Reporter Ask Trump Point Blank: “Will You Fire Kash Patel?” — Here’s His Response

President Donald Trump was asked point blank whether he plans to fire FBI Director Kash Patel after a report claimed the White House was considering his removal. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump dismissed the speculation and voiced support for Patel, saying he is “doing a great job.”

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00:00Mr. President.

00:01Okay. Hello, everybody.

00:02How are you?

00:03Thank you, sir.

00:04Hi. How are you?

00:05Hi.

00:06What would you like to know today?

00:08Do you start off by telling us the latest

00:10with Russia and Ukraine?

00:12Are you expecting Zelensky to come visit you?

00:14We're having good — I don't know.

00:16He would like to come, but I think we should get a deal done first.

00:19We're having good talks.

00:22We started with Russia.

00:24We're having some talks with Russia.

00:26Ukraine is doing well.

00:28I think they're pretty happy about it.

00:29I'd like to see it in.

00:31And we won't know for a little while, but we're making progress.

00:35You said, what are the mistakes?

00:37We settled eight wars, and I thought this would be one of the easier ones

00:41because of my relationship with President Putin.

00:43But this is probably one of the more difficult ones.

00:46There's a lot of hatred.

00:48You said there were a peace and disagreement.

00:51It was still up to me.

00:52Yeah, a few.

00:53Can you tell us what it's all?

00:54Well, it's just the standard things with people starting to realize

00:58it's a good deal for both parties if they've got to stop the war.

01:01They're losing a lot of people, a lot of soldiers, mostly soldiers.

01:04And that 28th week plan, that some region really weaved with this, but portions of that

01:09and said they could bring it into place?

01:10Well, that was in a regional proposal.

01:12And then from there, we went back.

01:14So when it comes to a scenic plan to Russia, is that still on the 3rd floor?

01:18Has that changed?

01:19Well, they're talking about going land both ways and trying to clean up the border.

01:24You know, you can't go through the middle of a house.

01:26You can't go through the middle of a highway.

01:28So they're trying to work something.

01:31It's a complicated process.

01:32It doesn't go that quickly.

01:34What about the U.S. security guarantees?

01:38Well, we're working that out with Europe.

01:40Europe will be largely involved in that.

01:42We're working that out with Europe.

01:44Europe really wants to see it end impossible.

01:47There were a lot of Republicans who felt that the first plan,

01:50the first 28-point plan, was too favorable to Russia.

01:53Have you changed that?

01:54Well, that was just a map.

01:56All that was is a map.

01:57That was not a plan.

01:58It was a concept.

02:00And from there, they're taking each one of the 28 points,

02:04and then you get down to 22 points.

02:06A lot of them were solved, and actually very favorably solved.

02:09So we'll see what happens.

02:11Do you think that Ukraine was being asked to give too much land back to Russia?

02:16I know at one point you said they wouldn't have to give any back.

02:19It's really up.

02:20Look, the way it's going, if you look, it's just moving in one direction.

02:25So eventually that's land that over the next couple of months might be gotten by Russia anyway.

02:31So do you want to fight and lose another 50, 60,000 people?

02:36Or do you want to do something now?

02:38In some cases, the land is going in the other direction.

02:41So they're negotiating.

02:43They're trying to get it done.

02:45You want to have a border?

02:46You can't have a border that goes through a highway

02:48or a border that goes through the middle of a town.

02:51So it doesn't work.

02:53So it's a long, complicated process.

02:56Very sad because so many people are being killed.

02:59What's the next step?

03:00They're going to keep talking.

03:01They're talking to Russia now.

03:02Steve Whitcomb is going over.

03:03Maybe with Jared.

03:04I'm not sure about Jared going.

03:05But he's involved in the process.

03:06Smart guy.

03:07And they're going to be meeting with President Putin, I believe, next week in Moscow.

03:08Next week in Moscow?

03:09I think so, yes.

03:10What kinds of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?

03:12Well, they're making concessions.

03:13Their big concessions is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.

03:28Again, it's a war that would have never happened if I was president.

03:31This was not anything that was going to happen.

03:34This happened because of stupidity.

03:37It's too bad.

03:39So if Whitcomb is going to Russia next week, does that mean that Thanksgiving deadline doesn't

03:46stand anymore for Ukraine?

03:47We're going to see what happens.

03:48They set up a date.

03:49And the date is going to be sometime in the very near future.

03:52Do you have a new deadline?

03:54No, I don't have a deadline.

03:55I just, you know, the deadline for me is when it's over.

03:59And I think everybody's tired of fighting at this moment.

04:02They're losing too many people.

04:04Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to

04:11appeal to you?

04:12Well, I haven't heard it.

04:13No, but that's a standard thing, you know, because he's got to sell this to Ukraine.

04:17He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia.

04:19That's what he's, that's what a dealmaker does.

04:21You got to say, look, they want this.

04:23You've got to convince them with this.

04:25You know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.

04:28I haven't heard it, but I heard it was standard negotiation.

04:32And I wouldn't imagine he's saying the same thing to Ukraine, because each party has to

04:38give and take.

04:39So you're worried that he's too pro-Russian?

04:42Well, I think, look, this war could go on for years.

04:47And Russia's got a lot more people and a lot more soldiers, you know.

04:53So I think if Ukraine can make a deal, it's a good thing.

04:57I think it's great for both.

04:58Frankly, I think it's great for both.

05:00But Ukraine's got a much smaller, it's a much smaller group of people.

05:05They've lost a lot of people.

05:07Russia's lost a lot of people.

05:09But Russia has a much bigger pool of people.

05:12Mr. President, are you planning to unveil a health care plan anytime soon?

05:16Well, we're looking at different alternatives.

05:19I mean, I like my plan the best.

05:21Don't give any money to the insurance companies.

05:23Give it to the people directly.

05:24Let them go out and buy their own health care plan.

05:27And we're looking at that, if that can work.

05:29We're looking at that.

05:30That's sort of taken off.

05:32That's what I like.

05:33Don't give the money to the insurance companies.

05:36They go out.

05:37They go out and buy their own plan.

05:39You give the money to the people.

05:41I like it the best.

05:42Would you extend those subsidies?

05:44I'd rather not.

05:46Somebody said, I want to extend them for two years.

05:48I don't want to extend them for two years.

05:50I'd rather not extend them at all.

05:52It may be some kind of an extension may be necessary to get something else done.

05:57Because the Unaffordable Care Act has been a disaster.

06:01It's a disaster.

06:02And I said it was when it first got put in.

06:05Unfortunately, we lost a couple of Republican votes.

06:07And the Democrats voted for it.

06:09It's a Democrat plan.

06:11And the premiums are going up.

06:14And it's the Democrats' fault.

06:17But, you know, they are negotiating with me.

06:19It's very interesting.

06:20They want to see something happen.

06:21Who are you talking to on the Democrats, though?

06:23But we have a lot of Democrats want this plan to happen.

06:26They would love to see the money go to the people.

06:29And the people go out and get their own health care.

06:32And there would be nothing like it.

06:34You're not planning to replace Cash Patel.

06:35No, he's doing a good job.

06:37Cash Patel?

06:38No, he's doing a great job, I think.

06:41This week we saw those cases against James Comey and Letitia James tossed out.

06:46Do you still have faith in Lindsey Halligan?

06:48Oh, she's great.

06:49I think she's great.

06:50They got out on her technicality.

06:52And you'll see what happens from here on.

06:55But if you look at the actual charges, I think anybody that looks at it very fairly would

07:01say, boy, are they guilty.

07:03So let's see what happens over the next week.

07:05You know, the court didn't say you couldn't bring the case, re-bring the case, or appeal

07:10the case.

07:11So they have a lot of options.

07:13They're going to call the shot.

07:14I'm not calling the shot.

07:15But Lindsey's a very talented lawyer, actually.

07:17Mr. President, on Venezuela, sir, are you planning to talk to Nicolás Maduro?

07:22I might talk to him.

07:24We'll see.

07:25But we're discussing that with the different staffs.

07:30We might talk on Venezuela.

07:32Interesting.

07:33The U.S. this week did, of course, name him the leader of a foreign terrorist organization.

07:38So why do you want to talk to him?

07:41Say it again.

07:42Maduro, the U.S.- Yeah, right.

07:44Designated and the leader of this foreign terrorist organization.

07:47Why do you want to talk to him if he's the leader?

07:49If we can save lives and we can do things the easy way, that's fine.

07:53And if we have to do it the hard way, that's fine, too.

07:55Mr. President, do you have any reaction if you carry on?

07:58I'm not going to tell you what the goal is.

07:59You should probably know what the goal is.

08:02But they've caused a lot of problems.

08:04And they've sent millions of people into our country.

08:07I mean, they were probably the biggest abuser with Trendy Aragua and all the others.

08:13And they sent in the drug dealers and drug lords, the people that they sent in, the jailbird.

08:18They opened their jails and prisons and dumped them into the United States.

08:25And we're not happy about it.

08:27Do you want any reaction to Mayor Bowser announcing she's not running for reelection in D.C.?

08:33Well, I got along with her very well.

08:34I liked her.

08:35We worked together.

08:36D.C. is now a safe community.

08:38It's a great community.

08:39You people know it better than I do because you live there.

08:42But D.C. is now safe.

08:44The restaurants are booming.

08:46The place is booming.

08:47We have no crime.

08:48And we did that all in a period of three or four weeks and then made it better and better and better.

08:53And now we're setting new records.

08:55I mean, literally, it's as safe as there is anywhere in the country now.

08:59And if you go back a year, it was a very unsafe place.

09:02Before I got here, D.C. was a very unsafe.

09:05And it's our capital.

09:07We have to make it safe.

09:09We're doing really well in Memphis, Tennessee.

09:11And we're doing well in other places.

09:14The one that is really troubling is what's happening in Chicago.

09:18The crime, it's a potentially great city again.

09:22But the governor's totally lost control.

09:24That's where you had the young lady burned.

09:26That's where you had a lot of killings over the last very short period of time.

09:30Killings.

09:31The governor's totally lost control of the state.

09:33And the mayor is grossly incompetent.

09:36How was your call with the Japanese Prime Minister?

09:38Can you tell us about it?

09:39I had a great talk.

09:40I have a very good relationship with her.

09:42I also had a very good talk with President Xi of China.

09:46And I think that part of the world is doing fine.

09:49Can you tell us about the content of your talks?

09:52Mostly trade.

09:53Trade.

09:54I spoke to President Xi about a lot of things, but trade and buying our farm products.

10:01And he said he agreed with me.

10:03He's going to, I think he's going to very much surprise you with the upside.

10:07I think he's going to, I asked him, I'd like you to buy it a little faster.

10:10I'd like you to buy more.

10:12And he's more or less agreed to do that.

10:14I think we will be pleasantly surprised by the actions of President Xi.

10:19I have a good relationship, great relationship with him.

10:22I like him.

10:23He likes me.

10:24I'm not going to be going there in April.

10:25I guess you'll only go with me.

10:27But I'm going to be going to China in April with Japan.

10:30Likewise, I just came back from Japan.

10:32And we have a great relationship.

10:34The new prime minister and myself, she's very smart.

10:37She's very strong.

10:39And she's going to be a great leader.

10:41Thank you very much, everybody.

10:42Thank you very much.

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