asked president trump today at his answer. i've known you for a long time. you've already given the answer earlier today. we might move to camp david i guess. i've known you for a long time. you thrive on a battle. you thrive on fighting. you said to me privately and publicly, you want your promise is fulfilled. i guess that is what reelection can be about. all of this impeach, impeach. do you care? would you care at all what they do as long as you win back in november? doesn't matter to you? >> president trump: we've done a great job, the economy is the best it's ever been. you look again, china has gone way down. if hillary clinton had gotten elected right now china would have the number one economy in the world and right now they're not even close. they're way behind. we picked up trillions of dollars in worth and value and china has gone way, way down by trillions and trillions of dollars. when the head of china spoke to me recently and even the vice-premier just left. just left...

would win easily. the moody's report was very interesting. median household income under eight years of obama was up $975. that is eight years. under eight years of president bush, president obama, 975. president bush, eight years, eight years, $400, $975. me, two and half years, it is up

and i beat them by many times in two and half years. that percentage proportionately. so it is up $5,000 plus it is up

got rid of all of those prisoners and most, they were captured under trump. we killed many, many isis fighters. you know, you hate to talk about it. >> sean: caliphate. >> president trump: we took 100% of the caliphate. 100%. everybody says it. it's not like oh, gee, obama did it, i did it. but you know what, it is time to bring ourselves -- and it is interesting. that little fight for two days, vicious stuff. i don't know that turkey would have done what they did, like the cease-fire. and i don't know if the kurds would have moved out. but we went through two days and some people thought it was a great analogy. it's like two kids and a playground, they fight and you let them fight minute. it was much easier to make a deal. >> sean: you are willing to because you did two things, number one, your removed rules of engagement that president obama had, two, you bombed them and pushed them out and if need be, my guess is that

without further ado, here is part 1 of my interview with the president. mr. president, thank you so mu much. i bet you have done a lot over the years. i am going to do something to my will read the transcript because everybody talks about whistle-blowers, not whistle-blowers. it says, i would like you to do it's a paper. you are first talking about congratulations come out like you are doing us a favor. because our country has been through a lot. ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. and i guess you have one of your wealthy people, they say ukraine has it come a lot of things went on, the whole situation. you say, i think you are surrounding yourself with some of the same people. i would like to have the attorney general call you or your people, and i would like to get to the bottom of it. >> president trump: by the way, just so you understand, we are looking at the 2016 election, which was a disaster. we went...

colluded. they found no collusion, no nothing, and they went through hell. there was the dnc server that had never went to the fbi. the fbi didn't take it. it was taken by somebody i guess i'll strike, that's what i have heard. that is not an election going into the future. that is for a past election that

analyst politicized wars. let me ask you about syria, and let me ask you about iran. iran drone shot out of the air, tinkers hostage and you mention energy independence. less geopolitically important. >> president trump: we have very few ships because since i came in we are energy independent. so that comment was made the other day but they don't see too many american ships anymore. >> sean: when you have syria, you have gotten criticism and it seems like you and lindsay had an impasse. >> president trump: look, we have the same name. you want to bring the soldiers back home. they were supposed to be there for 30 days. they are there for ten years. and in afghanistan they were there for 20 years. we are reducing those numbers substantially in afghanistan. but they are supposed to be in syria for 30 days. now, one thing about syria, when i took over, isis was all over the place. you know that better than anybody. two and a half years ago. i went in and when i started i got rid of all...

we now continue with my exclusive interview with president trump. let me ask you, 2020 is here come all right? you said publicly you don't think joe makes it. and elizabeth warren, hers to lose. you have bernie, mayor pete, whatever. then you look at their positions, top marginal tax rates 70%. >> president trump: much higher. >> sean: 90% corporate tax rate, the new crane deal had a $6 trillion, medicare for all, no private options. in running against one of those? do you think of this? >> president trump: i don't want to talk about this because last time i took on elizabeth warren i thought she was gone. bernie, pocahontas. there is only one. it is not her. so what happens. and she rose from the ashes and i give her credit for that. but i don't like to talk about it. as far as i'm concerned the green new deal, fine. all of it is fine. paying 96% in texas is all fine. i want them to keep talking about it. and when it's time to run, i will run. but i don't want to talk them out of it,...

now they don't talk about that anymore. because that level was so good. they don't talk about anymore, sean. the reason they don't talk about it, there is nothing to talk about. spent the reason, the next thing you say though, i think, makes your point. you say as you saw yesterday, ththe whole nonsense ended witha poor performance by a man named robert mueller, incompetent performance but they say a lot of it started with ukraine. whatever you do, it is important. >> president trump: and it did, it ended with a poor performance and this is after two years of an investigation whether $45 million or something like that, they had 2,500 subpoenas, 500 witnesses, all because probably hillary clinton said just like she did with tulsi gabbard, just like she did with jill stein, she said "jill stein is a russian asset. now come i don't know jill stein. i know a environmentalist and probably a good woman but the lesson she has a russian asset.