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MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST: A step back for U.S. President Donald Trump and his quest to use the military to crack down on crime in American
cities.
This is WHAT WE KNOW.
On the heels of threats to send federal troops to Chicago, a judge says President Donald Trump broke the law by sending the military into Los
Angeles this summer amid protests against an immigration crackdown. The judge ruled the president's decision to deploy U.S. marines in the National
Guard to L.A. back in June was illegal.
California's governor, a frequent Trump critic, applauded the decision.
CNN politics senior reporter Stephen Collinson, with us from Washington.
We shouldn't read too much into this, though, should we? It's just about something specific and in California.
STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Yeah. And this ruling won't have any direct impact on the president's desire to send National
Guard reservist troops into Chicago, which he said he's going to do in the coming days. Nevertheless, it is a sign that in the United States, there
are still some sources of resistance and constraint around a president who is trying to implement massive, expansive personal authority across many
avenues.
I think the White House has not yet responded to this. The president is speaking this afternoon, so we may hear from him. I think the argument will
be from the White House, as it has been on many things that district court judges cannot constrain the power of the president. They're going to take
this all the way through the appeals process, probably up to the conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
And in the interim, I don't believe it will stop President Trump's attempts to use military forces for law enforcement, even though one judge says it's
unconstitutional.
FOSTER: Yes. So, when the military got involved in law enforcement arrests, for example, is that what we're talking about, where it crossed the line
for this court?
COLLINSON: Yeah. And there's some interesting stuff in this judge's ruling, because the administration at the time argued that most of these troops
were sent there to protect federal property. There were some instances where they became involved in more classic law enforcement. And that is
where the line is. They don't have the power to arrest people, to stop and search them. That's unconstitutional. And it appears that they went across
the line.
What Trump wants to do and what he's done in Washington, D.C., where he has more power because it's a federal district, is to actually use troops for
law enforcement purposes. And he's going up this ladder of escalation. If he sends troops into Chicago, it's going to cause a real constitutional
clash because the mayor of the city has already issued an executive order telling the police they cannot cooperate with any federal troops that Trump
sends onto the streets of Chicago.
So, this is going to get much more serious, and you can be sure that Chicago and the Democratic-run state of Illinois will take similar legal
action as to the one that unfolded in California, as soon as Trump issued an order to send troops there.
FOSTER: You said that Trump was speaking. Let's cross to him. He has been addressing these rumors about his health because he wasn't seen for a few
days before this moment.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I did numerous shows and also did a number of truths, long truths, I think pretty poignant truths. I was
very active over the weekend.
They also knew I went out to visit some people at the at the club that I own, pretty nearby on the Potomac River. And no, I've been very active
actually over the weekend. I didn't hear that one. That's pretty serious stuff.
Well, it's fake news. You know, it's just so -- it's so fake. That's why the media has so little credibility.
I knew they were saying like, is he okay? How's he feeling? What's wrong? I said, I just left. And it's also sort of a longer weekend. You know, it's
Labor Day weekend. So I would say a lot of people know I was very active this Labor Day. I had heard that, but I didn't hear it to that extent.
Go ahead, Peter.
REPORTER: We know that this country has a huge problem with school shootings. You have said that you're open to sending the National Guard
pretty much anywhere. Would you ever consider sending an armed National Guardsman to every school?
TRUMP: Well, we have a big problem with school shooting. But we also have thousands and thousands of schools that run perfectly. You know, they talk
about you can do things construction wise, and that's -- that's really -- I think nobody knows more about construction than me. You can build the
construction doors. You can build what they call safety doors, where they lock on the outside, the inside and every place else.
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Well, but if one of these lunatics happens to get through, then the police can't get in. Then they're looking for keys all over the place, and it
takes them a lot of -- a lot of disadvantages to doing, you know, spending billions and billions of dollars and actually making it safer in some way
for some of these lunatics that were dealing with.
But, I don't think so. You know, I've -- I've thrown out the concept. We have great teachers that love our children. The parents love the children,
teachers love the children, too. And if you took a small percentage of those teachers that were in the military, that were distinguished in the
military, that were in the National Guard, et cetera, et cetera.
And you let them carry. That's something that a lot of people like. I sort of liked it. I'd have to -- have to be studied. But they're trained.
They've -- they know about weapons. You can't do it with every teacher because most teachers don't know. And, you know, but I always thought that
would be an alternative.
But it just -- we've -- we've had, a lot of instances other countries have also, they have different kinds of problems than we have, but we do have
this, this something going on, something going on. And it's a -- it's a bad thing.
Yes, please.
REPORTER: Have you spoken with President Putin in the past week? Have you spoken with President Putin?
TRUMP: Yeah. I don't want to -- I have -- I have learned things that will be very interesting. I think in the next few days, you'll find out.
REPORTER: Any consequences if there isn't some type of announcement of a meeting with President Putin and President Zelenskyy. And what could those
consequences?
TRUMP: We're going to see what happens. We're going to see what they do and what happens. I'm watching it very closely.
Last week, they lost 7,000 -- between the two countries, 7313 soldiers to be somewhat exact, for no reason whatsoever. And they're Russian and
they're Ukrainian. But, you know, they're soldiers. I want to see it end.
Yeah?
REPORTER: Mr. President, have you decided you're definitely going to send National Guard troops to Chicago?
TRUMP: I didn't say when, but the answer is, look, Chicago is very interesting because I watched Pritzker get up and say about we don't need
help, we're safe. But two weeks ago, they had six people murdered, murdered, and they had 24 people hit by bullets.
Last week, as you know, it was seven people, 24 people hit and seven people died. And then over the last two days, it was the -- that was the crown
jewel they had, I guess nine killed, nine or 10 killed, and 50 hit with bullets.
And you have this governor get up, who's a terrible governor, probably he and Gavin Newscum would be probably the two worst and most naive. They're
naive. Either they're naive or they're very untruthful.
And he'll say, we don't want any protection we don't need. So, in the last three weeks, he's lost almost 20 people killed. There's no place. There's
no place in the world, including you can go to Afghanistan. You can go to places that you would think of. They don't even come close to this.
Chicago is a hellhole right now. Baltimore is a hellhole right now. Parts of Los Angeles are terrible. If we didn't put out the fires. And I mean,
the other fires, the bullet fires, they didn't do a good job with -- they should have had the water coming down. Like I said, you know, we had to
release the water. We had to go in and release the water to L.A. It's so badly run.
But if we didn't get -- if I didn't send the National Guard into Los Angeles, you wouldn't. I would be making an announcement today. I'd be
talking about Huntsville, and I'd simultaneously be saying, by the way, the Olympics is not coming to Los Angeles. If we didn't do that, if we didn't
do that, and even the sheriff, the top law enforcement person in Los Angeles said, we could not have handled it without them. So that's what he
said.
REPORTER: Your mind up on Chicago, though?
TRUMP: Well, we're going in. I didn't say when, we're going in. When you lose -- look, I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing. I have an
obligation.
When we lose, when 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and 75 are shot with bullets. So let me tell you a little story about a
place called D.C., District of Columbia, right here where we are. It's now a safe zone.
We have no crime. We have -- it's in such great shape. You can go and actually walk with your children, your wife, your husband. You can walk
right down the middle of the street.
You're not going to be shot, Peter. You're safe. Everyone likes you anyway. They probably wouldn't do it. But it's so dangerous.
And there are people in this audience that have -- you've suffered greatly. There are people in this audience that have been mugged and hurt badly, and
they don't want to talk about it. Maybe you were very brave in talking about it.
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You made quite an impression on a lot of people. I appreciate it, but there were other people in this room that got -- have been hurt very badly just
walking down the street in D.C.
Washington, D.C. is a safe zone right now. It's a safe city. The restaurants are open. They're booming. You can't get a restaurant. New
restaurants are announcing that they're going to be open. This took place in 12 days.
Now it's 15 days, but three days ago, it became what's known as a safe zone. It's a safe city. And this city was really bad. Really, really bad.
We took 1,600 people out. Hardcore criminals that will not be coming back any time soon. And we're very proud of it, you know, to have our nation's
capital lose every week -- you know, it was like years, many years where every single week somebody was killed for many, many, many consecutive
weeks. This went on for years.
And then we had last week it was announced that nobody was killed last week. And I made that announcement in front of a very distinguished leader
of a country. And I'm saying proudly, ladies and gentlemen, nobody was killed in Washington, D.C. this week. He looked at me like, was that --
what's that all about? I said, yeah, we have a little bit of a crime problem and we don't have a crime problem in Washington anymore.
And the mayor has been very helpful, and the police commissioner has been very helpful. And it's been a great team. And I would love to have Governor
Pritzker call me. I'd gain respect for him and say, we do have a problem and we'd love you to send in the troops because you know what? The people -
- they have to be protected.
I saw today on one of your networks, not a friendly network, except really the opposite, I would say very unfriendly network. And they interviewed
about 12 people on this morning. Most of them were African American. They were black.
And they were saying, please, please, please let the president send -- and these were people from Chicago. Please, we need help. We need help. We
can't walk outside. We're petrified.
If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up. I would love to do it. Now we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I
have an obligation to protect this country. And that includes Baltimore. I saw where Governor Moore was, asking me to take a walk down the street of
Baltimore.
Well, Baltimore is a very unsafe place. It's rated number four in the city. One of the worst, one of the most unsafe places anywhere in the world. But,
you know, we took care.
This was a beautiful thing that happened in Washington because we showed we showed that it could be done. And this wasn't just sending big, strong
guys, and they are big and they are strong. You know, we had a great decision from the Supreme Court that had to do with sort of talent. It had
to do with -- you are put down based on merit. We -- you can hire based on merit.
So, merit for a soldier or for a policeman is strong, physically fit. Something, you know, having a certain ability, not a person that is woke
and got the job through woke. But wasn't strong enough to lift a gun out of the holster, et cetera. Et cetera. No.
I looked at the police. As you know, last week, I went over. We had a meeting with -- there had to be 300 people, and they were all very
impressive looking.
And when the bad guys see them, they're not going to do a thing. And so, I'm very proud of Washington. It serves as a template. And we're going to
do it elsewhere.
But Chicago is certainly going to be high. I would love to have him call. I would love the governor of Illinois. Id be honored to take his call.
All he has to do is say, sir, we need help. It's out of control and everyone knows it is. He's not kidding anyone. I would love to have -- I
would say, governor, more call because I watched him over the weekend trying to explain that Baltimore -- what they need is housing.
No, they don't need housing. They need to get rid of the criminals. These are hardcore criminals. You know, we took many people off the streets of
Washington, D.C. They're hardcore. They're not going to be good.
In 10 years, in 20 years, in two years, they're going to be criminals. They're going to be -- they were born to be criminals, frankly. They were
born to be criminals. And they're tough and mean. And they'll cut your throat and they won't even think about it the next day. They won't even
remember that they did it. And we're not going to have those people.
Washington, D.C. is now a safe zone. It's a safe place. And you can walk, Katie -- you can walk right down the street with, by the way, one of the
biggest human beings I've ever seen, which is her husband. He was -- he was a football player for like 11 years in the NFL. He's a big person, but big
doesn't mean anything when they have guns and when they have knives and everything else that they have, right?
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But you can walk right down the street, even by yourself, and you're totally safe. Washington, D.C. is a great thing.
Yes, ma'am. Please?
REPORTER: Mr. President, as you're calling on Democratic leaders across the country to work with you on crime, do you see your efforts here in D.C.,
including, for example, working with Mayor Bowser here as a model for bringing more bipartisanship in matters not only with crime, but also
issues that matter to everyday American people's lives?
TRUMP: So Mayor Bowser has been great. She could have taken the thing. Oh, well. And then after I clean it up, they'll take credit for it. You know,
what they do is they take credit.
Like, we cleaned up Los Angeles. We did a great job there. And it was overwhelming what was going on.
And again, the police chief made a statement that we could not have done -- there's no way they could handle. You saw what was happening out there. It
was going to be a disaster. We stopped it cold.
If we didn't do that, it would have been a very sad day. And, you know, remember, we have the Olympics. We have the World Cup, we have all these
things coming, and we have 250. All of these things coming.
But I watched Newsom get up and say he's doing a great -- he's not. We're the ones that did it. And that's okay, whatever it takes. But the main
thing is we -- but he got up and said we did it. Well, he didn't want us there and he's going to need us again because its starting to form again, I
see it. It's starting to form again.
You know, we have to maintain -- it's like maintenance on an airplane. You can buy it, but you have to maintain it. And if you don't maintain it, good
plane becomes very unsafe very quickly.
So, it's an honor to do it. It's -- a lot of presidents wouldn't do what I'm doing. I don't need this heat. But when I watched television last night
and I'm watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets. I say, that's not this country. We
have to do something.
And I do say this. I say this very much -- I'm not speaking to anybody but them right now -- I would love to receive calls from governors and mayors
saying they need help. We'll help them. We have a lot of people. We have a great force. We have a great military force.
You know, Pete will tell you that when I was running for office, when -- and this was a big headline, I think, you know, probably got me a couple of
votes, but you couldn't sign people in the military. Nobody wanted to join the military. The Army, Air Force and the Navy, Marine, Space Force, Coast
Guard. We never forget coast guard because they've done such a great job, never.
But nobody wanted to join any of them. We were way below what we wanted. Every single one.
The closest was the Marines, whatever that is. You'll explain that to me. But the closest was the marines. But every service was way down. Way down.
And then I got elected. And our country is the hottest country anywhere in the world right now. Everybody's talking about the USA. They're talking
about the job that we're doing.
Everybody, we have the best economy. We have a very, very important decision being made by the Supreme Court because our country is the
richest, the strongest, the most powerful. But if for some reason, some liberal court, I'm talking about the court that just ruled where even an
Obama judge voted in favor of us, which I gave him a compliment yesterday. As you know, I said, that took great courage.
But it's a liberal court and it's going up to the Supreme Court who I think have been incredible people. I think they've made very wise decisions. But
the tariff question, because without the tariffs, this country is in serious, serious trouble.
We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment is coming in. Most of it is coming in because of tariffs. And if for some reason somebody wanted to
be politically correct, I actually think its unpolitically correct. I think politically correct is to approve it because there's nothing so popular as
what's happened to our country.
Our country is doing so well, but we had a liberal court gave us a very shocking ruling, and that ruling is basically saying that the trillions of
dollars that are -- that are pouring into our country, putting us in a position like no country is anywhere in the world, that they'd like to see
us -- that taken away.
By the way, a lot of the people behind that lawsuit that are from foreign countries, I might add.
REPORTER: There's a -- there's a video -- there's a video that is circulating online now of the White House where a window is open to the
residents upstairs, and somebody is throwing a big bag out the window. Have you seen this?
TRUMP: No, that's probably A.I. generated. So, I actually -- you can't open the windows. You know why? They're all heavily armored and bulletproof.
REPORTER: So that's a fake -- a fake video?
TRUMP: Well, it's got to be because I know every window up there. The last place I'd be doing it. Is that because there's cameras all over the place,
right? Including yours.
No -- but every window, I have never seen a window that's -- in fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day.
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She said, I'd love to have a little fresh air come in, but you can't. They're bulletproof. And number one, they're sealed. And number two, each
window weighs about 600 pounds. You have to be pretty strong to open them up.
No, that has to be. Where was the one? Let me see.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe from the renovations.
TRUMP: Which is the window?
REPORTER: It looks like, this is on the 15th Street side. I think so, right here.
TRUMP: Yeah. Those windows are sealed. Those windows are -- they're all sealed. You can't open them.
REPORTER: You're saying regarding the federal --
TRUMP: It's the kind of thing they do. And one of the problems we have with A.I., it's both good and bad. If something happens really bad, just blame
A.I. But also, they create things, you know? It works both ways.
If something happens, it's really bad. Maybe I'll have to just blame A.I. But there's truth to it because I see so many phony things.
I saw something as I was growing up, from the time I was a baby until now, I said, who did that? It was A.I. generated.
So it's a little bit scary, to be honest with you, but those windows are all very heavily sealed.
REPORTER: Mr. President, China loved (ph) it with what you were saying regarding that federal appellate court that ruled against you and your
administration as it relates to your ability?
TRUMP: Well, they ruled against our country, the court, and they ruled against us before. It's a very liberal court.
REPORTER: You called it highly partisan.
TRUMP: Well, it certainly is. It certainly is.
REPORTER: In fact, it was along ideological lines 7 to 4.
TRUMP: Well, except that we actually got one of the Obama judges that was appointed by President Obama, voted in favor of the tariffs because he felt
it was imperative for our country to thrive and survive, even, and I gave him credit. I said, you know what? That took a lot of courage for him to do
it because you don't see that often.
REPORTER: So my question is, I imagine I suspect you're going to appeal that all the way to the Supreme Court.
TRUMP: Well, we already have. Yeah. In fact, we're doing something else. We're going to be going to the Supreme Court. We think tomorrow because we
need an early decision.
I mean, look, the financial fabric of our country, we're a rich, incredible country right now. And we're able to, you know, other countries use tariffs
on us for years. And we never did any -- I did a lot during my first term.
But then we had COVID and we had to focus on other things. It couldn't be tariffing Italy, Spain, France as they were dying by the thousands and
millions, but we did with China and China paid us billions and billions of dollars.
And I started the process. But then I had to end it a little bit because of COVID. We focused on that. But no, it's a very important decision. And
frankly, if they make the wrong decision, it would be devastation for our country.
We've taken in trillions of dollars. And by the way, all these countries signed agreements as an example. They signed. They're all happy.
Everybody's happy.
But some whack job put in a lawsuit. It went before a very liberal court, and the liberal court ruled it was 11. They ruled 7 to 4 with one of the
most liberal of them all voting in our favor because they're patriots. I think -- I give tremendous credit to that judge. And now, it's going to the
Supreme Court.
Now, we're going to be asking for early admittance. We're going tomorrow, and we're going to ask for expedited -- an expedited ruling because you
know, when you look at the stock markets down today, the stock markets down because of that. Because the stock market needs the tariffs. They want the
tariffs.
If you look at A.I., all of those -- you know, all of that money that's going to be invested, trillions and trillions of dollars, the biggest
thing, bigger than the Internet I suspect. It's the internet plus three or four other things combined. We are leading very substantially with A.I.
We're leading because of tariffs. We're leading because of talent. And this is where they'd like to be. But without the tariffs, we wouldn't have a
chance because we wouldn't be able to protect those investments of the companies coming in.
So, if you took away tariffs, we could end up being a third world country. That's how -- that's how big the ruling. So we're asking for an expedited
ruling.
REPORTER: As a backstop to that president, you have a Republican controlled Congress. You control the House. You control the Senate.
TRUMP: Yeah. But we don't have 60 votes. We don't have 60 votes. I'd love to do that.
Oh, if we had -- if we had 60 senators, if we got the 60 votes, we would get them. But we need 60 votes and we need, you know, a certain number in
the House.
We'd get -- I think we'd get, I don't know. We have about five of them here. Would everybody agree with me on tariffs? Without tariffs, we're a
different country.
We have taken in so much money. And here's the thing. We signed a deal with Japan. They're paying us hundreds of billions of dollars.
We signed a deal with South Korea. We signed a deal with the European Union. We signed a deal with Europe. And those countries are paying us $950
billion. And they're happy about it. They're okay.
As one of them said, it's amazing that we got away with it so long. One of my friends, a leader of one of the countries, and they're fine with it.
They all signed, if that ruling ever went against us, I guess we'd have to give back hundreds of billions. We would have to give trillions and
trillions of dollars back to countries that have been ripping us off for the last 35 years. And I can't imagine it happening.
On a legal basis, they have no legal basis whatsoever. But on a common sense basis, it would destroy America. Okay.
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REPORTER: We talked about controlling the sky. On Sunday, the satellite signal of Ursula von der Leyen plane was --
TRUMP: With Ursula? Well, she had an interesting event. She's a tremendous woman. And so, what are you asking me about her?
REPORTER: They're concerned about the two --
TRUMP: NATO is concerned about it. Well, nobody knows where it came from. But they did take away her ability to use her phone. You know? Sometimes
that's a good thing. Sometimes that could happen to me. I'd be very happy.
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REPORTER: -- reducing the tariffs on India from 50 percent.
TRUMP: What does that mean?
REPORTER: Are you considering taking away some of the tariffs that you've imposed on India?
TRUMP: No, we get along with India very well, but India has -- you have to understand for many years it was a one-sided relationship. Only now since I
came along and because of the power that we have with tariffs, India was charging us tremendous tariffs, about the highest in the world. They were
about the highest in the world, number one.
And we therefore weren't doing much business with India, but they were doing business with us because we weren't charging them foolishly. We
weren't charging them.
So, they would send in massive, you know, everything they made, they'd send it in, pour it into our country. Therefore, it wouldn't be made here, you
know, which is a negative. But we would not send in anything because they were charging us 100 percent tariffs.
And, you know, I'll give you an example, Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson couldn't sell into India. There was a 200 percent tariff on a motorcycle.
So, what happens? Harley Davidson went to India and built a motorcycle plant and now they don't have to pay tariffs. Same thing as us.
So what we're doing is literally thousands of countries of companies are coming into the U.S., car companies, A.I., but, you know, more
traditionally car companies. We have so many car company factories under construction or being designed right now and they're coming from China.
They're coming from Mexico, I must tell you.
And they're coming from Canada. A lot of them coming from Canada, but they're coming into our country because they want to build here, and they
want to build here for two reasons. Number one, they'd like to be here. And number two, the tariffs are protecting them.
And number three, they want to avoid paying tariffs when they build their cars here. They don't have any tariffs to pay. But, you know, when you
build here, you don't have any tariffs.
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REPORTER: Mr. President --
TRUMP: Go ahead.
REPORTER: In light of the Minnesota shooting last week, the Department of Homeland Security is now awarding more than $100 million to hundreds of
faith organizations across the country to help them ramp up security. What's your vision for further protecting religious liberty across the
country amid incidents of threats?
TRUMP: So religious liberty is so important. And we're talking about every religion now, and we're doing things on that that nobody else has ever
done. And we're going to be announcing -- we're going to be having a big announcement in about two weeks on that question.
Yeah, please?
REPORTER: Space Command, sir, are you concerned that people may not be willing to relocate from Colorado to Alabama?
TRUMP: No. I'm not worried. We'll get somebody else.
REPORTER: Colorado --
TRUMP: I mean, the problem with Colorado is they have a very corrupt voting system. They -- look, I have so many friends in Colorado. Any time you have
mail-in voting, you have corrupt elections. Very simple. It's very simple.
Even Jimmy Carter said it with his commission. They set up a commission with him and Scoop Jackson and some people, highly regarded people. And
they said the one thing the finding was, if you have mail-in voting, you will have corrupt elections.
Well, the -- your radical left governor decided that he was going to have all mail-in voting in Colorado. Once you have all mail-in voting, and for
whatever reason, the Democrats cheat and they cheat, like -- you know, they're not stupid. That's the only thing.
They're no good on policy. They're no good on management. They're no good at government. But they're great at cheating.
And they stick together, too. I give them credit for sticking together.
Please?
REPORTER: Obviously, this is a big win for national security, moving this to Alabama. We all can agree with that.
TRUMP: Big.
REPORTER: Is there any idea that economic impact this has on the state and on that local area?
TRUMP: Katie, do you want to answer that?
REP. KATIE BRITT (R-AL): Look, I mean, this --
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J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Please go.
BRITT: This is going to be tremendous. I mean, the state of Alabama, what we've seen through this process is the worst of Washington. We've seen
politics get in the way of what is best for the warfighter, what's best for national security, and the state of Alabama is about to show the country
the best among us.
So, we know the economic impact is going to be tremendous there at Redstone Arsenal. We're proud to house everything from -- to the FBI to headquarters
there for materiel command to a number of things. We obviously have NASA with Marshall Space Flight Center. And so, this naturally fits within.
When you look at the decision matrix that they placed in front of us, that's why we ranked so high, is because we have the resources necessary
and the ability to build out quickly to meet the needs in front of us.
As far as economic impact, it would be tremendous. Does anybody have an exact number? Sixteen hundred jobs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three thousand spinoff.
BRITT: With 3,000 spin off. Look at this. This is teamwork right here.
So, we are really proud. And the people of Alabama are ready to get to work.
REPORTER: I've got a question if you could just for a second, Mr. President.
TRUMP: Yeah, please.
REPORTER: Owning a home and going about the American dream seems like it's out of touch with a lot of Americans.
TRUMP: Yeah.
REPORTER: Just recently, you put out a statement about addressing an emergency housing situation.
TRUMP: That's right. We're thinking about doing that.
REPORTER: Yeah. Can you just --
TRUMP: Well, we need a little help from the Fed. We have, a man named Jerome too late Powell. You probably heard of him. He's too late. He's way
too late.
And the economy is so strong that it's pushing through that. Normally, it would have been much tougher. But we're doing so well that we're pushing
through it. But it makes it very hard for people to get mortgages because too late is too late. Very simple. He's too late, and probably political.
Whatever.
He wasn't too late before the election. Before the election, he was cutting rates, right, because he was hoping that I guess Biden would get in, or
that Kamala would. He was a big Biden guy. Explain that one.
And then he was Kamala person, but he was hoping, I guess she -- she'd win, I guess. I don't know, it didn't work out too well, but yeah, we need a we
need a very serious cut.
You know, I think that if you look back many decades ago, the United States was always the lowest, even if they were doing badly. The United States was
because without the United States, every -- everything in the world would die. It's true. It's so powerful. It's so big.
And I made it. I made it really big in the first four years. Then it started to degenerate with what this Biden administration did. But we built
it up to a level that I never thought we could be at this quickly with the hottest, with the best, with the best financially.
The money coming in is so big because of tariffs and other things, but because of tariffs. Tariff gets us even those other things. Plus, it gets
us great negotiators.
I settled seven wars and numerous of those wars were because of trade and numerous of the trade deals that I made were because of tariffs. It gives
you a great negotiating ability. If that ability were taken away from us by a liberal court acting on essentially foreign nations, asking to get help
from the United States government, when they've been doing this to us for 40 years, they -- that's why we have $38 trillion in debt. We won't have it
for long if they let us -- if they allow us to do what everybody knows, we should be able to do.
Yeah, please.
REPORTER: Mr. President, another Biden era action that you are now reversing is that you're signing last week to make federal buildings adopt
and embrace classical architecture styles again. Can you talk to us about why you do that? And also what's your vision?
TRUMP: Well, we want to see beautiful buildings now, you know, it's in the eye of the beholder. I've seen architects reviews over the years. I'm an
expert at it. I've gotten a lot of great reviews, but I've seen buildings that I didn't think were very good, get great reviews, and I've seen great
buildings get bad reviews.
So -- but it's just a standard. We want to have a good standard. We're building something here, you know, for 150 years, they wanted a ballroom at
the White House. We're doing something at the highest level using great architects and all.
And, you know, it's very exciting, but we have a lot of interesting things happening architecturally in D.C. And D.C. is like a different place. And,
you know, even the contractors said, sir, we walked down today. We feel like much safer.
It's like a different place. Washington, D.C. is great. Now we're going to also beautify it. We're going to put a topping on the roads. We're not
going to rip them apart and take four years to build a road that was exactly the same by the time you build it.
But we're going to put toppings. We're going to put new medians in. We're going to get the graffiti off. We're going to put tiles up in the tunnels
where the tiles are missing, and we'll do the whole tunnel instead of, you know, a little area where you see new tiles, old tiles that never look too
good, but they could use it.
You know, they've been up for 50 years. They've served their duty. But we're going to make this within about a 20-mile radius from the White
House.
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We're going to have this place spick and span. It's going to be crime free, and it's going to be spick and span. It's going to be -- you'll be proud of
Washington again.
Go ahead please.
REPORTER: Sir, China's having a massive military parade that President Putin and Kim Jong Un will be attending. Do you interpret that as a
challenge to the U.S. (ph)?
TRUMP: No.
REPORTER: And are you concerned at all about those countries --
TRUMP: No.
REPORTER: -- trying to be some sort of counterweight?
TRUMP: Not at all. China needs us. And I have a very good relationship with President Xi, as you know. But China needs us much more than we need them.
No, I don't see that at all. No.
And I had actually a very good meeting with President Putin a couple of weeks ago. Well see if anything comes out of it. If it doesn't, we'll take
a different stance.
REPORTER: One judge today in California ruled that your deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles was illegal. Do you have any response
to that?
TRUMP: Well, it was a radical left judge, but very importantly, what did you not tell me in that question or statement that you made pretty much of
a statement, I think.
REPORTER: Well, I was asking for the response.
TRUMP: No, no, you didn't say what the judge said, though. The judge said, but you can leave the 300 people that you already have in place. They can
continue to be in place. That's all we need.
But why didn't you put that as part of your statement? Because the judge, the same judge ruled exactly as you said, except the judge said that you
can leave the 300 people that you already have in place. They can stay, they can remain, they can do what they have to do.
Thank you very much, everybody. We appreciate it. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
FOSTER: Donald Trump appearing for the first time in several days. We're not used to that, which is why there were these rumors flying around which
he was presented with from one of the reporters saying that suggesting that there are theories over the weekend that he had died.
He said he wasn't aware of those rumors. He was very active over the weekend, in fact. He also wasn't aware of this viral video of something
being thrown out of the White House window. He said those windows can't open.
Stephen Collinson, they were the lighter moments, perhaps, but some serious stuff there really, about Chicago and confirmation that the National Guard
is going in. He went as far as saying that Washington doesn't have a crime problem anymore. L.A.'s been cleaned up. So, this is a successful process
that he's following.
COLLINSON: Yeah. And I think that shows some of the political rationale behind all of this, because the president is trying to put the Democrats in
a position whereby they are opposing his what many people think are unconstitutional uses of the military to go into U.S. cities. And then he
can say to them, well, you're in favor of high crime.
And although crime figures are down in many U.S. cities, including Washington and Chicago, the level of violence that you do see, gun
violence, particularly is, something that concerns citizens. And I think it's far higher than that in many other Western cities. So there is a
perspective issue here.
He did write at the end there refer to that ruling by the judge in California that his use of federal troops in California earlier this year,
as part of a attempt to put down protests, was illegal. He picked the most favorable part of that ruling, which says the troops that are there
protecting federal buildings can stay there. But the judge also said it was completely illegal for him to use troops in a law enforcement capacity. As
we were talking about before the president started speaking.
So I think what I would take away from that is that Trump isn't really going to pay much attention to a district court judge, and he's going to go
through all the appeals process. And if it takes it to the Supreme Court, that's where he's going to go.
FOSTER: He's also taking the tariff case to the Supreme Court he suggested.
COLLINSON: Yeah. And he said he's not going to wait for the legal process to play out. He's going to ask the Supreme Court to make a ruling on that.
He said he's going to do it as soon as tomorrow.
That is obviously something that the administration has often done. It's almost in many ways sought to bypass many of the interim courts in the U.S.
system. As you go up the ladder, the legal ladder that puts the Supreme Court on the spot yet again.
I think there are many conservative legal experts, even, who believe that, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the president the power to
levy tariffs. In fact, that power is reserved in the Constitution for Congress. And Congress could have acted. But since it's under the control
of Republicans, it's not moved to block Trump's use of emergency powers to wage this one man trade war against multiple countries.
So, this is going to be very interesting to see what the Supreme Court does, whether it tries to get itself out of this by referring this case
back to lower courts. But this conservative majority that Trump built is on the spot again, I think.
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FOSTER: Yeah. Stephen, thank you so much.
COLLINSON: Thanks.
FOSTER: Trump also talked briefly, was asked about the huge military parade in China tomorrow, one of the biggest in history. What message is Xi
Jinping hoping to send?
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FOSTER: It's a show of force orchestrated by China. One of Beijing's main roads will play host to a huge military parade on Wednesday, and there to
watch it all will be the leaders of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
It's the first time that leaders of those four nations will be together at the same event, and marks the culmination of a major diplomatic effort from
China's leader, Xi Jinping.
More from Marc Stewart in Beijing.
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MARC STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We are really being prepared to be overwhelmed with optics in the sense that we will have all of these world
leaders here with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a unified front, almost against the West.
Let's talk briefly about this meeting we saw earlier today with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. These two men have shared what's been described as this
no limits friendship. Once again, today, the kinship was very strong.
Remember, China has not condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. China continues to be the top buyer of Russian oil. In fact, a deal was announced
today about the creation of a new gas pipeline that certainly could help benefit China.
And then we heard from Putin very warm words about his relationship with China and Xi Jinping. Let's take a brief listen to some of his remarks.
VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT: I thank you for the warm welcome extended to our entire delegation, our close communication reflects the
strategic nature of Russia, China relations, which are at an unprecedentedly high level.
And all of this is leading up to tomorrow morning's big military parade through the streets of Beijing that will cross through Tiananmen square, in
front of Tiananmen Square.
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And there we will see Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un all standing together as this united front against the United States. We have
China and we have Russia, which are nuclear powers. And then, of course, we've talked a lot about the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong Un.
It's really a story where symbolism is going to be the big dominating theme. Not so much any kind of agreements or announcements, but the fact
that they are all together, it's going to send a strong message, or at least China does, to the rest of the world that it is a force.
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FOSTER: We will be following the military parade. It's going to be spectacular if you go by past standards in China.
We'll be back in just a moment.
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FOSTER: ChatGPT's parent company is adding new safeguards in response to allegations that chatbots contribute to self-harm or suicide amongst teens.
OpenAI says within the next month, parents will be able to link accounts and manage how the A.I. responds to their children. The parental controls
will also give them notifications when the system detects what it calls acute stress. This announcement comes after parents of a 16-year-old filed
a lawsuit that alleges ChatGPT advised their son on his suicide.
CNN tech editor Lisa Eadicicco joins us live from New York.
I mean, it's definitely become an issue, hasn't it, where people take these responses too seriously because it sounds like they're coming from a human,
but it is just a computer.
LISA EADICICCO, CNN BUSINESS TECH EDITOR: Yes. There's been a lot of concern recently about the impact that A.I. services have on mental health
amongst teens, and not just teens, but adults as well. But there has been a focus on teens specifically just earlier this year, an online advocacy
group called Commonsense Media urged teenagers -- to recommended essentially that teenagers should not be allowed to even use A.I. companion
apps because of the risks that they pose.
But these new parental control features that OpenAI is rolling out over the next month are part of a broader push to prioritize safety overall in
ChatGPT. So in addition to those parental control features that you mentioned, the app will also -- if it detects some of those signs of acute
mental distress that you mentioned, it's going to direct that conversation to its reasoning models and what these models do is they, as the name
implies, they kind of think and analyze on these queries a bit longer to provide a more thoughtful response, with the idea being that it can
potentially provide a more thoughtful answer, that that may be kind of circumvents some of these risks that we've been seeing thus far.
FOSTER: In terms of parents, I mean, getting involved in these chats. I mean, if you wonder how it's actually going to work, you know, and kids
aren't going to want them looking at their chats either.
EADICICCO: Yeah. And I think that is a question just kind of more broadly in this kind of online world that we live in when are parental controls,
how do you balance giving kids their freedom online to discover information without too much oversight? But there does need to be some oversight there.
As we kind of saw in the social media era, we kind of realized some of the impacts that social media websites had on teenage mental health when it was
a little bit too late.
So I think this is really an effort to kind of circumvent that. And in particular with OpenAI's new parental controls when it comes to linking a
teenagers account to a parents account, I think that will work in the sense that there will be some kind of email invitation or something like that,
but this is certainly new territory and it is a very important issue that a lot of these tech companies, OpenAI specifically, since they're kind of the
leader in this space, are under a lot of pressure to make sure that their services are indeed safe, especially as younger adults and teens are using
them.
FOSTER: Lisa, thanks for bringing it to us.
Now we've just had this in. The U.S. secretary of state says the U.S. military has struck a boat carrying drugs from Venezuela. Marco Rubio says
the U.S. conducted a, quote, lethal strike against a drug vessel in the southern Caribbean.
CNN's Jennifer Hansler joins us now with more.
This sounds extraordinary. It took the ship out?
JENNIFER HANSLER, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT REPORTER: Yeah. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, this was a lethal strike on an alleged drug
vessel involved in a drug cartel somewhere in the southern Caribbean. Now, the details here are very slim. That came from a post on X from Rubio.
President Donald Trump also made reference to taking out a boat filled with drugs in his remarks just now in the Oval Office.
But, of course, Max, this is a significant escalation of the administration's war against these drug cartels. We have seen them
designate a number of them as foreign terrorist organizations. We don't know specifically what cartel this alleged drug vessel was affiliated with.
But it's also important to note here that Trump has alluded that there could be more actions to come. Of course, all of this comes as the U.S. has
built up a significant military presence in that region in the southern Caribbean, and we have heard these harsh rhetoric from both the secretary
of state and Trump administration officials, as well as the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro. He has spoken about the armed forces within his own
country, and has suggested that Venezuela will fight back if it is attacked.
CNN has asked the Venezuelan government for comment on this strike, but we are working now to learn more exactly what this was, who this targeted and
how many other strikes we might expect as they have ratcheted up the pressure here.
All of this coming as Secretary of State Rubio himself is heading to the region later today -- Max.
FOSTER: Jennifer, thank you.
This purported strike comes amid U.S. naval deployments in the region, as we were just hearing there from Jennifer.
Stefano Pozzebon tracking events from Colombia. He joins us live from Bogota.
I guess we need to find out more about who this ship belonged to and what the government response is going to be to that.
STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, Max, and just as Jennifer was saying, this is a story that is still developing and we are still trying to
piece the facts together. Like she said, we asked the Venezuelan government just in the last half an hour, frankly, if they had any reaction. And as
soon as we hear from -- from them, we will bring them to you. In the last few days, maduro has pumped up the rhetoric. I think it's fair to say, to
stand up to what he calls. It's an aggression against Venezuela.
He has accused, for example, the United States, of breaching an international treaty by allowing the presence of a nuclear -- nuclear
powered submarine in front of Venezuelan water. And we are tracking the movement of at least seven U.S. warships, as well as one submarine.
At the same time, just for a little bit of context, it's also worth fact checking, a little bit of the narrative from the White House in the last
few weeks. While it is true that there are strong allegations that Venezuela is involved in trafficking of drugs, the vast majority of drug
entering the United States and especially cocaine, does not come through Venezuela. But it comes from Colombia and from Ecuador through the Pacific
route.
So, through the Pacific Ocean up to Mexico and then up towards the United States.
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This is according to both independent investigators from the United Nations, but also from assessment in the last few months and years from the
Drug Enforcement Administration. So, from even members or employees of the U.S. federal government.
So, it is correct to say that that flotilla is probably in the Caribbean to try to stem the flow of drug trafficking. We know that drug trafficking is
a scourge that touches pretty much every country in in this region, but it's also the fact -- it's also correct to say that the source of the drug
trafficking is not Venezuela. It's actually where I am here in Colombia, where were seeing production skyrocket in the last few years since the
pandemic, pretty much.
So, there is a little bit of context here. I think both governments are pumping up their own narrative and speaking to their own bases. We still
don't have enough facts to understand what happened with this particular boat in the Caribbean Sea that we're learning has been taken down by the
United States.
FOSTER: Stefano, thank you so much.
We'll bring you the response as soon as we have it.
That's WHAT WE KNOW.
"QUEST MEANS BUSINESS" up next.
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