00:00Mr. President some of our allies have said that they're worried that they could be the next to be attacked by Russia
00:06You've spoken directly with the Russian president. Do you think those fears are justified?
00:10No, I don't I think when this gets done, it's done
00:14They're gonna all want to go home and rest. I don't see it happening. Nope. I don't see that happening
00:21And we'll make sure it doesn't happen not gonna happen, but we'll make sure it doesn't happen
00:26Yeah, go ahead please
00:27Leaders from Russia and Iran are heading to Beijing tomorrow to discuss nuclear programs. What do you hope to get out of that?
00:33Well, maybe they're going to talk about
00:35Non nuclear programs. Maybe they're going to be talking about the de-escalation of nuclear weapons because you know
00:41I was talking about that with President Putin very strongly and
00:45We could have done something had had that election not been rigged. We would have had something
00:51I think I would have made a deal with
00:53Putin on
00:55de-escalation
00:56denuclearization as they say
00:58but we would have de-escalated nuclear weapons because the power of nuclear weapons is so great and so devastating and
01:06Right now Russia and us have by far the most but China will catch us within five years
01:11China doesn't have but they're in the process of building and they build and
01:17Within four or five years, they'll probably have the same and by the way, you know
01:20This is a Republican tradition. Ronald Reagan when he negotiated with Gorbachev in the 1980s
01:26About bringing down the number of nuclear weapons. It's what you have been doing your first term and it is important
01:32it would be a great achievement if we could bring down the
01:36the number we have so many weapons and the power is so great and
01:41We number one you don't need them to that extent and then we'd have to get others because as you know in a
01:47Smaller way Kim Jong-un has a lot of nuclear weapons, by the way a lot and
01:52others do also you have
01:55India you have Pakistan you have others that have them and we'd get them involved
02:00but we started off with Russia and us we have by far actually by far the most and we were going to
02:06denuclearize and
02:08That was going to happen and then we were going to China and I spoke to John
02:11I spoke to President Xi about it and he really liked the idea
02:15you know like not to spend trillions of dollars building weapons and hopefully he's never gonna have to use and
02:22Because they are very expensive also, so that would have been great. Okay, one or two
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