Relationship. If you would have listened to president obama, we would be in a World War Three right now. So we will see what happens. Hey, look, we are more powerful militarily than we ever have been, and i will tell you, when i took over the United States military, when i became commander in chief, our military was depleted, our military was in trouble, you know that better than anybody, we had old planes, we had old everything, we didnt have ammunition, now we have the most powerful military weve ever had and were by far the most powerful country in the world. And hopefully we dont have to use it. But if we do, well use it. If we have, to well do it. But my relationship with king jom unis really good. But that doesnt mean he wont abide by the agreement. You have to understand, you have to go a little bit to the First Agreement that we signed, it said he will denujz, thats what he said, i hope he lives up to the agreement but we will find out. And now we are in the meantime working with south korea because it is burden sharing and were spending a tremendous amount of money to protect south korea and we think it is fair that they pay substantially more. Last year, i asked them to pay more. They agreed. Nobody knows this. Ill say it now. I think for the first time. But they agreed to pay approximately 500 million a year more for protection. It is 500 million. Now we only had a month or two before the budget ended so they said no, no, no theyre very Good Business people, you see how they do on trade, but they agreed it pay almost 500 million a year more. That got them up to a billion. Close to a billion. Thats a lot of money. I did that with a number of phone calls and meeting. Now were negotiating with them to pay more because the United States is paying a lot of money to protect south korea and we think it is fair that they pay us, and pay more. We have a very Good Relationship. But we think it is fair that they pay more. Im not sure if everybody knows, did you know about the 500 million that they agreed to pay more . Will you tell us more about it . I met with them, six, seven months ago, maybe a little bit longer than that and i said youre in the paying enough, its not pair, they were paying 500, they were paying less than 500 million a year and it cost us billions and i said it is not fair, we do a great job, we have 32,000 soldiers there, it cost us many times what youre paying and you have to pay up and they said, again, in a very good way, very fine negotiations, and they were very close to being at the end of their budget, and we agreed to 500 million, almost, around 500 million, and that got them up to close to a billion from 500 million, or less than 500 million. Which has been that number for many, many years. Decades. And i got 500 million more a year. So it is 500 million a year, it is a lot of money. Still substantially less than it costs. So now were at the negotiation for them to pay more. And they can do that. Because theyre a very rich country. You didnt know about that, did you . Do you believe i dont get the story. Is it in the American National security interest to have the troop zblshs it is debated. I could go either way. Chi make arguments both ways. I think this. If were going to do it, i think it is a burden share, more fairly. It is not fair for the United States to defend many countries, not only that country, but many country, and theyre rich countries, i can tell you, theres five other countries that i had the same conversations with. You know, saudi arabia, we moved more troops there. And they are paying us billions of dollars. You never heard of that before. You never heard of that in your whole life. We moved troops, so we pay nothing. And people took advantage and the world took advantage of us. But we do, we have a Good Relationship with saudi arabia but they needed help, they were attacked and as you just saw, we just moved a contingent of troops and theyre paying us billions of dollars. And theyre happy to do so. The problem is, nobody ever asks them to do it. Until i came along. Nobody ever asked, obama didnt ask, bush didnt ask, clinton didnt ask, nobody asked. But they said to me, but nobody has ever asked us to do this. I said i know, but im asking. And theyre paying us. They already sent us billions of dollars. It is already in the bank. So thats right, theyre happy to do it. But we never had a president that would ask. And it is not right. So and we have many other countries that were doing the same thing. Wealthy countries. Now in some cases we have countries that we have helped that they dont have money, theyre poor, and there is tremendous trauma, theres tremendous problems and things going on that shouldnt be going on and thats a different situation. But we have wealthy countries. Ive asked japan, i said, to Prime Minister abe, a friend of mine, shinzo, you have to help us out here, we are paying a lot of money, youre a wealthy nation and were paying for your military essentially and you have to help us out. And they do a lot, they will do a lot, but they were never asked. Sir, do you have a comment i think it is a very important point. You understand. It is a point nobody publicly really knows about. I dont talk about it. But it is the first time ive talked about it publicly. But no, south korea is paying us almost 500 million more. And were starting a negotiation for billions of dollars. And the king of saudi arabia that you just referenced, did you relate that to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. We had that discussion, we had that three times, and you know their position, you know my position, too, its brought up. But you know, i also brought up, and ill bring it up right now, the fact that iran is killing perhaps thousands and thousands of people, right now, as we speak, thats why they cut off the internet, so they cut off the internet, so people cant see whats going on. But thousands of people are being killed in iran right now. And frankly, i dont know, how you get in there, i dont know how you do your business, but the press ought to get in there and see what is going on because the word is that thousands of people are being killed in iran that are protesting. Youre hearing that too. Not just small numbers which are bad, big numbers, which are really bad, and really big numbers. Mr. President , is there anything to do about iran, is there anything more that you can do, that the United States can do . Well, id rather not say right now. But i think it is a terrible thing. And i think the world has to be watching. But many people are being killed, youre hearing that, too. Many, many people are being killed in iran right now. For protesting. For the mere fact that theyre protesting. Its a terrible thing. The u. S. Diplomats in the u. K. Youre talking about the woman who had the accident with the young man on the motorcycle . Yes. Well, you know, i had his parents up and theyre lovely people, and ive spoken to the woman who worked for the government, who has diplomatic immunity, and were talking about it. With the trade deal, do you think you will be able to get it by the end of the year . Is that your goal . The china trade deal is dependent on one thing, do i want to do it, because were doing very well, and we could do even better with a flick of a pen and china is paying for it and china is having the worst year by far than theyve had in 57 years. So we will see what happens. But were doing very well right now. And i gave the farmers, as you know 28 billion, and had a lot left over. The farmers were targeted by china. I gave them 28 billion over a twoyear period. And that got them whole. That was everything that they could, i gave them forecast the tariffs that china bade us and i had billions left over. Many billions left over. So due really have a deadline . I have no deadline, no. In some ways i think it is better to wait until after the election, if you want to know the truth. I think in some ways, it is better to wait until after the election with china. But im not going to say that. I just think that. I just tell you, in some ways, i like the idea of waiting, until after the election, for the china deal. But they want to make a deal now, and well see whether or not the deal is going to be right. Its got to be right. Look, china has been ripping off the United States for many, many years. Again, because of leadership. A lack of leadership. Or it wasnt their thing. It is like i told you about, the military, and the kind of money were taking in, and you know, every one of these countries, these are rich country, im talking to, they would always say, but nobody has ever asked us to do that, like therefore, why should we do it now, and i said, well, they havent, because they were foolish, but i am, and thats where we are, and thats why, with saudi arabia, with south korea, with so many other countries, theyre paying a lot of money to the United States, that they werent paying and they will be paying a lot more. Mr. President thats a big story, right . Thats a big story. I dont know how you can make that a bad one, but youll figure a way, right . [ inaudible question ] i know nothing about the gentleman, really, know nothing about him. With the dialogue i think nato should always be in tie l in, dialogue with russia. I think we could have a very Good Relationship with russia. I dont have any problem at all with the secretary general speaking with russia. I think it is a very important thing to do. And the importance of having dialogue with russia, russia is our biggest neighbor. Russia, we will aspire for a better relationship with russia. But to do that, based on what we call, we have to be strong, we have to provide incredible defense, combined with dialogue. For us, it is defense and dialogue and thats exactly what we are doing. Especially when it comes to arms control. We need to avoid an arms race. We need to avoid a nuclear cold war. A new arms race is dangerous. It is expensive. And therefore, talking about russia has violated the peace ban, the thing is to respond in a unified way. We all agree that russia was in violation. We supported the u. S. Decision, because a treaty will not work if it is not respected by both side, and we see together, in europe, the u. S. , and the rest of the neighbor allies, as to how to spon. We will respond in a coordinated way together. We will respond in a defensive way. And we have to make sure that we provide the Critical Materials in defense, and also with more talk with russia. Arms control is something i know that the president today focused on. We have seen progress. With russia. And also, in one way, we have to find ways to work with china. Because in the future china has to be a part of the arms control efforts. And i have to say this. Russia wants to make a deal on arms control. And i would say they werent living up to it. It was an obsolete deal anyway but they werent living up to it. Russia wants to make a deal. Two weeks ago, russia wants to make a deal very much on arms control, and nuclear, and thats smart, and so do we, and we think it would be a good thing, and we will also certainly bring in, as you know, china, and we may bring them in later, or we may bring them in now, but russia wants to do something, badly, and so do we. It would be a great thing to do. Mr. President , do you [ inaudible question ] with who . Prince andrew. No, i dont know prince andrew. But thats a tough story. It is a very tough story. I dont know him, no. Okay, anybody else . Thank you. So well see you again. Interesting, right . Thanks, guys. A lot of money. A lot of money. All right. There you go. 52 minutes and it seemed like the president wanted to keep going there, but the reporters ran out of questions. They ran out of steam. Good morning, everybody. That was the president , live in london there, alongside the nato secretary general gence stoltenberg, tuesday, december 3rd, im yasmin vossoughian, alongside phillip mena, the president covering a wide swath of subject matter and issues from impeachment, they were basically calling it a hoax, and also reiterates, that he believes the democrats are unpatriotic. Covered pompeo. He was asked whether or not pompeo would run for senator in kansas and he says if in fact the seat is up for grabs he will sit down and have a serious conversation with his secretary of state. And talked about turkey and france. A whole list of them. Over a dozen topics. Whether or not he will get involved in the brexit discussions. Any involvement. He says he wants to stay out of u. K. Politics for now. But he did take a moment to mention that he did predict it would be a yes vote as far as brexit is concerned but besides that, not much to comment while ehes here and we will see if he sticks to that. And we will see what happens there. We want to brins in hans nichols, standing by patiently throughout the last 52 minutes or so, as we listened to the president and jens staltenberg, mostly the president though i think we can all agree on and he specifically spoke and responded to a question about french president Emanuel Ma Crone which i thought it was quite interesting and stayed ton for quite some time, in response to the comments by emanuel macron about nato and he recently said that nato was suffering a brain death, because of the lack of leadership and coordination from the United States. So the president clearly seized upon those comments as an opportunity to attack a man, emanuel macron, that he is going to be meeting with, in a little less than four hours. Guys, there was so much in, this i dont know if we call it a press conference, a bilateral, it is basically the stay tuned presidency. The president at numerous occasions said well see, well see. Lets just follow the sun and go geographically, here in the u. K. , he studiously avoided getting himself involved in this election that will happen in just a few day, he was given an opportunity to take shots at jeremy corbyn, he didnt. I think most of the news was in france where he went after emanuel macron, even suggested that france needs nato needs more than anything else, an ugly suggestion about the past world wars of the previous century. And the United States and a total hoax. Nothing new there but you did see the president seize upon this idea that some democrats in vulnerable seats dont want impeachment. There is not a lot of data out there. But the president is clearly interested to see how those democrats handle the impeachment in their recess, back in their districts. And then moving on to china, the president just suggested that we night not have a trade deal with china by the end of this year. Well see what markets are doing. I think if we were to, the financial network, we would have the dow up or the ftse or whatever market is trailg trading and see if there is any reaction there, but clearly, that is the president pouring cold water on a trade deal with china. I thought the north korea section was fascinating because he not only talked about how he has a Good Relationship with kim jongun, he revived his old insult. He said thats why i call him little rocket man. And thats important, that he is willing to go back to that sort of of insulting aggressive language. Now he also pulled it back, talking about his Good Relationship, but at the same time, guys, he talked about how strong the u. S. Military is and what they can do there. And as we keep following the sun into syria, this is the first time that the president is really acknowledged that you need to stay in syria, not just for the oil, but to fight isis, if they pop back up, because before his rhetoric was always been the caliphate is 100 destroyed. Lets listen to what he had to say about macron because they are going to be meeting here in about three and a half, four hours. President macrons criticism about nato saying that it is brain dead who said that . President macron. And turkey responded by saying that he was brain dead. Which is interesting. Now, nato serves a great purpose. It got to be unfair for the United States, because the United States is paying a disproportionate amount. And i heard that president macron said that nato is brain dead. I think that is very insulting to a lot of different forces including a man who does a very good job at running nato. At several points in there, guy, he went back to try to pick a fight with france. It is clear that france is going to be the president s villain on this. It is going to be the person, macron is going to be the person he wants to seek the conflict with, he is clearly signaling that, thats his telegraph, he also revived this idea of a tax on french wine in response to a tax that they have on tech companies. He has this ambiguous relationship, the president does, with the tech company, facebook, google, twitter and mentioned it himself, he also hinted, and this is also somewhat new, that there could be additional taxes on airbus. So not just going after french wines, but airbus, and almost mocking macron for the state of frances economy, talking about the yellow vest protest movement. That meeting with macron if it happen, it is scheduled to happen, we will see if it does, there that meeting will be fascinating. And with so much else, the president kept saying well see. Thats my response to nato. Thats what i will toss back to every host on my time here. Well see. And on tof the issues with france and another big issue, before he stepped in london, was getting all of the other nato members to pull their weight. That is something that he seemingly accomplished. What else do you think the president is trying to get accomplished in these two days now . Well, he may want to rebalance nato a little bit. There is a hint of that, right . I mean he wants more countries to pay more. He went after germany a little bit. But not to the same extent as he went against france. And you know, this is supposed to be a victory lap. This is supposed to be about the president how they got 130 billion more nato countries toward their defense budgets. You saw staltenberg do that. And you saw the president stay on message to some extent that nato is in a stronger position now and his attacks have been inverted, when he started coming to the summits he questioned the very validity of nato and didnt want to articulate his support for article five, and now accusing other countries not being sufficiently pronato, it is a remarkable shift. And the common foe being the ussr, russia and suggested there may not be a foe anymore and the