00:00:04.000The president was asked about the fact that a lot of people in the administration, including the president, have seen their net worth go up tremendously during this administration, which is a major issue for Republicans.
00:00:15.000I know there's been a lot of talk about a lot of issues surrounding the election, everything from tariffs to the Iran war.
00:00:20.000The number one issue in every poll was corruption.0.99
00:00:22.000It was, it was, and that will continue to bite the Republicans directly in the ass.0.99
00:00:26.000So long as there are people all surrounding the president who are clearing the bag.0.99
00:00:31.000Here's Ross Duthat with the president.
00:00:34.000There's a Forbes story that said that your net worth, maybe it's changed with the stock market recently, but your net worth went up by $3 billion.
00:01:33.000So, again, if Republicans don't at some point confront this, it's going to be a problem.
00:01:38.000I will say, I thought that the most amusing and honest moments of this interview came when Ross Doothat started asking the president about forgiving his enemies.
00:01:45.000And, you know, points for honesty here from the president.
00:01:49.000You said, and I know this was a little bit of a joke, but I think facts come through jokes.
00:01:54.000You said, I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them.
00:02:01.000Let's say you pass away, you're entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for.
00:02:13.000James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years.
00:02:53.000One thing about the president, when it comes to this sort of stuff, he is not lying.
00:02:56.000Well, the other big headline that came out of the 60 Minutes interview was the president sounding off on the 2028 presidential race.
00:03:02.000So obviously, it's a wide open field right now.
00:03:05.000The fact that the Republicans got drubbed means that there are a bunch of people who are going to throw their hats in the ring.
00:03:09.000That presumably includes everybody from the vice president of the United States, the presumptive frontrunner.
00:03:14.000To Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida, probably include Senator Ted Cruz.
00:03:18.000There'll be some others who undoubtedly jump in.
00:03:20.000Well, this took kind of the four of this particular 60 Minutes episode because the president was asked about a tweet sent by the vice president last week that got a lot of attention.
00:03:28.000The vice president's tweet blamed essentially the entirety of the 2026 loss on the Iran war.
00:03:35.000Not on the sort of pricing fallout from the Iran war, but on the Iran war itself.
00:03:38.000He suggested that the end of the Iran war would essentially be the palliative that would fix all problems.
00:03:45.000The president was asked directly about this tweet, and here's what he had to say.
00:03:49.000A couple days ago, your vice president, JD Vance, wrote a social media post where he says, The reason we lost is the war, meaning Iran.
00:03:59.000And he said things in that post about Israel.1.00
00:04:01.000Yeah, so you agree with his analysis.0.86
00:04:03.000Did you know he was going to write that post?
00:04:09.000By the way, what are you going to write?
00:04:11.000The only thing I wish he would have said there, if he felt it, and you'd have to ask him about that, but if you had it to do again, would you do it?
00:04:19.000You know, he was part of a decision making process.0.87
00:04:21.000And my answer is an emphatic yes, because you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.0.93
00:04:25.000I think historically this will be a very good decision.0.90
00:04:31.000Today and tomorrow, maybe not, but you know, I have to go with what's right for our country.0.98
00:04:37.000Okay, so he's saying, you know, if the VP wants to sound off about the Iran war, that's fine, but he probably should have said something about the fact that we were eradicating their nuclear capacity, which of course I agree with.0.95
00:04:46.000That is a point that I agree with.0.98
00:04:47.000As I've said before, I've been disagreeing with the actual conduct of the war since about April.0.67
00:04:52.000As of March, I was calling for us to kind of commit our final strikes in Iran and finish things off and move on.
00:04:57.000Okay, but you know, there were negotiations.
00:05:01.000There was a A poorly thought out ceasefire, I think an even more poorly thought out MOU, a lot of issues.
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00:06:10.000Well, the president was standing alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Mar a Lago when the Secretary of State had some different things to say about this particular issue.
00:06:19.000The most important thing a president can do for a country is to keep it safe.
00:06:23.000And there are people around the world that want to destroy it.
00:06:32.000It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy, put it aside, and don't worry about it.0.93
00:06:39.000That would have been the easiest thing to do.0.86
00:06:41.000Honestly, to just basically say, leave it alone, who cares?
00:06:43.000That's going to be someone's problem in the future.
00:06:46.000But this president didn't do that.0.96
00:06:47.000He confronted it because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country, it's destroy our way of life and threaten our children.0.82
00:06:54.000We cannot live in a world in which the most radical, terroristic regime on the planet possesses a weapon of mass destruction.0.77
00:07:00.000And we've had president after president ignore it and allow it to linger.
00:07:06.000Now, again, I obviously agree with the Secretary of State right here.
00:07:09.000Unclear whether the Secretary of State will run.
00:07:11.000I've said before that I think it's unlikely that Rubio will run.
00:07:13.000With that said, the president did tell Ross Duthat that he might go hands off in the 2028 primaries, which is a rather interesting comment.
00:07:23.000I assume you're going to endorse someone for that.
00:08:18.000If you're the sitting vice president of the United States, and if you're leading in all the polling for the primaries, you're running.
00:08:24.000It'd be very, very difficult to imagine the vice president not running.
00:08:27.000And that tweet that he sent last week was essentially the launch of his campaign.
00:08:29.000I mean, it was him separating himself off from the Trump administration's policies that he believes are unpopular and that are in some cases unpopular, and him trying to sort of carve out his own lane.
00:08:41.000With that said, according to the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday's brutal midterm drubbing, the most far reaching Republican wipeout since Watergate, is scrambling Vance's political future, with the vice president and his allies privately grappling with hard questions about whether to mount a 2028 campaign for the White House.
00:08:55.000Some political allies have told the VP they no longer believe any Republican could win a presidential election in two years before and after the election.
00:09:02.000Vance has told associates that he hasn't made up his mind about running, according to six people close to him.
00:09:07.000Two people close to Vance asked him in recent weeks if he would consider returning to Ohio to win his old Senate seat back.
00:09:12.000One of those people floated the idea of running for governor.
00:09:17.000Now, what's sort of interesting about Vance's approach to the White House in 2028 and his approach to the campaign is his attempt to build a coalition.
00:09:25.000Again, I've said all of this in the past, but it's worth repeating.
00:09:28.000If you're attempting to build a coalition, that coalition is going to have to look different than whoever the last guy was.