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It was sad, very sad. But he was a great leader and we, we miss him very much. But a fantastic tribute to the U.S. japanese alliance. A board that shipped today. USS. Think of it, USS George Washington @ sea. Only ship that just doesn't come back to the United States. It stays here and it's very proud. This is our largest military contingent, Pete. I think like 66,000 soldiers, Navy and others. So this was a fantastic day. The level of excitement and enthusiasm. It's so easy. People say, how do you speak in front of that many people and enjoy it when you have so much love? There's such love. There was such love on that ship. It's really easy to do. They don't understand that it's easy to do. But tonight I'm more confident than ever that the friendship between the United States and Japan is strong, as strong as it can be. And it's thriving, it's prosperous, and it'll soon be, I think, greater than ever before. And we had four great years. You know, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country, but we're blowing it away this time, to be honest with you. We're blowing it. That was. We had four great years, as you know. We had the one year deduction. I call it the one year little deduction. Like you can deduct every single thing. Nobody ever thought that was possible. That beats 38 years, right? But now we did it for a period of 10 years instead of a period of one year. It's much stronger. It's. And you can deduct structures. And for the people you have, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security. Think of it. No tax on overtime for your workers. And it really covers everything. The great big beautiful bill. We got everything done. I said, let's get it all done. A lot of people want to do it. Little small pieces, like nine of them, 12 of them. I said put it all into one bill. And if we get it done, we're done for four years. We don't need anything more from Congress in terms of that, right, Scott? We got it all done. It was a little risky, but. Because if we didn't get it done, I don't know, who knows what would happen with these radical left lunatics that we have to deal with. But we got it all done. And now we're. We're set. And you're set. The investment in this country is set. You have all that you want. The people in this room are the living embodiment of the U. S Japanese economic partnership that together we're taking to even greater heights. It will, I think, never be like it is now, but it'll get even better, if that's possible. I especially want to thank Japanese companies, Softbank. I think Masa is here. Where's Masa? Did I play golf with this guy last week? He sank every putt, every putt. We played with Bryson DeChambeau. We had a great match. The great Gary Player. Gary player is 90 years old and he shot 70. Is that right? That's right. We won the tournament. We had 36 teams and we won the tournament. And we didn't cheat either. You know, a lot of. A lot of those teams cheated. Because I know how they play and they did not shoot those scores. But I think we got. Well, it helped to have Bryson hitting a ball 400 yards. You know, it's always nice to have. I said, I'll take Bryson on our team, but we had a. We had a great time and you played great and you put it very well. And I appreciate it because I now have an extra trophy on my desk. And I like that. Yes, please. Four Eagles. That's right. Four Eagles. We made four Eagles. And no, I seriously mean he. Every time he stood over a putt. I'm not saying it's going to happen every time, but it happened this time. And he's bing, bing. And we didn't have to putt because we're playing basketball, so we didn't have to putt. So thank you very much. Masa. That's better than all the deals you made that made him feel better than all the deals he's made. Thank you. It's great to be here. We'll do it again. But I also want to thank Toyota for that. Great. It's not a contribution, it's an investment. We're having investments in the. In our country greater than ever before. Greater than any country has ever had, actually. We'll talk about that. They were here. Just. Thank you. Thank you very much. They made a big contribution also to the White House fund. We're redoing lots of things in the White House. We're bringing it up to the way it should be. And you probably heard, I don't know if anybody heard about, we're building a little ballroom over there. People are loving it now. They're loving. It took them a little while to understand what was going on, but now we actually got an editorial from the Washington Post and from the New York Times saying, you got to build that ballroom. I almost. I couldn't believe it when that happened. Look, they're back there right now. They can't believe I'm saying good things about them, but it's been great. But I want to thank Carrier. They make great air conditioning, heating and things. And they were very generous. It's really fantastic what they did. And with the help of many of you here tonight, almost all of you, the only people that haven't done anything, snuck into the room, because I think you're all here because of what you've done. And so if there's anybody that hasn't done anything, please raise your hand. It will throw you the hell out of here. Okay? But Japan is already America's Sixth largest trading partner. And I think as of today that's gone up probably two notches. And the number one source of foreign direct investment. And so they're very happy because, you know, as goes our market, so many countries, they invest in the United States, but we've never had anything quite like what's happening. And I think it's going to get better. I can say it now. So we have over $17 trillion of investment in eight months. And I think by the time we go to the 12 month period, we'll have over 20 or 21 trillion dollars invested or to be invested. Very importantly, I mean, the money is coming in and a lot of its commitments that are incredible. Tim Cook is doing, I think like 600 or $650 billion. Right? Think of it, you've done more than the entire group here. We raised $518 billion and there's one man sitting here. 650, but good. And everything is. They're treating you great, right? We give them fast permits, we give everybody fast permits. No more waiting 20 years before you get rejected. You know, that used to have a process. I know a couple of people, they started a process when they were young men, now they're old men and they got rejected. Can you imagine? They devoted their whole life to getting a couple of permits. One of the things I did that's really helping AI because of the massive amount of electricity that they need is I said, you build your own power plant if you'd like. So far everybody said we like. But at first they weren't doing it. I said, I wonder why? Because they didn't believe me. They didn't believe they were actually getting this. You know, we have a grid that's like a lot of grids. It's old. And nobody ever said that we're going to be, you know, doubling. You have to double or triple the amount of electricity that we currently have as an example in the United States. You have to triple it, but double it at a minimum, but really triple it in order to take care of just. AI, can you believe this? More than double what we have currently. So for all of that, we have to more than double it. And I said, well, that's not, you know, something you can do from the grid. I mean, how would you do that? You have an old grid and it's doing okay, we're fixing it, but you can't do that. And I came up with the idea that you're building a plant. They're spending $50 billion to build a plant. I Said you can build your own electric generating sources. And honestly, some of the people in this room, they're building electric generators that are so far beyond anything that's ever been built before. They're using all different types of fuel. They're using nuclear, they're using oil and gas. They're using coal as a backup. Coal is a great backup. If something happens, you can put it aside, and if you ever need it, you can. You can use it. But it's a great thing. And we're getting you very fast approvals. Lee Zeldin's doing a fantastic job. We're giving you fast approvals. You don't have to wait, you know, nine years. You're waiting a matter of weeks. Literally a matter of weeks. You're coming in with the best engineers in the world. You know what you're doing. And so as you build your plant, you're sort of in the utility business, like Con Edison in New York. You're building your own electric, and you can build it as much as you want. And if you have any leftover, you send it, you sell it into the grid. So our grid picks up a lot of electric without really us doing anything. You talk about private sector. That's the ultimate. But everybody loves it, and they're coming. Honestly, I mean, somebody that understands that better than information, which is what the other part makes. You're going to make a lot of money with information and. But somebody that really does understand the generation of electricity. The kind of plants that are being built are unbelievable. They're far beyond anything being built in terms of your regular utility companies, which, you know, it's sort of an older business. So I congratulate you. But the beauty is that you start building immediately, Tim, you don't have to wait, you know. Well, if we went by the grid 10, 12, 15 years, but the permits are fast, and you open as soon as you have your plants or your combination of plants. Some are building it on top, some are building it to the side, some are building separate buildings, some are building in one building. And I love the idea, but literally, it took them a while to really. They thought I was kidding. It was so good. They said, no, no, he's kidding. I said, I'm not kidding. That's why we're leading China. We're leading everybody in this race. So we're with you all the way, and you're going to. I hope everyone's going to do great and make a tremendous amount of money and create a lot of jobs under the historic trade deal. With the Prime Minister that I signed today and private sector agreements that were signed moments ago, we'll be increasing our commerce very, very much further. Japan's going to be investing $550 billion into the United States. And it's an amazing thing. And they're happy and they're going to. They're going to love it. It's going to be really good. It's going to be a great, great for everybody. But building up an Allied industrial base and, you know, one of the things that makes me so happy is they'll be taking some of our product. Japan has tipped. I don't think I'm saying anything that's very secret. They've been typically slightly closed as a country. Was not easy to come in. But they're taking some of our cars and some of our. A lot of our different things. Rice, which is actually a big deal because, as you know, they wouldn't do that. And they're taking corn and they're taking the Ford 150 here, the big thing, some of our cars. So it's really a great thing. It's going to be great for them. It's going to be great for everybody. But we're doing semiconductors together, critical minerals, shipbuilding. We're starting shipbuilding together, and they're doing pretty well with shipbuilding. They're number three. They're going to be coming over to the United States and building ships in some of the yards. We have some great yards. You know, the United States was number one during World War II, number one in the world in shipbuilding by far. We would produce a ship a day. Can you believe it? A ship a day. You know, freighters and this and that, but some big ones, too, some great warships. And we just let that. Our leadership, the person standing right where I am numerous years ago, a number of them, they just let it slip. And so we're going to be very heavy into the shipbuilding in a very pretty short period of time. It takes a while to get that one going. But to think that we were number one in the world. And now we're, you know, we basically don't make very many ships anymore. We do beautiful Coast Guard cutters. We do beautiful smaller ships like destroyers, et cetera, but we don't. Essentially, we don't really do what we should be doing, and we will be doing that pretty soon. But the deals will create jobs and opportunity, wealth, tremendous wealth and security for both sides and for both sides of the Pacific and make our cherished bond between the two countries even better. And we've Got so many wonderful deals, but this is one that people have been very, very interested in. They really waited for this day, and I found it to be an amazing day. Not an easy day. I think we've gone to about nine stops, I think. You think Biden could have done this? I don't think so. You think so? I've been walking back and forth. Sir, we're going over here. It's just a quarter of a mile. Walking would be fine, sir. Oh, thanks a lot. You know, but we had a lot of stops today, from early in the morning until now. But this is one that I was thrilled because I see the list of people. This is really a who's who, this list. I was reading it. I don't get that impressed with things. I say, wow, that's really pretty amazing. But I'm thrilled that so many Japanese investors recognize that people from all over the planet are now discovering that the United States is hot. And it's also a place where you can really do business. Getting the approvals is so great. You know, in my first term, we had an LNG plant. Two of them, they were under approval. One was 14 years and one was 16 years. And actually one of them was a big Japanese investor group, and they couldn't get their approvals. It was never going to happen. I come in, I didn't know anything about it, but I came in, I heard about it, and so they were 14 years, I think, in 16 years. And they were just about. They gave up, essentially. And I got one done in one day, and the other one it took me. I didn't do as well. It took me three days to get it done. And they were under construction in less than a week. And they're up now, and they're doing phenomenally well, you know, in Louisiana, actually, two of them right on the coast. And people said, how did you do that? I said, I have no idea. But I get things done. There's no better place on earth to invest and grow your business than the United States and a lot of the environmental nonsense. And I'm a big environmentalist in a sense. Like, I want clean air, I want clean water. But we're going to make. Make it great for our workers and our economy. We're not going to. We're not going to take. Honestly, when I say five years, much longer than five years to do things, I actually said to some of our people, I said, look, you have on big plants, you have two weeks on oil and gas to get the approvals. And if you go nuclear, Three weeks for nuclear. You know, nuclear with Westinghouse is here. They've done great. They've really. I mean, they've. They had a difficult problem a few years ago. They have become very hot. Westinghouse, and they're doing a lot of work in the United States. We're doing a lot of nuclear now. Nuclear now is safe and it's inexpensive. It's really. It's great energy. Now. I was not. I was. I was with nuclear, but I didn't love certain aspects of it. Today it's so different, and it really is a safe, great way to go. A lot of people are going that way. But one year ago, the United States was really. You'd never get. You'd never get your permits. You'd wait years and years and years. And honestly, if you had another like Kamala, I don't know where the hell she came from, but if you had Kamala. I was rushed against Biden. I went up by 29 points. All of a sudden, they take him out. It's like a fighter. He's losing the fight. They replace him in the middle of the fight. They gave me a new one. They gave me Kamala. I went from Joe to Kamala, but if she got in, I don't think there'd be nobody in this room. You wouldn't be doing anything. You'd be elsewhere doing things and wouldn't be the same. But you have a. You have a great partner now in the United States. Get getting you started and you will. You will have everything done very, very quickly. Record time, as fast as. I think, much faster than maybe any other country other than China. Because in China, you have a good system. Also, you have a system where President Xi can approve it immediately. So that's even faster. He doesn't have to wait two weeks. I have to wait two weeks. But you do go quickly there. But we have a lot of advantages, as you know, since the election, we've secured all of that money coming in, and we have a lot more money coming in. And Again, I mentioned SoftBank, but Jira, JCB, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Honda, they're all coming into the United States. We have a lot of car plants opening up because of tariffs. They don't want to pay tariffs, and they come. And frankly, Japan is sponsoring many of them because that way you don't have to pay the tariffs without the tariffs. I mean, tariffs are about national security. And we're making a lot of money. We're going to pay, start paying down debt very soon. We have a Lot of debt because we honestly, we didn't know what the hell we were doing as a country. GDP growth in the second quarter was an amazing almost 4%. Nobody thought. They thought it was going to be 2%. They had no idea. Just announced 4%, almost 4%. And in the next quarter, I don't know, I think you go much higher. I think when we kick in, when these plants start to open, we're building many of them and a lot of them are car plants. But, you know, you keep hearing about the AI, and that's obviously the biggest thing right now, and. And nobody's doing like we're. But we have a lot of other plants coming in, but a lot of car plants are coming in. They're coming in from other countries. And next quarter, I think you're going to see maybe 4%, maybe more. But when these plants start opening up, you're going to see numbers that are going to be shocking. Energy prices are down, gasoline are down, groceries are down. Except for the beef, which I'll get down to. Our ranchers were. For 25 years. They did poorly. And I put tariffs on some. It was just too much. They couldn't compete. They were going out of business. And maybe they're doing too good now. But we want them to do well. But we have to get the beef prices down. So that's, you know, it's an easy problem to solve, but we'll always take care of our ranchers, too. And they were with me 100%. They've been with me from the beginning. You know, we had an election that was too big to rig. We had to get it. We, I would constantly say too big to rig. Don't believe polls that were way up. Just, you got to go and vote. You know, when the polls are too high, people say, let's go to a movie and we'll go home and watch our president win. But I said, you got to go because we have a very corrupt election process and you need that. You need borders and you need a fair press. And the press is slightly better, I'd say, you know, slightly. But it'll get better. I think it's getting better and better because otherwise they're going to lose all credibility and nobody's going to be watching or listening to them. But you need strong borders and you need good voting. And we're getting them both, much better. The mortgage rates, except for the fact that we have an incompetent head of the Fed. I think he's incompetent or a bad guy. You know, but despite that, mortgage rates are down. Who could believe that we have an anti person. I call him Too Late. He's always too late. He's been too late. And Jerome Too Late Powell. So somebody gave me a bad reference on him. I put him in based on some guy that turned out to be not so hot. And we got a bad Fed guy. But he'll be out of there a few months and we'll get somebody new, I guess. Scott, you have a long list of people that want it. If anybody has any suggestions, because we really do. We have, you know, all the. The people that. People that are being talked to. If you have a suggestion, just shout it out. Just shout it out. Mark, do you have a suggestion? Mark has some pretty good suggestions. He put me on the COVID of Time magazine. That was a nice picture. Thank you very much for that. That was very good. It was a nice story, too. Thank you very much. I was. I've been on the COVID almost 50 times. But Mark, I can only use 17 of them, you know, meaning the rest of them aren't so good. 17 are great. This one was very good. This is going up now. I have 18. Thank you very much. I'll see you in a little while. But mortgage rates are down and we're rapidly building the greatest economy, I think. I think, in history. I mean, look, bad things can happen. You know, we're doing great. And even after Covid, we had the best four years, but all of a sudden, Covid, things happen. Things happen. I hope things don't happen here. But we were doing numbers like nobody had ever seen before. Not as good as we're doing now. And then all of a sudden, we started hearing about people dying in different places of the world, China and other places. And we have a Covid, we have a pandemic all of a sudden. And, you know, things like that happen, but hopefully that won't happen in this case, in this term. But we did a good job in handling it. We made more machinery and everything else. We did great with the therapeutics, Regeneron. And we did the vaccine. We had the vaccine approved in nine months. And there are many people that say that we save 50 million lives worldwide. Not everybody agrees with that, but a lot of people say we saved 15, 50 million lives. You know, in World War II, I guess we lost close to 100. People don't know that it was so bad, the Spanish flu, that it actually ended the war. That was what stopped the First World War. But we were on our way to really terrible Numbers we had. Obviously so many million people died. That was a terrible thing. But things happen and things that you wouldn't think of. Who would have thought? Pandemic. I thought that was like an ancient problem. It wasn't a modern day problem. But a lot of people did a great job there. And we ended up with the four years. We actually ended up when I left with a stock market price that was higher than it was before the, when the pandemic came in, who would think that was even possible? Because we were rocking and rolling. And then that happened and we ended up higher. The stock market was higher than it was just prior to hearing about this horrible plague. So just as importantly, we've implemented the largest regulation cuts in the history of our country, even larger than we had. We had the biggest, by four times, the biggest regulation cuts in history in my first term. And we're going to be doing that. And we're cutting, as you know, if we add one regulation, one new regulation, you have to cut eight or 10, eight to 10. So you add one and you, it's okay. And you cut 10. And we started at eight. Now we're 10. Including massive reductions in the red tape for the infrastructure and the rapid approvals, et cetera. But this includes the upcoming liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska, which we have well underway to export vast amounts of American energy. And Japan is one of the big customers, by the way. And you know the slogan, our slogan. And we have fantastic people. Chris Wright is phenomenal. Doug Burgam is. Doug is fantastic. Those two guys are like a partnership. They're unbelievable. I'm sure you're dealing with them very successfully. But our motto is drill, baby, drill. That's a little different than people that say you can't, you know, drive energy through the roof. And I think you're going to see $2 gasoline pretty soon. And that's like bigger than a tax cut. That's the equivalent of something bigger than a tax cut. So with the support of Japanese companies like Softbank, we're pursuing a very bold national policy to keep the United States, the world's leader in artificial intelligence. We have some of the greatest in artificial intelligence right here. They were the ones that showed me some things. I said, you got to be kidding. It's fantastic. My uncle was a great professor at mit and he was always ahead of the game. He was a smart guy who's there for. He has a distinction of being at MIT. The longest serving professor in the history of MIT, Dr. John Trump. And he was always Ahead of the game. And when I see some of the things that are happening, you guys are really ahead of the game. We're speeding construction of AI infrastructure and bringing production of the critical chips and semiconductors back onshore. And I want to congratulate Jensen because he's been really amazing. He's an amazing guy. Brilliant guy. I'm seeing him tomorrow. Eleven days ago, Nvidia and TSMC announced that they have produced a very fast, first rate, state of the art, the Blackwell. It's like, I don't know, people say 10 years advanced, who knows, but a lot. And it's entirely made in the usa, as you know, TSMC is and Nvidia are spending hundreds of billions of dollars now in the United States and many other chip makers are too. It's incredible actually to see what's happened in literally a period of now it's a little bit less than nine months. And don't forget we had to celebrate for a couple of weeks. So I have to sort of deduct. Once we won, we celebrated and we shouldn't have done that. We should have started immediately, not wasted eight days, but we really didn't. America is once again a manufacturing nation and something that we haven't talked about for a long time. Japan has been with us all the way and it's amazing that we had a little conflict with Japan. You may have heard about it and that after such a horrible thing, yet the two nations are the closest friends and partners that you can be. And based on a shared commitment to freedom, democracy, security, prosperity, civilization and just basic human achievement. It's amazing. Actually, as some of you may know, this very residence was once the home to the great General Douglas MacArthur. I don't know if you ever heard he was supposed to be. He graduated number one in his class at West Point. But they say that he was the single greatest student in the history of West Point. Now I don't know how they go about doing that. You know, I could see number one for the year. I could see number one for graduating. But they say he was the greatest student. He was a great intellect. A lot of people don't know that about General Douglas MacArthur. The moment that the peace was signed 80 years ago, that very brilliant man set about building a friendship between our two countries that has grown and deepened. And he actually wrote the Constitution here. And he did it all by himself. He was an intellectual. And still the Constitution. Our partnership has been an extraordinary blessing to the world. If you look at what's happened and what's come out of it. I think a lot more is going to come out of it than even in the past, and I look forward to expanding it even further. We will do that. And I'm so happy to have gotten to know your new prime minister. I think she's going to go down as great. She was a real friend and ally of one of, as I told you, a great, a great man, Shinzo Abe. He was really a great man. He was a great prime minister. And she was an absolute ally. And he would have been very happy if he knew that she was very, very heavily supported and ultimately winning for prime minister. So she's going to do, I think she's going to do a great job. She's got all of our support. But I want to thank everybody for being here. You're an amazing group of people. It's, I mean, each one of you has a story like really no other. And it's an honor to be here. We traveled long and far. It's a long flight going to Malaysia, then say, let's stop over, let's stop over. But we wanted to be here for this because it's very special. And keep up the good work and remember that you have a great friend and ally. And if you can't get Scott and Howard and all of our people, Marco, to get it done, call me and I'll override them. If I have to, I will override them. But I want to thank you all very much and I want to thank my cabinet for doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Jake Novak
You've just heard President Trump addressing not only a bunch of dignitaries and politicians, but business people, business people in Tokyo. As he wraps up his Tokyo, Japanese part of his trip through Asia, as you heard him speak there, he's on his way to South Korea where on Thursday, the main event of this trip is going to happen. He's going to be meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Joining us right now is Florida Congressman Randy Fine. And Congressman Fine, before we talk about, just briefly about some of the stuff that we thought we were going to talk about this morning, I have to think that that speech and the group of people that was there must be a warm to your heart. Congressman vine, you are a businessman. You come from the business segment of this country. And you know, you see all these things that are getting done between the United States and Japan because business people, people who had worked in business, not only the president and President Trump, but people like Scott Besson and of course, Masayus Hasan, all these people, it Must warm your heart to see this, to prove the theory that we've known all along that if we had real business people, men and women, running parts of our policy, things could get done. I got to think you love this congressman.
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I do.
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Congressman Randy Fine
And it's always great to see President Trump get up there and speak. And it's the power of having someone who understands the business world. In the business world, you're successful based on how much you can get done, how quickly you can get it done. Part of the reason the government is such a disaster is it's either run by politicians or lawyers who are successful based on how long they can draw problems out. Most lawyers get paid by the hour, so solving problems cost them money. President Trump came from a different world where the faster you do good deals, the faster you put points on the board, the faster you move up. And you saw that in all of the stories that he told this morning. It's just part of what makes him really a unique figure at this time in American history.
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Jake Novak
All right, so quick dichotomy. And you alluded to it just a moment ago, we've got an election here in New York. I know you're in Florida, but here in New York that is dominated by people who have never run any businesses. In particular, the front runner for the mayoral spot in this in New York, Zoran Mamdani, never really had a job either. His first job was being in an assemblyman for the state of New York. And of course, this guy is also, let's be honest, I'm just going to play cards out of the table because we don't have as much time. This man is a jihadist. This man also just lied about having a family member saying that it was his aunt who lived in New York after 911 and was somehow she's the real victim of 9 11. Because even this make believe person, it's not even worth talking about as an actual person, but he's trying to cast himself and other Muslims as the real victims of 9 11. The only Muslims who were victims on 911 were the Muslim workers inside the World Trade center. And there were a couple of them who died. Other than that, there were no riots or attacks physically on Muslims in New York City. I don't know what he's talking about. Congressman vine, this is all part, I think, of what the, you know, the inspiration was for your no Sharia law bill that now has Senate co sponsorship. I'd love for you to tell our audience a little bit about that.
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Congressman Randy Fine
Yeah, well, look, I think Mamdani proved why we need the bill. He proved this notion that Islamophobia is a lie to make up a lie that Muslims were the victims of 911 by having to make up a fake relative who wasn't in America, wasn't riding the subway. If you have to make up a story to try to prove your point, it's because your point isn't real. But they are using these fake claims to push Sharia all over the country, whether it's the call to prayer being broadcast at 5:30 in the morning in Minneapolis or a Muslim mayor in Dearborn telling Christians they're no longer welcome in their own city. Sharia is on the rise in the United States and it is exactly what Mamdami plans to bring to New York. So what my bill would do, which has been co sponsored by 18 people in the House, we do have a Senate sponsor now as well, would ban Sharia law in America and say, you cannot bring the stuff that you see in Qatar and these other countries to the United States. If you want that, there are 50 countries where you can live that way. But that is not what America was built on. It's not what it was founded on, and we're not going to have it here.
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Jake Novak
Congressman, I just want to ask you one more question. And you've been very, very polite and generous with your time this morning, having to wait for President Trump's speech to end. And I really appreciate that. But you are, Congressman, in Washington, and we have this continuing shutdown. But I have to say it looks like there are finally some cracks in the Democrats wall on this shutdown. Yesterday we had the biggest federal workers union, which of course is 99% Democrat voters, telling the Democrats. They weren't both sideing the issue, Congressman, they were telling the Democrats and end the shutdown. And of course, we've had a couple more members of Congress on the Democrat side also saying they should end the shutdown. Are you confident now that maybe because these cracks are forming we might get this thing ended in the next few days?
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Congressman Randy Fine
Well, if President Trump endorsed me for reelection on Saturday. So I'm happy to wait for him anytime. But. But on the shutdown, on the shutdown front, yeah. Look, these Democratic senators now have to face their own staffs, the people they're expecting to come to work every single day while they get paid. The politicians get paid, but our own staffs do not, as well as air traffic controllers, TSA agents, members of the military. And so now the shutdown's becoming real. President Trump worked very hard to try to minimize the effect on Americans. But that could only last so long. And now, now paychecks aren't going out. People are getting angry. And they're getting angry because they're saying, wait, you're doing this to give free health care to illegal immigrants. You're doing this to try to hide the failure that is the Affordable Care Act. Cut the crap, open the government, and let's get back to work.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I appreciate all of those sentiments. And I think the American people, either they're ignoring the shutdown or they're not seeing anything positive from it. And I think that that's the real reason why this is breaking down. Congressman Randy Fine from Florida, thank you so much for joining us again. Very generous with your time. And we'll see you again soon.
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Congressman Randy Fine
Sounds good. Take care.
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Jake Novak
All right, as you've been, we've just finished up President Trump's speech to business leaders in Tokyo. When we come back, we're going to reset the hour for you, reset the morning so you know exactly everything that's going on. This is American Sunrise, EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. Thank you for joining us. Your top stories when we come right back.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Narrator/Announcer
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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Leon Neyfak
Bad face, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
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Narrator/Announcer
You put two and two together.
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Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Narrator/Announcer
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
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David Brody
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Narrator/Announcer
What?
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Virginia Allen
What difference at this point does it make?
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Jake Novak
Yes, that's right. Lock her up.
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Leon Neyfak
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jake Novak
It's Tuesday, October 28th. Here are this morning's top stories. The Democrats usually unbreakable conformity is breaking as the big federal workers union calls on the Democrats to end the government shutdown. And as more Democrats in Congress also seem to agree, Schumer and Jeffries now face utter failure. While the Democrats in D.C. begin to falter. The reality is sinking in that communist pro Hamas candidates like Zoran Mamdani now define the mainstream of their party. They're not the radicals, they're the mainstream of the Democrats. And House Republicans are considering a plan to keep Mamdani out out of office. The war of words and actions between the US And Russia is heating up and now it's gone nuclear. Will President Trump or Vladimir Putin be the first to back down? And Hurricane Melissa starting to pound Jamaica right now in what is the most powerful storm ever to hit the island nation. The winds are so powerful, even some of the most sophisticated storm chaser aircraft had to abandon their missions to follow the hurricane. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION continues now. Hey, everybody. Welcome to this Tuesday here in American Sunrise EARLY edition. Getting started, doing a little bit of a reset right now in the middle of the hour as President Trump kicked us off at the 7am hour here Eastern time with his speech in Tokyo, speaking not only to politicians but but also to a number of business leaders as the president was able to make some deals on that front. The biggest deal, though, that just came out about an hour and a half ago is that the United States and Japan have made yet another rare earth deal. As you know, the United States under the Trump administration scrambling to get more of those rare earth supplies into the United States while we rebuild our own mining infrastructure, which the Chinese destroyed by underpricing their mining operations and putting some of our businesses out of business. So that's really the big news out of out of Japan. We were not expecting that. I did not hear any advance notice about a rare earth deal with Japan and the markets like that news that rally is considering. So all that's what's that's what's breaking this morning. Joining us right now, though, is Virginia Allen. She's a senior producer at the Daily Signal and co host of the Problematic Women podcast. Virginia, I want to start with since you're coming out of the D.C. area, I want to start with what I think is also a really interesting developing story about the government shutdown and how it does seem like the Democrats wall is finally cracking. Their big Union, which is 99% Democrat voters, their union leadership of the federal workers blaming the Democrats and the Democrats only telling them to vote to end the shutdown. And then, of course, you had Speaker Mike Johnson explaining why the Democrats are not listening to common sense. Because they're Marxists. Listen to this. Because the Democrats are more afraid of the Marxist in their base than they are of hardworking Americans. See, they've made an evaluation that they have to appease the Marxist base, that they're so concerned that they'll lose their jobs if they don't appease the far left in their party. And they sat in a back room and they made the calculation that they would rather shut the government down and impose all this pain on the American people because they believe the Marxists, the far left and the base are more active than hard working Americans, people who go vote. And so they made the calculation that it's worth it to them. Every day gets better for us. We'll use the pain as leverage for what? To prove to the far left base.
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Narrator/Announcer
That they won't give in, that they'll.
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Jake Novak
Fight Trump and fight the Republicans. Virginia, I only have one quibble with what Speaker Johnson said. I don't think it's the far left of the party. I think the mainstream of the Democratic Party right now is Marxist. I really believe that.
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Virginia Allen
Well, and I feel, Jake, so much so for your traditional Democrats and liberals that are looking at their party and they're looking at their leadership and they're saying, wait a second, this isn't what I signed up for. And we've seen this shift and, and I would argue and go a step further in many ways than Speaker Johnson and say this, this kind of logic and rhetoric doesn't just apply to the government shutdown. It's actually broadly speaking to the way that the Democrat Party now messages now tries to appeal to policies that they push. They have decided that their radical socialist kind of fragment of their party is now the only element that they are going to cater to. And that's why you have people like Mondami who have gained so much steam and backing from Democrats because they've decided, you know what, there's this fringe group. Now that fringe group represents us, your elected leaders, as Democrats. We're going to embrace those policies. It's certainly trickling into the government shutdown, as Congressman Fine so articulately described. We finally maybe have some movement with the American Federation of Government of Federal Workers that's finally saying, okay, wait, this has gone too far. Democrats, get your act together, actually get this clean CR passed because real Americans are suffering.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I think I feel for some of the moderate voters, but the moderate members of the party, I don't feel for them because they let their hatred of President Trump allow them to decide to bring in these rabid, radical, dangerous people in the party. They thought they were giving it to Trump, but what they're doing is giving it to the whole country and cutting off the head of this country, despite the rest of the body. You mentioned Azora Mamdani just now. So Virginia and everyone else, I want you and all understand that what you're about to hear is all a lie. And it's a lie that insults the memories of my fellow New Yorkers who perished in front of my own eyes on 9 11. Watch this. I want to use this moment to.
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Narrator/Announcer
Speak to the Muslims of New York City. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
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Jake Novak
All a lie. He didn't have an aunt who was living in New York City around 9 11. He clarified, clarified. He backtracked yesterday and said, oh, no, I was talking about a distant cousin of my father, somebody. I mean, it's all a lie. You know what? If this were the city that I remember it being just a few years ago, Zoran Mamdani would be run out of the town on a rail just for making that comment. But as a number of people have noted, myself included, the city is filled with people who weren't in this country at all, let alone this city on 9 11, 2001. And if Zoran Bomdani wins, it's going to be because of people who come to this city, this state, just in the last couple of years, who are going to vote him in and force him on the rest of us, including naturalized citizens.
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Virginia Allen
You know, I think the biggest problem and issue that I take with Mamdani making those statements is he's essentially saying, how can I make this about me? How can I become the victim here? Which is classic far left Democrat talking point. This is the strategy that they seem to employ over and over and over. Doesn't matter the issue. Pick your issue. And they always bring it back to. But I'm the victim. And it's, it's really exhausting in so many ways to see this strategy being played out. And York has a major decision to make. What do they want their future to look like? What do they want the future to look like for the next generation? Do they want a mass exodus of small businesses and, you know, for the government to run housing and grocery stores, or do they want to go back to the New York that we saw, quite frankly, shortly after September 11, where it was a united, very, very patriotic community that was ready to move forward, that was ready to embrace the principles that our country was founded upon. That's the choice before New York, and it is a critical one.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, you know, it's really burning for me as this an issue because some of the. I think a good number of our viewers might remember this just three years ago. Actually, it was only two years ago, there was a live golf tournament that they had at Bedminster President Trump's golf course. This is, of course, when President Trump was not in the White House and people like Boomer Assiassen, the pga, the Iranians and the Qataris organized this whole hate on Trump and hate on the Saudis campaign. And they got the 911 families and used them as political pawns to get all upset about live golf, which is, you know, mostly Saudi owned, as if it's a terrible thing that they're having a golf tournament here in the United States. Meanwhile, where are they now? You have a jihadist about to become a mayor where your loved ones died. And no one seems to be using the 911 families now as political pawns. Where's Boomer Esiason? The former NFL quarterback is a big host of the big sports show in the morning here on the radio here in New York. Where are these people now? I have to say, it's really, really disturbing to me. We can blame this on the jihadists, we can blame it on Iran, we can blame it on China, and they're all part of it. We can blame it on Soros. They're all a part of it. But the New Yorkers here who got so upset about a golf tournament, where are they to stand up against this guy? He should be running. There are people saying, well, no, we shouldn't indict Mamdani about the campaign finance stuff and we shouldn't try to deport him. That's just gonna make people mad. You think the Democrats, if they were in the situation, were flipped, wouldn't do this? I mean, would you, Virginia, agree that I think that we should try some legal actions against Mamdani and let his people sue and see how they like it, like President Trump had to do when he was out of office. I wonder if you agree with that. Or do you think, oh, that's just going to make a martyr of him? Because I don't think it matters.
- [51:35]
Virginia Allen
Well, you know, I will say I think we watched this play out with President Trump over and over and over. And, you know, there is an argument to be made that every single lawsuit, every time Trump was taken to court his support went up. Now, there's also a great argument to be made that all of those lawsuits, at least the vast majority that were brought against President Trump, were illegitimate. And the American people saw that. And so that is really core to why so much of his support increased during, during that lawfare. So I think if there's legitimate claims to be brought against Mamdani, there's. There's a reason why we have a court system, but, you know, beyond the courts and laws, and I think it. His policies speak for themselves as far as how disastrous they are and should be outright rejected by the American people, and yet they continue to gain steam. And that's where I think the Republican Party conservatives really need to pay attention is what is it about Mondami that's drawing Americans? And I think it's his charisma. It's his fact that he's speaking a language that the average American can understand. He's appealing to, to real issues, things like housing, affordability, cost of living that so many specifically young people who live in New York City feel. And they're thinking, I can. I can only afford to live in a tiny apartment with five other people. So he's speaking a language that really resonates with his voters, with his. With his base. And that's certainly something that, that the GOP needs to pay attention to and understand as they move forward in their own messaging, because that. That messaging factor really does win elections.
- [53:23]
Jake Novak
Virginia, I want to skip down to again referencing President Trump's current trip through Asia. You have a piece out right now in the Daily Signal about a number of parents here in the United States who are hoping that President Trump, in his meeting with President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday, can somehow do something about their adopted children who are still in China. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
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Virginia Allen
Absolutely. So there's about 300 families that, who back in 2019, 2020, they began international adoptions, adopting children from China. China used to have a very robust international adoption program, and Americans have received literally thousands of children over the years from China. And Covid, of course, delayed those international adoptions. And then in 2024, China announced that they were closing their international adoption program completely. But these 300 families, they had already been matched with children. They were told, your adoptions are on track to move forward. They were ready to go. And so there's sort of been this big question mark for those 300 families. Are they grandfathered in? Because their adoptions were already on. On track and paperwork was done, they Were just, most of them were just waiting for that final travel approval of okay, yep, come get your child and bring them home. And you know, these are families that had FaceTime with these children, that had often built relationship, had sent letters. And so for so many of these kids, there's also this question mark of, you know, do these children understand why five years ago they were told, I have a family coming to get me. And now they're just waiting in China. They're, they're in orphanages. They're kids like Eleanor, she has a metabolic disorder. Lauren and Kevin, Haley, Holly, excuse me, in, in Ohio. They were matched with her. They were so excited to bring her home. They have three other biological daughters and instead they, they continue to wait and continue to pray that maybe one day they'll be able to bring their now 7 year old daughter home to Ohio. But it really is going to take it. I've had multiple of these families tell me at this point we really believe that President Trump is the only one that can get this done because they've written letters to members of Congress, to senators asking for help and there has been no movement, no movement under the Biden administration. And so they're now appealing to President Trump, Please ask President Xi to release these children and essentially don't use our kids as a political pawn. President Xi, please allow them to come home.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, that's a lovely regime you got there in Beijing, using orphans, some of whom are dealing with illnesses, as political pawns. Lovely people. We should, we should accept all cultures and be loving. Incredible. Virginia Allen, thank you so much for joining us. Have a great rest of your week.
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Virginia Allen
Thank you, Jake. You do the same.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
- [60:40]
Narrator/Announcer
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
- [60:43]
Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
- [60:47]
Narrator/Announcer
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
- [60:50]
Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
- [60:54]
Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
- [60:57]
Narrator/Announcer
You put two and two together.
- [60:59]
Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
- [61:03]
Narrator/Announcer
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
- [61:08]
David Brody
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Virginia Allen
What difference at this point does it make?
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Jake Novak
Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
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Leon Neyfak
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [61:37]
Jake Novak
Welcome back to American Sunrise Early Edition. When you get more than 81 million votes, you get to take the attention of the American people. So we had an abbreviated American Sunrise early edition this morning because you needed to see President Trump speaking to not only the politicians, but those business leaders in Tokyo as we started the 7am hour this morning. So I'm glad you got to see that live and we got to talk about it with a couple of our guests. So that was great. Joining us right now, though, is David Brody. And, David, President Trump, before he got to all the things he was doing in Japan, he talked about the whole question of who's gonna replace him as president. You know, he hasn't even been president for a year in the second term yet. Not even close, actually. But there's discussions. I mean, I think it's obvious President Trump didn't have to talk about it for us to know that right now, you'd have to say the front runners are Vice President J.D. vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And President Trump had nice things to say about both of them. He said he would like them both to team up. But you know what's really interesting about this, David, is that both Vance and Rubio Back in 2016, people forgetting about this, didn't have nice things to say about Trump. But wait a minute, David. I thought President Trump was resentful and petty and mean and all those kinds of things. And here he is saying these great things about people who, you know, we're older, so eight, nine years ago doesn't seem that long ago. But it's interesting to point out that these are people who changed their minds about President Trump pretty quickly, actually. But they did. And that's, it's not some other person who is still out on the outside of the party who President Trump's talking about.
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David Brody
No, it's a great point. And we also talk about, or the Democrats talk about retribution and vengeance and all that stuff that does not define Trump. I mean, and what I mean by that specifically is what you just referred to as J.D. vance and Rubio. And there's a whole long list of people that have said horrible things about him. And he's willing to do deals with them, he's willing to negotiate with them. He's willing to have them in their own, his own cabinet and administration. So, you know, that is really more of the private side of Trump that, let's be honest, he doesn't really want people to know too much about. He'd rather have, you know, be known as the tough guy and everything. But he's got a softer side, there's no doubt about it. And if anything, you know, if there was going to be any criticism of him, especially in his first term, that he might have been too forgiving, if you will, to the point where, you know, he had some of these folks that he shouldn't have even had in the first place. So there's that. As for Vance and Rubio, that is going to be interesting to see. Vance is clearly the frontrunner. But having said that, Trump could throw an absolute wrench in everything by either not endorsing Vance, staying out of it, or endorsing Rubio. Cue up the 3 quarter inch tape right now. It would not surprise me if he endorses Rubio. What is today, October 28, 2025? Let's bring this tape back. If he endorses Rubio, it would not shock me and I think I'm one of the first to say it, FYI, if not the first.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, well, we're the only show on TV that isn't sponsored by a betting app, so we can't put a bet down. But thanks for that anyway. American Sunrise, the big show coming up in the next two hours. I'll join you in the 9am hour there.
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Jake Novak
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Leon Neyfak
People I was making a podcast about Benghazi, 9 times out of 10 they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The Truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
From Prologue projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Virginia Allen
What difference at this point does it make?
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Leon Neyfak
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