Enhance Your English with U.S. Government News – Trump Signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, 2025. 5. 23.

0:09 well thank you very much we have a very 0:11 big announcement today it has to do with 0:14 nuclear energy and other things and this 0:17 is all nuclear it’s a hot industry it’s 0:20 a brilliant industry you have to do it 0:22 right it’s become very safe and 0:25 environmental yes 100% 0:28 so I’m going to ask Doug Bergam to uh 0:31 talk about it a little bit to start and 0:34 maybe will you’ll follow him up yes sir 0:36 and uh we’re going to have Pete Heg 0:38 speak from a military standpoint but 0:40 this is very all-incclusive we’re 0:42 signing tremendous executive orders 0:46 today that really will make us the real 0:49 power in this industry which is a big 0:51 industry uh Doug why don’t you go ahead 0:54 well thank you President Trump this is a 0:56 huge day for the nuclear industry uh 0:58 mark this day on your calendar uh this 1:00 is going to turn the clock back on over 1:02 50 years of overregulation of an 1:04 industry america has always American 1:07 greatness has always come from 1:08 innovation and we were very innovative 1:10 we led post World War II in all things 1:12 nuclear uh but then we’ve been stagnated 1:14 we’ve choked it with uh overregulation 1:17 uh today Will is going to walk us 1:19 through a series of four executive 1:20 orders uh each of these uh help attack 1:23 uh separate issues that have held back 1:26 this industry and with us today we’ve 1:28 got a number of CEOs from the industry 1:29 representing some of our largest nuclear 1:31 providers but also a big change this is 1:34 a time when when capital and competition 1:36 has finally come to this industry we’ve 1:38 got venture capital we’ve got startups 1:40 coming into all aspects of small modular 1:42 nuclear and we’ve also got an EO that’s 1:44 talking about the importance of us 1:46 having a secure supply chain of being 1:48 able to get that fuel load here in the 1:50 United States as opposed from from 1:52 foreign sources this has impacts on 1:54 national security on our defense uh and 1:57 again President Trump uh here today has 1:59 committed to uh energy dominance uh and 2:02 part of that energy dominance is that 2:04 we’ve got enough electricity to win the 2:06 AI arms race with China what we do in 2:09 the next five years related to 2:10 electricity is going to determine the 2:12 next 50 because it’s the first time in 2:14 history where electricity can be 2:16 translated into intelligence and we need 2:18 that intelligence for every aspect of 2:20 our economy but also for defense uh Pete 2:24 Higse and Department of Defense has been 2:26 a key part of this uh and and this is 2:28 going to help us make sure that we’re 2:30 providing the defense we need where we 2:32 need that AI need the electricity but 2:34 also to secure our bases here at home 2:35 and around the world secretary Sure i’ll 2:38 have to just add to that before going to 2:40 Will energy security is national 2:42 security uh if we don’t have reliable 2:46 uh uh energy for our basing for our 2:50 troops whether forward deployed or 2:51 domestically we’re vulnerable so by 2:53 having small modular nuclear 2:55 capabilities which are rapidly being 2:57 fielded that we can use on our bases 2:59 here and around the world uh we’re 3:01 creating an environment where if things 3:03 happen elsewhere the military can be 3:05 relied upon also we need we’re we’re put 3:07 we’re including uh artificial 3:09 intelligence into everything we do if if 3:11 we don’t we’re not fast enough we’re not 3:13 keeping up with adversaries you need the 3:15 energy to fuel it nuclear is a huge part 3:17 of that modular or otherwise so we’re 3:20 going to have the lights on and AI 3:22 operating when others do not faster than 3:24 everybody else because of nuclear 3:26 capability so this is a big game changer 3:28 for us as well and we’re also talking 3:30 about the big plants the very very big 3:32 the biggest uh we’re going to be doing 3:34 them also but uh we’re going to start 3:37 off a little bit I think a focus today 3:39 is the smaller module but included in 3:43 this group we’re also doing big plans 3:45 where needed they won’t be needed too 3:47 much but they’ll literally be able to do 3:49 it in entire state and you’ve read a lot 3:52 about cost overruns in a couple of 3:53 states that were pretty significant but 3:55 we’re not going to have cost overruns 3:56 and the technologies come a long way 3:59 both in safety and cost and everything 4:01 else uh would a couple you guys like to 4:03 talk about uh your companies and uh you 4:06 want to say anything joe why don’t you 4:08 kick it off sure my name is Joe 4:10 Dominguez i run Constellation Energy we 4:12 have about 25% of the nation’s fleet 4:15 we’re the largest publicly traded 4:17 nuclear company in the world we’re in 4:19 the middle of a merger with Calpine and 4:21 once completed we will be the largest 4:23 electric producing company in the world 4:26 uh about enough power to produce uh to 4:29 cover all of Mexico actually I didn’t 4:31 know that when we talked you were so 4:33 modest i can’t believe it that’s 4:35 normally not said about me Mr president 4:38 i’m very impressed go ahead so you think 4:42 it’s got a great future that Yeah well 4:44 absolutely we do and and the the big 4:46 change here is not only the technology 4:48 has come around but we have some of the 4:50 largest companies in the world the 4:52 hyperscalers who need this energy for AI 4:54 who are now working with us to fund the 4:57 development and construction of the next 4:59 generation 5:00 nuclear nuclear is a 247 resource these 5:05 data centers run 247 some of them will 5:08 cost two300 billion dollars and they 5:11 want to run them all of the time so we 5:13 can’t use intermittent resources we need 5:15 something that’s always on 24/7 and 5:18 nothing does that better than nuclear 5:21 the problem in the industry has 5:22 historically been regulatory delay mr 5:25 president you know this because you 5:27 you’re the best at building big things 5:30 delay in regulations and permitting will 5:32 absolutely kill you because if you can’t 5:35 get the plant on you can’t get revenue 5:37 and the interest costs are horrible 5:39 we’re wasting too much time on 5:42 permitting and we’re answering silly 5:44 questions not the important ones for 5:46 example let me give you an example in 5:48 three places in this country we’re 5:50 trying to license new reactors at sites 5:53 that already have reactors yet I have to 5:57 spend $35 billion at each site just for 6:01 the NRC to do an analysis that says this 6:04 is a good place for nuclear well guess 6:06 what we’ve been running nuclear in that 6:07 community for four decades why are we 6:10 even asking that question i’d rather 6:12 spend that $35 million three times $105 6:16 million perfecting the design start 6:19 building the foundation and getting 6:20 going we need to do this for America are 6:23 we doing something about the regulatory 6:26 in here oh yes sir you are sir that’s 6:28 going to be a big factor yes sir that 6:30 that issue I just described will be 6:33 addressed in this EO and many other 6:35 issues that we don’t have uh time uh 6:38 with the president to cover you say is 6:39 very uh we’ve contemplated just about 6:42 everything well this uh Mr president 6:45 this energy dominance council that you 6:47 have created is something I haven’t seen 6:50 in 30 years it brings together all the 6:53 pieces of government in one place to 6:55 expedite the process under Secretary 6:58 Bergam’s leadership this has been an 7:00 amazing amazing thing it used to be the 7:03 case that I’d have to run to about five 7:05 different places in Washington to get 7:07 one answer and now it’s all together in 7:10 one place so all I know about Secretary 7:12 Bergam and Secretary Wright is if we 7:14 haven’t gotten it right we’ll get it 7:16 right shortly and there’ll be another 7:17 order for you to sign thank you so much 7:19 for your leaders you were going to say 7:21 something well I was just going to say 7:23 commercial nuclear a bit of an unsung 7:24 hero and I just want to thank you Mr 7:26 president Secretary Bergam Secretary 7:29 Wright for bringing this attention to 7:31 commercial nuclear we have the largest 7:34 and most safe fleet right here in the 7:36 United States and upon that we have 7:39 fantastic innovation that’s being 7:41 brought forward and uh it’s going to 7:43 come in all shapes and sizes um and it’s 7:45 going to actually be coming through some 7:47 of these companies that you see 7:48 represented here we’re going to have 7:50 great jobs we’re going to have wonderful 7:52 energy and we’re going to be ready so 7:54 thank you Mr president for leaning in 7:56 appreciate it great job you’ve done too 7:58 what about talking about your company 8:00 and the job you’re going to do yes thank 8:02 you Mr president well first of all a 8:03 little MIT nuclear connection that goes 8:05 back into familial for you so uh yeah 8:07 we’re working on small reactors i’m Jake 8:08 Dit CEO co-founder at Oakllo working on 8:11 small next generation reactors that take 8:13 technology America invented developed 8:14 and pioneered and bringing it to the 8:16 market after it sat on the shelves of 8:17 history for about 40 years and it’s 8:19 because of the actions that you’re doing 8:21 today that are going to help unleash 8:22 that changing the permitting dynamics is 8:24 going to help things move faster we’re 8:26 seeing private investment flow into the 8:27 space like we’ve never seen before we 8:29 went public about a year ago um one of 8:32 the most successful actually go public 8:34 outcomes for a transaction like that for 8:35 a small nuclear company because the 8:37 market needs this and wants this and 8:38 under your leadership creating the the 8:40 dominance council i mean it’s hard to 8:42 overstate the value of that and nuclear 8:44 is a manifestation of energy dominance 8:46 in fact a golf ball of uranium metals 8:48 which this is not but it’s a golf ball 8:51 has enough energy content in it to power 8:53 your entire life’s energy i mean it 8:55 doesn’t get any better than that and to 8:56 get back to building nuclear uses the 8:58 fewest materials right the fe this least 9:00 amount of concrete of steel of fuel for 9:03 amount of energy it produces so it 9:04 should be the cheapest the most scalable 9:06 the most sustainable just like you 9:07 mentioned Mr president about the 9:08 importance of doing that right the 9:10 physics are on our side and these things 9:12 help unleash this innovation to actually 9:13 realize that so it’s never been more 9:16 exciting very exciting indeed go ahead 9:18 please and I’m Scott Nolan CEO of 9:20 General Matter we’re an American 9:22 enrichment company trying to bring back 9:24 the US’s lead in producing nuclear fuel 9:27 so just like car engines need fuel and 9:29 nuclear reactors need fuel right now the 9:31 US is completely dependent on other 9:33 countries to make the key step of 9:35 enrichment in this fuel and these 9:37 executive orders are going to pave the 9:38 way for the US to regain its lead so we 9:40 really appreciate it will you be doing 9:42 the AI plants because we have a lot of 9:44 them going up now and or soon going up 9:46 and they need tremendous electricity are 9:49 you going to be involved in many ways 9:50 yes will uh a lot of them be using 9:53 nuclear or some are using oil and gas 9:55 some are using different things but many 9:57 of them will be I think it just makes a 9:59 lot of sense nuclear is a perfect 10:00 solution and that’s where most of them 10:02 are interested good luck thank you thank 10:04 you going to be great it’s going to be 10:06 Yes okay will please the first executive 10:09 order we have for you uh relates to the 10:11 issue that Secretary Hexith was speaking 10:13 to which is the need uh for incredible 10:16 amounts of power at defense 10:17 installations and also in AI focused 10:20 installations uh what this executive 10:22 order will do is speed up the approval 10:24 and adoption process for specialized 10:26 nuclear reactors at these sorts of sites 10:29 uh it also involves the department of 10:30 energy making available uh the necessary 10:33 fuel stock it also creates a special 10:35 envoy position uh and a strategy around 10:38 nuclear technology export the idea being 10:41 that we can grow American industry on 10:42 the back of foreign purchasers who are 10:44 interested in the sort of technology as 10:46 well i’m just thinking as you say that I 10:49 just sent what about auto pens could I 10:52 use an auto pen what did Biden do did he 10:54 have an auto pen at the desk nuclear 10:56 power no he didn’t do events yeah he 10:59 used nuclear power you know uh he didn’t 11:01 do events like this i guess it’s so 11:04 otherwise you know you walk it to the 11:07 other side of the room have a not pen 11:08 Saturday right here it is it’s phase one 11:12 very big phase very important 11:14 [Applause] 11:21 phase sir this next executive order is 11:24 intended to reform the nuclear 11:26 regulatory commission you heard a few of 11:27 the people here speak about the complex 11:30 regulatory processes that have really 11:32 held the nuclear industry back uh before 11:34 1978 there were 133 reactors uh built in 11:39 the United States since 1978 only two 11:42 new commercial reactors have come online 11:44 that’s because of overregulation and the 11:46 goal of this executive order uh is is 11:49 bringing that regulatory process into 11:51 line with the actual needs of the 11:53 industry and public safety uh with an 11:55 end goal of quadrupling the amount of 11:57 nuclear power production in the next two 11:59 and a half decades it’s fantastic 12:02 it’s exciting right 12:10 there you go this next executive order 12:13 relates to nuclear reactor testing sir 12:16 uh the degree of overregulation and 12:18 governmental inaction in this space in 12:20 particular has had the effect of 12:22 throttling development of new highly 12:24 modernized nuclear reactors that could 12:26 really revolutionize the field uh of 12:29 nuclear power generation uh so this 12:31 executive order uh it orders a revised 12:34 regulatory process uh to speed this 12:36 whole process while preserving obviously 12:39 core safety concerns it also creates a 12:41 new pilot program uh with an expectation 12:43 that we will have three new experimental 12:45 reactors online by July 4th next year 12:48 it’s amazing that’s 12:57 okay come on 12:58 lastly sir we have an executive order on 13:00 reinvigorating the nuclear industrial 13:03 base there are a number of core issues 13:05 here including the the issue with with 13:07 fuel feed stock that that uh one of the 13:09 speakers mentioned before uh this 13:11 executive order among other actions 13:14 includes an invocation of the the 13:16 defense production act uh in order to 13:18 spur a closer collaboration with private 13:20 industry to ensure that we have the fuel 13:22 supplies we need for a modernized uh 13:25 nuclear energy uh sector uh in addition 13:28 to that it includes crucial provisions 13:30 relating to the development of a nuclear 13:32 uh energy sector workforce uh and a 13:35 number of other uh key building blocks 13:37 to the overall nuclear industry that 13:38 we’re trying to uh to spur here thank 13:42 [Applause] 13:50 you and we have one more for you here 13:52 sir this doesn’t directly relate to 13:54 nuclear energy but it’s uh it’s on a 13:56 similar subject uh this executive order 13:58 is entitled restoring uh gold standard 14:01 science uh one of the issues that we’ve 14:04 had in recent decades is that government 14:06 policy has been made on the back of junk 14:09 science uh scientific studies and 14:11 findings uh that have included conflicts 14:13 of interest or scientific misconduct uh 14:15 the purpose of this executive order is 14:17 to reenter policymaking around gold 14:20 standard science uh scientific efforts 14:22 that have followed appropriate 14:24 scientific methods that don’t include 14:26 those sorts of conflicts of interest and 14:28 to ensure that when departments and 14:29 agencies are relying on scientific 14:31 studies uh to to promulgate rules to 14:34 promulgate regulations that the science 14:36 that they’re relying on is highly uh 14:38 highly reliable uh and available to the 14:41 public he did a very good job he did how 14:44 many people here could have done that i 14:46 don’t know i think a lot 14:51 thank you Mr 14:58 is that it that’s all we have for you 15:00 now 15:06 you have any questions for these 15:08 brilliant people they are brilliant 15:10 people actually 15:12 mr president on nuclear sir a lot of the 15:15 concern over the years that’s helped the 15:17 nuclear industry about safety are you 15:19 satisfied with those safety concerns 15:20 yeah we are it’s beencome very safe 15:22 actually it’s become very safe and 15:25 tremendous work’s been done on that more 15:27 than anything else and it’s really the 15:29 automatic shut offs there’s so many 15:30 different things that they have now that 15:32 they would have never had you know my 15:34 uncle was a great nuclear person years 15:37 ago and uh that was a different if you 15:40 would have asked that question probably 15:41 it would have been a much different 15:42 answer but they have tremendous shut off 15:46 power and other powers that uh and very 15:49 redundant as I understand it like at a 15:51 level that nobody’s ever seen before so 15:53 it’s safe and we’re going to do a lot of 15:55 the small ones and we’re going to do 15:57 some of the big ones but yeah very safe 15:59 and 16:01 clean let’s let’s keep it on this for a 16:04 little while let’s keep it on the 16:05 nuclear and then if you want to ask 16:07 something else which you might uh we’ll 16:09 do that on nuclear Mr president yeah 16:11 please uh what do you say to folks who 16:13 are concerned that speeding up licensing 16:15 or even doing fuel processing raises 16:17 safety and proliferation yeah we’re 16:19 going to get it very fast and we’re 16:21 going to get it very safe and we’re 16:22 going to get the people in and out and 16:25 they’re going to do plants in many cases 16:26 they’ll do three or four smaller ones 16:28 and put them together that’s what France 16:30 has done france has done a good job of 16:32 this for years and they as I understand 16:35 it they had basically one plan and if 16:38 they needed more they’d do three or four 16:40 or five of them i don’t know we have to 16:41 go that far but you know there’s 16:43 something about building one big one but 16:45 we’ll build the big ones too we’re going 16:47 to have uh I think we’ll be I would say 16:49 we’ll be second to none because we’re 16:51 starting very strong uh but we uh it’s 16:55 time it’s time for nuclear and we’re 16:57 going to do it very big yeah please mr 16:58 president what about the European Union 17:00 uh you said the negotiations are going 17:02 nowhere what where are the kind of 17:05 points we’re still moving they I’ve been 17:07 saying to everybody they’ve treated us 17:09 very badly over the years it was formed 17:10 in order to hurt the United States in 17:12 order to take advantage of the United 17:15 States and they’ve done that we have a 17:17 big deficit with them uh they sell 17:20 millions and millions of cars as you 17:22 know Mercedes and BMW and Volkswagen and 17:25 many others and we uh we were restricted 17:29 from essentially re restricted from 17:31 selling cars into the European Union 17:33 which is not nice and uh I just said 17:36 it’s time that we play the game the way 17:39 I know how to play the game you know 17:40 nobody they’ve taken advantage of other 17:42 people representing this country and 17:45 they’re not going to do that any longer 17:46 yeah so Mr president you are dealmaker 17:49 deal breaker what are you hoping to 17:51 achieve with a 50% terrorism well I 17:54 think this is there is no tariff because 17:57 what they’ll do is they’ll send their 17:59 companies into the US and build their 18:01 plant you know we have uh I guess over 18:04 12 trillion dollars practically 18:06 committed you look at other presidents 18:07 they haven’t had a trillion dollars for 18:10 for a year for two years for three years 18:12 uh we have numbers nobody’s ever seen 18:14 numbers like we have and if they build 18:16 their plant here then they have no 18:18 tariff at all are you looking for a deal 18:21 in nine days will you be able to do that 18:23 sir 18:24 i’m not looking for a deal i mean we’ve 18:26 set the deal it’s at 50% but again there 18:29 is no tariff if they build their plant 18:31 here now if somebody comes in and wants 18:33 to build a plant here I can talk to them 18:35 about a little bit of a delay but uh you 18:38 know while they’re building their plant 18:39 which is something I think that would be 18:41 appropriate maybe we’ll determine that 18:44 is there anything the EU can do i don’t 18:46 know we’re going to see what happens but 18:48 uh right now it’s going on June 1st and 18:51 that’s the way it is no they haven’t 18:52 treated us properly they haven’t treated 18:54 our country properly they banded 18:56 together to uh take advantage of us and 19:00 uh the people behind me know because 19:02 they had some of that with their 19:04 industry but uh generally you know we 19:06 signed a great deal with uh United 19:09 Kingdom we have numerous other deals 19:12 that are ready to be signed we have 19:14 we’ve signed a deal with China we have 19:17 uh some really amazing deals but the 19:20 European Union I mean the sole purpose 19:22 was really to not to hurt us but to take 19:25 advantage of us and we’re not going to 19:28 be taking Mr president Mr president on 19:30 Apple on Apple you said this morning 19:33 that if they don’t make their iPhones in 19:35 the US you’re going to hit them with a 19:36 25% tariff do you have the power to 19:39 tariff one single company and why would 19:42 you want to American company in that way 19:44 it would be more it would be also 19:45 Samsung and anybody that makes that 19:47 product otherwise it wouldn’t be fair so 19:50 anybody that makes that product and 19:51 that’ll start on I guess at the end of 19:54 June it’ll come out i think we have that 19:57 appropriately done by the end of June so 19:59 if they make that product now again when 20:02 they build their plant here there’s no 20:05 tariff so they’re going to be building 20:07 plants here but I had an understanding 20:09 with Tim that he wouldn’t be doing this 20:11 he said he’s going to India to build 20:12 plants i said “That’s okay to go to 20:14 India but you’re not going to sell India 20:15 here without tariffs.” And uh that’s the 20:18 way it is yeah what makes you confident 20:21 sir that what makes you confident sir 20:22 that Apple can build in the United 20:24 States at a price that American consumer 20:26 Oh they can no they can’t a lot of it a 20:29 lot of it so computerized now these 20:31 plants are amazing if you look at them 20:33 but they can do that and you know 20:35 actually as you know Apple’s coming in 20:36 with 500 billion dollars so are the chip 20:41 companies we have all of the chip 20:42 companies coming in the biggest 500 20:44 billion 200 billion250 billion dollars 20:47 they’re spending but we’re talking about 20:49 the iPhone now and you know the iPhone 20:52 if they’re going to sell it in America I 20:54 want it to be built in the United States 20:57 they’re able to do that when you say 20:59 that Walmart should eat the cost of the 21:01 tariffs is that an acknowledgement that 21:03 it is US companies that they’re the 21:05 brunt of tariffs not foreign companies 21:06 uh sometimes the country will eat it 21:09 sometimes Walmart will eat it and 21:11 sometimes there’ll be something to pay 21:14 something extra i’ve always been a fan 21:15 and I’ve always believed and if you look 21:18 uh take a look at what I did four years 21:20 ago we had the greatest economy and we 21:23 had no inflation remember that we had no 21:25 inflation and yet we had uh hundreds of 21:29 billions of dollars of tariffs that I 21:31 put on China yet we had no inflation we 21:33 had no big cost differential uh 21:36 oftentimes and I’ve I don’t I don’t like 21:39 it when a department store because 21:40 they’ll do a lot of business but you 21:42 know they announce record profits and 21:44 everything else they have to take out 21:45 some of their profits I’ll make a little 21:47 bit less money but I don’t want I don’t 21:49 want the consumer business I don’t want 21:50 the consumer to pay but why why post 21:53 terrorists that you know are hurting 21:54 American businesses they’re not hurting 21:56 they’re helping because they’re creating 21:57 jobs in America we’re creating 21:59 tremendous amounts of jobs in America 22:01 like you’ve never seen having investment 22:03 in America we’re not getting ripped off 22:05 by every country in the world we’ve been 22:07 ripped off by every country in the world 22:08 they’re making their product they sell 22:10 it uh they don’t give our people the 22:12 jobs they make them with other countries 22:14 jobs and uh we will have uh something 22:18 that nobody will ever see again i think 22:20 I think we have a potential to do 22:23 numbers that we never envisioned in the 22:25 wildest year look at look at what’s 22:26 happening uh 10 to 12 trillion dollars 22:30 in literally a couple of months it’s not 22:33 nothing like that’s ever happened it’s a 22:36 very special We’re doing a very special 22:38 thing uh we want if they’re going to 22:40 sell it here generally speaking not for 22:42 all products there’s some products we 22:43 don’t want to make and frankly we’re 22:45 much better off getting getting them 22:46 elsewhere but uh for certain products we 22:49 want cars we want to make cars we don’t 22:50 want to have and I like Canada very much 22:53 but we don’t want to have Canada making 22:54 our cars we want to make our cars oh 22:56 it’s a phone call do you mind hello 23:00 okay it’s only a congressman 23:06 i’ I’d let you know actually 23:08 are you considering stopping other 23:10 universities from taking foreign 23:12 students 23:14 it’s a different congressman they’re all 23:17 congratulating us 23:20 yeah it’s lucky it is okay let’s go are 23:24 you considering stopping other 23:25 universities besides Harvard from 23:27 accepting foreign well we’re taking a 23:28 look at a lot of things and as you know 23:31 uh billions of dollars has been paid to 23:34 Harvard how ridiculous is that billions 23:37 and they have $52 billion as an 23:40 endowment they have $52 billion and this 23:43 country is paying billions and billions 23:46 of dollars and then give student loans 23:48 and they have to pay back the loans so 23:50 Harvard’s going to have to change its 23:51 ways 23:53 so so are some others 23:55 on that note on that note a lot of CEOs 23:58 in the United States big companies are 24:01 for it what is that going to do i’m fine 24:04 with that i’m fine with that we want to 24:07 we want to do that we’re actually going 24:08 to be doing something in the near future 24:11 that’s going to make it possible for 24:13 people to come into this country and 24:15 come in and you know have a road toward 24:17 citizenship and I think it’ll be very 24:19 exciting but it’s too soon to speak you 24:20 don’t 24:22 need the best and brightest from around 24:24 the world i do come to Harvard i do but 24:26 a lot of the people need remedial RA 24:29 math did you see that where the students 24:32 can’t add two and two and they go to 24:35 Harvard they want remedial math and 24:38 they’re going to teach remedial math at 24:40 Harvard now wait a minute so why would 24:42 they get in how can somebody that can’t 24:44 add or or has very basic skills how do 24:48 they get into Harvard why are they there 24:49 and then you see those same people 24:51 picketing and screaming at the United 24:53 States and screaming at you know they’re 24:55 anti-semitic or they’re something we 24:58 don’t want troublemakers here but how do 25:01 people that can’t when when Harvard 25:03 comes out with a statement that they’re 25:04 going to teach some of their students 25:06 remedial math that’s basic math uh 25:09 that’s not the deal okay any 25:12 more in the back are there other 25:15 countries you’re considering shortening 25:17 the 90-day pause on tariffs for and then 25:20 are there specific steps you’re looking 25:21 for the EU to take we do well we have a 25:23 lot of requests and you know you you 25:26 don’t have the people to handle it 25:27 frankly everybody wants to make a deal 25:29 i’m sure now the European Union wants to 25:31 make a deal very badly but they just uh 25:34 they don’t they don’t do it right they 25:36 don’t go about it right uh the other 25:38 thing they do is they sue our companies 25:39 all the time you know they have suits 25:41 where their judges I don’t know if 25:44 they’re appointed by them but they’re 25:46 they’re definitely uh Europe centric and 25:49 we’re not going to we’re not going to 25:50 stand for it they uh won a 17 billion 25:54 dollar lawsuit for Apple and I read that 25:56 case and that’s not a case that should 25:58 have been won they’re suing other of our 26:00 company they use this as a weapon uh but 26:02 they use it really to raise funds for 26:04 what they do it’s almost like a 26:06 fundraising mechanism so we add that to 26:09 the fact that they do the non-monetary 26:11 tariffs and lots of other trading you 26:14 would call them trading barriers they 26:16 don’t take our cars they don’t take our 26:18 agriculture they don’t take anything but 26:21 we take their cars by the minions and 26:23 therefore they have the jobs they get 26:25 the money and we get closed plants not 26:27 going to happen that way anymore thank 26:29 you very much everybody thank you thank 26:31 you press thank you thank you thank you 26:40 thank you sir

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