our farmers were opening up for farmers or opening up for a lot of different groups were going to be able to sell much more than double the number of automobiles that we were allowed under a deal that was totally defective that was there before. and so we're very happy with that that deal is actually concluded. we're very well along the way with mexico the relationship is very good and with canada will see what happens they charge against three hundred percent tariffs on dairy products we can't have that we can't have that with china as you know we put out an announcement today they would like to see me lose an election because they've never been challenge like this but i want to open up china to our farmers and to our industrialists and our companies and china is not open but we're open to them. they charge us twenty five thirty five fifty five percent for things and we charge them nothing in terms of coming into the country cars there are twenty five percent and we're at two percent

and two and a half percent and don't even collect it but we collect it now. so we're doing very well in our situation with china on trade i have a great relationship with the president of china president xi but it's got to be a two way street it for twenty five years or longer was not and trillions and trillions of dollars was taken out of the united states for the benefit of china we just can't have that we have to make it fair coming into our coffers and it's had no impact on our absolutely by the way no impact on our economy which i said it wouldn't in fact steel is like the hottest industry there is if you look at what happened with steel which are going twenty five percent tariff for the dumpers they dump massive amounts of steel they want to put the still companies out of business and after they're out of business they'll come in and charge five times more than

you ever thought possible and we need steel and we need aluminum and those industries are doing well but steel is incredible u.s. steel is opening up a minimum of eight plants. nucor is opening up plants and these are big plants seven hundred fifty million dollars and a billion dollar plants in some cases. so what's happening with the steel industry is very exciting to me it's being rebuilt overnight if you look at the miners in coal if you look at energy l.n.g. . japan just gave us some numbers that are incredible they're doubling the amount that they're going to be buying for japan they're taking the l.n.g. and they're doubling it up i said you have to do me a favor we don't want these big deficits you going to have to buy more they're buying massive amounts of equipment and military equipment and other countries are doing the same thing because we have trade imbalances with almost everybody it's

a rare exception that we don't so we are doing great as a country unfortunately they just raised interest rates a little bit because we are doing so well i'm not happy about that because i know it's going to be a question i am not happy about that. i would rather pay down debt or do other things create more jobs so i'm worried about the fact that they seem to like khorasan interest rates we can do other things with the money and but they raised them and they're raising them because we're doing so well and we're doing much better than i had projected in terms of when i was campaigning i said we're going to do this and we're doing much better than than anybody ever thought possible and i will say if others got in it would have been just the opposite because they were going to put restrictions on they're going to put regulations on they're going to choke the economy as it was already choking but it would have been

worse and they were going to raise your taxes that's what they want to do now if they ever got control which i don't think they have control for a long time. so with that being said we'll take some questions and yes please john . we have plenty of time. mr president thank you very much course what you're looking forward to tomorrow in the hearings with judge capital obviously the judiciary committee in one nine hundred ninety one when joe biden passed along to the bush forty one white house the allegations that anita hill had raised to gets clarence thomas the bush white house asked the f.b.i. to look into it as part of judge thomas' background investigation not a criminal investigation but the record on a presidential when these allegations were raised why didn't this white house do the same thing and with all of the allegations that are coming out now about judge capital was there an opportunity missed here to have investigators look into this and get some sort of clarity one way or the other well the f.b.i.

told us they've investigated judge kevin or six times five times many times over the years they know him very well but here there was nothing to investigate from at least one standpoint they didn't know the location they didn't know the time they didn't know the year they didn't know anything and it's like where do you go also it's not for the f.b.i. if you look at what joe biden said he said they don't do this and he said it very clearly so i think when you really look at it all it's not going to change any of the democrats' minds they're obstructionists they're actually con order speakers they know how quality this man is and they've destroyed a man's reputation and they want to destroy it even more and i think people are going to see that in the mid terms what they've done to this family what they've done to these children these beautiful children of his and what they've done to his wife. and they know it's a big fat con. and they go into

a room and i guarantee you they left like hell at what they pulled off on you and on the public they left like hell so it wouldn't matter to the f.b.i. came back with a clean is score and you understand that very well john if they would have come back with the most perfect we found everything and he's perfectly innocent of everything it wouldn't a made a difference you wouldn't of gotten one vote now we will get votes from the democrats if we win you'll have three four or five democrats giving us minutes because they're in states that i won by thirty and forty points and they're going to give us votes but other than that you probably won't get an ija yes go it was. mr president there are now three women accusing judge kavanaugh of sexual misconduct are you saying that all three of those women are liars is there anything

that could be said morrow that could cause you to withdraw the nomination anything at all that i will get into that game i only tell you this this is one of the highest quality people that i've ever met and everybody that knows him says the same thing and these are all false to me these are false accusations in certain cases and certain cases even the media agrees with that i can only say that. what they've done to this man is incredible you know it's very interesting i pick a lot of judges that one hundred forty five judges i will be picking by the end of a fairly short period of time because president obama wasn't big on picking judges when i got there i said how is this possible. i have one hundred and forty five including court of appeals judges. and they just didn't do it you know why they

get tired they got complacent something happened to have one hundred forty five judges everybody wants to be a federal judge not just a supreme court judge i'm talking about court of appeals i'm talking about district court. i don't think they're going to want to so much i'll be calling people and we'll have people calling people that do this and people are going to be scared because we could say that about you thirty five years ago you meds and you might know why you might not know what's going on what is going on why did they wait so long why did senator feinstein wait till the hearings were over and make this case why didn't she bring it right at the beginning when you ask about as an example the f.b.i. why didn't they bring this right at the beginning during the hearing you would have had all the time in the world for the f.b.i. it would have been fine now the f.b.i. as you know did investigate this time as they have five or six other times and they

did a very thorough investigation but. this is a big con job and i would love to be in the room with the democrats close the door or you guys are all away outside waiting and schumer and his buddies are all in there laughing how they fooled you all let's just stop i'm a big fat. present i could follow up you have daughters can you understand why a victim of sexual assault would not report it at the time don't you understand day by the way i only say this thirty six years. no charges no nothing but everybody happens often when you know people are going to have to make a decision thirty six years is no charge all of a sudden the hearings are over and the rumors start coming out and then you have this other con artist abenaki come out with another beauty today i only say that you have to look at the facts the senators are very capable people they're very

good people i know many of them they're friends of mine these are very talented very good people and they're going to vote they're going to have to believe what they believe by can when i look at what's happened to the reputation of a great gentleman a great intellect a brilliant man somebody that has a chance to be one of our great supreme court justices in history. intellectually i think it's a shame yes place. almost two months we're going to the from radio and t.v. more to mr president yesterday at the speech at the u.n. you spoke about been a swallow's problem was because of cuba and the how they went in there and they brought socialism and communism to minutes with to me was well mr president are you going to be more proactive now against cuba as well i've been very proactive against cuba i don't like what's happening in cuba as you know president obama gave

them a pass and i didn't like it need to do cuban people based in miami and based in our country that came from cuba and suffered in cuba i don't like what he did i have and did much of it most of it i don't like what's happening in cuba and i certainly don't like what's happening in venezuela he has to go ahead mr president just to finish really first you said also that you had a call to action to build leaders around the world to also and socialism would you like to be recognized as well i wouldn't say that socialism has been working really well around the world ok you can take a look at vet as well as your number one the number one i guess the one that's most obvious but you take a look around the world socialism is not exactly riding high places or is it. go ahead. thank you very much if you don't mind after i'm finished if. or vivian or one of our female colleagues could go after me that would

be great is present just a follow up on these allegations against whatever what does he mean by that explain what what is what is there going to be very female what does it mean when you know what does it mean to be great of a female reporter would ask your question about the decision so if you don't mind i wouldn't mind it at all no i wouldn't mind it or to heart well let me if i could make any difference to me. if i could follow up on john. and john's question why is it mr president that you always seem to side with the houston not the accuser you have three women here who are all making allegations drawing that their stories be heard and you know if you look at the case or avoid war if you look at the case of one of your staffers are you seem to time and again side with the accused and not the accuser is that because of the many many allegations that you had. made against you over the years well first of all i wasn't happy with roy moore let's get that

straight but roy moore was a republican candidate and i would have rather had a republican candidate when i was very happy with luther strange it was a terrific man from alabama but luther strange had a lot of things going against him as far as women whether it's a man or a woman these are you know it can happen the other way allegations can go the other way also you understand that and whether it was a man or a woman. thirty years ago thirty six years ago in fact they don't even know how many years ago because nobody knows what the time is that's a long time and i could pick as an example hopefully i won't have to do it as a replacement because hopefully this is going to go very well on thursday it's going to go very well on monday or saturday or sunday or whenever they have out. but i could pick a woman and she could have charges made from many years ago also reduction

and i would have a look at the character now and what i have to do are reluctant to come forward you raise doubts about these accusers many of them i don't think people are reluctant to come forward they're going to have a chance to speak at a made they have a major chance is excuse me excuse me they have a major chance to speak and it will be tomorrow i assume. we've delayed this meaning the republican senators not me the republican senators have delayed this for weeks now they're giving the women a major chance to speak now it's possible i'll hear that and i'll say hey i'm changing my mind that is possible we want to give them a chance to speak and they're given all three should have a chance well whoever is given a chance we have delayed it a long time but they're going to have a big shot at speaking a making their case and you know what i could be persuaded also ok yes please

please go ahead go ahead i would like to go yes go ahead please. thank you mr president a couple of questions for you to follow up on some answers that i didn't quite hear from you if you would allow me a couple of questions first of all do you think these women all three of them are lagers yes or no have they been what are they liars i can tell you i have to watch tomorrow have to read i just heard about one a little while ago i can tell you her lawyer is a low life ok so i can't tell you whether or not they're liars until i hear them i don't know what happened today because i've been very busy with japan with south korea with china and about seven other countries as you know and i chaired the security council so i don't know about today's. person that came forward i do know about the lawyer and you don't get much worse bad reputation to take a look at his past so as far as the other women are concerned i'm going to see what happens tomorrow i'm going to be watching you know believe it or not i'm going to see. what set this possible that they will be convincing now with all of that being

said. judge brett kavanaugh has been for many years one of the most respected people in washington he's been on i guess you'd call it the second highest court and every single person knows him lot of people know him well. and those people don't believe what's going on i can always be convinced if i have to hear it it sounds like what you're saying is there is a situation there is a scenario under which you would withdraw a brett kavanaugh as nomination is that clear i thought he was about as i thought he was guilty of something like this you're sure and you will wait until tomorrow to make up your i want to watch i want to see i hope i can watch a meeting with a lot of countries tomorrow but i will certainly in some form be able to watch and a lot so rely on some very fair and talented republican senators who look if we brought george washington here and we said we have george washington the

democrats would vote against him just so you understand. and he may have had a bad past to annoy us you know he may have had some. i think accusations made didn't he have a couple of things in those places george washington would be voted against one hundred percent by schumer and the con artists i mean one hundred percent hundred percent so it really doesn't matter from their standpoint that's why when john asked about the f.b.i. if the f.b.i. did the most their own investigation of the history of the f.b.i. and they found him to be one hundred percent perfect he would lose every single vote now if the republicans win tomorrow i think you're going to get some votes from the democrats you know why because we all know why because it's called politics then you'll probably get some votes and ok let's go it's one more question i guess to follow this up i'd like to ask about three questions it's not really fair to everyone else between should i let her ask another question. go ahead it's a follow up on a question that a colleague asked as well about the benefit of the doubt that you have given to

people like more and more to roger ailes to bill o'reilly to brett kavanaugh they're all men why is that it's not a benefit of their doubt but i'd instance when given the best i've known them one hit halle i've known them for a long time and a lot of these people lot of people and some i've been disappointed with i have been disappointed with some others and i you know there are two. that are pretty weak but i've known people for a long time i never saw them do anything room i never saw them do anything wrong and there are some that probably i agree i can tell you there are some that i i've been watching for a long time. and in a couple of cases they weren't republicans in a lot of cases they were not they were exactly the opposite but i've been watching them for a long time and i knew for a long time these were not good people and they were never brought up ok. yes ma'am go ahead. thank you very much by the way thank you. thank you very much thank you and when the allegations first surfaced you initially said how important

it was for dr ford to testify and that you wanted to hear from her i do but i wish you could've gone quicker well you also said that if what she's sad were as bad as she claims surely her or her parents would have reported it and just today you said you would well there is a truth i mean there is a chance that her parents could have reported it thirty six years ago so my question is it doesn't mean they had to report it because in some instances people keep it quiet it's a very tough situation for a woman there's no question about it and in some cases they do report it frankly had they reported it it would have been pretty amazing wouldn't it but i guess they didn't and that's ok i'm not saying they had to report it because it's a very personal thing it's a very big problem there's no question about it you want to hear her story before i'd like to hear a story of what we're giving her telling you made up your mind they would have

given her time last week. this is the united states senate this is the most important position that a president can give out i think we can say by far i've actually heard it's the most important decision a president can make. i disagree with it war and peace i always say war and peace and after that supreme court justice right. i look forward to hearing from her we could have heard from her last week we could have heard firm her for a long time it'll be interesting to hear what she has to say ok let me follow up on his question mr president let me follow up on jim's question that i don't think we got an answer to you which one allegation how in your personal experiences being accused by more than i've been accused i did it before else accusations excuse me i'll have those i've been accused and i was accused by i believe it was for women you can check with sean hannity you can check with fox because they covered it very

strongly that he got paid excuse me excuse me i was accused by four of five women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me we caught them in the mainstream media refused to put it on television they refused to even write about it there were four women and maybe more i think the number is four or five. but one had a mortgage paid off or has fifty two thousand dollars another one had other things happen and the one that reported it i believe was offered seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to say bad things about me and she is the one that reported it this woman is incredible she reported it instead of taking the money so i've had numerous accusations about me they i mean they made false statements about me knowing they were false i never met him i never met these people and what did they do what did they do they took money in order to say bad

things i've had stories written in the new york times front page about four women the whole top center front page of the new york times i think it was for big pictures i said well that's a big thing what's a these were women that were quoted saying bad things about me not the worst things about me but bad things and i said you that's too bad i knew him a long time ago fifteen years ago twenty years ago i said that's too bad i'm surprised at them and then all of a sudden a seaman television nothing to do with me the next day or day later they were incensed they said donald trump is a nice guy we never said this the new york times did false reporting their fake news and you know what the new york times would not report that this story was fake these women said great things not only did they not say the bad stuff they said great things about me front page and those woman they were credible women they went

on television and they didn't want to and i didn't ask them and they said the new york times made it up they gave false quotes and they won on a lot of shows they were really in sense and they couldn't believe that that's why . people know that a lot of the news is fake and a lot of the people sitting here are fake but twenty percent of them are wonderful ok i just actually question mr trump why you didn't let me ask my question when you've been asking a question for ten minutes or at least sit down and please go ahead you know the impact you are the ends on the allegation that while it does impact my opinion you know why because i've had a lot of false charges made against me i'm a very famous person unfortunately i've been a famous person for a long time but i've had a lot of false charges made against me really false charges i know friends that have had false charges people want fame they want money they want whatever so when

i see it i view it differently than somebody sitting home watching television where they say oh judge kavanaugh this or that. it's happened to me many times i've had many false charges. i had a woman sitting in an airplane and i attacked her while people were coming on to the plane and i have a number one bestseller out i mean it was a total phony story and there are many of them so when you say does it affect me in terms of my thinking with respect to judge kavanagh absolutely because i've had it many times and. if the news would have reported these four people i couldn't believe it when i heard that they caught these four people i said wow that's a big story and it was for fox ok. thank you mr president earlier today and just now you made a significant allegation against the chinese government you suggested that the chinese had meddled in or are a mess right that's what i hear midterm election what i hear what evidence do you

have that sir is there and we have evidence we have the evidence it will come out yeah i can tell you now but it came it didn't come out of nowhere that i can tell you now why if you they've actually admitted that they're going after farmers i mean i think most of you can cover that i like that you're shaking your head yes i'm going to ask you the next question because so that ok it's probably going to be the killer of all questions but but let me just explain how if you are literally the evidence or china now put on two hundred fifty billion dollars and they're paying twenty five percent on that dipping billions and bill if this has never happened. to china. and i like china and i like president xi a lot i think is a friend of mine he may not be a friend of mine anymore but he i think he probably respects from what i hear if you look at mr pillsbury the leading authority on china he was on a good show i won't mention the name of the show recently and he was saying that china has total respect for donald trump and for donald trump's very very large

a brain he said donald donald trump they don't know what to do never happened one thing they are trying to do is they're trying to convince people to go against donald trump because a normal regular political person that has no concept of what the hell he's doing would lead china continue to take five hundred billion dollars a year out of our country and rebuild their country when they were building twenty nine massive bridges like the george washington bridge tippling things that we don't build anymore. but we're starting to build them again and our economy now is hotter than it's ever been i don't know if you saw the the confidence levels this morning that just came out fantastic and in all fairness to the fed raising rates resing rates because we've never done like we're doing now and one of the things that is nice about the rates the people that were hurt the worst by these zero

interest rates you know were president obama had an economy that was it was the worst comeback since the great depression and all that you've all heard that but remember he was playing with zero interest money he was playing with funny money that's easy i'm playing with. fairly expensive money so when he does that the people that benefit are people that actually in their whole life they would save ten fifteen twenty percent of the salary put in a bank those people got killed because they put their money in the bank they're going to live off the interest and there was no interest now those people are starting to get interest and those are the people frankly that deserve to you know they did a great job the people that did it right the people that did the best got hurt the most so in one sense i like it but basically i'm a low interest rate person i hate to tell you yes yes ma'am yes go ahead. mr president i have another meeting tomorrow with rod rosenstein planning to fire rod

rosenstein i'm talking to him we've had a good talk he said he never said it he said he doesn't believe it he said he has a lot of respect for me. and he was very nice and we'll see and he's a member of the trumpet ministration in that sense it's the justice department. i would certainly prefer not doing that there was no collusion there was no obstruction i mean if you call if you call obstruction the fact that i fight back i do fight back i really fight back i mean if you call that obstruction that's fine but there's no obstruction there's no collusion i'm going to meet with them tomorrow i may call rod tonight or tomorrow and ask for a little bit of a delay to the many because i don't want to do anything that gets in the way of this very important supreme court pick so i don't want to competing and hurting the decision one way or the other decision again i want to hear what she has to say

but i don't want to do so i may delay that i'm going to see i don't want to do anything that's going to conflict with it but my preference would be to keep them. and to let him finish up you know i call it a witch hunt and it is a witch hunt if you look at the f.b.i. statements was struck in his lover lisa page if you look at all of the things that have gone or on in the f.b.i. if you look at mccabe taking seven hundred thousand dollars from a hillary clinton pac his sensually run by terry mcauliffe who is her best friend in the world and he gives them hundreds of thousands of dollars and he's in charge of her campaign and his wife is getting all of this money to run she lost to run. i mean what's going on if you look at the horrible statements like way to go page great story you put into a newspaper essentially now we'll go and investigate that group it's terrible

we have caught people doing things that are terrible i would much prefer keeping rod rosenstein much prefer many people say i have the right to absolute for him he said he did not say it he said he does not believe that and nobody in this room believes about the way i deal with the people in the suv i was with my pump aoe before we were dealing at a very high level with japan and i was saying things that nobody in the room even understood i said i'm a long time ago and i was right he said that's not the twenty fifth amendment that i'm looking at i think i can say that from mike so you don't think anyone in your administration has ever discussed the twenty using the twenty fifth amendment against you i don't think so while your enemies sure use any and yes race in a cap and you use anything they can they're not in love with me they're not going to beat me in the election they know that they're not going to beat me the people

that i'm looking at are total lightweights i dream of running.