we're talking about today, they're building japan, many car plant in the united states which they weren't doing for a long time. they're building in michigan, ohio, lots of different states. we appreciate it very much. it has been a tremendous investment. we're here to talk about a little bit of a different purchase, that is good as far as we're concerned. thank you very much, very much. [applause] so we're gathered here today at the white house this afternoon to discuss a strong and groundbreaking achievement for the united states and japan, the signing of the new u.s.-japan trade agreement and the u.s.-japan digital grade agreement. digital is becoming a very big factor in the world. these two deals represent a tremendous victory for both of our nations. they will create countless jobs, expand investment and commerce,

reduce our trade deficit very substantially, promote fairness and reciprocity, unlock the vast opportunity for growth. in united states these deals are a became changer for our farmers and our ranchers. we love our farmers, we love our ranchers. we've been working very hard on this, providing them with significantly enhanced access to a critical foreign market. in a moment i'll be, really honoring a lot of folks in the room that are here with us from farm country, ranch country, and we're going to be witnessing a historic signing by ambassador robert lighthizer, ambassador from japan, a long trip but just got here. sojiyama of japan. grateful for the outstanding job you've done with both of you, your staffs, representatives thank you very much. bob, thank you very much. a lot of work.

we're also delighted that secretary of transportation elaine chao is here. where is elaine? where is elaine? hi, elaine. she is busy doing a fantastic job, thank you. thank you very much. deputy secretary of agriculture steve chansky is here. where is steve? hi, steven. thank you very much. i spoke to sonny last night, we're very well a great gentleman, popular man in the world, especially his wonderful state, steve daines. steve, i saw you back there. [applause] i also, saw your poll numbers. you are strong. you're doing good. that's a good decision by the voters i can tell you, thanks, steve. representatives jodey arrington and kevin hern. thank you for being here. as well as north dakota governor doug bergham.

thank you, thank you, doug. good job. say hello to your wife. north carolina lieutenant governor dan forest. hi, dan. we approved the last amount of money for the hurricanes you know about that, right in iowa lieutenant governor adam greg. adam, great job. and many other state and local fishes. we have some tremendously respected people here, political people. i want to extend a special welcome to all of the leaders here today representing american farmers and ranchers benefiting from this deal. there is a tremendously important deal and a very big deal. including those from our beef, pork, poultry, beef, dairy, corn associations. i would particularly like to recognize zippy, zippy duval, he

has been with us from the beginning. zippy. where is my, zippy. >> thank you, mr. president. >> thank you for being here. he is always here trying to make good deals for you folks, right? he is president and ceo of the american farm bureau federation. and we're doing really well. [inaudible] china is buying again. china is buying very big. a lot of people don't like to talk about that but china is in the market very big, buying agriculture. we're also joined by several senior leaders from our nation's top technology companies including chris padella of ibm. hi, chris. how are you? how is ibm doing? very good. you have a lot to do with farming too i know. >> we do. >> with all of those programs you do, smart farming, very smart farming. peggy johnson of microsoft. peggy, thank you very much for

being here. please say hello too. greg albright, business software alliance. thank you very much, greg. appreciate it. we do appreciate your support. it is really now smart farming. going to mit doesn't hurt either, when you're a farmer nowadays. it is incredible what they do. from day one my administration has fought tirelessly to achieve a level playing field for the american worker. in addition to the agreements we're signing signing signing we reached a tremendous agreement with mexico an canada to replace nafta with the new usmca. we hope it gets done in not-too-distant future. everybody wants it. farmers want it. manufactures want it. uns want it. people want it. in particular a great deal for all the countries and our workers. we're also completely renegotiating and now we have

completed that and signed it the u.s.-korea trade agreement be sentence stay expanding u.s. auto exports. it was a terrible agreement. we renegotiated it and now a very good agreement from the united states. it was not a good agreement for the united states at all. today's signing of the u.s. japan trade agreement and u.s.-japan digital trade agreement builds on the incredible successes to the benefit of both of our nations. while we're here, because of the fact we're talking about agriculture, ethanol and the farmers of nebraska and iowa and all of the difficult places that wanted it we've, we've come to an agreement and it is going to be, i guess about getting close to 16 billion barrels, right? something like that. that's a lot. that's a lot. say it again. >> 16 billion gallons. >> that's a lot. that's a lot of gallons. so i think, so they should like me out in iowa.

>> very appreciative. >> i think so. and also very importantly we've taken in tremendous amounts of money in the form of tariffs from china. china has eaten the cost of those tariffs because they have devalued their currency and they also pumped a lot of money into their system. deflation is, we have no inflation. if anything it is going below the number, so therefore we're entitled to an interest rate cut. i hope the fed does that. because we would be like a rocket ship. we're already the strongest economy in the world and doing better than just about any economy in the world. a lot of us are -- we would like to see a interest rate cut a very substantial one. and whatever else they want to do but we would be a rocket ship. if you look at from the time i got elected, if you go to november 9th, the day after the election, we're up close to 60% in the market, which is

numbers that are pretty much unheard of. because it's a fairly short period of time. our country is doing really well but we are taking care of our farmers out of the billions and billions of dollars that we've gotten. you know about that, sippy, right? we're giving 12 billion from the year before. 12 billion and that is compliments of china, thank you very much. and 16 billion this last year. we'll see what happens next year. maybe by that time it will straighten out but the farmers and ranchers were targeted to put it mildly by china. and it is niece that they're coming back and by the way, china is also coming here, their representatives are coming on thursday and friday. bob, i believe. and, so you will start some negotiations. the relationship is very good. whether or not we make a deal, i don't know. but there is certainly a good possibility. but the relationship is a very good one. but we've taken in billions of dollars. of those many, many more billions, we're giving

16 billion to our farmers because i asked sonny perdue, i said, sonny, what is the amount of money last year that the farmers were hurt? he said, sir, let me get back to you. the number was $16 billion. that's okay. we'll take 16 billion out of the tariffs and give it to the american farmer. think he appreciated that. it never gets reported by the fake news as i say but never gets reported, never. i don't know why they don't want to do it. zippy as you know, we took 12 billion from the year before. that also came from the large amounts of tariffs. people were actually saying, i read a report today i believe in the "washington times" where they talked about the tremendous amount of money that has actually come in from tariffs. and it has been a number that we've never even seen before in this country. we've had a tremendous amount of money coming in. some of the republican senators, it is not a bad idea, said why don't we give it, because we

have a lot of money left over after taking care of our farmers. we're bringing it up to the left that the farmers were targeted by. so in theory they should be, that should be in its own way a level playing field. the amazing thing about the farmer, i've had, been with some, they don't even want that, right? they want a level playing field. they don't even want $16 billion. almost everybody else, larry kudlow wants $16 billion. the farmers want a level playing field the way the game should be played. we're almost close to that. meantime no other president would get $16 billion and $12 billion to the american farmer and rancher. >> thank you. >> your work. >> it was all of us everybody standing up here frankly. under the terms of the agreement today japan is committed to dramatically increase market access to american food and

cultural exports. it is a dramatic number. one of the largest trade deal. 126 million japan consumers will have access to american almonds, blueberries, corn, wine, poultry, egg products, beef, pork, wheat and so much more. anything else you folks can think of? do you want to shout it out, anything, steve? >> beef. >> anybody? beef. did i not say that? ethanol. let me think about that one. once this agreement enters into force the japanese tariffs will be completely eliminated so japan will not be charging us as they have for many, many years. and that's, we appreciate it. substantially reduced, over 90% of the united states agricultural exports. that's a big thing because we're getting charged a lot of tariffs. it is okay for us to charge. we can't have other countries charge. our farmers, ranchers, an

growers will now be able to compete fairly in japan against major competitors worldwide. in addition to the agricultural agreements the extraordinary digital agreement that we're signing so that digital agreement is a very big deal in its own right. we're signing today sets standards on the $40 billion in digital trade between the united states and japan. we just want a big, talking about digital, talking about the internet, we just won the big case as you know, you people would really know, right, that was a big case we won on net neutrality. just won it. and that is a, going to receive, maybe they won't even appeal it, because it's a very hard case to appeal. it was a tremendous victory in earls it of speed and in terms of investment on the internet. this deal is remarkable in that it will ensure that americans have a little playing field, cutting-edge products and service, such as videos, music,

ebooks and software. these comprehensive provisions meet the gold standard of dimming tall trade rules that were set in the landmark usmca. we though that will get voted on. we hope nancy pelosi gets it voted on because everyone wants it. she will have to make her own decision. let her make her own decision. i can tell you the american public is tired of do nothing. we are doing a lot and democrats are doing nothing. thriving commerce between the united states and japan is essential to advancing opportunity and prosperity for our people. the night and japan are the world's largest and third largest economies. together our nations comprise nearly 1/3 of the entire global's gdp. japan is america's third largest as agricultural export market. this makes it even bigger. japan is america's largest investor. all the plants going up all over

the country. i said to prime minister abe, please we need auto plants. i said that right at the beginning when i first met with him and immediately liked him a lot. they really produced. they are doing a lot of plants, not just auto, many, many plants and factories are being built in the united states by japan and japanese companies. these agreements will insure that our economic partnership flourishes brighter than ever before. i think we're probably at a stage with japan i don't think our relationship has ever been stronger or better than it is right now. the months ahead our teams will continue negotiations on remaining areas of interest to achieve a final and very comprehensive agreement we're working on that right now. there are some big, big things we're working on. i would like to invite ambassador robert lighthizer to provide further details on these historic deals. i want to thank you very much. i want to thank everybody in the room for being here. thank you very much to the media for being here.

please, robert. [applause] >> thank you very much, mr. president. connell: white house, u.s. trade rep robert lighthizer taking over. u.s. making it official signing a trade agreement between the united states and japan. about to make it official this was the deal i believe agreed upon at the u.n. general assembly but now made official by the president. it's a game-changer for the american farmers. talked a lot about the farmers in those comment. melissa: absolutely. i'm melissa francis. welcome to "after the bell." connell: i'm connell mcshane. we'll start by talking about trade. we bring in edward lawrence from the white house not only to recap, edward the president ate comment there on japan but talk about your own reporting, market moving reporting on china today. reporter: let's start with china here. we have breaking news. we understand the commerce department is adding 28 new

chinese companies to the entity list. that means those companies will not be able to buy or sell with american companies going forward. that starts tomorrow. just being posted now to the federal register. with all of this, this comes on a day that the chinese trade talks are going forward at the deputy level. now we're told from our chinese sources, from the commerce minister actually, in china, the commerce ministry told us that the deputy level talks here in china, the chinese are coming ready to make a deal on those items that both sides agree upon. they would like to see a deal go forward with those items and then forth a team table when they can deal with the items that are more difficult to negotiate. now this means that more difficult to negotiate. now this morning white house economic advisor larry kudlow hinted to the fact that the president may be open to this type of deal. listen. >> we will be open to it, short term, long term, we will be open

to it. the president has to defend the american economy. he said he will make a deal but it has got to be the right deal for america. so let's see what happens. i'm open-minded about this. i want you to be open-minded also. reporter: the president had said in last week he prefers to have a complete deal. now the u.s. trade representative's office through the white house released a statement, coming up on thursday and friday when primary talks will happen, they will discuss number of things. the big issues, protecting intellectual property, forced transfer of intellectual property, agriculture and non-tariff barriers. whatever is offered today and tomorrow will have to be decided upon thursday and friday. so should be very interesting this week to see how and if the chinese trade talks will progress. back to you. connell: no doubt about that. edward, go with all of that to our market panel. market lower by 96 points on the dow jones industrial average. mitch rochelle joins us and doug

flynn. mitch to you first, what edward was reporting on. basically the kudlow comment and some of edward as comments what china was open to in smaller deal seemed to put us in rally mode. the idea, wait a second, we're not changing our laws, let's not get ahead of ourselves. anything on change moves the markets. >> no question. that will be more of a headwind than a tailwind. what i like talking about doing oil and agriculture first and ip second and relieving some of these tariffs. seems like a structure. today is only monday. who knows what will happen. connell: only 4:18 p.m. eastern on a monday as well. doug, we have kind of to mitch's point. been down the roads with the china trade talks. japan agreement in place. president trying to set up other agreements before the china trade deal. what about this idea everybody

floating of a small deal? seems like wall street might cheer it. then you have to count on both sides getting back to the table next year and hammering out something larger which is easier said than done. what do you think? >> it is. a continuance of what i call a slow dance between us and china. who will lead? we're waiting for fast music to start. we keep going back and forth. in reality think about japan, mexico, canada together, those three are much bigger trading partner with the u.s. and much more important especially with the shrinking of what we've done to them in terms of them being down 13% with exports to us over the past year. so i think a small deal might be good for both sides to say we're making progress but we really need a trade deal to get signed at some point. i honestly don't think we'll get that until after the election. we might get a small deal but a -- connell: more comprehensive measure. have to get usmca to your point. doug, mitch, thanks for sitting with us.

breaking news. appreciate it. >> new whistleblower coming forward. what it all means for the impeachment fight. we're live at the white house after the break. michael good win from the "new york post" joins us to respond. connell: no i.d., not even a ticket? how one womaninged to get on a night in florida. melissa: how is that possible. connell: that is the question everybody seems to be asking. authorities are searching for that answer. we'll talk about later coming up this hour. ♪.

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connell: "fox business alert." we cut out of the president's right before well, this happened. the free-trade agreement between japan and united states was signed officially by united states trade rep robert lighthizer this was in was in te roosevelt room with mr. lighthizer there. wanted to show that. we'll move on. melissa. melissa: leader of several house committees issuing more subpoenas for documents related to president trump's july phone

call with ukraine's president. here to react, michael goodwin from "the new york post." he is also a fox news contributor. what does all this mean to you? >> it seems to me, a continuation, melissa of the 2016 effort to stop the president from becoming president, led by the fbi, led by the cia, in conjunction with the democratic party. it is hard, based on what we know, that now to distinguish this from that. the whistleblower so-called working with the committee. hiring democratic lawyers. using some of the same techniques we saw then, anonymous sources, allegations that are not backed up but nonetheless just keep getting rolled forward. headlines that scream guilty, guilty, guilty, when we don't even know who the accuser is. it is a fundamental precept in american jurisprudence you have a right to face your accuser. that there be cross-examination

when someone's life is at liberty, as is the president here in effect. melissa: the latest subpoenas have to do with the budget. they have to do with the money hand over to the ukraine and they're trying to follow the money, to see was it held up in a quid pro quo in exchange for going after president trump's foreign rival. what do you think they gain, near term political rival, joe biden. what do you think they gain by getting these papers? what would they show? >> well we don't know but i think that we have the transcript or contemporaneous notes of the transcribers of the call. so we can make up our own minds about this. it was striking that if you recall the runup to the first whistleblower, before we saw the transcript, before we saw the complaint there were all the reports in the media that president trump mentioned joe biden's name eight types in this phone call. well he didn't. there was an explicit

quid pro quo. well, there wasn't. all of these reports are almost designed to create the headline like a rumor that can never be debunked once the fact the come out. people often believe the rumor rather than facts that come later. >> meantime we were showing seconds ago the president signing this japan trade deal. does it slow down the actual work he is trying to do by having this impeachment show going on at the same time? i think it's a risk for both parties frankly. nancy pelosi, when she came out the other day with adam schiff, she was careful to begin their press conference by talking about health care, talking about the mexico trade agreement, nafta 2.0. i think both sides are concerned they not look as they they are consumed with impeachment only but they are doing the people's business. i think the president has a stronger hand on that because congress really hasn't done accept impeachment since they took office in january. melissa: one thing that strikes me that you know, when you get

to election time, if people are unhappy with things in front of them like health care, they blame those that were in office for not fixing it. the democrats said they were voted in on health care. here we are, and nothing has improved on the health care front. so for democrats you know, i guess for republicans, for the president he could make the argument, i want to fix health care, i want to do a lot of things, i'm trying to do the best i can but they're trying to impeach me. for democrats how do they make the argument instead of health care we were focused on impeachment, we were working on that? how much of their base or voters at large does that make happy? >> right now it looks to me, i'm just one person trying to judge what the country is thinking but it does strike me that the democrats are at pains to show they are not just an impeachment party. melissa: what do they point to then? >> well that's the thing. i think pelosi in that press conference talks about health care but they haven't actually

done anything. i think more fundamentally to what they actually do, whether they pass a one house bill or something is the fact that she simply won't negotiate with president trump. recall the whole issue on building the wall. she said not one dollar. well what kind of negotiation is that, if there is, if you're not going to negotiate. so i think that she has, she is caught, she has been all along between the radical wing of her party and the desire to get something done, the radical wing would rather burn everything down than do anything. she has tried to dance between these two. i think she is just getting splinters. melissa: thank you so much, michael goodwin. we'll listen in here. president trump seems to answer questions from reporters. >> we think there is a chance we could do something very substantial, bob. i think you think that. we'll see what happens but in the meantime we're taking in billions and billions of dollars of tariffs every mon. we've never had this. we never took in 10 cents from

china. now we're taking in billions of dollars and tens of billions a year. october 15th it goes up to 35, goes to 35. it is going to, it is going to raise fairly substantially. we could always do a lot more but we decided not to. so that's the story and i think that they will, they are coming to make a deal. we'll see whether or not a deal can be made but it has got to be a fair deal. look, we've lost $500 billion a year for many, many years on average. if you include intellectual property theft and all of the other things that took place it is incredible that past administrations could have allowed it to happen. we're talking about 500 billion, not million, that's a lot too. $500 billion a year for many years. taken out of our country. we rebuilt china. they did a great job.

i don't blame them. i told president xi, i don't blame you one bit. i blame people that ran this country to allow that to happen. they understand that. but we don't let that happen anymore. we'll see what happens. we're going to have a very important meeting and they have their top people coming in. i have my top people doing the job. if i don't think they're doing a good job, i will fire them and go over and take their place. [reporters shouting questions] >> yeah, please. >> was the hong kong protest linked in your view to trade negotiations in any way? >> i hope we see a humane to that. i hope that is going to happen. hong kong is important as a world hub, not just for china and for the world. you have great people over there you see they're flying the american flags. they even signs, china make great again, hong kong great again. i'm saying get those signs. they have tremendous signage and

they have a tremendous spirit for our country. a lot of american flags. a lot of trump signs. i would just like to see a humane deal to work out. i think president xi has the ability to do it. i sort of said that i think if he met, he is very convincing man. i think if he met with some of the leaders that could be one problem, you don't seem to have a specific leader of the group but i really think they can do something. we just want to see a humane solution. reporter: [inaudible]. during the course of these negotiations. >> no, i didn't, but i do say we are negotiating. if anything happened bad i think that would be a very bad thing for the negotiation. i think politically it would be very tough, maybe for us and maybe for some others and maybe for him. but no, i think that they have to do that in a peaceful manner. it's, i will say the first time i saw it, if you looked a number of months ago i saw two million

people. i have never seen anything like it. we talk about crowd size. that was serious crowd size, right? the crowd size is much smaller now. so maybe that is saying something. hopefully they can work something that is amicable. yes, sir? reporter: a parks trade deal, whether or not or not that could be headed in that direction? >> very good question. that is not what we prefer at all. they are starting to buy our agricultural products. you see that, coming in very strong on pork also. very, very strong, in particular, but, on other products. that so, i don't know if you call that a partial. we don't have an agreement. my inclination is to get a big deal. we've come this far. we're doing well. again, the fact that they have done what they have done with their currency, the devaluation, it really has not increased prices. we're talking china. doesn't mean in all cases that happens. other countries prices increase

but in the case of china has hasn't happened. and, they put a lot of money into their, into their goods. they want to keep their people working. i understand that very well, but i think that we'll just have to see what happens. i would much prefer a big deal. i think that is what we're shooting for. can something happen? i guess maybe, who knows. but probably unlikely. reporter: mr. president on syria, withdrawing forces in syria, why are you siding with a authoritarian leader and not our kurdish allies? >> i'm not siding with anybody. we've been in syria for many years. syria was supposed to be a short-term hit, a very short-term hit. we were supposed to be in and out. that was many, many years ago. we have only 50 people in that area. that is a small sector. i don't want those 50 people hurt or killed or anything. i don't want anything bad to happen to our people. i told that to president erdogan. i said hurt any of our people get hurt, big trouble.

now, a couple of things. i think there is a lot of pressure on turkey. they have been fighting with the pkk for many years, they are natural enemies. if you read a couple of reports saying when president obama started this whole thing, as you know it was started by president obama, he created a natural war with turkey and their long-time enemy, pkk. and they're still there. and they're still hating each other beyond anybody's belief. but i, i have told turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is humane to use the word a second time, we talk about hong kong, we talk about this, they could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy and i've done it once. i did it with pastor brunson. you remember the pastor brunson. they wouldn't give pastor brunson back. they ended up giving pastor

brunson back pretty quickly. their currency fell at record levels. a lots of other things happened. i was going to have a good relationship with president erdogan. i want to see it happen. i will tell you this, we defeated isis an when i -- and when i wanted to when we were at 96, 95, 97%, let the other countries in the area finish it off. i was met with a lot of anger from some people in our country. i said all right, i will finish it off. i got together with our generals. i flew to iraq. i got together, very quickly than any other general here told us. we have great people over there and we did it quickly. i said to the your european countries, you have to take isis -- we have 60,000, maybe even 70,000 people, that includes families, that includes wives of fighters that were killed. we have many fighters that were killed in the battles. and we took over 100% of the

caliphate i took over quickly. nobody else -- it was a mess when i came to office. i think moist of you with agree to that, it was a real mess. i took it over but then i said, what are we going to do with these 60 or 70,000 people that are, that are being held and being guarded? we can't release them. many fighters also. and i said i want them to go back to germany, to france, to different european countries from where they came. and i said to the european countries, i said to all of them, take the people back? and they said, no, no, we don't want them back. they came from germany or they came from france, take them back. and they're so used to the united states being a sucker, being a fool, we're talking about billions and billions of dollars, you're talking about life, talking about some things, some elements, elements of complexity. they will walk back into germany. they will go back into countries

from where they came. i said take them back. they said no. again, i'm going to give you another 30 days. take them back. and they kept saying no. maybe they won't be saying no, i don't know. so i told president erdogan, you got, it is going to be your responsiblity. now, really who is responsible? really russia, it's turkey, it's iran, it's iraq and it is syria and anybody else in the neighborhood, cob? we call it the neighborhood. it is not a friendly neighborhood. but these countries should do it. now isis is the sworn enemy of all these countries. many of them hate far more than they hate us. those countries hate them at the same level as we do. they're terrible, terrible savage killers. i said take them back but these countries are rich in most cases this powerful. they have got armies. they can do the work. but we're not bringing 50, 60,

70 or even 10,000 people to guantanamo bay in cuba. we're not going to be paying them for the next 50 years or paying to take care of them for the next 50 years. so we told europe, we did a great service to the world. we did a great service to europe in particular where so many of these people, these fighters came from. we said take them back. unfortunately, like nato they take advantage. nato as you know, i got the secretary-general stoleheim, very loudly, secretary-general of nato, because of what i did they have paid over $100 billion more money toward nato defense. that is still not enough, still not enough. that is not fair. the united states pays far too much relative. obviously nato affects them more. like nato, trade, with the

european union, which is a very tough group to trade with, very, very tough group, almost as tough as japan, not quite, they're a very tough group to trade with. they take advantage. look, you take them back. we're not going to put them in guantanamo bay and put them all over our prisons. so right now we're at a position if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing, we will hit them so hard in the economy. when you talk about soldier, we only had 50 soldiers in the area. i think the area, it is a very small area and very small area but we only had 50 soldiers there. i don't want them to be in a bad or compromising position. and i will tell you this, everybody respects our country again. if we want to go in, if we have to go back for any reason because bad things happen but we're 7,000 miles away. these isis people, whatever you want to call them, these people are right there. they're right there. they're touching many of these

countries that i just named. iran, as an example, hates isis, isis hates iran. iraq you know all about that. turkey, syria, let them take care of it. let them take care of it. we want to bring our troops back home. it has been many, many years. it has been decades in many cases. we want to bring our troops back home. i got elected on that. if you go back and look at our speeches we want to bring our troops back home from these endless wars. we're like a police force over there. we're policing. we're not fighting. we're policing. we're not a police force. we're the greatest military force ever assembled because of what i've done over the last three years with 2 1/2 trillion dollars, mr. ambassador. we've spent on our military, 2 1/2 trillion dollars but we're not going to be there longer. we're going to be watching turkey and, we hope that them an

all of the other countries or some of the other countries including the european union goes in, does whatever they're supposed to do with these captured isis fighters and families. okay? reporter: number of republicans including, including nikki haley and lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell are critical of the decision. mitch mcconnell put out a statement saying exercise leadership reconsider, not doing so would be reminiscent of what the obama administration would do? would you respond to them. did you consult with the joint chiefs of staff when you made the decision? >> sure i consult with everybody. i consult with everybody. you remember eight months ago i talked about doing this we kept 2,000 people there. slowly brought them out. once we captured isis i didn't, i don't want to stay there for the next 40 years. not going to do anything. the end game is going to be the same. i have great respect for all the people that you named.

they have their opinion. a lot of people do. i could also name many more of you named are totally supportive. see the names coming out. people are thrilled time to bring our people back home. we're not a police force. we're policing the area. we're not a police force. the uk was very thrilled at this decision. they are over there. they have soldiers over there also. and others. many people agree with it very strongly. i understand both sides of it. i fully understand both sides of it, but i campaigned on the fact i would bring our soldiers home and bring them home as rapidly as possible. i we, all together, you, we defeated and took over 100% of the isis caliphate. everybody said that was going to be an impossible thing to do. i did it and i did it quickly because we have a great military now. when i took over our military we didn't have a ammunition. i was told by a top general, maybe the top of them all, sir, i'm sorry sir, we don't have

ammunition. i said i will never let another president have that happen to him or her. we didn't have ammunition. now we've captured isis. we've done what we've done. we had 50 soldiers in the area you're talking about. and i said we want to bring our soldiers back home. it has been a long time. again we were supposed to be in there for tiny spot, 30 to 90-day period that was many years ago. it's time. reporter: are you kurds themselves have lost thousands of fighters in battle. >> that's true. and we lost a lot of fighters too. reporter: are you concerned about their safety? >> we'll try. if you look at some of the kurds, as you know that is a natural enemy of turkey. it is specifically as i said. they have natural enemies. they have been fighting each other, somebody said hundreds of years. i mean one historian said they have been fighting for hundreds of years. we interject ourselves into wars and we interject ourselves into

tribal wars and revolutions and all these things that are very, they're not the kind of thing you settle the way we would like to see it settled. just doesn't, it just doesn't work that way. but hopefully that will all be very strong and strongly done. we're spending tremendous amounts of money. i can tell you the two countries that are most disappointed that we're leaving are china and russia. because they love that we're bogged down and just watching and spending tremendous apartments of money. instead of continuing to build our forces. we have tremendous new weapons under development right now. we have weapons nobody even can believe. we'll make stops over next four or five weeks. some we show, some we don't show. we rebuilt our nuclear. we renovated and rebuilt nuclear. we're rebuilding submarines the likes of they have never been thought of before. the, the genius of them.

hopefully, hope to god we never have to use them but we doing what we have to do. but we've been there for many years, many, many years, beyond what we were supposed to be. not fighting just there. just there. and it is time to come back home. i can understand the other side of it. if you go by the other side, we should never, ever, come home. we should never ever have to come home. i have to sign letters often to parents of young soldiers that were killed and it is the hardest thing i have to do in this job. i hate it. i hate it. afghanistan. i signed one the other day, iraq. syria. they get blown up by mines. they get taken out by a sniper. i have to write letters to people. we make each letter different. each person is different.

we make them personal but no matter what you do it is devastating. the parents will never be the same. the families will never be the same. people are killed, many people are still being killed. it is going on that way for, perhaps, a long time. and we're willing to do what we have to do but there has to be an endgame and if you stay it will be the same thing. eventually you have to leave. it will be the same thing. so i think what we're doing is the right thing. a lot of people agree with me. a lot of people agree with me. you go back see my speeches, a big part of my speech, always when i won, what some people considered to be a surprise election, how i just see a poll that just came out where i'm up massively with independent voters. i don't know if it is this or because of the hoax going on with nancy pelosi and her friend adam schiff. he is another beauty. he got caught lying all over the

place. he doesn't know what to do. he is a mess. right now he is a mess. everybody knows it. all you have to do is do good reporting because he is a mess, a total mess because he got caught. we have to scott right thing for our country, whatever it may, that is the right thing. i respect both opinions. the problem with the other opinions, when do we leave? when do we leave? we'll stay there forever? jeff? reporter: white house counsel's office preparing a letter to speaker pelosi about the impeachment inquiry. what do you hope to achieve? >> the impeachment inquiry is a scam. the conversation i had with the ukrainian president zelensky was a very good -- it was very cordial, very good conversation. the mistake they made, the opponents, the opposition, the democrats, the radical left, deep state, whatever you want to call them, they came out with a whistleblower report before they saw the conversation. had they waited one day, nancy pelosi wouldn't have made a fool out of herself and she would have been able to say what i said.

when she saw it, she said this is not what the whistleblower said. had very, very congenial nice conversation with a man i liked and he ran on corruption. as you know ukraine is known as a very corrupt country, one of the most in the world, shockingly. i know the ukrainian people. surprising to me. it is known as one of the most corrupt countries. under the past leadership it was having a lot of difficulty, this gentleman the current president, the new president ran on the basis of anti-corruption as you know. and it was his single biggest thing. we had a great conversation. it wasn't reported that way. the only reason i release adler, i think it is terrible to release a letter you have with a leader after country, i think that is a terrible precedent, the news was, it was so off, horrible, i never said that. i said let me see it. we have a ten stenographer repoa

report of what i said, everybody that read it said it was per oak or very good. it was a normal, nice conversation. when you see that the president of ukraine, president zelensky said there was no pressure put on me whatsoever, his spokesman came out two days ago, said there was absolutely no pressure to put on the president. i didn't tell him to say that there was no pressure put on. all you have to do is read the report. the problem i released it a day after they already made their big statements. again it's a bilge -- big scam. i think adam schiff should be investigated for what he did. he took to the great chamber, congress and he made a speech and his speech was a fraud.

everything he said was a fraud. he went out as though he wrote it, he defrauded the american people. he defrauded congress. he defrauded himself and his family. he made a speech as horrible speech, what is going on here? i think he is having some kind after breakdown. because he got up and made a speech that bore no relationship to what the conversation was. i will tell you a lot of people heard that speech. a lot of people thought that is what i said because they heard his speech. because they are not going to read a three or four page conversation. they don't have access to it. but i thought it was one of the, i thought it was a terrible thing. where he is going up, speaking as the president of the united states saying things i never said and the meaning was horrible and the whole thought was horrible. and the whistleblower he did, through his committee, through

himself, he met with the whistleblower. they never said that. they never talked about it. and nancy pelosi knew all of this stuff. she is as guilty as she is, she knew all that. she knew everything about it and she didn't do anything about it. and tell you what they should be looked at very strongly. because what they did is unthinkable. what they did to this country is unthinkable. it is lucky i'm the president, i don't know a lot of people said, very few people could handle did. i sort of thrive on it. you know why? because it is so important we get to the bottom of it. we went through the whole mueller scam, we went through that, it was three or four days like it is over. i'm walking into the united nations they release it as i'm walking in, mr. ambassador. i'm walking in, i won't meet with, i won't name one of the top leaders of the world. i see up on the screen, people

start screaming about this scam called impeachment. you can't impeach a president for doing a great job. you can't impeach a president for having the lowest and best unemployment numbers we've had in 51 years. you can't impeach a president for tax cuts and regulation cuts and creating a even, the ambassador would say the strongest economy in the world. we have the strongest economy in the world. this is a scam. and the people are wise to it. that is why my polls went up, i think they said 17 point in the last two or three days. i never had that one. i have never had that one. so i think it is very sad for our country. i think it makes it harder to do my job. but i do my job and do it better than anybody has done it the past 2 1/2 years based on result. not only the unemployment numbers but look at the employment numbers. jeff, we're up almost to 160 million people are working. today we signed a deal with

japan which is such an honor. you have a great country, a great, great country. to have you partake in our agricultural product and digital is a real honor for me. ofthank you very much for coming this distance, being here. i look forward to see you many years to come. wish prime minister abe a happy birthday. a very special man. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] melissa: president trump taking questions from the press there as he signses a new trade deal with japan. michael goodwin sat through all of that. what jumped out at you? >> a pretty good idea of the president's doctrine, in terms i am making a deal, i'm putting america first. if you don't want to play ball this way, we'll steamroll. we'll use every power at our disposal to do this, militarily, economically, we're going to put

america first. there toward the end, when he talked about impeachment, i think that was a very heart-felt examination for him, the way he put it. he clearly is, i think a disturbed at what the democrats are doing. thinks it is unfair, thinks it is unreasonable, but at the same time he is optimistic because he sees the country, also, a good part of the country seeing how ridiculous it is. his fund raises is up. he getting a lot more support. he looks reasonable compared to adam schiff and nancy pelosi. melissa: okay. >> i think he is on to something there. melissa: michael goodwin, thanks for sticking around. appreciate it. connell: connell, one of the things president talked about is hong kong and. hoped for a main solution in hong kong. greg palkot is there, joins us live from hong kong with the latest after another violent weekend.

reporter: interesting words from the president, connell. we'll see if something comes at that. another night of unrest after one of the most violent weeks this chinese special territory has ever seen. take a look what we saw. we're marching with the police as they try to clear the area around the monkok police station. it has been a hot spot for a month. they're not taking any chances. remember this latest unrest was triggered by a ban on face masks by the beijing-babbed government. those masks are used by protesters to hide their identities from the authorities. in the process this massive metropolis was shut down over the weekend, stores, shopping malls, banks, were closed and huge subway system which is beginning to be reopened. there are dozens of arrests past

couple days, dozens of of injur. and still a little hope. listen to some of the folks we spoke with. >> i think the government is unreasonable. >> unreasonable. >> it's not making any sense. thefrjts are just redick they are just ridiculous. >> ridiculous. >> what about the possibility of more democracy? do you think that's real? >> i don't think so. >> you don't think so? reporter: it is now tuesday morning here, hong kong time. a real test on whether this major financial center can get back up and running. back to you. connell: no doubt. the protests are causing controversy as well closer to home, with china lashing out at the houston rockets general manager for expressing support for the protesters in hong kong. he tweeted out an image that said fight for freedom, stand strong with hong kong. since that image has been deleted from his twitter account. he's apologized for the tweet. let's bring in the former nfl

great, super bowl champion joe theismann joins us. good to see you on this topic. boy, it's really taken on a life of its own over the last 24 to 48 hours, sports, politics, business, everything moving into one. what do you make of all this? as the nba tries to kind of toe the line, i guess. >> the nba has such a presence in china, we see so many of our teams going over there and playing. we see so many chinese players coming over here to play. i think any time you try and get involved in politics, even in this country, yet some place else in the world where you really don't understand what's going on, i have tried and i have done it when i was younger. you make statements and look back and say why would i say something like that. i guess you get a little older, you look at it and say there's a reason. why is this happening. i don't understand why it's happening so therefore, it's not an opportunity to say anything. it's an opportunity to be quiet. that's i think what didn't happen. connell: unfortunately, we don't have enough time to talk about this. we had to take the president's comments. we apologize for that.

just a final point, the nba has been criticized here at home for not standing up enough for darryl morey, for being hypocritical because in the past they allowed their players to speak out against president trump or political causes at home but in this case, they have been accused of putting money first. what do you say to that? >> it isn't necessarily money, i don't think. you are in this country, you understand what's going on. certainly nba has had their players -- they comment on a lot of different things and stand for different things. it's great we are able to do this. that's the freedoms in this country. but to start to go some place else in the world and start to do it, i don't think you have a place to do that. i think the repercussions have come there. i certainly understand the players in this country standing up for things they believe in because they're here. they see it. they feel it. they understand it. we start reaching out across different elements, it creates a problem because you just don't know. connell: hopefully we have a chance to speak longer about it. this issue will hang around for awhile. good to see you, joe theismann.

thanks for coming on. melissa: busy hour. we tried to cram it in. dow down 95 points on the day. connell: thanks for joining us. "bulls & bears" starts now. we love china, we love playing there. i know for both of us individually, we go there once or twice a year. they show us the most important love. we appreciate them as a fan base and we love everything they're about and we appreciate the support that they give us. david: ouch. a public apology from houston rockets star james hardin. this after the general manager of the team set off an international firestorm by tweeting his support for hong kong pro-democracy protesters. chinese sponsors swiftly pulling ad money from the franchise over the new deleted tweet and