The highly respected president s and in the case of canada, the Prime Minister are satisfied with the deal. Its good for canada and good for mexico. Good for all three. This is good for all three. Just that fact makes it good for us. This is good for all three. This is a much different deal than nafta. Much more of a reciprocal deal for the United States. Go ahead, peter. We will do the kavanaugh questions. You talk about being treated harshly. We will do that in a lets finish up trade. You have a lot of people who want to run over to the Wall Street Journal and start writing. I cant hear you. A mexican journalist . You are going to keep the tariffs on mexico for steel . Until such time where we can do something that will be different like quotas, perhaps. So that our industry is protected. We are not going to allow our Steel Industry to disappear. It was almost gone. If our country kept going the way it was going, within two years we wouldnt have a Steel Industry. We have to have steel and alum numb. We are working on that, but we will do something and if you want, you may want to say a couple of words about that. We are talking about that one hour ago. I guess i would say, two separate things. We know there are grave interests to both countries and we are engaging in talks with an effort to preserve the effect of our program and still take care of our needs. And really take care of the needs of our steel companies. I dont want plants closing. They are hiring thousands of workers all over the country. Im not giving that up. We have a very good understanding. Really good. Yes, sir. Go ahead, please. Just hoping you can reiterate on the tariffs, what specifically would it take for canada and mexico to be exempt and secondly, did you consider dairy the deal breaker . Dairy was a deal breaker. Now for the farmers, its substantially opened up much more. I know they cant open it completely. They are farmers also. They cant be overrun. I told them that. Look, i understand you have limits, but they can do better. We opened it up to the farmers so the folks up in wisconsin, i went to wisconsin and iowa and joanie knows better than
anybody. Scott walker who is a fantastic governor talks about it all the time. Our farmers were not treated proper lie by canada and now they will be treated with respect and fairly. In that reciprocal way. Very important. Go ahead. There was giveandtake on both sides. I wonder what is your biggest concession to canada and why you decided to make that concession. If you can dive into more about thoughts on justin trudeau. You talked about tensions and what did you learn about him and what the state of the relationship is with him today and going forward. I think my biggest concession is making the deal. We are the one that people come and want to take from. Im talking about every country. That gives us a tremendous advantage in negotiating that we never used before in past administrations. Every deal we had is a loser. Almost every country we have trade deficits. We lose with everybody. I think my biggest concession was making the deal. We could have done it a different way and it would be nasty and not nice. We have a great relationship with canada and it will be better than ever. The only problem with justin is he loves his people. He is fighting hard for his people. We always had a very good relationship. It got a little bit testy in the last couple of months, but that was over this agreement. I understand that. I think justin is a good person and doing a good job. He felt very committed to his people and thats what he did. Again, this is good for
everybody. This is good for canada and good for mexico also. Yes, please. Go ahead. Thank you, mr. President. As you mentioned, you will be signing this agreement and your counterpart of the sign over the next 60 days and then its up to congress. You are confident . Not at all confident. Not at all. Tell me, are you guys going to sign it . I think they do. If congress is controlled by democrats they might be willing to throw one of the great deals for people. And the workers. They may be willing to do that for political purposes because frankly, they will have 2020 in mind. I dream about 2020 when i look at whats going on. They have 2020 in mind. They want to do as well as they can and trying to reject even great deal like this. Great for our country and other countries. Its a great deal for our country and great for our workers. I cant tell you whether or not they will obstruction and resist. The whole campaign is resist. I see the signs. Resist. They dont even know what you are resisting. Let me think about that. They cant answer. They said what are you resisting and they were unable to answer the question. I cant tell you about delay, obstruct, resist. Right after this election and think we are going to do well, although history is not on our side. In history, whoever has the white house doesnt do well in midterms, but the difference is we have the greatest economy in the history of our country. Thats a problem, too. People who voted for me. Im not on the ticket, but they would be voting for me. Congress is on the ticket. But its the same thing as me, in a sense. Thats the same thing. Think of it as the same thing. I think we are going to do well. I actually think that. We have senate races that were not even in play six months ago. When i started looking at it closely, i wont mention names, but senators that were not in play. You know what im talking about. Numerous of them. They were not in play. In other words, lets not go here and lets not go to this state. Now they are like even races in one case. They are up two points. Who knows what that means. There are a lot of Repression Polls or polls that are not accurate because i see polls that i know having to do with certain other races. We had areas and we had congressional seats, too. I know its going to be a positive outcome, but you look at whats goinging on and it doesnt broadcast. I had that with my election. They were telling me i was in
trouble in certain states that i won in a landslide. I knew i was going to win them, but they wouldnt report it that way . You know why . Fake news. Right behind you. Do you believe the Trade Agreement will be a great agreement . Its a good agreement. Why dont you just extend nafta. That would have been a disaster. We are losing 100 billion a year at least to mexico. Just look at the results. And a substantial amount to canada. Its not even. We lose a substantial amount. I think its a hard thing to defend. Thats okay. I understand the world of politics as well as anybody. I havent been doing it that long, but i have been. I have been doing it on the other side. I do understand. They can take the greatest thing
ever done and try to make it sound as bad as possible. This one is tough. People are coming out for this one and saying thats incredible what we have been able to do. Behind you. Please. Thank you. Now that you answered several questions on trade, i would like to turn to kavanaugh. Do you have a Question On Trade . You answered several trade. Dont do that. Excuse me. Dont do that. Do you have a Question On Trade. My question is on judge kavanaugh. You said the fbi should interview whoever they believe is appropriate. Does that include Julie Swetnick and can you promise to release the full findings after they finish the report. Give me your question, please. Give her the mike, please. Thank you very much. Was Border Security or funding for the wall for the negotiation and who will pay for the wall . We are getting 1. 6 billion for the wall. We are doing a lot of work. People dont realize. I could build it quickly at one time, but we have been building it with 3. 2 billion. I have a big decision to make after the election as to whether or not we go forward. You know what, Border Security to the people of our country, very important. The wall is a big factor in Border Security. I believe that the people of our country, they want the wall and they want Border Security. They dont want open borders like the democrats. They dont want crime pouring in and ms 13 pouring into our country. They dont want that. I think i have a big decision to make sometime right after the election. Very quickly. You know what comes new after the election . Do i want to do it before the
election . Yes, but i dont for a different reason. I have very fine people running and it may affect them. I happen to think it would be good for them, but Border Security for our country, our people want security. The women of our country want security. They dont want to have thousands of people portion across the border. I will tell you why. They want to have i. C. E. I. C. E. Walks in and the gangs and they treat them like its just another day in the office. They are rough and tough and they love our country. Im treating i. C. E. Good and Law Enforcement good. The democrats dont want to take care of our Law Enforcement and our military. We will have a decision close to after the election is over. That will be on Border Security and the wall, but Border Security. The wall is a big factory. But was that part of the conversation and the negotiation . Yes, it was. We talked about it. It was a big part. Certain things and certain understandings. At the same time, we dont want to mix it up too much. It was a big deal and a good deal for everybody. Border security and security generally is a very big factor. We also have drugs. Some people would say its a similar thing, but we talked about drugs with mexico. Thats a very, very big factor. Very, very big. We have a lot of good understandings and we will be discussing that with them. But it was a factor, absolutely, in the deal. Lets go. You want to get off trade. People are falling asleep with trade. To me its the most exciting thing you can talk about, right . Lets go. Come on. In a tweet you said its incorrect to say you are limiting the scope of the fbi investigation into judge kavanaugh, but your own statement made it very clear this investigation must be limited in scope. So which is it . I didnt say anything. I said let the senate decide and whatever they want to do is okay with me. I think the fbi should do what they have to do to get to the answer. At the same time just so we all understand, this is our 7th investigation of a man who has really you look at it his li until this happened and what his family has gone through. The trauma for a man that never had any accusation and never had a bad statement about him. I think he was number one in his class at yale. He was number one in his law school at yale. What hes gone through over the last three weeks is incredible. So i want the fbi, this is now the 7th investigation. Its not like they are just starting. I want them to do a very
comprehensive investigation. Whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority, i want them to do that. I want it to be comprehensive. I think its a good thing for judge kavanaugh. Not a bad thing. Its a good thing. With that being said, i would like to to go quickly. The reason i would like it to go quickly is simple. Its simple. Its unfair to him at this point. What his wife is going through, what his beautiful children are going through is not describable. Its not describable. Its not fair. I think its fair to do it to me because i have been going from day one, long before i got to office. For me its a part of my Job Description to handle this crap. But as far as this is a man, this is not from his world. If they are not going to want him and i think that would be a shame. Im with him all the way. A charge made was said to have occurred 36 years ago and Nothing Happened since. I feel badly for all parties. I feel badly for everybody. I feel badly for our country. This is so bad for our country. I watched the senators on the democrat side and i thought it was a disgrace. Partially because i know them. I know them too well. You know what . They are not angels. Your white house put no limitations . My white house is doing whatever the senators want. You dont understand what im saying. You do understand, you just dont want to report it that way. My white house is doing whatever the senators want. Im open to whatever they want. The one thing i want is speed. Now, they started, i believe on friday. Could have been earlier than that. They started and they worked around the clock on saturday, sunday, they are working right now. They are covering a lot of territory. This is the 7th investigation of judge kavanaugh. Number seven. This is is not number one. They started on friday, they worked all weekend and gone late into the evenings. The fbi is really working hard. They are putting in a lot of hours. So hopefully they can come up with what everybody is looking for. Im guided by the senate. I want to make the senate happy. They are making the judgment. I made my judgment. The senate is making a judgment on judge kavanaugh. Thats a very important thing to do. Go ahead, peter. Just for clarity so that its
clear, its up to you to instruct the fbi. It is up to me, but im instructing them as for what the senate wants. The senate is making the decision and i am instructing them as for what the senate is looking for. Will you instruct the White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to give the fbi free to interview whoever they feel is are in . I have so instructed him and i did it again over the weekend. I see the press was yo ept to say misleading. Its much more complex than most people understand. Essentially i have done that. I did also say within the bounds of what the senate wants. We dont want to use an expression often used by me. We dont want to go on a witch hunt, do we . Just to be clear, should the fbi interview all three of Brett Kavanaughs accusers. It wouldnt bother me at all. I dont know all three. Certainly i would imagine they will interview two. The third i dont know much about. I heard that the third one has i have no idea if this is true, has very little credibility. If there is credibility, interview the third one. I want it to be done quickly. Its unfair to the family and to the judge. Its unfair. Its so unfair to his kids and his wife. How about for the accusers. Has it been fair to them . Certainly we gave the doctor a tremendous time, which is great. She spoke well, but there are questions that havent been answered like what year was it . What day. Do you know the location and do you know the house . A lot of different things. People are saying whats going
on . You cannot say that we have done anything but be respectful. And i do. I respect her position very much. I respect her position very much. I believe, and again, this is republican senators and the senate, i believe they have been very respectful to the doctor. Dr. Ford. Isnt that why the fbi should interview all of them . They should interview anyone they want within reason. You have to say within reason. They should interview, but also be guided. Im being guided by what the senators are looking for. They have to make the choice. Go ahead. Now you can go. Should Brett Kavanaugh be interviewed by the fbi. I think so. Its fine if they do. I dont know. Thats up to them. I think he spoke very conclusively and very well. I think it has been a very rough period of time and i guarantee
he never had a rough period of time. When he was chosen, everyone said it would go quickly. People thought 10 years ago Brett Kavanaugh was going to be a Supreme Court justice because of his intellect and because of his career and because of the fact that there are no games. Now they talk about alcohol and all of the things that you hear. Frankly, you take a look at they are bringing up subjects we wouldnt know about this over the last 20 years or 30 years of his career. What happened . They are going back to high school and saying he drank a lot one evening in high school. I tell you what. I know United States senators. One on the other side who is pretty aggressive. I have seen that person in very bad situations. Okay . I have seen that person in very, very bad situations. Somewhat compromising. I think its very unfair to bring up things like this. However, whatever the senators want is okay with me. They are going to be making a decision, whatever a want is okay with me. Go ahead. Thats enough, peter. Go. I think the press has treated me unbelievably unfairly. I said the good thing is now the press finally gets it. Now they will finally treat me fairly. They got worse. They are worse now than ever. They are loco. But thats okay. I put up with it. Go ahead. I use that word because of the fact that we made a deal with mexico. No, no. Sit down. Thank you, mr. President. You are going to be next. I have questions about judge kavanaugh. There are concerns he may have lied or mischaracterized his
drinking while testifying. If they find he did, do you think that bars him from being the Supreme Court nominee . I watched him and i was surprised at how vocal he was about the fact that he likes beer. Hes had a little bit of difficulty. He talked about things that happened when he drank. This is not a man that said alcohol was he was perfect with respect to alcohol. I thought he was actually going back so many years. I thought he was excellent. The interesting thing is nobody asked him about what happened in the last 25 or 35 years. There were no bad reports. There are bad reports on everybody in here. Most of the people sitting down here, except for mike pence, by the way. We find one on him, i think thats going to be the greatest shock of all time. There are bad reports on
everybody. Im looking at people. Look at some of these people asking me questions. Look at blumenthal. He lied about vietnam. He didnt just say that. For faen years, he thought he was a war hero. He had a nickname. He never went to vietnam and he is up there saying we need honesty and we need integrity. This guy lied when he was the attorney general of connecticut. He lied. I dont mean a little bit. When he got out, he dropped out of the race and won anyway because democrats always win in connecticut. Probably the closest ever. Heres a guy who lie and he is up there talking like he is holier than thou. Take a look at his record. When he got out and whe