00:07:24.800I mean, it's just it's just him kicking into Trump mode.
00:07:27.840And by the way, he was obviously working all day, running the free world and running the country.
00:07:33.580That's what I said, going to the Senate, having a battle up there, guys yelling, they're trying to do the war powers, they go back and reverse it.
00:07:39.280Well, and, you know, he saw the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, yesterday afternoon.
00:07:43.360No, we started the show live in that, and he's a poor root.
00:07:45.820And I knew that I was speaking at this huge Freedom 250 Great American State Fair kickoff last night.
00:07:51.400And I saw the Mark Rutte meeting pop up on my schedule that, of course, you know, I bring him in and I helped to run that meeting.
00:07:58.540And I said, oh, man, now I've got, you know, the secretary general.
00:08:02.300And this man works literally around the clock.
00:08:05.660Not that there's any issues with NATO.
00:08:07.860It's just going to be not a cup of coffee.
00:08:19.240And people should know we're going to follow Ambassador Crowley now for the next nine days or 10 days every day tomorrow.
00:08:24.980We're going to go live. You're going to be you're kicking off the Great America State Fair today.
00:08:29.280You'll be there live tomorrow. Pick you up. You've only been there a year.
00:08:33.180How have you and the team pulled all this off? Well, I was confirmed last May.
00:08:37.260So I've been in the job 13 going on 14 months. Others, obviously, including the president, started January 20th.
00:08:44.420But what we saw was that there was a bipartisan group that was congressionally constituted 10 years ago, a decade ago, for this semi-quincentennial celebration.
00:09:35.200But what we saw was that it didn't really match or align with what the president's vision was for what we really wanted this celebration of American exceptionalism to really be.
00:09:47.440So we decided and the president unilaterally decided he was going to sign an executive order and stand up another organization called Freedom 250.
00:09:58.660I'm so grateful to him for appointing me to this.
00:10:01.140I'm his representative to all of the major U.S. hosted events, including Freedom 250, the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games coming down the road.
00:10:10.120I guess he figured also you're the head of protocol. It's all got to have a certain he wants a certain house style.
00:10:16.140Yes. And also as chief of protocol, my job is to manage all of his diplomatic engagements, the vice president, the secretary of state.
00:10:23.780So all of these events have a huge international component.
00:10:27.420So I figured I think he figured, OK, Monica can go out and talk about everything we're doing like I am today and also deal with the international visitors and all of those components that go along.0.94
00:10:39.240But we saw that we wanted to create our own presidential style programming for Freedom 250.
00:10:46.840I've been in office 13, 14 months. This has been ongoing just for a year and a half.
00:11:20.420We're having all kinds of engagements on the main stage.
00:11:23.160I will be on the main stage tomorrow, Friday, at 2 o'clock to talk about women and dreams and ambition and women's leadership.
00:11:32.180And then at 2.30, I want to make note of this because this was my baby of an idea.
00:11:37.720On Eastern Long Island, there's a farm called Round Swamp Farm, and I've been going there for a really long time.
00:11:43.200And I noticed on the outside of their shops and on all of their bags, they very proudly displayed an American flag with the note, an official American bicentennial family farm.
00:11:57.440So I started to talk to them and they said, yeah, 50 years ago in 1976, President Ford started a legacy family farm program for all farms that had been in the same family for 200 or more years.
00:12:11.700going all the way back to the revolution. And I said, we have to do this again for America's
00:12:18.220250th. So I've been working very closely with Secretary Brooke Rollins over at the Department
00:12:24.420of Agriculture. Their team has been phenomenal. She is phenomenal. And we are launching on Friday
00:12:30.280with a memorandum of understanding and a video from the president, the new semi-quincentennial
00:12:38.860American Legacy Family Farm Program, and we are recognizing all farms that have been in the same
00:12:45.940family for 100 years, 150, 200, 250 years and up. And in fact, Steve, we have some family farmers
00:12:54.740coming tomorrow to the National Mall to help us celebrate at 2.30 p.m. Eastern who have been in
00:13:01.120the family for 300 and plus years, tending the same American soil by the same family. So this
00:13:08.840is extraordinary this national network and they're getting plaques that say an official
00:13:14.400american legacy family farm so that's my little baby we're going to celebrate that tomorrow on
00:13:20.000the mall at 2 30. i hope raf will cover all of this we're covering all now we got about a minute
00:13:25.480we're going to go to break last night how did you pull all that together the music was extraordinary
00:13:30.220it was a great range of music you had the right speakers the right thing the crowd loved it how
00:13:35.340you pull that off in just a year? Such an amazing celebration. I'm going to give huge props to
00:13:40.680ESI. It's a company that does special events. They've been working with the president
00:13:44.760on rallies and things for many years. Justin Caperell, Tim Yunus, that whole team over there,
00:13:51.360just incredible. Yes. And then, of course, in the White House, Vince Haley, who's the head of
00:13:57.640the Domestic Policy Council, and Brittany Baldwin. I want to give huge props to them,
00:14:02.780all of us just working together but they really did the heavy lift vince knows american history
00:14:07.640so well he's a big brain yeah okay we're gonna take a short commercial break ambassador crowley
00:14:12.100is with us as we kick off the 250th commemoration celebration of the sign of the declaration of
00:14:19.040independence take place the fourth of course we're gonna carry it through patrick k o'donnell
00:14:23.720pick up from there and we're gonna do the combat history of the american uh war of independence
00:19:23.500And that's what we are doing with all of these events.
00:19:25.880What I loved about when you first got in, and I know you had it, but you started with the 250th celebration over the military, the Army and the Navy.
00:19:36.600We had these huge specials that we covered live.
00:19:39.420It was a great way to kick things off, to remind people that the actual, the services were here before the official birth of the nation.
00:22:25.500Like on Monday night, who's going to be, if it's the Marine Band or the Army Band, people are going to say, hey, let's take the kids over to see the Marine Band.
00:22:31.280Exactly right. And we are programming on the main stage every day.
00:22:34.620Like I mentioned, tomorrow, Friday, I'll be on the main stage starting at 2 and then 2.30 with our American Family Farm Legacy Program, which we're going to announce with Secretary Rollins.
00:22:44.160I want to see the families have been there for 250, 300.
00:26:20.480When President Trump takes something, he's going to get this right, right?
00:26:23.100And anybody messing around with it, you're going to pay a price.
00:26:26.100By the way, he is a builder from New York. So this is his relaxation. Okay. You know, normal people want to go to like the Caribbean for a week. No, Donald Trump relaxes by building. So the ballroom, of course, the arch, the triumphal arch.
00:26:41.480I wouldn't be putting any hands on the tiles down there, right?
00:26:46.360No, because now we have National Guard and we have Washington, D.C. police, Secret Service.
00:31:55.340And the reason I want to do this right now is that you handled the king, actually.
00:32:00.060The king comes in the 250th year. Only Monica Crowley can pull that off. Right. Tell us about that, because this was a sore subject.
00:32:08.380I mean, as you know, you and I talk a lot. It didn't really end until Jackson's victory over Wellington's army in the Battle of New Orleans, because they still had that came back here and burned the place down.
00:32:18.8001812, 1815, they had they still felt like they had an iron grip on this place and to lose it.
00:32:26.700And that clip you showed, it shows that King George III really had a sense in the moment, to your point, about what they lost, that this was a hinge moment in world history.
00:32:40.300I said to Cameron, to you, that you should have also played from the musical Hamilton when the King George character starts to sing, You'll Be Back.
00:32:48.480Maybe we'll do that next week with you.
00:32:51.400We decided to peace out in 1776, and we kept our freedom.
00:32:56.120How did you handle the king coming over in the 250th and not having any hard feelings?
00:33:21.680So for me and for my extraordinary protocol team, it was really our Super Bowl because it was a full state visit with all of the honors, including a white-tie dinner and a flyer versus the inspection of troops.
00:33:34.720There's something else they toss at you when you're trying to do the run-up to the 250.
00:33:55.460I've got a big place in my heart for all of our military, but especially the Army.
00:33:59.740And it was so great to see that Fife and Drum Revolutionary War unit playing in front of the King of England and the President of the United States.
00:34:10.480On the lawn, otherwise, it was amazing.
00:34:25.700Yeah, this is going to be an unprecedented once-in-a-lifetime experience.
00:34:31.140The weekend of August 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, right here in Washington, D.C.,
00:34:37.480We are going to have an IndyCar Grand Prix race around our sparkling capital city, which is sparkling now, thanks to President Trump and all of his Herculean efforts to make this city clean and safe and wonderful again.
00:36:40.660Okay, starting when the declaration was signed, shortly thereafter, the largest expeditionary force in the history of mankind showed up in New York Harbor around Staten Island, the British Expeditionary Force.
00:36:51.720And we had a little excursion for the next six months as we got driven back to Pennsylvania.
00:36:57.900Really, the Revolutionary War, the War of Independence started.
00:37:02.120Chris O'Brien joins us because you guys are commemorating all of this.
00:37:05.720People have to understand what's going on in D.C.
00:37:07.640There's actually a massive set of events going on nationwide and in New York.
00:39:12.280So you're having the seventh naval review in the country's history that starts at 7.15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time that morning in New York Harbor, correct, sir?
00:39:22.620That's right. That is right. And so, you know, the logistics, you can imagine all the movements of all of the vessels, but the naval gray hulls will start coming in really just in a couple of days, July 1st.
00:39:33.660They're going to start coming into the harbor, and they will be lined between – it's a 15-mile stretch between the Verrazano Bridge and the George Washington Bridge.
00:39:42.820These ships are going to be lined up along the, I guess, the western side there of the channel that you navigate up, and there'll be a single Navy destroyer that will review the fleet.
00:39:55.760and so they'll exchange honors it's a protocol moment and so it's uh it's it's you know steeped
00:40:02.980in this history and it's the seventh time in our nation's history this has happened and then that
00:40:07.400leads into the more yeah yeah that starts there's the the ships will start coming in they'll go to
00:40:14.220anchorage and the navy destroyed that's going to be magnificent navy in the navies of the world
00:40:18.420particularly the allied nations then you've got what people remember from 1976 the tall ships
00:40:24.540right that starts next that's right that's right and and ambassador crawley i was nine and i was in
00:40:31.0201976 at the bicentennial i was watching the tall ships on tv and uh and so at 9 30 the first of the
00:40:38.700tall ships will cross going north under the verrazano bridge and they'll parade all the way
00:40:44.300up to the george washington bridge and that whole evolution will will go on till from 9 30 till 2 30
00:40:50.060in the afternoon. So it's really kind of an all-morning, mid-afternoon thing. The whole
00:40:55.040event will be televised live via our TV partner, NBC. So it's really, it's going to be brought to
00:41:01.600the nation. So it's really our hope that we create this moment and this memory for this generation
00:41:08.060here, really seeing the world coming together. You know, this is the international celebration
00:41:12.820moment for the United States of America on our 250th. And then the very Trumpian, which has never
00:41:19.300been done before. It's capped off starting, I guess, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon with an
00:41:23.900aerial review, correct? Yeah. Actually, the aerial review will coincide. It's all timed
00:41:31.200out perfectly. It's going to coincide with the first, the lead tall ship, the U.S. Coast Guard
00:41:36.880tall ship, Eagle, will reach at 1015, right of beam, the Kearsarge, which is an LHD. That will
00:41:46.700be the reviewing platform. We're expecting our vice president to be the reviewing officer there.
00:41:52.620So at 1015, that will kick off the parade where Eagle will be there, and then the Blue Angels
00:41:58.620will hit right at that moment, and that will kick off the aerial review. It's going to be
00:42:03.120spectacular. There's also the largest American flag, I think, ever made. The Marines are going
00:42:11.920to be flying it over the harbor leading up before the events and then after the events it's just
00:42:17.280going to be a it's going to be a spectacular day well and we will be uh we already have we'll be
00:42:23.160live on the curse hours of that day on the reviewing platform our own david zeer will be
00:42:27.880there as we go around the nation uh chris where do people go to get information about this and
00:42:33.120particularly somehow they can go and say what's the website where do they go where they got to
00:42:37.620know yeah it's it's sailforth.org sail the number four th.org and uh and like like the other events
00:42:46.700um here for america's 250th where these events are free and open to the public and so we're
00:42:53.080expecting actually millions of people to come down engage you can get on these ships you can
00:42:57.880meet the sailors uh learn a little something about the culture uh they can the ships can learn a
00:43:04.120bit something about americans you know at these moments to come together really it's about
00:43:08.280international goodwill and so so it's really kind of an anchor of what this moment's going to be here
00:43:13.720in new york chris one more time where do people got one everybody to pile into this right now
00:43:18.840where they go sailforth.org sail the number four th.org uh we're looking forward to seeing
00:43:26.200everybody here it's going to be just an amazing moment on july 4th uh and uh and there's no better
00:43:33.240way to celebrate than bringing the world together like this. So we're so excited. Thank you so much.
00:43:38.400And Steve, if I can just jump in, I just want to thank Chris has been phenomenal. His whole team
00:43:44.500dealing with New York City is not the easiest thing to do. And he and his team have done an
00:43:50.320extraordinary job working with the Navy, working with other parts of the federal government to
00:43:55.100really pull this off. And we complain a lot about New York City with the communists taking over.
00:43:59.660new york city was our very first capital george washington spent a lot of time there francis
00:44:05.000tavern yes so if you're in new york city please go to this event it's going to be gorgeous the
00:44:10.220farewell address to his officers at the francis terror that's right a short commercial break
00:44:14.140chris thank you so much appreciate your brother brother taylor swift kelsey ought to be the
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00:46:53.860I mean, this is a spectacular way to kind of end it for, it's literally 20, 48 hours of activity.
00:46:58.920Yeah, and this is really a once-in-a-lifetime celebration for a lot of people.
00:47:03.380Or if you remember 1976, it's a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really celebrate America.
00:47:09.780And, you know, Steve, I say this a lot because having worked with President Nixon during the last couple of years of his life, Nixon left office in 1974, two years before the bicentennial, right?
00:47:23.800This country was riven with very, very deep divisions.
00:47:28.840You had the war in Vietnam had come to an end.
00:47:37.820But because of the bicentennial in 1976, it was such an opportunity to bring everybody together under one banner of American exceptionalism, American power, American uniqueness, love of country.
00:47:54.240And that's why I say that memory is really imprinted on my heart.
00:48:00.720We are still riven by some very deep divisions.
00:48:03.440We have a president in President Trump who, like President Nixon, was very controversial, is very controversial.
00:48:09.940But this is not about any single person.
00:48:12.740This is about the country and the sacrifices of those starting with the revolutionary generation who have gone before us.
00:48:20.400The MAGA generation are the natural heirs to the revolutionary generation for sure.
00:48:26.560And so it's really up to us to lead the charge in the celebration to unite the country around a shared sense of patriotism, a renewed sense of civic pride in America, what it means to be America, to be in America today.
00:48:41.960All of those things, we want to leave a lasting impression on all generations, but especially among really young people, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, to go forward and carry the banner of America because the future is all of ours, but particularly theirs.
00:48:59.400how the i want to leave that fourth everything that goes on and folks real america's voice like
00:49:07.780i said we're gonna have david zero on the review ship but we're gonna be everywhere for these next
00:49:11.400uh 10 days but that is like the tentpole but it goes on you know the race talk to us about
00:49:17.580the future because we have lots of with the 250 where do you go from here yes so and by the way
00:49:23.540every community across america pretty much all of them they're doing their own celebrations too so
00:49:29.180So you can go to freedom250.org, see what's happening in your state, in your community, your neck of the woods.
00:50:09.740And it's something that means something to the president because it's really a celebration of American competitive spirit, which has really driven this country for 250 years.
00:50:19.880After that, going into the fall, we have some other things that we're thinking about through the end of the year.
00:50:25.880But Freedom 250 is where you can find all the info.
00:50:28.680Let's go out with the right stuff today.
00:50:49.220It is an around-the-clock experience, but such a blessing and such an honor.
00:50:53.580Every day is an adventure with President Trump.
00:50:55.880He is, as you know, especially in that first year, every world leader wanted to come to see him.
00:51:02.220So last year, we actually set a record for visits and international diplomatic engagements for the president, vice president, Secretary Rubio, over 180 diplomatic engagements, whether they came here or he saw leaders abroad at summits and bilateral meetings, 180 plus.
00:51:22.120So he definitely set a record with that.
00:51:24.900this year too, as you know, because not only is he rebalancing global trade, but he's also
00:51:31.280restructuring the entire global power structure. So much of it is directly related to the
00:51:37.840international flow of oil and energy, which is what, I mean, the Iran situation has a lot of
00:51:45.220moving parts, the nuclear weapons program, the Strait of Hormuz, but he is really remaking the0.95
00:51:51.220world. And you saw that with the removal of Maduro, piece by piece, he's restructuring the
00:51:57.300global power structure to make it so that the American power, the American experiment in freedom
00:52:07.860is the most dominant driving power going forward for the next 250 years. So I just, I asked for
00:52:16.720patience because, you know, this whole kind of deep state move has been ongoing for 100 years
00:52:23.260since Woodrow Wilson. It doesn't get rolled back overnight. Now I'm getting Monica. Now I'm getting
00:52:27.700my Monica back over there. Drop the ambassador. Now back to Monica. Where's my Monica? No,1.00
00:52:34.120but people, that's your policy chops. Are you going to be the next national security advisor?
00:52:39.200Well, I think the president has very talented national security advisor and Secretary Ruby.
00:53:15.160What you and the team, Justin, Vince, everybody, people at the White House, people at the agencies, over at Interior, the team of Justin Caporello and the team, ESI, and what he's done is just extraordinary.
00:53:27.500And the nation owes you guys to say, hey, thank you for doing this.
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