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Congratulations,
thanks. Thank you very much, everybody. This is a very important day. It's a day that we're delighted to swear in Dr Mehmet pause as the next administrator of the sectors for medicine and Medicaid Services, which is a big deal. Congratulations to Dr Oz and his beautiful wife, Lisa and their friends and family on this really incredible achievement. Dr Oz comes to this position as one of the nation's most talented and beloved medical professionals who graduated from Harvard University. Should we talk about Harvard before obtaining his MD at the University of Pennsylvania? School of Medicine, a great one, and really some amazing education, while also earning an MBA from the wonderful Wharton School of Business, he completed his medical residency at the world renowned New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center. Dr Esther had a sterling medical career in which he became an internationally acclaimed heart and lung surgeon, highly respected. He served as Director of the Cardiovascular Institute and integrative medic medicine program at New York Presbyterian and as a long time professor called the University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Boy oh boy. He just did a show. You know why I got the show? Because he said, I'm a little overweight. I should lose some weight. I did a show. That's what I got. But I'm looking at all of this is very impressive. Dr Oz more than 400 contributions to academic and scientific publications that hold several patents for technologies that revolutionized cardiovascular surgery and dr oz later translated his experience into an extraordinary, successful television career, making him one of the most trusted voices on healthcare. And he also got very high ratings. I can tell you that he did great with the television thing. As CMS administrator, Dr Oz will work tirelessly to strengthen or protect Medicare for our nation's seniors and Medicaid for the needy. Just as I promised, there will be no cuts. We're not going to have any cuts. We're going to have only help. Dr Oz will work to improve the quality of care for decades to come, and he'll ensure that criminals rosters and illegal aliens are not permitted to rob America seniors. They are trying, but they're not going to get away with it. He will also work alongside Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Junior, I've heard of him. He's pretty famous guy. He's doing a great job to address the crisis of chronic illness and to make America healthy again. So I want to just thank Dr Ross, and this is a big commitment he's making. There's a lot of options, and this is a big, big commitment. And I want to congratulate you and your family on a really amazing life. And I think this is going to be by far the most important part of an already incredible life. So thank you very much.
Let's do it. I am
solemnly swear I mend eyes. Do solemnly swear That I will support
and defend the Constitution, that I will
support and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies foreign and domestic,
against all enemies foreign and domestic.
That I will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. I take his obligation freely, that I take his obligation freely,
without any mental reservation, without
any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, or purpose of evasion, and that
I will well and faithfully,
that I will well and faithfully discharge
the disease of the office,
discharge the duties of the office of which I'm about to enter. So help me, God. So help
me, God, start off by thanking three people, Mr. President, thank you very much. God. Bless you for leading our nation, but also courageously leading the MaHA movement, really earnestly in your heart, letting me get America to be healthy again, and for giving me an opportunity to help with that. Mission Secretary Kennedy has been leading the charge at Health Human Services, a dear friend, like a brother, has done unbelievably courageous work because he's curious, and he's started answering a lot of important questions. Important questions, and I will treasure for the rest of my days. You are trusting me to help you with this progress. And of course, Lisa the family, but Lisa in particular, who's had an uncanny ability to identify opportunities and always keep a clear North Star to keep our family grounded. Minister, selected. Let me start with a simple premise. Every great society, everyone has an opportunity to take care of its most vulnerable and treasures that opportunity. And we're great people, so we will do the same as we enter the main building, Humphreys building, we're helping human services located. There's a placard of Huber Humphrey, and it says that it's a moral opportunity, a moral obligation of government, to take care of people in the dawn of their life, the kids in the twilight of their life, the elderly, the mature seniors and those in the shadows of life, those struggling with disabilities. We want to provide America with access to great care. We want to save the public health insurance programs of this country. That's what President Trump asked me to do when he took this position, to administer the programs at CMS. Now if we're going to do that, we've got to be honest with each other in a position President Trump has to always do that, right? We've got a share of news sort of presidents that folks don't want to hear, but it's important for our well being. So I'm going to give you four bullet points to remember. Bullet point number one, and they're all numbered in order. For a reason, Medicaid is the number one budget item for many states, and it is crowding out education, other important social programs. The states are having a big problem, and that's what the federal government paid, most of the bill. Item number two, health care expenditures are increasing at 2% higher, higher than the economy is growing, and because of that, we spend more than two times per person on health care than any other country on the planet, and we're not getting value for that. Because number three is that we are in America experiencing an unfortunate problem, which is medical errors are the number three cause of death. Would you like, Mr. President, it's surprising, with that much money invested, we're still having problems. And number four, our life expectancy, despite all this investing, is continuing to slip back. We're now more than 40 years shorter in our life expectancy than countries that we used to be equal to, but I'm optimistic. Why? Because we control our destiny, because at its very core, we have a generational opportunity, a unique ability to save the healthcare system, because we control all the big pieces. America is too great for small dreams. So I've got some big ideas I have to share that we worked through it with my staff, who are thorns, often over there, and there's a lot of us. We've got almost more than 6000 people at CMS working on this, and 40,000 contractors helping. So we've got a lot of people. What are we going to do? First, we're going to reduce chronic disease. How do you do that? 70% of the healthcare expenditures of this country are driven by chronic disease. But and it is your patriotic duty. I'll say it again, the patriotic duty of all Americans take care of themselves, because it's important for serving in the military, but it's also important because Healthy People don't consume health care resources. The best way to reduce drug spending is to use less drugs because you don't need them because you're healthy, and it feels a lot better as well, the President and Secretary Kennedy have been pushing the MaHA agenda because it makes it easier for people to do the right thing, especially the mothers on this great land, because they're the ones that really get caught with this responsibility. They're the ones that signing for their kids. They're the ones who want to empower and curiosity, which is the key word you're truly asking questions you want the answers to, will allow the MaHA movement to thrive. The next big thing we want to focus on is modernizing Medicare and Medicaid. That's how Americans will get the care that they want, need and deserve. Need to empower patients and providers, both the doctors and the patients, both have to be equipped with better tools, and the President is showing that he actually does love and cherish Medicare with all these executive orders like the one on transparency, sir, and really helps us by making sure people are equipped with information, so you shine a light in the dark shadows where so much of the problems happen with the health care system, and remember, the most expensive care is bad quality care. That's what we want to stamp on. And finally, we want to crush fraud based interviews. This is stunning to me. I've got a message for all the bad guys from be the secretary of the President. We are going to stop people from stealing from our most vulnerable, from stealing with the taxpayers of America honestly trying to support these programs, and we're going to be able to do it in quite a few ways. We are coming for you. I'll give you a couple of examples, Mr. President. These are ones that you may want to use in some of your first future conversations. Almost a quarter million people, American citizens, were fraudulently enrolled without their knowledge in exchange programs by brokers who are unscrupulous, stealing from the US government by pretending these people were on programs they never told about. 10s of millions of dollars as president are being spent on illegal immigrants receiving Medicaid in California, and they're pushing the bill to us. Do we stop that? I think so that will not continue. They're paying about a billion dollars on Medicaid programs for dual state eligible patients, which means you live in one state, but if system thinks you're another state or maybe a third state, we're paying all three states for services you're not getting because you don't live in three states all at once. And finally, and this one really bothers me, there are states who are using Medicaid, Medicaid dollars for people who are vulnerable are being used for non medical purposes. For example, public labor unions are getting child care through some of this money. That doesn't make sense to the housekeeping. I wish I could get that from my home. There's a big problem with student loan repayments taking place with Medicaid dollars. That's not where it should be used. And we are paying for dei programs. I could go on, but these are all programs, Mr. President, that we have created a war room at CNS to go after they're passing fraud in real time before the money leaves the federal coffers. So we have the way to reinvest in healthcare to make it even stronger than it's been before. Together, we're going to make the care better. We're going to make it the outcomes improve, and we're going to make sure that America can actually be the healthiest country they could ever possibly make America healthy again. God bless you.
We understand, Secretary Rubio said that the US will have to figure out whether a deal can be done between Russia and Ukraine in a matter of days, or you will just do five. How many days? Is
that specific number of days? But quickly, we want to get it done. We're talking about here people dying. We're talking about over there people are dying also, like on average, 2500 young people, soldiers. They're not from America, they're not from anywhere else, other than Ukraine and Russia. But we want to save these lives. So it's 2500 a week being killed in battle. It's a vicious battle with the best equipment, the best everything, and it is brutal. 2500 young people a week, some of them not so young, actually. They're getting older. They're getting older by the month. But 2500 a week, and we're going to get it stopped, ideally Now if for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult. We're just going to say, You're foolish, you're foolish, you're horrible people, and we're going to just take a pass. But hopefully we won't have to do that. Marcos right, and say, We getting we want to see an end. They do it every day. A lot of people are being killed as we talk about, you know, as they play games. So we're not going to, we're not going to take that and we will. We'll see, I think we have a good chance of solving the problem. Are you prepared to walk
away completely from these efforts?
Well, I don't want to say that, but we don't want to see it in we want to say that, yeah,
Islam here, it's installing in your view, Mr.
President, I hope not. Let you know about that soon. It means, but I hope not. You got a big force out there. Big force. It's a war that should have never happened. It would have never happened if I was president. That's the war and it didn't happen for four years. That's a war that should have never happened. October 7, Israel would have never happened. Iran was broke, and now we'll see what happens with Iran. We have a lot of them out there. We have a lot of things that we're working on right now that shouldn't have happened. None of it. Ukraine would have never happened. With Russia, October 7 would have never happened. So you wouldn't have had all the problems in the Middle East, the Afghanistan embarrassment, probably the most embarrassing day of the history of our country, would have never happened. Inflation would have never happened. By the way, prices are down. Groceries are down. Eggs, which they you hit me so hard. I'll never forget the first the first day, first week in office, they were screaming at me about eggs. I said, what's going on today? They were doubling and tripling. I said, I just got here. They were up like double, triple, and you couldn't get any they said, you won't have eggs. So he said, Well, you can have all the eggs you want. Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, did a great job, and the egg prices are down 87% but nobody talks about that. You can have all the eggs. You watch, we have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low. So I just want to let you know what the prices are down. Gasoline yesterday increased states at $1.98 a gallon, and it looks like it's at a level that hasn't seen since my, my days, my my four years. So it's about two I'd say maybe I think we're going to average. We're going to be averaging two hours and 25 cents very soon. So I just want to let you know, though, because I keep hearing about prices, inflation, prices are coming down, not going up. Only the fake news says they're going up. The only thing that's even our interest rates. And if we had a Fed Chairman that understood what he was doing, interest rates would be coming down too. He should. He should bring them down. Yeah, please see from both sides, in
order to keep negotiations
going working with Russia and Ukraine, I have to see my whole life has been one big negotiation, and I know when people are playing us, and I know when they're not. And I have to see an enthusiasm to want to end it. And I think I see that enthusiasm. I think I see it from both sides. Soon,
others Biden's war, by the way, by me getting involved, they'll say, Oh, this is not Trump. So this is by Is it a war that should have never happened? Okay, think of it. Those cities are crushed and crashed, and all those beautiful steeples, the most beautiful in the world, actually considered the most beautiful in the world, most of them are now smashed to smithereens, as they say, lying on the ground in a million pieces. Those towns are crushed all but it's so horrible, and millions of people are dead, far more than you think. That's one thing you're going to get out of this war. You to find out that your estimates are far lower than it's far worse than people think. Nobody's playing anybody. We are going to see if we can get it done. I think we have a really good chance of getting it done, and it's coming to a head right
now. Ukraine militarily, James, if you do decide to move on and take a pass, Mr. President, would you then continue to support Ukraine? I'm not
going to say that because I think there's a group
events written down in
Texas. We have been alerted
that we are soon going to be deported under the
alien wings act. Can we authorize that operation and operation you're talking about? But if they're bad people, I would certainly authorize it. Yeah, you know, I won an election in a landslide. We won all seven swing states. We won by millions of votes. We won 2750 districts to 505 districts. 2750 or five. That's why the the map, when you look at it, is all red. And one of the biggest reason, I think the biggest single reason, actually, I'd like to say it's because of this, because I think they're going to come up with things that are incredible. But probably the biggest reason was because of the border and because of illegal immigration, and the people of this country want those people out. Because what Biden did, and his I don't know if he did it. I'm not even sure he knows what the hell he's doing, but what his people did, representing him, was allow millions and millions of people from jails, from prisons all over the world, people from mental institutions and insane asylums, gang members, drug dealers pouring into our place. And you know what? Our people voted for me to get them out. They want them out. They want them out. And we've done a hell of a job. And by the way, Ecuador and various places but El Salvador, El Salvador, we've been helped by a lot of other states were there helping us, actually, because you couldn't look what this man was thinking when they allowed open borders and people to come. And if you look at Venezuela, that crime is down by 72% you know why? They took all their criminals off the street. They took all their prisoners from jail. They took murders, 11,088 murders. You were released into our country. Bad things are going to happen, bad things, and we're getting them out. And that's why I was elected. And Judge wasn't elected to do that. I was elected to do that, and we're doing it in record fashion. We have the safest border, the most secure border we've ever had see the Declaration of Independence. You should all read that before you leave. That's the real deal. You should all read it before
you leave. Yeah. Photos have emerged from Senator Van Hollen submitting what appears the margaritas Garcia down in El
Salvador. Do you encourage other Democrats to fly down in El Salvador to meet with this illegal alien who's an accused wife. I like
this guy. See that this is the kind of a reporter like, there aren't enough of them. We got to get some more of them. But no, I appreciate that question. Yeah, look, he's a fake. I know. I know. Well, they're all fake, and they have no interest in that prisoner. That prisoner's record is unbelievably bad. If you would go into the room, you might, if you would Caroline, maybe go into the room and see if you can find that little slip. I wrote some things down. I don't know why you'd want to keep them, but I just little biography of him. Not a very, not a very innocent guy,
in the spirit of Easter
Sunday. So you're talking about grego Garcia is an illegal alien, MS, 13 gang member in foreign terrorists. This comes out of the State Department and very legitimate sources. I mean, I assume I'm reading, I'm just giving you what they had to me, but this was supposed to be certified stuff in 2019 Garcia was issued a deportation order. Two separate judges affirmed. Garcia was a member of MS 13, which is a gang that may be even worse than trendy Iraq. Many words, they kill people with knives because it's more painful. Very famous for the knifing and killing of two young, 16 year old girls walking to school one day, and they slice them up into little pieces and kill them. That's Ms 13, and two separate judges affirmed, affirmed, Garcia was a member of MS 13. When Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sword shirt with rolls of money, pouring out an MSD and an MS 13 gang symbol that he was driving with two other known violent ms 13 gang members, two of the most violent members that we know of in the MS 13 gang of thugs. In 2022 Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, who was found to be transporting seven people from Texas to Maryland, and he had no driver's license. He was driving violently in 2020 and 2021 Garcia, his wife, filed for a protective order from him and said he was violent and abusive and really scary, including allegations that he punched and scratched her on the eye, left her bleeding after throwing her laptop on the floor at her, ripped her shirt and ripped off her shorts. He then grabbed her arm, leaving very severe marks. Garcia's wife also wrote in court at this point, I'm afraid to be close to him. I just don't want to be close. I have multiple photos and videos how violent he can be and all of the bruises that he's left on me. She just didn't want to couldn't get anywhere near this is the man that the Democrats are wanting us to fly back from El Salvador to be a happily ensconced member of the USA family. It's been a shame. And by the way, I've been hit pretty hard by fake shows, fake news, msdnc in particular, where they talk about how evil I am that this man would be thrown out of our country. This man is a 42 certified statement, somebody that is a very violent person, and they want this man to be brought back into our country where he can be free, and to say, it's a happily Maryland, you know, happily, they told the Maryland band, he's a Maryland father. Now he's a violent person who they don't talk about is that wonderful Angel mom who lost her daughter, who had five beautiful children, and she was killed, violently, killed violently. And, you know, she spoke, and she spoke unbelievably. I saw and the fake news didn't pick it up. She spoke. She was in tears. She's devastated. Her life is, you know, essentially, she's told me her life just like over. But it was like, I think, no stories. No stories. Zero stories. Was the most emotional thing. Everybody that watched it, they couldn't believe it. The fake news refused to put it up. So it's very sad. And yet they talk about this guy, like he's an angel. See the angel up there? They think he's like, that.
Would you be open? No impact. It's just like a balance. Would you do? Would you be open to some kind
of civil nuclear
program? I'm for stopping Iran, very simply, from having a nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be great and prosperous and terrific. I stopped them once they were broke and they didn't have any money for Hamas. They didn't have any money for Israel. There wouldn't have been a October 7 disaster. They were broke. They had no money, and they weren't spending it to terrorist organizations because they had none when Biden came in, he took all the sanctions off China. Wasn't allowed to buy. I said, you buy if you buy, because they're the bigger customers. If you buy one barrel of oil, just one barrel of oil from Iran, and you can't do business in the United States. And by the way, we have nice conversations going with China, just to intercede. You know, it's like, really very good. But with Iran, with Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon, and if they have a nuclear weapon, you'll all be very unhappy. You'll be
very unhappy.
Press out right now. Doors. You guys can leave cable. Thank you. Please. Please move
out this way. Guys. Thank
you. We're gonna move for now. Does
anyone know who she was? I know he
said she was a family member of
thank you so much. Are we on? Are we on The put the cuts on bars.
We took our cameras. Let me talk, yeah, yeah, cameras, cameras is associated i
We just
out. Yeah, everybody's supposed to go back. I don't know who told you to come out.
They put it on, they disconnected it for you.
Yeah, we're done, yeah. I don't know who told you guys to come back out. Everybody go back to sharing.
