Doug Burgum

you know, the folks that are pushing these lawsuits and funding these lawsuits, if you cared about it, you'd want to have it all done here. You'd want to have everything mined in the U.S., processed in the U.S. You'd want to have every electron, every barrel of oil and gas produced here. We do it cleaner, better, safer, smarter, and healthier here in the U.S.

you know, the folks that are pushing these lawsuits and funding these lawsuits, if you cared about it, you'd want to have it all done here. You'd want to have everything mined in the U.S., processed in the U.S. You'd want to have every electron, every barrel of oil and gas produced here. We do it cleaner, better, safer, smarter, and healthier here in the U.S.

because when we attack these resource-based industries, we don't reduce the we just shift the supply to overseas, and then shift it to China, who might be extracting this from the DRC in the middle of Africa, and they're doing it without reclamation. They're doing it with sometimes slave labor, prisoner labor. I mean, they're doing it with no emissions control on what they're doing.

because when we attack these resource-based industries, we don't reduce the we just shift the supply to overseas, and then shift it to China, who might be extracting this from the DRC in the middle of Africa, and they're doing it without reclamation. They're doing it with sometimes slave labor, prisoner labor. I mean, they're doing it with no emissions control on what they're doing.

So it's worse for the global environment. It helps our adversaries. It hurts our economy. And it's horrible for national security. So it's literally 180 degrees. They're taking down a path. The Obama-Biden was taking us down a path 180 degrees in the wrong direction. President Trump is changing that because he understands that both...

So it's worse for the global environment. It helps our adversaries. It hurts our economy. And it's horrible for national security. So it's literally 180 degrees. They're taking down a path. The Obama-Biden was taking us down a path 180 degrees in the wrong direction. President Trump is changing that because he understands that both...

Peace abroad and prosperity at home is that we have to be competitive in these natural resource industries, including the production of energy and producing critical minerals.

Peace abroad and prosperity at home is that we have to be competitive in these natural resource industries, including the production of energy and producing critical minerals.

Well, this is a wonderful connection between two powerful presidents. Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 had the foresight and the wisdom to set aside what became known as the Roosevelt Reservation. Right, yeah.

Well, this is a wonderful connection between two powerful presidents. Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 had the foresight and the wisdom to set aside what became known as the Roosevelt Reservation. Right, yeah.

a 60-foot strip across New Mexico, Arizona, and California, which could, at the authority of the Secretary of Interior, be transferred to the Department of Defense, in his words of the day, to stop smuggling. Well, what have we had? We've had human trafficking, smuggling. fentanyl flowing in, sort of mass invasion, mass casualties.

a 60-foot strip across New Mexico, Arizona, and California, which could, at the authority of the Secretary of Interior, be transferred to the Department of Defense, in his words of the day, to stop smuggling. Well, what have we had? We've had human trafficking, smuggling. fentanyl flowing in, sort of mass invasion, mass casualties.

Well, now we have a 60-foot strip that's been transferred to the U.S. DOD. If someone sets foot on that, they're trespassing on a military installation. Now the troops that President Trump, through the border emergency, has deployed down there, they can detain someone for that trespassing until the border patrol, who's got arrest authority, can arrest them.

Well, now we have a 60-foot strip that's been transferred to the U.S. DOD. If someone sets foot on that, they're trespassing on a military installation. Now the troops that President Trump, through the border emergency, has deployed down there, they can detain someone for that trespassing until the border patrol, who's got arrest authority, can arrest them.

So this is going to help with the collaboration between the Border Patrol and the NRDOD. And I was just down there last week as part in signing the order down there on the New Mexico border. But I'm telling you, the Border Patrol, I talked to multiple people, 20 plus years, 25 years in the service.

So this is going to help with the collaboration between the Border Patrol and the NRDOD. And I was just down there last week as part in signing the order down there on the New Mexico border. But I'm telling you, the Border Patrol, I talked to multiple people, 20 plus years, 25 years in the service.

They said they've never felt more supported in their job in doing law enforcement than they have right now under President Trump.

They said they've never felt more supported in their job in doing law enforcement than they have right now under President Trump.

Well, the systems, the IT systems are so bad at the federal level that it is, It's really some days absurd. And having spent my life selling business solutions in the tech business, software solutions, then this is an area that I'm particularly interested in. But we come in with the basic questions that any business could ask. You can't get answers.

Well, the systems, the IT systems are so bad at the federal level that it is, It's really some days absurd. And having spent my life selling business solutions in the tech business, software solutions, then this is an area that I'm particularly interested in. But we come in with the basic questions that any business could ask. You can't get answers.