00:00President Trump is deeply committed to your success because your success is our success.
00:04Because this relationship we have here in Central Europe through you is so essential and vital for our national interests
00:10in the years to come.
00:12That, you know, if you face financial struggles, if you face things that are impediments to growth,
00:18if you face things that threaten the stability of your country, I know that President Trump will be very interested.
00:24Because of your relationship with him and because of this importance of this country to us,
00:29just finding ways to provide assistance if that moment ever were to arise.
00:34And obviously with regards to finances and the like.
00:38Why isn't the United States conditioning deeper cooperation with Budapest?
00:44The president has an extraordinarily close relationship to the prime minister.
00:48He does. And it has had tangible benefits in our relationship.
00:51I'm not going to speculate about the future.
00:53You know, what happens in this country is up to the voters of this country to determine and decide.
00:57And we love the people of Hungary.
00:59But I'm not. But there's no reason to sugarcoat it.
01:01I'm going to be very blunt with you.
01:02The prime minister and the president have a very, very close personal relationship and working relationship.
01:08And I think it has been incredibly beneficial to the relationship between our two countries.
01:17Those sanctions waivers happened as much as anything else because of the relationship between the prime minister and the president.
01:24And so I think all I can tell you is that that relationship and the importance of that relationship
01:29and the importance of that relationship to our bilateral relationship underpins the decision the president made.
01:35And I think we'll continue to underpin it as long as, you know, that relationship is a factor in our
01:42bilateral relations.
01:45Sometimes I lose. Sometimes I win.
01:47So don't afraid what will be if we are not winning because it's regularly happened here at least four times
01:54already.
01:54So there is no need to be afraid what will happen in Hungary.
01:58The Hungarian democracy is very strong.
02:00And the government of this country is very strongly believe on democracy and competitiveness and competition in politics as well,
02:08as we have done in the last 35 years.
02:12So our record is very strong on the governmental side and on the opposition side as well.
02:18So government will be created after the election in Hungary based on the intention of the Hungarian people.
02:25And Hungary as a country will remain strong anyway.
02:28We're the only nation on Earth that apparently can get both sides to the table to talk.
02:33I'm not here to insult anybody, but the United Nations hasn't been able to do it.
02:37There's no other country in Europe that's been able to do it.
02:41The United States has been successful at being able to get both sides to talk.
02:45I mean, for the first time, you know, I don't know, in a number of years,
02:48you actually have at a technical level military officials from both sides sat down last week in the Middle East.
02:54And we'll restart those talks again in Geneva later this week.
02:59I think that's a very positive thing.
03:01That said, you know, all we are trying to do is play a role if it's possible in reaching a
03:05deal.
03:05We're not seeking to impose a deal on anybody.
03:08We're not trying to force anyone to take a deal they don't want to take.
03:11We just want to help them.
03:17We have trade and relations with China.
03:20The President of the United States is going to travel in April to China.
03:23Why?
03:23Because China is a big country.
03:25It's got a billion-something people, second largest economy in the world.
03:28They have nuclear weapons.
03:29It would be crazy.
03:30It's insane for the United States and China not to have relations and interact with one another.
03:35Now, two big countries like this, do we have differences?
03:38We absolutely do.
03:39And we'll have to manage those differences.
03:41And some of those differences are things we've spoken very frankly and clearly and repeatedly
03:46about the fact that it is not good for the world.
03:49It's not good for anybody to rely on one country or one economy for 90% of anything,
03:54especially things like critical supply chains.
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