of the great kaecompanies that e extremely complex equipment. we re letting them sell to huawei. and then on turkey, sir. will turkey face sanctions if it goes ahead with the s-40 purchases? so turkey is an interesting case. there s another one, jim, i get along well with and he s a tough cookie. president erdogan. he s tough, but i get along with him. maybe that s a bad thing, but i think it s a really good thing because frankly he wanted to wipeout he has a big problem with the kurds as everyone knows. and he had a 65,000-man army at the border and he was going to wipeout the kurds who helped us with isis. we have 100% of the caliphate. and i called him and i asked him not to do that. they are i guess natural enemies of his or turkey s. and he hasn t done it. they were lined up to go out and wipeout the people that we just
but should that happen and somebody attacks us, if we re helping them they re going to have to help us and he knows that, and he s going to have no problem with that. yes, please. thank you, mr. president. i actually have a russia question, but i wanted to quickly clarify is case also going to need to wait until the very end, or is it possible the u.s. would want to drop the extradition. what? ms. may from we did discuss huawei, but we didn t discuss her situation. thank you. on russia respectfully it seemed like maybe you didn t really mean it when you said yesterday don t meddle in our elections, mr. president and then you start laughing. you re going to have to take a look at the words. i did say it, and we had actually a great discussion president putin and myself. i thought it was really a trumenace discussion.
paramount. very important. but are you taking huawei off the commerce department or the list we have a meeting on that tuesday. you don t talk about the national security concerns about china. what do you worry about china i think that goes without saying. look what i ve done. i took zte off, remember. that was a personal deal and then president xi called me and asked me for a personal favor which i considered to be very important. he s the leader of a major country and it was important to him. having to do with where the employees are located and they were almost out of business and he agreed to pay a $1.2 billion penalty and some changes which is much smaller than huawei but
huawei. so i did do that. we talked about education and students. someone was saying it was harder for chinese students to come in, and that s something that if it were, if somebody viewed it that way, i don t. we want to have chinese students come and use our great schools our great universities. we did discuss it. it was brought up as a point and i said that would be just like anybody else, just like any other nation. and we re actually going to a point where we re looking for you graduate from a college because our great companies would talk about silicon valley and other places, we have a problem in our country that you graduate number one in your class from the best school in the country and they say you have to leave. we can t keep them. and we re going to make it we re going to call it the smart persons waiver, but we re going to make it so that they can not
nobody else could get him back. president obama, he was in jail for 35 years. he was going to be in jail forever. he was an innocent man and i called him and after a short period of time he was standing in the oval office with me and he was back. so, you know, it s been from my standpoint and he s a tough guy. when you talk about tough, he s tough. but i get along with him. i was he was unfairly treated. we were told you can t have it, and after they bought another system we said we can t use it. so it s a complicated deal. we re working on it. can i ask you one last question quickly on china. so there was a negotiation on huawei, welcoming students, holding off on tariffs. so it sounds like china has agreed to buy more ag, but is this a lopsided agreement? it s actually a good question. i did agree to allow our