thousands. they re out of this country. we take them out by the thousands. they are monsters. okay. do you have any questions? yeah. john, go ahead. you were prepared. mr. president, a lot of the money you re saying i was prepared? with the microphone. i thought i was prepared. a lot of the money that goes to your $8 billion is money that s being reprogrammed in the d.o.d. budget. how can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall would take away from other technology, other renovations, construction that s desperately needed in our military? john, we had certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals, at the
what s going on in the world. we won. but somebody said president trump lost on the ban. well, he was right, i lost at the lower court. he didn t say that we ultimately won at the united states supreme court. they didn t want to say that. they didn t want to go that far. they were saying how i lost, the person sitting right up here. donald trump lost on the ban. yeah, i did. and then i lost a second time. you should have said that too and then it went to the supreme court and i won. didn t want to take it that far. but we won on the ban and we won on other things, too. the probably easiest one to win is on declaring a national emergency because we re declaring it for virtual invasion purposes. drugs, traffickers, and gangs. one of the things just to finish, we have removed thousands of ms-13 gang monsters.
this disconnect we seem to have in this country where you are presenting information about what s happening at the border, calling it an invasion, talking about women with duct tape over their mouths and so on. yet there s a lot of reporting out there, there s a lot of crime data out there, there s a lot of department of homeland security data out there that shows border crossings at a near record low. that s because of us. undocumented excuse me, it s still massive it shows undocumented criminals imkbrnmigrants committing crime at lower rates than natural born americans. i believe in facts and statistics and video. quick, let s go. let me ask you this, what do you say to your critics who say you are creating a national emergency? you re concocting a national emergency here in order to get your wall because you couldn t get it through other ways? what do you think? do you think i m creating something? ask these incredible women who
who had her family living there. i come home and read a certain paper where the story was there that they were actually forming to go into really to really do big destruction. i put out a statement that you better not do it. in all fairness to russia and iran and syria, they didn t attack or they re doing it surgically at least. saved a lot of people. we do a lot of good work. this administration does a tremendous job. we don t get credit for it. i think the people understand what we do. so prime minister abe gave me it s the most beautiful five page letter. nobel prize. he sent it to them. do you know why? because he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over japan. they had alarms going off. you know that. all of a sudden they feel good.
they feel safe. i did that. it was a very tough dialogue at the beginning. fire and fury. total annihilation. my button is bigger than yours and my button works. remember that? you don t remember that. people said trump is crazy. you know what it ended up being? a very good relationship. i like him a lot and he likes me a lot. nobody else would have done that. the obama administration couldn t have done it. number one, they probably wouldn t have done it and number two they didn t have the capability to do it. i want to thank everybody. i want to wish our new attorney general great luck and speed and enjoy your life. bill, good luck. tremendous reputation. i know you ll do a great job. thank you very much and thank you everybody. thank you very much. thank you. that was 50 free willing minutes from president trump.