>> THINGS WILL REALLY HEAT UP

WHEN THE ENTIRE CONGRESS IS

BACK.

>> Neil: LET'S GO TO THE

WHITE HOUSE, THE PRESIDENT IS

TAKING QUESTIONS ON THIS

DANGEROUS SITUATION IN TURKEY.

>> President Trump: THEIR

BITTER ENEMIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN

AND POSSIBLY ALWAYS WILL BE.

SO WE ARE OUT OF THERE, WE'VE

BEEN OUT OF THERE FOR A WHILE,

NO SOLDIERS WHATSOEVER.

THEY ARE TAKING SOME OF THE MOST

DANGEROUS ISIS FIGHTERS OUT AND

HAVE TAKEN THEM OUT AND ARE

PUTTING THEM IN DIFFERENT

LOCATIONS.

SECURE.

IN ADDITION, THE KURDS ARE

WATCHING, AND IF THE KURDS ARE

WATCHING THEN TURKEY WILL WATCH

BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THOSE

PEOPLE OUT ANYMORE THAN WE DO.

WE'VE TAKEN A A NUMBER OF ISIS

FIGHTERS THAT ARE PARTICULARLY

BAD AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT

NOTHING HAPPENS TO THEM AND I

THINK WE ARE DOING A GREAT JOB.

I THINK THE PEOPLE IN THIS

COUNTRY CAMPAIGNED ON ENDLESS

WARS, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

FIGHTING WARS.

HALF THE WARS NOBODY KNOWS WHAT

THEY ARE DOING OVER THERE AND I

FEEL THAT WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT

THING AND I THINK THE COUNTRY

FEELS THAT TOO.

WE'VE HAD TREMENDOUS SUPPORT

OUTSIDE OF THE WASHINGTON AREA,

AND EVEN THE WASHINGTON PEOPLE

ARE SAYING, WE ARE DOING THE

RIGHT THING.

AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE DEALING

WITH BOTH SIDES AND WE WILL SEE

WHAT WE CAN DO.

>> SINCE THEN IT APPEARS THAT

THERE HAVE BEEN CASUALTIES ON

THAT SIDE OF.

ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT

ESCALATION AND ARE YOU CONCERNED

THAT ERDOGAN WILL WIPE OUT THE

KURDS?

>> President Trump: I WILL

WIPE OUT HIS ECONOMY IF THAT

HAPPENS, I'VE ALREADY DONE IT

ONCE.

I HOPE HE WILL ACT RATIONALLY.

YOU DO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND

THEY'VE BEEN FIGHTING EACH OTHER

FOR MANY, MANY DECADES.

AND IT'S TIME FOR THE AMERICANS

AND WE DID A GREAT JOB.

WE TOOK CARE OF ISIS, AND I

BELIEVE IT WAS 97 AND 96% AND

THAT LAST THREE OR FOUR WAS THE

HARDEST PART.

THEY TOLD ME IT WOULD TAKE A

YEAR OR TWO YEARS TO DO IT AND I

DID IT IN A MONTH.

AND WE DID IT TWO WEEKS, THROUGH

TWO MONTHS.

WE'VE BEEN WATCHING OVER A LOT,

WATCHING OVER THE PRISONERS,

SOME VERY BAD PEOPLE.

SO SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE WE HAVE

ALREADY TAKEN.

MANY OF THEM CAME FROM EUROPE,

BUT THEY SHOULD GO BACK TO

GERMANY, FRANCE, AND I SPOKE

WITH BORIS JOHNSON, AND THEY

CAME FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF

EUROPE.

THEY DIDN'T COME FROM OUR

COUNTRY, WE SAID TO FRANCE AND

GERMANY, WE SAID TO VARIOUS

COUNTRIES IN EUROPE, WE WOULD

LIKE PEOPLE TO TAKE YOU BACK.

WELL WE DON'T WANT THEM, WE

DON'T WANT THEM, AND WE SAID WE

DON'T WANT THEM EITHER BUT

SOMEBODY HAS TO WATCH OVER THEM.

WE DID YOU A FAVOR, TAKE YOUR

PEOPLE BACK.

THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE THEM

BACK.

I GIVE THEM ONE CHANCE, ANOTHER

CHANCE, I GIVE THEM A THIRD

CHANCE AND EVEN A FOURTH CHANCE.

NOT THAT I BLAME THEM TOO MUCH,

THEY ARE USED TO THIS WITH THE

UNITED STATES, TAKING ADVANTAGE

OF THE UNITED STATES WHETHER

IT'S TRADE OR NATO, THEY TAKE

ADVANTAGE OF THE UNITED STATES.

BUT WE THINK THAT MAYBE THE

KURDS WILL DO THE JOB AND IF NOT

THE KURDS THEN MAYBE TURKEY WILL

DO THE JOB.

BUT WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT,

WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF CAPTURED

FIGHTERS, THOUSANDS AND TENS OF

THOUSANDS OF FAMILY MEMBERS.

AND WE DID A BIG FAVOR TO A LOT

OF COUNTRIES, AND THOSE

COUNTRIES DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE

THEM BACK SO THAT'S THE WAY GOE

GOES.

>> IF ISIS FIGHTERS ESCAPE AND

POSE A THREAT ELSEWHERE, -- >>

THEY WILL BE ESCAPING TO EUROPE,

THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO GO.

EUROPE DIDN'T WANT THEM FOR

MONTHS.

THEY COULD HAVE BAD TRIALS WERE

DONE WHATEVER THEY WANTED BUT AS

USUAL IT'S NOT RECIPROCAL.

YOU KNOW MY FAVORITE WORD,

RECIPROCAL.

THAT'S ALL I WANT.

AND IT'S NOT RECIPROCAL, STEVE.

IT'S NOT A FAIR DEAL FOR THE

UNITED STATES.

WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK THE PK

K, THEY ARE MORTAL ENEMIES OF

TURKEY AND SO WHEN YOU BRING

THEM INTO A PARTNERSHIP, IT'S A

TOUGH SITUATION.

THEY'VE HATED EACH OTHER FOR

MANY, MANY YEARS.

FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

IT'S AMAZING WHEN YOU LOOK AT

HISTORY AND YOU LOOK AT CULTURE

BUT YOU LOOK AT THE LINKS OF THE

TIME AND THE FIGHTING FOR SO

LONG.

SO WE IMPOSED OUR SELF INTO IT.

I SAID IT YESTERDAY, THE SINGLE

WORST COUNTRY THE

UNITED STATES -- IF YOU TAKE A

LOOK AT WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH

COUNTRIES AND THE RELATIONSHIPS

WE HAVE A COUNTRIES, BUT MAY BE

PUTTING IT A DIFFERENT WAY.

THE WORST MISTAKE THAT THE

UNITED STATES HAS EVER MADE IN

MY OPINION WAS GOING INTO THE

MIDDLE EAST.

IT IS A QUAGMIRE.

WE ARE UP CLOSE TO $8 TRILLION

AND WE ARE BRINGING OUR FOLKS

BACK HOME.

WE HAVE GREAT TALENTED MILITARY,

AND OUR MILITARY HAS NEVER BEEN

STRONGER.

BUT WE ARE NOW ACTING AS POLICE.

WE ARE POLICING AREAS AND DOING

JOBS THAT OTHER COUNTRIES SHOULD

BE DOING.

WE ARE DOING JOBS FRANKLY THAT

EUROPE SHOULD BE DOING, THAT

RUSSIA SHOULD BE DOING, THAT

IRAN SHOULD BE DOING, THAT IRAQ,

TURKEY AND SYRIA SHOULD BE

DOING.

THEY SHOULD BE DOING THIS, WE

SHOULDN'T BE DOING IT, WE ARE

7,000 MILES AWAY.

>> MR. GRAHAM IS TALKING ABOUT

IMPOSING ECONOMIC SANCTIONS,

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?

>> President Trump: I ALREADY

TOLD THAT TO PRESIDENT ERDOGAN,

FAR MORE THAN SANCTIONS.

LINDSAY AND I FEEL DIFFERENTLY.

I THINK LINDSEY WOULD LIKE TO

STAY THERE FOR THE NEXT 200

YEARS AND THEN ADD MAYBE A

COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE

EVERY PLACE BUT I DISAGREE WITH

LINDSAY ON THAT.

I WILL TELL YOU I DISAGREE ON

SANCTIONS BUT I THINK MUCH

TOUGHER ON SANCTIONS.

I HAVE GOTTEN HIM TO STOP FROM

VIRTUALLY THE FIRST DAY I WAS IN

OFFICE, BUT THEY WANTED TO FIGHT

AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.

AND THEY'VE DONE IT FOR SO LONG.

>> SO WHAT IS AS HUMANE A WAY AS

POSSIBLE?

>> President Trump: WE WILL

HAVE TO DEFINE THAT AS WE GO

ALONG.

IF YOU LISTEN TO ERDOGAN, HE

WANTS TO HAVE PEOPLE GO BACK TO

WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND GO BACK

TO SYRIA.

RIGHT NOW HE IS HOLDING MILLIONS

OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE ALL OVER

THE PLACE IF HE WASN'T HOLDING

THEM SO HE WANTS TO REPATRIATE,

HE WANTS THEM TO GO BACK INTO

THE AREA THAT HE'S LOOKING AT.

BUT WE WILL SEE HOW HE DOES IT.