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00:00The President, thank you very much, everybody.
00:01We appreciate you being here.
00:04We've had a great meeting.
00:05We have a great relationship.
00:06The Amir is a fantastic man, respected all over the world.
00:11Prime Minister, likewise.
00:14But we have to go to the Amir first.
00:16Do you agree, Mr. Prime Minister?
00:21But highly respected people. Great people.
00:24And we work very well together.
00:27We have our deal done with Iran, and it should be successful.
00:34It goes to a second stage, which I think will be actually easier.
00:39I didn't want to attack them last week, but we had no choice.
00:43And we did it twice, actually.
00:45We were doing it a third time, and we were able to not have to do that.
00:50But we have a deal that's a fair deal.
00:52It's a good deal.
00:54We are not investing any money in Iran, by the way.
00:57The rumor got out there yesterday.
00:59It was ridiculous.
01:00We have the right to go in someday and do it.
01:03If I want to do something, or somebody wants to do something.
01:06But we are not investing any money.
01:08We have no obligation to invest any money in Iran.
01:13Working with Qatar and the people of Qatar was really a pleasure.
01:19They were tough.
01:20They were strong.
01:21You know, they are the closest to Iran physically.
01:23So, with other countries, I noticed I had to travel about 45 minutes to get there with you.
01:29You could walk right across the border.
01:31So, you were in a more dangerous position.
01:34But I just, I do have to say, you fought and you helped us, and with great bravery.
01:41So, I just want to compliment you on that.
01:43And you'll always be my friend.
01:46Well, thank you very much, Mr. President.
01:48It's always a pleasure seeing you.
01:50I want to thank you for your leadership in this very, very important critical time in the Middle East.
01:56And I think, as you mentioned, Mr. President, this is a very important deal.
02:01There is still a lot of work to be done.
02:03But I think, you know, with this momentum, if we continue like that, Mr. President,
02:08I think we can achieve and do great in the region.
02:11So, it's going to be very important for the region and very important also for Iran as well.
02:15So, we are here to help whenever, you know, friends ask us to help.
02:21We're always here to help.
02:22Of course, also our bilateral relationship, Mr. President.
02:26Since your historic visit in Doha last year, our trade partnership is going to reach $1.2 trillion.
02:34And this is huge.
02:35And we have a lot of great investments that we're very proud of as well in the U.S.
02:39and also American companies investing in Qatar.
02:43So, overall, you know, we are very, very proud and very happy about this relationship.
02:49And, you know, I will once again thank you very much for your leadership.
02:54I think it was a very critical time.
02:55But I think you did.
02:56You took the right decision.
03:00Qatar is going to be investing much more than a trillion dollars in the United States.
03:04We have over 18.
03:06It's going to be 19.4 or so when it figures out.
03:11But, you know, we set a record.
03:13There's never been anything like it.
03:15No country in history has had that kind of investment.
03:18We'll be having almost 19.1, 19.2 trillion dollars invested in the United States.
03:25The record was three, 10 years ago from another country when it was hot.
03:30But we have the hottest country in the world right now.
03:33But Qatar has been a great investor.
03:36We really rekindled ourselves when I met with you last year.
03:41A year ago.
03:41Probably 13.
03:4313, 14 months.
03:44That was a good trip.
03:46And so they're going to.
03:48May.
03:48It was last May, I think.
03:49Yeah.
03:51That was a great trip.
03:54And we had established.
03:56We've been friends for a long time.
03:58We've known each other for a long time.
04:00But Qatar is investing tremendous amounts of money in our country.
04:03And we appreciate that.
04:05Our country is doing.
04:07We're building more factories, AI.
04:09We're leading AI by a lot.
04:11We're building automobile factories.
04:13We're building more than we've ever built in the history of our country.
04:16Never.
04:16No country is ever doing what we're doing right now.
04:19No country has ever been able to do.
04:22And those factories will be opening over the next year, year and a half.
04:26Some are already open very soon.
04:29The pharmaceutical companies are coming back.
04:33The car companies are coming back from Germany, from Japan, from so many other places.
04:38Mexico and Canada.
04:40They're all coming back.
04:42We lost them foolishly years ago because we had presidents that didn't really know what they
04:46were doing.
04:47They should have never lost.
04:48But they're all coming back in beautiful, brand new, gleaming factories.
04:52In fact, there are a couple of big old plants.
04:55And I said, are you going to use that plant?
04:57And they said, no, we're building brand new.
04:58They're knocking it down.
05:00Everything is built brand new, beautiful.
05:02It's jobs and the auto business.
05:05We're going to bring back probably, you know, we lost 57 percent of our automobile business.
05:11I think we're going to bring it mostly back.
05:13And for chips, we were the king of chips and then it got stolen from us.
05:20We were, we went from being the king to having basically no chip business.
05:24The chips act that was done by Biden was a disaster.
05:32Just a stupid thing to do.
05:34You handed billions and billions of dollars to people and then they didn't build a factory.
05:38But we have a different system.
05:39We have a system that if they don't build, they get paid tariffs.
05:43They have to pay tariffs of upwards of 200 percent.
05:47They don't have to pay anything for a little while.
05:49But if they don't get their plant built, then we're going to, we would have, I think,
05:5350 percent of the chip industry by the time I leave office.
05:57So maybe more.
06:00They're building mostly coming out of Taiwan.
06:02But they're building, and a lot of them, for whatever reason, in Arizona, Arizona, Texas.
06:08But we'll have 50 percent, maybe more than that, of the chip industry.
06:11We're going to have, you know, we'll be making almost all of our pharmaceuticals.
06:15And likewise that.
06:17If they don't build, they'll have 150 to 200 percent tariff to pay.
06:22If they do build, they have no tariff to pay.
06:25So our country has never done anything like this.
06:29And just, I want to mention Iran.
06:32We appreciate the relationship we've had over the short period of time with Iran.
06:37The primary thing is, you know, we can talk about the Iran deal all day long.
06:41And we're not investing any money.
06:43We have the right to if we want, but we're not investing any money.
06:47We didn't pay for it like Obama did.
06:50He paid billions of dollars.
06:51He paid 1.7 billion from an airplane, all green cash.
06:55It was crazy.
06:56I watched that.
06:57I couldn't believe it.
06:59But the one thing that's happening that's of note, frankly, the only thing that really matters
07:05to me, is Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
07:09And it says it loud and clear.
07:11They're not going to develop it.
07:13They're not going to buy it.
07:14They're not going to do anything with it.
07:16And if they do, they suffer unbelievable consequences.
07:22Not just a little bit like, I won't even tell you the consequences.
07:28But the consequences are the ultimate consequences.
07:31And with that being said, I hope we have a very good relationship.
07:34But the biggest thing is, they will not have a nuclear weapon.
07:38And that's the reason I got in.
07:41And that's the reason I agreed to sign that we originally had.
07:45Marco was with me.
07:47And they originally wrote that we will not develop a nuclear weapon.
07:51I said, no, no, you're not going to develop it.
07:54You're not going to buy either.
07:55So we have, that took another couple of days of time.
07:59Everything was, it's ridiculous.
08:02But so we have, they will not develop, purchase, buy, or any other thing.
08:08They're not going to acquire a nuclear weapon.
08:10If they do, all hell will rain down on them.
08:14And they're not going to do that, you know.
08:17Now, you talk about regime change.
08:19I never cared about regime change.
08:21It was never a part.
08:22But I guess you have regime change, because you know better than anybody.
08:25The first group, they're all dead.
08:28The second group, they're dead.
08:30A part of the third group is gone.
08:33And we're dealing with people that I think are very rational people.
08:36I mean, they were nice to deal with.
08:39They were strong people, smart people.
08:41I think actually they're smarter than the first and second group.
08:45But they're not radicalized.
08:47And they're, you know, looking to help their country.
08:53So, again, I don't believe the regime change.
08:57You know, I've watched regime changes for years.
09:00They never work.
09:01It has to just happen.
09:02And I can tell you this is a country where the Emir is so respected
09:07and the Prime Minister is so respected by the people.
09:10And that's the way a country should run.
09:12It should run out of respect, not of fear.
09:15As you know, at least 42,000 protesters were killed in Iran.
09:20Killed.
09:21They were protesting.
09:23The wrestler.
09:23They had the big event at the White House the other day at UFC.
09:27And they were all talking about he was a great fighter.
09:31And he was hung with his two friends because he spoke something about their regime.
09:38It's tough stuff.
09:39So, we're very happy that we're involved.
09:43We're very, very impressed with Qatar and the way they've handled things.
09:49Because they were really on the line.
09:50They were in the front line.
09:51And they were being shot at just about as much as anybody.
09:54But you were a lot closer.
09:56You were right there.
09:57Literally, I could walk in a minute.
10:01Every other place I have to take a plane.
10:03But I can walk.
10:04So, they were really on the line.
10:06And I just want to comment that I just want to really congratulate you on bravery.
10:12I don't know if you get congratulated for bravery.
10:15Because bravery is something you either have or you don't.
10:18And you never know until you're tested.
10:19But you were tested.
10:20And you had great bravery.
10:22Thank you very much.
10:23Thank you, Mr. President.
10:24Really appreciate it.
10:25Are you going to have a separate meeting with President Zelensky?
10:28And what would a Ukraine deal look like?
10:32Well, we have one.
10:33But we had a good meeting.
10:35I'm meeting him later on, too.
10:36We had a very good meeting.
10:38Look, Russia should make a deal.
10:39Russia has lost tremendous amounts of people.
10:42And so has Ukraine.
10:44Last month, they lost 35,000 soldiers between the two of them.
10:50Think of it.
10:51This is on a monthly basis.
10:52They averaged 25,000 people.
10:55Mostly soldiers.
10:57Young, beautiful people.
11:00And it's crazy what's going on there.
11:02But we had a meeting.
11:04And we'll see.
11:06I spoke with President Putin on Sunday.
11:09And it's sort of the same thing.
11:11I mean, they just keep going, fighting, losing soldiers.
11:14They lose so many soldiers.
11:16This is not since World War II has anything like this happened.
11:20I settled eight wars.
11:22This was the one I thought was going to be the easiest to settle.
11:25They just, there's a lot of dislike between the two leaders.
11:31But, yeah, I'm meeting with him again later on today.
11:36And are you going to have a special focus on Ukraine now?
11:39Well, we're going to look.
11:40Now we focused on, we were focused on Iran.
11:43It's going to be in the back, in the rear view mirror.
11:47But we'll be, I just, look, we have nothing to do with it.
11:50We sell weapons to them.
11:52We don't even give them.
11:53Obama gave them $350 billion worth of weapons.
11:56Gave.
11:58Which was crazy.
11:59The European Union pays us full price for weapons.
12:03But it's not that.
12:06It has no impact on us other than we sell weapons.
12:09We're thousands of miles away.
12:12But the only reason I'm in, I don't like to see 25,000 young people die every month.
12:18Every month, 25,000 people die.
12:20Young people.
12:21They're just starting their life.
12:23They go to this front and they get blown up.
12:26And Ukraine is losing a lot of people, too.
12:28I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
12:30So, yeah, I'm going to do whatever I can.
12:33Mr. President, if the Iranian regime continues to kill their own people, will you still move ahead with this deal?
12:41If they refuse to walk with their people?
12:43If they continue to kill their own people, the Iranian regime?
12:45Well, we're talking, we talked to them about it.
12:48And we see.
12:49I will say the majority of that took place during the first and second regimes.
12:55Much more so than now.
12:58It was, it was, it was much, it was much more severe.
13:02But it's a terrible thing.
13:03Yeah, do you have a question?
13:04Yes, Mr. President.
13:05What are the, this is for both you and the Amir, what are the economic opportunities?
13:13Well, I think they'd be good.
13:14I mean, I can tell you from our standpoint, we have a lot of opportunities all over the world.
13:19But the Amir lives right next door.
13:21And I think, you know, they have a lot of oil.
13:24I think they'll be good.
13:25First, they're going to have to prove themselves, I think, before any of us go in there.
13:31But I could, I hope they do well.
13:33I hope they do well.
13:34Look, one thing.
13:36Whether they do well or poorly, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
13:40That's a big thing.
13:41If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have blown up Israel.
13:45They would have blown up the Middle East.
13:47And they probably would have taken a shot at us.
13:50We would have gotten them first, I think.
13:52But they would have done tremendous damage.
13:56Had we not canceled the Obama nuclear deal, the JCPOA,
14:04you would have had them having a nuclear weapon five years ago.
14:07You know, that expired.
14:08That was a road to a nuclear weapon.
14:11It was the dumbest deal I've ever seen other than NAFTA.
14:13NAFTA maybe was even dumber.
14:15But just in terms of a bad deal for us.
14:18Paid them billions and billions of dollars.
14:20We paid nothing.
14:21They paid them billions of dollars.
14:24And it was a disaster.
14:27I terminated that in my first term.
14:29Had I not terminated, and we hit them hard, we terminated it.
14:33In my second term, we sent in the B-2 bombers and we terminated their,
14:37I call it the nuclear dust.
14:39They're enriched material, right?
14:42And totally effectively.
14:44And I remember when CNN, which is fake news, I don't know if you probably use them.
14:47But CNN said, well, maybe it wasn't that effective.
14:50So the Atomic Energy just reported that it was one of the most devastating bombings that they've ever seen.
14:56The whole mountain collapsed on top of it.
14:59And frankly, to go get it, we're going to go get it.
15:02But to go get it is a big deal.
15:05Because they say only China and others have the equipment where you can even get it.
15:09The whole mountain has collapsed on top.
15:11We have cameras on it.
15:13You could make the case, why are you even bothering?
15:16Because it's not really valuable.
15:17It's, you know, it's probably half a million dollars worth.
15:20It's not very valuable.
15:23But I think psychologically we want to get it.
15:25Can I just answer, you asked.
15:29I think in the last couple of months or weeks, I think that wasn't our – we were not interested
15:36in, you know,
15:37what are the opportunities, economic opportunities in Iran.
15:39Our interest both of us was to, first of all, to find a deal to stop this war.
15:43This is our main target.
15:46But looking at the economy and the opportunity, I'm sure there are going to be huge opportunities.
15:50And, you know, as long – as I said, this is a very important momentum to keep working like that
15:56to reach, let's say, the final deal.
15:58After that, Iran will be, you know, of course, open for any kind of investments.
16:03And I'm sure there are going to be huge opportunities.
16:05But to be honest, you know, we never thought of a – you know, our target, you know, is to
16:11try to find a deal.
16:13Well, they're going to need something because we blew them up.
16:16And, you know, you could make the case – I used to make the case – that, like a week
16:22ago I said, and now it's different and we have an agreement.
16:24But if you – if we left, we did a great job.
16:27If we just left, we did a great job.
16:30Because it would take them 15, 20 years maybe to rebuild.
16:35And we were going to do a much bigger job if the agreement was inside.
16:40We would have taken it to a level.
16:41But – and if we did that, they would never, ever, I believe, be able to rebuild.
16:48Too much.
16:49Mr. President, what are the expectations for Israel?
16:52Can this deal survive if Israel attacks Lebanon?
16:56It can.
16:57And, you know, I consider that the minor war.
17:01Iran is a big one.
17:02But we have that little pinprick out there that constantly rears its head.
17:08And that's Hezbollah.
17:10And, you know, I was very responsible for Syria.
17:14And the man that's running Syria now is a person that I put there along with President Erdogan and some
17:20others.
17:20He's done an amazing job of pulling it together.
17:23He's not a Boy Scout.
17:25But he's done an amazing job of pulling it together.
17:28And he is very good with Hezbollah.
17:32Does not like them.
17:34And I'll tell you what.
17:36Israel's fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed.
17:40And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody.
17:45Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses.
17:47And they're not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.
17:50And I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah.
17:55Because to be honest with you, I think they do a better job of doing it.
18:00And I didn't like Syria.
18:03I didn't like where, two hours before we're signing the agreement, that there was an attack in Lebanon, in Beirut.
18:14It wasn't like in the southern side, you know.
18:17It was in Beirut.
18:18I did not like that.
18:20I let them know that.
18:21I didn't like it, not at all.
18:23But I think that Syria, you know, he's pulled that country together amazingly quickly.
18:28He's very capable.
18:30And he's been very good for me.
18:31He's protected everything that I've asked for, he's done.
18:36And if Israel can't do the job without killing everyone else, he'll do the job.
18:43Syria will do the job.
18:44Are you frustrated with Netanyahu, sir?
18:46No.
18:47We had a great relationship.
18:50We're talking about some end details.
18:54I didn't like that he did an attack based on a, you know, there was a very minor little thing
19:02with some drones that were released.
19:04And he ends up doing a very, I saw that attack.
19:07I saw where that bomb went.
19:08Did you see what happened?
19:10That was not, that was a vicious, that was too much.
19:13You know, you can do too much also.
19:17But we've had a very effective relationship.
19:20Without us, without the United States, there would be no Israel.
19:26Without me, there would be no Israel.
19:27Because no other president was willing to do what I did.
19:31I've had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.
19:40Lebanon used to be a great country.
19:42It was a country where you had professors, doctors, lawyers.
19:46The great intellect was in Lebanon.
19:49Now it's just, it's terrible.
19:51I would say of all countries, they've been treated the worst.
19:55And they can't defend themselves.
19:57And they have Hezbollah, which is a problem for them.
20:01So, no, I'm not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah.
20:10They should have been able to do this yet faster.
20:12It just goes on forever.
20:14And when that happens, it throws a negative light on the big deal.
20:19And that's the deal with Iran.
20:23So, when you ask me about Bibi, an unbelievable relationship.
20:29But Israel would have been blown up a long time ago had I not gotten involved.
20:33Two things I did.
20:34I terminated the Iran nuclear deal.
20:38Barack Hussein Obama sold out Israel for Iran.
20:42He went to Iran.
20:43He sold them out.
20:45How anybody can vote for this guy or the party.
20:47The Democrats, I call them, because they're dumb.
20:50They're dumb people.
20:52That's number one.
20:53How anybody can vote for them.
20:55And the second was the B2 bombers.
20:57Just totally different.
20:59So, they had the right.
21:01The JCPOA.
21:02I watched his politicians.
21:04I watched his Senator read that nobody ever heard of the other day.
21:07Well, this deal is the same as the deal with Barack Obama.
21:10No.
21:11This deal is a wall to a nuclear weapon.
21:15His deal was a road to a nuclear weapon.
21:19My deal, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
21:21They get blown up.
21:22If they have a nuclear weapon, they get blown up.
21:25In his deal, they were allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
21:31And in all fairness to Bibi, Bibi, I remember very well.
21:35Bibi came to Washington and begged, he begged Obama not to make that deal.
21:40And Obama was on the side of Iran, not Israel.
21:43And he made the deal.
21:45That deal was a disaster.
21:46I terminated that deal.
21:48And if I didn't terminate, and it was very tough after the termination.
21:52And if I didn't do that, Howard knows better than anybody.
21:55If I didn't terminate that deal, I believe that Israel wouldn't be here right now.
22:01And the second one was what we did with respect to the nuclear dust, as I call it.
22:07Right?
22:08We blew it up.
22:09The mountain collapsed on top.
22:11It was — you can't get to it.
22:14And they were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.
22:17And if they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it on Israel — and I hate to say
22:22it — and probably the rest of the Middle East, because they had all those missiles aimed
22:27at the Emir, at Saudi Arabia, at UAE, at Kuwait, at Bahrain.
22:35I mean, the biggest surprise in this whole thing — I didn't think you guys would — I
22:39thought he would aim at Israel.
22:42But he didn't aim at Israel, much less.
22:44He aimed at your countries.
22:46And actually, that was a mistake for them, because it brought us — these countries,
22:52in particular, the five countries — it brought us — I mean, he even hit Turkey once.
22:58I never understood it.
23:00Nobody's going to understand it.
23:02That's the problem.
23:03They're totally irrational people.
23:06And those people are now gone.
23:08And I think Iran has rational leadership now.
23:12But you wouldn't have — if it weren't for the United States of America — with me,
23:17because Obama was the opposite — Israel would not exist right now.
23:23Israel would have been blown off the face of the Earth, 100 percent.
23:26And every smart person in Israel knows that.
23:29Okay.
23:30Thank you very much, everybody.
23:33Thank you very much, everybody, right?
23:34Thank you very much.
23:35Thank you, I get to the 30th at the moment.
23:35Thank you very much, guys.
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