component. would you like to see more of a focus on that? sphend this out, the trade war, a lot of the way this may play out, might be going the other direction? mr.smith: it is a concern and former committee chairman kevin brady was quick to say about buy american and he said let's make sure we can sell american and that's important in my district obviously, a huge agriculture district. but i also think our engagement in the world has been lacking so much that other countries expect more of us. we look at the independent do pacific. i nicknamed that because it was a light touch when other countries were expecting more out of the united states and weren't seeing it and now we

have a new administration and clearly president trump has higher expectations of our trading partners and i think they are taking this very seriously and trade agenda could help our country and -- >> we are going to take you to the white house where a short time president trump signed additional executive orderers. >> iranian export and give you all of the possible tools to engage with the iranian government going forward. president trump: everybody wants me to sign it. it's very tough on iran. we would never had the problem and never would have october 7 and never had the problem had the election gone a different

way. but this one, i think more than made up for it. and much more historic. the iran situation hopefully -- i'm going to sign it, but hopefully not use it as much. we will see and work out a deal with iran and everybody can live together and maybe that's possible and maybe that's not possible. i am signing this and i'm unhappy to do it but i have not so much choice because we have to be strong and firm and i hope it's not going to have to be used in any great measure at all. it would be great if we have a middle east and world at total peace. right now. when i left, you had peace all over the world and now the world is blowing up.

bebe is coming in. i am signing this and hopefully it will be a document which won't be hardly important. reporter: which kind of deal -- president trump: they cannot have a nuclear weapon. iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [indiscernible] >> are you going to block the sale of iranian oil to other nations? president trump: we have the right to do that. they wouldn't have had the money for hamas or anybody else. it could have been settled. if things went the way things should have, this would have been long ago. but it's not over.

reporter: developing nuclear weapons. president trump: i think they are close. too close. go back four years, i would have said they had it during this intervening period. reporter: if it's iran and proxies who have threatened to kill you guys. president trump: they haven't done that and that will be a terrible thing, not because of me if they did that. they would be obliterated. i have left instructions, if they do it, they get obliterated and won't be anything left and shouldn't be. biden should have said that. lack of intelligence. but he never said that. if it happens to a leader or close to a leader frankly and other people involved also, you would call for total

obliteration of a state. i am signing this and it's a very powerful document and i hope we don't have to use that. reporter: if the prime minister were to ask your help at striking at iran's nuclear facilities to prevent the progress towards a nuclear weapon, would you give him the green light to do it himself? president trump: i have no idea. we are going to have a pretty long meeting, discussing a lot of things. and i'll let you know if the time comes. but right now that's not something i can discuss. >> when you say, just to be clear if iran made an attempt on your life? president trump: yeah. that would be total

obliteration. and i can't imagine -- it should have been stated by biden, but he didn't state it because he had no clue, as you know, everybody knows. reporter: what is your vision? president trump: for what? reporter: relationship with iran? president trump: they can't have a nuclear weapon. they can't have a nuclear weapon. beyond that, we would be very tough. they have some of their leadership, i can tell you right now and maybe you know it and maybe you don't, but many people at the top ranks of iran don't want to have a nuclear weapon. reporter: what is your reaction to the tariffs? president trump: it's fine. we are going to do fine against china and everybody else.

they are taking advantage of the biden administration. never seen the deficit a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars. they are using our money to build military and biden let that happen. this is like a different place. good news is we are doing well. we are doing well with countries. we are respected again as a nation. maybe at a level that people haven't seen for many, many decades. when i left, we didn't have any wars. i defeated isis 1 100%. and see if we can stop it. reporter: have you reached to the iranians? president trump: i have nothing -- i am one who doesn't care if i reach out or they

reach out. people say let them reach out. it's just talk, but i want to see everybody do well. i want to see peace in the middle east and elsewhere. we are working hard with respect to russia-ukraine. total blood bath. what is going on there. young soldiers being killed by the thousands. i mean literally by the thousands and we want to see -- i had some very good talks. reporter: any update -- [indiscernible] president trump: at the appropriate time. i'm in no rush. reporter: can it lend itself to the type of freeze -- president trump: short-term freeze with mexico and with canada. but they have agreed to be very,

very strong on the border, by a factor of about 30 and in addition to that as you can see, we have had numbers like you have never seen before. the border is closed and letting good people coming through but the border is closed. reporter: do you intend prime minister netanyahu -- [indiscernible] president trump: both sides mean a lot. i talk about that and talk about the other side and everything. reporter: what is your main message to him? president trump: i'm here to listen. he is here to see me. reporter: will you continue to press -- [indiscernible] president trump: i would like to see jordan and egypt.

i has never worked. and i feel very differently about gaza. i think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land and get people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and habitable and enjoyable. reporter: if think don't want to leave? president trump: it's a deem lishon site. if we could find the right piece of land and build them some really nice places and plenty of money in the area, that's for sure, that would be a lot better than going back to gza which had decades and decades of debt. they could be in jordan, egypt or other places and have more than two or more than one. and you would have people living in a place that could be very

beautiful and safe and nice. gaza has been a disaster for decades. reporter: would you pay for that? president trump: i think there are plenty of people that would in the area that certainly have a lot of money. some of the countries would like to see it. saudi arabia would like to see peace. and many of the countries there -- as far as i am concerned, they want peace. i think iran would like to see peace. they have had enough. reporter: egypt and jordan said they have no interest to do this. president trump: a lot of people have said they wouldn't take anybody back in venezuela and flying them right back and doing the right thing in venezuela. panama canal is in active discussion right now.

and virtually that has been said is incorrectly stated. [indiscernible] president trump: i don't think so. they had the alternative. they have no alternative right now. they are there because they have no alternative. what do they have? it is a big pile of rubble right now. have you seen the pictures of it? who could live like that and very dangerous. shooting all over the place, bombing all over the place on both sides. i don't think if they had an option of moving in a large group or smaller groups, i would think that they would be thrilled to do it. when you say the dpazza strip, they don't have an option. it's very dangerous.

[indiscernible] president trump: they don't have an option. they have to go back to gaza. there is practically not a building standing. those buildings are shifting and falling down all over the place and there's gun fire all over and going to be like that. reporter: wouldn't it be more sense -- [indiscernible] president trump: what are you talking about? reporter: more strikes overhead. president trump: strikes could be tomorrow. not a lot left to strike. the whole place is demolished and unsafer and unsan tower. and not a place where people want to live. they have no alternative but to go back and we gave them an alternative of link in a

beautiful open place with some nice quarters there, nice housing and sorts and we have the money in the middle east to build there. reporter: do you support israelis moving back? president trump: i support cleaning it up and doing something with it. but it has failed for many decades and somebody will be sitting here 10 years from now and going through the same stuff and had civilizations on gaza. and they are buried in the sand. reporter: elon musk, how often are you talking to him and ideas that he has brought to you and said oh, no, this is going too far? president trump: doing a great job and look at the fraud he has found in usaid, radical left

lunatics. nobody would have believed. hundred million spent on you know what were money going to all sorts of groups. i would like to see what the kickbacks. who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about and i read about and every morning when i read the papers, would spend money for that. the people that got all that money are they kicking it back that gave it from government. to me, very, very corrupt. how much of a kickback? and one of the things i want to investigate rapidly because i never seen anything to this extent, the train that is being built between los angeles and san francisco is the worst managed project i have ever seen. billions and billions, hundreds

of billions of dollars over budget. i read where you could take every single person that was going to get on the train and get the finest limo and take them back and forth and have hundreds of billions of dollars left over. and we are going to start an investigation in that because it's not possible. i built on time, on budget, impossible that something could cause that much and now it's not even going to san francisco and not going to los angeles. they made it much shorter. and little places way away from san francisco and way away from los angeles. we are going to start a big investigation in that because i never seen anything like it. the worst overruns that there have been in the history of our country and wasn't even necessary. you take an airplane and cost

you $2 and costs you knowing. pa and if you have to you can drive. they have hundreds of billions of dollars of cost overruns and not even the same project but much shorter and way outside of san francisco and way outside of los angeles. so we will be looking. reporter: doge going to investigate the train? no. imdoing. [indiscernible] has he met any of these guys? president trump: they work out of the white house and smart people unlike what they do in control towers. we should use some of them in the control towers where we are putting people where they were intellectually deficient.

we need smart people. some are young, some are not young at all. look at the list of things -- maybe i'll do it tomorrow, a list of 15 or 20 things they found inside of usaid and has to be corrupt. nobody could approve that and only could be approved if they were getting kickbacks. reporter: you are going to line down usaid. president trump: sounds like that. i can see marco rubio being in charge because i think some of the money is well spent, i guess, but much of it is really fraudulent. reporter: why nominate linda mcmahon of the secretary of department of education?

president trump: i want to put herself out of a job. we are ranked number one. we spend more per pupil and ranked at the bottom of the list. what i want to do is let the state runs. i believe in school choice. i want the states to run schools and i want linda to put herself out of job. [indiscernible chatter] president trump: give the schools back to indiana, idaho. so, if you look at the list, denmark, sweden, norway way, china, list of well educated you have a lot of countries not

surprising. i think if you move their schools into some of the states that are well run states they would be as good as denmark, norway and sweden and you know who they are. if you go to new york and suffolk and long island and nassau, you have maybe six or seven locations and new york city which would include the five burroughs and that would run much better. same thing with los angeles or california. you would have riverside -- break it up to six or seven. most of them would be states and you would have one in iowa. give it to the state of indiana. these are really well states,

they don't have debt or problems or any crimes relatively to speak of. and you would have education that would be the equivalent of norway and denmark and various other places at the top of the list. we are at the bottom of the list. top of the list when it comes to costs per pupil. we spend more per pupil and rated number 40. the last ratings came out. they talk about 40 countries and rated number 40. and i say if we did this, we would go 20, 30 notches up. we would do great and have some of the best districts in the world. reporter: are you doing it with an executive order? president trump: we would have to work with the teachers' union. they are opposed to it.

no one would want to hold them back. we are rated last in the world in the top 40. which are 38 and now 40. 37. but we are 40 now. just came out. [indiscernible question] allow americans to be put in a different country. is that something you are looking at? president trump: we have hardend criminals, horrible people. you see them pushing people into subways and the train is coming and walking around and sees a train coming 40 miles an hour and gets pushed into the subway and these are sick people. if we can get them out of our country, no different than a

prison system except it would be less expensive and send them to other country. we are talking about getting the criminals of you our country, the illegal migrants. we have people that are just as bad as them in our country and if we can get them out, i would be very happy. >> he wanted you to pay a fee. president trump: very small fee that we pay to private prisons. we'll have to find that out. if we have the legal right to do it, i would do it in a heartbeat. we are looking at it and make deals and get these animals out of our country and the shooters and people that hit old ladies in the back of the head about a baseball bat and you see it, the

people that take out a gun and shoot you for no reason and get these animals and put them in a different country under the supervision that made a relatively small fee to maintain these people because you know what? these are criminals and call them hardend criminals and been in jail 40 times. one, 42 times and every time the person gets out, it's a he, he commits another crime within 424 hours. we don't want these people in our country either. if we had the option to get them out and let them be based in another country at a fraction of the cost. that person who has been arrested 42 times or 22 times or 17 times in for manslaughter and

only gets out because a weak judicial because they go after people like trump and they laugh at our law. if that took place, you would have a lot less crime automatically. [indiscernible] reporter: guantanamo guantanamo bay, is there a lot of space? president trump: we are going to use it. but we can do less expensive and even more secure and other countries come to us saying we would love to do that and take your criminals and we'll maintain that. i'm talking about the most severe cases. i watched that guy on tape pushing a man into the subway. that man who did that is a real

bad guy. many, many arrests and you are going to convince him to be good and be a wonderful citizen. never going to happen. i want those people out. i would like to get them along with the migrants. i would like to get them out and all subject to the laws of the land and looking to see if we can do it. reporter: what other countries have offered to take -- president trump: numerous. marco brought it up because a lot of people are thinking it. when i watch the crimes -- look at chicago. the volume of crime they have and viciousness of the crime. these people are horrible people and if they think they are going to be wonderful citizens one day, it's not going to happen. these are hard, tough criminals

and in some says cases are crazy. if i can get them and go to another country and make a small fee compared to what we put them in a private prison, i would love to get them the hell out of our country. thank you very much. there is a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty goodwiner. reporter: what do you think about joe biden signing on with a talent agency? president trump: i think he has much bigger problems than that. i wish him well. this place is a mess. but it's quickly being some offed. we are going to make america great again. thank you. >> thank you.

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