The President spoke at 12:05 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.; Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Jason T. Smith; Jennifer S. Korn, Faith Director, White House Faith Office; White House Border Czar Thomas D. Homan; Jonathan Cain, husband of Senior Adviser White-Cain; Meir Y. Soloveichik, senior rabbi, Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City; Kelly J. Shackelford, president and chief executive officer, First Liberty Institute; Ryan T. Anderson, president, Ethics and Public Policy Center; author and former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller; Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York; Gov. Gregory W. Abbott of Texas; Adi and Yael Alexander, parents of Tenafly, NJ, resident and Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, who was captured during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel; President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia; Ralph Reed, founder and chairman, Faith and Freedom Coalition; Guillermo Maldonado, senior pastor and founder, King Jesus International Ministry (KJM) in Miami, FL; Mark Burns, founder, NOW Television Network; Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy, Dr. James Dobson Family Institute; and Rodney Howard-Browne, founder, Revival Ministries International, the River at Tampa Bay Church, and River University in Tampa, FL. Senior Adviser White-Cain referred to Adonica Howard-Browne, wife of Mr. Howard-Browne; and Brad and Rachel Knight, pastors, StoryLife Church in Apopka, FL. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on May 2.