In the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about whether he's spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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00:00We'll be finding out pretty soon.
00:01Can you explain the disconnect between your conversations with President Xi,
00:06when those potentially could happen and why they haven't happened yet?
00:10Well, you don't know whether or not they've happened.
00:12That's the question.
00:13Yeah, I mean, I've never said whether or not they've happened.
00:16But I have a very good relationship with President Xi,
00:19and I think it's going to continue.
00:21And I would say they have reached out a number of times.
00:27He or they?
00:28Well, let's say I view it very similar.
00:30It would be top levels of China.
00:32And if you knew him, you would know that if they reached out,
00:35he knew exactly.
00:36He knew everything about it.
00:37He runs it very tight, very strong, very smart.
00:42And, yeah, we're talking to China.
00:44Do you believe him?
00:44In recent days or recent weeks.
00:46Excuse me?
00:47They've reached out since the 145% tariffs.
00:52Oh, yeah, sure.
00:53Do you believe him?
00:54A lot.
00:54Do you believe him?
00:55A lot.
00:55All the time.
00:56We're talking.
00:56Have you spoken to him directly to President Xi?
00:59I don't want to say that.
01:00It's just not appropriate to say that.
01:02But you're speaking.
01:03Sorry.
01:04Has he called you directly, President Xi?
01:06Or reached out?
01:07Has that resulted in a conversation?
01:08Well, you'd think it was pretty obvious that he has.
01:12But we will talk about that soon.
01:14It's not that important because, honestly, we're going to have a deal.
01:19I believe we're going to have a deal with China.
01:20And if we don't, we're going to have a deal anyway because we're going to set a certain target.
01:25And that's going to be it.
01:26Do you have anything to say about that, Howard?
01:29I think our tariff policy around the world has every country in the world coming in and talking to us.
01:36It is incredible.
01:37We had country after country in yesterday.
01:41We are confident that we will work out something with China.
01:45And the president knows what he wants to do.
01:48And I think he knows it better than anybody else in the world.
01:51And we are confident that this is going to work out well, both for the United States and America.
01:56I'm sure he'll work it out with China.
01:58But the amount of other countries who are working with us is incredible.
02:02And I think it's really going to work for the American farmers, for our ranchers, for our fishermen, for our businesses.
02:09The scale of companies coming to America just every day, like even this morning we were talking about Whirlpool.
02:16And then we were talking about car companies opening.
02:18The scale of factories coming to America is mind-boggling, driven by Donald Trump's tariff policy, which has got the world coming.
02:29And finally, respecting the United States of America.
02:32President Trump, you said...
02:33And by the way, there's never been anything like it.
02:35We have at least $7 trillion of new businesses coming in.
02:41If you go back and look at others, I mean, in years they wouldn't do anything like that.
02:46And this is in a matter of weeks.
02:48So it's...