FULL Q&A: Trump Gives Urgent Remarks on Iran War Before Departing White House — AC15

[0:00] The President has killed 42,000 people that were totally unopted in the protesters. [0:04] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [0:07] If they did, every country, including Italy, where he's stationed, [0:11] every single country in the world would be in trouble. [0:15] So we're doing very well with respect to that. [0:18] Having to do with the whole situation on Iran, [0:22] the blockade is amazing. [0:25] It's holding up very strong, very powerfully. [0:28] And I think we're making a lot of progress in that. [0:31] But the Pope has to understand Iran, very simple. [0:34] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [0:36] The world would be in great danger. [0:37] The Press, Mr. President, would you meet with the Pope to even out your differences? [0:45] Just have to insert a tour. [0:46] The President, you spoke with Prime Minister Modi just a couple of days ago. [0:54] What was the conversation like? [0:56] What is it that is on the table now? [0:57] I had a very good talk with him. [0:59] And he's a friend of mine from India. [1:02] And he's doing great. [1:03] We had a very good conversation. [1:05] The Press, Mr. President, do you continue extending the ceasefire with Iran? [1:10] With who? [1:11] With Iran. [1:13] We're doing very well, I can tell you. [1:15] Maybe it'll happen before that. [1:17] I'm not sure it needs to be extended. [1:18] Just so you know, Iran wants to make a deal. [1:22] And we're dealing very nicely with them. [1:25] We've got to have no nuclear weapons. [1:28] If we do, that's a big factor. [1:30] And they're willing to do things today that they weren't willing to do two months ago. [1:34] The Press, Mr. President, do you have any news about Ukraine? [1:37] Do you have any news regarding speech in Ukraine? [1:39] Do you have bolas stick to the ceasefire? [1:41] Are you confident about that? [1:42] I think they will. [1:43] I think it's going to be – actually, it's very exciting because it's 48 years. [1:48] We're going to be meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, as you know, and the president of Lebanon. [1:55] And I had a great talk with both of them today. [1:57] They're going to be having a ceasefire. [2:00] And that'll include Hezbollah. [2:03] And I think it could be number 10 for me. [2:06] Mr. President, do you have any news regarding speech in Ukraine? [2:10] What? [2:10] Do you have any news regarding speech in Ukraine? [2:14] Ukraine is moving along. [2:16] I wish they could get along, frankly. [2:17] A lot of people are dying in Ukraine. [2:19] We'll see what happens. [2:21] There are things happening there. [2:22] We're focused – we're focused so much right now on Iran, [2:25] seeing if we can get that completed. [2:27] And I think – I think we're going to do it. [2:29] And I think if you look, the stock market is good. [2:32] The oil prices are coming down and it's looking very good that we're going to make a deal with Iran and it's going to be a good deal [2:39] It's going to be a deal with no nuclear weapons [2:45] In-person round of negotiations on the war in Iran [2:50] They're all important. I mean, it's not a question of around all of them are probably maybe over the weekend [2:57] The blockade has been incredible. It's been it's held and they're not doing any business [3:06] They're unable to do any business because of the blockade and so the combination of having no Navy having no Air Force having no [3:14] Anti-aircraft equipment to have nothing. Everything is gone [3:18] Including their leaders now. They have a new set of leaders and we find them very reasonable [3:23] Well, we haven't agreed to any we haven't agreed to [3:33] What we have is we we have a statement very [3:36] Very powerful statement that they will not have beyond 20 years that they will not have nuclear weapons. That's beyond. There's no 20-year limit [3:52] I think I think that [3:55] Todd Blanche is doing a very good job from what I'm saying [3:58] All I can say thus far. I think Todd Blanche is doing a very good job [4:01] If there's no deal would you be willing to extend the ceasefire or will the fighting resume, Mr. President? [4:09] I would say the fighting if there's no deal fight or resume [4:12] Okay, and then on gas prices how much longer will americans continue to see these high gas prices? [4:16] Well, they're not very high if you look at what they were supposed to be in order to get rid of a nuclear weapon [4:21] With the danger that entails so the gas prices have come down very much over the last three four days [4:27] I know you know and that's what abc says, but the fact is that [4:32] If you look at the stock markets up [4:35] everything is doing really well [4:37] And the big thing we have to do is we have to make sure that iran does not have a nuclear weapon because if they do [4:43] You want to talk about problems you'd have problems so very important is that iran does not have a nuclear weapon and they've agreed to that [4:51] Iran's agreed to that and they've agreed to it very powerfully [4:55] They've agreed to give us back [4:57] The nuclear dust that's way underground because of the attack we made with the b2 bombers [5:02] So we have a lot of agreement with iran and I think something's going to happen very positive [5:07] Very complicated subject. It's uh, I don't think we're waiting. I think we're moving very fast. It could happen pretty quickly [5:27] The what how long you could sustain keep the blockade on the circle of humor [5:32] We're doing very well with the blockade. It's very routine for us. The navy is incredible [5:37] And I think the blockade is doing very well. It's uh, no ship is even thinking about entering that no chip is going past our names [5:49] No, no, I don't I have to do what's right [5:52] The pope has to understand that very simple. I have nothing against the pope his brothers maga all the way. I like his brother lewis [6:00] I'm not fighting with him. The pope made a statement. He says iran can have a nuclear weapon [6:05] I say iran cannot have a nuclear weapon [6:07] And if the pope looked at the 42 000 people that were killed over the last two or three months [6:14] As a protester with no weapons, no nothing. I mean you take a look at that [6:19] So I could disagree with the pope. I have a right to disagree [6:22] I have a right to disagree with the pope [6:24] What do you say to people who see that who see your criticism of the [6:28] I have look nothing I have no [6:32] Disagreement with the fact the pope can say what he wants and I want him to say what he wants [6:38] But I can disagree [6:39] I think that iran cannot have a nuclear weapon if they do the whole world would be a jeopardy the middle east will be blown up and the whole world will be [6:47] A jeopardy we're very close to making a deal. That'll be a great thing [6:51] The pope has to understand iran has killed more than 42 000 people over the last few months [6:57] Think of it protesters [6:59] Without guns without anything. They were totally unarmed protesters the pope has to understand that [7:06] This is the real world. It's a nasty world [7:08] But as far as the pope and saying what he wants he can do that now [7:12] I know the pope's brother. He is a big maga person. He's got maga all over his house. His name is lewis [7:18] He's actually a great guy and i'm sure the pope is a great guy. I haven't met him [7:22] But I disagree with the pope if the pope would allow iran to have a nuclear weapon you can't do that [7:29] There are people that are saying that the pope is not [7:32] The pope from mtb lebanon [7:33] No, not really. The pope from mtb lebanon [7:36] What [7:37] The pope from mtb lebanon. I would like to ask you regarding congratulations for the 10th vote [7:42] Yeah, it's very exciting with lebanon. It's very exciting. I think we're going to have a deal [7:46] We're going to have a meeting first time in 44 years [7:49] And lebanon will be meeting with israel and they're probably going to do it at the white house [7:53] When do you think president when do you think they will [7:57] Over the next week or two or the next week and do you think this agreement can [8:01] I do [8:03] I think we will have an agreement between [8:05] Lebanon and they're going to take care of hezbollah [8:09] But they're going to they're going to be working on hezbollah right now [8:11] But we'll have a degree between israel very importantly and lebanon. Would you support our lebanese army as well? [8:17] I would [8:23] Agree to the ceasefire [8:25] They're all agreeing. It's a very nice little package for about a week [8:30] And we're not going to have lots of bombs dropping and we're going to see if we can make peace between [8:35] lebanon and israel [8:37] Because there was a group of bishops that did put out a statement saying the pope isn't nearly exercising his opinion [8:42] He's preaching the gospel. I mean, what do you say to people that do that? [8:45] Well, I want them to preach the gospel. I'm all about the gospel [8:48] But I also know that you cannot let a certain country which is a very mean-spirited country [8:54] Have a nuclear weapon if they did they would use it [8:57] And I think they'd use it quickly and they would kill many millions of people [9:01] So you know the pope could disagree with me on that but certainly we're allowed to have that [9:06] I'm all about the gospel [9:07] I'm about it as much as anybody can be but I can't allow as president of the united states of america [9:14] I can't allow iran to have a nuclear weapon and here's the story they won't have they've already agreed not to have [9:21] That's good news. And I think the pope will be very happy [9:23] No, I don't agree. I think we should have lower interest [9:34] I'm going to execute four more protesters accordingly including the first woman protester [9:41] What do you tell you? Well, tell that to the pope [9:43] What do you say tell that to the pope [9:47] That iran is going to [9:49] Is that is that you just hear that iran is going to execute four people included [9:55] So if you look at the oil and if you look at the price we're paying [10:13] It's about half what people thought it would be if you did what I had to do [10:17] We had to take this journey to the middle east [10:19] In order to get rid of a nuclear weapon there would have been if we didn't hit it with the b2 bombers or if I didn't kill [10:26] the barack hussein obama deal the nuclear deal which was a disaster [10:30] We would have had nuclear weapons exploding in the middle east and beyond [10:34] I believe i've been able to stop that. I think we have a very successful negotiation going on right now [10:41] and I think it'll be if it happens it'll be announced fairly soon and that'll give us [10:47] Free oil free [10:49] Hormuz straight for everything will be nice and I think your oil price will go down to lower than what it was before [10:56] And I think a lot of good things [10:58] Just for clarity you're willing to extend the ceasefire [11:02] We'll see I don't know that will happen [11:04] Ideally, but if I needed to I would [11:08] What do you say that if I need people love you so much? [11:10] What's your message for them and do you will visit lebanon after this day? [11:14] I will do this at the right time. I would certainly go there [11:17] Do you think there's war in ukraine you know putin doesn't want to stop it apparently he's bombing ukraine [11:23] Do you think this war has the potential to go on for years more? [11:27] Well, it should have been it should have never started if I were president the war in ukraine never would have started with russia [11:33] But it's it's going on hopefully it'll get over soon [11:36] Last week and said she had no link to jeffrey epstein who did the first lady melania she had none [11:42] Why did she come out and say that last week because the fake news was saying she did and she had none and i think that's been proven [11:49] It bothered her that the fake news was being fake news that's all she just wanted to clarify [11:55] Who's taking care of hezbollah do you think that they are destroying the deal that they are trying to make [11:59] We're going to see how it all works out but they'll be working and coordinating if you know you know lebanon right so they'll be working with us [12:07] Well, we'll see i mean we have a very good relationship with iran right now as hard as it is to believe [12:22] and i think it's a combination of about [12:25] four weeks of bombing and a very powerful blockade the blockade is [12:30] maybe more powerful than the bombing if you want to know the truth [12:32] Are you going to make the arab countries pay a portion of all of the costs i think they'll make that i think they're going to make that contribution [12:42] i think i think the arab countries because we've done a lot i think they'd make a contribution toward the cost [12:56] not been involved [12:58] but i think we're very close to making a deal with iran [13:07] you'll be the first to know but i think we're we have a chance and [13:10] if that happens oil goes way down prices go way down inflation goes way down [13:17] and you're going to have much more importantly than even that you won't have nuclear holocaust [13:42] we have a great relationship as you know with president xi and i look forward to being there [14:23] we have a very special relationship so i look forward to being in china [14:29] mr president you impose sanctions on rwanda because they keep violating the washington [14:35] but president sabam just said he don't care about sanctions and he said [14:39] he will not redraw from pongo his troops will continue in pongo what is your reaction to that [14:44] we look into it very strongly but they do have very big sanctions there was a there was a g20 [14:49] meeting in washington today why did you invite poland instead of south africa well poland's a great [14:56] country we like it a lot we're friends with poland the president is doing a great job so we invite [15:04] the social posts about bruce blakeman in new york he's being denied up to seven million [15:13] dollars of public campaign funds in new york fight partisan democrats have you seen that and [15:17] what's your reaction to it i can just tell you this bruce blakeman is running for governor he will [15:23] be a great governor if he wins i don't know that he wins or not because it's new york and you know [15:28] people cheat on elections and a lot of other things but a great great gentleman as you know he comes [15:36] from nassau county which is a democrat area and he wins by a landslide all the time and if bruce blakeman [15:42] gets in your taxes are going to go way down and a lot of good things are going to happen including [15:47] including cleanliness and all of the things that you want to see i know him very well he's been a [15:53] great leader a great executive in nassau county uh even though it's largely democrat he wins in a [16:00] landslide everybody loves him he's a very talented guy very great politician and i think he probably [16:07] has a chance if bruce blakeman gets in your taxes are going way down and you know what else is going [16:12] down crime there are these 10 missing scientists with access to classified stuff nuclear material [16:20] aerospace they've all gone missing or turned up dead in the last couple months based on what you've been [16:26] briefed what do you think is happening here and do you think that this is connected or totally random [16:31] well i hope it's random but we're going to know in the next week and a half i just left the meeting [16:36] on that subject so uh pretty serious stuff but we're going to be not hopefully i don't know coincidence [16:43] if you want it whatever you want to call it but some of them were very important people and we're [16:48] going to look at it over the next it's impossible that some foreign uh adversary is in the united states [16:55] to open these people up well you know biden had open borders it wasn't very hard to get here but we've [17:00] gotten many of them out you know we've caught many many people many many very bad people including [17:06] thousands of murderers that we've taken out of our country thousands of drug lords that we've taken [17:12] out of our country hundreds of thousands of prisoners that were led into the u.s that we've taken out of [17:18] our country as far as the scientists are concerned we'll probably have a pretty good answer over the next [17:23] week does it have to be a big deal all at once or would you accept a little deal to start well i have [17:32] a little deal i can make a little guy everyone i want to get it done and get back to uh keep keep going [17:38] with low you know our pricing is doing great as soon as the war is over we're going to be lower than we [17:43] were two or three years ago so i want to get back to that i want we had to do something we had to make [17:49] sure that iran never gets a nuclear weapon and we're at that they've agreed to that they've totally [17:54] agreed to that they've agreed to almost everything so maybe if they can get to the table there's a [18:01] difference they agree they got to get to the table with a pen uh we'll have that over with and then we [18:07] could focus on our great economy and also you know i inherited the highest prices in the history of [18:13] our country the worst inflation in the history of our country i'll get it down to a very low number [18:18] we had it to a very low number and it's still low but the most important thing right now is to make [18:24] sure iran can never have a nuclear world would you ever go to pakistan to seal the deal yourself [18:31] i would i would go to pakistan yeah pakistan has been great they've been so good islamabad i'll be [18:37] i might go yeah if the deal is signed in islamabad i might go the field marshal has been great the [18:44] prime minister has been really great in pakistan so i bet they want me the first lady last week [18:50] called on congress to further look into and uncover the truth on the epstein files the epstein saga do [18:58] you believe that there should be a public hearing for more of these epstein survivors okay with it i [19:02] think we've had a lot of public hearings i'm okay with it but i understand that the women didn't want [19:07] to go under oath that's what i heard that the women the victims or whatever they refused to go under [19:15] oath which was a little surprising so melania felt strongly about it because she was accused of that [19:21] i'd met her through up to it but it turned out to be totally false it was a false question sorry [19:28] does this fire also include iraq and region are we talking about the one with lebanon lebanon iraq and [19:38] uh so we just made a deal with lebanon as of two hours from now we have a ceasefire with israel and [19:45] lebanon and that'll be great and they'll be meeting probably coming to the white house over the next [19:51] four or five days that'll be the first time they've met in 44 years which is pretty unneighborly with [19:58] considering their neighbors but there's a really good chance that that'll work out with lebanon and [20:04] israel i met with uh through the telephone with the president of lebanon who's a really good guy [20:10] highly respected and with bb and i think there's a chance we'll be meeting right here in the not too [20:17] that's what's going to be the difference this time me i'm living big difference me [20:34] uh states like virginia uh north carolina and new york democratic states are looking at raising taxes [20:40] is that going to take away from the tax cuts what's happening no because you know no tax on tips [20:45] i'm going over no tax on tips today that's why i'm going to nevada i'm going to arizona but [20:50] this is sort of a no taxes what's happening is people are finding out that in their tax return [20:56] they're getting a big refund much bigger than they thought so it's no tax on tips no tax on social [21:02] security no tax on overtime wait wait wait wait i think it's going to be amazing [21:07] but if you look at what they're doing in new york in california they're raising taxes [21:14] and they're driving people out if you see australia has announced that it's increasing its defense [21:19] spending to three percent you've been asking for 3.5 percent uh are you satisfied and we're going to [21:25] see what happens but uh on defense spending look we built the greatest military anywhere in the world [21:30] there's nobody even close all you have to do is take a look at the blockade nobody's ever seen anything [21:36] like it that blockade is the best thing and i'll tell you something i think the blockade has been [21:43] more powerful than the bombs the bombs are powerful and it weakened them they have no navy they have no [21:49] air force they have no anything they have no leaders but their new leaders the ones that have [21:53] replaced them it's a regime change they are much more i think frankly more intelligent and more moderate [22:00] but uh we have a real chance to make a deal very soon with around [22:09] on australia mr president you asked for three and a half percent increase like five percent you did [22:14] with nato australia has only gone to three percent are you satisfied with that decision would you [22:20] well i'm not happy with australia because they were not because they were not there when we asked [22:24] them to be there so australia what did you ask for australia was another one they were not there [22:29] having to do with our moods the harmless what do you mean by that i'm not happy i'm not happy [22:34] i'm not happy but why specifically do you still have a good relationship with the prime minister [22:39] what message do you think to push for Lebanon sent to the uk and other european allies who chose not to [22:44] get involved in the war well you know we we spend trillions and trillions of dollars on nato [22:50] and when i asked them to get involved in a much smaller situation which is harmos and iran they [22:59] weren't there for us remember what i said they weren't there none of them they weren't there so we [23:05] were there on ukraine i mean we shouldn't have been it would have never happened if i were president [23:09] but nevertheless when they've had problems over the years we were there when we asked them to get [23:14] involved on a very minor skirmish by comparison to what it could be they weren't there so i don't [23:20] think they'd be there for large coverage and therefore i think they've got themselves a problem [23:28] do your policies like no tax on tips no tax on overtime show that the democrat party is no longer [23:35] the party of the working class and the republican party under your leadership act i love this question [23:40] this is the greatest guy look how handsome he is what a great guy he is yes the democrats don't [23:46] know what they're doing they want to tax everybody out of business they want [23:50] men playing in women sports they don't want voter id they don't know what they're doing we've had [23:56] we've had an unbelievable run and the people getting their tax returns and they're coming back [24:02] and they're ending up getting five six seven thousand dollars more than they thought possible [24:06] the pope do you think he was being disrespectful to you i don't think about it that way the pope has to [24:20] understand that iran could not have a nuclear weapon and the pope has to understand that you can't let a [24:26] country kill 42 000 protesters totally unarmed protesters you can't do that so uh the pope you [24:35] know i know his brother his brother's maga all the way you know that lewis is a great guy but the pope [24:41] has to understand you're not allowed to kill 42 000 protesters who are totally unarmed and you cannot let [24:48] iran have a nuclear weapon or the entire world could be gone and you know when the pope realizes that i think [24:56] we'll have a different [25:01] mean that europeans should be buying more gas and oil from the united states well they should be [25:05] buying more from us and what they should be doing is using the north sea i can tell you uk [25:10] i've been telling that to your prime minister the uk should open up the north sea of one of the greatest [25:16] in the world and they should use it instead of buying oil from norway and other places that use the [25:22] same source they should use it and they're not doing it they're doing windmills and windmills [25:28] windmills do one thing you know what they do put you out of business [25:35] regional leaders about the peace deal or the peace [25:38] folks about with everybody we're dealing with all of the leaders on many different subjects [25:42] we're very close to a deal with iran