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Questions for Director Gabbard.You're welcome to ask them.We'll start with our new media seat, as always.Emily, go ahead.

Thank you.And, Director Gabbard, this one is for you.Do you believe that any of this new information implicates former President Obama in criminal behavior?

We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of this.The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment.There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact.

Director Gabbard, thank you.So just two questions, but to begin on that.The President yesterday, you've inferred that the former President helped lead a coup.Based on what you now see, do you believe President Obama is guilty of treason?

I'm leaving the criminal charges to the Department of Justice.I am not an attorney.But as I've said previously, when you look at the intent behind creating a fake manufactured intelligence document that directly contradicts multiple assessments that were created by the intelligence community.The expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be described as a years -long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic, and an attempt to undermine President Trump's administration.

The Senate Intelligence Committee spent several years looking into this and unanimously agreed in a bipartisan fashion.Secretary of State Rubio was a member of that committee.that there was no political interference.There was a years -long Justice Department investigation into this as well that also concluded no political interference.So help us, from a 50 ,000 -foot level, explain what do you now have that refutes those two conclusions?

I will encourage you, in my role as the Director of National Intelligence, my job, again, as I said when I came into this role, was to make sure that we are telling the truth to the American people and that we are ensuring that the intelligence community is not being politicized.So I'm not asking you to take my word for it.I'm asking you and the media to conduct honest journalism and the American people to see for yourself in the documents that we've released now, close to 200 pages, that point in multiple references, multiple examples, to include comments that have been made by senior intelligence professionals, who are some still working within these agencies today, that confirm the conclusions that we have drawn, that President Obama directed an intelligence community assessment to be created to further this contrived, false narrative that ultimately led to a years -long coup to try to undermine President Trump's presidency.

The Press And it's your belief that those two previous investigations missed that or covered it up?

Ms. Sanders I'm telling you to look at the evidence.Look at the evidence, and you will know the truth.

The Press John.The Press Thanks, Caroline.

Thanks, Director Gabbard.You declassified these documents, if I'm not mistaken, Friday of last week, correct?

We released them on Friday of last week, the first tranche, yes.

This isn't the first time that President Trump has been president of the United States.He was president from 2017 to 2021.Couldn't the prior DNI under President Trump have declassified these documents?And why didn't that DNI do that at that time?

I can't speak to what happened there.There were several DNIs under the first Trump administration.President Trump faced many challenges from those who were working in the government who sought to undermine his presidency.That's been clearly detailed.What I can speak to is the fact that this was one of the firstthings that we started to investigate here within this Trump administration and have released the results upon the conclusion of our investigation.

The Press And then my second question has to do with what intelligence agencies around the world have said about Russia, that they have tried to influence elections in the United States, in France, in Germany, in the UK.Do you disagree with that?Do you believe that Russia is a bad actor as it relates to trying to influence elections?

I'll point back to the intelligence that President Trump has ordered declassified, that we have declassified and released, that the intelligence reflects Russia's motives were to try to sow discord and chaos within the U .S.election, which is a clear distinction from Russia's showing a preference for or against a specific candidate, which is what the Obama -manufactured intelligence document alleges, that Russia preferred Donald Trump and tried to help Donald Trump get elected.Again, going back to the most important point here, with the intent to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump's election, and therefore subvert the will of the American people who chose to send him to the White House.

You laid out that the documents revealed that the Obama administration did not publish a December 2016 presidential daily briefing that demonstrated that Russia did not steal the election.Trump was receiving these briefings at the time because he was president -elect.Are you of the view that that information was kept out of the briefing because then president -elect Donald Trump would have seen it?

I don't have any documents that speak to exactly what the new guidance was that was given as the reason for pulling that document, which, by the way, still has never been published until we released it last week, Friday.One could assume that they didn't want President Trump to see a document that came from the intelligence community that would contradict the Russia hoax narrative that began through the Hillary Clinton campaign with the Steele dossier.

The Press The President said yesterday that Obama committed treason.

Does – do you or the White House believe that the Supreme Court's immunity decision protects Obama from prosecution?

the President's feelings on this matter.He spoke to all of you yesterday in the Oval Office, but I also spoke to him about this this morning.And he wants to see all those who perpetuated this fraud against our country, who betrayed our country and the Constitution to be thoroughly investigated and held accountable.And it's been 10 years of this.And I would just add, based on everything the Director has said and declassified, all of you in this room should go through it and take a look at this report and review the intelligence, because is unfortunately, that hasn't happened.And many of the people who perpetuated this hoax, Clapper, Andy McCabe, James Comey, and many others, have been hired by major networks in this room to go on television and continue to spew these lies, knowing that they are lies.

And if you all recall, just flashback to 2016 and the years after, the entire Trump won presidency was embroiled in this scandal that was perpetuated by the Democrat Party.And you had major Democrat Party officials officials in this city, namely Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, who went on television and told the American people Donald Trump is an asset of Russia.It was a lie.They always knew it.Hillary Clinton herself said that President Trump would be a puppet for Putin.Senator Tim Kaine at the time called President Trump Vladimir Putin's defense lawyer.

Adam Schiff stated,and one of the worst things a lawmaker can do is to tell the American people, I know something you don't know.It's just classified and I can't tell you.And that's what he said.I can tell you that the case is more than that.I can't go into the particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now.

And not enough people in this room, not enough journalists in this country, pushed Adam Schiff to say, what are you talking about?What evidence do you have?Everybody just ran with the lies.And it led to impeachments.It led to the division of our country.Unfortunately, so many Americans, from listening to outlets in this room, believed in these lies.

And it's a complete scam.And it's a scandal.And the President wants to see accountability for that.Phil.

A question for Director Gabbard.A spokesperson for former President Obama said in a statement earlier this week, quote, nothing in the documents issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.How do you respond to critics like former President Obama and also others on the Hill who say that the administration is conflating apples and oranges here, conflating allegations of actual hacking of voter machines and allegations of interference generally?

I think it's a disservice to the American people that former President Obama's office and others who are criticizing the transparency that is being delivered by releasing these documents, they are doing a disservice to the American people and trying to deflect away from their culpability in what is a historic scandal and negative action towards the American people and our democratic republic.The answer to that statement can very clearly be found throughout all of the documents that we have released, again, showing that Russia has took action to try to sow discord in the election, but showed no preference for or against any singular candidate.

You've long been an opponent of weaponization in government.How do you respond to criticism that referring Obama administration officials and even potentially the former President is just more weaponization and this is a potential race to the bottom?

I think that's a very disrespectful attack on the American people who deserve the truth.They deserve to have faith and trust in the integrity of our democratic republic, which has been undermined by President Obama.through his direction of this manufactured fake intelligence document, knowing that it was filled with lies and knowing that it would and could then be used for all of the actions that came after.

And I would just add, there needs to be accountability for that weaponization, Phil, that we've seen.And no one has been a victim of the weaponized government more than President Trump, not just because of this political scandal.You all recall his house was raided.So I think it's very disingenuous for people to say, how dare they speak of former President Obama about this, based on evidence and based on intelligence, when the former President of the United States, Donald Trump's, home was raided, when he was forced to sit in a Manhattan courtroom and many other courtrooms across the country for crimes he never committed, when he was impeached and indicted, and the entire country witnessed that.That's the weaponization of justice.Now the President is back because the American people see the truth.

Nearly 80 million Americans reelected him back to this office, and he believes that we need to have justice and accountability.And I think the nearly 80 million Americans who reelected him agree with that.Kaitlan.

The Press.now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said in a statement that they did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, but they did find, however, it's very troubling and they found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.One, are you saying that he's wrong in that statement that he made then?And secondly, what would you say to people who believe that you're only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the President after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?

Well, first, I want to correct something that you stated, which was citing the Senate Intelligence Committee's report as being one and the same.I think you said the intelligence community.The Senate Intelligence Committee has a very different function than the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.the evidence and the intelligence that has been declassified and released to the public.is irrefutable?

I'm going to let Caroline speak to Secretary Rubio.was concocting this narrative that the President colluded with the Russians, that the President's son was holding secret meetings with the Russians, all of these lies that were never true.And he also said, at that time, we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the FBI under Comey, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the Steele dossier without verifying its methodology or sourcing, the Steele dossier that many outlets in this room ran as the gospel truth, and it was cooked up and paid for by the Clinton campaign.As for your second question, Kaitlan, I think, who is saying that, that she would release this to try to boost her standing with the President?Who has said that?

Well, the President has publicly undermined her when it came to Iran.He said she was wrong.He told me that she didn't know what she was talking about.

The Press.as he continues to, and that is true of his entire Cabinet, who is all working as one team to deliver on the promises this President made.Does anyone else have questions for Director Gabbard?And then we'll turn it over to a couple other questions.Christian, go ahead.

Yeah, thank you.Director Gabbard, two follow -ups on questions that have been asked.You mentioned the previous DNIs during the President's first term.One of them reports to you right now, if I'm not mistaken, John Ratcliffe.So have you not spoken to him about why this information was not declassified during the first term?

He was in that position for a very short period of time.The work that began back then, we have picked up and absolutely completed.We are continuing to investigate this.Additional whistleblowers are now coming forward because they see an opportunity for the truth to come to light and, as Caroline said, for real accountability to be brought forward.The accountability is the essential part of this.We can show the truth, reveal the truth.

The accountability needs to occur to be able to start to restore that trust.trust in the integrity of our democracy.

The Press And then, just quickly, I know you said you'd keep the charging to DOJ, but the statute of limitations on conspiracy is five years.So what else could they possibly pursue besides treason at this point?

Ms. Sanders I think that's a great question for Attorney General Pam Bondi.We're providing all of the evidence, all of the intelligence that we have, both redacted and unredacted versions, referring it to the Department of Justice and the FBI.

The Press How credible was the information about Hillary Clinton's power to meet?The report said that it was from the DNC, sourced from the DNC.Have you seen that information?Or do you think that maybe Russia was overemphasizing what they had?

Ms. Sanders All I have seen is what the Intelligence Committee have reported through their investigation.I think the underlying point there is, is that We understand from intelligence what Russia said that they had.And the important point here is that if they were trying to influence the election, as President Obama and James Clapper and John Brennan, everybody said they were doing in order to support Donald Trump's election, they would have released the most damning of that information, some of which I detailed here.You'll find the rest in the report, prior to the election.to help Donald Trump win.They specifically withheld what they had on her, the most damning information, because they thought that she would win the election.

They had plans to release it just prior to her inauguration to, again, sow discord and chaos in America.

on Jeffrey Epstein.Can you rule out that he was connected in some way to any kind of intelligence, either foreign or domestic?

I haven't seen any evidence or information that reflects that.If anything comes before me that changes that in any way, support the President's statement loud and clear.If any credible evidence comes forward, he wants the American people to see it.

Great.Director Gabbard, we thank you for your time today.

I know you're a busy woman, so we'll let you get out of here, but thank you so much.

Okay.I know there's many issues going on today across the world and here at home.If you have any other further questions, I'm happy to take them.Ed, why don't you go ahead.

The Press Thank you, Caroline.So the Japan trade deal, is that Japan trade deal the start of this number of trade deals that the Treasury Secretary says we're going to see by August 1st?

I think it is. I mean, as you said, we had Japan yesterday.We also had Indonesia and we had the Philippines as well.The President announcing all three.He came in as the closer in all three of those.I've said many times from this podium that the President's trade team has been in active talks and discussions with many countries around the world, and you've all been anxiously awaiting what those countries were.Now you know three of them, and there's many, many more to go.

We have now sent 25 letters to countries around the world.But just to reiterate this Japan deal, deal for those at home who may have missed it.Japan will now pay a 15 percent tariff versus the reciprocal rate of 24 percent that they initially had.Auto and auto parts tariffs have been reduced to 15 percent.But the centerpiece of this deal now is the President got Japan to commit to $550 billion in investments to revitalize American industries.And these funds will be spent at President Trump's discretion and direction into key industries such as energy, semiconductors, critical minerals, pharmaceuticals, and shipbuilding.

And the U .S.will retain 90 percent of the profits from any investments made by this $550 billion fund.This was originally a $400 billion investment that President Trump then negotiated to an increase of $150 billion, making it a $550 billion deal for the American people.And I just want to emphasize, Ed, I see you have a follow -up, but it's very important.Japan has agreed to open their markets to many very key sectors in American -made products that have really faced very strict tariff and for precious souls.

We are so sorry for the grief and the pain you have experienced at the hands of such a vicious and evil killer.Our nation grieves with you, and we will never forget the precious souls who were lost in thishorrific act of evil.If it were up to the President, he would have forced this monster to publicly explain why he chose to steal these innocent souls.May God bless and watch over everyone affected by this unimaginable tragedy, especially the parents who lost their children.Let me begin with a few scheduling items off the top.

Later this afternoon, President Trump will deliver the keynote address at the Winning the AI Race Summit here in Washington, D .C.President Trump believes it is non -negotiable that the United States wins the AI race, which is why today President Trump will announce a bold and comprehensive AI action plan to sustain and enhance America's global AI dominance.Under President Trump's leadership, our country will lead the world in AI to secure a brighter future for all Americans, massively grow our economy, and protect our national security.The President will also sign three executive orders at the event this afternoon.On Friday morning, President Trump will travel to Scotland for a working visit that will include a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Starmer to refine the historic U .

S.-UK trade deal.On the topic of trade, yesterday, President Trump accomplished something no other President has ever achieved.The President secured and announced three major trade deals with the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan all in one day.President Trump is finally putting a stop to our country getting ripped off.As a result of the President's successful negotiating tactics, many foreign markets are now being opened to American industries for the very first time, and harmful trade barriers are being broken down.

Thanks to President Trump, these countries around the world are agreeing to open their markets to American -made products and goods for the first time, which will lead to a boom in sales and profits for American businesses,right here at home.As President Trump said, he will only lower tariff rates if a country agrees to open their market to American -made products.If not, they will continue to face tariffs and pay a steep price to do business in the United States of America, which remains the best market on the face of the planet.Also this week, the President officially marked six months here at the White House.He made big promises to the American people on the campaign trail last year, and he has unquestionably delivered on those promises in record time.

The President has defeated the Biden inflation crisis to make America affordable again.Core inflation is currently at its lowest level in four years, and prices for everyday goods are falling.The President's pro -growth policies have fueled massive job growth.across our country.Since the President has taken office, our economy has added nearly 700 ,000 new jobs, with native -born American workers accounting for all job gains.The President has put the economic needs of families and of workers first.

He signed the largest tax cuts for the middle class in American history, including no tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security.We have also seen the President unquestionably deliver on his promise to secure our sovereign border.He has ended Biden's illegal alien invasion, and for two months in a row, zero illegal aliens were released into our country.The President has also, as you all know, initiated the largest mass deportation campaign in American history.The President has also restored law and order to make America safe again, another campaign promise he vowed to the American public.The United States of America is currently on track for its lowest murder rate on record following this shift from the last administration to the Trump administration.

The President has also addedJoe Biden's reckless war on American energy.U .S.oil and natural gas production are now surging, and summer gas prices reached their lowest level since 2021.The President has also rebuilt our military, another campaign promise.

He just signed the largest military investment in decades to modernize our armed forces with cutting -edge technology to replenish our stockpiles and provide American troops with the best equipment in the world.The U .S.Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force have all reached their recruitment goals months in advance.The President has restored America's standing on the world stage, brought back peace through strength, and brokered numerous peace agreements to end wars.Again, all of this in just six months.

He obliterated Iran's nuclear program to end the war between Israel and Iran, got NATO members to raise their defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, and secured a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, as well as brokering a historic agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The President has already received three different Nobel Peace Prize nominations for his peacemaking efforts.Again, all of this progress, all of these accomplishments have occurred in just six months.We are truly just getting started, and we look forward to working with all of you for the next three and a half years.On another matter, over the past few days, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has unveiled shocking new evidence that former President Barack Obama and top aides in the Obama administration conspired to subvert President Trump's 2016 election victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people.While publicly pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power, in private, former President Obama went to great and nefarious lengths to try to sow discord among the public and sabotage his successor, President Trump.

The new evidence released by the Director of National Intelligence, who is here with me today, confirms that the Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence, which was later used as the justification for baseless smears against President Trump in an effort to try to delegitimize his victory before he even took the oath of office.The truth is that President Trump never had anything to do with Russia, and the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetuated on the American people from the very beginning.And the worst part of this is Obama knew that truth, and so did all of the other corrupt officials involved in this scam, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and many others.Director of National Intelligence Gabbard's report further confirms what we already knew.There was no collusion, no corruption.except on the part of Barack Obama and the weaponized intelligence agencies at the time.

The Russia hoax was a blatant lie, all ginned up by Democrat political operatives that were signed off on by then -President Obama and leaked.to the news media to launch a years -long witch hunt against President Trump and his first administration.Allies of the President, including his own son, Donald Trump Jr., were disgustingly smeared as Russian assets, and some even had their lives destroyed because of this vicious lie.