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Aired August 25, 2025 - 13:00   ET

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: The man at the center of the immigration debate, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is back in ICE custody just days after he was freed, and he's now facing deportation again, possibly to Uganda. His lawyers fighting that push, and a hearing on that is scheduled for next hour.

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: And the president calling the city of Chicago a killing field, a disaster, Donald Trump announcing new National Guard units to, in his words, deal with public order issues. Trump also has a new vision for the nation's capital, using money from Congress to -- quote -- "beautify the city."

And if you're looking to buy a new couch or a new table or a new lamp, the cost could soon be going up, a new threat from the White House that additional tariffs could be coming for the furniture industry.

We're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

KEILAR: We are beginning with breaking news.

Right now, President Trump is meeting face-to-face with the leader of one of America's closest Asian allies, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is at the White House. And topping the two leaders' agenda, trade, and the deal they reached late last month establishing a 15 percent tariff on South Korean imports. That is down from a 25 percent tariff that the Trump administration announced in April.

The president also signing a flurry of executive orders today that targeted cashless bail, flag burning, and that establish what are called specialized units of the National Guard that will be trained to deal with -- quote -- "public order issues" in cities around the country.

The administration is considering expanding its federal police takeover to even more Democratic-led cities. Today, the president defended his plans to send armed military units into Chicago.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I made the statement that next should be Chicago, because, as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now, and they don't acknowledge it.

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KEILAR: CNN's Alayna Treene is live at the White House for us. And Alayna, what more is the president saying about this activation of military in American streets?

ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, right, it comes as we have seen this administration, but even President Donald Trump specifically kind of reveling in some of the coverage he's seen of this federal surge of law enforcement here in D.C.

He is loving watching, I'm told by White House officials, the photos of National Guard troops. I would note they were -- actually yesterday began being armed and starting carrying weapons, a significant escalation of what we have seen them do ever since they were first deployed earlier this month, but reveling in kind of the imagery of this.

And I'd note as well, as we have seen a moderate dropping crime here in D.C. ever since this move by the Trump administration, a huge real focus, I think the most serious part of all of this is the immigration aspect to all of this and the deportations that they have been ramping up because of this effort.

But I think, look, that's part of why and the president's specific kind of enjoyment of all of this is why we're seeing them want to take this and use it as a model for other cities.

I want you to listen, though, to what the president said about some of the criticism he's gotten, particularly from some of the other Democratic cities like Chicago, that he has been criticizing. And these comments that you're about to play came as he was going after hard on some of these other governors and mayors of these cities. Listen.

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TRUMP: And they say we don't need them. Freedom. Freedom. He's a dictator. He's a dictator. A lot of people are saying, maybe we would like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person.

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TREENE: So, as you hear him saying there, he's saying some people are saying that I'm like a dictator, trying to defend himself and say that's not what I'm doing here.

But, look, it also came as we saw him, as you mentioned, sign these executive orders on two issues as well, which is, one, cashless bail, really trying to pressure local jurisdictions who have cashless bail to rein it in.

And I will note he is not able to change the laws in some of those places like New York, Washington, D.C., for example. But he has threatened with this executive order to revoke federal funding if they not do this. Then the other one, of course, was on flag burning, something that is likely to be very controversial, given that it is protected by free speech from a Supreme Court 1989 ruling saying that is protected under the First Amendment.

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KEILAR: All right, Alayna Treene live for us at the White House, thank you.

And let's head to the White House now, where President Trump is taking questions in the Oval Office.

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TRUMP: They came in -- like, you have never seen anything like it. And then he said, enough. And that was the end of the press conference.

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TRUMP: That was the end. It ended very rapidly. But, yes, I think he had a good time.

I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong-un in the appropriate future.

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QUESTION: Will you reduce the number of forces in South Korea, so that the United States can have more flexibility in the region?

TRUMP: Say it?

QUESTION: Would you consider reducing the number of U.S. forces in South Korea so that the United States can have more flexibility in the region?

TRUMP: Well, I don't want to say that now, because we have been friends and we're friends.

And, look, we have a lot of people over there. We have over 40,000 troops in South Korea. As you know, South Korea agreed to pay for that during my last term. And then, when Biden came in, they complained to Biden that I wasn't a nice person. And he agreed not to pay. He gave up billions of dollars. We were getting paid billions of dollars. But then Biden ended that for whatever reason.

It's unbelievable that he did. But we have a very good relationship militarily. They would say, but we gave you land. I said, no, you didn't. You lease us land. There's a big difference between giving and leasing. And maybe one of the things I'd like to do is ask them to give us ownership of the land where we have the big fort. We spent a lot of money building a fort. And there was a contribution

made by South Korea. But I would like to see if we could get rid of the lease and get ownership of the land where we have a massive military base.

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QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President.

How are you planning to make -- I also want to ask this question to Mr. -- President Lee.

TRUMP: Who are you with?

QUESTION: I'm (INAUDIBLE). I am from South Korea's (INAUDIBLE) TV.

TRUMP: Good. Good.

QUESTION: Thank you so much.

So, as mentioned earlier, the United States is South Korea's most important and closest ally. So, in this point of view, I would like to ask you and also President Lee, what do you think are the key ways to make the South Korea-U.S. alliance greater?

TRUMP: Well, I think it's great now. I feel very warmly toward South Korea.

I will tell you that I have a lot of people in business that I deal with that are from South Korea. They love Trump, because they feel I have saved -- I think you would have had a nuclear war if I weren't -- I think you would have had a nuclear war, North Korea and South Korea. I think it would have been a disaster.

You're only 60 miles away from Seoul. They don't even need nuclear. They have their cannons, howitzers, and they have them buried in the mountain. You know what I'm talking about. And I think you would have had -- if I didn't win that election, if Hillary Clinton, crooked Hillary, won that election, I think you would have had a nuclear war. It would have taken place.

And it would have been horrendous for everybody, including them. It would have been very bad for them, because we would have had to enter the picture. And we are the most powerful nuclear country in the world by far. Russia's second. China's third. China is going to catch eventually, five or six years. They're working to catch.

One of the things we're trying to do with Russia and with China is denuclearization. And it's very important, one of the things I discussed with President Putin. It wasn't just that. It was also other things. And I think the denuclearization is a very -- it's a big aim.

But Russia's willing to do it. And I think China's going to be willing to do it too. We can't let nuclear weapons proliferate. We have to stop nuclear weapons. The power is too great. OK? Thank you.

QUESTION: I'd like to ask you a further question about South Korea and U.S. alliance. I'm Ana (ph) from "The Korea Times."

I'd like to ask you about the trade deal that's on the table. You mentioned about the shipbuilding industry. And President Lee mentioned about the manufacturing industry and what other areas or sectors that you intend to focus on this trade deal, because Korea is bringing in many investments and create jobs as well.

TRUMP: Yes.

QUESTION: So I'd like to know the opinions of both how to get beneficial outcomes for both countries through this deal.

TRUMP: Well, we're going to get along great, because we really sort of need each other. We love what they do. We love their product. We love their ships. We love a lot of the things that they make. And they love what we have.

We're dealing with them on Alaska having to do with the oil. They need -- you need oil, and we have it. So we have a big advantage in that way. We have a big -- we have more oil and gas and coal and energy than any other country in the world by far, no -- for whatever reason, God was very good to us. He gave us the greatest -- we didn't use it.

We started to use wind. Wind doesn't work. They started to use solar panels that took over the land all over the Midwest, where the farmers said, what happened to my land? They would have a 10-mile-by-10 mile solar field that they couldn't farm, the most -- the most valuable land, farming land, in the world, probably the most vibrant in the world.

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And they put solar plants all over the place. It's ridiculous, a big, massive black field of solar that all comes out of China. Or plastic all comes out of China. But we have the greatest amount of energy in the world, and we're dealing with South Korea, as you know, in Alaska.

And we're going to be making a deal or joint venture with South Korea. Japan is involved also, very strongly involved. So we have Japan and South Korea, and we're actually the closest. It seems like quite far away, Alaska, but actually it's right up the little ocean, right up the little Pacific Ocean.

It's actually pretty close, relatively speaking. But we have more oil and gas and coal than any other nation in the world by far. And we're going to use it. And that's the thing that South Korea, I think, most wants from us, I would think.

QUESTION: Mr. President, would you go back to the DMZ to meet with the North Korean leader?

TRUMP: Say it?

QUESTION: Would you go back to the DMZ to meet with the North Korean leader?

TRUMP: I loved -- remember when I walked across the line and everyone went crazy, especially Secret Service?

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TRUMP: I would say...

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TRUMP: And I looked into those windows. You know the windows, the glass, that you could only see if you look directly? Because there was all sorts of stuff.

But I looked in, and I saw more rifles pointing at me than you could -- there were a lot of rifles in that building.

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TRUMP: The Secret Service was not happy. You know the buildings I'm talking about, the two blue buildings on each side? And I walked up the middle and I looked in the window and I saw more guns in that room than I have ever seen in my life.

I looked at the other side and it was the same thing. And yet I felt safe. I felt safe because I have a great relationship with Kim Jong- un. I hope it stays that way. I think it will. I have a very good relationship. I understand him. I spent a lot of free time with him talking about things that we probably aren't supposed to talk about.

And I just -- I get along with him really well. I think he has a country of great potential, tremendous potential.

QUESTION: And is it possible you would meet him this year or maybe next year?

TRUMP: Well, I'm meeting a lot of people. I mean, it's hard to say that, but I'd like to meet him this year. President Xi would like me to come to China. It's a very important relationship.

As you know, we're taking a lot of money in from China because of the tariffs and different things. And it's a very important relationship. We're going to get along good with China. I hear so many stories about we're not going to allow their students or -- we're going to allow their students to come in. We're going to allow.

It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China. But it's a different relationship that we have now with China. It's a much better relationship economically than it was before with Biden. Boy, what he allowed, that -- I mean, they just took him to the cleaners.

You know the expression? They took him to the cleaners. I'm sure they have an equal expression in South Korea, but they took that guy out for a ride like nobody's ever been ridden before. Terrible. But we have a very strong relationship, Howard.

I would say you -- economically with China, now getting much better. They have to give us magnets. If they don't give us magnets, then we have to charge them 200 percent tariff or something, you know? But we're not going to have a problem, I don't think, with that. We have -- I think that's perhaps behind us.

China intelligently went and they sort of took a monopoly of the world's magnets. And nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, let's all do magnets. There were many other ways that the world could have gone. But so for -- it'll take us probably a year to have them.

We're heavy into the world of magnets now, only from a national security standpoint. But we have a powerful thing. It's airplane parts. They have many Boeing jets. They had 200 jets that didn't fly. And I have sent them all. Based on his word, I sent them all of the parts so their planes can fly. I could have held them back. I didn't do that because of the relationship I have.

And their planes are now flying. We had 200 of their planes were unable to fly because we were not giving them Boeing parts purposely because they weren't giving us magnets. Therefore, we weren't giving them. But we have a much more powerful thing. That's tariffs.

If we want to put 100 percent, 200 percent tariffs on, we wouldn't do any business with China. And that would be OK too if we had to. But the magnet situation, we have tremendous power over them, and they have some power over us with magnets. We're going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of time.

In fact, we will have so many, we won't know what to do with them. But you know the story. It's a very interesting history with magnets. And it really is, because presidents, not being businesspeople, they allowed that to happen. And they shouldn't have.

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But we have much more -- I mean, look, in terms of playing the cards, we have much bigger and better cards than they do. But, with that being said, I think we have a great relationship. I spoke to President Xi fairly recently. And at some point, probably during this year or shortly thereafter, we will go to China. And I think we're going to see a magnificent sight.

It's a great country.

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QUESTION: ... you and President Lee actually are planning to go to China, you mentioned, either this year or next year. Could you please share more details about your plans going to China and also presently I think...

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TRUMP: Well, we will -- maybe we will go together. Do you want to go together? We can share a plane. We will save energy. We will save...

(LAUGHTER) TRUMP: We will save a little, you know, the ozone -- the ozone layer.

Remember, President Obama used to talk about the ozone layer, and then he'd fly to Hawaii to play a round of golf in a 747.

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TRUMP: Well, it was sort of meant jokingly, but, if you want, you can come.

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LEE JAE MYUNG, SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I would like to go with -- together with the president.

TRUMP: He did -- if you want to go, I'm going to get special permission. I'm sure you can go.

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TRUMP: But we're going to have a great relationship with China. I mean, it's happening. You see it. It's happening.

They have some cards. We have incredible cards, but I don't want to play those cards. That wouldn't -- if I played those cards, that would destroy China. I'm not going to play those cards.

QUESTION: Mr. President, on the National Guard, you have talked a lot about Democratic-run cities and states.

TRUMP: Yes.

QUESTION: Would you also consider sending the National Guard into red states and red cities that are also seeing high crime?

TRUMP: Sure. But there aren't that many of them. If you look at the top 25 cities that -- for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.

And one of the bad things they did, cashless bail. If you look back on time, when they allowed a murderer out that afternoon, he'd kill somebody and then a couple of hours later, he's walking in the streets again, oftentimes killing again rapidly. Cashless bail is a disaster.

You saw we had a news conference today and that we're wiping it out in D.C., immediately wiping it out. It started in New York, I must tell you. And it's been a horrible thing for crime, especially violent crime. So we're going to end cashless bail.

Yes. Thank you.

QUESTION: When will you deploy to Chicago and how long are you keeping troops here in Washington, D.C.?

TRUMP: We're having a little discussion. I really want to be appreciated. When we go into a city and wipe out the crime -- so, D.C., it sounds so horrible. I'm embarrassed to say it in front of you because they don't have anything like this.

Washington, D.C., sir, has not had a murder in 11 days. Now, he's saying that's a horrible thing to hear, because they don't have murders forever. But Washington, D.C., if you go back and check, it's been many years since we went a week without having a murder. Now we haven't had -- and I would say that Washington, D.C., right now is much safer than Seoul.

You know why? Because we have a friendly neighbor. We have a friendly neighbor. You have a different kind of problem. We all have different problems. But Washington, D.C., is a very safe city right now. People are going out to dinner. Restaurants are opening. Restaurants that were going to close are now going to stay open.

Friends of mine are going out to dinner all the time. They didn't go out to dinner for four years. It went rampant during the Biden years, Biden, just rampant. That's why it -- Susie is very close to the mayor and has a lot of respect for her.

But I view it maybe a little differently because the mayor would say that it's gotten better. For 30 years, it's gotten better. No, it's gotten worse. And the worst day of all was when we just got to office for the second time, and it's a very bad shape. So the mayor shouldn't be saying that violent crime has been getting better.

It's been getting much worse. And the day I took office, it was the worst. And we did some minor things, made it a little bit better. But then we said, look, we're going to stop it because too many people are getting killed. And we have not had a murder in 11 days. It sounds crazy. I hate to say this in front of this gentleman, who I respect, because they don't have murders for years.

But we have not had a murder in 11 days. And that's going to go on for a long time. And there will be -- I guess it'll happen a little bit. But we have a very safe city. This is one of the safer cities right now in the country. And in a short period of time, it'll be like the border. Nobody came in through our border for the last 90 days, three months.

We had zero illegal aliens from the Congo, from South America, from all over the world, from prisons coming in, pouring into our country. Nobody, not one person -- and this is done by a liberal group, a liberal think tank. They do the work. Not one person has come into our country. Think of that.

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It's been amazing. And I didn't have to go back to Congress and ask. Biden could have done this by himself. I did. I said, close the borders. We had the great Tom Homan. We had Kristi, as you know, Kristi Noem, who did a fantastic job. She's doing a fantastic job.

Pete Hegseth has been incredible with the -- as I call it, the Department of War. We call it the Department of Defense, but, between us, I think we're going to change the name. You want to know the truth? I think we're going to have some information on that maybe soon. But I think -- because Department of Defense -- we won the World War I, World War II.

It was called the Department of War. And, to me, that's really what it is. Defense is a part of that. But I have a feeling we're going to be changing. I'm going to -- I'm talking to the people. Everybody likes that. We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War.

Then we changed it to Department of Defense. So that's a little thing, has nothing to do with your country. But it's something that I think you're going to be hearing about or seeing about over the next couple of weeks. Probably that change is going to be made over the next week or so.

QUESTION: Are there two Koreas, North and South? Or is there one Korea waiting to be unified?

TRUMP: Well, I know it as two Koreas. I mean, I just -- there was one Korea. It was a very large country and a very powerful country. And it was a country that went to war with China. President Xi explained it.

Went to war with China many times over the last 2,000 years. You had many -- I think he told me 51 times. So, I remember I went to President Xi and said, we're having a problem with North Korea. Straighten it out, would you please? He said, well, we have been to war with them. And he -- I think he said 51 times.

But at that time it was the whole of Korea. It wasn't North and South. And after he explained it, I said, all right, not going to be that easy. I guess you're right.

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TRUMP: But you had one Korea. It was a very big, powerful nation. Now you have two big, powerful nations, but you have essentially a wall in between.

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QUESTION: The comments -- the post and comments you made on South Korea already this morning, like raids on churches, going into U.S. military base, purge, revolution, how do you think about it?

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TRUMP: Well, I heard from Intel -- I heard from Intel that there was a raid on churches. We're going to talk about that later. I haven't spoken about it yet, but when we meet

And that would be too bad if that's the case. But I did hear that from Intel, that there was a raid on churches, closing some churches. So we will talk about that later. I could ask you now, if you want.

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TRUMP: Wait. Wait a minute. If you would like, because it didn't sound to me like South Korea. LEE (through translator): It hasn't been long since Korea has

overcame the political turmoil following the self-coup by the former president.

Currently, there is a fact-finding investigation by a special prosecutor that was appointed by the National Assembly. And this special prosecutor...

TRUMP: Is his name deranged Jack Smith, by any chance?

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TRUMP: They took him from our country. They put deranged Jack -- he's a deranged, sick individual. But go ahead. Go ahead. I'm only kidding.

Maybe I'm not.

LEE (through translator): And that special prosecutor is not under my control. And so the special prosecutor is conducting a fact-finding investigation.

And I would like to explain about what you said about U.S. bases. They did not conduct a search and seizure of American bases, but they looked into the control, the chain of command and the control system of the Korean military.

TRUMP: Right.

LEE (through translator): And I would be happy to explain about this more in detail during our lunch meeting.

TRUMP: That's OK. We will -- I am sure it's -- I am sure it's a misunderstanding, but there is a rumor going around about churches, raiding churches. So we will talk.

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I'm sure that's going to be worked out fine.

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TRUMP: Yes, please go ahead.

QUESTION: Mr. President, what conversations have you had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about what is going on in Gaza? There was a U.N.-backed report that said there is a famine in Gaza.

Based on what you know and what you have been briefed on, do you agree with that?

TRUMP: So, I mean, I deal with Bibi Netanyahu quite a bit. And we had great success, obviously, in Iran. We knocked out their nuclear threat. That would have been a horror show having them have a nuclear weapon. They would have used it too. We did very well there.

Right now, they're talking about Gaza City. There's always talking about something. At some point, it's going to get settled. And I'm saying, you better get it settled soon. You have to get it settled soon. And that means -- nobody can forget October 7. People forget October 7. That was one of the most brutal -- I have seen some terrible things, some brutal things. That was about as bad as it gets.

And nobody can forget that. With that being said, it's got to get over with. It's got to get over with, because, between the hunger and all of the other problems, worse than hunger, death, pure death, people being killed -- and I'm the one that brought back the hostages, and I did it with that gentleman right there, Steve Witkoff, and with Marco. All of us, the whole team, we worked together. Even the trade people worked on it with us.

And we brought back a lot of the hostages. Now we're left with, would you say 20, Steve, or would you say it's less than 20?

STEVE WITKOFF, U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST: I hope it's 20.

TRUMP: And he hopes it's 20 because some could be dead. That's what he means, I assume. So we have 20, but there's rumors that some could be dead.

It's a terrible situation over there, a terrible, terrible situation. But it's coming to a head. It's coming to an end. We are sending -- we sent $60 million of food over there just recently. And I don't even know if people know it. We distributed ourselves. We're giving a lot of food, spending a lot of money on food, getting it over there.

We have a lot of food. We have a lot of oil, and we have a lot of -- we have the greatest farmers in the world. So we have a lot of food. But we're sending a lot of it over to Gaza. And we're feeding a lot of people. But with all of that being said, it's a lot of people to feed. And I think that we will have -- I think, within the next two to three weeks, you're going to have pretty good, conclusive -- a conclusive ending.

And it's a hard thing to say because they have been fighting for thousands of years, if you want to know. That's a -- that's been a hotbed forever. But I think we're doing a very good job. But it does have to end. But people can't forget October 17.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) Do you plan to attend APEC summit to be held in Korea?

TRUMP: The summit in South Korea?

QUESTION: Yes, sir, in November.

TRUMP: Yes, I'd love to. I'd love to. Last time, I spoke in front of your Parliament, and I loved doing that, beautiful, beautiful respect that they had for our country and a beautiful room.

I remember how beautiful it was, and I enjoyed doing it. No, I could see going. I think I'm going for a trade meeting to South Korea pretty soon. You're hosting a trade meeting, so I can sneak away from that trade meeting and we will go and do something for the president if he'd like me to do that, OK? But -- so we will be going there fairly soon.

QUESTION: If you have time, then it's a good chance to meet up Kim Jong-un again or maybe Xi Jinping? And how about -- how do you think of it?

TRUMP: You mean set them up together?

QUESTION: Yes.

TRUMP: That would interesting. We will arrange of meeting between you and Kim Jong-un. Would you like that?

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TRUMP: That's a very tough question right there. I don't know where that question is leading.

Anyway, look, I get along great with Kim Jong-un. And whatever I can do having to do with South Korea and getting people together, you should get together, right?

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TRUMP: Yes, ma'am.

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TRUMP: Look at that beautiful smile.

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QUESTION: ... turn out to be the worst one in the room.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) the (INAUDIBLE) project, (INAUDIBLE) project.

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TRUMP: Yes. Oh, yes, sure. We're going to do that. I think we're going to do that very strongly.

We're going to have a big -- within a period of -- it takes a while. That's a hard one to start. Some companies, you can start easily. Shipbuilding's a tough one to start. But we will be doing that.

Now, with that being said, we make the best submarines anywhere in the world. We make submarines. We're 25 years ahead of anybody else in submarines. So we do that. We do that. But we really gave up the shipbuilding industry foolishly many years ago.

But we're going to start it up again. We're going to be making our own ships again soon.

OK, how about one or two more?

QUESTION: Have you been briefed on the search of John Bolton's home and office from Friday? Have you been briefed on that?

TRUMP: I have not been briefed, no. I read it, just like you did.

I was never a fan of his. I thought he was stupid. I thought he was a guy that only wanted to go into war. He liked killing people. I thought he was essentially a bad guy. But I'm not involved in that. No, you would have to ask Pam Bondi about that.