Good afternoon, everybody. I apologize for my tardiness today, so let's get right to it. We'll begin today with some scheduling announcements for President Trump's upcoming trip to Asia. Tomorrow night, at 11pm the President will depart the White House to fly to Malaysia, where he will arrive on Sunday morning local time. It's a long flight. President Trump will participate in a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Malaysia in the afternoon, and then he will attend the ASEAN leaders working dinner that evening. On Monday morning local time, the President will fly to Tokyo Tuesday morning local time, President Trump will participate in a bilateral meeting with the new Prime Minister of Japan on Wednesday morning local time, the President will fly to Busan, where he will participate in a bilateral meeting with the President of the Republic of Korea, deliver keynote remarks at the APEC CEO luncheon, and then participate in a US APEC leaders working dinner on Thursday morning local time, President Trump will participate in a bilateral meeting With President Xi of the People's Republic of China before departing to return home to Washington, DC. On Thursday night, upon arrival in Washington, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will participate in Halloween at the White House, where they will welcome law enforcement, military and foster families. And I know many of us look forward to that. In other news, we are now on day 23 of the Democrat government shutdown. Senate Democrats have voted 12 separate times now to keep the government closed. Innocent Americans are suffering every day. As a result, more than 500,000 civilian federal employees will miss a full paycheck tomorrow. 1000s of small business loans are going unapproved each month. This means almost $4 billion in capital is being withheld from small businesses across the country. The Democrat shutdown is also causing severe impacts at airports across the country. In one single day this week, the FAA had to issue ground stops impacting flights at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport and hobby Airport. 13,000 air traffic controllers who ensure that we all fly safely are continuing to work without pay. This is egregious and truly sad. Some of them are reportedly being forced to turn to driving for Uber and taking on other second jobs to make ends meet. As the Democrats continue to shut down the government, pilots are calling on Democrats to end this dangerous political game. The President of the Southwest Airlines pilot association called for the clean continuing resolution to be passed, saying, quote, our air traffic controllers in the broader air traffic system are already operating under immense pressure. A government shutdown only compounds that stress and threatens the efficiency of our skies. The Airline Pilots Association International, which represents more than 80,000 pilots, is sounding the alarm as well. They said, this shutdown is undermining our system's safety. Resources are stretched thin. Negotiations are delayed, and strain grows daily. With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, we are nearing the busiest travel period of the entire year, when millions of Americans will go to airports to spend time with their loved ones. Let us be very clear from the White House today, if the Democrats continue to keep the government closed, we fear there will be significant flight delays, disruptions and cancelations in major airports across the country this holiday season. If Democrats continue to shut down the government, they will also be shutting down American air travel. The White House is in constant communication with the air traffic controllers, with the airline associations, and with them, we urge Democrats to please pass the continuing resolution so we can just end this madness in this chaos and reopen the government. These are very avoidable consequences. The unnecessary pain, unfortunately, does not end there. Funding for the supplement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known as SNAP, which provides food benefits to low income families, is beginning to lapse this week in some states, if Democrats continue to hold Americans but hostage, there will not be enough funds to provide SNAP benefits for more than 40 million Americans on November 1. That is next week, Democrats are solely responsible for all of this unnecessary pain. Why are they doing it to give taxpayer funded health care benefits to illegal aliens, some of whom are violent criminals. During the four years of Joe Biden's administration, the Democrats force Border Patrol to admit illegal aliens into our country with no legal status in minimal screening, a significant number of these individuals are the worst of the worst criminals, rapists, pedophiles, murderers and even members of the terrorist watch list. Despite having no legal status, paroled aliens were able to file for work authorization, receive social security numbers and access other benefits, like Medicaid that are meant for Americans. Since I found many in this room to repeatedly deny the reality that Democrats gave Medicaid benefits to illegals, and they continue to seek to do just that. I brought a few verified examples for you today. These are examples of some of the illegals who received Medicaid benefits under President Biden's leadership, and this is what Democrats wanting to do. This is why they're continuing to keep the government closed. An illegal alien from Laos was arrested for murder, robbery and felony possession of a firearm, an illegal alien from Guatemala who was arrested for rape and burglary, an illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested for strangulation, DUI and regularly an illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested for attempted murder, the Democrats opened border policies, allowed these threats into our country, and then they provided them with free health care. The President and Republicans, through the one big, beautiful bill, implemented a common sense reform to end this fraudulent scheme. But that's why the Democrats are continuing to shut down the federal government. They are trying to reverse this and restore taxpayer funded health for illegal aliens like these throughout this shutdown, Democrats have said this quiet part out loud. Senator Chuck Schumer, the leader of the caucus that is refusing to open the government, said quote, Every day gets better as the shutdown continues, ask the air traffic controllers if every day is getting better. Senator Schumer and they. Tell you absolutely not house Democrat Catherine Catherine Clark said, there are going to be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility seriously, but this is one of the few leverage points that we have. Here is a house Democrat who is admitting that they are using Americans who are suffering as political leverage. And Senator Bernie Sanders said, If you reopen the government, we lose our leverage. This is pure partisan games. A senior Democrat aide said the party will not end the shutdown. Quote, short of planes falling out of the sky, that is truly a disturbing statement. The Democrats clearly don't care about this suffering. They care about playing political games against President Trump, and this dangerous charade needs to end. President and Republicans position has been clear and unchanged. Pass a clean, nonpartisan funding bill to reopen the government, and then we can talk about all of the partisan issues that the Democrats wish to if you're watching at home, we urge you to call your Democrat senators and tell them to put our country over their party and reopen the government today, here in our new media seat, we have Brittany Gibson of Axios. Brittany, why don't you start us off for our Q and A today? Thank you for being here. Two questions. First is we understand that the president until the government reopens, if and when that happens, what does the President think should be or what are his plans for preventing rising health care costs? It's a very good question, and I'll leave that to the president to negotiate that when Democrats vote to reopen the government when it comes to lowering health care costs, the President is deeply committed to this. It's why he has spent so much time and effort negotiating with Big Pharma to lower the health care costs of prescription drugs. All of you have been in the Oval Office for multiple different announcements. We've had these Most Favored Nations deals with these large pharmaceutical companies committing to lowering drug costs in this country, so it's something the President wants to do. And Brittany, one more point. I'll just point out the irony in Democrats holding the government and the American public hostage over a health care system that they created. The health care system was called Obamacare. Why? Because Democrats and President Obama implemented and Republicans have always said it's a broken system, yes, but they caused it, and now they want to shut down the government. To fix it, we need to open the government, and then we can have these very important conversations about health care, second on H, 1b, and foreign students. During the campaign, President Trump said he wanted to make it easier for foreign students to work at us, companies, stable green card to every diploma, but the changes from several agencies now on h 1b are adding more obstacles to that. The administration is being sued over those changes. Can you explain the changes to the priceless thinking on h1 B's, administration will fight these lawsuits in court. The president's main priority has always been put American workers first, and also to strengthen our visa system. We know for far too long, the H 1b visa system has been spammed with fraud, basically, and that's driven down American wages. So the President wants to refine this system, which is part of the reason he implemented these new policies. These actions are lawful, they are necessary, and we'll continue to fight this battle in court. Garrett