Trump meets with President al-Sharaa of Syrian Arab Republic — FOX 10 Phoenix

[0:00] He's brought it together. [0:02] He's a strong person. [0:03] He's a great leader. [0:05] He's respected by everybody, including me. [0:09] And we're proud to have him together. [0:11] We're just here to talk a little bit. [0:13] We released sanctions from the country, which really, [0:16] I think, was a big boost. [0:17] Sanctions was a very important thing. [0:20] And we're proud of the job he's doing. [0:22] Syria has become a very stable, I mean, it's amazing. [0:27] In a short period of time, it's really been stabilized. [0:30] And we're proud of that. [0:31] And it's a big part of the Middle East. [0:35] Syria had one of the great cultures, the professors [0:38] and lawyers and doctors. [0:40] It had one of the great cultures of any country, [0:43] not just Middle East. [0:44] And then it went through this terrible period of time. [0:47] But it's a country that a lot of people are very proud of, [0:51] and they're proud of the job he's done. [0:53] Thank you very much, Mr. President. [0:54] The Press Secretary of State, [0:56] Do you like to say something? [0:58] The Press Secretary of State, [1:02] We have made a great achievement in the toppling of the former regime. [1:09] And as President Trump said, in a year and a half, [1:19] we made an achievement in bringing the country together, [1:22] unifying the country, and put it back on track. [1:24] Of course, this is due to our strong people, [1:31] the strong Syrian people that President Trump talked about. [1:34] Then the historic decision that President Trump has taken [1:43] by lifting the sanctions office unit. [1:45] As well as the help of friendly countries and loving countries in the region, [1:55] countries in our neighborhood. [1:57] The Press Secretary of State, [1:58] The Press Secretary of State, [1:59] The Press Secretary of State, [2:01] The entire Syrian people thanks President Trump. [2:04] Thank you. [2:05] The President, thank you very much. [2:06] Congratulations. [2:07] Do you have any questions? [2:09] Mr. President, are you going to remove Syria [2:10] from the state-sponsored terrorism list? [2:12] The President, I think I will, yeah. [2:14] I think I will. [2:15] Why wouldn't I? [2:17] He's done a great job. [2:20] Uh, maybe he would have brought that up in a little, but that's a good question, yeah. [2:27] Uh, any problems with that? [2:29] I think we should. [2:30] Yeah, I will. [2:31] Do you still want Syria to help with Hezbollah in Lebanon? [2:34] They could help. [2:35] We'll find out. [2:36] I think we're making a lot of progress. [2:37] Mr. President, I would do a very good job. [2:40] Prime Minister Netanyahu has been critical of aspects of your relationship in the last [2:45] couple of days with President Erdogan of Turkey. [2:48] He said that, um, that Erdogan has imperial ambitions on neighboring countries, you know, [2:54] presumably including Syria. [2:55] Well, he hasn't been involved with Syria. [2:56] You know, if you think, he hasn't been involved with Israel at all. [2:59] And, uh, he's left it alone. [3:01] I wouldn't say he's a friend because he's not a friend of, as you know, of Netanyahu, [3:08] of Bibi. [3:09] They don't get along, I think. [3:12] But, you know, for me, he's been great. [3:15] Look, Turkey's been fantastic and a fantastic ally. [3:17] They're also a NATO country. [3:19] And, uh, Israel, we've done, no president's done as much for Israel as I have. [3:24] Nobody even close. [3:25] If you look at, uh, I mean, just look at all the things with Jerusalem, all the different [3:29] things that we've done. [3:30] Um, the Golan Heights did things. [3:33] Nobody has ever done anything for Israel like me. [3:36] And we've made tremendous progress. [3:38] And we're gonna, we've made a lot of progress with Iran, too. [3:43] Wiped out their military. [3:44] But they should have been done 47 years ago. [3:47] And if I could, do you think that, uh, that Prime Minister Netanyahu should be re-elected? [3:51] There's an election coming in Israel? [3:52] Or would you like to see new blood? [3:53] I can tell you this. [3:54] He's been a great wartime president. [3:56] We worked at the prime minister. [3:58] He, so we worked with each other very closely. [4:01] And we went through a very big thing. [4:05] We did a big thing together. [4:06] And in my opinion, he's been a great wartime prime minister. [4:10] I don't know anything about his politics. [4:12] I'm not sure. [4:13] Uh, I would think he should be popular because he did a very good job. [4:16] We had a, we had and have a very good relationship. [4:20] But he was a great wartime prime minister. [4:23] President Trump. [4:24] If you had other prime ministers, you know what? [4:26] There wouldn't be an Israel right now. [4:28] You know that? [4:29] There wouldn't be. [4:30] It would have been blown to pieces by Iran. [4:32] If you had a different, if you had a weak prime minister, [4:35] uh, you wouldn't have, and if you had a different president, [4:39] I guarantee you there wouldn't be an Israel. [4:42] It wouldn't, Israel wouldn't exist today if you didn't have me as president. [4:46] President Trump. [4:47] Mr. President, you said that data from the Energy Information Administration [4:51] revealed that U.S. crude oil production set a new record [4:54] in the month of April under your leadership. [4:56] President Trump. [4:57] That's right. [4:58] Why is it important to keep hitting numbers like this at this moment in time? [5:01] Why is it important that you were able to get this done [5:03] and keep it on this trajectory? [5:04] President Trump. [5:05] Well, we, you know, when we decided to do this, [5:07] it's called the denuclearization of Iran. [5:09] We have to do, we have to have, they're not, [5:11] they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. [5:13] And they admit they're never going to have it, [5:15] but they behave badly, always behave badly. [5:17] There's something wrong with them. [5:19] But, uh, when we did this, we thought oil would go much higher. [5:23] And it didn't go very high. [5:24] And now it's coming way down and you're going to see oil drop very low. [5:29] Now, maybe we'll do some other things that could lift it a little bit, [5:33] but I don't think it's going to lift it a lot at all. [5:35] I think oil is coming down. [5:36] There's tremendous amounts of oil. [5:38] Uh, Scott, what would you say about that? [5:41] Uh, yes. [5:42] So record production, uh, under President Trump in his first term, [5:46] now in his second term, the U.S. is an energy superpower. [5:49] It's why we weathered the, the conflict better than anyone else. [5:53] And they're, they're just this weekend. [5:56] Bloomberg wrote that there is an oil glut out there. [5:59] And, you know, we, we think that safe, secure American oil [6:04] maybe even should trade at a premium to the rest of the world. [6:07] So we have, uh, if you add it up, uh, you take Saudi Arabia [6:11] and take Russia, two big oil producers. [6:14] Uh, we do more than twice as much. [6:17] We do more than, so think of it. [6:19] Saudi Arabia, Russia put together, we do borrow. [6:21] And that's not including Venezuela. [6:23] It's pretty amazing. [6:24] And this all happened during my term. [6:28] We started it as first term. [6:31] Biden blew it because he had no idea what he was doing. [6:34] But we, uh, we are making, we are producing more oil right now [6:38] than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined by, by, by almost double. [6:44] Okay. [6:45] Any other questions? [6:46] Mr. President. [6:47] Yes. [6:48] Yes, ma'am. [6:49] You've said that dealing with the Iranians is a waste of time. [6:51] How do you plan to get the nuclear material [6:53] and the nuclear assurances that you want? [6:55] Well, we've already got the nuclear material [6:56] because it's so far underground. [6:58] Nobody's going to be able to get it except us [7:00] because we have the equipment that you can get it. [7:02] But the, I call it the nuclear dust. [7:04] The, the nuclear material is so far down underneath the mountain. [7:10] And now it's, that's been determined that it would take [7:13] massive machinery that we have that no other country has. [7:16] They can't get it. [7:17] So you have no plans to go in, boots on the ground? [7:20] Why would I go in now? [7:21] I'd go in when they're completely either eliminated or whatever happened, [7:26] or an agreement's made. [7:27] Mr. President. [7:28] Yes. [7:29] If you cut off trade with Spain, does that mean that you're going to have to renegotiate a trade agreement with the EU? [7:35] With who? [7:36] With the EU. [7:37] With the EU. [7:38] With the EU. [7:39] Any past trade units you already have. [7:40] We're going to see what happens with the EU. [7:42] You know, they've treated us very badly for years and they took advantages. [7:48] Look, we're very close to those countries, right? [7:51] And to everybody in the EU. [7:55] The problem is they took advantage of the United States for years. [7:58] It's like him. [7:59] They took advantage of Syria. [8:00] He's bringing it back. [8:01] And I'm bringing the United States back. [8:04] We have the greatest economy we've ever had. [8:06] We have the biggest investment. [8:08] 19.2 trillion is being invested right now in the United States. [8:12] Three trillion was the number, the record. [8:16] Under Biden and under the past administration, [8:19] they had less than a trillion for four years. [8:21] We have 19.2 trillion in 12 months. [8:25] Think of that. [8:27] We have the largest amount of money being invested in a country in history. [8:31] Pretty amazing. [8:32] 19.2 trillion with a T. [8:35] So, and they're building factories all over the country. [8:38] I think yesterday Toyota announced they're leaving Mexico. [8:42] And they're coming. [8:43] I'm not that Mexico is thrilled about it. [8:45] But they're leaving Mexico. [8:46] And they're coming to the United States to build what will be, I believe, [8:52] the largest automobile plant either in the world or at least in this country. [8:56] Mr. President, on oil prices today. [8:58] The President, on oil prices today. [8:59] The President, with a domestic question. [9:00] You announced on social a couple days ago that Walmart was cutting the price for a country [9:05] by 15 percent. [9:06] How big are the deals that for American customers this summer? [9:09] The President, so Walmart has agreed to cut their prices very substantially because things [9:13] are going down. [9:14] We're getting it down. [9:15] We inherited very high prices. [9:17] We inherited the highest prices in the history of our country, or 48 years to be exact. [9:23] But I don't believe that. [9:24] I think it's in history. [9:25] So, under Biden, they had tremendous inflation. [9:28] Under the Democrats, we had tremendous inflation, record-setting inflation. [9:33] And now, inflation is way down. [9:36] Everything is great. [9:37] We have — the prices are coming down. [9:39] But we inherited, you know, they talk about different — they use different words to describe [9:43] it. [9:44] They had very high prices. [9:45] The prices are coming down. [9:46] And when the oil comes, you know, the oil is coming way down. [9:50] The oil dropped by 50 percent in the last month. [9:56] And when that comes down, it brings everything else down. [9:59] Nope. [10:00] It's affordability. [10:01] And they came up with the word affordability, you know? [10:03] Like, I take over. [10:05] I'm there for one day, and they say, affordability. [10:08] Affordability. [10:09] I said, I've been here for one. [10:10] Remember, with the eggs. [10:11] The first day or two days later, I have the first news. [10:15] And they talked about eggs. [10:16] They said, the eggs have gone up five times. [10:19] I've been in office for one day. [10:21] And I said, well, we'll have to do something. [10:24] In fact, they told me not to order eggs for the Easter egg hunt at the White House. [10:28] I should use plastic. [10:30] I said, we're not doing that. [10:31] And by the time we came — that was a couple of months later — that happened, [10:35] and we ordered thousands of eggs. [10:37] And right now, eggs are way down. [10:39] The prices are way down, and they're coming down further. [10:42] So, they made up a phony word that they use — [10:45] they said affordability. [10:47] They're the ones that caused the affordability prices. [10:49] I didn't. [10:50] But I brought it down. [10:51] And the oil is coming down very big. [10:53] Mr. President, do you think Brent crude is up slightly today on the announcement that — [10:57] A little bit, yeah, because we hit them. [10:58] Any time we hit them, it goes up a little bit. [11:01] Two dollars. [11:02] Is that what you mean — is that what you meant when you said that we might see oil prices [11:05] lift a little in response to — [11:06] A little bit, yeah. [11:07] Two dollars. [11:08] Very little. [11:09] It's down from, let's say, $135 down to $69. [11:14] It's dropping. [11:15] And everything else drops a little. [11:18] As oil goes, so goes everything else. [11:20] But any time we hit — if we hit Iran, oil goes up a little bit. [11:24] It's all right. [11:25] Mr. President, do you think Israel — [11:26] We're de-nuking it. [11:27] We're de-nuking Iran. [11:28] They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. [11:29] All right. [11:30] One more question. [11:31] Sir, do you think Israel should withdraw troops from southern Lebanon? [11:33] Well, I talked to Bibi about that. [11:34] Yeah, I think they're going to. [11:35] I think they want to. [11:36] I don't think it's a question of me. [11:37] I think it's a question of they want to. [11:38] And they're getting along with Lebanon. [11:39] They're signing deals with Lebanon. [11:40] First time ever. [11:41] Marco, talk about that, if you'd like. [11:42] Yeah, we have an agreement that — and it calls — that's the goal at the end. [11:45] Obviously, Israel is concerned about that. [11:47] And they're getting along with Lebanon. [11:48] They're signing deals with Lebanon. [11:49] First time ever. [11:50] But the President did a great job bringing those two countries together for the first time ever. [12:00] It's a big thing. [12:01] First time in many years, right? [12:03] So we have a deal with Israel and Lebanon. [12:06] And, yeah, they'll leave. [12:09] And I think it's going to work out very well. [12:12] But we're here for this because Syria has turned around as fast as I've ever seen. [12:18] Well, actually, I turned the United States around very fast, too. [12:21] They inherited from a man who was not smart, not a smart person. [12:26] We inherited from a man where they were running this country so badly with the open borders. [12:32] Think of it, 25 million people allowed into our country. [12:35] And that includes 11,888 murderers, most of whom murdered more than one person. [12:43] Okay? [12:44] And we got most of them out, or we have them in jail. [12:48] And we've done a great job. [12:49] Washington, D.C. [12:50] Now is considered one of the safest cities in the country. [12:54] If he came to Washington, D.C. a year and a half ago, he'd fear for his life, even though he never feared for his life before. [13:01] Because it was very dangerous. [13:03] But somehow his territory might have even been a little more dangerous. [13:07] I joke because, you know, he comes from a rough environment. [13:13] Would you say that's right, Tom Barrett? [13:15] It's sort of funny to think. [13:17] I don't think he'd be too concerned with Washington a year and a half. [13:20] But we had a very, very unsafe Washington, D.C. [13:24] And now it's one of the safest cities in the country. [13:27] We put the military in. [13:28] We brought the — Washington went from being an unsafe to one of the safest cities. [13:33] And crime is down 94 percent. [13:36] We don't play games. [13:38] We removed over 5,000 career criminals, many of whom came in through the open borders of Joe Biden. [13:45] We did the same thing with Memphis, Tennessee. [13:47] We did the same thing with — in Louisiana. [13:51] You have to speak to the governor. [13:54] Because New Orleans, the crime rate is down 78 percent in a little while. [13:59] And they had the best Mardi Gras they've ever had. [14:02] So we're doing a good job. [14:04] And he's done a great job, too. [14:06] And I thank you very much. [14:07] Thank you very much. [14:08] Thank you, Russ. [14:09] Thank you. [14:10] Thank you, Russ. [14:11] Thank you. [14:12] Thank you, guys. [14:13] Thank you. [14:14] Thank you. [14:15] Thank you, Russ. [14:16] Thank you. [14:17] Can I grab your face, please? [14:18] Thank you, guys. [14:19] You can head out right there. [14:20] Thank you. [14:21] Thank you, Russ. [14:24] Thank you, Russ. [14:25] You got it? [14:26] Yeah.