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Conservation and offshore oil and gas production. | |
| Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can vote to disapprove any federal rule within 60 days of issuance. | ||
| Also, Republican leaders are expected to unveil a short-term funding bill by this weekend. | ||
| They plan to vote on the measure next week before the March 14th government funding deadline. | ||
| Watch live coverage of the House when members return here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Tonight, watch C-SPAN's live coverage of President Trump's address to Congress, the first address of his second term, and less than two months since taking office. | ||
| C-SPAN's live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern with a preview of the evening from Capitol Hill, followed by the President's speech, which begins at 9 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| And then watch the Democratic response after the President's speech. | ||
| We'll also take your calls and get your reaction on social media. | ||
| Over on C-SPAN 2, you can also watch a simulcast of the evening's coverage, followed by reaction from lawmakers live from Capitol Hill. | ||
| Watch President Trump's address to Congress live tonight, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN, our simulcast live on C-SPAN 2, or on C-SPAN Now, our free mobile video app. | ||
| Also online at c-SPAN.org. | ||
| C-SPAN, bringing you your democracy unfiltered. | ||
| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| We'll start with the Washington Times. | ||
| On the front page, Trump says his speech will, quote, tell it like it is. | ||
| President Trump will double down on his America First Agenda Tuesday night, that's tonight, when he commands the stage for a joint session of Congress and makes the case for smaller government, more tariffs, and stricter immigration. | ||
| He promised a speech would lay it out for the American people. | ||
| Quote, Tomorrow night will be big. | ||
| I will tell it like it is, Mr. Trump said Monday on social media. | ||
| The president will outline the blueprint that got him elected in November and tie it to the flurry of action he has taken in his first six weeks in office. | ||
| He is expected to argue that those actions are key to implementing the drastic changes voters sent him to the White House to enact. | ||
| And we will have coverage of that speech in its entirety tonight. | ||
| Our live coverage will start at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. | ||
| The speech is expected to start at 9 p.m. | ||
| You can watch it here on C-SPAN, also on C-SPAN 2, and it'll be on our app, C-SPANNOW and online at c-span.org. | ||
| Let's take a look at Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer. | ||
| He was on the Senate floor on Monday, and he talked about what he says voters care about and how Democrats will respond. | ||
| You can see frustration boil over in town halls in Georgia and Kansas and Oregon and everywhere in between. | ||
| Republican leaders are telling their members to cancel town hall meetings. | ||
| They're running away from the people because they know how badly the people have been hurt by what they're doing. | ||
| Maybe they don't want to do it, but they're forced to because President Trump wants tax breaks for billionaires. | ||
| You can see the frustration in the polls, too. | ||
| A majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump has ignored the number one issue they care about, inflation, rising costs. | ||
| You can see the frustration online. | ||
| Last week, I joined a Zoom. | ||
| Over 3,000 New Yorkers got on the Zoom, ready to mobilize against Republican attacks on Medicaid. | ||
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| And many of my colleagues had similar meetings with similar, strong responses. | ||
| People are ready. | ||
| They're energized. | ||
| You can also see it in the courts. | ||
| The American people can rest assured that whenever the administration breaks the law, we'll take them to court. | ||
| It will be one of our best tools to protecting our country and putting a stop to the worst abuses of Donald Trump's agenda. | ||
| And for the most part, the courts are rejecting much of what Donald Trump has tried to do. | ||
| The more Donald Trump pushes our democracy to the limit, the more Americans will push back. | ||
| Organizing is never easy, but it works. | ||
| It works. | ||
| That's what we'll continue to do. | ||
| We shall organize here in the Congress, organize in the public square, organize in court to protect the country we all know and love. | ||
| Nothing that Donald Trump says tomorrow will change that fact. | ||
| And we'll go to the phones now and start with Antone in Berkeley, California, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| I am not going to watch President Trump this evening for these reasons. | ||
| One, everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. | ||
| Two, he assaults women. | ||
| Three, he's a convicted felon on 34 counts, and now he is in bed with Russia. | ||
| And as a child, I remember having to go under deaths at my grade school because of Russia's threat to attack the United States. | ||
| I remember provisions in the basement because Russia threatened to attack the United States. | ||
| And I remember kneeling down in the hallway, okay, for air raid drills because Russia attacked the United States, and every home had a bomb shelter built in it because of this. | ||
| And now this president is in bed with Mr. Putin. | ||
| So I don't even want to look at this man. | ||
| I think he's thoroughly disgusted and disgusting. | ||
| And anybody who supports this man is just as sick and disgusting as he is. | ||
| You have a great day. | ||
| Here's Brian in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, Brian. | ||
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Hi there. | |
| How are you doing today? | ||
| Good. | ||
| So today's discussion about Donald Trump, you know, a lot of people say they don't like Donald Trump, but I think he's, I don't really think there's a problem with him. | ||
| So basically, I've never met Mr. Trump personally, but I know that he had a lot of involvement with the annucators on Tweet Street. | ||
| Yeah, me and my friend Hunter Cullen. | ||
| Sorry, I have a bit of a cold. | ||
| Friend Hunter Cullen were talking about Trump's policies and how a lot of people thought that he's a bad guy and just because he's a felon, that indicates, you know, that's an indicator that he's not capable of running the country. | ||
| Well, you've got to keep in mind, all the protesters were harvesting a felon in 2013. | ||
| Kathleen in Illinois, Line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How are you doing? | ||
| Good. | ||
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No, I will not be watching Trump sit up there and make a complete fool out of the American people. | |
| First of all, he ran on getting rid of the illegal immigrants, in which nobody in this world is illegal because we are all God's children. | ||
| So he has accomplished that. | ||
| But he also ran over getting the price of eggs and milk down. | ||
| That did not happen. | ||
| And when did he say when he got in there that he was going to get rid of the Americans and their jobs? | ||
| How in the world can you be America first and you got in there and went after legal people in this country, if you want to say it, taking their jobs, the federal workers' jobs, putting people, how could you do that? | ||
| And you said you were president of all the people. | ||
| That is impossible. | ||
| Now you got people around here don't buy homes and then all this stuff that he's doing with Elon Musk. | ||
| Elon Musk was not elected to anything. | ||
| You said you don't care for immigrants. | ||
| Why do you have an immigrant running this country and you just sitting there letting it happen? | ||
| So what he's going to say tonight will mean nothing to the American people. | ||
| People miss us out here hurting because this man came in here and hurt the American people, not the immigrants. | ||
| So Kathleen. | ||
| Kathleen, you said that you're not going to watch it. | ||
| What do you think Democratic lawmakers should do? | ||
| Should they boycott or should they attend? | ||
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Bigger time. | |
| What do you think Democratic lawmakers should do? | ||
| The representatives and the senators. | ||
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Lawmakers shouldn't even show up. | |
| They shouldn't even show up because we know what he's going to say, nothing. | ||
| He's going to stand up there and act like he don't did what the American people wanted him to do. | ||
| What American, including somebody like you, want him to get in here and take Americans who are going out here every day working. | ||
| Give those ama jobs for people. | ||
| All right, Kathleen. | ||
| Well, here is Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on why he's not attending tonight's speech. | ||
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I think that State of the Union speech is going to be a farce. | |
| I think it's going to be a MAGA pep rally, not a serious talk to the nation. | ||
| I think Donald Trump is going to spew a series of lies about his alignment with Russia, about what he's trying to do to allow Elon Musk to essentially monetize the American government to enrich Musk and his billionaire crowd. | ||
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And I'm just not going to be a part of that. | |
| Listen, the case I'm making to Democrats is that we have to fight every single day, every single day. | ||
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Republicans flood the zone. | |
| Democrats have to flood the zone. | ||
| They flood the zone with lies. | ||
| We flood the zone with truth. | ||
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We are going to stop this billionaire takeover of government. | |
| We are going to stop their destruction of democracy, which they have to do because what they are attempting to do, gut Medicaid in order to feed another set of tax cuts to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends. | ||
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It's unpopular. | |
| We're going to stop that billionaire takeover, that destruction of our democracy, only by fighting them every single day. | ||
| A lot of Democrats think maybe you should fight every third day. | ||
| You should reserve your power and jump out of the bushes at the right moment. | ||
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I just think that we have to be on the offensive 24-7. | |
| And this is Bloomberg saying, Americans want Trump to do more for the economy, according to two polls. | ||
| It says that two polls signaled that President Donald Trump risks putting off Americans worried about the economy and inflation with the broad flurry of measures during his first weeks in office. | ||
| While about 80% of adults surveyed said Trump should home in on the economy and inflation, they said they believed his top priorities were the U.S.-Mexico border, his effort to slim the federal workforce, and tariffs. | ||
| Only 29% said Trump was prioritizing inflation a lot, and 36% said the same about the economy. | ||
| Wonder what you think about that, and we'll hear from Kathy in Colorado Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| No, I will not. | ||
| I agree with the First Lady. | ||
| I agree with Kathleen. | ||
| No, it's just going to be stand up and tell a bunch of lies, just like he always does. | ||
| So no, I would not watch either. | ||
| Yes, I do think the Democrats should boycott it. | ||
| Why sit through that? | ||
| Why put yourself through misery to listen to all this BS from him? | ||
| And another thing I'd like to say, I tried to call, I believe it was Friday, when you were asking about how to cut the budget down. | ||
| One thing that could be done is Trump could keep his butt at the White House and do his job instead of running to his golf courses, Mar-a-Lago every few days, the Super Bowl, the IndyCar race. | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| Let's talk about taxpayers' money going to nothing but a bunch of users. | ||
| And that's exactly what he is doing. | ||
| That's why he wants to be president. | ||
| He wants to use people in this country. | ||
| He wants to use the government, just like Elon Musk. | ||
| He wants to use the government to keep getting rich, to keep getting power. | ||
| And I cannot believe that people cannot see through him. | ||
| All right, Kathy. | ||
| And Jeff sent us this on Facebook. | ||
| He says, I want to hear the truth, no matter how bad it is. | ||
| It will be refreshing after what I heard from the past administration. | ||
| Revitalizing. | ||
| And here is John in Portland, Connecticut, Republican. | ||
| Hi, John. | ||
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Good morning, Mimi. | |
| First question, please. | ||
| Did we do this four years ago to President Biden the way the Democrats are rebelling against? | ||
| Don't cut me off. | ||
| I'm watching your finger. | ||
| Did we do this Biden four years ago? | ||
| Hold on, John. | ||
| John, you can't watch me on TV because there's a delay. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Okay, so don't look at the TV. | ||
| Just talk in the phone. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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All right. | |
| Go ahead. | ||
| So we heard what you said about a former President Biden. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Right. | |
| Did C-SPAN do this to Biden four years ago? | ||
| Did the Republicans revolt against him the way the Democrats want to do this tonight to President Trump? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's my question, one of them. | ||
| Okay, what else you got? | ||
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Okay. | |
| All I see, I saw Chuck Schumer earlier in the, you know, this first thing this morning. | ||
| And why? | ||
| It's like you're talking like China just invaded us. | ||
| We're all in this together with the president. | ||
| Let's try to get this country straight again. | ||
| Every time I listen to your program, it's all you are not on filter, first of all. | ||
| You're more biased than anything, every one of you. | ||
| Okay, thanks for the feedback. | ||
| Staying in Connecticut, this is in Ansonia. | ||
| Democrat Josh, you're next. | ||
| And here is Mike, Norwalk, Ohio, Independent Line. | ||
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MIMI. | |
| Boy, that last guy, that's a perfect example of what we're dealing with here in America. | ||
| Of course, I'm going to watch Trump. | ||
| He's opened my eyes for the last six weeks of them being, us American citizens being ripped off by the government and that bureaucracy behind you there, Mimi. | ||
| It's just unconceivable how people just can't understand or open their eyes and see the exact facts that are going on. | ||
| There's theft, trillions of dollars that have been stolen from us. | ||
| And people are more or less worried about Trump. | ||
| Trump didn't rip us off. | ||
| Your representatives ripped us off. | ||
| I'm talking Democrats and Republicans. | ||
| Now, Trump's going to try to fix this because it's such a mess. | ||
| And it's going to take more than six weeks to fix the mess that Biden created in four years. | ||
| And as far as him being out of the office, wasn't Biden out of office for 570-something days because nobody wanted to, they didn't want us to see how incompetent he really was. | ||
| And wake up, people. | ||
| So, Mike, what do you want to hear tonight? | ||
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I want to hear exactly what he's been telling us, the exact truth. | |
| Let's talk about Zelensky. | ||
| He went to the scene of the Democrats before the meeting with him, and they got him all riled up. | ||
| And next thing you know, he's backing out of a deal he already agreed to. | ||
| Come on, people, wake up. | ||
| The problem is our own government. | ||
| They're not out for us. | ||
| They're out for themselves. | ||
| Thank you, Minnie. | ||
| And this is speaking of Ukraine. | ||
| This is on the front page of the Wall Street Journal: U.S. Halts Arms for Ukraine in Sharp Turn Away from Ally. | ||
| That is, it says that the U.S. will pause all military aid to Kyiv until President Trump determines that President Zelensky of Ukraine is making a good faith effort toward peace negotiations with Russia, according to the White House. | ||
| This is Joey, Atlanta, Republican. | ||
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Yes, I just know that it's amazing how these Democrats are so pathetic. | |
| It's amazing how they could call and spread their hate and lies. | ||
| It's just amazing. | ||
| I don't understand why they can't put their hate to the side and give this president a chance. | ||
| I mean, it's amazing how they are so angry. | ||
| They hate this man for everything he's done, everything he could do. | ||
| He could do anything that's going to make this country great. | ||
| And they will not give this guy a chance. | ||
| They won't even give him a chance to prove himself. | ||
| They're so full of hate. | ||
| I just feel so sorry for these Democrats. | ||
| They're so hateful people. | ||
| So, Joey, what are you going to be listening for tonight? | ||
| I'm assuming you're going to be watching. | ||
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Yes, I am. | |
| And I actually, I am proud of the president. | ||
| I think he's doing a great job. | ||
| So, what are the topics you want him to talk about that you're going to be listening for? | ||
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Well, I mean, I tell you that just the things alone, immigration, how immigration alone has been turned around. | |
| The Democrats were saying and yelling that we had a broken system. | ||
| What if it was so broken? | ||
| Why in less than a month, the system has already been proven that it has worked? | ||
| It's just that the Democrats never wanted to have a secure border. | ||
| And it's just amazing how much waste and abuse has been going on in this country. | ||
| And these politicians have been passing, just putting things under the rug and not addressing the issues. | ||
| It's just amazing how this guy in less than 30 days has done so much, so much. | ||
| You can see it. | ||
| You can hear it. | ||
| Everybody's talking about it. | ||
| The guy's a good man. | ||
| He's not perfect, but he's a good man. | ||
| And you could tell that he loves this country. | ||
| And for Democrats to just twist everything that he does and turn it around to make it look like he's trying to destroy America, why would anybody, why would anybody want to destroy if he is such an evil person? | ||
| What would benefit him by destroying America, by destroying the economy, by destroying our people? | ||
| What would be the benefit for someone that they say he's so hateful? | ||
| What benefit does he get? | ||
| Okay, Joey. | ||
| And this is Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. | ||
| He says on X, for folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday, no. | ||
| Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians, and we'll be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook Live. | ||
| This is Tim in Rochester, New York, Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Tim. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I'm going to watch it. | ||
| He's the president. | ||
| You know, he got voted in. | ||
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It's called Respect. | |
| And all you Republicans, start acting like Democrats is all this and all that. | ||
| We're American first. | ||
| So divided we stand, divided we fall. | ||
| So, you know, I'm going to watch them. | ||
| I have no problem. | ||
| I haven't been really paying attention to politics since really like August because when they put Kamala Harris up, it was just too much for me. | ||
| And they could have had better, two better, you know, candidates, and we could have had a better president somehow. | ||
| I don't care if they're Republican or Democrat. | ||
| So did you vote, Tim? | ||
| No, I couldn't because the Democrats should have had a primary, and Biden should have stepped out two years ago. | ||
| So it was crazy. | ||
| I probably would have voted for another Republican instead of Trump. | ||
| But that's how the country is. | ||
| So you said you are going to be watching tonight? | ||
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Yeah, I watch some. | |
| I don't watch a little basketball turn back and forth. | ||
| I've got no problem with Trump. | ||
| He's a president. | ||
| And it's just called respect. | ||
| And people in Congress need to show up and show that man respect. | ||
| You know, have a great day. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And Larry in Gates County, North Carolina, Independent. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| The gentleman that just spoke, thank you. | ||
| As an independent, I try and look at both sides. | ||
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And right now, we have Democrats that unfortunately are resisting everything that this administration wants to put forth. | |
| Someone talked earlier about Trump traveling here, there, and everywhere. | ||
| Well, I could swear that former President Biden was in Rehoboth Beach almost every weekend. | ||
| So, you know, this tit for tat just can't stand anymore. | ||
| And I really wish that, well, after tonight's speech, which I won't be watching because I'll be sleeping because I got to work early, is going to be a tomorrow's Monday morning quarterbacks. | ||
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All of the Republican or conservative stations are going to be saying, What a great speech. | |
| It was fantastic. | ||
| It's so positive for the country. | ||
| And then every liberal station, which outnumber the conservative stations, at least three or four to one, will be saying, It was the worst thing ever. | ||
| Oh, my gosh. | ||
| The end of the world is coming and we'll never be able to do anything for the country. | ||
| Oh, well, the Democrats really, I wish they would get off the Al Sharpton scenario. | ||
| Resist, we much. | ||
| All right. | ||
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Thank you for your time. | |
| All right, Larry. | ||
| And just a reminder that our coverage does start at 8 p.m. tonight. | ||
| You can also watch it on our website, cspan.org, and on our app, C-SPANNOW. | ||
| If you want, you can go back and watch it later if you're going to be going to bed early and not able to watch the whole thing. | ||
| Jason in Ohio, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, Jason. | ||
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Jason, are you there? | |
| Nope. | ||
| Nope. | ||
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Can you hear me now? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Go ahead, Jason. | ||
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Do you know what I'm going to be watching tonight? | |
| Carrie in Illinois, Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| I'm going to watch tonight because I'm going to watch to see how much more he hollows out the government because he's hollering the government out. | ||
| And one, we have a miso outbreak. | ||
| We have Ebola growing. | ||
| And we got Kennedy in charge of our health, of our health. | ||
| So someone tell me, is he better than Fauci, who knew how to control AIDS, who knew how to keep this country health. | ||
| And oh well, by the way, the guy for Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn't take, he didn't let Elon Musk come in and take everyone's personal information and social security numbers and wreck this country. | ||
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What this president is doing is destroying this country. | |
| You can be red, you can be blue, but you're going to be filling the blues when you watch Trump. | ||
| And he's giving it to all of us. | ||
| And it needs to stop. | ||
| Because Donald Trump is nothing but a crimer. | ||
| He's criming. | ||
| He's grifting this country out of billions of dollars. | ||
| And people can't even see it. | ||
| So one of the callers, Kerry, was saying, you know, why would he do that? | ||
| He has nothing to gain. | ||
| When you say he's a grifter, what does that mean to you? | ||
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What that means to me is because he's firing people who shouldn't be fired. | |
| He's hollowing out the government. | ||
| And he's taking the, all he wants is all he wants is the money and power. | ||
| That's all he wants. | ||
| And if anybody believes that, come next month, let's see where everybody gets their Social Security. | ||
| Let's see where everybody get their Medicare and Medicaid. | ||
| Because if he put those people out on the street and those people living in those retirement homes, that's where they're going to go. | ||
| So he's grifting. | ||
| He's been grifting since he's got in. | ||
| He's been grifting since he was born. | ||
| His father gave him half a billion dollars. | ||
| He blew it. | ||
| He blew the casinos. | ||
| This man is, look at how he treated Zelensky. | ||
| Why would you treat your allies like that? | ||
| And then this guy going to talking about he's going to take Canada. | ||
| What are you going to talk to the UK about that? | ||
| That's what's going to be next? | ||
| Because this country is, it shouldn't be divided. | ||
| They better start coming together before it gets to an end. | ||
| But the man is a grifter. | ||
| Kerry, since you mentioned Zelensky, let's show up a portion of President Trump with reporters in the Oval Office yesterday about what he says it will take to restart talks with President Zelensky. | ||
| Well, I just think you should be more appreciative because this country has stuck with them through thick and thin. | ||
| We've given them much more than Europe, and Europe should have given more than us because, as you know, that's right there. | ||
| That's the border. | ||
| This country really was like the fence on the border. | ||
| It was very important to Europe. | ||
| And I'm not knocking Europe. | ||
| I'm saying that just they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden because Joe Biden didn't have a clue. | ||
| He just gave money hand over fist, and they should have been able to equalize with us. | ||
| In other words, if we gave a dollar, they should have given. | ||
| Well, we gave $350 billion. | ||
| They probably gave $100. | ||
| But on top of it all, they get their money back because they're doing it in the form of a loan, and it's a secured loan. | ||
| So when I saw that, which I've known about for a little while, I said it's time for us to be smart. | ||
| At the same time, it's great for them because they get us in the country taking the rare earth, which is going to fuel this big engine and especially the engine that we've in a very short time created. | ||
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| And we get something, and we're there. | ||
| We have a presence there. | ||
| With all of that being said, I want one thing to happen. | ||
| I want all of those young people to stop being killed. | ||
| They're being killed by the thousands every single week. | ||
| Last week, 2,700 were killed. | ||
| 2,700 young, in this case, just about all young boys from Ukraine and from Russia. | ||
| And that's not young people from the United States, but it's on a human basis. | ||
| I want to see it stop. | ||
| I was the president yesterday, and he did mention the amount that Europe is giving. | ||