Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Donald Trump's first press conference as president-Full





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You stopped giving quite a bit of an accurate but i do have to say that and i must say i want to thank a lot of organizations here today because they look at that nonsense that was released I maybe the elements Angeles maybe Intelligence Agency tremendous lot i'm going to be impacted that tremendous because the thing that should have written it should never had had release i want to thank a lot of these organizations or some home have not treated very well there's a couple in particular and they came out so strongly against that students and the fact that was really primarily one rule and one television station so I just want two people in the room and respect for others and great respect for treatment of breast all of that and i will tell you there were some organizations what was just said at work so professional so incredibly professional that I've just done up a notch okay alright we had some great news of the last couple weeks have been quite active because you take an economic way the country lot of car companies are going to be moving and other companies because it's going to be announced analytics couple of weeks companies and getting building in the Midwest so just API price little big baby factory going to be built this country as opposed to another country for just announced that they stopped planned floor and billion-dollar plant in Mexico and they're going to be able to get the Michigan expanding very substantially an existing plant appreciate that 20-word appreciated very much from the Empress i hope the general motors will be following and I think they will be I think a lot of people to be involved i think a lot of industries are going to come back we have to get our drug industry coming back drug industry has been disastrous leaving left and right they supply drive but they don't make them here to a large extent and the other thing we have to do is we bidding procedures for the drug industry because they get away with murder pharma the lobbies obvious lot of our and there's very little bitty on drugs the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we don't get properly we're gonna start going to save billions of dollars over and we're gonna do that with a lot of other industries I'm very much involved with the generals and admirals on the aeroplane the f-35 you've been reading about it and it's way way behind schedule and many many billions of dollars over budget I don't like that and the animals have been fantastic the generals have been fantastic I've really gotten on well and we're going to be some big things on the 35 program and perhaps the f-18 program and we're going to get those costs way down and we're going to get the plaintiff you'd better have some competition is going to be a beautiful things so we've been very very much involved and other we had Jack we had so many incredible people coming here there are no they do tremendous things tremendous things in this country and very excited and i will say if the election didn't turn out the way it turned out there would not be here that was not being allowed us to be anybody else's office maybe building and doing things so this is a great spirit going on right now spirit that many people told me and never seen before ever we create jobs i said that i won't be the greatest jobs isn't that guy ever created and I mean I really work very hard.
Need certain amounts of other things including a little bit of luck but I think we're going to do you John and very proud of what we've done and we haven't got there yet I like very much for locating the operation is going to be a beautiful event we have a talent from this town and we have the hands and Muslims from the different different segments of the military and I've heard some of these bands over the years every president we have a very very public and a 20 year is going to be something that will be very very special and beautiful and I didn't have class because we have a woman it's a little bit like the world has never seen before.
It's a movement that a lot of you didn't expect and even the bowls over some of the beginning right.
Many of them didn't and it was a beautiful scene and elaborate as those states started for in we focus very heart of those states and they really reciprocated and whose names you have a lot of jobs you can add a lot of security they could have a lot of good news for the veterans and by the way speaking of veterans I appointed today the head secretary of the Veterans Administration David shopping and we'll do a news release a little while talking about David he's fantastic he's fantastic you will do ain't really which one of the four members that made this straight out the whole situation for veterans or veterans have been treated holiday they waited in line for fifteen sixteen seventeen days cases where they go and they have in minor early stage one cancer they can see a doctor by the time they get to the dr terminal it happen it's not going to happen so David is going to do a fantastic job we're going to be talking to a few people also to help David and we have some of the great hospitals of the world going to align themselves with us on the Veterans Administration like the Cleveland Clinic like the Mayo Clinic few more that we have and we're going to set up a a group these at hospitals that have been the top-of-the-line the absolute top of the line and they're going to get together with their great doctors dr. Toby Cosgrove vision from the Cleveland Clinic has been very involved I Perlmutter has been very very involved one of the great men of business and we're going to straighten out the VA for veterans have been promising that for a long time and and something I feel very very strongly so you get the information on David and I think you'll be very impressed with the job he does we looked long and hard we interviewed at least a hundred people.
Some good some not so good we had a lot of talent and we think this election will be something that will with time with time.
Straighten it out and straighten it out for good because our veterans have been treated very unfairly ok questions yes John thank you sure.
Okay first of all these meetings as you know our confidential classified so I'm not allowed to talk about what went on in a meeting and but we have many witnesses in that meeting many of them with us and i will say again I think it's a disgrace that information would be let out i saw the information i read the information outside of that meeting it's all fake news it's funny stuff it didn't happen and it was gotten by opponents of ours as you know because you reported it and so did many of the other people it was a group of opponents who got together sick people and they put that crap together so i will tell you that not within the meeting but outside of the meeting somebody released it it should never have been number one shouldn't even entered paper but it should never have been released but I read what was released and I think it's a disgrace.
I think it's an absolute disgrace as far as hacking i think was Russian but i think we also get hacked by other countries and other people and i can say that you know when when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently they didn't make a big deal out of that that was something that was extraordinary that was probably china we had we have much hacking going on and one of the things we're gonna do we have some of the greatest computer minds anywhere in the world we've assembled you saw just a sample of it two weeks ago up here where we had the six top people in the world they were never in the same room together as a group and we're gonna put those minds together and we're going to form a defense and i have to say this also the Democratic National Committee was totally open to be hacked they did a very poor job they could have had hacking defense which we had and i will give rights previous credit because when rights so what was happening in the world and with his country he went out and went to various firms and ordered a very very strong hacking defense and they tried to hack the Republican National Committee and were unable to break through we have to do that for our country is very important.
Well you know President Putin and Russia put out a statement today that this fake news was indeed fake news they said it totally never happy that somebody would say all of course he's gonna say that I respected the fact that he said that and I i'll be honest i think if he did have something they would have released it they would have been glad to release i think frankly had broken into the Republican National Committee I think they would have released it just like they did about Hillary and all of the horrible things that her people like mr. Podesta said about her I mean what he said about her was horrible if somebody said about me what Podesta said about Hillary I was the boss I would have fired him immediately or that person because what he said about her was horrible but remember this we talk about the hacking Atkins bad and it should be done but look at the things that were hacked look at what was learned from that acting that Hillary Clinton got the questions to the debate and didn't report it.
That's a horrible thing that's a horrible thing can you imagine that if Donald Trump got the questions to the debate it would have been the biggest story in the history of stories and they would have said immediately you have to get out of the race nobody even talk about it's very terrible thing yeah well if if Putin likes Donald Trump i consider that an asset not a liability because we have a horrible relationship with Russia Russia can help us fight Isis which by the way is number one tricky i mean if you look this administration created Isis by leaving at the wrong time the void was created Isis was formed if Putin likes Ronald Trump guess what folks that's called an asset not a liability now I don't know that i'm going to get along with Vladimir Putin i hope i do but there's a good chance i won't and if I don't do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me.
Does anybody in this room really believe that give me a break.
Ok I promise that we can make clear weather during your visits to either Moscow was sooo Petersburg you engaged in conduct you now regret and a reason why don't I thought our meeting was ever say that you are potentially vulnerable to blackmail by your bites intelligence agency and we just do what i do when i leave our country i'm a very high-profile person would you say i am extremely careful i'm surrounded by bodyguards.
I'm surrounded by people and I always tell them anywhere but I always tell them if i'm leaving this country be very careful because in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go you there probably have cameras i'm not referring just two Russian but i would certainly put them in that category and number one I hope you're gonna be good anyway but in those rooms you have cameras in the strangest places cameras that are so small with modern technology you can see them and you won't know you better be careful or you'll be watching yourself on nightly television I tell this to people all the time i was in Russia years ago with the miss universe contest which did very well.
Moscow the Moscow area did very very well and I told many people be careful because you don't want to see yourself and television cameras all over the place and again not just want you all over.
Does anyone really believe that story i'm also very much of a germaphobe by the way believe me so I tweeted out that I have no dealings with Russian I have no deals in Russian I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we've stayed away and i have no loans with Russia as a real estate developer i have very very little debt i have assets that are and now people have found out how big the company is a very little done a very low dead but i have no loans with Russia at all and I thought that was important to put in a certified that so i have no deals.
I have no loans and have no dealings we could make deals in Russia very easily we wanted to I just don't want to because i think that would be a conflict so i have no loans no dealings and no current pending deals now i have to say one other thing over the weekend i was offered two billion dollars to do a deal in Dubai with a very very very amazing man great great developer from the Middle East hussain to match a friend of mine great guy and was offered two billion dollars to do a deal in Dubai number of deals and I turned it down I didn't have to turn it down because as you know i have a no conflict situation because i'm president which is I didn't know about that until about three months ago but it's a nice thing to have but I don't want to take advantage of something I have something that others don't have.
Vice-president fence also has it i don't think you'll need it i have a feeling it's not going to do but having no conflict of interest provision as president.
It was many many years old this is for president because they don't want president's getting I understand they don't want president's getting tangled up in minutia they want a president to run the country so i could actually run my business i could actually run my business and run government at the same time.
I don't like the way that looks but I would be able to do that if I wanted to be the only one that would be able to do that you can't do that in any other capacity but as a president I could run the Trump Organization great great company and I could run the company at the country i do a very good job but I don't want to do that now all of these papers that you see here yes go ahead and truck well not really same tax returns because as you know they're under on it oh gee I've never heard that are all that you have never heard that I've never heard that before you know the only one that cares about my tax returns of the reporters ok they're the only ones but but no i don't think so i want you i mean i became no I don't think they care at all i don't think they care at all i think you care.
I think you care to persuade you learned very little from a tax return what you should do is go down to federal elections and take a look at the numbers and actually people have learned a lot about my company and now they realized my company is much bigger much more powerful than they ever thought were in many many countries and I'm very proud of it and what I'm going to be doing is my two sons who are right here Don and eric are going to be running the company they are going to be running it in a very professional manner they're not going to discuss it with me again i don't have to do this we're not going to discuss it with me and with that i'm going to bring up Sherry dylan and she's going to go through these papers are just some of the many documents that I've signed turning over complete and total control to my son we ask you one more question on Russia those are there was once you're saying not only you but also your cabin is filled with interest and you can't send the picture to make sure that your your cabinet and everyone right good question i really think that when you watch what's going on with at what's happening and why I was just watching as an example.
Rex Tillerson I think it's brilliant what he's doing and what he's saying i watched yesterday as you know our great senator.
Who is going to be a great attorney general and he was brilliant and what people don't know is that he was a great prosecutor and attorney general in Alabama and he was brilliant yesterday so I really think that they are i think we have one of the great cabinets ever put together and we've been hearing that from so many people people are so happy you know the case of wrecks here an incredibly exxonmobil when there was a fine he would get it when they needed something he would be their friend of mine is very very substantial and the oil business how old ham support he said there's nobody in the business like Rex Tillerson and that's what we want that's what i want to bring the government i want to bring the greatest people in the government because we're way behind we don't make deals anymore said all the time its features we don't make deals anymore we make bad deals or trade deals are a disaster.
We have hundreds of billions of dollars of losses on a yearly basis hundreds of billions with China on trade and trade imbalance with Japan with Mexico with just about everybody we don't make good deals anymore so we need people that are smart we need people that are successful they got successful because generally speaking they're smart and that's when I put on very proud of the cabinet i think they're doing very well it's a very interesting how it's going but it's I think they're doing very very well on Obamacare yeah can you be specific on what guidance you're giving congressional Republicans on the timeline for repeal and replace sure whether it needs to be simultaneous finally Obamacare thought it was never going to be and I wanted to ask you though if you have outlined a plan for what you want to replace package to look like what it guaranteed coverage for those who have gotten health insurance through the current Obamacare law you can be very very proud as not only the media and reporters you can be very proud of what we put forth having to do with health care.
Obamacare is a complete and total disaster they can say what they want they can guide you any way they want to guide you in some cases they guide you incorrectly in most cases you realize what's happened it's imploding as we sit.
Some states have over a hundred percent increase and 17 and I said this two years ago 17 is going to be the bad year it's going to be catastrophic frankly we could sit back and it was a thought from a political standpoint but it wouldn't be fair to the people we could sit back and wait and watch and criticize and we could be a chuck schumer and sit back and criticize it and people would come today would come begging to us please we have to do something about obamacare will want on it we don't want on it politically they own it right now so the easiest thing would be to let implode in 17 and believe me we get pretty much whatever we wanted but it would take a long time we're going to be submitting as soon as our secretaries approved almost simultaneously shortly thereafter a plan it'll be repeal and replace it will be essentially simultaneously it will be various segments you understand but will most likely be on the same day or the same week but probably the same day could be the same hour so we're going to repeal and replace very complicated stuff and we're gonna get a health bill passed we're gonna get healthcare taking care of in this country you have deductibles that are so high that after people go broke paying their premiums which are going through the roof the healthcare can be used by them because the deductibles are so high Obamacare is the Democrats problem we're going to take the problem off the shelves for them.
We're doing them a tremendous service by doing it we could sit back and let them hang with it we are doing the Democrats a great service.
As soon as our secretary is approved and gets into the office will be filing a plan and it was actually pretty accurately reported today the New York Times and the plan will be repeal and replace Obamacare we're going to have a health care that is far less expensive and far better.
Ok I like going faster sir electronic deposit which one was like well i was going right here I go ahead then CBS is like Jon Steinberg chatter when you look at all the meetings that you had the carrier Softbank alibaba you can see by making this a program may be sitting inside of commerce and my fault question to that is how soon will we see the program on Capitol repatriation and corporate tax cuts.
Well I can save jobs for instance i was doing individual companies and people said well it's only one company like we did a good job with carrier and I want to thank united technologies which owns carrier but we save close to a thousand jobs and they were gone and Mike Pence and his staff really helped us a lot but those which I that was a tough one because they announced a year-and-a-half before that they will leave it so it's always tough when they're building a plant it's a little tougher than before they start before they make an announcement so I want to thank united technologies but we've been meeting with a lot of companies but what really is happening is the word is now out that when you want to move your plant to Mexico or some other place and you want to fire all of your workers from Michigan and Ohio and all these places that I one for good reason not going to happen that way anymore you want to move your plant and you think as an example you could build that plant in Mexico and you're gonna make your air conditioners or your cars or whatever you make it and you're going to sell it throughly what will be a very very strong border not a week border like it is that we don't even have a border it's an open civ but you're gonna sell through a very strong border not gonna happen you gonna pay a very large border tax so if you want to move to another country and if you want to fire all of our great American workers that got you there in the first place you can move from Michigan to Tennessee and to North Carolina and South Carolina you can move from South Carolina.
Back to Michigan you can do anyway you got a lot of states at play a lot of competition so it's not like oh gee I'm taking the competition we get a lot of places you can move and I don't care as long as it's within the United States the borders of the United States there will be a major bored attacks on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder and if our politicians had what it takes that would have done this years ago and you have millions more workers right now in the united states that are 96 million really wanting a job and they can't get you know that's doing the real number what's the real number so that's the way it is ok go ahead i have a question about Supreme Court and yes security but I also want to ask you about something you said on Twitter this morning are we living in Nazi Germany what are you driving at their you have a problem with the intelligence community and on the Supreme Court what's your timeline you said a while ago you down to four have you conducted those interviews yet what's your timeline for nominating and on the border fence it now appears clear us taxpayers have to pay for it upfront what is you're trying thats not clear at all ok I got a paper i got you have any more on defense and offense to wal you just miss reported it we're going to build a world I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico which will start immediately after we get to office but I don't away Mike Pence is leading an effort to get final approvals through various agencies and through Congress for the world to begin I don't feel like waiting a year year-and-a-half going to start building mexico in some form and there are many different forms will reimburse us and they will reimburse us for the cost of the wall that will happen whether its attacks or whether it's a payment probably less likely that is a payment but that will happen so remember this okay i would say we are going to build a wall and people would go crazy i would then say who's going to pay for the wall and people would all scream out twenty-five thirty thousand people because nobody's ever had crowds like Trump his head you know that you don't like to report that but that's ok ok now he agrees fine.
He agrees but I say who's going to pay for the wall and they will scream out Mexico now reports one out last week Oh Mexico's not going to pay for the world because of a reimbursement what's the difference.
I want to get the world started I don't want to wait a year and a half until i make my deal with Mexico so and we probably will have a deal sooner than that.
And by the way Mexico has been so nice so nice i respect the government of Mexico I respect the people of mexico i left the people of Mexican many people from Mexico working for me they're phenomenal people the government of Mexico is terrific I don't blame them for what happened i don't blame them for taking advantage of the United States I wish our politicians were so smart.
Mexico has taken advantage of the United States I don't blame the representatives and various presidents etc of Mexico what i say is we shouldn't have allowed that to happen it's not gonna happen anymore so in order to get the wall started Mexico will pay for the wall but it will be reimbursed ok Supreme Court Judge so as you don't have a list of 20 have gone through we've met with numerous candidates their outstanding in every case they were largely recommended and highly recommended by federalist society.
Jim DeMint was also very much involved in his group which is fantastic and he's a fantastic guy so between Leo and jim demint and some senators and some congresspeople we have a great group of people i'll be making the decision on who we will put up for justice of the united states supreme court a replacement for the great great justice color that will be probably within two weeks of the 20th so within about two weeks probably the second week i consider the first day because we'll also be doing some some pretty good signings and I think what we'll do is we'll wait till monday that will be our really first business day as opposed to doing on friday because I'm friday people are gonna have a very good time at the inauguration and then saturday as you know we're having a big your service and lots of good things are happening so our first day and you'll be invited to the signings but we'll be doing some pretty good signings on monday and tuesday and wednesday and thursday and friday and then also the next week and you're all invited but on the Supreme Court i'll be making that decision and it will be a decision which I very strongly believe in I think it's one of the reasons i got elected i think the people of this country did not want to see what was happening with the supreme court so i think it was a very very big decision as to why i was elected from like this morning about are we living in nineteen what are you driving at what are you trying to tell me i think it was a disgraceful disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out i think it's a disgrace and I say that and I say that and that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do I think it's a disgrace that information that was false and fake and never happened that released to the public as far as both speed which is a failing pile of garbage writing it I think they're going to suffer the consequences they already are and as far as CNN going out of their way to build it up and by the way we just felt that I was coming out michael cohen I was being in my code is a very talented lawyers a good where my firm was just reported that it wasn't this Michael Kohn they were talking about so all night long it's michael come i said i want to see your passport he brings his passport to my office I say hey wait a minute he didn't leave the country he wasn't out of the country they had my goal cone of the Trump Organization was in Prague it turns out to be a different Michael Kohn it's a disgrace.
What took place it's a disgrace and I think they want to apologize to start with Michael Cancer Center attacking us can you give us a question dimer it's not mr. parallax doesn't glad that you are in our organization not give us your organization or darken our news or in your organization gets down and that's not the question circus or quiet they quiet mr. president like go ahead you think she's asking a question don't be real i can you give us a county road us can you give us a question be we're not gonna give you what I'm not gonna give you a question you say can you are fake news sir go ahead you they categorically that nobody else was present like that's not vibrate Obama went too far with the sanctions on Russia after the hacking you think I don't tell you went too far no no I don't say please send me a bill for what I hadn't heard Lindsey Graham is going to do that.
Lindsay grain I've been competing with him for a long time he's gonna crack that one percent barrier one day I didn't realize Lindsey Graham still at it.
Sorry I think Lindsey Graham's a nice guy actually I've heard that he's a nice guy and I've been hearing I banana yeah go ahead go ahead go ahead you've been waiting good we understand the community center place yet final from BBC news channel from BBC news BBC News it's another beauty.
Thank you and as far as we understand the intelligence community are still looking at these allegations are false news as you described if they come back with any kind of conclusion that any of it stands up any of it is true when you consider your position with you there's nothing they can come back with a yes election what reforms you recommend for this industry.
Well i don't recommend reforms i recommend people that are that have some moral compass you have been hearing more and more about i think all fake news and talking about people to go and say all sorts of things but i will tell you some of the media outlets that idea with the fake news more so than anybody i could name them but i will bother but you have a few sitting right in front of us so they're very very dishonest people but I i think which is something we're going to have to live with.
I guess the advantage I have is that i can speak back when it happens to somebody that doesn't have this doesn't have that kind of a megaphone they can't speak back it's a very sad thing i've seen people destroyed I've seen people absolutely destroyed and I think it's very unfair so all I can ask for his honest reporters yes they do you trust your US intelligence officials in what you say 24 policy experts say you're actually beginning national security likely to work against that intelligence agencies are vital and very very important we are going to be putting in as you know mr. Pompeo and others you know the senator dan coats we're going to be putting in some outstanding people within 90 days they're going to be coming back to me with a major report on hacking I want them to cover this situation i also want them however to cover maybe most importantly because we hacked by everybody you know the United States our government out of a list of 17 in terms of interest rates is the worst number 17 in terms of protection if you look at the retail industry if you look at the banking industry various industries out of 17 industries they put this in the category of an industry the United States is last in terms of protecting let's say hacking defense like we had a great hacking defense at the republican national committee that's why we were attacked by the way we were told they were trying to hack us but they weren't able to hack and I think I get some credit because I told writes and writes in a phenomenal job but I said I want strong hacking defense the Democratic National Committee didn't do that maybe that's why the country run so badly that way but i will tell you wait wait wait let me finish within 90 days we will be coming up with a major report on hacking defense.
How do we stop this new phenomena surely new phenomena because the United States is hacked by everybody that includes Russia and China and everybody everybody okay.
But now that you believe that Russia was responsible for the hacking of the DNC and fountain st emails etc Russian but do you know what could have been others also spend weeks undermining US intelligence community before are simply getting the facts and then making a public.
Well I think it's pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press.
I think it's pretty set first of all it's illegal you know these are these are classified and certified meetings and reports that say what does happen i have many meetings with intelligence and every time I meet people are reading about it.
Somebody's looking enough so that I said maybe it's my office maybe my office because i have a lot of people a lot of great people.
Maybe it's that and what I did is I said I won't tell anybody gonna have a meeting and I won't tell anybody about my meeting with intelligence and what happened is I had my meeting nobody knew not even wanna my executive assistant for years she didn't know I didn't tell her.
Nobody knew the meaning was had the meeting was over they left and immediately the word got out that a meeting so I don't want that I don't want that it's very unfair to the country is very unfair to our country what's happened that report should have never first what should have been printed because it's not worth the paper it's written on and I think the new york times for saying that I think a lot of different people for saying that but I will tell you that should never ever happened okay thank you mr. president like can you stand here today once and for all and say that no one connected to you or your campaign had any contact with Russia leading up to or during the presidential campaign and if you indeed do believe that Russia was behind the hacking what is your message to Vladimir Putin right now he shouldn't be doing it he won't be doing it.
Russia will have much greater respect for our country when i'm leading it then when other people have let it you will see that Russia will respect our country more.
He shouldn't have done it I don't believe you'll be doing it more now we have to work something out but it's not just Russia take a look at what's happened you don't reported the same way 22 million accounts were hacked in this country by China and that's because we have no defense.
That's because we run by people that don't know what they're doing Russia will have far greater respect for our country when I'm reading it and I believe and I hope maybe it won't happen it's possible but i will be given a little reset button like Hillary here press this piece of plastic I looked at her like what is she doing is where we set but we're either gonna get along or not I hope we get along but if we don't that's possible too but Russia and other countries and other countries including China which is taking total advantage of us economically totally advantage of us in the south china sea by building their massive fortress total Russia China Japan Mexico all countries will respect us Bob or far more than they do under past administration i want to thank everybody so this is all just so you understand these papers I cuz I'm not sure that was explained properly but these papers are all just a piece of the many many companies that are being put into trust to be run by my two sons a nap.


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