{"id":75850,"date":"2019-03-06T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=75850"},"modified":"2019-03-06T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:24:13","slug":"president-trump-with-former-united-states-hostage-in-yemen-danny-burch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=75850","title":{"rendered":"President Trump with Former United States Hostage in Yemen, Danny Burch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230; Thank you very much for being here.  We have a very big moment because we have Danny Burch back home, where he should be.  He was in Yemen, in a very horrible situation \u2014 a captive, a prisoner.  You can call him whatever you want, but it wasn\u2019t good.  He was there for 18 months \u2014 even a little more than 18 months \u2014 and we got him out.  And we had some great help from UAE and all of our friends.  But we got Danny out.  And he\u2019s just come home, said hello to his family, his beautiful son.  Thank you for being here.  And it\u2019s nice to see your father back where he belongs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9QII1_jkNTk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank our Vice President for being here.  I want to thank Mitt Romney \u2014 Senator Romney, Senator Graham for being here.  They were in the office, unrelated to this, and they heard about this and they know the story of Danny.  This is a very big story in our country, what they did with you.  But we got him out, and we\u2019re very happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>And, Danny, welcome home.<\/p>\n<p>MR. BURCH:  Thank you so much.  It\u2019s great to be here.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>MR. BURCH:  (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, Danny.  (Applause.)  Would you like to say something?<\/p>\n<p>MR. BURCH:  Gosh, it\u2019s great to be an American.  (Applause.)<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, Danny.  Appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all very much.  Mike \u2014 Mike, do you have anything to say while we\u2019re here?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Just, I\u2019m so proud of this team \u2014 the State Department team.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, you\u2019ve made it clear to the wider world that when Americans are detained anywhere in the world, we want them home.  And we work urgently to do that.  And we\u2019ve seen great successes over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>And Danny\u2019s homecoming is just one more statement about the priority that you and our administration, our entire team, place on bringing Americans back from captivity.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s an honor to be here with you.  And, Danny, it\u2019s an honor to say, \u201cWelcome home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MR. BURCH:  Thank you, sir.  I appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Well, I will say, Danny, we\u2019re 20 and 0.  We\u2019ve gotten a lot of them out.  And they shouldn\u2019t have been there \u2014 Aya from Egypt, and many others.  North Korea.  We have a few negotiations going on right now.  I won\u2019t tell you where because we don\u2019t want to blow the negotiation out the window, but we have a few negotiations going.<\/p>\n<p>I love doing it because I love the end result.  This is the end result: a happy man with a happy family.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey, would you have anything to say?<\/p>\n<p>SENATOR GRAHAM:  Congratulations.  You\u2019ve got a very good hostage negotiator.  And to the Yemen people, I\u2019m sorry you\u2019re having to go through what you\u2019re going through.  And thank you for taking Iran on.  I appreciate that, Mr. President.  The root of most evil in the Mideast is Iran.  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Well, would you say maybe a few words?  You worked very hard.<\/p>\n<p>MR. O\u2019BRIEN:  Sure, Mr. President.  Thank you.  And this wouldn\u2019t happen with all of these hostages and detainees without the support of the President.  The President has had unparalleled success in bringing Americans home without paying concessions, without prisoner exchanges, but through force of will and the goodwill that he\u2019s generated around the world.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you to the UAE, which assisted President Trump in this important rescue.  And, again, I\u2019m honored to be here with you today, sir.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  That\u2019s so nice.<\/p>\n<p>MR. O\u2019BRIEN:  And welcome home, Danny.<\/p>\n<p>MR. BURCH:  Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  The Ambassador said that he\u2019s the greatest hostage negotiator in our history.  And I say, \u201cDon\u2019t say it because they\u2019ll never write it.  They\u2019ll never write it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitt, would you say something?  Please.<\/p>\n<p>SENATOR ROMNEY:  I\u2019d be happy to.  I congratulate the administration, the President, the Vice President, for making this such a high priority.  Welcome home.  It\u2019s wonderful to have you back in our wonderful land.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you also to Robert O\u2019Brien and the entire team at State and the administration that\u2019s working to find ways to bring our hostages home.  It\u2019s a great and important work, and we very much appreciate it.  It\u2019s wonderful to have one of our own come back to our shores.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much, Mitt.  And, Robert, again, congratulations to everybody.  Keep it going.  We have some other ones going right now that nobody knows about, but we\u2019re going to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>And I really \u2014 you\u2019re doing a fantastic job.  Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>MR. O\u2019BRIEN:  Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank all very much.  Thank you.  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Q    How are the trade talks going with China?<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Going okay.  We\u2019re moving along.  We\u2019re discussing that with Lindsey and Mitt.  They\u2019re moving along well, and we\u2019ll see what happens.  They\u2019re either going to be a good deal or it\u2019s not going to be a deal.  But I think they\u2019re moving on very nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Q    Mr. President, is North Korea breaking a promise by rebuilding a key missile launch site?<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Well, we\u2019re going to see.  It\u2019s too early to see.  But we have to solve a problem.  We have a very nasty problem there.  We have to solve a problem.  The relationship is good.<\/p>\n<p>I would be very disappointed if that were happening.  It\u2019s a very early report, and we\u2019re the ones that put it out.  But I would be very, very disappointed in Chairman Kim.  And I don\u2019t think I will be, but we\u2019ll see what happens.  We\u2019ll take a look.  It\u2019ll ultimately get solved.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all very much.  I appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Q    What\u2019s your message to Republicans who choose to vote against your national emergency declaration?  What\u2019s your message to Republicans who have already chosen to vote against it?<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  We\u2019ll have to see how the vote goes.  We\u2019ll see how the vote goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230; Thank you very much for being here. We have a very big moment because we have Danny Burch back home, where he should be. He was in Yemen, in a very horrible situation \u2014 a captive, a prisoner. You can call him whatever you want, but it wasn\u2019t good. 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