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After the death of his younger brother, who died from a fentanyl overdose. | |
| We lost my little brother. | ||
| He was 20 years old, and it was tragic. | ||
| And I tell people it's like losing an arm and having to go through life without something that should be there that's not. | ||
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So it drove me to do this and to run for Congress. | |
| That's why I'm here. | ||
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Watch new members of Congress tonight, starting at 9.30 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN. | |
| Sunday on C-SPAN's Q&A, former mafia associate Luis Ferrante shares his book, Borgata, Clash of Titans, Volume 2 of his History of the American Mafia from 1960 to 1985. | ||
| In part two of this interview, he explores further details of what he says was the mafia's involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy and discusses Robert Kennedy's battle with mobster Carlos Marcelo, boss of the New Orleans mafia from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. | ||
| You know, a major reason why Marcelo feels that he has an arch enemy that will stop at nothing. | ||
| And if you believe in Olmerta and you're a mafia don who has lived his life with the idea that I will stop at nothing to get where I need to go, and now I'm faced with someone else who stopped at nothing to destroy me, it's life and death. | ||
| And that's when I think Marcelo made the decision. | ||
| It's going to be me or the Kennedys. | ||
| Louis Ferrante with his book, Borgata, Clash of Titans, Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN's QA. | ||
| You can listen to Q&A and all our podcasts on our free C-SPAN Now app. | ||
| Democracy is always an unfinished creation. | ||
| Democracy is worth dying for. | ||
| Democracy belongs to us all. | ||
| We are here in the sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
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We are still at our core a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. | ||
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President Trump now addresses a gathering of the nation's governors at the White House. | |
| He talks about ongoing negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war and an executive order banning trans women in sports. | ||
| It's about an hour. | ||
| Well, we're in a very good mood. | ||
| We just had the highest poll numbers I've ever had. | ||
| ever, and actually a record for a Republican. | ||
| Now, I don't know about have they checked the Democrats too, but we have a record so far for a Republican. | ||
| Now, it's four weeks. | ||
| We have a lot of weeks to go. | ||
| We want to finish that way, right? | ||
| But I just want to thank everybody because you've been really amazing. | ||
| The job you've done has been incredible in terms of this four-week period. | ||
| It's been a very somewhat historic four weeks. | ||
| And we have a couple of things in the works. | ||
| We're negotiating with Russia, Ukraine, trying to get that horrible situation over with. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| It's just so terrible. | ||
| I see pictures that you fortunately don't get to see. | ||
| You don't want to see them. | ||
| And that is a killing field. | ||
| You have young soldiers being killed thousands a week, and we've got to get it over with. | ||
| It's bad for Russia, and it's bad for Ukraine, and it's bad for us on a humanitarian basis. | ||
| I've had very good talks with Putin, and I've had not such good talks with Ukraine. | ||
| They don't have any cards, but they play it tough. | ||
| But we're not going to let this continue. | ||
| This war is terrible. | ||
| It would have never happened if I were president. | ||
| But it did happen, so I got stuck with it, and the whole world is stuck with it. | ||
| And right now, you have a country that has its cities. | ||
| They look like demolition sites. | ||
| Those beautiful towers, those thousand-year-old golden domes that were so beautiful, the most beautiful in the world, they say. | ||
| They're all in smithereens. | ||
| Millions of people are killed. | ||
| I think far more people than anyone understands. | ||
| And we have people that better get to the table, get it ended. | ||
| Should have never happened. | ||
| It would have never happened. | ||
| But I'm delighted to welcome America's governors to the White House. | ||
| You're amazing people. | ||
| Even the Democrats are amazing people, some of you. | ||
| And we've worked together, actually. | ||
| We work very well together. | ||
| I can't think of anybody, there's one or two, yeah, that it doesn't work out so well, but that's sort of normal. | ||
| But I do want to welcome you, and I want to let you know that anything I can do, I'm here. | ||
| I'm here for you. | ||
| And we can do a lot. | ||
| I do want to say that I left a great place, North Carolina, and we're really working hard there since I've been in. | ||
| For four weeks, we've done more than they've did in all of the period of time. | ||
| And FEMA was a disaster. | ||
| FEMA wasn't there. | ||
| They didn't do the job. | ||
| And it was a terrible, terrible situation. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| And then they actually, when they did get there, a very small group, they chose anybody with an American flag or the name Trump on the front of the house. | ||
| They would sort of skip that house very nicely. | ||
| And it was just a disaster. | ||
| And we've done it the other way. | ||
| And we're working with a very nice person that we've had good relationships, the newly elected Democrat governor, who's here, I assume, is he? | ||
| Okay, thank you very much. | ||
| We're working well together, very well together. | ||
| And we're not using FEMA so much, but it doesn't matter as long as we get the job done. | ||
| But the people are becoming very happy. | ||
| So I want to thank you very much. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| But we are, and I'm of the opinion I understand FEMA very well. | ||
| We had a good situation with FEMA, but it was a very expensive thing to do. | ||
| And I really believe when there's a natural disaster, a hurricane, a tornado, or whatever it may be, you're very capable people. | ||
| It's called you fix it. | ||
| You take care of it yourselves. | ||
| You don't have to call some faraway state and have people planed in from areas that they have no idea. | ||
| They come in from Alaska to help you in Florida. | ||
| They say, boy, this is hot here. | ||
| By the time they figure it out, everything would have been fixed. | ||
| It's not a good situation. | ||
| It's very expensive. | ||
| You spend at least twice as much. | ||
| They don't negotiate. | ||
| They go out and hire local contractors and they have no idea who they are. | ||
| And I'd rather have my governor from South Carolina, Henry. | ||
| I'd rather have Ron. | ||
| I'd rather have from Florida. | ||
| I'd rather have, I could name just about everybody in this room. | ||
| I'd rather have you do it. | ||
| You'll save a lot of money. | ||
| And we'll send the bill, the bills. | ||
| We'll pay, I think, far less. | ||
| We have to have you have a little bit of skin in the game. | ||
| Otherwise, those bills will be much higher than they're supposed to be, especially with a couple of you in this room who I know very well get bills that you wouldn't believe, record setters. | ||
| So I think 75, 25 with the government, the federal government paying 75. | ||
| And we'll go right through to the, I think go right through, probably either go through commerce, maybe go through Marco, because Marco's very good with money. | ||
| I don't think I'm going to give them to the environmental gentleman, Lee Zeldon, here, because Lee's going to say, what's this all about? | ||
| They gave me this too. | ||
| You have found some big stuff, by the way, some big fraud. | ||
| You have, as he said, this one's not even explainable. | ||
| We're talking about billions of dollars. | ||
| So great job, Lee. | ||
| Really, it's sad, but it's a great job you've done in a very short period of time. | ||
| But I think Marco or Scott or Howard, wherever Howard may be, we want to congratulate him. | ||
| He did a great, it was a great session. | ||
| He got no Democrat votes. | ||
| I thought he's been a Democrat all his life and he got no Democrat votes. | ||
| They all called him to apologize. | ||
| And, you know, honestly, that shouldn't be. | ||
| But he got approved yesterday. | ||
| But today I'm delighted to welcome America's governors to the White House. | ||
| And I've known many of you for a long, long time. | ||
| And this week we're forging even stronger bonds of cooperation to better serve the American people. | ||
| I also want to thank the members of my cabinet who have joined us for this meeting. | ||
| And they really have gone right off the bat. | ||
| And I also want to thank Senator Thune because I'm hearing we set a record on approvals. | ||
| And I was screaming, and I thought it was going so slowly. | ||
| I think we, and we have a record. | ||
| So I apologize to anybody I screamed at. | ||
| But no, it was announced this morning. | ||
| I think we had a record for the number of positions. | ||
| So that's great. | ||
| And they're great people. | ||
| So I'll begin by introducing Secretary of State Marco Rubio. | ||
| He scares me because he got 99 votes. | ||
| So that's either unbelievably good, because he's an incredible diplomat and therefore he's Secretary of State and you couldn't have picked it, or I'm a little nervous about you, Mark. | ||
| And the only vote he didn't get was our vice president who couldn't vote because he had just left. | ||
| So you got 100%. | ||
| But it really says something. | ||
| I think it says working together. | ||
| It's an amazing tribute, I think. | ||
| I'll let you know about it. | ||
| I'll let you know about it in about two years, everybody. | ||
| Marco's been great and he's been in some big meetings with people at the highest level of states that we would say, states meaning other countries, that we would have said wouldn't have dealt so well, but they're dealing very well. | ||
| You have a great group of people with Steve Witkoff and Michael Waltz. | ||
| And we're making amazing progress. | ||
| I mean, we've made more progress on that situation, which is Ukraine, than they have in three years. | ||
| Again, it's so sad that it began, but we're also working very hard in the Middle East. | ||
| Another one that wouldn't have happened, we would never have had that. | ||
| You wouldn't have had October 7th. | ||
| They had no money. | ||
| Iran was broke. | ||
| We had sanctions up on Iran that nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| They were literally broke and they were not giving any money to Hezbollah, to Hamas. | ||
| And how about Hamas yesterday with the babies? | ||
| How about that? | ||
| We're going to take that. | ||
| We're going to continue to take that? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| But I want to just thank you, Marco, for doing a great job. | ||
| And Scott, you also. | ||
| Scott went all the way to Ukraine. | ||
| I said, don't do it. | ||
| That's why they have telephones. | ||
| But look, it's always better to meet in person. | ||
| But I just didn't feel that it was good. | ||
| And it was dangerous. | ||
| You saw things on that train ride that you didn't like, I understand. | ||
| You know, it's a pretty dangerous ride. | ||
| The long ride, how long was that? | ||
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10 hours. | |
| 10-hour ride. | ||
| It's after you get there. | ||
| And a very dangerous journey, but he wanted to do it. | ||
| He's a patriot. | ||
| He wanted to do it. | ||
| It's better to do it than it is with a telephone. | ||
| Always better. | ||
| I always say much better to meet in person, but that was dangerous. | ||
| I didn't like it. | ||
| I like him. | ||
| Therefore, I didn't want him to do it. | ||
| If I didn't like him, I would have suggested he do it. | ||
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In fact, I say, go back today, and let's give it another shot. | |
| But I hear that they're going to agree pretty much with what, but that's not the big thing. | ||
| The big thing is getting it done. | ||
| And we'll get it done. | ||
| Also, somebody who's been so popular right from the beginning, very, very little opposition. | ||
| But she's fantastic. | ||
| She was the Attorney General of Florida for eight years, highly respected, and just an amazing person, amazing leader and woman. | ||
| Pam Bondi. | ||
| Good, Pam. | ||
| How's it going? | ||
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Good? | |
| You got enough work? | ||
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You got a lot of work over there, Tya. | |
| She's going to be unbelievable. | ||
| I don't even think about it. | ||
| Interior Secretary Doug Bergham and Doug. | ||
| I don't know if Doug's here. | ||
| He was last night. | ||
| Oh, good. | ||
| You just disappeared right into the woodwork. | ||
| Doug is a man who made a lot of money, actually, but in technology, sold to Microsoft for a lot and decided he wanted to do a Trump thing, and he did, and he won easily. | ||
| And he became a great governor of North Dakota. | ||
| And really good. | ||
| And he was all of a sudden thrown into the oil business, right? | ||
| And he took that to a level that nobody ever thought possible. | ||
| The job you've done there has been amazing. | ||
| And I watched he ran. | ||
| Then I said, I like that guy. | ||
| He was one of the few that didn't hit me. | ||
| He was after my position, but he never said anything bad about me. | ||
| I said, okay, that's one checklist that we have good. | ||
| It's one of the ones. | ||
| But he was an amazing governor, and he really became an expert on energy. | ||
| And when I was with him, I realized I wanted him someplace. | ||
| I didn't know exactly where, but I thought it would be the Department of Energy. | ||
| I kept talking because the state has done so well. | ||
| And I said, look, I want you to just hold it. | ||
| And I want to put you there. | ||
| He said, sir, I have somebody much better than me on energy. | ||
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Who? | |
| Chris Wright. | ||
| Is it who the hell is Chris Wright? | ||
| He said, is Chris here? | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| Is Chris here? | ||
| Hello, Chris. | ||
| Why am I giving him some buildups? | ||
| I did the same thing last night. | ||
| But he's the top guy in the whole, they say, on the planet for energy, in all forms of energy. | ||
| Even clean, beautiful coal that we're going to be using like Germany does now. | ||
| They're opening up a plant a week. | ||
| And they're opening up in China more than somebody told me two plants a week, you know, but we're supposed to use the wind, which doesn't work. | ||
| It doesn't work from a practical standpoint. | ||
| But I just want to welcome you because you had the greatest man here when he said, you're probably the only man, because I know Doug, he's got a big ego. | ||
| And you're the only man. | ||
| I've actually heard him say something. | ||
| He said, he's so much better than me on energy. | ||
| He's better than anybody. | ||
| And so we made a move. | ||
| And you gave up a tremendous position to do this. | ||
| And We want to thank you, but we have to get going because when we bring the energy costs down, we have more energy than anybody in the world. | ||
| We just didn't use it. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| Biden set us up in Venezuela instead of taking our so that we go to Venezuela where they'd have very heavy, heavy stuff, and we have the best stuff in the world. | ||
| We have more liquid gold, and it's really great liquid gold, too. | ||
| We have more under our feet than anybody else. | ||
| But we went to Venezuela to buy oil instead of taking it from our own land and drilling a little hole in the ground. | ||
| How big is that hole? | ||
| About a foot? | ||
| About a foot, yeah. | ||
| We drill a little tiny hole, and we could have taken it instead of all of the problems. | ||
| And then we've made Venezuela strong again. | ||
| You know, they've given them a lot of money. | ||
| They never thought they were going to have so much money, and all the people are leaving, so you're going to have one guy sitting there with a lot of oil under his feet. | ||
| That's not a good situation, but we're having talks about that whole mess. | ||
| What a mess. | ||
| That was another one that was done. | ||
| He was ready to quit. | ||
| He was going to be out. | ||
| Marco, you know that better than anybody. | ||
| Marco's been very staunch against what took place there. | ||
| And we were going to have that in any form we wanted it. | ||
| But Biden made them strong. | ||
| It was the worst administration in history. | ||
| And I say that with a lot of Democrats, but I think you believe it too. | ||
| You can't say it, but you believe it. | ||
| But I just want to thank you. | ||
| And if you get those prices down, you know, that's what caused inflation, the energy, the spending, but I think even more so the energy. | ||
| The energy went up. | ||
| They stopped the oil leases. | ||
| They stopped a lot of things that we were doing. | ||
| And then they went back to what we were doing as much as they could because the prices were going through the roof. | ||
| Remember that initial surge? | ||
| It was brutal. | ||
| And they went back. | ||
| They let any rig, they let any rig that we had up just drill. | ||
| And they ended up doing similar numbers, but we wouldn't have been at those numbers. | ||
| We would have been double or triple those numbers. | ||
| Those were from years ago. | ||
| But energy caused our problem. | ||
| But I just want to thank you for recommending him. | ||
| And what we've done is he's the head of Department of Energy. | ||
| He's Department of the Interior. | ||
| And it's really screwy because the Department of the Interior has all the energy other than some nuclear energy that you're in charge of. | ||
| But he has all the energy, has all the land, all the great places, best. | ||
| We have more than any other country in the world. | ||
| And he's in charge of it. | ||
| The problem is he can't drill. | ||
| And he drills, but he has no land. | ||
| So what do we do? | ||
| We said, I have an idea. | ||
| Let's merge them. | ||
| So we merged them intellectually. | ||
| I don't know if we did it legally, but we did it intellectually. | ||
| So now he gives up the land and he gives up the drillers. | ||
| And you're going crazy, right? | ||
| You're going wild. | ||
| And you'll do it beautifully, environmentally well, Lee. | ||
| We'll make sure. | ||
| But we have a lot of things, but we had a merge. | ||
| I always wondered why doesn't the energy department do more? | ||
| And they didn't do more because they don't have any energy. | ||
| It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. | ||
| We'll probably have to make maybe even a change in that, you know, somehow merge them or do something, because it's pretty tremendous what you're going to be able to do. | ||
| Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins, who's so fantastic, and she's been at the head of so many different things and loyal from the beginning. | ||
| She even opened up, we had a rather shocking defeat. | ||
| She opened up a, we call it an institute. | ||
| I've never seen anybody raise money like her. | ||
| She raised hundreds of millions of dollars on this fabulous thing. | ||
| But I said, look, we want to won another race because I think it's really important to win twice. | ||
| And I won three times if you think about it. | ||
| But it's very, only the Republicans smile when I say, which happens to be true. | ||
| But Brooke has been amazing. | ||
| And it was really tough because this last election I go to a person, they say, sir, I just gave you $10 million. | ||
| Oh, where did you give it to? | ||
| I gave it to Brooke. | ||
| You gave it to Brooke. | ||
| She's spending it on policy. | ||
| We don't have to worry about policy. | ||
| We have to worry about getting elected, right? | ||
| But Brooke is fantastic, and she's done such a good job. | ||
| And she's make America great again, top of the line, right? | ||
| And she's going to, and what I didn't know, and as soon as I found out, I said, that's that. | ||
| She studied. | ||
| That's what she studied, agriculture. | ||
| She knows everything about it. | ||
| And she's going to be a fantastic secretary. | ||
| And you'll do something with the eggs, because I'm hearing so much about eggs. | ||
| You'll figure it out. | ||
| You've got to figure something out fast. | ||
| And we inherited all of the problems. | ||
| You know, at some point, a few months down the road, we won't be able to say it's so much us. | ||
| But the big things really we can blame other people for, to allow criminals into our country at levels that nobody's ever seen before, to allow people from jails, to have countries from all over the world be allowed to empty jails into an open border. | ||
| They emptied jails and prisons, mental institutions, insane asylum, gang members, drug lords, drug people, people on drugs, people that are very sick. | ||
| They allowed them to come into our country totally unchecked, unvetted. | ||
| And right now we have a great gentleman, Tom Holman, who's doing an unbelievable job, and Christine Ohm. | ||
| They're doing a great job, but it's such a something we should have never had to be done. | ||
| And you see the levels of crime that these are serious, they make our criminals look nice, I'll tell you. | ||
| That's the only thing we get out of it. | ||
| Our criminals are very nice people by comparison. | ||
| These are seriously tough people. | ||
| The various gangs, whether it's MS-13 or the Venezuelan gangs, they're as tough as nobody's ever seen toughness like this. | ||
| Secretary of Health and Human Services, nobody knows this particular gentleman. | ||
| He sailed right through. | ||
| I thought he'd get a lot of, I said, well, he's going to get a lot of Democrat votes, Ron. | ||
| I said, he's going to be an easy one, right? | ||
| I told Ron to Santis, I said, this was going to be so easy. | ||
| He's going to get all those Democrat votes. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Thank goodness for the Republicans, right? | ||
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | ||
| And where is Bobby? | ||
| Where is Bobby? | ||
| So congratulations. | ||
| Was that as easy as you thought? | ||
| Just quit. | ||
| Well, in the end, they all voted for him. | ||
| He did pretty well. | ||
| He got through. | ||
| But, you know, we have one stat that I quote: the autism stat. | ||
| And you hear different numbers, but it's thousands. | ||
| They say between 10 and 20,000. | ||
| So if you go back 15 years ago, we had like nobody. | ||
| It was one in 20,000. | ||
| Now we have one in 34. | ||
| Is that right? | ||
| 34. | ||
| So 34 or 36 kids have autism. | ||
| And if you go back, I guess 18 years whenever that was done, it was one in 20,000. | ||
| So we got from 20,000 to 34, 36. | ||
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That's unbelievable. | |
| So there's something wrong. | ||
| There's something wrong. | ||
| We've done something wrong. | ||
| There's something you're going to figure it out. | ||
| Maybe it's a spray that we spray all over the place that nobody else does. | ||
| Other countries don't. | ||
| The Pennsylvania Dutch, they don't do anything and they're amazingly healthy. | ||
| And he understands he's working with Dr. Roz, who's a really smart guy. | ||
| I know him very well. | ||
| And those two guys are going to figure out. | ||
| You're also going to figure out why in the United States we pay $1,300 for a drug, one that we were talking about, and in London they pay, literally they pay $200, even less. | ||
| $88 I heard in one case yesterday. | ||
| They pay $88, we pay $1,300 for the exact same drug from the exact same factory, from the same plant where it's made. | ||
| We've got to figure that out. | ||
| So I hope you focus really a lot on the cost too, because Americans are being screwed and it's no good. | ||
| They're not going to put up with it. | ||
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, another one I know very well, he's going to be fantastic, Scott Turner. | ||
| So Scott, congratulations. | ||
| Man, oh man, you are something. | ||
| He got up and we had a great meeting yesterday, right? | ||
| He got up and spoke. | ||
| He's a good speaker, that one. | ||
| And everybody loves you. | ||
| Everybody knows you. | ||
| Great guy. | ||
| You're going to do fantastic. | ||
| Anyway, he got a good recommendation from Ben Carson. | ||
| Once Ben Carson recommended you, I said, all right, that's okay. | ||
| We love Ben Carson. | ||
| Nobody liked Ben. | ||
| Secretary of Energy, I introduced Chris Wright and Secretary of Veterans Affairs. | ||
| Doug Collins, I know Doug so well. | ||
| Oh, where's Doug? | ||
| Where's Doug? | ||
| That voice during the Mueller hearings, that beautiful voice. | ||
| Do you not remember the catastrophe that every Democrat remembers this when Mueller went to testify? | ||
| This was not a good situation. | ||
| That's where it all ended, Pam, when he didn't know anything about anything. | ||
| And Doug said, you don't know what we're talking about, do you? | ||
| No. | ||
| This was not a good day for them, but it was a good day for justice, I can tell you that, for fair justice. | ||
| EPA Administrator Lise Eldon, he ran for governor of New York. | ||
| In theory, you have no chance, but actually, he almost won. | ||
| It was a fantastic run, amazing run. | ||
| And he's very smart. | ||
| He was a congressman. | ||
| He was fantastic on the hoax, the various hoaxes I had. | ||
| I had a lot of hoaxes, so many I don't want to name them. | ||
| Well, we don't have enough time, but he was always very strong, great lawyer, tremendous lawyer, and also a big believer in the environment and keeping it good and clean and healthy. | ||
| And I just want to thank you for the job. | ||
| And the only thing I ask is that you go speedily because, you know, a lot of people use the whole process, the environmental impact process, to delay projects. | ||
| We just want them to go quickly. | ||
| And you can get the same answer in a matter of months as opposed to a matter of years. | ||
| I feel so strongly because people are coming in with tremendous amounts of money. | ||
| I have been spoken to by every, yesterday I had Tim Cook in the office from Apple. | ||
| He's investing hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| I don't know, I hope he's announced it. | ||
| I hope I didn't announce this, but what the hell. | ||
| All I do is tell the truth. | ||
| That's what he told me. | ||
| Now he has to do it, right? | ||
| So it's a good. | ||
| But he's investing hundreds of billions of dollars and others too. | ||
| We're going to have a lot of chip makers coming in, a lot of automakers coming in. | ||
| They stopped two plants in Mexico. | ||
| They were under construction, starting construction. | ||
| They just stopped them. | ||
| They're going to build here instead because they don't want to pay the tariffs. | ||
| The tariffs are amazing. | ||
| It's good. | ||
| I said it's, I got myself in a lot of trouble. | ||
| I said it's my favorite word in the dictionary, the word tariff. | ||
| It's such a beautiful word. | ||
| And the fake news killed me. | ||
| They said, what about love? | ||
| What about God? | ||
| What about family? | ||
| And they said, I'm in trouble. | ||
| I said, so now it's my fourth favorite word. | ||
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| A couple of others I could add in there too, but it's my fourth favorite word. | ||
| And OMB director Russell vote. | ||
| Thank you, Russell. | ||
| You're going to be incredible. | ||
| I know he took some hits, but I know how good he is, how honest he is, and he's fantastic with the numbers. | ||
| And you're seeing these numbers coming out with the theft, right? | ||
| And it's tremendous fraud, wasted abuse, and all three of them. | ||
| But I think the fraud is really the biggest. | ||
| I think you're going to see it. | ||
| You come out as soon as you can, I think, with your numbers. | ||
| But because they're not explainable. | ||
| They're not explainable. | ||
| So I just, Russell do a great job, that's all. | ||
| SBA administrator, small business. | ||
| Now, small business is really big business. | ||
| It's actually one of the biggest banks in the world. | ||
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It sounds a little bit like, oh, small little business. | |
| It is a massive, it is one big sucker, right? | ||
| And Kelly Loeffler's here, so she's going to be incredible. | ||
| And she's got an incredible husband, Jeff, who's one of the most important people in the world of finance. | ||
| And he knows, he owns a thing called the New York Stock Exchange, so that's not so bad, right? | ||
| And you have natural experience, but I think you're going to do great. | ||
| And there's a lot of fraud in there from the past, you know, with all the money that was handed out. | ||
| It was billions and billions of dollars. | ||
| Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| Where's Tulsi? | ||
| Is she here? | ||
| Hi, Tulsi. | ||
| I haven't really seen you. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| Do well. | ||
| Have fun. | ||
| We built a building. | ||
| The building costs like $12 billion. | ||
| It's loaded up with intelligence. | ||
| Lots of luck figuring it out, right? | ||
| Good. | ||
| It was treated pretty rough for a person that's an incredible patriot. | ||
| We've all known that. | ||
| So it's nice that you're sitting with Bobby because you too, you went through a lot. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| You're going to be stars. | ||
| And over the past month, our new administration has taken unrelenting action to fix every single disaster that we inherited. | ||
| And we inherited a lot of them, the border being, I think, actually, I think it's the most difficult one of all. | ||
| The rest we can get fixed, including foreign countries that are doing things that they shouldn't be doing. | ||
| And one of the reasons that we won the election by so much, because we wanted everywhere we won the popular vote, we won the seven swing states, all seven by a lot. | ||
| And we won by millions of votes, the popular. | ||
| It's always hard. | ||
| I guess it hasn't happened in a couple of decades for a Republican to win the popular vote. | ||
| I think that that's changing so rapidly. | ||
| But we had another thing that was pretty amazing. | ||
| We had of the 3,000 counties, we won 2,500 of them. | ||
| And the Democrats won 500. | ||
| It's a lot. | ||
| They've never seen anything like it. | ||
| Actually, you would have thought that the numbers would even be much higher. | ||
| When you win 2,500 counties to 500 counties, when you look at the map, you've all seen the map, the one that got certified and came out just recently. | ||
| It's like almost totally red. | ||
| And it's my honor. | ||
| We're going to just work it out. | ||
| But we've really become the party of common sense, and I think it's important. | ||
| I think it's important for the Democrats' common sense to, we're going to deal with you, and we're going to deal on a common sense basis. | ||
| And I know a lot of you agree with a lot of the things. | ||
| I don't know if sometimes you're not allowed to say it, unfortunately, but I think we'll be all better off if everybody says it. | ||
| That includes Republicans saying the right things. | ||
| So on day one, I declared a national emergency on our southern border to stop the invasion of our country because we're being invaded. | ||
| Millions and millions of people. | ||
| I figured 21 million people, and of that, two or three million were criminals. | ||
| And many of them were people that countries didn't want. | ||
| They would put them in these massive, large caravans. | ||
| I came up with that name a long time ago. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| It's a caravan. | ||
| And these are people, in many cases, they might not be criminals, but they're people that the country didn't want. | ||
| They didn't work. | ||
| They needed help all the time or they needed assistance or whatever. | ||
| Our country's got a lot of people in it right now. | ||
| And we're going to make sure that everybody's treated fairly, but we've got to change it. | ||
| It's the most difficult problem, I think. | ||
| Additionally, the heroes of ICE have been really hunting down the really bad ones, and we are going, they're incredible people. | ||
| ICE. | ||
| They were being shunned by Biden. | ||
| They were being mocked. | ||
| And let me tell you, these are tough, tough men and women, but they're tough. | ||
| They'll see like a MS-13 band of thugs out on Long Island, and they'll bring up, they'll bring up the paddy wagons. | ||
| They get in and they'll say, no, one of them, two of them, killed two young girls in Long Island. | ||
| For some reason, they like Long Island. | ||
| MS-13 loves Long Island. | ||
| I don't know what that's all about. | ||
| But two young girls walk into school, 16 years old. | ||
| In the morning, they were accosted by a group of MS-13 thugs, and they don't use guns as much. | ||
| They use knives. | ||
| They like using knives, and they cut them up, cut them into pieces, and left them and killed them, cut them up into pieces, little pieces. | ||
| And they use knives because it's more painful. | ||
| And ICE went in. | ||
| They have no fear of these guys. | ||
| They went in and they just knocked the hell out of them. | ||
| And they'll go into a pack. | ||
| They call it a pack. | ||
| Not like a political pack. | ||
| Political packs are slightly nicer. | ||
| But a pack of these MS-13 people or TRN diaragua people from Venezuela. | ||
| They'll just walk in. | ||
| All you'll see is fists going for five minutes. | ||
| And then you'll see these guys walk out and they got them between their legs and they're bringing them, getting them the hell out of the country. | ||
| These are rough people that we have to deal with. | ||
| But ICE is incredible. | ||
| Border Patrol is incredible. | ||
| Law enforcement, the people in law enforcement, we make their jobs so difficult by allowing people like this into our country. | ||
| We just shouldn't do it. | ||
| So I've just designated the group from Venezuela, TREN DIARAGUA, as a foreign terrorist organization. | ||
| I mean, in Colorado, they went in and other places. | ||
| They literally take over. | ||
| They're like me. | ||
| They're in the real estate business. | ||
| They take over real estate. | ||
| And they literally take it over. | ||
| They just claim it. | ||
| And they tell tenants to get the hell out of it if you don't get out. | ||
| They had one case where a guy called the cops and they went in, you call the cops, yes. | ||
| And they cut off his fingers. | ||
| He says, you don't call them anymore. | ||
| You cut off the other fingers in your other hand. | ||
| These are not nice people. | ||
| But federal, state, and local cooperation has to be the backbone of border security. | ||
| So I hope as governors, I know all the Republicans are very much in tune with Tom Holman and Christy and everybody, but I hope everybody, because ultimately you want to get the criminals out of your state. | ||
| And we're focusing on the really bad ones. | ||
| We have 11,088 people that we know of that are murderers, that are actually murderers. | ||
| And I can't imagine anybody wanting them in their state, whether you're a Republican or whether you're a Democrat or whatever you may be. | ||
| I mean, we have many of them murdered more than one person. | ||
| Some murdered more than five people. | ||
| And they're in our country. | ||
| They let them out of jail. | ||
| These were convicted people, and they let them out of jails because it's very expensive to have somebody in jail for a lifetime or whatever it might be. | ||
| And they brought them in here. | ||
| The American people expect every city and state to fully honor ICE detainer requests, and we hope they can and to ensure the safe transfer of criminal aliens into federal custody for immediate removal from our country. | ||
| You know, many of the countries said we're not ever going to let them back. | ||
| Under the Biden administration, I remember it's Venezuela, he's a tough guy, and others. | ||
| They said, We're not letting them back. | ||
| They're out of here, and you'll never bring them back. | ||
| They're not coming into this country. | ||
| And Biden said, Well, we can't bring them back. | ||
| They won't take them. | ||
| Well, we took them. | ||
| And every single country now, you saw it with Colombia, you saw it with Venezuela. | ||
| In fact, they actually offered to send planes to pick them up, and they'll pick them up so that we don't have to go through the expense of sending a plane. | ||
| Is that correct, Mark? | ||
| Even Marco couldn't believe that one. | ||
| But they literally are sending planes to pick up these people. | ||
| And they're rough people, and they're picking them up, and they're putting them in the planes. | ||
| There's no excuse for any state attempting to aid and abet dangerous criminals, killers, drug dealers, really bad people who are violating federal law and violating the law by being in our country. | ||
| To combat inflation, I declared a national energy emergency, and we had to do that. | ||
| One of the things we've done is by doing that, we can go very quickly. | ||
| You know, a lot of companies are coming in, but they need tremendous electricity, amounts of electricity. | ||
| Who would have thought, Doug Grant? | ||
| But they need more electricity for AI than we have right now in the country. | ||
| In other words, we have X, we have electricity now for the whole country. | ||
| They need that just for that one industry. | ||
| So they're coming in with, and we're going to be leading. | ||
| We're now leading on that. | ||
| We've really opened it up, and I hope it's good. | ||
| But we opened it up, and we're leading China by a lot. | ||
| But China's giving them tremendous electricity because they do whatever they want to do. | ||
| But we're working with Lee. | ||
| And I've told these people they're going to spend hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars, actually. | ||
| So I need double the energy that we have right now, and even more than that, from what I'm understanding, which is hard to believe. | ||
| In other words, take every car, every building. | ||
| We need whatever it is, 100% of the energy, we need that amount just to be in the number one position. | ||
| And we need really more than that to really dominate, which I think will be dominating. | ||
| But I told them, and they can't believe it, I said, we're going to get you quick approvals and you're going to build your own electric plants so that you're going to create your own electricity when you build your plant, which will be massive. | ||
| These are massive plants. | ||
| But when you build your plant, we're going to let them build an electric generating plant where they build like a utility. | ||
| In other words, instead of using Con Edison, like we have in New York. | ||
| Hello, Governor. | ||
| Nice to see you back there. | ||
| And we do have Con Edison, and they don't do a bad job, actually. | ||
| They could be a little cheaper with the price, perhaps, but they don't too bad. | ||
| But we build our own utility. | ||
| They can have their own utility. | ||
| If they have any extra, they can put it onto the grid. | ||
| But this way they're not subject to a bad grid or a dangerous grid or a grid that gets taken out by bombs or war or anything else. | ||
| So they actually couldn't believe it. | ||
| They said, you think you could get that approved? | ||
| Yeah, I'll get that approved very quickly. | ||
| They couldn't believe it. | ||
| And they're so happy. | ||
| And they're going to do some in Virginia, some big ones. | ||
| But we're going to go and this way it's really a self-service. | ||
| They just have this massive building with a large electric generating facility that'll be powered by natural gas mostly. | ||
| Some will use coal, some will use nuclear, clean coal. | ||
| I only say clean coal, but some will use nuclear. | ||
| They have their right to do it. | ||
| None will use wind because wind doesn't work. | ||
| It's just terrible how an environmental person can like wind. | ||
| It kills the birds. | ||
| It's very expensive. | ||
| It's seven, eight times more expensive than other forms of energy. | ||
| Every wind turbine in the country that goes up needs massive subsidies. | ||
| It's really the only energy that needs subsidy, essentially. | ||
| The solar is doing okay. | ||
| So it's the only one. | ||
| But to combat inflation, I declared that national energy emergency, and we're going to unleash the liquid gold under our feet to bring the prices way down. | ||
| That's going to happen. | ||
| And again, we're going to have a big part of that. | ||
| It's going to be natural gas, which is very, very clean. | ||
| And clean coal. | ||
| We're going to do as many forms of energy as we can. | ||
| And it's going to be something I think everybody knows. | ||
| And you're going to call me or anybody else if you have difficulty or problems. | ||
| But you're going to have levels of business being brought to this country that you've never seen before. | ||
| The tariffs are bringing them more than anything else. | ||
| The country is bringing them, but the tariffs are bringing them. | ||
| They hadn't been here. | ||
| And we're creating tremendous tax incentives. | ||
| But the biggest incentive is they don't want to pay 100% tariff or 200% or whatever it may be. | ||
| And as you know, we're going to be announcing tariffs on cars from foreign countries of 25%. | ||
| That'll be done in probably April 2nd. | ||
| I was going to do it April 1st, but I said I don't like that date. | ||
| It's going to cost a lot of money to wait one day. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| What do I do there, Pam? | ||
| Maybe I'll do it just April 1st. | ||
| It costs a lot of money, that extra day, Barco, you figure what that costs. | ||
| Let's do it April 2nd, right? | ||
| I just don't want to take the abuse. | ||
| We created the new Department of Government Efficiency, which you may have heard about. | ||
| Doge, which is now waging war on government waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| And we've begun the largest deregulation of industries and other things. | ||
| It's proper deregulation that has ever done. | ||
| I lead the way. | ||
| My first four years, we did more deregulation than any other president in history. | ||
| And I brought a little list along that I thought I'd just read some of the places when you mentioned Doge, some of the places that this money has gone. | ||
| And these are the ones that I feel I could read. | ||
| There are some that are so nasty and dirty and horrible that I don't want to really read them because I assume they have television on. | ||
| I have a guarantee they do. | ||
| I let the press in today because we have nothing to hide, right? | ||
| It's much better. | ||
| They said, do you want to let the press in? | ||
| I said, why not? | ||
| You think Biden would do that? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| $520 million was given for a consultant to do ESG that's environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa. | ||
| $520 million, $25 million to promote biodiversity, conservation, and social responsibility behavior in the country of Colombia. | ||
| $25 million. | ||
| $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. | ||
| They have no place in particular they were thinking of. | ||
| There is no location. | ||
| The money was sent out, but they have no idea where it's going. | ||
| $42 million for social and behavior changes in Uganda. | ||
| And $10 million for Mozambique medical male circumcision. | ||
| People that want to be, will have to be circumcised in Mozambique. | ||
| $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia. | ||
| $486 million to a consortium for elections and political process strengthening, at which $22 million was for inclusive participatory political process in Moldova. | ||
| And $21 million going to my friend Prime Minister Modi in India for voter turnout. | ||
| We're giving $21 million for voter turnout in India. | ||
| What about us? | ||
| I want voter turnout too, Governor. | ||
| $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in Bangladesh. | ||
| Went to a firm that nobody ever heard of. | ||
| Got $29 million. | ||
| They got to check. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| You have a little firm, you get $10,000 here, $10,000 there. | ||
| And then we get $29 million from the United States government. | ||
| There are two people working in that firm. | ||
| Two people. | ||
| I think they're very happy. | ||
| They're very rich. | ||
| They'll be in the cover of a very good business magazine pretty soon for being great scammers. | ||
| $20 million for fiscal federalism and $19 million for biodiversity in Nepal and $47 million also for improving learning outcomes in Asia. | ||
| Asia. | ||
| Asia's got a lot of money. | ||
| $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. | ||
| They gave $50 million, and it worked out so well, they gave another $50 million a little bit later. | ||
| Condoms, $100 million for Hamas. | ||
| And we're also uncovering outrageous incompetence and fraud in the Social Security. | ||
| And I read this last night, so Governor, you're going to be bored hearing this, but you know, you never get bored because it's not possible to even believe it. | ||
| So if you live 100 years, it's a long time, but let's assume that they had millions and millions of people living because they have like 10 million people in the Social Security living. | ||
| But let's go over over 100. | ||
| So now you're more than 100 years old. | ||
| We have 4.7 million Social Security numbers. | ||
| People from the age of 100 to 109. | ||
| So if you're 100 to 109, we have 4.7 million people on our Social Security rolls, right? | ||
| Well, that's a lot of people. | ||
| I haven't, you know, I knew one guy was 100. | ||
| The great Lenny Littwin. | ||
| He was a builder in Manhattan. | ||
| He lived to 103. | ||
| You knew him. | ||
| He was one of the greatest builders. | ||
| He was so happy. | ||
| The reason he lived, he loved building, he'd build a building a year, right? | ||
| Never had a problem. | ||
| You knew Lenny Littwin, I would think, Governor. | ||
| He was a great guy and got along with everybody. | ||
| He got along with Democrats, Republicans. | ||
| Everybody loved Lenny. | ||
| When he died, it was a bad day for New York, I'll tell you. | ||
| He was a great guy. | ||
| But he lived to 10304 because he just loved his business. | ||
| He was designing a new building at 103, and that was the end of it. | ||
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| But you had 3.6 million people aged 110, substantially older than good old Lenny. | ||
| From 110 to 119, you have 3.6. | ||
| These are the people on the rolls. | ||
| Now we're looking to see whether or not they've been paid, because if they've been paid, you're just using those numbers to take out the money, all the money that's paid to those people. | ||
| 3.47 million people from the age of 120 to 129. | ||
| 3.9 million people age 130 to 139. | ||
| 3.5 million people age 140 years old to 149 years old. | ||
| I think this is the case for Pam. | ||
| I think I might give you this, Pam, just you can have it. | ||
| In fact, I will. | ||
| 1.3 million from age 150. | ||
| There's 1.3 million people they're saying are alive and receiving Social Security. | ||
| Now, that's the only thing we're checking. | ||
| Are they receiving it? | ||
| Because if they're receiving it, that makes it much worse. | ||
| If they're not receiving it, that just makes it incompetent. | ||
| They shouldn't be on the rolls. | ||
| And the only thing good about this is that when we take all these people off the rolls, and we have tremendous fraud underneath people that are 80 and 60 and 50 and everything else, but this is really incredible. | ||
| 1.3 million from 150 to 159, and over 130,000 people are on the rolls of Social Security over the age of 160 years old, including 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229. | ||
| So we have, think of that, we have 1,039 people who are 220 years old to 229. | ||
| We have one person at 240 years old. | ||
| And here's the beauty of them all: we have one person at 360, which is strange because the country is 250. | ||
| So they're 110 years older than the country. | ||
| Here, Pam, you better take a look at this. | ||
| That's much better for you than for me. | ||
| Now the question is, are they getting paid? | ||
| Because somebody maybe is getting paid. | ||
| Yeah, I have a feeling you were. | ||
| I said, what a convenient thing. | ||
| This is so nice. | ||
| We created this department, Doge, and the kind of numbers are incredible. | ||
| It could be $500 billion, but it could be a trillion dollars. | ||
| It could be even a trillion five. | ||
| We're going to find out. | ||
| I mean, we're going to, I'm actually going with Elon, and Elon is doing a really good job. | ||
| And I said, who are these people that travel you? | ||
| We call them the Dogers. | ||
| And I said, what are they? | ||
| He said, they're generally young people with extremely high IQs who are very good with computers because you have to be good with computers. | ||
| So when one of these scammers talks and tries to tell them why it's perfect, they said, no, no, it doesn't work that way. | ||
| You know, it's very hard to talk them out of something when they have you. | ||
| But we're actually going to Fort Knox because I want to see, do we have the gold? | ||
| Do we still have whatever it is, tons of gold? | ||
| I hope we do. | ||
| Wouldn't that be disappointing? | ||
| Fort Knox, you grew up hearing about Fort Knox, you can't get in, you can't even see it, nobody sees it. | ||
| You go there and a place is dry. | ||
| Would that be terrible? | ||
| There's another one. | ||
| Maybe you should go with us to that one. | ||
| But we're going to go in there pretty soon. | ||
| They're going to open the doors to Fort Knox. | ||
| If any governor would like to go with us, we'll include you want to go with us on that one, Ron? | ||
| That could be good. | ||
| It could be interesting. | ||
| Can you imagine if we open it up and there's no gold? | ||
| Well, I think there will be. | ||
| For one reason, it's really heavy. | ||
| You still borrow gold. | ||
| You've got to be strong. | ||
| So it's not like other things. | ||
| But we're looking at everything. | ||
| We have the largest deregulation campaign in history. | ||
| And we are, again, I did more than anybody, but this blows it away. | ||
| And for one, every time we put in a new regulation, we're not allowed to put it in unless we terminate 10 old regulations. | ||
| So it's one in 10. | ||
| We did one in seven in my last administration. | ||
| And the problem is some of them were put back, foolishly put back. | ||
| There was no reason for them. | ||
| So if you truly want a turbocharged economy, you have to do that, and you have to get rid of the regulations. | ||
| I think one of the reasons we, I mean, before COVID, and we did a great job with COVID and getting, it was a hell of a thing for all of us, everybody here. | ||
| But some countries were, some countries will actually never recover for what they went through. | ||
| But we ended up giving back when we turned over the reins. | ||
| The stock market was higher than just previous to COVID coming in, which was an amazing achievement. | ||
| But we were, just prior to that, we were, I would never forget, I was sitting down with two consultants, the two great pollsters. | ||
| They said, sir, this economy is so good. | ||
| We're the greatest economy in the history of the world. | ||
| We were doubling up China. | ||
| I was also charging China hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, which nobody, no president charged them anything, but they were killing us. | ||
| But we were beating everybody. | ||
| Everybody said that in 2018, China was going to overtake us as the biggest economy in the world. | ||
| And by the time I got finished, we were so much bigger than China. | ||
| We still are now. | ||
| But another four years, like we had just passed, you will have China being much bigger than you. | ||
| There's no reason. | ||
| If we have a smart president, there's no way that they should ever be able to catch us. | ||
| But these pollsters said to me, Sir, if Abraham Lincoln and George Washington came back from the dead and they ran as president and vice president, they'd never be able to beat you. | ||
| I said, thank you very much. | ||
| The next day I go into my office and a group of scientists are sitting there, sir, we'd like to tell you there's something very bad happening in China. | ||
| There's dead bodies all over the place. | ||
| And that's the first time I heard the word pandemic in a long time. | ||
| And that's where it started. | ||
| And you know where they were? | ||
| All around the Wuhan lab. | ||
| That's why I was from day one, I was saying they had little slits like this. | ||
| You saw them from the air, from space. | ||
| And they were just little slits, but they were body bags. | ||
| There were black body bags all over, so many. | ||
| And that's why that's where it came from. | ||
| One other thing, just before we leave, I think you should do this. | ||
| If, I mean, for safety and security and for the good of our nation, you should do it anyway, regardless, even if it costs 10 times more, but it actually costs you just a tiny fraction. | ||
| If you went to paper ballots and you're voting, and I would hope that every Republican would. | ||
| So it costs exactly 8% of what the machines cost. | ||
| These machines, they've got something going. | ||
| They get business. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| So paper ballots, and paper is very sophisticated today. | ||
| Paper, it's called watermark. | ||
| It's impossible to copy, impossible to cheat. | ||
| It's actually hard to believe that a piece of paper is highly sophisticated, but it's watermark and it's very, it's amazing actually when you see it. | ||
| You can't cheat. | ||
| But if you went to paper ballots and same-day voting, and if you went to voter ID, and also one other thing, you want a proof of citizenship. | ||
| Those four things: proof of citizenship, voter ID, paper ballots, one-day voting. | ||
| And if you went to two-day voting or three-day voting, but some of these states, you had 64 days. | ||
| You know, California just finished up just a short while ago. | ||
| They were voting a week and a half ago. | ||
| They're trying to finish him up. | ||
| And other states too. | ||
| They were weeks after the election. | ||
| I mean, if that were a close election, you'd have to wait for weeks and weeks and weeks. | ||
| You got finished fast, Brian. | ||
| Thank you for your help. | ||
| We did very well in Georgia. | ||
| It was very nice. | ||
| But some of these states, if you had a close election, you wouldn't know who won. | ||
| And then, you know, once that happens, and you really never know who won. | ||
| But you would save tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| Forgetting about right, wrong, and security, safety, our country, our Constitution, and all of this. | ||
| Number one, you'd have a much safer election. | ||
| Number two, everybody, you'd know the results of your election by 10 o'clock. | ||
| Everybody, it's a beautiful system. | ||
| It's boxes of 5,000. | ||
| Boom, boom. | ||
| And you can go and examine each box. | ||
| It's so simple and so good. | ||
| I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody. | ||
| And I said, what do you think of the voting system? | ||
| He said, computers are not meant for voting. | ||
| It's just not a good thing. | ||
| It's too many transactions taking place too quickly. | ||
| It's just not, he said, honestly, and I've gone to the best people, the smartest computer minds from MIT from others. | ||
| My uncle was a professor for 41 years at MIT and a brilliant guy, and I got to know a lot of the people up there. | ||
| And they will tell you that the most secure way that you can secure the election, and probably the fastest way, because there can be very little hanky-panky, is paper ballots. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| So I hope, Sarah, that certainly the Republican governors. | ||
| But if you want to save a lot of money, you go to paper ballots. | ||
| It'll cost you 8% of what the costs are now. | ||
| And that's based on a good deal for machines. | ||
| And then when you go through the days and weeks and months of waiting, France had mail-in ballots. | ||
| Anytime you have mail-in ballots, you're going to have fraud, without question. | ||
| And France had it, and they went back to paper ballots. | ||
| And I saw their election, and their election was over at 9 o'clock, and their numbers came in at 10.05. | ||
| And there were no complaints. | ||
| They had a winner, they had a loser, 39 million votes, and it was done. | ||
| We're one of the only people that has now mail-in voting. | ||
| One of the only countries that has mail-in voting. | ||
| Remember Jimmy Carter when he did a commission? | ||
| And I think they had Scoop Jackson. | ||
| They had some, you know, at the time, big senators. | ||
| And their conclusion was, if you have mail-in voting, you're going to have massive fraud. | ||
| And we had it in New York with a congressional race. | ||
| Remember the congressional race? | ||
| It took them forever to, like six months later, they declared, who was it, Jerry Nadler or somebody? | ||
| They declared him the winner. | ||
| Oh, six months later. | ||
| But it was somebody. | ||
| Oh, no, it was the woman, the congressman. | ||
| I won't mention her name. | ||
| But she won, but she didn't win. | ||
| And it was really very sad to see that whole thing. | ||
| Democrat, that was a Democrat and a Democrat. | ||
| That was a primary, but they had the mail-in voting. | ||
| It's just a disaster. | ||
| So it's very, very expensive. | ||
| If you want to save money, if you really believe that the computers work, which they don't, but if you want to save a lot of money, all you have to do is go to paper ballots and you'll be cutting it down by millions and millions of dollars. | ||
| So America will take off like a rocket ship. | ||
| You're going to see things. | ||
| It's so great for the governors. | ||
| And Democrat governors are going to have, you're going to get the benefit of this. | ||
| You're going to be opening up plants and you're going to be, I hope we have enough people. | ||
| And we want people to come into our country, by the way, I do, but they have to come in legally. | ||
| So we need people in the country, but they have to come in legally. | ||
| Two weeks ago, I signed an executive order banning men from playing in women's sports. | ||
| Many Democrats are fighting me on that. | ||
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I hope you continue because you'll never win another race. | |
| And it's just crazy. | ||
| If you look at what happened with the boxing, if you look at what happened with the weightlifting numbers, where a record that hadn't been broken for 19 years got shattered. | ||
| But, you know, they put up an eighth of an ounce here, an eighth of an ounce there, and a 218 pounds or whatever that. | ||
| And hadn't been broken in 19 years. | ||
| And then a guy walks up who transitioned. | ||
| He transitioned and he knocked out that record by about 100 pounds. | ||
| That would be a record not going to be broken again in a longer. | ||
| So we put a ban on it and to protect women. | ||
| I mean, the women, if you watch the Olympics, you had two transitioned people that were fighting in the women's boxing, they have women's boxing category. | ||
| You saw that, it was brutal. | ||
| What happened to the Italian woman was a really good boxer. | ||
| After one punch, she said, No, no, no more, no more. | ||
| I've never been hit. | ||
| It was a left. | ||
| It was not even a left jab. | ||
| She got hit so hard, she said, I can't do it. | ||
| They forced her to go out. | ||
| No, go out, go out again. | ||
| You'll do it. | ||
| Goes out again, gets hit again. | ||
| No, no, that's it. | ||
| She didn't want to die. | ||
| And it's crazy, but the NCAA has complied immediately, by the way. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| But I understand Maine, is Maine here, the governor of Maine? | ||
| Are you not going to comply with it? | ||
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I'm complying with state and federal laws. | |
| Well, we are the federal law. | ||
| Well, you better do it. | ||
| You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. | ||
| And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. | ||
| So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. | ||
| Every state, good, I'll see you in court. | ||
| I look forward to that. | ||
| That should be a real easy one. | ||
| And enjoy your life after, governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics. | ||
| Every state has a responsibility to comply with Title IX. | ||
| They have an obligation, a legal obligation, and we'll be enforcing aggressively and we're going to be protecting our citizens. | ||
| We're going to protect. | ||
| So just to end, this administration has been fighting for parents' rights and universal school choice. | ||
| We want to do something that I think many people in this room want, and even if you don't, I think you do want it, but you might not be able to say it. | ||
| We want to move the schools back to the states so that Iowa and South Carolina and Georgia and all these states can run your own school system. | ||
| And you'll do a fantastic job. | ||
| Kim, you're going to do great. | ||
| I mean, I use your example because you're so much into the education, done a great job with school choice, and you'll do your school choice. | ||
| That'll be the easy thing. | ||
| But we want to get it back, take it away. | ||
| So just some stats. | ||
| So last, it's usually with 38, 39, or 40 out of 40. | ||
| They take the 40, I guess biggest, most important, whatever it might be, but 40 countries. | ||
| And we were 38, 38, 39, and congratulations. | ||
| But two months ago, three months ago, we hit number 40. | ||
| So we were last in terms of education in the world. | ||
| And we were first in another category, though. | ||
| We were first in cost per pupil. | ||
| So we spend much more. | ||
| And by the way, second wasn't even close. | ||
| So you have Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, China. | ||
| So there goes the big country theory, right? | ||
| They have 1.4, they're rated number five. | ||
| That's a little bit scary, isn't it? | ||
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