00:00Well, they had a meeting this morning, so I can't tell you, it doesn't matter who they is.
00:04I think you have your reporting room.
00:07Can you clarify with whom the U.S. is speaking with China?
00:10They're saying it's fake news that trade talks are happening.
00:13Well, they had a meeting this morning, so I can't tell you, it doesn't matter who they is.
00:19We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we've been meeting with China.
00:25And so I think you have, Jeff, as usual, I think you have your reporting room.
00:30Thank you very much.
00:31It's a real honor to have the highly respected, the great prime minister of the Kingdom of Norway with us today,
00:38who, as you know, has been doing a fantastic job and truly respected throughout the world as a leader.
00:46And thank you very much for being here.
00:48We appreciate it.
00:49And we're going to be having a meeting in the Oval Office in a little while,
00:55where you'll be invited back and you can ask some questions.
00:57It's also a pleasure to have my friend who did such a good job at NATO, my great friend, right?
01:04So you really did.
01:07We started off, they had no money, and they ended up having a lot of money.
01:12After we said, you've got to pay, you've got to pay up.
01:14But you did a fantastic job, and thank you very much.
01:17And I'm glad you're here.
01:19I'm glad we meet each other again under these circumstances.
01:23So we'll be meeting in a little while at the Oval Office.
01:27And if you have maybe one or two questions, we'll do it now.
01:30And after that, we'll go to...
01:34So we are thinking that very strongly that they both want peace.
01:39But they have to get to the table.
01:41We're waiting a long time.
01:42They have to get them to the table.
01:44And I think we're going to get peace.
01:46We want to save 5,000 young people.
01:48I used to say 2,500.
01:51I used to say 5,000.
01:52And we have, Mr. Prime Minister, we have about 5,000 young people a week
01:58that are dying in that ridiculous war.
02:02And, you know, I started out because I didn't like all the money that we were paying.
02:06And then I realized how many people were dying.
02:09And that's by far the more important element right now.
02:12I'm saying we can save thousands of people.
02:15And I don't like that it takes long at all.
02:18But I think they both want to make peace.
02:20I do believe so.
02:22There's a lot of hatred there.
02:23There's a lot of very bad blood.
02:25A lot of distrust.
02:27But I think we're going to...
02:27I hope we're going to get there.
02:29For the sake of a lot of young people that are dying.
02:32Just keep doing what they're doing.
02:33We have a very good relationship with Norway.
02:37Great leader.
02:38Great people.
02:39I know many of the people in Norway.
02:41And it's truly...
02:42It's an incredible country.
02:44So all they have to do is keep doing what they're doing.
02:47I think it's probably the best answer I can give.
02:49Well, it's a very interesting question.
02:52It's certainly very important for Europe.
02:53And I think without us, it wouldn't be nearly as powerful.
02:57And as the former Secretary General, who did a great job, can tell you, we played...
03:05I played, when I was there, a very big role in making sure that NATO is funded by the 28...
03:13At that time, they had 28 countries, including us, because many of the countries weren't paid.
03:17And they ended up being paid, you would say.
03:21And the Secretary General was very nice about it, as far as I was concerned.
03:28Other presidents went in.
03:29They made a speech and they left.
03:31And that kept going on.
03:32And, you know, in the meantime, they had no money.
03:35And the United States was paying far more than its fair share.
03:38You could say that they were paying...
03:40I actually said sometimes it looked like 100%.
03:43And it was unfair.
03:45And the two of us worked very well together.
03:49And we took care of the situation.
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