President Trump says that Canada wants to "be a part of" the Golden Dome missile defense project.
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00:00Yeah, please.
00:01Thank you, Mr. President.
00:02When you first announced this idea,
00:04critics said it would be prohibitively expensive,
00:06potentially ineffective,
00:08and could trigger an arms race in space.
00:10What do you say to those critics about that?
00:12Well, they're wrong.
00:13It's about as close to perfect as you can have
00:16in terms of real production.
00:19I told you Canada wants to be a part of it,
00:21which would be a fairly small expansion.
00:24But we'll work with them on pricing.
00:27We'll be dealing with them on pricing.
00:28They know about it very much.
00:29They've asked to be a part of it, actually.
00:31They've asked us to be a part of it.
00:33I think it's something that is great.
00:37If you can afford to do it, we can afford to do it.
00:40You know, we took in $5.1 trillion in the last four days
00:43in the Middle East.
00:45And when you think about it,
00:47this is a tiny fraction of that.
00:49But we make it all here.
00:51We're going to make it all here.
00:52We have â I will tell you,
00:55an adversary told me â a very big adversary â
00:58told me the most brilliant people in the world are Silicon Valley.
01:01He said, we cannot duplicate them.
01:02We can't.
01:03This is somebody that I won't tell you who it is,
01:05but you'd be amazed.
01:06We have the most brilliant minds in the world
01:08doing this kind of thing.
01:10The equipment, the space, the computers, everything.
01:12But he said that we just can't duplicate what you have there
01:17in Silicon Valley.
01:18We never have been able to.
01:19And this is a very strong group of people
01:22and very strong minds, but they can't.
01:25So we have things that nobody else can have.
01:27You see what we've done helping Israel with that.
01:31You probably wouldn't have in Israel.
01:32They launched probably 500 missiles altogether,
01:35and I think one half of a missile got through,
01:38and that was only falling to the ground as scrap metal.
01:42It's pretty amazing.
01:43And this is, in terms of technology,
01:47far advanced from that system.