Nice place. Ive been hearing about this one, great job. Thank you for being here. Its an honor. A very important time in our country. A lot of things are happening. I think where it all ends up, it will be great for everybody. Its an honor to be at Gateway Church with the attorney general, william barr. [applause] and my friend ben carson, who has done a fantastic job. [applause] star, jerome adams, general jerome. [applause] along with a lot of my friends out in the audience. A lot of the great political leaders from texas. Some great friends. I want to take you for being here, faith leaders, members of Law Enforcement. So important for law order. We have to have law order. [applause] have strength. You have to do what you have to do. You look at seattle, we came in, just hearing about it. We were talking about it. The law order. Look at what happened in seattle. They took over a city. Big city. A big chunk of it. Cant happen. That couldnt happen here in the state of texas. [applause] i want to thank pastors Robert Morris and steve dolan. [applause] great people with a great reputation. Church, the team has been incredible hosting us. I would like to ask pastor morris and Bishop Jackson to lead us in prayer. Lord, we need you. We need you at this time in our country. I thank you for our president. I thank you lord for our leaders. I thank you. Bible whenhe something is repeated, holy, holy, holy, thank you, thank you, thank you lord that we are about to bring tremendous progress to a problem that has been here for a long time. I thank you for this administration. We pray your blessings, your guidance today on this meeting in jesus name. Muchther, we thank you so for what you are doing today. You have revealed so many things, even evil. Us ak that you would give tongue of the mind, that we should know how to speak to the heart of this nationj. The wording season to him thats weary, and morning by morning. And speak. Ld hear we have a great and courageous president who is a problem solver. Mouthpieceak as your and act as your instrument. We thank you. Amen. [applause] pres. Trump i want to thank you, bishop and pastor. We are going to be discussing pretty important things. It is all important. The timing of this is very appropriate. It was set up a long time ago. Here to listen to community and faith leaders. We will be hearing from a lot of the good ones. Some of the great ones, but a lot of the good ones. To present their vision of advancing the cause of justice and freedom. From day one, i have in fighting for the forgotten men and women of america. I think we have been doing a great job of it. We have been doing a lot in many other ways. It gets lost a little bit sometimes. We have done so much. And recordsetting funding thats historically black colleges and universities. [applause] we created tens of thousands of jobs with opportunity zones. Tim scott. We had the great senator from south carolina. He came with an idea and i thought it was a great idea. We got it done, people said it couldnt happen, nobody thought it would be successful. Tens of thousands of jobs and investment in communities where the money wouldnt go. The lowest black unemployment in the history of our country. We will get it back again soon. [applause] in recent days, there have in vigorous discussions about how to ensure fairness, equality, and justice for all of our people. Unfortunately, there are some trying to stoke division and push the extreme agenda which we wont go for, which will produce only more poverty, more crime, more suffering. This includes radical effort to diss fund defund, dismantle and disband the police. They want to get rid of the police force. Thats what they do, thats where they would go. You know that, because at the top position, theres not going to be much leadership. Theres not much leadership left. Instead, we have to go the opposite way. We must invest more energy and resources and police training. And recruiting and community engagement. We have to respect our police, take care of our police, they are protecting us. If they are allowed to do their job, they will do a great job. You always have a bad apple no matter where you go. There are not many of them. I can tell you there are not many in the Police Department. We know a lot of members of the police. I was listening today, a friend of mine was on. Said some of the best people he has ever met our policeman, Law Enforcement people. They are taking care of people that in many cases they never even met before. And at great danger, great risk. They get shot for no reason whatsoever. They get knifed. You saw that the other night. Horrible thing. But there is no opportunity without safety. In chicago, 48 people were shot and 18 killed in one day. Sunday, may 31. You dont hear about it much. Every child should be able to grow up in a Safe Community refrom violence and fear. The have taken a lot of Police Protection away in chicago. They have great police in chicago. They are not allowed to do what they can do better than anybody. They can do the job easily. Americans are good and virtuous people. We have to Work Together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear. We will make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely letting tens of billions americans as racists or americans. We must get everybody together and be on the same path. If we dont do that, we have problems. I think we will do it very easily and go quickly. We have so many different elements of strength in this country. We have such potential in this country. The greatest potential. We are the greatest country in the world. When we get off subject, we think about things that dont matter much. The important things we dont even discuss. We are here to discuss them. Politicians make false charges and are trying to distract from their own failed records. They have very bad records. These are the ones that cause the problems or cant solve the problems. The same politicians shifting jobs away. Took tremendous advantage of all americans, africanamerican middleclass. So much of that wealth and money and jobs went to china and other countries. And they get trapped in a government morass. They get trapped in bad government schools. I will be announcing four steps to build safety, opportunity, and dignity. First, aggressively pursuing Economic Development in minority communities. We are doing it powerfully. We have done it in opportunity zones. We will go above that. At the heart is increasing access to capital for Small Businesses. Thats with minority owners in black communities. We will get it done. It should have been done a long time ago. It has been very difficult for some people, unfairly difficult. We are confronting the health care disparities, including addressing chronic conditions and investing substantial sums in minorities serving medical institutions. We have medical institutions in some areas of our country that are a disgrace. I was going to say not up to standard, they are much worse. They are a disgrace. Third, we are working to finalize an executive order to encourage Police Departments nationwide to meet the most current professional standards for the use of force, including tactics for deescalation. We will also encourage pilot programs that allow social workers to join certain Law Enforcement officers so they Work Together. We will take care of police. If anything, we are going the other way, we will make sure police are well trained, perfectly trained and have the best equipment. [applause] the things we have heard, because i know a lot of people in the audience, they are successful people. We hear things that are not thinkable. I had never even heard of this before last week. It started about a week ago where i heard they wanted to close up all police forces. By a very liberal governor in washington. They want the police force closed. Its not like they want to bring money into something, they want to actually close. What happens late at night when you make that call to 911 and theres nobody there . What do you do . White, black, or anybody else . You are dialing and somebody is breaking into a house and happens to be a violent person. Think the best. You have very violent people. When breaking into your house at 12 00 in the evening, you dont have a police force, they are talking about not having a police force. Thats not happening with us. We will have Stronger Police forces. Thats what you need. In minneapolis, they went through three nights of hell. I was insistent on having the National Guard go in and do their work. It was a miracle. Everything stopped. Ill never forget the scene. Its not supposed to be beautiful, but to me it was as you watch policeman running out of a police precinct. It wasnt their fault, they wanted to do what they had to do, but they werent allowed to do anything. They were running down the street. They werent allowed to do what they were trained to do. They took over the precinct, burned it down. They are pretty good at construction. That was almost what we call a complete renovation. If you are lucky. It was very sad. I dont think ive ever seen anything like that. Of the fact ud i called, i said im sorry, they went in. It was like a knife cutting butter right through. Saw thehe scene you scene. On that road in the city, minneapolis, they were lined up. There were some teargas and probably other things in the crowd dispersal, but by the end of that evening, and it was a short evening, everything was fine and you didnt hear much about that location having problems anymore. They went to other locations. Seattle would be so easy to solve. Here of thevernor great state. As would other of your political leaders, including your lieutenant governor. It would solve it quickly. A lot of it is common sense. Its probably more courageous the other way. I wouldnt want to do it the other way. It is very unsafe. I just want to tell you we are working on a lot of different elements having to do with law, order, safety, comfort, control. We want safety, compassion, we want everything. Happened two weeks ago was a disgrace. What happened on numerous occasions over the last two weeks, people were killed. A number of people were killed. It was very terrible and very unfair. A number of them were Police Officers. It was a very unfair situation. We dont want to see that. With strength, you wouldnt have it. People, theytroyed have destroyed businesses, they have destroyed africanamerican owned Small Businesses. Hopefully they will come back. Providing funding for a lot of Small Businesses. Hopefully we get everybody online and open up the stores and Small Businesses again. We are working to finalize an executive order to encourage Police Departments nationwide to meet the most current professional standards of force. That means force, but force with compassion. If you are going to have to do a job, if somebody is really bad, you have to do it with real strength, real power. People said i dont know if we like that. I said we have to dominate the streets. You cant let that happen, what happened in new york city. You have to dominate the streets. [applause] i was criticized for that statement. They said its a terrible thing. Do you know who dominated the streets . People you dont want to dominate the streets. Look at the damage they did. I will stick with that. Maybe every person will stick to that. We are doing it with compassion. Dominating the street with compassion, because we are saving lives, saving businesses, families were being wiped out after working hard for 20 and 30 years. One woman worked 35 years building a store, and in one night, it was wiped out. Withe renewing our Call Congress to finally enact will choice. School choice is a big deal. [applause] is the civilcation rights issue of our time. Last year, for the it is a civil rights issue of our time. To aan have children go school where their parents want them to go. It creates competition and other schools fight harder, because they say they are losing, they have to fight harder. So many different ways. There are groups against that. You have unions, others against it. They are not against it for the right reasons. They are against it for a lot of the wrong reasons. We will get that straightened out. Weve done a lot. Weve had tremendous success with choice. We also have choice in the military. Before i came here, the vets would wait in line. It wouldnt be acceptable to you, to the bishop, i know its not going to be acceptable to you, they would wait for five weeks to get online where they were sick. There were feeling badly, would get online, and say it was a sixday weight, a two week wait, and you would have people online that werent very ill and more terminally ill before they got to see a doctor and died. For years, they had been trying to get veterans choice. That means if you cant get to a doctor reasonably quickly, you go outside, go to a local doctor, and the government pays the bill. It is very cheap by comparison. It is much better. Most importantly, we take care of our vets. [applause] its one of those many cases where it is less costly and better. Sometimes you see a building costs less money than another, because the one that costs more is what looks better. The one that is cheaper looks better. They ask how much more you spend, actually we spent less. You can do that. Its called you have to know what you are doing. Thats only good for the real estate people here, which there are plenty. I want to thank everybody. This is a tremendous place. This is a great city with tremendous people and tremendous pride. I say the same for the state of texas. , i gaveernor came to me him so much money. He kept coming and asking for more. Finally, we took good care of texas. They were looking for the next hurricane. [applause] they had a big one. They say you had the largest water dump ever. It just didnt stop. It came in, you thought it was gone, then it came back out and reloaded. The governor came and wanted to build a barrier so the water would hit the barrier and not come into certain parts of texas. Scientists have one more request, after we gave 28 billion. We watch pennies, but when it comes to texas, we dont watch them too closely. Governor abbott said just one more request, and it is very small. We have a way of building a law. Up and down it moves with the times. I said it sounds expensive to me. It moves with the times and it is not a lot of money. Can i ask you to do me one small favor . How much is it . 10 billion. I said start working on it. We can do things to get rid of those. You can hit pretty hard. Were you affected very much during the hurricanes . We had a lot of people who were displaced that came to this area. Pres. Trump we took good care of everybody. This is one of my favorite places. I know we are doing very well here. They kept saying texas is too close to call. Friends of mine said its not too close, you will win it in a landslide. [applause] one man got on television and said i dont know where you come from, but i dont think it is too close to call. I think he will win by a lot. It was 8 00, the polls were close, donald trump won the state of texas. [applause] we are doing good here again. Fantastic have done a bringing back in a rapid fashion. You had a couple of hours or you bought a barrel of oil. 37. As if they gave you 37. There has never been a thing like that ever. Now it is getting closer to 40 a barrel. We got it done fast. Russia and saudi arabia got production. They were very proud of it. Withupply changed rapidly covid19, whatever you want to call it. Ive never heard so many names. You have 30 names you can call it. I call it the plague from china. It is not good. Stopped inve been china, but they decided not to do that. We will have to figure that one out. Fornt to thank everybody being here. It is a very spectacular place. I want to introduce the secretary general and the Surgeon General, who is a young star. Nd ill, take over. Thank you, mr. President i would like to thank the leaders, the civic leaders, religious leaders, and colleagues from Law Enforcement. Spectacle in minneapolis was jarring to the nation. It forced us to confront and reflect on longstanding issues in our nation. Those issues relate to the relationship between Law Enforcement and the Africanamerican Community. Back and a broader abouti have been thinking how we achieve the American Dream for all communities. I am proud tosons serve this administration is i think the president is moving forward on the critical elements necessarily to ensure that opportunity. First and foremost, economic growth. With that growth, there is no opportunity. [applause] second, education. Issue of civil rights our time. Without a good education, they are not allowing our young people to seize their opportunity and pursue their dreams. [applause] as the president mentioned, its only by empowering parents and giving them the power to choose the education for their children that we are ever going to be able to obtain that. Third is moral discipline. Our young people that have to have the discipline to seize the opportunity, to make momentary sacrifices for later gain. Traditionally, that has come and people can find it from many sources. Traditionally, it has come from religion. Which our founders believed was the foundation for a republic. [applause] and we have to stop policies that undermine religion. Relegate religion out of the public square. [applause] now i get to my job, which is safety. Without safety, you cannot have progress. You cannot have a decent life in a community. This was struck home to me 30 years ago when i visited trenton when i was attorney general last time i went to a small barbershop in an africanamerican neighborhood. There are people they in the 60s and 70s. I said we are in our golden years and we are living behind bars. Look down the street. Those bars are on our window. The criminals run free on the street. We have made a lot of progress since then. The crime rate has been cut in half. A big part of that has been improvement in policing. The progress we have made in policing. The progress Police Departments have made in building relationships with the co