Trump briefs the media with Dana White after Hegseth impeachment articles

[0:00] amazing and amazing machine he's got a big fight this weekend at madison square garden with the two [0:07] greatest women fighters of all time as far as i'm concerned women's fighting it's not a nice thing [0:15] but they are they are very tough when i say no no men in women's sports that's great i would not want [0:21] to fight it however i would not how would i do against one of them would i do well i don't think [0:25] so this would uh this would not be a good occurrence anyway but i thought i'd bring day [0:33] here because he loves the idea and i love the idea the only thing is we have other things we have to [0:39] think about but he's a unique a unique person and he was seeing me anyway unrelated and i thought [0:47] maybe he would say a few words and i think he probably liked the job he loves the country and [0:53] he would do a hell of a job so uh you were here he was here and dana please say a few words dana [0:58] white thank you i've always wanted to do this who has the first question i have zero political [1:07] aspirations uh i was in a fight for zufa boxing in london when he called me and told me that he [1:14] had done this and the last 24 hours of my life has been insane um but yeah good to see you yes ma'am [1:22] i have a question i have a ufc cage match between president trump and former president joe biden same [1:29] age same weight and considering like styles make fights could you give us an analysis of the toughest [1:34] most resilient human being that i've ever met in my entire life many times during you know the last [1:40] eight ten years whatever it's been i have told him why why do you keep doing this why are you doing this [1:46] when he was going through everything that he went through and i mean as tough and as resilient as i [1:52] thought he was after uh he got shot i uh yeah i he's he is a one of one unique human being and uh [2:02] yeah would it be a knockout victory it would be it would it would be very bad yeah i think it would be [2:08] very bad i can't believe you actually have questions for me yes the president has said [2:14] he might consider a pardon for pete rose what is your advice to the president about that part i don't [2:20] advise the president on anything ever um but yeah i think it's fair i think it's fair to pardon pete [2:26] rose yeah i would do that by the way but why does he need a pardon he does he was not really convicted [2:31] of a criminal tax charges sir oh he did yes sir i'd give pete rose a party all right let's make it happen [2:36] i think pete rose was very mistreated he was you know uh 4200 and some odd hits [2:44] way ahead of anybody else a record can never be broken and he was caught gambling now it's legal [2:50] right but he was gambling on his own team data he wasn't gambling against that's different he was [2:55] gambling he shouldn't have done it but he went through 40 years of hell and they never and they [3:00] should have given him a pardon they should have given him into the baseball hall of fame a long time [3:05] ago and i spoke to the commissioner about it and he agreed to do it and then he waited though [3:11] and pete rose died so it didn't help him too much but uh i would give pete rose a pardon i would do [3:17] that just to confirm did you tell the president no to the press secretary job i don't tell the [3:25] president no to anything i no i didn't say no i literally everybody every media outlet was calling [3:31] me and i didn't want to be disrespectful and say anything until he he uh he said something first so [3:36] mr president we were having a very bad press day and i said i don't know why i thought of his name [3:42] he's been my friend for a long time i said you know i think i'm going to get dana white to be my new [3:48] press secretary they said it to a group of the press and that was it i'm sort of kidding and then they [3:54] wrote the story as though i wasn't kidding and you were inundated and i was inundated and he was here [4:00] anywhere with we thought to have a little fun and we brought dana here he would be fantastic go [4:06] ahead mr president for you first of all were you surprised by the results of the midterms last [4:14] tuesday and mr president you on the campaign trail you had said that you had stopped iran from [4:21] having a nuclear weapon why not just declare an end to the conflict and be done with it because we have [4:28] some great allies there and we have to make sure they're not hurt and they would be hurt uh they [4:35] are right now a lot safer than they were six months ago because iran's been very much decapitated but [4:42] they're still the bully of the middle east a little bit and i see that we want to make sure they're okay [4:48] we want to make sure it's a long-term solution not just a short term they'll never have a nuclear [4:53] weapon but we have to make sure that's a long term so it's ending quickly but uh we want to take care [4:58] of people that have been very good to us over the years [5:05] thank you mr president you told 60 minutes that you felt that your deportation policy may have gone [5:11] too far but then you named the architect of that policy stephen miller to be your chief of staff [5:17] have you told him that you want changes to the deportation policy very strong deportation policy [5:23] there's no amnesty no no anything we keep that but we focus on the worst of the worst we want to get [5:31] the murderers out we've gotten most of them out we've gotten most of the really bad you know they [5:36] they allowed joe biden allowed 100 well 25 million people to come in of that 11 888 murderers most of [5:46] whom committed more than one murder we've gotten most of them we want to get the worst of the worst and then [5:52] we'll see what happens but they came in illegally many of them have good jobs now they're productive [5:59] some of them are even paying taxes and we're seeing what's going to happen there won't be amnesty [6:03] somebody suggested will there be amnesty no but they came in they knew the law and we're working with [6:10] a lot of different groups to see whether or not but my policy hasn't changed what we are doing is [6:16] absolutely the worst of the worst we're getting the murderers they allowed people to come in from [6:21] prisons they emptied their prisons into our country many countries and they emptied our prisons into [6:26] our country the drug dealers that we have the people from the mental institutions mental institutions [6:33] all over the world were emptied out prisons all over the world the congo were in the congo their prison [6:41] population was emptied into our country all over south america all over asia they did that too [6:50] what biden did to this country should never ever be forgotten and i hope the democrats will not [6:57] try and allow that to happen again we've seen the stock market really take you know up and down like [7:05] a roller coaster last couple of days days today up last week it tanked not last week right after the [7:11] election it went down three trillion dollars that was because of the result of the election because [7:17] the stock market does not want to see democrats and your 401ks have gone way down because of the [7:24] ridiculous result it's not even a result it's almost hard to believe now i wasn't on the ballot i [7:31] shouldn't take anything personally but i will tell you i thought it was ridiculous but the stock market [7:37] went way down right after that event today it's way up because i think they feel we have things under [7:44] control mr president thank you sir thank you sir when were you first informed that there was an [7:49] issue with jensen playing in the affair and what was presented to you at the time what was the concern [7:55] i would say that when i heard about it first of all i was amazed because [8:01] i view him as a very high quality person i've known him a long time [8:06] it's actually the largest i think by value it's probably the largest or one of the largest [8:11] companies in the world he did that with a chip you know when you think about it he's got a chip that's [8:16] 10 years advanced can't be cut because of the complexity can't even the blackwell can't even be [8:21] copied he's an amazing guy i just hope it's uh i hope there's no problem if there is a problem we'll [8:28] let you know about it but i hope there's no problem i believe he's suffering greatly i read his statement [8:34] and i believe he's suffering greatly more so because of his family his wife who he loves [8:39] and his family but he is definitely suffering and i hope just to follow up on the when were you [8:48] first told of these potential issues with mr blaine you didn't answer that question well i've been [8:52] hearing about it and i've been reading a little bit about it over a period of time but uh not too long [8:58] ago we'll look into it i know the fbi is looking into it in terms of something else and i think that [9:05] he'll be in good shape mr president you say the war with iran will be ending fairly soon but you've [9:13] made this claim dozens of times over the past eight months why should americans think this time [9:17] is any different they won't have a nuclear weapon and they won't have a nuclear weapon when we knocked [9:22] them out a year ago uh that was i said i was going to do that and i kept my word on that now what we're [9:29] doing is we're uh it's really status quo territory we're keeping it going we have the greatest military [9:37] blockade ever we have the new iron gate iron gate is land so by land and by sea and we will uh take [9:45] care of business look iran i hope we're going to be able to make a deal with them but nothing's going [9:52] to happen and if we have to we'll take very serious we are so loaded we just have another aircraft [9:59] carrier it's all loaded up to the gills with brand new beautiful stuff we're making more military [10:04] equipment and munitions right now than at any time in the history of our country we've built and are [10:09] building more plants our our defense companies are building more plants than ever at any time in the [10:17] history of our country and many of those plants are opened some opened and some are opening soon [10:23] uh we're building new patriots we're building new tomahawks new thad systems and we have more under [10:30] construction now than at any time ever and uh and we're taking it and obviously we're taking it for [10:36] ourselves first uh what happened is it wasn't so much iran joe biden gave 350 billion dollars worth of [10:45] free equipment to ukraine now that was unbelievable now they pay and we give it to the european union we have [10:54] a very good relationship we took them from two percent to five percent is what they're paying now [11:00] which is pretty amazing nobody thought that could happen but they pay full for the equipment joe biden [11:05] gave free equipment 350 billion dollars and we are now building more military equipment and munitions [11:14] than at any time in the history of our country uh we just had just in case we had another aircraft [11:20] carrier we have many uh sailing over and just arriving in the middle east so we have three [11:27] and they're all locked and loaded and hopefully we don't have to use them [11:36] are you going to bring up the case of jensen wong with president xi when you visit with him next week [11:40] no i don't think so i mean maybe i'm sure president she will ask me about it i just know jensen very well [11:47] well i just think he's a very honorable man i mean he's a great he built a great company american [11:52] company and i think he's a very honorable guy and i feel very confident that he'll be in good shape [12:00] in sticking with jensen playing when you went to china earlier this year in may [12:04] did you know about these alleged ties with the chinese by then or no i didn't hear about it then [12:10] but a lot of people have heard about it and jensen totally denies that he had i asked him today because [12:16] i did speak to him today just to see if he's feeling all right how you doing and i asked him about [12:21] that and he he said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy i asked him that [12:30] question did you have any idea that she was a spy he said i had no idea that she was a spy and i [12:34] really believe him yeah i just think that ukraine and russia are tired of [12:45] fighting they're tired of seeing dead young soldiers mostly soldiers most of the people are [12:50] soldiers think of it they're losing 25 000 dennis can you imagine 25 that's like a stadium madison [12:56] square garden you have your fights 25 000 that's what it holds and they're losing that every single [13:03] month dead young beautiful people and it's got to stop you know it doesn't affect us but i'm able to [13:13] get them together and we're meeting now right now as we speak and the meetings are going okay but [13:18] we're trying to get it settled only because we want to say it doesn't affect us as a country but it [13:24] affects me 25 000 people a month are being killed mr president a number of senate of gop members are [13:34] urging the conference to delay their leadership votes tomorrow we know that john thune is running on the [13:40] votes in the senate do you think that mr thune has earned the right to lead senate well look [13:45] he's a very fine man i know him very well but that's really up to the senators i like john thune [13:53] i wish they could get more produced you know we we've had save america up there we've had [13:59] you know voter id and proof of citizenship and many other things it's not easy he's got some people that [14:07] first of all you have 100 negative democrats they never vote yes they always vote no that means [14:12] you have to get almost 100 of the republicans and you have some republicans in there i can name them [14:17] but why should i that are very difficult and you know i said as leader you have to get those people but [14:25] john's a good man i guess they're going to be voting tomorrow or maybe it's delayed i don't know [14:29] what the status but you know he's a friend of mine i wish the senate could get more done [14:35] you spoke about venezuela uh do you plan on having elections there before the end at some point [14:43] yeah at some point yes mr president uh earlier today you posted on social media where you questioned [14:49] whether the midterm election results were honest yeah believe that the election was raped and [14:53] separately did you did you watch uh senator thomas massey lay out his articles of impeachment no i don't [15:00] watch massey look now massey's a loser um he shouldn't be taking up the time of uh congress or the [15:09] senate or anything that he's doing you guys are stone-cold loser would always he's a republican [15:15] always he would vote against you just we could come up with the best bill we could come up with and he [15:21] would always vote against there's something wrong with him and i said look i've got to challenge him [15:26] and i challenged him and he lost in a landslide to a very good man we have a very good man [15:31] ed kilrain who's great took his place but you know i went and did something that is very tough to do [15:39] now i challenged others also i challenged cornyn i challenged uh tillis and i challenged uh if you [15:45] look at louisiana cassidy three so that makes things a little bit harder to get their votes because i [15:52] wouldn't say they like me but of all of them i would say there's there's something wrong with thomas [15:58] massey he was an automatic no vote you could go in with the greatest bill bills where even democrats [16:04] were voting and he'd be no and i said what is wrong with this guy he's a sick sick guy there's [16:10] something wrong with him actually now he's he's after pete he doesn't like hexa but really what has [16:16] hexa done he won the war he was in charge he won the war in venezuela as i said 48 minutes it was [16:25] flawless nobody killed and he certainly i think he's won the war in iran but he's certainly winning [16:31] the war iran would love to make a deal and they've been obliterated their navy and their air force so [16:39] he won the war in two places two big places very important very impactful and they were one they're [16:46] not like vietnam when nothing was one or afghanistan or iraq or any of these wars when nothing was [16:53] one there was nothing one just lots of death and then let's leave in one case he's not they're not [16:59] going to have a nuclear weapon in the other we're making hundreds of billions of dollars for this [17:04] country so i say this pete hexath won two wars oh let's impeach him what about impeaching the gentleman [17:15] from biden his person that disappeared for two weeks and nobody had any idea where he was what about [17:23] impeaching the people that ran the vietnam war what about impeaching that went that ran iraq and [17:29] afghanistan and all of these other wars where thousands of lives have been you know we lost 18 [17:38] people 18. they lost 65 000 in vietnam we're in there for seven months they're in there for 21 years [17:47] what about impeaching those people what about impeaching the leaders of these stupid wars that [17:52] were done when nothing was gained in iran they won't have a nuclear weapon that's a big thing [17:59] now short term probably bad for me because people want to have a little bit lower energy [18:04] cost we'll get it back down i created the lowest cost you know it's even lower now than it was with [18:09] biden and obama but i've done something different they won't have a nuclear weapon that's a big thing [18:16] and with the other we're making a fortune and we have tremendous amounts of oil [18:19] we're going to have we have more oil including venezuela than saudi arabia and russia combined [18:28] by far in fact by two yeah please do you believe the midterms were great sir to follow up do you [18:33] believe the midterms were well i think the numbers were terrible in terms of those early votes you look [18:39] at all those early votes and and look at another one i'm watching alaska so you have a guy named dan [18:45] sullivan and another guy named dan sullivan runs and one's a j and one's an s and the one with the j [18:52] which is the fake dan sullivan tries to have his initial change to s he never ran before he never [19:00] was a political person before he was fraudulently put in the race and then they tried to change his [19:06] middle name so it was an s to confuse so dan sullivan and the woman peltola is they're very close he's only [19:16] i guess he's four five hundred votes up but this fake dan sullivan because of confusion only because [19:23] they're meant to vote has 2 500 almost 3 000 votes that means he wins the election but in addition [19:30] they have a second person they put in and they made a big issue with the second and that person has [19:36] 4 000 or 5 000 votes those votes should go also but even if you don't include that you have a dan [19:43] sullivan and a dan sullivan and the democrats put him up in order to confuse the voters so anybody [19:52] that voted for that second dan sullivan the fake dan sullivan was supposed to be a vote for the real [19:58] dan sullivan so they stole it and that election should be called right now because dan sullivan won [20:05] easily if you add up the numbers now if you add up the numbers for the second person they put in [20:11] he's leading by six seven thousand votes go ahead please [20:20] yeah i'll stand by so even if he's impeached you're going to keep your defense secretary [20:24] he went to wars he was in charge we all won i had great people you what massey says that he's carried [20:31] out massey's a loser just like you're a loser at cnn just like your ratings are a loser massey is a [20:39] loser stone cold loser uh i ran i did something that nobody's done i took on a guy that was in his [20:46] own way sort of popular in his state and i beat him badly beat him easily with a man that never ran [20:56] before but a good man massey has a lot of hatred in his heart i watched i heard what massey did i [21:04] want to watch i don't want to waste my time watching him uh we won two wars we won two wars and [21:11] we've made the world a lot safer place and then we're supposed to be why haven't we gone after [21:17] all these other people that ran wars that lost what about this what about what about what about [21:23] what about good old lloyd why didn't we go after him why didn't we go after the people that disappeared [21:28] they're in charge of the military and they disappeared from nobody knew had any idea that nothing happened to [21:36] him uh what about all these people that lost wars you don't have to all i can say is this we have the [21:43] highest recruit the recruit numbers of you know when i came in when i was campaigning we had the worst [21:52] recruitment people wanting to join the military in the history of our country we couldn't fill any of [21:57] the spots it was a disaster now we have the best numbers we've ever had more people want to be in the [22:04] army navy air force marines coast guard even the police space force firemen anybody with a uniform [22:13] so now we have the best numbers we've ever had and i will say this the soldiers the actual soldiers [22:20] the great people that do the work the great patriots they love pete hexath so if you go back two years [22:28] ago before i got into office two years ago we could not recruit people and you know that better the army [22:36] was way beyond everybody now we have waiting lists of people trying to get in he's done a very good [22:53] vladimir putin you have given vladimir putin multiple deadlines over the last 22 months [22:57] to enter into a ceasefire but also to meet directly with the lord zelensky he has repeatedly ignored your [23:03] demands yet you have provided well you know you're saying he's not has he been fighting us in the [23:08] war also yeah yeah let me ask you this question who are you with who are you with with ms now what at [23:14] what ms now it's a fake that's no but at what point does appeasement [23:19] ms now gets the worst ratings in their history used to be ms dnc it's one of the worst uh you're a fake [23:28] network go ahead jennifer jennifer go ahead jennifer go ahead ms now what a joke go ahead [23:39] steven miller's doing a great job [23:44] i just think he's going to be great he's been with me from the beginning he's smart he's tough [23:49] he's fair and he actually will get along i think very well with the democrats [23:53] i want to put a finer point you know i'm open to it we're not going to have amnesty or anything we're [24:04] going to you know people are going to do it the right way you have to do it it's unfair to other [24:09] people but certainly i'm open to it no no not you not you go ahead i wanted you to put a finer point [24:16] on what exactly you were made aware of the intelligence around jensen wang oh i'd have to [24:21] check but there are but this has been going on put an intelligence memo out last year did you read [24:26] that well i'd certainly check with the intelligence people they could have been mentioned certainly it [24:32] didn't make much of an impact on me yeah one of your first tests uh for bipartisanship in this new [24:37] era is going to be working with democrats on this permitting bill which is expected to get a vote [24:42] the permitting bill is a great bill that's supposed to be bipartisan we we are behind it a hundred [24:47] percent are you going to whip that in the house well we may see but the democrats want that [24:52] i mean maybe they've changed but they wanted as much as they're going to approve wind turbines [24:56] in the future being very critical no i will not approve winter but that's part of the bill sir i know but [25:01] i won't approve it well the bill hasn't been fully negotiated uh i will not approve wind turbines because [25:06] wind turbines are a major loser [25:15] as you said before it was going to be your pleasure to take cuba in your mandate do you still plan on [25:20] taking cuba or well cuba is falling it's a failing nation it's got an ideology very similar to what [25:27] the democrat ideology is and it's a failing nation it's a communist nation socialist nations sort of [25:35] everything all wrapped in into one uh we have tremendous people who were treated very badly cuban [25:42] americans and they voted for me 94 percent and we take care of those people but cuba is a failing [25:49] nation we will help them on a humanitarian basis we are helping them actually but we'll see what [25:57] happens cuba is going to be interesting i would imagine it will fall fairly soon [26:00] i can't keep this man waiting he's a very very powerful so let me ask wait wait wait so let me [26:09] ask you the big question dana would you like to be press secretary of the united states of america [26:17] look at a sign you'd have this behind you all the time the white house washington would you like that [26:21] or do you just want to stay with this ridiculous ufc huh thank you for the officer for the offer i have no [26:28] no no no i do not want to be in politics i am devastated to hear this goodbye everybody [26:46] thank you everybody just to conclude our country is doing really well we're respected by everybody in [26:53] the world something that was not true two years ago our country is doing better than it's ever done [26:59] before thank you very much [27:23] thank you [27:38] good job [27:39] thank you