Laura presses on Trumps anti-America First Immigration policy in interview. Same policy that Charlie Kirk had to back away from as too extreme, and a left winger's dream.
Transcript of interview, please raise any concerns about corrections, hand typed by me.
Laura: You'vfe done a lot. On the economy today we found out that we added 146,000 jobs. Unemployment historically low at 3.5%, but we do have a bit of a stall out on wage growth which you ran on and we've seen some. 2.9% Last year, 0.1% over the alst month. But we don't have a tight labor market. If we had a tight labor market we'd be seeing a real increase in wages. I hear that your team is planning on advocating more foreign workers coming in for some of these high tech companies I'm very concerned about that as are a lot of your supporters.
Trump: So here's the problem. I know you're concerned And so is Mark Levin a little bit, and so is the great Lou Dobbs. Lou Dobbs is concerned too, but I'lls ay Lou. Here's the problem. I'm demanding that Japan and all these companies, countries that have these massive we have trade deficits that no one's ever seen before. I say you've got to open up. I call Prime Minister Abe he's a friend of mine. I say Shinzo, you've got to open up more plants in the United States. And they tell me we want to do it we want to do it, but they can't get labor. We need help. Otherwise we could just say don't open up any plants.
Laura: If they couldn't get labor wages would be going up. Wages aren't going up.
Trump: Wages are going up.
Larua: Not in the high tech industry. We're seeing a plateauing of wages.
Trump: Look they wanted 3% and we've seen 2.9%. In the last 2 years wages have gone up more than they've gone up in 25 years.
Laura: But for Google. Why reward Google. Google is working against you in the last campaign.
Trump: No I don't want to reward Google. I'm not a fan.
Laura: All they want is low skilled workers Mr. President. Low paid workers.
Trump: I'm not a fan of Google I'm a fan of great companies.
Laura: You didn't run on bringing more foreign workers into the United States.
Trump: It's not foreign workers. We have to allow smart people to stay in our country. You graduate number 1 in your class at Harvard. You graduate from the Wharton school..
Laura: Yeah that's a small percentage of what they want.
Trump: No it's not.
Laura: Yeah it is. But you ran on people training their foreign replacements. That you ran against that. You, you, Americans, it's humiliating for an American worker worked for a company for 30 years. Now told you have to train your foreign replacement whose going to live in Korea and your'e going to pay him 20%.
Trump: No that's different. I would never do that. But we do need workers in our country. And I do want an immigration policy. No ones been better on immigration than me. By the way we won funding for the wall and the walls been built because I was taking it out of the military everything else and now it's easier. We need people. I got Foxcon to go into Wisconsin. They ahve to get people. They spent a fortune. They built the most incredible plant I've ever seen. In Wisconsin Foxcon they make all the Apple's
Laura: But why shouldn't we have American graduates of colleges and universities taking those jobs.
Trump: We do. We do. But we don't have enough of them. We dont' have enough of them. And we have to be competitive with the rest of the world too. The companies want to hire these people and they can't.
Laura: The companies want to hire the people they can hire for the cheapest amount because that's what they want.
Trump: I'm not talking about cheap I'm talking about brainpower. They want to hire smart people. And those people are thrown out of the country. You can't do that.
Laura: Well, you ran on America First, anyway. I'm going to keep.
Trump: No no, this is America First
Laura: Alright I'm going to keep pressuring you on this.
Trump: Excuse me I just have to finish this. If we tell smart people to get the hell out, that's not America First.
Laura: That's not what we're saying. I mean they always answer. There's a never ending apetite on the part of corporate America to bring in as much cheap labor as possible to drive down wages. That's just going to happen.
Trump: I have so many companies coming into this country you're not going to have tow orry about it. It's always going to be a shortage. If someone smart sitting in this position, we have so many companies coming in from Japan. Japan's doing many car companies. China now is going to start building a lot of things here. You know they haven't been doing it too much. We have so many companies wanting to come in. And they don't have the labor. But they're coming in. We're doing great. Our country's doing great. Our economy is doing great.