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Through what they have to go through to oftentimes distort not all the time. And some of the media is fantastic. They are honest and fantastic. But much of it is not. The distortion, and well talk about it. Youll be able to ask me questions about it. But were not going to let it happen because im here again to take my message straight to the people. As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, i inherited a mess. Its a mess. At home and abroad. A mess. Jobs are pouring out of the country. You see whats going on with all of the companies leaving our country. Going to mexico and other places. Low pay, low wages. Mass instability overseas no matter where you look. The middle east a disaster. North korea. Well take care of it, folks. Were going to take care of it all. I just want to let you know. I inherited a mess. Beginning on day one, our administration went to work to tackle these challenges. On foreign affairs, weve already begun enormously productive talks with many foreign leaders. Much of it youve covered. To move forward toward stability, security and peace in the most troubled regions of the world. Which there are many. We have had great conversations with the United Kingdom and meetings. Israel, mexico, japan, china and canada. Really, really productive conversations. I would say far more productive than you would understand. Weve even developed a new counsel with canada to promote womens Business Leaders and entrepreneurs. Very important to me. Very important to my daughter ivanka. I have directed our Defense Community headed by our great general, now secretary mattis. Hes over there now working very hard. To submit a plan for the defeat of isis. A group that celebrates the murder and torture of innocent people in large sections of the world. Used to be a small group. Now its in large sections of the world. Theyve spread like cancer. Isis has spread like cancer. Another mess iinherited. Weve imposed new sanctions on iran wholet toly took advantage of our previous administration. And they are the worlds top sponsor of terrorism. And were not going to stop until that problem is properly solved. And its not properly solved now. Its one of the worst agreements ive ever seen drawn by anybody. Ive ordered plans to begin for the massive rebuilding of the United States military. Had great support from the senate. Ive had great support from congress, generally. Weve pursued this rebuilding in the hopes that we will never have to use this military. And i will tell you, that is my i would be so happy if we never had to use it, but our country will never have had a military like the military were about to build and rebuild. We have the greatest people on earth in our military, but they dont have the right equipment, and their equipment is old. I used it. I talked about it. At every stop. Deple depleted. Its depleted. Wont be depleted for long. One of the reasons im standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, i talked about we have to have a strong military. We have to have strong Law Enforcement also. So we are really searching for peace, but its peace through strength. At home, we have begun the Monumental Task of returning the Government Back to the people on the scale not seen for many, many years. In each of these actions, im keeping my promises to the American People. These are campaign promises. Some people are so surprised that were having strong borders. Thats what ive been talking about for a year and a half. Strong borders. Theyre so surprised. Oh, having strong poborders. Well, thats what ive been talking about to the press and everybody else. One promise after another, after years of politicians lying to you to get elected. They lied to the American People in order to get elected. Some of the things im doing probably arent popular, but theyre necessary for security and for other reasons. Headth n then coming to washington and pursuing their own interests which is more important to many politicians. Im here following through on what i pledge to do. Its all im doing. I put it out before the American People. Got 306 Electoral College votes. I wasnt supposed to get 222. They said theres no way to get 222. 230 is impossible. 270, which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like theyve never seen before. Thats the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan. In other words, the media is trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and theyre not happy about it for whatever reason. And but a lot of people are happy about it. In fact, ill be in melbourne, florida, at 5 00 on saturday. And i heard just heard that the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on the tv, open the newspapers and i see stories of chaos. Chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a finetuned machine. Despite the fact that i cant get my cabinet approved, and they are outstanding people. Like senator dan coats who is there, one of the most respected men in the senate. He cant get approved. How do you not approve him . Hes been a colleague. Highly respected. Brilliant guy. Great guy. Everybody knows it. Were waiting for approval. So we have a Wonderful Group of people thats working very hard thats being very much misrepresented about, and we cant let that happen. So if the democrats who have all you have to do is look at where they are right now. The only thing they docan do is delay because they screwed things up royally. Believe me. Let me list to you some of the things weve done in just a short period of time. Just got here. I got here with no cabinet. Again, each of these actions is a promise i made to the American People. So well go over just some of them, and we have a lot happening next week and in the weeks coming. Weve braun withdrawn from the jobkilling disaster between as the transpacific partnership. Weve directed the elimination of regulations that undermine manufacturing and called for expedited approval of the permits needed for america and american infrastructure. And that means plants, equipment, roads, bridges, factories. People take 10, 15, 20 years to get approved. They go in for a permit. Its many, many years and then they spend tens of millions of dollars on nonsense and at the end of the process, they get rejected. Its going to be a quick rejection. Not going to take years. But mostly its going to be an accept apse. We want plants built and factories built and we want the jobs. We dont want the jobs going to other countries. We have imposed a hiring freeze on nonessential federal workers. Weve imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations. Weve issued a gamechanging new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. Makes sense. Nobody has ever seen regulations like we have. You go to other countries and you look at industries they have and you say, let me see your regulations. And they are a fraction. Just a tiny fraction of what we have. And i want regulations because i want safety. I want environmental all environmental situations to be taken properly care of. Its very important to me. But you dont need four or five or six regulations to take care of the same thing. Weve stood up for the men and women of Law Enforcement directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence. Weve directed the creation of a task force for reducing Violent Crime in america, including the horrendous situation take a look at chicago and others. Taking place right now in our inner cities. Horrible. Weve ordered the department of Homeland Security and justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the United States with drugs. Were becoming a druginfested nation. Drugs are becoming cheap are than candy bars. Were not going to let it happen any longer. Weve undertaken the most substantial Border Security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe and are in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border. Met with general, now secretary kelly yesterday, and were starting that process. And the wall is going to be a great wall. N its going to be a wall negotiated by me. The price is going to come down just like it has on Everything Else ive negotiated for the government. And were going to have a wall that works. Were not going to have a wall like they have now which is either nonexistence or a joke. Weve ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens and weve ordered an end to the policy of catch and release on the border. No more release. No matter who you are. Release. Weve begun a nationwide effort to remove criminal aliens, gang members, drug dealers and others who pose a threat to public safety. We are saving american lives every single day. Court system has not made it easy for us. And are even creating a new office in Homeland Security dedicated to the forgotten american victims of illegal immigrant violence which there are many. Weve taken Decisive Action to keep radical islamic terrorists out of our country. Though parts of our necessary and constitutional actions were blocked by judges in my opinion incorrect and unsafe ruling, our administration is working night and day to keep you safe. Including reporters safe. And is vigorously defending this lawful order. I will not back down from defending our country. I got elected on defense of our country. And i keep my campaign promises. And our citizens will be very happy when they see the result they already are. I can tell you that. Extreme vetting will be put in place and it already is in place in many places. We had to go quicker than we thought because of the bad decision we received from a circuit that has been overturned at a record number. Ive heard 80 . I find that hard to believe. Thats just a number i heard that they overturned 80 of the time. I think that circuit is that circuit is in chaos. And that circuit is, frankly, in turmoil. But we are appealing that, and we are going further. Were issuing a new executive action next week that will comprehensively protect our country. So well be going along the one path and hopefully winning that. At the same time, we will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people. And that will be done some time next week, toward the beginning or middle at the latest part. Weve also taken steps to begin construction of the Keystone Pipeline and Dakota Access pipelines. Thousands and thousands of jobs. And put new buy american measures in place to require American Steel for american p e pipelines. They build a pipeline in this country, and we use the powers of government to make that pipeline happen, we want them to use American Steel. And they are willing to do that, but nobody ever asked before i came along. Even this order was drawn and they didnt say that. And im reading the order. Why arent we using American Steel . And they said, thats a good idea. We put it in. To drain the swamp of corruption in washington, d. C. , i have started by imposing a fiveyear lobbying ban on white house officials. And a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government. Weve begun preparing to repeal and replace obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster, folks. Its a disaster. You can say, oh, obamacare. They fill up our alleys with people that you wonder how they get there but theyre not the Republican People that are representatives are representing. So weve begun preparing to repeal and replace obamacare and are deep in the midst of negotiations on a very historic tax reform to bring our jobs back. Bring our jobs back to this country, big league. Its already happening. Big league. Ive also worked to install a cabinet offer the delays in obstruction of senate democrats. Youve seen what theyve done over the last long number of years. That will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in american history. You look at Rex Tillerson. Hes out there negotiating right now. General mattis, i mentioned before. General kelly. We have great, great people. Mick who is with us now. Among their responsibilities will be ending the bleeding of jobs from our country and negotiating fair trade deals for our citizens. Now look. Fair trade. Not free. Fair. If a country is taking advantage of uwere not going to let that happen anymore. Every country takes advantage of us, almost. I may be able to find a couple that dont. But for the most part, that would be a very tough job for me to do. Jobs have already started to surge. Since my election, ford announced it will abandon its plans to build a new factory in mexico and will invest 700 million in michigan creating many, many jobs. Fiat chrysler announced it will invest 1 billion in ohio and michigan, creating 2,000 new american jobs. They were with me a week ago. General motors likewise committed to invest billions of dollars in its American Manufacturing operation. Keeping many jobs here that were going to leave. If i departmeidnt get elected,e me, they would have left and these jobs im announcing would never have come here. Intel justi announced it will move ahead with a new plant in arizona that was probably never going to move ahead with, and that will result in at least 10,000 american jobs. Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives. There will be many, many more. Many more. These are a few that were naming. Other countries have been taking advantage of us for decades. Decades and decades and decades, folks. And were not going to let that happen anymore. Not going to let it happen. One more thing, i have kept my promise to the American People by nominating a justice of the United States supreme court, judge neil gorsuch, who is from my list of 20, and who will be a true defender of our laws and our constitution. Highly respected. Should get the votes from the democrats. You may not see that, but hell get there one way or the other. But he should get there the oldfashioned way. And he should get those votes. This last month has represented an unprecedented degree of action on behalf of the great citizens of our country. Again, i say it, there has never been a presidency thats done so much in such a short period of time. And we havent even started the big work that starts early next week. In very big things are going to be announced next week. So were just getting started. Well be giving a speech, as i said, in melbourne, florida, at 5 00 p. M. I hope to see you there. And with that, i just say, god bless america. And lets take some questions. Mara, go ahead. You were cut off pretty violently at our last News Conference. Mike flynn is a fine person, and i asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vice President pence who is with us today. And i was not happy with the way that information was given. He didnt have to do that because what he did wasnt wrong. What he did in terms of the information he saw what was wrong was the way that other people, including yourself in this room were given that information. Because that was classified information. It was given illegally. Thats the real problem. And, you know, you can talk all you want about russia, which was all, you know, fake news fabricated deal to try and make up for the loss of the democrats and press plays right into it. In fact, i saw a couple of the people that were supposedly involved with all of this. They know nothing about it. They werent in russia. They never made a phone call to russia. They never received a phone call. Its all fake news. Its all fake news. The nice thing is, i see it starting to turn. Where people nour loare now looking at the illegal. I think its very important. The illegal giving out classified information. It was and let me just tell you it was given out like so much. Ill give you an example. I called, as you know, mexico. It was a very confidential, classified call. But i called mexico. And in calling mexico, i figured, well i spoke to the president of mexico. Had a good call. All of a sudden, its out there for the world to see. Its supposed to be secret. Its supposed to be either confidential or classified in that case. Same thing with australia. All of a sudden, people are finding out exactly what took place. The same thing happened with respect to general flynn. Everybody saw this. And im saying, the first thing i thought of when i heard about this, how does the press get this information thats classified . How do they do it . You know why . S but its an illegal process and the press should be anamsha of themselves. The people that gave out the information to the press should be ashamed of themselves. Really ashamed. Yes, go ahead. [ inaudible question ] because when i looked at the information, i said, i dont think he did anything wrong. If anything, he did something right. He was coming into office. He looked at the information. He said, huh, thats fine. Thats what theyre supposed to do. Theyre supposed to be he didnt just call russia. He called and spoke to both ways, i think there were 30some odd countries. Hes doing the job. He was just doing his job. The thing is he didnt tell our Vice President properly and then he said he didnt remember. So either way it wasnt very satisfactory to me. And i have somebody that i think will be outstanding for the position. And that also helps, i think, in the making of my decision. But he didnt tell the Vice President of the United States the facts. And then he didnt remember. And that just wasnt acceptable to me. Yes . Since you brought up russia, im looking for clarification here. During your campaign, did anyone from your team communicate with members of the russian government or russian intelligence . And if so, what was the nature of those conversations . The New York Times wrote a big long front page story yesterday. And it was very much discredited, as you know. It was its a joke. N the people mention the story. I notice they were on television today saying they never even spoke to russia. They werent even a part, really. They were they were such a minor part. I hadnt spoken to them. I think the one person, i dont think ive ever spoken to him or met him. And he said he was a very low level member of, i think, a committee for a short period of time. I dont think i ever met him. Its possible i walked into a room and he was sitting there, but i dont think i ever met him. I didnt talk to him ever and he thought it was a joke. The other person said he never spoke to russia. Never received a call. Looked at his phone records. And the other person, people knew that he represented various countries but i dont think he represented russia but knew he represented various countries. Thats what he does. And people know that. Thats mr. Manafort who is, by the way, a respected man. Hes a respected man. But i think he represented ukraine or ukraine government. But people knew that. Everybody knew that. So these people and he said that he has absolutely nothing to do and never has with russia. And he said that very forcefully. I saw his statement. Most of the papers dont print it because thats not good for their stories. So the three people that they talked about all totally deny it and i can tell you, speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia. I have no loans in russia. I dont have any deals in russia. President putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election. He then called me up extremely nicely to congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific. But so did many other leaders. Almost all other leaders from almost all other countries. So russia is fake news. This is fake news put out by the media. The real news is the fact that people probably from the Obama Administration because they are there, because we have our new people going in place right now. As you know, mike pompeo is now taking control of the cia. James comey at fbi. Dan coats is waiting to be approved. He is a senator and highly respected one. And hes still waiting to be approved. But our new people are going in. And just while youre at it because you mentioned this, the wall street journal did a story today that was almost as disgraceful as the failing New York Times story yesterday. And it talked about you saw front page. So director of National Intelligence just put out acting, a statement. Any suggestion that the United States Intelligence Community this was just given to us, is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. So they took this front page story out of the wall street journal and they just wrote the story. But its not true. And ill tell you something. E ill be honest because i sort of enjoy this back and forth. But i havent seen more Dishonest Media than the political media. I thought the Financial Media was much better. But i never get phone calls from the media. How do they write a story like that without asking me . Or how do they write a story in the New York Times, put it on the front page . That was like the story they about the women and me. Front page. Big massive story. And it was nasty. And then they called and said, we never said that. We like mr. Trump. They called up my office. We like mr. Trump. We never said that. And it was totally they totally misrepresented those very wonderful women. I have to tell you. Totally misrepresented. I said give us a retraction. They never gave us a retraction and, frankly, i then went on to other things. Okay. Go ahead. Mr. President you okay . You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan with 304 or 306 electoral votes. In fact, president obama got 365 and well, im talking about republicans. The president obama, 332 and george h. W. Bush 426 when he won as president. So why should Americans Trust no, i was given that information. I was just we had a very, i have big margin. Why should Americans Trust you when you accuse the information they receive of being fake when youre providing information thats i was given that information. I was given actually, ive seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that . Youre the president. Thank you. Good answer, yes. Can you tell us in determining that general flynn, there was no wrongdoing in your mind. What evidence did you ask for transcripts of these telephone intercepts, specifically with kislyak who he was communicating with . How did you determine there was no wrongdoing . And you said youre going to aggressively pursue these leaks. We are. Also a review of the Intelligence Community headed by steven feinberg. First of all, about that, we now have dan coats, hopefully soon, mike pompeo and james comey in position. So i hope that well be able to straighten that out without using anybody else. The gentleman you mentioned is a very talented man, very successful man. Hes offered his services. And its something we may take advantage of. But i dont think well need that at all because of the fact that, you know, i think that were going to be able to straighten it out very easily on its own. As far as the generals concerned, when i first heard about it, i said, huh, that doesnt sound wrong. My counsel came, don mcgann, white house counsel, and he told me. And i asked him. And he can speak very well for himself. He said he doesnt think anything is wrong. Really didnt think it was really what happened after that. He didnt think anything was done wrong. I didnt either. I waited a period of time. To me, he was doing the job. The information was provided by, who i dont know, sally yates, and i was a little surprised because i said doesnt sound like he did anything wrong there. But he did something wrong with respect to the Vice President. And i thought that was not acceptable. As far as the actual making the call. In fact, ive watched various programs and ive read various articles where he was just doing his job. It was very normal. At first everybody got excited because they thought he did something wrong. After they thought about it, it turned out he was just doing his job. And i do and by the way, with all of that being said, i do think hes a fine man. John . Go ahead, finish up. What will you do on the leaks . Youve said twice today . Yes, were looking at them very serious. Ive gone to all of the folks in charge of the various agencies, and were ive actually called the Justice Department to look into the leaks. Those are criminal leaks. They are put out by people either in agencies. I think youll see it stopping because now we have our people in. Again, we dont have our people in because we cant get them approved by the senate. We just had Jeff Sessions approved in justice, as an example. So we are looking into that very sae seriously. Its a criminal act. What i say, when i was called out on mexico, i was shocked. All this equipment. All this incredible phone equipment. When i was called out on mexico, i was honestly, i was really, really surprised. But i said, it doesnt make sense. That wont happen. But that wasnt that important a call. It was fine. I could show it to the world, and he could show it to the world, the president who is a very fine man, by the way. Same thing with australia. I said thats terrible that it was leaked, but it wasnt that important. Then i said what happens when im deal with the problem of north korea . What happens when im dealing with the problems in the middle east . Are you folks going to be reporting all of that very, very confidential information, very important, very you know, i mean, at the highest level . Are you going to be reporting that, too . I tonigdont want classified information getting out. It was a test. So im deal with mexico, argentina, we were dealing on this case with mike flynn. All this information gets put into the Washington Post and gets put into the New York Times. And im saying, whats going to happen when im dealing on the middle east or dealing with really, really important subjects like north korea . Weve got to stop it. Thats why its a criminal penalty. Yes, john. Thank you, mr. President. I want to get you to clarify this very important point. Can you say definitively that nobody on your campaign had any contacts with the russians during the campaign . And on the leaks, is it fake news or are these real leaks . Well, the leaks are real. You are the one that wrote about them and reported them. The leaks are real. You know what they said. You saw it. And the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. So one thing that i felt was very important to do, and i hope we can correct it. Nobody i have more respect for, well, maybe a little bit, than repo reporters. Than good reporters. Its very important to me and especially in this position. Its very important. I dont mind bad stories. I can handle a bad story better than anybody. As long as its true. And, you know, over a course of time, ill make mistakes and youll write badly. And im okay with it. But im not okay when it is fake. I watch cnn. Its so much anger and hatred and just the hatred. I dont watch it anymore because its very good hes saying no. Its okay, jim. Its okay, jim. Youll have your chance. But i watch others, too. You arent the only one so dont feel bad. But i think it should be straight. I think it would be more interesting. I know how good everyones ratings are but i think that actually it would be better. People you have a lower Approval Rating than congress. I think thats right. Peter is that one right in i think they have lower i heard lower than congress. But honestly, the public would appreciate it. Id appreciate it. I dont mind bad stories when its true. But we have an administration where the democrats are making it very difficult. Were setting a record or close to a record in time to approval of a cabinet. The numbers crazy. Some had them approved immediately. Im going forever and i still have a lot of people that were waiting for. Thats all im hearing is delaying. And you look at schumer and the mess. The only thing they can do is delay. Theyd be better served by, you know, approving and making sure that they are happy and everybody is good. President obama lost three or four, and you lose them on the way, and thats okay. Thats fine. But i think they would be much better served, john, if they just went through the process quickly. This is pure delay tactics. And they say it. And everybody understands it. Yeah, go ahead, jim. The first part of my question, the context. Can you definitively say nobody well, i had nothing to do with it. I have nothing to do with russia. I have no deals there. I didnt know anything. Now wikileaks, which i have nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, theyre not giving classified information. Theyre giving stuff what was said in an office about hillary cheating on the debates, which, by the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that hillary received the questions to the debates. Can you imagine . Seriously. Can you imagine if i received the questions . It would be the electric chair, okay . He should be put in the electric chair. You would even call for the reinstitution of the death penalty, okay . Maybe not you, john. Yes. Well do you next, jim. Clarify this important point. Did you direct mike flynn to discuss sanctions with the Russian Ambassador . No, i didnt. Prior to your administration . No, i didnt. Excuse me i fired him because of what he said to mike pence. Very simple. Mike was doing his job. He was calling countries and his counterparts. So it certainly would have been okay with me if he did it. I would have directed him to do it if i thought he wasnt doing it. I didnt direct him, but i would have directed him because thats his job. And it came out that way and in all fairness, i watched dr. Charles krauthammer the other night say he was doing his job. N i agreed with him. And since then, ive watched many other people say that. No, i didnt direct him, but i would have directed him if he didnt do it. Jim . Just for the record, we dont hate you. I dont hate you. Ill pass that along. Ask jim how he got his job. If i may follow up on some of the questions so far here, sir, and i dont know which microphone to hold here. Ive got three. Your ratings arent as good as theyre pretty good, actually. You said earlier that we wikileaks was revealing information about the Hillary Clinton campaign during the election cycle. You welcomed that at one campaign rally. You said you loved wikileaks. At another Campaign Press conference you called on the russians to find the missing 30,000 emails. Im wondering, sir if shes actually missing 33,000 and then it got extended maybe my numbers are off no, but i did say 30 but it was higher. It sounds as though you do not have much credibility here when it comes to leaking if that is something that you encouraged during the campaign. No, but let me do one at a time. Do you mind . Yes, sir. So in one case youre talking about highly classified information. In the other case youre talking about john podesta saying bad things about the boss. I will say this. If john podesta said this about me and he was working for me, i would have fired him so fast your head would have spun. He said terrible things about her. But it wasnt classified information. In one case youre talking about classified. Regardless, if you look at the rnc, we had a very strong at my suggestion and i give reince great credit for this. At my suggestion, as i know something about this world, i said i want a very strong defensive mechanism. I dont want to be hacked. And we did that. And you have seen that they tried to hack us and they failed. The dnc did not do that. And if they did it, they would f not have been hacked. But they were and terrible things came in. Some of the things when i heard in of those things, i picked up the papers and said this will be front page. Wasnt even in the papers. Again, if i had that happen to me, it would be the biggest story in the history of publishing or the head of newspapers. I would have been the headline in every newspaper. Think of it. They gave her the questions to a debate and she should have reported herself. Why didnt Hillary Clinton announce that im sorry, but i have been given the questions to a debate ors town hall, and i feel that its inappropriate, and i want to turn in cnn for not doing a good job. If i may follow oup that, something Jonathan Karl was asking you about. The leaks are real but the news is fake. I guess i dont understand. It seems that theres a disconnect there. The information coming from those leaks is real, then how can the stories be fake . The reporting is fake. I just want to ask heres the thing. The public is they read newspapers. They see television. They watch. They dont know if its true or false. Because theyre not involved. Im involved. Ive been involved with the stuff all my life. But im involved. So i know when you are telling the truth or when youre not. I just see many, many untruthful things. Ill tell you what else i see. Tone. The word tone. The tone is such hatred. Im really not a bad person, by the way. But the tone is such i do get good ratings. You have to admit that. The tone is such hatred. I watched this morning a couple of the networks. And fox friends in the morning, they are very honorable people. Not because they are good. Because they hit me also when i do something wrong. But they have the most honest morning show. Thats all i can say. Its the most honest. But the tone, jim. If you look at the hatred. Sometimes somebody gets well, you look at your show that goes on at 10 00 in the evening. You just take a look at that show. That is a constant hit. The panel is almost always exclusive antitrump. The good news is he doesnt have good ratings, but the panel is almost exclusive antitrump. And the hatred and venom coming from his mouth. The hatred coming from other people on your network. Now i will say this, i watch it. I see it. I am amazed by it. And i just think youd be a lot better off, i honestly do. The public gets it. When i go to rallies they turn around and start screaming at cnn. They want to throw their placards at cnn. I think youd do much better by being different. But you just take a look. Take a look at some of your shows in the morning and the evening. If a guest comes out and says something positive about me, its brutal. Now theyll take this News Conference, im actually having a very good time. But theyll take this News Conference. Thats the way i won. I used to give you a News Conference every time i made a speech which was like every day. I won with News Conference and probably speeches. I certainly didnt win by people listening to you people. Thats for sure. Bui but im having a good time. Tomorrow theyll say trump rants and raves at the press. Im just telling you. Youre dishonest people. But im not ranting and raving. I love this. Im having a good time doing it. Tomorrow the headlines are going to be, donald trump rants and raves. Im not ranting and raving. If i may just one more followup. Should i let him have a little more time because of this . Peter, should i let him have sit down. Sit down. Well get it. Just because the attack of fake news and attacking our network, i want to ask you, sir im changing it from fake news. Very fake news. But arent you go ahead. Real news, mr. President. And youre not related to our new i am not related, sir. I do like the sound of secretary acosta. I looked at that name. Wait a minute. Is there any relation . Im sure you checked that out. They said, no, sir. I said go back and check the family tree. Arent you concerned, sir, that you are undermining the peoples faith in the first amendment, freedom of the flepr, when you call stories you dont like fake news. Why dont you just say its a story i dont like. I do that. Youre undermining confidence in our news media. You are right about that except this. See, i know when i should get good and when i should get bad. Sometimes theyll say, wow, thats going to be a great story. And ill get killed. I know whats good and bad. Id be a pretty good reporter. Not as good as you. I know whats good. I know whats bad. When they change it and make it really bad, something that should be positive. Sometimes something that should be positive, theyll make okay. Theyll even make it negative. So i understand it. Because im there. I know what was said, who was saying it. Im there. So its very important to me. Look. I want to see an honest press. I started off today by saying that its so important to the public to get an honest press. The press the public doesnt believe you people anymore. Maybe i had something to do with that. I dont know. But they dont believe you. If you were straight and really told it like it is, as Howard Cosell used to say. Of course, he had some questions also. But if you were straight, i would be your biggest fan in the world, including bad stories about me. But as you go, as an example, youre cnn, its story after story after story is bad. I won. I won. And the other thing, chaos. Theres zero chaos. We are running this is a f finetuned machine. Reince is doing a good job. Half his job is putting out lies by the press. I said to him yesterday, this whole russia scam that you are building so that you dont talk about the real subject which is illegal leaks. But i watched him yesterday working so hard to try and get that story proper. And im saying heres my chief of staff. A really good guy. Did a phenomenal job at rnc. Won the election. Won the presidency. We got some senators, all over the country, you take a look. Hes done a great job. And i said, you take a look at reince. Hes working so hard just putting out fires that are fake fires. They are fake. They are not true. And isnt that a shame because hed rather be working on health care. Hed rather be working on tax reform, jim. I mean that. I would be your biggest fan in the world if you treated me right. I understand theres a certain bias by jeff or somebody, for whatever reason. But and i understand that. But youve got to be at least a little bit fair. And thats why the public sees it. They see it. They see its not fair. You take a look at some of your shows and you see the bias, the hatred. And the public is smart. They understand it. Okay, yeah, go ahead. For those who believe that there is something to it, is there anything that you have learned over these last few weeks that you might be able to reveal that might ease their concerns that this isnt fake news . I think they dont believe it. Thats why the rasmussen poll has me through the roof. I donti inthink they believ it. One of the reasons im here today is to tell you the whole russian thing is a ruse. And by the way, it would be great if we could get along with russia. Just so you understand that. Now tomorrow youll see donald trump wants to get along with russia. This is terrible. Its not terrible. Its good. We had Hillary Clinton trying to do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give russia 20 of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is . This thing called Nuclear Weapons and other things, like lots of things are done with uranium, clfdi icluding some ba things. Nobody talks about that. I didnt do anything for russia. Ive done nothing for russia. Hillary clinton gave them 20 of our uranium. Hillary clinton did a reset with the stupid plastic button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks here. He looked at her like, what the hell is she doing with that cheap plastic button. Hillary clinton that was the reset. It said reset. If i do that, oh, im a bad guy. If we could get along with russia, thats a positive thing. We have a talented man, Rex Tillerson, who will be meeting with them shortly. I told him. I know politically its probably not good for me. The greatest thing i could do is shoot that ship thats 30 miles offshore right out of the water. Everyone will say, oh, its so great. Thats not great. Thats not great. I would love to be able to get along with russia. Now you have had a lot of president s that havent taken that tack. Look where we are now. Look where we are now. So if i can, now i love to negotiate things. I do it really well and all that stuff. But its possible i wont be able to get along with putin. Maybe it is. But i want to just tell you, the false reporting by the media, by you people, the false, horrible fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with russia. And probably putin said, you know, hes sitting behind his desk and saying, you know, i see whats going on in the United States. I follow it closely. Its going to be impossible for President Trump to ever get along with russia because of all the pressure hes got with this fake story. And thats a shame. Because if we could get along with russia and, by the if we could get along it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing. Tax reform is going to happen fairly quickly. Were going obamacare, were in the final stage, we should be submitting the plan in march we have to for reasons of budget frankly the tax would be easier, but for statutory reasons and budgetary reasons we have to submit the health care soon, early march, mid march and after that were going to come up and were doing very well on tax reform. Mr. President you mentioned russia, lets talk about some serious issues, you mentioned the spy vessel. Not good. Theres a Ballistic Missile test. Not good. And a u. S. Russian plane. Excuse me, excuse me, when did it happen . It happened if you were putin right now you would say were back to the old games with the United States. Theres no way trump can ever do a deal with us because you have to understand if i was just brutal on russia right now you would say isnt that beautiful i know you well enough then you would say he was too tough. Im just trying to find out what youre going to do about it mr. President. Putin is probably figuring hes not going to make a deal because its politically not appropriate. How are you interpreting those moves, are you giving Rex Tillerson any advice. I have, i have. And so honored is putin testing you do you believe, sir . No, i assume putin believes he cant make a deal with me anymore. I cant believe im saying im a politician i guess thats what i am now. It would be much easier to be tough on russia, now look, we might not make a deal with russia, we might, we might not. You know what, i want to do the right thing for the American People and to be honest, secondarily, i want to do the right thing for the world. If russia and the United States actually got together and got along, dont forget were a very powerful Nuclear Country and so are they. Ive been briefed and i can tell you one thing and a briefing that were allowed to say because anybody that read the most basic book can say it, Nuclear Holocaust would be like no other, if we have a Good Relationship with russia thats a good thing not a bad thing. When you say theyre not good. Do they damage the relationship they under mimine this country ability to work with russia . They all happened recently and i understand what theyre doing because theyre doing the same thing. Now again, maybe im not going to be able to do a deal with russia, but at least i tried. Does anybody really think Hillary Clinton would be tougher on russia than donald trump . Does anybody in this room really believe that . She tried to make a deal, had that reset, gave all that valuable uraniam thing. Shes close to russia. You know what i gave the russia . Nothing. Can we conclude there will be no response to these particular provocations . Im not going to tell you about anything im going to do, i dont talk about military response. We are going to attack mosul in four months then three month we are going to attack mosul. I dont talk about military and i dont talk about certain other things youre going to be surprise today hear that and by the way my whole campaign i would say that. I dont want to be one of these guys that say yes, here is what were going to do. I dont have to do that. I dont have to tell you what im going to do in north korea. And i dont have to tell you what im going to do with iran, you know why . Because they shouldnt know and eventually you guys are going to get tired of asking that question so when you ask me what im going to do with the russian ship for example im not going to tell you, hopefully i wont have to do anything but im not going to tell. Thank you very much, mr. President. Where are you from . Bbc. Another beauty. A good line. Impartial, free and fair. Yeah, sure. Just like cnn. Right. On the travel ban. We can banter back and forth. Would you except that was a good example of smooth running wait, wait i know who you are, wait. We had a very smooth rolout of the travel ban but had a bad decision, may be wrong, but i think its 80 of the time. Were going to put in a new executive order next week sometime, but we had a bad decision. Thats the only thing wrong with the travel ban. Delta had a massive problem with their computer system, some people brought by very nice buses and despite that the only problem we had was we had a bad court, we had a court what i consider to be with Great Respect a very bad decision, very bad for the safety an security of our country, the rollout was perfect. What i wanted to do was the exact same with the executive order and i said this to my people, give them a onemonth period of time, but general kelly, now secretary kellie said if you do that all these people will come in the the bad do e done bad ones. He said cant do, i said wow i they ever thought of that and i said how soon, he said immediately. Nobody ever reports that. We would have wasted a lot of time and maybe a lot of lives, in the meantime were vetting very, very strongly, very, very strongly. But we need help and we need help by getting that executive order passed. If its so urgent hoping to get a yes or no answer on these. Can you say you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had talks with the russian during the election . Russia was a ruse. I have nothing to do with russia, havent made a phone call to russia in years, dont speak to people not that i wouldnt, i spoke to putin twice, he called me on the election, i told you this and he called me on the inauguration a few days. We had a very good talk especially the second one lasted for pretty long period of time. Im sure you probably get it because it was classified so im sure everybody in this room perhaps has it, but we had a very, very good talk. I have nothing to do with russia, no person that i deal with does, manafort totally denied it. People knew he was a consultant in that part of the world but not for russia, i think people having to do with ukraine or whoever, but people knew that, everybody knew that. In his capacity as your Campaign Manager was he in touch with russian officials during the election . No, he told me no, but he was in place long before the election. But Paul Manafort also a good man by the way, was replaced long before the election took place. He was only there for a short period of time. How much longer should we stay here, folks . Five more minutes. Is that okay . Five . I want to find a friendly reporter. Are you a friendly reporter . Watch how friendly he is. Go ahead. So, first of all, my name is jake terps. I havent seen anybody in my community accuse either yourself or anyone on your staff of being antisemitic, we have an understanding [ inaudible ] however, what we are concerned about and havent being heard addressed is how the government is planning to take care of it. There are reports that 48 bomb threats have been made against jewish senators across the week. There are people committing antisemitic