FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 Fox News Network LIVE EVENT 10:15 AM EST November 22, 2019 Friday Copyright 2019 Fox News Network LLC All Rights Reserved Section: NEWS; Domestic Length: 5013 words Byline: Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade Guests: Donald Trump Body STEVE DOOCY, FOX HOST: We are joined right now, it is our great pleasure, to welcome the president of the United States, Donald Trump, calling in. Mr. Trump, good morning to you. AINSLEY EARHARDT, FOX HOST: Good morning. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (via telephone): Good morning. DOOCY: Good to have you on FOX AND FRIENDS today. As you said in your tweets, another slow news week. Let's start with the fact that the story that Griff just brought us, that it sounds like a former FBI lawyer, it sounds like, was doing something with the FISA application. That person got removed. And this goes to your argument that somebody at the FBI was out to get you, right? TRUMP: Well, it certainly does. And they were spying on my campaign and it went right up to the top and everybody knows it and now we're going to find out. You have Bull Durham (ph), who's supposed to be the toughest. I've never met him, never spoke to him, but he's supposed to be the smartest and the best. And he works -- he works for Bill Barr, who's a great attorney general. We would maybe have ended this thing a lot sooner had he been there originally. But you have some people that are great people now and -- patriotic people. They love our country. And this was spying on my campaign. Something that has never been done in the history of our country. This was an overthrow attempt at the presidency. They tried to overthrow the presidency. This is a disgrace. But what -- I'm not surprised to see it. It's just starting to come up. I think this is nothing compared to what you'll see over the next couple of weeks. These people are sick. EARHARDT: These media outlets -- this media outlets are saying that the FBI lawyer manipulated and altered key documents related to that warrant application so that they could get permission to surveil Carter Page. FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 He was on with Maria, "MORNINGS WITH MARIA," a few minutes ago, and he says it's a cover-up. Listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CARTER PAGE, FORMER FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER TO 2016 TRUMP CAMPAIGN: They have just been putting false information out there to the media. The Democrats and their allies in Washington -- their Washington in the media, constantly pushing lies after lies. And then finally this gets picked up by a court. It gets picked up by the Comey-McCabe FBI and they got a warrant, a fraudulent warrant, I believe, to spy on myself as a way of getting into the Trump campaign. MARIA BARTIROMO, FBN ANCHOR, "MORNINGS WITH MARIA": So you -PAGE: There has been a continued cover-up to this very day. We still don't have the truth, but hopefully we'll get that soon. (END VIDEO CLIP) EARHARDT: How does this compare with what happened with that Ukraine conversation? Democrats want to impeach you because of that conversation, but this looks pretty bad. TRUMP: So my conversation was a perfect conversation. The Ukrainian president said, what are they talking about? They must think we're nuts in this country. And this conversation was flawless. It was appropriate. It was perfect. It was nice. It was everything. And they even said that. They came out and said it. Now, compare that, as they try and impeach. And, by the way, they looked like fools over the last five days. This -these interviews were -- have been -- and these were their witnesses. These were -- this was the best they've got. Now, Adam Schiff is a sick puppy. He is a -- it's been incredible. Now, what you're going to see, I predict, will be perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of our country, political scandal, but I guess that's the biggest because what's more important than political when it comes to the -KILMEADE: What are you talking about? What do you mean by that? What do you mean by that? TRUMP: I think you're going to see things that are going to be incredible if it's -- if it's done right. And I purposely stay out. I tell Bill Barr to handle everything. I wouldn't have to. I could get very much involved, but I purposely don't. And I haven't. And, you know what, it's better that way, I guess. I -- I don't have any obligation legally to do that. But I've let them handle it. So you have a FISA report coming out, which the word is, it's historic, that's what the word is. That's what I hear. And if it's historic, you're going to see something. And then perhaps even more importantly you have Durham coming out shortly thereafter. He's the U.S. attorney and he's already announced it's criminal. And we'll see what happens. DOOCY: Mr. President -TRUMP: But I'll tell you what, you have -- you have a lot of very, very bad people. And, you know, a lot of people say deep state. DOOCY: Right. TRUMP: I -- I don't like to use the word deep state. I just say they're really bad, sick people. Page 2 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 DOOCY: Mr. President, you say it could be historic. You have suggested in the past that this might go much higher than the Department of Justice or the FBI during the Obama administration. Are you suggesting it could actually go up into the West Wing of the Obama administration? TRUMP: Well, you're dealing at the highest levels of government. They were spying on my campaign. This is my opinion. I said it a long time ago. Remember when I put out a tweet and I talked about, they're wiretapping, in quotes, meeting, modern-day version of whatever wiretapping may be. And all hell broke loose. You know, who would have thought. DOOCY: Well, how high did it go, Mr. President? How high did it go? Your opinion. TRUMP: Well, I think -- personally, I think it goes all the way, OK, because I think it's impossible. DOOCY: To Barack Obama? TRUMP: For Brennan, and for Clapper, and for all of these losers that you had over there, I think it's impossible for them to be doing things. And let's see what it all says. BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX HOST: Right. TRUMP: But it's impossible. Susan Rice, the person that worked at the United Nations, who went after FISA reports and went after reports like she ate them for lunch. And, you know, you look at the previous administration, they went after like a few. And she was getting them by -- at levels that nobody's ever even imagined before. And that had nothing to do with her. No, I think this goes to the highest level. I hate to say it. I think it's a disgrace. They thought I was going to win, and they said, how can we stop him? They wrote up the phony -- fake dossier, the disgusting, fake dossier. And they tried to have it put out prior to the election. Just to show you how incompetent they were, they spent millions and millions of dollars -- Hillary Clinton paid for it and the Democrats. A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine. KILMEADE: But, Mr. President -TRUMP: You know, it's very interesting -- it's very interesting. They have the server, right, from the DNC, Democratic National Committee, you know. KILMEADE: Who has the server? TRUMP: The FBI went in and they told them, get out of here, you're not getting -- we're not giving it to you. They gave the server to Crowdstrike, or whatever it's called, which is a country -- which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That's a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company? Why? (INAUDIBLE). DOOCY: Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine? TRUMP: Well, that's what the word is. That's what I asked actually in my phone call, as you know. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: I mean I asked it very point blank because we're looking for corruption. There's tremendous corruption. We're looking for -- why should we be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to countries when there's this kind of corruption. KILMEADE: Right. Page 3 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: And if you look at my call, I said, you know, corruption. I think he said it to me. He's looking. He got elected on the basis of corruption. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: And I also, by the way, going back to that, why isn't Germany putting up money? Why isn't France putting up money? Why isn't all of the European nations, why aren't they putting up? You have the European Union, and they're benefitting a lot more by Ukraine than we are. KILMEADE: Well, yes. But, Mr. President, can I ask you -TRUMP: (INAUDIBLE). It's like a massive wall. Yes. KILMEADE: Who -- who -TRUMP: Why aren't they putting up money? How come it's always the United States that puts up money? The suckers. Why is it always the United States? And these are the questions I asked. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: That I continued to ask them. KILMEADE: True. So, Mr. President, the best you can, I know you've said that from day one about wiretapping and you -- you felt as though the previous administration basically seems to have set you up to really struggle for the first three years. Who is your source -- or what are your sources that are telling you that the Obama administration was out to -- to really hurt your administration? TRUMP: Well, first of all, Brian, I haven't struggled because I've done more in the first two and a half years than any president in the history of our country and almost everybody admits it. Between rebuilding our military, the biggest tax cut in history -KILMEADE: OK. TRUMP: Regulation, cuts to (INAUDIBLE) -KILMEADE: Would you say they've been in your way? Would you say they've been in your way? TRUMP: Supreme Court -- well, wait a second, two Supreme Court justices. Within a few weeks we'll have 182 federal judges. It's a record. So I've done more than anybody ever had the position in a short time. KILMEADE: Understood. TRUMP: But they haven't made it pleasant. They're bad people. They hurt a lot of innocent people. People came down here, they got served subpoenas by Mueller and the crew and they went through two and a half years. They found nothing. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: So when you say that -- Page 4 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 KILMEADE: Yes. TRUMP: I think we've had the most productive presidency ever for the first two and a half years, but it doesn't mean that it was pleasant. KILMEADE: No, I don't, but maybe I should have been clearer. My point is this, I know you -- you've had that point of view and some things are coming that direction to prove it, but who is your source that's telling you this? TRUMP: I can't tell you that. I can only say that we have a lot of information that a lot of bad things happened. And when you look at Strzok and Page with the insurance policy where, you know, the two lovers, the two great lovers from the FBI, where he's saying, oh, she's going to win 100 million to nothing, but just in case she loses, we have an insurance policy. Well, that means, you know, we're going to take him down. We're going to take down the president. You wouldn't even believe this is possible, but the insurance policy, that was a very big find, finding that text. And the only reason we found it was they didn't want to use their private servers for a very bad reason, OK? So they used the public server. They used the FBI server. So -- so here's the thing, we have so many -- regardless of what's coming out, OK, the information that we have now is beyond belief already. But what they have coming out, I hear, is historic. DOOCY: OK. TRUMP: That's the way it was explained. EARHARDT: All right, coming out in December. TRUMP: I hear it's historic. EARHARDT: All right, Mr. President -TRUMP: Now, of course, the fake news will try and downplay it, but I don't think you can downplay this. KILMEADE: Not now. TRUMP: The fake news is part of it. You know, it's the Democrats and the fake news, they're one in the same. They will downplay it because -- like I see the hearings where we have a great day, and then you pick up the phony "New York Times," which is a totally phony paper. I don't read he any -- well, you can't read it. It's not even -- it has -has no relationship to the truth. And you read a story that took place and they don't tell you what happened. They only put in the bad. They don't put in the good. Same thing with "The Washington Post." It's a phony paper. KILMEADE: All right. TRUMP: We no longer have it in the White House. (INAUDIBLE). And we saved a lot of money. EARHARDT: Mr. President, so when we're watching those closing arguments yesterday, Adam Schiff, I mean Democrats love it. You know, I'm sure he's getting a pat on the back every time he walks down the halls in Washington because people are saying, keep pushing, keep pushing, we want impeachment. But if you ask Republicans, and we're going to play a sound bite of his closing arguments, they say this is all theatrics. Watch this and we're going to get your reaction. Page 5 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: OK. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): It came down to the fact that the day after Bob Mueller testified, day after Bob Mueller testified, that Donald Trump invited Russian interference, hey, Russia, if you're listening, come get Hillary's emails. And later that day they tried to hack her server. The day after that, Donald Trump is back on the phone asking another nation to involve itself in another U.S. election. That says to me this president believes he is above the law, beyond accountability. (END VIDEO CLIP) EARHARDT: Mr. President, was there quid pro quo, extortion, bribery? TRUMP: No, not at all. And let me tell you, he's a sick puppy. He's so sick. This guy is so -- I've been going through it for two and a half years about Russia. I've been tougher on Russia than any president in history. But for two and a half years I've had to listen. This was their talking point, Trump and Russia. And if you take a look at it, just look at the facts. Even look at what I've done for Ukraine by giving them tank busters, by giving them stuff, and Obama would send pillows and sheets, he wouldn't send anything else. The whole thing -- now, Schiff, remember this, he makes it all up. He's sick. There's something wrong with him. So he made up my phone call. He made it up. He made up a phone call and then when I released it everybody was embarrassed. And crazy Nancy Pelosi, who, by the way, is going to go down as the worst speaker in the history of the House of Representatives, she hasn't done anything. All she's said -- she's like paralyzed. She cannot do anything. DOOCY: Well, Mr. President -TRUMP: You know, she -- I predict she wouldn't do USMCA because Richard Trumka, who's a good guy, but a big union guy, only cares about a union. Richard Trumka has her mortified. She won't do USMCA. And everybody in the country wants it, the farmers, the manufacturers. But Richard Trumka has her -- like he plays her like a fiddle. And I predict she won't even do it. She -- and, by the way, she's got such pressure on her to do it. All she has to do is put it to a vote. She's holds it for six months. It's growing dust on her desk. KILMEADE: All right. TRUMP: And Mexico and Canada are calling saying, what's going on? Where's our agreement? KILMEADE: Yes. TRUMP: They signed it. They're all set. DOOCY: Yes. Mr. President -TRUMP: Now, that's a big thing. (INAUDIBLE). DOOCY: A couple of days ago your ambassador to the United -- to the EU, Mr. Sondland, in his opening statement said that there was quid pro quo. There was quid pro quo he said because you wanted an investigation into corruption, in exchange for a visit to the White House or something like that. Page 6 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: Yes. Well, that's total nonsense. I do want -- always corruption. I say that to anybody. Why should we give money to a country that's known corrupt? It's a very corrupt country. I mean I love the people in Ukraine. I know Ukrainian people. They're great people. But it's known as being the third most corrupt country in the world. Now, with this guy, who, by the way, I hardly know him, OK? KILMEADE: Sondland? TRUMP: I've spoken to him a few times. How about the guy with the telephone? How about that one? I guarantee you that never took place. He said he's sitting there listening to me. I spoke so few times to him. DOOCY: David Holmes. TRUMP: But the guy yesterday on the telephone, David Holmes, yes, I heard the conversation. Well, I have really good hearing. And I've been watching guys for 40 years make phone calls and I can't hear when you're -- and you could be two feet away, I can't hear people making calls. I can't hear the other side. The phone's up in the air, unless you have it on the speaker phone, you can't do it. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: That was a total phony deal. That was a phony -- you know, again, call it deep state. DOOCY: Right. But, Mr. President -- Mr. President, you -TRUMP: Call it (INAUDIBLE). Call it anti-Trump people. DOOCY: Your -- your ambassador said that there was quid pro quo because he wanted -- you wanted an investigation into corruption, but it involved Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. And then it becomes like a, look, he's -he's going after dirt on the Bidens because Joe Biden could be his opponent in 2020. TRUMP: Yes. Well, first of all -- first of all that's not true, OK. Number one, it's absolutely not true. Now, then you have to say, if you saw Joe Biden -DOOCY: Which part? Which part is not true? TRUMP: Joe Biden is corrupt. DOOCY: OK. TRUMP: There was -- it's not true what he said. Now, what he said also is, there was no quid pro quo. I want nothing. Remember it was trending number one. DOOCY: Yes. TRUMP: I want nothing. He said that -DOOCY: He did. TRUMP: When he was questioned. He -- and, by the way, check out his lawyers. They're Hillary Clinton lawyers. This guy has Hillary Clinton lawyers. They're -- they're Democrats. KILMEADE: Sondland. Page 7 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: But he's sitting there -- Sondland, yes. He's sitting there with Clinton lawyers. They're passing him notes all the time. And he didn't put the most important phrase in his 22-page statement that he read. The most important phrase was, I want nothing, twice I said it, I want nothing, I want nothing, I want no quid pro quo. Have President Zelensky do whatever is right, something to that effect. And they didn't put that in. That was the end of him. KILMEADE: They didn't put that in his opening remarks. TRUMP: I turned off the television. That's what he said. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: Now, with all of that, of course you have to look at corruption. Are we going to be sending massive amounts of money to a country and they're corrupt and they steal the money and it goes into everybody's bank account? So you have to look at that. And I will tell you this about Joe Biden, I never -- I never said it specifically on him. But I watched Joe Biden with the prosecutor, who a lot of people said was a great prosecutor and they took him off. And he was prosecuting that company. And the kid who never made 10 cents in his life, and all of a sudden is making millions of dollars the day he -KILMEADE: Hunter Biden. TRUMP: I mean you -- you tell me, this is a guy who got thrown out of Navy dishonorably -KILMEADE: But -TRUMP: He gets thrown out of the Navy. Shortly thereafter -- made no money. Went through made no money. KILMEADE: But -- but, Mr. President, did -TRUMP: Then all of a sudden his father becomes VP -KILMEADE: No, I hear you. TRUMP: And he's making millions and millions of dollars, not only from there -KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: But from China. He (INAUDIBLE) -KILMEADE: So, Mr. President, the accusation is this, that you're using aid, taxpayer dollars, to attack a political opponent in Joe Biden. And you say you do say I wanted to hold up that aid because of corruption, but you also, on a phone call -TRUMP: No, another reason too. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: No, no, two reasons. KILMEADE: OK. TRUMP: For corruption because it's known, I want to make sure the money is going to be spent properly. But there's another reason that is maybe to me the most important. Page 8 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 KILMEADE: Which is? TRUMP: Why isn't Germany, France, the European Union, why aren't all those countries in Europe, why aren't they paying? Why is it always the United States, the sucker? I got elected on that. But I do -KILMEADE: But they do -- they do give aid. They -- they do give aid. We give more. We always have. But, Mr. President, you decide to say, Rudy Giuliani, your long-time friend, mayor and prosecutor, you send him into the Ukraine. I want you to hear what Ambassador Sondland said, and it's been pretty consistent among State Department workers. It seems like Rudy Giuliani was getting under a lot of people's skin. I want you to listen to what he said -TRUMP: Well, that's Rudy, in all fairness. KILMEADE: I -- but I want you to hear -- wait, listen, I've known him for a long time too. Let's listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GORDON Sondland, AMBASSADOR TO THE EUROPEAN UNION: Secretary Perry, Ambassador Volcker and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the United States. We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani. We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose a very important opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine. (END VIDEO CLIP) KILMEADE: So why was it necessary to put Rudy in the middle of Ukraine, a country he knew little about, as opposed to let the people do their jobs there and just give them the same mission? TRUMP: OK, first of all, Volcker, I don't know him. Don't know him. KILMEADE: Kurt Volker. TRUMP: This guy, Sondland, hardly know him. I've had a couple of conversations with him. I see him hanging around, you know, when I go to Europe, but he was really a -- the European Union ambassador. And all of a sudden he's working on this and, you know, ask about that. Rick Perry, I know him very well. Frankly, I'd like Rick to make a statement. And Rick would make a statement. He's a great guy. I think he already made a statement. A great guy. DOOCY: He did. TRUMP: Rudy is a great crime fighter. Rudy is the best mayor in the history of New York City. Rudy Giuliani is a very legendary figure in our country. Rudy was the U.S. attorney. He also worked at the Justice Department. Believe me, this kind of crap wouldn't have happened in the Justice Department if Rudy Giuliani was the attorney general, just like I believe Bill Barr will straighten it out and straighten it out for good. But Rudy Giuliani was one of the great crime fighters of all time. He's also a friend of mine. He's a great person. He's like an iconic figure in this country for two reasons. He was the greatest mayor in the history of New York and he was the greatest crime fighter probably in the last 50 years. Page 9 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 When you're dealing with a corrupt country, if Rudy Giuliani, he's got credentials because of his reputation. When Rudy Giuliani goes there, and you hear it's a corrupt country, I mean it means a lot. It means a lot. KILMEADE: But -- but two of his sources are indicted on -- on -- are right now in jail. Those are two of his sources. And -- and one of his other sources is looked at as a corrupt figure. So, in the end, it seems like you had this -- you had State Department and Rudy Giuliani working against each other and then the accusation comes in that your ambassador is being tarnished by Rudy Giuliani. TRUMP: Look, the ambassador, the woman, she wouldn't even put up -- she's an Obama person. You know, I've -I said, why are you being so kind? Well, sir, she's a woman, we have to be nice. She's very tough. She -- I heard bad things. And, by the way, when I was talking to President Zelensky, it's right on the phone. You can read it. KILMEADE: Yes. TRUMP: He didn't like her. He brought up her name and he didn't like her at all. How do have an ambassador with a -- the president, the new president doesn't like, because she was so wedded in. And, don't forget, Ukraine hated me. They were after me in the election. They wanted Hillary Clinton to win. And when I won, all of a sudden they became so nice. They were doing -- they had to make up. There were many articles where they had to -DOOCY: Yes. TRUMP: You know, get to be friendly, you know, because we're like a gravy train for them, OK? We're like their gravy train. So they were totally in favor of Hillary Clinton. But this ambassador that, you know, everybody says is so wonderful, she wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy, OK? She's in charge of the embassy. She wouldn't hang it. It took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up. She said bad things about me. She wouldn't defend me. And I have the right to change an ambassador. And Rudy didn't say good things, but he wasn't crazy about it. You know, he wasn't like a major topic. But I have the right to change. This was an Obama person. Wouldn't -- didn't want to hang my picture in the embassy. It's standard as you put the president of the United States picture in an embassy. This was not an angel, this woman, OK? And there are a lot of things that she did that I didn't like and we will talk about that at some time. DOOCY: OK. EARHARDT: OK. TRUMP: But I just want to let you know, this was not a baby that we're dealing with. EARHARDT: There was one woman who was in all of these testimonies this week, who was sticking up for you, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. She was asking questions, doing her job. She said her constituents want to get to the bottom of what happened with the Bidens and that investigation. She questioned Tim Morrison and Kurt Volcker on Capitol Hill. Listen to this. Page 10 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: OK. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. ELISE STEFANIK (R-NY): But the truth is the facts are indeed not complicated. And I'm going to close out with two questions for the both of you. Did Ukraine open investigation into the Bidens, Mr. Morrison? TIM MORRISON: Not to my knowledge, ma'am. STEFANIK: Ambassador Volker? KURT VOLKER: Not to my knowledge either. STEFANIK: Did either of you ever have any evidence of quid pro quo, Mr. Morrison? MORRISON: No, ma'am. STEFANIK: Ambassador Volker? VOLKER: I did not. STEFANIK: Any evidence of bribery? MORRISON: No, ma'am. VOLKER: No, ma'am. (END VIDEO CLIP) EARHARDT: She's been raked over the coals for that. Kellyanne Conway's husband was one of the ones that called her trash. TRUMP: So, I'll tell you, first of all, she's become a star. You know, every time you do something, you have guys like Jim Jordan and Meadows, there are all these guys that they're -- they've been around and they're stars, but they've been stars. Every once in a while you meet a new star. I know a lot about stardom. I know a lot about it. I've made plenty of them. But I'll tell you what, this young woman from upstate New York, she has become a star. Her way -- you know, you can never define exactly what it is, you understand that. You're a star, OK? Why? Who the hell knows, but you're a star. There aren't many of them. But what happens is, she has become a star. Her mannerism, her way of talking, her whole -KILMEADE: She's direct. Right to the point. TRUMP: No, it's just the whole thing. It just works. She's -- she's a tremendous person. She was fantastic during the hearings. Turner, every -- so many people, they were so great. But you know what, the bottom line is, all of those witnesses, they're all shifty Schiff. Don't forget, there was no due process. You can't have lawyers. We couldn't have any witness. DOOCY: Right. Page 11 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: We wanted to call the whistleblower. But you know who I wanted as the first witness, because, frankly, I want a trial. You know, I could -- think I could have it if he -- whatever I want. KILMEADE: You want a trial? TRUMP: Oh, I would -- look, number one, they should never, ever impeach. This is not impeach -- I watched, I watched five people on your network yesterday say there's nothing here. Andy McCarthy, how about Ken, special prosecutor, special council. KILMEADE: Ken Starr. TRUMP: Ken Starr. He was fantastic. He said there's nothing here. So, ready? Number one, there should never be an impeachment. This is not an impeachment. That -- that phone call was totally appropriate, OK, totally. But, assuming these people are as sleazy as they are, and Nancy Pelosi's totally incompetent, she's lost -- absolutely lost -- she doesn't know what she's doing. She hasn't done anything. She can't get anything approved. Everybody's working on this and they just got blown away because they put their witnesses up. And we're not going to get USMCA because of this -KILMEADE: So -- so you want a trial? TRUMP: And the farmers and everyone are going to vote against Democrats like you've never seen before. But if they do put it up because they're crazy, I mean Adam Schiff is -- is a nut job. Listen to this. Adam Schiff gets up before Congress and he made up my statement. KILMEADE: Right. DOOCY: We remember that. TRUMP: And I'm saying, who made that statement? He made it up. DOOCY: Right. Mr. President -TRUMP: And then after he got caught, three days later he started saying parody. DOOCY: Right. Mr. President -TRUMP: The thing I did that was right -- Brian, the thing I did that was right was I released the transcript of the call immediately. DOOCY: Right. And nobody saw that coming. TRUMP: Had I not done that, I would have had a big problem. A big problem. Because they all lied about my call. My call was perfect. If you heard Adam Schiff's made-up version of my call, I mean it was the worst thing I've ever heard. I said how could that be possible. And you know the sad part? Because he made it in the halls of Congress he has immunity. KILMEADE: Right. TRUMP: I can't sue him. The Republican Party can't sue him. DOOCY: That's how it works. Page 12 of 13 FOX & FRIENDS, FOX NEWS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 TRUMP: And one other thing before we get off, the Republican Party -KILMEADE: No, we're not getting off. TRUMP: Oh, yes, I know, we can keep this going all day, right? It's easy. But, look, the Republican Party has never been more unified. Both the Senate and the House, Mitch, Lindsey, I could name 20 names up there. I could name -- they have never had -- look, we won 196-0. That never happens. You know, I always say, the Democrats are lousy politicians. They have lousy policy, but they stick together, and they're vicious. KILMEADE: Right, well -TRUMP: They're more vicious, frankly. But the Republicans, they have a tendency, they break up. They don't -- the Republicans, I've never seen anything like it. They're sticking together. DOOCY: Mr. President, we understand that there were six Republican senators, this is a perfect transition into this question, Load-Date: November 22, 2019 End of Document Page 13 of 13