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Hello, and good evening from Washington, and you're looking at live pictures of a press conference which is about to begin. We are expecting Donald Trump to speak. He's build it as a major infrastructure announcement. It's set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. Openai, SoftBank, and Oracle are planning a joint venture and they've called it Stargate. That's according to multiple people familiar with this deal. We are expecting Donald Trump to make that major announcement about artificial intelligence. It's expected to take place any minute now alongside, we're being told, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle, as well as the CEO of SoftBank, Masai Yoshi, SONG. We are expecting this announcement. We're being told that we're expected to see a plan to commit $100 billion initially and pour up to $500 billion into this Stargate initiative over the next four years. Donald Trump is going to be making that announcement any minute now, and this press conference will begin shortly. It's been an extraordinary 24 hours. We saw Donald Trump inaugurated yesterday as the 47th President of the United States. We saw JD Vance, his Vice President, being inaugurated as well yesterday.

Then we saw a series of commemorations, parades taking place. He held a rally at the Capital One Arena where he addressed the MAGA Faithful and then signed a series, a flurry of executive orders, everything from immigration, climate change, throwing out the Paris Climate Accord, and, of course, pardoning some of the rioters from January sixth. He's done a fair bit in the last 24 hours, and now we're expecting this infrastructure announcement to do with OpenAI, sorry, with artificial intelligence being announced in the next in a few minutes. We're told those who are familiar with this that he's set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. It's a venture that includes OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, and they're planning a joint venture called Stargate. That's, according to multiple people familiar with this deal. It'll involve the SoftBank CEO, Masayoshi Son, and also, they will apparently be here at the White House with Donald Trump and Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle. We yesterday at the inauguration, we saw multiple tech billionaires in the second row behind the first family at the inauguration. Of course, many of these tech billionaires led by Elon Musk, have very much become front and center of the Trump administration.

We saw Jeff Bezos at the inauguration, as well as Mark Zuckerberg. Now this major announcement that includes the CEOs of SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle. They're planning this joint venture called Stargate. We are also being told that they plan to commit $100 billion initially and then pour up to $500 billion into Stargate over the course of the next four years. Other details of this new partnership have not been made available immediately. We are yet to hear from SoftBank and OpenAI. Their spokespeople have declined to comment, but we will be hearing shortly from Donald Trump about this new initiative, a major infrastructure initiative that he has said that he will announce. Stargate will start with a data center project in Texas, that's according to some sources, and then eventually expand to other states. As we said, we're expecting that these companies will commit roughly $100 billion initially, and then they will pour up to $500 billion into Stargate. Donald Trump has been moving very quickly over the course of the last 24 four hours, signing almost 200 executive orders, everything from immigration, climate change, and of course, as we said, pardoning some of the at least 1,500 of those rioters.

From January the sixth. He brought those executive orders, some of them to the Capital One Arena yesterday, and signed them before the party, Faithful, the MAGA base, to cheers. We can see one of the advisors coming out, so we probably are going to see Donald Trump appear in the next few minutes. We've got our correspondent with us, Mark Stone, with us. Mark, as I was just saying, Donald Trump has been moving incredibly quickly He signed almost 200 executive orders over the last 24 hours, setting a record. I was speaking to someone who was an expert on executive orders, and he said Joe Biden signed nine on his first day. We've seen Donald Trump promise to sign over 100, and in the end, it was much more than that.

If you want to compare Trump with now and Trump with 2016, 2017, when he took office back then for his first presidency, I think he signed just one executive order on the day or the 24 hours after he was inaugurated back then. What a difference, because this is a different Donald Trump. It is a much more calculated Donald Trump. It is Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff, would like to hope a more disciplined Donald Trump. Certainly a president, the 47th President, who has surrounded himself this time with people who he believes he can trust, who have been, I think, with him for the past four years, where he has been out of office, I think I've got the sense, certainly, that they've been playing the long game, preparing to win, preparing for this moment, preparing the legislation that they are now beginning to enact through these executive orders. This is a big moment. We will hear for the first time, formally, from President Trump inside the White House. I say formally because last night at around about, I think it was about 8:00 last night in the oval office, as he signed a pile of executive orders, he did an impromptu news conference where he spoke to reporters as he was signing the...

Sorry. I've got people screaming in my ear, Yalda. You're used to that. While we wait for President Trump, I tell you what, let's listen to my report, looking back at the day so far.

The morning after the dizzying day before, and a post-inaugural tradition.

The new President, his family, his inner circle, gathering for a service at Washington's National Cathedral. And prayers to project unity after a bitter campaign. It was a reminder of the variety of this nation. Lest all whose lives are closely linked with ours. A nation that must now lay its trust in one man and his way. And that was the blunt message from the pulpit. Please be seated. From the priest to the President.

Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country. We're scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children, some who fear for their lives.

Just look at the reactions. Hard to know where to look.

They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.

Safe to say, unimpressed. On this first full day of the new presidency, Mr. Trump's adversary-turned ally, Marco Rubio, sworn in as America's top diplomat. So help you God.

Congratulations, Mr. Secretary.

With a White House direction to follow, and global challenges to face. Back at the White House, the removal vans were in and the old furniture was out. And the comings and goings, too. We spotted the Australian ambassador with his foreign minister, from a meeting with the new National Security Advisor. I met with Mike Walsh. How was that? Excellent.

We're very honored to be here on the first working day.

And so beyond the flurry of announcements that we have already heard, the executive orders that were signed in the oval office behind me overnight. More announcements today. There is a real sense of anticipation. The cameras are poised here, there, everywhere, waiting to see what the unpredictable president might do next. What did you think of the sermon? And around the other side in the Rose Garden, he was back from church. What did you think of the sermon?

What did you think? Did you like it? Did you find it exciting? Not too exciting, was it?

The feel here now from just a day ago is so very different.

Over the course of the last day or so, I was asking you about different news lines, and you said, actually, there's a tsunami of news lines. I don't know which one to talk about first. It really has felt that way over the course of the last couple of days.

I still don't know which one to talk about first. Last night, we really got a true sense of that with the executive orders that were signed at about 8:00 in the oval office, one by one with that big black marker pen. He laid his signature on different bits of legislation, undoing so much of Biden's legacy, of Biden's legislation, and They're putting in place the legislation he wants to see. I mean, is it the fact that they have dropped out of the Paris Climate Agreement? Trump dropped out last time when he was President. Biden resigned the Americans now under Donald Trump have dropped out again. Is it the fact that they are leaving or have left the World Health Organization? Any one of these bits of legislation, executive orders, is a massive story in its own right, and yet they have all come together. Then domestically, these profound changes that you'll talk I worked with Martha about immigration, birthright citizenship. It is a right that if you are born in the United States, you get to be an American. It is the backbone of being American. Those supporters of it would say, Well, now, he's saying it's gone.

It won't necessarily be gone because it's a constitutional right. And so there'll be a mighty fight in that place. Then, of course, January the sixth, the people who went into that building in the name of Donald Trump to try and overturn the last election, the 2020 election, they have now been given pardons.

Yeah. When JD Vance, the incoming vice president at the time, a few weeks ago, was asked about clemency of these January sixth rioters, he said, Those people who have committed violence should not be pardoned because no one was quite sure how far Donald Trump would go. We know today, and yesterday, he said, This is going to be a big one. He pardoned 1,500 of those rioters. James Matthews has the latest on that report.

One day theirs was the crime of the century. One president later, it wasn't. January sixth, prisoners were freed overnight. The Capitol riot, now refrained.

Donald Trump's pardon had taken effect last night.

While some prisoners were released at Washington's correctional facility, inmates still inside, cried freedom on the phone.

Oh, man. I know we're going home. We got our stuff back. We just cannot wait to get out there and see you all in person.

As day broke, the waiting in Washington went on.

The guards came along at about 11:00 and banged on my cell door with a flashlight. Pack up. You're getting out of here.

Kevin Loftis joined the expectant crowd in the US Capitol. A January sixth prisoner, he'd been released overnight from jail in Philadelphia.

I thought it was incredible. I didn't expect to get sprung out like a gangster. Trump sprung us out like a gangster.

Still in prison issue, Slippers, Willy Sarsfield had also been released from jail in Philadelphia overnight.

I'm blessed.

It's just surreal. And you were arrested. Why?

I was arrested right after court because my judge said I was a danger to my society because I was labeled as a domestic terrorist.

More than 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the capital riots on January sixth. It was the single biggest criminal investigation ever conducted by the US Justice Department into an effort to overturn the result of the 2020 election. Law enforcement officers were violently attacked. As much as the presidential pardoning of January 6 prisoners has been celebrated here, it's also being widely condemned. It amounts to Donald Trump's rewriting of history, his version. In the past, he's labeled January sixth a Day of Love. Others call it an assault on democracy that caused five fatalities and countless injuries. For them to underplay it is to undermine the rule of law.

There's no other way to describe President Trump's pardon of January 6th's offenders than un-American.

They are arguments that will outlast the waiting game, which continues at Washington's jail for supporters and families outside and the January sixth prisoners who remain inside. Even in Donald Trump's America, change can take time. James Matthews, Sky News in Washington.

You're looking at live pictures there. We're expecting Donald Trump to arrive any minute now, and he is going to be giving a news conference where he says he will be talking about or giving a major infrastructure announcement. We're expecting that to begin any minute now. We will be bringing that to you live as soon as it happens. But let's speak now to our Martha Kelleher, who joins me from the Mexico border. Martha, immigration has been top of the agenda for Donald Trump throughout his campaign. Of course, in the last 24 hours, we We saw a number of executive orders to do with a crackdown on immigration. You've been speaking to people in those communities who are incredibly concerned about their future as Donald Trump begins his immigration crackdown? Yeah, cracking down on undocumented immigrants was one of the key signature promises of his election campaign, wasn't it, Yalda? I think what we've seen over the past two days with his rhetoric is him signifying that he intends to make good on those promises to the people who voted to him and to the rest of this country. We've seen him institute this whole slew of executive orders on immigration, an attempt to end birthright citizenship, perhaps one of the more eye-catching.

He said he'll institute a national emergency on across the almost 2,000 miles of the Southern border. I'm here in Eagle Pass in Southern Texas. This place has become emblematic in the battle over the border and immigration control in recent years. Here there's a mixed response to Donald Trump's new plans. I've been speaking to people on both sides of the border. Martha, I'm just going to interrupt you there because Donald Trump has just walked in. Let's go straight to that live now.

Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to be here today. We have first full day as President. We're back. We had a great first term, but we're going to have an even better second term. I think we're going to do things that people would be shocked at. We're starting off with tremendous investment coming into our country at levels that nobody's really ever seen before. They're very happy with the fact that I won the race and that they feel confident in their investments, and it's big money and high-quality people. My first day back from having a nice life. It's my honor to welcome three of the world's leading technology CEOs. And in the case of Larry, Larry Ellison, it's well beyond technology. He's CEO of everything. He's an amazing man, an amazing business person. But to announce It's the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history, and it's all taking place right here in America. As you know, there's great competition for AI and other things, and they're coming in at the highest level. We're joined by Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO, my friend Masa, Masa Yoshi Son, and CEO of OpenAI, and I would say by far the leading expert, based on everything I read, Sam Altman.

So that's great that you're coming in together. That's a massive group of talent and money. Together, these world-leading technology giants are announcing the formation of Stargate. So put that name down in your books because I think you're going to hear a lot about it in the future. A new American company that will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States and very quickly moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately. This monumental undertake taken as a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential under a new president. Let me be a new president. I didn't say it. They did. So I appreciate that, fellows. But it will ensure the future of technology. What we want to do is we want to keep it in this country. China is a competitor, and others are competitors. We want it to be in this country, and we're making it available. I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations because we have an emergency. We have to get this stuff built. So they have to produce a lot of electricity, and we'll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want.

Where they'll build at the plant, the AI plant, they'll build energy generation, and that will be incredible. But it's technology and artificial intelligence all made in the USA. Immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements in AI, and this will include the construction of colossal data centers, very, very massive structures. I was in the real estate business. These buildings, these are big, beautiful buildings. They're going to employ a lot of people. And physical campuses and locations currently being scoured nationwide. They're making their choices of locations. I think they have their choice. I'd like to ask Larry, Sam, and Mahsa to say a few words and just talk a little bit about what they're doing. If you have any questions, and then we'll go into a couple of other subjects also. But this is, to me, a very big thing. $500 billion, a Stargate project. I think it's going to be something that's very special. It'll lead to something that could be the biggest of all. Larry, maybe we'll start with you, and we'll go down the line. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Mr. President. We certainly couldn't do this without you. It would simply be impossible. Ai holds in incredible promise for all of us, for every American. We've actually been working with OpenAI for a while and with Masa for a while. The data centers are actually under construction. The first of them are under construction in Texas. Each There are buildings that have half a million square feet. There are 10 buildings currently being built, but that will expand to 20 and other locations beyond the Abilene location, which is our first location. The applications that we're building to To give you an idea, maybe the most charismatic and the one that I think touches us all is electronic health records, not just maintaining electronic health records, but by looking at electronic health records, understanding the doctors better understanding the condition of their patients and being able to provide health care plans that are much better than the otherwise would be. A doctor in Indian River Reservation would be able to see how a doctor A doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering would treat the patient, or a doctor at Stanford would treat the patient. We actually provide all of that information, all of that guidance to the doctors who are treating cancer patients or patients with any other disease made possible by AI.

I'm not going to take a lot of time. I'm going to pass it to Masa, but this is a very exciting program for Oracle to be a part of. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. That's good. That's great. I feel so good.

You're watching Sky News. Donald Trump is giving a news conference announcing in his words, the largest AI infrastructure project in history. As you can see, he's been joined by executives from tech giants, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle as well, who are all investing up to $500 billion into a project called Stargate, a huge AI infrastructure project. The President says it will create thousands of jobs in America. It will include building new campuses. We were just hearing some of the detail there. Our US correspondent, Mark Stone is also listening in in Washington. We're going to have to get used to these news conferences starting a bit later than build, Mark, but this is certainly a big announcement.

We had the so-called two-minute warning about 25 minutes ago. So yes, on Donald Trump's time, these news conferences happened. This is the first formal news conference. If you can call it that, we don't know the extent to which there will be questions afterwards. But the first formal event that has taken place in the White House. It comes after the rather informal proceedings last night in the oval office where so many executive orders were signed by the President. But this is a massive announcement on the face of it, this is a huge, huge investment into America's AI abilities to get America ahead. I think for tech executives, like the people we're hearing from here, this is fantastic news. We often hear about the concerns of AI, artificial intelligence, and that argument, that balance between whether you surge ahead and try and become the world leader in artificial intelligence. The UK likes to think that it's doing particularly well with AI, and the extent to which that surging ahead is held back by regulation. Now, what I think we're seeing here by the Americans and by the Trump administration is to push forward as fast as possible in order to get ahead of countries like China who are, I guess you might argue, at the forefront of the AI revolution.

Of course, for Donald Trump, what this means is jobs as well. It means the building of massive facilities data facilities, but also more electricity supply, because in order to run these massive, massive data centers which themselves operate artificial intelligence, you need a massive amount of power, American power, drillittle baby drill. That's what this is all about. That is the catchphrase Donald Trump used. Let's listen to Sam Altman now, who is at the forefront of AI and in the White House. A new industry centered here. We wouldn't be able to do this without you, Mr. President, and I'm thrilled that we get to. I think it'll be an exciting project. I think we'll be able to do all of the wonderful things that these guys talked about. But the fact that we get to do this in the United States is, I think, wonderful. So thank you very much.

Can you just say one word I hear there's so many positive things about what it's going to do for medical research and for solving things, cancer and all the different problems. How will AI help us with the fight against the various problems, diseases, et cetera?

These guys can maybe share more about some of the work they're doing there. I think they'll jointly be some of the leaders about driving progress here. But I believe that as this technology progresses, we will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate. We will be amazed at how quickly we're curing this cancer and that one and heart disease, and what this will do for the ability to deliver very high-quality health care, the costs, but really to cure the diseases at a rapid, rapid rate, I think will be among the most important things this technology does.

Very good.

Thank you. We're currently working on... Can I step on this? Okay.

All right.

No, I'm not that tall. You look even better. Thank you, Mr. President. One of the most exciting things we're working on, again, using the tools that that Sam and Mahsa are providing is a cancer vaccine. It's very interesting. It turns out, I'll be quick, all of our cancers, cancer tumors, little-So if you are just joining us, President Trump announcing billions of dollars in private sector investments in AI infrastructure in the United States.

Tech executives there explaining how this will work. $100 billion initially, up to $500 billion eventually being poured into a project called Stargate over the next four years. Our US correspondent, Mark Stone, also listening in. Very interesting, isn't it, Mark, watching Donald Trump's relationship with technology, his relationship with tech giants from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg, and of course, most recently, TikTok.

Yes, it was they who had the front row seat meet alongside his family at yesterday's inauguration, and the cabinet, the US administration that Donald Trump has appointed, were not sidelined, but they were not front row yesterday at the inauguration. Look, I think, Jonathan, what's fascinating already with this new administration is the different shades of Trump that we are seeing. I think countries globally are trying to work out how this Trump will differ from the last Trump, from the first term. We're seeing the contours of things that could be really very positive. Let's listen back in to the President for a second.

I was shocked with Larry because I don't even think Larry does this stuff. You did a very good job for a guy that doesn't do it much, right? But he's so respected, and the group, and it's really an honor. But for Larry to be here and do this is very unusual because he doesn't do this stuff. He doesn't need it. And you don't need it, do you? You don't need it. But I think it's an honor to the country. It's a great honor that this group, these are the top people, that they're going to do it, and they're going to do it here. We're going to make it as easy as it can be. A $500 million Stargate project comes in addition to a separate pledge between $100 and $200 billion, as we know, from Masa, that we talked about before. Also, 20 billion from DeMack, which was great. We have many others that are coming. Some, I just say, just announced it. It's easier. But with some, I know them, and they're so highly respected. I'd rather do it this way. Many I'd like to do it this way, but we're letting the world know what's happening.

This is money that normally would have gone to China or other countries, but in particular, China. In total, before the end of my first full business day in Washington in the White House, we've already secured nearly $3 trillion of new investments in the United States, and probably that's going to be six or seven by the end of the week. Tremendous amounts of money are coming in for many things other than even AI. Ai seems to be very hot. It seems to be the thing that a lot of smart people are looking at very strongly. Our country will be prospering like never before. I think that's true, and it's going to be the golden age of America As I say, yesterday, we had the most ambitious, action-oriented day of any administration in history. There's never been a first day like yesterday, as you know. I signed a sweeping slate of executive orders to stop the invasion of our borders. I launched a government-wide effort to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life and bring down the cost of energy, magnificently bring it down. When an energy comes down, Larry I would say, generally speaking, when energy comes down, everything else comes down.

The prices of food and the prices of everything else come down. Energy is the big... That's the big baby. We declared a national energy emergency to drill baby drill, our term that we use. We're going to drill baby drill like never before. We ended destructive DEI mandates across the federal government and returned our country to a merit-based system and a common sense system. As you know, the Supreme Court gave us a decision on merit, where things in this country can be based on merit now instead of a lot of different rules, regulations, and things that really put our country at a big disadvantage. We permanently stopped government censorship and restored free speech that was signed yesterday. We were renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. Sounds so beautiful, the Gulf of America, and returned the name of a great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley. They took off the name. And he was actually a great President. He was a very, very successful businessman. He ran for governor of Ohio. He won and did a great job as governor, ran for president. In anyone. He was assassinated, ultimately, in a second term, unfortunately.

But he was the tariff king, and I don't think he was as bad as I am. I think I believe in him even more than him, but he believed in him very strongly, and he raised massive amounts of money. Our country was at its richest. From 1870 to 1913, that was when we were the richest, relatively speaking. We were the richest during that period of time. That was tariffs from other countries. Our administration is moving with unprecedented urgency and speed to confront every single crisis facing us, and we'll get the job done. Again, I want to thank Sam and Masa and Larry for being here. It's an honor to have them. And we'll take a few questions, if you like.

You would agree that it's never acceptable to assault a police officer, right?

Sure.

So then if I can, among those you pardoned, DJ Rodriguez. He drove a some gun into the neck of a DC police officer who was abducted by the mob that day. He later confessed on video to the FBI and pleaded guilty for his crimes.

Why does he deserve a pardon? Well, I don't know. Was it a pardon? Because we're looking at commutes and we're looking at pardons. Okay, well, we'll take a look at everything, but I can say this, murderers today are not even charged. You have murderers that aren't charged all over. You take a look at what's gone on in Philadelphia. You take a look at what's gone on in LA, where people murder people and they don't get charged. These people have already served years in prison, and they've served them viciously. It's a disgusting prison. It's been horrible. It's inhumane. It's been a terrible terrible thing. I also say this, you go to Portland, where they wrapped police officers, shot police officers. Nothing happened to anybody. You go to Seattle, where they took over a big chunk of the city and people died. Portland, a lot of people died. Wait a minute. And you go also take a look at Minneapolis, because I was there and I watched it. If I didn't bring in the National Guard, that city wouldn't even exist today. People were killed and nobody went to jail. So these people have already served a long period of time, and I made a decision to give a pardon.

Joe Biden gave a pardon yesterday to a lot of criminals. These are criminals that he gave a pardon to. And you should be asking that question, why did he give a pardon to all of these people that committed crimes? Why did he give a pardon to the J6 Unselect Committee when they burned and destroyed all documents which showed that they did what was wrong, not me, Wait a minute. Why did they give a pardon to all of his relatives, his brother, who made millions of dollars to all these different people? He gave pardons. That's the question you should be answering. All right, go ahead. Yeah, please. Tell us a little bit about you. Can you guys follow up on that really fast? No. I just wanted to ask you.

Go ahead.

Tell us about your meeting with Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune. Did you reach any conclusion on this one big story? Pretty much. I think we have a good situation now. It's been in some ways made simpler by Los Angeles because they're going to need a lot of money. And generally speaking, I think you find that a lot of Democrats are going to be asking for help. So I think maybe that makes it more one-sided. I think we're going to do very well. Look, we're going to take care of Los Angeles. I'm going there. I'm going to North Carolina, which has been abandoned by the Democrats, and I'm going to North Carolina, very importantly first. I'll be there on Friday, and then I'm going from there to Los Angeles. Then I'm going to Nevada, and I'm really going to Nevada to thank them for the vote because we won Nevada overwhelmingly, and that's usually a Democrat vote. I just want to go there to thank the people of Nevada for the big vote. We'll be making that. Yeah, please.

The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were free following their pardons yesterday. At the time, back in 2021, you urge them to stand back and stand by. Is there now a place for them in the political Congress Custation?

Well, we have to see they've been given a pardon. I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive. One of the guys took down a flag that was an anti-American flag, and he was given years in jail. I don't know the exact number, but he was given many years in jail. I thought it was very excessive. At least the cases that we looked at, these were people that actually love our country, so we thought a pardon would be appropriate. Yeah. Mr. President, is it also Is it in your conversations with Republicans today that you asked them to consider recess appointments for cabinet officials? I think, yeah. If it's needed, I don't think it's going to be needed. Marco, as you know, got passed overwhelmingly with 99 to nothing, which is pretty amazing. Marco is going to do a great job, Secretary of State, but I guess he was the first one and just got approved. At some vote, 99 to nothing, and the nothing was a vote that he we would have gotten if we wanted to do it. But you know whose vote that was? Who's doing a great job right now as vice president.

Can you also talk about a trade or a deal involving wildfire relief in an extension for a debt scheme? What I really want to have done, I was talking about this with the guys back in the oval office. Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it. All they have to do is turn the valve, and that's the The valve coming back from and down from the Pacific Northwest, where millions of gallons of water a week and a day, even in many cases, pours into California, goes all through California, down to Los Angeles, and they turned it off. It's off now. The valve turns toward the Pacific Ocean, and all that water goes pouring into the Pacific Ocean. If they did what I told them to do, they wouldn't do it because politically, they didn't think it was good. I think it's great politically. I think they're dead politically. What they've done, they've destroyed the city. What they've done to that city is unbelievable. The sprinklers, they're sprinklers in there like these right here that you see none of them had any water in them. They didn't have any water. The fire hydrants, 40% of them had no water.

The brush was just dry. Everything was dry. The sprinklers on the lawn weren't allowed to even be used. So everything was dry, and it was They're an inferno. They created an inferno. So we're demanding that they turn the valve back toward Los Angeles right now. It's not even believable that they haven't done it. Just so you know, they have a valve and it turns. Think of a sink, but multiply at times, many thousands of times the size of it. It's massive. And you turn it back toward Los Angeles. Why aren't they doing it? They either have a death wish, they're stupid, or there's something else going on that we don't understand. But we want the water that they're throwing away to be used for California. That includes the farmers of California. When you drive up north, you see all of the land. I couldn't believe it. I was with Devin Nunez when he was a congressman and some other congressmen from the area, and we're driving up and we're on the highway, and I keep looking at these farms, and the land is bone dry. Then you'd see about an acre or two acres with the most beautiful green plants growing in it.

It's the most beautiful. It's rich stuff. You look at the soil and it's so rich. That soil is almost the equivalent to Iowa soil. It's phenomenal. It's got no water. But the reason it has no water... I said, Do you have a drought? No. I said, What do you mean you don't have a drought? Look at the thing. It's dry as a bone. The reason you have an acre is because they say you can farm one acre but no no more because they didn't want to waste water. But they throw the water into the Pacific Ocean. These people are crazy. So we're going to be issuing an executive order demanding that they immediately let that water come down through California Virginia. Farmers, even people living in Beverly Hills. Now, those people have been a lot. I mean, a lot of them are wiped out. Believe it or not, they were having restrictions, Larry, you know about this. They wanted to restrict you to 38 gallons of water a day. That sounds like a lot, but it's not. When you're a rich person, you like to take a shower. 38 gallons doesn't last very long. And they have all this water, and it's really good water up high Pacific Northwest.

Some comes comes in from Canada. A nice country, by the way, comes in from Canada, and it comes all the way through California, and they're restricting it. You even have the half-pipes, the half-pipes, the cut-pipes, big ones bigger than this room. And they're going all the way down, and they're bone dry, and they could be loaded up with water. But isn't it incredible that they don't do it? It's to protect the Delta smelt. It's a fish that's doing poorly anyway, but it's How are you protecting the Delta smelt by not giving it water? It's a fish. It needs water. Nobody can answer that question.. Let me do this first. Are you open to Elon I would be if he wanted to buy it. On your inauguration- I'd like Larry to buy it, too. I have the right to make a deal. The deal I'm thinking about, Larry, let's negotiate in front of the media. The deal, I think, is this. And I've met with owners of TikTok, the big owners. It's worthless if it doesn't get a permit. It's not like, Oh, you can take the US. The whole thing is worthless. With a permit, it's worth a trillion dollars.

So what I'm thinking about saying to somebody is, buy it and give half to the United States of America, half, and we'll give you the permit. And they'll have a great partner, the United States. And they'll have something that's actually more valuable because they have the ultimate partner, and the United States will make it very worthwhile for them in terms of the permits and everything else. So think of it, you have an asset that has no value or has a trillion dollar value. It all depends on whether or not the United the United States gives the permit. So what I'm saying is, let the United States give the permit, and the United States should get half. Sounds reasonable. What do you think?

Sounds like a good deal to me, Mr. President.

He can afford it, too.

Mr. President, you're a President who has long said that you back with Blue, but aren't you sending the message that assaulting officers is okay with these parties?

No, the opposite. In fact, I'm going to be letting two officers from Washington Police, DC. I believe they're from DC, but I just approved it. They were arrested, put in jail for five years because they went after an illegal, and I guess something happened where something went wrong, and they arrested the two officers to put them in jail for going after a rough criminal, by the way. I'm actually releasing... No, I'm the friend of... I am the friend of police. More than any president that's ever been in this office. More than 400 of the people that you pardoned, though, assaulted officers.

I want to ask you about the vice president, Jamie Vance. This is a week ago. He said, If you committed violence on January sixth, obviously, you should not be are turned.

Why is your vice president wrong? Well, only for one reason. They've served years in jail. They should not have served. Excuse me. They've served years in jail, and murderers don't even go to jail on this country. We had 1,500. We have 16 under review. As you know, we commuted about 16 of them because it looks like they could have done things that were not acceptable for a full pardon. But these people have served years of jail. Their lives have been ruined. Listen to me for a second. Stop interrupting. They've served years in jail. If you look at the American public, the American public is tired of it. Take a look at the election. Just look at the numbers on the election. We won this election in a landslide because the American public is tired of people like you that are just one-sided, horrible people in terms of crime. You don't talk about all the people that have been killed and what happens to those murderers. Murderers get no time. You take a look at some of these DAs. They go after political opponents, but they don't go after people that shoot people in the street.

They're caught. They know where they're living. They know everything. They don't even go up to pick them up anymore. They just let them live there. They know all about it. They have their pictures, they have the tape of the shooting, and they don't even go up. And you're talking about this. No, we pardoned people that were They did unbelievably poorly. In the history of our country, there's never been anything take place like this. They're still looking for them, but they're not looking for the murders, the people that are killing everybody. We are, though, and we're getting them out of the country. We just When we started that, we're getting them out of the country, and they're going to be gotten out of the country first. They came in illegally from jails and from prisons. They killed many people. Some of them killed many people. About 50% of them killed more than one person. They were released into our country. That's what we're focused on, not the nonsense you're talking about. You've called for a ceasefire in Ukraine. If Vladimir Putin doesn't come to the table to negotiate with you, will you put additional sanctions on Russia?

Sounds likely. Do you think that the war should be frozen currently along the war? The war should have never started. If you had a competent President, which you did, the war wouldn't have happened. The war in Ukraine would have never happened if I were President. But that couldn't happen because the election was rigged. Yeah, go ahead. Mr. President, there's been some debate within your orbit over whether or not to keep or eliminate H-1B visas.

What's your position on that?

Do you want to keep H-1Bs or do you want to get- I like both sides of the argument, but I also like very competent people coming into our our country, even if that involves them training and helping other people that may not have the qualifications they do. But I don't want to stop. I'm not just talking about engineers. I'm talking about people at all levels. We want competent people coming into our country. And HP1, I know the program very well. I use the program. Matre Ds, wine experts, even high-quality waiters. You got to get the has people. Now, then you go into people like Larry, and he needs engineers, and Mahsa needs, and this gentleman needs engineers like nobody's ever needed engineers. We have to have the quality people coming in. Now, by doing that, we're expanding businesses, and that takes care of everybody. I'm on both sides of the argument. But what I really do feel is that we have to let really competent people, great people, come into our country, and we do that through the H-1 program. Mr. President, are you to impose terrorists on Canada and Mexico in an effort to force negotiations sooner on USMCA?

No, it's really not on USMCA. It has nothing to do with that. They've allowed both of them Canada, very much so. They've allowed millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn't be here. They could have stopped them, and they didn't. They've killed 300,000 people last year, my opinion, have They're being destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl. The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive. The fentanyl coming through Mexico is massive. People are getting killed, and families are being destroyed. The son gets killed, and the family is a basket case for the rest of their lives. I've seen mothers that thought they'd heal. They never heal. They say it gets worse with time. It gets worse with time. They lose their boy, they lose their baby, they lose their young daughter to fentanyl poisoning. I had that talk with President Xi the other day, too, of China. I said, We don't want that crap in our country. We got to stop it. I would have stopped it. I had a deal with him where he was going to give the maximum penalty, which in China is the death penalty for drug dealing. He was all said he was going to give the maximum penalty to fentanyl dealers if they send to the United States, they were going to get the death penalty.

Of course, Biden didn't that up. I had that deal all done. It was all wrapped up. We were going to have it done. Then the election went, let's put it nicely, didn't go the proper way. I'm trying to be nice about it. It was rigged. We had an incompetent President elected, and he never followed up on that deal. But he should have followed up because if they got the death penalty, they wouldn't be sending fentanyl to Mexico, Canada, and other places. We're thinking about that, too. We're talking about a A tariff of 10% on China based on the fact that they're sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada. How soon on those tariffs? Probably February first is the date we're looking at. For Mexico and China, we're talking about approximately 25 %. Do you have an update on the Gaza ceasefire? Are you planning to travel to the Middle East soon? We're thinking about going to the Middle East, not yet. We have a A thing called the Hostages are coming back going on right now, and they are coming back. Some of them have been very damaged. You look at the young lady with her hand practically blown off.

You know how that happened, right? Did you know how that happened? When you find out, you're not going to be too happy because it was terrible. But the hostages are starting to come back. If I weren't here, they wouldn't be back ever. They would have never come. They would have all All died. If this were done a year earlier, if Biden would have done this deal a year and a half, two years ago, or frankly, it should have never happened. October seventh should have never happened. Nobody should be dead. But through weakness, they allowed it to happen, and then it was a disaster from them. But you go back just six months ago, many of these young people were living. Young people don't die like that. They're just dying. And young people aren't dying at 22 and 23 years They don't die. But now they're dying, and you wonder why they're dying. They're being killed, and they have been killed. But they say six months ago, you would have had 11 more living hostages. Think of that. Six months ago, but Biden couldn't get it done. It was only the imposition that I put on as a deadline that got it done.

But it's a very sad situation. It should have never happened. I'll tell you two things should have never happened. Three things. Inflation should It would have never happened. It would have never happened, except for what they did to energy and their crazy spending. Ukraine would have never happened. Never. By the way, Russia never would have gone into Ukraine. I had a very strong understanding with Putin. It would have never, ever happened. He disrespected Biden. Very simple. He disrespects people. He's smart. He understands. He disrespected Biden. Also, the Middle East I'm James Matthews, and I'm Sky's US correspondent, based here in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump, it would appear, is about to learn his fate. There's no doubting the strength of this hurricane as it roars through. Sky News, get the full story first. Do you fear a fourth indictment?

He's from Sky News.

He's from Sky News. He's entitled to ask me questions. Are you going to keep sending weapons to Ukraine, or are you going to turn off the tap soon?

Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky. We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon, and we'll see how it all happens. We're going to look at it very soon. One thing I do feel, the European Union should be paying a lot more than they're paying because under Biden, we're in there for $200 billion more. Now, it affects them more than it affects us. We have an ocean in between, right? Little thing called an ocean. The European Union should equalize. We're in there for $200 billion more than the European Union. What are we, stupid? I guess the answer is yes, because they must think so. But the European Union takes advantage of us tremendously on trade, and they now take advantage of and always have. If I didn't get involved, years ago, in my first term, one of the first things I noticed was that they're not paying enough. They're not paying. A lot of those countries weren't even paying. The NATO countries, they weren't paying. Only seven out of 28 were paying. We were one of them, and Poland was one, and they had a few of them that were paying, and some were paying very proudly.

Usually, the closer to the borderline of Russia they were, the faster they paid. The ones that were further away tended not to pay so fast. One thing on that, I think they should lift their number not to 2%, but to 5%. Nato should be at 5%, not at 2%. 2% is ridiculous. The US President Xi in your conversation about Ukraine. You asked him to get involved in helping settle that. Can you tell us about that? I did, yeah. I said, you ought to get it settled because he's not done very much on that. He's got a lot of power. We have a lot of power. I said, you ought to get it settled. We did discuss President. Yeah. Do you intend to continue selling products that benefit yourself personally while you're President? Well, I don't know if it benefited. I don't know where it is. I don't know much about it other than I launched it. I heard it was very successful. I haven't checked it. Where What is it today?

You made a lot of money, sir.

How much?

Several billion dollars, it seems like, in the last several days.

Several billion? That's peanuts for these guys. So you're talking about the He wrote me a nice letter. I did open it last night. I didn't know Peter said, Did you get the letter? I said, Wait a minute. Let's say the letter is a tradition. You put it in the draw, especially of the beautiful a resolute desk, and I opened the drawing, and there it was. It said to number 47. It was a very nice letter. I could show it because I think it was a nice letter. Maybe I will. What are you say in terms of that? Basically, it was a little bit of an inspirational type letter. Enjoy it, do a good job. Important, very important, how important the job is. But I think it was a nice letter. I think I should let people see it because it was a positive for him in writing it. I appreciated the letter. Mr. President, were security concerns at all a factor when deciding to move your inauguration into yours? No, not at all. No, not at all. It was just cold. Look, if we would have... I just went out to the helicopter. We said goodbye.

That's a tradition. As long as... Before, it used to be a stage coach, and then helicopters came along. But that's been It's a tradition. You go out and you do that. We stood there for 10 minutes, and I'll tell you what, people would not have been able to get through that day. That was cold. It was interesting. Don't let the sun fool you. Tell me something. Sunny days can get very cold, can't they? Because that was so freezing yesterday. You couldn't have gotten through it. It would have been. The answer is no, it wasn't security. With that being said, I thought the Capitol, the rotunda, was beautiful. Seventy-two degrees Louise. Unbelievable sound. It's like being in an opera house. I could see people wanting to do it there rather than outside. Why did they remove John Bolton's security clearance, sir? I think that was enough time. We take a job. You take a job, you want to do a job. We're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we? I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he'd attacked them because he was a warmonger.

He's the one that got us involved, along with Cheney and a couple of others, convinced Bush, which was a terrible decision to blow up the Middle East. We blew up the Middle East, and we left. We got nothing out of it except a lot of death. We killed a lot of people. And John Bolton was one of those guys, a stupid guy. But no, you can't have that for life. You shouldn't expect it for life.

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I mean, look, President Zelenskyy would like to have peace. He's told me that very strongly. He'd like to have peace, but it takes two to tangle. We'll see what happens. Where will you meet with President Putin? Anytime they want, I'll meet. I'd like to see that end. Millions of people are being killed, and they're being killed. It's a vicious situation. They're now largely soldiers. There's a lot of people have been killed in the cities. They look like demolition sites. Massive buildings bombed and coming down. The thing with Ukraine is that many more people died than you're reporting. You're not reporting the real numbers, and I'm not blaming you for that. I'm blaming maybe our government for not wanting to release those numbers. Many more people died than what you know about. When those big buildings come down and they say two people were injured, no. Many people, thousands of people are being killed. But the People, the real killing now is on the war front. It's a very flat land. The only thing that stops a bullet is somebody's body. You have young soldiers. Russia has lost about 800,000 soldiers now. Ukraine has lost about 600 or 700,000.

I think the numbers are low that they're giving out. But they've lost massive numbers of young soldiers, and that war should stop. It's very flat. It's beautiful farmland, and it's flat and really beautiful in a different way, but they don't have any protection. The only thing that stops a bullet is a body, and those bodies are stopping a lot of bullets, and they're being decimated. Both sides. In your conversation with President Xi, what did you tell him in terms of when to expect tariffs? And what can he do to avoid it? About which one? Tariffs. We didn't talk too much about tariffs, other than he knows where I stand. Look, I put large tariffs on China. I've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. Until I was President, China never paid not $0.10 to the United States. With me, they paid $600 billion or so or more, more than that even, of tariffs. If I didn't do that, you wouldn't have a steel mill open in the United States right now. You wouldn't have one steel mill open in the United States. What I did is I saved the steel industry. I saved other industries, too, with other tariffs.

Other countries are big abusers also. It's not just China. China is an abuser, but the European Union is very, very bad to us. They treat us very, very badly. They don't take our cars. They don't take our cars at all. They don't take our farm products, essentially. They don't take very much. We have a $350 billion deficit with the European European Union. They treat us very, very badly, so they're going to be in for tariffs. It's the only way you're going to get back. It's the only way you're going to get fairness. You can't get fairness unless you do that. But the European Union's treated us very badly, but essentially everybody treats us badly. Everybody treats us badly. Yes, go ahead. Because we allow them to, because we've had stupid people doing this, and we can't have... I'd like to have these three people negotiate for us just for one week, and it would be a rich country again, but we'll be rich.

Mr. President, on AI data centers, will you rescind President Biden's executive order that opens up federal land?

On which centers? On data centers.

Will you rescind President Biden's executive order that opens up federal lands for data centers and energy production?

No, I wouldn't do that. That sounds to me like it's something that I would like. I'd like to see federal lands opened up for data centers. I think they're going to be very important. Again, we have a lot of competition for that. So it's It's an honor to have these three great people, great CEOs and great geniuses, all three. It's an honor that they want to come to our country, but we're going to make it as easy as we can for them because other countries want them to. I'm going to have to go now. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Do you have TikTok on your phone? No, but I think I might put it. I think I'll get it right now. By the way, again, we won the young vote. I think I won it through TikTok. I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok. Okay? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.