Donald Trump Talks Cruz, Clinton, Birthright Citizenship | Meet The Press | NBC News

mr. Trump welcome back to Meet the Press thank you lovely and cold Ottumwa Iowa cold but beautiful and there you go there you go this week's time how Trump won past tense almost you got out of the race today do you feel like you have won something no I really don't I think that the time article was incredibly well-written it was really I mean that is a good writer I will tell you that a professional but I feel that if I don't win all of it and I mean the presidency that I've wasted my time I know I've been given accolades for the job we've done and everything else is shifted the debate well especially being somewhat of a novice and I've been you know I've been people have said very nice things like Time magazine but I really feel that if I don't win I can't make the difference we're not going to bring back trade we're not gonna straighten out our military we're not gonna get rid of Obamacare and come up with a real health care plan and we're not going to straight but once it argued everybody's changed their messaging to try to copy you whether it's Cruz Rubio I mean everybody has taken a turn for tougher talk so you've had an impact already I'm wondering do you feel like you have won so far well I even saw Ted Cruz the other day just a few days ago saying we will build a wall I said where did that come from all of a sudden you know I mean these are things that are coming out and if you look at what's happened with the Muslims a lot of people are starting to say hey wait a minute Trump is sort of right we're gonna have to start looking at this because there's a lot of bad things you look at Philadelphia last night you look at all of these things that are happening and a lot of people are saying we have to study and we have to see what's going on we cannot destroy this incredible country of ours can't do it you know there's this running conventional wisdom about you with some in the establishment that now say okay he's here to save but if he doesn't win Iowa he'll leave meleave the race I'm not leaving I'm not leaving you and I had this discussion about two months ago where you said would you leave I was in number one I've been number one just about since I joined up right June 16th amazing we've had a lot of fun but you asked me that question I started talking about well maybe here maybe there if this happened was know maybe think there's no maybes there's no maybes I'm not leaving you're going straight to the comes all the way if I don't win or don't win but you know maybe that can happen but I'm leading every poll that's the idea that you might lose Iowa you could loosen I hope I went Iowa I've developed an amazing relationship with the people of Iowa you see it right outside we have a huge audience it sold out or it's always sold out I mean no matter where I go but I have an amazing relationship with evangelicals with the tea party with the people of Iowa and I hope I went on if I don't win I mean you know that can also happen and I right go right to New Hampshire where we're doing great I go right to South Carolina where we're doing great we go into Nevada where we're leading big and we go to the SEC where we're leading big but I would love to win Iowa I've spent a lot of time here right after this I'm making another stretch in a different part of Iowa with the Big Bopper and I'm sure that's right the big dollars right so we're spending a lot of time and I love the people and I think we're gonna do well in Iowa obviously your chief competitor is Ted Cruz you have brought up the Canadian citizenship issue but let me ask you your opinion do you believe he is constitutionally eligible I know the Supreme Court has never weighed in on the phrase natural-born citizen what does that mean would you yourself do you think he should be Ellis so what happens is I was watching Lawrence tribe of Harvard yesterday who's a constitutional expert one of the true experts and according to him it's a real question mark and he is the you know I would say he was is one of the great authorities on this subject he has a question mark and but didn't I say you have a question let me take from Ted standpoint and from the party standpoint he has to solve this problem because the Democrats will sue him if he's the nominee if Ted is the nominee he will be sued by the Democrats and according to one of the great lawyers of the country at Harvard with strong opinions on this the whole thing has not been to this matter as he said this matter has not been determined I understand it but I'm talking about your opinion I would say that I would want the Supreme Court to rule because they haven't ruled and when you listen to Lawrence tribe of Harvard say that it's a real question and a real problem look if Ted wins he's been very nice to me I've been very nice to him but if Ted wins he becomes the nominee he goes out they won he's gonna be sued by the other part I think it's between you and him at this point you buy the idea because right now almost everything all now it is one - no I don't personally think so I think other people could maybe sneak up I'm surprised at how badly some are doing I think that some are doing really badly that I thought would have done better and I think Ted's doing maybe better than I would have thought but right now we're 1 & 2 although Ted's not anywhere close to number 2 in New Hampshire if you look at that poll it's not even close to number 2 in New Hampshire but we'll have to see Ted and I are definitely number 1 and 2 in Iowa so that's where we are and we're gonna see how that and I happen yeah you know I happen to think that from my standpoint now politically I should say oh if I come in two or three or four or five in I would be very happy I'm I wouldn't be you're gonna be unhappy if you lose I would like to win Iowa okay and you're not gonna I say that with great you know with trepidation because this way if I come in number two and really do a good job gonna say hey look at you that's okay I would like to win Iowa but I think this I think Ted and I are close here but if you look at Ted in New Hampshire he's not doing well at all let me ask you about you said something about senator Cruz's weekend a CNN interview you said he was he was for amnesty that's a big charge what's the of all people to charge being for amnesty where's the evidence well number one he worked for Bush Bush was heavy for him but he would no no but he worked for him and he was heavy for amnesty and if you look at Rubio go after Rubio and Bush are both you know claiming each other was totally frenemy I understand honestly Marco has a lot of good points as to Ted's feeling on amnesty now Ted just switched his views on ethanol he was totally against ethanol now all of a sudden he's for it you know it's Iowa he's for it where are you enough know I've been in favor of ethanol on the flip side you're okay with this I'm okay with it I mean I like fuel I like fuel and ethanol is fuel and the people out here it's a very important subject but Ted switched and I think they feel very queasy about that look Ted will switch opinions and I think that's fine and in the world you know you have to have a certain for changes a lot of you know I've changed opinions over the years I mean we change but it'll be very interesting to see what happens I well I'll tell you one thing I am really looking to February 1st it's gonna be very exciting ask senator Rubio sponsored a bill back in Florida back when he was in State House to give in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants there's a lot of states that allow in-state tuition for the children of undocumented immigrants I've not heard your position on that I'm opposed to it totally opposed they're here they're not they're not here legally I'm not even good for knit and you born to illegalize well I happen to disagree with the whole concept of anchor babies I mean you look at anchor baby that's in the Constitution no it's not in the Constitution if you read and if you look and if you go to the real scholars like different people that I can give you they will tell you somebody comes over and they have a baby on our border and it happens to be on this side of the border we're not mandated to take care of that baby you do not have to change the constitution you may you may need a a vote in Congress but you don't have to change now there's a you know debate about that I don't think it's even close and I've been on this issue for a long time no no people have to come into our country legally jump they have to be here legally you've had two wives that were immigrants by the way they both went through a long under your systems would they would they still be able to get in there sure they would okay I want people to come into the country legally I want great people to come into the country legally and the ones that are here right now and we have some really bad dudes right here you know the gangs in lausanne you take a look at some of those gangs a lot of those gangs are illegal immigrants and it's supposed to be here and they are rough and cookies and you know the police in our country they have been just absolutely undermined they know all those people they're gonna get them out fast and we're gonna get the bad ones out you look at Chicago you look at different places where we have the gangs they're gonna get them out fast if I guess how do you decide if someone's a Muslim when you're doing this test there's got to be some couch in Memphis because you're taking somebody's work I'm not taking somebody that's my point and if somebody really wants to do damage they're gonna lie and cheat in hell and sneak into this country this has become a very big factor over the last and we can have two weeks since I made my announcement that we have to see what the hell is going on in the meantime the other night you have a cop shot in Philadelphia with a gun put to his head and you know the chance and the rantings and the ravings you look at the two Iraqis that came in in Houston and Los Angeles you see what's happening there you're looking at a lot of bad things are happening right now now you're looking at Cologne Germany you take a look at Cologne Germany and Chuck how do you do it though I get it or do you just say you know what you do it geographically you don't even do a religious session to it people come in if they're business people if they're proven but we have to find out what the problem is there is a hell of a problem here people can say whatever they want there's a problem take a look at Brussels I've been to Brussels I was there 25 years ago one of the most incredible places take a look at Paris here's a story so a photographer from Paris one of the great in the world is taking pictures of my wife for a magazine this was just a couple of days ago one of the greatest photographers in the world lives in Paris and she said Oh mr. Trump it's so sad what happened it's so dangerous it's so sad it's so sad telling me the stories then other people from Paris are told that know her are telling me the same stories Chuck there's a problem we've got to get to the bottom of the problem we've got to find out what's going on now we can be politically correct and never discuss it but we can't let that happen to our country let me get some news of the week China clearly its economy they're havin they're havin a problem they're having a crisis there you have railed that china is beatin America and yet they're killing us okay we're on our best two-year job creation streak in 20 years China is cratering our stock market for the problems they have at home how is that the definition of China winning in America take a look at our JDP take a look at our GDP and if you look at that if you look at our productivity if you look at the fact that people in ten years essentially haven't had a raise our people are going down instead of up the jobs a lot of temporary jobs people are working temporary jobs and jobs that they don't want instead of jobs our economy is doing horribly and you take a look at that jobs report the jobs report is fiction because all of the people that gave a little fiction know there's been improvements on the crash obviously I would say it's 90% if we all have improvements from crashes and we had a prey we had somewhat of a crash wooded of straighten itself out would have straighten itself out we had somewhat of a crash but listen Chuck you have 60 70 80 million people out there that want to work that aren't getting jobs when people give up on looking for a job they're essentially statistically considered to be employed despite China's economic crisis and they're facing right now what do you make of what do you make of what's going on I had two of the richest people in the world in my office yesterday from China yeah and what did they tell you you know what they were here for it to pick up Rand new Jets they Bourget say but what did they tell you what's going on they tell me Chinese absolutely fine it's having a digestion problem I said what's the digestion said buying so much and doing so much business with the United States and other places that's what it is they are having a digestion now listen to this China's going up six and a half percent if we won a six and a half percent we have the strongest country will be the strongest we've ever had we're not gonna hit two percent probably China is going up six and a half percent and because of that people are worried that they're not doing well we don't get two percent so China's gonna be just fine they manipulate their currency they will manipulate it again they will lower their currency they will get more business coming in they will be fine and we will be hurt in 1999 on this very program you were asked about North Korean at the time you were open to a preemptive strike on their potential and the facilities that they were working on on nukes where are you today considering what this happened in North Korea so I would like to see China take care of North Korea because China has very strong control over them don't let them tell you they don't and you know they go around saying well we don't really have that this is an American problem do you think this should be a channel I want it to be American problem because ultimately nukes are everybody's problem all right and frankly it's a Japanese problem and it's a South Korea problem and one of the things we have to do is we have to have South Korea and Germany and Japan and all of these countries that we essentially protect we protect them they have to start paying they have to start paying I know you've said this before how does that work you're basically in a sensible police you want to be you want to be in the nuclear umbrella it is awesome I necklace they are is that right if you want to be in America's nail broke anomic Dimas Germany mercedes-benz all the stuff they make tremendous amounts of money of course she's destroying Germany with what she's done with the migration what she has done is unbelievable what she has done to Germany is unchi referring to Angela Merkel exactly because unbelievable but Germany Japan South Korea we have 28,000 soldiers on the line in South Korea between the madman and then we get practically nothing compared to the cost of this why are we doing this when I buy televisions when I buy a lot of different products I have to buy them in South Korea because they don't make them here anymore I mean they virtually don't make television sets in the United States anymore they make a fortune they're a very wealthy country we're a very poor country you're basically so with these countries you're gonna basically say if you want our military protection you're gonna have to do better with trade deals they have to take care of our military they give us very little we're paying we are paying to take care of all these countries you know when you hear that we have we spend more money by many times than other countries part of the money we spend is we're protecting everybody and we're not getting very much for it take a look at Saudi Arabia they were making before the Euro went down so maybe they make if they were on a billion dollars well think of it they were making a billion dollars a day they pay us peanuts to protect them and without our Saudi Arabia wouldn't be there so we have to get smart we owe 19 trillion dollars Chuck 19 trillion dollars it's gonna be now 21 20 inversion because of the stupid budget deal was just made which is shocking that the Republicans agreed to that deal shocking but we're gonna be a 21 trillion dollars in debt we have to get smart and when we protect Germany and South Korea and Japan and you know what they'll do it they'll do it my brother you have to have the right you just write about it the the spending deal you have said you've thought you think President Obama is a terrible negotiator except when it comes to deal with the Republican assay he seems to no no I well I'm glad you were gonna say that yeah that's what I'm asking like who know I said the other day bad negotiator then why did the Republicans they say news Obama is one of the worst negotiators I've ever seen and everything except when it comes to deal with the because it's unbelievable the Republicans fold every single time they don't get this last budget was terrible but you look at the Iran deal you look at these deals I always bring up Bergdorf we get a traitor they get five people that they've wanted for nine years and they're back on the battlefield trying to kill everybody including us and we get a dirty rotten traitor so let me just tell you that's the way that's the kind of deals we make the Iran deal we give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars we get nothing no way don't even get up a ship's back they just ship the uranium out though I mean they're living up to the deal and where do they ship it to Russia well you trust Putin well I trust him more than some people I was just gonna say you you I can tell you that well what kind of a deal is that even that they're shipping it to Russia right well what are they shipping at us why aren't we getting it they're shipping it to Russia I don't like that you don't like that at all no no I'd like them to ship it to us it's our deal so they get a hundred and fifty billion dollars we don't even get our prisoners back they have twenty four day periods too and by the way the people don't know the twenty-four days doesn't start until a whole procedure takes place that 24 day can be a long wait happily right they're so hard to right wipe away nuclear material in 24 days I don't know that and you don't know that scientists Ellis how about their rights of self inspection do you think that the Iranians are gonna give us good self inspection I don't all right let me get you but but with the Republicans Obama's a great negotiator well maybe it won't be a great negotiator with me if he was there but he won't be there let me get you on on what you've been saying you you've said you're willing to bring up Bill Clinton's past with women if Hillary Clinton attacks you for being a sexist so is that a threat to her is that essentially what you're saying is hey you want me to go down that road you go down that road I go down this road is this sort of public where I say it's a threat what is a threat but it is a threat of course I mean I can call it a nicer name yeah she was saying he has tendencies toward being sexist talking about hell about me and I said wait a minute she's married to an abuser a woman claimed rape and all sorts of things I mean of all things you read the book do you know though if you bring it up people gonna bring up yours it's okay I mean your first divorce was uh number one in all over the town you know what I wasn't the President of the United States and I wasn't dealing in the Oval Office all right a big difference I wasn't the president and my first wife thinks I'm great and my second wife might and I have a great marriage I mean I have a great marriage so I mean it's fine I'm not saying don't bring anything up with me but when she says that I had to bring it up and by the way they've become very unresponsive since then no they have and I just won the Fox poll against her even I'm up substantially over Hillary and the Fox as you know people call you a lot of names some of its positive some of its negative I want to throw somebody let's see some people are calling you the music man of this race Kim Kardashian Biff from Back to the Future George Costanza PT Barnum what any of those do you consider a compliment or DT Barnum you'll take the PT Barnum look people call you names we need PT Barnum a little bit because we have to build up the image of our country we have to be a cheerleader for a country we don't have a cheerleader I thought Obama when he got elected would be a good cheerleader that's the one thing I said I said he'll be a you know he'll unify in the country whether it's African American and white and you know he'll unify he's not unifying it's he's been a great divider on top of that very big he's been the divider what about the Republican Party I don't think they've no no I think you don't think this has been a two-way street he hasn't brought us together he hasn't that's on hand on both parties I think it's on everybody but he's the leader he's the leader he could have been a great cheerleader and he hasn't been and that's too bad what do you tell conservatives about 90s Trump you like the Clintons you were pro-choice you were even for some gun control you wondered why the NRA would be for some limitations some restrictions 2016 Trump you you're not that guy well I have changed anyways it's a just you know what is it what's the change what she could Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was a somewhat limb or liberal Democrat you know Ronald Reagan was a Democrat and he became a fairly conservative not overly but a fairly conservative Republican and as he grew older and I've seen things and I've watched things I mean like with guns in Paris or if in California recently were the fourteen people that were killed and probably others to follow in terms of that group because you have some people that are very very badly wounded and in Paris you have some people there um but Paris is like you can't have guns in France you can't have guns if in Paris they had guns if in California on the other side where the bullets go both ways not just in one direction right you wouldn't have had the kind of carnage that you've had what what should be the restrictions on purchasing guns well first of all where are you on this background check first of where everybody said well there's a lot of language right now that the federal government has not taken advantage of I mean you know that there's tremendous language right now stuff that's already been passed and it was passed the old-fashioned way where people actually agreed to it one of the problems I have with what Obama did is he's always signing executive orders right he doesn't bring people into his office you're gonna sign Excel are you gonna refuse to do executive orders as president I won't refuse it I won't reveal a lot of right things well I mean he's led the way to be honest with you what he's done on immigration when he signed those papers now fortunately the courts all of a sudden have done a little bit of a termination we'll see what happens but one of the beautiful things about executive orders from my standpoint is if I get elected many of those executive orders that he signed the first day they're gonna be unsafe I understand that but you're willing to use them to yourself final final question because I know you get these are much better as I want to be and they're gonna serve a much better purpose than what he's done on Tuesday we're gonna hear the president say the state of our union is in some words strong vibrant all this stuff what would you say a 1 year from now it could be you giving this speech to Congress a version of it we don't call it the State of the Union and the first one but a joint session speech how would you describe the State of the Union now or in a year I think now it's a mess our military go up there same state of our union is Amanda I would say that you're asking me together for an opinion Obama will say what he's going to say but I think right now this of our union is a mess we can't beat Isis our military is falling back it's not being properly taken care of our vets aren't being properly taken care of Obamacare as you know is going to fail very soon and probably in 17 our health care we don't have borders we don't have anything I think if I'm there in two years and I'm making a speech I say we're getting better fast and in that first speech to Congress you're gonna lay out your first hundred days agenda what are those four issues that I want to build our military bigger and better and stronger than I'll be a number that's number one I want to take care of our veterans I want to take care of them being taking care of horribly I want to fix our health care system I want to create borders so that we have a country because right now we don't have a country we have borders where people just walk across and do whatever they want to do and then they have babies and the babies become citizens and we have to take care of them we're gonna do many many things that we're gonna make America great again that's what I want to do I thought there was one more question was asked you the billionaire's there's a bunch of billionaires around the world Zuckerberg has signed on on this idea they want to basically give away most more than half of their wealth in some point to philanthropic projects Carl Icahn is a guy who's signed on to this good friend of yours right that's I mean good friend of yours have you thought about I'm sure people have asked you to sign this or less giving play what why haven't you done well so farm a little bit old-fashioned I have wonderful children who are doing a wonderful job and I believe in that and we employ thousands and thousands of people and I like the concept of keeping the company going as opposed to selling everything and giving it away so right now I mean perhaps I shouldn't be saying this but I'm of the old school I'd like to see my children take this great company that I've built and it is a great company and I'd like to see it go on for a long time creating jobs lots of money pay lots of taxes give lots of money away I'd make lots of big contributions I like that better all right mr. Trump until we meet again thank you thank you sir Thank You Chuck NBC News fans thanks for checking out our youtube channel subscribe by clicking on that button down here and then click on any of the videos over here to watch the latest interviews show highlights and little exclusives thanks for watching

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Length: 24min 11sec (1451 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2016

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I like how all news anchors stopped asking bullshit questions after they always kept verbally losing to Trump with them.

Great interview.