not focused on that. what we told the people we were going to do. that outcome, the discharge petition will be contrary to the mandate of the election. that is what i am concerned about. that is why we are trying to stop it and get a good ill the president is supportive of. ohio republican jim jordan, cofounder of the freedom caucus, is our guest on newsmakers, sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. before leaving for his meeting with kim jong-un, president trump talked to reporters about the g-7 summit in canada. and took some questions. this is about 30 minutes.

>> thank you very much. i appreciate it. we wanted to have a little bit of a conference to announce what we have done. i think it has been very successful. we have concluded a tremendously successful g7 and would like to provide you with an update. you know the gentlemen up here. the legendary larry kudlow and the legendary john bolton. we had a good meeting, both on defense and the environment, and frankly, on tariffs. which is what we are here for. first, i would like to thank prime minister trudeau for hosting this summit. it has worked out to be so wonderful. the people of canada are wonderful. it is a great country and a very beautiful country, i might add. we tackled a variety of issues facing our nations. at the top of the list was the issue of trade.

a very important subject because the united states has been taken advantage of for decades and we cannot do that anymore. we had extremely productive discussions on the need to have fair and reciprocal -- meaning the same -- people cannot charge us 270% and we charge them nothing. that does not work anymore. i made a lot of statements having to do with clarity. we want and expect other nations to provide fair market access to american exports, and we will take whatever steps are necessary to protect american industry and workers from unfair foreign trading practices, of which really there are many. but we are getting them straightened out slowly but surely. we also discussed the issue of uncontrolled migration and the threat it poses to national security and other groups and countries and our citizens and

quality of life.

the relationships were outstanding. pastse the leaders of the did not do a good job on trade, and i am not blaming countries, people, it hasr to change. it is not a question of, i hope

it changes. it is going to change. to come down.ing people cannot continue to do that. we are the piggy bank everyone is robbing. trader.dlow is a ee even larry has seen the ravages of what they have done. would you like to say something? interesting point in terms of the meeting, i don't know if they were surprised with president trump's free trade proclamation. but they certainly listened to it and we had lengthy discussions about it. he said to reduce the barriers, go to zero tariffs, zero subsidies. and along the way, we will have to clean up the international trading system, about which there was virtual consensus on agreement of that. that will be a target.

it is the best way to promote economic growth. we will all be better and stronger. i was gratified to hear my president talk about free trade. thank you much. president trump: and it is very unfair to our farmers. our farmers are essentially, whether through a barrier or through high tariffs that make it impossible, and this is all over the world. this is not just g7. we have where some of the tariffs are 100%, and india. 100%. and we charge nothing. you can't do that. so, we are talking to all countries. and it is going to stop -- or we will stop trading with them. that is a very profitable answer if we have to do it. >> another question on trade. you said you think the tariffs will come down. it does appear various countries are moving forward with

retaliatory tariffs on the u.s. did you get any concessions or agreements with any of these countries not to move forward with those? and are you willing to not move forward? president trump: we have a tremendous trade imbalance. so when we try to bring our piece of a little bit so it is not so bad and they go up, the difference is they do so much more business with us than we do with them that we cannot lose that, you understand. we cannot lose it. as an example with one country, we have $375 billion in trade deficits. we cannot lose. you could make the case they lost years ago. but when you're down $375 billion, you cannot lose. and we have to bring them up. there is very bad spirit when we have a big trade imbalance to balance, just balance, and the

keep raising it so you never catch. that is not a good thing to do. and we have very strong measures that take care of that because we do so much. the numbers are so astronomically against them in terms of anything per your question. we won that war 1000 times out of 1000. yes, sir. >> [indiscernible] president trump: two things can happen on nafta. we will either leave it the way it is as a threesome deal with canada, the united states, and mexico, and change it very substantially -- or we will make a deal directly with canada and directly with mexico. both of those things could be happen. if a deal is not made, that would be a very bad thing for canada and a very bad thing for

mexico. for the united states, frankly, it would be a good thing, but i'm not looking to do that. i am not looking to play that game. we will either have nafta in a better-negotiated form or we will have two deals. >> does it have a sunset clause? president trump: it will have a sunset. you have two sunset provisions that have been heavily negotiated. you have two concepts of sunset. we are pretty close on the sunset division. >> 5 years? president trump: we have one that is five years. you know it very well. you have studied it very well. congratulations. you have one group that likes to have five years and renegotiation at the end of five years. and you have another group that wants longer because of investments. they are pretty close. yes, sir. >> to come back to russia for a second, something that got him kicked out of the g8 was the

invasion of crimea. do you think it should be recognized? president trump: president obama let crimea get away during his administration. he was the one that let russia spend a lot of money on crimea because they spent a lot of money rebuilding it. crimea was let go during the obama administration. obama can say all he wants, but he allowed russia to take crimea. i may have had a much different attitude. you would really have to ask that question to president obama. you know, why did he do that. that being said, it has been done a long time. >> will you allow russia back into the g8 with crimea still -- president trump: i would rather see russia in the g8 as opposed to the g7. i would say the g8 is a more meaningful group than the g7, absolutely. yes, ma'am. >> did you find the europeans

and canadians, when they made the case to you that you should not use national security as a justification for tariffs? president trump: they virtually did not even make that case. my case is the fact it is national security. it is our balance sheet. it is our strength. it is absolutely national security. just take a look at our balance sheet. we will have a very strong balance sheet. we have the strongest economy we have ever had in the united states. the best unemployment numbers. black unemployment the lowest in history. i don't mean the lowest in the last 10 or 20 years. hispanic unemployment as well. black unemployment is doing the best it has ever done. hispanic doing the best. women, soon it will be the best ever in the country's history.

we have to have deals that are fair. and we have to have deals that are economic. otherwise, that does affect our military. >> how do you make that case? president trump: it is easy. it is economic. to have a great military, you need a great balance sheet. ok? yes, sir. go ahead. >> as you were heading into the g7 talks, there was a sense america's allies were frustrated and angry with you and you were angry with them and you were leaving here early to meet for friendlier talks with kim jong-un in singapore. i wonder if you view the u.s. the same way and if you view the u.s. alliances during your presidency shifting away -- president trump: who said that? >> cnn. president trump: i figured. fake news cnn. the worst. i had no idea you were with cnn.

i would say the level of relationship is a 10. we have a great relationship. angela, emmanuel, and justin, i would say the relationship is a 10. i don't blame them. i blame our past leaders. there is no reason we should have big trade deficits with virtually every country in the world. there is no reason for this. it the fault of the people who preceded me. and i'm not just saying president obama. i am going back a long way. you can go back 50 years, frankly. it has just gotten worse and worse and worse. we used to be a nation that was unbelievably cash flow oriented. had no debt of any consequence. and they built the highway system. we built the interstate system virtually out of cash flow. it was a lot different.

we have a very good relationship. i don't blame these people. but i will blame these people if they don't act smart and do what they have to do because they have no choice. i will be honest with you. they had no choice. they will either make the trades fair because our farmers have been hurt. you look at our farmers. for 15 years, the graph has gone just like this, down. our farmers have been hurt. our workers have been hurt. our companies have moved to other countries, including canada. we are going to fix that situation. if it is not fixed, we are not going to deal with these countries. but the relationship i have had is great. you can tell that to your fake friends at cnn. the relationship i have had with the people, the leaders of these countrien a scale of 0-10, i would rate it a 10. that does not mean i agree with what they are doing. and they know very well i don't.

so, we are negotiating very hard tariffs and barriers. as an example, the european union is brutal to the united states. and they understand that. they know it. when i tell them that, they are smiling at me like the gig is up. the gig is up. there is nothing they can say. they can't believe they got away with it. cannot believe they got away with it. mexico. we have a $100 billion trade deficit with mexico, and that does not include all of the drugs pouring in because we have no wall. we have started building the wall, as you know. $1.6 billion, and we will keep that going. a lot of these countries smile at me when i am talking. the smile is we could not believe we got away with it. it is going to change. they have no choice. if it is not going to change, we are not going to trade with them. how about a couple more? go ahead in the back.

>> i'm with politico. going into the talks with kim jong-un, do you have a clear objective of what you want to get out of it? president trump: i have a clear objective. i have to say it is going to be something that will always be spur of the moment. this has not been done before at this level. this is a leader who really is an unknown personality. people don't know much about him. i think he is going to surprise on the upside, very much on the upside, but we will see. never been done. i'm talking about world leaders that have been right next to him have never met him. we are going in with a very positive spirit. i think very well prepared. and by the way, we have worked very well with their people. they have many people in shanghai.

our people have been in singapore. our people have been working very well with the representatives of north korea. we are going in with a very positive attitude, and i think we will come out fine. but i have said it many times, who knows? who knows. it may not work out. there is a good chance it will not work out. there is probably an even better chance it will take time. it will be a process. >> what would you look for from the initial talks to judge if things are going well? president trump: i think the minimum would be relationship, you would start at least a dialogue. as a deal person, i have done very well with deals. you want to start. i would like to accomplish more than that. but at a minimum, i do believe at least we will have met each other. we will have seen each other. hopefully, we will have liked each other and we will start that process. i would say that would be the minimum. and maximum, i think you know the answer to that.

i think it will take time. ok. how long will it take to figure out if he is serious? president trump: good question. how long it will take? i think within the first minute, i will know. that is what i do. how long will it take to figure out if they are serious? i say maybe within the first minute. they say you know whether you will like somebody in the first five seconds, you ever hear that one? well, i think very quickly i will know whether or not something good is going to happen. i also think i will know whether or not it will happen fast. it may not. but i think i will know pretty quickly whether or not, in my opinion, something positive will happen. and if i think it won't happen, i'm not going to waste my time. i don't want to waste his time. yes, ma'am. >> by giving kim the meeting, does he think he is getting a

win out of you? president trump: no. only the fake news says that. we just got three hostages back. paid nothing. they are happily ensconced with their families. they are the happiest people in the world right now. we have not done anything. everyone said, the haters, they say you, "oh, are giving him a meeting." give me a break. i think if i did not do this -- and it has never been done before. and obviously, what has been done before has not worked. this is something i cannot stress strong enough. i talked about tariffs previous people -- and i'm not looking to criticize people preceding me -- put on tariffs. it should have never happened. well, the same thing on north

korea. we should not be in this position with tariffs where we are hundreds of billions of dollars down to other countries that frankly were never negotiated with. they never got spoken to. i asked the top person in china, how did it get so bad? he looked at me and said, nobody ever talked to us. they were missing in action, our leaders. well, a very similar thing if you think about it with north korea. they should not be done now. they should have been done five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago. this should not be done now. one more question. >> will you raise the issue of the gulags? president trump: we will raise every issue. every issue will be raised. >> you have attacked the u.s. press back home but you have also done it on foreign soil.

i guess i would like to ask you why you do that. president trump: the u.s. press is very dishonest. much of it, not all of it. i have some folks in your profession in the u.s. that are some of the most outstanding but there are many people in the press that are unbelievably dishonest. they don't cover stories the way they are supposed to be. they don't even report them in many cases if they are positive. there is tremendous -- i came up with a term -- "fake news." a lot of fake news. at the same time, i have much respect for many people in the press. thank you all. i appreciate it. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

>> canadian prime minister justin trudeau had a news conference at the end of the economic summit to discuss what was accomplished with the other leaders. many of the questions had to do with the trade, nafta and the participation of president trump. this is 45 minutes. >> [speaking in french] >> i wanted leaders and their teams to have the experience of the legendary hospitality of the people of this region and that's exactly what i've seen in the last few days. thank