will be talking about syria will be talking about other parts of the middle east i will be talking about nuclear proliferation because we are. massively you know you know what we've been doing we've been modernizing and fixing and buying and it's just a devastating technology. and they likewise are doing a lot and it's a very very. bad policy we have no choice but we are massively big and they are very big and i'll be talking about nuclear proliferation that would be a great thing if we could do now it's not only us it's not only russia and the united states it's other countries also in but we're the two leaders we would be the leader they would be second guessed china would be third i think we'll all be talking about that i thought to me jonathan i think that would be a tremendous. tremendous achievement if we could do something on nuclear

proliferation and we'll be talking about other things i know you'll ask oh will we be talking about meddling and i will absolutely bring that up i don't think you'll have any g i did it i did it you got me there won't be a perry mason here i don't think but you never know what happens right but i will absolutely firmly ask the question. and hopefully we'll have a very good relationship with russia i you know i think having and the prime minister would agree if we have a good relationship with russia and with china and with other countries that's a good thing not a bad thing so hopefully that will happen. ok. so what's. the benefit to. the troops where the where well look there is a benefit there's a psychological benefit and as a military benefit there's also a benefit not to do it i mean i was prepared to do things that would have been somewhat harsh yesterday a lot of people were surprised that nato all came together at the end. but it

wasn't a threat i mean it was just an unfair situation the united states was paying you know anywhere from seventy to ninety and i choose ninety depending on the way you want to calculate we were paying ninety percent for the of the cost of nato and nato is really there for europe much more so than us that helps europe where the no matter what our military people or your military people say helps europe more than it helps us that being said it is a great unifier you know we have twenty nine countries and there was a lot of love in that room so i think we have a lot more than you know jonathan when you say ten thousand troops we have a lot more than ten thousand troops how much oh tens of either you said ten thousand because in germany we have fifty two thousand troops and we have we have a lot of troops in europe that being said we're helping europe they're helping us we're all together and i'm fine with it thank you and and by the way very importantly they're now paying their way in

a much more rapid fashion yes thank you francis. for the sort of the times promise to own or whether you agree with the president the out of states that immigration has damaged the cultural fabric of europe and president perhaps you could elaborate on that and what you mean by that. even if. i think it's been very bad for europe. i think. europe is a place i know very well and i think that what has happened is very tough it's a very tough situation i mean you see the same terror attacks that i do we see him a lot and we just left some incredible young man men and women at sandhurst and they were showing a cell and they were showing us things that frankly twenty years ago nobody even thought about probably a lot more recently than that nobody even thought about i just think it's changing the culture i think it's a very negative thing for europe i think it's very negative i think having germany

and i have a great relationship with angela merkel great relationship of germany but i think that's. very much hurt germany i think it's very much hurt other parts of europe and i know it's politically not necessarily correct to say that but i'll say it and i'll say it loud and i think they better watch themselves because you are changing culture you're changing a lot of things you're changing security you look at what's happening i mean you take a look at look at what's happening to different countries that never had difficulty never had problems it's a very sad situation it's very unfortunate but i do not think it's good for europe and i don't think it's good for a country where as you know far superior to anything that's happened before but we have very bad immigration laws and we're i mean we're doing incredibly well considering the fact that we virtually don't have immigration laws we have we have

laws that are so bad i don't even call in laws i call them it's just like you just walk across the border you walk across the border you would put one foot on the land and now you're tied up in a lawsuit for five years it's the craziest thing anyone's ever seen so i would just make that recommendation to europe i've made it very loud and clear i made it yesterday twenty nine countries total and that's the way i feel. the u.k. has a proud history of welcoming people who are fleeing persecution to our country we have a proud history of welcoming people who want to come to our country to contribute to our economy and contribute to our society and over the years overall immigration has been good for the u.k. it's bought people with different backgrounds different outlooks hit the u.k. and has and we've seen them contributing to our society into our economy course what is important is that we have control of our borders what is important is that we have a set of rules the enables us to determine who comes into our country and of course

that is what as a government we have been doing for a number of years and will be able to continue to do in the future mr preston. spent the week taking on nato allies criticizing prime minister may on her own soil and i wonder if are you giving russian president vladimir putin the upper hand heading into your talks given that you are challenging these alliances that he seeks to break up and destroy see that such dishonest reporting because course it happens to be n.b.c. which is possibly worse than c.n.n. possibly possibly let me explain something. we have left nato with more money with more unity with more spirit than nato probably has ever had. we have a strong and powerful nato when i became president we didn't we had people that weren't paying their bills we had people that were way down we were people that weren't following their commitments in addition to that we've become an oil

exporter which would not have happened under the past regime or a new regime if it weren't. we have built up our military seven hundred billion dollars and then next year as you know seven hundred sixteen billion dollars when you look at what we've done in terms of russia i guarantee whoever it is in russia they're saying oh gee do we wish that trump was not. victor in that election we have been far tougher on russia than anybody anybody and probably then look i'm not going to go down one hundred years but certainly we have been extremely tough when russia including the fact that when the prime minister called when they had a horrible thing happen right here very close by she asked would i do something and i maybe i'd let you tell the number and it was far greater than anybody else including the prime minister we we expelled how many people in sixty

and germany did three as an example so germany big country powerful country they did three the fake news doesn't want to talk about it so it really as we have been very strong on russia now with all that being said if i had a relationship with putin i don't know him met him twice maybe three times two and a half times most of you were there when we did we met him at the g twenty and if we could develop a relationship which is good for russia good for us good for everybody that would be great if i had a relationship with china you know we're in a big trade situation with china as an example where we're behind every year for many years five hundred billion dollars just not going to happen anymore so if we got along with countries that's a good thing if we get along with china russia that's a good thing not a bad thing i think. lines about the fighting and take a point about what happened at the end of nato the headline he sees a isn't a headline yes there was fighting because i said got to put up you've got to put up

more money we have to be stronger we have to be unified the headline he sees is that what's happening during the morning the headline he sees is what happened in the afternoon where we came together as one where we are putting up billions of dollars more giving example and you know this is a confirmed number thirty four billion dollars more. has raised since i became president in nato that means that the other twenty eight countries have put in thirty four billion dollars more into nato do you think putin is happy about that i don't think so but we have a lot of false reporting in this country i don't think you have that in your country do you know prime minister ok go ahead ask ask the prime minister question is well president trump told the sun i think the deal she is striking on bragg's it is not what the people voted for is he wrong are you offering up a brags that light and i wonder if we could get your reaction to him saying that

boris johnson would be a great prime minister well first of all on the deal that we have that we have put on the table the agreement that we've put on the table as i said earlier in response to laura's first question this does deliver on the vote of the british people the british people voted to leave the european union and i heard the turn of phrase that the president used earlier but let me be very clear about this we will be leaving the european union and we are leaving on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen as we leave the european union we will be delivering on what people voted for an end to free movement an end to sending vast amounts of money to the european union every year and to the jurisdiction of the european court of justice here in the united kingdom coming out of the common fisheries policy coming out of the common agricultural policy and ensuring by coming out of the customs union that we can have an independent trade policy that enables us to negotiate trade deals with the united states and with other countries around the rest of the world that's what the british people voted for and that's what we will be

delivering we will deliver it in a way that protects jobs and livelihoods and meets our commitment to the border between northern ireland and our land and robert. hope boris the president. they said unrelated not related to we have the tape you could ask sarah get it from sarah and we taped the entire interview they asked about boris johnson said yes they have how would he be as a prime minister to be a great prime minister he's been very nice to me he's been saying very good things about me as president i think he thinks i'm doing a great job i am doing a great job that i can tell you just in case you haven't noticed but boris johnson i think would be a great prime minister i also said that this incredible woman right here is doing a fantastic job a great. and i mean that and i must say that i have gotten to know to some a much better over the last two days that i've known over the last year have i mean

we've spent more time in the last two days yesterday had breakfast lunch and dinner with her than i said what are we doing tomorrow which is today or you having breakfast and lunch with there is a may and i'm going to see you later on again so i but i've actually gotten to know her better than ever and i think she's a terrific woman i think she's doing a terrific job and that is a very tough situation and it's a tough deal between the borders and the entries into the countries and all of the things so she's going to do the best the only thing i ask is that she work it out so that we can have very even trade because we do not have a fair deal with the european union right now on trade they treat the united states horribly and that's going to change and if it doesn't change are going to have to pay a very big price and they know what that prices so they're coming over on july twenty fifth to see me and hopefully we can work something out but they have barriers that are beyond belief barriers where they won't take our farm products they won't take many of our things including our cars they charge us tariffs on cars far greater

than we charge them as you know you know all these things and last year there is a we lost one hundred fifty one billion dollars with the european union so we can't have that we're not going to have that any longer ok thank you. robert robert peston t.v. mr president how would you characterize your relationship with the united kingdom more special learn with other countries and by the way on farm products i think on the prime minister's deal you wouldn't be allowed to export many reform products to the u.k. would not be a problem for you prime minister. the president said yesterday that he gave you advice about how to negotiate it. didn't take that advice i wondered what that advice was and whether you have any regrets about not taking it. will give me advice about how to negotiate with the european union my job is actually getting out there and doing it and that's exactly what i've done and as you know as we've

been going through these negotiations have been one or two skeptical voices perhaps from some of you before me today about whether we would achieve what we would achieve in december we got that joint report and that joint agreement on citizens' rights and other issues we've got the implementation period in march now we've put forward a proposal that the two proposals the european commission has put forward are not acceptable to the u.k. we have said no to those and that's why we have put our own proposal on the table for the future as i've said in answer to other questions delivers on the on the brics it deal but also ensures that we can have smooth trade with the european union in the future and in terms of the united states and trade with the united states there will be questions on some of the trade issues about the standards we have here for certain products and how we want to deal with those in the trade deal that will be a matter for the negotiations so i would say i give our relationship in terms of grade the highest level of special so we start off with special i would give our

relationship with the u.k. and now especially after this two days with your prime minister i would say the highest level of special am i allowed to go. to go higher than that i'm not sure but it's the highest level of special they're very special people it's a very special country and as i said i you know i have a relationship because my mother was born in scotland so very important as far as the advice i did give her a suggestion i would say advice and i think she found it maybe too brutal and that so to because i could see that but i don't know if you remember what i said but i did give her a certain amount of i gave her suggestion not advice i wouldn't want to give i'd give her suggestion. i could fully understand why she thought it was a little bit tough and maybe it someday she'll do that if they don't make the right deal she might very well do what i suggested that she might want to do but it is not an easy thing look look at the united states how the european union has taken

advantage systematically of the united states on trade it's a disgrace so it's not an easy negotiation for this issue to. john roberts go ahead you know now john roberts. see it as fake news i don't take i don't recall it since from c.n.n. c.n.n. is fake news i don't take questions from said john roberts of fox let's go real let's go to a real network real networks thank you mr president some people have suggested the relations between the united states and russia are at their lowest point since the end of the korean war and you have stated many many times that you think it's important to have a better relationship with russia is there any way for relations between the united states and russia to improve yes as long as putin continues to occupy crises i think so i think i'd have a very good relationship with president putin if we spent time together and i may

be wrong you know other people have said that didn't work out but i'm different than other people i think that we're being hurt very badly by the i would call it the witch hunt i would call it the rig which aren't after watching some of the little clips i didn't get to watch too much because. i'm here it's a different time zone to put it mildly but after watching the people that man that was testifying yesterday i call it the rigged which aren't i think that really hurts our country and it really hurts our relationship with russia i think that we would have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia and a very good chance a very good relationship with president putin i would hope so but what is your thinking about improving relations with russia while they continue to illegally occupy another country well that was yes they do and if you're talking about crimea primarily out but again. president obama failed very badly with crimea we're going to i don't think he would have done that if i were president he took over crimea and he actually took it over during the obama administration i think you will admit

. well we'll have to see what happens you know i'm not bad at doing things if you look at what i've done compared to what other people have done one hundred sixty days and. there's nobody even close i don't believe so let's see what happens but this was an obama disaster and i think if i were president then he would not have taken over crimea during the obama administration he essentially took over crimea i don't think he would have done that with me as president you replace it with a problem separate if i can follow what you have taken on many things you say you were left with by the obama administration that you say that you have fixed this is something that you inherited from the obama administration the occupation of crimea how do you fix it well we're going to see what happens i mean it's a process if i if i knew i wouldn't tell you because that would put us at a disadvantage but we'll see what happens we'll see how it all melds out but i just

want people to understand that crimea was a you know it was another bad hand i got handed north korea we're doing very well you saw the letter yesterday and we're doing very well look we haven't had nuclear testing we haven't had missile. which is we haven't had rocket launches some sites were blown up and we got back our hostages our prisoners even before i left so a lot of good things are happening there's some good feeling there will see what happens it's a process is probably a longer process than anybody would like but used a long process as to we haven't taken off the sanctions or sanctions are biting we haven't taken them off but when it comes to crimea that's something i took over john there's nothing much i have to say about it other than we will look at that just like i'm looking at many other disasters that i've taken over i've taken over a lot of bad hands and i'm fixing them one by one and i know how to fix them. president trump says that he made suggestions to you on what to do about bret's

that we ask you if you would make a suggested to him on how to handle his meeting with putin well i think it's very simple we've been talking about this in fact today which is what is important in meeting with president putin and i've welcomed the meeting with president putin but what is important is that the president goes into this as he is doing for a position of strength and also from a position of unity in nato i think that is very important obviously we've discussed the activity of russia in many different ways including the use of a nerve agent here on the streets of the united kingdom and the impact that that has had i welcomed as i said earlier the very strong response the united states gave to that we had response from around the world but i think the important thing is and particularly following the nato summit the president is going into this meeting with president putin from that position of strength and a position of unity around that nato table. jason.

thank you jason goes in the daily mail. time minister in the commons yesterday your own m.p.'s sort of saudi but don't really and said this this deal that you signed here with checkers is going to be bad for try why can't you convince your own m.p.'s it's a good idea and mr president cost you've said. a tough situation what would you do now would you would you be at the point where you would walk away from the talks to show them that you mean business. well first of all on the on the the issue of trade deals as i've said earlier what we're we negotiating and when we come out of the negotiations i want to see and we will have our ability to have independent trade policy to set our own tariffs to be that independent member of the w t o to be able to negotiate trade deals around the world as we will be doing and we're looking at obviously the united states we're looking at other areas as well as we've said we're looking at issues like the possibility of some trade deals around

the pacific pacific area too. we will negotiate those trade deals but i also want to have a good trade arrangement with the european union this isn't an either or we don't just replace one with the other actually the united kingdom is looking for and can do go see a situation where we can have a good trade relationship with the european union a great trade relationship good trade relationship with the united states and around the rest of the world as well and that is what will be good for jobs good for people's livelihoods good for prosperity here in the u.k. . well if you remember i was opening turnberry the day before brics it and we had an unbelievably large number of reporters there because everybody was there i guess because of brecht's it and they all showed up on the night poll overlooking the ocean and i said what's going on and they all they want to talk about was rex and then they asked for my opinion and i think you will agree that i said i think bret's it will happen and it did happen and then we cut the ribbon and the reason i

felt it was going to happen was because of immigration because i know i think one of the reasons i got elected was because of immigration and i felt that direction had the upper hand and most people didn't agree with me if you remember barack obama said well your country will have to get on the back of the line if that happened which i thought was a terrible thing to say frankly but i said i thought it was going to happen and it did happen and i also think that. as far as negotiating the probably deal i. who would have done what my suggestion was to the prime minister but my but she could always do that she can do that at some point she can do what i suggested to her. no way you can't walk away because if she walks away that means she's she's stuck can't walk away. but you can do other things but she can do what my suggestion was and my wrist my suggestion was you know respectfully submitted she will she will do very well i think she's

a very tough negotiator i've been watching her over the last couple of days she's a tough negotiator she's a very very smart and determined person i can tell you there are a lot of people that are looking up now saying gee whiz you know she left a lot of people are awake she's ace a very smart very tough very capable person and i would much rather have her as my friend than my enemy that i can tell you. you know we're all right. go ahead. jeff mason from reuters thank you sir. mr president as it without it having a good solid i don't have a good solid hair but i think you said it would have. to go playing into the you're meeting. i think your. voice like ok. you're better without that there we go. going into your meeting with president putin on monday sir you mentioned both denuclearization and you mentioned syria can you say exactly what

your message will be to him on syria what would you like him to say especially given assad's gains in the country recently and also and anon denuclearization can you spell out a little bit how you expect that to happen in terms of treaties and in terms of the talks will be a slow process don't forget we're not the only ones that have nukes and it would be a slow process but for the world it would be us and it would be others would have to come along simultaneously obviously but i think that when i. when the meeting was arranged we both wanted the meeting when the meeting was arranged it was from my standpoint i don't i didn't go in with high expectations but you may come out with something very exceptional but the proliferation is a tremendous i mean to me it's the biggest problem in the world nuclear weapons biggest problem in the world i understand nuclear look up dr john trump at mit he was my uncle many many years

a professor i used to talk nuclear with him and this is many years ago. it's that it's the biggest problem in my opinion this world has to clear up and so if we could do something to substantially reduce them i mean ideally get rid of it's maybe that's a dream. but certainly it's a subject that i'll be bringing up with him and it's also very expensive. i think that that's the least important so if we can if we can do something but i didn't go and i was telling the prime minister before i don't go with high expectations i mean we have we do have a a political problem where you know in the united states we have the stupidity going on pure stupidity but it makes it very hard to do something with russia anything you do it's always going to be all russia he loves russia i love the united states but i love getting along with russia and china and other countries and it will certainly be jeff something that we bring up and talk about i think to me it's such

a big problem syria of course i'm going to bring that up and i'm going to bring up ukraine i'm going to bring up other subjects of. syria what exactly you would like to hear from him and would just like all right well that was another one i'm in the red line in the sand was a problem for us i mean i think you might be in a different like president putin due to now under your watch well i'll tell you what i'm going to do i'm going to talk to him about that before i talk to you and if something happens it'll be great if it doesn't happen i'm not going in with high expectations but we may come out with some very surprising things but relationship is very important and having relationship with russia and other countries as i said a number of times is and i've been saying actually for years and i've been certainly saying it during my campaign having relationships with other countries is really a good thing i think that i can't really overestimate how big the

meeting was yesterday with nato we went with something that really was an unfair situation to something that unified i mean they had spirit. those people were getting up and in the end what we are committing and we're you know they can take a go you know it's not like they can go immediately back they have to go through their parliaments and their congresses and their representatives and whoever or whatever form they have but they have to go through an approval process but i'll tell you what every single person in that room was gung ho to get it done get the money and and even before that as you know thirty four billion and i think that the secretary general stoltenberg is doing a terrific job by the way he said yesterday that because of president we've taken and thirty four billion dollars more for nato and i think the number is actually much higher than that but thirty four billion dollars more at least and again that's nothing that my opponent would have done my opponent would have it would

have just kept going down you know it's going down you see what was happening over the years the numbers were going down now the numbers way up and now it's going way up higher and that was and he will tell you that that was because of me. from a president during his time in brussels expressed concern about a pipeline between russia and germany do you share those concerns and to follow up on some of the questioning from my colleagues in the british press anime american side did you feel undermined by president trump's comments in the sun about your break that plan and about boris johnson no look i'm very clear that the exit plan will deliver on what the british people voted for discussion here as i've said to. president trump has said about the possibility and the intent that we both have to have an ambitious trade deal going forward and i think that's exactly where we'll be. very important for both the both of our countries actually we stand we have

stood shoulder to shoulder with the united states in so many different ways over the years as a result of our special relationship and we will show that even further. through the trade arrangements that we will put in place in the in the future and i have to just just to finish off jeff just to finish of i have to say i said to that paper the sun. and they seem like two very nice people but i said that theresa may say one of them is nice but i said she said something here how good where is that person where did i say nice things about terrorism a place of good ok if you reported him that's good ok where one of the internet. i said very good things i thank thank you very much for saying that no i said very good things about her i didn't think they put it in but that's all right they didn't put it in the headline i wish they put that in the headline that's one of those things and she's a total professional because what i serve this when i said i want to apologize because i said such a good thing.