imploded just as president trump s poll numbers continuet f to rise. now wero havundse a lot of groud to cover. sohere let s get right to it. here is part one of my interview with the former president . mr. president , great you r you. ak you very much. thank you for doing this. y ouas reported. as you know, you re facing a lot legal challenges. in your opinion, does thisu h helpur you or hurt you in terms of your chances to win in twenty , twenty four ?ws well, if you med listen to thei newsth media, it helps because they re all saying it s a scam. even even people that don t like me are saying this is a terrible thing to do fortr our country. y. i don t know whether it helps or hurts. i can tell youinopin, inio my oc it s a new wayti of cheating i on elections. it s called election interference. nterference. hewhat they re doing is ifbo they can t win at the ballot box because i m leading everybody by a lot in the polls for every republican , frankly, and ever
eighteen hundred and fifty boxes of stuff where as a senator , he had all pleasant. t what about as a senator ? he had a lot less of hillary clinton and james comey.ul no prosecutor would prosecute. t unbelievable.ha if you look back to that, that o caused a tremendous problem within the fbi. you know, i m very happy co aboutuple o a couple of things. the actually, i m happy because we can straighten this out ins this country. a this country is a mess. we re a mess. i agree betwee in inflation, the economy and the what happened in afghanistan, itda started it because we look so incompetent. then putin said , wow, thatsaidt that we have thahit incompetentr this is the time to takehave ukraine. don t forget, he would have done tdone that with me.t would have never done it. i want to get into that. but let s stay focused. i want to stay in this lastthin part of this, because i think this is really very critical. ee i mentioned comi. no prosecutor would prosecute deleted emails,
it may not have been the right move. let s see. i wanted macll. okay, buhit i wanted to have somebody in the fbi because i m an honorable guy. hon i m anes honest guy. i may have made a mistake, butso i put somebody idyn that the other side everybody agreedc to , you know, who recommendedor him to me.is christie. he chris christie. he recommended him. tha and that s okay.t i i don t mind that i ve taken chris christie s recommendations before and othe r people wanted christopher wray and people from the other side wanted christopher. but now jordy estiga is investigatingti if the fbi s politicized. yeah, i ve interviewedi intervie whistleblowers. there s going to be, accordingoi to hisng committee, dozens of fl whistleblowers. and they re also looking into the question and you brought up these words last night, the weaponization of the department of justice total. sortment of justice. the question is , so they had the laptop since 2019yy . they they could have easily verified it wit
are you going to go back ? i well, we ll talk about that at some point, but i love truth. i think truth is incredible.s it s up, i think three hundred 89%. it s the hottest thing theree is . by the way, elon mus k revalue 20 millio twitter at only twenty million.l well, it was not a twenty billion. i m sorry, but he did a big favor by letting people know. how corrupt our government is because that s essentially what he said . but thinofk that so they go in and they they are interfering. the fbi is interfering with an election. and i d be willing to bet thatay the people that work in the fbi, the agency, the very i would bet i d have 90% of that vote to with the a top people. when you look at comey, he wast just terrible. did you ever see the inspector? and i had to fire him. and by the i fired him very early. go you know, you re not t a lot of people say you can t reallyto go so quickly. you had to go through a process. you have to office. right. but just so you understand putr, i
to call it, from prisons.ng you know, the prisons are being emptied out all over southin america. p in they re being dropped off.e people are being dropped into our country. the mentaly. institutions areut being emptied out all overn sout south america. but much then all overing in the world. and they re traveling in the through our southern border. i had the strongest, safest str southern border in recordet d history. it was nothing even close, including for drugs. you knowr , drugs are coming in at the rate of ten times whatmeh they were three years. e ar go think of that one i get into or people are really hurt by it . i m going to get int o all the economy. i ll get into immigration. energy and all of that inth a second. and these are important issuesec because the country has changed dramatically in just jusk yo a little over two years. it s truethis. i want to ask you about this. in you re dealing with threeve w major investigations. last weeeek k, reports.i will i don t want