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[00:00:00]of Miami and certainly beyond Miami.

[00:00:02]People that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now.

[00:00:12]He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President Mr. president say it >> coming next for Cuba.

[00:00:50]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[00:01:10]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh there you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[00:01:27]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[00:01:45]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[00:01:49]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[00:01:53]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[00:02:20]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:02:22]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:02:30]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[00:02:35]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[00:02:39]>> Yes.

[00:02:39]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:02:48]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:03:00]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:03:02]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[00:03:04]He says that he doesn't think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you.

[00:03:08]What's your response to that?

[00:03:09]>> Who said that?

[00:03:10]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:03:13]>> He said doesn't have what?

[00:03:15]>> Because that Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[00:03:22]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:03:29]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:03:31]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[00:03:42]>> Does have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[00:03:51]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[00:04:01]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives most importantly.

[00:04:10]>> How long will you wait?

[00:04:12]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[00:04:21]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[00:04:27]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[00:04:44]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[00:04:51]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[00:05:06]>> What's your message to him?

[00:05:13]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[00:05:16]Okay.

[00:05:18]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations during peace talks as Iranian supported?

[00:05:27]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[00:05:43]talking about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI.

[00:05:47]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[00:06:18]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[00:06:46]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[00:06:48]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[00:07:17]His people respect him a lot.

[00:07:19]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[00:07:27]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[00:08:12]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[00:09:21]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President Mr. president.

[00:10:12]>> Say it.

[00:10:12]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[00:10:14]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[00:10:34]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[00:10:51]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[00:11:09]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[00:11:13]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[00:11:17]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[00:11:44]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:11:46]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:11:54]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[00:11:59]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[00:12:03]>> Yes.

[00:12:03]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:12:11]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:12:22]>> Did you take milary action?

[00:12:24]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:12:26]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[00:12:28]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you.

[00:12:32]What's your response to that?

[00:12:33]>> Who said that?

[00:12:34]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:12:37]>> He said doesn't have what?

[00:12:38]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[00:12:46]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:12:53]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:12:55]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[00:13:06]>> Does have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[00:13:15]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[00:13:24]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[00:13:36]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[00:13:45]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[00:13:50]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[00:14:08]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what? I never >> I never get tired.

[00:14:15]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[00:14:30]>> What's your message to him?

[00:14:37]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[00:14:40]Okay.

[00:14:42]Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[00:14:51]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[00:15:07]What about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[00:15:11]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[00:16:10]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[00:16:12]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[00:16:41]His people respect him a lot.

[00:16:43]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[00:16:51]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[00:17:36]Also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[00:18:45]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. President, >> what coming next for Cuba?

[00:19:38]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[00:20:15]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[00:20:32]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[00:20:37]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[00:20:41]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[00:21:07]We'll see what happens, but we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:21:10]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:21:18]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[00:21:23]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[00:21:27]>> Yes.

[00:21:27]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:21:35]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:21:45]>> Did you take military action?

[00:21:47]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:21:49]>> Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[00:21:57]>> Who said that?

[00:21:58]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:22:01]>> He said doesn't have what?

[00:22:02]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[00:22:10]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:22:17]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:22:19]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[00:22:37]Have you heard anything from them?

[00:22:39]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[00:22:48]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[00:23:00]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[00:23:09]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[00:23:32]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. No, I don't. Do I get Well, I never >> tired.

[00:23:37]>> I never get tired.

[00:23:39]>> But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[00:23:54]>> What's your message to my heart?

[00:24:01]>> Uh, I'll have a message at a later date.

[00:24:04]Okay.

[00:24:05]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil relief during peace talks Iranian TV reported?

[00:24:15]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[00:24:28]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[00:24:31]What about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[00:24:35]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs.

[00:24:42]More people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[00:25:06]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[00:25:34]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[00:25:36]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[00:26:04]His people respect him a lot.

[00:26:07]>> Response to any people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[00:26:15]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[00:27:00]also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them. I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." what they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[00:28:09]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And so I think it's a very important moment.

[00:28:59]>> Mr. President, >> what's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[00:29:10]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[00:29:15]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[00:29:39]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[00:29:56]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[00:30:01]But, uh, we're gonna in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[00:30:05]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[00:30:31]We'll see what happens. But we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:30:34]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:30:42]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[00:30:45]>> On the table here, Mr. President, should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[00:30:51]>> Yes.

[00:30:51]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:30:59]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:31:09]>> Did you take military action?

[00:31:11]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:31:13]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[00:31:21]>> Who said that?

[00:31:22]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:31:25]He said doesn't have what?

[00:31:26]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[00:31:34]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:31:41]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:31:43]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot. And JD is a very talented guy.

[00:31:55]>> I have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[00:32:03]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[00:32:24]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[00:32:33]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[00:32:55]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get Well, I never >> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[00:33:18]>> What's your message to him?

[00:33:25]>> Uh, I'll have a message at a later date.

[00:33:28]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil station relief during peace talks Iranian TV reported?

[00:33:39]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[00:33:52]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[00:33:55]What about American families who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs.

[00:34:06]More people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[00:34:30]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[00:34:58]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[00:35:00]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[00:35:28]His people respect him a lot.

[00:35:31]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[00:35:39]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[00:36:24]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[00:37:32]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. president.

[00:38:23]>> Say it.

[00:38:24]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[00:38:26]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[00:38:46]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[00:39:03]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[00:39:20]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[00:39:25]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[00:39:29]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[00:39:56]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:39:58]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:40:06]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. What's on the table here, Mr. President? Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[00:40:14]>> Yes.

[00:40:15]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:40:23]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:40:33]>> You take military action.

[00:40:35]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:40:37]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[00:40:40]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you.

[00:40:44]What's your response to that?

[00:40:45]>> Who said that?

[00:40:45]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:40:48]>> He said doesn't have what?

[00:40:50]>> Doesn't that Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you?

[00:40:57]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:41:04]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:41:07]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[00:41:18]>> Doesn't have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[00:41:26]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[00:41:36]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[00:41:48]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[00:41:57]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[00:42:02]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[00:42:19]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I do? I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[00:42:41]>> What's your message to him?

[00:42:49]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[00:42:52]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[00:43:03]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[00:43:16]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[00:43:20]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[00:43:54]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[00:44:22]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[00:44:24]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[00:44:52]His people respect him a lot.

[00:44:55]>> Responsibility. People that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[00:45:03]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[00:45:48]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[00:46:56]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President coming next for Cuba.

[00:47:50]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[00:48:27]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[00:48:44]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[00:48:49]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[00:48:53]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[00:49:19]We'll see what happens. But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:49:23]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:49:30]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[00:49:38]>> Yes.

[00:49:39]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:49:47]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:49:57]>> You take military action.

[00:49:59]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:50:01]>> But Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[00:50:09]>> Who said that?

[00:50:09]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:50:12]>> He said doesn't have what?

[00:50:14]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[00:50:21]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:50:28]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:50:31]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[00:50:48]Have you heard anything from them?

[00:50:50]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[00:51:12]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[00:51:21]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[00:51:43]>> Are you getting tired?

[00:51:44]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. No, I don't. Do I get Well, I never >> tired.

[00:51:49]>> I never get tired.

[00:51:51]>> But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[00:52:05]>> What's your message to like uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[00:52:16]Okay.

[00:52:17]>> On Iran, did the US offer Iran oil relief during these talks? Mr. Iranian TV is reported.

[00:52:27]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[00:52:40]But no, we haven't offered anything. Are you worried about American kids who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[00:53:45]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[00:53:48]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[00:54:16]His people respect him a lot.

[00:54:19]>> Respons people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[00:54:27]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. There were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[00:55:12]also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them. I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went you know it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say oh let's look at this one or that one they say weaponization weaponization.

[00:56:00]what they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand. And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now.

[00:56:36]He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And so I think it's a very important moment.

[00:57:09]>> Mr. Mr. President, >> what's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[00:57:22]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[00:57:26]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis, we're there to help.

[00:57:48]>> Was there last week? Can you talk about that at all?

[00:57:50]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents, as you know, were from Cuba. So, we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important. They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens. But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. They have no no way of living.

[00:58:19]They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all.

[00:58:25]But they do have great people. They're a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[00:58:44]But we're freeing up Cuba.

[00:58:46]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[00:58:53]>> Well, we'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[00:58:56]>> Who's on the table here, Mr. President?

[00:58:58]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[00:59:02]>> Yes.

[00:59:03]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[00:59:11]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[00:59:21]>> Did you take military action?

[00:59:23]>> I don't want to say that.

[00:59:25]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jan has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[00:59:33]>> Who said that?

[00:59:33]>> Gavin Newsome.

[00:59:36]He said doesn't have what?

[00:59:38]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[00:59:45]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[00:59:52]We have a lot of very talented people.

[00:59:55]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[01:00:06]>> Iran has to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[01:00:14]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[01:00:36]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:00:45]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:01:07]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get Well, I never >> tired of you back.

[01:01:13]>> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:01:36]U I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:01:40]Okay. Sir on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian supported?

[01:01:51]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:02:07]>> What about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[01:02:11]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[01:02:42]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:03:09]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:03:12]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[01:03:40]His people respect him a lot.

[01:03:43]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[01:03:51]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[01:04:36]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[01:05:44]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. president.

[01:06:35]>> Say it.

[01:06:36]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[01:06:38]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[01:07:14]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[01:07:32]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[01:07:37]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[01:07:40]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[01:08:08]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[01:08:10]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[01:08:17]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. comes on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[01:08:26]>> Yes.

[01:08:27]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[01:08:35]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[01:08:45]>> Did you take military action?

[01:08:47]>> I don't want to say that.

[01:08:49]>> Mr. President Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think JD Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[01:08:57]>> Who said that?

[01:08:57]>> Gavin Newsome.

[01:09:00]>> He said doesn't have what?

[01:09:02]>> He says that Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[01:09:09]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[01:09:16]We have a lot of very talented people.

[01:09:19]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[01:09:30]>> I have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[01:09:38]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[01:09:48]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[01:09:59]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:10:09]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:10:31]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get Well, I never tired of you.

[01:10:37]>> I never get tired.

[01:10:38]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:10:53]>> What's your message to give my heart?

[01:11:00]>> Uh, I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:11:05]Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[01:11:15]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:11:32]families are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon, but that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:12:33]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:12:36]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[01:13:04]His people respect him a lot.

[01:13:07]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[01:13:15]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was I guess a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh, I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh, so they made a settlement.

[01:14:00]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people, I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them. I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[01:15:08]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

[01:15:55]And so I think it's a very important moment.

[01:15:57]>> Mr. Mr. President, >> what's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that it's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[01:16:10]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[01:16:14]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[01:16:21]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[01:16:38]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba and it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[01:16:56]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[01:17:00]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[01:17:04]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. They're a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[01:17:32]But we're freeing up Cuba.

[01:17:34]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[01:17:41]>> Well, we'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[01:17:44]>> Who's on the table here, Mr. President?

[01:17:46]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[01:17:50]>> Yes.

[01:17:51]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[01:17:59]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[01:18:09]>> Did you take military action?

[01:18:11]>> I don't want to say that.

[01:18:12]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jan has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[01:18:20]>> Who said that?

[01:18:21]>> Gavin Newsome.

[01:18:24]He said doesn't have what?

[01:18:26]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[01:18:33]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[01:18:40]We have a lot of very talented people.

[01:18:42]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[01:18:54]>> Iran has to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[01:19:02]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[01:19:23]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:19:33]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:19:55]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get Well, I never >> tired of you.

[01:20:01]>> I never get tired, >> but what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days. So if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:20:17]>> What's your message to give my first year?

[01:20:24]>> Uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:20:28]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[01:20:39]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:20:54]What about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[01:20:59]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs.

[01:21:05]More people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[01:21:29]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:21:57]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:22:00]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[01:22:28]His people respect him a lot.

[01:22:31]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[01:22:39]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. There were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[01:23:23]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[01:24:32]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important.

[01:24:54]It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. President say it.

[01:25:23]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[01:25:25]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[01:25:45]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh there you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[01:26:02]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[01:26:20]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[01:26:24]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[01:26:28]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[01:26:55]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[01:26:58]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[01:27:05]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[01:27:10]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[01:27:14]>> Yes.

[01:27:14]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[01:27:23]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[01:27:35]>> I don't want to say that.

[01:27:37]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[01:27:39]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Vance has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[01:27:44]>> Who said that?

[01:27:45]>> Gavin Newsome.

[01:27:48]>> He said doesn't have what?

[01:27:50]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[01:27:57]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[01:28:04]We have a lot of very talented people.

[01:28:06]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[01:28:17]>> Does have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[01:28:26]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[01:28:36]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives most importantly.

[01:28:45]>> How long will you wait?

[01:28:47]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:28:57]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[01:29:02]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:29:19]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[01:29:26]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:29:41]>> What's your message to him?

[01:29:48]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:29:52]Okay.

[01:29:53]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations during peace talks as Iranian TV supported?

[01:30:02]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[01:30:16]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:30:18]What about American families who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:31:21]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:31:23]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[01:31:52]His people respect him a lot.

[01:31:54]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[01:32:02]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[01:32:47]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very at levels that few people would understand.

[01:33:56]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. President coming next for Cuba.

[01:34:49]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[01:35:26]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important.

[01:35:44]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[01:35:48]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[01:35:52]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[01:36:18]We'll see what happens, but uh we're freeing up Cuba.

[01:36:23]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[01:36:29]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[01:36:38]>> Yes.

[01:36:38]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[01:36:47]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[01:36:57]>> You take military action.

[01:36:59]>> I don't want to say that.

[01:37:00]>> But Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[01:37:08]>> Who said that?

[01:37:09]>> Gavin Newsome.

[01:37:12]>> He said doesn't have what?

[01:37:14]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[01:37:21]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[01:37:28]We have a lot of very talented people.

[01:37:30]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[01:37:48]Have you heard anything from them?

[01:37:50]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[01:38:11]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:38:20]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:38:43]>> Are you getting tired?

[01:38:44]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. No, I don't. Do I get Well, I never >> I never get tired.

[01:38:50]>> But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:39:05]>> What's your message to him? Like my heart uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:39:16]Okay.

[01:39:17]>> On Iran, did the US offer Iran oil relief during these talks? Mr. Iranian TV is reported.

[01:39:26]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:39:43]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[01:40:17]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:40:45]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:40:47]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[01:41:16]His people respect him a lot.

[01:41:18]>> Respons people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[01:41:26]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was I guess a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news.

[01:41:54]and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[01:42:11]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[01:43:20]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. president.

[01:44:11]>> Say it.

[01:44:11]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[01:44:13]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[01:44:50]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important.

[01:45:08]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[01:45:12]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[01:45:16]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[01:45:43]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[01:45:45]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[01:45:53]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. comes on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[01:46:02]>> Yes.

[01:46:02]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[01:46:10]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[01:46:21]>> Did you take military action?

[01:46:23]>> I don't want to say that.

[01:46:24]>> Mr. President Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think JD Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[01:46:32]>> Who said that?

[01:46:33]>> Gavin Newsome.

[01:46:36]>> He said doesn't have what?

[01:46:38]>> That Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[01:46:45]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[01:46:52]We have a lot of very talented people.

[01:46:54]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[01:47:05]>> Does have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[01:47:14]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[01:47:24]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[01:47:35]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:47:44]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:48:07]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get Well, I never tired of you.

[01:48:12]>> I never get tired.

[01:48:14]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days. If I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:48:29]>> What's your message to him?

[01:48:36]>> Uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:48:40]Okay.

[01:48:41]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations relief during peace talks? Mr. Iranian supported.

[01:48:50]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:49:08]families are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon, but that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:50:09]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:50:11]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[01:50:40]His people respect him a lot.

[01:50:42]>> Respons people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[01:50:50]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money. But they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh, I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh, so they made a settlement.

[01:51:35]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people, I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them. I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[01:52:44]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And so I think it's a very important moment.

[01:53:33]>> Mr. President, >> what happened, Mr. President?

[01:53:35]>> Say it.

[01:53:35]>> What coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[01:53:45]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[01:53:50]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[01:53:57]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis. We're there to help.

[01:54:11]>> Was there last week? Can you talk about that at all?

[01:54:14]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents, as you know, were from Cuba. So, we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important. They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens. But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. They have no no way of living.

[01:54:43]They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all.

[01:54:48]But they do have great people. They're a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[01:55:07]But we're freeing up Cuba. Mr. >> President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[01:55:17]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[01:55:19]>> Are all options on the table here, Mr. President? Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[01:55:26]>> Yes.

[01:55:26]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[01:55:34]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[01:55:45]>> Milary action.

[01:55:46]>> I don't want to say that.

[01:55:48]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jan has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[01:55:56]>> Who said that?

[01:55:57]>> Gavin Newsome.

[01:56:00]He said it doesn't have what?

[01:56:01]>> He says that Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[01:56:09]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[01:56:16]We have a lot of very talented people.

[01:56:18]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot. And JD is a very talented guy.

[01:56:30]>> Mr. respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[01:56:36]Have you heard anything from them?

[01:56:38]>> A very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[01:56:59]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[01:57:08]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[01:57:13]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[01:57:31]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[01:57:38]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days. So I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[01:57:53]>> What's your message to him?

[01:58:00]>> Uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[01:58:03]Okay.

[01:58:04]>> Sir Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations during peace talks? Does Iranian No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[01:58:27]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[01:58:31]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon, but that's going to end soon, one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see, but the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[01:59:33]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[01:59:35]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:00:04]His people respect him a lot.

[02:00:06]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:00:14]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money. But they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[02:00:59]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people, I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them. I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible.

[02:01:22]And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people.

[02:01:31]People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went you know it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say oh let's look at this one or that one they say weaponization weaponization. what they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand. And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now.

[02:02:23]He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And so I think it's a very important moment.

[02:02:56]>> Mr. President, >> what Mr. President next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, they're, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis. We're there to help director was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[02:03:38]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents, as you know, were from Cuba. So, we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important. They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens. But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. They have no no way of living.

[02:04:07]They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all.

[02:04:12]But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens. But we're freeing up Cuba.

[02:04:35]>> How much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[02:04:41]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[02:04:43]>> Are the table here, Mr. President?

[02:04:46]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[02:04:50]>> Yes.

[02:04:50]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[02:04:58]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[02:05:08]>> You take military action.

[02:05:10]>> I don't want to say that.

[02:05:12]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Ban has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[02:05:20]>> Who said that?

[02:05:21]>> Gavin Newsome.

[02:05:24]He said doesn't have what?

[02:05:25]>> Because that Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[02:05:33]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[02:05:40]We have a lot of very talented people.

[02:05:42]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot. And JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[02:06:00]Have you heard anything from them?

[02:06:01]>> A very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[02:06:23]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[02:06:32]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[02:06:37]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[02:06:54]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I never >> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[02:07:17]>> What's your message to him?

[02:07:24]>> Um, I'll have a message at a later date.

[02:07:27]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil station relief during peace talks as Iranian TV has reported?

[02:07:38]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[02:07:54]What about American families who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[02:08:57]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[02:08:59]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:09:27]His people respect him a lot.

[02:09:30]>> Response to people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:09:38]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[02:10:23]also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them. I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went you know it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say oh let's look at this one or that one they say weaponization weaponization.

[02:11:11]what they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand. And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now.

[02:11:47]He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And so I think it's a very important moment.

[02:12:22]>> Mr. President, say it.

[02:12:23]>> What coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[02:12:33]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[02:12:38]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> minister was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[02:13:02]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[02:13:19]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[02:13:24]But, uh, we're gonna in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[02:13:28]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[02:13:54]We'll see what happens. But we're freeing up Cuba.

[02:13:57]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[02:14:05]>> Well, we'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[02:14:08]>> On the table here, Mr. President, should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[02:14:14]>> Yes.

[02:14:14]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[02:14:22]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[02:14:32]>> Did you take military action?

[02:14:34]>> I don't want to say that.

[02:14:36]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jan has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[02:14:44]>> Who said that?

[02:14:45]>> Gavin Newsome.

[02:14:48]He said doesn't have what?

[02:14:49]>> Doesn't that Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you?

[02:14:57]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[02:15:04]We have a lot of very talented people.

[02:15:06]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot. And JD's a very talented guy.

[02:15:18]>> Iran had to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[02:15:25]>> A very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[02:15:47]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[02:15:56]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[02:16:01]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[02:16:18]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get Well, I never >> tired of you back.

[02:16:24]>> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[02:16:40]>> What's your message to him?

[02:16:48]>> Uh, I'll have a message at a later date.

[02:16:51]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil station relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[02:17:02]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[02:17:15]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[02:17:19]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[02:17:53]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[02:18:21]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[02:18:23]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:18:51]His people respect him a lot.

[02:18:54]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:19:02]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[02:19:47]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. The their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[02:20:55]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. president.

[02:21:46]>> Say it.

[02:21:47]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[02:21:49]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[02:22:09]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[02:22:26]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[02:22:43]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[02:22:48]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[02:22:52]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[02:23:19]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[02:23:21]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[02:23:29]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. comes on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[02:23:37]>> Yes.

[02:23:38]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[02:23:46]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[02:23:58]>> I don't want to say that.

[02:24:00]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[02:24:03]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Vance has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[02:24:08]>> Who said that?

[02:24:08]>> Gavin Newsome.

[02:24:12]>> He said doesn't have what?

[02:24:13]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[02:24:20]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[02:24:27]We have a lot of very talented people.

[02:24:30]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[02:24:41]>> Doesn't have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[02:24:49]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[02:24:59]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[02:25:11]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[02:25:20]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[02:25:25]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[02:25:42]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[02:25:50]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[02:26:04]>> What's your message to him?

[02:26:12]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[02:26:15]Okay.

[02:26:16]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV supported?

[02:26:26]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[02:26:39]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[02:26:42]about this miracle families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[02:27:44]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[02:27:47]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:28:15]His people respect him a lot.

[02:28:18]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:28:26]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[02:29:11]Also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[02:30:19]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President Mr. president say it >> coming next for Cuba.

[02:31:13]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[02:31:33]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[02:31:50]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[02:32:07]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[02:32:12]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[02:32:16]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[02:32:43]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[02:32:45]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[02:32:53]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. comes on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[02:33:01]>> Yes.

[02:33:02]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[02:33:10]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[02:33:22]>> I don't want to say that.

[02:33:24]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[02:33:26]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Vance has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[02:33:32]>> Who said that?

[02:33:32]>> Gavin Newsome.

[02:33:35]>> He said doesn't have what?

[02:33:37]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[02:33:44]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[02:33:51]We have a lot of very talented people.

[02:33:54]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[02:34:05]>> Doesn't have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[02:34:13]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[02:34:35]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[02:34:44]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[02:35:06]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[02:35:14]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[02:35:28]>> What's your message to him?

[02:35:35]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[02:35:39]Okay.

[02:35:40]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV supported?

[02:35:50]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[02:36:03]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[02:36:06]about this miracle families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[02:37:08]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[02:37:11]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:37:39]His people respect him a lot.

[02:37:42]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:37:50]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[02:38:35]Also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[02:39:43]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what Mr. President say it.

[02:40:34]>> What's coming next for Cuba?

[02:40:37]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[02:41:14]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[02:41:31]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[02:41:36]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[02:41:39]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[02:42:06]We'll see what happens. But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[02:42:09]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[02:42:16]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[02:42:25]>> Yes.

[02:42:26]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[02:42:34]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[02:42:44]>> You take military action.

[02:42:46]>> I don't want to say that.

[02:42:48]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[02:42:50]He says that he doesn't think JD Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[02:42:56]>> Who said that?

[02:42:56]>> Gavin Newsome.

[02:42:59]>> He said doesn't have what?

[02:43:01]>> He says that Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[02:43:08]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[02:43:15]We have a lot of very talented people.

[02:43:18]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[02:43:35]Have you heard anything from them?

[02:43:37]>> Very uh, it's right on the borderline.

[02:43:41]Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[02:43:59]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[02:44:08]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[02:44:13]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[02:44:30]>> Are you getting tired?

[02:44:31]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[02:44:38]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[02:44:52]>> What's your message to him?

[02:44:59]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[02:45:03]Okay.

[02:45:04]>> Sir, on Iran, the US offer Iran oil release during peace talks as Iranian TV has reported.

[02:45:14]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[02:45:29]What about this American students who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[02:45:34]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[02:46:32]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[02:46:35]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:47:03]His people respect him a lot.

[02:47:06]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:47:14]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. uh so they made a settlement also the anti-weaponization uh of people I mean people were destroyed they went to jail they their families were ruined they committed suicide you know all the Biden administration and the Obama administration both of them I mean the Obama administration started it the Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible and we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen to this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[02:49:07]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

[02:49:54]And so I think it's a very important moment.

[02:49:56]>> Mr. Mr. President, >> what's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[02:50:09]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[02:50:13]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[02:50:20]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis, we're there to help.

[02:50:35]>> Was there last week? Can you talk about that at all?

[02:50:37]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents, as you know, were from Cuba. So, we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important. They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens. But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. They have no no way of living.

[02:51:06]They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all.

[02:51:12]But they do have great people. They're a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[02:51:31]But we're freeing up Cuba.

[02:51:33]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[02:51:40]>> Well, we'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[02:51:43]>> On the table here, Mr. President, should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[02:51:49]>> Yes.

[02:51:50]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[02:51:58]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[02:52:08]>> Did you take military action?

[02:52:10]>> I don't want to say that.

[02:52:11]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[02:52:19]>> Who said that?

[02:52:20]>> Gavin Newsome.

[02:52:23]He said doesn't have what?

[02:52:25]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[02:52:32]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[02:52:39]We have a lot of very talented people.

[02:52:42]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[02:52:53]>> Iran have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[02:53:01]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[02:53:22]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[02:53:32]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[02:53:54]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get Well, I never >> tired of you.

[02:54:00]>> I never get tired, >> but what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days. So if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[02:54:23]Uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[02:54:27]Okay.

[02:54:28]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during these talks that Iranian TV has reported?

[02:54:38]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[02:54:51]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[02:54:54]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[02:55:28]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[02:55:56]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[02:55:59]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[02:56:27]His people respect him a lot.

[02:56:30]>> Responsibility. People that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[02:56:38]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. There were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[02:57:23]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. The their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, oh, let's look at this one or that one, they say weaponization, weaponization, what they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[02:58:31]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what Mr. President say it.

[02:59:22]>> What's coming next for Cuba?

[02:59:24]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[02:59:44]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:00:01]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:00:19]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:00:24]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:00:27]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[03:00:54]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[03:00:57]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:01:04]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[03:01:09]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[03:01:13]>> Yes.

[03:01:13]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:01:22]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:01:34]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:01:36]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[03:01:38]He says that he doesn't think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you.

[03:01:42]What's your response to that?

[03:01:43]>> Who said that?

[03:01:44]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:01:47]>> He said it doesn't have what?

[03:01:49]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[03:01:56]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:02:03]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:02:05]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD's a very talented guy.

[03:02:16]>> Does have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[03:02:25]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[03:02:35]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:02:46]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:02:56]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:03:18]>> Are you getting tired?

[03:03:19]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I never >> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[03:03:40]>> What's your message to him?

[03:03:47]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[03:03:51]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian supported?

[03:04:02]>> No, I I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything. some people in America who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[03:04:52]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[03:05:20]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[03:05:22]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[03:05:51]His people respect him a lot.

[03:05:53]>> The responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[03:06:01]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[03:06:46]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[03:07:55]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what Mr. President say it.

[03:08:46]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[03:08:48]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[03:09:08]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh there you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:09:25]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:09:43]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:09:47]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:09:51]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[03:10:18]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[03:10:20]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:10:28]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[03:10:33]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[03:10:37]>> Yes.

[03:10:37]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:10:46]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:10:58]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:11:00]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[03:11:02]He says that he doesn't think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you.

[03:11:06]What's your response to that?

[03:11:07]>> Who said that?

[03:11:08]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:11:11]>> He said it doesn't have what?

[03:11:13]>> He says that Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[03:11:20]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:11:27]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:11:29]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[03:11:47]Have you heard anything from them?

[03:11:49]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[03:11:59]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:12:10]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:12:20]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[03:12:25]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:12:42]>> Are you getting tired?

[03:12:43]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I never >> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[03:13:11]U I'll have a message at a later date.

[03:13:15]Okay. Sir on Iran, the US offer Iran uh oil station release during peace talks as Iranian TV supported.

[03:13:25]>> No, I I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[03:13:42]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[03:14:16]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[03:14:44]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[03:14:46]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[03:15:15]His people respect him a lot.

[03:15:17]>> The responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[03:15:25]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[03:16:10]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very at levels that few people would understand.

[03:17:19]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President next for Cuba.

[03:18:12]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> director was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:18:49]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:19:07]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:19:11]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:19:15]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[03:19:41]We'll see what happens, but we're freeing up Cuba.

[03:19:46]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:19:52]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[03:20:01]>> Yes.

[03:20:01]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:20:09]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:20:20]>> You take military action.

[03:20:22]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:20:23]>> But Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[03:20:31]>> Who said that?

[03:20:32]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:20:35]>> He said doesn't have what?

[03:20:37]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[03:20:44]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:20:51]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:20:53]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[03:21:11]Have you heard anything from them?

[03:21:13]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[03:21:22]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:21:34]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:21:43]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. But we're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:22:06]>> Are you getting tired?

[03:22:07]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. No, I don't. Do I get Well, I never >> tired.

[03:22:12]>> I never get tired.

[03:22:13]>> But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[03:22:28]>> What's your message to him?

[03:22:35]U I'll have a message at a later date.

[03:22:38]Okay.

[03:22:40]>> On Iran, did the US offer Iran oil station relief during these talks that Iranian TV has reported?

[03:22:49]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[03:23:05]What about American families who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[03:24:08]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[03:24:10]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[03:24:39]His people respect him a lot.

[03:24:41]>> Respons people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[03:24:49]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. uh so they made a settlement also the anti-weaponization uh of people I mean people were destroyed they went to jail they their families were ruined they committed suicide you know all the Biden administration and the Obama administration both of them I mean the Obama administration started it the Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible and we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[03:26:43]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

[03:27:29]And so I think it's a very important moment.

[03:27:32]>> Mr. Mr. President, >> what's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that it's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[03:27:44]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[03:27:49]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:28:13]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba and it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:28:30]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:28:35]But, uh, we're gonna in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:28:39]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[03:29:06]But we're freeing up Cuba.

[03:29:08]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:29:16]>> Well, we'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[03:29:19]>> On the table here, Mr. President, should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[03:29:25]>> Yes.

[03:29:25]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:29:33]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:29:43]>> Did you take military action?

[03:29:45]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:29:47]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[03:29:55]>> Who said that?

[03:29:56]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:29:59]He said doesn't have what?

[03:30:01]>> Doesn't that Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you?

[03:30:08]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:30:15]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:30:17]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot. And JD's a very talented guy.

[03:30:29]>> Iran has to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[03:30:36]>> A very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:30:58]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:31:07]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[03:31:12]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:31:30]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I want?

[03:31:35]>> I never get tired.

[03:31:37]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days. So if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[03:31:52]>> What's your message to give? Like my first year in case >> uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[03:32:02]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[03:32:13]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[03:32:26]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[03:32:30]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[03:33:04]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[03:33:32]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[03:33:34]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[03:34:02]His people respect him a lot.

[03:34:05]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[03:34:13]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. Uh so they made a settlement.

[03:34:58]Also the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean people were destroyed. They went to jail. The their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[03:36:07]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what Mr. Is it coming next for Cuba?

[03:37:00]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> director was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:37:37]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:37:54]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:37:59]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:38:03]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[03:38:29]We'll see what happens. But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[03:38:34]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:38:40]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[03:38:49]>> Yes.

[03:38:49]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:38:57]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:39:08]>> Military action.

[03:39:09]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:39:11]>> Mr. President Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[03:39:19]>> Who said that?

[03:39:20]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:39:23]>> He said doesn't have what?

[03:39:24]>> He doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[03:39:32]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:39:39]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:39:41]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[03:39:59]Have you heard anything from them?

[03:40:01]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[03:40:10]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:40:22]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:40:31]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:40:53]>> Are you getting tired?

[03:40:55]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[03:41:01]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[03:41:16]>> What's your message to him?

[03:41:23]>> Uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[03:41:26]Okay.

[03:41:27]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil relief during the peace talks that Iranian TV has reported?

[03:41:37]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[03:41:53]What about American families who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[03:42:56]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[03:42:58]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[03:43:26]His people respect him a lot.

[03:43:29]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[03:43:37]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. uh so they made a settlement also the anti-weaponization uh of people I mean people were destroyed they went to jail they their families were ruined they committed suicide you know all the Biden administration and the Obama administration both of them I mean the Obama administration started it the Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible and we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[03:45:30]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment of Mr. President say it.

[03:46:22]>> What's coming next for Cuba?

[03:46:24]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[03:46:44]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis were there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:47:01]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:47:18]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:47:23]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:47:27]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[03:47:54]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba. Mr. >> President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:48:04]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[03:48:08]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[03:48:12]>> Yes.

[03:48:13]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:48:21]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:48:33]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:48:36]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[03:48:38]He says that he doesn't think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you.

[03:48:42]What's your response to that?

[03:48:43]>> Who said that?

[03:48:44]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:48:46]>> He said it doesn't have what?

[03:48:48]>> He says that Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[03:48:56]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:49:02]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:49:05]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[03:49:16]>> Mr. respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[03:49:23]Have you heard anything from them?

[03:49:24]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[03:49:34]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:49:46]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:49:55]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[03:50:00]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. We're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:50:17]>> Are you getting tired?

[03:50:18]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[03:50:25]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[03:50:39]>> What's your message to him?

[03:50:47]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[03:50:50]Okay.

[03:50:51]>> Sir, on Iran, the US offer Iran uh oil station release during peace talks as Iranian TV reported.

[03:51:01]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything. people in America who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[03:52:20]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[03:52:22]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[03:52:50]His people respect him a lot.

[03:52:53]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[03:53:01]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[03:53:46]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very at levels that few people would understand.

[03:54:54]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President coming next for Cuba.

[03:55:48]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[03:56:25]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[03:56:42]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[03:56:47]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[03:56:51]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[03:57:17]We'll see what happens. But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[03:57:21]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[03:57:28]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[03:57:36]>> Yes.

[03:57:37]>> Uh no, no, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[03:57:45]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[03:57:55]>> You take military action.

[03:57:57]>> I don't want to say that.

[03:57:59]>> But Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[03:58:07]>> Who said that?

[03:58:07]>> Gavin Newsome.

[03:58:10]>> He said doesn't have what?

[03:58:12]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[03:58:19]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[03:58:26]We have a lot of very talented people.

[03:58:29]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[03:58:46]Have you heard anything from them?

[03:58:48]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[03:58:58]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[03:59:10]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[03:59:19]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it.

[03:59:37]So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[03:59:41]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. No, I don't. Do I get Well, I never >> tired.

[03:59:47]>> I never get tired.

[03:59:49]>> But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:00:03]>> What's your message to like u I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:00:14]Okay.

[04:00:15]>> On Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations that Mr. Iranian TV is reported?

[04:00:25]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[04:00:38]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:00:41]What about this American kids who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[04:01:43]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:01:46]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:02:14]His people respect him a lot.

[04:02:17]>> Respons people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:02:25]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[04:03:10]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[04:04:18]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. president.

[04:05:09]>> Say it.

[04:05:10]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[04:05:12]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[04:05:32]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh there you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[04:05:48]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[04:06:06]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[04:06:11]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[04:06:14]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[04:06:42]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[04:06:44]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[04:06:51]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[04:06:56]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[04:07:00]>> Yes.

[04:07:01]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[04:07:09]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[04:07:21]>> I don't want to say that.

[04:07:23]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[04:07:25]He says that he doesn't think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you.

[04:07:30]What's your response to that?

[04:07:31]>> Who said that?

[04:07:31]>> Gavin Newsome.

[04:07:34]>> He said doesn't have what?

[04:07:36]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[04:07:43]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[04:07:50]We have a lot of very talented people.

[04:07:53]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[04:08:04]>> Does have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[04:08:12]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[04:08:22]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[04:08:34]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[04:08:43]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[04:08:48]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[04:09:05]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[04:09:13]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days. I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:09:27]>> What's your message to him?

[04:09:34]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:09:38]Okay.

[04:09:39]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian supported?

[04:09:49]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:10:05]What about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[04:10:09]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[04:11:07]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:11:10]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:11:38]His people respect him a lot.

[04:11:41]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:11:49]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[04:12:34]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[04:13:42]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. President next for Cuba.

[04:14:36]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[04:15:12]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[04:15:30]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[04:15:35]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[04:15:38]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[04:16:05]We'll see what happens. But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[04:16:09]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[04:16:15]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[04:16:24]>> Yes.

[04:16:25]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[04:16:33]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[04:16:45]>> I don't want to say that.

[04:16:46]>> Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jan has what it takes to come after you.

[04:16:54]What's your response to that?

[04:16:55]>> Who said that?

[04:16:55]>> Gavin Newsome.

[04:16:58]>> He said doesn't have what?

[04:17:00]>> Because Trump, the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[04:17:07]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[04:17:14]We have a lot of very talented people.

[04:17:16]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[04:17:34]Have you heard anything from them?

[04:17:36]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[04:17:57]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[04:18:07]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it.

[04:18:25]So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[04:18:29]>> Are you getting tired?

[04:18:30]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[04:18:36]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:18:51]>> What's your message to him?

[04:18:58]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:19:02]Okay.

[04:19:03]>> On Iran, has the US offer Iran oil relief during these talks that Iranian TV has reported?

[04:19:13]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:19:28]What about American families who are scared by the the rise of AI? They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[04:20:31]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:20:34]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:21:02]His people respect him a lot.

[04:21:05]>> Response to people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:21:13]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. uh so they made a settlement also the anti-weaponization uh of people I mean people were destroyed they went to jail they their families were ruined they committed suicide you know all the Biden administration and the Obama administration both of them I mean the Obama administration started it the Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible and we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[04:23:06]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before. And so I think it's a very important moment.

[04:23:55]>> Mr. President, Mr. President, >> what's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[04:24:08]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[04:24:12]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> director was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[04:24:36]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[04:24:54]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[04:24:58]But, uh, we're gonna in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[04:25:02]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[04:25:28]We'll see what happens. But we're freeing up Cuba.

[04:25:32]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[04:25:39]>> So, we'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[04:25:42]>> Are all of the table here, Mr. President? Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[04:25:48]>> Yes.

[04:25:48]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think it needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[04:25:57]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[04:26:07]>> Did you take military action?

[04:26:09]>> I don't want to say that.

[04:26:10]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jan has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[04:26:18]>> Who said that?

[04:26:19]>> Gavin Newsome.

[04:26:22]He said doesn't have what?

[04:26:24]>> Doesn't that Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you?

[04:26:31]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[04:26:38]We have a lot of very talented people.

[04:26:40]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot. And JD is a very talented guy.

[04:26:52]>> Iran has to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[04:27:00]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[04:27:21]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[04:27:31]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[04:27:36]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[04:27:53]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get Well, I never >> tired of you back.

[04:27:59]>> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:28:15]>> What's your message to him?

[04:28:22]>> Uh, I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:28:26]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil station relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[04:28:36]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[04:28:50]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:28:52]American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs.

[04:29:03]More people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[04:29:27]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't. Can >> you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:29:57]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:30:26]His people respect him a lot.

[04:30:28]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:30:36]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[04:31:21]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. The their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[04:32:30]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President Mr. president.

[04:33:21]>> Say it.

[04:33:21]>> Coming next for Cuba.

[04:33:23]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[04:33:43]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[04:34:00]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[04:34:18]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[04:34:22]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[04:34:26]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[04:34:53]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[04:34:55]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[04:35:03]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. comes on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[04:35:12]>> Yes.

[04:35:12]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[04:35:21]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[04:35:31]>> Did you take military action?

[04:35:33]>> I don't want to say that.

[04:35:35]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[04:35:37]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Vance has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[04:35:42]>> Who said that?

[04:35:43]>> Gavin Newsome.

[04:35:46]>> He said doesn't have what?

[04:35:48]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[04:35:55]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[04:36:02]We have a lot of very talented people.

[04:36:04]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[04:36:15]>> Doesn't have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[04:36:24]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[04:36:45]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[04:36:54]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[04:37:00]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[04:37:17]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I do? I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:37:39]>> What's your message to him?

[04:37:46]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:37:50]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV supported?

[04:38:00]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[04:38:14]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:38:16]talking about this miracle families who are scared by the the rise of AI.

[04:38:20]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon, but that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[04:39:19]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:39:21]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:39:50]His people respect him a lot.

[04:39:52]>> Response to people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:40:00]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money. But they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them which was I guess a private firm but it released them to a lot of the fake news and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that and many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh, I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh, so they made a settlement.

[04:40:45]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people, I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. They their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[04:41:54]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh, we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years. And uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba, people that want to see their family in Cuba. I think this is a very big day, very important day. They supported me to the nth degree. They supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

[04:42:40]And so I think it's a very important moment.

[04:42:43]>> Mr. What happened, Mr. President?

[04:42:45]>> Say it.

[04:42:45]>> What's coming next for Cuba? But we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that.

[04:42:56]But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people.

[04:43:00]And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[04:43:07]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. And, uh, their, you know, their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[04:43:24]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents, as you know, were from Cuba. So, we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important. They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens. But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out. They have no no way of living.

[04:43:53]They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all.

[04:43:58]But they do have great people. They're a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[04:44:17]But we're freeing up Cuba.

[04:44:19]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[04:44:27]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon.

[04:44:29]>> Are all on the table here, Mr. President? Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[04:44:36]>> Yes.

[04:44:36]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be. Look, the place is falling apart.

[04:44:44]It's a mess and uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[04:44:55]>> Would you take military action?

[04:44:57]>> I don't want to say that.

[04:44:58]>> Mr. President, Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[04:45:06]>> Who said that?

[04:45:07]>> Gavin Newsome.

[04:45:10]He said doesn't have what?

[04:45:12]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[04:45:19]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[04:45:26]We have a lot of very talented people.

[04:45:28]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[04:45:40]>> Iran have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[04:45:48]>> A very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[04:46:09]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[04:46:18]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[04:46:41]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I never >> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:47:03]>> What's your message to him?

[04:47:10]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:47:13]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[04:47:24]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[04:47:37]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:47:41]>> American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war, and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[04:48:15]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[04:48:43]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:48:45]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:49:14]His people respect him a lot.

[04:49:16]>> Responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:49:24]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[04:50:09]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[04:51:18]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> say coming next for Cuba.

[04:52:11]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[04:52:31]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[04:52:48]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[04:53:06]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[04:53:10]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[04:53:14]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[04:53:41]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[04:53:43]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[04:53:51]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. comes on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[04:54:00]>> Yes.

[04:54:00]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[04:54:08]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[04:54:18]>> Would you take military action?

[04:54:20]>> I don't want to say that.

[04:54:23]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[04:54:25]He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you.

[04:54:29]What's your response to that?

[04:54:30]>> Who said that?

[04:54:31]>> Gavin Newsome.

[04:54:34]>> He said doesn't have what?

[04:54:36]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[04:54:43]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[04:54:50]We have a lot of very talented people.

[04:54:52]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[04:55:03]>> Doesn't have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[04:55:12]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[04:55:33]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[04:55:42]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power, and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[04:56:05]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what I never >> I never get tired.

[04:56:12]>> But what I like to do if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days or if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[04:56:27]>> What's your message to him?

[04:56:34]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[04:56:37]Okay.

[04:56:38]>> Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV reported?

[04:56:48]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[04:57:01]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[04:57:04]talking about this miracle families who are scared by the the rise of AI.

[04:57:08]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I'll tell you the AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[04:57:39]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[04:58:07]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[04:58:09]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[04:58:38]His people respect him a lot.

[04:58:40]>> Responsibility. People that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[04:58:48]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[04:59:33]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say, "Weaponization, weaponization." What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So, we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[05:00:42]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cubanameans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> Mr. President coming next for Cuba.

[05:01:35]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh they're you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help >> was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[05:02:12]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people, it's going to be one of the most important.

[05:02:29]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[05:02:34]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[05:02:38]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest.

[05:03:04]We'll see what happens. But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[05:03:09]>> How much longer do you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[05:03:15]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. questions on the table here, Mr. President. Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect?

[05:03:24]>> Yes.

[05:03:24]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[05:03:32]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[05:03:43]>> You take military action.

[05:03:44]>> I don't want to say that.

[05:03:46]>> But Mr. Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today. He says that he doesn't think Jamie Van has what it takes to come after you. What's your response to that?

[05:03:54]>> Who said that?

[05:03:55]>> Gavin Newsome.

[05:03:58]>> He said doesn't have what?

[05:04:00]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[05:04:07]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's he'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[05:04:14]We have a lot of very talented people.

[05:04:16]Uh, so I think uh hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD is a very talented guy.

[05:04:28]>> To respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[05:04:34]Have you heard anything from them?

[05:04:36]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[05:04:45]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[05:04:57]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[05:05:06]We're dealing with some people, and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. Uh we're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[05:05:28]>> Are you getting tired of >> But I I don't know. I don't know. No, I don't. Do I get Well, I never >> tired.

[05:05:34]>> I never get tired.

[05:05:36]>> But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[05:05:51]>> What's your message to like uh I'll have a message at a later date.

[05:06:01]Okay.

[05:06:03]>> On Iran, did the US offer Iran oil relief during peace talks? Mr. Iranian TV has reported.

[05:06:12]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh, we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people. But no, we haven't offered anything. Are you worried about this American families who are scared by the the rise of AI?

[05:06:32]They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI >> I'll tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon.

[05:07:03]But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[05:07:31]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[05:07:33]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[05:08:01]His people respect him a lot.

[05:08:04]>> Respons people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[05:08:12]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they released my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lockboxes as president. They were and they released them and a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[05:08:57]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people. I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing su I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of weaponization will never be allowed to happen in this country again. So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake. And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many very uh at levels that few people would understand.

[05:10:06]And I think the Cuban population of Miami and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated whose families were ruined appreciate what the attorney general just did today and was just doing now. He's just watching it. So, uh we have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problem for a lot of years and uh this was a big I think it was a very big moment for people that not only Cuban Americans but uh people that came from Cuba that want to go back to Cuba people that want to see their family in Cuba I think this is a very big day very important day they supported me to the nth degree they supported me at levels that nobody's ever seen before and so I think it's a very important moment >> what happened Mr. President say it coming next for Cuba.

[05:10:59]>> Well, we're going to see. It's a failing nation. You see that? It's falling apart. They have no oil. They have no It's a failing nation. So, I just can't tell you that. But, uh, we're there to help. We're there to help the families, the people. And again, a lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cubanameans.

[05:11:19]They supported me at a 94% level. That's a pretty good level. and uh there you know their their relatives are there. So we we got a on a humanitarian basis we're there to help was there last week. Can you talk about that at all?

[05:11:36]>> Well, we have a lot of people there. We had the CIA there. We have Marco is there. Marco's parents as you know were from Cuba. So we have a lot of expertise in Cuba. And it's not going to be like the biggest thing we've ever done, but I will tell you to a lot of people it's going to be one of the most important.

[05:11:53]They've been looking for this moment for 65 years. So, we'll see what happens.

[05:11:58]But, uh, we're going to in the meantime, we're going to have to help them out.

[05:12:02]They have no no way of living. They have no food. They have no electricity. They have no energy at all. But they do have great people. There are a lot of great people. I mean, I I have so many Cuban friends in Miami, mostly in Miami and Florida, and they're unbelievable people. They're unbelievable entrepreneurs, and they'd like to go back. I think they hopefully they're going to want to live here, but they want to go back. Maybe they'll invest. We'll see what happens.

[05:12:29]But, uh, we're freeing up Cuba.

[05:12:31]>> Mr. President, >> how much longer you anticipate the embargo having to be in place on Cuba?

[05:12:39]>> We'll see. We'll be announcing it pretty soon. on the table here, Mr. President.

[05:12:43]Should we expect any escalation here or should they expect >> Cuba?

[05:12:47]>> Yes.

[05:12:48]>> Uh, no. No, you won't. There won't be escalation. I don't think there needs to be Look, the place is falling apart.

[05:12:56]It's a mess. And uh they've sort of lost control. They've really lost control of Cuba.

[05:13:08]>> I don't want to say that.

[05:13:10]Gavin Newsome is on Capitol Hill today.

[05:13:12]He says that he doesn't think JD Vance has what it takes to come after you.

[05:13:17]What's your response to that?

[05:13:18]>> Who said that?

[05:13:18]>> Gavin Newsome.

[05:13:22]>> He said doesn't have what?

[05:13:23]>> Doesn't Trump the era of Trump ends with you and that JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to come after you.

[05:13:30]>> Well, look, uh, we've done a lot and JD is very talented. He's a smart guy. He's He'll do very well if it's if it's JD.

[05:13:37]We have a lot of very talented people.

[05:13:40]Uh, so I think hopefully we're going to leave something that's going to be real easy to run. We're doing we're doing a lot. We're doing a lot and JD's a very talented guy.

[05:13:51]>> How many have to respond after you said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision? Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them?

[05:14:00]>> Very uh it's right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. uh we have to get the right answers.

[05:14:09]It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives. Most importantly, >> how long will you wait?

[05:14:21]>> Could go very quickly or a few days. It could be a few days, but it could go very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation.

[05:14:30]We're dealing with some people and we're dealing actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people.

[05:14:35]We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. We're dealing with some people with talent, with uh good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody.

[05:14:52]>> Are you getting tired?

[05:14:54]>> But I I don't know. I don't know. I don't Do I get what I never >> I never get tired. But what I like to do, if I if I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do.

[05:15:14]>> What's your message to him?

[05:15:22]>> U I'll have a message at a later date.

[05:15:25]Okay. Sir, on Iran, did the US offer Iran uh oil stations relief during peace talks as Iranian TV is reported?

[05:15:36]>> No, I heard I haven't heard that. No, I'm not doing any relief until they sign an agreement. When they sign an agreement, uh we can get that place built up again and have something that's really a good country for the people.

[05:15:49]But no, we haven't offered anything.

[05:15:52]people in American families who are scared by the the rise of AI. They're worried that their kids are not going to be able to have jobs someday because AI will >> I tell you AI has been amazing because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far than we ever had before. And outside of the war and I assumed the economy was going to go down, the stock market would go down 20 25%. It's actually up. The stock market is higher now than it was before I started the Iran situation. And on the Iran, I had no choice because they were going to have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to give them a nuclear weapon. But that's going to end soon one way or the other. Uh oil is going to come tumbling down. There's so much oil. We have 1,600 ships in the straight that are loaded up with oil that are going to be coming out very soon. So, uh we'll have to see. But the military has been unbelievable. The blockade has been infallible. Not one ship has gotten through the blockade. 37 have tried. Uh they all wish they didn't.

[05:16:55]>> Can you tell us about your call with Erdogan?

[05:16:57]>> Yeah, I had a very good call with President Erdogan and uh pretty standard. We have a very good relationship. Isn't it nice that I have relationships with some very tough people? He's a tough guy and uh but I have a relationship with him that nobody else does. He's he's actually done a good job. He's been, you know, I think very much of an ally. Some people would doubt that, but I think he's been a great ally and his people respect him.

[05:17:25]His people respect him a lot.

[05:17:28]>> The responsibility people that are critical of your your um settlement over your IRS case about the tax now that you can't be prosecuted for tax.

[05:17:36]>> Yeah. Well, what happened is uh I was suing IRS for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons is they release my tax returns, which they're not allowed to do. Now, they showed I pay a lot of tax. I may even release my current returns because they show I pay a lot of money, but they're not supposed to do that. They were in lock boxes as president. They were and they released them. And a certain firm released them, which was, I guess, a private firm, but it released them to a lot of the fake news. and the fake news went and you're just not allowed to do that. And many other things happened. So, I released them from the lawsuit and I guess they made a settlement of some kind. I wasn't involved in the settlement. Uh I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be. Uh so, they made a settlement.

[05:18:21]Also, the anti-weaponization uh of people, I mean, people were destroyed. They went to jail. Their their families were ruined. They committed suicide. You know, all the Biden administration and the Obama administration, both of them, I mean, the Obama administration started it. The Biden administration was uh horrible in terms of what they've done to people is incredible. And we're getting we're reimbursing those pe people for their legal fees and for their costs and for anybody involved. But they destroyed people. People committing I read the other day a person committed suicide over it. They went, you know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics what they did. And yet, if I say, "Oh, let's look at this one or that one." They say weaponization, weaponiz