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chief of staff, mark meadows, along with top aides, stephen miller and dan scavino. all must testify in that criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and barrage of rockets targeting a u . s base in syria. new attacks only one day after a drone affiliated with iran killed a u. s contractor and wounded six others will ask the pentagon press secretary. what is going on, plus russian troops regrouping after steep losses key city in ukraine. welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead any moment. president biden is set to hold a news conference along with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. they are both in the capital of canada. ottawa perry is expected to take questions from reporters . we will cover that live one topic likely to come up tensions with iran after that suspected iranian drone strike killed an american contractor and wounded

five service members in syria just yesterday. president biden order to retaliatory airstrike. although the pentagon clarified the u. s is not looking for war with iran again, we'll bring that news conference to you as soon as it begins, but until then, let's turn to our politics, lead and our other major story of the day, a federal judge handing a significant blow to donald trump today, rejecting the former president's claims of executive privilege in that january 6th investigation. the judge ordering a number of trump's former top white house aides to testify before a grand jury. jury sources tell cnn the list includes former white house chief of staff mark meadows, former director of national intelligence. john ratcliffe, former national security adviser robert o'brien and others. some of these aides have already testified, but now they're likely before forced to appear. before the grand jury once again for even more testimony and ordered to turn over more documents. but as cnn's jessica schneider reports, trump's legal

team is expected to try to appeal this decision. trump's closest advisers ordered to testify in two justice department probes a federal judge rejecting trump's claim of executive privilege ordering former white house chief of staff mark meadows senior aide stephen miller and others to answer questions from a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. remember leaning against the doorway and saying interesting conversation as broody mark. sounds like we're going to go to the capital to walk down to the capital, didn't look up from his phone and said something to the effect of there's a lot going on, cass, but i don't know. things might get real real bad. separately corcoran, a top trump attorney, and a crucial witness in special counsel jack smith's classified documents, probe, spending nearly four hours testifying behind closed doors to a federal grand jury on friday. trump also fought in court to stop his testimony. but several judges ruling corcoran

must divulge information about the conversations he had with former president trump. leading up to the fbi search of mara lago last summer and that corcoran must turn over handwritten notes documenting their interactions. fbi agents seized more than 100 classified documents from mara lago in august. they should give me immediately back everything that they've taken from because it's mine. it's mine. fbi agents seized more than 100 classified documents from our lago in august, and in november, the attorney general appointed special counsel jack smith, to investigate, among other things, whether trump obstructed the government's attempts to get back all the classified material still in his possession after he left office corker and crafted a statement in june 2022 claiming a diligent search had been conducted at mara lago, and that all classified documents had been returned. a source tells cnn prosecutors wanted to ask corcoran about that statement and a june phone call between him and trump that took place the same day as subpoena was issued for moral lago surveillance footage that showed

boxes being moved out of a storage room. you still have the surveillance tape. is that correct? absolutely sean sources tell cnn prosecutors have made clear that they believe trump used corcoran to advance a crime . a trump spokesperson has fired back, accusing the justice department of continuously stepping far outside the standard norms and an attempt to destroy the long accepted long held constitutionally based standards of attorney client privilege and executive privilege. from the beginning he has tried to cooperate. trump attorney tim par later tells cnn . he also testified before the grand jury in december, divulging details about additional searches for classified documents organized at several trump properties last year. they would rather make this into an adversarial fight and try to make it into a criminal case. special counsel jack smith will now be getting an influx of new information both from evan corcoran, who was forced to testify in front of the grand jury today and also from that array of top trump administration officials, who

will now have to testify to the grand jury about what transpired on and around january. 6th and jake. our team is told that trump's legal team is expected to appeal this decision and not let these officials assert executive privilege. and interestingly, it does mean that some of these officials who have already been subpoenaed like the former national security advisor robert o'brien, also ken cuccinelli from homeland security, it's likely they'll have to go back and testify more now that they can assert that privilege. all right, jessica standard. thank you so much. let's talk about this now with cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, tony ellie a lot to talk about here. let's talk about the start, with the judge telling all these trump people that they have to testify, sources say trump's legal team they're expected to appeal. do they have a case to make an executive privilege case? no, they don't. jake. they certainly have the right to appeal, but they're not going to win. they've got two major problems. first of all, executive privilege is meant to design to protect governmental

conversations about legitimate policy. legitimate strategy. it's not designed to cover up for disclosure about malfeasance or wrongdoing or criminality. this is a criminal grand jury subpoena. judges are very likely to enforce those subpoenas very unlikely to allow an assertion of his executive privilege and second of all, trumps a former president. and while a former president can exert executive privilege in very narrow circumstances. it is a stark uphill climb to do that, so trump is also trying to assert executive privilege to stop vice president pence from being forced to testify. do you think this ruling signals that that will also fail? i do think so, jake yesterday on this show, i said that trump had virtually no chance to succeed on the mike pence case. i guess i'll downgrade that even further now, but it's important to keep in mind. there's a separate argument on the pence case because mike pence himself is arguing that he's protected by a different legal doctrine. this idea of speech and debate because, as vice president, he was president of the senate. i

think there's a better basis for that, and that might enable pence to avoid answering some questions about what he did in his role as senate president if trump loses these appeals is there any way that meadows and these other top trump aides can get out of testifying? can they plead the fifth there's only one way and you just said it. they can take the fifth. that means that any testimony they give might be used against them. they have that absolute right to take the fifth. but if they do that doj prosecutors do have a countermove available, they can go to a judge and ask for an order of immunity, meaning your testimony is not going to be used against you. but now you have to testify. that's a strategic decision to be made by prosecutors. i made that kind of decision quite frequently, but it means they get the testimony . it also means they're very unlikely to be able to prosecute. you whether it's mark meadows or whoever the witness is just a game this out, so let's say i'm mark meadows and i say, and i lose all the appeals and i'm forced to testify, say, i'm going to assert my fifth amendment right against self incrimination. you're the

prosecutor, yoo says. we're giving you complete immunity. you won't be incriminating yourself. and then you go to and then what do i do if i'm mark meadows and what do you do as the prosecutor? so this is not optional if a prosecutor gives mark meadows immunity, he has to testify. it doesn't matter whether he wants immunity or not. and if he refuses, if he just says, you can't force the words out of my mouth. then we're in a contempt of court situation and you made those who remember history may think of susan mcdougal, who was a witness in the clinton investigation. the whitewater investigation. she went to prison for 18 months for refusing to testify. so if it comes down to it, if doj says you're immunized meadows and he says, you can't make me talk, then a judge can absolutely throwing mark meadows or whoever it is into prison until he does. take us behind the scenes. if you're a prosecutor about the question, meadow, scavino miller all these people who have had one on one conversations with donald trump around january 6th. how are you preparing for that? well, first of all, it's just a gold mine to be able to go in

and ask them. these are the key questions that you want to know. i'm looking at certainly all the documents we know that prosecutors have sent out several documents for subpoenas. i want to look at everything that january, 6th committee did. and most importantly, we just heard a clip. cassidy hutchinson . i would review every word that, cassidy hutchinson said, because she was one of mark meadows aids. she was by his side. she's already testified about conversations that she had with meadows but also conversations that she knows meadows had with trump so i would go through that testimony. very carefully and get out of red pen and circle all those pieces of testimony. why is it taken so long to get to this point? i mean, is it meadows we know is that the white house in january 6th one of the first witnesses, you would have tried to secure i completely agree with that sentiment, jake. i think it's been a failure by merrick garland that it's taken until mid 2023 from mark meadows to be compelled to testify. there was never any mystery. mark meadows and the others were at the center of this. garland has said all along, we start at the bottom, and then we work our way up. but that's a bureaucratic approach. that's

not a strong prosecutorial approach. the reality is good. prosecutors started the highest point you can and so i think, an aggressive prosecutor on day one or perhaps a few months in in 2020. the one would have immediately subpoenaed mark meadows and the other people were talking about and if that had happened, they would have had this testimony long ago. alright elie honig. thanks so much for your insights as always turning to another trump investigation. now the hush money investigation. that's a new york city. the grand jury is not meeting today, but donald trump seems to be encouraging, threatening discussing violence if he is indicted, he wrote on his social media platform. truth social today, quote what kind of person can charge another person in this case? the former president of the united states who got more votes than any sitting president in history and leading candidate by far for the republican party nomination with a crime. when it is known by all that no crime has been committed , and also known that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could be correct.

kind of trophic for our country. unquote shocking comments from donald trump, which led the house democratic leader hakeem jeffries to say this. twice impeached. former president's rhetoric is reckless. reprehensible and irresponsible . it's dangerous. and if he keeps it up, he's gonna get someone killed. well. past as prologue. cnn's sara signals in new york for his care what do we expect to happen next? in this hush money case? well, jake. the grand jury is scheduled to meet again on monday. and it's possible that prosecutors bring at least one more witness before the grand jury for testimony in a lot of this is all held behind closed doors. it's a secret proceeding and process. but all indications leave that we're nearing towards the end of this investigation, and everyone is looking to the equipment of the for alvin bragg, the d. a. to answer the question of will he

move forward with an indictment of the former president? and as you just read that trump has been really ratcheting up? his rhetoric. he not only is calling for death and destruction, but he's calling for protests in the event that he is indicted. now. there will be protests around the courthouse this weekend, but they are not for the former president. instead the there will be it's for a movie. shoot the sequel to the joker is going to be filming around the protests and their excuse me around the courthouse and they're going to have a large protest scene. there also be cars on fire, and maybe even a sighting of lady gaga. she stars in the movie, which is being produced by the parent company of cnn. jake alright. paris canal. thanks so much. appreciate it. we're standing by for that joint news conference with president biden. canadian prime minister justin trudeau will bring that to you live when it happens and it's likely he will be asked about our other big story president biden his decision to authorize an airstrike in syria after a drone attack killed the u. s contractor, the latest from the pentagon is now. what will you

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iranian affiliated drone facility housing us personnel and that killed a u. s contractor and wounded six others. another u. s contractor and five u. s service members. in response to that drone attack , president biden launched a retaliatory strike, which hit facilities used by groups affiliated with iran's islamic revolutionary guards. cnn's oren liebermann joins us now from the pentagon in orange were u. s troops injured in this latest rocket attack and tell us about the effect on any u. s military equipment? jake this barrage of 10 rockets towards green village of base that houses u. s troops and sort of central eastern syria did not injure any u s or coalition troops that did not damage any facilities or infrastructure at the base, either, according to u. s central command, but one of those rockets fired was about three miles off target and actually hit a civilian home there, wounding two women and two children, according to u. s central command, so certainly not the intended target, but result of this strike. it comes as part of this larger and very

rapid sort of escalation. conflict we've seen right in syria over the course of the past. 24 48 hours or so that began with a one way you wavy attacker of suicide drone attack on a facility in far north east syria in hasakah, that, as you said, led to the deaths of a u. s contractor, an american citizen as well as the injuries of five u. s troops and another contractor, all of whom at this point are in stable condition. question. what happens at this point? general eric gorilla, the commander of us central command, said the u. s has the option and the capability to strike if there is a continuation here and more attacks by iranian proxies or groups affiliated with iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps moving forward here. what what are you hearing about the possibility that president biden could order the launch of another retaliatory attack? that possibility is very much on the table, the u. s. said its previous strike, the one carried out in response to the drone attack struck facilities used for ammunition and intelligence by groups associated with iran's

islamic revolutionary guard corps. they're still waiting to see if there was anyone killed or casualties in that strike, but the us has made it clear that if this continues, though, the u. s doesn't seek to escalate here. it will protect its troops here. it will protect its forces. and if president joe biden or other commanders deem unnecessary, there may be a follow on strike and, frankly, after 10 rockets fired at green village, it would not be much of a surprise. jake alright oren liebermann at the pentagon for us, thanks so much. let's bring in the former secretary of defense under president trump. mark asper. mark good to see you. first off. i'm sure there are viewers right now who are wondering? why do we have service members and u. s contractors in syria? so why? why do we well, first of all. good afternoon, jake. it's good to be back with you. look we have and have had nearly 1000 troops in syria for several years. now they were the follow on force. if you will that stayed behind once we do fight, defeated isis in syria. if you

recall during the trump administration, isis was rolled back considerably, and the caliphate was largely destroyed . so those 900 troops or so on the ground there are working with our partners. and ensuring that isis doesn't rise back up and attack our allies and partners in the region or eventually trying to strike our homeland. so one of the rockets lobbed at us forces in syria this morning, miss the facility by about three miles is the technology from these iranian affiliated groups. is it not good? or do you think the groups did that on purpose to send a message that they could have hit the u. s, but they didn't this time. well, who knows, jake? i you know, sometimes you have misfires right? that happens in conflicts, but it's clear that for the most part, shia militia groups are funded and resourced and in many cases directed by tehran. and so the question is. why is this? why is this escalating at this point in time now, on the other hand, we've heard from the body that since january 20th 21, we were attacked nearly every 10 days or

so there's been nearly 80 attacks. in in this two year period. so this is ongoing in many ways, and now we've had an american killed six or seven others injured and i give the bio administration credit for responding for retaliating, retaliating. it's exactly what they should do. and who are these iranian affiliated groups. right. i mean, there are a variety of shia militia groups, each led by different people, all connected and interlinked in different ways and, in many cases trying to have influence in syria or in the case of iraq , there are there in iraq as well. and syria is important for iran because it's a it provides serie a good deal of weapons. it is also a transit point. for us for iran to provide weapons to lebanese has blah, and so again, a series of syria is a very important transit country for the united states, and i'm sorry for iran, and it's, uh, it's a place by which the united states can keep a close eye on what iran is also doing in the

region. so that's another reason for our presence there. what are your concerns when it comes to retaliation? and obviously the fact that the united states does not want to get into a full scale war with iran. well my concern would be is that we don't respond appropriately and deterrence slowly weakens to the point where iranians begin striking us with a punitive, and then we become self deterred. in some ways, i think we need to stand up to these militia groups . we need to respond appropriately and push back. i think the bigger question looming out there, though. jake is what's going on with iran and its nuclear efforts, and we heard some disturbing news today that they may be moving closer and closer to having highly enriched uranium and may have even closed the timeline. to being able to produce a device. so that is the bigger thing looming in the background for i think all folks focused on this issue. so the u. s troops are there. the u. s service members are there based on the authorization for use of military force from the war in iraq or from the war in

afghanistan, or which is it? you know, i wish i could recall exactly what authorities there used. it could be under the president's article two authority. i just don't recall jake, which authorities it is used under, but i know that's being considered in the senate. that and maybe in the in the house as well, but that is an authority that needs to be extended. if we want to continue to conduct this mitch mission, which i think we should do you think this is the kind of thing that theoretically the u. s congress should vote on. i mean, if we have almost 1000 troops stationed in syria. they've been there for years now. obviously there are risks inherent should the u. s. congress have some skin in the game here and vote on whether or not they approve of this well, one can certainly make the case since congress has authority to declare war. now this is clearly not a case of war. it's a place of a deployment, but we are engaged. if you will. that said congress is known about this. for many years. they've been briefed many, many times on our presence there. what happens the threats

? we face the challenges, etcetera, so it's not like congress is not aware and has not condoned it. the question is, should they take a more active role, and i think it's always good to have congressional oversight in these types of matters. oh, yeah. no i'm not saying that there's anything was hidden from congress. they don't like they don't like to take votes in which they have to actually expand any political capital. it's more criticism of them. not not, uh, not the pentagon but as you note, according to the commander of central command since 2021 iranian proxy forces have carried out literally dozens of attacks against u s personnel. how dangerous is it for us service members and contractors in syria. and how does the u. s address these nonstop attacks? look, it is very serious. it's a dangerous place to be. you have a malevolent iranian actions and activities all throughout the region. so you have to be careful. you know, the u. s military puts self force protection number one and i'm sure we're taking every possible precaution. you know, there are probably new technologies that

we should be deploying out there to make sure we can further protect our troops. but i think the bigger issue beyond self protection force protection is to make sure again that we respond and do so proactively where need to be if we're aware of iranian designs or shia militia designs against our forces, because we look we cannot afford to lose americans at all, and we also cannot afford to let something escalate unless we wanted to escalate and there and are prepared to do so in a deliberate fashion. alright, former secretary of defense mark esper, thank you so much for your time. i appreciate it. thanks jake. as we stand by for president biden and prime minister trudeau coming up, i'm going to talk to someone who has spent years reporting on activity in syria and the sensitivities of the u. s iranian relationship. stay with us. s so what are we eating tody ? join me. eva longoria on a brand new culinary adventure, and first up my new home mexico city restaurant with only

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president's way up here on air force one is when he was first briefed about these attacks. was given the options to respond and ended up choosing the option that he did with the f 35 last night is what happens next, and i think that is a looming question has been out there is national security team has obviously been engaged throughout the course of the day in a series of meetings with their canadian counterparts, but this has still been a significant issue that they've been dealing with as well. now he will be standing side by side with prime minister justin trudeau coming after lengthy remarks to the canadian parliament, where he really underscored the warmth and to some degree that necessity of the relationship. with the brother to the north if you will, but underneath there certainly have been a series of policy issues that they've been trying to figure out resolutions to the president making clear, though, to some degree that those challenges that they face in the bilateral side of things are challenges that are addressed through the mode of friendship, not necessarily adversarial. e might not reach agreements on everything, but the relationship remains intact and the broader state of the relationship with which one has officials made clear they really

wanted to elevate the importance of in the steadfast nature of it during this trip. was certainly laid out in great detail by the president in his remarks, but i think again looming over everything has been these strikes and i thought would secretary esper said prior is also a critical question at this moment as the president deals with this series of geopolitical issues right now, the fact that iranian proxies have conducted more than 78 attacks since 2021 on u. s service members. at the same time, iran itself has rapidly advanced in terms of their ability to weaponize. ah there enrich weaponized uranium certainly creates a significant issue that has been looming over. not just this visit, but really the entire administration. national security team, jake. so what do we know about president biden's order to carry out the strike? was he on route to canada when he authorized it? yeah. he was actually on air force one when he was first briefed about that when he was given the options from the pentagon and when he gave the green light on the option that ended up playing out again, this was a trip that the

president very much wanted to elevate the relationship of canada. and yet this issue has certainly been kind of front and center at least talk to the side a little bit throughout the course of his more than a day here, and certainly something he'll have to address not just at this press conference, but in the days and weeks ahead, and as you noted earlier in the show, that's whether or not there will be another response. give and what we've seen since the initial drone attack is still very much alive. question. right now is they weigh options? even in the midst of these very serious and significant bipartisan bilateral talks check. all right, phil manning lee in ottawa. thanks so much appreciate we're gonna bring you president biden live as soon as that starts, but first signs of russia possibly regrouping in a key part of ukraine. stay with us. all across the country. pepeople are working harard to d a better fututure, so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy. from the plains to the coasts.

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? is that another retaliatory strike by the us at this point. all we know is the location of the expo explosions and the challenge there is that it's both as you mentioned the site where the u. s conducted its own air strikes against facilities used by groups linked to iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps. but there is also a us presence not far from that city at all the city of darrow's or in central eastern syria, or thereabouts that u. s presence there at a base housing u. s troops. means this could go either way. this could be us strikes in response to 10 rockets on green village, or it could be more rocket attacks from groups linked to iranian proxies or other groups there. so that's the challenge here. what does seem to be clear at this point, given the course of the last 24 to 36 hours is this is very much a continuation of what we saw first, a drone attack against the facility in northeast syria that killed one us contractor and wounded six other u s personnel or retaliatory strike in this city that we're talking about. now, indira's or again. facilities and munition and intelligence.

used by groups linked to iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps. and then 10 rockets fired at green village, which houses us troops that occurring this morning, and now we're looking at this latest attack, and jake were waiting to get more information clarity on who was firing at whom here but it seems very much like syria and stable as it always is. we're very much getting a sense of that right now. alright. oren liebermann at the pentagon for us. thanks so much with us now to discuss david sanger. he's a new york times white house and national security correspondent. and of course, cnn's abby phillip, the host of inside politics. um what do you want to hear from president biden about the strikes this back and forth going on here? well the first thing we want to hear jake is what exactly is happening? obviously it's unclear right now , whether this is u. s retaliation continued or something else. but you know, the president now has a three part iran problem. part. one is what you've just seen with the drones. that's an older problem. part two is iran's supply of

weapons to russia, which seems to be continuing, in fact, more aggressively than, say, the chinese will show against the ukrainians. we should point out against the ukrainians. that's right, but an active clear alliance in in this war and then the third part is the part that worries the united states the most, which is the nuclear program. and yesterday, mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs made some news. he said something we knew, which is it would only take about two weeks for the iranians to take the fuel they have and then richard to bomb grade. but then he said, something we didn't know. which he said is, he thinks it would only take about two or three months for the iranians to actually fabricate that into a weapon. the israeli and american positions until now has been that's a year or two. that means that the president would have relatively little decision space. if the iranian things turn bad here in the iranians decided to move forward. yeah, i mean, that's a really terrifying prospect, but

it also highlights just how far we've come on this issue. i mean, biden campaigned remember on going back to the iran nuclear deal, and that seems very much off the table for a number of reasons. there is the issue of iran, providing drones and weapons to russia. there's also those those protests that we've seen in iran over human rights and women's rights that have really tied his hands and pushed even democratic allies to say we can't be at the table with iran and now what you're describing david. very short timeline for iran to have an potentially have a nuclear weapon, i think really also just shows how constrained the biden administration is. right now with dealing with iran, and they don't really have any tools. it seems in their toolbox to deal with it, except for what we are seeing here on the ground in syria, which is airstrikes to fire back at some of these attacks, but that's not a containment strategy. that's not necessarily a deterrent strategy

. that's a reaction to what is going on. it's not even an anti iran strategy because these are proxy groups that are you know, using these drones and doing these attacks, but they're not iranians themselves, although we should note when president trump ordered the assassination of general soleimani, the iranian general, and i believe that took place in iraq, um the united states, not just president trump, the united states intelligence apparatus, and the pentagon said the general soleimani was responsible for the killing and maiming of dozens, if not hundreds of american service members because he would provide these parts for these iraq for these, um iranian linked to militias, the shia militias to attack american soldiers when they were in iraq, so you could argue uh, that there has been a war going on between the united states and iran or proxies for iran for years now, that's right. um the testimony yesterday. general carrillo, who runs central command, which is responsible

for this region, said there had been about 70 attacks since biden came to office using drones on americans, but almost all of them have been unsuccessful. so what happened yesterday was the us got very unlucky. tragically a contractor was killed. others were injured , and that's what's driving the president's response. he hasn't really responded or talked very much about unsuccessful attacks . yeah that one has david noted, abby. i mean iran is one of the countries providing weaponry for russia to kill ukrainians. that's a step that we haven't even seen the chinese go so far as to do right. exactly. it's allowed russia in in cases where they haven't had the manpower or the ammunition to do certain things that's given them the ability to bomb ukraine and also to bomb ukrainian civilians. i mean, i think this is a really key part is that russia is using these drones to carry out what a

lot of people considered to be human rights violations and iran is responsible for that. so if we see china, adding to that, i think that's one of the reasons you're seeing. the vitamin ist rations so strongly warning china against taking that step here is president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau. there in ottawa, the capital of canada. they're going to make remarks and then i'll take questions from reporters. let's listen and i'm sure that president biden will address. good afternoon, everyone. to welcome my friend president biden, joe canada this week. we have the opportunity to discuss the progress made under the february 2021 road map for renewed us canada partnership. plan our countries put forward a month after the president was sworn in. president biden today with president biden. we've made progress on several important files, and i'd like to mention some of our common priorities

growing the middle class, strengthening the economy, making life more affordable for people fighting climate change and protecting the environment, protecting our citizens and our values. serious time with all the challenges we face. we're doubling down on our partnership and on our friendship. as i said earlier today. economic policy, climate policy and security policy aren't just connected. they're one and the same. but the president and i agree on this, and that's why we launched a joint energy transformation task force that will accelerate our work on clean energy and clean tech. this will include securing and strengthening electric vehicle and critical mineral supply chains and other is to advance our collective energy security. of course, an integrated approach means creating good middle class jobs for workers on both sides of the

border. and it will make our collective economic growth stronger and more resilient. securing and developing critical mineral supply chains is essential to making things like batteries, computers, phones and semiconductors. canada is confident the meta plus canada and the united states have agreed to put in force a system for building semiconductors. and so i'd like to announce today that we have signed an agreement with ibm to extend to the ability and capacity for the installations in bromont, quebec to develop new capacity demand is on the rise as his competition. canada's investment in semi doctors, which will be up to $250 million will make it possible to enhance the competitivity of the north american economy, create jobs for the middle class and to draw on canadian talent in addition

to reducing pollution, in addition to cutting pollution and fighting climate change, the president and i also worked on protection, protecting more nature as well. canada and the u . s share the longest land border in the world. we share three oceans and the great lakes. the great lakes are a source of drinking water for 40 million people, and this shared resource needs to be protected. this is why canada will make a major new investment of $420 million to continue safeguarding the great lakes for generations to come. whether it's on protecting our shared waters, including in the arctic, conserving biodiversity or building strong net zero economies, canada and the u. s. will continue to work together as partners will also continue to work together as partners to keep our people safe. keeping people safe also includes keeping asylum seekers safe. keeping our borders secure. and

keeping our immigration system strong. both of our countries believe in sehr safe, fair and orderly migration. refugee protection and border security. this is why we will now apply the safe third country agreement to asylum seekers who cross between official points of entry. after midnight tonight. police and border officers will enforce the agreement and return irregular border crossers to the closest port of entry with the united states. like a mini research agreement comes into force. as of midnight tonight, border officers will return people crossing the border to the closest canada us border crossing. our teams have worked hard. to achieve this agreement . all of the work will make it possible to deter irregular

immigration at our borders while at the same time we increase regular migration and immigration, always our top priority. last year, i had the opportunity to visit norad personnel in colorado. norad plays a central role in detecting, deterring and defending against aerospace threats to our shared continent. norad has protected north america for over 60 years and we're continuing our work to meet the evolving security challenges we face today. canada is making major investments to modernize surveillance systems. on top of that we will invest to modernize and build new infrastructure to support the arrival of our 88 new f 35 fighter jets so that most importantly, we can support our men and women in uniform who keep us safe. this bolsters canada's defense abilities for the coming decades. of course,

protecting our countries also means continuing our work to make our borders more secure and keep people safe. the opioid overdose crisis is having devastating consequences in our communities. we're going to disrupt the cross border movement of chemicals used in the illegal production of fentanyl. canada and the united states will build a global coalition against synthetic drugs. we must stop the traffic of synthetic opioids while at the same time focusing on a public health response. if we want to keep canadians and americans safe at home, we have to continue defending our values around the world. values like democracy, the rule of law and respect for the international rules based order. today we reaffirmed our steadfast support for the ukrainian people as they defend themselves against putin's brutal, barbaric invasion. partly don't round what human. we also talked about

other parts of the world that are experiencing difficulties like haiti. as i said canada will keep haiti in the heart of the solution for resolving this crisis. today, i'm announcing that canada will invest an additional $100 million to provide better police is supported to the national police force in haiti. we will also impose additional sanctions on to other members of the haitian elite. who are benefiting from insecurity and violence. we are determined to increase international support for haiti , including through humanitarian assistance. please don't buy denim one. biden and i had very productive meetings. as i said a little earlier. our economic measures are also climate measures. security measures. the president recognizes the importance of acting on all of these fronts stood together in this very room. you were the

outgoing vice president. and we were embarking upon some challenging times in our relationship as a country as two friends and countries. i have to say. um through our conversations back then. to the work we have been able to do over these past two years. it has truly been an honor to be able to work with you. for the benefit of canadians and americans, but also to continue to have a positive impact on the world in a very uncertain time. your speech in parliament a few minutes ago, was filled with optimism grounded in a deep faith in people. the character of the citizens we serve. and their ability to step up and meet the challenges before us. like we have for many years. we will continue to work shoulder to shoulder as allies and friends to build a better future

for canadians and americans alike. it is always a pleasure to stand beside you. it is always a pleasure to work with you. right now. it's a pleasure to hand it over to you. thank you very much. mr prime minister and i can't think of a challenge . we haven't met together when we sought to do it together. excuse me. before i speak of the progress of this trip. i was informed by my national security team on the way over here, that, uh, about an attack in syria yesterday and iranian backed militant groups used an unmanned aerial vehicle to strike one of our facilities, causing several american casualties. one of our citizens tragically died in that attack. and on the flight up yesterday i spoke or national security team in order to immediate response. last night, us military forces carried out a series of air strikes in syria, targeting those responsible for attacking our personnel. my

heart and deepest condolences. graduate family of the american we lost and wish a speedy recovery for those who are wounded. but i'm also grateful for the professionalism. our service members who so ably carried out this response and to make no mistake the united states does not does not emphasize seek conflict with iran, but be prepared for us tracked forcefully protect our people. that's exactly what happened last night. we're going to continue to keep up our efforts to counter terrorist threats. in the region and partnerships with canada and other members of the coalition to defeat isis. now let me get to today's business. it is wonderful to be back in canada. i'm honored. i had a chance to address parliament this afternoon. there are very patient and i appreciate it. and a little over 75 years ago in his own address to parliament. president truman said. no two

nations are called upon to make great contributions to the world's rehabilitation. and well, we are making great contributions to the world's rehabilitation. in my view today as we stand at, and i said today and inflection point in history, our nations are once again called upon the lead and together. i believe we're answering the call. first we've unleashed an economic potential of our people and our partnership. the partnership that generates more than $2.5 billion in trade every single day. secondly we're transforming our hemisphere and to clean energy powerhouse, including extending the inflation reduction act tax credits to electric vehicles assembled in canada and as we discussed over the last two days were also strengthened our supply chains for critical minerals and semiconductors that power our everyday lives. and today we're making a $50 million available through the defense production act. to incentivize more u. s

and canadian companies to invest in packaging of the semiconductors and printed circuit ports. also on emphasis . what i said earlier in parliament that canada and the united states always will have each other's backs and we see this through norad as we work to modernize the world's only and emphasize it again. the only binational military command there is none other than the world. and we see it through nato, where we're ensuring that we can meet any threat. and over the last year we've seen it through our strong and unified support for the brave people. ukraine to which the prime minister spoke so masterfully today in parliament. and stepping into up to provide critical humanitarian aid, as well as security systems and for canada's embrace of ukrainian refugees as we head to the second year of russia's brutal invasion, our unity is not going to break. we're going to keep the pressure on putin throughout

historic sanctions and tariffs. we're going to continue to provide ukraine with training equipment, humanitarian assistance it needs and defend itself against russian aggression. and finally, as we deepen the global cooperation, we're also exploring our regional close collaboration as we discussed today, we're doubling down on our work to disrupt synthetic drugs, which have claimed too many american and canadian lives by bolstering our work together in the north american drug dialogue with mexico. and building on a new global coalition against synthetic opioids. we're working to get these killer drugs like fentanyl out of our communities and together under the los angeles declaration on migration and protection. and the prime minister has already spoken. we're also making good on our commitment to address the historic levels of migration in our hemisphere. since we created dedicated pathways in the united states, the number of migrants

arriving in our southern border has dropped precipitously, and i commend canada for stepping up with a similar program opening new legal pathways from 2 50,000 migrants have come to canada from countries in the western hemisphere. mr prime minister, canada. the united states has always been partners in progress. and today we're once again called lead. i know that the united states can count on canada be our friend doing the hard work during historic work, doing the work that matters and doing it together. i truly believe we only make we're going to make some great contributions and i am optimistic about the future. and that's not hyperbole . i'm optimistic. i really am. we're going to make a better future for the people of canada, the american people and consequence for the whole hemisphere and around the world. thank you. thank you, mr president. prime minister will be taking to questions from the american delegation to questions from the canadian delegation. one question one follow up. mr president. first question over to you. alright i guess the

first person i'm calling on is josh josh josh. thank you, mr president. two questions one for each of you. mr president. you talked today about the security and economic partnership with canada. president g just went to russia and expanded china's economic commitment. with that country. why do you think many leading countries are choosing to form? competing partnerships in what does that mean for the world? prime minister trudeau. i'm sorry. canada recently banned tiktok on government devices. knowing what you know. are you comfortable with the idea of your children or family members using tiktok. thank you. respond to the question