0:00 many friends in Israel they are not in
0:03 an easy area it doesn't go easy but we
0:06 are helping them and likewise they've
0:09 been helping us very much and so we'll
0:11 see how it all works out but we had
0:14 great discussions today I think on the
0:16 obvious subject of Iran and also the
0:19 less obvious subject with respect to
0:22 Israel and that's trade uh and I think
0:25 the prime minister is going to tell you
0:26 a little bit about trade and what
0:27 they're doing for the United States so I
0:30 want to thank you all for being here
0:31 thank you very much and thank you
0:33 Benjamin thank you very much thank you
0:34 Mr president thank you Don thank you
0:38 Mr president i want to uh first thank
0:40 you for uh inviting me again to uh the
0:44 White House you've been a remarkable
0:46 friend of the state of Israel uh you
0:49 stand by us you're standing with us you
0:52 are a great great champion of our
0:55 alliance and uh you actually do the
0:59 things that you say you do and I I think
1:01 that people respect that enormously i
1:04 certainly do and people of Israel do and
1:06 I think the Jewish people do as well we
1:09 just saw your representative in the the
1:11 Department of Justice fighting
1:14 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
1:16 international forms i just want you to
1:18 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
1:21 appreciated as you said we had the
1:23 opportunity to talk today about many
1:26 subjects uh first if I can mention
1:28 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
1:30 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
1:34 to the president a very simple thing we
1:36 will eliminate the trade deficit with
1:39 the United States we intend to do it
1:41 very quickly we think it's the right
1:43 thing to do and we're going to also
1:46 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
1:49 trade barriers that have been put up
1:51 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
1:53 serve as a model for many countries who
1:57 ought to do the same i recognize the the
2:00 position of the United States it says
2:02 you know we're allowing other countries
2:05 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
2:08 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
2:10 trade champion and free trade has to be
2:12 fair trade and I think that's basically
2:15 uh the position that you have uh put
2:17 forward Mr president we are going to
2:20 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
2:23 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
2:25 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
2:28 we could affect this quickly and I hope
2:30 to bring a solution very quickly we're
2:32 not talking about intentions we're not
2:35 talking about uh you know just words
2:38 we're talking about results okay those
2:40 results are going to come that's the
2:42 first thank you very much that's very
2:43 nice thank you Mr president where are
2:46 the hostages here
2:48 well let him finish let him
2:50 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
2:53 the hostages
2:55 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
2:58 is a human story of un just unbearable
3:03 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
3:06 to them yesterday spoke to another one
3:09 when I was in Hungary before I came here
3:11 i speak to them every day they're in
3:13 agony the hostages are in agony and we
3:16 want to get them all out uh Steve Whit
3:19 who was President Trump's very able
3:21 representative helped us get a deal that
3:24 got 25 out we're working now on another
3:26 deal that we hope will succeed uh and
3:29 we're committed to getting all the
3:30 hostages out but also eliminating the
3:33 evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza and
3:39 enabling the people of Gaza to freely
3:41 make a choice to go wherever they want i
3:44 mean they should have that choice and
3:45 the president put forward a vision a
3:47 bold vision which we discussed as well
3:51 including the uh countries that might uh
3:54 be amendable and are amendable to
3:57 accepting Palestinians have their free
3:59 choice if they choose to go there and I
4:02 think that's the second thing that we
4:03 discussed uh but the hostages came right
4:06 on top uh we also discussed the
4:09 situation uh in Syria
4:13 We have uh we've had neighboring
4:16 relations with Turkey that have
4:17 deteriorated and we don't want to see
4:19 Syria being used by anyone including
4:22 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
4:24 turkey is
4:25 a country
4:27 that has a great relationship with the
4:30 United States the president has a
4:32 relationship with the leader of Turkey
4:34 we discussed how we can avoid this
4:37 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
4:40 think we can't have a better
4:42 interlocutor than the president of the
4:44 United States for this purpose and of
4:46 course we also discussed Iran look we're
4:49 both united in the uh goal that Iran
4:52 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
4:55 can be done diplomatically in a full way
4:57 the way it was done in Libya I think
4:59 that would be a good thing uh but
5:02 whatever happens we have to make sure
5:03 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
5:07 that's the end of my speech
5:10 mr we are we're having direct talks with
5:14 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
5:16 having direct talks with Iran and uh
5:20 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
5:23 have a very big meeting and we'll see
5:25 what can happen and I think everybody
5:27 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
5:31 preferable to doing the obvious and the
5:34 obvious is not something that I want to
5:37 be involved with or frankly that Israel
5:40 wants to be involved with if they can
5:41 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
5:43 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
5:46 dangerous
5:47 territory and hopefully those talks will
5:50 be successful and I think it would be in
5:52 Iran's best interest if they are
5:55 successful we hope we hope that's going
5:57 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
6:00 good talks on a lot of things i
6:01 appreciate very much what you said about
6:02 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
6:05 taken advantage of by many countries
6:07 over the years and uh can't do it
6:10 anymore just can't do it anymore we
6:11 can't be the stupid people anymore and
6:14 it's all because of the people that sat
6:17 in the seat right here not your seat but
6:19 this seat they allowed things to happen
6:22 to our country that they shouldn't have
6:23 allowed to happen on trade and other
6:25 things many other things i mean look at
6:27 what's happened with our last president
6:29 where he allowed millions of people to
6:31 come into our country with an open
6:33 border who would want an open border how
6:36 stupid is that but uh he allowed
6:39 millions and millions of people and of
6:41 the millions and I think it was 21
6:43 million people but let's say three of
6:45 them were serious criminals serious
6:48 murderers and drug dealers and gang
6:50 members and people from jails all the
6:52 jails emptied out right into our country
6:55 right along the open border on the on
6:58 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
7:00 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
7:02 but generally speaking on the southern
7:05 border and uh what a shame it is that we
7:08 are now working very hard to get them
7:10 out get the criminals out get the
7:11 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
7:14 mentally insane get them out they
7:16 dropped the mentally insane in our
7:18 country too and this was all done by the
7:20 Biden administration it's a disgrace
7:23 that we have to work so hard and then we
7:25 have judges that try and protect these
7:26 people but they didn't protect us when
7:28 the people were being let in but to get
7:31 them out is never easy with these people
7:33 so uh I think we're doing a great job
7:36 the border is the best it's ever been
7:39 even as strong as it was I had a great
7:42 solid border i think it might even be
7:44 tougher right now and stronger so people
7:47 are coming into our country but they're
7:48 coming in legally we have a legal
7:50 process and we have that moving along
7:52 properly because we need people to come
7:54 into our country but we want people that
7:56 can love our country and cherish our
7:58 country so that's where we are and with
8:00 that any questions
8:06 would you be open to a pause in
8:08 terrorists to allow for negotiations
8:10 well we're not looking at that we have
8:12 many many uh countries that are coming
8:15 to negotiate deals with us and they're
8:17 going to be fair deals and in certain
8:20 cases they're going to be be paying
8:22 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
8:24 deals as you know I spoke this morning
8:27 with the prime minister of Japan and we
8:30 had a very good conversation they're
8:32 coming and I said "One thing you're
8:34 going to have to open up your country
8:35 because we sold no cars like zero cars
8:38 in Japan." And they sold millions of
8:41 cars into our country uh they don't
8:44 really take our agriculture a little bit
8:45 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
8:48 they don't take what they're supposed to
8:49 be taking so we have a great
8:51 relationship with Japan we're going to
8:52 keep it that way but they're coming in
8:54 to meet and other C countries are coming
8:56 in uh with China as you know against my
9:01 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
9:05 what their ridiculous tariffs were
9:08 already and I said if that tariff isn't
9:10 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
9:13 putting a 50% tariff on above the
9:16 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
9:19 for years they become a rich country
9:20 because of people again that were in the
9:23 White House that allowed this to happen
9:25 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
9:27 year they'd make us on trade and it
9:30 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
9:32 great relationship with President Xi i
9:34 hope it's going to stay that way i have
9:36 great respect for China but they can't
9:38 do this we're just uh we're going to
9:40 have one shot at this and no other
9:43 president's going to do this what I'm
9:44 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
9:47 honor to do it because we have been just
9:50 just destroyed what they've done to our
9:52 system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
9:55 debt for a reason and uh the reason is
9:58 that people allowed it to get that way
10:00 so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
10:04 talking to a lot of different countries
10:07 and I think you know if if if we can
10:10 make a really fair deal and a good deal
10:13 for the United States not a good deal
10:14 for others this is America first it's
10:17 now America first and we didn't put
10:19 America first we put America last the
10:21 people that were in the Oval Office put
10:24 America last and we're not going to
10:25 stand for it
10:31 go ahead represent the US in the talks
10:34 go ahead um two questions do you expect
10:36 any of these deals to be made before
10:38 April 9th and secondly there have been
10:40 some mixed messages from your
10:42 administration you're talking about
10:43 negotiations and yet others in your
10:45 administration are saying that these
10:46 tariffs are actually permanent what is
10:48 that well it could be they can both be
10:51 true there can be permanent tariffs and
10:54 there can also be negotiations because
10:56 there are things that we need beyond
10:57 tariffs we need open borders you know we
11:00 almost had a deal with China where we're
11:02 going to open up China it was almost
11:04 done some of you remember it during my
11:06 first term and it was very disappointing
11:08 we ended up making a great deal.$50
11:10 billion dollars worth of uh product was
11:13 sold 50 billion you'd like that in
11:14 Israel and I made that deal but it
11:17 wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
11:19 the deal that I wanted was that plus
11:22 they were going to open up China so that
11:23 our companies could go into China and
11:26 compete with other countries and China
11:29 for the you know for a large number of
11:31 people and at the very end that deal was
11:34 terminated and we went to a piece of the
11:37 deal and there so there are a lot of
11:40 things outside of tariffs but tariffs
11:41 are very important but there are a lot
11:43 of things like opening up countries that
11:45 were totally closed china's essentially
11:48 a closed country in fact it is a closed
11:51 country and what they do is they charge
11:53 tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
11:56 or if you sell anything uh nobody's
11:58 going to buy it because the price is out
12:00 of control but that's true with a lot of
12:02 other countries also so we're going to
12:04 get fair deals and good deals with every
12:06 country and if we don't we're going to
12:08 have nothing to do with them they're not
12:10 going to be allowed to participate in
12:11 the United States
12:22 i'll relax we have time this gentleman
12:25 is all day long mr many
12:29 of you go ahead
13:03 maybe talk about it for a second because
13:05 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
13:06 we've we've been very tough and very
13:09 successful
13:10 militarily we've
13:12 uh really damaged them badly these were
13:16 people shooting down ships and other
13:18 things by the way flying objects like
13:21 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
13:25 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
13:27 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
13:33 and and it's every night night after
13:36 night and we've gotten many of their
13:38 leaders and their experts their experts
13:41 on missiles i mean they actually make
13:43 missiles nobody thought that but they
13:45 make missiles they're highly
13:47 sophisticated and they're very tough but
13:50 they've been uh very badly damaged
13:52 nobody else was able to do that but us
13:54 pete do you want to discuss that please
13:55 yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
13:58 for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
14:00 worse it's been a devastating campaign
14:03 whether it's underground facilities
14:05 weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
14:08 the open air defense assets we are not
14:10 going to relent and it's only to get
14:12 more unrelenting until the Houthis
14:14 declare they will stop shooting at our
14:16 ships and we've been very clear with the
14:18 Iranians as well uh they uh they should
14:21 not continue to provide support to the
14:23 Houthis and that message has been made
14:25 very clear so we have a lot more options
14:28 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
14:30 know because we see the reports how
14:32 devastating this campaign has been in
14:33 them and we will not fight we have a
14:35 great military there's no military like
14:38 our military and despite Biden having
14:41 given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty
14:44 small piece but it was a lot of our
14:47 military away in Afghanistan and one of
14:49 the dumbest situations I think and maybe
14:52 the most embarrassing situation we've
14:54 ever been involved in that that short
14:56 period of time in Afghanistan what a
14:59 disgrace that was but uh left a lot of
15:02 our military behind left left left you
15:05 see them in their annual parades where
15:08 they're parading trucks that are
15:09 armorplated and different things that
15:11 they can't but it's many billions of
15:13 dollars we left behind but despite that
15:16 uh we have a tremendous military that
15:18 was a very small portion because we
15:20 rebuilt the military during my first
15:22 term and uh we uh we have great uh great
15:27 things happening with our military we
15:28 also uh essentially approved a budget
15:32 which is in the facility you'll like to
15:35 hear this of a trillion dollars $1
15:37 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
15:40 it we have to build our military and
15:42 we're very costconscious but the
15:44 military is something that we have to
15:46 build and we have to be strong because
15:47 you got a lot of bad forces out there
15:49 now so we're going to be approving a
15:51 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
15:54 actually the biggest one we've ever done
15:55 for the military uh we're cutting other
15:58 things that were uh under Doge but under
16:01 a lot of other when you look at uh a
16:04 woman getting $2 billion for
16:06 environmental and it had nothing to do
16:08 with environmental and they had $100 in
16:11 the bank and they give her two billion
16:12 many many of those cases all that stuff
16:15 is going to be cut out but we are
16:16 getting a very very powerful military we
16:20 have things under order now the likes of
16:22 which we've never had before we've never
16:24 had the kind of uh aircraft craft the
16:27 kind of missiles anything uh that we
16:31 have ordered and it's in many ways too
16:33 bad that we have to do it because
16:35 hopefully we're not going to have to use
16:36 it but the military is very very
16:38 powerful and uh it's going to remain
16:41 that way
16:48 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
16:50 you about because this is the first time
16:53 we hear that
16:55 US is it possible to give us some more
16:58 information at what level high level
17:01 very high level yeah we're dealing with
17:04 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
17:06 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
17:08 directly you know a lot of people say
17:10 "Oh maybe you're going through
17:11 surrogates or you're not dealing
17:13 directly you're dealing through other
17:14 countries." No we're dealing with them
17:16 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
17:18 be made that would be great going to be
17:21 It would be really great for Iran i can
17:23 tell you that but hopefully we're not
17:26 going to have to get into that we We are
17:28 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
17:32 almost the highest level and we'll see
17:34 how it works out please how do you
17:35 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
17:38 don't drive US trading partners into the
17:41 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
17:43 about it i'm not worried about it they
17:44 want to be in the hands of the US they
17:46 don't want to be in the hands of the
17:48 Chinese
17:49 uh the Chinese have turned out to be
17:51 really not very good at that uh people
17:54 that are with us they're with us but we
17:56 cannot be uh taken advantage of any
17:59 longer i used to watch these deals for
18:01 years i've been talking about it for
18:02 years you and I've been talking about it
18:04 for 35 years how our country is being
18:08 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
18:11 was Japan then it was something else
18:14 then it was another group then it was
18:15 China china's doing the the best job of
18:18 it frankly and it's just not going to
18:21 happen not going to happen
18:28 eu has said that they have offered zero
18:32 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
18:34 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
18:37 not the EU has been very tough over the
18:41 years it was I always say it was formed
18:44 to really do damage to the United States
18:47 in trade that's the reason it was formed
18:49 it was formed with all of the countries
18:51 from Europe i guess most of them not all
18:54 of them but most of them and they formed
18:56 together to uh create a little bit of a
18:59 monopoly situation to create a unified
19:02 force against the United States for
19:04 trade so they have uh NATO which is
19:07 largely the same countries and they uh
19:10 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
19:13 militarily until I got there you know I
19:15 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
19:18 from NATO where they paid NATO because
19:21 most of these nations weren't even
19:22 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
19:25 paying them to guard them militarily and
19:27 they're screwing us on trade so that's
19:29 not a good combination so now uh it's
19:33 really turned around it's the opposite
19:35 and the European Union's been very ne
19:38 very bad to us they don't take our cars
19:41 like Japan in that sense they don't take
19:43 our agricultural product they don't take
19:46 anything practically and yet they send
19:49 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
19:51 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
19:55 and millions of cars into the US but we
19:57 don't have a car that's been sold to the
20:00 European Union or other places but let's
20:02 go for the European Union and it's not
20:05 going to be that way it's got to be fair
20:07 and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
20:09 not fair uh we have a deficit with the
20:12 European Union of $350
20:16 billion and it's going to disappear fast
20:19 and one of the reasons and one of the
20:21 ways that that can disappear easily and
20:23 quickly is they're going to have to buy
20:24 our energy from us because they need it
20:27 they're going to have to buy it from us
20:28 they can buy it we can knock off $350
20:30 billion in one week they have to buy and
20:33 commit to buy a like amount of energy
20:37 and we have that you know we have more
20:39 energy than any country in the world i
20:41 don't know if you know that he knows
20:42 everything but the one thing he may not
20:44 know we have more energy than any
20:46 country in the world we have more of
20:48 every kind of energy every form of
20:50 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
20:53 people talk about I call it beautiful
20:55 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
20:59 opening up a coal plant a week they
21:02 tried the windmills and it didn't work
21:03 they tried all the other solutions and
21:05 they were ready to go out of business
21:07 now they're doing a coal plant a week
21:09 china is now up to two coal plants that
21:12 uh they're opening two major coal plants
21:14 every single week in China all over
21:16 China and that we're not allowed to use
21:19 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
21:22 more than anybody else we have oil and
21:24 gas more than anybody else we have the
21:26 most energy of any country in the world
21:28 including Saudi Arabia including
21:29 everybody by a lot and I took it to
21:32 number one we were number three and I
21:35 took it to number one during my
21:36 administration
21:38 and the reason that we were hurt so
21:40 badly and the reason that we went into
21:42 such incredible inflation during Biden
21:45 is energy it was also their bad spending
21:48 but energy because they played around
21:51 with this incredible thing that we had
21:54 built this administration had built and
21:56 the energy cost went through the roof
21:58 and when that went up everything else
21:59 followed now if you look at what's
22:01 happening you're going to see this today
22:04 i said we're going to try and get
22:05 groceries down right an oldfashioned
22:07 term but a beautiful term uh eggs so
22:10 when I got in the press went absolutely
22:13 crazy the first week they said "Eggs
22:15 have quadrupled in price." I said "I
22:18 just got here tell me about it." And
22:20 Brooke Rollins and our team did a great
22:22 job and eggs are down now 79% and
22:25 they're all over the place and this was
22:27 a problem that somebody else would have
22:29 taken a long time to cure uh we have
22:33 energy is down we have interest rates
22:35 are down we have groceries meaning food
22:38 is down we have everything is down at
22:41 levels that nobody ever thought possible
22:43 energy looks like it's going to be in in
22:45 the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
22:49 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
22:54 are we're really doing amazing i mean
22:56 we're we're cutting prices because
22:59 prices got so high people couldn't live
23:01 i mean the prices for groceries the
23:03 prices for standard standard groceries
23:06 standard things were going through the
23:07 roof they couldn't live and now those
23:09 prices are coming down so call them
23:11 groceries but that's down energy is down
23:14 and interest rates are down everything's
23:17 down and the interest rates the beauty
23:19 there is when we refinance debt you know
23:21 debts become such a big factor in this
23:23 country we're going to get we're going
23:24 to start paying debt off with tariffs
23:27 and other things but uh it's such a big
23:29 factor because the interest rates so
23:31 high well now that's coming way down so
23:33 our budget's going to look a lot better
23:35 because interest costs are way down and
23:38 I guess I've done that
23:44 many Israelis are watching you now our
23:47 last show good what is your specific I
23:49 hope they like getting the hostages out
23:51 from the horrific captivity yeah we are
23:54 trying very hard to get the hostages out
23:56 uh we're looking at another ceasefire
23:59 we'll see what happens but we have we
24:02 want to get the hostages out the Israeli
24:04 people want the hostages out more than
24:06 anything they want the hostages out this
24:09 man is working very hard with us to do
24:11 that i mean I don't know i hope he's
24:13 being appreciated because he's been a
24:14 great leader he's working very very hard
24:17 on the hostages and many other things
24:19 and there are plenty of things you have
24:20 to work on it's a it's a tough place in
24:23 the world i have a good partner yeah you
24:25 do have a good partner and so do we we
24:27 we're working very hard on the hospital
24:32 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
24:34 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
24:36 going to be more effective than the
24:38 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
24:41 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
24:44 lot stronger but they were so happy when
24:47 we made that first deal because we did
24:49 get a lot out you know I had people
24:51 right in this office this beautiful oval
24:53 office they came in 10 people hostages
24:55 you know that and I said to them uh so
24:59 how was it and the stories they told me
25:01 I mean as an example I said to them was
25:05 there any sign of love you were there 10
25:08 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
25:11 representative did the Hamas show any
25:14 signs of like help or liking you did
25:19 they wink at you did they give you a
25:20 piece of bread extra did they give you a
25:23 meal on the side like you know you think
25:25 of doing like what happened in Germany
25:28 what happened elsewhere people would try
25:30 and help people that were in
25:32 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
25:35 said "All of them." I said "Did they
25:37 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
25:39 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
25:41 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
25:45 unbelievable and the lives you know they
25:47 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
25:49 was a pipe and they always thought they
25:51 were suffocating they were going to
25:53 suffocate and then they'd open up the
25:55 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
25:57 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
25:59 is bad but pipes are worse and the
26:02 stories I heard were incredible but I
26:04 just said "Was there any sign of
26:06 potential love or affection?" And there
26:08 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
26:10 me there was nothing like "Here take
26:12 this it's a little extra meal or
26:14 something." They lived like hell i I
26:17 don't know they seem to be they were
26:19 amazing to me because they seemed to be
26:21 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
26:25 I guarantee underneath they have to be
26:27 scarred and one was there for
26:30 356 days another was there for about 180
26:34 days you know long time these are people
26:37 that have been really really horribly
26:39 treated i've never seen anything like it
26:41 actually I was very surprised to hear
26:43 the answer
26:45 thank you Mr president are there two or
26:47 three countries that on your list that
26:50 you feel are farther along in getting
26:52 their tariffs lowered i think well I
26:56 think there are many that want to get
26:58 rid of tariffs right now uh European
27:00 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
27:03 us they've you know they've brought
27:05 their car tariffs essentially off i
27:07 guess they brought it down to two and a
27:08 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
27:12 it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
27:14 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
27:16 things on that make it impossible for
27:18 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
27:20 it's they make it so difficult the
27:22 standards and the tests uh they drop a
27:25 bowling ball on the top of your car from
27:27 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
27:28 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
27:31 car doesn't qualify when the same car
27:33 from Germany or any would dent likewise
27:36 unless you can have an army tank it's
27:38 going to dent so they come up with rules
27:40 and regulations that are uh just
27:43 designed for one reason that you can't
27:46 sell your product in those countries and
27:48 and uh we're not going to let that
27:50 happen those are called nonmonetary
27:53 barriers they make barriers that are so
27:55 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
27:59 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
28:01 there's another big part of it and
28:03 that's barriers they also do something
28:06 else they manipulate their currency and
28:08 they drive it down they want to drive it
28:10 they want to have low currencies you
28:11 know uh it sounds better to have a high
28:13 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
28:16 uh they bring their currency down and
28:20 when it competes with our currency it's
28:21 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
28:23 hard to sell product because their
28:26 currency is low and ours is much higher
28:30 relatively and so it makes it very hard
28:32 i speak to a lot of companies that do
28:35 business tractor companies and they say
28:37 it's so hard to sell because what
28:40 they've done is they've lowered the yen
28:41 or they've lowered the one or they've
28:43 lowered their currency so that it's very
28:46 hard to compete we don't want that
28:48 either so we have a lot of things that
28:50 we're talking about but we're going to
28:52 fix it properly and it's going to be
28:54 fair to everybody and in the end I think
28:56 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
28:58 better you know but they have to respect
29:00 the United States and nobody but me
29:02 would do this nobody but me would do
29:04 this you know it's would be nice to
29:06 serve a nice easy term but we have an
29:09 opportunity to change the fabric of our
29:11 country we have an opportunity to reset
29:13 the table on trade we lose billions of
29:18 dollars we lose close to uh$ two
29:20 trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
29:22 a trillion dollars a year to China a
29:25 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
29:29 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
29:33 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
29:36 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
29:40 why would we do that number one why
29:42 would we do that and then you have to
29:43 say is it sustainable then you hear
29:45 about all of the people that say "Well
29:47 deficits if we have a deficit with a
29:49 country or if the country has a big
29:51 surplus with us like China has a massive
29:53 surplus that they take and they spend on
29:56 their military." Well we don't want that
29:58 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
30:01 dollars a year and spend it on their
30:03 military i don't want them spending
30:05 money on their military and I shouldn't
30:07 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
30:09 spend it either because you know
30:11 hopefully and I said this to President
30:12 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
30:14 going to use in other words because
30:16 we're not going to use those incredible
30:18 weapons that we have and that they have
30:20 we don't want that so uh it's going to
30:23 be very interesting it's it's the only
30:26 chance our pre our country will have to
30:30 reset the table because no other
30:32 president would be willing to do what
30:34 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
30:37 don't mind going through it because I
30:39 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
30:42 but we are making tremendous progress
30:44 with a lot of countries and the
30:46 countries that really took advantage of
30:48 us are now saying please negotiate you
30:51 know why because they're getting beaten
30:54 badly because of what's happening
30:56 they're getting beaten badly they're
30:57 being devalued as countries but it's the
31:01 only chance we're going to have to reset
31:03 the table on trade and when we do we're
31:05 going to come out unbelievably well
31:07 we're going to have a strong country
31:08 economically again and we're going to
31:11 have those factories that are empty all
31:12 over the United States we've lost
31:16 90,000 plants and factories think of
31:19 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
31:21 possible 90,000 plants and factories
31:24 since NAFTA which was by the way the
31:26 worst trade deal ever ever developed
31:28 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
31:31 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
31:33 would be impossible and I terminated
31:35 through Congress we terminated it you
31:37 had to get it through Congress it was a
31:39 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
31:41 it
31:45 done problem is they cheat they cheat
31:48 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
31:51 just one of those things but we are
31:55 resetting a table and we're going to
31:56 have great trade and we're going to have
31:58 a very strong country our country is
32:00 going to be at a level that is as maybe
32:03 never been or maybe you know our country
32:05 was the strongest believe it or not from
32:08 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
32:12 tariff based we had no income tax then
32:15 in 1913 some genius came up with the
32:18 idea of let's charge the people of our
32:20 country not foreign countries that are
32:22 ripping off our country and the country
32:25 was never relatively was never that kind
32:29 of wealth we had so much wealth we
32:31 didn't know what to do with our money we
32:33 had meetings we had we had committees
32:36 and these committees worked tirelessly
32:39 to study one subject we have so much
32:42 money what are we going to do with it
32:44 who are we going to give it to and I
32:46 hope we're going to be in that position
32:47 again
32:52 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
32:54 your government put on Israeli boots on
32:56 where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
33:01 we're talking about a whole new trade
33:03 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
33:06 Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
33:09 billion dollars a year that's a lot
33:11 congratulations by the way that's pretty
33:14 good but we give Israel billions of
33:16 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
33:20 the highest of And we give a lot of we
33:22 give a lot of countries money uh you
33:25 wouldn't believe if I said "We give
33:27 Afghanistan a lot of money." Do you
33:29 because that was a Biden deal another
33:31 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
33:33 with that but they give them billions of
33:35 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
33:39 we uh we take good care of our friends
33:41 and we don't take care of our enemies
33:43 we're not taking care of our enemies
33:45 anymore but we do take care of our
33:46 friends
33:49 from the Times of Israel the IDF is
33:51 fighting again in the Gaza Strip by
33:52 myself might be called up in a month do
33:54 you think that's the way to pressure
33:55 Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
33:57 blocking humanitarian aid is also an
33:59 effective pressure well you know how I
34:00 feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
34:03 an incredible piece of important real
34:06 estate and I think it's something that
34:09 we would be involved in but uh you know
34:12 having a peace force like the United
34:14 States there controlling and owning the
34:16 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
34:19 right now all it is is for years and
34:21 years all I hear about is killing and
34:23 Hamas and problems and if you take the
34:26 people the Palestinians and move them
34:28 around to different countries and you
34:30 have plenty of countries that will do
34:32 that and you really have a freedom a
34:35 freedom zone you call it the freedom
34:37 zone a free zone a zone where people
34:40 aren't going to be killed every day
34:41 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
34:44 what I call it a great location that
34:46 nobody wants to live in because they
34:48 really don't and when they had good li
34:50 when they have good living real living
34:52 where Hamas and all of the the problems
34:55 they have the the level of debt on the
34:58 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
35:01 said it i I don't understand why Israel
35:04 ever gave it up israel owned it it
35:06 wasn't this man so I can say it he
35:08 wouldn't have given it up i know him
35:10 very well there's no way they took
35:12 oceanfront property and they gave it to
35:15 people for peace how did that work out
35:17 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
35:20 president is the immigration
35:24 which immigration ghana gaza all it is
35:28 is a a concept that I had that I think
35:30 is good and now people are copying it
35:32 you know baby do you want to tell people
35:34 are talking about the Trump plan gee why
35:36 do we do that uh would you like to
35:38 answer that question i I think what the
35:40 president talked about is first of all
35:42 to give people a choice gaza Gazins were
35:46 closed in any other place including in
35:49 arenas of battle i mean whether it's
35:51 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
35:54 people could leave gaza was the only
35:57 place where they locked them in we
35:59 didn't lock them in they're locked in
36:01 and what is wrong with giving people a
36:03 choice now we've been talking including
36:06 over lunch about some countries are
36:09 won't go into them right now that are
36:11 saying you know if Gazans want to leave
36:14 we want to take them in and I think this
36:17 is this is the right thing to do if you
36:20 give you know it's going to take years
36:21 to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
36:23 can have an option president has a
36:25 vision countries are responding to that
36:27 vision we're working on it i hope you'll
36:29 have good news for you
36:32 i will say people love Excuse me people
36:34 really do love that vision uh it's a
36:37 long-term vision but so importantly is
36:40 to have that be a a safe field because
36:44 you're right smack in the middle of the
36:46 Middle East you're right along Israel it
36:47 should have never ever been given away
36:50 shouldn't have been given away by Israel
36:52 i don't know why they did it i mean I do
36:54 know why because they were promised
36:55 peace but that didn't work out too well
36:57 because it's one of the most dangerous
36:59 pieces of land anywhere in the world
37:01 gaza is one of the most dangerous places
37:03 in the world so they gave it away for
37:06 good intention and it it didn't work out
37:08 that way and uh a lot of people like my
37:12 concept but you know there are other
37:13 concepts that I like too and there are
37:16 some concepts I don't like you know what
37:17 I don't like the way it is now because
37:19 right now it's a dangerous death trap
37:22 gaza yeah
37:24 about Thank you sir can you talk a
37:26 little bit about uh your meeting
37:27 potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do
37:30 you still plan to meet with him could
37:31 that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe
37:33 could I elaborate as well a little bit
37:35 on not providing tariffs on Russia sir
37:38 so uh the reason we're not talking about
37:41 tariffs with Russia is because we're not
37:42 doing business essentially with Russia
37:45 because they're in a war and I'm not
37:47 happy about what's going on with uh with
37:50 the bombing because they're bombing like
37:52 crazy right now they're bombing i don't
37:54 know what's happening there that's not a
37:56 good situation so we're meeting with
37:59 Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and
38:02 we're getting sort of close but I'm not
38:04 happy with all the bombing that's going
38:05 on the last uh week or so horrible it's
38:09 a horrible thing it's a horrible thing
38:15 countries to get below 10%
38:19 in in terms of tariffs
38:22 look we've been ripped off and taken
38:25 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
38:30 reason we got ripped off and the way
38:32 they did it was tariffs they were
38:34 charged tariffs massive numbers of
38:37 dollars and when you look at uh China
38:41 when I took over it was at 57 billion
38:45 dollars they were making I call it
38:46 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
38:48 mean anything having a surplus means a
38:50 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
38:52 profit or loss statement and when I took
38:55 over was 57 billion dollars that China
38:59 with this is originally first term and
39:03 we were very very tough on them because
39:06 they were taking that money and they
39:07 were building a military with it then
39:09 when Biden came in he let him get away
39:11 with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
39:13 what that man had no idea what was
39:15 happening whether it was the border or
39:16 China or anything else he had no idea
39:19 what was going on and they got they went
39:23 wild china went wild and the money they
39:25 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
39:28 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
39:30 along with China if we do that's great
39:32 and if we don't that's okay too but we
39:34 can't let that continue because that's a
39:36 that's an abuse they abused the poor
39:40 people that's out of the seat that poor
39:42 Biden he was abused by them they took
39:45 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
39:47 know they have smart people they were
39:49 radical left lunatics but they're smart
39:51 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
39:53 you know to to happen but uh we are
39:57 going to bring great trade and we're
40:00 going to be fair to other countries and
40:01 I I will say this uh virtually every
40:05 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
40:09 do what I did over the last couple of
40:11 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
40:13 negotiate we would have gone to these
40:15 countries you want to talk and they were
40:17 well we don't want to talk now they're
40:19 coming to us they're offering things
40:22 like even BB this is unrelated because
40:24 it's a different kind of a relationship
40:26 but he started off our conversation
40:28 today that he's cutting all of the
40:30 tariffs he's cutting everything he's
40:32 going to get down to a free base he's
40:33 going to do things that in all fairness
40:36 other countries if they said that would
40:38 have never even thought about doing it
40:40 now they're offering things to us that
40:44 we would have never even thought of
40:45 asking them for because they're
40:48 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
40:51 is that they've taken advantage of us
40:53 and we finally fought back tariffs will
40:56 make this country very rich we're rich
40:58 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
41:01 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
41:05 to get rid of it and we can do it
41:07 quickly with proper deals so
41:11 when countries don't allow us to sell
41:13 our product but we allow them to sell
41:15 their product when they charge us
41:18 massive amounts of money for the
41:19 privilege of going into their country
41:22 those days are over
41:26 okay yeah go ahead sir me
41:30 he sounds so surprised mr president um
41:33 on Iran uh two questions please first
41:36 you can give us more details about where
41:38 the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
41:39 tell you that i I can just tell you
41:41 there's a major meeting going on between
41:44 us and Iran and that'll take place on
41:47 Saturday and it's at top level and
41:49 second question about this um a lot of
41:53 people think that those talks are not
41:55 going to lead anywhere because the give
41:57 up your I think that's a possibility
42:01 if diplomacy fails is the United States
42:04 under your leadership ready to take
42:06 military action to destroy the Iranian
42:08 nuclear program program and remove this
42:10 threat
42:13 i think if the talks aren't successful
42:15 with
42:16 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
42:19 great danger and I hate to say it great
42:22 danger because they can't have a nuclear
42:23 weapon so is that a yes you know it's
42:25 not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
42:29 have a nuclear weapon that's all there
42:31 is can't have it right now we have
42:33 countries that have nuclear power that
42:35 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
42:39 be able to negotiate out of that too as
42:41 part of this later on down the line but
42:44 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
42:47 the talks aren't
42:50 successful I actually think it'll be a
42:52 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
42:54 yeah
42:56 on manufacturing yeah please mr
42:58 president was October 7th the death blow
43:01 of the two-state solution and would you
43:03 consider classifying the Palestinian
43:05 Authority as a terrorist organization
43:07 for its continued paper slake terror
43:09 financing payments so October 7th was a
43:11 horrible day that some people they they
43:14 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
43:16 from the standpoint of they do it
43:18 because they think it's good politically
43:20 but October I've seen the tapes i've
43:22 seen things that you don't want to see
43:24 october 7th was a horrible day and it
43:26 will go down as one of the really bad
43:29 days in the history of the world there
43:32 was a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
43:35 happened and they grabbed some of these
43:37 people i'll give you an example when I
43:40 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
43:43 I said "So how many are there?"
43:45 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
43:49 They sort of knew the territory pretty
43:51 good and I said "How are they doing?"
43:55 She They said "Well only 24 are living
43:57 the rest are dead." And these are young
44:00 people largely young people don't die
44:03 you know young people have an amazing
44:05 ability to live they can live through
44:07 horrible things but these are young
44:09 people and when they said that 24 are
44:12 living and the rest are dead and you
44:15 know I've had parents come up Israeli
44:17 parents largely we have some Americans
44:19 and we had I guess we have uh one left
44:23 Alex we have the one left but but I've
44:27 had Israeli parents come up to me at
44:29 events and say my son is there i said
44:33 well how's he doing well he's dead but
44:36 would you do me the biggest favor ever
44:38 could you bring his body back home they
44:40 talked about a young dead boy and a
44:43 young dead girl like they were living
44:48 and that could have something to do with
44:50 religion that could have something to do
44:51 with I guess maybe any parent would be
44:54 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
44:57 son is
44:58 dead it is just as important to bring
45:01 that body back home." I asked that
45:03 question as if he were alive so you have
45:07 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
45:09 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
45:12 thing that's happened these are young
45:14 largely young people some old ones too
45:16 frankly and those people have lived in
45:18 hell when they came off the second group
45:20 that came out they look like uh they
45:22 just got out of a concentration camp
45:25 they look exactly like the pictures that
45:27 I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
45:31 camps and then they got a little bit
45:33 better you know but that second group
45:36 those people came out and I said "This
45:38 is unbelievable." We're going back into
45:40 a a chapter in history that is one of
45:43 the worst ever it's really very bad okay
45:53 american manufacturing fully up to speed
45:55 in response to these tariffs what
45:56 happens in the meantime should Americans
45:58 be prepared for years
46:01 we have now uh seven trillion dollars
46:06 think of this seven trillion of
46:08 commitments from companies wanting to go
46:10 in from Apple to many many companies
46:13 many from Taiwan what it takes time to
46:17 Of course it takes Well are you asking
46:18 me a question or you telling me yeah it
46:20 takes time you know you got to build a
46:22 thing called the factory you have to
46:24 build your energy you have to do uh a
46:27 lot of things i'm giving them energy you
46:29 know we're going to let them build their
46:30 own power plants they'll be their own
46:33 essentially they're going to be in
46:34 charge of the power plant because our uh
46:38 power is not reliable enough you have a
46:40 grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
46:43 of things including bombing and weather
46:45 and a lot of other things and we're
46:48 going to give them record timing in
46:50 terms of approvals of electric plants
46:52 most of them want to build electric
46:53 plants we need massive amounts of
46:55 electricity if we're going to compete
46:56 with China and others and interestingly
46:59 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
47:02 with China but the way we lose that race
47:05 is if we can't give them electric but we
47:07 have more plants being built we have
47:09 everything we're doing so great and we
47:12 want to keep it that way and tariffs
47:14 will be an important part of it but one
47:16 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
47:18 doing a fantastic job head of
47:20 environmental protection and he's doing
47:23 very rapid approvals for people to get
47:25 for big companies to that are going to
47:27 build a plant that's going to cost
47:30 billions of dollars and we're going to
47:32 get them their approvals they have to be
47:33 environmentally perfect everything good
47:35 but they're going to be in record time a
47:37 matter of months versus a matter of many
47:40 many years
47:44 go ahead
47:47 from Harris um Turkey claims it will
47:50 stabilize uh the situation in Syria
47:53 turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
47:57 Turkey to influence Syria what do you
47:59 think do you think uh Turkeykey's
48:01 influence in Syria can actually make it
48:03 a better more peaceful country or vice
48:06 versa well I have uh great relations
48:08 with a man named Erdogan have you heard
48:10 of him and I happen to like him and he
48:13 likes me and I know the press will get
48:14 very angry he likes her to want but I do
48:17 and he likes me and we've never had a
48:19 problem and and we've gone through a lot
48:21 and we've never had a problem we always
48:22 got we as you remember we got our
48:25 minister back from Turkey you remember
48:27 that and uh this was a big deal at the
48:30 time and we got him back uh and I told
48:35 the prime minister I said just BB if you
48:38 have a problem with Turkey I really
48:40 think I'm going to be able to work it
48:41 out you know I have a very very good
48:43 relationship
48:44 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
48:47 I think we'll be able to work it out so
48:49 I hope that's not going to be a problem
48:50 i don't think it will be a problem now
48:53 with that being said I believe it was
48:54 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
48:58 it i said
48:59 "Congratulations you've done what
49:01 nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
49:03 you've taken over Syria with different
49:06 names but same thing." I said "You've
49:09 taken it over?" He's taken it over
49:10 through surrogates he goes "No no no no
49:13 no no it was not me it was I said it was
49:15 you." But that's okay you don't have to
49:17 say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay
49:20 but what he did he look he's a tough guy
49:22 and he's very smart and uh he did
49:25 something that nobody was able to do you
49:27 know you got to hand it to him uh any
49:30 problem that you have with Turkey I
49:32 think I can solve i mean as long as
49:34 you're reasonable you have to be
49:35 reasonable we have to be reasonable
49:37 thank you very much everybody
49:40 thank
50:18 standing with us you are a great great
50:21 champion of our alliance and uh you
50:25 actually do the things that you say you
50:27 do and I I think that people respect
50:30 that enormously i certainly do and
50:32 people of Israel do and I think the
50:34 Jewish people do as well we just saw
50:37 your representative in the the
50:39 Department of Justice fighting
50:41 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
50:43 international forms i just want you to
50:45 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
50:48 appreciated as you said we had the
50:50 opportunity to talk today about many
50:53 subjects uh first if I can mention
50:55 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
50:57 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
51:01 to the president a very simple thing we
51:04 will eliminate the trade deficit with
51:06 the United States we intend to do it
51:08 very quickly we think it's the right
51:11 thing to do and we're going to also
51:13 eliminate uh trade barriers variety of
51:16 trade barriers that have been put up
51:18 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
51:20 serve as a model for many countries who
51:24 ought to do the same i recognize the the
51:27 position of the United States it says
51:30 you know we're allowing other countries
51:32 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
51:35 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
51:37 trade champion and free trade has to be
51:39 fair trade and I think that's basically
51:42 uh the position that you have uh put
51:44 forward Mr president we are going to
51:47 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
51:50 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
51:52 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
51:55 we could affect this quickly and I hope
51:57 to bring a solution very quickly we're
51:59 not talking about intentions we're not
52:02 talking about uh you know just words
52:05 we're talking about results those
52:07 results are going to come back that's
52:09 the first Thank you very much that's
52:10 very nice thank you thank you Mr
52:12 president where are the hostages well
52:15 the let him finish let him
52:17 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
52:21 the hostages
52:22 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
52:25 is a human story of un just unbearable
52:30 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
52:33 to them yesterday spoke to another one
52:36 when I was in Hungary before I came here
52:38 i speak to them every day they're in
52:40 agony the hostages are in agony and we
52:43 want to get them all out uh Steve
52:46 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
52:48 able representative helped us get a deal
52:50 that got 25 out we're working now on
52:53 another deal that we hope will succeed
52:56 uh and we're committed to getting all
52:57 the hostages out but also eliminating
53:00 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
53:05 and enabling the people of Gaza to
53:08 freely make a choice to go wherever they
53:10 want i mean they should have that choice
53:12 and the president put forward a vision a
53:14 bold vision which we discussed as well
53:18 including the uh countries that might uh
53:22 be amendable and are amendable to
53:24 accepting Palestinians of their free
53:26 choice if they choose to go there and I
53:29 think that's the second thing that we
53:30 discussed uh but the hostages came right
53:33 on top uh we also discussed the
53:36 situation uh in Syria
53:39 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
53:43 relations with Turkey that have
53:44 deteriorated and we don't want to see
53:46 Syria being used by anyone including
53:49 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
53:51 turkey is
53:52 a country
53:54 that has a great relationship with the
53:58 United States the president has a
54:00 relationship with the leader of Turkey
54:01 we discussed how we can avoid this
54:04 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
54:07 think we can't have a better
54:09 interlocutor than the president of the
54:11 United States for this purpose and of
54:13 course we also discussed Iran look we're
54:16 both united in the uh goal that Iran
54:19 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
54:22 can be done diplomatically in a full way
54:24 the way it was done in Libya I think
54:26 that would be a good thing uh but
54:29 whatever happens we have to make sure
54:30 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
54:34 that's the end of my speech
54:37 mr we are we're having direct talks with
54:41 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
54:43 having direct talks with Iran and uh
54:47 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
54:50 have a very big meeting and we'll see
54:52 what can happen and I think everybody
54:54 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
54:58 preferable to doing the obvious and the
55:02 obvious is not something that I want to
55:04 be involved with or frankly that Israel
55:07 wants to be involved with if they can
55:09 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
55:10 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
55:14 dangerous
55:15 territory and hopefully those talks will
55:17 be successful and I think it would be in
55:20 Iran's best interest if they are
55:22 successful we hope we hope that's going
55:24 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
55:27 good talks on a lot of things i
55:28 appreciate very much what you said about
55:30 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
55:32 taken advantage of by many countries
55:34 over the years and uh can't do it
55:37 anymore we just can't do it anymore we
55:38 can't be the stupid people anymore and
55:41 it's all because of the people that sat
55:44 in this seat right here not your seat
55:46 but this seat they allowed things to
55:49 happen to our country that they
55:50 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
55:52 trade and other things many other things
55:53 i mean look at what's happened with our
55:56 last president where he allowed millions
55:58 of people to come into our country with
56:00 an open border who would want an open
56:02 border how stupid is that but uh he
56:06 allowed millions and millions of people
56:08 and of the millions and I think it was
56:10 21 million people but let's say three of
56:12 them were serious criminals serious
56:15 murderers and drug dealers and gang
56:17 members and people from jails all the
56:19 jails emptied out right into our country
56:22 right along the open border on the on
56:25 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
56:27 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
56:29 but generally speaking on the southern
56:32 border and uh what a shame it is that we
56:35 are now working very hard to get them
56:37 out get the criminals out get the
56:38 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
56:41 mentally insane get them out they
56:43 dropped the mentally insane in our
56:45 country too and this was all done by the
56:47 Biden administration it's a disgrace
56:50 that we have to work so hard and then we
56:52 have judges that try and protect these
56:53 people but they didn't protect us when
56:55 the people were being let in but to get
56:58 them out is never easy with these people
57:00 so uh I think we're doing a great job
57:03 the border is the best it's ever been
57:06 even as strong as it was I had a great
57:09 solid border i think it might even be
57:11 tougher right now and stronger so people
57:14 are coming into our country but they're
57:16 coming in legally we have a legal
57:17 process and we have that moving along
57:20 properly because we need people to come
57:21 into our country but we want people that
57:23 can love our country and cherish our
57:25 country so that's where we are and with
57:28 that any questions
57:33 would you be open to a pause in
57:35 terrorists to allow for negotiations
57:37 well we're not looking at that we have
57:40 many many uh countries that are coming
57:42 to negotiate deals with us and they're
57:44 going to be fair deals and uh in certain
57:47 cases they're going to be be paying
57:49 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
57:52 deals as you know I spoke this morning
57:54 with the prime minister of Japan and we
57:57 had a very good conversation they're
57:59 coming and I said "One thing you're
58:01 going to have to open up your country
58:02 because we sold no cars like zero cars
58:05 in Japan." And they sold millions of
58:08 cars into our country uh they don't
58:11 really take our agriculture a little bit
58:12 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
58:15 they don't take what they're supposed to
58:16 be taking so we have a great
58:18 relationship with Japan we're going to
58:19 keep it that way but they're coming in
58:21 to meet and other C countries are coming
58:23 in uh with China as you know against my
58:28 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
58:32 what their ridiculous tariffs were
58:35 already and I said if that tariff isn't
58:38 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
58:40 putting a 50% tariff on above the
58:43 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
58:46 for years they become a rich country
58:48 because of people again that were in the
58:50 White House that allowed this to happen
58:52 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
58:54 year they'd make on us on trade and it
58:57 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
58:59 great relationship with President Xi i
59:01 hope it's going to stay that way i have
59:03 great respect for China but they can't
59:05 do this with just uh we're going to have
59:08 one shot at this and no other
59:10 president's going to do this what I'm
59:11 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
59:14 honor to do it because we have been just
59:17 just destroyed what they've done to our
59:19 system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
59:22 debt for a reason and uh the reason is
59:26 that people allowed it to get that way
59:28 so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
59:31 talking to a lot of different countries
59:34 and I think you know if if if we can
59:37 make a really fair deal and a good deal
59:40 for the United States not a good deal
59:41 for others this is America first it's
59:44 now America first and we didn't put
59:46 America first we put America last the
59:48 people that were in the Oval Office put
59:51 America last and we're not going to
59:52 stand for it
59:58 go ahead
60:01 go ahead um two questions do you expect
60:04 of these deals to be made before April
60:06 9th and secondly there have been some
60:08 mixed messages from your administration
60:10 you're talking about negotiations and
60:11 yet others in your administration are
60:13 saying that these tariffs are actually
60:14 permanent what is that well it could be
60:17 they can both be true there can be
60:20 permanent tariffs and there can also be
60:22 negotiations because there are things
60:24 that we need beyond tariffs we need open
60:26 borders you know we almost had a deal
60:28 with China where we're going to open up
60:30 China it was almost done some of you
60:32 remember it during my first term and it
60:34 was very disappointing we ended up
60:36 making a great deal.$50 billion dollars
60:38 worth of uh product was sold 50 billion
60:41 you'd like that in Israel and I made
60:43 that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
60:45 wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
60:47 was that plus they were going to open up
60:50 China so that our companies could go
60:52 into China and compete with other
60:55 countries and China for the you know for
60:57 a large number of people and at the very
61:00 end that deal was terminated and we went
61:03 to a piece of the deal and there so
61:06 there are a lot of things outside of
61:08 tariffs but tariffs are very important
61:09 but there are a lot of things like
61:11 opening up countries that were totally
61:13 closed china's essentially a closed
61:16 country in fact it is a closed country
61:19 and what they do is they charge tariffs
61:21 so that if you if you sell cars or if
61:23 you sell anything uh nobody's going to
61:26 buy it because the price is out of
61:27 control but that's true with a lot of
61:29 other countries also so we're going to
61:31 get fair deals and good deals with every
61:34 country and if we don't we're going to
61:35 have nothing to do with them they're not
61:37 going to be allowed to participate in
61:38 the United States
61:50 relax we have time this gentleman is all
61:53 day long mr many
61:56 of you go ahead
62:30 maybe talk about it for a second because
62:32 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
62:34 we've we've been very tough and very
62:36 successful
62:37 militarily we've
62:39 uh really damaged them badly these were
62:43 people shooting down ships and other
62:45 things by the way flying objects like
62:48 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
62:52 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
62:54 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
63:00 and and it's every night night after
63:03 night and we've gotten many of their
63:06 leaders and their experts they're
63:08 experts on missiles i mean they actually
63:10 make missiles nobody thought that but
63:12 they make missiles highly sophisticated
63:15 and they're very tough but they've been
63:18 uh very badly damaged nobody else was
63:20 able to do that but us pete do you want
63:21 to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
63:24 been a bad three weeks for the Houthies
63:26 uh and it's about to get worse it's been
63:29 a devastating campaign whether it's
63:30 underground facilities weapons
63:33 manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
63:35 air defense assets we are not going to
63:38 relent and it's only to get more
63:40 unrelenting until the Houthis declare
63:42 they will stop shooting at our ships and
63:44 we've been very clear with the Iranians
63:45 as well uh they uh they should not
63:49 continue to provide support to the
63:50 Houthis and that message has been made
63:52 very clear so we have a lot more options
63:55 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
63:57 know because we see the reports how
63:59 devastating this campaign has been in
64:00 them and we will not run we have a great
64:03 military there's no military like our
64:05 military and despite Biden having given
64:09 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
64:11 piece but it was a lot of our military
64:14 away in Afghanistan and one of the
64:17 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
64:19 most embarrassing situation we've ever
64:21 been involved in that that short period
64:24 of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
64:27 that was but uh left a lot of our
64:30 military behind left left left you see
64:32 them in their annual parades where
64:35 they're parading trucks that are
64:36 armorplated and different things that
64:38 they can't but it's many billions of
64:40 dollars we left behind but despite that
64:43 uh we have a tremendous military that
64:45 was a very small portion because we
64:47 rebuilt the military during my first
64:49 term and uh we uh we have great uh great
64:54 things happening with our military we
64:56 also uh essentially approved a budget
64:59 which is in the facility you'll like to
65:02 hear this of a trillion dollars $1
65:04 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
65:07 it we have to build our military and
65:09 we're very costconscious but the
65:11 military is something that we have to
65:13 build and we have to be strong because
65:14 you got a lot of bad forces out there
65:16 now so we're going to be approving a
65:18 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
65:21 actually the biggest one we've ever done
65:22 for the military we're cutting other
65:25 things that were uh under Doge but under
65:28 a lot of other when you look at a woman
65:31 getting two billion dollars for
65:33 environmental and it had nothing to do
65:35 with environmental and they had $100 in
65:38 the bank and they give her two billion
65:40 many many of those cases all that stuff
65:42 is going to be cut out but we are
65:44 getting a very very powerful military we
65:47 have things under order now the likes of
65:49 which we've never had before we've never
65:51 had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
65:55 missiles or anything uh that we have
65:58 ordered and it's in many ways too bad
66:00 that we have to do it because hopefully
66:02 we're not going to have to use it but
66:04 the military is very very powerful and
66:07 uh it's going to remain that way
66:15 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
66:17 you about because this is the first time
66:22 US is it possible to give us some more
66:25 information at what level high level
66:28 very high level yeah we're dealing with
66:31 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
66:33 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
66:35 directly you know a lot of people say
66:37 "Oh maybe you're going through
66:39 surrogates or you're not dealing
66:40 directly you're dealing through other
66:41 countries." No we're dealing with them
66:43 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
66:45 be made that'll be great going to be It
66:48 would be really great for Iran and I can
66:50 tell you that but hopefully we're not
66:53 going to have to get into that we we are
66:55 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
66:59 almost the highest level and we'll see
67:01 how it works out please how do you
67:02 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
67:05 don't drive US training partners into
67:07 the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
67:10 about it i'm not worried about it they
67:12 want to be in the hands of the US they
67:14 don't want to be in the hands of the
67:15 Chinese and uh the Chinese have turned
67:17 out to be really not very good at that
67:20 uh people that are with us they're with
67:22 us but we cannot be uh taken advantage
67:26 of any longer i used to watch these
67:28 deals for years i've been talking about
67:29 it for years you and I've been talking
67:30 about it for 35 years how our country is
67:35 being ripped off i mean which it 30
67:37 years ago was Japan then it was
67:40 something else then it was another group
67:42 then it was China china's doing the the
67:44 best job of it frankly and it's just not
67:47 going to happen not going to happen
67:55 eu has said that they have offered zero
67:59 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
68:01 goods is that not enough well the EU no
68:04 it's not the EU has been very tough over
68:08 the years it was I always say it was
68:10 formed to really do damage to the United
68:14 States in trade that's the reason it was
68:16 formed it was formed with all of the
68:18 countries from Europe i guess most of
68:20 them not all of them but most of them
68:23 and they formed together to uh create a
68:25 little bit of a monopoly situation to
68:28 create a unified force against the
68:30 United States for trade so they have uh
68:33 NATO which is largely the same countries
68:36 and they uh took advantage of us
68:39 dollar-wise and militarily until I got
68:41 there you know I I was able to get $600
68:44 billion dollars from NATO where they
68:47 paid NATO because most of these nations
68:49 weren't even paying we were paying for
68:50 NATO so we're paying them to guard them
68:53 militarily and they're screwing us on
68:55 trade so that's not a good combination
68:58 so now uh it's really turned around it's
69:01 the opposite and the European Union's
69:04 been very ne very bad to us they don't
69:07 take our cars like Japan in that sense
69:10 they don't take our agricultural product
69:12 they don't take anything practically and
69:15 yet they send millions of cars in a year
69:18 mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're
69:21 sending millions and millions of cars
69:23 into the US but we don't have a car
69:26 that's been sold to the European Union
69:28 or other places but let's go for the
69:30 European Union and it's not going to be
69:33 that way it's got to be fair and
69:35 reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
69:37 fair uh we have a deficit with the
69:39 European Union of $350
69:43 billion and it's going to disappear fast
69:46 and one of the reasons and one of the
69:48 ways that that can disappear easily and
69:50 quickly is they're going to have to buy
69:52 our energy from us because they need it
69:54 they're going to have to buy it from us
69:55 they can buy it we can knock off $350
69:57 billion in one week they have to buy and
70:01 commit to buy a like amount of energy
70:04 and we have that you know we have more
70:06 energy than any country in the world i
70:08 don't know if you know that this he
70:09 knows everything but the one thing he
70:11 may not know we have more energy than
70:13 any country in the world we have more of
70:15 every kind of energy every form of
70:17 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
70:20 people talk about I call it beautiful
70:22 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
70:26 opening up a coal plant a week they
70:29 tried the windmills and it didn't work
70:31 they tried all the other solutions and
70:32 they were ready to go out of business
70:34 now they're doing a coal plant a week
70:36 china is now up to two coal plants that
70:39 uh they're opening two major coal plants
70:42 every single week in China all over
70:44 China and that we're not allowed to use
70:46 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
70:49 more than anybody else we have oil and
70:51 gas more than anybody else we have the
70:53 most energy of any country in the world
70:55 including Saudi Arabia including
70:56 everybody by a lot and I took it to
70:59 number one we were number three and I
71:02 took it to number one during my
71:03 administration
71:05 and the reason that we were hurt so
71:07 badly and the reason that we went into
71:09 such incredible inflation during Biden
71:12 is energy it was also their bad spending
71:15 but energy because they played around
71:18 with this incredible thing that we had
71:21 built this administration had built and
71:23 the energy cost went through the roof
71:25 and when that went up everything else
71:26 followed now if you look at what's
71:29 happening you got to see this today i
71:31 said we're going to try and get
71:32 groceries down right an oldfashioned
71:34 term but a beautiful term uh eggs so
71:38 when I got in the press went absolutely
71:40 crazy the first week they said "Eggs
71:42 have quadrupled in price." I said "I
71:45 just got here tell me about it." And
71:47 Brooke Rollins and our team did a great
71:49 job and eggs are down now 79% and
71:52 they're all over the place and this was
71:54 a problem that somebody else would have
71:56 taken a long time to cure uh we have
72:00 energy is down we have interest rates
72:02 are down we have groceries meaning food
72:05 is down we have everything is down at
72:08 levels that nobody ever thought possible
72:10 energy looks like it's going to be in in
72:12 the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
72:16 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
72:21 are we're really doing amazing i mean
72:23 we're we're cutting prices because
72:26 prices got so high people couldn't live
72:28 i mean the prices for groceries the
72:30 prices for standard standard groceries
72:33 standard things were going through the
72:35 roof they couldn't live and now those
72:36 prices are coming down so call them
72:38 groceries but that's down energy is down
72:41 and interest rates are down everything's
72:44 down and the interest rates the beauty
72:46 there is when we refinance debt you know
72:48 debts become such a big factor in this
72:50 country we're going to get we're going
72:51 to start paying debt off with tariffs
72:54 and other things but uh it's such a big
72:56 factor because the interest rates so
72:58 high well now that's coming way down so
73:00 our budget's going to look a lot better
73:02 because interest costs are way down and
73:06 I guess I've done that
73:11 many Israelis are watching you now our
73:14 last show good what is your specific I
73:16 hope they like getting the hostages out
73:19 from the horrific activity yeah we are
73:21 trying very hard to get the hostages out
73:23 uh we're looking at another ceasefire
73:26 we'll see what happens but we have we
73:29 want to get the hostages out the Israeli
73:31 people want the hostages out more than
73:33 anything they want the hostages out this
73:36 man is working very hard with us to do
73:38 that i mean I don't know i hope he's
73:40 being appreciated because he's been a
73:42 great leader he's working very very hard
73:44 on the hostages and many other things
73:46 and there are plenty of things you have
73:48 to work on it's a it's a tough place in
73:50 the world i have a good partner yeah you
73:52 do have a good partner and so do we we
73:55 we're working very hard on the hospital
73:59 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
74:01 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
74:03 going to be more effective than the
74:05 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
74:09 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
74:11 lot stronger but they were so happy when
74:14 we made that first deal because we did
74:16 get a lot out you know I had people
74:18 right in this office this beautiful oval
74:20 office they came in 10 people hostages
74:22 you know that and I said to them uh so
74:26 how was it and the stories they told me
74:28 I mean as an example I said to them was
74:32 there any sign of love you were there 10
74:35 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
74:38 representative did the Hamas show any
74:41 signs of like help or liking you did
74:46 they wink at you did they give you a
74:47 piece of bread extra did they give you a
74:50 meal on the side like you know you think
74:52 of doing like what happened in Germany
74:55 what happened elsewhere people would try
74:57 and help people that were in
74:59 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
75:02 said "All of them." I said "Did they
75:04 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
75:06 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
75:08 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
75:12 unbelievable and the lives you know they
75:14 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
75:16 was a pipe and they always thought they
75:18 were suffocating they were going to
75:20 suffocate and then they'd open up the
75:22 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
75:24 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
75:26 is bad but pipes are worse and the
75:29 stories I heard were incredible but I
75:31 just said "Was there any sign of
75:33 potential love or affection?" And there
75:35 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
75:37 me there was nothing like "Here take
75:40 this it's a little extra meal or
75:41 something." They lived like hell i I
75:44 don't know they seem to be They were
75:47 amazing to me because they seemed to be
75:48 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
75:52 I guarantee underneath they have to be
75:54 scarred and one was there for
75:57 356 days another was there for about 180
76:01 days you know long time these are people
76:04 that have been really really horribly
76:06 treated i've never seen anything like it
76:08 actually I was very surprised to hear
76:10 the answer
76:12 thank you Mr president are there two or
76:14 three countries that on your list that
76:17 you feel are farther along in getting
76:19 their tariffs lowered i think Well I
76:23 think there are many that want to get
76:25 rid of tariffs right now uh European
76:28 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
76:30 us they've you know they've brought
76:32 their car tariffs essentially off i
76:34 guess they brought it down to two and a
76:35 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
76:39 it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
76:41 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
76:43 things on that make it impossible for
76:45 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
76:47 it's they make it so difficult the
76:49 standards and the tests uh they drop a
76:52 bowling ball on the top of your car from
76:54 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
76:56 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
76:58 car doesn't qualify when the same car
77:00 from Germany or would dent likewise
77:03 unless you can have an army tank it's
77:05 going to dent so they come up with rules
77:08 and regulations that are uh just
77:11 designed for one reason that you can't
77:13 sell your product in those countries and
77:15 and uh we're not going to let that
77:17 happen those are called nonmonetary
77:20 barriers they make barriers that are so
77:22 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
77:26 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
77:28 there's another big part of it and
77:30 that's barriers they also do something
77:33 else they manipulate their currency and
77:35 they drive it down they want to drive it
77:37 they want to have low currencies you
77:38 know uh it sounds better to have a high
77:40 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
77:43 uh they bring their currency down and
77:47 when it competes with our currency it's
77:48 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
77:50 hard to sell product because their
77:53 currency is low and ours is much higher
77:57 relatively and so it makes it very hard
77:59 i speak to a lot of companies that do
78:02 business tractor companies and they say
78:04 it's so hard to sell because what
78:07 they've done is they've lowered the yen
78:08 or they've lowered the one or they've
78:10 lowered their currency so that it's very
78:13 hard to compete we don't want that
78:15 either so we have a lot of things that
78:18 we're talking about but we're going to
78:19 fix it properly and it's going to be
78:21 fair to everybody and in the end I think
78:23 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
78:25 better you know but they have to respect
78:27 the United States and nobody but me
78:29 would do this nobody but me would do
78:31 this you know it's would be nice to
78:33 serve a nice easy term but we have an
78:36 opportunity to change the fabric of our
78:38 country we have an opportunity to reset
78:40 the table on trade we lose billions of
78:45 dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
78:48 dollars a year on trade we lose a
78:50 trillion dollars a year to China a
78:52 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
78:56 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
79:00 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
79:04 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
79:07 why would we do that number one why
79:09 would we do that and then you have to
79:10 say is it sustainable then you hear
79:12 about all of the people that say "Well
79:14 deficits if we have a deficit with a
79:16 country or if the country has a big
79:18 surplus with us like China has a massive
79:20 surplus that they take and they spend on
79:23 their military." Well we don't want that
79:25 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
79:28 dollars a year and spend it on their
79:30 military i don't want them spending
79:32 money on their military and I shouldn't
79:34 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
79:36 spend it either because you know
79:38 hopefully and I said this to President
79:39 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
79:41 going to use in other words because
79:43 we're not going to use those incredible
79:45 weapons that we have and that they have
79:47 we don't want that so uh it's going to
79:50 be very interesting it's it's the only
79:53 chance our pre our country will have to
79:57 reset the table because no other
79:59 president would be willing to do what
80:01 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
80:04 don't mind going through it because I
80:06 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
80:09 but we are making tremendous progress
80:11 with a lot of countries and the
80:13 countries that really took advantage of
80:15 us are now saying please negotiate you
80:18 know why because they're getting beaten
80:21 badly because of what's happening
80:23 they're getting beaten badly they're
80:25 being devalued as countries but it's the
80:28 only chance we're going to have to reset
80:30 the table on trade and when we do we're
80:33 going to come out unbelievably well
80:34 we're going to have a strong country
80:35 economically again and we're going to
80:38 have those factories that are empty all
80:40 over the United States we've lost
80:43 90,000 plants and factories think of
80:46 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
80:48 possible 90,000 plants and factories
80:51 since NAFTA which was by the way the
80:53 worst trade deal ever ever developed
80:56 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
80:58 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
81:00 would be impossible and I terminated
81:02 through Congress we terminated it you
81:04 had to get it through Congress it was a
81:06 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
81:08 it
81:12 done problem is they cheat they cheat
81:15 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
81:18 just one of those things but we are
81:22 resetting a table and we're going to
81:23 have great trade and we're going to have
81:25 a very strong country our country is
81:27 going to be at a level that is as maybe
81:30 never been or maybe you know our country
81:33 was the strongest believe it or not from
81:35 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
81:39 tariff based we had no income tax then
81:42 in 1913 some genius came up with the
81:45 idea of let's charge the people of our
81:47 country not foreign countries that are
81:49 ripping off our country and the country
81:53 was never relatively was never that kind
81:56 of wealth we had so much wealth we
81:58 didn't know what to do with our money we
82:00 had meetings we had we had committees
82:03 and these committees worked tirelessly
82:06 to study one subject we have so much
82:10 money what are we going to do with it
82:11 who are we going to give it to and I
82:13 hope we're going to be in that position
82:14 again
82:19 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
82:21 your government put on Israeli boots on
82:24 where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
82:28 we're talking about a whole new trade
82:30 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
82:34 Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
82:36 billion dollars a year that's a lot
82:38 congratulations by the way that's pretty
82:41 good but we give Israel billions of
82:43 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
82:47 the highest of And we give a lot of we
82:50 give a lot of countries money uh you
82:52 wouldn't believe if I said we give
82:54 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
82:57 because that was a Biden deal another
82:58 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
83:00 with that but they give them billions of
83:02 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
83:06 we uh we take good care of our friends
83:08 and we don't take care of our enemies
83:10 we're not taking care of our enemies
83:12 anymore but we do take care of our
83:13 friends
83:16 for the Times of Israel the IDF is
83:18 fighting again in the Gaza Strip by
83:19 myself might be called up in a month do
83:21 you think that's the way to pressure
83:22 Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
83:24 blocking humanitarian aid is also an
83:26 effective pressure well you know how I
83:28 feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
83:30 an incredible piece of important real
83:33 estate and I think it's something that
83:36 we would be involved in but you know
83:39 having a peace force like the United
83:41 States there controlling and owning the
83:43 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
83:46 right now all it is is for years and
83:48 years all I hear about is killing and
83:50 Hamas and problems and if you take the
83:53 people the Palestinians and move them
83:55 around to different countries and you
83:57 have plenty of countries that will do
83:59 that and you really have a freedom a
84:02 freedom zone you call it the freedom
84:04 zone a free zone a zone where people
84:07 aren't going to be killed every day
84:08 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
84:11 what I call it a great location that
84:13 nobody wants to live in because they
84:15 really don't and when they had good li
84:18 when they have good living real living
84:19 where Hamas and all of the the problems
84:22 they have the the level of debt on the
84:25 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
84:28 said it i I don't understand why Israel
84:31 ever gave it up israel owned it it
84:33 wasn't this man so I can say it he
84:35 wouldn't have given it up i know him
84:37 very well there's no way they took
84:40 oceanfront property and they gave it to
84:42 people for peace how did that work out
84:44 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
84:47 president is the immigration
84:51 which immigration ghana gaza all it is
84:55 is a a concept that I had that I think
84:58 is good and now people are copying it
84:59 you know baby do you want to tell people
85:01 are talking about the Trump plan gee why
85:03 do we do that uh would you like to
85:05 answer that question i I think what the
85:08 president talked about is first of all
85:09 to give people a choice you know Gaza
85:12 Gazins were closed in any other place
85:15 including in arenas of battle i mean
85:18 whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any
85:20 other place people could leave gaza was
85:23 the only place where they locked them in
85:25 we didn't lock them in they're locked in
85:28 and what is wrong with giving people a
85:31 choice now we've been talking including
85:34 over lunch about some countries are
85:36 won't go into them right now that are
85:39 saying you know if Gazans want to leave
85:41 we want to take them in and I think this
85:44 is this is the right thing to do if you
85:47 give you know it's going to take years
85:48 to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
85:50 can have an option president has a
85:52 vision countries are responding to that
85:54 vision we're working on it i hope you'll
85:56 have good news for you
85:59 i will say people love excuse me people
86:02 really do love that vision uh it's a
86:04 long-term vision but so importantly is
86:07 to have that be a a safe field because
86:11 you're right smack in the middle of the
86:13 Middle East you're right along Israel it
86:15 should have never ever been given away
86:17 shouldn't have been given away by Israel
86:19 i don't know why they did it i mean I do
86:21 know why because they were promised
86:22 peace but that didn't work out too well
86:24 because it's one of the most dangerous
86:26 pieces of land anywhere in the world
86:28 gaza is one of the most dangerous places
86:30 in the world so they gave it away for
86:33 good intention and it it didn't work out
86:35 that way and uh a lot of people like my
86:39 concept but you know there are other
86:41 concepts that I like too and there are
86:43 some concepts I don't like you know what
86:44 I don't like the way it is now because
86:46 right now it's a dangerous death trap
86:49 gaza yeah
86:52 thank you sir can you talk a little bit
86:53 about uh your meeting potential meeting
86:55 with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
86:57 meet with him could that happen in Saudi
86:59 Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
87:01 well a little bit on not providing
87:03 tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
87:07 we're not talking about tariffs with
87:08 Russia is because we're not doing
87:10 business essentially with Russia because
87:12 they're in a war and I'm not happy about
87:15 what's going on with uh with the bombing
87:18 because they're bombing like crazy right
87:20 now they're bombing i don't know what's
87:22 happening there that's not a good
87:24 situation so we're meeting with Russia
87:27 we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
87:29 getting sort of close but I'm not happy
87:31 with all the bombing that's going on the
87:33 last uh week or so horrible it's a
87:36 horrible thing it's a horrible thing
87:42 countries to get below 10%
87:46 in in terms of tariffs
87:50 look we've been ripped off and taken
87:52 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
87:58 reason we got ripped off and the way
87:59 they did it was tariffs they were
88:02 charged tariffs massive numbers of
88:04 dollars and when you look at uh China
88:08 when I took over it was at $57 billion
88:12 dollars they were making i call it
88:14 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
88:15 mean anything having a surplus means a
88:17 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
88:19 profit or loss statement and when I took
88:22 over was $57 billion dollar that China
88:27 with this is originally first term and
88:30 we were very very tough on them because
88:33 they were taking that money and they
88:34 were building a military with it then
88:36 when Biden came in he let him get away
88:38 with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
88:40 what that man had no idea what was
88:42 happening whether it was the border or
88:43 China or anything else he had no idea
88:46 what was going on and they got they went
88:50 wild china went wild and the money they
88:53 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
88:55 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
88:57 along with China if we do that's great
88:59 and if we don't that's okay too but we
89:01 can't let that continue because that's a
89:03 that's an abuse they abused the poor
89:07 people that sat in the seat that poor
89:09 Biden he was abused by them they took
89:12 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
89:14 know they have smart people they were
89:16 radical left lunatics but they're smart
89:18 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
89:21 you know to to happen but uh we are
89:24 going to bring great trade and we're
89:27 going to be fair to other countries and
89:29 I I will say this uh virtually every
89:33 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
89:36 do what I did over the last couple of
89:38 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
89:41 negotiate we would have gone to these
89:42 countries who want to talk and they were
89:44 well we don't want to talk now they're
89:46 coming to us they're offering things
89:49 like even BB and this is unrelated
89:51 because it's a different kind of a
89:52 relationship but he started off our
89:54 conversation today that he's cutting all
89:56 of the tariffs he's cutting everything
89:58 he's going to get down to a free base
90:00 he's going to do things that in all
90:02 fairness other countries if they said
90:05 that would have never even thought about
90:06 doing it now they're offering things to
90:09 us that we would have never even thought
90:12 of asking them for because they're
90:16 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
90:18 is that they've taken advantage of us
90:20 and we finally fought back tariffs will
90:24 make this country very rich we're rich
90:26 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
90:28 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
90:32 to get rid of it and we can do it
90:34 quickly with proper deals so
90:38 when countries don't allow us to sell
90:41 our product but we allow them to sell
90:43 their product when they charge us
90:45 massive amounts of money for the
90:46 privilege of going into their country
90:49 those days are over okay
90:54 yeah go ahead sir me
90:57 he sounds so
91:02 surpris first you can give us more
91:04 details about where the meeting on
91:05 Saturday is going i can't tell you that
91:07 i I can just tell you there's a major
91:09 meeting going on between us and Iran and
91:13 that'll take place on Saturday and it's
91:15 at top level and second question about
91:18 this um a lot of people think that those
91:21 talks are not going to lead anywhere
91:22 because the
91:24 may I think that's a possibility fails
91:28 if diplomacy fails is the United States
91:31 under your leadership ready to take
91:33 military action to destroy the Iranian
91:35 nuclear program program and remove this
91:38 threat
91:40 i think if the talks aren't successful
91:42 with
91:44 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
91:46 great danger and I hate to say it great
91:49 danger because they can't have a nuclear
91:51 weapon so is that a yes you know it's
91:52 not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
91:56 have a nuclear weapon that's all there
91:58 is can't have it right now we have
92:00 countries that have nuclear power that
92:03 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
92:06 be able to negotiate out of that too as
92:08 part of this later on down the line but
92:11 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
92:14 the talks aren't
92:17 successful I actually think it'll be a
92:19 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
92:21 yeah mr president yeah please mr mr
92:25 president was October 7th the death blow
92:28 of the two-state solution and would you
92:30 consider classifying the Palestinian
92:32 Authority as a terrorist organization
92:34 for its continued paper sake terror
92:36 financing payments so October 7th was a
92:39 horrible day that some people they they
92:41 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
92:43 from the standpoint of they do it
92:45 because they think it's good politically
92:47 but October I've seen the tapes i've
92:49 seen things that you don't want to see
92:51 october 7th was a horrible day and it
92:53 will go down as one of the really bad
92:56 days in the history of the world it was
92:59 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
93:02 happened and they grabbed some of these
93:05 people i'll give you an example when I
93:07 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
93:10 I said "So how many are there?"
93:12 "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
93:16 59." They sort of knew the territory
93:18 pretty good and I said "How are they
93:21 doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are
93:24 living the rest are dead." And these are
93:27 young people largely young people don't
93:29 die you know young people have an
93:31 amazing ability to live they can live
93:34 through horrible things but these are
93:36 young people and when they said that 24
93:39 are living and the rest are dead and you
93:42 know I've had parents come up Israeli
93:44 parents largely we have some Americans
93:46 and we had I guess we have uh one left
93:50 alex we have the one left but but I've
93:54 had Israeli parents come up to me at
93:57 events and say "My son is there." I said
94:00 "Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead
94:02 but would you do me the biggest favor
94:05 ever could you bring his body back
94:06 home?" They talked about a young dead
94:10 boy and a young dead girl like they were
94:14 living
94:15 and that could have something to do with
94:17 religion that could have something to do
94:18 with I guess maybe any parent would be
94:21 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
94:24 son is
94:25 dead it is just as important to bring
94:28 that body back home." I asked that
94:30 question as if he were alive so you have
94:34 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
94:36 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
94:39 thing that's happened these are young
94:41 largely young people some old ones too
94:43 frankly and those people have lived in
94:45 hell when they came off the second group
94:47 that came out they look like uh they
94:49 just got out of a concentration camp
94:52 they looked exactly like the pictures
94:54 that I'd see from the 1940s the
94:56 concentration
94:58 camps and then they got a little bit
95:00 better you know as But that second group
95:03 those people came out and I said "This
95:05 is unbelievable we're going back into a
95:07 a chapter in history that is one of the
95:10 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
95:20 years fully up to speed in response to
95:22 these tariffs what happens in the
95:24 meantime should Americans be prepared
95:26 potentially for years
95:29 we have now uh seven trillion dollars
95:33 think of this 7 trillion of commitments
95:36 from companies wanting to go in from
95:38 Apple to many many companies many from
95:41 Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
95:44 course it takes Well are you asking me a
95:46 question or you're telling me yeah it
95:47 takes time you know you got to build a
95:49 thing called the factory you have to
95:52 build your energy you have to do uh a
95:54 lot of things i'm giving them energy you
95:56 know we're going to let them build their
95:58 own power plants they'll be their own
96:00 essentially they're going to be in
96:01 charge of the power plant because our uh
96:05 power is not reliable enough you have a
96:08 grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
96:10 of things including bombing and weather
96:13 and a lot of other things and we're
96:15 going to give them record timing in
96:17 terms of approvals of electric plants
96:19 most of them want to build electric
96:20 plants we need massive amounts of
96:22 electricity if we're going to compete
96:24 with China and others and interestingly
96:26 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
96:29 with China but the way we lose that race
96:32 is if we can't give them electric but we
96:34 have more plants being built we have
96:36 everything we're doing so great and we
96:39 want to keep it that way and tariffs
96:41 will be an important part of it but one
96:44 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
96:45 doing a fantastic job head of
96:47 environmental protection and he's doing
96:50 very rapid approvals for people to get
96:52 for big companies to that are going to
96:54 build a plant that's going to cost
96:57 billions of dollars and we're going to
96:59 get them their approvals they have to be
97:00 environmentally perfect everything good
97:02 but they're going to be in record time a
97:04 matter of months versus a matter of many
97:07 many years
97:11 go ahead
97:14 yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
97:18 uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
97:22 Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
97:25 Syria what do you think do you think uh
97:28 Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
97:29 actually make it a better more peaceful
97:32 country or vice versa well I have uh
97:34 great relations with a man named Erdogan
97:37 have you heard of him and I happen to
97:39 like him and he likes me and I know the
97:41 press will get very angry he likes
97:42 Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
97:45 we've never had a problem and and we've
97:47 gone through a lot and we've never had a
97:49 problem we always got we as you remember
97:51 we got our minister back from Turkey you
97:54 remember that and uh this was a big deal
97:57 at the time and we got him back uh and I
98:01 told the prime minister I said just BB
98:05 if you have a problem with Turkey I
98:07 really think I'm going to be able to
98:08 work it out you know I have a very very
98:10 good relationship
98:11 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
98:15 I think we'll be able to work it out so
98:16 I hope that's not going to be a problem
98:17 i don't think it will be a problem now
98:20 with that being said I believe it was
98:21 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
98:25 it i said
98:26 "Congratulations you've done what
98:28 nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
98:30 you've taken over Syria with different
98:33 names but same thing." I said "You've
98:36 taken it over." He's taken it over
98:37 through surrogates he goes "No no no no
98:40 no no it was not me it was I said "It
98:42 was you but that's okay you don't have
98:44 to say well it sort of maybe was me."
98:46 Okay but what he did he's look he's a
98:49 tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
98:52 did something that nobody was able to do
98:54 you know you got to hand it to him uh
98:57 any problem that you have with Turkey I
98:59 think I can solve i mean as long as
99:01 you're reasonable you have to be
99:02 reasonable we have to be reasonable
99:04 thank you very much everybody appreciate
99:07 thank you thank
99:18 you standing with us you are a great
99:22 great champion of our alliance and uh
99:26 you actually do the things that you say
99:28 you do and I I think that people respect
99:31 that enormously i certainly do and the
99:34 people of Israel do and I think the
99:35 Jewish people do as well we just saw
99:38 your representative in the the
99:40 Department of Justice fighting
99:42 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
99:44 international forums i just want you to
99:47 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
99:49 appreciated as you said we had the
99:51 opportunity to talk today about many
99:54 subjects uh first if I can mention
99:57 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
99:59 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
100:02 to the president a very simple thing we
100:05 will eliminate the trade deficit with
100:07 the United States we intend to do it
100:10 very quickly we think it's the right
100:12 thing to do and we're going to also
100:15 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
100:18 trade barriers that have been put up
100:19 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
100:21 serve as a model for many countries who
100:25 ought to do the same i recognize the the
100:29 position of the United States it says
100:31 you know we're allowing other countries
100:34 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
100:36 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
100:38 trade champion and free trade has to be
100:41 fair trade and I think that's basically
100:44 uh the position that you have uh put
100:46 forward Mr president we are going to
100:48 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
100:51 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
100:54 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
100:56 we could affect this quickly and I hope
100:59 to bring a solution very quickly we're
101:01 not talking about intentions we're not
101:04 talking about uh you know just words
101:06 we're talking about results those
101:09 results are going to come that's the
101:10 first Thank you very much that's very
101:12 nice thank you thank you Mr president
101:14 what about the hostages here well let
101:17 him let him finish let him
101:19 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
101:22 the hostages
101:24 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
101:27 is a human story of un just
101:31 unbearable agony i speak to the families
101:34 i spoke to them yesterday spoke to
101:37 another one when I was in Hungary before
101:39 I came here i speak to them every day
101:41 they're in agony the hostages are in
101:43 agony and we want to get them all out uh
101:47 Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's
101:49 very able representative helped us get a
101:51 deal that got 25 out we're working now
101:54 on another deal that we hope will
101:56 succeed uh and we're committed to
101:58 getting all the hostages out but also
102:00 eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas
102:05 in in Gaza and enabling the people of
102:08 Gaza to freely make a choice to go
102:11 wherever they want i mean they should
102:13 have that choice and the president put
102:15 forward a vision a bold vision which we
102:18 discussed as well including the uh
102:21 countries that might uh be amendable and
102:24 are amendable to accepting Palestinians
102:27 of their free choice if they choose to
102:29 go there and I think that's the second
102:31 thing that we discussed uh but the
102:33 hostages came right on top uh we also
102:37 discussed the situation uh in Syria
102:41 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
102:44 relations with Turkey that have
102:46 deteriorated and we don't want to see
102:48 Syria being used by anyone including
102:50 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
102:53 turkey is
102:54 a country
102:56 that has a great relationship with the
102:59 United States the president has a
103:01 relationship with the leader of Turkey
103:03 we discussed how we can avoid this
103:05 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
103:09 think we can't have a better
103:11 interlocator than the president of the
103:13 United States for this purpose and of
103:15 course we also discussed Iran look we're
103:17 both united in the uh goal that Iran
103:21 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
103:23 can be done diplomatically in a full way
103:26 the way it was done in Libya I think
103:28 that would be a good thing uh but
103:30 whatever happens we have to make sure
103:32 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
103:35 that's the end of my speech
103:39 mr we are we're having direct talks with
103:43 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
103:44 having direct talks with Iran and uh
103:49 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
103:52 have a very big meeting and we'll see
103:53 what can happen and I think everybody
103:56 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
104:00 preferable to doing the obvious and the
104:03 obvious is not something that I want to
104:06 be involved with or frankly that Israel
104:08 wants to be involved with if they can
104:10 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
104:12 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
104:15 dangerous
104:16 territory and hopefully those talks will
104:19 be successful and I think it would be in
104:21 Iran's best interest if they are
104:23 successful and we hope we hope that's
104:25 going to happen uh and we had just a lot
104:28 of good talks on a lot of things i
104:30 appreciate very much what you said about
104:31 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
104:33 taken advantage of by many countries
104:36 over the years and uh can't do it
104:38 anymore we just can't do it anymore we
104:40 can't be the stupid people anymore and
104:42 it's all because of the people that sat
104:46 in this seat right here not your seat
104:48 but this seat uh they allowed things to
104:50 happen to our country that they
104:51 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
104:53 trade and other things many other things
104:55 i mean look at what's happened with our
104:57 last president where he allowed millions
104:59 of people to come into our country with
105:01 an open border who would want an open
105:04 border how stupid is that but uh he
105:07 allowed millions and millions of people
105:09 and of the millions and I think it was
105:11 21 million people but let's say three of
105:14 them were serious criminals serious
105:16 murderers and drug dealers and gang
105:19 members and people from jails all the
105:21 jails emptied out right into our country
105:23 right along the open border on the on
105:26 Mexico generally to Mexico they came in
105:29 from Canada too by the way a lot but
105:31 generally speaking on the southern
105:34 border and uh what a shame it is that we
105:37 are now working very hard to get them
105:38 out get the criminals out get the
105:40 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
105:43 mentally insane get them out they
105:45 dropped the mentally insane in our
105:46 country too and this was all done by the
105:49 Biden administration it's a disgrace
105:51 that we have to work so hard and then we
105:53 have judges that try and protect these
105:55 people but they didn't protect us when
105:57 the people were being let in but to get
105:59 them out is never easy with these people
106:01 so uh I think we're doing a great job
106:04 the border is the best it's ever been
106:07 it's even as strong as it was i had a
106:10 great solid border i think it might even
106:12 be tougher right now and stronger so
106:15 people are coming into our country but
106:17 they're coming in legally we have a
106:18 legal process and we have that moving
106:21 along properly because we need people to
106:22 come into our country but we want people
106:25 that can love our country and cherish
106:27 our country so that's where we are and
106:29 with that any
106:34 questions would be open to a pause in
106:37 terrorists to allow for negotiations
106:39 well we're not looking at that we have
106:41 many many uh countries that are coming
106:43 to negotiate deals with us and they're
106:46 going to be fair deals and in certain
106:48 cases they're going to be be paying
106:51 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
106:53 deals as you know I spoke this morning
106:55 with the prime minister of Japan and we
106:59 had a very good conversation they're
107:00 coming and I said "One thing you're
107:03 going to have to open up your country
107:04 because we sold no cars like zero cars
107:07 in Japan." And they sold millions of
107:10 cars into our country uh they don't
107:12 really take our agriculture a little bit
107:14 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
107:16 they don't take what they're supposed to
107:18 be taking so we have a great
107:19 relationship with Japan we're going to
107:21 keep it that way but they're coming in
107:22 to meet and other C countries are coming
107:25 in uh with China as you know against my
107:29 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
107:34 what their ridiculous tariffs were
107:36 already and I said if that tariff isn't
107:39 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
107:42 putting a 50% tariff on above the
107:45 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
107:47 for years they become a rich country
107:49 because of people again that were in the
107:51 White House that allowed this to happen
107:54 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
107:56 year they'd make us on trade and it
107:58 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
108:01 great relationship with President Xi i
108:03 hope it's going to stay that way i have
108:04 great respect for China but they can't
108:07 do this we're just uh we're going to
108:09 have one shot at this and no other
108:11 president's going to do this what I'm
108:13 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
108:16 honor to do it because we have been just
108:18 just destroyed what they've done to our
108:21 system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
108:24 debt for a reason and uh the reason is
108:27 that people allowed it to get that way
108:29 so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
108:33 talking to a lot of different countries
108:35 and I think you know if if if we can
108:38 make a really fair deal and a good deal
108:41 for the United States not a good deal
108:43 for others this is America first it's
108:46 now America first and we didn't put
108:48 America first we put America last the
108:50 people that were in the Oval Office put
108:52 America last and we're not going to
108:54 stand for
109:00 Go
109:01 ahead go ahead two questions do you any
109:05 of these deals to be made before April
109:07 9th and secondly there have been some
109:09 mixed messages from your administration
109:11 you're talking about negotiations and
109:13 yet others in your administration are
109:14 saying that these tariffs are actually
109:16 permanent what is that well it could be
109:18 they can both
109:20 be there can be permanent tariffs and
109:23 there can also be negotiations because
109:25 there are things that we need beyond
109:26 tariffs we need open borders you know we
109:29 almost had a deal with China where we're
109:31 going to open up China it was almost
109:33 done some of you remember it during my
109:35 first term and it was very disappointing
109:37 we ended up making a great deal.$50
109:39 billion dollars worth of product was
109:41 sold 50 billion you'd like that in
109:43 Israel and I made that deal but it
109:45 wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
109:48 the deal that I wanted was that plus
109:50 they were going to open up China so that
109:52 our companies could go into China and
109:54 compete with other countries and China
109:57 for the you know for a large number of
109:59 people and at the very end that deal was
110:03 terminated and we went to a piece of the
110:06 deal and there so there are a lot of
110:08 things outside of tariffs but tariffs
110:10 are very important but there are a lot
110:12 of things like opening up countries that
110:14 were totally closed china's essentially
110:16 a closed country in fact it is a closed
110:20 country and what they do is they charge
110:22 tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
110:24 or if you sell anything uh nobody's
110:27 going to buy it because the price is out
110:28 of control but that's true with a lot of
110:30 other countries also so we're going to
110:33 get fair deals and good deals with every
110:35 country and if we don't we're going to
110:37 have nothing to do with them they're not
110:38 going to be allowed to participate in
110:40 the United States
110:51 president Relax we have time this
110:53 gentleman is all day long mr
110:57 many
110:58 of you go ahead
111:31 maybe talk about it for a second because
111:33 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
111:35 we've we've been very tough and very
111:37 successful
111:39 militarily we've
111:41 uh really damaged them badly these were
111:44 people shooting down ships and other
111:46 things by the way flying objects like
111:49 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
111:53 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
111:56 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
112:01 and and it's every night night after
112:04 night and we've gotten many of their
112:07 leaders and their experts they're
112:10 experts on missiles i mean they actually
112:11 make missiles nobody thought that but
112:14 they make missiles highly sophisticated
112:16 and they're very tough but they've been
112:19 uh very badly damaged nobody else was
112:21 able to do that but us pete do you want
112:23 to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
112:25 been a bad three weeks for the Houthis
112:28 uh and it's about to get worse it's been
112:30 a devastating campaign whether it's
112:32 underground facilities weapons
112:34 manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
112:37 air defense assets we are not going to
112:39 relent and it's only to get more
112:41 unrelenting until the Houthis declare
112:44 they will stop shooting at our ships and
112:45 we've been very clear with the Iranians
112:47 as well uh they uh they should not
112:51 continue to provide support to the
112:52 Houthis and that message has been made
112:54 very clear so we have a lot more options
112:56 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
112:58 know because we see the reports how
113:00 devastating this campaign has been in
113:02 them and we will not run we have a great
113:04 military there's no military like our
113:07 military and despite Biden having given
113:10 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
113:13 piece but it was a lot of our military
113:16 away in Afghanistan and one of the
113:18 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
113:21 most embarrassing situation we've ever
113:23 been involved in that that short period
113:25 of time in
113:26 Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
113:30 uh left a lot of our military behind
113:32 left left left you see them in their
113:34 annual parades where they're parading
113:37 trucks that are armorplated and
113:39 different things that they can't but
113:40 it's many billions of dollars we left
113:42 behind but despite that uh we have a
113:45 tremendous military that was a very
113:47 small portion because we rebuilt the
113:49 military during my first term and uh we
113:53 uh we have great uh great things
113:56 happening with our military we also uh
113:58 essentially approved a budget which is
114:01 in the facility you'll like to hear this
114:03 of a trillion dollars $1
114:06 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
114:08 it we have to build our military and
114:11 we're very costconscious but the
114:13 military is something that we have to
114:14 build and we have to be strong because
114:16 you got a lot of bad forces out there
114:18 now so we're going to be approving a
114:20 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
114:22 actually the biggest one we've ever done
114:24 for the military we're cutting other
114:26 things that were uh under Doge but under
114:30 a lot of other when you look at uh a
114:33 woman getting $2 billion for
114:35 environmental and it had nothing to do
114:37 with environmental and they had $100 in
114:39 the bank and they give her two billion
114:41 many many of those cases all that stuff
114:44 is going to be cut out but we are
114:45 getting a very very powerful military we
114:48 have things under order now the likes of
114:51 which we've never had before or we've
114:53 never had the kind of uh aircraft the
114:56 kind of missiles or anything uh that we
114:59 have ordered and it's in many ways too
115:01 bad that we have to do it because
115:03 hopefully we're not going to have to use
115:05 it but the military is very very
115:07 powerful and uh it's going to remain
115:10 that way
115:16 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
115:19 you about this
115:22 The
115:24 US is it possible to give us some more
115:26 information at what level is high level
115:30 very high level yeah we're dealing with
115:32 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
115:34 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
115:37 directly you know a lot of people say
115:39 "Oh maybe you're going through
115:40 surrogates or you're not dealing
115:41 directly you're dealing through other
115:43 countries." No we're dealing with them
115:44 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
115:47 be made that'll be great going to be It
115:50 would be really great for Iran and I can
115:52 tell you that but hopefully we're not
115:54 going to have to get into that we we are
115:56 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
116:00 almost the highest level and we'll see
116:02 how it works out please how do you
116:04 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
116:06 don't drive US trading partners into the
116:09 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
116:11 about it i'm not worried about it if
116:13 they want to be in the hands of the US
116:15 they don't want to be in the hands of
116:16 the Chinese and the Chinese have turned
116:19 out to be really not very good at that
116:21 uh people that are with us they're with
116:24 us but we cannot be uh taken advantage
116:27 of any longer i used to watch these
116:29 deals for years i've been talking about
116:31 it for years you and I've been talking
116:32 about it for 35 years how our country is
116:36 being ripped off i mean which it 30
116:39 years ago was Japan then it was
116:42 something else then it was another group
116:44 then it was China china's doing the the
116:46 best job of it frankly and it's just not
116:49 going to happen not going to happen
116:57 has said that they have offered zero for
117:01 zero tariffs on cars and industrial
117:03 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
117:06 not the EU has been very tough over the
117:09 years it was I always say it was formed
117:12 to really do damage to the United States
117:15 in trade that's the reason it was formed
117:18 it was formed with all of the countries
117:20 from Europe i guess most of them not all
117:22 of them but most of them and they formed
117:25 together to uh create a little bit of a
117:27 monopoly situation to create a unified
117:30 force against the United States for
117:32 trade so they have uh NATO which is
117:35 largely the same countries and they uh
117:39 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
117:42 militarily until I got there you know I
117:44 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
117:46 from NATO where they paid NATO because
117:50 most of these nations weren't even
117:51 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
117:53 paying them to guard them militarily and
117:56 they're screwing us on trade so that's
117:58 not a good combination so now uh it's
118:02 really turned around it's the opposite
118:04 and the European Union's been very ne
118:06 very bad to us they don't take our cars
118:10 like Japan in that sense they don't take
118:12 our agricultural product they don't take
118:14 anything practically and yet they send
118:18 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
118:20 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
118:23 and millions of cars into the US but we
118:26 don't have a car that's been sold to the
118:28 European Union or other places but let's
118:31 go for the European Union and it's not
118:34 going to be that way it's got to be fair
118:36 reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
118:38 fair uh we have a deficit with the
118:41 European Union of $350
118:44 billion and it's going to disappear fast
118:47 and one of the reasons and one of the
118:49 ways that that can disappear easily and
118:52 quickly is they're going to have to buy
118:53 our energy from us because they need it
118:55 they're going to have to buy it from us
118:56 they can buy it we can knock off $350
118:59 billion in one week they have to buy and
119:02 commit to buy a like amount of energy
119:05 and we have that you know we have more
119:07 energy than any country in the world i
119:09 don't know if you know that this he
119:10 knows everything but the one thing he
119:12 may not know we have more energy than
119:14 any country in the world we have more of
119:17 every kind of energy every form of
119:18 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
119:22 people talk about I call it beautiful
119:24 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
119:28 opening up a coal plant a week they
119:30 tried the windmills and it didn't work
119:32 they tried all the other solutions and
119:34 they were ready to go out of business
119:36 now they're doing a coal plant a week
119:37 china is now up to two coal plants that
119:41 uh they're opening two major coal plants
119:43 every single week in China all over
119:45 China and that we're not allowed to use
119:47 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
119:50 more than anybody else we have oil and
119:53 gas more than anybody else we have the
119:55 most energy of any country in the world
119:56 including Saudi Arabia including
119:58 everybody by a lot and I took it to
120:01 number one we were number three and I
120:03 took it to number one during my
120:05 administration
120:06 and the reason that we were hurt so
120:08 badly and the reason that we went into
120:11 such incredible inflation during Biden
120:14 is energy it was also their bad spending
120:16 but energy because they played around
120:20 with this incredible thing that we had
120:22 built this administration had built and
120:25 the energy cost went through the roof
120:26 and when that went up everything else
120:28 followed now if you look at what's
120:30 happening you're going to see this today
120:32 i said we're going to try and get
120:34 groceries down right oldfashioned term
120:36 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
120:39 got in the press went absolutely crazy
120:42 the first week they said "Eggs have
120:44 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
120:46 here tell me about it." And Brooke
120:49 Rollins and our team did a great job and
120:51 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
120:54 over the place and this was a problem
120:56 that somebody else would have taken a
120:58 long time to cure uh we have energy is
121:02 down we have interest rates are down we
121:05 have groceries meaning food is down we
121:08 have everything is down at levels that
121:10 nobody ever thought possible energy
121:12 looks like it's going to be in in the
121:14 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
121:17 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
121:22 are we're really doing amazing i mean
121:25 we're we're cutting prices because
121:27 prices got so high people couldn't live
121:30 i mean the prices for groceries the
121:31 prices for standard standard groceries
121:34 standard things were going through the
121:36 roof they couldn't live and now those
121:38 prices are coming down so call them
121:40 groceries but that's down energy is down
121:42 and interest rates are down everything's
121:45 down and the interest rates the beauty
121:47 there is when we refinance debt you know
121:50 debts become such a big factor in this
121:52 country we're going to get we're going
121:53 to start paying debt off with tariffs
121:55 and other things but uh it's such a big
121:58 factor because the interest rates so
121:59 high well now that's coming way down so
122:02 our budget's going to look a lot better
122:03 because interest costs are way down and
122:07 I guess I've done that
122:13 many Israelis are watching you now our
122:15 last show good what is your specific I
122:18 hope they like getting the hostages out
122:20 from the horrific activity yeah we are
122:22 trying very hard to get the hostages out
122:25 uh we're looking at another ceasefire
122:28 we'll see what happens but we have we
122:30 want to get the hostages out the Israeli
122:32 people want the hostages out more than
122:35 anything they want the hostages out this
122:37 man is working very hard with us to do
122:39 that i mean I don't know i hope he's
122:41 being appreciated because he's been a
122:43 great leader he's working very very hard
122:45 on the hostages and many other things
122:48 and there are plenty of things you have
122:49 to work on it's a it's a tough place in
122:52 the world i have a good partner yeah you
122:54 do have a good partner and so do we we
122:56 we're working very hard on the hospital
123:01 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
123:02 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
123:05 going to be more effective than the
123:07 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
123:10 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
123:13 lot stronger but they were so happy when
123:16 we made that first deal because we did
123:17 get a lot out you know I had people
123:20 right in this office this beautiful oval
123:22 office they came in 10 people hostages
123:24 you know that and I said to them uh so
123:27 how was it and the stories they told me
123:30 I mean as an example I said to them was
123:34 there any sign of love you were there 10
123:37 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
123:39 representative did the Hamas show any
123:43 signs of like help or liking you did
123:47 they wink at you did they give you a
123:49 piece of bread extra did they give you a
123:52 meal on the side like you know you think
123:53 of doing like what happened in Germany
123:56 what happened elsewhere people would try
123:58 and help people that were in
124:00 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
124:03 said "All of them." I said "Did they
124:05 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
124:08 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
124:09 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
124:13 unbelievable and the lives you know they
124:15 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
124:18 was a pipe and they always thought they
124:20 were suffocating they were going to
124:21 suffocate and then they'd open up the
124:23 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
124:25 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
124:28 is bad but pipes are worse and the
124:30 stories I heard were incredible but I
124:32 just said "Was there any sign of
124:34 potential love or affection?" And there
124:37 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
124:39 me there was nothing like "Here take
124:41 this it's a little extra meal or
124:43 something." They lived like hell i I
124:45 don't know they seem to be they were
124:48 amazing to me because they seemed to be
124:50 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
124:54 I guarantee underneath they have to be
124:56 scarred and one was there for
124:58 356 days another was there for about 180
125:02 days you know long time these are people
125:05 that have been really really horribly
125:08 treated i've never seen anything like it
125:10 actually I was very surprised to hear
125:11 the answer
125:13 thank you Mr president are there two or
125:16 three countries that on your list that
125:18 you feel are farther along in getting
125:21 their tariffs lowered i think well I
125:24 think there are many that want to get
125:26 rid of tariffs right now uh European
125:29 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
125:32 us they've you know they've brought
125:33 their car tariffs essentially off i
125:36 guess they brought it down to two and a
125:37 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
125:40 it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
125:43 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
125:45 things on that make it impossible for
125:47 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
125:48 it's they make it so difficult the
125:51 standards and the tests uh they drop a
125:53 bowling ball on the top of your car from
125:55 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
125:57 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
125:59 car doesn't qualify when the same car
126:02 from Germany or would dent likewise
126:04 unless you're going to have an army tank
126:06 it's going to dent so they come up with
126:09 rules and regulations that are uh just
126:12 designed for one reason that you can't
126:14 sell your product in those countries and
126:17 and uh we're not going to let that
126:19 happen those are called nonmonetary
126:21 barriers they make barriers that are so
126:24 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
126:27 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
126:30 there's another big part of it and
126:32 that's barriers they also do something
126:34 else they manipulate their currency and
126:37 they drive it down they want to drive it
126:38 they want to have low currencies you
126:40 know uh it sounds better to have a high
126:42 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
126:45 uh they bring their currency down and
126:48 when it competes with our currency it's
126:50 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
126:52 hard to sell product because their
126:55 currency is low and ours is much higher
126:58 relatively and so it makes it very hard
127:01 i speak to a lot of companies that do
127:03 business tractor companies and they say
127:05 it's so hard to sell because what
127:08 they've done is they've lowered the yen
127:10 or they've lowered the Juan or they've
127:12 lowered their currency so that it's very
127:14 hard to compete we don't want that
127:16 either so we have a lot of things that
127:19 we're talking about but we're going to
127:20 fix it properly and it's going to be
127:22 fair to everybody and in the end I think
127:25 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
127:26 better you know but they have to respect
127:28 the United States and and nobody but me
127:31 would do this nobody but me would do
127:33 this you know it's would be nice to
127:34 serve a nice easy term but we have an
127:38 opportunity to change the fabric of our
127:40 country we have an opportunity to reset
127:42 the table on trade we lose billions of
127:46 dollars we lose close to uh$ two
127:49 trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
127:51 a trillion dollars a year to China a
127:54 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
127:57 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
128:01 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
128:05 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
128:09 why would we do that number one why
128:10 would we do that and then you have to
128:12 say is it sustainable then you hear
128:14 about all of the people that say "Well
128:16 deficits if we have a deficit with a
128:18 country or if the country has a big
128:19 surplus with us like China has a massive
128:22 surplus that they take and they spend on
128:24 their military." Well we don't want that
128:26 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
128:29 dollars a year and spend it on their
128:32 military i don't want them spending
128:34 money on their military and I shouldn't
128:36 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
128:37 spend it either because you know
128:39 hopefully and I said this to President
128:41 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
128:42 going to use in other words because
128:44 we're not going to use those incredible
128:46 weapons that we have and that they have
128:49 we don't want that so uh it's going to
128:52 be very interesting it's it's the only
128:55 chance our pre our country will have to
128:58 reset the table because no other
129:01 president would be willing to do what
129:03 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
129:06 don't mind going through it because I
129:07 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
129:10 but we are making tremendous progress
129:12 with a lot of countries and the
129:15 countries that really took advantage of
129:16 us are now saying please negotiate you
129:20 know why because they're getting beaten
129:22 badly because of what's happening
129:24 they're getting beaten badly they're
129:26 being devalued as countries but it's the
129:29 only chance we're going to have to reset
129:32 the table on trade and when we do we're
129:34 going to come out unbelievably well
129:36 we're gonna have a strong country
129:37 economically again and we're going to
129:39 have those factories that are empty all
129:41 over the United States we've lost
129:44 90,000 plants and factories think of
129:47 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
129:49 possible 90,000 plants and factories
129:53 since NAFTA which was by the way the
129:55 worst trade deal ever ever developed
129:57 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
130:00 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
130:02 would be impossible and I terminated
130:04 through Congress we terminated it you
130:06 had to get it through Congress it was a
130:08 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
130:10 it
130:13 done problem is they cheat they cheat
130:17 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
130:20 just one of those things but we are
130:23 resetting a table and we're going to
130:25 have great trade and we're going to have
130:27 a very strong country our country is
130:29 going to be at a level that is as maybe
130:31 never been or maybe you know our country
130:34 was the strongest believe it or not from
130:37 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
130:41 tariff based we had no income tax then
130:44 in 1913 some genius came up with the
130:46 idea of let's charge the people of our
130:48 country not foreign countries that are
130:51 ripping off our country and the country
130:54 was never relatively was never that kind
130:58 of wealth we had so much wealth we
131:00 didn't know what to do with our money we
131:02 had meetings we had we had committees
131:05 and these committees worked tirelessly
131:08 to study one subject we have so much
131:11 money what are we going to do with it
131:12 who are we going to give it to and I
131:14 hope we're going to be in that position
131:16 again
131:20 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
131:23 your government put on Israeli boots on
131:25 where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
131:29 we're talking about a whole new trade
131:32 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
131:35 Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4
131:37 billion a year that's a lot
131:40 congratulations by the way that's pretty
131:42 good but we give Israel billions of
131:44 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
131:48 the highest of And we give a lot of We
131:51 give a lot of countries money uh you
131:54 wouldn't believe if I said we give
131:55 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
131:58 because that was a Biden deal another
131:59 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
132:01 with that but they give them billions of
132:04 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
132:07 we uh we take good care of our friends
132:10 and we don't take care of our enemies
132:12 we're not taking care of our enemies
132:13 anymore but we do take care of our
132:17 friends from the Times of Israel the IDF
132:19 is fighting again the Gaza Strip by
132:21 myself might be called up in a month do
132:23 you think that's the way to pressure
132:24 Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
132:26 blocking humanitarian aid is also an
132:28 effective pressure well you know how I
132:29 feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
132:32 an incredible piece of important real
132:35 estate and I think it's something that
132:38 we would be involved in but you know
132:40 having a peace force like the United
132:42 States there controlling and owning the
132:45 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
132:47 right now all it is is for years and
132:49 years all I hear about is killing and
132:51 Hamas and problems and if you take the
132:55 people the Palestinians and move them
132:57 around to different countries and you
132:58 have plenty of countries that will do
133:00 that and you really have a freedom a
133:04 freedom zone you call it the freedom
133:06 zone a free zone a zone where people
133:08 aren't going to be killed every day
133:10 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
133:12 what I call it a great location that
133:15 nobody wants to live in because they
133:17 really don't and when they had good li
133:19 when they have good living real living
133:21 where Hamas and all of the the problems
133:24 they have the the level of debt on the
133:26 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
133:30 said it I I don't understand why Israel
133:32 ever gave it up israel owned it it
133:35 wasn't this man so I can say it he
133:37 wouldn't have given it up i know him
133:38 very well there's no way they took
133:41 oceanfront property and they gave it to
133:43 people for peace how did that work out
133:46 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
133:48 president is the immigration
133:52 which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
133:57 a a concept that I had that I think is
133:59 good and now people are copying it you
134:01 know baby do you want to tell people are
134:03 talking about the Trump plan gee why do
134:05 we do that uh would you like to answer
134:07 that question i I think what the
134:09 president talked about is first of all
134:11 to give people a choice you know Gaza
134:14 Gazans were closed in and any other
134:16 place including in arenas of battle i
134:19 mean whether it's Ukraine or Syria or
134:21 any other place people could leave gaza
134:25 was the only place where they locked
134:26 them in we didn't lock them in they're
134:28 locked in and what is wrong with giving
134:31 people a choice now we've been talking
134:34 uh including over lunch about some
134:36 countries are won't go into them right
134:39 now that are saying you know if Gazans
134:42 want to leave we want to take them in
134:44 and I think this is this is the right
134:47 thing to do if you give you know it's
134:49 going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
134:51 the meantime people can have an option
134:53 president has a vision countries are
134:55 responding to that vision we're working
134:57 on it i hope we'll have good news for
134:59 you people I will say people love excuse
135:02 me people really do love that vision uh
135:05 it's a long-term vision but so
135:08 importantly is to have that be a a safe
135:11 field because you're right smack in the
135:14 middle of the Middle East you're right
135:15 along Israel it should have never ever
135:17 been given away shouldn't have been
135:19 given away by Israel i don't know why
135:21 they did it i mean I do know why because
135:23 they were promised peace but that didn't
135:25 work out too well because it's one of
135:27 the most dangerous pieces of land
135:28 anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
135:31 most dangerous places in the world so
135:33 they gave it away for good intention and
135:35 it it didn't work out that way and uh a
135:39 lot of people like my concept but you
135:41 know there are other concepts that I
135:43 like too and there are some concepts I
135:45 don't like you know what I don't like
135:46 the way it is now because right now it's
135:48 a dangerous death trap gaza yeah
135:53 thank you sir can you talk a little bit
135:55 about uh your meeting potential meeting
135:57 with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
135:59 meet with him could that happen in Saudi
136:01 Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
136:03 well a little bit on not providing
136:04 tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
136:08 we're not talking about tariffs with
136:10 Russia is because we're not doing
136:11 business essentially with Russia because
136:14 they're in a war and I'm not happy about
136:16 what's going on with uh with the bombing
136:20 because they're bombing like crazy right
136:22 now they're bombing i don't know what's
136:24 happening there that's not a good
136:25 situation so we're meeting with Russia
136:28 we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
136:31 getting sort of close but I'm not happy
136:32 with all the bombing that's going on the
136:34 last uh week or so horrible it's a
136:38 horrible thing it's a horrible thing
136:44 countries to get below 10%
136:48 in in terms of tariffs
136:51 look we've been ripped off and taken
136:54 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
136:59 reason we got ripped off and the way
137:01 they did it was tariffs they were
137:03 charged tariffs massive numbers of
137:05 dollars and when you look at uh China
137:10 when I took over it was at 57 billion
137:13 dollars they were making I call it
137:15 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
137:17 mean anything having a surplus means a
137:19 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
137:21 profit or loss statement and when I took
137:24 over was 57 billion dollars that China
137:28 was this is originally first term and we
137:31 were very very tough on them because
137:34 they were taking that money and they
137:36 were building a military with it then
137:38 when Biden came in he let him get away
137:40 with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
137:42 what that man had no idea what was
137:43 happening whether it was the border or
137:45 China or anything else he had no idea
137:47 what was going on and they got they went
137:51 wild china went wild and the money they
137:54 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
137:57 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
137:59 along with China if we do that's great
138:00 and if we don't that's okay too but we
138:03 can't let that continue because that's a
138:05 that's an abuse they abused the poor
138:09 people that sat in the seat that poor
138:11 Biden he was abused by them they took
138:14 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
138:16 know they have smart people they were
138:17 radical left lunatics but they're smart
138:20 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
138:22 you know to to happen but uh we are
138:25 going to bring great trade and we're
138:28 going to be fair to other countries and
138:30 I I will say this uh virtually every
138:34 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
138:37 do what I did over the last couple of
138:40 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
138:42 negotiate we would have gone to these
138:44 countries you want to talk and they were
138:45 well we don't want to talk now they're
138:48 coming to us they're offering things
138:50 like even BB this is unrelated because
138:52 it's a different kind of a relationship
138:55 but he started off our conversation
138:56 today that he's cutting all of the
138:58 tariffs he's cutting everything he's
139:00 going to get down to a free base he's
139:02 going to do things that in all fairness
139:05 other countries if they said that would
139:07 have never even thought about doing it
139:09 now they're offering things to us that
139:12 we would have never even thought of
139:14 asking them for because they're
139:17 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
139:20 is that they've taken advantage of us
139:22 and we finally fought back tariffs will
139:25 make this country very rich we're rich
139:27 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
139:29 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
139:34 to get rid of it and we can do it
139:36 quickly with proper deals so when
139:40 countries don't allow us to sell our
139:42 product but we allow them to sell their
139:44 product when they charge us massive
139:47 amounts of money for the privilege of
139:48 going into their country those days are
139:51 over
139:54 okay yeah go ahead sir me
139:59 he sounds so surprised mr president um
140:02 on Iran uh two questions please first
140:04 you can give us more details about where
140:06 the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
140:08 tell you that i I can just tell you
140:10 there's a major meeting going on between
140:12 us and Iran and that'll take place on
140:16 Saturday and it's at top level and
140:18 second question about this um a lot of
140:21 people think that those talks are not
140:23 going to lead anywhere because the I
140:25 don't give up i think that's a
140:28 possibility
140:29 if diplomacy fails is the United States
140:32 under your leadership ready to take
140:34 military action to destroy the Iranian
140:37 nuclear program program and remove this
140:39 threat
140:41 i think if the talks aren't successful
140:44 with
140:45 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
140:47 great danger and I hate to say it great
140:50 danger because they can't have a nuclear
140:52 weapon so is that you know it's not a
140:54 complicated uh formula iran cannot have
140:58 a nuclear weapon that's all there is
141:00 can't have it right now we have
141:02 countries that have nuclear power that
141:04 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
141:07 be able to negotiate out of that too as
141:09 part of this later on down the line but
141:12 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
141:16 the talks aren't
141:18 successful I actually think it'll be a
141:20 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
141:23 yeah
141:25 on manufacturing yeah please mr
141:27 president was October 7th the death blow
141:30 of the two-state solution and would you
141:32 consider classifying the Palestinian
141:34 Authority as a terrorist organization
141:35 for its continued paper sake terror
141:37 financing payments so October 7th was a
141:40 horrible day that some people they they
141:43 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
141:45 from the standpoint of they do it
141:46 because they think it's good politically
141:48 but October I've seen the tapes i've
141:50 seen things that you don't want to see
141:52 october 7th was a horrible day and it
141:55 will go down as one of the really bad
141:58 days in the history of the world it was
142:00 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
142:04 happened and they grabbed some of these
142:06 people i'll give you an example when I
142:08 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
142:11 I said "So how many are there?"
142:14 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
142:18 They sort of knew the territory pretty
142:20 good and I said "How are they doing?"
142:23 She they said "Well only 24 are living
142:26 the rest are dead." And these are young
142:29 people largely young people don't die
142:31 you know young people have an amazing
142:33 ability to live they can live through
142:35 horrible things but these are young
142:38 people and when they said that 24 are
142:41 living and the rest are dead and you
142:43 know I've had parents come up Israeli
142:45 parents largely we have some Americans
142:48 and we had I guess we have uh one left
142:52 Alex we have the one left but but I've
142:55 had Israeli parents come up to me at
142:58 events and say my son is there i said
143:02 well how's he doing well he's dead but
143:04 would you do me the biggest favor ever
143:07 could you bring his body back home they
143:09 talked about a young dead boy and a
143:12 young dead girl like they were living
143:16 and that could have something to do with
143:18 religion that could have something to do
143:20 with I guess maybe any parent would be
143:22 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
143:25 son is
143:26 dead it is just as important to bring
143:29 that body back home." I asked that
143:32 question as if he were alive so you have
143:35 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
143:38 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
143:40 thing that's happened these are young
143:42 largely young people some old ones too
143:44 frankly and those people have lived in
143:46 hell when they came off the second group
143:48 that came out they look like uh they
143:51 just got out of a concentration camp
143:53 they look exactly like the pictures that
143:55 I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
143:59 camps and then they got a little bit
144:02 better you know but that second group
144:05 those people came out and I said "This
144:07 is unbelievable." We're going back into
144:08 a a chapter in history that is one of
144:12 the worst ever it's really very bad okay
144:21 american manufacturing fully up to speed
144:23 in response to these tariffs what
144:25 happens in the meantime should Americans
144:27 be prepared potentially for years
144:30 we have now uh seven trillion dollars
144:34 think of this seven trillion of
144:37 commitments from companies wanting to go
144:39 in from Apple to many many companies
144:42 many from Taiwan what it takes time to
144:45 Of course it takes Well are you asking
144:47 me a question or you telling me yeah it
144:49 takes time you know you got to build a
144:51 thing called the factory you have to
144:53 build your energy you have to do uh a
144:56 lot of things i'm giving them energy you
144:58 know we're going to let them build their
144:59 own power plants they'll be their own
145:01 essentially they're going to be in
145:03 charge of the power plant because our uh
145:06 power is not reliable enough you have a
145:09 grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
145:12 of things including bombing and weather
145:14 and a lot of other things and we're
145:16 going to give them record timing in
145:18 terms of approvals of electric plants
145:20 most of them want to build electric
145:22 plants we need massive amounts of
145:23 electricity if we're going to compete
145:25 with China and others and interestingly
145:28 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
145:31 with China but the way we lose that race
145:33 is if we can't give them electric but we
145:36 have more plants being built we have
145:38 everything we're doing so great and we
145:41 want to keep it that way and tariffs
145:43 will be an important part of it but one
145:45 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
145:47 doing a fantastic job head of
145:48 environmental protection and he's doing
145:51 very rapid approvals for people to get
145:54 for big companies to that are going to
145:56 build a plant that's going to cost
145:58 billions of dollars and we're going to
146:00 get them their approvals they have to be
146:02 environmentally perfect everything good
146:04 but they're going to be in record time a
146:06 matter of months versus a matter of many
146:08 many years
146:13 go ahead
146:15 from Paris um Turkey claims it will
146:19 stabilize uh the situation in Syria
146:22 turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
146:26 Turkey to influence Syria what do you
146:28 think do you think uh Turkeykey's
146:30 influence in Syria can actually make it
146:32 a better more peaceful country or vice
146:34 versa well I have uh great relations
146:37 with a man named Erdogan have you heard
146:38 of him and I happen to like him and he
146:41 likes me and I know the press will get
146:43 very angry he likes her to want but I do
146:45 and he likes me and we've never had a
146:48 problem and and we've gone through a lot
146:49 and we've never had a problem we always
146:51 got we as you remember we got our
146:54 minister back from Turkey you remember
146:55 that and uh this was a big deal at the
146:59 time and we got him back uh and I told
147:03 the prime minister I said "Just BB if
147:07 you have a problem with Turkey I really
147:08 think I'm going to be able to work it
147:10 out you know I have a very very good
147:11 relationship
147:13 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
147:16 I think we'll be able to work it out so
147:18 I hope that's not going to be a problem
147:19 i don't think it will be a problem now
147:21 with that being said I believe it was
147:23 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
147:26 it i said "Congratulations you've done
147:29 what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
147:31 years you've taken over Syria with
147:34 different names but same thing." I said
147:37 "You've taken it over." He's taken it
147:38 over through surrogates he goes "No no
147:41 no no no no it was not me it was I said
147:43 it was you." But that's okay you don't
147:45 have to say "Well it sort of maybe was
147:47 me." Okay but what he did he look he's a
147:50 tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
147:54 did something that nobody was able to do
147:56 you know you got to hand it to him uh
147:58 any problem that you have with Turkey I
148:00 think I can solve i mean as long as
148:03 you're reasonable you have to be
148:04 reasonable we have to be reasonable
148:06 thank you very much everybody appreciate
148:08 thank you thank
148:19 you standing with us you are a great
148:23 great champion of our alliance and uh
148:27 you actually do the things that you say
148:30 you do and I I think that people respect
148:32 that enormously i certainly do and
148:35 people of Israel do and I think the
148:37 Jewish people do as well we just saw
148:39 your representative in the the
148:42 Department of Justice fighting
148:44 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
148:46 international forums i just want you to
148:48 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
148:51 appreciated as you said we had the
148:53 opportunity to talk today about many
148:56 subjects uh first if I can mention
148:58 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
149:00 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
149:04 to the president a very simple thing we
149:07 will eliminate the trade deficit with
149:09 the United States we intend to do it
149:11 very quickly we think it's the right
149:14 thing to do and we're going to also
149:16 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
149:19 trade barriers that have been put up
149:21 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
149:23 serve as a model for many countries who
149:27 ought to do the same i recognize the the
149:30 position of the United States it says
149:32 you know we're allowing other countries
149:35 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
149:38 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
149:40 trade champion and free trade has to be
149:42 fair trade and I think that's basically
149:45 uh the position that you have uh put
149:47 forward Mr president we are going to
149:50 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
149:53 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
149:55 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
149:58 we could affect this quickly and I hope
150:00 to bring a solution very quickly we're
150:02 not talking about intentions we're not
150:05 talking about uh you know just words
150:08 we're talking about results and those
150:10 results are going to come back that's
150:12 the first Thank you very much that's
150:13 very nice thank you thank you Mr
150:15 president what about the hostages you
150:17 Well the finish begin okay uh we spoke
150:23 about not only the hostages
150:25 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
150:28 is a human story of un just
150:32 unbearable agony i speak to the families
150:35 i spoke to them yesterday spoke to
150:38 another one when I was in Hungary before
150:40 I came here i speak to them every day
150:42 they're in agony the hostages are in
150:45 agony and we want to get them all out uh
150:48 Steve Witkoff who was President Trump's
150:51 very able representative helped us get a
150:53 deal that got 25 out we're working now
150:55 on another deal that we hope will
150:58 succeed uh and we're committed to
151:00 getting all the hostages out but also
151:02 eliminating the evil uh tyranny of Hamas
151:06 in in Gaza and enabling the people of
151:10 Gaza to freely make a choice to go
151:13 wherever they want i mean they should
151:14 have that choice and the president put
151:16 forward a vision a bold vision which we
151:19 discussed as well including the uh
151:23 countries that might uh be amendable and
151:25 are amendable to accepting Palestinians
151:29 of their free choice if they choose to
151:31 go there and I think that's the second
151:33 thing that we discussed uh but the
151:35 hostages came right on top uh we also
151:38 discussed the situation uh in Syria
151:42 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
151:46 relations with Turkey that have
151:47 deteriorated and we don't want to see
151:49 Syria being used by anyone including
151:52 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
151:54 turkey is a uh country
151:57 that has a great relationship with the
152:00 United States the president has a
152:02 relationship with the leader of Turkey
152:04 we discussed how we can avoid this
152:07 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
152:10 think we can't have a better
152:12 interlocutor and the president of the
152:14 United States for this purpose and of
152:16 course we also discussed Iran look we're
152:19 both united in the goal that Iran does
152:22 not ever get nuclear weapons if it could
152:25 be done diplomatically in a full way the
152:27 way it was done in Libya I think that
152:29 would be a good thing uh but whatever
152:32 happens we have to make sure that Iran
152:34 does not have nuclear weapons that's the
152:37 end of my speech
152:40 mr we are we're having direct talks with
152:44 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
152:46 having direct talks with Iran and uh
152:50 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
152:53 have a very big meeting and we'll see
152:55 what can happen and I think everybody
152:57 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
153:01 preferable to doing the obvious and the
153:04 obvious is not something that I want to
153:07 be involved with or frankly that Israel
153:10 wants to be involved with if they can
153:12 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
153:13 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
153:16 dangerous
153:18 territory and hopefully those talks will
153:20 be successful and I think it would be in
153:23 Iran's best interest if they are
153:25 successful we hope we hope that's going
153:27 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
153:30 good talks on a lot of things i
153:31 appreciate very much what you said about
153:32 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
153:35 taken advantage of by many countries
153:37 over the years and uh can't do it
153:40 anymore we just can't do it anymore we
153:41 can't be the stupid people anymore and
153:44 it's all because of the people that sat
153:47 in this seat right here not your seat
153:49 but this seat they allowed things to
153:52 happen to our country that they
153:53 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
153:54 trade and other things many other things
153:56 i mean look at what's happened with our
153:59 last president where he allowed millions
154:01 of people to come into our country with
154:02 an open border who would want an open
154:05 border how stupid is that but uh he
154:08 allowed millions and millions of people
154:11 and of the millions and I think it was
154:13 21 million people but let's say three of
154:15 them were serious criminals serious
154:18 murderers and drug dealers and gang
154:20 members and people from jails all the
154:22 jails emptied out right into our country
154:25 right along the open border on the on
154:28 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
154:30 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
154:32 but generally speaking on the southern
154:35 border and uh what a shame it is that we
154:38 are now working very hard to get them
154:40 out get the criminals out get the
154:41 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
154:44 mentally insane get them out they
154:46 dropped the mentally insane in our
154:48 country too and this was all done by the
154:50 Biden administration it's a disgrace
154:53 that we have to work so hard and then we
154:55 have judges that try and protect these
154:56 people but they didn't protect us when
154:58 the people were being let in but to get
155:01 them out is never easy with these people
155:03 so uh I think we're doing a great job
155:06 the border is the best it's ever been
155:09 even as strong as it was I had a great
155:12 solid border i think it might even be
155:14 tougher right now and stronger so people
155:17 are coming into our country but they're
155:18 coming in legally we have a legal
155:20 process and we have that moving along
155:22 properly because we need people to come
155:24 into our country but we want people that
155:26 can love our country and cherish our
155:28 country so that's where we are and with
155:31 that any questions
155:36 would be open to a pause in terrorists
155:39 to allow for negotiations well we're not
155:42 looking at that we have many many uh
155:44 countries that are coming to negotiate
155:46 deals with us and they're going to be
155:48 fair deals and in certain cases they're
155:50 going to pay be paying substantial
155:53 tariffs they'll be fair deals as you
155:55 know I spoke this morning with the prime
155:57 minister of Japan and we had a very good
156:01 conversation they're coming and I said
156:03 "One thing you're going to have to open
156:05 up your country because we sold no cars
156:07 like zero cars in Japan and they sold
156:10 millions of cars into our country uh
156:13 they don't really take our agriculture a
156:15 little bit of it just to keep us
156:16 slightly happy but they don't take what
156:18 they're supposed to be taking so we have
156:20 a great relationship with Japan we're
156:22 going to keep it that way but they're
156:23 coming in to meet and other C countries
156:26 are coming in uh with China as you know
156:30 against my statement they put a 34%
156:34 tariff on above what their ridiculous
156:36 tariffs were already and I said if that
156:40 tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at
156:42 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on
156:45 above the tariffs that we put on so
156:48 they've gone for years they become a
156:50 rich country because of people again
156:52 that were in the White House that
156:53 allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
156:56 billions of dollars a year they'd make
156:58 us on trade and it shouldn't be that way
157:00 and uh I have a great relationship with
157:03 President Xi i hope it's going to stay
157:05 that way i have great respect for China
157:07 but they can't do this with just uh
157:10 we're going to have one shot at this and
157:12 no other president's going to do this
157:14 what I'm doing and I'll tell you what
157:17 it's an honor to do it because we have
157:19 been just just destroyed what they've
157:22 done to our system you know we have $36
157:24 trillion of debt for a reason and uh the
157:28 reason is that people allowed it to get
157:30 that way so we'll be uh talking to China
157:34 we'll be talking to a lot of different
157:36 countries and I think you know if if if
157:39 we can make a really fair deal and a
157:42 good deal for the United States not a
157:44 good deal for others this is America
157:46 first it's now America first and we
157:49 didn't put America first we put America
157:51 last the people that were in the Oval
157:53 Office put America last and we're not
157:55 going to stand
158:00 for Gohead
158:04 go ahead um two questions do you expect
158:07 of these deals to be made before April
158:09 9th and secondly there have been some
158:11 mixed messages from your administration
158:13 you're talking about negotiations and
158:14 yet others in your administration are
158:16 saying that these tariffs are actually
158:17 permanent what is the act well it could
158:20 be they can both be true there can be
158:23 permanent tariffs and there can also be
158:25 negotiations because there are things
158:27 that we need beyond tariffs we need open
158:29 borders you know we almost had a deal
158:31 with China where we're going to open up
158:33 China it was almost done some of you
158:35 remember it during my first term and it
158:37 was very disappointing we ended up
158:39 making a great deal $50 billion dollars
158:41 worth of uh product or so 50 billion
158:44 you'd like that in Israel and I made
158:46 that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
158:48 wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
158:50 was that plus they were going to open up
158:53 China so that our companies could go
158:54 into China and compete with other
158:58 countries and China for the you know for
159:00 a large number of people and at the very
159:03 end that deal was terminated and we went
159:05 to a piece of the deal and there so
159:09 there are a lot of things outside of
159:10 tariffs but tariffs are very important
159:12 but there are a lot of things like
159:14 opening up countries that were totally
159:16 closed china's essentially a closed
159:18 country in fact it is a closed country
159:22 and what they do is they charge tariffs
159:24 so that if you if you sell cars or if
159:26 you sell anything uh nobody's going to
159:28 buy it because the price is out of
159:30 control but that's true with a lot of
159:32 other countries also so we're going to
159:34 get fair deals and good deals with every
159:37 country and if we don't we're gonna have
159:38 nothing to do with them they're not
159:40 going to be allowed to participate in
159:41 the United States
159:53 relax we have time this gentleman is all
159:56 day long mr
159:58 many
159:59 of you go ahead
160:33 talk about it for a second because a lot
160:35 of people are asking the Houthis we've
160:37 we've been very tough and very
160:39 successful
160:40 militarily we've
160:42 uh really damaged them badly these were
160:46 people shooting down ships and other
160:48 things by the way flying objects like
160:51 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
160:55 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
160:57 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
161:03 and and it's every night night after
161:06 night and we've gotten many of their
161:09 leaders and their experts they're
161:11 experts on missiles i mean they actually
161:13 make missiles nobody thought that but
161:15 they make missiles highly sophisticated
161:18 and they're very tough but they've been
161:21 uh very badly damaged nobody else was
161:23 able to do that but us pete you want to
161:24 discuss that please yes sir uh it's been
161:27 a bad three weeks for the Houthis uh and
161:30 it's about to get worse it's been a
161:32 devastating campaign whether it's
161:33 underground facilities weapons
161:36 manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
161:38 air defense assets we are not going to
161:41 relent and it's only to get more
161:43 unrelenting until the Houthis declare
161:45 they will stop shooting at our ships and
161:47 we've been very clear with the Iranians
161:48 as well uh they uh they should not
161:52 continue to provide support to the
161:53 Houthis and that message has been made
161:55 very clear so we have a lot more options
161:58 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
162:00 know because we see the reports how
162:02 devastating this campaign has been in
162:03 them and we will not run we have a great
162:05 military there's no military like our
162:08 military and despite Biden having given
162:12 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
162:14 piece but it was a lot of our military
162:17 away in Afghanistan and one of the
162:20 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
162:22 most embarrassing situation we've ever
162:24 been involved in that that short period
162:27 of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
162:30 that was but uh left a lot of our
162:32 military behind left left left you see
162:35 them in their annual parades where
162:38 they're parading trucks that are
162:39 armorplated and different things that
162:41 they can't but it's many billions of
162:43 dollars we left behind but despite that
162:46 uh we have a tremendous military that
162:48 was a very small portion because we
162:50 rebuilt the military during my first
162:52 term and uh we uh we have great uh great
162:57 things happening with our military we
162:58 also uh essentially approved a budget
163:02 which is in the facility you'll like to
163:05 hear this of a trillion dollars $1
163:07 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
163:10 it we have to build our military and
163:12 we're very costconscious but the
163:14 military is something that we have to
163:16 build and we have to be strong because
163:17 you got a lot of bad forces out there
163:19 now so we're going to be approving a
163:21 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
163:24 actually the biggest one we've ever done
163:25 for the military we're cutting other
163:28 things that were uh under Doge but under
163:31 a lot of other when you look at uh a
163:34 woman getting $2 billion for
163:36 environmental and it had nothing to do
163:38 with environmental and they had $100 in
163:41 the bank and they give her two billion
163:43 many many of those cases all that stuff
163:45 is going to be cut out but we are
163:46 getting a very very powerful military we
163:50 have things under order now the likes of
163:52 which we've never had before we've never
163:54 had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
163:58 missiles or anything that we have
164:01 ordered and it's in many ways too bad
164:03 that we have to do it because hopefully
164:05 we're not going to have to use it but
164:07 the military is very very powerful and
164:10 uh it's going to remain that
164:15 way go ahead please
164:18 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
164:20 you about because this is the first time
164:23 The
164:25 US is possible to have some more
164:28 information at what level high level
164:31 very high level yeah we're dealing with
164:34 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
164:36 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
164:38 directly you know a lot of people say
164:40 "Oh maybe you're going through
164:42 surrogates or you're not dealing
164:43 directly you're dealing through other
164:44 countries." No we're dealing with them
164:46 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
164:48 be made that would be great going to be
164:51 it would be really great for Iran i can
164:53 tell you that but hopefully we're not
164:56 going to have to get into that we we are
164:58 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
165:01 almost the highest level and we'll see
165:04 how it works out please how do you
165:05 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
165:08 don't drive US trading partners into the
165:11 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
165:13 about it i'm not worried about it they
165:14 want to be in the hands of the US they
165:16 don't want to be in the hands of the
165:18 Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out
165:20 to be really not very good at that uh
165:23 people that are with us they're with us
165:26 but we cannot be uh taken advantage of
165:29 any longer i used to watch these deals
165:31 for years i've been talking about it for
165:32 years you and I've been talking about it
165:34 for 35 years how our country is being
165:38 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
165:41 was Japan then it was something else
165:44 then it was another group then it was
165:45 China china's doing the the best job of
165:48 it frankly and it's just not going to
165:51 happen not going to happen
165:58 eu has said that they have offered zero
166:02 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
166:04 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
166:07 not the EU has been very tough over the
166:11 years it was I always say it was formed
166:14 to really do damage to the United States
166:17 in trade that's the reason it was formed
166:19 it was formed with all of the countries
166:21 from Europe i guess most of them not all
166:24 of them but most of them and they formed
166:26 together to uh create a little bit of a
166:29 monopoly situation to create a unified
166:32 force against the United States for
166:34 trade so they have uh NATO which is
166:37 largely the same countries and they uh
166:40 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
166:43 militarily until I got there you know I
166:45 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
166:48 from NATO where they paid NATO because
166:51 most of these nations weren't even
166:52 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
166:55 paying them to guard them militarily and
166:57 they're screwing us on trade so that's
166:59 not a good combination so now uh it's
167:03 really turned around it's the opposite
167:05 and the European Union's been very ne
167:08 very bad to us they don't take our cars
167:11 like Japan in that sense they don't take
167:13 our agricultural product they don't take
167:16 anything practically and yet they send
167:19 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
167:21 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
167:24 and millions of cars into the US but we
167:27 don't have a car that's been sold to the
167:30 European Union or other places but let's
167:32 go for the European Union and it's not
167:35 going to be that way it's got to be fair
167:38 reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
167:40 fair uh we have a deficit with the
167:42 European Union of $350 billion
167:46 dollars and it's going to disappear fast
167:49 and one of the reasons and one of the
167:51 ways that that can disappear easily and
167:53 quickly is they're going to have to buy
167:54 our energy from us because they need it
167:57 they're going to have to buy it from us
167:58 they can buy it we can knock off $350
168:00 billion in one week they have to buy and
168:04 commit to buy a like amount of energy
168:07 and we have that you know we have more
168:09 energy than any country in the world i
168:11 don't know if you know that this he
168:12 knows everything but the one thing he
168:14 may not know we have more energy than
168:16 any country in the world we have more of
168:18 every kind of energy every form of
168:20 energy from oil and gas to coal and
168:23 people talk about I call it beautiful
168:25 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
168:29 opening up a coal plant a week they
168:32 tried the windmills and it didn't work
168:33 they tried all the other solutions and
168:35 they were ready to go out of business
168:37 now they're doing a coal plant a week
168:39 china is now up to two coal plants
168:42 they're opening two major coal plants
168:44 every single week in China all over
168:46 China and that we're not allowed to use
168:49 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
168:52 more than anybody else we have oil and
168:54 gas more than anybody else we have the
168:56 most energy of any country in the world
168:58 including Saudi Arabia including
168:59 everybody by a lot and I took it to
169:02 number one we were number three and I
169:04 took it to number one during my
169:06 administration
169:08 and the reason that we were hurt so
169:10 badly and the reason that we went into
169:12 such incredible inflation during Biden
169:15 is energy it was also their bad spending
169:18 but energy because they played around
169:21 with this incredible thing that we had
169:24 built this administration had built and
169:26 the energy cost went through the roof
169:28 and when that went up everything else
169:29 followed now if you look at what's
169:31 happening you're going to see this today
169:34 i said we're going to try and get
169:35 groceries down right oldfashioned term
169:37 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
169:41 got in the press went absolutely crazy
169:44 the first week they said "Eggs have
169:45 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
169:48 here tell me about it." And Brooke
169:50 Rollins and our team did a great job and
169:53 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
169:56 over the place and this was a problem
169:58 that somebody else would have taken a
170:00 long time to cure uh we have energy is
170:03 down we have interest rates are down we
170:06 have groceries meaning food is down we
170:09 have everything is down at levels that
170:11 nobody ever thought possible energy
170:14 looks like it's going to be in in the
170:16 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
170:19 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
170:24 are we're really doing amazing i mean
170:26 we're we're cutting prices because
170:29 prices got so high people couldn't live
170:31 i mean the prices for groceries the
170:33 prices for standard standard groceries
170:36 standard things were going through the
170:38 roof they couldn't live and now those
170:39 prices are coming down so call them
170:41 groceries but that's down energyy's down
170:44 and interest rates are down everything's
170:47 down and the interest rates the beauty
170:49 there is when we refinance debt you know
170:51 debt's become such a big factor in this
170:53 country we're going to get we're going
170:54 to start paying debt off with tariffs
170:57 and other things but uh it's such a big
170:59 factor because the interest rates so
171:01 high well now that's coming way down so
171:03 our budget's going to look a lot better
171:05 because interest costs are way down and
171:08 I guess I've done that
171:14 many Israelis are watching you now on
171:17 live show good what is your specific i
171:19 hope they like getting the hostages out
171:22 from the horrific yeah we are trying
171:24 very hard to get the hostages out uh
171:27 we're looking at another ceasefire we'll
171:29 see what happens but we have we want to
171:32 get the hostages out the Israeli people
171:34 want the hostages out more than anything
171:37 they want the hostages out this man is
171:39 working very hard with us to do that i
171:41 mean I don't know i hope he's being
171:43 appreciated because he's been a great
171:45 leader he's working very very hard on
171:47 the hostages and many other things and
171:49 there are plenty of things you have to
171:51 work on it's a It's a tough place in the
171:53 world isn't it i have a good partner
171:55 yeah you do have a good partner and so
171:56 do we we We're working very hard on the
171:59 house
172:02 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
172:04 with Iran can you elaborate how it's
172:06 going to be more effective than the than
172:08 the JCPOA well I can't really say that
172:11 but I think it'll be uh different and
172:14 maybe a lot stronger but they were so
172:17 happy when we made that first deal
172:18 because we did get a lot out you know I
172:21 had people right in this office this
172:22 beautiful oval office they came in 10
172:24 people hostages you know that and I said
172:27 to them uh so how was it and the stories
172:31 they told me i mean as an example I said
172:34 to them "Was there any sign of love you
172:37 were there 10 people it's only 10 but
172:40 it's pretty
172:41 representative did the Hamas show any
172:44 signs of like help or liking you did
172:49 they wink at you did they give you a
172:50 piece of bread extra did they give you a
172:53 meal on the side like you know you think
172:55 of doing like what happened in Germany
172:58 what happened elsewhere people would try
173:00 and help people that were in
173:02 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
173:05 said "All of them." I said "Did they
173:07 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
173:09 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
173:11 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
173:15 unbelievable and the lives you know they
173:17 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
173:19 was a pipe and they always thought they
173:21 were suffocating they were going to
173:23 suffocate and then they'd open up the
173:25 pipe and it was like three and a half
173:26 feet high this isn't you know we hear
173:29 tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and
173:31 the stories I heard were incredible but
173:34 I just said was there any sign of
173:36 potential love or affection and there
173:38 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
173:40 me there was nothing like "Here take
173:42 this it's a little extra meal or
173:44 something." They lived like hell i I
173:47 don't know they seemed to be They were
173:49 amazing to me because they seemed to be
173:51 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
173:55 I guarantee underneath they have to be
173:57 scarred and one was there for
174:00 356 days another was there for about 180
174:04 days you know a long time these are
174:06 people that have been really really
174:09 horribly treated i've never seen
174:10 anything like it actually I was very
174:12 surprised to hear the answer
174:15 thank you Mr president are there two or
174:17 three countries that on your list that
174:20 you feel are farther along in their
174:22 tariffs lowered i think it well I think
174:26 there are many that want to get rid of
174:28 tariffs right now uh European Union I
174:32 mean as badly as they've treated us
174:34 they've you know they've brought their
174:35 car tariffs essentially off i guess they
174:37 brought it down to two and a half and I
174:39 hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not
174:42 only tariffs it's non-monetary tariffs
174:45 it's tariffs where they put things on
174:47 that make it impossible for you to sell
174:48 a car it's not a money thing it's they
174:51 make it so difficult the standards and
174:53 the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on
174:56 the top of your car from 20 ft up in the
174:58 air and if there's a little dent they
175:00 say no I'm sorry your car doesn't
175:01 qualify when the same car from Germany
175:04 or would dent likewise unless you can
175:06 have an army tank it's going to dent so
175:09 they come up with rules and regulations
175:12 that are uh just designed for one reason
175:15 that you can't sell your product in
175:17 those countries and and We're not going
175:20 to let that happen those are called
175:22 nonmonetary barriers they make barriers
175:25 that are so tough that it's impossible
175:27 to qualify so so tariffs are a big part
175:30 of it but but there's another big part
175:32 of it and that's barriers they also do
175:35 something else they manipulate their
175:37 currency and they drive it down they
175:39 want to drive it they want to have low
175:40 currencies you know uh it sounds better
175:43 to have a high currency a strong dollar
175:45 or whatever but uh they bring their
175:48 currency down and when it competes with
175:50 our currency it's very hard to sell a
175:52 tractor it's very hard to sell product
175:56 because their currency is low and ours
175:58 is much higher relatively and so it
176:01 makes it very hard i speak to a lot of
176:04 companies that do business tractor
176:06 companies and they say it's so hard to
176:08 sell because what they've done is
176:10 they've lowered the yen or they've
176:12 lowered the one or they've lowered their
176:14 currency so that it's very hard to
176:16 compete we don't want that either so we
176:19 have a lot of things that we're talking
176:21 about but we're going to fix it properly
176:23 and it's going to be fair to everybody
176:25 and in the end I think we're gonna have
176:27 a world that does a lot better you know
176:29 but they have to respect the United
176:30 States and and nobody but me would do
176:32 this nobody but me would do this you
176:34 know it's would be nice to serve a nice
176:37 easy term but we have an opportunity to
176:40 change the fabric of our country we have
176:42 an opportunity to reset the table on
176:44 trade we lose billions of dollars we
176:48 lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a
176:51 year on trade we lose a trillion dollars
176:53 a year to China a trillion we lose
176:57 hundreds of billions of dollars a year
176:59 on trade to China we lose hundreds of
177:04 billions of dollars overall probably two
177:08 close to$2 trillion dollars why would we
177:11 do that number one why would we do that
177:13 and then you have to say is it
177:14 sustainable then you hear about all of
177:16 the people that say "Well deficits if we
177:18 have a deficit with a country or if the
177:20 country has a big surplus with us like
177:22 China has a massive surplus that they
177:25 take and they spend on their military."
177:26 Well we don't want that i don't want
177:28 them to take 500 600 billion dollars a
177:31 year and spend it on their military i
177:34 don't want them spending money on their
177:36 military and I shouldn't have to spend
177:38 money we shouldn't have to spend it
177:39 either because you know hopefully and I
177:41 said this to President Xi hopefully it's
177:43 money that we're never going to use in
177:45 other words because we're not going to
177:46 use those incredible weapons that we
177:49 have and that they have we don't want
177:51 that so uh it's going to be very
177:54 interesting it's it's the only chance
177:57 our pre our country will have to reset
178:00 the table because no other president
178:03 would be willing to do what I'm doing or
178:05 to even go through it now I don't mind
178:08 going through it because I see a
178:10 beautiful picture at the end uh but we
178:12 are making tremendous progress with a
178:15 lot of countries and the countries that
178:17 really took advantage of us are now
178:19 saying please negotiate you know why
178:22 because they're getting beaten badly
178:25 because of what's happening they're
178:26 getting beaten badly they're being
178:28 devalued as countries but it's the only
178:31 chance we're going to have to reset the
178:33 table on trade and when we do we're
178:35 going to come out unbelievably well
178:37 we're gonna have a strong country
178:38 economically again and we're going to
178:41 have those factories that are empty all
178:43 over the United States we've lost 90,000
178:47 plants and factories think of this 90
178:50 thou you wouldn't think it's possible
178:52 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
178:55 which was by the way the worst trade
178:56 deal ever ever developed ever had by any
179:00 country anywhere nafta and I terminated
179:02 NAFTA everybody said it would be
179:03 impossible and I terminated through
179:06 Congress we terminated it you had to get
179:08 it through Congress it was a trap it was
179:10 a horrible thing and we got it
179:15 done problem is they cheat they cheat
179:18 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
179:21 just one of those things but we are
179:25 resetting a table and we're going to
179:26 have great trade and we're going to have
179:28 a very strong country our country is
179:30 going to be at a level that is as maybe
179:33 never been or maybe you know our country
179:36 was the strongest believe it or not from
179:38 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
179:42 tariff-based we had no income tax then
179:45 in 1913 some genius came up with the
179:48 idea of let's charge the people of our
179:50 country not foreign countries that are
179:52 ripping off our country and the country
179:55 was never relatively was never that kind
179:59 of wealth we had so much wealth we
180:01 didn't know what to do with our money we
180:03 had meetings we had we had uh committees
180:06 and these committees worked tirelessly
180:09 to study one subject we have so much
180:12 money what are we going to do with it
180:14 who are we going to give it to and I
180:16 hope we're going to be in that position
180:17 again
180:22 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
180:24 your government on Israeli boots on
180:27 where on Israeli boots
180:30 well we're talking about a whole new
180:33 trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
180:36 we help Israel a lot you know we give
180:38 Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a
180:40 lot congratulations by the way that's
180:43 pretty good but we give Israel billions
180:46 of dollars a year billions it's uh one
180:50 of the highest of And we give a lot of
180:52 We give a lot of countries money you
180:55 wouldn't believe if I said we give
180:57 Afghanistan a lot of money idea because
181:00 that was a Biden deal another Biden deal
181:01 not only did he embarrass us with that
181:03 but they give them billions of dollars
181:06 afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we
181:10 take good care of our friends and we
181:12 don't take care of our enemies we're not
181:14 taking care of our enemies anymore but
181:15 we do take care of our friends
181:19 the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
181:21 again in the Gaza Strip i myself might
181:23 be called up in a month do you think
181:24 that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
181:26 to a deal do you think blocking
181:28 humanitarian aid is also an effective
181:29 pressure well you know how I feel about
181:31 the Gaza Strip i think it's an
181:33 incredible piece of important real
181:36 estate and I think it's something that
181:39 we would be involved in but you know
181:42 having a peace force like the United
181:44 States there controlling and owning the
181:46 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
181:49 right now all it is is for years and
181:51 years all I hear about is killing and
181:53 Hamas and problems and if you take the
181:56 people the Palestinians and move them
181:58 around to different countries and you
182:00 have plenty of countries that will do
182:02 that and you really have a freedom a
182:05 freedom zone you call it the freedom
182:07 zone a free zone a zone where people
182:10 aren't going to be killed every day
182:11 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
182:14 what I call it a great location that
182:16 nobody wants to live in because they
182:18 really don't and when they had good li
182:21 when they have good living real living
182:22 where Hamas and all of the the problems
182:25 they have the the level of debt on the
182:28 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
182:31 said it i I don't understand why Israel
182:34 ever gave it up israel owned it it
182:36 wasn't this man so I can say it he
182:38 wouldn't have given it up i know him
182:40 very well there's no way they took
182:43 oceanfront property and they gave it to
182:45 people for peace how did that work out
182:47 not good the immigration sorry Mr
182:50 president is the immigration
182:54 which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
182:58 a a concept that I had that I think is
183:01 good and now people are copying it you
183:02 know baby do you want to tell people are
183:04 talking about the Trump plan gee why do
183:06 we do that uh would you like to answer
183:09 that question i I think what the
183:10 president talked about is first of all
183:12 to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
183:16 closed in at any other place including
183:18 in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
183:21 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
183:24 people could leave gaza was the only
183:27 place where they locked them in we
183:29 didn't lock them in they're locked in
183:31 and what is wrong with giving people a
183:34 choice now we've been talking including
183:36 over lunch about some countries are
183:39 won't go into them right now that are
183:42 saying you know if Gazans want to leave
183:44 we want to take them in and I think this
183:47 is this is the right thing to do if you
183:50 give you know it's going to take years
183:51 to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
183:53 can have an option president has a
183:55 vision countries are responding to that
183:57 vision we're working on it i hope we'll
183:59 have good news for you
184:01 people I will say people love excuse me
184:04 people really do love that vision uh
184:07 it's a long-term vision but so
184:09 importantly is to have that be a a safe
184:12 field because you're right smack in the
184:15 middle of the Middle East you're right
184:16 along Israel it should have never ever
184:19 been given away shouldn't have been
184:20 given away by Israel i don't know why
184:23 they did it i mean I do know why because
184:24 they were promised peace but that didn't
184:26 work out too well because it's one of
184:28 the most dangerous pieces of land
184:30 anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
184:32 most dangerous places in the world so
184:35 they gave it away for good intention and
184:37 it it didn't work out that way and uh a
184:40 lot of people like my concept but you
184:43 know there are other concepts that I
184:44 like too and there are some concepts I
184:46 don't like you know what I don't like
184:48 the way it is now because right now it's
184:50 a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
184:54 talk a little bit about Thank you sir
184:56 can you talk a little bit about uh your
184:57 meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
184:59 Putin do you still plan to meet with him
185:01 could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
185:03 maybe could I elaborate as well a little
185:05 bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
185:07 sir so uh the reason we're not talking
185:10 about tariffs with Russia is because
185:12 we're not doing business essentially
185:14 with Russia because they're in a war and
185:17 I'm not happy about what's going on with
185:19 uh with the bombing because they're
185:22 bombing like crazy right now they're
185:24 bombing i don't know what's happening
185:25 there that's not a good situation so
185:28 we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
185:30 with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
185:33 close but I'm not happy with all the
185:34 bombing that's going on the last uh week
185:37 or so horrible it's a horrible thing
185:40 it's a horrible thing
185:45 countries to get below 10%
185:49 in in terms of tariffs
185:52 look we've been ripped off and taken
185:55 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
186:01 reason we got ripped off and the way
186:02 they did it was tariffs they were
186:04 charged tariffs massive numbers of
186:07 dollars and when you look at uh China
186:11 when I took over it was at $57 billion
186:15 dollars they were making I call it
186:17 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
186:18 mean anything having a surplus means a
186:20 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
186:22 profit or loss statement and when I took
186:25 over was $57 billion dollar that China
186:30 with this is originally first term and
186:33 we were very very tough on them because
186:36 they were taking that money and they for
186:38 building a military with it then when
186:40 Biden came in he let him get away with
186:42 murder he had no idea i'll tell you what
186:43 that man had no idea what was happening
186:45 whether it was the border or China or
186:47 anything else he had no idea what was
186:49 going on and they got they went wild
186:53 china went wild and the money they make
186:56 is ridiculous okay it's just not going
186:58 to happen and hopefully we'll get along
187:00 with China if we do that's great and if
187:02 we don't that's okay too but we can't
187:04 let that continue because that's a
187:06 that's an abuse they abused the poor
187:10 people that sat in the seat that poor
187:12 Biden he was abused by them they took
187:15 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
187:17 know they have smart people they were
187:19 radical left lunatics but they're smart
187:21 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
187:24 you know to to happen but uh we are
187:27 going to bring great trade and we're
187:30 going to be fair to other countries and
187:32 I I will say this uh virtually every
187:35 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
187:39 do what I did over the last couple of
187:41 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
187:43 negotiate we would have gone to these
187:45 countries you want to talk and they were
187:47 well we don't want to talk now they're
187:49 coming to us they're offering things
187:52 like even BB and this is unrelated
187:54 because it's a different kind of a
187:55 relationship but he started off our
187:57 conversation today that he's cutting all
187:59 of the tariffs he's cutting everything
188:01 he's going to get down to a free base
188:03 he's going to do things that in all
188:05 fairness other countries if they said
188:08 that would have never even thought about
188:09 doing it now they're offering things to
188:12 us that we would have never even thought
188:15 of asking them for because they're
188:19 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
188:21 is that they've taken advantage of us
188:23 and we finally fought back tariffs will
188:27 make this country very rich we're rich
188:28 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
188:31 uh we have $36 trillion in debt i want
188:35 to get rid of it and we can do it
188:37 quickly with proper deals so when
188:42 countries don't allow us to sell our
188:44 product but we allow them to sell their
188:46 product when they charge us massive
188:48 amounts of money for the privilege of
188:50 going into their country those days are
188:52 over
188:56 okay yeah go ahead sir me
189:00 he sounds so
189:02 surpris Iran uh two questions please
189:06 first you can give us more details about
189:07 where the meeting on Saturday is going i
189:09 can't tell you that i I can just tell
189:11 you there's a major meeting going on
189:13 between us and Iran and that'll take
189:17 place on Saturday and it's at top level
189:19 and second question about this um a lot
189:23 of people think that those talks are not
189:25 going to lead anywhere because the
189:28 That's I think that's a possibility
189:30 fails if diplomacy fails is the United
189:33 States under your leadership ready to
189:35 take military action to destroy the
189:38 Iranian nuclear program program and
189:40 remove this threat
189:43 i think if the talks aren't successful
189:45 with
189:46 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
189:49 great danger and I hate to say it great
189:52 danger because they can't have a nuclear
189:54 weapon so is that you know it's not a
189:56 complicated uh formula iran cannot have
189:59 a nuclear weapon that's all there is
190:01 can't have it right now we have
190:03 countries that have nuclear power that
190:06 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
190:09 be able to negotiate out of that too as
190:11 part of this later on down the line but
190:14 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
190:17 the talks aren't
190:20 successful I actually think it'll be a
190:22 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
190:24 yeah
190:26 on manufacturing yeah please mr
190:28 president was October 7th the death blow
190:31 of the two-state solution and would you
190:33 consider classifying the Palestinian
190:35 Authority as a terrorist organization
190:37 for its continued paper sake terror
190:39 financing payments so October 7th was a
190:42 horrible day that some people they they
190:44 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
190:46 from the standpoint of it they do it
190:48 because they think it's good politically
190:50 but October I've seen the tapes i've
190:52 seen things that you don't want to see
190:54 october 7th was a horrible day and it
190:56 will go down as one of the really bad
190:59 days in the history of the world it was
191:02 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
191:05 happened and they grabbed some of these
191:08 people i'll give you an example when I
191:10 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
191:13 I said "So how many are there?"
191:15 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
191:19 They sort of knew the territory pretty
191:22 good and I said "How are they doing?"
191:25 She They said "Well only 24 are living
191:27 the rest are dead." And these are young
191:30 people largely young people don't die
191:33 you know young people have an amazing
191:35 ability to live they can live through
191:37 horrible things but these are young
191:39 people and when they said that 24 are
191:42 living and the rest are dead and you
191:45 know I've had parents come up Israeli
191:47 parents largely we have some Americans
191:49 and we had I guess we have uh one left
191:53 Alex we have the one left but but I've
191:57 had Israeli parents come up to me at
192:00 events and say my son is there i said
192:03 well how's he doing well he's dead but
192:06 would you do me the biggest favor ever
192:08 could you bring his body back home they
192:10 talked about a young dead boy and a
192:13 young dead girl like they were living
192:18 and that could have something to do with
192:20 religion that could have something to do
192:21 with I guess maybe any parent would be
192:24 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
192:27 son is
192:28 dead it is just as important to bring
192:31 that body back home." I asked that
192:33 question as if he were alive so you have
192:37 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
192:39 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
192:42 thing that's happened these are largely
192:44 young people some old ones too frankly
192:47 and those people have lived in hell when
192:49 they came off the second group that came
192:50 out they look like uh they just got out
192:53 of a concentration camp they looked
192:55 exactly like the pictures that I'd see
192:57 from the 1940s the concentration
193:00 camps and then they got a little bit
193:03 better you know as but that second group
193:06 those people came out and I said "This
193:08 is unbelievable we're going back into a
193:10 a chapter in history that is one of the
193:13 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
193:23 american manufacturing fully up to speed
193:25 in response to these tariffs what
193:26 happens in the meantime should Americans
193:28 be prepared potentially for years
193:32 we have
193:33 now seven trillion dollars think of this
193:36 7 trillion of commitments from companies
193:40 wanting to go in from Apple to many many
193:42 companies many from Taiwan what it takes
193:46 time to to course it takes Well are you
193:48 asking me a question or you telling me
193:50 yeah it takes time you know you got to
193:52 build a thing called a factory you have
193:54 to build your energy you have to do uh a
193:57 lot of things i'm giving them energy you
193:59 know we're going to let them build their
194:00 own power plants they'll be their own
194:03 essentially they're going to be in
194:04 charge of the power plant because our uh
194:08 power is not reliable enough you have a
194:10 grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
194:13 of things including bombing and weather
194:16 and a lot of other things and we're
194:18 going to give them record timing in
194:20 terms of approvals of electric plants
194:22 most of them want to build electric
194:23 plants we need massive amounts of
194:25 electricity if we're going to compete
194:26 with China and others and interestingly
194:29 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
194:32 with China but the way we lose that race
194:35 is if we can't give them electric but we
194:37 have more plants being built we have
194:39 everything we're doing so great and we
194:42 want to keep it that way and tariffs
194:44 will be an important part of it but one
194:46 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
194:48 doing a fantastic job head of
194:50 environmental protection and he's doing
194:53 very rapid approvals for people to get
194:55 for big companies to that are going to
194:57 build a plant that's going to cost
195:00 billions of dollars and we're going to
195:02 get them their approvals they have to be
195:03 environmentally perfect everything good
195:05 but they're going to be in record time a
195:07 matter of months versus a matter of many
195:10 many years
195:14 go ahead
195:16 yeah from um Turkey claims it will
195:20 stabilize uh the situation in Syria
195:23 turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want uh
195:27 Turkey to influence Syria what do you
195:29 think do you think uh Turkeykey's
195:31 influence in Syria can actually make it
195:33 a better more peaceful country or vice
195:36 versa well I have uh great relations
195:38 with a man named Erdogan have you heard
195:40 of him and I happen to like him and he
195:43 likes me and I know the press will get
195:44 very angry he likes her to want but I do
195:47 and he likes me and we've never had a
195:49 problem and and we've gone through a lot
195:51 and we've never had a problem we always
195:52 got we as you remember we got our
195:55 minister back from Turkey you remember
195:57 that and uh this was a big deal at the
196:00 time and we got him back uh and I told
196:05 the prime minister I said "Just BB if
196:08 you have a problem with Turkey I really
196:10 think I'm going to be able to work it
196:11 out you know I have a very very good
196:13 relationship
196:14 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
196:18 I think we'll be able to work it out so
196:19 I hope that's not going to be a problem
196:20 i don't think it will be a problem now
196:23 with that being said I believe it was
196:24 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
196:28 it i said "Congratulations you've done
196:31 what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
196:33 years you've taken over Syria with
196:36 different names but same thing." I said
196:38 "You've taken it over." He's taken it
196:40 over through surrogates he goes "No no
196:42 no no no no it was not me it was I said
196:45 it was you but that's okay you don't
196:47 have to say well sort of maybe it was
196:49 me." Okay but what he did he look he's a
196:52 tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
196:55 did something that nobody was able to do
196:57 you know you got to hand it to him uh
197:00 any problem that you have with Turkey I
197:02 think I can solve i mean as long as
197:04 you're reasonable you have to be
197:05 reasonable we have to be reasonable
197:07 thank you very much everybody
197:10 thank you thank you
197:22 standing with us you are a great great
197:25 champion of our alliance and uh you
197:29 actually do the things that you say you
197:31 do and I I think that people respect
197:34 that enormously i certainly do and the
197:36 people of Israel do and I think the
197:38 Jewish people do as well we just saw
197:41 your representative in the the
197:43 Department of Justice fighting
197:45 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
197:47 international forums i just want you to
197:50 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
197:52 appreciated as you said we had the
197:54 opportunity to talk today about many
197:57 subjects uh first if I can mention
198:00 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
198:02 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
198:05 to the president a very simple thing we
198:08 will eliminate the trade deficit with
198:10 the United States we intend to do it
198:13 very quickly we think it's the right
198:15 thing to do and we're going to also
198:18 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
198:21 trade barriers that have been put up
198:22 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
198:24 serve as a model for many countries who
198:28 ought to do the same i recognize the the
198:32 position of the United States it says
198:34 you know we're allowing other countries
198:37 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
198:39 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
198:41 trade champion and free trade has to be
198:44 fair trade and I think that's basically
198:47 uh the position that you have uh put
198:49 forward Mr president we are going to
198:51 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
198:54 the opportunity to speak to uh Secretary
198:57 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
198:59 we could affect this quickly and I hope
199:02 to bring a solution very quickly we're
199:04 not talking about intentions we're not
199:06 talking about uh you know just words
199:09 we're talking about results and those
199:11 results are going to come back that's
199:13 the first Thank you very much that's
199:14 very nice thank you thank you Mr
199:16 president what about the hostages here
199:18 well the let him finish let him
199:21 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
199:25 the hostages
199:27 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
199:30 is a human story of un just unbearable
199:35 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
199:37 to them yesterday spoke to another one
199:40 when I was in Hungary before I came here
199:42 i speak to them every day they're in
199:44 agony the hostages are in agony and we
199:47 want to get them all out uh Steve
199:50 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
199:52 able representative helped us get a deal
199:55 that got 25 out we're working now on
199:57 another deal that we hope will succeed
200:00 uh and we're committed to getting all
200:02 the hostages out but also eliminating
200:04 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
200:10 and enabling the people of Gaza to
200:12 freely make a choice to go wherever they
200:15 want i mean they should have that choice
200:17 and the president put forward a vision a
200:19 bold vision which we discussed as well
200:22 including the uh countries that might uh
200:26 be amendable and are amendable to
200:28 accepting Palestinians of their free
200:31 choice if they choose to go there and I
200:33 think that's second thing that we
200:35 discussed uh but the hostages came right
200:38 on top uh we also discussed the
200:40 situation uh in Syria
200:43 uh we have uh we've had neighborly
200:47 relations with Turkey that have
200:49 deteriorated and we don't want to see
200:51 Syria being used by anyone including
200:53 Turkey as a base for attack in Israel
200:55 turkey is
200:57 a country
200:59 that has a great relationship with the
201:02 United States the president has a
201:04 relationship with the leader of Turkey
201:06 we discussed how we can avoid this
201:08 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
201:12 think we can't a better interlocutor
201:14 than the president of the United States
201:16 for this purpose and of course we also
201:18 discussed Iran look we're both united in
201:21 the goal that Iran does not ever get
201:25 nuclear weapons if it can be done
201:27 diplomatically in a full way the way it
201:29 was done in Libya I think that would be
201:31 a good thing uh but whatever happens we
201:34 have to make sure that Iran does not
201:36 have nuclear weapons that's the end of
201:39 my speech mr
201:42 just we are we're having direct talks
201:45 with wait a minute wait we're having
201:48 direct talks with Iran and uh they've
201:52 started it'll go on Saturday we have a
201:55 very big meeting and we'll see what can
201:57 happen and I think everybody agrees that
202:00 uh doing a deal would be
202:03 preferable to doing the obvious and the
202:06 obvious is not something that I want to
202:09 be involved with or frankly that Israel
202:11 wants to be involved with if they can
202:13 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
202:14 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
202:18 dangerous
202:19 territory and hopefully those talks will
202:22 be successful and I think it would be in
202:24 Iran's best interests if they are
202:26 successful we hope we hope that's going
202:28 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
202:31 good talks on a lot of things i
202:32 appreciate very much what you said about
202:34 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
202:36 taken advantage of by many countries
202:39 over the years and uh can't do it
202:41 anymore we just can't do it anymore we
202:43 can't be the stupid people anymore and
202:45 it's all because of the people that sat
202:48 in this seat right here not your seat
202:50 but this seat they allowed things to
202:53 happen to our country that they
202:54 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
202:56 trade and other things many other things
202:58 i mean look at what's happened with our
203:00 last president where he allowed millions
203:02 of people to come into our country with
203:04 an open border who would want an open
203:07 border how stupid is that but uh he
203:10 allowed millions and millions of people
203:12 and of the millions and I think it was
203:14 21 million people but let's say three of
203:17 them were serious criminals serious
203:19 murderers and drug dealers and gang
203:22 members and people from jails all the
203:24 jails emptied out right into our country
203:26 right along the open border on the on
203:29 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
203:31 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
203:34 but generally speaking on the southern
203:37 border and uh what a shame it is that we
203:40 are now working very hard to get them
203:41 out get the criminals out get the
203:43 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
203:46 mentally insane get them out they
203:48 dropped the mentally insane in our
203:49 country too and this was all done by the
203:52 Biden administration it's a disgrace
203:54 that we have to work so hard and then we
203:56 have judges that try and protect these
203:58 people but they didn't protect us when
204:00 the people were being let in but to get
204:02 them out is never easy with these people
204:04 so uh I think we're doing a great job
204:07 the border is the best it's ever been
204:09 it's even as strong as it was i had a
204:13 great solid border i think it might even
204:15 be tougher right now and stronger so
204:18 people are coming into our country but
204:20 they're coming in legally we have a
204:21 legal process and we have that moving
204:24 along properly because we need people to
204:25 come into our country but we want people
204:28 that can love our country and cherish
204:30 our country so that's where we are and
204:32 with that any questions
204:42 well we're not looking at that we have
204:44 many many uh countries that are coming
204:46 to negotiate deals with us and they're
204:49 going to be fair deals and in certain
204:51 cases they're going to be be paying
204:53 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
204:56 deals as you know I spoke this morning
204:58 with the prime minister of Japan and we
205:02 had a very good conversation they're
205:03 coming and I said "One thing you're
205:05 going to have to open up your country
205:07 because we sold no cars like zero cars
205:10 in Japan." And they sold millions of
205:12 cars into our country uh they don't
205:15 really take our agriculture a little bit
205:17 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
205:19 they don't take what they're supposed to
205:20 be taking so we have a great
205:22 relationship with Japan we're going to
205:24 keep it that way but they're coming in
205:25 to meet and other C countries are coming
205:28 in uh with China as you know against my
205:32 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
205:37 what their ridiculous tariffs were
205:39 already and I said if that tariff isn't
205:42 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
205:45 putting a 50% tariff on above the
205:48 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
205:50 for years is they become a rich country
205:52 because of people again that were in the
205:54 White House that allowed this to happen
205:56 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
205:59 year they'd make us on trade and it
206:01 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
206:04 great relationship with President Xi i
206:05 hope it's going to stay that way i have
206:07 great respect for China but they can't
206:10 do this we're just uh we're going to
206:12 have one shot at this and no other
206:14 president's going to do this what I'm
206:16 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
206:19 honor to do it because we have been just
206:21 just destroyed what they've done to our
206:24 system you know we have 36 trillion
206:26 dollars of debt for a reason and uh the
206:29 reason is that people allowed it to get
206:31 that way so we'll be uh talking to China
206:35 we'll be talking to a lot of different
206:37 countries and I think you know if if if
206:41 we can make a really fair deal and a
206:44 good deal for the United States not a
206:45 good deal for others this is America
206:48 first it's now America first and we
206:50 didn't put America first we put America
206:52 last the people that were in the Oval
206:55 Office put America last and we're not
206:56 going to stand for
207:03 Go
207:04 ahead go ahead um two questions do you
207:07 expect of these deals to be made before
207:10 April 9th and secondly there have been
207:12 some mixed messages from your
207:13 administration you're talking about
207:15 negotiations and yet others in your
207:17 administration are saying that these
207:18 tariffs are actually permanent what is
207:20 the act well it could be they can both
207:22 be true there can be permanent tariffs
207:26 and there can also be negotiations
207:27 because there are things that we need
207:29 beyond tariffs we need open borders you
207:31 know we almost had a deal with China
207:33 where we're going to open up China it
207:35 was almost done some of you remember it
207:37 during my first term and it was very
207:39 disappointing we ended up making a great
207:41 deal 50 billion dollars worth of uh
207:44 product or so 50 billion you'd like that
207:46 in Israel and I made that deal but it
207:48 wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
207:51 the deal that I wanted was that plus
207:53 they were going to open up China so that
207:55 our companies could go into China and
207:57 compete with other countries and China
208:00 for the you know for a large number of
208:02 people and at the very end that deal was
208:06 terminated and we went to a piece of the
208:09 deal and there so there are a lot of
208:11 things outside of tariffs but tariffs
208:13 are very important but there are a lot
208:15 of things like opening up countries that
208:17 were totally closed china's essentially
208:19 a closed country in fact it is a closed
208:23 country and what they do is they charge
208:25 tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
208:27 or if you sell anything uh nobody's
208:30 going to buy it because the price is out
208:31 of control but that's true with a lot of
208:33 other countries also so we're going to
208:36 get fair deals and good deals with every
208:38 country and if we don't we're going to
208:40 have nothing to do with them they're not
208:41 going to be allowed to participate in
208:43 the United States
208:53 i'll relax we have time this gentleman
208:57 is all day long mr president many
209:01 of you go ahead
209:16 goodbye
209:34 talk about it for a second because a lot
209:36 of people are asking the Houthis we've
209:38 we've been very tough and very
209:40 successful
209:41 militarily uh we've
209:44 uh really damaged them badly these were
209:47 people shooting down ships and other
209:49 things by the way flying objects like
209:52 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
209:56 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
209:58 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
210:04 and and it's every night night after
210:07 night and we've gotten many of their
210:10 leaders and their experts they're
210:12 experts on missiles i mean they actually
210:14 make missiles nobody thought that but
210:16 they make missiles they're highly
210:18 sophisticated and they're very tough but
210:21 they've been uh very badly damaged
210:24 nobody else was able to do that but us
210:25 pete do you want to discuss that please
210:27 yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
210:30 for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
210:32 worse it's been a devastating campaign
210:34 whether it's underground facilities
210:37 weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
210:39 the open air defense assets we are not
210:42 going to relent and it's only to get
210:44 more unrelenting until the Houthis
210:46 declare they will stop shooting at our
210:48 ships and we've been very clear with the
210:49 Iranians as well uh they should not
210:53 continue to provide support to the
210:55 Houthis and that message has been made
210:57 very clear so we have a lot more options
210:59 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
211:01 know because we see the reports how
211:03 devastating this campaign has been in
211:05 them and we will not run we have a great
211:07 military there's no military like our
211:10 military and despite Biden having given
211:13 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
211:16 piece but it was a lot of our military
211:19 away in Afghanistan and one of the
211:21 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
211:24 most embarrassing situation we've ever
211:26 been involved in that that short period
211:28 of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
211:31 that was but uh left a lot of our
211:34 military behind left left left you see
211:36 them in their annual parades where
211:39 they're parading trucks that are
211:40 armorplated and different things that
211:42 they can't but it's many billions of
211:44 dollars we left behind but despite that
211:47 uh we have a tremendous military that
211:50 was a very small portion because we
211:52 rebuilt the military during my first
211:53 term and uh we uh we have great uh great
211:58 things happening with our military we
212:00 also uh essentially approved a budget
212:04 which is in the facility you'll like to
212:06 hear this of a trillion dollars $1
212:09 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
212:11 it we have to build our military and
212:14 we're very costconcious but the military
212:16 is something that we have to build and
212:18 we have to be strong because you got a
212:19 lot of bad forces out there now so we're
212:22 going to be approving a budget the uh
212:24 and I'm proud to say actually the
212:26 biggest one we've ever done for the
212:27 military uh we're cutting other things
212:29 that were uh under Doge but under a lot
212:33 of other when you look at uh a woman
212:36 getting $2 billion for environmental and
212:39 it had nothing to do with environmental
212:41 and they had $100 in the bank and they
212:43 give her two billion many many of those
212:45 cases all that stuff is going to be cut
212:47 out but we are getting a very very
212:50 powerful military we have things under
212:52 order now the likes of which we've never
212:54 had before we've never had the kind of
212:57 uh aircraft the kind of missiles or
213:00 anything that we have ordered and it's
213:03 in many ways too bad that we have to do
213:05 it because hopefully we're not going to
213:07 have to use it but the military is very
213:10 very powerful and uh it's going to
213:12 remain that way
213:19 yes green thank you Mr president i want
213:22 to ask you about because this is the
213:24 first time The
213:27 US is it possible to get some more
213:29 information at what level high level
213:33 very high level yeah we're dealing with
213:35 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
213:37 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
213:40 directly you know a lot of people say
213:42 "Oh maybe you're going through
213:43 surrogates or you're not dealing
213:44 directly you're dealing through other
213:46 countries." No we're dealing with them
213:47 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
213:50 be made that'll be great going to be it
213:53 would be really great for Iran i can
213:55 tell you that but hopefully we're not
213:57 going to have to get into that we we are
213:59 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
214:03 almost the highest level and we'll see
214:05 how it works out please how do you
214:07 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
214:09 don't drive US trading partners into the
214:12 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
214:14 about it i'm not worried about it they
214:16 want to be in the hands of the US they
214:18 don't want to be in the hands of the
214:19 Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out
214:22 to be really not very good at that uh
214:25 people that are with us they're with us
214:28 but we cannot be uh taken advantage of
214:30 any longer i used to watch these deals
214:32 for years i've been talking about it for
214:34 years you and I've been talking about it
214:35 for 35 years how our country is being
214:39 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
214:42 was Japan then it was something else
214:45 then it was another group then it was
214:47 China and China is doing the the best
214:49 job of it frankly and it's just not
214:52 going to happen not going to happen
215:00 eu has said that they have offered zero
215:04 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
215:06 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
215:09 not the EU has been very tough over the
215:12 years it was I always say it was formed
215:15 to really do damage to the United States
215:18 in trade that's the reason it was formed
215:21 it was formed with all of the countries
215:23 from Europe i guess most of them not all
215:25 of them but most of them and they formed
215:28 together to uh create a little bit of a
215:30 monopoly situation to create a unified
215:33 force against the United States for
215:35 trade so they have uh NATO which is
215:38 largely the same countries and they uh
215:42 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
215:44 militarily until I got there you know I
215:47 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
215:49 from NATO where they paid NATO because
215:52 most of these nations weren't even
215:54 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
215:56 paying them to guard them militarily and
215:58 they're screwing us on trade so that's
216:01 not a good combination so now uh it's
216:05 really turned around it's the opposite
216:06 and the European Union's been very ne
216:09 very bad to us they don't take our cars
216:13 like Japan in that sense they don't take
216:15 our agricultural product they don't take
216:17 anything practically and yet they send
216:20 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
216:23 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
216:26 and millions of cars into the US but we
216:29 don't have a car that's been sold to the
216:31 European Union or other places but let's
216:34 go for the European Union and it's not
216:37 going to be that way it's got to be fair
216:39 reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
216:41 fair uh we have a deficit with the
216:44 European Union of $350
216:47 billion and it's going to disappear fast
216:50 and one of the reasons and one of the
216:52 ways that that can disappear easily and
216:55 quickly is they're going to have to buy
216:56 our energy from us because they need it
216:58 they're going to have to buy it from us
216:59 they can buy it we can knock off $350
217:02 billion in one week they have to buy and
217:05 commit to buy a like amount of energy
217:08 and we have that you know we have more
217:10 energy than any country in the world i
217:12 don't know if you know that this he
217:13 knows everything but the one thing he
217:15 may not know we have more energy than
217:17 any country in the world we have more of
217:20 every kind of energy every form of
217:21 energy from oil and gas to coal and
217:24 people talk about I call it beautiful
217:27 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
217:31 opening up a coal plant a week they
217:33 tried the windmills and it didn't work
217:35 they tried all the other solutions and
217:37 they were ready to go out of business
217:38 now they're doing a coal plant a week
217:40 china is now up to two coal plants and
217:44 uh they're opening two major coal plants
217:46 every single week in China all over
217:48 China and that we're not allowed to use
217:50 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
217:53 more than anybody else we have oil and
217:56 gas more than anybody else we have the
217:58 most energy of any country in the world
217:59 including Saudi Arabia including
218:01 everybody by a lot and I took it to
218:04 number one we were number three and I
218:06 took it to number one during my
218:08 administration
218:09 and the reason that we were hurt so
218:11 badly and the reason that we went into
218:14 such incredible inflation during Biden
218:16 is energy it was also their bad spending
218:20 but energy because they played around
218:23 with this incredible thing that we had
218:25 built this administration had built and
218:27 the energy cost went through the roof
218:29 and when that went up everything else
218:31 followed now if you look at what's
218:33 happening you're going to see this today
218:35 i said we're going to try and get
218:37 groceries down right oldfashioned term
218:39 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
218:42 got in the press went absolutely crazy
218:45 the first week they said "Eggs have
218:47 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
218:49 here tell me about it." And Brooke
218:52 Rollins and our team did a great job and
218:54 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
218:57 over the place and this was a problem
218:59 that somebody else would have taken a
219:01 long time to cure uh we have energy is
219:05 down we have interest rates are down we
219:08 have groceries meaning food is down we
219:11 have everything is down at levels that
219:13 nobody ever thought possible energy
219:15 looks like it's going to be in in the
219:17 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
219:20 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
219:25 are we're really doing amazing i mean
219:28 we're we're cutting prices because
219:30 prices got so high people couldn't live
219:32 i mean the prices for groceries the
219:34 prices for standard standard groceries
219:37 standard things were going through the
219:39 roof they couldn't live and now those
219:41 prices are coming down so call them
219:43 groceries but that's down energyy's down
219:45 and interest rates are down everything's
219:48 down and the interest rates the beauty
219:50 there is when we refinance debt you know
219:53 debts become such a big factor in this
219:55 country we're going to get we're going
219:56 to start paying debt off with tariffs
219:58 and other things but uh it's such a big
220:01 factor because the interest rates so
220:02 high well now that's coming way down so
220:05 our budget's going to look a lot better
220:06 because interest costs are way down and
220:10 I guess I've done that
220:16 many Israelis are watching you now our
220:18 live show good what is your specific way
220:22 getting the hostages out from the
220:23 horrific captivity yeah we are trying
220:25 very hard to get the hostages out uh
220:28 we're looking at another ceasefire we'll
220:31 see what happens but we have we want to
220:33 get the hostages out the Israeli people
220:36 want the hostages out more than anything
220:38 they want the hostages out this man is
220:41 working very hard with us to do that i
220:43 mean I don't know i hope he's being
220:44 appreciated because he's been a great
220:46 leader he's working very very hard on
220:48 the hostages and many other things and
220:51 there are plenty of things you have to
220:52 work on it's a it's a tough place in the
220:55 world is I have a good partner yeah you
220:57 do have a good partner and so do we we
220:59 we're working very hard on the house
221:04 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
221:06 with Iran can you elaborate how it's
221:08 going to be more effective than the
221:10 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
221:13 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
221:16 lot stronger but they were so happy when
221:18 we made that first deal because we did
221:20 get a lot out you know I had people
221:23 right in this office this beautiful oval
221:25 office they came in 10 people hostages
221:27 you know that and I said to them uh so
221:30 how was it and the stories they told me
221:33 I mean as an example I said to them was
221:36 there any sign of love you were there 10
221:40 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
221:42 representative did the Hamas show any
221:46 signs of like help or liking you did
221:50 they wink at you did they give you a
221:52 piece of bread extra did they give you a
221:54 meal on the side like you know you think
221:56 of doing like what happened in Germany
221:59 what happened elsewhere people would try
222:01 and help people that were in
222:03 unbelievable distress they said no i
222:06 said "All of them." I said "Did they
222:08 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
222:11 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
222:12 do that they'd slap us their hatred is
222:16 unbelievable and the lives you know they
222:18 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
222:20 was a pipe and they always thought they
222:23 were suffocating they were going to
222:24 suffocate and then they'd open up the
222:26 pipe and it was like three and a half
222:28 feet high this isn't you know we hear
222:30 tunnels bad but pipes are worse and the
222:33 stories I heard were incredible but I
222:35 just said "Was there any sign of
222:37 potential love or affection?" And there
222:40 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
222:42 me there was nothing like "Here take
222:44 this it's a little extra meal or
222:46 something." They lived like hell i I
222:48 don't know they seem to be They were
222:51 amazing to me because they seemed to be
222:53 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
222:57 I guarantee underneath they have to be
222:58 scarred and one was there for
223:01 356 days another was there for about 80
223:05 days you know long time these are people
223:08 that have been really really horribly
223:11 treated i've never seen anything like it
223:12 actually I was very surprised to hear
223:14 the answer
223:16 thank you Mr president are there two or
223:19 three countries that on your list that
223:21 you feel are farther along in getting
223:24 their tariffs lowered i think it Well I
223:27 think there are many that want to get
223:29 rid of tariffs right now uh European
223:32 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
223:35 us they've you know they've brought
223:36 their car tariffs essentially off i
223:39 guess they brought it down to two and a
223:40 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
223:43 it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
223:45 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
223:48 things on that make it impossible for
223:49 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
223:51 it's they make it so difficult the
223:53 standards and the tests uh they drop a
223:56 bowling ball on the top of your car from
223:58 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
224:00 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
224:02 car doesn't qualify when the same car
224:05 from Germany or would dent likewise
224:07 unless you can have an army tank it's
224:10 going to dent so they come up with rules
224:12 and regulations that are uh just
224:15 designed for one reason that you can't
224:17 sell your product in those countries and
224:20 and uh we're not going to let that
224:22 happen those are called nonmonetary
224:24 barriers they make barriers that are so
224:27 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
224:30 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
224:33 there's another big part of it and
224:35 that's barriers they also do something
224:37 else they manipulate their currency and
224:40 they drive it down they want to drive it
224:41 they want to have low currencies you
224:43 know uh it sounds better to have a high
224:45 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
224:48 uh they bring their currency down and
224:51 when it competes with our currency it's
224:53 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
224:55 hard to sell product because their
224:58 currency is low and ours is much higher
225:01 relatively and so it makes it very hard
225:04 i speak to a lot of companies that do
225:06 business tractor companies and they say
225:08 it's so hard to sell because what
225:11 they've done is they've lowered the yen
225:13 or they've lowered the one or they've
225:15 lowered their currency so that it's very
225:17 hard to compete we don't want that
225:19 either so we have a lot of things that
225:22 we're talking about but we're going to
225:23 fix it properly and it's going to be
225:25 fair to everybody and in the end I think
225:28 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
225:29 better you know but they have to respect
225:31 the United States and and nobody but me
225:34 would do this nobody but me would do
225:36 this you know it's would be nice to
225:37 serve a nice easy term but we have an
225:40 opportunity to change the fabric of our
225:43 country we have an opportunity to reset
225:45 the table on trade we lose billions of
225:49 dollars we lose close to uh$2 trillion
225:52 dollars a year on trade we lose a
225:54 trillion dollars a year to China a
225:56 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
226:00 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
226:04 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
226:08 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
226:12 why would we do that number one why
226:13 would we do that and then you have to
226:15 say is it sustainable then you hear
226:16 about all of the people that say "Well
226:18 deficits if we have a deficit with a
226:20 country or if the country has a big
226:22 surplus with us like China has a massive
226:25 surplus that they take and they spend on
226:27 their military." Well we don't want that
226:29 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
226:32 dollars a year and spend it on their
226:35 military i don't want them spending
226:37 money on their military and I shouldn't
226:39 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
226:40 spend it either because you know
226:42 hopefully and I said this to President
226:44 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
226:45 going to use in other words because
226:47 we're not going to use those incredible
226:49 weapons that we have and that they have
226:52 we don't want that so uh it's going to
226:55 be very interesting it's it's the only
226:57 chance our pre our country will have to
227:01 reset the table because no other
227:04 president would be willing to do what
227:06 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
227:09 don't mind going through it because I
227:10 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
227:13 but we are making tremendous progress
227:15 with a lot of countries and the
227:18 countries that really took advantage of
227:19 us are now saying please negotiate you
227:23 know why because they're getting beaten
227:25 badly because of what's happening
227:27 they're getting beaten badly they're
227:29 being devalued as countries but it's the
227:32 only chance we're going to have to reset
227:34 the table on trade and when we do we're
227:37 going to come out unbelievably well
227:38 we're gonna have a strong country
227:40 economically again and we're going to
227:42 have those factories that are empty all
227:44 over the United States we've lost
227:47 90,000 plants and factories think of
227:50 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
227:52 possible 90,000 plants and factories
227:56 since NAFTA which was by the way the
227:57 worst trade deal ever ever developed
228:00 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
228:03 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
228:05 would be impossible and I terminated
228:07 through Congress we terminated it you
228:09 had to get it through Congress it was a
228:11 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
228:12 it
228:16 done problem is they cheat they cheat
228:19 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
228:23 just one of those things but we are
228:26 resetting a table and we're going to
228:28 have great trade and we're going to have
228:30 a very strong country our country is
228:32 going to be at a level that is as maybe
228:34 never been or maybe you know our country
228:37 was the strongest believe it or not from
228:40 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
228:44 tariff based we had no income tax then
228:47 in 1913 some genius came up with the
228:49 idea of let's charge the people of our
228:51 country not foreign countries that are
228:54 ripping off our country and the country
228:57 was never relatively was never that kind
229:01 of wealth we had so much wealth we
229:02 didn't know what to do with our money we
229:04 had meetings we had we had committees
229:08 and these committees worked tirelessly
229:11 to study one subject we have so much
229:14 money what are we going to do with it
229:15 who are we going to give it to and I
229:17 hope we're going to be in that position
229:18 again
229:23 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
229:26 your government put on Israeli boots 70%
229:28 on where on Israeli roots the 17% do you
229:32 Well we're talking about a whole new
229:34 trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
229:38 we help Israel a lot you know we give
229:40 Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot
229:43 congratulations by the way that's pretty
229:45 good but we give Israel billions of
229:47 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
229:51 the highest of And we give a lot of We
229:54 give a lot of countries money uh you
229:56 wouldn't believe if I said we give
229:58 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
230:01 because that was a Biden deal another
230:02 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
230:04 with that but they give them billions of
230:07 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
230:10 we uh we take good care of our friends
230:13 and we don't take care of our enemies
230:15 we're not taking care of our enemies
230:16 anymore but we do take care of our
230:18 friends
230:21 the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
230:23 again in the Gaza Strip i myself might
230:24 be called up in a month do you think
230:26 that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
230:28 to a deal and do you think blocking
230:29 humanitarian aid is also an effective
230:31 pressure well you know how I feel about
230:32 the Gaza Strip i think it's an
230:35 incredible piece of important real
230:37 estate and I think it's something that
230:41 we would be involved in but uh you know
230:43 having a peace force like the United
230:45 States there controlling and owning the
230:48 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
230:50 right now all it is is for years and
230:52 years all I hear about is killing and
230:54 Hamas and problems and if you take the
230:57 people the Palestinians and move them
231:00 around to different countries and you
231:01 have plenty of countries that will do
231:03 that and you really have a freedom a
231:07 freedom zone you call it the freedom
231:08 zone a free zone a zone where people
231:11 aren't going to be killed every day
231:13 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
231:15 what I call it a great location that
231:18 nobody wants to live in because they
231:20 really don't and when they had good li
231:22 when they have good living real living
231:24 where Hamas and all of the the problems
231:27 they have the the level of debt on the
231:29 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
231:33 said it I I don't understand why Israel
231:35 ever gave it up israel owned it it
231:38 wasn't this man so I can say it he
231:40 wouldn't have given it up i know him
231:41 very well there's no way they took
231:44 oceanfront property and they gave it to
231:46 people for peace how did that work out
231:49 not good is there immigration sorry Mr
231:51 president is the immigration
231:55 which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
232:00 a a concept that I had that I think is
232:02 good and now people are copying it you
232:04 know baby do you want to tell people are
232:06 talking about the Trump plan gee why do
232:08 we do that uh would you like to answer
232:10 that question i I think what the
232:12 president talked about is first of all
232:14 to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
232:17 closed in any other place including in
232:20 arenas of battle i mean whether it's
232:22 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
232:25 people could leave gaza was the only
232:28 place where they locked them in we
232:30 didn't lock them in they're locked in
232:32 and what is wrong with giving people a
232:35 choice now we've been talking uh
232:37 including over lunch about some
232:39 countries are won't go into them right
232:42 now that are saying you know if Gazans
232:45 want to leave we want to take them in
232:47 and I think this is this is the right
232:50 thing to do if you give you know it's
232:52 going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
232:54 the meantime people can have an option
232:56 president has a vision countries are
232:58 responding to that vision we're working
233:00 on it i hope we'll have good news for
233:02 you people I will say people love excuse
233:05 me people really do love that vision uh
233:08 it's a long-term vision but so
233:10 importantly is to have that be a a safe
233:14 field because you're right smack in the
233:16 middle of the Middle East you're right
233:18 along Israel it should have never ever
233:20 been given away shouldn't have been
233:22 given away by Israel i don't know why
233:24 they did it i mean I do know why because
233:26 they were promised peace but that didn't
233:27 work out too well because it's one of
233:30 the most dangerous pieces of land
233:31 anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
233:34 most dangerous places in the world so
233:36 they gave it away for good intention and
233:38 it it didn't work out that way and uh a
233:42 lot of people like my concept but you
233:44 know there are other concepts that I
233:46 like too and there are some concepts I
233:48 don't like you know what I don't like
233:49 the way it is now because right now it's
233:51 a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
233:55 talk a little bit about Thank you sir
233:57 can you talk a little bit about uh your
233:59 meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
234:00 Putin do you still plan to meet with him
234:03 could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
234:05 maybe could I elaborate as well a little
234:06 bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
234:08 sir so uh the reason we're not talking
234:12 about tariffs with Russia is because
234:13 we're not doing business essentially
234:15 with Russia because they're in a war and
234:18 I'm not happy about what's going on with
234:21 uh with the bombing because they're
234:23 bombing like crazy right now they're
234:25 bombing i don't know what's happening
234:27 there that's not a good situation so
234:29 we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
234:32 with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
234:34 close but I'm not happy with all the
234:36 bombing that's going on the last uh week
234:38 or so horrible it's a horrible thing
234:42 it's a horrible thing
234:48 to get below 10%
234:51 in in terms of tariffs
234:54 look we've been ripped off and taken
234:57 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
235:02 reason we got ripped off and the way
235:04 they did it was tariffs they were
235:06 charged tariffs massive numbers of
235:08 dollars and when you look at uh China
235:12 when I took over it was at $57 billion
235:16 dollars they were making i call it
235:18 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
235:20 mean anything having a surplus means a
235:22 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
235:24 profit or loss statement and when I took
235:26 over was 57 billion dollars that China
235:31 with this is originally first term and
235:34 we were very very tough on them because
235:37 they were taking that money and they
235:39 were building a military with it then
235:41 when Biden came in he let him get away
235:43 with murder he had no idea I'll tell you
235:45 what that man had no idea what was
235:46 happening whether it was the border or
235:48 China or anything else he had no idea
235:50 what was going on and they got they went
235:54 wild china went wild and the money they
235:57 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
236:00 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
236:02 along with China if we do that's great
236:03 and if we don't that's okay too but we
236:06 can't let that continue because that's a
236:08 that's an abuse they abused the poor
236:12 people that sat in the seat that poor
236:13 Biden he was abused by them they took
236:16 advantage of them and I'm surprised you
236:19 know they have smart people they were
236:20 radical left lunatics but they're smart
236:23 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
236:25 you know to to happen but uh we are
236:28 going to bring great trade and we're
236:31 going to be fair to other countries and
236:33 I I will say this uh virtually every
236:37 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
236:40 do what I did over the last couple of
236:42 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
236:45 negotiate we would have gone to these
236:47 countries you want to talk and they were
236:48 well we don't want to talk now they're
236:50 coming to us they're offering things
236:53 like even BB and this is unrelated
236:55 because it's a different kind of a
236:57 relationship but he started off our
236:59 conversation today that he's cutting all
237:01 of the tariffs he's cutting everything
237:03 he's going to get down to a free base
237:04 he's going to do things that in all
237:07 fairness other countries if they said
237:09 that would have never even thought about
237:11 doing it now they're offering things to
237:13 us that we would have never even thought
237:17 of asking them for because they're
237:20 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
237:23 is that they've taken advantage of us
237:25 and we finally fought back tariffs will
237:28 make this country very rich we're rich
237:30 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
237:32 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
237:36 to get rid of it and we can do it
237:38 quickly with proper deals so when
237:43 countries don't allow us to sell our
237:45 product but we allow them to sell their
237:47 product when they charge us massive
237:50 amounts of money for the privilege of
237:51 going into their country those days are
237:54 over okay
237:58 yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so
238:02 surprised mr president um on Iran uh two
238:06 questions please first you can give us
238:08 more details about where the meeting on
238:10 Saturday is going i can't tell you that
238:11 i I can just tell you there's a major
238:13 meeting going on between us and Iran and
238:18 that'll take place on Saturday and it's
238:19 at top level and second question about
238:22 this um a lot of people think that those
238:25 talks are not going to lead anywhere
238:27 because the
238:29 may I think that's a possibility fails
238:32 if diplomacy fails is the United States
238:35 under your leadership ready to take
238:37 military action to destroy the Iranian
238:40 nuclear program program and remove this
238:42 threat
238:44 i think if the talks aren't successful
238:47 with
238:48 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
238:50 great danger and I hate to say it great
238:53 danger because they can't have a nuclear
238:55 weapon you know it's not a complicated
238:58 uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear
239:01 weapon that's all there is can't have it
239:04 right now we have countries that have
239:06 nuclear power that shouldn't have it but
239:09 uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate
239:11 out of that too as part of this later on
239:13 down the line but Iran cannot have a
239:16 nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't
239:21 successful I actually think it'll be a
239:23 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
239:26 yeah mr president yeah please mr
239:30 president was October 7th the death blow
239:32 of the two-state solution and would you
239:34 consider classifying the Palestinian
239:37 Authority as a terrorist organization
239:38 for its continued paper slay terror
239:40 financing payments so October 7th was a
239:43 horrible day that some people they they
239:46 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
239:48 from the standpoint of they do it
239:49 because they think it's good politically
239:51 but October I've seen the tapes i've
239:53 seen things that you don't want to see
239:55 october 7th was a horrible day and it
239:58 will go down as one of the really bad
240:01 days in the history of the world it was
240:03 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
240:07 happened and they grabbed some of these
240:09 people i'll give you an example when I
240:11 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
240:14 I said "So how many are there?"
240:17 "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
240:20 59." They sort of knew the territory
240:23 pretty good and I said "How are they
240:25 doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are
240:29 living the rest are dead." And these are
240:31 young people largely young people don't
240:33 die you know young people have an
240:36 amazing ability to live they can live
240:38 through horrible things but these are
240:41 young people and when they said that 24
240:44 are living and the rest are dead and you
240:46 know I've had parents come up Israeli
240:48 parents largely we have some Americans
240:51 and we had I guess we have one left alex
240:56 we have the one left but but I've had
240:59 Israeli parents come up to me at events
241:02 and say "My son is there." I said 'Well
241:05 how's he doing well he's dead but would
241:07 you do me the biggest favor ever could
241:10 you bring his body back home they talked
241:12 about a young dead boy and a young dead
241:16 girl like they were living and that
241:20 could have something to do with religion
241:22 that could have something to do with I
241:23 guess maybe any parent would be but I
241:26 was surprised they said "Sir my son is
241:29 dead it is just as important to bring
241:32 that body back home." I asked that
241:34 question as if he were alive so you have
241:38 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
241:40 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
241:43 thing that's happened these are young
241:45 largely young people some old ones too
241:47 frankly and those people have lived in
241:49 hell when they came off the second group
241:51 that came out they look like uh they
241:54 just got out of a concentration camp
241:56 they looked exactly like the pictures
241:58 that I'd see from the 1940s the
242:01 concentration
242:02 camps and then they got a little bit
242:05 better you know as But that second group
242:08 those people came out and I said "This
242:10 is unbelievable we're going back into a
242:12 a chapter in history that is one of the
242:15 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
242:23 years to
242:24 get fully up to speed in response to
242:27 these tariffs what happens in the
242:29 meantime should Americans be prepared
242:30 potentially for years
242:33 we have now uh seven trillion dollars
242:37 think of this 7 trillion of commitments
242:40 from companies wanting to go in from
242:42 Apple to many many companies many from
242:45 Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
242:48 course it takes Well are you asking me a
242:50 question or you telling me yeah it takes
242:52 time you know you got to build a thing
242:54 called a factory you have to build your
242:56 energy you have to do uh a lot of things
242:59 i'm giving them energy you know we're
243:01 going to let them build their own power
243:03 plants they'll pay their own Essentially
243:05 they're going to be in charge of the
243:06 power plant because our uh power is not
243:11 reliable enough you have a grid that's
243:12 old and susceptible to a lot of things
243:15 including bombing and weather and a lot
243:17 of other things and we're going to give
243:20 them record timing in terms of approvals
243:22 of electric plants most of them want to
243:24 build electric plants we need massive
243:26 amounts of electricity if we're going to
243:28 compete with China and others and
243:30 interestingly we're way ahead right now
243:32 in the AI race with China but the way we
243:35 lose that race is if we can't give them
243:37 electric but we have more plants being
243:40 built we have everything we're doing so
243:42 great and we want to keep it that way
243:45 and tariffs will be an important part of
243:47 it but one of the other things uh Lee
243:49 Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of
243:51 environmental protection and he's doing
243:54 very rapid approvals for people to get
243:57 for big companies to that are going to
243:59 build a plant that's going to cost
244:01 billions of dollars and we're going to
244:03 get them their approvals they have to be
244:05 environmentally perfect everything good
244:07 but they're going to be in record time a
244:08 matter of months versus a matter of many
244:11 many years
244:16 go ahead
244:18 yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
244:23 uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
244:27 Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
244:30 Syria what do you think do you think uh
244:32 Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
244:34 actually make it a better more peaceful
244:36 country or vice versa well I have uh
244:39 great relations with a man named Erdogan
244:41 have you heard of him and I happen to
244:43 like him and he likes me and I know the
244:45 press will get very angry he likes
244:47 Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
244:49 we've never had a problem and and we've
244:51 gone through a lot and we've never had a
244:53 problem we always got we as you remember
244:56 we got our minister back from Turkey you
244:58 remember that and uh this was a big deal
245:01 at the time and we got him back uh and I
245:05 told the prime minister I said just BB
245:09 if you have a problem with Turkey I
245:11 really think I'm going to be able to
245:12 work it out you know I have a very very
245:14 good relationship
245:16 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
245:19 I think we'll be able to work it out so
245:20 I hope that's not going to be a problem
245:22 i don't think it will be a problem now
245:24 with that being said I believe it was
245:26 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
245:29 it i said
245:31 "Congratulations you've done what
245:33 nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
245:35 you've taken over Syria with different
245:37 names but same thing." I said "You've
245:40 taken it over he's taken it over through
245:42 surrogates." He goes "No no no no no no
245:45 it was not me it was I said "It was
245:46 you." But that's okay you don't have to
245:49 say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay
245:51 but what he did he's look he's a tough
245:53 guy and he's very smart and uh he did
245:57 something that nobody was able to do you
245:59 know you got to hand it to him uh any
246:01 problem that you have with Turkey I
246:03 think I can solve i mean as long as
246:05 you're reasonable you have to be
246:07 reasonable we have to be reasonable
246:08 thank you very much everybody appreciate
246:23 standing with us you are a great great
246:26 champion of our alliance and uh you
246:30 actually do the things that you say you
246:33 do and I I think that people respect
246:35 that enormously i certainly do and
246:38 people of Israel do and I think the
246:39 Jewish people do as well we just saw
246:42 your representative in the the
246:44 Department of Justice fighting
246:47 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
246:49 international forums i just want you to
246:51 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
246:54 appreciated as you said we had the
246:56 opportunity to talk today about many
246:59 subjects uh first if I can mention
247:01 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
247:03 today uh I can tell you that I said to
247:07 the president a very simple thing
247:09 we will eliminate the trade deficit with
247:12 the United States we intend to do it
247:14 very quickly we think it's the right
247:16 thing to do and we're going to also
247:19 eliminate uh trade barriers variety of
247:22 trade barriers that have been put up
247:24 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
247:26 serve as a model for many countries who
247:30 ought to do the same i recognize the the
247:33 position of the United States it says
247:35 you know we're allowing other countries
247:38 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
247:41 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
247:43 trade champion and free trade has to be
247:45 fair trade and I think that's basically
247:48 uh the position that you have uh put
247:50 forward Mr president we are going to
247:52 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
247:55 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
247:58 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
248:01 we could affect this quickly and I hope
248:03 to bring a solution very quickly we're
248:05 not talking about intentions we're not
248:08 talking about uh you know just words
248:10 we're talking about results okay those
248:13 results are going to come back that's
248:14 the first Thank you very much that's
248:16 very nice thank you thank you Mr
248:18 president what about the hostages here
248:20 well the let him finish let him
248:23 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
248:26 the hostages
248:28 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
248:31 is a human story of un just unbearable
248:36 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
248:38 to them yesterday spoke to another one
248:42 when I was in Hungary before I came here
248:43 i speak to them every day they're in
248:46 agony the hostages are in agony and we
248:49 want to get them all out uh Steve
248:51 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
248:54 able representative helped us get a deal
248:56 that got 25 out we're working now on
248:59 another deal that we hope will succeed
249:01 uh and we're committed to getting all
249:03 the hostages out but also eliminating
249:06 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
249:11 and enabling the people of Gaza to
249:13 freely make a choice to go wherever they
249:16 want i mean they should have that choice
249:18 and the president put forward a vision a
249:20 bold vision which we discussed as well
249:24 including the uh countries that might uh
249:27 be amendable and are amendable to
249:30 accepting Palestinians of their free
249:32 choice if they choose to go there and I
249:34 think that's the second thing that we
249:36 discussed uh but the hostages came right
249:39 on top uh we also discussed the
249:42 situation uh in Syria
249:45 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
249:49 relations with Turkey that have
249:50 deteriorated and we don't want to see
249:52 Syria being used by anyone including
249:54 Turkey as a base for attack in Israel
249:57 turkey is
249:58 a country
250:00 that has a great relationship with the
250:03 United States the president has a
250:05 relationship with the leader of Turkey
250:07 we discussed how we can avoid this
250:09 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
250:13 think we can't a better interlocutor
250:16 than the president of the United States
250:17 for this purpose and of course we also
250:20 discussed Iran look we're both united in
250:23 the uh goal that Iran does not ever get
250:26 nuclear weapons if it can be done
250:28 diplomatically in a full way the way it
250:31 was done in Libya I think that would be
250:33 a good thing uh but whatever happens we
250:36 have to make sure that Iran does not
250:38 have nuclear weapons that's the end of
250:40 my speech mr
250:43 any we are we're having direct talks
250:46 with Wait a minute wait we're having
250:49 direct talks with Iran and uh they've
250:54 started it'll go on Saturday we have a
250:56 very big meeting and we'll see what can
250:58 happen and I think everybody agrees that
251:01 uh doing a deal would be
251:04 preferable to doing the obvious and the
251:07 obvious is not something that I want to
251:10 be involved with or frankly that Israel
251:13 wants to be involved with if they can
251:14 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
251:16 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
251:19 dangerous
251:20 territory and hopefully those talks will
251:23 be successful and I think it would be in
251:25 Iran's best interest if they are
251:27 successful we hope we hope that's going
251:30 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
251:33 good talks on a lot of things i
251:34 appreciate very much what you said about
251:35 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
251:37 taken advantage of by many countries
251:40 over the years and uh can't do it
251:43 anymore we just can't do it anymore we
251:44 can't be the stupid people anymore and
251:47 it's all because of the people that sat
251:50 in this seat right here not your seat
251:52 but this seat they allowed things to
251:54 happen to our country that they
251:56 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
251:57 trade and other things many other things
251:59 i mean look at what's happened with our
252:02 last president where he allowed millions
252:04 of people to come into our country with
252:05 an open border who would want an open
252:08 border how stupid is that but uh he
252:11 allowed millions and millions of people
252:14 and of the millions and I think it was
252:15 21 million people but let's say three of
252:18 them were serious criminals serious
252:20 murderers and drug dealers and gang
252:23 members and people from jails all the
252:25 jails emptied out right into our country
252:28 right along the open border on the on
252:30 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
252:33 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
252:35 but generally speaking on the southern
252:38 border and uh what a shame it is that we
252:41 are now working very hard to get them
252:43 out get the criminals out get the
252:44 murderers out the drug dealers the
252:47 mentally insane get them out they
252:49 dropped the mentally insane in our
252:51 country too and this was all done by the
252:53 Biden administration it's a disgrace
252:56 that we have to work so hard and then we
252:58 have judges that try and protect these
252:59 people but they didn't protect us when
253:01 the people were being let in but to get
253:03 them out is never easy with these people
253:06 so uh I think we're doing a great job
253:09 the border is the best it's ever been
253:11 it's even as strong as it was i had a
253:14 great solid border i think it might even
253:16 be tougher right now and stronger so
253:20 people are coming into our country but
253:21 they're coming in legally we have a
253:23 legal process and we have that moving
253:25 along properly because we need people to
253:27 come into our country but we want people
253:29 that can love our country and cherish
253:31 our country so that's where we are and
253:33 with that any questions
253:43 well we're not looking at that we have
253:45 many many uh countries that are coming
253:47 to negotiate deals with us and they're
253:50 going to be fair deals and in certain
253:53 cases they're going to be be paying
253:55 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
253:57 deals as you know I spoke this morning
254:00 with the prime minister of Japan and we
254:03 had a very good conversation they're
254:05 coming and I said "One thing you're
254:07 going to have to open up your country
254:08 because we sold no cars like zero cars
254:11 in Japan." And they sold millions of
254:14 cars into our country uh they don't
254:16 really take our agriculture a little bit
254:18 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
254:20 they don't take what they're supposed to
254:22 be taking so we have a great
254:24 relationship with Japan we're going to
254:25 keep it that way but they're coming in
254:26 to meet and other C countries are coming
254:29 in uh with China as you know against my
254:34 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
254:38 what their ridiculous tariffs were
254:40 already and I said if that tariff isn't
254:43 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
254:46 putting a 50% tariff on above the
254:49 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
254:52 for years is they become a rich country
254:53 because of people again that were in the
254:56 White House that allowed this to happen
254:58 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
255:00 year they'd make us on trade and it
255:03 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
255:05 great relationship with President Xi i
255:07 hope it's going to stay that way i have
255:09 great respect for China but they can't
255:11 do this we're just uh we're going to
255:13 have one shot at this and no other
255:16 president's going to do this what I'm
255:17 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
255:20 honor to do it because we have been just
255:23 just destroyed what they've done to our
255:25 system you know we have 36 trillion
255:28 dollars of debt for a reason and uh the
255:31 reason is that people allowed it to get
255:33 that way so we'll be uh talking to China
255:37 we'll be talking to a lot of different
255:39 countries and I think you know if if if
255:42 we can make a really fair deal and a
255:45 good deal for the United States not a
255:47 good deal for others this is America
255:49 first it's now America first and we
255:52 didn't put America first we put America
255:53 last the people that were in the Oval
255:56 Office put America last and we're not
255:58 going to stand for
256:04 Go ahead represent the US in the talks
256:07 go ahead um two questions do you expect
256:09 of these deals to be made before April
256:12 9th and secondly there have been some
256:13 mixed messages from your administration
256:15 you're talking about negotiations and
256:17 yet others in your administration are
256:19 saying that these tariffs are actually
256:20 permanent what is that well it could be
256:23 they can both be true there can be
256:26 permanent tariffs and there can also be
256:28 negotiations because there are things
256:30 that we need beyond tariffs we need open
256:32 borders you know we almost had a deal
256:34 with China where we're going to open up
256:36 China it was almost done some of you
256:38 remember it during my first term and it
256:40 was very disappointing we ended up
256:42 making a great deal $50 billion dollars
256:44 worth of product was sold 50 billion
256:47 you'd like that in Israel and I made
256:49 that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
256:51 wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
256:53 was that plus they were going to open up
256:56 China so that our companies could go
256:57 into China and compete with other
257:01 countries and China for the you know for
257:03 a large number of people and at the very
257:06 end that deal was terminated and we went
257:08 to a piece of the deal and there so
257:12 there are a lot of things outside of
257:13 tariffs but tariffs are very important
257:15 but there are a lot of things like
257:17 opening up countries that were totally
257:19 closed china's essentially a closed
257:21 country in fact it is a closed country
257:25 and what they do is they charge tariffs
257:27 so that if you if you sell cars or if
257:29 you sell anything uh nobody's going to
257:31 buy it because the price is out of
257:33 control but that's true with a lot of
257:35 other countries also so we're going to
257:37 get fair deals and good deals with every
257:39 country and if we don't we're going to
257:41 have nothing to do with them they're not
257:42 going to be allowed to participate in
257:44 the United States
257:56 relax we have time this gentleman is all
257:59 day long mr president many
258:02 of you go ahead
258:17 goodbye
258:36 talk about it for a second because a lot
258:38 of people are asking the Houthis we've
258:40 we've been very tough and very
258:42 successful
258:43 militarily uh we've
258:45 uh really damaged them badly these were
258:49 people shooting down ships and other
258:50 things by the way flying objects like
258:54 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
258:57 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
259:00 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
259:05 and and it's every night night after
259:09 night and we've gotten many of their
259:11 leaders and their experts they're
259:14 experts on missiles i mean they actually
259:16 make missiles nobody thought that but
259:18 they make missiles they're highly
259:20 sophisticated and they're very tough but
259:23 they've been uh very badly damaged
259:25 nobody else was able to do that but us
259:27 pete do you want to discuss that please
259:28 yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
259:31 for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
259:33 worse it's been a devastating campaign
259:36 whether it's underground facilities
259:38 weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
259:41 the open air defense assets we are not
259:43 going to relent and it's only to get
259:45 more unrelenting until the Houthis
259:47 declare they will stop shooting at our
259:49 ships and we've been very clear with the
259:51 Iranians as well uh they should not
259:55 continue to provide support to the
259:56 Houthis and that message has been made
259:58 very clear so we have a lot more options
260:01 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
260:03 know because we see the reports how
260:05 devastating this campaign has been in
260:06 them and we will not fight we have a
260:08 great military there's no military like
260:11 our military and despite Biden having
260:14 given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty
260:17 small piece it was a lot of our military
260:20 away in Afghanistan and one of the
260:23 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
260:25 most embarrassing situation we've ever
260:27 been involved in that that short period
260:30 of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
260:33 that was but uh left a lot of our
260:35 military behind left you see them in
260:38 their annual parades where they're
260:41 parading trucks that are armorplated and
260:43 different things that they can't but
260:44 it's many billions of dollars we left
260:46 behind but despite that uh we have a
260:50 tremendous military that was a very
260:52 small portion because we rebuilt the
260:54 military during my first term and uh we
260:58 uh we have great uh great things
261:00 happening with our military we also uh
261:03 essentially approved a budget which is
261:06 in the facility you'll like to hear this
261:08 of a trillion dollars$1 trillion dollars
261:11 and nobody's seen anything like it we
261:13 have to build our military and we're
261:15 very costconscious but the military is
261:18 something that we have to build and we
261:19 have to be strong because you got a lot
261:21 of bad forces out there now so we're
261:23 going to be approving a budget the uh
261:25 and I'm proud to say actually the
261:27 biggest one we've ever done for the
261:28 military we're cutting other things that
261:31 were uh under Doge but under a lot of
261:34 other when you look at uh a woman
261:37 getting $2 billion for environmental and
261:40 it had nothing to do with environmental
261:42 and they had $100 in the bank and they
261:44 give her two billion many many of those
261:47 cases all that stuff is going to be cut
261:49 out but we are getting a very very
261:51 powerful military we have things under
261:54 order now the likes of which we've never
261:56 had before we've never had the kind of
261:58 uh aircraft the kind of missiles or
262:02 anything that we have ordered and it's
262:05 in many ways too bad that we have to do
262:06 it because hopefully we're not going to
262:08 have to use it but the military is very
262:11 very powerful and uh it's going to
262:14 remain that way
262:21 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
262:23 you about this is the first time The
262:27 US with the Iranians is possible to give
262:30 us some more information at what level
262:33 high level very high level yeah we're
262:36 dealing with the Iranians we have a very
262:38 big meeting on Saturday and we're
262:40 dealing with them directly you know a
262:43 lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going
262:44 through surrogates or you're not dealing
262:46 directly you're dealing through other
262:47 countries." No we're dealing with them
262:49 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
262:51 be made that'll be great going to be It
262:54 would be really great for Iran i can
262:56 tell you that but hopefully we're not
262:58 going to have to get into that we we are
263:01 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
263:04 almost the highest level and we'll see
263:07 how it works out please how do you
263:08 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
263:10 don't drive US trading partners into the
263:14 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
263:16 about it i'm not worried about it if
263:17 they want to be in the hands of the US
263:19 they don't want to be in the hands of
263:20 the Chinese
263:22 uh the Chinese have turned out to be
263:24 really not very good at that uh people
263:27 that are with us they're with us but we
263:29 cannot be uh taken advantage of any
263:32 longer i used to watch these deals for
263:34 years i've been talking about it for
263:35 years you and I've been talking about it
263:37 for 35 years how our country is being
263:41 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
263:44 was Japan then it was something else
263:47 then it was another group then it was
263:48 China china's doing the the best job of
263:51 it frankly and it's just not going to
263:53 happen not going to happen
264:01 eu has said that they have offered zero
264:05 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
264:07 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
264:10 not the EU has been very tough over the
264:14 years it was I always say it was formed
264:17 to really do damage to the United States
264:20 in trade that's the reason it was formed
264:22 it was formed with all of the countries
264:24 from Europe i guess most of them not all
264:27 of them but most of them and they formed
264:29 together to uh create a little bit of a
264:32 monopoly situation to create a unified
264:34 force against the United States for
264:37 trade so they have uh NATO which is
264:40 largely the same countries and they uh
264:43 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
264:46 militarily until I got there you know I
264:48 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
264:51 from NATO where they paid NATO because
264:54 most of these nations weren't even
264:55 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
264:58 paying them to guard them militarily and
265:00 they're screwing us on trade so that's
265:02 not a good combination so now uh it's
265:06 really turned around it's the opposite
265:08 and the European Union's been very ne
265:11 very bad to us they don't take our cars
265:14 like Japan in that sense they don't take
265:16 our agricultural product they don't take
265:19 anything practically and yet they send
265:22 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
265:24 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
265:27 and millions of cars into the US but we
265:30 don't have a car that's been sold to the
265:33 European Union or other places but let's
265:35 go for the European Union and it's not
265:38 going to be that way it's got to be fair
265:40 reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
265:42 fair uh we have a deficit with the
265:45 European Union of $350
265:49 billion and it's going to disappear fast
265:52 and one of the reasons and one of the
265:54 ways that that can disappear easily and
265:56 quickly is they're going to have to buy
265:57 our energy from us because they need it
265:59 they're going to have to buy it from us
266:01 they can buy it we can knock off $350
266:03 billion in one week they have to buy and
266:06 commit to buy a like amount of energy
266:10 and we have that you know we have more
266:12 energy than any country in the world i
266:13 don't know if you know that this he
266:15 knows everything but the one thing he
266:17 may not know we have more energy than
266:18 any country in the world we have more of
266:21 every kind of energy every form of
266:23 energy from oil and gas to coal and
266:26 people talk about I call it beautiful
266:28 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
266:32 opening up a coal plant a week they
266:34 tried the windmills and it didn't work
266:36 they tried all the other solutions and
266:38 they were ready to go out of business
266:40 now they're doing a coal plant a week
266:42 china is now up to two coal plants that
266:45 uh they're opening two major coal plants
266:47 every single week in China all over
266:49 China and that we're not allowed to use
266:52 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
266:55 more than anybody else we have oil and
266:57 gas more than anybody else we have the
266:59 most energy of any country in the world
267:01 including Saudi Arabia including
267:02 everybody by a lot and I took it to
267:05 number one we were number three and I
267:07 took it to number one during my
267:09 administration
267:11 and the reason that we were hurt so
267:13 badly and the reason that we went into
267:15 such incredible inflation during Biden
267:18 is energy it was also their bad spending
267:21 but energy because they played around
267:24 with this incredible thing that we had
267:26 built this administration had built and
267:29 the energy cost went through the roof
267:31 and when that went up everything else
267:32 followed now if you look at what's
267:34 happening you're going to see this today
267:37 i said we're going to try and get
267:38 groceries down right oldfashioned term
267:40 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
267:44 got in the press went absolutely crazy
267:47 the first week they said "Eggs have
267:48 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
267:51 here tell me about it." And Brooke
267:53 Rollins and our team did a great job and
267:56 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
267:59 over the place and this was a problem
268:01 that somebody else would have taken a
268:03 long time to cure uh we have energy is
268:06 down we have interest rates are down we
268:09 have groceries meaning food is down we
268:12 have everything is down at levels that
268:14 nobody ever thought possible energy
268:16 looks like it's going to be in in the
268:19 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
268:21 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
268:27 are we're really doing amazing i mean
268:29 we're we're cutting prices because
268:32 prices got so high people couldn't live
268:34 i mean the prices for groceries the
268:36 prices for standard standard groceries
268:38 standard things were going through the
268:40 roof they couldn't live and now those
268:42 prices are coming down so call them
268:44 groceries but that's down energyy's down
268:47 and interest rates are down everything's
268:49 down and the interest rates the beauty
268:51 there is when we refinance debt you know
268:54 debts become such a big factor in this
268:56 country we're going to get we're going
268:57 to start paying debt off with tariffs
268:59 and other things but uh it's such a big
269:02 factor because the interest rates so
269:04 high well now that's coming way down so
269:06 our budget's going to look a lot better
269:08 because interest costs are way down and
269:11 I guess I've done that
269:17 many many Israelis are watching you now
269:19 on live show good what is your specific
269:22 i hope they like getting the hostages
269:24 out from the horrific captivity yeah we
269:26 are trying very hard to get the hostages
269:28 out uh we're looking at another
269:31 ceasefire we'll see what happens but we
269:34 have we want to get the hostages out the
269:36 Israeli people want the hostages out
269:39 more than anything they want the
269:40 hostages out this man is working very
269:43 hard with us to do that i mean I don't
269:45 know i hope he's being appreciated
269:47 because he's been a great leader he's
269:49 working very very hard on the hostages
269:50 and many other things and there are
269:53 plenty of things you have to work on
269:54 it's a It's a tough place in the world
269:56 isn't it i have a good partner yeah you
269:58 do have a good partner and so do we we
270:00 We're working very hard on the house
270:05 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
270:07 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
270:09 going to be more effective than than the
270:11 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
270:14 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
270:17 lot stronger but they were so happy when
270:20 we made that first deal because we did
270:22 get a lot out you know I had people
270:24 right in this office this beautiful oval
270:26 office they came in 10 people hostages
270:28 you know that and I said to them uh so
270:32 how was it and the stories they told me
270:34 i mean as an example I said to them "Was
270:38 there any sign of love you were there?"
270:41 10 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
270:44 representative did the Hamas show any
270:47 signs of like help or liking you did
270:51 they wink at you did they give you a
270:53 piece of bread extra did they give you a
270:56 meal on the side like you know you think
270:58 of doing like what happened in Germany
271:00 what happened elsewhere people would try
271:03 and help people that were in
271:04 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
271:08 said "All of them." I said "Did they
271:10 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
271:12 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
271:14 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
271:17 unbelievable and the lives you know they
271:20 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
271:22 was a pipe and they always thought they
271:24 were suffocating they were going to
271:25 suffocate and then they'd open up the
271:28 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
271:29 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
271:32 is bad but pipes are worse and the
271:35 stories I heard were incredible but I
271:37 just said was there any sign of
271:39 potential love or affection and there
271:41 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
271:43 me there was nothing like "Here take
271:45 this it's a little extra meal or
271:47 something." They lived like hell i I
271:50 don't know they seemed to be They were
271:52 amazing to me because they seemed to be
271:54 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
271:58 I guarantee underneath they have to be
272:00 scarred and one was there for
272:03 356 days another was there for about 180
272:07 days you know a long time these are
272:09 people that have been really really
272:12 horribly treated i've never seen
272:13 anything like it actually I was very
272:15 surprised to hear the answer
272:18 thank you Mr president are there two or
272:20 three countries that on your list that
272:23 you feel are farther along in their
272:25 tariffs lowered i think well I think
272:29 there are many that want to get rid of
272:31 tariffs right now uh European Union I
272:35 mean as badly as they've treated us
272:36 they've you know they've brought their
272:38 car tariffs essentially off i guess they
272:40 brought it down to two and a half and I
272:42 hear uh maybe to nothing but it's not
272:45 only tariffs it's nonmonetary tariffs
272:47 it's tariffs where they put things on
272:50 that make it impossible for you to sell
272:51 a car it's not a money thing it's they
272:53 make it so difficult the standards and
272:56 the tests uh they drop a bowling ball on
272:58 the top of your car from 20 feet up in
273:00 the air and if there's a little dent
273:02 they say no I'm sorry your car doesn't
273:04 qualify when the same car from Germany
273:07 or would dent likewise unless you're
273:09 going to have an army tank it's going to
273:11 dent so they come up with rules and
273:14 regulations that are uh just designed
273:17 for one reason that you can't sell your
273:19 product in those countries and and uh
273:22 we're not going to let that happen those
273:24 are called nonmonetary barriers they
273:27 make barriers that are so tough that
273:29 it's impossible to qualify so so tariffs
273:32 are a big part of it but but there's
273:35 another big part of it and that's
273:36 barriers they also do something else
273:39 they manipulate their currency and they
273:41 drive it down they want to drive it they
273:43 want to have low currencies you know uh
273:45 it sounds better to have a high currency
273:46 a strong dollar or whatever but uh they
273:50 bring their currency down and when it
273:53 competes with our currency it's very
273:54 hard to sell a tractor it's very hard to
273:57 sell product because their currency is
274:00 low and ours is much higher relatively
274:04 and so it makes it very hard i speak to
274:06 a lot of companies that do business
274:08 tractor companies and they say it's so
274:10 hard to sell because what they've done
274:13 is they've lowered the yen or they've
274:14 lowered the Juan or they've lowered
274:16 their currency so that it's very hard to
274:19 compete we don't want that either so we
274:22 have a lot of things that we're talking
274:24 about but we're going to fix it properly
274:26 and it's going to be fair to everybody
274:28 and in the end I think we're gonna have
274:30 a world that does a lot better you know
274:32 but they have to respect the United
274:33 States and and nobody but me would do
274:35 this nobody but me would do this you
274:37 know it's would be nice to serve a nice
274:40 easy term but we have an opportunity to
274:43 change the fabric of our country we have
274:45 an opportunity to reset the table on
274:47 trade we lose billions of dollars we
274:51 lose close to uh$ two trillion dollars a
274:54 year on trade we lose a trillion dollars
274:56 a year to China a trillion we lose
275:00 hundreds of billions of dollars a year
275:02 on trade to China we lose hundreds of
275:07 billions of dollars overall probably two
275:11 close to$2 trillion dollars why would we
275:14 do that number one why would we do that
275:16 and then you have to say is it
275:17 sustainable then you hear about all of
275:19 the people that say "Well deficits if we
275:21 have a deficit with a country or if the
275:23 country has a big surplus with us like
275:25 China has a massive surplus that they
275:27 take and they spend on their military."
275:29 Well we don't want that i don't want
275:31 them to take 500,600 billion dollars a
275:34 year and spend it on their military i
275:37 don't want them spending money on their
275:39 military and I shouldn't have to spend
275:40 money we shouldn't have to spend it
275:42 either because you know hopefully and I
275:44 said this to President Xi hopefully it's
275:46 money that we're never going to use in
275:48 other words because we're not going to
275:49 use those incredible weapons that we
275:51 have and that they have we don't want
275:54 that so uh it's going to be very
275:57 interesting it's it's the only chance
276:00 our pre our country will have to reset
276:03 the table because no other president
276:06 would be willing to do what I'm doing or
276:08 to even go through it now I don't mind
276:10 going through it because I see a
276:12 beautiful picture at the end uh but we
276:15 are making tremendous progress with a
276:18 lot of countries and the countries that
276:20 really took advantage of us are now
276:22 saying please negotiate you know why
276:24 because they're getting beaten badly
276:27 because of what's happening they're
276:29 getting beaten badly they're being
276:31 devalued as countries but it's the only
276:34 chance we're going to have to reset the
276:36 table on trade and when we do we're
276:38 going to come out unbelievably well
276:40 we're gonna have a strong country
276:41 economically again and we're going to
276:44 have those factories that are empty all
276:45 over the United States we've lost
276:48 90,000 plants and factories think of
276:52 this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible
276:54 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
276:58 which was by the way the worst trade
276:59 deal ever ever developed ever had by any
277:02 country anywhere nafta and I terminated
277:05 NAFTA everybody said it would be
277:06 impossible and I terminated through
277:08 Congress we terminated it you had to get
277:10 it through Congress it was a trap it was
277:13 a horrible thing and we got it
277:18 done problem is they cheat they cheat
277:21 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
277:24 just one of those things but we are
277:28 resetting a table and we're going to
277:29 have great trade and we're going to have
277:31 a very strong country our country is
277:33 going to be at a level that is as maybe
277:36 never been or maybe you know our country
277:38 was the strongest believe it or not from
277:41 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
277:45 tariff based we had no income tax then
277:48 in 1913 some genius came up with the
277:51 idea of let's charge the people of our
277:53 country not foreign countries that are
277:55 ripping off our country and the country
277:58 was never relatively was never that kind
278:02 of wealth we had so much wealth we
278:04 didn't know what to do with our money we
278:06 had meetings we had we had uh committees
278:09 and these committees worked tirelessly
278:12 to study one subject we have so much
278:15 money what are we going to do with it
278:17 who are we going to give it to and I
278:19 hope we're going to be in that position
278:20 again
278:25 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
278:27 your government put on Israeli boots 70%
278:29 on where on Israeli boots
278:33 well we're talking about a whole new
278:36 trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
278:39 we help Israel a lot you know we give
278:41 Israel 4 billion dollars a year that's a
278:43 lot congratulations by the way that's
278:46 pretty good but we give Israel billions
278:49 of dollars a year billions it's uh one
278:53 of the highest of And we give a lot of
278:55 We give a lot of countries money you
278:58 wouldn't believe if I said we give
279:00 Afghanistan a lot of money in it because
279:03 that was a Biden deal another Biden deal
279:04 not only did he embarrass us with that
279:06 but they give them billions of dollars
279:09 afghanistan right so uh but no we uh we
279:13 take good care of our friends and we
279:15 don't take care of our enemies we're not
279:16 taking care of our enemies anymore but
279:18 we do take care of our
279:21 friends from the Times of Israel the IDF
279:24 is fighting again in the Gaza Strip i
279:25 myself might be called up in a month do
279:27 you think that's the way to pressure
279:28 Hamas to get to a deal do you think
279:30 blocking humanitarian aid is also an
279:32 effective pressure well you know how I
279:33 feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
279:36 an incredible piece of important real
279:39 estate and I think it's something that
279:42 we would be involved in but you know
279:45 having a peace force like the United
279:47 States there controlling and owning the
279:49 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
279:51 right now all it is is for years and
279:54 years all I hear about is killing and
279:56 Hamas and problems and if you take the
279:59 people the Palestinians and move them
280:01 around to different countries and you
280:03 have plenty of countries that will do
280:05 that and you really have a freedom a
280:08 freedom zone you call it the freedom
280:10 zone a free zone a zone where people
280:13 aren't going to be killed every day
280:14 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
280:17 what I call it a great location that
280:19 nobody wants to live in because they
280:21 really don't and when they had good li
280:23 when they have good living real living
280:25 where Hamas and all of the the problems
280:28 they have the the level of debt on the
280:30 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
280:34 said it I I don't understand why Israel
280:37 ever gave it up israel owned it it
280:39 wasn't this man so I can say it he
280:41 wouldn't have given it up i know him
280:42 very well there's no way they took
280:45 oceanfront property and they gave it to
280:48 people for peace how did that work out
280:50 not good immigration sorry Mr president
280:53 is the immigration
280:56 which immigration gaza from Gaza all it
281:01 is is a a concept that I had that I
281:03 think is good and now people are copying
281:05 it you know baby do you want to tell
281:07 people are talking about the Trump plan
281:08 gee why do we do that uh would you like
281:11 to answer that question i I think what
281:13 the president talked about is first of
281:15 all to give people a choice gaza gazans
281:19 were closed in and any other place
281:21 including in arenas of battle i mean
281:23 whether it's Ukraine or Syria or any
281:26 other place people could leave gaza was
281:29 the only place where they locked them in
281:31 we didn't lock them in they're locked in
281:34 and what is wrong with giving people a
281:36 choice now we've been talking uh
281:39 including over lunch about some
281:41 countries are won't go into them right
281:43 now that are saying you know if Gazins
281:46 want to leave we want to take them in
281:49 and I think this is this is the right
281:51 thing to do if you give you know it's
281:53 going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
281:55 the meantime people can have an option
281:57 president has a vision countries are
281:59 responding to that vision we're working
282:01 on it i hope we'll have good news for
282:03 you people I will say people love excuse
282:07 me people really do love that vision uh
282:10 it's a long-term vision but so
282:12 importantly is to have that be a a safe
282:15 field because you're right smack in the
282:18 middle of the Middle East you're right
282:19 along Israel it should have never ever
282:22 been given away shouldn't have been
282:23 given away by Israel i don't know why
282:25 they did it i mean I do know why because
282:27 they were promised peace but that didn't
282:29 work out too well because it's one of
282:31 the most dangerous pieces of land
282:33 anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
282:35 most dangerous places in the world so
282:38 they gave it away for good intention and
282:40 it it didn't work out that way and uh a
282:43 lot of people like my concept but you
282:46 know there are other concepts that I
282:47 like too and there are some concepts I
282:49 don't like you know what I don't like
282:51 the way it is now because right now it's
282:53 a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
282:57 talk a little bit about Thank you sir
282:58 can you talk a little bit about uh your
283:00 meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
283:02 Putin do you still plan to meet with him
283:04 could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
283:06 maybe could I elaborate as well a little
283:08 bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
283:10 sir so uh the reason we're not talking
283:13 about tariffs with Russia is because
283:15 we're not doing business essentially
283:16 with Russia because they're in a war and
283:20 I'm not happy about what's going on with
283:22 uh with the bombing because they're
283:25 bombing like crazy right now they're
283:27 bombing i don't know what's happening
283:28 there that's not a good situation so
283:31 we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
283:33 with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
283:36 close but I'm not happy with all the
283:37 bombing that's going on the last uh week
283:40 or so horrible it's a horrible thing
283:43 it's a horrible thing
283:48 countries to get below 10%
283:52 in in terms of tariffs
283:55 look we've been ripped off and taken
283:58 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
284:03 reason we got ripped off and the way
284:05 they did it was tariffs they were
284:07 charged tariffs massive numbers of
284:10 dollars and when you look at uh China
284:14 when I took over it was at $57 billion
284:18 dollars they were making i call it
284:19 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
284:21 mean anything having a surplus means a
284:23 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
284:25 profit or loss statement and when I took
284:28 over was 57 billion dollars that China
284:32 with this is originally first term and
284:36 we were very very tough on them because
284:39 they were taking that money and they
284:40 were building a military with it then
284:42 when Biden came in he let him get away
284:44 with murder he had no idea I'll tell you
284:46 what that man had no idea what was
284:48 happening whether it was the border or
284:49 China or anything else he had no idea
284:52 what was going on and they got they went
284:56 wild china went wild and the money they
284:58 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
285:01 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
285:03 along with China if we do that's great
285:05 and if we don't that's okay too but we
285:07 can't let that continue because that's a
285:09 that's an abuse they abused the poor
285:13 people that's out of the seat that poor
285:15 Biden he was abused by them they took
285:18 advantage of them and I'm surprised you
285:20 know they have smart people they were
285:22 radical left lunatics but they're smart
285:24 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
285:26 you know to to happen but uh we are
285:30 going to bring great trade and we're
285:33 going to be fair to other countries and
285:34 I I will say this uh virtually every
285:38 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
285:42 do what I did over the last couple of
285:44 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
285:46 negotiate we would have gone to these
285:48 countries you want to talk and they were
285:50 well we don't want to talk now they're
285:52 coming to us they're offering things
285:55 like even BB and this is unrelated
285:57 because it's a different kind of a
285:58 relationship but he started off our
286:00 conversation today that he's cutting all
286:02 of the tariffs he's cutting everything
286:04 he's going to get down to a free base
286:06 he's going to do things that in all
286:08 fairness other countries if they said
286:10 that would have never even thought about
286:12 doing it now they're offering things to
286:15 us that we would have never even thought
286:18 of asking them for because they're
286:21 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
286:24 is that they've taken advantage of us
286:26 and we finally fought back tariffs will
286:29 make this country very rich we're rich
286:31 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
286:34 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
286:38 to get rid of it and we can do it
286:40 quickly with proper deals so when
286:45 countries don't allow us to sell our
286:47 product but we allow them to sell their
286:49 product when they charge us massive
286:51 amounts of money for the privilege of
286:53 going into their country those days are
286:55 over okay
287:00 yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so
287:04 surprised mr president um on Iran uh two
287:08 questions please first you can give us
287:09 more details about where the meeting on
287:11 Saturday is going i can't tell you that
287:13 i I can just tell you there's a major
287:15 meeting going on between us and Iran and
287:19 that'll take place on Saturday and it's
287:21 at top level and second question about
287:23 this um a lot of people think that those
287:27 talks are not going to lead anywhere
287:28 because the
287:30 may I think that's a possibility fails
287:33 if diplomacy fails is the United States
287:36 under your leadership ready to take
287:38 military action to destroy the Iranian
287:41 nuclear program program and remove this
287:43 threat
287:46 i think if the talks aren't successful
287:48 with
287:49 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
287:52 great danger and I hate to say it great
287:55 danger because they can't have a nuclear
287:56 weapon you know it's not a complicated
287:59 uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear
288:03 weapon that's all there is can't have it
288:05 right now we have countries that have
288:07 nuclear power that shouldn't have it but
288:10 uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate
288:13 out of that too as part of this later on
288:15 down the line but Iran cannot have a
288:18 nuclear weapon and if the talks are
288:22 successful I actually think it'll be a
288:25 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
288:27 yeah
288:30 manufacturing yeah please mr president
288:32 was October 7th the death blow of the
288:34 two-state solution would you consider
288:37 classifying the Palestinian Authority as
288:39 a terrorist organization for its
288:40 continued paper slay terror financing
288:42 payments so October 7th was a horrible
288:45 day that some people they they deny it
288:48 now I can't believe they deny it from
288:49 the standpoint of it they do it because
288:51 they think it's good politically but
288:53 October I've seen the tapes i've seen
288:55 things that you don't want to see
288:57 october 7th was a horrible day and it
288:59 will go down as one of the really bad
289:02 days in the history of the world it was
289:05 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
289:08 happened and they grabbed some of these
289:10 people i'll give you an example when I
289:13 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
289:16 I said "So how many are there?"
289:18 "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
289:22 59." They sort of knew the territory
289:24 pretty good and I said "How are they
289:27 doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are
289:30 living the rest are dead." And these are
289:33 young people largely young people don't
289:34 die you know young people have an
289:37 amazing ability to live they can live
289:40 through horrible things but these are
289:42 young people and when they said that 24
289:45 are living and the rest are dead and you
289:48 know I've had parents come up Israeli
289:50 parents largely we have some Americans
289:52 and we had I guess we have one left alex
289:57 we have the one left but but I've had
290:00 Israeli parents come up to me at events
290:03 and say "My son is there." I said "Well
290:06 how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but
290:08 would you do me the biggest favor ever
290:11 could you bring his body back home?"
290:13 They talked about a young dead boy and a
290:16 young dead girl like they were living
290:21 and that could have something to do with
290:22 religion that could have something to do
290:24 with I guess maybe any parent would be
290:26 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
290:30 son is
290:31 dead it is just as important to bring
290:34 that body back home." I asked that
290:36 question as if he were alive so you have
290:39 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
290:42 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
290:45 thing that's happened these are young
290:47 largely young people some old ones too
290:49 frankly and those people have lived in
290:51 hell when they came off the second group
290:53 that came out they look like uh they
290:55 just got out of a concentration camp
290:58 they looked exactly like the pictures
291:00 that I'd see from the 1940s the
291:02 concentration
291:03 camps and then they got a little bit
291:06 better you know as But that second group
291:09 those people came out and I said "This
291:11 is unbelievable we're going back into a
291:13 a chapter in history that is one of the
291:16 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
291:26 years fully up to speed in response to
291:28 these tariffs what happens in the
291:30 meantime should Americans be prepared
291:32 potentially for years
291:34 we have
291:36 now seven trillion dollars think of this
291:39 7 trillion of commitments from companies
291:43 wanting to go in from Apple to many many
291:45 companies that takes time many from
291:47 Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
291:50 course it takes Well are you asking me a
291:51 question or you telling me yeah it takes
291:53 time you know you got to build a thing
291:55 called a factory you have to build your
291:58 energy you have to do uh a lot of things
292:00 i'm giving them energy you know we're
292:02 going to let them build their own power
292:04 plants they'll pay their own essentially
292:06 they're going to be in charge of the
292:08 power plant because our uh power is not
292:12 reliable enough you have a grid that's
292:14 old and susceptible to a lot of things
292:17 including bombing and weather and a lot
292:19 of other things and we're going to give
292:21 them record timing in terms of approvals
292:24 of electric plants most of them want to
292:26 build electric plants we need massive
292:27 amounts of electricity if we're going to
292:29 compete with China and others and
292:32 interestingly we're way ahead right now
292:33 in the AI race with China but the way we
292:37 lose that race is if we can't give them
292:39 electric but we have more plants being
292:41 built we have everything we're doing so
292:44 great and we want to keep it that way
292:46 and tariffs will be an important part of
292:48 it but one of the other things uh Lee
292:51 Zeldon's doing a fantastic job head of
292:53 environmental protection and he's doing
292:56 very rapid approvals for people to get
292:58 for big companies to that are going to
293:00 build a plant that's going to cost
293:02 billions of dollars and we're going to
293:04 get them their approvals they have to be
293:06 environmentally perfect everything good
293:08 but they're going to be in record time a
293:10 matter of months versus a matter of many
293:13 many years
293:17 go ahead
293:19 yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
293:24 uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
293:28 Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
293:31 Syria what do you think do you think uh
293:34 Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
293:35 actually make it a better more peaceful
293:38 country or vice versa well I have uh
293:40 great relations with a man named Erdogan
293:42 have you heard of them and I happen to
293:45 like him and he likes me and I know the
293:46 press will get very angry he likes
293:48 Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
293:51 we've never had a problem and and we've
293:53 gone through a lot and we've never had a
293:54 problem we always got we as you remember
293:57 we got our minister back from Turkey you
294:00 remember that and uh this was a big deal
294:03 at the time and we got him back uh and I
294:07 told the prime minister I said just BB
294:11 if you have a problem with Turkey I
294:12 really think I'm going to be able to
294:14 work it out you know I have a very very
294:15 good relationship
294:17 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
294:20 I think we'll be able to work it out so
294:22 I hope that's not going to be a problem
294:23 i don't think it will be a problem now
294:25 with that being said I believe it was
294:27 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
294:31 it i said
294:32 "Congratulations you've done what
294:34 nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
294:36 you've taken over Syria with different
294:39 names but same thing." I said "You've
294:42 taken it over." He's taken it over
294:43 through surrogates he goes "No no no no
294:46 no no it was not me it was I said "It
294:48 was you." But that's okay you don't have
294:50 to say "Well it sort of maybe was me."
294:52 Okay but what he did he's look he's a
294:55 tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
294:58 did something that nobody was able to do
295:00 you know you got to hand it to him uh
295:02 any problem that you have with Turkey I
295:05 think I can solve i mean as long as
295:07 you're reasonable you have to be
295:08 reasonable we have to be reasonable
295:10 thank you very much everybody appreciate
295:12 thank you thank
295:24 you standing with us you are a great
295:27 great champion of our alliance and uh
295:32 you actually do the things that you say
295:34 you do and I I think that people respect
295:37 that enormously i certainly do and
295:39 people of Israel do and I think the
295:41 Jewish people do as well we just saw
295:44 your representative in the the
295:46 Department of Justice fighting
295:48 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
295:50 international forms i just want you to
295:53 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
295:55 appreciated as you said we had the
295:57 opportunity to talk today about many
296:00 subjects uh first if I can mention
296:03 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
296:04 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
296:08 to the president a very simple thing we
296:11 will eliminate the trade deficit with
296:13 the United States we intend to do it
296:16 very quickly we think it's the right
296:18 thing to do and we're going to also
296:20 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
296:23 trade barriers that have been put up
296:25 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
296:27 serve as a model for many countries who
296:31 ought to do the same i recognize the the
296:35 position of the United States it says
296:37 you know we're allowing other countries
296:39 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
296:42 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
296:44 trade champion and free trade has to be
296:46 fair trade and I think that's basically
296:49 uh the position that you have uh put
296:51 forward Mr president we are going to
296:54 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
296:57 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
296:59 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
297:02 we could affect this quickly and I hope
297:04 to bring a solution very quickly we're
297:07 not talking about intentions we're not
297:09 talking about uh you know just words
297:12 we're talking about results those
297:14 results are going to come back that's
297:16 the first Thank you very much that's
297:17 very nice thank you thank you Mr
297:19 president what about the hostages here
297:22 well let him let him finish let him
297:24 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
297:28 the hostages
297:30 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
297:32 is a human story of un just unbearable
297:37 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
297:40 to them yesterday spoke to another one
297:43 when I was in Hungary before I came here
297:45 i speak to them every day they're in
297:47 agony the hostages are in agony and we
297:50 want to get them all out uh Steve
297:53 Whitoff who was President Trump's very
297:55 able representative helped us get a deal
297:58 that got 25 out we're working now on
298:00 another deal that we hope will succeed
298:03 uh and we're committed to getting all
298:04 the hostages out but also eliminating
298:07 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
298:12 and enabling the people of Gaza to
298:15 freely make a choice to go wherever they
298:17 want i mean they should have that choice
298:20 and the president put forward a vision a
298:22 bold vision which we discussed as well
298:25 including the uh countries that might uh
298:29 be amendable and are amendable to
298:31 accepting Palestinians of their free
298:33 choice if they choose to go there and I
298:36 think that's the second thing that we
298:37 discussed uh but the hostages came right
298:40 on top uh we also discussed the
298:43 situation uh in Syria
298:46 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
298:50 relations with Turkey that have
298:52 deteriorated and we don't want to see
298:54 Syria being used by anyone including
298:56 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
298:58 turkey is
299:00 a country
299:02 that has a great relationship with the
299:05 United States the president has a
299:07 relationship with the leader of Turkey
299:09 we discussed how we can avoid this
299:11 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
299:14 think we can't have a better
299:16 interlocutor than the president of the
299:18 United States for this purpose and of
299:20 course we also discussed Iran look we're
299:23 both united in the uh goal that Iran
299:26 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
299:29 could be done diplomatically in a full
299:31 way the way it was done in Libya I think
299:34 that would be a good thing uh but
299:36 whatever happens we have to make sure
299:37 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
299:41 that's the end of my speech
299:44 mr we are we're having direct talks with
299:48 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
299:50 having direct talks with Iran and uh
299:54 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
299:57 have a very big meeting and we'll see
299:59 what can happen and I think everybody
300:02 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
300:05 preferable to doing the obvious and the
300:09 obvious is not something that I want to
300:11 be involved with or frankly that Israel
300:14 wants to be involved with if they can
300:16 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
300:17 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
300:21 dangerous
300:22 territory and hopefully those talks will
300:25 be successful and I think it would be in
300:27 Iran's best interest if they are
300:29 successful we hope we hope that's going
300:31 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
300:34 good talks on a lot of things i
300:35 appreciate very much what you said about
300:37 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
300:39 taken advantage of by many countries
300:42 over the years and uh can't do it
300:44 anymore we just can't do it anymore we
300:46 can't be the stupid people anymore and
300:48 it's all because of the people that sat
300:51 in this seat right here not your seat
300:53 but this seat they allowed things to
300:56 happen to our country that they
300:57 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
300:59 trade and other things many other things
301:01 i mean look at what's happened with our
301:03 last president where he allowed millions
301:05 of people to come into our country with
301:07 an open border who would want an open
301:10 border how stupid is that but uh he
301:13 allowed millions and millions of people
301:15 and of the millions and I think it was
301:17 21 million people but let's say three of
301:20 them were serious criminals serious
301:22 murderers and drug dealers and gang
301:24 members and people from jails all the
301:26 jails emptied out right into our country
301:29 right along the open border on the on
301:32 Mexico generally to Mexico okay they
301:34 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
301:37 but generally speaking on the southern
301:40 border and uh what a shame it is that we
301:42 are now working very hard to get them
301:44 out get the criminals out get the
301:46 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
301:48 mentally insane get them out they drop
301:51 the mentally insane in our country too
301:53 and this was all done by the Biden
301:55 administration it's a disgrace that we
301:58 have to work so hard and then we have
301:59 judges that try and protect these people
302:01 but they didn't protect us when the
302:03 people were being let in but to get them
302:05 out is never easy with these people so
302:08 uh I think we're doing a great job the
302:10 border is the best it's ever been even
302:14 as strong as it was I had a great solid
302:16 border i think it might even be tougher
302:18 right now and stronger so people are
302:22 coming into our country but they're
302:23 coming in legally we have a legal
302:24 process and we have that moving along
302:27 properly because we need people to come
302:28 into our country but we want people that
302:31 can love our country and cherish our
302:33 country so that's where we are and with
302:35 that any questions
302:41 would be open to a pause in terrorists
302:43 to allow for negotiations well we're not
302:46 looking at that we have many many uh
302:48 countries that are coming to negotiate
302:50 deals with us and they're going to be
302:52 fair deals and in certain cases they're
302:55 going to pay be paying substantial
302:57 tariffs they'll be fair deals as you
303:00 know I spoke this morning with the prime
303:02 minister of Japan and we had a very good
303:05 conversation they're coming and I said
303:08 "One thing you're going to have to open
303:09 up your country because we sold no cars
303:11 like zero cars in Japan and they sold
303:15 millions of cars into our country uh
303:17 they don't really take our agriculture a
303:20 little bit of it just to keep us
303:21 slightly happy but they don't take what
303:23 they're supposed to be taking so we have
303:25 a great relationship with Japan we're
303:26 going to keep it that way but they're
303:28 coming in to meet and other C countries
303:30 are coming in uh with China as you know
303:34 against my statement they put a 34%
303:38 tariff on above what their ridiculous
303:41 tariffs were already and I said if that
303:44 tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at
303:46 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on
303:49 above the tariffs that we put on so
303:52 they've gone for years they become a
303:54 rich country because of people again
303:56 that were in the White House that
303:58 allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
304:01 billions of dollars a year they'd make
304:02 us on trade and it shouldn't be that way
304:05 and uh I have a great relationship with
304:08 President Xi i hope it's going to stay
304:09 that way i have great respect for China
304:12 but they can't do this we're just uh
304:14 we're going to have one shot at this and
304:17 no other president's going to do this
304:18 what I'm doing and I'll tell you what
304:21 it's an honor to do it because we have
304:23 been just just destroyed what they've
304:26 done to our system you know we have 36
304:29 trillion dollars of debt for a reason
304:31 and uh the reason is that people allowed
304:34 it to get that way so we'll be uh
304:37 talking to China we'll be talking to a
304:40 lot of different countries and I think
304:42 you know if if if we can make a really
304:46 fair deal and a good deal for the United
304:48 States not a good deal for others this
304:49 is America first it's now America first
304:53 and we didn't put America first we put
304:54 America last the people that were in the
304:57 Oval Office put America last and we're
304:59 not going to stand for
305:05 Go ahead represent the US in the talks
305:08 go ahead um two questions do you expect
305:11 of these deals to be made before April
305:13 9th and secondly there have been some
305:15 mixed messages from your administration
305:17 you're talking about negotiations and
305:19 yet others in your administration are
305:20 saying that these tariffs are actually
305:22 permanent what is that well it could be
305:24 they can both be true there can be
305:27 permanent tariffs and there can also be
305:29 negotiations because there are things
305:31 that we need beyond tariffs we need open
305:34 borders you know we almost had a deal
305:35 with China where we're going to open up
305:37 China it was almost done some of you
305:39 remember it during my first term and it
305:42 was very disappointing we ended up
305:43 making a great deal 50 billion dollars
305:45 worth of product was sold 50 billion
305:48 you'd like that in Israel and I made
305:50 that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
305:52 wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
305:54 was that plus they were going to open up
305:57 China so that our companies could go
305:59 into China and compete with other
306:02 countries and China for the you know for
306:04 a large number of people and at the very
306:07 end that deal was terminated and we went
306:10 to a piece of the deal and there so
306:13 there are a lot of things outside of
306:15 tariffs but tariffs are very important
306:17 but there are a lot of things like
306:18 opening up countries that were totally
306:20 closed china's essentially a closed
306:23 country in fact it is a closed country
306:26 and what they do is they charge tariffs
306:28 so that if you if you sell cars or if
306:30 you sell anything uh nobody's going to
306:33 buy it because the price is out of
306:34 control but that's true with a lot of
306:36 other countries also so we're going to
306:38 get fair deals and good deals with every
306:41 country and if we don't we're going to
306:42 have nothing to do with them they're not
306:44 going to be allowed to participate in
306:45 the United States
306:57 relax we have time this gentleman is all
307:00 day long mr
307:02 many
307:03 of you go ahead
307:37 maybe talk about it for a second because
307:39 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
307:41 we've we've been very tough and very
307:43 successful
307:45 militarily we've
307:47 uh really damaged them badly these were
307:50 people shooting down ships and other
307:52 things by the way flying objects like
307:55 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
307:59 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
308:01 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
308:07 and and it's every night night after
308:10 night and we've gotten many of their
308:13 leaders and their experts they're
308:15 experts on missiles i mean they actually
308:17 make missiles nobody thought that but
308:19 they make missiles highly sophisticated
308:22 and they're very tough but they've been
308:25 uh very badly damaged nobody else was
308:27 able to do that but us pete do you want
308:29 to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
308:31 been a bad three weeks for the Houthis
308:34 uh and it's about to get worse it's been
308:36 a devastating campaign whether it's
308:38 underground facilities weapons
308:40 manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
308:43 air defense assets we are not going to
308:45 relent and it's only to get more
308:47 unrelenting until the Houthis declare
308:49 they will stop shooting at our ships and
308:51 we've been very clear with the Iranians
308:53 as well uh they uh they should not
308:56 continue to provide support to the
308:58 Houthis and that message has been made
309:00 very clear so we have a lot more options
309:02 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
309:04 know because we see the reports how
309:06 devastating this campaign has been in
309:08 them and we will not run we have a great
309:10 military there's no military like our
309:13 military and despite Biden having given
309:16 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
309:19 piece but it was a lot of our military
309:22 away in Afghanistan and one of the
309:24 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
309:27 most embarrassing situation we've ever
309:29 been involved in that that short period
309:31 of time in
309:32 Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
309:36 uh left a lot of our military behind
309:38 left left left you see them in their
309:40 annual parades where they're parading
309:43 trucks that are armorplated and
309:44 different things that they can't but
309:46 it's many billions of dollars we left
309:48 behind but despite that uh we have a
309:51 tremendous military that was a very
309:53 small portion because we rebuilt the
309:55 military during my first term and uh we
309:59 uh we have great uh great things
310:01 happening with our military we also uh
310:04 essentially approved a budget which is
310:07 in the facility you'll like to hear this
310:09 of a trillion dollars $1
310:11 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
310:14 it we have to build our military and
310:17 we're very costconscious but the
310:19 military is something that we have to
310:20 build and we have to be strong because
310:22 you got a lot of bad forces out there
310:23 now so we're going to be approving a
310:25 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
310:28 actually the biggest one we've ever done
310:30 for the military we're cutting other
310:32 things that were uh under Doge but under
310:35 a lot of other when you look at uh a
310:38 woman getting $2 billion for
310:41 environmental and it had nothing to do
310:42 with environmental and they had $100 in
310:45 the bank and they give her two billion
310:47 many many of those cases all that stuff
310:49 is going to be cut out but we are
310:51 getting a very very powerful military we
310:54 have things under order now the likes of
310:57 which we've never had before we've never
310:58 had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
311:02 missiles or anything that we have
311:05 ordered and it's in many ways too bad
311:07 that we have to do it because hopefully
311:09 we're not going to have to use it but
311:11 the military is very very powerful and
311:14 uh it's going to remain that way
311:22 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
311:25 you about because this is the first time
311:30 USians is it possible to give us some
311:32 more information at what level high
311:35 level very high level yeah we're dealing
311:38 with the Iranians we have a very big
311:40 meeting on Saturday and we're dealing
311:42 with them directly you know a lot of
311:44 people say "Oh maybe you're going
311:46 through surrogates or you're not dealing
311:47 directly you're dealing through other
311:49 countries." No we're dealing with them
311:50 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
311:53 be made that'll be great going to be it
311:55 would be really great for Iran i can
311:57 tell you that but hopefully we're not
312:00 going to have to get into that we we are
312:02 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
312:06 almost the highest level and we'll see
312:08 how it works out please how do you
312:10 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
312:12 don't drive US trading partners into the
312:15 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
312:17 about it i'm not worried about it they
312:19 want to be in the hands of the US they
312:21 don't want to be in the hands of the
312:22 Chinese uh the Chinese have turned out
312:25 to be really not very good at that uh
312:28 people that are with us they're with us
312:30 but we cannot be uh taken advantage of
312:33 any longer i used to watch these deals
312:35 for years i've been talking about it for
312:37 years you and I've been talking about it
312:38 for 35 years how our country is being
312:42 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
312:45 was Japan then it was something else
312:48 then it was another group then it was
312:50 China china's doing the the best job of
312:52 it frankly and it's just not going to
312:55 happen not going to happen
313:06 zero for zero tariffs on cars and
313:08 industrial goods is that not Well the EU
313:11 no it's not the EU has been very tough
313:15 over the years it was I always say it
313:17 was formed to really do damage to the
313:20 United States in trade that's the reason
313:23 it was formed it was formed with all of
313:25 the countries from Europe i guess most
313:27 of them not all of them but most of them
313:30 and they formed together to uh create a
313:33 little bit of a monopoly situation to
313:35 create a unified force against the
313:37 United States for trade so they have uh
313:40 NATO which is largely the same countries
313:43 and they uh took advantage of us
313:47 dollar-wise and militarily until I got
313:49 there you know I I was able to get $600
313:51 billion dollars from NATO where they
313:54 paid NATO because most of these nations
313:56 weren't even paying we were paying for
313:58 NATO so we're paying them to guard them
314:00 militarily and they're screwing us on
314:02 trade so that's not a good combination
314:05 so now uh it's really turned around it's
314:09 the opposite and the European Union's
314:11 been very ne very bad to us they don't
314:14 take our cars like Japan in that sense
314:17 they don't take our agricultural product
314:19 they don't take anything practically and
314:22 yet they send millions of cars in a year
314:25 mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're
314:28 sending millions and millions of cars
314:30 into the US but we don't have a car
314:33 that's been sold to the European Union
314:35 or other places but let's go for the
314:37 European Union and it's not going to be
314:40 that way it's got to be fair reciprocal
314:43 it's got to be fair it's not fair uh we
314:45 have a deficit with the European Union
314:47 of $350
314:50 billion and it's going to disappear fast
314:53 and one of the reasons and one of the
314:55 ways that that can disappear easily and
314:57 quickly is they're going to have to buy
314:59 our energy from us because they need it
315:01 they're going to have to buy it from us
315:02 they can buy it we can knock off $350
315:05 billion in one week they have to buy and
315:08 commit to buy a like amount of energy
315:11 and we have that you know we have more
315:13 energy than any country in the world i
315:15 don't know if you know that he knows
315:16 everything but the one thing he may not
315:18 know we have more energy than any
315:20 country in the world we have more of
315:22 every kind of energy every form of
315:24 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
315:27 people talk about I call it beautiful
315:29 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
315:34 opening up a coal plant a week they
315:36 tried the windmills and it didn't work
315:38 they tried all the other solutions and
315:40 they were ready to go out of business
315:41 now they're doing a coal plant a week
315:43 china is now up to two coal plants and
315:46 uh they're opening two major coal plants
315:49 every single week in China all over
315:51 China and that we're not allowed to use
315:53 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
315:56 more than anybody else we have oil and
315:58 gas more than anybody else we have the
316:00 most energy of any country in the world
316:02 including Saudi Arabia including
316:04 everybody by a lot and I took it to
316:07 number one we were number three and I
316:09 took it to number one during my
316:10 administration
316:12 and the reason that we were hurt so
316:14 badly and the reason that we went into
316:16 such incredible inflation during Biden
316:19 is energy it was also their bad spending
316:22 but energy because they played around
316:25 with this incredible thing that we had
316:28 built this administration had built and
316:30 the energy cost went through the roof
316:32 and when that went up everything else
316:34 followed now if you look at what's
316:36 happening you're going to see this today
316:38 i said we're going to try and get
316:40 groceries down right oldfashioned term
316:42 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
316:45 got in the press went absolutely crazy
316:48 the first week they said "Eggs have
316:50 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
316:52 here tell me about it." And Brooke
316:55 Rollins and our team did a great job and
316:57 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
317:00 over the place and this was a problem
317:02 that somebody else would have taken a
317:04 long time to cure uh we have energy is
317:08 down we have interest rates are down we
317:10 have groceries meaning food is down we
317:14 have everything is down at levels that
317:16 nobody ever thought possible energy
317:18 looks like it's going to be in in the
317:20 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
317:23 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
317:28 are we're really doing amazing i mean
317:31 we're we're cutting prices because
317:33 prices got so high people couldn't live
317:35 i mean the prices for groceries the
317:37 prices for standard standard groceries
317:40 standard things were going through the
317:42 roof they couldn't live and now those
317:44 prices are coming down so call them
317:46 groceries but that's down energyy's down
317:48 and interest rates are down everything's
317:51 down and the interest rates the beauty
317:53 there is when we refinance debt you know
317:55 debts become such a big factor in this
317:58 country we're going to get we're going
317:59 to start paying debt off with tariffs
318:01 and other things but uh it's such a big
318:03 factor because the interest rates so
318:05 high well now that's coming way down so
318:08 our budget's going to look a lot better
318:09 because interest costs are way down and
318:13 I guess I've done that
318:18 many Israelis are watching you now our
318:21 last show good what is your specific way
318:24 to getting the hostages out from the
318:26 horrific captivity yeah we are trying
318:28 very hard to get the hostages out uh
318:31 we're looking at another ceasefire we'll
318:34 see what happens but we have we want to
318:36 get the hostages out the Israeli people
318:38 want the hostages out more than anything
318:41 they want the hostages out this man is
318:44 working very hard with us to do that i
318:46 mean I don't know i hope he's being
318:47 appreciated because he's been a great
318:49 leader he's working very very hard on
318:51 the hostages and many other things and
318:54 there are plenty of things you have to
318:55 work on it's a it's a tough place in the
318:58 world i have a good partner yeah you do
319:00 have a good partner and so do we we
319:02 we're working very hard on the hospital
319:06 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
319:08 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
319:11 going to be more effective than the
319:13 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
319:16 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
319:18 lot stronger but they were so happy when
319:21 we made that first deal because we did
319:23 get a lot out you know I had people
319:26 right in this office this beautiful oval
319:27 office they came in 10 people hostages
319:30 you know that and I said to them uh so
319:33 how was it and the stories they told me
319:36 I mean as an example I said to them was
319:39 there any sign of love you were there 10
319:43 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
319:45 representative did the Hamas show any
319:49 signs of like help or liking you did
319:53 they wink at you did they give you a
319:54 piece of bread extra did they give you a
319:57 meal on the side like you know you think
319:59 of doing like what happened in Germany
320:02 what happened elsewhere people would try
320:04 and help people that were in
320:06 unbelievable distress they said no i
320:09 said "All of them." I said "Did they
320:11 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
320:13 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
320:15 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
320:19 unbelievable and the lives you know they
320:21 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
320:23 was a pipe and they always thought they
320:25 were suffocating they were going to
320:27 suffocate and then they'd open up the
320:29 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
320:31 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
320:33 is bad but pipes are worse and the
320:36 stories I heard were incredible but I
320:38 just said "Was there any sign of
320:40 potential love or affection?" And there
320:42 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
320:45 me there was nothing like "Here take
320:47 this it's a little extra meal or
320:49 something." They lived like hell i I
320:51 don't know they seem to be They were
320:54 amazing to me because they seemed to be
320:56 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
320:59 I guarantee underneath they have to be
321:01 scarred and one was there for
321:04 356 days another was there for about 180
321:08 days you know long time these are people
321:11 that have been really really horribly
321:13 treated i've never seen anything like it
321:15 actually I was very surprised to hear
321:17 the answer
321:19 thank you Mr president are there two or
321:22 three countries that on your list that
321:24 you feel are farther along in getting
321:26 their tariffs lowered i think it Well I
321:30 think there are many that want to get
321:32 rid of tariffs right now uh European
321:35 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
321:38 us they've you know they've brought
321:39 their car tariffs essentially off i
321:41 guess they brought it down to two and a
321:43 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
321:46 it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
321:48 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
321:51 things on that make it impossible for
321:52 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
321:54 it's they make it so difficult the
321:56 standards and the tests they drop a
321:59 bowling ball on the top of your car from
322:01 20 ft up in the air and if there's a
322:03 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
322:05 car doesn't qualify when the same car
322:08 from Germany or would dent likewise
322:10 unless you're going to have an army tank
322:12 it's going to dent so they come up with
322:14 rules and regulations that are uh just
322:18 designed for one reason that you can't
322:20 sell your product in those countries and
322:23 and We're not going to let that happen
322:25 those are called nonmonetary barriers
322:28 they make barriers that are so tough
322:30 that it's impossible to qualify so so
322:33 tariffs are a big part of it but but
322:35 there's another big part of it and
322:38 that's barriers they also do something
322:40 else they manipulate their currency and
322:42 they drive it down they want to drive it
322:44 they want to have low currencies you
322:46 know uh it sounds better to have a high
322:48 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
322:51 uh they bring their currency down and
322:54 when it competes with our currency it's
322:56 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
322:58 hard to sell product because their
323:01 currency is low and ours is much higher
323:04 relatively and so it makes it very hard
323:07 i speak to a lot of companies that do
323:09 business tractor companies and they say
323:11 it's so hard to sell because what
323:14 they've done is they've lowered the yen
323:15 or they've lowered the Juan or they've
323:18 lowered their currency so that it's very
323:20 hard to compete we don't want that
323:22 either so we have a lot of things that
323:25 we're talking about but we're going to
323:26 fix it properly and it's going to be
323:28 fair to everybody and in the end I think
323:31 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
323:32 better you know but they have to respect
323:34 the United States and and nobody but me
323:36 would do this nobody but me would do
323:38 this you know it's would be nice to
323:40 serve a nice easy term but we have an
323:43 opportunity to change the fabric of our
323:45 country we have an opportunity to reset
323:48 the table on trade we lose billions of
323:52 dollars we lose close to uh$ two
323:55 trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
323:57 a trillion dollars a year to China a
323:59 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
324:03 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
324:07 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
324:11 probably two close to$ two trillion
324:13 dollars why would we do that number one
324:16 why would we do that and then you have
324:18 to say is it sustainable then you hear
324:19 about all of the people that say "Well
324:21 deficits if we have a deficit with a
324:23 country or if the country has a big
324:25 surplus with us like China has a massive
324:28 surplus that they take and they spend on
324:30 their military." Well we don't want that
324:32 i don't want them to take 500 600
324:34 billion dollars a year and spend it on
324:37 their military i don't want them
324:39 spending money on their military and I
324:41 shouldn't have to spend money we
324:42 shouldn't have to spend it either
324:44 because you know hopefully and I said
324:46 this to President Xi hopefully it's
324:47 money that we're never going to use in
324:50 other words because we're not going to
324:51 use those incredible weapons that we
324:53 have and that they have we don't want
324:55 that so uh it's going to be very
324:58 interesting it's it's the only chance
325:01 our pre our country will have to reset
325:05 the table because no other president
325:07 would be willing to do what I'm doing or
325:10 to even go through it now I don't mind
325:12 going through it because I see a
325:14 beautiful picture at the end uh but we
325:17 are making tremendous progress with a
325:19 lot of countries and the countries that
325:21 really took advantage of us are now
325:23 saying please negotiate you know why
325:26 because they're getting beaten badly
325:29 because of what's happening they're
325:30 getting beaten badly they're being
325:32 devalued as countries but it's the only
325:35 chance we're going to have to reset the
325:37 table on trade and when we do we're
325:40 going to come out unbelievably well
325:41 we're gonna have a strong country
325:43 economically again and we're going to
325:45 have those factories that are empty all
325:47 over the United States we've lost
325:50 90,000 plants and factories think of
325:53 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
325:55 possible 90,000 plants and factories
325:58 since NAFTA which was by the way the
326:00 worst trade deal ever ever developed
326:03 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
326:05 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
326:08 would be impossible and I terminated
326:10 through Congress we terminated it you
326:12 had to get it through Congress it was a
326:14 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
326:15 it
326:19 done problem is they cheat they cheat
326:22 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
326:26 just one of those things but we are
326:29 resetting a table and we're going to
326:30 have great trade and we're going to have
326:33 a very strong country our country is
326:34 going to be at a level that is as maybe
326:37 never been or maybe you know our country
326:40 was the strongest believe it or not from
326:42 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
326:46 tariff based we had no income tax then
326:50 in 1913 some genius came up with the
326:52 idea of let's charge the people of our
326:54 country not foreign countries that are
326:56 ripping off our country and the country
327:00 was never relatively was never that kind
327:03 of wealth we had so much wealth we
327:05 didn't know what to do with our money we
327:07 had meetings we had we had committees
327:10 and these committees worked tirelessly
327:14 to study one subject we have so much
327:17 money what are we going to do with it
327:18 who are we going to give it to and I
327:20 hope we're going to be in that position
327:21 again
327:26 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
327:28 your government put on Israeli boots on
327:31 where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
327:35 we're talking about a whole new trade
327:38 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
327:41 Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4
327:43 billion a year that's a lot
327:46 congratulations by the way that's pretty
327:48 good but we give Israel billions of
327:50 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
327:54 the highest of And we give a lot of We
327:57 give a lot of countries money uh you
327:59 wouldn't believe if I said we give
328:01 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
328:04 because that was a Biden deal another
328:05 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
328:07 with that but they give them billions of
328:10 dollars Afghanistan right so uh but no
328:13 we uh we take good care of our friends
328:16 and we don't take care of our enemies
328:17 we're not taking care of our enemies
328:19 anymore but we do take care of our
328:22 friends from the Times of Israel the IDF
328:25 is fighting to get in the Gaza Strip i
328:27 myself might be called up in a month do
328:28 you think that's the way to pressure
328:30 Hamas to get to a deal and do you think
328:32 blocking humanitarian aid is also an
328:33 effective pressure well you know how I
328:35 feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
328:37 an incredible piece of important real
328:40 estate and I think it's something that
328:43 we would be involved in but uh you know
328:46 having a peace force like the United
328:48 States there controlling and owning the
328:50 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
328:53 right now all it is is for years and
328:55 years all I hear about is killing and
328:57 Hamas and problems and if you take the
329:00 people the Palestinians and move them
329:02 around to different countries and you
329:04 have plenty of countries that will do
329:06 that and you really have a freedom a
329:10 freedom zone you call it the freedom
329:11 zone a free zone it's a zone where
329:14 people aren't going to be killed every
329:15 day that's a hell of a place it's a you
329:18 know what I call it a great location
329:20 that nobody wants to live in because
329:22 they really don't and when they had good
329:24 live when they have good living real
329:26 living where Hamas and all of the the
329:29 problems they have the the level of debt
329:31 on the Gaza Strip is just incredible and
329:35 I've said it I I don't understand why
329:38 Israel ever gave it up israel owned it
329:40 it wasn't this man so I can say it he
329:42 wouldn't have given it up i know him
329:44 very well there's no way they took
329:47 oceanfront property and they gave it to
329:49 people for peace how did that work out
329:51 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
329:54 president is the immigration
329:58 which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
330:03 a a concept that I had that I think is
330:05 good and now people are copying it you
330:07 know baby do you want to tell people are
330:09 talking about the Trump plan gee why do
330:11 we do that uh would you like to answer
330:13 that question i I think what the
330:15 president talked about is first of all
330:16 to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
330:20 closed in and any other place including
330:23 in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
330:25 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
330:28 people could leave gaza was the only
330:31 place where they locked them in we
330:33 didn't lock them in they're locked in
330:35 and what is wrong with giving people a
330:38 choice now we've been talking including
330:41 over lunch about some countries are
330:44 won't go into them right now that are
330:46 saying you know if Gazans want to leave
330:48 we want to take them in and I think this
330:51 is this is the right thing to do if you
330:54 give you know it's going to take years
330:56 to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
330:58 can have an option president has a
331:00 vision countries are responding to that
331:02 vision we're working on it i hope we'll
331:04 have good news for you
331:06 people I will say people love excuse me
331:08 people really do love that vision uh
331:11 it's a long-term vision but so
331:13 importantly is to have that be a a safe
331:17 field because you're right smack in the
331:19 middle of the Middle East you're right
331:21 along Israel it should have never ever
331:23 been given away shouldn't have been
331:25 given away by Israel i don't know why
331:27 they did it i mean I do know why because
331:29 they were promised peace but that didn't
331:30 work out too well because it's one of
331:32 the most dangerous pieces of land
331:34 anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
331:37 most dangerous places in the world so
331:39 they gave it away for good intention and
331:41 it it didn't work out that way and uh a
331:45 lot of people like my concept but you
331:47 know there are other concepts that I
331:49 like too and there are some concepts I
331:51 don't like you know what I don't like
331:52 the way it is now because right now it's
331:54 a dangerous death trap gaza yeah can you
331:58 talk a little bit about Thank you sir
332:00 can you talk a little bit about uh your
332:01 meeting potential meeting with Vladimir
332:03 Putin do you still plan to meet with him
332:05 could that happen in Saudi Arabia and
332:08 maybe could I elaborate as well a little
332:09 bit on not providing tariffs on Russia
332:11 sir so uh the reason we're not talking
332:14 about tariffs with Russia is because
332:16 we're not doing business essentially
332:18 with Russia because they're in a war and
332:21 I'm not happy about what's going on with
332:24 uh with the bombing because they're
332:26 bombing like crazy right now they're
332:28 bombing i don't know what's happening
332:30 there that's not a good situation so
332:32 we're meeting with Russia we're meeting
332:34 with Ukraine and we're getting sort of
332:37 close but I'm not happy with all the
332:39 bombing that's going on the last uh week
332:41 or so horrible it's a horrible thing
332:45 it's a horrible thing
332:49 countries to get below 10%
332:53 in in terms of tariffs
332:57 look we've been ripped off and taken
333:00 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
333:05 reason we got ripped off and the way
333:06 they did it was tariffs they were
333:09 charged tariffs massive numbers of
333:11 dollars and when you look at uh China
333:15 when I took over it was at $57 billion
333:20 they were making i call it making a lot
333:21 of people say oh it doesn't mean
333:23 anything having a surplus means a lot in
333:25 my opinion it's almost like a profit or
333:27 loss statement and when I took over was
333:30 57 billion dollars that China was this
333:34 is originally first term and we were
333:37 very very tough on them because they
333:41 were taking that money and they were
333:42 building a military with it then when
333:44 Biden came in he let him get away with
333:46 murder he had no idea I'll tell you what
333:48 that man had no idea what was happening
333:49 whether it was a border or China or
333:51 anything else he had no idea what was
333:53 going on and they got they went wild
333:57 china went wild and the money they make
334:00 is ridiculous okay it's just not going
334:03 to happen and hopefully we'll get along
334:05 with China if we do that's great and if
334:06 we don't that's okay too but we can't
334:09 let that continue because that's a
334:10 that's an abuse they abused the poor
334:14 people that's out of the seat that poor
334:16 Biden he was abused by them they took
334:19 advantage of them and I'm surprised you
334:21 know they have smart people they were
334:23 radical left lunatics but they're smart
334:25 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
334:28 you know to to happen but uh we are
334:31 going to bring great trade and we're
334:34 going to be fair to other countries and
334:36 I I will say this uh virtually every
334:40 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
334:43 do what I did over the last couple of
334:45 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
334:48 negotiate we would have gone to these
334:50 countries you want to talk and they were
334:51 well we don't want to talk now they're
334:53 coming to us they're offering things
334:56 like even BB this is unrelated because
334:58 it's a different kind of a relationship
335:00 but he started off our conversation
335:02 today that he's cutting all of the
335:04 tariffs he's cutting everything he's
335:06 going to get down to a free base he's
335:08 going to do things that in all fairness
335:11 other countries if they said that would
335:13 have never even thought about doing it
335:15 now they're offering things to us that
335:18 we would have never even thought of
335:20 asking them for because they're
335:23 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
335:26 is that they've taken advantage of us
335:28 and we finally fought back tariffs will
335:31 make this country very rich we're rich
335:33 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
335:35 uh we have $ 36 trillion dollars in debt
335:39 i want to get rid of it and we can do it
335:41 quickly with proper deals so when
335:46 countries don't allow us to sell our
335:48 product but we allow them to sell their
335:50 product when they charge us massive
335:52 amounts of money for the privilege of
335:54 going into their country those days are
335:57 over okay
336:01 yeah go ahead sir me yeah he sounds so
336:05 surprised mr president um on Iran uh two
336:09 questions please first you can give us
336:11 more details about where the meeting on
336:13 Saturday is going i can't tell you that
336:14 i I can just tell you there's a major
336:16 meeting going on between us and Iran and
336:20 that'll take place on Saturday and it's
336:22 at top level and second question about
336:25 this um a lot of people think that those
336:28 talks are not going to lead anywhere
336:30 because the right
336:32 I think that's a possibility fails if
336:35 diplomacy fails is the United States
336:38 under your leadership ready to take
336:40 military action to destroy the Iranian
336:42 nuclear program program and remove this
336:45 threat
336:47 i think if the talks aren't successful
336:50 with
336:51 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
336:53 great danger and I hate to say it great
336:56 danger because they can't have a nuclear
336:58 weapon you know it's not a complicated
337:01 uh formula Iran cannot have a nuclear
337:04 weapon that's all there is can't have it
337:07 right now we have countries that have
337:09 nuclear power that shouldn't have it but
337:12 uh I'm sure we'll be able to negotiate
337:14 out of that too as part of this later on
337:16 down the line but Iran cannot have a
337:19 nuclear weapon and if the talks aren't
337:24 successful I actually think it'll be a
337:26 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
337:29 yeah
337:31 on manufacturing yeah please mr
337:33 president was October 7th the death blow
337:35 of the two-state solution and would you
337:37 consider classifying the Palestinian
337:39 Authority as a terrorist organization
337:41 for its continued paper sake terror
337:43 financing payments so October 7th was a
337:46 horrible day that some people they they
337:49 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
337:51 from the standpoint of they do it
337:52 because they think it's good politically
337:54 but October I've seen the tapes i've
337:56 seen things that you don't want to see
337:58 october 7th was a horrible day and it
338:01 will go down as one of the really bad
338:04 days in the history of the world it was
338:06 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
338:10 happened and they grabbed some of these
338:12 people i'll give you an example when I
338:14 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
338:17 I said "So how many are there?"
338:19 "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
338:23 59." They sort of knew the territory
338:25 pretty good and I said "How are they
338:28 doing?" She They said "Well only 24 are
338:31 living the rest are dead." And these are
338:34 young people largely young people don't
338:36 die you know young people have an
338:38 amazing ability to live they can live
338:41 through horrible things but these are
338:43 young people and when they said that 24
338:46 are living and the rest are dead and you
338:49 know I've had parents come up Israeli
338:51 parents largely we have some Americans
338:54 and we had I guess we have one left alex
338:58 we have the one left but but I've had
339:02 Israeli parents come up to me at events
339:05 and say "My son is there." I said "Well
339:08 how's he doing?" "Well he's dead but
339:10 would you do me the biggest favor ever
339:12 could you bring his body back home?"
339:14 They talked about a young dead boy and a
339:18 young dead girl like they were living
339:22 and that could have something to do with
339:24 religion that could have something to do
339:26 with I guess maybe any parent would be
339:28 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
339:31 son is
339:32 dead it is just as important to bring
339:35 that body back home." I asked that
339:37 question as if he were alive so you have
339:41 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
339:43 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
339:46 thing that's happened these are young
339:48 largely young people some old ones too
339:50 frankly and those people have lived in
339:52 hell when they came off the second group
339:54 that came out they look like uh they
339:57 just got out of a concentration camp
339:59 they looked exactly like the pictures
340:01 that I'd see from the 1940s the
340:04 concentration
340:05 camps and then they got a little bit
340:08 better you know as But that second group
340:11 those people came out and I said "This
340:12 is unbelievable we're going back into a
340:15 a chapter in history that is one of the
340:17 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
340:27 years fully up to speed in response to
340:30 these tariffs what happens in the
340:32 meantime should Americans be prepared
340:33 potentially for years
340:36 we have
340:37 now seven trillion dollars think of this
340:41 7 trillion of commitments from companies
340:44 wanting to go in from Apple to many many
340:47 companies many from Taiwan what it takes
340:50 time to to course it takes Well are you
340:52 asking me a question or you telling me
340:54 yeah it takes time you know you got to
340:56 build a thing called a factory you have
340:59 to build your energy you have to do uh a
341:01 lot of things i'm giving them energy you
341:03 know we're going to let them build their
341:05 own power plants they'll pay their own
341:07 essentially they're going to be in
341:09 charge of the power plant because our uh
341:12 power is not reliable enough you have a
341:15 grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
341:18 of things including bombing and weather
341:20 and a lot of other things and we're
341:22 going to give them record timing in
341:24 terms of approvals of electric plants
341:26 most of them want to build electric
341:28 plants we need massive amounts of
341:29 electricity if we're going to compete
341:31 with China and others and interestingly
341:34 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
341:36 with China but the way we lose that race
341:39 is if we can't give them electric but we
341:41 have more plants being built we have
341:43 everything we're doing so great and we
341:47 want to keep it that way and tariffs
341:49 will be an important part of it but one
341:51 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon's
341:52 doing a fantastic job head of
341:54 environmental protection and he's doing
341:57 very rapid approvals for people to get
341:59 for big companies to that are going to
342:02 build a plant that's going to cost
342:04 billions of dollars and we're going to
342:06 get them their approvals they have to be
342:08 environmentally perfect everything good
342:10 but they're going to be in record time a
342:11 matter of months versus a matter of many
342:14 many years
342:19 go ahead
342:21 yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
342:26 uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
342:30 Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
342:33 Syria what do you think do you think uh
342:35 Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
342:37 actually make it a better more peaceful
342:39 country or vice versa well I have uh
342:42 great relations with a man named Erdogan
342:44 have you heard of him and I happen to
342:46 like him and he likes me and I know the
342:48 press will get very angry he likes
342:50 Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
342:52 we've never had a problem and and we've
342:54 gone through a lot and we've never had a
342:56 problem we always got we as you remember
342:59 we got our minister back from Turkey you
343:01 remember that and uh this was a big deal
343:04 at the time and we got him back uh and I
343:08 told the prime minister I said just BB
343:12 if you have a problem with Turkey I
343:14 really think I'm going to be able to
343:15 work it out you know I have a very very
343:17 good relationship
343:19 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
343:22 I think we'll be able to work it out so
343:23 I hope that's not going to be a problem
343:25 i don't think it will be a problem now
343:27 with that being said I believe it was
343:28 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
343:32 it i said "Congratulations you've done
343:35 what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
343:37 years you've taken over Syria with
343:40 different names but same thing." I said
343:43 "You've taken it over." He's taken it
343:44 over through surrogates he goes "No no
343:46 no no no no it was not me it was I said
343:49 "It was you." But that's okay you don't
343:51 have to say "Well it sort of maybe was
343:53 me." Okay but what he did he's look he's
343:56 a tough guy and he's very smart and uh
343:59 he did something that nobody was able to
344:01 do you know you got to hand it to him uh
344:04 any problem that you have with Turkey I
344:06 think I can solve i mean as long as
344:08 you're reasonable you have to be
344:10 reasonable we have to be reasonable
344:11 thank you very much everybody appreciate
344:14 Thank you thank you
344:26 standing with us you are a great great
344:29 champion of our alliance and uh you
344:33 actually do the things that you say you
344:36 do and I I think that people respect
344:38 that enormously i certainly do and
344:41 people of Israel do and I think the
344:42 Jewish people do as well we just saw
344:45 your representative in the the
344:47 Department of Justice fighting
344:49 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
344:52 international forms i just want you to
344:54 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
344:57 appreciated as you said we had the
344:59 opportunity to talk today about many
345:01 subjects uh first if I can mention
345:04 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
345:06 today uh I can tell you that I said to
345:10 the president a very simple thing we
345:12 will eliminate the trade deficit with
345:15 the United States we intend to do it
345:17 very quickly we think it's the right
345:19 thing to do and we're going to also
345:22 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
345:25 trade barriers that have been put up
345:27 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
345:29 serve as a model for many countries who
345:32 ought to do the same i recognize the the
345:36 position of the United States that says
345:38 you know we're allowing other countries
345:41 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
345:43 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
345:46 trade champion and free trade has to be
345:48 fair trade and I think that's basically
345:51 uh the position that you have uh put
345:53 forward Mr president we are going to
345:55 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
345:58 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
346:01 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
346:04 we could affect this quickly and I hope
346:06 to bring a solution very quickly we're
346:08 not talking about intentions we're not
346:11 talking about uh you know just words
346:13 we're talking about results those
346:16 results are going to come that's the
346:18 first Thank you very much that's very
346:19 nice thank you thank you Mr president
346:21 what about the hostages here well let
346:24 him let him finish let him
346:26 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
346:29 the hostages
346:31 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
346:34 is a human story of un just unbearable
346:39 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
346:41 to them yesterday spoke to another one
346:44 when I was in Hungary before I came here
346:46 i speak to them every day they're in
346:48 agony the hostages are in agony and we
346:51 want to get them all out uh Steve
346:54 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
346:56 able representative helped us get a deal
346:59 that got 25 out we're working now on
347:01 another deal that we hope will succeed
347:04 uh and we're committed to getting all
347:06 the hostages out but also eliminating
347:09 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
347:14 and enabling the people of Gaza to
347:16 freely make a choice to go wherever they
347:19 want i mean they should have that choice
347:21 and the president put forward a vision a
347:23 bold vision which we discussed as well
347:26 including the uh countries that might uh
347:30 be amendable and are amendable to
347:33 accepting Palestinians of their free
347:35 choice if they choose to go there and I
347:37 think that's the second thing that we
347:39 discussed uh but the hostages came right
347:42 on top uh we also discussed the
347:44 situation uh in Syria
347:48 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
347:51 relations with Turkey that have
347:53 deteriorated and we don't want to see
347:55 Syria being used by anyone including
347:57 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
348:00 turkey is
348:01 a country
348:03 that has a great relationship with the
348:06 United States the president has a
348:08 relationship with the leader of Turkey
348:10 we discussed how we can avoid this
348:12 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
348:16 think we can't have a better
348:18 interlocutor than the president of the
348:20 United States for this purpose and of
348:22 course we also discussed Iran look we're
348:24 both united in the uh goal that Iran
348:28 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
348:31 can be done diplomatically in a full way
348:33 the way it was done in Libya I think
348:35 that would be a good thing uh but
348:37 whatever happens we have to make sure
348:39 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
348:42 that's the end of my speech
348:46 mr we are we're having direct talks with
348:50 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
348:52 having direct talks with Iran and uh
348:56 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
348:59 have a very big meeting and we'll see
349:00 what can happen and I think everybody
349:03 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
349:07 preferable to doing the obvious and the
349:10 obvious is not something that I want to
349:13 be involved with or frankly that Israel
349:16 wants to be involved with if they can
349:17 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
349:19 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
349:22 dangerous
349:23 territory and hopefully those talks will
349:26 be successful and I think it would be in
349:28 Iran's best interest if they are
349:30 successful we hope we hope that's going
349:32 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
349:36 good talks on a lot of things i
349:37 appreciate very much what you said about
349:38 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
349:40 taken advantage of by many countries
349:43 over the years and uh can't do it
349:46 anymore just can't do it anymore we
349:47 can't be the stupid people anymore and
349:50 it's all because of the people that sat
349:53 in the seat right here not your seat but
349:55 this seat uh they allowed things to
349:57 happen to our country that they
349:59 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
350:00 trade and other things many other things
350:02 i mean look at what's happened with our
350:04 last president where he allowed millions
350:06 of people to come into our country with
350:08 an open border who would want an open
350:11 border how stupid is that but uh he
350:14 allowed millions and millions of people
350:17 and of the millions and I think it was
350:18 21 million people but let's say three of
350:21 them were serious criminals serious
350:23 murderers and drug dealers and gang
350:26 members and people from jails all the
350:28 jails emptied out right into our country
350:31 right along the open border on the on
350:33 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
350:36 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
350:38 but generally speaking on the southern
350:41 border and uh what a shame it is that we
350:44 are now working very hard to get them
350:45 out get the criminals out get the
350:47 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
350:50 mentally insane get them out they drop
350:52 the mentally insane in our country too
350:55 and this was all done by the Biden
350:56 administration it's a disgrace that we
350:59 have to work so hard and then we have
351:00 judges that try and protect these people
351:03 but they didn't protect us when the
351:04 people were being let in but to get them
351:07 out is never easy with these people so
351:10 uh I think we're doing a great job the
351:12 border is the best it's ever been even
351:15 as strong as it was I had a great solid
351:18 border i think it might even be tougher
351:20 right now and stronger so people are
351:23 coming into our country but they're
351:24 coming in legally we have a legal
351:26 process and we have that moving along
351:28 properly because we need people to come
351:30 into our country but we want people that
351:32 can love our country and cherish our
351:34 country so that's where we are and with
351:36 that any
351:41 questions would be open to a pause in
351:44 terrorists to allow for negotiations
351:46 well we're not looking at that we have
351:48 many many uh countries that are coming
351:50 to negotiate deals with us and they're
351:53 going to be fair deals and in certain
351:56 cases they're going to be be paying
351:58 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
352:00 deals as you know I spoke this morning
352:02 with the prime minister of Japan and we
352:06 had a very good conversation they're
352:08 coming and I said "One thing you're
352:10 going to have to open up your country
352:11 because we sold no cars like zero cars
352:14 in Japan and they sold millions of cars
352:17 into our country uh they don't really
352:20 take our agriculture a little bit of it
352:22 just to keep us slightly happy but they
352:24 don't take what they're supposed to be
352:25 taking so we have a great relationship
352:27 with Japan we're going to keep it that
352:28 way but they're coming in to meet and
352:30 other C countries are coming in uh with
352:34 China as you know against my statement
352:37 they put a 34% tariff on above what
352:41 their ridiculous tariffs were already
352:44 and I said if that tariff isn't removed
352:47 by tomorrow at 12:00 we're putting a 50%
352:50 tariff on above the tariffs that we put
352:53 on so they've gone for years they become
352:55 a rich country because of people again
352:57 that were in the White House that
352:59 allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
353:02 billions of dollars a year they'd make
353:04 on us on trade and it shouldn't be that
353:06 way and uh I have a great relationship
353:09 with President Xi i hope it's going to
353:10 stay that way i have great respect for
353:12 China but they can't do this we're just
353:15 uh we're going to have one shot at this
353:18 and no other president's going to do
353:19 this what I'm doing and I'll tell you
353:22 what it's an honor to do it because we
353:24 have been just just destroyed what
353:27 they've done to our system you know we
353:29 have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason
353:33 and uh the reason is that people allowed
353:35 it to get that way so we'll be uh
353:38 talking to China we'll be talking to a
353:41 lot of different countries and I think
353:43 you know if if if we can make a really
353:47 fair deal and a good deal for the United
353:49 States not a good deal for others this
353:51 is America first it's now America first
353:54 and we didn't put America first we put
353:56 America last the people that were in the
353:59 Oval Office put America last and we're
354:00 not going to stand for
354:07 Go ahead represent the US in the talks
354:09 go ahead um two questions do you expect
354:12 any of these deals to be made before
354:14 April 9th and secondly there have been
354:16 some mixed messages from your
354:17 administration you're talking about
354:19 negotiations and yet others in your
354:21 administration are saying that these
354:22 tariffs are actually permanent what is
354:24 that well it could be they can both
354:27 be there can be permanent tariffs and
354:30 there can also be negotiations because
354:32 there are things that we need beyond
354:33 tariffs we need open borders you know we
354:36 almost had a deal with China where we're
354:38 going to open up China it was almost
354:40 done some of you remember it during my
354:42 first term and it was very disappointing
354:44 we ended up making a great deal.$50
354:46 billion dollars worth of product was
354:48 sold 50 billion you'd like that in
354:50 Israel and I made that deal but it
354:53 wasn't the deal that I wanted it was uh
354:55 the deal that I wanted was that plus
354:57 they were going to open up China so that
354:59 our companies could go into China and
355:02 compete with other countries and China
355:05 for the you know for a large number of
355:07 people and at the very end that deal was
355:10 terminated and we went to a piece of the
355:13 deal and there so there are a lot of
355:15 things outside of tariffs but tariffs
355:17 are very important but there are a lot
355:19 of things like opening up countries that
355:21 were totally closed china's essentially
355:24 a closed country in fact it is a closed
355:27 country and what they do is they charge
355:29 tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
355:31 or if you sell anything uh nobody's
355:34 going to buy it because the price is out
355:36 of control but that's true with a lot of
355:37 other countries also so we're going to
355:40 get fair deals and good deals with every
355:42 country and if we don't we're going to
355:44 have nothing to do with them they're not
355:45 going to be allowed to participate in
355:47 the United States mr
355:56 president
355:57 I'll just relax we have time this
356:01 gentleman is all day long mr
356:04 many
356:05 of you go ahead
356:38 maybe talk about it for a second because
356:40 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
356:42 we've we've been very tough and very
356:45 successful
356:46 militarily we've
356:48 uh really damaged them badly these were
356:52 people shooting down ships and other
356:53 things by the way flying objects like
356:57 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
357:00 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
357:03 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
357:08 and and it's every night night after
357:12 night and we've gotten many of their
357:14 leaders and their experts they're
357:17 experts on missiles i mean they actually
357:18 make missiles nobody thought that but
357:21 they make missiles highly sophisticated
357:24 and they're very tough but they've been
357:26 uh very badly damaged nobody else was
357:28 able to do that but us pete do you want
357:30 to discuss that please yes sir uh it's
357:32 been a bad three weeks for the Houthis
357:35 uh and it's about to get worse it's been
357:37 a devastating campaign whether it's
357:39 underground facilities weapons
357:41 manufacturing bunkers troops in the open
357:44 air defense assets we are not going to
357:46 relent and it's only to get more
357:48 unrelenting until the Houthis declare
357:51 they will stop shooting at our ships and
357:52 we've been very clear with the Iranians
357:54 as well uh they uh they should not
357:58 continue to provide support to the
357:59 Houthis and that message has been made
358:01 very clear so we have a lot more options
358:03 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
358:06 know because we see the reports how
358:07 devastating this campaign has been in
358:09 them and we will not fight we have a
358:11 great military there's no military like
358:14 our military and despite Biden having
358:16 given a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty
358:20 small piece but it was a lot of our
358:22 military away in Afghanistan and one of
358:25 the dumbest situations I think and maybe
358:28 the most embarrassing situation we've
358:30 ever been involved in that that short
358:32 period of time in
358:34 Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
358:37 uh left a lot of our military behind
358:39 left left you see them in their annual
358:42 parades where they're parading trucks
358:44 that are armorplated and different
358:46 things that they can't but it's many
358:48 billions of dollars we left behind but
358:50 despite that uh we have a tremendous
358:53 military that was a very small portion
358:55 because we rebuilt the military during
358:57 my first term and uh we uh we have great
359:02 uh great things happening with our
359:04 military we also uh essentially approved
359:07 a budget which is in the facility you'll
359:10 like to hear this of a trillion dollars
359:12 $1
359:13 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
359:16 it we have to build our military and
359:18 we're very costconscious but the
359:20 military is something that we have to
359:22 build and we have to be strong because
359:23 you got a lot of bad forces out there
359:25 now so we're going to be approving a
359:27 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
359:29 actually the biggest one we've ever done
359:31 for the military we're cutting other
359:34 things that were uh under Doge but under
359:37 a lot of other when you look at uh a
359:40 woman getting $2 billion for
359:42 environmental and it had nothing to do
359:44 with environmental and they had $100 in
359:46 the bank and they give her two billion
359:48 many many of those cases all that stuff
359:51 is going to be cut out but we are
359:52 getting a very very powerful military we
359:56 have things under order now the likes of
359:58 which we've never had before or we've
360:00 never had the kind of uh aircraft the
360:03 kind of missiles or anything uh that we
360:06 have ordered and it's in many ways too
360:08 bad that we have to do it because
360:10 hopefully we're not going to have to use
360:12 it but the military is very very
360:14 powerful and uh it's going to remain
360:17 that way
360:23 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
360:26 you about this
360:29 The
360:31 US is it possible to give us some more
360:33 information at what level high level
360:37 very high level yeah we're dealing with
360:39 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
360:41 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
360:44 directly you know a lot of people say
360:46 "Oh maybe you're going through
360:47 surrogates or you're not dealing
360:49 directly you're dealing through other
360:50 countries." No we're dealing with them
360:52 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
360:54 be made that'll be great going to be It
360:57 would be really great for Iran and I can
360:59 tell you that but hopefully we're not
361:01 going to have to get into that we we are
361:03 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
361:07 almost the highest level and we'll see
361:09 how it works out please how do you
361:11 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
361:13 don't drive US trading partners into the
361:17 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
361:18 about it i'm not worried about it if
361:20 they want to be in the hands of the US
361:22 they don't want to be in the hands of
361:23 the Chinese and the Chinese have turned
361:26 out to be really not very good at that
361:29 uh people that are with us they're with
361:31 us but we cannot be uh taken advantage
361:35 of any longer i used to watch these
361:37 deals for years i've been talking about
361:38 it for years you and I've been talking
361:39 about it for 35 years how our country is
361:43 being ripped off i mean which it 30
361:46 years ago was Japan then it was
361:49 something else then it was another group
361:51 then it was China china's doing the the
361:53 best job of it frankly and it's just not
361:56 going to happen not going to happen
362:04 eu has said that they have offered zero
362:08 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
362:10 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
362:13 not the EU has been very tough over the
362:17 years it was I always say it was formed
362:19 to really do damage to the United States
362:23 in trade that's the reason it was formed
362:25 it was formed with all of the countries
362:27 from Europe i guess most of them not all
362:30 of them but most of them and they formed
362:32 together to uh create a little bit of a
362:35 monopoly situation to create a unified
362:37 force against the United States for
362:39 trade so they have uh NATO which is
362:42 largely the same countries and they uh
362:46 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
362:49 militarily until I got there you know I
362:51 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
362:54 from NATO where they paid NATO because
362:57 most of these nations weren't even
362:58 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
363:00 paying them to guard them militarily and
363:03 they're screwing us on trade so that's
363:05 not a good combination so now uh it's
363:09 really turned around it's the opposite
363:11 and the European Union's been very ne
363:14 very bad to us they don't take our cars
363:17 like Japan in that sense they don't take
363:19 our agricultural product they don't take
363:22 anything practically and yet they send
363:25 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
363:27 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
363:30 and millions of cars into the US but we
363:33 don't have a car that's been sold to the
363:36 European Union or other places but let's
363:38 go for the European Union and it's not
363:41 going to be that way it's got to be fair
363:43 and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
363:45 not fair uh we have a deficit with the
363:48 European Union of $350
363:52 billion and it's going to disappear fast
363:54 and one of the reasons and one of the
363:56 ways that that can disappear easily and
363:59 quickly is they're going to have to buy
364:00 our energy from us because they need it
364:02 they're going to have to buy it from us
364:04 they can buy it we can knock off $350
364:06 billion in one week they have to buy and
364:09 commit to buy a like amount of energy
364:12 and we have that you know we have more
364:14 energy than any country in the world i
364:16 don't know if you know that he knows
364:18 everything but the one thing he may not
364:20 know we have more energy than any
364:22 country in the world we have more of
364:24 every kind of energy every form of
364:26 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
364:29 people talk about I call it beautiful
364:31 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
364:35 opening up a coal plant a week they
364:37 tried the windmills and it didn't work
364:39 they tried all the other solutions and
364:41 they were ready to go out of business
364:43 now they're doing a coal plant a week
364:45 china is now up to two coal plants that
364:48 uh they're opening two major coal plants
364:50 every single week in China all over
364:52 China and that we're not allowed to use
364:55 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
364:58 more than anybody else we have oil and
365:00 gas more than anybody else we have the
365:02 most energy of any country in the world
365:04 including Saudi Arabia including
365:05 everybody by a lot and I took it to
365:08 number one we were number three and I
365:10 took it to number one during my
365:12 administration
365:13 and the reason that we were hurt so
365:15 badly and the reason that we went into
365:18 such incredible inflation during Biden
365:21 is energy it was also their bad spending
365:24 but energy because they played around
365:27 with this incredible thing that we had
365:29 built this administration had built and
365:32 the energy cost went through the roof
365:34 and when that went up everything else
365:35 followed now if you look at what's
365:37 happening you're going to see this today
365:40 i said we're going to try and get
365:41 groceries down right oldfashioned term
365:43 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
365:47 got in the press went absolutely crazy
365:50 the first week they said "Eggs have
365:51 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
365:54 here tell me about it." And Brooke
365:56 Rollins and our team did a great job and
365:59 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
366:01 over the place and this was a problem
366:04 that somebody else would have taken a
366:06 long time to cure uh we have energy is
366:09 down we have interest rates are down we
366:12 have groceries meaning food is down we
366:15 have everything is down at levels that
366:17 nobody ever thought possible energy
366:19 looks like it's going to be in in the
366:21 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
366:24 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
366:29 are we're really doing amazing i mean
366:32 we're we're cutting prices because
366:34 prices got so high people couldn't live
366:37 i mean the prices for groceries the
366:38 prices for standard standard groceries
366:41 standard things were going through the
366:43 roof they couldn't live and now those
366:45 prices are coming down so call them
366:47 groceries but that's down energy is down
366:50 and interest rates are down everything's
366:52 down and the interest rates the beauty
366:54 there is when we refinance debt you know
366:57 debts become such a big factor in this
366:59 country we're going to get we're going
367:00 to start paying debt off with tariffs
367:02 and other things but uh it's such a big
367:05 factor because the interest rates so
367:06 high well now that's coming way down so
367:09 our budget's going to look a lot better
367:11 because interest costs are way down and
367:14 I guess I've done that
367:20 many Israelis are watching you now our
367:23 live show good what is your specific I
367:25 hope they like getting the hostages out
367:27 from the horrific activity yeah we are
367:29 trying very hard to get the hostages out
367:32 uh we're looking at another ceasefire
367:35 we'll see what happens but we have we
367:37 want to get the hostages out the Israeli
367:40 people want the hostages out more than
367:42 anything they want the hostages out this
367:44 man is working very hard with us to do
367:47 that i mean I don't know i hope he's
367:48 being appreciated because he's been a
367:50 great leader he's working very very hard
367:52 on the hostages and many other things
367:55 and there are plenty of things you have
367:56 to work on it's a it's a tough place in
367:59 the world i have a good partner yeah you
368:01 do have a good partner and so do we we
368:03 we're working very hard on the house
368:08 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
368:10 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
368:12 going to be more effective than the
368:14 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
368:17 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
368:20 lot stronger but they were so happy when
368:23 we made that first deal because we did
368:25 get a lot out you know I had people
368:27 right in this office this beautiful oval
368:29 office they came in 10 people hostages
368:31 you know that and I said to them uh so
368:34 how was it and the stories they told me
368:37 I mean as an example I said to them was
368:41 there any sign of love you were there 10
368:44 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
368:47 representative did the Hamas show any
368:50 signs of like help or liking you did
368:54 they wink at you did they give you a
368:56 piece of bread extra did they give you a
368:59 meal on the side like you know you think
369:01 of doing like what happened in Germany
369:03 what happened elsewhere people would try
369:06 and help people that were in
369:07 unbelievable distress they said no i
369:11 said all of them i said "Did they ever
369:13 wink at you like "You'll be okay you're
369:15 going to be okay." No they didn't do
369:16 that they'd slap us the hatred is
369:20 unbelievable and the lives you know they
369:23 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
369:25 was a pipe and they always thought they
369:27 were suffocating they were going to
369:28 suffocate and then they'd open up the
369:31 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
369:32 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
369:35 is bad but pipes are worse and the
369:37 stories I heard were incredible but I
369:40 just said "Was there any sign of
369:41 potential love or affection?" And there
369:44 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
369:46 me there was nothing like "Here take
369:48 this it's a little extra meal or
369:50 something." They lived like hell i I
369:52 don't know they seem to be They were
369:55 amazing to me because they seemed to be
369:57 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
370:01 I guarantee underneath they have to be
370:03 scarred and one was there for
370:05 356 days another was there for about 180
370:09 days you know long time these are people
370:12 that have been really really horribly
370:15 treated i've never seen anything like it
370:17 actually I was very surprised to hear
370:18 the answer
370:20 thank you Mr president are there two or
370:23 three countries that on your list that
370:26 you feel are farther along in getting
370:28 their tariffs lowered i think well I
370:32 think there are many that want to get
370:33 rid of tariffs right now uh European
370:36 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
370:39 us they've you know they've brought
370:41 their car tariffs essentially off i
370:43 guess they brought it down to two and a
370:44 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
370:48 it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
370:50 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
370:52 things on that make it impossible for
370:54 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
370:56 it's they make it so difficult the
370:58 standards and the tests uh they drop a
371:00 bowling ball on the top of your car from
371:02 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
371:04 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
371:07 car doesn't qualify when the same car
371:09 from Germany or would dent likewise
371:12 unless you're going to have an army tank
371:14 it's going to dent so they come up with
371:16 rules and regulations that are uh just
371:19 designed for one reason that you can't
371:21 sell your product in those countries and
371:24 and uh we're not going to let that
371:26 happen those are called nonmonetary
371:29 barriers they make barriers that are so
371:31 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
371:34 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
371:37 there's another big part of it and
371:39 that's barriers they also do something
371:41 else they manipulate their currency and
371:44 they drive it down they want to drive it
371:45 they want to have low currencies you
371:47 know uh it sounds better to have a high
371:49 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
371:52 uh they bring their currency down and
371:55 when it competes with our currency it's
371:57 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
371:59 hard to sell product because their
372:02 currency is low and ours is much higher
372:06 relatively and so it makes it very hard
372:08 i speak to a lot of companies that do
372:10 business tractor companies and they say
372:13 it's so hard to sell because what
372:15 they've done is they've lowered the yen
372:17 or they've lowered the Juan or they've
372:19 lowered their currency so that it's very
372:21 hard to compete we don't want that
372:24 either so we have a lot of things that
372:26 we're talking about but we're going to
372:28 fix it properly and it's going to be
372:30 fair to everybody and in the end I think
372:32 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
372:33 better you know but they have to respect
372:35 the United States and and nobody but me
372:38 would do this nobody but me would do
372:40 this you know it's would be nice to
372:41 serve a nice easy term but we have an
372:45 opportunity to change the fabric of our
372:47 country we have an opportunity to reset
372:49 the table on trade we lose billions of
372:53 dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
372:57 dollars a year on trade we lose a
372:58 trillion dollars a year to China a
373:01 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
373:04 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
373:08 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
373:12 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
373:16 why would we do that number one why
373:18 would we do that and then you have to
373:19 say is it sustainable then you hear
373:21 about all of the people that say "Well
373:23 deficits if we have a deficit with a
373:25 country or if the country has a big
373:26 surplus with us like China has a massive
373:29 surplus that they take and they spend on
373:31 their military." Well we don't want that
373:34 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
373:36 dollars a year and spend it on their
373:39 military i don't want them spending
373:41 money on their military and I shouldn't
373:43 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
373:44 spend it either because you know
373:46 hopefully and I said this to President
373:48 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
373:50 going to use in other words because
373:52 we're not going to use those incredible
373:53 weapons that we have and that they have
373:56 we don't want that so uh it's going to
373:59 be very interesting it's it's the only
374:02 chance our pre our country will have to
374:06 reset the table because no other
374:08 president would be willing to do what
374:10 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
374:13 don't mind going through it because I
374:14 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
374:17 but we are making tremendous progress
374:20 with a lot of countries and the
374:22 countries that really took advantage of
374:24 us are now saying please negotiate you
374:27 know why because they're getting beaten
374:29 badly because of what's happening
374:32 they're getting beaten badly they're
374:33 being devalued as countries but it's the
374:37 only chance we're going to have to reset
374:39 the table on trade and when we do we're
374:41 going to come out unbelievably well
374:43 we're gonna have a strong country
374:44 economically again and we're going to
374:46 have those factories that are empty all
374:48 over the United States we've lost
374:51 90,000 plants and factories think of
374:55 this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible
374:57 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
375:01 which was by the way the worst trade
375:02 deal ever ever developed ever had by any
375:05 country anywhere nafta and I terminated
375:08 NAFTA everybody said it would be
375:09 impossible and I terminated through
375:11 Congress we terminated it you had to get
375:13 it through Congress it was a trap it was
375:16 a horrible thing and we got it
375:21 done problem is they cheat they cheat
375:24 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
375:27 just one of those things but we are
375:31 resetting a table and we're going to
375:32 have great trade and we're going to have
375:34 a very strong country our country is
375:36 going to be at a level that is as maybe
375:38 never been or maybe you know our country
375:41 was the strongest believe it or not from
375:44 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
375:48 tariff based we had no income tax then
375:51 in 1913 some genius came up with the
375:53 idea of let's charge the people of our
375:56 country not foreign countries that are
375:58 ripping off our country and the country
376:01 was never relatively was never that kind
376:05 of wealth we had so much wealth we
376:07 didn't know what to do with our money we
376:09 had meetings we had we had committees
376:12 and these committees worked tirelessly
376:15 to study one subject we have so much
376:18 money what are we going to do with it
376:20 who are we going to give it to and I
376:22 hope we're going to be in that position
376:23 again
376:28 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
376:30 your government put on Israeli boots 70%
376:32 on where on Israeli boots 70%
376:36 well we're talking about a whole new
376:38 trade maybe not maybe not don't forget
376:42 we help Israel a lot you know we give
376:44 Israel $4 billion a year that's a lot
376:47 congratulations by the way that's pretty
376:49 good but we give Israel billions of
376:52 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
376:56 the highest of And we give a lot of We
376:58 give a lot of countries money uh you
377:01 wouldn't believe if I said we give
377:03 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
377:05 because that was a Biden deal another
377:07 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
377:09 with that but they give them billions of
377:11 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
377:15 we uh we take good care of our friends
377:17 and we don't take care of our enemies
377:19 we're not taking care of our enemies
377:20 anymore but we do take care of our
377:22 friends
377:25 from the times of Israel the IDF is
377:27 fighting again the Gaza Strip i myself
377:28 might be called up in a month do you
377:30 think that's the way to pressure Hamas
377:32 to get to a deal and do you think
377:33 blocking humanitarian aid is also an
377:35 effective pressure well you know how I
377:36 feel about the Gaza Strip i think it's
377:39 an incredible piece of important real
377:42 estate and I think it's something that
377:45 we would be involved in but you know
377:47 having a peace force like the United
377:50 States there controlling and owning the
377:52 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
377:54 right now all it is is for years and
377:57 years all I hear about is killing and
377:59 Hamas and problems and if you take the
378:02 people the Palestinians and move them
378:04 around to different countries and you
378:06 have plenty of countries that will do
378:08 that and you really have a freedom a
378:11 freedom zone you call it the freedom
378:13 zone a free zone a zone where people
378:16 aren't going to be killed every day
378:17 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
378:20 what I call it a great location that
378:22 nobody wants to live in because they
378:24 really don't and when they had good li
378:26 when they have good living real living
378:28 where Hamas and all of the the problems
378:31 they have the the level of debt on the
378:33 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
378:37 said it i I don't understand why Israel
378:39 ever gave it up israel owned it it
378:42 wasn't this man so I can say it he
378:44 wouldn't have given it up i know him
378:45 very well there's no way they took
378:48 oceanfront property and they gave it to
378:50 people for peace how did that work out
378:53 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
378:55 president is the immigration
378:59 which immigration ghana gaza all it is
379:04 is a a concept that I had that I think
379:06 is good and now people are copying it
379:08 you know baby do you want to tell people
379:10 are talking about the Trump plan gee why
379:12 do we do that uh would you like to
379:14 answer that question i I think what the
379:16 president talked about is first of all
379:18 to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
379:22 closed in and any other place including
379:24 in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
379:27 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
379:29 people could leave gaza was the only
379:32 place where they locked them in we
379:34 didn't lock them in they're locked in
379:37 and what is wrong with giving people a
379:39 choice now we've been talking uh
379:42 including over lunch about some
379:44 countries are won't go into them right
379:46 now that are saying you know if Gazans
379:49 want to leave we want to take them in
379:52 and I think this is this is the right
379:54 thing to do if you give you know it's
379:56 going to take years to rebuild Gaza in
379:58 the meantime people can have an option
380:00 president has a vision countries are
380:02 responding to that vision we're working
380:04 on it i hope we'll have good news for
380:06 you people I will say people love excuse
380:10 me people really do love that vision uh
380:13 it's a long-term vision but so
380:15 importantly is to have that be a a safe
380:18 field because you're right smack in the
380:21 middle of the Middle East you're right
380:22 along Israel it should have never ever
380:24 been given away shouldn't have been
380:26 given away by Israel i don't know why
380:28 they did it i mean I do know why because
380:30 they were promised peace but that didn't
380:32 work out too well because it's one of
380:34 the most dangerous pieces of land
380:36 anywhere in the world gaza is one of the
380:38 most dangerous places in the world so
380:40 they gave it away for good intention and
380:43 it it didn't work out that way and uh a
380:46 lot of people like my concept but you
380:48 know there are other concepts that I
380:50 like too and there are some concepts I
380:52 don't like you know what I don't like
380:54 the way it is now because right now it's
380:56 a dangerous death trap gaza yeah
381:00 about Thank you sir can you talk a
381:02 little bit about uh your meeting
381:03 potential meeting with Vladimir Putin do
381:05 you still plan to meet with him could
381:07 that happen in Saudi Arabia and maybe
381:09 could I elaborate as well a little bit
381:11 on not providing tariffs on Russia sir
381:13 so uh the reason we're not talking about
381:16 tariffs with Russia is because we're not
381:18 doing business essentially with Russia
381:20 because they're in a war and I'm not
381:23 happy about what's going on with uh with
381:26 the bombing because they're bombing like
381:28 crazy right now they're bombing i don't
381:30 know what's happening there that's not a
381:32 good situation so we're meeting with
381:34 Russia we're meeting with Ukraine and
381:38 we're getting sort of close but I'm not
381:39 happy with all the bombing that's going
381:41 on the last uh week or so horrible it's
381:45 a horrible thing it's a horrible thing
381:51 countries to get below 10%
381:55 in in terms of tariffs
381:58 look we've been ripped off and taken
382:01 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
382:06 reason we got ripped off and the way
382:08 they did it was tariffs they were
382:10 charged tariffs massive numbers of
382:12 dollars and when you look at uh China
382:17 when I took over it was at 57 billion
382:21 dollars they were making I call it
382:22 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
382:24 mean anything having a surplus means a
382:26 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
382:28 profit or loss statement and when I took
382:31 over was 57 billion dollars that China
382:35 was this is originally first term and we
382:39 were very very tough on them because
382:42 they were taking that money and they
382:43 were building a military with it then
382:45 when Biden came in he let him get away
382:47 with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
382:49 what that man had no idea what was
382:50 happening whether it was the border or
382:52 China or anything else he had no idea
382:54 what was going on and they got they went
382:58 wild china went wild and the money they
383:01 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
383:04 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
383:06 along with China if we do that's great
383:08 and if we don't that's okay too but we
383:10 can't let that continue because that's a
383:12 that's an abuse they abused the poor
383:16 people that sat in the seat that poor
383:18 Biden he was abused by them they took
383:21 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
383:23 know they have smart people they were
383:24 radical left lunatics but they're smart
383:27 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
383:29 you know to to happen but uh we are
383:32 going to bring great trade and we're
383:35 going to be fair to other countries and
383:37 I I will say this uh virtually every
383:41 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
383:44 do what I did over the last couple of
383:47 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
383:49 negotiate we would have gone to these
383:51 countries you want to talk and they were
383:53 well we don't want to talk now they're
383:55 coming to us they're offering things
383:57 like even BB this is unrelated because
384:00 it's a different kind of a relationship
384:02 but he started off our conversation
384:04 today that he's cutting all of the
384:05 tariffs he's cutting everything he's
384:07 going to get down to a free base he's
384:09 going to do things that in all fairness
384:12 other countries if they said that would
384:14 have never even thought about doing it
384:16 now they're offering things to us that
384:19 we would have never even thought of
384:21 asking them for because they're
384:24 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
384:27 is that they've taken advantage of us
384:29 and we finally fought back tariffs will
384:32 make this country very rich we're rich
384:34 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
384:37 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
384:41 to get rid of it and we can do it
384:43 quickly with proper deals so when
384:48 countries don't allow us to sell our
384:50 product but we allow them to sell their
384:52 product when they charge us massive
384:54 amounts of money for the privilege of
384:56 going into their country those days are
384:58 over
385:01 okay yeah go ahead sir me
385:06 he sounds so surprised mr president um
385:09 on Iran uh two questions please first
385:12 you can give us more details about where
385:13 the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
385:15 tell you that i I can just tell you
385:17 there's a major meeting going on between
385:20 us and Iran and that'll take place on
385:23 Saturday and it's at top level and
385:25 second question about this um a lot of
385:28 people think that those talks are not
385:30 going to lead anywhere because the I
385:32 don't give up i think that's a
385:35 possibility
385:36 if diplomacy fails is the United States
385:39 under your leadership ready to take
385:41 military action to destroy the Iranian
385:44 nuclear program program and remove this
385:46 threat
385:49 i think if the talks aren't successful
385:51 with
385:52 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
385:55 great danger and I hate to say it great
385:58 danger because they can't have a nuclear
385:59 weapon so is that a yes you know it's
386:01 not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
386:05 have a nuclear weapon that's all there
386:06 is can't have it right now we have
386:09 countries that have nuclear power that
386:11 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
386:15 be able to negotiate out of that too as
386:16 part of this later on down the line but
386:20 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
386:23 the talks aren't
386:25 successful I actually think it'll be a
386:28 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
386:30 yeah
386:32 on manufacturing yeah please mr
386:34 president was October 7th the death blow
386:37 of the two-state solution and would you
386:39 consider classifying the Palestinian
386:41 Authority as a terrorist organization
386:42 for its continued paper slake terror
386:44 financing payments so October 7th was a
386:47 horrible day that some people they they
386:50 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
386:52 from the standpoint of they do it
386:54 because they think it's good politically
386:56 but October I've seen the tapes i've
386:58 seen things that you don't want to see
387:00 october 7th was a horrible day and it
387:02 will go down as one of the really bad
387:05 days in the history of the world it was
387:08 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
387:11 happened and they grabbed some of these
387:13 people i'll give you an example when I
387:15 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
387:19 I said "So how many are there?"
387:21 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
387:25 They sort of knew the territory pretty
387:27 good and I said "How are they doing?"
387:31 She They said "Well only 24 are living
387:33 the rest are dead." And these are young
387:36 people largely young people don't die
387:38 you know young people have an amazing
387:40 ability to live they can live through
387:43 horrible things but these are young
387:45 people and when they said that 24 are
387:48 living and the rest are dead and you
387:50 know I've had parents come up Israeli
387:53 parents largely we have some Americans
387:55 and we had I guess we have uh one left
387:59 Alex we have the one left but but I've
388:02 had Israeli parents come up to me at
388:05 events and say my son is there i said
388:09 well how's he doing well he's dead but
388:11 would you do me the biggest favor ever
388:14 could you bring his body back home they
388:16 talked about a young dead boy and a
388:19 young dead girl like they were living
388:24 and that could have something to do with
388:25 religion that could have something to do
388:27 with I guess maybe any parent would be
388:29 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
388:33 son is
388:34 dead it is just as important to bring
388:36 that body back home." I asked that
388:39 question as if he were alive so you have
388:42 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
388:45 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
388:48 thing that's happened these are young
388:50 largely young people some old ones too
388:52 frankly and those people have lived in
388:54 hell when they came off the second group
388:56 that came out they look like uh they
388:58 just got out of a concentration camp
389:00 they look exactly like the pictures that
389:03 I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
389:06 camps
389:07 and then they got a little bit better
389:10 you know as but that second group those
389:12 people came out and I said "This is
389:14 unbelievable we're going back into a a
389:16 chapter in history that is one of the
389:19 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
389:28 american manufacturing fully up to speed
389:30 in response to these tariffs what
389:32 happens in the meantime should Americans
389:34 be prepared potentially for years
389:37 we have
389:38 now seven trillion dollars think of this
389:42 7 trillion of commitments from companies
389:46 wanting to go in from Apple to many many
389:48 companies many from Taiwan what it takes
389:52 time to Of course it takes Well are you
389:54 asking me a question or you telling me
389:56 yeah it takes time you know you got to
389:58 build a thing called the factory you
390:00 have to build your energy you have to do
390:02 uh a lot of things i'm giving them
390:04 energy you know we're going to let them
390:06 build their own power plants they'll be
390:08 their own essentially they're going to
390:10 be in charge of the power plant because
390:12 our uh power is not reliable enough you
390:16 have a grid that's old and susceptible
390:18 to a lot of things including bombing and
390:21 weather and a lot of other things and
390:23 we're going to give them record timing
390:25 in terms of approvals of electric plants
390:28 most of them want to build electric
390:29 plants we need massive amounts of
390:31 electricity if we're going to compete
390:32 with China and others and interestingly
390:35 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
390:38 with China but the way we lose that race
390:40 is if we can't give them electric but we
390:43 have more plants being built we have
390:45 everything we're doing so great and we
390:48 want to keep it that way and tariffs
390:50 will be an important part of it but one
390:52 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
390:54 doing a fantastic job head of
390:56 environmental protection and he's doing
390:58 very rapid approvals for people to get
391:01 for big companies to that are going to
391:03 build a plant that's going to cost
391:05 billions of dollars and we're going to
391:07 get them their approvals they have to be
391:09 environmentally perfect everything good
391:11 but they're going to be in record time a
391:13 matter of months versus a matter of many
391:15 many years
391:20 go ahead
391:22 from Harris um Turkey claims it will
391:26 stabilize uh the situation in Syria
391:29 turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
391:33 Turkey to influence Syria what do you
391:35 think do you think uh Turkeykey's
391:37 influence in Syria can actually make it
391:39 a better more peaceful country or vice
391:41 versa well I have uh great relations
391:44 with a man named Erdogan have you heard
391:46 of him and I happen to like him and he
391:48 likes me and I know the press will get
391:50 very angry he likes her to want but I do
391:53 and he likes me and we've never had a
391:55 problem and and we've gone through a lot
391:56 and we've never had a problem we always
391:58 got we as you remember we got our
392:01 minister back from Turkey you remember
392:03 that and uh this was a big deal at the
392:06 time and we got him back uh and I told
392:10 the prime minister I said "Just BB if
392:14 you have a problem with Turkey I really
392:16 think I'm going to be able to work it
392:17 out you know I have a very very good
392:18 relationship
392:20 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
392:23 I think we'll be able to work it out so
392:25 I hope that's not going to be a problem
392:26 i don't think it will be a problem now
392:28 with that being said I believe it was
392:30 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
392:34 it i said "Congratulations you've done
392:37 what nobody's been able to do in 2,000
392:39 years you've taken over Syria with
392:41 different names but same thing." I said
392:44 "You've taken it over." He's taken it
392:46 over through surrogates he goes "No no
392:48 no no no no it was not me it was I said
392:50 it was you." But that's okay you don't
392:53 have to say "Well it sort of maybe was
392:55 me." Okay but what he did he look he's a
392:58 tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
393:01 did something that nobody was able to do
393:03 you know you got to hand it to him uh
393:05 any problem that you have with Turkey I
393:08 think I can solve i mean as long as
393:10 you're reasonable you have to be
393:11 reasonable we have to be reasonable
393:13 thank you very much everybody appreciate
393:15 thank you thank
393:27 you standing with us you are a great
393:30 great champion of our alliance and uh
393:34 you actually do the things that you say
393:37 you do and I I think that people respect
393:40 that enormously i certainly do and
393:42 people of Israel do and I think the
393:44 Jewish people do as well we just saw
393:47 your representative in the the
393:49 Department of Justice fighting
393:51 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
393:53 international forums i just want you to
393:56 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
393:58 appreciated as you said we had the
394:00 opportunity to talk today about many
394:03 subjects uh first if I can mention
394:05 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
394:07 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
394:11 to the president a very simple thing we
394:14 will eliminate the trade deficit with
394:16 the United States we intend to do it
394:18 very quickly we think it's the right
394:21 thing to do and we're going to also
394:23 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
394:26 trade barriers that have been put up
394:28 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
394:30 serve as a model for many countries who
394:34 ought to do the same i recognize the the
394:38 position of the United States it says
394:40 you know we're allowing other countries
394:42 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
394:45 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
394:47 trade champion and free trade has to be
394:49 fair trade and I think that's basically
394:52 uh the position that you have uh put
394:54 forward Mr president we are going to
394:57 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
395:00 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
395:02 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
395:05 we could affect this quickly and I hope
395:07 to bring a solution very quickly we're
395:10 not talking about intentions we're not
395:12 talking about uh you know just words
395:15 we're talking about results those
395:17 results are going to come that's the
395:19 first Thank you very much that's very
395:20 nice thank you thank you Mr president
395:22 where are the hostages here well let him
395:26 let him finish let him
395:27 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
395:31 the hostages
395:32 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
395:35 is a human story of un just unbearable
395:40 uh agony i I speak to the families i
395:43 spoke to them yesterday spoke to another
395:46 one when I was in Hungary before I came
395:48 here i speak to them every day they're
395:50 in agony the hostages are in agony and
395:53 we want to get them all out uh Steve
395:56 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
395:58 able representative helped us get a deal
396:00 that got 25 out we're working now on
396:03 another deal that we hope will succeed
396:06 uh and we're committed to getting all
396:07 the hostages out but also eliminating
396:10 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
396:15 and enabling the people of Gaza to
396:18 freely make a choice to go wherever they
396:20 want i mean they should have that choice
396:22 and the president put forward a vision a
396:24 bold vision which we discussed as well
396:28 including the uh countries that might uh
396:32 be amendable and are amendable to
396:34 accepting Palestinians of their free
396:36 choice if they choose to go there and I
396:39 think that's the second thing that we
396:40 discussed uh but the hostages came right
396:43 on top uh we also discussed the
396:46 situation uh in Syria
396:49 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
396:53 relations with Turkey that have
396:54 deteriorated and we don't want to see
396:57 Syria being used by anyone including
396:59 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
397:01 turkey is
397:02 a country
397:04 that has a great relationship with the
397:08 United States the president has a
397:10 relationship with the leader of Turkey
397:12 we discussed how we can avoid this
397:14 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
397:17 think we can't have a better
397:19 interlocator than the president of the
397:21 United States for this purpose and of
397:23 course we also discussed Iran look we're
397:26 both united in the uh goal that Iran
397:29 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
397:32 can be done diplomatically in a full way
397:34 the way it was done in Libya I think
397:36 that would be a good thing uh but
397:39 whatever happens we have to make sure
397:40 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
397:44 that's the end of my speech
397:47 mr we are we're having direct talks with
397:51 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
397:53 having direct talks with Iran and uh
397:57 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
398:00 have a very big meeting and we'll see
398:02 what can happen and I think everybody
398:04 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
398:08 preferable to doing the obvious and the
398:12 obvious is not something that I want to
398:14 be involved with or frankly that Israel
398:17 wants to be involved with if they can
398:19 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
398:20 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
398:24 dangerous
398:25 territory and hopefully those talks will
398:28 be successful and I think it would be in
398:30 Iran's best interest if they are
398:32 successful we hope we hope that's going
398:34 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
398:37 good talks on a lot of things i
398:38 appreciate very much what you said about
398:40 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
398:42 taken advantage of by many countries
398:44 over the years and uh can't do it
398:47 anymore just can't do it anymore we
398:49 can't be the stupid people anymore and
398:51 it's all because of the people that sat
398:54 in the seat right here not your seat but
398:56 this seat they allowed things to happen
398:59 to our country that they shouldn't have
399:00 allowed to happen on trade and other
399:02 things many other things i mean look at
399:04 what's happened with our last president
399:06 where he allowed millions of people to
399:08 come into our country with an open
399:10 border who would want an open border how
399:13 stupid is that but uh he allowed
399:16 millions and millions of people and of
399:18 the millions and I think it was 21
399:20 million people but let's say three of
399:22 them were serious criminals serious
399:25 murderers and drug dealers and gang
399:27 members and people from jails all the
399:29 jails emptied out right into our country
399:32 right along the open border on the on
399:35 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
399:37 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
399:40 but generally speaking on the southern
399:42 border and uh what a shame it is that we
399:45 are now working very hard to get them
399:47 out get the criminals out get the
399:48 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
399:51 mentally insane get them out they
399:54 dropped the mentally insane in our
399:55 country too and this was all done by the
399:57 Biden administration it's a disgrace
400:00 that we have to work so hard and then we
400:02 have judges that try and protect these
400:03 people but they didn't protect us when
400:06 the people were being let in but to get
400:08 them out is never easy with these people
400:10 so uh I think we're doing a great job
400:13 the border is the best it's ever been
400:16 even as strong as it was I had a great
400:19 solid border i think it might even be
400:21 tougher right now and stronger so people
400:24 are coming into our country but they're
400:26 coming in legally we have a legal
400:27 process and we have that moving along
400:30 properly because we need people to come
400:31 into our country but we want people that
400:33 can love our country and cherish our
400:36 country so that's where we are and with
400:38 that any questions
400:43 would you be open to a pause in
400:45 terrorists to allow for negotiations
400:48 well we're not looking at that we have
400:50 many many uh countries that are coming
400:52 to negotiate deals with us and they're
400:54 going to be fair deals and in certain
400:57 cases they're going to be be paying
400:59 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
401:02 deals as you know I spoke this morning
401:04 with the prime minister of Japan and we
401:07 had a very good conversation they're
401:09 coming and I said "One thing you're
401:11 going to have to open up your country
401:13 because we sold no cars like zero cars
401:16 in Japan." And they sold millions of
401:18 cars into our country uh they don't
401:21 really take our agriculture a little bit
401:23 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
401:25 they don't take what they're supposed to
401:26 be taking so we have a great
401:28 relationship with Japan we're going to
401:29 keep it that way but they're coming in
401:31 to meet and other C countries are coming
401:33 in uh with China as you know against my
401:38 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
401:43 what their ridiculous tariffs were
401:45 already and I said if that tariff isn't
401:48 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
401:50 putting a 50% tariff on above the
401:54 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
401:56 for years they become a rich country
401:58 because of people again that were in the
402:00 White House that allowed this to happen
402:02 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
402:05 year they'd make on us on trade and it
402:07 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
402:09 great relationship with President Xi i
402:11 hope it's going to stay that way i have
402:13 great respect for China but they can't
402:15 do this we're just uh we're going to
402:18 have one shot at this and no other
402:20 president's going to do this what I'm
402:21 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
402:24 honor to do it because we have been just
402:27 just destroyed what they've done to our
402:30 system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
402:32 debt for a reason and uh the reason is
402:36 that people allowed it to get that way
402:38 so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
402:41 talking to a lot of different countries
402:44 and I think you know if if if we can
402:47 make a really fair deal and a good deal
402:50 for the United States not a good deal
402:51 for others this is America first it's
402:54 now America first and we didn't put
402:56 America first we put America last the
402:58 people that were in the Oval Office put
403:01 America last and we're not going to
403:02 stand for it
403:08 go ahead represent the US in the talks
403:11 go ahead um two questions do you expect
403:14 any of these deals to be made before
403:16 April 9th and secondly there have been
403:18 some mixed messages from your
403:19 administration you're talking about
403:20 negotiations and yet others in your
403:22 administration are saying that these
403:24 tariffs are actually permanent what is
403:26 that well it could be they can both be
403:28 truth there can be permanent tariffs and
403:31 there can also be negotiations because
403:33 there are things that we need beyond
403:35 tariffs we need open borders you know we
403:37 almost had a deal with China where we're
403:40 going to open up China it was almost
403:41 done some of you remember it during my
403:43 first term and it was very disappointing
403:45 we ended up making a great deal.$50
403:47 billion dollars worth of uh product or
403:50 so 50 billion you'd like that in Israel
403:52 and I made that deal but it wasn't the
403:54 deal that I wanted it was uh the deal
403:57 that I wanted was that plus they were
403:59 going to open up China so that our
404:01 companies could go into China and
404:03 compete with other countries and China
404:06 for the you know for a large number of
404:08 people and at the very end that deal was
404:11 terminated and we went to a piece of the
404:14 deal and there so there are a lot of
404:17 things outside of tariffs but tariffs
404:19 are very important but there are a lot
404:20 of things like opening up countries that
404:23 were totally closed china's essentially
404:25 a closed country in fact it is a closed
404:28 country and what they do is they charge
404:30 tariffs so that if you if you sell cars
404:33 or if you sell anything uh nobody's
404:35 going to buy it because the price is out
404:37 of control but that's true with a lot of
404:39 other countries also so we're going to
404:41 get fair deals and good deals with every
404:44 country and if we don't we're going to
404:45 have nothing to do with them they're not
404:47 going to be allowed to participate in
404:48 the United States
404:59 i'll just relax we have time this
405:02 gentleman is all day long mr many
405:06 of you go ahead
405:40 maybe talk about it for a second because
405:42 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
405:44 we've we've been very tough and very
405:46 successful
405:47 militarily we've
405:50 uh really damaged them badly these were
405:53 people shooting down ships and other
405:55 things by the way flying objects like
405:58 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
406:02 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
406:04 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
406:10 and and it's every night night after
406:13 night and we've gotten many of their
406:16 leaders and their experts their experts
406:18 on missiles i mean they actually make
406:20 missiles nobody thought that but they
406:22 make missiles they're highly
406:24 sophisticated and they're very tough but
406:27 they've been uh very badly damaged
406:29 nobody else was able to do that but us
406:31 pete do you want to discuss that please
406:33 yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
406:35 for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
406:38 worse it's been a devastating campaign
406:40 whether it's underground facilities
406:42 weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
406:45 the open air defense assets we are not
406:48 going to relent and it's only to get
406:50 more unrelenting until the Houthis
406:52 declare they will stop shooting at our
406:54 ships and we've been very clear with the
406:55 Iranians as well uh they uh they should
406:58 not continue to provide support to the
407:00 Houthis and that message has been made
407:02 very clear so we have a lot more options
407:05 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
407:07 know because we see the reports how
407:09 devastating this campaign has been in
407:10 them and we will not run we have a great
407:13 military there's no military like our
407:16 military and despite Biden having given
407:19 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
407:21 piece but it was a lot of our military
407:24 away in Afghanistan and one of the
407:27 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
407:29 most embarrassing situation we've ever
407:32 been involved in that that short period
407:34 of time in
407:35 Afghanistan what a disgrace that was but
407:39 uh left a lot of our military behind
407:41 left left left you see them in their
407:43 annual parades where they're parading
407:46 trucks that are armorplated and
407:47 different things that they can't but
407:48 it's many billions of dollars we left
407:51 behind but despite that uh we have a
407:54 tremendous military that was a very
407:56 small portion because we rebuilt the
407:58 military during my first term and uh we
408:02 uh we have great uh great things
408:04 happening with our military we also uh
408:07 essentially approved a budget which is
408:10 in the facility you'll like to hear this
408:12 of a trillion dollars $1
408:14 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
408:17 it we have to build our military and
408:19 we're very costconscious but the
408:22 military is something that we have to
408:23 build and we have to be strong because
408:25 you got a lot of bad forces out there
408:26 now so we're going to be approving a
408:28 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
408:31 actually the biggest one we've ever done
408:32 for the military uh we're cutting other
408:35 things that were uh under Doge but under
408:38 a lot of other when you look at uh a
408:41 woman getting $2 billion for
408:44 environmental and it had nothing to do
408:45 with environmental and they had $100 in
408:48 the bank and they give her two billion
408:50 many many of those cases all that stuff
408:52 is going to be cut out but we are
408:54 getting a very very powerful military we
408:57 have things under order now the likes of
409:00 which we've never had before or we've
409:01 never had the kind of uh aircraft the
409:04 kind of missiles or anything uh that we
409:08 have ordered and it's in many ways too
409:10 bad that we have to do it because
409:12 hopefully we're not going to have to use
409:13 it but the military is very very
409:16 powerful and uh it's going to remain
409:18 that way
409:25 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
409:27 you about this
409:31 The US is having a
409:33 great is it possible to give us some
409:35 more information at what level is the US
409:38 high level very high level yeah we're
409:40 dealing with the Iranians we have a very
409:42 big meeting on Saturday and we're
409:45 dealing with them directly you know a
409:47 lot of people say "Oh maybe you're going
409:48 through surrogates or you're not dealing
409:50 directly you're dealing through other
409:51 countries." No we're dealing with them
409:53 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
409:55 be made that'll be great going to be It
409:58 would be really great for Iran and I can
410:00 tell you that but hopefully we're not
410:03 going to have to get into that we we are
410:05 meeting very importantly on Saturday at
410:09 almost the highest level and we'll see
410:11 how it works out please how do you
410:13 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
410:15 don't drive US trading partners into the
410:18 hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
410:20 about it i'm not worried about it if
410:22 they want to be in the hands of the US
410:24 they don't want to be in the hands of
410:25 the Chinese
410:26 uh the Chinese have turned out to be
410:28 really not very good at that uh people
410:31 that are with us they're with us but we
410:34 cannot be uh taken advantage of any
410:36 longer i used to watch these deals for
410:38 years i've been talking about it for
410:40 years you and I've been talking about it
410:41 for 35 years how our country is being
410:45 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
410:48 was Japan then it was something else
410:51 then it was another group then it was
410:53 China china's doing the the best job of
410:55 it frankly and it's just not going to
410:58 happen not going to happen
411:06 has said that they have offered zero for
411:09 zero tariffs on cars and industrial
411:11 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
411:14 not the EU has been very tough over the
411:18 years it was I always say it was formed
411:21 to really do damage to the United States
411:24 in trade that's the reason it was formed
411:27 it was formed with all of the countries
411:28 from Europe i guess most of them not all
411:31 of them but most of them and they formed
411:33 together to uh create a little bit of a
411:36 monopoly situation to create a unified
411:39 force against the United States for
411:41 trade so they have uh NATO which is
411:44 largely the same countries and they uh
411:48 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
411:50 militarily until I got there you know I
411:52 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
411:55 from NATO where they paid NATO because
411:58 most of these nations weren't even
412:00 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
412:02 paying them to guard them militarily and
412:04 they're screwing us on trade so that's
412:06 not a good combination so now uh it's
412:10 really turned around it's the opposite
412:12 and the European Union's been very ne
412:15 very bad to us they don't take our cars
412:18 like Japan in that sense they don't take
412:20 our agricultural product they don't take
412:23 anything practically and yet they send
412:26 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
412:29 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
412:32 and millions of cars into the US but we
412:34 don't have a car that's been sold to the
412:37 European Union or other places but let's
412:40 go for the European Union and it's not
412:42 going to be that way it's got to be fair
412:44 and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
412:47 not fair uh we have a deficit with the
412:49 European Union of $350
412:53 billion and it's going to disappear fast
412:56 and one of the reasons and one of the
412:58 ways that that can disappear easily and
413:00 quickly is they're going to have to buy
413:02 our energy from us because they need it
413:04 they're going to have to buy it from us
413:05 they can buy it we can knock off $350
413:07 billion in one week they have to buy and
413:11 commit to buy a like amount of energy
413:14 and we have that you know we have more
413:16 energy than any country in the world i
413:18 don't know if you know that he knows
413:19 everything but the one thing he may not
413:21 know we have more energy than any
413:23 country in the world we have more of
413:25 every kind of energy every form of
413:27 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
413:30 people talk about I call it beautiful
413:32 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
413:36 opening up a coal plant a week they
413:39 tried the windmills and it didn't work
413:41 they tried all the other solutions and
413:42 they were ready to go out of business
413:44 now they're doing a coal plant a week
413:46 china is now up to two coal plants that
413:49 uh they're opening two major coal plants
413:52 every single week in China all over
413:54 China and that we're not allowed to use
413:56 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
413:59 more than anybody else we have oil and
414:01 gas more than anybody else we have the
414:03 most energy of any country in the world
414:05 including Saudi Arabia including
414:07 everybody by a lot and I took it to
414:09 number one we were number three and I
414:12 took it to number one during my
414:13 administration
414:15 and the reason that we were hurt so
414:17 badly and the reason that we went into
414:19 such incredible inflation during Biden
414:22 is energy it was also their bad spending
414:25 but energy because they played around
414:28 with this incredible thing that we had
414:31 built this administration had built and
414:33 the energy cost went through the roof
414:35 and when that went up everything else
414:36 followed now if you look at what's
414:39 happening you're going to see this today
414:41 i said we're going to try and get
414:42 groceries down right oldfashioned term
414:45 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
414:48 got in the press went absolutely crazy
414:51 the first week they said "Eggs have
414:53 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
414:55 here tell me about it." And Brooke
414:58 Rollins and our team did a great job and
415:00 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
415:03 over the place and this was a problem
415:05 that somebody else would have taken a
415:07 long time to cure uh we have energy is
415:10 down we have interest rates are down we
415:13 have groceries meaning food is down we
415:17 have everything is down at levels that
415:19 nobody ever thought possible energy
415:21 looks like it's going to be in in the
415:23 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
415:26 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
415:31 are we're really doing amazing i mean
415:34 we're we're cutting prices because
415:36 prices got so high people couldn't live
415:38 i mean the prices for groceries the
415:40 prices for standard standard groceries
415:43 standard things were going through the
415:45 roof they couldn't live and now those
415:46 prices are coming down so call them
415:49 groceries but that's down energy is down
415:51 and interest rates are down everything's
415:54 down and the interest rates the beauty
415:56 there is when we refinance debt you know
415:58 debts become such a big factor in this
416:00 country we're going to get we're going
416:02 to start paying debt off with tariffs
416:04 and other things but uh it's such a big
416:06 factor because the interest rates so
416:08 high well now that's coming way down so
416:11 our budget's going to look a lot better
416:12 because interest costs are way down and
416:16 I guess I've done that
416:21 many Israelis are watching you now our
416:24 last show good what is your specific I
416:26 hope they like getting the hostages out
416:29 from the horrific activity yeah we are
416:31 trying very hard to get the hostages out
416:34 uh we're looking at another ceasefire
416:36 we'll see what happens but we have we
416:39 want to get the hostages out the Israeli
416:41 people want the hostages out more than
416:43 anything they want the hostages out this
416:46 man is working very hard with us to do
416:48 that i mean I don't know i hope he's
416:50 being appreciated because he's been a
416:52 great leader he's working very very hard
416:54 on the hostages and many other things
416:56 and there are plenty of things you have
416:58 to work on it's a it's a tough place in
417:00 the world i have a good partner yeah you
417:02 do have a good partner and so do we we
417:05 we're working very hard on the hospital
417:09 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
417:11 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
417:14 going to be more effective than the
417:16 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
417:19 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
417:21 lot stronger but they were so happy when
417:24 we made that first deal because we did
417:26 get a lot out you know I had people
417:28 right in this office this beautiful oval
417:30 office they came in 10 people hostages
417:33 you know that and I said to them uh so
417:36 how was it and the stories they told me
417:38 I mean as an example I said to them was
417:42 there any sign of love you were there 10
417:45 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
417:48 representative did the Hamas show any
417:52 signs of like help or liking you did
417:56 they wink at you did they give you a
417:57 piece of bread extra did they give you a
418:00 meal on the side like you know you think
418:02 of doing like what happened in Germany
418:05 what happened elsewhere people would try
418:07 and help people that were in
418:09 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
418:12 said "All of them." I said "Did they
418:14 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
418:16 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
418:18 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
418:22 unbelievable and the lives you know they
418:24 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
418:26 was a pipe and they always thought they
418:28 were suffocating they were going to
418:30 suffocate and then they'd open up the
418:32 pipe and it was like three and a half ft
418:34 high this isn't you know we hear tunnel
418:36 is bad but pipes are worse and the
418:39 stories I heard were incredible but I
418:41 just said "Was there any sign of
418:43 potential love or affection?" And there
418:45 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
418:47 me there was nothing like "Here take
418:50 this it's a little extra meal or
418:51 something." They lived like hell i I
418:54 don't know they seem to be they were
418:57 amazing to me because they seemed to be
418:58 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
419:02 I guarantee underneath they have to be
419:04 scarred and one was there for
419:07 356 days another was there for about 180
419:11 days you know long time these are people
419:14 that have been really really horribly
419:16 treated i've never seen anything like it
419:18 actually I was very surprised to hear
419:20 the answer
419:22 thank you Mr president are there two or
419:25 three countries that on your list that
419:27 you feel are farther along in getting
419:29 their tariffs lowered i think Well I
419:33 think there are many that want to get
419:35 rid of tariffs right now uh European
419:38 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
419:40 us they've you know they've brought
419:42 their car tariffs essentially off i
419:44 guess they brought it down to two and a
419:46 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
419:49 it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
419:51 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
419:54 things on that make it impossible for
419:55 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
419:57 it's they make it so difficult the
419:59 standards and the tests uh they drop a
420:02 bowling ball on the top of your car from
420:04 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
420:06 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
420:08 car doesn't qualify when the same car
420:11 from Germany or any would dent likewise
420:13 unless you're going to have an army tank
420:15 it's going to dent so they come up with
420:17 rules and regulations that are uh just
420:21 designed for one reason that you can't
420:23 sell your product in those countries and
420:26 and uh we're not going to let that
420:27 happen those are called nonmonetary
420:30 barriers they make barriers that are so
420:33 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
420:36 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
420:38 there's another big part of it and
420:40 that's barriers they also do something
420:43 else they manipulate their currency and
420:45 they drive it down they want to drive it
420:47 they want to have low currencies you
420:48 know uh it sounds better to have a high
420:50 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
420:53 uh they bring their currency down and
420:57 when it competes with our currency it's
420:58 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
421:01 hard to sell product because their
421:03 currency is low and ours is much higher
421:07 relatively and so it makes it very hard
421:09 i speak to a lot of companies that do
421:12 business tractor companies and they say
421:14 it's so hard to sell because what
421:17 they've done is they've lowered the yen
421:18 or they've lowered the one or they've
421:20 lowered their currency so that it's very
421:23 hard to compete we don't want that
421:25 either so we have a lot of things that
421:28 we're talking about but we're going to
421:29 fix it properly and it's going to be
421:31 fair to everybody and in the end I think
421:33 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
421:35 better you know but they have to respect
421:37 the United States and and nobody but me
421:39 would do this nobody but me would do
421:41 this you know it's would be nice to
421:43 serve a nice easy term but we have an
421:46 opportunity to change the fabric of our
421:48 country we have an opportunity to reset
421:50 the table on trade we lose billions of
421:55 dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
421:58 dollars a year on trade we lose a
422:00 trillion dollars a year to China a
422:02 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
422:06 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
422:10 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
422:14 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
422:17 why would we do that number one why
422:19 would we do that and then you have to
422:21 say is it sustainable then you hear
422:22 about all of the people that say "Well
422:24 deficits if we have a deficit with a
422:26 country or if the country has a big
422:28 surplus with us like China has a massive
422:30 surplus that they take and they spend on
422:33 their military." Well we don't want that
422:35 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
422:38 dollars a year and spend it on their
422:40 military i don't want them spending
422:42 money on their military and I shouldn't
422:44 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
422:46 spend it either because you know
422:48 hopefully and I said this to President
422:49 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
422:51 going to use in other words because
422:53 we're not going to use those incredible
422:55 weapons that we have and that they have
422:58 we don't want that so uh it's going to
423:00 be very interesting it's it's the only
423:03 chance our pre our country will have to
423:07 reset the table because no other
423:10 president would be willing to do what
423:12 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
423:14 don't mind going through it because I
423:16 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
423:19 but we are making tremendous progress
423:21 with a lot of countries and the
423:24 countries that really took advantage of
423:25 us are now saying please negotiate you
423:28 know why because they're getting beaten
423:31 badly because of what's happening
423:33 they're getting beaten badly they're
423:35 being devalued as countries but it's the
423:38 only chance we're going to have to reset
423:40 the table on trade and when we do we're
423:43 going to come out unbelievably well
423:44 we're gonna have a strong country
423:45 economically again and we're going to
423:48 have those factories that are empty all
423:50 over the United States we've lost
423:53 90,000 plants and factories think of
423:56 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
423:58 possible 90,000 plants and factories
424:01 since NAFTA which was by the way the
424:03 worst trade deal ever ever developed
424:06 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
424:08 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
424:10 would be impossible and I terminated
424:12 through Congress we terminated it you
424:14 had to get it through Congress it was a
424:16 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
424:18 it
424:22 done problem is they cheat they cheat
424:25 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
424:28 just one of those things but we are
424:32 resetting a table and we're going to
424:33 have great trade and we're going to have
424:36 a very strong country our country is
424:37 going to be at a level that is as maybe
424:40 never been or maybe you know our country
424:43 was the strongest believe it or not from
424:45 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
424:49 tariff based we had no income tax then
424:52 in 1913 some genius came up with the
424:55 idea of let's charge the people of our
424:57 country not foreign countries that are
424:59 ripping off our country and the country
425:03 was never relatively was never that kind
425:06 of wealth we had so much wealth we
425:08 didn't know what to do with our money we
425:10 had meetings we had we had committees
425:13 and these committees worked tirelessly
425:16 to study one subject we have so much
425:20 money what are we going to do with it
425:21 who are we going to give it to and I
425:23 hope we're going to be in that position
425:24 again
425:29 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
425:31 your government put on Israeli boots on
425:34 where on Israeli boots 70% do you Well
425:38 we're talking about a whole new trade
425:41 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
425:44 Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
425:46 billion dollars a year that's a lot
425:48 congratulations by the way that's pretty
425:51 cool but we give Israel billions of
425:53 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
425:57 the highest of And we give a lot of We
426:00 give a lot of countries money uh you
426:02 wouldn't believe if I said we give
426:04 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
426:07 because that was a Biden deal another
426:08 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
426:10 with that but they give them billions of
426:13 dollars Afghanistan right so uh but no
426:16 we uh we take good care of our friends
426:19 and we don't take care of our enemies
426:20 we're not taking care of our enemies
426:22 anymore but we do take care of our
426:23 friends
426:26 the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
426:28 again in the Gaza Strip i myself might
426:30 be called up in a month do you think
426:31 that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
426:34 to a deal and do you think blocking
426:35 humanitarian aid is also an effective
426:37 pressure well you know how I feel about
426:38 the Gaza Strip i think it's an
426:40 incredible piece of important real
426:43 estate and I think it's something that
426:46 we would be involved in but you know
426:49 having a peace force like the United
426:51 States there controlling and owning the
426:53 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
426:56 right now all it is is for years and
426:58 years all I hear about is killing and
427:00 Hamas and problems and if you take the
427:03 people the Palestinians and move them
427:05 around to different countries and you
427:07 have plenty of countries that will do
427:09 that and you really have a freedom a
427:13 freedom zone you call it the freedom
427:14 zone a free zone a zone where people
427:17 aren't going to be killed every day
427:18 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
427:21 what I call it a great location that
427:23 nobody wants to live in because they
427:25 really don't and when they had good li
427:28 when they have good living real living
427:30 where Hamas and all of the the problems
427:32 they have the the level of debt on the
427:35 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
427:38 said it i I don't understand why Israel
427:41 ever gave it up israel owned it it
427:43 wasn't this man so I can say it he
427:45 wouldn't have given it up i know him
427:47 very well there's no way they took
427:50 oceanfront property and they gave it to
427:52 people for peace how did that work out
427:54 not good is the immigration sorry Mr
427:57 president is the immigration
428:01 which immigration ghana gaza all it is
428:05 is a a concept that I had that I think
428:08 is good and now people are copying it
428:09 you know baby do you want to tell people
428:11 are talking about the Trump plan gee why
428:13 do we do that uh would you like to
428:16 answer that question i I think what the
428:18 president talked about is first of all
428:19 to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
428:23 closed in and any other place including
428:26 in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
428:28 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
428:31 people could leave gaza was the only
428:34 place where they locked them in we
428:36 didn't lock them in they're locked in
428:38 and what is wrong with giving people a
428:41 choice now we've been talking including
428:44 over lunch about some countries are
428:47 won't go into them right now that are
428:49 saying you know if Gazins want to leave
428:51 we want to take them in and I think this
428:54 is this is the right thing to do if you
428:57 give you know it's going to take years
428:58 to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
429:01 can have an option president has a
429:03 vision countries are responding to that
429:05 vision we're working on it i hope we'll
429:06 have good news for you
429:09 i will say people love Excuse me people
429:12 really do love that vision uh it's a
429:14 long-term vision but so importantly is
429:17 to have that be a a safe field because
429:21 you're right smack in the middle of the
429:23 Middle East you're right along Israel it
429:25 should have never ever been given away
429:27 shouldn't have been given away by Israel
429:29 i don't know why they did it i mean I do
429:31 know why because they were promised
429:32 peace but that didn't work out too well
429:34 because it's one of the most dangerous
429:36 pieces of land anywhere in the world
429:39 gaza is one of the most dangerous places
429:41 in the world so they gave it away for
429:43 good intention and it it didn't work out
429:45 that way and uh a lot of people like my
429:49 concept but you know there are other
429:51 concepts that I like too and there are
429:53 some concepts I don't like you know what
429:55 I don't like the way it is now because
429:56 right now it's a dangerous death trap
429:59 gaza yeah
430:02 thank you sir can you talk a little bit
430:03 about uh your meeting potential meeting
430:05 with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
430:08 meet with him could that happen in Saudi
430:10 Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
430:11 well a little bit on not providing
430:13 tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
430:17 we're not talking about tariffs with
430:19 Russia is because we're not doing
430:20 business essentially with Russia because
430:22 they're in a war and I'm not happy about
430:25 what's going on with uh with the bombing
430:28 because they're bombing like crazy right
430:30 now they're bombing i don't know what's
430:32 happening there that's not a good
430:34 situation so we're meeting with Russia
430:37 we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
430:39 getting sort of close but I'm not happy
430:41 with all the bombing that's going on the
430:43 last uh week or so horrible it's a
430:46 horrible thing it's a horrible thing
430:52 countries to get below 10%
430:56 in in terms of tariffs
431:00 look we've been ripped off and taken
431:02 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
431:08 reason we got ripped off and the way
431:09 they did it was tariffs they were
431:12 charged tariffs massive numbers of
431:14 dollars and when you look at uh China
431:18 when I took over it was at 57 billion
431:22 dollars they were making I call it
431:24 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
431:25 mean anything having a surplus means a
431:27 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
431:29 profit or loss statement and when I took
431:32 over was 57 billion dollars that China
431:37 with this is originally first term and
431:40 we were very very tough on them because
431:43 they were taking that money and they
431:45 were building a military with it then
431:46 when Biden came in he let him get away
431:49 with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
431:50 what that man had no idea what was
431:52 happening whether it was the border or
431:53 China or anything else he had no idea
431:56 what was going on and they got they went
432:00 wild china went wild and the money they
432:03 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
432:05 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
432:07 along with China if we do that's great
432:09 and if we don't that's okay too but we
432:11 can't let that continue because that's a
432:13 that's an abuse they abused the poor
432:17 people that sat in the seat that poor
432:19 Biden he was abused by them they took
432:22 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
432:24 know they have smart people they were
432:26 radical left lunatics but they're smart
432:28 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
432:31 you know to to happen but uh we are
432:34 going to bring great trade and we're
432:37 going to be fair to other countries and
432:39 I I will say this uh virtually every
432:43 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
432:46 do what I did over the last couple of
432:48 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
432:51 negotiate we would have gone to these
432:52 countries who want to talk and they were
432:54 well we don't want to talk now they're
432:56 coming to us they're offering things
432:59 like even BB this is unrelated because
433:01 it's a different kind of a relationship
433:03 but he started off our conversation
433:05 today that he's cutting all of the
433:07 tariffs he's cutting everything he's
433:09 going to get down to a free base he's
433:10 going to do things that in all fairness
433:14 other countries if they said that would
433:15 have never even thought about doing it
433:17 now they're offering things to us that
433:21 we would have never even thought of
433:23 asking them for because they're
433:26 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
433:28 is that they've taken advantage of us
433:30 and we finally fought back tariffs will
433:34 make this country very rich we're rich
433:36 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
433:38 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
433:42 to get rid of it and we can do it
433:44 quickly with proper deals so when
433:49 countries don't allow us to sell our
433:51 product but we allow them to sell their
433:53 product when they charge us massive
433:55 amounts of money for the privilege of
433:57 going into their country those days are
434:00 over
434:03 okay yeah go ahead sir me
434:08 he sounds so surprised mr president um
434:10 on Iran uh two questions please first
434:13 you can give us more details about where
434:15 the meeting on Saturday is going i can't
434:17 tell you that i I can just tell you
434:18 there's a major meeting going on between
434:21 us and Iran and that'll take place on
434:24 Saturday and it's at top level and
434:27 second question about this um a lot of
434:30 people think that those talks are not
434:32 going to lead anywhere because the I
434:34 will give up your I think that's a
434:37 possibility if diplomacy fails is the
434:40 United States under your leadership
434:42 ready to take military action to destroy
434:45 the Iranian nuclear program program and
434:47 remove this threat
434:50 i think if the talks aren't successful
434:53 with
434:54 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
434:56 great danger and I hate to say it great
434:59 danger because they can't have a nuclear
435:01 weapon so is that a yes you know it's
435:02 not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
435:06 have a nuclear weapon that's all there
435:08 is can't have it right now we have
435:10 countries that have nuclear power that
435:13 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
435:16 be able to negotiate out of that too as
435:18 part of this later on down the line but
435:21 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
435:24 the talks aren't
435:27 successful I actually think it'll be a
435:29 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
435:32 yeah
435:34 on manufacturing yeah please mr
435:35 president was October 7th the death blow
435:38 of the two-state solution and would you
435:40 consider classifying the Palestinian
435:42 Authority as a terrorist organization
435:44 for its continued paper sake terror
435:46 financing payments so October 7th was a
435:49 horrible day that some people they they
435:52 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
435:54 from the standpoint of they do it
435:55 because they think it's good politically
435:57 but October I've seen the tapes i've
435:59 seen things that you don't want to see
436:01 october 7th was a horrible day and it
436:03 will go down as one of the really bad
436:06 days in the history of the world it was
436:09 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
436:12 happened and they grabbed some of these
436:15 people i'll give you an example when I
436:17 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
436:20 I said "So how many are there?"
436:22 59 i said "Oh so 59 so we can get 59."
436:27 They sort of knew the territory pretty
436:29 good and I said "How are they doing?"
436:32 She they said "Well only 24 are living
436:35 the rest are dead." And these are young
436:37 people largely young people don't die
436:40 you know young people have an amazing
436:42 ability to live they can live through
436:44 horrible things but these are young
436:47 people and when they said that 24 are
436:49 living and the rest are dead and you
436:52 know I've had parents come up Israeli
436:54 parents largely we have some Americans
436:56 and we had I guess we have uh one left
437:00 Alex we have the one left but but I've
437:04 had Israeli parents come up to me at
437:07 events and say my son is there i said
437:10 well how's he doing well he's dead but
437:13 would you do me the biggest favor ever
437:15 could you bring his body back home they
437:18 talked about a young dead boy and a
437:21 young dead girl like they were living
437:25 and that could have something to do with
437:27 religion that could have something to do
437:28 with I guess maybe any parent would be
437:31 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
437:34 son is
437:35 dead it is just as important to bring
437:38 that body back home." I asked that
437:40 question as if he were alive so you have
437:44 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
437:46 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
437:49 thing that's happened these are young
437:51 largely young people some old ones too
437:53 frankly and those people have lived in
437:55 hell when they came off the second group
437:57 that came out they look like uh they
437:59 just got out of a concentration camp
438:02 they look exactly like the pictures that
438:04 I'd see from the 1940s the concentration
438:07 camps
438:09 and then they got a little bit better
438:11 you know as but that second group those
438:14 people came out and I said "This is
438:15 unbelievable we're going back into a a
438:18 chapter in history that is one of the
438:20 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
438:30 american manufacturing fully up to speed
438:32 in response to these tariffs what
438:34 happens in the meantime should Americans
438:35 be prepared potentially for years
438:39 we have
438:40 now seven trillion dollars think of this
438:44 7 trillion of commitments from companies
438:47 wanting to go in from Apple to many many
438:50 companies many from Taiwan what it takes
438:53 time to Of course it takes Well are you
438:55 asking me a question or you telling me
438:57 yeah it takes time you know you got to
438:59 build a thing called the factory you
439:01 have to build your energy you have to do
439:04 uh a lot of things i'm giving them
439:06 energy you know we're going to let them
439:07 build their own power plants they'll be
439:09 their own essentially they're going to
439:11 be in charge of the power plant because
439:14 our uh power is not reliable enough you
439:17 have a grid that's old and susceptible
439:20 to a lot of things including bombing and
439:22 weather and a lot of other things and
439:25 we're going to give them record timing
439:27 in terms of approvals of electric plants
439:29 most of them want to build electric
439:30 plants we need massive amounts of
439:32 electricity if we're going to compete
439:34 with China and others and interestingly
439:37 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
439:39 with China but the way we lose that race
439:42 is if we can't give them electric but we
439:44 have more plants being built we have
439:46 everything we're doing so great and we
439:49 want to keep it that way and tariffs
439:51 will be an important part of it but one
439:54 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
439:55 doing a fantastic job head of
439:57 environmental protection and he's doing
440:00 very rapid approvals for people to get
440:02 for big companies to that are going to
440:04 build a plant that's going to cost
440:07 billions of dollars and we're going to
440:09 get them their approvals they have to be
440:10 environmentally perfect everything good
440:12 but they're going to be in record time a
440:14 matter of months versus a matter of many
440:17 many years
440:22 go ahead
440:24 from Harris um Turkey claims it will
440:27 stabilize uh the situation in Syria
440:30 turkey yeah um Israel doesn't want
440:34 Turkey to influence Syria what do you
440:37 think do you think uh Turkeykey's
440:38 influence in Syria can actually make it
440:41 a better more peaceful country or vice
440:43 versa well I have uh great relations
440:45 with a man named Erdogan have you heard
440:47 of him and I happen to like him and he
440:50 likes me and I know the press will get
440:51 very angry he likes her to want but I do
440:54 and he likes me and we've never had a
440:56 problem and and we've gone through a lot
440:58 and we've never had a problem we always
441:00 got we as you remember we got our
441:02 minister back from Turkey you remember
441:04 that and uh this was a big deal at the
441:08 time and we got him back uh and I told
441:12 the prime minister I said just BB if you
441:16 have a problem with Turkey I really
441:17 think I'm going to be able to work it
441:18 out you know I have a very very good
441:20 relationship
441:21 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
441:25 I think we'll be able to work it out so
441:26 I hope that's not going to be a problem
441:28 i don't think it will be a problem now
441:30 with that being said I believe it was
441:31 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
441:35 it i said
441:36 "Congratulations you've done what
441:38 nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
441:40 you've taken over Syria with different
441:43 names but same thing." I said "You've
441:46 taken it over." He's taken it over
441:47 through surrogates he goes "No no no no
441:50 no no it was not me it was I said it was
441:52 you." But that's okay you don't have to
441:54 say "Well it sort of maybe was me." Okay
441:57 but what he did he look he's a tough guy
441:59 and he's very smart and uh he did
442:03 something that nobody was able to do you
442:04 know you got to hand it to him uh any
442:07 problem that you have with Turkey I
442:09 think I can solve i mean as long as
442:11 you're reasonable you have to be
442:13 reasonable we have to be reasonable
442:14 thank you very much everybody appreciate
442:17 thank you thank
442:29 you you are a great great champion of
442:33 our alliance and uh you actually do the
442:37 things that you say you do and I I think
442:40 that people respect that enormously i
442:42 certainly do and people of Israel do and
442:45 I think the Jewish people do as well we
442:48 just saw your representative in the the
442:50 Department of Justice fighting
442:52 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
442:54 international forms i just want you to
442:57 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
442:59 appreciated as you said we had the
443:01 opportunity to talk today about many
443:04 subjects uh first if I can mention
443:07 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
443:09 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
443:12 to the president a very simple thing we
443:15 will eliminate the trade deficit with
443:17 the United States we intend to do it
443:20 very quickly we think it's the right
443:22 thing to do and we're going to also
443:25 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
443:28 trade barriers that have been put up
443:29 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
443:31 serve as a model for many countries who
443:35 ought to do the same i recognize the the
443:39 position of the United States it says
443:41 you know we're allowing other countries
443:44 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
443:46 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
443:49 trade champion and free trade has to be
443:51 fair trade and I think that's basically
443:54 uh the position that you have uh put
443:56 forward Mr president we are going to
443:58 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
444:01 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
444:04 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
444:06 we could affect this quickly and I hope
444:09 to bring a solution very quickly we're
444:11 not talking about intentions we're not
444:14 talking about uh you know just words
444:16 we're talking about results those
444:19 results are going to come that's the
444:20 first Thank you very much that's very
444:22 nice thank you thank you Mr president
444:24 what about the hostages well the let him
444:28 finish let him
444:29 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
444:32 the hostages
444:34 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
444:37 is a human story of un just unbearable
444:42 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
444:44 to them yesterday spoke to another one
444:47 when I was in Hungary before I came here
444:49 i speak to them every day and they're in
444:51 agony the hostages are in agony and we
444:54 want to get them all out uh Steve
444:57 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
444:59 able representative helped us get a deal
445:02 that got 25 out we're working now on
445:04 another deal that we hope will succeed
445:07 uh and we're committed to getting all
445:09 the hostages out but also eliminating
445:12 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
445:17 and enabling the people of Gaza to
445:19 freely make a choice to go wherever they
445:22 want i mean they should have that choice
445:24 and the president put forward a vision a
445:26 bold vision which we discussed as well
445:29 including the uh countries that might uh
445:33 be amendable and are amendable to
445:36 accepting Palestinians of their free
445:38 choice if they choose to go there and I
445:40 think that's second thing that we
445:42 discussed uh but the hostages came right
445:45 on top uh we also discussed the
445:47 situation uh in Syria
445:51 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
445:54 relations with Turkey that have
445:56 deteriorated and we don't want to see
445:58 Syria being used by anyone including
446:00 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
446:03 turkey is
446:04 a country
446:06 that has a great relationship with the
446:09 United States the president has a
446:11 relationship with the leader of Turkey
446:13 we discussed how we can avoid this
446:15 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
446:19 think we can't have a better
446:21 interlocutor than the president of the
446:23 United States for this purpose and of
446:25 course we also discussed Iran look we're
446:27 both united in the uh goal that Iran
446:31 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
446:33 can be done diplomatically in a full way
446:36 the way it was done in Libya I think
446:38 that would be a good thing uh but
446:40 whatever happens we have to make sure
446:42 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
446:45 that's the end of my speech
446:49 mr we are we're having direct talks with
446:53 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
446:55 having direct talks with Iran and uh
446:59 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
447:02 have a very big meeting and we'll see
447:03 what can happen and I think everybody
447:06 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
447:10 preferable to doing the obvious and the
447:13 obvious is not something that I want to
447:16 be involved with or frankly that Israel
447:18 wants to be involved with if they can
447:20 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
447:22 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
447:25 dangerous
447:26 territory and hopefully those talks will
447:29 be successful and I think it would be in
447:31 Iran's best interest if they are
447:33 successful we hope we hope that's going
447:35 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
447:38 good talks on a lot of things i
447:40 appreciate very much what you said about
447:41 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
447:43 taken advantage of by many countries
447:46 over the years and uh can't do it
447:48 anymore just can't do it anymore we
447:50 can't be the stupid people anymore and
447:53 it's all because of the people that sat
447:56 in the seat right here not your seat but
447:58 this seat they allowed things to happen
448:00 to our country that they shouldn't have
448:02 allowed to happen on trade and other
448:04 things many other things i mean look at
448:06 what's happened with our last president
448:08 where he allowed millions of people to
448:10 come into our country with an open
448:12 border who would want an open border how
448:15 stupid is that but uh he allowed
448:17 millions and millions of people and of
448:20 the millions and I think it was 21
448:22 million people but let's say three of
448:24 them were serious criminals serious
448:26 murderers and drug dealers and gang
448:29 members and people from jails all the
448:31 jails emptied out right into our country
448:34 right along the open border on the on
448:36 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
448:38 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
448:41 but generally speaking on the southern
448:44 border and uh what a shame it is that we
448:47 are now working very hard to get them
448:48 out get the criminals out get the
448:50 murderers out the drug dealers the
448:53 mentally insane get them out they
448:55 dropped the mentally insane in our
448:56 country too and this was all done by the
448:59 Biden administration it's a disgrace
449:01 that we have to work so hard and then we
449:03 have judges that try and protect these
449:05 people but they didn't protect us when
449:07 the people were being let in but to get
449:09 them out is never easy with these people
449:11 so uh I think we're doing a great job
449:14 the border is the best it's ever been
449:17 even as strong as it was I had a great
449:20 solid border i think it might even be
449:22 tougher right now and stronger so people
449:26 are coming into our country but they're
449:27 coming in legally we have a legal
449:29 process and we have that moving along
449:31 properly because we need people to come
449:33 into our country but we want people that
449:35 can love our country and cherish our
449:37 country so that's where we are and with
449:39 that any questions
449:44 market would you be open to a pause in
449:47 tariffs to allow for negotiations well
449:49 we're not looking at that we have many
449:51 many uh countries that are coming to
449:54 negotiate deals with us and they're
449:56 going to be fair deals and uh in certain
449:59 cases they're going to be be paying
450:01 substantial tariffs they'll be fair
450:03 deals as you know I spoke this morning
450:05 with the prime minister of Japan and we
450:09 had a very good conversation they're
450:11 coming and I said "One thing you're
450:13 going to have to open up your country
450:14 because we sold no cars like zero cars
450:17 in Japan." And they sold millions of
450:20 cars into our country uh they don't
450:22 really take our agriculture a little bit
450:24 of it just to keep us slightly happy but
450:26 they don't take what they're supposed to
450:28 be taking so we have a great
450:29 relationship with Japan we're going to
450:31 keep it that way but they're coming in
450:32 to meet and other C countries are coming
450:35 in uh with China as you know against my
450:39 statement they put a 34% tariff on above
450:44 what their ridiculous tariffs were
450:46 already and I said if that tariff isn't
450:49 removed by tomorrow at 12:00 we're
450:52 putting a 50% tariff on above the
450:55 tariffs that we put on so they've gone
450:57 for years they become a rich country
450:59 because of people again that were in the
451:01 White House that allowed this to happen
451:04 uh hundreds of billions of dollars a
451:06 year they'd make us on trade and it
451:08 shouldn't be that way and uh I have a
451:11 great relationship with President Xi i
451:13 hope it's going to stay that way i have
451:14 great respect for China but they can't
451:17 do this we're just uh we're going to
451:19 have one shot at this and no other
451:21 president's going to do this what I'm
451:23 doing and I'll tell you what it's an
451:26 honor to do it because we have been just
451:28 just destroyed what they've done to our
451:31 system you know we have $ 36 trillion of
451:34 debt for a reason and uh the reason is
451:37 that people allowed it to get that way
451:39 so we'll be uh talking to China we'll be
451:43 talking to a lot of different countries
451:46 and I think you know if if if we can
451:48 make a really fair deal and a good deal
451:51 for the United States not a good deal
451:53 for others this is America first it's
451:56 now America first and we didn't put
451:58 America first we put America last the
452:00 people that were in the Oval Office put
452:02 America last and we're not going to
452:04 stand for it
452:10 go ahead
452:12 go ahead um two questions do you expect
452:15 of these deals to be made before April
452:17 9th and secondly there have been some
452:19 mixed messages from your administration
452:21 you're talking about negotiations and
452:23 yet others in your administration are
452:24 saying that these tariffs are actually
452:26 permanent what is that well it could be
452:29 they can both be true there can be
452:31 permanent tariffs and there can also be
452:34 negotiations because there are things
452:35 that we need beyond tariffs we need open
452:38 borders you know we almost had a deal
452:40 with China where we're going to open up
452:42 China it was almost done some of you
452:44 remember it during my first term and it
452:46 was very disappointing we ended up
452:47 making a great deal.$50 billion dollars
452:50 worth of uh product was sold 50 billion
452:52 you'd like that in Israel and I made
452:54 that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
452:56 wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
452:59 was that plus they were going to open up
453:01 China so that our companies could go
453:03 into China and compete with other
453:06 countries and China for the you know for
453:08 a large number of people and at the very
453:12 end that deal was terminated and we went
453:14 to a piece of the deal and there so
453:18 there are a lot of things outside of
453:19 tariffs but tariffs are very important
453:21 but there are a lot of things like
453:23 opening up countries that were totally
453:25 closed china's essentially a closed
453:27 country in fact it is a closed country
453:30 and what they do is they charge tariffs
453:32 so that if you if you sell cars or if
453:35 you sell anything uh nobody's going to
453:37 buy it because the price is out of
453:39 control but that's true with a lot of
453:40 other countries also so we're going to
453:43 get fair deals and good deals with every
453:45 country and if we don't we're going to
453:47 have nothing to do with them they're not
453:48 going to be allowed to participate in
453:50 the United States
454:02 relax we have time this gentleman is all
454:04 day long mr many
454:08 of you go ahead
454:41 maybe talk about it for a second because
454:43 a lot of people are asking the Houthis
454:45 we've we've been very tough and very
454:48 successful
454:49 militarily we've
454:51 uh really damaged them badly these were
454:54 people shooting down ships and other
454:56 things by the way flying objects like
454:59 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
455:03 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
455:06 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
455:11 and and it's every night night after
455:14 night and we've gotten many of their
455:17 leaders and their experts they're
455:20 experts on missiles i mean they actually
455:21 make missiles nobody thought that but
455:24 they make missiles it's highly
455:26 sophisticated and they're very tough but
455:28 they've been uh very badly damaged
455:31 nobody else was able to do that but us
455:32 pete do you want to discuss that please
455:34 yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
455:37 for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
455:39 worse it's been a devastating campaign
455:41 whether it's underground facilities
455:44 weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
455:46 the open air defense assets we are not
455:49 going to relent and it's only to get
455:51 more unrelenting until the Houthis
455:53 declare they will stop shooting at our
455:55 ships and we've been very clear with the
455:56 Iranians as well uh they uh they should
456:00 not continue to provide support to the
456:02 Houthis and that message has been made
456:04 very clear so we have a lot more options
456:06 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
456:08 know because we see the reports how
456:10 devastating this campaign has been in
456:12 them and we will not run we have a great
456:14 military there's no military like our
456:17 military and despite Biden having given
456:20 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
456:23 piece but it was a lot of our military
456:26 away in Afghanistan and one of the
456:28 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
456:31 most embarrassing situation we've ever
456:33 been involved in that that short period
456:35 of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
456:39 that was but uh left a lot of our
456:41 military behind left left left you see
456:44 them in their annual parades where
456:46 they're parading trucks that are
456:48 armorplated and different things and
456:49 they can't but it's many billions of
456:51 dollars we left behind but despite that
456:54 uh we have a tremendous military that
456:57 was a very small portion because we
456:59 rebuilt the military during my first
457:01 term and uh we uh we have great uh great
457:05 things happening with our military we
457:07 also uh essentially approved a budget
457:11 which is in the facility you'll like to
457:13 hear this of a trillion dollars $1
457:16 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
457:18 it we have to build our military and
457:21 we're very costconscious but the
457:23 military is something that we have to
457:24 build and we have to be strong because
457:26 you got a lot of bad forces out there
457:28 now so we're going to be approving a
457:30 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
457:32 actually the biggest one we've ever done
457:34 for the military uh we're cutting other
457:36 things that were uh under Doge but under
457:40 a lot of other when you look at uh a
457:43 woman getting $2 billion for
457:45 environmental and it had nothing to do
457:47 with environmental and they had $100 in
457:49 the bank and they give her two billion
457:51 many many of those cases all that stuff
457:54 is going to be cut out but we are
457:55 getting a very very powerful military we
457:59 have things under order now the likes of
458:01 which we've never had before we've never
458:03 had the kind of uh aircraft the kind of
458:06 missiles or anything uh that we have
458:10 ordered and it's in many ways too bad
458:11 that we have to do it because hopefully
458:14 we're not going to have to use it but
458:16 the military is very very powerful and
458:19 uh it's going to remain that way
458:26 yes green thank you Mr president i want
458:29 to ask you about this
458:34 US is it possible to give us some more
458:36 information at what level high level
458:40 very high level yeah we're dealing with
458:42 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
458:44 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
458:47 directly you know a lot of people say
458:49 "Oh maybe you're going through
458:50 surrogates or you're not dealing
458:51 directly you're dealing through other
458:53 countries." No we're dealing with them
458:55 directly and uh maybe a deal is going to
458:57 be made that would be great going to be
459:00 It would be really great for Iran and I
459:02 can tell you that but hopefully we're
459:04 not going to have to get into that we we
459:06 are meeting very importantly on Saturday
459:09 at almost the highest level and we'll
459:12 see how it works out please how do you
459:14 ensure Mr president that these tariffs
459:16 don't drive US training partners into
459:19 the hands of the Chinese i'm not worried
459:21 about it i'm not worried about it if
459:23 they want to be in the hands of the US
459:25 they don't want to be in the hands of
459:26 the Chinese
459:27 uh the Chinese have turned out to be
459:29 really not very good at that uh people
459:32 that are with us they're with us but we
459:35 cannot be uh taken advantage of any
459:38 longer i used to watch these deals for
459:40 years i've been talking about it for
459:41 years you and I've been talking about it
459:42 for 35 years how our country is being
459:47 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
459:49 was Japan then it was something else
459:52 then it was another group then it was
459:54 China china's doing the the best job of
459:57 it frankly and it's just not going to
459:59 happen not going to happen
460:07 eu has said that they have offered zero
460:11 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
460:13 goods is that not Well the EU no it's
460:16 not the EU has been very tough over the
460:20 years it was I always say it was formed
460:22 to really do damage to the United States
460:25 in trade that's the reason it was formed
460:28 it was formed with all of the countries
460:30 from Europe i guess most of them not all
460:33 of them but most of them and they formed
460:35 together to uh create a little bit of a
460:37 monopoly situation to create a unified
460:40 force against the United States for
460:42 trade so they have uh NATO which is
460:45 largely the same countries and they uh
460:49 took advantage of us dollar-wise and
460:52 militarily until I got there you know I
460:54 I was able to get $600 billion dollars
460:56 from NATO where they paid NATO because
461:00 most of these nations weren't even
461:01 paying we were paying for NATO so we're
461:03 paying them to guard them militarily and
461:06 they're screwing us on trade so that's
461:08 not a good combination so now uh it's
461:12 really turned around it's the opposite
461:14 and the European Union's been very ne
461:16 very bad to us they don't take our cars
461:20 like Japan in that sense they don't take
461:22 our agricultural product they don't take
461:24 anything practically and yet they send
461:28 millions of cars in a year mercedes-benz
461:30 Volkswagen BMWs they're sending millions
461:33 and millions of cars into the US but we
461:36 don't have a car that's been sold to the
461:38 European Union or other places but let's
461:41 go for the European Union and it's not
461:44 going to be that way it's got to be fair
461:46 and reciprocal it's got to be fair it's
461:48 not fair uh we have a deficit with the
461:51 European Union of $350
461:54 billion and it's going to disappear fast
461:57 and one of the reasons and one of the
461:59 ways that that can disappear easily and
462:02 quickly is they're going to have to buy
462:03 our energy from us because they need it
462:05 they're going to have to buy it from us
462:06 they can buy it we can knock off $350
462:09 billion in one week they have to buy and
462:12 commit to buy a like amount of energy
462:15 and we have that you know we have more
462:17 energy than any country in the world i
462:19 don't know if you know that this he
462:20 knows everything but the one thing he
462:22 may not know we have more energy than
462:24 any country in the world we have more of
462:27 every kind of energy every form of
462:29 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
462:32 people talk about I call it beautiful
462:34 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
462:38 opening up a coal plant a week they
462:40 tried the windmills and it didn't work
462:42 they tried all the other solutions and
462:44 they were ready to go out of business
462:46 now they're doing a coal plant a week
462:47 china is now up to two coal plants that
462:51 uh they're opening two major coal plants
462:53 every single week in China all over
462:55 China and that we're not allowed to use
462:58 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
463:00 more than anybody else we have oil and
463:03 gas more than anybody else we have the
463:05 most energy of any country in the world
463:06 including Saudi Arabia including
463:08 everybody by a lot and I took it to
463:11 number one we were number three and I
463:13 took it to number one during my
463:15 administration
463:16 and the reason that we were hurt so
463:18 badly and the reason that we went into
463:21 such incredible inflation during Biden
463:24 is energy it was also their bad spending
463:27 but energy because they played around
463:30 with this incredible thing that we had
463:32 built this administration had built and
463:35 the energy cost went through the roof
463:36 and when that went up everything else
463:38 followed now if you look at what's
463:40 happening you're going to see this today
463:42 i said we're going to try and get
463:44 groceries down right an oldfashioned
463:46 term but a beautiful term uh eggs so
463:49 when I got in the press went absolutely
463:52 crazy the first week they said "Eggs
463:54 have quadrupled in price." I said "I
463:56 just got here tell me about it." And
463:59 Brooke Rollins and our team did a great
464:01 job and eggs are down now 79% and
464:04 they're all over the place and this was
464:06 a problem that somebody else would have
464:08 taken a long time to cure uh we have
464:11 energy is down we have interest rates
464:14 are down we have groceries meaning food
464:17 is down we have everything is down at
464:20 levels that nobody ever thought possible
464:22 energy looks like it's going to be in in
464:24 the $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
464:27 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
464:32 are we're really doing amazing i mean
464:35 we're we're cutting prices because
464:37 prices got so high people couldn't live
464:40 i mean the prices for groceries the
464:41 prices for standard standard groceries
464:44 standard things were going through the
464:46 roof they couldn't live and now those
464:48 prices are coming down so call them
464:50 groceries but that's down energy is down
464:52 and interest rates are down everything's
464:55 down and the interest rates the beauty
464:57 there is when we refinance debt you know
465:00 debt's become such a big factor in this
465:02 country we're going to get we're going
465:03 to start paying debt off with tariffs
465:05 and other things but uh it's such a big
465:08 factor because the interest rates so
465:09 high well now that's coming way down so
465:12 our budget's going to look a lot better
465:14 because interest costs are way down and
465:17 I guess I've done that
465:23 many Israelis are watching you now our
465:25 last show good what is your specific I
465:28 hope they like getting the hostages out
465:30 from the horrific captivity yeah we are
465:32 trying very hard to get the hostages out
465:35 uh we're looking at another ceasefire
465:38 we'll see what happens but we have we
465:40 want to get the hostages out the Israeli
465:42 people want the hostages out more than
465:45 anything they want the hostages out this
465:47 man is working very hard with us to do
465:50 that i mean I don't know i hope he's
465:51 being appreciated because he's been a
465:53 great leader he's working very very hard
465:55 on the hostages and many other things
465:58 and there are plenty of things you have
465:59 to work on it's a it's a tough place in
466:02 the world i have a good partner yeah you
466:04 do have a good partner and so do we we
466:06 we're working very hard on the hospital
466:11 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
466:12 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
466:15 going to be more effective than the
466:17 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
466:20 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
466:23 lot stronger but they were so happy when
466:26 we made that first deal because we did
466:27 get a lot out you know I had people
466:30 right in this office this beautiful oval
466:32 office they came in 10 people hostages
466:34 you know that and I said to them uh so
466:37 how was it and the stories they told me
466:40 I mean as an example I said to them was
466:44 there any sign of love you were there 10
466:47 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
466:49 representative did the Hamas show any
466:53 signs of like help or liking you did
466:57 they wink at you did they give you a
466:59 piece of bread extra did they give you a
467:02 meal on the side like you know you think
467:04 of doing like what happened in Germany
467:06 what happened elsewhere people would try
467:09 and help people that were in
467:10 unbelievable distress they said "No." I
467:13 said "All of them." I said "Did they
467:16 ever wink at you like "You'll be okay
467:18 you're going to be okay." No they didn't
467:19 do that they'd slap us the hatred is
467:23 unbelievable and the lives you know they
467:25 lived in a pipe not really a tunnel it
467:28 was a pipe and they always thought they
467:30 were suffocating they were going to
467:31 suffocate and then they'd open up the
467:34 pipe and it was like three and a half
467:35 feet high this isn't you know we hear
467:37 tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and
467:40 the stories I heard were incredible but
467:42 I just said "Was there any sign of
467:44 potential love or affection?" And there
467:47 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
467:49 me there was nothing like "Here take
467:51 this it's a little extra meal or
467:53 something." They lived like hell i I
467:55 don't know they seem to be they were
467:58 amazing to me because they seemed to be
468:00 pretty normal they weren't scarred but I
468:04 I guarantee underneath they have to be
468:06 scarred and one was there for
468:08 356 days another was there for about 180
468:12 days you know long time these are people
468:15 that have been really really horribly
468:18 treated i've never seen anything like it
468:20 actually I was very surprised to hear
468:21 the answer
468:23 thank you Mr president are there two or
468:26 three countries that on your list that
468:28 you feel are farther along in getting
468:31 their tariffs lowered i think well I
468:35 think there are many that want to get
468:36 rid of tariffs right now uh European
468:39 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
468:42 us they've you know they've brought
468:43 their car tariffs essentially off i
468:46 guess they brought it down to two and a
468:47 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
468:50 it's not only tariffs it's nonmonetary
468:53 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
468:55 things on that make it impossible for
468:57 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
468:58 it's they make it so difficult the
469:01 standards and the tests uh they drop a
469:03 bowling ball on the top of your car from
469:05 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
469:07 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
469:09 car doesn't qualify when the same car
469:12 from Germany or would dent likewise
469:15 unless you can have an army tank it's
469:17 going to dent so they come up with rules
469:19 and regulations that are uh just
469:22 designed for one reason that you can't
469:24 sell your product in those countries and
469:27 and uh we're not going to let that
469:29 happen those are called nonmonetary
469:31 barriers they make barriers that are so
469:34 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
469:37 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
469:40 there's another big part of it and
469:42 that's barriers they also do something
469:44 else they manipulate their currency and
469:47 they drive it down they want to drive it
469:48 they want to have low currencies you
469:50 know uh it sounds better to have a high
469:52 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
469:55 uh they bring their currency down and
469:58 when it competes with our currency it's
470:00 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
470:02 hard to sell product because their
470:05 currency is low and ours is much higher
470:08 relatively and so it makes it very hard
470:11 i speak to a lot of companies that do
470:13 business tractor companies and they say
470:16 it's so hard to sell because what
470:18 they've done is they've lowered the yen
470:20 or they've lowered the one or they've
470:22 lowered their currency so that it's very
470:24 hard to compete we don't want that
470:26 either so we have a lot of things that
470:29 we're talking about but we're going to
470:31 fix it properly and it's going to be
470:33 fair to everybody and in the end I think
470:35 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
470:36 better you know but they have to respect
470:38 the United States and nobody but me
470:41 would do this nobody but me would do
470:43 this you know it's would be nice to
470:44 serve a nice easy term but we have an
470:48 opportunity to change the fabric of our
470:50 country we have an opportunity to reset
470:52 the table on trade we lose billions of
470:56 dollars we lose close to uh$ two
470:59 trillion dollars a year on trade we lose
471:01 a trillion dollars a year to China a
471:04 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
471:07 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
471:11 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
471:15 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
471:19 why would we do that number one why
471:20 would we do that and then you have to
471:22 say is it sustainable then you hear
471:24 about all of the people that say "Well
471:26 deficits if we have a deficit with a
471:28 country or if the country has a big
471:29 surplus with us like China has a massive
471:32 surplus that they take and they spend on
471:34 their military." Well we don't want that
471:36 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
471:39 dollars a year and spend it on their
471:42 military i don't want them spending
471:44 money on their military and I shouldn't
471:46 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
471:47 spend it either because you know
471:49 hopefully and I said this to President
471:51 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
471:52 going to use in other words because
471:54 we're not going to use those incredible
471:56 weapons that we have and that they have
471:59 we don't want that so uh it's going to
472:02 be very interesting it's it's the only
472:05 chance our pre our country will have to
472:08 reset the table because no other
472:11 president would be willing to do what
472:13 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
472:16 don't mind going through it because I
472:17 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
472:20 but we are making tremendous progress
472:22 with a lot of countries and the
472:25 countries that really took advantage of
472:27 us are now saying please negotiate you
472:30 know why because they're getting beaten
472:32 badly because of what's happening
472:35 they're getting beaten badly they're
472:36 being devalued as countries but it's the
472:40 only chance we're going to have to reset
472:42 the table on trade and when we do we're
472:44 going to come out unbelievably well
472:46 we're going to have a strong country
472:47 economically again and we're going to
472:49 have those factories that are empty all
472:51 over the United States we've lost
472:54 90,000 plants and factories think of
472:57 this 90 thou you wouldn't think it's
472:59 possible 90,000 plants and factories
473:03 since NAFTA which was by the way the
473:05 worst trade deal ever ever developed
473:07 ever had by any country anywhere nafta
473:10 and I terminated NAFTA everybody said it
473:12 would be impossible and I terminated
473:14 through Congress we terminated it you
473:16 had to get it through Congress it was a
473:18 trap it was a horrible thing and we got
473:20 it
473:23 done problem is they cheat they cheat
473:27 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
473:30 just one of those things but we are
473:33 resetting a table and we're going to
473:35 have great trade and we're going to have
473:37 a very strong country our country is
473:39 going to be at a level that is as maybe
473:41 never been or maybe you know our country
473:44 was the strongest believe it or not from
473:47 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
473:51 tariff based we had no income tax then
473:54 in 1913 some genius came up with the
473:56 idea of let's charge the people of our
473:59 country not foreign countries that are
474:01 ripping off our country and the country
474:04 was never relatively was never that kind
474:08 of wealth we had so much wealth we
474:10 didn't know what to do with our money we
474:12 had meetings we had we had committees
474:15 and these committees worked tirelessly
474:18 to study one subject we have so much
474:21 money what are we going to do with it
474:23 who are we going to give it to and I
474:24 hope we're going to be in that position
474:26 again
474:30 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
474:33 your government put on Israeli boots on
474:35 where on Israeli goods 70% do you Well
474:39 we're talking about a whole new trade
474:42 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
474:45 Israel a lot you know we give Israel $4
474:47 billion a year that's a lot
474:50 congratulations by the way that's pretty
474:52 good but we give Israel billions of
474:54 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
474:59 the highest of And we give a lot of We
475:01 give a lot of countries money you
475:04 wouldn't believe if I said we give
475:06 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
475:08 because that was a Biden deal another
475:09 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
475:11 with that but they give them billions of
475:14 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
475:17 we uh we take good care of our friends
475:20 and we don't take care of our enemies
475:22 we're not taking care of our enemies
475:23 anymore but we do take care of our
475:25 friends
475:28 the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
475:30 again in the Gaza Strip by myself might
475:31 be called up in a month do you think
475:33 that's the way to pressure Hamas to get
475:35 to a deal do you think blocking
475:36 humanitarian aid is also an effective
475:38 pressure well you know how I feel about
475:39 the Gaza Strip i think it's an
475:42 incredible piece of important real
475:45 estate and I think it's something that
475:48 we would be involved in but you know
475:50 having a peace force like the United
475:53 States there controlling and owning the
475:55 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
475:57 right now all it is is for years and
475:59 years all I hear about is killing and
476:02 Hamas and problems and if you take the
476:05 people the Palestinians and move them
476:07 around to different countries and you
476:08 have plenty of countries that will do
476:10 that and you really have a freedom a
476:14 freedom zone you call it the freedom
476:16 zone a free zone a zone where people
476:18 aren't going to be killed every day
476:20 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
476:23 what I call it a great location that
476:25 nobody wants to live in because they
476:27 really don't and when they had good li
476:29 when they have good living real living
476:31 where Hamas and all of the the problems
476:34 they have the the level of debt on the
476:36 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
476:40 said it i I don't understand why Israel
476:42 ever gave it up israel owned it it
476:45 wasn't this man so I can say it he
476:47 wouldn't have given it up i know him
476:48 very well there's no way they took
476:51 oceanfront property and they gave it to
476:53 people for peace how did that work out
476:56 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
476:58 president is the immigration
477:02 which immigration ghana gaza all it is
477:07 is a a concept that I had that I think
477:09 is good and now people are copying it
477:11 you know baby do you want to tell people
477:13 are talking about the Trump plan gee why
477:15 do we do that uh would you like to
477:17 answer that question i I think what the
477:19 president talked about is first of all
477:21 to give people a choice gaza Gazins were
477:24 closed in any other place including in
477:27 arenas of battle i mean whether it's
477:30 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
477:32 people could leave gaza was the only
477:35 place where they locked them in we
477:37 didn't lock them in they're locked in
477:40 and what is wrong with giving people a
477:42 choice now we've been talking including
477:45 over lunch about some countries are
477:48 won't go into them right now that are
477:50 saying you know if Gazans want to leave
477:53 we want to take them in and I think this
477:55 is this is the right thing to do if you
477:58 give you know it's going to take years
478:00 to rebuild Gaza in the meantime people
478:02 can have an option president has a
478:04 vision countries are responding to that
478:06 vision we're working on it i hope you'll
478:08 have good news for you
478:11 i will say people love Excuse me people
478:13 really do love that vision uh it's a
478:16 long-term vision but so importantly is
478:18 to have that be a a safe field because
478:22 you're right smack in the middle of the
478:24 Middle East you're right along Israel it
478:26 should have never ever been given away
478:28 shouldn't have been given away by Israel
478:31 i don't know why they did it i mean I do
478:32 know why because they were promised
478:34 peace but that didn't work out too well
478:35 because it's one of the most dangerous
478:38 pieces of land anywhere in the world
478:40 gaza is one of the most dangerous places
478:42 in the world so they gave it away for
478:44 good intention and it it didn't work out
478:47 that way and uh a lot of people like my
478:50 concept but you know there are other
478:52 concepts that I like too and there are
478:54 some concepts I don't like you know what
478:56 I don't like the way it is now because
478:58 right now it's a dangerous death trap
479:00 gaza yeah
479:04 thank you sir can you talk a little bit
479:05 about uh your meeting potential meeting
479:07 with Vladimir Putin do you still plan to
479:09 meet with him could that happen in Saudi
479:11 Arabia and maybe could I elaborate as
479:13 well a little bit on not providing
479:14 tariffs on Russia sir so uh the reason
479:18 we're not talking about tariffs with
479:20 Russia is because we're not doing
479:21 business essentially with Russia because
479:24 they're in a war and I'm not happy about
479:26 what's going on with uh with the bombing
479:30 because they're bombing like crazy right
479:32 now they're bombing i don't know what's
479:34 happening there that's not a good
479:35 situation so we're meeting with Russia
479:38 we're meeting with Ukraine and we're
479:41 getting sort of close but I'm not happy
479:42 with all the bombing that's going on the
479:44 last uh week or so horrible it's a
479:48 horrible thing it's a horrible thing
479:54 countries to get below 10%
479:58 in in terms of tariffs
480:01 look we've been ripped off and taken
480:04 advantage of for 40 50 60 years and the
480:09 reason we got ripped off and the way
480:11 they did it was tariffs they were
480:13 charged tariffs massive numbers of
480:15 dollars and when you look at uh China
480:20 when I took over it was at $57 billion
480:24 dollars they were making i call it
480:25 making a lot of people say oh it doesn't
480:27 mean anything having a surplus means a
480:29 lot in my opinion it's almost like a
480:31 profit or loss statement and when I took
480:34 over was $57 billion dollars that China
480:38 with this is originally first term and
480:41 we were very very tough on them because
480:45 they were taking that money and they
480:46 were building a military with it then
480:48 when Biden came in he let him get away
480:50 with murder he had no idea i'll tell you
480:52 what that man had no idea what was
480:53 happening whether it was the border or
480:55 China or anything else he had no idea
480:57 what was going on and they got they went
481:01 wild china went wild and the money they
481:04 make is ridiculous okay it's just not
481:07 going to happen and hopefully we'll get
481:09 along with China if we do that's great
481:10 and if we don't that's okay too but we
481:13 can't let that continue because that's a
481:15 that's an abuse they abused the poor
481:19 people that sat in the seat that poor
481:21 Biden he was abused by them they took
481:24 advantage of him and I'm surprised you
481:26 know they have smart people they were
481:27 radical left lunatics but they're smart
481:30 i'm surprised they'd allow that to take
481:32 you know to to happen but uh we are
481:35 going to bring great trade and we're
481:38 going to be fair to other countries and
481:40 I I will say this uh virtually every
481:44 country wants to negotiate if I didn't
481:47 do what I did over the last couple of
481:50 weeks you wouldn't have anybody wants to
481:52 negotiate we would have gone to these
481:54 countries who want to talk and they were
481:55 well we don't want to talk now they're
481:58 coming to us they're offering things
482:00 like even BB and this is unrelated
482:02 because it's a different kind of a
482:04 relationship but he started off our
482:06 conversation today that he's cutting all
482:08 of the tariffs he's cutting everything
482:10 he's going to get down to a free base
482:12 he's going to do things that in all
482:14 fairness other countries if they said
482:16 that would have never even thought about
482:18 doing it now they're offering things to
482:21 us that we would have never even thought
482:24 of asking them for because they're
482:27 experiencing a lot of hurt and the hurt
482:30 is that they've taken advantage of us
482:32 and we finally fought back tariffs will
482:35 make this country very rich we're rich
482:37 anyway but we're rich in a certain way
482:40 uh we have $ 36 trillion in debt i want
482:44 to get rid of it and we can do it
482:46 quickly with proper deals so
482:50 when countries don't allow us to sell
482:52 our product but we allow them to sell
482:54 their product when they charge us
482:56 massive amounts of money for the
482:58 privilege of going into their country
483:00 those days are over okay
483:05 yeah go ahead sure me
483:09 he sounds so
483:13 surpris first you can give us more
483:15 details about where the meeting on
483:17 Saturday is going i can't tell you that
483:19 i I can just tell you there's a major
483:20 meeting going on between us and Iran and
483:25 that'll take place on Saturday and it's
483:27 at top level and second question about
483:29 this um a lot of people think that those
483:33 talks are not going to lead anywhere
483:34 because the right
483:37 I think that's a possibility if
483:40 diplomacy fails is the United States
483:42 under your leadership ready to take
483:44 military action to destroy the Iranian
483:47 nuclear program program and remove this
483:49 threat
483:52 i think if the talks aren't successful
483:54 with
483:55 Iran I think Iran is going to be in
483:57 great danger and I hate to say it great
484:00 danger because they can't have a nuclear
484:02 weapon so is that a yes you know it's
484:04 not a complicated uh formula iran cannot
484:08 have a nuclear weapon that's all there
484:09 is can't have it right now we have
484:12 countries that have nuclear power that
484:14 shouldn't have it but uh I'm sure we'll
484:17 be able to negotiate out of that too as
484:19 part of this later on down the line but
484:22 Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if
484:26 the talks aren't
484:28 successful I actually think it'll be a
484:31 very bad day for Iran if that's the case
484:33 yeah mr president on Yeah please mr mr
484:37 president was October 7th the death blow
484:40 of the two-state solution and would you
484:42 consider classifying the Palestinian
484:44 Authority as a terrorist organization
484:45 for its continued paper sake terror
484:47 financing payments so October 7th was a
484:50 horrible day that some people they they
484:53 deny it now I can't believe they deny it
484:55 from the standpoint of they do it
484:56 because they think it's good politically
484:58 but October I've seen the tapes i've
485:00 seen things that you don't want to see
485:02 october 7th was a horrible day and it
485:05 will go down as one of the really bad
485:08 days in the history of the world it was
485:10 a horrible horrible uh uh thing that
485:14 happened and they grabbed some of these
485:16 people i'll give you an example when I
485:18 was with the 10 hostages a few weeks ago
485:22 I said "So how many are there?"
485:24 "Fine." I said "Oh so 59 so we can get
485:28 59." They sort of knew the territory
485:30 pretty good and I said "How are they
485:33 doing?" She they said "Well only 24 are
485:36 living the rest are dead." And these are
485:38 young people largely young people don't
485:40 die you know young people have an
485:43 amazing ability to live they can live
485:45 through horrible things but these are
485:48 young people and when they said that 24
485:51 are living and the rest are dead and you
485:53 know I've had parents come up Israeli
485:55 parents largely we have some Americans
485:58 and we had I guess we have uh one left
486:02 alex we have the one left but but I've
486:05 had Israeli parents come up to me at
486:08 events and say "My son is there." I said
486:12 "Well how's he doing?" "Well he's dead
486:14 but would you do me the biggest favor
486:16 ever could you bring his body back
486:18 home?" They talked about a young dead
486:21 boy and a young dead girl like they were
486:25 living
486:26 and that could have something to do with
486:28 religion that could have something to do
486:30 with I guess maybe any parent would be
486:32 but I was surprised they said "Sir my
486:35 son is
486:37 dead it is just as important to bring
486:39 that body back home." I asked that
486:42 question as if he were alive so you have
486:45 a lot of them dead and we'll be able to
486:48 bring them back uh but it's a horrible
486:51 thing that's happened these are young
486:52 largely young people but some old ones
486:54 too frankly and those people have lived
486:56 in hell when they came off the second
486:58 group that came out they look like uh
487:01 they just got out of a concentration
487:03 camp they looked exactly like the
487:05 pictures that I'd see from the 1940s the
487:08 concentration
487:09 camps and then they got a little bit
487:12 better you know as But that second group
487:15 those people came out and I said "This
487:17 is unbelievable we're going back into a
487:19 a chapter in history that is one of the
487:22 worst ever it's really very bad." Okay
487:31 years fully up to speed in response to
487:34 these tariffs what happens in the
487:36 meantime should Americans be prepared
487:37 potentially for years
487:40 we have now uh seven trillion dollars
487:44 think of this 7 trillion of commitments
487:47 from companies wanting to go in from
487:50 Apple to many many companies many from
487:52 Taiwan what it takes time to to Of
487:55 course it takes Well are you asking me a
487:57 question or you're telling me yeah it
487:59 takes time you know you got to build a
488:01 thing called the factory you have to
488:03 build your energy you have to do uh a
488:06 lot of things i'm giving them energy you
488:08 know we're going to let them build their
488:09 own power plants they'll be their own
488:12 essentially they're going to be in
488:13 charge of the power plant because our uh
488:16 power is not reliable enough you have a
488:19 grid that's old and susceptible to a lot
488:22 of things including bombing and weather
488:24 and a lot of other things and we're
488:26 going to give them record timing in
488:28 terms of approvals of electric plants
488:31 most of them want to build electric
488:32 plants we need massive amounts of
488:34 electricity if we're going to compete
488:35 with China and others and interestingly
488:38 we're way ahead right now in the AI race
488:41 with China but the way we lose that race
488:43 is if we can't give them electric but we
488:46 have more plants being built we have
488:48 everything we're doing so great and we
488:51 want to keep it that way and tariffs
488:53 will be an important part of it but one
488:55 of the other things uh Lee Zeldon is
488:57 doing a fantastic job head of
488:58 environmental protection and he's doing
489:01 very rapid approvals for people to get
489:04 for big companies to that are going to
489:06 build a plant that's going to cost
489:08 billions of dollars and we're going to
489:10 get them their approvals they have to be
489:12 environmentally perfect everything good
489:14 but they're going to be in record time a
489:16 matter of months versus a matter of many
489:18 many years
489:23 go ahead
489:25 yeah um Turkey claims it will stabilize
489:30 uh the situation in Syria turkey yeah um
489:34 Israel doesn't want Turkey to influence
489:37 Syria what do you think do you think uh
489:39 Turkeykey's influence in Syria can
489:41 actually make it a better more peaceful
489:43 country or vice versa well I have uh
489:46 great relations with a man named Erdogan
489:48 have you heard of him and I happen to
489:50 like him and he likes me and I know the
489:52 press will get very angry he likes
489:54 Erdogan but I do and he likes me and
489:56 we've never had a problem and and we've
489:59 gone through a lot and we've never had a
490:00 problem we always got we as you remember
490:03 we got our minister back from Turkey you
490:05 remember that and uh this was a big deal
490:09 at the time and we got him back uh and I
490:12 told the prime minister I said just BB
490:17 if you have a problem with Turkey I
490:18 really think I'm going to be able to
490:19 work it out you know I have a very very
490:21 good relationship
490:23 uh with Turkey and with their leader and
490:26 I think we'll be able to work it out so
490:28 I hope that's not going to be a problem
490:29 i don't think it will be a problem now
490:31 with that being said I believe it was
490:33 Turkey and I said that to him uh I said
490:36 it i said
490:38 "Congratulations you've done what
490:40 nobody's been able to do in 2,000 years
490:42 you've taken over Syria with different
490:44 names but same thing." I said "You've
490:47 taken it over." He's taken it over
490:49 through surrogates he goes "No no no no
490:51 no no it was not me it was I said "It
490:53 was you but that's okay you don't have
490:56 to say well it sort of maybe was me."
490:58 Okay but what he did he's look he's a
491:00 tough guy and he's very smart and uh he
491:04 did something that nobody was able to do
491:06 you know you got to hand it to him uh
491:08 any problem that you have with Turkey I
491:10 think I can solve i mean as long as
491:13 you're reasonable you have to be
491:14 reasonable we have to be reasonable
491:16 thank you very much everybody
491:18 appreciate Thank you
491:31 standing with us you are a great great
491:34 champion of our alliance and uh you
491:38 actually do the things that you say you
491:40 do and I I think that people respect
491:43 that enormously i certainly do and
491:45 people of Israel do and I think the
491:47 Jewish people do as well we just saw
491:49 your representative in the the
491:52 Department of Justice fighting
491:54 anti-semitism standing up for Israel in
491:56 international forums i just want you to
491:58 know from the heart it's deeply deeply
492:01 appreciated as you said we had the
492:03 opportunity to talk today about many
492:06 subjects uh first if I can mention
492:08 tariffs it's a subject of some interest
492:10 today uh I can tell you that uh I said
492:14 to the president a very simple thing we
492:17 will eliminate the trade deficit with
492:19 the United States we intend to do it
492:21 very quickly we think it's the right
492:24 thing to do and we're going to also
492:26 eliminate uh trade barriers a variety of
492:29 trade barriers that have been put up
492:31 unnecessarily and I think Israel can
492:33 serve as a model for many countries who
492:37 ought to do the same i recognize the the
492:40 position of the United States it says
492:42 you know we're allowing other countries
492:45 to put tariffs on us but we don't put
492:48 tariffs on them and you know I'm a free
492:50 trade champion and free trade has to be
492:52 fair trade and I think that's basically
492:55 uh the position that you have uh put
492:57 forward Mr president we are going to
493:00 eliminate the tariffs and rapidly i had
493:03 the opportunity to speak to Secretary
493:05 Lutnik yesterday we talked about how we
493:08 we could affect this quickly and I hope
493:10 to bring a solution very quickly we're
493:12 not talking about intentions we're not
493:15 talking about uh you know just words
493:18 we're talking about results those
493:20 results are going to come that's the
493:22 first Thank you very much that's very
493:23 nice thank you thank you Mr president
493:25 what about the hostages well the let him
493:29 finish let him
493:30 finish okay uh we spoke about not only
493:34 the hostages
493:35 uh but about Gaza the hostages obviously
493:38 is a human story of un just unbearable
493:43 uh agony i speak to the families i spoke
493:46 to them yesterday spoke to another one
493:49 when I was in Hungary before I came here
493:51 i speak to them every day they're in
493:53 agony the hostages are in agony and we
493:56 want to get them all out uh Steve
493:58 Witkoff who was President Trump's very
494:01 able representative helped us get a deal
494:03 that got 25 out we're working now on
494:06 another deal that we hope will succeed
494:09 uh and we're committed to getting all
494:10 the hostages out but also eliminating
494:13 the evil uh tyranny of Hamas in in Gaza
494:18 and enabling the people of Gaza to
494:20 freely make a choice to go wherever they
494:23 want i mean they should have that choice
494:25 and the president put forward a vision a
494:27 bold vision which we discussed as well
494:31 including the uh countries that might uh
494:34 be amendable and are amendable to
494:37 accepting Palestinians of their free
494:39 choice if they choose to go there and I
494:42 think that's the second thing that we
494:43 discussed uh but the hostages came right
494:46 on top uh we also discussed the
494:49 situation uh in Syria
494:52 uh we have uh we've had neighboring
494:56 relations with Turkey that have
494:57 deteriorated and we don't want to see
494:59 Syria being used by anyone including
495:02 Turkey as a base for attack on Israel
495:04 turkey is
495:05 a country
495:07 that has a great relationship with the
495:11 United States the president has a
495:13 relationship with the leader of Turkey
495:14 we discussed how we can avoid this
495:17 conflict uh in a variety of ways and I
495:20 think we can't have a better
495:22 interlocutor than the president of the
495:24 United States for this purpose and of
495:26 course we also discussed Iran look we're
495:29 both united in the uh goal that Iran
495:32 does not ever get nuclear weapons if it
495:35 can be done diplomatically in a full way
495:37 the way it was done in Libya I think
495:39 that would be a good thing uh but
495:42 whatever happens we have to make sure
495:43 that Iran does not have nuclear weapons
495:47 that's the end of my speech
495:50 mr we are we're having direct talks with
495:54 Wait a minute wait wait wait we're
495:56 having direct talks with Iran and uh
496:00 they've started it'll go on Saturday we
496:03 have a very big meeting and we'll see
496:05 what can happen and I think everybody
496:07 agrees that uh doing a deal would be
496:11 preferable to doing the obvious and the
496:15 obvious is not something that I want to
496:17 be involved with or frankly that Israel
496:20 wants to be involved with if they can
496:22 avoid it so we're going to see if we can
496:23 avoid it but it's uh getting to be very
496:27 dangerous
496:28 territory and hopefully those talks will
496:30 be successful and I think it would be in
496:33 Iran's best interest if they are
496:35 successful we hope we hope that's going
496:37 to happen uh and we had just a lot of
496:40 good talks on a lot of things i
496:41 appreciate very much what you said about
496:43 the tariffs we've been ripped off and
496:45 taken advantage of by many countries
496:47 over the years and uh can't do it
496:50 anymore just can't do it anymore we
496:51 can't be the stupid people anymore and
496:54 it's all because of the people that sat
496:57 in this seat right here not your seat
496:59 but this seat they allowed things to
497:02 happen to our country that they
497:03 shouldn't have allowed to happen on
497:04 trade and other things many other things
497:06 i mean look at what's happened with our
497:09 last president where he allowed millions
497:11 of people to come into our country with
497:12 an open border who would want an open
497:15 border how stupid is that but uh he
497:18 allowed millions and millions of people
497:21 and of the millions and I think it was
497:23 21 million people but let's say three of
497:25 them were serious criminals serious
497:28 murderers and drug dealers and gang
497:30 members and people from jails all the
497:32 jails emptied out right into our country
497:35 right along the open border on the on
497:38 Mexico generally to Mexico open they
497:40 came in from Canada too by the way a lot
497:42 but generally speaking on the southern
497:45 border and uh what a shame it is that we
497:48 are now working very hard to get them
497:50 out get the criminals out get the
497:51 murderers out the drug dealers uh the
497:54 mentally insane get them out they
497:56 dropped the mentally insane in our
497:58 country too and this was all done by the
498:00 Biden administration it's a disgrace
498:03 that we have to work so hard and then we
498:05 have judges that try and protect these
498:06 people but they didn't protect us when
498:08 the people were being let in but to get
498:11 them out is never easy with these people
498:13 so uh I think we're doing a great job
498:16 the border is the best it's ever been
498:19 even as strong as it was I had a great
498:22 solid border i think it might even be
498:24 tougher right now and stronger so people
498:27 are coming into our country but they're
498:29 coming in legally we have a legal
498:30 process and we have that moving along
498:32 properly because we need people to come
498:34 into our country but we want people that
498:36 can love our country and cherish our
498:38 country so that's where we are and with
498:41 that any questions
498:45 the market today and would be open to a
498:48 pause in terrorists to allow for
498:49 negotiations well we're not looking at
498:52 that we have many many uh countries that
498:54 are coming to negotiate deals with us
498:57 and they're going to be fair deals and
498:59 in certain cases they're going to be be
499:01 paying substantial tariffs they'll be
499:04 fair deals as you know I spoke this
499:06 morning with the prime minister of Japan
499:10 and we had a very good conversation
499:12 they're coming and I said "One thing
499:14 you're going to have to open up your
499:15 country because we sold no cars like
499:18 zero cars in Japan." And they sold
499:20 millions of cars into our country uh
499:23 they don't really take our agriculture a
499:25 little bit of it just to keep us
499:26 slightly happy but they don't take what
499:28 they're supposed to be taking so we have
499:30 a great relationship with Japan we're
499:32 going to keep it that way but they're
499:33 coming in to meet and other C countries
499:36 are coming in uh with China as you know
499:40 against my statement they put a 34%
499:44 tariff on above what their ridiculous
499:47 tariffs were already and I said if that
499:50 tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at
499:52 12:00 we're putting a 50% tariff on
499:55 above the tariffs that we put on so
499:58 they've gone for years they become a
500:00 rich country because of people again
500:02 that were in the White House that
500:03 allowed this to happen uh hundreds of
500:07 billions of dollars a year they'd make
500:08 on us on trade and it shouldn't be that
500:10 way and uh I have a great relationship
500:13 with President Xi i hope it's going to
500:15 stay that way i have great respect for
500:17 China but they can't do this we're just
500:20 uh we're going to have one shot at this
500:22 and no other president's going to do
500:24 this what I'm doing and I'll tell you
500:26 what it's an honor to do it because we
500:29 have been just just destroyed what
500:31 they've done to our system you know we
500:34 have $ 36 trillion of debt for a reason
500:37 and uh the reason is that people allowed
500:40 it to get that way so we'll be uh
500:43 talking to China we'll be talking to a
500:45 lot of different countries and I think
500:48 you know if if if we can make a really
500:51 fair deal and a good deal for the United
500:53 States not a good deal for others this
500:55 is America first it's now America first
500:59 and we didn't put America first we put
501:00 America last the people that were in the
501:03 Oval Office put America last and we're
501:05 not going to stand for it
501:11 go ahead
501:14 go ahead um two questions do you expect
501:17 of these deals to be made before April
501:19 9th and secondly there have been some
501:21 mixed messages from your administration
501:23 you're talking about negotiations and
501:24 yet others in your administration are
501:26 saying that these tariffs are actually
501:27 permanent what is the act well it could
501:30 be they can both be true there can be
501:33 permanent tariffs and there can also be
501:35 negotiations because there are things
501:37 that we need beyond tariffs we need open
501:39 borders you know we almost had a deal
501:41 with China where we're going to open up
501:43 China it was almost done some of you
501:45 remember it during my first term and it
501:47 was very disappointing we ended up
501:49 making a great deal $50 billion dollars
501:51 worth of uh product was sold 50 billion
501:54 you'd like that in Israel and I made
501:56 that deal but it wasn't the deal that I
501:58 wanted it was uh the deal that I wanted
502:00 was that plus they were going to open up
502:03 China so that our companies could go
502:04 into China and compete with other
502:08 countries and China for the you know for
502:10 a large number of people and at the very
502:13 end that deal was terminated and we went
502:16 to a piece of the deal and there so
502:19 there are a lot of things outside of
502:20 tariffs but tariffs are very important
502:22 but there are a lot of things like
502:24 opening up countries that were totally
502:26 closed china's essentially a closed
502:29 country in fact it is a closed country
502:32 and what they do is they charge tariffs
502:34 so that if you if you sell cars or if
502:36 you sell anything uh nobody's going to
502:38 buy it because the price is out of
502:40 control but that's true with a lot of
502:42 other countries also so we're going to
502:44 get fair deals and good deals with every
502:47 country and if we don't we're gonna have
502:48 nothing to do with them they're not
502:50 going to be allowed to participate in
502:51 the United States
503:03 relax we have time this gentleman is all
503:06 day long mr president many
503:09 of you go ahead
503:43 talk about it for a second because a lot
503:45 of people are asking the Houthis we've
503:47 we've been very tough and very
503:49 successful militarily
503:51 we've
503:52 uh really damaged them badly these were
503:56 people shooting down ships and other
503:58 things by the way flying objects like
504:01 airplanes and we uh we've put a major
504:05 hurt on the hoodies which nobody's been
504:07 able to do we've uh really hit them hard
504:13 and and it's every night night after
504:16 night and we've gotten many of their
504:19 leaders and their experts they're
504:21 experts on missiles i mean they actually
504:23 make missiles nobody thought that but
504:25 they make missiles they're highly
504:27 sophisticated and they're very tough but
504:30 they've been uh very badly damaged
504:32 nobody else was able to do that but us
504:34 pete do you want to discuss that please
504:35 yes sir uh it's been a bad three weeks
504:38 for the Houthis uh and it's about to get
504:40 worse it's been a devastating campaign
504:43 whether it's underground facilities
504:45 weapons manufacturing bunkers troops in
504:48 the open air defense assets we are not
504:50 going to relent and it's only to get
504:52 more unrelenting until the Houthis
504:55 declare they will stop shooting at our
504:56 ships and we've been very clear with the
504:58 Iranians as well uh they uh they should
505:01 not continue to provide support to the
505:03 Houthis and that message has been made
505:05 very clear so we have a lot more options
505:08 and a lot more pressure to apply and we
505:10 know because we see the reports how
505:12 devastating this campaign has been in
505:13 them and we will not run we have a great
505:16 military there's no military like our
505:18 military and despite Biden having given
505:22 a lot but ne nevertheless a pretty small
505:24 piece but it was a lot of our military
505:27 away in Afghanistan and one of the
505:30 dumbest situations I think and maybe the
505:32 most embarrassing situation we've ever
505:34 been involved in that that short period
505:37 of time in Afghanistan what a disgrace
505:40 that was that uh left a lot of our
505:42 military behind left left left you see
505:45 them in their annual parades where
505:48 they're parading trucks that are
505:49 armorplated and different things that
505:51 they can't but it's many billions of
505:53 dollars we left behind but despite that
505:56 uh we have a tremendous military that
505:58 was a very small portion because we
506:00 rebuilt the military during my first
506:02 term and uh we uh we have great uh great
506:07 things happening with our military we
506:09 also uh essentially approved a budget
506:12 which is in the facility you'll like to
506:15 hear this of a trillion dollars $1
506:17 trillion and nobody's seen anything like
506:20 it we have to build our military and
506:22 we're very costconscious but the
506:24 military is something that we have to
506:26 build and we have to be strong because
506:27 you got a lot of bad forces out there
506:29 now so we're going to be approving a
506:31 budget the uh and I'm proud to say
506:34 actually the biggest one we've ever done
506:35 for the military uh we're cutting other
506:38 things that were uh under Doge but under
506:41 a lot of other when you look at uh a
506:44 woman getting $2 billion for
506:46 environmental and it had nothing to do
506:48 with environmental and they had $100 in
506:51 the bank and they give her two billion
506:53 many many of those cases all that stuff
506:55 is going to be cut out but we are
506:57 getting a very very powerful military we
507:00 have things under order now the likes of
507:02 which we've never had before we've never
507:04 had the kind of uh aircraft
507:07 the kind of missiles or anything uh that
507:10 we have ordered and it's in many ways
507:12 too bad that we have to do it because
507:15 hopefully we're not going to have to use
507:16 it but the military is very very
507:18 powerful and uh it's going to remain
507:21 that way
507:28 yes thank you Mr president i want to ask
507:30 you about because this is the first time
507:33 we hear that
507:35 US is it possible to give us some more
507:38 information at what level high level
507:41 very high level yeah we're dealing with
507:44 the Iranians we have a very big meeting
507:46 on Saturday and we're dealing with them
507:48 directly you know a lot of people say oh
507:51 maybe you're going through surrogates or
507:52 you're not dealing directly you're
507:54 dealing through other countries no we're
507:55 dealing with them directly and uh maybe
507:58 a deal is going to be made that'll be
507:59 Right that'll be it'll be really great
508:02 for Iran i can tell you that but
508:04 hopefully we're not going to have to get
508:06 into that we we are meeting very
508:09 importantly on Saturday at almost the
508:12 highest level and we'll see how it works
508:14 out please how do you ensure Mr
508:16 president that these tariffs don't drive
508:19 US trading partners into the hands of
508:21 the Chinese i'm not worried about it i'm
508:23 not worried about it if they want to be
508:25 in the hands of the US they don't want
508:27 to be in the hands of the Chinese
508:29 uh the Chinese have turned out to be
508:31 really not very good at that uh people
508:34 that are with us they're with us but we
508:37 cannot be uh taken advantage of any
508:39 longer i used to watch these deals for
508:41 years i've been talking about it for
508:42 years you and I've been talking about it
508:44 for 35 years how our country is being
508:48 ripped off i mean which it 30 years ago
508:51 it was Japan then it was something else
508:54 then it was another group then it was
508:55 China china's doing the the best job of
508:58 it frankly and it's just not going to
509:01 happen not going to happen
509:08 eu has said that they have offered zero
509:12 for zero tariffs on cars and industrial
509:14 goods is that not enough well the EU no
509:17 it's not the EU has been very tough over
509:21 the years it was I always say it was
509:23 formed to really do damage to the United
509:27 States in trade that's the reason it was
509:29 formed it was formed with all of the
509:31 countries from Europe i guess most of
509:33 them not all of them but most of them
509:36 and they formed together to create a
509:38 little bit of a monopoly situation to
509:40 create a unified force against the
509:43 United States for trade so they have uh
509:46 NATO which is largely the same countries
509:49 and they uh took advantage of us
509:52 dollar-wise and militarily until I got
509:54 there you know I I was able to get $600
509:57 billion dollars from NATO where they
510:00 paid NATO because most of these nations
510:02 weren't even paying we were paying for
510:03 NATO so we're paying them to guard them
510:06 militarily and they're screwing us on
510:08 trade so that's not a good combination
510:11 so now uh it's really turned around it's
510:14 the opposite and the European Union's
510:17 been very ne very bad to us they don't
510:20 take our cars like Japan in that sense
510:23 they don't take our agricultural product
510:25 they don't take anything practically and
510:28 yet they send millions of cars in a year
510:31 mercedes-benz Volkswagen BMWs they're
510:34 sending millions and millions of cars
510:36 into the US but we don't have a car
510:39 that's been sold to the European Union
510:41 or other places but let's go for the
510:43 European Union and it's not going to be
510:46 that way it's got to be fair and
510:48 reciprocal it's got to be fair it's not
510:50 fair uh we have a deficit with the
510:52 European Union of $350
510:56 billion and it's going to disappear fast
510:59 and one of the reasons and one of the
511:01 ways that that can disappear easily and
511:03 quickly is they're going to have to buy
511:04 our energy from us because they need it
511:07 they're going to have to buy it from us
511:08 they can buy it we can knock off $350
511:10 billion in one week they have to buy and
511:14 commit to buy a like amount of energy
511:17 and we have that you know we have more
511:19 energy than any country in the world i
511:21 don't know if you know that this he
511:22 knows everything but the one thing he
511:24 may not know we have more energy than
511:26 any country in the world we have more of
511:28 every kind of energy every form of
511:30 energy from uh oil and gas to coal and
511:33 people talk about I call it beautiful
511:35 clean coal uh as you know Germany is
511:39 opening up a coal plant a week they
511:42 tried the windmills and it didn't work
511:43 they tried all the other solutions and
511:45 they were ready to go out of business
511:47 now they're doing a coal plant a week
511:49 china is now up to two coal plants that
511:52 uh they're opening two major coal plants
511:55 every single week in China all over
511:57 China and that we're not allowed to use
511:59 coal well we have clean beautiful coal
512:02 more than anybody else we have oil and
512:04 gas more than anybody else we have the
512:06 most energy of any country in the world
512:08 including Saudi Arabia including
512:09 everybody by a lot and I took it to
512:12 number one we were number three and I
512:15 took it to number one during my
512:16 administration
512:18 and the reason that we were hurt so
512:20 badly and the reason that we went into
512:22 such incredible inflation during Biden
512:25 is energy it was also their bad spending
512:28 but energy because they played around
512:31 with this incredible thing that we had
512:34 built this administration had built and
512:36 the energy cost went through the roof
512:38 and when that went up everything else
512:39 followed now if you look at what's
512:42 happening you're going to see this today
512:44 i said we're going to try and get
512:45 groceries down right oldfashioned term
512:48 but a beautiful term uh eggs so when I
512:51 got in the press went absolutely crazy
512:54 the first week they said "Eggs have
512:55 quadrupled in price." I said "I just got
512:58 here tell me about it." And Brooke
513:01 Rollins and our team did a great job and
513:03 eggs are down now 79% and they're all
513:06 over the place and this was a problem
513:08 that somebody else would have taken a
513:10 long time to cure uh we have energy is
513:13 down we have interest rates are down we
513:16 have groceries meaning food is down we
513:20 have everything is down at levels that
513:21 nobody ever thought possible energy
513:24 looks like it's going to be in in the
513:26 $2.50 a gallon range and maybe below
513:29 that for a car so for gasoline so uh we
513:34 are we're really doing amazing i mean
513:36 we're we're cutting prices because
513:39 prices got so high people couldn't live
513:41 i mean the prices for groceries the
513:43 prices for standard standard groceries
513:46 standard things were going through the
513:48 roof they couldn't live and now those
513:49 prices are coming down so call them
513:51 groceries but that's down energyy's down
513:54 and interest rates are down everything's
513:57 down and the interest rates the beauty
513:59 there is when we refinance debt you know
514:01 debt's become such a big factor in this
514:03 country we're going to get we're going
514:04 to start paying debt off with tariffs
514:07 and other things but uh it's such a big
514:09 factor because the interest rates so
514:11 high well now that's coming way down so
514:13 our budget's going to look a lot better
514:15 because interest costs are way down and
514:18 I guess I've done that
514:25 many Israelis are watching you now our
514:27 last show good what is your specific I
514:29 hope they like me getting the hostages
514:31 out from the horrific captivity yeah we
514:34 are trying very hard to get the hostages
514:36 out uh we're looking at another
514:38 ceasefire we'll see what happens but we
514:41 have we want to get the hostages out the
514:43 Israeli people want the hostages out
514:46 more than anything they want the
514:47 hostages out this man is working very
514:50 hard with us to do that i mean I don't
514:52 know i hope he's being appreciated
514:54 because he's been a great leader he's
514:56 working very very hard on the hostages
514:58 and many other things and there are
515:00 plenty of things you have to work on
515:01 it's a it's a tough place in the world i
515:04 have a good partner yeah you do have a
515:06 good partner and so do we we we're
515:08 working very hard on the hospital
515:12 if you're going to negotiate a new deal
515:14 in with Iran can you elaborate how it's
515:16 going to be more effective than the
515:18 JCPOA well I can't really say that but I
515:22 think it'll be uh different and maybe a
515:24 lot stronger but they were so happy when
515:27 we made that first deal because we did
515:29 get a lot out you know I had people
515:31 right in this office this beautiful oval
515:33 office they came in 10 people hostages
515:35 you know that and I said to them uh so
515:39 how was it and the stories they told me
515:41 I mean as an example I said to them was
515:45 there any sign of love you were there 10
515:48 people it's only 10 but it's pretty
515:51 representative did the Hamas show any
515:54 signs of like help or liking you did
515:59 they wink at you did they give you a
516:00 piece of bread extra did they give you a
516:03 meal on the side like you know you think
516:05 of doing like what happened in Germany
516:08 what happened elsewhere people would try
516:10 and help people that were in
516:12 unbelievable distress they said no i
516:15 said all of them i said "Did they ever
516:17 wink at you like "You'll be okay you're
516:19 going to be okay." No they didn't do
516:21 that that is unbelievable and the lives
516:24 you know they lived in a pipe not really
516:26 a tunnel it was a pipe and they always
516:28 thought they were suffocating they were
516:30 going to suffocate and then they'd open
516:32 up the pipe and it was like three and a
516:34 half ft high this isn't you know we hear
516:36 tunnel is bad but pipes are worse and
516:39 the stories I heard were incredible but
516:41 I just said "Was there any sign of
516:43 potential love or affection?" And there
516:46 were none whatsoever it was amazing to
516:48 me there was nothing like here take this
516:50 it's a little extra meal or something
516:53 they lived like hell i I don't know they
516:55 seemed to be they were amazing to me
516:58 because they seemed to be pretty normal
517:00 they weren't scarred but I I guarantee
517:04 underneath they have to be scarred and
517:06 one was there for
517:07 356 days another was there for about 180
517:11 days you know a long time these are
517:14 people that have been really really
517:16 horribly treated i've never seen
517:18 anything like it actually i was very
517:20 surprised to hear the answer
517:22 thank you Mr president are there two or
517:25 three countries that on your list that
517:27 you feel are farther along in getting
517:30 their tariffs lowered i think well I
517:34 think there are many that want to get
517:35 rid of tariffs right now uh European
517:38 Union i mean as badly as they've treated
517:41 us they've you know they've brought
517:43 their car tariffs essentially off i
517:45 guess they brought it down to two and a
517:46 half and I hear uh maybe to nothing but
517:49 it's not only tariffs it's non-monetary
517:52 tariffs it's tariffs where they put
517:54 things on that make it impossible for
517:56 you to sell a car it's not a money thing
517:57 it's they make it so difficult the
518:00 standards and the tests uh they drop a
518:02 bowling ball on the top of your car from
518:04 20 feet up in the air and if there's a
518:06 little dent they say no I'm sorry your
518:08 car doesn't qualify when the same car
518:11 from Germany or would dent likewise
518:14 unless you can have an army tank it's
518:16 going to dent so they come up with rules
518:18 and regulations that are uh just
518:21 designed for one reason that you can't
518:23 sell your product in those countries and
518:26 and uh we're not going to let that
518:28 happen those are called nonmonetary
518:31 barriers they make barriers that are so
518:33 tough that it's impossible to qualify so
518:36 so tariffs are a big part of it but but
518:39 there's another big part of it and
518:41 that's barriers they also do something
518:43 else they manipulate their currency and
518:46 they drive it down they want to drive it
518:47 they want to have low currencies you
518:49 know uh it sounds better to have a high
518:51 currency a strong dollar or whatever but
518:54 uh they bring their currency down and
518:57 when it competes with our currency it's
518:59 very hard to sell a tractor it's very
519:01 hard to sell product because their
519:04 currency is low and ours is much higher
519:07 relatively and so it makes it very hard
519:10 i speak to a lot of companies that do
519:12 business tractor companies and they say
519:15 it's so hard to sell because what
519:17 they've done is they've lowered the yen
519:19 or they've lowered the one or they've
519:21 lowered their currency so that it's very
519:23 hard to compete we don't want that
519:25 either so we have a lot of things that
519:28 we're talking about but we're going to
519:30 fix it properly and it's going to be
519:32 fair to everybody and in the end I think
519:34 we're gonna have a world that does a lot
519:35 better you know but they have to respect
519:37 the United States and and nobody but me
519:40 would do this nobody but me would do
519:42 this you know it's would be nice to
519:43 serve a nice easy term but we have an
519:47 opportunity to change the fabric of our
519:49 country we have an opportunity to reset
519:51 the table on trade we lose billions of
519:55 dollars we lose close to uh two trillion
519:59 dollars a year on trade we lose a
520:00 trillion dollars a year to China a
520:03 trillion we lose hundreds of billions of
520:06 dollars a year on trade to China we lose
520:10 hundreds of billions of dollars overall
520:14 probably two close to$2 trillion dollars
520:18 why would we do that number one why
520:20 would we do that and then you have to
520:21 say is it sustainable then you hear
520:23 about all of the people that say "Well
520:25 deficits if we have a deficit with a
520:27 country or if the country has a big
520:28 surplus with us like China has a massive
520:31 surplus that they take and they spend on
520:33 their military." Well we don't want that
520:35 i don't want them to take 500600 billion
520:38 dollars a year and spend it on their
520:41 military i don't want them spending
520:43 money on their military and I shouldn't
520:45 have to spend money we shouldn't have to
520:46 spend it either because you know
520:48 hopefully and I said this to President
520:50 Xi hopefully it's money that we're never
520:52 going to use in other words because
520:53 we're not going to use those incredible
520:55 weapons that we have and that they have
520:58 we don't want that so uh it's going to
521:01 be very interesting it's it's the only
521:04 chance our pre our country will have to
521:08 reset the table because no other
521:10 president would be willing to do what
521:12 I'm doing or to even go through it now I
521:15 don't mind going through it because I
521:16 see a beautiful picture at the end uh
521:19 but we are making tremendous progress
521:22 with a lot of countries and the
521:24 countries that really took advantage of
521:26 us are now saying please negotiate you
521:29 know why because they're getting beaten
521:31 badly because of what's happening
521:34 they're getting beaten badly they're
521:35 being devalued as countries but it's the
521:39 only chance we're going to have to reset
521:41 the table on trade and when we do we're
521:43 going to come out unbelievably well
521:45 we're gonna have a strong country
521:46 economically again and we're going to
521:48 have those factories that are empty all
521:50 over the United States we've lost
521:53 90,000 plants and factories think of
521:56 this 90 you wouldn't think it's possible
521:59 90,000 plants and factories since NAFTA
522:03 which was by the way the worst trade
522:04 deal ever ever developed ever had by any
522:07 country anywhere nafta and I terminated
522:10 NAFTA everybody said it would be
522:11 impossible and I terminated through
522:13 Congress we terminated it you had to get
522:15 it through Congress it was a trap it was
522:18 a horrible thing and we got it
522:22 done problem is they cheat they cheat
522:26 like crazy canada cheats mexico cheats
522:29 just one of those things but we are
522:32 resetting a table and we're going to
522:34 have great trade and we're going to have
522:36 a very strong country our country is
522:38 going to be at a level that is as maybe
522:40 never been or maybe you know our country
522:43 was the strongest believe it or not from
522:46 1870 to 1913 you know why it was all
522:50 tariff based we had no income tax then
522:53 in 1913 some genius came up with the
522:55 idea of let's charge the people of our
522:58 country not foreign countries that are
523:00 ripping off our country and the country
523:03 was never relatively was never that kind
523:07 of wealth we had so much wealth we
523:09 didn't know what to do with our money we
523:11 had meetings we had we had committees
523:14 and these committees worked tirelessly
523:17 to study one subject we have so much
523:20 money what are we going to do with it
523:22 who are we going to give it to and I
523:23 hope we're going to be in that position
523:25 again
523:30 do you plan to reduce the tariffs that
523:32 the government put on Israeli goods on
523:34 where on Israeli goods 70% do you Well
523:38 we're talking about a whole new trade
523:41 maybe not maybe not don't forget we help
523:44 Israel a lot you know we give Israel 4
523:47 billion dollars a year that's a lot
523:49 congratulations by the way that's pretty
523:51 good but we give Israel billions of
523:54 dollars a year billions it's uh one of
523:58 the highest of And we give a lot of We
524:00 give a lot of countries money uh you
524:03 wouldn't believe if I said we give
524:05 Afghanistan a lot of money do you
524:07 because that was a Biden deal another
524:08 Biden deal not only did he embarrass us
524:10 with that but they give them billions of
524:13 dollars afghanistan right so uh but no
524:16 we uh we take good care of our friends
524:19 and we don't take care of our enemies
524:21 we're not taking care of our enemies
524:22 anymore but we do take care of our
524:24 friends
524:27 the Times of Israel the IDF is fighting
524:29 again the Gaza Strip by myself might be
524:31 called up in a month do you think that's
524:32 the way to pressure Hamas to get to a
524:34 deal and do you think blocking
524:35 humanitarian aid is also an effective
524:37 pressure well you know how I feel about
524:38 the Gaza Strip i think it's an
524:41 incredible piece of important real
524:44 estate and I think it's something that
524:47 we would be involved in but you know
524:49 having a peace force like the United
524:52 States there controlling and owning the
524:54 Gaza Strip would be a good thing because
524:56 right now all it is is for years and
524:58 years all I hear about is killing and
525:01 Hamas and problems and if you take the
525:04 people the Palestinians and move them
525:06 around to different countries and you
525:07 have plenty of countries that will do
525:10 that and you really have a freedom a
525:13 freedom zone you call it the freedom
525:15 zone a free zone a zone where people
525:18 aren't going to be killed every day
525:19 that's a hell of a place it's a you know
525:22 what I call it a great location that
525:24 nobody wants to live in because they
525:26 really don't and when they had good li
525:28 when they have good living real living
525:30 where Hamas and all of the the problems
525:33 they have the the level of debt on the
525:35 Gaza Strip is just incredible and I've
525:39 said it I I don't understand why Israel
525:41 ever gave it up israel owned it it
525:44 wasn't this man so I can say it he
525:46 wouldn't have given it up i know him
525:47 very well there's no way they took
525:50 oceanfront property and they gave it to
525:52 people for peace how did that work out
525:55 not good is the immigration Sorry Mr
525:57 president is the immigration
526:01 which immigration gaza gaza all it is is
526:06 a a concept that I had that I think is
526:08 good and now people are copying it you
526:10 know baby do you want to tell people are
526:12 talking about the Trump plan gee why do
526:14 we do that uh would you like to answer
526:16 that question i I think what the
526:18 president talked about is first of all
526:20 to give people a choice gaza Gazans were
526:24 closed in and any other place including
526:26 in arenas of battle i mean whether it's
526:29 Ukraine or Syria or any other place
526:31 people could leave gaza was the only
526:34 Were
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