Do you think a new generation of Democrats has risen up, Linda?
Well, they're going to now because there is no choice.
But I believe with 2020 hindsight, if Joe Biden would have stuck to what he said the first time when he ran, that he was going to be a bridge, he came out of retirement to unseat Donald Trump.
and he was going to be a Brit to the next generation, to me, I don't think he should have tried to run for re-election.
To go down the what if a little bit more, Linda, if he had done that, do you think Kamala Harris would have been the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024?
Who do you think would have been?
You look so beautiful today.
What a party have you had going on.
It is.
Apart from obviously winning in the election, what are some of the highlights for 2024?
Well, we're just going to have a great nation again.
We're going to bring it back to better than it ever was.
I think we're going to see things, and it's going to go fast.
We're going to see some amazing things, but we're going to bring it back at a level that a lot of people didn't think was really possible.
That's why we're going to give that to them for a real job.
We have great people.
Well, I just want everybody to be happy, healthy, and well.
Thank you.
He's dropping up.
He thinks he could have beaten you.
What do you say?
Well, he was way behind.
He would have really, I assume, not had a chance.
He was way behind her.
And we won it.
As you know, we won every swing state.
We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people.
Hey, look, I wish him well.
He had a chance to do it in the debate, and that didn't work out too well for him.
That was, I guess, the reason that really led to his downfall.
What are you looking forward to in 2025?
Well, just a great year.
I think we're going to do fantastically well as a country.
We're going to bring it back.
It has to be brought back people are not respecting our country very much and they're going to respect us a lot I think a lot of progress has been made over the last five weeks.
It's been Pretty amazing when you look at what's happened.
There's a whole light over the whole world not just our country A lot of very happy people Say what?
What's your message to the Republicans who are still not supporting Speaker Johnson?
Oh, I think they'll support Speaker Johnson.
I think we're going to have a great time in Washington, and I think we're going to get great support.
He's the one that can win right now.
People like him.
Almost everybody likes him.
Others are very good, too, but they have 30 or 40 people that don't like him, so that's pretty tough.
Well, if necessary, but I think really we're going to have a great time, we're going to get a successful vote.
He's a good man, he's a very, he's a wonderful person, and that's what you need.
Why did you change your mind on H-1B and E-1Serve?
I didn't change my mind.
I've always felt we have to have the most competent people in our country.
We need competent people.
We need smart people coming into our country.
We need a lot of people coming in.
We're going to have jobs like we've never had before.
But, sir, you said you changed your position.
Do you plan to go to the Carter funeral next week?
Say it?
Do you plan to go to President Carter's funeral?
I do.
I'll be there.
We were invited.
Have you spoken with any Carter family members?
I'd rather not say.
Have you spoken to President Carter?
Are you with your nominees?
Well, I think we have great nominees who are doing very well, as you know.
I think most of them are being voted very highly, just about all of them.
So I think we're going to do very well.
You said that he's eager to meet with you.
Are you planning a meeting with him?
Well, I don't know.
There's a traditional meeting.
Some people would say we already had that, you know, we met a week and a half ago.
But if it's appropriate, I'd like to, you know, like to do that.
Yeah.
No, it's a shame.
The whole thing started.
It would have never started if I were president.
You wouldn't have Ukraine.
You wouldn't have Ukraine -Russia problems.
You wouldn't have had the Israeli problem with what happened on October 7th was just a horrible thing.
All of the things.
You wouldn't have inflation.
Inflation was a disaster.
One of the reasons uh, we had the country.
We won the country by the kind of numbers we won by, which were record-setting numbers, all of these things.
And then you take a look also, look at all of the other problems that they caused, the problems that they caused in this country, and specifically, I ran on the border, millions and millions of people that flowed through our border from prisons, from mental institutions, people that should not be in our country, and you see the crime numbers.
They're going through the roof.
Look at New York City, look at Chicago, look at Los Angeles.
They're going through the roof.
We're going to get them out.
We're going to get them out fast, thank you.
about a ceasefire bill you said if they don't have one by the time you take office there will be help today we're going to see what happens they better let the hostages come back we all know what we want do you want that ontology like johnson here
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