Speaking to reporters on Air Force One last night, President Trump responded to a judge's order that the federal government must rehire fired federal workers.
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00:00I'm not — really, I'm not.
00:02Mr. President, do you plan to comply with the judge's order
00:05regarding rehiring the Federal Workers School?
00:08Which — what are you talking about?
00:09The Clinton-appointed judge that ruled that the federal government has to rehire the fired federal workers.
00:15Do you plan to comply with that?
00:16Well, I think it's — I think it's absolutely — I have nothing to do with that
00:19other than I heard about the decision.
00:21I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely.
00:25It's a judge that's putting himself in the position of the President of the United States
00:29who was elected by close to 80 million votes.
00:33And you have that — you're having more and more of that.
00:36It's a very dangerous thing for our country.
00:38And I would suspect that we're going to have to get a decision from the Supreme Court.
00:43But that's a very dangerous decision for our country.
00:46Mr. President —
00:47These are people, in many cases, they don't show up for work.
00:50Nobody even knows if they exist.
00:53And a judge wants us to pay them even if they don't know they exist.
00:57If they exist.
00:58And I don't think that's going to be happening, but we'll have to see.
01:02You have to speak to the lawyers about that.