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	All right.
	Thanks, Scott Shannon.
	Thanks to all of you for being with us.
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	We had a situation in Georgia today.
	Our prayers are with the people down there.
	At least five soldiers injured after a U.S. Army sergeant open fired at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
	The suspect identified as a male U.S. Army sergeant, according to a U.S. official confirming a Fox News, his name is not been released.
	The bottom line is the soldiers were shot in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team Area, according to a social media post from the U.S. Army, treated on site, moved to win Army Community Hospital, according to Fort Stewart.
	President Trump has been briefed on the incident.
	White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt wrote on social media.
	Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth and Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome also briefed.
	Obviously, Governor Kemp is involved as well.
	Anyway, five soldiers now injured.
	And our prayers are with all of them.
	As of now, thankfully, we don't have any deaths.
	I'm hoping that these injuries are not going to be lifelong injuries.
	We also expect some point in the second hour of the program today that Apple CEO Tim Cook will join President Trump and at an event at the White House calling and basically putting forward a new $100 billion investment commitment.
	And that now brings their total that they are committed to spending over the next four years, $600 billion.
	And that is a huge, huge amount of money.
	Now, this is factored into the number I keep get giving out, which is we're gonna we we now have commitments of anywhere from twelve to fifteen trillion dollars in manufacturing in this country.
	That includes Apple.
	Now, most of Apple products have historically been made in China, made abroad and then brought into the country, and they're gonna build this massive manufacturing center in the great state of Texas.
	And anyway, it shows that they are serious about their commitment to their manufacturing program.
	Now, the president also is getting commitments from multiple uh automobile manufacturers.
	They're gonna build their autos here in America.
	Uh finally, we are going to bring back pharmaceutical manufacturing to this country.
	We've been we have been far too reliant on other countries for medicines that are critical to you know our health in this country, and it may it's never made any sense to me at all.
	Um where's the story, Linda?
	I was telling you about this earlier.
	I have it in my thing here.
	Uh there's a global outbreak right now and a lot of fear that is surging.
	And I guess after COVID, most people probably have COVID PTSD.
	Um, as a virus in China now has been prompting quarantines and thousands of new cases now being reported, and Chinese officials have imposed COVID-like quarantines in uh parts of the country because of a virus that continues to surge there.
	More than 7,000 infections reported in this one province.
	It's called Guangdong.
	I'm I'm sure I'm not pronouncing it properly up, forgive me, it's not done on purpose.
	And anyway, long story short, it's prompting authorities to isolate patients in hospital wards covered with mosquito nets.
	They are required to remain there for a week, at least until they test negative, if sooner.
	No deaths have been reported.
	The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued what is a level two travel advisory uh to this particular province, urging Americans to take extra precautions when visiting the region.
	You know, this is why, you know, getting to the origins of COVID is so critical and important, because we know that the NIH gave money to the Eco Health Alliance.
	We know that when they first discovered that COVID was in America, that they had every belief that it came from NIH taxpayer dollars.
	Uh they knew that the money the Eco Health Alliance was investing in this Wuhan Virology lab.
	Uh they knew that gain of function research took place there.
	They knew that coronavirus research took place there, and then they purposely went out and lied.
	And and this is in Rand Paul's book, all of the emails, all of the evidence points to the fact that they were in a flurry of activity and text messaging and emailing to prevent the American people from finding out the truth, and then they put out a false narrative about wet markets, Maybe that may be responsible for all of this, and it never was.
	And then, of course, they never, you know, I don't blame them for coming up with the vaccines.
	However, they were always experimental.
	And we didn't put enough emphasis on that.
	And then everybody was pushing and demanding, and they put these mandates out there that everybody get the vaccine.
	And meanwhile, it was still in the experimental stage.
	And then when you talk to the doctor that came up with the mRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone is his name.
	We've had him on the program many times.
	Without his discovery and advancement, there wouldn't have been a Pfizer or Moderna or AstraZeneca mRNA vaccine that would ever have been produced.
	And rather than listen to the creator of the technology, who was saying very specifically that it's untested.
	However, seeing the damage that is being done to older people and people with comorbidities and pre-existing conditions, he would only recommend it, and again, not mandate it, for people over 65 or fit into one of those categories.
	And he said, certainly not young children.
	Young children were never dying from this.
	And there's been a whole series of articles written about the aftermath, that people have residual symptoms, not from COVID, but from the vaccine that they took, which was experimental the whole time.
	You know, for example, myocarditis, that is but one example.
	And then, of course, anybody that came up with any possible treatment, if you got COVID, like hydroxychloroquine, there's been numerous studies now that have come out that said taken early, hydroxychloroquine did, in fact, mitigate symptoms.
	Then the amount of pressure that was being put on people, first of all, yeah, depending where you worked, most employers, you know, were pressured to mandate that their employees got the shot, or else they were gonna lose their job.
	We saw that happen with the U.S. military.
	It's insane.
	Um anyway, we'll keep our eye on this virus.
	Nobody's died yet, so I don't want people to get too freaked out by all of it.
	The good news on this press conference with Tim Cook today, it is and this is where I have a lot of confidence or a high degree of confidence in how quickly our economy can not only recover but prosper,
	and we could really have a boom in our economy only because we've never had all of these foundational pieces in place the way we do now, at least not in my lifetime.
	And what do I mean by that?
	Okay.
	I really love the fact that Apple is gonna produce a lot of their products and they're gonna build a big manufacturing center in Texas that's gonna be high paying career jobs for a lot of people in Texas.
	I think that's great, on top of the people that build it.
	One thing that no gets very little attention in the one big beautiful bill for manufacturers is they get what's called bonus depreciation, meaning that if they build out their facilities, it will incentivize them to do it faster.
	They get to deduct in year one, meaning the year that they build the facility, the entire cost of building the facility, which is a massive tax incentive for them to do it expeditiously, which means that it will get into the bloodstream of the economy that much faster, and that'll create the high paying career jobs.
	Now that's for automobile manufacturers, that's for what Apple is doing.
	Uh similarly, you know, bringing back pharmaceutical manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, uh, semiconductor chip manufacturing, rare earth mining that'll take place, uh, and also you you have to factor in the the president's commitment towards energy dominance and and couple that with the European Union deal where they have committed to seven hundred and fifty billion dollars in in purchasing American energy.
	Now, all of these, all of these various manufacturing items and becoming energy dominant, all of which combined are great for national security.
	I mean, communications is key.
	Building Apple products here is good for national security.
	Building out our own pharmaceutical factories and manufacturing centers, that's good that we're not going to be dependent any longer on China for pharmaceuticals.
	Uh building our semiconductor chips here, that's good because we've been far too reliant on countries like Taiwan and and other places, and we should be building it here.
	Uh creating American cars uh here in this country.
	Wow, we're gonna we're gonna revitalize the auto industry.
	And I'm looking forward to those high paying career jobs.
	Um and then if you add to that the largest tax cut in American history, and if you add to that no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security or limiting taxes on all.
	Well, that's looking out for the elderly, and that's looking out for hardworking men and women.
	They are the backbone of any society.
	That's certainly the backbone of this society, building out energy dominance, that's good for national security as well, because it is the lifeblood of the world's economy, and we're not gonna we we will no longer be allowing European nations to fund Vladimir Putin's war machine.
	I mean, Russia's been getting rich off Western European purchasing of their energy, and how stupid of them to be reliant on Vladimir Putin, especially in light of what he's been doing in Ukraine and and how he's been taking advantage of all of these Western European countries.
	They they they themselves have been funding this war by helping to make Putin rich.
	You know, similarly, Joe Biden turning a blind eye towards the sanctions with Iran, well, that funded their their their number one state sponsor of terrorist status because that provided the monies to produce the weapons that they would fund and give to the to Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic jihad and the Houthie rebels, and of course the ballistic missiles they were building out themselves.
	Um it is amazing to me that all of these great things are happening economically.
	It is amazing that the president's been able to control the borders.
	It's amazing that we are deporting as quickly as possible all of these unvetted Biden Harris Major illegals.
	It is amazing to me that we took out Iranian nuclear sites, which I believe was a clear and present danger to the United States and to Israel.
	And then I I look at some commentary.
	I've really I'm I'm becoming more and more cynical of those people that that say that they are MAGA conservatives or MAGA Republicans or Trump supporters,
	and all they seem to want to do is find the one one difference that they have with Donald Trump and ignore all the transformational and consequential things that he is doing.
	And I figured out why.
	Everybody on social media, they want to draw attention to themselves.
	They want clicks, they want views, they want attention.
	And if it means that they have to say something more or more outrageous to get that attention, they're going to do it.
	And instead of seeing you know, I like to look at things from you know 40,000 feet above.
	Is any one president going to be perfect?
	No, but you know, abolishing the Department of Education, biggest tax cuts in history, building a border wall, uh, exporting criminal illegals, 12 to 15 trillion dollars in investment, looking out for working men and women, you know, uh fighting back and in terms of law and order,
	safety, security, refunding the police, building out the next generation of weaponry, and all you know, then you know, some of the loudest voices lately are people that claim to be Trump supporters, and I find their criticisms in most cases beyond petty.
	Well, this is why we don't like Donald Trump.
	This is the best presidency you're all ever gonna get in your lifetime.
	I can promise you that.
	And if you're expecting perfection, uh, you're dreaming.
	Think about where you were back in on January 19th of this year.
	All right, we mentioned to you earlier this shooting that took place in Georgia.
	Thankfully, nobody was killed.
	Uh, we had a number of injuries.
	Oh, sorry, I had to bend down to get that.
	Um, five soldiers were injured.
	Shooter opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
	Uh they have now identified this individual, number one, and number two.
	Um, what we're learning about this guy, it is he's been identified, I can't, I Cornelius Radford.
	Okay, prisoner uh look, I don't know what the what what the penalty is going to be, but people could have died today.
	And these guys are now in stable condition, and for the five people that have been shot in the hospital, uh, and it was people that were at Fort Stewart that actually saved lives here.
	Let's just dip into the press conference that's ongoing.
	Thank you.
	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us.
	This morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, an active duty soldier assigned to Fort Stewart, Georgia, shot and wounded five of his fellow soldiers here on Fort Stewart.
	Thankfully, all are in stable condition and all are expected to recover.
	The alleged shooter is in custody.
	We have re-established security.
	I have lifted all lockdown measures on Fort Stewart, and there is currently no threat to the local community.
	I'd like to recognize and thank our Army law enforcement and medical personnel and our partners from local, state, and federal law enforcement and emergency services for their quick response and support.
	I would also like to thank the brave soldiers who immediately intervened and subdued the shooter.
	These soldiers, without a doubt, prevented further casualties.
	Our wounded soldiers were initially evacuated to Wynn Army Community Hospital right here on Fort Stewart.
	All arrived in stable condition, and three of the five required surgical inter uh intervention.
	Two have been transported to Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Georgia for additional care.
	We have identified the alleged shooter as Sergeant Cornelius Radford.
	An automated logistics sergeant assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team.
	Sergeant Radford has not previously deployed to combat.
	Sergeant Radford has been interviewed by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and is currently in pretrial confinement, awaiting a charging decision by the office of the special trial counsel.
	Right now, our primary focus is first on caring for injured soldiers and their families, and also supporting the soldiers of the Spartan Brigade.
	All of the families of the victims have been notified, and we're wrapping our arms around them and ensuring we provide them all the support that we can.
	Before I take questions, I want to remind you that this is an ongoing investigation, and we're still gathering questions.
	And ladies and gentlemen, I'll now take your questions.
	General Lewis, we've been close to the news.
	Can you give us a direct what unit he was assigned to and how long he's been on here?
	He didn't mention it.
	Yeah, he he uh is assigned um to one of our sustainment units here in second brigade combat team at Fort Stewart.
	Uh and I will have to confirm how long he uh he served with us.
	Yes, sir.
	As best you can know it's already brought us where this happened, what happened?
	Shooting and were the victims um subordinates of the sergeants, or were they people over him right?
	Yeah, right now it's premature, and we're gathering a lot of the information.
	What we know is this soldier uh the shooting occurred at the soldier's place of work.
	It did involve his co-workers.
	We're still not certain about the motivations, but again, he's been interviewed uh by army investigators, and we we believe we'll gain more information here shortly.
	Yes, ma'am.
	This is a training exercise leading an event.
	No, ma'am, we don't have any reason to believe it had anything to do with it with a training event.
	Um, other than that, I can't I can't state the motivations for this soldier.
	We've heard that the uh shooter may have been from Jacksonville corner youth who confirmed that.
	We also heard that he has maybe uh been arrested for DUI receiving Yeah, at this point, um I can't confirm where he's from.
	We can follow up on that.
	Uh I do believe he was arrested locally for a DUI that was unknown to his chain of command until the event occurred, and we and we started looking into the the law enforcement databases.
	Robin, tell from the current can you tell us whether or not that was a military weapon or whether this is personal weapon with the first problem?
	Yes, ma'am.
	I can conc I can confirm it was not a military weapon, and we believe it was a personal handgun.
	Yes, sir.
	What does it mean for ongoing security measures?
	Yeah, I I'm I'm very confident in this in the security of this installation.
	Um we've got a great partnership with local law enforcement.
	Um as you can see here at our gates, uh, we have armed guards in protective equipment.
	This one's a bit difficult and we're going to have to determine how he was able to get a handgun to his place of duty.
	Police on News for Jack.
	Has the suspect had any fire disciplinary or behavioral issues on the ground?
	No, ma'am, not that we're aware of.
	But again, it's early in the investigation, but not that I'm currently aware of.
	You mentioned that some soldier officer do you have to do it?
	Do you know if his arrest here with the regular uh I don't have the details on that, but I know that his soldiers in the area that witnessed the shooting uh immediately and and without hesitation tackled the soldiers, subdued him that allowed law enforcement to then take him into custody.
	And we've got time for one more question.
	Um I know that you can't speak to the motivation, but you know, if this turns out to be some situation where somebody had extremist beliefs or maybe classified as a terrorist attack.
	I mean, how does that change the base's response or the base's investigation?
	Yeah, currently we have no reason to believe any of that is the case.
	However, uh, we continually continuously assess the threat environment, uh, both in the immediate area and our cross our army and do installations, and we will address the threat level accordingly.
	We have the rank of the shooter.
	Yes, sir, he was a sergeant.
	Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your questions, and and again, thanks to the local responders.
	Anyway, our prayers are with the families of those that have been uh injured here, at least five soldiers injured.
	A shooter opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia, all in stable condition.
	Motive still a little bit unclear.
	We get more details, we will pass them on to you.
	Um something happened that I found pretty remarkable.
	Charles Gasparino of Fogs Business wrote about this in the New York Post today.
	Um JP Morgan and Bank of America, quote, debunked President Trump uh over the issue of January 6 because of pressure from the Biden administration and their banking regulators and the Federal Reserve, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter telling the post.
	His report goes on the exact reason for Trump and his tens of millions of dollars in holdings being kicked off J.P. Morgan's banking platform and then denied access to Bank of America services as yet to be reported, but sources at the bank,
	the largest and second largest in the U.S. in terms of assets, confirmed the case, stem from the controversy surrounding President Trump's uh actions, but more importantly from threats from President Biden's bank regulators that banking the former president's money put them in danger of,
	quote, falling afoul of rules that prohibit financial institutions from doing business with individuals and companies that present a reputational risk.
	This is how this is how vindictive the Biden family could be.
	People at the banks tell the New York Post that Biden's banking cops at the office of the controller of the currency and the FDIC and the Federal Reserve often use the nebulous nature of the edict to go beyond debanking money from money launderers and drunk kingpins, and they were pressured to include Donald Trump.
	Now, Trump himself revealed that he was debaned when he was on CNBC, I guess earlier in the week.
	Quote, I had hundreds of millions, many, many accounts loaded up with cash.
	I was loaded up with cash, and they told me, I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you.
	You have 20 days to get the money out.
	And he said, I have you have to be kidding me.
	I've been with you for 35, 40 years.
	Then he was denied services by the Bank of America.
	And during the interview, he named both J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, stating both refused to come to his defense.
	He said Moynihan was kissing my ass when I was president.
	And when I called him after I was president to deposit a billion dollars plus and a lot of other things, uh, more importantly, to open accounts with which banks always like, he said we can't do it.
	Wow.
	Did you hear about this Doge Stafford, the one that became somewhat infamous or famous, known as, quote, big balls.
	That's what the name they gave him.
	He's only 19 years old.
	This kid must be brilliant.
	Anyway, formerly worked at Doge before transferring to the Social Security Administration.
	But according to former Doge chief Elon Musk, this guy was attacked trying to assist a woman who was in the initi was the initial target of a gang of about a dozen young men.
	Kind of sounds a lot like what happened in Cincinnati.
	Musk uh posted that a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in D.C., a doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her, was severely beaten.
	We showed the images on TV last night.
	I mean, this guy got a brutal, brutal beating.
	It was terrible.
	Anyway, President Trump on Monday threatened to federalize D.C., calling for local miners and gang members over the age of 14 to be prosecuted as adults after this incident happened.
	By the way, President Trump did sign the executive order establishing a task force for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
	And he said, you know, what a great honor that that will be.
	Um President Trump now getting tougher and tougher with Vladimir Putin.
	Uh Steve Whitkopf, the president's special envoy, has this meeting with Putin for last minute peace talks.
	There's an announcement that there may be a meeting between Putin and Trump themselves to see if they can maybe once and for all and finally put an end to this ridiculous conflict that's been going on with Ukraine.
	Uh You know, Vladimir Putin is what he is.
	And I know that there are people.
	I don't know why there are some that interpret Donald Trump's no forever wars or Donald Trump's efforts to establish peace both in the Middle East and in Europe as somehow America's being, you know, America first means or equals isolationism.
	Because it does not.
	Donald Trump has the Trump doctrine.
	The legacy media has never defined it.
	I'll gladly define it for you, because we watch his actions.
	Yes, the president believes very strongly America should not get embroiled in these forever wars, and I tend to agree with him.
	We can't do what we did in Iraq.
	First of all, military technology, starting with drones and moving forward from there, is advancing at the speed of light.
	That's why we have to be on the cutting edge of the next generation of weaponry.
	I am beyond convinced.
	I know it's a reality that future wars are not going to be fought traditionally like they have been in battlefields, although there will always probably be a need for human intelligence, although that may change with technology also.
	But, you know, hypersonic missiles and drone technology and even robots for crying out loud.
	I mean, they're they're looking at robot soldiers that are being built out, especially now by the Chinese uh communist Chinese army.
	But we we need a robust military.
	But the point is why some are interpreting Donald Trump as an isolationist makes no sense to me.
	He's the guy that beat the ISIS Caliphate.
	He's the guy that that took out Solomonny.
	He's the guy that beat Baghdadi and his associates.
	He's the guy that dropped the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan.
	Yes, in keeping with his philosophy and his principles and his doctrine of no forever wars, he did all of that and he didn't start a forever war.
	He's been trying to end wars.
	And because, you know, Vladimir Putin has been so look, Putin is a thug and a dictator.
	He just is.
	Is Zelensky perfect?
	Far from it.
	But this really happened on Biden's watch.
	And, you know, the Crimea annexation took place with Biden and Obama.
	He's just trying to put out the fire and the mess that they built there.
	And because Putin has been so reluctant in targeting innocent civilians, they are selling weapons to Ukraine so they can defend their country.
	Hopefully they'll come to a peaceful settlement.
	Hopefully this can end.
	Hopefully the dying will stop.
	That's in keeping with the Trump doctrine.

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