BONUS POD： Trump talks Iran, Immigration & Smaller Government in One-on-One w NBC News
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Summary
Trump sits down with NBC News in a wide-ranging interview talking about exactly what he's doing for Americans, what his plans are moving forward, and even trolling the media a little bit. Why is it that the media hates Trump so much? Especially when he's willing to do these types of interviews answer virtually any question you ll hear directly from President Donald Trump.
Transcript
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If we have to, if they don't straighten it out.
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Democrat voters want it, but Democrat politicians don't.
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If they don't want voter ID, that means they want to cheat.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
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Donald Trump sits down with NBC News in a wide-ranging interview.
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Talking about exactly what he's doing for Americans.
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And even trolling the media a little bit as well.
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Especially when he's willing to do these types of interviews.
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And you'll hear directly from President Donald Trump.
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Focusing on all of the substantive changes that we've had during the Trump administration.
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Number one, saying that he has strong confidence on interest rates.
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Not much doubt that the U.S. interest rates will be lowered by the Federal Reserve.
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Signaling much more favorable borrowing costs ahead for consumers.
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That is something that the markets and many business owners, he said, are welcoming.
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He also emphasized that his nominee for the Fed chair understands his priority.
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The president also said that it's important that we allow the DOJ to handle business deals.
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This just hours after that antitrust hearing on Netflix.
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In contrast to his earlier comments, Trump stated he would not intervene in the high profile corporate competition between Netflix and Paramount.
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Over it, the potential acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery.
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Instead, letting the Department of Justice review it independently.
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This shift was framed as respecting the process and reducing political influence on business decisions.
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The president also said that we're making great strides when it comes to immigration.
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Trump saying his administration learned it might be wise to take a little bit of a softer touch.
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While still emphasizing toughness where needed.
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This was presented as a sign of responsiveness and learning from experience.
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His administration and the national debt saying this.
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Is there any doubt in your mind that interest rates are going to be lowered?
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We have now, with me, and with all the money, I've always been good at money.
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And with all the money coming into our country, we're a rich country again.
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And the growth will soon make the debt look very small.
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You know, we got rid of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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And those workers went out and got themselves jobs in the free enterprise system.
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We had 10 workers in the federal government for every single job.
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I could right now give you the best employment numbers in history.
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Go out and hire two million people, put them in the federal government.
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Does your new Fed pick understand that you want him to lower interest rates?
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Well, I think he does, but I think he wants to anyway.
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I mean, if he came in and said, I want to raise him, we should have.
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If he said that, he wouldn't have gotten the job.
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Number one, I'm not going to fake the numbers of the federal government
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I'm not going to go hire two million government workers,
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which is what the Democrats did to artificially inflate the employment numbers.
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He said, I can give you the best employment numbers in history.
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You as a taxpayer are going to be paying for it.
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And he's also talking about how it's important to have a Fed chairman
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that understands that Americans need someone on their side to help them survive.
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Now, Donald Trump also moved on to foreign policy issues,
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Should the supreme leader in Iran be worried right now?
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I know they are, but the protesters have said, you know,
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And look, that country's a mess right now because of us.
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If I didn't take out their nuclear, think of it.
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If we didn't take out that nuclear, we wouldn't have peace in the Middle East
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because the Arab countries could have never done that.
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Those beautiful B-2 bombers went in and they hit their target every single bomb
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And because of that, they were going to have a nuclear weapon within one month.
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Within one month, they were going to have a nuclear weapon.
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I mean, if there's no more, are they trying to restart the nuclear program?
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And if they do, and I let them know, if they do, we're going to send them right back
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So you're understanding that they tried to restart it and that's why you're threatening force?
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But they were thinking about starting a new site in a different part of the country.
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I said, you do that, we're going to do very bad things to you.
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The president not backing down on any of his promises there.
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The president Trump also asked the, of course, obsession question by the media.
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And that is, it's somehow he's going to stay in office for like a third term.
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NBC News actually taking the time to ask the president this question.
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On January 21st, 2029, do you see any scenario where you are still president?
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But wouldn't it be terrible if I agreed with, you know, if I gave you the answer that you're looking for?
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It would make life so much less exciting, right?
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The president obviously having a little fun there with NBC News, not answering the question the way they wanted to.
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Smiling from ear to ear, knowing that that was going to trigger them.
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One of the things the president talked about was getting rid of excess government waste, fraud, and abuse.
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And one of the examples of that is what he's been talking about with the Federal Reserve building.
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The American people are sick and tired of government abuse of your tax dollars.
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There's been bipartisan suggestions that the criminal investigation to the current Fed chair, Jerome Powell, is payback, right?
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For not lowering interest rates, but also for when he was in that sort of news conference with you with the hard hats.
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And he was shaking his head and showing you the papers and disagreeing with you in public.
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I'm asking him, why are you spending almost four billion dollars on a very small little complex of buildings?
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He's renovating buildings for three to four billion dollars.
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And, you know, this Fed chair that I have is I think is going to be great.
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He might not have a home because this guy has spent so much money.
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He's a this the Federal Reserve building I'm talking about.
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They're spending more money than any building ever built in history per square foot.
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Some Republican senators say they're not going to approve him unless you drop that investigation.
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You think is it worth it to drop the investigation to get your Fed chair through?
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I think the investigation is the investigation is being handled by Pam and Janine and the people.
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Now, the president was also asked one other fun question at the very end.
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It's a little bit about his legacy, how he'll be remembered and what he's done so far.
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And here's what the president had to say about all of that.
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You think at one point people will talk about you when they talk about presidents like Washington and Lincoln?
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Is that something you think is going to happen?
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But all I know, I'm walking down and everyone's screaming goat, goat.
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Because if I do a great job, that means the country is doing well.
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That sums up President Donald Trump perfectly in his second term.
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If I do a great job, that means the country is doing well.
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And that's why there's so many Americans that are loving exactly what he's doing each and every day.
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