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manucturing sector and takes questions from some of those in attendance >> love to see you guys out here. this is great. to be at the bleeding edge of the country, we have to be at the center of the country. i want to say how proud i am of -- paul gave me a short tour beforehand. we're going to be continuing to tour this facility after all of what you have done here at axiom. congratulations for being a crown jewel and embodiment of what is possible in the united states of america. supplying the greatest companies in the world at a faster pace than what even they will get from china. that's what today's actually about. vivek: this campaign, for those who have been following this, and you know this, this is about filling the void at the heart of

our country. we're in the middle of a national identity crisis today. we have forgotten what it means to be an american. i am 38 years old. i'm the youngest person ever to run for u.s. president as a republican. thank you. [applause] i appreciate that. born and raised in ohio. the kid of immigrants who came here with almost no money. founded multibillion-dollar companies. did it while marrying my wife, who would have been here exception she's doing surgeries at ohio state right now. raising our two sons here in columbus, ohio. following our faith in god. that's the american dream. [applause] i am genuinely worried that that american dream will not exist for our two sons and their generation. unless we all step up and do something about it. we're in the middle of a national identity crisis where

we have to answer that question of what does it even mean to be an american today? you ask people my age that question, you get a blank stare in response. that is the vacuum. that is the void. and i've talked in other settings about the revival of core american ideals, measure tock are asy, the -- measure tock are asy, the pursuit of happiness, self-governance over aristocracy. i think 80% of people in this country easily glee on those -- agree on those basic ideals. people never learned those ideals in the first place and we're going to brick them along too. that's how we're going to reunite this country. one of the most important wayses we're going to do it is by reviving a national pride that's real. it's not a fake national pride with eagles and red, white and blue. it's grounded in reality.

in economic prosperity here at home. in a modern declaration of independence. the declaration of independence that thomas jefferson would have signed and did sign in 1776, that he would sign if he were alive today. is what we're going to talk about today. our declaration of independence from china. there are five key elements to this campaign. one is to shut down the unconstitutional administrative state. second is to shut down those federal regulations in a way that grows our economy again in the united states of america. and last week i gave a speech at the america first policy institute to lay out exactly how we were going to get that job done. but the other elements to our vision for this country are to avoid world war iii, declare economic independence from our enemy, and to revive national

pride in this country. that's really what we're going to talk about. our domestic policies and our foreign policies, these are two sides of the same coin. even when it comes to foreign policy, i believe in clarity. avoid world war iii, declare independence from our enemy, and rebuild our actual homeland security defenses that we're missing. next month i'm going to give a speech on exactly how we will defend the homeland, but today is really the centerpiece of both the domestic policy vision and a foreign policy vision of how we no longer depend on our enemy for the shoes on our feet, to the phones in our pockets. and i'll start with the story of where this began. this actually began with a good decision we made. in 1972 when nixon made a decision that he had to make that was the right decision in

his time, when we were in the middle of the cold war with the u.s.s.r., what did he do? he made the decision to reopen trade relations with china. and it's really important to understand the history of how we got here. if we're going to find our path forward. what happened was the u.s.s.r. was our main adversary in the cold war. and nixon recognized then, as i think we ought to recognize today, that the alliance between china and russia was the single greatest threat to u.s. military might in the cold war. so he made an unconventional decision. we didn't trust mao but we trusted him to follow his self-interest and nixon did a deal with mao that nobody else believed was possible, to say we were going to reopen relations with china as a condition for pulling them away from the u.s.s.r. and that was one of the pivotal

events that 20 years later led us to the end of the cold war. it's worth recognizing that even the mistakes that we make often begin with decisions that were the right decisions at the time they were made. but then we had a bipartisan consensus in this country that took that vision in the wrong direction. in the 1990's we ha bipartisan -- we had a bipartisan consensus in the united states of america around a philosophy known as democratic capitalism in the u.s. this was a new movement. not put -- it is not a partisan speech. it's not about republicans or democrats, it's an honest american reflection. a bipartisan consensus in the 1990's that we would then take the further step of admitting china to the world trade organization. and to adopt the wish that we were going to use capitalism as a vehicle to spread democracy to

places like china. that we were going to export big mac's and happy meals and somehow that was going to export our values to the c. kr-frpt p. -- c.c.p. well, that's where we lost the plot. china realized they could actually play that game in reverse. we thought we could use our money, trade with china to get them to be more like us. what they realized is that they could use access to their market, their money, to get us to be more like them. or one step worse than that, that they could use our money to get us to be more like them. if you have any doubt about this, i'm going to walk you through how deep this plot runs. xi jinping, when he's pressed by the u.n. or other bodies on the human rights crisis where there are over one million uyghurs

enslaved in concentration camps, subject to forced sterilization, communist indoctrination and worse, in what is one of the worst human rights atrocities committed by a mange nation since the third raoeubg of germany, what does he say? the u.s. is no better, he says. because black lives matter, b.l. ph-frpts, -- b.l.m., proves that the u.s. is no better on human rights. their top diplomat came to the alaska summit in the last couple of years where he looked tony blinken, our secretary of state, in the eye with an opening speech where he said, china wants to see the u.s. do better on human rights and to stop slaughtering, that's his word, stop slaughtering black americans. now this would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that our own companies in the united states of america lend implicit credibility to those claims.

take nike. reflecting on the sins of slavery 250 years ago in the united states, without saying a peep about its reliance on china and actual slave labor today to sell $250 sneakers to black kids in the inner city who can't afford to buy books for school. can't have it both ways. now nike says it is a company, the c.e.o., his words, not mine, a company of china, for china. take disney. two years ago has no problem eviscerating an anti-abortion bill in the state of georgia or a parental rights bill in the state of florida. while just two years ago going to china, literally ground steero of that human rights crisis, to film mulan without a peep until the very end of the movie. you can see it in the credits, we thank the local authorities for allowing us the privilege of filming here. our fellow ohioan, former

ohioan, at least, lebron james, who famously derided darryl morrie, the general macker of the rocket, for daring to say, fight for freedom, stand with hong kong. nike, blackrock, airbnb, jpmorgan chase, the story is the same. because it's not even their fault. it comes down to money. the chinese communist party builds a great chinese wall that stops you from entering the chinese market if you criticize the c.c.p. but they will roll out the red carpet if you criticize the united states. take blackrock, the first asset manager ever to be granted as a foreign asset manager the right to sell mutual funds in china. how did they get it? it was only after blackrock's c.e.o. lobbied in the united

states for lowered listing standards for chinese companies in the u.s. now, is it any mystery that the same company that tells u.s. tperpls like exxon and chevron and countless other companies that they have to reduce emissions, including scope three emissions here in the united states, does not say a peep as a shareholder of petrochina on the other side of the world, even as they apply no emissions caps on the other side. this is not an accident and it's exactly what happens in the united states when we are dependent on our adversary for our modern way of life. we sang the siren song that this is actually about global capitalism. that we're committed to capitalism and make no mistake, i am an unapologetic defender of true capitalism as the best system known to man to lift us

up from poverty. [applause] that is the american way of life. that is the story of axiom plastic. that is the story of the american dream that so many of us have lived. but when that system is he could opted -- he could opted by -- coopted by a foreign actor to use capitalism as a vehicle to advance noneconomic agendas, that's not capitalism anymore. that is mercantalism and the right answer for the 21st century is not the same answer that we might have given back in 1980. i respect ronald reagan. i respect him because like nixon he did what he needed to do in his era. he slashed regulations, opened up trade, embraced global capitalism at a time when that was what was required. but as my favorite republican president of all time, abraham lincoln, famously said, the dogmas of a quiet past are

inadequate to the stormy present. and today we say that the dogmas of 1980 are inadequate to the unique challenges that we as americans face today. and what i'm going to lay out today, we're sort of making this a trademark of the campaign. we like to use the poster boards to make things clear. what we're going to lay out is for the first time in either party, a clear and pragmatic vision for how we will actually finally, at long last, declare economic independence from china, while actually advancing american prosperity here at home. [applause] this isn't a wish list. this is what we are actually going to get done in this country. four elements to it. first is to declare independence

from china, we must declare independence from the climate agenda here at home. second, to declare independence from china over the long run, we husband first ensure we have semiconductor independence from taiwan starting today here at home. thank you. third, we will declare independence for our defense industrial base so that the weapons that we may need, god forbid in an armed conflict with china do not actually come from china. [applause] and fourth, a pharmaceutical supply chain that we rely on for life saving medicines that rely on our enemy for our modern way of life, we will cut off our

dependence on china. those are the four elements of how we will at long last in this country declare economic independence from our enemy. let me start with the first of the articles of independence from communist china. we have to actually declare independence from the climate change agenda which is itself a far as. i said this on the debate stage. i took a lot of heat for it. i'm going to say it again, the climate change agenda is a hoax because it has nothing to do with the climate and everything to do with global equity, letting china catch up to the united states of america economically. i'll explain to you how it works.

take the electric vehicle cult in the united states and i have no problem with the purchase of electric vehicles, but i do have a problem with a subsidized industry that falsely tilts the scales towards china. those e.v.'s, we depend on them and depend on chair for mineral refining capacity in order to provide those electric vehicles in the united states. when u.s. taxpayers subsidize e.v.'s, we are subsidizing the china and same story for the solar panels. think about the emissions caps. as of 2019 and the trend continues, china emits more carbon, more greenhouse gas emissions than the united states and the rest of the developed world combined by claiming to be

a developing nation under the par is climate accords. yes, that is a far as. same opponents to carbon emissions and companies like chevron say nothing as the same carbon emissions are sent to china. that is a far as. the same opponents to carbon emissions here at home are opponents to the greatest form of carbon emission, that is nuclear energy, china is the only country that has a gen4 reactor and we suffer with gen2 real actors. what we have to do in the united states is actually reduce our dependence on china by first unshackling ourselves from the climate agenda here at home to a

commitment once again, drill, frack, burn coal and embrace nuclear energy in this country. and what i will do as u.s. president on day one, we will rescind any unconstitutional federal regulation from the e.p.a. to the department of energy to the s.e.c., requires the measurement. we are done with it to focus on g.d.p. growth and americans flourishing at home. that is what we will focus on measuring and first step that is using to shack will the united states as they continue to catch up by the day. it's not too late to get this right. we are behind, but that is the

first step from our economic independence from china. the second step is critical. it requires regaining control over our modern way of life. and there is a special reason why we are giving this speech here, 5 to 10 minute drive. that comes to declaring our semiconductor independence from taiwan. i want to tell you how serious this is. today, we depend on taiwan for the little chips that power our modern way of life, from these phones in our pockets, to those lights, to the cameras, refrigerators that kept your water cold before you drank it this morning, those are powered by these little chips, leading edge semiconductors, manufactured and powered by tie

what wan -- taiwan. the fact that our entire way of life depended on a set of islands off the southeast coast of china is a shame. we must learn from the past. but we are where we are and now the question is with precision how do we actually address it? what i'm about to lay out is not an economically protection nist. we believe in capitalism in the united states. we don't believe in crony capitalism. there could be reasons for showering money from on high. we have to be clear headed about why we are doing it. and this is where i part ways with the current administration, the biden administration as well as many republicans who

supported the chips act. this is difficult for me to say in ohio but i believe speaking truth. speaking the truth not when it is easy but when it is hard. i'm opposed to the chips act because it is really the green new deal massacre aiding in chips massacre aid. gina ray mondaya has said child care, but the government shouldn't be saying that on to companies as a condition for getting federal money. diversity quotas up and down a supply chain in the same act that passed the chips act was the same law, if you had to sign up for chips, you had to sign up for the n.s.f., applying

diversity and inclusion quotas and mandates how they make their grants based on race. i reject that and we deserve a president who will do the right thing. and that's why even here in ohio, the chips act was the wrong way to go, but we can't throw the baby out with the bath water either. but for national security reasons, it is important we have a narrowly tailored focus on bringing back semiconductor production here in the united states of america. and it's just not about money. the number one impediment building out a new plant in arizona, it's not the money, but the absence of skilled workers and trained workers who can actually know how to produce

those semiconductors in arizona. that will be the number one rate limiting factor here in ohio and we have to focus on work force training in the united states not actually will go through vocational training too fill the actual needs we have in the united states. that is a vital objective. easy to sign it with d.i.a. and the hard part is doing what is required to fulfill that supply chain. we need a focus and policy that faces the semiconductor gap while being disciplined focus. if we are serious about declaring independence from china, i will challenge you on

this one. anyone who is actually serious, not about paying lip service or a wish list to onshore in the united states, but if we are serious of cutting off economic independence from china, we have to be serious of a friendly approach to get there. that means reopening and expanding in the likes of japan and south korea and opening up access to the united states to those providers of semiconductors. we will compete and we have the greatest talent. but we will compete not because we are friends and allies, but we will compete with our friends and allies. and this is important to

decoupling. we are within the window for win china and exes or possibly invades taiwan and can't have them hold a gun to our head. that is that a new era where the united states of america is no long in. a new equilibrium of a co-iment relationship we don't want to be in. they don't end well. the only question is who ends it first. the sooner we end it, the better with us. and semiconductor independence not with crony capitalism and marriage with the government and saying we will do it for our national security while opening up trade and embracing

competition with our allies. that is how we shore up the semi-conductor supply train and how we live our daily lives in the united states of america. i believe in 5-10 years, it is possible that the united states like taiwan does today will lead the world in our own production of see him me conductors that we expect to the rest of the world. now the third area where we are going to have to lead is shoring up our defense industrial base here at home. i'm going to lay out some sobering truths.

folks like myself and others who will be leading this country with china because they can't make f-35's or even ships or other production we need in the united states without depending on china. think about how little sense

this makes. if we are investing in our own military and defense defense capabilities, why are we doing it? we are doing it to protect against a conflict scenario in the united states. and that fell back in 1990. our top adversary today is communist china. so what you think the first thing communist china is going to do when we end up in a conflict with china, turn off our defense industrial base which they control the very weapons they don't want us to use to strike china. virginia class attack submarine requires 9, 200 pounds.

f-35930 pounds of rare earth minerals that come today from china. our greatest adversary is also our greatest supplier of the very military equipment that we build to deter that adversary. and put it in context, we did not depend for one i oatha for our industrial supply chain with the ussr in the last cold war. ronald reagan would be rolling over knowing we depend on our own adversary. the right answer is we have to rm today i'm announcing a commitment that we have to make as americans between now and 2032, getting us through the window where we will hit our naval capacity and otherwise.

a commitment to a floor of 4% of u.s. g.d.p. spent on u.s. military expenditures where our defense exaibts are badly lacking. this isn't going to be an expenditure. how are we going to get that money? here's the answer. we have spent $3 trillion, over 3 trillion in wars standing up from afghanistan to iraq over the last 20 years that did not advance u.s. interests. tense of thousands -- tens of thousands. the taliban still in control in afghanistan. 20 years later, a regime in iraq is unfriendly to the united

states, weak and vulnerable. jo in recent weeks, ohio sons and daughters coming back from deployments to ish. we have to learn from our past mistakes in order to avoid repeating them. we have to defend our homeland itself. >> defense capability where china and russia have space based offensive capabilities against the united states. we are using our own military to

defend against an armed invasion against the border in ukraine and not using our own military to defend against our southern border. that is wrong. the top job of the u.s. military under my watch will once again be to defend american citizens here in the and homeland defense capabilities against our top adversaries. lincoln might have called us to do the peace through strength. to a new vision of prosperity through peace here at home. that is the new way forward for both advancing our economic interests while advancing our

national security here at home, a peace dividend by no longer fighting wars in parts of the world that do not advance our interests to have the money to defend our own industrial base right here at home in the united states of america. that is how i will leave this country as your next commander in chief. thank you. 95% of our imports for over the counter medicines like ibuprofen

come from china. and everybody who is knowledgeable about this issue in washington ddz knows but refused to say publicly because of the consequences of speaking the truth out on people. i believe we have to speak the truth as leaders of this country not when it is easy but hard. here's the truth what is going on. yes, we have fentanyl spreading, but where is it coming from? today as we speak, the key synthetic makers come from wuhan exported to the mexican drug cartels that are making synthetic drugs with the aid of

chinese chemists. lacing fentanyl in other drugs for people who take them in the united states. 80 and 100,000 deaths that are going to be and made with chinese preoccursors and opium war actually exists. you cannot win if you don't exercise. i'll tell you the story it was derek and kathy and lost their 178-year-old son erm and took a

percoc emp t. and we have to make sure kids and he bought what he thought was the medicine. he deposit know what he was boying was a death sentence because it was laced with fentanyl that crossed our southern border after being made from synthetic imputs coming from china. this isn't an innocent accident. what is true and we must knowledge about decounseling our pharmaceutical supply chain with china. if we are in a conflict with china, god forbid. the same country that unleashed choke on the world and same country from wuhan is sending to

lace other farm suital that are threating tens of thousands men and women today. will be the same country that could lace our legal pharmaceutical supply chain about poison including fentanyl as well. that is not a fate we can a provided -- abide. and one-sided, lacing fentanyl spue other drugs is the same country we depend on for 95% of our imports and over the counter medicines that we take every day. this is not acceptable and only we are going to fix it is by a combination of onshoring that

prowkd here in the united states through radical reform in the s.b. and manges more accepts. that is the administrative state at home and the one war i will change will not be an unforeseen war in the middle east. we have to stop that. but it will also require and being honest with ourselves. i bill not if we are spry serious. it will require expanded relationships with india. israel, brazil. other countries inlewding north korea and china and makeic sure

they are not laced with same punt r. and i think that that is the task ahead. that is achievable and can't fall in the trap that we have to have a combined mixed strategy while expanding our trade relationships with those other countries. our vision will be the 30 billion doses that we take every day. we are not thinking about twice if we are being poisoned. this is the new vision for our conservative movement. it was trade friendly with our allies and that's an honest

approach of how we are going to achieve, not just lip service but he heal here in the u.s. are which serious about being able to cut the cord from china? the first thing i would say is, this is our first moment to do it. they are an go active. the steer of policy. the achilles heel. and this is why china's economy is languishing, a u.s. president who is serious from single hitting -- million you play by the rules, unless you stop r.i.p. in our companies. unless you stop turning our companies into lobbying pawns

and play by the same set of rolls. you will not buy land in this country or will not turn companies into your trojan horses. you want to know what is going to happen they are in a week shot than we are. if you rose milling a sacrifice, the nice are on our side card. of the total amount of lick tron exports south korea's total exports in the area of trek since. the country and we have capacity in the orm of our alleys and can

at the family and the president of the united states to actually see it through. chile is the third largest producer of lithium. chile exports eight times as much legitimateion to china. and we have a free trade relationship with chile today. we are lacking in some of those elements and 40% of those rare felt minimum reals. 20 countries are enjoying it. and we cannot be decoupled from china and hurt americans that's the far as we have been fed by chinese propaganda served up on

a silver party by poaght parties. if we see the flackets, we know it's possible and the standard i use is what young thomas jefferson would say today. he eye my favorite president. i take a lot of that. he was 33 years old when he brought the acknowledge of investigator. he invented the swivel chair that was invented by thomas jefferson. one of the persons who was the bifocal. the stove that was made and invented here by a co-signor of

the declaration of independences that made the swivel-air possible. we are the pioneers and explore percent. we are going to do it at home. that is the ward relief possible? from our funding through the mistake that we criticized in the 1990. we are a nation of men and bill stupidded on those ideals and i would rather live in a country that has ideals and fall short of them. and nevada that a country that no longer has ideals. nobody calls china a hip crate. you have toll saddam hussein details in the first mace.

our worst mistakes and the one i have criticized, our worse mistakes and hypocrisies are our best evidence that we have those ideals in the first place. america is not founded on per peck if he cans but on the pursuit of perfection, the pursuit of limit and equality and justice for all. that is the dream that reunited us after the civil war and won two world wars and dream war, they did and from 1776 that nobody in the world, not a nation, not a corporation, not a

virus is going to dpeet us, that is bay american exceptionalism is all p. and we together will save this great nation. god bless your family and may god bless our united states of america. thank you. thank you. i appreciate that. we are going to open this up and give a few to ask questions and i want to hear it up and then we'll wrap this up. >> thank you for coming today, first of all, it is called tranq and that is that was the second

trip i took.

the first time i sat down with a group of parents in south carolina and i think i was beginning to process it. but i think there was something about it that one of the mothers there, she was looking at me, i regret it it was the case and didn't land with me. round table and put her hand on my shoulders and she said you've got two kids. yes, i do. if you don't fix this, you are next on the list. and that landed with me. that stuck with me. this is not somebody else's problem, this does not discriminate between black and white, rich or poor, man or woman, but spreading across our country like and different than the other drug addiction. from is a demand side.

i will never point the figure at someone for looking in the mirror. we have a mental health problem. and if if a god or nation doesn't fill that hole, that is true weflt to have the courage and honesty. not just somebody else's problem, we have to look in the mirror, too. with fentanyl, this is intentional, adversary using the swiss cheeses of -- cheese of a southern border. i have said that instead of protecting someone else's border, we will use our military to protect against the armed invasion across our southern border. you sceek it in one place.

we will have to be willing to do it for our northern border, too. thank you very much for that question. appreciate that. >> i sent a message inviting for you on breakfast and lunch. i reiterated it to some of your co-workers. will you sign my book? >> i will sign your book. come on up here. thank you, i'm so glad you are here. i like young people coming out. >> i have a hypothetical question, if you were in the charge of the primary debates, what would you change about it? would you have more, less, how long.

>> thank you very much. the next debate is next wednesday and interesting comment. my view is i don't complain about the game. you don't hate the game but play the game. people look to the media, a lot of things that i would change -- not them personally but media is broken. but we show up and go on the network, right-wing, left wing, doesn't matter. is it a fair system, no it's not. if i'm not riling to he sign across the table with don lemon or chuck todd, whoever it is, if i'm not ready to sit across the table, we have to practice what

we preach. do i have some issues? yes, i do. hardship is not a choice, hardship is something that happens. and i refuse to be a victim and i believe we will be victorious next week and those aren't my real opponents but we will be victorious next november. thank you very much. i appreciate that. go to the back there. >> my name is in josh and driving from pennsylvania pack to indiana where we live and i'm trying to beep you up on msnbc. he is 20 minutes away, let's go. so here we are. it isn't related to the foreign policy, what about taxes in this

country? >> two things before i give you my plan, i will never give awe false promise. most of my agenda from declaring independence from china, this is what the u.s. president can do, keep us out of world war ii, unlock the regulations that hold our economy back. this is the mistake most presidents make. you might remember this. my friend donald trump, repeal and replace obamacare. it is a falls promise. everything i'm telling you we are going to get it done. now i do have a legislative agenda and get to it after the will bees i laid out. changing