00:00I see that.
00:01We spoke long and hard.
00:04Steve Whitkoff was with him for a very extended period,
00:06like about three hours.
00:08I think he wants to stop fighting.
00:10They have a big, powerful machine.
00:12You understand that.
00:13And they defeated Hitler, and they defeated Napoleon.
00:18You know, they've been fighting a long time.
00:20They've done it before.
00:22But I think he'd like to stop fighting.
00:25Do you think he wants the whole of Ukraine?
00:27Or just, like, what do you think he wants?
00:29No, I think he wants to stop.
00:31That was my question to him.
00:33Because if he's gonna go on,
00:34that would've been a big problem for us.
00:36And that would've caused me a big problem,
00:38because you just can't let that happen.
00:41I think he wants to end it, and they want to end it fast.
00:47Both of them.
00:48And Zelensky wants to end it, too.
00:50Sir, when do you think it actually happened?
00:52When do you think the fighting can stop?
00:53Well, we're working to get it done.
00:55I mean, you know, it's too bad it started.
00:57It would've been a lot easier to end it
00:59before it started, right?
01:01But it started because we had an incompetent President
01:03that he didn't know what he was doing.
01:06That should've never started.
01:07That war was so easy to stop.
01:10Remember this, that under Bush, they took a lot.
01:14Under Obama, they took a lot.
01:17Under Biden, they tried to take the whole thing.
01:19And under Trump, they took nothing.
01:21Nothing. Nothing was gone.
01:23Not even a little bit.
01:24So it's too bad.
01:26It's really too bad.
01:27A lot of people are dead right now that should be alive,
01:30and a lot of cities are destroyed
01:32that can never come back like they were.
01:33Those beautiful golden domes
01:35and all of the multicolored domes
01:38that were 1,000 years old,
01:40they're all laying and, you know, just shattered.
01:43So it's very sad.
01:44They ruined the culture.
01:46Sir, do you understand that they're tired?
01:48They're beginning phase two of the ceasefire deal
01:50between Israel and Hamas.
01:53What is going on there?
01:55Have you been briefed on the latest relating to that?
01:56Well, I told you I have been briefed.
01:58I told Bibi, you do whatever you want
02:01because, you know, my statement was they got to come back.
02:04Now, the reason I made that statement
02:07because they said they weren't going to deliver,
02:09they were not going to deliver the people
02:10that they said they were going to deliver,
02:12that they agreed to deliver.
02:15And they did agree to do that, but they broke that agreement.
02:18When I made the statement,
02:19they delivered everybody plus an American.
02:22Now, the good news is they look like they're in pretty good shape
02:25because the people from the week before
02:26didn't look like they were in good shape.
02:28They looked like Holocaust survivors, frankly.
02:32Horrible. Whatever happened to them was horrible.
02:35But that'll be up to Israel what the next step is.
02:38In consultation with me.
02:41So, what were they supposed to use these weapons for
02:44that you've now allowed to be shipped?
02:46Given the fact that there's a ceasefire supposed to be in effect,
02:49why ship those big bombs now?
02:51Peace through strength.
02:53You understand that, right?
02:55It's called peace through strength.
02:57You know, they contracted for those weapons a long time ago
03:00in the Biden administration,
03:02and then Biden wouldn't deliver the weapons.
03:05But I look at it differently.
03:06I say peace through strength.
03:07They were sitting there.
03:09Nobody knew what to do with them.
03:10They bought them.
03:13But I believe in that very strongly.
03:15Sir, do you have an update on E.U.V.?
03:18The European Union is talking about banning food imports
03:21from the U.S. kind of along the lines of your reciprocal tariffs.
03:25Why is that? Why?
03:26They include the reciprocal tariffs.
03:28They don't like the peasant side.
03:29That's all right. I don't mind. Let them do it.
03:31Let them do it.
03:32They're just hurting themselves if they do that.
03:34I can't imagine it, but it doesn't matter.
03:37We're having reciprocal tariffs.
03:39Whatever they charge, we charge.
03:41Very simple.
03:42If a certain country like India, which is very high tariff,
03:46if they charge us X dollars, we charge them X dollars.
03:49It's all right. It's a fair thing to do.
03:51Even the media said it was fair.
03:54And it's going to be very good for the United States.
03:57Do you have an update on your timing of your meeting
03:59with Putin in Saudi Arabia?
04:01No, no time set.
04:02But it could be very soon.
04:04Like this month?
04:05Well, it'll be soon. We'll see what happens.
04:07But they're meeting right now, and that's more.
04:10I mean, this should have been done four years ago,
04:12three years ago, before it started.
04:13But it should have been done immediately after it started,
04:17as opposed to now, three years later.
04:20Sir, egg prices have reached an all-time high.
04:22What's your administration?
04:24Egg prices have reached an all-time high.
04:25Well, there's a flu. I mean, it was a long —
04:27before I ever got here, it was at an all-time.
04:30This didn't — remember, I've been here for three weeks.
04:33And when you saw the inflation numbers —
04:35I've been here for three weeks.
04:36I have had nothing to do with inflation.
04:38This was caused by Biden.
04:40I had four years of virtually no inflation.
04:43So, I'm just taking over. But I'll tell you what.
04:46This country has made more progress
04:48in the last three weeks
04:49than it's made in the last four years.
04:52And we're respected again as a country.
04:54Thank you very much. Thank you.
04:56All right. Let's go, guys. Come on.
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