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Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 07:12:04 -0700

Donald Trump Interview on ABC This Week
5/8/16 9:05 AM
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>> You're not worried about Obama out there campaigning against you?
>> Hillary Clinton. The only thing she has going. She plays the woman card 100%. I saw her in a speech. Megyn Kelly was terrific. She called me and came up to my office. She wanted to make peace. And, we did. We did. I mean, it was very nice. Some of the stuff is said as, you know, an entertainer. Because I have "The apprentice." Some was said in fun with shows like "Hourld stern" you're a friend of mine.
>> You're not worried about the tapes of that coming back?
>> What am I going to do. What the politicians say behind the scenes make whatever I said jokingly to Howard and other people like baby stuff. What they say behind the keeps talking about everything is far worse than anything you have seen or will see about me.
And they act like, oh, that's so terrible. So terrible. I mean, you know, it's called give me a break. I watch Hillary Clinton like she's a baby. Look what happens with her family. I watch her, like, oh the way he talks to women. The way he talks to women. Well, take a look at her husband and what do you think he talks to women? So when I watch her, she's playing the woman's card so much. And so loud. And frankly, I think it's her only chance of getting elected. Listen, she's going to get -- she's going to get hit for it. Because it's not appropriate.

>> Nobody in this country and maybe in the history of the country politically was worse than Bill Clinton with women. He was a disaster.
>> And Saturday.
>> Hillary Clinton's husband abused women more than any man that we know of in the history of politics, right? She's married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. She's married to a man who hurt many women. And Hillary, if you look and see study, Hillary hurt many women.

Transcript:

>> I sat down with trump at Omaha's airport on Friday just before a rally. I began by asking him what he plans to tell Paul Ryan when they meet face to face on Thursday.
>> I'm going to say look this is what the people want. I don't understand why he didn't -- most people have come out in favor. We've gotten tremendous endorsements over the last few period of time. Governor Perry even came out. He was very rough. He came out with a beautiful statement. A magnificent statement. I have had so much support. I have had support from all the people that Paul Ryan works with. I mean, you see the congressmen coming forward in waves right now. And, I'm actually a little surprised it's happening this quickly. Just about the -- I understand why a Jeb Bush or a Lindsey graham, I don't care. I was rough with him and beat him badly. 48 to 2 in his own state. And I understand that.

[9:05:09 AM]

But Paul Ryan --
>> You're saying he's going to have to come to you?
>> I'm going to come down the middle. I was very surprised and very disappointed, because, you know, you should be -- we have to be cheerleaders for the Republican party. We don't have to play cute.
>> That became the line of the weekend.
>> He called me three week ago. We couldn't have had a nicer conversation. It's great. We'll work together. Now he wants to be cute. We'll see.
>> As for Republicans who say they won't support or endorse them.
>> I don't want -- if somebody doesn't want to endorse, I don't want their endorsement. It's okay. I'm going to release nem.
>> Quite a list. Presidents George and George W. Bush. Mitt Romney. Lindsey graham and Jeb Bush.
>> I was rough with Jeb Bush. If I was him, I wouldn't vote for me either. They should do that.
>> Paul Ryan is the highest ranking elected Republican in the country right now. He's the chairman of the convention. Back in March, you said he would pay a price if he didn't get along with you. What is that price?
>> We're going to see what happens. He wants to meet. I think we're meeting on Thursday. We'll see what happens. It's just more drama. But I think it's a mistake not to do this. We want to Pring the party together. Does the party have to be together? Does it have to be unified? I'm very different than everybody else, perhaps, that's ever run for office. I don't think so.
>> It doesn't have to be unified?
>> I don't think so. It would be better. I don't think it has to be uninid the traditional sense. I'm going to do what I have to do. I have millions of people that voted for me because I have strong borders. I want strong trade. I want good trade. I want trade. I don't want to be an isolationist. What's happening with China, Japan, Mexico, they're just absolutely eating our lunch. It's a shame. It's terrible. I have to stay true to my principles also.

[9:07:10 AM]

I'm a conservative. Don't forget. This is called the Republican party. Not the conservative parties. There are conservative parties. I'm a conservative.
>> He swats away critics. Hillary Clinton is focused on locking in her base by playing the women's card.
>> He doesn't think much of equal pay for women. Because, of course, he doesn't think much for women, it turns out.
>> Trump digging in with this remarkable statement.
>> I mean, all of the men, we're petrified to speak to women anymore. The women get it better than we do, folks. They get it better than we do.
>> He's also up against the president.
>> Republican women voters are going to have to decide is that the guy I feel comfortable with in representing me? And what I care about?
>> I'll tell you what my reaction is. I won in mass I have doses and mass I have -- by massive number, New York, Pennsylvania, everything. I won overall. But I won women, with men, I won with older, I won with soldiers. I won with highly educated. And not so highly educated. I won with everybody.
>> You're not worried about Obama out there campaigning against you?
>> Hillary Clinton. The only thing she has going. She plays the woman card 100%. I saw her in a speech. Megyn Kelly was terrific. She called me and came up to my office. She wanted to make peace. And, we did. We did. I mean, it was very nice. Some of the stuff is said as, you know, an entertainer. Because I have "The apprentice." Some was said in fun with shows like "Hourld stern" you're a friend of mine.
>> You're not worried about the tapes of that coming back?
>> What am I going to do. What the politicians say behind the scenes make whatever I said jokingly to Howard and other people like baby stuff. What they say behind the keeps talking about everything is far worse than anything you have seen or will see about me.
And they act like, oh, that's so terrible. So terrible. I mean, you know, it's called give me a break. I watch Hillary Clinton like she's a baby. Look what happens with her family. I watch her, like, oh the way he talks to women. The way he talks to women. Well, take a look at her husband and what do you think he talks to women? So when I watch her, she's playing the woman's card so much. And so loud. And frankly, I think it's her only chance of getting elected. Listen, she's going to get -- she's going to get hit for it. Because it's not appropriate.
>> There was an article in "Gq" about your wife this week. You said spouses should be off the table. You're talking about bill Clinton. Should he be off the table as well?
>> If he's involved in the campaign, he shouldn't be. I think he gets involved when she plays the women's card. When she says Donald Trump was nasty to a woman. Number one, I have work sod well with women for so many years. I broke -- you talk about the glass ceiling. What I have done in terms of jobs for women. To this day, I have so many women in my company doing so well, making so much money. In many cases making more than men in comparable positions. But, no, if he's involved in the campaign, he should absolutely, he could be brought into it.
>> So -- fair game.
>> I think fair game, yeah. No, I think fair game.
>> As trump made clear Friday night.
>> Nobody in this country and maybe in the history of the country politically was worse than Bill Clinton with women. He was a disaster.
>> And Saturday.
>> Hillary Clinton's husband abused women more than any man that we know of in the history of politics, right? She's married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. She's married to a man who hurt many women. And Hillary, if you look and see study, Hillary hurt many women.

[9:11:16 AM]

>> To trump, the rules of the game are clear. If you're on the field, you get hit.
>> My wife was a very successful person. She did great. She was a successful model. Now she's a homemaker. She loves taking care of her son. She's a good woman. And people that are married to people like me, especially people like me, um -- I hope there are others out there, who knows? But, they get really hit unfairly by so many different articles and writers. And they're not looking to hurt them. They're looking to hurt me. She's a very good woman. A tremendous heart. Very, very charitable. And it's sort of unfair when they get treated nastily. Not so bad, but nastily.
>> Much more coming up.
>>> Let's break in with "The roundtable." Matthew dowd, Donna Brazile, Alex Castellanos, and rich Lowry. Katrina vanden heuvel. Let's start with Paul Ryan and Donald Trump.

Part 2:

>> President Obama urging scrutiny of all the candidates' ideas on Friday. Just as we were sitting down with Donald Trump. You say fixes the economy is the number one priority as president. Your tax plan is your most substantive and specific proposing out there. You said you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy, including yourself. But your plan gives a massive tax cut to the wealthy. How do you square that?
>> It gives a massive tax cut to everybody. If you look at Larry kudlow, he says it's a great plan. I make deals. I negotiate. I put in a plan that has a massive, massive -- bigger than any other candidate. We have to negotiate with congress. I'm not going to be able to say, like president Obama, let's do an executive order. You an't do it. You're not supposed to do it. Much of what he's done will be overturned by the courts. I'm putting in a plan, that's my maximum plan.
>> Do you want taxes on the wealthy to go up or down?
>> They will go up a little bit. And they may go up, you know --
>> But they're going down in your plan.
>> By the time it's negotiated, they'll go up.

[9:24:10 AM]

I'm negotiating with the Democrats, I'm putting in my optimum plan. It's going to be negotiated. They're going to say let's see what we can do. It will be a negotiation. I'll try to keep everything. What I really want is lower on business. Business, we're the highest taxed nation in the world. I want lower in the middle class. The middle class in this country is getting decimated. I'll fight like hell for that.
>> But people like me and you should pay more?
>> I don't mind paying more tax. I've done very well over the last ten years.
>> But under your plan, you pay less.
>> I'll be submitting something like what I did in term of concept. It's a concept, George. It's a concept. The real concept is lower taxes for business. Lower taxes for the middle class. Lower taxes for everybody. Then we'll start negotiating. I'm not going to put in high taxes or what I necessarily want. I'm going to put in lower than what I want. We'll negotiate.
>> In the end, will someone like me or Donald Trump pay more?
>> I think more. The middle class will pay less. I wouldn't mind paying more. Business will pay less. The middle class will pay less. The corporate inversion, what is going on is incredible. We have trillions outside the country. By not bringing it back in, that's --
>> It's something you'll negotiate with the Democrats.
>> On the trillions that are out there.
>> On the taxes on the wealthy. You're willing to pay more?
>> I am. The wealthy are willing to pay more. We've had a very god run. We hear about Obama. We have had a good run.
>> That would be a big change from your plan.
>> It's not a change. It's a negotiation. We have a lot of people that will be negotiating this.

[9:26:12 AM]

They don't do very well. The world -- if you look at the United States with tax plans. Not a lot happens. It just sort of stays the same. It's a quagmire. We're getting simplification. Lower rates. Masive simplification. Getting rid of carried interest. It won't make hedge fund people happy.
>> You're getting rid of the loophole. You're taxing it as regular income. It will go down from 23% to 15%.
>> By the time it gets negotiated, it will be a different plan. Like have my cards on the table. We're going submit the optimum. From a practical standpoint, it will get renegotiated. In my opinion, the taxes for the rich will go up some what.
>> Minimum wage. All through the primaries, you were against it. Now you're looking at it.
>> I think people have to get more.
>> That's change from the primaries.
>> I'm aloud to change. You need flexibility. Whether it's a tax plan, where you know you're going negotiate. We're going to come up with something. My real minimum wage is to bring companies back into the country. They'll make more than the $15. I've gone all over the country over the last -- really more the eight weeks than ever before.
>> Since last June.
>> I've gone over and seen factories just emptied. Beautiful factories, though now they're not so beautiful, because they're starting to crumble. But I've seen buildings that used to house thousands and thousands of people. They're empty. Upstate New York. Pennsylvania.
>> Carrier, Ford, apple. You want them to come back.
>> I don't want them to leave. They're not going to leave. We have to use the power of the tariff. The power of taxation. If we don't do that, we're foolish.
>> Don't you have to lead by example.

[9:28:13 AM]

So many of the products in the Donald J. Trump collection are made overseas.
>> That's because you can't buy them here. I want to buy television sets here. I buy thousands of television sets here. I buy thousands of sets. I cannot buy a television set many this country.
>> If you want other companies to make their products in America, shouldn't you make yours?
>> They don't make a lot of the products.
>> Shouldn't you lead by example?
>> George, I told you. They don't make this stuff here.
>> Brooks brothers does.
>> They don't make here. They don't make here. Not that I see. I make my hats. Make America great again. I said, you must get the hats because I knew the first question was, where are they made? People grab the hats and look. There are knockoffs from hundreds of companies. That hat is a successful thing. I said, I want all of this stuff for the campaign. I want it to be made here. It's made here. And I'm very happy about it. By the way, the quality of the hat is better than all of the other once.
>> President trump's in the oval office, he's T the head of carrier and apple there, they're saying to you, why aren't you making your products in America? Why don't I buy building materials here? I say make sure you buy it in the United States.
>> You don't think that undercuts your position?
>> I don't think it does at all. What I want to do and what I'm saying, I want apple, which is taking a big hit lately. People are starting to think why? I want's toll make its product in the United States. You know, if you think about it, you save all the shipping. You save a lot of costs. One of the problems we have is the devaluation of the currencies. Right here in Nebraska, so, they have a 30% tariff when they send out goods to China. 38%. Nobody knows that. I just found out about it. I said, when you send your goods, farm product, your goods to China, and the person was telling me.

[9:30:18 AM]

I spoke to the governor. Fantastic, by the way. The governor of Nebraska is fan fantastic. I said, why, that tariff is unbelievable. And Japan, it's 38%. And they send their cars over and you can check. And I'll guarantee you. It's probably zero. It's usually zero. It's a very low number. We have a double standard. It's not fair. It's going to be changed.
>> You raise a lot of eyebrows with your position in debt and treasury bills. You might try to repurchase that at a discount. Woept that undermine the full faith and credit of the united States?
>> No, that's a great thing. The budget was horrible that was made six months ago. The omnibus budget. It will bring us up to $21 trillion.
>> Who would sell to you at a discount?
>> Ifyou have inflation, you to slow things down. Right now, we have low interest rates. We have to rebuild the whole infrastructure of our country. I have gotten to know it better now. You go to airports, they're falling down. I mean, look at Laguardia. You land at la guard Ya, it's an embarrassment.
>> Interest rates are going to go up if you try to buy debt back at discounts.
>> People are large on -- you know China has $1.8 trillion of our debt. And they're cheating us. And they're friends of mine.
>> They're not going to sell to you at a discount.
>> You never know. You never know. You don't know that. At some point, they might want to get out. Maybe they need their money. When you can do it, when you can take advantage, you do that. You might want to issue new long-term debt at low interest rates. You may want to -- a combination of buy back debt and rebuild our infrastructure.

[9:32:25 AM]

We've spent more than $4 million in the Middle East.
>> Your foreign policy speech, you said you wanted to work closely with our Muslim allies to defeat ISIS.
>> Sure.
>> Don't you push them away with your plan to keep muslims from coming into the country.
>> Oh, if you do the ban. The ban is a temporary ban until we find out what is going upon the world trade center. San Bernardino. We can't go through this. Look at Germany, Sweden. A small section of Sweden is beyond out of control. We can't be the stupid people anymore. Right here in Nebraska, they're bringing in tremendous numbers of people. We don't know who these people are. We don't know where they're coming from. I would stop that immediately.
>> You're in the oval office. President trump is there. Will leaders of Jordan and Turkey, David Cameron, they all come the you. They say we can't help you with the fight against ISIS if the ban in place.
>> I does agree. We're not getting any help. If you look at the help, we're not getting help. They're saying boots on the ground, boots on the ground. We give them equipment, they run. They drop the equipment. I have a friend whose son has been years now, numerous terms in Iraq. An unbelievable young guy. I wanted to talk to him. They're very dispirited. The equipment that the American soldiers have is not as good as what the enemy has. The enemy takes over the equipment that the other once are using, our so-called allies are using and they drop it and run and run for their lives. The enemy picks up our equipment. 2,000 humvees, armor plated. We have stuff without armor-plate. He said it's really sad when the enemy has our equipment and it's better and newer than the stuff

Lauren Hendricks