FOX NEWS TV !! Trump won't close door on Canada as 51st state- 'Never say never'

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Fox News TV : President Donald Trump spoke with the press in the Oval Office alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing U.S.-Canada relations moving forward. #foxnews #canada #trump #donaldtrump #politics #fox #news #world #us

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00:00Regardless of anything, we're going to be friends with Canada.

00:03Canada is a very special place to me.

00:06I know so many people that live in Canada.

00:09My parents had relatives that lived in Canada, my mother in particular.

00:14And no, I love Canada.

00:16I have a lot of respect for the Canadians, Wayne Gretzky, I mean, the great one.

00:23You happen to have a very, very good hockey player right here on the Capitals who I have

00:28a lot of his.

00:29A big, tough cookie too, just broke the record.

00:32And he's a great guy.

00:33And we had the team here and I got to know a lot of the players.

00:38But now Canada is a very special place.

00:41Yeah, please.

00:42Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, I'd like to get your response to this too, but Mr. President,

00:47you have said that Canada should become the 51st state.

00:50No, no.

00:51Well, I still believe that, but it takes two to tango, right?

00:57But no, I do.

00:58I believe it would be a massive tax cut for the Canadian citizens.

01:02You get free military, you get tremendous medical cares and other things.

01:08There would be a lot of advantages, but it would be a massive tax cut.

01:14And it's also a beautiful, you know, as a real estate developer, you know, I'm a real estate

01:18developer at heart.

01:20When you get rid of that artificially drawn line, somebody drew that line many years ago

01:23with like a ruler, just a straight line right across the top of the country.

01:28When you look at that beautiful formation when it's together, I'm a very artistic person.

01:33But when I looked at that beauty, I said, that's the way it was meant to be.

01:37But you know, I guess I do feel it's much better for Canada, but we're not going to be discussing

01:45that unless somebody wants to discuss it.

01:46I think that there are tremendous benefits to the Canadian citizens, tremendously lower

01:52taxes, free military, which honestly, we give you essentially anyway, because we're protecting

01:57Canada if you ever had a problem.

01:59But I think, you know, it would really be a wonderful marriage because it's two places

02:06that get along very well.

02:07They like each other a lot.

02:09Well, if I may, as you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale.

02:17That's true.

02:17We're sitting in one right now, you know, Buckingham Palace, you visited as well.

02:21That's true.

02:22And having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last several months,

02:27it's not for sale, won't be for sale ever.

02:31But the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together.

02:36And we have done that in the past.

02:38And part of that, as the president just said, is with respect to our own security.

02:43And my government is committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian security and our

02:50partnership.

02:51And I'll say this as well, that the president has revitalized international security, revitalized

02:57NATO, and us playing our full weight in NATO.

03:00And that will be part of it.

03:02They have, I must say, Canada is stepping up the military participation because Mark knew,

03:13you know, they were low and now they're stepping it up.

03:15And that's a very important thing.

03:17But never say never, never say never.

03:19What would it take to get the tariffs off of Canada?

03:28Well, we'll be talking about different things.

03:30You know, we want to protect our automobile business.

03:34And so does Mark.

03:35But we want to protect, we want to make the automobiles.

03:38And we want to, you know, we have a tremendous abundance of energy more than any country.

03:43We have, just in Alaska alone, ANWR has been reopened now.

03:47ANWR is probably the largest find anywhere in the world.

03:49They say it's larger than Saudi Arabia.

03:51I don't know, but it's a lot.

03:53But we have tremendous amounts of energy.

03:56Other countries don't.

03:57We're both lucky in that way.

03:58They have energy.

03:59We have energy.

04:00We have more than we can ever use and more than we could ever sell, actually.

04:04And you have the same thing.

04:06So we're two countries that are very lucky.

04:08If you look at China, they don't have that.

04:09You know, it's a big disadvantage.

04:11Other countries, most countries don't have, you know, most countries don't have that.

04:15So Canada and us, we have a lot of advantages over other places.

04:21Mr. President, when you consider what Mr. Carney just said, that Canada is not for sale,

04:29does this make the discussion a little more difficult to start on?

04:32No, not at all.

04:33No, not at all.

04:34No, time.

04:35Time will tell.

04:36It's only time.

04:37But I say, never say never.

04:40I've had many, many things that were not doable, and they ended up being doable.

04:44And only doable in a very friendly way.

04:46But if it's to everybody's benefit, you know, Canada loves us and we love Canada.

04:52That's, I think, the number one thing that's important.

04:55But we'll see.

04:56I mean, over time, we'll see what happens.

04:58I'm Steve Doocy.

04:59I'm Brian Kilmeade.

05:00And I'm Ainsley Earhart.

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