CEOInterviews.AIPresident Trump signs a proclamation in the Oval Office: LIVE

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Donald Trump0:00

We're going to get there, but we're going to get pretty close. It's going to come down. And when oil comes down, everything else comes down. And most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was the whole purpose of what we had to go through to get this. So, it's a big, very big thing. But we have a signing soon and the documents are in pretty final shape. So, we'll see. We'll see. Very good. Should be done. That should be done pretty quickly. They want it every bit as much as everybody else wants it. And I think a lot of good relationships can ensue from this. I just spoke with the leaders of many of the countries that were mentioned in the release. I just spoke to BB. I spoke to the head of great heads of nations, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others. And we're going to be talking to Turkey. President Erdogan is great and it's really a wonderful thing with a lot of spirit. Pakistan was fantastic. The prime minister and the I call him the general. He's a general. He's a great, great general. He's so great that he's actually a field marshal, a step above. And they're all very happy. The whole Middle East is happy. And long beyond the Middle East, the strait will open as soon as we have it signed. We've been taking out many ships that nobody knew. Even the fake news didn't know it. But over the last month, we've been taking out ships, big ships quietly at night. You guys didn't know that. Pretty cool, right? As a captain, he knows about more about ships than I do, but that's pretty cool. They turned off the lights. We bombed their radar and everything so they couldn't see what was going on. And we took out some nights 25 ships, some nights 15. Last four or five nights we did 25, 22, 21, 26, 18, and 14. Who else would remember those numbers? Nobody. And a lot of ships, a lot of oil is out. That's why oil even before this the market couldn't understand why it was so free. There was more oil than they thought. They're trying to we took them out at night and that would the strait officially open as soon as we sign which could be soon, very soon maybe over the weekend in Europe. I won't be able to be there, but JD will be there, vice president, and some of the people. Steve Witkoff did a great job. Jared, so we'll take some questions, but right now we're here to talk about fishermen and fisherwomen. Okay, we have they're great people and I guess I'm a little prejudiced because they all voted for me. Would you say I got 100% or just

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Unknown3:07

110%.

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Donald Trump3:08

I think so. If I didn't, it would be a surprise.

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Unknown3:11

Would have a big surprise.

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Donald Trump3:14

So, it's my honor to be taking this action to lower seafood costs and generate millions and millions of dollars in new business for our great, really great fishermen, great people by restoring commercial access to three areas of the western Pacific Ocean. It's a large amount of space we're talking about that they were restricted. Other countries would use it, but our country couldn't use it. You ever hear anything so stupid? I want to thank Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, and Congresswoman Kimberly King Hines for joining us today. We appreciate it all very much. Thank you very much. Thanks as well to Captain Sig Hansen, a superstar. He and Tom Cruise are the two biggest people in entertainment. Thank you very much. Great, great job. And Pacific Seafood CEO Frank Dulich and his sons Dominic and Charles and many more dedicated fishermen and seafood industry leaders. We have some great leaders here and your product is amazing. It's been going along for a long time, right? Seafood. It's amazing and doing great. Under the Obama Biden administration's radical environmentalists, drastically restricted access for fishermen and coastal communities and hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean was cut off for them. They can't fish. Other people could fish. They couldn't. These people weren't allowed to fish. Can you imagine that? Did you ever think that was going to happen as you grew up? Probably the sons of sons and daughters of fishermen, right? That someday they were going to take away the right for you to go fishing in the Pacific Ocean. What a bunch of dopes. Those decisions closed off vast resources and really the richest fishing grounds they say anywhere in the world, destroyed livelihoods and made the United States more dependent on foreign products. And I did a similar thing for Maine. Maine is very much in the subject because I have a pig running for Senate. He's a pig. He's not a senator. He's a joke. He's a con man. But so it's in the and you know I won half of Maine. I won the one by a lot. Fishermen actually come to think of it. Fishermen and the lumberjacks. People that go out there and work. I won them. So I love Maine. But it's amazing. They had a 500 mile by 500 massive amount of the Atlantic Ocean. You weren't allowed to fish, but Canada was. Japan was. They all came and fished, but our people weren't allowed to fish there. That was put in by Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden. And it's a shame. I made a shame, but I did it a little while ago and opened it up to them twice. I've done it now. Peter, right?

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Unknown6:25

Sir,

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Donald Trump6:26

Peter Navarro, the great Peter Navarro. And I did it twice. I did it and then they had a rigged election and I wasn't here. Totally rigged election just like what was happening in California. You see what they got the kid out and then they were doing the same thing to Steve Hilton. Then I started bringing it. They said, 'Look, they said it's going to take two more weeks.' It was a week and he was heading south. And I started saying, 'It's a rigged election.' And then they said it was going to take two weeks, one week, two weeks. And all of a sudden, he was approved. You know why? Because the heat was on. He couldn't get away with it. If I didn't do it, I guarantee he wouldn't be the nominee. It's a rigged election. Our country and we have to get by the way the Save America Act has to get passed by the Senate. House has passed it three times. But with today's action, we're officially reopening nearly half a million square miles of water around northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. I mean, we'll ask you in a second, but why the hell did they close it? Why not enough face shield? What's going on? They closed it, Peter. Do you have any reasons why they closed it?

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Peter Navarro7:49

Obama Barack Hussein Obama environmental activists tried to shut it down. But you're right, sir. It's crazy. They let all

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Donald Trump7:57

Ruined the big industry.

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Peter Navarro7:58

The foreign boats come in. It's crazy.

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Donald Trump8:01

And they leave our captains out. It's crazy. It's bad for fish prices, too.

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Peter Navarro8:07

Yes, sir.

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Donald Trump8:10

And this will support millions of dollars in annual harvest of big big tuna, swordfish, reef fish, and many other types of fish. It will protect small local fisheries and coastal communities that depend on their livelihoods. I mean, they are very dependent on this. And it will increase domestic seafood production to help lower costs for American communities. And you're talking about millions, tens of millions of dollars of income. We have so much these areas. I mean, they just like say, 'Oh, let's just close them.' The amazing thing is that other countries there's no restriction. You know, you can go and do whatever you want. It's just crazy. America's fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump. That I will say. I shouldn't say that because I don't want to brag but

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Unknown9:01

Based on the vote of getting almost every vote ever.

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Donald Trump9:04

True. But you have never had and again in Maine I opened it up. You know who was fishing there? Canada. Canada. Japan was fishing there. Maine lobster. You couldn't get a Maine lobster. You had to go to Japan to get a Maine lobster. You believe it? You had to go to Canada to get a Maine lobster. They were fishing there. Not only that, you had to go a day and a half in a boat and they had you at three knots. That means like essentially a little bit different than 3 miles an hour, but it means slow. Three knots until you got outside of this 500 mile area because they didn't want you to disturb the fish that you weren't allowed to fish for. But think of it, these people are crazy. And the new thing they had was you had to have an electric boat even though they didn't work. And even though once you got out there you had a problem because you couldn't get back because they didn't charge long enough. These are problems that were mentioned to them and they said we don't care you have to have an electric boat. And the other problem was the electric battery is much heavier as you know. So, the boat has a tendency to sink and they were forced, you know, by 2030 or so, you were forced to have an electric boat. I don't think you were too happy with that, right?

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Unknown10:26

Not at all.

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Donald Trump10:27

Anyway, but this is going to support millions and millions of people. America's fishermen have just they're special people and it's fishermen and fisherwomen. So, tell me how do they define that? Because in most industries like you have policemen, policewomen. Do you call them fishermen and fisherwomen? I haven't heard of that one before. They put it. Are we How are the women do they want to be designated as fisherwomen?

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Unknown10:54

Does anybody want to answer that question?

We'll take fish.

Fishermen, fisherwomen. Fisher people.

If you want to be politically correct, sometimes they use the term fisher. But

I like fisherman or fisherwoman myself.

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Donald Trump11:11

How about fisher people?

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Unknown11:16

These people are crazy.

So, President Trump, I Googled that because I had the same dilemma you did trying to figure out be politically correct.

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Donald Trump11:23

And what is the answer?

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Unknown11:24

So, the Google answer said that most women attribute to fishermen because they feel like they're strong individuals and they can do the work of a man.

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Donald Trump11:31

Well, be careful. That might be the end of your career. My administration's already rolled back burdensome regulations to increase gear flexibility. You know what that means, right? Do you know what that means? I heard they made you buy gear that you didn't want.

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Unknown11:46

Yeah.

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Donald Trump11:48

And that didn't work. Other than that, it was quite good. Expedite. I guarantee the guy made contributions to find whoever owns the company that made the bad gear. Expedite fishing start dates and significantly raise catch limits based on the best available science. You know about that? That's unbelievable. We expanded access to key fishing grounds in the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, including vast areas off the coast of New England. I mentioned 500 miles by 500 miles. That's a lot. That's a lot of fish. That's a lot of lobster that was being sold by Japan. I will tell you foreign countries are very happy because they ended up taking over the Maine lobster business. Maine lobster business live from Japan, right? But we gave it back to them. These actions have unlocked billions of dollars in economic value and protected thousands and thousands of jobs from great people that voted for Trump. And they voted for me because of common sense. That's all it is. Because anybody can see this stuff is crazy. This is one industry, but other industries likewise. And right now we have $18 trillion being invested in our country. And under the last administration was less than one. And 18, this is 18 trillion, by the way, in less than a year. It was four years less than one. Right, Howard?

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Howard Lutnick13:12

That's correct. By restoring fishing access to these waters in the Western Pacific, we're reclaiming our maritime heritage, empowering American fishermen, and putting American consumers first with lower prices.

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Donald Trump13:26

He's going to have more fish, lower prices. So now, let's hear from first Secretary Lutnick and then Secretary Burgum, followed by Governor Dunleavy and Frank Dulich and Captain Sig Hansen. And then we'll take some questions and maybe you want to hear a little bit about some other subjects. But to me, it's really important. I'm going to sign this now so that we get it done. No auto pen. I don't want an auto pen. Can you believe 94% signed by an auto pen? Can you believe that? I think it's higher than 94%. The only one that was definitely signed by him that we know of. You know what it was? It was his son. Who was son? He signed. That was the only one. You could tell. You know why? Because the signature was horrible. She was a real beauty. That one. Okay.

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Unknown14:32

We want to do some questions.

Mr. President,

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Donald Trump14:37

Would you like to speak? Yeah. Go ahead. So this action, 500,000 square miles were closed to American fishermen. You couldn't go and fish. 500,000 square miles. I mean, just think of how big that is. And if you had an American flag, you weren't allowed there. But of course, everybody else went. So they went in our waters. These are our waters, right? And so what did that result in? That resulted in us instead of having seafood exports because we have great fishing opportunity, we were an importer. We became an importer of seafood. How crazy is that? So the president is finally changing that. This is a massive win for our fishermen, a massive win for our waterfront communities who process it. All these processors and in the end we are going to eat fish caught by us. What a shock. Eating fish caught by us in our waters. So, this is just common sense, smart. We already have the best conservation rules in the world. And this was one on top of another on top of another. So, thank God from the fisherman's perspective. And I get these calls all the time that President Donald Trump is in this office because he's finally letting our great fishermen and fisherwomen get out there and catch fish and stop importing fish. Let's eat fish caught by Americans.

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Unknown16:07

Thank you.

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Doug Burgum16:12

Echoing that with President Trump's leadership. This is another promise made, promise kept by President Trump that he was going to roll back these job killing, community killing, industry killing jobs. He's done that last year with executive orders doing it today with his proclamation. So I want to say thank you to President Trump. I want to say thank you to my great friend Secretary Lutnick in commerce. We have dual responsibilities across commerce and interior related to fish. And of course with our partners in the Pacific because American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, we got the congresswoman here from Northern Mariana Islands. These are all American citizens. As Howard said, this is US territorial waters and they were closed to us and open to others. And that makes no sense. We've reversed that around. So again, as you see around us, the jobs that are created in this industry are often second, third, fourth, and fifth generation family businesses. And these folks not only risk their lives, they risk their own personal capital to help feed America. They're the farmers of the sea. Just like President Trump's behind our farmers and ranchers, he's behind our fishermen. He's making sure that America is great. This brings back healthy food for our schools, our military, all the things that we're working on with Secretary Kennedy and with Pete Hegseth. So, this is a win-win-win across the board. Again, thank you, President Trump. Thank you, Howard. Great day for America.

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Donald Trump17:42

Thank you.

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Mike Dunleavy17:44

Thank you, Mr. President. This is another example of America first. To be honest with you, Alaska provides 60% of the country's seafood. We are the state with halibut, salmon, king crab, you name it, comes from Alaska. Alaska is one fishing in Alaska is one of the oldest industries in that entire state. Employs thousands of individuals. Everyone has had fish from Alaska. We know that. But this is an example again of putting America's first, America first, workers first, and really this country first. And so, on behalf of Alaska, on behalf of all fishermen and women, I want to thank you for what you're doing for this country, for the state of Alaska as well.

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Donald Trump18:19

Governor, was this shut down? I mean, it's just so hard to believe. So, this was trauma for your industry, which is a big industry.

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Mike Dunleavy18:27

Well, your deregulation is what really helps Alaska. It helps the fisherman. The country doesn't need more regulation. We need less regulation and that includes for this industry as well. And so, from that perspective, and it's across the board. We could talk about oil and gas and so forth, but this is about fish. But your deregulation approach is really what we need. We don't need more cost. And as you said, we probably don't need electric boats either. We need to focus on getting seafood to Americans, putting people to work, and this is exactly what this does. So, I just want to thank you.

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Donald Trump18:55

Thanks.

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Unknown18:56

Thanks. Good job,

Mr. President.

Mr. President, hear from a couple fish.

Mr. President,

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Frank Dulich19:02

We're I'm third generation. These two are some of our kids as well for Pacific Seafood. Immigrated, my grandfather immigrated into this country and started his first fish market in 1941. From there, we now are one of the largest family vertically integrated seafood companies in North America. It was American dream and I'm honored to be

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Donald Trump19:22

Where are you from?

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Frank Dulich19:22

Portland, Oregon, and now Arizona.

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Donald Trump19:24

Liberal.

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Frank Dulich19:27

I'm just not a liberal.

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Donald Trump19:29

Trust me.

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Frank Dulich19:29

It's probably more people than you think, Republicans, conservatives.

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Donald Trump19:34

If we could count the votes, count the votes properly. But where we are is this the proclamation today and the executive order last year prior to this is really going to help us. We have 3,000 families that work with us and 715 fishing families lower 48 in Oregon, Washington, California and Alaska that depend on what we catch, what we process and what we grow and sell is the healthiest protein on the planet. And you're giving us access to these family wage jobs in these coastal communities where we're usually the number one or number two employer in those cities and counties and coastal community. So I just wanted to say thank you on behalf of that 3,000 employees and 715 fishermen. Thank you, Mr. President, secretaries. Thank you and everybody that supports this industry.

So did you ever see this happening when they destroyed your whole life and your family and your business, everything else? Did you ever think that somebody would come along and say,

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Frank Dulich20:37

Let me just be really clear. There's never been a president to do this.

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Donald Trump20:43

Thank you very much. It's very nice.

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Sig Hansen20:50

I just want to say, Mr. President, that you know, my father always said, 'Always give credit where credit is due.' And I'm here representing the working man, the fisherman. I am one myself, as you know. And you know I spent a couple of months with you on The Apprentice and I saw your work ethic there and I got to tell you I understand that I can't fathom how you can do all this and how you can get the time to do what you do and representing us and helping the fisherman the way you've done it. It's just mindboggling to me because I know you got your hands full, but putting us on that pedestal and backing up our industry the way you have, it's just phenomenal. And I got to say, I've been fishing since I was 12 years old. I've never been fired in my life until I spent a couple of months with this man. And it was very humbling to say the least.

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Donald Trump21:48

He did a great job. And I tell you what, you know, when I think about it, I was a better captain after that because I was very nice to my crew. I was very humbled when I was fired. And anyway, I just want to say as for you, this is a crew members cap. You can take that. And you're one of us now. Thank you.

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Sig Hansen22:07

Thank you very much. We've done more. We've done more for this nation in the fishing space. We're farmers of the sea. We produce this great healthy protein. I'm from North Carolina, but we support you 100%. You have done more for this nation in the seafood space than any president before you in my lifetime. Thank you so much.

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Eric22:30

Yeah. I'm Eric from Hawaii. United States fisheries are the best manager in the world and this action is really about balancing the interest in US exclusive economic zone. You can have both ocean protection under our laws as well as sustainable fishing. And that's what this is about. And I think, Mr. President, you are the only president has really stepped up in terms of supporting fishermen like you're doing. No other president we've seen through the administration that's helping us. And there's a lot more work to do because there's a tremendous seafood deficit in trade. Imports are undercutting us left and right. But seafood is healthy.

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Donald Trump23:08

They're taking them right out of your water.

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Eric23:10

Yeah. And seafood is a healthy com taking it from your order and selling it into the United States. That's right. The whole thing is just crazy.

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Donald Trump23:17

So really appreciate it.

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Eric23:18

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

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Donald Trump23:20

Yeah, please.

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Unknown23:21

First of all, thank you, Mr. President, to you and your family for the sacrifice and the commitment to the country.

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Donald Trump23:26

Thank you.

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Unknown23:26

I'm in the sea scallop business. I don't know who likes sea scallops, but New Bedford, Massachusetts is a port that is recognized as the highest grossing revenue port in the United States. I don't know who knows where New Bedford is, but sea scallops is roughly 300 vessels or 300 full-time vessels. They range from 85 ft to 100 ft. Six flight came from New Bedford. And you talked earlier about some examples of stupidity or whatever. We have vessels that can cost anywhere between $3 to $5 million and those vessels only work for 35 days a year. They sit at the dock the rest of the time. So, we need certain things that could help us. And I know that this because of your executive order it's a game changer. That order is a game changer for us. And one more example, there's an area that, you know, like Frank mentioned on the Pacific side, but there's an area off Georges Bank that's 248 square miles.

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Donald Trump24:33

248 square miles

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Unknown24:35

Been restricted also

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Donald Trump24:37

Restricted. It's the largest.

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Unknown24:38

Is it now restricted?

It's restricted. It's been closed since 1995 and here we are 29 years later. We can't even get it. It's the best scallop ground in the United States.

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Donald Trump24:50

Take a look at it. Yes, sir. I just spoke with a gentleman before and we're going to fix a look at it.

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Unknown24:55

It's all nonsense.

You talked about stupidity. How crazy is that? We haven't been able to get in there for 30 years. And it's been environmentalist.

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Donald Trump25:04

Do other people get in?

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Unknown25:05

There's lobster guys in there. There's Yeah, they cut it. Well, mostly the United States, but it's the best scallop ground that we have in the United States. How can they get in if it's restricted?

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Donald Trump25:18

Well, they can get in. We can't. They won't allow scallop fishing in there.

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Unknown25:21

Oh, I see.

So, it's prohibited from us.

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Donald Trump25:24

Crazy.

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Unknown25:24

But there's I mean, just think of a boat that we have that sits and we've asked we're working and I just explained it to Secretary Lutnick about we're right now pretty close to where we could easily take a permit and put another permit on it, but why should we let these boats sit at the dock for 330 days?

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Donald Trump25:41

Yeah,

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Unknown25:42

It's crazy. So,

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Donald Trump25:43

We'll look at that. Thank you so much and we appreciate it.

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Unknown25:45

Thank you.

So, I'm a federal adviser on the sea scallop plan, right, President Trump and spent a lot of time helping advise the council how to manage that fishery. It's the best managed fishery in the world, bar none of any fishery we have. But it's ludicrous to allow those scallops, they live about 8 to 10 years, and we've already gone through three different cycles of those scallops maturing and dying that we're not harvesting. There's a way for us to do that. And your director

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Donald Trump26:15

It's a positive as opposed to a negative.

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Unknown26:18

It needs to be over.

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Donald Trump26:19

They die. They just die. They just die.

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Unknown26:22

So a scallop will die of old age.

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Donald Trump26:24

It'll die.

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Unknown26:26

But it needs to

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Donald Trump26:26

How do they taste when they're dead?

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Unknown26:28

Not very good.

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Donald Trump26:30

Not very good.

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Unknown26:30

Not good.

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Donald Trump26:31

Not good.

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Unknown26:32

And you talked about the maha. I mean it's one of the Frank said his fish scallops are one of the best proteins.

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Donald Trump26:38

Yeah. There you go.

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Unknown26:40

Plan to wrestle.

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Donald Trump26:41

They can come to UFC.

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Unknown26:44

Anybody else? You guys okay?

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Sig Hansen26:46

Another thing too, the price of crab has tripled for us. So, we're not getting that competition from other countries which is from you.

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Donald Trump26:54

Explain that. Go ahead.

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Sig Hansen26:55

Russian product for example. So, tariffs and our price just skyrocketed and it sells. People buy it. It's all US.

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Donald Trump27:06

You want to have product coming in from us. Well, in other words, I you know, at the dock, we received triple the amount of what we've seen in the past.

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Sig Hansen27:13

So, the demand is there and people buy it.

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Donald Trump27:17

So, Trump, we have a fisher woman that would like to... Yeah, sure.

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Frank Dulich27:20

Hi, Mr. President. My husband Sterling here.

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Donald Trump27:23

How are you?

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Frank Dulich27:24

I'm doing well. Um, he's an Alaska Bearing Sea crab fisherman and I'm a farmer's daughter from Iowa.

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Donald Trump27:30

Good. Good.

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Frank Dulich27:31

And I just combination. It is harvesters. We're both harvesters. I just wanted to say thank you for your leadership and representing not only um fishing families but the farmers too to help um make American agriculture and not only that but um Alaskan seafood.

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Donald Trump27:49

Thank you very much. Great couple. Thank you. It's a good combination. I like that.

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Frank Dulich27:54

Yes. Thank you.

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Donald Trump27:57

Thank you, sir.

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Frank Dulich27:57

This is a question that will directly impact the fishing industry. Fishermen cheered and support you in your fight to stop offshore wind turbines because experts say that they destroy the commercial fishing industry, not to mention they're a national security threat as you've highlighted. Does your administration plan to continue to fight the judge's ruling that's allowing for the continuation of the turbines right by Jamaica states right where you live off of the Atlantic? 154 of them are going to litter the sea. Will you put a stop to that, Mr. President, now that Kathy Hoko broke her deal about the pipeline?

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Donald Trump28:29

And she did break her deal. Doug, would you want to answer that question because I'm for I am for it. She broke her deal by stopping a pipeline which was so good for New England and so good for Connecticut and she broke her deal. What do you want to do on that?

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Doug Burgum28:44

Well, I think I want to say first of all, absolutely positively the construction of these wind towers have an effect on fisheries. We've had multiple rounds between NOAA which is part of Commerce and Interior which manages all of the offshore leasing. So there's plenty of evidence that destroys fishery. Number two is marine mammals which Howard has in NOAA. It's affected. We've had more whales wash up on shore during the construction of these offshore things. So it's not great for marine life, not great for fisheries. We also have the report from Secretary Pete Hegseth which conclusively this is a national security threat and we should understand this was thrown out by the Democrats and said no it's not, it can't be a national security, they're just making it up. Other countries including Sweden have canceled offshore wind projects because of national security issues and all you have to do is pay attention to the way the wars are being fought today. It's autonomous on autonomous, a lot of low altitude. These wind towers that President Trump has worked to try to stop, the towers themselves can be 600 feet. The blades are 250. On top of that, you could launch an attack on the US in the northeast in our most populous area with a bunch of autonomous drones coming through a wind tower field which cover thousands if not tens of thousands of miles. That level of attack would be undetectable until it came through because of radar interference. And then we know that there's autonomous undersea activity going on now that's happening in the Gulf with advances in technology on all sides. The sonar, the vibration of running the wind towers affects the undersea sonar. So, it's a huge national security threat. Bad for marine mammals, bad for fish. President Trump is going to keep fighting for what's right for the...

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Donald Trump30:24

You stop the blades right now. They're coming over from Asia right now. They're sending the blades to start installing them. So, it's sort of dependent.

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Doug Burgum30:30

Yeah. Well, and then on top of that, it's the most expensive electricity. It's weather dependent. It's intermittent. And it's foreign sourced as you say.

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Donald Trump30:36

Terrible. And they do affect fishing and it's very bad and everybody's against it. Yeah. Please.

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Unknown30:40

Mr. President on Iran.

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Donald Trump30:42

Go ahead.

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Unknown30:43

Mr. President, on Iran, how confident are you that there will be a signing this weekend? Because you have come close to stealing a deal, but at the last minute it has fallen apart.

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Donald Trump30:54

It'll be soon, maybe this weekend.

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Unknown30:57

And has the Supreme Leader approved this deal, sir?

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Donald Trump31:00

I understand the answer is yes.

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Unknown31:02

And when this deal is signed, is the United States going to immediately lift the blockade?

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Donald Trump31:08

Yes, that's true. That's part of the deal.

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Unknown31:11

And just one...

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Donald Trump31:12

We don't have oil prices dropping like Iraq.

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Unknown31:15

And sir, have you actually secured an agreement on the discussions about the nuclear material and the nuclear negotiations?

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Donald Trump31:22

Conceptually on that and nobody's getting close to it because it's buried under a mountain basically. B2 bombers...

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Unknown31:33

But has Iran committed to not pursuing a nuclear weapon or will there be more negotiations on that down the road?

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Donald Trump31:41

They will not have a nuclear weapon. They've agreed to that. There will be no... which is the whole reason, which is a big part of the reason.

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Unknown31:47

Is that going to be your agreement?

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Donald Trump31:49

They will not only not have, they will not purchase, develop in any way, any shape, in any way, shape or form a nuclear weapon. They will not have a nuclear weapon.

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Unknown31:57

Mr. President, just follow up on that. You have said before that Iran and the United States were close to a deal. It has not happened yet. Why are you so convinced that this time is different?

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Donald Trump32:07

Because they've taken a pounding. They've taken a pounding like very few people could take and they want to make the deal a lot more than I do. And we could have had it done the other way, I guess, but it would have taken longer. They got hit very hard recently, as you know, and I don't like to have to do things that way, but I felt it was necessary. It's a great deal for the United States and for the Middle East and I think ultimately great for Iran because they'll be able to build up their country and other country. I really believe it's a regime change because I find these people to be much more rational than the people that are no longer with us. We knocked out the first team of leadership, the second team of leadership. This is a different group. It's a different level and I think it's a frankly a smarter level and it's a level that has reason and they've all approved the deal. Everybody's approved the deal. Now we'll get it finished up and hopefully that'll be done. We will not have Iran having a nuclear weapon which is very important to these people behind me. We can talk about fishing. There won't be anybody to fish. The fish will still be around, probably going to be affected too. We're not going to let it happen. So, Iran will essentially, most important paragraph to me, Iran will in no way, shape or form have a nuclear weapon or purchase a nuclear weapon.

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Unknown33:32

But is this just a concept of that agreement? When it comes to nuclear, you said this was just a concept of that agreement. So, is this just essentially setting the stage for deeper talks on nuclear?

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Donald Trump33:41

It's a very strong memorandum of understanding that is a little conceptual, but it's something that's going to get done. And if it doesn't get done for any reason, which I can't imagine that not happening, they want to sign it as much as I do or more, I would say they want to sign it more, maybe a lot more, but it's a very detailed memorandum of understanding also agreed to by many other countries that have great influence over them and everybody wants it done. So, it's going to get...

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Unknown34:10

You suggested yesterday that Iran may be tapping along the US. Those were the words that you used. What makes you believe that they are sincere this time in wanting to pursue the...

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Donald Trump34:20

Level of enthusiasm for getting it done. And we were hitting them very hard for the last three days. We're going to hit them even harder tonight. They knew that. We told them exactly what we were going to do. We explained it exactly because they had no navy. They had no air force. They had no any weapons of detection. They had nothing. And so we could tell them exactly what there wasn't a thing they could have done about it. And we won this war militarily very early on. The only thing we didn't win was the fake news was, you know, no matter if they could have raised the white flag of surrender and the fake news would say, 'Oh, they did wonderfully. They didn't do wonderfully.' But you know what? They've got a chance to build a country. Their country is largely demolished. Again, their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone. Everything's gone. Their leadership is gone many times over. Even many people from this leadership is gone. But we found them to be rational and they're going to make a deal.

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Unknown35:23

Mr. President, Mr. President,

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Donald Trump35:25

And I'll tell you what, it's a great deal. You know why it's a great deal? Because they will never have a nuclear weapon.

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Unknown35:31

Mr. President, is there a specific amount of time that has to pass between this memorandum of understanding and a final deal being done?

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Donald Trump35:38

Well, we hope it's going to go relatively quickly, but it's...

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Unknown35:40

Is there 60 or 90?

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Donald Trump35:42

I mean, the straits are going to open immediately. It's fun signing. Maybe it'll be Saturday or Monday.

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Unknown35:46

Is there a deadline though to get from this to a final deal?

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Donald Trump35:51

We think it's going to go pretty quickly. I don't want to say a deadline because if I say a deadline, you'll say, 'Oh, he didn't meet the deadline.' You know, this is like it's not going to matter much because it's going to get signed and the strait is open. But the straits have been open for a number of months already and you just didn't know about it. You know, you as reporters weren't able to get it. I just announced yesterday that we brought a lot of ships through. Nobody knew about. I guess we did a pretty good job, Peter. Right. But we brought many many ships across and millions, hundreds of millions of barrels of oil were brought across.

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Unknown36:29

But Mr. President,

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Donald Trump36:30

And there wasn't a thing that anybody could have done about that. Yeah.

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Unknown36:33

Is the card island operation off the table? And are you ruling out?

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Donald Trump36:37

Well, now it would be if we signed this agreement, it would be. They weren't so thrilled when they heard that that's what I would have done. And I just don't think I like it great. Look at Venezuela. How well that's worked out. We paid for that war many times over and many many times over. We have millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela going to Houston. And we're working great with the Venezuelan government. Couldn't be better. It's a real good relationship. Really good relationship. Venezuela has been amazing. This is a larger situation. Actually less oil. Venezuela has a lot of oil. But we think of it. We spend X dollars. We paid for it many many times. When was the last time you hear that? Many times over we paid for it. Do you ever think you'd see that in this country? Right. We go to wars. We end up with just blasting the hell out of people and we come home, nothing happens. Venezuela was amazing and this is amazing. Yeah.

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Unknown37:37

Mr. President, thank you. Are you considering using or drafting an executive order to extend visa or to continue using section?

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Donald Trump37:44

Congress wants me to do it and let's see what happens.

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Unknown37:47

Republican leadership wants you to do it.

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Donald Trump37:49

I put out a statement. It's very important. It's very important for our military.

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Unknown37:53

Mr. President, on the Save America Act, you're now urging Republicans to add that to this third reconciliation bill. What's your perspective on why election integrity matters so much for national security from your perspective?

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Donald Trump38:07

We need it for our elections. We need to have voter identification which you don't have right now on a national basis. We need it for and the voter ID is very important. We need it for proof of citizenship. Do you believe it? The Democrats are fighting. They don't want you to prove your citizenship when you vote. You know why they want that? Because they cheat. And we also wanted mail-in voting where you have people that are sent seven, eight ballots, two ballots, four ballots, and a lot of them sign those ballots. Mail-in voting. And we want to be very judicious. If you're in the military and you're far away or if you're handicapped or if you're sick or if you're on vacation, then you have a but you're not going to millions and millions. Look at California. They send out millions of ballots. Tens of millions. They have no idea what's going on. Those elections are so corrupt. So we have a male and ballot. Then we have no men and we had two more. No men in women's sports. You're talking about saving America, right? No men in women's sports. Another one. Very popular. I think it's 99 to 1. They say it's 80-20. I think it's 99 to 1. And we have no mutilation of your children for transgender purposes. So let's see. Transgender mutilation of your children. Does that sound good with you guys? Generally speaking, you know that transgender mutilation?

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Unknown39:33

Not at all. Not at all, sir.

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Donald Trump39:35

Well, your child leaves your house and they take your child from you in some... think of it in six states. They take the child and do what they want to do. What they do is I don't even want to talk about it.

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Unknown39:47

We add that no transgender mutilation of your children.

On DNI, Mr. President, do you intend to have Bill Py continue to serve as the acting director of national intelligence? And do you think it's unreasonable that some Republicans have concerns that he has no intelligence experience even if he's serving in this acting role?

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Donald Trump40:04

But he's intelligent unlike a lot of other people.

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Unknown40:07

But do you think that's no intelligence?

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Donald Trump40:09

He's only there for a little while. He's running it for a short while. Well, we get a very talented person, Jake Leighton, in as you know. Jake Clayton is an incredible talent. Head of Sullivan and Cromwell. He was head of the SEC. He was now southern district. I mean nobody has better credentials.

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Unknown40:26

Do you want Clayton?

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Donald Trump40:27

Bill will run for a short while. He's done a fantastic job at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. Created tremendous. It's probably worth a trillion dollars now. Trillion. He's done a great job. He's a smart guy.

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Unknown40:41

Today's another example of you bringing these everyday Americans into the White House and listening to them. How important is it for you to listen to everyday Americans when it comes to policymaking?

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Donald Trump40:50

These people built the country. Not the complainers. The complainers didn't build the country. These people built the country. Whether it's fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me, guys. They built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates. They're always complaining, complaining. They didn't build anything. They couldn't build anything. Look at what's happened in Minnesota, Somalia. All these people came in from Somalia. They ripped off our system. You have the woman who married her brother. She came in, married her brother. Isn't that wonderful? And then she talks about the constitution of the United States. She comes from Somalia. They don't have constitutions in Somalia. They don't have police. They don't have all they have is people that run around shooting each other. And then she comes and tells us how to run our country. I don't like it. These people don't like it. I can tell you. I think I can speak for you.

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Unknown41:43

Yeah.

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Donald Trump41:43

She comes in, Ilhan Omar. She comes in, she tells us how to run the United States of America. And she comes from a place without anything. Without anything, probably among the worst countries in the world. And she says the Constitution of the United States protects me. She shouldn't be protected. She honestly she should be thrown out of the country. She's corrupt. And most of the people that came in are corrupt. And the whole voting system is corrupt in Minnesota. I won Minnesota three times easily. I won almost every county, but they didn't give it to me. It's a corrupt system. Very corrupt state. The governor is terrible. The attorney general is terrible. They're all very corrupt people.

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Unknown42:29

Sir, do you think there's enough support from Republicans in Congress to pass it?

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Donald Trump42:33

I mean, any Republican that voted against it would be...

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Unknown42:37

McConnell and Holland say they don't think...

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Donald Trump42:38

Paul McConnell is an angry man. He got thrown out of his position. He's angry guy. You know, he should be very thankful to me because if I didn't win, he wouldn't have gotten to appoint. I appointed the judges. He didn't. He gets credit for appointing judges. He didn't appoint anybody. I did. You know how I did? I won the election. And then I picked judges and the judges ended up getting approved. And they said, 'Oh, didn't he do a good job?' He didn't do a good job. What the hell did he do? I won the election. He's an angry man who's very disloyal to John Thune. John Thune's a good man. He was a loyal worker for Mitch McConnell. He worked for Mitch McConnell. He worked very hard. He was very loyal to him. I disagreed with him a lot because Mitch McConnell gave so much money to Democrats. He gave them money. I had to go get the wall money from the military. I just took it out of the military because that guy wouldn't do anything. He gave it... No, Mitch McConnell's a bad guy and he's a and I thought he was lousy at his job. Lousy at his job. But when they give him the only thing they give him a lot of credit for judges, but I'm the one that got the judges. You know why? I won the election. If I didn't win the election, he wouldn't have had any judges.

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Unknown43:45

So, yeah. I mean,

Mr. President, when did you send the supplemental to...

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Donald Trump43:52

Send a supplemental? But you have him, you have Murkowski. I've done so much for Murkowski. You have the governor right here. Governor, have I done a lot for Alaska? Is there anybody done more for Alaska than me?

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Mike Dunleavy44:03

You have been the best president for Alaska in our history, Mr. President. I've said that many times.

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Donald Trump44:07

And Murkowski is terrible. Terrible to us, terrible to the country.

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Unknown44:12

Mr. President.

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Donald Trump44:12

And you know, I almost feel guilty. I do more probably done more for Alaska than any other state. Not because of her, because it's the right thing to do. She's just an impediment, but she's there. She probably will be a negative vote. You have a couple of other... I think Rand Paul's come a long way. Let's see what happens. I think Rand Paul likes Save America. So, because Rand Paul's usually a negative vote, but I think he likes Save America, so that's good. I like Rand Paul, but you know, I hope he votes for us. Yeah.

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Unknown44:41

Thank you, Mr. President. The president of the Kentucky Farm Bureau testified before the Senate about a month ago, middle of May. At that point, he said that the pricing and availability of fertilizer was a crisis for farmers. And he said the war was not helping that. And he said we need the government to step in and provide economic help even if you do make a deal in the next couple of days. That was a month ago that farmers were saying they were in crisis. Do you think there needs to be federal aid specifically for farmers?

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Donald Trump45:10

No, it's fair. You know, I gave the farmers $28 billion in my first term because they were taken advantage of by China and I charged China for it. I put tariffs on and China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars and I took 28 billion out of the tariffs from China and other countries that treated our farmers very badly. I gave him 28 billion and I'm looking at that actually the war is the primary impediment which is now going to come down from Ukraine. You know, a lot of it comes out of Ukraine and other things but other places. But no, the farmers have a problem with fertilizer but that's all coming down now. And your fuel is going to be I think it's going to be lower than it was four or five months ago. Four or five months ago we were doing unbelievable. But remember this, if you look at Biden, his oil prices without saving our country, saving the world by going out and saying to Iran you cannot have a nuclear weapon. If I ask these people about Iran having a nuclear weapon and they're going to have to go through some pain. I mean I don't think I you know I hate to really do it because it's a little dangerous. Every one of these people going to say you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon because they'd use it. You want to see turmoil, you want to see death and destruction, let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

So, but I am looking at doing a form of help because the fertilizer but fertilizer is going to come way down as soon as this is over.

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Unknown46:32

And a political question if I can. Next week there's a big runoff race in Georgia for US Senate. You notably endorsed a candidate for governor there. You haven't endorsed for US Senate between the two Republicans. Why not?

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Donald Trump46:42

I may do that, but you know, every time I endorse, they win. It's been a pretty amazing track record. I was 18 and 0 this last week.

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Unknown46:52

Randy, sir, what do you regret endorsing Randy Fastro in Iowa?

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Donald Trump46:56

I the man running against him was all Trump and the only one out of hundreds of races. Hundreds. I'm glad she brought it up. You know why? She's got to bring it up. There's a gentleman in Georgia that I endorsed who was much less Trump than the other man that won as you know and had I been given the proper information which I don't think I was I probably would have endorsed the other person or not endorsed at all but I would have endorsed the other person. The other person was much more Trump as you know than Randy.

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Unknown47:28

Mr. President, here in Washington DC, there's a Democratic primary for mayor. One of the two leading candidates, Janice Lewis George, is running a Zoran Mandami campaign. It's focused on socialist policies. How would you feel if she emerges victorious in next Tuesday's...

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Donald Trump47:48

Well, I wouldn't like it. And maybe we take back Washington, run it on the federal basis. We won't put up with it. We're not going to lose our businesses. By the way, Washington now is a safe, beautiful place. We had 22 fountains dug that are all working. Not one of them worked for years. For 25 years, 40 years, 58 years. The actually the pool didn't work from 1928 it was built. It always leaked because it was done in stone. Now it's done properly. It's not going to leak at all. But this is a beautiful place now. People are coming. Restaurants are thriving. The restaurants were all closing. Closed. Nobody wanted now. You can't get restaurant space. You can't get into it. We have a thriving community. We got rid of the crime. We're 92% down on crime. Think of it. And we're going to be close to 100% pretty soon. You always have some whack job someplace, but we're going to be close to 100%. So, Washington is thriving. Memphis, the people came in from Memphis. 74% reduction in crime. New Orleans, think of that. 78% reduction in crime. At the safest Marty GR that they've ever had. You know why? Because we sent in people that take care of crime. Chicago should do it. New York should do it. Los Angeles should do it. We'll make you press. Thank you, press. Thank you, press. Thank you, press. Thank you, press. Thank you, press. Thank you, guys. You can have that. Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you, guys.

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