see what a good job we did in the final couple of weeks in terms of getting some tremendous people over the finish line they really are tremendous people but many of them were not known but they will be known this election marks the largest senate gains were a president's party in a first midterm election since at least president kennedy's in one thousand nine hundred sixty two there are been only four midterm elections since one nine hundred thirty four in which a president's party has gained even a single senate seat as of now we picked up it looks like three could be four perhaps it could be two but we picked up a lot. and most likely the number will be three people probably know that better than i do at this point because you've looked at the more recent numbers fifty five is the largest number of republican senators in the last one hundred

years in the last eighty years a sitting president's party has only gained a cumulative total of eight senate seats averaging one project kate so if we picked up two three or four that's a big percentage of that number so in the last eighty years you think of the only eight seats in president obama's first midterm election he lost six senate seats including in the deep blue state of massachusetts republicans captured at least four senate seats held by democrat incumbents and these are tremendously talented hard working people that did this indiana north dakota florida missouri. we also won two open senate seats in

tennessee i want to congratulate our great champion who did such a great job in tennessee marsha. and in utah. and arizona is looking very good a really very good he's done a terrific job there was a tough race and she's done a fantastic job. in each of these open seats democrats recruited very strong candidates with substantial fundraising and media support we were getting bombarded with money on the other. in the house republicans dramatically out performed historical precedents and overcame a historic number of retirements the most house republican retirements an eighty eight years forty three house republicans retired now i will say this that in

many cases they were chairman of committees and they left because they weren't chairman because the republicans have a rule for six years and what that does is wonderful in one way it lets people come through the system and become chairman in another way it drives people up because when they're a chairman they don't want to go and not be a chairman you're the chairman of a committee and you're a big deal and all of a sudden you're not doing that anymore so they leave we had a lot of them leave. i guess you can flip a coin as to which system is better the democrats to the other some of their folks have been in those committees for a long time is chairman in two thousand and ten president obama's first midterm he lost sixty three seats by contrast as of the most current account looks like around twenty seven house seats or something and we'll figure that out pretty soon we also had a slew of historic wins in the governors' races the governors' races who are incredible . against very well funded talented and skilled democrat candidates and

people that worked very very hard respectfully for those candidates like oprah winfrey who i like i don't know if she likes me any more but that's ok she used to . but she worked very hard in georgia very very hard and if you look at them for governors' races crucial to twenty twenty and the presidential race florida iowa ohio and georgia the big ones florida iowa ohio and georgia can't get much more important than than they were incredible they were actually incredible campaigns do incredible as of right now republicans will control the majority of governorships across the country including three great women who work very hard governors of alabama south dakota and

iowa they work very very hard very talented by expanding our senate majority the voters have also clearly rebute the senate democrats for their handling of the kavanaugh hearing snow is a factor i think may be a very big factor the way that was handled i think was tremendous energy was given to the republican party by the way they treated then judge cavanagh justice kevan and expressed their support for confirming more great pro constitution judges candidates who embraced our message of low taxes low regulations low crime strong borders and great judges excelled. last night they excelled they they really i mean we have a

a list of people that were fantastic and i'm just going to put them out mike bost rodney davis andy barr was fantastic i went to kentucky for the most part i didn't campaign for the house but i did actually make a special trip for andy barr because he was in a very tough race in kentucky and he won it was a very tough race the polls were all showing that he was down and down substantially and he won and that what i did do pete stopper of minnesota great guy his new then ran a fantastic race on the other hand you had some that decided to let's stay away let's stay away they did very poorly i'm not sure that i should be happy or sad but if you're just fine about it carlos you bella mike

coffman too bad mike. mia love i saw mia love she called me all the time to help her with a hostage situation being held hostage in venezuela. but mia love gave me no love. and she lost to bed sorry about that mia and barbara comstock was another one i mean i think she could have won that race but she did want to have any embrace for that i don't blame her. but she. she lost substantial unst. peter roskam didn't want to embrace eric paulson didn't want to embrace. ben in new jersey i think he could have done well but it didn't work out too good but bugan i feel badly because i think that something that could have been one that's arisen

could have been one john fast so those are some of the people that you know decided for their own reason not to embrace whether it's me or what we stand for but what we stand for. meant a lot to most people and we've had tremendous support then tremendous support of the republican party among the biggest support in the history of the party and i've actually heard at ninety three percent it's a record but i won't say that because who knows but we've had tremendous support. america is booming like never before doing fantastic we have larry kudlow here and he said the numbers are as good as he's ever seen numbers at any time for our country but he's a young man so he hasn't see that many numbers whereas larry you're a young man right larry and you haven't been doing this too long but there is good

as you've ever seen and we may have if you have a question for larry we'll do that but i want to send my warmest appreciation regards to majority leader mitch mcconnell we really worked very well together we have been working very well together we actually have a great relationship people just don't understand which is fun and also to. perhaps looks like i would think speaker nancy pelosi. and i give her a lot of credit she works very hard and she's worked long and hard i give her a great deal of credit for what she's done and what she's accomplished. hopefully we can all work together next year to continue delivering for the american people including on economic growth infrastructure trade lowering the cost of prescription drugs these are some of the things that the democrats do want to work on and i really believe will be able to do that i think we're going to have

a lot lot of. lot of reason to do and i will say just as a matter of business i was most of very successful people last night we were watching the returns so if the republicans won and let's say we held on by two or want with three it would have been very hard out of that many republicans to ever even get support among republicans because they'll always be one or two or three people that for good reason or for bad reason or for grandstanding we have that too you've seen that. you've seen that plenty of grandstanding but for certain reasons that many people you know it's going to have a couple that won't do it so that puts us at a very bad position of the words had we kept and this is no i'm saying this for a very basic raises common sense it puts us in a very tough position we win by one or two or three and you'll have one or two or three or four or five even come over and say you know look we're not going to go

along with this we want this this this and all of a sudden we can't of it we wouldn't be able to get it in many cases out of the republicans hands before we set it on to the senate and now we have a much easier path because the democrats will come to us with a plan for infrastructure a plan for health care a plan for whatever they are looking at. and we'll negotiate that as you know it's been very hard in the senate because we need essentially ten votes from democrats and we don't get those votes because the democrats do really stick together well i don't agree with them on a lot of policy but i agree with them on sticking together they stick together agree so now we go into the senate we don't have the ten votes and what happens it doesn't get passed even if it gets out of the house or does it get passed so under the new concept of what we're doing i say come on let me see what you have they

want to do things you know i keep hearing about. investigations fatigue like from the time almost from the time i announced i was going to run they've been giving us this investigation for take then a long time we got nothing zero you know why cause there is nothing but they can play that game but we can play it better because we have a thing called the united states senate and a lot of very questionable things were done between leaks of classified information and many other elements that should not have taken place and all you're going to do is end up in back and forth and back and forth and two years is going to go up and we won't have done a thing i really think and i really respected what nancy said last night about

bipartisanship and getting together and uniting she used the word uniting and she used the the bipartisanship statement which is so important because that's what we should be during so we can look at us they can look at us then we can look at them and we'll go back and forth and it'll probably be very good for me politically i could see it being extremely good politically i think i'm better at that game than they are actually. but we'll find out i mean you know we'll find out or we can work together you can do and simultaneously by the way just in case somebody saw you can go but no you can't because if they're doing that we're not doing the other just say you understand it so we won't be doing that but now what happens is we send it to the senate and we'll get one hundred percent democrat support and we'll get some republican support and if it's good i really believe we have republicans who will help with the approval process and they were really helped with the approval process so it really could be

a beautiful bipartisan type of situation if we one by one or two or three or four or five that wouldn't happen and the closer it is the worse it is this way they'll come to me when they go shave maybe we'll make a deal maybe we were wrong that's possible but we have a lot of things in common on infrastructure we want to do something on health care they want to do something on health care there are a lot of great things that we can do together and now we'll send it up and we will really get we'll get the democrats and we'll get the republicans or some of the republicans and i'll make sure that we send something up that the republicans can support and they're going to want to make sure they send something up that the democrats can support so our great country is booming like never before and we're thriving on every single level both in terms of economic and military strength in terms of development and terms of g.d.p. we're doing unbelievably i will tell you our trade deals are coming along

fantastically the u.s. m.c.a. and. south korea's finished. u.s.m.c. has gotten rave reviews are going to lose companies anymore to other countries they're not going to do that because they have a tremendous economic incentive it's meaning it's prohibitive. for them to do that so it's not going to be like nafta which is one of the worst deals i've ever seen although we've made some other pretty bad ones to now is the time for members of both parties to join together to put partisanship aside and keep the american economic miracle going strong it is a miracle we're doing so well and i've said it a lot of rallies some of you have probably heard it so much you don't want to hear it again but when people come to my office presidents prime ministers they all congratulate me almost the first thing on what we've done economically because it

is really amazing and our steel industry is back our aluminum industry is starting to do really well these are industries that were dead our miners are working again . we must all work together to protect our military have to do that to support our law enforcement secure our borders and advance really great policy including environmental policy we want crystal clean water we want beautiful perfect air air and water has to be perfect at the same time we don't want to put ourselves at a disadvantage to other countries who are very competitive with us and who don't abide by the rules at all we don't want to hurt our jobs we don't want to hurt our factories we don't want companies leaving we want to be totally competitive and we are and right now we have just about the cleanest air the cleanest water we've ever had and it's always going to be that way we insist on it so environmental is very

important to me and with that i'll take a few questions of you like whoa. i don't know what happened. that was a lot of hand shooting up so. as a lot to talk about. mr president you talked a length just now about bipartisanship the presumed speaker of the house nancy pelosi talked about it last night i'm sure that's encouraging for the american people but do you really believe given what the relationship has been like between this white house and the democratic party that that will happen will it really there's a good chance i think is a very good chance if i can just finish it will happen will you have to compromise on certain issues to the point where could hurt you in two thousand and twenty and do you expect that when the democrats take over the chairmanship of all these important committees you're going to get hit with a blizzard of subpoenas on everything from the russian education gun to your cell phone use to your tax return address then you're going to if that happens then

we're going to do the same thing and government comes to a halt and i would blame them because they now are going to be coming up with policy they're the majority of the house i expect that they will come up with some fantastic ideas that i can support on the environment on so many different things including prescription drug prices which we've made a big dent in already including some of the things that we're working on for the vets we've got in choice approve we've got a lot of things approved but they have some other elements that we want there are many things we can get along on without a lot of trouble that we agree very much with them and they agree with us i would like to see bipartisanship i'd like to see unity and i think we have a very good chance of the end maybe not on everything but i think we have a very good chance of of seeing that. one question on the lame duck sir and one on your cabinet if you toyed with the idea during the campaign of

a shutdown before the midterms in order to secure border wall funding are you prepared to go into shutdown strategy during the lame duck since this might be your last best chance not necessarily secure that look i speak to democrats all the time they agree that a wall is necessary wallace necessity and as you know we're building the where we started but we should build it at one time not in chunks but you want much more money and you want you know we didn't or the money to build the wall the whole wall not pieces of it all over and we are doing now we have the military now we have other elements of a wall that are pretty nasty to be honest with you but it's nevertheless it's pretty hard to get through it but no i'd like to see the wall many of the people that will be dealing with you know in two thousand and six they approve the wall essentially it was a very strong border fence but it was the same thing and they all approved and they all agreed i have statements from every one of them we have them saying we need the wall i mean they sound like me but we do need it because we have people coming and

i'm not just talking about the caravans we have people coming through our border that you physically can't put that many people it's a two thousand mile stretch you can't put that many people along that stretch to guard it and even if you did tremendous fighting would ensue so we need the wall many democrats know we need the wall and we're just going to have to see what happens i mean i will be fighting for it they have done everything in their power to make sure where i got the military seven hundred billion seven hundred sixteen billion the wall is a tiny tiny fraction of the cost of that but their whole agenda has been to try not giving me anything for the wall i really believe politically they're hurting themselves i actually think politically that's a good thing for me but i want to get the wall up because we need to so no shutdown scenario i don't know them can't tell them it from the island commit to that but it's possible. can you give us clarity sir on your thinking currently now after the

midterms about your attorney general and your deputy attorney general do they have long term job security your answer that. at a little bit different time we're looking at a lot of different things including cap and i'm very happy with most of my cabinet we're looking at different people for different positions you know it's very common after the midterms and they want to do anything before the midterms but i will tell you that for the most part i'm extremely happy with my cab and i think mike pompei oh he's fit in so beautifully he's done an incredible job turns here secretary we're looking at that and i want i do want to study whatever is being said. he's doing i think he's doing an excellent job but we will take a look at that in a very strong and we'll probably have an idea about that in about a week thank you mr president thank you. well this. he gave me a fair interview the other day so i might as well ask him a question all right thank you mr president and pick you up there you told me the

other day that you are an open book so i think i am an open book so point blank democrats go after your tax returns will you try to block that or will you allow them now i look as i've told you they were under audit they have been for a long time they're extremely complex people wouldn't understand it done by among the biggest and best law firms in the country same thing with the accounting firms the accountants or met a very very large powerful firm from the standpoint of respect the highly respected big firm for a great law firm where you would you know it very well they do these things they put them in. but people don't understand tax returns now i did do a filing of over one hundred pages i believe which is in the offices and when people went and saw that filing and they saw the magnitude of it they were very disappointed and they saw the you know the details you'd get far more from that and i guess we filed that down three times but you get far more from that that you

could ever get from a tax return but when you're under audit and i'm on a very continuous audit because there are so many companies and it is a very big company far bigger than you would even understand but it's a it's a great company but it's big and it's complex and it's probably feet high it's a very complex instrument and i think that. people wouldn't understand it but if i were finished with the audit i would have an open mind to it i would say that but i don't want to do it during the audit and really no lawyer even from the other side they say often not all it's but when you're under audit you don't have you don't subject it to that you get it done and then you release it so when that happens if that happens i would certainly have an open mind to it so that means if the author to still on you will not turn over the tax returns are you when he wrote it no nobody would nobody turns over return when it's under

a can. there's. when i was tempted to ask you why you like oprah so much but i think i'll go on to the question that why do i like what kind of a question is just asking just curious but there's a real question median here the real question i do like oprah but i do she was a person i knew well came to my place in palm beach often and i have a lot of respect for unfortunately she didn't do the trick the the real question is you just set up here and said that from this podium that it's your are you offering in my way or highway scenario to the democrats you're saying that oh shit it out of if they start investigating you that you can play that game and investigate better than them can you come can i think you are no man alive and i know more than they know can you cut part metalized that and still continue to work with them for the benefit of the rest of the country or you are all bets off no if they do that and

just all it is is a war like posture and you know that enough when at the fall of the un you heard joe you heard me answer go well since it's. i think this president challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in midterms there we go that well if you don't mind us president bush that this caravan was an invasion as you know it is hard to center to be that as you know this president karen was not an invasion it's a it's a group of migrants moving up from central america towards the border with the u.s. thank you for ted the white why did you why did you characterize it as such and i consider it an invasion you and i have a difference of opinion do you think that you demonized immigrants not as a lecture oh no dr i want them i want them to come into the country but they have to come in legally you know they have to come in through a process i wanted to be a process and i want people to come in and we need the people you know campaign at your campaign wait you know why we need to be able to because we have hundreds of

companies moving in we need people your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and all that a lot of it for it but they were an actor not going to be doing they were actors you know it's true do you think they were actors they were an act is that income from hollywood these were these were people this was an actual you know it happened a few days ago and they're hundreds of miles away that there are hundreds and hundreds of way that i thought it invaded and honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. our and if you didn't well your ratings let me ask you if i may ask one of the question this present right if i may i don't know if you are you worried that's a tough that sort of president that's an ask one of the other folks that said now fired me ma'am on this wednesday that's enough the president had one of a dozen that i may ask you on on the russian best occasion are you concerned that that you may have not could i heard about anything with you may have shut misogynistic because it's a hoax or you that's enough put down the mike is president are you worried about indictments coming down in this event. mr president. what

c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person you shouldn't be working for c.n.n. . i think that's not there are very rude person the way you treat sarah huckabee is horrible and the way you treat other people horrible you shouldn't treat people that way and going to peter in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter basile i'm not a big fan of yours either so i understand to be honest i'm so let me ask the question if i can at you repeatedly lart you are the best mr president you repeatedly over the course you can just sit down place. well when you when you report fake do snow when you report fake doos which c.n.n. does a lot you are the enemy of the people go ahead mr president over the course over the course of the last several days of the campaign sir sir at the end of the campaign you repeatedly said that americans need to fear democrats he said democrats would unleash a wave of violent crime that endangers families everywhere why are you going to

very many are going to crime why are you pitting americans against one another senator what are you trying to be him now as advocates let me just tell you first simple because they very weak on crime because they have often suggested members and people within the democrat party at a high level have suggested getting rid of ice getting rid of law enforcement that's not going to happen ok we want to be strong on the borders we want to be strong on law enforcement and i want to i want to cherish ice because ice does a fantastic job so the what they do for us is so really it's so unrecognized how good a job they do so we want to take care of them and we want to hold them very close because they do a good job but the question to the to be clear the question you very much why are you sit down with a question but you didn't answer my question just very simply the question is why are you pitting americans against one another sir i'm not that how you view how i'm going to does it i just tell you what we want to a lot of elections less. knight we did very well last night at

a many ways i think i'm going to have three i think it's going to have a very positive impact i watch n.b.c. this morning they didn't report it exactly correctly but that's you know very very that's the fact with n.b.c. nothing i can do about that but i want this country to have protection we want security in our country i want security peter i mean you maybe don't think it's so important and i think when you don't have it you are indeed unleashing crime i feel that just that he would sign an executive order on her throat citizenship are you still going to sign an executive order on earth right legislator when that question a little bit later go ok go ahead sure. thank you mr president the investigation by the special counsel robert muller has been going on since last spring it's been over a year long time that's been over your head over republicans had during the midterms as well is this an opportunity for you mr president to end that investigation would you consider removing mr mueller from his position i could have ended it any time i

wanted i didn't and there was no collusion there was no anything i didn't. they get went after hackers in moscow i don't know about that they went after people with tax problems from years ago they went out there people with loans and other things nothing to do with my campaign this is a investigation where many many millions of dollars has been spent and there's no collusion it was supposed to be on collusion there's no collusion and. i think it's i think it's very bad for a country i will tell you i think it's a shame and a poll came out today by the way from n.b.c. or at least i saw it on n.b.c. where a majority of the people do not agree with the motor investigation or wasn't approved they have approval and disapproval and it have a much higher disapproval. it should end because it's very bad for

a country so if and i'm not just talking about the tremendous expense and the other thing is they should look at the other side also the a look at one side they're not looking all of the things that came up during this investigation they don't do that they should also get people that could be fair not thirteen or fourteen or seventeen i call them the angry democrats they are angry people and it's a very unfair thing for this country it's a very very good about unfair to me it's very bad for our country mr president. you know just like us all if it's unfair to the country and it's costing millions of dollars why don't you just give him the money that lays i've answered the question so i take the take for. well i'll give you a voter so i will give you voter suppression you just have to sit down please sit down i didn't call you i didn't call you i didn't call you i'll give you voter suppression take a look at the c.n.n.

polls how inaccurate they were that's called voter suppression please thank you mr president. i'm not i'm not responding i'm responding to excuse me i'm not responding to you i'm talking to this gentleman will you please sit with excuse me excuse me would you please sit down please go ahead thank you mr president now that the now that the house of representatives hostile is such a hostile media it's so said you asked me but no you rudely interrupted him you rudely interrupted him go ahead thank you mr president do your demands remain to sent the same to the. states congress on immigration in exchange for a dock a fix and exchange for an amnesty for one point seven million are you willing to change any of those demands that you gave to congress early i think we could really do something having to do with doc and what really happened with dr we could have done so pretty good work on doctor but a judge ruled that doctor was ok had the judge not ruled that way i think we would

have made a deal once the judge ruled that way the democrats didn't want to talk anymore so it will see we'll see how it works out at the supreme court do you still. go ahead . from where. they're going to. go ahead which which group where do you want me to take a question from go ahead take the either one either one. or both i mean are you together in that together mr president how do you respond to critics who say that your message on the campaign towards minorities have been polarizing i don't think it has in it all but is the election of two ms muslim women one of them is veiled to the house which.