thank you
thank you very much unfortunately I have to begin by
expressing our sadness and heartbreak over the deadly shooting at Santa Fe
High School in Texas just took place moments ago
we're closely monitoring the situation and federal authorities are coordinating
with local officials this has been going on too long in our country too many
years too many decades now we grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our
support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack to the
students families teachers and personnel at Santa Fe High
we're with you in this tragic hour and we will be with you forever
my administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our
students secure our schools and to keep weapons out of the hands of those who
pose a threat to themselves and to others everyone must work together at
every level of government to keep our children safe
may God heal the injured and may God comfort the wounded and may God be with
the victims and with the victims families or sad day very very sad
on another note very positive note I'm honored to be here today with so many
leaders from across the nation who are committed to the crucial issue of prison
reform joining us today are several members of my cabinet who are working
diligently on this issue attorney general sessions secretaries
Enki secretary Acosta secretary Perry secretary DeVos and
acting secretary Wilkie who by the way has done an incredible job at the VA and
I'll be informing him in a little while he doesn't know this yet that we're
going to be putting his name up for nomination to be Secretary of the
Veterans Administration
fantastic I'm sorry that I ruined the surprise
I'll see you anyway we're very close to getting choice approved and we had just
approved VA accountability which for almost 40 years they could not get
approved and now as you know we just had in the house just passed choice and it's
the finer level of choice we had different levels of choice good bad okay
and really good and I think this falls into the really good category it's gonna
be a little more expensive at that time
so we are really we have so many terrific partners working on what we're
doing and the reason we're here prison reform at the state level including -
who are with us today who have really been active feels so strongly about it
governor mary Fallon and governor Susan Martinez you've been fantastic
thank you I also want to thank Van Jones primarily because he constantly says
such nice things about me he did he did every once in a while right every once
in a while he defeats hey he actually has on occasion not too often but I'll
tell you what though it does feel good and I also want to thank van I have to
say Jared Kushner who has worked so hard on this issue really thank you you're
proud of you we're proud of you prison reform is an
issue that unites people from across the political spectrum it's an amazing thing
our whole nation benefits if former inmates are able to reenter society as
productive law-abiding citizens every year over six hundred and twenty
thousand inmates primarily from state prisons are released after completing
their sentences for many really life outside of the prison is a tremendous
struggle I see it to find a job to stay off drugs to avoid old habits that lead
them back to a life of crime back to prison unfortunately more than one-third
of former federal prison inmates and more than three-quarters of state
prisoners will be reinforced nobody wins when former prisoners failed to adjust
to life outside or worse end up back behind bars we want former inmates to
find a path to success so they can support their families and support their
communities crucial to this effort is helping former prisoners find jobs as
many as three in four individuals released from prison have difficulty
finding work it is not merely a waste of money but a waste of human capital some
incredible people to put former inmates on public
assistance instead of placing them into a steady job where they can pay taxes
contribute to their country gain dignity and pride that comes with a career love
waking up in the morning then go into a job making a lot more money than
anything they can do just really enjoying their life when we talk about
our national program to hire American this must include helping millions of
former inmates get back into the workforce as gainfully employed citizens
at the heart of our prison reform agenda is expanding prison work and the
programs so that inmates can reenter society with the skills to get a job we
also want more mental health services so released inmates can cope with the
challenges of life on the outside and some of those challenges are not easy
we're developing more effective drug treatment so that former prisoners can
remain drug-free drugs are playing a tremendously big role in our lives in so
many lives not only having to do with prisoners but having to do with people
that never thought they'd be addicted that never thought they'd have a problem
like this that are having a really hard time coping drugs we're doing a big big
job on drugs it is a scourge in this country
in this effort we are not just absolving prisoners of their central
role in their own rehabilitation there is no substitute for personal
accountability and there is no tolerance for those who take advantage of
society's generosity to prey upon the innocent however if we want more
prisoners to take charge of their own lives
then we should work to give them the tools to stand on their own two feet
they're gonna love it they're gonna be great at it by the way I have a friend
he hired three people they were prisoners pretty hard line people I can
tell you two of the three he said are unbelievably outstanding spending four
or five years now one he said is good but that's life right that's life some
were okay he's okay not the greatest but he said to our Superstars they would
have never gotten the chance and one of the things that we are doing is we have
created a great economy the economy is doing fantastically well even better
than you think in the stock market the stock market is only being held back a
little bit for one reason although it's up almost 40% since election day but
they're waiting to see the trade deals and I can tell you they're going to be
great trade deals it's going to be great for our country our country has been
ripped off long enough and we are making great deals we're meeting with China
today right after this we're going to another meeting with China they've been
taking out hundreds of billions of dollars that's not good for people that
get out of prison and that's not good for people that have never been in
prison that's bad for our country and we're changing it around we're changing
a lot of those horrible trade deals where they take our jobs they take our
money we end up with no money no taxes no employment not a good combination so
the greatest thing we can do a greatest thing I can do aside from our programs
that they're working so hard on is create a good work environment where
it's hard to get people because then you people that come out you give them a
chance and then like my friend said they turn out to be outstanding jobs are so
important a great economy is so important and that's what we have so it
makes your job that much easier as we speak legislation is working through
Congress to reform our federal prisons my administration strongly supports
these efforts and I urge the House and Senate to get together and there are a
lot of senators a lot of Congress people that want to get this passed to work out
their differences get a bill to my desk I will sign it and it's gonna be strong
it's going to be good it's gonna be what everybody wants you're all in line I
think you're all looking for the same thing so we're gonna have something
that's gonna make you very proud really very proud we want like we do with
veterans choice we want the finest the finest prison reform that you can have
anywhere the finest that's very important you make sure you both agree
and van if we're going to go through the process it's just as hard to go through
the process and get a good bill as it is a bad bill so let's get it right will
you please to make sure okay and if you see something you don't like call me
we'll get a change before we sign it I'd have to go through the whole process
again all right we'll do that you all know what I mean right working
together we can restore the rule of law keep dangerous criminals off our streets
and help former inmates get a second chance at life and a second chance that
many of them will really succeed it if only given the chance America is a
nation that believes in the power of redemption America is a nation that
believes in second chances and third chances in some cases and I don't know I
guess even fourth chances I don't know about that that's where I think you and
I may differ you know well we'll go two or three but maybe we will go that extra
length okay it's a little a little more liberal in that way but that's okay but
we're both well-intentioned I can tell you that and America is a nation that
believes that the best is always yet to come I want to again thank everyone here
today very special people very important thing that we're doing this has never
been done in our country it's never been done we're gonna give people that chance
and we're gonna give people a chance a great success friend of mine told me
that when people get out of prison they're all excited and then they go and
they have that stigma they can't get a job people don't want to hire them if
they can't get that chance and when they do in many cases not in all cases but in
many cases they just turned out to be outstanding better than other people so
we're going to make our communities more secure and we're going to make our
country more prosperous and together we will make America safer and stronger and
greater than ever before and I can tell you as far as people getting out of
it's going to be far far far greater than ever before you're gonna get that
chance you're gonna you're gonna really make everyone proud and you're gonna be
proud of yourself so it's an honor to be with you I want to thank everybody for
working so hard on this it's so many of the people I recognize in the room this
is literally their most important thing we have so many different things
economic development this this is literally and I can speak for at least
five or six of the people I see this is literally the most important thing they
work on so it's an honor to have helped and we're going to get something that's
really going to be outstanding best it will be the best of its kind anywhere in
the world that I can promise you it really well okay so god bless you all
thank you thank you
you
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