Center seat, fox friends we can coast, pete hegseth is here. We are not worthy good to see you. The pete i were a different kind of suit. Harris these are the dog days lets get to the news. The president again accused democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and ilhan omar of hitting israel and the jewish people, amid fallout over israels decision to initially deny tlaib and omars visit. Israel later offered to tlaib a chance to visit her grandmother on humanitarian grounds, but she rejected that. The president also drew some heat today after calling out Congressional Democrats for their support of tlaib and omar, questioning whether to do to jewish democrats would still stand with the party. Watch. I think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. All right . Harris we should say we are monitoring those comments that are going on at the white house right now. The president has just doubled down again, moments ago, as democrats and some jewish groups are blasting that idea. Watch. While its a bit unclear what the president was trying to say in terms of who jews are disloyal to i read is loyal to him or the republican party, . He wasnt exactly clear about that, i will be exactly clear on what that was. Antisemitism. The charge of disloyalty or dual loyalty has been used against jews for thousands of years. Harris but the Republican Jewish Coalition is defending the president s comments today, saying, President Trump is right. It shows the great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects and emboldens people that hate you for your religion. The g. O. P. , when really confronted with antisemitism of elected members, always acts swiftly and decisively to punish and remove. Pete hegseth, this is day 2 of this now. Where are we . Pete what President Trump is doing is exposing a fracture in the modern Democratic Party. What jews i spent a lot of time talking to israeli jews and American Jews. Oftentimes the conversation comes up. With the republicans being so proisrael, why are so many jews in america loyal to the Democratic Party . For a long time there was a bipartisan consensus of support of israel. Of rejection of antisemitism. Unfortunately there is a very dangerous new strain amongst young leftleaning democrats are now advocating for the bds movement, openly antisemitic. You are not seeing the leaders of the Democratic Party call them out. So we are moving to a point where if you are a jewish democrat here in the state you cant just assume that if you are liberal the Democratic Party will be proisrael or poor dumb mike rowe jewish issues. That fracture is new and dangerous harris the bds movement, the fact that we know its a bipartisan vote against support of bds. Does that matter . Pete that matters because the oldline leadership of the Democratic Party today is still largely proisrael and antibds. In universities, colleges, elite circles, antisemitism and antibds is rampant. Its becoming the future of the Democratic Party, which we see with ilhan omar and Rashida Tlaib. There openly for a onestate solution, rejection of israeli sovereignty. They call it the occupation. They say theyre going to palestine, not israel. These are code words for antisemitism and being antiisraeli. Youve got a call it out if your democrat. Harris i want to give capri a chance to rebuff that. Capri im not going to rebut the fact that these members have made antisemitic comments and the fact they have said its occupied territory, they refer to it as palestine. Those things are factually accurate. The issue in this particular circumstance, at least to me, is the fact these are dulyelected members of congress. That a foreign ally and said, no, you are not coming. Heres why i take issue with this. Originally they said that even though they made the statements and they support bds that they would be able to come. Then they turned on it after the timing of the tweets. One more quick thing as far as the issue of loyalty, or someone that says, you cant support this party because somehow they dont support you. Which, frankly, is erroneous. There obviously proisrael democrats out there. To me thats tantamount to people saying, you cant be gay or part of the Lgbt Community and also be a republican. Because they hate gays. Harris or when Ayanna Pressley says that if you have a brown face and a brown voice you have to speak a certain way. It all falls into the same category. Capri exactly. Pete jews are not singleissue voters. For democrats or liberals, they can assume the Democratic Party is proisrael. You cant make that assumption anymore. Melissa i want to pile on. If its even a little bit more simple than that. You have two members right here who support a movement. We are not talking about words, we are talking about going out and supporting a movement that wants to wipe out israel. Then you have their party not calling them out specifically for wishing israel gone from the map. Thats not antisemitic. Thats not, i dont like the Bibi Netanyahu government. T. That wanting israel gone and moving towards it, trying to drum up support for that, is bad and wrong. Capri it is bad and wrong. Lisa to your point, exactly. When you have two members of congress were democrats and supporting a movement that, at its core, is antisemitic. Democrats, they should be calling this out. They should not be standing behind these members of congress. I will say about President Trump, i think he sometimes uses provocative language to draw attention to issues that he wants. It works in drawing attention to those issues. But the concern for some voters on the right, does it come at an expense to suburban women . So i think President Trump needs to be thoughtful in the language that he uses, because i understand the desire to want to draw attention to something. Particularly when you have democrats stand with these members of congress. You have to be clear not careful in the rhetoric you use. Pete capri to your poinn rhetoric, democrats need to be very clear on where we stand. We should have been much more forceful. I said this at the time, when we went through that whole thing with denouncing ilhan omar and all of the sudden it became this giant antihate resolution. It should have been explicit. Harris i want to ask, because we are talking about bds there was a layeringend with these women, these congresswomen it was this group, miftah. Mark green said she could have gone on that trip. There were other choices for these congresswomen who have gone recently on business and to see family. Whatever it would have been. This particular group she was very careful to say this, because i think people these days are choosing their words carefully with this it is looked upon as terrorsupporting. Pete glorifying suicide bombings and suicide bombers. Harris that was the group that was the sponsor to them going. The pete that the group they chose to go with. This is a p. R. Effort for those two congresswomen from the beginning to try and make israel look bad. What lisa said about the language, i would disagree just slightly. I think when it comes to israel, bold talk and bold terms is whats required because this is an excentral issue for the state of israel. They are surrounded by enemies who want to wish them off the mat. President trump goes, i stepped to the iran deal, so they can get nukes. The Golan Heights is now a protected area. The embassy has been moved. Cooperation is more tight than ever before. These are good things. Harris does netanyahu weigh in . To see the Prime Minister weighing in . This is something that affects people in both these countries. Lisa he already did. He said they are not going to allow them in harris know, the response the recent comments by the president. Lisa i think he lets whats playing out here play out. I dont see him getting involved in that. He is up for reelection. But i think its a fair question to the majority of the media. Why are they not reporting on this group that you just brought up . Where they not reporting on the fact that you have two democratic members of congress who are supporting Antisemitic Movement at its core that actually, as moser pointed out, seeks illumination of israel . It was mentioned yesterday that the media is giving a free pass of the Democratic Party. If you want to look at media bias, this is yet another example of how the media does not call attention to some of these issues on the left. Harris real quickly, melissa, where does this put us in terms of the voters . Is this an issue that drives people to the polls . Were away . Melissa i think its an issue that drives people away from politics and listening to this. If you talk to any normal people, the volume and the name calling, everyone calling everyone a racist, everyone is antisemitic, back and forth, thinking they are ginning up their own support. They look like theyre losing t for political purposes. Its pretty disgusting. Harris we will bring you the president s remarks as soon as we get them and play that for you. A fox news exclusive. A federal watchdog is blowing the whistle on a decade of misconduct at the southern border. You dont want to miss this. And the Trump Administration is making a new effort to crack down on illegal immigration, by lifting limits on the length of detention for migrant families. But will it really help solve the border crisis . The debate you dont want to miss. If there are ways we can do this that dont involve detaining people. 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Hes talking about closing gaps and a reminder on guns, that guns do not pull the trigger, mental illness, and he wants to get into that. Our guns a public emergency . The president says yes. He also says antifa, and is opinion, a terrorist organization. Im just taking down some of the topics. Greenland, when they said something in a sarcastic way, we will do it another time. Respect needs to be shown. On his desire to purchase that country. Ive been responsible for things with israel. We couldnt hear the reporters that we are the president s answer, as he get into what is going on today. Controversial remarks about israel. He says, i move the capital. Golan heights, iran. No president has ever done what ive done. Excuse me. We have the group, aoc plus three. Any way want it, they are antisemites and against israel. The present moments away and we will play it in his words life. Keep watching. Melissa . Melissa breaking this hour, a fox news exclusive as we are obtaining a letter to President Trump and congress from a top government watchdog. It claims that customs and Border Protection has been feeling to collect dna samples from detained migrants for nearly a decade. And that this distributed distg violation of federal law has allowed criminals to walk free. Catherine herridge is live at the Justice Department with more on this story. Catherine . Thanks, melissa. Good afternoon. In this 7page letter to the president obtained by fox news, the office of special counsel said customs and Border Protection has failed to follow federal law, compromise public safety, and let violent offenders walk through it also contains the strongest possible language rebuking the department for also defending its actions over the last decade. It reads in part, the agencys noncompliance with the law has allowed subjects subsequently accused of Violent Crimes, including homicide and Sexual Assault, to elude detection even when detained multiple times by customs and Border Protection. This is an unacceptable dereliction of the agencys lawenforcement mandates. Fox news first profiled the whistleblowers behind his complaint last month, and under the law cbp was required to collect dna from individuals in its custody to be run against fbi Violent Crimes databases. So that they could confirm if the migrants are connected to open Sexual Assault and murder cases among others. This program is separate and distinct from dna collection, designed to establish family connections among migrants. This dna screening for violent offenders was put on hold by the obama administration, in around 2009. Then secretary napolitano said the department had resource issues, and then attorney general eric holder agree. But special counsel investigators have sided with the whistleblowers that this exception was never meant to be permanent, especially not for a decade. We have a great tool that was mandated by and approved by congress, as a law. And we are not using it. U. S. Citizens, lawful permanent residence, and have n harmed to do do our agency not collecting dna. We contacted secretary mcaleenan but he did not respond, citing a scheduled. They want dhs to medially begin screening for violent offenders. It should have began and this is important a decade ago under the last administration, melissa. Melissa thats quite a story. Thank you for reporting that. We will look forward to more on this. We have more breaking news right now on immigration, the Trump Administration now moving to lift a limit on how long it can detain migrant families during immigration proceedings. This was the floor is a commit detention at 20 days. This is expected to face Court Challenges that could prolong or even stop the rule from going into effect. But acting on lead security chief Kevin Mcaleenan says it will help to curb illegal crossings and close loopholes in the immigration system. What this rule does is establishes very high standards of care for children in federal custody. First and foremost. It also allows us to keep families through the immigration proceedings. These are fair and extra dishes proceedings with an immigration judge. When we start getting results, when we repatriate those who dont have a meritorious claim, was the a reduction in that flow significantly other borders. Melissa no surprise, the move is quickly drawn criticism in the wake of reports citing poor conditions at detention centers. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer releasing this Statement Today saying, make no mistake, this new rule is about letting President Trump and Senior AdvisorStephen Miller keep children in awful conditions for longer periods of time and continue the administrations horrid treatment of innocent migrant families fleeing unsinkable hardship. And heres democratic president ial candidate Julian Castro this morning. They keep them on the cold floors, sleeping and mylar blankets. They dont give them soap or toothbrushes. This is completely unnecessary. Its cruel, and that is one more reason that we need to change leadership to pursue Immigration Reform with common sense and compassion instead of this cruelty this administration continues to show. Melissa pete, everybody wants to pursue Immigration Reform. Thats the job of congress. When they sit there criticizing the president , he doesnt have the power to reform immigration. Its up to the lawmakers. They need to do something. Wouldnt it make more sense to speed up the time that it takes to determine if someone could stay or not . With that solved the problem, if you are talking about how long you should keep people and we shouldnt be keeping people . A soda side more quickly who can stay and who cant. Pete your question assumes both sides want to solve this problem. Ultimately, you have to admire how much the Trump Administration is determined to secure the southern border. Youre either living families go early, because of the 20 days for children, or separating them. Neither of which is useful or good for border policy. If you bring kids, holding them until the hearing, that becomes a dis incentive as using kids as a magnet to come to this country. This would be wonderful to veltman. The problem is itll be a challenge in the courts. It will get held up in the courts. Congress still wont do anything, which means the hands of this administration will be further tied. They are doing everything they can to address this. To call it inhumane is to impugn every single officer in Border Patrol and i. C. E. Who does a fantastic job. Capri but its not their fault, though. Pete its congress fault. Capri its not impugning i. C. E. To say the circumstances in which these individuals are held is not i wouldnt say deplorable, but when you hear about people sleeping on the floor pete the crowding is less than desirable. Capri but thats not their fault. Its the fault of congress, and where do you put these people . You dont have the money to be able to expand these detention facilities, which i think is not the answer to all of this the answer is being able to figure out how you reform the system harris the process. Capri exactly predealing with asylumseekers. Pete but where are the democrats on that . Republicans are ready to do that. Theres not a single democrat raising their hand. Capri they wont, though. About a year and a half or two years ago, there was some deals when it came to the issues surrounding the dreamers. And melissa everybody claims they offer a solution and that the other side will come to the table. Lisa of the decree is at the heart of it all. As pete pointed out, its been a magnet for family you units crossing over and trying to get to this country. We see an increase and family apprehensions from 2013 to fiscal year 2019. That is the driving force behind it. Thats why vc immigration officials so overwhelmed, not knowing what to do. Weve also seen, as well, cartels and human traffickers use it as a business revenue, as well. By exploiting these children. We see people literally purchase children to come over to the United States because they know they are going to be caught and then released. So thats at the heart of it all. Capri this is where democrats have an opportunity, particularly those who are running for president in 2020 and our current sitting members of congress, either in the house or senate. They have an opportunity to say, here is a bill. I introduced a bill and no one will give me harris this is why it needs to come from them. There are two democratic lawmakers right now in the house who are circulating a letter from several harvard and Johns Hopkins johns dominic doctors. Saying that this is needed after at least three children have died in part as a result of the flu. In general, due to the cpp holding and complexities of operating vaccination programs, neither cbp nor its medical contractors administer vaccinations for the flu to those in custody. So if we are going to keep them longer and democrats are going to sit by and watch something happen that they say they dont like, they should be writing legislations that deals with, every going to inoculate these people . Were to be do about them as they sit on our border and come into our border facilities with things we need to have vaccinations for . To protect their own people. Im curious, aware of the democrats . They are willing to circulate the doctors letters but not to sit down and circulate some ideas on legislation. Pete they are bowing to the leftist open borders crowd. I appreciate what youre saying. No chance viable contenders are going to do anything that would help. Melissa and the president makes comments on this and many other things. He is talking to cameras right now. When they come back hopefully we will be able to turn around that tape. It depends when he leaves. We will bring you all of those life comments as the president departs the white house, when we come back. Too many people in pain settle for a restless nights sleep. Theres a better choice. Aleve pm. The only one to combine a safe sleep aid and the 12hour painrelieving strength of aleve. That dares to last into the morning. So you feel refreshed. Aleve pm. Theres a better choice. But dad, youve got allstate. With accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Smart kid. Indeed. Are you in good hands . Melissa we are getting ready to hear that tape playback from the president s, and it is long. He makes a lot of comments on many different topics, including background checks. He talks about the Federal Reserve, saying they let us down. Raised too fast, too high. Shouldnt have done the tightening. Lets listen in. President trump many other places around the world we have to compete with. But our economy is the strongest in the world by far. Nothing even close. A lot of good things are happening. We had some very good retail numbers this morning, as you sa saw. I guess the stock market is quite a bit up. Reporter was the president . Reporter are you demanding that jay powell lower Interest Rates . President trump i dont demand it. But if he used his head, he with the with them. In germany they have a zero Interest Rate and we do compete with much stronger than germany, but we do compete with germany. In germany they have zero Interest Rates, and when they borrow money i mean, when you look at what happens, look at whats going on over there. They borrow money. They actually get paid to borrow money. And we have to compete with tha that. If you look at whats happening around the world, jay powell and the Federal Reserve have totally missed the call. I was right, and just about everybody missed that. I was right. He did quantitative tightening, he shouldnt have done that. He raised Interest Rates too fast, too furious. And we have normalized rates, if you can call it that. Now we have to go the other direction. We will see if he does it. If he does that, you will see a rocket rocket ship. If he doesnt, we have a very strong economy. We could be in the place this nation was seldom at if we had Interest Rates cut by the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve has let us down. They missed the call. They raised them too fast. They raised it too high, and they did quantitative tightening. They shouldnt have done the tightening and they shouldnt have raised it to that extent. We could have had some raises, but nothing like they did. Reporter mr. Term, why have you back down on background checks connect reporter the strong appetite for background checks . President trump i have an appetite for background checks. We are going be doing background checks. We are working with democrats under republicans. We all would have very strong background checks, but we will be filling in some of the loopholes, as you call them, and supportive. It would be really nice if the democrats would indeed fix the loopholes, because it would be really nice. Despite that, i want to think of mexico. They have 26,000 soldiers at our border. They are really stopping people from coming in. So what happens is with background checks, we are dealing with democrats, we are dealing with republicans, dealing with the nra, dealing with gun owners, dealing with everybody. Hopefully there will be something mean full report and ask her, are you caving to the nra . Reporter [indistinct] President Trump i didnt say anything about that. We had a great talk with wayne yesterday. We didnt say anything about that, we just talked about concepts. Wayne agrees things need to be done, also. We have areas where we can clos close. We have a lot of background checks are not. Democrats can tell you that, others will tell you that. We have weaknesses. Want to fix weaknesses. Reporter what do you stand for . President trump im concerned that no matter what we agreed to, when we get there, im concerned the democrats will say, oh, well, we now want this. At the slippery slope. And thats what your gun owners and a lot of other people are concerned with. Assuming thats not going to take place by the democrats, assuming we want to get this done, we can get it done report max her, said it wasnt a slippery slope. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump youve got to speak up. Reporter talk to me about what the administrations path forward has done. President trump we are doing a lot having to do with veteran suicide. We have theres a product made that just came out, by johnson johnson, which has a tremendously positive pretty shortterm, but nevertheless a positive effect. I have instructed the head of the va to go out and buy a lot of it, and we are buying a lot of it. Hopefully we are getting it at a very good cost. I guess its a form of a stimulant where if somebody is really in trouble, from the standpoint of suicide, it can do something. Its pretty wellknown, just came out. I believe its made by johnson johnson. We have calls to johnson johnson. Weve been dealing with them for two months on buy a lot of it. Reporter sir, who are you accusing American Jews of being loyal to . Reporter [indistinct] President Trump i look forward to going to denmark but i thought the Prime Ministers statement that it was absurd, that it was an absurd idea, was nasty. I thought it was inappropriate. All she had to do was say, no, we wouldnt be interested. But we cant treat the United States of america the way they treated us under president obama. I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me no. This has been discussed for many years. Harry truman had the idea of greenland. I had the idea, other people have had the idea. It goes back and truly early 1900s. But harry truman very strongly thought it was a good idea. I think its a good idea, because denmark is losing 700 million a year with it. It doesnt do them any good. All they had to do was say, no, wed rather not do that. Or, wed rather not talk about it. Dont say, what an absurd idea that is. Excuse me. Shes not talking to me. Shes talking to the United States of america. You dont talk to the United States that way. At least under me. Now, president obama, when they wouldnt land and land in the philippines, when they treated him so badly that so many place, the philippines is the one that comes to mind. Thats different. They can treat him any way they want to. Thats up to him. But they cant treat the United States with the statement, how absurd reporter sir, who are you accusing American Jews of being loyal to . President trump let your wife to it. Shes the boss, i agree. Go ahead. Weve got a lot of people. A lot of people watching. Go ahead. Reporter in regards to background checks, why should anyone who wants to buy a gun not go through a background check . Whats wrong with that . President trump i want guns to be the hands of people who are mentally stable. Those people, i want them to easily be able to get a gun. People who are insane, people who are sick up here, i dont want them to be able to get a gun. Reporter sir, who are you accusing American Jews of being disloyal to . Reporter [indistinct] President Trump if a person is mentally ill, sick, if theyve done things in their past that are a horror. Like in the case of dayton. But i guess it got expunged because he was 17 years old when he wrote a list out and it said it was not about guns, he had a kill list and a rape list. But he was 17. One of the things we are talking about is getting rid of the age limit. He was 17, so when he turned 18 it was expunged. So we didnt find out about that. A big percentage of the school, the parents wouldnt let their kids go to that school because they heard about it. Okay . It was a very big thing. When he was 18 we all went away. We cant let that happen. Reporter sir, you said russia was a cut of the g7 reporter do you see this as a Public Health emergency . President trump i do. I do, i do. They die for a lot of other reasons, too. They do. As i said, and ive said it very loudly and plainly, i dont think ive changed positions at all. We are working on background checks. There are things that we can do, but we already have very serious background checks. We have strong background checks. We can close up of the gaps, we can do things that are very good, things that, frankly, gun owners want to have done. But we also have to remember that the gun doesnt pull the trigger. A person does. We have great mental illness. Reporter sir, what you say to republicans who want to primary you . Republicans want a primary you, sir . Reporter [indistinct] President Trump we are looking at a lot of Different Things relative to antifa. Antifa, in my opinion, is a terrorist organization. You see what theyve been doing. Weve had great support on that. We are looking at various Different Things. Reporter sir, why are you coming up for dominic with ways to hold migrant families longer . President trump behind you. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump greenland was just an idea. When they say it was absurd, and it was said in a very nasty, very sarcastic way, i said, we will make it some other time. We will go to the mark. I love denmark, ive been to denmark. Frankly, we will do it another time. Reporter sir, who are you accusing American Jews of being disloyal to . President trump respect has to be shown to the United States. Go ahead. Reporter yesterday you said American Jews who vote for democrats are disloyal. To whom are they being disloyal, sir . Its an antisemitic trope. President trump ive been response will for a lot of great things for israel. One of them was moving the embassy to jerusalem. Making jerusalem the capital of israel. One of them was the Golan Heights. One of them, frankly, is iran. Iran is a very weakened nation right now. Hopefully something works out. We will see if it happens. Wait a minute. Wait, wait. No president has ever done that, anywhere close to what ive done. Between the Golan Heights, jerusalem, iran, and other things. Excuse me. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No president has done what ive done. We have a group i call it aoc plus three. You can call the person, representative tlaib come you can say it representative omar, you can go anywhere you want to go. They are antisemites. They are against israel. She had a plan to greatly embarrass israel by going there, the fact that she wanted to see her grandmother, i assume thats true. I hope thats true. But it was very bad. Very bad, the things that she and others of that group, and other democrats, have said. And they have become the face of the Democratic Party. I will tell you this in my opinion, the democrats have gone very far away from israel. I cannot understand how they can do that. They dont want to fund israel. They want to take away foreign aid to israel. They want to do a lot of bad things israel. In my opinion, you vote for democrats, youre being very disloyal to jewish people and you are being very disloyal to israel. And only weak people would say anything other than that. Reporter your critics have said how do you respond to that . President trump i havent heard anybody say that. Just the opposite. I think if you vote for a democrat you are very disloyal to israel, and the jewish peopl people. Reporter what do you say to republicans who want to primary you . President trump ive got 94 in the republican party. The highest in history. The highest of any republican. So i think theyd have a hard time. Reporter you said russia was kicked out of the g7 because they outsmarted obama. In fact, it was because the annexed crimea. That President Trump that was outsmarting obama. Russia outsmarted president obama. They took over during his term, not during mine. Crimea. They took over crimea. If you would stop being an organ of the democrats, and let me answer the question, i would answered easily. Its a simple question. President putin totally outsmarted president obama on crimea and other things. Including the red line in the sand. He outsmarted, he made a living on outsmarting president obama. Frankly, because of it, obama was upset and he got obama out of what was the g8 into the g7. It has come up. Should we put russia back in . We have spent a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings. And they are not there. I think it must be a good thing if rush over there. So we could speak directly, not have to speak by telephone and other things. Heres the thing its a vote of what is now of the g7. They were taken out because put in outsmarted on crimea, the red line, and other things. Totally outsmarted obama. Obama was upset. They took him out. I think russia should be a part of it, because we are looking for world peace and other things. Trade and other things. And it would be a lot easier to have russia in her they had always been. Reporter [indistinct] in 1992, the office of Legal CounselPresident Trump i read the same report as you. Im not looking to do indexing. I have studied indexing for a long time. I think it will be perceived as somewhat elitist. I dont want to do that. I want taxes for the middle class, the workers, the people that worked so hard. Thats what im looking for. I think indexing is really probably better for the upperincome groups. Im not looking to do that. But if i wanted to do it i believe i could. But i need a letter for the attorney general. Reporter taking america into a recession is it worth it . President trump the fake news of which many of you are members is trying to convince the public to have a recession. Lets have a recession the United States is doing phenomenally well. One thing i have to do is economically take on china. Because china has been ripping us off for many years. President clinton president clinton, president bush, and president obama and others should have done this long before me. My life would be much easier although i enjoy doing it but by my life would be much easier if i let china continue to rebuff the United States. It would be much easier, but i cant do that. We are winning against china. They have lost two and a half million jobs at a very short period of time. They want to make a deal, its got to be a deal thats good for the United States. Where they want to make a deal, probably we will make a deal. But if i didnt do that and im not doing it because its my trade war. This is not my trade war, this is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago, by a lot of other president s. Over the last five or six years, china has made 500 billion. 500 billion. Ripped it out of the United States. Not only that if you take a look, intellectual property theft. Add that to it. And at a lot of other things to it. Excuse me. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. Somebody had to do it. So im taking on china. Im taking on china on trade. We are winning. We are the piggy bank. We are the ones the European Union wants to rob and take advantage of. The European Union, 200 billion. China, more than 500 billion. Sorry, i was put here by people to do a great job. And thats what im doing. Nobody has done a job like ive done. Would china rather wait for a little more than a year and try and get Sleepy Joe Biden to negotiate with inset of President Trump . Maybe. But i dont think so. You know why . They are losing too many jobs, too fast. They had the worst year and 27 years. But i think it was actually 50 to 454 years. It was the worst year theyve had and have a century. Thats because of me. Im not proud of that, but they want to negotiate. And sleepy joe does have a clue. He says that china is wonderful. China is wonderful for china. But im wonderful for the usa. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump we will meet it sometime. But the Prime Minister used a terrible word when describing something that weve been talking about for years with our country. President truman said, what about greenland . And he talked about it very openly and it was a big deal at the time. I brought it up again and it was discussed many other times. I thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off. Because shes blowing off the United States. And weve done a lot for denmark. Weve done a lot. I know denmark well. I have many friends from denmark. Many people from denmark that live in the United States. And we treat countries with respect. She couldnt stomach shouldnt shouldnt treat the United States by way. She said absurd. Thats not the right word to use. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump louder. Reporter why is it acceptable [indistinct] President Trump if you remember, president obama had separation. He built the cells, the cages you people always talk about. And attributes them to me. President obama, in 2014, built those cages. And you were very embarrassed when the New York Times, as usual, and others, but a picture of a cage and they said how bad trump was. Only to find out that it was president obama that built those cages. So president obama had separation. Im the one who brought them together. This new rule would do even more to bring them together. But it was president obama that had the separation. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump well, we are being very strong at the border. You see the numbers are way, way down. I want to thank mexico for that. The United States, your question could make that problem go away very easily, if the democrats would meet and we could fix the loopholes and asylum, which is what you are talking about, to an extent. Let me just tell you very much i have the children on my mind. It bothers me very greatly. People make this horrible 2000mile journey. One of the things that will happen, when they realize the borders are closing, the wall is being built. We are building tremendous numbers of miles of wall right now, in different locations. It all comes together like a beautiful puzzle. But one of the things thats happening, when they see that you cant get into the United States or when they see, if they do get into the United States, they will be brought back to their country. It wont matter if they get in or not, because we are doing that. They wont come. Many people will be saved. Many womens lives will not be destroyed and ruined. Reporter [indistinct] reporter will be see a payroll tax cut . President trump im not looking at a tax cut now. We dont need it, we have a strong economy. Certainly a payroll tax cut. President obama did that in order to artificially jack up the economy. President obama had zero Interest Rates. I dont have zero Interest Rates. I have real Interest Rates. Despite that, i have a strong economy. President obama did two payroll tax cuts. Despite that, i have a much stronger economy. If you look at my numbers, from november 9th, the stock market is up over 50 . Reporter [indistinct] President Trump this guy is the most biased reporting. Nbc. You know, i made a lot of money for nbc with the apprentice, and i used to like them, but they are most biased. Peter is such a biased you should be able to ask a question, the same question, in a better way. You are so obviously biased, and thats why the public has no confidence in the media. Go ahead. Joe biden doesnt have it. Let me just tell you about Joe Biden Joe biden doesnt have it. Reporter you said it happened in toledo when it happened in data is that fair game . Reporter [indistinct] President Trump i think the New York Times has totally lost credibility. Theyve given up on the russian collusion delusion. I would they are doing is trying the racist deal. And thats not going to break because im the least racist person ever to serve in office. Okay . I am the least racist person. But the New York Times, they are trying everything they can. It is a totally dishonest newspaper. Its a paper that really has lost tremendous credibility. Let me tell you in six years, or maybe ten or 14, in six years when im not here, the New York Times goes out of business very quickly. You know who else goes out . Nbc news has less credibility, in my opinion, with guys like you, then cnn. I think cnn has more credibility than nbc news. Did you hear what i said . I said you have more credibility than this guy. Go ahead. And thats not saying much, because i dont think you know what . You know why . Because i dont think you have very much credibility. But i will tell you this nbc, i think, has less credibility than cnn. Thats not saying much, but thats the way i feel. Reporter you focused on Mental Health issues. President trump yes, Mental Health, very important. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump there are many, many things in play. People are talking about videos, people are talking about lots of Different Things. But we do have a way of bringing what we already have. Because we have many, many as you know, we have many, many people that are unable to buy guns right now. Many people are unable to buy guns. We have background checks. But there are loopholes in the background checks. Thats what i spoke to the nra about yesterday. They want to get rid of the loopholes as well as i do. At the same time, i dont want to take away peoples Second Amendment rights. I dont want to take away the constitution. Having to do with gun ownership. You know, we cant let that slope go so easy. That we are talking about background checks, then all of a sudden we are talking about, lets take everybodys going away. People need weapons, unfortunately, for protection. Reporter edison nra talking point. President trump its a trump talking points. You prove one thing, then another thing, and another thing, and all the sudden youre on that slope. All of a sudden no one has any legal protection. We have a Second Amendment cope reporter people are concerned President Trump let me tell you this. We have a Second Amendment, and it will remain strong. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump go ahead. Reporter are you concerned about the emergence of isis in afghanistan . Has that affected your decisionmaking at all . President trump at a certain point, russia, afghanistan, iran, iraq, turkey, they are going to have to fight their battles, too. We wiped out the caliphate, 100 . I did it in record time. At a certain point, all of these countries where isis is around, theyve been decimated, by the way. Badly decimated. But all of these countries are going to have to fight them. Do we want to stay there for another 19 years . I dont think so. At a certain point, other countries and that includes russia and includes iran and turkey and iraq and afghanistan and pakistan and india. Look at, india is right there. They are not fighting it. We are fighting it. Pakistan is right next door. They are fighting it very little. Very, very little. Not fair. The United States, we are 7,000 miles away. We have decimated isis. You havent been hearing much about isis. We took the caliphate, 100 . When i took it at 98 i said, maybe we go home now. Let these other countries handle it. Everyone went crazy. They said, do 100 . They said it would take a year, it took me a month and they are gone. The caliphate is gone. By the way, we are Holding Thousands of isis fighters right now. And youre a pass to take them. If europe doesnt take them, i will have no choice but to release them into the countries from which they came. Which is germany and france and other places. Because we beat them. We captured them, weve got thousands of them, and as usual, our allies say, oh, no, we dont want them. Even though they came from france and germany and other places. So we are going to tell them and weve already told them take these prisoners that weve captured. Because the United States is not going to put them in guantanamo for the next 50 years and pay for it. Reporter what is your deadline . President trump is moving along, my deadline. They know. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump i did. I will tell you this i went to the hospitals. It was totally falsely reported. They were beautiful, beautiful, very sad, horrible moments. But they were Beautiful Moments in the sense that these people, the families, and also the people that were so badly injured that i was with, they love our country. Frankly, you want to know the truth . They love their president. Nobody wrote that. Because you didnt write the truth. New york times doesnt like to write the truth. But they totally love our country and they do love our president. So when i went to dayton, and when i went to el paso, and i went into those hospitals, the love for me me, maybe as representative of the country, but for me, and i look for them, was unparalleled. These are incredible people. If you read the papers, it was like nobody would meet with me. Not only did they meet with me, they were pouring out of the room. The doctors were coming out of the operating room. There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldnt even walk on it. Theres a lot that happened. The people in dayton let me just explain. The people in dayton, the people of el paso, these are incredible people. And those victims, and the survivors and the families, i love those people. Reporter [indistinct] President Trump louder. Reporter listed to mike yesterday suggested indexing. Which is that . President trump i looked at it for long time. Its not something i love. Its probably better for the high income people. Im not looking to do that. I want to do it for the workers. I am looking to do for middle income people. I think indexing dash i have to get a letter from the attorney general or the Justice Department, which i think i might be able to get. Otherwise i would have to go through congress. But im not looking at doing indexing. And i havent been seriously looking at it. Certainly, it is an option if i wanted to. We have such a strong economy. If the fed did what they are supposed to do, they would drop Interest Rates by 100 basis points. They maybe would do and not only not tightening, but some loosening or leave it alone. Do nothing. But they dropped Interest Rates by 100 basis points or more. Nobody would be able to compete with the United States. Right now the fed is tying our hands. We are paying Interest Rates to german end and other countries that are not like us. It should be the other way around, in a sense. Why should they pay no Interest Rates and have an incentive beyond that . And we are paying Interest Rates . The fed has missed the call for a long time. Reporter are you saying you are not doing any at