FULL Q&A: Trump Warns Iran, China Helping Iran, Slams Fauci, Talks Fed, UK Energy,Ukraine & AI — AC1E

[0:00] Would you say two years? [0:01] It would take two years to finish this? [0:02] President Trump We think we can get it started fairly [0:04] quickly. [0:05] It's largely financed. [0:07] And, yeah, we need some approvals from Congress, [0:10] probably. [0:11] But generally speaking, it's been very bipartisan. [0:13] And then on the attack, the drone attack on the LNG [0:16] tanker off of Egypt, what can you tell us about that? [0:20] And is there any indication it's Iran-related? [0:23] Does it represent the widening of the war? [0:25] President Trump Well, I can give you a report. [0:26] I've been briefed. [0:27] It's a little more of the same. [0:29] But it's going to be straightening out. [0:32] It's going to be straightening out. [0:33] In the meantime, we're going to be hitting them very [0:37] hard because it's our turn to hit them. [0:39] They know it's coming. [0:40] They're asking us not to do it. [0:42] But, you know, they tried shooting it last night. [0:45] So we had five rockets shot going 8,500 miles an hour. [0:49] And all five rockets were knocked down to the ground. [0:52] But they nevertheless took a shot. [0:53] So it's our turn. [0:55] And we'll see if we get there with an agreement at some point. [0:58] But we're going to hit them very hard. [0:59] The Press. [1:00] The Press. [1:01] The Press. [1:02] The Press. [1:03] The Press. [1:04] The Press. [1:05] The Press. [1:06] The Press. [1:07] The Press. [1:08] The Press. [1:09] The Press. [1:10] It might even be better. [1:12] On Leader Thune, what's your reaction to him saying [1:16] that there's no evident path to success [1:18] on killing the filibuster or passing the State of America Act? [1:21] Well, that's too bad for him. [1:23] I mean, that's too bad for him [1:24] and too bad for the Republican Party. [1:26] Do you believe that... [1:27] He's got the votes. He should get it done. [1:29] He should be able to get it done. [1:30] Mr. President, thank you. [1:32] Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment [1:34] more than 100 times today. [1:36] Senator Rand Paul said he's going to hold a vote [1:38] on holding him in contempt of Congress. [1:39] Do you think Dr. Fauci should face repercussions for this? [1:42] Well, I watched the whole thing today, [1:44] but more importantly, I was a part of the whole Fauci. [1:47] I inherited Fauci. [1:49] He was here from the 1980s, [1:50] so I had him for a period of time. [1:52] And I disagreed with him on a lot. [1:54] I would have had to close down the whole country [1:56] if I listened to him. [1:58] I went the Federalist way, [1:59] which is basically to let the governors decide. [2:02] And generally speaking, [2:03] the Republican governors did very well. [2:05] The Democrat governors did not very well. [2:08] But Fauci wanted to have nobody wearing masks, [2:11] if you remember. [2:11] And then everybody had to wear five masks, [2:14] as many masks as you could get. [2:15] I mean, he made a lot of mistakes. [2:17] And he wasn't a big factor for me. [2:20] He was a very big factor for Biden. [2:22] And if you remember, even though we were sort of prime time [2:27] in terms of that whole disaster of COVID, [2:31] far people died fewer in the Trump administration [2:36] than in the Biden administration. [2:38] We ran it well. [2:40] Operation Warp Speed was talked about [2:43] as being one of the great success stories [2:45] anywhere in the world, actually. [2:46] And we did a good job. [2:48] But many more people died under Biden [2:50] than died in the Trump administration from COVID. [2:53] COVID was a disaster. [2:54] But Fauci did not help. [2:55] Mr. President, do you think that the DOJ [2:58] should reopen the investigation to the auto pen, [3:01] specifically pertaining to Fauci? [3:03] Well, the only thing you can really think about [3:05] is the auto pen, because the most powerful thing [3:09] the president has, they say, is the power of pardon. [3:12] So he was pardoned by Biden. [3:15] And I respect that. [3:17] I know how powerful it is. [3:18] It's a very powerful, they say it's literally [3:21] the most powerful thing a president has. [3:23] Now, whether or not I sign my things directly, [3:27] always, almost everything I sign directly. [3:30] You're witness to many of them. [3:32] He signed very few. [3:33] The only thing I know that he signed [3:35] was Hunter Biden's pardon. [3:36] But I'm not sure that he signed, [3:39] he probably didn't sign this one. [3:41] So I can't tell you what the law is. [3:44] I've heard that you have to have a lot of proof. [3:47] You need to have letters. [3:48] You need to have all sorts of things [3:50] that the person operating the auto pen [3:52] has to know exactly what it's all about. [3:54] He didn't know what it was about, [3:56] because I saw him testify. [3:57] So maybe there's something on the auto pen. [3:59] But other than that, the power of pardoners [4:02] is very powerful. [4:03] Definitely. [4:04] My question briefly on the money. [4:06] No, wait, wait, Beth. [4:07] Thank you. [4:07] Beth Turner, GB News. [4:08] We've just heard you talking about another example [4:11] of American excellence. [4:13] That's really what this is, [4:14] a project where you're striving to be the best in the world. [4:16] As a Brit, that's really striking to me. [4:20] You've had a couple of weeks to get to know [4:22] our new Prime Minister. [4:23] Have you spoken to him much? [4:24] I have. [4:25] Do you think he is the man to lead us to excellency? [4:28] Well, he did say one very good thing. [4:30] He said he's going to open up North Sea oil. [4:34] If he does that, you're going to be a wealthy country. [4:36] If he does it reasonably. [4:38] I was telling Prime Minister Starmer, [4:40] open up the North Sea. [4:42] Open it up. [4:42] You'll be okay. [4:43] Open it up. [4:44] They have two problems. [4:45] They have a huge immigration problem. [4:47] People coming from all over the world [4:49] and just camping out in your country. [4:51] And we've taken a very tough stand. [4:52] In fact, for 14 months, nobody has come into our country. [4:55] Zero, which is almost hard to believe. [4:58] But that's what the report says. [5:00] Our borders become very strong and your border is very weak. [5:03] He's got that problem. [5:04] And he's got an energy problem. [5:06] He's got windmills all over the place. [5:07] And any time you see windmills, you see a failing country. [5:11] And they're made in China. [5:12] Not used by China, but they're made in China. [5:16] And you have a thing called the North Sea. [5:17] And you buy a lot of your energy, as you know, from the North Sea. [5:21] You buy from Norway. [5:23] And Norway gets it from the North Sea. [5:25] They get their oil from the North Sea. [5:29] And Norway's got trillions of dollars in the bank. [5:32] Trillions. [5:33] It sells its oil from the North Sea. [5:35] And Scotland has a better part of the North Sea. [5:39] And you have 500, 600, 700 years. [5:42] You have areas of the North Sea that haven't even been explored yet. [5:45] You have one of the most valuable oil finds anywhere in the world. [5:49] And if the United Kingdom would use it, they'd be a wealthy country again. [5:54] And I tell you what, I could not get Starmer to use it. [5:58] It was incredible. [5:59] Every oil company that I meet, and these are all big giants, [6:03] every person that I know in the oil business said, [6:06] please, could you open up the North Sea? [6:08] Could you get them to open it? [6:09] They're dying to do it. [6:11] And if you open up the North Sea to the oil companies, Scotland, Ireland, [6:17] the UK as a whole, but it's, I mean, it's right in Aberdeen, Scotland. [6:22] It's right in Aberdeen. [6:23] And that would be one of the most vibrant. [6:27] You know, it used to be called the oil capital of Europe. [6:31] Aberdeen was the capital of Europe. [6:33] And now it's, they don't drill oil. [6:37] And nobody can understand why. [6:38] You have among the, it's among the finest oil. [6:41] It's the best oil anywhere on the planet. [6:43] And it's unbelievable plenty. [6:45] You don't have to pay Norway triple what it costs them to take out. [6:50] You have your own oil and gas. [6:51] If you use the North Sea, the UK will be a really rich country. [6:56] I cannot get the point across. [6:58] The new gentleman, when I spoke to him, [7:00] he said he's going to open up the North Sea. [7:01] Let's see if that happens. [7:04] The Fed today voted to keep interest rates unchanged. [7:07] Are you surprised by that? [7:09] Are you disappointed in any way with Kevin Walsh? [7:11] No, Kevin's fantastic, but he's got a board. [7:14] Yeah, Kevin's got a board. [7:15] He's fantastic. [7:16] He's a brilliant guy, smart. [7:18] I know he'd love to see lower interest rates, [7:21] but he's got a board and it's a political board [7:25] and they want to keep rates up. [7:26] But we fight through rates. [7:27] We have the greatest, [7:28] we have the strongest investment ever made in a country, [7:32] of any country. [7:34] It was China about 13, 14 years ago. [7:38] We have far greater, 19.2, [7:40] even Jensen would say that's a lot. [7:43] 19, and Jensen's spending a tremendous amount of money [7:45] by hundreds of billions of dollars. [7:47] He happens to be in the room. [7:48] He's spending more than United, actually. [7:50] He is. [7:51] He's spending 10 billion, [7:52] but Jensen's spending hundreds of billions, right? [7:55] I don't know, that's not a bad business. [7:58] But no, no, we have 19.2 trillion. [8:01] So it's the biggest number ever spent in any country by far, [8:05] and that's over a period of one year. [8:07] As an example, as you know, [8:08] the Biden administration for four years [8:11] did much less than one trillion. [8:13] We're doing 19.2 trillion in one year. [8:16] So we have things that are happening in our country, [8:19] the likes of which nobody's ever seen. [8:20] Plants and factories are moving in. [8:23] Toyota just announced they're building [8:25] one of the largest car plants anywhere in the world, [8:27] and truck plants anywhere in the world. [8:30] We are building more automobile plants now [8:33] than at any time in the history of our country. [8:34] Yes, it's a great idea. [8:36] The Pressure in particular, [8:36] this is just one of several projects [8:38] that you have underway in the DNV. [8:40] Why would you say that you're so focused [8:42] on transforming the Washington region right now? [8:44] Well, this is an important one. [8:46] You know, this is travel. [8:47] So in terms of the importance, [8:49] I think the arc is going to be incredible. [8:51] I think the protected ballroom and military center [8:53] that we're building at the White House [8:55] is going to be unbelievable. [8:56] It's very important. [8:57] But, you know, this is the airport. [9:00] This is sort of the lifeblood of a city or a capital, [9:03] certainly a capital. [9:05] And this will go from one of the worst, [9:07] just like Washington. [9:08] Washington was one of the worst places in this country, [9:11] and now it's one of the best. [9:13] You couldn't get into a restaurant [9:15] because all the restaurants were closing or closed. [9:17] They were afraid to have it open. [9:19] Now you can't, if you're a restaurateur, [9:20] you can't even find space to have a restaurant. [9:23] The restaurants are booming. [9:25] So, you know, it's a great thrill. [9:27] And by the way, if you look, Washington is clean, [9:31] it's safe, people walk to work. [9:33] Every day a young man or a young woman comes up and says, [9:35] thank you sir, I know exactly what he's talking about. [9:38] They couldn't, they were afraid to walk to work. [9:40] Now they literally walk to the White House. [9:42] Washington is now a beautiful and clean. [9:44] We got rid of the graffiti. [9:46] Seventy-eight monuments and different things have been cleaned. [9:52] They were strewn with graffiti. [9:54] We had 28 fountains that not one of them worked. [9:58] For years, for decades, they haven't worked. [10:01] They're all up in service and nobody's seen anything like it. [10:04] We have a clean, we're changing all the grass in all the parks. [10:07] That's going to be changed very shortly. [10:10] The parks are because the grass is very, you know, grass is like human beings. [10:13] Grass is a life also. [10:15] And we're changing, we're raking, cleaning and changing all of the parks. [10:19] We don't have people, we don't have the tents anymore. [10:22] We don't have all the barbed wire up. [10:24] We don't have the wire up. [10:25] Washington's become a beautiful city. [10:27] It's become a hot city. [10:30] But, you know, even more importantly, the United States right now is the hottest country anywhere [10:34] in the world. [10:35] Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, I'm in the airport. [10:39] No federal funding will be required. [10:41] What did you mean when you said congressman? [10:42] Sean, do you want to talk about it? [10:44] So it's going to be bonded for $22.5 billion. [10:48] United is going to partake in part of the payment. [10:51] But the airlines who participate in the project are going to pay for it. [10:55] If I could just make one point of clarification. [10:56] We have some permitting we have to do, but we think in the spring, we, this will be, [11:02] this is both concourse A, we think we can start construction in the spring of next year. [11:08] So we're trying to move at the speed of President Trump. [11:10] It's never fast enough, but we're going as quickly as possible so we can give a deliverable [11:15] to the American people. [11:16] The other thing, Sean, which I think is so important, maybe more important, I don't [11:21] think it can be more important than this, but he's working on air traffic control. [11:26] We have an obsolete system. [11:28] It's 50 years old. [11:30] You saw the helicopter crash a year ago into a plane. [11:33] That was a disaster. [11:35] And things like that would never happen. [11:38] Bells would have gone off. [11:39] And four or five minutes before it happened, you would have heard the bells and whistles [11:43] would have gone off. [11:44] And a thing like that couldn't have happened if you had proper, proper air control. [11:49] So what's happened is we're working very hard on getting the finest in the country now, [11:56] in the world. [11:57] We've examined the systems of almost every good country in terms of air traffic control [12:04] all over the world. [12:05] And we have the best people working on it in the world. [12:09] And it'll make, I mean, so often you'll see somebody even bunking into each other at [12:13] an airport. [12:14] But where planes come too close, where planes, in the case of the helicopter hit, they hit, [12:19] the helicopter hits the plane. [12:21] We are working on air traffic control to redo the entire system, including the new towers, [12:27] because the towers are obsolete. [12:29] You know, you don't think of it, you see a tower and it looks fine. [12:31] You go into those towers, they're literally falling down. [12:34] So we're talking about new towers and all new air traffic control, which will give us [12:39] the safest anywhere in the world. [12:41] Why do you think Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment so many times today, when he has [12:50] the pardon? [12:51] And why couldn't, what was stopping him from just giving an honest testimony this morning? [12:55] Dr. Well, look, I've never been a big fan of Fauci. [12:58] Why he did that was very simple, his lawyer told him to. [13:00] You know, I don't know if he would have been better off not doing it. [13:04] There were a lot of questions that I guess he could have answered. [13:07] And some maybe he didn't feel comfortable in answering, but his lawyer told him to do [13:11] that. [13:12] The Prime Minister Andy Burnham hasn't mentioned publicly migration at all since he's gone into [13:19] Number 10. [13:20] Did you discuss it with him? [13:22] I did, briefly, he's going to have to mention it because it's killing your country. [13:28] Mr. President. [13:29] Mr. President. [13:30] Mr. President. [13:31] He wants to talk to you. [13:32] He wants to talk to you. [13:33] He wants to talk to you. [13:34] He wants to talk to you. [13:35] He wants to talk to you. [13:36] And not him. [13:37] I mean, we'll have to see. [13:38] I know Starmer did very little about it. [13:39] And they're coming from all over the world. [13:40] They're coming from Africa. [13:41] They're coming from South America. [13:43] They're coming from different parts of Asia. [13:45] And they're invading Europe. [13:47] I mean, they're invading Europe. [13:49] It's an invasion. [13:50] And the UK is a prime suspect. [13:53] Mr. President. [13:54] On Todd Blanche, Senator John Cornyn of Texas has been hesitant to back the confirmation. [14:00] It seems to be some sort of deal that you expect that. [14:03] What is your reaction to his hesitancy? [14:05] Well, all I can say is Todd Blanche is outstanding. [14:08] And I thought he's I thought it was pretty routine because he's so good. [14:12] He just wouldn't find a better person. [14:14] So I don't know. [14:15] Maybe John Cornyn is upset with me because I didn't endorse him. [14:18] I don't know what it is. [14:19] But I haven't heard that there's a problem. [14:22] I heard he's going through quite nicely. [14:24] And do you think Senate Majority Leader John Foon, after the comments you heard regarding State of America and some other stuff, do you think he's still a man for the job? [14:31] Well, we're going to find out. [14:33] And I'll let you know. [14:34] It's a beautiful service yesterday for Senator Graham, beautiful eulogy that you deliver. [14:40] As far as Senator Darlene Graham is concerned, based upon your conversations, is she going to focus primarily on foreign affairs like her brother? [14:49] Or will she focus more on domestic issues? [14:51] I think domestic, really. [14:52] I've spoken to her a lot. [14:54] And she's much more focused on domestic, including costs and pricing. [14:58] I think she'll I think she'll be outstanding. [15:00] Mr. President, Jay Clayton, he was just confirmed by the Senate. [15:04] Yeah, he's great. [15:05] Would you like to see him continue with Bill Fulte's work at exposing elections? [15:08] Oh, yeah, sure. [15:09] I'm sure he will. [15:10] Bill did a great job. [15:11] And Jay has just has just been confirmed. [15:14] And, you know, he's outstanding. [15:15] He was the head of Sullivan or Cromwell for many years. [15:17] And he's very outstanding. [15:19] And I think he's going to do a fantastic job. [15:21] And Bill was great. [15:22] Yeah, please. [15:23] Mr. President, in light of advanced chat, GBT, AI models escaping their lab and conducting cyber attacks, [15:27] are you considering stronger controls on AI? [15:30] And would you consider negotiating? [15:32] Well, we're looking at AI. [15:33] We're looking at controls. [15:34] We're also making sure that we lead. [15:36] So we're leading China in AI by a lot. [15:39] China has virtually no controls. [15:41] It's freewheeling a little bit. [15:43] So we have to be careful in both ways. [15:46] We don't want to restrict them. [15:47] We're all of a sudden we come in second to China. [15:49] Whoever wins with AI is going to win. [15:52] That's how big it is. [15:53] So it's bigger than the Internet ever was. [15:55] It's bigger than anything ever was. [15:57] So I don't want to restrict. [15:58] I know many of these people. [15:59] I don't want to restrict them from doing great work. [16:01] Yeah, please. [16:02] On what scenario do you see Iran attacking U.S. installations and personnel overseas and you withdrawing? [16:12] Oh, I don't see that. [16:13] No, we're not. [16:14] No, we're going to hit them very hard. [16:16] I mean, I can actually say that because there's very little they can do about it. [16:21] It was a different group than we're dealing with. [16:24] They've already apologized. [16:26] But, you know, we've got to smack them a little bit. [16:29] Mr. President, are you always going to hit back when they strike? [16:34] Will I always hit back? [16:35] Yes. [16:36] Pretty much. [16:37] Mr. President, just on the point of clarity on that, sir, is that in response to the attempted ballistic missile strike on Jordan last night? [16:44] When you say it's our turn, it's back. [16:46] Yeah, I think more so that, yeah, because it was another smaller event. [16:50] But no, they sent five 8,000 mile an hour missiles at us. [16:54] And fortunately, we had our people operating the greatest equipment in the world, namely the Patriot system. [16:59] Think of it. [17:00] Five missiles going 8,600 miles an hour, big ones, coming right at us. [17:05] And all five were shut down. [17:07] How about that? [17:08] Right? [17:09] Pretty good. [17:10] Only, only we, nobody else could do that but us. [17:12] Yeah. [17:13] How was your meeting with President Zelensky yesterday? [17:16] It was good. [17:17] No, it was good. [17:19] Look, you know, he's out doing his thing. [17:21] I'd like him to end the war. [17:22] So it's very simple. [17:23] I get along with both. [17:25] I get along with President Putin. [17:27] I get along with President Zelensky. [17:28] And like I told him, I wanted to end the war. [17:30] Get the war ended. [17:31] Thousands of people, 25,000 people died last month. [17:35] That's standard. [17:37] And it's not acceptable. [17:39] So I said, just end the war. [17:41] Mr. President, on the war, do you want the House to come back before August 31st to act on the Russia and Iran sanctions bill? [17:50] Well, if it's necessary. [17:51] I mean, it shouldn't be necessary, to be honest. [17:53] But if it's necessary, I'd like to. [17:55] Are you talking about the Lindsey Graham? [17:56] Yeah. [17:57] So I'd like them to add Iran as tariffs, not just as sanctions. [18:02] I think it's important. [18:03] That's what Lindsey wanted, because I heard that they have tariffs on Russia, but not on those five countries with having to do with Iran. [18:12] I'd like to see tariffs on Iran. [18:14] It would make it much stronger. [18:15] So perhaps you're very good at this. [18:17] You're very good at this. [18:18] You can maybe tell them, I think they should put in for Russia, but I think they should put in for Iran. [18:23] And that's really what Lindsey wanted. [18:24] Yeah. [18:25] And on Iran, one more, sir. [18:26] Sorry. [18:27] And good job at the dinner the other night. [18:28] Thank you. [18:29] You did a great job. [18:30] Thank you. [18:31] Appreciate that. [18:32] President Xi told you that China would not give or sell Iran any weapons. [18:36] Yeah. [18:37] And there's a new report that Iran's about to get 400 rocket launchers from China going through Pakistan to Iran. [18:44] Well, that would be surprising. [18:45] I mean, things like that happen. [18:47] But that would be surprising. [18:48] He told me very strongly he wouldn't partake. [18:51] But he knows I'd be quite disappointed. [18:54] Yeah, please. [18:55] And he's coming here, I think, on September 24th. [18:58] Two questions. [18:59] First, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9-11. [19:03] And a good number of 9-11 families have called on New York Mayor Zoramandani to not attend a number of these memorial services. [19:11] What are your thoughts on that? [19:12] Well, I think they're having a hard time with Mandami. [19:15] The people having to do with anybody having to do with 9-11 right now, on the victim side, and there are a lot of them, they're very unhappy with what's going on in New York. [19:25] And they're very unhappy with the mayor. [19:27] I understand that. [19:28] Yeah, please. [19:29] Thank you, Mr. President. [19:30] Senate Republicans are underway in negotiating the budget. [19:33] Would you sign a CR without the Save America application? [19:36] Is that something you want to see? [19:37] I'll have to look at it, but they should get the Save America. [19:39] How simple can it be? [19:41] Voter identification, proof of citizenship. [19:44] I mean, now, you have to understand, the Democrats, not one Democrat will sign because they want to cheat. [19:51] There's no way they can get elected if they don't, if that happens. [19:54] But we should have unanimous Republican support. [19:57] And if we don't, people should look at those Republicans. [19:59] But think of it, who would not sign voter identification with photo? [20:06] And who would not sign proof of citizenship? [20:09] Only people who want to cheat. [20:11] Thank you very much, everybody. [20:12] Thank you. [20:13] Thank you very much. [20:14] Thank you, everybody. [20:15] Thank you so much. [20:16] Thank you. [20:17] Thank you, Beth. [20:18] Thank you. [20:19] Thank you. [20:20] Thanks, guys. [20:21] Thank you. [20:22] Thank you, guys. [20:23] Thank you, guys. [20:25] Thank you. [20:26] Thank you, guys. [20:27] Thanks. [20:27] Thanks, guys. [20:29] Yes. [20:29] Come on. [20:30] This one. [20:31] Yeah. [20:31] Bye. [20:32] Thank you. [20:33] We'll start going. [20:34] Thank you. [20:34] Thank you. [20:35] Thank you. [20:35] Thanks, guys. [20:36] That's great. [20:37] Thank you.