FULL Q/A SESSION: Trump Talks Iran, Ukraine, Cuba with Reporters Aboard Air Force One — AC1Z

[0:00] any questions what are you expecting from these iran talks in geneva tomorrow so i'll be uh [0:06] involved in those talks indirectly and they'll be very important we'll see what can happen [0:12] but typically iran's a very tough negotiator they're good negotiators or bad to go i would [0:17] say they're bad negotiators because we could add a deal instead of sending the b2s in to knock out [0:22] their nuclear potential and we had to send the b2s i hope i hope they're going to be more reasonable [0:29] they want to make a deal have you been told that a deal is next to impossible no i think they want [0:36] to make a deal i don't think they want the consequences of not making a deal they want [0:41] to make a deal are you going to sit down with democrats this week on dhs funding sir i will [0:46] but you know we have to protect our law enforcement they've done a great job i just got finished saying [0:50] that we have the best crime numbers we've had in many years and on murders 125 years and that's [0:57] despite a lot of people that shouldn't have been led into our country coming into our country [1:02] criminals many many criminals but we've taken out tens of thousands of people brought them back to [1:08] their countries but many of the criminals that were brought in allowed to come in have been removed so [1:14] okay but to have the best crime numbers which aren't made by me these are made by [1:20] people that do that many left leading we have the best murder numbers horrible thing to say [1:27] but we have the best murder numbers since 1900 that's before my father was born 125 years think [1:35] of it the best crime number since 1900 having to do with murder and really good crap numbers the best [1:42] in years are there any demands that democrats are making that you're okay with uh i don't like some [1:47] of the things they're asking for we're going to protect law enforcement we're going to protect ice [1:52] they're part of the whole system that is working in washington dc now is considered a very safe city [1:59] when i took over it was a city that we're losing two three people a week over a hundred people a [2:06] year were being murdered in washington now it's considered a very safe city and we did that i did [2:12] it over a fairly short period of time too on dhs uh recent news reports have discussed the widespread [2:18] belief that christian noem and corey lewandowski are in a personal personal relationship is that a [2:24] bad look recent news reports have discussed the the possibility that christian noem and corey [2:29] lewandowski are in a close personal relationship is that a bad look and do you think she'll be in [2:34] the job much longer i don't know about that i mean i haven't heard that uh i'll find out about [2:40] it but i have not heard it but i have not heard it will you give your state of the union speech if [2:44] we're still in a shutdown next week well i think it wouldn't bother me i would give it you how are [2:52] the negotiations going with which one we have a lot of negotiations with the government shutdown [2:59] this is a democrat shutdown this has nothing to do with republicans this is a democrat shutdown [3:04] they're upset that the crime numbers are so good they're very unhappy that the crime numbers are so good [3:09] they're very unhappy that there's a movement for getting getting voter id they want voter id the [3:16] population 98 want voter id they don't want voter id because they want to cheat in elections [3:23] they also want other things they don't want mail-in ballots they want to end mail-in ballots which is [3:28] corrupt and one other thing that they're insisting on is proof of citizenship and the democrats don't [3:34] want to give proof of citizenship they don't want to give voter id think of it who wouldn't want [3:39] voter id and why would you want mail-in ballots if you know it's corrupt it's a corrupt system [3:50] we're the only country in the world that has this system of mail-in ballots think of it the only [3:57] country in the world that has this system of mail-in ballots because they cheat and the fact is they [4:03] could never get elected if they ever change they don't if you had voter id if you had proof of [4:08] citizenship they could never win an election and they know that and they're fighting to the to the [4:13] hill and i put this down with men playing in women's sports i put it down with transgender for [4:20] everybody i put it down with their horrible open border policy as being ridiculous they don't want [4:27] voter id no voter id and i put that down to the same category with men playing in women's sports [4:35] i'm going to add a fourth category they don't want voter id go ahead so hillary flinton said in an [4:41] interview today that she and her husband are getting pulled into the epstein matter to divert [4:46] attention from you and that your administration has something to hide what's your response i have [4:52] nothing to hide i've been exonerated i have nothing to do with jeffrey epstein they went in hoping that [4:57] they're fine and they found just the opposite i've been totally exonerated in fact jeffrey epstein was [5:02] fighting that i don't get elected with some author a sleazebag by the way and i've been totally [5:09] exonerated no no they're getting pulled in and that's their problem i don't know they're going [5:13] to have to see what happens but i watched her in munich and she seriously has trump derangement [5:18] syndrome you know i've been totally exonerated on epstein and it's really interesting because [5:25] they've been pulled in think of it they've been pulled in clinton and many other democrats have been pulled [5:31] it yeah the u.s has drilled forward which is sprinting from the caribbean to the middle east [5:35] is about to hit it's an eight month deployment mark usually they're deployed for about six months or [5:40] so is there any concern that u.s carriers are being stretched too thin it's always the question [5:47] you're warning cuba to make a deal uh what does that deal look like what do you want them to do [5:51] cuba is right now a failed nation and they don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off [5:58] they're clogging up their runway we're talking to cuba right now and marco rubio talking to cuba right [6:04] now and they should absolutely make a deal because it's a humanity it's really a humanitarian threat [6:12] and we have a lot of great cuban americans and they're going to be very happy when they're going [6:16] to be able to go back and say hello to their relatives and do things that they should have been allowed to [6:20] do for a long time i'm very interested in the people that are here that were treated so badly by [6:26] castro and the cuban authorities they have been treated horribly so we'll see how it all turns [6:32] out but cuba and us we are talking in the meantime there's an embargo there's no oil there's no money [6:40] there's no anything if a deal isn't made would you consider an operation like the one in venezuela [6:45] i don't want to answer that why would i answer that if i if i was it wouldn't be a very tough operation [6:50] as you can figure but i don't think that'll be necessary mr president marco rubio received really [6:57] positive reviews in munich is there a very good review is there a scenario in which you would [7:02] support him at the top of the ticket in 28 something i don't have to worry about now i've got three [7:07] years to go so it's something i don't have to burn jd's fantastic and marco's they're both fantastic [7:12] i think really and i think marco did a great job in munich president xi and your talk with him [7:18] recently uh uh warned about sending more weapons to taiwan what was your response to him are you [7:24] going to send more weapons to time response i have a response i'm talking to him about it we had a good [7:28] conversation and we'll make a determination pretty soon tell us about your trip to a very good [7:34] relationship with president in fact i'll be going i guess in april i'm sorry tell us about your trip to [7:40] rogue george on thursday your trip to marjorie taylor green's old district well we have a lot of [7:45] people that want to take marjorie trader green's uh place and many many candidates and i have to [7:52] choose one and they say whoever i endorse is going to win but we have a lot of good candidates want to [7:57] take their place so your board of peace meets for the first time this week you said it could be the [8:01] most consequential international organization ever that's a high bar what do you want for this first [8:07] meeting well i think it can be we're going to have all world leaders they're putting up tremendous [8:10] amounts of money and i think it's going to go far beyond gaza i think it'll be peace all over the [8:15] world and we're working in conjunction with the united nations look the united nations is there [8:21] they haven't lived up to potential united nations has great potential they haven't lived up to the [8:26] potential but i think they might aid us a little bit but we have the greatest leaders in the world [8:33] joining the board of peace and we'll be doing it in conjunction with in some cases the united nations [8:39] and see if we can get the united nations to get on the ball you've been a kingmaker in a lot of [8:45] republican primaries a lot of people including foreign nations i was very honored to see that a very [8:52] wonderful prime minister in japan won by a landslide i think she was going to win but she won by [8:59] just about the biggest vote ever in japan and she attributed my endorsement for that and that's very [9:05] good because we have a great relationship with her and japan a lot of republicans in dc are asking you [9:11] to endorse john cornyn but you haven't yet is is there a chance you wouldn't endorse paxton and why [9:16] haven't you endorsed cornyn i just haven't made a decision in that race yet it's got a ways to go [9:20] and i haven't he's a good man john is a good i like all three of them actually i like all three [9:25] those are the toughest races they've all supported me they're all good supposed to pick one so we'll see [9:33] what happens but i i support all three are you involved in the rift between uae and saudi arabia [9:38] no i'm not i would be i would be well i could settle it very easily but they have a uh they do [9:45] indeed have a rift and we can get it settled very easily i settle wars i settle a lot of rifts between [9:50] countries you've been noticing right that's that's an easy one to settle in venezuela [9:56] desir rodríguez last week said that nicolas maduro is still a legitimate president and is [10:03] innocent i know you said the relationship is a 10 but i'm curious what's your thoughts on that i think [10:07] we have a great relationship i think she probably has to say that i think politically maybe she has [10:11] to say that but the relationship with venezuela she's doing a very good job and i fully understand [10:18] that statement you're going to have ukraine talks tomorrow as well in geneva with whitkov and jerry [10:26] what are you expecting there is there well in big talks it's going to be very easy i mean it's [10:31] look so far ukraine better come to the table fast that's all i'm telling you we are in a position [10:40] we want them to come and by the way i watched aoc answering questions in munich this was not a good [10:47] look with the united states i watched gavin newscom answering questions for engineer in munich and this [10:54] was a bad look for our country this was a bad these two people are incompetent and at least hillary's [11:00] competent she's just trump deranged she was so deranged she is an angry woman but i watched the [11:08] other two speaking and answering basic questions look gavin has destroyed california and aoc i never [11:16] really got her to i never heard her speak very much and they started answering questions she had no idea what [11:22] was happening she had no idea how to answer you know very important questions concerning the world [11:29] but she can't answer questions concerning new york city either because new york city is got some [11:35] problems now that gaza is entering phase two should israel lift its ban on foreign journalists being allowed [11:42] we'll be lifting a lot of bands pretty soon i think you're going to see everything opening up gaza [11:47] look we have peace in the middle east now you have some flames here and there but we essentially have [11:53] peace in the middle east and that happened primarily when we did the b2 attack on the nuclear potential [12:00] nuclear power they would have had a nuclear weapon within one month if that happened it would have been [12:05] a whole different deal okay thank you very much everybody the five billion that you announced yesterday [12:11] for the board of peace is that a down payment or are you expecting to want to help people that's [12:16] peanuts compared to the kind of money that has been spent in the middle east by bush by obama by all of [12:23] these people by biden i mean the money he spent but the money he's made you know that's such a small [12:29] amount of money by comparison but uh we want to make it successful i think it has the chance to be the [12:35] most consequential board ever assembled of any kind what was wrong for ron de santos great we had a great [12:43] time and ron and a couple of other people two great coaches as you know the two greatest coaches [12:48] i would say certainly in college football and uh we had a good time playing golf thank you very much [12:55] i didn't get to play today because i'm working on other things very important things much more [12:59] important than golf thank you very much melania for valentine's melania is in the play we have a movie [13:07] star on the plane did you have any valentine's day did you do anything for valentine's when you give [13:15] her flowers i better not tell you that goodbye everybody that's the toughest question uh no she's [13:22] very i'm proud of the fact you know her movies are successful it's a tremendous hit and uh she does [13:28] a good job she does a very consequential work i think you're going to see in the end that she's [13:34] going to go down as one of the truly great first ladies when you see what she's doing with russia [13:37] ukraine and so many of the other things she's doing she's done a good job she works very hard [13:43] is westmore invited to the white house this week mr president just so you said the governors were all [13:50] other than two one was colorado where he's got a 73 year old woman who's probably got serious cancer [13:58] confined and for some time in solitary confinement because she pointed out the voter theft that was [14:05] taking place in other words she pointed it out they arrested her and they gave her a nine-year [14:10] sentence and he better let her go because it's a disgrace and the other guy's just a bad governor [14:17] he's not doing a good job westmore he's doing a terrible job and you can see that well i didn't [14:22] invite those two if the rest of them don't want to show up that's okay i hear they're coming a lot of them [14:27] the white house is a great place to be but no i don't like the job that westmore is doing i don't like [14:33] the job he's doing on the bridge i don't like the fact that he did that horrible you know with the [14:37] pipes and the potomac and uh he's not doing the job they got to do it and we're gonna i'm gonna have [14:43] to get the federal government involved in getting it fixed because he can't fix anything thank you very [14:48] much