00:00I learned that Rwanda, you know all about Rwanda, and the Congo will be doing a heat
00:14settlement.
00:15Probably coming in on Monday or Tuesday, we're going to be signing it up.
00:20And we've stopped the very vicious war, so that was an honor for me to be involved.
00:25I want to thank J.D. Vance for a great job, and also our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
00:34has done a fantastic job.
00:36So, Rwanda, a long-term war with the Congo, a very bloody war, and they're all bloody,
00:41but this was a really bloody one, is going to be making peace with Congo, and they can
00:46get on to making trade deals with the United States and other places and have a much more
00:52normal form of life.
00:53We're very honored by that.
00:56As you know, we did a very great job with India and Pakistan.
01:00And we had India in.
01:02It looks like we're going to be making a trade deal with India.
01:05And we had Pakistan in.
01:06It looks like we're going to be making a trade deal with Pakistan.
01:09And it's a beautiful thing to watch.
01:12Serbia, Kosovo, likewise, they've been fighting for years.
01:15And, as you know, we brought that one to a conclusion.
01:18And now we have a couple of big ones.
01:22We have Russia-Ukraine, which is making a little bit of progress.
01:25And we have Israel.
01:27And nobody really knows what that one is all about.
01:31We're going to find out pretty soon, I guess.
01:33The Iranian Foreign Minister this afternoon said if the U.S. is serious about negotiations,
01:40that you would call up Israel and request that they stop their airstrikes.
01:44Will you make that request?
01:45Well, I think it's very hard to make that request right now.
01:48If somebody is winning, it's a little bit harder to do than if somebody is losing.
01:53But we're ready, willing, and able.
01:55And we've been speaking to Iran.
01:57And we'll see what happens.
01:58Mr. President, what was the thought process behind the two-week time table?
02:03Just a time to see whether or not people come to their senses.
02:08Mr. President, did the Europeans help at all in talking with the Iraqis?
02:12No, they didn't help, no.
02:15Iran doesn't want to speak to Europe.
02:16They want to speak to us.
02:18Europe is not going to be able to help in this.
02:2020 years ago, you were skeptical of a Republican administration that attacked the Middle East
02:25country on the idea of questionable intelligence of weapons of mass destruction.
02:29How is this moment different with Iran?
02:31Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction.
02:33I never thought there were.
02:35And that was somewhat pre-nuclear.
02:37You know, it was a nuclear age, but nothing like it is today.
02:41And it looked like I'm right about the material that they've gathered already.
02:47It's a tremendous amount of material.
02:49And I think within a matter of weeks, or certainly within a matter of months,
02:53they were going to be able to have a nuclear weapon.
02:55We can't let that happen.
02:56I was very much opposed to Iraq.
02:59I was — I said it loud and clear, but I was a civilian.
03:02But I guess I got a lot of publicity.
03:04But I was very much opposed to the Iraq war.
03:07And I actually did say, don't go in, don't go in, don't go in.
03:11But I said, if you're going to go in, keep the oil.
03:14But they didn't do that.
03:15What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon?
03:18Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.
03:21Well, then my intelligence community is wrong.
03:24Who in the intelligence community said that?
03:26Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
03:29She's wrong.
03:30Mr. President, are the Chinese in any way helping Iran at this moment?
03:34We're hearing reports of mysterious planes landing in Iran from China.
03:38I don't know.
03:39They say that they're there to take people out.
03:42But I can't tell you about that.
03:44I get along very well with China.
03:46I get along very well with President Xi.
03:48I like him.
03:49He likes me.
03:50We have a very good relationship.
03:52We'll see what happens.
03:53I can't imagine them getting involved.
03:55Is this a decision that you need to make on Iran, whether to strike militarily?
03:59Is this the biggest decision you'll have to make as president?
04:02Well, I can't tell you that.
04:04I have to see what happens.
04:06I can't, you know, really say that.
04:08It depends what the decision is.
04:10But I wouldn't really be able to tell you that now.
04:13I'll tell you in about a year from now.
04:15Maybe five years or ten years from now.
04:17We never know about decisions.
04:19We never really know.
04:20Sir, would you support a ceasefire?
04:22Why would negotiations happen?
04:23I might, depending on the circumstances.
04:25Would you?
04:26It's very hard to stop.
04:28I will say this.
04:30It's very hard to stop.
04:31When you look at it, Israel's doing well in terms of war.
04:35And I think you would say that Iran is doing less well.
04:40It's a little bit hard to get somebody to stop.
04:42Sir, Leo Cosgrove with Zero Edge.
04:44Former Congressman Matt Gaetz threw out an interesting idea suggesting that if you were to broker a deal where nuclear inspectors go into both Israel and Iran, that you could win a Nobel Peace Prize.
04:56And they might even rename it the Trump Peace Prize.
04:58Did you hear those?
04:59What do you think of that?
05:00Well, they should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda.
05:03And if you look at the Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them.
05:09You could say, I mean, the big one is India and Pakistan.
05:14I should have gotten it four or five times.
05:17I should get it for the, I would think the Abraham Accords would be a good one, too.
05:22But what do you think of that?
05:23They won't give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals.
05:25Would you support Iran being able to have nuclear, or would you support Iran being able to have civilian nuclear energy capabilities up to 3.76 percent?
05:34You know, they're sitting on the top of one of the largest piles of oil in the world.
05:39I just don't know why they need that for civilian work.
05:42You know, it's one thing for certain countries to say, hey, I want to have a certain amount where I could go nuclear a little bit because we need it for electricity.
05:51We need it for air conditioners, et cetera.
05:54But when you're sitting on one of the largest oil piles anywhere in the world, it's a little bit hard to see why you need that.
06:01President, are you concerned that Iran or its proxies would wage terror attacks against American targets abroad if you order military action?
06:10We're always concerned about that, and we have to take them out and be very strong.
06:14You're even in danger talking to me right now.
06:17Do you know that?
06:18You are in danger talking to me right now.
06:21So I should probably get out of here.
06:23But you guys are actually in danger.
06:25Can you believe it?
06:26One last question, Mr. President.
06:28Is it still your expectation that NATO countries spent 5 percent of their GDP on defense spending?
06:33No, I think they should do that.
06:34I don't think we should.
06:36But I think they should.
06:37We've been spending.
06:38We've been supporting NATO so long.
06:40In many cases, I believe paying almost 100 percent the cost.
06:44So I don't think we should.
06:46But I think that the NATO countries should.
06:48Absolutely.
06:49What?
06:50The President has advised not to?
06:51Well, NATO is going to have to deal with Spain.
06:54Spain has been a very low payer.
06:56They were always a very low payer.
06:58They were either good negotiators or they weren't doing the right thing.
07:02I mean, I think Spain has to pay what everybody else has to pay.
07:06Spain has been notorious for low paying.
07:08You know who else was a low payer?
07:10Just about the lowest?
07:11A place called Canada.
07:13Because Canada said, why should we pay when the United States will protect us free?
07:18And what's been right about that?
07:20ICE?
07:21From Russia and Ukraine, you've been making progress towards a peace deal.
07:24But I don't know if you know this, but Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo,
07:27where they're on the ground in Ukraine seemingly doing the opposite,
07:30trying to provoke the Ukrainians to keep fighting.
07:32What do you think of that?
07:33Well, we're going to see.
07:34And people have to be very careful with what they say.
07:37They've got to be very careful with their mouth.
07:39Because their mouth can get them into a lot of trouble.
07:42One more.
07:43ICE.
07:44ICE has said that they're trying to arrest up to 3,000 individuals.
07:47There are some communities that are saying they are fearful of being wrongfully detained or separating some families,
07:54even if they're undocumented.
07:56Is the fear in some of these communities worth the deportations of these undocumented individuals,
08:02a mass deportation from them?
08:03Always a tough subject.
08:04Because, look, we have farmers.
08:05We have farmers.
08:06I love farmers.
08:07I want 80 percent, 85 percent of the farmers.
08:10And I love them.
08:11And I'm never going to do anything to hurt our farmers.
08:13And you could also say the leisure business, et cetera.
08:16There are some businesses where you have a disproportionate amount of people that are the people that you're talking about.
08:23At the same time, we have to get the criminals out of our country.
08:26And we're looking at doing something where, in the case of good, reputable farmers,
08:31they can take responsibility for the people that they hire and let them have responsibility.
08:36Because we can't put the farms out of business.
08:38And at the same time, we don't want to hurt people that aren't criminals.
08:43Most of the people that came in over the last three years under Biden, I would say probably three and a half to four years.
08:50Those people, you have a lot of criminals, you have a lot of — I mean, we're looking at that very closely.
08:55You've had people that have worked on farms for 20 years.
08:58It's very hard to go in there and say, you know, you're coming out.
09:02But we're going to let the farmers take responsibility.
09:05They're great people.
09:06They'll do it.
09:07They know the good and the bad.
09:09So the hard part about this is that it's not like a normal war where people wear uniforms.
09:14They don't wear uniforms.
09:15But we have murderers that came out of the last four years.
09:18We have murderers.
09:19We have drug lords.
09:21We have people that we don't want to — we have prisoners.
09:23They emptied out Venezuela and many countries.
09:26They emptied out their prisons into the United States.
09:28We have to get those people out.
09:30But we have stone-cold murders — 11,888 murders.
09:36We've already gotten a lot of them out of here.
09:38But we don't want them.
09:39So we have to be careful.
09:40But I never want to hurt our farmers.
09:42Our farmers are great people.
09:44They keep us happy and healthy and fat.
09:46Are there other cities that you're going to try to replicate what you've done in Los Angeles?
09:50Well, I mean, we had a big victory last night in the court — Court of Appeals — with respect to Los Angeles, but really the country, where Gavin Newsom, who's really an incompetent governor — he's just doing a terrible job between his fires, between all the houses burning down, his forest fires, and now Los Angeles.
10:11If we didn't go to Los Angeles — and the sheriff admitted it — he had no control.
10:16He would have lost control.
10:17We saved Los Angeles by having the military go in.
10:21And the second night was much better.
10:24The third night was nothing much.
10:26And the fourth night, nobody bothered even coming.
10:29We put out that fire, and we did a great job of it.
10:32He sued us for going in and for helping him.
10:35We went and helped him.
10:36Right now, you'd have Los Angeles burning to the ground.
10:39Largely, it would have already been destroyed.
10:41Do you want your legacy, Mr. President, to be that of a peacemaker?
10:45Do you worry that striking Iran would change that?
10:47Always a peacemaker.
10:49That doesn't mean sometimes you need some toughness to make peace, but always a peacemaker.
10:54Can you win at Iran without ground forces?
10:57Is an aerial campaign in Iran enough, or do you need ground forces?
11:03I'm not going to talk about ground forces.
11:05The last thing you want to do is ground forces.
11:07Does Iran have two weeks, or could you strike before that?
11:10Are you essentially giving them a two-week timeline?
11:12I'm giving them a period of time.
11:13We're going to see what that period of time is.
11:14But I'm giving them a period of time.
11:16And I would say two weeks would be the maximum.
11:20Do you think these locations should focus on criminals?
11:24Are all the people who are here in the country?
11:26Should start focusing on criminals.
11:28And that's what we've been focused on.
11:30Very bad criminals.
11:31Dangerous criminals.
11:32But Stephen Miller said to go out and arrest every person who's here illegally.
11:36He's told ICE to arrest everyone who's here illegally.
11:39Do you agree with that?
11:40Stephen and I have a very good understanding.
11:41He's a terrific person.
11:43We have a great understanding.
11:44Mr. President, if there is an attack on U.S. assets, will you promise to conduct a full investigation
11:50and make it transparent with the American people before blaming Iran for such an attack?
11:56Well, if there's an attack, we'll know almost immediately with modern equipment who made the attack.
12:01And those people will be very, very unhappy.
12:03Would you say that?
12:04I want to get you people out of danger.
12:06You're in danger standing with me.
12:08One more.
12:09Prime Minister Netanyahu said that they had the capacity to take out all of Iran's nuclear facilities.
12:14So what role would the U.S. be able to play, and why would they if Israel says that they have all of the abilities their own military?
12:21Well, I'm not sure he said that, but they really have a very limited capacity.
12:25They could break through a little section, but they can't go down very deep.
12:29They don't have that capacity, and we'll have to see what happens.
12:33Maybe it won't be necessary.
12:35Maybe it won't be necessary.
12:36Mr. President, would you like to see Congress pass a bill that bans child transgender surgeries?
12:41Well, I know they're talking about it, aren't they?
12:44We're going to have to see how it comes to me in what form.
12:47Certainly, it's been something I've been talking about also.
