Extended interview: Tom Llamas exclusive with President Trump

[0:00] And good evening from our nation's capital, where today we sat down exclusively with [0:03] President Trump at this extremely pivotal moment in his second term. The president making a number [0:08] of headlines discussing everything from the midterm elections to the economy to his administration's [0:12] handling of the immigration crackdown, telling me what he learned from Minneapolis and about [0:16] where ICE officers could head next. And with the affordability crisis impacting so many Americans [0:21] right now, you'll hear what he said about when to expect economic relief. I also asked him point [0:27] blank about this moment with Fed Chair Jerome Powell and if his Justice Department would drop [0:31] the investigation into Powell. And as the Republican Party faces growing pressure ahead [0:35] of the midterms, what he said about the possibility of 2028 and the presidential ticket possibly [0:41] featuring on the Republican side, Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. [0:46] Plus, we pressed him on what those FBI agents were looking for when they raided an election [0:49] office in Georgia. And his warning tonight to Iran's supreme leader after that country's [0:54] deadly protest crackdown. [0:56] Also, the Supreme Court. [0:57] When asked about his relationship with former President Bill Clinton. During our talk, the [1:02] president pointing out ongoing construction on the White House ballroom, what he said about [1:06] bulletproof windows and drone-proof ceilings being installed, and if he ever worries about [1:11] his own safety. Plus, what he told me about his personal health. But we start with the major [1:16] breaking news out of Minneapolis tonight. Tom Homan announcing he's pulling hundreds of federal [1:20] officers out of Minnesota. And that's where our conversation begins. [1:23] Okay, let's drill down into the news today. That big change on [1:27] immigration. [1:27] Did that come from you? [1:31] Yes, it did. But it didn't come from me because I just wanted to do it. We have, we are waiting [1:38] for them to release prisoners. Give us the murderers that they're holding and all of the [1:43] bad people, drug dealers, all of the bad people. We allowed in our country, I'd say 25 million [1:50] people with an open border policy for four years under Biden and that group, the auto pen group, [1:56] I call them. [1:57] We allowed to come into our country, people, the likes of which no country would accept. And we're [2:04] getting them out. But we've gotten a lot of them out. So crime now in Minnesota, crime now in [2:09] Minneapolis is down. Crime in all cities is down. And you know why it's down? It's down because of [2:14] us. It's down in Chicago by 25%, despite the fact that we are always dealing with these people. And [2:21] they happen to be Democrats that don't know anything about crime prevention. [2:26] Mr. President, speaking of Minneapolis. [2:27] What did you learn? [2:28] I learned that maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch, but you still have to be tough. [2:38] These are criminals. We're dealing with really hard criminals. But look, I've called the people, [2:44] I've called the governor, I've called the mayor, spoke to him, had great conversations with him. [2:48] And then I see them ranting and raving out there literally as though a call wasn't made. [2:54] We've done a great job everywhere. The only place has been a little inflammation has been really, [2:59] really bad in Minnesota because we've done well with Los Angeles, too. There's been others. [3:03] Well, I saved Los Angeles. The top law enforcement officer right at the beginning of government time [3:10] when they were having riots before me and just and it carried into me. If I didn't go in there with [3:17] the National Guard, with troops, you wouldn't have the Olympics, which I got. I got the Olympics. You [3:24] wouldn't have the Olympics in Los Angeles. And he said, without the president sending in the troops, [3:30] lost Los Angeles. And you know what? I saved Los Angeles and we will do it again if we have to. [3:37] And by the way, we're going to have a very safe Olympics and we're going to have a very safe World [3:41] Cup. Speaking of Minneapolis, after the shooting of Rene Goode, you said ICE made some mistakes. [3:46] What were the mistakes? Well, look, I'm not happy with the two incidents. It's not, [3:51] you know, it's both of them, not one or the other. [3:56] He was not an angel and she was not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes from back, [4:00] but still, I'm not happy with what happened there. And nobody can be happy. And ICE wasn't [4:05] happy either. But I'm going to always be with our great people of law enforcement, ICE, police. [4:13] We have to back them. If we don't back them, we don't have a country. We don't back them. You're [4:17] going to end up. Look, Washington, D.C. was a very unsafe place to be. You couldn't walk to the White [4:23] House. You couldn't walk to a restaurant. Restaurants were closing. I inherited not only a [4:30] horrible, very dangerous capital. Do you know, Washington, D.C. is now an extremely safe place. [4:37] You see what happened. You're here a lot. When you mentioned Rene Goode. Yeah, yeah. You're here a [4:41] lot. Would you have walked down the street a year and a half ago with your family? No. But today you [4:46] can't and nothing's going to happen. You mentioned Rene Goode and not out and Alex Paredes not being [4:51] angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them, though? No, I don't. [4:56] It should have not happened. It was a very sad. [5:00] It was a very sad incident. Two incidents. And, you know, they mentioned the one now. They don't [5:04] mention the other. Well, I think they were both said. And, you know, who feels worse about it than [5:10] anybody? The people of ICE. They're strong, tough people. And they have to be tough because we're [5:17] dealing with hardened criminals. We're dealing with people, you know, jails have been emptied [5:23] into our country from all over the world, from Venezuela, where we had great success, you will [5:27] admit. But from Venezuela, from the Congo and. [5:31] Africa, from all over the world, jails, the jail population was emptied into our country. [5:37] If we don't have strong people, you're not getting them out. Yeah, we're getting them out. [5:42] Remember this again. I say it again and again. We have record low crime in the United States. [5:49] Nobody's been able to say that for one hundred and twenty five years. [5:52] So I want to be clear because it sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement [5:56] here that there's going to be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going [6:01] forward? Well, one thing I say to my people, you know, we do a good job. We don't get credit for it. [6:05] I say they have to ask and they have to say, please, when a city is going to ask and who has [6:11] the mayor or the governor, I don't want to go and force ourselves into a city, even if their [6:16] numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana. [6:21] He said, we have a big problem. Could you go in and help us with with? [6:25] Well, let's see certain sections. I mean, to be honest with you, certain sections of the state [6:31] are famous, beautiful city, certain sections of the state. We have done not only in New Orleans. [6:37] We've done a really great job in Louisiana. But I was called. I want to be called Chicago. [6:43] We could solve the Chicago crime. Well, on that question, where which cities are you headed to next? [6:49] We have five cities that we're looking at very strongly, but we want to be invited. [6:55] We will sometimes call the governors. Are these cities like Chicago, Philadelphia? [6:59] Are these the cities? We could straighten out the crime [7:01] in Chicago. We've already brought it down 25 percent just by being there. [7:05] We could have Chicago be a safe city, just like D.C. is a safe city, [7:09] just like all of these places that we've gone to. And I look forward. You know, I didn't campaign on [7:14] that. I campaigned on law and order, but I didn't think I'd be going into individual cities and [7:19] making them safe. Anything else you can tell us about the five cities, the five cities, [7:23] so Americans are ready, announcing them very quickly. But we could do something. [7:27] As an example, I was called by people. San Francisco said, please, we have a [7:31] Democrat mayor. He's trying very hard. Would your friends of mine that live there? It's got [7:36] crime problems. Would you let him do the job and not come in? Let's see how it works. [7:42] I said, look, I can do it much quicker, much faster. Don't forget, we remove criminals. [7:48] We took over 2000 hardcore criminals out of Washington, D.C. If we didn't do that, [7:55] two percent of the people create 90 percent of the crime. Think of that two percent. So you have [8:02] criminal because it's over and over again. Two percent create 90 percent of the crime. [8:08] We took out 2000 people, more than 2000 people out of Washington, D.C., and we now have a safe city. [8:14] You as I mentioned, you've had success on immigration. Illegal border crossings are [8:18] at historic lows, right? You know, it's so nice that you said. But if you look at the time, [8:22] OK, what you said, it's true. No, but it's so nice. I hope you hear it. [8:27] It's so nice what you said, because that's called good reporting. That's called fair. [8:32] Reporting. Yeah. Give me the second. But now let me give you the second part of the question. [8:36] But if you look at the polls, most Americans say they don't like how you've handled immigration, [8:41] right? Especially what's happened in Minneapolis. How do you change their minds? [8:45] Well, I don't believe the polls, for one thing, because how can you not have [8:49] I saw a poll on the border where I'm at 55 percent. OK, polls show that that Americans [8:53] aren't against the deportations. It's the handling of immigration polls. It depends [8:56] on the way you ask the question. I saw a poll on the border. I'm at 55 percent. [9:01] Well, how could I? [9:02] Only be at 55 percent when everybody agrees that the border is totally beautifully closed [9:08] and nobody's coming in unless they come in legally, et cetera. It couldn't be better. [9:12] I should be at 100 percent. I don't believe the polls and some polls. [9:17] I mean, I could show you polls where I'm polling at 69 percent popularity and some polls where I'm [9:23] I have won it. We lost the White House to share that with it. Yeah. [9:26] 71 percent. And then I have polls where I'm at 44 percent and 42 percent. [9:33] And then I have polls where I'm at 52 percent. [9:34] Yeah. [9:34] The polls are almost dishonest, almost as dishonest as some of the reporters themselves. [9:41] Yeah. [9:41] But I'm getting very good polls. I'm getting very good polls on crime prevention, on law and order and on the border. [9:48] I have to. And I'm getting starting to get great polls on the economy, which I think is, [9:54] The polls on the economy aren't aren't they're they're not great. [9:57] They should be great. [9:58] They should be. So why aren't they? If you believe that. [9:59] I don't know. I don't I mean, look, I've got. [10:02] later but they tell us they don't feel it yeah i have 18 trillion dollars being invested into [10:08] the country biden had less than a trillion for four years and the whole country was going to [10:14] credit you know when does america feel it you know that if they won that election and we wanted a [10:19] landslide you know if they won that election this country was i think it was finished i actually [10:23] think it was finished you would have had people instead of 18 coming in 18 trillion you would [10:29] have had 10 trillion dollars leaving i think our country i think we would have been venezuela [10:35] on steroids i have a question about immigration still looking forward now your goal during the [10:40] election was to deport everyone who came here illegally under president biden is your mission [10:45] now to deport everyone who came in illegally or just people who have come in illegally who [10:49] have also committed additional crimes we are totally focused on criminals really bad criminals [10:54] now you could say people that came in illegally are criminals but i'm talking about murder [10:59] is from different countries we have 11 888 murderers that biden and his group led into [11:07] our country we've captured a lot of them we've brought some of them back a lot of them we don't [11:12] want to bring back because we don't trust the country that they're not sent back again yeah [11:17] despite how strong the borders are they'll figure a way to try and get in and we don't want to and [11:22] we'll we'll incarcerate them but eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty eight murders yeah we [11:28] are after the world's most powerful and the world's most powerful and the world's most powerful and [11:29] We're after those people. We're after the drug dealers. We're after the we are. By the way, a big problem. They they allowed to come into our country. People from their mental institutions, people from insane asylums that are mentally ill and very dangerous. We're getting them out. Joe Rogan was one of your biggest endorsers in 2024. He said he understands the Trump's the president's sort of plan to deport people here who are here illegally. But he also understands why critics compare [11:59] ICE officers to the Gestapo asking people for their papers. What's your response to him? Look, first of all, he's a great guy. We had a tremendous success before the election. I think it was his biggest interview ever. And over 300 million people. It was very good. She she didn't want to do it. You know, she decided not to do it because she's not capable. But I spoke to him three days ago. We had a great conversation. And all I'm doing, I have to keep. Did he mention this to you? Did you guys talk about this? The ICE enforcement just had a good conversation. [12:29] I think he's a great guy. And I think he likes me, too. And, you know, liking me isn't important. What happens is that I think we do a phenomenal job, but I don't think we're good at public relations. What does that mean? You've said that a couple of times now. What do you mean by that? We don't sell the great job that we're doing. Look, we have the safest staff. Are those your staffers? Excuse me. People from your persuasion somewhat left to a job, a job on numbers. It just came out that in one hundred and twenty five years, [13:00] We have the safest gun the best crime numbers in since the year [13:04] 1900 that's just that yeah [13:06] We know it's true way before my father was born right think of that and yet [13:11] Then you talk about crime or you talk about this you talk about that and the poll numbers aren't that good people? [13:18] We don't do a good public relations job. That's why I'm doing the interview with you today [13:22] We appreciate it help my problem. You know PR we public relations speaking of your people [13:27] You you're never afraid to shake up your team. You've said that you're okay with shaking up your team [13:32] Do you still believe in Kristi Noem to deliver on your vision of immigration? [13:35] She was in charge of the border the borders closed [13:37] I mean everybody gives me a plus on the border the border was a disaster people were pouring into our country [13:43] But what about they don't even try and come up now, you know the beautiful thing the caravans [13:46] I think I came up with that name [13:48] Thousands of people twenty five thirty thousand people in a group, you know who sent them their countries [13:53] They sent the people that they didn't want not only criminals people [13:57] That didn't want to work hard etc. They know who it is. They sent them into our country [14:02] We have nobody coming in anymore. We have very good [14:05] You just you just asked me a Christy. We have the best crime numbers that we've had in 125 years [14:12] I think she's doing a very good job again [14:16] Public relations. She's not getting credit for the job that she does. Let's move to the economy now. Yeah [14:22] What is said though and it is we had the two incidents the two primary incidents? [14:27] In Minnesota so and you shook up leadership there you brought Tom Homan in yeah, I did and and Thomas great Tom is a superstar, but [14:36] You do thousands of arrests you arrest thousands of rapists [14:41] You reps thousands of the worst people you arrest the drug dealers. I mean we had drug kingpins. We had murderous [14:49] Thousands no incident. We bring them back to their country two people. It's bad. I hate it [14:55] I hate even talking about it two people out of tens of thousands [15:00] Okay, and you get bad publicity [15:04] Nobody talks about all of the murderers that were taken out of our country [15:08] They don't talk about but it was to a man don't talk about we have the smallest drugs as an example [15:13] We've been very tough on the waters and soon, you know pretty much overall [15:18] So what if you look at if you look at the waters where we knock out boats each boat that we knock out [15:25] We saved 25,000 American lives. We're doing a job like nobody's ever seen [15:30] Before I just got off the phone with President Xi and he is [15:34] Amazed at how well the United States is done what he said. He's never seen like you brought the conversation, mr [15:41] President so let me ask you what did you talk about? [15:43] What the later giant a lot of topics? We talked with one more topic. Is it is it chips? [15:48] Is it the Wars in Ukraine? What it's going on would say the economy the relationship that we have with China [15:55] I'm going to be going there in April that he's coming here at toward the end of the year coming to the White House [16:00] He's coming to the White House, you know, toward the end of the year. [16:03] We have a very good relationship. [16:04] And, you know, it's important that I have a good relationship and for him that he has a good relationship with me. [16:10] We have to have a good. [16:11] These are the two most powerful countries in the world, and we have a very good relationship. [16:15] You talk about tariffs? [16:16] We spoke for an hour. [16:17] Does he ask you about the tariffs? [16:19] Is he saying this is ridiculous? [16:19] Well, they're paying a lot of tariffs, as you know. [16:21] China's paying a lot of tariffs. [16:23] In the past, they didn't. [16:24] I'm the one that put tariffs on China. [16:26] I put tariffs on a lot of tariffs. [16:28] Tariffs are, just so you understand, making our country rich. [16:32] Our country has taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, really trillions, [16:37] because the threat of tariffs is getting all of these countries to lose to us. [16:45] And, by the way, they've been doing it to us for 40 years and now. [16:50] But I'm doing it very judiciously, very fairly. [16:53] But tariffs are bringing in tremendous amounts of money. [16:57] I just gave. [16:58] $12 billion to our farmers because they were mistreated by certain countries. [17:03] Tariff money. [17:04] We're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. [17:06] No, and I want to ask you about that. [17:07] I want to get into that. [17:08] Talking about the economy, you've brought a lot of prices down, as we said. [17:11] Some are still stubborn. [17:12] Very few. [17:14] Yeah, very few. [17:14] I get it. [17:15] I get it. [17:15] Yeah. [17:15] When you talk to Americans, though, do you have to get them to understand that the prices [17:20] are not going to come back down to your first term because we had a pandemic and we had [17:23] record inflation? [17:25] Are people's expectations too high or is it just too expensive to live in America? [17:29] I don't know. [17:29] I just, again, don't think we're selling it properly. [17:31] We've done a great job. [17:32] But it's expensive out there. [17:33] You saw gasoline this last week at $1.99 a gallon. [17:37] It used to be it was $4.50, $5 a gallon. [17:40] $1.99 a gallon gasoline. [17:44] I think we've really bring it. [17:46] I mean, I don't expect them to be much higher. [17:48] Now, there's a natural inflation. [17:50] But they're never going to go down to that first term. [17:53] I inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. [17:57] It was through the roof. [17:59] Now. [17:59] You will say it wasn't in history. [18:01] It was 48 years. [18:02] You know, there's a theory that was. [18:04] I say it was worse. [18:05] But whether it's 48 years, I inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. [18:10] And now we have almost no inflation. [18:13] Think of it. [18:14] You know what it was for the last three months? [18:15] One point two percent. [18:17] You know what it was under Biden? [18:18] You can't count that high. [18:20] Yeah. [18:21] I inherited the worst inflation. [18:22] I inherited the worst crime. [18:24] I inherited high prices. [18:26] So when I. [18:28] Inflation is down. [18:29] Two point two. [18:29] Four point seven right now. [18:30] But it is down. [18:30] No, no, no. [18:31] Yeah. [18:31] The last three. [18:32] Don't forget. [18:32] I've inherited this mess. [18:34] Right, right. [18:35] For the last three months, it's at one point two percent. [18:38] You know that. [18:39] Yeah. [18:39] But the last. [18:40] OK. [18:41] Last three months. [18:42] You floated the idea of two thousand dollar rebate checks for Americans from tariff revenue. [18:46] Who's going to get that? [18:47] And when is that going to happen? [18:48] We'd make it. [18:50] I'm going to. [18:50] I'm looking at it very seriously. [18:52] I'm the only one can do it because I'm taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. [18:55] But you can promise some Americans will get those checks. [18:58] Oh, yeah. [18:58] Sure. [18:58] I can. [18:59] I can do that. [18:59] I haven't made the commitment yet, but I may make the commitment. [19:03] So it's not. [19:03] It's not. [19:03] Well, I just gave seventeen seventy six. [19:06] Yeah. [19:07] To the military. [19:09] Right. [19:09] Seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars. [19:12] But you said all. [19:12] You know, it's seventeen seventy five. [19:14] They presented it to me because that's what we have in a budget that I created because [19:19] I want to take care of our military. [19:21] Nobody takes care of the military like I do. [19:23] So seventeen hundred and seventy five dollars. [19:26] And I said, wait a minute. [19:27] If you had one dollar, it's seventeen seventy six. [19:30] You know, that's a quite a famous day. [19:32] Yeah, of course. [19:32] Of course. [19:33] So wait. [19:33] So I gave seventeen hundred and seventy six to our military and they are very thankful. [19:40] Let's get to the Fed. [19:40] Now, I may be doing that with regard to the entire population. [19:44] OK, let's get to the Fed. [19:46] Is there any doubt in your mind that interest rates are going to be lowered? [19:50] Not much. [19:51] Why? [19:51] How can you say that? [19:52] I just think they're going to be a little hard to admit. [19:53] They should. [19:54] Is your new Fed pick on board with that? [19:55] We're way high. [19:57] OK, we're way high in interest. [19:58] We have now with me and with all the money. [20:01] I'm. [20:01] I'm. [20:01] I'm. [20:02] I've always been good at money and with all the money coming into our country, we're a rich country again. [20:07] We have debt, but we also have growth and the growth will soon make the debt look very small because it's the greatest way. [20:14] You have two ways you can cut, cut, cut. [20:16] And we do that anyway. [20:18] We did that. [20:19] You know, we got rid of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. [20:23] And those workers went out and got themselves jobs in the free enterprise system. [20:29] And you know what? [20:30] That's called making America great again. [20:31] And we had ten workers in the federal government for every single job. [20:36] When the Democrats go in, they hire. [20:39] I could right now give you the best employment numbers in history. [20:43] You know what I do? [20:43] Go out and hire two million people. [20:45] Put them in the federal. [20:46] This does your new Fed. [20:47] I do the opposite. [20:47] Does your new Fed pick understand that you want him to lower interest rates? [20:50] Well, I think he does. [20:51] But I think he wants to anyway. [20:53] I mean, if he came in and said, I want to raise him, we said that he wouldn't have gotten a job. [20:57] He would not have gotten a job. [20:58] No, no, no. [20:59] I thought he was a interest. [21:00] Right now. [21:01] There'll be times if I see inflation on the horizon, but we don't have that. [21:06] We have low and remember, yeah, one point two percent inflation in the last three months. [21:11] We have low inflation and we have tremendous growth. [21:15] You haven't had these numbers like right. [21:18] We have to think of it. [21:19] Low inflation, great growth. [21:21] Now, all I have to do is one thing easy. [21:23] Get down the interest rate. [21:24] Do you think the Fed chair answers to you or is an independent body? [21:28] Well, I mean, in theory, it's an independent. [21:31] But I think, you know, I'm a smart guy. [21:33] I know the economy better than almost everybody. [21:35] You know, he answers to you. [21:36] They did that prediction chart a year ago and they had 71 great economists and me making the predictions. [21:44] And, you know, only two people were right. [21:46] Me and one other guy who is a very smart professor from a certain school that I went to. [21:51] Yeah. [21:51] Very good school. [21:53] Yeah. [21:53] And the two of us were right. [21:55] Everybody else was wrong. [21:57] There's been bipartisan suggestions that the criminal investigation to the current Fed chair, [22:01] Jerome Powell, is payback, right, for not lowering interest rates, but also for when he was in that sort of news conference with you with the hard hats and he was shaking his head and showing you the papers and disagreeing with you in public. [22:12] Is that why he's under criminal investigation? [22:13] He was very respectful to me. [22:15] He wasn't just he was explaining to me. [22:17] I'm asking him, why are you spending almost four billion dollars on a very small little complex of buildings? [22:25] It's the highest price per square foot. [22:27] He's renovating buildings for three to four billion. [22:31] And, you know, this Fed chair that I have is I think he's going to be great. [22:35] He might not have a home because this guy has spent so much money. [22:39] And I looked. [22:40] It's a see-through. [22:41] There's nothing inside. [22:42] They haven't done. [22:43] They are spending money. [22:45] He's in charge of the project. [22:46] He's the this the Federal Reserve building I'm talking about. [22:49] It's a very small little. [22:51] It's actually a couple of little bit. [22:53] They're spending more money than any building ever built in history per square foot. [22:58] Some Republican senators say they're not going to approve him unless you drop that. [23:01] Investigation. [23:02] A lot of people say a lot of things. [23:03] You don't think that's true. [23:04] You think is it worth it to drop the investigation to get your Fed chair through? [23:09] I think the investigation is the investigation is being handled by Pam and Janine and the people. [23:16] They'll make their own decision. [23:17] Yeah. [23:18] Let's talk about A.I. [23:19] Have you ever. [23:20] You know, I do say this about. [23:21] Yeah, you can't let a man spend billions of dollars doing a bill. [23:25] I would have done that job for twenty five million dollars and it would have been done much better spending billions of dollars on a renovation. [23:31] Right. [23:32] Right. [23:32] Right. [23:32] Right. [23:32] It's an investigation of a little complex. [23:34] Let's talk about A.I. [23:35] Have you ever used chat GPT applaud? [23:38] I haven't really, but I know all about it. [23:41] Let me just talk about A.I. [23:42] Yeah. [23:43] A.I. is a big deal. [23:44] A.I. is going to be maybe the biggest thing, bigger than the Internet, bigger than anything else. [23:52] We are leading China by a lot. [23:54] We are leading everybody by a lot. [23:56] They're all building their factories here. [23:58] And you know what I did for the electric because they need twice the electric as we currently produce. [24:03] For the whole country, which is crazy. [24:06] Nobody can do that. [24:07] But so what I did is I came up with a concept. [24:09] Each building that is built is going to generate their own electricity. [24:13] They're going to build their own electric plant. [24:14] We are building numbers of A.I. [24:18] And by the way, also auto plants, everything. [24:21] We're building everything. [24:22] But do you know, I just left Michigan. [24:24] I was with Ford. [24:26] They were going to close this building that was built in the early 1900s. [24:30] One of the biggest factories. [24:31] They were going to close it. [24:32] It was scheduled. [24:33] It was scheduled to close prior to my election. [24:36] After I won the election, they said, let's try keeping it open. [24:38] They just went to three shifts. [24:40] It's 24 hours a day. [24:43] And the head of Ford, Mr. Ford, said it's the most incredible auto comeback I've ever seen. [24:48] Mr. President, let me ask you. [24:49] There's no doubt you are the president who's ushering in the A.I. revolution. [24:53] But this is happening on your watch. [24:55] If A.I. affects humanity in a negative way, is that on you? [24:59] Because some of these CEOs of A.I. companies say we need guardrails. [25:02] This could get out of control. [25:03] Does that worry you? [25:05] Everything's on me as president. [25:07] Everything's on me. [25:08] I can say this. [25:09] It'll be the greatest jobs producer. [25:11] It'll be the greatest military producer. [25:14] It'll be the greatest medical producer. [25:16] There'll be tremendous good. [25:18] And there'll be probably some bad, too. [25:20] Well, it's killing a lot of jobs. [25:21] And what do you say to Americans who are going to lose their jobs to A.I.? [25:23] It's going to make. [25:24] It's going to create a lot of jobs. [25:26] But right now, it's taking jobs in a lot of ways. [25:28] It's taking jobs in companies like Amazon. [25:30] What would you say to those Americans? [25:31] But it hasn't really started. [25:32] You know, these major plants. [25:33] You know, these major plants. [25:33] You know, these major plants. [25:33] You know, these major plants. [25:33] These major plants haven't even been built. [25:35] No, no, but Mr. President, A.I. has already started to take jobs because the technology is there. [25:40] So we have, it was just announced, more jobs right now occupied in the United States of America [25:47] than at any time during its existence, 250 years. [25:53] There are more people working today than at any time in the history of our country. [25:58] Pretty good stat. [26:00] It kills that question. [26:01] Yeah, we have to look it up. [26:02] That's a good answer. [26:03] It kills that question. [26:04] Mr. President, there's widespread. [26:05] There's widespread concern that A.I. is going to wipe out a lot of jobs, manufacturing jobs. [26:08] I said the Internet was going to do everything it was going to do. [26:12] Robots are going to kill jobs. [26:13] Everything's going to kill jobs. [26:14] And you end up, if you're smart, doing great. [26:17] OK, you are close with the Ellisons who are trying to stop a merger between Warner Brothers, Discovery and Netflix. [26:24] This deal could change the makeup of the media as we know it. [26:27] Are you personally going to get involved in that deal? [26:29] I haven't been involved, I must say. [26:32] I guess I'm considered to be a very strong president. [26:35] I've been called by. [26:36] Both sides, it's the two sides, but I've decided I shouldn't be involved. [26:40] The Justice Department will handle it. [26:41] OK, in what way? [26:43] Just looking at it, see if it's ready to make a decision. [26:45] I mean, there's a theory that one of the companies is too big and it shouldn't be allowed to do it. [26:50] And the other company is saying something else about, you know, they're knocking, but you're not going to interfere, even though you're close with the hell out of each other and they'll be a winner. [26:57] OK, let's talk about the midterms. [26:59] You've recently suggested nationalizing elections. [27:01] What do you mean by that? [27:03] When and I didn't say nationally, I said. [27:06] There are some areas in our country that are extremely corrupt. [27:09] They have very corrupt elections. [27:10] Take a look at Detroit. [27:12] Take a look at Philadelphia. [27:14] Take a look at Atlanta. [27:15] There are some areas that are unbelievably corrupt. [27:18] I could give you plenty more, too. [27:21] I say that we cannot have corrupt elections if we have to, if they don't straighten it out. [27:26] As an example, voter I.D. [27:28] Why don't the Democrats want voter I.D.? [27:32] You know who does want voter I.D.? [27:33] Democrat voters want it. [27:35] But Democrat politicians don't. [27:36] Why don't they want it? [27:38] Because they want to cheat on elections. [27:41] Can you imagine if I were a politician and they asked me, do you want voter identification? [27:48] And I said, no, there's no way you could win that debate. [27:52] But even the Democrats don't want voter I.D. [27:55] If they don't want voter I.D., that means they want to cheat. [27:58] We can't allow cheating in elections. [28:00] Now, if we need to put in federal controls as opposed to state controls, remember this. [28:06] They're really in. [28:07] They're an agent. [28:08] They're really accumulating the votes for who wins an election. [28:11] If they can't do it honestly and it can't be done properly and timely, then something else has to happen. [28:18] Will you trust the results of the midterms if Republicans lose control of Congress? [28:21] I will if the elections are honest. [28:24] Look, I want the last one that wants to complain. [28:27] I just I just had a great election. [28:28] They say one of the greatest elections you will agree ever won all seven swing states, won 84 percent of the counties. [28:36] In America, that's why the map is all red. [28:39] We just had a great election. [28:42] I believe there was cheating. [28:44] I think I think it was cheating. [28:46] Well, speaking of county, what are you doing in Fulton County? [28:48] It was too big to read. [28:48] Speaking of counties, what is happening? [28:50] I'm not doing anything. [28:51] But the FBI went in because it's been under under, I guess, review for years. [29:00] The cheating that took place in Fulton County and in that particular state. [29:03] Nobody knows what's in the warrant. [29:04] What are they looking for? [29:05] Look, why would anybody? [29:07] Be upset that they went in and they they got the ballots, I guess. [29:11] Right. [29:11] Again, they did this. [29:13] That's been under review and under investigation for four years. [29:18] And now they got a court order. [29:20] You know, they got a court signed by nobody knows what a respected but liberal judge signed a court order allowing them to go in and pick them up. [29:28] Well, you're going to know what the balance safe because they're right now inspecting the ballot. [29:31] I'm not involved in it, but they are inspecting and checking the ballot. [29:35] Why is Tulsi Gabbard there? [29:37] I don't know. [29:38] But, you know, a lot of the cheating comes from it's it's international cheating. [29:44] You have people, they say, from China. [29:46] You put this on. [29:48] Let me ask you, do you think China tries to influence our election? [29:51] We know that foreign governments try to influence a lot of things. [29:54] Well, therefore, she's she's foreign government. [29:56] But you tweeted out some some theories about Italians and satellites. [30:00] I mean, do you believe that stuff? [30:02] No, no, no, I didn't cheat. [30:04] I sometimes will read truth. [30:06] Yeah, I'll read truth. [30:08] But let me ask you this. [30:10] If China or any of these countries are involved in our elections, that would bring her into it. [30:15] And everybody knows that Russia, they talked about Russia turned out to be a hoax. [30:19] It was Hunter Biden. [30:21] It wasn't Russia. [30:22] Look, we have to have honest election. [30:24] Yeah, there should be nothing wrong with the fact that they went in, got ballots from a while ago, and they're going to look at them. [30:32] And now they're going to find out the true winner of that state. [30:35] And you know what? [30:37] If there was cheating. [30:38] Which there was. [30:39] But if there was cheating, it should be fine because we can't let it happen again. [30:43] Mr. President, I have a few more important questions for you. [30:44] That's OK with you. [30:45] Yeah. [30:45] OK. [30:46] I mean, they've all been important. [30:48] Let's go to there's there's a new lawsuit by you and your family that you're suing the IRS for ten point five billion dollars for leaking your tax documents. [30:56] Is this a good use of taxpayer money? [30:59] You can't leak documents and any money that I win, I'll give it to charity. [31:04] Hundred percent to charities, charities that will be approved by government or whatever. [31:09] I have another lawsuit with the United States. [31:11] I sued because they broke into Mar-a-Lago. [31:13] But that's taxpayer money. [31:14] It's going to take out of the system. [31:15] I know it's going to charity. [31:16] You're going to say if and I've won that case. [31:19] I mean, I've virtually they've broken the FBI illegally. [31:21] Biden and his group. [31:23] It wasn't Biden. [31:24] He didn't know what he was doing. [31:25] It was a group of very smart, radical left people. [31:27] They're very smart. [31:28] They just they've lost their way. [31:30] Right. [31:30] And they broke into Mar-a-Lago. [31:32] They broke into my home. [31:33] They went through. [31:34] Well, they had warrants. [31:35] My wife's drawers. [31:37] Yeah, they went through. [31:38] Yeah. [31:39] That's a double meaning. [31:40] They went through barons, my sons, everything. [31:45] They went through the whole house. [31:47] Hundreds of people. [31:48] They they they went in with guns. [31:50] They went to guns. [31:52] How would have been a blazing. [31:53] How would they wait? [31:54] Wait, wait, wait. [31:55] I brought a lawsuit. [31:57] Essentially, the lawsuit's been won. [32:01] I guess I want a lot of money. [32:02] How about this? [32:02] Listen, Scott Besson's the head of the IRS. [32:05] What I want is the head of the Justice Department. [32:07] They're going to defend the IRS against you. [32:09] Well, there's never been anything like it. [32:11] In all fairness. [32:11] So are you going to tell them to pay you? [32:13] Don't forget, I sued as a private citizen because I sued between terms. [32:18] I won three times. [32:18] But are you going to tell them to pay you? [32:19] I won three times, but I didn't assume, unfortunately for this country, I didn't assume office the second time. [32:24] But here's the story. [32:25] I sued because they broke into Mar-a-Lago. [32:27] That was before I became president. [32:30] Now it goes along and it turned out that the suit is a very strong suit. [32:34] You're going to tell them to pay you, though, because you're the boss. [32:36] Well, what I would do, tell them to pay me, but I'll give 100 percent of the money to charity. [32:41] I don't want any of that money. [32:42] You take it out of the system. [32:43] A couple more questions here. [32:44] No, no, I'm putting it back into the system. [32:46] If I give money to American Cancer Society, I will give 100 percent of the money away to charity. [32:54] I don't want any of it. [32:54] $30 trillion debt and we're going to take $10 billion out of the system? [32:57] Well, I mean, you give it away anyway. [32:59] They give away a lot of money. [33:01] Your endorsement is the money. [33:01] I'll tell you what, speaking about that, Minnesota and these other states, we have massive investigations going into fraud. [33:09] Yeah. [33:09] You know, if we captured 50... [33:11] 50 percent of the fraud of this country right now, we would have better than a balanced budget. [33:17] And you've got to mention that Minnesota, $19 billion in fraud that we know about. [33:24] Your endorsement is the most important thing in the Republican primary. [33:26] No, no, in any primary. [33:28] Will you endorse in the 2028 presidential primary? [33:30] I hadn't even thought of it, but probably, yeah, I'd be inclined to. [33:36] I have great people. [33:37] We have a great bench. [33:39] We have a lot of people. [33:41] But, yeah, I think so. [33:42] You've suggested that, Jay. [33:43] You've suggested that if you were to beat Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, would be a tough ticket to beat. [33:48] Who should be at the top of that ticket? [33:50] Well, I don't want to get into this. [33:51] We have three years to go. [33:52] I don't want to, you know, I have two people that are doing a great job. [33:55] I don't want to have an argument with or a... [33:58] I don't want to use the word fight. [34:00] It wouldn't be a fight. [34:01] But, look, J.D. is fantastic and Marco is fantastic. [34:04] How are they different? [34:05] They're both doing a great job. [34:06] How are they different? [34:06] And I do think this. [34:08] It's a great question. [34:09] I think that's your most interesting question. [34:10] Yeah. [34:11] I would say one is slightly. [34:13] more diplomatic than the other. [34:15] I think they're both of very high intelligence. [34:18] I mean, they will do shows. [34:20] They will do Joe Rogan as opposed to the opponent not doing it because they couldn't handle it. [34:25] They will be able to do whatever they have to do. [34:29] I think there's a difference in style. [34:32] You know, you can see the style yourself. [34:34] But they're both very capable. [34:35] I do think this. [34:36] The combination of J.D. and Marco would be very hard to be beaten, I think. [34:44] But you never know in politics, right? [34:45] They say in the age of Trump, you never know. [34:48] Yeah. [34:50] On January 21st, 2029, do you see any scenario where you are still president? [34:57] I don't know. [34:59] It would be interesting. [35:00] But wouldn't it be terrible if I agreed with, you know, if I gave you the answer that you're looking for? [35:05] It would make life so much less exciting, right? [35:08] It would be so much less exciting. [35:11] But I only do this for one reason. [35:14] Make America great again. [35:16] And that's what we're doing. [35:17] We're making America great again. [35:19] Greater than ever before. [35:20] Our country is greater than ever before. [35:22] We're a rich nation. [35:23] We're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs from nations that took advantage of us. [35:29] They thought we were stupid. [35:31] They thought we were fools. [35:32] They laughed at us. [35:33] You know, people were laughing at us one and a half years ago. [35:37] They laughed at this country. [35:38] They're not laughing anymore. [35:40] They respect us. [35:41] And I get along with them. [35:42] They respect us. [35:43] Mr. President, I have pages and pages of questions, but they're telling me my time is up. [35:46] I thank you. [35:47] Thank you for your time. [35:47] We'll do it again. [35:48] Thank you. [35:49] Mr. President, thank you. [35:52] That concludes the sit-down portion of our extended interview with the president. [35:55] Right after this break, we'll show you our walk and talk in the Oval Office, [35:59] where we discussed Iran, the Clintons, and the president's own health. [36:02] Stay with us. [36:07] We're back now with a special edition of Top Story, [36:09] following our exclusive sit-down interview with President Trump. [36:12] We immediately continued the conversation where he showed me some of the Oval Office, [36:15] but we also discussed important topics like Iran, Cuba, and his own health. [36:20] Here's that conversation in its entirety. [36:24] And almost no pictures up. [36:25] Yeah. [36:25] And these pictures all came from the vaults. [36:27] Yeah. [36:28] And they're magnificent. [36:30] I mean, I think they're magnificent. [36:31] And all, you know, first run, top of the line stuff. [36:35] But mostly of presidents. [36:37] We have a couple with Ben Franklin, but I think he qualifies, right? [36:41] Yeah. [36:41] That's pretty good. [36:43] Is there any one you ever kind of hone in on where you're thinking deeply about anything, [36:46] about an issue? [36:47] Is there one you look at? [36:48] Maybe all of them. [36:49] They're so different. [36:49] George Washington. [36:51] And you have Jefferson. [36:53] And I took a picture of him. [36:54] And I took a picture of him. [36:54] And I took a picture of him. [36:54] And I took a picture of Ronald Reagan. [36:55] They make a place of honor also. [36:57] Did a great job. [36:58] But Honest Abe Lincoln. [37:00] Who do you have up here? [37:01] I mean, these are big ones here. [37:02] That's Ulysses S. Grant. [37:03] George Washington. [37:05] Here we have the famous. [37:07] Come on over here. [37:09] Here we have Declaration of Independence. [37:13] That's one of the three. [37:14] This was in the vaults for many years. [37:16] And I said, it's time to take it out of the vaults. [37:18] Do you think at one point people will talk about you when they talk about presidents [37:22] like Washington and Lincoln? [37:24] Is that something you think is going to happen? [37:25] I don't know. [37:25] It's a question. [37:25] It's such an honor. [37:26] But all I know, I'm walking down and everyone's screaming, goat, goat. [37:30] I said, what are they talking about? [37:31] I hope they're right. [37:33] Not for me, but for the country. [37:34] Because if I do a great job, that means the country is doing well. [37:38] You're building the new ballroom. [37:39] We hear about this new arch you're building, the Garden of Heroes as well. [37:42] You're building a lot of things that are going to cement your legacy. [37:45] Are you also doing this so the country never forgets you? [37:48] No, I think we need glamour brought back to our country. [37:51] We need prestige. [37:53] We need beauty brought. [37:54] I mean, in addition to everything, [37:55] we need strength. [37:56] We need all of those things. [37:58] Like I'm doing an arc, a triumphal, take order, triumphal arc. [38:03] 57 cities have arcs. [38:07] We're the only major importance. [38:10] Washington, D.C. should have maybe the first arc. [38:12] We're doing one that will be more magnificent and larger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. [38:19] I would say the Paris arc is probably the most. [38:22] Stunning. [38:23] It's incredible. [38:24] We're going to do one that's going to top it. [38:26] Is it true? [38:26] It's going to be 250 feet to mark the anniversary? [38:27] It'll be about that, yeah. [38:29] It'll be a little bit taller than the one in Paris. [38:31] It'll be a little bit larger than the one in Paris. [38:34] You're doing a lot of things for the 250th anniversary. [38:36] What do you want Americans to feel this July 4th? [38:40] Strength, victory, security. [38:43] You have a secure country. [38:44] We've done so much militarily. [38:47] We have a great military. [38:48] I mean, you saw Venezuela. [38:49] That was the people, the general that was in charge, he lived. [38:55] He said he's never seen anything like it. [38:57] They were already. [38:58] You talked about the weapon, the discombobulator. [39:01] Discombobulator. [39:01] Well, I'm not allowed to talk about it. [39:03] What does it do? [39:04] Let me just tell you. [39:05] You know what it does? [39:06] None of their equipment works. [39:07] That's what it does. [39:09] Everything was. [39:09] How does it? [39:10] It was my name. [39:11] I'm very proud of the name. [39:12] Everything was discombobulated. [39:14] It was, you know, practically a shot wasn't. [39:19] You know, they were ready. [39:20] Right. [39:20] And when we came, they couldn't do anything. [39:23] You saw this on the video. [39:24] You could tell. [39:24] Tom, it discombobulated everything. [39:28] Nothing worked, even including humans. [39:30] Well, let's put it this way. [39:32] We lost no equipment in a very strong and they're good fighters, great fighters in a very bad environment. [39:39] It was a military base, the biggest in South America in a very because the house was in a base in South in a very, very tough environment. [39:49] We lost no men and we lost no equipment. [39:53] The discombobulator just knocked it. [39:54] Well, it did something. [39:56] It did something. [39:56] Did Delce Rodriguez work with you? [39:58] You guys before that? [39:59] I can't I can't talk about that. [40:01] I mean, I don't talk. [40:02] Do you trust her? [40:03] Well, so far, she's done a great job. [40:04] I mean, so far, she and all of the people that are working with her. [40:08] Remember, in Iraq, they got rid of everybody. [40:11] They had no generals. [40:12] They had no people. [40:13] They had nobody to run the government. [40:14] Turned out to be a mess. [40:15] And that's where ISIS came from. [40:17] You know, that's where ISIS came from. [40:19] Came from the military and all the people. [40:21] They formed ISIS. [40:22] It was handled very badly. [40:24] But this is handled very well. [40:26] Do you think the Cuban government will still be there? [40:28] The. [40:29] The. [40:29] The. [40:29] The current leadership will still be there by the end of your term. [40:31] Now you're asking a different question. [40:33] Cuba is in big trouble. [40:34] Humanitarian aid is going to have to be sent there. [40:36] They're in big trouble. [40:37] It's a disaster. [40:38] They got their money from Venezuela. [40:39] They got their oil from Venezuela. [40:41] They turned the oil into money, et cetera, et cetera. [40:43] And there's none of that happening anymore. [40:46] They're in big trouble. [40:47] We are talking. [40:48] Do you think that government is still there, though? [40:49] Do you think that government lasts? [40:51] I don't want to say that, but we are talking to Cuba. [40:54] You're talking to Cuba. [40:55] You know what? [40:55] Look, we have tens of thousands of people. [40:59] We have tens of thousands of people that were forced out there here. [41:01] They voted for me. [41:01] Ninety four percent Cuban population, previous Cuban population. [41:06] Now they're Cuban Americans. [41:09] Maybe they go back. [41:10] Maybe they want to go back. [41:11] They're going to have that choice. [41:12] But for years they've been talking about this happening. [41:16] Now it's happening. [41:16] We are talking to Cuba. [41:18] We want to open it up to those people that want to visit. [41:22] Even, you know, I think most people when they hear they want to stay here. [41:24] I hope that's true. [41:25] I hope we're not going to lose them. [41:27] But they're going to have options and they're going to be able to do it. [41:29] They're going to be able to do it. [41:29] They're going to be able to do it. [41:29] They're going to be able to go back, Tom, and see their loved ones, see their family, their friends. [41:33] Should the Supreme Leader in Iran be worried right now? [41:37] I would say he should be very worried. [41:38] Yeah, he should be. [41:40] As you know, they're negotiating with us. [41:42] I know they are. [41:42] But the protesters have said, you know, where are the Americans? [41:45] You promised them we would have their back. [41:47] Do we still have their back? [41:48] Well, we've had their back. [41:49] And look, that country is a mess right now because of us. [41:52] We went in. [41:53] We wiped out their nuclear. [41:55] So that's the question. [41:55] We want them out. [41:56] You know, we have peace in the Middle East. [41:58] If I didn't take out their nuclear, [42:00] think of it, if we didn't take out that nuclear, [42:03] we wouldn't have peace in the Middle East [42:04] because the Arab countries could have never done that. [42:07] They were very, very afraid of Iran. [42:10] They're not afraid of Iran anymore. [42:12] We wiped out those beautiful B-2 bombers. [42:14] One's right over there. [42:15] Those beautiful little model. [42:17] Those beautiful B-2 bombers went in and they hit their target, [42:21] every single bomb, and obliterated it. [42:24] And because of that, they were going to have a nuclear weapon within one month. [42:28] Yeah. [42:29] Within one month. [42:30] Within one month, they were going to have a nuclear weapon. [42:31] Yeah. [42:32] That was a big threat. [42:33] They're not going to have it anymore. [42:34] But if we obliterate it, what's the deal about? [42:38] I mean, if there's no more, are they trying to restart the nuclear program? [42:40] Well, I heard that they are. [42:42] And if they do, and I let them know, if they do, [42:44] we're going to send them right back and do their job again. [42:46] So you're understanding that they tried to restart it, [42:48] and that's why you're threatening force. [42:50] They tried to go back to the site. [42:52] They weren't even able to get near it. [42:53] There was total obliteration. [42:54] But they were thinking about starting a new site in a different part of the country. [43:00] We found out about it. [43:01] I said, you do that, we're going to do very bad things to you. [43:05] Yeah. [43:05] Mr. President, the ballroom over here, I want you to show it to me, [43:07] because the thing you said that stood out to me, it's going to be massive. [43:10] But is it, it's got a drone-proof ceiling, and it's got bulletproof windows? [43:14] What does that mean? [43:15] It's got bulletproof windows because, well, we're in a different time. [43:18] You know, if somebody's up making a speech, we're going to have the inauguration there. [43:21] We're going to probably have, I would say, definitely, it's going to be large enough. [43:26] But we have drone-proof ceilings. [43:28] What does that mean? [43:29] What is that? [43:29] What is that? [43:29] What is that? [43:29] What is that? [43:29] What is that? [43:30] Because if a drone hits the ceiling, it bounces off. [43:32] It doesn't blow up a building. [43:33] It's a fortress, essentially. [43:33] It's protection. [43:34] It's going to be a fortress. [43:35] Well, it's going to be very heavy steel. [43:37] Okay. [43:38] It's very simple. [43:38] It's heavy steel. [43:40] Because of that, do you... [43:41] And by the way, the ballroom is so beautiful. [43:43] It'll be the most beautiful ballroom of its kind, and it's very much in keeping with the White House. [43:48] You survived that assassination attempt that we all covered. [43:50] It was terrible, two of them. [43:52] Do you worry about your safety? [43:54] Yes. [43:54] I mean, when you think about the ballroom, you do? [43:55] I worry about it, but you have to put it out of your mind. [43:59] Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to do your job. [44:02] You didn't think about it as much before. [44:04] Now you think about it a lot. [44:04] Maybe. [44:05] It could be. [44:06] I mean, you look statistically, I'm in a very dangerous job. [44:09] Yeah. [44:10] I mean, if you take a look at the walls, if you take a look, you know, statistically, [44:14] this is a much more dangerous job than being a race car driver or riding those Broncos. [44:19] You know, those bulls are tough, right? [44:21] But I wouldn't want to do that. [44:23] But statistically, being president is the most dangerous job there is. [44:27] We first met 10 years ago when you were running the first time. [44:29] How do you feel now as you approach 80? [44:32] I feel great. [44:32] I mean, physically and mentally, I feel like I did 50 years ago. [44:38] It's crazy. [44:39] Now, there'll be a time when I won't be able to give you that answer. [44:42] But that time has come, you know? [44:43] I do. [44:44] I think it's very important. [44:46] I've done more physicals. [44:47] I take physicals just to give the report out. [44:50] Yeah. [44:50] I take cognitive physicals. [44:52] So I do a cognitive mind test, okay? [44:55] And a lot of people wouldn't be able to do very well. [44:58] Not easy. [44:58] You know, you get to those last questions. [45:00] I've aced. [45:01] I've done three of them. [45:02] No other president has agreed to do them. [45:04] I do them because I have no problem with it because I'm 100%. [45:08] Now, there will be a time. [45:10] Still taking the aspirin? [45:10] Still taking the aspirin? [45:11] I do. [45:11] I take aspirin. [45:12] And I don't want to change, you know? [45:15] I don't want to. [45:16] So you go against your doctor's orders. [45:17] You do what you kind of feel. [45:18] You know, I've been taking aspirin for 30 years. [45:21] And I don't want to change it. [45:23] So, you know, they take the smaller one. [45:25] I say, well, I want that blood to be nice and thin running through my heart. [45:29] I don't want to change it. [45:29] I don't want to change it. [45:29] I don't want to change it. [45:29] If at any point your age impacts your job, who's going to tell you that? [45:34] Or do you think you'll know yourself? [45:35] I think I'll know myself. [45:37] I think I'll know myself. [45:38] I wouldn't do an interview with you, as an example. [45:41] Did Biden do an interview before Super Bowl? [45:44] I'm not sure. [45:44] Maybe he didn't. [45:45] Last one, he didn't. [45:46] I mean, he wasn't capable of doing an interview. [45:49] And that was things. [45:51] Look, you know, I know people that are 95 years old that are sharp as a tack. [45:56] Biden was a bad thing for old people. [45:59] He's the worst thing that ever happened to old people. [46:01] Because he obviously didn't have it. [46:03] And one of the things that's so depressing about the press is the press refused to report the obvious. [46:10] And he did have very smart people around him. [46:12] But they had a radical left culture. [46:14] And they were very bad for this country. [46:16] This country would not have survived two more years if one of them got elected. [46:21] We didn't get a chance to speak about the DOJ. [46:23] I appreciate all your time and of your staff's time. [46:25] They've been very, very kind. [46:27] Should anybody else expect the DOJ to kind of come after them like you've come over after some of your posts? [46:31] Well, you remember this time. [46:35] I was impeached twice, two fake impeachments, won both of them easily. [46:40] Republicans stood by me 100%. [46:41] But I won both of them. [46:44] I was indicted 87 different times. [46:49] And then you ask me that question. [46:51] So I think I'm extremely moderate, especially for what they did to me. [46:56] They wanted to take me down. [46:58] I said to somebody, do me a favor. [47:01] Add up the counts. [47:03] If I lost, you know, I won. [47:05] But if I lost, I won. [47:05] If I lost these cases, add up the counts and tell me how long would I have to serve in prison. [47:11] You know what they came up with? [47:13] 287 years. [47:15] I said, I better win. [47:16] In your mind, that calculation means it's OK for the DOJ to go after your political enemies? [47:20] No, it isn't. [47:21] And I could be involved. [47:23] You know, I'm the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. [47:26] I could be involved, but I'm not. [47:28] I don't choose to. [47:29] But when they say to me, oh, you're going after people, I get indicted all of those times. [47:35] It's 287. [47:37] 287 years in jail. [47:38] They were willing to. [47:39] But, you know, they asked me a question yesterday at the press conference about Clinton because of the testimony. [47:44] The Epstein thing. [47:45] Which turned out that I have nothing to do, and they did, about Epstein. [47:50] And they said, do you think it's terrible? [47:51] What, you know, with the subpoenas and everything, and they're disobeying the subpoenas. [47:55] And I actually said, it's a shame. [47:57] You have an ex-president, and you have, you know, the president's wife and secretary of state. [48:04] And I said, it's a shame. [48:05] It is a shame. [48:06] NBC News broke the story today. [48:07] I don't know if you saw it, that the Democrats are already saying, if you bring President Bill Clinton, [48:11] and he has to testify, we're bringing President Trump. [48:14] What do you say to that? [48:14] Well, I think they might say that, you know. [48:16] But they've already brought me. [48:18] See, I've been brought. [48:19] They had me indicted many, many times. [48:24] Many, many times. [48:25] They didn't do that to Clinton. [48:25] Do you think if the Democrats win in the midterms at least one House of Congress, they're going to try to impeach you? [48:30] Well, you know, I've done a great job as president. [48:32] They say I've had the best first year of any president in history, and I think I have. [48:36] If you look, I said a late war. [48:38] Of course, biggest tax cuts ever. [48:41] Right now, we have more under construction with the factories, the car plant. [48:44] You know, they're all moving back into the country. [48:46] They were stolen from us over a 40-year period. [48:48] They're all coming back from Germany, from Canada, from Mexico, from Japan. [48:53] I think I had the greatest first year that we've had. [48:55] But you think they may come after you again? [48:57] Well, they'll find something. [48:58] Like, I did an interview with you, and because I did the interview, let's impeach him or something. [49:04] Anything out there that Americans are going to be surprised about that year? [49:07] I'll tell you what. [49:07] I'll tell you what. [49:08] I shouldn't do it. [49:09] And that's one of the things. [49:10] I didn't do it for that reason, but it bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton. [49:16] See, I like Bill Clinton. [49:17] I still like Bill Clinton. [49:18] What do you like about him? [49:20] I like, well, I like his behavior toward me. [49:24] I thought he got me. [49:25] He understood me. [49:27] You know, he was the one that said very famously that you don't want to run against Trump when there were 18 people. [49:33] It was 18 people, including me, total. [49:36] And he kept telling them, you don't want to run against Trump. [49:39] Run against anyone. [49:41] Don't run against Trump. [49:42] And Hillary sort of laughed at him. [49:45] He said, Hillary, you know it and I know it. [49:48] Don't run against Trump. [49:50] And they ran against Trump. [49:52] It didn't work out too well, did it? [49:54] Thank you very much. [49:55] Thank you, Mr. President. [49:55] We thank you for your time. [49:56] Thank you. [49:57] Appreciate it. [49:57] Have a good time. [49:58] And we'll have even more of the interview coming up on Sunday during the Super Bowl pregame show on NBC. [50:04] This extended interview and transcript are available at NBCNews.com right now. [50:08] We thank you for watching. [50:10] And remember, stay updated. [50:11] Stay updated on breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or watch live on our YouTube channel.