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It's been an amazing week in America. We saw the dark side of the moon We rescued two American fighter pilots from Iran and we kicked the bejesus out of the IRCG Here's the president bragging about the rescue operation at this year's White House Easter Egg Roll And there's the mighty fine camerawork there see span I mean, I don't really blame you for focusing on her cuz you know Wow I saw her documentary Yeah, I'm thinking the cameraman has a little obsession there speaking of eggs at the end of the Biden administration eggs cost 80% More than they do now remember those days this year eggs are so cheap Democrats can resume throwing them at Tesla dealerships I came out and I expected we were going to be talking about farmers and we love our farmers We were going to talk about so many different products, but you know what they want to talk about sir. This is about eggs Eggs, isn't that the same buddy that led Joe Biden around the White House lawn a couple years ago? Because we have the egg farmers of the entire country here and they are Unbelievable and if you have the only country in the world that the president stands next to somebody in a bunny costume remember When I first got elected my first news conference with the fake news The first question, what are you gonna do about eggs, sir? Second day in office at a news conference and they were screaming at me. What am I gonna do about eggs? Then I said, well, it's like what's tell me a while. Happy Easter kids. What's wrong with eggs? The price was so high it was four times higher than it was a year before

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Just looking at it objectively, you know, the Biden administration really tried to unlawfully kill this industry in America, from my point of view. And Donald J. Trump, you got to give him credit. I mean, he campaigned on this idea of making the United States the crypto capital of the world. He's kept his promises. He's leaned in and tried to get clear rules and regulations passed so that American companies can thrive, American consumers can earn more money on their money. And he understands also it's an important political issue. There's a huge base, there's like 52 million Americans who've used crypto now, and they want to see clear rules. They want to see this, you know, get better financial services in the United States. It's also, frankly, a global competitiveness issue, right? I mean, China just announced that they're going to pay interest on their central bank digital currency. Some of the largest stablecoin issuers are still offshore. He wants to repatriate that capital and bring it into the U.S.

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In focus now, Tommy Pigott, State Department spokesperson, great to have you. First of all, we're learning more and more, so what can you tell us that is unfolding right now on this? And you just heard for the first time the foreign minister now talking about, "Yeah, this is a good deal." Peter Ducey said she looked a little nervous from Greenland wondering what was coming. Well, the real winners here are the American people, are the security of our alliance. What we saw is President Trump identifying a problem, a real problem, and taking steps to address it in only the way that President Trump can. He is truly showing that he is the dealmaker in chief, and what we're seeing are efforts to enhance the NATO alliance, enhance the security of Greenlanders, enhance the security of the United States. That is something that only President Trump could have delivered, and he's truly making this argument about addressing these modern threats we all face and making us all safer. Tommy, talk to me about the military component of this, though, because there are ... it's two-pronged. It's that, and it's also rare earth, and I will get to the rare earth in a moment, but just the military, when he took that military force off the table, it seemed to shift things a little bit. Did that make the deal easier? Well, I think ultimately what made the deal possible is President Trump, and President Trump has a suite of options, and he keeps those options open until he decides to rule them out. Ultimately, what we saw over the last couple days, weeks, really going back to the beginning of this administration is the art of the deal in action. This is something that presidents have wanted to see happen for many, many decades, and President Trump is actually taking steps to make it happen. It's a credit to his leadership. It's also a credit to the vision he has to address problems before they become problems. President Trump's really putting us on a great footing here and making sure that our security is truly enhanced. Yeah, well, and I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, the Alaska purchase, Greenland was originally part of that. That part of the deal didn't hold together, and so all these decades later, we see what we see now. It is the eighth place in the world when it comes to the reserves of the rare earth minerals needed to create and operate technology for pretty much everything. Most of those reserves are still untapped in Greenland. The Arctic nation is home to key minerals needed for consumer electronics, defense systems, medical devices, advanced computing, and clean energy. This is a critical part of that deal. Tommy, talk more. Well, ultimately, this is about access. It's about access for the United States. It's about access from a military perspective. It's about access from a perspective in order to ... from those critical minerals. These are part of all the concerns that President Trump laid out really from the beginning of this administration, talking about those critical minerals, talking about the encroachment of our adversaries on Greenland, talking about the defense of Greenland, the NATO alliance, our defense, modern threats, the Arctic, the list goes on. He's been identifying these threats, and what we're seeing here is President Trump addressing these threats, and also identifying opportunities, identifying opportunities that can make us all prosperous. That's the art of the deal in action, and President Trump is showing, once again, why is the dealmaker in chief? So is it time to hit the shores of Greenland as Americans? I mean, they don't have a lot of infrastructure there yet. Does our footprint in those small areas that I understand from the potential deal that's coming, we will have control over small footprints probably near military bases? Talk to me about that. Well, as President Trump said, details on this will be forthcoming, and I don't want to get ahead of the president, and as these discussions are being finalized. But again, I think it's important to stress the context here of President Trump identifying this problem. Everyone's saying, "A deal wasn't possible. Don't bring this up. Ignore this." President Trump's saying, "No. I'm not going to ignore this threat to our security. I'm not going to ignore the opportunities." He's having these hard conversations, and the people to have these hard conversations with are our security partners. So we're seeing President Trump in action, once again putting America first. But when he puts America first, that actually helps the NATO alliance. It helps everyone in terms of our security and prosperity. Talk to me about the board of peace, if you can. 25, upwards of 25 members now. Well, this is something that came out of the Gaza ceasefire deal that was announced, unprecedented global coalition that was put together by President Trump that saw the release of hostages, that saw humanitarian assistance entering Gaza in a way that wasn't being looted by Hamas. And so what we see now is President Trump building on this unprecedented global coalition, trying to see the implementation of peace and prosperity, making sure that we're seeing these peace deals put into action. President Trump, who has negotiated eight peace deals around the world in just a year, an unprecedented advancement of peace. We're seeing this board of peace being an effort to see that long-term peace and prosperity. So a really historic announcement that we saw on Davos here, building on the huge momentum, the global coalition that President Trump has put together. Yeah. I'm looking down at my notes. It's been 103 days since Israel and Hamas, the ceasefire agreement came into place. And of course, we've seen some bubbling up and the president and the secretary of state Rubio have said, you know, that can happen. But the peace is holding, the ceasefire is holding. And so that is a huge development in all of this. It is great to have you on the program. Tommy Pickett, come back. Thanks for having me on.

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