♪ ♪ mike: hello america i am mark levin, this is "life, liberty and levin," i've been waiting for you to see this show for weeks this is the interview of interviews. with president trump like you have never seen before. i say this because. he is come out with a new book, letters to trump. he has letters in this book

from politicians, and actors, and entertainer and foreign leaders and sports stars, you will not believe the letters he got and the people said, during the course of this interview we talk about the ideas and we apply it to current events and history. the president does a fantastic interview if you let him speak. that is what i did. it is last interview before that, i want to check it out. you can get the book at 45 books.com. amazon.com. this is the exclusive first interview. and ladies and gentlemen the book comes out on tuesday. enjoy. we'll have a good time

here. i'm not andrea michelle, 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, and career, you are a business man, tv, 'is amazing, sports these people writing you the letters. 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 you can help us talk about it a little bit too, oprah winfrey, wrote you three letters you have in the book, she adores you. >> i have not changed.

my views have not. i have been consistent over the years. we' security and a great country, and strong military, and good borders and education and housing. i think the thing to change and i ran for office, she said in one of her letters, 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 the great roger king, king world, she ask whether or not we could have his funeral here. one of the most important people in her life. and he was a fantastic man. he did an incredible job, we had his funeral here. held by oprah. he said, i just saw the most incredible place in the world. called mar-a-lago. we have to have the funeral there. we don't do funerals, but we

did one in that case. it was amazing, i had a great relationship with oprah, with almost everyone, but once i went into politics, i didn't say something offensive, literally, once i went in, it changed. that was okay, i justment to make our country great. if they like me then don't like me, that does not bother me, i want to make our country great. it is incredible you look at difference between the letters and now. in some cases people like my better, public probably likes me better. because we have tremendous support, we were in texas with a record setting crowd. you saw it we're doing well. ewe have to do well, if we don't take our country back, we're not going to have a country, literally, it total chaos it a mess, everything in the news, ukraine, russia should have

never happened, inflation should have never happened, the way we pulled out of afghanistan gave them 85 billion dollars worth of equipment. they are second largest arms dealer in the world right now. we gave it to them, brand new trucks and planes and guns, rifles, 700 thousand rifles and guns. think of that. they only need 40 thousand. probably not even, that they are selling the rift, making a efficient. >> we left it there -- the rest, making a fortune. we threat it there. we didn't have anyone killed in last 18 months, i spoke with abdul the leader, nobody was killed. we were getting out with dignity and strength, instead it was the most embarrassing period the way we withdrew, not the fact that we withdrew but the way we did from afghanistan, i

think that putin saw that and got more ambitious. mark: a question about, that you have r really fascinating letter from putin, and xi and kim jong-un. there is a common thread, you had a personal relationship with every one of these leaders, whether they are jen genocidal maniacs or elected. like abe from japan was a close friend of yours and assassinated. people project on your foreign policy what they think they want people tong to think it is. >> more than anything else it was a personal relationship, a weird situation, the tougher they were the better i got along with them, the tough ones have that can do disv

disvehdestruction. you look at word now nuclear, you hear is every day, you done hear that while i was there that word is a bad word. bad word the power is unbelievable. this is not a world war, that is the end of the world, it would not be world war iii, it would be the end of the world, people have no idea when they are talking about or what they are doing, i look at russia and united states they just grabbed a reporter, t that is unheard of. what going, we're at in my opinion because of the power of weaponry, mostly nuclear, we are in most dangerous position we have ever been in as a nation, right now, and we have a leader that just doesn't know what is go on. we have -- he doesn't know. we want to be nice about it everyone wants to be nice about it, but, the world is

at plant, this country might not exist, we may not exist any more. because we're talking about power of weapons, that is so unbelievable. i know better because i got to see it, people that don't understand it they talk tough when they should be nice and theyic to talk nice when they should be rough. this is a scary time, scary primarily because of the leadership, his great relationships with them, president xi jinping of close to me, he were here at mar-a-lago we'll had t tremendous talks, i made an incredible trade deal then covidccovid came along, giving farmers and manufacturers 50 million dollars.

-- billi billion dollars for the farmers, they like me, i am not losing nebraska and iowa, they got 28 billion, they were hurt by china and i got it back in form of taxes and tariffs and hundreds of billions left over, no other president got 10 cents, it was the ra rape of america what china was going, we had people leading that had no clue. i got billions of dollars from china. i gave sweat b 28 billion to the farmers, they were hurt by china. and many other things, usmca , and is mexico and canada, got rid of nafta the worst trade deal ever made. so one sided.

now canada. and mexico' to renegotiate it is a great deal, we shouldn't do i it. i cam cno body thought it was possible, i would say it was peace through strength. they viewed us as a strong country. they probably done really figure me out because they were concerned about thing, zero chance that putin would have gone into ukraine, i okay, youd to talk about it he knew not to go in, they don't respect our country any more, they don't respect our leadership any more, i had iran in a position they would have made a deal within one week after the election, but they became rich, i told china if you boybuy oil from iran, you will not do the business with the united states they were ripping us off for 507 billion, we have a trade deficit with china, i said

you buy any oil from iran, expiiran was coming to the d table, i did getting us out of the horrible, iran nuclear deal, that one of the best things that i did for israel, the best thick thing was get them out of that deal, but the new administration blew it allowed iran to have a nuclear weapon, we have people who don't know what they are doing this is the most dangerous time in history of our nation. people talk about it in election, a little while, it getting closer. but if you said a year and a half, that is a long time. the most dangerous things now are happening more dangerous, did you see the other day, where putin is moving nuclear weapons into belarus. no body of talks about, that

they said, we'll go there and this and that and give them a couple. i gave the javelins to ukraine. i gave all of the javelins that is the antitank missiles, i gave them hundreds and hundreds of them. obama gave them sheets, i gave javelins, i spoke to the head of the taliban, abdul, i said, abdul, you killing a lot of people, under obama they were using snipers and killing boys and wimwomen, it was bad, you have to get this guy. i took a lot of heat, i would speak to him, i would tell story jesse james why do you rob banks, he said that is where the money is, why do i speak to abdul? that where the death is, great to speak to you, if you do any more killing, you kill one more of our

soldiers we'll hit you 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 you have to figure that one out for yourself abdul. or ask one of your wives. from that point forward, we didn't have one soldier even shot at not one soldier killed. then when i was done, they did the withdraw, milley should be court-martialed. where the people think of this, this is -- where the soldiers came out first. if you asked a 5-year-old child, strategy, the soldiers come out last, they were afraid of our f-16s and our fighter jets, we had brand-new, i rebuilt it all, brand-new gorge oughts, it of the 48 years old, they were afraid of it they would run back when they heard the -- iengines, but now

they own those planes, i said to these people when i was getting ready to pull out, i said, i want every nail, i want every scre screw and bolt and van cas -- canvass from the tents, and steel, i want the tanks and i want planes and guns, i don't want to live a screw or a bolt, milley said, sir it's easier if we left everything. i said, why? it's che cheaper. let me ask you, we have put fuel in the plane, you say it cheaper to live the plane than fly it out and take it back home? we will give them 150

million dollar plane, you think it is cheaper, that is not cheaper. these are stupid people we have. sphestupid people, they take the military out before the hostages are out, the american people are now hostages. mark: book, letters to trump. we'll be right back. my name is brian delallo. i teach ap and honors economics in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. financial well-being to me is knowing that

i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say, that guy made this place a special place to come to school and gave as much as he could to help the community.

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

didn't have money. he went to his college. because it was near his place of birth. he was the actually a smart guy. he had a temperment that maybe of the not suited for a lot of things, a bad story in "washington post" about nixon. he was furious. just angry, he wanted to go there and attack it. he was going to the "washington post," they said you can't do, that no i'm confronting that writer, they had a hard time with him, an equally bad story about reagan. everyone was angry about it except reagan, he said. don't worry about it. they will forget about it next week, a different personality. mixon was smart. i didn't know him well, but i had dinner with him a few times, he liked my, i was hot at the time, a real estate developer, i did a couple books, "the art of

the deal," the bestseller. a lot of my books they sell well. but, nixon and i, get to know him. he was a very tough guy. he was i guess some people would say this about me too, he was his worst enemy. he was the sort of a paranoid guy. that is okay, you keep your guard up, i don't say that badly, his views on henry kissinger were interesting, i won't tell you, i get along well with kissinger, but his views were not so hot. he was a tough guy. he -- they can't to tell him you have to get out, his biggest regret according to his daughters and him, h he didn't

fight, they went over there one evening. the delegation and congressmen they went to tell him he has to get out, they left following morning, the biggest regret is he didn't fight, it was the not like him. i find that interesting. his daughter, i got impeached twice by a crooked disgusting politicians, they just happened to have a majority, democrats do stick together, think of it on a perfect phone call, that call, im tim scott, senator from south carolina read this, he was first one to say, he read the call, it was taped. the call was taped. he said, he didn't say anything wrong, what did he do wrong? i'll never forget when that happened we had great support, nixon had no support, he was the very

tough with people. i get along with people, i have jim jordan and congressmen are great, they are incredible people, they are fighters took we have great fighters, people don't realize it you will see that. we vin we have incredible fighters, nixon did not get along with people in congress and senators, but we have great people in republican party, i get along with them, they stuck together. reagan, if you look at -- go back and some of the most interesting conversations his with nixon, but with his daughter took you know, i would speak to the family, they asked me would i consider giving him presidential medal of freedom, i said let me get out of some of these things first, he was a brave guy. when i was going through

impeachment. i knew i was going to win, i didn't do anything wrong. people said you are so happy, i have a great group of people supporting he, including the first lady. we have songs we love our first lady, they do, they like our first lady, they like what i brought to the table, they like w we did, we had greatest economy in history of the world, we were lapping china, china was to catch us in 2018 for 20 years. i took our country to a new level, economically, it was incredible. but, during the period prior to covid, we had greatest economic machine in history. there has never been anything like this, african-american, asian-american, hispanic, women, men, everything.

you had greatest job. you had no degree, and you had the greatest job. you didn't go to high school and you had the greatest job. we never had -- we had 161 million people working, we never had that before, v e ven more. a president of period of time, we have do it again, right now we're allowing millions of people into the country. and maybe of those people, i don't want to sound like a pbad person but many come from prisoning and mental institutions. and insane asylums, they say down use that word, but it not a nice word, they are being let in i saw an article of a doctor in south american country, he said, i have worked 24 hours a day my whole life, i don't have any work, they have let the patients out they are all in american, he was just making a statement. that is sad. they are emptying out their

mental institutions to our nation, biden biden is doing this they are emptying out their prisons ms-13, not that i discriminate gain the, but when you have a man with a lot of tattoos on his face, historically that is not greatest thing in the world, okay? they are letting the ms-13 people out. and pushing them into our country, they are already here, you go to countries where their prisons are empty, and the money, traum -- but the money they are saving, forget what we subsidize. the money they are saving, is incredible. their prisons are empty and mental institutions are empty and these people are living in this country, we'll pay a tremendous fr price for this i had the safest border in history of nation in recorded history, my last year, our numbers of incredible. that included drugs and

human trafficking, we had lowest human trafficking numbers in 37 years, and lolowest drug numbers, lowest in so long, now drugs are 12 times higher than they were just a couple years ago. think of that coming in. no body of to stop them. i was buying the best equipment in world, you know best equipment for detecting drugs, do you know what it is, a certain type of german shepard dog there is no machine better, it is incredible. it can be in hubcaps or cylinders. there is nothing like a particular dog. german shepard, it can -- the most unthe unbelievable thing, the machine he is only okay, the dog is 100% full proof, we had our borders protected we

had stay in mexico and we had all sorts of things, you have bad health, you can't come in, we had it in a level, we have fantastic people on border patrol and ei.r.s. and we have judd and homan, they is as this greatest, now you see them on tv, now they say it's out of control. mark: we'll be right back. ♪ they need their lawn back fast

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study a lot. i have not seen anything like this, this is first hand we talked about nixon and foreign policy, but you were buddies, kind of with ted kennedy. >> yeah. mark: john jr. >> yeah. mark: not all. >> no. mark: but ted in particular. because he was down in palm beach, tell us about the that. >> i had a very good relationship with him for some the reason, we were different, i was a real estate developer primarily. i did him a favor to him it was a big thing. i helped him on something. for some reason he liked it, it was important to him. had i helped him. he was very loyal in that sense. get a long with him very well. he went on to have a lot of problems, i would is a said he would be president some

day but chappaquiddick was ter iterrible. i knew him because of palm beach, and i got to know john kennedy well, john-john, he would have been a fantastic president, he had a magazine named george. his mother wanted him to go into politics, he wanted to be an actor, he was a handsome guy. i think he probably would have been good at whatever he wanted to do, he was with caroline, just, i knew him before he was the married and after. they fought like cats and dogs but they love each other. different from our relationship with your wives, they fought and thin t-- then you would see them hugging and kissing, they had a volatile relationship. it was fine. then they got into the plane, it was just a

disaster, he would -- he was getting ready to think, i think he would have run for senate from new york, or someplace, probably new york. he was the all set for that and his mother really wanted him to do that. you know, great look handsome very at the top of the line really. i think he problem would have done well, he would have gone been president, i think he would have been president. mark: you have a language letter in -- long letter in here from alec baldwin who was a big fan of yours. >> true. mark: so what happened in you republican, you run for office. >> pole ticks. politics. mark: now he is full of contempt. politics. >> i don't know about now he has a couple of his own issues, you think it is the mentality. >> politics. >> one team and another. >> look you run for office.

and i ran as a republican. i am proud of that, i am a conservative guy, not so much -- people say are you a conservative, yes, i am a common sense person. i think been an interesting life. you know, i looked at the book the other night, i am proud of it. mark: a great book. >> i had thousands and thousands of letters sent to me over the years, two women that were terrific one is norma the other was rhona. they worked, rhona was young and working with norma for years. and then norma passed away, they would write up until the end. a fantastic woman, rhona did such a great job, they saved every litter, andrew lloyd webber writing me a letter. mark: in the book. >> in the book that t opening a new musical, he and his wife were in the

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mark: you had a lot of sports figured too, you like the arnold palmer. >> he was a great man. in th sense, he was very

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he realized he didn't do anything as well, he said that is the end of my -- thought he was good until he met arnold. arnold won u.s. amateur then a great pro, he said i would love to represent you, they start the and arnold owned a piece of img and part of the golf channel, he was the rich. but he was you an believ -- unbelieve an person, i was doing a commercial for something, and as arnold palmer of the there in the back ground putting. this company tha that is dois -- commercial said, do you think you could ask arnold if he would be in

the commercial, i don't know him, he said absolutely, i had arnold palmer in a commercial, he didn't say you have to pay me. mark: you know a lot of athletes who like you a lot, shaquille o'neal, they are in the book, j jack nicklaus and others, it has been your passion, i am mma, i'm obsessed with. >> we have great people. you take a look at what they have done at dana white, ufc . you look at what vince mcmahon has done with linda and with the whole thing with the wrestling wwe, it used to be wwf, then someone sued them, they changed it to wwe, luk look at great job they have done, dana white hasbun

unbelievable with ufc. the job he has done at ufc, i like it i enjoy it. the job they have been is done is incredible, these people are unbelievable entrepreneurs, the one thing that i find they have in common, they love what they are doing, vince and dana, they such a path passion, they have great knowledge. they understand it. they have great knowledge. they truly doe have a great love and enthusiasm for what they do. i have never seen anybody be successful or very successful without that incredible enthusiasm. mark: a lot of letters in the book could 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 hill clinton. you always got along with bbill clinton. and early with hillary

clinton. we know how that turned out. >> they came to my wedding. mark: they came to your wedding. what do you make of that? politics too. >> all politics. i open a course in westchester, he loved that course, he loves playing golf? is he good? >> better than people think, he has a certain athleticism. and we used to play. i'll never forget this is before i thought in terms of politics for myself, we played a round, we were sitting in the clubhouse, he was the telling me stories about politics and telling me his views on this and that, i said two and a half houses have gone by, he loved it talk about enthusiasm, they did a great disservice by not using him, when i went against hillary, i think they had a weapon

known as bill clinton. he was a natural politician, he called and said i'm in michigan, we have trump signs here, you have to -- you better send someone out, no we're not having a problem with michigan, he called in about wisconsin,y said, i'm here, and we're making trips to a convention center, every house has a trump sign, you will have to to get people out in w wisconsin, they said no polls indicate he can't win michigan and wisconsin, i won, he said to them, you have to come out here, she never made a trip there, it was automatic democratic territory, he -- he very much wanted them to go to michigan again. and they wanted to go -- they never went to wisconsin. and they said ul th you will lose the state, he said it, he had a natural instinct. people that are good at things have a lot of

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test and the media. they want you to do what republicans normally deal. roll over and play dead and that clearly is not in your personality. i want you to know this is a fantastic book, letters to trump. i want to encourage people to get it so you can see who donald trump was speaking with throughout your life and throughout your career and what they were saying without anybody interfering or involved interpreting it for anybody else. i want to thank you for all the time you have given us here and it has been a tremendous honor. >> thank you very much.

it is my great honor. thank you very much. >> 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 online and get a copy. god bless you. >> thank you very much. >> see you next time on life liberty and leaven. ♪ >> breaking tonight, it is a deal. is it any good? will it pass congress? good evening, everyone. welcome to the next revolution. hope you're having a fantastic memorial day weekend. let's get straight to the questions about last night's debt ceiling. cut spending to 2022 levels. cap spending at 1% for the next six years. reclaim unspent covid funds. banning work requirements for welfare. increase spending on defense and

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