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(crowd claps)

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- Thank you very much, it's a great honor.

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What a beautiful day in the Rose Garden.

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Please sit, thank you.

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To ensure that all resources
of the federal government

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are focused on the arriving
storm, I have decided

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to send our Vice President, Mike Pence,

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to Poland this weekend, in my place.

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It's something very
important for me to be here.

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The storm looks like it could be a very,

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very big one indeed,
and Mike will be going.

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I've just spoken to
President Duda of Poland,

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and expressed to him my warmest wishes

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and the wishes of the American people.

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Our highest priority is
the safety and security

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of the people in the
path of the hurricane.

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And I will be rescheduling my trip

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to Poland in the near future.

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We're gathered here in the Rose Garden

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to establish the United
States Space Command.

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It's a big deal, as the
newest combatant command,

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SPACECOM will defend America's
vital interests in space,

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the next warfighting domain.

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And I think that's pretty
obvious to everybody.

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It's all about space.

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We're joined by Vice President Mike Pence,

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Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper,

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Acting Director of National
Intelligence Joe Maguire,

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Acting Secretary of
the Army Ryan McCarthy,

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Acting Secretary of the
Air Force Matt Donovan,

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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General Joseph Dunford, and
Congressman Mike Turner.

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We're especially grateful
to welcome the new leader

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of SPACECOM, General Jay Raymond,

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a highly respected man
within the military,

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joined this afternoon by
his wife Mollie, thank you.

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Thank you, Mollie,
congratulations, Mollie.

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It's great, their wonderful family

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and several of their friends.

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General Raymond, congratulations.

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So important.

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I know he's going to do a fantastic job.

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Thank you very much.

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(crowd claps)

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The United States combatant
commands were developed

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to join branches of our
armed forces in common cause

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across diverse fields of battle.

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Each of the United States
military's combatant commands

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has an area of
responsibility, from CENTCOM,

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which oversees our mission
in the Middle East,

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to our most recent, CYBERCOM,
which we established

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just last year to protect Americans

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from the most advanced
cyber threats and also

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to create very, very severe

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and powerful offensive
threats, should we need them.

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The dangers to our
country constantly evolve,

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and so must we.

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Now, those who wish to harm
the United States, to seek

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to challenge us in the
ultimate high ground of space.

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It's gonna be a whole different ballgame.

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Our adversaries are
weaponizing Earth's orbits

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with new technology
targeting American satellites

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that are critical to both
battlefield operations

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and our way of life at home.

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Our freedom to operate in
space is also essential

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to detecting and destroying any missile

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launched against the United States.

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So, just as we have
recognized land, air, sea,

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and cyber as vital warfighting domains,

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we will now treat space as an
independent region overseen

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by a new unified geographic
combatant command.

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The establishment of the
11th Combatant Command

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is a landmark moment.

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This is a landmark day,
one that recognizes

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the centrality of space to America's

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national security and defense.

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Under General Raymond's
leadership, SPACECOM

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will boldly deter aggression

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and outpace America's rivals, by far.

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For 35 years, General
Raymond has led and commanded

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space operations at every
level in the U.S. Air Force.

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Mollie, I hope you're very proud of him.

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I'll bet you are, I am, too.

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He's a warrior who has
integrated space capabilities

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to make our military even
stronger and to pave the way

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for a new era of national defense.

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He's respected by everybody
sitting in front of us,

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everybody in the military
and everybody that knows him.

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SPACECOM will soon be
followed, very importantly,

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by the establishment of the
United States Space Force

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as the sixth branch of the
United States Armed Forces.

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And that's really something,
when you think about it.

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The Space Force will organize, train,

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and equip warriors to
support SPACECOM's mission.

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With today's action, we
open another great chapter

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in the extraordinary history
of the United States military.

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SPACECOM will ensure that
America's dominance in space

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is never questioned and never
threatened, because we know

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the best way to prevent conflict
is to prepare for victory.

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From our nation's first days,
America's military blazed

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the trails and crossed the frontiers

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that secured our nation's future.

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No adversary on Earth will
ever match the awesome courage,

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skill, and might of American Armed Forces.

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Today, we salute the heroic men and women

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who will serve in SPACECOM
and keep America's horizons

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forever bright and forever free.

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We have budgets, since we
came into the administration,

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since the election of 2016,
since January 20th, of 2017,

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we have done things with the military

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that few people would
have thought possible.

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Budgets of $700 billion, $716 billion,

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and now $738 billion,
nobody would have thought

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that that was possible,

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but we had them approved by
Republicans and Democrats.

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And that money is now building

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the most advanced equipment
anywhere on Earth,

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equipment that nobody even
could have conceived of,

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even two years ago.

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It's very necessary.

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And hopefully we'll never have to use it.

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I would now like to ask Secretary Esper

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to sign documents formally establishing

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the United States Space
Command, thank you.

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Mr. Secretary.
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(crowd claps)

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- Good afternoon, Mr. President,

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thank you for hosting us today.

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In doing so, you honor the
airmen, sailors, soldiers,

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and Marines that secure our
high ground for our nation.

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On behalf of those men and
women, we'd like to present you

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with a small memento that reads,

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"United States Space Command
Establishment: 29 August 2019."

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On behalf of the space warfighters,

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thank you for your leadership.

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(crowd claps)

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- That's a big one, thank you very much.

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I'd now like to like to now invite

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Chief Master Sergeant Roger
Towberman to the stage

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to unfurl the flag of the
United States Space Command.

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Thank you very much.

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(crowd claps)

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- [Reporter] Mr. President,

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your reaction to James Comey, sir?

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