The Young Turks - TYT and Merit TV Present SOTU Town Hall with Cenk Uygur and Dr. Phil

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Well, as we get ready to hear President Trump's address to Congress, I want to thank you all for joining me for our fourth town hall here on Merritt TV. Thank you very much. Tonight, I want to hear what you think and what you're feeling about his first 45 days of his second term. Can you believe it's only been 45 days? it's been a whirlwind to say the least.

Would you all agree with that? I mean, a lot's been going on. Tonight we're here not to take sides, but to have an honest conversation. So please don't hold back because honest dialogue is how we really understand each other and bring our nation together. But before we get started,

I want to introduce someone that I have a deep respect for. He's become a good friend of mine, sometimes an adversary, and he's my co-host tonight. He's the co-founder and host of the Young Turks, the longest running daily show in Internet history and the Young Turks Network. He is also the best-selling author of Justice is Coming.

I'm talking about Jank Yuger. Jake is known for his passionate commentary, and he's built the platform. Y-T-Y. How are you doing, my friend? Good brother. Good to see you. see you. Now, what I admire most about, Jake, is his unwavering commitment to speaking the truth as he sees it, regardless of popularity. And he and I've gotten to know each other. I've been on his show. He's been on mine. Sometimes we argue. Sometimes we agree. But we always finish up

being friends, which is what I think needs to happen in this country again, don't you? Yep, absolutely. So I love to see all of you here. I love that we're all keeping an open mind, open hearts, open minds. That's what TYT and Young Turks is all about. So let's watch together and let's decide for ourselves. Yeah. So we've got time to talk before this starts because I wanted to hear from you guys before the president speaks.

And then we're going to talk after he speaks, which could be 90 minutes. It could be tomorrow morning. You never know. once he gets started. So we wanted to hear, first off, I'm going to ask you some real general questions. Jay's going to ask you some questions.

But first off, how do you think it's been going in terms of what you expected? You had expectations. Maybe they were fierce. Maybe they were just excitement. But how do you think it's been going for the first 45 days? Has it been good, bad, indifferent?

You disappointed, excited? What are your thoughts? Raise your hand, stand up, and I want you to say your first name. Don't say your last name. Don't want people showing up at your house, giving you a raft of trouble. Just your first name and say what you think. It's been good and bad. I say good because when you look at foreign policy-wise,

he's put in America first on foreign policy because why should we give our money to another country? but it's also bad when it comes to, oh, okay, okay, my name's Toby. We were just kidding. We don't really give a shit what you think. But you fell for it, didn't you? All right, Toby, go ahead. Say what you have to say.

My name's Toby. It's been going good and bad. I say bad when you look at it from a perspective of people losing their job. in the government, especially a lot of veterans, because my family, we are seven generations of military and a lot of us serve in the government. Oh, I'm glad to hear that. Seven generations. All right. And then also, it's been going good on the foreign policy wise because I'm like, my thing is, when it comes to Ukraine, Europe needs to take care of their house first

before they try to come over here and tell us, oh, well, you have to help us with Ukraine. That's not our problem. Because at the end of the day, we have to take care of what's here first before we try to fix somebody else, it's problem. All right. All right, I guess you. So you're okay with it generally so far? All right. How many of you agree with what he just said?

Okay, with it generally so far. Raise him real high so we can see them. Okay, all right. Who else has a point of view? Stand up and we'll find you with a microphone. Stand up so we can find you with a microphone. My name's Jason. I really do not agree with the way the kind of

country's going. You know, I have friends that work in D.C. that have been, you know, laid off due to all the workforce cuts. I think on social policy, I don't think it's going great at all due to the, like, demonization of many marginal groups in this country. And then also with Ukraine, I also completely disagree with that because I know that if Russia gets Ukraine, it could only go downhill from there. So I think the 45 days are going great. Probably in some regards, if you are a Trump supporter, but if you don't support Trump, the wheels are falling off. Like, what has fallen off? I just think in regards to both civility in the country,

I think it's going downhill. I think it's been going downhill. And then I also just think government-wise, you know, with all the doge cuts, are really just cutting randomly. And a lot of programs have been cut that Elon then goes, oops, we have to put this back now. But those programs, if you actually were smart about what you're cutting,

should have never been cut accidentally in the first place. What do you think about that? What do you think about doge? Yeah, so I'm curious what you guys think about Doge to. Before I answer, can I ask you guys, Alana, you raised your hands when you said the first 45 days is going okay? How about the Doge cuts? How many are in favor of the Doge Cuts so far as they're going? Okay, a little bit less, but a lot of people overall seem to like it, at least in this crowd.

So for me, I think... What does that mean? What do you mean? At least in this crowd. Yeah, well, I mean... You bring that California... No, no, I'll tell you exactly what I mean. And let's note for the record, it took me a while to get up on this chair.

Okay. So on the polling, Dr. Phil, the polling, whether you believe it or not, and oftentimes if you're on the wrong side of the polling, you don't believe it. And if you're on the right side of it, you do believe it. They're saying that they're less favorable to the Doge cuts than they are to Trump overall. And so to your question to me, look, as you and I have talked about a little bit before, including on Merritt Street TV earlier today, he's taking a machete when I think he should be taking a scalpel. So I'm against waste, fraud, and abuse. We've been against it for 20 straight

years. He can't stand it. Subsidies going out the door, usually to the donor class, whoever donates to Democrats or Republicans, they get it back 10fold, 100 fold, et cetera. But if we're cutting before we even see what we're cutting, then by definition to me, it can't be the right cuts. Whereas if you said to me, hey, I looked at it for three months, six months, et cetera, And here's fraud, here's abuse, here's waste, that I think we're all going to be on board. But when they cut right from the beginning and they cut veterans and they cut people that just came in, people go, well, that's not necessarily what I bargained for. How many of you agree with that, that these are just blind cuts that are being made?

How many of you think, no, they're not blind cuts. They're actually looking at it before they do it. So you're about split on that. You know, here's the thing. We all agree with what you just said that we don't like fraud, we don't like waste. There's just bloat, fat, in government. We all agree with that, right? Nobody disagrees with that.

Everybody agree that is fat? Okay. And what I raised my hand when I said, I like Doge, but, and I've been calling them out on some of the stuff that they're doing. At least somebody is stepping up and making it an intentional. I mean, a lot of people, Democrats and Republicans alike, a lot of them go, yeah, yeah, yeah. But at least somebody is intentionally stepping up and saying, I'm cutting this. I'm going to go in there. I'm going to find $2 trillion and cut it.

Now, I've also said if you make a mistake, if you, like you say, if you cut something like with veterans or you cut things with the elderly who need medications or whatever, then and you find that, you need to put it back that day. You don't need to say, okay, well, we'll study this for 60 days. No, you put it back right now. But at least somebody's intentionally going at it. That I like. Well, as usual, we're going to agree and disagree.

Okay, so the part that I agree with you on is, look, as a Democrat, I'm super frustrated whenever Democrats get into office and they go, there's nothing we can do. Well, then brother, why do we elect you, right? So don't tell me about the filibuster, don't tell me about the parliamentarian, just do your job. So if the Democrats pass their agenda, their giant chunks of their agenda are actually very popular. Paid family leave, universal health care is actually popular, higher wages, et cetera, right? So when I see Trump taking action, I'm a little envious of how much action he's taking, even though I might not agree with the action that he's taking. At least I get that he's put an energy behind it.

So there I agree with you. But guys, this is all in prelude to a $4.5 trillion tax cut. So they're going to say, oh, don't worry, we cut this and we cut that so we can afford the $4.5 trillion tax cut, but we can't afford the $4.5 trillion tax cut. And I will tell you this, I will believe that they're really cutting waste, fraud, and abuse the minute they cut a donor program. Okay, show me an oil subsidy that you cut, show me something you cut from the drug companies, something that you cut from the bankers, subsidy they shouldn't have gotten or fraud that they should

have been caught on at the Pentagon with the defense contractors, et cetera. Then I'll say, okay, that brother is cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. Yeah. Well, I always hear about this, the rich don't pay taxes. So one of these days I'm going to get rich. Because I damn sure pay taxes. I promise you, I pay a lot of taxes. And I don't know where this tax cuts going to go. would they say this is going to be a billionaire tax cut? Is that the deal? I thought they didn't pay taxes anyway. So it depends.

And so actually, you're on to something that's important. So corporations have constantly had their taxes cut, but that's got to go somewhere. So when they cut corporate taxes, they're usually going to then put that on you, Dr. Phil, and a lot of people in the audience. And so, and I've seen an early part of the plan. We'll see what their actual details are, but some of the taxes on the middle. actually go up and set it down. So we'll see if they do that.

If they do, that'll be trouble, right? So and do we care about balancing the budget or don't we care about it? Because you can't just say I want to balance it by cutting malaria programs in Africa and I want to cut this and that. But then, hey, and here's a thing, I mean, you talked about cutting Ukraine and saying, hey, why are we paying for their wars? But we're constantly paying for Israel. Okay, and that's another giant donor class, right? You cut anything that's a donor class, that means you're real. When you're cutting from an average person, the middle class, then I got a problem with it.

Yeah, they're not going to cut any oil or pharma. They're not going to cut anything there. Oh, well, yeah, of course, as would I. But they're not going to. Okay, do you all have any questions? Anybody want to ask anything? You already said something. We heard one, then we didn't hear one.

Now you want to say something else? Take it. Hang on. Anybody else? Yes, ma'am. Let's get the women involved here. Say your name. First name.

Dietra. Dietra? Good evening. Dietra. Yes, sir. You're my mentor as a matter of fact, in counseling. But what I want to address is the fact that the country is so divided. This adds to the division that's taken place.

And no one's addressing that. How can I come to work Monday and lose my job on Tuesday? No one's concerned about what's happening with our people, with America. America, the whole seems like the whole United States is being discombobulated, just broken up. And no one's addressing that at all. We do want to have not fraud, waste, and abuse. We don't want that happening. But when you talk about veterans like me, senior citizens, you're not being compassionate and caring.

And that's not what this country has been built on before. Yeah, I hear you. And I think anytime, anytime, I've been an employer all my life. I think the last job I had was in high school when I worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. It gave me a job 131 feet underground in a warehouse. And it's a good job, actually. I probably should have stayed with that. But anytime that I have to let somebody go or whatever,

I really do stop and think this is a human being that's going to have to go home and tell their family, hey, we don't have a job. They're going to have to say, you know, that trip we were going to take, can't do that, or that cheerleader uniform you were going to buy. You're going to have to hold off on that. I really think about that every single time. and people will say that an employer doesn't or whatever, but anybody that cares does.

But there's another side to that. We have people in the government that haven't been showing up that have second jobs. I mean, they've been seriously have a whole, and I don't mean like they're fixing bicycle flats on the weekend. They got another career. They're working two, They're working at General Motors and the United States government.

And that's probably a small percentage, but we have a lot of people that don't show up, and they're not putting in 40 hours or 50 hours a week. And that's waste and fraud. And those people are going to get swept out. But for someone that's actually putting in the time and working and a veteran, there has to be some kind of way to equal that out. And I think there have been a lot of buyouts, haven't there been? There have. And so by answer, just five, because they're making the decision

to take that money and retire, no problem. If you find the people that are doing the two jobs, and I believe there are, I think Dr. Phil's right about that. No problem. Obviously, get them out. But you're right that when we cut for the people that came in in the last 18 months, we're not asking that question. And they don't have a second job. They barely got this job, as far as we know, right? So in terms of how to bring the country together, number one, that's what we're trying here tonight, right? So look, we're having an honest conversation. You know, we're credit where credit is due. And by the way, discredit where discredit is due, right?

And I actually have an ironic way to bring the country together, which is to yell at both sides. Okay. So because in order to get to change, and this is again where I think Trump and Dr. Phil, et cetera, are right in what he mentioned earlier, which is sometimes we've got to rock. the boat a little bit, right? And the status quo is not working for us. And that's what the Democratic Party is not understanding. So when they keep running on status quo, that's a losing message because we're having a lot of trouble with the status quo, right? And so, but in order to get beyond the status quo, yeah, we're going to have to rock that boat and it's going to get uncomfortable for some people. But what we want is uncomfortable for the right people,

Not the wrong people, right? Uncomfortable for the donors. Uncomfortable for the people that are ringing the system. Uncomfortable for the people doing waste, fraud, and abuse. But not uncomfortable for the guy who just moved his family to Kansas and thought he was getting a job with the government and was really psyched about it and had bought a house. And now all of a sudden, the rug is pulled out. Let's do better.

Let's do better in figuring. But once you got the bad guys, I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans. Let's go get him, right? So we got to do that to get you a better situation. Speaking about bad guys, how do you feel this administration is doing on immigration? Good, bad, indifferent. If you think they're doing a good job, raise your hand. Think they're doing a good job, raise your hand.

If you think, no, they're not doing a good job, raise your hand. Okay, stand up and tell me your name. We'll get you a microphone. Why are they not doing a good job? My name is Danny. And I have a problem with a birthright citizen being deployed. Deported. If a birthright citizen can be deported from this country, there is no one in this audience that cannot be deported with a stroke of a pen. Okay. And so by birthright citizen, you mean somebody was born here no matter where their parents from?

Yes. Okay. Do you feel like the focus, and y'all probably know, pedophiles, the pedophiles, the drug drug dealers, the murderers, the gang members, the bad actors, let's get them off the streets first. And I know that's what they're working on because I've been in with them. I've been embedded with them on the streets with them. And I know that's who they're going after. They're not sweeping through neighborhoods. They're not looking for birthright people.

They're going after the criminals right now. And they got more of that than I think they can do in four years. Are you okay with them going after the criminals? No, because that's unconstitutional. Okay, so, okay, you're going to have to help me out on that. First off, are you guys okay with them going after the criminals? Okay, because I've been with them when they arrested drug dealing, arm dealing criminals. Would you like us to get those guys arrested and then turn them loose?

If they're a birthright citizen, they should go through the exact legal process that any American would go for. No, I'm not saying birthright citizen. I don't care if they're Irish. It wouldn't make any difference to me. But if they're illegal aliens that are in this country and they're violent criminals, you want them taken off the street, right? Yes. It doesn't matter if they're blonde and blue-eyed, you want them off the street. But certainly, if they're illegal aliens, you have no problem with them being targeted.

Yes, I have no problem with that. I don't know how the conversation took that turn. Well, I changed the subject. Okay. I broadened the subject to say beyond, you covered birthright citizens, and then I used you as a prop to go to some other issues since you were standing up. Now, I just wanted to ask a broader question, but if they're birthright citizens,

they should be tried and imprisoned in the U.S. Yes, I believe we should follow the Constitution. Yeah, okay. And I don't think that's constitutional, but nonetheless. Birthright citizenry is. Well, that's not a gray area. Where they go to prison, as long as they go to prison, I don't care, as long as they're taken off the street.

And I'm okay with that as well. Yeah, okay. I got you. So just to be clear, birthright citizens want them to stay here. The great majority of Americans agree with that. If they commit a crime, they go to prison, but they stay here. But if they're not born here, they're not citizens, and they're criminals, all of you are saying, okay, let's send them back. Once, by the way, they've served their time because they should get justice right here in America, and then you send them back.

So do you agree with all that? Yes. Right. So I think Dr. Phil, where the rubber hits the road is what happens once we get past the criminals who are undocumented immigrants? Well, that's what I was saying. I think there's a lot to be done on that. And then I, okay, thank you. I didn't want to make you just stand there the whole time.

You got a chair, you can sit down. Okay. What do you wish the president and this administration would focus on more than they are so far? Is there something they haven't gotten to yet? Cutting the Pentagon? Cutting the Pentagon. Okay. Yes, ma'am.

We'll talk about that, too. Say again. Sarah, working with pharma to reduce the prices of drugs. I work in the PBM, I work in a PBM, and we have to negotiate those rates with pharma. And if pharma keeps having the advantage and gets to call what the price is, then we have no chance here. Do you think, do you think RFK Jr. is going to focus on that? Yes, I do.

I hope so. Yeah, he's going to join us tonight by Zoom also. And I've talked to him a lot, and he's going to, he's going to make it where you can negotiate prices with Big Pharma, which is. Spooky. That was Big Pharma. More powerful than you realize. But yeah, does everybody agree that you should be able to negotiate pharmaceutical prices? Everybody agree with that?

Okay. Anybody disagree with that? Okay. I mean, this is a free market, right? You should be able to negotiate big pharma. Yeah, listen, that's where I would tell my friends on the left, if they do that and they negotiate drug prices, then they deserve a tremendous amount of credit. because, you know, Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump in his first term,

promised to do it and didn't do it, including Obama. He promised to do it and didn't do it. So if they promised to do it and they do it, then I'll give them all the credit in the world, but they actually got to do it. Yeah, I think you're exactly right. And the fact that we're paying more for health care and delivering the lowest quality health care out of developed countries is an embarrassment. I mean, it's a shame.

You know, there are 50 countries in the world where a mother has a better chance of surviving childbirth than in America. There are 50 countries where the baby has a better chance of surviving than in America. That is shameful. Absolutely shameful.

And then we pay more for... We pay more for pharmaceuticals than... But you can just... You can go to Detroit and drive across... across one bridge and pay a tenth for something that you get in America. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.

We're having this trade war with Canada. Can we just solve it by them sending the cheap drugs to us? And by the way, they're the same exact drugs. They're not any cheaper. They're just cost less, right? They're the same drugs. Guys, again, the pharmaceutical companies in this country have a strangle lock in Washington. Washington is occupied by all these corporate donors.

And so to the point that Dr. Phil was making, what kind of capitalism is this where you can't negotiate drug prices? I mean, I've never heard of this in a free market where the guy selling you the products say you have to pay this. It's unheard of. The only reason that they're doing is crony capitalism. So where they pay off the politicians. And so why didn't Obama do it and why didn't Trump do it in his first term? They go to Congress, even if they mean well, even if they mean well, they go to Congress

and almost everybody in Congress is bought. They get so much money from the drug companies, and that's what we're going to shine a spotlight on. To your point, like, yes, we've got to bring us together, we've got to bring us together, but sometimes we've got to do it in an aggressive way. Which one of you guys are all taking money from pharma and which one of you are blocking capitalism and the free market and keeping drug prices so high we can't afford them? and people are dying because of that.

Yeah. I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more. It's shameful. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Stand up. We'll bring your microphone.

Say your first name. Hi. My name is Valerie. I think that if we started with term limits, we wouldn't have lifelong politicians. That then we wouldn't have all of these companies, including the pharmaceuticals, in the politicians' politics.

pockets. So if we started with that, we can start to weed some of the corruption out. We also need to get all of the pharmaceuticals off the TV. They do not need to be every other commercial. They don't need to be on the Super Bowl. And that's a good start. But I agree. And I'm a huge Trump fan, but I really think that that is the way to get rid of the corruption with the pharmaceutical. That would certainly help. How many agree with that? If we had term limits where people couldn't get bought forever. Yeah, okay. So I'll just say something real quick about that.

If you're wondering why all of our politicians are so old, like Mitch McConnell freezes in a press conference, you know, Biden's brain fell out in a debate, right? So and but Pelosi, all these guys sold because the donors get a return on investment. And they know that's stable. Whenever I go back to Biden and McConnell, I'm going to get my money's worth. And so that's why they keep buying them over and over and over again. That's why they're so old. So I hear you on term limits, I would say also money out of politics.

I mean, that's the biggest thing there is. That's the number one way that they purchase these politicians. See, I have a theory, and I wonder how you guys feel about this. I'm going to ask you that in just a minute, but I want to hear from you first. Say your first name? Helen. All right, Helen. And one of the problems is there's no kickbacks, there's no paying to aggressive.

teach healthy living, healthy eating, healthy habits. Pharmaceuticals depend upon us living unhealthy. If we lived healthy lifestyles, we wouldn't have to depend upon pharmaceuticals. And that's where we would be getting the prices down because there wouldn't be the need for them. Every doctor's prescription. I mean, I'm on one prescription. I'm 76 years old. Now, I take supplements, I try to eat healthy, I try to live healthy. But pharmaceuticals not making much money on me. And if the rest, if that was topped from government level down, you know, that would be something that would get the pharmaceuticals in line

because they would have to negotiate. Yeah, good point. But I'll tell you what, if you go to an insurance company and say we want to teach stress management and healthy living. No, we don't want to talk prevention, even though it makes sense. Yes, ma'am. Stand up. We'll bring you a microphone.

Hi, my name is Marjorie. And I want to talk about the doge. The money that we're just wasting, the money that's being stolen, the money that's being stolen, the money that's being laundered. You know, everybody's screaming. It's about what they're doing, but nobody is doing anything. How long are we going to let them rob the bank?

And instead of us saying, yeah, let's find out who's robbing the bank, we yell at the people who caught the people who are robbing the bank. And that's what we're doing. You know, everybody's mad because they don't want Trump to be the one to find the people who are laundering. money, stealing money, all this kind of stuff, but nobody is doing anything about it.

I'm concerned about Social Security. I'm concerned that they have all these people on the Social Security list that don't exist or that are dead or all this kind of stuff. We need to recover the money. But people are so concerned about who

recovers. Democrats don't want him to get the credit for recovering the money. So they're yelling and screaming. It's like somebody's painting the wall and somebody sitting in the background saying you missed the spot you miss the spot but you're not painting the wall so we need somebody to recover this money we're going with 37 trillion dollars in debt and we have money just going out the window billions of dollars we would need tunnel to towers we would need wounded warriors project if the government would stop wasting the money and treat our soldiers

like they treat people all over the world who do not deserve our tax money. That's the real deal. I agree. That's the real deal. I agree. And I have a theory. I'll tell you my theory,

and you can think about this and tell me if you agree. I have a theory because I've spent a lot of my career studying why people do what they do and don't do what they don't do. And think about that. If you figure out why people do

what they do and don't do what they don't do, then you got a real leg up on the world. Seriously, think about that. If you understand motivation why people do what they do, you got a real leg up. And my theory is this. We've got non-problem solvers cast in the role of solving problems.

The people that we have in Washington, D.C., and other places charged with solving problems aren't motivated to solve the problems. That's not what they want to do. They don't want to solve the problems. They have a theory that, okay, if I solve this problem, I work myself out of a job. You know, Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, is a friend of mine,

and he says, my theory is, every time I start a movie, I'm working myself out of a job. and so I got to have my agent and have me two movies lined up before I start this one and if he doesn't I'm going to fire his ass because every time I start I'm working myself out of a job

I think these people think if I solve these problems they don't need me anymore they're not really mo-we got non-problem solvers in the role of solving problems and that's where I think term limits could make sense it's like was it Gates that gave a bunch of money and said, this charity's going to last 25 years or something, then I'm shutting it down.

So if you think this is just going to just give everybody a job forever, it's not. This is over in 20 years or whatever it was, he said. So you got X amount of time to use this money to fix these problems and then it's gone. That's what we've got to tell these people. You either fix these or we'll get somebody in here who will because you ain't going to be here forever. And that's a problem. Let me build on that because I agree with that completely. And then on top of that, guys, it requires a different skill set to get elected than to govern. Oh, does it ever? Yeah. So the skill set to get elected is be a charmer, be a schmoozer. And that was in the past,

a little bit still today, right? But once you get past the things that we all pay attention to the presidential level, like we all, we all see that. But the congressional level, we almost never right? And those guys are not even charming or schmoozers. Ninety-five percent of the time, the person with more money wins. Doesn't matter if they're a Republican, doesn't matter if they're Democrat, liberal, preserved. Nothing matters but the money 19 out of 20 times, right? So their skill set is collect money from donors, serve donors. When you go to govern, your skill set should be serve the voters. But we elected the wrong guys because we elected the guys who want to serve the donors.

That's why I say term limit, sure, but we've got to get big money out of politics. If we don't, they're going to be serving those guys forever and ever and ever. Yeah, they're bought and paid for. Okay, I think we got time for one more, and then we'll switch over because they're starting to file in. But we're not going to let you miss anything. We got it on a clock, and we're going to switch in time. So don't worry about it. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Shakira, and I want to add to what you just said, because earlier when you asked, how do we think it's going the first 45 days? And that's exactly what I was thinking about is going as expected in my eyes because we know who we had eight years ago. We know exactly what we were working with. And so it's going

exactly as expected and then some. And so it's been prophetically spoken. We know exactly what was to come. And so unfortunately we're dealing with the aftermath. And we have people in office, people that are working that are not really for their own, that are not really for others. They're really for themselves.

And so until people recognize that, hey, we need to be able to look out for others. We need to take a look at every view, opposed to just throwing stuff out there. This is what we're working with. Yeah. You're so right, and you're saying the same thing, you're saying the same thing, Cher.

There's a different skill set between getting elected and serving, but you have so many IOUs by the time you get in the job. It's like, whoa, I sold my soul to get the job, but now I feel like I need to do the job, but I sold my soul. Because everybody that put up all that money, they're now sitting out in the waiting room saying, all right, Jack, I got you elected.

Now it's your time to pay off. And it's tough. It's tough, but if you get the money out, but what you said is empirically true. Is there a race where the one that spent the least has won in the last hundred years? Yes, it's 95% of the time the person with more money wins. Who was it? So I started a group called Justice Democrats, and almost all of them, and some of you might or might not like some of the folks in there, but AOC, Rashida Tilev, Ilhan, Omar, Ayana, Presley, et cetera, but those folks had less money.

And they won anyway. And by the reason they had less money, again, you might disagree on some social issues, but they didn't take any corporate PAC money. So at least they're honest. So it's in the same Bernie Sanders wing where at least we're being honest about where we're coming from, agree or disagree, right? But it's very hard to do. But has there been a president that spent less money on presidential election?

Donald Trump. Well, okay, that's true. But he didn't have to buy media because he didn't have to buy media because that's exactly. He brought the circus to town. Yeah. And by the way, the Democrats don't understand that. Try to be interesting, right? I mean, especially at the presidential level where we're having,

it's still not a money battle because Trump is winning with less money than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris. More media. But way more media. And so the Democrats keep, even to this day, they have this crazy idea that is like now leading within Democratic circles in Congress of let's just do nothing and wait for the Republicans to hurt themselves. What was that idiot? My God, do something. Do something. Be interesting, be exciting. Fight for for your voters. What was that idiot drill we were watching today? They were doing when we were on the news. They were running that new ad campaign they had. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

So they're talking about how they all have the same talking point. They got it from a Democratic consultant and about how, oh, they're for their billionaire buddies and we're for you guys. Yes, but I wish you were, right? So like what the Democrats need to understand is your policy, in my opinion, your policies are are pretty good on economic stuff, right? But you've got to actually do them. If you don't do them, you don't get any credit for them. So don't tell me what a Democratic consultant told you to say.

I mean, you're talking about billionaire buddies brothers. You guys have billionaire buddies too. Who are you kidding? That is why the one thing that Joe Biden said, Nothing will fundamentally change. And that's what this room is saying, no, we don't want that. We don't want the status quo. And then sometimes folks like Trump, they upset the status quo a little too much,

a little too aggressively and a little wrong in the wrong direction. What did you call it a minute ago, crony capitalism? Yeah. Is that your term? No, no, I didn't invent it. But it's also called corporatism and crony capitalism. That's when corporations capture the government and have. have the government do their bidding. So let's tune in.

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Thank you. Members of the United States Congress, thank you very much. And to my fellow citizens, America is back. U.S. Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this capital and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of America. From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action. to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years,

and we are just getting started. I return to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. The American Dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. dream is unstoppable, and our country is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps will never witness again. It's never been anything like it.

The presidential election of November 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades. We won all seven swing states giving us an electoral. college recruit of 312 votes. We won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country. U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., and one counties in our country, 2,700, to 525. completely read for Republican. Now, for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction

than the wrong direction. In fact, it's an astonishing record, 27-point swing the most ever. Likewise, small business optimism, so its single largest one-month gain ever recorded, a 41-point job. Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions. That's your warning. Members are engaging in willful and continuing breach of the quorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant-at-arms to restore order to the joint session. Mr. Green, take your seat.

Take your seat, sir. Take your seat. Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concern to disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-in-arms to restore order. Remove this gentleman from the chamber. Thank you. Thank you. Great news.

Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in the House. Mr. President, you continue. Thank you. Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions a record to restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land. the people elected me to do the job, and I'm doing it. In fact, it has been stated by many. In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our present,

It's our presidency. Is the most successful in the history of our nation. By many. And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who number two is, George Washington? How about that? I don't know about that list. But we'll take it.

Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country. And what a job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded, ever. They heard my words and they chose not to come.

Much easier that way. In comparison under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and people from mental institutions and insane assailants were released into our country. Who would want to do that? This is my fifth such speech to Congress. And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to the greatest economy and history, or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.

And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do it, no matter what, five times. I've been up here. It's very sad, and it just shouldn't be this way. So Democrats sitting before me, for just this one. For just this one night, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again. administration is fighting to deliver the change America needs to bring a future that America deserves. And we're doing it. This is a time for big dreams and bold action. Upon taking

office, I imposed an immediate freeze on all federal hiring, a freeze on all new federal regulations, and a freeze on all foreign aid. I terminated the ridiculous green news scam. I withdrew from the unfair Paris climate accord, which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying. I withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization. And I also withdrew from the anti-American UN Human Rights Council. We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions

that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable. And importantly, we ended the last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction. To unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every one new regulation, 10 old regulations must be eliminated, just like I did in my very successful first And in that first term, we set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like no other president had done before. We ordered all federal workers to return to the office.

They will either show up for work in person or be removed from their job. And we've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me. How did that work out? Not too good. Not too good. And I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It's back.

And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America. I renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. And likewise, I renamed for a great president, William McKeown. McKinley, Mount McKinley again. Beautiful Alaska. Love a lot. We've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies all across

the entire federal government and, indeed, the private sector, and our military. And our country. country will be woke no longer. We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, not race or gender. Very important. We should be hired based on merit, and the Supreme Court in a brave and very powerful decision has allowed us to do so. Thank you.

Thank you very much. We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States, that there are only two genders, male and female. I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's sports. Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports. But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball. So hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzed.

paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career. It was a shot like she's never seen before. She's never seen anything like it. Peyton is here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls' team or they will lose all federal funding. And if you really want to see numbers, just take a look at what happened in the women's boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming, or cycling, where a male recently finished a long-distance race,

five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new record by five hours, broke the record by five hours. It's demeaning for women and it's very bad for our country. We're not going to put up with it any longer. What I have just described is only a small fraction of the common sense revolution that is now because of us sweeping the entire world. Common sense has become a common theme, and we will never go back, never, ever going to let that happen.

Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief. to working families. As you know, we inherited from the last administration, an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare. Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of Americans. They've never had anything like it. We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history, of our country. They're not sure. As president, I'm fighting every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again. Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg prices out of control. The egg prices.

hard to get it back, previous administration. Do a good job. A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy. The previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt and close more than 100 power plans. We are opening up many of those power plants right now. And frankly, we have never seen anything like it. That's why on my first day in office, I declared a national energy emergency. As you've heard me say many times, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any nation on earth. And by far, and now I fully authorized the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it.

It's called Drill Baby Drill. My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each. It's never been anything like that one. It will be truly spectacular. It's all set to go. The permitting is gotten.

And later this week, I will also take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA. which is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight. Thank you, Elon. He's working very hard. He didn't need this. He didn't need this. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. here. Even this side appreciates it, I believe. They just don't want to admit that. Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified. $22 billion from HHS to provide

free housing and cars for illegal aliens. Forty-five million diversity, equity, and inclusion, scholarships in Burma, $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is. $8 million to promote LGBTQI plus in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Q. Colombian empowerment in Central America. $60 million.

$8 million for making mice transgender. Yeah. involved just at the last moment the money was passed a three point two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to increase vegan local climate action innovation in zambia $42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda. $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia. $47 million. To talk about them. They're so bad.

Free it to talk about them. They're so bad. Many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people. Headed up by Elon and we appreciate it. We found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud. And we've taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things. Taking back a lot of that money.

We got it just in time. This is just the beginning. The government accountability office, a federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation, and we are working very hard to stop it. We're going to. We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors,

and that are seniors, and people that we love rely on. Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. A million people from ages 130 to ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people from ages 140 million people. billion people from ages 140 to 149. And money is being paid to many of them. In fact, Pam, good luck.

Good luck. You're going to find our age over 160 years old. We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby. Including to finish 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229. One person between the age of 240 and 249. And one person is listed at 360 years of age. more than a hundred years, more than a hundred years older than our country. But we're going to find out where that money's going, and it's not going to be pretty.

By slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft, we can find we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments, and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families. It's listed at 360 years of age. More than 100 years, more than 100 years older than our country. But we're going to find out where that money's going, and it's not going to be pretty by slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft. we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments,

and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families. And today, interest rates took a beautiful drop. beautiful drop. It's about time. And in the near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years. Balance the federal budget. We're going to balance it. With that goal in mind, we have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card, which goes on sale very, very soon. For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship.

It's like the green card, but better and more sophisticated. And these people will have to pay tax in our country. They won't have to pay tax from where they came. The money that they've made, you wouldn't want to do that, but they have to pay tax, create jobs. They'll also be taking people out of colleges and paying for them so that we can keep them in our country instead of having them be being forced out. Number one at the top school, as an example, being forced out and not being allowed to stay and create tremendous numbers of jobs and great success for a company out there. So while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers, and child predators

who are allowed to enter our country under the open border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden administration, the open border insane policies that you've allowed to destroy our country, we will now bring in brilliant, hardworking job creating people. They're going to pay a lot of money

and we're going to reduce our debt with that money. Americans have given us a mandate for bold and profound change. For nearly 100 years, the federal bureaucracy has grown until it has crushed our freedoms, ballooned our deficits, and held back America's potential in every possible way. The nation founded by pioneers and risk takers now drowns under millions and millions of pages of regulations and debt. Approvals that should take 10 days to get, instead take 10 years, 15 years, and even 20 years before you're rejected. Meanwhile, we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work. My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again.

And any federal bureaucrat who resist this change will be removed from office immediately. Because we are draining the swamp. It's very simple. And the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over. And the next phase of our plan. And the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this Congress to pass tax cuts for everybody. They're in there. They're waiting for you to vote.

And I'm sure that the people on my right, I don't mean the Republican right, but my right right here, I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts. Because otherwise, I don't believe the people will ever vote you into office. So I'm doing a big favor by telling you that. But I know this group is going to be voting for the tax. Thank you. It's a very, very big part of our plan. We had tremendous success in our first term. We're that a very big part of our plan.

We're seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board. and to get urgently needed relief to Americans hit especially hard by inflation, I'm calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security benefits for our great seniors. And I also want to make interest payments on car loans tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America. And by the way, we're going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody's ever seen. Plants are opening up all over the place. Deals are being made. Never seen. That's a combination of the election win and tariffs. It's a beautiful word, isn't it?

That along with our other policies will allow our auto industry to absolutely boom. It's going to boom. I spoke to the majors today, all three, the top people, and they're so excited. In fact, already numerous car companies have announced that they will be building massive automobile plants in America, with Honda just announcing a new plant in India. one of the largest anywhere in the world. And this has taken place since our great victory on November 5th, a date which will hopefully go down as one of the most important in the history of our country. In addition, as part of our tax cuts, we want to cut taxes on domestic production and all manufacturing. And just as we did before, we will provide 100% expensing. It will be retroactive to January 20th, 2025, and it was one of the main reasons why our tax cuts were so successful in our first term, us the most successful economy in the history of our country.

First turn. We had a great first turn. If you don't make your product in America, however, under the Trump administration, you will pay a tariff, and in some cases, a rather large one. Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries. countries. On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada, have you heard of them? And countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It's very unfair. India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%. China's average tariff on our products is twice, but we charge them. And South Korea's average tariff is four

times higher. Think of that four times higher. And we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to South Korea. But that's what happens. This is happening by friend and foe. This system is not fair to the United States. It never was. And so on April 2nd, I wanted to make it April 1st, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day. That's what, that's not, just one day was cost us a lot of money. But we're going to do it in April. I'm a very superstitious person. April 2nd, reciprocal tariffs kick in. And whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them. That's reciprocal back and forth. Whatever they tax us.

We will tax them. If they do non-monetary tariffs to keep us out of their market, then we will do non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market. It's a lot of that, too. They don't even allow us in their market. We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars

and create jobs like we have never seen before. I did it with China, and I did it with others, and the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money, they couldn't do anything about it. We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on earth, and we will not let that happen any longer. Much has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada. But we have very large deficits with both of them, but even more importantly, they've allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people destroying families.

Nobody's ever seen anything like it. They are in effect receiving subsidies of hundreds of billions of dollars. We pay subsidies to Canada and to Mexico of hundreds of billions of dollars. and the United States will not be doing that any longer. We're not going to do it any longer. Thanks to our America-first policies we're putting into place, we have had $1.7 trillion of new investment in America in just the past few weeks,

the combination of the election and our economic policies that people of SoftBank, one of the most brilliant anywhere in the world, announced a $200 billion investment. Open AI and Oracle, Larry Ellison, announced $500 billion investment, which they wouldn't have done if Kamala had won. Apple announced $500 billion investment. Tim Cook called me, he said, I cannot spend it fast enough.

It's going to be much higher than that, I believe. They'll be building their plants here instead of in China. And just yesterday, Taiwan Semiconductor, the biggest in the world, most powerful in the world, has a tremendous amount, 97% of the market, announced a $165 billion investment to build the most powerful chips on Earth right here in the USA. And we're not giving them any money. Your Chips Act is a horrible, horrible thing. We give hundreds of billions of dollars. And it doesn't mean a thing.

They take our money and they don't spend it. All that meant to them were giving them no money. All that was important to them was they didn't want to pay the tariffs. So they came and they're building. And many other companies are coming. We don't have to give them money. We just want to protect our businesses and our people. And they will come because they won't have to pay tariffs if they build in America.

So it's very amazing. You should get rid of the CHIP Act and whatever's left over. Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt or any other reason you want to. Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer. I love the farmer. Yes. Who will now be selling into our home market, the USA, because nobody is going to be able to compete with you. Because those goods that come in from other countries and companies, they're really, really

in a bad position in so many different ways. they're uninspected. They may be very dirty and disgusting. And they come in and they pour in. And they hurt our American farmers. The tariffs will go on agricultural product coming into America. And our farmers starting on April 2nd, it may be a little bit of an adjustment period. We had that before.

When I made the deal with China, $50 billion of purchases. And I said, just bear with me. And they did. They did probably have to bear with me. again, and this will be even better. That was great. The problem with it was that Biden didn't enforce it. He didn't enforce it. 50 billion dollars of purchases. And we were doing great, but Biden did not enforce it. And it hurt our farmers, but our farmers are going to have a field day right now. So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. I love you too. I love you too.

It's all going to happen. And I have also imposed a 25% tariff on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber, and steel, because if we don't have, as an example, steel, and lots of other things, we don't have any military, and frankly, we just won't have a country very long. Here today is a proud American steel worker, fantastic person from Decatur, Alabama, Jeff Dinnard, has been working at the same steel plant for 27 years in a job that has allowed him to serve as the captain of his local volunteer fire department, raised seven children with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and over the years provide a loving home for more than 40 foster children.

So great, Jeff. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you, Jeff. Stories like Jeffs remind us that tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs. They're about protecting the soul of our country. Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again. And it's happening, and it will happen rather quickly. There'll be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that.

It won't be much. No, you're not. And look, and look where Biden took us, very low, the lowest we've ever been. Jeff, I want to thank you very much. And I also want to recognize another person who has devoted herself to foster care community. She works so hard on it. You're a very loving person, our magnificent First Lady of the United States. Well, Anna's work has yielded incredible results helping prepare our nation's future leaders as they enter the workforce.

Our first lady is joined by two impressive young women. very impressive. Haley Ferguson, who benefited from the First Lady's fostering the Future Initiative, and it is poised to complete her education and become a teacher. And Elliston Berry, who became a victim of an illicit deep fake image produced by a peer. With Elliston's help, the Senate just passed the Take It Down Act, and this is so important. Thank you very much, John.

Thank you. Stand up, John. Thank you, Jay. Thank you all very much. Thank you. And thank you to John Thune and the Senate. Great job. To criminalize the publication of such images online is terrible, terrible thing.

And once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law. Thank you. And I'm going to use that bill for myself, too, if you don't mind. Because nobody gets treated worse than I do online. Nobody. That's great. Thank you very much to the Senate. Thank you.

But if we truly care about protecting American's children, no step is more crucial than securing America's borders. over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States. Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world. Because of Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies, they are now strongly embedded in our country. But we are getting them out and getting them out fast. And I want to thank Tom Holman and Christy, I want to thank you and Paul of Border Patrol. I want to thank you. What a job. They've all done everybody. Border Patrol, ICE.

Well, law enforcement in general is incredible. We have to take care of our law enforcement. Last year, a brilliant 22-year-year-old nursing student named Lakin Riley, the best in her class, admired by everybody, went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia. That morning, Lakin was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered. Lakin was stolen from us by a savage illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border and then set lucid to the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration. It was indeed a failed administration. He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.

With us this evening are Lakin's beloved mother, Allison and her sister, Lauren. Thank you. Last year, I told Lakin's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain. That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety. It's a very strong, powerful act. It's called the Lakin'Riley Act. So Allison and Lauren, America will never, ever forget our beautiful Laken Pope Riley.

Thank you very much. Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieve the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded. Thank you. The media and our friends in the Democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. Thank you.

Joe Biden didn't just open our borders. He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals, and communities throughout the country. Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption, like nobody's ever seen before. Beautiful towns destroyed. Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address,

we are achieving the Great Liberation of America. But there still is much work to be done. Here tonight is a woman I have gotten to know, Alexis Nungary, from Houston. Wonderful woman. Last June, Alexis is 12-year-old daughter, her precious Jocelyn, walked to a nearby convenience store. She was kidnapped, tied up, assaulted for two hours under a bridge. and horrifically murdered. Arrested in charge with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela,

released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border. The death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and the agony of her mother and family touched our entire nation greatly. Alexis, I promised that we would always remember your daughter, your magnificent daughter, and Earlier tonight, I signed an order keeping my word to you. One thing I have learned about Jocelyn is that she loved animals so much. She loved nature. Across Galveston Bay from where Jocelyn lived in Houston, you'll find a magnificent national wildlife refuge.

A pristine, peaceful, 34,000 acre sanctuary for all of God's creatures. when the edge of the Gulf of America. Alexis, moments ago, I formally renamed that refuge in a loving memory of your beautiful daughter, Jocelyn. So, Mr. Vice President, if you would, may I have the order. Thank you very much. All three savages charged with Jocelyn and Lakin's murders were members of the event of this prison gang, the toughest gang they say in the world, known as Trende-Iragua.

Two weeks ago, I officially designated this gang along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They are now officially in the same category as ISIS, and that's not good for them. Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S. by the Biden administration. But now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country, or if they're too dangerous, put in jails, standing trial in this country, because we don't want them to come back ever. With us this evening is a warrior

on the front lines of that battle. Border Patrol agent Roberto Ortiz. Great guy. In January, Roberto and another agent were patrolling by the Rio Grande near an area known as Cartel Island doesn't sound too nice to me. When heavily armed gunmen started shooting at them, Roberto saw that his partner was totally exposed at great danger, and he leapt into action, returning fire, and provided.

providing crucial seconds for his fellow agent to seek safety just and just barely. I have some of the prints of that event, and it was not good. Agent Ortiz, we salute you for your great courage and for your line of fire that you took and for the bravery that you showed. We honor you, and we will always honor you. Thank you, Roberto, very much. Thank you, Bertha. And I actually got to know him on my many calls to the border.

He's a great gentleman. The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder rape, torture, and exercise total control. They have total control over a whole nation, posing a grave threat to our national security. The cartels are waging war in America, and it's time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing. Mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies being imposed on them, think of this, handed over to us 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country.

That has never happened before. They want to make us happy, first time ever. But we need Mexico and Canada to do much more than they've done, and they have to stop the fentany. and drugs pouring into the USA. They're going to stop it. I have sent Congress a detailed funding request laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than current record holder, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a moderate man, but someone who believe very

strongly in borders. Americans expect Congress to send me this funding without delay so I can sign it into law. So Mr. Speaker, John Thune, both of you, I hope you're going to be able to do that, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Mr. Leader, thank you. Thank you very much. And let's get it to me. I'll sign it so fast. You won't even believe it. And as we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring back law and order to our cities and towns. In recent years, our justice system has been turned upside down by radical left. lunatics. Many jurisdictions virtually seized enforcing the law against dangerous, repeat offenders, while weaponizing law enforcement against political opponents like me. My administration has

acted swiftly and decisively to restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law, starting at the FBI and the DOJ. Pam, good luck. Cash, wherever you may be, good luck. Good luck. Pam Bonding. Good luck. So important. It's going to do a great job. Cash, thank you. Thank you, Cash. very strong. They're going to do a fantastic job. You're going to be very proud of them. We're also once again giving our police officers the support, protection, and respect. They so dearly deserve. They have to get it. They have such a hard, dangerous job, but we're going to make it less dangerous. The problem is the bad guys don't respect the law, but they're starting to respect

it, and they soon will respect it. This also includes our great fire departments throughout the country, our firemen and women are unbelievable people, and I will never forget them. And besides that, they voted for me in record numbers, so I have no chance. One year ago this month, 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person and a great officer was gunned down at a traffic

stop on Long Island. I went to his funeral. The vicious criminal charged with his murder had 21 prior arrests and they were rough arrests. He was a real bad one. The thug in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests

and went by the name of killer. He was killer. He killed other people they say a lot of them. I attended Officer Diller's service, and when I met his wife and one-year-old son, Ryan, it was very inspirational, actually. His widow's name is Stephanie, and she is here tonight. Stephanie, thank you very much, Stephanie. Thank you very much. Stephanie, we're going to make sure that Ryan knows his dad was a true hero, New York's finest, and we're going to get these cold-blooded killers and repeat offenders

off our streets, so we're going to do it fast. Got to stop it. They get out with 28 arrests. They push people into subway trains. They hit people over the head, back of the head with baseball baseball. We've got to get them out of here. I've already signed an executive order requiring a mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer. And tonight I'm asking Congress to pass that policy into permanent law.

I'm also asking. for a new crime bill getting tough on repeat offenders while enhancing protections for America's police officers so they can do their jobs without fear of their lives being totally destroyed.

They don't want to be killed. We're not going to let them be killed. Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel. He is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. But in 2018,

But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago. Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer. Actually, a number of times, peace, the police love him, the police departments love him. And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.

Thank you. Thank you, DJ. DJ's doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%. Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make a Healthy Again, chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The name Kennedy, you would have thought everybody over here would have been sharing. How quickly they forget.

Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong. As an example, not long ago, and you can't even believe these numbers, one in 10,000 children had autism, one in 10,000. And now it's one in 36. There's something wrong. One in 36. Think of that.

So we're going to find out what it is, and there's nobody better than Bobby and all of the people that are working with you. You have the best to figure out what is going on. Okay, Bobby, good luck. It's a very important job. Thank you. Thank you. My administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools. A few years ago, January little John and her husband discovered that their daughter's school had secretly socially transitioned their 13-year-old little girl. Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging her daughter to use a new name.

and pronouns, they, them pronoun, actually, all without telling January, who is here tonight and is now a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse, January. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Stories like this are why shortly after taking office I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology. I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation

of our youth. And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you. Because we're getting wokenness out of our schools and out of our military, and it's already out, and it's out of our society, and it's out of our society. we don't want it. Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad.

It's gone. It's gone. And we feel so much better for it, don't we? Don't we feel better? Our service members won't be activists and ideologues. They will be fighters and warriors. They will fight for our country. And Pete, congratulations.

Secretary of Defense. Congratulations. And he's not big into the woke movement, I can tell you. I know him well. I am pleased to report that in January, the U.S. Army had its single best recruiting month in 15 years, and that all armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever in the history of our services. What a difference. And you know it was just a few months ago

where the results were exactly the opposite. We couldn't recruit anywhere. We couldn't recruit. Now we're having the best results just about that we've ever had. What a tremendous turnaround. It's really a beautiful thing to see. people love our country again. It's very simple. They love our country and they love being in our military again.

So it's a great thing. And thank you very much. Great job. Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy when he was just a boy, and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service. Jason is a senior in high school, a six-letter varsity athlete, a really good athlete, they say, a brilliant student with a 4.46, that's good GPA. And his greatest dream is to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. And Jason, that's a very big deal getting in. That's a hard one to get into. But I'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted. You will soon be joining the Corps of Kidder.

Thank you. Jason, you're going to be on the long gray line, Jason. As Commander-in-chief, my focus is on building the most powerful military of the future. As a first step, I'm asking Congress to fund a state of the art, Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield to protect our homeland, all made in the USA. And Ronald Reagan wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there, not even close, but now we have the technology. It's incredible, actually. And other places that they have it, Israel has it. Other places have it. And the United States should have it too, right? Tim, right?

They should have it too. So I want to thank you. But it's a very, very important. This is a very dangerous world. We should have it. We want to be protected, and we're going to protect our citizens like never before. To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry, including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding. And for that purpose, I am announcing tonight that we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America where it belonged.

We used to make so many ships. We don't make them anymore very much, but we're going to make them very fast, very soon. It will have a huge impact to further enhance our national security. My administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we've already started doing it. Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama. canal and a couple of other canals. The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others, but others could use it. But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood

and treasure. 38,000 workers died building the Panama Canal. They died of malaria. They died of snake bites and mosquitoes. Not a nice place to work. They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die. The most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history if you're bringing up to modern day costs. It was given away by the Carter administration for $1, but that agreement has been violated very severely. We didn't give it to China.

We gave it to Panama. We're taking it back. And we have Marco Rubio in charge. Good luck, Marco. Now, we know who to blame if anything goes wrong. Now, Marco's been amazing, and he's going to do a great job. Think of it, he got 100 votes. You know, he was approved with actually 99, but the 100.

was this gentleman, and I feel very certain. So let's assume he got 100 votes. And I'm either very, very happy about that, or I'm very concerned about it. But he's already proven. I mean, he's a great gentleman. He's respected by everybody, and we appreciate you voting for Marco. He's going to do a fantastic job. Thank you. Thank you. He's doing a great job. And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. We strongly support your right to determine your own future. And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America. We need Greenland for national security and even international security.

And we're working with everybody involved to try and get it. But we need it really for international world security. And I think we're going to get it. it. One way or the other, we're going to get it. We will keep you safe. We will make you rich and together. We will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before. It's a very small population, but very, very large piece of land and very, very important for military security. America is once again standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism. Three and a half years ago.

ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and countless others in the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not that they were withdrawing, it was the way they withdrew. Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. Tonight I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice. And I want to thank especially the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster. This was a very momentous day for those 13 families who I actually got to know very well,

most of them, whose children were murdered and the many people that were so badly, over 42 people, so badly injured on that fateful day in Afghanistan. What a horrible day. Such incompetence was shown. that when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, wow, maybe this is my chance. That's how bad it was. Should have never happened, grossly incompetent people. I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones, and they're all in our hearts tonight.

Just spoke to them on the phone. We had a big call. Every one of them called, and everybody was on the line. and they did nothing but cry with happiness. They were very happy, as happy as you can be under those circumstances. Their child, brother, sister, son, daughter, was killed for no reason whatsoever. In the Middle East, we're bringing back our hostages from Gaza. In my first term, we achieved one of the most groundbreaking peace agreements in generations,

the Abraham Accords. And now we're going to build on that foundation to create a more peaceful and prosperous future for the entire region. A lot of things are happening in the Middle East. people have been talking about that so much lately with everything going on with Ukraine and Russia. A lot of things are happening in the Middle East's a rough neighborhood, actually. I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians

have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end in sight. the United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense with no security, with no anything. Do you want to keep it going for another five years? you would say, Pocahanta says yes. 2,000 people are being killed every single week. More than that. They're Russian young people.

They're Ukrainian young people. They're not Americans, but I wanted to stop. Meanwhile, Europe has sadly spent more money buying Russian. oil and gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine by far. Think of that. They've spent more buying Russian oil and gas than they have defending. And we've spent perhaps $350 billion, like taking candy from a baby. That's what happened.

And they've spent $100 billion. What a difference that is. And we have an ocean separating us, and they don't. But we're getting along very well with them, and lots of good things are happening. Biden has authorized more money in this fight than Europe has spent by billions and billions of dollars. It's hard to believe that they wouldn't have stopped it and said at some point, come on, let's equalize. You've got to be equal to us. That didn't happen.

Earlier today, I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine. The letter reads, Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians, he said. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts. We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence regarding the agreement on and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you. I appreciate that he sent this letter, just got it a little while ago. Simultaneously, we've had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals

that they are ready for peace. Wouldn't that be beautiful? Wouldn't that be beautiful? Wouldn't that be beautiful? It's time to stop this madness. It's time to halt the killing. It's time to end the senseless war. If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.

Nearly four years ago amid rising tensions, a history teacher named Mark Fogel, was detained in Russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony, rough stuff. The previous administration barely lifted a finger to help him. They knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin. But last summer, I promised his 95-year-old mother, Malfim, that we would bring her boy safely back home. after 22 days in office, I did just that, and they are here tonight.

To Mark and his great mom, we are delighted to have you safe and sound and with us. As fate would have it, Mark Fogel was born in a small, rural town. in Butler, Pennsylvania. Have you heard of it? Where his mother has lived for the past 78 years. I just happened to go there last July 13th for a rally. That was not pleasant. And that is where I met his beautiful mom right before I walked onto that stage.

And I told her I would not forget what she said about her son. And I never did, did I? Never forgot. Less than 10 minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out, and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets from his sniper's perch into a crowd of many thousands of people. My life was saved by a fraction of an inch, but some were not so lucky. Corey Comparator was a firefighter. A veteran, a Christian, a husband, a devoted father, and above all, a protector. When the sound of gunshots pierced the air was a horrible sound. Corey knew instantly what it was and what to do. He threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body. Corey was hit really hard. You know the story from there?

He sacrificed his life to save theirs. Two others, very fine people, were also seriously hit. But thankfully, with the help of two great country doctors, he thought they were gone and they were saved. So those doctors had great talent. We're joined by Corey's wife, Helen, who was his, high school sweetheart, and their two beloved daughters, Allison and Kaylee. Thank you.

To Helen, Allison and Kaylee, Corey is looking down on his three beautiful ladies right now, and he is cheering you on. He loves you. He is cheering you on. Corey was taken from us much too soon, but his destiny was to leave us all with a shining example of the selfless devotion of a true American patriot. It was love like Corrie's that built our country, and it's love like Corrie's that is going to make our country more majestic than ever before. I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.

I believe that. Thank you very much. From the Patriots of Lexington and Concord, to the heroes of Gettysburg and Normandy, from the warriors who crossed the Delaware to the trailblazers, who climbed the Rockies, and from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all arts, transcended, all dangers, made the most extraordinary sacrifices, and did whatever it took to defend. our children, our country, and our freedom. And as we have seen in this chamber tonight, that same strength, faith, love, and spirit is still alive and thriving in the hearts of the American people. Despite the best efforts of those who would try to censor us, silence us, break us, destroy us, Americans are today a proud, free, sovereign, and independent nation that will always be free

and we will fight for it till death. We will never let anything happen to our beloved country because we are a country of doers, dreamers, fighters, and survivors. Our ancestors crossed a vast ocean, strode into the unknown wilderness and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very dangerous frontier. They chased our destiny across a boundless continent. They built the railroads, laid the highways, and graced the world with American marvels like the Empire State Building, the mighty Hoover Dam, and the towering Golden Gate Bridge.

They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of American industry, vanquished the communist, fascists, and Marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculptured out of iron glass and steel. We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age. These workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities, these warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle, everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. Now it is our time to take up the

righteous cause of American liberty. And it is our turn to take America's destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country. This will be our greatest era. With God's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher. And we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth. We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and most vital communities anywhere in the world. We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond.

of the American spirit. And we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream. Every single day we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in and for the country our people deserve. My fellow Americans get ready for an incredible future because the golden age of America has only just begun. It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, great honor. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Get this place going, all right? Thank you, very much, thank you.

Thank you very much, President. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, much. Thank you. Thank you. You see a situation young people for a world in here. No, I'm trying to.

Great time. Thank you. Best of your favorite. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Howard? Thank you again. Thank you again.

Don't forget. So good. So good, sir. Terrific, this is real good. Well, folks, we're back, and we just heard President Trump addressing Congress, and there's a lot to unpack, to say the least. he's a modest guy it's hard to it's hard to get him to come out and talk about what he's done

joining me is a man who's never been afraid to speak his mind Jake we'll get him talking here he's the if you're just joining us tonight this is Jack Huger he is a co-founder and host of the

Young Turks, and if you haven't become aware of the Young Turks, it's the longest running show ever, I guess, on the Internet, and you can find it on YouTube, and there'll be links on Dr. Phil.com and Merritt TV, and I highly recommend you put it on your watch list, and he didn't ask me to say any of this. I'm just saying it because it's true. He's smart. He does his homework. He's got a great partner in Anna, and they have some good conversations and great guests, as you'll see tonight when we start talking here. So let's just dive right in. What's your reaction to what you just heard? Well, I like the fourth hour best. Yeah, I thought so. Just flew by, didn't it? Yeah. So, look, so the point. Parts about crime resonated pretty well, I think, with a lot of folks.

And when he does the theatrics, it's good stuff, right? It works stylistically. And I wish the Democrats would pick up some of the things that he does. So when he signed the bill right there in the middle of the State of the Union, some Democrats would frown upon that, oh, that's not the time and place. No, it is the time in place, right? And so when they made the little 13-year-old boy with the cancer Secret Service, agent in the middle of the ceremony. That's beautiful, really well done, right? Now, I hate to be a downer,

okay, but with politicians, you always have to check them, right? And so, you know, when you get into the facts, did someone really win a race by five hours? You know, trans? No, it was five minutes, not five hours, right? It's classic. Are there really people at 300 years old getting Social Security checks? No. He didn't actually say that. He said they're on the role. Well, they're old, but they're not getting anything. So it's misleading to say at least. Look, guys, I really, there was powerful moments, moments where I thought some Democrats should have stood up, you know, especially for the 13-year-old boy.

I mean, so inspirational, right? You know, I noticed him getting up at the end for the family that had been shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. And so good, but we need a little bit more of that. But having said that, so that boy has cancer, and they cut cancer research by billions. did. The judge made them reinstated for now, okay? But they did cut it, and they cut treatment of lead poisoning and lead in the water. And that leads to a lot of sicknesses, etc. So while we celebrate things that are good and right, we also have to hold them to account. And that's true both sets of politicians and both sets of parties. So that was my take. What did you think,

Dr. Phillips? Well, I thought I thought the disruption at the beginning was stupid. Yeah. The guy just standing up and yelling. It's just stupid. You don't gain anything by that. I think it's low class. I think the Democrats not standing up at certain times. When you can't stand up and celebrate a young man overcoming brain cancer, you can't stand up for law enforcement and firefighters, which most of them did not. A few of them did. I think that's poor, I think that's poor planning on their part.

They know they're going to be in a situation like that, so they should decide ahead of time. Look, there are going to be some things that are important, and we need to show some class and stand up for that. That's why they're losing the people. That's why they're losing the people. It's stupid. It doesn't come across well. And is he the master of the superlative? And of course, but he doesn't have a corner on that. He just has mastered it. And I'll talk about some of the substance of what he said in a minute. Our political director, Lindsey Keith, joins us now from D.C. live from Emancipation Hall. Lindsey, thanks for joining us and tell us what your thoughts were about tonight's presentation.

It's good to see you, Dr. Phil, and your whole crowd that you have there, excited to hear their response to this. But really, you're seeing President Trump, who fills emboldened, being the first Republican in decades to win the popular vote from the American people on November 5th. And you heard him there talking about really all the executive actions and orders he's put in place and saying that this is just the beginning. And they've only been in the Oval Office for 43 days. But really, you know, one of the fascinating points here is this bipartisanship that we're seeing across the board. You look at the president's approval rating right now. His average is sitting around 48, 49%. And so America is split down the middle on how they're going to.

they feel about this president and this division. And you saw that in the chamber this evening. And as you were just mentioning there, some of these moments that really should have had an applause across the board, because it's what the American people voted for. You think of immigration was a key issue that the president won on it. And you look at some of this polling that has come out, showing that the vast majority, 60 to 87% of American percent of the people say that they want mass deportations. of illegal immigrants, yet you have a part of the chamber Democrats not standing at all for some of

those moments. And then, of course, as you were talking there, this little 13-year-old boy, DJ, who's a cancer survivor, those should be moments that are rallied around. And this is one of the challenges that you're having from Democrats right now. They're still trying to find their unified response of how to respond to this president. And, you know, we saw that during the election cycle, he was able to meet the American people where they're at, talking about some of these initiatives that they care about, trans women or trans athletes in women's sports. This is something that people have been afraid to talk about, yet this is what people are talking about in their homes, immigration issues, talking about Lake and Riley.

We saw that there wasn't a standing ovation from that. But one of the things I do think that was amiss from the president is really talking more about what this administration is going to do about the price of goods. everyday goods, and this comes on the backdrop of him putting a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada, and we know so much agriculture comes from Mexico. We have many grocery trains saying that prices are going to go up within days if these tariffs stay in place. And that is something that you see polling in the American people saying the president is

not speaking enough on this. He is not talking about how he is going to change that dynamic swiftly for us. We would love to hear more decisive action on that. like we're seeing decisive action on so many other things. And we saw him point the blame at the previous administration for that, opposed to saying, now this is on my watch, I'm going to change the paradigm here. We really didn't hear that from the president tonight. Yeah, I was looking for something to be stronger in terms of actions to be taken.

And I think we'll see that, but I think it should have been talking. It's like the campaign is over. Okay, we got it. The campaign is over. The race is over. So let's talk about action now. And I think that's really important. And I don't think we heard enough of that tonight.

It was like this was more of a campaign rally than a state of the union. And I know it wasn't actually a state of the union. We're 45 days in. And he's talking about that. But I felt like people wanted to hear some of that. But look, one of the things I felt strongly about was there are things that are, bipartisan. There are things that we should rally around. Jank said it earlier. Let's talk about what we can agree on, right? And there were a lot of things there that people could agree on, but they

didn't. It was like, I don't want to give you one single thing. And look, I'm very apolitical. People think that I'm a Republican or for Trump or whatever. I'm about the culture. That's what I'm concerned about. And I stood on this stage and I've been on that camera. And when Biden was president, I said he is my president. He is the president of the United States of America. And I am a citizen of the United States of America. So he's my president. And if Kamala Harris had been elected president, she would have been my president. You honor the office of the president. Not the person in it. And to see those people sit there and cross their arms and stick their nose up like something smells bad, I just, you know, what bothers me is how that looks to the rest of the world.

I mean, you're in, you're in the capital and the president of the United States to stand there. Respect the office of the president. And, you know, I requested several times, I requested several times to interview, President Biden and it was turned down. I requested several times to interview Kamala Harris. It was turned down. And people that know me know

and people in the Democratic Party know. I would never disrespect someone that sits in the office of the president. I would not cross-examine them in a disrespectful way. Would I ask hard questions? Yes, I would ask questions that were respectful but substantive. I think you respect the office. You don't have to agree with everything the person says or does. And I thought it was bad form tonight to go into that hall and not respect

the office of the president. Do you think that's bad form? So I do. So for example, Al Green in the beginning, it's like there was no point to that. Nobody could even hear what you're saying. It makes our side look bad. There's just no point to it. It's counterproductive, right? Now, at the same the president also has a responsibility to reach out to the other side. So for example, almost everything he did was red me, right? And I'm the greatest, I'm better than George Washington, and not only that he'd go and point to the Democrats and they won't stand up and they won't do this and they won't do that. But you know, we've talked about things that bring us together. So earlier we talked about

negotiating drug prices, right? That brings us all together as a popularity around near 90%. Now if he talked about that, then the Democrats If they didn't stand up then, I would have said you'd lose your mind, right? But they would have stood up at that point, right? I don't know. Well, look, here's the thing. Yeah, I don't know. They didn't stand up for a six-year-old boy that had overcome cancer with five months.

13, he had overcame, it lived six years instead of five months. So I hear you. Look, we don't know because he didn't do it. He didn't reach out to the other side at all. Yeah, well, then they don't say he would have. They would have. Right. So, but it's got to go both ways.

They don't stand, but he doesn't reach out. And this is the impasse that we're in. So that's why both sides are always at loggerheads. Nobody's reaching out to the other side. So look, here's another one. The Taiwanese company that's coming to build semiconductors here, $100 billion, he takes all the credit for it. In reality, they got $6.6 billion in subsidies from Biden's Chips Act.

They got a 25% tax credit from Biden's Chips Act. Biden's chips act. Now here's the thing. If he says, hey, Biden did that, but you know, I helped to bring them over right now by doing the tariffs, et cetera, okay, then you've united us a little bit. You give Biden a little bit of credit. You give yourself a little bit of credit. But with Trump, it's always me, me, me, me, right? And so that's why I see, I see what you're saying. I really do. But I'm asking you to see what I'm saying, too, that it's going both ways. No. No, I do hear what you're saying, and listen, Trump is going to blow his own horn more than anybody that's ever been in that office.

I totally agree with that. But at the same time, you've got this event, you've got the entire representation of the Democrats there. Not one person stood up for most of the things that he said. I think a few people stood up for law enforcement. A few people stood up for the firefighters. But other than that, nothing. So I don't know. It seemed to me that that's bad for him.

But that happened. It's over. It's done. But I hope that there's some feedback that people say to Trump, you don't have to go in there and antagonize that side on purpose. And clearly he was antagonizing them. and jabbing them the whole time and somebody needs to

talk to that side and say, come on, show some grace and stand up for the office of the President of the United States. It's a bad look for the world and we need to have a better look for the world. That's all I'm saying.

Do you all agree with that? We need to have a better look for the world? From both sides. Be a gracious winner as president and be a gracious loser. if you're into minority there. So that's all I'm saying. Both sides need to do a better job of that.

You agree with that, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. And look, I'll give the Republicans one more thing, which is, you know, they're chanting fight, fight, fight. And what the Democrats don't understand, they're always about, Democrats are always about civility and whispering on NPR, right? And I love you guys, but you got to, every once in a while,

you've got to speak up, right? And every once in a while, you've got to fight, fight, fight. You know, you've got to fight for your side. You've got to fight for the voters. You've got to fight for folks. And the Republicans have a lot of fight in them. So I get that and I appreciate it. Yeah.

And I, you know, I just hope somebody does a debrief to everybody there. To the president and that side and the Democrats and that side. I hope they do a president. I hope they do a debrief on that and say, this is how this plays to the public. And this will be watched. And if you think both sides needed to show more grace, raise your hand, real high so everybody can see it. Both sides needed to show more grace. And I think if they would, it would play better internally.

Within the United States, it would play better internationally as well. And, you know, if you look at the polls right now and tell me if you guys agree with them, number one issue is affordability. People want to have affordability. They want to be able to know that they can afford to pay for their kids' lunches and clothes and heat and gas and all of that. And number two is security. They want to know that, hey, we're safe. And that includes the borders and violent, illegal aliens. and do we know if that's a really big issue or not?

I don't know that we really know how big an issue that is, but safety is a big issue. And I think those things could have and should have been talked about more. Affordability, is that a big deal to y'all? Is it something that you're concerned about at all? I think it is. and everybody that I talk to, every poll that I see.

And they talk about inflation, inflation, inflation. But what people are more concerned about is affordability. And they're concerned about safety and these violent criminals on the street. And joining us now, straight from the president's address to Congress, is Tom Holman. President Trump's borders are. Tom, thank you for joining us. it's good to see you. I'm really glad that you're here talking to us,

and I'm glad that you were there in the room. How do you think President Trump's speech played to the room overall? We know that it was very divided. How did it feel in the room? Senate with Home of the Patrol, you know, how do... They felt, you know, more invited than he should have been. Look, you can disagree with the president's policy.

You don't have to agree with everything he did. But he's the president of the United States. And I think everybody needs to show more decorum in that room. I mean, these are elected representatives. I was kind of disappointed. You know, mostly on the lap, I have some disappointments on the right, too. But, you know, to stand up and shout and call the president liar, and some of the things I saw was just so unprofessional.

It's hard to believe these are elected representatives. It's supposed to be our finest. But the president's speech I thought was great. I think he spent a lot of time on the border issues and the victimization, the victims of border crime. You know, and everybody in the room should stand. And I didn't see the left standing up, but when you bury a child because your child was raped

and murdered by illegal alien, stand in honor that young lady, stand in honor that family, and let them know that your heart's with them. This shouldn't be a partisan. an issue. It shouldn't be a political issue. Everybody should be standing. So I was disappointed. I have to understand for that. Because I met these families, you know, they buried

their children. You want to talk about, you know, my worst nightmare is to bury one of my children. And I just saw that at any point in that speech, that should have been a point of unification. Well, I couldn't agree with you more, and the group here has agreed with that.

We've been talking about immigration, and let me ask you, and I'll let Jank ask you questions as well. But, Tom, first off, do you feel like you have the border under control at this point? You and your team, your ICE team, and the border guards there? Do you feel like you have the border under control at this point? We're not done. But we got the border more secure than it ever has been in my lifetime.

The reason I say that, because border crossings are down 97%. Under Trump 45, we're down 91 to 92. And right now we're 97% down. And what people need to understand, it's just not the 90% down. With 90%, 97% less people are coming. How many women aren't being raped by the cartels? How many children aren't drowning that river? How many women and children aren't being sex traffic into the country?

How many known suspected terrorists aren't sneaking in because the board patrols 100% vision on the line of secure border? We're at 97% down. We need to get that other 3%. But the most important number I can talk about is the gottaways. Under Joe Biden, there was days where we dealt with 1,800 gotaways. You know, that was the average. 1,800 average gottaways, known gottaways.

A couple of days ago I looked at the gottaways, 41. 41 across 2,000 miles of border. That's almost a perfect border security situation. I'll be happy with zero, but I've never seen it 41 in my career. Okay. Now, let me ask you this. When, in terms of what's happening now inside this country, your attitude is to get the worst first. I want to be clear, are you sweeping through neighborhoods just picking up anybody that is dark-complected? Or are you targeting known criminals, known terrorist, people that are on a list where you have, a folder and a file that you know who you're going after and you know that they are convicted criminals, you know that they have a rap sheet. No, these are, you use the right term.

This is a target enforcement operation. Every time we sign the team out throughout the country, they know exactly what they're looking for. They have a pretty guy dealer where they might find them. And they got a target folder, target worksheet. It has his name, identification, his fingerprints, has this criminal history there. And you're exactly right. The president has promised we're going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats. Are others arrested during the operation?

Yeah, there's a platter arrest. Why is that? Because we're not allowed in these sanctuary jails. We can arrest one agent can arrest one bad guy. So when they release that public safety threat back in the public, it puts the public at great risk, puts the officer at great risk, it puts an alien in great risk. But when we find that person, and we will find them, many times are with others. And if they're in the country, legally, they've got to come too. So that's the problem of Sanctuary Cities.

We're going to give them exactly what they don't want. More agents in the neighborhoods and more collateral arrest. So help us make 100% criminal arrest. Help us, get us in the jail. Let us talk to the guy that you locked in a jail cell. That would raise that percentage. I think we're at about 86% criminals being arrested. You wanted that afternoon to be higher?

You want to be 100%? Let us in the jails. And we can take the worst of the worst out of this country. First. You've told me there were three prongs. Secure the border, arrest the dangerous criminals that are already in this country, and third, find the missing children, the hundreds of thousands of children that have come across that border and just disappeared into the country, many of whom we know are being trafficked. Those are your three most important things. Why? And you've said some things that I don't think people think about.

These people that get trafficked into, or come across the border illegally, they're coming through the cartels and they're being horribly abused by those cartels. And that's, I know that's something that really bothers you what these people have to go through to get into this country under the abuse of those cartels. And then these children that get lost in America, how important is it to you to help, to rescue those children and get them back to their families. Look, it's very important. President Trump, as you say, gave me three goals.

Shut down the border. We got that 97% decline. We're almost there, so we're doing a great job there. Interior enforcement operations, we've rested three times to many people, as Joe Biden did. So we're breaking records there, but I'm not happy yet. I'm not going to be happy through every criminal alien, every criminal public safety threat,

every criminal national security threat is eradicated from this country, especially TVA and MS-13. Until they're all gone, I'm not going to be happy. We won't keep pushing more and more and more. But when it comes to the children, that tugs at my heartstring. I hope this tugs at heartstrings every American. You're right. A half a million children were smuggling this country.

My administration released them unvetted sponsors. They can't find 300,000, approximately 300,000. We are now just wrapping our hands around the data of these so-called sponsors and try to locate because, like, children don't have a footprint. You and I have a footprint. homes, you own cars, we had credit cards. We can find us, but we can't find children and don't have that digital footprint. So we've got to count on the information of the sponsors.

We're just now getting the information on that, and we're finding out a lot of the sponsors' information is inadequate. They weren't fingerprinted. Their identification wasn't validated. Not all of them, but many of them. So this is going to be a difficult job to do, but it's the most important job because based on my 38 years doing this, many of these children are in sex trafficking right now. They're being sold in sex trafficking.

Any of these children are in forced labor. Some of these children are perfectly safe. They're with family members, but we've got to rescue the children at risk. They're living in a life hell every day, and we got to rescue them. Let the immigration consequence. We'll deal with that later. We need to save these children. And that's why I count on you, Dr. Phil.

I count on your audience and every American citizen in this country. We're going to deputize these parents. Parents have this innate ability to recognize where there's something's not right with a child. Well, you see a young child at work place that shouldn't be. or whether you see a child with a situation that you know as a parent, something isn't right with that child and that adult. Call their ice tip line. Let us know what you're seeing where it's at.

If one lead of a thousand saves a child is well worth it. I need America's help. I need your help, Dr. Phil, and your supporters, to help me rescue these children. We're not going to find all of them. That's just the way it is. Some of these children were never fine because they've been sold off to other foreign nations, but we've got to find it safe as not. any children as possible. As you said, I take this personally. I've talked to little girls as

young as nine years old that were raped multiple times by the cartel members and these smuggers and traffickers. And when you get in looking at a little nine-year-old little girl's eyes and everything innocent and pure has been torn from her. She don't see life the same as you and I. She never will. She has no faith in humanity. Her life has been destroyed. When you wear my shoes and dealt what I dealt with, you understand my passion for this. And I hope your listeners will help me. Help me find these kids. I need your partnership. I need your help.

You bet. Well, Tom, listen, I know you've had a long day, so I won't keep you anymore. Thank you so much for taking time to catch up with us and let us know what's in your heart. And you and I'll be seeing each other real soon. Well, let me say this, Dr. I'll appreciate your partnership. You've been shoulders so many during this whole event.

I know you're taking some hits from the less or you're a brave man. I appreciate you picked the side. You picked the side of children. You picked the side of people that have been victimized by illegal alien criminals. You picked the side of American citizens who've been victimized. God bless you

and God bless you to taking a stand. I honor you. I respect you. I respect you greatly. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon, my friend. Thank you so much. All right. Joining us now California Democratic Congressman Roy Cahanna Roe.

What are you thinking after President Trump's address to Congress, sir? I'm sad. I'm sad for the country. I'm sad that we're as divided. I'm sad that there was no moment where we came together as Americans. I'm sad that this is what it's come to. And, you know, we can talk about who's to blame. But it just was a moment. I've been in this country born in Philadelphia in 1976 or by centenary.

I'm 48 years old. And I've always been really hopeful about this nation. I've thought that we can do anything in this nation. And today was the first time I thought, what has happened to our country? Why has things gone this wrong? How are we going to come back? How are we going to find some common ground? And that's one of the reasons I wanted to come on tonight,

because I know Dr. Phil, even where we disagree and would Jack, that both of you are committed to doing that and that your audience is committed to doing that. And that, to me, is the highest priority. I know you said border security and I know you said affordability. You know what the highest priority is, how are we not going to be a house divided in this nation? Boy, that's true. Yeah. So, Roe, you know, we just talked about immigration and Tom Holman was on talking about

arresting people who have committed crimes in the country that are undocumented and taking them out. I don't think that the Democrats are against that. You tell me if I'm wrong about that, but we didn't get into mass deportations. So you tell me where the Democratic line is on these immigration issues. Is it on, you know, kicking out the people who are criminals, or is it on mass deportations? Of course, everyone is for picking out criminals. Of course, your heart breaks for the children that Tom Ahman was talking about who have been kidnapped and smuggled, and no one denies that. But if someone is committing murder, if someone is committing armed robbery, if they're convicted of a crime, of course Democrats think that they should be deported.

The difference is, first, in language. And, you know, I know President Trump feels he was vindicated, he's won. But when you describe the situation of Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado, has an invasion. And you use that kind of language that has real consequences. When Mike DeWine, the governor, Republican governor, Ohio is saying, you know, that's actually not the case than most of the people who are immigrants that are hardworking and paying taxes. When Ronald Reagan has said that immigrants actually enrich America and then when you come to America from a different country like my parents did from India, you can be American and you can't

do that in Japan and France and Germany and anywhere else in the world. And when you pull at that, then it's going to create a reaction on those of us who believe that we're a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants to be defensive. And I guess, If the president wants to try to find common ground, and he says, look, the border wasn't secure, I'm securing the border, we didn't do a good enough job of deporting criminals, I'm going to do that. But people, I also recognize that there are a lot of immigrants who are hardworking and a lot of immigrants that are contributing. Where was any Ronald Reagan or Abraham Lincoln in the speech? Why does it always have to be just the demonization? So, Roe, if there's something that you thought he could have reached out on that maybe he even agrees with on the Democratic side or something that you guys have proposed before and he didn't do it, is there a topic that you wish he had actually reached out and said, here's where we have agreement and that that could have riled you guys up to actually stand up and applaud because they, because you actually found that agreement?

You know, he could have said that we can't have a nation that has a $1 trillion dollar Pentagon budget with five defense contractors. And he actually said that he wants to meet with Russia and China and try to figure out how the nations of the world aren't spending as much on military and war and to bring peace. I mean, why didn't he say something like that? And then what would all the Democrats have been standing or not standing if he was talking about world peace? or if he said, I want to be, the president gets drug prices down. No American should pay more for drugs than anywhere else in the world.

I mean, there are things that he could have done. At my sense, even on Doge, look, I was criticized in my own party when Doge happened. And I said there is wasteful spending. But what my problem was, why didn't it must come to Congress to have a rational plan? Why are we firing the veterans first, the third of the people who are being fired, 30% are veterans. You know, people, I met someone who went to Afghanistan and Iraq and was helping other veterans. You know what, Mr. Musk, I don't care if the person is 50% effective, 60% effective.

He put on the uniform, something I haven't done, something Mr. Musk hasn't done, something the president hasn't done. You know what, if you're in Iraq and Afghanistan, you're going to come back and you're going to work in the federal government and you're working at 70% and don't have the top five performance of Mr. I still think that person is contributing. It should have a job. It's crazy, these mass firing a veteran. I agree. I agree. Listen, thank you so much for everything you've had to say.

I think if you and the president sit down and spent a couple hours a week, there would be a lot more bridge building going on than there is right now. It's just that kind of rationality that we need to hear more of. And I hope I get a chance to talk to you. I appreciate that. You know, I was the only Democrat yesterday who showed up. the First Lady Trump's roundtable. It was a bill of it called Take It Down.

I had some of my say, why are you going? I said, could the bill that the First Lady is for says, take down sexually explicit images from the internet. And two of the people who were, she talked about, were at that round table. And she said, Roe, thank you for coming. We need to put aside looking at every single thing as partisans. Start to think with one simple test.

We believe it's flip for America, or dads for America. Great, so much. Thank you for taking time to talk to us tonight. I know it's been a long and busy day. Joining us now is Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Okay.

Bobby, how are you doing? I'm very well, thank you. Well, you've had a long day, so I appreciate you taking the time to talk with us. I know you've traveled across the country today, and this has been a long one. I'll ask you a general question first. How did you feel about President Trump's speech tonight overall, and how did it feel in the room? I think that, I mean, I thought the speech was excellent. I thought, you know, one of the things that he's done is really what he's succeeded in doing through leadership and through his authenticity is really reinvigorating our nation.

And I remember when I was younger and Ronald Reagan was president and I was very much opposed to Reagan. I didn't, you know, I didn't like any of his policies very hard on the environment, which was my big issue then. And my Uncle Teddy, who is, you know, ahead of the American liberal tradition, who did not like Carter a lot, and he loved Reagan. And I couldn't understand why. And he said because he brings good energy to our country. He makes people proud to be American again. And although Carter agreed with them on most of the issues,

he also saw that there was another quality to leadership that was really important for a president. And I see that all around me as I walk around the country. You know, there was really a malaise in this country over the past couple of years. People were hopeless. People on both sides of the aisle felt, you know, felt that the country was not going in a direction that was hopeful. And I think a huge majority of Americans now feel great hope for the future of our country. some of the things that the president is doing are I think incredibly imaginative the gold card is something that that came out of him and it really you know it's the first hope that I've seen that we can you know start paying down some of the debt

which is is crippling our country which is an existential crisis we're now paying more just service the debt just for the interests on that debt than we're paying for our military budget. And then, of course, I was very happy for the shoutout that he gave to make America healthy again. That is another existential crisis when my uncle was president. 3% of Americans had chronic disease and today 60% do. And when I was a boy, our typical pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime. Today, 38% of our teenagers

are diabetic or pre-diabatic, and we're spending more on diabetes and mitochondrial disorders than we're spending on our military. So these are existential crises. 77% of American kids cannot qualify for military service. Testosterone in our kids

has dropped by 50%. A 68-year-old man today, American, has more testosterone than any. teenager. And this is not the way that world is supposed to work. And I think that President Trump for the first time has given our country a hope that we can, that we have another way out. Well, I couldn't agree with you more about that. And let me ask you, I've got two questions that I think are really important and that this group here wants to hear about. Are we going

to get to a point where we're able to negotiate and get down. drug prices so we don't have corporate capture from Big Pharma? Well, you know, I think those are two different questions, Phil, because the corporate capture is from pharma purchasing Congress and controlling the regulatory agencies, and it does that through a number of mechanisms. One is it does have a tremendous amount of money. There's now two to three lobbyists on Capitol A Hill for every congressman and senator. And the amount of money that's being poured into pharmaceutical ads has given the pharmaceutical company control over the mainstream media. If you're Anderson Cooper and your network, your show is getting 75% of its budget from pharmaceutical advertisers, you are very, very conscious of,

of making sure to please your advertisers in the way that you reports of news. So it's given them not only a platform for selling drugs, but also for controlling content, which means the people who go up against them politically get punished and get silenced. And that is not a good outcome. The drug pricing issue is a very different issue.

And drug pricing, we have to get control of a pharmaceutical company there are things being done by the administration right now the lower drug pricing we're negotiating over 15 of the most common drugs including the GLP drugs

that people are you know we're paying $1,200 for GLPs for these weight loss drugs in our country and in England they pay $88 and the president has instructed me to narrow that gap between European pricing and what we pay here.

We pay 70% of pharmaceutical revenues come from the United States of America. We only have 4.2% of the world's population. And we're essentially subsidizing drugs to the rest of the world. And that is something the president wants to end. And we are already actively taking steps to do that. of the pharmaceutical benefit managers, the middlemen who are supposed to negotiate drug prices, have developed a retinue, an arsenal, intrigues, and scams to enrich themselves and pay themselves kickback instead of giving us discounts on our drugs.

There's a lot of things that we need to do to bring down drug prices. and that's a priority for the president. Well, and I know it's something you've got on your hot sheet as well. And if we change what we're feeding our children, is it not possible to change this level of chronic disease within a generation? If we change what we're feeding our kids, can we not change this chronic disease epidemic, it literally in a generation?

Yeah, I mean, we can end the chronic disease epidemic. We can trace it directly to ultra-processed foods into all these chemicals that are used in our country, that are illegal in Europe. We have 10,000 ingredients in our foods in this country. In Europe, they have 400. Most of the vast majority, 80% of our ingredients are illegal in Europe. And you have companies like Kellogg's or, you know, that are making fruit bloops. One version of the United States that's loaded with red dye, blue dye, yellow dye, and all these other chemicals.

The same product that they're selling in Canada. and in Europe does not have those chemicals in them. McDonald's French fries in our country has 11 ingredients. The same product in France or England has three ingredients. The companies can make them make safe products, but it's cheaper for them to make poison and sell us food-like products that are not, that are just destroying our children.

And Dr. Phil, you and I have talked about this. It's not only affecting our physical health, diabetes rates and rheumatoid arthritis, the autoimmune diseases, ADHD, and all this parade of neurodevelopmental disorders and allergies that our kids now are beleaguered by, it also directly affects mental health. And, you know, we're seeing that in studies from Harvard and Stanford. There's a Harvard scientist that has treated children who have lost schizophrenia diagnoses by changing their diet. And so, you know, this is one of the big contributors to the mental health crisis, which is one of your preoccupations, all these kids who are suicidal, who are depressed, who are addicted, who are alcoholic, who feel purposeless and alienated. their lives. And one of the paths out there, that's not the only thing we have to do, but one of the paths out of that crisis is to change our food. Yeah, Bobby, can I just ask the question? Please, go ahead. I was going to ask you. Yeah, you know, we talked a lot about this tonight.

That's why Dr. Phil brought it up. So we hear politicians, Obama, Trump, et cetera, tell us that they're going to take on corporations, they're going to take on donors, and they're going to negotiate drug prices. You said it here today. So Bobby, can we hold you accountable? So if you guys do not negotiate drug prices for Medicare, have you failed? Yeah, if we don't lower drug prices, we failed. I will, I'll take that bargain with you, check. I, there's other things that, you know, for me are my priorities, drug prices, one of them, but getting the chemicals out of our food, getting the toxins out of our food, returning health the American kids is probably my, that's the reason I took this job and that's the reason I ran for

president. And that is my principal. Well, and you know that I'm going to be shoulder to shoulder with you every step of the way. And I hope you know that because I believe in what you're doing and I believe in what you're saying. Yeah, Dr. Phil, you've been an invaluable supporter for me. You're one of the first people. give me air time when I was heavily censored by everybody else. And, you know, I'm very, very grateful to you for that. And I'm grateful for your courage and standing up for free speech and allowing these stories to be told on the public airweds.

Yeah, well, it's my honor. So, Mr. Secretary, get some sleep, and we'll talk to you again very soon, sir. Thank you very much. I look forward to it. I always love to talk to you. And, Chank, it's very, very good to see you, too. Good to see you. Yep.

All right. Joining us now is my very good friend, Stephen A. Smith. Stephen. What's going on big time? How are you, Dr. Phil? How are you saying, how's everything going? How are you doing, sir? I'm doing great. Going great. It's good to see y'all. How are you doing? I'm all right. So did you watch the speech tonight? I'm starting to finish. It almost put me to sleep because it was too damn long, but it was one of his better speech because I'll give him credit for that. Hey, don't sugarcoat it, man, spit it out. Just tell us how you. you feel? I just thought that, you know, listen, he did what I expected him to do. He touted

his success in terms of focusing on immigration. I think that was necessary. Focusing on the terrorists, I think that was necessary. A lot of people may not agree with that plan. I have a wait and see approach. I recognize that from a strategic perspective, you got to make other nations pay for penalizing you and charging you more than you charge them. When he brings up the fact that they charge us more for tariffs than we do for them, considering how generous we are to the world. And I think that's a legitimate argument to the American taxpayer.

And what you're trying to do if you're Donald Trump is get our money back, or at least some of it. We're over $37 trillion in debt. Do I know if this is the right plan or not? No, I don't. But it's clear what his intent is as it pertains to that. And you have to give credit where creditors do in that regard. That I think it was a bit petty at times,

particularly how often he's, mentioned Joe Biden. Sure, I did find myself asking, you know, rhetorically for compassion from the standpoint that Joe Biden is 82 years of age. He is gone. He ain't coming back. Let, you know, let's sleep in dogs lie per se, just move on. But that's not Trump's nature. We know that. And so you take it with a grain of salt and you move forward. But in the end, I thought that it was one of his better speeches because he was very piercing. He was talking about safety in the streets of America. He was talking about the economy. He was talking about the immigration crisis being addressed.

He was talking about terrorists and stuff like that. And it all seemed to the benefit of America. Whether the results will show that remains to be seen, but still in all. I think that he gave the right message. And I also think that, you know, Representative Al Green, I don't want to call him out. I have profound respect for any representative on Capitol Hill, particularly one that's represented in my community. But there's no harm in sitting there and listening.

You're an elected official. showed the quorum and I was disappointed that he elected not to do that in this particular case. I agree. Not a good look. Yeah. Stephen, what was your favorite part of the speech and what was your least favorite part of the speech? Well, my favorite part was him talking about the border because I think it was necessary. You know, when I just finished interviewing former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who's now running for the mayor seat in New York. And I just finished interview on him on my YouTube show, the Stephen N. Smith show. And he talked about safety in the streets of America. And he talked about why that's important, because everything

starts and stops there. If you don't feel safe, you don't want to shop. You don't want to go out. Essentially, you don't want to pay money. You don't want to spend money. And if you're not spending money, you're not fueling the economy and the capitalistic society. And then we all go down. And so I recognize that. And I agree with that kind of sentiment. So I appreciated the president focusing on that. Again, my least favorite was the penniness in terms of pointing the finger at Biden for everything. I thought that, you know, in the end, you might have been right about most things, but how do we know if you're not right or not about all the things? And by mentioning him so consistently, it's almost like you're hedging your bets. Yeah, I'm taking risk with

the tariffs. I'm taking risk with an abundance of other things. I don't know how right I'm going to be. But if I'm not successful, ladies and gentlemen, look at Biden. Don't look at me. It doesn't that way. You're Donald Trump, you're the 47th president of the United States, just like you're the 45th president of the United States. You're supposed to know how to get things done and turn things around. Damn it, we expect you to do it. Get it done. Don't point the finger at your predecessor. He's gone. It's your job now. Handle your business. If you could ask him a question tonight after hearing that speech, if you could ask President Trump a question, what would it have been? I would have asked him, number one, when it comes to DEI, how come every time

We mentioned DEI and we allude to incompetence or lack of merit. We're always giving the impression that it's minorities in this country. There are an abundance of people, white, black, and otherwise, everything in between that benefited in some capacity from DEI. Let's not be divisive. I would ask him, what are you going to do to bring the country together? Are you even concerned about that at all? Because I think that when you think about us in terms of this nation, I'm just looking at you now, Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil, I saw you, you know, I didn't go to the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, but I saw you there.

You know, I don't agree with everything that I saw from every Trump supporter. It doesn't stop me from caring about you. It doesn't stop me from thinking that you're a good man and a decent human being and you care about what's in the best interest of America. When are we going to get to the point where I can look at you, no matter your ethnicity, your gender, or anything else, and just say, hey, you have a vision for America? I have a vision for America. Let's sit down and talk about it and see which idea is better so we can reach some kind of compromise and understanding what's in the best interest of our country

because when you have us divided in the streets, it just sifts every place, every walk of life, in the workplace, in restaurants, in malls, you know, anywhere you go. When you have that level of divisiveness, sometimes things could be good, things could be good, and you don't even know because there's so much hatred in your heart and your soul that you don't know how to act and you're on the defensive. I think that's what's going

on in this country. I think it's been going on for far too long, and I think we all need to come together to do a better job of eradicating that. But you know, nobody, it's like nobody will take a chance to be honest. I think I was the only one in Madison Square Garden

and I don't know how many people were there, 20,000 people or whatever. I was the only one that stepped up and said, first, I'm not here to endorse Donald Trump. And I don't agree with everything he says and does. And everybody stood up and clapped because everybody believes that. They just are afraid to say it.

And I said it and everybody said, thank you. We don't agree with everything he says and does. He sounds crazy some of the time. But it starts with our elected officials. And I point the finger. And I'm not talking about the president here, the former or the present. I'm talking about the politicians on Capitol Hill in the House and the Senate. When are you going to have the guts and have the courage of your convictions to be about what's doing right instead of preserving your status and your seats in the House of Congress or the Senate?

I think that's something that we need to point to when we're looking at them. You know, when the Senate confirmation hearings were taking place, they talk about how their responsibility was to consult and advise and stuff like that. But far more often than not, you're just going along with the program. I think one of the most egregious things that's going on in the world of politics, guys and ladies, at this particular moment in time, is that do you realize that outside of campaigning, you genuinely can get away with working as a politician? All you have to do is vote on your side, because that's all they're doing these days. The Democrats go vote with the Democrats. The Republicans vote with the Republicans. I'm not saying there's nothing that's bipartisan that's going on.

But by and large, all we hear about is how folks hold a ball along party lines. I sent you up to Capitol Hill to work to compromise and to work with one another and figure out what's in the best interest of all Americans. No one gets everything they want. But let's make sure we're compromising to a degree where people get some of what they want. So we feel like we're moving forward as a nation. We're not doing that right now. We've got people catering to their own cliques. And it's assisted in creating this divide and it's sifted down to citizens in the United States of America.

And when I think about us being divided, one of the reasons I'm held in or not falling for that is because I think they use us as pawns. They're the problem. They ultimately cause us problems. And our angst makes it seem like we're the problem. But it really starts with them because they're not doing their damn job. And that's what we need to call them up. Yeah. Stephen, so I hear and agree with a lot of what you're saying tonight. And, you know, the egg example was great.

Egg prices go up under Trump. He blames Biden. But we all know it was under you. We all know, brother, right? So, but I'm curious, you know, there's talk of you, maybe running for president one day. What drives you? If you were president, what's the one issue that you would want to get solved that makes you even think about running? If you are. Top two things on my mind would be safety in the streets, and it would be a flourishing economy. I think when people have money in their pockets, they have something to lose.

And when they have something to lose, they act accordingly. When you have nothing to lose, then you're more of a risk because you know most people's definition of happiness is to bring folks down to their level, as opposed to elevating and ascending themselves up to the levels of those who have a legitimate reason to be happy. And so I think that when you talk about making sure that the streets are safe, okay, to go to work, to go out and have a good time, to enjoy your life, and you have, you're gainfully employed. I think that goes a long, long way. As it pertains to my political aspirations, I have none. I am with ESPN. I'm very, very happy doing what I'm doing. I've been blessed to be a highly successful sports broadcaster and analyst. Some people call me the best in the country. I'll leave that to them to tell you whether that's true or not. I don't know. I just know I'm paid like it, and I like that. So I like my life. I like my life. I have no desire to be in politics, but I always leave the door open only from this perspective,

and there's two things. Number one, I've always been fascinated by politics in terms of debate. I'm not an officianto, but I'm a conscientious observer. I pay attention to current affairs and what have you, and I have an opinion about that. always salivated for the opportunity to be on that debate stage for a presidential debate because I think I'd smoke almost anybody that went up against me, especially the politicians I see out there now. That's number one. And on a more serious level, number two, no matter how successful I am, if the country is in absolute shambles and we have nothing but garbage as candidates, nobody that's interested in looking out for the best interests of all Americans, then would I reconsider

if my pockets were fat and I didn't have my quality of life. I didn't have to worry about my quality of life being compromised. Yes, I would, but I'm not a politician. I don't think I can lead like a lot of these governors can lead and stuff like that. I don't know politics like that, but I know that I'd hire people who did, and I know that I'm not scared to make decisions. And most importantly, as a proud black man, even though I would definitely, definitely do what I can to uplift my community,

ultimately it would be about the United States of America, not a segment of the population. I want everybody flourishing. And that would be my mission. And that's how I would react. You make way too much sense to be president of the United States. I don't know how they're going to work. I agree.

Stephen, thank you for joining us tonight. All right, buddy. Love you, man. Good to see you, man. All right, love you too, man. You take it. All right. Let's take a look at what's, let's take a look at what some of Senator Elisa Slotkin had to say during the Democratic response tonight.

But it's always important to read the fine print. So, do his plans actually help Americans get ahead? Not even close. We need a more efficient government. You want to cut waste, I'll help you do it. But change doesn't need to be chaotic or make us less safe. But it's also at risk when the president pits Americans against each other. When he demonizes those who are different and tells certain people,

They shouldn't be included. Because America is not just a patch of land between two oceans. We are more than that. Generations have fought and died to secure the fundamental rights that define us. Those rights and the fight for them make us who we are. We're a nation of strivers, risk takers, innovators, and we are never satisfied. That is America's superpower. Well, good points.

Joining us now is Nina Turner, former Ohio State Senator. Senator, thank you for joining us. Really appreciate it. Nina, I wanted to ask the first question of you, if you don't mind. So, of course, you were one of the top people in Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016 and 2020. So as someone on the populist left, what did you make of the speech? Was there any parts that you liked and what was the part that bothered you the most? Well, Jank, I certainly enjoyed, and to Dr. Phil, I certainly enjoyed him lifting up DJ.

I agree with you both the commentary of how disgraceful it was for Democrats not to stand up in honor of that little boy and what his family is going through. I wish President Donald J. Trump, who's on his second tour of duty, so to speak, would have said that he plans to pass universal health care in the United States of America. Most bankruptcies are based on people's medical debt, and we are the only industrialized nation on the face of the earth that does not have some type of universal health care. People are putting insulin on credit cards, and so it makes no sense in a hegemonic nation like ours that we do not have universal health care. But honoring DJ in that way was indeed a beautiful thing. President Trump, he's going to Trump.

So, you know, referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas, I thought, was distasteful. He shouldn't have done that. There was no need to do that. He doesn't know how to be graceful, even in victory. I'm just shaking my head at that. And folks are talking about decorum. The real decorum that we need is to make sure that the American people are not living paycheck to paycheck. 60% of them are saying that they are.

And I believe, Jink, that the conservatives are confusing, the anger that Americans have. with the Democrats with support for their agenda. President Trump ran as a populace, but yet him and his co-president, Elon Musk, have declared war on federal workers. It used to be a time in this country that we saw our neighbors, our family, our friends, and even our frenemies, who worked in the federal government, people who worked in veteran affairs and the Social Security offices, the post office, as public service that we looked up to, but now they vilify them. So I think it's going to be very hard for this president on one hand to say that he's going to lift the working class people of this nation. And on the other hand, he's declaring war on another type of working class people.

That dog just does not hunt. So Nina, the Democrats are now battling amongst themselves as to what to do. There's literally a portion of them, in fact, the majority that are saying maybe the best option to do nothing, which I feel like we've heard a lot from the Democratic Party in our lifetimes. And so what do you think is the right way to approach the Trump administration? If you were in charge of the Democratic Party, how would you handle it? Well, first of all, Jing, they've been doing nothing this whole entire time. I mean, I know Dr. Phil gave the senator a nod.

You know, she made some good points, but points were boring. A lot of platitudes per usual. That is how the Democrats operate. I would advise the Democrats, first of all, they need to do an autopsy as to why they lost this race. There's a reason why President Donald J. Trump got the popular vote and won the electoral college. You cannot reform the Democratic Party without first the Democratic Party looking in the mirror. The Democratic Party did not do enough to change material conditions for the people in this country. And so President Trump, too, has to take some responsibility for this.

I want folks to remember this is not, again, his first time. And so the suffering that people are feeling today, their concerns about inflation, people primarily voted for President Donald J. Trump because they believed that he was going to bring down the cost of eggs, that he was going to do something about inflation and not necessarily for some of the things that him and his colleagues are standing up and cheering for. So I would advise the Democratic Party to take a hard look to apologize to the American people for being weak and for failing to truly change Democratic. criteria conditions, and then be the party that stands up. You know, if we want America to be great, let's have universal health care. If we want America to be great, let's have universal child care. If we want America to be great, let's have debt-free college. Let's have those conversations with President Trump.

And because President Trump has such a competitive streak, I would advise Democrats to play on that competitive streak. President Donald J. Trump, we know you want to be the best president ever known in the universe to generations past, present, and yet unborn. Work with us to make that happen, and let's change material conditions. But the Democrats cannot continue to just point the finger, Jenkin, you and I've talked about this several times. I mean, for the entire four years that President Biden was in office.

They were blaming President Donald J. Trump for everything. And now you got President Trump doing the same thing again, even in his speech. These people have got to get a clue. I know that this was not technically a state of the union. It was a joint address. But if this were a real state of the union, I would ask President Trump to analyze the state of the streets. 50% of Americans said that in 2024,

they could barely pay their rent or barely pay their mortgage. People are dying in this country. President Trump is talking about driving down the deficit, or driving down the debt, I should say. Well, one of the ways that he can really do something to make America great is to undo homelessness, invest that $20 billion that is necessary for our sisters and our brothers, our family and friends and frenemies, not to lay on streets at night in the country that is known as the United States of America.

There are many things that President Donald J. Trump can do. There are many things that the Democrats can push him to do, plan on his fact that it is all about him. Sometimes the president reminds me of Mr. Smith and the Matrix. me, me, me, me, me. I like your plan. I like your plan to take advantage of that. Turn it on its head.

That's at least a strategy. We now have an official democratic strategy on the board. All right, that's good. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Nina. All right. All right.

Any final questions from the audience here? And I did think there was a bright spot. when Trump called Liz Warren Pocahontas, I thought she handled that with grace. She was like, and people think I'm one way or the

other. She's actually a very good friend of mine. I've watched two of her books, wrote a forward for one or two of them. I mean, we're actually very good friends. That's what I say about you. I'm your bona fides, right? But I thought she handled that with grace.

She laughed and clapped instead of, you know, grimacing and all. That kind of attitude we need more of. I totally disagree with her politics. But she's a great gal. I like her. But I don't agree with her politics at all. Yeah. Look, as I said earlier, she did set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

It did get us back $20 billion. I wish you could get us another $20 billion. That's what I'm talking about when I say, don't shut everything now. You've got to think through what you want to shut down. You got to think through what's, hey, what's causing the problem. How do I address that instead of just blindly chop it away? And so look, as good as he was on crime.

You, well, say what you want to say about crime. Then I want to tell you something. Okay. As compelling as I thought he was objectively on crime, and I know how much the American people care about that, et cetera. What he didn't talk about is white color crime. And so, I mean, we've got people moved out of the SEC. We've got people moved out of the IRS.

We've got people moved out in so many different areas. The Inspector Generals are gone. So, you know, Doge says they're the watchers, but who's watching the watchers? And so I'm worried about that, and I wish he'd focus on that, too. All right, well, hang on. Questions or comments from you guys before we end here. Yes, ma'am. You're Deidre, right?

I'm Rochelle. Rochelle. Is it Rochelle? Rochelle. Are you sure? I'm positive. Okay. I just want to say I purposely were red, right and blue today. Very good. Because I want to remind us as a takeaway that we all have more in common than we do differences.

And regardless if we're Democrats or Republicans or others, let's just remember we have a fight together. We all want the same thing. I want my children to grow up in a country where they can go to school and where they can have the best education. I want good health care. We all want good health care. We keep saying that if we would focus more on the things we have in common versus our differences, we could fight together as a country that we could be unified. But we have to stop focusing on all the things that we do wrong

and all of our mistakes and all of our flaws. And we've got to start looking at the positive. Well said. All right. Who else? If you have a comment to stand up, we'll bring you the microphone and we'll just go rapid fire. So who's next? stand up back there

go ahead and then you'll go back there I'm Dietra right Dr. Phil I want to salute you for being the one to stand up when no one wants to speak and tell America that we are accountable and we thank you

for that we thank Dr. Phil for the braveness and the boldness thank you so much back there yes ma'am hi my name is Ricky one thing I noticed that President Trump did not talk much about was finding the cure to childhood cancer.

On his first time at the last State of the Union address, there was a child there that did have brain cancer, and that's one thing he said he was going to go after. I'd like to also see the cure to multiple sclerosis because that hits home with my family personally and other diseases as well. And Dr. Phil, thank you for bringing people together for some times like this.

And thank you for your comment. Okay. Who else? Just stand up. We can't find you if you don't stand up. So stand up. We'll bring your microphone. Go ahead.

I'm Toby. Yeah, we got you this time, Toby. I'm Toby, and I'm 21. Anyway, I just want to say, you know, I work two jobs, take care of. This is my husband right here that I take care of and stuff. And I just want to say, you know, it's hard. Well, we're married. Oh, my Lord.

Yeah, well, okay, right in front of you. Straight in front of you. Uh-huh. Yes, ma'am, your name? I'm Leslie. Okay, Leslie, go ahead. I just want to thank you as well, because you did, you know, stand up and cover everybody,

and we feel very thankful for that. We have a lot of gratitude. And I just want to remind everybody that we're all Americans, and we're one nation under God. And we, you know, in the big scheme of things, we're all the same family. You know, we're all family. And we should be looking out for each other, no matter whether you're a Democrat. Forget about Democrats. Forget about any, you know, Republicans or, you know, just all be independence.

And we'll work together as a team and we'll bring this country to the best we can possibly do. just, you know, help America get great and wonderful and incredible and also in great shape and working out and getting healthy and everybody can, you know, do that. And we can all just love on each other. As they're passing the mic, let me say one thing. Look, to the point that you're all making, don't let them divide you on identity, right? They call them wedge issues for a reason. They're supposed to create a wedge between you guys.

So think about economic issues because economic issues unite us and demand that your politicians work for you, not the donor class, not the rich, not the corporations, but for all of you. Okay. That's exactly some of the things I was going to say because in listening to everyone tonight and talking with you when we were out there, we are. The same. We are the same. We have same issues, the critical issues. My question for me, I'm a little bit too old to do it, but we don't like who we have in office. We don't like how they're governing. We have the power to change that. So if it's not changing, we need to look in the mirror. Why isn't it changing? Yeah, for sure. Because we don't need to keep it going this way. You bet. Uh-huh. Yes, sir? I think from experiences I worked with Julie Johnson's campaign last fall,

if you know she is, she's a new congresswoman. I think it's really wonderful getting to meet with voters through there and getting to meet everybody through here. I met a lot of wonderful people who don't agree with me on a lot of things. I think it's just really awesome seeing everybody come together and really just speak about the things that bring us together rather than divide us. So I think that's really cool. Yeah, I do too.

You know, back here behind you? First name and whatever you want to say. Hi, my name's Erica, and as much as we've talked about politics and sides, I just wanted to remind you all that it really starts at home. We can talk all we want about what's happening out there, but if we can't be humble enough to see what we're doing at home with our own lives, when doors are closed, when we know we're looking at our kids and our husband and our families, that's what really matters because I think that's what's going to impact the world,

we raise our kids, how we take care of each other, how we plant a garden and learn how to have, you know, herbal remedies and all these things. And we have to study these things. We have to be intentional. But it starts with us. It starts at home before we can make an impact out there. Yeah. It really does. Yeah.

Hi, my name is Marjorie. And I'd like to say that we are one of us. We are one nation under God, indivisible. And I am a conservative. But first, I'm a Christian. Before I'm black, before I'm a woman, before I'm a mother's daughter. I'm a Christian. And as a Christian, there are a lot of things that we can accomplish just by following the Bible in this country.

And the reason we are so messed up, because we have. We have no loss anymore. You know, we can't come together on anything because we have become a godless nation. When we bring God back into the schools and when we bring God back into this country and we serve God as a nation, we'll come together. We won't always be fighting. But we have to honor God in this nation because when a nation forgets God, that's what we. the nation is destroyed. Well, let me, do you have a final comment you want to make, and then I'll make a final comment?

Yeah, I want to ask you guys a final question, because there's so much division in this country, and, you know, the left wing is worried that the right wing hates them based on their identity, whether it's minorities or LGBTQI plus etc and then the right wing is afraid that the left wing just hates them period right that they just don't want to talk to them they think they're all racist this that the other thing right so there's all this division and hatred but now that you guys have met each other a little bit and you guys have spent some time together this raise your hands if anyone in this room hates someone else in this room let's the record note, no one raised their hand. Oh, no, actually one, one, okay. But you know what,

that's bold. That's courageous too. Now raise your hand if you all want to and are dying to actually get to know each other, work together, and love each other. See, that's what we want. That's what we want to drive towards. And unfortunately, so many times our leaders block us from doing that. And they divide us instead of bringing us together. So let's try for that. All of us together, whether you're on the left or the right, just please don't have assumptions in your head when you're talking to another human being. Listen to them first, listen to them first, and then have a human interaction. And I think that'll make it a little bit better. Yeah, I agree.

There's two things I want to say quickly in closing. And number one, I'm I spent time in Carolina after the hurricane came through there. And I saw some things happen there that really inspired me. I saw people that didn't know each other that were going to incredible links to help one another. I know at one time I was in the basement under somebody's house and there was mud like that deep in their house when I got there. It had been up to seven or eight feet and we were just in a chain gang taken mud out in buckets. And there were neighbors there whose houses had been flooded, but they were down here helping this neighbor get mud out of their house. And so I'm in this chain gang of bringing mud up out of this house.

And not one person ask the person next to them in the chain gang, are you a Democrat or a Republican? Nobody gave a damn. It was America at its best. I was fortunate to have a fleet of Black Hawk helicopters that were taking us into. these remote villages in the mountains and people were cut off. You couldn't get there by road or rail.

The only place was by helicopter. And we were taking them in water and food and Starlink hookups because they were out of communication. They couldn't call their families or anything. And they didn't care what anybody's ideology was. They were just so thankful and so grateful. And they were asking, how can we help?

They were, I mean, it was absolutely America at its best. And I, it, you know, I grew up in communities like that. And it was, it was inspiring. It was just absolutely inspiring. to see that. And that reminded me. They're showing some of that footage back there just to me, for some reason. I don't know why. But thank you for letting me see it. But these were real people that really mattered. And the other thing I wanted to say is, I think one of the most important days

in America in my lifetime was 912, 2001. It wasn't 9-11. We all know what happened on 9-11 but on 9-12

we were all Americans. We had been attacked on American soil. And on that morning, think back to where you were on that morning. If you were

alive then, if you were old enough to remember it, how did you feel on that morning? There weren't any Democrats, there weren't any Republicans, there wasn't any left, there wasn't any

right. We were Americans and somebody had attacked our country and somebody had attacked our way of life and what we believed in and what we stood for and by God we stood together

and I just hope I pray that we don't have to have another 9-11 to get our attention to remind us that truly to remind us that we are all Americans. Think about it in your own family. You all think you have problems. You're arguing with your husband or your wife or your son or your daughter on things that are just life-changing. just you're willing to just die on that hill

until you get a phone call and find out that your son or your daughter has a spot on their lung or that somebody was critically injured in a car wreck by a drunk driver. Then everything that you thought was so important, everything you thought was so critically, critically life

determining just goes away because what really matters comes into clear focus. Do you hear what I'm saying? All the things that you think are so important. You go to Thanksgiving. I can't sit next to that bitch

because she voted for so-and-so. I don't want to talk to her because she did this. Until you find out on the way home, she got broadsided and killed. And then you find out, what were we even arguing about? It happens in families. I always tell people, don't let the sun set on you without finding and reaching out to the people you love and care about and telling them everything you need to say. and doing everything you need to do.

And I say that to us as a country. Why would we do this? We live in the greatest country in the world. We shouldn't let the sun set on this country another day without taking action and reaching out to somebody that we're divided from and saying, And hey, I know that we're divided. I know that we have a different point of view.

But we're both Americans, and I want to tell you, I'm your American brother or sister, and I love you, and I care about you, and I want the best for you. So if you want to hate me, hate me, but I don't hate you. I'm not afraid of you. I'm not scared of you. I don't resent you. I want good things for you.

How great would it be if 10,000 people did that? And then those 10,000 people did it. And then those 10,000 people and those 10,000 people did it. It starts, you said it, it starts with us. It starts at home. And every one of you here and every one of you at home can do that. we talk about how divided we are we is us we are us we are the ones that are divided

and we can change that you and I may see things differently on birthright we don't but we could but that doesn't matter you don't have to love everything about somebody else to love that person I've said this before. One of my best friends in the world is Ron White, the comedian.

You all know Ron White? Okay, I haven't had a drink in 50, 60 years. I just don't drink. My dad was an alcoholic. I saw what it did to him. I just don't want to drink. Ron White's a drunk. And when he's not drinking, he's smoking dope.

He's smoking weeds. Okay. I don't like that. that about him. But I love him. He's one of the most tender-hearted people in the world. He's one of the best fathers you could ever imagine. He loves his son. I mean, he's a great guy. He would lay down in traffic for me. I don't like that about him, but I don't like, no, not that they would lay down traffic. I don't like the drinking or the drugs. He's actually sober now, sort of. He's, sort of. Well, he doesn't drink anymore.

They arrested him in Florida one day. They looked in his bag and said, sir, you got a quarter ounce of weed in here. And he said, well, officer, if I got a quarter ounce of weed, I consider myself out of weed. They arrested him. And here I'm a teetotaler. We don't agree on everything, but I still love him.

And we get along great. We've been friends for 20 years. You don't have to love everything about somebody else to love them. Get over yourself. Hell, you might be completely wrong. I used to be a therapist. No, I did. I used to be in private practice.

I did marital therapy. And I was the worst marital therapist in the history of the world. Hell, everybody I talked to got a divorce. Seriously, I'd be talking to them for like five minutes. I go, my God, I can't stand to either one of you. No wonder you. No wonder you can't get along. You didn't get a divorce.

But I did used to do that. And I was terrible at it, so I quit doing it. But the point is, I would see people fighting to the death about how to raise their kids. And I'm sitting there thinking, you know, neither one of you is within a country mile of doing what you need to be doing. You're both so wrong, but you're fighting to be right. you could be totally wrong get over yourself don't be a right fighter

be a peacemaker be a peacemaker you heard me when you saw my first interview with Trump I spent 20 minutes getting him to agree to not go on a revenge to her and he did agree to it and he hasn't done it yet

he hasn't done it yet I have him to agree don't do that did it help when they came after you didn't help America it won't help America if you go after them. Be a peacemaker. I just say, you guys didn't have to be here tonight. It's 11 o'clock at night and you came down here because you care about this country. Put it into motion. You put it in motion coming here. Put it into motion in your lives. God bless you and thank you for coming tonight.

Thank you so much. I want to thank Sank for joining me here tonight. For all of you at home, you can watch Sank and the Young Turks on the Young Turks Network and on YouTube. I'd also like to thank RFK Jr., Tom Homan, Stephen A. Smith, Representative Roe Kahana, and former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner for joining us tonight as well. And finally, I'd like to thank all of you here tonight for participating. Thank you so much. Thanks a lot, man.

Appreciate you. Thank you. All right. Thanks, guys. All right. This way.