Earlier today, while attending Davos, President Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. The primary topic was trade and economics with additional insight around the impeachment fiasco and some current events.
Unfortunately Ms. Bartiromo did not ask if President Trump remembered there were documents he was going to declassify.
Day one recap: A series of 11 rules amendments were offered by Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Each proposal was defeated individually during 13 hours of arguments and debate. The final rules package, which passed 53-47 at 01:45am this morning, is almost identical to the original draft presented by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The only change was spreading the 24hrs over three days instead of two.
There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers (over 3 days); 24 hours of presentation by Defense team (over 3 days); 16 hours of Senate questioning; 4 hours of closing arguments, equally divided; and then a Senate debate/vote on further motions to include witnesses. If there are going to be witnesses, they will first be deposed prior to testimony. No witness testimony will be permitted without first being deposed.
The Senate Trial Begins again today at 1:00pm EST, starting with opening arguments by the House Impeachment Managers.
PBS Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream Link – Fox Business – CSPAN Link
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President Trump begins day #2 in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
The U.S. Delegation includes: Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin; Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross; Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia; Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao; U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer; Under Secretary for Growth, Energy and Environment (DoS), Keith Krach; Asst to the President, Ivanka Trump; Asst. to the President, Jared Kushner; and Asst. to the President / Deputy for Policy Coordination, Christopher Liddell.
Schedule below:
♦ 3:05am EST / 9:05am Local – THE PRESIDENT departs the hotel Location en route to Davos Congress Centre, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 3:15am EST / 9:15am Local – THE PRESIDENT arrives at Davos Congress Centre, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 3:20am EST / 9:20am Local – THE PRESIDENT has breakfast with American Chief Executive Officers and Business Leaders, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 4:50am EST / 10:50am Local – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 5:30am EST / 11:30am Local – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with Dr. Barham Salih the President of the Republic of Iraq, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 6:05am EST / 12:05pm Local – THE PRESIDENT departs Davos Congress Centre en route to InterContinental Davos Landing Zone, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 6:15am EST / 12:15pm Local – THE PRESIDENT arrives at InterContinental Davos Landing Zone, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 6:25am EST / 12:25pm Local – THE PRESIDENT departs Davos, Switzerland, en route to Zurich, Switzerland, Davos, Switzerland
♦ 7:10am EST / 1:10pm Local – THE PRESIDENT arrives at Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland
♦ 7:20am EST / 1:20pm Local – THE PRESIDENT departs Zurich, Switzerland, en route to Washington, D.C., Davos, Switzerland
♦ 4:50pm EST – THE PRESIDENT arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Joint Base Andrews
♦ 5:00pm EST – THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House, Joint Base Andrews
♦ 5:10pm EST – THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House, South Lawn, Washington DC
~ Day Two Concludes ~
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President Trump and the U.S. delegation participate in a dinner during the Davos, World Economic Forum, with international business leaders. [Video and Transcript]
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[Transcript] – PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody. And a man who is highly respected and a great — formerly great athlete, at least — (laughter) — in my opinion, he’s a great athlete. Johnny, please. Go ahead.
MR. INFANTINO: Thanks. Do I stand or do I sit?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Whoa, I like that. (Laughter.) (A soccer ball is presented.)
You can stand or sit.
MR. INFANTINO: I stand. I stand. I stand.
I brought this ball, dear President, ladies and gentlemen, just to remind everyone what the real priorities of life are — (laughter) — for certainly billions of people all around the world.
So, if I have a couple of minutes, you might wonder why the President of FIFA is introducing the President of the United States of America tonight. But, actually, it’s not that far away. I’ve been told, President, by somebody of your staff — I don’t say who — that today I am the second-most important man in Davos. (Laughter.) That’s obviously not true. (Laughter.) You are all much more important, but it’s nice to hear.
On the other side, there are at least three main reasons why it is the right thing that the President of FIFA tonight is introducing the President of the United States.
The first one is the power of football — or soccer, as you call it in North America. Soccer is much more than a game; you all know it. It’s — 4 billion people watched the World Cup, the last World Cup. It’s 1.2 billion people around the world who watched the last women’s World Cup, won by the United States. Congratulations for that.
It is $200 billion generated all over the world in a year. It is 1.5 million jobs created in Russia for the last World Cup in 2018. It’s much more than that, though, because it is more than just economy; it gives joy and it gives hope to millions and millions of people all over the world.
And that’s what we have to do: We have to give joy and hope. We have to give optimism. And there is this good thing about football that when you win a game, you are in a good mood; when you lose a game, you’re in a bad mood, but just for a little while. Then you concentrate on the next game that you want to win. And that’s the first reason.
The second reason is the United States and soccer. And I have to inform you that the United States is on the verge of becoming the soccer power in the world. You don’t know it yet, but it’s coming faster than you think. We will organize the World Cup — the FIFA World Cup — in 2026, in North America. And President Trump has been in this venture from the very beginning. He wanted it to be organized, together with Canada and Mexico, in prelude of the great trade agreement that you just signed last week. So, soccer is in advance of trade as well.
And if — I don’t know, in Italy, 250,000 jobs are created with soccer. In Spain, 185,000 jobs. In the U.S., President, in a view of the World Cup 2026, we have to create at least 1 million jobs for American citizens involved in soccer.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
MR. INFANTINO: And the third reason, President, is yourself. President Trump is definitely a sportsman. I am lucky enough in my life to come across some of the most talented athletes in soccer. And President Trump is made of the same sort of fiber. He is a competitor. He wants to compete, he wants to win. He wants to show who is the best.
He says actually what many think, but more importantly, he does, then, what he says. And this brings — and you mentioned this morning, President — this brings the American Dream to reality. Now, the American Dream is something that not only Americans need to have. The American Dream is something that we all need to have — all those who love soccer, the 4 billion people around the world. We all need to dream this dream. And I’m sure that with your help, President, with your contribution and with the contribution of all of you here, we’ll make sure the American Dream becomes a reality not only in America, as we have seen, but all over the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America. (Applause.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much, Johnny. Thank you.
So, this is great, and we appreciate this. This is a very beautiful, good-looking ball. (Laughter.) (Inaudible.)
It’s an honor to be involved with bringing the World Cup to the United States. I was involved as President-elect and even a little bit before that. But they called and they said, “Could you help?” And through yourself and your people, you chose the United States. And we’re also bringing some games to Mexico and bringing some games to Canada. And that’ll be tremendous. But I really appreciate it.
And I appreciate your steadfast movement. You just didn’t stop. You wanted to have it there, and I wanted to have it there, and we really did it before we came to office. Before I got into office, we did that one. But it’s going to be very exciting. You know, we have the Olympics coming — which I was very involved in — in ’28. So between the World Cup and the Olympics, that’s going to be very exciting. We have plenty of other good things.
But I want to thank you very much. You’ve been my great friend, and it’s an honor.
MR. INFANTINO: Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Around the table tonight, we have the greatest businessmen in the world — names that I know very well but faces that I know very well, usually from looking at business publications for many years. And I thought what we’d do is just quickly go around the room, and you could introduce yourself and the name of your company. These people, we keep them down to a minimum. We could have had hundreds and hundreds, but we kept it down to a minimum, out of respect for you.
But I thought you may go down and just introduce yourselves and where you’re from, a little bit about your company. Or, if you want to say something, this is a great time to promote what you want to promote. (Laughter.)
And you have been terrific. Congratulations. We’ll start with you. Thank you, Patrice.
MR. MOTSEPE: Thank you. We do business in 50 countries. I had the honor of being one of the hundred greatest business minds, Forbes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s right.
MR. MOTSEPE: And it’s a great honor to be with you. And all I wanted to say is that Africa loves America. Africa loves you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. That’s an honor. Thank you.
MR. MOTSEPE: And it’s very, very important. We want America to do well. We want you to do well. And the success of America is a success of the rest of the world.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
MR. MOTSEPE: We are in mining, financial services, property, real estate, technology. Very diversified. It’s a great honor to be here. Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You’ve done a great job. Thank you very much.
MR. MOTSEPE: Thank you, President.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Please. Please.
MR. PILLAY: Mr. President, thank you for the invitation. I’m Dilhan Pillay. I’m the CEO of Temasek International. It’s owned by the Singapore government, but it’s run independently. We have some $235 billion of assets. Our companies that we control have about $100 billion of revenue, and we operate all over the world. The United States has been the largest recipient of our capital in the last five years. Since we opened up an office in the U.S. — we now have three offices in the U.S. — and we will continue to be largest (inaudible) company, primarily in (inaudible) of innovation (inaudible) in U.S.
So we continue to look toward investing in the United States, primarily through (inaudible).
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And that’s one of the reasons I’m here. Billions and billions of dollars is now coming back to the United States, and auto companies that made commitments that they’ll be announcing. But billions of dollars is coming back to the United States. We appreciate that. Thank you.
Please. Larry? You know — we all know Larry. Larry Kudlow.
MR. KUDLOW: I’m Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council, and has the great honor to work for President Trump.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you, Larry. Great job. How’s the economy going? Okay?
MR. KUDLOW: Pretty darn good, sir. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Okay. He gave us the right answer. Please.
MR. EKHOLM: So I’m Börje Ekholm, Ericsson. And it’s all about 5G. And this is a 5G phone, with a commercial network in Switzerland with our equipment. So Swisscom is one of the first that launched globally. Of course, United States is our biggest market —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
MR. EKHOLM: — most important market. And what I would wish for is that the United States leads the development of 5G. That requires a couple of things.
So if I can bring that up, and —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Go ahead, please.
MR. EKHOLM: Spectrum — freeing up the C-Band really quickly; it’s going to be critical. Permitting processes still takes two years. Networks running out of capacity — it happens globally; it happens here as well. It happens everywhere. And then, permitting process is a real restriction.
And the last one is actually the lack of power (inaudible). We need to really invest in building the capabilities to actually roll out the network.
When that happens, we will have — the United States will have a strong platform for innovation in 5G. And 5G, as the President well knows, is a consumer play, but it’s also an enterprise platform.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And a military play, too. Very important, militarily.
So, Ericsson has done a great job with 5G. And we’re working with your company, as you know. We’re bringing down the time periods. And spectrum, we’re opening it up. We have Department of State, we have Commerce, and we have the military. So we’re opening it all up. So we’ll be — we’re in very good shape.
I think we’re far advanced, much further than people understand. We got off to a very late start before I got here. But once I got here, we’ve really caught up. So thank you very much. Congratulations. Great company.
MR. EKHOLM: Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
MR. EKHOLM: We’re opening the factory in Texas very shortly.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, good. (Laughter.) I heard that. That’s great. That’s great.
MR. EKHOLM: (Inaudible.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We’ll see you at the opening.
MR. AL MAHMOUD: Mr. President, my name is Mansoor Al Mahmoud, the CEO of QIA. We invest for the future generation, for a time beyond the hydrocarbon era. We have been investing in the U.S. Eighty percent of our pipeline goes to the U.S. market because the economy is doing very well.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Great.
MR. AL MAHMOUD: So we’re hoping that we build a portfolio in a global basis.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s great. So you’ve made about 80 percent since I took office. So you happy to — (laughter) — you’re very happy.
MR. AL MAHMOUD: Oh, yeah.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: He’s invested here. And if he invested badly, he’s about 80 percent up. That’s if you’ve done badly, and I know you never do badly. (Laughter.) Okay, thank you.
MR. YOSHIDA: My name is Ken Yoshida, from Sony. This year is 60th anniversary where — after we started business in United States, and 50 years’ anniversary of listing on New York Stock Exchange. So we have a quite a long history in the United States.
One more thing is, I’ve been the CEO of this company 21 months. And this month, I was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Abe. And that’s going to be my first time. And I believe, Mr. President, you have met him face to face probably 15 times.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: A lot.
MR. YOSHIDA: So good (inaudible) are very important for us. Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, he is a great gentleman doing a great job. Thank you very much.
MR. SURI: Mr. President, good evening. I’m Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia. We’re a 155-year-old company. We have about $25 billion in value. We also do 5G, and so U.S. is our strongest market. We have about 11,000 people there. That’s one of our largest countries, by way of head count. We do a lot of research and development in California, in Chicago. And, of course, we have the famed Bell Labs — Nokia Bell Labs in New Jersey as well.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And you’re doing very well and advanced with 5G, so that’s really great.
MR. SURI: Yes, absolutely. Yes.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And we’re giving you a lot of business.
MR. SURI: You are, indeed.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you.
MR. LIDDELL: Sir, Chris Liddell. I have the honor to serve the President as Deputy Chief of Staff. Thank you.
AMBASSADOR MCMULLEN: I am Ed McMullen, and I have the great honor to be the President’s Ambassador to Switzerland and to Liechtenstein.
DR. REINHARDT: Good evening, Mr. President. My name is Joerg Reinhardt. I’m the chairman of Novartis. We are active in more than 100 countries in the world, but our biggest footprint is in the U.S. We have around 15,000 people in the U.S. and a number of production plants.
We made, just recently, a number of acquisitions. And we are probably one of the more innovative companies in the pharmaceutical field. And we are happy to say that gene therapy and cell therapy — two really new technologies — were first approved in the U.S., and we are happy to continue to bring real innovation to American people.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: A lot of great progress being made, I know that. Thank you very much.
DR. REINHARDT: Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Keep those prices down, please. (Laughter.)
MR. BASTAKI: Good evening, Mr. President. My name is Farouk Bastaki. I’m the head of Kuwait Investment Authority. We started — we have the oldest sovereign wealth fund in the world; it started in 1953. And since then, we’ve been investing in the United States, and we’ve been doing very well. So thank you very much.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, thank you very much. And you know what they can do? They can bring out the dinner, we’ll keep going, and if the press would like to have dinner, we’ll serve you after we’re finished. (Laughter.)
Yeah, bring out the dinner, please. Go ahead.
MR. VAN BEURDEN: Mr. President, Ben van Beurden, Royal Dutch Shell. We have been in your country for more than a century. We operate in every state of the country. At any one year, we invest, on average, $10 billion in your country. So we have a big thing going on all the time.
You visited our facility in Pennsylvania, the (inaudible) Petrochemicals Complex. And, very kindly, Mr. President, just after, Secretary Mnuchin helped out with some of the issues that we had to bring steel into the country, for which we are very grateful.
We are, of course, a player in the whole spectrum — in oil and gas, onshore, offshore, petrochemicals, but increasingly, also renewables, Mr. President — in solar, wind, and other technologies that we bring.
Maybe not well known, but we are probably the largest or definitely one of the largest (inaudible) that we bring from the United States.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is attempting to rescue two legally and structurally deficient articles of impeachment rushed from the Lawfare community in the House of representatives. However, in his first effort to introduce new documents and force the Trump administration to hand over new executive branch information, related to President Trump foreign policy decisions and delayed foreign aid to Ukraine, the Schumer amendment was defeated.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to table the amendment, dismissing the request, and won a floor vote as all republican senators stayed united 53-47.
It is anticipated that Schumer will next move for another amendment making the same request for new State Department documents the House committees did not seek.
The primary reason Chuck Schumer has to make this ridiculous effort for more evidence, is how the House never established their ability to enforce subpoenas via “Judicial Enforcement Authority”. The failure of a full House vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to pursue evidence -via enforceable subpoenas- was a defect by design of Nancy Pelosi’s decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry by her decree, not an authorizing vote.
CTH noted this structural issue last August, and the issue remained throughout the heavily manipulated proceedings. None of the House requests for testimony or documents held any enforcement authority because the House did not follow the constitutional process.
The House was not issuing subpoenas, it was issuing letters requesting voluntary witness participation and document production. Recently the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel explained this issue in a lengthy legal finding that leads to the same conclusion.
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BACKSTORY – Last year House Democrat leadership took a climate assessment of democrat House members and Speaker Pelosi announced they would not hold a House impeachment authorization vote. As a direct and specific consequence all committee subpoenas did not carry a penalty for non-compliance.
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“Lawful subpoenas”, literally require an enforcement mechanism; that’s the “poena” part of the word. The enforcement mechanism is a judicial penalty, and that penalty can only be created if the full House voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry, and charged the House Judiciary Committee with the authority therein.
Absent the vote to authorize, the Legislative Branch never established compulsion authority (aka judicial enforcement authority), as they attempted to work through their quasi-constitutional “impeachment inquiry” process.
Instead of subpoenas, Adam Schiff (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence); and Chairman Eliot L. Engel (House Committee on Foreign Affairs) were only sending out request letters. The compliance was discretionary based on the outlook of the recipient.
Nancy Pelosi did not have the vote or political capital to start by initiating a full House impeachment authorization. Pelosi, Schiff, Engel and Cummings had to rely on the duplicity of the media to help them hide their scheme; and the media complied.
Speaker Pelosi & Lawfare’s impeachment scheme could only succeed with a compliant media protecting it. The media was entirely compliant in not explaining the fraudulent basis for the construct.
If the media would have ever asked questions the fraud would have collapsed.
Adam Schiff had to hide his hearings because the foundation of the impeachment fraud was to create a public impression. There was no structural impeachment process or guideline being followed. The committee leadership used the closed door hearings to leak information to the media to create a needed narrative.
A legislative “letter” or demand request needed to carry judicial enforcement authority –A PENALTY– in order to be a “subpoena”.
There was no penalty that can be associated with the House demands because the Legislative Branch did not established compulsion authority (aka judicial enforcement authority), as they worked through their non-constitutional “impeachment inquiry” process.
It has long been established by SCOTUS that Congress has lawful (judicial authority) subpoena powers pursuant to its implied responsibility of legislative oversight. However, that only applies to the powers enumerated in A1§8. Neither foreign policy (Ukraine) nor impeachment have any nexus to A1§8. The customary Legislative Branch subpoena power is limited to their legislative purpose.
There is an elevated level of subpoena, a power made possible by SCOTUS precedent, that carries inherent penalties for non-compliance, and is specifically allowed for impeachment investigations. However, that level of elevated House authority required a full House authorization vote, and only applies to the House Judiciary Committee as empowered.
In 2019 the Legislative Branch was NOT expressing their “impeachment authority” as part of the Legislative Branch purpose. So that raised the issue of an entirely different type of subpoena:… A demand from congress that penetrates the constitutional separation of powers; and further penetrates the legal authority of Executive Branch executive privilege.
It was separately established by SCOTUS during the Nixon impeachment investigation that *IF* the full House votes to have the Judiciary Committee commence an impeachment investigation, then the Judiciary Committee has subpoena power that can overcome executive privilege claims.
There was NO VOTE to create that level of subpoena power.
As a consequence, the House did not create a process to penetrate the constitutionally inherent separation of powers, and/or, the legally recognized firewall known as ‘executive privilege’.
The House needed to vote to authorize the committee impeachment investigation, and through that process the committee would have gained judicial enforcement authority. That would have created a penalty for non-compliance with an impeachment subpoena.
Absent a penalty for non-compliance, which factually makes a subpoena a ‘subpoena’, the Executive Branch had no process to engage an appellate review by federal courts. This was the purposeful trick within the Pelosi/Lawfare road-map.
Pelosi and Lawfare’s plan was designed for public consumption; she/they were creating the illusion of something that did not exist. The purpose of all their fraudulent impeachment activity was to create support for an actual impeachment process.
Because the Lawfare/Pelosi roadmap intended to work around judicial enforcement authority, the impeachment process was destined by design to end up running head-first into a constitutional problem; specifically separation of power and executive privilege.
The Lawfare impeachment road-map was designed to conflict with the constitution. It was a necessary -and unavoidable- feature of their sketchy impeachment plan, not a flaw.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Lawfare allies changed House rules (SEE HERE). Pelosi and Lawfare changed House impeachment rules (SEE HERE). Pelosi/Lawfare changed committee rules (SEE HERE); and in doing so they removed House republicans from the entire process… Which They Did. However, what Lawfare and Pelosi could not change was The U.S. Constitution, which they were destined to collide with.
Speaker Pelosi’s ‘Lawfare House rules‘ and/or ‘Lawfare impeachment rules‘ could not supersede the constitutional separation of powers. She was well aware of this. Nancy Pelosi could not decree an “official impeachment inquiry”, and as a consequence nullify a constitutional firewall between the Legislative Branch and Executive Branch.
Pelosi’s impeachment scheme required a compliant media to support her construct…
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President Trump participates in the third bilateral meeting of the Davos form with Imran Khan, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. [Video and Transcript]
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[Transcript] – PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. And it’s great to be with a very good friend of mine, the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
We’re going to be talking about trade and many other things. But trade is going to be of very, very paramount importance. And we’re doing more trade as it turns. And we’re working together on some borders, and we’re talking about Kashmir and the relation to what’s going on with Pakistan and India. And if we can help, we certainly will be helping. And we’ve been watching that and following it very, very closely.
But it’s an honor to be with my friend. And thank you very much. Thank you very much.
PRIME MINISTER KHAN: My pleasure. Thank you.
Well, Mr. President, good to see you again.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
PRIME MINISTER KHAN: And, yes, there are issues we want to talk about. The main issue, of course, is Afghanistan because it concerns the U.S. and Pakistan. And, fortunately, we are on the same page. Both of us are interested in peace there and an orderly transition in Afghanistan with talks with Taliban and the government.
And also, of course, India. It is — it is a big issue. For us, in Pakistan, it’s a big issue. And, of course, we always hope that the U.S. will play its part in resolving it because no other country can.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. We’re going to have a good talk.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Q Mr. President, when you head out to India, will you also visit Pakistan?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, we’re visiting right now, so we won’t really have to. But we — I wanted to say hello for both a relationship standpoint — we’ve had a great relationship — and from the standpoint of our two countries. We’re getting along very well. I would say we’ve never been closer with Pakistan than we are right now. And that’s a big statement, although I wouldn’t say at all times we were close, as a country. But we are very close right now because of the relationship that we have. So it’s very important.
Q Mr. President, are you planning on imposing auto tariffs on imports from Europe?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We expect to be able to make a deal with Europe. And if they don’t make a deal, we’ll certainly give that very strong consideration. Okay? But we expect to make a deal with Europe.
The European Union we met with, as you know, and we had a very good talk. But if we’re unable to make a deal, we will have to do something, because we’ve been treated very badly as a country for many, many years on trade.
And, of course, NATO also. If you look at what happens with NATO, we’ve — we’re spending a vast predominance of the money. We’re spending money like — for years; this has gone on for years. We’re protecting Europe and that’s fine, but they can’t do it to us on trade. So they know they have to do something. And if they’re fair, we’re not going to have a problem. Okay?
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you. Thank you.
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For the second bilateral meeting at the Davos summit, President Trump meets with President Simonetta Sommaruga of the Swiss Confederation. [Video and Transcript]
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[Transcript] – PRESIDENT TRUMP: Okay, thank you very much, everybody. And we’ll be having a meeting largely based on trade — President of Switzerland and representatives from Switzerland.
And we have a tremendous relationship. We’re working on other matters also that are very interesting. But today we’re going to be discussing largely trade with Switzerland. They’d like to do an agreement, and we’ll see what we can do.
And thank you all for being with us. Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: Thank you, Mr. President. So, welcome. A warm welcome to you, to your delegation. We’re very glad to have you here. We are glad to continue our contact.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: You had a contact with my predecessor last year at the —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s right. That’s right.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: — (inaudible). And you know that Switzerland President has only for one year.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: So you can see the diversity of Swiss Presidents. (Laughter.) We have different languages. Mr. Parmelin, he will be the President next year.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right. Wow. Good.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: And you can talk French to him.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Good. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: And Mr. Maurer is speaking German. Afterwards, it will be Mr. Cassis; he’s Italian speaking. We have female, we have male Presidents —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s very good.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: — different cultures that makes part of Switzerland.
So, very glad to have had this talk. On our diplomatic channels, we agreed on three main issues to talk about: our bilateral relations, including good offices in Switzerland, of course. Then, as well, on our economic ties we have — and also something which is concerning everybody: global warming. I think it’s worth also to talk about that —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Sure.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: — because as the Minister of Environment as well, it’s for me also something that is every day on my agenda.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Good.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: So we have a lot to talk about. I’m very glad —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We look forward to it.
PRESIDENT SOMMARUGA: Okay. Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
Q Mr. President, can you say what you and President Macron agreed to? Can you say what you and President Macron agreed to?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We had a very good conversation. It worked out very well. The U.S. is very happy with the result, and we appreciate very much what President Macron did. Thank you.
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Prior to Davos bilat #1 President Trump holds a media availability with President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission. [Video and Transcript Below]
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[Transcript] – PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. It’s great to be with the President of the European Commission and a woman who’s highly respected, I have to say, and I hear a very tough negotiator, which is bad news for us because we’re going to talk about a big trade deal. And we’ve been talking about it for a while, and hopefully we can get something done.
But it’s a great honor, and we will be discussing other things also. But I would say trade, right now, on a deal between ourselves and essentially Europe, is something that we all want to be able to make. So, thank you very much. A great honor. Thank you.
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you. If you would like to say —
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: Thank you very much for having me here.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you.
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: It’s a pleasure to meet you for the first time here in Davos. And I think what we never should forget that we have a long history of a common foundation —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: — of a lot of business contacts, friendship, youth exchange, science, culture, since way more than 70 years. So —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s right.
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: — the American people and the European people are good friends, and this is what we’re going to build on. And, indeed, we have issues to discuss —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s right.
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: — and we will negotiate. But I’m looking forward to this relationship.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT VON DER LEYEN: Thank you so much.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: It’s very nice. Great honor. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
Q Mr. President, can you say whether you’ll introduce a motion to dismiss when the Senate trial begins?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That whole thing is a hoax. It goes nowhere because nothing happened. The only thing we’ve done is a great job. We have the strongest country in the world by far. It was going in the wrong direction. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had in the history of our country.
And I’m in Europe today because we’re bringing a lot of other companies into our country with thousands of jobs — millions of jobs, in many cases.
So that whole thing is a total hoax. So I’m sure it’s going to work out fine. Thank you all very much.
Q How long will it last sir, do you think?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much.
The U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial of President Donald Trump begins today at 1:00pm Eastern. The first series of anticipated events includes the framework for Senate rules for impeachment which will come in the form of a final resolution for Senate vote.
The formation of the impeachment rules, and any amendments therein, will likely take up the majority of the afternoon in the Senate. Anticipated start time 1:00pm EST.
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