[Music] president Trump is swearing in Tulsi gabard is Director of National Intelligence and signing some executive orders in the Oval Office is happening moments ago let's listen in a short period of time I've never seen anything I have pictures that are you wouldn't believe it you wouldn't believe what you have to look at young beautiful soldiers that are just being decimated and it would be nice to end it immediately but we had a very good talk with uh we people didn't really know what President Putin's thoughts were but I think I can say with great confidence he wants to see it ended also that's good and we're going to work toward getting it ended and as fast as possible it's uh it's a horrible situation going over it's flat land and the bullet goes off and the only thing it can hit is a body a human body a young human body and they're losing uh just tremendous numbers of mostly solders is this the cities and towns have been largely demolished it's a shame what's happened to that country would have never happened if I were president that I can tell you would have never happened it's uh to look at that and October 7th would have never happened either by the way Middle East uh but we'll get it uh I think we'll get it we'll get something done we're going to be meeting uh actually tomorrow they're meeting in Munich as you know and we're going to have some other meetings and we'll be I'll be dealing with President Putin largely on the phone and we ultimately expect to meet in fact we expect that he'll come here and I'll go there and we're going to meet also probably in Saudi Arabia the first time we'll meet in Saudi Arabia see if we can get something done but we want to end that war that war is a disaster it's a really bloody horrible waria you the first meeting will happen I think so we think we're going to probably meet in Saudi Arabia the first meeting uh hasn't been said but not too distant future part of thatting we both understand you know we know the ground prints and uh I think it'd be a it'd be a very good place to meet so it sounds like that would just be a meeting between you and Putin and perhaps the crowner but not president zalinsky probably we'll have a first meeting and then we'll see what we can do about the second meeting alsoit to go to Ukraine uh what about Ukraine did you commit to go to Ukraine as well no I haven't I haven't committed to go to Ukraine um I would think about going yeah I think about it no problem you say today MrPresident that they Reed your vision what is your plan for to end this war like today secretary well I'm not going to tell you my plan I can just tell you we've made a lot of progress this should have been done by Biden not by me because this has been going on for now a long time years and it should have been done by Biden uh just like the young gentleman that I brought home yesterday after two weeks we worked on it for two weeks he was a a fine man and he was in there for three and a half almost four years and uh they weren't able to do a thing and I got them out and as you know I didn't pay $6 billion dollar I didn't pay anything I we did a trade and uh we did a good job we' got him out in two weeks he should have been out years ago really should have been out years ago oppos NATO membership for Ukraine um I don't think it's practical to have it personally I know that uh a new secretary of defense who's excellent Pete made a statement today saying that he thinks it's unlikely or impractical I think probably that's true I think long before President Putin they said there's no way they'd allow that this has been going on for many many years they've been saying that for a long time that Ukraine cannot go into NATO and and I'm okay with that I just want the war whether they are or they're not but I it certainly would seem to be that most people have said that that is something that's not going to happen are you freezing out president zinski of this process a bit isn't there a danger of that no I don't think so as long as he's there but you know at some point you're going to have to have elections too you're going to have to have an election security insurances MrPresident what does that look like in terms of what he if the war were to end he says he wants guarantees of security we'll see what that means uh we have I think when the war ends one thing he was very strong about he wants if it ends he wants it to end and as President Putin said that he wants it to end he doesn't want to end it and then go back to fighting six months later uh we talked about the possibility I mentioned it of a ceasefire so we can stop the killing and I think we'll probably end up at some point getting a ceasefire in the not too distant future do you do you expect Ukraine say what do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process um it's an interesting question uh I think they have to make peace their people are being killed and I think they have to make peace we I said that was not a good War to go into and I think they have to make peace that's what I think to Ukraine you supportsk seeding territory or exchanging territory any agreement to end the war when he going to have to do what he has to do but you know his poll numbers aren't particularly great to put it modly he's got a country where you know it's been Savaged and attacked and uh he's got an army that's been very very brave actually despite the fact that you know we've given them in my opinion $350 billion do that's what the real number is you don't hear that number and Europe is given in my opinion a hundred billion dollar and they've done it in the form of a loan and I have a Secretary of Treasury right now who's actually quite Brave he's over in Ukraine on a train and there's a lot of things happening around that train that aren't so good and he's going there to get a document done where we're going to be in assured that we're going to in some form get this money back because we're putting up far more money than Europe and Europe is in Far More danger than we are we have an ocean in between Europe has nothing in between you know they have in between they have Ukraine in between so so wait a minute so as you know Europe is putting up money and they're getting it in the form of a loan and the United States under Biden didn't do loans they just handed money every time somebody walked in from Ukraine they just handed them money foolishly this should have never happened it should have never started and once it did other things should have happened other things should have taken place so uh we're we're getting uh Security on our money we're going to have it secured by they have uh Roar Earth and they have oil and gas and they have a lot of other things and we're asking for security in our money so does they've agreed to it UK Ukraine has agreed to it does it mean you are not sending any more Aid to Ukraine no we are but we want it secured and the money is going to be secured when would the US stop sending fing when would the US stop sending because if we didn't do that then Putin would say he won we're the thing that's holding it back and frankly we'll go as long as we have to go because we're not going to let the other happen but uh President Putin wants to have peace now and that's good and he didn't want to have peace with Biden was that conversation with and you tell me why that is okay was that conversation with Putin to start these negotiations part of the deal to bring Fogle home no but it was uh a nice thing that he allowed Mark Fogle to leave in fact uh Mark is uh wasn't feeling well but he was all of a sudden about uh two weeks ago he started being treated very nicely he said they took him out for haircuts they took him out they they uh helped them out a little bit and made him feel better made him look better and they were nice to him and he said I saw something happening and it had to it coincided with when I came into office so uh that was nice and and he was he's a fine person he was so happy to be out he was there he was there for three and a half years plus and he shouldn't have been there at all he should have they should have had him out much faster than that what does make you believe that wa go ahead please sorry uh sir just to be clear do you see any future in which Ukraine returns to its pre 2014 borders well I I think Pete said today that that's unlikely right it certainly would seem to be unlikely they took a lot of land and uh they fought for that land and they lost a lot of uh they lost a lot of soldiers but it would just seem to me and I'm not I'm not making an opinion on it but I've read a lot on it and a lot of people think that that's unlikely some of it will come back I think some of it will come back yeah some of that land will come back these are Russi who you with sorry me yeah AFP yeah who AFP France press okay um I just wanted to ask you um you um the things that uh the secretary of defense was talking about um the U 2014 borders and the um lack of NATO membership ultimately these are both demands that Russia has made in the past is there not a danger of handing Russia a kind of win on this well I think that if you look at the war the way the war is going you'll have to make your own determination I'm just here to try and get peace I don't care so much about uh anything other than I want to stop having millions of people killed killed last night you know Kev got hit very very hard uh I want to see people stop getting killed that war is ridiculous it should have never happened and it would have never happened yeah a couple of more questions are you planning to sign are you planning to sign an executive order and reciprocal tariff sir yes I am in fact uh I may do it today and if I do it today I could almost do it right now would you like to me to talk about now I don't want to take anything away from this young lady's day because this is her day and uh I I may do it later on or I may do it tomorrow morning but we'll be signing reciprocal tariffs uh the world has taken advantage of the United States for many years they've charged us massive tariffs that we haven't charged them and as you know I just did something on steel and aluminum 25% that'll go up at some point but 25% which will level the playing field quite a bit I did it previously 50% and Obama was uh Obama was very weak and Biden was even weaker on steel the steel was just absolutely it really started with Obama the world really took advantage of us and then that morphed into uh Biden and what they did was uh he was so worried about trying to attack his political opponent that he didn't know what he was doing with respect to countries taking advantage he should have looked at the countries both friend and foe taking advantage of us so uh we're going to be doing reciprocal tariff which is whatever they charge we charge very simply but we're going to consider talk about widespread Fraud and Abuse oh yeah tremendous fraud there's tremendous fraud and it's hard to believe that you can have that kind of fraud you're talking about like are you talking about what wait wait wait which are you talking you're talking about with regard to all of the investigations that are going on about this stupidity what we're going to do is tomorrow I'm having a news conference I'm going to read to you you some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to and if you tell me that we should be giving money to those things those entities uh I think you'll probably have to leave as a reporter because you're not very talented when you look at the kind of money billions and billions of dollars being thrown away illegally and there's no there's no chance I mean I say it in front of our our attorney general there's no chance that there's not Kickbacks or something going on when you give millions and millions of dollars to somebody that stands to look at something for 15 minutes and walks away with millions of dollars that money is coming back in some form and that's only one form of corruption the biggest thing is what they do to our country they're taking massive amounts of money and spending it on items I went through a list of 200 expenditures that were made and I found three that looked like they were reasonable okay three and uh we'll be talking about that tomorrow we have a lot of self and I want to commend Elon because he's done a f he doesn't need this you know he's abused by you people every day uh he's found more things than anybody could find I think he's got the credibility to do it I know he does and uh it's his group of people you know they started off with 12 I call him 12 Geniuses they started off with 12 and they went to 20 and 25 and now they're up to almost 100 people to join in to help them because this is a massive fraud that's taking place and then you have judges that are activists and they sit there and they say oh as an example $59 million going to a little small group in New York City you get nothing going to North Carolina to help the nothing they say we don't have any money because they've given it away on the border but you have nothing what they did to North Carolina is a shame and then they sent $59 million to New York City for out for a little a little bit of n what they've done a hotel that was not luxury that's getting luxury rates for migrants with they making a fortune and we catch them we catch them and but a judge says well even though it may be a fraud you have to send the money in anyway send the money I said wait a minute we have money that shouldn't go because we caught it before it was sent out but they want the money to go anyway and uh I think you're going to have a lot of things to look at Pam I really do what's going on with this whole thing and this is just one group we haven't talked about Department of Education we haven't talked about the military we haven't talked about a lot of things that are very big and what's happened is as an example you'll have cases where you have a three-month contract and maybe the guy that signs a contract leaves maybe he gets Rich all of a sudden he leaves for that reason but you have a 3-month contract and maybe he leaves so the contract is sitting there and the people signing the checks don't know it's 3 months and it goes on for years the three months turns out to be three years five years 10 years just goes on forever and the guy on the other side of the contract just keeps getting check after check after check because Elon had an expression yesterday because nobody cares it's a great expression nobody cares uh the guy that signed the contract didn't care may be there may not be there may be crooked who knows but you have to care otherwise you can't really run a thing like that or you can't run a country really because there's so many transactions thousands and thousands of transactions and if you don't have people that care you're going to lose control and that's what's happened and we've caught it now what we caught is billions and billions of dollars but it's a tiny fraction of the real number because you can never catch the real number because people have gotten away with tremendous amounts of money but uh I said we have to make our government smaller more efficient more effective and a lot less expensive and we could find a trillion dollars but we're being hindered by courts where they file in certain courts where it's very hard to win and a judge will stop us and a judge will say that it doesn't make any difference what you find you just keep paying the money that's a hell of a way to be and I follow the courts I have to follow the law all it means is that we appeal but that gives people time to cover their tracks and that's what they do so it's a very bad it's a very bad thing that's taking place but hopefully if the courts uh hopefully the courts will be fair they don't have to be very fair they just have to be a little bit Fair because this is so egregious what's taking place nobody's ever seen anything like it nobody's seen numbers like this these are massive numbers $9 million for somebody to go and stand in a store and see how people shop okay I mean you take a look at you take a look at these things it's a disgrace and then you have a country that we want to make America great again and very hard to make America great again when you have things like this and you're going to see the same thing Department of Education is going to be a disaster uh the military I mean I see it look uh I bought I came in they had a contract done as you know for 5. 7 billion for airplanes it was Air Force One with Boeing 5. 7 I got it down to 4 billion little less than that one penny less than that 3 billion 99999999 they said I said has to have a three in front of it because I wouldn't sign the contract for 5.
7 billion I was able to cut $1. 7 billion off the price and it didn't take me long 1.
