I said, who is that guy . He is the governor of iowa. He said dont say anything bad about china. I had to rip up half of my speech. He said we do a lot of business. Ive been dealing with china for 35 years with corn and all of the different things. He told me a story that was amazing. He said 35 years ago, when i. Tarted, i met a man named xi he was not president. He was a young man. The governor came back and told met the, he said i just future president of china. Nobody thought much about it. You know what . 28 years later, he turned out to be right. You have been an incredible ambassador. They like each other so much. When it came time to picking the important position of ambassador, i said havent you had enough after 24 years being governor of iowa . He said if you want me to do that. He has been a great help. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. [applause] pres. Trump nobody could have done that job better. Upsidei could go on the on the opposite side of the spectrum from the governor, his attitude is little different. Our trade advisor, peter navarro. We have all types. A deputy chief of staff, chris andel, has been with us for long time and has done a fantastic job. Legend onecretary, wall street, wilbur ross. [applause] pres. Trump thank you. A man who knows agriculture as well as anybody in the world. We were looking for an agricultural person. We wanted to go political and we were looking for somebody that. Ould fit perfectly sonny came in and it was over. I learned more about agriculture and that halfhour. Sonny perdue has been fantastic and we are taking care of our farmers. Thank you, sir. [applause] pres. Trump a woman, transportation is going very well. She has done a wonderful job. We are getting approvals down from 21 years to two years. It may get rejected for environmental reasons, but we e not let lindsay down for a highway that has taken 19 to 20 years to get approval, we want to get down to one. If does not work, we will say do not build it. We will not wait to 20 years to see you cannot build the highway. She has been fantastic. Secretary of transportation elaine chao. [applause] pres. Trump we have tremendous and thisf people here is a big celebration. Some of the congressmen may have a vote. It is on the impeachment hopes. If you want you can go is on the impeachment hoax. It is not going to matter because it is going well. I would rather have you voting than sitting here interest sitting here listening to me introduce you. On, letsa hoax going take care of it. Where is Kevin Mccarthy . I am glad. I like it much better that way. The house folks . 195nothing. We got three democrats, one of them actually left the democratic party. What a job youve done. I want to thank you all. I love that. We have incredible people in the audience and i would like to introduce a few. ,wo very good friends of mine sheldon adel send and miriam abelson. They have been tremendous supporters of us, the republican party, and they are great people. A man who always liked me, because he is so smart. The great lou dobbs. At first he said he is the best since reagan. Then he got to know me more and more and he said he is even better than reagan. [laughter] pres. Trump then a few weeks ago somebody told me that somebody has an important show, tremendous audience and everybody in this room watches. Lou dobbs said he is the greatest of them all. I sit does that include washington and lincoln, and he said yes. I do not know if he was for real, but that is ok. The great lou dobbs. Thank you very much. Show. A man who everybody knows. He knows more than probably everybody in this room put together. He has seen it all and he made a statement to jared. Jared said Henry Kissinger told me how to the president ever pull this off . I said can i quote henry on that. Henry is outstanding. When henry is impressed with something, then i am impressed. Henry, we are impressed with you. Thank you. [applause] pres. Trump and michael pillsbury, thank you very much, and susan pillsbury, thank you very much. Youve been saying fantastic things about china and about us. We have a good partnership. This is going to be something very special. We will talk about it in a second. A friend of mine, Steve Schwarzman is here. I know you have no interest in this deal. Im surprised youre not sitting on the edge of the stage. Steve has done a great job and a very Good Relationship with china and with us. Nelson peltz is here. Nelson is around here somewhere. What are you doing sitting back that way . How is General Electric doing . You will straighten it out. He came in late. He did not come in too early. Hank freeburg is here. Hank. If hank it stayed like he should have, we would not have the problem we ended up having with our economy. We have tremendous senators here in some incredible people. If i miss your name, say it and i will stand up and call it. As senator that has been new to the game, he took it up quickly and easily. You ran a race that was undoable , the person he ran against was unbeatable, nice woman, heidi, but unbeatable. Then kevin cramer said i could beat her. I think you only won by 12 points. They said he is the only man in north dakota that can win. I said do it. I had him in my office three times. Aid kevin you got to do it this time i know he is doing it. He calls back and says im not doing it. But i never give up. Now instead of being a congressman, he is a senator. Youve been great. Thank you very much. Kevin cramer. Mike, a friend of mine. Thank you very much. Hat a job you do behind the scenes is nobody sharper or smarter and we all respect you and love you. Thank you. Appreciate it. They have a good team. Joni ernst, you got ethanol so you cannot be complaining sh. Stephen, it is good for you. Joni would call me along with chuck vastly. All they want to know about is ethanol. We got it done. Deb fischer, same boat. She wanted that ethanol from nebraska. Is an outstanding man and loves our country. He works like hell. You do anything other than politics . He likes golf. Much better golfer than people would understand. He is a great guy, you get done,. E brings people together shou d chuck grassley. Will you stand up. He can say things in a nice manner and it makes everybody scared. Julie anythingy, to the press . Comey joked like a dog. Chuck is outstanding. Between you and the governor, those are good ones. Unbeatable under any circumstance. He makes the route every night. Have you ever missed a vote . 19 not pres. Trump 1993. He was in my office and he said so sorry i have to leave. I was right in the middle of the meeting. I said why . He said i have to vote. I have never missed about. I said how many years . Said 1993. He i said that is a good record to keep. He has a solid person and he is a good friend of ours. [applause] pres. Trump let them know about that ethanol. We brought home the ethanol. They were not nice about it. They were not nice about the ethanol. Are working very closely together. It is incredible what has happened with what we approved on choice. It has made a difference. You do not hear complaints about the v. A. Anymore. If they have to wait just a monster two days, they see a doctor. Jerry moran, he did a fantastic job. Rob portman, great friend of ours from ohio. I just left ohio. You. Rub they love you are my friend. Rob portman. Thanks, rob. Kansaserts, a man from who is going to be leaving us. I cannot believe youre not running again. You have at least another 12 goods years in the senate if you wanted them. Ok. He has made that decision. Pat, thank you very much. This is very important to pat and mike browns. It is a much better come everything you stand for, especially the farmers. The farmers will be happy. Where is mike browns . He is another one who was brutal to me. He would call and say you have to get this done. Thank you very much, fantastic job. Dan sullivan from the great state of alaska. I stop every time i can. I won by a lot. They like me in alaska. They like you, two. Kevin mccarthy left for the ho ax. We have to do that otherwise it becomes more serious hoax. Mark meadows, friend of mine right from the beginning. Thank you very much. Great wife. His wife supported me long before him. He thinks i dont know that. On women for trump when it was not so fashionable, like on the worst day of my life she was doing women for trump with 50 women with buses all over north carolina. Vern buchanan, thank you very much. Mike conaway, thank you. Kristi, thank you for being here. I did not know you are going to be here. We were going to do a big fireworks display. Mount rushmore. I am going to try to be there on july 4. The governor calls, he ran a ,reatly raised, a tough race the governor was a big star. She was a bigger star. She said you think we can get fireworks back to Mount Rushmore . I said why . She said environmental reasons. I said you cannot have fireworks because of the environment . I said what can burn, it is stone. Nobody knew why, they just said environmental reasons, so i called our people and within 15 minutes we got it approved and you will have your first big fireworks display at Mount Rushmore. I will try and get out there if i can. Right . [applause] pres. Trump that will be great, thank you very much for being here. Mike kelly. Thank you very much. What a friend. These are great people. Darren lahood. Thank you very much. Mccaul. B could michael you did a phenomenal job three to four days we go with your speech on the floor. Mchenry has the best name in politics. If i had that name i wouldve won 20 years ago. Patrick mchenry. A man who has such courage, he deserves a medal. He will probably get one. He stuffed a wind to get metals though, right. We cannot give metals if we do not win. This guy has never lost in his life. He is so tough and smart. Devin nunes, stand up. What they put him through [applause] pres. Trump what these phony people, what these dirty cops and all of the others put you through, and man u survived it better than ever and everyone respects you and even meadows respects you. Thank you, very much. Adrian smith, thank you very much. You guys are all sad ive introduced you. Not much more for you. You will hear great things about china and you will hear also great things now because we have a whos who of the world of business with us today. You . Abney of ubs, where just end up. Just stand up. If your company is not doing well you may want to not stand up. There are a couple who will slink back into the chair. They will pretend they are not here. Honeywell,czak of great company. Great equipment you make, i have a lot of it, use a lot of it, the country uses a lot of it. Ajay banga, mastercard. Joshua bolten, business roundtable. Thank you. David calhoun, a very easy company. He just took over boeing. David . S stand up, david. It is not your fault. You just got there. Strain it out quickly, please . I have no doubt. It is a great company. Les daniels. Beenamico we have fighting the steel things for 20 years together. I want to say 30 but i do not want to do that. Weve been fighting together a lot longer than 20 years. Now we are winning. It took 25 to 30 years to come up with changes at the top. We are getting really taken advantage of as a country and you have been a warrior. Dan and i always felt like disco people against the world. John donahue, u. S. Chamber of commerce. Thank you tom, good job. Aig hank greenberg, have you ever heard of aig . I appreciate it, brian. Mary verios, j. P. Morgan chase. They Just Announced earnings and they are incredible. They were substantial, whatd you say thank you, mr. President . I made a lot of bankers look very good. Youre doing a great job. Say hello to jamie, i think we are seeing him tomorrow. Nancy of ford. Nancy, where are you . So young. That is very impressive. Thank you very much, youre doing a good job. Chemicals,ing, dow incredible company. Thank you, jim. Near. Osco, should meg gentle. Congratulations. Ken griffin, citadel, what a guy he is. Where are you . He is tried to hide some of his money. Where the hell is ken . He will stand but he is very quiet about it. He is here somewhere and he will not stand. Howard hamm, if he puts his drawing to the ground and oil pours out. It is true. Other guys spend billions and billions of dollars and cannot find oil. A straw and goes like this on oil pumps. Howard has been with me from the beginning. He has been with me since the day i came down the escalator. His jonathan in this audience . How the hell do i not introduce john . They do not have your name down. Will you stand up . What a great guy he is. [applause] pres. Trump i also see kevin brady, great job with the tax cuts. Now kelly, visa. Al kelly, thank you. Ryan lance, conocophillips. You are doing fantastically well. Most of you i am saying can do fantastically well. Thank you, mr. President. Dont feel guilty. Allen mcdonald, citibank. Far. Rought that back so i remember seven to eight years ago. Citibank is doing financial fantastically well. Raymond mcdaniel movies. Are you giving us good ratings . We are doing pretty good. Micron. Incredible company. You. Mollenkopf of qualcomm. They had a merger and i should set they should let that go by. I called up the president and they rejected it. By that time you are off to another deal. Nobody else could have done that ep. D jim morrison of je what a great brand. What a great job they have done. Larry nichols, devon energy. Thank you, larry. These are great people. Jason oxman, iti. Reat job you are doing scott janko, ebay. I sell things i sign things and then i see them for a lot of money on ebay. They say sign my sneaker. Does good nights later i see it on ebay selling for 5,000. I say what kind of people are these . Sometimes it is the senators and the congressmen that do it. Cti. Schapiro, great job, gary. Greg smith of boeing, also. Get that going, work together. Boeing makes a tremendous portion of our gdp. I had no idea it was such a big company. I knew it was big, but the could have up to. 5 of gdp. It will get moving fast. It will be better than ever. Mike summers, api. Thank you. Paula taylor of fitch, another good ratings group. Are we doing ok . Otherwise i would not have introduced you. Robert thornton, news corp. Where is rupert . I cannot believe rupert is not here. Is he the greatest or what . He was going to get 40 billion it his thing, he sold all of he did not want. He sold of it to some group that does not like trump is much, that is the only problem. He said to keep bidding this thing up. They got 75 billion . He kept the best stuff. Rupert is fantastic. The whole family is a great family. John thorton. Where is john . Great, good job, john. Thank you for all of the help. Jay timmons. Thank you very much. Tephen von, king and spalding i could use good lie guilt i could use good lawyer advice. Now, i just have to suffer through it the way i did all my life. Jonathan ward, atlas organization. Evin warsh where is kevin . I dont know. I could have used you a little bit. Why werent you more forceful when you wanted that job . Why werent you more forceful . You are a forceful person. I thought you were too forceful for the job. I wouldve been very happy with you. Thank you for being here. You understand this very well, right . It bothers me when germany and other countries are getting paid to borrow money. Do not know where that leads we have to pay. We have the number one in the world and we have to pay for our money. Our Interest Rates are set high by the fed. ,ur dollar is fairly high relatively speaking. Theyer countries get thisnegative rates, concept is incredible. You do not know where it leads, but you borrow money, and when you have to pay it back they tell you this is when i like very much. I will talk to you about that, lou dobbs. Why are we paying and other countries are getting money when they get paid back. Who are the people that buy the stuff . Who puts money into something when they say this is a guaranteed loss . That is a Different Group of people that i know. Glenn juncker and of carlyle group, great group. Workers,es american farmers, ranchers, and innovators have been hurt by the unfair trade with china. Forced Technology Transfer and intellectualproperty staff have been huge problems since china joined the world trade decades ago. We have racked up nearly 5 trillion in trade deficits. Lost millions and millions of manufacturing jobs, and saw tens of thousands of factories close. That had to do with mexico and canada. What they did to this country with trade and trade deals, nafta. We had no deal with china. It was just easy pickings. For years politicians ran for office promising action to remedy these practices, only to do nothing but allow them to continue. It was pillage. As a candidate for president , i ed kevin youve been watching donald trump live from the white house as he goes through the lawmakers as well as the companies. He is accompanied by Senior Administration officials, not just from his own administration but also from china. This comes at a time when he is now saying there is a conclusion to the u. S. China phase one trade agreement. Just looking through my reporters notebook. The u. S. Has promised to half tariffs on imports, delaying others. China has made structural purchasing two hundred billion dollars of American Goods and services. 32 billion worth of farm and Agricultural Products. 50 billion in natural gas and crude oil. Stocks are hitting a record high amid china and trade pact optimism. Will be carefully monitoring the president s remarks. We will break back in when he comments further. I want to welcome david mcintosh, the president of the club for growth, the leading Free EnterpriseAdvocacy Group in the country. We were listening to President Trump. Some of those ceos that were qualcomm, citibank, plus leaders for the republican. This is a big win politically and economically for the president. David i agree. It is a huge win. We are not in this continuous trademark, will it get worse, will it get better. We will have stability through the election. Then after the election the president will renegotiate with china for the real deal we need. We are a little worried there is a potential upside there leaving on the table. That is not removing the tariffs. We wish they would go ahead and do that because then in addition to the. 5 gdp growth we think we could get another. 5 to 1 . Kevin the sources ive talked to at the Treasury Department and the Business Community on this issue say maybe that is in fact the enforcement mechanism as part of this for the administration to ensure china follows through on its commitments. That would be great to see. In a couple of months if we