President Trump vowed to make America energy independent and reduce our reliance on foreign oil,

gas, and minerals.

And the man tasked with making that plan a reality is Interior Secretary Doug Bergam.

Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips spent the day with Bergam, who touched on everything

from energy independence to illegal immigration

and the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. In this episode, we bring you that full interview.

I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howl. It's Saturday, May 3rd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

All right, we're now joined by Doug Berger, Secretary of the Interior.

Mr. Secretary, thanks for being here. Cabot, wonderful to be with you. Thanks. And so fun to be in studio

here with you as well. This is awesome. We were up in Mammoth Cave earlier, spulunking, doing some cave

diving. Yeah, literally, I couldn't really recognize you because the first time I've seen you outside of a cave. Yeah, that's why we look so pale because we weren't getting any natural light.

For our audience who might not be aware, what does the Interior Department encompass, walk us through your role there?

Well, it's an incredible department because of the scope and the breadth that it has covers 14 time zones one way to think

about the department of interiors the department of everything or another way to think about it is

really the the heart of america's balance sheet there's 500 million acres of land 700 million acres

of subsurface 2.5 billion of offshore and it covers from from the U.S. Virgin Islands to American Samoa,

it's got in some states more than 50 percent of the lands in those states are public lands.

So think Bureau of Land Management, think U.S. National Parks, think Bureau of Indian Affairs,

where we hold land and trust for over 500 tribes. Think about U.S. fish and wildlife.

All of these resources combined plus the offshore represent really an enormous amount of wealth

that belongs to the American people.

Now, I want to talk about some of your efforts on mining.

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