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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, twice a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=a0d8a50e-c20b-4198-9583-89a11fd15d1b&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: President Trump Speaks at CPAC 2018 [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Speaks at CPAC 2018](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WedZaBrf.m3u8) (1:40)  _Published 2018-02-23. When President Donald Trump took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday morning, he clearly wanted to have some fun._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 22, 2018 12:00 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 22, 2018 12:00 PM UTC The Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off on Thursday, with scheduled speeches by Vice President Mike Pence and [controversial French political figure](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/20/trump-was-too-controversial-for-cpac-in-2016-now-le-pen-will-address-the-conservative-conference/?utm%5Fterm=.12c7e7e0107d) Maréchal-Le Pen, the niece of far-right leader [Marine Le Pen](http://time.com/4703325/the-power-of-le-pen/). The conference — held just outside Washington, D.C. in National Harbor, Maryland — brings together [conservative leaders](http://cpac.conservative.org/speakers/) each year. Pence is scheduled to speak Thursday at 10:35 a.m., and President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the conference shortly after 10 a.m. on Friday. Members of his Cabinet will also make appearances during the four-day conference, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. Wayne LaPierre, CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, is expected to speak at the conference, but his name has been kept off the published [agenda](http://cpac.conservative.org/agenda/). The NRA is a sponsor of the conference, but the organization has been facing heavy backlash in the wake of a [high school shooting](http://time.com/5158678/what-to-know-about-the-active-shooter-situation-at-florida-high-school/) last week that left 17 people dead. Watch a livestream of the conference here. ## Transcript You have the presidential election coming up again, and you clobber them because everybody gets off their ****, and they get out, and they work. Right, and they work, and they work and work and work. And you end up winning the presidency again, and we should do that. Hopefully, we're going to do that very easily. Don't be complacent because. If they get in, they will repeal your tax cuts, they will put judges in that you wouldn't believe, they'll take away your Second Amendment, which we will never allow it to happen. [ APPLAUSE ] They'll take away your Second Amendment. [ APPLAUSE ] If you only had a choice of one, what would you rather have the Second Amendment or the tax cuts? Go ahead, Second Amendment, Tax cuts. Second Amendment. [ APPLAUSE ] I'm gonna leave it at the Second Amendment, I don't wanna get into that battle. Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! You said you would! I will say this folks, Everything that's turning out, now it's amazing, that's come full circle. Boy have they committed a lot of atrocities when you look, right? [ APPLAUSE ] How would you look. Have they done things that are wrong? North Korea, we Imposed today the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before. Hopefully something positive can happen, we will se, but hopefully something positive can happen but that just was announced and I want to let you know we we have imposed the heaviest sanctions ever imposed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5169644/cpac-livestream-watch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5169644/cpac-livestream-watch/"},"headline":"Trump, Pence and Other Conservative Leaders Are Set to Speak at the CPAC: Watch It Live Here","datePublished":"2018-02-22T12:00:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-12T08:59:53.276Z","description":"The Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off on Thursday","url":"https://time.com/5169644/cpac-livestream-watch/","keywords":["republicans","CPAC","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8088a9f74b3f3c7c/6989287786f68e76336e85f9/cpac-livestream-trump-pence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8088a9f74b3f3c7c/6989287786f68e76336e85f9/cpac-livestream-trump-pence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-CPAC-TRUMP","caption":"US-POLITICS-CPAC-TRUMP","creditText":"Mike Theiler—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republicans/","name":"republicans"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5169644/cpac-livestream-watch/","name":"Trump, Pence and Other Conservative Leaders Are Set to Speak at the CPAC: Watch It Live Here"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump Speaks at CPAC 2018","description":"When President Donald Trump took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday morning, he clearly wanted to have some fun.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/WedZaBrf/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-02-23T17:44:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WedZaBrf.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5169644/cpac-livestream-watch/","duration":"PT1M40S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5169644/cpac-livestream-watch/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```