Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Donald Trump on with John Carlson 5/18/2016
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 11:17:50 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Donald Trump on with John Carlson 5/18/2016

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FROM: Megan Arndt

Location: KVI

Date:  5/18/16

RE: Donald Trump Interview with John Carlson

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Event Details: Donald Trump on KVI with John Carlson. Interview lasted about 20 minutes.

Attendees/Audience: N/A

Press: Captured from KVI

Summary of Event: Donald Trump answered questions about Megyn Kelly, trade, the import export bank, TSA, minimum wage and sanctuary cities. John Carlson kept on asking Trump how he would fund getting rid of sanctuary cities and Trump never really answered how.

Key Points:

0:00

John Carlson: Question about Megyn Kelly.

Donald Trump:  I thought her questioning during one the debates was very unfair. She called my office and said can we meet? We met and it was very good. People thought it was a great interview and I was happy with it.

JC: No, I did too. I thought it went very well. Congrats last night on Oregon and Kentucky.

DT: Well that was even more stellar. That was great. Oregon we won the Oregon and we won it by a lot and it was. Don’t forget the names are still on their. You still have Cruz down and Kasich down. Everyone is down. We got close to 70% so that was fantastic win. We are going to play Oregon very strongly and we are going to play your state we are going to play the state of WA very strongly. We just got back I was there a week and a half a ago. We made two speeches in WA and it was unbelieveable the crowds.

JC: Of course the primary is next Tuesday. You had big crowds out here. By the way just wondering, you’ve been all over the world do you have any friends or colleagues out here?

DT: I have many that live in Seattle and it is a hot place. I have so many and a lot of them are in the techy world. You have the Boeing folks and I happen to have a Boeing plane which is a great plane. It’s a great company. You have so much. I just know a lot of people from the area. I love your football team I like your quarterback actually a lot I think he’s talented.

JC: Russell Wilson, oh boy, now you are trolling for votes. That’s going to work.

DT: No, I think he’s hell of a player. He knows how to win. He knows how to move the ball let’s put it that way. He’s terrific and no I have a lot friends out there it’s a great area.

JC: Let’s talk about some national issues with some special residence here in WA. WA as you know is the most trade dependent state in the country. We got 1 in 5 jobs tied to trade: Boeing, Ag, dockworkers. You’ve been talking from time to time about tariffs about trade retaliation. Your critics say you’re a protectionist. Simple question, why would someone whose job depends on trade be better off with you as President?

DT: Because we are going to increase trade. John, we are going to increase it by a very substantial amount. The problem we have with trade, first of all if you want to send things to China it’s almost impossible to send them. That includes yourselves. They tax we don’t tax. We have free trade. Free trade is wonderful if you have smart people running it, but we don’t have smart leadership to put it mildly. I am being very nice because it’s early in the morning your time. We don’t have smart people running our deals or making our deals when we send things to China if they accept it at all they will charge you a tax. When they send things to us there is no tax. The companies are getting killed. Plus, they are devaluing their currency because we have nobody to talk to them, they don’t have any respect for our leadership so they are devaluing their currency so any business as an example the state of WA is doing or anybody. I can say it for anybody, but I am talking to you know. It’s going to be much better because we will not allow them to devalue and believe me we have tremendous power because we have economic power because they suck the blood out of our country. They suck our money out of us they take our jobs. We don’t make anything anymore. Anyone who is doing well now will be doing a lot better. A lot of people aren’t doing well at all. I am a protectionist in the fact that I want our people to do better. Look at the deficit with China. It is insane. We have rebuilt China. We are going to it better for WA. We are going to make it better for everybody.

JC: Question on the export import bank.

DT: So, everybody wants me to reject. I am going to look at it. I have had people from GE and from others tell me it’s very hard to compete because other countries do give these credits and they do this type of financing. So, I am actually going to take a look at it. You understand what I mean. The standard conservative and I am conservative, but the standard conservative doctrine is immediately end that, but I’m going to take a look at because I have heard from different countries that if we don’t do it there was one deal that we were going to get that ended up going to Canada because Canada provided the better financing. So, we don’t want too many things like that happening. So, I am going to take a look at it a very strong look at it and I’ll make a decision about it in the not so distant future.

5:30

JC: Do you think that we would be better off here in WA moving to right to work?

DT: Well, look you’re going to have to compete. You’re going to lose a lot of your business maybe unless the unions. I’ve done it both. I have great relations with unions. NY is largely union. I’ve done great. The unions have treated me fairly and the respect me and I respect me. It depends where you are. I watched it very closely with Boeing. The unions are going to have to at a minimum compete otherwise they are going to lose and you’re going to have everything moving out of Seattle. Look at how many elements of Boeing have left. You have to be reasonable. It can be the way it is, but you have to be competitive otherwise Boeing and you can’t blame Boeing will do things the people aren’t going to like. There is a bigger problem and that is China. Boeing and China look at the massive facility they’re building in China. This is a problem for Seattle and SC. All of a sudden they devalue their currency a few more times and all of a sudden they won’t build planes in the US anymore they’ll make all of the planes in China and they’ll send the around. You’ll gee we don’t make very planes in Seattle anymore and by the way they won’t be making them in SC either.

JC: Boeing’s rebuttal to that would be no no, we want to build more planes total and by having a facility in China we will be building even more Boeing aircraft.

DT: If China devalues their currency frankly SC even with it’s lower wages SC won’t be able to compete. Basically what I am saying John is you need Trump as President because I know how to fix that problem so easily.

JC: You hear about these long lines at airports. What does President Donald Trump do about them?

DT: Well, first of all I was just reading about it this morning. It’s terrible. I see it on TV where people are waiting people are waiting 4 or 5 hours. It’s never been worse. It has to do with two things. Number one terrorism. You got to knock the hell out of em. Number two and we have to be so much tougher on terrorism. Number two, and I’d really do it in that order. Number two it’s running like our country runs. It’s a mess. We have people who shouldn’t be TSA agents. In many cases they don’t have the capability to do it. You talk about Boeing. People aren’t going to want to move.

JC: Should TSA be fired and use private contractors?

DT: Well, my opinion you probably should. You have to be very strong with them. You have to watch them very carefully, but you probably should. What I am hearing is the level of security and the level of checking is not what it should be and despite that how does the government run something so big? If you think about it if you had a airline and 3 booths and they had people coming in I think it would be a much more efficient system. It should be a much better system. You have to be careful that they don’t cut back. There is no easy answer. The greatest answer would be to knock the hell out of the terrorists and get rid of them. I remember when I use to go on airplanes you’d walk right onto the plane. Now every time you walk on a plane you’re looking around. It is a much different world we are living in. We have to really put a dent in terrorism. That is probably worse than the Chinese threat because people won’t want to fly.

11:00

JC: Question on minimum wage.

DT: So, here’s my answer and I’ve studied this long and hard. I was always pretty good at the Wharton School of Finance. It’s an interesting problem. Minimum wage should be set by states. You have a whole different world. I actually think the state should make the decision. Here’s what’s going to happen like you just mentioned the Wendy’s case. All of sudden in some cases states are going to become noncompetitive and they are going to start losing maybe jobs and losing business. They are going to have to readjust otherwise they aren’t going to have anything and there tax base is going to go to hell. I am really liking it. I have not heard that from anybody. I think I came up with the idea a few months ago. I was talking about it. People don’t think in terms of minimum wage for state. I think it should a state issue.

JC: You know states can do that already Mr. Trump they can go above the federal minimum wage?

DT: I know that. Right I know that, but that’s why I am saying I think it really should be up to the states. The states can do it and they’ve been doing it. In NY they raised it to 15 dollars. In NY it is different. Now, you and I bother worry about the competitiveness. In certain parts of the country you can’t live on 7.25. With all of that being said I think the individual states can set it. I really think the states should being doing it instead of the federal government.

JC: Question on sanctuary cities?

DT: I am defunding sanctuary cities I am getting rid of sanctuary cities.

15:33

JC: How?

DT: I know so much about the subject. We are getting rid of sanctuary cities. Do you know if you’re an illegal immigrant. The police have told me this. If you’re in a sanctuary city and you’re an illegal immigrant and you kill somebody it’s a whole different level of scrutiny meaning much less than if you’re an American citizen and kill somebody. They don't even want to get involved to a large extent. The level of interest on the solving problem became 10% of what it was if it was an American citizen. We are going to get rid of sanctuary cities.

JC: How?

DT: We’re going to defund them. It is really a haven for criminals. It’s like going into the church in the old days. This is a haven for criminals. We have to law and order in our country we don’t have law and order. I want people to come into our country, but legally they have to come in through a process. What’s happening now is it’s out of control. It is totally out of control. I can tell when I was in the state of WA and we had two venues. One have 20 thousand the other had 17 thousand. People are tired of crime. They’re governments don’t want them and we get them. It’s out of control. We don’t need sanctuary cities we need law and order and strong borders. By the way before I forget I have to thank Don Benson and Doug Erickson Senators, terrific guys. They have working so hard for me. You guys are lucky you just send those ballots in. I am going to play it very strong. I am going to be their a lot during the Nov. period. We had people lined up from the airport to the venue waving flags. We are going to give it our very best shot.

JC: We would love have you back on our show.

DT: Well, I’ll be back on your show. I really appreciated it. Sean Hannity as you know is a big big fan of yours. I guess you’re friends. I just want to thank you.

JC: Happy to have you here. Thank you very much Mr. Trump for making the time my best to Melania and we look forward to talking again soon.

DT: Good, I will see you in the fall.

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