Trump Unloads On CNN Reporter On White House Lawn For Claiming He Failed Campaign Promise
yes yes ma'am you ran your campaign promising supporters that Mexico is
going to pay for the war always going to be made of concrete
you just said earlier that the wall could be made of steel and right now our
government is shut down over a demand from your administration that the
American taxpayer pay for the wall so how can you say you're not failing on
that promise to your supporters a very nice question so beautifully asked even
though I just answered look let me just excuse me excuse me you ready are you
ready I just told you that we just made a trade deal and we will take in
billions and billions of dollars far more than the cost of the wall the wall
as peanuts compared to what the value of this trade deal is to the United States
as far as concrete I said I was going to build a wall I never said I'm gonna
build a concrete I said I'm gonna build a wall just so you know cuz I know
you're not into the construction business you don't understand something
we now have a great steel business that's rebuilt in the United States
Steel is stronger than concrete if I build this wall or fence or anything
that Democrats need to call it because I'm not into names I'm into production
I'm into something that works if I build a steel wall rather than a concrete wall
it will actually be stronger than a conquerer steel is stronger than
concrete okay in case you could check it out listen if
I build a wall and the wall is made out of steel instead of concrete I think
people will like that and here's the other good thing I'll have it done by
the United States Steel Corporation by companies in our country that are now
powerful great companies again and they become powerful over the last two years
because of me and because of our trade policies so if I have a steel wall or
you could call it a steel fence but it'll be more powerful than any of the
concrete walls that we're talking about it's possible that it will look better
and one of the things I think you have seen this that's very important for us
very very important in speaking of Border
Patrol ice and actually local law enforcement and even military they want
to be able to see through it you can't really see through a concrete well they
want to be able to see who's on the other side of the wall because if
they're here and you have about a 12 inch concrete wall and you have people
on the other side but you can't see what's over there it's very dangerous
they want to be able to see through the wall a see-through wall made out of
steel is far stronger than a concrete wall so I'm very happy with it I think I
think I'm not sure but I think that's what the Democrats prefer and if it can
get them there I'm okay it actually will be a more powerful wall and it will be a
more beautiful wall than having a concrete wall so we can do trade deal
mr. president Jeff Jeff thank you miss go ahead Thank You mr. president I want
to ask you two questions one as you talked about the wall eminent domain
many of those who own property on the southern border will lose their property
because of this and once this happens they say that they could go to court
with you for years it could take years then also what is the safety net for
federal workers you're saying months and possibly a year for this shutdown do you
have in mind a safety net for those who need their checks those who need s-s-i
those who need Medicaid what have you well the safety net is going to be
having a strong border because we're gonna be safe I'm not talking about
economically but ultimately economically I really believe that these people many
of the people that we're talking about many of the people you're discussing I
really believe that they agree with what we're doing and we could have this April
we can have this fixed very quickly we can this can happen by early next week
we're gonna be working over the weekend we can have a solution to this but I
wanted to keep it all at one point and I think a lot of the people that you're
referring to April Argo are really wanting that to happen - I really
believe a lot of them want to see border security and they're willing to give it
up I had when I had the people in yesterday they represent most of the
Border Patrol people that you had yes that were at the news conference they
represent most of water patrol every one of them said don't even think about us
get this fixed that is doing the great thing for a country as far as eminent
domain you're right a hundred percent eminent domain is very interesting but
without eminent domain you wouldn't have any highways you wouldn't have any
schools you wouldn't have any roadways what we're doing with eminent domain is
in many cases we'll make a deal upfront that we've already done that the
Secretary has done a lot of that and if we can't make a deal we take the land
and we pay them through a court process which goes actually fairly quickly and
we're generous but we take the land otherwise you could never build anything
if you didn't use them in a domain you wouldn't have one highway in this
country you have to use eminent domain it's actually something you don't want
to use it but if you're going to do a stretch as an example of pipelines and
other things that go you have to use eminent domain otherwise you'd never be
able to buy the land if we had one person that wouldn't sell us out of
hundreds just one it only takes one that we wouldn't be able to build proper
border security because we'd have that big opening that I was talking about so
what happens is some are paid upfront you make a deal upfront and we're
willing to do that in all cases and when they're unwilling to make a deal which
also happens then you go to court but in the meantime we're able to build the
border security so I think it's a fair process I think it's a process that's
very necessary but I think it's fair couldn't that hold up your wall no it's
not gonna hold it up because under the military version of eminent domain and
under actually homeland security we can do it before we even start now a lot of
times we'll make a deal and I would say a good percentage of the time we're
making deals we have already purchased a lot of it you know a lot of the money
that we've been given has already been spent on purchasing the land the
right-of-way it's essentially a right-of-way so we are very very far
along on that but eminent domain is something that has to be used usually
you would say for anything that's long like a road like a pipeline or like a
wall or a fence okay thank you good question it's a good question
please please go ahead thank you two questions first mr. president have you
considered using emergency powers did we keep this going or not folks sure I just
don't want to say always stood out there you know you have so many questions I'm
just looking at Mike and Steve and Kevin I'm saying should we and most
importantly Madam Secretary I'm just oh you are you called yeah take take mine
you are mine now I'm just saying you want sure we keep this going Elise yes I
did go ahead so first let me know when you
get tired I'm not have you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself
authorities to build this wall without congressional approval and second I have
to go you have yes I have and I can do it if I want so you don't need
congressional approval to build no we can use them absolutely we can call a
national emergency because of the security of our country absolutely no we
can do it I haven't done it I may do it I may do it but we could call a national
emergency and build it very quickly and it's another way of doing it but if we
can do it through a negotiated process we're giving that a shot so is that a
threat hanging over the Democrats I never threatened anybody but I am
allowed to do that yes second question called a national
emergency on Mexico the benefits from that trade deal are going to go to
private companies private citizens so you're talking about tax revenues
they're gonna pay tremendous tax so it's American taxpayers I'll give you an
example when a company was going to leave for Mexico or Canada but for
Mexico because we lost tremendous amounts of our car business like 25
percent to Mexico if they stay all of those taxes that they have been paying
real estate taxes sales taxes employee employer taxes tremendous taxes that
nobody even understands they pay the tremendous income taxes federal income
taxes state income taxes in some cases all of those taxes stay with us the wall
is you know it's it's great but the USMC a which gives a
disincentive for companies to leave it's a tremendous disincentive anybody that
leaves after this deal is done look it's one of the primary reasons
that I like it because I can live pre NAFTA - the only thing I can't live with
is NAFTA I can live pre NAFTA before NAFTA before everybody left New England
and left all of the different places Ohio Pennsylvania I mean you still have
empty steel factories all over the place and other factories I can live pre NAFTA
very easily but the only thing I'm not living with is NAFTA that was one of the
worst trade deals ever made so those are American taxpayer dollars which you
consider essentially Mexico paying for the wall well many many times over look
the u.s. MCA will make in the form that we right now are losing approximately a
hundred hard to believe and this doesn't include the drugs pouring in which is
probably a much higher number than anybody would even know in addition to
destroying lives and families so horribly we are losing close to a
hundred billion dollars a year on trade with Mexico for many years
not only that they have a tax of seventeen percent we don't have a tax so
they have a value-added tax of seventeen percent we don't have a tax of seventeen
percent that deal was bad today it was made because they charged the tax before
the deal was made it we didn't it was an obsolete deal when it was made like
thirty years ago whatever it was no no all of this stuff is changing now this
is a fair deal this is a good deal for Mexico frankly oil companies and other
companies have an incentive now to go to Mexico and take oil out and that's why
we're keeping gasoline prices so low you look at what's going on with gasoline
prices I mean it's rather incredible if you
look back four months ago oil hit eighty three dollars a barrel
eighty three it was heading to a hundred and then it could have gone to a hundred
and twenty five you want to see problems let that happen after I made some phone
calls to OPEC and the OPEC nations which is essentially a monopoly all of a
sudden it started coming down I'm very happy with what's happened and I'm very
happy that people are paying a lot less in many cases than $2 a gallon for
gasoline you look at what's happening everyone's talking about didn't happen
by luck it happened through Talent hold it one at a time please good mr.
president why not reopen the government to create more space to have that
broader conversation well we think it could go very quickly no we won't be
opening until it's solved we think this is a much bigger problem the border is a
much more dangerous problem it's a much bigger problem it's a problem of
national security it's a problem of terrorists you know I talked about human
traffickers I talk about drugs I talk about gangs but a lot of people don't
say we have terrorists coming through the southern border because they find
that's probably the easiest place to come through they drive right in and
they make a left not gonna happen he's not gonna happen so so we're not
going to do that we won't be doing pieces we won't be doing it in drips and
drabs and I'll tell you what I've seen a lot of people over the last week and a
half I've been right in this magnificent structure right behind you it's called
the White House and I was here on Christmas and I was here my family was
in Florida I said go to Florida and I didn't even find it to be a lonely place
there's something very special about the white house but I was here Christmas I
was here on New Year's Eve and I will tell you the people that I've spoken
with and I've gotten to meet a lot of people that I wouldn't have met a lot of
people have been coming through the White House and explaining different
things and different attitudes a lot of people that you think are upset and
certainly they're not thrilled but they say sir do the right thing we need
border security and these are people that won't be getting paid Border Patrol
yesterday we're saying sir we're affected by it do what's right it's time
this is after many many decades many many decades this should have taken
place a long time ago we're gonna get it done you thank you god bless you and God
bless america
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