Hello, hello everybody. Thank you. Thank you so very much for that introduction and for your leadership and all you do for the community here in phoenix. Thank you. Good to see everybody and good to be in the house of labor. Earlier today joe and i had a chance to visit the American Indian Veterans National memorial and takes you to the native americans who served our country in uniformve. We we were joined by the great cindy mccain a longtime friend and someone i greatly admire. I was fortunate to serve with john mccain in the United States senate and what an incredible, incredible american pray he was a patriot of the highest order. Cindy is supporting our campai campaign. Isnt that great . [applause] she is doing it because she knows that joe and i will always do what she and john did and that is put our country first. So we thank cindy and are so excited to be here in arizona today and later today we will stopll and talk with workers and Small Business owners who are working so har
On the phone with both leaders his desire to reform but obviously his goal was to have that discussion when they come in person and i think i mentioned yesterday the foreign minister of mexico is gonna come on the 25th or 26th to set the table and have at some of those meetings ahead of president meeting here. Now that hes officially in office. This is his first working day. I think hes been pretty busy and robust. I think you are going to see a lot more come out but there is a lot of things that had to get done and a lot of things that were working on as a staff to get him prepared. He will have a very robust week. Thank you guys appreciate it. [indiscernible] most of those people for the actions and the most important one. When you have the news come up. To them from india. [indiscernible] thank you for the question. I think that whether its india or other countries throughout the globe today as i mentioned the goal is to figure out countries and markets that we want to access that b
Presentation to a packed house. When she had finished, they asked if there was anything she would like, and she said, i would like to hear your famous organ play. The organist came over, and i and he played come, come ya saints. The president walked up to the organ and placed her hand on the wooden case. A person who was there at the time said helen keller just left as she felt the throbbing of the great instrument and the sound of those types playing the song that the pioneers had sang as they came across the plains. There is something unique about this choir that comes across to audiences. I think it is a combination of things. It is not just the sound of the choir. It isnt just how well trained they are and how professional they are. I think it is their sincerity about their message. The audiencen to at the end of any performance or broadcast to sing god be with you until we meet again, i see tears in the eyes of the people out there. I know the stories of the choir members. I know
Lets just leave it at that. More than saudi arabia, oil, coal, we have it all. But we dont have the ability to move it. We have been trying for 40 years to advance our natural gas coming off of the north slope and we are still working at it. Our oil resources, we were successful in the mid70s, getting the transalaska pipeline. But it really has been our only infrastructure corridor or, the 800 mile pipe from north to south. Think about our coal reserves. That is because we lack that infrastructure. You may have the infrastructure, it is aging infrastructure. It is insufficient to meet the demands that are out there. I too have been to north dakota and the folks up there say, we can wait all day for more pipelines, but in the meantime, lets just put it on rail. We will not be able to access these incredible reserves unless weve got the infrastructure to move it. And this is not just limited to our fossil fuels. Its how we move wind, solar, renewable. This will be our big challenge movin
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