The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. As a result of illegal immigration, and they fought it hard. And the Prime Minister, frankly, is with us today because of illegal immigration. Italy got tired of it. They didnt want it any longer. The people of italy have borne a great part of the burden for europe through the course of the migration crisis. I applaud the Prime Minister for his bold leadership, truly bold, and i hope more leaders will follow this example, including leaders in europe. The Prime Minister and i are united in our conviction that strong nations must have strong borders. We have a solemn obligation to protect our citizens and their quality of life. My administration is working hard to pass Border Security legislation, improve vetting, and establish a meritbased Immigration System which the United States needs very, very
mission in afghanistan. The Prime Minister and i agree that the brutal regime in iran must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon. Never. We encourage all nations to pressure iran to end the full range of its malign activities. The United States welcomes the partnership of italy in these vital efforts. Today, we are also addressing the crucial issue of trade and commerce. We are working closely with our european partners, including italy, to ensure fair and reciprocal trade. A few days ago, i met with president juncker of the European Commission. We had a great meeting. Following that meeting we announced a Breakthrough Agreement to remove Trade Barriers and increase United States exports of agriculture, energy, and other goods and
services to the European Union. Now is also the perfect time to expand commerce between the United States and italy. Americas booming economy is setting records in so many categories. It creates enormous opportunities for investment. Likewise, i recommend investment in italy. It is a great place with great people. I look forward to working closely with the Prime Minister to open up new commercial opportunities that will reduce our Trade Deficit substantially and increase our mutual prosperity. Mr. Prime minister, we discussed our shared goal of combatting unfair Foreign Trade practices from nonmarket economies. They are brutal. But we are winning. These abuses including subsidies, excess capacity, intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer,
currency devaluation and distortion, caused by stateowned enterprises. In this area, like so many others, cooperation between italy and the United States can make a tremendous difference not only for our countries, but all over the world. And its making a big difference. And we are making a big difference. Tremendous difference. On trade and on fairness. But we also have to be fair to the people of the United States and the taxpayers of the United States. Mr. Prime minister, thank you again for joining me for these important discussions. We are both outsiders to politics. Can you believe it . We are outsiders to politics. I look at all of these wonderful politicians. And we are both determined to protect the rights and needs and interests and dreams of our citizens. And we will do that. I look forward to partner with you to grow the beautiful friendship between our countries
in the effort of creating a Brighter Future for both the people of italy and the people of the United States. With that, i just want to again thank you again very much for coming to the white house. It is my great honor. Thank you. Good afternoon. I wish to thank you, President Trump, for this kind invitation, for this warm hospitality, only two months after the formation of my government. I take it as a sign of the special attention to italy and to me as well. Forgive me but i dont want to renounce the privilege for speaking in my wonderful language now. Translator before all i would like to remember to
brings us even closer, the United States and italy, my government, and the Trump Administration are both governments that represent chain. They were chosen by citizens in order to change the status quo and to improve their life conditions. There are so many thing that bring us to the, that unify us in italy as in the United States. We are doing what we had promised during our electoral campaign, and we are working in order to give answers to the expectations of our citizens so that we wont disappoint them. And we dont betray our mandate. In italy n the United States, we are proving that change is possible. Donald and i have concentrated on a number of topics, and we both have agreed upon and reached the following results, which in part were already
mentioned. Today we will have made a great step ahead. We will start working in italy it is a directorship booth, as it were n the mediterranean between italy and the United States. I would say we are almost twin countries in which italy is becoming a Reference Point in europe and a interlock you for for the United States for the main threats and challenges that we have before us. Terrorism, all of the crises we see in the mediterranean, in particular in regard to libya. Secondly, the American Administration also recognizes that italy as a Leadership Role as a Promoter Country that will lead to the stabilization of libya. And of course this was a Great Respect for the libyan
population. With the United States we will be working in order the reach these results and we will decide what needs to be done in view of this result. I am truly thankful to you, donald, for your support. Thirdly, in terms of immigration, i also described to President Trump the innovative approach that italy has put forth and the European Union now has a responsibility to not leave the weight of the management of immigration on the shoulders of the countries of sirs arrival, like italy is. And as you heard President Trump say we appreciate this contribution which has been provided by the Italian Government which is providing good results. We are talking about a multilevel approach in order to try to resolve the phenomenon of immigration not because of an emergency, but because this is a structural approach. I want to underline this is in line with the position of President Trump, which goes from the respect and dignity of people to make sure that fundamental rights are protected. And it wants to make sure that these rights are trampled over because these people are in the hand of criminal bath. I also want to underline that the world day for the exchange of human beings is going to be celebrated. I also told President Trump that i am very satisfied for the understanding that was reached very recently between ourselves and the president of the European Commission juncker. I believe this understanding is fundamental and we have to work upon it immediately, bringing our efforts together to make sure that european, american, italian citizens receive the benefits of a more equitable
trade relationship which is completely completely reciprocal. Italy is open to a relationship with russia but italy also knows that the dialogue between the United States and russia is fundamental so that we can have positive results in a more global perspective for stability and security purposes. In terms of energy security, President Trump and i also found ourselves in agreement with the need to make sure that there is a greater diversification for the sources of energy and to make sure that the energy roots are diversified as well. Finally, i personally am sure that we can increase and improve
with the made to at all levels. In in particular in the space and Aerospace Fields we already have a Great Partnership between the Italian Space agency and nasa. So we hope that aerospace will bring together american technology, Italian Technology so that we can launch new aircraft that cross the atmosphere and will be able to bring the United States and italy together in an hour and a half. This is a project i would like to speak in deal with the American Administration. I thank you for your attention. Daily caller. Thank you, mr. President. To follow up on what you were saying about the shut down. Are you saying that you would be
willing to shut the doft down in september if it does not fully fund 25 billion worth of your border wall and also deliver all of the Immigration Priorities that you litsed in your tweet . Or leaving some room for negotiation there . I i will always leave room for negotiation but this has been many years. This isnt just Trump Administration. We are new. There has been many years, even decades. We have immigration laws. We have Border Security. We have all sorts of things going on that are its disgraceful. We are doing a phenomenal job. We we are setting records but we have laws that dont work. We are working around those laws. Its unfortunate. I have to take my hat off to the border patrols, Law Enforcement, the i. C. E. Which really has been maligned by the democrats, the job they do. They go into these ms13 nests, nests of bad, bad people, killers in many cases, and they go in there fearless and they do an incredible job and they get them out. They either go to jail or they
get out of the country. So i want to take my hat off the i. C. E. And the brave people that have really been pa lined by the democrats. We need Border Security. Without a border, as this gentleman can tell you also, because the Prime Minister really was a very big factor in his win, and other peoples win in italy. It was a big factor in my win. We need Border Security. Border security includes the you will with a it includes many other thing. We have to end the lottery. We have to end the chain. The chain is like a disaster. You bring one person n you end up with 32 people. We have to end these horrible Catch And Release principles where you catch somebody, you take their name, and you release them. You dont even know who they are. And then they are supposed to come back to a court case where they want us to hire thousands of judges. The whole thing is ridiculous. And we have to change our laws. We do that through congress. I would certainly be willing to close it down to debt it done. As you know, we are already approving things in various businesses including we are going to be taking care of the military. We always put the military and Law Enforcement very high. But i would be certainly willing to consider a shutdown if we dont get proper border shurt. Thank you. Sir just to follow up on that quickly, is the 25 billion a red line for you . I have no red line, unlike President Obama. I just want great Border Security. Mr. Prime minister, here in the United States, among our Commentary Yacht there was the consensus that the president s appearance at the g7 and nato damaged our relationship with those institutions. As a member of both of those institutions, what is your assessment of the president s appearance at both . Translator both at the g7 and nato we had a very Fruitful Exchange of views and opinions and oppositions. I think that all the positions and stances which are expressed with clarity and provide a contribution also to review well established positions are more than welcome. There is a Fruitful Exchange. We had a truthful he can change both at the g7 summit and nato summit in different frameworks. We for instance, in the framework of g7 summit, we agreed on the need for reforming the wto, the system of the wto. It is ayearold system which consider china as an emerging country. You can understand that applying those same rules after years
with the privileges granted to an emerging country clearly means having a system which is not well functions and its not well rational. And nato, there was a clear stance taken by President Trump which i personally share. Fairly, he expressed a position and the need to rebalance the expenditure which is born out of from addition by the United States which is very disproportionate. These are absolutely reasonable positions and stances, and i personal take them into great account. And i will be personally the carrier of the message and i will try to make the others understand his position as well. We must negotiate with the United States to find balance in interest of italian cities, american citizens, and european citizens. Also, i would add to that i want to thank you for what you just said. It has been unfair to the United States. We had a very good g7 meeting. Thats where gee seppi and i game friends. I think we were more close low aligned then everyone else in the. Radio. But it was a great meeting in every respect. I would say it was very good. Nato in particular. I went to nato. It was essentially going out of business because people werent paying. It was going down and down and down. You have to look at the line. I came along last year and in a fairly nice tone i said you have got to pay. And they paid 44 billion more. And this year i said it in a little bit stronger tone. And they are paying hundreds of billions of dollars more over the years. And nato will be strong again. And if you speak to secretary general stoltenberg, i think hes the biggest fan of trump because he said, we couldnt collect money until President Trump came along. And he said last year we collected 44 billion, and this year, the money is pouring in. But its like the Prime Minister said. We really talk about imbalance. We were treated very unfairly. The United States was treated very, very unfairly. Because we are shouldering anywhere from 70 to 90 of the costs of to. Thats not fair. Its not fair. Especially when you take germany. They are paying a little more than 1 and they are buying and paying tremendous amounts of money to russia. So we are supposed to protect countries from russia, but they are paying russia billions and billions of dollars for the energy. Not good. Not a good situation. And i let it be known. So the bottom line is the nato countries are now paying a lot more money. And nato has become a lot stronger because of it. And i appreciate your answer. Thank you. Please. Translator sorry donald. May i add something . I am saying as a person who has
a great huge experience as a lawyer, you have a president who is a strong supporter and advocate of the interests of the American People and the american country. He is a great negotiator. And im told there is a reporter who wants to ask a question. Despite its terrific potential the Italian Economy underperforms regularly. Given your stellar success in the u. S. Economy, what do you think would reignite the Italian Economy . Is what role do you think the eu should play in it . President conte, do you think President Trumps formula would work in italy as well . I can answer the biggest thing italy needs is great leadership. They have it right now. I ly honestly believe the Prime Minister is going to do a tremendous job on Economic Development in addition to
borders. You know, for Economic Development you need borders also. But you have a man thats going to do a terrific job. I have no doubt about it at all. He knows how to sell. He knows how to promote really a great product because they make among the greatest products. I wont mention their names, but they are great. I have some of them. And italy makes a great product. I think its going to do very well economically. And we are there to help. We have had record numbers. I have been here for a li