EXCLUSIVE: Trump addresses COST of IRAN war, GOP MIDTERM chances with ‘Full Measure’

[0:03] This week, prospects for talks to end the Mid-East conflict between the U.S. and Iran. [0:08] But it's difficult diplomacy. [0:11] They make a deal and then they break it. [0:13] Then they make a deal, they break it. [0:15] It's a difficult group. [0:17] Hello, Sarah. [0:18] President Trump joins me for an exclusive interview on the one story that has the world's attention. [0:25] So is it accurate to say you think the combat operations are over and done? [0:30] No, I didn't say that. [0:31] But I said they are defeated, but that doesn't mean they're done. [0:36] We cover concerns foreign and domestic. [0:40] How do you feel today about the Republicans' chance in the midterms? [0:43] And even tackle all American issues. [0:47] Your Justice Department is investigating the NFL. [0:50] Do you think this is price gouging on America's favorite sport? [0:53] They're making a lot of money. [0:55] They could make a little bit less. [0:56] This week, my White House interview with President Trump. [1:00] Thank you for joining us on Full Measure. [1:22] Thank you. [1:22] First of all, we're glad that you are safe and that your family is safe after the latest attempt on your life. [1:27] How are you and the family doing? [1:28] Very good. [1:30] It was an interesting evening, but I felt very secure. [1:34] And I think Secret Service did a very good job. [1:37] The judge apologized to the suspect for the treatment that he's gotten in jail. [1:41] Well, I heard that. [1:44] And then after watching that, they went back a couple of years. [1:48] And he was very apologetic to another suspect who I didn't even know about. [1:54] But he was also, the same judge was very apologetic to somebody else having to do with a similar subject. [2:02] And not even believable, actually. [2:06] On Iran, would you say the war is over? [2:10] Is it paused? [2:11] Or is it very much active? [2:13] Well, they're militarily defeated. [2:16] In their own minds, maybe they don't know that. [2:19] But I think they do, because I deal with them. [2:22] And we cannot ever let Iran have a nuclear weapon. [2:27] But they are militarily defeated. [2:30] They have no Navy. [2:31] They have no Air Force. [2:32] They have no anti-aircraft weaponry. [2:36] They have no radar. [2:39] They have no leaders. [2:40] Their leaders are gone. [2:42] The first set, the A team is gone. [2:44] The B team is gone. [2:46] And part of the C team is gone. [2:48] But I think we're dealing with people that have a certain power. [2:54] It's very interesting, because, you know, they make a deal and then they break it. [2:58] Then they make a deal, they break it. [3:00] It's a difficult group. [3:01] But from a military standpoint, I mean, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. [3:09] Where are we in the war if we've not yet gotten the nuclear materials, the enriched uranium, from them? [3:16] Well, we'll get that at some point, whatever we want. [3:19] We'll have it surveilled. [3:21] You know, I did a thing called Space Force. [3:23] And they are watching that every... [3:25] If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge. [3:31] No, we have that very well surveilled. [3:33] If anybody got near the place, we will know about it. [3:36] And we'll blow them up. [3:37] We'll blow them up. [3:38] So is it accurate to say you think the combat operations are over and done? [3:43] But there may be... [3:43] No, I didn't say that. [3:44] I said they are defeated, but that doesn't mean they're done. [3:50] We could go in for two more weeks and do every single target. [3:55] We have certain targets that we wanted to... [3:57] And we've done probably 70% of them. [4:00] But we have other targets that we could conceivably hit. [4:05] But even if we didn't do that, you know, that would just be final touches. [4:09] But even if we didn't do that, it would take them many years to rebuild. [4:13] A few politicians, I think, would be prepared to take a political hit [4:18] on something as important to so many Americans as oil and gas prices in the short term, [4:23] even for something very important in the long term. [4:25] Yeah. [4:26] The political and media climate, I don't think they really allow for this sort of thing. [4:30] They want immediate reactions and responses to things. [4:33] No, I think it's easy when I say it. [4:35] And somebody like you says, you know, answer that question. [4:39] And it gives me a couple of seconds. [4:41] It's really easy to answer. [4:42] We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon because they're crazy. [4:48] We cannot let them have access to nuclear. [4:51] Obama did it. [4:53] If I didn't terminate the Iran nuclear deal, they would have had it. [4:57] And they would have used it on Israel and the Middle East right now. [5:01] And maybe beyond, you know, they actually had rockets that you saw that the other day [5:06] that could reach Europe, they would have used it 100%. [5:10] And by the way, not 50% or 100% they would have used it. [5:14] They were dying to get it. [5:15] Then, so I took Barack Hussein Obama's horrible Iran nuclear deal. [5:21] I terminated it at my first time. [5:23] Knocked out Soleimani. [5:25] Very important. [5:25] If you didn't knock out Soleimani, I think it would have been a different country. [5:28] It would have been more competent. [5:30] But he was an evil genius. [5:31] But he was an evil guy. [5:33] The roadside bombs, et cetera. [5:35] Killed many, many people. [5:37] Maimed so many people. [5:39] The legs, the arms, the face. [5:41] So that was a big thing. [5:42] I took him out. [5:44] And then very big. [5:46] I don't say, I don't know. [5:47] They're all so important, if you think. [5:49] I'm thinking which is the most. [5:50] But when those beautiful B-2 bombers attacked eight months ago and attacked their potential nuclear site, [5:59] they would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks if we didn't. [6:03] That's why I had to go in. [6:04] I knew that they were going to have a nuclear weapon. [6:08] And we obliterated their, I call it the nuclear dust. [6:13] There's a lot of nuclear dust. [6:16] But we obliterated the site at 1 o'clock in the morning with no moon. [6:19] You couldn't see a thing. [6:20] And they went in and stealth. [6:24] They went in and they did their job. [6:26] They dropped those bombs and they landed perfectly. [6:30] And it just obliterated. [6:32] If we didn't do that, they would have already blown up Israel, in my opinion. [6:35] Israel would have been blown up with a nuclear weapon. [6:39] What's next in light of all of this for the U.S. and NATO? [6:44] Well, NATO has proven to be a paper tiger. [6:47] They were there to help. [6:49] You know, this is. [6:49] The interesting thing is many of those NATO countries use. [6:52] We don't use the straight. [6:53] We don't need it. [6:54] In fact, boats are coming up to Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska and filling up with oil. [7:01] We don't need the straight. [7:04] We were doing it to help Israel and Saudi Arabia and Qatar and UAE and others. [7:13] We don't need it. [7:14] We don't need it. [7:15] It's an amazing. [7:15] We don't use it. [7:17] We had 1% and we did that as a favor. [7:21] And we have, we're now producing more oil and gas than Russia and Saudi Arabia put together. [7:28] Think of that, Cheryl. [7:29] If you take everything that Russia does, everything that Saudi Arabia puts out, we produce much [7:36] more oil and gas than Russia and Saudi Arabia put together. [7:43] And by the end of this year, that number will probably double. [7:49] On some domestic issues, one of them a lot of people are interested in involving the NFL. [7:55] Your Justice Department is investigating the NFL for moving a lot of viewers from free broadcast television to more expensive pay programming like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Peacock, and YouTube, where the NFL makes more money. [8:07] Do you think this is price gouging on America's favorite sport? [8:11] Should the government do anything about it? [8:12] It's just tough. [8:13] It's just tough. [8:14] You've got people that love football. [8:16] They're great people. [8:17] They don't make enough money to go and pay this. [8:19] It's tough. [8:20] And they could be killing the golden goose. [8:22] I mean, they have that stupid kickoff thing that you can't watch. [8:25] It's unwatchable. [8:26] I hate the games where they, you know, they have the new phony kickoff. [8:30] I don't think it's any safer. [8:32] I hope college football doesn't do that. [8:34] Do you know what I'm talking about? [8:36] I'm not a big... [8:37] You're not a footballer. [8:37] You are not a football fan. [8:39] These people know what I'm talking about. [8:41] That, you know, they ruin the game. [8:45] But they have to be careful because, you know, others have tried this, and all of a sudden you don't have a sport anymore. [8:51] Probably will. [8:53] Government will step in and do something. [8:55] There's something very sad when they take football away from many, many people. [9:01] Very sad. [9:02] I don't like it. [9:03] So do you think the government will step in and do something? [9:05] I don't know, but I don't like it. [9:06] I don't like it. [9:07] They're making a lot of money. [9:08] They could make a little bit less. [9:10] They could let the people see. [9:12] You have people that live for Sunday. [9:14] They live. [9:16] They can't think about anything else. [9:18] And then all of a sudden they're going to have to pay $1,000 a game. [9:22] It's crazy. [9:23] So I'm not happy about it. [9:25] More with President Trump from the White House after a short break. [9:45] How do you feel today about the Republicans' chance in the midterms? [9:48] And if the Republicans were not to hold control of Congress, how does that change your strategy as president? [9:54] Well, they'll find a reason to impeach me, even though a lot of people said I had the greatest first term in the history of it. [9:59] They'll try and impeach me, probably. [10:02] But, see, we don't play that game. [10:05] We don't play like them. [10:06] They play dirty. [10:07] They have bad policy. [10:09] You know, if they had normal policy, it would be a lot tougher, frankly. [10:16] But when they have men and women's sports, transgender, mutilization of your children for everyone, open borders so that the world can pour into our country, criminals. [10:28] We took in 25 million people over the Biden four years, and 11,888 were murderers, most of whom, substantially more than 50 percent, committed more than one murder. [10:45] Welcome to America. [10:47] We took in drug dealers and people from mental institutions that were closed up. [10:53] They would empty entire mental institutions into our country. [10:58] They would take a mental institution in a South American country, open it up, bring these people into our country, let them go, close the institution in whatever country it may be in, save a fortune. [11:15] And Biden allowed this to happen. [11:17] Now we have the strongest borders we've ever had. [11:20] We have, as you know, for 11 months, they say nobody has come into our country illegally. [11:26] You know why nobody tries? [11:27] Nobody makes a trip up. [11:29] The trip is not worthwhile because they know they're not going to get through. [11:34] So once they know that, they don't make the trip. [11:37] But we're running a great country. [11:38] We're respected by everybody now. [11:40] Again, we weren't respected. [11:42] We were a laughingstock for four years. [11:44] We were a very, very unsafe place. [11:48] You know, murderers are down now to the lowest in 125 years, the year 1900. [11:53] But we were a country that was a dead country, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. [12:00] It's pretty, pretty amazing what we've done in a short time. [12:03] As straightforward as securing the border seemed to be once you got into office, it almost implies that another president could reverse it as quickly. [12:11] Is there any way to protect against that in the future? [12:14] Yeah. Vote Republican. [12:16] It's very simple. [12:16] On Venezuela and voter fraud, there are Venezuelan engineer whistleblowers who have provided your administration, my understanding is, with a lot of information and documentation of alleging vote rigging in the U.S. elections, including in 2020, through an operation engineered in part by our foreign adversaries and centered in Venezuela. [12:36] Are you familiar with this information, and is anything going to come of that? [12:40] A little bit. [12:41] And, well, I'm familiar with voter fraud because we have a lot of it, I believe, coming up on the 2020 election. [12:48] The 2020 election was rigged. [12:49] You know, when I used to say that, they'd say, oh, the cameras would turn off. [12:54] How can you say? [12:54] Now they don't turn off. [12:56] The information, a lot of it's already out there. [12:59] The election was rigged. [13:01] It was rigged. [13:02] You look at Georgia. [13:03] You look at Pennsylvania. [13:05] You look at these states, they were rigged. [13:07] It was a rigged election, and they used COVID to do it, and they used crooked, dirty cops to do it. [13:12] You know, they're dirty cops. [13:14] Like you read about Comey. [13:16] Comey's a dirty cop. [13:18] Bad guy. [13:18] Bad for the country. [13:19] Bad guy. [13:20] But, no, the 2020 election was rigged. [13:23] Anytime you have mail-in voting, you're going to have a rigged election. [13:26] Anytime you're not using voter ID, the Democrats don't want. [13:30] They're fighting us on the Save America Act. [13:33] Anytime you don't have. [13:35] When somebody says, we don't want voter identification, that means they want to cheat. [13:41] Then they say, we don't want citizenship. [13:43] We don't want proof of citizenship. [13:45] They don't want it to be a part of the voting process. [13:48] And yet, when it comes to voting, the interesting thing is 97% of the Republicans want voter ID. [13:55] But if you add the Republicans and the Democrats together, 86% want. [14:02] Jimmy Carter, I mean, I wasn't a big fan of him as a president, but Jimmy Carter had a committee that was set up, along with Scoop Jackson, some very respected people. [14:12] And the primary finding of the committee on the election stuff, primary finding of the committee was, you can't have mail-in voting, it's crooked. [14:21] What's the latest with Cuba, and are there talks underway now? [14:24] Well, it's a failed country, it has been for years, and we'll take care of one before we take care of the other. [14:30] But no, it's a failed country, Cuba, and people are living poorly. [14:36] It's a bad experiment. [14:37] Are you or is someone from the administration communicating with anybody? [14:40] Well, Marco is. Marco Rubio is doing it. [14:43] His parents came from Cuba. [14:45] And if we can help out, good. [14:47] We have a lot of people, 94% of whom voted for me, from Cuba. [14:53] I did great with the Hispanic vote, anyway. [14:56] But Cuba, Venezuela, they all voted for me. [14:59] You know, Venezuela is a very happy country right now. [15:03] They were miserable. [15:04] Now they're happy. [15:05] It's being well run. [15:07] The oil that's coming out is enormous, the biggest in many years. [15:12] And the big oil companies are going in with the biggest, most beautiful rigs you've ever seen. [15:17] And people are working. [15:19] And Venezuela is a happy country. [15:21] People, everyone tells me, they're so proud of what happened in Venezuela. [15:25] And they're doing a good job. [15:27] So we have a lot of interesting things that we've done and that we're doing. [15:31] You'll soon be heading to China. [15:33] Yeah. [15:33] How's your relationship with China's leaders? [15:35] And do you have a top goal in mind? [15:39] My relationship is very good with President Xi. [15:42] I don't know the other leaders, but President Xi is a good man, smart man, loves China. [15:49] And I look forward to being there. [15:52] We did this once before. [15:54] And it was amazing. [15:55] It's going to be an amazing, I think it's going to be an amazing trip. [15:58] There's a woman named Katie Talento, if I'm saying her name correctly, who recently stated that in 2017 she worked for you. [16:05] And her job was to keep Bobby Kennedy as far from the West Wing as possible after you had agreed to a vaccine safety commission. [16:12] Did you know about that? [16:13] No. [16:14] She's published on that the last couple of days. [16:16] She says she's apologizing for that, basically. [16:19] Did you know that at the time that there was somebody supposedly tasked with keeping Bobby Kennedy away? [16:23] No, I didn't. [16:24] He's doing a good job. [16:25] I think Bobby, people love him. [16:27] I didn't know about that. [16:28] Do you think there should be a vaccine safety commission? [16:31] A commission on what? [16:32] Vaccine safety, something to examine, something like he proposed back then. [16:36] I believe in vaccines, but I don't believe that, you know, you have to have a mandate for all of them. [16:40] The polio vaccine's amazing. [16:42] It's, you know, wiped it out. [16:44] And I believe in vaccines. [16:45] But, you know, I think we were up to 88 vaccines. [16:48] And I really feel that vaccines, if they were given in smaller quantities, they want to cut some out. [16:54] And that's good, too. [16:55] And I agree with that. [16:56] 82 is too many. [16:57] If you look at Denmark and other countries, you have 12, 14, I think 17. [17:04] And we have, like, 82. [17:06] But I look at these beautiful little babies, and they get a vat, I mean, like a big glass of stuff, [17:16] pumped into their bodies. [17:18] And I think it's a very negative thing to do. [17:22] And I would like to see it. [17:24] I'm not doing this in terms of Bobby or not. [17:26] I hope they agree with that. [17:27] But that's just my opinion. [17:29] I would love to see much smaller shots, like four visits to the doctor. [17:36] And I think you would have a much better result with the autism. [17:42] More with President Trump when we continue. [17:44] On Full Measure, we reported this season on controversy with the Tennessee Valley Authority, [18:02] which John Rich got involved in, advocating for landowners whose land risks being taken [18:06] away for a giant power plant. [18:08] I saw it. [18:08] I saw it. [18:09] Are you creating a position for John Rich to advocate more widely on that front? [18:15] Well, I would. [18:15] I like him. [18:16] You know, he was on The Apprentice, and he won. [18:18] He's a good guy. [18:20] Is that a big issue with government, taking land? [18:22] It's, yeah, a lot of people don't like that, you know. [18:26] It's not the greatest thing. [18:28] But Tennessee Valley bothered me for another reason. [18:31] And I have to look. [18:33] But the person running it always, you know, for years, got inordinate salaries. [18:41] Did you know that? [18:41] Yeah, I did. [18:42] We reported on that, too. [18:43] Numbers that are crazy. [18:44] I think 26 times the salary of the President of the United States. [18:48] Yeah, like, they get $10 million, $12 million, and I said, it's going to stop. [18:56] And you're trying to cap that to $500,000. [18:59] Yeah, I want to have it capped, yeah. [19:01] So I put John there, if you could do that. [19:04] Look, I inherited all the stuff. [19:06] It was so stupid, so crazy. [19:07] Can you imagine? [19:08] They take people that are making $200,000, and they give them $10 million a year. [19:14] Like, he would have taken it for slightly less. [19:17] It's crazy. [19:18] So we try and stop things like that. [19:21] A couple of quick hits, viewer questions. [19:24] What happened to the audit of Fort Knox? [19:26] Which one are you talking about? [19:29] There was, I think, when you first got into office, you and Elon Musk talked about auditing [19:33] the gold to make sure it's there. [19:34] Well, we wanted to go knock on the door, Fort Knox, a very thick door, and to see whether [19:38] or not we have any gold in there, because if we take a look at it, it's a very interesting [19:43] question, yeah? [19:44] We played with that. [19:46] I wonder if they left the gold in Fort Knox, because they steal a lot. [19:50] No need to really do that, though? [19:52] Well, I don't know. [19:52] I think it's ... I do want to go to Fort Knox sometime. [19:56] I want to see if the gold is there, which I'm sure it will be. [20:00] What would you be doing today, do you think, if you hadn't run for president? [20:02] Well, I was really good at building buildings, and I guess I'd be just writing out my life, [20:10] building buildings, had I not run. [20:13] But now that I have become president, and for, I guess you could say, for nine years, [20:21] you know, I've been ... If you look at it, I had the four years that we had the rigged [20:26] election. [20:27] But during that rigged election, we were fighting with these people, like, more than [20:32] if I were president. [20:34] And then we had a great first year as president. [20:36] I think we had a great first year. [20:38] I think it's one of the best ... I ended ... Think of it ... I ended eight wars, and to a point [20:43] where the woman, a very good woman, too, Maria, she received the Nobel Peace Prize, and she [20:49] said, I received it. [20:51] The only one that you get it is Donald Trump. [20:53] I didn't know her. [20:55] Man, it was very nice, very gracious, actually. [20:57] But I ended ... Think of it ... I ended eight wars, and we have the greatest economy we've [21:02] ever had. [21:03] Just as I'm walking into the room, I see the S&P hit a brand new high during a so-called [21:09] war. [21:10] I call it a military conflict, because it was ... It was pretty easy. [21:16] We have the greatest military in the world. [21:18] You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran, look at ... Look at what ... We wiped out their [21:22] Navy in one week, 159 ships at the bottom of the sea. [21:28] We wiped out their Air Force. [21:29] We wiped out their ... Everything. [21:31] We wiped out their leaders, I guess, maybe, most importantly. [21:37] But we have the greatest military anywhere in the world, and I think you see that. [21:42] Do you see your son, Baron, going into politics someday? [21:44] Well, maybe. [21:46] He's certainly a popular guy, but I have a lot of members of my family that are very [21:51] popular. [21:52] I have good kids. [21:53] They're very good kids. [21:54] Back with a final word in a moment. [22:09] Do you still donate your salary? [22:11] And if so, who's it going to? [22:13] I do. [22:14] Much of it goes to the White House preservation. [22:16] You know, I fix things up. [22:17] You might have seen the path outside. [22:19] Did you see it? [22:20] I know about it. [22:21] I have not personally walked on it. [22:22] It's beautiful. [22:23] I'll let you take a look at it later. [22:24] It's beautiful, beautiful black granite. [22:26] It was stone that was all broken and in terrible shape. [22:29] The White House was not properly maintained. [22:32] You think a guy like Joe Biden would maintain it? [22:34] He didn't know he was alive, but I do. [22:37] I'm very good. [22:38] I was a great real estate developer and I can fix things and make them look beautiful. [22:42] Pay for it myself. [22:43] But no, I devote 100% of my salary to different things, but I like White House preservation. [22:50] Anything else you'd like to add? [22:52] No, but I think your show is excellent. [22:54] I watch it a lot and it's always an honor to be with you. [22:58] I think we've done it quite a few times. [22:59] This is our 10th interview, sir. [23:00] Wow. [23:01] Since 2015. [23:02] It's quite well. [23:03] It's my honor. [23:04] Thank you. [23:05] Thank you so much. [23:06] I appreciate it, sir. [23:07] Thank you very much.