To fire all of our Great American workers that got you there in the first place, you can move from michigan to tennessee and to North Carolina and South Carolina, you can move from South Carolina back to michigan, you can do anywhere, youve got a lot of states at play, a lot of competition, so its not like, oh, gee, im taking the competition. Youve got a lot of places you can move. And i dont care as long as its within the United States. The borders of United States. There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder. And if our politicians had what it takes they would have done this years ago and you would have millions more workers right now in the United States that are 96 million really wanting a job and they want get. You know that story. The real number. Thats the real number. So thats the way it is. Okay, go ahead. A question about the Supreme Court and the border security, but i also want to ask you about something you said on twitter this morning. Are we living in nazi, germany. What were you driving at there . Do you have a problem with the Intelligence Community . On the Supreme Court, whats your timeline . You said a while ago you were down to four. Have you conducted those yet . Whats your timeline for nominating . On the border fence, it now appears clear u. S. Taxpayers will have to pay for it up front. What is your plan to get mexico to pay for it . I got it. Anything more . It is it. On the fence. Its not a fence, its a wall. You just misreported it. Were going to build a wall. I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with mexico, which will start immediately after we get to office. But i dont want to wait. Mike pence is leading an effort to get final approvals through various agencies and through congress for the wall to begin. I dont feel like waiting a year or a year and a half. Im going to start building. Mexico in some form, and there are many different forms, will reimburse us and they will reimburse us for the cost of the wall. That will happen, whether its a tax or whether its a payment. Probably less likely that its a payment. But it will happen. So remember this, okay, i would say we are going to build a wall and people would go crazy. I would then say who is going to pay for the wall . And people would all scream out, 25, 30,000 people, because nobody has ever had crowds like trump has had. You know that. You dont like to report that but thats okay. Okay. Now we agree. Finally, he agrees. But i say who is going to pay for the wall . And they will scream out, mexico. Now, reports went out last week, oh, mexico is not going to pay for the wall because of a reimbursement. Whats the difference . I want to get the wall started. I dont want to wait a year and a half until i make my deal with mexico. And we probably will have a deal sooner than that. By the way, mexico has been so nice, so nice. I respect the government of mexico. I respect the people of mexico. I love the people of mexico. I have many people from mexico working for me. Theyre phenomenal people. The governor of mexico is terrific. I dont blame them for whats happened. I dont blame them for taking advantage of the United States. I wish our politicians were so smart. Mexico has taken advantage of the United States. I dont blame the representatives in various president s, et cetera, of mexico. What i say is, we shouldnt have allowed that to happen. Its not going to happen anymore. So in order to get the wall started mexico will pay for the wall. But it will be reimbursed. Okay . Supreme court judge. So as you know i have a list of 20. Ive gone through them. Weve met with numerous candidates. Theyre outstanding in every case. They were largely recommended and highly recommended by federalist demeant was involved group and he is a fantastic guy. So between leo and jim and some senators and some congress people, we have a great group of people. Ill be making the decision on who we will put up for justice of the United StatesSupreme Court, a replacement for the great, great justice scalia. That will be probably within two weeks of the 20th. So within about two weeks probably the second week, i consider the first day because well also be doing some some pretty good signings. And i think what well do is well wait until monday. That will be our really First Business day as opposed to doing it on friday because on friday people are going to have a very good time at the inauguration. And then saturday as you know were having a big Church Service and lots of good things are happenhappening. So our first day, and you will be invited to the signings, we will be doing pretty good signings on monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, and then also the next week. And youre all invited. But on the Supreme Court, ill be make that decision and it will be a decision which i very strongly believe in. I think its one of the reasons i got elected. I think the people of this country did not want to see what was happening with the Supreme Court. So i think it was a very, very big decision as to why i was elected. [ inaudible ] i think it was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. I think its a disgrace. And i say that and i say that. And thats something that nazi, germany, would have done and did do. Its a disgrace. That information that was false and fake and never happened got released to the public, as far as buzzfeed, which is a failing pile of garbage, writing it, i think theyre going to suffer the consequences. They already are. And as far as cnn going out of their way to build it up and by the way, we just found out, i was coming down, michael cone is a very talented lawyer, good lawyer in my firm. Was just reported that it wasnt this michael cohn were talking about. All night long, michael cohn. I want to see your passport. He brings his passport to my office. I say, wait a minute, he didnt leave the country. He wasnt out of the country. They had michael cohn of the Trump Organization was in prague. It turned out to be a different michael cohn. Its a disdpras grace what took place. Its a disgrace and i think they ought to apop jiz logize to sta with, michael cohn. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, not you. Not you. Your organization is terrible. Your organization is terrible. Lets go. Go ahead. Quiet. Quiet. Shes asking a question. Dont be rude. Dont be rude. Dont be rude. No, im not going to give you a question. Im not going to give you a question. You are fake news. Go ahead. Go ahead. With the sanctions that they put on with the hacking. I dont think he went too far. What do you think of Lindsey Grahams plan for a bill to send you tougher ones . Plans to send me what . Tougher sanctions. I havent heard Lindsey Graham is going to do that. Lindsey graham, ive been competing with him for a long time. Hes going to crack that 1 barrier one day. I didnt realize Lindsey Graham was still at it. Its ogall right. I heard hes a nice guy. Ive been hearing it. Ive been hearing it. Go ahead. Go ahead. Youve been waiting. As far as we understand, the intelligence stand up. Impanel from bbc news. Another beauty. Thank you. Thank you. As far as we understand it, Intelligence Community are still looking at the allegations. Its false news, as you describe it. If they come back with any kind of conclusion with any of it stands up, if any of it is true, will you consider your position, would you think they cant come back. Yes, yes, go ahead. Go ahead. Can you go ahead. Public state news and all the problems seen throughout the media over the course of the election, what reforms do you recommend for this industry here . I dont recommend reforms. I recommend people that are that have some moral compass. You know ive been hearing more and more about fake news and talking about people go and say all sorts of things. I will tell you some of the Media Outlets that i deal with are fake news. More so than anybody. I could name them but i wont bother. You have a few sitting right in front of us. So theyre very, very dishonest people. But i think its just something were going to have to live with. I guess the advantage i have is that i can speak back. When it happens to somebody that doesnt have this, doesnt have that kind of a megaphone, they cant speak back. Its a very sad thing. Ive seen people destroyed. Ive seen people absolutely destroyed and i think its very unfair. So all i can ask for is honest reporters. Yes. I just want to follow up on the questions about the u. S. Intelligence community and be very clear about what youre saying. Do you trust your u. S. Intelligence officials and what do you say to Foreign Policy experts who say youre actually weakening National Security by waging this war of words against that community . Intelligence tasbeintelligen vital and very, very important. Were going to put in mr. Pompeo and others, you know the senator, dan coates, were going to put in outstanding people. Within 90 days theyre going to be coming back to me with a major report on hacking. I want them to cover this situation. I also want them, however, to cover maybe most importantly, because were hacked by everybody. You know the United States, our government, out of a list of 17 in terms of sbel industries, its the worst, number 17 in terms of protection. If you look at the retail industry, if you look at the Banking Industry, various industries, out of 17 industries they put this in the category of an industry, the United States is last in terms of protecting, lets say hacking defense. Like we had a great hacking defense at the Republican National committee. Thats why we werent hacked. By the way, we were told they were trying to hack us but they werent able to hack. I think i get some credit because i told reince and he did a phenomenal job. I said i want a hacking defense. The Democratic Committee didnt do that. Wait, wait, wait. Let me finish. Within 90 days we will be coming up with a major report on hacking defense. How do we stop this new phenomena, fairly new phenomena, because the United States is hacked by everybody. That includes russia and china and everybody. Everybody. Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. You said just now that you believe that russia indeed was responsible for the hacking of the dnc and the email, et cetera. You know what, it could have been others also. Why did you spend weeks undermining u. S. Intelligence community before simply getting the facts and then making a public statement. I think its pretty sad when Intelligence Reports get leaked out to the press. I think its pretty sad. First of all, its illegal. You know, these are these are classified and certified meetings and reports. Ill tell you what does happen. I have many meetings with intelligence. And every time i meet people are reading about it. Somebody is leaking it out. So theres maybe its my office. Maybe my office. Because i have a lot of people, a lot of great people. Maybe its them. And what i did is i said, i wont tell anybody. Im going to have the meeting. And i wont tell anybody about my meeting with intelligence. And what happened is i had my meeting. Nobody knew. Not even rona, my executive assistant for years. She didnt know. I didnt tell her. Nobody knew. The meeting was had. The meeting was over. They left. And immediately the word got out that i had a meeting. So i dont want that. I dont want that. Its very unfair to the country. Its very unfair to our country whats happened. That report should have never first of all, it shouldnt have been printed because its not worth the paper its written on. I thank the New York Times for saying that. I thank a lot of different people for saying that. But i will tell you that should never ever happen. Okay. Thank you, mr. President elect. Can you stand here today once and for all and say that no one connected to you or your campaign had any contact with russia leading up to or during the president ial campaign and, if you indeed do believe that russia was behind the hacking, what is your message to Vladimir Putin right now . He shouldnt be doing it. He wont be doing it. Russia will have much greater respect for our country when im leading it than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more. He shouldnt have done it. I dont believe he will be doing it more now. We have to work something out. But its not just russia. Take look at whats happened. You dont report it the same way. 22 million accounts were hacked in this country by china. And thats because we have no defense. Thats because were run by people that dont know what theyre doing. Russia will have far greater respect for our country when im leading it. And i believe and i hope, maybe it wont happen, its possible, but i wont be given a little reset button like hill y hillary. Press this piece of plastic. The guy looked at her like, what are you doing . Theres no reset button. Were either going to get along or were not. I hope we get along. But if not, thats possible, too. But russia and other countries and other countries including china, which has taken total advantage of i economically, total advantage of us in the South China Sea by building their massive fortress, total. Russia, china, japan, mexico, all countries will respect us far more, far more than they do under past administrations. I want to thank everybody. So this is all just so you understand, these papers, because im not sure that was explained properly. These papers are all just a piece of the many, Many Companies that are being put into trust to be run by my two sons and i hope at the end of eight years ill come back and say, oh, you did a good job. Otherwise, if they do a bad job, ill say, youre fired. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye. That was the president elect of the United States, donald trump, holding his first News Conference in 186 days. Mr. Trump was asked right off the bat about the report that russia may have compromising information on him, both personally and financially. Mr. Trump said that he saw and read the information independently of the intelligence briefing that he did receive on january the 6th. And im quoting now. He said its all fake news, its phony news, it didnt happen. He went on to call that report, quote, an absolute disgrace. Mr. Trump was also asked about the heart of that Intelligence Report that russia was involved in hacking of both the dnc and the rnc during the election and whether he was finally ready to acknowledge that. Mr. Trump said, i think it was russia. He said, if putin likes donald trump, thats an asset, not a liability. Did seem to be the very first time, in fact that mr. Trump had acknowledged that the russians and Vladimir Putin for that fact were likely involved in that situation. In fact, he addressed it at the very end of the News Conference that you were watching there as well. He did bring in attorney on stage to discuss the conflicts of interest question and went through several details as to how the Trump Organization, the Trump Corporation is going to deal with that issue. Hes going to hand over control to his sons don jr. And eric. Were going get into much more of that in the moments ahead as well. And in terms of the Market Reaction that you may have noticed during this News Conference, really before the News Conference itself actually started, during the opening statement, mr. Trump made a comment about the drug industry, saying, quote, the drug industry is getting away with murder. He was talking about the bidding process over drugs. The xbi, the biotech index, the ibb, these are the major etfs that track that space in the market. Plummeted almost immediately on that news. The Dow Jones Industrial average which looked as though it may be willing to make another run towards 20,000 reversed itself simultaneously and really stocks did fall into the red for just a period of time. You can see theyve recovered somewhat. The vix spiked to its highest level since january 4th. Although it, too, had come off that level as well. Ive got the gang in front of me. Of course weve got folks outside of trump tower making their way there and were going the get to that in just a minute. I do want to let you hear what mr. Trump did have to say about russia relations right off the bat. I tweeted out that i have no dealings with russia. I have no deals in russia. I have no deals that could happen in russia because weve stayed away. And i have no loans with russia. As a Real Estate Developer i have very, very little debt. I have assets and now people have found out how big the company is. I have very little debt, low debt. I have no loans with russia at all. In terms of the hacking again, towards the end of the News Conference mr. Trump saying of Vladimir Putin, he shouldnt have done it. I dont think hes going to be doing it that way any longer. We mentioned the Market Reactio