Trascrizione (en)

Thank you. Since you were on recess, the war in Iran has escalated. At this podium in March, you said that it would be over in short order. In addition to that war escalating, we are now in a greater trade war with Canada, usually one of our greatest trading partners. In addition, the President has angered cattlemen throughout the country by bringing in imports, and they still say, even today, that they are concerned about their livelihood because of his years. I know he's tried to mitigate them. In addition, he has tried to change the name of a Great Lake and threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center. Are these moves that you support? And do you understand Republicans, some of whom I just spoke to, who said, these hurt your chances and they think voters do not like them? So there's three branches of government and the federal government, right? There's an executive and we operate the legislative. We try to coordinate as best we can because we have unified government. Of course, the voters gave us a mandate in 2024. I talked to him about an hour and a half ago he called me about things happening today and I give my counsel and we have discussion about these things and he takes counsel from a multitude of people and that's what a president is supposed to do. The executive branch is doing their thing, we're doing our thing. Canada, for example, you mentioned Canada is an important ally but they have not always been a fair trading partner And the president is a fair trading partner And the president has shown his prowess at navigating through these trade discussions and agreements and negotiating much better much more favorable agreements and arrangements for the American people And that's where this is going to wind up, sooner the better, obviously. We all agree. But some of these things are out of our control. World events, what's happening in Iran. and we were able to do it as quickly as possible, making sure that we get the job done. And we did. And I got asked the question on the campaign trail a lot over August, what about Iran? Well, look, we were, the largest state sponsor of terrorism was this close to having nuclear capability. And I know that because I'm on the gang of eight and I got all the briefings, okay? And everybody who saw that in the classified briefing knows how dangerously close they were. And so it was necessitated that that problem be taken care of. That had been an objective, by the way, of every And that's what you're saying. And that's what I'm saying. I'm saying that they've been in the policy of every administration for almost 50 years. They were chanting death to America for 47 straight years. Well, we eliminated their nuclear capability, and now we need to resolve that. And what I've been saying and what I believe is going to happen is that our allied countries around the world who agree with this principle, this objective, they do not want a nuclear-armed Iran and they want stability in the region, that they're willing and able to assist in the various aspects of that. And there's a lot of stability there for commerce and in the Red Sea and in the region. Other countries around the world, our NATO allies, the Arab states in the region,