00:00Yeah, a question for NewsHour, Dutch TV.
00:06First of all, on Article 5, on your way here, you spoke about the commitment of the U.S. to Article 5,
00:12saying, I'll give you my definition once we're here.
00:15What is your definition, and may the U.S. commitment to Article 5 change
00:19in case some of the NATO members do not reach the threshold that was discussed today?
00:25My second question is, following up on a colleague on Iran,
00:28what intel reports do say that everything over there was obliterated?
00:35Yeah, well, there are numerous of those reports, and they're coming out fast and furious.
00:39But the most respected ones we've already seen, and I will say that on a very confidential basis,
00:46they're looking at the reports, like numerous reports,
00:51and including people going to the site and checking the site,
00:54and they're going to be having, I guess you're going to be having,
00:57over the next couple of days are full, you're going to encapsulate it.
01:00But no, the site was obliterated, just like I said it was,
01:04and just like the pilots should be given credit for.
01:07As far as Article 5, look, when I came here,
01:12I came here because it was something I'm supposed to be doing,
01:17but I left here a little bit differently.
01:20I said, I watched the heads of these countries get up,
01:25and the love and the passion that they showed for their country was unbelievable.
01:30I've never seen quite anything like it.
01:33They want to protect their country, and they need the United States,
01:37and without the United States, it's not going to be the same.
01:40And you can ask Mark, or you can ask any of the people that were there.
01:44It was really moving to see it.
01:46They loved their country.
01:48They were so respectful of me because I'm the head of the United States.
01:51And I made, you know, the king of Saudi Arabia,
01:55when I was in, I was in the Middle East.
01:59So I was in Qatar for a different reason, not a reason to get shot at.
02:03We were in there for economic development reasons.
02:06Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia, all three leaders of those countries,
02:10and we took back $5.1 trillion into the United States.
02:14All three leaders said, you know,
02:16you're presiding over the hottest country in the world.
02:18The United States right now is the hottest country.
02:20Everybody wants to be there.
02:21Everybody wants a piece of it.
02:25He said, a year ago, your country was dead.
02:28You had a deadhead running it.
02:29You had a country that was dead, and it was dead.
02:32You had people pouring through the borders.
02:34You had inflation. You had everything.
02:37He said, you've made it in five months at that time.
02:41You've made it the hottest country.
02:42This is the hottest country in the world.
02:43The United States right now is the hottest country in the world.
02:46And when I was around that table, it was a nice group of people,
02:52many of whom I knew from previous.
02:55When I saw the passion they had for the country,
02:57almost everyone, and you probably have the tapes.
03:00It was very public.
03:01But almost every one of them said, thank God for the United States.
03:05Without the United States, we couldn't.
03:07They couldn't really have NATO.
03:08It wouldn't work.
03:10It wouldn't work.
03:10It will in the future, because now they're paying much more money.
03:13But it wouldn't work.
03:16It was great.
03:17And I left here differently.
03:18I left here saying that these people really love their countries.
03:22It's not a ripoff.
03:23And we're here to help them protect their country.
03:28Okay, we'll do one or two more.
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