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00:00Hello America, I'm Mark Levin and this is Life, Liberty, and Levin Sunday.
00:09Thanks for being with us.
00:11Tonight is part two of our special interview with President Donald Trump.
00:16Last night, I believe you'll agree, was really compelling.
00:19He's got a new book out called Save America.
00:22You can get it at 45books.com, 45books.com.
00:27book.
00:28His remarkable comments, some of them are hilarious in the book, and I use that as a
00:32springboard to conduct this interview.
00:35I want you to notice something.
00:37He does the interview without notes.
00:40He doesn't have a running mate sitting next to him.
00:43He answers every question and then some.
00:46Big difference between him and his opponent.
00:50Go.
00:51I'm looking for a photo of you in the car.
00:57Which is seared in my head.
01:00This photo right here.
01:01Yeah.
01:02What were you thinking?
01:04Well, that was a photo that was taken on the ground.
01:09It's an amazing photo.
01:10It's right through the window.
01:11I have seven Secret Service people on top of me because by that time I had gone down
01:18and this was a photographer that was taking pictures and I think realized when he was
01:24developing it was look what we have here.
01:27So there was a little gap on the floor where you're able to see.
01:30So it wasn't like, oh, gee, what a nice picture this would be.
01:34What was going through your head right there?
01:37Amazing.
01:39Really amazing.
01:40I felt very clear headed.
01:41I knew I got hit in the ear.
01:44I felt I was 100% OK.
01:47Secret Service was very brave.
01:49They jumped.
01:50They were on me very quickly.
01:52Seconds.
01:53I was down, but they were on top of me and bullets were flying right over me.
01:57I heard him.
01:58I didn't know you could hear a bullet.
01:59You hear it's like a whiz sound.
02:01And then, by the way, a Secret Service sniper was amazing because didn't know anything,
02:08didn't know there was a problem, heard the sound of the gun, saw the smoke.
02:14And within less than five seconds, he shot him from a very big distance, much further.
02:21He was on the opposite side of the podium.
02:25One bullet.
02:26Pretty amazing, right?
02:27One bullet.
02:30And that's without knowledge.
02:31Now, obviously, somebody should have been on top of that roof.
02:37And there was some problems.
02:38But I have to tell you, Secret Service, they were on top of me and they were bullets were
02:45flying over us.
02:47And there wasn't one of them that said, oh, gee, I'm not doing that.
02:51And even the people, as you know, we lost one great person, Corey, the firefighter,
02:56who who was fantastic.
02:59And we had two people that we thought were going to die and they ended up living and
03:04they're going to be good.
03:05I hope perfect.
03:08We raised a lot of money for them, for the family of Corey, you know, is very nice.
03:13A friend of mine said, I'd like to give Corey, the firefighter, a check.
03:18I said, good.
03:19He said, would you give it?
03:20Yeah.
03:21And he handed me a check for a million dollars.
03:25And so I gave it to Corey's beautiful family, wife, daughters, and he you know, the daughters
03:31were there and he wanted to protect them.
03:32He got over and he got hit.
03:33He got hit hard, pretty much instantaneously.
03:38Were you able to see him or not?
03:40Really?
03:42Well, they were moving me, I guess, in a different direction, but he was he was hit hard.
03:49He was really hit hard.
03:50I think it was probably instantaneous.
03:53We had a man from the National Guard who was sitting maybe 15 seats away.
04:01He ran to Corey and he gave a mouth to mouth resuscitation.
04:04I mean, amazing.
04:06Some of the things that you hear here, it's amazing.
04:11The other thing is the crowd, people, the people that study crowd control, etc.
04:15They said, when a bullet goes off, everyone stampedes always.
04:21Nobody stamped.
04:22They saw I was in trouble.
04:23It's, you know, make America great again.
04:26It's we had a crowd.
04:28It's so big, tens of thousands of people as far as the eye could see.
04:34And at first, you know, when you have that crowd and you're speaking, it's sort of something
04:39hit your heart.
04:40But you don't know if you want to go down.
04:43I think that, you know, my movement was quick because I heard people screaming, it's bullets,
04:48go down, go down, go down.
04:49So I think pretty sure because I couldn't have done it as easily as it looked on them
04:55on the tape.
04:56I must have been hearing people say that.
05:00Two of the people were hit and had this guy not be taken, been taken out very quickly,
05:06you would have had because it was nothing but people.
05:08There was no ground.
05:09Basically, there was just nothing but people.
05:11So the votes.
05:12In fact, when I first was starting to get up, the first thing I said is how many people
05:17were killed because there was no ground.
05:19It was just wall.
05:20You've seen rallies.
05:21It was wall to wall people.
05:24But we then did a GoFundMe for them and raised millions of dollars.
05:33And we're very proud of that.
05:35Very proud of that.
05:36So but and the two people were very thankful and the family was very thankful.
05:44But I know for a fact they'd rather have Corey back than all those millions.
05:51But that was a that was a rough time.
05:54The hospital was amazing.
05:55The doctors were amazing.
05:56You know, the doctors saved two people that most people thought couldn't be saved.
06:01And these were local doctors in Pennsylvania, Butler area.
06:07And they were phenomenal doctors.
06:09They saved two people that in theory nobody thought could be saved.
06:14You know, we have a lot of talent in this country.
06:17You've been a man of faith.
06:19You go to church.
06:23You believe in God.
06:26Has this further your belief, your commitment?
06:33And obviously, God, in addition to that chart, saved your life.
06:41He has a purpose for you.
06:43Do you think about these things?
06:44Well, I think you believe more because when you speak to experts like my sons who are
06:49shooting experts, but when you speak to experts, they said there was no chance that he could
06:54have missed from that distance.
06:56I think he was hurried.
06:57I think he was rushed because people were starting to say, like, you know, there's a
07:02guy up there with a gun.
07:05And I think he was probably rushed.
07:07This is what drives people crazy.
07:08Yeah, I know.
07:09Right now.
07:10Me, too.
07:11It's a guy up there with a gun.
07:12I know.
07:13There's a guy up there with a gun.
07:17By the time they started saying it, it was a little bit on the late side.
07:21And luckily, he was taken out quickly.
07:25But I'll tell you, if he wasn't, it would have been like in Las Vegas, that horrible
07:31attack in Las Vegas with the crazy man up in the building shooting down into the crowds.
07:37And that's what you would have had here.
07:38These crowds were bigger.
07:40And you would have had a lot of people.
07:42It was bad having three and especially losing one.
07:46But no, I think you think, like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more.
07:53And somebody said, like, why?
07:56And I'd like to think that God thinks that I'm going to straighten out our country.
08:02Our country is so sick and it's so broken.
08:06Our country is just broken.
08:09And maybe that was the reason.
08:10I don't know.
08:11I don't know.
08:12A lot of people have said that.
08:13Did you get a call or a note?
08:14I'm just curious.
08:15From Kamala Harris?
08:17No.
08:18Okay.
08:19Not that I know of.
08:21And we know now that shortly after that.
08:24I did get one from Biden.
08:25From Biden, yeah.
08:26We know that shortly after that, the Department of Justice was still trying to get you.
08:37They impounded a secret grand jury in Washington, D.C., maybe within days of the assassination
08:44attempt, to try and breathe life back into the case that essentially the Supreme Court
08:52killed with their immunity decision.
08:53That I thought we won.
08:55Which you did win.
08:57Which we did win.
08:58You did.
08:59And so they come back.
09:02Jack Smith cannot file that without the approval of the Attorney General of the United States.
09:07That brief wasn't written by Jack Smith.
09:09It was written by, I know the Department of Justice.
09:12I worked there under Ed Meese, who was one of the ones that filed a brief in Florida
09:17and said, wait a minute.
09:19He's unconstitutional.
09:20That's right.
09:21Attorney General McCasey filed it.
09:22And honestly, my legal group filed one too.
09:25Now that said.
09:26And great lawyers.
09:27And if that's true there, it's true in Washington, D.C. also.
09:30He's not allowed to do it.
09:31Well that's, I assume, one of the motions your lawyer will file.
09:34Now that said, this isn't intended to get a result before the election.
09:41This is intended to smear you.
09:44And to keep smearing you.
09:46And to keep wasting your money and your campaign money.
09:48And to keep using American taxpayer dollars.
09:53You know, Mr. President, the President of the United States, or the wannabe President
10:00of the United States, have the power to tell the Attorney General to knock it off.
10:07You've made the point that you did not want Hillary Clinton indicted.
10:10If she'd been indicted, you probably would have said, knock it off.
10:15The President is the executive branch, not the Attorney General.
10:21And yet they go ahead and do this.
10:23In the middle, not even the middle of an election, Pennsylvania, they start voting in a couple
10:29of weeks and so forth and so on.
10:31I mean, this election interference never ends, does it?
10:34Well, this is the worst case of election interference that anyone's ever seen.
10:38Certainly in our country.
10:40They do do this in third world countries.
10:43They have some of it in South America.
10:46They don't do it a lot, believe it or not, but they do it.
10:49They do it in banana republics.
10:51But now this is the United States.
10:53When it came to Hillary, you remember, they subpoenaed her stuff.
10:56And she bleached it.
10:59That's where you just it's basically acid, everything broke the phones, broke the computer,
11:05broke everything.
11:06I mean, it was so terrible.
11:10And I had to make a decision.
11:14Do I want to do this?
11:15Do I want to put the wife of the President of the United States and Secretary of State,
11:20by the way?
11:22Do I want to put her in prison?
11:25And I'm trying to unify a country that really was broken badly.
11:29If you look at, you know, what was going on with Obama when I took this over, this country
11:34was very had tremendous hatred, anxiety, a lot of hatred.
11:40And do I want to put the wife of a president of the United States in prison?
11:46I didn't want to do that.
11:49And then when I get out, it's like, it's it's amazing, actually, it's amazing.
11:55And it's such a bad precedent, because people are going to think about it differently.
11:59And they're going to think about it differently.
12:02And it's it's very sad, actually.
12:04But you know, the good news, it's so crazy that my poll numbers go up.
12:11Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have
12:18every right to do it.
12:20You get indicted and your poll numbers go up.
12:23When people get indicted, your poll numbers go down.
12:26But it was such it's such nonsense.
12:29They got to the D.A.
12:30They put people in the D.A.'s office.
12:33They put people in the attorney general of New York's office.
12:36Fannie Willis in Atlanta met with them and her boyfriend met with them for days.
12:45This was all coming out of the Department of Justice in order to get their political
12:49opponent, me.
12:50Think of it.
12:51Fannie Willis came up with this crazy scheme.
12:55And a lot of people were hurt by it, too.
12:56Very good people, patriots, because it was many people were indicted.
13:01But they did this to try and get me.
13:05And then they say to people, listen, we'll let you off if you say bad things about Trump.
13:09If you say bad things about Trump, we're going to let you off.
13:12This was all done by the Department of Justice.
13:14I'm surprised at Merrick Garland, because I thought he was I knew he was very liberal.
13:20There were those that said, you know, because when I came in, I put three Supreme Court
13:25justices in and they've been very brave, actually, in many ways.
13:31But they're very, you know, highly thought of people.
13:35But there were some people that wanted me to put him in when I first came in.
13:39And they thought that could unify the country.
13:43And I had a decision to make.
13:47And I didn't know if if it would be accepted or if people would say, what's he doing?
13:53Why is he doing it?
13:55And then I said, I wonder if they do it.
13:57And you know that if they had that option, which is in the conservative vein, you know,
14:03they wouldn't do it.
14:06When Schumer was screened, it was screaming on the stairs of the US Supreme Court, I'm
14:11going to get you, Kavanaugh, I'm going to get you, Gorsuch, we're going to hit you.
14:16I said, can you believe it?
14:17I actually told our people that I don't think they denied.
14:21I think you should do something about it, because that's like a mobster.
14:25And he didn't he wasn't shielded.
14:26You know, when you're in the halls of Congress, you're shielded.
14:28You can say anything, which is maybe crazy, maybe not.
14:32But he wasn't shielded at all.
14:35And they they said, sure, we don't have a case, we don't have a case.
14:40But I thought it was a terrible thing when he was.
14:42If you remember that, I thought it was terrible that the Supreme Court to this day, their
14:48houses aren't properly protected.
14:50They were supposed to have great protection.
14:53Houses weren't properly protected.
14:56And things are happening that are so crazy.
14:59I think there's no human being that was ever treated worse in Congress than Justice Kavanaugh.
15:07And Harris led the battle.
15:08That's right.
15:10Oh, she was vicious.
15:12Oh, she was the most vicious.
15:14She was going after them, just like with Mike Pence, where she said, you're interrupting me.
15:19I want to talk. And that's why, look, ABC is probably the worst in terms of fairness.
15:28George Flopadopoulos, the people they have there are just terrible.
15:35Jonathan Karl. And but that's the only one she'll go to.
15:40Now, the other the other one is the head of ABC is her best friend and her husband's best
15:45friend, too. And I had to make a decision.
15:49Do I want to debate? I'd like to debate.
15:51I mean, I guess I I guess I want a lot of debates because otherwise I wouldn't have been
15:55president. I had a lot of debates initially and then I had quite a few.
15:59And the last one with with Joe Biden, I think I did a very good job and maybe I did too
16:08good a job. But he was shielded and sheltered from from, you know, here's a man that's in
16:17charge of nuclear warfare and stuff, and I don't think he should have been there.
16:23But that was a debate.
16:24And it was their idea.
16:25They want to do it. I said, you know, it's early, but I'll do it if you want.
16:28What do you want to do? They gave me CNN.
16:30They gave me Jake Tapper and they gave me Dana Bash, who traditionally you would never do
16:36what you'd never do with them because they're, you know, they're Trump haters at the highest
16:41level. And CNN is a Trump hater.
16:43Basically, they're liberals.
16:46I don't like to use the word progressive.
16:48It's too pretty a word.
16:49It's such a pretty word.
16:50They're progressive.
16:50Progressive means you think into the future.
16:53They're actually thinking to 3000 years ago.
16:57These people, they're not progressive, but that's true.
16:59But they're liberal.
17:00And I took it because that was the only way you're going to get a debate.
17:04I was surprised I did it.
17:06I don't think they actually wanted me to take it.
17:08I thought they were going to say, you know, he wouldn't take it.
17:10And therefore, Biden doesn't have to debate.
17:12But I agree to all these things that I normally wouldn't agree to.
17:16Now they have Kamala, who they say has many deficiencies, but she's a nasty person.
17:25The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible.
17:27The way she treats people is horrible.
17:30But the way she treated Justice Kavanaugh during that hearing,
17:35in the history of Congress, nobody's been treated that way.
17:38By the way, you have a picture of her in the book.
17:41It's a fantastic book, 45books.com.
17:45The things that the president are talking about pictorially are in the book,
17:50and much, much, much more than that.
17:52And Kamala Harris, remember all the stories about how she berates her staff
17:56and uses the F-word, and she's lost 92% of her staff as vice president?
18:01We don't hear those stories anymore.
18:02No, they don't want to hear them.
18:04They don't want to hear them.
18:05The press is a big problem, the press.
18:08And you don't understand why.
18:09Like, you know, I fixed our military.
18:12I created a great border.
18:13I built hundreds of miles of wall and all this.
18:17We had a great economy.
18:20We were going with school choice.
18:21We were doing a lot of things that were so great.
18:25And you don't know why they hate these things.
18:28Common sense, I like to say the Republican Party's been the party of common sense.
18:32Much of it is common sense.
18:35We don't want men playing in women's sports.
18:37Look at the swimming.
18:39Young ladies that have been swimming against each other for years.
18:43You know, the cream of the crop, right?
18:45And then they look, and there's somebody to their right that's a giant.
18:50And he goes by them at levels that nobody...
18:52United States, at Title IX, part of the Civil Rights Act,
18:59has always been intended to protect women's sports,
19:03to make sure they're fully funded, to give women an opportunity.
19:07And so Kamala Harris and Biden, they change it with an executive order.
19:13It's a law.
19:14They change it.
19:14And a federal judge just ruled, hold on, you don't get to do that.
19:18So my question to you is this.
19:21How is it that they can claim that they're for women's rights
19:25when they're destroying the key act that protects women's sports,
19:31girls' sports, something that's been in existence for half a century,
19:35yet they claim they're for women's rights?
19:37Well, they're really demeaning women, and they're marginalizing women.
19:43This recently, a volleyball, a female volleyball player,
19:49a very good player, All-American or something,
19:53got hit by a shot from a person who transitioned.
19:59And this person said, I've never seen a ball come at me like that.
20:03I've been playing all my life.
20:04I'm a champion player.
20:06And it knocked her out, and she's not going to play anymore.
20:11You know, you say, when I hear, there are different things,
20:16different signs, open borders, defund the police,
20:20men playing in women's sports, all different levels of problem.
20:25But they don't make sense.
20:27Who would want this?
20:29Who would want open borders where people come in from prisons, jails,
20:32and mental institutions, and terrorists,
20:35openly just walk into the country from places unknown?
20:40Who would want that?
20:42Who would want that?
20:43Who would want men playing in women's sports?
20:45Very simple.
20:47Who would want all electric cars?
20:49And Elon's a great friend of mine.
20:51I think he's phenomenal.
20:52I love the electric cars.
20:53I think they're great.
20:54But there's a place for them, and then there's
20:57a place for gas-propelled, gasoline-propelled cars,
21:00and there's a place for hybrids.
21:02Buy everything.
21:04And they have a mandate, but we don't make enough electricity.
21:08So what are they going to do?
21:10But who would create this mandate where they want to make trucks all electric,
21:14but the trucks would have to stop six times to get charged from New York
21:19to Los Angeles, as opposed to no times.
21:21If you have diesel, with diesel, the truck
21:24gets lighter and lighter as it goes along.
21:28With the electric, the battery is so big it would take half the payload.
21:33You'd have to rebuild every bridge and roadway in America to carry the weight.
21:38Now think of that.
21:39It sounds like a simple statement.
21:41And I said to him, don't you, because I met with all the truckers.
21:44They're going to be out of business with this whole thing.
21:47And you talk about supply chain.
21:49Wait till you see this.
21:51But I said to him, so how long have you been in business?
21:53He said, 50 years.
21:56And I said, wow.
21:57He said, you know, I started off with one truck.
22:01I think it's 29,000 now, like one of the biggest, right?
22:05From one truck to 29, you know that type of guy.
22:09Amazing.
22:10But he said, every single year I bought trucks.
22:13I always bought them.
22:15And they got better and better.
22:16They got stronger.
22:18They got bigger.
22:21They got more beautiful.
22:22They got much more efficient.
22:24To a point where we have things that are so good now,
22:28you'd be proud to live in them.
22:29He said, we build apartments in the back.
22:31You know, they call it an apartment in the back.
22:33You ever notice?
22:35These guys live in there.
22:36He said, sir, I know you're rich,
22:38but you'd be proud to live.
22:39I said, I don't know.
22:41But he said, they just got so good.
22:44And if they forced us to go to electric trucks,
22:47nobody would be able to do it economically.
22:49But if they forced us to go, we would go back 60 years
22:54because we wouldn't be able to drive.
22:55We'd have to stop.
22:56Think of it, six stops versus no stops.
22:59So right there, it doesn't work, okay?
23:02Right there, New York to Los Angeles,
23:04six stops versus no stops.
23:07And they want to put these guys out of business.
23:09And so I like to say the Republican Party's become,
23:12yeah, we're conservative, we're this, we're that,
23:14we're a lot of things.
23:16But it's basically the party of common sense.
23:19We need fair elections, we need walls,
23:21or we need to stop, we need borders.
23:24We need walls.
23:25You know, the two things that work,
23:26because the Democrats, even to this, to nowadays say it,
23:30oh, Kamala didn't want walls at all.
23:32She didn't want walls.
23:33She fought me harder than anybody.
23:35She was always fighting me on the walls.
23:37I ended up taking the money from the military
23:39because I said, this is an invasion.
23:41I built hundreds of miles of wall.
23:43This is an invasion of our country.
23:45Virtually everything you're talking about
23:47is about saving America, saving America from an ideology
23:53that's really crazy.
23:54Crazy.
23:55But I want the audience to understand something.
23:57We've been sitting here for over an hour.
24:00You can talk from subject to subject, knowledgeable.
24:05You're not raising your voice.
24:08You're willing to do it pretty much with anybody.
24:13Friend and foe alike.
24:14You're willing to do it anywhere,
24:17whether it's the Bronx, Philadelphia, Detroit,
24:20whether it's suburbia, rural.
24:23Conversely, you're running against somebody
24:25who's now damed the American people with her appearance
24:29with one interview.
24:30You wanted to do multiple more debates.
24:33She says no to Fox.
24:35Everything has to be to her liking and her way.
24:39She's concealing information.
24:42She's been highly prepped
24:43about certain types of propaganda to use.
24:46See this.
24:47When you were in the Oval Office,
24:50when you're making decisions,
24:52you have a zillion people a day coming in
24:55everybody has a priority.
24:56You got wars going on.
24:58You got things going on on the board,
25:00these things going on
25:03that you're allowing people to see the measure of the man.
25:08Is this how you conducted yourself?
25:10You brought people in.
25:11You wanted to talk to them.
25:12You wanted to understand the positions.
25:14And then you would say, okay, look,
25:17let me use common sense principles with common sense.
25:20Let me figure this out.
25:21The American people, I think a lot of them want to know
25:24how do you come by your decisions
25:25and how do you manage in the Oval Office?
25:28Well, I think that I learned,
25:29like I talked about the truckers,
25:31I learned about trucks and by talking to them
25:34in five minutes, I knew as much as I'm gonna have to know
25:38to make decisions that are gonna be earth shattering
25:42for transportation, for moving cargo
25:44and moving a lot of other things.
25:47I learned from having interaction.
25:51Some politicians don't have interaction.
25:54Some politicians aren't smart.
25:55They can't have interactions.
25:57I think you have an obligation as a president
25:59to talk, to let the public know.
26:02Even from like the standpoint of spirit of spirit,
26:09let the country know how great our country is.
26:13Yesterday I went to a terrible, terrible situation
26:17with the Afghanistan.
26:20As you know, 13 people killed,
26:22many, many horrifically injured.
26:25Those parents are wiped out.
26:26Those parents are just devastated
26:28on something that should have never happened.
26:30They should have left from Bagram.
26:31They shouldn't have left from the local airport.
26:34They should have done so much different.
26:36They should have had the soldiers taken out last,
26:38most importantly.
26:39You know, Abdul was not bothering us.
26:42He was not bothering us.
26:43He was not going after us.
26:45He was the head of the Taliban.
26:47And he would have left the soldiers.
26:50And I could just see somebody going up to Abdul, tough guy.
26:53Abdul, Abdul, the American soldiers have left.
26:56And he probably said, there's no way.
26:58Are you stupid?
27:00There's no way they left.
27:01Abdul, they've left.
27:02They've left.
27:03No way.
27:04Then he checked.
27:05He said, they left.
27:07What did they leave?
27:08American hostages.
27:10They left Americans behind.
27:12They left tens of billions of dollars
27:15worth of the best equipment in the world behind.
27:19We lost 13 soldiers.
27:20We had 45 of them horrifically hurt.
27:25I don't mean like hurt.
27:26I mean like the arms gone, the legs gone,
27:29the face just obliterated.
27:34And there was none of that.
27:36This would have never happened because I was getting out,
27:39but we're going to get out through dignity and strength.
27:41And we're going to keep the airport.
27:43We're going to keep Bagram because of its relationship,
27:46not to Afghanistan, but to China, one hour away.
27:49China.
27:50Let me ask you about China.
27:53Some people think it's the greatest threat we have.
27:58You've said, he's no fool.
28:00Worked his way up the ladder.
28:01There he is.
28:02He's in charge.
28:04They're massively building up their military.
28:06Yeah.
28:08Conventional and nuclear.
28:09With our money.
28:10With our money.
28:12And with, I guess, Iran's money.
28:15And their Navy's not bigger than ours.
28:20If you're elected,
28:22do you feel we're going to have to rebuild our military?
28:25Because our military's been zapped,
28:28as it seems to be, as it was under Obama.
28:30By zapped, I mean that our troops
28:34don't have the equipment they need.
28:36Our sailors don't have the equipment we need.
28:39Morale's very low.
28:41People aren't joining up.
28:43Do you feel like you're going to have
28:43to rebuild the military again?
28:45They announced six ships are going to be dry docked.
28:48Not because the ships are bad,
28:49which a lot of them are old and not too good,
28:52but because they can't get the sailors.
28:56There's no sailors.
28:57They can't get the sailors.
28:59They also announced they're very low on ammunition.
29:01When I came in, they announced we had no ammunition.
29:04And I said, number one, who's the stupid person
29:06saying that?
29:07You could tell me.
29:09Tell a couple of people.
29:10But who's the person that wants to say
29:13the United States has no ammunition?
29:14We're giving it to all of our people all over the world.
29:18In particular, Ukraine.
29:20We're giving them massive, millions of dollars of stuff.
29:24And I rebuilt our military.
29:26All in four years.
29:26I have great people.
29:27I had great people doing this.
29:29And I restocked our ammunition.
29:31We had so much ammunition.
29:33It was coming out the gills, as they say.
29:36We had missiles.
29:38Now we don't have ammunition.
29:40How would you like to be President Xi sitting there
29:43saying America has no ammunition?
29:46We're so vulnerable.
29:48With that being said, okay, so China.
29:50I think there was no greater critic of China than me.
29:54But I respected China, and I respected President Xi,
29:56and I had a great relationship with him.
29:59They took advantage of us, and why shouldn't they?
30:01I mean, if we were stupid enough to let them do it,
30:03they made hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
30:06507 billion dollars in most years over that time.
30:10Now it's more.
30:12And I had them down to a much smaller,
30:14and I put massive tariffs on them.
30:16And again, nobody got any money from China.
30:18I got billions, hundreds of billions of dollars from China.
30:23I think that we will have a good relationship.
30:27I'd rather have a good relationship than China.
30:29And I'm saying this,
30:31and I hope that President Xi is watching,
30:33which he will in one form or another,
30:35whether it's watching or he'll be told.
30:38But I think we'll have a good relationship with China.
30:41And I think we'll have a good relationship with everybody.
30:44Look, Russia would have never happened.
30:47I had a very good relationship with Putin,
30:50and it would have never, ever happened
30:53if I were president.
30:54Zero chance.
30:55He understood that too.