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	All right, welcome to a very special edition of Human Events.
	I am Brian Glenn, filling in for Jack Masovic, who is live down at Mar-a-Lago to cover a press event with President Trump.
	But before we get to that, I do want to toss it over to Michelle Bacchus, who is live on the ground there at Mar-a-Lago.
	Michelle, if we can get you to pop in here.
	I know this is set to start any moment now.
	Give us an idea of what we can expect here in a few minutes from the president.
	Well, Brian, that's the big question right now.
	President Trump focusing on policy.
	That's the hope.
	If you saw his Truth Social post earlier, that's what he was focused on.
	The open border, immigration, economics right now.
	Now, you also have to consider that Kamala Harris, it's been 18 days, Brian, since Kamala Harris has done any interviews relying on that prompter.
	We've already seen J.D.
	Vance call her out on this.
	You might have seen yesterday that viral moment by Air Force Two.
	Nonetheless, though, Trump really hammering down on that as well.
	And that's, I think, what he's going to address today.
	You can take a look right behind me.
	This is where all of it's going to go down.
	Again, we're waiting for this any minute.
	But Brian, I do have to note, while we don't know what's happening at this press conference, there are a lot of press here.
	And it's a pretty small room.
	We're pretty shoulder to shoulder at this point.
	So I'm thinking it's going to be a relatively big announcement.
	That's kind of been the rumor going around at this point.
	We'll have to keep you updated as he's going to go on just about any minute.
	Yeah, it's interesting, Michelle, how this event kind of transformed what we have here today.
	And you said this at the top of your report, that we have not heard from Kamala Harris at all in front of an open press.
	Without a doubt, she had a rally, but not an open press situation.
	So this is going to be interesting to hear what the president has to say about that.
	And of course, we saw what J.D.
	Vance did yesterday, kind of posting up in front of her plane.
	What's your thoughts on, I guess that impromptu press conference that J.D.
	Vance had yesterday?
	I applaud him for it.
	I think it's important, and I'm happy he's asking the questions.
	Other people aren't at this point.
	And that also could be why you're seeing so many press here today as well, because while Kamala isn't addressing the press and doing unscripted interviews, you're also seeing here, it's a big difference.
	You're seeing a very different situation.
	The room is definitely getting quieter, I would anticipate.
	President Trump will be walking in shortly.
	Yeah, there you go.
	As you know, we are live there on the ground at Mar-a-Lago.
	Jack Posobiec is there.
	Michelle Baucus is there.
	We'll absolutely go out to them when the president takes the stage.
	But this is something that we have not seen in political history as far as an opponent That was the nominee for the party to not receive a single vote.
	But I don't want to get distracted on when we often message on the lack of, you know, who is really fighting for democracy and who is not.
	Because really, any of the people that would be voting for Kamala Harris really doesn't care that she necessarily didn't get a single vote in an open primary situation.
	They're either going to vote for Kamala Harris because they are tied into that camp, lock step, or perhaps they're, you know, kind of a never Trump or so.
	We are going after that independent voter, which I think is so important at this point in this cycle of the election.
	You know, we were probably, I heard something today that we're, you know, 45 to 60 days away from some of the first votes being cast in several states.
	So we are close.
	To the beginning of the November 5th election, if you will.
	So I'm interested to see exactly when Kamala Harris will step in front of the microphones and do any type of open press situation.
	I'm open to see if this debate will ever happen.
	I know we've had some kind of a ping pong match going back and forth on whether or not Kamala Harris was I accepted the challenge from President Trump to debate, and I know that the other says that she declined it, so I'd like to see how that plays out.
	But, you know, let's toss real quickly to Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, who is probably one of the most left-leaning candidates that I think Kamala Harris could have picked.
	I mean, Josh Shapiro, my money was pretty much on him, governor of Pennsylvania, being Pennsylvania such as a, you know, a very pivotal swing state.
	But take a listen to what the crowd said yesterday at a rally and what they were chanting.
	getting sought one, let's go.
	- Show me what democracy looks like. - This is what democracy looks like. - Show me what democracy looks like. - This is what democracy looks like. - Show me what democracy looks like. - This is what democracy looks like. - Yeah, and just keep in mind that none of those people there, and they have every and just keep in mind that none of those people there, and they have every right to attend that rally, and it looks like But keep in mind, none of them really casted one vote for Kamala Harris.
	And mind you, there was also a concert going on.
	I know we saw these big crowds in Atlanta.
	A couple, about a week ago, we had Megan Thee Stallion opened up that rally, so I'd like to see what the crowd actually would look like if he took a minute, you know, kind of a music aspect out of that gathering.
	What does that look like?
	But nevertheless, that was a good crowd there in Wisconsin, a very predictable crowd, and that area of the state is very liberal, so it does not surprise me that they pulled that much.
	But, you know, as I travel around this country, the top issues right now are the border, the economy, and, of course, national security and all the threats that are happening over in the Middle East.
	And when it comes to the border, Kamala Harris was deemed the border czar, even though she will deny that ever happened.
	She was absolutely called the border czar.
	Now, she did go to the border.
	But she went to El Paso, Texas, which is 100 miles away from where the actual crisis, the images that are on your screen right now, that are actually happening in Texas.
	So whenever the governor, Tim Walz, was asked the question about Trump's border wall and how he was going to continue to rebuild the border wall, protect our country, protect the illegal immigrants that are coming in, this is what he had to say about the number one issue In this country right now.
	Saw it too.
	Take a listen.
	He talks about this wall.
	I always say, let me know how high it is.
	If it's 25 feet, then I'll invest in the 30 foot ladder factory.
	Okay, so if you're looking to get votes in anywhere in the South or any state that borders the US-Mexico border, that's not particularly the answer you want to give.
	I understand that Minneapolis, Minnesota is a sanctuary state.
	I think all of us can agree that we are all for immigration here in this country.
	We're all for legal immigration.
	Let's toss it to Mar-a-Lago.
	Trump walking out right now.
	I think that our country is right now in the most dangerous position It's ever been in from an economic standpoint from a safety standpoint, both gangs on the street and frankly gangs outside of our country in the form of other countries that are frankly very powerful.
	They're very powerful countries and we don't know what we're doing.
	We have leadership that has no clue how to handle them or how to handle any other situation.
	We have a we have a lot of bad things coming up.
	You could end up in a depression of The 1929 variety, which would be a devastating thing, took many years, took decades to recover from it.
	And we're very close to that, and we're very close to a world war.
	In my opinion, we're very close to a world war.
	We have people that don't know how to handle it.
	They're not respected.
	All over the world, they're laughed at.
	And we can't have that.
	Most dangerous period of time I've ever seen for our country.
	With that being said, we have somebody that hasn't received one vote for president and she's running.
	And that's fine with me.
	But we were given Joe Biden and now we're given somebody else.
	And I think, frankly, I'd rather be running against somebody else.
	But that was their choice.
	They decided to do that because Kamala's record is horrible.
	She's a radical left person at a level that nobody's seen.
	She picked a radical left Man, that is, he's got things done that he, he has positions that are just not, it's not even possible to believe that they exist.
	He's going for things that nobody's ever even heard of.
	Heavy into the transgender world, heavy into lots of different worlds, having to do with safety.
	He doesn't want to have borders.
	He doesn't want to have walls.
	He doesn't want to have any form of safety for our country.
	He doesn't mind people coming in from prisons, and neither does she, I guess, because she's not... She couldn't care less.
	She's the Bordezar.
	By the way, she was the Bordezar 100%.
	And all of a sudden, for the last few weeks, she's not the Bordasour anymore, like nobody ever said it.
	And I just hope that the media becomes more diligent, more honest, frankly, because if they're not going to be honest, it's going to be much tougher to bring our country back.
	We have a very, very sick country right now.
	You saw the other day with the stock market crash, and that was just the beginning.
	That was just the beginning.
	It's going to get worse.
	It's going to get a lot worse, in my opinion.
	Fortunately we've had some very good polls over the last fairly short period of time.
	Rasmussen came out today was substantially leading and others came out today that were leading and in some cases substantially, I guess MS.
	NBC came out or CNBC came out also with a poll that was leading and leading fairly big in swing states.
	In some polls, I'm leading very big in swing states because they want safety.
	People want safety.
	They want security.
	They want respect all around the world for our country.
	They don't want this horrible culture that is developing.
	A culture of no common sense.
	It's really a culture of no common sense.
	And it's not what anyone wants.
	We want to have a safe country.
	We want to have a strong military.
	We want low interest rates.
	And we want to be able to have the American dream.
	We want to be able to have our youth be able to buy homes, housing, get good jobs.
	And we're really just at the opposite right now.
	It's so sad to see.
	But as a border czar, she's been the worst border czar in history, in the world history.
	I think the number is 20 million, but whether it's 15 or 20, it's numbers that nobody's ever heard before.
	20 million people came over the border in the last, during the Biden-Harris administration, 20 million people And it could be very much higher than that.
	Nobody really knows what the number is.
	Nobody knows.
	Nobody has a clue.
	And the gotaways, they call them the gotaways.
	The gotaways are at numbers.
	Somebody was quizzing me on it the other day.
	No, no, I don't think so, sir.
	I don't think so.
	They have no idea what those numbers are.
	But they're much higher than you would think.
	Just like far more people were killed In the Ukraine-Russia war, then you have a report just like the October 7th would have never happened.
	Russia would have never hit Ukraine had the election result been called differently.
	It was a very bad call, but Russia would not have attacked Ukraine.
	October 7th in Israel would have never happened.
	You wouldn't have inflation.
	A lot of great things would have happened, but now you have millions and millions of dead people.
	And you have people dying financially because they can't buy bacon, they can't buy food, they can't buy groceries, they can't do anything.
	And they're living horribly in our country right now.
	With all of that being said, I think it's very important to have debates.
	And we've agreed with Fox on a date of September 4th.
	We've agreed with NBC, fairly full agreement subject to them, on September 10th.
	And we've agreed with ABC on September 25th.
	So we have those three dates and those networks.
	They're very anxiously awaiting that date and those dates.
	So we have September 4th, September 10th, and September Twenty-fifth, we have spoken to the heads of the network, and it's all been confirmed, other than some fairly minor details.
	Audience, some location, which city would we put it into, but all things that will be settled very easily.
	I think it'll be very easy.
	The other side has to agree to the terms.
	They may or may not agree.
	I don't know if they're going to agree.
	She hasn't done an interview.
	She can't do an interview.
	She's barely competent.
	And she can't do an interview.
	But I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight.
	Why is it that millions of people were allowed to come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums, even insane asylums.
	It's a mental institution on steroids.
	That's what it is when you see the people that are coming into our, these are institutions that are being emptied out, not in South America, all over the world, including South America, all over the world.
	Prisons are being emptied out into our country.
	Because we have a president that's the worst president in the history of our country.
	We have a vice president who is the least admired, least respected, and the worst vice president in the history of our country.
	The most unpopular vice president.
	And because of political reasons or because of being politically correct, even though she never received a vote.
	Don't forget, she was the first one defeated.
	As I remember it because I watched it very closely, but she was the first one.
	She never made it to Iowa the first day.
	She never made it to Iowa.
	She was the first one that was defeated.
	She was the nastiest to him.
	She was nasty with the calling him a racist and the school bus and all of the different things.
	She was very nasty to Biden.
	And shockingly, he appointed her Asked her to serve as vice president.
	Well, I don't know if he's happy about that decision right now.
	This was taken away, the presidency was taken away from Joe Biden.
	And I'm no Biden fan, but I'll tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away.
	And people were saying he lost after the debate, he couldn't win.
	Well, I don't know that that's true necessarily.
	But whether he could win or he couldn't win, he had the right to run.
	And they took it away.
	They said they're going to use the 25th Amendment.
	They're going to hit you hard.
	Either we can do it the nice.
	I heard I know exactly because I know a lot of people on the other side, believe it or not.
	And they said, we'll do it the nice way or we'll do it the hard way.
	And he said, all right.
	So, I mean, they've really taken what they've done is pretty incredible.
	And now I'm running against somebody else and we're leading.
	We're leading.
	So I'm not complaining.
	I'm saying it's a For a country with a constitution that we cherish.
	We cherish this constitution to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible.
	You would have thought they would have gone out to a vote.
	They would have had a primary system.
	They would have done something but to just take it away from them.
	Like he was a child, and he's a very angry man right now, I can tell you that.
	He's not happy with Obama, and he's not happy with Nancy Pelosi.
	Crazy Nancy, she is crazy too.
	She's not happy with any of the people that told him that you've got to leave.
	He's very unhappy, very angry, and I think he also blames her.
	He's trying to put up a good face, but it's a very bad thing in terms of a country when you do that.
	I'm not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed.
	And he had a rough debate.
	But that doesn't mean that you just take it away like that.
	Or you go out to a vote.
	You do something.
	He had 14 million votes.
	She had no votes.
	She got no votes.
	And I think she's crashing.
	I think when people find out, and I think people are starting to find out what a bad job she did, what a bad job she did on the border.
	She's trying to say she had nothing to do with the border.
	She had everything.
	She was appointed to head the border.
	And then they said, borders are, oh, she loved that name.
	She loved that name.
	But she never went there.
	She went to a location once along the border, but that was a location that you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever.
	That was a location that was not part of the problem.
	That was not really going to the border.
	So essentially, she never went to the border.
	And if you listen to Tom Holman, if you listen to the great border people, Brandon Judd, From Border Patrol, if you listen to Paul, I mean, so many different people.
	I speak to him all the time.
	And I did when I was president.
	We had the best border in the history of our country.
	Now we have the worst border in the history of the world.
	Millions of people coming in, and our country cannot sustain it.
	Our country is going down because of this, because of incompetent people.
	So I just look forward to these debates.
	I think it's very important that we have them.
	I hope she agrees to them, September 4th, September 10th, September 25th.
	And I think they'll be very revealing.
	I think they'll be very revealing.
	Do you have any questions, please?
	I haven't recalibrated strategy at all.
	It's the same policies, open borders, weak on crime.
	I think she's worse than Biden, because he got forced into the position.
	She was there long before.
	She destroyed San Francisco.
	She destroyed California as the AG.
	But as the DA, she destroyed San Francisco.
	Friend of mine, Bob Tisch, you all know the Tisch family.
	He was in many cities with companies.
	He said the greatest city In the country is San Francisco.
	That was about 20 years ago.
	And he passed away a while ago and he would be looking down and said, what happened?
	He thought it was the best city in the country.
	He had divisions there, lows.
	And he would be looking down in horror now when he sees, she destroyed, no cash bail, weak on crime, she's terrible.
	And yet they weaponized the system against me.
	They have me, I got so many lawyers.
	Now they wanna delay cases, I won the big case in Florida.
	I won the big case.
	Nobody even wrote about it.
	The big case, the judge was a brilliant judge.
	And all they do is they play the ref with the judges.
	This judge was a fair but brilliant judge.
	And as you probably heard, the big documents case, I won it.
	Now Biden lost it because he didn't have presidential immunity.
	He didn't have the Presidential Records Act.
	He lost it.
	But the special, I call it prosecutors, special counsel, special prosecutor to me.
	Appointed by him, appointed by Garland.
	He said the man's incompetent.
	He can't stand trial, but he can run for president.
	But we no longer have to worry about that because we have somebody that, in my opinion, is more incompetent.
	She couldn't pass her bar exam and lots of other things, and she should not be in a position.
	Because if she becomes president, our country is going to be a giant fail.
	It's going to fail.
	It's going to be a failure the likes of which this world has never seen.
	Yeah, please.
	How about you?
	Wonderful, thank you.
	You know, a big part of your strategy before Harris became the nominee was going after and increasing the share of, can you hear me?
	You have to speak louder.
	Okay, great.
	A big part of the strategy for your campaign before Harris became the nominee was appealing to black voters.
	That was something you were really going after.
	In polls, we really see Harris gaining ground with that group, and I'm wondering how you are going to go after black voters now that she's the nominee and really winning them over.
	Well, it changes around a little bit.
	I'm getting other voters.
	Perhaps, you know, I was doing very well with black voters, and I still am.
	I seem to be doing very well with black males.
	This is according to polls, as you know.
	It's possible that I won't do as well with black women, but I do seem to be doing very well with other segments.
	Extremely well with Hispanic.
	Jewish voters way up.
	White males way up.
	White males have gone through the roof.
	White males way up.
	I don't know.
	All we're doing is giving you the stats that you have.
	It could be that I'll be affected somewhat with black females, where we're doing pretty well.
	And I think ultimately they'll like me better because I'm going to give them security, safety, and jobs.
	I'm going to give them a good economy.
	We have a very bad economy right now.
	We could literally be on the throes of a depression, not recession, a depression.
	And they can't have that.
	They can't have that.
	So I think I'm going to do well with everybody, especially when the facts are right.
	Yeah, please, in the back.
	You're not leading with Jewish voters in your home state of New York.
	With that being said, what do you make of Kamala Harris not picking Josh Shapiro as her VP?
	Well, I don't know.
	I know Josh Shapiro.
	He's a terrible guy, and he's not very popular with anybody.
	I think that this election maybe is better than Josh Shapiro would have been.
	But I think other than Josh Shapiro, I think she had some good choices.
	But Josh Shapiro is not one of them.
	He's caused a lot of damage with a lot of people.
	And I don't think he would have been better.
	I think he would have been maybe the equivalent, maybe not as good.
	But they had some people that they were looking at that were good, far superior to her.
	They actually had a story where they had everybody included.
	They had like 10 people that she was looking at and her.
	And they said she was the worst of all.
	In other words, she was the worst out of the 10 people and her.
	If Harris only agrees to the ABC debate, would you be willing just to do that one debate?
	I don't know how that's going to work out.
	We'd like to do three debates.
	We think we should do three debates.
	We think Fox and ABC and we also have CBS is going to do the vice presidential debate.
	So CBS will do vice presidential and I have to tell you, JD Vance has really stepped up.
	He's doing a fantastic job.
	Are you worried at all about the size of Harris's crowds?
	Give me a break.
	Listen, I had 107,000 people in New Jersey.
	You didn't report it.
	I'm so glad you asked.
	What did you have yesterday?
	2,000 people?
	If I ever had 2,000 people, you'd say my campaign is finished.
	It's so dishonest, the press.
	And here's a great example.
	I had, in Michigan recently, 25,000 people and 25,000 people, we just couldn't get them in.
	We had, in Harrisburg, 20-25,000 people and 20,000 people couldn't get in.
	We had so many, nobody ever mentions that.
	When she gets 1,500 people, and I saw it yesterday on ABC, they said, oh, the crowd was so big.
	I have 10 times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size, and they never say the crowd is big.
	That's why I'm always saying turn around the cameras.
	I'm so glad you asked that.
	I think it's so terrible when you say, well, she has 1,500 people, 1,000 people, and they talk about, oh, the enthusiasm.
	Let me tell you, we have the enthusiasm.
	The Republican Party, and me as a candidate, but the Republican Party.
	Has the enthusiasm because people want to see crime stopped.
	They want to see a country that's respected.
	Think of it.
	If I were president, you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine where it never happened.
	Zero chance.
	You wouldn't have had October 7th of this year.
	You wouldn't have the horrible withdrawal.
	And I don't mean to withdraw because the withdrawal was fine.
	I was ready to withdraw from Afghanistan and we were going to do it with dignity and strength.
	And we were keeping our equipment.
	We weren't leaving $85 billion worth of equipment behind.
	And we wouldn't have had 13 great soldiers.
	I know the families of those soldiers.
	Well, we wouldn't have had these soldiers killed.
	And we wouldn't have had 45 soldiers obliterated.
	No legs, no arms, the face.
	None of that would have happened.
	And you wouldn't have had inflation.
	You wouldn't have had any inflation because inflation was caused by their bad energy.
	Now they've gone back to the Trump thing because they need the votes.
	I don't know if you know, they're drilling now because they had to go back because gasoline was going up to $7, $8, $9 a barrel.
	So they said, we better do what Trump did.
	The day after the election, if they won, you're going to have fuel prices go through the roof.
	Everybody's going to be forced to buy an electric car, which they're not going to do because they don't want that.
	It's got a great market.
	It's got a market.
	It's really a sub market.
	People want gasoline propelled cars.
	They want hybrids.
	They want to have everything.
	And they want electric.
	But they want everybody to have an electric car.
	We don't have enough electricity.
	We couldn't make enough electricity for that.
	And you know what else?
	The weight of a car, the weight of a truck, they want all trucks to be electric.
	Little things that a lot of people don't talk about.
	The weight of a truck is two and a half times, two and a half times heavier.
	You would have to rebuild every bridge in this country if you were gonna do this ridiculous policy.
	So, but on crowd size, in history, for any country, nobody's had crowds like I have, and you know that.
	And when she gets 1,000 people and everybody starts jumping, you know that if I had 1,000 people would say, people would say, that's the end of his campaign.
	I have hundreds of thousands of people in South Carolina.
	I had 88,000 people.
	In Alabama, I had 68,000 people.
	Nobody says about crowd size with me.
	But she has 1,000 people or 1,500 people and they say, oh, the enthusiasm is back.
	No, no.
	The enthusiasm is with me and the Republican Party because they want to stop crime.
	They want to stop people from pouring into our country from places unknown and from countries unknown, from countries that nobody ever heard of.
	That's where the enthusiasm.
	How important is it to you?
	- Two questions if I can, thank you sir.
	Your campaign is targeting Pennsylvania and Georgia.
	If you get those two, you could seal the deal.
	That's what they say.
	How important is it to you and is it salvageable for you to be able to repair the relationship with Governor Kemp in Georgia? - I don't know if I can or not.
	I got him elected.
	Without me, he wouldn't be governor.
	I got him elected.
	He was doing terribly.
	I got him elected.
	With that being said, I hope we can repair it.
	But if we don't, the people are still the people and they're going to vote.
	We're leading in Georgia by a lot.
	We're leading in Pennsylvania by a lot.
	So, but I don't know.
	Now in Pennsylvania, I have great relationships.
	In Georgia, I do too, but unfortunately not with the governor.
	I've never understood it.
	When you get somebody elected, they're supposed to like you.
	He's not exactly, for some reason, and you'll have to ask him about that.
	Yeah, I'd love to see it get repaired.
	I think that if we don't win Georgia, Georgia is a big, is a big win, is a big state.
	So I won Alabama by a record.
	Nobody's ever gotten that many votes.
	I won South Carolina by a record.
	You don't win Alabama and South Carolina by records and lose Georgia.
	It doesn't happen.
	And the people of Georgia understand that.
	There was tremendous Anxiety and problems in Georgia.
	A lot of people say, what happened?
	And we have to, all we want is honest elections.
	If we have honest elections in Georgia, we have honest elections in Pennsylvania, we're going to win them by a lot.
	Why didn't he bring it up at the debate?
	You know, he had a chance for 90 minutes to bring it up at the debate.
	He could have talked about that at the debate.
	- He said it two ways.
	First he said it incorrectly, then he corrected himself.
	Do you agree with that, right?
	You know, if you're watching.
	He said it two ways. - I'm not a comment, but I'm not a few words. - I mean, he said it two ways, 'cause he doesn't really overwitch it.
	Why didn't he bring it up at the debate?
	You know, he had a chance for 90 minutes to bring it up at the debate.
	He could have talked about that at the debate, and he didn't do it.
	Everyone said, "Oh, he said this, and he said that." He's just, you know, they give him something to read off.
	He read it very badly because he actually said it the opposite.
	Then he had to go back and correct himself.
	He said the opposite.
	He should have brought this up at the debate.
	If he had a problem, of course, there'll be a peaceful transfer.
	And there was last time.
	And there'll be a peaceful transfer.
	I just hope we're going to have honest elections.
	That's all.
	You have not had a public campaign event for nearly a week now.
	Tomorrow you'll be in Montana, which is not a swing state.
	Some of your allies have expressed concern that you're not taking this race seriously, particularly this time, where there's enthusiasm on the other side.
	Why haven't you been campaigning this week?
	Because I'm leading by a lot and because I'm letting their convention go through.
	And I am campaigning a lot.
	I'm doing tremendous amounts of taping here.
	We have commercials that are at a level I don't think that anybody's ever done before.
	Plus, in certain cases, I see many of you in the room where I'm speaking to you on phones, I'm speaking to radio, I'm speaking to television.
	Television's coming over here.
	Excuse me, what are we doing right now?
	She's not doing any news conference.
	You know why she's not doing it?
	Because she can't do a news conference.
	She doesn't know how to do a news conference.
	She's not smart enough to do a news conference.
	And I'm sorry, we need smart people to lead this country, because our country's never been in this danger before, both economically and from an outside perspective.
	Russia doesn't respect us anymore.
	China doesn't respect us anymore.
	North Korea, Kim Jong-un, Liked me a lot.
	He doesn't like this group.
	We are in great danger.
	We're in great danger of being in World War III.
	That could happen.
	No, after their convention, yeah, and I'm going out.
	Actually, I'm going out to certain places to help certain senators get elected, not even for me.
	I'm trying to help when I go out to Wyoming or when I go out to Montana or I'm going to different places to help people.
	And I don't have to go there because I'm leading those states, as you know, by 35, 40, 50 points.
	I'm leading by record numbers.
	I'm going because I want to help senators and congressmen get elected.
	Congressmen and women get elected.
	Yes, please.
	Yeah, sure.
	Nick, can you tell us a bit more about your upcoming interview with Elon Musk this Monday?
	The upcoming what?
	Interview with Elon Musk on Monday.
	Also, there are reports now saying that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to use the American social media platforms to spread this propaganda.
	What do you think social media companies are doing?
	Elon Musk, so, yeah, sure.
	So Elon called me.
	As you know, he endorsed me full throated.
	Great endorsement.
	I respect Elon a lot.
	He respects me.
	And not easy for him to endorse, to be honest with you.
	You know, it takes courage to endorse people.
	Many people have courage and many people don't.
	He does have courage.
	And Elon endorsed me and he asked me whether or not I'd do a show on Monday.
	And I think it's going to be Monday night.
	And I believe he's the host of the show, so it'll be very interesting.
	A lot of people are talking about it.
	I look forward to it.
	That'll be done on Monday night.
	Question.
	What do you think social media companies in America should do to combat potentially misinformation spread by the Chinese region?
	We have a lot of misinformation spread about China, and you have a lot of misinformation spread about a lot of different places.
	I think I'm going to get along great with China.
	President Xi of China and I were very good friends.
	We met right here, right in that, except we had a beautiful sofa there, as opposed to what we have right now.
	Right now we have you.
	But President Xi and I had a very good relationship until COVID.
	And I held him responsible for COVID.
	It broke up our relationship.
	But I think we're going to have a great relationship.
	And I think it's going to be mutually beneficial.
	But we cannot have it where China is taking advantage of the United States.
	And that's what they were doing, as you very well know.
	Yes, please.
	Mr. President, you just said that there was a peaceful transfer of power the last time when you left office.
	You didn't even see January 7th as a violent attack.
	How is that a peaceful transfer of power?
	What's your question?
	My question is, you think the last time I think the people that if you look at January 6th, which a lot of people aren't talking about very much, I think those people were treated very harshly when you compare them to other things that took place in this country where a lot of people were killed.
	Nobody was killed on January 6th.
	But I think that the people of January 6th were treated very unfairly.
	And they were there to complain, not through me, they were there to complain about an election.
	And, you know, it's very interesting.
	The biggest crowd I've ever spoken to, and I said peacefully and patriotically, which nobody wants to say, but I said peacefully and patriotically.
	The biggest crowd I've ever spoken to, and you've seen, Maggie, I was at the mall, I was at the Washington Monument, I was at the whole thing.
	I had crowds, I don't know who's ever had a bigger crowd than I have, but I had it many times.
	The biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was that day, and I'll tell you, it's very hard to find a picture of that crowd.
	You see the picture of a small number of people relatively going, To the Capitol.
	But you never see the picture of the crowd.
	The biggest crowd I've ever spoken.
	I've spoken to the biggest crowds.
	Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me.
	If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people.
	If not, we had more.
	And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people.
	But when you look at the exact same picture, And everything's the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back from Lincoln to Washington.
	And you look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people.
	They said I had 25,000, and he had A million people, and I'm okay with it because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King.
	Yeah, please.
	President Trump, you said repeatedly on Truth Social that it was unconstitutional for the Democrats to replace President Biden with Vice President Harris as their candidate.
	Can you explain your constitutional analysis?
	Which part of the constitution did they violate?
	We have a constitution.
	It's a very important document and we live by it.
	She has no votes and I'm very happy to run against her.
	I'm not complaining from that standpoint.
	And I hate to be defending him but he did not want to leave.
	He wanted to see if he could win.
	They said you're not going to win after the debate.
	They said you're not going to win.
	You can't win.
	You're out.
	And at first they said it nicely and he wasn't leaving and then you know it better than anybody.
	So when you think about it, they said at first they were gonna go out to another vote.
	They were gonna go through a primary system, a quick primary system, which it would have to be.
	And then it all disappeared and they just picked a person that was the first out.
	She was the first loser, okay?
	So we call her the first loser.
	She was the first loser.
	During the Democrat primary system, she was the first one to quit, and she quit.
	She had no votes, no support, and she was a bad debater, by the way, very bad debater.
	And that's not the thing I'm looking forward to, but she was a bad debater.
	She did, obviously, a bad job.
	She never made it to Iowa.
	Then for some reason, and I know he regrets it, you do too, he picked her.
	And she turned on him too.
	She was working with the people that wanted him out.
	But the fact that you can be, get no votes, lose in the primary system, in other words, you had 14 or 15 people, she was the first one out, and that you can then be picked to run for president?
	It seems to me actually unconstitutional.
	Perhaps it's not.
	Please.
	You've now had a couple of weeks to watch Vice President Harris campaign.
	You've run against Hillary Clinton.
	You ran against Joe Biden.
	Are there any ways that you see her the more challenging opponent than those other two?
	So I've run against Hillary and I've run against various other people.
	I would say that in terms of intelligence, Hillary was far superior.
	I would say that Hillary was smart.
	She was her own worst enemy in many ways, but she was smart, very smart.
	Okay?
	If you ask me to compare them.
	Please.
	Mr. President, you've staked out a position on abortion that was probably more popular with general election voters than many of your Republican primary opponents did.
	Leave it to the states.
	Given that that's your position, how do you plan to vote in Florida's abortion ballot referendum this fall?
	Would you support expanding that?
	I can speak up.
	You have to speak up.
	Yes, sir.
	I said, you... The hard room, because it's a really big room.
	Um, I said, I said... This is where they pay their bills, so... I said, you sneaked out a position on abortion that was probably more popular with general election voters than many of your Republican rivals.
	In the primary, you said, leave it to the states.
	Given that Florida is a state voting on that this fall, how do you plan to vote?
	Do you plan to support- I think the abortion issue has been very much tempered down.
	And I've answered, I think, very well in the debate.
	And it seems to be much less of an issue, especially for those where they have the exceptions, as you know.
	And I think it's when I look for 52 years, they wanted to bring Abortion back to the states.
	They wanted to get rid of Roe v. Wade.
	And that's Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, and everybody.
	Liberal, conservatives, everybody wanted it back in the states.
	And I did that.
	Now the states are voting.
	And frankly, some of the votes are much more, if you could say, liberal than you would think.
	Ohio turned out to be They had a big vote, and it turned out to be a much more liberal standing than people would have thought.
	Kansas, the same thing.
	And then you have Texas, and you have other places where it may be different.
	But the issue has been brought back to the states now.
	And like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.
	I believe strongly.
	I think that that's a very important thing.
	I think when you don't You have to follow your heart.
	But when you don't believe in the exceptions, I think it's much tougher.
	It's a much tougher issue.
	But about 82% of Republicans do believe in exceptions.
	I think the and a lot of them are.
	Changing their mind and coming even even further.
	I think that abortion has become much less of an issue.
	It's a very small.
	I think it's actually going to be a very small issue.
	What I've done is I've done what every Democrat and every every Republican wanted to have done and we brought that issue back to the states and now the states are voting on it and frankly some of the votes are a lot different than people would have thought but it's the vote of the people is taking care of it and you know when you think about the radical The Democrats are really the radical ones on this because they're allowed to do abortion on the 8th and 9th month and even after birth.
	If you look at your new governor from Minnesota, he's talking about, he's like the governor previous, the former governor.
	I don't want to get him mixed up because Glenn is doing a good job and he's leading our He's leading our whole campaign in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin.
	But previous to Glenn, the governor, he said the baby will be born, we will put the baby aside, and we will decide with the mother what we're going to do.
	In other words, whether or not we're going to kill the baby.
	The Minnesota gentleman, he, this guy, agrees with that.
	He is the most liberal.
	Look, between her and him, there's never been anything like this.
	There's never been a combination so I'll use the word progressive.
	They want to go progress.
	They don't like the word liberal.
	I like liberal better.
	I think it's more appropriate because nobody knows what progressive means.
	But they now like to use the word progressive.
	But there's certainly never been anybody so liberal like these two, or even close.
	I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches.
	I don't think it's a big factor anymore, really.
	And when people hear what I said in the debate, and I think I said it very well during the debate, we brought it back to the states.
	Everybody wanted it in the states.
	And very importantly, and you think about this, assuming you have exceptions, if you don't have exceptions, it's a more difficult thing.
	At the same time, there are people that strongly feel that way, and you have to follow your heart, and you should follow your heart.
	But that issue is very much subdued.
	Yeah, thank you.
	No, I didn't.
	Look, if you take away guns, she wants to take away everyone's gun.
	at all change your oppression of people's access to that weapon?
	No, I didn't.
	Look, if you take away guns, she wants to take away everyone's gun.
	If you take away guns, can't do it because people need the guns for protection.
	Now, entertainment they wanted, hunting they wanted, you know, different things.
	But they need weapons for protection in this country.
	People live out in the woods and they're not going to have a gun.
	If you look at some countries, I don't want to go, I don't want to get them in trouble, but some countries have actually gone the opposite way.
	They had very strong gun laws and now they have gone the opposite way.
	Where they allowed people to have guns, where in one case they encouraged people to go out and get guns, and crime is down 29%.
	And remember this, what is the toughest gun law in the United States?
	Chicago.
	On July 4th, 117 people were shot and 17 died.
	The toughest gun laws in the United States are in the city of Chicago, you know that.
	They had 117 people shot.
	Afghanistan does not have that.
	Afghanistan, by the way, was the lowest point in the history of our country, in my opinion.
	That was the worst Embarrassment to the history of this country, and I say Putin would not have gone into Ukraine if that didn't happen.
	When he saw the incompetence of Milley and all these guys that are incompetent, when he saw that happen, when they took out the soldiers first, they took out the soldiers first.
	You know, if you go back and check your records, For 18 months, I had a talk with Abdul.
	Abdul was the leader of the Taliban, still is.
	But I had a strong talk with him.
	For 18 months, not one American soldier was shot at or killed, but not even shot at.
	18 months.
	And then we had the disaster of the Lyft, where people were falling off airplanes from three times the height of the World Trade Center.
	I mean, terrible.
	But now our country has to be respected again, please.
	Go ahead.
	There was some reporting, I believe from the New York Times, that Kamala Harris said she might be open to the idea of a weapons embargo against Israel.
	I wonder if you could comment on that and what that might mean for the conflict.
	That Kamala is in favor of not giving Israel weapons?
	Yeah.
	That's what I hear.
	Look, she's been very, very bad to Israel and she's been very bad to Jewish people.
	And I say it, if anybody I know is Jewish, and they would vote for Kamala over me, they should have their head examined.
	If you think about it, I gave them Golan Heights, I gave them the capital of Israel, Jerusalem, I even built the embassy.
	I gave them no Iran deal.
	The problem is they didn't do anything with it.
	Iran was broke.
	We could have made a deal so easily.
	I would have had a deal done within one week after the election with Iran.
	Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
	It's very simple.
	We would have gotten along with Iran.
	I was looking forward to it.
	I was fine with Iran.
	You know, we hit them a couple of times pretty hard, but we would have been fine with Iran.
	But I got them, I terminated that deal.
	I got them the Abraham Accords.
	Everyone said that's impossible.
	I got them the Abraham Accords.
	She's been very, very bad to Israel, and she's been very bad and disrespectful to Jewish people.
	And any Jewish person that votes for Kamala and her friend, her new friend, who I don't know if she knew him before, but I don't think he's too good.
	But anybody that votes for them, if you're Jewish or if you love Israel, you have to have your head examined.
	There's been very little information about the shooter, Matthew Crooks, and I was wondering if the FBI and the Secret Service are doing a decent job.
	Yeah, the FBI came to see me about the shooter.
	I think they've done a very good job.
	And I think they did a very good job with respect to this other lunatic that they have in custody.
	Please.
	There's been some discussion around Vice President Harris's relationship with Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, and how that might have intersected with her career trajectory.
	So I'm just wondering if you followed that discussion at all and have any thoughts on that.
	Well, I know Willie Brown very well.
	In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him.
	We thought maybe this is the end.
	We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together.
	And there was an emergency landing.
	This was not a pleasant landing.
	And Willie was, he was a little concerned.
	So I know him, I know him pretty well.
	I mean, I haven't seen him in years.
	But he told me terrible things about her.
	But this is what you're telling me anyway, I guess.
	But he had a big part in what happened with Kamala.
	But he, I don't know, maybe he's changed his tune, but he was not a fan of hers very much at that point.
	Do you believe Vice President Harris would certify your election victory if you win?
	Yeah, I do.
	Mr. President, how are you planning to vote on Florida's abortion referendum in November?
	On what?
	How are you planning to vote on Florida's abortion referendum this November?
	Well, I'm going to announce that.
	I'm going to actually have a press conference on that at some point in the near future, so I don't want to tell you now.
	But Florida does have a vote coming up on that, and I think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought.
	But I'll be announcing that at the appropriate time.
	Please.
	Your tax cuts from your administration will be coming up fairly soon and potentially expiring.
	And I wanted to ask you specifically about the tax code favoring parents versus people who don't have children.
	There are a number of tax breaks for parents.
	Yeah, we gave you tremendous and tremendous for childcare and all of that.
	No, our tax cuts, which are the biggest in history, our tax cuts are coming due, as you know, very soon.
	And if the Democrats don't renew them or make it impossible to renew because it's pretty close in terms of vote.
	If they don't renew them, it's the equivalent of having a four times tax increase from what you have right now, and it'll destroy the economy.
	I think they're under tremendous pressure to do it.
	I've never seen, you know, all my life I grow up and I watch politics and I used to be on the other side of politics very soon.
	Then I run for office.
	But in all the years of studying politics, I've never seen people get elected by saying, we're going to give you a tax increase.
	These guys get up, think of it.
	We're going to give you no security.
	We're going to give you a weak military.
	We're going to give you no walls, no borders, no anything.
	All these things they're doing.
	I mean, the transgender became such a big thing.
	But they do all of these things, but they always say, we're going to give you a tax increase.
	I never heard anybody campaign on a tax increase.
	A politician has always said, I will cut taxes.
	I'll give you one example.
	Social Security.
	They're going to destroy Social Security.
	I am going to leave Social Security.
	I'm not raising the years.
	I'm not raising the age.
	I will be saving Social Security.
	And I'm gonna work it out that there's no tax on Social Security for seniors.
	I'm also doing no tax on tips.
	No tax on tips.
	So waiters, waitresses, caddies, people that drive cars, people that get tips who have been harassed by this government, we're gonna have no tax on tips.
	That's a big thing.
	Do you believe that the imprisonment of Steve Bannon was politically motivated?
	Yeah.
	Mr. President, Mr. President.
	Because other people have done far bigger things than Steve Bannon.
	Sure, it's politically motivated.
	I think it's a horrible thing they did.
	Look, they've weaponized government against me.
	Look at the Florida case.
	It was a totally weaponized case.
	All of these cases, by the way, the New York cases are totally controlled.
	Out of the Department of Justice.
	They sent their top person to the various places.
	They went to the AG's office, got that one going.
	Then he went to the DA's office, got that one going, ran through it.
	No, no, this is all politics and it's a disgrace.
	Never happened in this country.
	It's very common that it happens, but not in our country.
	It happens in banana republics and third world countries.
	And that's what we're becoming.
	We have no borders.
	We have bad voting regulations.
	Anytime you have mail-in ballots, you're going to have problems.
	France learned that lesson.
	France had all mail-in voting, and they went back to paper ballots, voter identification, voter ID.
	They went back to a normal system, one-day voting.
	They don't want to be around voting for 64 days.
	Look, the election, I keep talking about November 5th, but the election really starts on September 6th.
	That's when it starts because it's early voting.
	We should have one day voting.
	We should have paper ballots.
	We should have voter ID and we should have proof of citizenship.
	Please.
	Mr. President, do you support continuation of tax credits for EVs?
	And secondly, for electric vehicles, do you support the continuation of tax credits for those?
	Do you support continuation of tax credits for EVs?
	And secondly, what sort of political or policy advice does Elon Musk give you?
	Elon is a very different kind of a guy.
	He's a very big believer in the country, but he's very worried about the country.
	He's very worried about the country.
	And I don't know if it's good for him politically to have supported me, although I think we have a vast majority of this country does support me.
	But Elon, more than almost anybody I know, I mean, he loves this country.
	He loves the concept of the country.
	But like me, he says this country is in big trouble.
	It's in big, it's in tremendous danger.
	Okay, please.
	Polls suggest overwhelmingly that Americans trust you more than Kamala Harris to fix the U.S.
	economy.
	I like this guy.
	I like him.
	What message do you have to Americans, sir, who are struggling to pay for everyday life, such as groceries, rent?
	The polls have suggested.
	There are some polls that say we're going to win in a landslide.
	People are voting with their stomachs, meaning they're going to the grocery store.
	They're paying 50, 60, 70% more for food than they did just a couple of years ago.
	Look at what's happened to energy.
	Look at what's happened not only to their cars, where gasoline's gone from $1.87 to $1.87.
	And we had moments when it was below that.
	And we had moments when it was below that But it's gone from $1.87 to $5.67 And $7 And they take the Strategic National Reserves And they take it out Even though it's peanuts compared It doesn't last long But they're virtually empty now.
	We've never had it this low.
	And he's using that to keep the gasoline prices as low as possible.
	He's sucked all of the oil out, essentially the gasoline, to keep the price down a little bit, and it's had very little impact.
	But you know what?
	We have no strategic national reserves now.
	He's emptied it.
	It's almost empty.
	It's never been this low.
	And I had it at a good level, and I would have had it more if the Democrats would have approved the deal.
	You know, I had a deal to buy it at $22 a barrel.
	And now it's getting, it's going to be close to $100 pretty soon, in my opinion.
	And the Democrats didn't want to do that, but we bought a lot anyway.
	And we had it pretty good.
	And what they've done to the National Reserves, the Strategic National Reserves, as you know very well, because you cover it.
	But what they've done is incredible.
	They've just for the sake of getting some votes, for the sake of having gasoline, you know, that's meant for wars.
	It's meant for like tragedy.
	It's not meant to keep a gasoline price down so that somebody can vote for Biden or in this case, Kamala, who, by the way, is worse than Biden.
	And she's actually not as smart.
	Okay, she's actually not as smart.
	That's hard to believe, isn't it?
	Yeah, please.
	I have a political question, but I want to ask a follow-up to one of the abortion questions.
	There are other things the federal government could do, not just a ban.
	Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to Mifepresto?
	And that's one of the things that's been discussed.
	You can do things that would supplement, absolutely.
	And those things are pretty open and humane.
	But you have to be able to have a vote and all I want to do is give everybody a vote and the votes are taking place right now as we speak.
	Yeah, but it's a very good.
	There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that.
	But you also have to give a vote and the people are going to have to decide.
	Okay, yes, please.
	I think she's actually not as smart as he is.
	I don't think he's very smart either.
	I'm not a big fan of his brain, but I think that she's actually not as smart as he is.
	Well, you said you think you're very smart.
	I don't think he's very smart either.
	I'm not a big fan of his brain, but I think that she's actually not as smart as he is.
	Attribute her rising in the polls as becoming a more competitive race since she's taken over.
	Well, she's a woman.
	She represents certain groups of people.
	But I will say this, when people find out about her, I think she'll be much less.
	I see it right now.
	I see her going way down to the polls now.
	Now that people are finding out that she destroyed San Francisco, she destroyed the state of California along with Governor Gavin Newsom.
	He's been a terrible governor, terrible.
	But they did it together.
	And she was early.
	I mean, she was the first of the prosecutors, really.
	Now you see Philadelphia, you see Los Angeles, you see New York, you see various people that are very bad.
	But she was the first of the bad prosecutors.
	She was early.
	When you're elected, will you commit to your White House doing daily press briefings?
	Do you hear her?
	Daily press briefings?
	When you're elected, will you commit to your White House doing daily press briefings?
	Do you hear her?
	Daily press briefings?
	Why don't you do that?
	I would give you all the press briefings you want.
	Look what I'm doing here.
	But why would I do a daily press?
	You'd get tired of me very fast.
	No, but I will give you total access and you'll have a lot of press briefings and you'll have from me.
	Now, are you talking about from me or from a press secretary?
	Well, yeah, probably they'll do something.
	If it's not daily, it's gonna be a lot.
	You'll have more than you want.
	Yeah, please.
	President Biden has vowed not to pardon his son, Hunter, who is now a convicted felon and faces more felony charges in his upcoming trial for alleged tax evasion.
	Would you consider granting clemency or a pardon to Hunter Biden?
	I don't think it's appropriate for me to talk about it.
	I think it's a tragic story.
	You want to know the truth.
	And I felt that with Hillary Clinton, too.
	You know, with Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that would have made your head spin.
	I thought it was a very bad thing.
	Take the wife of a president of the United States and put her in jail.
	And then I see the way they treat me.
	That's the way it goes.
	But I was very protective of her.
	Nobody would understand that.
	But I was.
	I think my people understand it.
	They used to say, lock her up, lock her up.
	And I'd say, just relax, please.
	We won the election.
	I think it would have been horrible for our country if we had her between the hammering of all of the files.
	And don't forget, she got a subpoena from the United States Congress.
	And then after getting the subpoena, she destroyed everything that she was supposed to get.
	I thought it was so bad to take her and put her in jail, the wife of a President of the United States.
	And then when it's my turn, nobody thinks that way.
	I thought it was a very terrible thing.
	And she did a lot of very bad things.
	I'll tell you what.
	It was pretty evil.
	But in terms of the country and in terms of unifying the country, bringing it back, to have taken her and to have put her in jail, and I think you know the things as well as I do, there were some pretty bad acts that she did.
	I think it would have been very bad for our country, and a lot of my people, a lot of the MAGA, as they call them, but the base.
	And I think the base is 75% of the country, far beyond the Republican Party.
	Because we're a party of common sense, and I'm a person of common sense.
	I wanna have low taxes, I wanna have strong borders, I wanna have a strong military so that China and Russia, look, they've allowed China and Russia to do the impossible, combined.
	They're natural enemies.
	They always have been.
	Because China needs more land and Russia has it.
	They've always been natural enemies.
	And because of Obama, it started with him.
	And then Biden, because he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
	They've now become one force.
	And then now they're adding Iran to it.
	And they're adding North Korea to it.
	Pretty powerful force.
	This is something that is unthinkable that they allowed to happen.
	She's got a convention coming up.
	It's about policy.
	It's not about her.
	I think she's incompetent.
	Because I've watched her.
	She destroyed California.
	She destroyed San Francisco.
	Everything she's touched.
	Has turned to bad things.
	I want to use... I'm not going to use foul language.
	But everything she's touched has turned bad.
	She's incompetent.
	The reason she's not doing what I do, and she's not doing what she should be doing, she won't even do interviews with friendly people.
	Because she can't do better than Biden.
	Now, he had a reason for not doing well.
	And he was never, 25 years ago, the sharpest or brightest bulb in the ceiling.
	That I can tell you.
	Okay?
	He wasn't.
	But he could do interviews at least.
	Not lately he couldn't, perhaps.
	But she should be doing interviews.
	She doesn't want to do interviews.
	And the reason she doesn't is, number one, her policies are so bad.
	Just to answer your question, I think that it's not going to change because it's really ultimately not about her as much as about her policies.
	She wants open borders.
	She wants to defund the police.
	She wants to defund the police.
	She wants to take away your guns.
	Anybody that thinks they're not gonna come after you guns, you know when I was president I totally protected The guns.
	And I think it's very important.
	And I know I take some heat sometimes for it.
	But you have to have safety.
	You have to have — when the bad guy walks in with a gun, you've got to have some way of protecting yourself.
	And, boy, that would be — you would see crime go up at levels that you've never seen.
	When people say on their side of the house, this house has guns, we will use the guns, they say, let's pass.
	We'll go someplace else.
	You have to have them.
	And for four years, and you know, as you know, the NRA endorsed me very powerfully every time I ran, every time.
	My sons are members, and I guess indirectly, I'm a member too.
	But they gave me the strongest of endorsements, and that's against very strong competition, people that, you know, felt the same way.
	No, you have to have, you have to have that right.
	Our Second Amendment is a very important right, and it has to be protected.
	Okay, how about you?
	Go ahead.
	So, there are some of the most brilliant people on Wall Street that are saying that if President Trump doesn't win, you're gonna have a depression.
	I happen to agree.
	I think that's true.
	Because I know how bad these people are.
	You know, they like to say that they did this and that.
	You saw the $7 trillion that they said it was me for $7 trillion.
	It wasn't me.
	It was them.
	They said that I had inflation.
	They took over 9% inflation.
	No, no, I had 1% inflation.
	I had actually no inflation, because if you look at the categories, we had just about no inflation.
	But I had a very minor... I actually had a positive inflation.
	It was a perfect number, because you don't want zero.
	I mean, I'm not going to give you a whole course on economics, but you don't want zero.
	1%, 1.4% is great.
	You want a little bit, because you don't want to have deflation.
	Deflation is, in many ways, even worse.
	I had a perfect number right around the 1% number.
	It was perfect.
	And to show you, it stayed there for two years.
	And then he did all of the different borrowings that he did.
	And then he did so many things wrong.
	Every time he would do it, I'd say, Big mistake.
	And don't forget they sell hats and they sell stories.
	Trump was right about everything.
	I have been right about a lot.
	Yes, Maggie.
	I have a question for you.
	You, when you were president, part of the high-level drug dealers, part of the violence elements, including one man who had a graduate of a polar rabbi, how does that differ from what you're saying?
	Well, we had a commission like other people do, and it's always complicated and it's always controversial.
	And we had commissions that, and I think of respected people, you know many of the people on the commission, and they would recommend to me certain pardons for certain people.
	Some people were treated very harshly.
	A fantastic woman, as you know, she served 24 years for being on her phone call having to do with drugs.
	You know who I'm talking about.
	She was great.
	And she had another 24 years to go.
	And it was largely about marijuana, which in many cases is now legalized, okay?
	But we had many very highly regarded people on a commission, and they'd recommend, and they'd put a reason why.
	Some people were, you know, served time, but they served a lot of time for something that today people wouldn't even serve time by.
	Well, for the most part, I think they did.
	I mean, they did.
	They go through, they went through, I had a commission, it was a very important commission to me, and highly respected people.
	And frankly, they came up with some decisions that I wouldn't necessarily agree with, but I did it.
	But I let a lot of people out that were, that had no representation.
	I went to people in jails, in prison, that we respected.
	I said, how many of these people should be let out?
	We let out large groups of low-income people, That was serving like 40 years for something that today you wouldn't even be put in jail for.
	We had very few people let out because I said I really don't want to let people out where they had a lot of violence where they had killing etc etc and for the most part we didn't do that.
	Yeah please.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	Regarding the Fed, if you win in November, do you want more of a say over the Fed on issues like the interest rate?
	Or the Federal Reserve?
	And do you think that you can manage a soft landing in the economy with the current leadership in place?
	Look, the Federal Reserve is a very interesting thing, and it's sort of gotten it wrong a lot.
	He's tending to be a little bit late on things.
	He gets a little bit too early and a little bit too late.
	And you know, that's very largely a... It's a gut feeling.
	I believe it's really a gut feeling.
	And I used to have it out with him.
	I had it out with him a couple of times very strongly.
	I fought him very hard.
	And we get along fine.
	We get along fine.
	But I feel that I feel the president should have at least say in there.
	Yeah, I feel that strongly.
	I think that in my case, I made a lot of money.
	I was very successful.
	And I think I have a better instinct than in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman.
	Yeah.
	People going to prison for marijuana.
	Paris supports rescheduling marijuana and also says that no one should go to prison for marijuana offense.
	Do you agree with those positions?
	Well, as we legalize it, I start to agree a lot more because, you know, you're being it's being legalized all over the country.
	Florida has something coming up.
	I'll be making a statement about that fairly soon.
	But as we legalize it throughout the country, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, it's awfully hard to have people all over the jails that are In jail right now for something that's legal.
	So I think, obviously, there's a lot of sentiment to doing that.
	Yeah, please.
	Mr. President, Kamala Harris' father is Jamaican-American, and she went to a historically black college.
	How is she only recently decided to be black?
	Well, you'll have to ask her that question because she's the one that said it.
	I didn't say it.
	So you'll have to ask her, and I very much appreciate that question, but you'll have to ask her.
	But I've known her for a long time.
	I actually contributed to her campaign a long time ago because I was a developer.
	I contributed to lots of campaigns of Democrats, Republicans, and some were liberal and some were conservative.
	But you'll have to ask her about that.
	But to me, it doesn't matter.
	But to her, from her standpoint, I think it's very disrespectful to both, really.
	Whether it's Indian or black, I think it's very disrespectful to both.
	To me, it doesn't matter.
	Please, red dress, red dress.
	One on the assassination.
	Is your ear fully recovered?
	Is there a scar?
	Do you have any hearing damage from that?
	Pretty much recovered, yeah.
	I'm a fast healer.
	It's a hell of a shot, but I'm a fast healer.
	Yeah, pretty much, pretty much recovered.
	No, it didn't hit that.
	I got very lucky.
	It just, it just hit the lobe, as they call it.
	Yeah, a little bit.
	Not much.
	A little bit.
	I'm going to ask you about your mass deportation.
	A little bit.
	Immigration question.
	You've been running on the idea of mass deportation.
	You say the biggest in American history is basically what you want.
	Yeah.
	When Senator Vance has been asked about that, he's sort of suggested that really you only need to go after people who have been convicted of crimes.
	Well, we're starting with that.
	So, okay, so what are you really talking about here?
	How will you pay for it?
	We are going to start the largest mass deportation in the history of our country because we have no choice.
	It's not sustainable.
	And we are going to start with violent criminals and we're going to start then with criminals.
	And our local police is going to work with us because they know everything about the people.
	They know their names.
	They know everything about them.
	They know their middle name.
	They know their numbers.
	And as you know, the other side is trying, you know, look, For years I wondered, why are they allowing these people to come in at levels like this?
	It was incredible.
	And I said, two reasons.
	They're either really stupid, and I don't believe they're stupid.
	Because anybody that can cheat in elections like they cheat is not stupid.
	Or, in the alternative, they have bad motives or they hate our country.
	And I used to think they hate our country, but lately I've seen where they're trying to sign these people up to vote.
	And they have to stop.
	They cannot let illegal immigrants vote in this upcoming election.
	One more question?
	Go ahead, one more.
	Make it a good one, please.
	Okay, regarding Social Security taxes for seniors, which we've talked about a while, experts say that the policy could increase the deficit by $1.6 trillion.
	So how would it work, in your view?
	We have so many ways of making money in this country.
	We're not going to affect our Social Security.
	We're not changing it, and I proved that over four years.
	And we're going to do it.
	It's very unfair to people.
	They spend their life, and they're great citizens, and they pay in.
	We're not going to charge tax to Social Security, the seniors.
	We're not going to do it.
	We're not going to charge, and also tax.
	I say the two things.
	We're going to have no tax on seniors, Social Security, and we're going to have no tax on tips.
	Very simple.
	And we are a country that has so many different ways to make money.
	We have under our feet more liquid gold, I call it oil, And gas than any country in the world, much more than Saudi Arabia, much more than Russia.
	We have so many different ways we can make money.
	We're not going to hurt our seniors with Social Security and we're not going to charge them tax.
	OK.
	If sanctuary cities or municipalities are unwilling to cooperate, how do you plan to enforce that?
	We should not have sanctuary cities.
	Sanctuary cities is a way of protecting criminals, and we should not have sanctuary cities.
	And if you go to California, and I know it well, I have property out there, great property.
	If you go to California, and you ask the people of California, do they like the idea of sanctuary cities?
	They don't like it.
	They're tired of it.
	They're tired of crime.
	They're tired of what's happened to our country.
	Our country's become a crime-ridden mess, and we're going to stop it on November 5th.
	Thank you very much, everybody.
	Thank you.

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