ||
| They start to lose loved ones. | ||
| They want vengeance. | ||
| They want revenge. | ||
| President Trump wants to stop all that. | ||
| And one of the ways, the only way we're going to cut this spending, you know, I said earlier in the show and some of the people picked up about Medicaid. | ||
| Anybody's living under the fantasy that we can go in... | ||
| To these entitlement programs and that you can take a meat axe to it. | ||
| Particularly with the concentration of wealth, let's be blunt. | ||
| Want to put cards on the table and talk about it? | ||
| The working class and middle class have bailed out the wealthy. | ||
| We've socialized the risk in giving the upside to individuals. | ||
| The bailout of 2008, the turning Silicon Valley into an oligarchy with another bailout coming on. | ||
| We've allowed the wealthy in this country. | ||
| We just have. | ||
| The math is irrefutable. | ||
| It's all been because taxpayers have really covered the downside. | ||
| The taxpayers have covered the downside and allowed the wealthy and the connected to have unlimited upside. | ||
| Them's just the facts. | ||
| And now... | ||
| Semaphore has this thing where the Republicans are struggling. | ||
| They're struggling because traditionally they don't think like this. | ||
| They're struggling because these tax cuts on no tax on tips and no tax on overtime, so particularly no tax on Social Security, they're struggling. | ||
| They're struggling. | ||
| It's not in the traditional Republican playbook. | ||
| Hey, get a new playbook. | ||
| I don't want to hear you're struggling. | ||
| You ain't struggling to give the wealthy a tax cut, are you? | ||
| No, not struggling on that one at all. | ||
| You're prepared to run to your paymasters and give them a tax cut. | ||
| You're prepared to run to the corporatists. | ||
| Remember, the corporations turned on MAGA and turned on the American people the worst. | ||
| Look at what they did on wokeness. | ||
| Look what they did driving people out of jobs. | ||
| Look at the times you see these fathers sitting there getting fired because of this. | ||
| Driven out. | ||
| If it wasn't for Rufo and Robbie Starbuck and other... | ||
| Of these folks that put them on notice and exposed everything and their arrogance. | ||
| You know when they all dropped it? | ||
| The cowardice corporations dropped it a couple of days after 5 November. | ||
| You remember that? | ||
| Oh, you got Walmart. | ||
| This one's dropping it. | ||
| That one's dropping it. | ||
| Oh, we're going to drop it. | ||
| We don't need it now. | ||
| You don't need it now because you got your ass kicked. | ||
| So don't come around begging for, oh, I need a tax cut. | ||
| Here's what I need. | ||
| I need a tax cut because we need to increase profits and we need to increase capital equipment. | ||
| We're going to hire more people. | ||
| You're liars. | ||
| What you did is you took the money, you take the money, you do stock buybacks. | ||
| You drive up the stock price, your warrants, packages kick in, and boom, you're out. | ||
| It's not right. | ||
| It's not acceptable. | ||
| Of the 4.6 trillion, I think it's $500 billion in corporate. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's all it's doing to the kitty. | ||
| Oh, Steve, they're so overtaxed. | ||
| They're so overburdened. | ||
| Come on, give me a break. | ||
| And they're terrible people. | ||
| Is a group of people worse than big business? | ||
| Look at it. | ||
| What did they do when they thought they were going to win? | ||
| They had the government on their side, and what did they do? | ||
| Totally woke. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because they want to kowtow to the Upper West Side of New York and Manhattan. | ||
| They want to go and hang out at all the clubs. | ||
| They want to go to the Hamptons, and they want to be cool. | ||
| They want to be acceptable. | ||
| So what do they do? | ||
| They grind the working people. | ||
| They grind MAGA. And now they're sitting there, oh, we've got to get our taxes. | ||
| You don't have to get anything. | ||
| What you need to do is step up to the plate and start delivering for the people of this country. | ||
| That's what you need to start doing. | ||
| I don't hear about your whinging about tax cuts. | ||
| I don't hear the wealthy whinging about their tax cuts. | ||
| And I don't want to see articles about, we're struggling with the Republican Orthodoxy. | ||
| We're really, we're struggling. | ||
| You're not struggling. | ||
| Because you don't think the American people remember you got your pay masses of the wealthy have you on the payroll. | ||
| It's absurd where we are in this budget. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| $1.5 trillion over a 10-year budget cuts. | ||
| That's not good enough. | ||
| We want a trillion dollars in the first year. | ||
| You say, well, Steve, you can't take it out of entitlements. | ||
| You can't take it out of Medicaid. | ||
| Well, hey, find it. | ||
| It's going to be some pain. | ||
| Let's start. | ||
| Let's start with the biopharmaceutical industry. | ||
| Let's start with all the corporate welfare. | ||
| Let's get the corporations to stop being welfare queens. | ||
| Let's start over the Pentagon. | ||
| I'm not a dove. | ||
| I'm a hawk. | ||
| But let's start in the Pentagon. | ||
| Not paying $900 billion a year for defense. | ||
| President Trump said he just wanted to cut half of it. | ||
| Heck, we can take the CCP down, cut them off from the sociopathic overlords. | ||
| If the sociopathic overlords on Wall Street would stop funding them and stop shipping pension fund money over to China to ship our jobs over there, they wouldn't be so powerful. | ||
| They wouldn't be able to build a fleet that can compete with the Seventh Fleet, a fleet that can challenge Taiwan. | ||
| It's a time for truth in this country. | ||
| And not the pablum you served up every day. | ||
| We're struggling. | ||
| We're struggling to get to the social. | ||
| Hey, dude. | ||
| Hey, you're going to struggle a lot more because we're going to come in and airstrike every day and expose every phony up there that does not back the people. | ||
| To give them their money back. | ||
| Their hard-earned money that you've essentially stolen from them. | ||
| Struggling. | ||
| They should not have any, even a consideration of a tax cut for the wealthy. | ||
| Until we get this budget sorted out. | ||
| You're burying your kids, your grandkids, and now you're burying yourself. | ||
| And every kid in this country under 35 years old. | ||
| You're condemning them to a life of nothing more than a Russian serf. | ||
| It's not correct in no generation. | ||
| And our history has ever done it to other generations. | ||
| None. | ||
| This town is pathetic and it's made of weak and pathetic people. | ||
| See you tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. | ||
| Eastern Standard Time. |
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