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| I'm very free to say we were both young, now we're both a little older. | ||
| We used to say old, but we're a little older. | ||
| But Roger Penske is the chairman, as you know, of Penske Corporation. | ||
| He's got everything you can imagine, mostly I think to do with automotive. | ||
| And I'd like to ask him to say a few words about the event because this is going to be, they're putting everything behind it, and I think it's going to be really exciting. | ||
| Roger, please. | ||
| Well, thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| This is a really amazing time for us as a company to support the 250th anniversary for the country. | ||
| And there's no better way for us to bring automotive and speed into the DC area and to have the opportunity to be able to compete here with our IndyCars. | ||
| As you know, we own the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. | ||
| We are taking that history of over 100 years and the speed and what's taken place there with the different manufacturers and bringing it here to this race will be amazing. | ||
| Certainly the Freedom 250, when you think about it, it's just a byproduct of what the President has done during this year. | ||
| And this will be an event, obviously, in August, which will make a huge difference. | ||
| And we're excited. | ||
| The areas for people to see. | ||
| Most of the grounds will be free. | ||
| So it's going to be an economic benefit to the area, to the city. | ||
| And obviously, with our Fox partner, Eric Shanks will be our media partner. | ||
| And believe me, what they did for us at Indy this past year, they're going to take that and put it on steroids, really, and take it to the next level. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President, for allowing us to come into your service. | ||
| That's so great, Roger. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Great man. | ||
| Eric, I'd like to have you say a few words. | ||
| He's done a fantastic job at Fox, and he's really excited about this. | ||
| And I know they're going to lay it on the line. | ||
| Eric, please. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Well, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here today. | ||
| Big shout out to Secretary Duffy. | ||
| This project was kind of on life support until you stepped in recently and got us here today. | ||
| Secretary Bergham, your team has been absolutely incredible. | ||
| How many times you came to Washington trying to do this? | ||
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I think Bud came here 81 times. | |
| 81 meetings I had in Capitol. | ||
| Meeting with senators, meeting with people at the Capitol. | ||
| And they all wanted it. | ||
| Everybody wanted it, but they couldn't figure it out. | ||
| It was crazy. | ||
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80. | |
| Somewhat. | ||
| That's pretty amazing. | ||
| So go ahead, please. | ||
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Well, it's a real honor to be a partner with Roger and IndyCar. | |
| And at Fox Sports, we do the biggest events in sports. | ||
| This year we have the FIFA World Cup that we'll be celebrating here as well. | ||
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And then dovetailing right after that, to be able to celebrate America's birthday on Fox is an absolutely incredible honor. | |
| And everyone at Fox Sports can't wait to see exactly how this is going to unfold and bring it to life. | ||
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So Mr. President, thank you again for signing us today. | |
| And the big thing, it's August 21st through the 23rd, and I believe the race is on the 23rd, right? | ||
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Yes. | |
| That's going to be incredible. | ||
| They're going to have practice sessions. | ||
| It's going to be just a very exciting period, I think, for Washington. | ||
| If I could, I'd like to ask Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, who's terrific and doing a great job. | ||
| Much more important than Sean is we have Rachel Campus-Duffy here. | ||
| And she's one of the greatest people I know and one of the greatest people on television. | ||
| So most of you know her. | ||
| But I don't think we'll have to speak about the race because she knows less about it than anybody up here. | ||
| But she is fantastic. | ||
| Sean, please. | ||
| So the president gave us all a directive, which I'm grateful for. | ||
| We're going to celebrate America's 250th birthday. | ||
| And he asked all of us to think outside the box. | ||
| How do we make this historic and cool? | ||
| And let's all do this together. | ||
| He loves the country and loves the birthday. | ||
| And so we at DOT were working on this concept. | ||
| We didn't know at the same time Penske was working on the same project, too. | ||
| And so we've come together, and Doug has been a wonderful partner. | ||
| But to think 190 miles an hour down Pennsylvania Avenue, this is going to be wild. | ||
| The last time we had a race in the capital city, Bud, was when? | ||
| 1801, Thomas Jefferson with a horse race. | ||
| A horse race in 1801, Mr. President. | ||
| Now we're going to do it. | ||
| We're going to do a real race. | ||
| That's so good. | ||
| That's so good. | ||
| So, listen, this doesn't happen. | ||
| We just don't come in and ask the president to sign. | ||
| There's a lot of work that goes into this. | ||
| As you can tell, Bud and my chief of staff, Pete, all had a lot of meetings on the Hill. | ||
| We couldn't be more excited about this. | ||
| Again, I'm going to repeat, this is free for the American people to come to your nation's capital and see a great road race. | ||
| Freedom, America, speed, and road racing. | ||
| It doesn't get more American than that, Vice President. | ||
| So thank you for signing this, and thanks for all the support. | ||
| That's fantastic. | ||
| And what a job you've done. | ||
| They put it together very quickly. | ||
| They've been coming here for years, and everybody wanted it. | ||
| You know, every senator wants it, every Congress, everybody wants it, but they don't get things done. | ||
| Only Mr. President. | ||
| Trump gets things done. | ||
| We didn't have 89 meetings. | ||
| We had maybe a half a meeting. | ||
| I think this is probably about a half a meeting. | ||
| I'd like to thank Pete Meacham for the great job you've done representing us and Luke Bunting. | ||
| These are two young people that work with us and they've really been fantastic. | ||
| I'd like to ask Doug Bergham to say a few words. | ||
| He's very much involved through his position of interior because a lot of the space is interior. | ||
| He sort of has a, I think he's the largest landlord anywhere in the world by far. | ||
| So Doug, could you say a few words, please? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| This birthday that's coming up, the 250th anniversary of America of Freedom 250, is the most monumental birthday maybe of any country ever in the history of the world. | ||
| And President Trump, with his directive to celebrate this thing, we've got a, what's more American than race car driving? | ||
| What's more monumental than the Indy 500 as an icon of what's going on in our country? | ||
| And so merging the history and the tradition of our capital, Washington, D.C., with the speed and the innovation that goes on in the IndyCar series is incredible. | ||
| And it's a great metaphor because the speeds we're talking about is the speed of President Trump. | ||
| I want to reiterate, there weren't 81 meetings with the Trump administration. | ||
| I think it was they called President Trump. | ||
| He got Sean and I going. | ||
| And was it, that was like from Saturday till now. | ||
| We have a race. | ||
| One week. | ||
| One week we have a race as opposed to like four months of talking. | ||
| So I think there's also a metaphor here about President Trump, who's an incredible sportsman. | ||
| He's an athlete himself, but he loves sports. | ||
| And so whether it's soccer, UFC, the football draft, NFL football draft coming, IndyCar, and all the teams that he hosts here, I mean, to any American who loves sports, you've got to love this president because he's bringing professional sports to our capital. | ||
| And again, August 21st to 2030, you talk about the economic impact. | ||
| By the time all these reporters get done telling the story, there's not going to be a hotel room available in this city on that weekend because everybody's going to want to be here. | ||
| People that maybe have wanted to see an IndyCar race their whole life are now going to have an opportunity to come to their capital, celebrate 250, and see an IndyCar race for free. | ||
| And they're going to be able to see it on the national mall. | ||
| And wherever you put down your lawn chair and watch this race for free, you're going to be staring at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial. | ||
| And I'm sure there's going to be fireworks this weekend too. | ||
| I'm sure of that. | ||
| And if you need a permit, you can get one from the chariot. | ||
| So anyway, it's absolutely incredible. | ||
| And congratulations to Sean, the Penske organization, Fox Sports, everybody for putting together. | ||
| This is going to be a great celebration for America. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| You're doing a fantastic job. | ||
| Could I just ask Bud Danker? | ||
| He's the president of Penske Corporation, to say a few words. | ||
| Well, thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| You know, Eric Shanks and I from Fox had this dream just last July. | ||
| And could it ever be possible to bring a race to our nation's capital to celebrate our country's history? | ||
| And everybody said there's no way. | ||
| It's impossible. | ||
| How do you put a race on at 190 miles an hour in a city like Washington, D.C.? | ||
| I came here, I walked this area for a while. | ||
| I found a racetrack on the Capitol grounds. | ||
| up against a lot of meetings and couldn't get the kind of support we need. | ||
| So within a week, it's a great duffy and we put this together with the president, didn't we? | ||
| And now we have a race here on our city property, on the national properties that is going to celebrate America. | ||
| The word free shouldn't be overridden because we are going to have a free event here. | ||
| People come out and celebrate our country's history. | ||
| I also want to thank Mayor Bowser. | ||
| She has been a great partner in this process as well, too. | ||
| So I know Mr. President, she's a great supporter of what you've done here in the city as well, too. | ||
| And we thank her for this. | ||
| But we're going to have an amazing event. | ||
| We're going to make everybody in this country proud. | ||
| We want everybody to come out for free and enjoy this and celebrate our country the way it should be here in the nation's capital. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| And I said, pick the best site. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
| Pick the best site. | ||
| Don't go for second or third because there are a lot of different routes. | ||
| I said, pick, even if it's more difficult to get approved. | ||
| Pick the absolute best site. | ||
| And they were actually looking at another site. | ||
| And when I said that, they said, well, the best site is this site, the site we're doing. | ||
| I said, let's take a look at it. | ||
| And we think it's the best site, too. | ||
| It's actually better than the original site they were looking at. | ||
| But if we're going to do it, we want to do it right. | ||
| So this is going to be something in terms of the road width, the crowds, and everything else that we can all, the best site, one of the best sites they've ever seen, actually. | ||
| It'll be beautiful. | ||
| So I'm going to sign this. | ||
| And if you have any questions on this subject, that'll be great. | ||
| We just named a new Fed chairman today. | ||
| You know that? | ||
| He's Central Cast. | ||
| Roger Penske's Central Casting. | ||
| You know him, Roger? | ||
| Very good guy. | ||
| Roger, no auto pen. | ||
| I didn't use it all. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Here, Roger, take that. | ||
| I will. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| There you go, my man. | ||
| I don't want to sign each letter. | ||
| You know, they sign each letter. | ||
| They hand pens. | ||
| I used to watch these presidents, one letter. | ||
| You're going to see what it looks like at the end. | ||
| Never looks too good. | ||
| Here, Rachel, take that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| This is really exciting. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. President, Chair, nominee, since you just brought it up, did Kevin Warsh commit to you that he will push to cut interest rates if he is confirmed? | ||
| So, but we talk about it, and I've been following him, and I don't want to ask him that question. | ||
| I think it's inappropriate, probably. | ||
| It probably would be allowed, but I want to keep it nice and pure. | ||
| But he certainly wants to cut rates. | ||
| I've been watching him for a long time. | ||
| Senator Tomas asked, did you have any concerns about his hawkish history of pushing for rate hikes? | ||
| He's going to want to do the same thing. | ||
| I think that, yeah, I've had times when I think you've had to really have rate hikes too. | ||
| But he's very smart, very good, strong, young, pretty young. | ||
| And I think he's going to do a good idea. | ||
| I mean, he was the central casting guy that people wanted. | ||
| Kevin was great. | ||
| I tell you what, I met numerous people. | ||
| Every one of them were fantastic, really fantastic. | ||
| I wanted to keep Kevin here. | ||
| And I thought that I called Kevin 1 Kevin 2. | ||
| And we have, I said, it's going to be a Kevin. | ||
| But, you know, Kevin really has been fantastic at the White House. | ||
| You all know him, you know him very well. | ||
| And so we have Kevin W. Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the confirmation here? | ||
| Because we've heard Tillis with the DOJ investigation that's going on. | ||
| This is, in the whole country, I would say that this was the perfect candidate. | ||
| This was not a surprise or anything. | ||
| This was the man that's most qualified. | ||
| Top student, best schools, everything was like perfect. | ||
| Youngest person ever to serve on the Fed. | ||
| Got the whole package. | ||
| Looks don't mean anything, but he's got the look. | ||
| Roger, looks don't mean anything, but if they have the look, it's okay. | ||
| But he's got the whole package, and I think he's going to do a great job, and he loves the country. | ||
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Mr. President, why don't you say that? | |
| Please speak to the pressure. | ||
| Please in the back, yes. | ||
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Are you giving Iran any kind of deadline to make a deal or potentially? | |
| Only they know for sure. | ||
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Have you communicated that to them correctly? | |
| I have. | ||
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Mr. President, do you have that timeline for when you're going to pull back potentially the federal presence there? | |
| We'll see how it all works out. | ||
| They have to float someplace, they might as well float near Iran. | ||
| But it's a rough situation going on. | ||
| So I stopped 837 people, as you know, last week from being hung. | ||
| They were going to hang 830. | ||
| It was all set. | ||
| And I mean, I'm looking at the people behind me. | ||
| They're saying, what kind of racing's a lot nicer than that? | ||
| They were going to hang 837 people. | ||
| And I told them, if you do it, you're going to pay a price like nobody's ever paid before. | ||
| They pulled back. | ||
| I appreciated that. | ||
| But a lot of people are being killed. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
| I can say this, they do want to make a deal. | ||
| And now they're looking at 50 proposals to increase taxes. | ||
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What do you think about that? | |
| Well, I think it's terrible. | ||
| I think a lot of people will leave Virginia. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| Look, Glenn was a friend of mine, Glenn Yunken, and worked so hard on cutting taxes. | ||
| This woman came in and in one swoop, she raised everything up higher than it ever was. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| I mean, people voted for Democrat. | ||
| But she came in and she raised, and I'll work with her like I work with everyone else. | ||
| But she came into Virginia, raised everything to a point like taxes that nobody ever even heard of before. | ||
| And I don't understand. | ||
| How do people get elected with this kind of philosophy? | ||
| This is only in the very modern age. | ||
| You know, I grew up and I've always heard politicians, we'll cut taxes, we'll cut, everybody's screaming, we're going to cut taxes. | ||
| I cut taxes. | ||
| I gave you the biggest tax cut in the history of our country in the Great Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. | ||
| Interest deductions, Roger. | ||
| When somebody buys a car, they can deduct the interest if they borrow money. | ||
| That's the biggest thing in terms of the car business, right? | ||
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Tax Cuts and Elections
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| American mid ones. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| So we have, you know, I give tax cuts and they give tax increases. | ||
| I don't know how they get elected. | ||
| They get elected because they cheat. | ||
| You want to know the truth. | ||
| If they didn't cheat, if they didn't cheat, they'd have no chance. | ||
| They have horrible policy. | ||
| Transgender for everyone. | ||
| They have the little thing about open borders so that the world's prison population and mental hospitals can be emptied into our country. | ||
| It's just a crazy men playing in women's sports. | ||
| Roger, are you a fan of men playing in women's sports? | ||
| Only is it better. | ||
| You'd like to bet. | ||
| You're not a big fan, I don't think. | ||
| I don't want to get him in trouble, but I think he joins in 99%. | ||
| They say it's an 80-20 issue. | ||
| I think it's a 99%. | ||
| It's maybe 99-1. | ||
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Mr. President, why are you suing the administration and the IRS? | |
| Why are you suing? | ||
| Who are you with? | ||
| I'm the ABC News. | ||
| You're a loud person. | ||
| Very loud. | ||
| Let somebody else have a chance. | ||
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Can you answer the question? | |
| Why are you saying that? | ||
| ABC fake news. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| I didn't call on you. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| ABC, by the way, is truly one of the worst. | ||
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Do you think the upcoming talks between Russia and Ukraine stand a chance without U.S. envoy Wakoff and Jerry Kushner there? | |
| I think they stand a chance. | ||
| We've been trying. | ||
| I've ended eight wars. | ||
| All of them I thought were going to be maybe tougher than this one. | ||
| But Zelensky and Putin hate each other. | ||
| And it makes it very difficult. | ||
| But I think we're getting very close to getting a settlement. | ||
| Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly soldiers, have been killed. | ||
| Last week they lost 29,000 people. | ||
| Last month they lost 29,000 soldiers. | ||
| Can you believe that, fellas? | ||
| 29,000. | ||
| You lose one race driver and it's a big deal. | ||
| 29,000 soldiers in one month, 27,000 the month before. | ||
| I think that, yeah, I think that we have a good chance of getting it settled. | ||
| Yeah, my pleasure. | ||
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Mr. President, on the war shaman, what is your strategy for getting past the hold that Senator Tillis has on this process? | |
| He said he won't allow. | ||
| Well, that kind of thinking is why he's no longer a senator. | ||
| He's going to be out of office. | ||
| It's too bad. | ||
| I always liked Senator Tillis, actually, but he did some things that were not smart. | ||
| And whatever. | ||
| I mean, you know, if he doesn't approve, we'll just have to wait till somebody comes in that will approve it, right? | ||
| So that's it. | ||
| But I saw that. | ||
| He wants to be an obstructionist. | ||
| But we have a lot of obstructionists. | ||
| I've had a lot. | ||
| And we've created the best presidency maybe ever. | ||
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And if you don't make a deal, is your plan to replicate what you just did in Venezuela? | |
| I don't want to say that. | ||
| I don't want to talk. | ||
| I mean, I don't want to talk about anything having to do with what I'm doing militarily. | ||
| But we have a tremendously powerful fleet there. | ||
| We have the most powerful ships in the world. | ||
| We have the most powerful military by far in the world. | ||
| We showed that on numerous occasions. | ||
| I mean, I rebuilt the military in my term. | ||
| If I didn't do, I wouldn't, I think, be able to say that. | ||
| But I rebuilt the military, the entire United States military in my first term. | ||
| And now we're building it bigger, better, stronger than ever before. | ||
| I'm adding to it. | ||
| We're adding something called a battleship. | ||
| You would find this interesting. | ||
| You know the old-fashioned, beautiful battleships? | ||
| And we're adding up to 25 of them. | ||
| Each battleship is 100 times more powerful than the battleships of the 1940s, those big, powerful ones with the guns, because of what the ships carry. | ||
| But we're going to build 10, and then we'll see how we like them, and we're going to go and do another 15 after that. | ||
| Could be up to 25 battleships. | ||
| 100 times more powerful. | ||
| Can you imagine that? | ||
| And it's peace through strength. | ||
| We don't want to use them, but if we have to use them, we will. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| On the Fed, should the DOJ continue with its investigation into Jay Powell? | ||
| That seems to be a sticking point for Senator Tullis. | ||
| Well, he's got a building that, you know, I build buildings and I build them under budget, ahead of schedule. | ||
| I build them, but they're within reason always. | ||
| And this is a small little complex that's costing billions of dollars, most expensive job per square foot ever built. | ||
| And it's a little complex. | ||
| It's a little Fed complex. | ||
| I built the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue and I built it for around $200 million. | ||
| And it's bigger than that. | ||
| They're spending many times that amount to do a renovation of a building. | ||
| I've heard numbers as high as $4 billion. | ||
| $4 billion to build a building. | ||
| I could have renovated that building and fixed it up, made it beautiful for $25 million. | ||
| They're going to spend close to $4 billion on it. | ||
| So it's either gross incompetence or it's theft. | ||
| Somebody's making money because you can't spend, it's more per square, and you have half a building there. | ||
| You know, you have the structure, you have the ex-years skin that they're not changing much. | ||
| They're building a building and they're spending almost, I mean, I'm hearing numbers of between $3 and $4 billion. | ||
| It's the most expensive structure ever built per square foot. | ||
| So he's either incompetent or he or somebody is a crook. | ||
| And we'll find out. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Do you just proceed on Minneapolis? | ||
| On Minneapolis, Governor Tim Walz recently likened the conflict on the ground to Fort Sumter, sort of implying that this is the beginning of a civil war. | ||
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Do you agree with that characterization? | |
| Do you feel like there's a civil war brewing in the governor's war? | ||
| Does he know what Fort Sumter was, or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? | ||
| No, this is, I was elected on law and order. | ||
| I was elected on a strong border. | ||
| We had a border that allowed 25 million people to come in. | ||
| Many were murderers. | ||
| They murdered people. | ||
| We had 11,888 murderers. | ||
| We had prisons, including Venezuela, but Venezuela opened its prisons. | ||
| So did the Congo. | ||
| The Congo in Africa opens its prisons and dumped people into our country. | ||
| Many countries did that. | ||
| I would have done that if I were leading a country. | ||
| I would have dumped the prisoners into our country. | ||
| We had opened borders. | ||
| We had all these things. | ||
| I was elected on law and order. | ||
| I was elected on the economy. | ||
| I was elected on a lot of reasons. | ||
| Because when I took over, we inherited a mess. | ||
| Prices were too high. | ||
| Inflation was the highest it was in 48 years. | ||
| I say ever, but the media always corrects me by saying it's only 48 years. | ||
| I think 48 years almost sounds worse. | ||
| But when I was elected, I was elected to do a job. | ||
| And one of the big things I was elected to do is law and order. | ||
| We now have the lowest crime rate in the history of our country. | ||
| We have the lowest murder rate in the history of our country. | ||
| We have Washington, D.C., which was a dangerous place to walk, is now a totally safe city. | ||
| You can walk with your husband or your wife. | ||
| You can walk with your children right down the middle of the city. | ||
| Nothing's going to happen. | ||
| We did a great job. | ||
| We had the National Guard. | ||
| We have soldiers. | ||
| We have people that nobody's going to mess with. | ||
| And we've taken out. | ||
| Remember, it's not just that. | ||
| In Washington, we've removed over 2,000 criminals. | ||
| And you know, if you look at the numbers, a very small percentage of your population, 2%, 3% of your population, causes 90% of the crime. | ||
| So when you move a small, it's amazing how that works. | ||
| But the criminals go over and over and over again. | ||
| So 2% to 3% of your population can cause over 90% of your crime. | ||
| So it's not that complex. | ||
| We moved 2,000 people out of Washington. | ||
| We brought them back to their countries where they came from. | ||
| They came through open borders by sleepy Joe Biden. | ||
| And I will tell you, Washington is safe. | ||
| If you look at New Orleans, as you know, we went there about four weeks ago. | ||
| I was with the mayor of New Orleans last night. | ||
| He was at the premiere. | ||
| And she was at the premiere. | ||
| She was great. | ||
| I believe she's a Democrat. | ||
| She came over. | ||
| She thanked me so much. | ||
| She said crime is down more than 50% in just a few weeks. | ||
| And you couldn't even walk down the street in New Orleans. | ||
| It's so bad. | ||
| And now they let us in there. | ||
| And she is thanking me so much, so profusely. | ||
| She was great last night. | ||
| I'd do that. | ||
| If I were a Democrat, I'd say call Trump in, let them do what they do. | ||
| But we remove people, criminals, from the cities, and they become safe cities. | ||
| If you look at Minnesota, Minneapolis, we have crime down there because we took out thousands of people despite all the mess and everything else. | ||
| But do these people really want to have rapists? | ||
| Do they really want to have drug dealers and people from prisons and murderers? | ||
| Do they really want to have them in the community? | ||
| You know, it's really insurrectionists and agitators, and they're paid. | ||
| And you can tell a lot of reasons. | ||
| Number one, they're professionals, you know, with their mouth. | ||
| But they're also, you look at the signs, the signs are all professionally made. | ||
| They have signs that are gorgeous. | ||
| In fact, I want to get the sign because I'm a big, I need a lot of signs for different things, and I want to find out whoever does this signs. | ||
| They do a beautiful job. | ||
| You know, everybody has this beautiful sign with brand new wood. | ||
| It's like leather panels. | ||
| They have a leather handle on the bottom. | ||
| These are not people that, these are people that are handed signs. | ||
| And we know pretty much, we're getting very close to it, but we know pretty much who's funding this stuff. | ||
| These are paid insurrectionists, paid troublemakers. | ||
| But I was elected by a landslide. | ||
| I won every swing state. | ||
| I won the popular vote by a lot. | ||
| I won everything. | ||
| I won everything. | ||
| And I was elected by a landslide on law and order and on strong borders. | ||
| We had a border that was so bad, so open, where 25 million people came in over a period of four years, and now nobody comes in. | ||
| Nobody even tries to come in. | ||
| And I can only say, I think, we'll say it very plainly: elections have consequences. | ||
| The people want law and order. | ||
| And we have a silent majority. | ||
| You know, we have a silent majority of people. | ||
| They don't go on riot and everything else, but they like what we're doing. | ||
| They like having a safe city. | ||
| I get calls every single day. | ||
| Every person I see working in the White House, people I don't know, many people work here, and they say, I'd like to thank you, sir, why you've made Washington so great. | ||
| We walk to work. | ||
| They walk to work. | ||
| You people know it very well. | ||
| You walk to work now. | ||
| You used to take an Uber or a taxi or something, and you even felt like in danger there. | ||
| Every person in this building, I mean, virtually every time I see somebody, they thank me because a year and a half ago they lived in hell and now they can walk to work and they're totally safe. | ||
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| Today, our coverage of the U.S. Conference of Mayors winds down with its closing plenary lunch featuring a panel of mayors from the cities of Albuquerque, Bend, Oregon, Farmington Hills, Michigan, and Durham, North Carolina. | ||
| Topics include affordability, immigration, and AI. | ||
| Watch live at 12.45 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, and online at cspan.org. | ||
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| Plus, relive the race to the moon, Skylab, and the Space Shuttle program. | ||
| And hear first-hand accounts from legendary NASA flight directors Gene Krantz and Gerald Griffin. | ||
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro took questions from reporters at a forum hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, D.C. | |
| He weighed in on current events, including immigration enforcement actions and the fatal shootings of Renee Goode and Alex Predi by federal agents in Minneapolis. | ||
| Governor Shapiro said Pennsylvania would be prepared if the Trump administration deployed federal agents to the state. | ||
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| We all set. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| I'm Linda Feldman, Washington Bureau Chief of the Christian Science Monitor. | ||
| Our guest today is Governor Josh Shapiro of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
| This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast. | ||
| And yes, afternoon tea still counts as a breakfast in our books. | ||
| I'm going to skip the rest of the introduction. | ||
| We know who Governor Shapiro is. | ||
| And make sure we have tape. | ||
| His book came out, what, two days ago? | ||
| We got copies of the book for everybody. | ||
| Please take one. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Right now, we'll go to the ground rules. | ||
| We're on the record, so no live blogging or tweeting or, in short, no filing of any kind while the event is underway. | ||
| And we're supposed to end right at 3. | ||
| I don't know if we can take that over the edge a little bit. | ||
| Follow your rules. | ||
| Okay, so when the event ends, then the embargo is lifted. | ||
| And as many of you know, if you want to ask a question, just wave at me and we'll call in as many as time permits. | ||
| Now, if you'd like to make very brief opening remarks, the floor is yours. | ||
| I see how you said very brief. | ||
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Emphasis on very, because look at all these people who came to see you. | |
| No, thank you all for being here. | ||
| Let me just begin by saying it's very, very humbling to be here with all of you. | ||
| I'm excited to be here. | ||
| I'm grateful for the invitation. | ||
| I'll talk briefly about the book, a book I started at the end of 2024 to speak to the work I do in Pennsylvania every day where I see the light. | ||
| I see goodness from people, whether on their farms or in their town squares or in their center cities. | ||
| People just striving to build it better for their kids, to be able to have a good school in their community and a safe neighborhood, economic opportunity, their rights and freedoms protected. | ||
| And I wanted to speak to that light that emanates from them every day, even in this moment of darkness and tumult and division that oftentimes occupies our politics. | ||
| About four or five months into the process of writing this book, my family and I experienced the depths of darkness when someone broke into the governor's residence wielding a metal hammer carrying Molotov cocktails and tried to kill me and my family. | ||
| That person thankfully is behind bars now for up to 50 years. | ||
| That was a dark moment in our lives. | ||
| It was a dark moment for our Commonwealth. | ||
| But coming out of that, just literally in the hours after, was an extraordinary amount of light. | ||
| People from all different walks of life there to try and help our family and our Commonwealth heal. | ||
| People from different faiths coming together and praying for me and my family, praying for our healing. | ||
| I write a lot in this book about my own religion and my own faith, my faith in my religion and my faith in other people. | ||
| And I pray a lot, but that was the first time in my life that I experienced the power of other people's prayers. | ||
| And I spend a lot of time talking about that. | ||
| I talk about how trying to find light is a struggle every day as a dad and a husband, dad to four kids and a husband to my high school sweetheart from the ninth grade and trying to figure out a way to serve my community while also still trying to be a good dad and a good husband. | ||
| I talk about the struggles at different forks in the road in my career. | ||
| I know some of you have focused on one of those points in my career, but many points in my career where I tried to make a decision and align my head, my heart, and my gut about how I could best serve and how I could still be someone that my kids could rely on. | ||
| And so this is a story about how my faith has shaped me, my family guided me, and the light that I find from others inspires me to do this work. | ||
| I recognize that you all are going to have a lot of questions, probably not about things that are in the pages of this book, and I respect that, but it would mean a lot to me. | ||
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| I'd be really humbled if you'd take a book with you and take a few moments to read it and let me know what you think. | ||
| So I hope that was brief enough. | ||
| I'll stop there. | ||
| And I'll be happy to answer any of your questions. | ||
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| So I'll start with a question and then we'll move to reporters around the room. | ||
| So I attended your bipartisan dialogue with Governor Cox of Utah last month at the National Cathedral and Governor Cox cited research on political violence that he said suggests the United States could be on a long-term path to civil war. | ||
| First, do you feel the same way? | ||
| And if not, certainly we can agree that we're living through a time of rising political and anti-Semitic violence. | ||
| I'm sure you know about the attack on the Chabad Luvich World Headquarters last night in Brooklyn. | ||
| So my question is, what can you, as a prominent Democrat who might run for president, do now and perhaps in higher office? | ||
| What can you do to help pull the nation back from the brink? | ||
| Well, first, I think we have to acknowledge political violence has been an issue for generations. | ||
| I think it is also true that over the last several years, we've seen a rise in political violence. | ||
| We saw it, I believe, two nights ago against Congresswoman Omar. | ||
| We saw it in just the last few months against Charlie Kirk and Speaker Hortman in Minnesota, against my family in Harrisburg, against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| And there have been other examples as well. | ||
| I mean, no disrespect if I omitted anyone there, so please accept that as just making the point that we've seen a rise in the number of incidents. | ||
| I believe to combat this, we all have a responsibility to do our part. | ||
| I believe elected leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity and to condemn that violence, regardless of who's targeted, whatever party they're from or ideology they represent, or regardless of whoever actually is engaged in that level of political violence. | ||
| I've been critical of people on both sides of the aisle on this, but I must say when the President of the United States fails to condemn acts of political violence because they're targeting someone that he dislikes or disagrees with, that makes us all less safe. | ||
| Whether it's in Butler, Pennsylvania, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or anywhere else, I think we have a responsibility to speak up. | ||
| That's one piece of it. | ||
| The second piece of it is, even if you don't have a title next to your name, I think there's some responsibility to use your power and your platform to say this is unacceptable. | ||
| I was with Robert Kraft just last night in Boston, notwithstanding being an Eagles fan, and I'm very happy for him. | ||
| One of the things that Robert has done is to use his power as a leading businessman to engage in a campaign to get others to focus on eradicating hate in their communities. | ||
| I say this with all respect to everyone around this table. | ||
| I think our media has a responsibility to call it out where they see it and to try and help not incentivize a structure that pulls people to extremes and angry levels, but actually finds ways to come together and find common ground. | ||
| Practically speaking, I would also say that there's some tangible things that government can do on the policy level, not just on the political level. | ||
| I'll give you just two examples from Pennsylvania. | ||
| My wife, Lori, our first lady, I write about her in the book. | ||
| If you'd like to read about her, excuse my hands. | ||
| I don't mean to keep getting in front of your computer. | ||
| But we have focused a lot on putting into our curriculum in Pennsylvania classrooms digital literacy. | ||
| Because I think a lot of times the anger that gets stirred up that may not lead necessarily to political violence, but certainly leads to division, comes because a lot of young folks, particularly in our schools, can't discern fact from fiction when they're looking on their iPhone and consuming information. | ||
| Not trying to teach young people whether they should have a right-wing view or a left-wing view, agree with Democrats or Republicans, but rather be able to look at something online and know if it's fact or know if it's fiction. | ||
| We experience this as parents. | ||
| Our kids will come to us and say, Dad, did you see such and such about what so-and-so said? | ||
| And rather than argue the point or agree the point with them, I'll say to them, well, where'd you see that? | ||
| Typically, it's on a reel or something. | ||
| And I'll say, well, did you actually, like, is it true? | ||
| Did that happen? | ||
| And more and more our kids will now come to us. | ||
| Oh, I saw this reel. | ||
| And by the way, I checked. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| And this is what I think. | ||
| I want our kids to think big things. | ||
| I want them to argue with us and disagree with us, but I want it to be rooted in fact. | ||
| And I think too oftentimes we are not rooted in fact anymore in this country. | ||
| Let's agree on a set of facts. | ||
| Let's argue in a civil way and let's bring down the temperature. | ||
| So we have responsibilities in our politics. | ||
| We have responsibilities in our governance. | ||
| I think the business community, the media community, and others have responsibilities to use their platforms. | ||
| We cannot continue on this way. | ||
| This is going to tear at the heart of our foundations in this country. | ||
| We've got to do a better job of combating this violence. | ||
| And the final thing I'll say, I'm sorry, Linda, I can sense you wanted me to stop, but the final thing I'll say is this. | ||
| This is not a left-wing problem. | ||
| This is not a right-wing problem. | ||
| This is an American problem. | ||
| And we've all got to work together on it. | ||
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Okay, I'm Jonathan Solant from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. | |
| Hi, Gary. | ||
| Thanks for coming. | ||
| I've discovered a lot of governors, all mentioned future presidential candidates, and what they do is they come to Washington, they come to the spurly breakfast, the amount of the breakfast, they come, they do other appearances in Washington. | ||
| And we asked you if you were running for president, you'd say, well, I'm going to wait till after the midterms. | ||
| So why should I write? | ||
| What should I write about why you're in Washington today? | ||
| I'm here to talk about my book. | ||
| And I'm here to talk about the faith I have in others. | ||
| I'm here to talk about the light I see in others. | ||
| And I'm here to talk about how I make decisions, which I think is relevant to the readers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. | ||
| And I hope you're right about that. | ||
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| Amalia from PBS. | ||
| I'm not sure where you are. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
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We've seen that you're widely popular in your state. | |
| You've had good polls going so far in a Battleground State. | ||
| What should Democrats be doing to convince both Republican voters right now and Independents? | ||
| Look, I'm grateful for the support that I've received in elections and continue to receive. | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm trying to make eye contact with you. | ||
| I can't see you here. | ||
| And that I have in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Look, I think what we do in our Commonwealth is show up in people's communities, including people that don't typically vote for Democrats. | ||
| I'm everybody's governor in our Commonwealth. | ||
| I listen to the concerns they have, and then I actually deliver for them. | ||
| You know, I'm from one of the most divided, politically divided states in the country. | ||
| I think we have one Democratic U.S. Senator, one Republican, a roughly evenly split congressional delegation. | ||
| My entire 253-member legislature is separated by three seats. | ||
| I've got a Senate led by Republicans by two seats and a House led by Democrats by one seat. | ||
| And yet we've found ways to come together to make historic investments in public education, to fulfill my commitment to hire 2,000 more police officers to grow our economy and to protect our rights and freedoms. | ||
| I'm proud of the fact that graduation rates are up. | ||
| Crime is down 13% in our Commonwealth. | ||
| We have the only growing economy in the northeastern part of the United States. | ||
| And stay tuned tomorrow. | ||
| I've got a huge announcement that's going to put an exclamation point on that. | ||
| We've managed to protect the rights and freedoms of Pennsylvanians. | ||