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>> tucker: time is a cruel master and we have run out, but stream the takeover of brazil and we will be back. 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity right now. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," tonight part two of my interview with former president donald trump at mar-a-lago. yesterday, we had a lengthy wide ranging conversation mostly focusing on mar-a-lago. letitia james campaign promise to go after all things trump in the civil suit she filed. tonight we talk about the issues that are greatly impacting this
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country we love. the lives of all of io, the american people we will talk about all of that and we'll talk about the midterm elections, joe biden is he fit for the office? biden's foreign policy failures and when it comes to china, iran, afghanistan, the covid pandemic taxes and much more. i will ask him if he made up his mind on whether he's running in 2024. here's a preview. do you worry about putting other people what melania had to go through and bear and had to go through. do you worry about putting them back in the situation. you're a golfer. why don't you just play golf? why would you want to give up a great life and go back? >> because i love the country and we were so close. >> sean: unlike the current occupant of the oval office, trump was able to provide candid
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and detailed answer to dozens of questions and no giant, no cards, no teleprompter, no confusion at all whatsoever that we saw at any point. donald trump stated at one point he wanted joe biden your current president to do a good job and wanted him to be successful in a way that would improve the lives of the american people. unfortunately, joe is not capable and the results speak for himself. recently, biden said quote, proof is in the pudding. we are watching and here is the putting. biden wandering endl aimlessly t night in new york. he doesn't seem to know where he is, what he's doing, where he's going. you decide. >> god bless you all. [cheers and applause]
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>> mr. president. >> sean: that's like a really bad "snl" skit. while biden's out there wandering aimlessly come of the staff seems to ignore him and they don't care about joe after the woke socialist working in the west wing is a little bit more than a ballpoint pen signing off on their radical agenda. that's basically his role. there are not concerned if he gets lost on stage or forgets when he's doing or where he is as long as he does what they want him to do. he's never been a leader and now with the obvious transparent cognitive decline, he's little more than a shadow taking orders from the far left climate alarmist cultist that ruled the democratic socialist green new deal party. the elites are not concerned with making your life better or strengthening the american dream, but instead they want to transition you and this country into a socialist eco-state to
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satisfy their own twisted morals and maintain political power in perpetuity. as joe says, the proof is in the putting. after record levels of spending on green energy products and tuition forgiveness and let's see who's breaking at the u.n. yesterday. 367 or $69 billion on climate change, $200 billion on food shortage problems around the world, we have an inflation rate that's at a 40 year high and going higher. after restricting domestic production of energy, oil, gas, our capabilities we've witnessed gas prices doubling and energy prices through the roof, the cost of everything you buy and every store you go to costs more. everything. we saw the border and meanwhile nonexistent, democrats have no problem with millions of illegal immigrants pouring into our country so long as they stay out of where they are and
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new york city, washington, d.c., and of course martha's vineyard. take a look. >> there is a bus of migrants dropped off in front of your home. governor ron desantis flew the migrants from texas to martha's vineyard. can you understand the political point that they're trying to make your? >> they are playing games. if these are political stunts. >> doing it for the sake of a headline and what we are seeing with the governor's is irresponsible and it's inhumane. >> sean: were having a record year, never before have we had 2 million people across the border and we have a long way to go to the end of the year. according to the borders are, it's not irresponsible or inhumane to lower millions of a illegal immigrants to risk their life to take the perilous journey. that's not irresponsible or inhumane? leaving families homeless out on the streets in el paso, under
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bridges in del rio, it's not irresponsible, inhumane to enrich evil cartels, allow opioids and fenton all and proliferate all over the country. according to kamala harris, the real price is greg abbott and ron desantis. of course, it's okay when biden relocates the migrants in the late night flights to states all over the country secure airports for nobody to see. rules don't apply to democrats and that's why we now have deeply corrupt federal bureaucracy out of control with a political motivated two-tiered system of justice. went into great detail about it last night. breaking tonight another example of unequal application of our laws, a september 2018 documentary from the obama foundation and take a look at what this says. the obama foundation agrees to transfer up to $3.3 million to
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the national archives to support the move of classified and unclassified obama presidential records and artifacts from hoffman estates to the national archives and records administration and control facilities that can conform to the agency's archive file storage standards. the documents were stored in an old furniture warehouse in hoffman the state between a highway and a golf course. that didn't exactly mean archive file storage standards. this is september of 2018. two years after obama left office, and there was a trove of classified documents according to them from the obama administration removed from the white house sitting in front of an old furniture warehouse. why did that not married or meet security standards or maybe a potential rated?
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no investigation into obama at all, no accountability from them national archives. your democrat, you're a little low, green deal socialist, you're above. we know by now it's a different story when it comes to trump, conservatives, republicans periods house of course was rated by dozens of agents, guns drawn and of course this is 1 od current investigations into donald trump and none of them have brought the fruit that they hoped for. like good comrades of the old soviet union, the leftists and biden's doj which is now been weaponized and then you are, the attorney general's office were investigating crimes instead trying to destroy one indi individual, one family, one company, one movement. if they are successful, the credibility of our justice system will never recover. pretty much mark levin is right, it will be a post constitutional
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america. the political weaponization of the rule of law will only get worse. despite all of this, donald trump was composed, collected, all while his successor joe biden gets flustered at the mere prospect of walking off the stage. just think about what you think about. no longer in capable hands and that's why i asked trump if he plans to run again and challenge biden in 2024. we will get to that in a moment but first here is part two of my interview from mar-a-lago. take a look. >> what do you see from the midterms and what do you advise candidates? now, kevin mccarthy, first time in 28 years republicans are doing something similar to the contract in america, calling it commitments to america. he'll release it publicly on friday. i think many senate candidates will also sign on to it.
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it's your agenda. it's the maga agenda, it's the american first agenda, which by the way joe biden give an entire speech on. i know you saw the speech because you mentioned it. >> you don't understand, it's make america great again. make america great again is under attack. >> sean: hard to define my political philosophy, very simple. i'm conservative. i believe in liberty, freedom, capitalism, our constitution, law and order, safety and security or lc c or else you cat pursue happiness. i believe in secure borders and i believe in energy independence and that like to see the next step like you talk about for energy. i want nato to pair its fair share. a free and fair trade what you talked about. peace through strength, have the
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best military on the face of the earth. i believe the supreme court should interpret the constitution and not write legislation. we believe in the first and second amendment. that pretty much sums up who i've been on air 36 years on radio in 27 at fox. >> that's not conservative, you know what that is? common sense. i often say are you a conservative? i'm a person with common sense, strong borders, energy independence, great education, strong military. these things, low taxes, they're going to double and triple your taxes and it's crazy. even from a political standpoint, how crazy is it? my whole life, the man who is going to lower taxes always have the advantage. today they are talking about openly going to raise how about your talking about the biggest threat in the world today by f far. we have a president at the
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united nations today that goes on and talks about global warming and climate change. used to be called global warming but that wasn't working too w well. >> before that its global cooling. >> laid out it was global cooling >> we have such problems in the country and if you look at the green new deal, trillions of dollars we are spending it's like throwing it out the window. the big reason for the inflation, the other big reason is what they allowed to happen to energy. energy has gone so high, so fast it's devastating and lifted everything else and everything else caught up and it's not nearly just energy. >> sean: if you were going to run again and win, you became president, we'd only be able to serve one term. how long do you believe you could get things back to where you had it when you left? >> very quickly except for one thing. of millions of people are in the country now that shouldn't be here.
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many of them are prisoners. criminals. the bad ones i would support. millions and millions of people are poisoning our country. i'd like to be nice about it. yesterday, i heard that venezuela is emptying their prisons out into the united states. i was not shocked because other countries have been doing it and i've been reading about it and seeing it. i'm surprised it took them so long, but venezuela is emptying their prison population into the united states going right through the border like nothing. we are poisoning our country and it's very hard to come back from that. i'll get the oil, will get the price. if we cut the price of oil down, i wouldn't even have to talk. putin would stop because he went to be able to afford it. he wouldn't be able to go forward, but he's making so much money even above and beyond the cost of war and he's selling it to china and he selling it to
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other places. europe is going to dump us, watch. if they are not going to allow their people to free so they will dump us and we are out there fighting spending many times more money than them and they'll be dumping us. we did one thing very bad. we allowed russia and china to unify. that's a very bad thing. >> sean: coming up, more of my sitdown interview with president trump at mar-a-lago. i'll ask president trump about his foreign policy failures and about joe biden's cognitive decline. straight ahead. ♪ ♪ i may be close to retiremet but i'm as busy as ever. careful now. nice! you got it. and thanks to voya, i'm confident about my future. oh dad, the twins are now... ...vegan. i know, i got 'em some of those plant burgers. nice! nice! yeah. voya provides guidance for the right investments and helps me be prepared for unexpected events. they make me feel like i've got it all under control.
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♪ ♪ >> welcome to fox news live, i am trace gallagher. hurricane fiona kicking up mess of ways as bermuda braces for impact. a category four storm has left a trail of destruction especially in puerto rico with more than 60% remedy without power. speak and in new york thursday, president biden promised federal government assistance saying hundreds of fema officials are on the ground and more help is coming. a hefty fine for boeing, the airline manufacturer has to pay $200 million to settle security
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and exchange commission charges that it misled investors about the safety of its 737 max jet. the sec says boeing and the former ceo new and automated flight system posed a safety issue but promised the public that the plane was safe all 737 were grounded. ♪ ♪ >> sean: that we continue with my exclusive interview with the 45th president donald j. trump where we discuss biden's failing foreign policy including the disaster that was known as the afghanistan withdrawal. remember, it was joe biden who abandon our fellow americans behind enemy lines in afghanistan and lied because he said 13 days prior he would never do that. he never leave until all americans were out. while he loved americans behind, well it shows joe is weak and he didn't keep his promise and by the way, his diplomacy and
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reckless foreign policy is clearly emboldening all of our adversaries around the globe and causing concern among our allies. now contrast biden's failures with donald trump success like destroying the caliphate, isis that was formed when joe was vice president taking out baghdadi and associates and soue escalating tensions with north korea and of course keeping iran and check and carrying out the disastrous nuclear deal and so much more. i sat down with the 45th president donald trump to discuss this and so much more, take a look. >> the reason this is happening is that they don't respect our leader and more importantly when they watched the horrible withdrawal i'm the one who got it down to a few soldiers. taking the military out last, would've taken the american citizens and you talk about all the time and the best equipment
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in the world, military equipment $85 billion worth of military equipment. 13 soldiers were killed. for 18 months under my conversations with the leader of the taliban, 18 months we didn't lose one soldier. when they took the soldiers out first and everybody else is at the airport and nobody knew it was happening, by the way a lot of bad people going on those airplanes. a lot of people were on the plains. we lost 13 soldiers. the thing nobody ever talks about, we also had a large number of soldiers horribly wounded, no legs, no arms, faces blown to smithereens. nobody talks about that. >> sean: you told me in a previous interview that you told the leader of the taliban before you ever talked about any withdrawal, and he planned withdrawal, you said to me that in no uncertain terms, you would
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obliterate him if he dared not to follow every dog and i've t,, period. give him the exact coordinates where he was? >> i sent him a picture of his house. but why do you send me a picture of my house? and i said you'll have to figure that one out. if you do anything from that point on, we didn't lose one soldier, if you do anything, you will hit you harder than any country has ever been hit. he said i understand you your excellency, i'll tell you this, we didn't lose one soldier in 18 months. biden got up and made a speech and he said that. if and they didn't follow the plan. we had a plan that was perfect but they weren't adhering. they would have adhered to it but they weren't. we were sent to get out of afghanistan 21 years is ridiculous. the other thing we should have
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done is kept a b bagram airbase. one of our own way from where china makes the nuclear weapons and now china is going to be occupying it. be one that differences that you told the head of the taliban before you discussed what the actual plan would be what the consequences would be if he didn't follow through. we watched for months when joe biden before the withdrawal, we watch the taliban on the move. moving from province to province to province, the opposite, the opposite when you defeated the caliphate. pushing them back province after province after province. >> we wiped out isis 10000%. that's why i still tell the story of a general can. a great military, not the people on television. but general raisin cane, we
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knocked out the entire basis caliphate we got it down to 97% and let russia and the other countries do it now. a fake news hit me, he didn't get 100%. i was told we couldn't do it, it would take three years, we did it in three weeks. we have a great military and they are so embarrassed by what's happening to the country. they are so embarrassed that we knocked out the isis caliphate. we killed, as you know, they killed many of our soldiers and people. you see soldiers walking without legs and you know who did that to them. but we did an incredible job and they respected us and they were afraid of us, they respected us. and all of a sudden, this guy pulls his soldiers out. you pull the soldiers out last and i can just imagine abdul when they say the americans have
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left kabul. and this guy is saying he's crazy. they couldn't believe it. i took a lot of hate when i spoke to him, it was a rough conversation but it got friendlier toward the end to be honest with you because they're going to do what i said. the media says why does he call this person? i call this person because that's where the action is. i called them. he stilled the leader, by the way, you know of the taliban. again, we didn't lose one soldier in 18 months. in chicago last week, we lost many people and 70 were shot. can you believe those numbers? 70 were shot. in new york where letitia james rules, we have the worst crime that we've ever had. letitia james, she had a focus on murder and crime in new york where they walk into stores with axes and start swinging the axes at people.
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that's where she ought to be focused, not on how much is mar-a-lago worth? by the way, and protecting banks, they got back their money. one bank, they didn't get hurt. when i see that and when i look at priorities and i see something that took place today in new york and then you can see all the people being murdered and shots, people are free to come here. it's really sad. if you think about it, 18 months, not one person killed, not one soldier killed in afghanistan. >> sean: look at the state of the country under donald trump and you look down the road at joe biden as president. if you see dramatic and drastic changes. the only criticism i hear of you but is this, can you tell him not to fight so much.
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say this -- >> can i respond to that? i have to fight i'm under siege i'm running a country. if i didn't fight, i wanted have had gasoline and record lows, all the things that we've done that are so incredible. of look at what we did to the pandemic and will be different s incredible. nobody seen anything like it. more people died under biden then under me and then he goes and says we are losing 300 people per day or 500 people per day. the statement was terrible about the pandemic, the statement about inflation was -- >> sean: you believe the pandemic is over do you? >> you have 302 max 500 people per day dying >> sean: more people died in 2021 inheriting three vaccines on monoclonal antibodies which i think was underutilized. >> all say this, the vaccines were to take anywhere from five
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to 12 years and if you look the world, we save 75 million people because in 1917 where you have a very serious virus, flew as you knew, 100 million people died. it probably ended world war i. although soldiers got sick. they probably ended world war i. sort of put an end to the war because all the soldiers from both sides got sick. 100 million people died. it's reasonable to assume 50 and may be, 75 million more would have died. we got it done in nine months instead of five or 12 years if you could do it. we've done things that nobody could believe, the economy was the strongest, 106 to 4 million people working. right now, the numbers look like peanuts compared to that because they show the phony numbers of
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5.36%. ateven if you're not looking foa job, even if you're capable, they don't have a incentive. our countries in such trouble and people understand it better than you and i do. if the level of anger in this country is incredible. >> sean: do you think joe biden, you observed on "60 minutes" this weekend, watch me. i've been watching and playing tapes of him. i think he's a cognitive wreck, he looks weak, frail, unhealthy, and frankly somewhat decrepit and not up to the job. i doubt very much that joe biden would ever come up but ever even sit down with somebody and have a long interview like this. >> he can't do it, i can tell you. >> sean: you dealt with the world actors and president xi. i went to the summit with kim jong un. you've dealt with him, pollutant
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, hostile regimes. iran didn't do much when you were presidents, they didn't seem inclined to act against us. >> iran was in check, north korea was in check, i go along with kim jong un. russia was totally in check and china was in check. >> sean: did you scare the out of these guys? you said the taliban guy, here's a picture of your house. >> and they knew that we can't sit back and let the horrible things happen. but with president xi as an example, when you're with president xi and when you're with all of these world leaders, they are at the top of the game and they are at the top of their game. they are sharp as a tack, they are smart, somebody said i called president xi present a guy. he's in charge of 1.6 billion people without question. that has nothing to do with it.
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you have to be really on your game to deal with these people. i don't know, look, i want to see great leadership in this country. a more important than republican, democrat, liberal, conservative. i want to see great leadership. our countries going to, we are a nation in decline. >> sean: i asked you a lot about january 6th. i don't know why they did an interview pelosi, the sergeant at arms, the capitol police chief. muriel bowser. they purposely kept out and showed a lot of your speeches and stuff. it's a different question. we have 574 riots in the summer of 2020. this was after the george floyd. we had thousands of cops pelted with bricks, rocks, molotov cocktails, dozens of dead americans and billions and billions of property damage. at the time, you offered to
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cities like portland over and over again the national guard, rejected over and over again. where's the commission? we can't let that happen. >> if i didn't send the garden against the governor's wishes because you've got to wait in theory wait for the government. the one thing i might have done differently although it proved a point letting the democrats go to heck because that's what they did, they let the states and cities go to heck. they are crime-ridden, they are evil places and nobody wants to go there anymore. you have to wait for the governor i'm a democrat governor to call and ask for permission to use the guard. if i didn't do it early in minneapolis, you wouldn't have a city there. if they didn't know i was going into seattle, remember when they took over a big chunk of seattle. they knew we were gone and we couldn't get the governor to agree. we are going in. i may have done it differently and i may have done what i had
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to do. because the crime that was committed. they talk about buildings, they were ripping down and doing big damage in portland to the federal courthouses, the federal buildings. these people are crazy. to be when you called my show after you saw the interview and his young son, his namesake was killed in the autonomous zone. it raises a lot of questions about your future. one of the things that's interesting, with a soft going around you and while you're president for three years, trump, russia, russia, russia, -- >> we did more than any other president. >> sean: how is it that you can be presidents, now post-presidency, i've known you 30 years. nothing seems to shake you. what is it about you because i think a lot of people would have collapsed by now under the stress and the pressure of never ending investigation and threats of this legal action and that
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legal action. people all over commentators all over tv saying you should be arrested. you should be this. it doesn't seem to faze you. behind closed doors? >> yesterday i was given a question from the very smart person. very brilliant guy. very successful person, you know a little bit. he said do you mind if i ask you -- we are talking about something, he said do you mind if i ask you a question? how you take a? this is a tough guy. >> sean: that's what i basically asked. >> how do you take a? i said do i have a choice, i don't have a choice because what i did and i understand i never imagined they could be this e evil. if i signed into law the statues act they wanted to rip down all the statues including the jefferson memorial, the lincoln memorial, it's not even believable. it's ten years in jail, it's anything come in ten in jail.
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as soon as i did that, everyone went away. but do i have a choice? i have to go forward and i think we did just about -- we rebuild the military, we have our tax cuts greater than any of the tax cuts in america. they are going to raise the taxes and when it comes to the election, if you want to have high taxes and you want to have high crime, i say this so politically incorrect but i don't think so. if you want to have men playing in women's sports, if you want to have all this horrible education stuff where they are brainwashing and indoctrinating. take a look at how bad they are. it's inconceivable that the republicans -- it's inconceivable to me they can lose. i just hope the people get out and vote.
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>> sean: 48 days from today. if that's the other thing. i was attacked today by democrats from the state of new york. and there is a rule that's an unwritten law, you won't see hunter biden attacked period of 60 and 90 days out, he never gets attacked, they attack me. the good news is, i heard my poll numbers went up today. my poll numbers went up when they did a raid on mar-a-lago, very substantially, they went up from the two fake impeachments. all i had to go through, i've done more than just about any president. i kept this all the words, i'm the only one in 70 years they said that kept us out of wars. >> sean: do you think their ultimate goal to put all these things together is they just don't want you to ever run again for president? do you think it's a big part of it? i'll put it another way.
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if you announced right now i'm not running in 2024, do you believe all of this would fade away? >> it would take a little while. if you look at the polls, first the republicans. i like it because we've done such a good job and because a lot of people say nobody else could do it. if you look at it, it's a brutal kind of a thing because they attack you. if you think about it, doesn't anybody want good education and want a strong military? especially nowadays when you look at what's going on. it's been an incredible period of time. i'm very proud of what we've done, we rebuild the military and we have space for us now, remember when they took over? they laughed at space for us. the military hit them hard and space force now turned out to be a very important thing. >> sean: coming up, and i asked president trump if he made a decision about 2024.
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his answers coming up straight ahead. ♪ ♪
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♪ hisamitsu ♪ california, mountains, oceans, natural wonders, diverse and creative people. but when the out-of-state corporations behind prop 27 look at california, they see nothing but suckers. they wrote prop 27 to give themselves 90% of the profits from online sports betting in california.
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other states get much more. why is prop 27 such a suckers deal for california? because the corporations didn't write it for us. they wrote it for themselves. ♪ ♪ >> sean: like i've been saying so many times, there is more at stake in 2022 and 2024 than perhaps any other election during our lifetime.
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so we will go the way of safety and security, law and order, or what more of biden's open borders dismantled, defined, no bail laws with police. it's been a catastrophe. will america go the way of energy independence or will we go the way of the economy killing green new deal socialism? which way will we go? will we go the way of choice in education or the far left indoctrination that's taken over so many schools in this country and so much at stake? it's so important for conservatives to be really clear about where they stand and what they stand for and why. that's why we need leaders and candidates who embrace america first, make america great, the agenda one more time and with that we continue with my exclusive interview with president trump where i asked him the question everybody wants to know if he's running in 2024. you knock on to answer the question if you're running. >> i'm not allowed to legally.
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it's ridiculous. >> sean: what would you do, thinking through this. you surprise me one night with an answer. i asked you what would you do differently? and you said i'd stop fighting with the media because they are corrupt and a waste of my time. did you mean that? you'd stop fighting with the media? >> i believe the term fake news emanated -- >> sean: i think it's printed right across their foreheads. >> if i didn't fight, my presidency would have been a failure and the country would have been different. >> sean: fighting on policy -- >> i'd like to be able to get along with the media. i respect many people in the media. you a lot. >> sean: thank you. >> you see pulitzer prizes going to people who don't deserve it. great charts incredible. there are some people who got it
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right that should be rewarded, but you can't lower the people who got it wrong. exactly the opposite. >> sean: you wouldn't talk to them. my question is -- so, when you think back. do you have any regrets? why didn't i do that? do you ever think about that? >> you always have regrets. but my biggest regrets our people. when i went to washington, i was only there 17 times, i've told you this. i never stayed overnight so i wasn't into the whole world of the washington, d.c., society. i was from new york, i knew everybody in new york. now i know everybody, the good ones, the bad ones, the weak ones. >> sean: do you think you'd be better and the team around you would be better and stronger? >> we also had great people. we knocked out 100% of isis, we do things people don't even talk about. we did over 1,000 things right
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to try where you're able to try drugs that won't be approved for a five years if you're ill. that's a big thing. look at jerusalem. >> sean: abraham accords abraham accords. >> we did so much, we did so much. but the big thing is people. i could have had a couple of choices, a few choices, may be more than a few choices i went to have put a certain person there. government is largely people. now i know everybody, the good ones and the bad ones. >> sean: was there a day where your family was impacted directly? i know all of them very well and have known them for a lot of years. at any time i went to interview you before you thought about running for president, you always interviewed me. of all great all of them. i've met baron who's a great k kid. you watch what happened to them
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today and what they've had to go through, all the depositions and all the legal stuff that goes on. you worry about putting other people, what milani had to go through, baron had to go through, do you worry about putting them back in that situation? put it nicely, you're a golfer. why don't you just play golf -- why would you want to give up a great life and go back to that heck hole? >> because all over the country, we were so close before covid came in, we had a country like never in history. even with that, i saw your friend laura the other night do a show. the numbers are tremendous with covid. and again, nobody knew what it was. a chinese gift to us, okay? a horrible gift. even with covid, my numbers are better than anybody's numbers in decades. you could add bush and obama together, forget biden because a
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stock market is lower than mine was and you're talking about two years later. my stock market hit a record even after covid when i handed it off if you call it a handoff. my stock market was higher than it was the day before covid came in. if we did amazing job. >> sean: final question and you give us a lot of time, thank you. >> did you think biden would give you this much time? >> sean: want to know my honest answer? i don't think he knows today is wednesday. >> i hope he does, for the sake of this country, i hope he does. >> sean: that's very gracious. i should tell the story, he said that i should go easier on him. >> i think it was too tough, i thought you were very tough. >> sean: when i was telling the truth. >> i will say this, forget politics and the republican, the democrats, the radical left. i want somebody that's a great
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leader. i want somebody that can stand toe-to-toe with president xi of china, and you can go all over hollywood and try to get somebody to play the role of president xi, the president of china. there is no actor like that. these are fierce people, he's a fierce man. i was a good friend of his until covid and then i gave him up. this is too much. unbelievable trade deals with china. i made an unbelievable trade deal getting rid of nafta and replacing it with usmc. now mexico and canada want to renegotiate because the deal is so good. we did unbelievable things. we need our sharpest people because people like presi president xi, like i can name so many of them, like putin but of course he's having a different kind of a spell. let me tell you. these are fierce people, they're
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smart, they're tough, they don't know about losing. pollutant is having a hard time. be careful what's happened and being handled incorrectly. but these are very, strong, smart, people. if beyond republican or democrat's, i want to see somebody that is great. >> sean: you want joe biden to succeed? >> i'd rather have him succeed incredibly, even if it meant a much tougher end -- i want to see what's good for the country. if i had my choice of having -- this country is a mess. this country's not going to survive. it the way going right now. >> sean: you want to go through all the heck we talked about today and all you've been through, all the six years. you put your country first. is this a calling for you? >> i put the country first. long before i ran for politics,
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i had one of the greatest lives, the greatest people in the world. >> sean: everybody should live your life. >> is very funny. i was heading into a big event at the convention center, robin hood, you know what robin hood is. tremendous company. half the people we are cheering wildly and half the people were booing. i had just announced that i was running. of my wife looked at me. she said darling, i've never heard anybody booing you before. and i said welcome to the world of politics. >> sean: and we have more "hannity" coming up ahead. ♪ ♪
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