and u.s. border patrol from accessing critical dmv databases. in fact, it threatens the badges, it threatens to charge with felonies any officer who shares that dmv data with federal agents. those agents rely on data to be able to know who they are pulling over on the side of the road. they are taking their lives into their hands every time they try to keep our streets safe. the sick irony is that your government in new york, my home state, freely shares the same dmv data with the government of canada and our bridges near our hometown. it doesn't share that data with your american federal government. why, governor? gov. hochul: you are misstating the greenlight law, because we are able to cooperate with federal -- >> you can continue watching

this on c-span now, our free mobile video app. we will take you live to the white house where president trump is signing three congressional resolutions barring california's electric vehicle sales mandates and diesel engine rules. pres. trump: -- they are forcing you to do something. boats, also. i assume boats are being covered by this. they want you to go electric. the battery is so heavy the boat practically doesn't float. i had a lot of fun talking about that one on the tours. we talk about it. i said, what would happen if the boat sank? north carolina, south carolina, we visited boat factories. unbelievable guys. they said, sir, we have one problem. they are forcing us to go electric. how is it going to work? the boat will not float, sir. it is so heavy. it won't go fast.

and a lot of other -- and i did ask him a question. i have a lot of background. my uncle is a big shot at m.i.t..the smartest guy. you never had a smarter guy. my first question was, what would happen if the boat sank? do you get electrocuted? do you remember that i said that? i used to be decimated by these people here. i used it to be decimated. they would say, what kind of a crazy question is that? i'm actually serious. what happens if you are on an electric boat and the boat is going down, you are in trouble. i used to say, remember, i would get decimated, the audience loved it but the press would laugh at it. if i had my choice of going down , jumping five or six yards away from the boat, but there is a shark there, what do i do? do you know what i said? i would rather be electrocuted. i will take electrocution every single day. actually, he said, no one has ever asked me that question,

sir. he makes boats. no one has asked me that question, it is an unusual question. honestly, i don't have the answer. i said, don't worry about it. if i win you won't have to worry about it. today, we are saving california and we are saving our entire country from a disaster. probably thousands of dollars less money. even the ones if you buy electric we won't make you do certain things that are a waste of money and just time consuming waste of money. make you do things that are no good for anybody. make the car worse and make it much more expensive. over the past five months, our administration and republicans in congress have fought for the american auto worker, teamsters, and, by the way, right to work. we have them all. we just call them workers. we fought for workers like no one has ever fought before. i understand that is widely won -- why we won with workers.

we won with young people. we were number one in tiktok in its history. can you believe that? i like tiktok. that is why they say are you saving tiktok? we probably will. my first day in office we ended the green scam and abolished the ev and eight at the federal level. which is basically that everybody would be trying driving electric car in a short. of time. now i know eli doesn't like me so much. which he does actually, he does. we never had a problem. this is something new. this is from day one. abolish the ev mandate. and elon still endorsed me because honestly, he never, ever spoke to me about that. they used to say i'm amazed that he's endorsing it because that can't be good for him. i'm abolishing the ev mandate and they once asked him about it. you never talk to me about that he said.

i said well, as long as it's happening to everybody you be able to compete. i thought it was a very honest answer to be honest with you. i talked about that incredible, you would have thought from day one, you've got to make sure you don't do the ev mandate, the abolishing. never did. very honest in that sense. and he did say to me, i actually asked him because it was really strange, i'm with him, he's a friend of mine, he makes electric cars and we are saying you're not going to be able to make electric cars, you're not going to be forced to make all of his cars. you can make them, but they would be judged by the market. and that's what he said. as long as i'm on the same plane as everybody else. i can make a better product. i said that's very cool. that was my answer. after that he got a little bit strange. i don't know why, and as part of the one big beautiful bill, well, we will also further slash

the funding for the green new scam, the greatest scam in history, saving american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. the windmills are killing our country by the way. the fields are littered with that junk. littered with it. they get old and they get rusty and they get bad. it's the greatest scam in history. the most expensive energy you can buy. they are ugly. a friend of mine comes from minnesota, he headed big in new york as a very successful guy, and he wanted to go back to see his mother who is not well, he went back to minnesota. hasn't been back there in 20 years. and he says unbelievable what happened. he says i'm driving down the highway on a certain road and the most beautiful fields, i remember them so well, and i'm so looking forward to seeing them again and i look at them

and all over are these horrible, horrible structures. he's a very smart guy. these ugly, horrible things. and he said it was so bad i actually drove back to see it because i couldn't believe it. before i even got to my mother i drove back. i said how much do you like your mother? but no, it hurt him to see it. he said i looked at this field, one of the most beautiful places in my mind and imagination that i never seen and he said it's littered with this garbage. they look like a junkyard he said. then you get different manufacturers, and they don't look alike and they are not painted alike, different colors. even if they are white, one is a beigey whites, one is a dark white, one is a light white. and then they start to rust after four or five years and then they start to wear out and

nobody takes them because you not allowed to. you can't bury them for some reason, i don't know why, but they say that you can burn that certain type of fiber or we are all going to die. what bull ship this is -- bullshit this is. they leave them up. if you go to palm springs california, go to this beautiful community, it's like you are riding through junkyard. windmills all over the place, tall ones, short ones, dead ones, they are all dead but some are hanging on by a thread. they never take them down, they just leave the mayor they start to rust. it one of the greatest scams and it's also the most expensive, and the environment will say we love wind, it is so good but it is a horrible thing. it is a horrible thing. and we are going to have one mandate we have, we are going to

natural gas, nuclear. we just had a big signing with nuclear, making it easier, safer and better. probably more than any other form of energy that's come about. it's been amazing >> been done. very safe, very good and very inexpensive. but we're not going to let windmills get built because they will destroy our country more than it already been destroyed. you look at these beautiful valleys and they are loaded up with this garbage. it gets worse and worse looking with time. that's where the rest comes. 4.5 years, it starts to rust. it's very expensive to paint them. so they don't paint them. and they are horrible, what happened is horrible. so i'm not going to approve windmills unless it's an emergency, i guess it could happen. but we are not doing any of them. i hope the senate will soon pass a bill, the house can quickly approve and get to my desk by the fourth of july.

we will have this done. and we will further defend our autoworkers and impose a 25% tariff on automobile investment in american autumn if any -- all of your manufacturing is surging. mercedes, they pay 25% if they don't make the car in the united states. and it's going to be done long before. from, this could've been done by any other president. but i did it. i propose in my last term. i actually asked a question. i said to we have any chinese cars? you know why, because you opposed the tariff on chinese cars. so they are not coming here. they are going to europe all over the place. i love china. we just made a deal and i respect president xi a lot and we made a deal that is good for both countries. good for china, good for both

countries. in a lot of money made that's going to ultimately open up china, which is the ultimate thing and i'm going to be working with president xi, we talked about it, and that's going to be good for china and good for us. but we love china, that's what aisleways say. had we not signed it, that wouldn't be happening. it's going to happen fairly soon. but to further defend our autoworkers, this 25 percent tariff imposed on all farm automobiles -- foreign automobiles and oil manufacturing. oil manufacturing is surging. it might go up with that tariff. and the higher you go, the more likely it is. florida has just announced it's going to invest $500 million in some other things involved with what we just did. they just announced that yesterday. stellantis announced that it's going to reopen its belvedere

facility plant. that's nice. i knew that plan well. it had a lot of problems. they are going to spend $5 billion in hyundai announced that it will invest $21 billion in america. they wouldn't have invested $.10 if we didn't have tariffs. including for manufacturing american steel which is doing great. american steel is doing great night now because of what we did. if i didn't put tariffs on steel and they were dumping steel, china and a lot of other countries were dumping steel, garbage steel, early steel, bad steel, not structurally sound steel. it was garbage but it was still there. and if i didn't put tariff that the 25% or 50% tariffs on steel, john james would put tariffs on steel and now we are really doing great. a big investment is being made in pennsylvania. you've been reading about it.

it's been $17 billion in u.s. steel and all the steelworkers wanted. and we have a golden stock, we have a golden share which i control, well, the president concern -- controls. i'm a little concerned about who the president might be, but its total control, 51% ownership. and we had a great company. they are coming in from japan, they are going to spend $17 billion and i said what happens if it doesn't work? they spend $17 billion. we can't put it on a trailer and drive it to japan. he says some businesses, you can move. you can move your office. think of that. $17 billion, they are going to have them all over the country. i want to introduce several of the great americans representing the millions of people who livelihood we are saving with today's action.

i just can't tell you how incredible this action is because nobody thought -- i would have rather had it been almost anything bill runs a family owned convenience store that opened in west texas in 1957. known as kent quick. bill, if you could come up and say a few words about what the signing means to you. [applause] >> wow, you are probably wondering why i've called you all here today, right. what a great day. from my perspective, i'm in the convenience store and marking business and what this does is give consumers freedom to pick what kind of car they want but

more importantly for us, it gives us the ability to plan going forward. because with mandates, we were forced to have to look at putting in infrastructure that frankly is extremely expensive and doesn't give you any return. so this is going to free me up and our companies out to invest in what people want and the cars they want and it's a great day. so mr. president, congress, thank you, steve. everybody. thank you so much. [applause] mr. trump: and a friend of mine for a long time is john hess, one of the top ceos in the country, and he's now the ceo of hess corporation, one of the biggest oil producers. he's a fantastic person with great knowledge of the subject matter.

can you say a few words, i see you in the audience. thanks. [applause] >> hi, i'm john hess ceo of hess corporation, a proud producer of oil and gas in north dakota and the gulf of america. so you all know. [applause] [laughter] i was born in new jersey, grew up in new york, and my father started our company by driving a secondhand oil -- it is an honor to be before you today, thank you for that. mr. president, during your campaign you made a commitment to the american people to appeal unworkable and costly mandates for cars and trucks and let the consumer choose what type of vehicle they drive. today with bipartisan support of congress, you are making good on that promise.

i'd like to recognize speaker johnson, leader soon, other members of congress whose tireless efforts were critical to the outcome we are celebrating today. and a special thank you to senator o for leadership. [laughter] [applause] this announcement today is about consumer choice and affordability for american families. it's also about making our country, the auto industry more competitive. mr. president, you said that very eloquently. as you know, one-size-fits-all policies like those adopted in california do not work. america, every american should be able to choose what they want to drive, not the government. we as a country would be basically leaning into our competitive advantage with this

deal on oil and gas. oil and gas are a strategic industry for a country underpinning energy dominance, economic prosperity and national security. we are truly energy independent. so mr. president on behalf of the oil and gas industry and every family across our country, thank you for your courageous leadership and your commitment to consumer choice and energy affordability. thank you very much. [applause] mr. trump: very respected guy. the california east mandates would also have devastated our nations incredible truck drivers and the trucking industry. a diesel powered semitruck can drive from reno nevada to some other locations.

nevada to los angeles, california and back on a single tank of diesel oil. diesel fuel. but the same exact journey would require electric truck driver to stop also six times and recharging stations, adding nine hours to the trip. i don't know much about the trucking industry but this is not sounding good. here to discuss a little about the trucking industry, gina jones. gina, a real expert on trucks, i can tell you that. tell us about trucks. [applause] >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, members of congress. the trucking industry has americans back, and we are grateful to have a president and

administration that our back. today, trucks are 99% cleaner than a generation ago. we need great partners in government to continue that process. we cannot allow one states regulations disrupt our entire nation supply chain. allowing california to do so would have negativity impacted the hundreds and thousands of truck drivers who delivered critical goods across the country each and every day. in order to deliver for american families and businesses, many realistic national standards. with the signing of this resolution, mr. president, you

have delivered the leadership that trucking industry need. promises made, promises cap. [applause] on behalf of the 8.5 million americans who worked throughout the trucking industry, i thank you. mr. trump: great job. so just to wrap it up, the trump administration will the store the full strength, might and glory of the american auto and trucking history. we will protect our truck drivers, autoworkers, small business people and manufacturers all over our country. and actually all over the world.

we will be doing a product that works, a product that is much more efficient, that is better, it's much better. less expensive. it will put affordable energy and affordable car ownership back in the center of the american dream as we make america great again and that is what is happening. we are making america great. you know, when i went over to saudi arabia, tar, uae just a couple of weeks ago, the leaders of those countries, they are very smart people. they said you know, you've been here a short time, america has the hottest nation. you are the only one we talk about now. in six months ago you were a laughingstock. they said that to me, those words. you were an absolute laughingstock. you've got the hottest nation right now in the whole world and the numbers are reflecting it. so i just think it's great. and what i will do is i will sign this and we can take a couple of questions if you want

and we will be finished and you are going to go off and you're going to build the most beautiful automobiles for 20% less money and they want to thank you. thank you, mike. thank you. [applause] mr. trump: i'm going to sign three build that do everything i just said no auto pens allowed. [laughter] [applause]

you never know what you get. number two. a very steady hand. i have a very steady hand. [applause] only a steady hand can find like that. and here is number three and it all goes into effect, everything i say goes into effect. all the prices, better cars and choice. we have choice for education and you have choice for cars now.

common sense. ok, now i can give you the pen. [applause] ok, i will take these. >> thank you, mr. president. mr. trump: ok, everybody. [applause] >> go ahead, please.

mr. trump: brian? >> i have some very close friends who drove from southern california. their message to you, in the long haul, navigating through this? mr. trump: they are going to be better than ever before, selling cars in america at levels they never even thought of or and they're going to make more money than they ever made before. it's going to be a better product. i know that they have been behind me. they knew it was right. they've been asking for this for 25, 30 years in all fairness. there -- very happy. i told you the auto workers union, we got tremendous votes.

they like me today even better than they did on election day, because they see the results. and they have plans moving income a lot of plans. >> -- killing the auto industry? mr. trump: i don't think he knew it. i think he is a guy who has just got a faulty thought process. you look at the train, i've seen stupid people. for years i've watched when something would cost twice as much or three times as much but this thing is costing 20 times more. it's the most incredible disaster i've ever seen. that's why the cars are just as bad, everything is bad. and now you have this situation. so his own sheriff said two days

ago, three days ago that we could not have done this without the military. they were going to take over. he couldn't have done it. today they got him to change his tune. he said i think we could have handled it. so sad. they were using his quote all over the place and they got him change, but he knows. los angeles would be right now burning to the ground just like the houses burned to the ground. it is so sad was going on in los angeles. they had a fire that you have never happened because they should have listened to me. eventually, we broke in and we had the water come down from the pacific northwest. i could show you pictures now. have clients coming all the way down california. water, so much water. they don't have any droughts, they have so much water. they said it all out to the pacific ocean for 20 years. so ridiculous. and we got them to take it now.

but what they do and what they are doing, this is a big problem. and what they really want to do is keep criminals because they are trying to protect criminals sanctuary cities are a disaster in this country. most of the voters don't want them. politicians like them for whatever reason but i think the politicians are wrong. that's why we won in such a convincing fashion, all seven swing states, by millions of votes. we one 2750 districts as opposed to 505. that's why when you look at the map it's got to little blue stripes on each side of it. it's almost already. i always got along with gavin. i'd like to gavin always. he said i never called him. no, they asked him a question on fox, i guess. i never spoke to him, he doesn't remember the call. i never spoke to him. i had it. it took me about two minutes.

i said well here's the call, it lasted 60 minutes and four seconds and it was at 12:30 in the evening. i actually made a call, he didn't pick up. i called him a second time and he picked up. and i said you've got to get your ass in gear because you're going to have a problem. if we didn't bring the military in, he would have right now something. and i went through it because i follow the rules 100%, and i watched in minnesota, we had the man ran for vice president of the united states, he was a disaster. but he wouldn't call in the national guard. and i eventually call in the national guard. i said i will never do that again. if they are not going to do the problem, they can wait two weeks because minneapolis burned down. you remember the cnn anchor who was standing there saying this is a peaceful rally and behind

him, the entire city was on fire. it looked like world war ii. and i appreciate the question. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: the plane crash was terrible, i've already told them. anything we can do, it is a big country, a strong country. they will handle it, i'm sure. i will let them know if it is anything we can do, i would be over there immediately. but it was a horrific crash. maybe had a couple survivors. but that was a horrible crash. nobody has any idea what it might be. i gave them a couple of pointers, we saw the plane, it looked like it was flying pretty well. didn't look like there was an explosion.

just looks like the engines maybe lost power but boy, that is a terrible crash, one of the worst in aviation history. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: i would love to avoid the conflict. iran is going to have to negotiate in tougher, meaning they are going to have to give us something they are not willing to give us right now. but i'm the last person, i've kept us out of worse. we do fetid ices completely, 100%. i believe in peace through strength. we are the greatest military in the world. i rebuilt our military. i rebuilt the military. and then we gave a chunk of it away, it was a lot, but it was peanuts compared to what we have built, compared to afghanistan, one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of our country with that whole withdrawal, the way they withdrew. very embarrassing. but when you put the military,

we have the strongest military. we defeated isis. we defeated isis. [applause] we defeated isis in four weeks. we were told it would take five years. anywhere from four to five years. we did it in four weeks which by the way, headed by the general who is now the head of the joint chiefs of staff. that's why he's there. he said it would take four weeks and we did in four weeks. so we have a great country and we are going to keep it that way. and when it comes to los angeles or other cities, and these people are agitators. they are paid, they are professionals. they are insurrectionists, troublemakers. they are all of those things but i believe they are paid. we are going to find out through pam bondi and her great staff, her people. who they are and i think we could do some investigations.

we are going to find out who they are because i think what they are doing is unbelievably -- they took the bricks away from people. they walked in with satchels of bricks. why bricks? because you throw bricks, they are very potent. if they hit you they will kill you. the military took them away. strong guy, couldn't carry them. and they saw that and they found others with rick's. they also brought hammers along. very heavy hammers. i saw them pounding the curb, pounding the sidewalk. it was like a military operation. this guy is pounding, and it was breaking up granite. the granite curves. and the granite was breaking up and the concrete was breaking up and there were lots of people standing there and then he

stopped handing them, they just went down and pick them up and it is all professional. he said that's a professional. this is not people at random. this guy is breaking it up because they couldn't use the brakes. so who would think of this even? did a lot of damage, a lot of curbs and sidewalks are broken. i never saw that before. i thought i'd seen it all. and they had on tape. and people get killed. they go to bridges and they drop the concrete of the top of the bridge with a car coming along 70 miles an hour in dies, we had a lot of car problems. they were littered all over the road. when a car is stuck in concrete going to the front windshield. these are bad people. if we didn't go, los angeles right now would be on fire. it would be a disaster. and we stopped at. and last night was very good. they didn't show up because we were there.

the police are great, i know those police, they are great but they are told not to do anything, they are not allowed to act. thank you. >> how imminent is a strike on iran? mr. trump: i don't want to say imminent but it looks like it is something that can very well happen. look, it's very simple, not complicated. iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. other than that i want them to be successful, it will help them be successful. we will trade with them, do whatever is necessary. but i stop a war between india and pakistan and i stopped it -- i don't think i've ever seen this story written down. pakistan, eventually they're going to go nuclear. and i stopped it. i called each leader who i respect greatly, and i spoke to them. and i talked about trade.

i said you are not trading with us if you are going to go to war. if you're going to start throwing nuclear weapons around. and i said to both of them. they stopped. i stop that morbid phone calls and trade. and india is here right now negotiating a trade deal and pakistan is calling i think next week. very proud of that. nobody died, the nuclear weapons, they each have very substantial numbers of nuclear weapons. the whole republican party should because that is their mindset. please. >> national security issues of chinese students -- mr. trump: i've always been in favor of students coming in from other countries. that includes china.

i've always been in favor of it. does it mean that you have to watch people? you have to watch students but you have to watch other people also. i've always been strongly in favor of it. it is good for our schools, i think it is good for our country. i'm also in favor of having them stay. i've been in favor of letting them stay. if you've been educated, are willing to get educated for four years, i like people being able to say you know, they have some great students. these are republicans clapping. a lot of republicans don't like that idea, i happen to like that idea. i'm a real republican believe it or not. i like that. to me, it's almost like buying your way in in a very legitimate way. and we have stories where apple wants to hire somebody and they higher than the as they can't.

they made him a big offer, and everything was done but he has no idea whether or not he's going to be able to stay. and i'm all for making sure that people like that can go to work for all of our great companies. and you know, they go back to their country and there are stories that are all over the place. and they start a company just like here, they end up starting in china or india or someplace else and now they are among the richest people in the world who get thousands and thousands of employees. this is happening all the time. because they are not allowed to stay. i think we will probably end up doing something about that. go ahead. you, in the blue. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: i am very close to the situation. very disappointed in russia, but

i'm disappointed in ukraine, also. i think deals could have been made. losing 5000, 6000 people a week. soldiers, mostly, but also people living in towns because they get hit by missiles. how would you like to live in a building and you think missile has a good chance of hitting a building during the evening? it's horrible. must be horrible to live like that. but i'm disappointed. we did great with india and pakistan. we did very good with israel. look, october 7 was a disaster. people forget. they like to forget. that was a horrible thing. but none of these things let happen if i were president. if i were president none of it would have happened. you wouldn't have is a real iran was broke, we had good sanctions on them. biden immediately let them get rich. but they had no money for hamas

or hezbollah, no money for anything. it was perfect. we wouldn't have had inflation caused by oil. it was also caused by their spending but oil more than anything else. got close to $100 a barrel. and that also kept the war going with putin because $100 a barrel, that was a big moneymaking experience. but now it's down to where it's not so good for them anymore. it's very important to get that settled. that is a terrible bloodbath going on. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: we are going to get those two together. i told him that. india and pakistan.

i said i can solve anything. and i saw the first question, they said 2000 years. mr. trump: peter. >> thank you. what made you change your mind about targeting in california, farmers -- mr. trump: we are not targeting. i put out a statement today by farmers, our farmers are in her natalie. they had their good workers, they've work for them for 20 years. they are not citizens but they turned out to be great.

we are going to have to do something about that. we can't take farmers and take other people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have, maybe not. and you know what is happening, they get rid of some of the people because you go into a farm and you look and people have been there for 20, 25 years, and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else and you're supposed to throw them out and you know what happens, they end up hiring the criminal that have come in, the murderers which imprisons and everything else. we are going to have an order on that pretty soon. we can't do that to our farmers. and leisure, hotels. we have to use a lot of common sense on that. >> as the israelis apparently gear up for some kind of attack, are you trying to talk netanyahu out of doing that, or are you so against iran having a nuclear weapon?

mr. trump: it's a very fair question. i want to have an agreement with iran. we are fairly close to an agreement. we are fairly close to a pretty good agreement. it's got to be better than pretty good. i would much prefer an agreement as long as i think there is an agreement, it might help it, actually, but it also could blow it. but we've had very good discussions with iran. whether or not we get there, i can't tell you but it will happen soon. i say this very strongly. whether it is going in or not going in, they can't have a nuclear weapon. i would preferred a more friendly path. >> what the israelis told you of servicemen and women were stationed in the middle east -- mr. trump: there's a chance of massive conflict. we had a lot of american people in this area. and i said because the tell them to get out because something

could happen soon. and i don't want to be the one that didn't give any warning and missiles are flying into their buildings. it's possible. so i had to do it. you know, i had no choice, do i do it or not? it has its downside but it also has its upside. if it should happen. hopefully that doesn't happen. thank you. >> for americans were coming to washington on saturday for the military parade -- mr. trump: going to be a great thing. >> what would you hope that they would remember -- mr. trump: how great our country is. how strong the military is. we have the strongest military in the world. it's very interesting. three weeks ago it was the end of world war ii anniversary, and i called france and macron was a

good man, i said what are you doing, celebrating her victory. and i said your victory, your victory? tell me about that. and then i called somebody else and i happened to speak to president putin at the time. in all fairness to him he lost 51 million people and he did fight. russia fought. sort of interesting, he fought with us and everybody hates him. in germany and japan, they are fine. someday somebody will explain that but i like germany and japan, too. but putin is a little confused by that. we lost 51 million people and we were your ally and now everybody hates russia and they love germany and japan. i said let's explain that sometime, ok? it's a strange world. but i will say this. i want them to go away saying how great our country is and how great our military is and i was making all these calls and for some reason i've spoken to like four different places, sir, your

celebrating? we won world war ii and world war i. we won and yet we are the only country that doesn't celebrate, everyone else celebrated except us. and i said we should celebrate, too. >> there are several no kings protests planned across the country on saturday as well. what are your thoughts on those? mr. trump: i don't feel like a king. i have to go through hell to get stuff. a king would say i'm not going to get this. a king would have never had the california -- he wouldn't have to call up mike johnson and thune and say fellas, you got to pull this off and after years we get it done. we are not a king at all. thank you very much. go ahead. >> mr. president sir, you made a posting today untruth photo about senator rand paul. we you see him at the picnic tonight? mr. trump: i look forward to seeing him, i like him.

he the hardest vote in the history of the usa to get. probably won't get in. but he's a very tough vote. he's always been a friend of mine. i endorsed him and got him elected. i got him elected twice. but i don't think he understands how great this bill is. this is a great bill. no tax on tips, no caps on the social security, no tax on overtime, if you worked overtime, no more taxes. those are big, but they are minor compared to the other things. taxes reduced. and let's look at the other side. if it doesn't get approved, 68% tax increase, 68%. including the fact that the trump tax cuts kick in. a 68% tax increase and many other bad things. some of them so bad i don't even want talk about the i think it's

one of the greatest bills we've ever passed in this country and i think that leader thune, this gentleman right here, what he's gone through, now i guess we have seven, so it's like, easier. but it's really sort of three. it is seven but it really equates to three. we have great support. i can't guarantee, but when you have a majority of essentially three where you can't lose anything more than three votes, i think it's going to haunt the democrats because most of the bill is common sense. it's tax cuts. it's border wall funding. it's military funding. it's all things that are like common sense. is nothing tricky about it, it's basic stuff. and we don't intend on getting one.

not one democrat vote in the house. not one. maybe somebody will come along. i don't know how they can run for office. so many different things. very important. medicare and medicaid are going to be strengthened, not hurt. they are using a fake narrative. no, they are going to be strengthened. they are going to destroy them. under their policies, medicare and medicaid go away. social security under them is going to be devastated. with us, very interestingly, i saw this and approve it because for four years, i never hurt medicare, medicaid or social security. but they are going to destroy medicare, medicaid, social security. they are going to wipe them out in my opinion because their policies are so bad the country will have no money to pay for it. we are going to make him stronger than ever before. thank you very much, everybody.

[applause] ♪ we are joined by sophia tripoli, the health policy senior director at families usa, and she's here to talk about the gop tax and spending bill and how it affects health care programs. welcome to "washington journal." can you