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| As we hear from you ahead of President Trump's address to Congress, we're asking what you'd like to hear from the president during his speech. | ||
| My name is Marco Cesaraga. | ||
| I'm a student at Pepperdine University and I'm from Los Angeles, California. | ||
| An issue that I want the president to address in his next meeting with Congress is I want him to address the validity of Elon Musk's email to federal employees, asking them for five bullet points as to what they've accomplished in the past week. | ||
| I feel like that action is very unlawful and I'd love some more elaboration on his part on why these emails are being sent out to federal employees. | ||
| I'm Maggie Lyons and I would love to hear the president talk about the National Apprenticeship Program. | ||
| Hello, my name is William Woolke. | ||
| I'm originally from East Tennessee. | ||
| I'm a third year doctoral student at the University of Delaware and I really think the president should be talking about youth homelessness in his upcoming congressional briefing. | ||
| Hey, my name is Thomas. | ||
| I'm from Brazil and I would like the president to talk about the environment because I think it's one of the greatest challenges of the century and it impacts my home country. | ||
| My name is Audrey. | ||
| I'm from Philadelphia and I hope the president addresses science funding. | ||
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| Up next, House Republican leaders speak to reporters ahead of President Trump's address to Congress this evening. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| Good morning, everyone. | ||
| Thank you so much for coming. | ||
| Let's start off by the deranged Democrats are living in a distorted reality. | ||
| Over the weekend, the minority leader told CNN, and I quote, President Trump is not focused on solving the problems of everyday Americans. | ||
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I can't believe the minority leader would say this, but he did. | |
| The irony about the minority leaders' comments is President Trump is solving the problems of everyday Americans. | ||
| For example, the comment comes after Democrats voted against securing our border and making our communities safe. | ||
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Meanwhile, President Trump has secured our borders. | |
| He has only been in office for less than two months. | ||
| And in the Democrats' distorted reality, President Trump is to blame for all the world's problems. | ||
| He inherited these problems, when in reality, Democrats are the ones who caused the problems. | ||
| Illegal aliens flooded our borders because Democrats kept them open. | ||
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Democrats let killers like Jose Ibarra come into our communities. | |
| And Democrats keep voting against fixing these problems. | ||
| Let's be clear. | ||
| But I can share with you, times they are a changing. | ||
| Common sense has been restored. | ||
| Illegal border crossings were the lowest ever recorded last month. | ||
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How's that? | |
| By taking care of the American people's problems. | ||
| Our communities are actually safer. | ||
| President Trump is keeping his promises that he made to the American people. | ||
| After four years of silence and shadows from Joe Biden and the Democrats, President Trump has restored accountability and transparency at the White House. | ||
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He's actually answering unscripted questions from the press. | |
| Americans actually see the president working for them daily. | ||
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This is a stark contrast from the past four years. | |
| And Americans are actually excited. | ||
| President Trump is turning our country around. | ||
| He is reversing the damage caused by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the deranged Democrats. | ||
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I expect Americans will notice the new direction of the nation when we hear from our Commander-in-Chief this evening. | |
| In his first joint address since returning to the White House, President Trump message to the American people will be clear. | ||
| America is back. | ||
| There's no doubt about that. | ||
| Thanks to President Trump's, America is strong again. | ||
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Terrorists are actually on notice. | |
| Our enemies and adversaries actually fear and respect us again, especially our allies. | ||
| America will no longer be taken advantage of. | ||
| This was made clear in the Oval Office on Friday. | ||
| So let's be clear. | ||
| The war in Ukraine started while Joe Biden was president. | ||
| I just got to remind everyone of those facts. | ||
| And President Trump is the president that's actually trying to end it. | ||
| So one president starts the war. | ||
| The other president actually tries to end the war. | ||
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He inherited this mess from Biden. | |
| I know the Democrats want you to forget about that, but every once in a while we have to reset that playing field and remind people. | ||
| In less than two months, President Trump has restored peace through strength and turned the page on Biden's blunders on the world stage. | ||
| But that's just one of his many accomplishments. | ||
| President Trump is working at an unprecedented pace. | ||
| He's putting America and its people first. | ||
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That's exactly what we just heard from our Secretary of Defense. | |
| The president's efforts to rid the Department of Defense of DEI has been profoundly positive. | ||
| Soldiers are actually excited to be focused on the actual mission, lethality and preparedness, not weakness and wokeness. | ||
| The president is rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars at the Pentagon. | ||
| As I mentioned, he returned to the White House and has set Democrats into complete and utter disarray. | ||
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They have no vision, no plan, and no leader. | |
| They only have one thing to offer the American people, and that's fear-mongering. | ||
| This has caused a messaging crisis in the Democratic Party. | ||
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They are clearly scrambling. | |
| The main goal is to be against for the Democrats. | ||
| Their main goal is to be against what 77 million American people want. | ||
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And the House Republicans are calling them out for it. | |
| Look no further than tomorrow's oversight committee hearing on sanctuary cities. | ||
| Democrats' radical policies will be on full display, and I encourage you all to watch. | ||
| Americans will be reminded that Democrats protect killers, rapists, and drug dealers who find safe haven in sanctuary cities. | ||
| For example, a Sudanese national who was convicted of raping a victim under 13 years old. | ||
| A Mexican national convicted of a sexual, a criminal sexual conduct on a victim under 13 years old. | ||
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Both were arrested by ICE in St. Paul, Minnesota, a sanctuary city. | |
| And what do deranged Democrats in Minnesota have to say? | ||
| They say, well, targeting criminal, illegal immigrants threatens their safe spaces. | ||
| Threatens the safe spaces of whom? | ||
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Listen to what the Democrats are saying. | |
| Instead of showing empathy, they are siding with and protecting criminals, violent, illegal, alien criminals. | ||
| Meanwhile, Republicans actually stand with the victims. | ||
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We actually stand for legal. | |
| We actually stand for law and order. | ||
| What about the American people's safe spaces? | ||
| Do they count? | ||
| House Republicans will hold these mayors accountable. | ||
| Refusing to cooperate with immigration law puts communities and Americans in danger. | ||
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But it doesn't stop there. | |
| Even in the U.S. House of Representatives, deranged Democrats hold briefings and post videos on how to avoid ICE. | ||
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That's pretty American, huh? | |
| They are literally helping criminal, illegal immigrants. | ||
| This is a result of having no vision for the American people. | ||
| But I'm here to share with you, Americans can be optimistic because real leadership returned to the White House. | ||
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Leadership that our country desperately needs. | |
| The leadership 77 million Americans voted for. | ||
| Together, President Trump and House Republicans will stop sanctuary cities. | ||
| Sanctuary City policies are wreaking havoc on our communities, like the ones Representative Gabe Evans represents in the northern Denver suburbs. | ||
| Rep Evans has joined us today to help tell the local stories, like the story of the Trende Diagua, who took over an apartment complex in the Denver suburbs. | ||
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They used it to kidnap and torture people at gunpoint. | |
| Not real good people. | ||
| It's a shame that this is happening in America. | ||
| But I'll turn it over now to Gabe to let him tell his story. | ||
| Well, thank you, Chairwoman, Gabe Evans from Colorado's 8th Congressional District. | ||
| And I was a police officer in the Denver metro area for over a decade. | ||
| In fact, today I'm still wearing my police boots. | ||
| They're on their third set of soles because that is what keeps me grounded and reminds me why I'm here. | ||
| My morning routine hasn't changed in 14 years because here in Congress, I'm focused on serving the victims of these crimes that you just heard the chairwoman talk about. | ||
| Let's talk some of the statistics that have happened in Colorado as a result of these sanctuary policies. | ||
| When I started my law enforcement career, Colorado was 31st in the nation for our crime rate. | ||
| We're now number four. | ||
| Colorado is number two in the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on illegal drugs, predominantly fentanyl. | ||
| Colorado is once again got the highest rate of motor vehicle theft out of all of the 50 states. | ||
| As a police officer for over a decade in the Denver metro area, I saw firsthand what was contributing to these problems, and a significant percentage of the blame lays on sanctuary city and state policies that allow violent transnational criminal organizations and cartels to come into our community and find safe harbor. | ||
| Recent headline news in Colorado showed that violent gangs like Trende Aragua have looked at Denver, Colorado to be their national headquarters as a result of these sanctuary policies. | ||
| In fact, very recently, ICE in Denver sent out a tweet where they highlighted that the Denver City and County jail would not honor ICE immigration detainers. | ||
| And as a result, they released a Trende Aragua gang member back into the public. | ||
| Immigration and customs officers had to go into the public to arrest this individual again who assaulted officers in the process. | ||
| This does not keep our communities safe. | ||
| This does not protect the victims of these crimes. | ||
| We know where this fentanyl is coming from. | ||
| In fact, every month, the death toll of fentanyl in the United States is greater than the total death toll of the September 11th terrorist attacks. | ||
| And so, with the designation of these cartels as terrorist organizations, it's incumbent that sanctuary cities and states get on board with the program and focus on protecting their communities and focus on allowing law enforcement to be able to work with their federal counterparts to be able to degrade and disrupt these criminal organizations that are operating in our communities and peddling poison by using immigration. | ||
| Watch the rest of this on the Free C-SPAN Now video app as we take you now to Capitol Hill, where the house is gabbling in. | ||
| Live coverage here on C-SPAN. | ||
| The prayer will be offered by Chaplin Kibbet. | ||
| Would you pray with me? | ||
| Great and awesome God, your glory is too wonderful to be seen. |