1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000 DOING. >> DONALD, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,000 ABOUT? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT YOU FOR 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,000 A WEEK. 5 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,000 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 6 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 >> JOE, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 7 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 KASICH AND MENTIONED BUSH AND 8 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,000 RUBIO AND SOMEBODY ELSE I WON'T 9 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,000 MENTION BECAUSE I ACTUALLY LIKE 10 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 THAT PERSON. 11 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 >> WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 12 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, 13 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 DONALD? HOW THIN IS YOUR SKIN? 14 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT YOU FOR 15 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,000 A WEEK. >> I AGREE WITH THAT. 16 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 BUT WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 17 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 BUSH WHO, BY THE WAY, IS TEN 18 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 POINTS LOWER THAN ME YOU SORT 19 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,000 OF MENTIONED LIKE, YOU KNOW CAN 20 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 KASICH BEAT BUSH? 21 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 WHAT ABOUT TRUMP? 22 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,000 WE ARE TEN POINTS AHEAD. 23 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 >> YOU KNOW WHAT? 24 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,000 THIS IS LIKE A GOLF TOURNAMENT. 25 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000 WE NEED TO BRING IN THE LITTLE 26 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 GUY WITH THE JACKET THE RULE 27 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 BOOK. ALEX, HAVE I MENTIONED BUSH AND 28 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,000 RUBIOMORNING, ALEX? 29 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 >> HAVING TO DO WITH KASICH. 30 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 >> WE HAVE ONE OHP-ED. 31 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,000 >> HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE 32 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 CONVERSATION WE HAD ABOUT JOHN 33 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 KASICH AND WHETHER OR NOT HE'S 34 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 GOT THE -- JON HUNTSMAN PROBLEM. 35 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 THEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER 36 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 CANDIDATES IN CONTEXT WITH. 37 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 THAT BUT YOU DIDN'T MENTION 38 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 DONALD TRUMP WHO IS AT THE TOP 39 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 OF THE POLL. 40 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 AND HE'S TAKING ISSUE WITH THAT. 41 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 >> YOU'RE FORGIVEN JOE. 42 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 THERE IS ONE OTHER COMPLAINT. 43 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 ONE OTHER COMPLAINT -- 44 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 >> DONALD YOU AREN'T REALLY 45 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 THAT THIN SKINNED, ARE YOU? 46 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 >> YES, WE ARE THIN SKINNED. 47 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 >> OH, YES, HE IS. 48 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 >> WE ARE RAVAGED. 49 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 EVERYBODY SAID YOUR CAM SPAIN A 50 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 JOKE. YOU WERE GOING TO GO AWAY. 51 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 WE HAD ONE OF THE TOP EDITORS IN 52 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 AMERICA COME ON THREE WEEKS AGO 53 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 YELLING AT MIKA BEING OFFENDED 54 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 AND SHOCKED AND THEN OF COURSE 55 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 HE PUT YOU ON THE COVER OF THE 56 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 MAGAZINE THREE WEEKS AND STORMED 57 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 OFF MAD. 58 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 THIS IS HILARIOUS. 59 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 YOUR INCREDIBLY THIN SKINNED, MY 60 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,000 FRIEND. >> I AM. 61 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 EVEN THE FACT -- JOSEPH? 62 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 JOSEPH? 63 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 >> YES? >> EVEN WHEN YOU SAID THAT THE 64 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 POLITE SOCIETY THEY TREAT ME SO 65 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 WELL. 66 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 IT HELPS WHEN I OWN PALM BEACH. 67 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 MAYBE THAT'S WHY THEY TREAT ME 68 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 WELL. 69 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,000 BUT THAT POLITE SOCIETY WAS 70 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000 SMILING. 71 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 THEY'RE NOT SMILING. THEY DID SMILE WHEN I CAME INTO 72 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 MANHATTAN FROM QUEENS. 73 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 I WILL SAY THAT. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SMILING FOR 74 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 THE LAST 20 YEARS. BUT THAT'S OKAY. 75 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 POLITE SOCIETY HAS BEEN VERY 76 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 POLITE. 77 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 >> LET ME AS A MEMBER OF POLITE 78 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 SOCIETY ASK YOU A LEGITIMATE 79 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 QUESTION THAT HAS TO DO WITH 80 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 WHAT YOU WOULD DO TO SECURE THE 81 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 BORDER AS PRESIDENT OF THE 82 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 UNITED STATES? 83 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 WHAT POLICIES WOULD YOU PUSH 84 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 FOR? WHAT WOULD YOU PUT IN PLACE THAT 85 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 WOULD IMPROVE THE SITUATION? 86 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 >> BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MIKA 87 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I MEAN THIS AND I SAY IT TO 88 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 EVERYBODY, YOU HAVE TO SECURE 89 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 THE BORDER. 90 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 YOU KNOW IN TERMS OF GETTING 91 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 PEOPLE. WHEN WE WERE THERE, ABC THIS 92 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 EVENING, YOU KNOW THE MAJOR ABC 93 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 BROADCAST WAS THERE. 94 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 THEY WERE SETTING UP. 95 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 AND THERE WERE ILLEGALS RUNNING 96 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 PAST THEIR CAMERAS AND PEOPLE 97 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 RUNNING AFTER THEM. 98 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 IT WAS A WHOLE MESS. 99 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 THEY ENDED UP FIGHTING ON THE 100 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 GROUND. 101 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 IT WAS CRAZY. AND IT'S ALL OVER THE PLACE. 102 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 BY THE WAY LAREDO AND AREAS 103 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 LIKE THAT IT'S DOWN IN THE 104 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 VALLEY THAT'S THE REALLY BIG 105 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 PROBLEM. PEOPLE COME IN, THEY GO DOWN IN 106 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 THE VALLEY. 107 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 YOU HAVE TO SECURE THE BORDERS. 108 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 NOW YOU CAN USE COMBINATIONS OF 109 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 WALL. 110 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 CAN YOU USE FENCES YOU CAN USE 111 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 IN SOME CASES THE RIVER IN THIS 112 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 CASE THEY HAVE A RIVER WHICH IS 113 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 CERTAINLY HELPFUL. 114 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO 115 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 SECURE THE BORDER. 116 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 WE DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY WITHOUT 117 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 A BORDER. 118 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 WITHOUT A BORDER WE JUST DON'T 119 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 HAVE A COUNTRY. 120 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 SO EVERYBODY IS IN FAVOR. 121 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE 122 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 KACIE HUNT THERE WHO NEVER 123 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 REPORTS ACCURATELY BY THE WAY, 124 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 AND YOU HAD -- 125 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 >> COME ON. 126 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 >> NO IT'S TRUE. 127 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 YOU HAD KATIE TUR. 128 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 >> KACIE IS GREAT. 129 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 >> THEY DIDN'T EXPLAIN WHAT WAS 130 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 HAPPENING. THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY A HAPPENING. 131 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 AND WHEN I GOT OFF THE PLANE, 132 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 THERE WERE YOU KNOW, TREMENDOUS 133 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 NUMBERS OF PEOPLE. I WILL SAY, JOE, 95% OF THOSE 134 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 PEOPLE WERE CHEERING MADLY IN 135 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 FAVOR. I READ AND I HEAR -- 136 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 >> DONALD I HAVE TO GO BACK TO 137 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 YOU. I THINK SOMETIMES YOU ARE 138 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 ACTUALLY ON TV WHAT MIKA SAYS I 139 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 AM IN PRIVATE. 140 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 SOMEBODY THAT CAN LISTEN TO 141 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 SOMEBODY SAYING 95% THINGS THAT 142 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 ARE NICE ABOUT ME AND I SEIZE ON 143 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 THE 5% AND OBSESS ON IT FOREVER. 144 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 KACIE HUNT ACTUALLY WAS TALKING 145 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 ABOUT HOW IT WAS LIKE A 146 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE AND SAID 147 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 IT WAS VERY BIG. 148 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 IT WAS A HAPPENING AND THE 149 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,000 BIGGEST HAPPENING OF 2016. 150 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I WANT TO FOLLOW UP THOUGH 151 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 DONALD, ON A QUESTION THAT WAS 152 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 ASKED OF YOU YESTERDAY. 153 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 IT REALLY IS A TOUGH QUESTION. 154 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 SO I THINK A LOT OF AMERICANS 155 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 SUPPORT YOU AS FAR AS THE 156 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 BORDER, MAKING THE BORDER TOUGH. 157 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 >> AND OTHER THINGS JOE. 158 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 >> OF COURSE. I KNOW DONALD. 159 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 MY GOD! STOP BEING SO THIN SKINNED! 160 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 >> YES. 161 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 >> SO I LOVE IT. 162 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 SO DONALD THE TOUGHER QUESTION 163 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 IS WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE 11 164 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS 165 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 THAT ARE ALREADY HERE? 166 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 WE'RE NOT GOING TO SEND THEM 167 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,000 BACK TO MEXICO. 168 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE. 169 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 DO WE LEGALIZE THEM AND SAY WE 170 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 KNOW YOU'RE HERE BUT WE'RE NOT 171 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 GOING TO GIVE YOU A PATHWAY TO 172 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE YOU GOT HERE 173 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 ILLEGALLY BUT WE'LL LEGALIZE YOU 174 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 AND LET YOU WORK HERE FOR A 175 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 COUPLE YEARS? 176 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 HOW DO WE HANDLE THE 11 MILLION 177 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 ALREADY HERE? >> IT'S A BIG QUESTION. 178 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 AND A REALLY BIGGER QUESTION IS 179 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 I DON'T THINK THE 11 MILLION 180 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 WHICH IS A NUMBER YOU'VE BEEN 181 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 HEARING FOR MANY MANY YEARS, 182 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I'VE BEEN HEARING THAT NUMBER 183 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 FOR FIVE YEARS, I DON'T THINK 184 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 THAT'S AN ACCURATE NUMBER 185 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 ANYMORE. 186 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I'M NOW HEARING IT'S 30 MILLION 187 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 AND COULD BE 34 MILLION. 188 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 WHICH IS A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM. 189 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,000 >> WHO YOU HEARING THAT FROM? 190 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 >> I'M HEARING IT FROM OTHER 191 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 PEOPLE. I'VE SEEN IT WRITTEN IN VARIOUS 192 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 NEWSPAPERS. THE TRUTH IS THE GOVERNMENT HAS 193 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 NO IDEA HOW MANY ILLEGALS ARE 194 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 HERE. THEY HAVE NO IDEA. 195 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 >> SO WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL OF 196 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 THEM? 197 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 WHETHER IT'S 11 OR 30 MILLION, 198 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 DO WE GIVE THEM LEGALIZED STATUS 199 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 SO THEY'RE NOT LIVING IN THE 200 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 SHADOWS. LET THEM WORK BUT IF THEY BREAK 201 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 THE LAW SEND THEM BACK? >> WE TAKE THE BAD ONES OF WHICH 202 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 THERE ARE UNFORTUNATELY QUITE A 203 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,000 FEW. 204 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 WE TAKE THE BAD ONES AND GET 205 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 THEM THE HELL OUT. 206 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 WE GIVE THEM BACK TO MEXICO OR 207 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 MAKE SURE THEY STAY OR WHERE 208 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 THEY COME FROM. 209 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 THEY DON'T ALL COME FROM MEXICO. 210 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 THEY COME FROM OTHER PLACES. 211 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 THEY USE THAT BORDER BUT THEY 212 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 COME FROM OTHER PLACES. 213 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 WE GET THEM OUT AND GET THEM OUT 214 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 FAST. 215 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 AND WE GET THEM OUT PERMANENTLY. 216 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 THAT'S A BIG THING. 217 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON 218 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,000 WITH BIG CRIME WAVES LIKE KATE 219 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO, PUSHED INTO 220 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 OUR COUNTRY FIVE FIMZ AND THE 221 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 FIFTH TIME HE KILLED KATE. 222 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF CASES LIKE 223 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 THAT. WE HAVE TO GET THE BAD ONES OUT. 224 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 THEN THE OTHER ONES -- AND I'M A 225 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 VERY BIG BELIEVER IN MERIT 226 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 SYSTEM. I HAVE TO TELL YOU. 227 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 228 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 HERE. THEY'VE DONE A GOOD JOB. 229 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 YOU KNOW, IN SOME CASES SADLY 230 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 THEY'VE BEEN LIVING UNDER THE 231 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 SHADOWS. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. 232 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 SO WHETHER IT'S MERIT OR WHETHER 233 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 IT'S WHATEVER BUT I'M A 234 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 BELIEVER IN THE MERIT SYSTEM. 235 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 SOMEBODY'S BEEN OUTSTANDING, WE 236 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 TRY AND WORK SOMETHING OUT. 237 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 BUT BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING, JOE, 238 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 WE HAVE TO SECURE THE BORDER. 239 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000 THE BORDER IS LIKE HAVING NO 240 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 BORDER. >> LET'S GO RIGHT NOW TO WILLIE 241 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 GEIST WHO I'M SURE CRITICIZED 242 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 YOUR BACKSWING, YOUR GOLF 243 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 BACKSWING OR SOMETHING. 244 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000 >> DONALD GOOD TO TALK TO YOU 245 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 THIS MORNING. 246 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 GOOD TO TALK TO YOU. 247 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 SO YOU'RE HAVING HUGE SUCCESS IN 248 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 THIS CAMPAIGN. 249 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 YOU'RE UP BY DOUBLE DIGITS IN A 250 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 COUPLE NATIONAL POLLS. 251 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 YOU'RE CLEARLY ENJOYING 252 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 YOURSELF. MY QUESTION FOR YOU THOUGH IS 253 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 WHEN YOU GET TO THE END OF THE 254 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 DAY, DO YOU REALLY WANT THE JOB 255 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 OF BEING PRESIDENT? 256 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 THIS IS THE NEXT DECADE OF YOUR 257 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 LIFE. 258 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 JANUARY OF 2025 IS WHEN YOU'D BE 259 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 OUT OF THAT JOB AND DOING WORK 260 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 THAT IT MEEBZANS TO BE PRESIDENT. 261 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? >> I DO. 262 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 I WANT TO MAKE THE COUNTRY 263 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 GREAT. NOBODY ELSE IS GOING TO BE ABLE 264 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 TO DO IT. BUSH WON'T BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE 265 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 WITH CHINA. HE DOESN'T HAVE IT. 266 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 HE'S A NICE PERSON. 267 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I THINK THAT JEB BUSH IS A VERY 268 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 NICE PERSON. 269 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 BUT WHEN HE MEETS THE CHINESE 270 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 AND SEES THE BLOOD POURING OUT 271 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 OF HIS EYES HE'S GOING TO LEAVE 272 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 THE ROOM. 273 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 THEY'RE CONTROLLED BY THE 274 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 LOBBYISTS AND THE SPECIAL 275 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 INTERESTS AND DONORS. BELIEVE ME CHINA HAS LOBBYISTS 276 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 IN OUR COUNTRY. 277 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 CHINA HAS LOBBYISTS, CAN YOU 278 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 BELIEVE IT? THEY'RE RIPPING US LEFT AND 279 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 RIGHT. WE'RE NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT 280 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 CHINA, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MANY 281 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 OTHER COUNTRIES. 282 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR 283 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 MEXICO. 284 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I HAVE THOUSAND OF MEXICO 285 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 WORKERS, MEXICAN PEOPLE. 286 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 THEY'RE GREAT PEOPLE. 287 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 BUT, JOE, I'LL TELL YOU, MEXICO 288 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 THE LEADERS ARE TOO SMART FOR 289 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 OUR LEADERS. 290 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 MEXICO IS KILLING US. 291 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 WHEN I WAS IN LAREDO I LOOKED 292 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 AT THAT TRAFFIC GOING INTO 293 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 MEXICO. 294 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I SAID ONE LITTLE QUESTION. 295 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 MEXICO'S BOOMING, RIGHT? 296 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 OH YES, MEXICO'S BOOMING. 297 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 MEXICO'S BOOMING. WE'RE NOT BOOMING. 298 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 YOU LOOK AT OUR GDP, IT'S GONE. 299 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 THE FIRST QUARTER WE'RE ACTUALLY 300 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 NEGATIVE IN GDP. 301 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 THAT MEANS WE'RE CONTRACTING. 302 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 WE'RE GETTING SMALLER. 303 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 WILLIE, THE ANSWER IS YES, I 304 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 WOULD LOVE TO DO IT. 305 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,000 I WANT TO MAKE THE COUNTRY 306 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 GREAT. AND WILLIE'S FATHER THE 307 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 GREAT -- YOU KNOW THAT THE 308 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 GREAT WILLIAM GEIST, HE WROTE 309 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 THE FIRST MAJOR STORY IN DONALD 310 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 TRUMP ON THE COVER OF "THE NEW 311 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 YORK TIMES" MAGAZINE. 312 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 AND I LOVE THAT FAMILY. 313 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,000 EVEN THOUGH WILLIE SOMETIMES CAN 314 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 BE A WISE GUY. 315 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 >> THAT'S A TRUE STORY. 316 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 MY DAD DID WRITE A PROFILE IN 317 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 THE 1980s. 318 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 >> THE COVER OF "THE NEW YORK 319 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 TIMES" MAGAZINE WHICH WAS A 320 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 GREAT HONOR. HE WAS A GREAT, GREAT WRITER. 321 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 >> THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. 322 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 BUT MY QUESTION REALLY ARE YOU 323 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 GOING TO GIVE UP THIS LIFE YOU 324 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 HAVE? 325 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,000 LOOK AT YOUR LIFE. 326 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 YOU'VE GOT TV SHOWS. 327 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 YOU'VE GOT BUILDINGS. 328 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 YOU HAVE THE JET. 329 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 YOU'RE DONALD TRUMP. 330 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 DO YOU WANT TO GO DOWN TO THE 331 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 NITTY-GRITTY OF POLITICS AND 332 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND WORK 333 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 IN THE OVAL OFFICE? 334 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 YOU ARE WILLING TO GIVE UP BEING 335 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 DONALD TRUMP, THIS GREAT PUBLIC 336 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 FIGURE AND HAVE TO BE THE 337 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? 338 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 >> WELL I'M WILLING TO DO IT 339 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 BECAUSE I THINK IT'S SO 340 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 IMPORTANT TO DO. 341 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 YOU KNOW IT'S INTERESTING. 342 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 WHEN I GOT OFF THE PLANE 343 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 YESTERDAY, WE HAD A MOTORCADE 344 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. 345 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 WE HAD HUNDREDS OF POLICE. 346 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 THEY WERE SO NICE AND SO GREAT. 347 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 SOMEBODY SAID WHY DO YOU HAVE TO 348 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 BE PRESIDENT FOR? 349 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 LOOK, THERE IS THE SAME THING. 350 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 THE TRUTH IS WE HAVE SUCH 351 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 POTENTIAL IN THIS COUNTRY. 352 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 WE COULD MAKE OUR COUNTRY SO 353 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 STRONG AND SO SMART AGAIN. 354 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR JOBS 355 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 FROM ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES THAT 356 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 ARE TAKING OUR JOBS. 357 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 WE HAVE TO -- WE CAN MAKE OUR 358 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN. I CAN DO IT. 359 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 NOW WITH THAT BEING SAID YOU 360 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 KNOW, I TOLD -- AS YOU KNOW I 361 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 TOLD AT PRENTICE PEOPLE I TOLD 362 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 THE TOP PEOPLE IN COMCAST WHO 363 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 CAME TO MY OFFICE THREE MONTHS 364 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 AGO, THE TOP PEOPLE AT NBC, I'M 365 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 NOT DOING "THE APPRENTICE." 366 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 THEY CAME UP TO TRY TO BEG ME. 367 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 I'M NOT DOING IT. 368 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,000 MARK BURNETT SAID YOU'RE THE 369 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000 ONLY ONE THAT EVER TURNED DOWN 370 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 AN EXTENSION. 371 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 NOBODY TURNS HIM DOWN. 372 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 I TURNED DOWN TREMENDOUS 373 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 AMOUNTS. 374 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,000 WHEN YOU SAW THAT I MADE -- WHAT 375 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 I REPORTED IS CERTIFIED NUMBERS 376 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 THAT I MADE $213 MILLION DOING 377 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 "THE APPRENTICE." 378 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 AND THEN LAWRENCE I CAN NOT 379 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 MENTION ABOUT LAWRENCE. 380 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 I WAS NICE THE WAY' POLLING HE 381 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000 APOLOGIZED. I GAVE UP TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF 382 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 MONEY JUST IN. 383 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 I GAVE UP HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS 384 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 OF DOLLARS ON DEALS AND 385 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 OPPORTUNITIES. SO YOU KNOW WHEN A POLITICIAN 386 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 DOES THIS JOE AND EVERYBODY, 387 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 THEY RUN AND THEY JUST KEEP 388 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 RUNNING. 389 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 THEY WIN, THEY LOSE NOBODY 390 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 CARES. WHEN I DO IT I'M GIVING UP A 391 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 LOT. BUT I REALLY -- I THINK WE'RE 392 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 MAKING A HUGE IMPACT EVEN THOUGH 393 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 JOE NEVER MENTIONS ME IN THE 394 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 FRONT. 395 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 >> OH, MY LORD. 396 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 >> OH, MY LORD! 397 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 OH MY LORD! 398 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 >> MARK HALPERIN. 399 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 >> I THINK I HAVE A REALLY GOOD 400 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 CHANCE OF GETTING THE 401 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 NOMINATION. IF I DO, I'M THE ONE THAT CAN 402 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 BEAT HILLARY. 403 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 SHE'S THE WORST SECRETARY OF 404 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 STATE IN THE HISTORY OF OUR 405 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 COUNTRY. >> JOE, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO 406 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 MOAN. MARK HALPERIN AND THEN AMY. 407 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 >> DONALD WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 408 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 MARK HALPERIN NEXT. 409 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 >> MR. TRUMP, GOOD MORNING. 410 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 >> HI MARK. 411 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,000 >> HUGE DEBATE IN THE REPUBLICAN 412 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 PARTY AMONG THE ESTABLISH. 413 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 INSIDERS WHO ARE TAKER FIFD YOUR 414 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 CANDIDACY ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING 415 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 TO BE DERAILED. 416 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 YOU'RE PRETTY SMART ABOUT 417 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE MOST 418 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 LIKELY WAY YOUR CANDIDACY COULD 419 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 BE DERAILED WOULD BE? 420 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 >> WELL YOU KNOW YOU HAVE 421 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 BLOWUPS. I'VE SEEN IT OVER THE YEARS. 422 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 IT COULD BE THE A MUCH BIGGER 423 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 STORY THAN SPEAKING TO ME IS THE 424 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 WHOLE HILLARY CRIMINAL PROBE ON 425 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 THE E-MAILS. IT IS A CRIMINAL THING WHAT TOOK 426 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 PLACE. 427 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 428 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 I THINK SHE WON'T BE INDICTED 429 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 BECAUSE IT'S ALL DEMOCRATS THAT 430 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 ARE THE PROSECUTORS RIGHT NOW. 431 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 >> BUT HOW COULD YOUR CAMPAIGN, 432 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 WHAT COULD KEEP FROM YOU BEING 433 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE? 434 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 >> I DON'T KNOW. YOU JUST -- I'M JUST CHUGGING 435 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 ALONG. MAYBE PEOPLE GET TIRED OF ME. 436 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 WHO KNOWS? THIS PRESS IS CRAZY. 437 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 I TURN ON THE SHOWS, THE ENTIRE 438 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 SHOW IS -- LAST NIGHT ON ONE OF 439 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 THE SHOWS I WON'T MENTION WHICH, 440 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 THEY WERE INTERVIEWED A 441 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 CANDIDATE AND THEY ASKED IF HE 442 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 COULD COME BACK BECAUSE THEY 443 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 WANT TO TALK ABOUT TRUMP. 444 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000 I'M SAYING I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 445 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 I TUNED IN TO HEAR WHAT HE WAS 446 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 GOING TO SAY. 447 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 DO YOU THINK YOU CAN COME BACK? 448 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT DONALD 449 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 TRUMP? AND THEN THEY ONLY ASK HIM TRUMP 450 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 QUESTIONS. 451 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 SO I DON'T KNOW. 452 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 MAYBE PEOPLE GET BURNED OUT. 453 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN. 454 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG 455 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 TIME. 456 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 TIME. I'VE BEEN IN POLITICS FOR A LONG 457 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 TIME. NOW AS A RUNNER THEY DON'T -- 458 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 ALTHOUGH I MUST SAY I THINK THE 459 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,000 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, I 460 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 THINK THEY ARE REALLY -- THEY 461 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 HAVE BEEN VERY VERY NICE OVER 462 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 THE LAST FEW DAYS. 463 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 THEY SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. 464 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 THEY REACHED OUT. 465 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 THEY HAVE TALKED TO ME. 466 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 THEY HAVE TALKED TO MY PEOPLE. 467 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 THEY CANNOT BE NICER THAN 468 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 THEY'VE BEEN OVER THE LAST 469 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 FEW -- 470 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 >> THAT'S DIFFERENT. 471 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 >> THEY SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING, 472 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 JOE. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT REALLY 473 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 QUICKLY. 474 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 YESTERDAY THERE WERE REPORTS 475 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 THAT YOU HAD THREATENED TO RUN 476 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 AS AN INDEPENDENT BECAUSE THEY 477 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 WERE NOT TREATING YOU WELL. 478 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 WILL YOU RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT 479 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 OR IS THAT CHANGING? 480 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 ARE THEY STARTING TO TREAT YOU 481 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 IN A WAY THAT IS MORE 482 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 RESPECTFUL. 483 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 >> I WANT TO RUN AS A 484 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 REPUBLICAN. I'M LEADING EVERY POLL. 485 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 THAT MAY CHANGE. 486 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 WHO KNOWS. BUT I'M LEADING EVERY POLL. 487 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 IN CASES I'M LEADING BIG. 488 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 THE NEVADA POLL WAS 489 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,000 UNBELIEVABLE. LEADING BY YOU KNOW LIKE 18 490 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 POINTS. 491 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 THE NORTH CAROLINA POLL CAME 492 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 OUT. I'M LEADING THAT ONE BIG. 493 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS. 494 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 THE BEST WAY TO WIN IS TO WIN AS 495 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 A REPUBLICAN. 496 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 I DO NOT WANT TO DO INDEPENDENT 497 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 AT ALL. 498 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 NOW IF I'M TREATED POORLY 499 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 THAT'S ONE THING. 500 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 IF I'M TREATED WELL AND WITH 501 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 GREAT RESPECT AND DON'T WIN, I 502 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 WOULD NOT DO THAT. 503 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 BUT IF I'M TREATED POORLY I 504 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 WILL DO IT. 505 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 >> YOU'RE SAYING DONALD OVER 506 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS YOU SAY 507 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 THEY'VE BEEN CALLING AND HAVE 508 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 BEEN TREATING YOU BETTER. 509 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 >> YEAH WE'VE HAD GREAT 510 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 COMMUNICATION. THEY ARE TREATING ME WITH 511 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 TREMENDOUS RESPECT. 512 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 BECAUSE THEY SEE WHAT I'M DOING, 513 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,000 JOE. I'M NUMBER ONE IN THE POLLS. 514 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 AND THE REPUBLICAN -- 515 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 >> YOU KNOW HOW THEY HELD THAT? 516 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000 DONALD, DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY 517 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 KNOW THAT? DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY KNOW THAT 518 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 YOU'RE NUMBER ONE IN THE POLLS? 519 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 THEY ALL WATCH "MORNING JOE" 520 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 EVERY MORNING AND HEAR US TALK 521 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 ABOUT YOU BEING NUMBER ONE. 522 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT WATCH 523 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 THAT'S DOESN'T HEAR THAT. 524 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000 LET'S GO TO AMY. 525 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 >> MR. TRUMP, PLEASURE. 526 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 JUST SO YOU KNOW MIKA HAS BEEN 527 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 TOTALLY DEFENDING YOU ON 528 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 "MORNING JOE." SHE SAID YOU ARE A FORCE TO BE 529 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 RECKONED WITH. BUT I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT 530 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 THIS. YOU SAID IN THE PAST THAT YOU 531 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 PROBABLY IDENTIFY MORE AS A 532 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 DEMOCRAT AND YOU SAID THAT IN 533 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 YOUR VIEW THE ECONOMY DOES 534 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000 BETTER UNDER THE DEMOCRATS. 535 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 SO I WANT TO ASK YOU, WHY THEN 536 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 ARE YOU RUNNING AS A REPUBLICAN? 537 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 >> I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. 538 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 FIRST, OVER THE YEARS AS A 539 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 BUSINESSMAN, I'VE ALWAYS HELPED 540 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 EVERYBODY. 541 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 HELPED EVERYBODY. I'M A BUSINESSMAN. 542 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 AND THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM 543 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 WITH THE SYSTEM. 544 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 I HELP EVERYBODY. 545 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I CONTRIBUTE TO PEOPLE. 546 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,000 I -- WHEN I WANT SOMEBODY, THEY 547 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 ARE ALWAYS THERE FOR ME. 548 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 I THINK MOST PEOPLE UNDERSTAND. 549 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I PUT 550 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 IN A STATEMENT THAT I'M WORTH A 551 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 LOT OF MONEY. 552 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 MUCH, MUCH MORE MONEY THAN 553 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 ANYBODY EVEN THOUGHT. 554 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 >> BUT WHY DID YOU SAY YOU 555 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 IDENTIFY MORE AS A DEMOCRAT AND 556 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 THE ECONOMY DOES BETTER UNDER 557 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 DEMOCRATS? >> I IDENTIFY WITH SOME THINGS 558 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 AS A DEMOCRAT BUT GENERALLY 559 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 SPEAKING -- IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT 560 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 HAPPENED, I WAS NEVER A BUSH 561 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 FAN. I WILL TELL YOU. 562 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,000 IN FACT I JUST SAY ABOUT THIS 563 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 ONE, THE LAST THING WE NEED IS 564 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 ANOTHER BUSH. 565 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 WHEN THE ECONOMY CRASHED SO 566 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 HORRIBLY UNDER GEORGE BUSH 567 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 BECAUSE OF MISTAKES THEY MADE 568 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 HAVING TO DO WITH BANKING AND 569 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 LOTS OF OTHER THINGS, I DON'T 570 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 THINK THE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE 571 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 DONE THAT. 572 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,000 NOW I'VE SEEN IT BOTH WAYS. 573 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,000 I HATED WHAT I WAS WATCHING THE 574 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 LAST TWO YEARS OF GEORGE BUSH. 575 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 IT WAS A BUBBLE WAITING TO 576 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 EXPLODE. 577 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 IT WAS A BUBBLE THAT WITH JOE 578 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 AND MIKA I TOLD THEM IT WAS 579 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,000 WAITING TO EXPLODE. I TOLD A LOT OF PEOPLE. 580 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 I WAS RIGHT. 581 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 I'M PRETTY GOOD AT THAT STUFF. 582 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 BUT WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS A 583 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 DEATH WISH. 584 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,000 AND I SAW THAT. 585 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 THAT WAS A REPUBLICAN THING. 586 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 NOW WOULD A DEMOCRAT HAVE DONE 587 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 THOSE SAME THINGS? 588 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 POSSIBLY. IN ALL FAIRNESS TO McCAIN, WHEN 589 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 HE CAME IN I MEAN ABRAHAM 590 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 LINCOLN COULD HAVE RUN AGAINST 591 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 OBAMA AT THAT TIME. 592 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 YOU KNOW YOU JUST COULDN'T HAVE 593 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 WON. SO I HAVE SEEN THINGS OVER THE 594 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000 YEARS DONE BY REPUBLICANS THAT I 595 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 TOTALLY AGREE W I'M A 596 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 REPUBLICAN. 597 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 I'M ACTUALLY QUITE CONSERVATIVE 598 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 TO PUT IT MILDLY. 599 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 BUT I HAVE SEEN THINGS DONE BY 600 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 REPUBLICANS THAT ARE NOT GOOD. 601 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 >> GENE ROBINSON? 602 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 >> I WOULDN'T DO THAT. 603 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,000 >> DONALD AFTER ALL THE SWASH 604 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 BUCKLING RHETORIC, AFTER ALL YOU 605 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 SAID ABOUT THE OTHER REPUBLICAN 606 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 CANDIDATE AND IT'S REALLY 607 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 ENTERTAINING AND REALLY 608 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 EFFECTIVE IN MANY WAYS GIVEN 609 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 YOUR STANDINGS IN THE POLLS, HOW 610 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,000 YOU COULD SUPPORT ANY OF THESE 611 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 GUYS? 612 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 YOU HAVE POINTED OUT THEIR 613 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 DEFICIENCIES AGAIN AND AGAIN AND 614 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 AGAIN. HOW YOU COULD SUPPORT THEM IF 615 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 YOU KNOW FOR SOME REASON YOU 616 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 DIDN'T GET THE NOMINATION? 617 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 >> WELL FIRST OF ALL I ASSUME 618 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 THAT IS GENE ROBINSON WHO I'M 619 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 STARTING TO LOVE. 620 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 I'M STARTING TO LOVE GENE, OKAY? 621 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 I'M FALLING MADLY IN LOVE WITH 622 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 HIM. >> WE'RE BONDING. 623 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 >> GENE IT'S REALLY A GOOD 624 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 QUESTION. 625 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 NOW IF I'M A POLITICIAN YOU 626 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 KNOW, IT ALWAYS SICKENS ME WHEN 627 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 TWO PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING AND 628 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 WATCHING THE SHOWS AFTER THE 629 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 ELECTION AND HORRIBLE ENEMIES 630 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 AND FIGHTING AND FIGHTING. 631 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 AND THEN ONE LOSES AND THEY GET 632 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 UP TO THE PODIUM. 633 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 I LOVE SO AND SO. 634 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,000 HE IS SO WONDERFUL. 635 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 I'LL SUPPORT HIM. 636 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 THAT'S POLITICS. THERE MAY SOMEBODY PEOPLE LOOK 637 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,000 SOME OF THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE 638 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 RUNNING. 639 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 I HAVE A GREAT RESPECT FOR A 640 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE. 641 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 IT'S NOT LIKE I'M ENEMIES WITH 642 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 EVERYBODY. YOU SEE THAT. 643 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 SOME PEOPLE YOU KNOW GIVE ME A 644 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 LOT OF CREDIT FOR BRINGING UP 645 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,000 THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. 646 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 GIVE ME A LOT OF CREDIT BECAUSE 647 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,000 OF THE VETS. 648 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 I'M THE ONE THAT BROUGHT UP THE 649 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 VETS. I DID IT THROUGH JOHN McCAIN 650 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 BECAUSE HE'S DONE SUCH A POOR 651 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 JOB FOR THE VETERANS. 652 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I BRING UP THE VETS. 653 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 IT'S A MAJOR SUBJECT NOW. 654 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 THE VETS LOVE ME. 655 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 THE FACT IS THERE ARE A COUPLE 656 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 PEOPLE THAT IF THEY WON, I DON'T 657 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 THINK THEY'RE GOING TO WIN OR 658 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 CLOSE TO WINNING, FRANKLY, BUT 659 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 IF THEY WOULD WIN, I MAY NOT -- 660 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,000 IF I DON'T DO THIS UNLIKE OTHER 661 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 PEOPLE, I'M GOING BACK TO MY 662 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000 LIFE. I'M GOING HAVE A GOOD LIFE AND 663 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 I'M SACRIFICING A TREMENDOUS 664 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 AMOUNT TO DO THIS. 665 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 YOU KNOW I'M TAKING A HUGE -- 666 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 SORT OF A RISK BUT SACRIFICING A 667 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 LOT BY DOING THIS. 668 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 INCLUDING TENS OF MILLIONS OF 669 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 DOLLARS AND MUCH MORE THAN THAT. 670 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 PROBABLY -- I'M NOT TALKING 671 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 ABOUT THE COST OF A CAMPAIGN. 672 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,000 THAT IS THE SMALLEST COST. 673 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 I THINK THE CAMPAIGN IS PROBABLY 674 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 THE CHEAPEST THING. 675 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 BUT THERE COULD VERY WELL BE 676 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 GENE, YOU KNOW PEOPLE -- THERE 677 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,000 ARE PEOPLE THAT I DO NOT THINK 678 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 ARE VERY GOOD. 679 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 IT'S VERY HARD FOR ME TO SUPPORT 680 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 SOMEBODY THAT IS -- IF SOMEBODY 681 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 WON, I MAY SORT OF LIKE SHIFT 682 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:35,000 OFF INTO THE MOONLIGHT. 683 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 >> OKAY. 684 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000 >> I HOPE THAT WON'T BE THE 685 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 CASE. I HOPE THAT WON'T BE THE CASE. 686 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 IT COULD VERY WELL BE. 687 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000 >> ALL RIGHT. 688 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 DONALD TRUMP, THANK YOU SO MUCH 689 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 FOR WORKING WITH US. 690 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 I DON'T BELIEVE YOU'RE AS THIN 691 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 SKINNED AS YOU SOUND TODAY. 692 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 I THINK YOU'RE JUST POUNDING ME 693 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 IN THE HEAD. 694 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000 >> NO. 695 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,000 NO. THE TWO OF YOU ARE EXACTLY 696 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 ALIKE. >> OH, SFOPTOP THAT. 697 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 >> THANK YOU DONALD. 698 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 ALWAYS INTERESTING AND GOOD 699 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 LUCK. BE SAFE OUT ON THE