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It -- you're being here, and we've put together a great Cabinet, and we've had tremendous success. We've been given a lot of credit for having a very successful first month. And we want to make that many months -- and years, actually -- but we're going to have many good months and we're going to have many good years, I hope. And we're going to solve a lot of problems. We're doing very well with Russia and Ukraine. President Zelensky is going to be coming on Friday. That's now confirmed. And we're going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement. And I want to thank Howard and Scott for the job you guys did in putting it together. You really did an amazing job. And that will be on Rare Earth and other things. And, as you know, we're in for probably $350 billion. Europe is in for $1 billion -- $100 billion. And that's a big difference. So we're in for probably three times as much. And yet, it's very important to everybody, but Europe is very close. We have a big ocean separating us, so it's very important for Europe. And they hopefully will step up and do maybe more than they're doing and maybe a lot more. The previous administration put us in a very bad position, but we've been able to make a deal where we're going to get our money back and we're going to get a lot of money in the future. And I think that's appropriate because we have taxpayers that are -- shouldn't be footing the bill, and they shouldn't be footing the bill at more than the Europeans are paying. So it's all been worked out. We're happy about it. And I think that, very importantly, we're going to be able to make a deal. Most importantly, by far, we're going to make a deal with Russia and Ukraine to stop killing people. They'll stop killing young Russian soldiers and young Ukrainian soldiers and other people, in addition, in the towns and cities. And we will consider that a very important thing and a big accomplishment because it was going nowhere until this administration came in. They hadn't spoken to President Putin in two years. And so we'll keep you advised. Before we begin the Cabinet, I'd like to have Scott and a couple of people say a few things.

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is this post that you put up about Barack Obama. And it went viral, right? It's got nearly 50,000 likes, 15,000 retweets, and two and a half million views. There's a photo of you and Barack Obama, and you say that I've known Obama since '95. We come out of Chicago together. He knows how it works. He's behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary votes and replace Biden. This was his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics, selection over election, the bosses over the people. We've been saying that Kamala Harris is illegitimately installed, and that this is one of the most anti-democratic things that have ever happened in the history of American politics. And pretty much a major black eye in the party of protecting democracy. It's quite an ironic turn. I wanted to give you just a chance to unpack this because there's been very much this cloak and dagger campaign against Biden, and you're saying that Obama ran it. Wow, what a backstab. Well, yes, they ought to call today's Democratic Party the undemocratic party. Because how they dumped Biden was right out of the back room. Classic old-time Chicago backroom politics. In the old days, the political bosses didn't look like Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama. They were some cigar-chomping guys with pinky rings. But they called the shots in the shadows of the back room in the old days. And then he had the advent of television. And then now social media and all these other things. And the thought that now today, this party would do the same thing in full view, out in the open, in broad daylight, to essentially pull their incumbent president out of the race after the hoodwinked 15 million Democratic primary voters who voted for him, knowing full well that his cognitive issues were there then, just like they are now. And the only reason they did it was because they looked at the polling after that, the disastrous debate he had with President Trump. And so for political expediency, not for doing what's right for the people, they decided to get together in the back room and do what they did and how they did it and get Biden thrown off the ticket. Now what's going to happen, then, is they have a candidate who, the more you see her, the more you don't like her. The more you see her, the more you realize she's just not after the job. The more you see her, the more you realize she's a mile wide and about an inch thick. There's no substance to her. And she's malleable and moldable. And she's-- well, they're just going to hide her. It's what they're going to do. And this is so dishonest that a democracy, when you actually hide a candidate, you did it in 2020 with Biden, they got away with it. You watch, they're going to do that with her as well. Because they're going to keep a really scripted, really tight, and away from any kind of interaction with everyday people. And I think the contrast between that style and Trump's-- what many people think is sort of an undisciplined style, I think that contrast is going to be really profound. Because one thing you'll say about Trump's style, whether you think it's undisciplined or not, I think it's refreshing, because I think it's authentic and I think it's honest. And I think it's why people-- a lot of Democrats, working people who don't want to say it, they're afraid to say it, are supporting Trump and have supported Trump. They appreciate the honesty of the things he says. They're tired of scripted, fake politicians who give two-minute speeches written by David Axelrod, like I did at 4.30 in the morning in Chicago back in 1996. And by the way, Axelrod used to write lines for me and Obama. And when Obama ran for president years later, because he worked for both of us, I would recognize some of these lines. And I'd say, hey, wait a minute, I said that four years ago. Axelrod wrote me that line four years ago. Obama was using it in 2008. So this entire Kamala moment is completely manufactured by Obama, and this decision was made by Barack Obama. Do you have any insights, since you know the entire team, do you have any insights as to how they eventually manipulated Biden into stepping down? Yes, I do. They basically used a stick in the carrot, more stick than carrot. And behind the scenes, using third parties, dispatching them to Biden, into his wife, probably to his son, and maybe his brother, people close to him, top aides, they threatened him. I mean, they've known Biden for as long as they have. Obama knows him better than anybody else in politics, because in order to be his running mate, the Obama team had to vet him. So they've done all kinds of opposition research on Biden. Biden has not just a few skeletons in the closet, because he's been there for so long since 1973. He's got skeletons, many skeletons in many closets. They know it, and they went to him, and they told him stuff. And they basically said, if you don't get out, we're going to drop dimes on you. We're going to leak this to the media that we've now been able to persuade that they think that you're no longer qualified to be president two weeks before you were, but now you're not. We control them, and they work for us. And so they pressured him. And they probably said, look, but if you get out, here's certain things we'll do to make your landing soft. So they probably offered him some carrot as well. This is how it works. This is how they do it. And you know what this reminds me a little bit? Obama in 2024 reminds me a little bit of Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when the Chicago Convention was also held-- when the Democratic Convention was also held in Chicago. Johnson orchestrated Hubert Humphrey's nomination and did it from the back room. And the way Obama is operating is-- and Pelosi, he's not alone. Obama is not doing this alone. But he's certainly the lead figure, the central figure in this. The way they're doing it is very reminiscent of the old school Lyndon Johnson ward boss politics that was so prominent in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s. He thought it was over in the '70s, '80s, '90s, and 2000s. And now it's back in a more modern form. But either way, it's undemocratic. And the decisions are not being made by the working people of our country or the working people of the Democrat Party. They're being made by Obama and others from the back room. That's incredible. Yes, not a single person has voted for Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris has received zero votes, one zero debates to be president, and had a campaign that failed spectacularly, didn't even make it to Iowa, came in fifth in her home state of California. She was selected, not elected, as you say. So I saw this, and I thought this is a little silly. You're saying they actually brought in the OPPO file, put it down on the desk in front of Biden, and said it'd be a real shame if NBC News got this piece of information about your family. You're saying they did that. Yes, yes, I do. I say they did that several times, whether they did it directly through the use of third parties. And it wasn't just limited to NBC News. They shared with ABC, CBS, CNN, and all the others. Yes, of course, I believe that. What other reason would Biden have to step out? I mean, right now, what he's just done, he's made himself a historic figure. He'll be remembered now for a guy who should have really not been president at all. He's admitted by his action that he's not qualified to be president, he's not capable of handling the job. What other reason would Biden have to get out, except that he was pressured, and they told him basically they were going to withdraw the support. Now, had Biden had the backbone of, let's say, a Donald Trump, and I'm going to throw humility away, or me, who never gave in to the Democrat bosses who were trying to push me out when I was falsely accused by weaponized prosecutors to things that weren't crimes, conversations that were started by Obama in 2008. They criminalized it when I talked about it. But he went to the White House for eight years, and I fought back. They threw my ass in prison for eight years after two trials and fake jury instructions to criminalize legal things. I'm sorry to keep going back to that, but it was a hard and long journey. But I saw what they did to me. And right away, when they realized that I wasn't going to flip on Obama, they went to him the next day and made a deal. And he sold me out. And the whole Democrat establishment came down on me for things that were so obviously not crimes. They should have been supporting their Democratic governor. Instead, they ran, because I became a political problem for Obama. And anyway, it's a long story. I'm writing a book about that. But I recognized that he did Biden, because it happened to me with a lot of these Democrats and who were in power back then, in fact, all of them. And so, no, this is how they do it, 'cause that's what they did to me. They came to me with all kinds of threats, and they also came to me through back channels with all kinds of offers that would have made things for me a lot better, my family a lot better, if I simply played ball and did what they wanted me to do, which I wouldn't do, 'cause I broke no laws and I wasn't gonna sell out the people who elected me or sell out the Constitution or the rule of law, because the fake charges against me were a direct assault on the rule of law and the Constitution. So I stood up, fought back. I sent a person to the United States Senate against the objection of every Democratic US Senator, including Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and all the others. And they'd warned me that if I did that, that I'd be out in six weeks, and that's one campaign promise they actually kept. - So you're saying that the same machine, it's remarkable because I, of course, know this story, but I haven't put them together, and it's now just so clear to me, the same machine that got Biden out came down on you. And so you've seen the intricacies and the teeth of the Obama machine and how this is being run effectively to get what they want extra judiciously and against the will of the people. - My troubles began on election night when Obama won the election in 2008. It was a historic night, magical in Chicago, Grant Park, hundreds of thousands of people there, first black president, big, big event in American history, prominent political figures who were all backstage. The governor of Illinois was certainly there. I was the first governor to endorse Obama. And I was approached by a union boss who was close to both Obama and me, who came up to me. And he said, Barack called me last night. He would like Valerie Jarrett to be the senator, wants to know what you want. Can I call you tomorrow? Come and see it and see if we can put something together and make a deal. Basically, that's what he said. So it was horse trading, it wasn't illegal. And so the next day I mentioned that to my staffers, we begin the process of thinking, what kind of deal can we make? So I'm throwing out all kinds of ideas. They arrested me on this. They lied, and then they went to Obama the very next day. And when they wanted me to say Obama was trying to buy something I was willing to sell, when I told him, look, I wasn't selling anything. He wasn't buying anything, this is just politics. When he was told to Obama that this was the dynamic, they made a deal. And the deal basically was, you leave us alone. You let us stay in here as the US attorneys, 'cause new presidents always pick new US attorneys. But these guys got to stay. So you stay in here, we'll leave you alone, but you don't lift a finger to help this guy. And so that's what happened. And they didn't convict me on their fake charges at a first trial. They tried, then tried to offer me 18 months if I would plead guilty to non crimes, I wouldn't do it. And then they just tried me a second time and just moved the line and criminalized legal things. The exact same thing they did to Trump in New York with fake jury instructions. I see, I think Benny, what they did was they learned against a Democrat governor at the AAA level how to do it. And then they took it to a major legal level against the Republican president, Donald Trump. Same stuff, same people. Fitzgerald was the US attorney in my case. He's tight with Comey, same ones who did this stuff with President Trump and Mueller, all of them. They're all part of the same thing. And to me, this is the biggest issue facing the American people, because this goes to the heart of our freedoms. Our right as citizens to choose our elected officials in elections that are free and fair and not have prosecutors fake up crimes to inject themselves in the political process and change the political dynamic and taking away the decisions from the people. That's what's at stake. I think the greatest constitutional crisis in American history since the Civil War. And that's why, that's among the many reasons why it's so important for voters who love our country to put aside party label and vote for Trump 'cause Trump didn't break a single law. It was also obviously fake, also politicized by weaponized prosecutors working with the Democratic National Committee. The DOJ and the DNC have been working together to do what happened to me to do to Trump. I know this 'cause they did it to me. - Just a absolute bombshell there, Governor. I mean, it's just, we look forward to your book on this and you telling the true story about what happened when Barack Obama asked for his long time aid, Valerie Jarrett, to allegedly be shoved into this Senate rule and Valerie Jarrett still on the payroll of Barack Obama to this very day. - Let me also say, Obama was interviewed the day after when I was arrested, six o'clock in the morning, SWAT teams around my house. I was Roger Stone before Roger Stone. They had SWAT teams at my house, the sitting governor of Illinois, right? So the very next day they go to Obama and he gets interviewed by the FBI. And you have to tell the truth to the FBI. These things are called 302 interviews. Now the defendant, me, on the dock facing these allegations has a constitutional fundamental right to Obama's interview, his 302s. And they never gave it to us. They would never allow it. My lawyers kept trying, filed motions. We never got them. And to this day, those FBI 302s, Obama's interview by the FBI is covered up just like 98% of the FBI tapes was me on the phone talking to Rahm Emanuel and Harry Reid and all kinds of leading political figures about a legal political deal. But all of that's been covered up and the tapes would show how the prosecutors just grossly lied and abused the truth. But those are covered up today as well. So all I can tell you is our country is facing extremely dangerous circumstances today. It's bad enough they did it to a Democrat governor from Illinois, but the thought that they can get away and do this to a Republican candidate for president, the former president and the leading candidate of the opposition party in America, it's chilling. This is KGB police state style politics. And to me, immigration and inflation are major issues. Crime in the streets are major issues, but if we don't fix this, say goodbye to freedom in America because the people don't control anything. The Obama's from the back room control everything.

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I would just urge people, you just watch that, tune in tonight and watch Trump's rally in the Bronx and compare the two met, because Joe Biden couldn't do, putting aside, pulling the audience, and the crowd that Donald Trump's going to have, Joe Biden couldn't do what Donald Trump is going to do tonight.

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We love Trump! We love Trump! We love Trump! That would have happened just moments ago. It is 7 a.m. in the East Coast right now. It is Thursday, April 25th. This is Fox and Friends, and you're watching former President Donald Trump meeting with construction workers in New York this morning, around 6.30 Eastern time. As of today, he got a massive day for him legally, but he already had a great start, probably emotionally. It was so smart of him to do this, because now everyone across the country is talking about it and will be throughout the day. Hopefully he'll do something like this every day before he goes to court. In just a few hours, he's going to be back in that New York City courtroom for the -- this is day seven, right, Brian? Day seven of his criminal trial. Alexis McAdams is live. Hey, that's right. So where would you rather start your morning, right? Then in midtown Manhattan, for these construction workers and union members, they got to catch a glimpse of former President Donald Trump, who had quite a lot to say. He spent a lot of time shaking hands and trying to talk to these construction workers, many of you guys who say they were lifelong Democrats but are now just fed up with how the country -- and where the country is heading, rather. We did have a chance to catch up with the former president, asked him some questions about what's going to happen here on day seven of his criminal trial, but right now he says he's focused on gaining ground here in New York City and believes he has what it takes to connect with these voters. Watch. This may be more Democrat than any other Republican. This is not a Democrat in there. These are people who built a lot of great buildings.

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