'I Would Say They Have Reached Out': Trump Questioned About Potential Trade Talks With China's Xi

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In the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about whether he's spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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00:00We'll be finding out pretty soon.

00:01Can you explain the disconnect between your conversations with President Xi,

00:06when those potentially could happen and why they haven't happened yet?

00:10Well, you don't know whether or not they've happened.

00:12That's the question.

00:13Yeah, I mean, I've never said whether or not they've happened.

00:16But I have a very good relationship with President Xi,

00:19and I think it's going to continue.

00:21And I would say they have reached out a number of times.

00:27He or they?

00:28Well, let's say I view it very similar.

00:30It would be top levels of China.

00:32And if you knew him, you would know that if they reached out,

00:35he knew exactly.

00:36He knew everything about it.

00:37He runs it very tight, very strong, very smart.

00:42And, yeah, we're talking to China.

00:44Do you believe him?

00:44In recent days or recent weeks.

00:46Excuse me?

00:47They've reached out since the 145% tariffs.

00:52Oh, yeah, sure.

00:53Do you believe him?

00:54A lot.

00:54Do you believe him?

00:55A lot.

00:55All the time.

00:56We're talking.

00:56Have you spoken to him directly to President Xi?

00:59I don't want to say that.

01:00It's just not appropriate to say that.

01:02But you're speaking.

01:03Sorry.

01:04Has he called you directly, President Xi?

01:06Or reached out?

01:07Has that resulted in a conversation?

01:08Well, you'd think it was pretty obvious that he has.

01:12But we will talk about that soon.

01:14It's not that important because, honestly, we're going to have a deal.

01:19I believe we're going to have a deal with China.

01:20And if we don't, we're going to have a deal anyway because we're going to set a certain target.

01:25And that's going to be it.

01:26Do you have anything to say about that, Howard?

01:29I think our tariff policy around the world has every country in the world coming in and talking to us.

01:36It is incredible.

01:37We had country after country in yesterday.

01:41We are confident that we will work out something with China.

01:45And the president knows what he wants to do.

01:48And I think he knows it better than anybody else in the world.

01:51And we are confident that this is going to work out well, both for the United States and America.

01:56I'm sure he'll work it out with China.

01:58But the amount of other countries who are working with us is incredible.

02:02And I think it's really going to work for the American farmers, for our ranchers, for our fishermen, for our businesses.

02:09The scale of companies coming to America just every day, like even this morning we were talking about Whirlpool.

02:16And then we were talking about car companies opening.

02:18The scale of factories coming to America is mind-boggling, driven by Donald Trump's tariff policy, which has got the world coming.

02:29And finally, respecting the United States of America.

02:32President Trump, you said...

02:33And by the way, there's never been anything like it.

02:35We have at least $7 trillion of new businesses coming in.

02:41If you go back and look at others, I mean, in years they wouldn't do anything like that.

02:46And this is in a matter of weeks.

02:48So it's...

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