Trump Threatens Acosta With His Worst Nightmare
now with more from our exclusive interview with President Trump about an
hour before we sat down with the president there was breaking news a
ruling on the CNN lawsuit against the White House for pulling a reporter's
press pass CNN argued the Trump administration violated its First
Amendment rights administration lawyers said mr. Trump can exclude any reporter
he wants from the White House grounds and that's where we started in the
second part of our interview with the president a federal judge who you
appointed has just ruled that you must give CNN reporter Jim Acosta his Press
Pass back your reaction to the ruling that's fine I mean it's not a big deal
what they said though is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct
et cetera et cetera we're doing that we're going to write them up right now
it's not a big deal and if he misbehaves we'll throw them out or we'll stop the
news conference actually your rules going to be what is it that you're
saying this is over the line and you will have rules of decorum you know you
can't keep asking questions you have we had a lot of reporters in that room many
many reporters in that room and they were unable to ask questions because
this guy gets up and starts you know doing what he's supposed to be doing for
him and for CNN and you know just shouting questions but but I will say
this look nobody believes in the First Amendment more than I do and if I think
somebody's acting out of sorts I will leave I'll say thank you very
much everybody I appreciate you coming and I'll leave and those reporters will
not be too friendly to whoever it is that's acting up why didn't you call on
Acosta in the first place I mean it seems to me there's a simple solution
here just don't call it actually I like to do it but in many cases I don't he'll
stand up he's unbelievably rude to Sarah Huckabee who's a wonderful woman
unbelievably rude and I see that and I actually asked her the same why do you
call on these people that are so nasty and I think one of the things we'll do
is maybe turn the camera that faces them because then they don't
have any airtime although I'll probably be sued for that and maybe you know win
or lose it who knows I mean with with this stuff you never know what's gonna
happen let's get to the bigger issue in 2017
last year you tweeted this and I want to quote it accurately the fake news media
is not my enemy it is the enemy of the American people's true 100% not the
media I'm glad you're finally quoting it correctly because they like to leave the
fake news okay but that's what you think news so people that are supporting me in
particular they have very smart people they're hardworking brilliant great
people they know when the news is fake and they get angry when they see all of
the fake but it's said frankly than ever people who've been critical of other
presidents they're there no president has liked his press coverage John
Kennedy in your oval office canceled the subscription to the New York Herald
Tribune nobody called it the enemy of the American people Chris I'm going to
fake news is the enemy it's fake it's phony dudes you don't know it's not no
no I don't mind getting bad news if I'm wrong if I do something wrong like for
instance the cemetery I was not allowed to go because of the Secret Service
because they expected to take a helicopter they had zero visibility they
said sir we are totally unequipped for you to go in addition to that the
cemetery was far too far away from Air Force One which is sort of like a
control center where you had to be near not one paper that I saw wrote it that
way they said I stayed out of it because of
the rain and yet the following day I made a speech at the American Cemetery
it was pouring it wasn't even really raining the first day but the fog was
tremendous okay but cert leaders in authoritarian countries like Russia
China Venezuela now repressed the media using your words I can't talk for other
people I can only talk for me I will tell you if you're yours either around
the world listen for Russian not to work I'm not talking about you but you
sometimes maybe but I'm not talking about you the news about me is largely
phony it's false even sometimes they'll say sources say there is no source in
many cases in cases there is I understand you don't like it can I just
bring the bigger 84% did I bring the bigger issue up yeah bill McRaven
retired Admiral Navy SEAL 37 years former head of US Special Operations
Linton Phan special operation has made a Hillary Clinton fan who led the
operations command of the operations that took down Sodom insane and they
killed Osama bin Laden it says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to
democracy in his life he's a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer and
frankly he's a Navy SEAL it is nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than
that wouldn't it have been nice you know living think of this living in Pakistan
beautifully in Pakistan and what I guess they considered a nice mansion I don't
know I've seen nicer but living in Pakistan right next to the Military
Academy everybody in Pakistan knew he was there and we give Pakistan 1.3
billion dollars a year and they don't tell him
they don't even gonna give him credit for taking down bin Laden they took him
down but look look there's news right there he lived in Pakistan we're
supporting Pakistan we're giving them 1.3 billion dollars you which we don't
give them anymore by the way I ended it because they don't do anything for us
they don't do a damn thing for us I'm totally in favor of the media I'm
totally in favor of Free Press gotta be fair press when it's fake the president
will get to decide what's fair and what's not
I can tell what's fair and so can my people and so can a lot of whether I
understand that but but when you do something very good and they write it
badly and this is consistently when you as an example
rarely do the wind of our fakes News Fox News all the time but he never said we
were the enemy of the people well no he didn't talk about the news he
didn't talk about anything I'm only saying it very differently than anyone's
ever said it before I'm saying fake news false reporting dishonest report
of which there is a lot and I know it see I know it because I'm a subject of
it a lot of people don't know it but when I explained it to them they
understand it and Chris you know that better than you don't have to sit here
and act like a perfect little wonderful innocent angel I know you too well I
knew your father too well that's not your gene but let me tell you look I
think um I think some of the coverage of you sir and I've said it on the record
is biased but I don't think that they're most of it is biased I don't know but I
but the idea that you call us the enemy of the people I'm not calling you that I
I'm talking I'm not color altogether you don't understand it we're all together
no no no I'm not calling you I didn't matter whether you called when you I'm
holy an N and the New York Times am calling it we were in solidarity calling
fake news fake reporting is what's tearing this country apart because
people know people like things that are happening and they're not hearing about
it where do you write yourself in the pantheon of great presidents there's
Lincoln and Washington there's FDR and Reagan do you make the top ten I think
I'm doing a great job we have the best economy we've ever had so where you were
doing really well we would have been in war with North Korea if let's say that
administration continued forward I would give myself I would look I hate to do it
but I will do it I would give myself an A+ said enough can I go higher than that
can you envision a situation you talk about six more years can you envision
envision a situation well into your second term where you think that you're
so good for the country and so essential for the progress of the country that you
would try to amend the Constitution so you could serve a third term No
why not this won't happen it's not I think I think the aid year limit is a is
a good thing not a bad thing you've talked a lot already about the cemetery
and the fact that you didn't go because it was a security concern and you did go
the next day here's the thing no excuse me not security concern they wouldn't
allow me to go they said sir Secret Service said sir you cannot go
we are not prepared you can not go because it was supposed to be
helicoptered but the helicopter couldn't fly because of zero he said sir you can
not go but here's the question you're back in Washington on Monday Veterans
Day why don't you go across the river to Arlington for that ceremony Barack Obama
went every year he was here indecent I should have done that I was extremely
busy on calls for the country we did a lot of calling as you know I think but
this is Veterans Day I probably you know in retrospect I should have and I did
last year and I will virtually every year but we had come in very late at
night and I had just left literally the American Cemetery in Paris and I really
probably assumed that was fine and I was extremely busy because of affairs of
state doing other things why had I would have I would have done it why haven't
you visited our troops serving in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan in the two
years you've been in office as commander-in-chief well I think you will
see that happen there are things that are being planned we don't want to talk
about it because of obviously because of security reasons and everything else but
there are things that are planned as you know I was very much opposed to the war
in Iraq I think was a tremendous mistake so that's never happened you're right I
don't think anybody's been more with the military than I have as a president in
terms of funding in terms of all of the things I've been able to get them
including the vets I don't think anybody's done more than me I've had an
unbelievable busy schedule and I will be doing it on top of which you have these
phony witch hunts on top of which I mean we've just been very busy but I will be
doing that just before the midterms you said your biggest regret is that perhaps
you should have had a softer tone in your two years as president but since
then some could argue you've been on a tear at the press conference the day
after the election you mock some of the Republican congressman who lost not
embracing you Mia love gave me no love and she lost too bad sorry about that
Mia you went after two african-american
reporters and basically said that they were dumb the same thing with a pro riot
I watched her get up I mean you talk about somebody that's a loser she
doesn't know what the hell she's doing
what a stupid question that is what a stupid question but I watched you a lot
you ask a lot of stupid question question I was in st. joe´s Missouri
this last week and I was talking to a lot of loyal Republicans they love what
you've done to the economy they love the fact that you have basically put Isis
out of business the one thing they say is why do you have to be so divisive
why don't you do more to bring the country together I think that if I was
very different I wouldn't have gotten what we had to get we got the biggest
tax cuts in history we got Anwar approved we have we got rid of the
individual mandate which was the most unpopular thing you can imagine health
care I got rid of it everybody said it would be impossible to get rid of it and
many you know the regulations I think if I was a you know more modified more
moderate in that sense I don't think I would have done half of the things that
I was able to get completed with that being said other than you have to have a
certain ability to fight back and as you know people have you know they take
strong stance on me both ways you know love and hate I'd like to see it a
little bit maybe more right down the middle but tone is something that is
important to me but a lot of times you can't practice tone because you have
people coming at you so hard that if you don't fight back in a somewhat vigorous
way you're not gonna win and we have to win this country has to win we have a
lot of victories coming and I think if I if I go to low-key we're not going to
have those victories mr. president thank you thank you very much much appreciated
second one point of clarification Admiral McRaven never endorsed a
candidate for president in 2016 but in a hacked email Clinton campaign chair John
Podesta discussed McRaven as a possible running mate thank you god bless you and
God bless america
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