Return to Transcripts main page

Inside Politics

Supreme Court Limits Judges' Power To Block Trump Orders; Trump Updates On Trade Talks As He Nears 90-Days Timeline; Trump Speaks After Supreme Court Gives Him Big Win On Exec. Power. Aired 12-12:30p ET

Aired June 27, 2025 - 12:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

[12:00:00]

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Madam, Attorney General, thank you for being here to take our questions. A couple questions to both of you. The EO goes -- had a 30-day grace period before it goes into effect. Is there any thought about trying to make it effective immediately within that period of time?

PAM BONDI, ATTORNEY GENERAL: We're going to follow the law. We're going to make those decisions, and we're going to do what's right in the bounds of the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And then the DOJ didn't ask the justices to rule on the merits of the birthright citizenship ban, just for explanation purposes. Why?

BONDI: Sure, because that's going to come down in October in the separate (Ph). This was huge, because it's indirectly impacted today. As I said, it's now, it's case by case. Let me reiterate of the 35 of the 40 nationwide injunctions filed against this president, against his executive authority as president of the United States. 35 of them came from Maryland, D.C., Massachusetts, California, Washington, and that's crazy. These five districts. So yes, it indirectly impacts us. It will be a separate decision in October. Next question.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you, Mr. President. A question for you, sir. Do you believe this ends the power of the lower court judges to stop your agenda? Do you see this as a full green light for your agenda going forward?

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Well, you'd have to really speak to the lawyers about that, but this is really also a decision based on common sense. It didn't work the other way. It was a disaster where somebody from a certain location in a very liberal state, or a liberal judge, or a liberal group of judges could tie up a whole country for years because their decision would sometimes take years to overturn.

We've overturned many of the decisions, but it would take years to do it. And we have to act quickly when it comes to illegal immigration. We have murderers, killers, we have drug dealers. We have what they've allowed to come into our country, should never be forgotten. It should never be forgotten what they've done to our country, and we have to be able to act very quickly, and we're going to do that. Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sir, I know that you praised her and her opinion here, in this case. She has taken some heat though from some of your supporters who have labeled her weak, squishy, a rattled law professor. What is your take on that?

TRUMP: I don't know about that. I just have great respect for her. I always have, and her decision was brilliantly written today, from all accounts, yeah.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, what would you say to Americans who fear that this is more and more concentration of power in the White House and executive thoughts?

TRUMP: This really brings back the constitution. This is what it's all about. And this is really the opposite of that. I mean, the question is fine, but it's the opposite. The constitution has been brought back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you so much, President Trump. Illegal crossings in the border are zero now.

TRUMP: Zero. Does everyone hear that, zero, from 2028.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you mean that President Trump?

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: I like him. He's working the cameras.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With his new reality President Trump in the border. Do you intend to engage personally with leaders from South America, not only Central America, in order to --

TRUMP: I'll do that anyway.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- these situation --

TRUMP: I'll do that anyway.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, you have a profession of meeting some presidents from South America, as Brazil (Ph), for example.

TRUMP: When you see that as an example, not South America, but NATO over the weekend They have great respect for our country. Now, they did things that nobody thought was possible. They took funding from two percent to five percent, nobody thought they'd ever pay the two percent and now they're paying the five percent. It's over a trillion dollars more a year.

Think of that, a trillion dollars. Nobody thought that could happen. That's a different group of people, different countries, but we get along with a lot of countries. We are respected again. Our country, the U.S. is respected again. It was not respected six months ago.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President, you have a deadline coming up on trade in two weeks. Which country didn't have country on tariffs?

TRUMP: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Which countries, if any, are close to agreements with the administration?

TRUMP: Well, that's an interesting question. We've made a deal with China. We've made a deal with probably four or five different countries, with the U.K. was a great deal for both, and we're in the process of making some others. But ultimately, in fact, Scott is here. Howard Lutnick, these two guys have been doing an incredible job, and the people that work with him have been doing an incredible job.

But you know, we have 200 countries. You could say 200 countries plus. We can't do that. So, at a certain point, over the next week and a half or so, or maybe before, we're going to send out a letter. We talked to many of the countries, and we're just going to tell them what they have to pay to do business in the United States.

And it's going to go very quickly, but some of the bigger country, so India, I think we're going to reach a deal where we have the right to go in and trade. And right now, it's restricted. You can't walk-in there. You can't even think about it. We're looking to get a full trade barrier dropping, which is unthinkable, and I'm not sure that that's going to happen. But as of this moment, we've agreed to that, go into India and trade. We're going to be trading in China. That's going to come a little bit down the road, but we're going to be trading in China.

[12:05:00]

We have a lot of great things going, and we're getting along with countries, but some will be disappointed because they're going to have to pay tariffs. And we've taken in already hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. No inflation. The only problem we have is we have a Fed guy that doesn't understand what's happening. And it would be great if he lower the rate, because we'd be able to borrow a lot cheaper.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Why don't we keep it on this subject? This is such a big subject. You know what trade is so big, but this, I don't know, in a certain way, this might be bigger than trade.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: I think this is bigger than trade. Yes, please, go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, I was wondering if you could --

TRUMP: Go, ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, on the transgender ruling, the Supreme Court ruling that parents with religious objections can pull their kids out of public-school lessons that use LGBTQ materials. Pam, brought it up. Your reaction to that ruling today, sir?

TRUMP: I think the ruling was a great ruling, and I think it's a great ruling for parents. It's really a ruling for parents. They lost control of the schools. They lost control of their child. And this is a tremendous victory for parents. And I'm not surprised by it, but I am surprised that it went this far. It took us to bring life back to normal. So, wonderful. It's parental. And I kept saying, we will give you back your parental rights. They were taken away and this is a tremendous victory for parents. Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, if you look at the back at the last week, it's been extraordinary in terms of the action the middle east, you were at The Hague.

(CROSSTALK)

JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: I'm wondering now if you believe in Iran. I'm wondering now, Sir, if you believe that Iran has given up its long history of ambitions with nuclear weapons. Or what you would like to see from them to prove that they do? And what type of meetings is your administration looking for next week with Iran?

TRUMP: So, Iran wants to meet. As you know, their sites were obliterated. They're very evil. Nuclear sites they were now has been proven. We had some fake news for a little while. The same people that covered the Hunter Biden laptop was from Russia, the same people that did three or four other Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (inaudible)

TRUMP: No, no, wait, wait. Just listen. They came up with something that delayed the credit that our great pilots and these great American. I mean, they what talent that was, and they hit it right down in the spot, 52,000 feet. Think of this dark, no moon. You couldn't see a thing, and they hit the refrigerator door, as they say, that's the size of a target.

And overwhelmingly, and it's amazing, what was done. The only ones that could have done it. And we took out the two of the other sites also, in addition to that, we finished them off. That was a very evil intention. I believe that -- and again, time will tell. But I don't believe that they're going to go back into nuclear anytime soon. They spent over a trillion dollars on nuclear. They never got it together, and nothing was moved from the site

By the way, to do that is very dangerous. It's very, very heavy material. Those cars were most likely the cars of masons, because they were pouring concrete at the top, at the hatch, as you know, the hatch going into the nuclear site. They wanted to reinforce it, and they had some masons there pouring concrete. By the way, that concrete was obliterated. It hit exactly at the concrete. It was -- I don't think it had a chance to dry, but everything is down there. It's under millions of tons of rock.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Please.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your administration has said that El Salvador is one of the safest countries in the hemisphere. So why haven't you yet canceled Temporary Protected Status to that country? Was it part of the deal, Mr. President?

TRUMP: We'll take a look. We've had a great relationship with El Salvador. They have a fantastic leader. They built a massive prison system. And I don't know exactly why, but it's a hell of a system. And we bring people there, and when they go there, they don't get out. And frankly, when they hear they have to go there, they become very nice people. They become very nice people. It's a tough system, but it's a brilliant system, and it's a system done by a very, very good leader. We'll talk about El Salvador, a lot of respect.

(CROSSTALK)

ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, THE NEW YORK TIMES: We have a question for you, and then a question for the attorney general. As you go into negotiations and talks with Iran, are you demanding not only that there would be no Iranian production inside of Iran, but also that Iran would turn over all existing stockpiles of Iranians?

TRUMP: Well, you know, we're a little early for that, but something like that. Yeah, we'll do something like that. Let me say that I've been saying for 25 years, even as a civilian, you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. And that's what happened. It's been obliterated. It would be years before they could ever get going. And I really think it's probably the last thing. They have to recover from a hell of a tough war.

[12:10:00]

KANNO-YOUNGS: Would you also be demanding that the IAEA have full rights to inspect in Iran?

TRUMP: Or somebody, yeah, or somebody that we respect, including ourselves.

KANNO-YOUNGS: And a question for Pam Bondi, Attorney General. Under birth right citizenship if this is implemented, who would be tasked with actually vetting citizenship? And how -- like, would this be a situation where you have nurses and doctors checking for citizenship of parents?

BONDI: This is all pending litigation. It's going to be decided in October by the Supreme Court, and we'll discuss that after the litigation. KANNO-YOUNGS: If you have an undocumented baby, would that baby then be an enforcement priority?

BONDI: The violent criminals in our country are the priority. Now, let me put it in perspective. Today, mark the 2711 arrest in our country of TdA members, just TdA. Everyone in this room agrees. They are one of the most violent criminal organizations in the world. And the Biden administration let them walk into our country, walk into our country for the last four years. 2711 of them today have been arrested in our country. That is the priority of Donald Trump. That is the priority of this country, of Homeland Security, of all of our lawyers, of FBI. That's the priority.

That will be discussed in October when the Supreme Court hopefully rules in our favor, and we're very confident of that. But you should all feel safer now that President Trump can deport all of these -- all of these gangs, and not one district court judge can think they're an emperor. Over this administration, his executive powers and why the people of the United States elected him.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: I just might add one thing. And you know, they used birthright citizenship, some of the worst people, some of the cartels, to get people into our country, just say, you know. And again, I say, if you look at the end of the Civil War, the 1800s. It was a very turbulent time. You take the end day, was it 1869 or whatever. But you take that exact day, that's when the case was filed, and the case ended shortly thereafter. This has to do with the babies of slaves. Very, very obviously.

And I think we're going to -- when people didn't -- I don't think they went about discussing it, right? I came along and we looked, and we said, wait a minute, this is wrong. We've been looking at birthright citizenship wrong for years, but they've used it. The cartels have used birthright citizenship to get very bad people in.

And what Pam is doing, and what Todd and everybody else, what they're doing at DOJ and all over FBI, ICE, border patrol. These are incredible people. They're trying to keep our country safe, and they don't want to have people come in. This is just another way that they get illegal immigrants into our -- into our country, and in some cases, very, very bad ones. Go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you, Mr. President. On your tax bill, if I could for a moment. Senators are racing to rewrite parts of it right now. After the Senate parliamentarian ruled that sections of it were outside of the process that they're using to get this through. Do you think that senators should respect the decisions of the parliamentarian? And what have you personally done in the last 48 hours to try and get Republican senators who are against the bill to a yes?

TRUMP: Well, look, it's a great bill. It's a massive tax cut. If it's not approved, your taxes will go up by 68 percent. Think of that, 68 a record. The highest in the history. The Democrats won't approve it, only because, politically it's so good for the Republicans. The Democrats aren't approving it. But think of what they're not approving. They're not approving border security.

We've done a great job at the border, but we have to add some wall. We have to do various things. We have no money for that. We have no money for the border. We have no money for so many things. But if the Democrats, it would be interesting to see if we get any Democrat votes. We should.

If I were a Democrat, I would absolutely -- maybe Fetterman, because he seems to be the most sensible one lately. If I were a Democrat, I would vote for this bill all day long, because it's tax cuts and so many other things that are common sense. They're basic things. I think they're doing fine. The parliamentarian has been a little difficult.

And I would say that I disagree with the parliamentarian on some things and on other ways, he's been fine. But we'll have to see, it's a big issue. I will tell you this, if that bill doesn't pass, the country will get a 68 percent tax increase.

So, think of this. You're a Democrat and you vote against it. That means you're voting in favor, because essentially, you're voting in favor, the largest tax hike in the history of our country. And you can't do that. In addition, we're cutting costs by $1.7 trillion, and it won't affect anybody. It's just fraud, waste and abuse.

(CROSSTALK)

[12:15:00]

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A leading -- Mr. President, a leading global economist just at a 180 and says, your tariff plan, you may have outsmarted everybody with it. What is your message?

TRUMP: I love this. I Love this question. Just a favorite. This is the best question I've ever been asked because I've been going through abuse for years on this. Because, as you know, we're taking in hundreds of (Audio Cut) no inflation, whatsoever.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, what is your message to critics who think you were tariff playing the cause of recession?

TRUMP: I think they should go back to business school. It's so obvious. It's so obvious. I mean, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars from China and a lot of other countries. We took in. I had a call from somebody in the House, and high official, Sir, we have a problem. We don't know what to do. The books are a mess. I said, what I mean by the books. The books, the money. The money coming in. It's so terrible. I figured, oh boy, what's this? I don't like this question.

I said, so what seems -- there's so much money coming in, and there must be some kind of an accounting mistake, because we have hundreds of billions of dollars more money than we thought. I said, do me a favor. Go check the gear. Call me back. You have to call me back. Check the tariff column. Calls me back. Two hours later, says, you're right. We took in 88 billion in tariffs. They have so much money coming in.

But more important than the money coming in, we have companies coming in, factories coming in, auto plants being built. AI is being built here. Instead of being built all over Europe and Asia. We have all of it. We have over $15 trillion just about, Scott, I think we're right about that at that number. We went to Saudi Arabia. We went to Qatar. We went to U.A.E. Very smart people, very smart leaders, great leaders. And we took in $5.1 trillion just there, without the tariffs.

I mean, they also liked a thing called November 5, November 6 and November 7. That was a very good little period of time. It's called the presidential election. You know, you used to have one day election. Now you have it go over it. But even if you just took that little period because it was pretty obvious, it was going to be a landslide. But -- and they like that, but they love the tariffs.

I had Texas instruments come in the other day, big company. And he said, we're putting in $60 billion into new plants and new equipment, new everything. Sir, you're going to keep the tariffs, aren't you, because whoever took the tariffs off, and we are going to absolutely keep it. And they're worried that somebody that, like this communist from New York, someday gets elected.

I can't believe that's happening. That's a terrible thing for our country, by the way. He's a communist. We're going to go to a communistic Senate. That's so bad for New York. But the rest of the country is revolting against it. But if somebody got elected, they're afraid that if this was taken off, well, we're going to guarantee, it's never going to be taken off.

And again, we're taking in hundreds, think of this, hundreds of billions of dollars, and they were all confused because they've never seen this before. You know, it's always the other way. We don't have enough money. So much money is coming in at levels that nobody's ever seen. But most importantly, we have factories being built, car plants being built, companies moving to our country like never before.

If you look at 15 trillion, and that's only in a few months. You know, I haven't been here that long. Presidents, like the last one, was a disaster. One of the -- he's the worst president in the history of our country by the way. What he did on our border can never, ever be forgotten. That to me, that's the worst of all the things. And he's done some terrible things, grossly incompetent. Nobody knew it was him, because I don't think it was him. I think it was whoever was controlling the auto pen.

But our country is doing great. And those leaders and other leaders, I just left, as you know, a large group of the most highly respected people, and that includes big, you know, big countries. When you look at Germany and France and Spain, although Spain didn't come through, but they will. By the way, guaranteed they will. That was the only country that sort of tried to hold back on putting up the money.

But just so, you know, they said, it's unbelievable what's happened to the U.S.A. You were a dead country. We didn't respect the country the leader. You were dead as a doornail. One said to me, you went from being a dead country, you are, right now, the hottest country anywhere in the world. The whole world is talking about the U.S.A., and everybody wants a part of it, and they're pouring into our country. And you're going to see those numbers. Thank you for that question.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Yeah, go ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you, Mr. President. I have a question about trade. Secretary Bessent has said that he hopes tariff deals with major partners will be done by Labor Day. So, if some deals are not done by your July 9 deadline, will some countries' tariffs go back up, or will they stay where they're coming from?

TRUMP: Well, there are some countries that are used to ripping us off, to be honest with you. And I don't want to name them, but you sort of can name them. And they're so used to just, you know, getting, taking billions and billions of -- look, we had a trade deficit of more than a trillion dollars. Think of a trillion, a trade deficit. That's because nobody cared, nobody. We cared a lot. When, you know, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff, we had the greatest economy in history up until now. I think we're going to blow it away.

[12:20:00]

But during my time, and especially prior to COVID, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country. I think we're going to blow it away now, based on the kind of numbers that we're seeing. But some countries are very angry because they've been ripping us off for years. They've been making billions and billions of dollars. There was nobody to negotiate with. They could do whatever they want. They charge just tariffs, by the way, at numbers that we've never seen before. And we ended up losing much more than a trillion dollars a year, a trillion dollars a year to on trade.

And now, they're being met with a force that's far greater than them, and they don't like it. So, they're upset because instead of making, you know, $5 billion, they're going to breakeven, or they'll make a little bit. I want to be nice. They'll make a little bit. oh, we'll make a little bit. It's a big difference. Yeah, please go -- red dress.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is there any more information on the special prosecutor? So many Americans still have questions about the 2020 election. And speaking of Rogue judges, would you consider appointing somebody at DOJ, maybe to investigate the judges that allowed for the political persecution of you, your family and your supporters during the Biden administration?

TRUMP: I love you. Who are you?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (inaudible) from Lindell-TV.

TRUMP: Well, that's a very nice question. And it's not a setup. I have no idea who you are, but I appreciate that question. All I can say is, we're not here for that. I hope so. I hope they're doing things because that election was rigged and stolen, and we can't allow that to happen.

You know, a lot of people tell me, Sir, you just won the greatest election in the history of our country. You wanted numbers that won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, won everything. Sir, go on with your life. And the many people that say that, good people, friends of mine, then you have people that say that same thing, going with your life, but you have to find out what happened because you can't let that happen again.

Look at what this lunatic did. Look at what he did. He opened our borders to people that were murderers. 11,888 to be exact, murders. And we've captured many of those murders, and we're bringing them back, or we're -- some of them are so dangerous that we don't even want to bring them back. We're afraid they're going to try and come back in.

But he allowed people to come into this country, people from mental institutions, insane asylums, that's a mental institution on steroids, people from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers, people -- oh, jails being emptied out into our country. Venezuela emptied out almost its entire prison population into our country.

But I don't want to blame them. Many countries have done that, the Congo. You know, we have a great press conference coming up later, and it's the Congo and Rwanda. You know, they were fighting for years, and it was machetes. It was vicious. It was as vicious people's heads being chopped off.

And I have a man who's very good in that part of the world, very smart, and put them together. And we're signing a peace treaty today. First time in many years, they're going to have peace, and it's a big deal. You know, we talk about Russia and we're going to work. We're working that one.

President Putin called up and he said, I'd love to help you with Iran. I said, do me a favor. I'll handle Iran. Help me with Russia. We got to get that one settled. And I think something's going to happen there. But we did some -- we did some great work. India and Pakistan. That was going to be, maybe nuclear, we did that. We did a lot of work.

I don't know if there's ever been a precedent that's done much more. Serbia, Kosovo was going to go at it. Going to be a big war. I said, you go at it, there's no trade with the United States. They said, well, maybe we won't go at it. That's what happened with India and Pakistan. I was negotiating with both of them.

And I said to Scott, I said to Howard, cancel all deals with India and Pakistan. They're not trading with us because they're in a war. They call back. What do we do? I said, look, you want to have trade with the United States, it's great, but you want to go and start using nuclear weapons on each other. We're not going to allow that. And they both agreed. Both have great leaders. They both agreed not to do it. So, we did a lot, but I appreciate that question.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. President. I was just speaking with Senator Ron Johnson on the one big, beautiful bill. And he says, he really wants to get to yes for you and get this accomplished.

TRUMP: He does. He's a good man.

[12:25:00]

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But he also said that he needs more time, and he is not certain that the July 4 deadline is comfortable.

TRUMP: Well, then he is not such a good. He's a good man. Ron Johnson is doing a good job. He's very committed. Every Republican senator is committed. And you know, you could have a couple of grand standards in all fairness. You could have somebody else. And it's very dangerous because our country would go from being the most successful country in the world to, who knows, what happens with a 68 percent. Think of it, 68 percent tax increase. That was given by the Democrats because they like high taxes. I don't know what happened.

You know, all my life, I'd grow up and I'd watch politicians talking. I'd say, oh, that's fun. And they were always saying, we will cut your taxes. We will cut your taxes. I never heard it. They say, we will raise your taxes. And the elect people like this guy in New York that maybe has a chance. I find it hard to believe, but he maybe has a chance. They want to raise your taxes. So they want to see a 68 percent tax increase. That's more money than anybody could afford. You'd go into a depression if that ever happened. So, I think there's a lot of pressure to get that approved.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How important is the July 4 deadline to you? If it's important --

TRUMP: It's important. It's not the end. It's taking longer but we'd like to get it done by that time, if possible. Look, we have a lot of very committed people, and they feel very strongly about a subject, subjects that you're not even thinking about, that are important to Republicans.

The problem we have is that it's a great bill, it's a popular bill, but we'll get no Democrats only because they don't want to vote for Trump. If they -- if that bill was their bill, they would be so happy. It's so great for our military, it's great for everything, and they would normally vote, but because the hatred of Trump, they have Trump derangement syndrome at levels never seen before.

And instead of voting for a tax cut, they're voting for a tax increase of 68 percent. They're voting to destroy Social Security, destroy Medicare and destroy Medicaid. And we're voting to make them perfect and to make them better, make them stronger and better. They're going to destroy Medicaid and they're going to destroy Medicare and Social Security will follow. If you vote for the Democrats, you're dead on those three things.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, Mr. President. On a related subject, many Democrats have said that they are not going to support crypto bills in Congress only because of you and your family's personal crypto ventures, and these votes are, in some cases needed to pass. Are you open to the idea of pulling away from your personal crypto ventures just for the next few years? If that helps get these crypto bills passed in the next few months.

TRUMP: Well, it's a very funny thing crypto. So, I became a fan of crypto, and to me, it's an industry. I view it as an industry, and I'm president. And if we didn't have it, China would, or somebody else would, but most likely China. China would love to. Then we've dominated that industry. It's a big industry, by the way.

In fact, when the stock market went down recently, crypto and bitcoin and all of that went down much less than anybody else as a group. And we've created a very powerful industry, and that's much more important than anything that we invest in. We invest in it. But really, that was an industry that wasn't doing particularly well.

I got involved with it a couple of years ago. And before this whole, before the second term, I got involved before I decided to run. I only decided to run because I saw what was happening, and Biden was incompetent, and the administration was crooked and incompetent. And I was in bitcoin then, not knowing if I was going to do it a third time.

So, it's become amazing. I mean, it's the jobs that it produces, and I notice more and more you pay in bitcoin. I mean, people are saying, it takes a lot of pressure off the dollar, and it's a great thing for our country. So, I don't care about investing. You know, I have my -- I have kids, and they invest in different things. They do believe in it. But I'm president, and what I did do there is build an industry that's very important. And you know, if we didn't have, China would.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUM: With the glasses, gentlemen, go ahead please.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, Mr. President. So, are you going to cut funds in the sanctuary states, like, for instance, California. They keep supporting illegal immigration and then these people work on.

TRUMP: Yeah, we're giving them a hard time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And also, for a policy question --

TRUMP: I mean, they don't have a governor in California. They have a man that wants to give away everything to people that nobody has seen before. If we didn't go into Los Angeles with the military, which did a fantastic job, But if we didn't go into Los Angeles, bringing in the National Guard, I would have brought the military if it was necessary, because you have to -- we have the right to. That was another thing upheld by the Supreme Court.

But if we didn't go in with the National Guard and be strong and tough. You wouldn't maybe have a Los Angeles. It would be like the rest of California. The rest of Los Angeles. They lost 25,000 houses in a fire. They should have lost none. You know, I sent the water down. I had to break into their water supply because they just refused to do it. They're crazy.

There's something wrong with them. They have plenty of water. They don't have droughts or anything. They have plenty -- we let it come down from the Pacific Northwest. They routed all the water out into the Pacific Ocean.