Jon Decker previews President Trump's cabinet meeting today

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
John Decker joined us. Now are a correspondent today at
the White House. John, Are you back from the trip
already or are you still hanging with the president somewhere?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
No, back in Washington, DC. It was a quick trip.
We went out late in the afternoon on Air Force One.
We were a few hours down on the ground in
McCombe County, Michigan. The President had a big campaign rally there,
a campaign style rallies, not campaigning for anything in particular,
but celebrating his one hundredth day as president. And then

(00:28):
after that rally that took place in Warren, Michigan, we
flew back on Air Force one to Washington and the
President will be back at it today. He's hosting a
cabinet meeting today. It will happen this morning eleven o'clock
Eastern time, and I think it's going to be one
of those types of meetings where we'll hear from every
cabinet secretary in terms of what their department has accomplished

(00:50):
during this first one hundred days of the administration.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, I tell you what a day. It was too
great reception and people really were excited to see him
in the good news about all these companies that are
going to be spending billions of dollars in investing in
the United States once again. You know, the talk is that, look,
it was going to be a bit of a bumpy,
little punch in the gut in the beginning of all
of this when we realign everything with these companies and

(01:15):
bring manufacturing back to the United States. And you know,
but when he ran that list of all the companies
that were investing, man, I tell you what, it was
just so impressive that, wow, here it is. I mean,
he's bringing it out.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Listen to this Apple, great company who's building everything in China.
Now they just announced that they're spending five hundred billion
dollars to invest in America, not in China. It's Amazon
twenty one billion dollars, Johnson and Johnson fifty five billion dollars,
the MAAC twenty billion dollars. Merk Stillanta's General Motors are

(01:53):
putting in billions and billions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I mean, just amazing. You know, everybody's like, well, well,
the tariffs are killing us and Trump's just blowing up
the economy in a bad way. And I got to
tell you that doesn't sound like bad news, right there
with all of that going on.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
No, I mean, certainly you can't discounts some of the
investments that the president announced. But as you know, JT,
in the past hour, we learn that the GDP for
the first quarter of this year actually contracted negative zero
point three percent. So that's not a good economic piece
of data that the president has on his one hundred
first day in office. I'm hopeful, like everybody is, that

(02:33):
things turn around, and that's even before those tariffs really
kick in. That data that we got just a few
just within the past hour. So we'll hear the president's
remarks in a few hours. Will hear his response to
that GDP report and what he expects for the economy
over the course of the next few months.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Any outline on today's cabinet meeting that he's got planned.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, you know, for these types of meetings, you've seen
the president he brings in the press, and I think
that for each and every one of those individuals in
the President's cabinet, they have to be prepared for a
little speech talking about the accomplishments that have taken place
during their first one hundred days in office. I've been
in that cabinet room many times, including for cabinet meetings

(03:17):
in which the president does this, and so the President
will go through that today to likely take a lot
of questions as well from reporters invited into the cabinet
room just in a few hours.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
All right, very good, John Decker, thank you so much
for the update, Buddy, I appreciate you