on-line or trey gowdy pod cost, good night from south carolina. "life, liberty and levin" is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mark: hello america, i'm markly -- levin, this is "life, liberty and levin." i've been waiting for you to see this show for weeks, the interview of interviews. with president trump. i say this, he has come out where a new book, letters to trump, he has letters from

politicians and actors and entertainers and foreign leaders and sports stars. you will not believe the kinds of letters he got, what the people said. during the course of this interview we talk about these individuals, we apply it to current events and history. president does a fantastic interview, if you let him speak. that is what i did. this interview was conducted minutes before rogue prosecutor in manhattan came down with his decision, this is last interview before that occurred. i really want you to check it out, by the way, you can get book at 45 books.com, amazon.com, the exclusive first interview. and ladies and gentlemen the book comes out tuesday day, enjoy. >> a pleasure to be in mar-a-lago, a fantastic place. amazing. >> thank you. mark: we'll have a good time, i'm not andrea

mitchell i'm not here to play games and tricks. you have a book that is coming out a fantastic book, letters to trump. throughout your life. your career as a business man. on tv. politics. as i went through the book it is amazing, sports, all these people writing you. they all love you. i want to talk about some of these people, this is really a book of letters but a fantastic history. i think yo you can help us talk about it oprah winfrey. she wrotes you 3 letters in the book. she adores, you she writes only a king knows how to treat a queen. she would visit you at mar-a-lago often. and now she says, that was 20 years ago. what do you make of that? >> i have not changed. my views have not changed

very much. i think i have been co consistent. we want security, a great country, strong military, borders and election and great education and housing, i have not changed. i think that thing that change and i ran for office, she said in one of her letters, i think somewhat kiddingly, we should run together, what a team. i put that letter in the book. i get along great with her. she was here many times, like roger king, king world. she asked whether or not we could have his funeral here that is one of most important people in her life. he was a fantastic man. he was a real character, also a friend of mine, we had his funeral here, held by oper oprah. and you know we don't do funerals but we did one

then. it was amazing. i had a great rain relationship with opera, but once i went into politics, i don't mean i said something offensive, once i went in it was -- it changed. that was okay. i just want to make our country great. if they like me, then they don't like me that does not bother me. but it is incredible. looking at the difference between those letters and now. in some cases people like me better. public probably likes me better, because we have tremendous support. we're in texas. and we had an unbelievable crowd, record setting. like no one has seen before. we have to do well. because if we don't get this back, if we don't take our country back we're not i doing t -- go doing have a country, literally it is a mess, everything in the news, ukraine and russia

should never happened and inflation should never happened. every single th thing. the way we pulled out of afghanistan. with the q 85 billion worth of equipment, we gave it to them, brand-new, trucks, planes, and guns and rifles. 700 thousand. they need 40 thousand. they are selling the rift, making a fortunate, we left it, i was getting out, i got them down, enough 21 years, enough. and we didn't have anyone killed in last 18 months, i spoke with abdul the leader, no one was killed. we were getting out with dignity and strength, but it was most embarrassing period the way we withdrew from afafafghanistan.

putin saw that and probably got more ambition. mark: let me ask you about that. you have really fascinating letters in here. from putin. from xi . from yun in no north korea, you had a personal relationship with every one of these leaders when they are genoc genocidal maniacs or elected. what would you say your foreign policy it, people project on that, what it is they think they want people to think you your foreign policy is, what would you say? >> i think more than anything else, i was a personal relationship, you know, sort of a weird situation, tougher they were the better i got along with them, that is good, the tough ones had the powerful countries that can do

disvdisv disvdestruction. you hear what is going on now, every day, you hear nuclear, that is a bad recword. this is not a world war that is the end of the world. have we people that have no idea what they are talking about or doing. i look at now, what is happening with russia, and united states and they just grabbed a report ir, that sun -- unheard of, they are now holding a reporter. what is going on. we're at in my opinion because of the power of weaponry, mostly nuclear, but other things also, we are in the most dangerous position we have ever been in as a nation. quright now, and we have a leader that does not know what is going on, he just does cdoesn't know, we all want to be nice about it but, the world is at

balance this country, might not exist. we may not exist any more. because we're talking about power of weapons that is so unbelieve an, i know better, i saw it. we have people that don't understand that. they talk tough when they should be nice and talks nice when they should be tough. it is opposite. it is just wrong. it is a very scary time. it is scary because of the leadership, i get great relationships wall of them, president xi was very close to me, he were here in this room we had tremendous walks. i made an incredible trade deal, then covid came along. gave our farmers and manufacturers 50 billion

dol dollars. i got 28 billion for our farmers, i'm not losing nebraska or iowa. because they got -- nobody thought it was possible. 28 billion i got because they were taken advantage of and hurt by china, i got it back in form of taxes, tariffs and other things with billions left over, no one president got 10 cents, i got along with president xi but i was stopping rampage it was the rape of america. what china was doing to us. people had no clue, not 10 cents did we get from china, i got hundreds billions, i gave 28 billion to the farmers. many other things. just usmca that is mexico and canada and got rid of nafta, one of the worst trade deals made, now canada

and mexico want to renegotiate the deal, we is should not. have we a very good deal, i call it a fair deal. they want to renegotiate. manying they are not happy. but i would say it was peace through strength, they vieweeed us as strong country. no chance that putin would have gone to ukraine, he would not go in, they don't respect our country any more, or our leadership, i had iran in a position they would have made a deal within one week after the election. but they are rich and i told china, if you buy oil from iran, they will buy massive, ulyou will not do business with united states, they were ripping us off, we had a trade deficit with

china. you buy any oil from iran, i said that to other country, iran was coming to table, and what did i getting us out of the iran nuclear deal that is one of the best things that i did for israel. between golan heights and emop embassy and jerusalem. the problem is that new administration blew it allowing iran to have a nuclear weapon weaker people web. weapon, we have people who don't know what doing this is the most dangerous time in our country, even if you said a year and a half that say language ti l l-- long time, most dangerous things are happening, putin is moving nuclear weapons to belarus. no one talks about that.

if you remember, i'm the one that gave the javelins to ukraine, i gave all of the javelins that is the anti-tank missiles. obama gave them sheets. when i spoke to the head of the taliban, abdul, i said you are killing a lot of people, under own they were putting snipers all over the place, and killing a lot of people. it was bad. i said get this guy, i want to speak with him, i took a lot of heat, i to jesse james why do you rob banks, he said that is where the money s why do you ex speak to abdul, because he is the one killing people, i said, if you kill any more,

you will be hit harder than anyone has been hit, he said to me, but why, but why do you send me a picture of my home, i said figure it out, you have to figure it out. or, ask one of your wives from, that point. we didn't have one soldier even shot at, not one soldier killed. then i was done. they did -- the withdraw. milley should be court marshals. withdrawal where the people think of this, this is where the soldiers came fr out first, if you asked a 5-year-old child, a strategy, soldiers come out last, they were so afraid of our f-16s and our fighter jets, we had brand-new -- i rebuilt the whole thing. we had stuff this was freigh48 years old, they would run back what they heard the engines, but

now they own them, they own them. i said to the people, when i was getting ready to pull out, i said, i want every nail, i think every screurk screw and bolt and canvass from the tents. the big massive tents. i want all that, i want the tanks, i want planes and gunnings a guns, mi milley said to me, it's easier if we leave everything, i say why, he said its cheaper, let me ask you, we have the airplane full it up with gas, you say cheaper to leave than fly it to pakistan or some other place? or fly directly. we will give them 150 million plane?

because you think it is cheaper it's not cheap cheaper. these are stupid people, they take military out before the hostages out, because the hostages american people, now, are hostages. >> book is letters to prestrump, we'll be right back. you inspired the lexus es to be, well ... more you. so thank you. we hope you like your work. (♪ ♪) ahhh! icy hot pro starts working instantly. with two max-strength pain relievers, so you can rise from pain like a pro. icy hot pro. weeds... they have you surrounded. take your lawn back with scotts turf builder triple action! gets three jobs done at once -

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mark: welcome back america. mr. president, let me ask you a question. as i read the letters in the book to "letters to trump," a back and fort, you had a lot of letters before you were in government. with richard nixon, 25 letters. you seem to like nixon, you liked the way that man was smart and would think things through, tell us about nixon, who it was about him that appealed to and did not. >> i respected him, he was a very smart person. he was accepted to big best colleges he could not go there because he didn't have train fare. i don't know if you heard that story. i heard he was the accepted to many.

did not have any money. he went to his college. because it was near his place of birth. he was a very smart guy. he had a temper am that ment not setted for a lot. there was a story in "washington post" about nixon, he was angry, he want toeto go to washington post, and attack tomorrow. afternoon equally bad story about reagan, everyone was angry about it except reagan, he said don't worry about it, it was a different personality, nixon of the very smart, i didn't know him well. i had dinner with him, he liked my, i was hot at the time, i was a real estate

developer, a couple of books the art of the deal. a lot of my books they sell well. but, nixon and i, i got to know him. he was a very tough guy. he was i guess some people would say this about me, his own worst enemy, i s say that a little bit about myself. but he was a paranoid guy that is okay, you keep your guard up, not badly, his views on kissinger was interesting, i won't tell you, i get along with kissinger. his views on henry kissinger was not so hot. he was a tough guy. he -- they went to tell him, you have to get out, his biggest regret according to his daughters, i think him, was he didn't fight. they went over there one evenineven barry g

goldwater, they told him to get out, his biggest regret is he didn't fight. it wasn't like him. i find find that interesting, his daughter, when i was impeached twice by crooked disgusting p politicians, they happened to have the majority, on a perfect phone call, this call i remember tim scott senator from south carolina read this he read the call, it was taped. he said, he didn't say anything wrong, he was what did he do wrong? it was a perfect call. i will never forget. when that happened, he had such great support. nixon had no support, he didn't have that. he was very tough with

people. i get a long with people, i have great jim jordan and congressmen are great, they are incredible people, they are fighters, we have great fighters, you will see that but we vin credib -- v have incredible fighters. we have great people in the republican party. i get along with them. they stuck together. if you go back, spin some of the most investing conversations i had with nixon and his daughter, i would peak with the family, they asked would i consider giving him presidential medal of freedom, i thought it was an interesting request, i said. let me get at these little things first, he was a brave guy. when i was going through impeachment, i knew i would

win, i didn't do anything wrong, i have no darkness, people say you are happy, i have a great group of t people that support me, including the first lady who is fantastic and very popular, i made a speech the other day, they have songs we love our first lady, they do, they like everything that i brought to the table, they like what we what did, with greatest economy in history, we were lapping china, china was catching us in 2018 for 20 years, they were on track for that, i took our country to a new level. economic like it was incredible. but during that period of prior to covid, we had the greatest economic machine in history, 14 african-american,s asian-american. and mexican-american and

degrees you had a great job, didn't have a degree, you had a great job, if you didn't have a high school dep diploma you did great. we had a period of time, we can do it again, problem we have, right now we're allowing millions of people into the country, many of those people, i don't want to sound like a bad person, but many of those people come from prisons, come from mental institutes, they say down use that word. they are lead into the country. and i saw there was an article a doctor in a south american country, he said, you know, i worked 24 hours a day my whole life, they let all of the patients out they are in america. we was not saying it as a bad thing, he was just making a statement, that is sad. they are emptying out their

mental institutions to our country biden is doing it. their prisons ms-13, not that i discriminate against. but when you have a man with a lot of tattoos on his face, historically that is not the greatest thing in the work, they are letting mean mooms-13 out, they are pushing them here, the money, number one, the trauma and but you know the money they are saving, forget about money they subsidize. the money they are saving, is so incredible. their prisons are. empty, and mental institutions arism. tie, thempty, they are here, his safest border in our history in recorded history, my last year our numbers were incredible. that included drugs and

human trafficking. we hawe had the lowest human trafficking numbers and lowest drug numbers, lowest hey they have seen, now drugs are 12 times higher than just a couple years ago, think about, that nobody to stop them. i was buying the best equipment in the world, you know the best equipment for detect drugs. it is a certain type of german jep shepard dog, there is no machine that is better. it is incredible, they spend millions on equipment. but there is nothing like a particular dog. german shepard, it is -- most unbelievable thing. actually the machinery is only okay. despite the cost. but the dog is 100% full proof, we had our borders protected we had stay in mexico, we had all sorts of

things, you have bad health you can't come in. we had it at a level, we have particular people on border patrol and i.c.e. they are all incred credible, they said this greatest, but now you see them, they say it is out of control. mark: we'll be right back. >> woman: why did we choose safelite?

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second term, i am jon scott, back to "life, liberty and levin." mark: i want odd yen audience to know, a lot of this information in the book via letters back and forth to politicians, and word leaders. the letters are fascinating, you can go to 45 books.com to order "letters to trump." i read a lot. i research a lot. i study a lot. i have never seen anything like this, this is first hand, we talk about nixon and foreign policies you were buddies kind of with ted k kennedy, not all but ted in particular. >> i had a good relationship with him for some reason. we were different in terms of philosophy, at that time it didn't matter, i was a real estate developer.

i did him a favor, not a big thing, to him it was i helped him on something. for some reason he liked it. it was important to him. did had to do with his family, i helped him. he was very loyal in that sense, i got along with him well. he had -- went to have a lot of problems, i say he would have been president some day but "chappaquidduick" was terrible. i knew him because of palm beach and a little bit washington. i knew john kennedy well, john-john. fantastic, i think he would have been president, he was selling he had a magazine, named "george," he wanted to get out, his mother wanted him to go into politics, he wanted to be an actor to, he was very handsome.

he would have been good, he was with caroline, i knew him before he was married and after. they fought like cats and dogs but they loved each other, this was a different than your relationship with your beautiful wife. but, they fought and then this is not working out then they would be hugging and kissing, they had a volatile relationship. it was fine it worked. then they got into that plane it was a disaster. he would have -- he was gegetting ready to think i think run for senate. he was set. his mother wanted him to do that. you know, great look handsome very at the top of the line really. i think he probably would have done well, he would have gone on, and would have been president, i think he would have been president. mark: you have a longer

letter from alec baldwin. who was a big fan of yours. >> true. mark: what happened? you run for office. and now he is full of contempt, full of contempt. >> i don't know about how, he has different problems. >> his own issues. >> a couple. mark: you think it is the mentality. >> 'p is politics. you run for office. and i ran as a republican. i am proud of that. i am a conservative guy, but not so much -- you know people say are you a conservative, yes, i'm, but i am a common sense person. no, i think that been an interesting life. you know, i look at back the other night, i am proud of it, it is great. mark: a great book. >> i had thousands of thousands of letters sent to me, i had two women terrific, one is norma, other was rhona.

they worked, rhona was young and working with norma for years, norma passed away, they would up until the end, they saved every letter. andrew lloyd webber writing me a letter. mark: in the book. >> in the book that about him hoping a new musical, he lived in trump power with his wife, they fought pretty get too, he wrote me a letter, i'm opening a new musical in new york called phantom in the opera, we're having a hoping night in -- opening night, i would love you to go, i say okay, i heard the sound, that sun bsun b-- is untunbelievable. and i think it will be be quite good. mark: the book, "letters to

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amazing athlete, amazingis care, how he did, can he just was an instance star, mark mccormack from img was a golfer, he wanted to be a touring pro, he went to a certain school and arnold palmer went to wake forest, they got into match together. mark mccormack the founder of img, his first client s after afternoonal palmer, someone shouts over how are you doing, i'm 5 down this guy is impossible.

he realized it. he said that is the end of my -- he thought he was the good until he met arnold, arnold won u.s. amateur and a great pro, he said i would love to represent you, they started and arnold owned a piece of img, and he owned a piece of the golf channel, he was very rich, he was unbelieve an. unbelievable. i was doing a commercial for something, arnold palmer was there, i never met him, he was in the back ground, putting, he was in a tournament. this company that is doing the commercial said, sir, do you think you could ask arnold palmer to be in the commercial. i said i don't think he would do it. i said, but let me ask, i said h i'm donald trump,

could you do me a favor, he called me donald, absolutely, his arnold palmer in a commercial, she he didn't say you have to pay me, he was a great star. mark: you know a lot of athletes, who like you a lot. shaquille o'neal. in the book. jack nicklaus. and others. and that is something that has been your passion. i remember ufc, or mma, i'm obsessed with. >> we have great people, you look at what they have done at dana white ufc, and vince mcmahon with linda and the whole thing with the wrestling, wwe . it used to be wwf, someone sued them they ended up with wwe . luke at great job that vince mcmahon and linda have done, unbelieve able.

and we have people that are unbelievable entrepreneurs, one thing they have in common, they love what they are doing. vince, and dana, and all of these people that you know, do what they do, they just -- such a passion, so incredible, they have great knowledge. you know, they understand it. they have great knowledge. but, they truly do have a great love love and enthusiasm for what they do, i have never seen anything very successful without that enthusiasm. mark: a lot of letters in the book, many will surprise you, get it at 45books.com, we'll be right back.

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mark: welcome back america. mr. president, let me ask you a question. you had a pretty good back and forth letters and relationship with bill clinton and hillary clinton and you always got along with b bill clinton.

with hillary clinton. but you know how that turned out. 2016 and so forth. >> they came to my wedding. mark: what do you make of that. that is politics too. >> all politics. i never forget, he loved, i own a course in westchester, he was there a lot, he loved it he love loves playing golf. mark: is he anied any. good. >> better than people think here, has a certain athleticism. we used to play. this is before i thought in terms of politics for myself, we were playing a round. we were sitting in the clubhouse, he was telling me stories about politics and his views on this and that. i said, you know two and a half hours have gone by, he loved it talk about enthusiasm, they did a great disservice by not using them, i went against hillary, i think they had

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>> let me say this mr. president. i talked to a lot of important people. supreme court justices, presidents, presidential candidates, brilliant people and talking with you is really the most impressive conversation that i had.

number one very few people i sit there and speak the way you do from subject to subject the subject and if people would let you speak and listen to you and enormous pressure of the grand jury's and everything going on and you are still able to do it. that is absolutely remarkable. as you go through the history of your presidency and i read these letters in your book. it was a phenomenal presidency. phenomenal presidency and the reason you don't get the credit that you deserve is because perhaps is going to be up to history when people look back and say wait a minute he was right about this, this and this and so forth. what happened you upset the apple cart, that is hillary was supposed to win and supposed to be the third term of obama and

they never forgave you. were facing. in history somebody studies history very carefully where the country is facing very dangerous change, we are regressing and regressing the marxist ideology so you're not going to get a fair break from the people in washington and the media. they want you to do what republicans normally do, roll over and play dead, that's clearly not in your personality. i want you to know this is a fantastic book letters to trauma, i want to encourage people to get it. you can see who donald trump, who you are speaking with throughout your life and your career and what they were saying and without anybody interfering and involved interpreting it for anybody else. i want to thank you for all the time that you have given us here previous been a tremendous honor. >> thank you very much my great

honor. >> one other thing, go to the very end of the book and you will see my wife and me. the very end of the book. i encourage people to go to 45books.com and get a copy. god bless you. >> thank you very much. >> see you next time on "life, liberty and levin". steve: drinking tonight, our worst fears realized intelligence assessment leaked to a gaming site thanks to biden surrender to the taliban and catastrophic withdrawal, afghanistan has once again become a haven to terrorist plots against america. good evening, everyone welcome to "the next revolution". more on that story in a moment, congressman mike walz joined this life tonight. first, if we in the world haven't suffered enough. we are told th