Thing, i didnt know him. But i heard his name for ten years. You know how i heard his name . Everybody was saying, he should be on the Supreme Court. I said, who is he . His name is Brett Kavanaugh, and he should be, hes the most brilliant person, hes the most brilliant lawyer. They were talking about him on the Supreme Court ten years ago. With all of that, i want to hear what she has to say. You said that you dont feel you said that you feel like there have been numerous false allegations against you. Oh, ive had many false statements against me. And you understand what he ive had many false statements against me and if the press would have reported i would be very happy. I think john roberts would tell you you covered the story where the women were paid to say bad things about me. Sean hannity covered it. I will tell you, when i saw that on sean hannity, i actually called him. Believe it or not. I dont speak to him very much, but i respect him, i called him. I said, this is the biggest story. This is a big, big story. He agreed with me. The next day i picked up the papers, There Wasnt One Word about it. The next day i watched abc news, john, i watched nbc, i watched cbs, I Didnt Watch Cnn but next time im going to. Are you okay with i watched everything. There wasnt one story other than fox, and it is a big story. It is a shame. Okay. Enough. Thank you. Thank you. Is it okay if i give it to the New York Times, mr. President . Go ahead. Thats enough, please. Good job. Good job. Can i ask a question since im before the New York Times before this gentleman . Since youre what . Im actually from the New York Times. She is my former colleague and we miss her. I will let you do it after he does it. Is that okay . I will do that. Thats perfectly fine. In honor of a paper i once loved. Thank you. Go ahead. Mr. President , My Name Is Ed Resal with true news. Today you met with b. B. Netanyahu from israel and you brought up you support a twostate solution for the palestinian israeli crisis there. I do. Can you give us a preview of this great peace deal . I would love to make a deal with the israelis and palestinians. My whole life i was told it was the toughest deal and i disagree. I think health care is tougher, if you want to know the truth. We are going to get it taken care, we have taken care of a lot of it. I have my whole life heard that the deal between israel and the palestinians is the toughest. I think were going to make a deal. I think were going to make a deal. So at one of our many meetings today, i was with b. B. Netanyahu, a man who i have a lot of respect for, a man who has been extremely nice to me. Were happy that i did the whole thing with jerusalem and the embassy which, by the way, we got open in four months for less
than 500,000 and the budget was over A Billion Dollars, right. Yes. So we saved lets save A Billion Dollars and it is open and it is beautiful, by the way. Jerusalem stone, one of my favorite stones. I will tell you the question somebody said today, well, this is the first News Conference in a long time. I said, what do you mean . I did like five today. Every time i sit, i take a lot of questions from people that are screaming like maniacs in the back of the room, meaning reporters. One of the reporters i wont say it was john roberts that said that, i refuse, but one of the but it was, dont feel guilty, john. But one of the reporters that was screaming asked about the one state two state. I said, i think the two state will happen. I think it is in one way more difficult because it is a real estate deal because you need meets and bounds and you need lots of carveouts and everything. It is actually a little tougher deal, but another way it works better because you have people
im happy if theyre happy. Im a facilitator. I want to see if i can get a deal done so that people dont get killed anymore. When we had in saudi arabia, we had one of the great conferences in history. Many of you were there, probably all of you were there. It was one of the most beautiful two days, that and china, two of the most incredible events i have ever seen. I have never seen anything like it. And we had, i believe, 58 muslim countries, the leaders, the kings, the amirs, the absolute leaders from every there was nobody in second place. They were the leaders of the whole thing. And unbeknownst to anybody else, people would come up to me individually it wasnt a setup. They would come up to me and say, sir, you cant have peace in The Middle East without peace between israelis and the palestinians. I said why . What difference . Why does that matter so much . They said, it just is impossible to make peace in The Middle East unless you have between the israelis. So i heard that from one, the king of saudi arabia who is a great guy, king salman, and then Somebody Else came up and he wasnt told, oh, go up and say it. I know where theyre coming from. I must have had 12 leaders say it, and they just and i started to realize that peace between israel and the palestinians for The Middle East is a very important thing, and were trying very hard to get it. I think probably two state is more likely, but you know what . If they do a single, if they do a double, im okay with it if theyre both happy. If theyre both happy, im okay with either. I think the two state is more likely. Okay, how about one. New york times. Oh, okay. Thank you, sir. I would have gotten a bad story in the New York Times, but i will anyway so i guess it
doesnt matter. Well do you after and then call it quits. Were kind of thriving, not failing these days. Youre doing very well. Thank you. Say thank you, mr. Trump. I think ill stop short of that. I have had very few stories, but some on the New York Times. Now i average about three or four a day, right . Of the three or four, theyre all negative. No matter what i do, theyre all negative. But you know what . Thats okay. I still love the paper. Go ahead. I wanted to come back to china because i think what you announced today was very important. Yes. You talk about this friendship you have with xi jinping, yet essentially what you did today is accused his government right. Of interfering in our internal affairs. Right. Subverting our democratic process, and doing it to hurt you, the Republican Party doing it to help them. And your backers. You know what . Doing it to help them. How can a guy who does that be your friend . I think that we are able to and maybe hes not anymore. Ill be honest with you. I think we had a very good friendship. I think we had a very good relationship. We understand each other. They are doing studies on donald trump, theyre trying to figure it all out because this has never happened to them before. It has never happened. Think of it. You have never seen, you have covered very well, you have never seen this happen. Theyre having big problems. I dont want them to have problems, but they have to make a fair deal, just like canada has to make a fair deal. I believe that he and i have a very Good Chemistry together, and i can tell you that about many leaders. I can also tell you a few where i dont feel i will ever have a chemistry with them, i dont want to have a chemistry with them, and for those people i will have pompeo, nikki, bolton, jared, i can go our general, ill have our general, and if they cant do it ill have Sarah Huckabee do it, right. But for the most part, i have good, very good with Prime Minister abe, very good with president moon. By the way, what president moon said last night, i know you wont report it, but bret baier interviewed him last night and
asked him about me. I cant say because you would say im too bragadoccious, but what he said about me last night was an unbelievable thing. It couldnt have happened without President Trump and it never would happen without President Trump and nobody else could do it. I mean you will take a look, but i will tell you, china is very special. Very special. Theyre incredible people. It is an incredible country. What theyve done is unbelievable. How would and it all started with the wto. It was a defective deal, and it all started without the wto, china is not china as we know it today. And then it started also by our people that are standing right in this position that are in the oval Office Another way of saying it allowed them to get away with murder. Allowed a lot of countries to get away with murder. I think we still probably have a very good relationship, but you know what . In honor of you, i will tomorrow
make a call to him. Say, hey, how you doing . Okay. Can i just ask you dont mind paying billions of dollars a month in tariffs. I just have two small foll followups. One is how would you compare the level of interference from the chinese compared to what russia did in 2016 . I think it is different. If you look at the des moines register, they have ads made to look like editorials saying about, oh, you got to stop trump, you got to stop him, you got to vote against him. My farmers are so good. These are patriots. You know, on a network that doesnt like me very much which is most of them but a network that didnt doesnt really treat me very good, they interviewed farmers. And they got hurt because, you know, all of a sudden china stops buying by the way, they started buying again, i dont know if you noticed. Soybeans are going up and things are going up, and weve had very little hurt from what i have done. In fact, the markets have gone
up and the farmers are going to do great. But ultimately. But they had farmers, and these guys are amazing. I love them. They voted for me and they love me. They said, we dont care if we get hurt, hes doing the right thing. You know, a lot of people, it is a complex game. A lot of people dont know exactly what it is. They dont know how to define tariff. They dont know it is really different than a tax, although it is getting close. But they know that for the first time in many, many years they have a president thats fighting for them, thats not letting their jobs be taken to other countries, thats not allowing the kind of abuse that we i mean when you look at what happened as an example with nafta, and for years because it was never changed, nafta was a defective deal the day it was signed. You know why . Because they had a vat tax of 17 and nobody from this country knew that. By the time they found out,
which was about a week later, nobody went and changed it. So you went many years and they never changed it. There was a vat tax that mexico got. So we were 17 points or 16 points behind before we even started. Nafta was a horrible thing. So the farmers and, by the way, the steelworkers you know, i stopped the dumping. The dumping was horrible. Now if they want to dump, thats okay, but theyve got to pay the United States of america 25 on everything they dump. Thats okay. But as i told you before, steel is doing phenomenally well. But the farmers say, this mans fighting for us. No president has ever fought for us before. You really have to study what has happened over the 15 years with the farmers. The farmers have been decimated over a 15year period. Theyve been decimated. The farmers are going to come out great. These are great people. Theyre great, great patriots. I think we should finish with that one. Is that okay . Go ahead. Lets go. Fast. Sure. I always like to finish with a good one. Elton john said, when you hit that last tune and it is good, dont go back. Well, let me ask you ive seen have you ever seen, theyre great. They had the last tune and everyone goes crazy, then they go back for an encore and they dont hit it and they leave. Everyone leaves and says it wasnt a good concert. Lets go. Ill ask you one question. Dont make me wrong. Ahead of tomorrows hearing because you were asked say again . About the hearing tomorrow, you were asked by my friend from sky news about the message you may be sending to the women of the country. Youre a father. What does the moment that were in, this cultural moment it is a very big cultural moment. Right. What message do you have for the young people of america . It is a very good question. It is a big moment for our country because you have a man
who is very outstanding but he has very strong charges against him. Probably charges that nobody is going to be able to be to prove. So i could have you chosen for a position, i could have you or you or you, anybody, and somebody could say things, and it has happened to me many times. Where false statements are made and, honestly, nobody knows who to believe. I could pick another Supreme Court judge, justice. I could pick another one, another one, another one. This could go on forever. Somebody could come and say, 30 years ago, 25 years ago, ten years ago, five years ago, he did a horrible thing to me. He did this, he did that, he did that. Honestly, it is a very dangerous period in our country, and it is being perpetrated by some very evil people. Some of them are democrats, i
must say, because some of them know that this is just a game that theyre playing. It is a con game. It is at the highest level. Were talking about the United StatesSupreme Court. This can go on forever. I can pick five other people. At a certain point the people are going to say, no, thank you. This is the most coveted job probably in the world. And you know what . I would honestly say, because i interviewed great people for this job. Hes great. But i interviewed other great people for this job. I could conceivably imagine going to one of them and saying, it is too bad what happened to this wonderful man, but im going to choose you number two. I want you to go. And i could conceivably be turned down by somebody that desperately wanted this job two months ago. With respect, sir so this is beyond supreme
court. Right. Theres nothing beyond Supreme Court. This is beyond Supreme Court. This has everything to do with our country. When you are guilty until proven innocent, it is just not supposed to be that way. Always i heard you are innocent until proven guilty. I have heard this for so long, and it is such a beautiful phrase. In this case you are guilty until proven innocent. I think that is a very, very dangerous standard for our country. With that being said, i look forward to what she has to say. I also look very forward to what judge kavanaugh has to say. I think it is going to be a very, very important day in the history of our country. I want to thank you all. Sir. Well do it again. A message to young men . Sir, young teenage men . Nothing to say, sir . Please, ladies and gentlemen. Remain seated as our delegation departs. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. We have just been listening for an hour and some 20 minutes to a rare solo News Conference by President Trump coming in the midst of some sharply escalated controversy over the u. S. Supreme Court NomineeBrett Kavanaugh. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First i want to bring in cnns jake tapper. Jake, what did you think . I think we can see why his aides dont push him to do more solo Press Conferences like that. I mean it was fairly it wasnt the most coherent president ial address i ever heard. He rambled quite a bit. He said a lot of things that were not true, including this claim that he consistently says that he won 52 of the womens vote in 2016. He did not. He lost Thewoman Womens Vote T hillary clinton. He did win 52 of the white womens vote, so it is odd he continues to make that claim. It is almost as if hes not
including nonwhite women as legitimate voters. But beyond that, lets focus on the kavanaugh issue because that is one of the most important things on the plate and where i think he wanted to have this Press Conference. He said, first of all, in yet another falsehood, he suggested that more than one woman was going to be able to tell her story tomorrow. It is actually just one. It is Christine Blasey ford, not the other two women who have come forward. But beyond that, looking at his address and what he had to say as if i were a member of the senate, you have, you know, a solid number of republicans who are with the president no matter what, who dont believe the allegations, who are with kavanaugh. You have a solid number of democrats probably almost all of the democrats who are against him. We had all ten democrats on the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Call for kavanaughs nomination to be withdrawn, and you have a few in the milling. You have maybe a couple of Red State Democrats but most importantly because he cannot lose them, Lisa Murkowski, the senator from alaska, susan
collins, the senator from maine, maybe jeff flake, the senator from arizona, trying to think what they made of the president s comments about this. He called these accusations from these women false. He said they were part of a big, fat con job. He said that he was inclined to not believe them because of the many, many allegations that had been made against him, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault allegations. He was not honest about how many there were. He said there were four or five. It was actually at least 15. He suggested that there had been payments made to these women. Thats not true. There was a gofundme for one of