Transcript - Interview: Donald Trump Calls In to Fox and Friends for An Interview - November 22, 2019 | Factba.se

Brian Kilmeade

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We are joined right now. It is our great pleasure to welcome the president, United States, Donald Trump, calling in. Mr. Trump, good morning to you.

Donald Trump

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Brian Kilmeade

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Good to have you on Fox and Friends today. [Laughs] As you said in your tweet, another slow news week. Let's start with the fact that -- the story that Griff just brought us, that it sounds like a former FBI lawyer -- it sounds like -- was doing something with the FISA application. That person got removed.

Brian Kilmeade

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And this goes to your argument that somebody at the FBI was out to get you, right?

Donald Trump

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Well, it certainly does. And they were spying on my campaign and it went right up to the top. And everybody knows it. And now we're going to find out. You have Bull Durham, who's supposed to be the toughest. I've never met him. Never spoke to him. But he's supposed to be the smartest and the best. And he works for Bill Barr, who is a great attorney general.

Donald Trump

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We would have maybe invented this thing a lot sooner had he been there originally. But you have some people that are great people, now, and -- patriotic people. They love our country. This was spying on my campaign, something that has never been done in the history of our country. This was an overthrow attempt at the presidency.

Donald Trump

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They tried to overthrow the presidency. This is a disgrace. But what -- I'm not surprised to see; it's just starting to come out. I think this is nothing compared that what you'll see over the next couple of weeks.

Ainsley Earhardt

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Donald Trump

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These people are sick.

Ainsley Earhardt

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These media outlets are saying that the FBI lawyer manipulated and altered key documents related to that warrant application so that they could get permission to surveil Carter Page. He was on with Maria -- Mornings with Maria -- a few minutes ago, and he says it's a cover up. Listen.

Carter Page

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[Begin Video Clip] They have just been putting false information out there to the media, the Democrats and their allies in -- they're Washington -- in the media, constantly pushing lies after lies. And then finally, this gets picked up by a court. It gets picked up by the Comey-McCabe-FBI. And they got a warrant, a fraudulent warrant, I believe, to spy on myself as a way of getting into the Trump campaign.

Maria Bartiromo

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Carter Page

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There has been a continued cover up to this very day. We still don't have the truth, but hopefully we'll get that soon. [End Video Clip]

Ainsley Earhardt

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How does this compare with what happened with that Ukraine conversation? Democrats want to impeach you because of that conversation, but this looks pretty bad.

Donald Trump

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So my conversation was a perfect conversation. The Ukrainian president said, "What are they talking about?" There must think we're nuts in this country. And this conversation was flawless. It was appropriate. It was perfect. It was nice. It was everything. And they even said that. They came out and said it. Now, compare that -- as they try to impeach, and by the way, they've looked like fools over the last five days, as these interviews were -- these were their witnesses.

Donald Trump

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This was the best they've got. Adam Schiff is a sick puppy. He is a -- it's pretty incredible. Now, what you're going to see, I predict, will be perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of our country, political scandal. But I guess that's the biggest, because what's more important than a political --?

Steve Doocy

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What are you talking -- what do you mean by that? What you mean by that?

Donald Trump

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I think you're going to see things that are going to be incredible, if it's done right. And I purposely stay out. I tell Bill Barr to handle everything. I wouldn't have to, I could get very much involved, but I purposely don't. And I haven't. And you know what? It's better that way, I guess. I don't have any obligation, legally, to do that, but I've let them handle it. So you have a FISA report coming out, which the word is it's "historic." That's what the word is. That's what I hear.

Donald Trump

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And if it's historic, you're going to see something. Then perhaps even more importantly, you have Durham coming out shortly thereafter. He's the U.S. attorney, and he's already announced it's criminal. And we'll see what happens. But --

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

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I'll tell you what. You have a lot of very, very bad people. And, you know, a lot of people say, "deep state." I don't like to use the word "deep state." So I just say they're really bad and sick people.

Brian Kilmeade

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Mr. President, you say it could be historic. You have suggested in the past that this might go much higher than the Department of Justice, or the FBI during the Obama's administration. Are you suggesting it could actually go up into the West Wing of the Obama --?

Donald Trump

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You're dealing at the highest levels of government. They were spying on my campaign. This is my opinion. I said it a long time ago. Remember when I put out a tweet and I talked about the "wiretapping" in quotes, meaning modern day version of whatever wiretapping may be. And all hell broke loose.

Brian Kilmeade

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Well, how high did it go, Mr. President. How high did it go? Your idea?

Donald Trump

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Personally, I think it goes all the way. Okay? Because I think it's impossible --

Brian Kilmeade

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To Barack Obama? -- for Brennan and for Clapper and for all of these losers that you had over there. I think it's impossible for them to be doing things. And let's see what it all says. But it's impossible -- Susan Rice, the person that worked at the United Nations who went after FISA reports and went after reports like she ate them for lunch.

Donald Trump

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And, you know, you look at the previous administration that -- they went after like a few. And she was getting them by -- at a level nobody's ever even imagined before, and it had nothing to do with her. Now, I think this goes to the highest level. I hate to say it. I think it's a disgrace. They thought I was going to win, and they said, "How could we stop him?" They wrote up the phony fake dossier, the disgusting fake dossier, and they tried to have it put out prior to the election.

Donald Trump

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And just to show how incompetent they were, they spent millions and millions of dollars. Hillary Clinton paid for it and the Democrats, a lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine.

Brian Kilmeade

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But Mr. President --

Donald Trump

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It's very interesting. It's very interesting. They have this server right, from the DNC Democratic National Committee.

Brian Kilmeade

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Who has the server?

Donald Trump

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The FBI went in and they told him, "Get out of here. You're not getting it. We're not giving it to you." They gave the server to Crowd Strike or whatever it's called, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server.

Donald Trump

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That's a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?

Steve Doocy

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Are you or they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?

Donald Trump

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Well, that's what the word is. And that's what I asked actually in my phone call, you know. I mean, I asked that very point blank because we're looking for corruption. There's tremendous corruption we're looking for. Why should we be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to countries where there's this kind of corruption?

Donald Trump

00:06:41 - 00:07:03 (23 sec)

Right. If you look at my call, I said, you know, corruption -- I think he said it to me. He's looking. He got elected on the basis of corruption. And I also, by the way, going back to that, why isn't Germany putting up money? Why isn't France putting up money? Why isn't all of the European nations -- why are they putting up? You have the European Union and they're benefited in a lot more by --

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

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-- paying than we are. Well, Mr. President, can I ask you --

Donald Trump

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It's like a massive wall? Yes. Why aren't they putting up money? How come it's always the United States that puts up money, the suckers? Why is it always the United States? And these are the questions I ask and continue to ask him.

Brian Kilmeade

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True. Mr. President the best you can. I know you've said that from day one about wiretapping. And you felt as though the previous administration basically seems to have set you up to really struggle for the first three years. Who is your source, or what are your sources that are telling you, that the Obama administration was out to really hurt your administration?

Donald Trump

00:07:43 - 00:07:55 (12 sec)

Well, first of all, Brian, I haven't struggled because I've done more in the first two and a half years than any president in the history of our country. And almost everybody admits it. Between rebuilding our military, the biggest tax cut in history.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

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Brian Kilmeade

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Would you say they've been in your way? Would you say they've been in your way?

Donald Trump

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Good. Well, wait a second. Two Supreme Court justices. Within a few weeks, we'll have one hundred and eighty-two federal judges. It's a record. So I've done more than anybody that ever had.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

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The position to [Inaudible] But they haven't made it pleasant. They're bad people. They hurt a lot of innocent people. People came down here, they got served subpoenas by Mueller and the crew. And they went through two and a half years. They found nothing. So why would you say that? I think we've had the most productive presidency ever for the first two and a half years.

Donald Trump

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But it doesn't mean that it was pleasant.

Brian Kilmeade

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I know, I know. But maybe I should have been clearer. My point is this. I know you've had that point of view and some things are coming that direction to prove it. But who is your source that's telling you this?

Donald Trump

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I can't tell you that. I can only say that we have a lot of information that a lot of bad things happened. And when you look at Strzok and Page with the insurance policy, where, you know -- the two lovers, the two great lovers from the FBI. Where he's saying, "Oh, she's going to win 100 million to nothing, but just in case she loses, we have an insurance policy." Well, that means, you know, "We're going to take him down.

Donald Trump

00:09:10 - 00:09:27 (17 sec)

We're going to take down the president." You wouldn't even believe this is possible. But the insurance policy is a very big find. Finding that text. And the only reason we found it was they didn't want to use their private servers for a very bad reason. Okay? So they use the public server. They use the FBI server.

Donald Trump

00:09:27 - 00:09:45 (17 sec)

So here's the thing. We have so many -- regardless of what's coming out, okay? The information that we have now is beyond belief already. But what they have coming out, I hear, is historic. That's the way it was explained. I heard some stories.

Ainsley Earhardt

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Coming out and -- All right, Mr. President --

Donald Trump

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Of course the fake news will try and downplay it, but I don't think you can downplay this.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

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Fake news is part of it. You know, the Democrats and the fake news, they're one and the same. They will downplay it because I like -- I see these hearings where we have a great day. And then you pick up the phony New York Times, which is a total phony paper -- I don't read it anywhere, you can't read it. It's not even -- it has no relationship to the truth.

Donald Trump

00:10:12 - 00:10:24 (12 sec)

And you read a story that took place, and they don't tell you what happened. They only put in the bad. They don't put in the good. Same thing with The Washington Post. It's a phony paper. We don't have it in the White House.

Ainsley Earhardt

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Mr. President, so --

Donald Trump

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And we saved a lot of money.

Ainsley Earhardt

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-- when we're watching those closing arguments yesterday, Adam Schiff -- Democrats love it. You know, I'm sure he's getting pat on the back every time he walks down the halls in Washington, because people are saying, "Keep pushing, keep pushing. We want impeachment." But if you ask Republicans, and we're going to play a soundbite of his closing arguments, they say this is all theatrics.

Ainsley Earhardt

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Watch this and we're going to get your reaction.

Donald Trump

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Adam Schiff

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[Begin Video Clip] It came down to the fact that the day after Bob Mueller testified, the day after Bob Mueller testified, that Donald Trump invited Russian interference. "Hey, Russia, if you're listening, come get Hillary's emails." And later that day, they tried to hack her server. The day after that, Donald Trump is back on the phone asking another nation to involve itself in another U.S. election.

Adam Schiff

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That says to me, this president believes he is above the law, beyond accountability. [End Video Clip]

Ainsley Earhardt

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Mr. President was there quid pro quo, extortion, bribery?

Donald Trump

00:11:31 - 00:11:47 (16 sec)

No, not at all. And let me tell you, he's a sick puppy. He's so sick. This guy is so -- I’ve been going through it for two and a half years about Russia. I've been tougher on Russia than any president in history. But for two and a half years, I've had to listen. This was their talking point, Trump and Russia.

Donald Trump

00:11:47 - 00:12:08 (21 sec)

And if you take a look at it, just look at the facts. Even look at what I've done for Ukraine by giving them tank busters, by giving them stuff. And Obama would send pillows and sheets. He wouldn't send anything else. It's the whole thing. Now Schiff, remember this? He makes it all up. He's sick. There's something wrong with him.

Donald Trump

00:12:08 - 00:12:26 (18 sec)

So he made up my phone call. He made it up. He made up a phone call. And then when I released it, everybody was embarrassed. And crazy Nancy Pelosi, who, by the way, is going to go down as the worst speaker in the history of the House of Representatives, she hasn't done anything. Well, she said she's like paralyzed.

Donald Trump

00:12:26 - 00:12:27 (1 sec)

She cannot do anything.

Brian Kilmeade

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And Mr. President --

Donald Trump

00:12:28 - 00:12:48 (20 sec)

I predict she won't do USMCA, because Richard Trumka, who's a good guy, but a big union guy -- only cares about a union. Richard Trumka has her mortified. She won't do USMCA and everybody in the country wants it, the farmers, the manufacturers. But Richard Trumka has her -- like he plays her like a fiddle.

Donald Trump

00:12:48 - 00:13:06 (18 sec)

And I predict you won't even do it. She -- and, by the way, she's got such pressure on her to do it. All she has to do is put it to a vote. She's holding it for six months. It's growing dust on her desk, and Mexico and Canada calling, saying, "What's going on? Where is our agreement?" They signed it. They're all set.

Brian Kilmeade

00:13:06 - 00:13:26 (20 sec)

Mr. President, a couple of days ago, your ambassador to the United -- to the E.U., Mr. Sondland, in his opening statement said that there was quid pro quo. "There was quid pro quo," he said because you wanted an investigation into corruption, in exchange for a visit to the White House or something like that.

Donald Trump

00:13:26 - 00:13:46 (21 sec)

Yeah, well, that's total nonsense. I do want -- always corruption. I say that to anybody. Why should we give money to a country that's known corrupt? It's a very corrupt country. I mean, I love the people in Ukraine. I know Ukrainian people. They're great people. But it's known as being the third most corrupt country in the world.

Donald Trump

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Now, with this guy who, by the way, I hardly know him. Okay?

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

00:13:50 - 00:14:11 (21 sec)

Yeah. I've spoken to him a few times. How about the guy with the telephone? How about that one? I guarantee you that never took place. He said he's sitting there listening to me. I spoke so few times to him. But the guy yesterday on the telephone, David Holmes, "Yes, I heard the conversation." Well, I have really good hearing.

Donald Trump

00:14:11 - 00:14:30 (19 sec)

And I've been watching guys for 40 years make phone calls. And I can't hear when -- you could be two feet away; I can't hear people making calls. I can't hear the other side, the phones up in the air. Unless you have it on the speaker phone, you can't do it. That was a total phony deal. That was a phone -- you know, again.

Donald Trump

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Call it Deep State. Call it --

Brian Kilmeade

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Mr. President. Mr. President.

Donald Trump

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Call it anti-Trump people.

Brian Kilmeade

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Your ambassador said that there was quid pro quo because you wanted an investigation into corruption, but it involved Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. And then it becomes like, look, "He's going after dirt on the Bidens because Joe Biden could be his opponent in 2020."

Donald Trump

00:14:54 - 00:15:04 (10 sec)

Well, first of all, that's not true. Okay. Number one, it's absolutely not true. Now, then, you have to say, if you saw Joe Biden's --

Brian Kilmeade

00:15:04 - 00:15:06 (2 sec)

Which part is not true?

Donald Trump

00:15:06 - 00:15:18 (12 sec)

Joe Biden is corrupt. It's not true what he said. Now, what he said, also, is, "There was no quid pro quo. I want nothing." Remember was trending number one. "I want nothing." He said that when he was questioned.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

00:15:18 - 00:15:24 (6 sec)

He, and by the way, check out his lawyers, they're Hillary Clinton lawyers. This guy has Hillary Clinton, the lawyers, their Democrats.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

00:15:25 - 00:15:47 (23 sec)

But he's sitting there -- Sondland. Yes. He's sitting there with Clinton lawyers. They're passing him notes all the time. And he didn't put the most important phrase in his 22-page statement that he read. The most important phrase was, "I want nothing" -- twice I said it -- "I want nothing. I want nothing.

Donald Trump

00:15:47 - 00:15:56 (9 sec)

I want no quid pro quo. Have President Zelensky do whatever is right." Something to that effect. And they didn't put that in.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

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That was the end of him. I turned off the television. That's what he said. Now, with all of that, of course, you have to look at corruption. Are we going to be sending massive amounts of money to a country, and they're corrupt, and they steal the money, and it goes into everybody's bank accounts? So you have to look at that.

Donald Trump

00:16:15 - 00:16:43 (28 sec)

And I will tell you this about Joe Biden. I never said it specifically on him. But I watched Joe Biden with the prosecutor, who a lot of people said was a great prosecutor, and they took him off. And he was prosecuting that company. And the kid who'd never made 10 cents in his life and all of a sudden is making millions of dollars a day, I mean, you tell me. This is a guy who got thrown out of the Navy dishonorably --

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

00:16:43 - 00:16:48 (5 sec)

He gets thrown out of the Navy shortly thereafter and makes no money. Went through, made no money --

Brian Kilmeade

00:16:48 - 00:16:49 (1 sec)

But Mr. President --

Donald Trump

00:16:49 - 00:16:50 (1 sec)

And all of the sudden --

Brian Kilmeade

00:16:50 - 00:16:51 (1 sec)

No, I hear you.

Donald Trump

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-- becomes VP is making millions and millions of dollars, not only from there, but from China. [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

00:16:58 - 00:17:14 (16 sec)

So, Mr. President, the accusation is this, that you're using aid, taxpayer dollars, to attack a political opponent in Joe Biden. And you say, you do say, "I wanted to hold up that aid because of corruption," but you also have the phone calls --

Donald Trump

00:17:14 - 00:17:15 (1 sec)

No, no. Two reasons.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

00:17:16 - 00:17:25 (9 sec)

For corruption because it's known. I want to make sure the money is going to be spent properly. But there's another reason that is maybe to me the most important.

Brian Kilmeade

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Donald Trump

00:17:25 - 00:17:37 (12 sec)

Why isn't Germany, France, the European Union, why aren't all those countries in Europe, why aren't they paying? Why is it always the United States, the sucker? I got elected on that.

Brian Kilmeade

00:17:37 - 00:17:38 (1 sec)

But they do give aid.

Donald Trump

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Brian Kilmeade

00:17:38 - 00:17:57 (19 sec)

They do give aid. We give more. We always have. But, Mr. President, you decide to say Rudy Giuliani, a longtime friend, mayor and prosecutor, you send him into the Ukraine. I want you to hear with Ambassador Sondland said, and it's been pretty consistent among State Department workers. It seems like Rudy Giuliani was getting under a lot of people's skin.

Brian Kilmeade

00:17:57 - 00:18:00 (3 sec)

I want you to listen to what he said.

Donald Trump

00:18:00 - 00:18:00 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:18:00 - 00:18:03 (3 sec)

I want you here. Listen. I've known for a long time, too. Let's listen.

Gordon Sondland

00:18:03 - 00:18:34 (31 sec)

[Begin Video Clip] Secretary Perry, Ambassador Volker, and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the United States. We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani. We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose a very important opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine.

Gordon Sondland

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[End Video Clip]

Brian Kilmeade

00:18:34 - 00:18:44 (10 sec)

So why was it necessary to put Rudy in the middle of the Ukraine, a country he knew little about, as opposed to let the people do their jobs there and just give given the same mission?

Donald Trump

00:18:44 - 00:19:04 (19 sec)

Okay. First of all, Volker, I don't know him. Don't know him. But this guy, Sondland, hardly know him. I've had a couple of conversations with him. I see him hanging around, you know, when I go to Europe. But he was really the European Union ambassador, and all of a sudden he's working on this, and, you know, ask about that.

Donald Trump

00:19:04 - 00:19:23 (19 sec)

Rick Perry, I know very well. Frankly, I'd like Rick to make a statement, and Rick would make a statement. He's a great guy. I think he already made a statement. Great guy. Rudy is a great crime fighter. Rudy is the best mayor in the history of New York City. Rudy Giuliani is a very legendary figure in our country.

Donald Trump

00:19:23 - 00:19:40 (18 sec)

Rudy was a U.S. attorney. He also worked at the Justice Department. Believe me, this kind of crap wouldn't have happened in the Justice Department if Rudy Giuliani was the attorney general, just like I believe Bill Barr will straighten it out and straighten it out for good. But Rudy Giuliani was one of the great crime fighters of all time.

Donald Trump

00:19:40 - 00:19:59 (19 sec)

He's also a friend of mine. He's a great person. He's like an iconic figure in this country for two reasons. He was the greatest mayor in the history of New York, and he was the greatest crime fighter, probably, in the last 50 years. When you're dealing with a corrupt country, if Rudy Giuliani's -- he's got credentials because of his reputation.

Donald Trump

00:19:59 - 00:20:06 (6 sec)

When Rudy Giuliani goes there, and you hear it's a corrupt country, I mean, it means a lot. It's mean a lot.

Donald Trump

00:20:06 - 00:20:27 (22 sec)

But two of his sources are indicted on -- are right now in jail. Those are two of his sources, and one of his other sources is looked at as a corrupt figure. So in the end, it seems like you had this. You had State Department and Rudy Giuliani working against each other. And then the accusation comes in that your ambassador is being tarnished by Rudy Giuliani.

Donald Trump

00:20:27 - 00:20:45 (17 sec)

Look, the ambassador, the woman, she wouldn't even put up -- she's an Obama person, you know. But I said, "Why are you being so kind?" "Well, sir, she's a woman. We have to be nice." She's very tough. I've heard bad things. And by the way, when I was talking to President Zelensky, it's right on the phone.

Donald Trump

00:20:45 - 00:21:03 (18 sec)

You can read it. He didn't like her. He brought up her name, and he didn't like her at all. How do you have an ambassador when the president, the new president, does not? Because she was so wedded in. And don't forget, Ukraine hated me. They were after me in the election. They wanted Hillary Clinton to win.

Donald Trump

00:21:03 - 00:21:22 (19 sec)

And when I won, all of a sudden they became so nice. They were doing -- they had to make up -- there many articles where they had to, you know, get to be friendly, you know, because we're like a gravy train for them, okay? We're like their gravy train. So they were totally in favor of Hillary Clinton. But this ambassador that, you know, everybody says is so wonderful?

Donald Trump

00:21:22 - 00:21:42 (20 sec)

She wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy. Okay? She's in charge of the embassy. She wouldn't hang it. It took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up. She said bad things about me. She wouldn't defend me. And I have the right to change an Ambassador. And Rudy didn't say good things, but he wasn't crazy about it. You know, it wasn't like a major topic.

Donald Trump

00:21:42 - 00:22:02 (20 sec)

But I have the right to change. This was an Obama person -- didn't want to hang my picture in the embassy. Standard is you put the president of the United States pictured at an embassy. This was not an angel, this woman, okay? And there are a lot of things that she did that I didn't like. And we will talk about that at some time.

Donald Trump

00:22:02 - 00:22:06 (4 sec)

But I just want to let you know, this was not a baby that we're dealing with.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:22:06 - 00:22:25 (19 sec)

There was one woman who was in all of these testimonies this week who was sticking up for you, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. She was asking questions, doing her job. She said her constituents want to get to the bottom of what happened with the Bidens and that investigation. She questioned Tim Morrison and Kurt Volker on Capitol Hill.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:22:25 - 00:22:25 (0 sec)

Listen to this.

Donald Trump

00:22:25 - 00:22:26 (0 sec)

Elise Stefanik

00:22:26 - 00:22:37 (11 sec)

[Begin Video Clip] But the truth is, the facts are indeed not complicated. And I'm going to close out with two questions for the both of you. Did Ukraine open investigation into the Biden's? Mr. Morrison.

Tim Morrison

00:22:37 - 00:22:39 (2 sec)

Not to my knowledge, ma'am.

Elise Stefanik

00:22:39 - 00:22:40 (1 sec)

Ambassador Volker.

Kurt Volker

00:22:40 - 00:22:41 (2 sec)

Not to my knowledge, either.

Elise Stefanik

00:22:41 - 00:22:46 (5 sec)

Did either of you ever have any evidence of quid pro quo? Mr. Morrison.

Tim Morrison

00:22:46 - 00:22:47 (1 sec)

Elise Stefanik

00:22:47 - 00:22:48 (1 sec)

Ambassador Volker.

Kurt Volker

00:22:48 - 00:22:48 (1 sec)

Elise Stefanik

00:22:48 - 00:22:51 (2 sec)

Any evidence of bribery?

Tim Morrison

00:22:51 - 00:22:51 (1 sec)

Kurt Volker

00:22:51 - 00:22:52 (1 sec)

No, ma'am. [End Video Clip]

Ainsley Earhardt

00:22:52 - 00:22:57 (5 sec)

She's been racked over the coals for that. Kellyanne Conway's husband was one of the ones that called her trash.

Donald Trump

00:22:57 - 00:23:18 (21 sec)

So I'll tell you, first of all, she's become a star. You know, every time you do something, you have guys like Jim Jordan and Meadows, or all these guys, they've been around and they're stars, but they've been stars. Every once in a while you meet a new star. I know a lot about stardom. I know a lot about it. I've made plenty of them.

Donald Trump

00:23:18 - 00:23:42 (24 sec)

But I'll tell you what, this young woman from upstate New York, she has become a star. Her way -- you know, you can never define exactly what it is. You understand that you're a star. Okay? Why? Who the hell knows? But you're a star. There aren't many of them. But what happens is she has become a star. Her mannerism, her way of talking, her --

Brian Kilmeade

00:23:42 - 00:23:45 (3 sec)

She's direct. Right to the point.

Donald Trump

00:23:45 - 00:24:03 (18 sec)

No. It's just the whole thing. It just works. She's a tremendous person. She was fantastic during the hearings. Turner, every -- so many people there were so great. But you know what? The bottom line is all of those witnesses, they're all shifty Schiff, don't forget. There was no due process. You can't have lawyers.

Donald Trump

00:24:03 - 00:24:12 (9 sec)

We couldn't have any witnesses. We want to call the whistleblower. But, you know, who I want as the first witness? Because, frankly, I want a trial. You know, I could -- think I can have it.

Brian Kilmeade

00:24:12 - 00:24:14 (1 sec)

You want to a trial?

Donald Trump

00:24:14 - 00:24:33 (19 sec)

Oh, I would look -- number one. They should never, ever impeach. This is not envy. I watched five people on your network yesterday say there's nothing here. Andy McCarthy. How about Kent and the special prosecutor?

Brian Kilmeade

00:24:33 - 00:24:33 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:24:33 - 00:24:58 (24 sec)

And special counsel, Ken Starr? He was fantastic. He said, "There's nothing here." So ready? Number one, there should never be an impeachment. This is not an impeachment. That phone call was totally appropriate. Okay. Totally. But assuming these people are as sleazy as they are, and Nancy Pelosi is totally incompetent, she's lost absolutely lost -- she doesn't know what she's doing.

Donald Trump

00:24:58 - 00:25:08 (10 sec)

She hasn't done anything. She can't get anything approved. Everybody's working on this, and they just got blown away because they put their witnesses up. And we're not going to get USMCA --

Brian Kilmeade

00:25:08 - 00:25:09 (1 sec)

So you want a trial?

Donald Trump

00:25:09 - 00:25:24 (15 sec)

-- farmers and everyone is going to vote against Democrats like you've never seen before. But if they do put it up, because they're crazy, I mean, Adam Schiff is a nut job. Listen to this. Adam Schiff gets up before Congress and he made up my statement.

Brian Kilmeade

00:25:24 - 00:25:24 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:25:24 - 00:25:26 (2 sec)

And I said, "Who made that statement?".

Brian Kilmeade

00:25:26 - 00:25:28 (2 sec)

Right, Mr. President?

Donald Trump

00:25:28 - 00:25:34 (5 sec)

He made it up. And then after he got caught three days later, he started saying parody.

Brian Kilmeade

00:25:34 - 00:25:34 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:25:34 - 00:25:54 (20 sec)

The thing I did that was right, Brian, the thing I did that was right was I released the transcript of the call immediately. Had I not done that; I would have had a big problem. A big problem because they all lied about my call. My call was perfect. If you heard Adam Schiff's made up version of my call, I mean, it was the worst thing I've ever heard.

Donald Trump

00:25:54 - 00:26:00 (6 sec)

I said, "How could that be possible?" And you know the sad part? Because he made it in the halls of Congress, he has immunity. I can't sue him.

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:00 - 00:26:01 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:26:01 - 00:26:06 (5 sec)

The Republican Party can't sue him. Now, one other thing before we get off the Republican Party --

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:06 - 00:26:06 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:26:06 - 00:26:34 (29 sec)

I know. We can keep this going all day, right? It's easy. But look, the Republican Party has never been more unified. Both the Senate and the House. Mitch, Lindsey, I could name 20 names up there. I could -- they have never had -- look, we won 196 to nothing. That never happens. You know, I always say the Democrats are lousy politicians to have lousy policy, but they stick together, and they're vicious.

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:34 - 00:26:35 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:26:35 - 00:26:43 (9 sec)

They're more vicious, frankly. But the Republicans, they have a tendency -- they break up. They don't -- the Republicans, I have never seen anything like --

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:43 - 00:26:44 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:26:44 - 00:26:45 (1 sec)

They're sticking together.

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:45 - 00:26:51 (6 sec)

We understand that there were six Republican senators -- this is perfect transition into this question -- who talked to you yesterday --

Donald Trump

00:26:51 - 00:26:51 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:51 - 00:26:58 (7 sec)

-- along with the White House lawyer. I know Jared Kushner was there. You're trying to figure out some sort of strategy going forward because --

Donald Trump

00:26:58 - 00:26:59 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:26:59 - 00:27:18 (19 sec)

-- it does look as if Nancy Pelosi, you know, her back is up against the wall. She's going to have to go ahead and proceed with the impeachment vote. It's going to wind up in the Senate. And you say that you -- to your earlier point -- you want a full trial because then you will wind up with, according to this story, due process, which you feel you did not get with Adam Schiff.

Brian Kilmeade

00:27:18 - 00:27:26 (8 sec)

Which means you can call your own witnesses, and you would love to see Hunter Biden in the chair to answer all those questions about Ukraine.

Donald Trump

00:27:26 - 00:27:37 (11 sec)

Well, there's only one person I want more than where's Hunter? And that is Adam Schiff. I want to put that guy with his, with his way. I want…

Brian Kilmeade

00:27:37 - 00:27:38 (1 sec)

What's your first question for Adam Schiff?

Donald Trump

00:27:38 - 00:27:41 (3 sec)

I almost said something that might have been slightly controversial.

Steve Doocy

00:27:41 - 00:27:42 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:27:42 - 00:28:01 (19 sec)

But I didn't. I'm learning. See that Steve? I'm learning. But after all these years, I finally learned. But look, I want to see Adam Schiff testify about the whistleblower who is a fake whistleblower, because the whistleblower report was about my conversation with the president of Ukraine. It bored no relationship.

Donald Trump

00:28:01 - 00:28:14 (14 sec)

It said there were eight, seven or eight, quid pro quos. That were none. It bore no relationship to my call. Nobody brings that out. The whistle blower is, in my opinion, a political operative, just like his lawyer, who is one of the worst people in Washington.

Steve Doocy

00:28:14 - 00:28:16 (1 sec)

Do you think you know who it is?

Donald Trump

00:28:16 - 00:28:20 (4 sec)

I know exactly who it is. Everybody does.

Steve Doocy

00:28:20 - 00:28:22 (2 sec)

Is he still there? Does he go to meetings --

Donald Trump

00:28:22 - 00:28:22 (0 sec)

Everybody does --

Steve Doocy

00:28:22 - 00:28:23 (1 sec)

-- does he go to meetings?

Donald Trump

00:28:23 - 00:28:35 (11 sec)

And by the way, you know who the whistleblower is, too. Otherwise, you're not doing your job. You know the -- everybody knows it. If the whistleblower were on the other side, they would have revealed the whistleblower two months ago.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:28:35 - 00:28:36 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:28:36 - 00:28:57 (21 sec)

But the Democrats and their machine, the media machine, the fake, corrupt media, they protect. But you know who the whistleblower is. So do I. I know it. But I want the whistleblower who put in a false report to testify. I want to know, why did the IG put in the report? You have an IG, right? Why did the IG instead of saying, "Let me take the report.

Donald Trump

00:28:57 - 00:29:16 (19 sec)

Let me now go to the White House. Ask the president to declassify his conversation so that it has to match up." He didn't do that. So what you do is you have a whistleblower with a fake story, just like -- it's just as fake as Schiff's story. That's why a lot of people think that Schiff basically is, essentially, the whistleblower.

Donald Trump

00:29:16 - 00:29:30 (14 sec)

He already told the whistle blower what to do. I mean, his whole story is that he doesn't know the whistleblower. If he doesn't, then he's the only person in Washington that doesn't. And it's already been acknowledged that his staff met with the whistleblower. Okay, it is probably more than --

Brian Kilmeade

00:29:30 - 00:29:32 (2 sec)

All right. Go ahead.

Donald Trump

00:29:32 - 00:29:49 (17 sec)

Who I what to testify most is shifty Schiff. And I want to find out, why did he make up my statement? He made up my statement, and I want to find that out. Why did shifty Schiff, who's a crooked politician, he's a corrupt politician, why did he make up my statement? He made up a statement. And I'm listen to it --

Ainsley Earhardt

00:29:49 - 00:29:52 (3 sec)

Because they didn't think you were going to release the transcript.

Donald Trump

00:29:52 - 00:30:01 (9 sec)

No, no, he -- that's right. Exactly. Because where this whole thing fell apart and where, frankly, the Republicans became so incredibly unified is after they read my statement --

Brian Kilmeade

00:30:01 - 00:30:01 (0 sec)

Ainsley Earhardt

00:30:01 - 00:30:03 (2 sec)

Donald Trump

00:30:03 - 00:30:13 (11 sec)

-- every one of them said -- and only the ones that are a little off on my statement are the people, that haven't quite read it yet. To say, "Well, this isn't an impeachable -- [Crosstalk]

Ainsley Earhardt

00:30:13 - 00:30:19 (5 sec)

Well, if you read it, Democrats are going to say it was quid pro quo. If you are a conservative, you're going to say --

Donald Trump

00:30:19 - 00:30:20 (1 sec)

No. They can't. They can't.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:30:20 - 00:30:24 (4 sec)

Well, they're saying that it was. They believe in a roundabout way that it was. [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

00:30:24 - 00:30:28 (4 sec)

Well, Adam Schiff says what I said, too, and it was totally different.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:30:28 - 00:30:33 (6 sec)

But the bottom line is, is this an impeachable offense? Did you do anything that they can impeach you for?

Donald Trump

00:30:33 - 00:30:58 (24 sec)

There's nothing there. In fact, they asked these terrible witnesses yesterday. Again, I don't even know these people. You know, I come to Washington. So you've had Bush and you have never-Trumpers. So you have Bush. You have Clinton. You have Obama. So you have 24 years of people in positions, right? Then I come in with no experience, which is a good thing.

Donald Trump

00:30:58 - 00:31:12 (14 sec)

But I know life, and I come in, and I end up with thousands of people that are never-Trumpers, Clinton's people, and sometimes the never-Trumpers are worse than Clinton and Obama people, believe me. You know, I mean, it's an amazing phenomena.

Brian Kilmeade

00:31:12 - 00:31:15 (3 sec)

But that's one thing -- President Obama released every --

Donald Trump

00:31:15 - 00:31:15 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:31:15 - 00:31:16 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:31:16 - 00:31:41 (25 sec)

Well, listen to this for a second. With no experience at doing this -- but I've had a lot of experience in life. And we're doing great as a country and we’re respected again as a country, we were not respected -- with no experience, I come to Washington. I've defeated the Clinton dynasty. I've defeated the Bush dynasty, and I've defeated the Obama whatever you want to call it. Right?

Donald Trump

00:31:41 - 00:32:01 (20 sec)

The three biggest. I've defeated them all at one time with no experience. The hatred is incredible. But I have to deal with crazy Nancy. I mean, she's crazy as a bedbug. She is nuts. And what she's doing -- and she's not talented. She's highly overrated -- all she's doing is sitting. She's not doing any work for the people.

Donald Trump

00:32:01 - 00:32:06 (5 sec)

And now it turns out that the whole impeachment thing is a scam.

Brian Kilmeade

00:32:06 - 00:32:07 (1 sec)

Okay. Gotcha. So --

Donald Trump

00:32:07 - 00:32:15 (8 sec)

And now on top of it, now you're starting to get some feedback that the IG report is coming out. And I think that will be --

Brian Kilmeade

00:32:15 - 00:32:15 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:32:15 - 00:32:18 (3 sec)

-- the greatest political scandal in the history of our country.

Brian Kilmeade

00:32:18 - 00:32:21 (3 sec)

If we could -- now let's switch. And let's talk a little bit about 2020.

Steve Doocy

00:32:21 - 00:32:30 (9 sec)

Well, I'd like -- well, let me just interrupt for a second. Mr. President, you said we know the name of the whistleblower. We've seen names on the Internet. We have no idea who the whistleblower is.

Brian Kilmeade

00:32:30 - 00:32:31 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:32:31 - 00:32:34 (3 sec)

No. I don't believe it. Steve, can I tell you -- [Crosstalk]

Steve Doocy

00:32:34 - 00:32:34 (1 sec)

But it's -- all right.

Donald Trump

00:32:34 - 00:32:46 (12 sec)

I don't think Steve has ever told a lie, Ainsley and Brian, in his life. But that one I'm sort of thinking. All right. Come on.

Brian Kilmeade

00:32:46 - 00:32:47 (1 sec)

So you expect to --

Donald Trump

00:32:47 - 00:32:54 (6 sec)

And I'm always telling people I watch your show in the morning. I don't watch the garbage. The other garbage.

Steve Doocy

00:32:54 - 00:32:58 (4 sec)

We've seen names online, Mr. President. But we don't have any verification.

Brian Kilmeade

00:32:58 - 00:33:01 (4 sec)

Yeah, and it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter anyway. We're not going to use it.

Donald Trump

00:33:01 - 00:33:06 (5 sec)

You don't need verification. You know exactly who it is. But I like that you say that.

Brian Kilmeade

00:33:06 - 00:33:11 (6 sec)

So, Mr. President, you expect an impeachment vote, you expect to get impeached and would you say you said you embrace the idea --

Donald Trump

00:33:11 - 00:33:13 (1 sec)

No, I don't expect it.

Brian Kilmeade

00:33:13 - 00:33:16 (3 sec)

You don't expect it? You don't expect Democrats are going to vote for this?

Donald Trump

00:33:16 - 00:33:29 (13 sec)

I think it's very hard for them to impeach you when they have absolutely nothing. No, I would expect that -- okay. Ready? You've seen the polls over the last week. I'm going through the roof. In Wisconsin, I'm way up over every Democrat.

Brian Kilmeade

00:33:29 - 00:33:30 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:33:30 - 00:33:47 (17 sec)

The swing states, which is the important one. You know, you have two elections. You have Electoral College, you have popularity. I like to go for the Electoral College. By the way, for me to win the popular vote would be much easier than -- the Electoral College is much harder to win. Much harder. You have to go to many more places, etc., etc.

Donald Trump

00:33:47 - 00:34:04 (17 sec)

But if you look at the swing states, I'm way up at every one of them because of the impeachment thing. And it's crazy what's going on. Because the people get it. It's a hoax. This is a continuation of the witch hunt which has gone on from before I got elected.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:34:04 - 00:34:04 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:34:04 - 00:34:32 (27 sec)

If you look at the -- you know, we talked about the insurance policy. Right. You know, "We've got an insurance policy just in case she loses." Right? This was a text between the two great lovers. If you look at that, that was long before the election took place. So this was taking, you know, route -- with Comey, who's a totally disgusting human being -- by the way, and if I didn't fire Comey, I would have been in some trouble right now.

Brian Kilmeade

00:34:32 - 00:34:34 (3 sec)

And maybe you should have done it right away. But Mr. President --

Donald Trump

00:34:34 - 00:34:50 (16 sec)

All coming after me, and I wouldn't have known that he was a phony that Strzok and Page in all of these people. McCabe. The whole gang of them. We wouldn't have been able to find it out. Turned out to be the best move I've ever made, firing Comey. Because they were looking to take down the president of the United States.

Brian Kilmeade

00:34:50 - 00:34:57 (7 sec)

He doesn't agree. John Bolton has just gone back on Twitter. His account was frozen for two months. Did you guys freeze his account?

Donald Trump

00:34:57 - 00:35:06 (10 sec)

No, of course not. Of course not. No, I actually had a good relationship with John. We disagreed on some things and some methods, but I actually had a good relationship.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:35:06 - 00:35:08 (2 sec)

All right, Mr. President. Let's talk about --

Donald Trump

00:35:08 - 00:35:09 (1 sec)

I didn't hear about that.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:35:09 - 00:35:27 (18 sec)

Let's talk about 2020, because we saw the last Democratic debate, and the ratings were really low. I don't know if that's an indication that it's too early or if people are not interested in these candidates. And maybe that's why some of these other guys are talking about jumping into the race. Elizabeth Warren says she's going to use tax dollars to take down your border wall.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:35:27 - 00:35:27 (1 sec)

Listen to this.

Unidentified

00:35:27 - 00:35:34 (7 sec)

[Begin Video Clip] Would you ask taxpayers to pay to take down any part of the wall on the nation's southern border?

Elizabeth Warren

00:35:34 - 00:35:48 (14 sec)

If there are parts of the wall that are not useful in our defense, of course, we should do it. The real point here is that we need to stop this manmade crisis at the border. Trump is the one who has created this crisis. [End Video Clip]

Ainsley Earhardt

00:35:48 - 00:35:54 (6 sec)

Tom Honan said the reason that the numbers are down is because of the wall. What do you say?

Donald Trump

00:35:54 - 00:36:11 (17 sec)

Absolutely. We've built almost 100 miles of wall. It's going up fast. Army Corps of Engineers is doing it. We have the funding. I took it out of the military. You know, I've rebuilt the military. That's another thing we've done, which was, when I took it over -- and we defeated ISIS. We took the caliphate.

Donald Trump

00:36:11 - 00:36:31 (20 sec)

We just took out al-Baghdadi. I got you know; I don't want it. I don't want it, frankly. But if Obama did al-Baghdadi, the biggest terrorist the last hundred year, if Obama did it, it would be a two-year story. With me, I got a day. Not that it matters, but it was a tremendous thing. We defeated him. But let me just tell you about the wall.

Donald Trump

00:36:31 - 00:36:38 (7 sec)

Without the wall -- and Tom Homan's a great guy -- without the wall, it would be a disaster.

Brian Kilmeade

00:36:38 - 00:36:38 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:36:38 - 00:36:56 (18 sec)

So and if she took down the wall -- you need the wall. You know, they want to have drones flying around up and down, and, you know, this and that. It's all just a waste of money. Other than -- we have drones flying to see if anybody is trying to break through the wall. Because if you have a bulldozer or if you have heavy blow torches and things, you know, you can break through.

Donald Trump

00:36:56 - 00:37:03 (7 sec)

We have -- the wall is electrified, so that if anyone touches it, we know exactly what's happening. We can get there within minutes.

Steve Doocy

00:37:03 - 00:37:05 (2 sec)

Sure. You were elected to -- [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

00:37:05 - 00:37:24 (19 sec)

Now, we're building a fantastic wall, and without the wall now -- it just means she's going to lose. Because one of the issues that I won on last time was border security. And you see where the numbers are. Now, until I got the wall built, I got Mexico -- because we're not allowed -- very simply, we have loopholes.

Donald Trump

00:37:24 - 00:37:41 (17 sec)

And they call loopholes for a reason, because there are loopholes. I could end those loopholes in 15 minutes with crazy Nancy Pelosi and Schumer. I could end them in 15 minutes. But they don't want to meet about them because they like trouble, because the more trouble we have -- they don't care about the country.

Donald Trump

00:37:41 - 00:37:56 (16 sec)

The more trouble they have, the better it is for them, they think the worse it is for me. So I got the war built despite them fighting me. I got so much money for them, for the military. It's the one thing that wouldn't give you money for the wall because they thought that was a very good thing politically.

Donald Trump

00:37:56 - 00:38:02 (5 sec)

If you don't have a wall, we don't have a country. If we don't have a border, we don't have a country.

Brian Kilmeade

00:38:02 - 00:38:19 (17 sec)

Mr. President, right now. Elizabeth Warren wants to take it down. Who do you think right now is likely to be your opponent? Mayor Pete is evidently moving up in the early states. Joe Biden wins most national polls. Elizabeth Warren is still among the leaders. Who do you think it's going to be?

Donald Trump

00:38:19 - 00:38:39 (19 sec)

Well, I don't know if Joe can make it. Mentally, he's off. There's no question about it. So I don't know if he's going to make it mentally. If he can get through it, you know, without cracking up, which is a real question. I mean, many people asked that. Maybe him. You know, don't forget, people have seen his name for a long time.

Donald Trump

00:38:39 - 00:38:56 (17 sec)

But Pete is you know, I call him Alfred E. Neuman, to me, reminds me of Mad magazine, Alfred E. Neuman. And I don't see him. I don't see him dealing with President Xi. I don't see him dealing with Kim Jong Un. I just don't see it. But maybe he is. I mean, look, I wouldn't mind running against any of them.

Donald Trump

00:38:56 - 00:39:09 (13 sec)

So I would say maybe Biden has the advantage. I think Pocahontas has come up from the embers. I thought I, I mean, I hit her too early. I came up with this name that seems to have stuck very nicely..

Brian Kilmeade

00:39:09 - 00:39:09 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:39:09 - 00:39:30 (21 sec)

But they don't use it. I don't see him. I know him pretty well. He finished very weak in New York. He starts with, you know, telling you what you can drink, what you can do, what you -- no, I don't see it. He's desperately -- I'm sure he's going to run. He is going to spend. He's got the money just to put on a great campaign.

Donald Trump

00:39:30 - 00:39:33 (3 sec)

I don't see it. His time has come and gone.

Steve Doocy

00:39:33 - 00:39:57 (23 sec)

It would be hard to believe a New York real estate developer, or a billionaire could ever be president. Mr. President. Just kidding. You know, the stock market hit another record this past week. Clearly, that is your strong suit going into the 2020, because, you know, you look at the polls. People feel better about their money situation right now.

Donald Trump

00:39:57 - 00:39:57 (1 sec)

Steve Doocy

00:39:57 - 00:40:07 (10 sec)

Going forward toward November of next year, how are you going to make sure everybody understands what you have been able to do over the last, then, four years?

Donald Trump

00:40:07 - 00:40:09 (2 sec)

By talking to you, it's all good to do.

Steve Doocy

00:40:09 - 00:40:09 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:40:09 - 00:40:27 (18 sec)

Everyone's listening right down. Nobody's listening to any other show. But look, strong suit. My strong suit is I rebuilt a military. The vets -- for years, you would turn on your television. Every night, you'd see a story about the vets and how badly they're being treated, and it's a horror show. You don't hear that anymore.

Donald Trump

00:40:27 - 00:40:43 (16 sec)

I got veterans choice. I got to -- that means they can go see a doctor if they have to wait online. If they go see a doctor, we pay the bill. It's unbelievable what happened. I have veterans accountability. You couldn't fire -- for 50 years, they've been trying to get -- you couldn't fire because there were unions and civil service.

Donald Trump

00:40:43 - 00:40:49 (6 sec)

So if you had somebody beating up vets, stealing from the V.A., you couldn't fire them for any reason for it.

Brian Kilmeade

00:40:49 - 00:40:52 (3 sec)

Certainly something to run on. And they are appreciative it. On the economy --

Donald Trump

00:40:52 - 00:40:52 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:40:52 - 00:40:54 (1 sec)

President Xi --

Donald Trump

00:40:54 - 00:41:15 (21 sec)

But listen. Rebuilding the military. All of the things I've done. Plus, we've had peace. You know, we're pulling way down in Afghanistan. We're working on an agreement now with the Taliban. Let's see what happens. The last time I was close to have an agreement, then they thought when they came over, they thought it would be good to kill people so they could, you know, negotiate from a position of strength.

Donald Trump

00:41:15 - 00:41:27 (13 sec)

They killed 12 people in order to show they are tough guys, and I canceled the meeting. I said, "That's not what we're dealing with." Anyway. We're pulling back. I just pulled out of Syria; except I kept the oil. If it was okay with you.

Brian Kilmeade

00:41:27 - 00:41:29 (2 sec)

We 600 hundred guys there. Right?

Donald Trump

00:41:29 - 00:41:30 (1 sec)

I want to -- okay.

Brian Kilmeade

00:41:30 - 00:41:49 (19 sec)

President Xi has just said this. "We want to work for a Phase 1 agreement on the basis of mutual respect and equality with the United States." Where are you at? You were kind of down on a deal and the market kind of dipped on this. Where do you stand right now with the trade deal with China?

Donald Trump

00:41:49 - 00:42:10 (21 sec)

Very good. We have a deal, potentially, very close. He wants to make it much more than I want to make it. I'm not anxious to make it. We're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. We never took in 10 cents. We are not paying like, you know, they fed the line, you know -- the media fed the line about us paying.

Donald Trump

00:42:10 - 00:42:12 (2 sec)

Now, normally you would pay for tariffs --

Brian Kilmeade

00:42:12 - 00:42:18 (6 sec)

But he literally just said, Mr. President, he's -- "we want to do a deal." I very rarely see that. "We want to work out a Phase 1 agreement."

Donald Trump

00:42:18 - 00:42:36 (18 sec)

The problem is -- I didn't like his word "equality" because we started off so low. We've lost 500 billion dollars a year for many, many years. We've rebuilt China, and I give him a lot of credit. The ones that don't give credit are our past presidents, and especially the last one with his crummy vice president.

Donald Trump

00:42:36 - 00:42:57 (21 sec)

China took us to the cleaners. He didn't even know that. Biden in the first debate said, "Oh, these are wonderful people." Sure, they're wonderful people. We've given them 500 billion a year. Five hundred billion. That's not including theft of intellectual property, et cetera. So I told President Xi, this can't be like an even deal because we're starting off from the floor and you're already at the ceiling.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:42:57 - 00:42:57 (1 sec)

Not to mention --

Donald Trump

00:42:57 - 00:43:02 (5 sec)

So we have to have a much better deal. The bottom line is we have a very good chance to make a deal.

Brian Kilmeade

00:43:02 - 00:43:02 (0 sec)

Ainsley Earhardt

00:43:02 - 00:43:03 (1 sec)

And not to mention happening to Hong Kong with these --

Steve Doocy

00:43:03 - 00:43:04 (0 sec)

Ainsley Earhardt

00:43:04 - 00:43:04 (0 sec)

-- pro democracy.

Donald Trump

00:43:04 - 00:43:27 (23 sec)

Well, that's a complicating factor. There's no question about it. And if it weren't for me, Hong Kong would have been obliterated in 14 minutes. He's got a million soldiers standing outside of Hong Kong that aren't going in only because I ask him, "Please don't do that. You'll be making a big mistake. It's going to have a tremendous negative impact on the trade deal." And he wants to make a trade.

Donald Trump

00:43:27 - 00:43:30 (3 sec)

Brian, one thing, before I get off, I just want to say one thing.

Brian Kilmeade

00:43:30 - 00:43:31 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:43:31 - 00:43:46 (15 sec)

We have the strongest economy in the history of our country. We have the best unemployment numbers we've ever had. African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, the best in history. We have the best unemployment and employment numbers. More people working today than ever before. But listen to this.

Donald Trump

00:43:46 - 00:44:05 (19 sec)

We have now the greatest economy that we've ever had. We've increased by 20 trillion dollars. China's gone down probably by 30 or 35 trillion dollars. If crooked Hillary had won, China would now be the largest economy in the world. They were going to surpass us, expected to, in the second year of the presidency.

Donald Trump

00:44:05 - 00:44:07 (2 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:44:07 - 00:44:07 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:44:07 - 00:44:09 (2 sec)

They'll never catch up.

Brian Kilmeade

00:44:09 - 00:44:13 (4 sec)

But the farmers were hoping for that huge purchase. And it looks like they want to do a deal --

Donald Trump

00:44:13 - 00:44:31 (18 sec)

But, Brian, they have it. Wait, wait, wait. Just one thing. So they have it because I said, "How much have the farmers lost because of China targeting them?" "Sir? Sixteen million dollars and 12 billion in the previous year," I gave them 12 billion dollars out of the tariffs, had tens of billions left over.

Donald Trump

00:44:31 - 00:44:48 (17 sec)

And I gave them 16 billion out of the tariffs, and had tens of billions left over. Goes into the Treasury. Brian, our farmers are doing great, right? And now we just signed a deal with Japan, 40 billion dollars. They're buying from the farmers. We just signed a deal with South Korea. A tremendous deal. We're making tremendous deals.

Donald Trump

00:44:48 - 00:44:59 (11 sec)

But you have to understand, these deals with China, they've been taking advantage of us for 25 years. It's hard for them to understand it's not going to happen anymore. And now they understand.

Brian Kilmeade

00:44:59 - 00:45:08 (8 sec)

They are calling on you to veto legislation. They are calling on you to veto legislation coming out of the Senate that supports the Hong Kong students. What are you going to do?

Donald Trump

00:45:08 - 00:45:31 (23 sec)

Well, I'll tell you. Look, we have to stand with Hong Kong. But I'm also standing with President Xi. He's a friend of mine. He's an incredible guy. We have to stand. But I'd like to see them work it out. Okay. We have to see and work it out. But I stand with Hong Kong. I stand with freedom. I stand with all of the things that we want to do. But we also are in the process of making the largest trade deal in history.

Donald Trump

00:45:31 - 00:45:54 (23 sec)

And if we could do that, that would be great. China wants it. We want it. And I will say this. If it weren't for me, thousands of people would have been killed in Hong Kong right now. And you wouldn't have any riots. You'd have a police state, but thousands of people. The only reason he's not going in is because I'm saying, "It's going to affect our trade deal, you don't want to do that." I speak to him.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:45:54 - 00:46:09 (15 sec)

Sir, you're running in 2020. And many people are -- we all just assumed your vice-presidential nominee would be Mike Pence. But then we're reading headlines about Kellyanne Conway's husband saying that Nikki Haley is fighting for that position. I'm a South Carolinian originally from South Carolina. Nikki Haley was our governor.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:46:09 - 00:46:14 (5 sec)

And I know she really did a good job as an ambassador. So who is going to be your running mate in 2020?

Donald Trump

00:46:14 - 00:46:31 (17 sec)

No, she's great. Well, first of all, Kellyanne is great, but she's married to a total whack job. I think she must have done some number on him, Ainsley. I don't know what Kellyanne did to that guy, but she -- because I don't even know him. I mean, I've met him for seconds. He's got to be some kind of a nut job.

Donald Trump

00:46:31 - 00:46:53 (22 sec)

She must have done some bad things to him because that guy is crazy. But you know what? Mike Pence is a great vice president. He's our man, 100 percent. Nikki will absolutely be involved. She's a friend of mine. She endorsed me with the most beautiful endorsement you've ever heard. She did a great job at the U.N.. She's now in the private sector.

Donald Trump

00:46:53 - 00:47:13 (20 sec)

I assume she's doing very well. But, Nikki will be back in some form because she's great, and just she's my friend. But no, Mike Pence, I know, I've seen this rumor. It keeps, you know, popping up. And Nikki would be great. But Mike Pence has done a phenomenal job as Vice President. He's our guy. He's my friend.

Donald Trump

00:47:13 - 00:47:18 (5 sec)

And look, we have a great team. This has been a very strong team.

Brian Kilmeade

00:47:18 - 00:47:21 (3 sec)

Mike Pompeo going to the Senate. Are you going to push him to do that?

Donald Trump

00:47:21 - 00:47:44 (22 sec)

So Mike has done an incredible job. You know, I have an incredible cabinet. We don't get enough credit. We have incredible. Mike graduated number one at Harvard Law. Number one at West Point, is an incredible guy, doing a great job in a very complicated world, doing a great job as secretary of state. Remember, they all said, Brian, I'd be in World War III my first day.

Donald Trump

00:47:44 - 00:48:00 (16 sec)

And now they're saying, "Well, he's much more moderate." Well, actually, I rebuilt the military to a level that nobody is going to play games with us. But if we don't have to use it, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. So Mike would win easily in Kansas. Great state. And it's a Trump state. He'd win easily.

Donald Trump

00:48:00 - 00:48:26 (26 sec)

And if I thought they had somebody out there that couldn't win, and Mike would really -- he loves what he's doing. But if I thought they had somebody out there that -- and he came to me and said, "Look, I'd rather stay where I am," but he loves Kansas. He loves the people of Kansas. If he thought there was a chance of losing that seat, I think he would do that, and he would win in a landslide because they love him in Kansas.

Steve Doocy

00:48:26 - 00:48:40 (14 sec)

Well, I am from Kansas, and you're right. It is a great state. I'm Mr. President. A moment ago, you were talking about rumors. I'm sure you saw there was a rumor that, you know, you went to the hospital last week. It wasn't in the schedule.

Donald Trump

00:48:40 - 00:48:40 (0 sec)

Steve Doocy

00:48:40 - 00:48:45 (4 sec)

And obviously something is really the matter with you. So can you tell us what's the matter with you?

Donald Trump

00:48:45 - 00:49:07 (22 sec)

Okay. Yeah. A lot of things are a matter with me. I mean, number one, what did they do this for? But I love it. You know, one of those things. So we had some free time. My doctor calls. He said, "Would you like to do some work?" Because I'm going to be slightly busy in 2020, in January and February, especially if Crazy Nancy does something that nobody ever would even think of doing.

Donald Trump

00:49:07 - 00:49:26 (20 sec)

So I'll be busy interviewing Biden, interviewing, watching the interviews of shifty Schiff, and why he made up all of this stuff, and why he made up my statements. So the doctor called, "Sir, would you like to go out" -- because they had three hours -- "Would you like to go out to Walter Reed and do your first part of the physical right?" I said, "Yeah, go ahead.

Donald Trump

00:49:26 - 00:49:47 (21 sec)

Let's go." So we go out. I go there. I meet with parents. One in particular, I meet with the wife and family of a young soldier who is being operated on and lost his arm and lost a leg. Horrible thing. And I spent time with them. Anyway, I do a very routine part of the physical. Get in the car, come back.

Donald Trump

00:49:47 - 00:50:03 (16 sec)

On the way back, I'm hearing that I'm in the hospital. And by the way, it just so you know, like literally many, many, many cars go, it's not like -- and they have a press van following -- you know when I go, I'd love to be able to go like the old days, when I get in a car and close the doors, lock them up, and drive.

Donald Trump

00:50:03 - 00:50:25 (22 sec)

Right? That doesn't happen anymore. It's a little different. But we have a press van. You know how that works. And so, we drive out to Walter Reed, greatest doctors, greatest everything, greatest place you've ever seen, what they can do. So I start my physical, go see the soldier, go see the families, did a little tour of the building, then get back in. On the way back, I'm hearing rumors that I'm in the hospital.

Donald Trump

00:50:25 - 00:50:46 (21 sec)

Then I'm hearing rumors that I had chest pains. Then I'm hearing rumors that I had a massive heart attack. Then I'm hearing rumors that I'm not coming back. I'm staying at Walter Reed overnight and maybe for a long time. And I say -- I come home and my wife says, "Darling, darling, are you okay?" I said, "Okay from what?". [Laughter] They say, they have it down.

Donald Trump

00:50:46 - 00:50:58 (12 sec)

CNN, mostly CNN, but that stupid MSNBC, which is just as bad. Can you imagine? I made them so much money on The Apprentice and that's the way -- but anyway those two. And so, they started a false narrative.

Steve Doocy

00:50:58 - 00:50:59 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:50:59 - 00:51:08 (9 sec)

And it was this. So the doctor gets on. He said, "No, no." It didn't matter. No matter what we told them, they were going with it.

Brian Kilmeade

00:51:08 - 00:51:11 (3 sec)

So your health -- Mr. President, your health is fine.

Donald Trump

00:51:11 - 00:51:32 (21 sec)

Well, let me tell you this. I just got back from Austin, Texas, where I was with Tim Cook. He's going to be building a one-billion-dollar facility to make whatever he makes. You know, that's Apple. And he's going to build this incredible facility. We toured another facility where they make the Mac Pro, which is phenomenal, which was opening.

Donald Trump

00:51:32 - 00:51:55 (23 sec)

The reason we've opened that day job, they're making all of the Mac Pros all over the world. They're making them right in Austin, Texas. I spent -- I left early. I got home very late. And I did many things in between. And I was sort of joking to some of the people. I said, "Hey, that's not bad considering these people had me all wash up and finished in a hospital that I just get back from a 14-hour day.".

Steve Doocy

00:51:55 - 00:51:56 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:51:56 - 00:52:05 (9 sec)

No. It's a disgrace. Let me just say what it really is. It's fake, disgusting news. I'll let you know -- you know what? Nothing wrong if you're not feeling well. I have --

Steve Doocy

00:52:05 - 00:52:09 (4 sec)

Right. But it wasn't on your schedule, and so people thought, "Oh, there must be something.".

Donald Trump

00:52:09 - 00:52:12 (3 sec)

No, because the doctor said, "Sir." You know, I'm not blaming that.

Brian Kilmeade

00:52:12 - 00:52:13 (1 sec)

Get a phase done.

Donald Trump

00:52:13 - 00:52:18 (5 sec)

You might be able to knock off half of your physical. I said, "You know what? That's not a bad idea" because I had three hours.

Brian Kilmeade

00:52:18 - 00:52:19 (1 sec)

So, Mr. President --

Donald Trump

00:52:19 - 00:52:25 (5 sec)

Between that and watching a football game that I didn't want to watch. What do we -- I had three free hours.

Steve Doocy

00:52:25 - 00:52:25 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:52:25 - 00:52:42 (17 sec)

And he said, "Would you like to do it?" So here's the thing. It's so disgusting what they do because they knew it wasn't true. They went with it. After we certified with medical people, we had three medical people call them up to say it's not true. They went with it anyway. You couldn't kill the story because they're bad people.

Donald Trump

00:52:42 - 00:52:45 (3 sec)

It's fake, corrupt news. It's CNN mostly -- Well, Mr. President --

Donald Trump

00:52:45 - 00:52:45 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:52:45 - 00:52:56 (11 sec)

I think it does good for your health. I'm not a doctor, but if I was to write a prescription, calling in every week to update the country about what's happening might be good for your health. That's something to consider. You have the phone number.

Donald Trump

00:52:56 - 00:52:58 (3 sec)

Well, you know that I've been doing it for years.

Brian Kilmeade

00:52:58 - 00:52:59 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:52:59 - 00:53:01 (2 sec)

With your group, I've been doing it years.

Brian Kilmeade

00:53:01 - 00:53:02 (1 sec)

For stress relief.

Donald Trump

00:53:02 - 00:53:18 (16 sec)

It was up to me -- and it is up to me, and we'll do it more often. But I have a lot of fun doing it. And you know what's the best part? We get the true word out. And here's a true word. Our country is doing great. We're respected again. Our military is strong. We have the number one economy in the world by far.

Donald Trump

00:53:18 - 00:53:32 (14 sec)

And China's never going to catch us as long as we have a smart person where I am. They'll never catch us. They've had the worst year they've had in 57 years, and we've had the best year we've ever had by far. So it's good. I get the word out on your show. I love your show.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:53:32 - 00:53:34 (2 sec)

Thank you so much, Mr. President, for being with us.

Steve Doocy

00:53:34 - 00:53:34 (0 sec)

Brian Kilmeade

00:53:34 - 00:53:35 (1 sec)

President Trump --

Donald Trump

00:53:35 - 00:53:36 (1 sec)

Thanks so much.

Brian Kilmeade

00:53:36 - 00:53:37 (1 sec)

-- thanks so much. Thank you. All right.

Steve Doocy

00:53:37 - 00:53:37 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:53:37 - 00:53:38 (1 sec)