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To rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, codifying President Trump's executive order into law. | |
| The Senate will vote to confirm Frank Bizignano to serve as Social Security Commissioner. | ||
| Also, for the first time since taking office, Trump cabinet members will testify before House and Senate committees on their respective departments and agencies. | ||
| On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee conducting oversight on her department. | ||
| And Treasury Secretary Scott Besant will appear before two committees on Tuesday before the House Appropriations Oversight Subcommittee on the Department of Treasury and on Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee for his annual testimony on the state of the international financial system. | ||
| Also Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gives a press conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. | ||
| And Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will participate in a fireside chat to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. | ||
| Watch live this week on the C-SPAN networks or on C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app. | ||
| Also, head over to C-SPAN.org for scheduling information or to watch live or on demand anytime. | ||
| C-SPAN, Democracy Unfiltered. | ||
| Moments ago, President Trump answered questions from reporters aboard Air Force One heading back to the White House. | ||
| He answered an array of questions, including trade deals, U.S., Mexico relations, and talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Good evening, sir. | ||
| Nice plane. | ||
| Everyone having a good time. | ||
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We'll be back in Washington soon. | |
| We have a lot of good news to report, and you'll be hearing about it. | ||
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Probably not now, but you'll be hearing about it. | |
| We've had some good things coming out of the many war zones that were created by Biden and a group of incompetent people. | ||
| But I think we have some pretty good news. | ||
| Talk about that later or tomorrow. | ||
| Any questions? | ||
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Any plans to speak with President Xi this week? | |
| No, no plans to speak to him, but China and our people are talking about different things. | ||
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Why did you decide to false out in his position as a national security budget? | |
| I actually think it's a higher position. | ||
| I want to know that I think it's an upgrade. | ||
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The moving of this an upgrade. | |
| There's the news nations on the call. | ||
| You said that you didn't make any mistakes in your personal working news. | ||
| Was it waiting by Waltz to act your national security advisor? | ||
| No, it's irrelevant. | ||
| It's not a mistake or not a mistake. | ||
| It's not a big deal. | ||
| So what? | ||
| He was fine, and where he is, he'll do a good job. | ||
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What made you lose his money? | |
| I don't get sent in that. | ||
| I did lose confidence in him. | ||
| Why did I lose confidence? | ||
| He's going to the United Nations represent to me. | ||
| I think it's personally. | ||
| If I had a choice for myself, I'll do it. | ||
| I'd rather have that job than the other. | ||
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Did he resign on his own or did you? | |
| He didn't resign. | ||
| I just moved him. | ||
| There's no resignation. | ||
| You people are so bad. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| You're trying to make a big deal out of something. | ||
| You are so bad. | ||
| That's why nobody watches you anymore. | ||
| Who are you with? | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Who are you with? | ||
| You're with who? | ||
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First TV. | |
| First. | ||
| I didn't know there was such a thing. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| It could very well be. | ||
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Can you tell us more about the president? | |
| Nobody understands. | ||
| We're negotiating with many countries. | ||
| But at the end of this, I'll set my own deals because I said the deal. | ||
| They don't set the deal. | ||
| I said the deal. | ||
| They've been ripping us off for years. | ||
| I said the deal. | ||
| Sir. | ||
| Every country, almost without fail, friend and foe, has been ripping us off for years. | ||
| So we're meeting with almost all of them, including China. | ||
| And at the end, I'm setting the deal. | ||
| They keep saying, what are you going to do? | ||
| This is not like a big deal that's going to be signed. | ||
| In some cases, we'll sign. | ||
| But we don't have to have signs. | ||
| I'm going to be setting the deal. | ||
| I'll be setting a tariff. | ||
| You keep asking the same question. | ||
| When will you agree? | ||
| It's up to me. | ||
| It's not up to them. | ||
| It's up to me now. | ||
| They don't have to deal with us, which is okay because we lost, under Biden, we were losing $5 billion a day. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| $5 billion a day. | ||
| Now we're not dealing with China at all because the tariff's so high that they basically can't deal. | ||
| And because of that, we're saving billions of dollars. | ||
| But just, and I'm not saying this to be a wise guy with you, to be mean. | ||
| I don't want to be making your good professionals. | ||
| But you do keep asking me that same question. | ||
| It's not like we're going to sit down in an ivory room and we're going to just, he's going to say, there'll be some of that. | ||
| Very little. | ||
| I don't see a lot of it. | ||
| At some point in the next two weeks or three weeks, I'm going to be setting the deal. | ||
| I'm going to say that such and such a country has had a tremendous trade surplus, surplus their way, with us. | ||
| They've taken advantage of us in various ways. | ||
| And we fully understand what they were doing. | ||
| We were being led by people that were not very smart. | ||
| They were able to be taken advantage of. | ||
| But I can't be taken advantage of. | ||
| So at a certain point, I'll be just setting a certain tariff number. | ||
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What's your term PEPFAR, sir? | |
| PEPFAR on HAIDS Tream in Africa. | ||
| There's a waiver in place, but people are saying to my colleagues that they're still not getting medicines. | ||
| And UNAIDS. | ||
| Well, that shouldn't be happening. | ||
| But the other thing, other countries should be helping us with that. | ||
| And I'm a big fan of getting that solved. | ||
| But, you know, we're the only country. | ||
| Where is France? | ||
| Where is Germany? | ||
| Where are these other countries? | ||
| Nobody does anything but the United States. | ||
| And we spent, you know, billions and billions of dollars. | ||
| So they should be helping also. | ||
| But as you know, we did a waiver. | ||
| You know that, right? | ||
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Right. | |
| Well, I can't help that because if we did a waiver, then you have to get your people to act properly in the waiver. | ||
| But I do ask, why are we the only country doing it? | ||
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Mr. Resident, what's your timeline on the rest of your judicial nominations? | |
| And what's your criteria when you're making judges? | ||
| Which nominations? | ||
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The future judicial nominations to the family judge positions. | |
| Well, we're putting them in rapidly and we're trying to get very good ones. | ||
| I mean, we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant. | ||
| We have millions of people that have come in here illegally. | ||
| And we can't have a trial for every single person. | ||
| That would be millions of trials. | ||
| The people elected me in a landslide with every single, we won every swing state, we want everything there is to win by big numbers. | ||
| Not only swing state, we won the popular vote by millions of votes. | ||
| They elected me. | ||
| This was the number one issue. | ||
| And now we have judges radicalized. | ||
| They're crazy. | ||
| Because they want us to have, if you believe this, they want us to have a trial for every person that came in illegally into our country. | ||
| So they come into our country illegally. | ||
| And then we're supposed to take weeks, I guess, and months to have a trial on every criminal. | ||
| And we have murderers all over the country. | ||
| I don't think the Supreme Court will stand for that. | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| Because you know what? | ||
| If they do, we're not going to have a country. | ||
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How will you make sure that the judges that you appoint are different than that? | |
| All you can do is do the best you can. | ||
| You know, you try and appoint the best people to being judges or anything else that you appoint. | ||
| But so far, you've been very disappointed with the decisions that come out. | ||
| And mostly from people appointed by others than me. | ||
| But it's just so hard to believe that you have a murderer. | ||
| Many, you know, we have 11,888 or whatever the number is. | ||
| We have thousands of murderers in this country. | ||
| We're getting them out. | ||
| And they say, we don't want them out. | ||
| We want them to stay in our country until they have a trial. | ||
| Trials take years. | ||
| They take years. | ||
| It's so crazy. | ||
| We won't have a country left. | ||
| We can't have that happen. | ||
| Who are you with? | ||
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The Wall Street Journal. | |
| That's what I do. | ||
| Well, you people treat us so badly. | ||
| Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| It's a rotten newspaper. | ||
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Well, the running law journal. | |
| What I said is a rotten newspaper. | ||
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On the real piece of talks with Lucknow. | |
| I wouldn't tell the Wall Street Journal because that'd be wasting my time. | ||
| There are talks, but I don't want to talk to the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| But look, Wall Street Journal is China-oriented, and they're really bad for this country. | ||
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Say you want a fair deal with China. | |
| What does a fair deal look like? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Well, you know, I want a fair deal with China, but China's been ripping us off for many years, so maybe something should be thought about, you know, a little bit of retribution. | ||
| China's been ripping this off for many years, ever since they started. | ||
| To me, I think it was the worst thing that Richard Nixon ever did. | ||
| And it wasn't, you know, he's the one that got it started. | ||
| And they've taken advantage of it. | ||
| No. | ||
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Mexican's president is believing that you offer to send U.S. troops into Mexico, and she said that she didn't want them to move Mexico. | |
| So Mexico is saying that I offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico to take care of the cartel. | ||
| She wants to know: is that true? | ||
| Do you think I'm going to answer that question? | ||
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That's why I'm asking. | |
| We'll see. | ||
| I will answer it. | ||
| It's true. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Because they should be, they are horrible people that have been killing people left and right and have been, they've made a fortune on selling drugs and destroying our people. | ||
| We lost 300,000 people last year to fentanyl and drugs. | ||
| They're bad news. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go in and do it. | ||
| I told her that I would be honored to go in and do it. | ||
| The cartels are trying to destroy our country. | ||
| They're evil. | ||
| And, you know, we had 300,000 people die last year from fentanyl and all of that. | ||
| We had hundreds. | ||
| We had millions of people brought into this country that shouldn't be here. | ||
| The cartels brought them in. | ||
| So if she said that I offered to do that, she's 100% right. | ||
| Well, she's so afraid of the cartel she can't walk. | ||
| So, you know, that's the reason. | ||
| And I think she's a lovely woman. | ||
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But the president of Mexico is a lovely woman. | |
| But she is so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight. | ||
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Sir, on Friday, you told Kristen Walker that maybe a little girl, this person is costing $35, maybe they just. | |
| Listen, all I'm saying is that you don't, that a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, nine-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn't need $37. | ||
| She can be very happy with two or three or four or five. | ||
| Let's not waste a lot of time, Minister. | ||
| What question? | ||
| We'll see you next time. | ||
| Well, I don't know about it, but I'm honored if that's the case. | ||
| If they're going to name a road after me, if that's the case, I'm honored. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Who are you considering to be your more permanent national security advisor? | |
| Well, I have a lot of people that want the job, I can tell you. | ||
| It's, I mean, a lot of people say it really works in with what Marco's doing. | ||
| But we have a lot of people. | ||
| I'm going to be naming somebody, but we're not going to be able to do that. | ||
| I would say within six months. | ||
| He would do the job permanently, but I think it's an appropriate job. | ||
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Are you considering Stephen Miller? | |
| Stephen Miller is at the top of the totem pole. | ||
| I mean, I think he sort of indirectly already has that job. | ||
| You understand? | ||
| Because he has a lot to say about a lot of things. | ||
| He's a very valued person in the administration, Stephen Miller. | ||
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As it takes to 100 days, what do you see as your managing the items for the next 100 days? | |
| I think we have the greatest 100 days in the history of our country for an administration. | ||
| I think we've done more. | ||
| We've gotten rid of woke. | ||
| We're strengthening up our military. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| Six months ago, we had the worst numbers in the history of our military for joining our military and police. | ||
| Now we have the best numbers we've ever had. | ||
| You just think of that. | ||
| It's not even possible. | ||
| Inflation's down. | ||
| All costs are down. | ||
| Everything is down other than, as Tristan said, the thing that you carry the babies around in. | ||
| But that's up to represent. | ||
| Energy's down. | ||
| Gasoline's down. | ||
| Nobody's ever seen anything far ahead of schedule. | ||
| So people that were paying a lot for groceries, they're paying a lot less. | ||
| And interest rates are even down. | ||
| You know, we have a very stubborn Fed, but I mean, Fed should lower, but that's okay. | ||
| But interest rates are down. | ||
| Mortgage rates are down. | ||
| And pretty amazing. | ||
| We've done, I don't think there's ever been a better opening hundred days. | ||
| We have a lot of fake polls where they interview Democrats, not Republicans, but meeting more Democrats. | ||
| I had a pollster that said to me, a legitimate pollster, John McLachlan, the top person. | ||
| He said he's never seen polls that were so fake before, where they overweight the Democrats. | ||
| And I only bring that up because I think it's something that should be said. | ||
| It's a shame how dishonest the media is. |