Reporter:You've made the point that you're in charge. I'd like to know if you have an assessment yet of, generally, what this is going to cost Los Angeles [Wildfires]? You've hired consultants, you will hire probably more people.
Mayor Bass: Billions. That's all I can say.
Reporter: Billions?
Mayor Bass: Billions.
President Trump: The military cooperation between the United States and Japan is one of our closest security partnerships. It's one of the closest we have anywhere in the world.
President Trump: This week my administration approved nearly a billion dollars in foreign military sales to Tokyo. The United State is totally committed to the security of Japan. We will extend the full strength of American deterrence, capabilities, and defense to our friend and ally.
President Trump: Today, our teams discussed how our two nations can do even more to stay on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, along with the quantum computing semiconductors, and other critical technologies.
Prime Minister Ishiba: Today, I convened my willingness to cooperate together, to elevate Japan's investment in the United States to an unprecedented amount of one trillion dollars.
Prime Minister Ishiba: On the basis of these deliverables, I look forward to working together with President Trump, who I respect immensely, to usher a new Golden Age of Japan/US relations.
President Trump: It's absolutely obscene. Dangerous, bad, very costly. Virtually every investment made in a con job. There is nothing of value to anybody unless there's a kickback scheme going on, which is possible. And we're going to be doing more and more of that. We're going to be looking at Department of Education. We're going to be looking at, even our military. We're going to be looking at tremendous amounts of money being spent on things that bear no relationship to anything, that have no value. We're talking about trillions of dollars. It will be, in the end, trillions of dollars being absolutely wasted, and perhaps, illegally. I would say, certainly in many cases, illegally, but perhaps illegally overall. I'm very proud of the job that this group of young people, generally young people, but very smart people. They're doing it at my insistence. It would be a lot easier to not do it, but we have to take some of these things apart to find the corruption. We've found tremendous corruption.
Prime Minister Ishiba: This is the first time that I met with President Trump in person. This was the first time meeting face to face. For many years I have watched him on television, so I was so excited to see such a celebrity on television, to see in person. On television, he is frightening, and has a very strong personality. But when I met with him, actually, he was very sincere. And very powerful. And with strong will for the United States, and for the whole world. I was able to feel that.
Reporter: Have you directed Elon Musk to review Pentagon spending?
President Trump: Yes I have. Pentagon, Education; just about everything. We're going to go through everything. Just as it was so bad with what we just went through with this horrible situation we just went through [USAID]. I guess ninety-seven percent of the people have been dismissed. It was a very, very unfortunate; you're not going to find anything like that, but you're going to find a lot. I've instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. Sadly, you'll find some things that are pretty bad.
Reporter: Your FBI has turned over a list to the Justice Department of the FBI agents who worked on the January 6th rioters cases. Are you planning to fire the FBI agents who worked on those investigations?
President Trump: No, but I'll fire some of them because some of them were corrupt. I have no doubt about that. I got to know a lot about that business, that world. I got to know a lot about that world, and we had some corrupt agents. And those people are gone, or they will be gone. It will be done quickly, and very surgically.
Reporter: Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he can not touch:
President Trump: We haven't discussed that much. I'll tell him to go here, go there. He does it. He's got a very capable group of people…they'll ask questions, and they'll see immediately if somebody gets tongue-tied; they're either crooked or don't know what they're doing…there could be areas that we won't, but I think everything's fertile. We're a government. We have to be open. As an open government; I guess you could say maybe some high intelligence or something, and I'll do that myself if I have to.