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Trump Weighs In After Judge Dismisses Cases Against James Comey and Letitia James
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00:00
Okay, hello everybody, how are you?
00:02
Good to see you guys, sir.
00:03
Hi, how are you?
00:04
Hi.
00:05
What would you like to know today?
00:07
Do you start off by telling us the latest with Russia and Ukraine?
00:11
Are you expecting the Latina to come visit you?
00:14
We're having good — I don't know if you would like to come, but I think we should get a deal done first.
00:18
We're having good talks.
00:21
We started with Russia.
00:23
We're having some talks with Russia.
00:26
Ukraine is doing well.
00:27
I think they're pretty happy about it.
00:29
I'd like to see it in.
00:31
And we won't know for a little while, but we're making progress.
00:35
You said what are the things you need?
00:36
We settled eight wars, and I thought this would be one of the easier ones because of my relationship with President Putin.
00:43
But this is probably one of the more difficult ones.
00:46
There's a lot of hatred.
00:47
You said that there were some disagreement.
00:50
They were still up to me.
00:52
Have you?
00:53
Can you tell us what those are?
00:54
Well, it's just the standard things with people starting to realize it's a good deal for both.
00:58
If they've got to stop the war, they're losing a lot of people — a lot of soldiers, mostly soldiers.
01:04
No.
01:05
In that 28th week, plan —
01:06
No.
01:07
— it's so much really weaved their personal portions of that, and so they could bring —
01:09
Well, that was in a regional proposal.
01:11
And then from there, we went back —
01:13
So when it comes to a scenic land to Russia, is that still on the table?
01:18
Has that changed?
01:19
Well, they're talking about going land both ways and trying to clean up a border.
01:24
You know, you can't go through the middle of a house.
01:26
You can't go through the middle of a highway.
01:28
So they're trying to work — it's a complicated process.
01:32
It doesn't go that quickly.
01:33
What about the U.S. security guarantees and —
01:37
Well, we're working that out with Europe.
01:40
Europe will be largely involved in that.
01:42
We're working that out with Europe.
01:44
Europe really wants to see it end impossible.
01:46
There were a lot of Republicans who felt that the first plan — the first 28-point plan — was too favorable to Russia.
01:53
Have you changed that?
01:54
Well, that was just a map.
01:55
All that was is a map.
01:56
That was not a plan.
01:57
It was a concept.
01:58
And from there, they're taking each one of the 28 points, and then you get down to 22 points.
02:05
A lot of them were solved, and actually very favorably solved.
02:09
So we'll see how — we'll see what happens.
02:11
Do you think — do you think that Russia — that Ukraine was being asked to give too much
02:15
land back to Russia?
02:16
I know at one point you said they wouldn't have to give any —
02:19
It's really — look, the way it's going, if you look, it's just moving in one direction.
02:25
So eventually that's land that over the next couple of months might be gotten by Russia anyway.
02:31
So do you want to fight and lose another 50, 60,000 people?
02:36
Or do you want to do something now?
02:38
In some cases, the land is going in the other direction.
02:41
So they're negotiating.
02:43
They're trying to get it done.
02:45
You want to have a border?
02:46
You can't have a border that goes through a highway or a border that goes through the middle of a town.
02:51
So it doesn't work.
02:53
So it's a long — it's a long, complicated process.
02:56
Very sad, because so many people are being killed.
02:59
What's the next step?
03:00
They're going to keep talking.
03:01
They're talking to Russia now.
03:03
Steve Woodcoff is going over — maybe with Jared.
03:06
I'm not sure about Jared going, but he's involved in the process.
03:10
Smart guy.
03:11
And they're going to be meeting with President Putin, I believe, next week in Moscow.
03:16
Next week in Moscow?
03:17
I think so, yes.
03:18
What kinds of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
03:22
Well, they're making concessions.
03:23
Their big concessions is they stop fighting, and they don't take any more land.
03:28
Again, it's a word that would have never happened if I was president.
03:31
This was not anything that was going to happen.
03:34
This happened because of stupidity.
03:37
It's too bad.
03:38
Mr. President —
03:39
The President is going to Russia next week.
03:42
Does that mean that Thanksgiving deadline doesn't stand anymore for Ukraine?
03:46
We're going to see what happens.
03:47
They set up a date, and the date is going to be sometime in the very near future.
03:51
Do you have a deadline?
03:52
No, I don't have a deadline.
03:54
I just — you know what the deadline for me is?
03:57
When it's over.
03:58
And I think everybody's tired of fighting at this moment.
04:01
They're losing too many people.
04:03
Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
04:12
Well, I haven't heard it, no, but that's a standard thing, you know,
04:15
because he's got to sell this to Ukraine.
04:17
He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia.
04:19
That's what he's — that's what a dealmaker does.
04:21
You've got to say, look, they want this.
04:23
You've got to convince them of this.
04:25
You know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.
04:28
I haven't heard it, but I heard it was standard negotiation.
04:32
And I wouldn't imagine he's saying the same thing to Ukraine.
04:36
Because each party has to give and take.
04:39
So you're worried that he's too pro-Russian?
04:42
No, I think, look, this war could go on for years.
04:47
And Russia's got a lot more people.
04:50
They've got a lot more soldiers, you know.
04:52
So I think if Ukraine can make a deal, it's a good thing.
04:56
I think it's great for both — frankly, I think it's great for both.
04:59
But Ukraine's got a much smaller — it's a much smaller group of people.
05:05
They've lost a lot of people.
05:07
Russia's lost a lot of people.
05:08
But Russia has a much bigger pool of people.
05:11
Mr. President, are you planning to unveil a health care plan anytime soon?
05:16
Well, we're looking at different alternatives.
05:19
I mean, I like my plan the best.
05:21
Don't give any money to the insurance companies.
05:23
Give it to the people directly.
05:24
Let them go out and buy their own health care plan.
05:27
And we're looking at that, if that can work.
05:29
We're looking at that.
05:30
That's sort of taken off.
05:32
That's what I like.
05:33
Don't give the money to the insurance companies.
05:35
They go out.
05:37
They go out and buy their own plan.
05:39
You give the money to the people.
05:40
I like it the best.
05:41
Are you planning to extend those subsidies?
05:44
I'd rather not.
05:46
Somebody said, I want to extend them for two years.
05:48
I don't want to extend them for two years.
05:50
I'd rather not extend them at all.
05:52
It may be — some kind of an extension may be necessary to get something else done.
05:57
Because the Unaffordable Care Act has been a disaster.
06:01
It's a disaster.
06:02
And I said it was when it first got put in.
06:05
Unfortunately, we lost a couple of Republican votes.
06:07
And the Democrats voted for it.
06:09
It's a Democrat plan.
06:11
And the premiums are going up.
06:14
And it's the Democrats' fault.
06:16
But, you know, they are negotiating with me.
06:18
It's very interesting.
06:19
They want to see something happen.
06:21
Who are you talking to on the Democrats, though?
06:22
I can't tell you, but we have — a lot of Democrats want this plan to happen.
06:26
They would love to see the money go to the people.
06:28
And the people go out and get their own health care.
06:31
And there would be nothing like it.
06:33
Are you planning to replace Cash Patel?
06:35
No, he's doing a good job.
06:38
Cash Patel?
06:39
No, he's doing a great job, I think.
06:41
This week, we saw those cases against James Colony and Letitia James tossed out.
06:46
Do you still have faith in Lindsey Halligan?
06:48
No, she's great.
06:49
I think she's great.
06:50
They got out on a technicality, and you'll see what happens from here on.
06:54
But if you look at the actual charges, I think anybody that looks at a very fair
07:00
and would say, boy, are they guilty.
07:03
So let's see what happens over the next week.
07:05
You know, the court didn't say you couldn't bring the case,
07:08
re-bring the case, or appeal the case.
07:10
So they have a lot of options.
07:12
They're going to call the shot.
07:13
I'm not calling the shot.
07:14
But Lindsey's a very talented lawyer, actually.
07:17
Mr. President, on Venezuela, sir, are you planning to talk to Nicolás Maduro?
07:22
I might talk to him, I'll say.
07:24
But we're discussing that with the different staffs.
07:29
We might talk with Venezuela.
07:31
Interesting enough, the U.S. this week did, of course, name him the leader of a foreign terrorist organization.
07:37
So why do you want to talk to him?
07:40
Say it again.
07:41
Maduro, the U.S. designated and the leader of this foreign terrorist organization.
07:47
Why do you want to talk to him if he's the leader?
07:49
If we can save lives and we can do things the easy way, that's fine.
07:53
And if we have to do it the hard way, that's fine, too.
07:55
Mr. President, do you have any reaction?
07:57
I'm not going to tell you what the goal is.
07:59
You should probably know what the goal is.
08:01
But they've caused a lot of problems.
08:04
And they've sent millions of people into our country.
08:07
They had, I mean, they were probably the biggest abuser with Trent de Aragua and all the others that they sent in.
08:14
The drug dealers, the drug lords, the people that they sent in, the jailbird.
08:19
They opened their jails and prisons and dumped them into the United States.
08:23
And we're not happy about it.
08:27
Do you want any reaction to Mayor Bowser announcing she's not running for re-election in D.C.?
08:32
Well, I got along with her very well.
08:34
I liked her.
08:35
We worked together.
08:36
D.C. is now a safe community.
08:38
It's a great community.
08:39
You people know it better than I do because you live there.
08:42
But D.C. is now safe.
08:44
The restaurants are booming.
08:46
The place is booming.
08:47
We have no crime.
08:48
And we did that all in a period of three or four weeks and then made it better and better and better.
08:53
And now we're setting new records.
08:55
I mean, literally, it's as safe as there is anywhere in the country now.
08:59
If you go back a year, it was a very unsafe place.
09:02
Before I got here, D.C. was a very unsafe.
09:05
And it's our capital.
09:07
We have to make it safe.
09:08
We're doing really well in Memphis, Tennessee.
09:11
And we're doing well in other places.
09:13
The one that is really troubling is what's happening in Chicago.
09:18
The crime, it's a potentially great city again.
09:22
But the governor has totally lost control.
09:24
That's where you had the young lady burned.
09:26
That's where you had a lot of killings over the last very short period of time.
09:30
Killings.
09:31
The governor has totally lost control of the state.
09:33
And the mayor is grossly incompetent.
09:35
How was your call with the Japanese Prime Minister?
09:37
Right, it was great.
09:38
I had a great talk.
09:39
I have a very good relationship with her.
09:41
I also had a very good talk with President Xi of China.
09:45
And I think that part of the world is doing fine.
09:48
Can you tell us about the content of your talks?
09:52
Mostly trade.
09:53
Trade?
09:54
I spoke to President Xi about a lot of things, but trade and buying our farm products.
10:00
And he said, he agreed with me.
10:03
He's going to, I think he's going to very much surprise you with the upside.
10:06
I think he's going to, I asked him, I'd like you to buy it a little faster.
10:09
I'd like you to buy more.
10:11
And he's more or less agreed to do that.
10:13
I think we will be pleasantly surprised by the actions of President Xi.
10:18
I have a good relationship, great relationship with him.
10:21
I like him.
10:22
He likes me.
10:23
I'm going to be going there in April.
10:25
I guess you'll only go with me, but I'm going to be going to China in April.
10:29
With Japan, likewise, I just came back from Japan and we have a great relationship.
10:34
The new prime minister, myself, she's very smart.
10:37
She's very strong.
10:38
And she's going to be a great leader.
10:40
Thank you very much, everybody.
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