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>> well, my policies were working better than they have ever seen on the southern border. the wall is almost complete. we just had to fix little sections, complete little sections that had to be together. we needed them in order to get the trucks back and forth from side to side, but they have chosen to stop right in the middle. they could have it finished in a month and it would be just magnificent. it already is magnificent when it is done in the areas where it is totally conflated. but just small sections are remaining and they should finish it. they are destroying our country. people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands. young children are coming in and they leave their homes and they come up because they think it is going to be so wonderful. and frankly, our country can't handle it. it is a crisis like we have rarely had and certainly we have never had on the border. but it is going to get much worse. what we are seeing is bad record numbers. it is going to get much, much worse with a little bit of time, you will see those numbers expand at a level like you have never seen before. >> maria: well, you had 400 plus miles of new wall constructed, mr. president. of course, you did a deal with mexico to share the burden of the illegal immigration. the remain in mexico policy was something i know that you and secretary pompeo worked on for a long time. is there any way to reverse that? what would be the advice for the biden administration to stop the bleeding of the border? >> well, i have great respect for the president of mexico. he was a great gentleman. we had a very good relationship. they had 28,000 soldiers on our border while we were building the wall. they had 28,000 soldiers not allowing people to come into our country and they were also stopping them at their northern border by honduras and el salvador, guatemala. they were stopping them so they want to come through mexico and we had a really down to a good system and asked the wall was finished, they could remove soldiers, but they still have the same 28,000 and we had a great relationship. they understood that i was playing with -- we never had to do that to mexico because the relationship that we developed was very, very good, very close. and we stopped what was coming into mexico at the northern border. they stopped that and they stopped it at our southern border. so we had very few people coming in. and we also stop human trafficking. when i say stopped it, made a -- also drug trafficking. we did a lot of things and all of that has now eroded. today, they are coming in. you take a look. they are coming in from foreign countries. i see they are coming in from yemen. they are coming in from the middle east. they are coming in from everywhere. they are dropping them off and they are pouring into our country. it is a disgrace. they are going to destroy our country if we don't do something about it. >> maria: yeah, we've been talking a lot about this and the implications. mexico's president said that he is a migrant president. president trump, you have had a little time to sit back and think about all of this. i want to get your take on president biden's agenda including the border, but also the stimulus package, the idea that we are on the doorstep of much higher taxes. what would be the impact in your view on an economy that is just beginning to recover? >> well, it was recovering under my administration twice. we got it to a level that the world has never seen before. we were the envy of the world and then when we got hit by the as i call it, the china virus, covid, it was, it obviously went along with every economy and we were the first to get it back up. and we actually, the stock market, when i left was higher, slightly higher than it was even prior to covid. so, it was incredible what we were able to do. if you look at the jobs numbers, we have the all-time highest number of jobs. we had 162 million people working. we were never close to that. everything we had, african-american, asian-american, hispanic-american. everybody was setting records. women. it didn't matter. any group was setting records and now, when i look at what is happening, we were energy independent. gas prices are going up at a far more rapid rate than anyone has seen in a long time. we had gas prices very low and yet we had more energy jobs than we have ever had. when you see gas prices going up and they will be going up by $1, $2, $3, when you look at that, and it's bigger than a tax increase, to the consumer, you get a dollar increase in gasoline, that is bigger than a big tax hike. so, it's a terrible thing that is happening and let's talk about tax hikes. it will be raising taxes at the highest number that we have ever seen. it will be the biggest tax increase in history of our country to pay for everything. and it is a very devastating thing. it is a very sad thing to watch. fortunately, in my administration and through what i did frankly and others, but what i did with the fda is i forced them to move quickly and without the vaccine done in 9 months instead of 5 years. i don't think it ever would have been done frankly because according to the rules and regulations, they would have never had it. we got a vaccine done in 9 months. fortunately, that is not only going to save our country, it's going to save the world. >> i'm glad you brought this up, mr. president, because we just heard from president biden last week on thursday. he gave his first prime time speech, as you know, and he said that when the coronavirus first showed up, and that was at the beginning of 2020 when we did have a 3.5% unemployment rate to come you just noted. he said when the coronavirus first arrived, it was met with silence for days and weeks and word of your program. how are you feeling tonight about the fact that you are not getting any credit for any of this by the biden administration? in fact, even when it comes to the border, nancy pelosi this weekend said that the biden administration inherited the border issues from the trump administration. >> so when you go to the covid issue, we did a great job. we get very little credit for it. i closed the country far earlier. dr. fauci and brooks and all of these people that frankly made nothing but mistakes, they didn't want to do it. they didn't want to close it. i closed the border to china. i closed the border to europe, italy, and all of these countries that were having tremendous problems long before they wanted me to do it. if you look at biden, he didn't want to do it much afterwards and then ultimately he admitted that he made a mistake in saying that. if i didn't do that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of more lives gone. but the big thing, and i have always felt it was the most important, the vaccine. the key was always going to be the vaccine. when biden got the vaccine in december, and on january 20th, he made a statement that he doesn't think we have vaccines. i don't know if he made the statement as a statement or did he not actually know we have the vaccine? what is going on there? he got his shot. he got his first shot in december, december 21st, i believe. so, with the vaccines and with the job we have done with covid, i inherited an empty cupboard. biden failed very badly with the h1n1, with the, as you know, he had a chance to do something and they had a tremendous, tremendous h1n1. it was a disaster. and now he is taking over this. what he has taken over, warp speed, our military, what they have done in terms of delivery has been incredible. incredible. and we gave up to 1.3 million shots a day before he even took over. so, not only did we have the vaccine, and one thing we did, we took a big bet on this. we started manufacturing the vaccine before we really knew what works. we saved many months and millions of lives by doing that. one and has a vaccine right now if we didn't take that chance. we knew what we were doing. we felt strongly that it was going to work and we took a risk and the risk was spending billions of dollars to develop it before we knew and before we have the approval that it was going to work. it works incredibly well. 95%, maybe even more than that. it works incredibly well. and it is really saving our country and it is saving frankly the world. >> maria: so, mr. president, i know you received the vaccine. mrs. trump also got the vaccine. would you recommend to our audience that they get the vaccine then? >> i would. i would recommend it and i would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. but again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and i agree with that also. but it is a great vaccine. it is a safe vaccine and it is something that works. we have been working around the clock and what i got the fda to do, this would not have happened. this would have happened many, many years from now if i didn't get involved and if we didn't get involved. >> maria: tell me more about that. i remember you were talking about when you were in office, you were talking about the meeting that you held with the major pharmaceutical company heads and you were garnering all of their support to work together to ensure that a vaccine was on the market as soon as possible and you said that one issue that you were trying to do was to alleviate any bureaucracies within the fda. how was it that you were able to encourage a vaccine on the market within 9 months? that was quite extraordinary. >> well, i wouldn't say the fda -- go i push them very hard, heart of the end they have ever been pushed and a number of the people in the fda admitted that and at the end, they were very happy. but they did not, they wanted to announce it sometime after the election because they just, i think most people knew we pretty much have the vaccine before the election. but they wanted to announce it along with the drug companies who were not fans of mine, because if you look at all of the things i've done to bring down drug prices, nobody has ever done what i've done. but that cost the drug companies a lot of money. they took tens of millions of dollars of commercials. they wanted to announce the vaccine after and i understand that. but somebody had to do it. you will see drug prices, if biden leaves it alone, you will see drug prices, we get the price of the lowest nation, whoever pays the lowest, we get that price. right now, we are the highest in the world. we will be the lowest in the world, meaning tied for the lowest in the world. drug companies were very unhappy with that. they never thought anyone would do it, but i did it. i push them at a level they had never been pushed before. they got it done in 9 months instead of five years. the five years i don't think would have happened because i don't think they ever would have gotten it done. >> maria: yep. i want to talk you about future elections and your thoughts on the hr one bill that the democrats are pushing. but first, let's talk about "the washington post" and what took place yesterday. with "the washington post" being forced to correct what you told the secretary of state of georgia. "the washington post" initially accused you of a crime based on fabricating and the rest of the media ran with it. the post correction says the court revealed that it misquoted trump's comments based on information provided by a source. he did not tell the investigator to find the fraud or say she would be a national hero if she did so. i know you put out a statement about this story, mr. president, but tell us what your reaction is that "the washington post" had to correct this fake news that they reported that you told the secretary of state of georgia to find the fraud and find the votes right before the senate race. >> it was and it probably affected the senate race, but it was a terrible thing and i will say this. i was very happy that "the washington post" had the courage or whatever you want to call it to at least admit their mistake. i hope it was a mistake. but i think probably it came from the people in georgia that ron and election process that frankly it is just absolutely terrible when you look at the things that went on in georgia. i don't know that "the washington post" may have been told that. they didn't hear it because it didn't exist but they were told something that didn't exist. it made me sound bad and i think when i heard it, i said that's ridiculous. i never said that. one thing i will say is "the washington post" did a correction. a lot of pressure was put on them but they made a correction because they realize what they did was wrong. now you have to find out was that "the washington post"'s fault or the people that run the elections in georgia? the people who run the elections in georgia, they have to be looked at whether it was a secretary of state or frankly the governor of the state. things went on they are between the election, which i can tell you about or you look at the two senate elections. it is such a shame that happen. everything you have been talking about on your show today is affected by those two seats. those two seats are devastating that we lost and the republicans frankly were fighting for $600 versus $2,000 and that was the only add that the democrats took. that was a disaster. they should not have been doing that. mitch mcconnell made a tremendous mistake. he lost to those two seats. >> maria: well, i don't understand why the other networks at the time, mr. president, said that we have confirmed this independently, that he said find the fraud. i mean, how is it possible that you, i mean, we have now the tape. you said nothing of the sort, find the fraud. this is the court that they all went with. they said that they verified it independently. how is that possible? >> when you hear the tape, they say donald trump may be the most honest person. it was a beautiful and perfect segment. "the washington post" said that when they heard it. they were relying on the statement made by people in georgia that run the elections. it's a very terrible thing, very terrible thing for our country. what took place in pennsylvania, what took place in detroit, michigan, what took place in wisconsin. >> maria: mr. president. >> in arizona. it is a disgrace. >> maria: we had mail in validating because of covid, but now, nancy pelosi and the democrats want this hr one to stand. they want it to pass the senate to the mail-in ballot. what are your thoughts on hr one, mr. president? but first, will you run again? >> well, let me ask you, let me answer the first question, the other question. i think it would be a disaster for our country, that it would be very unfair. the democrats use covid in order to do things that they can't believe they got away with. what they did, and they didn't get their legislatures to approve. and by the way, in the constitution, you have to do that at our supreme court and our courts didn't have the courage to overturn elections that should have been overturned. because you are talking about decisive amounts, hundreds of thousands and even millions. they didn't have. in the constitution, it says the state legislatures have to approve changes. they made massive changes early, just before the election in some cases. and they made massive changes that not even mentioning all of the other things and all of the dishonesty in the election, the state legislatures did not approve these changes. the supreme court, they didn't rule the facts. they ruled onme court should be ashamed of itself. >> maria: well, i mean, this hr forward, and a republican win again if hr one becomes law? >> if they allow that to happen, if it's allowed to happen, i think your republicans will have a very hard time getting elected. what will happen is the democrats will be able to do what they did in the last, in the 2020 election and even worse, potentially even worse. it is set up, it is a set up that they can't believe and it is because of the fact that the republicans lost two seats that they never should have lost in georgia and they never should have, if they were watching and doing their job, they should have never lost the presidential election in georgia or five other swing states. should have never happened. when you look at what they did and when you look at the dishonesty and all of the things that took place in that election, they should have never happened. they have to stop that bill. >> maria: what about it? will you run again, mr. president? are you considering 2020 for? >> based on every poll, they want me to run again, but we are going to take a look and we will see. first thing is for us, we have to see what we could do with the house. i think we have a very good chance at taking back the house. you are going to lose 15-25 seats. i got involved. i worked very hard. i made tremendous amounts of meetings, speeches, teleconferences and everything else for 56 of them. i had 56 basic teleconferences with thousands of people in the line and what happened is we ended up winning 15 states instead of losing potentially 25 seats. it almost cost nancy pelosi a job. i think we have a chance of taking back the house. i think we have a chance to do better in the senate. we need leadership in the senate, which frankly we don't have. we need better leadership in the senate. we have a good chance to take back the senate. and frankly, we will make our decision after that. but you know what, if you take a look at the polls, maria, when you take a look at what is happening at the southern border, and we had it for the first time ever, we had it, and prices were low. when you took a look at all of the things and then you think i was the one that came up with the vaccine, this administration came up with the vaccine, we would become i think worse than 1917 where 50-100000000 people died. the vaccine is such big thing. when you add it all up, i think we will do very well in two years and i think we are going to do very well in four years. >> maria: is there anyone, if you weren't going to run, is there anyone that you think of that is a front runner behind you right now? >> well, i like a lot of them and a lot of them i have been responsible for. i have endorsed people that one back. i have endorsed people that didn't have a chance and as soon as i endorse them, they went up by many, many points and they won. and i am doing that again. it seems that the endorsements carry a lot of weight and that is good. >> maria: i am glad you came on to talk about all of the success that you had in your term because it certainly was significant. as we wrap up here, mr. president, what was your take on meghan markle and meeting with democrat operatives, she might want to run for president? >> well, i hope that happens because if that happened, i think i would have an even stronger feeling toward running. i'm not a fan of hers. i think that what she talks about the royal family, i happen to think, i know the queen, as you know. i have met with the queen and i think she is a tremendous person. i am not a fan of meghan. >> maria: mr. president, it's wonderful to catch up with you. please come back soon. stay well. >> thank you very much, maria. >> maria: thank you very much. president donald j. trump. coming up, the biden administration and its first big talk with the chinese communist party this thursday. senator cotton is here with a preview. we will talk about it next. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. ♪ and a little bit ofe. chicken fried ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? 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whatever it takes to make that happen. the only question, does joe biden have what it takes to make them stop? joining me right now to talk more about that as republican senator from arkansas, tom cotton. it is great to see you. thank you for being here tonight. what do you anticipate about this upcoming meeting between the biden administration and the ccp members? >> well, i hope that secretary of state and the national security advisor, jake sullivan will draw a very hard line in alaska and i hope it is not a very hospitable trip and they go back to beijing very disappointed about america's bipartisan results to stand up to beijing. but i have to say, maria, based on a series of early missteps or hesitancy's, or mixed messages, i'm not confident that that is going to be the result of this meeting in alaska later this week. >> maria: well, you have been very smart and vocal about many things regarding the chinese communist party. you were the first want to come on my program in 2022 explain exactly how the coronavirus was allowed to leave the chinese borders and inflict the entire world. i have not heard president biden discussed the origins of the coronavirus. have you? >> no, i haven't either, maria. that would be a very good first item on the agenda in alaska, is to demand that beijing come clean about what happened and will hand and allow an international team of scientisto visit the institute of biology, have uncontrolled and total access to its personnel. even if they destroy the evidence, we can at least take the statements of people who were there. that is not what the world health organization did last month when they send the team in to cooperate the chinese story. that is one thing that should be on the agenda item. they are breaking their words in their international commitment on the hong kong economy. these are things that the biden administration officials have raised either in speeches or congressional testimony. but joe biden himself has been very 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possible to our territories to hold china at risk. they didn't have to face that for a long time because we were constrained. but put a few hundred or a few thousand missiles in the western pacific to the chinese mainland and we will make the leaders of beijing sweat a lot. >> maria: we also have not heard president biden say much about the uighurs and the that is being committed there. we will see if this comes up in this meeting. but i want to get your take on the upcoming olympics. the olympics are happening in 2022 and he tweeted this. a friend asked, will china collect dna samples of the athletes and others at the olympics if they are held in beijing? and he says, you bet. do you think that the chinese communist party will collect dna of our athletes? >> well, i wouldn't put it past the chinese communist party to undertake any kind of spying or espionage into the americans. i think that the olympic committee needs to try to move it out of china. they were awarded under different 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is -- his new special "the age of rush is available. right now, it is a must-see. it is wonderful to see you tonight. thank for being here. your reaction to what you just heard from the secretary. >> first of all, i would say i thought your interview with president trump was very effective and very informative. i commend you for getting as many different topics as you did and i think there is no place where you see a bigger difference between trump's policy and biden the on on the border. president trump understood that there are on unmanageable a numr of people who are willing to come to the united states. 65 million people who would like to move to the united states and president trump recognized that this is unmanageable. president biden is living in some kind of a fantasy land and thought that he could campaign for open borders and is now shocked to discover that in many countries, the biden open border policy is interpreted to mean open borders. we saw the republican congressman yesterday who talked about people from turkey, people from morocco. people from china. people from africa. it's not just people coming from central america. the democrats want to give you free medical care. they want to take care of you. think about this difference. if you and i tried to fly into the united states, we have to have a test to prove we don't have covid. they are just walking across the border. they get tested and 9% have covid. then they leave. they get on a bus and they carried covid. this is a policy of utter madness. >> maria: this is disturbing. also the fact that when we are talking about these issues, this is about illegal immigration. my grandfather came here in 1903. he did it in the way that you are supposed to do it. my grandparents came earlier than that. they did it legally. but this is about people cutting the line. this country nationalizes 1 million people a year. so, i mean, obviously america is a generous country with open arms. but there is a structure and a way to do it. let me get your take on this agenda and what the democrats are trying to do. nancy pelosi pushing hr one. what is the intent here? what is your take on that as well as this agenda in general, higher taxes, massive spending, getting back into the iran deal, the china meeting in a couple of days. your take. >> well, first of all, i think what you are seeing is a machine. when you have the discipline that chuck schumer has, this is a machine. this machine knows that a fair open election -- 15% of approval. there will be a more accurate title for it. when you ask the american people, i just saw a poll in arizona for example. every single provision is a 75% negative. now, the two sanders have no choice. did they vote with the people of arizona or are they part of a machine? i think you are seeing this across the board. this is a desperate effort to impose radicalism on america before they lose the house and probably lose the senate in 2022. >> maria: what about what is going on in california right now with governor newsom, the recall. he is blaming you. watch this. >> they want to put microchips in immigrant aliens. we have folks that are literally part of the militia group, right wing groups that are part of the principal proponent of this effort. the rnc is the second largest donor to this effort. mike huckabee, newt gingrich is out there, devin nunes. trump of mega-donors have put in close to $3 million in this effort. >> maria: [laughs] it's not -- >> look, the thing that is amazing right now, president trump not available through the number one pinata target. both new york and california. democratic governors are collapsing and it is going to be fascinating to watch. >> maria: yeah. it is great to talk with you as always. thanks so much. we'll see you soon. newt gingrich. more "fox news primetime" right after this. stay with us. ♪ ♪ allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season 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"tucker carlson tonight" begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we are coming to you from el salvador on the pacific side of central america. we were here four years ago and we are back to take a close look at ms-13. nell a global criminal organization. our full investigation into ms-13 will air in an upcoming new series tucker carlson originals on fox nation. we just spoke to the country's president here at length. we asked the president of the migrant crisis on the southern border where portions of the