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Nice questions from our wonderful media. Okay, very important, that's a big deal. We've been working on this very long, right? See, right? Will? Yes, sir. Andrew, do you have a question? Yes, Mr. President. You said during your state meeting that this type of fraud, the corruption, is the type of thing that can shred the fabric of the nation. Why do you suppose that the leaders of recent memory haven't looked at the systemic amount of fraud- Because they're crooked. And- Because they're crooked. They make money, they gain power, they use it for power. Like with the Somalians, they vote in a block, 100%. They make a deal with the Somalians, they all vote because they're on a gravy train. It's money first, power second. A lot of people say power first now. It's money first, power second. Do you ever see where like Mercedes, people come over from Somalia, they have no money and now they're buying Mercedes Benz cars, okay? It's more cash goes out of the Minnesota airport than any other place in the world or something. We're gonna find it, and Minnesota's really bad. The governor's corrupt, the attorney general's totally corrupt. Just like the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James. She's a highly corrupt person. Bragg, the DA, is a corrupt person. They're all corrupt. These are corrupt people. And we got too many of them in our country. And we have to expose them, and we have to catch them. And if these two guys can't, these are high IQ people. I like high, I've always liked high IQ. These are high IQ people. If they don't do it, we're gonna go a long way, fellas, to find somebody else. We have no choice. If honestly, and they may not do a good job. If they don't do a good job, it's possible. If they don't do a good job, the country's sort of in trouble. Yes, go ahead. Thank you, sir. Two questions. And I think they're gonna do a great job. Go ahead. First, Mr. Vice President, Democrats are already calling you the fraud czar. What's your reaction to that title? And then second, given the past skepticism of foreign adventurism, are you completely on board with the current war in Iran? So I like fraud czar. It's certainly what we're gonna do. And look, we have to do it. As the president said, this is a problem that has festered in this country for far too long. And far too few people have actually wanted to do anything about it. That's what makes this administration different, is that we actually tackle the problems the American people have been confronting. So I'm very happy about it. And look, I think that I know what you're trying to do, Phil. You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and the president. What the president said consistently going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. We've taken this military action under the president's leadership. I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, should pray for success and pray for the safety of our troops. That's the approach that I've taken. Make it as successful as possible. So there's no hesitation, given your past statements, with the current operation? What do you mean there's no hesitation with my past statements? Given your skepticism of foreign adventurism, you were a critic of the global war on terror previously. Well, I think one big difference, Phil, is that we have a smart president, whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents. And I trust President Trump to get the job done, to do a good job for the American people, and to make sure that the mistakes of the past aren't repeated. Absolutely. Thank you, sir. So J.D.'s been great. But here's the simple thing, and I have some people. I don't want wars. I want wars less than almost anybody. Peace through strength. But you know what? I've watched Iran for a long time. I called them out 20 years ago when I was a civilian that liked watching the world. And they're violent, vicious people. The leadership, violent, vicious people. They killed 32,000 protesters over the last three weeks. They put out a memo two days ago saying, if you protest, we will shoot you and kill you in the streets. And somebody said, there's not that many protests. Well, first of all, there are bombs going off all over the place. But even if there weren't, who's gonna do that? They don't have any guns. And the other ones have latest in line machine gun, right? And every form of gun you can have. They shoot them right through the middle of the head. They're violent people. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And sometimes I'll have some of the people that feel very strongly, like I do about wars. And I say, do you think Iran is violent? And do you think their people are violent? Yes, leadership. Do you think they should have a nuclear weapon, which is massive power? I don't even want to discuss how powerful, because it's depressing. And they said, no, they shouldn't have. Definitely, they shouldn't have. And you don't want to fight war. No, no, we don't want to fight war. So these are naive people that frankly are stupid. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you. Because they would use it within, the only question is, within one hour if they get it, or one day. They will use it and they will blow up the entire Middle East, not just Israel. They'll start with Israel, but they will blow up. And you got to see that when they unexpectedly started sending missiles to every country within a thousand miles of them. I mean, they're blowing up countries that were neighbors, not necessarily some friends. They actually blown up some friends. They were blowing up the people that handle their accounts. They're sending thousands of missiles into countries that didn't expect to be in the war. Because they wanted to take over the Middle East. And if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's horrible Iran nuclear deal, which I did in my first term, one of the dumbest deals, perhaps the dumbest deal, because of the danger involved. You would have had them have a nuclear weapon three years ago, maybe four years ago. They would have used it, blown up the Middle East, and they would have then come after us. And if these gorgeous B-2 bombers, give me that bomber, Andrews, let me just hug that little sucker. This looks small, but in person it's very big. It's the only plane capable of carrying a 200,000 pound bomb. So I don't know how they do it because it's very sleek and nice, but it carries a lot of weapons and there's a lot of bombs. But had I not sent this incredible machine times numerous others to hit Iran at midnight with no moon, dead dark, every single bomb was dropped right down the chute that it was supposed to hit. How they do it, who knows? Nobody else can figure. No other country can do it. No other country has our military or even close. And I think we've probably proven that with Venezuela and now with, because we have done a number of Iran. But if I didn't do that, if I didn't decimate, I call it their nuclear dust. They would have had a nuclear weapon within one month after that bombing took place. And they would have used it on first Israel and then the Middle East. And you know that because all of those missiles that were launched against their neighbors were set long ago, long before they knew they would be using them this quickly. Had we not done this, you would have had a nuclear war that would have evolved into World War III. And more important, this is a war that there would have been nothing left. So we've done a great thing. The people that say it's okay for a very sick ideology, a very sick country in terms of its leadership, very good people, great people. But the people that say that, I think they're actually, they're either evil or they're stupid. So if you believe that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, they should not have it, then you have to absolutely love what I've done. Because in two weeks, we have decimated them. They have no Navy. They have no Air Force. They have no anti-aircraft weapons. They have no leadership. The leadership is gone. But then they set up a new leadership to go and name a new leader, and that leadership is gone. And now they think maybe the sun is gone. They're all gone. My biggest problem is I have no idea who we're talking to because nobody ever heard of any of these people. They're all dead. But we did a job for the world, not a job for us, for the whole world. We took the worst country in 50 years and maybe longer from the ideological standpoint, a country that wanted to blow up the world, a country that is sick, sick. And it had the religious fervor. And when you add religion, people don't realize more people died in religious wars than every other war put together. And that's what you would have had here. And it was a terrible thing. I'm very proud of what we did. And I think J.D. understands better than most, if you give Iran a nuclear weapon, at least a very substantial part of the world would be blown up. And it'll be used almost immediately, yes. Thank you, Mr. President. You don't mind if I keep this here, do you? Isn't that a beautiful thing? I used to look at it, and I said, it's a piece of art, but how can it be effective? It's so stealth. Think of it. Peter, one in the morning, it flies in. And they say, sir, they're in Iranian airspace. And I say, oh, and I'm watching it from the situation room with a couple of other very smart people, including some good generals, real generals, not television generals. And all of a sudden, you see that dive. They start diving. And you see them, 30,000, 20,000. Boy, I said, that was a lot. They went down fast to aim it. And they know they're coming, and they're smart, and they never saw them. And they're firing a little bit, but they don't know what they're firing at cuz they can't see a thing. And then you hear the biggest explosions that anybody's ever heard. Those are the biggest bombs. Outside of nuclear, those are the biggest bombs. And you say, what technology we have. What a great country. Largely, I built it during my first term. I built it. I didn't know I'd have to use it this much in my second term. But we had an incompetent president. We had an incompetent administration. And if that group of people, in any form, whether it's Kamala, him, it doesn't matter, would have had another four years, we would have no country left. Yeah, please. Thank you, Mr. President. You say you're doing a job for the rest of the world. In your conversations with your counterparts, are they thanking you? What are the conversations like when you talk about this military conflict that's taking place in Iran? Well, they should be thanking me because many of them get 90%. China, as an example, should be thanking us. But I don't expect to thank you. But they should be thanking us. Japan gets 95%. China, 91%. Many of the countries, South Korea gets a tremendous percentage of their oil, and therefore their energy, from the Straits, or as they call it, the Strait. And they should be not only thanking us, they should be helping us. What does surprise me is that they're not eager. There are a couple. We'll be announcing some names here. There are some that really were right up front. I would announce their name now, whether they prefer it not being announced for whatever reason. I will say this. It's a lot easier to get people today than it was two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, before we destroyed there, before we obliterated the country, before we took out, because they're down to about 8% of their missiles. They're down to a small portion of their drones. And we've demolished many of their factories where they make the missiles and the drones, and the rest are all following. Our military has been amazing. We hit Carg Island, took out every single thing in Carg Island except one thing. We left the pipes. Because if we take out the pipes, it takes a long time to build them. And at some point, something is going to happen that's positive with respect to those pipes. But there are some countries that greatly disappointed me. And I'm the one that got them to pay from 2% to 5% of GDP, NATO. And I get along great with those countries in NATO. But I always said, the problem with NATO is we'll always be there for them, but they'll never be there for us. And when I hear the UK, which was sort of considered the Rolls Royce of allies, right, wouldn't you say? They were the oldest, and they were gonna be there. And I say it would be really helpful if you'd send over a couple of ships. And if you have some minesweepers, which they do, be very helpful. And the Prime Minister is a nice man. I think he's a very nice guy. Well, I'd like to ask my team. I said, you don't have to worry about a team. You don't have a team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make a decision. Well, I have to speak to my people. I said, you don't have to speak to anybody. So it was very disappointing. And then after we obliterated them and destroyed their military, the whole thing, and it became a much safer zone, he said, we're gonna send over two aircraft carriers. I said, I don't want them anymore. I don't want them after we win. I want them before we start. I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won. So those things are very disappointing. And you have to remember, we have 45,000 troops in Japan. We have 45,000 troops in South Korea. We have 45,000, 50,000 troops in Germany. We defend all these countries. And then do you have any minesweepers? And they say, well, would it be possible for us not to get involved? I've been saying it for a long time. This is the greatest thing to come out of this. We spend trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO to defend other countries. And I always said, but if it ever comes time to defend us, they're not gonna be there. Many of them would not be there. And we're gonna have to start thinking more wisely in this country. Some have been very good. One or two have been great. I'll tell you, the great ones are at the right time. But there have been some that were right up there, Peter. They were right up there. They wanted to do it so much. Go ahead, Peter. Thank you. You were talking about Iran a couple times today and what they did after Epic Fury began. You said they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation? Nobody, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were gonna hit. I wouldn't say friendly countries. They were like neutral. They lived with them for years. Peter, they were gonna take over the Middle East. They were gonna knock out Israel with their nuclear weapon. But after we knocked out their nuclear potential, their nuclear potential weapon, they started building missiles, thousands and thousands of missiles. And they were gonna do it with missiles while they develop. These are sick people. While they developed nuclear, somehow they were gonna start at a different site, cuz that site was, you saw the site, the mountain. They were gonna go into a certain area, which we know exactly where it is. And they were gonna do that. And it's incredible what we've done. I tell you, the job we've done. Do you know, if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal, you would right now, well, Israel would be gone. It would be incinerated. And probably the Middle East likewise. And remember, they got all of those missiles. And I heard they were sending missiles to UAE. I said, that's strange. You know, UAE is like the banker for Iran. They're like the banker. Qatar, their neighbors, they got along okay. Saudi Arabia. All of a sudden, Kuwait. Kuwait is getting hit. Bahrain is getting. All these countries are getting hit. There was no expert that would say that was going to happen. It's not a question of like, gee, should you have known? And if we did know, big deal. I mean, we have to do what we have to do. But we hit them so hard like nobody's ever been hit. We hit them very hard. And we've extinguished most of their missiles. We've extinguished most of their drones. We've extinguished most of the places where the missiles and the drones have gone. We've fully extinguished two layers of leadership. And probably a third, if you believe some stories. So we only have one thing to have a little choke point. And they've used it very well for years. But it doesn't work. But I think this. If some of these countries that we've been good to for years. And maybe more important than that. Some of these countries to get 90% and 95% of their energy from Hormuz, the strait. Hormuz, a famous, wonderful, beautiful place. But you wouldn't want to be necessarily sailing a boat there right now. You know why? Not because of them, because of us. Because we've taken out their entire Navy. We've taken out every one of their drone. They call it a drone layer, a mine layer. There's specific boats that are meant to put mines on. How would you like to have a nation that has 22 boats where their sole function. They're very different looking boats. You wouldn't want one for your family. They're not pretty. Their sole function is to lift a mine into the water and drop it a certain number of feet down. But they had 22 of them. We've taken out all of them. But you can probably drop them off on the boats. So we don't even know. By the way, we don't know that any mines have even been dropped. But the thought that they would scares people that have billion dollar ships. Yeah, please. Thank you, President Trump. I'd like to ask the Vice President about his plans to go after possible fraud in California and New York. We know, of course, about Minnesota. And President Trump first could ask you. You said earlier today that the new Supreme Leader, the top of the committee, you don't know if he's dead or alive. There are a couple of interesting reports about him today. There's one report that he just narrowly escaped death in the first air strikes by stepping out into his garden. There's another report that he may actually be gay despite leading the theocracy that hangs gay people. How do you determine what's true? And do you have an assessment of this? Well, so far, nobody knows. If you look at his father, he used to give talks a lot, you know, talking about death to America. He'd say death to America all the time. When they say death to America, you should believe them. Because that's what they would have. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it. But they never had the chance. I never gave him the chance to use it. And other presidents should have done. I spoke to one of the former presidents who I actually like, actually speak to some. I do like some people. Be shocking. And he said, I wish I did what you did. Could have done it. Other presidents, somebody should have done it. 47 years this went on. They call Iran the bully of the Middle East. And you could have never had the Abraham Accords. You could never have had peace in the Middle East. Now you're gonna have peace. You could never do it with the dark cloud of a nuclear Iran. But Iran is a shell of itself. It's no longer a bully. It's the one that gets bullied. It's a bully that got beat up. We beat the crap out of them. And they deserve that. You know, when you see a soldier walking down the street without his arms or being helped down the street because he's got no legs or his face is blown to smithereens with no legs and no arms, those two, no legs, no arms, and a face that got wrecked. That was done by roadside bombs. That's the favorite weapon of Soleimani, who I killed in my first administration. General Soleimani, had I not killed him, that was the beginning of their downfall. Because had he not gone, it's possible that we would not be this far advanced in destroying Iran because he was a really good general. He's a vicious, horrible man, but he was a brilliant general. And he was looking to knock out five of our military bases at one time. And the man that died with him was the same his counterpart in Iraq. And they were working together. And they got hit real hard. And if that didn't happen, we would have had a problem. But maybe more importantly than that, he was really the mastermind behind it. And they never found somebody to replace him in terms of the genius. I knocked him out. And that was a big step knocking him out. But if we didn't get rid of the Obama deal, I terminated it. Against the wishes of my then Secretary of State, he was no Marco. Against the wishes of a lot of people at the time. You remember that, Peter? A lot of people. Had I not terminated, remember that, Stephen? You remember? That deal was a disaster. That was a road to a nuclear weapon. They would have had it three years ago. And it would have been used, I would say, two to three years ago. And it would have been used in the Middle East. And by the way, after they were finished that, they were coming over here. They never got a chance to do it. I just want to ask you about something very interesting that you said twice today. That you talked to another former president about the Iran strikes. Was it George W. Bush? No. Was it Bill Clinton? I don't want to say. Because a member of a party. I've trumped the arrangement, Senator Omaha. But it's somebody that happens to like me. And I like that person who's a smart person. But that person said, I wish I did it. OK. But I don't want to get into who. I don't want to get him into trouble. Maybe. Hey, you know what? I think you probably know. You know, it's interesting. And maybe he'd be proud. I could even ask him that. Would you like me to reveal your name to Peter at Fox? Well, at least you have high ratings. Your ratings are through the roof, Peter. Thank you for noticing. Congratulations. Can I ask you another question? If Iran, as you said, totally obliterated, got the missiles, got the first two rounds of leadership, Air Force gone, Navy gone, can we wrap this war up this week? Yeah, sure. Will we? I don't think so. But it'll be soon. Won't be long. And we're going to have a much safer world when it's wrapped up. It'll be wrapped up soon. We're going to have a much safer world. I had an obligation to do this. I go to an excursion. I don't want to make this journey. We had the highest stock market in history. We had low gas prices. Everything was good. And I know exactly. I know you're going to do it. People are going to raise the price of oil. But I know that. But that's a very small thing compared to allowing them to have. You want to see a stock market go down? Start letting them hit you with nukes. OK? I think I said it this morning. I think it's a very small price to pay. And frankly, I thought it was going to go down much more, if you want to know the truth. I assumed that it was going to go down much more. Only because people don't understand to a large. It's a great. It's a big chess game at a very high level. It's very high level chess, the highest. And I'm dealing with very smart players. These are smart people. They don't get there. You know, when you deal with some of these people, you're dealing with high level intellect, high, very high IQ people. These are not Jasmine Crockett and her group. These are smart people. These are really smart people and violent people and vicious people and some very nice people. And some are very nice, but violent. They turn violent. But you know what? If I didn't do if I didn't do what I did, we would have been hit. Number one, very important was the termination of Obama's horrible deal. And number two, this beautiful plane hitting them eight months ago, whatever it was, and taking out their nuclear base. That totally threw them for a loop. If they had that bomb at either time, five years ago or seven months ago, if they had that bomb, that bomb would have been used almost immediately. Mr. President, two questions on domestic policy, bringing it close to home. First of all, the Safe America Act. What are you expecting this week when this vote takes place in the US Senate or the vice president's vote? I think it's imperative that it gets done. I'm not sure it is. The Democrats have horrible policy. It's just incredible. But they stick together. It's the one thing they do. Their Supreme Court members stick together. Those appointed by a Democrat stick together. If Barack Hussein Obama appoints a member of the Supreme Court, that member never goes against him. And they're proud about it. They say, I don't give a damn if it's good or bad. That man appointed me and I'm never gonna let him down. I don't say that's right. Well, I just say they stick together. Republicans go the opposite way. If Donald Trump appointed me, I'm gonna show the world that I can be totally just. And I can be independent of Donald Trump. He's not controlling me. And I don't wanna control them. I just wanna have smart decisions. They gave us a decision on tariffs the other day. That won't change tariffs. I can do it a different way. I always knew I could do it a different way. This was a little quicker, a little easier, a little better. But they gave us a decision that could cost this country $500 billion to pay people back. Because now I have to start the tariffs all over again, very simple. And what happens with the money I've already collected? Why didn't they say, starting from now, go the other way? $500 billion, perhaps. It's so sad. But one thing about the Democrats, they stick together like glue. They impeached me twice for absolutely no reason, unanimously. Fortunately, the Republicans stuck together. And it was something. It was pretty wild. But the Democrats have horrible policy, transgender for everybody, open borders, men playing in women's sports. But the one thing they do have is they stick together, no matter how bad the policy. It's embarrassing to watch them trying to defend it. And in a way, I say as a Republican, in a way I say, thank goodness they have bad policy, cuz you'd never beat them. We have something in there now, the Save America Act, voter ID with a picture, right? That's a 99% issue. Even among Democrats, Democrats poll at 89% on that. And then they have proof of citizenship. And then they have no mail-in ballots, no mail-in ballots, we have no mail-in. You go to California, they send out like 38 million ballots. Some Democrats get seven, eight ballots. Republicans are a lot of times calling in, where's my ballot? Where's my ballot? They're looking to get one. Jimmy Carter, probably the greatest thing he ever did. I thought he was a nice man, not a great president, to put it mildly. How did his attack work out in Iran? Not too good. I think ours is slightly better, wouldn't you say? But Jimmy Carter, the one thing he did after he left with Scoop Jackson and some others, they formed a very elite council, a committee that came out and said very strongly, no mail-in ballots. We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots like we do. The only country in the whole world. People have tried it. France tried it and they went away. They're now doing paper ballots, watermark paper, which is very hard to cheat. So when you look at what happens with this country, we really have to fix it. That'll be very popular. The other thing we put in there just as best of, I call it the best of Trump. We have the three things I just said, right? But then I added on no men playing in women's sports. And I added in no transgender surgery, the mutilation of our children. We have no mutilation of our children, no transgender. I think they say that's an 80% issue. I think they're 99% issues. But whether they're 80% or 99, the problem is we have a couple of Republicans. They shouldn't be allowed, they're horrible people. And they're willing to vote against anything. And we have all the Democrats will vote against it. So I think it hurts the Democrats to vote against it. Because I'm gonna instruct all the Republicans to say that so and so that they're running against voted against the saving of our children from transgender mutilation, right? That's pretty unpopular. They want men in women's sports. That's pretty unpopular. They want voter ID, but the Democrats don't. Everybody wants voter ID. Everybody wants proof of citizenship. And most people don't want mail-in voting because they know it's a fraud. Touches too many hands. The postman gets it, this one gets it, that one. So these are all issues that are in the 90s to 100. I would say some are virtually 100%. And the interesting thing is that way, not only with the Republican, I'm not talking about leadership. I'm talking about that way also, most importantly with the people. The people of our country want voter ID. The people of our country want proof of citizenship. And that includes 88%, 89% of Democrats. And I think the Republicans, Eric Schmidt, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, I speak to so many of them. They all want it. I hope John Thune can get it across the line. He's trying, I mean, he told me this morning, I spoke to him, he's trying. I think it'll be a very, very bad thing for our country if they don't. We're just asking for basic things. Think of it, you can't have voter ID. Do you know in California, if you ask a person to show their identification, they have the right to put you in jail if you're an official. And you say, man, please see your identification. You're subject to going to jail. That's how crazy it's gotten. With a low IQ person, cuz Gavin Newscombe has admitted that he has learning disabilities. Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities. But not for my president, I don't want. I think a president should not have learning disabilities, okay? And I know it's highly controversial to say such a horrible thing. The President of the United States, Gavin Newscombe, admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia. Everything about him is dumb. But then he looked at the audience and said, but I'm smaller than you or something like that. That was pretty silly. So now on top of everything else, I call him a racist, because it happened to be a black audience. I will tell you this. I think it was the worst interview I've ever seen of any human being in my life, okay? Anybody else have any questions? I'm in Iran. Will it be necessary to use even a limited ground force to secure whatever nuclear material remains in Iran as part of that threat? And secondly, have you made a decision- You mean to go in and get it? Yes, sir. Why would I tell you anything like that? And secondly- You know, I can't stand reporters. Sir, will you attack Cog Island? Will you occupy Cog? They ask me these questions. And I don't want to be mean, but they're stupid questions. If any president answered those questions, they shouldn't be president. And secondly, sir, do you still plan to travel to Beijing at the end of this- I don't know. We're working on that right now. We're speaking to China. I'd love to, but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here, I feel. And so we've requested that we delay it a month or so. And I'm looking forward to being with them. We have a very good relationship. But because of the war, there's no tricks to it either. It's just, it's not like, oh, gee, I'm waiting. It's very simple. We got a war going on. I think it's important that I be here. So it could be that we delay it a little bit. Not much. Peter. When you say Cuba is next. Cuba. It's Cuba. Whatever you do with the military there, it seems like something. Will that look more like Iran or Venezuela? Can't tell you that. I can tell you that they're talking to us. It's a failed nation. They have no money. They have no oil. They have no nothing. They have nice land. They have nice landscape. You know, it's a beautiful island. I think they have great people. I know so many people from Cuba that were treated terribly. And they're over here. They became rich. They're very entrepreneurial people. Very smart. I know a lot from Florida, especially. There's so many people. Friend of mine started over nothing. He's now the largest owner of gas stations in the country and stuff. I'm a Cuban. I also know I was just with a fantastic. Person who's Cuban and made a fortune in sugar. You know, fun whole family, right? And this family wants to go back to Cuba to visit it. They wanted to have been back in like 50 years or something. They come from largely come from Cuba. And we'll see what happens. They were asking me about that. They want to go back. Not only fun whole. A lot of Cubans have said, oh, boy, would they love to go back? I think Cuba is in its own way. If you know tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change. You know, they won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. But but I think Cuba's in the end. You know, all my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it? I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba. That'd be good. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba. Taking Cuba in some form. Yeah. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I could do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth? They're a very weakened nation right now. They were for a long time. Very violent. Very violent leaders. Castro was a very violent leader. His brother is a very violent leader. Extremely violent. That's how they governed. They governed with violence. But a lot of people would like to go back. OK, one more question. A quick question on fraud for Vice President Vance. Mr. Vice President, you announced a couple of weeks ago that the administration would be halting Medicaid payments to Minnesota until the state decided to take pervasive steps to root out fraud. Do you have an update to that specific situation? Do you think that that could be a model moving forward for the task force for states that won't cooperate? So I don't have an update there. Dr. Oz is looking to try to work with the authorities in Minnesota to try to figure that situation out. But yeah, I think there are two obvious tools that we have to stop the fraud that's happening against the American people. One is that when we see evidence of fraud, we stop the payments. Pretty simple, right? We know that the American people are being defrauded. Let's try to stop the payments and ensure that whoever's making these payments is actually complying with some basic due diligence and making sure the payments are going to the right place. I think the second tool, of course, we have, as the president mentioned, is we have law enforcement options. We know that some of this fraud is just bad. Some of it's criminal. We know that people are intentionally trying to defraud the American people. It's not just in Minnesota. It's all across the country. 99% is criminal. Yes, sir. So this is one of the reasons why DOJ is such an important part of this is because we have to make sure that where we see criminal conduct, we actually prosecute it. And the president's talked about this a lot in the past. I don't need to repeat it, but it's worth noting that so many times when we find people engaged in really, really bad conduct, the local judge or the local grand jury tries to stop it. One of the cool things about what we're doing is we're trying to take some innovative steps to ensure that when we find criminal fraud, we can actually prosecute it all the way to the end. She wanted one question. She's over here. And you guys are over there. Where's your main camera? Is it this one? Which one is the main camera? Okay, good. Nice. That's good. I thought it was that one. Go ahead. Mr. President, I'm a member of the Daily Wire, not CNN. We just want to ask about PHS. Still not funded, but we reported earlier today that 80% of the primary task force that focuses on investigating terrorism is working without pay. So should that impact- The Democrats aren't paying the Democrats. We have a deal. They just said we're not gonna pay. We're not gonna do anything. And it's terrible. The Democrats are terrible. You know, it'd be nice to get along. But for years, this has been going on, not just with me. For years, it's been going on. Different ideology, but also different tactics. Here we are. We're fighting big battles with a very tough enemy and winning nicely. And we're not allowed to have security in our country. It's crazy. The Democrats don't want to pay. These are bad people. These are not people that love our country. I can tell you that. They're very sick people. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you, sir. All right.