We are going to run out of areas that we can renovate pretty soon. We need new walls. So i want tothank everybody for being here. I want to thank in particular the angel moms and dads for being here. Thank you very much. We have Great Respect for you. The real country, our real country, the people that really love our country, they love you. So i just want you to know that. I know how hard you fight and i know how hard a fight you are having. I also want to thank all of the Law Enforcement for the job you do. Believe me, our country loves you and they respect you greatly. And we are giving you a lot of surplus. We are giving you surplus military equipment which a lot of people didnt like giving previous to this administration. But hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus equipment. As we get it as you know we send it down and you have much better protection. But i really appreciate you being here. So the order is signed. And ill sign the final papers as soon as i get into the oval office. And we will have a National Emergency. And we will then be sued and they will sue us in the 9th circuit even though it shouldnt be there. And we will possibly get a bad ruling and then we will get another bad ruling and then we will end up in the Supreme Court and hopefully we will get a fair shake and win in the Supreme Court just like the ban. They sued us in the 9th circuit and we lost and then we lost in the Appellate Division and then we went to the Supreme Court and we won. It was very interesting because yesterday they were talking about the ban because we have a ban that is very helpful, madame secretary. Without the ban we would have a bigger problem. We have a ban on certain areas depending on what is going on in the world. We won. Somebody said President Trump lost on the ban. He was right. I lost at the lower court. He didnt say we ultimately won at the United StatesSupreme Court. They didnt want to go that far. They were saying how i lost, the person sitting right up here. Donald trump lost on the ban. I did and then i lost a second time. You should have said that, too. Then it went to the Supreme Court and i won. Didnt want to take it that far. We won on the ban and on other things, too. The probably easiest one to win is on declaring a National Emergency because we are declaring it for virtual invasion purposes, drugs, traffickers and gangs. One of the things just to finish, we have removed thousands of ms13 gang monsters, thousands. They are out of this country. We take them out by the thousands. And they are monsters. Do you have any questions . Mr. President , a lot of the money are you saying i was prepared . With the microphone. People dont like saying that. You are prepared for questions. Im always prepared. A lot of money is money being reprogrammed in the d. O. D. Budget. How can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall will take away from other technology and other renovations and construction that is desperately needed in our military . We have certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals and the discretion of the military. Some of them havent been allocated yet. Some of the generals think that this is more important. I was speaking to a couple of them, they think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for. I wont go into it details but didnt sound too important to me. I have gotten 700 billion for the military in year one. Last year 716 billion. We are rebuilding our military. We have a lot. Under the Previous Administration our military was depleted badly and they werent spending they had a much small urmount of money. So when i got 700 billion and then 716 billion and this year it is going to be pretty big, too, because there are few things more important than our military. Im a big deficit believer. Before we really start focussing on certain things, we have to build up our military. It was very badly depleted. We are buying all new jet fighters and missiles and defensive equipment. We will soon have a military like never before. When you think about the kind of numbers you are talking about, you have 700 billion, 716 billion. When i need 2 billion, 3 billion out of that for a wall, which is a very important instrument, very important for the military because of the drugs that pour in. As you know, we have specific rules and regulations where they have drugs and what you can do in order to stop drugs. That is part of it, too. We are taking a lot of money from that realm. When you have that kind of money going into the military, this is a very, very small amount that we are asking for. Go ahead. Abc. Not nbc. I like abc a little bit more, not much. Abc. Not much. Pretty close. Mr. President , what do you say to those including some of your republican allies who say you are violating the constitution with this move and setting a bad precedent. Not too many people have said that. But the courts will determine that. I expect to be sued. I shouldnt be sued. Very rarely do you get sued when you do National Emergency. Other people say if you use it for this, what are we use tg for . We have to get rid of drugs and gangs and people. Its an invasion. We have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country that we stop but it is very hard to stop. With a wall it would be very easy. I think that we will be very successful in court. I think its clear. And the people that say we create precedent, well, what do you have 56 or a lot of times that is creating precedent. Many of those are far less important than having a border. You dont have a border, you dont have a country. You know, before i got here, we fight all over the world to create borders for countries. But we dont create a border for our own country. So i think what will happen is sadly we will be sued and sadly it will go through a process and happily we will win i think. Go ahead. Lets go. Lets hear it nbc. In the past when president obama tried to use executive action as it related to immigration you said the concept of executive order its not the way the country is supposed to be run. You said you are supposed to go through congress and make a deal. You can see you were unable to make the deal and the deal you are ending up with now from congress is less than before. I went through congress and made a deal. I got almost 1. 4 billion when i wasnt supposed to get one dollar. He is not going to get one dollar. I got 1. 4 billion. Im not happy with it. I got billions of dollars for other things, port of entries, lots of other things, purchase of drug equipment, more than we were even requesting. In fact, the primary fight was over the wall. Everything else, i dont know what to do with it we have so much money. On the wall, they skimped. I was successful in that sense. But i want to do it faster. I can do the wall over a longer period of time. I didnt need to do this. I would rather do it much faster. I dont have to do it for the election. I have already done a lot of wall for the election 2020. And the only reason we are up here talking about this is because of the election because they want to try to win an election which it looks like they will not be able to do. And this is one of the ways they think they can possibly win is by obstruction and other nonsense. I think that i just want to get it done faster. Thats all. Yes, maam, go ahead. Thank you, mr. President. I wanted to ask about china. Do you feel that enough progress has been made in the talks to head off the increase in tariffs scheduled for march 1 . You are talking to the wrong person because i happen to like tariffs. We are taking in billions and billions of dollars in tariffs from china. Our Steel Industry now is an example. We tax dumped steel. Much of it comes from china at 25 . Our Steel Industry is so vibrant now again they are building plants all over the United States. Its a beautiful thing. From a defensive standpoint and any standpoint you need steel. You can do without certain industries. Our country cannot do without steel. So i love tariffs, but i also love them to negotiate. And right now china is paying us billions of dollars a year in tariffs. And i havent even started. Here is the thing. If we make a deal, they wont have to pay. It will be a whole different story. They wont be paying that but we will have a fair deal. There wont be intellectual property theft and so many other things that have gone on. No other president has done this. We didnt have a deal with china. The wto, one of the worse trade deals made probably worse than nafta. I think nafta was just a disaster. It was a total disaster for our country. And now we made the u. S. Mca which is going to be a great deal. By the way, the u. S. Mca from mexico that is United States mexico canada, thats where the money is coming from, not directly but indirectly for the wall. Nobody wants to talk about that. Because we are saving billions and billions of dollars a year if Congress Approves that deal. Now, they might not want to approve a deal just because they will say one of the things im thinking of doing, this has never been done before, no matter how good a deal i make with china, if they sell me beijing for one dollar, if they give me 50 of their land and every ship that they built which is a lot and they give them to me free, the democrats will say what a lousy deal. Thats a terrible deal. Like zte. I have a billion dollar penalty in a short period of time. The democrats said should have gotten more. When i made that deal, i said this is incredible. I got over a billion dollar penalty plus they change their board of directors. They had to pay over a billion dollars. I said what a deal. It took me like a week. And the democrats didnt know there was a problem with zte. Im the one that fined them and settled it. Over a billion dollars and president xi called me and said it would be important to him if they could get a deal. And we made an attempt. The democrats went out and said they should have done better. What im thinking of doing is getting Chuck Schumer, nancy pelosi, having them two or three of their brilliant representatives and well all go down together and well negotiate. Ill put them in the room and let them speak up because any deal i make with china, it will be better than any deal that anybody dreamed possible. Any deal i make with china, schumer will stand up and say it should have been better. It should have been better. And you know what . Thats not acceptable to me. So im thinking about doing something very different. I dont think it has been done. Thats not even a second guess. Sadly i probably do the same thing to them. Any deal i make toward the end i will bring schumer and offer him and pelosi. I will say please join me on the deal. By the way, i just see our new attorney general is sitting in the front row. Please stand up, bill. Such an easy job hes got. He has the easiest job in government. Thank you and congratulations. It was a great vote yesterday. Thank you very much. Go ahead. In your remarks you said you were too new to politics earlier in your administration when you would have preferred that this be done. Is that an admission of how you might be changing on the job . Im learning. Dont forget, its not like i have done this for a senator came in and said i had been run frg offi ing for office for 30 years. I did lose a couple. I have never done politics before. Now i do politics. I am very disappointed at certain people, a particular one for not having pushed this faster. Are you referring to speaker ryan. Lets not talk about it. What difference does it make. They should have pushed it faster. They should have pushed it harder and they didnt. They didnt. If they would have, it would have been a little bit better. In the meantime, i built a lot of wall. I have a lot of money and i built a lot of wall. It would have been nice to have gotten it done. I would have liked to have seen major immigration reform. Maybe that is something we can all work on where we all get together and do major immigration reform, not just for a wall, for a barrier, for ports of entry, for other things. We have a real problem. We have catch and release. You catch a criminal and you have to release him. We have so many other things. You have chain migration where a bad person comes in, brings 22 or 23 or 35 of his family members because he has his mother, his grandmother, sister, cousin, uncle. They are all in. You know what happened on the west side highway. That young wise guy drove over and killed eight people and horribly injured like loss of legs and arms going 60 Miles Per Hour made a right turn into a park on the west side highway along the hudson river in new york. He had many people brought in because he was in the United States. Its called chain migration. And then you have the lottery. Its a horror show. When countries put people into the lottery they are not putting you in. They are putting some very bad people in the lottery. Its common sense. If i ran a country and if i have a lottery system of people going to the United States, im not going to put in my stars, im going to put in people i dont want. The lottery system is a disaster. Im stuck with it. It should have never happened. Could you tell us to what degree some of the outside conservative voices helped to shape your views on this National Emergency . I would talk about it. Sean hannity has been a terrific, terrific supporter of what i do, not of me. If i change my views he wouldnt be with me. Rush limbaugh i think is a great guy. I can speak for three hours without a phone call. He has one of the biggest audiences in the history of the world. This guy is unbelievable. Try speaking for three hours without taking calls. Taking calls is easy. I will answer this one and that one. He goes for three hours and he has an audience that is fantastic. They dont decide policy. In fact, if i went opposite they have somebody, ann coulter, i hardly know her. The press loved saying ann coulter. She is probably really nice. I just dont have the time to speak to her. I have nothing against her. In fact, i like her for one reason, when they asked her right at the beginning who will win the election she said donald trump. And the two people that asked her that question smiled. They said you are kidding. Donald trump. So i like her. But she is off the reservation. Anybody that knows her understands that. I havent spoken her. I dont follow her. The press loves to bring up the name. I think she is fine and good. Laura has been great. Tucker carlson has been great. I have a couple of people on cnn that have been very good. I have someone on msnbc. I said where did that come from . I think it was the only one in over a year. So the crazy thing is i just had as you know 52 in the polls. Its my highest poll number. People get what were doing. They get it. They really get it. And im honored by it. Jim acosta. Thank you, mr. President. I wonder if you could comment on this disconnect that we seem to have in this country where you are presenting information about what is happening at the border, dolling it calling it an invasion and yet there is a lot of reporting and crime data out there. There is a lot of department of Homeland Security data that shows border crossings at a near record low and shows undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower level s than native born americans. What do you say you dont really believe that. Do you really believe that . Take a look at our i believe in facts and statistics. Lets go. What do you say to your critics who say that you are creating a National Emergency . That you are concocting a National Emergency in order to get your wall . What do you think . Do you think im creating something . Ask these incredible women who lost their daughters and their sons. Because your question is a very political question because you have an agenda. You are cnn. You are fake news. You have an agenda. The numbers you gave are wrong. Take a look at our federal prison population. See how many of them percentage wise are illegal aliens. Just see. Go ahead and see. Its a fake question. Go ahead. Thank you, mr. President. Just to follow up on that, you defined Crime Reporting statistics, numbers from Border Patrol and this government show that the amount of Illegal Immigrants are down. Let me finish the 26 people were killed and identified at the border a mile away from where i went. I was there. I understand. The question is do we forget about that . Im asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the d. E. A. Crime reporting statistics that we see show that drugs are coming across at the ports of entry and illegal immigration is down. What do you base your facts on . And secondly you get one. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. You get one question. I get my numbers from a lot of sources like Homeland Security primarily. And the numbers i have from Homeland Security are a disaster. You know what else is a disaster, the numbers that come out of Homeland Security for the cost that we spend and the money that we lose because of illegal immigration. Billions and billions of dollars a month. I use many stats. I also use Homeland Security. Just a quick follow up. Thank you, mr. President. I want to bring you back to china for a second. The white house brought out a statement. You gave the possibility that maybe this could slide. Are you i didneyeing a possible extension . Its a very big deal. I guess you can say its like must be the biggest deal made. Trade with china, how big does that get . The usmca is right up there. It is very complicated. There are many points. They are very important. We were on the wrong side of everyone of them. There is a possibility that i will extend the date. If i do that, if i see that we are close to a deal or that the deal is going in the right direct