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1.24.25 1037 am ET – Washington, D.C. – CNN Newsroom Anchor, Jim Acosta @acosta w/ Former Washington, D.C. MPD Officer, Michael Fanone who defended the Capitol on 1.6.21 @Courage4America Focus: Will J6 insurrectionists be hosted by Trump at the WH ? https://t.co/1BDbnjI1nQ
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President Trump expressed openness to hosting January 6 rioters at the White House, claiming they were protesting a "crooked election" and had been treated poorly. However, the reality is that these individuals violently attacked police and stormed the Capitol. Former DC police officer Michael Fanone criticized Trump's perspective, stating that many of these rioters had significant criminal histories and committed violent acts. He emphasized the danger of releasing these individuals back into the community, as they may reoffend and feel emboldened by Trump's support. Fanone also expressed concern over a Republican proposal allowing Trump to serve a third term, warning that it could lead to more political violence. He urged Americans to recognize the seriousness of the situation and the implications of Trump's actions.
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Speaker 0: Just days after his sweeping clemency order that parted more than 1,000 January 6 rioters, president Trump now says he's open to hosting some of them over at the White House.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure that they probably would like to. I did I did them something important, but what they did is they were protesting a crooked election. I mean, people understand that also, and, they were treated very badly. Nobody's been treated like that.
So I'd be open to it, certainly.
Speaker 0: Fact check, they were not just protesting. They were beating police officers. They were storming the capital, and they, were not protesting a crooked election because the election was not crooked. But these are some of the so called protesters the president is considering welcoming to the White House, violent rioters who not only attack democracy that day, but also the police officers who tried to stop them. That includes former DC police officer, Michael Fanone, who you can see here fighting to protect the capital that day, from, against that violent mob.
And Mike Fanone joins me now. Mike, good to see you. I mean, it almost seems like we're in a bizarre world here that January 6 rioters and insurrectionists would be welcomed over to the White House. What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: I I actually disagree, Jim. I think it makes perfect sense. I mean, I like to hang out with people that I have things in common with, and Donald Trump is a convicted criminal and an insurrectionist, and he wants to hang out with fellow convicted criminals and insurrectionists. So, you know, for me, this makes perfect sense.
Speaker 0: And, you know, for all the talk that you hear from his, aids and allies that it's time to move on, it's time to look forward, and so on, he keeps coming back to this and saying it was a crooked election and so on. He he's back in the White House, and he can't even admit that he lost in 2020. He downplayed, the violence that day during this recent Oval Office interview, if you wanna call it that. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 1: Most of the people were absolutely innocent. Okay. But forgetting all about that, these people have served horribly a long time. Some of those people with the police, true, but they were very minor incidents.
Speaker 0: Yeah, Mike. I mean, we've seen the video of what you went through that day. We we've shown this is your body cam footage. We can show it again. These were not minor incidents.
But he's trying to whitewash, obviously, what took place on January 6. And it seems to me, I know you guys are disappointed, you and the other officers are disappointed that Trump's back in the White House, but it seems you almost have another mission ahead of you, and that is to stop the whitewashing of January 6th from happening. I wonder how you feel about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No. Absolutely. I mean, listen. The American people, chose Donald Trump to be their president.
What outrages me is not the fact that Donald Trump is in office so much as these attempts to, like you said, whitewash the events of that day, to turn the January 6th insurrectionists and convicted criminals into the patriotic heroes that Donald Trump would like them to be. And watching so many American people complicit in that, in that attempt. You know, listen, what happened to me that day and what happened to hundreds of other police officers was nothing short of horrific. It was violent and it was brutal. For those that don't remember, the individuals that were charged, for assaulting me all plead guilty, were all sentenced to lengthy jail sentences, and Donald Trump let them free.
It's an outrage. The American people should be outraged. I mean, quite frankly, there should be protesting in the streets about this absolute, unbelievable crime that's been committed against our criminal justice system.
Speaker 0: And, Mike, I know I'm worried about reprisals, the potential for reprisals. I mean, some of these offenders, some of these criminals who were let out of jail, what happens if they reoffend? I mean, that that is a that is a key question in all of this. And what does that mean for folks like you? I know your mother has been through an ordeal in all of this.
What does all of that mean for folks like yourself, the fact that these these people are back out on the street?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, first, let's let's address one of the, one of the big lies that's being told about these individuals that were convicted of crimes. Many of them, many of them, had significant criminal histories. These were not grandmas and grandpas that just, you know, wandered into the United States Capitol and, oh, next thing you know, they're being charged with violent felonies. These were individuals who were already predisposed to committing acts of violence.
Many of them were drug users, drug dealers, spousal abusers, sexual predators. These are the individuals that Donald Trump is, you know, claiming are great American patriots. And they committed acts of violence against law enforcement officers. So, that's who Donald Trump has released back out into the community. And the idea that these individuals will not re offend is outrageous.
It's ridiculous. And, you know, many of them view people like myself as the reason that they are behind bars. They now feel emboldened because Donald Trump has told them, If you commit crimes on my behalf, I'm going to protect you. I'm going to absolve you of all accountability. So why wouldn't they target people like me, people like you, and attack us, assault us?
Speaker 0: Yeah. And and, Mike, I do wanna ask you one final question, and that is there's a Republican congressman who has introduced a resolution that would allow Trump, to serve a 3rd term in office, are you concerned, that this could lead to more political violence in this country?
Speaker 2: I mean, listen. I I I don't understand what it's gonna take for the American people to wake up and view this guy for who he is. You know, we all experienced him during his first term, but for some reason, 4 years later, we have whitewashed, all of the, outrageous things that he has done. And, you know, here we are, saddled with another 4 years of Donald Trump. The idea that we would break from our constitution to allow this person to serve again, should absolutely shock the conscience of every American.
Speaker 0: Alright. Mike Fanon, thank you for what you do and and for what you continue to do, and that is tell the truth about what happened on January 6th. Mike, good to see you. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Likewise. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Alright. Coming up as
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10.21.23 4:35 PM ET CNN’s Jim Acosta @acosta Hosts Tennessee Rep Tim Burchett @timburchett as the raucous in the house continues (9:14)
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House Republicans are struggling to elect a new speaker after Jim Jordan's candidacy was halted. Congressman Tim Burchard, one of the eight who ousted Kevin McCarthy, discusses the situation. He acknowledges support for various candidates but prefers to keep his preferences private. Burchard defends his actions, stating they followed established rules and highlights fiscal irresponsibility under previous leadership. He expresses concern over rising national debt and interest payments. Regarding the threats against members during Jordan's campaign, he distances Jordan from orchestrating them and identifies three opposing groups. Burchard is skeptical about empowering the current speaker pro tem, suggesting it could delay electing a new speaker. He supports aid to Israel but opposes further aid to Ukraine, emphasizing the need for separate bills to address these issues.
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Speaker 0: It's back to the drawing board for House Republicans as they continue their struggle to elect a new speaker of the house. On Friday, Republican lawmakers voted to pull the plug on Jim Jordan's speaker run after he lost in the 3rd round of voting, setting the stage for new candidates to emerge. And joining us now, to discuss is Republican congressman Tim Burchard of Tennessee. He's one of 8 lawmakers who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as a speaker. Congressman, great to see you.
Thanks for doing this. Where do we go from here? Where does where does the house go from here? We saw the house majority whip, Tom Emmer, announce that he's running for speaker. Congressman Mike, Johnson of Louisiana declared he's running.
Do you have somebody you're supporting at this point?
Speaker 1: Well, if I did, Jim, it would probably tank them being that I'm one of the 8. I'm probably not one of the more popular people in in congress right now. So, I would I think I'll just keep that between me and me and those people that I support.
Speaker 0: Well, to that point, the former speaker Kevin McCarthy is calling you and the other 7 Republicans out for what's happening right now. Let's listen to this. Hopefully, you can hear it. We'll talk to you about it on the other side.
Speaker 2: Sure. The crazy eights led by Gates, the amount of damage they have done to this party and to this country is insurmountable. We are in a very bad position as a party, one that has won the majority, one that America has entrusted us with, that a simple eight people have put us in this place.
Speaker 0: Congressman, he's calling you, the crazy eights. Well,
Speaker 1: I've I've been called worse. The the trouble is is that we followed the rules, the rules that Kevin McCarthy voted on, that were voted on unanimously by by our conference, and we followed them to a tee. And, if they didn't like those rules, they shouldn't have put them in place. But the truth of the matter is, you know, our our former leadership just kept us going down the road. You know, we ran up a a $1,000,000,000,000 in debt in 3 months.
We took off the whole month of August, 2 weeks into September, knowing that September 30th was the end of our fiscal year. And I and I I appreciate his speech writers and their clever writings, but that doesn't serve us very well. And, also, under his leadership, we would have been off the last week anyway. And then after we came through that that almost shutdown of our government, you know, we came back. And, and what did we do?
We rushed to the floor on that Monday and named 2 post offices. So Well, do you think
Speaker 0: that, you're gonna need a speaker sooner or later, and do you think you would have had one by now, if, perhaps somebody somebody was able to emerge that you could get behind? Or is this one of those situations where this is gonna take this is gonna take a while?
Speaker 1: Sure. I supported everyone. I supported Scalise, and and, I supported Jim Jordan as well. And, you know, we just didn't get there. We've got a deep bench.
We're gonna be okay. We'll have a a couple more weeks to work on this budget situation, the continued resolution, which is what they always seem to pass. But, yeah, I think we're gonna be okay. I don't I'm not getting too worked up about it. We,
Speaker 0: You don't think it's a bad one that the house of representatives for the United States government doesn't have a speaker of the house?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Of course, I don't. But but it's the situation we're in. It it doesn't negate the fact that that we just kept running up that debt. And we're gonna crush our whole our whole system if we don't get control of that debt.
We're we're paying a $1,000,000,000,000 a year just in interest alone to China. And under what model does it does it work out where you take in $4,600,000,000,000 and spend $7,000,000,000,000. You know? It's what we do every year, and yet we just enough is enough. We've gotta take the fiscal bull by the horns.
Speaker 0: And that's just But congressman, one of the things that one of the things that got in the way of Jim Jordan, it seems, is that there were some brass knuckles tactics being employed and that there were members of congress being threatened, spouses of members of congress being threatened to support Jim Jordan or else. And I'm just wondering what you thought of that And do you know who was behind that? What was going on with that?
Speaker 1: No. I don't. And if I if it was, I'd well, we're probably a a semi family show, but I would have
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would have taken that in my own hands. You know, I've I've lived with with death threats. I've sexual violence against, threats against members of my family, and Capitol Hill Police doesn't even they told me they didn't consider it a real threat. You know? So I I've lived with that.
I've spent over $30,000 on home security on our farm. You can't you can't put your foot or your boot on my farm without me having a picture of you, or or something because of I have have, there's a picture of 8 or 9 people in my office that that are in the back in the mail room. And if they were to show up, we're supposed to call the US Marshals because they are considered to be dangerous. So and then it made threats against
Speaker 0: us. That backfired on Jordan to some extent because it sounds as though that these threats really cropped up when he was the one who was up for speaker. And so I Yeah. I I wonder if that is something that, perhaps members there might wanna rethink. And do you think we're gonna see more of that?
Speaker 1: It didn't help, but I don't think Jim orchestrated it because if you really look at the there was 3 groups that were against Jim. You had the appropriators. And as you know, on Capitol Hill, there's 3 parties. There's republicans, democrats, and appropriators. And they didn't like the fact that Jim had talked about passing a budget of all things, which were required to do by law because when you do the continued resolutions, you know as well as I do, Jim, that all that does is it passes the budget that we had before and you add on all the other lobbyists and special interest groups that you raise.
Then you had a freshman group, primarily those out of New York and very purple districts. And then you had folks that, for lack of another term are called war hawks because they they are they are they support the American military and they and they support every war we're in and every war we're about to get in. So those were those were actually the 3 groups that were against and on the threats.
Speaker 0: And what what about the Patrick McHenry idea giving the current speaker pro tem, Patrick McHenry more power? That way you can get things potentially accomplished between now and the end of the year, prevent a government shutdown, get aid to Israel, those sorts of things. You can't really do anything right now. The congress is paralyzed.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Well, we don't know constitutionally if that's legal or not. And, also, it it pushes we just won't ever get a speaker if we do that. It'll be just like passing a budget. We'll have a a speaker light, so to speak.
And I I I don't like bow ties, but I like Patrick McKenney. He wears a bow tie. But, I and he doesn't he he's not comfortable in that role either. And we just because of the constitutional suspect nature of that. So I think what we better do is just hold our feet to the fire.
We should have not gone home. We were we were championing and yelling for staying there and finishing our business, which is what we should do. And I think that would send a clear message to America that we we we mean business, and we're trying to get this thing wrapped up, and we will. But as far as Israel goes, you know, the president has a $100,000,000,000 aid package and only 10,000,000,000 at it. 10% of it goes to Israel, oddly enough.
The majority of it goes to, Ukraine, I believe. And, honestly, we haven't even seen that. The senate hasn't seen that.
Speaker 0: We'll double check those numbers, but I we'll double check those numbers. But I but I I think that, there there is a need to get that aid passed. Is there not? And and are you saying that you're opposed to that at a moment like this?
Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to the aid to Israel. I'm opposed to any more aid to Ukraine, and the president's making it a political issue by tying those two things or three things together. And he made a very specific point.
Speaker 0: He's making a point. Doesn't he have a doesn't he have a a cause to to or, an inclination to do that sort of thing when we don't even have a speaker of the house? There's no speaker of the house right now, so one might think you might have to bundle some things together or else you might not get anything passed No. No. That given the current state of affairs.
Speaker 1: That was what the no. That's what they proposed before. It'd be it'd be 2 simple bills, Jim. All they'd have to do is send 2 bills over. Both would pass, and then it would and then
Speaker 0: Oh.
Speaker 1: Dollars that we've sent to you. So and, you know, he sent 100 of 1,000,000 of dollars to Ukraine without congressional approval. He's already sent largest carrier group in the world there. We've got 12 ships going to the med. We've got, we send them $3,600,000,000 a year on auto check.
Their guns, their armaments are stacked. And the last thing that that Israel needs, any more interference in the United States of America. Let them fight this war. They know how to fight those wars. And our our wars our rules of engagement would would hamper them, I do believe, as well.
So I think they're gonna be fine. We're gonna get back to elect a speaker, and we're gonna take care of Israel.
Speaker 0: Alright. Congressman Richard, thanks very much for your time. We appreciate it. We'll follow-up on some of those points at another time.
Speaker 1: Go, boss.
Speaker 0: Thanks for the time. Okay. Thanks a lot.
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I spoke with Rep. Tim Burchett about Speaker Mike Johnson's future, and he believes Johnson is not done yet. When I asked if he would vote for Biden's impeachment, Burchett confirmed he would.
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3.22.24 1025 am ET CNN Newsroom Anchor, Jim Acosta @acosta w/ U.S. House Rep from Tennessee and Oversight committee member, Tim Burchett @RepTimBurchett "Acosta: Is Speaker Mike Johnson Done? Burchett: No, I don't think is going to happen" Acosta: "Would you vote for Biden Impeachment ? Burchett: Yes, I would"
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A video from El Paso shows migrants breaching a border razor wire fence while Texas National Guard soldiers attempt to hold them back. Border officials state the situation was under control, and all migrants who breached the fence were arrested afterward. Congressman Tim Burchitt discusses a funding bill with nearly $20 billion for customs and border patrol but expresses concerns about the debt and the bill's focus on processing rather than stopping migrants. He believes the current system is ineffective, with many migrants not returning for court dates. On impeachment, he supports voting on it but acknowledges challenges in securing the necessary votes. He argues that despite some controversies, there is enough evidence to warrant impeachment proceedings. The conversation highlights frustrations with both parties regarding border security and government priorities.
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Speaker 0: New video out of El Paso shows 100 of migrants breaching a border razor wire fence as Texas National Guard soldiers try to hold them back. And see the video right there. We have to be clear to our viewers here. We don't know what happened before this video was reported. It's unclear what led to this rush.
Border officials say they had the situation under control, and additional personnel were deployed. The razor wire is located several 100 yards from the actual border wall, in that area where the migrants were all stopped. Officials say every migrant that breached the fence, in this situation was arrested. We should point out they were arrested according to authorities, after this occurred. And joining me now is Tennessee Republican congressman, Tim Burchad.
Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. And you're preparing to vote on the this funding bill in the next hour. This deal has nearly 20,000,000,000 in funding for customs and border patrol with almost a half $1,000,000,000 for additional border agents, funding for more than 41,000 detention beds. We're showing this to some of our viewers on screen right now. This is according to a a GOP summary of the legislation.
I I think I heard you say you're still not gonna vote for this. Is that where you stand right now? Wouldn't you wanna vote for all this stuff to take care of what's happening at the border?
Speaker 1: No. Currently, we're $35,000,000,000,000 in debt. But the worst part about it, Jim, is this is not for putting people at the border. This is for processing agents. The 10,000,000 that have come over in the last 3 years, they are currently all being processed, and these are for legal assistance and all these other things.
It's not for stopping people at the border as you saw the rush. This is being called the bum rush. They actually were running past National Guard and running towards border agents. And these border agents, these 22,000, will effectively be bureaucrats that would just be processing these people. I was in Texas, several months ago.
Speaker 0: But some of the money in there will go to to border patrol agents. It will go to enforcement.
Speaker 1: No. To the agents that are behind the border, way back behind the border. As you saw, those people are arrested. That's what they wanted to be. Now they're in the system, and those 22,000 border agents that will be hired will be used to process them, not stop them at the border.
And I realize what some of the people in my party are saying, but, you know, with this with this budget, if they go home and say we voted for border protection, they are lying or they're very well, very uninformed.
Speaker 0: If you let the government shut down this weekend and you you aren't, putting more funding into the system, for border enforcement, doesn't that do a less effective job at the border?
Speaker 1: Currently, it's wide open, Jim. All these people doing that at the border now are just, they're just basically officiating these folks. They're they're welcoming them in. They're putting them in the system. They're giving them a court date 3 to 5 years away and expecting them to come back.
And you and I both know they're not gonna come back. They're in the system. They're in the country. They're gonna stay there. And you and I are spending around $400,000,000,000 a year to keep this group up.
And with the Fentanyl and all the other stuff that comes in, this is a bad deal. It look, it's not a democrat problem.
Speaker 0: I wouldn't wanna get bogged down on this one. Problem.
Speaker 1: But go ahead. I mean
Speaker 0: I mean, one would think it more money is better than less, buddy, and having the government open is better than the government being closed. But I don't wanna get bogged down in this. I mean, I do wanna ask you about, something else, and that is whether the speakership of Mike Johnson is safe. We have heard from, your colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene saying she's, quote, done with Mike Johnson. Is Mike Johnson done?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. You you throw Mike out, and it's really just handing the gavel over to Dean Jeffries. That's what you know? And then back to the border, all that money is borrowed money. It's not just new money.
It's not of course, I'm sure we're printing it. And Marjorie is my friend. But but, honestly, if if the Republicans do that, they know they'll be handing it over to Hakeem Jeffries, and that's that's the bottom line with that. We have a 1 or 2 person majority, and and every day, there's somebody sick or there's a family member out or something. Life happens with 435 members.
So no. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 0: Let me ask you about the, Biden impeachment inquiry. You're on the house, oversight committee. Yesterday, you told NewsNation, quote, we're not going to have the votes. That's clearly the case. Is the impeachment inquiry over?
Should should you should the Republicans give that up?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about, the impeachment inquiry. Yeah. That's not gonna happen, but I wish we would vote on it regardless. Honestly, Jim, you know you know where I come from, East Tennessee. It's a conservative area.
I'm willing to vote on it. I wish these other members would vote on it so they can quit saying up here that they're not for it and then go home and tell all their their folks at the Reagan Day dinners and Lincoln Day dinners that, you know, that gunman, I'm for impeachment. I'm gonna vote, but they don't have the guts to do it.
Speaker 0: Would you vote for impeachment?
Speaker 1: Heck. Yes. I would. You saw all the money come in from China, $20,000,000 that's paying this family. It's going 10% for the big guy.
There's enough there. It's But what about But the reality is
Speaker 0: the justice department won't even do anything. But what about the fact that one of the house Republicans' main witnesses was Alexander Sperinov, who was just indicted for lying to the FBI, and prosecutors say he had Russian intelligence contacts. You're gonna vote to impeach the president based
Speaker 1: on that? One of. That was one of. We had multiple. You're you're forgetting about the 20, the the the 20 bank accounts, the 20 shadow companies that they created to run this money through the hundreds of of of letters from from bankers saying that this is illegal.
Look. It doesn't really matter. You and I are gonna disagree with it. The reality is is that this isn't gonna come to a vote.
Speaker 0: But you're gonna vote on.
Speaker 1: The guts to do anything. Yeah. It's the reality of it. Let's move on. Let's, if we can maybe move on with some criminal investigations in this.
But this is what the committee of jurisdiction does. If you remember in the Democrats
Speaker 0: There there was a criminal investigation of one of the, witnesses, Smirnoff. I mean, he's been indicted for lying to the FBI. It sounds like this the investigation is not working out the way, the House Republicans thought it would.
Speaker 1: You're basing that on one person, Jim. Yeah. If we had the majority, this would this would be this would go through Wasn't there another witness testifying for prison? Absolutely. Just like the Democrats have done in the past, but you're you're discounting all the other.
You're discounting Tony Bobolinski, a decorated naval officer who quoted dates, names, times, places, everything, and yet his his testimony means nothing. I think, you know, it it's look.
Speaker 0: But I
Speaker 1: know what side you're lying. You know what side I'm on, and we're not gonna change.
Speaker 0: I know. I hear you, but aren't aren't a lot of Americans watching from home and saying, okay. The government is on the verge of a shutdown. The defense department budget is in limbo. The homeland security budget is in limbo, and the House Republicans are chasing an impeachment based on a guy who's been indicted for lying to the FBI and somebody who's testifying at a hearing from prison.
Again, that sounds absurd.
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what sounds absurd is is is the Democrats for a year were were investigating the the, Washington Redskins over the name Redskins. That's what this committee was doing before under Democrat leadership. This is the jurisdiction of this committee. We're not gonna investigate potholes in this committee. That's transportation.
It's under that committee.
Speaker 0: Alright, congressman Tim Burchitt. I know you've got a busy day ahead of you. Appreciate the time as always. Good to talk to you. Go Vols, Jim.
Alright. They're doing well so far. We'll be we'll be watching. Thanks a lot. Alright.
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11.1.24 1010 am ET CNN Newsroom Anchor Jim Acosta @acosta w/ U.S. House Rep Tim Burchett @RepTimBurchett Focus: Trump on 9 barrels of guns being trained on former U.S. House Rep @Liz_Cheney The Rep Deflects and Acosta pushes back with "I just don't get it" Expanded Intro https://t.co/p2uW8L4rcg
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Donald Trump has escalated his violent rhetoric, suggesting Liz Cheney should have guns trained on her. Cheney responded, stating this behavior is how dictators threaten free nations. A Trump campaign spokeswoman clarified that Trump was criticizing Cheney for advocating wars while avoiding combat herself. Congressman Tim Burchard defended Trump, arguing he was emphasizing that those who support war should be on the front lines. When pressed about the implications of Trump's language, Burchard downplayed the seriousness, suggesting it was a distraction for Cheney to promote her agenda. The conversation shifted to healthcare, with Burchard expressing a desire to modify Obamacare rather than repeal it, advocating for a system that prioritizes patients and doctors over intermediaries.
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Speaker 0: You are live in the CNN newsroom. I'm Jim Acosta in Washington. We begin with a dangerous escalation in former president Donald Trump's violent and threatening language in the final days of the 2024 election. He is now saying former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney should be fired upon and have guns, quote, trained on her face with, quote, 9 barrels shooting at her. This is what he said.
Speaker 1: She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrel shooting at her. Okay? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.
Speaker 0: Cheney has responded to the former president saying this, this is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man with who wants to be a tyrant. And just moments ago, a Trump campaign spokeswoman said this in a statement. President Trump was clearly explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney, these are her words, are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them rather than go into combat themselves.
My first guest to talk about this this morning is republican congressman, Tim Burchard of Tennessee. Congressman, thanks so much for being with us. You and I have had many discussions about this campaign, so I appreciate coming on here right before election day. I have to ask you about this violent language that Trump is using, against Liz Cheney talking about having guns trained on her face. Do you approve of that kind of rhetoric?
Speaker 2: Well, clearly, president Trump was was talking about how she's quick to get American troops into war and young people die, and yet she's not facing any of that. That's clearly what he was stating. And any other, any other thoughts on that would be a misstatement, obviously. He was not calling for her assassination or anything like that. It was clearly saying if she wanted to go to war, then she ought to be out there on the
Speaker 0: lines. And so Was she,
Speaker 2: the Cheney family has profited greatly from American wars, sitting in front of a 48 star flag that was on my uncle's casket in the 2nd World War. My dad fought the Japanese. My mama lost her oldest brother fighting the Nazis. My mama flew an airplane during the
Speaker 1: 2nd World War.
Speaker 0: But congressman, when he says 9 barrels well, when he says 9 barrels shooting at her, that obviously evokes images of a firing squad. It it evokes images of an execution. Does it not? Why why would he say 9 barrels?
Speaker 2: I don't know why he would say no. I didn't know there were 9 barrels in a in a firing squad, honestly. So I'm a little at a little loss at that. But Yeah. It was clearly speaking of if you're gonna go into send people into combat, you ought to be the first one to go.
And she would obviously not be going for her family, but they would they've greatly profited off of off of wars in our past, and their history is well known.
Speaker 0: Isn't it a bit much though for Donald Trump, to to if you wanna use that generous interpretation, to criticize Liz Cheney and say, you know, she should be sent off into into battle if she's gonna start wars. When Donald Trump claimed he had bone spurs and didn't go to Vietnam.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about all that, actually, Jim. I he did apparently have that, and that's that is a a reason to not go. Obviously, a lot of people didn't go. My father went. My mom's brother went.
All my mom's brothers went. Her brother, Roy, never came home. So I get it. Those kind of statements are made. It's close to the end of the election.
Liz Cheney has been on the attack of President Trump and frankly, a lot of Americans since she was, since she was soundly beating beaten for Congress and kicked out of her leadership office when she became disloyal to the leadership. So, you know, she has a history of that. She's looking for a job.
Speaker 0: But you don't want you don't want Liz Cheney yeah. But you don't want Liz Cheney to be shot. I mean, he just he he should not be saying that Liz Cheney should be sent off in a situation where she should be shot. I mean, that can't we just all agree that that's
Speaker 2: out of bounds? I hope nobody gets shot. But under this administration, unfortunately, we've been in a lot of wars, and we weren't in very many under Trump. And I think so that's clearly a deflection on their part. They're seizing upon everything.
This is this is no issue that will decide anything. It just allows Liz Cheney to get up and sell more books and be more critical of the Trump administration. Yeah.
Speaker 0: But it's the former president.
Speaker 2: It's Trump who's saying this.
Speaker 0: I mean, I I just can't imagine what the outcry would be if the roles were reversed. I mean, I I I just to me, congressman, and you and
Speaker 2: I I wouldn't be anything if if well, if Mark Cuban says
Speaker 0: Why not say he talking about? Yeah. Why not say he shouldn't
Speaker 2: say these sorts of things? Republican women being stupid. Yeah. Yeah. People like Tulsi Gabbard and Riley Gaines, people like Edgar, strong, very intelligent women
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That get out front, yet they're criticized, but I don't hear CNN criticizing him. So, you know, he's not running.
Speaker 0: He's not running for president. This is Donald Trump saying that Liz Cheney should be fired upon. And it just seems to me, it you know, sitting in front of the American flag congressman with all due respect, I mean, to me, at what point does a does a Republican member of congress call out Trump for this kind of language? I just don't get it. At some point, here we I mean, doesn't any of this matter?
Isn't this important that a candidate for president is saying that Liz Cheney should be shot right before an election? I just don't I I respect these conversations. You and I have had lots of conversations. I just don't get it. It's
Speaker 2: outrageous. Are you gonna let me talk? Sure. Okay. He was not saying that.
He was clearly saying if she's she's all for these wars, she ought to get out front and and and volunteer for service to her country and get out and on the front lines like in Ukraine, one of those wars that she's voted heavily to support and to fund that Americans are doing without because we sent $200,000,000,000 overseas at the industrial war complex or the war pimps. Yeah. Profit. Our family has profited greatly from that.
Speaker 0: Totally legitimate issue. Yeah. Totally legitimate issue to talk about Canadian country. Let's say Donald Trump is elected. I do wanna ask you one policy question before I let you go.
If Donald Trump does get into the oval office again, Mike Johnson remains speaker. Are are you are you going to repeal Obamacare? Will there be be an effort to repeal Obamacare? Would you like to see that happen?
Speaker 2: I would like to see it modified. I hear a lot of Americans say they can't afford their health care now under Obamacare. I would like the free market to work at some point. I wish we could put our differences aside and work towards the American people in providing some quality health care. But by socializing medicine is not gonna do that.
People stand in line to get surgeries overseas in Canada and those places. Margaret Thatcher, she had her teeth fixed after she got out of office. You know where she got her teeth fixed? In the United States of America. So I think we ought to start looking at at maybe our health care system or doctors and nurses.
Speaker 0: You're saying modified, not repealed. You you're saying modified, not repealed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'd say modified because there's there's a good portions of it. I I sure sure don't want poor people to build about health care. But when I say middle income people who can't afford it under Obamacare and could afford some sort of health care prior to that, I would like to see this look at those things. The problem we've got is too many middlemen and too many money changers in in Washington that are that that are profiting from this every which way.
I would like to get the doctors at the table and the patients at the table and ask them what they need and cut everybody else out.
Speaker 0: Alright. Congressman, thanks for your time. Good good to talk to you. Appreciate
Speaker 2: it. Thank you. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 0: Always a pleasure. Alright. Michigan
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After watching Trump in this speech I'm more convinced than ever that President Biden should not attend the inauguration. Doing the right thing doesn't apply here. @potus was just humiliated in this speech Trump :"Nobody knows more about Nato than I do" (42 minutes) https://t.co/PRFp2kwkzb
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Demac Properties, led by Hussein Sejwani, will invest at least $20 billion in the U.S., focusing on data centers to support AI and cloud technology. This investment is inspired by recent elections and aims to enhance America's technological edge. The first phase will occur in states like Texas and Arizona. The administration promises expedited environmental reviews for investments over $1 billion to avoid regulatory delays. The speaker emphasizes a strong economic future for the U.S., citing record stock market performance and increased business confidence since the election. Plans include reversing policies on offshore drilling and energy regulations to boost the economy and reduce costs for Americans. The speaker also highlights the need for a fairer approach to international relations and military commitments, particularly regarding NATO and ongoing conflicts.
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Speaker 2: founder and chairman of Demak Properties, Hussein Sejwani, very respected gentleman, and I'm thrilled to announce today that Demac will be investing at least $20,000,000,000 over a very short period of time into the United States and they may go double or even somewhat more than double that amount of money. It's a great thing and, I believe he will say that he's doing it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election. They wouldn't do it without that election. I can tell you a lot of people wouldn't. You saw last week where we have somebody who's going to go from a 100 to $200,000,000,000 and we have many other people and we'll be bringing some of them out.
Some of them like to do it somewhat more quietly and some don't, and, they feel so strongly about the country that they they wanna let people know about it. But it's an honor to have such a great investor, investing in our country. The investment will support massive new data centers across the Midwest, the Sunbelt area, and also to keep America on the cutting edge of technology and artificial intelligence. He's, very big into the data centers and that's gonna be a very hot item in the coming years, as you know, with AI. In particular, the first phase of the project will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana, those places.
And, Hussein, I'd love you to come up and say a few words. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, mister president. It's been amazing news for me and my family when he was elected, November. We've been waiting 4 years to increase our investments in US to very large amount of money. We are a company operating in more than 20 countries around the world. We have delivered more than 45,000 luxury units and another 45,000 in the pipeline.
In data center, we are in 10 countries around the world, in Asia, Europe, and Middle East, and we're very, very excited now with his leadership and his open strategy and policy to encourage businesses to come to US. For the last 4 years, we've been waiting for this moment, and we're planning to invest $20,000,000,000 and even more than that if the opportunity in the market allow us. But at the moment, we're planning $20,000,000,000 in data center, catering for the AI and cloud business for the hyperscalers.
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
Speaker 3: Thank you, mister president. Honor.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. So nice. And that man knows what he's doing. He knows. So, Hussein, we're gonna work with you and make sure everything goes smoothly.
We have powers that haven't really been used in terms of environmental. If you, invest over a $1,000,000,000 in the United States, we're gonna give expedited reviews to everybody because everyone's afraid they're gonna come in and get caught in the quagmire, which is, very prevalent in the United States, unfortunately, the quagmire of environmental and various other regulations and rules. And, I made it a point of telling people if you invest a $1,000,000,000 or more and we'll do this for people with far less too, but
Speaker 1: we guarantee it. We're gonna move them quickly through the environmental process. Sometimes people held up 12, 13, 14, 15 years. I saw it with plants in Louisiana where I
Speaker 2: got it approved in literally a week. They were through the review in 1 week after spending 14 and a half years trying to get it and they were going nowhere was a terrible thing. So, I've been a victim of that myself over the years, and I think I know all the games and all the tricks that are played. And much of it is just just done to, stop progress. So we're gonna be helping you and everybody else that comes to the United States and wants to invest their money that you don't get tied up for the rest of your life and you can't do anything.
This commitment further underscores that many of the greatest business leaders on Earth are seeing a very bright economic future for America since the election. As you know, very a lot of positive things have happened. We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration, and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult. Inflation is continuing to rage, and interest rates are far too high. And I've been, disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for.
They just we had a landslide election. We won every swing state. We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. Nobody even knows how many people. Millions.
And, they're still counting in some areas. You know, they're they're still counting the vote in some areas. Can you believe this? What a what a place. What a horrible place.
One of the things we're gonna do is we've gotta fix the election so that we get honest counts and they get done by 10 o'clock in the evening or something up thereabouts. There are places where they're still counting votes. President Biden's actions yesterday on offshore drilling banning offshore drilling, will not stand. I will reverse it immediately. It'll be done immediately, and we will drill, baby drill.
We're gonna be drilling in a lot of other locations, and the energy costs are gonna come way down. They'll be brought down to a very low level and that's gonna bring everything else down. That's what caused it to go up along with, the ridiculous spending on the green news scam. All this money, 1,000,000,000,000 of dollars. It's like throwing it right out the window what they're doing.
And they're trying to spend so much now. They're just taking money and giving it to anybody that wants it for any project at all if it's if it's certified under the Green News scam. And they don't work and it's too expensive. And, you know, they told me that, we're gonna do everything possible to make this transition to the new administration very smooth. It's not smooth because they're doing that.
They are playing with the courts, as you know. They've been playing with the courts for 4 years. Probably got me more votes because I got the highest number of votes ever gotten by a Republican by far, actually, by, by a lot. And, you know, we had a great election, so I guess it didn't work. But they're even to this day, they're playing with the courts at their friendly judges that like to try and, make everybody happy on the Democrat side.
It's called law fair. It's called weaponization of justice, and it's happened at a level nobody's ever seen before. So many, I defeated a deranged Jack Smith. He's a deranged individual. I guess he's on his way back to The Hague, and we won those cases.
Those were the biggest ones. And, the press made such a big deal out of them, but we did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong on anything. And the people saw that. You know, when they vote to when we when a Republican it's not easy for a Republican.
When the Republican wins the popular vote by 1,000,000 and wins all 7 of the swing states, people said, well, he could win 4. We won all 7, and we won them by a lot. That tells you we won. That tells and they've been, watching this, injustice. I call it the injustice department.
What they've done is so bad. The whole world has watched that. And, it took work, but it got me a lot of votes because when explained I mean, we have a judge in New York who's a very crooked judge. I'm under a gag order. I can't even talk about aspects of the case that are the most vital aspects.
I'm under a gag. Do you know that I'm the president-elect of the United States of America? I'm a former very successful president. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We had borders that were sealed and beautiful.
We had everything was good. We had no wars. We defeated ISIS. We had no wars. Now I'm going into a a world that's burning with Russia and Ukraine, with Israel.
You took a look at that attack on October 7th, the attack on Israel, with the horrible, way they got out. Not the fact that they got out. I would have been out before them, but we would have been out of Afghanistan with dignity and strength as opposed to looking like a bunch of fools with 13 dead and many, many badly horrifically injured. Nobody ever talks about them. No arms, no legs.
Nobody ever talks about them. The way they got out was outrageous, leaving 1,000,000,000 of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans and specifically the Taliban. It's the group. And, we were doing very well. We would have been out.
We would have been respected. I think it's one of the reasons it was so badly handled, that withdrawal, where people are jumping onto airplanes, falling off the sides of airplanes when they're 3,000 feet in the air. And, nobody's ever seen anything like that. The worst. And because of that, I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine.
When they saw that, they said these guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. But we know what we're doing now, and that's gonna all end. And we have a great military. I defeated ISIS, as you know.
We were in no wars. I just finished a couple, and, we got also our soldiers, guarding, Syria and Turkey. We're in the middle. We had 5,000 soldiers. They would have would have been gobbled up with 2 armies.
We had 1 army, 300,000. We had another 1, 5 or 600,000 looking, getting ready. We had 5,000 people in the middle. I said to a general, how do 5,000 people do in that case? And the general just looked at me said, not well, sir.
Not well. And I took him out. And you know what happened? Nothing. I got criticized.
I saved 5,000 lives actually. And, we did a great job, and we're gonna do an even better job because now we have a tremendous amount of experience. We have people that I can rely on. But the 625,000,000 acres, people can't realize. That's like the whole ocean.
Take an acre. You know, an acre, you have a house on a half an acre, on a quarter of an acre, or an acre. If you have a an acre, you have a big deal. Now you multiply that by 625,000,000 acres. It's like feels like the whole ocean, and that's our strength.
You know? People can say we manufacture, we don't manufacture. The thing we have, we have oil and gas more than anybody in the world. We're gonna have more of it too. But, they took away 625,000,000 acres of offshore drilling.
Nobody else does that. And they think they have it, but we'll we'll put it back. I'm gonna put it back on day 1. I'm gonna have it revoked on day 1. We'll go immediately if we need to.
I don't think we should have to go to the courts, but if we do have to go to the courts you know, they try to be sneaky. They go in and they sign. Remember, this is a man that said he wants the transition to be smooth. Well, you don't do the kind of things. You don't have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you, because I did nothing wrong.
By the way, I did nothing absolutely nothing wrong. If I did something wrong, I wouldn't be standing here right now because I've won all these cases. Nobody's ever won so many cases as I have against the justice department. I mean, Jack Smith had cases all over the place. People were being subpoenaed.
Lives were being ruined. They were spending everything they had. Money, we were helping them out. We had to. They were being they were subpoenaing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about.
That's a sick group of people, and it was all to influence the election. It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've never had that in this country. We have had that in certain countries. We've had that in 3rd tier countries.
We've had that in Banana Republics, but we've never had that in a place like the United States. I I don't even know if it's been on a small level. I'm sure it has been on a small level, but this was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out of The Hague. He's a mean guy.
He's a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because you look at his picture, you say, that's a bad guy with his robe, his pope purple robe, and he executes people. He shouldn't be allowed to execute people because he'll execute everybody. He's a nut job, but we won all of those, cases with him. And, I mean, I don't know the judge in Florida, but we had a brilliant judge in Florida that saw right through it and we won the case.
She was a brilliant judge with great courage. You know, the, the left, as we call them, the radical left, they have a way, they play the ref and they play it very hard. They play the ref. They go and say horrible things about judges and prosecutors, and some judges and prosecutors say, look, the only way I'm gonna get these people off my back is to give victory to them. They're playing the ref.
I think it's illegal what they do. It's almost like talking. It's worse than talking to a judge. But the, judge in Florida, judge Cannon, was brilliant and tough, and she didn't stand for it. And I don't know her and, never met her until the case and I don't believe I said even one word to her, but she was very very strong and very very brilliant and her opinion was so brilliant that they dropped their appeal.
They couldn't beat the appeal. So that's what we're up against. So they say we're gonna have a smooth transition. All they do is talk. It's all talk.
Everything they do is talk. We're gonna have a smooth transition, and then they take 625,000,000 acres and they, essentially land market so you can't ever drill there again. Well, we're gonna be drilling soon. We're gonna be opening up Anwar. We're gonna be doing all sorts of things that, nobody ever thought was even possible.
But remember when when and just to get off the subject because I couldn't believe it when I heard it yesterday. I couldn't believe the size of it. I mean, you put down a map and put this up. It's just massive. And remember that that's worth probably I I mean, I've had estimates, 40 to $50,000,000,000,000.
That's more than our national debt. Essentially, he's thrown it away. He's thrown it away. He's, taken $50,000,000,000,000. So if we owe 35,000,000,000,000, he's taken $50,000,000,000,000 of value and thrown it right out the window.
We can't do that. Nobody can do that. One other thing he did yesterday, which was in many ways worse it's hard to believe it can be worse. He wants all gas heaters, out of your homes and apartments. He wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters.
I don't know what it is with electric. This guy loves electric. We're gonna be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way. This guy loves electric, and he we don't have enough electricity, and then we have AI where we need more, and he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater. Gas heater is much less expensive.
The heat is much better. It's a much better heat. As the expression goes, you don't itch. Does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratch in and say, that's what they want you to have. They don't want you to have gas where you don't have the problems of the electric.
And the source is plentiful. They're much cheaper to operate. They're much better. They work much better. They look much better.
60% of homes and apartments have gas heaters. He wants them all removed quickly. These people are crazy. There's something wrong with them. There's something wrong with them.
They also wanna go back and they have already started that to when you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they wanna preserve. Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do. It's called rain, comes down from comes down from heaven. And, they wanna do, no no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip.
So what happens, you're in the shower 10 times as long. You know? No water comes out of the faucet. You wanna wash your hands, your head. They wanna go back to even stronger than what they have right now.
I, as you know, I ended that policy. I get you can have all the water you want. Makes no difference. It comes weird. Especially in certain areas, we have so much water.
We don't know what to do with it. But these are all things, they want very, very little water to go into your dishwasher, almost none. And you know what people do? They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, keep it going. They end up using more water.
Likewise, washing machines, they want in your washing machine to have very little water coming out of the washing machine. So when you wash your clothing, you have to wash it 4 times instead of once. You end up using more water. We're a party of common sense and things that I'm telling you now is really all about common sense. On January 20th, we'll turn the economy around very quickly because right now we are when I think of our economy, I think about inflation.
That's what we have. We have inflation, I believe, at a level that we never had before. There's never been anything like it. And over the next 4 years, the United States is going to take off like a rocket ship, but really it's already doing it. If you take a look, just, last month SoftBank announced the $200,000,000,000 I think it'll be 200.
He said between a 100, and I said how about making it 200? And he sort of said, yes. But let's say it's a 100, but it might be 200. Right, Brian? Dollars, United States creating more than a 100,000 jobs.
Hussein just announced a tremendous investment that he's gonna make and that that's money that's in the bank. He's gonna come and do it and he'll do a great job and he'll he'll build the best centers in the country, I guarantee, because I know the way he builds. Since my election, the stock market has set records. The s and p five 100 index has broken above 6,000 points for the first time ever, never even close. In a single month, small business optimism soared 41 points.
It's not a 41. It went up 41 points, and that's the largest in the 39 his 39 year history of the group that does it. According to Gallup, the American people's confidence in the economy has just surged to the highest level in history. That's why I have a news conference like that. I take the greatest business leaders in the world.
I say, hey, do you wanna say you're gonna invest the money? They're not looking for news conferences. They're saying, what am I doing here? They go in and they invest money, but it's it's good to know where the smartest business people in the world are investing and they're investing in the United States. So we've done this all in 2 months of not being there, you know.
We haven't been there and, it's pretty amazing and we think we're gonna do some really great things really great things. We're being respected again all over the world. The Panama Canal is a disgrace, what took place at the Panama Canal. Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well. I thought it was a terrible thing to do.
You know, it's the most expensive, structure ever built in the history of our country relatively. It would be the equivalent of over over a substantially over a $1,000,000,000,000 today. We lost 38,000 people. Think of it. 38,000 people, they died from malaria mosquitoes.
They were unable to stop the mosquitoes. They paid people 5 times more to take the job. Many of those people died. We gave it away for a dollar, but the deal was that, you know, they have to treat us fairly. They don't treat us fairly.
They charge more for our ships than they charge for ships of other countries. They charge more for our navy than they charge for navies of other countries. They laugh at us because they think we're stupid, but we're not stupid anymore. So the Panama Canal is under discussion with them right now. They violated every aspect of the agreement and it's, they morally violated it also.
And they want our help because it's leaking and not in good repair, and they want us to give $3,000,000,000 to help fix it. I said, well, why don't you get the money from China? Because China's basically taken it over. China's at both ends of the Panama Canal. China's running the Panama Canal, and they come to see this Biden, this guy who should never have been allowed even to run for president.
Of course, she shouldn't have either because that never happened. It had to be 2 people, not 1. But they want $3,000,000,000 to fix the Panama Canal that's run by China and makes a lot of money, China. One of the most profitable structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida, frankly, and they just keep going through and the numbers are staggering half a1000000 to a $1,000,000 a ship. And they took it away from us, meaning we gave it to them for a dollar, but, not gonna be not gonna happen.
What they've done to us, they've charged us they've overcharged our ships, overcharged our navy. And then when they need repair money, they come to the United States to put it up. We get nothing. Those days are over. Working with the Republican majorities in congress will cut taxes, slash regulations, raise wages, and boost incomes at a pace the world has not seen before and certainly not from our country.
We had a big chunk of it for the 1st 3 years of prior to COVID coming in in my administration. We had the greatest economy in history. We had the we cut the most regulations in the history of our country, and I did that all in 4 years, by 4 times more than any other president cut. We did that in 4 years, and we were just getting started. We'll impose new tariffs so that the products on our stores will once again be stamped with those beautiful words, made in the USA, and, we are not treated well, as you know, by Canada.
Canada is subsidized to the tune of, about $200,000,000,000 a year plus other things. They don't essentially have a military. They have a very small military. We they rely on our military. It's all fine, but, you know, they gotta pay for that.
It's very unfair. I have so many great friends. One of them is the great one, Wayne Gretzky. I said, run for prime minister. You'll win, and It'll take 2 seconds, but he said, well, am I gonna run for prime minister or governor?
You tell me. I said and I said, I don't know. Let's make it governor. I like it better. But, no, something's gonna have to be done.
Same thing with Mexico. We have a massive deficit with Mexico, and we help Mexico a lot there, essentially run by the cartels and, can't let that happen. Mexico is really in trouble, a lot of trouble. Very dangerous place, and we're going to be announcing a future date pretty soon. We're going to change because we do most of the work there and it's ours.
We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of 50 to $60,000,000,000,000 worth of assets. We're gonna be, changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name, and it's appropriate. It's appropriate. And Mexico, has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.
They can stop them And, we're gonna put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada, they come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers. Record numbers. So we're gonna make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada, substantial tariffs. And we wanna get along with everybody but, you know, they have to it's it's gotta it takes 2 to tango. We're approaching the dawn of America's golden age.
It's gonna be a golden age for America. We have things that nobody else has. We have more natural resources. We have number 1, nobody knew that until I came along. I made us number 1.
We're number 3. I made us number 1 in, in in a very short period of time in drilling. And, you know, you can talk about windmills. They litter our country. They littered all over our country like like dropping paper, like dropping garbage in a field, and that's what happens to them because in a period of time, they turn to garbage.
Most expensive energy ever. They only work if you get subsidy. The only people that want them are the people they're getting rich off windmills, getting massive subsidies from the US government, and it's the most expensive energy there is. It's, many, many times more expensive than clean natural gas. So we're gonna try and have a policy where no windmills are being built.
You know, off the coast of New Jersey, they wanna build like 200 windmills. The people are going crazy. Nobody wants them and they're very expensive. They don't work without subsidy. You don't want energy that needs subsidy.
Energy's a good business. You don't need subsidy. But when you build these massive towers, and they're 25 stories tall, 40 stories. They have 1 70 stories tall. The blades, they take 3 ships to ship them.
It's crazy. They're dangerous. You see what's happening up in, the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had 2 whales wash ashore, and I think a 17 year period, and now they had 14 this season. The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously. And they had they're actually over, I think, a 125 or something over a number of year over a number of years, and we don't want that to happen.
It's a disaster from it's amazing the way a true environmentalist would say, oh, we love wind. It sounds good, but that's about where it ends. You know, after 10 years, you have to redo them. And what happens is they don't do that. They let them stand and they rust and they say because of the environment, I'm not a believer in this, but they say you can because it's a certain fiberglass, that the blades cannot be buried in Earth, that that's an environment.
So what do you do with them? What do you do with them? And I don't know if you've ever gone to Palm Springs, California or any of these places where you have long term windmills standing. They're a disaster. They're rusting, rotting, closed, falling down.
This is as you enter Palm Springs, and they put new ones next to them because nobody wants to take them down. Because why should they take them down? It's very expensive to take them down, and you can't do anything with them because the blades, you can't bury them because of the environmental protection. We'll look at that. Doesn't make sense, but that's what they say.
So we we are at the beginning of a great beautiful golden age of business, and I think we're also at a golden age of common sense because everything I'm saying to you from a simple water faucet that doesn't allow water to come out appropriately to, all of the other elements of what we do and what we're going to do, to take 50 to $60,000,000,000,000 off our country's balance sheet because some man that has no idea what he's doing has no idea. You know it. I know it. The Democrats know it. What they did is a crime by allowing that to happen.
And I'll bet you if you asked him today, how much acreage did you submit? Essentially, did you destroy? You destroyed the you you destroyed the economic viability of drilling in the ocean. And with AI coming along and all you know, a lot of people don't realize that AI is gonna be a big thing, but you'll need double the electricity at least that we have right now. So right now, we produce electricity for many, many different AI is a very big deal in terms of the future.
China is already building electric facilities, big bold electric facilities, and you know how they're being fired up with coal. They're being fired up with coal and, we're gonna build bigger and better ones. People like, Hussein that are doing the same thing as he is. I bet they don't do it as well because I know how he does it, but they're doing a lot of things. The problem is they can't get their permits because I say build the plant with the building.
So with the structure, build the plant because if you go into grid, the grids are old. So they said, that's a great idea. In other words, build your electric facility alongside of your plant, and you could have extra output if you want because once you build it, you can make it larger pretty inexpensively. You could have extra output which you'll sell to the public, but build it with the plant and people are loving that idea. So we're gonna have a lot of fun making America great again and it's gonna happen, I think very, very quickly.
It's already happened so I I would say this and this has been pretty openly reported by the news. There's never been anything like what's happened in the list since we won the election, couple of months since we won the election, the whole perception of the whole world is different. People from other countries have called me, they said thank you. Thank you. The perception of the whole world is different.
We're gonna have to settle some big problems that are going on right now. We're gonna have to settle up with Russia, Ukraine. That's a disaster. I look at numbers every week. The number of people being killed in that war, people don't know, mostly soldiers now, but the towns have been obliterated.
This was a Biden fiasco that he got as he could that should have never happened. If we had a real president, if we had a president that knew what he was doing, Russia would have never ever gone in. But they did go in, and we have a mess. The cities are all blown up. The people have largely left, and the soldiers are killing each other at levels that haven't been seen since the second World War.
So we'll have to get that one straightened out too. That's a tough one. Much tougher than it would have been before it started. I can tell you that. A deal could have been made just by an average deal maker.
Deal could have been made on that. So thank you all for coming. We'll take a couple of questions. Yeah. Go ahead, please.
Speaker 4: Chris, thank you. I wanted to touch on, the world on fire that you mentioned, but let's start, if we could, with, your references to Greenland and Yep. Panama Canal. So what can you assure the world that as you try to, get control of these areas, you are not gonna use military or economic coercion? No.
And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you gonna negotiate a new treaty? Are you, going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote? What what is the strategy? Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't assure you. You you're talking about, Panama and Greenland. No. I can't assure you on either of those 2, but, I can say this. We need them for economic security.
The Panama Canal was built for our military.
Speaker 1: You will not
Speaker 4: Terry, you're
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna commit to that now. It might it might be that you'll have to do something. Look. Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being operated by China.
China. And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't give it to China, and they've abused it. They've abused that gift. It should have never been made, by the way.
Giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election, in my opinion, more so maybe than the hostages. The hostages were a big deal. But if you remember and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because, you know, it's inappropriate, I guess. But, because it's a bad part of of the Carter legacy. But, he was a good man.
Look. He was a good man. I knew him a little bit, and he was a very fine person, but that was a big mistake. Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake. We lost 38,000 people.
It cost us the equivalent of a $1,000,000,000,000, maybe more than probably the most expensive they say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which I guess you can, ever built. And giving that away was a horrible thing. And I believe that's why Jimmy Carter lost the election even more so than the hostages. Those two things. If I
Speaker 4: could follow-up on Ukraine and and Iran, the 2 negotiations you'll be heading into. On Ukraine, you said just before it's a lot more complicated now.
Speaker 2: Much more complicated. Do you believe Because it would have never started.
Speaker 4: Right. But it has started. It's you you
Speaker 2: Well, not only started. The cities are largely knocked down. They're they're
Speaker 4: got what you've got. At this point, would to hold on the leverage in dealing with, president Putin, would you make a commitment to the Ukrainians that you will keep supporting them during the negotiation?
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't tell you if that were the case.
Speaker 4: Make a commitment to provide a security guarantee if they do enter into a armistice or a ceasefire along the lines of the French and the Germans.
Speaker 2: So, you know, a big part of the problem was Russia for many, many years, long before Putin said you could never have NATO, involved with Ukraine. Now they've said that. That's been, like, written in stone. And somewhere along the line, Biden said, no. They should be able to join NATO.
Well, then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, but I could understand their feeling about that. But there were a lot of mistakes made in that negotiation. And when I heard the way that Biden was negotiating, I said, you're gonna end up in a war, and it turned out to be a very bad war. And it could escalate. That war could escalate to be much worse than it is right now.
Speaker 4: They can never join NATO.
Speaker 2: Well, my view is that it was always understood. In fact, I believe that they had a deal and then Biden broke it. They had a deal which would have been a satisfactory deal to Ukraine and everybody else, but that Biden said, no. You have to be able to join NATO. And that's always been and nobody knows more about NATO than I you know, years ago when I first started this, I didn't know too much about NATO, but I got it right anyway.
I said they're taking advantage. I'm the one that got and the secretary general was here, as you know, 2 weeks ago saying that if it weren't for me, Neto wouldn't even exist right now because I I raised from countries that weren't paying their bills. At that time, 28 countries, 20 of them were not paying their bills, 21 to be exact. They weren't paying and or they were paying a very small portion. And I raised over $680,000,000,000, that was the number he gave, by saying, if you don't pay, we're not gonna protect you.
And as soon as I said that, the money came pouring in. But Obama could have said it, other people could have said it, Bush could have said it, nobody said it but me. I took a lot of heat. They said, oh, that's a threatening statement. Well, they weren't paying their bills.
I said, we're not gonna protect if you're not paying the bills. So in a true sense, I saved NATO, but NATO's taken advantage of us. And one of the problems that I have, and I've said it openly, I said it to president Zelensky, Europe is in for a tiny fraction of the money that we're in. Now, whether you like that situation or not, Europe is much more affected than the United States. We have a thing called the ocean in between us.
Right? Why are we in for 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of dollars more money than Europe? And, you know, they're a similar size, a little smaller, but they're a similar size economy as the United States when you add them up. And yet, Europe is in for a a small fraction of the number the United States is in. Now Biden could have called them up during the term.
That's what I did. I said, you have to pay your bills. And they all one stood up. I won't say who. You'll probably have it because the papers the media hated to report on it, but a prime minister stood up from a country, you know, a famous meeting of 28 nations with no press, no anybody in the room.
He stood up, he says, does that mean if we don't pay our bill, and at that point it was 2%, it should be 5%. It should be 5%, not 2%. But at that point it was too, but many people didn't pay. Some people didn't pay anything, but many people were away, including Germany. Germany was at less than 1%.
Speaker 4: You're gonna press for 5% before
Speaker 1: Well,
Speaker 2: I think NATO should have 5%. Yeah. You don't
Speaker 4: like Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't do it at 2. I mean, at 2%, every country if you're gonna have a country in a regular military, you're at 4%. I think they should be you know, they're in dangerous territory. I think you should be they can all afford it, but they should be at 5%, not 2%. I'm the one that got up to pay 2%.
But a gentleman stood up, a prime minister stood up, and he said to me, sir, could I ask you a question? You're saying we have to pay our bills. If we don't pay our bills, will the United States protect us from Russia? I said, if you don't pay, you mean you're delinquent? He said, yes.
He said, if you're delinquent, we will not protect you. I took a lot of heat. Although it was somewhat closed door, I took a lot of heat from the media. And you know what happened? The money started pouring in.
That's why NATO has money. And the secretary general said, it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen in a negotiation. Now if I would have said yes, we will, nobody would have paid. If I I would have loved to say yes, we'll protect you even if you don't pay. But that's not the way life works.
Mister president,
Speaker 0: 2 questions related, to each other. First, you said on your first day of office, you're going to pardon January 6th defendants. Are you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses?
Speaker 2: Well, we're looking at it and we have other people in there. And as you see, I guess, 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly. Nobody reported it, but they had, people in some form related to the FBI. They had 4 or 5 people that were strongly related to the FBI. We have to find out about that.
We have to find out about Hezbollah. We have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted. You know, I see it all the time and you see it too. People that were doing some bad things weren't prosecuted and people that didn't even walk into the building are in jail right now. So we'll be looking at the whole thing, but I'll be, making major pardons.
Yes. Please.
Speaker 1: I'm
Speaker 0: sorry. I didn't have a lot of questions. Please. On Jack Smith's report
Speaker 5: Good afternoon, mister President. It's good to see you again. Two questions about Syria and the ongoing war in Gaza. About Syria, the Pentagon disclosed last month the U. S.
Has some 2,000 troops in Syria. That's almost double the number initially we were told of 900. Will you keep that troop capacity the same upon taking
Speaker 2: Well, I won't tell you that because that's part of a military strategy, but, I will say it was Turkey. Turkey's been after that country in different names and different forms and shapes for 2000 years. Those people that went in are from Turkey. And president Erdogan is a friend of mine. He's a guy I like, respect.
I think he respects me also. He's the one that didn't go after certain people after I requested that he not. You know who I'm talking about, the Kurds. I don't know how long that's going because they're natural enemies. They hate each other.
But, he didn't do that yet and he didn't didn't do it in the past also. He started and I said, please don't do that and he didn't do it. So but if you look at what happened with Syria, Russia was weakened, Iran was weakened, and he's a very smart guy. And he sent his people in there through different forms and different names, and they went in and they took over, and that's the way it is. I'm sorry.
Do you
Speaker 5: have concerns about HTS taking control
Speaker 4: of By
Speaker 2: the way, I have the envoy here, is that in the back? It is. Standing with my son, Eric, is Steve Woodcough, who's just got back from the Middle East and he's done a fantastic job. He's a he's a a great deal maker. I said, what we need there is a deal maker because nobody makes a deal.
We have people that understand where the rivers are and where the meets of bounds of end bounds are, but they can't talk. They can't make deals. Steve's done a great job. I just wanna thank you, Steve. You've been working endlessly for months, and, he's working specifically on the hostages trying to get them back.
Second question is come up Steve, come up for a second. Maybe you might wanna say a couple of words.
Speaker 5: Sir, I
Speaker 2: didn't at
Speaker 5: least another hostage I
Speaker 2: didn't know Steve was gonna be here, actually. Neither did I. He's done a fantastic job, and it's a dangerous job too, and I we appreciate it. He didn't know about this kind of danger and the other deal making he does. Now he sees a lot of big danger.
Come on up, Steve.
Speaker 5: Mister president, can I ask you the second part of that?
Speaker 2: Hamas Just one sec. Hostage. I'm gonna give you a little report on the hostages if I can,
Speaker 3: Steve. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. Thank you, mister president. Wow.
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