President Donald Trump slams New York City mayor over surge in crime and violence.
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Been great
Ainsley, Mr President, let me
ask you something that so many
people are concerned about in
our country. If you look at
Portland Seattle Chicago, if
you look at New York City, I know
youve sent a warning to our
mayor here in New Yorkdeblasio
after another bloody weekend,
whats the mayors response, and
what are you asking him to do?
President Trump, the mayor has
no response.
He doesnt know what hes doing
hes a fool:
hes, a socialist communist,
maybe hes a fool.
He got rid of some of the most
talented policemen that there
are in the world, and that
includes looking for very bad
things. All beyond New York.
Some of those people are gone
and thats no good.
No, this is a fool.
This is a fool.
Look at the shootings.
When I left New York four years
ago, New York was, I could see
the seeds of this because
hes been a bad mayor, but New
York was good.
It was okay,
it all happened recently.
It all came together
all of this over a period of
years as hes been mayor, but
about a year and then six
months ago, its incredible what
happened
when I left New York four years
ago, we were doing great.
I was doing good.
Everybody was doing good
now, but you could see the seeds
were being sewn
the seeds. It was happening. Bad
stuff was happening. You could
see it. The squeegies were
starting to come out. Tents were
starting to be built on the
sidewalk.
Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor.
Rudy Giuliani did a great job
between window. You know fixed
broken windows because he said
thats a sign and it leads a lot
of people. Wouldnt even
understand that
its psychologically very
important but Rudy. He was a
great mayor and he did stop and
frisk.
He did stop and frisk.
He took guns away from bad
people.
Now, if you take a gun away from
a bad people, oh you got, you
know they sue you.
They sue you
its so crazy. What theyve
allowed to happen, and if the
Democrats got in you have to
understand youre only talking
about a small, tiny portion of
our country,
most of the country is strong
law abiding no games.
I was in Texas. We had one hundred thousand
people along the highway.
I was in Texas, I was in Florida.
I got the sheriffs
endorsement all over Florida and
you have to see
these people arent playing
games.
This is New York Chicago. These
are Portland is just run by
fools.
It is run by fools
Steve. Mr President, you know
because the Dnc is kicking off
today and because, for the most
part, reporters have not been
able to ask Joe Biden any
serious questions because he is
sequestered at his place there,
in Delaware in large
measure its going to come down
to the debates where its you
and him on the stage for two
hours over three nights.
Can you tell us a little bit
about your debate prep so far,
and what your approach is going
to be because im sure youre
going to feel like the
moderators are asking you
questions that are much harder
than Joe Biden and then youre
going to turn to Joe Biden and
youre going to bring something
up that they have not.
Are you going to be super
aggressive toward Joe Biden, as
well as answering the
questions or whats going
on
President Trump? Well, that
happened last time with Hillary
and also in the republican
primaries.
They gave me much tougher
questions than anybody else and
according to the polls, they do
the polls after the debates- and
I won every single poll and
every single debate- and I never
did it professionally before
you know all these guys and
their politicians and thats
what they do for a living. I
never did it, but you know what I
mean Time magazine poll and
this and that all these
different polls that they had.
I won every single poll of every
single debate,
Steve. So how are you preparing
for this debate?
President Trump, by working very
hard? You know what by working
very hard, not on debates but on
running the country, but because
you know its like, I see where
everybody says: oh,
were working with Trump.
Honestly, what im doing is im
doing my job.
My job is telling me, I mean
thats, the best debate, prep
ive sort of been preparing all
my life thats. What I do, but I
guess ill, do some preparation,
but I didnt do much last time
because I understand whats
happening,
I mean law and order. We need
law and order.
You dont have to prep for that.
You cant have these stupid,
stupid people from Portland,
where the mayor goes into the
crowd and they want to tear
him apart.
I mean the whole thing is crazy,
whats going on
Brian, but, Mr President, for
example, you know that you have
to prepare for TED Cruz
differently than Marco Rubio, and
you watched Joe Biden against
Bernie Sanders, and you said you
were surprised how well he did.
Will you go back and look at
Biden against Ryan? Will you go
back and look at Sanders and the
word is youre using Chris
Christie to play Joe Biden,
President Trump? Well, no im
not using Chris
Chris is a friend of mine that
got out there.
Everybody says oh im, helping
Trump with this.
No im, not
I get along with Chris hes
good and I may use him.
I used him last time to play the
role of Hillary Clinton.
There was big differences there
between those two. I will tell
you, but Chris was good and tough
Brian. What does Biden bring
President Trump Biden? Look
Biden is shot
im telling you hes shot
theres, nothing going on
now with that being said, I
dont underestimate anybody.
Only a fool would do that
because Joe Biden is okay,
he wasnt Winston Churchill, but
he was okay against crazy Bernie.
Now Bernie was bad in that
debate. You know he was ranting
like a lunatic, so Joe sat there
and watched and he was able to
get answers out, but Joe ive
seen Joe in other debates where
he is so bad. I never thought
Joe would get there, because if
you go back into the many debate
s that they had, because I
got to watch quite a few of them
as much as I could thats called
debate, prep too. To be honest, but
I watched Joe.
He was so bad in some of those
Democrat debates where he
had a lot of people on stage
that I said well, Joe, is dead,
has to be dead and remember. If
Elizabeth Warren got out just
got utility didnt have to
endorse Joe wouldnt, be the guy,
it would have been Bernie
Bernie got wacked twice unfairly
by the party
hes, the greatest loser ive
ever seen in a nice sense. In
other words, he obviously likes
losing, because I want to use a
different word more accurate, but
they took advantage of him the
first time in twenty sixteen, and they
took tremendous advantage of him
here.
They piled up on him and then
she left right after Super
Tuesday.
If she would have stayed in if
she would have stayed in the
race by staying in the race
she gave it to Joe,
if she would have gotten out,
Bernie would have gotten all of
those votes, all of those votes
or most of her votes.
He would have won every state,
because Super Tuesday is where
it ended, and the only reason is
that she stayed in
and then she got out right after
Super Tuesday, but by that time
it was too late.
Brian, you dont expect much
from him.
President Trump. I have to tell
you its amazing how nicely
Bernie takes it.
He takes it like. You know, hes,
a major loser
Brian, but when you look at
Biden in particular, if he goes
and is okay and if you got the
standards so low thatll,
look like a win for him.
Do you feel so you have to do
that
President Trump Brian? So I
have big news.
This is breaking news today.
If we won a debate and were all
set, weve agreed theyre making
one mistake: they should have one
of the debates before ballots
start going out. You know the
absentee ballots. Hopefully
we have many court cases, so a
lot of things are going to
happen over the next two weeks.
We have a case in Pennsylvania, a
lot of cases.
We have a case in Nevada, so you
know a lot of things are going
to happen with respect to the
universal voting, which is the
greatest scam of all time. If
its allowed to go but absentee
ballot, but the one of the debate
s should be early.
One of the debates should be
early, but you know Joe
Biden. We can see that Joe Biden
doesnt want to debate, but here
is the story.
If Joe makes it through the
debate, I think they are an
hour and a half and I said
only standing, you have to stand,
but if Joe makes it through the
debate, the news, not you,
people lets see the three of
you yeah, im, pretty sure youll
call it straight, but the news
will say it was the greatest
performance in the history of
debating.
He was brilliant.
He was unbelievable, Joe Biden.
All he has to do is if he can
make it off the stage and walk
back unassisted. They will say
it was the single greatest
debate performance in history.
You know that and so do I
Ainsley so, Mr President, what
are the issues to separate you
all?
Because when you go to the polls,
you really have to look at the
issues.
Either people agree with your
policies or they agree with
Biden and the Democrats and
sometimes the progressive
policies. So what are the
different issues that
separate you when people are on
the fence when it comes to this
election
president Trump? Well, its
everything
you just dont have enough time
left.
You only have a short number of
hours left
I mean we could talk all day,
but its energy,
its fracking,
its stock market,
look whats going to happen with
the stock market,
its going to set new records
and Joe will crash it.
The market will crash
its health care.
They want to do socialized,
medicine,
socialized, medicine,
now youre going to lose your
doctor. Just like Obama lied. You
can keep your doctor. You can
keep your plan. You remember, he
said it twenty eight different times
it was a total lie, but now
youre going to lose your doctor,
we got rid of the individual
mandate for Obamacare. That was
the most unpopular part that
actually killed Obamacare by the
way, but that was the most
unpopular thing in all of
government and I was able to
get it voted out, which was
amazing.
They want to put it back.
You just told me about the wall.
They dont want security. They
dont want open borders.
Second amendment they want to
either obliterate it or get rid
of it entirely.
Look at Kamala and Biden
he put Beto, who turned out to
be a total anti gun guy, who
turned out to be a total
disaster for the party by the
way, but they put Beto in
charge of guns.
Nra gave me the strongest
endorsement theyve, given
anybody by the way and if you
look at the gun situation, its
horrible
one other thing real fast.
I watched today and you have
drug companies, advertising
against me
thats, because im going to
reduce drug prices by fifty sixty seventy
because im doing favored
anythings Nobodys done that
before
Germany pays a tiny fraction Uk
Canada all these countries,
they pay a fraction of what the
United States pays and I
told them for a long time, youre
going to make a deal or do
favorite nations.
Favored nations means we pay the
same as these countries that
are paying much much less
now. So what theyre doing is
going out and doing ads against
me
anytime? You see a drug ad
against Donald Trump.
That means prices are coming
down, but Nobodys ever done, that
plus rebate
were getting rebate and keeping
them and giving them back to the
people
Steve. Mr President,
President Trump Nobodys ever
done that
Steve. Let me ask you about a
breaking news story from the
Wall Street Journal.
They say the Trump Adminitration
plans to open up part of the
pristine Arctic national
Wildlife refuge to oil drilling.
What can you tell us about that?
President Trump well were
looking at different thick
things we may or may not do it.
We did do an war thats a big
deal that Ronald Regan couldnt
get done.
Everybody wanted it
Steve. This says youre planning
to allow it
President Trump. Well, no, we are
looking at it when you say
planning to allow. We are looking
at different things in Alaska,
ive been very good to Alaska,
very good to Alaska, and we are
looking at things in Alaska.
I got them a highway thats
going to be built, theyve been
after for forty four years. We will take
a look at that.
I am very pro energy.
At the same time, im very look
at what we just signed with
Corey, Gardner and Steve Danes.
Just two weeks ago
we signed the biggest
environmental bill.
They said the biggest since
Teddy Roosevelt and it could be
bigger when you add for what I
did for Utah so im very much, I
hate to say it in theory. I
should go down as a great
environmental president, because
if you take a look at that, add
that on to what we did also, if
you look at, I opened up the mine,
the iron ore mines. We
have the best in the world, so I
opened that and you know, ive
reversed things. Also
look at Maine.
President Obama shut down five thousand
square mile. Do you know what
five thousand square miles of fishing
and lobster fishing in Maine?
I opened it up for Maine,
then I got rid of the tariffs in
Europe and China for them,
because they couldnt do
business because Europe and
China had tariffs on them as
usual.
They take advantage of the U dot S
and I should win the
state of Maine. I mean what
I did for them was you know. I
dont know that I will,
I know ill win, half of it. Ill
win, Maine two, but ive done
things. No other president be
capable of doing and hate to
brag, but I have no choice
because the press isnt going to
say it
Ainsley. Mr President, we
appreciate you being with us. I
know you tweeted out about your
brothers death.
You said youll see him again
one day and to rest in peace.
We wish you the best, as you have
to plan his funeral youre in
Americas, thoughts and prayers.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-17.