Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on Trump's controversial NBC interview: immigration, economy, third-term

A revealing interview has taken place between US President Donald Trump and broadcaster NBC. 

He made headlines when talking about contentious issues such as the economy, immigration and the potential of seeing through a third-term. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold talks to Mike Hosking about the interview. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the States. There's Monday Morning, Richard Arnold, very good
morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, good Now.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
The Trump interview NBC said a lot of interesting stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Made a few headlines. Surprise Prise dealt with all the
contentious issues from the economy, to immigration and more. The
fate of the would be immigrants sent off to that
Salvador and torture prison is the lead item here because
those individuals were not given legal due process, have even
interviewed before they were put on the planes and sent
down there. This includes the Maryland man Mabrego Garcia, and

(00:29):
Trump was ridiculed the other day when he insisted that
Garcia was a gang member because he had the gang
letters the name of the gang MS thirteen tattooed on
his knuckles. You can see it in the photos, said Trump,
which led to endless jokes because what you see in
the photograph is photoshop printing of MS one to three
on the page by someone of the Trump team. It's

(00:50):
not on this man's body at all. Anyway, Trump now
is saying he does not know if he, as the
US president, needs to uphold the US Constitution when it
comes to legal due process. Reports at Christen Welker, asking
the question.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United
States present? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, when presidents are sworn in, that is the
oath that they take, they swear to uphold the United
States Constitution. But now, in response to the latest question,
he says, your Secretary of State says, everyone who's here,
citizens and non citizens, deserved to process. Do you agree, mister,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. Well, the Fifth Amendment,
I don't know. It seems it might say that, But
if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have
a million or two million or three minion trials.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well. On the tariff wars and the economy, Trump is
signaling his willingness maybe to lower China tariffs at some point,
and he says China is getting quite killed on the
trade front at the minute. As for the price hikes
that we're seeing business trains, especially among a lot of
small business and consumer something the figures here. He was
asked this, okay, in the short term, to have our lessons.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Look, yes, everything's okay. What we are I said, this
is a transition period. I think we're going to do
fantastically are you worried about a recession? No?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well. Trump also repeated his thing about children not needing,
say thirty dollars of toys for Christmas or birthdays or whatever,
but only two or three. And the same he said,
with children's strollers, where prices are going up, going up
a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
When I say strollers are going up, what kind of
a thing I'm saying that gasoline is going down? Gasoline
is thousands of times more important. There's strollers, some.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Point strollers and it's baby strollers. Not a big issue
unless you know you're having a baby, which is what
they've been advocating on other concerns. Trump says he will
be an eight year president in total, dismiss's talk bult
by himself of a potential third term. He fuelled it
just days ago, saying he was serious about it all
despite the twenty second Amendment of the Constitution barring any

(03:02):
third term.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
This is not something I'm looking to do. I'm looking
to have four great years.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
He also refused to rule out the possibility of military
action over Greenland, so that topic is back again.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Something could happen with Greenland. I'll be honest, We need
that for a national and international security. No, I think
it unlikely.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, he joked about this also just last week, and
now the Catholic Bishops of New yorker responding to his
comment he posted where he put up a picture of
himself on social media and on the White House website
dressed as the Pontiff. First, the Pope Catholic Bishops of

(03:41):
New York are responding saying, quote, there's nothing funny or
clever about that image that was posted also on the
President's Instagram account. The Archbishop of New York, Colonel Dolan,
says the image has made a quote bad impression of
the comedy show Snel also responded.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Last night, President Trump posted an AI generated an image
of himself as the Pope, apparently ordering a one way
ticket to Hell.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Sofa Mic, though no official word from the Vatican, we
will see.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
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Speaker 2 (04:10):
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