Hi guys, I'm so sure it's okay. Okay, welcome. Welcome. Welcome first before we get started, we give you guys a little bit at the top. The President has been briefed on the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh and the President call both Governor Wolf and Mayor gagne prior to departure to Pittsburgh. When he called the governor, Senator Casey was with him as well. So he spoke to Senator Daisy. Our team remains in touch with state and local officials on the ground to phonogram on updates, and any additional assistance we can provide. So really quickly, just to give you some detail on the trip to Pittsburgh Steel City in the sight of the first event, during his campaign in in 2019. Today, the President is going to visit know my team for a tour of Carnegie Mellon's manufacturing Futures Initiative, which is ushering in a new era of manufacturing research and development. With a focus on artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. The President will talk about the remarkable economic progress we've made over his first year in office, including the fastest single year of job growth in American history, and biggest unemployment. Trump on record the president on record, as we learned yesterday, the fastest economic growth in 2021. In almost four decades, the President will highlight the 367,000 manufacturing jobs that our economy has created since the President took office, including the recent announcements of new manufacturing plants in Ohio by Intel, and in Michigan by GM, we're making the future in American America, America again and American workers. And he'll underscore the vital role that the federal government plays in bringing workers and businesses together in a kind of catalyzing big investment in our industrial base. Finally, the President will call on Congress to act on the competitive competitiveness legislation that has been introduced in the House and Senate, and which will invest in American innovation, r&d, manufacturing, and addressing supply chain bottlenecks, like the semiconductors that are raising prices to working families. And a quick update on our progress on expanding access to high level masks, and at home tests to the American people. Since the President's announcement last week, we've shipped out 10s of millions of masks to convenient locations across the country. Just today mask arrived at several community health centers in the DMV area. Since public test.gov launched formally last week, approximately 60 million households have placed orders for their free test. Already 10s of millions of tests that bond out the door and households around the country are already receiving tests so that people have tests on on hand if in need arises, we also continue to make strong progress on our boost program boosters providing this protection against all of our tools against the virus and push continues. This week, we recently 70% of eligible seniors and teachers and 50% of eligible adults overall, I'm just going to get to it because we're about to land. Okay, we're going to the break. I don't have any I don't have an update for you right now and updated anything changes,
as he reworked because he reworked his remarks today to mention that can we expect to hear him talk about it?
So really quick, so this is a tragic situation. And our team is in touch with Senate and local officials on the ground as they continue to gather information about the cause of the collapse and any additional assistance we can provide. Look, we are grateful to the first responders who rushed to assistance to assist the drivers who were on the bridge at the time too many bridges and communities across the country are in poor condition across the across the country. There are 45,000 bridges and poor condition. That is completely unacceptable. So we've been chronically under investing in critical infrastructure like bridges for too long. This is why President Biden's five bipartisan infrastructure law includes the largest investment in our in our nation's bridges since the creation of the insidious events in interstate highway system. So you know, the President came here to talk about manufacturers and infrastructure. Clearly, he'll continue to do that, as a bipartisan infrastructure law was a big part of
his platform. I spoke with McCrone earlier today about the optimal. Putin. Has the President spoken with Putin after submitting the US position? response?
I don't have any updates on you on that for you on that on any conversation that the President he will let you know for anything as scheduled, but there's nothing that I
can just the President take Putin at his word when he tells McCrone that they are not looking for war.
Look, I mean If you look, you know, we have been very clear that we want diplomacy to work. Because diplomacy is the only reasonable way to resolve this crisis that Russia has needlessly instigated by Russia's military buildup on Ukraine's border. We have also been consistent in saying that in order for diplomacy to work, it needs to take place in the context of the escalation. So we have not, you know, we have not seen tangible signs just yet that the Russians are in the process of de escalating that remains a decision for the President, President Putin. So we laid out some ideas in the written response, as you all know, this past Wednesday, and we provided that to the Russian Federation ideas that we believe would be effective, constructive, and would address our mutual concerns as well. Of course, the concerns of our allies and partners also considers allies and partners. So consider a couple of prominent Democrats in Pennsylvania or not meeting with the President, apparently they have scheduling conflicts, this seems to be something of a pattern what's going on there. So first, I would first First, I would just say that this is an official event. It is not an official that we're going to talk about infrastructure and manufacturing. So this is not, you know, a campaign event. But to top elected officials of Pennsylvania, Governor Wolf and Senator Casey, who I mentioned at the top will be reading the president on the tarmac and will participate in the tour. And the President is looking forward to seeing both of them. So there's not a pattern here at all. Just want to make that very clear. Congressman lamb will also be participating in a photo line with him today. And also with him today. Our Pittsburgh mayor at daily wire mentioned that the top Allegheny County Executive rich Fitzgerald, state senator, Democratic leader J caster, and state representative Jake Wheatley, would remind you that congressional Democrats are running to the right or are running to the paid in agenda. Late last year, House Democrats held 1000 events around infrastructure, and we're going to continue to talk about our accomplish the
President told about the potential causes of the bridge collapse.
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What has the President been told about the potential causes of the bridge?
So, look, you know, what I said today is pretty much what I you know, he's, he's been given updates by the governor and, and the mayor is going to his, his team is in touch with state and local officials. And we're going to be talking to them and getting updates, as the day goes by, is, as you know, it's been agreed. It's gonna agree elected officials here in just a few minutes, and he'll get more information or continue to attend given this collapse. There will be they will be with us
today. So are we gonna see more of an article from this administration to states to get this funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law out to localities to start repairs on crumbling
infrastructure? So mayor, Mitch Landrieu is is with us today, but as you all know, is the fourth of the coordinator who is planning on making sure that the bipartisan infrastructure logging it's out there to to state, and we're very confident we're going to be working hand in hand as we have been with state and local officials to make sure that we deliver on this historic
Ukrainian officials have really been urging the President to sort of tamp down the way that we're talking about the potential Russian invasion and how it can happen very quickly. Is the White House and President Trump changing their public messaging on this at all given given those urges from Ukrainian government?
And have they been too big or too hard, too fast? So Russia has well over 100,000 troops on Ukraine's borders on mass on the border, on the border and they have been surging troops into into Bella rooms. We're seeing Russia undertake efforts to try to stave destabilize your false flag information. This is part of the Russian toolkit we have seen. So this is nothing new. It's a dangerous situation. And we've been saying for over a week that Russia could invade at any time. This is what this has been our message. We've been really consistent. The President has Spin are administration that his administration has proved. So that's also why we've been providing more defensive security assistance to your brain that that any other point and then any other point in time, which is something that was requested, given the situation at
hand. Are you frustrated that the Ukrainian President seems to be more focused on the state of its Academy than the state of an imminent
invasion? Well, let me just give you a little bit about what they talked about. So yesterday, as you know, the President Biden spoke with President Solinsky to discuss our current coordinated diplomatic efforts and affirm our support for Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity. They discussed President Biden's commitment to nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine and how we will continue to closely coordinate in the days and weeks ahead. President Biden reaffirm that the United States along with its allies and partners are ready to respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine as a defensive security assistance the US is actively providing so they also discuss the possible repurposing of additional additional micro and macro economic support to help them cranes economy a missed pressure resulting from Russia's military buildup. So that was the competition just to give you a little
