BREAKING NEWS: Trump Holds First Cabinet Meeting, Takes Multiple Questions From Reporters

people they'll stop killing young Russian soldiers and young Ukrainian soldiers and other people in addition in the towns and cities and we will consider that a very important thing and a big accomplishment because it was going nowhere until this Administration came in they hadn't spoken to President Putin in two years and so we'll uh we'll keep you advised uh before we begin the cabinet I'd like to have Scott uh and uh a couple of people people say a few things but most importantly where are you this is a gentleman who's going places the head of

Hud and he's going to say you all know him and uh you're going to say grace and me right thank you very much thank you Mr let's pray father we thank you uh for this awesome privilege father to be in your presence God thank you that you've allowed us to see this day the Bible says that your mercies are new every morning and father God we give you the glor Glory and Honor thank you God for president Trump father for appointing us father God thank you for anointing us to do this job father we pray

uh you'll give the president the vice president wisdom father God as they lead father I pray for all of my colleagues that are here around the table and in this room father God we pray that uh we would lead with a righteous Clarity father God as we serve the people of this country and every prospective agency every job that we have father we would humble ourselves before you and we would lead in the manner that you've called us to lead and to serve father the Bible says that blessed is the nation whose God is the

Lord but father we today honor you and in your rightful place father thank you for giving us this opportunity to restore faith in this country and be a blessing to the people of America and Lord God today in our meeting we pray that you would be glorified in our conversation in Jesus name amen yeah that was a very good job you did you've done that before so Scott Turner is a terrific young guy he's heading up HUD and he's going to make us all very proud right thank you Mr thank you very much great job

in just over one month illegal vo Crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody's actually ever seen before it's much more than 100% and we've uh Unleashed American Energy at levels that will soon be reported but we think we're going to get it going very quickly we have incredible people on the energy front I think we have really great people on every front I'll let you know if they're not good but I think they really are and we're fighting every day to uh get the prices down the inflation is uh stopping slowly but part of the

reason it's stopping is because of high interest rates and other problems that we inherited but uh we have to get the prices down not the inflation down the prices of eggs and various other things eggs are a disaster the the uh secretary of agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mindboggling what's happened how low they were with us and how high they are now but I think we can do something about it Madam Secretary and I think you're going to do a fantastic job in that position one of the most important

initiatives is Doge and we have cut billions and billions and billions of dollars we're looking to get it maybe to a trillion dollars if we can do that we're going to start getting to be uh at a point where we can think in terms of balancing budgets believe it or not something you haven't heard in many many years decades actually and it's a big uh whether it's this year or next year I think we'll be very close to balancing budgets and the doge is very important and Elon is here to give you a summary of

what's Happening some of the things they found some of the horrible things they found some of the theft and uh fraud and uh we call it waste and abuse but a lot of Fraud and probably some fraud that we're not going to be able to prove is fraud but when you hear the names and the places where this money's going it's it's a disgrace but we've uh requested that a lot of people we want to make sure that the people are working so letters were sent out and I think everyone at this table uh is

very much behind it and if they if they are I'd want them to speak up but they're very much behind it letters were sent out to people just to find out if the people people exist do they work who do they work for where are they you know where have they been working have they been working for other companies or other entities at all being paid by the government so they have two jobs but they're supposed to have one and the letter asks some simple questions like what have you done lately and if they can

answer that because I can I can tell you everything I've done for the last long period of time a lot more than a week and uh in many cases we haven't gotten responses usually that means that maybe that person doesn't exist or that person doesn't want to say they're working for another company while being paid by the United States government so there's a lot of interesting things it's very unique but we have a very unique situation because we have a lot of people that were scamming our country we have a lot of dishonest people we

have a lot of people that took advantage of a lot of different situations and we're not going to let that happen so I'm going to ask if it's possible to have Elon get up first and talk about Doge because it seems to be of great interest everyone I will say that there is a large uh group of people in this country that have such admiration for what we're doing I got elected with a tremendous vote winning every swing state winning the popular vote winning the counties by thousands of counties I think it was 2,800 to

500 2,800 counties to 500 counties think of that and so we have a mandate to do this and this is part of the reason I got elected I got elected based on taxes and based on many things the Border but also based on uh balancing budgets and getting our country back into shape and this is a big part of it so Elon if you could get up and explain where you are how you're doing and how much we're cutting and it's an honor to have you it's been a tremendously successful guy he's he's really working

so hard and he's got businesses to run and in many ways I say how do you do this and you know he's sacrificing a lot and uh take getting a lot of Praise I'll tell you but he's also getting hit and uh we would expect that and uh that's the way it works so I'd like to have Elon Musk please say a few words thank you thank you Mr President uh well I I actually just P myself for humble tech support here because uh this is actually that's C as it sounds that that that is

almost a literal description of the work that the Doge team is doing is helping fix the government computer systems many of these systems are uh extremely old they don't communicate uh there are a lot of mistakes in the systems the software doesn't work um the uh so we are actually Tex support it's it's a it's ironic but it's true um the the overall goal here with the Doge team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply can cannot sustain as a country uh $2 trillion deficits the interest rates just the interest on the national

debt now exceeds the defense Department's spending we spent a lot on the defense department but we're spending like over a trillion dollars on interest if this continues the country will go become de facto bankrupt it's it's not an optional thing it is an essential thing that that's that's the reason I'm here um and taking a lot of flack um and getting a lot of death threats by the way I mean I'm like stack him up you know um but if we don't do this America will go bankrupt that's why it has to be done um

and I'm confident at this point uh knock on wood you know lock on my wooden head um the got a lot of wood up there um that we can actually find a trillion dollars in savings that would be roughly 15% of the $7 trillion budget um and obviously that can only be done with the support of everyone in this room um and I'd like to thank everyone for for your support thank you very much this this can only be done with with with your support um so this is It's really doge is a support function

uh for the president and for the the agencies and departments uh to help achieve those savings and to effectively find 15% uh in reduction in fraud and and waste um and and we bring the receipts so people say like well is this real just go to Doge duck up we we line item by line item we specify each item so and we and I I should say we also we will make mistakes we won't be perfect but when we uh make mistake we'll fix it very quickly uh so for example with uh USA uh one

of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola Eola prevention I think we all want Ebola prevention so we restored the Eola prevention immediately and there was no interruption um but uh we do need to move quickly uh if we're if we're to achieve a a trillion dollar deficit reduction uh in in financial year 2026 it requires saving uh $4 billion do per day every day from now through the end of September but we can do it and we will do it thank you would you have any questions of Elon while we're on the

subject of because we'll finish off with that and if you would have any questions please ask you could ask me or Elon go ahead please thank you Mr President uh thank you thank you um Mr musk um I just wanted to ask you that the president Trump um put out a truth social today saying that everybody in the cabinet was was happy with you I just wondered if that if you had heard uh otherwise and if you had heard anything about members of the cabinet who weren't happy with the way things were going and if

so what are you doing to um address those any dissatisfaction let the cabinet speak just for a second is anybody unhappy with if you are well throw out of here have a lot of respect for Elon and that he's doing this and some disagree a little bit but I will tell you for the most part I think everyone's not only happy they're thrilled so go ahead and president Trump has put together I think the best cabinet ever literally so uh I and I do not give false praise this this is an incredible group of people

I don't think such a talented team has actually ever been assembled I think it's literally the best cabinet that the country has ever had and I think the company should be incredibly appreciative of the people in this room M Mr musk please yeah um Mr President thank you Mr musk are there about half of the government employees so far appear to have responded to your request for what they've been doing over the past week is there a timeline in place for next moves for people being fired and when can em people expect to see uh

results from that uh yes well to to be clear like the I think that email perhaps was mis interpreted as a performance review but actually it was a pulse check review uh do you have a pulse do you have a pulse and two neurons um so if you have a pulson to a neurons you can reply to an email um this is you know I think not a high bar is what I'm saying uh this is uh should be anyone could accomplish this um but what we are trying to get to the bottom of is

we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are uh Dead uh which is probably why they can't respond um and uh and some people who are are not real people like they're literally fictional individuals that are collecting paycheck well somebody's collecting paychecks on a fictional individuals so we're just literally trying to figure out are these people real are they alive and can they write an email which I think is a reasonable expectation uh for the you know the American public would have at least that expectation of someone in the public

sector Mr M uh roughly a million employees guys come on roughly a million employees have responded so far to this email does that mean that the remaining 1 million or so federal employees now risk being terminated and is it your understanding and expectation when you post a directive on X that the cabinet secretaries will follow that order because several agencies have instructed employees that this is voluntary or or not to respond yeah well I mean so I guess there was a like last week the president encouraged me via truth social and also via phone call

to be more aggressive um and I was like okay you know yes sir Mr President we will indeed do that um the president is a commander-in chief I I do what the president asks uh so and I said can we send out an Emil email to everyone just saying what did you get done last week and the president said yes so it did did that um and um you know we we got a a partial response we're going to send another email but our goal is not to be capricious or or unfair uh it's we

want to give people uh every opportunity to send an email and the email could simply be uh what I'm working on is too sensitive or classified to to describe like literally just that would be sufficient you know I think this is just common sense and what is your target number for for how many workers employees you're looking to cut total uh we we wish to keep everyone who is doing a job that is essential and doing that job well but if if they're if the job is not essential or they're not doing the job well

they obviously should not be U on the public Peril like wait a minute wait I'd like to add that those million people that haven't responded though Elon they are on the bubble you know I wouldn't say that we're thrilled about it you know they haven't responded now maybe they don't exist maybe we're paying people that don't exist don't forget we just got here this group just got here uh but those people are on the bubble as they say you know they maybe they're going to be gone maybe they're not around maybe they have other jobs

maybe they moved and they're not where they're supposed to be a lot of things could have happened I wouldn't say that Biden ran a very tight Administration they spent money like nobody's ever spent money before wasted money the green news scam all of the different things they spent money on and you've seen that you've seen that with uh some of the things that I read at speeches I read them and people can't believe when I read them 20 million here 30 million here for you know a little educational course on something circumcision right circumcision uh

$20 million to uh inform the people of such and such a country on other things and other things other than that so uh yeah those people are right now we're trying to find out who those people are that haven't responded now there'll be some agencies like Marco has people within state that are right now doing very classified very confidential work and we understand that we've talked and you know we're being a little more uh Surgical and Mark is doing a lot of things himself he's uh and some of the secretaries are we're going to be

going to them we're going to be talking about it today we're going to ask them to do their own Doge in other words they'll look in their group and who I spoke with Lee zeldon and he thinks he's going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environmental and we're going to speed up the process too at the same time you had a lot of people that weren't doing their job they were just obstructionists and a lot of people that didn't exist I guess we too you found a lot of empty spots

the people weren't there they didn't exist uh and I think education is going to be one of those you go around Washington you see all these buildings with Department of Education we want to move education back to the states where it belongs Iowa should have education Indiana should run their own education you're going to see education go way up right now we're we're ranked at the very bottom of the list but we're at the top of the list and one thing the cost per people we spend more money per people than any other country in

the world and yet it's uh Denmark and uh Norway Sweden and I hate to say this and uh and you know we're going to get along very well with China but it's a competitor uh they're at the top of the list they're among the top 10 usually and they're very big country so we can't use that as an excuse right uh because we're a very big country too but we're we were ranked last time under Biden we're ranked 40 out of 40 they do the 40 certain Nations that they've done for a long time it

seems to be 40 for whatever reason and we are ranked number 40 a year ago we were 38 then we were 39 we hit 40 and uh so we're last in that and we're first in course per pupil so I would say that's unacceptable Lawrence you have something so Mr President I know you like competition and I know it's early so which department are you most impressed with and then that's the first which department have you received the most resistance from Mr President I think both of those questions are a little bit uh well you're

a pretty controversial guy and look it's very early right now I think I'm impressed with everybody so far everybody if I wasn't in the first month with and some of them just got here they just got approved two days ago right but I I think I'm very impressed with everybody so far I'm very happy with all of the choices I think that uh has done incredibly with some groups and some groups are much easier than others it is true state is a you know very difficult situation we're right now negotiating uh very successfully I think

with Russia and with Ukraine and we have a lot of countries involved and we have to be a little bit careful what we do and who we're terminating but uh Marco is doing that very I think he's going to be very precise it's going to be we're cutting down government we're cutting down the size of government we have to we're loaded we're sloppy we have a lot of people that aren't doing their job we have a lot of people that don't exist you look at Social Security as an example I mean you have so many

people in Social Security where uh if you believe it they're 200 years old and what we're doing is finding out our checks going out for that and is somebody cashing those checks who's maybe 35 years old okay so there's a lot of dishonesty there's a lot of fraud but I think at this moment I I'll take Elon off the the spot I think that he's impressed he said it very well better than I can say it that he's impressed with the people in this room very impressed and I am too and uh it's too early

to say but I think everybody's on board they all know we want to balance a budget we want to have a balanced budget within a reasonably short period of time me meaning Maybe by next year or the year after but maybe maybe even sooner than that Mr President your your number one issue was the board we just got new information that they're doxing our federal agents they're putting their personal information out there these activists and they're disrupting the operations so you got Tren AA running all what are we going to do about the activist a

lot of those activists are acting uh illegally and we'll give that to our attorney general and she'll take a look at that very strongly but we also having tremendous support from border patrol from ice the ice agents have been unbelievable border patrol their leadership at border patrol has been incredible and they're working very well well and as you know and I saw you reporting it this morning actually we set records on the least number of illegal aliens coming in migrants coming into our country that we had that we've had in more than 50 years and

we did this all within a period of weeks because we took over a mess the world was pouring in and remember they were coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions and insane asylums and there were gang members and drug dealers and anybody wanted to come in they and from not just South America from all over the world so it's amazing what they've done and Christie and and Tom homman the job they've done has been absolutely amazing we set records for uh and we want people to come into our country by the way but

they want to come in they have to come in Legally I I want that to be really understood we want people in our country but they have to come in Legally can I follow on that Mr President about the U the Trump Gold Card idea that you unveiled yesterday be like I await more information but uh the question is um does this reflect a view on your part that uh the American Immigration system has never been properly monetized as you feel it should be well not so much monetized it hasn't been properly run uh I

get calls from as an example companies where they want to hire the number one student at a school person comes from uh India China Japan uh lots of different places and they go to Harvard the Wharton School of Finance they go to Yale they go to all great schools and they graduate number one in their class and they made job offers but the offers immediately rescinded because you have no idea whether or not that person can stay in the country I want to be able to have that person stay in the country these companies can

go and buy uh a gold card and they can use it as a matter of recruitment at the same time the company is using that money to pay down debt we're going to we're going to pay down a lot of debt with that going I think the gold card is going to be used by not only for that I mean they'll be used by companies I mean I could see apple I've spoken with Tim Cook and by the way he's going to make a $500 million investment in the C in the country only because of

the results of the election and I think because of tariffs he's going to want to be in the country because of tariffs because if you're in the country there is no tariff if you're out of the country you got to pay tariffs and uh let going to be a great investment I think that he's making I know it's going to be a great investment but uh we have to be able to uh get people in the country and we want people that are uh productive people and I will tell you the people that can pay

5 million they're going to create jobs they're going to spend a lot of money on jobs they're going to have to pay taxes on that too so they're going to be hiring people they're going to be bringing people in and companies in and I don't know maybe it will sell like crazy I happen to think it's going to sell like crazy it's a bargain but uh well they have to commit to a certain number I think Howard and and Scott a few of you really are responsible for it but Howard have you want to discuss

that for a couple of minutes I think I'd like to have you I think it's going to be a very successful program this is Commerce so the uh eb5 program uh which has been around for many years had investment of a million dollars into projects in America and those projects were often suspect they didn't really work out there was any oversight of it and so for a million dollar investment you got a Visa and then you came into the country and ended up with a green card so it was poorly overseen poorly executed then you

had a border open where millions of people came through so the idea is we will have a proper business we will modify the ev5 agreement Christie and I are working on it together for $5 million they'll get a license from the Department of Commerce then they'll make a proper investment on the eb5 right and I we think Scott and I will Design the ev5 investment model because Scott and I are the best people together to do that so this is Joint this is exactly the Trump Administration we all work together we work it out to

be the best and if we sell just remember 200,000 there's a line for eb5 of 250,000 right now 200,000 of these gold G green cards is $1 trillion to pay down our debt and that's why the president is doing it because we are going to balance this budget and we are going to pay off the debt under President Trump and to qualify do you have to promise and make commitments to create a certain number of jobs here in the US because not all these people are going to be job buildings there'll be successful people or

there'll be people that were hired from colleges like uh sort of like paying an athlete a bonus apple or one of the companies will go out and they'll they'll spend five they'll buy five of them and they're going to get five people look I've had the complaint where I've had the complaint from a lot of companies where they go out to hire people and they can't hire them out of colleges and you know what they do they go back to India or they go back to the country where they came and they open up a

company and they they become billionaires they become and they're employing thousands and thou there are a lot of examples there are some really big examples where they were forced out of the country our they graduated top in their class at a great school and they weren't able to stay this is all the time you're hear and the biggest complaint I get from companies other than overregulation which we took care of but we're going to have to take care of it here because a lot of that was put back on by Biden but the biggest complaint

is the fact that they can't have any longevity with people this way they have pretty much unlimited longevity also with the 5 million you know that's a path to C CIP so that's going to be it's sort of a green card uh plus and it's a path to citizenship we're going to call it the gold card and I think it's going to be very treasured I think it's going to do very well and we're going to start selling hopefully in about two weeks now just so you understand if we sell a million right a million

that's $5 trillion 5 trillion Howard was using a different number but that's $5 trillion if we sell 10 million which is possible 10 million highly productive people coming in or people that we going to make productive they'll be young but they're talented like a talented athlete that's 50 trillion that means our debt is totally paid off and we have $15 trillion do above that and now I don't know that we're going to sell that many maybe we won't sell many at all but but I think we're going to sell a lot because I think there

there really is a thirst no other country can do this because people don't want to go to other countries they want to come here everybody wants to come here especially since November 5th Mr how can Beed by the way all these people will be vetted okay Mr President on Ukraine can you talk a a little bit about what type of security guarantees you're willing to make well I'm not going to make security guarantees Beyond uh very much we're going to have Europe do that because it's in you know we're talking about Europe as their next

door neighbor but we're going to make sure everything goes well and as you know we'll be making a uh we'll be really partnering with Ukraine terms of rare earth we very much need Rare Earth they have great Rare Earth we'll be working with uh secretary bergham and with Chris you'll be working on that together and uh we're going to be able to have tremendous I mean this gives us because we don't have that much of it here we have some but we don't have that much we need a lot more to really Propel us to

the next level of to lead in every way we're leading right now with AI we're leading with everything right now but we have to we need resources we have to double our electric capacity we have to do many things we have to really triple if you think of it the electric capacity from what we have right now if you can believe it so so I just say this so uh the deal we're making gets us uh it it brings us great wealth we get back the money that we spent and we hope that uh we're

going to be able to settle this up we want to settle it we want to I I tell you what I'm doing it for two reasons but the number one reason by far is to watch all these people being killed I see pictures every week from I assume satellite pictures mostly but there's some pictures on site of thousands of soldiers that are being killed they're being decimated because equipment today military equipment is so powerful and so devastating and number one I want to see people stop and they're not from here they're from primarily two other

countries and then by the way let's talk about the Middle East we got to solve that problem too and that's come a long way we're doing very well in that also a lot of things are happening on that but I'm watching uh soldiers being killed Ukrainian and Russian soldiers being killed my number one thing is to get that stuff my number two thing is I don't want to have to pay any more money because we've Biden has spent $350 billion do without any chance of getting it back now we're going to be getting all of

that money back plus a lot more and we provided a great thing I mean we provided something very important and we'll be working with Ukraine and because we'll be taking that we're going to be taking what we're entitled to take now they spent $350 billion and Europe spent $100 billion now does anybody really think that's fair but then we find out a little while ago not so long ago a few months ago I found out that the money they spent they get back but the money we spent we don't get back I said well we're

going to get it back and we'll be able to make a deal and again president zalinski is coming to sign the deal and it's a great thing it's a great deal for Ukraine too because they get us over there we're going to be working over there we'll be on the land and you know in that way it's there's sort of automatic security because nobody's going to be messing around with our people when we're there and so we'll be there in that way but uh Europe will will be watching it very closely I know that uh

UK has said and France has said that they want to put they volunteered to put so-called peacekeepers on the site and I think that's a good thing Mr President you have been very high cost of eggs and we've seen consumer confidence this week have a sharp drop from last month the biggest dip in I believe three years why is that your assessment why is that the case and is there anything I think that consumer confidence if you look at confidence in the nation it had the biggest increase in the history of the chart it went

up 42 points uh in a period of like days after the election since the election so since the election uh the confidence in our nation including right track wrong track the first time it's ever happened where we were on the right track because this country has been on the wrong track for a long time so uh the confidence in business confidence in the country has reached an all-time high we we have never reach levels like we are right now okay Mr President you said Mr President you've been very clear in saying that as long as

your president Iran will never get a nuclear weapon true is it also your policy that as long as your president China will never take Taiwan by force I I never comment on that I don't comment on any because I don't want to ever put myself in that position and uh if I said it I certainly wouldn't be saying it to you I'd be saying it to other people maybe people around this table and very specific people around this St I don't want to put myself in that position but I can tell you what uh I

have a great relationship with President Chi I've had a great relationship with him we want them to come in and invest I see so many things saying that we don't want China in this country that's not right we want them to invest in the United States it's good there a lot of money coming in and we'll invest in China we'll do things with China the relationship we'll have with China would be a very good one I see all of these phony reports that we don't want that money we don't want anything to do with them

that's wrong we're going to have a good relationship with China but they won't be able to take advantage AG of us they what they did to Biden was he didn't know what was happening he didn't know what he was doing the administration didn't know what they were doing it was very sad to watch but we're going to have a good relationship with China and Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East we're doing things that look when I left we had no Wars we had defeated Isis totally we had no inflation we didn't have the Afghanistan

withdrawal the worst withdrawal anybody's ever seen I think that's one of the reasons that President Putin looked at that he said wow these guys are a paper tiger look at we're no paper tiger don't forget we got rid of Isis in 3 weeks people said it would take 5 years we did it because when I came in I let them do what they had to do and the man that headed that operation is now going to be your your chairman right chairman of the Joint Chiefs yes sir and raisen came I liked him right from

the beginning as soon as I heard his name I said that's my guy okay any Mr President Mr President this spending bill and Crossings at the border for you to continue the pause on tariffs against uh Mexico and Canada and not I'm not stopping the tariffs no millions of people have have died because of the fentol that comes over even with the 90% drop in border crossings though this last month compared to about a year ago yeah they've been good but that's also due to us mostly due to us I me it's right now very

hard to come through the Border but the de look the damage has been done we've lost millions of people due to fento it comes mostly from China but it comes through Mexico and it comes through Canada and I have to tell you that you know on April 2nd I was going to do it on April 1st but I'm a little bit superstitious so I made it April 2nd the tariffs go on not all of them but a lot of them and I think you're going to see something that's going to be amazing we've been taking

advantage of as a country for a long period of time we've been we've been tariffed but we didn't tar now I did when I was here I tarff we took in $700 billion from China 700 billion not one president in this the history of our country took in 10 cents from China at the same time China respected us now when uh Co came in that was a different deal I used to call it the China virus I guess I can call it the China virus again but you know it's an accurate term but I won't

do that out of respect to China immigration enforcement say it again on Gaza I just wondered if there's any um progress towards the second phase of the ceasefire um you can tell us well I'm very disappointed when I see four four bodies came in today these are young people young people don't die okay young people don't die these are young people four bodies came in today uh they think they're doing us a favor by sending us bodies so uh look that's a a decision has to be made by Israel by BB but but uh Israel

has to make that decision we got a lot of hostages back but it's very sad what happened to those people I mean you had a young lady with her hand practically blown off you know why it blow up because she put up her hand to try and stop a bullet that was coming her way and it hit her hand and blew off her fingers big part of her hand this this is a vicious group of people and Israel is going to have to decide what they're doing phase one is going to be ending think of

it today they sent in four bodies bodies and I will say one thing though uh I've spoken to a lot of the parents and a lot of of the people involved they want those bodies almost as much and maybe even just as much as they wanted their son or their daughter amazing please sir please my son is dead but they have his body please can you get it for us it's the biggest thing it's it's incredible the level they want the bodies of these people they're dead dead and you know when I saw the ones

that came in two weeks ago they looked like they just got out of a concentration camp then the following week the group came in and they weren't as bad in as bad a shame but Israel's going to have to make a decision you're right phase one and now phase two was started and uh today we got some you know very very we knew they were dead by the way we knew that they were going to be bodies as opposed to people that were living but uh the very sad situation at some point somebody's going to

say we got to do something about this Mr President the spending bill um in the Box withdrawal have all the generals or Command Staff that were involved with the withdrawal fired or relieve the duty well that's a great idea it's fire sorry I'm not going to tell this man what to do but I will say that if I had his place I'd fire every single one of them that's a very good question well it's a question we've thought a lot about we're doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened uh with the

bot withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability it's one of the first things we announced at the defense department for that reason sir um certainly uh General raisen Kane who was on his way in was not a part of that instead was a part of leading the effort against Isis by untying the hands of War Fighters and finishing the job properly and then bringing our troops home so we're taking a very different view obviously than the previous administration and there will be full accountability I see big promotions in that group I think they're

going to be largely gone I know the man on my left I think they're going to be largely gone that was a horrible display and you know I've dealt with the parents and the family of the 13 that were killed but you know nobody ever talks about the 40 that was so badly hurt with the arms and the legs and the face and the whole thing the missing arms and legs uh it was so terrible the way that was handled and it should have been gone through bam we have a big base with big fences

and nobody can get in and you have you know hundreds of Acres instead of a little local airport where the whole place went crazy that was so badly handled and I would think that most of those people are going to be gone are we going to take B back so I'll tell you what uh what has bothered me very much very very much we give billions of dollars to Afghanistan nobody knows that nobody knew that do you know we give billions of dollars to Afghanistan and yet we left behind all of that equipment which wouldn't

happened you know we were getting out under me I'm the one that got it down to 5,000 people we were going to get out but we were going to keep bam not because of Afghanistan but because of China because it's exactly one hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles so they were going to keep bam we were going to keep a small force on bam we're going to have barram air base one of the biggest air bases in the world one of the biggest runways one of the most powerful runways in the sense

that it was very heavy concrete and steel you could carry about anything you could land anything on those runways we gave it up and you know who's occupying it right now China China Biden gave it up so we're going to keep that and we're going to have a withdrawal and we're going to take our equipment we're going to do it properly we're going to do it very we're going to keep the equipment well they ran out it was what happened there was it just in fact you know in all fairness to Putin when he saw

that he said well this is our time to go and go into Ukraine I guess because it was the timing seemed to be about right but we send them billions of dollars in Aid which nobody knows if they if the American public knew that they know it now and if we're doing that I think they should give our equipment back and I told Pete to study that but we left billions tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment behind brand new trucks you see them display it every year or there little roadway someplace where they

have a road and they drive the you know waving the flag and talking about America beautiful equipment that's uh all I mean the topof thee line stuff brand new stuff now it's getting older but you know what we're going to pay them I think we should get a lot of that equipment back you know that Afghanistan is one of the biggest sellers of military equipment in the world you know why they're selling the equipment that we left we're first they were second or third can you believe it they're selling 777 th000 rifles 70,000 armor plated

many of them were armor plated trucks and vehicles 70,000 if you think of a used car lot the biggest one in the country if I would say JD if somebody had 500 cars that would be a lot this is 70,000 Vehicles we had there and we left it for them I think we should get it back Mr President Mr President the spending bill that passed last night aims to cut $2 trillion can you guarantee that Medicare Medicaid Social Security will not be touched I I mean I have said it so many times you shouldn't be

asking me that question okay this will not be read my lips it won't be read my lips anymore uh we're not going to touch it now we are going to look for fraud I'm sure you're okay with that like people that shouldn't be on people that are illegal aliens and others criminals in many cases and that's with Social Security we have a lot of people you see that immediately when you see people that are 200 years old that are being send checks for Social Security some of them are actually being sent checks so we're tracing

that down and I have a feeling that Pam is going to do a very good job with that but you have a lot of Fraud and but now I'm not we're not doing anything Mr President part of your mission part of your mission has been if thank you I'm sorry part of your mission has been to restore executive control over the Executive Branch is it your view of your Authority that you have the power to call up any one of or all of the people seated at this table and issue orders that they're bound to

follow oh yeah they'll follow the orders yes no exceptions no except well let's see let me think you she'll have an exception of course no exceptions you know that Mr President can you clarify the Canada Mexico tariffs you had put that 30-day pause but you just referred to 25% 25% when ises it go into effect uh April 2nd April 2nd for Canada Mexico as well for and for everything well we have the the fentel related is a pause if they can prove to the president they've done an excellent job that's what they first do in

30 days you seen any Chang the overall is April 2nd so the big transaction is April 2nd but the fentanyl related things they're working hard on the border at the end of that 30 days they have to prove to the president that they've satisfied him to that regard if they have cuse or he won't be hard to satisfy we lose 300,000 people a year to fento not 100 not 95 not 60 like you read you know you've been reading it for years we lost in my opinion over the last couple of years on average maybe

close to 300,000 people dead and the families are ruined you know when they lose a daughter when they lose a son the families are never the same you're never going to be the same so you're talking about a million people but when the daughters die I see it the daughters die the sons die because the fentol and in some cases they don't even know they're taking it they they're buying something else that is laced with fent andol and they end up dying and I've I've known many people who have lost children to fent all and

for other reasons but to fent all such a big killer and those people are never the same people I mean I've seen people that for the rest of their lives they not the same people they're so different it's not even believable Dynamic people people happy people that are they die a miserable death and that's because of the crap that comes in through China and through Mexico and through Canada comes a lot of it comes through Canada the Canada look we support Canada $200 billion do a year in subsidies one way or the other we let

them make millions of cars we let them send us Lumber we don't need that Lumber we're going to free up our lumber Lee's going to do the head of environmental we're going to free up our lumber we have the best Lumber there is we don't need that Lumber what do we need that lumber for uh when you look at the the we we subsidize of $200 billion dollars a year without us Canada can't make it you know Canada relies on us 95% we rely on them 4% big difference and uh I say Canada should be

our 51st state there's no tariffs no nothing and and I say that we give them military protection they have a very small military they spend very little money on military or NATO they're just about last in terms of payment because they say why should we spend on Military that's a tremendous question most Nations can't afford to even think about it why should we spend on Military the United States protects us and I would say that's largely true we protect Canada but it's not fair it's not fair that they're not paying their way and and if

they had to pay their way they couldn't exist when I spoke to uh let's call the Prime Minister rather than the governor but when I spoke to him I said why are we giving you $200 billion a year he was unable to answer the question I said why are we letting you make millions of cars and send them in uh he was unable to answer the question Justin Trudeau nice guy I think he's a very good guy I call him Governor Trudeau he should be Governor because the fact is that if we don't uh give

them cars we don't have to give them cars the tffs will make it impossible for them to sell cars into the United States the tariffs will make it impossible to for them to sell lumber or anything else into the United States and all I'm asking to do is break even or lose a little bit but not lose $200 billion and we love Canada I love Canada I love the people of Canada and uh but honestly it's not fair for us to be supporting Canada and if we don't support them they don't subsist as a as

a nation Mr President if you just made a decision on what level you will seek on tariffs in the European Union uh we have made a decision we'll be announcing it very soon and it'll be 25% generally speaking and that'll be on cars and all of the things and European Union is a different case than can different kind of case they've really taken advantage of us in a different way way they don't accept our cars they don't accept essentially our farm products they use all sorts of reasons why not and we accept everything of them

and we have about a $300 billion deficit with the European union now I love the countries of Europe I guess I'm uh from there at some point a long time ago right but uh indirectly pretty directly too I guess but I love the countries of Europe I love all countries frankly all different but European Union's been it was formed in order to screw the United States I mean look let's be honest the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States that's the purpose of it and they've done a good job of it

but now I'm president what will happen if these countries or the EU retaliate they can't I mean they can drive but they can't China did they imposed tariffs that are went into effect China's retaliatory tariffs on the 10th of February has there been any impact that you've been able to observe that's right no they can do it and they can TR but the numbers can never equal what ours because we could go off we are the part of gold we're the one that everybody wants and they can retaliate but it cannot be a successful retaliation

because we just go cold turkey we don't buy anymore and if that happens we win are you talking to Eric Brit about privat privatizing deportations no I haven't Mr President you're in litigation with CBS news is this a case that you'd like to see go to trial or are you open to CBS um 60 Minutes CBS yes well CBS did something that was amazing kamla was unable to answer a question properly and they took the question that they asked and they inserted an answer they gave her an answer this was two days before the election

right before the Sunday night before the election and they wrote out a they put her words uh from another question that was asked about a half an hour later and they put that into the question nobody's ever even heard of it before nobody's ever heard of anything like this before but they then did it uh they say on numerous occasions and the FCC is looking at it very strongly and everybody's looking at it and I'm but nobody's ever seen anything think of it uh they took her answers and they changed them and I don't mean

they changed a word or two or they cut off a half a sentence or they cut off a couple of words I mean I've had that happen too but that you you just say you know then they say well we want brevity you know we want to time they took out her answer and they inserted an entirely different answer that made her sound competent and they did this and nobody's ever I thought I've heard of everything when it comes to that stuff no I've never heard of it nobody's ever seen so we Su and we

are in discussions of settlement what would a number be like what's a number that you would think would be appropriate I think it's a lot it could have it probably did affect the election I mean we won by a lot as I said too big to rig but it probably did affect the election you know probably could have won by more but I could have lost the election because of that uh it's uh we have to we have to get to honest elections we have to go back to paper ballots we have to go back

to voter ID One Day election ideally or short term not these four 48 day and 61 day elections where boxes are put in a room and oh let's move the boxes because we're putting in a new air conditioning system then you see the boxes move and then you say well where were all the boxes you know what happened to the boxes that never came back now our elections are extremely dishonest we're the only country in the world that has mailin voting and all of these different things that we put in nobody no other country in

the world has it you know France went to uh they had some of the things that we had and they went to same day voting all paper and you know paper is very sophisticated now it's a very sophisticated uh it's a very sophisticated form of voting right now it's a very safe form of voting you know the other things for the governors I wish the governors would do it because uh the paper ballots will cost 9% of the machines and they're 100% you know they're I don't nothing's foolproof but they're as close as you get

so uh we'll see what happens but on the 60-minute thing nobody's ever seen anything like that and would you link the FCC action to the litigation I mean does it make sense I don't think it's linked but probably uh the lawyers look at it you know because I know it's going along FCC is headed by a very competent person and you have some very competent people on the board and so I think they're looking at it very seriously sir of all the deals that you've done in your life all the people you've sat across from

and negotiated with is uh President Putin distinct in any way he's a very smart guy he's a very cunning person uh but uh I've dealt with some people that I've dealt with some really bad people but I will tell you as far as this is concerned we've you have to understand he was he had no intention in my opinion of settling this War I think he wanted the whole thing when I got elected we spoke and I think we're going to have a deal I can't guarantee that you know a deal is deal lots of

crazy things happen in deals right but I think we're going to have a deal if I didn't get elected I believe he would have just continue to go through Ukraine and over a period of time a lot of people a lot of people would have been killed would have lasted for a period of time and the reason that Ukraine and I give I have great respect for the Ukraine as Fighters have great Fighters but without our equipment that war would have been over like people said in a very short period of time is there a

time like you remember I gave the javelins and the javelins are the things that knocked out those tanks right at the beginning of the war they said that that Obama at the time gave sheets and Trump gave javelins well I was the one that did that but I want to see it come to an end will he have to make concessions President Putin uh yeah he will will have to and I think I believe that because we got elected that war will come to an end and I also believe if we didn't get elected if

this Administration didn't win the election by a lot uh that that war would go on for a long time and he would want to take the whole thing what concession what concession the big question I had is does he want to take the whole thing but the reason uh and and the ukrainians are good Fighters I have to say but without the equipment without our equipment we have the best equipment in the world we have the best military equipment in the world without our equipment that would have been over very quickly what concessions would you

like to see what concessions would you like to see oh I don't want to St right now but I can tell you that uh NATO you can forget about that's been I think that's probably the reason the whole thing started and I think uh JD we can say that what do you have a statement on that you've been very much involved I gave him the beauty confession from Russia I mean look as the president said we're not going to do the negotiation in public with the American Media he's going to do it in private with

the president of of Russia with the president of Ukraine and with other leaders and I think that's how this has to go I think the I just want to push back against some of the criticism I've seen in the administration on this because every single time the president engages in diplomacy you guys preemptively accuse him of conceding to Russia he hasn't conceeded anything to anyone he's doing the job of a diplomat and he is of course the Diplomat in Chief as the President of United States on the gold card sir please talk a little bit

more about the betting process you know he'll go through a process the process is being uh worked out right now and we're going to be we're going to be very careful will there be restrictions on for instance can Chinese Nationals get one can Iranian Nationals we're probably not going to be restricting too much in in terms of countries but maybe in terms of individuals we want to make sure we have people that love our country and are capable of loving the country isil's outbreak in Texas at the moment in which a child is reported to

have died um do you have concerns about that and have you asked um secretary Kennedy to look into that why don't we uh Bobby you want to speak on that we are following the measel epidemic every day I think there's 124 people uh who have contracted measles at this point mainly in Gaines County Texas um mainly we're told in the men andite Community um there are two people who have died um but uh the we're watching it and uh there are about 20 people hospitalized mainly for quarantine uh we're watching it we put out a

post on it yesterday and we're going to continue to follow it it's incidentally there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country last year that were 16 so it's not unusual we have measles outbreaks every year you sound a little under the weather yourself right now you I just I have a permanently bad throat the coughing Mr President would you um would you send us peacekeepers to just to support the the European peacekeepers would you do any sort of us no we're going to support Europe yeah and how would we do that friend

with Europe we have a great relationship with Europe I mean you could ask for you could talk about France you could talk about any of I mean we have a great relationship with Europe but how will we how will the United States do that would there be boots on I mean you're asking me a question what are we doing in the let's worry I hope we have that problem where we could worry about peacekeeping we got to get there first but uh I hope we have the problem of worrying about peacekeeping that'll be the easiest

problem I think JD that we've ever had that would be part of the deal presumably that the ukrainians would we'll do it at the time but well peacekeeping is very easy it's making the deal that's very tough and again uh nobody was speaking to Russia at all and uh you know probably a million and a half soldiers have been killed close to a million and a half soldiers not to mentioned uh a TR I will tell you the the thing with that horrible war that should have never started would have never started if I were

president and it didn't start for four years and it was not even thought about starting but the thing with that war is that you're highly underestimating the number of people that have been killed far more people have been killed in that war than you talk about you know you like to talk about uh numbers like a million people well they had much more than a million soldiers killed but you have a lot of cities that have been knocked to the ground they demolition sites literally demolition sites every single building is knocked to the ground and

a lot of people were killed in those buildings and you'll hear a report two people were minorly injured or just injured a little bit now no people were killed by the thousands and there are a lot more people killed in that war than the media wants to talk about because Biden did a horrible horrible job he should have prevented that war he could have prevented that war would have never G in I'll tell you one thing he would have never gone in that war would never have taken place if I were president I think what

people are trying to understand Mr President is how would the United States what would you be willing to do to support this European peacekeeping effort would there be again you're asking me the same question I'm how many times you have to answer uh you're talking about after we make peace let me make peace first once we make peace I'll give you all the answers you want but how many times can you ask the same question Mr Pres ofs is loosening of sanctions on Russia a potential option as part of an overall deal we have sanctions

on Russia no I want to see if we make a deal first but I think we will I've had very good conversations with President Putin I've had very good conversations with President zalinski uh and until four weeks ago nobody had conversations with anybody it wasn't even a consideration nobody thought you could make peace I think you can but to keep the land that was claimed by force if the Russians get to keep the territory that they they claim by force doesn't that send a dangerous message let's say to China about Taiwan you you try and

take it away right we're going to we're going to do the best we can we're going to do the best we can to make the best deal we can for both sides but for Ukraine we're going to try very hard to make a good deal so that uh they can get as much back as possible we want to get as much back as possible Mr President just to bring this full we'll cut out after maybe this question go ahead to bring this full circle back to question back to a question you always like to finish

on a good question they wish negotiate with him instead ofid back to a question about these peacekeepers you have you have a lot of confidence in us because you assume there going to P pece you know it's possible it doesn't work out there is possibility I hope it does for the sake of humanity because if you look at the pictures that I've looked at you don't want to look at them go ahead I had a question back back on these cuts to the federal Workforce you mentioned you you're interested in doing another round of this

email when would you like to see that what would be the deadline and this time would it be mandatory I think Elon wants to and I think it's a good idea because you know those people as I said before they run the bubble you got a lot of people that have not responded so which TR to figure out do they exist who are they and it's possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired and and if that happened that's okay because that's what we're trying to do this this country has gotten bloated

and fat and disgusting and incompetently run I think we had the worst president in the history of our country he just left office I think he's a disgrace what he's done to our country by allowing millions of people to come into our country like that and all of the other things the inflation which he caused because of energy and stupid spending to spend uh hundreds of millions trillions and trillions of dollars on the green news scam a total scam I have the best energy people the best environmental people in the world around this table and

they they can't even believe he got away with it and then in leaving office to send2 billion here and $20 million there and uh 10 million and 5 million and they couldn't spend the money fast enough and let's get it out before Trump gets in let's just get it out to anybody this is a disgrace to our nation and you don't write the fair thing but uh look you know the good news the people see it and that's why we won the election by so much thank you very much I [Music]