🇺🇸 President Trump & Dana White Talk to Reporters in the White House Press Room [LIVE]

[0:00] essentially gone their manufacturing capability is reduced to about they can still make [0:05] some limited numbers of missiles and drones but it's basically about 85 percent gone and they're [0:13] talking to us and they're talking very politely then we'll see what happens but there's a good [0:18] chance that that could get ended so at the conclusion of the military engagement the [0:26] american people and the people of the world will be far safer and more secure than they've been in [0:32] many many years because iran was killing many people you know that war was started in 1979 we [0:39] didn't start the war they did even if you go back to the ss coal that was their that was their [0:45] situation and a lot of people were killed a lot of american people were killed a lot of people [0:50] throughout the world were killed and if you go back just over the last seven or eight months [0:55] 75 000 at a minimum protesters have been killed so it's a nasty place but uh we think that [1:04] it's in pretty good shape we'll see what happens i don't guarantee anything but if we do have to go [1:11] back in we are locked and loaded and ready to go with that being said i was having a little fun and [1:17] i said how about dana white being the press secretary you know press secretary he's a great guy [1:23] he's done an unbelievable job most successful uh you know we talked don king who's a friend of mine i [1:31] got a lot of friends but you talk about fight promoters this is more than a fight promoter this is a man [1:36] that's done the most incredible job anybody's ever seen ufc it's like broadcasting the nfl the numbers and [1:45] what he's been able to do and he's done a lot of press and i said you know what i want to elevate you [1:51] are going to bring you into the press room and dana white could be our press secretary if you [1:55] would only take the job there would never have been even caroline would admit that dana is really [2:01] very unique the only problem is he'll talk for a little while and then he's going to beat the hell [2:06] out of you so and i don't know if daniel would like that i don't think daniel wants to take him on [2:10] but he uh he's built an amazing an amazing machine he's got a big fight this weekend at madison [2:18] square garden with the two greatest women fighters of all time as far as i'm concerned [2:26] the women's fighting it's not a nice thing but they are they are very tough when i say no no men in [2:33] women's sports that's great i would not want to fight however i would not how would i do against [2:38] one of them would i do well i don't think so well and he said not well i would this would uh this [2:43] would not be a good occurrence anyway but i thought i'd bring day there because he loves the [2:49] idea i love the idea the only thing is we have other things we have to think about but he's a [2:54] unique a unique person and he was seeing me anyway unrelated and i thought maybe he would say a few [3:02] words and i think he probably liked the job he loves the country and he would do a hell of a job so [3:08] uh you were here he was here and dana please say a few words dana white thank you i've always wanted [3:18] to do this who has the first question i have zero political aspirations uh i was in a fight for [3:24] zufa boxing in london when he called me and told me that he had done this and the last 24 hours of [3:29] my life has been insane um but yeah good to see you yes ma'am [3:36] the toughest most resilient human being that i've ever met in my entire life [3:52] many times during you know the last eight ten years whatever it's been i have told him but why [3:58] why do you keep doing this why are you doing this when he was going through everything that he went [4:02] through and i mean as tough and as real as resilient as i thought he was after uh he got [4:08] shot i uh yeah i he's he is a one of one unique human being and uh yeah would it be a knockout [4:17] victory for president trump it would be it would it would be very bad yeah i think it would be very [4:23] bad i can't believe you actually have questions for me yes the president has said he might consider [4:29] a pardon for pete robes what is your advice to the president about that i don't advise the [4:35] president on anything ever um but yeah i think it's fair i think it's fair to pardon pete rose [4:40] yes but why does he need to pardon pete he was not really convicted of a government was tax [4:46] charges sir oh he did yes sir i'd give pete rose a pardon all right i think pete rose was very [4:52] mistreated he was you know uh four thousand two hundred and some odd hits way ahead of anybody else [4:59] the record can never be broken and he was caught gambling now it's legal right he was gambling on [5:06] his own team then he wasn't gambling against that's different he was gambling he shouldn't have done [5:11] it but he went through 40 years of hell and they never and they should have given him a pardon they [5:16] should have given him into the baseball hall of fame a long time ago and i spoke to the commission [5:20] about it and he agreed to do it and then he waited though and pete rose died so it didn't help him [5:27] too much but uh i would give pete rose a pardon mr president did you tell the president no to the [5:37] press secretary job i don't tell the president no to anything i no i didn't say no i literally [5:42] everybody every media outlet was calling me and i didn't want to be disrespectful and say anything [5:47] until he he uh he said something first so we were having a very bad press day and i said i don't [5:55] know why i thought of his name he's been my friend for a long time i said you know i think i'm going [6:00] to get dana white to be my new press secretary they sent it to a group of the press and that was it [6:06] i'm sort of kidding and then they wrote the story as though i wasn't kidding and you were inundated [6:12] and i was inundated and he was here anyway with we thought to have a little fun and we brought [6:17] dana here he would be fantastic [6:20] dana first of all were you surprised by the results of the midterms last tuesday and mr president [6:29] you on the campaign trail you have said that you have stopped iran from having a nuclear weapon [6:36] why not just declare an end to the conflict and be done with it [6:40] we have some great allies there and we have to make sure they're not hurt and they would be hurt [6:48] uh they are right now a lot safer than they were six months ago because iran's been very much [6:55] decapitated but they're still the bully ultimately a little bit and i see that we want to make sure [7:01] they're okay and we want to make sure it's a long-term solution not just a short-term they'll never [7:06] have a nuclear weapon but we have to make sure that's a long term so it's ending quickly but [7:10] uh we want to take care of people that have been very good to us over here [7:15] you told 60 minutes that you felt that your deportation policy may have gone too far but then [7:26] you named the architect of that policy stephen miller to be your chief of staff have you told [7:32] him that you want changes to the deportation policy we have a very strong deportation policy [7:37] there's no happiness they don't know anything to keep that but uh we focus on the worst of the worst [7:44] we want to get the murderers out we've gotten most of them out we've got most of the really bad you [7:50] know they they allowed joe biden allowed under well uh 25 million people to come out of that [7:56] 11 888 murderers most of whom committed more than one murder we've gotten most of them we want to get [8:05] the worst of the worst and then we'll see what happens but uh they came in illegally many of [8:10] them have good jobs now they're productive some of them are even paying taxes and we're seeing what's [8:16] going to happen there won't be amnesty somebody suggested will there be amnesty no but uh they [8:21] came in they knew the law uh and we're working with a lot of different groups to see whether or not but [8:27] my policy hasn't changed what we are doing is absolutely the worst of the worst we're getting the [8:32] murderers they allowed people to come in from prisons they emptied their prisons into our country [8:37] many countries and they emptied our prisons into our country uh the drug dealers that we have uh the [8:44] people from the mental institutions mental institutions all over the world were emptied out [8:50] prisons all over the world the congo were in the congo their prison population was emptied into our [8:58] country uh all over south america all over asia they did that too what biden did to this country [9:06] should never ever be forgotten and i hope the democrats will not try and allow that to happen [9:12] we've seen the stock market really take you know up and down like a roller coaster last couple days [9:20] today up last week it tanked not last week right after the election it went down to three trillion [9:27] dollars that was because of the result of the election because the stock market does not want [9:32] to see democrats and your 401ks have gone way down because of the ridiculous result it's not even a [9:41] result it's almost hard to believe now i wasn't on the ballot i shouldn't take anything personally [9:46] but i will tell you i thought it was ridiculous but the stock market went way down right after that [9:53] event today it's way up because i think they feel we have things under control [9:58] thank you sir thank you sir when were you uh first informed that there was an issue with jensen [10:04] playing and the affair and what was presented to you at the time what was the concern i would say that [10:11] when i heard about it first i was amazed because i view him as a very high quality person i've known [10:18] him a long time uh it's actually the largest i think by value it's probably the largest but one of the [10:24] companies in the world he did that with a chip you know when you think about it he's got a chip that's [10:30] 10 years advanced can't be cut because of the complexity can't even the blackwell can't even be [10:35] copied he's an amazing guy i just hope it's uh i hope there's no problem if there is a problem we'll let [10:42] you know about it but i hope there's no problem i believe he's suffering greatly i read his statement [10:47] and i believe he's suffering greatly uh more so because of his family his wife who he loves [10:54] and his family but he is definitely suffering and i hope when were you first told of these [11:03] potential issues with mr white well i've been hearing about it and i've been reading a little [11:08] bit about it over a period of time but uh not too long ago and we'll look into it i know the fbi is [11:15] looking into it in terms of something else and i think that he'll be in good shape mr president you [11:24] say the war with iran will be ending fairly soon you've made this claim dozens of times over the [11:29] past eight months why should well no i made the claim that they won't have a nuclear weapon and they [11:34] won't have a nuclear weapon well we knocked them out a year ago uh that was i said i was going to do [11:40] that and i kept my word on that now what we're doing is we're uh it's really status quo territory [11:47] we're keeping it going we have the greatest military blockade ever we have the new iron gate iron gate [11:55] is land so by land and by sea and we will uh take care of business look iran i hope we're going to be [12:02] able to make a deal with them but nothing's going to happen and if we have to we'll take very serious [12:09] we are so loaded we just have another aircraft carrier it's all loaded up to the gills with [12:15] brand new beautiful stuff we're making more military equipment and munitions right now than at any time [12:21] in the history of our country we've built and are building more plants our our defense companies are [12:27] building more plants than ever at any time in the history of our country and many of those plants are [12:34] opened some opened and some are opening soon we're building new patriots we're building new tomahawks [12:41] new thad systems and we have more under construction now than at any time ever and uh and we're taking [12:48] it and obviously we're taking it for ourselves first uh what happened is and wasn't so much iran [12:54] joe biden gave 350 billion dollars worth of free equipment to ukraine now that was unbelievable now [13:05] they pay and we give it to the european union we have a very good relationship we took them from two [13:11] percent to five percent is what they're paying now which is pretty amazing nobody thought that could [13:16] happen but they pay full for the equipment joe biden gave free equipment 350 billion dollars [13:22] and uh we are now building more military equipment and munitions than at any time in the history of our [13:30] country uh we just had just in case we had another aircraft carrier we have many uh sailing over and [13:38] just arriving in the middle east so we have three and they're all locked and loaded and hopefully [13:44] we don't have to use them [13:45] no i don't think so i mean maybe i'm sure president she will ask me about it i just know [14:00] jensen very well i just think he's a very honorable man i mean he's a great built a great company [14:06] american company and i think he's a very honorable guy and i feel very confident that he'll be in [14:12] good shape when you went to china earlier this year in may did you know about these alleged ties [14:21] the chinese spy then or no i didn't hear about it then but a lot of people have heard about it [14:26] and jensen totally denies that he had i asked him today because i did speak to him today just to see [14:32] if he's feeling all right how you doing and i asked him about that and he said he had absolutely [14:38] no idea that the person in question was a spy i asked him that question did you have any idea [14:45] that she was a spy he said i had no idea that she was a spy and i really believe him yeah [14:49] breakthrough on ukraine at the talk to nabidabi this week and if so i just think that ukraine and [14:57] russia are tired of fighting they're tired of seeing dead young soldiers mostly soldiers most of the people [15:04] of soldiers think of it they're losing 25 000 dennis can you imagine 25 that's like a stadium [15:10] madison square garden you have your fights 25 000 that's what it holds and they're losing that every [15:17] single month dead young beautiful people and it's it's got to stop you know it doesn't affect us [15:24] but i'm able to get them together and we're meeting now right now as we speak and the meetings are going [15:31] okay but we're trying to get it settled only because we want to say it doesn't affect us as [15:37] a country but it affects me 25 000 people a month are being killed [15:42] mr president a number of senate uh gop members are urging the conference to delay their leadership [15:51] votes tomorrow uh we know that john thune is running on a post in the senate do you think that [15:55] mr thune has earned the right to lead senate well look he's a very fine man i know him very well [16:02] uh but that's really up to the senators i like john thune uh i wish they could get more produced you [16:09] know we uh we've had save america up there we've had you know voter id and proof of citizenship and [16:16] many other things uh it's not easy uh he's got some people that first of all you have 100 negative [16:22] democrats they never vote yes they always vote no that means yes they get almost 100 of the [16:28] republicans and you have some republicans in there i can name them but why should i [16:32] that are very difficult and you know i said as leader you have to get those people but [16:38] john's a good man i guess they're going to be voting tomorrow or maybe it's too late i don't [16:43] know what the status but uh you know he's a friend of mine i wish the senate could get more done [16:49] about venezuela uh do you plan on having elections there before the end at some point yeah at some [16:58] point yes mr president uh earlier today you posted on social media where you questioned [17:03] whether the midterm election results were honest yeah you believe that the election was rigged and [17:07] separately did you did you watch uh senator thomas massey lay out his articles of impeachment this [17:14] afternoon no i don't watch massey look now massey's a loser um he shouldn't be taking up the time of [17:21] uh congress or the senate or anything that he's doing you guys are stone-cold loser would always he's a [17:28] republican always he would vote against you're just we could come up with the best bill we could [17:34] come up with and he would always vote against there's something wrong with him and i said look [17:39] i've got to challenge him and i challenged him and he lost in a landslide to a very good man we have a [17:44] very good man ed gilraine who's great took his place but you know i went and did something that [17:51] is very tough to do now i challenged others also i challenged cornyn i challenged uh tillis and i [17:58] challenged uh if you look at louisiana cassidy three so that makes things a little bit harder to get [18:05] their votes because i wouldn't say they like me but of all of them i would say there's something wrong [18:11] with thomas massey he was an automatic no vote you could go in with the greatest bill bills were even [18:17] democrats were voting and he'd be no and i said what is wrong with this guy he's a sick sick guy [18:24] there's something wrong with him actually now he's he's after pete hexath he doesn't like hexath [18:28] but really what has hexath done he won the war he was in charge he won the war in venezuela as i said [18:37] 48 minutes it was flawless nobody killed and he certainly i think he's won the war in iran but he's [18:45] certainly winning the war iran would love to make a deal and they've been obliterated their navy and [18:51] air force so he won the war in two places two big places very important very impactful and they were [18:59] one they're not like vietnam when nothing was one or afghanistan or iraq or any of these wars when [19:06] nothing was one there was nothing one just lots of death and then let's leave in one case he's not [19:12] they're not going to have a nuclear weapon and the other we're making hundreds of billions of [19:17] dollars for this country so i say this pete hexath won two wars oh let's impeach him what about impeaching [19:27] the gentleman from biden his person that disappeared for two weeks and nobody had any idea where he [19:36] was what about impeaching the people that ran the vietnam war what about impeaching that when [19:41] that ran iraq and afghanistan and all of these other wars where thousands of lives have been you [19:50] know we lost 18 people 18 they lost 65 000 in vietnam we're in there for seven months they're in [19:59] there for 21 years what about impeaching those people what about impeaching the leaders of these [20:06] stupid wars that were done when nothing was gained in iran they won't have a nuclear weapon that's a [20:12] big thing now short term probably bad for me because people want to have a little bit lower energy cost [20:18] we'll get it back down i created the lowest cost you know it's even lower now than it was with biden [20:24] and obama but i've done something different they won't have a nuclear weapon that's a big thing [20:29] and with the other we're making a fortune and we have tremendous amounts of oil we're going to have [20:34] we have more oil including venezuela than saudi arabia and russia combined by far in fact by two [20:43] yeah please well i think the numbers were terrible in terms of those early votes you look at all those [20:53] early votes and and look at another one i'm watching alaska so you have a guy named dan sullivan [20:59] and another guy named dan sullivan runs and one's a j and one's an s and the one with a j which is a [21:07] fake dan sullivan tries to have his initial change to s he never ran before he never was a political [21:14] person before he was fraudulently put in the race and then they tried to change his middle name so it was [21:21] an s to confuse so dan sullivan and the woman peltola is they're very close he's only i guess she's [21:31] four five hundred votes but this fake dan sullivan because of confusion only because they're meant [21:37] to vote has two thousand five hundred almost three thousand votes that means he wins the election [21:42] but in addition they have a second person they put in and they made a big issue with the second and [21:49] that person is four thousand or five thousand votes those votes should go also but even if you don't [21:55] include that you have a dan sullivan and a dan sullivan and the democrats put him up in order [22:03] to confuse the voters so anybody that voted for that second dan sullivan the fake dan sullivan [22:09] was supposed to be a vote for the real dan sullivan so they stole it and that election should be called [22:17] right now because dan sullivan won easily if you add up the numbers now if you add up the numbers for [22:23] the second person they put in he's leading by six seven thousand votes go ahead please [22:32] you have multiple times given vladimir putin yeah i'll stand by you have multiple mr president [22:37] he won two wars he was in charge we all won i had great people you what massey says that he's [22:45] carried out massey's a loser just like you're a loser at cnn just like your ratings are a loser [22:52] uh massey is a loser stone cold loser uh i ran i did something that nobody's done i took on a guy [23:00] that was in his own way sort of popular in his state and i beat him badly beat him easily with a [23:09] man that never ran before but a good man uh massey has a lot of hatred in his heart i watched i heard [23:17] what massey did i don't want to watch i don't want to waste my time watching him uh we won two wars [23:22] we won two wars and we've made the world a lot safer place and then we're supposed to be why [23:30] haven't we gone after all these other people that ran wars that lost what about this what about [23:35] what about what's your what about good old lloyd why didn't we go after him why didn't we go after [23:41] the people that disappeared they're in charge of the military and they disappeared from nobody knew [23:48] had any idea that nothing happened to him uh what about all these people that lost wars you don't [23:54] have to all i can say is this we have the highest recruit the recruitment numbers of you know when i [24:01] came in when i was campaigning we had the worst recruitment people wanting to join the military in [24:09] the history of our country we couldn't fill any of the spots it was a disaster now we have the best [24:15] numbers we've ever had more people want to be in the army navy air force marines coast guard even the [24:21] police space force firemen anybody with a uniform so now we have the best numbers we've ever had [24:29] and i will say this the soldiers the actual soldiers the the great people that do the work the great [24:36] patriots they love pete hexath so if you go back two years ago before i got into office two years ago [24:45] we could not recruit people and you know that better the army was way beyond everybody now we [24:53] have waiting lists of people trying to get in he's done a very good job [24:57] you've given vladimir putin multiple deadlines over the last 22 months to enter into a ceasefire but [25:13] also to meet directly with vladimir zelensky he has repeatedly ignored your demands yet you have [25:19] provided well yeah you're saying he's ignored has he been fighting us in the war yeah yeah let me ask [25:24] you this question who are you with who are you with with ms now what what ms now it's a fake [25:30] that's a fake deal i don't want to take your question go ahead go ahead ms now gets the worst [25:35] ratings in their history used to be ms dnc it's one of the worst uh you're a fake network go ahead [25:43] jennifer jennifer go ahead jennifer go ahead ms now what a jennifer go ahead ms now what a jennifer [25:51] here at the white house he's doing a great job i don't think he's going to be great he's been [26:00] with me from the beginning he's smart he's tough he's fair and he actually will get along i think [26:06] very well with the democrats i want to put a finer point they're going to try and you know i'm open to [26:15] it we're not going to have amnesty or anything we're going to you know people are going to [26:19] do it the right way you have to do it's unfair to other people but certainly i'm open to it [26:25] no no not you not you go ahead to put a finer point on what exactly you were made aware of [26:33] the intelligence around jensen wang oh i have to check but this has been going on out last year [26:40] did you read that well i'd certainly check with the intelligence people they could have been mentioned [26:45] certainly it didn't make much of an impact on me yeah what are your first tests uh for bipartisanship [26:51] and this new era is going to be working with democrats on this permitting bill which is [26:55] expected to get a vote the primary bill is a great bill that's supposed to be bipartisan [26:58] we we are behind it 100 percent are you going to whip that in the house [27:02] well we may see but the democrats want that i mean maybe they've changed but they wanted as much as [27:08] the republic wind turbines in the future being very critical then that's part of this bill [27:12] well that's part of the bill sir a key part of the bill you're not going to well this bill has [27:16] been fully negotiated uh i will not approve wind turbines because wind turbines are a major loser [27:22] as you said before it was going to be your pleasure to take cuba in your mandate do you still plan on [27:34] taking cuba or well cuba's calling it's a failing nation it's got an ideology very similar to what the [27:41] democrat ideology is and it's a failing nation it's a communist nation socialist nations sort of [27:49] everything all wrapped in into one uh we have tremendous people who were treated very badly [27:56] cuban americans and they voted for me 94 percent and we take care of those people but cuba is a [28:03] failing nation uh we will help them on a humanitarian basis we we are helping them actually but uh we'll [28:11] see what happens cuba is going to be interesting i would imagine it will fall fairly soon i can't keep [28:18] this man waiting he's a very very powerful so let me ask wait wait wait so let me ask you the big [28:24] question dana would you like to be press secretary of the united states of america look at the sign [28:31] you'd have this behind you all the time the white house question would you like that or do you just [28:36] want to stay with this ridiculous ufc uh thank you for the offer sir uh for the offer i have no [28:42] no no i do not want to be in politics i am devastated to hear this goodbye everybody [28:47] thank you everybody just to conclude our country is doing really well can you get we're respected by [29:07] everybody in the world something that was not true two years ago our country is doing better than [29:12] it's ever done before thank you very much