no, no, i don't want to do that anymore. the one thing i see with politicians, they always go back to where they were. she wanted to defund the police and she wanted to abolish i.c.e. i was going to say these i.c.e. people are incredible patriots, they are tough as hell, and they go to into a pack of ms-13 gang members, the toughest in the world, probably the toughest gangs in the world, they come from different parts of south america, and they want to come in, in long island, not too recently but recently, they carved out with a knife two beautiful 16-year-old girls who were walking to school. and the reason they used a knife instead of shooting them was very simple, because it is more painful and they wanted to watch them agonize. and these are animals. and we have to get them out of our country. or we have to put them in jail because we don't want them back. sometimes you have to put them

in jail because their country doesn't want them back. they will send them back the way they do. just so you know i know all of the people we are dealing with as the heads of countries. and they are very smart. they are very streetwise. and what they are doing as they are taking all of their criminals, and they haven't brought all of them yet, they brought a lot of them, though, but they will bring all of them -- i am shocked it has taken so long. if i were in their country i would have gone a lot faster p or i would've gotten them outcome too. and they would have brought them into the united states. they are taking their drug dealers and their rapists murderers, every criminal, bringing them in the united states and the crime rates are way down, they are bringing people from mental institutions in insane asylums into the united states. and their population for the mentally ill is way down. they are in the united states. they are dumping them in the united states, driving them through a border that is totally open. we stop them. we didn't let it happen. and when i first came into

office, you know the story that president obama at the time had no way of getting them back, and i said come i want to get all of the ms-13 in particular out of our country and bring them back to where they came from. general said, sir, that will be possible appeared why? they block the airports, they blocked the road, they block everything. you can't do it. i said so they are making a concerted effort? yes they are making a concerted effort. we can't do it, they put planes on the runway so we can't land the planes, sir. same thing with the roads. they block the roads. we have buses coming in. they blocked the roads, totally blocked and they are terrible. it's been that waits for years, sir come all the way back to bush. it's been that way for years. how much do we pay them in terms of economic development and aid? sarah, we pay them $750 million. call them immediately and tell them what we are not paying them anymore. the following morning i got a call from the three main culprits.

sarah, i'd like to speak to you because i don't understand what the problem is. well, you sent us gang members, and they sent them. you send us gang members, you send us killers, and you send us drug dealers, and you send us horrible people, and when we want to bring them back to your country, you won't accept them come under president obama and all the way through and therefore you are in default. you are in total default of the money we send you, and we are not going to send you the money anymore. you are not getting any of the $750 million and more. we are not giving you any. you are delinquent. you are delinquent and what you have done. and you are not getting -- sir, please, please, can we talk? i said we can talk. absolutely we would love to have ms-13 sent back to our country. we think they are wonderful people. they are not wonderful people. they are wonderful killers.

but they changed their tune totally when i said they were going to get the money -- i don't ally these people don't do it -- and the $750 million now, billions of dollars, because biden increased it very substantially. he think's by sending them money they are going to send fewer people into our country. how stupid is that? they are giving him $3.5 billion, 750 -- not only -- i didn't even pay -- you've treated us badly for so many years, we are not going to pay you anyway. but now they are giving them billions of dollars -- billions, much more then when i took over, it was 750, now they are giving them billions. they said there must be an understanding, sir, we would love to take them back. i said well you are going to get them back and we started bringing them back by the thousands. out of long island peered out of michigan. out of ohio by the thousands. and she compared i.c.e. agents, these brave people to the kkk.

she said the i.c.e. people, the i.c.e. agents, i compare them to the kkk. well, they don't really because when you see them, when you go until like long island, like ohio, like michigan where you had a lot of them, and you see these men, in most cases, men, the agents, get out of a van and walk into, they call it a pack. not like a political pack, slightly different. even nastier. even nastier, hard to believe, right? but they were go into a pack of these killers and all you do come i've seen it so many times, all you do is see fists and hands and fighting in 2 minutesp and they walk out, they have them by the feet. they walk them out. or they drag them out, mostly drag them out, put them in paddy wagons and bring them back to their country, take them back to the country on the country's open arms, open arms, and it's an amazing thing.

for her to say kkk is very unfair. but she doesn't know. she doesn't want to know. she is a very strong communist leaning. she wants to end detention of illegal alien migrants. releasing vicious monsters into our country to speak on a nine, mame, and murder of population. she endorsed defunding police, the original defunder commode massive crime and the death of the american dream. she is in favor of the death of the american dream because everything she does really stops any one of these items stops the american dream. we want them to take them back and dream of being successful, someday being really successful, employing lots of people. you can't get up early enough. i gave up that life for a life of politics. i gave up this, all of this, these beautiful places that i

have all over the world, for a life of being abused by the fake news media. and yet i would do it again. somebody asked me the other day, would you do it again? i said absolutely. why would you do it, why would you put yourself through? they go after you, weaponize government, crooked judges after you and crooked prosecutors and these new york, the new york court system is vicious and totally biased and frankly totally crooked. why would you put yourself through it? because we are going to make america great again. that is what we are going to do. it is very important. so when i win, i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one, we will end kamala's war on american energy, and we will drill baby drill. we are going to drill baby drill. that's going to bring down prices of everything because energy brought it up, when they went away from my policy, they quickly went back to it but by that time it was too late. they lost control. but they have gone back to it. if they win, the day after the

victory, they will stop with all of the drilling. but they went back to it because prices went through the roof. they were going really bad. that is what caused our inflation and what destroyed the lives of many americans. going to reduce energy and electricity prices. i will buy at least half within a 12 month period we will be able to reduce prices between regulation and having a tremendous supply, which we have it i always say we have more wood gold under our feet, more than any other nation anywhere in the world, including saudi arabia and including russia. we're going to terminate the agreement scam -- it's called the green new deal, it's a scam, and recent and mike mike recent all unpaid funds, took almost $10 trillion for nonsense. bridges and roads and things we need. but we are not going to be spending it and wasting it stupidly and have china laugh at

us. i remember when just a short while ago kerry cops in his private chain and flies to china to talk about the energy prices and of the energy situation in china with president xi, who i know very well. had a very good relationship until covid came in but that was a fence too far. but we had a great relationship. kerry would go up there and leave so happy, but they don't do anything. they just talk. oh, yeah, we are going to do that as soon as we get to it. in the meantime they are building a coal plant every week. but now i hear it is two coal plants a week, and we are dying for energy. we don't have energy and they are getting set for the ai because they are going to create so much electricity and we are not going to be able to do it but you can do it if i have it because that's an emergency. we have to be able to compete with china and other countries that are able to create new energy if they want to and they are going to want to and they do want to. but they are building at least

one coal plant a week. germany, as you know, went a little bit like us, and then it was the end of angela because their whole economy crashed and their new government is building coal plants all over the place. they are building brand-new coal plants, nuclear plants and other things because germany was going to fail. so why are we following these countries that tried it and failed? and they are smart countries. they tried it. they failed. why are they doing this? why aren't we creating great energy plants, great sources of energy? instead of playing this game with wind that is ruining everything, killing all your birds, destroying the fields come all these gorgeous fields, you got windmills all over the place, and you have birds, you want to see a bird cemetery, just go under a windmill, you see thousands of birds dead, the bald eagle, if you kill an eagle, they put you in jail for years. and yet these windmills knock them out like nothing. and nothing happens to the people. no. it's a green scam.

i'm all for clean energy. i want clean water, i want clean air, but you can't destroy your country over it. you just can't do that. we want to stop wasteful spending and big government special interest giveaways, you have giveaways, you have some of these people that are giving -- look, they are not giving millions and millions of dollars to politicians because they like their policy. they are giving because they make deals. they are going to take over a lot of different things in our country. they are going to build windmills, as an example. they are going to build big solar fields that take up half the desert. massive solar fields. i am a big fan of solar but you can't fire up plants. fire up those plants. we've got to get them going. and the only thing that can do that is fossil fuel. right now. and the only thing that can make electricity which we all want is right now fossil fuel and nuclear antinuclear has its place, a very big place in our country, very big place. china is going with nuclear.

france has been going with nuclear for many years. we want to end the biden-harris electrical vehicle mandate. we have to get rid of the electric vehicle mandate. and look, elon endorsed me strongly, the most powerful endorsement, said it three or four times the other night during our little chat. a chat that was very well listen to and attended, we know that, right? broke every single record i think in history. he is a great guy. i told him, one problem, i am all for the electric car but it is a very small percentage. i think the electric car is incredible. i think what you have done is incredible. but some people are going to want gasoline propelled cars. they are going to want hybrids, they are going to want other kinds of cars and elon, they are going to have to do that, and he understands that fully. i think he was amazed by this electric vehicle mandate. they wanted for trucks, too. if you do it for trucks -- you

talk about a supply chain problem. a truck going from new york to los angeles, if it's electric, will have to stop six times for long periods of time. if you have diesel fuel, it goes all the way and you can even come a piece of the way back before you have to reload. and with diesel, the truck gets lighter because you are using up the fuel with the electric it stays at a heavy way. an electric truck is two and a half times heavier than what we would call a traditional truck, and a man from a company said to me, you know, sir, i have been buying trucks, for 50 years i have been buying them, and every single year they got better and bigger and stronger. and more powerful and more efficient, more fuel-efficient, and now we build apartments in the truck, sir, and you would be proud to say in those apartments. and i said i don't know if i would. i know exactly what he meant. he said it's incredible, the trucks pure who builds the best truck? he didn't tell me pure he said they all do, you have four

companies, five companies, they all do, they build great ones. but for 50 years they got better, every year. they started off with one truck p or how many trucks do you have now? 27,000. i said 27,000? and all big ones. this is the biggest. he said for 50 years i have been buying, and every single year they got better, more efficient, stronger. he said if they make us by electric trucks, we will go back 70 years because a truck is worse than the one we had 50 years ago. and he said i won't partake in it. they want people, they want the trucking industry to do that. one other thing. the truck is heavier. and the battery is much larger than the tanks. and the battery would take up about half of the payload. think of that. but just as importantly, the battery and all that goes into electric is much heavier. truck weighs 2.5 times more than

a normal truck fired up by diesel. and he said if that is the case, sir, you have to rebuild every single bridge and road in america because the weight is so enormous. it wouldn't be able to go on the bridges and all of the different weight bearing in america. i said, did you explain this to the people? a 5-year-old child, if he was hearing these things, it doesn't go far, it takes too much room, you don't have any room left for anything. it's on most the whole thing would be carrying a battery. does anybody explain this to these people? we do explain it. they know it very well. at the end of the meeting they say we don't care, just start making your electric truck. we are not going to do it. we are not going to do it, he said. we are going to repeal all of that. we are going to repeal kamala's regulatory onslaught, saving households an estimated $5,000 a year they minimum.

the massive tax cuts. no tax on tips. we are going to make sure it gets done. she is not going to get it done. she didn't hear about it until i said it, and then she went out and she went and did it. the other thing, no tax on social security. we are not going to have seniors who have been decimated by inflation pay tax on social security. and we will get through it. we have tremendous growth potential in this country, but not with -- they want to take away your growth and your growth potential. again, i say it all the time, we are a nation in decline. we are a failing nation. right now we are a failing nation and we are going to soon be a great nation again. it is going to happen. [applause] another thing we are going to do, having to do with a lot of reason, a lot of things, the economy in particular. we are going to seal the border. we are going to stop the invasion. we are going to send the illegal aliens back home. we are going to bring down the cost of health care and housing. we are going to make sure that social security is not going to be increased in terms of years

where people have to wait much longer. we have an obligation to take care of these people. just so you know, i didn't do it in four years. i never even thought about doing it in four years. and they probably don't want to do it but they are going to have no choice because a lot of the people that are coming in are being signed into medicare, they are being signed into social security, and it's just going to explode, and it's going to happen very fast, and it's going to be very ugly. not going to happen with us. we are going to open up tracts of federal land for housing construction we desperately need housing for people who can't afford what's going on right now. and when we open it up and we take off some of the restrictions and regulations, you know in california, 50% the cost of the houses regulations. they have to adhere to regulations that bring the cost of the house up by 50%. we are going to bring back our supply chains to stop costly supply chain disruptions. we have tremendous disruptions.

i have it all the time, and i think you do, too, we order things that i keep saying what is it getting here? sir, there is a chain disruption. you end up getting stuff like three months late now. i don't know all of these geniuses over here, i think we can say that, i'm not sure you are necessarily as much into it but they are. and i will say that very often we have problems with supply chains where i'm waiting for things for weeks and weeks and i say by the way whatever happened to a supply chain, sir? it's not coming in. it's a terrible thing. nobody ever thought a thing like that could happen to our country. we are going to restore peace and stability all throughout the world. and you all know viktor orban. he is the prime minister of hungary. at a very tough man, a good man but a tough man. and they asked him what do we need to stop all of the wars with israel? what do we need to stop the wars? russia and ukraine and all the other wars that are starting.

he said when president trump was here, we had no wars. we didn't have russia lining up at the borders to go and attack ukraine. we would have never had hamas because hamas had no money because iran had no money. i said to china and everybody else, if you buy from iran, you can't do business in the united states. and i'm not looking to be bad to iran. we are going to be friendly, i hope, with iran -- maybe. but maybe not. but we're going to be friendly, i hope we are going to be friendly, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. they can't have a nuclear weapon. we were all set to make sure they don't have a nuclear weapon because once they do it's a whole different world. it's a whole different negotiation. but viktor orban said if you put trump in, nothing's going to happen and everyone is going to be peaceful because they were afraid of trump. now i don't like saying that i said that appeared i would say maybe they respected trump. but he said they were afraid of trump. they didn't know where he was coming from and they were really afraid of him.

they are not afraid of these people. and being afraid isn't so bad. but i would say more importantly they respected me. but he didn't use that word. he said they were afraid of trump. we would have not had any problems with china and taiwan. we wouldn't have had any problems with ukraine and russia. we wouldn't have had any problems with anything. but we will stop inflation. we will make america affordable again. and we are going to bring back the american dream. we have all of these young people, they are coming out of schools, colleges, everything else, and they are not going to have the american dream. they don't even think about the american dream. right now they just think about survival. and i just want to end by saying we have tremendous potential in this country. we can do amazing things and we can do them fast. we have to get the criminals out. we have to get them out immediately at fast and tough. we are going to rely on our local police p or our local police and law enforcement has been so incredible. and they know, some but he said how will you get them out? the local police know the name

and serial number and middle name and last name and where they come from of every single bad guy that's come into our country. and we are going to rely on local police and we are going to make sure that they have immunity from prosecution because, frankly, our police are treated horribly. they are not allowed to do their job. you know that better than anybody. they are not allowed to do their job. if they were allowed to do their job, we wouldn't have cities that have crime rates. you look at chicago. on the fourth of july weekend in chicago, think of this, 170 -- 17 people were shot, and 17 d died. afghanistan isn't anything like that. and speaking of afghanistan, the single most embarrassing day in the history of our country. and yesterday i saw -- they gave $85 billion worth of brand-new military equipment. i rebuilt the military, so this was equipment that to a large

extent i bought. but brand-new -- and they had a parade yesterday. a beautiful parade. we were going to get out with dignity and strength. we were there for 21 years. we were going to keep b bagram. this massive air force base i visited. it's a massive base. we are going to keep it because -- not because of afghanistan but because it is one hour away from where china makes its nuclear weapons. and they were showing it off yesterday but the fact is that china now controls bagram. china, can you imagine that? and we left. we're going to stay there and going to keep it and get out with dignity and strength, going to take our soldiers out last, not first. we took our soldiers out first. i dealt with abdul and he is still the leader. strongman, smart man. but he understood that if he did anything because we were losing a lot of people to the snipers and under obama it was terrible, it was brutal. they would be walking around and just get shot. that was the end of them.

our people. and other people, too, civilians. and i let them know if you do that, if you do that, we are going to hit you so hard, like you've never been hit before. but why, but why, he said, do you send me a picture of my home? why? why do you send me a picture of my home? i said you'll have to figure that one out later. but i said we are going to have to hit you people so hard like we never hit anybody. and he understood. he said yes, your excellency, i understand. called me your excellency pure i wonder if he calls that to biden. i doubt it. he understood that and he respected us. and for 18 months, not one american soldier was killed. not one. [applause] and then i, i left because of an election where i got millions of more votes than we did in 2016. we got millions of more, from ten to 12, 10 million to 12 million more, no president has ever gone with that kind of

an election uptick. usually a president will get less. president obama got much less his second time, but he won. but he got much less. we got 10 million to 12 million votes more, not including other votes that we can talk about at another day. but this is their votes. 10 million to 12 million more. and we left. and that's when all the problems started. we didn't have these problems. we would have never had a problem with abdul. we would have never had a problem with anybody, frankly. and i'd have to say, you're looking at things behind me. they did a nice job. wow appeared i haven't gotten to see, that's good. i don't like the tags very much. up 46% eggs. wow. up 65%. wow. school lunches up 65%. how can a family afford that? but look at this over here. what a nice job. they are going to take them back

to my cottage and have a lot of fun. like the cheerios. haven't seen cheerios in a long time. i'm going to take them back. bacon is through the roof. they are all through the roof. the milk. everything is bad. we are going to straighten it out. we are going to bang price's way down and we are going to get it done fast. with her it is just talk. she is a radical san francisco -- destroyed the place. hard to believe she could be in the discussion. they had a group of 12 people that she was considering and they put her name in there and marked them where the best and who were the worst, and she was actually rated the first of the 12p or they had 12 plus, 13 people, and they rated her the worst. six weeks ago, she was considered to be a failed vice president at a failed administration, a disaster. and now all of these people are talking about her like she is margaret thatcher, liberal version. she's not. she's not smart.

i don't believe she loves our country. and we cannot have our country destroyed because once that happens, it will never be able to come back, okay? if you like, we can ask a few questions. >> reporter: it's been reported you recently spoke with prime minister netanyahu may be as recent as yesterday. can you clarify when the last time was you talk to him and what advice if any you are giving him about a cease-fire or ending the war? >> the last time i saw him was at mar-a-lago and he came with his wife and a large group of people. and we had a very good relationship with him and with israel. again, this would never have happened come october 7th would have never happened, would have never ever happened, and he asked for the meeting. we had the meeting. it is about two hours, 2 1/2 hours long. and i expect i might be talking to him but i haven't since then. >> a cease-fire deal, give any advice -- >> he knows what he is doing pure i did encourage him to get this over with. you want to get it over with.

has to get it over with fast. have victory, get your victory come and get it over with, it has to stop, the killing has to stop. yes. reporter met mr. president trump, you have spoken very passionately about how god save your life and i'm u put much thought into why god saved your life? as and for what purpose has he been shielding and protecting you? >> so i don't know if you heard the question, spoken about god saving your life, i've spoken passionately about it, and something happened because that was a miracle. i never looked that way. the audience was massive and it was in front of me. i never have that particular graph, that was a graph come as you all know, this very -- i think everyone knows it very well, but it showed the great numbers on illegal immigration. it was the lowest point we have ever had. and it was one that i use less than 20% of the time. it's always at the end of the speech and not at the beginning of the speech. it is always on the left side

not the right side. and yet for some reason i called -- it is not on a teleprompter. i do this largely without a teleprompter, frankly, because it's hard to hold an audience if you're going to go for an hour and a half or two hours reading a script. and i just talked about it and i moved to my right, turned sharply to my right, ping, and if i didn't do that, i'm not here with you. so yeah, god has something to do with it. it's a miracle. and god had something to do with it. and maybe it's, we want to save the world. this world is going down. this world is going down. so it could be. but i believe that. i believe that. my sons are very good shooters. they are like scratch gophers better relatively speaking with shooters, great shooters. eric and don both told me, from 130 yards. i said, that's prefar away, isn't it? no, that's like a 1 foot putt with weapons like the one being used. plus he was a good shooter, went

to the range and is supposed to be a pretty good shooter. they said a bad shooter would have hit the target almost 100% of the time. so something happened. and i have to say the secret service sniper did an amazing job. he had five seconds to find the target and hit the target, and he hit the target. within, thing of this, five seconds, and he was much further away because he was over here. and this other person was over there. so you have to give credit. i have to also say about secret service, when i was hit, i knew it because when i touched, there was blood pouring all over my hand. i said, i guess i know what that is. i was going down for protection. they were screaming get down, get down, there was bullets, and those secret service guys were on top of me and a matter of three seconds, and bullets were coming down, i would hear the bullet come i didn't realize you could hear it but now i know

very well those bullets were going right over my head. they were there and very brave. there was nobody that said i'm not going to be going there. they just, they were there very quickly and they were very brave. and there were mistakes made come obviously. he shouldn't have been up there. the roof should have been taken care of. their worst mistakes made, no question about it. but there was a lot of bravery, we have to remember that. thank you very much. >> reporter: i want to talk about credit card debt for just a second. >> record. credit card. >> reporter: many families going into debt just to pay for groceries. what's your message to americans right now that you can make america affordable again? >> i would say my message to them -- he said credit card debt is at the all-time high. it's never been like this. what's your message to america how we are going to solve that, and what will they do? you know what i think they

should do? on november 5th, or sooner, if it's early voting, which largely it is, which is ridiculous, we should have one day voting, paper ballots. we should have voter i.d. and we should have proof of citizenship because people are voting on going on there without citizenship. but we should do it. maybe we will be able to get that done, too, it's one of the things i want to do. but my message to them would be very simple: vote for trump and we are going to fix the problem. we are going to get it fixed. >> reporter: one more question. kamala's been promising on day one, i'll do this. and for basically four years, she's promised day one peer what will you do on day one to turn this country around? >> associates saying, when she gets in, she is in now. and especially with biden because he's not in the best of shape. you know what, she's in there now, she could do anything she wants, and she is still saying, if you elect me, i'll do this. why didn't she do it? here is my one question, it's

the easiest question, because she complains about everything, everything, everything. why didn't she do it? that's all i ask. when day one we are going to drill, baby, drill, and we are going to close the border, and we are going to let people come in but they are going to come in legally. they are going to come into our country legally. on day one we are going to do many things. i can do many things at one time. but the question is this, what are the first thing you're going to do? i would say we have a tie. we are going to close the border. we are going to stop the millions of people coming in. we are going to take all of the criminals that have come -- and we know everyone of them -- i know. the local police know better than anybody else. they're going to work with us. i've spoken to a lot of the sheriffs. every police -- virtually every law enforcement group in america has endorsed trump. i don't think anybody has endorsed kamala. not one. i don't think anybody has endorsed them, you know that better than anybody. in florida come all over california, they have endorsed

me. the relationship i have with law enforcement. and these are great people and people we have to really cherish and respect and let them do their job and protect them. and you will always have a bad apple. in everything you have bad apples as reporters, i can tell you, many come i would say about 80%, but you are always going to have bad apples but you have very, very few, when you look at it, you have to let them do their job. you have to protect them. basically we are going to drill, baby, drill. we are going to get energy prices down almost immediately and close the border and get the crooked ones outcome of the bad ones out, and we are going to let a lot of people come in bece we need more people, especially with ai coming and all of the things. we are going to make sure they are not murderers, killers, drug dealers, and the kind of people we have largely coming in right now. >> reporter: mr. president, mr. president. many of your allies who want you to win in november say your current strategy isn't working, that you need to stop with the

personal attacks on kamala harris and deliver a more disciplined message. do you agree? and also, you added more people to your campaign today, is that a sign of a shifting strategy? >> no, thickets a sign that we want to close it out. we have great people. susie is fantastic, as you know. chris is fantastic. they are leading it. cori leavened out ski coming in. he will be personal envoy or at some level. they are doing a great job. look, we have taken, with all of the abuse we have taken from the fake news media, all of this horrific abuse we take, and all i want to do is make the country again, all i want to do is have strong borders and good education. we want to have choice for education. so important. so many different things. you think it would be the other way, we rebuilt the military, did so many great things. that's the way it's been four republicans and more so for me than anybody in history and that's okay. because we are leading in the polls. the most part we are leading in the polls.

we were leading biden by a lot. we are leaving now. i think when she has exposed we are going to beat her by a lot more then we lead biden die because he had a group of people who had been voting for him for a long time. she doesn't have that peer people don't know who she is. as far as the personal attacks, because of what she has done to the country. i am very angry at her that she weaponized the justice system against me and to other people, very angry at her. i think i'm entitled to personal attacks. i don't have a lot of respect for her. i don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence. and i think she will be a terrible president. and i think it's very important that we win. and whether the personal attacks are good or bad, she certainly attacks me personally. she actually called me weird. he's weird. it was just a sound bite. and she called j.d. and i weird. he's not weird. he was a great student at yale. he went to ohio state, graduated in two years, at the top of his class, and all of these

different things. we have this guy that is running a failed, really a very failed state, has had a terrible career. i mean, you have him saying you are weird. no, he is a weird guy. she is weird in her policy. who wouldn't want to have strong borders? who doesn't want to have lower taxes? you know all of my life i have watched as politicians campaigned and i have always been for the most part on the other side come on the side these people are on, and they always talked about we are going to reduce taxes. this is the only campaign i've ever heard where they are saying, we are going to increase your taxes. and then people say they are going to vote for her? i don't know. so i don't think so. i don't think people know who she is yet. and people -- because really people didn't know. you can ask the man on the street. i saw it on one of the shows today. the ask a man on the street, with the last name of kamala. nobody knew. it's harris. nobody knew the last name. i don't even use it because nobody knows who i'm talking

about. people don't know who she is. she has a radical left socialist. but beyond that, i mean, she is way beyond socialism. who is going to destroy our country. and when they find out come i think you are going to see something. but right now, even not knowing her and with all of the -- like the cover of "time" magazine, they didn't put a picture, they got a great artist to do -- what was that all about? what was that all about? the whole thing is crazy. i just want to win for the country. some people say oh, why don't you be nice? but they are not nice to me. they want to put me in prison. just so you understand. you know, they tell me i should be nice. they want to put me in prison. it's never happened before in the history of our country. i did nothing wrong. i have crooked judges. i have crooked prosecutors. and they are all democrats. all democrat areas. other than in florida we had a brilliant judge who ruled in my

favor. i won the case, the documents case, one rocket in its entirety, and jack smith, deranged jack smith, suffered a defeat. but in new york city come everything is clubhouse. i know it very well. i know it very well. and we have a very crooked system, and it's one of the reasons new york is dying. nobody wants to come, no companies want to come in because the courtroom system is so corrupt. both at a federal level and at a state level, and a city level. and they put you into an area where you have 3% republican vote. just like fani. f-a-n-i, fani, with her boyfriend. i think that has been discredited to, too appeared think of it, they don't want me to be a little bit nasty. they want to put me in prison -- me, they want -- never happened before in the history of our country. it's happened in third world countries. but it's never happened here. and they were in danger because

you create a precedent for doing that, and once that happens, that's a really bad thing. you know in the years before -- i've said this a few times, not so much, but with hillary, she was subpoenaed by congress to give everything she's got. and she burned it. she acid washed it. bleachbit, they call it. she totally scrubbed it. then they broke everything with hammers. with fire. they burned it. and then she said i don't have anything. it turned out she had a lot to give. and everybody said lock her up, lock her up. i used to go easy, easy, and then we won. i said wouldn't it be terrible -- you know, some people are upset when i did this, but you have to look at it may be differently now, i say, wouldn't it be terrible to put the wife of the president, former president of the united states, into a prison, think of that.

hillary clinton, she was secretary of state. she was the wife of a president of the united states, who used to be a friend of mine. a friend of mine come used to play my golf course all the time, have a great golf course right next in westchester. used to be there all the time. but you know what, i could have done that very easily. she was so guilty. and i said to my people, wouldn't it be terrible to put, i don't know, wouldn't it be terrible to take, and we won the election, wouldn't it be terrible to take a former secretary of state who was the wife of the president of the united states and put her into a prison? that's what they want to do with me. and i did nothing wrong. it's all crooked politics and really crooked judges. you know i have a gag order? you know i can't even talk about it right now? you know that i have a judge who has a gag order. he doesn't want me to talk. and the reason he doesn't want me to talk is because what i say

so devastating and so horrible for him. but think of it. i have a gag order. there is never been a politician in history -- probably for any politician for a city council office. i'm the leading candidate to be president. i won virtually unanimously. i beat everybody. it was the quickest primary in history. there's never been one that was done so early. i had people that were very talented people and i beat them by 45, 50, 60, 70, 80 points. there was never a close race. nobody was even close. good talent. they weren't close. and i'm running against the democrats, so it is a two-party system whether we like it or not. republican, democrat, i'm the republican, and i'm leading. but let sam tied, but i'm leading. i believe i am leading by a lot more than people think and i

believe i will be leading by a lot more. and i have a judge or put a gag order. when you ask me a question or when you ask me a question, i can't give you an answer because if i give you the answer, they want to put you in jail. he said put him in jail if he talks on the gag order. and this is in a state where the unfortunately the laws have been very bad and they haven't been upheld by the appellate divisions generally, although i have one case where judge, a certain judge, i won't use names, the attorney general case, we won five appeals on the same case, the most ever. trial was a ridiculous, horrible decision, where you had a very, very biased voting population, and a judge whose hatred of donald trump was beyond belief. and we won the case, but he ruled ridiculous amount of money, civil case.

this is, what they are doing is interference with an election. they want to interfere. look at the one thing, they want a sentence right before the election takes place. let's sentence him. because who is going to vote for him if we sentence them? let's sentence him right before. this is interference with a presidential election at a state level, and it's a state that always goes democrat. it's interference. and as you know, the supreme court ruled recently on immunity, and i'm immune from all of this stuff, that they charged me with. but isn't it a terrible thing? and yet hillary clinton, when it came time to make a decision, i said, i don't want to put the wife of the president of the united states in prison. i want the country to come together and to be unified. and here it is a few years later and these people say let's put him -- why?

because i challenge an election? because i want to challenge an election? or some other reason? it's a really disgraceful thing. it's a shame. and it's a very dangerous thing for both parties because once they start that ball rolling, once they start it rolling, that's a nasty ball. yes, please. please. >> reporter: quick questions here. nikki haley told our bret baier that republicans need to stop whining about kamala harris, focus on courting those independents, those suburban women, the moderates out there appeared what do you think of that strategy and would you consider having nikki haley on the campaign trail with you? >> sure. i think we have done very well. i think that we are hitting a nerve. i think that this is a different kind of a race. all we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or socialist or somebody that's going to destroy our country. you know, i fought nikki very hard. i beat her in her own state by legendary numbers. and i get along with her fine. i appreciate that she endorsed me and all of that.

no, i think that -- i think relatively to what they are doing and how radical they are and how in many ways how sick they are, i think i'm doing a very calm campaign. we are here. there is no shouting. you will say he ranted and raved -- not you, but some of you will say he ranted and raved. i didn't rant and rave. i may very calm person, believe it or not. if i wasn't, probably wouldn't be around anymore, you know, probably wouldn't be around. i appreciate her advice. i have to do it my way. you know, i ran against her and i did it my way. people said i should maybe do it a different way. but i won in south carolina by numbers that nobody has ever seen before. it wasn't even close. i think she is a good woman. i would love to have her support. she gave me support. but i would love to have her go around and campaign. putter quick follow-up on the economy, you mentioned this in your remarks, vice president, harris wants to put a ban on price gouging. do you think the federal government should be responsible for determining food prices?

>> not only responsible they probably can't do it legally. that will drive up prices. she wants no fracking. she may go and change that. i think she has already changed it. she wants to have no fracking. i want no fracking. but for her whole life, she said that. no fracking. than about, i don't know when come a couple months ago, when e started looking at polls, remember this, she all of a sudden says fracking. i don't think -- i won pennsylvania and i did much better the second time. i won it in 2016 and did much better the second time. i know pennsylvania very well. i don't think there's any way and hell that somebody that is intelligent living in pennsylvania is going to vote for somebody that basically will have -- eventually end fracking at fossil fuel. so whether it is oklahoma or texas or pennsylvania, big energy state, people don't realize that, 302,000 people work in that industry, but may be more importantly, they don't want to pay $9 a gallon for

gasoline. so no, i think that she has made statements. i don't know how you get out of it. i don't know how you can say for ten years there will be no fracking, we have tapes of her laughing at the stupidity of the question. of course i'm not going to allow fracking. then all of a sudden a few months ago she comes out in favor of oh, yes, i'd allow fracking. i don't think anybody in pennsylvania will be -- i think she is going to do very badly in pennsylvania. you have to frack, we need the energy, and pennsylvania needs the jobs, but pennsylvanian is the energy, also. that energy is going to support our new system for ai and all of the other modern things that need massive amounts of electricity and energy, massive, so it is a very good question, actually, but we have to unify as a country. we have to come together. i think we can. you know, i get that question oftentimes i used to think there

is no way because some people want a border, some people don't want a border, most people do want a border, but there is such a difference in people. just before covid coming out, so three years, we went a long period of time and we had an economy going the likes of which no country had ever seen before. i think he would agree there has never been anything like it. and people were coming together. people were calling me, i would call them radical left, but i would say very liberal people, very progressive people, they came to me, we would like to get together. in fact we worked out criminal justice reform. i was the only one that could have done that. i want criminal justice reform, and i got that for black leaders that came to see me. criminal justice reform. obama couldn't do it. biden wouldn't even try. but nobody could do it. and i got conservative votes to get it done. they needed at least five very conservative votes, it was very hard to do, i got that done.

our country was coming together. you know, i could tell you the story of criminal justice reform, when you do that, that means that it is a big step. but i was seeing people that were not -- that i would not want to see them and they wouldn't want to see me. all of a sudden i was having lunch with people if i told you who they were you wouldn't even believe it. our country was coming together. success was bringing our country together. and it can be done. successful bring our country together again. it can be done. it was an amazing phenomenon. and i used to say, i don't know, it's awfully tough to get it together. i've never seen anything like it. like, for instance, begetting criminal justice reform done. and i did that with democrats and some very conservative republicans who said it is very unfair when people are staying in jail for 35-40 years, and today they wouldn't even be charged with a crime for what they did. and we got it done and i was very proud of it. our country was coming together.

the black population have the best numbers they've ever had on jobs come on income, on everything. the hispanic population had the best numbers. asian population. men, women, young people with diplomas from the best schools, harvard, mit, the wharton school of finance, they were all coming together, and everybody was happy. young people, without a high school diploma, the best mit students and people without a diploma were all working. they were making more money than they have ever made. every single -- there wasn't one group that wasn't doing better than it was the year before, two years before, ten years before. it was the best our country had ever -- and we were leapfrogging china. china didn't have a chance. i took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs from china. hundreds of billions of dollars. no president ever took in -- and what happened was an amazing

thing. we had a great successful country. and our country was unified. it was the first time anyone had seen it but our country was unified. >> reporter: pulling out there, i know you say you are leading in some polling, but there's other polling out there, fox news poll my coaches yesterday has you up by just one point. how do you break -- >> and fox news has always been my worst poll. even fox news had me up by one or two points yesterday, came out i think two points, one point. i also think, you know, i tend to poll low. in some cases really low, you know coming 2016 i was polling low because people didn't want to say who they are voting for. i don't know if that is supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing but it is what it is. and we did very well in 2016. we did much better in 2020 -- much better, but bad things happened. through covid, very bad things happened. so we are not happy about that. yes, i have seen you around a little bit so go ahead please.

>> reporter: mr. president, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: you talked about how covid from china was the fence too far. what is your plan for holding china accountable if you get reelected? >> well, i get along with china. had a great relationship with president xi. fantastic trade show, $50 billion of farm products and manufacturing products, they were adhering to it. they don't adhere to it anymore because they don't respect harris or biden. but as you know we signed a trade deal with china. it was actually better than even the usmca. a great trade deal. china had to buy $50 billion, not 15 million, not anything, 50, 5-0, billion dollars, and it was a great trade deal. i think that is one of the underrated things. i think we'll have a great relationship with china. i hope we are going to have a great relationship but it has to be a fair relationship. china was taking advantage of the country for years but so is every other country, in all fairness to china. everything a country was taking

advantage of the united states. i can't think of one country where we were doing better than them. japan was taking -- abe was a friend, a great leader. all of these countries, whose side -- actually, it's amazing we economically survived because we had such bad negotiators or people are getting paid off. i actually looked at some deals and i would say nobody could be so stupid to sign a deal that is so one-sided. whoever made this deal has been paid off. and then i would look into a little bit. yeah. and all of a sudden he is working as an agent for that country. three years later, five years later. we changed a lot of those deals. south korea. we change the south korea deal and made it from a horrible deal to a good deal. i changed the japan deal. i made a great deal with china. they had to buy $50 billion

worth. they never bought anything like that. in fact it was a misunderstanding. when i said the people were negotiating, what number are we talking about? they said 15. i thought they said 50. so when they came back to me they said sir, we are all set to get it going. i said, good, what's the number. 15. i said you told me 50, why are we going out to 15? they said no we said 50, you told me 50. i heard them wrong. they said 15, but i heard them wrong. i said go back and get 50, and we got 50 instead of 15. it was great. you know, i really think that we can have a great relationship with china. we can have a great relationship with a lot of countries right now. one of the things with china, as much as any country, but all of the countries, the one thing is they have to respect you. if they don't respect you, and, you know, i was very tough on countries like japan. and yet abe, who was a great

man, assassinated, horribly assassinated, he was a great man come a great leader, but i was very tough on him and russia, russia i was probably the toughest. i ended nord stream 2. i ended nord stream, the biggest deal they have ever done, the biggest pipeline in the world, all of europe was going to be supplied by russia, and i ended the deal. it was dead. and then biden comes in and approves it. and they say oh, i was nice to russia. putin ashley said to me one time, you know, if you are supposed to be like friendly with me, i would hate like hell for you to be angry at me because you are brutal. think of it. not only that but the sanctions, forget the sanctions, i ended nord stream 2. the pipeline was dead. and then biden comes in and he got $3.5 million, in all fairness, from the mayor of moscow was wife, remember that? during the debate, we brought it up.

chris wallace, who is not the father, there is no resemblance between him and mike wallace, that i can tell you, he said you shouldn't be talking about it, why not? the family got $3.5 million from the mayor of moscow's wife. why wouldn't i talk about that? he wouldn't let me talk. i said i am to go shooting against two people, not one. i turn out to be right because a year later that was a big scandal. white he get $3.5 million? but biden approved, immediately, the pipeline that russia, nord stream, and he killed the keystone xl pipeline. 48,000 jobs. he killed it. he did the exact opposite of what he should have done. yes, please come i know you had your hand up, nice to see you pure. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. thank for taking my question. you referenced a conversation with elon musk earlier this week. you praise how he treats workers, saying they go on strike and you say that's okay, you are all gone, so everyone of you is gone. are you really comfortable with companies threatening to fire

workers who go on strike? >> no, i want companies to get workers that are going to love them and work for a wage that lets the company make a profit so they can go and expand. in that case, they moved come as you know, they moved the country from california -- elon -- from california to texas because they were able to get things that california wouldn't give them. i did ask them one question. you are moving a very big company out of california that has been there for years into texas. did the governor ever call you and say let's work it out? because we don't want to lose you? and he said he never called. governor newsom, he never ca called. if i were governor of california and if elon or anybody else was leaving come i would be calling. but no, elon wants to run an efficient company and if he has to get come he got rid of a lot of people on x, former twitter, a lot of people gone and it still works. it still works. you've got to run the company productively. they're going to be a lot of

jobs around. a person doesn't get lucky and find a job. i want a first and that can look for ten jobs and all ten companies want them and negotiate much more than you would get by doing what you just suggested. so, you know, he is a strong man. he has a strong guy. he is a brilliant guy. and he wants to get the best he can, and he wants to get the best workers. he pays a lot of money to a lot of his workers. to a certain extent, it is supply and demand. but ultimately that is what is going to lead to a great country. >> reporter: to follow up with that really quickly because some people took that as you saying you would be comfortable with companies threatening to fire workers. deshawn o'brien who spoke at the republican national convention saying firing workers who want to organize or strike his economic terrorism, so just to be clear, that is something that you aren't -- >> they weren't organizing against elon. he let they weren't let them int

they were doing with the taxes and everything were making it impossible for him. and sure enough ryan is a great guy from the teamsters talking. sean is great. i think sean would understand it better than anybody. don't forget, the unions are really threatened by what is coming in by these millions and millions of people coming in. sean o'brien understands that. the black population is absolutely threatened. the hispanic population is absolutely threatened. because these people are coming in. they are going to take their jobs. they are going to make it very, very hard. what's what happened in our country is very, very discuss. very bad thing. >> governor tim walz is out on the campaign trail today. and he has been saying that he believes that you want things to get worse so that can you campaign on it. that you are rooting for failure? what's your response to that. >> no. just the opposite. i wish i didn't have to do this. if our country were run by democrats and run beautifully, where we were really being

productive and everything else, i would have never down this. i wouldn't have done it if i thought i couldn't have win. i think i can win and i think i can win easily when exposed for what they are, radical left lunatics. she is going to ruin our country. and i just hope the people of our one dry and i believe they are because i already see it happening. i hope they are able to think for themselves because, if they think for themselves, if they look at the destruction caused by kamala and this person out of nowhere he came out of nowhere. a state that i love that state. but a state that's doing so poorly, where he is the one that signed in tampons in boy's bathrooms. he signed a bill that boys bathrooms, all boys bathrooms in minnesota will have tampons. what's going on? what's wrong with us? so, no, i would -- if we had somebody doing a phenomenal job, i would be