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| what happened while effusively praising elected officials and first responders alike president trump made remarks yesterday after touring those deadly floods in kern county texas here are some of those remarks we just we just were making a little tour of the area it's hard to believe the devastation trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| I've seen a lot of bad ones. | ||
| I've gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of tornadoes. | ||
| I've never seen anything like this. | ||
| This is a bad one we just visited with incredible families that, I mean, look, they've been devastated. | ||
| They lost their child or two children. | ||
| And just hard to believe what I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| A little narrow river that becomes a monster. | ||
| And that's what happened. | ||
| But the First Lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood. | ||
| Nobody has any idea how and why a thing like this could happen. | ||
| It's, and by the way, I have to tell you the people here, first responders, the sheriff's office, all of the police, law enforcement, they've done an unbelievable job. | ||
| And in speaking to the parents, they said everybody has been so professional from the governor to the senators all the way down to the local people on the site that really are a little bit used to this. | ||
| They've been looking at this for years, but in much smaller doses and on much, much smaller doses. | ||
| The floods in Texas and the aftermath. | ||
| Just one of the stories C-SPAN has been following this week. | ||
| For the first hour of today's program, we're asking you, we want to know your top news story of the week. | ||
| Again, the lines there on your screen, Democrats 202-748-8000. | ||
| Republicans 202-748-8001. | ||
| And Independents 202-748-8002. | ||
| You can also reach us on social media and by text. | ||
| We'll start with Samuel in South Pasadena, California, line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Samuel. | ||
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Oh, good morning. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| Can I talk about the tragedy in Texas? | ||
| Yes, go ahead, Samuel. | ||
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Oh, okay, yeah. | |
| I just wanted to say that, yeah, that is a real horrible tragedy, what happened there and everything. | ||
| And I feel for the people there. | ||
| But let me say this: as long as I live and wherever I go, I will always remember those people that passed away there with gratitude, one of affection and with love and honor. | ||
| And I will be donating money there, just like I did for the wildfires here in California. | ||
| And I just want to say that I just want to say God bless the people of Texas. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That was Samuel in California. | ||
| Ray in New York, line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Ray. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| My top story of the week is what's happening to our ICE agents, people throwing rocks at them, ruining vans, just treating them terribly. | ||
| And then the Democrats ringed up. | ||
| Christy! | ||
| Triumph with your name at the top of his list. | ||
| And the statue of Liberty started shaking her fist. | ||
| And an eagle will fly. | ||
| And it's gonna be here. | ||
| When you hear mother, freedom start to ring in her bell. | ||
| And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you. | ||
| Brought to you | ||
| This big dog will fight when you rattle his cake. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| You guys all look like a bunch of great Americans. | ||
| Thank you so much for welcoming me here tonight. | ||
| What an honor to be with all of you. | ||
| What did you say? | ||
| I'm your governor. | ||
| Yes, I am your governor. | ||
| And now I work for your president as your secretary of Homeland Security. | ||
| Listen, I spent the day today with a bunch of officers out arresting bad guys and getting them off the streets. | ||
| Aren't you grateful for our law enforcement officers? | ||
| In fact, I want to do this. | ||
| I'm sure my team put together a fantastic speech for me to give to you, and I will use some of it, but I'm going to go a little off the rails here a little bit because that's the mood that I'm in. | ||
| But I want you all to stand up with me, and we're going to cover our law enforcement officers in prayer right now. | ||
| Let's bow our heads. | ||
| Dear Heavenly Father, we just come before you tonight grateful. | ||
| We come before you extremely thankful for the blessings that you have given us, Lord, recognizing that we are a privileged people living in the greatest experiment on earth. | ||
| Lord, you have given us a country that defends our freedoms and our liberties. | ||
| And you have surrounded us with good men and women who care about the rule of law, who every single day stand up and they defend the oath that they have taken to protect people. | ||
| Lord, we were created to serve you. | ||
| The purpose you've placed inside of us as human beings is to serve other people. | ||
| And when we serve other people, we will be happier because we are fulfilling the purpose for which you have created us. | ||
| Lord, I just ask right now that you would put your hand and a covering over every single law enforcement officer in this country. | ||
| Lord, that you would build a hedge of protection around them. | ||
| And Lord, as they go out and they defend our streets from rioters, from violent criminals, from people who would wish to do others harm, Lord, that you would give them a peace that passes all understanding. | ||
| That you would keep your hand on them and their families, protect them, keep them safe, and help them to know, Lord, that they are standing for right, that they are standing for good, that they are fighting evil, and that they are fulfilling the purpose to which you have called them. | ||
| Dear Lord, we thank you and we praise you for each of every single one of them, Lord. | ||
| And I ask that everyone in this room and all of America would find ways to bless our law enforcement officers, Lord. | ||
| Bless them, have their backs, defend them, stand for what's right, and to continue to walk in the purpose for which you've called each and every one of us. | ||
| In your name, amen. | ||
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Amen. Thank you. | |
| We love you too. | ||
| You guys are amazing. | ||
| Thank you so much for being here. | ||
| Thank you so much for being a part of Turning Point and a part of an organization that not only seeks to bring together people and have civil discussions on policies and what this country is about and world events and what's going on and what we can do as far as being engaged, but an organization that seeks to have an informed public. | ||
| An informed public can have a better discourse about what our policies are, what our future is, and can continue to set America apart from other countries in the world. | ||
| I'm so grateful for this organization, for Charlie and his vision, for those who support him, and for each and every one of you who come here and recognize that you are the future. | ||
| Listen, I feel like my job is really weird, actually. | ||
| If you guys want to know what my job is, my background is as a farmer and a rancher. | ||
| Many of you have heard me speak here before. | ||
| Many of you have heard me speak here before as governor of South Dakota. | ||
| I had the chance to love these South Dakota guys. | ||
| Thanks for showing up. | ||
| I had the chance to speak here before as governor of South Dakota, but my background is mostly in business. | ||
| I served in Congress for a period of time as governor. | ||
| And now when President Trump called me and asked me to be his secretary, actually what he did is he called me and asked me if I would like to be involved in his administration somehow and what job would I be interested in. | ||
| He said, Christy, I know people have talked to you before about different cabinet positions, maybe interior, ag, something like that. | ||
| And I said, Mr. President, what I would most like to do for you is to be your Secretary of Homeland Security. | ||
| And he said, really? | ||
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Why? | |
| And I said, sir, because it is your number one priority. | ||
| It's your number one priority. | ||
| And I think that you're going to have to have somebody who's actually strong enough to do it. | ||
| That it's a hard job and somebody's going to actually have to follow through on it. | ||
| And I also think that you need somebody who can communicate about it. | ||
| Someone who is a wife and a mom and a grandma that can talk to families and recognize how the policies and what we're doing to make our country safer is better for all Americans and will help protect our communities for our kids and our grandkids to grow up and have the same opportunities that we have each and every day. | ||
| I'm just so blessed and honored that he gave me that privilege to serve in this role. | ||
| Now, the Department of Homeland Security was created after 9-11. | ||
| It was created in response to the terror attacks that hit New York City and the World Trade Towers. | ||
| And it was a bunch of different agencies in the federal government, all put under one umbrella, whose mission is to defend the security of the homeland and to do so with honor and integrity. | ||
| Therefore, I have 23 different components in my agency. | ||
| You know that it is my job and Customs and Border Protection's job and Border Patrol's job in order to go out and secure the border. | ||
| President Trump has secured our border for the United States of America. | ||
| He's given me fantastic partners in Tom Holman and Stephen Miller and Rodney Scott. | ||
| Todd Lyons, who's out there running ice for us. | ||
| We want to thank all of our light ice officers for what they do every day on interior enforcement as well. | ||
| We have over 99% of the people that were coming through the Darien Gap over a year and a half ago. | ||
| Do you remember the hundreds of thousands of people that were coming through there coming into the United States of America? | ||
| Now we have reverse migration going the opposite direction out of the United States back to their home countries. | ||
| A 94% decrease in people coming to the border. | ||
| And for the last two months, we've had zero illegal aliens coming into this country, which is absolutely remarkable. | ||
| But beyond that, under the Department of Homeland Security, I also have responsibility for USCIS, which is our citizenship visa waiver programs, and how we let people come into our country and be our guests. | ||
| And I will be very firm in telling all of you there will never be amnesty under my watch or President Trump's watch. | ||
| I'll also tell you that I have responsibility for TSA. | ||
| You don't have to take your shoes off anymore. | ||
| I think it was the first day I got this job. | ||
| I walked into TSA and said, do we really have to take our shoes off? | ||
| I mean, does it really make us safe and more secure? | ||
| And that's what I think is number one, my job is to question every single thing that this government does. | ||
| And if it doesn't make sense, if it doesn't serve the people, if it doesn't make us safe and doesn't defend freedom, we should not be doing it. | ||
| We should not be doing it. | ||
| We also, under my department, are going after Harvard. | ||
| They refuse and any other university that refuses to turn over their background checks and criminal activity of the students that are on their campus. | ||
| And if they refuse to defend our Jewish students and allow participation of anti-Semitic activity, they are not going to be allowed to have students that participate in our SAVIS program. | ||
| I'm also very proud of the fact that I have the superadvisory authority over the U.S. Coast Guard. | ||
| Aren't you proud about what the U.S. Coast Guard just did in Texas to help those individuals? | ||
| Texas just went through an incredibly incredible tragedy with the flooding event that happened and is still looking for their loved ones and for children and have been absolutely devastated. | ||
| And the individuals who showed up there from the Coast Guard, from Border Patrol, those individuals from the Bortec teams, from FEMA that showed up immediately and supported that state in its response to its individuals. | ||
| I'm so proud of them because for the very first time, we acted in a way that disaster response should. | ||
| You know, the way statute lays out is that every emergency that happens in this country should be locally executed. | ||
| That means the people that are closest to that emergency need to be the ones making the decisions to respond to people. | ||
| It should be state managed, which means the state makes the decisions on how they're going to universally handle this disaster. | ||
| And the federal government, our role should be to support. | ||
| We should be there to support. | ||
| We shouldn't be making the decisions. | ||
| We should be sending the support that is necessary to get that state through that situation. | ||
| And that's exactly how we implemented it in Texas and are continuing to do so to support Texas as it gets through this. | ||
| And at the exact same time, New Mexico was flooding. | ||
| North Carolina had some flooding events going on. | ||
| And we continue to stand on watch to make sure that we're there to support people across this country, regardless if you're Republican, Democrat, Independent, if you love freedom, and if you love this country, we are going to be there for you to help support you and get you through the most challenging days of your lives. | ||
| Now I'm here tonight and I'm not going to talk much longer. | ||
| I guess it says I have 19 minutes. | ||
| I'm not going to talk that long. | ||
| But what I do want to talk to you about is that you guys are the future. | ||
| People will tell you throughout life that there are things that will determine what you're going to be. | ||
| They will tell you that the family that you're raised in or the city that you're in or the community is is going to impact your future. | ||
| I would disagree with that. | ||
| People will tell you many times that your education will determine who you're going to be and what you will be. | ||
| It'll open up doors for you and create new opportunities. | ||
| I would say that I disagree with that. | ||
| Our Department of Homeland Security interacts with all of those areas. | ||
| It interacts with even the jobs that you're going to have. | ||
| The one thing I want to remind all of you here today, and one of the important reasons why I think that you should recognize that you are here, is because what still makes the world move, what still will determine your success in life, is relationships, is the people that you meet, the people that you spend time with, the people that you talk to. | ||
| I would encourage you to continue to stay involved, to go out there and to come to conferences like this, meet people, go shake hands. | ||
| You never know when the next person that you meet may be your next mentor that will give you the greatest advice that turned your life around, that changed everything for you. | ||
| The next person you meet may be the person that gives you a reference for your next internship or your first job position that you get, or maybe the scholarship that you need to get the degree that you want. | ||
| Maybe you will meet somebody when you show up for an opportunity when that door is open that will be your next business partner. | ||
| Don't leave this conference without recognizing that the most valuable thing that you gained here was the relationships that you built, the people that you talked to, and the people that you were with. | ||
| I've got a team around me and staff with me that every single day help me do the job that I do. | ||
| And I'm so proud of them. | ||
| What most people don't know is that the team that I have around me, they leave me encouraging notes once in a while. | ||
| They leave me little notes either on my desk, they might leave it in the vehicle when I get in the vehicle. | ||
| If I check into a hotel room really late, they might leave a note on the desk in there. | ||
| I want to tell you what note they left for me last night when I got here really late and checked into my hotel room. | ||
| My advance team left for me a scripture verse. | ||
| The scripture verse was from Hebrews 13, 6. | ||
| And this is what it said. | ||
| It said, so we say with confidence that the Lord is my helper. | ||
| I will not be afraid. | ||
| What can mere mortals do to me? | ||
| And I just was so overwhelmed by them, the fact that they are so kind enough to be encouragers to me and to leave me notes like that and to remind me of perspective. | ||
| That in this life, that all we need is a little bit of perspective about what life is, what hard things are, what challenging things are in front of us, but also what blessings we have in front of us. | ||
| That scripture verse meant the world to me because in my job, many times we're dealing with people who can be violent, with criminals. | ||
| I'm standing in situations where we're surrounded by people who've been impacted by criminal activity, and we're taking action against very dangerous people. | ||
| Now, I don't wake up in my days being scared. | ||
| I don't spend any time worrying or being afraid because I just think that's a waste of energy. | ||
| But I will tell you that scripture verses like that that say we can say with confidence that we will not be afraid, that we will stand, and that what can mere mortals do for this? | ||
| You see, I would challenge each of you to live a life of significance. | ||
| You can make a decision right here today that you are deciding to live a life of significance, a life that matters, a life that will impact people and make a difference for the future. | ||
| And I'm here just to tell you that we need you, that we absolutely need you for the future of this country. | ||
| The Department of Homeland Security is an agency that's, I think, the second or third largest agency in the federal government, but it has one of the smallest budgets. | ||
| Now, thanks to the president's big, big, beautiful bill that just passed, we'll have some new resources to put into securing this country and keeping it safe. | ||
| We'll be able to hire more law enforcement officers, more ICE officers. | ||
| Homeland Security trains, our federal law enforcement officers will be able to do that. | ||
| We'll be able to equip the Coast Guard with what they need to do search and rescue, but also to go out there and help us with drug interdiction and to make sure that we're taking these illegal criminals and getting them out of our maritime borders and getting them out of there. | ||
| Help the Secret Service get the resources that they need. | ||
| We'll be able to continue to do all of that thanks to President Trump's vision. | ||
| But the one thing that I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the fact is that when you live that life of significance, you will no longer be deprioritized like you were under the Biden administration. | ||
| That with President Trump, every day you are his priority. | ||
| You are the reason he closed the border. | ||
| You're the reason he's getting the criminals off the streets. | ||
| You're the reason he's fixing the colleges. | ||
| You are the reason that he's out there fighting so hard to make sure our economy is strong, that you can get the job that you want, that you can get a wage where your family can go after and pursue their biggest dreams and hopes and go after them and raise your children here and continue to be blessed beyond measure, beyond most of the people in the rest of this world, because you're in this great country. | ||
| That's why President Trump gets out of bed every single day and why I appreciate him so much. | ||
| I tell a lot of stories about my dad because my dad was a cowboy and he was tough. | ||
| But I also tell people that he gave us impossible things to do. | ||
| All the time, he gave us things that were just hard to do. | ||
| And I think I told this story a few years ago at this conference, but I recognize some of you may be new here, so I'm going to tell it again. | ||
| I'll give you one example of one of the greatest gifts that my dad ever did for us. | ||
| I remember one day I was about 12 years old and it was harvest time on the farm. | ||
| We were combining corn. | ||
| We had filled a semi up with corn and he was driving it. | ||
| I was in the passenger seat and he pulled it out of the field out onto the road and started to drive it down the road when he realized he said, oh, Christy, I forgot. | ||
| I've got to take a different truck home. | ||
| Here, jump over here, take the wheel, make your corners wide, and I'll meet you in the yard. | ||
| And he jumped out the door. | ||
| So I dove across the cab, grabbed the wheel of the semi, started to drive, had no idea what I was doing. | ||
| I didn't even know how to shift, stop, or anything. | ||
| I took the widest corners I possibly could when I had to turn, drove the seven miles home, and I remember when I got back into the farmyard, I didn't even know how to stop the semi. | ||
| So I just turned it off and let it drift to a stop. | ||
| I remember the very first thought that I had at that time was, I cannot believe that I lived. | ||
| And the second thought that I had was that I bet I can drive anything now. | ||
| It wasn't until years later I realized what my dad was doing with everything that he gave to me and to my brothers and my sister. | ||
| When he gave us impossible things to do that we never thought we would accomplish, was that he was teaching us to become problem solvers. | ||
| He was teaching us to figure things out and make our way through them. | ||
| And then when we did something we never dreamed we could accomplish, it was giving us the confidence to take on the next biggest thing in front of us. | ||
| It was going to give us that next challenging thing, the confidence to overcome it and to go out and to do it. | ||
| See, life is all about perspective. | ||
| I think we're crippling our children in this country. | ||
| We're crippling our children by doing everything for them. | ||
| Somehow we've taught the people in this country that hard things are bad and that we should avoid them. | ||
| I would tell you hard things are good. | ||
| They teach us who we are. | ||
| They give us confidence. | ||
| We need a world filled with problem solvers, and that's exactly who you are. | ||
| You see, there's people every single day that go out and risk their lives so that we can stay free. | ||
| There's men in our military, women that serve in our armed forces, law enforcement officers that keep us safe, keep us free. | ||
| We don't know what hard is. | ||
| We have no idea what sacrifice is compared to what some people are making for us. | ||
| So I would ask you to keep the days ahead, the politics, the debates, the divisiveness that's out there. | ||
| Keep it in perspective. | ||
| Understand that sometimes hard things can burn off the trash and that what can come out is a shining gold, clean American freedom that the entire country can embrace again and that you are the future that's going to continue to defend it. | ||
| And you're going to defend it because you have the confidence to do it, because you've been through something hard and you've done it before. | ||
| You see, I referenced before that what we were given as a country was the greatest experiment in human history. | ||
| We had a group of men and women that went to war with the greatest military machine in history, in the world at the time. | ||
| When the Revolutionary Army went to war, they picked up their own personal guns and muskets that they used to feed their family and went to war with the greatest military in the world. | ||
| And they did it for freedom. | ||
| And then they gave us this country that's never been matched before. | ||
| It might surprise some of you in the room to know that George Washington never signed the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| You see, when the Declaration of Independence was voted on by the Continental Congress and it was sent out, John Hancock sent it out to George Washington, who was out with his troops. | ||
| And five days later, he called all of his troops together so that they could all listen to it together when they were out there and what they have just been given in this new Declaration. | ||
| In fact, I want to read to you what General Washington said to his troops as he sat there on his horse with his military men and women, what he said to them before the Declaration of Independence was read to them out loud. | ||
| He said, the blessings and the protection of heaven are at all times necessary, but they're especially so in times of public distress and danger. | ||
| The general hopes and trusts that every officer and every man will endeavor to live and to act as become a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and the liberties of his country. | ||
| You see, even at that time, George Washington put his faith first, and then he called people to fight. | ||
| He called them to go out there and to act as Christians, to go out there and to defend our rights and our freedoms. | ||
| But when you go forward and do that with morals and with values and understand that every person out there is worth something in God's eyes, but yet we can disagree with them and still protect our freedoms and liberties, that's invaluable. | ||
| And the general that gave us this country and became our first president understood it better than anybody else. | ||
| You see, our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors for us. | ||
| We haven't been asked to do that yet. | ||
| Some of you may get asked to sacrifice some of your life. | ||
| Today on my phone, I was getting videos of my grandkids riding horses at my ranch, and I was getting pictures of my family spending time together. | ||
| And as I was looking at some of that and enjoying it from afar with them, I was realizing that I'm giving up some sacrifices. | ||
| Is it anything like some have given up? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| There's some people that have given up their fortunes. | ||
| They've given up their personal wealth. | ||
| President Trump is one of them, isn't he? | ||
| To come forward and to defend our freedoms and our liberty. | ||
| And then you've got some that gave up their sacred honor for our country. | ||
| If you look at people who, like Nathan Hale and people whose reputations and different things that over the years, and even I would say some who still fight for us today lose their reputations because of the stand that they take for right and for wrong. | ||
| What I would tell you, you, our founders pledge their lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor. | ||
| You may be asked to do the same. | ||
| But today you can make a decision. | ||
| You can make a decision to live a life of significance, one that matters. | ||
| In this room are not people who are going to sit on the sidelines. | ||
| When you're here, you're here because you're engaged. | ||
| I'm looking at the faces of our leaders, the leaders, wherever you are in the circle of friends that you're in. | ||
| When you have a conversation with people about politics, bring some history into it too. | ||
| Help people recognize what they were given in this country and why we're so special. | ||
| The last thing I want to leave you with is to be happy. | ||
| I say that quite a bit at the end of my speeches, but it's amazing to me how people forget, how people forget that just because you woke up here in this country in the United States of America, you are more blessed than 99% of the people in this world just because you woke up here and you woke up free. | ||
| So with that, from the bottom of my heart, I just want to say thank you. | ||
| Thank you for what you do. | ||
| Yes, my job as the Secretary of Homeland Security is a complicated one. | ||
| I've got a lot of agencies that need to be fixed and bureaucracy that needs to be gone, gotten rid of, and people that need to be fired, and money that needs to be given back to taxpayers, and more bad ombres to get off the street. | ||
| And I'll continue to do that. | ||
| We're going to continue to get these criminals and these violent perpetuators of violence off of our streets. | ||
| But I will tell you: what this country needs is not more Christy Noam. | ||
| What this country needs is you. | ||
| We need you. | ||
| We need you out there changing the hearts and minds of Americans. | ||
| The conversations that you have. | ||
| Go have conversations with people. | ||
| Ask them questions why they believe what they believe. | ||
| Listen to them. | ||
| And then tell them about the great gift that this country is. | ||
| May God continue to bless you. | ||
| May God continue to bless this great country. | ||
| And may God continue to bless President Trump as he leads us into battle and onward into freedom. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Sunday marks one year since candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Real Clear Politics is reporting that he later allegedly said that he didn't want one of the agents from the Butler event anywhere near him ever again. | ||
| That, according to several Secret Service sources, familiar with his comments. | ||
| The article goes on to say that the agency has announced limited disciplinary actions for those it deemed responsible for security lapses. | ||
| Six agents, including Maya Soti Perez, whom Trump was referring to, were placed on 10 to 42 days of unpaid leave for their roles in the security breaches. | ||
| Kim Cheadle was the head of the Secret Service at the time. | ||
| She was summoned to Congress to testify on the operational failures and resigned soon after. | ||
| We'll show you that House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing and her complete testimony Sunday at 3.15 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN. | ||
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Wednesday, watch C-SPAN's coverage of the 17th Annual Congressional Women's Softball Game, live from Audi Field in Washington, D.C. Join members of Congress along with the Washington, D.C. Press Corps, for more than just a time of friendly competition and camaraderie. | |
| A shared mission to strike out breast cancer. | ||
| Don't miss the Congressional Women's Softball Game. | ||
| Live coverage starts Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Eastern on the C-SPAN networks. | ||
| Next, President Trump holds a cabinet meeting and talks about several topics, including the Epstein files, the August 1st deadline for tariff deals, resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine, and his feelings about Elon Musk's intent to start a third political party. | ||
| Then, David Rubinstein, co-founder and co-chair of the Carlisle Group, private investment firm, speaks at the National Press Club about his most recent book, The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency. | ||
| And later, a discussion on significant rulings of the most recent Supreme Court term, which wrapped up in June. | ||
| C-SPAN, Democracy Unfiltered. | ||
| We're funded by these television companies and more, including Comcast. | ||
| Agriculture is the main life in Sussex County, and I'm very proud of that. | ||
| I felt like we were being left behind. | ||
| Everybody around us seemed to have internet, but we did not. | ||
| When I found out that Comcast was coming, I ran down the road and I said, welcome. | ||
| High-speed internet is one of those good things that we needed to help us move our farming, our small businesses, our recreation forward. | ||
| And now future generations will thrive here in Sussex County. | ||
| Comcast supports C-SPAN as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front-row seat to democracy. | ||
| President Trump held a cabinet meeting and talked about several topics, including the Epstein files, the August 1st deadline for tariff deals, resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine, and his feelings about Elon Musk's intent to start a third political party. | ||
| You want to move down? | ||
| You have some more pathway. | ||
| If you want, leave the cameras there. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| But if you want, there's a lot of room over here. | ||
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See you and Andrew move out to the end if you want. | |
| Way out to the left. | ||
| Are you able to get them all in the room? | ||
| Are they in? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| They're in. | ||
| Are you okay? | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| We've had a tremendous six months. | ||
| Six months, and we've had a tremendous two weeks, which now is, I guess, three weeks. | ||
| And we have a tremendous group of people here that have done a great, unified, beautiful job. | ||
| I want to, because of what she's gone through this last few days, done an incredible job. | ||
| As you know, Christy, I'm going to ask you to say a few words about Texas. | ||
| The first person there was, the first person I saw on television was you, actually. | ||
| And you've worked great with the governor. | ||
| It's terrific. |