Speaker 1: Strong. They're strong, and they're great. They're great people, and
Speaker 1: thank you very much. This is a very important day
Speaker 1: to me because we're bringing back an industry that was
Speaker 1: abandoned despite the fact that it was just about the best,
Speaker 1: certainly the best in terms of power, real power. And
Speaker 1: I'm very honored to be doing this. The countries went
Speaker 1: to beautiful clean coal and they've stayed there for many years.
Speaker 1: Like China that China is opening two plants every week.
Speaker 1: Germany went green, very green. They went so green they
Speaker 1: almost went out of business. They Germany was finished. They
Speaker 1: went to wind. The wind wasn't blowing too much, and
Speaker 1: they went to all sorts of other things. You know.
Speaker 1: The green new scam hit Germany too, and guess what,
Speaker 1: now they're back to coal. They're opening up coal plants
Speaker 1: all over Germany. We're the ones that aren't doing it.
Speaker 1: I call it beautiful clean call. I told my people,
Speaker 1: never use the word call unless you put beautiful clean
Speaker 1: before it, right dock, So we call it beautiful cleat call,
Speaker 1: beautiful tleat call. So today, thank you. Today we're taking
Speaker 1: historic action to help American workers, miners, families, and consumers.
Speaker 1: We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful clean call once
Speaker 1: and for all. And it wasn't just Biden, it was
Speaker 1: Obama and there were others. But we're doing the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: And all those plants that have been closed are going
Speaker 1: to be opened if they're modern enough, or they'll be
Speaker 1: ripped down and brand new ones will be built. We're
Speaker 1: going to put the miners back to work. And I
Speaker 1: said I was going to do this, and I've said
Speaker 1: it loud and clear. Time to do it then we
Speaker 1: need it. And I look at these people behind me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have any arm wrestling contests when
Speaker 1: they of them, but they've had a little more practice
Speaker 1: with the with the lifting things, I will say. But
Speaker 1: they are great people. And I know him indirectly and
Speaker 1: directly for how long that includes you guys, for a
Speaker 1: long time. And they're great people and with great families
Speaker 1: and come from areas of the country that we love
Speaker 1: and we really respect. I don't want to thank Secretary
Speaker 1: Doug Bergham for doing such an incredible job. From the
Speaker 1: day I met him, I knew I wanted to have
Speaker 1: him in my cabinet. He took a shot at running
Speaker 1: and he was so good and so solid that he
Speaker 1: made no news and that was but I saw him,
Speaker 1: and I saw his beautiful wife, Catherine, and I said
Speaker 1: that they're going to be a team. They are a
Speaker 1: great team, and they're going to be working for this someday.
Speaker 1: And one of the first people I called after I won,
Speaker 1: so thank you very much, and along with the energy secretary,
Speaker 1: Chris Right, and I was going to make Doug actually
Speaker 1: the energy secretary, and he said, sir, do you have
Speaker 1: one person who's much better than me at this Chris Right?
Speaker 1: I said, who to hell is Chris Right? I have
Speaker 1: no idea who he is. And then I learned that
Speaker 1: he's the most respected person in the energy business by
Speaker 1: far far away. For Doug to say that Doug's got
Speaker 1: a big ego was very tough for him to say that.
Speaker 1: Catherine was there, right, Catherine, you said, wow, I've never
Speaker 1: heard that before. But Chris, you guys are fantastic. Stand up,
Speaker 1: all three of you, please stand up. Well, that's a
Speaker 1: great team. It's no better team than that. And they're
Speaker 1: going to produce energy the likes of which nobody's seen before.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to do the AI all of
Speaker 1: this new technology that's coming in Lard. We need more
Speaker 1: than double the energy the electricity that we currently have.
Speaker 1: You take all of the electricity in the country right now,
Speaker 1: for houses, for buildings, for everything, we need to more
Speaker 1: than double it to be number one. We're now way
Speaker 1: ahead of everybody at Ai. China's in second place, but
Speaker 1: way behind. And they're going to be producing a lot
Speaker 1: of energy and a lot of electricity for this, and
Speaker 1: so are we. And we're going to get approvals very fast.
Speaker 1: And I would say the man that's almost comparable to
Speaker 1: you in terms of the importance to this, maybe he's
Speaker 1: even more comparable. I hate to tell you a guy
Speaker 1: named Lee Zelden, who's a friend of mine for a
Speaker 1: long time, is who was a great Lee was a
Speaker 1: great lawyer, and he ran for office and he won immediately.
Speaker 1: I gave him a very important endorsement. He won for
Speaker 1: Congress in an area that was unwinnable. He couldn't have.
Speaker 1: They were all saying, was he wasting his time? That's
Speaker 1: Democrat territory. And I like Lee and new Lee, and
Speaker 1: he ended up winning a seat in a massive upset.
Speaker 1: Nobody knew what happened actually, and then he was there
Speaker 1: for a long time. How many years were you there?
Speaker 1: Eight years? It was very popular. And then he almost
Speaker 1: ran He almost won the governorship of New York, which
Speaker 1: is very mis lost by a few points, which was
Speaker 1: an amazing run. And I said, we got to get
Speaker 1: you in with us in some form, and we did.
Speaker 1: Then he's head of the Environmental Agency EPA and doing
Speaker 1: a great job. And I said, if we have a
Speaker 1: nuclear power plant, Lee, can you get it approved in
Speaker 1: less than a month? He said what he said, I'll
Speaker 1: do it faster, by the way, he'll do a fast job.
Speaker 1: But he's going to do also a great job. It's
Speaker 1: going to be an important job. We don't even smile
Speaker 1: about it. But you know, I've been involved in the
Speaker 1: approval process for a long time, having been in real estate,
Speaker 1: and you go years and years and years for absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: And even in those days, you say, you know, this
Speaker 1: whole thing could have been approved in a week or
Speaker 1: two weeks or three weeks, and it would have been
Speaker 1: just as good. But they'd take you down on the
Speaker 1: path and you'd spend years waiting, and then sometimes you
Speaker 1: get rejected. I wasn't rejected too much. I was the
Speaker 1: king of zoning. I did well, but it was such nonsense.
Speaker 1: It was so terrible who the process was so terrible.
Speaker 1: But this is the big leagues now, and he's the
Speaker 1: head person in the whole country. And I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you doing it, and already they're respecting
Speaker 1: you very greatly. So thank you very much. Lee. Great job.
Speaker 1: So we have a lot of senators and congressmen and women,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just introduce the ones that I see here,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's always a problem when I do this,
Speaker 1: because I leave one or two out and that's the end.
Speaker 1: I never get their vote again. I never get that vote.
Speaker 1: Takes years, takes years to recover. But we'll give it
Speaker 1: a shot. Because Senator John Barasso, who's my friend and
Speaker 1: a great gentleman. Thank you very much John for being here.
Speaker 1: Thank you John. Cynthia lummis fantastic woman who believes like
Speaker 1: I doing. She believes like I do in these people, right,
Speaker 1: she believes in them, maybe even more than I do.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good from day one. Thank you, Cynthia. You're
Speaker 1: doing a fantastic job. Kevin Kramer, my friend, Where is Kevin?
Speaker 1: Because Kevin I think he was here because he was
Speaker 1: he had a problem, and I just will pay my respects.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be here so badly, but he had
Speaker 1: a difficult problem that he's working through. And we all
Speaker 1: love Kevin John Hooven, John, thank you very much, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Good Steve Daines, Thank you Steve. And
Speaker 1: Steve is a picker of great candidates, like he picked
Speaker 1: a guy named Tim Sheeheyes, who's here is Tim? Where's Tim?
Speaker 1: Thank you Tim? And Tim sheehy has turned out to
Speaker 1: be a wonderful senator. And that was your pick and
Speaker 1: we went with it and you were right, and we
Speaker 1: have a great one in Tim. So thank you Tim,
Speaker 1: and thank you Steve. Shelley Moore Capito Shelley, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, West Virginia. From West Virginia. She has to
Speaker 1: like him, no choice, even if you didn't like it,
Speaker 1: you have to like all right. But they were doing
Speaker 1: a number on you. They were doing a number on
Speaker 1: you with the call stuff. And you have not only call,
Speaker 1: but you have among the best call anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: So thank you very much. Friend of mine for a
Speaker 1: long time. I'm the one that got him to change
Speaker 1: his religion. In a sense, he changed the party. He
Speaker 1: went from a Democrat. I said, Jim, you're not a Democrat,
Speaker 1: but he changed the Republican and he's one of the
Speaker 1: most popular Republicans and one of the most popular political
Speaker 1: leaders in the country. Jim Justice. I call him Big Jim,
Speaker 1: Big Jim Justice. But if you look good, Jim, and
Speaker 1: he was in the business, and so am I doing
Speaker 1: the right thing? You would know better than anybody in
Speaker 1: this room. Am I doing the right thing? Jim? I
Speaker 1: think so right. Thank you very much, Jim. Cindy Hide
Speaker 1: Smith Cindy, thank you. Han, very good, good job. People
Speaker 1: are going to be happy and all friends of mine.
Speaker 1: Mike Lee, Mike, thank you very much. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of people from Congress, congressmen and women representatives. Morgan Griffith, Morgan,
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you very much. Bruce Westerman, Bruce, thank you, Bruce,
Speaker 1: Bob Ladda, Bob Ladda, thank you, Bob. Good job. Troy Balderson, Troy,
Speaker 1: haven't seen you in a long time. Since early that
Speaker 1: early race. I endorsed him before anyone knew who he was,
Speaker 1: and he ended up winning. That was another surprise, right
Speaker 1: you've been that was a long time ago. Yep, you're
Speaker 1: doing a great job. Thank you very much, Troy, Carol Miller, Carol,
Speaker 1: thank you, Carol West, Virginia, Riley Moore, Riley Hi, Riley. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Mike Boast, Mike, thank you very much. Troy Downing, Troy,
Speaker 1: thank you. Oh he said something. What is that Cole?
Speaker 1: Is that cole in that bag? I'll take I like it.
Speaker 1: I'll take it right now. Thank you very much. Hal Rogers,
Speaker 1: Hell Hell, thank you, Thank you, Hall, Andy Barr, thank you, Andy.
Speaker 1: Good luck with everything I hear good things. Troy Downing, Troy,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much, Joy,
Speaker 1: Hal Rogers Oops. Harriet Hageman, Harriet, Hi, how are you Harriet?
Speaker 1: We just left, Harriet. This is one of the finest
Speaker 1: attorneys you will ever see. I have seen her in
Speaker 1: action and she is brutal. I never want her against me.
Speaker 1: That I can tell you. Dan Muser, Dan, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dan, good job you're doing. Wesley Hunt my friend too,
Speaker 1: Wesley great. I love your commercial. Pete Sauber, Pete, thank you, Pete.
Speaker 1: Great hockey player. He was right, great hockey player and
Speaker 1: a great gentleman. Just broke the record of Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1: The great one is Wayne Gretzky. But we have another
Speaker 1: great one too, huh, just broke the record. Who was great?
Speaker 1: Governor Greg Giane Forte, Greg nice and good. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Greg, Bill Lee, Bill, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Patrick Morrissey West Virginia. We Scott elected, Mark Gordon, Mark,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you very much. And we have a
Speaker 1: lot of others. And I'm in trouble because I can't
Speaker 1: I don't know. I got five or six others that
Speaker 1: I see quickly, but I'm just not going to do it.
Speaker 1: Don't hold it against me, because we have to get
Speaker 1: back to the most important people in the room. These people,
Speaker 1: do you know that, right? So, the energy workers and
Speaker 1: the coal miners and in the area that I'm standing on,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of weight on this platform, So
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen. I hope it's
Speaker 1: structurally designed for you guys. I don't know, but we
Speaker 1: have just really well deserving, great American patriots, and it's
Speaker 1: such an honor to be here and making such a
Speaker 1: big move, such a bold move and energy because you know,
Speaker 1: for years people would just bemoan this industry and decimate
Speaker 1: the industry for absolutely no reason. Because with modern technology
Speaker 1: and all of the other things that we do. It's
Speaker 1: one of the great great forms of energy. That's why
Speaker 1: other countries, leading countries are using it, some exclusively. For
Speaker 1: four long years, Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats tried to
Speaker 1: abolish the American coal industry. They did everything in their
Speaker 1: power while he was awake, which wasn't much. Shutting down
Speaker 1: dozens of call plants, banning call leases on federal lands,
Speaker 1: and putting thousands and thousands of coal miners out of work,
Speaker 1: destroying their lives, actually destroying their lives. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: when I went to West Virginia, which I won by
Speaker 1: forty eight points. I think, right, big gym. I won
Speaker 1: by forty eight points. But in the first campaign where
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton was about four states too early, and she
Speaker 1: was talking about how bad call was and how they
Speaker 1: were going to teach coal miners how to make widgets
Speaker 1: and gadgets and technology, which they didn't want to do.
Speaker 1: They want to mine. One thing I learned about the
Speaker 1: coal miners, that's what they want to do. You could
Speaker 1: give them a penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a different
Speaker 1: kind of a job, and they'd be unhappy. They want
Speaker 1: a mine call. That's what they love to do. And
Speaker 1: she was going to put them in a high tech
Speaker 1: industry where you make the leaders cell phones and think,
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you think he'd be good at that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't want to be And she
Speaker 1: was brutal about three weeks before. But then she had
Speaker 1: a problem. She went to West Virginia looking for votes.
Speaker 1: And that was a bad That was a bad situation.
Speaker 1: You remember that. And there was a coal miner around
Speaker 1: the table with his family and he was in tears
Speaker 1: because of what they had done to him and his family.
Speaker 1: And I hope he's still around. But that man made
Speaker 1: quite an impression on the world and the public. Then
Speaker 1: we ended up winning in a great election, but we
Speaker 1: ended up winning by a lot. The Democrats Green new
Speaker 1: scam killed jobs and sent prices soaring here in America.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile, China opened two coal plants every single week,
Speaker 1: and other countries likewise went very strongly back into coal.
Speaker 1: Some of them never got off. Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that didn't have the problems. The Biden energy policy was
Speaker 1: to put America last. We want to be last, We
Speaker 1: got to be last. Not a good policy under my administration.
Speaker 1: We're putting America first. It's very simple. America is always
Speaker 1: going to be first. On my first day in office,
Speaker 1: I terminated the Green new scam. I declared the National
Speaker 1: Energy Emergency and withdrew from the unfair one side and
Speaker 1: extremely costly to the United States only Paris Climate accurt
Speaker 1: You know, under the Paris Climate Accord, we had a
Speaker 1: terrible situation. We would have paid over a trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: Think of it, over a trillion dollars, and Russia was
Speaker 1: paying almost nothing. Russia had a nineteen ninety two standard.
Speaker 1: China was paying nothing. China didn't kick in until twenty
Speaker 1: thirty five. This was five years ago, so they didn't
Speaker 1: kick in for many years. India had no standard whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But we had the highest standard you could imagine. We
Speaker 1: had to start paying from day one, and we had
Speaker 1: paid lots of money. We paid for everything. So I
Speaker 1: was not a big fan of the Paris Accord, and
Speaker 1: I let it be known, and I got out of
Speaker 1: it early. Then they went back into it, and now
Speaker 1: we get back out of it, and hopefully we can
Speaker 1: be there for a long time. Okay, a long time.
Speaker 1: Because it was a scam to take money away from
Speaker 1: the United States and hurt and actually hurt us very
Speaker 1: badly with coal and with other things. Now, under the
Speaker 1: executive order that I will sign in a few moments,
Speaker 1: we're slashing unnecessary regulations that targeted the beautiful clean coal.
Speaker 1: We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands.
Speaker 1: And these two gentlemen are going to do a real
Speaker 1: job of it. You've already started, and we'll streamline permitting.
Speaker 1: We will end the government bias against call, and we're
Speaker 1: going to unlock the sweeping authorities of Defense Production Act,
Speaker 1: the Defense Production Act to terpret charge coal mining in America.
Speaker 1: They made it possible to impossible. You actually, I know
Speaker 1: a friend of mine has a plant. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a shame. I'm ripping it down and I'm replacing
Speaker 1: it with another form of energy. I won't tell you
Speaker 1: because it's also very good. But it's not as powerful
Speaker 1: as this, he said. You know, the plant I'm building,
Speaker 1: the new plant is literally half as good. It's no
Speaker 1: less you know, it's not probably even as good environmentally,
Speaker 1: but he said, it produced half the power for more money,
Speaker 1: much more money. It'll never compete with that beautiful plant.
Speaker 1: I have down the road, which was really a modernized
Speaker 1: coal plant. Well, he'll be happy to know that he
Speaker 1: can open that plant up very quickly and it's going
Speaker 1: to produce a lot. But he was complaining, he said,
Speaker 1: this is so much better. He wasn't doing that as
Speaker 1: politic in me. He was doing that because that's what
Speaker 1: he felt. And he knew every form of energy. We
Speaker 1: talked about that. He knew every form of energy. But
Speaker 1: our government is going to do something that's very different.
Speaker 1: And I don't think even you two know about this.
Speaker 1: This was my idea from about fifteen minutes before I
Speaker 1: got up here. We're going to guarantee that we have
Speaker 1: a strong business for many years to come, that your
Speaker 1: call companies and your miners don't get all excited about
Speaker 1: their jobs. And then should a radical left liberal become president,
Speaker 1: they end the business right away. And somebody's built a
Speaker 1: plant and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in building
Speaker 1: a plant, and the plant is going to be closed
Speaker 1: because a Democrat got in or a liberal got in.
Speaker 1: They're opposed to call and Republicans are very much for it.
Speaker 1: Clean call, and we're we're going to give a guarantee
Speaker 1: that the business will not be terminated by the ups
Speaker 1: and downs of the world of politics. So should somebody
Speaker 1: come in to this very important office and say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you spend hundreds of minut millions of dollars and you
Speaker 1: guys have given up your life because you want to
Speaker 1: be in call, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: don't have a life anymore because it's what you know
Speaker 1: the best. That's not going to happen. We're going to
Speaker 1: give a guarantee that it is not going to happen,
Speaker 1: so that if somebody comes in they cannot change it
Speaker 1: at a whim. They cannot just going to go. They're
Speaker 1: going to have to go through hell to close you up,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's pretty good. We're going to give
Speaker 1: that in the form of a guarantee that we're writing
Speaker 1: on right now structurally and from a legal standpoint. So
Speaker 1: your investments are going to also be protected, and you're
Speaker 1: going to have no reason to be concerned about your future,
Speaker 1: your life, or your investment if you're if you're a minor,
Speaker 1: as this great governor was a minor, actually he was
Speaker 1: a He was one of the larger coal miners. He
Speaker 1: could fit up here very easily. You know, Big Jim.
Speaker 1: But he was a great, a great success. But they
Speaker 1: were very, very tough on him, and he did a
Speaker 1: beautiful job with a beautiful product. Already, under our leadership,
Speaker 1: the Department of Interior has approved the expansion of the
Speaker 1: Spring Creek Mine in Montana, supporting two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: coal mining jobs and unlocking over forty million tons of coal.
Speaker 1: And there's more to come Spring Creek Big One, and
Speaker 1: there's more to come in the states of Wyoming, Alabama, Utah,
Speaker 1: and North Dakota and many others. West Virginia, I can't
Speaker 1: believe they didn't put West Virginia down. It's lucky I
Speaker 1: mentioned that, right. Can you imagine if I didn't mention
Speaker 1: West Virginia would have been in big trouble. They didn't
Speaker 1: mark it down here. It's good to have a president
Speaker 1: like that. They can pick that up, right. You think
Speaker 1: Joe Biden would have picked that up. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: To you, they didn't mention West Virginia, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think you'd be standing up here either. The
Speaker 1: value of untapped call in our country is one hundred
Speaker 1: times greater than the value all the gold and Fort Knox,
Speaker 1: and we're going to unleash it and make America rich
Speaker 1: and powerful again. Under this order, I'm also directing Secretary
Speaker 1: Right to use billions of dollars in federal funding to
Speaker 1: invest in the next generation of coal technology, which is
Speaker 1: an amazing technology in terms of getting the full potential
Speaker 1: of coal and also doing it in a very clean environmental way.
Speaker 1: Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure,
Speaker 1: and powerful form of energy there is on Earth today.
Speaker 1: It's a big step. You never hear those statements. You know,
Speaker 1: you've never heard that before from a politician, have you, Well,
Speaker 1: maybe from that politician, but not from not too many.
Speaker 1: But that's the way it is. I say it again.
Speaker 1: Pound for pound coal is the single most reliable, durable,
Speaker 1: secure and powerful form of energy. It's cheap, incredibly efficient,
Speaker 1: high density, and it's almost indestructible. You could drop a
Speaker 1: bomb on it and it's going to be there for
Speaker 1: you to use the next day, which you can't say
Speaker 1: with any other form of energy. Virtually indestructible. Most importantly,
Speaker 1: we have more of it here in America than anywhere
Speaker 1: else on Earth. We have more coal than any of
Speaker 1: the country you go to Australia. They have fantastic amounts
Speaker 1: of cold you know who. They sell it to China.
Speaker 1: They sell it to China, they're nearby. They sell a
Speaker 1: lot of it to China. But we have more than
Speaker 1: anywhere else on Earth. We also have more liquid gold
Speaker 1: than anywhere on Earth. So we're really an energy behemoth.
Speaker 1: But we're unleashing that also. That's going to be another part.
Speaker 1: But I didn't even want to mention that it's not
Speaker 1: down here because I didn't want to mention. Today is
Speaker 1: about clean, beautiful coal. So I'm going to give this
Speaker 1: to you. Let's just big. I give it to him.
Speaker 1: You take that present. So, for example, we believe it
Speaker 1: is possible to extract enormous amounts of critical minerals and
Speaker 1: Earth's which you know, we need for technology and high
Speaker 1: technology in the process of coal mining, make it in
Speaker 1: America the mineral superpower of the world. Actually, in addition,
Speaker 1: I'm instructing the Department of Justice to identify and fight
Speaker 1: every single unconstitutional state or local regulation that's putting our
Speaker 1: coal miners out of business. And we are withdrawing all
Speaker 1: of those objections from our government today. It's all being withdrawn.
Speaker 1: So all of you, people that have been fighting for
Speaker 1: your lives, we are withdrawing all of that today. We
Speaker 1: have excellent lawyers, excellent Have you noticed that lots of
Speaker 1: law firms have been signing up with Trump one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars, another one hundred million dollars for damages that
Speaker 1: they've done. But they give you a hundred million and
Speaker 1: then they announced that but we have done nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: And I agree they've done nothing wrong, But what the
Speaker 1: hell they give me a lo lot of money considering
Speaker 1: they've done nothing well. And we'll use some of those people,
Speaker 1: some of those great firms. They are great firms to
Speaker 1: they just had a bad moment, but we're going to
Speaker 1: use some of those firms to work with you on
Speaker 1: your leasing and your other things. And they'll do a
Speaker 1: great job. I think they're going to do a fantastic job.
Speaker 1: And for those of you that want to know the
Speaker 1: tariffs you've been hearing about, tariffs were taking in almost
Speaker 1: two billion dollars a day in tariffs, two billion a day.
Speaker 1: And we're doing very well, and we're doing very well
Speaker 1: and making I call them tailor deals, not off the rack.
Speaker 1: These are tailored, highly tailored deals. Right now Japan is
Speaker 1: flying here to make a deal. South Korea is flying
Speaker 1: here to make a deal, and others are flying here.
Speaker 1: I mean, my only problem is I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: have enough. We're gonna have to use those those great
Speaker 1: law firms I think to help us with that. But
Speaker 1: we're going to probably do that. Actually, we're going to
Speaker 1: use them, and we're getting them for the right price
Speaker 1: because we have to. We need a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of countries coming in. They want
Speaker 1: to make deals. If I told them about making those
Speaker 1: deals two years ago, or three years ago or five
Speaker 1: years ago, they'd be laughing at us. Now they're all
Speaker 1: signing up, Mike, you know that. So it's going to
Speaker 1: be a great thing. But we're taking think of that
Speaker 1: two billion dollars a day. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money, even in the coal businesses.
Speaker 1: And huh, it's a lot of money. And America is
Speaker 1: going to be very rich again very soon. You're going
Speaker 1: to see that happening. You see it all all along,
Speaker 1: and it's so that whole situation that you know there
Speaker 1: was somewhat explosive. But if we didn't do that, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be talking the way we're talking right now. It's
Speaker 1: been amazing what's happened. Sometimes you have to mix it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, but we've had great, great consideration.
Speaker 1: We've had talks with many, many countries over seventy They
Speaker 1: all want to come in. Our problem is can't see
Speaker 1: that many that fast. But we don't have to because,
Speaker 1: as you know, the tariffs are on and the money
Speaker 1: is pouring in a level that we've never seen before,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be great for us, it's going
Speaker 1: to be great for other countries. And we've been ripped
Speaker 1: off and abused by countries for many years with the
Speaker 1: tariffs situation. They've used haraffs against us. We didn't use
Speaker 1: tariffs against them or in any way. I mean, we
Speaker 1: just didn't use them of any monumental proportion. And so
Speaker 1: we are doing it now. We have tariffs on cars,
Speaker 1: we have tariffs on lumber, tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Speaker 1: Steel plants are going up because of it all over
Speaker 1: the country with twenty five percent tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Speaker 1: And there's steel I think there's steel workers like me
Speaker 1: even more than the coal miners like me. Pretty sure
Speaker 1: that that's true. We have instead of having no steel business.
Speaker 1: I put them on Originally my first term. We would
Speaker 1: have had we wouldn't have had one steel mill in
Speaker 1: the United States if I didn't do that. And now
Speaker 1: we upped it, and we not only are we taking
Speaker 1: in a lot of money, but we're protecting our workers,
Speaker 1: our steel workers. We're protecting our steel industry. And one thing,
Speaker 1: you know that steel and things like steel you need
Speaker 1: because you need it from a defense standpoint. You need
Speaker 1: steel for your tanks and your planes and your everything.
Speaker 1: And certain industries you can get away with not having,
Speaker 1: but others you need, and steel is one you need.
Speaker 1: So I want to let you know that's in full
Speaker 1: force and effect, and literally as we speak. I spoke
Speaker 1: to executives in the steel industry over the last few days,
Speaker 1: and they're all coming in to build plants in the
Speaker 1: United States of America because if you build them in
Speaker 1: the United States, you have no tariffs to pay. There
Speaker 1: are no tariffs to pay. Zero, build them outside, using
Speaker 1: outside labor and hurting our businesses. And you send your
Speaker 1: product in, you have to pay a price for that,
Speaker 1: and they will be having they will be having tariffs.
Speaker 1: As you know. It's an amazing thing. This has been
Speaker 1: something used against us for many years by other countries,
Speaker 1: China in particular, but others, not just China, others and
Speaker 1: taken advantage of us, ripped us off, and left us
Speaker 1: for dead. Frankly, and I believe if I didn't become
Speaker 1: your president, I believe that this country would have had
Speaker 1: problems like they've never had before because it was a
Speaker 1: serious damage in so many other ways, not only the
Speaker 1: border where people came rushing into our country from prisons
Speaker 1: and jails and mental institutions, murderers, drug dealers, and some vicious,
Speaker 1: vicious criminals. Eleven thousand and eighty eight murderers came into
Speaker 1: our country. We have to get them out. We're getting
Speaker 1: them out. Eighty eight of that number, half committed murder
Speaker 1: on more than two people, more than two people. And
Speaker 1: this is what they allowed into our country with their
Speaker 1: open border policy of lunacy. And we're taking care of that,
Speaker 1: just like we're taking care of you today. We're taking
Speaker 1: care of that. I want to thank Christine Home and
Speaker 1: Tom Homan for doing an unbelievable job. The whole thing
Speaker 1: is what the job they're doing is incredible. It's really
Speaker 1: an unforced era should have never happened that we have
Speaker 1: to be spending such time and resources, mister Senator, and
Speaker 1: on getting people out of our country that shouldn't be here.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, from mental institutions, insane asylums were opened
Speaker 1: up and emptied into our country. Prisons from all over
Speaker 1: the world, not just South America, prisons from think of this,
Speaker 1: from Africa, the Congo, a lot of people from the Congo,
Speaker 1: prisons in the Congo, prisons from Asia, from all over
Speaker 1: were opened up. And I knew that when I heard
Speaker 1: it was an open border. Poly says say, if you
Speaker 1: do that, every country is going to be dumping people
Speaker 1: that they don't want into our country. And that's what's happened.
Speaker 1: But with leaning it out and the courts, we had
Speaker 1: a good decision as you know, from the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: allowing us to do that. We have judges that didn't
Speaker 1: want us to do We have judges that wanted the
Speaker 1: very evil gang members from Trendy Iraqua and MS thirteen.
Speaker 1: They didn't want them take it out of the country
Speaker 1: and put in very powerful prisons. When you look, you've
Speaker 1: seen you've all seen those slips, pretty amazing clips. But
Speaker 1: I want to thank el Salvador. They've done an incredible job.
Speaker 1: But we've been fortunately winning those cases. But we have
Speaker 1: judges that are out of control that say, oh, bring
Speaker 1: them back, bring them back. We don't want them back.
Speaker 1: We don't want them back. Can you imagine you spend
Speaker 1: all of that time, energy and money on getting them
Speaker 1: out and then you have a judge that sits there,
Speaker 1: local judge who sits there, Federal judges sit there and
Speaker 1: says no, no, bring them back. One was brought back
Speaker 1: or they want to bring them back because he wasn't
Speaker 1: a member of trend Iraqua. He was a member of
Speaker 1: MS thirteen, which is just as bad. So they misidentified him,
Speaker 1: but it sounds to me like he was a member
Speaker 1: of MS thirteen. So they want them brought back because
Speaker 1: he wasn't treated properly. It's we've got to be smart.
Speaker 1: Our country's got to get a lot smarter than it is.
Speaker 1: But we have to give the people that are empowered
Speaker 1: to do this kind of work, and it's not pleasant work.
Speaker 1: We have to give them. We have to give them
Speaker 1: the option of making our country great again. And that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And I have great respect for those people,
Speaker 1: and they're doing it out of love. They could get
Speaker 1: a much easier job. They're doing it out of love
Speaker 1: for our country. It's so important, just like I'm doing
Speaker 1: this with Cole today for love for our country. Earlier
Speaker 1: this afternoon, I signed another executive order to strengthen our
Speaker 1: election tri grid by ensuring that coal fired power plants
Speaker 1: are always available to meet surging demand for electricity. Unlike
Speaker 1: wind and solar, coal plants can run twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day and rain, sleet or snow, and you will
Speaker 1: not be subject to the incredible blackout situation that's taking
Speaker 1: place in California, where they have blackouts all the time.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing with California. They have blackouts and
Speaker 1: brownouts at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And all
Speaker 1: they want to do is keep going the way they're going,
Speaker 1: and they're doing a very poor job. As you probably heard,
Speaker 1: I released billions of gallons of water going in from
Speaker 1: upstate California, from the most northern parts of California, probably
Speaker 1: comes in from Canada to a certain extent. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Canada. We appreciate it, and I released it.
Speaker 1: It was being sent out to the Pacific Ocean. I've
Speaker 1: been working on Gavin and some of the politicians for years,
Speaker 1: and they didn't want to do that because they were
Speaker 1: protecting a smelt the fish that was perhaps in trouble,
Speaker 1: but it's not unique to that area. And because of that,
Speaker 1: you had numbers had fires. Nobody's ever seen anything like
Speaker 1: what happened. Think of what it would have been like
Speaker 1: if you had fire hydrants that had water in them,
Speaker 1: if you had sprinkler systems and houses. A lot of
Speaker 1: these luxury houses where they had beautiful sprinkler systems, there
Speaker 1: was no water. They had no water to put out
Speaker 1: the fires. Water is very good for putting out fires.
Speaker 1: You know, they just didn't learn it. But we now
Speaker 1: have millions of gallons billions actually they say of gallons
Speaker 1: of water pouring into California from the Pacific Northwest. I
Speaker 1: guess they would say mostly Pacific Northwest, but other parts
Speaker 1: of the northern sections of California and beyond. And it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to see. I saw a picture of
Speaker 1: it this morning. The water's just flowing down there. I said,
Speaker 1: why didn't they do this? I told them to do
Speaker 1: it my first term, I said, do it, And I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think the second term is just more powerful.
Speaker 1: They do it when as they do it, they do
Speaker 1: it right. And we actually had to do some pretty
Speaker 1: strong things to get them to open it up. They
Speaker 1: had think of this ad all that water pouring out
Speaker 1: right into the Pacific, that a big valve, like a
Speaker 1: giant valve as big as this room. And they turned
Speaker 1: the valve. Takes one day to turn it, and they
Speaker 1: face it toward the Pacific Ocean and the water all
Speaker 1: that was coming down, all millions and millions of gallons
Speaker 1: coming down. They put it into the Pacific Ocean, which
Speaker 1: for the Pacific Ocean is like a drop of water,
Speaker 1: but for California it would have been unbelievable. So we
Speaker 1: did it. I'm very proud of the fact that we
Speaker 1: did it. We did that against a lot of heat
Speaker 1: and a lot of environmental nonsense. From now on, wheel
Speaker 1: sure that our nations critically needed coal plants, as an example,
Speaker 1: remain online and fully operational. They're always going to be operational,
Speaker 1: and again we're going to have guarantees that government cannot
Speaker 1: close them down, close you down, and destroy your lives.
Speaker 1: To that end, I'm also instructing Secretary Right to save
Speaker 1: the Choi coal plant in Arizona big plant which has
Speaker 1: been slated for destruction. We're going to keep those coal
Speaker 1: miners on the job. Can to tell them to just
Speaker 1: remain calm, because we're going to have that plant opening
Speaker 1: and burning the clean call, beautiful clean call, in a
Speaker 1: very short period of time. You know all about that, right,
Speaker 1: That's a big one. As part of our historic deregulatory efforts.
Speaker 1: This afternoon, I'm also granting immediate relief to forty seven
Speaker 1: companies operating sixty six coal plants, very big ones all
Speaker 1: over the country, recusing and making them available for coal
Speaker 1: production almost in the immediate future. But we're going to
Speaker 1: be crushing Biden era environmental restrictions. These are restrictions that
Speaker 1: made it impossible, impossible to do anything having to do frankly,
Speaker 1: with energy, even beyond coal. It's really beyond even coal.
Speaker 1: We have clean air, we have clean water, and now
Speaker 1: we have clean coal. And at the same time, we're
Speaker 1: going to do other things and with other forms of
Speaker 1: technology and also energy like our country has never really
Speaker 1: seen before and never been known to do before because
Speaker 1: of all sorts of restrictions having to do with the
Speaker 1: Green New scam, which by the way, was devised by
Speaker 1: somebody that never even studied you know that they never
Speaker 1: even studied anything to do with the environment. So young
Speaker 1: Congress will she came up with the idea, and based
Speaker 1: on that, I guess we only have well, actually we
Speaker 1: should have all been gone because they gave us only
Speaker 1: a few years left on earth, right, right, Greg, we
Speaker 1: were going to be gone. We're all going to be gone.
Speaker 1: The environment now, what they have to worry about is
Speaker 1: the nuclear nuclear heat. They don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: environmental heat. They have to worry about nuclear heat. And
Speaker 1: if we're smart, we're working on that right now with
Speaker 1: others having to do with Iran and some other countries.
Speaker 1: But that's the heat you're gonna have to worry about.
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about. The air is getting warmer.
Speaker 1: The ocean will rise one quarter of an inch within
Speaker 1: the next five hundred to six hundred years, giving you
Speaker 1: a little bit more waterfront property. They say, this is good.
Speaker 1: These guys can handle that. The nuclear we have a
Speaker 1: bigger problem with, right, So we're going to make sure
Speaker 1: that that's safe. We're going to make sure that that's
Speaker 1: safe with us today or some of the amazing work
Speaker 1: who will benefit from these policies, the policies that we're
Speaker 1: doing and so proud of doing, including Jeff Crowe, a
Speaker 1: minor from West Virginia. Jeff, would you come up and
Speaker 1: say a few words, Jeff? Why not made man