NEW: Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders While Taking Questions From Reporters

thank you very much for being here we have uh largely an energy group today we're looking to be very energy dominant and we will be in a very short order these are great professionals but before we do that we'll be signing an executive order having to do with uh covid and schools Lindsay y so this first executive order it uh prohibits Federal funding for covid-19 mandates vaccine mandates in schools okay and that will meaning they want to clear that up the discrepancy so any schools that uh require students to be uh vaccinated um with covid-19

shot then there's no more Federal funding so okay [Laughter] okay that solves that problem sir will the Department of Education have to handle that yes it'll go through the Department of Education okay thanks okay can I make one comment Mr President yes please uh as a father of nine thank you uh we should have parental freedom to decide what vaccines uh our kids take as opposed to school systems and governors forcing upon uh the the people that love these kids the most which is the parents so thank you for signing that great thank you very

much people wonder that very badly okay okay and here is an executive order establishing the national energy dominance Council so that will be chaired by uh the Secretary of the Interior U Mr berham and uh the vice chair Chris Wright and and so this will reduce costs with respect to energy uh establish American independence with energy and also unleash energy dominance good thank you and this is a big deal we have more energy than any other country and now we're unleashing it to put it nicely and I'd like to ask Doug you're going to be

heading it up you and Chris would you say a few words about it please yeah absolutely sir uh good afternoon uh president Trump wisely understood that uh under the Biden Administration uh there was a war against American Energy and today that war officially has ended president Trump on day one declared a national Energy emergency uh and and this is a real emergency because under the Biden Administration restricted uh the production of oil and gas production still coming but when you stop holding leases when you take 625 million acres of land out of out of ocean

land out of production possibilities to an executive order you're really restricting the balance sheet of America but today uh as president Trump said this is Unleashed uh the the national energy dominance Council will be made up all the folks that are standing beside me here uh other cabinet leaders and many more uh represent president Trump's wise decision that we need a whole of government approach to unwind the Biden administration had a whole of government approach that had the war against US Energy now we need to turn that around 180° and unleash that potential we've got

to unleash it from the Gulf of America all the way up to Alaska we have amazing resources in this country uh and we hav them getting a return on them many of these are Under public lands uh the interior has 500 million Acres of surface 700 million Acres of subsurface minerals critical minerals and offshore close to two billion acres and that balance sheet makes the is the biggest balance sheet in the world and it's been completely underutilized everybody knows we have 36 trillion in debt as a country but no one knows how how many hundreds

of trillions of dollars of assets we have and president Trump is asking us to go get a return on that investment for the American people and with that we're going to have Prosperity at home with lower prices uh and we're also going to have peace abroad because the wars that we've been engaged in uh or our allies have been fighting over the past few years have been funded by the oil sales of our adversaries uh so we have an opportunity and we also were in an AI arms race with China the only way we win

that is with more electricity and we also have an energy emergency in terms of electricity uh too much intermittent unreliable not enough base load we've been shutting down the base load that we have President Trump is going to reverse that and it's going to allow us to win the AI arms race which is the most important thing that we have to do relative to our future so with that I want to say again thank you to president Trump and I want to thank my fellow members of the energy Council here I'm going to kick it

over to the vice chair uh Chris Wright who's the Secretary of the Department of energy thank you secretary beram today is truly a great day for our country today and secretary beram laid out so many of the the problems the last four years if you put barriers in front of energy you make it more expensive you make it less reliable you make it harder to do business here and harder for our consumers to pay their bills um with this Fantastic action from our President we now have authority across the government to lean in to fix

these problems and I'll start out with one specific right away this morning I signed our First ln G export license unpausing the pause in in action the Commonwealth LNG project that'll be on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana is now officially ready to go this will be a large construction project for American workers it'll draw demand for more American energy production that'll be shipped overseas to our allies many more of those to come we're also working aggressively to roll back standards that have made appliances more expensive for Americans um and dishwashers that take 2 hours long

and don't get your dishes clean nobody likes that that's about standing in the way and with this president president Trump and our new National energy dominance Council there's so many things we can do to make American lives better bring down costs and grow opportunities and with that I'm going to kick it over to a fellow member of the council our administrator of the EPA Lee Elden thank you secretary and honored to be serving on the energy dominance council at EPA we're doing our part to power the Great American comeback and president Trump has made it

clear that he wants EPA to be doing our job to ensure that we are unleashing energy dominance however we can help that we are assisting in making America the AI capital of the world that we are pursuing permanent reform that we are helping to bring back American Auto jobs this is the Mandate of the American public that the Trump mandate it was clear uh and the guidance from president Trump to me when he asked me thankfully for uh the opportunity for us to be able to serve together in Partnership to unleash energy dominance this is

a moment that we must meet to that end it is uh important to note that uh the prior Biden Harris EPA uh issued a waiver to California for tailpipe emissions this was a rule that should have been submitted to Congress we will submit it to Congress Congress will have the opportunity through the Congressional review act to make that w go away uh we will do everything in our part to help the American people to make life in America more affordable the Golden Age of American success is upon us if you're excited about the last three

weeks that was just a taste of the main event the entree to come the next four years being the greatest term in the history of the American presidency with that I'd like to introduce Sean Duffy thank you so uh first of all thank you for the uh work on uh dishwashers we use more water to wash our dishes before we put them in the dishwasher we're not saving water we're using more water so thank you for that um but I'm also joining the EPA uh We've introduced uh our rules to start to look at uh

the cafe standards so we're looking at how uh how much it costs for end users um when they put gas in their car and the Biden era uh uh uh uh uh standards are costing billions of dollars uh in taxes and carbon credits which drive up the cost of vehicles and so we're going to uh uh remedy that Rectify it and uh make sure we're bringing down the cost of a car number one number two if I can just mention Mr President uh peray your direction we are going to uh move forward with a permitting

process for the Texas Gulf link Deepwater Port making sure we can uh move energy in and out of the country so that's that was held up for five years uh and uh it was Stonewall bureaucrats got in the way we're now GNA move forward with that making sure we have great oil infrastructure in the country great thanks great Howard lutnick yes so the nanny State you're feeling the end of The Nanny state from straws made a paper to regulation endlessly harming Americans and holding us back it it slows down our production and Manufacturing which we

were talking about with the prime minister of India yesterday you're hearing that about energy dominance it's going to go away we're going to care about Americans the Trump Administration and this President cares about Americans and you're going to feel it change you're going to feel the price of energy coming down you're going to feel prices coming down you're going to feel an explosion the Golden Age of manufacturing of America has always been there it's just been stifled by regulation and that time is over thank you very much Mr President I just want to say that

you've built such an incredible team uh and as secretary and chairman berham uh that he's been working on this his whole life and so what I expect you to see sir is action as early as next week that it's going to shock people about how good it is for Americans and so thank you for your leadership sir thank you very much Kevin and we are also working on a project that has been uh under wraps for 20 years everybody wanted it uh it's been held up by New York it's a pipeline that will bring down

the energy prices in New York and in all of New England by 50 60 70% it should have been done years ago we'll be speaking to New York and uh the New York is actually the biggest beneficiary because their energy costs are very high this will reduce them very substantially but uh the all of the governors want this to happen uh and I think it's going to happen it's now going to happen it's something that's would rather not have to go eminent domain we'll do that if we have to in New York but hopefully we

won't have to do that this again will bring down Energy prices in New England by numbers that nobody can even believe probably 50 60% maybe even more than that a lot of them don't even pay energy because they have no energy they use logs they go out and they cut down a tree it's really a terrible situation so we're going to get this done and we can have it done once we start construction we're looking at anywhere from 9 to 12 months if you can believe it it's going to go very rapidly the other thing

I'd like Doug to mention the 635 million Acres that Biden so viciously took out of our our net worth if you look at it from the standpoint of a a company you talk about net worth they've destroyed our net worth uh we're putting it back it will be back as of this afternoon and Doug could you mention that all of the millions and millions of Acres said he just handed back nobody the executive order uh by President Biden that uh wiped out these trillions from our balance sheet uh president Trump signed an executive order instructing

me as the Secretary of interior to unban that ban and uh that's been accomplished and so those are back on the US balance sheet okay sorry which one is that the 625 million Acres of offshore that was uh banned from further lease sales further anything 625 million Acres is3 the size of the lower 48 that was taken off our balance sheet it's back on there now president Trump cares about the American people he knows that these public lands belong to the public they don't belong to Washington bureaucrats from the prior Administration and we're going to

make sure that we get a return on investment for the American people the amount of money that he took off our balance sheet if you look at it as a balance sheet it was incalculable nobody's ever seen anything like it and he did that I guess in the last few days of the administration he just wiped it out 635 million Acres which if you sit down and look it's like that's a major part of the ocean and he just gave it away and took it away and fortunately it wasn't done with an act of Congress

or anything and we did it in a I think very abbreviated very quick and very legal procedure and it's now back on our balance sheet it's back as part of our country what they did was so horrible it was just a terrible thing to do unbelievable thing to do also they mentioned dishwashers and sinks and showers and the whole thing uh we're going to get rid of those restrictions you have many places where they have water they have so much water they don't know what to do with it but people buy a house they turn

on the sink and water barely comes out they take a shower water barely comes out and it's an unnecessary restriction and basically I think we're going to be going back to the Trump R we had it and everybody was happy and then these people came in and they restricted it again so so we're going back and we'll get it approved by Congress in addition we'll get it approved by Congress so for four years it's good but we're going to get it permanently taken care of and again very environmental very environmentally friendly but we want to

be able to when somebody turns on a sink to wash their hands or presses the button for a dishwasher and there's barely enough water to I mean there's no water and uh you know what they do they they press the button 10 times they run it 10 times so it ends up costing a lot more so I know you're working on that and where are we on that uh we're working closely with the Department of energy with regards to rules that were enacted during the Biden Administration inside of the EPA we are overhauling the water

sense uh standards that are there uh to update them for the American people to bring down cost of living and combat inflation and just pursue Common Sense good well we have more oil and gas than anybody else in the world we're opening up anoir again as you know we got something Ronald rean couldn't do it no president was able to do it I got it and the first week in office the Biden Administration terminated that anoir is the biggest site probably bigger than Saudi Arabia we don't know yet but it's of that size or bigger

and we hit gold and I call it Liquid Gold but we hit gold and uh they ter for whatever reason they terminated it and we were just ready to start utilizing it this could take care of all of Asia energy-wise very close to Japan in fact Japan wants to go and be our partner doing the pipeline going right into the ships so uh they expressed tremendous interest so did uh Prime Minister Modi of India and just in closing uh both Prime Minister Modi and the Prime Minister of Japan both very uh good people they said

we couldn't make a deal we couldn't get any energy I mean you wonder what was going on with our country they couldn't make a deal to get any energy from the Biden Administration they just couldn't do it there was nobody to deal with they didn't know how to go about it and they're very happy that we're here but we're going to really benefit our taxpayers and we're going to benefit our country so I want to thank everybody for coming this is a very big Bill this is really going to be energy dominant we're going to

be energy dominant like nobody else and uh this doesn't even discuss all of the electricity that we're going to be uh producing for all of the AI plants you know they need d double the electricity at least that we have right now so you take all of our electricity that we have all over the country just for AI to do it right and to win that war which we're leading by a lot because of what we've done over the last few weeks we're leading by actually a lot but if you take all of it we

have to double our electricity needs just for the AI and that doesn't include the other uh Technologies so it's a real honor to sign this uh Bill we're going to also work on cafes standards Lee you're going to be doing that and make that whole situation bring that back into reality and I think very quickly having to do with cars thank you very much cut anys yesterday part of your meeting no but in two weeks we will have another one yesterday was very big reciprocal tariffs was very big and it I I explained to the

prime minister of India Prime Minister Modi very good man his tariffs are very very High India's tariffs are among the highest and I said well now you know we we were very low we were the lowest they're just about the highest uh there are others as high but not much higher and I said no no from now on what we do is what you charge us we charge you it's very simple so whatever you're charging us you can go as high as you want whatever you charge us we charge you did you make any and

I wouldn't say they were thrilled to hear that but that's the way it is uh tariff I told you is a beautiful word fourth most beautiful did he make any pledges about BRS Nations not undermining the dollar you had threatened uh bricks the bricks Nations uh I think that's breaking up very rapidly we said that if they're going to go and do anything to undermine the dollar that includes China uh I don't even know that they're a member of bricks but they had a few Nations get together to try and play cute and uh I

said we're going to put a 100% tariff on every one of those Nations and uh at the mere thought of saying that I think that's all broken up that idea has no longer sailed now that would be a terrible thing for our country it' be bad for the world they wanted to undermine the dollar Six Nations got together they want to undermine the dollar that doesn't that didn't work out too well not going to happen and we're getting along with a lot of Nations now frankly there's a lot of respect for the United States we

have uh regained our the respect that we should have and uh but we've also done things to deserve it I mean we freed up our country and you're going to see this is basically energy dominance and it's going to be environmentally clean environmentally wonderful and uh taxes will be uh very reasonable based on this we're going to make more money than anybody's ever made with energy we have more energy than anybody else and it's clean energy very clean beautiful energy we're lucky we have it I call it Liquid Gold under our feet and we're going

to utilize it so uh this is a very big Bill and I I have a very talented group of people behind me this gentleman was the number one man in all of the oil industry they said there's nobody like him Chris Chris Wright and you know Doug Doug actually made a tremendous fortune in technology and he said I'm going to run for the governorship of he loves this state of North Dakota and he did and he uh made it so energy powerful that he's I think he's I think you're more proficient energy than technology but

what do I know and this guy everybody knows him Sean he's been uh he's he's done a fast study on transportation and he knows uh he's learned a lot over the last few months he's learned a lot he's uh he's really been great and Howard that has built one of the great companies caner Fitzgerald it was wiped out completely wiped out other than a few people left in Europe and he rebuilt the company into a bigger better company caner Fitz Sher was is one of the most absolutely one of the top companies on Wall Street

stocks bonds trading and he took that I mean he literally watched the plane go into the building into the World Trade Center amazing story that alone is amazing story he was delayed because his wife insisted that he finally after years take his child to school so he took his child to school that one day CU normally he would have been in the building at 6:00 in the morning that's that business right so you you owe your wife wife a lot and your child a lot right but uh his wife insisted that he take his child

to school for 5 years he didn't do it he was horrible what kind of a father was he okay I'll do it and he took and he was therefore driving down at 843 whatever the time was down the West Side Highway and he saw the plane go into the side of the building he said wow and he occupied the top three floors of the World Trade Center of the one building of the World Trade Center and and uh you know what happened there he lost 100% of the people in that uh all his whole company

was there and he rebuilt his company step by step over years and became bigger and stronger and he gave a tremendous amount of the profit to the families of the people that died which he didn't have to do and uh now he's working with us he did an incredible job I mean anybody in that world they know Howard lutnick very well and I'm honored to have him running Commerce he's going to be incredible he loves he loves the country and Lee was a great lawyer a great Congressman very successful person both as a lawyer and

as a congressman and uh knows a lot about the environment cares about the environment and we were lucky that uh I was very happy that you joined and he he was with me right from the beginning always was with me and I've always been with him and Kevin hasset we know he's Everybody Knows Kevin and uh he's fantastic and you and Lindsay you and your team are incredible the job you've done we done we really appreciate thank will and the job you guys are doing is really fantastic we're knocking this out Brian do you have

a question I actually do I want what kind of piqued my interest is growing up on the Texas Gulf Coast natural gas the LG that you mentioned yeah what's the potential for like new jobs or growth in that area I mean that's that part of the country Southwest Louisiana Southeast Texas they depend on that oh I would say that that potential is simply tremendous you know 20 years ago the United States was the biggest importer of natural gas in the world and we had natural gas prices two or three times higher than they are today

but with Shale Revolution and great entrepreneurs in Texas and Louisiana and across our great country we are now today the largest net exporter of natural gas in the world and so much of the world is depending upon natural gas is the fastest growing energy source has been for 50 years we were the the the driver of that and then we paused we stopped our ability to grow natural gas exports both the Japanese government and Indian government Express great distress about that they're going to count on energy imports from the us and we may just change

our mind so I think they're thrilled to see the actions of this President say America's open for business yes we have the energy we have the people we have huge job opportunities and investment opportunities not just in the oil and gas industry but all those surrounding communities that are lifted up by that more production here and as we produce more production at scale not does it allow us to export but it becomes more efficient and it helps us drive down the cost for our domestic consumers as well yeah I know they're really happy to just

let you thank you up in that are thank you Brian and I will say this that this all started eight years ago when I uh got elected we were doing this not to the extent that we're doing it now but we were doing this and we became number one in in oil and gas by far and we were number three even number four some would say we were when I left we were number one by a lot and then they pulled way back and the prices started going through the roof and then they went back

to my plan but by that time the prices had already gone up so they really disrupted it but now we're going to take it to a new level it's going to be uh amazing and we're also uh it's very powerful Clean Coal we have more coal than anybody this is good beautiful Clean Coal and if you notice China's opening up a coal plant a month uh Germany is now opening up a coal plant every two months uh very powerful it's probably the most powerful source of energy in terms of Generation generation of electricity and other

things and we're going to utilize our good clean beautiful coal and uh oil and gas we would we have more than anybody of everything and uh we're going to take advantage of it and I appreciate everybody being here can I ask you sir about what's happening in Munich um Senator Roger wicker shephered defense secretary Heth through his confirmation um he got him through that process and then he had some tough words for him overseas he said it was a rookie mistake uh for secretary heg to outline what would or would not happen as far as

Ukraine's membership in NATO goes and then I haven't heard that I mean Roger is a very good friend of mine and Peter's obviously he's been doing a great job I haven't heard let me let me look at you tell me something I'm I I have not heard about the question I had is were you aware of what secretary Heth was going to say in his speech at NATO uh generally speaking yeah generally speaking I was I'll speak to Roger I'll speak to Pete I'll find out Mr energy dominance Council that for all forms of energy

does that include window all forms of energy yep and the pipeline you mentioned sir is that a constitution pipeline in in New York can you is that the I yeah that's what it is and you know they've been trying to get it for 20 years and what it means is for New York Upstate New York and even everywhere in New York also other states but in particular uh New England that New England will now I think will cut the energy prices and big cuts in New York too but cut the energy prices literally in half

we have the permits we have permits that just about everything we need a New York permit and I would imagine they want to do because their energy prices will come down so so far and it's a lot of jobs for New York it's a great thing for New York everybody wants it uh we'll be meeting with the various Governors governor of New York and the other Governors too and we can have it built in about nine months let's say one year but we can actually have it built in pretty close to nine months it's all

said we have most of the permits almost all of the permits and on on just you're prioritizing energy dominance to day you've also prioritize trade balance uh the oil industry is a little worried about the steel tariffs I mean they put 20,000 ft of Steel in the ground at a well how will you balance that is there a possib talking about steel and aluminum steel so the steel uh I saved the steel industry in my first term by putting on tariffs because China was dumping massive amounts of Steel others also but mostly China and I

put very substantial we took in $600 billion dollars worth of tariffs from China no other president taken up literally hav't gotten 10 cents from China not 10 cents and hundreds of billions of dollars came in from China and they understood it they understood what I did but uh the The Dumping stopped and had I not done that you wouldn't have one steel mill I think I can say not one steel mill operating in this country and we need steel we need steel I mean there are some things you have to have and steel is one

of them for military Etc so um I think steel is going to be very strong it's going to be very strong I think it'll go back to being really powerful we saved it uh it I mean we were talking about us steel last week we us steel would have been closed totally closed we saved it and now it's going to become I think very very profitable the tariffs are going to save a lot of Industries Ste can I just follow on us um is if the Japanese company that's interested in us steel wants to take

a minority stake as opposed to full ownership is minority stake I wouldn't mind greatly but uh what they're doing right now is they're going to be investors and they're going to be investing in I think debt and various other things but uh we didn't want to let us steel go to a foreign company us steel was the greatest company in the world for a period of 15 years it was you know it was the big deal 80 years ago or so and uh psychologically we can't we can't even think about letting that happen but what

is going to happen and we've already seen it you see it in the price with the tariffs us Ste is going to be a real powerhouse again I can just follow up on Jackie's question about Munich um vice president Vance's uh Speech to the conference has ruffled quite a few feathers in Europe what did he say to ruffle them I um he was talking about the freedom of speech and migration in Europe do you believe that European leaders have a fundamentally different view of the world than this Administration well I heard a speech and I

you're talking about JD's speech right yes sir U I heard his speech and he talked about uh freedom of speech and and I think it's true in Europe it's losing they're losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech I see it I mean I I thought he made a very good speech actually a very brilliant speech you know Europe has to be careful and he talked about immigration and Europe has a big immigration problem just take a look at what's happened with crime take a look at what's happening in various parts of Europe I I

thought his speech was very well received actually I've heard ever very good remarks And in regards to Ukraine as well yesterday you mentioned that you thought Ukraine's NATO aspirations were one of the main reasons that the war broke out who do you blame for the war Ukraine or Russia well I think this I think that uh there were a lot to lot of people to blame all I can say is very simply if I were president that war would never have happened and you know what else wouldn't have happened the Middle East wouldn't be all

blown up and October 7th wouldn't have happened either uh those two areas you you wouldn't have inflation you wouldn't have October 7th you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine fighting none of those things would have happened if I were president Mr President please you mentioned Auto tariffs the other day when when you plan to un Howard I'd say over the next uh sometime maybe around April 2nd I would have done them on April 1st believe it or not this is I'm a little Superstition no literally we had it planned for April 1st I said let's make

it April April 2nd you know how much money that cost that cost a lot of money just that one day but we're going to do it on April 2nd I think is that right that's right okay thank the lead prosecutor in Eric Adams case uh resigned today uh saying anyone who didn't press forward would be a coward what's your reaction to that and and to the overall implication that politics were at play here well I don't know about it I mean obviously I'm not involved in that but I would say this that what if they

had a problem and these are mostly people from the previous administration you understand so they weren't going to be there anyway way they were going to all be gone or dismissed uh if not uh they know on Tuesday they're all being dis you know the whole country is being because what you do is you come in and you put new people in So when you say resign they're going to be gone anyway uh but I know nothing about the individual case I know that they didn't feel it was much of a case they also felt

that uh it was unfair with the election look I would know that better than anybody because uh I was weaponized more than any human being in the history probably of the world and I won the election in a landslide winning all seven swing States winning the popular vote and everything else uh because the people got it it was weaponized and I was weaponized literally weeks before the election but I think uh there's also something to be said I read that there's something to be said for what they were doing it looked to me it looked

to me to be very political but why didn't they bring this up like four or five weeks ago six weeks ago or whatever it happened you know they just sat around and didn't complain then all of a sudden they complain and they know they're all being dismissed anyway so you know the way it is that's called politics I guess yeah please earlier this week he predicted that all hell would break loose all of their hostages what do you expect to happen tomorrow in terms of um I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow at 12:00

it was up to me and take a very hard stance I can't tell you what Israel is going to do but uh I watched the last people come out and I looked at it before and an after picture one guy was a big strong healthy guy could could you could say he was a little bit overweight he's not overweight anymore he looks like he just came out of the Holocaust it looks like a holocaust picture I've looked at him for a long time and they've been treated very badly the young lady came out last week

her hand was blown off I mean literally her hand was trying to stop a bullet that was headed for her face she put up her hand she goes like this and wiped out her fingers and lot of her hand uh now I I would I would take a different stance but it depends look it depends what bib is going to do it depends what Israel is going to do but uh and now I understand they've totally changed Hamas has totally changed you want to release hostages now again but you have to see this started by

them saying we're not going to release the hostages as we said we were I said good you have till 12:00 on Saturday which is tomorrow at 12:00 to do it and we didn't hear anything then all of a sudden two days ago they said no we've decided we're going to release the hostages so but I actually think they should release all of the hostages remember they're probably as as as bad as they looked I mean I don't like to say that but they look real bad four days ago five days ago when I saw them

and the young ladies that came out were treated really badly you don't know what happened but I do they were treated really badly but as bad as they look the ones that follow probably will look a lot worse I think they're sending out their most healthy and they've been hit hard on that Hamas so they probably didn't want to release but they obviously they changed their mind I said 12:00 tomorrow and all of a sudden two days ago yesterday they said we're going to they're going back to release you but this all started by them

saying we are not going to release any more hostages and then yesterday they said they are going to releasee the hostages but I think they should release all of the hostages about 75,000 workers took this deferred resignation it's a little bit short of the 5 to 10% goal you were hoping to hit do you think you'll have to make up the rest of that number no look that's 75,000 more than we would have had and nobody knows what that final number is because in the end I think a lot of people aren't going to show

up to work a lot of people they got used to staying home and and quote working but you know I wonder if they had other jobs jobs or other things you know you have a lot of they have a lot of problems with that no 75,000 is a lot of people uh and we paid them well you know we gave them a lot of months of severance pay if you call it that but uh now I think you'll probably have some more too in addition it's a big tremendous saving for a we want a downsize

government but make it better run it better but downsize yeah please so can I ask about the UK I understand that you had a phone call with K starm yesterday did I just signed a letter to him uh he asked for a meeting and I agreed to the meeting we're going to have a friendly meeting very good we have a lot of good things going on but he asked to come and see me and uh I just accepted his asking do you have a date for that sir what do you hope very soon I think

he wants to come next week or the week after and what do you hope to discuss I don't know it was his request not mine but you I met him twice already we get along very well he's very nice guy thank you very much everybody thank you thank you very much appr thank you brother thank you press thank you thank you sir thank you thank you sir