companies and not paying the price, to so many other things, even military protection. i told a number of countries over the last few days, i said, listen. you're a very rich country. we protect you. without our protection, you would have real problems. >> i want to -- >> i said, you should reimburse us for this protection. why are we protecting you? and you want to know what they said? after about two minutes of talking, they agreed with me. and you can ask this group of very talented people. they agreed with me. but they said, one of them said, but mr. president, nobody ever asked us, they never asked us for that. nobody's ever said, you should pay. these are really wealthy countries. i mean, i'll be honest, i just asked japan, i said, we're defending you, you're a very wealthy country. you're sending us millions of cars, we have a tremendous trade deficit with you.

and we're defending you and we're subsidizing your military with a massive amount of money. i said it to south korea. we have 32,000 soldiers in south korea. they're very wealthy. these are great countries. these are very wealthy countries. i said, why aren't you reimbursing us for our costs? and you though what, they look at me and they can't answer, because there's no answer. if they're a poor country and they needed protection and people were going to die, i'm all for protecting them, i don't want 10 cents. but when wealthy countries that have massive trade surpluses with us, massive, and then on top of that, we're paying for their military or we're paying for a lot of their military, that doesn't work. how about two more and -- >> mr. president, really quickly, mr. president, you said you feel a kinship, you said you feel a kinship with brett kavanaugh and -- mr. president, really quickly, you said you felt a kinship with brett kavanaugh, your false allegations that you feel like were made against you make you feel like you don't want to

believe this women. what -- >> i didn't say that. fake news. >> please explain then what you were talking about. >> by the way, you think you do a very good job. but i didn't say that. i do watch you and you think you do a very good job. >> could you explain what you meant? >> exactly. i look forward to watching her. i do want to hear what she says. and maybe she'll say, i could be convinced of anything. maybe she'll say something. but in the meantime, i have to tell you, he's one of the highest quality man beings. he's a tremendous man. he's a great intellect. he was number one at yale -- >> so you don't feel a kinship with him? >> he was a great student in law. he was, you know, i've heard his name, i didn't know him, didn't know him, until this whole thing. i didn't know him. but i heard his name for ten years. and you know how i heard his name? everybody was saying, he should be on the supreme court. i said, who is he? his name is brett kavanaugh. and he should be, he's the most

brilliant person, he's the most brilliant lawyer -- they were talking about him on the supreme court ten years ago. with all of that, i want to hear what she has to said. >> you said that you feel like there have been numerous false allegations against you and that because -- >> i've had many false -- >> you understand what he's going through. >> i've had many false statements against me and if the press would have reported, i would have been very happy. john roberts would tell you, you covered the story where the women were paid to say bad things about me. sean hannity covered it. i will tell you, when -- i saw that on sean hannity, i actually called him. believe it or not. i don't speak to him very much. but i respect him. i called him. i said, this is the biggest story, this is a big, big story. he agreed with me. the next day, i picked up the papers, there wasn't one word about it. i watched abc news, jon, i watched nbc, i wcheds, idn't wc

i will. watched one sryther than fox. and it's a big story. it's a shame. okay, thank you. thank you. >> is it okay if i give it to "the new york times" mr. president? >> that's enough. good job. >> mr. president, could i ask a question since i am from "the new york times" before this gentleman? >> since you're where? >> i'm actually from "the new york times." she is my former colleague, we miss her. but i was -- >> i don't blame you. i'll let you do it after he does. is that okay? >> that's perfectly well. >> in honor of a paper i once loved. thank you. go ahead. >> mr. president, i'm with tru news. today, you met with bibi netanyahu and you brought up that you supported a two-state solution for the palestinian/israeli crisis there. >> i do. >> can you give us anymore preview, what this great deal -- >> i would love to make a deal with the israelis and the

palestinians. my whole life, i was told, that's the toughest deal. i disagree, i think health care is probably tougher, that's the truth. but it is tough. we're going to take care of that, too. that's going to be taken care of. we've taken care of a lot of it. all my life, i've heard the deal between the palestinians and the israelis is the toughest deal. everything tough about that. i think we're going to make a deal. i think we're going to make a deal. so, at one of our many meetings today, i was with bibi netanyahu, a man who i have a lot of respect for. man that's been very nice to me, happy that i did the whole thing with jerusalem. we're going to open in four months for less than $500,000. and the budget was over a billion dollars, right? >> yes. >> so, we saved a billion dollars. that's not so bad. and it's open. and it's beautiful. jerusalem stone. some of my favorite stuff. i will tell you, the question,

somebody said today, well, this is first news conference in a long time, i said, what do you mean? i did five today. every time i sit, i take a lot of questions from people that are screaming like maniacs in the back of the room, meaning reporters, and one of the reporters, i won't say that it was john roberts that said that, but one of the -- it was, but that's okay. don't feel guilty, john. but one of the reporters that was screaming asked about the one state/two state. and i said, i think the two-state will happen, i think it's in one way more difficult, because it's a real estate deal, because you need meets and bounds and you need lots of carveouts. it's actually a little tougher deal. but another way it works better, because youveha pleo p, so, they asked me about that, i said, well, i think the two-state will happen, i think we're going to go down the two-state road. and i'm glad i got it out. and jared, who is so involved,

he loves israel, he loves israel. but he's also going to be very fair with the palestinians. he understands it takes two people to be happy. two groups of people to be happy. everybody's got to be happy. and that's why it's so tough, because there's been so much hatred and anger for so many years, that's what probably the number one ingredient of toughness is, but they asked me, i said, i think it's going to be a two-state. and you though what i did today? by saying that, i put it out there. and if you ask most of the people in israel, they agree with that. but nobody wanted to say it. it's a big thing to put it out. it's a very big thing to put it out. now, bottom line, if the israelis and the palestinians want one state, that's okay with me, if they want two states, that's okay with me. i'm happy if they're happy. i'm a facilitator, i want to see if i can get a deal done so that people don't get killed anymore. when we had, in saudi arabia, we had one of the great conferences in history, many of you were

there, probably all of you were there. one of the most beautiful two days. that and china. two of the most incredible events i've ever seen, saw -- i've never seen anything like it. and we had, i believe, 58 muslim countries, the leaders, the kings, the absolute leaders, there was phone in second place. they were the leaders of all. unbeknownst to everybody else, it wasn't a setup, they'd come up to me and said, sir, you can't have peace in the middle east without peace between the israelis and the mrun yanpalest. i said, why does that matter so much? they said, it just is impossible to make peace in the middle east unless you have it between the israelis. so, i heard that from one, the king of saudi arabia, who is a

great guy. and then somebody else came up and he wasn't told, oh, go up and say it. i know where they're coming from. and i must have had 12 leaders say it and they just said it. and i started to realize that peace between israel and the palestinianses for the middle east is a very important thing. and we're trying very hard to get it. i think probably two-state is more likely, but you know what? if they do a single, if they do a double, i'm okay with it if they're both happy. if they're both happy, i'm okay with either. i think the two-state is more likely. okay, how about -- >> "new york times"? >> ah -- >> okay. >> i would have gotten a bad story "in tin "the new york tis. >> we're kind of thriving these days. >> say thank you, mr. trump. >> i think i'll stop short of that.

>> all my life, i've had some on the front page of "the new york times" and now i think i average three, four a day, right? and of the three of four, they're all negative, no matter what i do, they're negative. but you know what, that's okay. i still love the paper. >> i wanted to come back to china, because i think what you announced today was really important. >> i agree. >> you talk about this friendship you have with xi jinping, and yet, essentially, what you did today is accused his government of interfering in our internal affairs -- >> that's right. >> subverting our democratic process and doing it to hurt you, the republican party -- >> doing it to help them. >> and your backers. >> doing it to help them. >> so, how can a guy that does that be your friend? >> well, i think that we are able to -- and maybe he's not anymore. i'll be honest with you, i think we had a very good friendship. i think we had a very good relationship. we understand each other. they are doing studies on donald trump, they're trying to figure it all out, because this has never happened before. think of it. you've covered very well, you've

never seen this happen. they're having big problems. i don't want them to have problems, but they have to make a fair deal. just like canada's got to make a fair deal. i believe that he and i have a very good chemistry together. and i can tell you about that with leaders, and there are some i don't want to have a chemistry with them, and for those people, i'll have pompeo, nikki, bolton, jared, i can go, our general, if they can't do it, i'll have sarah huckabee do it, right? for the most part, i'm very good with prime minister abe, very good with president moon. by the way, what president moon said last night, i know you won't report it, but he was interviewed last night and he asked him about me. i can't say because you would say i'm too braggadocious, but what he said about me last night was an unbelievable thing.

couldn't have happened without president trump and it never would happen without president trump. and nobody else could do it. i mean, you'll take a look, but i will tell you, china is very special. very special. they're incredible people. it's an incredible country. what they've done is unbelievable. and it all started with the wto. there was a defective deal and it all started. without the wto, china is not china the way it is today, and it started as by our people that are standing right in this position that are in the oval office, another way of saying it, allowed them to get away with murder. allowed a lot of countries to get away with murder. i think we still probably have a very good relationship, but you know what, in honor of you, i will, tomorrow, make a call to him, say, hey, how you doing? okay? can i -- you don't mind paying billions of dollars a month. >> i just have two small followups. one is, how would you compare the level of interference you

say today from the chinese to what the russians did in 2016. >> well, i think it's different. if you look at "the des moines register," they have ads that are made to look like editorials, saying about, oh, you have to stop trump, you have to stop him. my farmers are soed goo. they are patriots. you know, on a network that doesn't like me very much, which is most of them, but a network that didn't -- doesn't really treatment me very good, they interviewed farmers and they got hurt because, you know, all of a sudden china stops by. by the way, they've started buying again, i don't know if you noticed. soybeans are going up, things are going up, we've had very little hurt from what i've done, in fact, the markets have gone up and the farmers are going to do great, but ultimately, but they had farmers. and these guys are amazing. i love them. and they voted for me and they love me. and they said, we don't care if

we get hurt, he's doing the right thing. and, you know, a lot of people, it's a complex game. a lot of people don't know exactly what it is, they don't know how to define tariff, it is really different than a tax, though it's getting close. but they know that for the first time in many, many years, they have a president that's fighting for them. that's not letting their jobs be taken to other countries. that's not allowing the kind of abuse that -- i mean, when you look at what happened as an example with nafta, and for years, because it was never changed, nafta was a defective deal the day it was signed. you know why? because they had a vat text of 17% and nobody from this country knew that, and by the time they found out, which was about a week later, nobody went and changed it. so, you went many years, and they never changed it. there was a vat tax that mexico got. so, we were

behind before we even started. nafta was a horrible thing. so, the farmers and, by the way, the steelworkers, you know, i stopped the dumping, the dumping was horrible. and now if they want to dump, that's okay, but they've got to pay the united states of america 25% on everything they dump. that's okay. but as i told you before, steel is doing phenomenally well. but the farmers say, this man's fighting for us, no president has ever fought for us before. and you really have to study what's happened over the 15 years. the farmers have been decimated over a 15-year period. they've been decimated. farmers are going to come out great. they're great, great patriots. i think we should finish with that one, is that okay? okay. go ahead, let's go. fast. >> sure. >> always like to finish with a good one. elton john said, when you hit that last tune and it's good, don't go back. >> well -- >> have you ever seen, they

do -- they hit the last tune, everyone goes crazy, they go back for an encore, right? and they don't hit it. and they leave, everyone leaves, that wasn't a very good conference. >> well, one final question -- >> don't make me wrong. >> ahead of tomorrow's hearing, because you were asked -- >> about the hearing tomorrow. you were asked earlier about the message that you are sending to the women of the country. what about the message that you may be sending to young men? you're a father. what does this moment that we're in, the cultural moment -- >> it's a very big cultural moment. >> right. what message are you sending to the young men of america? >> you're right. i think it's a great question. this is a very big moment for our country. because you have a man who is very outstanding, but he's got very strong charges against him. probably charges that nobody's going to be able to prove. so, i could have you chosen for a position, i could have you or

you, anybody, and somebody could say -- and it's happened to me. many times. where false statements are made. and honestly, nobody knows who to believe. i could pick another supreme court justice, i could pick another one, another one, another one, this could go on forever. somebody could come and say, 30 years ago, 25 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, he did a horrible thing to me. he did this, he did that, he did that. and honestly, it's a very dangerous period in our country. and it's being perpetrated by some very evil people, some of them are democrats, i must say, because some of them know that this is just a game that they're playing. it's a con game, it's at the highest level. we're talking about the united states supreme court.

this can go on forever. i can pick five other people at a certain point, people are going to say, no thank you. this is the most coveted job, probably in the world. and, you know what, i would honestly say, because i interviewed great people for this job, he's great, but i interviewed other great people for this job. i could conceivably imagine going to one of them and saying, it's too bad what happened to this wonderful man. but i'm going to choose you number two. i want you to go, and i could conceivably be turned down by somebody that desperately wanted this job two months ago. so, this is -- >> with respect sir -- >> this is beyond supreme court. there's nothing beyond supreme court, this is beyond supreme court. this is everything to do with our country. when you are guilty, until proven innocent, it's just not

supposed to be that way. always i heard you're innocent until proven guilty. i've heard this for so long and it's such a beautiful phrase. in this case, you're guilty until proven innocent. i think that is a very, very dangerous standard for our country. with that being said, i look forward to what she has to say. i also look very forward to what judge kavanaugh has to say. i think it's going to be a very, very important day in the history of our country. i want to thank you all. we'll do it again. >> sir, the message to young men? young teenager men? nothing to say, sir? >> well, that was something. about an hour and 20 minutes from president trump, free-wheeling, at times factually challenged press conference. criticized the federal reserve for raising interest rates. criticism for china.

seemed to say there was not going to be a trade deal with canada and china. criticizing their interference in our election. and the president, the heart of the press conference, of course, those questions about brett kavanaugh, three women have now come forward with accusations against brett kavanaugh. the president called them false accusations, called this all, returned to this phrase many times, a big con job run by democrats. also questioned why the women hadn't come forward earlier, but at the same time, saying he's looking forward to hearing what dr. ford has to say tomorrow. and that he could make up his mind after hearing that. i want to bring in jon karl, our chief white house correspondent. jon, it's hard to summarize that in just a few words. but i'm not sure that he helped brett kavanaugh's case today. >> ah, no, george. first of all, an extraordinary performance by the president. but he was all over the map. at some points, calling this a con job, all of the allegations against brett kavanaugh. at other times, sounding like he

might well cut him loose, if he doesn't like what he hears at the hearing. he even said, george, that he may cancel his much-anticipated meeting with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein tomorrow because he wants the focus, all the focus including his own focus, to be on that hearing tomorrow with kavanaugh and his accuser, christine blasey ford. >> and the president admitting his own experience with women making accusations against him for sexual misconduct also having a great impact on his -- on his views on this matter. we're going to sign off right now, of course, we're going to be covering that hearing tomorrow live starting at 10:00 eastern, i'll be anchoring that coverage with our political and legal team. now we're going to return to our regular programming. for many of you on the east coast, that is "world news tonight" with david muir. >> this has b >> this has b >> this has b >> this has b >> this has b >> this has b >> this has b >> this h >> with so many people spending their weekends watching football, the healthy junk food

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