WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:09.800 About This is the seventy seven WABC Mini Cast. 2 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.359 It's a WABC special presentation. 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:21.320 Now here seventy seven WABC's Michael Cohen interviewing President Donald Trump. 4 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:22.800 It's the President. 5 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:25.199 Hello, Michael, Michael. 6 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.800 How you doing, sir? Welcome? 7 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:29.480 Welcome, country is doing good. 8 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:32.520 Well, thanks thanks to you, sir. So I want to 9 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.399 go back to twenty sixteen if we can, because you 10 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.679 and I have obviously traveled the pretty rocky road together. 11 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:41.359 You remember, do you remember, sir, when I went on 12 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.320 CNN with Brianna Keeler and she told me that you 13 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.520 were underwater in the polls and I responded with those 14 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:52.359 famous two words, says who, which became some worldwide meme 15 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:53.280 and advocate. 16 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:57.000 And then they weaponized you like nobody's ever been weaponized 17 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:57.759 like you have been. 18 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.600 Well, maybe just you and I, sir, but. 19 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.920 You yeah, me too, But I don't consider mine, you know, 20 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.439 mine was Mine was at the level that nobody's ever 21 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:09.079 seen before. But they weaponized you. They weaponized a lot 22 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:13.439 of people. And I respect the fact that you recanted 23 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.959 everything you said, and that's a big that's a big 24 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.239 thing that you did. That's a very big thing, sir. 25 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:22.799 You may remember you may remember that following morning. You 26 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.079 called me into the office after and then you gave 27 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.760 me one of those traditional Trump slaps on the shoulder 28 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:32.480 and he said to me, f them, You're stronger than them. 29 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.640 We've got this now. The funny thing is that CNN 30 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:41.280 never apologized, they never retracted anything, and now years later, CNN, 31 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.719 MS NOW and the other left leaning outlets they're doing 32 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:49.280 the exact same thing, constantly talking about you being underwater 33 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:54.200 with favorability numbers. Mister President, what do you say to 34 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.359 these people who keep bringing up polls when you're not 35 00:01:57.400 --> 00:01:59.879 even running for office? Again, what's the point? 36 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.719 And I think that we're doing really well in the polls, 37 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.840 the real polls. If I were running today, I think 38 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.280 I'd win by twenty five points. I think we'd win 39 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.960 by a lot. The economy has never been stronger. We're 40 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.199 doing numbers that nobody's ever seen before. You take a 41 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.159 look at what's going on with Venezuela. It was a 42 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.439 one day deal. It was actually a forty eight minute deal. 43 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.599 It was an attack where we took a truly bad 44 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.840 person out of the country, including the wife, out of 45 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.120 the country and now standing trial. This was a very 46 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.240 evil man and the country. We are involved very much 47 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.280 with the country, taking out millions and millions of barrels 48 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:41.319 of oil, and that goes right into our treasury. We've 49 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.560 done the Venezuela was amazing, and now with Iran, they 50 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:49.319 will never have a nuclear weapon. We were controlling, essentially 51 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.280 controlling and soon controlling the Straits. We're doing very well 52 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.000 with the RAND. The press doesn't like to say that, 53 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:56.759 although a lot of the press does say it. You know, 54 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:00.479 because the Navy's gone, the Air force has gone, the 55 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.319 leadership is gone. Part of the problem is so many 56 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:04.960 of the leaders are gone, it's not easy to make 57 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.879 a deal. Nobody knows who's leading. But I think the 58 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.120 public sees what we're doing because Iran can never have 59 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.400 a nuclear weapon, very simple, and I think the public 60 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.719 sees it, and I think they appreciate it and they 61 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.639 respect it. And I tell them they'll be a little 62 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.120 higher for your energy costs, but they'll be a little 63 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:23.960 bit higher for gasoline. You know. I had it down 64 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:26.639 to a dollar eighty five cents a barrel, and then 65 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:28.360 I said, but we have to make a journey to 66 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.199 the Middle East because we can't let a rent have 67 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.280 a nuclear weapon, and that's what happened. And we've been 68 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.759 very effective. We've wiped them out, militarily wiped out. Now 69 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.000 they have some missiles, they have some drones. Their capacity 70 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.159 to build them is very low right now compared to 71 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.560 what it was five months ago. It was five months 72 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:50.599 ago they were knocking them out. Now it's very hard 73 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:52.879 for them to knock out anything. They're in bad shape. 74 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:58.560 They have inflation that's three hundred percent. Their currency is valueless, 75 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.560 you know, it's virtually valuable. The military is not being paid, 76 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:06.560 so they're advadhat. But uh, the key to the reason, 77 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.639 I did it, and we had no choice, and I 78 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:11.080 would have done it again a hundred times. And they 79 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.199 cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won't be having 80 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:14.560 a nuclear weapon, And. 81 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.240 Why not just then turn around and tell the American people, 82 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.720 you know, the one thing that you may you may 83 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.839 feel some frustration going on right now economically the price 84 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:24.680 of gas and so on, But why not just turn 85 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:26.720 around and say to the American people, you know what 86 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.079 you get to do. You get to go to sleep 87 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:34.199 at night with knowledge that there will be no intercontinental 88 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:38.680 ballistic nuclear missile being fired towards the United States, Because 89 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.199 if they had it with their theocracy, sir, you know 90 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.480 exactly what they would be doing right now. 91 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.839 So I do tell that the press doesn't get it out, 92 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:50.759 and I say it often. I said it the other 93 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:52.680 day at a big rally I had with the police 94 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.079 out on I saw it Long Island. And we have 95 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.639 these unbelievable rallies or rallies are potentially bigger than ever. 96 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.079 I mean, if we did rallies as an example, if 97 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.519 we did rallies now, nobody ever had rallies like this, 98 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:07.600 their potential. I think they're bigger than ever. There's a 99 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.680 great spirit for what's going on, especially in light of 100 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.000 what's happening with all these crazy theories and policies and 101 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.480 lunatics that are running. You have lunatics. They would destroy 102 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:21.759 the country, and they're being put in the Democrat Party. 103 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.480 I think they'll be wiped out in the election because 104 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.600 the people are too smart to allow that to happen. 105 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:30.040 It's never worked in a thousand years. That stuff has 106 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.360 never worked and it's not going to work now. But 107 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.639 they're not even smart people, you know, you watch some 108 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.680 of them. Half of them can't even speak properly. So 109 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:40.600 I think we're doing very well. We are letting people 110 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.199 know about that. We're letting people know that. You know, 111 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.879 it's wonderful to say everything's good, but you can't if 112 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.720 you had a country like that, and they're crazy. If 113 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.000 you had a country like that, they would absolutely use 114 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.120 the nuclear weapon without question. And so I stopped that, 115 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.600 and I stopped at cod with the B two bombers. 116 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.360 I also stopped at the jcpoay that was the Obama deal. 117 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.199 There was such a disaster that he made years ago. 118 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.000 Had that deal, had I not terminated that deal, a 119 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.079 rand would have a nuclear weapon and they would have 120 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.399 used it very quickly. They would have wiped out Israel. 121 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:12.800 They would have wiped out the Middle East. And you 122 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.879 saw that because when this thing started, surprisingly to everybody, 123 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.720 they started shooting missiles at sort of semi neutral country. 124 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.519 They were going after Saudi Arabia, guitar, they were going 125 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:31.240 after UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and nobody really knew they were 126 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.879 so involved, and they started hitting everybody. If they had 127 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.160 a nuclear weapon, they would have used it on everybody. 128 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:40.879 And look, there would be no Israel if there was 129 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:42.480 not a Donald Trump president. 130 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:44.399 I think there'd be no Saudi Arabia either. 131 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.480 Right now, I believe the Middle East would have been 132 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.199 entirely wiped out. But Israel definitely would have been wiped out. 133 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:52.480 There's no question there would be. They tell me that 134 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:55.600 there would be no Israel if there was no Donald Trump. 135 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.399 You know what surprised me was, how did they end 136 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:04.240 up with a thousand pounds of sixty percent enriched uranium 137 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.319 when allegedly, whether it was under Biden, whether it's under Obama, 138 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.920 whether it was on every president by how did they 139 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:14.519 end up with literally one thousand pounds of nuclear grade, 140 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.319 well a soon to be made nuclear grade enriched uranium. 141 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.360 So when we hit them with the B two bombers, 142 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.480 which was an amazing attack, amazing deep into the night 143 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.240 with no moon, with no light, no nothing, and every 144 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.040 bomb hit its mark and wiped their whole nuclear thing 145 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.240 out and it was in fact obliterated. But when we 146 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:41.560 did that, people had no idea what to expect, no idea. 147 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.399 You know, you're going in there, You're going into a 148 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.600 very very dangerous place where these incredible machines and the 149 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.560 job they did, the job those machines and those pilots 150 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:55.600 did was really amazing. But Obama allowed that to happen. 151 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.480 Biden allowed that to happen. Other presents allowed that to happen. 152 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.240 This should have been done. This has been going on 153 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.480 for fifty years, and this should have been you know, 154 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.360 it's been forty seven, but we talk about it for 155 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:10.040 three or four years. It's actually the number is fifty 156 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.000 one years, but we say forty seven because that seems 157 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.319 to be the standard number that everyone uses. But this 158 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.240 was going on for fifty actually fifty one years now, 159 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:20.759 and it should have been taken care of by other 160 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:25.040 presidents or other countries, and it wasn't. And Iran became 161 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:27.759 the bully of the Middle East. They were bullying everybody around. 162 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.079 They were the boss, and bad things were happening, and 163 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.720 they would have absolutely taken out Israel, and they would 164 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.039 have absolutely taken out the Middle East. I guess they 165 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.840 would have shot at us too. But had they had 166 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.480 nuclear weapons, if they had that capacity, it would have 167 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:44.519 been different. Now, when we hit them with the B 168 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:48.039 two bombers, they were exactly two weeks away from having 169 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.120 a new nuclear weapon. And that's why I had to 170 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.559 do it, because you cannot let them have that kind 171 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.159 of a weapon. 172 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.080 But you know, mister President, that's that's a time period 173 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.639 that most people are completely unaware of that. It was 174 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.360 the imminence was there. 175 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.279 Well, they knew it, but they forget it. You know. 176 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.159 The one thing in politics, like the border. When I 177 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.679 came in the border, they were allowed twenty five million people, 178 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.519 many of them criminals, many of them murderers, many of 179 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:20.879 them people from mental institutions, drug dealers. They were pouring 180 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.519 into our country totally unchecked and unvetted. I solved the 181 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:29.000 problem in thirty days, and solved it beautifully in sixty 182 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.039 and at the end of ninety days, nobody comes in. 183 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.559 In fact, we have now as you know, because they 184 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:38.279 issue reports and they're not issued by me. In the 185 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:43.200 last sixteen months, zero people came in through our are horrible. 186 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.840 What was horrible southern border where it was just an 187 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.279 open sieve, it was an open wound, and zero people 188 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:53.960 came in. So what happens, though, is people forgot about that. 189 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.279 They forgot we had a border problem we had. I 190 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.399 got elected partially of the border. Yeah, by the way, 191 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.600 that happened to times. When I ran in twenty sixteen, 192 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.960 I got elected on the border was bad, but it 193 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.679 was never bad like this. This was crazy Where Kamala 194 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:09.519 was the borders are, and she never spoke to the 195 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.799 border patrols. She never went there. She was the border. 196 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.320 She knew less about the border than a child would know. 197 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:20.080 So I solved the border problem and nobody even talks 198 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:23.879 about it. I did things that, you know, because in politics, 199 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.320 I've found it's got a two week week life. A 200 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:31.360 victory has a two week life. You solve a problem 201 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.200 that was, according to most insolvable, and I did it 202 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.759 literally in thirty days. But I solved the problem early on. 203 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.480 And beautifully, we have a great border right now. I mean, 204 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.679 people come into our country, but they have to come 205 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.480 I legally, and they do come in legally, but nobody 206 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.120 comes to our southern border. Nobody not. I mean literally, 207 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:53.759 it's hard to believe. Actually twenty five million people can, 208 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.879 including murderers, and believe, so many others, into our country 209 00:10:57.960 --> 00:10:59.960 and we get them out and we're getting them out. 210 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.559 But they came into our country, and I solved it. 211 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.720 I solved the problem. And when I want to talk 212 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.320 about it, experts, you know, the so called experts, if 213 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.960 there's such a thing, they say, sir, nobody cares about 214 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.440 the border. You solved the problem. They forgot. They don't 215 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:19.200 talk about it. So when you remind people, they say, wow, 216 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.440 you know, the boarder was a real problem. It was 217 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:25.519 probably the biggest thing talked about during the election, and 218 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:29.039 I solved it quickly and effectively. And everybody had missed that, 219 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:32.639 including the Democrats. I watched the Democrats now apologizing. They're 220 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.759 saying we should have done that. But you know, there's 221 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:37.720 a two week life to things, and it's a shame. 222 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.159 But when people hear it and all of the things 223 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:42.519 that we've done, we have more money being invested in 224 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:44.759 the United States right now than at any time in 225 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.399 the history of our country by a factory of five. 226 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:54.120 We're building more factories, plants, we are building factories for cars, 227 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.039 are moving in from as you know, the factories from 228 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.759 Canada where they left for Canada, they left for Mexico, 229 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.279 they left for Germany, Japan, South Korea. They're all coming back. 230 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.320 Toyota just announced, Honda just announced billions and billions of 231 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.879 dollars that are all pouring back. They're coming in. A 232 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:14.639 lot of them are coming in from Mexico. People don't 233 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:16.679 like to write that they're coming in because of tariffs. 234 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.320 We've made a fortune with tariffs, a fortune. 235 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.279 So you know, maybe mister President making a fortune. 236 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:26.120 Michael, it's brought people in because companies are coming in 237 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.480 because they don't want to make a car in Germany 238 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.120 or in Mexico and have to pay a twenty five 239 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.120 percent tariff because it doesn't work for them. So rather 240 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.759 than paying the twenty five percent tariff is very simple. 241 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.320 Some people still don't understand it, but they're all building 242 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:42.879 and in the next year and a half you're going 243 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.799 to see buildings open, and you already see it in 244 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.240 the construction numbers. The construction jobs in this country are 245 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.159 through the roof, and that's because of all the plants 246 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:55.200 and factories being built all over our country. There's never 247 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.320 been it's a renaissance. There's never been anything like it. 248 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.159 So maybe what we should do is then how a 249 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.919 press conference and literally put out all of the accomplishments, 250 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.480 because what's happening is boss. You remember when I was 251 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.399 by your side, I literally used to analyze the polls right, 252 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.000 and remember how much attention that I used to pay 253 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.360 to that methodology. I would come in, I would say 254 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.000 to you, oh, you know that claiming that you're thirty 255 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.639 one percent, that you're underwater, But I showed you that. 256 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.799 The super crookt the polls are exactly well. The reporters, 257 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.080 as you know, a crooked, but many of them. You 258 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.600 have some great ones too. But for the most part, 259 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:33.360 it's it's really just an example size roughly, when you 260 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.639 read the New York Times, it's so dishonest when you 261 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.720 read these things and they're not doing well. Look, the 262 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:40.960 reason they're not doing well is because they've lost a 263 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.720 lot of credibility. Now you do have great journalists, you 264 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.960 do have great reporters. Also, many people are very good, 265 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:50.440 very very good. I could name them, but by naming 266 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.440 them I leave some out. But you also have a 267 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.799 lot of people that see how good things are, see 268 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.919 how good things are with The economy is a renaissance. 269 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.519 There's never been anything like it. We had the greatest 270 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.600 economy ever in my first term. This is gonna blow 271 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.600 it away. This is just gonna blow it away. And 272 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.960 when these factories and plants and everything else have finished. 273 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:12.759 But already, if you look at the jobs we're bringing 274 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.000 in Chips and Jocca, we had no chips nothing, We're zero. 275 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.759 They got stolen from us and they were brought to Taiwan. 276 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.759 Those companies are now all coming back. We're building the 277 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.399 biggest chip plants in the world right now, mostly in Arizona, 278 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.480 and we're gonna have chips. We're not gonna have to 279 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.679 import chips anymore. It's amazing what's happening. Medicine is coming back. 280 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.039 You know, we learned that from COVID because we didn't 281 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.720 make medicine. We literally had to rely on Ireland and 282 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.360 China and other places for the medical and the medicine. 283 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.960 And they're all coming back. Eli Lilly's building six major plants, 284 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.399 Merk is building, They're all building Pfizer. They're building massive 285 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:57.559 amounts of medical for pharmaceuticals and drugs of all kinds. 286 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:01.639 And it's amazing, including medical eq whipment, the medical equipment 287 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.559 businesses through the room because if they don't come back, 288 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.480 they have to pay big tariffship or make it in 289 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.559 Germany or other places, so they're building it here. It's 290 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.039 what's happening now is a miracle. I hope it gets 291 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:13.320 properly reported so. 292 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.480 Well you know that it won't. And when they have 293 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:19.639 these sample sizes of fifteen hundred people, sir, why do 294 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.279 you think that the media keeps pushing these poles, these 295 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.519 terrible polems, and what do you think that they're actually 296 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.720 trying to accomplish by constantly telling the American people that 297 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.240 your numbers are under water. 298 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.120 Well, they're trying to take spirit away from people. But 299 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.600 the people know, and I have poles, and the poles 300 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.799 are great. If I ran right now, everybody, I beat 301 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:45.039 everybody by many points, many many points. Now the law 302 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:49.360 precludes me from doing it, unfortunately, but the you know 303 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.320 it's too bad because I frankly I would love to 304 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:55.960 do it, but the law precludes me from doing it. 305 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.840 But if I ran right now. But what I am 306 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.679 doing is I'm helping some very good candidates get elected. 307 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:04.519 And the endorsement is second to none in history. It's 308 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.759 second to none. We've had a great period of years 309 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.519 now where I endorse a candidate, even in foreign countries. 310 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.960 I endorsed a man running in Columbia, Lt. Gray, and 311 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.440 he ended up winning. He was tenth in line and 312 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:23.279 he ended up winning. Argentina kept him going so many countries, 313 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:29.000 I mean, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen countries. But frankly, more importantly, 314 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.960 when I endorse somebody running for the Senate, when I 315 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:37.360 endorse somebody running for Congress, almost always they win almost always, 316 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.720 even if they have a huge deficit. And I pick 317 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.559 a lot of people that are not incumbents. I mean 318 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.480 I pick people that a lot of people never heard of, 319 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.360 and they win. So it's it's been quite amazing, and 320 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:54.080 it's something that we have to that I consider it 321 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.759 to be extremely important, and I have to be very 322 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:58.200 judicious to be honest. 323 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.720 Well in old fantasy. When you say it's important, you, sir, 324 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:08.240 have actually withstood possibly the most egregious weaponization of any 325 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.799 politician in history. I probably would do the most egregious 326 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.640 weaponization as a citizen. I mean, with all of the 327 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:18.519 cases that were brought against you. Here's the thing that 328 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:21.359 people don't know. I of course know because I was 329 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.480 there with you. You successfully fight them. You don't care. 330 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.960 You will fight them tooth and nail to the very end. 331 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.200 While and all of this while you were still campaigning 332 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.119 to be president forty seven, I want to ask you, 333 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.680 because I know how tough it was for me, what 334 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.119 was the toughest moment for you during that time period? 335 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:46.720 And actually did you think that you were not only 336 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.759 fighting for your political life, but for your freedom as well? 337 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.960 Well? I never think about tough. I think about just 338 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.480 getting it done. But I had we had crooket politicians. 339 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.400 You knew that maybe better than anybody. Look, you took back, 340 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:04.559 You recanted your testimony. They forced you to do that. 341 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.400 They threatened you with jail, They threatened you with everything. 342 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.200 If you didn't go against Trump and you took it back. 343 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.240 I wouldn't even be talking to you right now if 344 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.599 you didn't. To be honest, I mean, you did something 345 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.519 that very few people have done, and some have to 346 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.000 be honest. They you know, they saw what went on. 347 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.039 They weaponized government. They went after you. I remember when 348 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.079 they attacked your office on a Saturday morning, like at 349 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:28.880 six or five point thirty in the morning, and they 350 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.519 the FBI went into your office. That they raided your office. 351 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:34.079 It was disgraceful. 352 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.599 My home, the hotel or the law office. 353 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:39.680 Yeah, they did that, and they you know, it's a 354 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:41.440 lot of people wouldn't have been able to take it. 355 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.359 You took it for a while, in all fairness. Then 356 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.240 they broke you down. But you you came back. Look 357 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:50.039 Tiss James and Alvin Bragg, what they did to you, 358 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:53.559 and they used you, and what you did was was 359 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:58.720 actually a brave thing because you said what they did 360 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:02.400 was wrong. You agreed that your testimony. They forced you 361 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:04.319 to say things that you didn't want to say. They 362 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:06.880 forced you to say things that were false because they 363 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.039 have a threat with jail and every other thing. Probably 364 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:11.720 I don't know, I've never spoke to you about that, 365 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:15.160 but probably the worst things that you can imagine. They 366 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.000 weaponized government against you and against others, Michael, there were 367 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.480 plenty of others too, And it's a disgrace. And I 368 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.400 think it's so amazing that you came out and you 369 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.640 you told the story, and people respect you for doing it. 370 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.319 Well, some people do, and other people truly hate me. 371 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.880 With the PA weren't Michael. They made you say things 372 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.480 that weren't true, with the threat of jail hanging over 373 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:41.240 your head and everything else, And you don't think people 374 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:43.559 respect it. They do respect it. They respect that you 375 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:45.680 were able to do that, that you were able to, 376 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:49.000 you know, say the truth because we have to. Well, 377 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.319 we're going to lose our country the Biden administration. And 378 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:55.200 I don't know, I was Biden was never smart thirty 379 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.680 years ago. He wasn't smart, but he certainly wasn't smart 380 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:59.799 in the last few years. And so I don't know 381 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:06.319 but he was surrounded around that beautiful, that beautiful Oval office. 382 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:10.160 He was surrounded the resolute desk. He was surrounded by 383 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:17.599 vicious crazy people high IQ you know, many low IQ's, 384 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.920 but high IQ people that are nuts, I mean, radical 385 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.519 left crazy people. And they weaponized government. You know, I 386 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.160 get a kick out of every time they see not 387 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.079 necessarily a kick, but I get a kick out of everything. 388 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:33.400 Every time I see they say, oh, Trump is weaponis is? 389 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:39.160 They weaponized government more than any administration in history by far, 390 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:42.920 think of it. I got impeached twice and I did 391 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:45.640 absolutely And remember the perfect phone call. I made a 392 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.759 phone call that was perfect. You know, they impeached me. 393 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.279 And then they found out that the call was recorded. 394 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:58.039 It was they actually had marine scenographers, but they essentially 395 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.039 it was recorded. And when they or the call, Nancy 396 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.920 Pelosi said, oh my god, we impeach the guy. We 397 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:07.400 can't impeach him after this. And then they said, but 398 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.079 let's keep going, just let's keep it. In other words, 399 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:13.839 when they found out what they impeached before, when it 400 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:20.400 was given and shown it was recorded, yes, they went crazy. 401 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:24.200