Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - President Trump's Historic Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:39.620 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:46.320 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

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00:00:52.200 All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:00:55.620 We're here live, Washington, D.C.

00:00:57.940 Today is February 7th, 2025.

00:01:00.640 Anno, Domini.

00:01:02.060 President Trump had met with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba just a few minutes ago.

00:01:08.380 We are now waiting for this press conference to begin.

00:01:14.060 We've got Brian Glenn there live at the White House.

00:01:17.460 Brian, tell us what you expect to, when we expect to see this come forward and who you're

00:01:23.620 seeing come into the room so far.

00:01:24.980 Yeah, Jack, we are in the East Room here at the White House.

00:01:29.540 We've got Doug Bergen that made his interest here a little earlier.

00:01:34.160 We are still waiting for, obviously, President Trump and the Prime Minister of Japan to be

00:01:38.880 here now.

00:01:39.360 Just kind of looking at what they're talking about is, obviously, this huge $68 million trade

00:01:49.140 of deficit that we have with Japan.

00:01:52.020 And President Trump has not taken off the tariffs off the table for Japan.

00:01:58.980 So, he is obviously in the best thing to do that.

00:02:02.540 And, of course, you know, if you look at who has been here in the last week, we've got

00:02:06.600 the Prime Minister of Benjamin Netanyahu, obviously, this year.

00:02:11.580 And we've got, of course, now that the Prime Minister of Japan.

00:02:14.200 And also, if you look at, on the state side, we've got Governor Greg Abbott, Texas, Gavin

00:02:21.560 Newsom of California.

00:02:22.600 So, Jack, this has been kind of a conveyor belt, if you will, of who's who.

00:02:27.160 And everyone's just trying to, you know, get in their position, get in front of the President,

00:02:31.820 and, I guess, solidify any kind of future either trade deals or even any kind of diplomacy

00:02:40.220 deals that they might have in place.

00:02:41.920 But, obviously, a very different White House, Jack, than what we saw the administration before.

00:02:49.100 No, it's exactly right.

00:02:50.440 And, of course, with the Prime Minister of Japan meeting there, I'm sure there's going

00:02:54.080 to be a lot of discussion about China.

00:02:56.540 There's going to be discussions about the South China Sea.

00:02:58.780 There's going to be discussions about Taiwan, of course, Japan, one of our largest defense

00:03:04.360 partners in that part of the world, in the Pacific Rim.

00:03:08.460 Then, of course, looking at China, or looking at Japan, I should say, the trade relationship,

00:03:12.960 also a huge situation.

00:03:15.460 Tariffs, by the way, not off the table with Japan as well.

00:03:18.980 Of course, we saw President Trump having that meeting with Prudeau and then slapping tariffs

00:03:23.600 on, only to take them off at the very next day after he was able to break down.

00:03:31.680 And so, I think that I'm sure the economic imbalance has been a huge piece of this as well.

00:03:38.400 I remember U.S. Steel was, at one point, about to be purchased by Japan, and President Trump

00:03:46.460 blocked that resoundingly.

00:03:47.940 So, I'm sure we're going to see a lot of defense talk, a lot of economic talk as well.

00:03:54.100 Yeah.

00:03:54.820 We remember, Jack, we had the CEO of SoftBank at Mar-a-Lago last month.

00:04:01.660 I believe it was on December, actually, talking about this investment in the U.S. economy.

00:04:07.180 And then we later saw him at another press conference about three weeks later and had even increased

00:04:12.700 that commitment to U.S. business.

00:04:17.240 So, you know, President Trump, coming from a kind of a business economic mindset, very

00:04:22.040 different what we had under President Biden, Trump very well geared towards shifting that

00:04:30.860 trade deficit and really kind of getting it more of a pro-America, pro-business approach.

00:04:36.040 And I think by having these world leaders in here, you're showing leadership, you're showing

00:04:40.800 respect.

00:04:42.180 The pageantry that I saw with the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coming in was unimaginable.

00:04:50.880 It was incredible.

00:04:52.000 The respect that the White House showed him is something that people have been telling me

00:04:58.240 before.

00:04:58.700 They never saw that under the Biden administration.

00:05:01.380 So just the fact that these world leaders are coming to the White House, having these

00:05:06.620 meetings, says a lot about their faith in President Trump.

00:05:10.200 Exactly right.

00:05:11.140 We're going to break, head to a quick break right now.

00:05:14.640 Brian Glenn there at the White House.

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00:05:31.380 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back.

00:05:36.240 Human Events Daily here live.

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00:05:40.760 Want to welcome on the Charlie Kirk audience from Salem Radio.

00:05:45.620 Thanks so much for being here.

00:05:47.300 We're awaiting President Trump.

00:05:49.120 He is about to give a press conference with the Prime Minister of Japan in just a few moments

00:05:55.320 here.

00:05:55.760 We'll go to that momentarily.

00:05:57.200 We've got our Real America's Voice camera, as well as Brian Glenn there live in the East

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00:07:36.120 So, as I said, we are waiting for the president to arrive here at the White House.

00:07:45.400 He's going to be flanked by the Japanese prime minister.

00:07:49.120 But there's so much going on, not only on the national stage, but the international stage.

00:07:54.880 So, I said, we've got to bring on someone who can explain how all this works from the

00:07:59.640 White House perspective with us.

00:08:01.360 And we've got Mercedes Schlapp from CPAC, as well as the former White House Director of

00:08:06.600 Strategic Communications, who joins us here on Human Events.

00:08:10.080 Mercedes, how are you?

00:08:11.780 Good to see you, Jack.

00:08:14.180 So, when we're looking at the White House right now, just over the last two weeks, and

00:08:17.960 let's zoom out a little bit, have you ever seen any White House?

00:08:21.940 And you've worked in several, have you ever seen an administration move as quickly as this

00:08:26.260 one?

00:08:27.360 Oh, goodness.

00:08:28.140 This is like record warp speed that we're watching before our eyes, Jack.

00:08:32.820 Look, when I was in the first Trump administration, and I came in about six months into that first

00:08:38.780 term, you know, we were focused on getting through the executive orders, basically building

00:08:44.720 out the policies that we needed in all these different agencies, prioritizing what the

00:08:49.880 president had to get done.

00:08:51.620 But, of course, President Trump was new to the process, right?

00:08:55.100 And he had a lot of these cabinet officials and also even White House staff that really

00:09:00.060 put a lot of blocks in front of President Trump, a lot of obstacles in getting his work done.

00:09:05.040 Add to that the fact that you had a very politicized FBI.

00:09:09.480 So what does James Comer do pretty immediately?

00:09:11.980 Move forward with the Russian hoax. 0.95

00:09:13.760 So a lot of the energy spent was basically pushing back on the fake news, pushing back

00:09:19.360 on the FBI when it came to the Russian hoax.

00:09:22.180 On top of that, he still managed to accomplish so much during his first term by building an

00:09:27.600 incredibly strong economy and obviously building a strong presence on the international stage

00:09:33.860 for the United States.

00:09:35.520 Now, with that being said, this time around, President Trump knows.

00:09:39.940 He knows the pitfalls.

00:09:41.320 He knows what has to get done.

00:09:42.800 That's why you've seen a team that was ready to go day one in the sense of making sure that

00:09:49.020 these executive orders would be signed, moving forward on the priorities that the president

00:09:53.960 has put forth, which is that of ensuring that the border would be secure.

00:09:58.520 In addition to the fact on moving on these anti-woke issues that I think have been so relevant

00:10:04.200 in this election, whether it be, I don't know, just simply agreeing, Jack, that there's two

00:10:08.360 genders or protecting girls' and women's sports. 0.80

00:10:11.680 And so you've seen the president act in an incredibly focused way.

00:10:16.220 He understands that his political capital right now is the greatest that he'll see during

00:10:21.220 this term going in.

00:10:23.080 And I think his approach of the shock and awe has been very effective, that not even the

00:10:27.900 media has been able to catch up with everything that President Trump has been able to accomplish

00:10:33.280 in just a few weeks.

00:10:34.600 And it's incredible.

00:10:38.140 Also, I mean, we've got to talk about this USAID, this massive scandal, where, of course,

00:10:44.180 now, by the way, Samantha Power has this huge op-ed out in The New York Times saying, oh,

00:10:49.940 this is going to let the autocrats around the world win. 1.00

00:10:53.020 Well, I remember who she was labeling autocrats when she was over there with her buddy, Victoria

00:10:57.860 Newland, it was Viktor Orban, it was law and justice in Poland.

00:11:02.940 She was going all around Europe.

00:11:04.680 It was the Romanians, the Romanian conservatives, any conservative group in Europe, the AfD in 0.84

00:11:10.940 Germany.

00:11:11.340 She was labeling them all autocrats and basically using U.S. 1.00

00:11:16.960 dollars to go after them.

00:11:19.080 Is USAID really the head of the snake?

00:11:21.240 I mean, it definitely is a big part of the snake.

00:11:25.380 I think that there's other government agencies as well that are incorporated in this pushing

00:11:31.040 of a leftist woke propaganda machine that USAID has definitely helped to fund.

00:11:36.780 I mean, we were talking earlier about over 6,000 journalists who have been funded by USAID.

00:11:42.200 Who are these journalists?

00:11:43.520 What are their backgrounds?

00:11:45.020 We know that they have invested money in these media outlets, many of them to take on some

00:11:50.140 of President Trump's allies or conservative leaders.

00:11:53.720 And then, of course, this craziness, their obsession with anything that's transgender, 1.00

00:11:58.960 anything that's LGBTQ, where they're spending money in conservative countries like Guatemala,

00:12:05.460 like Colombia.

00:12:07.140 You know, we've talked about the fact that they are just spending this money, whether it

00:12:10.820 be to come up with a transgender opera, you know, a comic book that has to deal with

00:12:15.760 transgenderism.

00:12:16.920 I mean, it is so completely disturbing to watch that the taxpayer dollars would be misused by

00:12:25.040 this previous administration.

00:12:26.280 And let's remember, from the time of the first Trump administration till now, we have seen

00:12:31.160 the budget for USAID double.

00:12:34.740 And these bureaucrats that were in there also being part of pushing this type of propaganda 1.00

00:12:41.060 machine, especially when it comes to the money that was spent for these journalists, for

00:12:47.040 these media outlets, what exactly were they pushing?

00:12:50.140 And that's why this transparency, the work that's being done by Doge, is so critical to

00:12:55.820 get down to the bottom of what USAID was doing, was funding, and how you're able to basically

00:13:02.540 take it down.

00:13:03.860 And one of the stories I heard was someone who had gotten work for USAID, and they said,

00:13:11.320 you know where the money goes?

00:13:12.340 It goes to foreign contractors.

00:13:14.060 It doesn't even go directly to the people.

00:13:16.540 They feed it to the foreign contractors.

00:13:18.920 They take the cut of the money.

00:13:20.680 And then let's see if it ends up in the hands of the people in need.

00:13:24.500 And that is something that obviously there should be a shift in this right now.

00:13:28.160 All right, Mercedes, you're the host of CPAC Now.

00:13:32.900 Also, the massive CPAC National Event is coming up.

00:13:37.400 Before you go, tell us all about it and how people can get involved, not just listening

00:13:41.160 to CPAC Now, but also attending.

00:13:43.500 Of course.

00:13:44.000 Well, first of all, next week, we have two very special guests, Jack and Tanya Tay Posobiec.

00:13:49.300 That is right.

00:13:50.520 You all are so gracious to sit down with me today to basically, really, we talked about

00:13:57.080 parenting, marriage, God, great advice for young people.

00:14:01.400 It was really, I have to tell you, you guys cannot miss it.

00:14:04.380 We have a part one and a part two coming out next week.

00:14:07.000 So make sure to be watching, obviously, your social media and CPAC's social media.

00:14:12.340 I got to tell you, it's a side of Jack Posobiec that I don't think many of you have gotten

00:14:16.780 to see yet.

00:14:17.780 So I'm really excited about that.

00:14:19.740 But the big CPAC event happening February 19th through the 22nd here at the Gaylord Hotel

00:14:25.820 right outside Washington, D.C.

00:14:27.900 Look, it's an all-star lineup from Steve Bannon to obviously you, Jack, who will be joining

00:14:33.340 us, President Trump, several of his cabinet members, several of his top White House officials,

00:14:39.080 all these incredible, heroic, I would say, conservative leaders who were there to fight

00:14:46.080 the battle to save America.

00:14:47.420 And yes, we're going to be celebrating because America is back, but it's also rolling up our

00:14:52.300 sleeves and getting to work.

00:14:53.780 On top of that, we have CPAC International Summit on the 19th, where we have delegations

00:14:58.540 from across the globe.

00:14:59.760 Because as you know-

00:15:00.600 Where can people go to get access to all of this?

00:15:02.540 CPAC.org?

00:15:03.800 CPAC.org.

00:15:04.660 Go to CPAC.org.

00:15:05.840 Follow us at CPAC, at Mercedes Schlapp, at MSchlapp.

00:15:09.100 You'll get it all.

00:15:10.680 Follow it all.

00:15:11.700 CPAC is back.

00:15:13.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Mercedes Schlapp, thank you so much for joining us.

00:15:15.660 Human Events Daily.

00:15:16.340 You know, they talk about influences.

00:15:23.160 These are influences.

00:15:25.320 And they're friends of mine.

00:15:27.620 Jack Posobiec.

00:15:29.100 Where's Jack?

00:15:30.100 Jack?

00:15:31.100 He's done a great job.

00:15:33.100 All right.

00:15:35.100 Jack Posobiec.

00:15:35.860 Here we are.

00:15:36.440 Human Events Daily.

00:15:38.500 President Trump about to meet.

00:15:40.680 He's holding this press conference with the Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister

00:15:46.400 Ishiba.

00:15:47.380 J.D.

00:15:47.800 Vance there, as you see in the East Room, has just entered.

00:15:51.520 He's talking with Doug Burgum.

00:15:54.500 We can get that shot up.

00:15:55.380 There it is.

00:15:56.260 So they're having their conversation.

00:15:58.060 By the way, J.D.

00:15:58.960 Vance also coming in and talking about the Doge situation.

00:16:05.560 Okay, President Trump, we're seeing him enter.

00:16:07.900 Let's go.

00:16:08.340 Let's take that now.

00:16:17.100 Thank you.

00:16:17.540 Thank you.

00:16:47.540 Thank you.

00:17:17.540 Thank you.

00:17:23.540 Remember that day.

00:17:25.540 Thank you very much, everybody.

00:17:27.540 Appreciate it.

00:17:29.540 I'm delighted to welcome Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru to the White House for the first time.

00:17:36.540 And Prime Minister, it's an honor to have you with us. A great honor. Japan is a great country. Thank you very much.

00:17:42.540 Japan is strong and proud. It's a nation that is home to one of the great civilizations in the history of the world.

00:17:50.540 For nearly 80 years, the American Japanese people have enjoyed a friendship like few others. We've had a great friendship across the vast ocean.

00:18:00.540 We found ourselves united by bonds of history, commerce, culture, mutual admiration, and great respect.

00:18:08.540 After our meeting today, I'm confident that the cherished alliances between our two countries and others also will continue to flourish long and into the future.

00:18:20.540 The military cooperation between the United States and Japan is one of our closest security partnerships, and it's one of the closest we have anywhere in the world.

00:18:30.540 Our service members work together every day to defend our common interests.

00:18:36.540 Japan is committed to double its defense spending by 2027 compared to my first term.

00:18:42.540 They've invested a lot of money because of my first term. We worked on that very hard with Shinzo, you know, the great Shinzo Abe.

00:18:52.540 And we look forward to seeing even more so Shinzo and I worked very, very long and hard, and those numbers are very reflective after my first term.

00:19:04.540 And now they're going up very substantially based on our conversations today. In addition to being vital for our shared security, Japan is one of the top purchases of U.S. military exports and equipment.

00:19:17.540 And I'm pleased to say that this week my administration approved nearly a billion dollars in foreign military sales to Tokyo.

00:19:26.540 The United States is totally committed to the security of Japan.

00:19:30.540 We will extend the full strength of American deterrence capabilities in defense of our friend and ally, 100%.

00:19:40.540 In the years to come, the Prime Minister and I will be working closely together to maintain peace and security.

00:19:46.540 And I also say peace through strength and all over the Indo-Pacific.

00:19:51.540 And to that end, we also remain committed to the effort I began in my first term to ensure safety and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

00:20:01.540 Prime Minister Ishibe and I spoke long and hard about a vital economic relationship between our two countries and the continuance of that relationship.

00:20:13.540 The United States and Japan trade over $300 billion in goods and services each year.

00:20:19.540 Japan has invested nearly $800 billion and that's going to go up very, very substantially in the coming months, more than any other country.

00:20:29.540 They're going to have some competition. We have a lot of people coming in and investing in the United States.

00:20:34.540 I think our, our, the feeling throughout the world has never been stronger about this country.

00:20:40.540 As a result of our victory in 2024, the presidential election, the Japanese investment and technology giant SoftBank announced plans to invest between $100 and $200 billion.

00:20:52.540 And we have many other companies investing that number higher than that number, some a little bit less, but we have trillions of dollars of investment pouring into our country now that you didn't have just a short while ago.

00:21:05.540 Today, our teams discussed how our two nations can do even more to stay on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence along with the quantum computing semiconductors and other critical technologies.

00:21:19.540 And they're coming out. The problem with technology that kind, it's obsolete in about two days, so we have to start all over again.

00:21:26.540 It doesn't last long. We agreed to cooperate even more closely to combat the Chinese economic aggression, which is quite aggressive.

00:21:35.540 I'm also pleased to announce that Japan will soon begin importing historic new shipments of clean American liquefied natural gas in record numbers.

00:21:45.540 It will be record numbers. It will be record numbers. With our Secretary of the Interior, we were talking, I think Doug is here. Hello, Doug. Please stand up, Doug.

00:21:55.540 Doug Burgum, everybody. We're talking about the pipeline in Alaska, which is the closest point of major oil and gas to Japan by far.

00:22:07.540 Less than half the distance of any other location. We're talking about a joint venture of some type between Japan and us having to do with Alaska oil and gas.

00:22:17.540 And that's very exciting. They're very excited about it. So are we. As we deepen our economic relationship, I made clear that the United States will be conducting trade with all countries based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity.

00:22:30.540 Chronic trade deficits not only undermine our economy. They really do. And we're going to get rid of the trade. We have a trade deficit with Japan of over $100 billion. 0.94

00:22:43.540 But we're going to work that out. And I think very quickly, frankly, we can do it just on oil and gas. We can work it out. So we intend to do it very quickly. We both understand that.

00:22:53.540 And as America welcomes new foreign investment, we also want to ensure that companies build their products and factories here in America, not simply by the assets that we have.

00:23:06.540 And Japan is going to be opening up auto plants. New auto plants are being built currently as we speak. They've just been started.

00:23:15.540 Toyota is one. And Nissan is going to be doing something very exciting about U.S. Steel. They'll be looking at an investment rather than a purchase.

00:23:26.540 We didn't like the idea. U.S. Steel is a very important company to us. It was the greatest company in the world for 15 years, many years ago, 80 years ago.

00:23:36.540 And we didn't want to see that leave. And it wouldn't actually leave. But the concept, psychologically, not good. So they've agreed to invest heavily in U.S. Steel as opposed to own it.

00:23:50.540 And that sounds very exciting. And we're going to meet with Nissan. Next week, the head of Nissan, a very great company. And the details, I'll help. I'll be there to mediate and arbitrate.

00:24:03.540 And I had the privilege of working closely with a great prime minister, as you know, and you know him very well, Shinzo Abe, the longest serving prime minister in Japan's history.

00:24:13.540 Likewise, I expect that this prime minister is going to be a great one. I really believe that he's going to be a great one. I've gotten to know him for not long, but I can see what they have.

00:24:25.540 He's got the qualities of greatness. He's going to do a fantastic job for Japan and for the Japanese people. And I'd like now to invite the prime minister to say a few words and then we'll take some questions.

00:24:40.540 Mr. Prime Minister, thank you. Thank you very much.

00:24:48.540 Mr. Mr. President Trump, I would like to sincerely thank you for inviting me to the White House today immediately following your inauguration.

00:24:58.540 I also thank you for your very warm hospitality. I have come to Washington, D.C., with the hope of having a face to face meeting and deepening our mutual understanding at this early date with President Trump,

00:25:16.540 President Trump, who is now leading the United States, the most important country for Japan's diplomacy and security and aligning our perspectives and visions that Japan and the United States should pursue.

00:25:32.540 What should we do to advance the national interests of both of our countries in synergy and to realize peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific?

00:25:44.540 I am convinced that the answer lies in further strengthening the strong and unwavering Japan-U.S. alliance to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific.

00:26:00.540 President and I concurred to strengthen the deterrence and response capabilities of the alliance and to work closely in addressing strategic challenges that both countries are facing in this region.

00:26:14.540 I conveyed to the president that Japan as an ally of the United States is ready to share responsibilities and to play its own role.

00:26:24.540 I also reiterated Japan's unwavering commitment to fundamentally reinforcing its defense capabilities and we confirmed the unwavering commitment by the United States to the defense of Japan.

00:26:40.540 We reaffirmed that Article 5 of the Japan-U.S.

00:26:43.540 We reaffirmed that Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of mutual cooperation and security applies to the Senkaku Islands with half of the world's population in approximately 60 percent of the world's GDP.

00:26:58.540 The Indo-Pacific serves as the engine of growth and vitality for the United States and the world.

00:27:05.540 The President and I also concurred that the United States and Japan will make further efforts in a wide range of areas working hand in hand together to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific.

00:27:20.540 In this context, we also concurred the further advance cooperation of the multi-layered networks of the like-minded countries, including the Quad and trilateral cooperation with the Republic of Korea and the Philippines.

00:27:36.540 We also discussed Japan-United States cooperation to bring about growth and prosperity.

00:27:43.540 Economic cooperation, including on economic security, is important from the perspective of strengthening alliance cooperation.

00:27:52.540 Japan is the closest economic partner of the United States and has been the world's largest investor in the United States for five consecutive years.

00:28:05.540 Also, with the inauguration of President Trump, the momentum for Japanese companies to invest in the United States is growing even stronger.

00:28:17.540 Today, I conveyed my willingness to cooperate together to elevate Japan's investment in the United States to an unprecedented amount of one trillion dollars.

00:28:31.540 President Trump and myself also concurred to elevate the Japan-U.S. partnership to an even higher level through improving business environment and increasing bilateral investment in employment,

00:28:46.540 strengthening each other's industries, leading the world in developing advanced technologies such as A.I.

00:28:54.540 and leading-edge semiconductors and strongly promoting efforts to harness the energy of the growing market in the Indo-Pacific region.

00:29:09.540 We also confirmed that we will cooperate to strengthen energy security between the two countries,

00:29:17.540 including increasing exports of the United States liquefied natural gas to Japan in a mutually beneficial manner.

00:29:25.540 Regarding foreign exchange, as in the first Trump administration,

00:29:30.540 close discussions will continue between Japanese and the U.S. finance ministers who are experts in this field.

00:29:37.540 We also held candid discussions on challenges the Indo-Pacific region is facing.

00:29:43.540 We confirmed that we are resolved not to allow unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion

00:29:49.540 and to oppose such attempts in the East and South China seas in order to fully defend a free and open Indo-Pacific.

00:29:56.540 We also reiterated the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

00:30:08.540 Regarding North Korea, we affirmed the need to address its nuclear and missile program,

00:30:14.540 which poses a serious threat to Japan, the U.S. and beyond,

00:30:19.540 and that Japan and the U.S. will work together toward the complete denuclearization of North Korea.

00:30:26.540 As the abductees and their families continued to age,

00:30:30.540 I conveyed my strong sense of urgency and determination directly to President Trump

00:30:35.540 and gained his renewed strong support for the immediate resolution of the abductions issue.

00:30:44.540 While this was my first face-to-face meeting with President Trump,

00:30:48.540 we were able to openly and frankly exchange views,

00:30:52.540 and our meeting turned out to be very productive and meaningful.

00:31:01.540 As a result of today's meeting, which marked a new departure for the Japan-U.S. relations,

00:31:07.540 we are issuing a Japan-U.S. joint leader statement.

00:31:12.540 This document will serve as a compass for further cooperation between our two countries.

00:31:19.540 On the basis of these deliverables, I look forward to working together with President Trump,

00:31:26.540 who I respect immensely to usher in a new golden age of Japan-U.S. relations.

00:31:31.540 I look forward to welcoming you to Japan, and I am very excited about that prospect.

00:31:43.540 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:31:45.540 Thank you very much.

00:31:46.540 Thank you.

00:31:50.540 Any questions, please?

00:31:52.540 Peter?

00:31:53.540 President Trump, I have two on toes.

00:31:56.540 Elon Musk said today, I love Donald Trump as much as a straight man to love another man.

00:32:03.540 What does the First Lady think about that? 1.00

00:32:06.540 Oh, I think she'll be okay with it somehow.

00:32:09.540 So, Democratic lawmakers are really upset.

00:32:14.540 Those engineers have access to these credit to repayment systems.

00:32:21.540 Instead of the intel, general letters, they're saying that these systems are used to disperse

00:32:27.540 trillions of dollars each year and contain everyday inheritance, personal information,

00:32:31.540 like social security numbers, home addresses, bank accounts.

00:32:34.540 Why does Doge need all of that?

00:32:37.540 Well, it doesn't, but they get it very easily.

00:32:39.540 I mean, we don't have very good security in our country.

00:32:41.540 They get it very easily.

00:32:42.540 And what we're doing, if you look at what has just taken place with respect to some of

00:32:48.540 the investments that have been made on another agency that people have been talking about

00:32:53.540 for years, but nobody did anything about it, it's absolutely obscene.

00:32:58.540 Dangerous, bad, very costly.

00:33:01.540 I mean, virtually every investment made is a con job.

00:33:05.540 There's nothing of value to anybody unless there's a kickback scheme going on, which is

00:33:12.540 possible.

00:33:13.540 And we're going to be doing more and more of that.

00:33:15.540 We're going to be looking at Department of Education.

00:33:17.540 We're going to be looking at even our military.

00:33:19.540 We're going to be looking at tremendous amounts of money, Peter, being spent on things that

00:33:24.540 bear no relationship to anything and have no value.

00:33:28.540 We're talking about trillions of dollars.

00:33:30.540 It will be, in the end, trillions of dollars being absolutely wasted and perhaps illegally.

00:33:36.540 I would say certainly in many cases illegally, but perhaps illegally overall.

00:33:41.540 And I'm very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, but

00:33:46.540 very smart people they're doing.

00:33:48.540 They're doing it at my insistence.

00:33:50.540 It would be a lot easier not to do it.

00:33:52.540 But we have to take some of these things apart to find the corruption.

00:33:57.540 And we found tremendous corruption.

00:33:58.540 You mentioned the Department of Education.

00:33:59.540 What did you think of?

00:34:00.540 You saw Democratic lawmakers trying to get into the Department of Education earlier today.

00:34:06.540 Oh, I see the same ones.

00:34:08.540 I see Maxine Waters, Alola.

00:34:10.540 I see all these people.

00:34:11.540 They don't love our country.

00:34:13.540 They don't love our country.

00:34:14.540 We want great education.

00:34:16.540 So they rank 40 countries in education.

00:34:19.540 We're ranked dead last.

00:34:21.540 Dead last.

00:34:22.540 But the good news is we're number one in one category.

00:34:25.540 You know what that is?

00:34:27.540 Cost per pupil.

00:34:28.540 We spend more per pupil than any other country in the world.

00:34:32.540 You look at Norway, Denmark, Sweden, various countries all up and down.

00:34:37.540 Finland.

00:34:38.540 China does very well in education.

00:34:40.540 And then you look at us.

00:34:41.540 We spend much more money than they do per pupil.

00:34:44.540 Or any other way.

00:34:46.540 But we spend much more money than they do.

00:34:48.540 And yet we're ranked this year, Biden's last year.

00:34:52.540 Congratulations, Joe.

00:34:53.540 We're ranked dead last.

00:34:56.540 So what I want to see is education.

00:34:58.540 Number one, I like choice.

00:34:59.540 We all like choice.

00:35:00.540 But beyond choice, long beyond choice, I want to see it go back to the states where great

00:35:05.540 states that do so well have no debt.

00:35:08.540 They're operated brilliantly.

00:35:09.540 They'll be as good as Norway or Denmark or Sweden or any of the other highly ranked countries.

00:35:14.540 They'll probably have 30, I figure 35 to 38 states will be right at the top.

00:35:20.540 And the rest will come along.

00:35:21.540 They'll have to come along competitively.

00:35:23.540 And by the way, we'll be spending a lot less money.

00:35:25.540 And we'll have great education.

00:35:27.540 As part of this doge cost cutting effort, one of the doge engineers was fired for some inappropriate

00:35:34.540 posts.

00:35:35.540 The vice president says bring him back.

00:35:37.540 What do you say?

00:35:38.540 Well, I don't know about the particular thing.

00:35:40.540 But if the vice president said that, did you say that?

00:35:43.540 I'm with the vice president.

00:35:44.540 Thank you, Peter.

00:35:45.540 Yeah.

00:35:46.540 Go ahead, please.

00:35:47.540 Yes, red dress.

00:35:48.540 Thank you so much, Mr. President.

00:35:49.540 Just how strong do you want Japan's military to be?

00:35:58.540 And do you specifically hope that their increased military spending will deter China and North 0.98

00:36:04.540 Korea? 0.70

00:36:05.540 What did you talk about that?

00:36:06.540 Well, I want our military to be the strongest.

00:36:09.540 I also don't mind spending so much money on the military because we build it here.

00:36:14.540 It's made in the USA, all made in the USA.

00:36:17.540 You know, I rebuilt our military during my first term, did a great job. 0.99

00:36:23.540 We left some of it behind in Afghanistan, stupidly. 0.99

00:36:25.540 There was no reason for that. 0.98

00:36:26.540 But it was still as much as it was.

00:36:29.540 It was billions and billions of dollars, but it was a small part of it.

00:36:32.540 But we're going to have the strongest military by far.

00:36:36.540 We have great people.

00:36:37.540 I want to congratulate Pete Hegseth for having gone through the gauntlet.

00:36:41.540 He went through a lot, but he got through and he's going to be a tremendous.

00:36:45.540 I have no doubt he's going to be a tremendous leader.

00:36:48.540 And other of the leaders sitting here, they're in their own fields.

00:36:51.540 They're going to do something very, very, very great.

00:36:55.540 And we expect great things.

00:36:56.540 But I expect the strongest military by far in the world, far stronger than China, far stronger

00:37:01.540 than anybody.

00:37:02.540 And that's the way it is.

00:37:03.540 Thank you very much.

00:37:04.540 Would you like to ask a question, please?

00:37:07.540 Go ahead.

00:37:09.540 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:37:14.540 Thank you.

00:37:15.540 This is Hiramoto from Nippon Television.

00:37:18.540 My question, let me ask two quick questions.

00:37:21.540 Sure.

00:37:22.540 First, this is the first meeting between Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister Ishiba.

00:37:27.540 So what kind of impression do you have on him?

00:37:30.540 And number two, do you have an idea or do you have a plan to impose tariff against Japan

00:37:37.540 so far?

00:37:38.540 Thank you.

00:37:39.540 I think that he is going to be a great prime minister.

00:37:44.540 I think he's a very strong man, very, very strong.

00:37:46.540 I have great respect for him.

00:37:47.540 I've known him for a long time through a reputation.

00:37:50.540 Shinzo Abe thought the world of him.

00:37:53.540 And I think he's going to do a fantastic job as prime minister, very strong person.

00:38:00.540 I wish he wasn't so strong.

00:38:02.540 I wish he was a little bit weaker than that.

00:38:04.540 But that's what I got.

00:38:05.540 I have to get strong guys all the time.

00:38:07.540 He's going to be a great prime minister.

00:38:09.540 I also in terms of tariffs, I mean, we're going to have tariffs, mostly reciprocal tariffs

00:38:16.540 where we go with and I'm going to be probably meeting on that Monday or Tuesday, have an

00:38:22.540 announcement, probably a news conference, but probably reciprocal tariffs where a country

00:38:27.540 pays so much or charges us so much and we do the same.

00:38:31.540 So very reciprocal because I think that's the only fair way to do it.

00:38:35.540 That way nobody's hurt.

00:38:38.540 They charge us.

00:38:39.540 We charge them.

00:38:40.540 It's the same thing.

00:38:41.540 And I seem to be going in that line as opposed to a flat fee tariff.

00:38:46.540 That's the same thing.

00:38:47.540 Okay.

00:38:48.540 Yes.

00:38:49.540 Go.

00:38:50.540 Please.

00:38:51.540 Please.

00:38:52.540 Go ahead.

00:38:53.540 Why don't you go ahead?

00:38:55.540 This is Ota from Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

00:39:03.540 I have a question for Prime Minister Ishiba.

00:39:06.540 So this is your very first summit meeting.

00:39:09.540 What was your impression of President Trump?

00:39:11.540 Were you able to build a good relationship of trust and confidence in Northeast Asia?

00:39:17.540 There are many challenges, China, North Korea and so forth.

00:39:21.540 And with the President Trump, what did you appeal to him and what kind of understanding

00:39:26.540 were you able to obtain on the economic field?

00:39:29.540 There is the acquisition of your steel, the by Nippon steel, and there are expansion of import

00:39:37.540 of LNG.

00:39:38.540 What were the communication discussion that you have with President Trump for the $1 trillion

00:39:43.540 of investment from Japan to investment?

00:39:45.540 What was his reaction?

00:39:47.540 What about your communication on tariff front?

00:39:52.540 This is the first time that I met with President Trump in person.

00:39:58.540 So this was the first time meeting face to face.

00:40:02.540 But for many, many years, I have watched him on television.

00:40:08.540 So it was quite exciting.

00:40:10.540 I was so excited to see such a celebrity on television to see in person.

00:40:16.540 On television, he is frightening, and he has a very strong personality.

00:40:25.540 But when I met with him, actually, he was very sincere and very powerful and with strong

00:40:36.540 will for the United States as for the whole world.

00:40:41.540 I was able to feel that this is not the sort of polishing or trying to suck up to him.

00:40:53.540 For the world peace and for the regional stability that both of our countries need to play our

00:41:01.540 role and make our endeavors and responsibility.

00:41:05.540 As for the increase of our defense expenditures, it is not that we are told by the United States to do so.

00:41:13.540 Japan, on our own, on our own decision and on our own responsibility, we need to increase our defense expenditures.

00:41:22.540 But, of course, we need to communicate and consult with the United States.

00:41:27.540 But the responsibility is with Japan, and the decision is with Japan.

00:41:32.540 Now, on the tariffs, that if it is mutually beneficial, tariffs need to be set.

00:41:45.540 And as for Japan, as Mr. President has introduced to us, an unprecedented investment will be made from Japan to the United States,

00:41:56.540 and so many jobs will be created.

00:41:59.540 So $1 trillion is the target.

00:42:05.540 And this will be to the benefit of the United States, but also to the benefit of Japan as well.

00:42:12.540 Investment is mutually beneficial.

00:42:15.540 So be it with the U.S. steel, as Mr. President says, it is not acquisition.

00:42:21.540 It is investment.

00:42:24.540 So the Japanese technology will be provided, and the better quality products will be manufactured in the United States,

00:42:36.540 and the U.S. steel will make products which will contribute not only to the United States and Japan, but also to the whole world.

00:42:43.540 It is not one-sided.

00:42:45.540 It will be reciprocal.

00:42:47.540 It will be mutually beneficial.

00:42:50.540 And I believe we were able to share on this.

00:42:53.540 And that is the biggest result that I have seen today.

00:42:59.540 Thank you very much.

00:43:00.540 Go ahead, please.

00:43:01.540 Yeah.

00:43:02.540 I wanted to ask you about that U.S. steel deal.

00:43:09.540 So you're saying that is this a restructuring of the deal that's happening, and then will you approve?

00:43:15.540 They're doing it as an investment, no longer a purchase.

00:43:18.540 Okay.

00:43:19.540 I didn't want it purchased, but investment I love.

00:43:22.540 And they're going to do a big investment, subject to getting the deal done.

00:43:26.540 And that's something you want to approve.

00:43:28.540 I'm okay with that, sure.

00:43:29.540 And for the Prime Minister, what was your argument to the President related to U.S. steel?

00:43:34.540 And one more on tariffs, Mr. President, if I could.

00:43:38.540 You said on tariffs that you'd like them to be reciprocal back and forth.

00:43:42.540 What was the reception from the Japanese Prime Minister when you said that or when you talked about that?

00:43:47.540 Well, we didn't discuss tariffs too much.

00:43:49.540 We really discussed many other things, including the pipeline in Alaska, which I think is going to be maybe the most exciting thing with Doug and Chris.

00:43:57.540 We discussed that at length, the pipeline.

00:44:00.540 I mean, it seemed to be of great interest to them.

00:44:02.540 We have potentially more oil and gas than in Saudi Arabia, just in Alaska.

00:44:09.540 We have the most of any country in the world.

00:44:12.540 It's a big asset for the United States, but we haven't used it.

00:44:15.540 We go to Venezuela.

00:44:16.540 We go to other places to take oil and gas, and we have more than anybody.

00:44:20.540 It's an amazing phenomenon that took place over the last four years.

00:44:23.540 Nobody understands it, including the people that were in charge of it.

00:44:27.540 They had no clue what they were doing.

00:44:29.540 So it was a big problem.

00:44:31.540 They were surprised, actually, too.

00:44:33.540 They were saying, why didn't they?

00:44:35.540 They wouldn't sell them.

00:44:37.540 LNG.

00:44:38.540 They wouldn't sell it.

00:44:39.540 Japan wanted to buy LNG, and Biden wouldn't sell it.

00:44:43.540 And I'm trying to figure that one out.

00:44:45.540 Maybe it was the environment.

00:44:47.540 You might answer that question.

00:44:49.540 He's curious about that himself, I think.

00:44:52.540 Thank you very much.

00:44:55.540 If you want to answer that, you may, about LNG, that the United States of America,

00:45:00.540 wouldn't sell you LNG.

00:45:01.540 That was a really unfortunate thing.

00:45:13.540 But the current administration, I'm sorry, the previous administration was not allowing

00:45:20.540 the LNG to be exported to us.

00:45:23.540 I believe that President Trump, on the day of his inauguration, allowed us to resume this importing.

00:45:31.540 I think this is something that is really wonderful for us.

00:45:35.540 And as the country of Japan, we are interested in importing not just LNG, but also bioethanol, ammonia, and other resources at a stable price, a reasonable price from the United States.

00:45:52.540 And we also want to improve the trade deficit that the U.S. has towards Japan.

00:46:00.540 So if we are able to buy those at a stable and reasonable price, I think it would be a wonderful situation.

00:46:09.540 And for that, I am very appreciative to President Trump.

00:46:12.540 And we also look forward to LNG and hope that it's a success.

00:46:21.540 I would just say that on the ethanol, Iowa is going to be very happy.

00:46:24.540 All of the Nebraska, all of our farm states are going to be very happy.

00:46:28.540 They want ethanol.

00:46:29.540 And we'll be able to provide it.

00:46:31.540 So our farmers, who I like and they like me, I think they're going to be very, very happy.

00:46:36.540 We've opened the sale of LNG immediately, actually.

00:46:40.540 We did it a few days ago.

00:46:42.540 And right now, not only China, everybody wants to buy it.

00:46:47.540 We have more than anybody, and they're all buying it.

00:46:49.540 But Japan in particular, we're very happy that they're going to start immediately.

00:46:54.540 And we can supply it to the world, but we're supplying it to Japan. 0.85

00:46:58.540 And they could always be right up in the front of the line.

00:47:00.540 Yeah, go ahead, please.

00:47:01.540 Go ahead.

00:47:02.540 Thank you so much.

00:47:03.540 Mr. Prime Minister, I have a question for you as well.

00:47:05.540 But, Mr. President, I'll start with you.

00:47:07.540 Quickly, to follow up on what Peter was asking,

00:47:09.540 have you directed Elon Musk to review Pentagon spending,

00:47:12.540 given it's the biggest discretionary spending in the federal budget?

00:47:15.540 Yes, I have Pentagon, education, just about everything.

00:47:18.540 We're going to go through everything, just as it was so bad with what we just went through

00:47:23.540 with this horrible situation we just went through.

00:47:25.540 And I guess 97 percent of the people have been dismissed.

00:47:29.540 It was very, very unfortunate.

00:47:31.540 You're not going to find anything like that.

00:47:32.540 But you're going to find a lot.

00:47:34.540 And I've instructed him to go check out education,

00:47:37.540 to check out the Pentagon, which is the military.

00:47:40.540 And, you know, sadly, you'll find some things that are pretty bad.

00:47:43.540 But I don't think proportionally you're going to see anything like we just saw.

00:47:47.540 And your FBI has turned over a list to the Justice Department of the FBI agents

00:47:51.540 who worked on the January 6 rioters cases.

00:47:54.540 Are you planning to fire the FBI agents who worked on those investigations?

00:47:58.540 No, but I'll fire some of them because some of them were corrupt. 1.00

00:48:01.540 I have no doubt about that. 0.90

00:48:03.540 I got to know a lot about that business, that world.

00:48:07.540 I got to know a lot about that world that we had some corrupt agents.

00:48:10.540 And those people are gone or they will be gone.

00:48:12.540 And it'll be done quickly and very surgically.

00:48:16.540 Did you have a question for the Prime Minister?

00:48:20.540 Talk up.

00:48:23.540 Are those the ones who worked on the January 6th?

00:48:26.540 I don't know.

00:48:27.540 I don't know.

00:48:28.540 I know that we have some that are very corrupt and we don't like it.

00:48:30.540 We're going to bring back the reputation of the FBI.

00:48:33.540 Cash Patel is going to do a great job.

00:48:35.540 And we're going to bring back the reputation of the FBI,

00:48:38.540 which has been hurt very badly.

00:48:40.540 It's been devastated over the last four years.

00:48:42.540 You have just been meeting for the first time with President Trump.

00:48:49.540 The last administration famously did not have hardly any,

00:48:52.540 if at all, contact with North Korea.

00:48:54.540 President Trump certainly did the last time he was in office.

00:48:56.540 Would you like to see him resume that contact and also that in-person meeting

00:49:01.540 that he had with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un?

00:49:13.540 That is something that the United States needs to determine on its own.

00:49:17.540 And it's not something that we should request.

00:49:23.540 Having said that, but, for example, in Vietnam or Singapore,

00:49:30.540 the President of the United States, President Trump,

00:49:37.540 was able to meet with Kim Jong-un.

00:49:40.540 I think that's a very positive development.

00:49:43.540 So, now that President Trump is in power again,

00:49:50.540 if we are able to move towards resolving issues with the North Korea,

00:49:56.540 I think it would be great.

00:49:58.540 And, of course, for us, that includes not only denuclearization,

00:50:03.540 but also resolving the abductee issue.

00:50:07.540 And so, not only the victims of the abductees, but also their families, too, are aging.

00:50:15.540 And so, our time is limited.

00:50:17.540 So, if the President of the United States, if President Trump is able to resolve this issue,

00:50:26.540 we do understand that it's a Japan issue, first and foremost.

00:50:29.540 Having said that, we would love to continue to cooperate with them.

00:50:32.540 It's actually a good question.

00:50:34.540 And we will have relations with North Korea and with Kim Jong-un.

00:50:38.540 I got along with them very well, as you know.

00:50:40.540 I think I stopped the war.

00:50:41.540 I think if I wouldn't have won that particular election,

00:50:44.540 you would have ended up in a very bad situation.

00:50:48.540 But I did.

00:50:49.540 And we had a good relationship.

00:50:51.540 And I think it's a very big asset for everybody that I do get along with him.

00:50:56.540 I like, I mean, I get along with him.

00:50:58.540 He gets along with me.

00:50:59.540 And that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

00:51:01.540 And I can tell you that Japan likes the idea because their relationship is not very good with him.

00:51:08.540 And if I can have a relationship with not only him, but other people throughout the world where there seem to be difficulties,

00:51:16.540 I think that's a tremendous asset for the world, not just the United States.

00:51:20.540 Go ahead.

00:51:21.540 I have a question for you and for the Prime Minister as well.

00:51:24.540 Mr. President, I wonder what you make of the criticism from Democrats that these staff reductions,

00:51:29.540 the cuts that Elon Musk and Doge are doing are an unlawful power grab.

00:51:33.540 Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he cannot touch?

00:51:36.540 Well, we haven't discussed that much.

00:51:40.540 I'll tell him to go here, go there.

00:51:42.540 He does it.

00:51:43.540 He's got a very capable group of people.

00:51:45.540 Very, very, very, very capable.

00:51:47.540 They know what they're doing.

00:51:49.540 They'll ask questions and they'll see immediately as somebody gets tongue-tied that they're either crooked or don't know what they're doing.

00:51:56.540 We have very smart people going in.

00:51:58.540 So I've instructed him go into education, go into military, go into other things as we go along.

00:52:04.540 And they're finding massive amounts of fraud, abuse, waste, all of these things.

00:52:10.540 But I will pick out a target and I say go in.

00:52:14.540 There could be areas that we won't, but I think everything's fertile.

00:52:18.540 You know, we're a government.

00:52:19.540 We have to be open.

00:52:20.540 And as an open government, I don't know, I guess you could say maybe some high intelligence or something.

00:52:26.540 And I'll do that myself if I have to.

00:52:29.540 But generally speaking, I'll just say go.

00:52:32.540 But he will be looking at education pretty quickly and he will be looking at military too.

00:52:36.540 The bulk of federal spending is Social Security, Medicare, programs like that.

00:52:41.540 Would you like to see him look at those programs as well?

00:52:43.540 Well, they don't really have to be looked at by him.

00:52:46.540 They can be looked at by us.

00:52:47.540 Social Security will not be touched.

00:52:49.540 It will only be strengthened.

00:52:50.540 We have illegal immigrants on Social Security and we're going to find out who they are and take them out. 1.00

00:52:56.540 We have illegal immigrants and other Medicare.

00:53:01.540 We have we found a lot of bad people, a lot of people that shouldn't be on that were put on through California.

00:53:08.540 They come. A lot of them come out of California.

00:53:10.540 We're not going to stand for that.

00:53:12.540 So we're going to strengthen our Social Security, etc.

00:53:16.540 We're not going to touch it other than to make it stronger.

00:53:19.540 But we have people that shouldn't be on and those people we have to weed out.

00:53:22.540 Most of them or many of them so far have been illegal immigrants.

00:53:25.540 They shouldn't even be in the country.

00:53:27.540 Do you have a question for the Prime Minister?

00:53:29.540 Mr. Prime Minister, the president's affinity for tariffs is well known.

00:53:33.540 If the U.S. places tariffs on Japanese imports, would Japan retaliate?

00:53:42.540 I am unable to respond to a theoretical question.

00:53:52.540 That's the official answer that we have.

00:53:55.540 That's a very good answer.

00:53:58.540 Very good answer. Wow.

00:54:01.540 That's very good. He knows what he's doing.

00:54:03.540 Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.

00:54:05.540 Thank you.

00:54:12.540 Thank you.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - February 07, 2025

President Trump's Historic Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba

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