[laughter] how are you serve . Pres. Trump you look good, too. How are you doing . [indiscernible] do you want to sing . Go ahead. Thank you. The president of this great United States of america, president trump. Thank you for inviting us navajo code talkers to the capital and to the white house of this great nation. This great nation we call the United States. Three ofhave with us the 13 surviving navajo code talkers of world war ii. , a 97 yearold veteran of world war ii. A battle. D his Landing Craft was blown up and he literally had to swim to the beach to survive. , he landed where he got shot up badly, survived one year in the naval hospital. Thomas, also one of the code talker who was on iwo jima. A tough battle. Divisions landed on iwo jima. The fifth Marine Division, he was part of the code talkers within the fifth Marine Division. Also, as if the marine corps was not enough, he enlisted to the United States army and served in the korean war and survived that awful battle. Mcdonald and ir am the president of the 13 surviving never hope code talkers. Talkers. Code i went in when i was 15yearsold in early 1944 with first marine belgrade on marine brigadet in china to get those japanese and northern china to surrender. They did not want to surrender. But it took First Marine Division, six worrying division to get them to surrender eventually. We had a separate treaty in china on october 25, 1945. Talkers in the early part of world war ii, the enemy codereaking every military that was being used in the pacific. It created a huge problem for strategizing against the enemy. Madeually as ingestion was in early 1942, february 1942 essentially, to use them language as the code. Marine corps recruited 29 young navajos, not telling them what they are being recruited for because this was a topsecret operation. They were just asked, do you want to join the marines . Do you want to fight the enemy . Come join the marines. They volunteered. 29 young never pose joined the marines and 1942 young navajos joined the marines in 1942. Past boot camp with flying colors. , the sametraining thing. Then into marine corps communication school. New were, that separated from all of the rest of the marines and taken to a topsecret location just east of san diegos camp elliott. That is where they created the military code to be used in the pacific. Codewords,ing 260 half ofg marines them were sent overseas to join the First Marine Division getting ready to go on the first of offensive move in the pacific, guadalcanal. Ago,gust 7, 1942, 75 years First Marine Division hit the beach of wattle canal of wattle canal with 15 navajo code talkers. This was the first battle where the navajo code was to be tested in actual battle to test and see how our memory would be under heavy enemy fire. Well, three weeks after the landing general vandergrift, commander of the First Marine Division sent word back to the United States saying this navajo code is terrific. The enemy never understood it. We do not understand it either but it works. Send us some more never pose navajo. So that opened it up to start recruiting more and more navajos using the same tactics. What to fight . Want to join the marines . Want to join the beautiful blue the beautifulere blue uniforms . So we were recruited. That is how we went in. Combat, marine training, recruitment school, that we all got separated, go to that special topsecret Navajo Code School to learn to code. Initially, 260 codewords all subject to memoryonly. The warly by the time ended, 1945, there were 400 of and codeent to war words grew to 600 codewords subject to memory only. In every battle, to Communication Networks were established. Navajo munication network, all topsecret confidential messages. The second, English Network for all of messages. In every battle, on the frontline beach command post, command ship, code talkers were used. Ewok iwa, of major connors said the first battle over 400 messages were sent by the fifth Marine Division only. The first 48 hours, over 800 messages. Major connor also said without navajo, marines never would have taken the island of iwo jima. [applause] so thank you very much. The 13 of us, we still have one mission and that mission is to build National NavajoCode Talker Museum. We want to preserve this unique World War Ii History for our children, grandchildren, your children, your grandchildren to. O to that museum why . Because what we did truly represents what we did as americans. Amerco we know is composed of diverse community. We have different languages, different skills, different talents, and different religions. But when our way of life is andatened like freedom liberty we all cherish, we come together as one and when we come together as one we are invincible. We cannot be fetid. That is why we need this National NavajoCode Talker Museum commerce so that our children, the future generation can go through that museum and learn why america is so strong. Thank you very much for listening. Applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Incredible. Now i do not have to make my speech. I had the most beautiful speech written out. Oh so proud of it. Look. I thought you would leave out iwo jima, but you got that in the end, too. I want to tell you, you said your 90yearsold. That is great. You have good genes. That means the press has got me to kick around for a long time. That was beautiful. I loved that. I love george delivery. The code talkers are amazing. I said. Y, it is wet i will give you my speech and i want you to hold that. I know you like me so you will it. That was delivered from the heart. I want to give you this speech because i do not want to bore them with what you just said but you said it better. You set it right from here. You have a lot of friends. Tom cole is here. You know tom and you know jeff. I want to thank you both for being here. Also, general dunford, head of the joint juice of staff and general kelly. Want too say come i say, you said to general kelly, the chief, the general or the chief, i said, how good were it . E code talkers, what was he said, sir you have no idea, you have no idea how great they were. What theyve done for this country. The strength, bravery, and love they had the country and that you have for the country. So that was the ultimate statement from general kelly, the importance. I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You are here long before any of us were here. Although we have a representative in congress who they say was here in long time ago. They call her pocahontas, but you know what . I like you because you are special. Your special people. You are really incredible people. And from the heart, the absolute heart, we appreciate what you have done, how you have done it, the bravery that you displayed and the love you have for your country. Tom, i would say that its as good as it gets, when it you say . That is as good as it gets. General kelly, and what you to say what you told me about the code talkers because it really has been learning about you, learning about what you have done. It is something i would like general kelly to say to the press. Go ahead. General . As you know, being associated with the marines, it is a call to as much as a service. Whether you are a young reproductive resource and diego or middleage guy from out west, what theymen did gave our marines when they invaded iwo jima was really one thate very few factors gave us the ability to be successful on that island. Japanese andh the a language like this was, white exist on the earth, what they did, i very small number of men made the difference. We lost 6000 marines and 25,000 wounded in 28 days of battle, it wouldve been a lot worse if we had not had the Noah Holcombe coders the navajo talkers. Pres. Trump new working on building a navajo code talkers museum. We will help you. With some pretty good strength. We will help you mind you deserve it. I want to thank all of you for being here. Thank you for being here. You are very special people. Without you, make the results wouldve been different. On behalf of the United States, it thank you all. Very much appreciated. [applause] mr. President , we know you will succeed. America is in good hands. Marinee all of these generals as your assistance. ] aughter and applause pres. Trump what a group. This is a great group. Thank you very much. Thank you. I think that tax bill is going very well. We had a meeting on it today. It will be a tremendous tax cut. You will have to pay a lot less tax. But we will have a tremendous come as i think will have great receptivity. Spirit. Reat i will tell you, the republican senators are out. If we win, we will get some Democratic Senators joining us. We willn i think probably have a bipartisan bill, meaning a number of people will come over but im not so interested in that. We are interested in getting that passed. The biggest tax reduction in the history of our country. It will bring jobs, income to the country. I think it is doing very well. [indiscernible] question mr. Trump it will benefit people looking for jobs more than anything else because were giving great incentives. Were going to get back probably in excess of four to you in dollars, 4 trillion outside of the country that is right now outside of the country that because of our tax laws cannot come back in. We will be ringing in at least i think the number will be substantially higher but at least 4. 3 trillion dollars which will immediately be put back to work in this country so i think the tax bill is going very well and i think the republicans will be very proud of it. Thank you. Thank you. Talking] pres. Trump thank you. Guys. E on, announcer cspans studentcam video documentary competition is underway and students across the country are busy at work sharing their experience with this through twitter. It is not too late to enter. Our deadline is january 18, 20. Were asking students to choose a provision of the u. S. Constitution and choose a video illustrating why it is important you. It is open to all middle school and High School Students grade 612. 100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded. The grand prize of 5,000 will go to the student or team with the best overall entry. For more information, go to our website. Next, q a with john cogan nonus entitlement programs. After that, question time. Then the prime minister, the home secretary, and members of parliament react to president trumps retweet of antimuslim videos last week. Announcer this week on q a, Hoover Institution senior fellow john cogan. He discusses his book, the high cost of good intentions the history of the federal entitlement programs. Brian john cogan, author of the high cost of good intentions. When did you get interested in entitlements . John it goes back to my years in washin