U.S. President Trump Holds Briefing at the White House in Washington, DC — AC1E

[0:00] good did you know when did you know after i spoke with president putin i guess right um we were [0:06] working on it yeah back channels right yeah right how about you well the state department's bha people [0:15] they kept you they told us yeah they didn't tell us what exactly was happening yeah but they told [0:19] me to pack my stuff be ready we did it at the highest level that i can tell you and [0:25] and we're very happy and he's a very we were talking with steven and the family these are very [0:31] nice people very very nice people would you have any questions and then we're going to florida [0:36] right as some of you are going uh would you have any questions yeah mr president there are other [0:42] americans who are still in russia who are being detained there in similar conditions to mr hubbard [0:48] can you see if there's a strategy to get all of them released we're going to be working on them [0:53] this was one that seemed to have caught a lot of imagination a lot of people thought it was [1:00] just a bad situation and we do you have could be eight could be maybe different numbers i'm hearing [1:07] different numbers but seems to be eight and we're working on them also do you know any of the other [1:14] people that were in i don't know any so you were very much isolated from all the foreigners they [1:20] actually had them on the front where the fighting is a lot of the fighting so you saw what was [1:25] happening with the whole thing well i didn't initially initially initially artillery fire with [1:32] the russian soldiers that's amazing they tend to forget about me they're all scrambling to try and [1:36] save their lives you know it's nasty stuff right yes it's not like that so they scrambled and they just [1:41] scrambled and they just left you but you yeah they forgot about that time that's nice i was [1:46] scrambling too with them that's amazing yeah no it's amazing it's a i guess they got along a little [1:51] bit and that's impressive any questions it's an honor to have you back it's a great honor thank you [2:02] and we're going to speak to them for a couple of minutes and we'll see you guys at the plane [2:06] are you going to iowa you mean you're not she came from iowa that's where i met her first right a long [2:13] time so i wanted to see if i could do tele-rallies because i'm very successful with you know we're [2:24] batting unbelievable at tele-rallies i i do them well and it's a great instrument it only seems to work [2:32] for me because there's other people calling nobody gets on the phone and i got a call from [2:39] both states kansas and iowa we're in good shape i think in a lot of states we had a great rally [2:45] yesterday as you know for darlene south carolina but i got a call from iowa and from from the people [2:53] and from my friends that are very very good and uh we have a couple of races that are very important [2:59] and they said if you could go it would be better than a tele-rally [3:04] and i tried to talk about that i said what about a tele-rally but they asked me so i'm going to do [3:10] two on sunday and i was a little bit concerned about saturday because it's a college football [3:17] it's iowa it's uh kansas but uh so i've i'm going to leave early in the morning on sunday and we're [3:25] going to do iowa iowa first i believe and then we go to kansas from there and then we come back and [3:33] then on monday we'll do some quite a few uh tele-rally these are telephonic rallies they're [3:39] fantastic actually and we're going to do a lot of them for a lot of congress people and we're going [3:46] to see if we can do you know the people want to you see the people there it's amazing the crowds [3:51] have been unbelievable biggest crowds anyone's ever seen the biggest crowds for midterms by [3:58] thousands of people if you look at florida i don't know if you see what's going on down there [4:02] they're waiting for me now see i'm supposed to be down there but i wanted to wait i want to wait [4:07] for steven no i wanted to wait for you but uh so we're doing it for byron donald's and uh the whole [4:16] group ashley but monday monday is going to be exciting but sunday is going to be a very exciting day and then [4:23] tuesday we're going to see how it all works out i think we're doing well [4:29] typically a president whether he's good or bad republican or democrat loses the midterms [4:36] nobody's ever explained why but i think we have a shot at doing well maybe very well but you know [4:44] pretty well on the finance hack do you think that it should be attributed to that north korean hacker [4:51] group we don't know we're looking at that the hack with finance we're looking at that [4:55] do you think any of that money will be caught back or is it well they say they're going to get it back [4:59] and they're saying they're guaranteeing it or something they are but no it was a hack that's the [5:05] problem you know the old-fashioned way when you used to sign a check yeah take that these are [5:11] different people never see the money anymore no so i've always felt it was a little bit dangerous but [5:16] you know they say they have it pretty much under control we'll see [5:21] more talks are happening there are talks no they want to talk they keep talking but look they're not [5:28] paying their soldiers they're not paying their police they're you know they're in a lot of trouble [5:32] and we have time frankly you know it's a war but it's not a typical war we've been in we've been [5:40] there for seven months uh we're spending very little money relatively speaking i heard somebody say uh [5:48] you're spending money i said well any money we spent we've more than made up for in a place called [5:54] venezuela like by 10 times you know i watched this guy ro connor who's a lightweight and he was saying that [6:01] president trump is spending a lot of money well i spent a lot of money in order to get rid of a [6:05] nuclear weapon which we've done but any money we've spent in iran we've more than made up for with [6:12] what we did in venezuela taken in hundreds of billions of dollars many many times but they don't [6:19] mention these things so that's why i like to have news conferences i can mention when other people forget [6:26] they also said it was terrible that they attacked the house of elan omar which is not her real name [6:33] it was terrible that they would attack her well they attacked my house and nobody brought that up [6:38] they attacked a place called mar-a-lago nobody brought it up and you know i'm sitting i'm watching [6:44] they're good people and is that a helicopter oh you do you want to see a nice helicopter how do you like [6:54] the helipad see this that's landing right now i'm going to have a helicopter because of halloween we [7:02] had to take a very long drive for the last four days getting it ready so now we have a helicopter go [7:07] ahead please russian sovereign wealth fund are you considering lifting sanctions on the russian [7:13] sovereign not lifting or not doing anything but you know i was very happy they wanted me while i was [7:20] negotiating for you people stupid people wanted me to put sanctions on russia if i would have put [7:27] sanctions on russia your sons would have said that wasn't good the russians laugh at me i think you [7:34] hear that they laugh at the sanctions he knows it brings disrespect how would it have been i'm speaking [7:41] to president putin i'd like to get stephen hubbard back mr president and by the way we're putting [7:47] sanctions on you right now can you imagine you would have been back yeah he would have been back [7:53] so no it was a great honor to get you out really and he's it's a great family please jenny [8:07] i i had heard it many times before and i reached the state where seeing is believing actions speak [8:14] louder than words i never trusted what they said only when they started giving me new clothes and leaving [8:22] me to the exit of the prison i went out and i saw the car and i was accompanied by a couple of russians [8:31] then i believed i finally believed you know i'm on the drive from moscow to st petersburg i'm really [8:38] going somewhere did you think you'd be there for many years yes many and you thought your father would [8:43] be there for many years i was i was afraid they were we were going to lose him there i wouldn't have [8:48] lasted another year you look very healthy to me well i mean you have no weight problem he looks very [8:55] good he's been bulking up on the protein anyway thank you very much everybody we'll see you in a [9:00] little bit thank you thank you guys thank you [9:04] thank you