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southern border, the mob, the media, and everything in between. without a doubt, president trump remains the most dominant force in american politics today. even now three months removed from the washington swamp. when donald trump talks, the world in the country lesson spirits are tonight for the hour, we welcome the 45th president of the united states. donald trump. mr. president, get to see. thanks for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: i know a lot of people that are on you every day. this is what they are all telling me. you are working as hard as you did when you were in the white house. except you play a little golf more. that you are keeping an insane schedule seven days a week. we really don't stop. >> well, we are seeing a lot of people, we are seeing a lot of good republicans and a lot of good americans and in some cases great american spirit and we are working very hard. and a lot of things to do plus i'm getting more involved for a

long time years. i wasn't involved in the business. i am more involved in the business. we will see what i do with respect to that. by the business is doing well and we are doing well. it has been five and a half years of investigations and hoaxes and i see something came out just yesterday about the russia, russia, russia was a total phony deal. and i hate to admit it but that came out. >> sean: the big bounty deal. >> and there was a hoax like everything else. so it's a sad thing. get impeached for doing nothing wrong and then you get a second impeachment for doing nothing wrong. and so it has been pretty wild when you think about it. and very unfair. so we are working very hard, and i think you're going to see something that will start to plague place in '22 and will culminate in '24. a lot of big things and great things for the republican party and for the country. when you look at the border and all of the things that are going

wrong right now, what a shame that the border. >> sean: let's start with joe biden. now, i get criticized because the joe biden i see now i can show you tapes of him and 2016. i can show you tapes of him in 2012. and to me, he looks extraordinarily weak, frail. i think it's very transparent he is struggling cognitively. usually averages less -- we followed his schedule very closely -- less than one event per day. what do you see? how do you greet him three months and? >> he's going to be 79 years old. that is not old. i know many people in their late 80s that are just as good as they were years ago. i spoke to one who is 92 years old and he said i feel better than i did 20 years ago. 78, 79 is not old. but look, i don't think it's even appropriate for me to comment on that. it sort of speaks for itself.

people can make their own determination. i know that if it were me, they would be up and down going crazy. i had an instance where on a slippery, slow polar ramp, a piece of steel, very steep and very long, no railings, no nothing, and it was pouring at west point, and the last thing i want to do is going down because when gerald ford went down, it was not good. ellen biden went down, the preston cover it. >> sean: fairness, the wind might have blown them over. did the wind ever blow you over? >> air force one is a very big plane and usually what they try and do his shield to win. when they park it, you can turn it at angles so you don't ever have too much -- i've never seen too much wind. they can get a little windy but not the kind of wind that blows you over. but if you look at mainstream media whereas you say lame stream media. they didn't cover that.

if that were a republican in particular, if it was me, that would be the biggest story for the rest of the year. >> sean: lets me ask the question from this perspective. because there are hostile regimes and to many hostile actors on the world stage. you have the hostile regina and russ russia, hospital of vladimir putin, hostile in china and president xi, you dealt with him a lot. the mullahs in iran. looks like joe is artie capitulated on that. you know them well enough. i am sure they are sitting joe biden. knowing what you know, things that i wouldn't no, are you concerned about their perception of an american president that seems somewhat frail and we? >> something is going on because i never did this with me that i can tell you. nobody was tougher on russia. and frankly, getting along with vladimir putin is a good thing. and i got along with them very well. the relationship was very good, very strong. but they never encircled ukraine and they never in taiwan, china,

they never sent warships all over the place like they are doing now. it looks very serious going on with taiwan. and that's a long way away. that is 9,000 miles away. they are right next to it. it's like very close. so now they are -- something is going on with taiwan. something may be is going with ukraine. this number was a big subject when i was president. as far as north korea is concerned, i have a great relationship with a certain man that has great power over north korea, and you take a look at kim jong un and the relationship, that's a good thing, and in. getting long with president putin is a great thing. we should be does business with russia. we should be getting along with russia. instead of forcing russia to go into the hands of china, the worst thing you can do is put china and russia together.

and they get divorced together. the russian hoax was very, very bad to the relationship that we would have with russia. but i got along well with putin. i got along well with president xi until the coven came in. the china virus or whatever you want to call it. when they came in, it was old, but we made a great trade deal. our farmers are making more money than they have ever made. wheat prices are at their highest they have ever been. they are doing great because china -- this was the trade deal that we made. but after covid, trey just didn't seem that important and we did over things. but it was too bad. >> sean: including one of your signature issues from the first day, the day you came down the escalator, and i had to do with immigration. you instituted policies stay in mexico policy, it worked. he built i think by the end over 450 miles of new border wall. obviously walls work. then of course you ended the practice of catcher and release. now we see the exact opposite.

you have seen these images on tv. i say they are biden's cages. the media went nuts. donald trump is putting children and cages. it turned out joe biden and barack obama built those cages and the images were from 2014, not 2018. my question is this. imagine -- first of all, your overall take on how dangerous this is, number two, imagine if your president and you have -- these are trends cages overflowing with kids in the middle of the pandemic that with a high positivity of covid. what you think the media -- it has been virtual silence on lot of the aspects i would argue if it was a day care center you would be shut down and charged with child abuse. >> they would not stand for it. and they are playing it down as much as they can play down. it's a horrible situation. it could destroy our country. people are pouring in but you will see something as the months go by like you've never seen

before. already it is like you've never seen before. there has never been anything like what has happened out of order. and people are coming in by the tens of thousands, they are walking in -- all they had to do is leave it alone. if you left it alone, we were setting record positive numbers and people would have to come in legally. and the other thing that people don't talk about, human trafficking and drugs. that's double, tripled, and quadrupled coming in because that is pouring in right now. drugs are pouring in. we had it so tight, we are doing so well, all he had to do is leave it alone. stay in mexico is a big deal. that was an easy to get. we went to court systems, went through everything. the wall, getting the wall built. where up to almost 500 miles and complaining it was very easy. i was going to be just routine. it would've been done routinely. the contracts were already there come the materials were there, it was going to be done very quickly and we got delayed for two and half years because we were sued by nancy pelosi and congress not to build the wall. we went all the suits. we won everything and then they

don't finish the wall. the wall is imperative. all of the things that go with a wall, the technology that goes into the wall and with the wall is so imperative. we had a down to a number that nobody could believe. and then all of a sudden i hear something else that i stopped money going to three countries and then you have mexico where we have a great relationship with the president and he's actually a great guy. different philosophy, but a great guy. he put 28,000 free of charge, 28,000 soldiers on our border to stop people from coming in. if you look at guatemala, honduras, el salvador, we were giving them $500 million. but they went letting us take back these incredible -- whether that it is ms-13 -- horrible people. gangsters, drug lords, horrible pier they would let them come back. so i stop paying them and i said how much are we paying them? $500 million. very early on. and as soon as i stopped payment, they called, we would love to have ms-13 back in her

country. they would let us -- if a plane was flying over, they would block the rain was. if buses came in, they would let you into the country. so we couldn't get anybody back. now we just bring them back. he ended that. now what he is doing is they want to give billions, not 500 million, they want to give billions and billions of dollars to these countries. i get along with all three of them, with the top people, all three of them. but they're going to be taking in billions and billions of dollars and what's going to happen is that money is going to go to people that are leading people into our country. one other thing. they are sending us not their best people here they are sending us people that in many cases, not in all cases, are murderers, drug dealers, human traffickers, really bad people. they are sending us people from their prisons. those people are coming into our country and of course that is just common sense because all you have to do is take a look at what happened in the case of cuba, take a look at what happened in the case of other countries. but the three countries you have

really some unbelievably dangerous people coming into our country. they are not better. you talk about covid, you talk about -- that is one thing, but they are not vetted for me criminal standpoint. so we have criminals and coming into our country and they are just walking in. we have people from yemen and the middle east coming in. and they are coming in and numbers. they can't come into the airports. i can't get on a plane. and we have a policy, the band, we had a band which is a great thing from very dangerous countries. there ending the man i have artie ended it. so people can come in from dangerous countries. but if you take a look at what is happening with the middle east, many people from the middle east are coming in through our southern border alongside of mexico. like they are doing is insane. they are going to destroy our country. >> sean: let me assess. joe biden has been in washington 50 years.

he is the ultimate swamp creature. let's look at georgia's law. they have 17 days of early in person voting. every single county has a drop box. there are no drop boxes in delaware. there is no early voting in delaware. both states require voter i.d. so now he's saying to to the people of georgia this is jim crow 2.0 and i am listening to this and i am like what did you ever do to make voting easier in your state and the answer is he did nothing. and then he is using this incendiary racial language in the process. what is your reaction to that? >> my reaction to the georgia bill is it is far too weak. yet have signature verification. they'll have it. why don't they have signature verification? you want to matching. you want matching signatures. they have many things that they didn't put in. look, what happened is the governor and others were afraid to be called racist. so they gave a very weak bill and they are called racist anyway. they had a much stronger bill a

few weeks before this one came out here the governor, what he did is so sad. you had a much stronger bill. texas has got a very strong but fair bill. >> sean: soto's photo, does ohio. >> all the states that we will not court properly won. for that was properly run. ohio is probably run. south carolina was properly run. by the way, north carolina, democratic governor, we won that. that is always very tough to win. we won up very nicely. properly run. happen to have democrat governor in all fairness. >> sean: how does someone -- get 200 corporations, hollywood stars, major league baseball, they all leave and if you look at his history of racial rhetoric, he partnered with a former clients meant to the integration of schools because

he didn't want schools in his we racial jungles. now imagine if donald trump had ever said that or partnered with a former klansman. speak of the democrats play a far couple the democrats have horrible policy. no borders. defund the police. sanctuary cities. i mean -- >> sean: they are actually getting worse and set a and you look at the -- i don't know if you have seen what is going on and you work. i love new york. >> sean: i'm stupid. i still live there. you're smart. he lived here. newark income tax, eight. 15%. on top of the new federal rights. we have to take a break. sit tight. much more with president trump right after this break as we continue in mar-a-lago come we are in palm beach, florida. thanks for being with us.

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♪ ♪ >> welcome to fox news live. as america remembers the war dead, russia sends another warning to united states. russia announcing 20 new military units will deployed on russian's western borders at the end of the year to counter nato. the moves come only hours after afterv -- leading up to next months biden-prudence on it. the two leaders are scheduled to meet in geneva on june 16. meanwhile, the big apple still once again the city that never sleeps. new york state lifting the coronavirus curfew today that forced bars and restaurants to close at midnight. establishments cannot remain open as late as their liquor

licenses allow. the decision comes as more than half of new york's population receives at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. i am jackie, now back to "hannity." ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity" as we continue as we are broadcasting for mar-a-lago and palm beach, florida, where we adjoin for the hour by president donald trump is with a spirit i want to go to this next question pete i want to talk about the future. there is the trump agenda. to make america great agenda. i will sum it up. because i think this will define 2022 and 2024. very simple, more liberty, more freedom, belief in the constitution, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, constitutionalist on the bench, he wants secure borders, legal immigration, energy independence, you believe in law and order, safety and

security for every american, simple stuff. school choice. free and fair trade. and what's come in through strikes? >> mr. trump: and many other things paid the big thing is taxes. low taxes. you going to have the biggest tax increase you've ever seen. pro-life, second amendments, so many different things that -- look, we have 75 million votes. that's more than any sitting president in history by far. if we got 65 to 66. we got 63 the first time and won. if you have 65 to 60 essays, there is no way he lost. we got more votes, we got 12 million more votes than we got. it's never happened to another president. i don't know if you know, sean, usually in a second term, a prison gets less votes. i got 12 million more. it's the biggest got every in history. from 63 to 75. never happened before. and all of these things are good.

these are popular things. but more importantly than popular, they are great things for this country. they're going to rip apart your second amendment, they are doing things to this country that bernie sanders would have said impossible. and i don't know if joe knows a is going on because i think you have a qualcomm the of a group of people sitting around a table just saying do this, do this, te things. it's hard to believe. we are going to take back the house in 22. we have a real chance. we were supposed to lose 25 seats. i got involved, i called 56 different districts and we ended up picking up 16 instead of losing -- >> sean: all 27 toss-up races before the races were republican. >> mr. trump: and we did lose one seat. >> sean: here is my broader question -- >> mr. trump: which has never happened before. >> sean: i laid out the make american great again agenda. your agenda. i would add to that free market solutions for health care,

protecting pre-existing conditions. that's another issue. but they want to take -- >> mr. trump: think of it which is terrible. and by the way, we did a good job with obamacare. i was given a choice very early on his way people voting against -- a couple of republicans, the republicans have to unify. the democrats are always -- they may have bad policy, but you don't have a romney area you don't have a little -- you don't have those people over there. >> sean: lisa murkowski. >> mr. trump: she's a total disaster. and we have done so much. so much -- if you look in alaska, the great highway they have been looking to build for years, so many different things -- a train going into canada and ultimately the united states. at railroad. we have done so much for alaska and much more than that. i would say never has anyone done so much for so little. >> sean: so let's lay out what

i listed is the cliffsnotes version of what your agenda has been. so now we have elections coming up. you are right. it's the tiniest margin that they have in the house. >> mr. trump: nancy pelosi almost lost her job a writer. she was supposed to be at 30, 34, 40. she is up only a few seats right now. because i called districts having thousands and thousands of people on the phone and i was making calls getting congressmen elected. i said to kevin mccarthy three things. give me everyone you think is going to lose, give me everyone you think is tied, and everyone that is going to win by a little bit. also give me all of your new people. another was, the new ones coming in. many of whom are women. i called all of them. and instead of losing 25 seats, we won 16. that's an incredible thing. >> sean: a week before i called him and he said he was very worried. so that's --

>> mr. trump: i wasn't worried. you get into a district with 20,000 people on a call -- >> sean: this now gets down to that was your agenda. you are right. you went up 12, 13 million more votes in the second election. my question is -- >> mr. trump: never happened before. >> sean: my question is the ideas. there is one other sidebar factor that's when i talk to people they love the fact that donald trump fights. he makes promises, he keeps on, he fights for these principles i mentioned. now the question is for 2022, we have the house, but then you have a look at the states, florida, north carolina, georgia new hampshire, wisconsin, ohio, arizona, these are the biggest bellwethers and what i would argue probably our precursor or preview of coming attractions of 2024. my question is this.

is this/should this now be the republican party agenda? should anybody that wants to run for the house for the senate, should they take this make america great agenda and fight for those things that you fought for the four years he were president? >> mr. trump: at they want to win, yes. we've expanded the republican party. the texas border, we have the biggest hispanic vote since -- as the governor said to me, he called me up, great governor, he said since reconstruction. i said you are talking about civil war, right? since civil war. if you want to win and win big, you have to do that. you have to do it now. let me just say, i talk about the house. so we're supposed to lose 25, we won 16. if i didn't get involved in the senate, you would have lost at least eight senators. you would be right now -- you would be 60-40 with democrats

leading. we just endorse sarah huckabee. she is going to do fantastically well. most people dropped out of the race and she is leading by a loss. we have endorsed a lot of senate candidates. mel brooks in alabama he just won a 41 points and it looks like he is sailing by everybody. marco. many people. and i'm not looking to reinvent the wheel. i'm not looking to say we want super consider of only trump. i also want them to win after the primaries. but i met hundred 28-2 when i endorse people 128-2. and if you go back earlier than that, we are even higher. when we endorse them, it means something. not just for the primaries, before the general elections away. people running. we have some great people that are going to be announcing. you have tremendous people. >> sean: at the republican party did go tougher, the agenda is spelled out, liberty,

freedom, constitutionalist on the bench, low taxes, less bureaucracy, energy independence, peace through strength, border security, legal immigration, free and fair trade. if every republican running ran on that agenda and made a promise to fight hard to implement that agenda, it seems to me based on the number of votes he got in 2020 that that that would be a winning formula. my question is will you help them formulate that narrative? i don't think it's that complicated. >> mr. trump: it's common sense. it should be the party of common sense. you need people that can lead that have a vision, that have personality. otherwise the clock -- the clock is ticking. sean, we have much better policy. second amendment. low taxes. regulation. you did mention regulation. i cut taxes more than any president has ever cut taxes,

but there was another thing i cuts. regulation. regulation i think was more important. and you know who had big beneficiary of that is? biden. because i cut so much. he used to take 20 years to get a highway approved. now you can do it in a very short. lack of time. >> sean: let me take a break. i want to come back. a lot of issues involving warp speed, the vaccine, covid, why some states did well, some others didn't. dr. fauci, we will get to all of that. more with president trump on the other side as we continue in beautiful palm beach, florida, mars lago, as "hannity" continues. and you need it here. and here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too.

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us work but he got us three vaccines. we have been able -- that has never happened before. 200 million doses now have gone out to americans. okay. that means a lot of lives are saved. you were criticized about the travel ban ten days after the first case of covid. about a year ago, dr. fauci was saying masks don't work. in march of last year. and then you have cuomo and murphy and wolf and witmer signing these executive actions sending covert patients to nursing homes. in new york, he sent the navy hospital ship, converted it for covid, committed the center for covid, built the hospitals, may in the hospitals, provide the ventilators, ppe, the masks come the gloves come the gowns, masks, ventilators. 80% of those beds were never used. and they were sent back. >> mr. trump: if they use the

center, they would have used this great mass of hospital ship, all the things that we did for them. you would have saved 16,000 lives, may be that. >> sean: guided operation warp speed work so well? was it financially backing up these pharmaceutical companies? >> mr. trump: to go thanks. we did a great job of getting gowns and masks and all the different equipment that we are building equipment complex equipment, the most complex. getting it out to the states because the coverage was on the states. and i handed her coverage pray there is nothing. we had practically nothing in this country and now it has been rebuilt. we did a great job. we did very little credit for doing the great job we did. and as you know, is a federalist, it shouldn't be up to the governor. some governors were fantastic. i could write a great book. some were less than fantastic. and some were absolutely terrible. ron did a great job, texas did a great job, so many -- it's

interesting, they did a really great job. the most lockdown state and the whole country is michigan and michigan is the worst in the country. >> sean: how did you get warp speed? what was the mandate that pushed these companies to do something that had never been done before? >> mr. trump: i was told by dr. fauci and by many people the quickest you're going to have a vaccine is three years and it could be five years and it could be longer than that and you could also not have it all. and nobody -- and then i got involved and i said that's ridiculous and i got involved with the fda. nobody has ever hated me so badly. and i understand it. >> sean: there is a list of people that you. >> mr. trump: that's okay. and we are saving tens of millions of people with a vaccine. so i push them. they had all these statutory periods. they had to go a certain speed. we got it done in less than nine months. it would have taken minimum three years, would have probably gone fires.

i don't think they would've ever had. >> sean: and you back them up financially as well. >> mr. trump: i did two thanks. i backed the companies up financially and pfizer did not want to admit it and had to retract their statement. pfizer is really in. i will give you breaking news. pfizer is in with the fda. and with the fda did johnson & johnson is so stupid. they all want me to do a commercial because a lot of our people don't want to take the vaccine. i don't know what that is exactly. republican -- i don't know what it is. >> sean: you encourage people to get. >> mr. trump: i do. >> sean: did you get a question mark >> mr. trump: i did. i had and i took it. >> sean: you got both. >> mr. trump: because i believe it. they want me to a commercial taking element saying take the vaccine and they think that's important and i will certainly do it. then i call him and say let me ask you a question. you just did something. six people out of 8 million people, somebody said that tylenol, woman's birth control, all because for more heard six

people -- >> sean: out of 7 million. >> mr. trump: experience some difficulty. six people and that's too bad. it's terrible. but they paused it. that's the worst thing you could have done from a public relations standpoint. they paused johnson & johnson vaccine. and you probably even affects the other vaccines a little bit. but they paused it and set it devastating impact. i said they want me to do a commercial, some commercial, and they do this pause. now here is your breaking news. they love pfizer. they get along with pfizer so well. and pfizer doesn't like me because -- and favored nations will mean advising states -- it's in the courts now, it will mean we have the lowest prices. we have the highest prices in the world by far. and if i class here, i got them to be slightly lower. first time as happened in 32

years. but here's the thing. 52 years. but here's the thing. i put a favorite nations because prayed so pfizer and all these drug companies dislike me also. i can be liked by everybody. but i won't be doing a good job. so i put favored nations because you have countries that pay a tiny fraction for the exact same pill made in the exact same factory that comes in the exact same box. and what i did, shaun, is put a favored nations meeting the united states will pay whatever the prices of the lowest nation in the world the drug companies went crazy. they spent a lot of money. and they did something else. >> sean: why are they charging us more? >> mr. trump: they got together with the fda and before the election, they knew we had the answer. before the election -- they were saying we have the vaccine, networks, 95%. they waited to go days after election. pfizer did that with the fda. now the fda a lot of bureaucrats

and they have been there for a long time. and they will be there for a long time. but they were very slow and they have been very slow. so pfizer -- and i will tell you something. i think it's very suspect is what they did with johnson & johnson. because the only people that are happy about that are pfizer and mentor in it. the only people that are happy about that because what they did is a terrible, terrible thing. >> sean: i want to know what's level of involvement you will have for the agenda for elections in 2022. i will ask you what your plans might be for 2024. more donald trump on the other side. ♪ ♪ hey, mom. i'll never say this but... - thanks for telling me everyone 12 and older is eligible for the covid-19 vaccine. (both) thank you for getting past our walls. - thanks, honey, for always being there for me. - thanks for letting me know, in clinical trials vaccines...

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as we continue my exclusive interview with the 45th president of united says, i want to know this question. what are your plans to help for 2022 what you mike we talked about the house and the states. are you thinking about running again in 2024 caution mark and if so, where are you in that process? >> mr. trump: we are going to help with a house. i think we have a good chance of working with a buddy including kevin mccarthy on taking back the house. i think we've really good chance on doing that. and likewise come in the sun is going to be a little bit tougher, but the senate -- i tell you at least eight senators would have lost their seats. i could name them but i don't want to embarrass them. but that includes -- he called me up and he said i need your help. and i'm very popular in kentucky. i love kentucky. and they love me. and i helped him and he won by the most he is ever won by. so we are going to help --

and i think we've -- >> sean: i heal herschel mention a lot in georgia. i hear i think you can win that race. ron johnson in wisconsin. >> mr. trump: ron johnson is a great senator. he is much more popular than anybody -- >> sean: we have some good >> mr. trump: i think we've a real chance of the senate. i think we've really, really good chance. >> sean: tell me how far you are willing to go. are you going to travel. are you going to do speeches, are you going to do ballads question mike >> mr. trump: attending a rally, will do a rally. we will do all sorts of things. alabama is going to be a tremendous won. we have -- look, almost everybody i endorse wins. we had a house seat in louisiana, wonderful woman, it had just happened, her husband died of covid. he was congressman elect and she

is was fantastic but a lot of people thought she might not get in the runoff. i endorsed her, she got 65% of the vote. there is no runoff. it is very important that we get the right people. and that means in the senate and that means in the house. and also means and governorships because if you have a good governor -- >> sean: and state legislators. >> mr. trump: the legislatures -- we've had a lot of great legislatures. unfortunately the courts refuse to listen even though it's in the constitution that they have to. the courts have been very -- >> sean: hr one i would argue serves the constitutional authority of state legislators. now the big question. two parts. what do you miss the most about being in the white house? and how seriously are you considering running again in 2024? >> mr. trump: i miss helping people. that's why i did it. this has been a very traumatic -- i had a great life, great

company, great business. no problems. and now all i do is people go after you, it's vicious, it's horrible. but you know it? i love doing it because i help people. and i've helped them more than any president with a cutting taxes, with the regulations, with the right to try. we don't have to travel to all sorts of different continents to try to get something. where the greatest doctors and the greatest labs that can use their medicines now. if somebody is terminally ill, they can sign a quick little document you can use and that's had a huge -- >> sean: what are you most proud of question mike >> mr. trump: very >> mr. trump: we brought back -- it's only 39%. so it looks like it could be a 25%. i brought it down to 21%. i am very proud of that. i'm very proud of and very poorly the regulation.

i'm very proud of what i did for the military. i rebuilt the military and i've added something called space for us. it's going to be so powerful. so importance. so i've added -- i've added to the military. it has not happened since i guess 75 years since air force. >> sean: record low unemployment. >> mr. trump: greatest numbers in the history of the world. we had the greatest economy in history. world. we have the greatest economy we had the greatest job numbers. we had the dash up to 160 million people. we were never even close to that. and when you think of it, i did it twice because on the whole world went down. we have come back stronger than any other country in the world. these to hit me with germany and france and this and that. well, they are doing terribly right now. they are all locked down, it's a disaster, they are having rides on their streets. this country is coming back strong. it's very interesting. places like florida and texas

and many others. i can name many others. i think in almost all cases run by republicans. i think in all cases. but they have done so well, and you look and i saw the other day michigan, i would say there has been nothing as close, other than for her husband, who has free run of the place, i don't think there has been any state more locked up than michigan. >> sean: are you running again in 2024? what are the odds? >> mr. trump: it's a long time. the odds. what are the odds? i have tremendous numbers. nobody has ever gotten the numbers i have got it. no sitting president has even come close. there is more popularity now than there was the day before the election because they see how bad things are at the border, they see what is going on, they seek their guns are going to be gone, their second amendment, their taxes are going on, regulations are going for the rich, jobs are going to go up. it's going to take a little while to show, but if they add all these regulations, the jobs are going to be gone.

your energy independence is going to be gone. so i say this. i am looking at it very seriously. beyond seriously. from a legal standpoint, i don't want to really talk about it yet -- >> sean: if you did run ended win, what would you do differently? >> mr. trump: when i came in, we were hit with phony russia, russia, russia investigation's. it was a total phony deal. >> sean: those three years of your presidency. >> mr. trump: i've been fighting off investigations for five years. since almost the day that we came down. and they were corrupt democrat -- i still haven't. there were democrat inspired investigations. russia, i remember -- i don't have too much time with you, but it's the story i think it's interesting. i've been told before. during the campaign in 2016, i would be asked by one of our

aides sir, do you have anything to do with russia? and i said no. that would be at. and then a month later, someday would say what do you know about russia? and i would say no, i don't know what you're talking about. then after three or four fun times, people would say do you know anything about russia? i kept saying no. after three or four times i said what is going on with russia? they created a phony deal, it was paid for by hillary clinton. >> sean: they made it phony disinformation packet and they use it to spy on you as a candidate, your transition team, and while you are president. it's at the top of the pfizer one verify. it was unverifiable and they knew it. >> mr. trump: 17 times. >> sean: they knew it right from the get-go. they were warned beforehand and they knew it certainly from christopher steele and the sub

source. >> mr. trump: a total fraud. any noted? it hurts any possibility of dealing with russia. we could have had a -- look, they say he loves russia. getting along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. getting along with the china is a good thing for the problem we wehad to china is covid because nobody ever took on so much money from china. if you look at china, i was taking tens of billions of dollars of tariffs from china and our farmers were doing great. the reason they were doing great it was because of the terrace i was able to sign a great deal for our farmers. but getting along with these countries, getting along with kim jong un and north korea, when i came in, president obama said -- and i think this is very public -- the biggest problem we have is north korea. the going to be a war. there was no war. we got along great. he writes letters. i like him. he likes me. there is nothing wrong with that. i got along great with president putin. i like him. he liked me.

that's a good thing, not a bad thing. they made up this phony hoax just recently which came out two good days ago that it was a total phony russian -- >> sean: it was a big deal and the campaign. >> mr. trump: it keeps you away from these countries from dealing economically. we could have made a lot of money. they had great natural resources. we could have made a lot of money and done well and jobs and everything else. getting along with russia is a good thing. getting along with these countries is a good thing. not a bad thing. >> sean: if i was going to bet, there's probably a lineup now, it sounds like you are running. it sounds like you haven't lost any engagement and have been very generous with your time. our rights. and thank all of you for taking the time to be with us. now we will close it out on the other side of "hannity" straight ahead. ♪ ♪

it would be cool to ride a horse on the moon.

♪ ♪ >> sean: unfortunately that's all the time we have left from mar-a-lago, palm beach, florida.

stay with us all week, we will get a lot of reaction to our review interview with president trump and exclusive reporting about unrest going on in america's cities and of course the never ending crisis at our southern border. please set your dvr so you never miss an episode, but in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham takes it away. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is a special edition of "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. just over four months into the biden administration, it's important to take stock in where we stand today as a nation. parents being shamed for not wearing masks, children forced to despise this country that we love so much and are leaders trying to divide us purely based on race and ethnicity. none of this is okay and that's exactly why red states are fighting back. i was lucky enough to host a