Transcript - Interview: Harris Faulkner Interviews Donald Trump on Outnumbered Overtime - December 13, 2018 | Factba.se

Harris Faulkner

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The New York Times is saying that a tabloid publisher's deal to hush money is now endangering Trump even more. I'm paraphrasing a little bit. You know as you look at this, what do you want the nation to know about your former attorney being sentenced yesterday?

Donald Trump

00:00:18 - 00:00:41 (24 sec)

I don't think -- and I have to go check. I don't think they even paid any money to that tabloid. I don't think we've made a payment to that tabloid. I was asking the question last -- I don't think we made a payment, and then you have the other situation and every lawyer -- look Trump didn't violate campaign finance laws and neither did the president -- Trump [Inaudible]. So they're saying that --

Harris Faulkner

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Oh, wait. I interviewed him on my program the other day.

Donald Trump

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Harris Faulkner

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Hans Von Spakovsky.

Donald Trump

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He's another one. Michael Cohen plead guilty to something that isn't even a crime.

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

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Wait a minute. These are campaigns. Nobody except for me would be looked at this like -- nobody. What about Congress? Where they had a slush fund and millions and millions of dollars is paid out each year. They have a slush fund -- millions they don't talk about campaign finance or anything -- have you ever heard of campaign finance list?

Donald Trump

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Have they listed that on their campaign finance sheets? No.

Harris Faulkner

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All the ones I've covered -- [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

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Number one they say it's not a campaign finance violation. Number two or it's not even under campaign finance -- number two if it was, it's not even a violation. Number three it's a civil matter. You know President Obama had a really big one from ten times more money -- much more money and you know what?

Donald Trump

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He paid a fine. I'm the only one that this happens to.

Harris Faulkner

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So Robert Ray, former Special Counsel for White Water --

Donald Trump

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He's a good man.

Harris Faulkner

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-- was telling me on the program yesterday what you're saying that if this happens he said he couldn't see grounds for impeachment over that. He couldn't see grounds for indictment over that. That's his opinion, but it's an --

Donald Trump

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Harris Faulkner

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-- informed opinion that I've seen that there's not settled law in that anyway. But I --

Donald Trump

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These are the people that ran the FEC, Federal Elections Commission. These people writing stories that Trump did nothing wrong, I did nothing wrong.

Harris Faulkner

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So Mr. President let's get into if we can -- Michael Cohen. He was your attorney. Three years he was sentenced yesterday and it may seem like he got a break because it could have been twice as much but it's still three years in federal prison, $500,000 in restitution. This was someone who surreptitiously recorded you.

Donald Trump

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Harris Faulkner

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Is now known as a criminal liar, yet this is someone who was in your inner circle.

Donald Trump

00:02:30 - 00:02:36 (5 sec)

Yes, well it happens. I mean look, it happens. I hire usually good people but it just happens.

Harris Faulkner

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Why did you hire Michael Cohen? He was known as a fixer --

Donald Trump

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Years ago, I'll tell you what first of all --

Harris Faulkner

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That was his title. [Inaudible].

Donald Trump

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He did very low level work.

Harris Faulkner

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Why did you need him?

Donald Trump

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He did more public relations than he did law. But he did -- so if you'd see him on television, he was OK on television, but years ago, many years, like 12, 13 years ago, he did me a favor. He was on a committee and he was so responsive and so good. And I said, he's a nice guy. I should --

Harris Faulkner

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Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That was the favor?

Donald Trump

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Harris Faulkner

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Because, people have been asking, well, what is the favor that he did the president? He was on a committee with you.

Donald Trump

00:03:05 - 00:03:23 (18 sec)

Oh no. He was on a committee, it was a condominium committee many years ago and he was a very big supporter of mine on that committee. I did a great job, Trump World Towers, a very tall building right opposite the United Nations, and when you build a building people always get together at the end and they make a settlement with the owner.

Donald Trump

00:03:23 - 00:03:42 (19 sec)

They say the ceiling wasn't painted the right color or something. Sometimes serious stuff, but in my case it was a great building. And he was on the committee, I think he was a great guy. I thought he was really a nice guy. He was very supportive. And I liked him and he was a lawyer, and because of that, I did it. And you know what, in retrospect, I made a mistake.

Donald Trump

00:03:42 - 00:03:58 (16 sec)

Because what he did was all unrelated to me except for the two campaign finance charges that are not criminal and shouldn't have been on there. They put that on to embarrass me. They put those two charges on to embarrass me. They're not criminal charges, number one. Now, that's according -- Harris, that's according to the top people.

Harris Faulkner

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And I've interviewed people who've told me this, that they're not criminal. So, you watch the program you know.

Donald Trump

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So what happened is either Cohen or the prosecutors, in order to embarrass me, said listen, I'm making this deal for reduced time and everything else, do me a favor, put these two charges on. They're not criminal charges.

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

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And they weren't for President Obama either.

Harris Faulkner

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I want to move on. I have one last question. Michael Cohen says that he lied in order to protect you. What's your response to that?

Donald Trump

00:04:24 - 00:04:43 (19 sec)

Let me tell you, I never directed him to do anything wrong. Whatever he did, he did on his own. He's a lawyer. A lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing, that's why you pay them a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera. He is a lawyer, he represents a client. I never directed him to do any incorrect or wrong.

Donald Trump

00:04:43 - 00:05:08 (25 sec)

And he understands that. Look, he did some bad things, unrelated to me, maybe related to his other clients. I wasn't his only client, he had other clients. He did some bad things and -- income taxes evasion, I heard about taxi cab -- I heard about a lot of things. Now, I'm not reading about any of that stuff, because what he did is he made a deal to embarrass me. In order to embarrass me they cut his term down.

Donald Trump

00:05:08 - 00:05:31 (23 sec)

Pretty terrible stuff. Let me tell you the other thing, his father-in-law is a very rich guy, I hear. His father-in-law, I thought, was the guy that was the primary focus. Well, what did he do? Did he make a deal to keep his father-in-law out? Did he make a deal to keep his wife, who supposedly, maybe I'm wrong, but you can check it, did he make keep -- make a deal to keep his wife out of trouble?

Donald Trump

00:05:31 - 00:05:45 (14 sec)

Now, how many people, when they say, "Listen, if you embarrass the President of the United States we'll give you a deal, your father-in-law, your wife, we'll cut you a deal." That's all it is. It's a terrible system we have. It's going on right now with General Flynn. The FBI said he didn't lie.

Harris Faulkner

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I saw you tweet on that about --

Donald Trump

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But Mueller said he did lie, so they took a man who's a General and a respected person and a nice man -- and I don't even know what he said about me, because maybe they scared him enough that he'll make up a story, but I have a feeling that maybe he's a tougher kind of guy than Cohen, but they took a General that they said didn't lie and they convinced him he did lie and he made some kind of a deal.

Donald Trump

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And now they're recommending no time. You know why? Because they're embarrassed that they got caught.

Harris Faulkner

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All right, let's move on. So you mentioned Ohio, so I'm going to bring up John Kasich and I'm going to bring up Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, because they say they may run against you in 2020.

Donald Trump

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Harris Faulkner

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But look at the new Fox polling today which has your -- your approval rating at 46 percent, which is just a couple tics off of your highest point in '17 --

Donald Trump

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It was higher than Obama.

Harris Faulkner

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-- What -- what is your -- [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

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You know it was higher than Obama.

Harris Faulkner

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-- what is your reaction today to getting that number? It's still below 50, but 46 percent approval.

Donald Trump

00:06:44 - 00:07:00 (16 sec)

Well, I think it's amazing because I only get bad news. I only get bad stories. You look at the paper, it's all nonsense. It's campaign contributions that if it were -- even the campaign contribution is totally legal. You look at stories one after another, they're all legal. The great lawyers that do that stuff are saying there's nothing illegal.

Harris Faulkner

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All right, we'll get to that in a second --

Donald Trump

00:07:01 - 00:07:17 (16 sec)

No. No, but wait a minute. I mean, I get such bad news. So when you tell me I'm at 48 -- like Rasmussen, I was at 50 in Rasmussen -- when you tell me I'm at 50 percent, I say how can I possibly be at 50 percent? When I open up China, like I'm doing right now, nobody reports it. Now, the Wall Street Journal --

Harris Faulkner

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Well, we're talking about it.

Donald Trump

00:07:19 - 00:07:23 (4 sec)

Yes -- well, that's because, you know, I'm here and we're talking about it. [Laughter]

Donald Trump

00:07:23 - 00:07:25 (2 sec)

But, no, it's on the front page now of The Wall Street Journal --

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

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-- because there's never -- nobody's ever seen anything like this. But it won't be a big story on NBC, or ABC, or CBS and CNN won't even cover it -- you know, that's total fake news.

Harris Faulkner

00:07:35 - 00:07:49 (15 sec)

What do you say to these men who think they have a shot in 2020 and you're sitting at 46, and it really hasn't moved all that much and let's be honest, there's been some bumpy trails along the way and weathering that with this type of approval rating, what do you say to --

Donald Trump

00:07:49 - 00:08:02 (13 sec)

I think I have the greatest base in the history of politics. I have people that I love and that love me, frankly, that includes a lot of women. I've got a tremendous percentage of women last time, remember? I wasn't going to get women. I wasn't going --

Harris Faulkner

00:08:02 - 00:08:05 (2 sec)

I interviewed some of the women for Trump, yes.

Donald Trump

00:08:05 - 00:08:32 (28 sec)

Yes. I got women that -- they're the greatest, and I have tremendous women support, but if you remember the last election I was worried I wouldn't get one women in the United States to run -- and I got tremendous -- I mean Hillary wish she had my numbers, OK. Hillary got trounced with women. And I'll tell you something, the news and the polls are really fake, but I have the greatest base in history because the 46 and 48 percent, those people they never wavered.

Donald Trump

00:08:32 - 00:08:37 (5 sec)

In fact it was your poll, and frankly Fox is always giving me a bad poll, I don't know why that is but --

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

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I think they've treated me fairer than most, but the polls have always been lousy.

Harris Faulkner

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But there's positive news in this though.

Donald Trump

00:08:43 - 00:08:52 (10 sec)

No -- well the economy was really positive. I just saw the poll, the economy was very -- look I've done a good job on the economy, but I've done a very good job in foreign relations. We're respected again as a nation. PART 2

Harris Faulkner

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I had the pleasure of meeting your Chief of Staff this morning, General Kelly, and I know you're getting ready to make a position change there. You've said some glowing things about him this week. What are you looking for in the next chief of staff?

Donald Trump

00:09:05 - 00:09:23 (19 sec)

Well, I want somebody that's strong, but I want somebody that thinks like I do. It's my vision -- it is my vision after all. At the same time, I'm open to ideas. We've had an incredible run. Nobody's done what I've done, and what this Administration has done in the first two years, and we're not even that close to two years.

Donald Trump

00:09:23 - 00:09:44 (21 sec)

We have a ways to go. And something interesting, I just see this in the front page of "The Wall Street Journal" which just came out. China opened -- it's going to open its policy, a big policy shift. They're going to open the whole country, that they want to please President Trump, that they want to do things that they have to do and that people should have been after China for years, I mean frankly.

Donald Trump

00:09:44 - 00:09:56 (12 sec)

And I've established a fantastic relationship with President Xi, who's the head of China, the absolute head of China, and I think we're going to work a fantastic deal for both countries, but a fantastic deal for us. We're going to get China to open up.

Harris Faulkner

00:09:56 - 00:10:11 (15 sec)

So, let's spend just a moment talking about the economy right now, because this goes along with the reporting that there has been a little bit of movement during this 90 day ceasefire. How are things going with what you have with China and the tariffs and all of that?

Donald Trump

00:10:11 - 00:10:22 (11 sec)

So, we had a tremendous meeting. It lasted for four hours. It was in Argentina during the G20. I met with President Xi at the end. And we had a fantastic meeting. It was just a great meting.

Harris Faulkner

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What makes it fantastic?

Donald Trump

00:10:23 - 00:10:26 (2 sec)

The relationship that I have --

Harris Faulkner

00:10:26 - 00:10:28 (3 sec)

I mean what does that conversation like --

Donald Trump

00:10:28 - 00:10:48 (20 sec)

But what really makes it fantastic, is that we have placed tremendous tariffs on China that when China sends things in to America now, they're paying 25 percent interest on everything they send in. And we've only gone to a certain charge, $250 billion. It's 25 on the first $50 billion, and then it's 10 on the rest.

Donald Trump

00:10:48 - 00:11:08 (20 sec)

But it goes to 25 on January 1st. But I relieved them of that temporarily until the end of the 90 days to see whether or not we can make a deal. But just one thing, after that, I have an additional $267 billion worth of taxes essentially to put on China. And they don't want that. That would be devastating for China.

Donald Trump

00:11:08 - 00:11:13 (5 sec)

And they have now agreed to go and buy soybeans, tremendous amounts of soybeans. You see that already happening.

Harris Faulkner

00:11:13 - 00:11:17 (3 sec)

So, that helps take the pressure off the American economy a little bit in terms of how it --

Donald Trump

00:11:17 - 00:11:25 (9 sec)

Well, I don't think there is any pressure. Everyone's doing so well. I mean there's not a lot of pressure. If you look at unemployment numbers the best in 50 years. If you look at African American unemployment --

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

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Hispanic unemployment, Asian unemployment --

Harris Faulkner

00:11:28 - 00:11:30 (2 sec)

Lots of bright spots that you're talking about --

Donald Trump

00:11:30 - 00:11:32 (2 sec)

Best numbers ever. Best numbers ever.

Harris Faulkner

00:11:32 - 00:11:40 (8 sec)

So, the Dow Jones though, and the S&Ps and the markets, it's been said well, if you take credit for when they're soaring, you have to take credit for fixing --

Donald Trump

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Harris Faulkner

00:11:41 - 00:11:49 (8 sec)

-- them when they're not. So, we're at a point where we have lost the gains on the Dow for 2018. But in your presidency, we're up nearly 25 percent --

Donald Trump

00:11:49 - 00:11:50 (1 sec)

Yes, 33 percent even --

Harris Faulkner

00:11:50 - 00:11:56 (6 sec)

-- in that. So, do you feel -- or what is your strategy if you will, for bringing it back at this point?

Donald Trump

00:11:56 - 00:12:06 (10 sec)

Well, I have a very simple strategy. We were up almost 40 percent and we had lost a little of that because of trade. I mean, I am doing great trade deals.

Harris Faulkner

00:12:06 - 00:12:07 (2 sec)

And you're willing to do that. That's different. Is it busy?

Donald Trump

00:12:07 - 00:12:26 (19 sec)

Yes. Well, I'd rather do it when we're up 40 percent and now let's take a little bit off the table and fix it because we cannot continue to lose $500 billion a year to China. And I had a fantastic meeting with President Xi. This was a four hour meeting where everything was agreed on. Now if we get it down in paper, that'll be another story.

Donald Trump

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

But I think we will --

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

00:12:28 - 00:12:31 (3 sec)

We have great strength. Nobody's ever done what I've done. I went in --

Harris Faulkner

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Donald Trump

00:12:32 - 00:12:46 (14 sec)

I went in, Harris, and I said look, we're going to tax all of your product. And by the way, you saw the study that just came out, America is paying for 4 percent and China is paying for 21 percent.

Harris Faulkner

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Is their economy in trouble?

Donald Trump

00:12:47 - 00:13:05 (18 sec)

It's not even affecting -- it's not even affecting us. You look at inflation, it's very low. Hopefully the Fed won't be raising interest rates anymore, because if you compare us to, as an example President Obama, he had zero interest rates. Anybody can make money with zero interest rates. I am almost at a normalized interest rate.

Donald Trump

00:13:05 - 00:13:14 (9 sec)

And yet, our economy is soaring. Our jobs are soaring, our businesses are doing tremendously. Apple just announced they're going to be investing billions of dollars in this country. That just happened.

Harris Faulkner

00:13:14 - 00:13:25 (11 sec)

So, two follows -- two quick follows. Is China's economy in trouble? And have you kind of gotten in -- the timing is interesting. Like it's been auspicious, you've kind of gotten in there when they would --

Donald Trump

00:13:25 - 00:13:26 (1 sec)

Well, China is -- [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

00:13:26 - 00:13:45 (19 sec)

No, it's -- look, I have greater respect for President Xi. He's not a capitulator. But I will tell you this, China's economy if it's in trouble, it's only in trouble because of me. That's the only reason it's in trouble, because I have placed billions and billions -- we have taken in $11 billion worth of taxes that I taxed China -- $11 billion.

Donald Trump

00:13:45 - 00:13:57 (12 sec)

We haven't made any money with China, we lost money with China. In the last four months, we've taken in almost $11 billion of taxes, nobody's ever heard of that. Nobody knows that people don't report on that, they only report on nonsense.

Harris Faulkner

00:13:57 - 00:14:11 (14 sec)

I -- I love this. Because I hadn't planned to ask this but you were calling out companies and whatnot, and the nation got to see you as GM said, "You know what? We're going to wipe away 15 percent of the workforce right before Christmas." And you said "I want to talk to Ms. Barra".

Donald Trump

00:14:11 - 00:14:14 (3 sec)

Yes. I told her I don't like what you did. I think it's --

Harris Faulkner

00:14:14 - 00:14:16 (2 sec)

Yes, the CEO Ms. Barra.

Donald Trump

00:14:16 - 00:14:38 (21 sec)

-- it was nasty. It doesn't really matter because Ohio is under my leadership from a national standpoint. Ohio's going to replace those jobs like in two minutes. But I don't that General Motors does that. And they're going down to Mexico to make cars. Now, the new deal, the USMCA that I made really makes it very uncomfortable for people to go out of the country, and it will be very uncomfortable for them.

Donald Trump

00:14:38 - 00:14:53 (15 sec)

I think she's making a big mistake. They've changed the whole model of General Motors. They're going to all electric. All electric's not going to work. I don't run a car company, but all electric is not going to work. It's wonderful to have it as a percentage of your cars but going into this model that she's going, I think, is a mistake.

Donald Trump

00:14:53 - 00:15:06 (13 sec)

But to tell me a couple of weeks before Christmas that she's going to close in Ohio and Michigan, not acceptable to me. And she's either going to open fast or somebody else is going to go in. But General Motors is not going to be treated well.

Harris Faulkner

00:15:06 - 00:15:23 (17 sec)

All right. This is your wheelhouse, everybody knows this and we see the energy and the electricity as you talk about these issues. The economy though is big, so are there other areas -- and I want to move on to other things here -- but real quickly, are there other areas that you want to focus on as you go into 2019?

Donald Trump

00:15:23 - 00:15:35 (12 sec)

Well, I'm focusing on everything. I mean, I think my strength thus far, even more than the economy -- and the economy, by the way, will get incredible when I make the deals with China, with Mexico and Canada, when they all kick-in -- but --

Harris Faulkner

00:15:35 - 00:15:38 (3 sec)

Why are you so confident about that?

Donald Trump

00:15:38 - 00:15:56 (18 sec)

Because I know what I'm doing. I mean, it's business. Nobody even went to China and said, "Listen, you're stealing our intellectual property. You're doing all sorts of things that are wrong. You're taking out of our country $500 billion a year, not trillion, not -- not million, you're taking away -- $500 billion away; you can't do it. You can't take $500 billion out of our country."

Harris Faulkner

00:15:56 - 00:16:00 (4 sec)

So when they threaten to put more tariffs on us, you're not worried about that?

Donald Trump

00:16:00 - 00:16:22 (22 sec)

No, because what's happened is the disparity is so great. We do $525 billion with them, they do $100 billion with us. So they do five-times more, it's really more than that. We charge them very little tax. Let me tell you what just happened. They just lowered the tariff on their car from 40 percent to 15 percent, it's not acceptable; 15 percent is still too high.

Donald Trump

00:16:22 - 00:16:24 (1 sec)

We -- but it's a move -- [Crosstalk]

Harris Faulkner

00:16:24 - 00:16:25 (1 sec)

But -- but better --

Donald Trump

00:16:25 - 00:16:25 (0 sec)

-- If they weren't --

Harris Faulkner

00:16:25 - 00:16:25 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:16:25 - 00:16:32 (7 sec)

-- you know that -- yesterday. By the way, you know what we charged them? Two and a half. Now, you know what we charge them? Twenty-five percent.

Harris Faulkner

00:16:32 - 00:16:35 (4 sec)

All right, I'm being told I have to wrap with you, and I wanted to do a few rapid fire. So, can I just do one?

Donald Trump

00:16:35 - 00:16:36 (1 sec)

Harris Faulkner

00:16:36 - 00:16:39 (3 sec)

What do you love about being president?

Donald Trump

00:16:39 - 00:17:02 (24 sec)

I love getting things done for the people. It's a nasty job because I get hit so hard, so unfairly by so many and I mean really unfairly. When you look at what we've done with with taxes, what we've done with regulations, what we've done with China and national defense and so many other things -- including the environment, did you see last year, we were the only country that had fewer emissions, despite the success of --

Harris Faulkner

00:17:02 - 00:17:03 (1 sec)

Your critics would say things differently.

Donald Trump

00:17:03 - 00:17:06 (2 sec)

Oh no because -- hey, the Paris Accord --

Harris Faulkner

00:17:06 - 00:17:09 (4 sec)

So when you get up in the morning, and you say, I get to go do this, what you love?

Donald Trump

00:17:09 - 00:17:14 (5 sec)

Let me tell you, the Paris Accord s not working out too well for Paris. Take a look at what's happened over there.

Harris Faulkner

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

France is struggling on a whole [Inaudible] --

Donald Trump

00:17:15 - 00:17:35 (20 sec)

Because of the Paris Accord, that whole country is burning down, OK? So -- and I was the one that kept us out of the Paris Accord. If I was in the Paris Accord, we would be paying trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars for nothing, and I wouldn't do that. And my people love the job I'm doing.

Harris Faulkner

00:17:35 - 00:17:38 (3 sec)

Yes, you have such energy for this.

Donald Trump

00:17:38 - 00:17:39 (1 sec)

Do I have a choice?

Harris Faulkner

00:17:39 - 00:17:45 (6 sec)

Well, yes you do, actually. You do, not every president would have worked six and seven out on a campaign trail --

Donald Trump

00:17:45 - 00:17:46 (1 sec)

You know I work hard, but --

Harris Faulkner

00:17:46 - 00:17:47 (1 sec)

Some don't. Which you do.

Donald Trump

00:17:47 - 00:17:58 (10 sec)

You know what, I like to say I work hard, but hopefully I work smart, because I know a lot of people, they work -- you have to work smart too, and we're doing great. The country is doing great and we're respected again.

Harris Faulkner

00:17:58 - 00:18:01 (4 sec)

All right, I'm being told we have to wrap, but I'm hoping to come back at some point.

Donald Trump

00:18:01 - 00:18:02 (1 sec)

I would love that.

Harris Faulkner

00:18:02 - 00:18:08 (6 sec)

And you and I traded a lot of papers and it's been a good conversation, thank you, sir.

Donald Trump

00:18:08 - 00:18:10 (2 sec)

Thank you very much.

Harris Faulkner

00:18:10 - 00:18:15 (5 sec)

In the oval office a few moments ago, very fun, I got to see a little bit of things here. So thank you, I appreciate it.

Donald Trump

00:18:15 - 00:18:16 (1 sec)

Thank you, great having you.

Harris Faulkner

00:18:16 - 00:18:18 (2 sec)

God bless you and your family, Mr. President.

Donald Trump

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

Thank you very much.