dismantle the affordable care act possibly leaving millions without health care insurance, but we re also on the verge of major developments with new gene therapies to thereat cancer, het disease and alzheimer s bringing new hope to many patients and we re getting serious about an american-made problem, the open yoed epidemic and one of the leading causes of death in the united states today. and president trump was making his own prediction for 2018 when he spoke to guests at last night s new year s avenue party at mar-a-lago. here s some audio from that speech obtained by cnn. the country, by the way is doing great. we just got our taxes cut. we got jobs pouring into the country. europe isn t too happy with us because a lot of people are moving back into the united states. a lot of money is coming here. we have $4 trillion that s coming back. [ cheering ] and we re doing it the way it should be, and i ll tell you, there s more to come.
supporters and guests at his mar a lago club. he seemed optimistic about the things he has been able to accomplish and talked a little bit in combat itive terms as pee he described as enemies. the country by the way is doing great. we just got our taxes cut. we have jobs pouring into the country. europe isn t too happy with us because a lot of people are moving back into the united states. a lot of money is coming. we have $4 trillion coming back. and we are doing it the way it should be and i will tell you there is more to come. but it s kind of anyone s guess who he was talking to as you know the president has a long list of people he might describe has his enemies including the media and perhaps iran who he has been tweeting
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were either because of something very bad that russia did, or because of some magic wand has been waved and europe isn t all that dependent on russian oil and gas anymore, we were able to come to some agreement among all these different western groups that russia s oil and gas sector shoulden sanctioned. that gazprom and rosneft should be cut off. how would exxon, shell, bp, the other giant multinational oil and gas companies try to wield influence with the u.s. government about a policy matter like that? i mean, even in the, two or three rounds of sanctions that have gone on so far, you ve sanctioned individuals that are from rosneft, and it makes it a complicated arrangement in terms of doing business with exxon mobile, doing business with bp. it doesn t mean you can t do it but obviously that s something that can become more difficult, and, you know, i think for shell it has to think about its reputational risk of, you know, being seen, you know, in russia
can move them if you need to. is that a myth, is that a lever that s not actually available to the west? well i think it is a lever that s available but not necessarily right away. obviously russia does provide a great deal of energy to ukraine obviously, but also to europe. you know, so perhaps weaning europe off of its reliance on russian energy is something that we can do, obviously the united states now has an energy card that can it play as the leading energy exporter in the world, but it s going to take a decade to help with that transition. so the dilemma is that, yes, the sanctions can play a role. they tend to do that over time not necessarily right away. thought experiment. let s say the united states and germany and all the eu nations were either because of something very bad that russia did, or because of some magic wand has been waved and europe isn t all that dependent on russian oil and gas anymore, we were able to