Watch Q&A with Trump on Iran war, fraud, more

[0:00] nice questions from our wonderful media. Okay, very important. That's a big deal. [0:23] We've been working on this very long. Well, Andrew, do you have a question? [0:30] Yes, Mr. President. You said during your State of the Union that this type of fraud, [0:35] the corruption, is the type of thing that can shred the fabric of a nation. [0:40] Why do you suppose that the leaders of recent memory haven't looked at the systemic [0:45] amount of fraud that's taken place? Because they're crooked. They make money. [0:51] They gain power. They use it for power. Like with the Somalians, they vote in a block, 100%. [0:58] They make a deal with the Somalians. They all vote because they're on a gravy train. [1:05] It's money first, power second. A lot of people say power first. No. It's money first, [1:12] power second. Do you ever see where like Mercedes? People come over from somebody, [1:17] they have no money. And now they're buying Mercedes Benz cars. Okay. It's more cash goes [1:23] out of the Minnesota airport than any other place in the world or something. We're going to find it. [1:29] And Minnesota is really bad. The governor is corrupt. The attorney general is totally corrupt. [1:33] Just like the New York state attorney general, Letitia James. She's a highly corrupt person. [1:39] Bragg, the DA is a corrupt person. They're all corrupt. These are corrupt people. And we got too [1:47] many of them in our country. And we have to expose them. And we have to catch them. And if these two [1:54] guys can't, these are high IQ people. I like high, I've always liked high IQ. These are high IQ people. [2:00] If they don't do it, we're going to go a long way, fellas, to find somebody else. We have no choice. [2:10] If honestly, and they may not do a good job. If they don't do a good job. [2:15] Thank you, sir. [2:17] It's possible. If they don't do a good job, the country's sort of in trouble. Yes, go ahead. [2:22] Thank you, sir. Two questions. And I think they're going to do a great job. Go ahead. [2:25] First, Mr. Vice President, Democrats are already calling you the fraud czar. What's your reaction [2:31] to that title? And then second, given your past skepticism of foreign adventurism, [2:39] are you completely on board with the current war in Iran? [2:42] So I like fraud czar. It's certainly what we're going to do. And look, we have to do it. As the [2:47] President said, this is a problem that has festered in this country for far too long. [2:51] And far too few people have actually wanted to do anything about it. That's what makes this [2:55] administration different, is that we actually tackle the problems the American people have been [2:58] confronting. So I'm very happy about it. And look, I think that I know what you're trying to do, [3:04] Phil. You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and [3:08] the President. What the President said consistently, going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that [3:14] Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. We have taken this military action under the President's [3:18] leadership. I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, should pray for success [3:23] and pray for the safety of our troops. That's the approach that I've taken. Make it as successful [3:27] as possible. So there's no hesitation given your past statements with the current operation? [3:34] What do you mean there's no hesitation with my past statements? Given your skepticism of foreign [3:38] adventurism, you were a critic of the global war on terror previously. Well, I think one big difference, [3:43] Phil, is that we have a smart president, whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents. And I trust [3:47] President Trump to get the job done, to do a good job for the American people, and to make sure that [3:51] the mistakes of the past aren't repeated. Absolutely. Thanks, sir. Look, J.D.'s been great. [3:56] But here's the simple thing. And I have, you know, some people, I don't want wars. I want wars less [4:00] than almost anybody. Peace through strength. But you know what? I've watched Iran for a long time. [4:08] I've called them out 20 years ago when I was a civilian that liked watching the world. And if violent, [4:15] vicious people, the leadership, violent, vicious people, they killed 32,000 protesters over the last [4:22] three weeks, they put out a memo two days ago saying, if you protest, we will shoot you and kill you [4:29] in the streets. And somebody said, oh, there's not that many protests. Well, first of all, there are bombs [4:36] going off all over the place. But even if there weren't, who's going to do that? You know, who's going to [4:41] do? They don't have any guns. And the other ones have latest in line machine gun, right? And [4:47] every form of gun you can have, they shoot them right through the middle of the head. [4:51] They're violent people. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it. And sometimes I'll have [4:57] some of the people that, you know, feel very strongly, like I do about wars. And I say, [5:03] do you think Iran is violent? And do you think that people are violent? Yes, leadership. Do you think [5:10] they should have a nuclear weapon, which is massive power? I don't even want to discuss how powerful [5:17] because it's depressing. And they said, no, they shouldn't have. Definitely they shouldn't have. [5:24] They said, and you don't want to fight war. No, no, we don't want to fight war. [5:28] So these are naive people that frankly are stupid. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, [5:37] there's something wrong with you because they would use it within. The only question is, [5:41] within one hour if they get it or one day, they will use it and they will blow up the entire Middle [5:47] East, not just Israel. They'll start with Israel, but they will blow up. And you got to see that [5:53] when they unexpectedly started sending missiles to every country within a thousand miles of them. [5:59] I mean, they're blowing up countries that were neighbors, not necessarily some friends. They [6:06] actually have blown up some friends. They were blowing up the people that handle their accounts. [6:12] They're sending thousands of missiles into countries that didn't expect to be in the war [6:18] because they wanted to take over the Middle East. And if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's [6:24] horrible Iran nuclear deal, which I did in my first term, one of the dumbest deals, perhaps the [6:30] dumbest deal because of the danger involved, you would have had them have a nuclear weapon three years [6:35] ago, maybe four years ago. They would have used it, blown up the Middle East, and they would have [6:39] then come after us. And if these gorgeous B-2 bombers, give me that bomber, Andrew, let me just hug that [6:46] little sucker. Give me that bomber over there. You knew immediately which one. This looks small, [6:52] but in person is very big. It's the only plane capable of carrying a 200,000 pound bomb. So I don't know how [7:00] they do it because it's very sleek and nice, but it carries a lot of weapons and there's a lot of bombs. [7:05] But had I not sent this incredible machine times numerous others to hit Iran at midnight with no moon, [7:21] dead dark, every single bomb was dropped right down the chute that it was supposed to hit. How they do it, [7:28] who knows? Nobody else can figure it. No other country can do it. No other country has our military or even close. [7:35] And I think we've probably proven that with Venezuela and now with, with, because we have [7:40] done a number in Iran. But have I, if I didn't do that, if I didn't decimate, I call it their nuclear [7:46] dust, they would have had a nuclear weapon within one month after that bombing took place. And they [7:53] would have used it on first Israel and then the Middle East. And you know that because all of those [7:59] missiles that were launched against their neighbors were set long ago, long before they knew there [8:05] would be using them this quickly. Had we not done this, you would have had a nuclear war that would [8:12] have evolved into World War Three. And more important, this is a war that there would have been nothing [8:19] left. So we've done a great thing. The people that say it's okay for a very sick ideology, a very sick [8:30] country in terms of its leadership, very good people, great people. But the people that say that, [8:36] I think they're actually, they're either evil or they're stupid. So if you believe that Iran should [8:44] not have a nuclear weapon, they should not have it, then you have to absolutely love what I've done. [8:51] Because in two weeks, we have decimated them. They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, [8:57] they have no anti-aircraft weapons, they have no leadership, the leadership is gone. [9:03] But then they set up a new leadership to go and name a new leader and that leadership is gone. [9:09] And now they think maybe the sun is gone. They're all gone. My biggest problem is I have no idea who [9:15] we're talking to because nobody ever heard of any of these people. They're all dead. But we did a job for [9:21] the world, not a job for us, for the whole world. We took the worst country in 50 years and maybe longer [9:31] from the ideological standpoint, a country that wanted to blow up the world, a country that is sick, [9:37] sick, and it has a religious fervor. And when you add religion, you know, people don't realize more [9:46] people died in religious wars than every other war put together. And that's what you would have had here. [9:51] And it was a terrible thing. I'm very proud of what we did. And I think JD understands better than most, [10:00] if you give Iran a nuclear weapon, at least a very substantial part of the world would be blown up. [10:08] And it'll be used almost immediately. Yes. You don't mind if I keep this here, do you? [10:13] Isn't that a beautiful thing? You know, I used to look at it and I said, it's a piece of art, but [10:18] how can it be effective? It's so stealth. Think of it. Peter, one in the morning, it flies in and they [10:26] say, sir, they're in Iranian airspace. And I said, oh, and I'm watching it from the situation room with [10:33] a couple of other very smart people, including some good generals, real generals, not television [10:40] generals. And all of a sudden you see that dive. They start diving. Sure. And you see him 30,000, [10:49] 20,000. Boy, I said, that was a lot. They went down fast to aim it. And they know they're coming [10:57] and they're smart and they never saw him and they're firing a little bit, but they don't know [11:03] what they're firing at because they can't see a thing. And then you hear the biggest explosions [11:08] that anybody's ever heard. Those are the biggest bombs outside of nuclear. Those are the biggest bombs. [11:15] And you say, what technology we have. What a great country. I built it. Largely, [11:20] I built it during my first term. I built it. I didn't know I'd have to use it this much [11:24] in my second term, but we had an incompetent president. We had an incompetent administration. [11:31] And if that group of people in any form, whether it's Kamala Hammett doesn't matter, [11:36] would have had another four years, we would have had no country left. Yeah, please. [11:39] Thank you, Mr. President. You say you're doing a job for the rest of the world. And your conversations [11:43] with your counterparts, are they thanking you? What are the conversations like when you talk [11:48] about this military conflict that's taking place in Iran? Well, they should be thanking me because [11:53] many of them get 90 percent. China, as an example, should be thanking us, but I don't expect to thank [11:59] you, but they should be thanking us. Japan gets 95 percent. China, 91 percent. Many of the countries, [12:07] South Korea gets a tremendous percentage of their oil and therefore their energy from the straits and, [12:17] or as they call it, the strait. And they should be not only thanking us, they should be helping us. [12:25] What does surprise me is that they're not eager to help. There are a couple. We'll be announcing some [12:31] names here. There are some that really were right up front. I would announce their name now, whether that [12:37] or not, you know, maybe they prefer it not being announced for whatever reason. [12:40] I will say this. It's a lot easier to get people today than it was two weeks ago. [12:46] Two weeks ago, before we destroyed them, before you obliterated the country, before we took out, [12:52] because they're down to about 8 percent of their missiles, they're down to a small portion of their [12:59] drones. And we've demolished many of their factories where they make the missiles and the drones and the [13:05] rest are all following. Our military has been amazing. We hit Carg Island, took out every [13:11] single thing in Carg Island except one thing. We left the pipes, because if we take out the pipes, [13:16] takes a long time to build them. And at some point, something is going to happen that's positive with [13:22] respect to those pipes. But there are some countries that greatly disappointed me. And, you know, [13:29] I'm the one that got them to pay from 2 percent to 5 percent of GDP, NATO. And I get along great with [13:37] those countries in NATO. But I always said, you know, the problem with NATO is we'll always be [13:41] there for them, but they'll never be there for us. And when I hear the UK, which was sort of considered [13:49] the Rolls Royce of allies, right, wouldn't you say? They were the oldest and they were going to be there. [13:55] And I say, it would be really helpful if you'd send over a couple of ships. And if you have some [14:00] mine sleepers, which they do, it'd be very helpful. And the prime minister is a nice man. [14:06] I think he's a very nice guy. He says, well, I'd like to ask my team. I said, you don't have to worry [14:11] about a team. You don't have a team. You're the prime minister. You can make a decision. [14:15] Well, I have to speak to my people. I said, you don't have to speak to anybody. [14:19] So it was very disappointing. And then after we obliterated them and destroyed their military, [14:26] the whole thing, and it became a much safer zone, he said, we're going to send over two aircraft [14:34] carriers. I said, I don't want them anymore. I don't want them after we win. I want them before we [14:39] start. I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won. So, you know, those things are [14:45] very disappointing. You have to remember, we have 45,000 troops in Japan. We have 45,000 troops [14:54] in South Korea. We have 45,000, 50,000 troops in Germany. We defend all these countries. And then, [15:01] do you have any mind sweepers? And they say, well, would it be possible for us not to get involved? [15:09] I've been saying it for a long time. This is the greatest thing to come out of this. We spend [15:15] trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO to defend other countries. And I always said, [15:20] but if it ever comes time to defend us, they're not going to be there. Many of them would not be [15:26] there. And we're going to have to start thinking more wisely in this country. Some have been very [15:33] good. One or two have been great. I'll tell you the great ones are at the right time. But there have [15:38] been some that were right up there, Peter. They were right up there. They wanted to do it so much. [15:42] Go ahead, Peter. Thank you. You were talking about Iran a couple times today and what they did [15:47] after Epic Fury began. You said they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected [15:53] that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be [15:58] their retaliation? Nobody, nobody. No, no, no. No, the greatest experts. Nobody thought they were going [16:03] to hit. They were, I wouldn't say friendly countries. They were like neutral. They were, [16:06] they lived with them for years. Peter, they were going to take over the Middle East. They were going to knock [16:11] out Israel with their nuclear weapon. But after we knocked out their nuclear potential, their nuclear [16:17] potential weapon, they started building missiles, thousands and thousands of missiles. And they were [16:25] going to do it with missiles while they developed. These are sick people. While they developed nuclear, [16:31] somehow they were going to start at a different site because that site was, you saw the site, [16:35] the mountain. They were going to go into a certain area, which we know exactly where it is. [16:40] And they were going to do that. And it's incredible what we've done. I tell you the job we've done. [16:47] You know, if I didn't terminate Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal, you would right now, [16:54] well, Israel would be gone. It would be incinerated and probably the Middle East likewise. And remember, [17:02] they have all of those missiles. And I heard they were sending missiles to UAE. I said, that's strange. [17:10] You know, UAE is like the banker for Iran. They're like the banker. Qatar, their neighbors, [17:18] they got along okay. Saudi Arabia, all of a sudden, Kuwait, Kuwait is getting hit. Bahrain is getting, [17:27] all these countries are getting hit. There was no expert that would say that was going to happen. [17:32] It's not a question of like, gee, should you have known? And if we did know, big deal. I mean, [17:37] we have to do what we have to do. But we hit them so hard like nobody's ever been hit. We hit them very [17:44] hard. And we've extinguished most of their missiles. We've extinguished most of their drones. We've [17:51] extinguished most of the places where the missiles and the drones are built. We've fully extinguished [17:59] two layers of leadership and probably a third, if you believe some story. So we only have one thing, [18:07] they have a little choke point. And they've used it very well for years. But it doesn't work. But I [18:13] think this, if some of these countries that we've been good to for years, and maybe more important than [18:20] that, some of these countries, they get 90% and 95% of their energy from Hormuz, the strait. Hormuz, [18:31] a famous, wonderful, beautiful place. But you wouldn't want to be necessarily sailing a boat [18:37] there right now. You know why? Not because of them, because of us. Because we've taken out their entire [18:44] navy. We've taken out every one of their drones. They call it a drone layer, a mine layer. There's [18:51] specific boats that are meant to put mines on. How would you like to have a nation that has 22 [18:58] boats where their sole function, they're very different looking boats. You wouldn't want one [19:03] for your family. They're not pretty. Their sole function is to lift a mine into the water and drop [19:09] it a certain number of feet down. But they had 22 of them. We've taken out all of them. But you can [19:15] probably, you can probably drop them off on the boats. So we don't even know. By the way, we don't know [19:20] that any mines have even been dropped. But the thought that they would scares people that have [19:25] billion dollar chips. Yeah. Please. Thank you, President Trump. I'd like to ask the Vice [19:31] President about his plans to go after possible fraud in California and New York. You know, [19:36] of course, about Minnesota. And President Trump, first, could ask you, you said earlier today [19:41] that the new Supreme Leader, Vitalik, maybe you don't know he's dead or alive. There are a couple of [19:46] interesting reports about him today. There's one report that he just narrowly escaped death [19:51] in the first airstrikes by stepping out into his garden. There's another report that he may actually [19:55] be gay despite leading the theocracy that can't escape people. How do you determine what's true? [20:01] And do you have an assessment of this? Well, so far, nobody knows. If you look at his father, [20:07] he used to give talks a lot, you know, talking about death to America. He'd say death to America all the [20:12] time. When they say death to America, you should believe them because that's what they would have. [20:17] If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it. But they never had the chance. I never gave [20:21] them the chance to use it. And other presidents should have done. I spoke to one of the former [20:27] presidents who I actually like, actually speak to some. I do like some people be shocking. And he said, [20:35] I wish I did what you did. Could have done it. Other presidents, somebody should have done it. 47 years [20:43] this went on. They call Iran the bully of the Middle East. And you could have never had the [20:48] Abraham Accords. You could never have had peace in the Middle East. Now you're going to have peace. [20:52] You could never do it with the dark cloud of of a nuclear Iran. But Iran is a shell of itself. [20:59] It's no longer a bully. It's the one that gets bullied. It's a bully that got beat up. We beat the [21:04] crap out of them. And and they deserve that. You know, when you see a soldier walking down the street [21:11] without his arms or being helped down the street because he's got no legs [21:16] or his face is blown to smithereens with no legs and no arms. Those two, no legs, no arms. [21:22] And a face that got wrecked. That was done by roadside bombs. That's [21:29] the favorite weapon of Soleimani, who I killed in my first administration. General Soleimani, [21:37] had I not killed him, that was the beginning of their downfall, because had he not gone, [21:43] it's possible that we would not be this far advanced in destroying Iran because he was a really [21:48] good general. He was a vicious, horrible man, but he was a brilliant general. And he was looking to [21:54] knock out five of our military bases at one time. And the man that killed that died with him was the [22:00] same his counterpart in Iraq. And they were working together. And they got hit real hard. And if that [22:08] didn't happen, we would have had a problem. But maybe more importantly than that, they were, [22:13] he was really the mastermind behind it. And they never found somebody to replace him in terms of the [22:19] genius and knocked him out. And that was a big step knocking him out. But if we didn't get rid of the [22:26] Obama deal, I terminated it against the wishes of my then Secretary of State, he was no Marco. [22:34] Against the wishes of a lot of people at the time. You remember that, Peter? A lot of people. [22:39] Had I not terminated, remember that, Steven? You remember? They were like, dude, this is not, [22:45] that deal was a disaster. That was a road to a nuclear weapon. They would have had it three years ago, [22:50] and it would have been used, I would say, two to three years ago, and it would have been used in the [23:01] Middle East. And by the way, after they were finished that, they were coming over here. They [23:06] never got a chance to do it. I just want to ask you about something very interesting that you said [23:10] twice today, that you talked to another former president about the Iran strikes. Was it George W. Bush? [23:16] No. Was it Bill Clinton? I don't want to say. I don't want to say, because a member of a party, [23:27] a member of a party, they have Trump derangement syndrome all, but it's somebody that happens to [23:34] like me, and I like that person who's a smart person. But that person said, I wish I did it. [23:43] Okay, but I don't want to get into who. I don't want to get him into trouble. Maybe, hey, you know what? [23:48] Yeah, I think you probably know. You know, it's interesting. And maybe he'd be proud. I could [23:54] even ask him that. Would you like me to reveal your name to Peter at Fox? Well, at least you have [24:00] high ratings. Your ratings are through the roof, Peter. Congratulations. Thank you for noticing. [24:05] Congratulations. Can I ask you another question? If Iran, as you said, totally obliterated, [24:12] got the missiles, got the first two rounds of leadership, Air Force gone, Navy gone, [24:17] can we wrap this war up this week? Yeah, sure. Will we? I don't think so, [24:24] but it'll be soon. Won't be long. And we're going to have a much safer world when it's wrapped up. [24:29] It'll be wrapped up soon. We're going to have a much safer world. I had an obligation to do this. [24:36] I didn't want to, I go to an excursion. I don't want to make this journey. We had the highest stock [24:42] market in history. We had low gas prices. Everything was good. And I know exactly. I know [24:48] what, you know, you're going to do it. People are going to raise the price of oil. And that's good. [24:52] But, but I know that. But that's a very small thing compared to allowing them to have, you want to see [24:58] a stock market cut down? Start letting them hit you with nukes. Okay. I think I said it this morning. [25:06] I think it's a very small price to pay. And frankly, I thought it was going to go down much [25:12] more. If you want to know, I assume that it was going to go down much more. Only because people [25:16] don't understand to a large, it's a great, it's a big chess game at a very high level. It's a very [25:22] high level chess, the highest. And I'm dealing with very smart players. These are smart people. They [25:27] don't get there. You know, when you deal with some of these people, you're dealing with high [25:33] level intellect, high, very high IQ people. These are not Jasmine Crockett and, and her group. [25:42] These are smart people. These are really smart people and violent people and vicious people and [25:46] some very nice people. And some are very nice, but violent. They turn violent. But, but you know what, [25:52] if I didn't do, if I didn't do what I did, uh, we would have been hit. Number one, very important, [26:00] was the termination of Obama's horrible deal. And number two, this beautiful plane hitting them [26:07] eight months ago, whatever it was, and taking out their nuclear capacity. That totally threw them for [26:14] a loop. Uh, if they had that bomb at either time, five years ago or seven months ago, if they had that [26:24] bomb, that bomb would have been used almost immediately. Mr. President, two questions on [26:29] domestic policy, bringing it close to home. First of all, the Save America Act. What are you expecting [26:34] this week when this vote takes place in the U.S. Senate or the vice president's vote? I think it's [26:38] imperative that it gets done. I'm not sure it is. You know, the Democrats have horrible policy. [26:48] It's just incredible, but they stick together. It's the one thing they do. [26:53] Their Supreme Court members stick together. Those appointed by a Democrat [26:58] stick together. If Barack Hussein Obama appoints a member of the Supreme Court, [27:05] that member never goes against him. And they're proud about it. They say, [27:11] I don't give a damn if it's good or bad. That man appointed me and I'm never gonna let him down. [27:16] I don't say that's right rule. I just say they stick together. Republicans go the opposite way. [27:24] If Donald Trump appointed me, I'm gonna show the world that I can be totally just and I can be [27:32] independent of Donald Trump. He's not controlling me. And I don't want to control them. I just want [27:40] to have smart decisions. They gave us a decision on tariffs the other day that won't change tariffs. [27:47] I can do it a different way. I always knew I could do it a different way. This was a little quicker, [27:51] a little easier, a little better. But they gave us a decision that could cost this country [27:58] $500 billion to pay people back. Because now I have to start the tariffs all over again. Very simple. [28:05] And what happens with the money I've already collected? Why didn't they say, starting from now, [28:11] go the other way? $500 billion perhaps. It's so sad. But one thing about the Democrats, [28:22] they stick together like glue. They impeached me twice for absolutely no reason, unanimously. [28:31] Fortunately, the Republicans stuck together and it was something. It was pretty wild. But the Democrats [28:40] have horrible policy, transgender for everybody, open borders, men playing in women's sports. [28:47] But the one thing they do have is they stick together. No matter how bad the policy, [28:52] it's embarrassing to watch them try to defend it. And in a way I say, as a Republican, in a way I say, [29:00] thank goodness they have bad policy because you'd never beat them. We have something in there now, [29:05] the Save America Act. Voter ID with a picture, right? That's a 99% issue. Even among Democrats, [29:14] you know, Democrats poll at 89% on that. And then they have proof of citizenship. And then they have [29:22] no mail-in ballots. No mail-in ballots. We have no mail-in. You go to California, they send out like [29:28] 38 million ballots. Some Democrats get seven, eight ballots. Republicans are a lot of times calling in, [29:36] where's my ballot? Where's my ballot? They're lucky to get one. Jimmy Carter, [29:42] probably the greatest thing he ever did. I thought he was a nice man, not a great president, [29:47] to put it mildly. How did his attack work out in Iran? Not too good. I think ours is slightly better, [29:52] wouldn't you say? But Jimmy Carter, the one thing he did after he left with Scoop Jackson and some [29:57] others, they formed a very elite council, a committee that came out and said very strongly, [30:05] no mail-in ballots. We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots like we do. [30:12] The only country in the whole world, people have tried it. France tried it and they went away. [30:17] They're now doing paper ballots, watermark paper, which is very hard to cheat. So when you look at [30:24] what happens with this country, we really have to fix it. That'll be very popular. The other thing we [30:30] put in there just as best of, I call it the best of Trump. We have the three things I just said, [30:38] right? But then I added on no men playing in women's sports and I added a no transgender surgery, [30:46] the mutilation of our children. We have no mutilation of our children, no transgender. [30:53] I think they're, I think they're, they say that's an 80% issue. I think they're 99% issues, [31:00] but whether they're 80% or 99, the problem is we have a couple of Republicans. They shouldn't be [31:07] allowed. They're horrible people and they're willing to vote against anything. And we have all the [31:16] Democrats will vote against it. So I think it hurts the Democrats to vote against it because [31:22] I'm going to instruct all the Republicans to say that so-and-so that they're running against, [31:29] voted against the saving of our children from transgender mutilation, right? That's pretty [31:35] unpopular. They want men and women's sports. That's pretty unpopular. They want voter ID, [31:42] but the Democrats don't. Everybody wants voter ID. Everybody wants proof of citizenship. [31:48] And most people don't want mail-in voting because they know it's a fraud, [31:52] touches too many hands. I mean, the postman gets it, this one gets it, that one. So these are all [31:59] issues that are in the nineties to a hundred. I would say some are virtually a hundred percent. [32:05] And the interesting thing is that that way, not only with the Republic, I'm not talking about [32:08] leadership. I'm talking about, uh, that way also, most importantly, with the people, [32:13] the people of our country want voter ID. The people of our country want proof of citizenship. And that [32:19] includes 88%, 89% of Democrats. And I think the Republicans, Eric Schmidt, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, [32:33] I speak to so many of them. They all want it. Um, I hope John Thune can get it across the line. He's [32:42] trying. I mean, he, he told me this morning, I spoke to him. He's trying. Um, I think it'll be a very, [32:49] very bad thing for our country if they don't. We're just asking for basic things. Think of it. [32:55] You can't have voter ID. Do you know, in California, if you ask a person to show their identification, [33:04] they have the right to put you in jail. If you're an official and you say, man, please see your [33:08] identification. You're subject to going to jail. That's how crazy it's gotten with a low IQ person, [33:15] you know, cause Gavin Newsom has admitted that he is a, that he has learning disabilities. [33:21] Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president. I don't [33:26] want, I think a president should not have learning disabilities. Okay. And I know it's highly [33:32] controversial to say such a horrible thing. The president of the United States, Gavin Newsom, [33:38] admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia, uh, everything about him is dumb. [33:46] But then he looked at the audience and said, but I'm smarter than you or something like that. [33:52] That was pretty silly. So now on top of everything else, I call him a racist because it happened to [33:57] be a black audience. I will tell you this. I think it was the worst interview I've ever seen of any human [34:03] being in my life. Okay. Anybody else have any questions? Um, will it be necessary to use even [34:11] a limited ground force to secure whatever nuclear material remains in Iran is part of that threat? [34:18] And secondly, have you made a decision? You mean to go in and get it? Yes, sir. Uh, [34:23] why would I tell you at that time then? And secondly, you know, I can't stand reports. Sir, [34:28] uh, will you attack Carg Island? Will you occupy Carg Island? They asked me these questions. [34:35] And I don't want to be mean, but they're stupid questions. If any, if any president answered [34:41] those questions, they shouldn't be president. And secondly, sir, do you, uh, still plan to travel [34:47] to Beijing at the end of this? I don't know. We're working on that right now. I, I, [34:51] we're speaking to China. I'd love to, but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here. [34:57] I feel. Um, and so we've requested that we delay it a month or so. And I'm looking forward to being [35:05] with them. We have a very good relationship, but, uh, because of the war, there's no tricks [35:10] to it either. It's just, it's not like, Oh gee, I'm waiting. It's very simple. We've got a war going [35:15] on. I think it's important that I'd be here. So it could be that we delay a little bit. Not much. [35:23] Peter. When you say Cuba is next, Cuba is Cuba, whatever you do with the military there, it seems [35:29] like something. Well, that look more like Iran or Venezuela. Can I tell you that? I can tell you [35:36] that they're talking to us. It's a failed nation. They have no money. They have no oil. They have no [35:42] nothing. They have nice land. They have nice landscape. You know, it's a beautiful island. I think [35:50] they have great people. You know, I know so many people from Cuba that were treated terribly and [35:53] they're over here and they became rich. They're very entrepreneurial people, very smart and a lot [35:58] from Florida, especially. There's so, so many people, friend of mine started over with nothing. [36:04] He's now the largest owner of gas stations in the country and stuff. I mean, Cuban. I also know I was [36:11] just with a fantastic person who's Cuban and made a fortune in sugar, you know, fun whole family, right? [36:22] And this family wants to go back to Cuba to visit it. They wanted to have been back in like 50 years [36:30] or something. They come from, largely come from Cuba and we'll see what happens. They were asking me [36:38] about that. They want to go back. Not only fun. Uh, a lot of Cubans have said, Oh boy, would they love [36:45] to go back? I think you buy it in its own way. If you know, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful [36:50] island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change. You know, [36:55] they won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. But, uh, but I think Cuba's in the end, [37:01] you know, all my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it? [37:07] I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba. That'd be good. That's a big honor. [37:16] Taking Cuba. Taking Cuba in some form. Yeah. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it, [37:23] I think I could do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth. They're a very, uh, weakened nation [37:29] right now. They were for a long time and very violent, uh, very violent leaders. Castro was a very [37:36] violent leader. His brothers are very violent leader, extremely violent. That's how they governed. [37:42] They governed with violence. But a lot of people would like to go back. Okay. One more question. [37:48] A quick question on fraud for Vice President Vance. Mr. Vice President, you announced a couple of weeks [37:53] ago that the administration would be halting Medicaid payments to Minnesota until the state [37:58] decided to take pervasive steps to root out fraud. Do you have an update to that specific situation? Do you [38:04] think that that could be a model moving forward for the task force for states that won't cooperate? [38:09] So I don't have an update there. Dr. Oz is looking to try to work with, uh, the authorities in Minnesota [38:14] to try to figure that situation out. But yeah, I mean, I think there are two obvious tools that we [38:18] have to stop the fraud that's happening against the American people. One is that when we see evidence [38:23] of fraud, we stop the payments. Pretty simple, right? We know that the American people are being [38:27] defrauded. Let's try to stop the payments and ensure that whoever's making these payments is actually [38:31] complying with some basic due diligence and making sure the payments are going to the right place. [38:36] I think the second tool, of course, as we have, as the president mentioned, is we have law enforcement [38:40] options. We know that some of this fraud is just bad. Some of it's criminal. We know that people are [38:46] intentionally trying to defraud the American people. It's not just in Minnesota. It's all across the [38:51] country. 99% is criminal. Yes, sir. So we, this is one of the reasons why DOJ is such an important part [38:57] of this is because we have to make sure that where we see criminal conduct, we actually [39:01] prosecute it. And the president's talked about this a lot in the past. I don't need to repeat [39:05] it, but it's worth noting that so many times when we find people engaged in really, really bad conduct, [39:12] you know, the, the local judge or the local grand jury tries to stop it. One of the cool things about [39:17] what we're doing is we're trying to take some innovative steps to ensure that when we find criminal [39:21] fraud, we can actually prosecute it all the way to the end. She wanted one question. She's over here [39:28] and you guys are over there. Where's your main camera? Is it this one? Which one is the main [39:33] camera? Okay, good. Nice center. Good. I thought it was that one. Go ahead. [39:38] Mr. President, we just wanted to ask about PHS. Still not funded, but we reported earlier today that [39:46] 80% of the primary task force that focuses on investigating terrorism is working without pay. [39:51] So should that impact the Democrats? Terrible. The Democrats aren't paying. The Democrats, [39:56] we have a deal. They just said, we're not going to pay. We're not going to do anything. And it's [40:01] terrible. The Democrats are terrible. You know, it'd be nice to get along. But for years, this has been [40:08] going on, not just with me. For years, it's been going on different ideology, but also different tactics. [40:14] Here we are, we're fighting big battles with a very tough enemy and winning nicely. And we're not allowed [40:24] to have security in our country. It's crazy. The Democrats don't want to pay. These are bad people. [40:30] These are not people that love our country. I can tell you that. It's very sick people. Thank you very much, [40:35] everybody. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, guys. Thank you, sir. All right.