00:06good morning I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people
00:16as the new White House press secretary I want to thank President Trump for his
00:25trust that he has placed in me I have wanted to work for him for a very long time I'm
00:34looking
00:34forward to working with each of you as well especially as we are in the middle of the
00:39midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms thanks
00:47to President Trump just look no further than last night in Youngstown Ohio where President
00:55Trump delivered another blockbuster rally out on the trail the arena was overflowing with
01:02enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump as well as special guest Jake
01:09Paul and football legend John Gruden the president also announced the Department of War has officially
01:18selected Cleveland Ohio as the new home for the US Navy's submarine component repair center this
01:26massive 46,000 square foot facility will manufacture repair and maintain key parts for virtually all new
01:37and existing submarines this is historic everyday Americans are showing up in droves to attend these
01:45rallies because of President Trump's America first agenda of lower taxes higher wages and one of my
01:55favorites secure borders but it doesn't stop there President Trump is planning to hold rallies in Alaska Arizona
02:07Montana where I will be with him and Georgia building off of the incredible momentum generated over the last
02:17several days from his stops in Tennessee New York Texas and Nebraska he is an energetic president
02:26attendance is at record highs as enthusiastic hard-working Americans are lining up and packing arenas to support
02:35President Trump and Republicans it's not hard to see why president Trump is fighting and delivering for
02:46American workers every minute of every day real wages are up 1.2 percent since President Trump took office
02:57with average annual earnings outpacing inflation by eight hundred dollars under Biden real wages fell nearly four
03:07percent with the average private sector workers annual purchasing power declining by nearly three thousand dollars annually
03:16president Trump is the first president in modern history to actually lower prescription drug prices delivering the
03:26biggest drop in 63 years president Trump has created more than 1 million private sector jobs in his second term
03:34including
03:36nearly a hundred and twelve thousand factory construction jobs and 72 thousand manufacturing jobs this year alone
03:44and thanks to President Trump we are once again bringing back American energy dominance because
03:52energy security is national security President Trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history delivering the U.S. majority
04:04control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela he had a historic one-day war
04:14and now we are have a booming economy and a great relationship with Venezuela the U.S. achieved record
04:22domestic oil and gas production in 2025 and record crude and petroleum product exports in 2026
04:31building off of his historic boom in energy production in the first 15 months of this administration we have
04:38secured trillions of dollars and new investments trillions of dollars including 1.4 trillion dollars from the united arab emirates
04:48600 billion dollars from apple and 340 billion dollars from amazon no other president could have gotten these deals done
04:56just weeks ago president trump announced that masabe metallics will build a massive 15 billion dollar steel complex in iowa
05:08the largest steel plant ever built in the united states this facility a historic facility will create
05:181,750 new permanent jobs and support up to 6 000 construction jobs and generate an estimated 95 billion dollars
05:30in economic output
05:33in addition president trump and enduro announced arsenal 2
05:38the biggest american shipyard push since world war ii in maryland
05:43this new facility will create about 3 100 direct jobs and support more than 11 000 indirect jobs
05:53president trump also unveiled a south korea energy investment package of up to 200 billion dollars
05:59in the united states this is an amazing deal this includes as much as 120 billion dollars
06:06to build a to build eight to build eight large scale nuclear power plants something we've needed as the united
06:13states and something president trump promised on the campaign trail and something president trump
06:18is delivering on just like he delivers on every promise
06:23in addition to that we will be we will be do he had there is 54 billion dollars tied to
06:31the alaska
06:31lng pipeline and terminal to service the pacific rim and sell fuel to our allies as well as 22.3
06:41billion
06:42for a six gigawatt natural gas power facility in texas not only is the trump administration bringing
06:50in trillions of dollars to invest throughout the country but we are also protecting your tax dollars
06:56by addressing fraud head on since taking office the trump administration has uncovered over 260
07:04billion dollars of fraud stopped 72 billion dollars of fraud annually through administrative actions
07:13and recovered 58.9 billion dollars through indictments settlements and civil monetary penalties
07:21above all president trump is working to secure the western hemisphere for centuries to come president trump
07:32signed an unprecedented agreement giving the united states lasting control over security interests in
07:40greenland president trump has used the power of tariffs to stop china from producing fentanyl precursor chemicals
07:49those spent the fentanyl killed many of our citizens and he is hard at work and ensuring that that won't
07:56happen
07:57and here at home fentanyl trafficking across the southern border is down 56 percent and fentanyl link deaths
08:06plunged 22 percent in a single year because of president trump this is a president and administration that is looking
08:15out for you
08:16the american people and i'm thrilled to officially be part of this incredible journey together
08:24and with that i will take your questions here in our new media seat we have nick gelbertson from breitbart
08:33hi katie uh welcome to the briefing room and congrats on the new position one of the things that your
08:39predecessor caroline levitt did is open this room up to more voices not less at breitbart that's something our
08:46founder andrew breitbart certainly believed in um and whether that's adding this new media seat adding
08:51new media voices to the pool can you tell us what you plan to do to continue to ensure that
08:56new media voices continue to be heard here at the white note yeah well firstly my predecessor caroline
09:02levitt did an incredible job and i completely agree with the choice of new media seat we are absolutely
09:08going to keep it and we're going to expand on it to the extent possible we love new media and
09:14we want
09:15to be able to embrace it absolutely and then just to follow up too you did touch on presidential travel
09:21the president's been all over the place and he kind of laid out his schedule over the next couple
09:25days but is it only going to intensify here in the next couple of weeks up to midterms absolutely you
09:31can expect more of the midterm blitz just now we've added kentucky and we have a few other stops as
09:38he
09:39goes down to florida so it'll be georgia kentucky and florida okay hello we will take peter ducey
09:48thanks katie nice to meet you um you're starting as white house press secretary three weeks before
09:54a midterm cycle that president trump himself says will be very tough for republicans is your
10:02job just to speak about white house matters or is it to make things less tough for republicans in the
10:08midterms well but peter i get to do what i was doing on the outside already which was hoping to
10:15amplify
10:16multiply and expand upon president trump's incredible agenda for the american people
10:22and what i hope to do in this position is to take that into an official capacity
10:26and only build on only amplify and only multiply to the extent possible all of the wins he's making
10:33for americans for for americans to understand how much has changed in this brief period of time what
10:39he's been able to accomplish my goal is to be able to communicate that in complete tandem with
10:45the president as he is his own best spokesperson and will absolutely be leading the way as with that
10:52and i want to ask you a policy question has the us stopped sharing intel with ukraine i'll have to
11:00get back to you on that alina shirazi yes alina shirazi hi congrats on the job thank you first of
11:11all
11:11and i have two questions for you if i can uh first of all on kimberly gilfoyle the daily mail
11:17has been
11:18reporting on her since last year the president said yesterday to reporters that he is considering
11:23firing her do you know a timeline for that and also potentially who could be on the short list to
11:29replace her if he does we have asked ambassador gilfoyle to resign she has been a wonderful asset
11:36to the team and we wish her well okay second question for you if i may a personal question your
11:44family is in california your husband you have four children um i'm wondering how you manage how are you
11:51going to manage that caroline levitt left because she wanted to spend more time with her family and also
11:55did she give you any advice on how to handle this job and the people in this room well first
12:02of all i
12:02want to give my husband an amazing shout out we have four kids ranging from 12 10 8 and 6
12:08three of them are
12:09boys so we have a handful and i adore my family i love them they are my priority they i
12:16love being with
12:17my kids the idea of not spending evenings with my kids kids are is completely uh unacceptable so my
12:24president excuse me my husband uh that's a that's a good one my husband is out here is out here
12:32for the
12:33week because we have two birthdays in our family and we are very very protective of celebrating birthdays as a
12:38family so he brought the entire crew out here blessed him it's a lot and we will be moving out
12:44here and
12:45as far as your second question is yes caroline has been an incredible support she gave me great and
12:53wonderful feedback on how to balance i think this job is not one you necessarily balance and i would love
12:59to share that in my career i stayed home with my kids from 2014 to 2020 and in the process
13:06of having them
13:07and then when i started working again i was able to integrate them into my life there are many photos
13:12of which are not public of the kids and i at fox bureau where they are sitting with me in
13:17the pod before
13:18a hit so i intend to to the extent possible include my family include my kids in my work though
13:24my work
13:25will be demanding they will always be a priority and i i president trump is the most family friendly
13:31president we've ever had he has hired more women with families and the fact that he knew i had four
13:36kids and he knew that this job would be demanding and still placed his trust in me shows that i
13:42know
13:42i'm capable of being able to step up to that so thank you for that question in fact i am
13:47going to end
13:47it because president trump is heading out to marine one for our historic trip to alaska and we can ask
13:54him
13:55all of the questions uh out there so thank you so much to the question on 30 the president will
14:06be
14:06back on thursday and that's what i will answer i'll leave it there he will he will answer those questions
14:13out and marine
