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>> i got to 306. in the electoral college. i mean, it's crazy. these people are crazy. maria: after the tax legislation, the deregulation and your policies around energy, but, mr. president, yesterday

both biden and harris took shots at you saying, look, 40 million people are out of work. he drove this economy into the ground what do you want to say to them knowing before the coronavirus we were talking about the best economy any of us had seen or certainly in a generation? but today's numbers do not reflect that, and they've got that to throw on you. >> well, they really don't though because nobody's buying it. look, we got hit by the china plague, and we're not going to forget it. i built the greatest economy in history, greatest job numbers, greatest stock market numbers, greatest economic numbers. nobody's ever seen it. i was cruising to election. they weren't even going to be a factor. george washington would have had a hard time winning, you know that. we were cruising. you had to see the numbers. it wasn't even going to be a factor. and the market was going to go through the roof because he's an overhang. having joe biden is a big

overhang. even on the numbers that you put up every day, there's an overhang because if he got in, the numbers would go down thousands of points. so it's an overhang. certainly there's a chance that could happen, and that's holding back, that's a headwind. that's holding back the market. believe it or not, as good as the market's been, 50% since march, i guess 9,000 -- i think it's, yeah, like 9,000 points. you never saw anything like it. i'm talking about the new ones going up -- maria: yeah, it is 50%, you're right. >> maria, i'll be doing it twice. i will have rebuilt it twice. but nobody blames me. even the radical left crazies out there, this is the first time i've heard this attack. nobody's blamed me for the fact that, you know, the, call it whatever you want, the china virus, you know, there's 20 names for it. you have your pick of names, right? i call it generally the china virus. came out of china. should have never been allowed

to happen. but the fact is this plague came in, and that closed it up, saved millions of lives. now we're reopening, and i don't know if you saw yesterday, but i put up charts that were incredible. you talk about a v, that's like a super v. and we're coming back and coming back strong. and my biggest headwind is biden because everyone knows that if biden gets in, this market's going to crash. he's going to build regulations, and his taxes, he's going to tax people $4 trillion. maria: more of my exclusive interview with president trump coming up. stay with us. ♪ ♪ looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies. isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance.

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watch. >> he is going to give not tax increases, massive tax increases to pay for aoc's plan. aoc was a poor student. i mean, i won't say where she went to school, it doesn't matter. this is not even a smart person other than she's got a good line of stuff. i mean, she goes out and she yaps. these guys -- and they're all afraid of her because if you notice, all of these progressives are beating the regular democrats, you know? you look at eliot engel. poor elliott engel, he's still going, what happened? has anybody seen what happened? what are the results? you lost, elliot. he got wiped out. maria: that's right -- [inaudible conversations] >> and schumer's going to get beaten. by her. he knows that, and he's going to get beaten by her unless he can talk her out of doing it. he has no chance. maria: so you think he'll get beaten this november?

>> chuck schumer will be, in my opinion, aoc will run against chuck schumer for the senate, yeah. i mean, i think, and i think she'll win. maria: uh-huh, yes. okay. [inaudible conversations] >> she's done so many bad things, 40 knows whether or not she'll get there. who knows whether or not -- maria: -- the breakdown in talks on the stimulus. tell me about that, because that's another thing that they were complaining about you yesterday saying when he's not there negotiating, we want to get something done. the democrats are have put on the table this $3 trillion plan. what specifically are they pushing for that is causing this breakdown in any deals? nancy pelosi said that the democrats want to -- and the white house are still the miles apart on stimulus. >> well, they're right. and it's their fault. they want $3.5 billion for something that'll turn out to be fraudulent, that's election money, basically. they want $3.5 trillion --

billion for the mail-in votes, okay? universal mail-in ballots. $3.5. they want $25 billion, billion, for the post office. now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. now in the meantime, they aren't getting there. by the way, those are just two items. but if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting, because they're not equipped to have it. and you see how bad it's been with this carolyn maloney scam. she probably lost, but they said mail-in ballots, it's all mixed up. patterson, new jersey, same thing. yesterday virginia, 500,000 applications for ballots, got sent to everybody, nobody even knows -- got sent to dogs, to dead people. nobody has no idea what happened. they said, oh, we made a mistake, i'm sorry. 500,000 ballots sent in virginia. how do you feel about virginia going in there and you have

500,000 phony ballot applications? and this is all over the -- maria: so this is what's holding it up? >> no, no, no, that's only one aspect of it. more holding up money for the american people, they want mail-in votings and money for the post office? this is one of the sticking points that's holding back stimulus for americans during this coronavirus. >> oh, yeah -- maria: money for the post office for mail-in voting. >> that's one of them. that's right. how would you like to have, maria, $3.5 billion, billion for mail-in voting, billion? so if you didn't have it -- do you know how much money that is? nobody has any idea. they want $25 billion for the post office because the post office is going to have to go to town to get these ridiculous ballots in. you know, there's nothing wrong with getting out and voting. you out and vote -- you get out and vote. they voted during world war i and world war ii, and they

should have voter id because the democrats scammed the system. two of the items are the post office and the $3.5 billion for mail-in voting. now, if we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money, that means they can't have universal a mail-in voting. they just can't have it. so, you know, one of those crazy things. very interesting. those are two of the items, but there are many more items. maria: but how many states are going to be doing mail-in voting, mr. president? a.g. barr told me this opens the floodgates to fraud. how many states are you expecting mail-in voting to take place in? >> well, you have california where they're sending out tens of millions of ballots. they have no idea where they're going, or maybe they do. maybe they'll go to everybody but republicans. but they have california, they have many states where you can have -- now, i will say it, we're challenging in court, we're challenging in court. so it's being challenged by, at many different levels. we have many hauts out there.

this -- lawsuits out there. this will be the greatest fraud in history. this will be the most fraudulent, this'll be almost as fraudulent as obama spying on my campaign but not quite. this will be the greatest fraud in history. maria: well, i'm going to get to that. and then there's the issue around federal ids. you don't even need an id in some places to actually vote. they don't want people to have identification to show that you are who you say that you are when you go to vote. >> it's called voter id. it's the greatest thing there is. everybody knows it. some states like indiana, some very well-run states have it but many don't. and the democrats are fighting it tooth and nail because they cheat. there's only one reason to fight it, they cheat. maria: coming up, more with my one on one with president trump. when we come back, he gives me hisas take on the european union and china. don't go anywhere.

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♪ there. ♪ maria: welcome back. now more of my one-on-one exclusive with president trump. while the president has not been shy e in terms of being critical of china, he has also delivered some tough love the our allies elsewhere. news this week on tariffs on the european union. watch. >> the european union is almost as bad as china. you know, everybody doesn't like it when i say that. they say they're our allies. well, they take advantage of us tremendously on nato, you know? they don't pay their dues. germany is delinquent for billions and billions and billions of dollars. and we're supposed to protect them, and they, they pay a lot of money to russia for oil and gas, the pipeline. they pay money to russia, billions and billions of dollars, and we're supposed to protect them from russia. and on top of everything else, they're very delinquent. they're paying 1%, they're

supposed to pay 2, and the real number should be 4 or 5. so we get it from every different corner. now, you know, i caught it, i'm wise to it, and you have a lot of stupid people out there that say is, oh, i'm not treating germany right, i'm not being nice to france and, you know -- and, by the way, i'm very friendly with the people, and they smile when i -- when they look at me. they say nobody's ever talked to us like you do. i got nato to pay $400 billion more a year. i my biggest fan in the world secretary general stoltenberg of nato. he says i can't believe it, because we were going down every year for 20 years. it was going down, down, down. what they were paying for protection. and i came in, and it looks like a rocket ship up. but still germany's not paying anywhere near what they're supposed to. i use the word "delinquent." they're delinquent, they don't pay. maria: yeah, you have also

changed the conversation on china, sirment i want to talk to you about that. we've got trade talks slated to take place later this week, beijing officials are saying they plan to bring up your ban on american businesses conducting transactions with wechat and tiktok. the journal is reporting this morning major corporations like apple, disney, wal-mart expressing concerns over wechat in particular. mr. president, are you planning to narrow the ban? tell us the threat around wechat and tiktok. >> well, we lose, for many years, $400, 500, 300, 200 billion a year, billion, with china, dealing with china, first of all, before we even get into security. it's been a ripoff the likes of which the world has never seen. and i charge massive tariffs, and they pay us, you know, just tens of billions of dollars in tariffs. as you know, they targeted our farmers, and i gave them -- i gave our farmers all the money

they got targeted for which was $28 billion over a three-year period. so i gave the money to farmer, that's why the farmers love trump, you know, because i took care of them as opposed to other administrations that forget about the farmers. but i i took good care of them. i took it out of china. now, we're getting right now under the trade deal, they don't know, like schumer had no idea, we don't get tariffs anymore. when i charged them, all of a sudden it was great because so much money comes in to us. but when i made the deal, i left the tariffs on which nobody still understands, how did it i i make the deal and they're buying a lot of corn, etc., etc. but with a all of that, my mindset has changed on china since they allowed the plague to come in and is have such a devastating effect on the world, us and the world, which is terrible. but, no, i view china different hi than i did. it's before plague and after plague. right now i view china differently than i did before

plague. maria: so we just spoke with jimmy lye, he's been on the front lines of the hong kong protests, he spoke out about what he wants the u.s. to know about the communist party, and he also took real issue with xi jinping being dictator for life. here he is we me just 20 minutes ago, sir. listen to this. >> [inaudible] especially when xi jinping is -- [inaudible] you know, xi jinping is, hopefully -- [inaudible] he wants to bring china back to the -- his control is increasing exactly the way that mao was controlling the -- [inaudible] so he's talking about xi jinping

being dictator for life. would you like to see him step down, mr. president? >> look, they're running their country, and we're running our country, and we have other countries that treat us very badly. they treat us like children because we had foolish leadership. i'm being nice when i use the word foolish, but we've had very foolish leadership at the top, at the presidential level. and all of these countries from china to vietnam, to all of the asian countries and others, many others, have taken advantage of us. we straightened it out with mexico and with canada, we had to do usmca, and we were in the process of straightening it out with chai i that, and then the plague game. even before that i had a complete deal with china, and four days before it was going to be signed, they broke it. you know, they broke the deal id had. i had a deal with them. hong kong is a very complex problem because we've given tremendous amounts of money in the form of incentives to make hong kong free, to make hong kong work.

and to our detriment. so i have taken all that back, all of those incentives that they had for the hong kong market in order to keep a certain amount of fee.com over there know -- freedom over there knowing they have china looming over the top of them. but all of those incentives, billions and billions and billions of dollars i gave, that we gave to hong kong, i've taken back with now because it's, hong kong is, if you use a business term, it's owned by china. so why should i give this to china? hong kong can never succeed without those incentives, and hong kong can never succeed having china as opposed to the thousands of geniuses that ran it having china run it. maria: more of my exclusive with the president when we come back. hear what he has to say coming up about his plans for a second term. stay with us. ♪ ♪ for any amount you choose instead of buying by the share. all with no commissions.

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chinese companies that are listed in the u.s. we talked huawei and tiktok as he plans a second term. watch. >> first of all, the first thing, you know, we have got those people, and they're being prosecuted under this administration. they're being prosecutedment number one -- prosecuted, number one. number two, i broke the deal. i said you can't do business in the united states with. i also said to huawei, you can't do business in the united states. and i told our so-called allies that are all over the world -- all of which, you know, for the most part take advantage of us. we have some very good allies, but some are, you know, they take advantage of us because for so many years they were allowed to just absolutely rip us off. but i told them if you go with huawei, that's okay, but we're not going to be communicating having to do with intelligence because the intelligence goes right into beijing, okay? we don't want that, you know, and we know that. we have better scientists is and

engineers than they do, we know exactly what happened. so we explained that to europe and others, and for the most part, they're not buying huawei, and if they do, we'll have to cut off intelligence because we can't have that. there's been nobody tougher to china or to russia or to anybody else than the i have despite a media that's bought out by china, much more so than russia. do you ever notice they always say russia, russia, russia, they don't mention china, china, china because most of these people, like you look at the nba, they're bought off by china, and china's the big pot of gold. let's use russia instead of china. but china's a big problem, and i've made it a much smaller problem. the fact is that with hong kong we're saving a massive amounts of billions of dollars. and it's not going to work. it can't work. it's all based on the dollar. i made the dollar stronger, i've made the dollar stronger to a point that there is almost no

secondary currency. the dollar is stronger now than it's ever been, and it will be even stronger in my second term, and i don't mean just from a price standpoint, i'm talking about the pedigree of the dollar. unless biden gets in with his stupid taxes. he wants to tax, he'll tax this country into a depression like in 1929. if you do what he wants to do -- maria: so, mr. president -- >> -- pretty good, you have to say, maria, i've been good at predicting things, including saying i was going to win the election. i'm going to win it a second time, by the way. one of the reasons i'm going to win a second time is people have made a fortune with me, and they don't want their 401 is ks going down by 75, 80% or more, and that's what's going to happen. regular alations and taxes. he's going to regulate everything, put everything back times two. i cut more -- maria: what are you going to do in the second term? >> we're going to -- maria: mr. president, you talked about a capital, you talked about capital gains tax cuts -- >> that's right.

maria: you've talked about a payroll tax cut. what are the plans for the second term awe general da, mr. president? >> okay. well, i've done the payroll tax cut temporary -- you know, this is a temporary payroll tax cut, but this is a very substantial, positive jolt to the economy. i'm going to do a capital gains tax cut to 15% in second term. we're going to get it down to saw 15. it's at 23. we'll get that down to 15% -- it's at 21. i'll get that done easily. we're going the take the house, because nancy pelosi is stone cold crazy, and i think we're going to take the house, and that's -- you know, i don't make a statement like that very oozily, but we're going to take, otherwise i'll look very bad. we're going to hold the presidency x we're fighting very hard in the senate, i'll be honest. the senate is tough. we have a couple of people that aren't as supportive of trump that as they should be, and those people are going to lose

their election. if they don't support trump, they lose their elections. look at haggerty in tennessee. he was a trump guy, and he just became -- he will become very shortly the senator. he won the primaries the other day. you look at all of the things that have happened. but the ones that don't support, and i'm just talking take a look, the ones who don't support, and you have a few people that want to be cute, and i think they're going to lose their elections. and that's a problem for the senate. maria: do you believe school choice will be an issue this upcoming election given that we are in this shutdown and this, yeah, this is a big issue for minorities in particular. >> well, the unions own biden. he doesn't even know it. joe doesn't even know he's awe live, but the unions own biden. they own the radical left. they own pelosi and schumer. and they will do anything for the unions including destroy the future of our children.

and, by the way, the union workers, i love them. they're going to have to work in schools. there's nothing more valuable than good teachers. teachers are the whole basis for everything. i mean, we need those teachers. that's a very important thing. maria: richard trumka was on the show last week, mr. president, and i told him that the income, the income gap was narrowing before the coronavirus. i remember reporting on this because wages were going up so much. and he said, absolutely not, it's not true. can you talk to us about what was taking place in terms of the income gap and wages before this coronavirus? because i was communicating this just the other day to richard trumka, and he said it's not true. >> look, he totally controls nancy e moses -- nancy pelosi. in fact, when we did the us america ca, he had to sign off on out for her. he's a good guy, but he's a union guy. you know, he's good, but he's a

union guy. does what he can do. but if you look at really what was happening before, we were actually coming -- this country was coming together before china sent over the plague. this country was coming together because of success is. nobody said what's going to bring -- how can the country heal. i said, one word, success. and it was happening. you know that. it was happening. we were getting closer, people were calling me. i'm talking about democrats that were calling me and talking in a way i that was very different from what it had been because we had the best employment numbers, we had the best employment numbers we ever had, we had the best numbers we ever had, we had the best stock market numbers we've ever had which now looks like they're going to be supplanted by what we have now, if you can believe that. but we had the best success we've ever had, and this country was coming together, and then the plague hit us from china, a gift from china. and now we're rebuilding it x

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judges including court of appeals. the tax cuts, the regulation cuts, anwar. they couldn't get that done, ronald reagan couldn't get it done, nobody could, and -- maria: [inaudible] there was a coup against you, is my point. >> that's true. maria: where is john durham, mr. president -- >> i hope he's -- [inaudible conversations] he's doing a great job, and i hope they're not going to be politically correct x i hope they do -- because the fact is this was president obama knew everything, vice president biden, as dumb as he may be, he knew everything. and everybody else knew everything, mafia, and you know it -- maria. and comey and brennan and clapper, they all were terrible, and thaw lied to congress -- they lied to congress, and they put flynn, they want to put flynn in jail, and the fbi said he didn't lie, and we just found that out, you know in it was only mueller that said he lieded, and they said he didn't

lie, and they're trying to destroy that man's life of. and other people that got in trouble that did nothing by comparison. in many cases, nothing or nothing in comparison. they spied on my campaign, which is treason. they spied both before and after i won. new of that. using the -- think of that. using do -- maria: and you want to get a special counsel -- >> -- to take down a president, a duly elected president of the united states. maria: that's right. >> it's the single biggest political crime in the history of our country, and i hope they're doing a job. i hope they're not going to be politically correct and say, well, you know, we want to go -- let's get the lower guys that forged the documents going into fisa. let's just get a couple of the lower guys. i hope they're not going to be -- bill barr can go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country, or he can go down as just an average guy. it depends on what's going to

happen. maria: well, do you want to see a special counsel put in place to insure that the american people find out what took place here? we know that there was an fbi agent who actually changed documents, changed evidence. we know that there was lying to the court, lying to the congress, leaking to the media. what -- if you do not win in november, we're not going to hear another word about this -- >> that's right. probably. they'll probably cancel it out -- [inaudible conversations] most definitely. they'll probably can el it out almost definitely, and it's a shame. it's a him a. but we caught 'em. look, we caught 'em. carter page, they used him to spy on the campaign. others they used to pie on the campaign. -- to spy on the campaign. it's a disgraces. they don't need a special counsel. first of all, they have a special counsel working, and they have durham working, to they don't need another special counsel. we've had enough special counsels. and frankly, everybody knows if

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♪ ♪ maria: welcome back. now this final part of my exclusive interview with president trump, why he felt the mueller probe was the greatest witch hunt in political history. take a listen. >> because they were only interested anything having to do with trump even though they knew all of this stuff. strzok and page, their text messages were all deleted by mueller. mueller went in himself can and he lied to congress because he said he didn't apply for a job to head the fbi, and he did.

we have absolute proof of that. he came in looking to run the fbi early on. the following day he was given the job as the special prosecutor. i call it prosecutor because it's not a counsel. they say special counsel, it's really a prosecutor. i want to be more accurate. and with all of that, think of it, they spent $48 million plus, you don't even know what they spent, looked at everything. they looked at my taxes, i'm sure, they looked at everything. with all of that, no collusion. i have a friend who's a very sophisticated man, one of the most successful people you know him very well, he said you have to be the most honest person in the world. to escape the greatest witch hunt ever perpetrated in the history of our country, to go over every document, every phone call, everything you've ever done, and they say no collusion. i did nothing wrong. they said i never knew you were that honest. he said you must be the most honest man in the world. and so then they a take it down

and they send it to new york. well, listen, we couldn't find anything. let's send it in to new york into the democrat lion's den is so they play games there for years. it's a disgrace. what's going on in this country, we've got to stop it. we've got to stop it, and we're getting close -- maria: but, mr. president -- >> it's a disgrace. maria: we know that the fbi lied to the senate in february of 208. christopher wray was -- 2018. christopher wray was running the fbi, mr. president. is christopher wray hiding all of this stuff and protecting the fbi? should he step down? >> so christopher wray was put there, we have an election coming up, i wish he was more forthcoming. he certainly hasn't been. there are documents that they want to get and that we have said we want to get. we're going to find out if he's going to give those documents, but certainly he's been very, very protect i have. he was put -- protective. he was put there for good reason.

he was chosen by a certain person, and i said go ahead, put whoever you want. i'm so honest that i said you can put anybody you want. let's see how wray turns out. he's going to either turn out one way or the other. but elle tell you, bill barr -- maria: all right -- >> -- john durham have a chance to be, bill barr has a chance to be the greats of all time. but if he wants to be pretty create correct, he'll be just another guy. because he knows all the a answers. he knows what they have. and it egos right to obama, and it goes right to biden. they had the meeting. that was up one meeting, thaw had many meetings. maria: that's right. we have it all on a timeline right here, and, mr. president, i know that we're going to be wrapping up soon, but i just want to get your take on these debates. there's this movement in the media now trying to get joe biden to not debate you, and then you announce yesterday initiatives to help get kids back to school. if you could just touch on these

two topics before we wrap up here, sir. first off, are you planning -- are we going to have a debate, you and biden? >> i want a debate. the only problem is we should have one debate. move it forward, have an extra one, three debates is fine or make it four. but we should have one before the phony ballots start going out, you know? we should have a debate before the ballots. we have a debate a month after the ballots start going out, so people are voting without seeing the debates. i think they should move one debate forward or have an extra one. but i want to do the debates, and they are trying to get out of the debates, this is no question about that. they have people that are very good at this stuff, so am i i -- maria: and schools -- [inaudible] yes. maria: well, i mean, you have debated pretty aggressively in the past. you've also announced yesterday initiatives to help get kids back in the classroom. tell me about that -- >> i want to get the schools open. maria: -- 125 million reusable

masks. go ahead. >> i want to get the schools open. they should be open. the children, if you look statistically, it's incredible how strong they are. their immune systems are incredible. we have to get our schools open, we have to get our country open. and a lot of the reason it's not happening is because i blue state governors, if you take a look at some of the democrat governors, they don't want their state open because a they think that hurts me on november 3rd, and i think people are wise to it. maria: my thanks to president trump for this hour of an interview, that exclusive. don't go anywhere, more "wall street" right after thisment. ♪ ♪

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