So I just want to say it's great to be with you, and when we're finished, and later on, we have a quick lunch. And they do great food at the White House. And this is used sometimes for evening, where we have, we've had some incredible people for the evening, some of the big foreign leaders have been coming. And most excitingly, on the other side, you see the fence and the wall. We're building a world class ballroom. You know, for 150 years they've wanted a ballroom. Here, we don't have a ballroom. We have a little cocktail area, but we don't have a ballroom. The East Room, it's called, is a very small cocktail area, holds about 88 people, if it's if it's tight, and we said, I said, if I do this again, I'm going to get a ballroom built, and we're putting up our own money with the government is paid for nothing. You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back. You hear that sound? Oh, that's music to my ears. I love that sound. Other people don't like it. I love it. Josh, I think when I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case, it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying for it. So it's the opposite, but it's going to be one of the most beautiful ballrooms anywhere in the world, and it's going to be able to take care of tremendous things when you have as an example, I'm going to see President Xi in two weeks going over to South Korea. We're going to meet in South Korea. We're going to talk about a lot of things. Lot of things. They want to discuss the fact that they're paying 157% tariff, so little higher than they thought. And we're doing very well. I think we're going to do well in that negotiation. We've done well, as you know, with Japan, with South Korea, with Europe, the European nations got together, we made a deal, and it was all based without the tariffs. You could have never made the deal. I'll tell you what tariffs equal national security. Remember that tariffs equal national security. You got to remember that. And they also equal wealth for our nation, because we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in a very friendly manner, given to us by nations that used to take it from us and they use tariffs on us. We never used it on them because we were foolish, or we were led by people that weren't business people. But it really does. It equals national security, and I wouldn't have put out I mentioned eight wars. Nine coming of the eight, five were based solely on trade and tariffs. India, Pakistan, were going at it, two nuclear powers and serious nuclear seven planes shot down. They were ready to go, and I called them up. I said, you go to war, and we're not doing a trade deal. And they said, Well, what does one thing have to do with the other? I said, has a lot your nuclear powers, and if you do it, we're not doing a trade deal. And 24 hours later, they called me, we have decided not to do it. We stopped the war. We stopped the potential disaster, a nuclear disaster, because of trade, and it's been really amazing. But the tariffs have made us a wealthy country. They've given us tremendous defense. They've given us things that we can do for other countries, very positive. But again, really it's national security, it's national defense, and they are so important, and it's incredible that presidents, for the most part, didn't know how to use them, when to use them. If you go back, you'll see some of the presidents that were the most successful were believers in tariffs, and I even see foreign countries now that we are doing very well with taking ads. Don't go with tariffs. They're taking ads. I saw an ad last night from Canada. If I was Canada, I'd take that same ad also, but they're actually on television taking ads. But I do believe that everybody is too smart for that. We have a very, very big and important case coming up. We should win the case based on the legal merit. We should also win the case based on all of the things I just said, but we're a wealthy country again. Last week, as you know, they were they found $31 billion they came to see me, sir, we found $31 billion they said, We don't know why. I said, was this a good find or a bad find? It was a good find. It was a plus 31 we're used to finding negative 30 ones, right for the last 30 years. I said, check the tariff shelf. Well, those tariffs haven't kicked in. Yes, they did. They kicked in two months ago. Check it. He comes back two hours later, sir, you were right. We have an additional $31 billion billion, not million, Lindsay billion, that we just found from tariffs. They kicked in earlier than we thought. You were right. We're a wealthy nation again, and we're a nation that can be secure. We're a nation that can start paying down our debt and with tariffs, we're the wealthiest nation ever in the history of the world. Without them, we've got a slog. We've got a slog. But remember this other nations, including China, Japan, European nations, they used tariffs against us for many years. That's why we owe $37 trillion that's why. But they use tariffs very successfully against us, and we had presidents that never fought it, but now you have a president that does fight it. So I just want to welcome you to the incredible rose garden. It's just an incredible place. Was done. We did it, brought it back to health. It was in very bad shape, actually, and we brought it back to health. First Lady, Melania did a fantastic job on it, the surrounds and everything. It's all brand new wiring. You know, underneath there's a lot of a lot of wire, a lot of things, everything brand new, everything beautiful. The only thing we did is we had to get a hard surface here, because nobody could use it because of the grass. So I just want to welcome you, and I hope you're going to be here a lot. We're going to use it for meetings. We're going to use it for press conferences. Now we can use it. It was unusable before, and now we can use it. But everything that you see was redone. All of this was redone. And the whole White House is being redone. Some of you came through what called, they call the rose hole. They call it different names. But you probably noticed, I don't know if you came through this door, did you notice the white marble floor that was put there, that was that was made out of Home Depot tiles, about one foot by one foot. They were all broken about 30 years old, and I replaced it with book matched marble paid for by your friend, President Trump. It's like, it's amazing how people like it. When you say you paid for it, when I say I paid for it, they say, Oh, I love it, but it really. They did a beautiful job. The great, great talents. They're very talented, Marvel people I have, and they replaced it with beautiful Paradiso marble and statuary marble, and it's really, really beautiful. I want to thank the outstanding leadership team. And you really do have that majority leader, John Thune, who's with my friend. He really, really has done an amazing job. Thank you, Joe. Thank you done an amazing job. I didn't get to know John as well in the first term, and I've gotten to know him very well over the last nine months, John, and you're doing a fantastic job. Thank you very much. Really great majority whip. John Barrow was outstanding, man. Thank you, John. Thank you. Great guy. Jim conference chair, Tom Cotton, he loves that military. He loves it. He loves the military policy committee chair, Shelley Moore, capito Shelley, thank you very much. Vice Chair. James Lankford, very good. James, thank you. And you know, we have everybody but one person here. You know everybody showed up. I said, I figured you'd have, like, I'd say 40 would have been a good number, right? We have everybody. We're just missing one person. You'll never guess who that is. Let me give you, he automatically votes. No one everything. He thinks it's good politics. It's really not good politics. He's an automatic No. But look, if you wanted to come, I'd probably let him come, right? I'd let him come begrudgingly, but would let him come and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair, an unbelievable guy, Tim Scott, you know Tim, I shouldn't say it, because it's so I don't know if it's gonna pay, but Jim ran, and he was very effective and very good, but he was on this debate stage of everything else. He was good just because he's good, but he wasn't as good as I thought he was, and when he got out of the race, he endorsed me almost immediately, and I used him as a surrogate. And I wasn't sure if I should, because, you know, sometimes I want a total lunatic to get up and fight for me. And Tim is, Tim is a really good person, so I wasn't sure, and I put him on the stage, and he ripped the heart out of everybody. He was so brutal. He was so unbelievable. It turned out to be absolutely one of my best surrogates, and it includes a lot of you people that were here. You were all surrogates, but Tim ripped these people apart. And after watching two or three times, then I wanted him all the time, right? Susie, I said, I want Tim Scott, get up there. But he was so good. And I said to him, Tim, when you fought for yourself, you were much different. When you fought for me, you were a tiger. You were like, unstoppable. You were really, was you all saw that. What's the difference? He said, I never liked selling myself, and I love selling somebody that I really do believe in. I really believe in you, and I just felt that way, and it was so nice, the way he expressed it. And I want to tell you you are a champion. You are a winner, and congratulations. Thank you.