peace deal is enduring and last. j.k. prime minister thinks president trump for his ability of peace to ukraine. this seems like an important moment. i went to the first visit and the first president trump and melania trump went to u.k. a special relationship with king charles and president trump were forging to say the queen who really -- this is important because in this, the king is talking about peace for ukraine being lasting and how important this aligns with the u.k. as well. >> harris: they see us doing something perhaps we had not been doing since the 1800 the words minor incursion to russia. we see us in the lead. and people see that around the world, putting america first. "america reports" now. ♪ ♪

>> how confident are you sir? >> sandra: that was present months as he welcome prime minister keir starmer to the white house. to the two are meeting right now, we are told in the oval office and we will have a play of that meeting and as soon as we have that we will turn to the viewers and the listeners as we began this thursday edition of "america reports." i'm sandra smith in new york, hi, john. spilling like a fire hose each and every day and i'm john roberts in this sp 30. the second european leader to visit the white house this week and president trump pushing nato allies to step up their own defenses as he looks to negotiate an end to the war in ukraine. >> sandra: did this as volodymyr zelenskyy to visit the white house tomorrow. a lot of news is happening right now. >> john: you are used to this everyday 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. is where it all happens. senior national correspondent rich edson at the white house in a busy place, rich. >> it sure is, john, pushing the

atlantic to push president trump to continue to support ukraine. u.k. prime minister keir starmer meeting with president trump right now has the president prods europe to spend more money on its own defense. starmer arrived to the white house with a pledge to increase military spending to 2.5% of the economy by 2027 and 3% within a decade. on monday french president emmanuel macron push for continued support to ukraine and opening negotiations with thresher. senior administration official said the united states continuing discussions with ukraine and european allies. president trump said in the talks nato membership in the u.s. security guarantees with it is off the table. >> i can tell you that nato code till you forget about. i think that is a little reason it started. russia and ukraine and

president zelenskyy will be coming on friday. that is now confirmed. >> the ukrainian president scheduled to meet trump tomorrow. until finish the deal for rare earth minerals. president trump said that is the way to find that countries further together and reimbursement for past u.s. aid to. democrats say trump is selling out ukraine. it is a betrayal of our very history to stand up against oppression. his lies who started this, they are wrong. i call upon president trump to reverse course. he is on a road of american weakness, a road we have never traveled, and i pray he gets off immediately. >> we will get more on the discussions in about an hour. president starmer and president trump will have a press conference at the white house scheduled an hour from now. john and sandra could get back to you. >> john: oval office will play

out before that. >> sandra: mike pompeo fox news contributor former secretary of state, mr. secretary great to have you an ongoing meeting at the white house. you know mickey you insecurity is a big part of the discussion. what do you hope will happen when the president does meet with zelenskyy? >> it is fantastic to see america at the center reading again in a way it hasn't for the past four years. i heard the comments previously about a president week. remember it was president biden who lost the deterrence against ukraine. he didn't invade europe and putin didn't invade on trump's watch. that deterrence will be restored and security guarantees that are necessary not to get just a cease-fire but lasting peace, one for another 25 years or however long we can expect actually delivers for the ukrainian people and for europe. that, of course will require united kingdom meeting with the

president now and president macron in france and the biggest in europe to step up efforts to secure her own freedom and liberty. when they do that the junk confident the united states will seek in our best interest to assist in providing deterrence model we had for four years. >> sandra: i'm told they have live pictures up ongoing protests. i want to get reaction and barnard college, mr. secretary, you see the free palestine signs and pro-palestinian protesters at the college they forced entry into campus, but clashing with the staff on campus. what is your thought and you see this, mr. secretary? >> you know, i have not taken a role as a visiting professor at columbia right where they are at. i have no problem with peaceful protests but when you violate basic rules by taking over a building, the institution has a duty to protect the other students, protect the other students freedom of speech. this is no more first protected

on the man at the moon. they should throw these students out in the students out to be banished from the school. they should hold accountable the students for being engaging in freedom and free speech and not for committing the violence they have shown by taking over the building. speak to mr. secretary, i want to play words of the vice president j.d. vance. there are critics that the administration who said they are bound to russia with some of their policy. this is vance defending president trump on diplomacy and defending just that. listen. >> every single time a president engages in diplomacy, you guys preemptive lake accuse him to conceding to russia and is not conceding to anyone. he's doing a job of the diplomat and of course the chief president of the united states. >> sandra: from your view, is this president taking the right approach, mr. secretary, when it

comes to russia? >> in the end, this is about power. president trump has demonstrated his willingness to use power to deliver outcomes good for the american people. i know who started the war, vladimir putin made his weapons down today, piece will be at hand and president would roll through ukraine and the rest of europe as well as he could to. i think that simple. but they aren't and that practitioners are all trying to achieve an outcome and negotiate an achievement good for america and ukraine. give them a lot of latitude to do that and in the end, demonstrate to putin pieces in his best interest. piece on a side of terms that doesn't demonstrate his aggression will have proven worthy and outcome good for russia. we asked to have been viewed as having lost. that it's importantly the conflict in europe but xi jinping is watching, and the ayatollahs watching in america is back in the leadership role. i'm confident the president

understands geopolitical dynamic as well. >> sandra: finally, i was hoping you would weigh in on doge and the administration tied to the efforts to national security. here is elon musk on the function of doge and how they were going about it. >> doge is a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments to help achieve those savings. just go to doge.gov. line item by line item we specify each item. and i should say we will make mistakes. we won't be perfect. but when we make a mistake, we will fix it very quickly. but we do need to move quickly if we are to achieve $1 trillion deficit reduction. >> sandra: mr. secretary, you are a fan of doge and its function? >> i am pro doge. it is wife i ran for congress in 2010. the team party movement back fence and $10 trillion or

$11 trillion it's about $356 trillion and there is no time to get serious about economic growth. in spinning and kept the federal government in line with what american people can afford. i hope they will move quickly and i hope they will move deeply into a smart way with sustainable spending cuts to put government scale back in the box to where the american people can afford. sign me up. by the way, i'm sure they will make a few mistakes along the way and i hope they are honest, yep could you pick up that wrong and fix it. those will turn out to have been good for the entirety of the american people. >> sandra: always good to have you on, secretary mike pompeo, thank you very much, sir. will do. secretary pompeo says high matt, john. >> john: hello back to you, mr. secretary. doge has made mistakes and remember national security agency were laid off and said loops and hired them all back. it happened to another agency as well. it prompted people to say maybe

move a little less swiftly and be sure what you do before you pull the trigger on it. but they want to move fast. >> sandra: the quickness with which they move on but that obviously is the point that elon musk was making, the more effective it will be. sometimes mistakes come with. >> sandra: . >> john: it is just nuts we have $35 trillion deficit. i keep hearkening back to the days of the clinton administration and that that was $5.7 trillion. there was a plan to pay it off and then iraq war came in 9/11. >> i don't need geography lesson from you. >> of course, you have been there, i do forgive you. you get around, don't you? >> let's go! >> mr. and mrs. -- whatever your

name is, i hope this doesn't influence your vote. >> senator ... >> oh, no. >> john: tributes for the legendary actor gene hackman as we learn new information on the death of the oscar-winning actor and his wife. jonathan hunt with the latest. jonathan, this is more intriguing with every moment that passes. >> certainly the new information is confusing and some ways, john. what we learn is the bodies of gene hackman and his 64-year-old wife, betsy arakawa were apparently discovered by maintenance workers who had not seen the couple around two weeks. according to a search warrant we have obtained, hackman was found in a mud room in his house and his wife in a bathroom next to a space heater and open prescription bottle and pills nearby. neither of them according to the affidavit have any obvious

wounds. but the sheriff department affidavit said there was also no sign of carbon monoxide or gas poisoning. the scene was "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search in investigation of the death of the holy the hollywood legend." >> put your hands on your head and get on the wall! >> if he doesn't like you, he will take you apart and it's all perfectly legal because he fights dirty. >> hackman won his first oscar 1971 portrayal of iconic scop popeye doyle and "the french connection" and one of the roles over his 40 year career in film. he once described himself as being "like your everyday mine worker, and mine worker who happened to star in movies like "bonnie and clyde," birdcage, "superman," "mississippi burning," "outnumbered" and bringing a whole new generation of fans,

the royal 10 pounds." he saved my life. 30 years ago i was in calcutta and he came to the hospital on his back. >> he stabbed you? >> he did. speak with the legendary director paid tribute on instags morning calling him "a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity. so gene hackman, john, dead at 95. the investigation ongoing. so many confusing details in this affidavit, john. the deputies who went to the scene also saying that both gene hackman and his wife showed signs of having fallen abruptly. but again, sagging, they didn't see obvious signs of something like carbon monoxide or gas poisoning. we are hoping we will hear later in a press conference, we believe may happen within a short time in santa fe, john.

>> john: i also thought it was strange the dead dog was in the closet near the bathroom. what a puzzling aspect. >> possibly as dogs do, johnny, checking on one of the owners and the owner of the wife found in the same bathroom. >> john: jonathan hunt with the latest for us, we look forward to an update, sandra. >> sandra: we are waiting for president trump in the u.k. prime minister at the white house. they are meeting right now. you listen as we have the playback, we will play that out for you here. >> john: also new information jeffrey epstein expected that some point today. who is on his notorious client list? plus this... >> this reckless republican budget will bring nothing but destruction to the american people. in many ways, this is a manner of life and death. >> sandra: democrats ramping up a scare as they fight against

those budget cuts. but do they hold any water? our political panel weighs in next.

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♪ ♪ >> sandra: inspired by doge, some house republicans introduced a bill to reform the snap program. fox business' hillary vaughn has the details live from capitol hill, high, hillary. >> if you want food stamps you have to punch in and punch out at work. a new bill from dusty johnson will require able-bodied people with kids 18-65 to work at least 20 hours a week to qualify for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. johnson sang up the bill, able-bodied people who can work should work if we want to

continue to have welfare program with pathways out of poverty. there is no reliable path out of poverty that is i have work, training and education advance core." scouring government spending to make cuts for paid and the goal is to find $22 trillion in fraud and waste ordering each committee to look for things they can cut. democrats warn that means medicare and medicaid are on the chopping block. >> republicans are lying to the american people about medicaid. if you are directing the imaging commerce committee to fine up to $880 billion if not more, spending cuts, that means medicaid. i can't say it any other way. republicans online, prove me wrong! >> the republicans are saying "liar liar pants on fire." democrats are trying to scare

americans about something that is not true. speak of the moment start talking about meaning and the size and scope of government, they break out in mass hysterics and lied to the american people. there is not a single probation within that budget resolution that outlines one cut to medicaid, period! they can sit there and go through the numbers he claimed that it does this or it's going to kick people off of their health insurance, but it is a lie. >> sandra president trump said himself he is not going to cut benefits to medicare or medicaid. they do want to look for fraud and that is $1 billion problem. the national association for antifraud and health care found taxpayers are losing $100 billion every year for medicaid and medicare fraud, sandra. >> sandra: hillary, john. >> john: making a haze for the biden white house and gave it gave it a fellow of chairman of

gopac. that democratic packets and calling them scare tactics appear to be working because listen to what the utah governor joe, what he said, a reduction in federal funding not only disrupt care for those who rely on medicaid but also destabilize public and private health care providers leading to workforce reduction and service limitations and financial strain on already burdened health care facilities. president trump said david will not medicaid, medicare or social security, but tell that to him, he thinks they will. my second career or second life, i want to be democrat message operative. the easiest job in the world take what you said in 1970s and 2000s and recent election you just lost and keep saying that and keep repeating what republicans will do and in fact, we are not going to do that here too if they don't pass a budget that keeps the tax cuts from a few years ago in place cochair for america is going to see their taxes go up which will make health care costs more expensive.

>> john: sorry i said you tell, governor in nevada governor. that the democrats have been swinging it literally at every pitch that comes across the plate regardless of where it fell. could this be the one issue they start to get traction? because when it comes to medicaid, medicare, social security, always know the third rail of politics and if you get the upper hand on messaging, you win the day. >> we saw the blueprint they submitted in the house a couple of days ago that added more money to the deficit because they are actually increasing defense spending. if they are not going to take a wholesome look at the budget code to get cannot have things hopeful to the american people in mike johnson's district alone he has 51% of children under 19 on medicaid. that is substantial in his district alone and would be a massive cut. when you start looking at that those programs are going to be cut, that is a huge problem. unless you talk about cuts elsewhere, people will assume

you cut their medicaid and medicare. >> john: the assumption might not necessarily be true. >> the assumption is only washington can fix a health care system. and i if we took block grants and stays to be innovative to come up with ways to make the system better to produce better results somehow that wouldn't be better for americans when, in fact, it would be. the number one place job creation is in the health care industry. there was a lot of innovation and a lot of that stuff appear to the trump administration a few weeks ago, fda approved, just approve new medication that allows you to get away from pain opioids to use other medications to be able to. there is a lot of innovation occurring and to suggest only washington has the answers and everything has to be done here is wrong. just be one of the democrat said to him asking his messaging and let's see what alexandria or okay so cortez is saying. >> he has not engineer but a billionaire con man with a lot of money. till he does not have this kind

of good background. >> john: a lot of people would say he's a brilliant guy that makes things impossible happen. he is a pretty smart guy for aoc to say he's not and may be is not an engineer but he knows as much as most engineers at spacex. >> sure he also is the founder of tesla. it's not like he used money to get some of the things we have to call him the founder of that he was not an actual innovator up. she is not wrong in some of the things he has conned people. but we should be looking at this as a scalpel and not a chainsaw. we would not make the mistakes to the nuclear scientists that were cut. nobody is arguing there is a government waste and bloat that can be handled. democrats would never disagree with that but the manner in which you do it in the manner you go about doing it, we should be doing it a lot more precision. >> john: if you say he should give the chainsaw back? >> i don't know, he needs to go.

>> john: thanks, appreciate it, sandra. >> sandra: we are getting update on pope francis health from then the mannequins and the pubs condition proving to be good today. high flow oxygen therapy and a vented mass giving complexity of his condition. to the statement reads further dates of stability to resolve the prognosis and the holy father dedicated the morning to respiratory physiotherapy alternating with rest. in the afternoon after another physiotherapy session, he gathered in prayer in the chapel located on the tenth for receiving the eucharist. then he dedicated to work activities. as we continue to pray for his recovery. while we wait for another up update. >> clearly, he is signaling he is going to use these kind of made up words to say, i am with trump. as you said, it is his paper and he owns it and can drive it into

the ground, which he is doing. just be one left fired up as jeff bezos shakes things up at "the washington post." what is rattling them? >> sandra: with the problems in california why is governor gavin newsom starting a podcast? joe concha will react. >> we need to change the conversation and that is why i'm launching a new podcast. this will be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. ♪ ♪

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and there is representation from what is the pro-israel group but that is a smaller crowd, we are told about 100 people. we know there has been -- there have been reactions from the staff on campus as well. so we are watching this for you and any developments from there we will bring to the viewers. john. >> john: all right, sandra, in the meantime measles outbreak in texas, new mexico, some cases in georgia has a wealth drawing concerns. one child west texas died from the virus. it is putting new focus on the health secretary rfk jr. alexandria hoff at the latest. how is the secretary handling these efforts? his department health and human services tells fox that is supplying support to taxes. he is following the case is. >> i think there is 124 people who have contracted measles at this point.

in texas and mainly we are told the mennonite community. >> downplaying the death by noting during the meeting there that outbreaks are not uncommon saying last year there were 16. 16. the cdc qualifies three or more related cases and 124 confirmed in texas is the largest outbreak in at least 30 years for the state. eight at this time, and appeared to the first and in years. the chief medical office for home and health in lubbock is those are unvaccinated. >> we see 20 cases that require hospitalization. we confirmed it ranged in ages from infants to school-age children and older children as well. >> measles cases have been reported in at least eight other states, john. >> john: thank you for watching out for us, appreciate it. within seconds, sandra, keir starmer and the president talking about ukraine and many

other things. >> sandra: here are the oval office remarks, listen. >> thank you very much, it isn't great honor to have mr. starmer in the oval office and a special place and he's a special man. the united kingdom is a wonderful, wonderful country and i know very well. i'm they are a lot. i will be going there. and we expect to see each other in the near future. we will be announcing it. but we will be discussing many things today. we will be discussing ukraine, russia, rate ukraine and lots of other items. we can say that we will be getting along every one of them. we have had a tremendous relationship. frankly, the prime minister and i have met before and we get along famously, as you would say. i look forward to it very much. and in the meeting, we will have a lunch and after this. another work session, and i

believe we will have a press conference at the end. so i look forward to it. mr. prime minister, thank you very much. >> thank you mr. president for your leadership and we have met a number of times and we talked a number of times, and we have had a very constructive conversation here too i'm sure d of course, being bound together for a very long time now. the closest any two countries when it comes to prosperity and security. i know it together we will strengthen that even further on issues like ukraine. thank you for changing the conversation to bring about the possibility that now we can have a peace deal. and we will work with you to make sure it last and a deal that goes down as historic deal that nobody breaches. we will work with you to make sure that absolutely happens.

it is my pleasure to bring from his majesty, the team, a letter. he send his messages in regards, of course, but he also asked me to bear this letter and bring it to you. so can i present the letter from the king? >> president trump: thank you very much. am i supposed to read it right now? [laughter] >> prime minister starmer: i want to tell him what your reaction is. >> president trump: he has a great gentleman, a great, great gentleman. all, well, that is really nice. the signature is on that. [laughter] otherwise, not quite as meaningful.

and that is quite a signature, beautiful man, wonderful man. be appreciated. i have gotten to know him very well, actually a first time and now a second term. perhaps you would like to say what that very important paragraph. >> prime minister starmer: this is a letter from the king. it is an invitation for a second state visit. this is really special. this has never happened before. this is unprecedented. and i think that just symbolizes the strength of the relationship. so this is a very special letter. i think the last date, it was a tremendous success. >> president trump: it was. >> prime minister starmer: this will make this even better than that. this is truly historic and unprecedented. >> president trump: that is great. and that says windsor so that is something.

[inaudible] >> john: the answer is yes. we have our wonderful first lady, melania, the answer is yes and we look forward to be there to honor the king and honor of the country. your country is a fantastic country. it will be our honor to be there. thank you. >> prime minister starmer: thank you, mr. president, and i will take that back to your majesty. >> president trump: i will keep that. >> reporter: president trump, a private jet released in custody in romania. they are accused and not thought of as good people in many circles but did your administration pressure the romanian government? >> president trump: i don't know anything about that. i don't know, you say he is on a plane right now? i just know nothing about it. we will check it out and let you

know. >> prime minister starmer: there is an english element with the justices and human trafficking obviously a line of security. but i will catch up with the story. >> president trump: i didn't know anything about it. >> reporter: as the federal workforce, are you tracking how many veterans have been fired? >> president trump: has, we are, and we take good care of our veterans and are watching that. we hope it will be as small as a number as possible. but we are having great success to slim down our government. it has been very successful. some took payouts and buyouts, and others took other things. some people we find out don't even exist. do we have a lot of people that don't exist. people thought they did. we will make a statement on that but we

are taking care of our veterans. we love our veterans and we will take care of our veterans. >> reporter: could you be persuaded as part of the peace settlement in ukraine to provide a backstop security position to the contributions that you will air mark as well? >> president trump: so, president zelenskyy is coming to see me on friday, friday morning. and we will be signing really important agreement for those. because it will get us into the country. we will be working with a lot of people. and in that sense, it is very good and a backstop, you could say, i don't think anyone will play around with a lot of workers. having to do with rare earth and other things that we need for our country. we appreciate it very much. i look forward to seeing him. we will talk about her and we will also be talking about that today with the prime minister. >> prime minister starmer: as you know we will play a part in

making sure that any deal -- there is one burisma as historic moment to make sure a lasting deal and part of a discussion about how we can make that work. >> president trump: i have to say this as i said yesterday, you are talking about peacekeeping force. we have to make a deal first. right now we don't have a deal. we have russia and we have ukraine. i think we are well advanced and i think russia has been acting very well. representative steve witkoff and scott and marco njd, we are all involved everyone of us and a lot more. but i think we are very well advanced on the deal, but we have not made a deal yet. i don't know if talking peacekeeping until we get a deal. i like to get things done. i don't want to give it the bad luck sign. we don't want to do that. we have had good talks with russian handrail crane, yes her periods. >> reporter: the relationship of the e.u., a good trade

relationship in which one? >> president trump: i think we have a great relationship and we actually had a great relationship before. we met a couple of times and i am impressed with him and his wife, i must say. she has a beautiful, great wo woman. >> prime minister starmer: thank you. >> president trump: you are very lucky. he is very lucky. we've had a very good relationship. >> reporter: some of the brexit, the e.u. -- >> president trump: i don't worry about that. i thought frankly what they did was the right thing at the time. i think it will prove that over the centuries. may have a long time to go here to but i think i predicted that was going to happen and it did happen. it will work itself out. i think it has already worked itself out. >> reporter: keir starmer to the assignments to the russians but will you put that deal? >> president trump: we will have discussions about that very

soon. i have a feeling it will work out well. they are talking about long-term, powerful, about 140 years actually. that is a long time. and i think we will be inclined to go along with your country. it is a little better late, but we have to be given the details. please. >> reporter: mr. president, you obviously can do business with starmer. you said yesterday they e.u. to screw the u.s. when it comes to trade. what did the prime minister say to you to persuade jude to not impose tariffs? >> president trump: did i use the word you said to go to word? >> reporter: i think so. >> president trump: i have had problems with the e.u. and we are not talking about -- we happen to have a great relationship with the e.u. and we do have problems with the e.u. because tariffs us and they

do it in the format they vets tax which is 20% and many other taxes. they sue our companies and they sued apple. got 16 or $17 billion mojo which was i think totally ridiculous . and they are suing cocoa for a lot of money. they are suing a lot of other companies. we don't like the way they are treating our people. i don't like the way they are treating our companies. they sell less cars but we don't sell them cars and they don't take our cars or much of our agriculture. we have a deficit with them is about $350 billion. so i wouldn't say it is a great relationship personally but a lot of people to have because it is politically correct to say it has been good, but it hasn't been good at. we will change that. we will have reciprocal tariffs. reciprocal, whatever they charge us, we will charge them. for many years, i would have

done that but all of a sudden we had covid in them he had other things to think about. so it took a little while to take that on. in my first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history, i think, the world that the history of the country. i think we will have that again. but the e.u. is very, very tough on us from the standpoint of trade. then you could take it a step further and go into nato. that was a very tough situation for us. that has been a very tough situation because we were paying disproportionate share. and it wasn't good. so, as you know, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars after i got involved. they invented about a little bit, but not very much. if you look at the war, we are in for $300 million plus and they are in for $100 billion. they get their money back and now we will get our money back also. enter biden, we would not have done that. biden did a terrible job, i hate

to say that about someone who sat here just before me, but he did a terrible, terrible job. the war between russia and ukraine should have never happened. frankly, october 7 should have never happened, israel. should have never happen in inflation should have never happened, afghanistan should have never happened the way they got out and not getting up at the way they got out. but i can say as far as they are here for a different reason talking about a different place. this is some place i have investments. i own aberdeen and a great place called him back in ireland. so i have a great warm spot for your country. >> prime minister starmer: our trade is fair balanced and they are in a different position there. obviously, constitutionally together with europe about 50%.

>> reporter: thank you, so does that mean there will not be sanctions on the u.k. >> president trump: we will have to take a look. we will have a good discussion today. we have some very talented people on the other side. we have some people probably not as talented but pretty good, marco, what do you think? we will have a good discussion and we will be talking to them. >> reporter: mr. starmer, the prime minister has said he believes vladimir putin would be risinvading ukraine. do you think vladimir putin wouldn't fade again? >> president trump: i don't think so. when we have a deal, it will be the deal. if i would win the election i don't think we would talk to putin right now or anybody else. i don't know if you are looking at the stats, but thousands of people are being killed elite, soldiers mostly. because the towns have been

destroyed. thousands, this was a bad week, by the way and i get the stats and you are talking human life. number one, i want to see and it is russia and ukrainian soldiers. i think i am speaking for both. we want to see that stop. number two which i want to stop paying the money we are talking about. they are helping, helping nato, but we are helping a lot more than anybody else by far and i want that to stop also. >> reporter: thank you, sir, you talk about trade tariffs this morning. just a question about china. 10% tariffs already implemented on china. this will be an additional 10% above. but the talks with canada and mexico so far, are you not seeing the progress she wanted to. >> president trump: i don't see it at all, no, not on drugs. we have done a great job and if

you look at tom homan incredible and kristi noem incredible in terms of the border, but that drugs continue to pour into our country killing hundreds of thousands of people. we are losing substantially more than 100,000 people, i mean dad, dead. the families are destroyed after that happens. so it's not just that. that is the ultimate coach about families are absolutely destroyed. the drugs come through mexico and a lot of them but not all of them but a lot comes from china. that is why, can plus ten. was there confusion on that que?okay, the second ten. and i think you will see eventually drug stopping because the country should not be allowing those drugs to come into the united states of america. we will not allow it to happen. that goes on on the 4th of march. and then on the 2nd of april,

they have reciprocal tariffs, reciprocal where we charge countries what they are charging us. nobody should have a problem with that. we have a responsibility of reciprocity. i think everybody i have spoken to said that is fair. you have somebody charges us 25%, we charge them 25%. if somebody charges as 10, 15, 30, 70, we charge exact like amount. it is pretty simple, but if reciprocal tariffs because the united states has been taken advantage of by many, many different countries including our friends, friend and foe. many cases, our friends took bigger advantage when you talk about the e.u. and we are telling about the e.u. the e.u. has been very bad to us in terms of trade. and i am a different guy, a different president, and i cannot let that happen. thank you. plays, ma'am, go ahead. >> reporter: what will you be

willing to do if vladimir putin did not stick to the deal on ukraine? he did not stick to the deal on ukraine? and not sticking to his word when it comes to international? >> president trump: i think he will stick to his word to. i've spoken to him and i know him a long time now. we had to go through the russian hoax together and that is not a good thing, not they are, a reg deal and had nothing to do with the russia. that was a radio inside the country and they had to put up with a lot and they had to put up with phony story made up. i have known him for a long time now. i think -- i don't believe he will violate his word. when we make a deal, i think the deal will hold. they will have security, you have security and soldiers. i know france, the president has said he wants to have soldiers have soldiers there. i don't think it will be necessary. but i don't think there will be a problem keeping the deal with

security. >> reporter: i was just going to say, the deal if we get it will be hugely important. i don't it would happen if this place had not been created by yourself. but if there is a deal we have to make sure it is a deal that lasts. so that is why we need to make sure it is secure and we said we will let it play out in our part. we have talked about how we work with mr. president, to ensure this deal is a deal. >> president trump: and i think i can say that will be the easy part. that is the part we look forward to. putting security there, that is the part we look forward to. that is easy. the difficult part is getting the deal made. we have come a long way. did you have something? he has such a nice face. he is smiling. but watch, he will ask a total keller. he looks like a nice guy.

>> reporter: what is the common ground? do you come from different backgrounds? >> president trump: i think i can say this, we have known each other really for little while. this is not our first meeting as you know. he loves his country and so do i your debt that is our common, are common theme. he loves his country and i love our country and we have two countries that have gotten along. for the longest period of time number one ally on each side. we have good, france, australia, we have a lot of good ones. but we have a long time relationship, a long time, hundreds of years. we like each other, frankly, and we like each other's country. and we love our country. that is our common thread. >> reporter: on tariffs, you just said, independent and on

tariffs, you charge them like a charge china. but the tariffs are paid eventually by american importers and consumers. >> president trump: i think they are paid for by the country. but we can get into that. i'll put a lot of tariffs in the first term and we made tremendous amount of progress because of those tariffs. china paid as hundreds of billions of dollars, billions. and president xi has a friend of mine but he knows better than anybody that he took advantage of our country. they took advantage and didn't know what they were doing. they actually expect the smart countries expect them from me because they know me and they know our country. but they got away with murder for decades. we just cannot let that happen in a more anymore. behind you, plays. >> reporter: it sounds like one completely trust president putin and one doesn't trust in

each. >> president trump: , what is trust and verified, let's call it that. we can both be that way. you have to verify because you never know what's going to happen. i know a lot of people that would say no chance they would never deceive you. they are the worst people in the world. i know others that would guarantee they would deceive you. you know what, they are 100% honorable so you never know what you are getting. no, i have confidence if we make a deal, it is going to hold. >> reporter: mr. president less than 1% of all fentanyl that comes into the u.s. is apprehended at the canadian border. so why is fentanyl -- >> president trump: we should not be apprehending much more. they are only apprehending 1% and you are right about that, but they should be apprehending a lot more because a lot comes to canada. as mexico get stronger in terms of the border, it goes up to canada. a lot of drugs are coming through canada.

we can't have that. go ahead please him the back. >> reporter: can you say to president zelenskyy to insure him his country's war is not made and not threatened by any deals? >> president trump: you know, he is coming. perhaps, he is already on his way and we will sign the deal together probably in front of the media. we will be having a good conversation. no, we want to work with him, president zelenskyy, as said before. we want to work with him and we will work with him. the president and i actually have had a very good relationship. it maybe got a little bit testy because we wanted to have a little bit of what the european nations had to. you know, they get their money back by giving money. we don't get the money back. biden made a deal and put $350 billion and i thought it was a very unfair situation. >> prime minister starmer: we are getting quite a bit of hours

was gifted, given that it was gifted actually. >> reporter: mr. president, europeans want ukraine's and part of nato part of the deal. are you willing to budge on that at all? >> president trump: i could be very nice and say we will work on it. but look, it's not going to happen. it is not going to happen. that is what started this whole thing. biden said that and all of a sudden the gun started to. that was one of the primary reasons it started. this was long before president putin. it was an impossibility. so we can say, l, gee, we will try but that is something that will not happen. the other question i asked about is the land. will they get the land back? they fought long and hard on the land and we will be discussing that, but we will certainly try to get as much as we can back. but on nato, it is just not going to happen. >> reporter: mr. president,

common ground, there are things you disagree on as well and you described zelenskyy as a dictator and describe president putin as a dictator. do you see that as a problem? >> president trump: the president between president zelenskyy and president putin is not a good one. you noticed, right? it is not a good one, not a good relationship. we will try to work something out. sometimes that happens. i get along with both. i have a very good relationship with president putin and i think i have a good relationship with president zelenskyy. we are doing a deal and we will be in there and actually in there digging our hearts out and hopefully, you know, we need the rare-earth. we have some here, but we don't have enough air to our economy is very strong. in it a lot of things in some cases we don't have here. so i think we will have a very good relationship that the relationship between them is not

the best. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> president trump: did i say that? i can't believe i said that. next question. >> rep please go ahead. >> reporter: can you see a situation that u.s. forces could be deployed as a backstop for the operations in direct confrontation with russia? >> president trump: there is a backstop first european countries because we are very far away and we have an ocean between us. but we want to make sure it works. when you say backstop do you mean militarily or what? we are a backstop because we will be over there working in the country. and is a great thing economically for them because, when you talk about economic development, we will have a lot of people over there. we will be working in the country. i just don't think he will have a problem. i think when we have an agreement, you can say whatever

you want about security and his going to do it and that will be a pleasant conversation. the heart of conversation is will we have an agreement? and i think the answer is yes. russia will agree and i really believe ukraine will agree also. >> reporter: the troops in ukraine are keeping the peace that getting attacked by russia. will it come to an end back? >> president trump: if they get attacked, you know, i have always felt about the british, they don't need help. they can take care of themselves. you know what, it sounds evasive but it's not evasive. you know the british have been incredible soldiers and incredible military. and they can take care of themselves. but if they need help, i will always be with the british. i will always be with them. but they don't need help. look at their career, you have done well over the years. have you not? >> prime minister starmer: we have all also been backing