Pres. Trump we are doing very well with china. We are talking with china. We are not ready to make a deal. We will see what happens. We have been hurt by china for 25, 30 years. Nobody has done anything about it. We have no choice but to do what we are doing. It is working out very well. We called them on manipulation and they have brought their numbers back. They brought them back rapidly. They were able to do that because they manipulate. It is called monetary manipulation. Not good. What is happening with china now we have an open dialogue. , we will see if we keep meeting in september. If we do, that is fine. If we dont, that is fine. It is time somebody does what we are doing. I said the american taxpayer is not paying for it. We had a big day in the stock market yesterday, but the american taxpayer is not paying for it. What china is doing is depressing their currency by pouring tremendous amounts of money into their system. They are paying for it. The prices have not gone up. In some cases they have gone down because the devaluation plus the money supply, the amount of money they pour in, which is a form of manipulation, has more than compensated for an increase in price. As i said and everybody questioned it, in the case of china, the tariffs have been amazing. We are taking in billions and billions of dollars. China has had their worst year in 35 years now. It was in 26 years, but now it is 35 years. I want them to do well, but as of this moment they are having the worst year theyve had in many years, in decades. Really we are just bringing the system back into order. We have all the cards. We are doing well. Our country is doing fantastically well. You look at europe, they have problems. The biggest problem we have is the fact that a lot of other continents and countries are not doing well. We are doing great and we continue to do great. Our companies are poised. They have a lot of cash. Our system is beautiful. Reporter the nra has been a strong supporter of [indiscernible] pres. Trump i think i could but i dont think i will be there. I have a great relationship with the nra. They supported me very early and that has been a great decision they made. We have justice cavanaugh. We have justice gorsuch. They feel very strongly about the Second Amendment. The nra made a great decision in supporting me. Nobody else would have won. I have a very good relationship. I have a great relationship with the nra. I have a lot of respect for the people at the nra. I have already spoken to them on numerous occasions. Numerous occasions. Frankly, we need intelligent background checks. This is not a question of nra, republican or democrat. I spoke to Mitch Mcconnell yesterday. He is totally on board. He said, i have been waiting for your call. He is totally on board. I spoke to senators, friends of mine, pretty hardline senators. When i say that i say that in a positive way. Hardliners for the Second Amendment. They understand that we dont want insane people, mentally ill people, bad people, dangerous people, we dont want guns in the hands of the wrong people. I think the republicans are going to be great and lead the charge, along with the democrats. I spoke yesterday to nancy pelosi. We had a great talk. I spoke to Chuck Schumer. We had a great talk. Chuck schumer in particular loves my china policy, as you probably know. I said i cant believe you actually like something im doing. He said not like, love. Chuck schumer is great on the china situation, which we are winning and winning big. China wants to do something but i am not ready to do anything yet. 25 years of abuse, im not ready so fast. We will see how that works out. On the background checks we have tremendous support for really common sense, sensible, important background checks. Reporter [inaudible] pres. Trump time goes by. I dont think im different. I think the senate is different. I think other people in the house are different. I think the people that may had may be had their arm up a couple of years ago, maybe they feel differently. I dont think i feel any differently. With a lot of success weve had i think i have a greater influence now over the senate and over the house. I think we can get something really good done. I think we can have some really meaningful background checks. We dont want people that are mentally ill, people that are sick, we dont want them having guns. Who does . Reporter [inaudible] pres. Trump we will see where the nra will be. We have to have meaningful background checks. In both cases it is possible they would not have been caught. We also have to talk about age. He did things that were very bad in ohio, in dayton. He did some things that were really bad. The school knew about it. When he turned 18, everything was expunged. We have to get rid of that because you cant have that barrier. If they had that barrier, they would have been able to see. But because he was a minor it was expunged. We have to get rid of that barrier. I think a lot of really meaningful things, background checks will take place, including red flags, including other very important items. The republicans are looking at it very seriously. I believe the nra i have spoken to them numerous times. They are really good people. They are patriots. They love our country. They love our country so much. Frankly, i think they will get there. Reporter you talked to him several times. Did he warn you background checks could cost you politically . Did you say to him, forget politics, we have to do something now . Pres. Trump no. I had a good talk with wayne. I like wayne. They supported me very early. Far earlier than anybody thought possible, especially me not being a politician. That support has paid off. We now have two Supreme Court justices that are phenomenal. Cavanaugh and gorsuch. They are phenomenal people. They are big believers in the Second Amendment, which wayne is also and i am. There is no president that feels more strongly about the Second Amendment and i do. However we need meaningful background checks so that sick people dont get guns. I think in the end wayne and the nra will either be there or maybe we will be a little bit more neutral. That would be ok too. The nra has taken up very tough stance on everything. I understand it. Its a slippery slope. They think you approve one thing and that leads to a lot of bad things. I dont agree with that. I think we can do meaningful very meaningful background checks. I want to see it happen. I have a lot of support. I also have the support of other people from the other side. I think the democrats and republicans have a chance to really come together. Reporter why wasnt there a better system in place to deal with the Migrant Children . Pres. Trump the reason is because you get there, you cant let anybody know, otherwise nobody will be there. A big factor is to let people outside of the country that want countryinto the illegally when they come in in , caravans, and we have the numbers way down right now. Mexico has done a fantastic job. Mexico has 26,000 soldiers right now on the border. They have been fantastic. Because of tariffs, but i dont care why it. I will be calling the president at a certain point. I just hope they keep it up. If the democrats would change the law i was thinking about putting together, you know, with the gun situation. We have immigration and we have, lets say some of the things were talking about right now together. I want people to know if they come into the United States illegally, they are getting out. They will be brought out. This serves as a very good deterrent. If people come into our country illegally, they are going out. They are not coming in illegally and staying. We have bad laws. They make it in, although we are being tough but they may get in. It doesnt matter because they are going out. When people see what they saw yesterday and like they will see for a long time, they know they are not staying here. Its really amazing because africanamerican unemployment just came out very recently. The lowest in history. The best numbers in history. Africanamerican employment and hispanic and asian, too. They have more people working today than ever worked in the history of our country. Plus i did criminal Justice Reform which president obama could not get approved which the media never talks about. If president obama got criminal Justice Reform done, it would be front page stories all over the place. I got it done. I think africanamericans appreciate it. I have the best employment numbers. I have the best employment number is for a lot of people, but africanamericans are number one that weve ever had. One more thing we did. Aside from criminal Justice Reform, opportunity zones. They are doing unbelievably well. You will see that and you have already seen it. Opportunity zones. The biggest beneficiaries are africanamericans. Reporter what would be your advice for him . Pres. Trump who are you talking about . Reporter the president of ukraine. Vladimir zelensky. You work with him on how to communicate with Vladimir Putin to stop the conflict in ukraine . Pres. Trump i think he is going to make a deal with president putin. He will be invited to the white house. We look forward to seeing him. He has already been invited to the white house. I think he will. Hes a reasonable guy. He wants to see peace in ukraine. I think he will be coming very soon. Reporter Vice President bidens comments overnight pres. Trump joe is not playing with a full deck. He made that comment, i said whoa. , i saw his comment. Joe biden is not playing with a full deck. This is not somebody you can have as your president. If you got the nomination, i if he got the nomination, i would be thrilled. Reporter [indiscernible] band on twitter . Twitter . D on pres. Trump we are looking at that right now. We have a lot of these companies coming in a little while, as you know. We will be very tough with them. They are treating conservatives very unfairly. Hollywood i dont call them the elite. I think the elite are people that go after it many cases. Hollywood is really terrible. You talk about racists, hollywood is racist. What they are doing with the kind of movies they are putting out, its actually very dangerous for our country. What hollywood is doing is a tremendous disservice to our country. We have now all of the heads of the Biggest Companies coming in. We are going to talk to them. They treat conservatives, republicans totally different than they treat others. They cant do that. Reporter did the Trump Administration devalue the u. S. Dollar . Pres. Trump no, we dont have to. The dollar is at a level that makes it hard. The advantage to doing what we have, the money is pouring in because we have the safest currency in the world. We have the standard of the world. Because it is so strong, it has gotten so strong because other countries have problems. It makes it harder for our manufacturers. If we lowered the Interest Rate by the Federal Reserve, that would automatically bring down the dollar a little bit and it would make it easier for caterpillar and these companies. We have the greatest currency in the world. No, i would not do that. Reporter are you thinking of canceling the talks next month with china . Pres. Trump china wants to settle this deal. They have had the worst year they have had in many decades. It is going it is getting only worse. Thousands of companies are leaving china. They would like to make a deal. Im not ready to make a deal. Reporter are you willing to cancel the talks . Pres. Trump maybe. Right now the talks are scheduled in september. Whether or not we are talking about china or they are canceled, we will see. As i said, our people are not paying for these billions and billions of dollars that came in. 16 billion of which i gave to the farmers because they were targeted by china. That is just a small fraction of what we have taken in. They are not what china has been doing as a currency manipulator, they manipulated the value of their currency. That is where the money comes. Also, they put tremendous money into the system. If you look, prices have not risen. Our people have not paid. These guys saying oh, trump they dont know what they are talking about. China is unique. It probably happens with other countries. The prices have not gone up. We have virtually no inflation in our country. If the Federal Reserve would bring down Interest Rates over time, i would love to see a point or a little bit more than that. If they would stop quantitative tightening, we have a rocketship. We are doing well without it, but we are being handcuffed by the Federal Reserve. If they would stop that, it would be incredible. Reporter [indiscernible] you mentioned the age limit. [indiscernible] pres. Trump i hope south korea and i hope japan start getting along with each other. They are supposed to be allies. It puts us in a very difficult position. South korea and japan are fighting all the time. They have got to get along because it puts us in a very bad position. That being said, i have a very beautiful letter from kim jongun yesterday. It was handdelivered. Reporter what did it say . I would love to give it to you, i really would. Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump i think we will have another meeting. He wrote a beautiful threepage from top to bottom letter. Maybe i will release the results of the letter but it was very positive. We are not going to do business with huawei. I made the decision. It is much simpler to not do any business with huawei. That does not mean we will not agree to something if and when we make a trade deal, but we are not going to be doing business with huawei. Reporter are you looking at maguire . Pres. Trump maguire is excellent. He is acting right now. Did a great job. I think over time im in no rush because we have a great acting. I like him a lot. I spoke to the senator about different people. Hes the head of intelligence. I am working with senator byrd. I want to get somebody everybody can really come together with. I like pete hofstra a lot. He is great, doing a fantastic job, in the netherlands right now. You had mentioned it was down to three. It is more than two . Pres. Trump thats a job everybody wants, he and i. I am dealing with a committee. I am dealing with really senator byrd a lot. We will come up with somebody that is great. We have a lot of choices. A lot of people want the job. Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump im concerned they are not getting along with each other. They have to get along with each other. If they dont get along, what are we doing . They have to get along with each other. South korea and japan have to sit down and get along with each other. Otherwise what are we all doing . Reporter [indiscernible] reporter gun control, mr. President . Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump poland has been a great, great friend of ours. They have offered to build a military base at the cost of many billions of dollars. No money put up by the United States whatsoever. They offered to fund our troops and lots of other things. The way it should be. Not the stupid deals we made with all these other countries that take advantage of us. Poland has been terrific. We are going to poland very soon. Im sure you will be going with us. I had a great experience in poland the last time i went. Some of you said the speech was one of the best ever made in europe by the american president. Hard to believe you actually said that. When you said that i was in a state of shock. Reporter [indiscernible] reporter did steven ross say anything about pres. Trump stephen ross is a great friend of mine, a very successful guy. They were competitors but friends in real estate in new york in the old days. Hes a great guy. He is probably more inclined to be a liberal if you want to know the truth. But he likes me and respects me. We are doing a fundraiser. Were doing another fundraiser with another friend of mine. I understand the fundraiser was totally sold out. Its very successful. Reporter a quick question about the age limit reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump i think it just makes steve potter. I will see him in a little while. The controversy makes steve ross hotter. Hes very happy. He has a very successful a lot of people are going. We have two fundraisers. One with stephen one with another gentleman. I guess they will raise 11 million or 12 million. Im getting used to saying billion. Reporter when you talked about age restrictions to buy guns 18 , month ago you supported buying guns at the age of 25, raising the age. Are you considering bringing that back now . Pres. Trump were not talking about anything specific. There is tremendous goodwill. I took it about meaningful background checks so that sick and demented people dont carry around guns. You have to remember, and ive said it, big Mental Illness problem. The gun does not pull the trigger. A sick mind pulls the trigger. We want to take that out of the equation. Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump we are looking at that. There are many bills put in over a period of four or five years. They went nowhere. There has never been a president like president trump. Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump i dont think we will need to. Leadership is along with me right now. By the time we call them back they will be back anyway. I dont think we will need to call them back. I think we will have a good package by the time to come back and they can start debating and voting on it. I really dont think a little time in matters. Leadership is doing a really good job. Mitch mcconnell, kevin, nancy. I spoke with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer yesterday. There is a lot of goodwill about this issue. Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump i dont think so. I think we have a lot of support. Im very fortunate in the republican party. I am at 94 Approval Rating so that helps. I have a greater relationship with republican senators. They are looking to me to make this thing go and we will have great support. We will have support from the democrats also. Reporter [indiscernible] pres. Trump no. I never said what im saying now. What i said was there was tremendous opposition from many people on both sides. I see a better feeling right now towards getting something meaningful done. We did this after parkland but not to the same level and talking about now. We did various other things. We did do a lot of work after parkland but i think we have now a chance to do something much mo