WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.480 Strong. They're strong, and they're great. They're great people, and 2 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:12.359 thank you very much. This is a very important day 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:18.399 to me because we're bringing back an industry that was 4 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:23.039 abandoned despite the fact that it was just about the best, 5 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.239 certainly the best in terms of power, real power. And 6 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:34.119 I'm very honored to be doing this. The countries went 7 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.240 to beautiful clean coal and they've stayed there for many years. 8 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:41.439 Like China that China is opening two plants every week. 9 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.679 Germany went green, very green. They went so green they 10 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:50.560 almost went out of business. They Germany was finished. They 11 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:54.560 went to wind. The wind wasn't blowing too much, and 12 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:56.479 they went to all sorts of other things. You know. 13 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.920 The green new scam hit Germany too, and guess what, 14 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.880 now they're back to coal. They're opening up coal plants 15 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.079 all over Germany. We're the ones that aren't doing it. 16 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.000 I call it beautiful clean call. I told my people, 17 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.280 never use the word call unless you put beautiful clean 18 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.480 before it, right dock, So we call it beautiful cleat call, 19 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:24.640 beautiful tleat call. So today, thank you. Today we're taking 20 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:29.040 historic action to help American workers, miners, families, and consumers. 21 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:33.040 We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful clean call once 22 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:35.400 and for all. And it wasn't just Biden, it was 23 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:41.439 Obama and there were others. But we're doing the exact opposite. 24 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.400 And all those plants that have been closed are going 25 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.959 to be opened if they're modern enough, or they'll be 26 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.519 ripped down and brand new ones will be built. We're 27 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:54.480 going to put the miners back to work. And I 28 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.480 said I was going to do this, and I've said 29 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.560 it loud and clear. Time to do it then we 30 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:05.040 need it. And I look at these people behind me. 31 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.319 I don't want to have any arm wrestling contests when 32 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.599 they of them, but they've had a little more practice 33 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:14.039 with the with the lifting things, I will say. But 34 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.039 they are great people. And I know him indirectly and 35 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:21.039 directly for how long that includes you guys, for a 36 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:25.080 long time. And they're great people and with great families 37 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.360 and come from areas of the country that we love 38 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.120 and we really respect. I don't want to thank Secretary 39 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.000 Doug Bergham for doing such an incredible job. From the 40 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:39.599 day I met him, I knew I wanted to have 41 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:43.240 him in my cabinet. He took a shot at running 42 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.360 and he was so good and so solid that he 43 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:51.360 made no news and that was but I saw him, 44 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.360 and I saw his beautiful wife, Catherine, and I said 45 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.159 that they're going to be a team. They are a 46 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.919 great team, and they're going to be working for this someday. 47 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:03.840 And one of the first people I called after I won, 48 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.719 so thank you very much, and along with the energy secretary, 49 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.280 Chris Right, and I was going to make Doug actually 50 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:14.560 the energy secretary, and he said, sir, do you have 51 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.680 one person who's much better than me at this Chris Right? 52 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:19.240 I said, who to hell is Chris Right? I have 53 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.840 no idea who he is. And then I learned that 54 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.719 he's the most respected person in the energy business by 55 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.639 far far away. For Doug to say that Doug's got 56 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.919 a big ego was very tough for him to say that. 57 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:34.080 Catherine was there, right, Catherine, you said, wow, I've never 58 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.360 heard that before. But Chris, you guys are fantastic. Stand up, 59 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:51.879 all three of you, please stand up. Well, that's a 60 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.719 great team. It's no better team than that. And they're 61 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.039 going to produce energy the likes of which nobody's seen before. 62 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:02.159 You know, we need to do the AI all of 63 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.360 this new technology that's coming in Lard. We need more 64 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.479 than double the energy the electricity that we currently have. 65 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.800 You take all of the electricity in the country right now, 66 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:16.480 for houses, for buildings, for everything, we need to more 67 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:20.079 than double it to be number one. We're now way 68 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.319 ahead of everybody at Ai. China's in second place, but 69 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.240 way behind. And they're going to be producing a lot 70 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:31.160 of energy and a lot of electricity for this, and 71 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.279 so are we. And we're going to get approvals very fast. 72 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:38.199 And I would say the man that's almost comparable to 73 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:40.519 you in terms of the importance to this, maybe he's 74 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.199 even more comparable. I hate to tell you a guy 75 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.279 named Lee Zelden, who's a friend of mine for a 76 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:59.000 long time, is who was a great Lee was a 77 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.759 great lawyer, and he ran for office and he won immediately. 78 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.759 I gave him a very important endorsement. He won for 79 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:09.279 Congress in an area that was unwinnable. He couldn't have. 80 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.639 They were all saying, was he wasting his time? That's 81 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:17.000 Democrat territory. And I like Lee and new Lee, and 82 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.079 he ended up winning a seat in a massive upset. 83 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.639 Nobody knew what happened actually, and then he was there 84 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.680 for a long time. How many years were you there? 85 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:31.920 Eight years? It was very popular. And then he almost 86 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.079 ran He almost won the governorship of New York, which 87 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:37.879 is very mis lost by a few points, which was 88 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.399 an amazing run. And I said, we got to get 89 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.560 you in with us in some form, and we did. 90 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:48.240 Then he's head of the Environmental Agency EPA and doing 91 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.600 a great job. And I said, if we have a 92 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.680 nuclear power plant, Lee, can you get it approved in 93 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.399 less than a month? He said what he said, I'll 94 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.480 do it faster, by the way, he'll do a fast job. 95 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.240 But he's going to do also a great job. It's 96 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.240 going to be an important job. We don't even smile 97 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.639 about it. But you know, I've been involved in the 98 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.480 approval process for a long time, having been in real estate, 99 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.959 and you go years and years and years for absolutely nothing. 100 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.279 And even in those days, you say, you know, this 101 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:21.000 whole thing could have been approved in a week or 102 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:22.920 two weeks or three weeks, and it would have been 103 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:25.439 just as good. But they'd take you down on the 104 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.560 path and you'd spend years waiting, and then sometimes you 105 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.000 get rejected. I wasn't rejected too much. I was the 106 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.480 king of zoning. I did well, but it was such nonsense. 107 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.079 It was so terrible who the process was so terrible. 108 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:40.600 But this is the big leagues now, and he's the 109 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.399 head person in the whole country. And I appreciate it, 110 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:47.959 and I appreciate you doing it, and already they're respecting 111 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.639 you very greatly. So thank you very much. Lee. Great job. 112 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.199 So we have a lot of senators and congressmen and women, 113 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.759 and I'm gonna just introduce the ones that I see here, 114 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:08.639 because you know, it's always a problem when I do this, 115 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:10.600 because I leave one or two out and that's the end. 116 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.920 I never get their vote again. I never get that vote. 117 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.399 Takes years, takes years to recover. But we'll give it 118 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:19.639 a shot. Because Senator John Barasso, who's my friend and 119 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.800 a great gentleman. Thank you very much John for being here. 120 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:31.639 Thank you John. Cynthia lummis fantastic woman who believes like 121 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.800 I doing. She believes like I do in these people, right, 122 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:38.000 she believes in them, maybe even more than I do. 123 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.519 That's pretty good from day one. Thank you, Cynthia. You're 124 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:45.160 doing a fantastic job. Kevin Kramer, my friend, Where is Kevin? 125 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:50.839 Because Kevin I think he was here because he was 126 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.839 he had a problem, and I just will pay my respects. 127 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.600 He wanted to be here so badly, but he had 128 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.839 a difficult problem that he's working through. And we all 129 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:03.879 love Kevin John Hooven, John, thank you very much, Thank 130 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:13.560 you very much. Good Steve Daines, Thank you Steve. And 131 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.800 Steve is a picker of great candidates, like he picked 132 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.800 a guy named Tim Sheeheyes, who's here is Tim? Where's Tim? 133 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:25.199 Thank you Tim? And Tim sheehy has turned out to 134 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.319 be a wonderful senator. And that was your pick and 135 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.480 we went with it and you were right, and we 136 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:33.559 have a great one in Tim. So thank you Tim, 137 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.080 and thank you Steve. Shelley Moore Capito Shelley, thank you 138 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:44.480 very much, West Virginia. From West Virginia. She has to 139 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.600 like him, no choice, even if you didn't like it, 140 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.320 you have to like all right. But they were doing 141 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:51.519 a number on you. They were doing a number on 142 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.519 you with the call stuff. And you have not only call, 143 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.159 but you have among the best call anywhere in the world. 144 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.720 So thank you very much. Friend of mine for a 145 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:02.960 long time. I'm the one that got him to change 146 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.320 his religion. In a sense, he changed the party. He 147 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:10.159 went from a Democrat. I said, Jim, you're not a Democrat, 148 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:12.559 but he changed the Republican and he's one of the 149 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.799 most popular Republicans and one of the most popular political 150 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.960 leaders in the country. Jim Justice. I call him Big Jim, 151 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:26.039 Big Jim Justice. But if you look good, Jim, and 152 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.279 he was in the business, and so am I doing 153 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.120 the right thing? You would know better than anybody in 154 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.200 this room. Am I doing the right thing? Jim? I 155 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:38.360 think so right. Thank you very much, Jim. Cindy Hide 156 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:43.200 Smith Cindy, thank you. Han, very good, good job. People 157 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:47.120 are going to be happy and all friends of mine. 158 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:52.960 Mike Lee, Mike, thank you very much. We have a 159 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:58.799 lot of people from Congress, congressmen and women representatives. Morgan Griffith, Morgan, 160 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:05.240 thank you, Thank you very much. Bruce Westerman, Bruce, thank you, Bruce, 161 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:15.120 Bob Ladda, Bob Ladda, thank you, Bob. Good job. Troy Balderson, Troy, 162 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.480 haven't seen you in a long time. Since early that 163 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:21.480 early race. I endorsed him before anyone knew who he was, 164 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.159 and he ended up winning. That was another surprise, right 165 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.960 you've been that was a long time ago. Yep, you're 166 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:32.559 doing a great job. Thank you very much, Troy, Carol Miller, Carol, 167 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:40.720 thank you, Carol West, Virginia, Riley Moore, Riley Hi, Riley. Thanks. 168 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:48.559 Mike Boast, Mike, thank you very much. Troy Downing, Troy, 169 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.240 thank you. Oh he said something. What is that Cole? 170 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:57.519 Is that cole in that bag? I'll take I like it. 171 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.279 I'll take it right now. Thank you very much. Hal Rogers, 172 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:08.679 Hell Hell, thank you, Thank you, Hall, Andy Barr, thank you, Andy. 173 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:14.039 Good luck with everything I hear good things. Troy Downing, Troy, 174 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:19.320 thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much, Joy, 175 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:27.679 Hal Rogers Oops. Harriet Hageman, Harriet, Hi, how are you Harriet? 176 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.679 We just left, Harriet. This is one of the finest 177 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:32.960 attorneys you will ever see. I have seen her in 178 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.440 action and she is brutal. I never want her against me. 179 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:43.000 That I can tell you. Dan Muser, Dan, thank you, Dan. 180 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.720 Thanks Dan, good job you're doing. Wesley Hunt my friend too, 181 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:55.399 Wesley great. I love your commercial. Pete Sauber, Pete, thank you, Pete. 182 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.159 Great hockey player. He was right, great hockey player and 183 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.120 a great gentleman. Just broke the record of Wayne Gretzky. 184 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.360 The great one is Wayne Gretzky. But we have another 185 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.080 great one too, huh, just broke the record. Who was great? 186 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:16.720 Governor Greg Giane Forte, Greg nice and good. Thank you 187 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.559 very much, Greg, Bill Lee, Bill, thank you very much. 188 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:29.919 Patrick Morrissey West Virginia. We Scott elected, Mark Gordon, Mark, 189 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:34.919 thank you, thank you very much. And we have a 190 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:37.480 lot of others. And I'm in trouble because I can't 191 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.559 I don't know. I got five or six others that 192 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.440 I see quickly, but I'm just not going to do it. 193 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.000 Don't hold it against me, because we have to get 194 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.759 back to the most important people in the room. These people, 195 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:58.399 do you know that, right? So, the energy workers and 196 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:03.080 the coal miners and in the area that I'm standing on, 197 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.399 and there's a lot of weight on this platform, So 198 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.720 I don't know what's going to happen. I hope it's 199 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.240 structurally designed for you guys. I don't know, but we 200 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:17.080 have just really well deserving, great American patriots, and it's 201 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:21.240 such an honor to be here and making such a 202 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.759 big move, such a bold move and energy because you know, 203 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:32.679 for years people would just bemoan this industry and decimate 204 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.480 the industry for absolutely no reason. Because with modern technology 205 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.399 and all of the other things that we do. It's 206 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.200 one of the great great forms of energy. That's why 207 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:47.799 other countries, leading countries are using it, some exclusively. For 208 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:51.440 four long years, Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats tried to 209 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:54.480 abolish the American coal industry. They did everything in their 210 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.840 power while he was awake, which wasn't much. Shutting down 211 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.919 dozens of call plants, banning call leases on federal lands, 212 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:08.960 and putting thousands and thousands of coal miners out of work, 213 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.840 destroying their lives, actually destroying their lives. I'll never forget 214 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.720 when I went to West Virginia, which I won by 215 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.440 forty eight points. I think, right, big gym. I won 216 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:26.080 by forty eight points. But in the first campaign where 217 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:30.000 Hillary Clinton was about four states too early, and she 218 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:33.360 was talking about how bad call was and how they 219 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.720 were going to teach coal miners how to make widgets 220 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.399 and gadgets and technology, which they didn't want to do. 221 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.200 They want to mine. One thing I learned about the 222 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:42.960 coal miners, that's what they want to do. You could 223 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.399 give them a penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a different 224 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:48.279 kind of a job, and they'd be unhappy. They want 225 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.159 a mine call. That's what they love to do. And 226 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.120 she was going to put them in a high tech 227 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.159 industry where you make the leaders cell phones and think, 228 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.639 I don't know, do you think he'd be good at that? 229 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:05.279 I don't know. You don't want to be And she 230 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.000 was brutal about three weeks before. But then she had 231 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.360 a problem. She went to West Virginia looking for votes. 232 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.200 And that was a bad That was a bad situation. 233 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.639 You remember that. And there was a coal miner around 234 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.519 the table with his family and he was in tears 235 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.320 because of what they had done to him and his family. 236 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.120 And I hope he's still around. But that man made 237 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:29.159 quite an impression on the world and the public. Then 238 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.600 we ended up winning in a great election, but we 239 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.840 ended up winning by a lot. The Democrats Green new 240 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.840 scam killed jobs and sent prices soaring here in America. 241 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:44.279 But meanwhile, China opened two coal plants every single week, 242 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:49.080 and other countries likewise went very strongly back into coal. 243 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:51.919 Some of them never got off. Those are the ones 244 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.240 that didn't have the problems. The Biden energy policy was 245 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.720 to put America last. We want to be last, We 246 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:01.360 got to be last. Not a good policy under my administration. 247 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.840 We're putting America first. It's very simple. America is always 248 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.559 going to be first. On my first day in office, 249 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.559 I terminated the Green new scam. I declared the National 250 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.919 Energy Emergency and withdrew from the unfair one side and 251 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.840 extremely costly to the United States only Paris Climate accurt 252 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:31.120 You know, under the Paris Climate Accord, we had a 253 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:35.559 terrible situation. We would have paid over a trillion dollars. 254 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.519 Think of it, over a trillion dollars, and Russia was 255 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.759 paying almost nothing. Russia had a nineteen ninety two standard. 256 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:47.120 China was paying nothing. China didn't kick in until twenty 257 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.480 thirty five. This was five years ago, so they didn't 258 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.639 kick in for many years. India had no standard whatsoever. 259 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.879 But we had the highest standard you could imagine. We 260 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.399 had to start paying from day one, and we had 261 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.920 paid lots of money. We paid for everything. So I 262 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.000 was not a big fan of the Paris Accord, and 263 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:09.799 I let it be known, and I got out of 264 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.400 it early. Then they went back into it, and now 265 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.119 we get back out of it, and hopefully we can 266 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.920 be there for a long time. Okay, a long time. 267 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.880 Because it was a scam to take money away from 268 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.279 the United States and hurt and actually hurt us very 269 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.720 badly with coal and with other things. Now, under the 270 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.920 executive order that I will sign in a few moments, 271 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:35.640 we're slashing unnecessary regulations that targeted the beautiful clean coal. 272 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.480 We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands. 273 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.680 And these two gentlemen are going to do a real 274 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.240 job of it. You've already started, and we'll streamline permitting. 275 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.240 We will end the government bias against call, and we're 276 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:54.599 going to unlock the sweeping authorities of Defense Production Act, 277 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:59.319 the Defense Production Act to terpret charge coal mining in America. 278 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:03.240 They made it possible to impossible. You actually, I know 279 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:06.240 a friend of mine has a plant. He said, you know, 280 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.640 it's a shame. I'm ripping it down and I'm replacing 281 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.640 it with another form of energy. I won't tell you 282 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:14.240 because it's also very good. But it's not as powerful 283 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.400 as this, he said. You know, the plant I'm building, 284 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.680 the new plant is literally half as good. It's no 285 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:25.559 less you know, it's not probably even as good environmentally, 286 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.599 but he said, it produced half the power for more money, 287 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.960 much more money. It'll never compete with that beautiful plant. 288 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.240 I have down the road, which was really a modernized 289 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:36.000 coal plant. Well, he'll be happy to know that he 290 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.960 can open that plant up very quickly and it's going 291 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.119 to produce a lot. But he was complaining, he said, 292 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.160 this is so much better. He wasn't doing that as 293 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.400 politic in me. He was doing that because that's what 294 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.960 he felt. And he knew every form of energy. We 295 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.240 talked about that. He knew every form of energy. But 296 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:57.920 our government is going to do something that's very different. 297 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:00.680 And I don't think even you two know about this. 298 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:05.000 This was my idea from about fifteen minutes before I 299 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:11.319 got up here. We're going to guarantee that we have 300 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:16.720 a strong business for many years to come, that your 301 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.720 call companies and your miners don't get all excited about 302 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:25.759 their jobs. And then should a radical left liberal become president, 303 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.920 they end the business right away. And somebody's built a 304 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.240 plant and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in building 305 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.119 a plant, and the plant is going to be closed 306 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:38.160 because a Democrat got in or a liberal got in. 307 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.799 They're opposed to call and Republicans are very much for it. 308 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:46.480 Clean call, and we're we're going to give a guarantee 309 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:50.559 that the business will not be terminated by the ups 310 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:54.799 and downs of the world of politics. So should somebody 311 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:58.839 come in to this very important office and say, oh, well, 312 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:01.000 you spend hundreds of minut millions of dollars and you 313 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:03.920 guys have given up your life because you want to 314 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:06.279 be in call, and then all of a sudden you 315 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:08.160 don't have a life anymore because it's what you know 316 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.680 the best. That's not going to happen. We're going to 317 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:12.480 give a guarantee that it is not going to happen, 318 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.359 so that if somebody comes in they cannot change it 319 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:17.079 at a whim. They cannot just going to go. They're 320 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:18.920 going to have to go through hell to close you up, 321 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:21.039 all right, So that's pretty good. We're going to give 322 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.240 that in the form of a guarantee that we're writing 323 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.160 on right now structurally and from a legal standpoint. So 324 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:37.880 your investments are going to also be protected, and you're 325 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.960 going to have no reason to be concerned about your future, 326 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.880 your life, or your investment if you're if you're a minor, 327 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.519 as this great governor was a minor, actually he was 328 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.000 a He was one of the larger coal miners. He 329 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.440 could fit up here very easily. You know, Big Jim. 330 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.559 But he was a great, a great success. But they 331 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:59.039 were very, very tough on him, and he did a 332 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:04.160 beautiful job with a beautiful product. Already, under our leadership, 333 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:07.279 the Department of Interior has approved the expansion of the 334 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.039 Spring Creek Mine in Montana, supporting two hundred and eighty 335 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.559 coal mining jobs and unlocking over forty million tons of coal. 336 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:21.880 And there's more to come Spring Creek Big One, and 337 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.319 there's more to come in the states of Wyoming, Alabama, Utah, 338 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:28.559 and North Dakota and many others. West Virginia, I can't 339 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:31.559 believe they didn't put West Virginia down. It's lucky I 340 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.400 mentioned that, right. Can you imagine if I didn't mention 341 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:36.720 West Virginia would have been in big trouble. They didn't 342 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.119 mark it down here. It's good to have a president 343 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:42.480 like that. They can pick that up, right. You think 344 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:44.799 Joe Biden would have picked that up. I don't think so. 345 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:48.000 To you, they didn't mention West Virginia, I don't think so. 346 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:50.759 I don't think you'd be standing up here either. The 347 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:53.799 value of untapped call in our country is one hundred 348 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.160 times greater than the value all the gold and Fort Knox, 349 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:00.400 and we're going to unleash it and make America rich 350 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:04.440 and powerful again. Under this order, I'm also directing Secretary 351 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.160 Right to use billions of dollars in federal funding to 352 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.720 invest in the next generation of coal technology, which is 353 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.640 an amazing technology in terms of getting the full potential 354 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:18.640 of coal and also doing it in a very clean environmental way. 355 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:23.319 Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure, 356 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.079 and powerful form of energy there is on Earth today. 357 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.519 It's a big step. You never hear those statements. You know, 358 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:32.799 you've never heard that before from a politician, have you, Well, 359 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:35.720 maybe from that politician, but not from not too many. 360 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.920 But that's the way it is. I say it again. 361 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:42.240 Pound for pound coal is the single most reliable, durable, 362 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:47.680 secure and powerful form of energy. It's cheap, incredibly efficient, 363 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:51.680 high density, and it's almost indestructible. You could drop a 364 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:53.720 bomb on it and it's going to be there for 365 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:56.680 you to use the next day, which you can't say 366 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:02.839 with any other form of energy. Virtually indestructible. Most importantly, 367 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:05.440 we have more of it here in America than anywhere 368 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:08.599 else on Earth. We have more coal than any of 369 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:11.839 the country you go to Australia. They have fantastic amounts 370 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:14.000 of cold you know who. They sell it to China. 371 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:16.960 They sell it to China, they're nearby. They sell a 372 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.640 lot of it to China. But we have more than 373 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:22.400 anywhere else on Earth. We also have more liquid gold 374 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.720 than anywhere on Earth. So we're really an energy behemoth. 375 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.279 But we're unleashing that also. That's going to be another part. 376 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:32.519 But I didn't even want to mention that it's not 377 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:34.799 down here because I didn't want to mention. Today is 378 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.839 about clean, beautiful coal. So I'm going to give this 379 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:41.000 to you. Let's just big. I give it to him. 380 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:56.119 You take that present. So, for example, we believe it 381 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.720 is possible to extract enormous amounts of critical minerals and 382 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.279 Earth's which you know, we need for technology and high 383 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:06.519 technology in the process of coal mining, make it in 384 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:12.440 America the mineral superpower of the world. Actually, in addition, 385 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.880 I'm instructing the Department of Justice to identify and fight 386 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:20.559 every single unconstitutional state or local regulation that's putting our 387 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:24.759 coal miners out of business. And we are withdrawing all 388 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:29.480 of those objections from our government today. It's all being withdrawn. 389 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.359 So all of you, people that have been fighting for 390 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:36.039 your lives, we are withdrawing all of that today. We 391 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:39.440 have excellent lawyers, excellent Have you noticed that lots of 392 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:44.319 law firms have been signing up with Trump one hundred 393 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:51.519 million dollars, another one hundred million dollars for damages that 394 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:54.559 they've done. But they give you a hundred million and 395 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:57.000 then they announced that but we have done nothing wrong. 396 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.119 And I agree they've done nothing wrong, But what the 397 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:00.880 hell they give me a lo lot of money considering 398 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:04.960 they've done nothing well. And we'll use some of those people, 399 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:07.440 some of those great firms. They are great firms to 400 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:11.599 they just had a bad moment, but we're going to 401 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:13.480