Reporter: That second aircraft carrier you decided to send [to Middle East], talk about why you made that choice.
President Trump: Well, in case we don't make a deal, we'll need it. If we don't have a deal, we'll need it. It'll be leaving very soon. We have one out there that just arrived. If we need it, we have it ready. A big, a very big force.
Reporter: How confident are you that our negotiations with Iran will be successful?
President Trump: I think they'll be successful, and if they're not, it's gonna be a bad day for Iran. Very bad.
LIVE: Secretary Noem holds press conference on election security
Secretary Noem: Although the Constitution gives states the primary responsibility for running their elections, congress also gives authorities and duties to the federal government…as President Trump said, we will either fix our nation's election issues, or we will no longer have a nation to save.
Secretary Noem: It's a fact that non-citizens have been voting in our elections. They've been registered, and they have voted from state to state.
Secretary Noem: I hope that you do recognize that in the past, your state has been an absolute disaster on elections. That your leaders have failed you dramatically, by not having systems that work, by disenfranchising the Americans who wanted to vote, that had to stand in lines for hours because machines failed, or software failed. There's no state that could use more improvement than Arizona.
President Trump: Last year, the Navy and Air Force, and Space Force, all surpassed their recruiting goals by five months early, and their numbers are through the roof. In fact, it's a good time to expand. But the Army did even better than the others, and you shattered your annual recruitment by almost five months and lots of days, but more importantly, the number and the quality of recruit has never been higher. This year the Army is beating it's recruitment goal by a hundred and sixteen percent.
President Trump: What we did recently in Venezuela, nobody ever saw anything like that happen. A Venezuelan general who was on the site, but he moved out fast enough that he lived; most of them didn't, but he was on the site, he said, 'We were totally prepared. We saw the planes coming. We saw everything coming.' You know, they're a good, strong force. He said, 'We got hit like nobody's'; they were hit from seventeen different directions. They said there's never been anything like that.
President Trump: To give you all of the equipment you need, we're also purchasing thirty new and modified Abrams tanks. Still the best tank, right? Still? It was named in honor of Stacey Abrams. Only a few very political people would understand that. Thank you very much for a great name, Stacey.