B (110:58)
We have not dumped that into our infrastructure. Under this president, we are first. He started. First thing you have to have, which, you know, I mean, security is the oxygen, commerce, everything else needs to breathe. Started with dc, our own nation's capital, and the National Guard there. You've seen from carjackings to robberies to murders drop dramatically just by the presence of security. You've got Jeanine Pirro in actually prosecuting people that commit crimes and keep them in jail. You saw what he's done in la. You saw what he's trying to do in other cities to establish a modicum of security. First, $150 billion, that's almost the entire budget of the entire United States army in the big beautiful bill to go to our border, to go to cbp, to ICE and others. And you've seen encounters in our borders which we were told it was impossible. Go from over 12 million people coming in unvetted to now virtually zero. You have down in Venezuela, you have the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese, massive amounts of trafficking, an individual that is the head of an international cartel that's now under a hell of a lot of pressure from this administration. So I would argue that exactly what you just laid out, which is an America first policy this administration has done, and I'm proud to have been a part of it. And then separately, what is that abroad? It's American leadership, but it's also burden sharing. No, I mean, I was there at NATO ministerial after NATO ministerial. I told you about the fact that their soldiers were there with their lives on the line in Afghanistan, but their governments were tying their hand. And at these NATO ministerials where I think seven countries at the start of the first Trump term were meeting their bare minimum 2%. Now, second term, he's got them all signing up to 5% of their GDP to contribute to their own militaries. Oh, by the way, we're not providing any more money to Ukraine. The. The Europeans are buying the hardware from us, creating jobs from us, also reinvigorating our industrial base and they're paying for the defense of themselves. And then, you know, where does, where does the UN fit on that? Look, first of all, we're doging it. We're cleaning it up. I already have a commitment from the UN Secretary General to cut 2,600 UN bureaucrats these are international bureaucrats. We pay for a fourth of everything they do. 2,600 gone. 25% of global peacekeepers gone. Overall 18% budget cut, first real cut they've seen in their history. They've only been there a few months. We're working on it. This is all because they see what's coming with President Trump. But here's the other side of that on the, you know, why don't we just. Why does President Trump say, look, it has potential, help it find its potential, rather than just get completely out. There needs to be one place in the world. If he's the peace president, we take a diplomacy first approach, which we should, backed by the big stick of a rebuilt military. There's got to be one place in the world where everybody comes together to talk. I want that to be here in the United States. And if we didn't invent it, somebody would reinvent it. And I don't want it in Beijing or EU or somewhere else. Every year, every world leader comes to New York to try to hash things out. That's one. Then number two, burden sharing is a key part of America first principles. So, for example, talk about cartels. Haiti has been completely overrun by gangs right off of Florida shores. And they are moving people, guns, drugs, fentanyl, you name it, working with the cartels in Venezuela and Colombia over into Europe, the United States, what have you. Much less if we have a migration crisis because the country's collapsing onto our shores. Under the last administration, they spent over a billion dollars trying to take care of it ourselves. Now we've shifted that to the UN you're going to have other countries coming in and we pay a quarter of that. I don't think we can just completely ignore it and wait till it's a total crisis. But we're now sharing the burden. Others are taking that on. Same thing in Gaza like I described. I don't want us boots there. We talk about the problem with having the Israelis go back to war like it was, at least. So there's a burden sharing aspect to that that I think is important. And then finally, this is the piece that's that I'm only fully coming to appreciate. There's all of these international bodies that kind of govern global commerce. Everything from international shipping to the seabed, the, the, you know, the, the ocean bottoms, which, by the way, President signed an executive order to begin mining critical minerals out of that. But how is that all, how is that all regulated? To space, to telecommunications, to international civil aviation? If we just walk away 193 other countries, Europeans, Chinese, Russians are all calling the shots. I want us calling the shots. We have to get in there and block and tackle. We talked at breakfast. A recent win. The International Maritime Organization was on the verge of putting in place a carbon tax on global shipping.
