Hello, everybody.

Good afternoon.

So much excitement.

I know it's the Fed Chair meeting, right?

I know.

I know.

I know.

I know.

Bloomberg.

Bloomberg.

I mean, yeah.

Forget about me.

I know.

It's not about me.

Okay.

So today on the final day of Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I'm excited to welcome some special guests to the briefing room today.

Pop phenom BTS.

While many of you may know BTS as Grammy nominated international icons, they also play an important role as youth ambassadors, promoting a message of respect and positivity.

After this briefing, they will join President Biden in a discussion about Asian inclusion, representation and diversity, as well as addressing an anti Asian hate crimes and discrimination.

As many of you know, the president has led a historic whole of government approach to combat racism, xenophobia and tolerance intolerance facing a N H P I communities beginning his first week in office when he issued a presidential memorandum leveraging the power of the federal government to stand against this hate.

The executive order to reestablish the White House initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and funded critical research to prevent and address xenophobia against a and N H P I communities.

So without further ado, I will.

I will let the band take it from here.

They're gonna each speak.

We have a interpreter somewhere here.

There you go.

Good to see you s O.

They'll each speak first, and then the interpreter will come back up and interpret what they just said.

They're not gonna take any questions.

They're just gonna come here and give some give some some words, and then we'll start the briefing.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kareem, for your kind words and high with BTS.

And it is a great honor to be invited to the White House today to discuss the important issues of anti Asian America.

Lastly, we thank President Biden and the White House for giving this important opportunity to speak about the important causes.

Remind ourselves of what we can do as artists once again.

Thank you very much.

Provide interpretation in Korean and English.

We will translate it briefly in Korean and English.

Jin said today is the last day of the A and H P I heritage month.

We joined the White House to stand with the A and H P I community and to celebrate.

Jimmy said we were devastated by the recent surge of hate crimes including Asian-American hate crimes.

To put a stop on this and support the cause, we would like to take this opportunity to voice ourselves once again.

J-Hope said we are here today thanks to our army, our fans worldwide who have different nationalities and cultures and use different languages.

We are truly and always grateful.

Jungkook said we still feel surprised that music created by South Korean artists reaches so many people around the world, transcending languages and cultural barriers.

We believe music is always an amazing and wonderful unifier of all things.

Suga said it's not wrong to be different.

I think equality begins when we open up and embrace all of our differences.

V said everyone has their own history.

We hope today is one step forward to respecting and understanding each and every one as a valuable person.

Lastly, I would like to thank President Biden and the White House for giving us the opportunity to talk about important issues and to think about what we can do as artists.

Thank you.

What does it mean to you to come to the White House?

We're going to go.

We're going to go.

They're not going to take any questions, but thank you so much, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Okay.

Brian, I don't know how you're going to...