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The Washington Post reports that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to expel Democrats who left the state to try to block GOP redistricting efforts. | |
| The new congressional map would give Republicans five more safe seats. | ||
| The Texas State House is set to reconvene at 4 p.m. Eastern today. | ||
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| Today, diplomacy experts will discuss the United States' retreat from soft power in Africa. | ||
| This comes after the Trump administration dismantled USAID, significantly cutting U.S. humanitarian aid to African countries. | ||
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| President Trump spoke to reporters as he prepared to depart Allentown, Pennsylvania, en route to the White House. | ||
| He answered questions on negotiations with other nations on import tariffs, as well as the U.S.'s role in negotiating ends to the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars, as well as his recent firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. | ||
| Okay, thank you very much We had a very good weekend in many respects. | ||
| We're seeing phenomenal numbers in terms of the business we do with other countries and the business we do within our own country. | ||
| I mean, really phenomenal numbers. | ||
| We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next three, four days. | ||
| We had no confidence. | ||
| I mean, the numbers were ridiculous what she announced, but that was just one negative number. | ||
| All of the numbers seem to be great. | ||
| And so we'll see how that comes out. | ||
| And if you remember, just before the election, this woman came out with these phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy. | ||
| Phenomenal numbers. | ||
| And then right after the election, they announced that those numbers were wrong. | ||
| And that's what they did the other day. | ||
| So it's a scam, in my opinion. | ||
| My opinion is just additional scam. | ||
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On Russia, Mr. President, can you say, have those nuclear submarines been deployed yet to face Russia? | |
| I've already put out a statement, and the answer is they are in the region, yeah, where they have to be. | ||
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Do you know what Steve Witkoff's message will be to the Russians? | |
| Isn't there anything they can do to avoid sanctions at this point? | ||
| Yeah, I get a deal where people stop getting killed. | ||
| They had a number that just came out that a tremendous number of Russian soldiers are being killed. | ||
| And likewise, Ukraine, a lower number, but still thousands and thousands of people. | ||
| And now we're adding towns where they're being hit by missiles. | ||
| So it's a lot of people being killed in that ridiculous war. | ||
| And, you know, we stopped a lot of countries from war, India and Pakistan. | ||
| We stopped a lot of countries. | ||
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And we're going to get that one stopped too. | |
| Somehow we're going to get that one stopped. | ||
| That's a really horrible boy. | ||
| You heard about Cambodia and Thailand. | ||
| We got that one done. | ||
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We got the Congo, which was going there for 31 years. | |
| Rwanda, that one's done. | ||
| We stopped a lot of wars. | ||
| This is the one we seem to be. | ||
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This should be the easiest to stop, and it's not. | |
| I mean, Rwanda and Congo were going on 31 years, and I got it stopped. | ||
| Eight million people dead, at least. | ||
| That's what they have, but I think the number is much higher. | ||
| And the leaders of each country, Rwanda and the Congo, they were great. | ||
| They were great. | ||
| And they wanted it stopped. | ||
| 31 years it went on. | ||
| We stopped a lot of wars. | ||
| Serbia, Kosovo was going to be happening, and I don't believe it will now, so we stopped that one too. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Can you think about more of an update to give us on Gaza on the Gaza script? | |
| Can you give us anything? | ||
| Only we want the people fed. | ||
| And we're the only country that's really doing that. | ||
| We're putting up money to get the people fed. | ||
| And Steve Witkoff is doing a great job. | ||
| And we want Israel to get them fed. | ||
| We're giving some pretty big contributions basically to purchase food so the people can be fed. | ||
| We don't want people going hungry and we don't want people to starve. | ||
| And there's some bad things happening. | ||
| I don't think sad. | ||
| Look, they're in a war. | ||
| Some horrible things happened on October 7th, as you know. | ||
| It was a horrible, horrible thing. | ||
| One of the worst I've ever seen. | ||
| I've seen a lot of bad things since I'm president in terms of wars and potential wars. | ||
| I mean, if you look at the one that we just stopped, they had thousands of people being dead already at the border between Thailand and Cambodia. | ||
| Thousands of people. | ||
| And I've seen some bad things, but that October 7th was with Hamas was really, really bad. | ||
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Mr. President, can you give us an update on Steve Witcomb in Russia and what happens on Friday if the deadline comes and Russia has not agreed to a ceasefire? | |
| Well, there'll be sanctions, but they seem to be pretty good at avoiding sanctions. | ||
| You know, they're wily characters and they're pretty good at avoiding sanctions. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
| But Steve is focused right now on the border in terms of, we're talking about with Gaza, getting people fed. | ||
| And he may be going, I think next week, Wednesday or Thursday, may be going to Russia. | ||
| They would like to see him. | ||
| They've asked that he meet. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
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Mr. President, what advice do you have for Republicans on Capitol Hill heading in some interns? | |
| What do they need to do? | ||
| What can they do to, you know, hold on? | ||
| Well, one of the things they're going to be talking about pretty soon are the tremendous drop in drug prices. | ||
| You know, we've cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%. | ||
| I don't mean 50%. | ||
| I mean 1,400, 1,500%. | ||
| Because we're going favored nations. | ||
| We want the same price as Europe gets. | ||
| We want the same price as other country gets. | ||
| And over the years, 25, 30 years ago, it started where they were charging us much more. | ||
| And I put it into it, you know, with a letter that you saw last week. | ||
| So I think that's going to be a point. | ||
| I don't know how anybody could win an election if they're on the other side of that issue. | ||
| So we'll be dropping drug prices. | ||
| It'll start over the next two to three months by $1,200, $1,300, and even 1,400%, and 500%, but not just 50% or 25%, which normally would be a lot, because the rest of the world pays much less for the identical drug. | ||
| And we're going to be paying the same thing. | ||
| We're going to have a favored nation. | ||
| We will pay as low as the lowest nation in the world. | ||
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And then, Mr. President, I think it just came out $29 billion in July taking in in tariff revenue. | |
| You know, could we see a potential rebate here and and what would that look like and who would qualify? | ||
| Well, we're going to pay down debt. | ||
| We have a lot of money coming in, much more money than the country's ever seen, by hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| And there could be a distribution or a dividend to the people of our country. | ||
| I would say for people that would be middle-income people and lower-income people, we could do a dividend. | ||
| But one of the things we're going to be doing is reducing debt. | ||
| But we have hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our country now. | ||
| We should have done this many years ago. | ||
| And I did it in my first term with China. | ||
| We didn't get to the rest because COVID hit. | ||
| And you couldn't really go to France and Spain and Italy and say, let's, you know, let's start talking about some tariffs. | ||
| But China was paying us hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we did it then. | ||
| Then Biden screwed it all up. | ||
| He screwed everything he touched. | ||
| He screwed up. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
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Will you endorse Winston Earl's ears in the Virginia governor's race? | |
| Yeah, I would. | ||
| I mean, I would. | ||
| I think probably she's got a tough race. | ||
| She shouldn't. | ||
| She shouldn't have. | ||
| But because the candidate she's running against is not very good, but I think she's got a tough race. | ||
| but i would yeah when will you swear in janine pierrot to be the i will happily swear in janine pierrot who's going to be fantastic at what she does in dc uh over the next very short period of time I think she's going to be fantastic. | ||
| Don't forget, Janine Pirro was a great judge and a great prosecutor. | ||
| And because she was so good, I was there. | ||
| She was an amazing prosecutor and judge. | ||
| And because she was so good, they drafted her into show business. | ||
| And she did fantastic. | ||
| You know, the five was the number one show, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| Janine Pirro was also really good at that. | ||
| But her real love is exactly what she's doing. | ||
| And that's what made her such a success in show business. | ||
| So Janine Pirrow is going to be amazing. | ||
| And I'll swear her in as soon as we can swear her in. | ||
| We need her. | ||
| She's going to be amazing. | ||
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Mr. President, are you happy with how the Rose Garden turned out? | |
| And we have some kind of events with the Rose Garget. | ||
| Are you happy with how it turns out? | ||
| Yeah, we're getting great reviews on the Rose Garden. | ||
| And we had to do it. | ||
| an example when we had a press conference you'd sink it would take three four five days for it to dry out And we couldn't use it for really the intended purpose. | ||
| So whether they had events or they had news conferences, we couldn't use it. | ||
| And it's a beautiful white stone, and it's a stone that's the same color as the White House itself. | ||
| And because it's very white, it's going to reflect the heat. | ||
| It's not going to be very hot, like if you had a dark stone. | ||
| So, yeah, we've gotten great reviews on the Rose Garden. | ||
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Any update on the search for the Federal Reserve Board have you been interviewing here? | |
| So I have a couple of people in mind. | ||
| I'll be announcing somebody for the filling of the person that left. | ||
| A woman left, as you know, who was a, I guess, a Biden appointment. | ||
| Either Biden or Obama, but I think a Biden appointment. | ||
| And she left early, and I think she left because she agreed with me on interest rates, and yet they were on the other side of the ballpark, right? | ||
| So I'll be announcing that probably over the next couple of days. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Mr. President, one more on tariffs here. | ||
| As you continue to pile up these trade deals, are you kind of gaining more leverage over countries that haven't come out? | ||
| Yeah, I'm not looking for leverage. | ||
| I'm looking for fairness. | ||
| We want reciprocal as much as possible. | ||
| Sometimes reciprocal would be too much for them to handle because it would be a much bigger number. | ||
| But we want to see some reciprocity. | ||
| We want to see reciprocal wherever we can. | ||
| All I can say is this, our country will be taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| You just said it. | ||
| Already we're taking in, you know, billions and billions of dollars. | ||
| And it was very unfair. | ||
| The world treated us very unfair. | ||
| But the next big move is going to be the price of drugs. | ||
| Because you could buy something in London or in Germany, someplace in Germany or many countries where it's one-tenth, one-third, one-fourth, or sometimes one-tenth the price of what it costs to buy it in New York or some other place. | ||
| And we're not doing that anymore. | ||
| We're not allowing that anymore. | ||
| That started many years ago when people were asleep at the wheel in this country and they allowed that to happen. | ||
| And I'm stopping it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I haven't determined that yet. | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| I'll make a decision. | ||
| He's a very good guy, but I'll make a decision. | ||
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Mr. President, what is your relationship with Laura Loomer? | |
| What kind of influence with Laura Loomer? | ||
| What kind of influence does she have? | ||
| I think she's very nice. | ||
| I mean, I know she's known as a radical right, but I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person. | ||
| I've known her for a long time. | ||
| And, you know, personally, I think she's a patriot. | ||
| And she gets excited because of the fact that she's a patriot and she doesn't like things going on that she thinks are bad for the country. | ||
| I like her. | ||
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Mr. President, an actress in the media came out to speak that she was a registered Republican. | |
| Any thoughts on that? | ||
| Mr. That who was? | ||
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Sydney Sweeney. | |
| She's like a very hot actress right now. | ||
| She's a registered Republican. | ||
| Oh, now I love her ad. | ||
| Is that right? | ||
| Is Sydney Sweeney? | ||
| You'd be surprised at how many people are Republicans. | ||
| That's what I wouldn't have known, but I'm glad you told me that. | ||
| If Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic. | ||
| Okay, thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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| And up next, remarks from NASA SpaceX Crew 11 after successfully docking at the International Space Station. | ||
| This is just under 10 minutes. | ||
| You're looking at a live view of a spacecraft that docked to the International Space Station at 1:27 a.m. Central Time this morning. | ||
| This is Crew Dragon Endeavor. | ||
| On board, there are four crew members, NASA astronaut Zina Cardman, NASA astronaut Mike Fink, JAXA, or Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platinov. | ||
| The quartet launched to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida just yesterday at 10.43 a.m. Central Time. | ||
| Following their docking to the International Space Station about 20 minutes ago, there were procedures that were stepped through in order to create a hard capture between the Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station. | ||
| At this point, the docking sequence is now complete, which means the ring was fully retracted, the hooks were successfully driven, and the umbilical is extended, which means that Dragon is now drawing power from the International Space Station. | ||
| So now we are underway for preps for the hatch opening process. | ||
| We are anticipating hatch opening to occur at about 3.15 a.m. Central. | ||
| However, this is a little bit variable for the timeframe and can shift, so we will of course keep you updated. | ||
| Following the hatch opening, we are targeting a welcome ceremony at 4.15 a.m. Central Time, which will include all four of the astronauts aboard Endeavour as well as the seven crew members on board the International Space Station. | ||
| We can give you the early go in step 1.1 of 2.102. | ||
| Happy output at your work, they keep again. | ||
| If you're just joining us, crew 11 docked to the International Space Station's zenith port of the Harmony module at 1.26 a.m. Central Time. | ||
| Now coming through the hatch is Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platinov. | ||
| This is his very first visit to the International Space Station. | ||
| Some big hugs there with NASA astronaut Nicole Ayers and Johnny Kim. | ||
| And continuing to get a warm welcome aboard the International Space Station for him. | ||
| Again, first time flyer. | ||
| And next through the hatch is JAXA, or Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, astronaut Kimi Yu. | ||
| And now we have NASA astronaut Mike Fink for his fourth time to the International Space Station. | ||
| And now coming into view is Xena Cardman. | ||
| Again, her first time on board the International Space Station as well. | ||
| Lots of smiles and hugs. |