Trump flew to los angeles but spoke with reporters before departing the air force base in maryland. Heres what he had to say. Hello everybody its a little windy out here so i will but not my coat. I have a couple more people who want to join you. [inaudible] yes, we have commuted the sentence he served eight years in jail, thats a long time and i watched his wife on television i dont know him very well, i met him a couple of times. He was on for a short while and impressed us years ago. Seems like a really nice person, dont know him. He served eight years in jail hes a long time to go many people disagree with the sentence, hes a democrat not a republican. It was a prosecution by the same people, coleman, fitzpatrick, the same group very far from his children. They are growing older and going to high school now and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. I saw that and i did commute his sentence so he will be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. That was tremendously powerful ridiculous sentence in my opinion. That is the opinion of many others as well. Java confidence in your attorney general customer. I have complete confidence in my attorney general. People like that but everybody has the right to speak their mind. I use social media, i guess i use it well because here i am. And i probably would not have gotten here without social media because i certainly dont get fair press. I would not have gotten your that social media and perhaps with all of the hoaxes, you had the impeachment hoax, you had the mueller hosts, yet russia, russia, russian nonsense. All of them are scams. If i didnt have social media, i probably would not be here. I am very happy with social media but i think he is doing an excellent job, he is a strong guy. I never spoke to him about the roger stone situation. Roger stone, just you know, he didnt work for my campaign. There might have been a time way early before i announced, where he was somehow involved a little bit. But he was not involved in our campaign at all. I think it was a very, very rough thing that happened to roger stone because when you look at what happened with kobe after 78 page horrific reports you look at what happened to me, it was a recommendation of prosecution and you look at all of these other people, and then you look at what happens to general flynn highly respected man his lifes been destroyed. You look at roger stone, a tweet and some other things, you look at whats happened to these people. Somebody had to stick up for the people. So my social media has been very powerful. I guess Mark Zuckerberg recently said trumps number one in the world on social media, which is a very nice statement i guess. Certainly something you can be at least a little bit proud of it means i have a voice. So i am able to fight the fake news. C have comments on your tweets and your comments on twitter are making it impossible to do his job. Are you making his job impossible . I do make his job harder, i agree with that. He is a very straight shooter. We have a great attorney general, and he is working very hard. Hes working against a lot of people who dont want to see good things happen in my opinion. Thats my opinion not his opinion youll have to ask what his opinion is. But i will say this, social media, for me has been very important. Because it gives me a voice. Because i dont get that voice in the press and in the media. I dont get that voice. So i am allowed to have a voice. You think he can still do his job with integrity . He is a man of great integrity, the attorney general is a man of incredible integrity. Jussie understand, i chose not to be involved. Im allowed to be totally involved. Im actually, i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country. But i have chosen not to be involved. But he is a man of great integrity. But i would be could be involved if i wanted to be. Are you also pardoning Bernie Garrett . Yes i just pardon Bernie Garrett, a man who has had many recommendations from a lot of good people. Often times, pretty much all the time, i really rely on the recommendations of people that know them. We have Bernie Garrett, we have mike milton who is gone around and done incredible job for the world. With all of his research on cancer, and he has done this, he suffered greatly. He paid a big price, made a very halfprice but he has done an incredible job. These are all people, you have to see the recommendations. I rely on recommendations very much. Are you planning to pardon roger stone . I have not given it any thought. At the meantime hes going through a process but i think hes been treated very unfairly. Warning about china and what about u. S. Companies are you not concerned about National Security . Im very concerned about National Security number one i am concerned about that nobody is that a better job with National Security than me. If you take a look at whats going on, we have done a great job with National Security. A lot of countries are different now than when i started. But i will say that we are not going to be sacrificing our companies for all of the growth and Everything Else they are exploding. They are doing so well. By using a fixed term of National Surety it has to be real National Security. I think people are getting carried away with it. I once our companies to be allowed to do business. Things are put on my desk but has nothing to do with socia National Security including chipmakers and berries others. We are going to give it up and whats gonna happen is they are going to make those chips and other countries. So National Security is very important, ive been very tough and that doesnt mean we have to be tough on everybody that does something. We want to be able to sell all this incredible technology. We are number one in the world, we want to build a cell to other countries. [inaudible] we are doing something, we have been in war in afghanistan for 19 years. We have substantial agree just the force, as you know. We are really acting more as a Law Enforcement agency that we are as a military. Because we could win that very quickly and easily if i was willing to kill millions of people. Im not willing to do that. Im not willing to do that. And we could do that so quickly her head would spin and im not talking about nuclear, im talking about very conventional. But i am not willing to kill millions of people so we are negotiating with the taliban. We have been negotiating with them for a while. We will see what happens, theres a chance of making a deal. Theres a chance. I cant believe its so quiet all of a sudden. I saw senator murphy met with the iranians is that effect . I just saw that on the way over. Is there anything i should know . That sounds to me like a violation of the logan act. So what happened with that did you read about or hear about senator murphy who met with the iranians . They ought to find out about it. If its true, i dont know it just came out as i was leaving the car. s third you think quiet it was still the guide to get maduro out of the office . Hes the person the country right now prefers. Thats what i got with bird will see what happens we put additional sanctions this morning very strong sanctions on venezuela. We will see what happens we are watching venezuela very close. Specifically roger stone but are you ruling out pardon for your former Campaign Chair and Michael Flynn . I am not even thinking about that. Theres a process people are going through. These are unrelated situations or people have done a great job with a very, very strong recommendations. We have not thought about that yet. Right now theres a process, i think roger stone has been treated unfairly. I think general flynn has been treated very unfairly. I think a lot of people have been treated very unfairly. I think the mueller scam is just exactly what a lot of people are calling it. Because it was started illegally. It was started by abuse. It was phony, it was a fake dossier, and they went into the fisa courts and they forged papers, and they did a lot of bad things. So the whole mueller thing to me is a scam. Cement do you think roger stone deserves any prison time . Youre going to see whats happens lets see what happens. I think he is treated very unfairly. Used spoke to the president of turkey the other day are you concerned about all out war breaking out between turkey and syria . I had a very good conversation i respect him and we have a very good relationship. Yes i agree hes a very tough guy but we have a very good relationship. I seem to do better with tough people. The fact is that he is he does not want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands. And he called me about that and other reasons. But we spoke about it and we are working together on seeing what can be done. It is very tough solution, you have a lot of warring going on right now. A lot of war going on, but i am dealing with the president. Can you talk a little bit of why you wanted to fly back to las vegas every night to spend the night there . I dont know exactly the schedule because i dont set the schedule. Largely the schedule is set by the secret service. We do what they want us to do. We are going to california, we are going to nevada, were going to arizona, were going to different places. I guess were coming back here. But i dont set the schedule, i have nothing to do with it. Michael bloomberg you have any advice for him . He doesnt need that kind of advice. Hes been doing it for a long time. It just seems unfair whats happening to bernie sanders, to be honest with you. I watched it happen four years ago, and always be careful what you wish for. And im not wishing for anything. Whoever it is, i will be very happy. But it seems that bernie sanders, that whole section of the democratic party, or as i call it the Democrat Party which is really the correct name. It seems to be taken advantage of like they were four years ago. What is the strategy for being in nevada while the democrats are focusing on the caucuses there . While i will be making a speech in nevada and that will probably be the day before i guess, they have it arranged. It seems to be pretty effective. We have more votes than any incumbent president in history in iowa and New Hampshire, as you saw. And in that case, i went just the day before in both cases in iowa and New Hampshire. It seems to be effective. I will be going to south carolina, their working that out now. Probably the day before, we have a big voice and we might as will use it. Are you still satisfied with how president she is handling the coronavirus . I think he is working very hard, its a tough problem i think he is going to do i have seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done and he wants to get it done fast. Yes i think he is doing a very professionally and we are also working with him and helping him in the last few days as you know. People seem to not trust the data coming out of china are you worried about that . I know this president xi loves the people of china, he loves his country and hes doing a very good job with that in a very, very tough situation. Is the investigation by any committee . If it comes up, yes. But we will see what happens, thats really up to senator graham. And he is traveling with me. [inaudible] we have a trade deal with india, but im really saving the big deal for later on. We are doing a very big trade deal at the end you later on i dont know if it will be done before the election but we will have a very big deal with india. We are not treated very well by india but i happens like the Prime Minister allots, he told me we will have 7 Million People between the airports and the events. And the stadium, and understand is sort of semi under construction but it is going to be the largest stadium in the world. It will be very exciting. But he says between the stadium and the airport, will have about 7 Million Peoples was going to be very exciting are you going . Are you going steve i hope so are you going jeff, i hope so i hope youre going. Okay . So i will see you may be in the plane, how are you . Marriage is good . Is search underway for member anonymous . Yeah there is i know who it is. Who is it. I cant tell you that. Why not. We wont get into it. People know it is a fraud. I know who it is and i know some of the leakers are but some of the lakers doubt existed straight up made by the press. Nine people of said or two people have said, but those people dont exist. I know all about anonymous, i know a lot about the lakers too. We know a lot. In fact, what i want to get something out to the press i tell certain people and it is amazing it gets out there. But so far im leaving it that way. I will see you later, thank you i will see you on the plane. [background noises] [background noises] President Trump alto Campaign Rally in phoenix, arizona on wednesday. Watch live at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Students from across the country told us the most important issues for the president ial candidates to address our climate change, gun violence, teen vaping, college affordability, mental health, and immigration. We are awarding 100,000 in total cash prizes. The winners for this year student cam competition will be announced on march 11. This election, the most important issue for me as civil rights and civil liberties. Like voter rights, reproductive rights, criminal justice reform, and reproductive freedom. These are more important now than ever because we are being violated left and right. They are just as important as every other issue. The issue that is most important to me right now, is the fact that our veterans do not have. [inaudible] i feel New Hampshire since its one of its 50 states is should do more for the veterans pizza right now they have to leave and go to vermont or they have to go to massachusetts in order to get the services they need. I dont think that is appropriate, these people make a sacrifice for our country and they should be able to have the services when they come home. Im really interested in having candidates focus on Environmental Policies what they can do with Carbon Emissions and. [inaudible] and the most important thing to me about this campaign is the troops. We need to work on gun violence, healthcare, we need to work on college education, we have a lot of things to work on. But when the senate votes openly and against the troops in a partisan manner, its time for us to return to our roots, face facts, listen to witnesses, its just time to face the truth and move forward. We cant do that if we dont open her eyes and pay attention. One of the most important issues to me in the 2020 election is education including the current cost of education for postgraduate and graduate work. And also the concern on legislation thats coming out as a Trump Administration in regard to secondary education and k12. The boss hasnt really done a lot for teachers, and as a teacher ive seen it. For me education is number one and thats why im voting. Voices from the road on cspan. Scott paul is back at her desk he serves as president of the alliance for american manufacturing. Coming off the most recent jobs report about how many manufacturing jobs are there in the u. S. . It which where the trending . There are just shy of 13 Million Manufacturing jobs in the united states. The trends, since the end of the great recession, so dating back to the early days of the obama administration, has been incredibly positive. Steady. The trend over the last year has been a little less rosy. Av