Economy among other items. Text let the bricks are working i did not run over you. I am a cattle farmer i have no problem. I can stop lights of things. Good to see a face to face it. Likewise. Quickset wash on to be at the debate the other night and was impressed. We are looking forward to it. Are you a cow calf operation . Looks a little everything. Just enjoy the outdoors. Im glad you came to enjoy it with us. Hi, my name is catherine. I think we are ready to have you. Hello. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] he has to point that out. Nice to meet you. Hi there, im doug. Nice to meet you. I like your approach. Im doug. Im running for president. Okay. Looks like you had a little stint. Basketball. Nice to meet you. Have a good day. Hello. Im doug. Im ricky, nice to meet you. Im katherine burgum. [inaudible conversations] yeah. It does. Looking forward going to iowa and warm up. Good luck to you. Best to you. Thank you. Is this one of your favorite restaurants. We are from nebraska. From omaha. A lot of family. [inaudible conversations] narrowed the margin. Yes. We were gaining grounded. Right. To you have any friends our connection with the university at lincoln. All the kids that are in the program. Wow. Lets me out. [laughter] they would always be kind enough to have a board meeting. Yeah. The volleyball game was amazing. Nebraska played the university of north dakota this year. I think its nebraska. North dakota state. Got to root for them. Might cost us the votes in iowa but ive been booed a few times. Too soon. 2016. Like a long time ago. We were there for both of those games. Whats concerning you guys these days of whats happening these days . Im worried about inflation and the border. The two things that are affecting everybody. It is. Kind of on fixed income and worry about inflation. 700 more a month now before the Biden Administration. Yeah. Because of inflation. For sure. Yeah. I was town at the border three weeks ago. We were shocked how underreported. Maine, new hampshire, vermont, rhode island, delaware, joe bidens home state, 6 Million People. Thats how many people have crossed the border without, you know, legally, Asylum Seekers since he took office. Six days worth. We have a wide open border, thats what weve got. Katherine is very involved in attics and recovery but the thing is tragic. 110,000 overdosed deaths last year. So we were we are topping 5 vietnams of at that times due to overtoeses in the last two years. Yeah. 70 are fentanyl poisoning coming over the border. Taking one pill. Its not someone who struggled with addiction. Everybody knows these are all sons an daughters, nieces and nephews. Yeah. I just watched a couple of documentaries exactly. Yeah. Tragic. We are trying to refuse stigma from addiction. I didnt reach out for help for a long time and didnt talk about it for a long time because of the stigma. The only way we get more people to reach out is to normalize the conversation. Yeah. We are refusing stigma just by talking about it, getting more communities to talk about it, people that have recovering. 80 of the people of the 40 Million People across the nation are employed. Well, nice [inaudible conversations] first time i ran for office in 2016 as governor. We were down by 60 points. We won in 16 and got reelected in 20 by 40 points. Largest margin in the country. I want to fix the economy, solve our crazy backwards energy policy. We have to secure the border. We are in world with china that no one is talking about. We are in a cold war north korea is meeting with putin. We were in japan, in north dakota we produce all kinds of energy, all kinds of food, japan needs both of those and this is a country my tad was a world war ii vet. He fought in the pacific. Was there when japan was freezed and for 7 years theyve been a democracy and one of our best allies in that part of the world and they have no oil and gas. They are getting all their energy from the middle east. We are not selling it to them. We could be supplying all of it from alaska but we keep blocking, keep blocking Energy Development in our country so everybody over there that has the risk of Getting Energy supply, they have to cozy up to china. Its all just policy. Its not even laws of congress, this is administrative stuff. Biden administration is choking the u. S. Energy industry. We have an opportunity to sell energy to our friends and allies, stop buying from adversaries, day one thing that would change our national works. The stuff about we are going the save the world by having electric vehicles. Makes no sense. China is controlling 85 of the minerals that two into the batteries and we try opec. You want to be on team usa you have to be on Team Liquid Fuels as opposed to team yeah. Ethanol. Yeah. We can to it better and cleaner here in the usa. Is it your birthday . Its her birthday. Happy birthday. We went to school together. They divide our school. Half was shelby. Same thing. We merged with our arch rivals. In second grade i experienced a lot of change my first six years. Thats a joke. [laughter] 16 kids in our class. I can tell you where all 16 of them are. We had a big one of 16. You know each other forever. [inaudible conversations] they were big time down there. Okay. Northwest. Far from minneapolis. Yeah, born and raised there. She went to a big school. Shes from north dakota class a and class b. Two schools. This is a rarity right here. Class a boys never marry class b boys. A lot of convincing that had to happen. Basketball. Yeah. He was playing basketball after all these years. I blew my achilles the day before the debate. I dont know you guys heard, the best performance in president ial debate standing in one leg. Great to meet you all. Take care. Im katherine. I wont shake your hand because youre in the middle of lunch. Okay, all right. Okay. Cool. General private college. Tuition, like how many students . In my town yeah. Yeah, they are doing innovative things. Im doug by the way. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. What to you recommend today . Chicken or the pizza . Its all good. Thats what got those two guys started with it. Really . About 85. We are going to keep it informal. Thanks for setting it up. We are talking to a group up here and they said a lot of people wednesday is packed but maybe because of the air quality a lot of people are staying home today but we are glad that you guys made it out. So we will keep it short and informal and take questions and i will kick it over to katherine to say a few things to get us started. Well, before 2016 towing spent his entire career in the private sector. So he knows how to compete and win in a Global Economy and then 7 years ago he came home and said that he was thinking about getting into the governors race and i was like, what, that was not even on my radar at all, but, you know, i think he saw the look on my face and he said here is the situation, our opponent is a sitting attorney general, hes been in the job for 15 years, his family has 100 years of name recognition because theyve been in politics practically since statehood and five months until the primary and theres one more thing, hes ahead by 60 points in the polls, so hes like, okay, we will give it our best shot. Basically he was saying we are not going to win anyway but 5 months later we won that primary by 20 points. So i never thought i would be standing in front of you as first lady of north dakota but i also never thought i would be sharing publicly my story of my addiction and recovery. Ive been in recovery from alcohol addiction for over 21 years now. And [applause] but i thought i would talk publicly. I didnt talk about it about the stigma. So much stigma around Behavioral Health, addiction included. Thats what ive been doing since i became first lady and we have been doing that together and then he came home a while ago saying he was thinking about getting in the president ial race. We had a lot of conversations about that, let me tell you. In the end i decided that if we could have a national level, convene people to focus on helping more people that have Behavioral Health issues, getting the right people at the tables, focusing on eliminating stigma, you know, focusing on health care, the insurance industry, you know, so many ways to improve more services and help more people. I just thought if i could be a part of that process then im all in. Here we are today and towing deeply cares about people. He really wants to improve every American Life and unleash the best of america and talk about the best of america. Please help me welcome my husband and the next president of the United States towing burgum. [applause] thank you, katherine. And i just want again thank katherine. Not only change lives but saved a lot of lives which has touched tens of thousands of people in our state and really remarkable and changed a lot of policies of how you we think about Behavioral Health and criminal Justice Reform and a number of things. Shes had a big impact and i want to thank her for that. I want to thank all of you per spending time with us today. We are excited to talk. One person shows up we are excited. A small group shows up we are excited because we know the way the world changes, its always small group of committed individuals that the only way they will change the way things works. Happy to be here. I might ask eric. Pull the door. Its a little noisy. If theres a way do that. Thank you. Whats that . We will let them all in. As katherine said our mission here in terms of jumping in this race was what we learned in part from north dakota. We know thats done at a national level. The states created the federal government and not the other way around. The tenth amendment describes these are the power delegated by the federal government by who, the states themselves. Those powers that are delegated and the rest reserved for who . They are reserved for the states, coma and to the people. As governor of all of the overreach that occurs all of the time and that affects every american, the red tape, the cost of inflation. First one is the economy which is right now on the economy 180 180degree going in the wrong direction, inflation, 22year highs, the National Debt at alltime high. The fact that our dollar reserve currency is being eroded. That party can be coming to an end. We have been able to to a lot of this because dollar reserve currency gave us the ability to do the things that we are doing which is keep borrowing. Inflation is nabbing to my the way it gets discounted. Its a huge issue. It affects everybody everybody in this room and everybody thats not if youve been a hardworking american family, doing all the things that youre doing, your savings are getting eroded, its like someone coming in stealing money, you open up bank account. 30 my money is gone. Just the basic elements of, you know, meeting monthly needs. Food on the table, gas in the car. Thats just horrific to me and then they downplay it by saying, its slowing down. That means the prices are rising less quickly, stealing money from you just at a slower rate so the inflation thing is really sort of enemy number one that has to be taken care of. Why we have this is because of policies related to energy. If we will kill the u. S. Energy industry and energy is a component in every single product, everything in this room and point to anything in here, theres probably a component that comes from u. S. Energy and if we are going to drive our prices up because of an ideology that says if we could just get to all electric, all electric vehicles and we believe that so much that we are going to jam down an approach with a single party piece of legislation that says we are going to subsidize 5,000ev charging stations and subsidize the cars that people are going to buy. You are going to do that, somehow save the planet, the cars in them have batteries that are made in china because 75 to 85 of the minerals in the world are controlled by china. So then if youve got that going on basically trading opec for sinopec because china is actually we are in a cold war with china. We are in a cyber war every day with china. I can tell you that as a governor of the state. We get attacked every day as a the state. The universities, schools, our tribes. Russia, north korea, china, iran. Theyve got people that get up every they and go to work on cyberattacks on our country. We are in a war, cyber war. We are in a cold war. Thats happening. And then the Energy Policies are actually creating the destablization. We keep asking. President ial debate, we spent 15 minutes, should we spend more money to ukraine or less money, more money, less money. Ask the question, the question is not about the money, the question is why in the world did putin feel like he could march in to ukraine in the first place, because Biden Administration had no deterrence to stop them and its a with our exit from afghanistan which is a complete disaster and from all the other things that we have tone, basically putin is not the president of a country. Hes a mob boss. Hes worth 70 billion. He gets a cut of all of that stuff. He does that and puts sanctions on, try to get the countries together to say lets put sanctions on russia and oil rand when we do that, the price went town on the world market but didnt stop china from buying russian oil at discount. All we did is turn russia into gas station. China is getting Discount Energy because of our policies. So when i say we are 180degrees wrong in the economy, 180degrees wrong, there are some examples. Ive been at the border twice. I was down there 3 weeks ago with north Dakota National troops. We have 3 missions going on down there. Asking to try to get those goats guysto produce more energy be jt like he drained the Strategic Petroleum reserve in a half heading into midterm strike price down at the pump. Strategic reserve is strategic its therefore what world war iii starts for when it may be coming to stop the political control reserve is not political im going to try to get a bunch of my own party reelected reserve it is a strategic trillium reserve it was used by executive order to try to drop the price at the pump. 100 Million Barrels of oil on them buried on page 18. It is super frustrated these things are all tied together economy, energy, national security. They are trying to stop thats not even that assignment. I do know its coming into our country with lossy equivalent of four at vietnams going to fight vietnams great mass casualties since Biden Took Office the first year in office 107,000 overdose deaths. But that again. Thats 300 today. There is a plane crash today with three people that died theres another plane customer thread people. You will know about it. But theres another one on saturday big shutdown every fight the country say were not going to stop and our sons daughters, nieces and nephews dying of fentanyl poisoning these are not struggled with addiction is her might be taking one pill and its fentanyl list to a couple came up to without the q a said they found their son one percocet he bought for 30 bucks did not even have an addiction issue they thought he was sleeping and they went up and found him dead in his own bed in his own house. Parents have to go through that. Weve got a border issue is massive because the drugs the other thing is in terms of the human population. Again, most underreported story in america is the border every single day we are talking about talk aboutsomething other than. You take the population of maine, vermont, new hampshire, rhode island, joe bidens home state of delaware and tossed in montana for the extra that gets you to the six and half Million People in those six states that a seven people cross the border that we know of. Those of the asylumseekers to get somewhere into the country per the court date of 2027 wide open border. That is completely backwards of upor as down there in one segmet its not mexico 130 at mount segment as in the briefing on the border there were 94 Different Countries that across this year in that segment. Ninetyfour Different Countries. Included on that was iran, syria, china, all the people on the terrorist watch list or crossing into our country. On just marching right in. When we give them a bus ticket. It makes no sense at any level while he would do that. National security and Border Security and then weve got the brewing issue with taiwan. We could say ukraine is coming on their own not on their own do whatever pretaiwan goes down that everyone in america is going to feel that one. It could be because of our dependence on them for all the things we buy it and use here. Everyones got a smart phone here. Weve got big issues im going to stop talking right now i just want to say when we are running we are running because we care deeply we can improve every American Life we know we can bring out the best of america with all the list of problems i have described, which are at serious issues is the responsibility of the federal government. Its not meddle in everybodys lives is not take away liberty from all of you its not to commit and try to do the job of the commissioner or the school board or any of the things some people are rallying that has got to happen locally. State by state, county by County School district by School District with local decisionmaking with people involved. Keep the federal government out of it they would drop the other not doing it theyre not doing the things the constitution says are supposed to do. So, we believe in moving the power back to states moving it down to local control on a lot of these issues but on these things these are the things that are not going to just change ours but our kids and grandkids. We have three kids in their in the 20sone just turned 30 re. I never thought id be talking to them about world war iii but i have to now im saying its a real possibility. Its a real possibility that could happen. Its very different. We know how to win a cold war Ronald Reagan taught us how to win a cold war you win a cold where you get your economy cruising. And then you put the deterrence in place so the cost of s