FULL Q&A: U.S. President Trump Speaks on Cuba Crisis, Iran Talks, JD Vance & Foreign Policy — AC1E

[0:27] A lot of people have suffered very big, very, [0:31] very at levels that few people would understand. [0:33] And I think the Cuban population of Miami, [0:37] and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there [0:40] that were decimated, whose families were ruined, [0:43] appreciate what the Attorney General just did today [0:48] and was just doing now. [0:49] He's just watching it. [0:51] So we have Cuba on our mind. [0:54] Very important. [0:55] Been a lot of problem for a lot of years. [0:58] And this was a big — I think it was a very big moment [1:01] for people that — not only Cuban Americans, [1:04] but people that came from Cuba, [1:06] that want to go back to Cuba, [1:07] people that want to see their family in Cuba. [1:11] I think this is a very big day, a very important day. [1:14] They supported me to the nth degree. [1:16] They supported me at levels that nobody has ever seen before. [1:20] And so I think it's a very important moment. [1:22] The Press, what about Cuba, Mr. President? [1:25] What's coming next for Cuba? [1:27] The President, what we're going to see, it's a failing nation. [1:29] You see that. It's falling apart. [1:30] They have no oil. They have no — it's a failing nation. [1:34] So I just can't tell you that. [1:35] But we're there to help. [1:37] We're there to help the families, the people. [1:40] And again, a lot of those people are related to me [1:42] in the sense that I've had such a great relationship [1:45] with Cuban Americans. [1:47] They supported me at a 94 percent level. [1:49] That's a pretty good level. [1:51] And they're — you know, their relatives are there. [1:56] So we got to — on a humanitarian basis, [1:59] we're there to help. [2:00] The Press, Mr. President, can you talk about that at all? [2:04] The President, can you talk about that at all? [2:04] The President, well, we have a lot of people there. [2:05] We have the CIA there. We have Marco is there. [2:08] Marco's parents, as you know, we're from Cuba. [2:11] So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. [2:14] And it's not going to be, like, the biggest thing we've ever done. [2:17] But I will tell you, to a lot of people, [2:19] it's going to be one of the most important. [2:21] They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. [2:25] So we'll see what happens. But we're going to — [2:28] in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. [2:30] They have no way of living. They have no food. [2:34] They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. [2:38] But they do have great people. [2:39] There are a lot of great people. [2:40] I mean, I have so many Cuban friends in Miami — [2:43] mostly in Miami and Florida. [2:46] And they're unbelievable people. [2:47] They're unbelievable entrepreneurs. [2:50] And they'd like to go back. [2:51] I think they — hopefully, they're going to want to live here. [2:54] But they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. [2:56] We'll see what happens. [2:57] But we're freeing up Cuba. [2:59] The Press Press, how much longer do you anticipate [3:02] the embargo having to be in place on Cuba? [3:07] The President Biden's table here, Mr. President. [3:11] Should we expect any escalation here? [3:13] Or should they expect anything? [3:15] The President Biden's table here, Mr. President. [3:16] Yes. [3:16] The President Biden's table here, Mr. President. [3:17] No. No, you won't — there won't be escalation. [3:20] I don't think there needs to be — look, [3:22] the place is falling apart. [3:24] It's a mess. [3:25] And they've sort of lost control. [3:29] They've really lost control of Cuba. [3:31] The Press Press, Mr. President. [3:35] I don't want to say that. [3:37] The Press Press on Capitol Hill today. [3:40] He says that he doesn't think J.D. Vance has what it takes [3:44] to come after you. [3:45] What's your response to that? [3:46] The President Biden's table here, Mr. President. [3:46] The President Biden's table here, Mr. President. [3:50] He said doesn't have what? [3:52] The Press Press, the era of Trump ends with you, [3:54] and that J.D. Vance doesn't have what it takes [3:56] to come after you. [3:58] The President Biden's table here, Mr. President. [3:59] We've done a lot, and J.D.'s very talented. [4:02] He's a smart guy. [4:03] He'll do very well if it's J.D. [4:05] We have a lot of very talented people. [4:08] So I think hopefully we're going to leave something [4:11] that's going to be real easy to run. [4:14] We're doing — we're doing a lot. [4:15] We're doing a lot. [4:16] And J.D.'s a very talented guy. [4:19] The Press Press, Mr. President, [4:20] have to respond after you said yesterday you're about [4:23] an hour away from making a decision. [4:24] Where does that stand today? [4:26] Have you heard anything from them? [4:27] The President is very — it's right on the borderline, [4:31] believe me. [4:32] If we don't get the right answers, [4:33] it goes very quickly. [4:34] We're all ready to go. [4:36] We have to get the right answers. [4:37] It would have to be a complete, 100 percent good answers. [4:40] And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, [4:44] and lives, most importantly. [4:49] It could go very quickly. [4:51] Or a few days. [4:52] It could be a few days. [4:53] But it could go very quickly. [4:55] Iran is a defeated nation. [4:58] We're dealing with some people. [4:59] And we're dealing — actually, I must tell you, [5:01] we're dealing with some very good people. [5:03] We're dealing with people that are, I think, [5:05] far more reasonable than the people that are really [5:08] no longer with us. [5:09] We're dealing with some people with talent, [5:11] with good brainpower. [5:15] And we're pretty impressed by it. [5:16] So hopefully, those people will make a deal [5:19] that's going to be great for everybody. [5:21] But I don't know — I don't know. [5:23] I don't — do I get — what? [5:25] I never — [5:25] The Press Press, Mr. President, [5:26] I never get tired. [5:28] But what I like to do — if I can save war [5:31] by waiting a couple of days, [5:33] so I can save people being killed [5:35] by waiting a couple of days, [5:37] I think it's a great thing to do. [5:39] The Press Press, Mr. Colbert's last show [5:41] tomorrow night. [5:42] What's your message to him, [5:43] the late-night host Stephen Colbert? [5:45] It's his last show after him being [5:47] such a storied critic of yours. [5:48] What's your message? [5:49] The President, I'll have a message at a later date. [5:53] Okay. [5:54] The Press Press, you're on Iran. [5:55] Did the U.S. offer Iran oil sanctions relief [6:00] during the peace talks, [6:01] as the Iranian state media has reported? [6:03] The President, no, I haven't heard that. [6:06] I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. [6:09] When they sign an agreement, [6:11] we can get that place built up again [6:13] and have something that's really a good country [6:16] for the people. [6:17] But, no, we haven't offered anything. [6:20] The Press Press, Mr. President, [6:21] to American families who are scared [6:22] by the rise of AI, [6:24] they're worried that their kids are not going to be [6:25] able to have jobs someday because AI won't take them over. [6:27] The President, no, I'll tell you, [6:28] AI has been amazing because, right now, [6:30] we have more jobs, more people working right now [6:33] in the United States by far than we ever had before. [6:36] And outside of the war, [6:38] and I assumed the economy was going to go down, [6:40] the stock market would go down 20, 25 percent. [6:43] It's actually up. [6:45] The stock market is higher now [6:46] than it was before I started the Iran situation. [6:49] And on the Iran, I had no choice [6:51] because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. [6:53] We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. [6:55] But that's going to end soon, one way or the other. [6:58] Oil is going to come tumbling down. [7:00] There's so much oil. [7:00] We have 1,600 ships in the strait [7:04] that are loaded up with oil [7:05] that are going to be coming out very soon. [7:08] So, we'll have to see. [7:10] But the military has been unbelievable. [7:12] The blockade has been infallible. [7:15] Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. [7:19] Thirty-seven have tried. [7:21] They all wish they didn't. [7:23] The Pressure on your call with Erdogan. [7:25] The President, I had a very good call with President Erdogan. [7:28] And pretty standard. [7:32] We have a very good relationship. [7:34] Isn't it nice that I have relationships [7:36] with some very tough people? [7:38] He's a tough guy. [7:39] And, but I have a relationship with him [7:41] that nobody else does. [7:43] He's actually done a good job. [7:45] He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. [7:48] Some people would doubt that. [7:49] But I think he's been a great ally. [7:51] And his people respect him. [7:53] His people respect him a lot. [7:55] Mr. President, is there anything? [7:56] The Pressure on your response to people [7:57] that are critical of your settlement [8:00] over your IRS case about the tax [8:02] now that you can't be prosecuted on tax? [8:04] The President Erdogan Yeah, well, what happened [8:05] is I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. [8:08] One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, [8:11] which they're not allowed to do. [8:12] Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. [8:15] I may even release my current returns [8:17] because they show I pay a lot of money. [8:19] But they're not supposed to do that. [8:20] They were in lockboxes as President. [8:22] They were — and they released them. [8:24] And a certain firm released them, [8:27] which was, I guess, a private firm. [8:28] But it released them to a lot of the fake news. [8:32] And the fake news went — and you're just not allowed [8:34] to do that. [8:35] And many other things happened. [8:37] So I released them from the lawsuit, [8:40] and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. [8:42] I wasn't involved in the settlement. [8:45] I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. [8:48] So they made a settlement. [8:49] Also, the anti-weaponization of people — [8:53] I mean, people were destroyed. [8:54] They went to jail. [8:55] Their families were ruined. [8:57] They committed suicide. [8:58] You know, all the Biden administration [9:00] and the Obama administration — both of them. [9:03] I mean, the Obama administration started it. [9:06] The Biden administration was horrible [9:08] in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. [9:12] And we're getting — we're reimbursing those people [9:15] for their legal fees and for their costs [9:18] and for anybody involved. [9:19] But they destroyed people. [9:20] People committed — I read the other day, [9:23] a person committed suicide over it. [9:25] They went — you know, it was the most violent thing [9:29] I've ever seen in politics, what they did. [9:32] And yet, if I say, oh, let's look at this one or that one, [9:34] they say, weaponization, weaponization. [9:37] What they did, in terms of weaponization, [9:40] will never be allowed to happen to this country again. [9:43] So we think that those people — [9:44] we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. [9:48] And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. [9:51] It destroyed the lives of many, many people. [9:55] Thank you very much, everybody. [9:56] The Press. [9:57] Thank you very much.