Scott Bessent

Hello. Nice to see you, Brian. Nice to see you too, Mr. President. Good. Brian's been out on an excursion, right? Okay. Hi. How are you? Are you already a lot of a lot of media, as usual? So thank you

Thank you very much. Today we're announcing the creation of the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve, the first-ever stockpile of critical minerals for civilian use in times of emergency. We have

Thank you very much. Uh, I think you probably noticed the cabinet room is getting more and more beautiful. You can see the flags behind us of the different forces and the American flag and uh, various

Well, thank you very much, and thank you for being here as we take a very vital action to protect and defend American farmers and reduce prices for the American consumers, and we've done that in so ma

Nice to be with you. Welcome to the final cabinet meeting of 2025, a year that will go down as the most consequential and successful first year of any administration. They're saying that. Not me. Alth

Nice to see you again. It's been a long news conference we had before, wasn't it? But it was a good one. Okay. [00:24] Well, thank you very much, and we're thrilled to be joined by one of the most suc