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You know, they did say that he was processed.
So if they processed him, they knew that he was a gang member and still allowed him here.
Health and Human Services did not verify the sponsor and allowed him to go with a sponsor that they don't even know if it was his cousin or his aunt.
And he was able to leave the sponsor's house to go live to go wherever he wanted.
And I am going to continue sharing Kayla's story to help save others and to bring awareness of what was happening under the Biden-Harris administration.
And I'm so thankful for...
We're going to leave this to take you live to the White House, where President Trump is announcing new reciprocal tariffs.
You are meeting Prime Minister Modi of India this afternoon.
What kind of trade and tariff relationship would you like to have with India and what's the vision for India?
India traditionally is the highest, just about the highest tariff country.
They charge more tariffs than any other country.
And, I mean, we'll be talking about that.
But again, whatever they charge us, we're charging them.
So it works out very well.
It's a beautiful, simple system.
And we don't have to worry about charging too much or too little.
But traditionally, India is right at the top of the pack, pretty much.
There are a couple of smaller countries that are actually more.
But India is a very, very, they charge tremendous tariffs.
I remember when Harley Davidson couldn't sell their motorbikes into India because of the fact that India, the tax was so high, the tariff was so high, and Harley was forced to build, I guess they built, I don't know, that was a while ago, but I think they built a factory in India in order to avoid paying the tariffs.
And that's what people can do with us.
They can build a factory here, a plant or whatever it might be here, and that includes the medical, that includes cars, that includes chips and semiconductors, that includes everything.
If you build here, you have no tariffs whatsoever.
And I think that's what's going to happen.
I think our country is going to be flooded with jobs.
Oh, I think what's going to go up is jobs are going to go up, and prices could go up somewhat short term, but prices will also go down.
And I think the farmers are going to be helped by this very much because product is being dumped into our country, and our farmers are getting hurt very badly by the last administration.
The last administration hated our farmers at a level that I've never seen before.
I think our farmers are going to be helped.
Jobs are going to be helped, but our farmers are going to be helped.
Our manufacturers are going to be helped.
And again, if somebody wants to come in, including the car companies, if they want to come in and build car plants, they'll do it without tariffs.
And therefore, prices won't go up.
There could be some short-term disturbance, but long-term, it's going to make our country a fortune.
Well, what they are now is they have a 20% VAT tax, which we're considering to be similar or the same as the tariff.
Plus they charge lots of fees.
And, you know, they're doing something else.
The European Union's been very tough on our companies.
They sued Apple, they sued Google, they sued Facebook, they sued many other companies, and they're American companies.
And the kind of numbers are staggering.
And the court system over there is not very good to our companies.
If you know that Apple had to pay, I think, $16 billion in a penalty, a court case that was really shocking because most people thought they would have won that court case, people that watched it.
So they've been very tough.
Airlines have called me up and they said, could you help us with Europe?
Because they're charging us so many different fees.
I got a call from the head of American United and other airlines saying every time we land a plane, we get just absolutely killed by the European Union.
And so they haven't been treated as good.
You know, we think the European Union is wonderful.
We all love Europe, love the countries in Europe.
But the European Union has been absolutely brutal on trade.
Canada has been very bad to us on trade, but now Canada is going to have to start paying up.
And Canada's been tough on the military because they don't have a very, they have a very low military cost.
They think we're going to protect them with our military, which is unfair.
So Canada is going to be a very interesting situation because we just don't need their product.
And yet they survive off the fact that we do 95% of what they do.
And Canada is just absolutely, I say it, and sometimes people smile and sometimes they say, great idea, but Canada, their taxes would come down greatly.
Their security would go up greatly.
Amazing things happen to Canada.
And really Canada in this particular, why would we pay $200 billion a year in subsidies to Canada when they're not a state?
You do that for a state, but you don't do that for somebody else's country.
So I think Canada is going to be a very serious contender to be our 51st state.
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There was obviously a delay in implementing those tariffs.
Did you ask Secretary Hexett to walk back his comments yesterday saying Ukraine won't join NATO and won't go back to pre-2014 borders because of the targeting chips you could use?
Somebody told me, but I thought his comments were good yesterday, and they're probably good today.
They're a little bit softer, perhaps.
But I thought his comments from yesterday were pretty accurate.
I don't see any way that a country in Russia's position could allow them, just in their position, could allow them to join NATO.
I don't see that happening.
And long before President Putin, Russia was very strong on the fact that I believe that's the reason the war started, because Biden went out and said that they could join NATO, and he shouldn't have said that.
As soon as he said that, I said, you know what?
You're going to have a war now.
And I was right about that.
This is a war that would have never happened if I were president.
But India is a very hard place to do business in because of the tariffs.
They have the highest tariffs just about in the world, and it's a hard place to do business.
No, I would imagine he met possibly because he's running a company.
He's doing this as something that he's felt strongly about for a long time because he sees what's happening and he sees how the country is really being hurt badly by all of the fraud, waste, and abuse.
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So how is going to happen whether he's meeting with a CEO or meeting with a representative of your government?
I think they're all coming more or less at the same time.
And it's not going to be a big shock to the system.
But what it's going to do is it's going to bring pharmaceuticals back to our country.
Much more important than the money.
It's a lot of money, but it's going to bring pharmaceuticals back to our country.
It's going to bring chips back to our country.
It's going to bring automobile.
We're going to do a lot more automobile manufacturing in our country.
You know, when I did this, when I announced this during the campaign, They were going to build the largest car plant in the world in Mexico.
It was almost under construction.
It was just starting.
And when they heard me make that statement and they thought I was going to win the election, actually, it was a few months before the election itself, China was building the car plant.
It was going to be the largest in the world.
They immediately stopped construction.
You can see the foundations there.
They immediately stopped.
When they heard I was doing this, that would have destroyed Detroit.
It would have destroyed Michigan.
This plant would have taken up more than almost the whole state built.
And it would have been very destructive.
When they heard me speak, and they said, wow, if he gets in, we're going to lose our shirts.
So they stopped building.
That's the impact that tariffs have.
Again, you know, I say it, and I say it loudly.
It's the most beautiful word, but now I say religion, love, and a couple of other things are more beautiful because I got a lot of problem with the fake news when they said, oh, other things are more important.
God is more important.
But these are the words.
But I would say it's number four or five.
To me, it's the most beautiful.
And I'll tell you what, I think really reciprocal tariffs, there's two words.
And I think it's going to make the United States stronger.
And in many ways, it could make other countries stronger, too.
You know, other countries want to have a strong United States.
They want to have a strong America.
And I think it's going to make us very, very strong, much stronger.
And we have a lot of work we're doing on the military, our military already.
I've authorized some contracts to be built that are very substantial.
We're building the greatest equipment in the world.
We have the greatest military equipment in the world.
We're building it.
At some point when things settle down, I'm going to meet with China and I'm going to meet with Russia in particular, those two, and I'm going to say, there's no reason for us to be spending almost a trillion dollars on military.
There's no reason for you to be spending $400 billion.
China's going to be at $400 billion.
We're at a trillion.
We're going to be at plus to a trillion.
And I'm going to say, we can settle this.
We can spend this on other things.
We don't have to spend this on military because and I'm going to be meeting with China.
You know, we were trying to de-escalate nuclear and I was in a position where Russia had agreed and China had agreed we were going to start.
And then we had a rigged election, so that never took place.
As soon as things settle down, I'm going to have that conference primarily with China and Russia, because those are the two that really are out there.
And we're going to have them spend a lot less money, and we're going to spend a lot less money.
And I know they're going to do it.
They agreed to it.
We were talking about denuking, denuclearize, denuking.
And President Putin and I agreed that we were going to do it in a very big way.
There's no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons.
We already have so many you could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over.
And here we are building new nuclear weapons and they're building nuclear weapons and China's building new nuclear weapons and China's trying to catch up because they're very substantially behind.
But within five or six years they'll be even.
And we're all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually hopefully much more productive.
Hopefully there'll never be a time when we need those weapons.
If there's ever a time when we need nuclear weapons like the kind of weapons that we're building and that Russia has and that China has to a lesser extent but will have, that's going to be a very sad day.
You know, when I left, we had no Middle East problem.
We had no Russia going into Ukraine.
They never would have done it.
Putin never would have done it.
And I came back and we got like the whole world is blowing up.
So when we straighten it all out, then I want to have 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, you know, I've had a good relationship with President Putin.
I've had a good relationship with President Xi.
It's about people.
And I think when things straighten out, which I hope will be in the not too distant future, the meeting I want to have first is a meeting with China and a meeting with Russia on slowing down, stopping, and reducing nuclear weapons in particular, and also on not having to spend the kind of money we're all spending on weapons, military weapons generally.
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I think my question is, would you have those meetings separately with each of those leaders or would you try to bring them all together?
They're afraid to talk about it because I told them if they want to play games with the dollar, then they're going to be hit with a 100% tariff the day they mention that they want to do it.
And they will come back and say, we beg you, we beg you not to do this.
BRICS is dead since I mentioned that.
BRICS died the minute I mentioned that.
And I know I remember when Obama and Biden in particular, I guess he said that, oh, they have us over a barrel.
They don't have us over a barrel.
We have them over a barrel.
If BRICS wants to play games, those countries won't trade with us.
We won't trade with them.
And if any trading gets through, it'll be 100% tariff at least.
Today, President Trump welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House for bilateral talks.
And the two leaders will hold a joint press conference.
We'll bring that to you live on C-SPAN when it happens.
You can also watch on the free C-SPAN Now video app or online at c-SPAN.org.
Earlier today, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, testified at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Education Committee.
Ms. McMahon served as the head of the Small Business Administration in President Trump's first administration.
She's also a co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Watch the full confirmation hearing tonight, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 2.
Also on C-SPAN Now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org.
Starting next week, watch C-SPAN's new Members of Congress series, where we speak with both Republicans and Democrats about their early lives, previous careers, families, and why they decided to run for office.
On Monday at 9:30 p.m. Eastern, our interviews include Democratic Congresswoman Janelle Bynum, the first African-American ever elected to Congress from Oregon.
My mother graduated in 1970 from one of the last segregated high schools in the state, in the country, rather, in South Carolina.
And I think about all of the opportunities that weren't afforded her, you know, coming out of segregation.
And I bring that perspective to Oregon, saying, you know, my mom was a rural kid that didn't have a lot of opportunities, but I'm going to make sure that I bring that forth for all of the kids in Oregon.
Watch new members of Congress all next week, starting at 9.30 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN.
We're joined by Representative Harriet Hageman, a Republican of Wyoming, a member of the Judiciary Committee, and also the Natural Resources Committee.
As I just mentioned, you serve on the Judiciary Committee, so I want to ask about the recent attacks by Elon Musk and other allies of President Trump attacking essentially the federal judiciary and saying that they don't have the right to rule and that they should be investigated.
Elon Musk saying that the judges should be impeached.
Well, I'm going to disagree with your basic premise.
I don't see it as an attack.
I think under our form of government, we're able to criticize anyone who's in public service, whether they are in the judiciary, the executive, or the legislative branch.
I think it's perfectly appropriate to criticize a decision if you disagree with it.
And in fact, as an attorney, I've done that in the past with judges that I have had.
I don't think that that's all that atypical.
Where I would agree with Elon Musk and President Trump is I find these decisions to be very strange.
And the reason that I say that is that we have been just bombarded for years with the idea of this all-powerful executive branch.
And that's the bureaucracy and the administrative agencies.
And the president has the right to do things such as under the last administration, you saw people claiming that the president had the right, for example, to forgive billions of dollars in or millions of dollars in student loans, hundreds of millions of dollars in student loans, despite the fact that Congress never passed a law allowing the president to forgive student loans.
And they were doing that through the Department of Education.
And they were saying the president has the right to do that because he oversees the Department of Education.
They did, but there were many people in the media and mainstream media who were perfectly comfortable with the idea that the president had the authority to do something through an agency that is contrary to what Congress says.
The Department of Government Efficiency, the subcommittee in the House that's led by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, they held their first hearing yesterday.
We covered it on C-SPAN.
If you missed it, it's on our website.
But I want to play you a portion of the top committee Democrat.
This is Representative Melanie Stansbury.
And she had some remarks, and then I want you to respond.
I also want to point out that literally while we've been sitting here for the last almost two hours getting lectured on fiscal responsibility, literally the Republicans just released their plan to raise the debt limit while we were sitting here.
And they want to raise it by $4 trillion.
Okay, guys, like literally, I'm just like without words.
Inflation is going up.
You want to raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
You want to gut Medicare.
You want to gut Medicaid.
You're talking about going after Social Security after promising that you wouldn't.
I mean, really, what the heck is going on here?
We're not trying to take down Elon Musk as a businessman.
This dude is literally breaking the law inside of the federal government.