president starts right now. we will see you monday. ♪ >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington and do we have a show for you. tonight my exclusive interview with president trump at the white house. it has been ang wild week all around in washington. of course, the rest of the world. the president passed a monumental leadership test this week with flying colors.on first we had iranian missile attack in retaliation of killing the masterminds be qassem soleimani and world war iii would ensue and as usual the president prove them wrong. so now, hostilities are in a deescalated state and iran may, and i underline, may come to the negotiating table. nobody thought that was going to happen.

second, the g.o.p. hold firm on impeachment and boy did thatg strategy pay off. after weeks of delay, nancy pelosi is finally caving and she will transmit articles of impeachment to the senate next week. her plot to control the senateaf trial has been completely foiled. oops! i had a great privilege of sitting down with the president for white ranging interview and he made on important topics and more.om he shared his plans through the new year. here is part 1 of exclusive interview with president trump. mr. president thank you for being with us tonight. p >> presidentnt trump: thank you, laura. >> laura: tonight mike pompeo gave a forceful press conference the fallout from the iranian jetliner going down. his concern is that people aren't understanding the eminent nature of the threat of soleimani. he was pressed on that today. he said there were large scale attacks planned on u.s. facilities. but he didn't go more specific.

don't the american people have a right to know what specifically was targeted without revealing masses and sources and sources?? >> president trump: i don't think so, but we will tell you probably it would be the embassy in baghdadi and use all that with all of the men, very few meant women circling in and circling in. very strongly, very viciously knocking out windows and trying to get into. they were close to getting into. i called out to military. they said they will have it there tomorrow. i said nope, you will have it there today because we will notn have another benghazi on our hands. we did an amazing job. we never get credit for anything. that's okay. we are the greatest economy we have ever had. but i think he would have had another benghazi had we not acted quickly. that could have been stopped. this was stopped. and we had apaches going there,, the helicopters and they were dropping players all over thee place. a lot of things were happening. and everybody disappeared. >> laura: did they have large scaled attacks for other

embassies and if those were planned, why can't we rebuild that to the american people. wouldn't that help your case? >> president trump: i can reveal that i think it was four embassies. i think baghdad already started. they were really amazed that we came in with that kind of force. we came in with a very powerful force. that ended almost immediately. but baghdad certainly would have been the lead, but i think it would have been four military bases. it could have been a lot of other things too. it was imminent. all of a sudden, he was gone. >> laura: why is nancy pelosi describing her briefing as dismissive and disdainful don't make disdainful? michael he it was insulting. what was said to mollify the concerns of your strongest supporters like mike lee? >> president trump: he is a great supporter and a friend that called me a little while t ago. he said i wanted to get more information.su look, and have also had calls from the senators, congressmen

who said he was the single bestl briefing. one person said they had been there ten years. the single best briefing they have ever had. one said, 20 years, the single best military briefing they have ever had. i understand what mike had, mike wanted certain things said and we just couldn't say them, but maybe we could say individually to him and certainly a h trustworthy person. >> laura: are you worried the democrats can't be trusted with classified information? that is what it sound like when mike pence gave the message the other day.ai >> president trump: i am certain there certainly worried about it. can you imagine, a split second timing, executed like nobody has seen in many, many years on soleimani. can you imagine they want us to come up and speak to crooked, corrupt politician adam schiff? oh, adam, we have somebody we have been trying to get for a long time. we have a shot at him right now. can we meet to get your approval, adam schiff?

well, let's do it in a couple oh days. oh, okay, it doesn't work that way. oumber one, number two, they leak. anything we give will be leaked immediately. you will say breaking news and we are about to be attacked in 25 minutes. by the way, i'm not somebody that wants to attack. i probably could have attacked five times, ten times having to do with iran. i have been very guarded because i don't want to do that. but we may have to do something. we have to be in a position where we can do it even from the negotiating standpoint. but hopefully, it won't be necessary. we have tremendous sanctions. they are doing poorly.ll they have riots all over the country. i think it straightened out easy, but it's up to them. >> laura: speaking of sanctions ilhan omar said today that this is akin to economic warfare against iran, even though she supports sanctions against israel. >> president trump: yeah. she hates israel. she hates jewish people. you have to take a look at her

rhetoric. it is incredible what has happened to the democrats in congress. they used to be supportive of israel. today, they are supportive of her and aoc, rashida tlaib, they know nothing. a poor student come up for everything and she comes and talks about the green new deal and all of these, wonderful, but you know, as i said last night, i don't like talking about the green new deal. it is too early. i want to say but two weeks before because they may change their mind. >> laura: bernie sanders is out but you're not surprised to discuss iran on what happened. he basically said this. >> just as we were led into vietnam by lies by the trump administration is misleading us on iran. a fascination of qassem soleimani. by claiming he was planning eminent attacks. they produce no evidence that not even a classified setting.

>> president trump: i don't see it happening. we are there for a very, very strong reason. they cannot have nuclear weapons. a the iran nuclear deal signed by president obama gave $150 billion and that is when the real terrorist started. they took the money and used it all over the place. you look at yemen and all of the things that were happening including syria, they were using $1.8 billion in cash, $1.7, $1.8 billion in cash, green, beautiful cash. and how did they have the power to do this? loads of cash. instead of iran saying thank you very much, that is nice and let's get along, do well, let's build buildings and iran, they said death to america. they said it when they were signing. when john kerry signed, and by the way he violated the logan act. >> laura: he is out there slamming you. >> president trump: this guy violated the logan act with his conversations come okay. but when john kerry was out there making the deal, and they

have people screaming death to america, death to america. who signs a deal while they scream death to america? >> laura: he said he stabilize the middle east after campaigning a man of restraint, not interventionallism. john kerry saying this and all the obama folks, susan rice, they are kind of waiting in the wings, see, he is the guy that we told you he was. >> president trump: if you look at the middle east right now, it is much calmer than when i got here. when i got here, it was all over the place. number one, we got rid of the caliphate, the isis caliphate. tens of thousands of prisoners and we killed most of their fighters. we've gotten rid of vices. they come back and take care of it. other people should take care of it. other countries should have taken care of it, europe should take them back.e >> laura: and nato stepped up and i know they committed to doing more in the middle east, but what extent, specifically will nato contribute to take the burden off the american taxpayers. >> president trump: as i came in, nato was virtually a dead organization.

it had no money, nobody was paying except us. practically nobody was paying. if you look at a chart of money and funds received, it looked like a roller coaster down. now secretary, i think he is terrific and my first year, i raised $130 billion from them, not from us. and now he announced $530 billion all because of me. he's my biggest salesman, my greatest salesman, the secretary. but look, you are there for russia and europe, okay? by the way, it was much more for europe than us. >> laura: why are we protecting them? all the money sending to nato, what are we protecting them from? >> president trump: they built an office building $3 billion. they do lots of things they shouldn't be doing before i goty here. but i raised a lot of money. we can use nato in a number of locations. o we can use nato as an example in the middle east. that is what we should do. frankly, more palatable to countries and international force comes in rather than the united states.

from our standpoint, let somebody else pay for it. why are we always paying? we pay for everything. one thing, i moved the troops on the border between turkey and syria. that turned out to be such aay successful move. look what happened. now they protect -- they been fighting over the border for 1,000 years. why should we do it? then they say he left troops in syria. you know what i did? i left troops to take the oil. the only troops i have are taking the oil. they are protecting the oil. >> laura: we aren't taking the oil. >> president trump: maybe we will, maybe we won't. >> laura: they are protecting the facility. >> president trump: united states has the oil. so they say he left troops inll syria. no, we are protecting the oil. we have the oil. we have the oil. h >> laura: "wall street journal" reporting after the strike, mr. trump told associates he was under pressure with the deal with general soleimani to take him out from g.o.p. senators he used as important supporters in the upcoming impeachment senate. the associate said. u

sounds like you have a leak from the white house or someone. >> president trump: they just made it up, it is fake news.so they are just making it up. they are all very dishonest, most of them are very dishonest, 80% are dishonest. i mean really dishonest. they made that story up. >> laura: so no shirk about lindsey graham? >> president trump: absolutely not at all. we have tremendous support. listen, and the house we vote 196-0 and three democrats so it was bipartisan i guess you could say. we have nothing, they had nothing. we did not lose one republican vote. i as you know, that is unusual. in the senate, i have the same if not moreno support. i don't have to do that. i would never compromise what we are doing with iran and potential word. all the things. >> laura: we are not doing bush 2.0. this is not bush 2.0 or wnv.

>> president trump: i don't want people having nuclear weapons because they will use them. i don't want people having nuclear weapons. that is my biggest thing. >> laura: john kerry was out there yesterday saying well, you got out of the iran deal andan that's what got all this attention.ng >> president trump: i did a great thing didn't getting out of the iran deal. they gave $1.8 million to getou that. you cannot do inspections at the most important locations. you know another big thing? they have the right to do ballistic missiles.. we couldn't go into areas and look, we have to give massive notices so if they were doing something they could clean them up. it was ridiculous. but most importantly, it expires. this is a short-term agreement. now, once it expired, they have nuclear path at nuclear weapons. unstopped in a short period of time, the deal that president obama made with john kerry who may be the worst negotiator i have ever seen. that deal expires. you know what?

once it expires, you can't do what i did. because they have a deal that says once it expires, they can do what they want to do. you cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon. that is what i'm doing.it >> laura: pete buttigieg and other democrats might predict at this when i talk to mike pompeo yesterday, are actually blamingi your move against iran for the downing of that commercial jetliner and iran and tehran the night of the strikes to fire on the rocket facilities. your reaction to that charge. >> president trump: a couple of people started that and i got it real fast by a lot of different people, not me. i think it is lowlife. look, he's not going anywhere. he was a lousy mayor a place not doing well. indiana is doing believably well.ng indiana, the best year they have ever had, thank you very much. but badly run out what is going on. she is another beauty, look at her past.

>> laura: the iraq he since prime minister has notified mike pompeo about potential plans drawing up plans for u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq. mack. you ran on pulling out of the middle east but why not use this opportunity to say we are done. >> president trump: i'm okay with it, by the way -- >> laura: you are okay, removing troops from iraq? >> president trump: that is what they say publicly not privately. if we leave, that means -- >> laura: why not leave? >> president trump: i'm not so bad with it. when i heard that, i said, i p haven't 5,000 troops. we have many troops in iraq and in training. we trained them, but if they want us to lead, they speak different publicly than they do privately. >> laura: are we sending more troops to the region?s >> president trump: we are sending more to saudi arabia and saudi arabia is paying us for it. we are doing something nobody's ever done. i said to saudi arabia, we have a good relationship with saudi arabia. listen, you are a rich country. you want more troops, i will

send them to you, but you have to pay us. they are paying us. they have deposited $1 billion in the bank. we are going to help them, but these rich countries have to pay for it. and $500 million, they gave us $500 million. i said you have to help us along. we have 32,000 soldiers in south korea protecting you from north korea. you've got to pay. they gave us $500 million. i mean, you saw that0 breaking news because nobodyno wants to report that stuff. i'm not sure anybody knows it. i might sort of saying that you have some -- it's good stuff. but the wealth of the country. they build all your television sets. they build the ships, they build a lot of things. we are protecting you, you have to pay. they paid us $500 million and they will pay us more. >> laura: do you think iraqa should repay the american taxpayer for these bases, foray what we have done there?

>> president trump: you heard that from me. i said, we built one of the world's most expensive airport facilities anywhere in the world. i wish we had it in new york. i wish we had it in washington. we build runways 15,000 feet long at laguardia, 7,000 feet w long. in fact, 20,000 feet long over there and deep, thick concrete and steel. nobody ever built runways like this, okay, we overbuilt but that is okay. but we have billions of dollarst into that, and i said if you believe you have to pay us you have to pay us for the money we put in. >> laura: how are you going to collect? we have a lot of their money right now. we have $35 billion of their money right now sitting in an account. i think they will agree to pay. otherwise, we will stay there. >> laura: raymond arroyo on my exclusive interview with president trump continues. his thoughts on nancy pelosi's failed political gamut. the big news that the speaker is sending the articles to the senate. and later,

raymond arroyo to the president's thoughts of the royal rumble and a lot more, breaking news straight ahead. stayed there. ♪

♪ >> laura: mr. president, we learned nancy pelosi sending articles of impeachment next week to the senate. what is your reaction? >> president trump: it is ridiculous.e she should have sent them a long time ago. s it just belittles the process. what they have done to impeachment, it's like i was interviewed by a very, very good writer, reporter, somebody that you know very well. bob woodward. and this time i said, maybe i will sit down. because nobody is done more. nobody, if you look at three years with the economy, with regulations, with the tax cuts, we have rebuilt our military. our military was totally depleted.

our military was old and depleted. he said, you know, you don't look like somebody under impeachment. as you know, he slightly covered nixon and he covered clinton, but bob woodward said, you actually look like you've won everything. you look happy. i said, i am happy. so maybe i'm wired a little bit different. >> laura: the manager's committee when you would prefer to see?sa >> president trump: we have a team. we have a team. >> laura: put her impeachment managers. >> president trump: i would like to ask a couple of people like schiff, why did he lie? why did he make up my statement, totally made it up. but again, the whole thing unraveled when i put it in the transcript because it's all about the transcript.nt it's all about the president of ukraine saying he did nothing wrong. >> laura: how long do you think this will last?tr >> president trump: it depends if they have a trial, probably a few days, a week. unless we want a bigger trial where we bring in the whistle-blower which i would love to do. t i would love to bring in the

informant who disappeared and the second whistle-blower who disappeared. i would love to bring in theul inspector general. why did he bring it up there?pe he should have never done it. he didn't want to see the call. he did not want to see the call. he took the whistle-blower which is a fraud, the whistle-blower's report and he put it in. they said, no, no, if that is the case, if you have to do that, what we will do is show you the call.re no, no, no, i don't want to see it. what is that all about? why did he do that? inspector general. so i would like to interview the inspector general.i why did he do that? >> laura: are you worried about future presidents and what they will do to presidents in the future? >> president trump: i think impeachment is an ugly word. but cheap and the word impeachment. nancy pelosi and schiff is corrupt. the united states congress and repeats a conversation except a fraud. he made up a conversation. he was taking my conversation, and it was totally wrong. a and he knew it.

he said "don't call me, i will call you." that is from the godfather, the mafia statement. i never said that. he said eight times, quid pro quo. it was no times. t he made up a conversation and repeated it in front of congress, and because he has immunity, we can't do anything about it. i would like to say, why did you do that? these people are frauds. they have cheapen the word impeachment.ou it is a bad word to start off with. it is an ugly word. to me it is an ugly word. but maybe it played to our benefit. >> laura: when we talk about impeachment now, it looks like mcconnell is agreeing with josh hawley, the proposition to dismiss these articles of impeachment if pelosi does not send them over. my question to you, why not have them dismissed today? mcconnell, we are done with these games or do you want a trial?my >> president trump: i would love to have a trial and i would love to have sleepy joe biden, i would love to have his son.

i call him, where is hunter? i changed his first name to where. the whistle-blower is a person who you know who the whistle-blower is. by the way, everybody knows who the whistle-blower is. i don't want to name him, but everybody knows about the whistle-blower. and they know about thee whistle-blower's lawyer. but then you remember there was a second whistle-blower. i want to know what happened to the second whistle-blower?y what happened to the informer? they all disappeared when i gave the transcript. i gave a transcript, and that blew everything apart. we have an accurate -- and thehe only thing covered by the hearings is that people agree, everybody, even the great lieutenant colonel, please call him lieutenant colonel, great lieutenant colonel agrees that the transcript was accurate. i think he had one word different. change the one word which meant absolutelyee nothing. the transcript was professionally done by the best people.

just one second, so we have a transcript. he never thought that i would release it.ri they probably thought i never had it. i only say thank goodness i had it because i would have been falsely accused, and it would have sadly been my word against theirs. we had other people on that call. think of this. i was going to do something wrong on a call where i know many people are listening. >> laura: always. >> president trump: the president of ukraine said i did absolutely nothing wrong. he said i had no pressure whatsoever. he didn't even know what we were talking about. we called them before i releasei the transcript because it is a terrible thing to have to release a conversation with a leader from another country. it is a terrible thing. i mean, what are other countries other than ukraine saying? so anyway, they have no case. >> laura: why not call john bolton and allow him to testify? this is bogus.nt >> president trump: you can't be on the white house as president in the future, and have a security advisor, anyone having to deal with security. >> laura: will you invoke

executive privilege? >> president trump: i think you have to for the sake of the office. i would love everybody to testify. i would like mick to testify, mike pompeo to testify. i like rick perry to testify, i want everybody. but there are things that you can't do from the standpoint of executive privilege. you have to maintain that. so we will see where it all goes. but especially national security advisor, you can't have him explaining all of your statements about national security concerning russia, china, north korea, everything. you just can't do that. >> how about pelosi? >> president trump: look, she will go down as the least successful speaker of the house in the history of the nation. she's done nothing. the only thing she's done, she got done one of the best trade deals the country has ever made, the usmca with mexico and canada. but i did that. she doesn't even know what it says.

she has no idea what it says. she was forced to do that. you know why? she would not have done it, but she did nothing. so now she can say i signed. something. she is obsessed with impeachment. she has done nothing. she is going to go down as one of the worst speakers in thehe history of our country. now, in all fairness, she is hurting our country. she is very bad for our countryl and she has become a crazed lunatic. but she will go down as, i think, maybe the worst speaker in the history of the country. she will be overthrown soon. she is doing very little, and the people are tired of it. i she is controlled by the radical left. she is controlled by aoc. she is controlled by miss tlaib another great one. she is controlled by omar.ol >> laura: we just heard that they are thinking about adding another article of impeachment, floating this to include the events of the last few weeks. here is what chuck schumer just said. >> over the past few weeks, there have been several crucial disclosures of evidence that appeared to further incriminate

the president. each disclosure bolstering the argument that we democrats have made for a trial that features the relevant witnesses and documents. >> laura: your reaction to potentially adding two articless of impeachment that they still haven't delivered to the senate floor. >> president trump: so they can't win an election that will take place in ten months. they know that and the only thing they can do, it's like the congressman green when he said "we can't beat him, we have to impeach him", and they all know that. they are making things up. w this is the craziest thing anyone has ever seen.. the two articles they put in, as you know, they are not primes. they are not even allowed to bek put in. it is a disgrace. >> laura: doesn't not show the weakness of their case but they are still trying to rebrand this as something else? i've never seen anything like this. >> president trump: i think it is incredible. i think it is really hurting them. my numbers is the highest in poll numbers. you have this guy that was on television with phony numbers,:

but as you know my poll numbers as of today are the highest they have ever been and by the way,uy people love that we took out this horrible terrorist. they love it, soleimani, they left that we took him out. they think it is so fantastic. he should have been taken out the last 20 years by someone. he should have been taken out a long time ago. my numbers are the highest they have ever been. a lot of it has been because of the impeachment hoax, it is a hoax. how would you like to be two, two and half years under investigation, federal investigation before i even ran, in my opinion, before i came down the escalator. but from the time i came down the escalator, i havefo been unr investigation. they found nothing. they found nothing. who else do you think and washington -- >> laura: no one could have withstood it. >> president trump: not only withstood it mentally. >> laura: accomplished. >> president trump: it makes me angry. but think who else could have withstood that? you take some of these democrat senators, they could not withstand it. you know what would happen?>> number one, they would fold up a like an umbrella.

number two, guilty of a lot of stuff. >> laura: more exclusive interview with president trump in just a moment. his thoughts on immigration bringing in the foreign workers, the economy, and whether he really trust google in the election year. plus, a little later on, his thoughts on the latest royal scandal. stay there. our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence. yeah, they help us with achievable steps along the way... ...so we can spend a bit now, knowing we're prepared for the future.

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>> laura: the sanctions on china, the tariffs, the extra tariffs, if they don't fulfill --ch >> president trump: i have the right to do that but you have to realize, 25% tariffs on china of $250 billion worth of goods. i still have those. by the way, remember, china devalued their currency and paid for it. we have a great relationship with china right now. i don't want to speak badly of anyone but they are having thehe worst year they've had. the last year was the worst year they've had in 67, now in 67 years. and they wanted to make a deal. we made a deal. it's a great deal. now, it will start at some point, but phase one was important for banking. you know what we did, we opened it up for banking but for the farmers, manufacturers. >> laura: china though -- >> president trump: a lot of it doesn't make sense. korea, japan. >> laura: undocumented, no one else. >> president trump: remember this, they are all kicking in now we didn't have anything come a horrible deal no deal.

we are getting $40 billion. what this will do for the economy is going to be amazing. and just a month ago, it is just now kicking in. >> laura: on the human rights issue in china, you don't talk a lot about it but the strongest supporters, evangelical christians, catholics from other people concerned about human rights. a million people and reeducation camps, catholics getting missiles and they pews at christmas had tributes to silent night. reconcile the power of the moral argument for freedom and married it to the economic and military argument for peace or strength. can you do more on that front without damaging your ability to make future trade agreements more on the human rights front? >> president trump: we areth making not good trade deals but great trade deals. >> laura: human rights account. >> president trump: they do count. when you say reagan, look at mya was a big fan of reagan, but he

wasn't heavy into it. he wanted to do certain things and was not heavy into it. but he wasn't making trade deals. he let japan come in and take our automobile market. as much as i like reagan he was not good on trade. >> laura: he didn't trade with the soviet union at all. he didn't have students coming into the united states. >> president trump: by the way, getting along with russia, now that the witch hunt has ended, now that they spend $45 million and found nothing. >> laura: mr. president when you look at the trajectory of your presidency, huge progress on trade and huge progress on dealing with political foes, isis, incredible deregulation judges, you've done a lot. on the economy today, we found out that still 146,000 jobs, unemployment historically the 3.5%. but we have a little bit of a stump on wage growth and we've

seen 2.9% last year. over the last month. but we don't have a tight labor market and if we did come a increases in wages. i hear that your team is planning on advocating more foreign work coming in for some of these high-tech companies. are you very concerned about that as a lot of your supporters? i >> president trump: mark levin a little bit. >> laura: we are concerned. >> president trump: dobbs is concerned too. here is the problem. i am demanding that japan all these countries that have these massive, deficits like nobody has ever seen before. i said you have to open up, i call prime minister, you have to open up more plants in the united states. they tell me, we want to do it, we want to do it. they can't get labor. we need help, otherwise, we can say don't open. >> laura: if they couldn't get labor, wages would be going up but wages aren't going up here, not in the high-tech industry. we are taking a plateau.

>> president trump: it went up 2.9%. the last year, the wages have gone up more than they have 25 years. >> laura: but for google, why haven't award google? they are working against you in the campaign. >> president trump: i'm not a fan. i'm not a fan of google. >> laura: you did not bring foreign workers in the united states. >> president trump: we have to allow smart people to stay in the country. your graduate number one in your class at harvard. >> laura: you ran on people training foreign replacements. you ran against that. the americans humiliating for an american worker for 30 years. now, it is told me you have toto train former replacement, and you will pay him 20%. >> president trump: i would never do that, but we do need workers and the country. and i do want immigration policy. nobody's been better on immigration then may, by the way we won the funding for the wall and the wall has been building because taken out of the military and everything else. it is easier. many people, i got foxconn to go

into wisconsin. they have to get people.e. they spent a fortune and built the most incredible plant i've ever seen. foxconn. >> laura: american graduates of colleges and the universities taking jobs. >> president trump: we do but we don't have enough of them. we don't have enough of them. we have to be competitive with the rest of the world too forki the companies want to hire these people. when they want to hear people they can hire for the cheapest amount. >> president trump: i'm talking brainpower. they want to hire smart people.l those people are thrown out of the country and we can't do that. >> laura: your brain on america first.t. >> president trump: this is america first. >> laura: i'm going to keep going. >> president trump: let me finish. if we tell smart people to get the hill out -- >> laura: that's not what we are saying. there is a never ending appetite on the part of corporate america to bring in as much cheap labor as possible to drive down wages. that is not going to happen. >> president trump: so many people coming into the country, you won't have to worry about it. there will always be a shortage.

if somebody is in this position, we have so many companies coming in from japan. japan is doing many of our companies. china now is going to start building a lot of things. they haven't been doing it too much. we have so many companies wanting to come in. they don't have the labor. l >> laura: all right. >> president trump: our country is doing great, our economy is doing great. >> laura: coming up, thel president on the queens "harry"d situation and the news that the olympics proposing to ban athletes protest politics particularly. does he think that should happen here? and then raymond arroyo will join me with reaction. stay there. want to lose weight with no crazy diet,

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♪ >> laura: mr. president i know you were close to the queen and she has a lot of affection for you.

>> president trump: we have a great relationship. >> laura: would you be able to give her any advice for the rogue royals? what is happening there? a lot of toe mold. h you've been so good at keeping your kids together in a close-knit family. >> president trump: i think it is sad. i do.ke she is a great woman. i sat with her. i was supposed to be with her for 15 minutes, but i stayed an hour and a half. by the way, i got killed by the press. the press had no, no, he was supposed to be there and that i was rude. what a great time. we had dinner. the country was honored. i sat with her for a long time. she was smiling and laughing the whole time. >> laura: she has the tradition of the monarchy and responsibility. >> president trump: we have a great relationship. i think this wasn't in plain sight. she was blindsided by this, the whole situation. i think it is too bad. r but, you know, she has been the queen, an all-time record. from the time she was 25 and now 94. she has never made a mistake, if you look. she's had a flawless time.m,

>> laura: do you think harry should go back, come back? >> president trump: i don't want to get into the whole thing. but i find it, i have such respect for the queen and i don't think they should be happening to her. >> laura: aoc announced today and this is the final question, president, no politics at the upcoming olympics, new policy by the athletes. would you like to see that extended to the united states where politics stay out of sports? i know you are going to the big lsu game.. >> president trump: i am and i was responsible for getting the olympics. the olympics coming to los angeles. it was called but the mayor and he said can you do us a favor by president-elect? and i worked very hard and got the olympics. we have the world coming to the united states. i don't know. i guess you can say no politics, but people are top on politics. i think i have made politics somewhat more exciting. "the new york times" would be dead right now. >> laura: what are they going to do without you? >> president trump: "the washington post" would be out of business.s. i hate to say but cable

television would be obsolete. cable television would be out of business. so we will go hopefully anothert five years and keep everybody happy. thank you very much. >> laura: thank you so much. president trump offering his thoughts on the latest royal scandal across the pond andll banning political speech at the olympics. fox news contributor raymond arroyo at the white house with me for this exclusive interview today.d he joins us now. raymond, i think trump look like he was in fighting form today.tr look, he doesn't sleep, i don't sleep, nobody sleeps, but he is unbelievably resilient. >> he was on it, he was on it today. he was feisty, great humor. look my way say his ability to great opposition with a laugh and kind of diffuse people with a humor, that is a great quality to have an office particularly going into campaign. he also went out of his way to take pictures with the entires team that was with us today. unbelievable, went out of his way. you made a lot of news in that interview lady. we learned four embassies turn advice soleimani.

for the first time, iraqi government privately wants the u.s. to stay in their country. and he sounded off on pelosi and the whole impeachment and for the first time, the president said he would invoke executiveou privilege to keep bolton from testifying. oh, you and the president apparently a great sparring partner when it comes to chinese and foreign workers coming into the country. >> laura: that think that he also said which didn't get a lot of play but people should take note of, when i pressed himre about whether, why not our troops out of iraq? that is what he ran on. and he said, i would be okay with that. >> physically that's not what he same. the one he said basically i would be okay with that but -- >> president trump: -- >> turned back to what harry and meghan markle, temper tantrum. they are calling it in the u.k. press.

they have separated harry and meghan. wax works from the rest of the world. and they are putting -- you want to go away, bye-bye. a that is a big step back. the royal family is hold up emergency meetings with harry while meghan is already in canada. meanwhile, the president is sticking up for the queen and cnn, laura, the most incredible coverage of the day. and they are telling him it was racism that forced meghan and harry away. >> let's talk about whether race has played a role in this royal feud. t >> prince harry, he has complained about how his wife has been treated and he specifically said part of it is because of racism. >> i think she should come to north america. we are much more welcoming. we will embrace you. >> you know, it was not raised that through these two away. it was rude that ticked the royal family off. this is the duke and duchess sucking up to the celebrities. that's all they've done, oprah to support them. if you want to trade on your title, you have to live up to the office. the royals are not just liberties.

there are public functions and responsibilities, but my take on this is the queen as the president rightly said, 65 years on the throne she has taken them to world war ii, the balkans, diana, brexit, meghan markle is hardly a challenge in this legacy. she will survive and so will the royals. >> laura: i think she is looking at this thing going oh, those squabbles. >> if they were racist, why would she let harry marry her in the first place? >> laura: why would the mayor sadiq khan of london? i mean, this is ridiculous. it has nothing to do with that, but this is all the left has. they were talking about the situation room photo from thee night iranians loving roman candles to military operations. look at the situation room photo. not diverse enough. only one woman stephanie all white men in the room. that was their focus, not whether america's better off. >> or the best people around the

table the best in the field. we have to go to the olympic message from the president. you asked about international olympics committee saying we i don't want political displays during these metal ceremonies. the president kind of dodged your answer, your question a little bit but i like this idea. it allows us to come together and let's sports the means of bringing people together. don't divide people with political messages. i would like to see in the united states. >> laura: shut up and compete. that is not as good as showed up and saying but shut up and compete. >> great job, congratulations. >> laura: every night there is something. the trial is going to start a couple of days after martin luther king holiday.. so that is going to start then. >> and the state of the union. >> laura: anything else, raymond, thank you so much. have a great weekend. my final thoughts on this amazing week when we return.

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>> what a week of shows. we had breaking news of the missile strike on tuesday, the secretary of state with us last night, the president joining us for another exclusive tonight and the news shows no sign of slowing down because we expect the articles of impeachment to

hit the senate and we hope you join us for breaking news. that is it from us in washington. shannon bream with the fox news at night team. shannon: we begin with a fox news alert. breaking news from iran. what the military is admitting about the downed ukrainian plane. the top military general soleimani was killed, you'll see those images on fox news at night, fox team coverage, live on the