'That Could Be A Good Incentive': President Trump Asked About Russia Being Banned From World Cup

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President Trump held a meeting with the FIFA Task Force on Tuesday, where he was asked about Russia's involvement in the World Cup.

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00:00Russia is banned from playing the next World Cup. What's your position on this?

00:04Say it again?

00:05Russia has been banned from playing the next World Cup. What's your position on this?

00:09I didn't know that. Is that right?

00:12That is right. They are banned for the time being, yeah, from playing.

00:16But we hope that...

00:17He's the boss. I'm not the boss on that.

00:19We hope that something happens and peace will happen and then Russia can be readmitted.

00:25So that's what we hope.

00:26That's possible. Hey, that could be a good incentive, right?

00:29We want to get them to stop. We want them to stop.

00:32We want the 5,000 young people a week are being killed.

00:38It's not even believable.

00:40The Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian soldiers mostly.

00:43Also people in towns every once every two weeks.

00:47Horrible things going on over there.

00:49So we're going to get that war stopped.

00:52Okay.

00:52When you were talking about all of the events that will be happening here in the U.S. over the next few years,

00:58you mentioned the G7 and you said it used to be called the G8.

01:02Yeah.

01:02As the host country, you can actually invite Russia to the G7 plus one.

01:09What's your thinking on that right now, Mr. President?

01:11Well, Russia used to be a member of what was called then the G8 and I don't think I was really in politics at that point.

01:19But I know that President Obama didn't like it and they voted Russia out.

01:25I say if they didn't vote Russia out, which I thought was a very foolish decision because it's a group of people sitting around the table.

01:34I've done it many times with them and you get to know them.

01:37And I say that if it was the G8, if Russia were in it, I think you probably wouldn't have this ridiculous, deadly war going on right now.

01:45I thought it was a very bad decision.

01:46It was headed by Trudeau, by the way, and Obama.

01:50They were the ones that really fought hard to get Russia out.

01:53I think if Russia were in, you wouldn't be.

01:55They threw them out.

01:57And because of that, maybe millions of people are dying.

02:03Millions, you know, millions.

02:04The numbers are far greater than you think.

02:07But millions of people are dying.

02:09If he was sitting around a table with other people, seven people hammering him and saying, let's not do this.

02:16I think you wouldn't probably have had the problems that you've had.

02:20Will you make the push, Mr. President, to get Russia back into this group?

02:25No, I think it's not good timing now.

02:28No, right now, we missed that gate, didn't we, huh?

02:31We missed that gate with another great decision by some people that shouldn't have been making decisions.

02:38Yes, go ahead.

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