Full interview: Donald Trump details his plans for Day 1 and beyond in the White House
Meet the Press
NBC News
3.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Kristen, and we're back in your podcast feed today with something extra from my interview |
| 0:07.0 | with President Elect Trump. Many of you know that we publish full versions of our interviews at |
| 0:12.3 | Meet the Press. It's important to us that you get to listen to the unedited discussion for yourself. |
| 0:18.4 | I spoke with President Elect Trump in Trump Tower for nearly an hour |
| 0:22.5 | and a half, and we could only cover so much of it on Meet the Press. So here's the full, unedited |
| 0:28.1 | audio for you. Thanks so much for listening. President-elect Donald Trump, welcome back to |
| 0:34.9 | meet the press. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:39.6 | You are the first president since Grover Cleveland to win non-consecutive terms. |
| 0:46.4 | Republicans now have control of the House and the Senate. What do you plan to accomplish in your first 100 days in office? Well, we're going to do |
| 0:55.6 | something with the border and very strong, very powerful. That'll be our first signal and the first |
| 1:01.0 | signal to America that we're not playing games. We have people coming in by the millions, as you |
| 1:06.8 | know, and a lot of people shouldn't be here. Most of them shouldn't be here. But we have jails being emptied into our country. |
| 1:12.9 | We have mental institutions from all over the world being emptied into our country. |
| 1:16.8 | So we'll be doing that. |
| 1:18.7 | We're going to be extending within that period or as soon as we can, the Trump tax cuts. |
| 1:25.5 | Because, you know, they're coming due and they're very substantial for people |
| 1:28.8 | and it would be very I think it will anger a lot of people frankly if we don't get an extension |
| 1:34.3 | of that that's what led us to one of the greatest economies ever and those two things are going |
| 1:40.0 | to be very vital very important we're going to be focusing on crime in the cities, |
| 1:49.5 | and we'll work with Democrat governors. Most of them are, you know, if you look at the 25 worst places, they're just about all Democrat-controlled cities and states, and we're going to be working |
| 1:54.8 | with Democrat governors and Democrat mayors, and I look forward to doing it, but we have to do |
| 1:59.8 | something about crime, and mostly in our cities, and we're going to have it, but we have to do something about crime and mostly in our |
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